Colloquia
Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
MONDAYS, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
[unless otherwise noted]
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"Panel and Open Discussion on the 2024 Election in Sociological Perspective."
Moderator: Kim Voss
Panelists: Cristina Mora, Cihan Tugal, Dylan Riley, and Michael Rodriguez-Muniz.
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Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building
Presented by the UC Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Training Program (CRELS)
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Individuals do not respond uniformly to treatments, such as events or interventions. Sociologists routinely partition samples into subgroups to explore how the effects of treatments vary by selected covariates, such as race and gender, based on theoretical priors. Emerging machine learning methods based on decision trees allow researchers to explore sources of variation that they may not have previously considered. In this talk, Brand describes a range of approaches to study effect heterogeneity, including tree-based machine learning.
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I will summarize my recent book and forthcoming volume in which I develop a revisionist history of European social thought between the 1930s and 1960s, arguing that colonial research represented a crucial but forgotten part of the academic social sciences including sociology. I propose an approach to intellectual history that combines attention to broadly contextual factors, dynamics within disciplinary fields, close readings of texts, and individual biographies. The key macroscopic context was the postwar “re-occupation” of the European colonial empires and the turn to developmentalist policies, all of which created a demand for new forms of social scientific expertise, including sociology.
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Abstract: In many organizations, ideal workers are conceived of as male, which disadvantages female employees. To investigate this phenomenon, we integrate cultural theory, structura
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African Americans have the highest rates of single parenthood in the U.S., and this divergence from
the two-parent family is routinely indicted as a fundamental cause of their disadvantaged position in
society. One need only take a cursory glance at recent academic studies, news articles, policy briefs,
or social media posts to witness the single-parent family being implicated as the source of a wide
array of problems disproportionately affecting African American families. Implicit in this perspective
on black disadvantage is the assumption that the benefits of living in a two-parent are equally
available to all and will generate equality of opportunity for the next generation. However, a narrow
focus on single parenthood cannot tell us the counterfactual: When African American children grow
up in the socially promoted two-parent family, how do they fare? How do their outcomes compare
relative to their white peers raised in this same family structure? Put differently, is the two-parent
family the Great Equalizer most Americans imagine it to be? If not, why do opportunity gaps