Colloquia

  Fuel for Debate: Explaining Public Response to Hydraulic Fracturing

  Laboratories of Inequality: The Adoption of Smoke-free Laws and Inequality in Smoking in the United States

  Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

  Climate Change and the Future of Cities What can sociology contribute to the study of climate change? What can it add to the roiling debates about how to mitigate, adapt, and transform the places we settle in the face of an existential threat to the future of our species, and many others as well? In this talk, Eric Klinenberg draws on his own research as well as his experience serving as Research Director of the federal government’s Rebuild By Design competition for rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy. He'll examine a number of urgent questions: How can cities can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable forms of collective life? How can they protect vulnerable people and places from the outbursts of extreme weather that are becoming ever more likely to arrive? And can they adapt to global warming without making the world even more unequal?

    Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio

  Enculturation Trajectories: Language, Cultural Adaptation, and Individual Outcomes in Organizations

  Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860

  Robert Reich September 26, 2-3:30pm, 8th Floor Conference Room. The Malicious Fallacy of the Free Market

 

  Tax Evasion and Inequality