Colloquia
Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
MONDAYS, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
[unless otherwise noted]
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The Importance of Community Contexts in Immigration Detention
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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.
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In association with D-Lab and The Social Science Matrix:
The Great Regression. Machine Learning, Econometrics, and the Future of Quantification.
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Organizing Pollution: Organizational Demography, Neighborhoods, and Racial Inequality in Exposure to Toxic Chemicals, 1987-2012
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Unsettled Islam: Virtuous Contention in European Mosques
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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.
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Actuarial Labors: Freedom to/at Risk in a Taxi to Uber Economy
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The Growing Significance of Place: Assessing the Diverging Trajectories of DACA-eligible Young Adults Across Diverse Settings
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
The Potlatch Revisited: Doing Display among the New Global Elite
How does conspicuous consumption unfold in situations? The article challenges the interpretation of conspicuous consumption as a static feature of elites by developing an interactional approach to explain pecuniary display as situated collective accomplishment. Drawing from a multi-sited ethnography conducted in the global VIP party circuit from New York and Miami to Cannes, I show how nightclubs mobilize elites into conspicuous consumers with staged spending rituals akin to the potlatch in economic anthropology.