Paul Y. Chang has received an award from the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship, for his project “Reinventing Family: The Rise of Non-Normative Households in South Korea.” Read more about Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship Award

Theory and Society issue devoted to the work of Orlando Patterson

January 7, 2020

The entire current issue of Theory and Society, Vol. 48, #6, is devoted to a consideration of Orlando Patterson's work on slavery and historical Sociology. It is edited by Fiona Greenland and George Steinmetz.... Read more about Theory and Society issue devoted to the work of Orlando Patterson

The Confounding Island

December 10, 2019

Orlando Patterson's new book, The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament, has received favorable notice and lively discussion,... Read more about The Confounding Island

2019 Nov 22

Zine Magubane: Decolonizing Classical Theory: A 'Contrapuntal' Reading of Auguste Comte

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Zine Magubane, Boston College.

2019 Nov 08

Elisabeth S. Clemens: Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making if the American Nation-State

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Lis Clemens, University of Chicago.

2019 Oct 25

Isaac Reed: Delegation and Domination: Modernity as the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Isaac Reed, University of Virginia.

2019 Oct 11

Andrew Schrank: The private roots of public regulation in the United States: The case of the National Consumers' League

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Andrew Schrank, Brown University.

2019 Sep 27

Ya-Wen Lei: Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy, 2015–2019

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University.

2019 Nov 19

Kristina Simonsen: Moralized Political Messages and Attitudes toward immigrants and Maleah Fekete: Depression Across European Countries: The European Social Survey and the European Health Interview Study

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 450

Culture and Social Analysis Workshop presentation by Kristina Simonsen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Aarhus University and Maleah Fekete, Doctoral Student in Sociology, Harvard University.
Read more about Kristina Simonsen: Moralized Political Messages and Attitudes toward immigrants and Maleah Fekete: Depression Across European Countries: The European Social Survey and the European Health Interview Study

2019 Nov 05

Bernice Pescosolido: Sameness and Suicide: Challenging the Sociological Malaise in Suicide Research

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 450

Culture and Social Analysis Workshop presentation by Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Indiana University. Read more about Bernice Pescosolido: Sameness and Suicide: Challenging the Sociological Malaise in Suicide Research

2019 Oct 22

Gad Yair: Ice and Fire: Culture, Intellectual Style and Emotions in German and Israeli Science and Tom Wooten: The Effort Paradox: An Ethnography of Trying and Failing to Get Ahead in the Transition to Adulthood

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 450

Culture and Social Analysis Workshop presentation by Gad Yair, Professor or Sociology, Hebrew University. Read more about Gad Yair: Ice and Fire: Culture, Intellectual Style and Emotions in German and Israeli Science and Tom Wooten: The Effort Paradox: An Ethnography of Trying and Failing to Get Ahead in the Transition to Adulthood

Department of Sociology

Culture

Phillipa Chong: Inside the Critics' Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times

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Nina Gheihman: Veganized: How Cultural Entrepreneurs Mainstreamed a Movement AND Elliot Stoller: Quantification and Bureaucracy: Social Categories, Regulatory Issue Areas, and the Federal Regulatory State

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Kathleen Thelen: TBA

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Rosemary Taylor: Putting a Price on Suffering:the Meaning of Compensation

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Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship Award

Theory and Society issue devoted to the work of Orlando Patterson

The Confounding Island

Zine Magubane: Decolonizing Classical Theory: A 'Contrapuntal' Reading of Auguste Comte

Location:

Elisabeth S. Clemens: Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making if the American Nation-State

Location:

Isaac Reed: Delegation and Domination: Modernity as the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies

Location:

Andrew Schrank: The private roots of public regulation in the United States: The case of the National Consumers' League

Location:

Ya-Wen Lei: Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy, 2015–2019

Location:

Kristina Simonsen: Moralized Political Messages and Attitudes toward immigrants and Maleah Fekete: Depression Across European Countries: The European Social Survey and the European Health Interview Study

Location:

Bernice Pescosolido: Sameness and Suicide: Challenging the Sociological Malaise in Suicide Research

Location:

Gad Yair: Ice and Fire: Culture, Intellectual Style and Emotions in German and Israeli Science and Tom Wooten: The Effort Paradox: An Ethnography of Trying and Failing to Get Ahead in the Transition to Adulthood

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