Colloquia

  Logics in Conflict? Contradictions in Campus Sexual Misconduct Adjudication Recent coverage in the media presents a crisis of "due process" for undergraduates accused of sexual misconduct at American universities. Based on preliminary analysis of the sexual misconduct policies of 381 universities, we argue that the status of the adjudication of student misconduct is indeed problematic, but that--perhaps unsurprisingly--the story in the media is not accurate. Most university policies fail all students, not just those accused,  and likely fail those experiencing misconduct far more grievously than those accused. The policies do no better on "victim protections" than they do on "due process" rights. And more fundamentally, many of the policies are incoherent and vague, in part as a result of  the intersection of multiple and contradictory logics. In the context of the university, sexual violence is variously and simultaneously understood in terms of public health, crime, student conduct, civil rights, religious sin, etc. 

Co-sponsorship by IRLE and the Berkeley Labor Center

The pedagogy colloquium meets monthly to discuss diverse aspects of teaching at Berkeley, with topics suggested by group participants and occasional guest speakers.   

  The Importance of Community Contexts in Immigration Detention

   BERKELEY SOCIOLOGY FORUM Wednesday, April 25, 5-7.30p.m., 402 Barrows Hall BECOMING BLACK POLITICAL SUBJECTS Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil TIANNA PASCHEL, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, will present her award-winning book, Becoming Black Political Subjects (Princeton, 2016) with responses from Tanya Golash-Boza, Mara Loveman, andMichael Watts.

In association with D-Lab and The Social Science Matrix:   The Great Regression. Machine Learning, Econometrics, and the Future of Quantification.

  Organizing Pollution: Organizational Demography, Neighborhoods, and Racial Inequality in Exposure to Toxic Chemicals, 1987-2012

  Unsettled Islam: Virtuous Contention in European Mosques

  Using sampled social network data to estimate the size of hidden populations  Surveys have traditionally been based on the idea that researchers can estimate characteristics of a population by obtaining a sample of individuals and asking them to report about themselves. Network reporting surveys generalize this traditional approach by asking survey respondents to report about other people to whom they are connected. This approach can be used to study many important rare and hidden populations for which traditional survey methods are inadequate; for example, the approach has been used to estimate the size of epidemiologically important groups like sex workers, drug injectors, and men who have sex with men. It has also been used to estimate critical demographic quantities such as adult death rates. I will introduce a framework for developing estimators from network reporting surveys and then I will present some results from a nationally-representative survey experiment that my colleagues and I conducted in Rwanda.   

  Actuarial Labors:  Freedom to/at Risk in a Taxi to Uber Economy