Americans' Perception of Freedom

August 13, 2019

Orlando Patterson's newest work "Stability and Change in Americans' Perception of Freedom" has been featured in Contexts. Patterson's new book,...

Adaner Usmani

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies

Research Interests: Inequality, Social Policy, Labor and Social Movements, Crime and Punishment.... Read more about Adaner Usmani

Assistant: Michael Van Unen

640 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

ausmani@fas.harvard.edu

Ya-Wen Lei selected by Public Intellectuals Program

April 2, 2019

Ya-Wen Lei was selected by the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.... Read more about Ya-Wen Lei selected by Public Intellectuals Program

Beckfield, Jason. 2018. Political Sociology and the People's Health (Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health). edited by Nancy Krieger. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2019 Mar 11

Cedric de Leon: Failure of the Establishment: Comparing Political Crises from the US Civil War to the Depression and Donald Trump

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050

Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Cedric de Leon, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Read more about Cedric de Leon: Failure of the Establishment: Comparing Political Crises from the US Civil War to the Depression and Donald Trump

2019 Feb 25

Benjamin Bradlow: Ploughshares into Swords: Reproducing the 'Apartheid City' in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg and Talia Shiff: Legal Standards and Moral Worth in Frontline Decision-Making: Evaluations of Victimization in US Asylum Determinations

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050

Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Benjamin Bradlow, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Brown University and Talia Shiff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Read more about Benjamin Bradlow: Ploughshares into Swords: Reproducing the 'Apartheid City' in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg and Talia Shiff: Legal Standards and Moral Worth in Frontline Decision-Making: Evaluations of Victimization in US Asylum Determinations

2019 Feb 11

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

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050

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...

2019 Mar 29

Matthew Blackwell: Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics

12:00pm to 2:05pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Matthew Blackwell, Harvard University. Read more about Matthew Blackwell: Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics

2019 Mar 01

John Clegg: The Real Wages of Whiteness: Non-slaveowners in the Slave South

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

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

2019 Feb 15

Martin Ruef: Slavery and Segregation

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

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

2019 Feb 01

Orlando Patterson: Slavery in Western History, Culture, and Economy

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

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

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

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 Launching Political Sociology and the People's Health

2018 Oct 23