Date:
Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550
Department of Sociology - Colloquium Series presentation by David Grusky, Stanford University.
A New Sociology for the 21st Century
Abstract:
It now comes off as quaint to suggest that social science can save the world. It wasn’t always that way. When was the social scientific mission hijacked? Who’s behind the hijacking? And how can a new social science be built that has the capacity to take on looming problems of the 21st century?