Colloquia
Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
MONDAYS, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
[unless otherwise noted]
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
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.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Berkeley Sociology Forum, Wednesday, February 28, 5-7:30pm, 402 Barrows Hall
Richard Lachmann, Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New Yorkwill present his book, First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (Verso, Forthcoming) with responses from Jonah Stuart Brundage, Dylan Riley, and Cihan Tuğal
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
February 26
Barrows Hall 820
2-4pm
Co-sponsored by the Social Science Matrix
Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University
Autocratic Legalism
(with discussions by Dylan Riley and Jason Wittenberg)
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
“A Nowadays Disease"? Aging, Gendered Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in a rural South African community
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
The Great Experiment and the Great Reckoning: Decarceration and the Legal Reform of Mass Incarceration
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
“I, too, Am Hungry”: Structural Exclusion at an Elite University
Through major financial aid initiatives, colleges have increased access for undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. While previous investigations of undergraduate life emphasize how differences in cultural capital shape students’ integration into college, I examine structural exclusion—how specific operational features of the college marginalize lower-income undergraduates—to highlight the university’s direct role in shaping social interactions and undergraduates’ sense of belonging. I draw on interviews with 103 undergraduates, two years of ethnographic observations, and data from administrative and online sources to show how lower-income undergraduates identify these policies as intentional and abrupt tears in the fabric of campus life that mark them as different for being poor. I interrogate the social and personal costs of exclusion and discuss implications for undergraduates’ opportunities and social well-being.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
co-sponsored with the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group (AFOG)
Karen Levy
Data Driven: Truckers and The New Workplace Surveillance
This talk examines how electronic monitoring systems in the U.S. trucking industry are used to compel truckers’ compliance with legal and organizational rules. For decades, truckers have kept track of their work time using easily falsified paper logbooks, and performed their work without too much regard for legal worktime limits. But new regulations will require truckers’ time to be monitored by digital systems, hard-wired into the trucks themselves, which remove much of the flexibility on which truckers have historically relied.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Poverty, Place, and Time Constraints