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Jason Beckfield signs books at launch of Political Sociology and the People's Health, held October 23, 2018 at the Harvard University Center for Population and Development Studies

Faculty Spotlight: Launching Political Sociology and the People's Health

December 4, 2018
A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them. A political sociologist sees these same inequalities as products of institutions that unequally allocate power and social goods. Sociology Chair Jason Beckfield's new book asks an important question: can the two talk to one another? ... Read more about Faculty Spotlight: Launching Political Sociology and the People's Health
2018 Oct 23

Book Launch: Jason Beckfield - Political Sociology and the People’s Health

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard Square, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is celebrating the Associate Director’s New Book with a Reception and Book Signing Event.

Political Sociology and the People’s Health by Jason...

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2018 Oct 29

Ben Carrington: Who’s Afraid of Cultural Studies? Recovering the Sociological Project through C. Wright Mills and Stuart Hall

3:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge St, Room K050
Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Ben Carrington, Associate Professor of Sociology and Journalism, University of Southern California. Read more about Ben Carrington: Who’s Afraid of Cultural Studies? Recovering the Sociological Project through C. Wright Mills and Stuart Hall
Michele Lamont stands in front of a lecturn

Faculty Spotlight: Lamont Presidential Lecture out in American Sociological Review

June 10, 2018

Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, served as the 108th president of the American Sociological Association in 2016-17. Her term took an unexpected turn with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016: it befell on her to take a leadership role in defending the professional interests of sociologists and the conditions for academic freedom.... Read more about Faculty Spotlight: Lamont Presidential Lecture out in American Sociological Review

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