Fall 2007 Sociology Workshop Series

  • September 11, 2007

    'Burning Down the House': Race, Media, and the Burning of Churches in the U.S., 1996-2001

    Doug McAdam (Stanford University), co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study

    September 18, 2007

    Child Rights in the Context of Cultural and Economic Globalization

    Liz Boyle and Minzee Kim

    September 25, 2007

    Reproductive Discourses: international Organizations and Questions of Representation

    Trina Smith

    October 2, 2007

    Racial Inequality as Racial Advantage: Exploring Americans' Understanding of White Privilege

    Paul Croll

    October 9, 2007

    Modes of State Intervention and Business Group Performance in China's Transition Economy

    Xinxiang Chen

    October 16, 2007

    Understanding Work-Family Boundaries: What Do Workers Prefer and What Do They Actually Do?

    Samantha Ammons

    October 23, 2007

    Workplace Evaluations of Mothers and Others

    Shelley Correll (Cornell University)

    October 25, 2007

    Bringing Welfare State Theories to the States: How Ideas, Actors, and State Structures Affect Welfare Reform Trajectories in Minnesota and Wisconsin

    Pam Wald

    October 30, 2007

    Measuring Primary and Secondary School Characteristics: A Group-Based Modeling Approach

    Andrew Halpem-Manners

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    Religion's Place in Public Life—Attitudes of Ordinary Americans

    Penny Edgell, Darin Mather & Shannon Golden

    November 6, 2007

    The Community Engaged Parent Education Project

    Bill Doherty (Family Social Science)

    November 13, 2007

    Transatlantic and Global Norms: Collective Policy Action by States for Socio-Economic Integration, Market Regulation and the Public Good of Societies and Nations

    Reba Carruth (Council on Foreign Relations

    December 11, 2007

    State 'Regulation' of Religion and the Art of Bonsai: Black Denominations in the New Deal Era

    Omar McRoberts (University of Chicago)

    March 3rd, 2008

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