Sociology Department Colloquium Series presentation by Jennifer Glass, University of Texas, Austin.

The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: Do Women’s Preferences Really Explain their Labor Market Disadvantage?

Sociology Department Colloquium Series presentation by Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University. 

Segregation and Educational Opportunity: New Evidence from Population Data

Abstract:

Do patterns of racial and economic neighborhood and school segregation exacerbate racial and socioeconomic disparities in educational opportunities? I investigate this question using data from over 200 million standardized tests...

Sociology Department Colloquium Series presentation by Jeremy Freese, Stanford University.

The Problem of Causal Mutualisms, The Promise of Polygenic Scores, and The Pervasive Divergence of Life Outcomes

Abstract:

Casual mutualisms are sets of properties that have substantial reciprocal influence on one another.  This may sound abstruse, but various big constructs in behavioral science,...

Department of Sociology Colloquium Series presentation by Tomás Jiménez, Stanford University.

Co-sponsored with the Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop.

Department of Sociology Colloquium Series presentation by Nikki Jones, associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at UC-Berkeley.

Abstract:

How Things Fall Apart: Race, gender and suspicion in police-civilian encounters

Over the last year, the #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName campaigns have turned the nation’s attention to the too-often troubled relationship between Black communities and...

Department of Sociology Colloquium Series presentation by Omar Lizardo,  Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame.

This event is jointly sponsored with the Culture and Social Analysis Workshop.

Department of Sociology Colloquium presentation by Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, Deputy Dean and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management.

This paper is joint with Shelley Correll, Cecilia Ridgeway, Sharon Jank, Sara Jordan-Bloch, and Sandra Nakagawa.

Department of Sociology Colloquium Series presentation by Matthew Salganik, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.

The Department of Sociology Colloquium Series presents Chenoa A. Flippen, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Flippen received her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University...

The Department of Sociology Colloquium Series presents Florencia Torche, Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University.

The Sociology Department is pleased to announce the first Colloquium speaker of this semester Professor Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor at Stanford University, will be giving a talk entitled, The Dynamics of Race and Inequality in the United States.

A presentation of the Sociology Colloquium Series and the Cultural and Social Analysis Workshop

John Levi Martin, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago 

A Sociology Colloquium presentation, co-sponsored with the Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop, by Michael Jones-Correa, Department of Government, Cornell University.

There is a lively ongoing debate on whether contact among disparate individuals leads to a...

A Sociology Colloquium presentation, co-sponsored with the Quantitative Methods in Sociology Workshop

Robert D. Mare, Department of Sociology, UCLA.

Stratification and Mobility in Multiple Generations

Sociology Colloquium presentation by Ann Swidler, Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley

This event is co-sponsored by the Culture and Social Analysis Workshop.