Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Jocelyn Viterna, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.

Abstract
Recently, six Latin American nations have eliminated all legal exceptions to their already-strict anti-abortion laws. Yet despite passing increasing restrictions, only two of these six nations–El Salvador and Mexico–regularly send women to jail for committing abortion or abortion-related crimes. Why are new abortion laws enforced in some...

Read more about Jocelyn Viterna: Pregnancy and the Forty-Year Prison Sentence: Countermovements, Targets and the Institutionalization of Social Movement Outcomes in Central America

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Matthew Blackwell, Harvard  University.
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History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation byJohn Clegg, University of Chicago. Read more about John Clegg: The Real Wages of Whiteness: Non-slaveowners in the Slave South

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Martin Ruef, Duke University. Read more about Martin Ruef: Slavery and Segregation

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Orlando Patterson, Harvard University. Read more about Orlando Patterson: Slavery in Western History, Culture, and Economy

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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Moderated by Professor Evelynn Hammond

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology

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Read more about Science and Difference in History: Biology, Genetics, and the Politics of Race

History, Culture and Society Workhsop presentation by TBA

History, Culture and Society Workhsop presentation by Emily Erikson.

Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Zach Weirwein and Andrew Keefe,  PhD Candidates in Sociology, Harvard University.

Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Saida Grundy, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Boston University.

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

Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Charlotte Lloyd, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University.

 

Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Ali Kadivar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston College.