Spring 2007 Sociology Workshop Series

January 16, 2007

Jesse Wozniak and Chris Uggen
Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Masculinity and the Framing of Police Weaponry

January 23, 2007

Philip Kasinitz (CUNY)
Inheriting the City: Second Generation Immigrants Come of Age

January 25,2007 - Note: this is a Thursday

John Mohr (University of California - Santa Barbara)
On Meaning, Measurement and Institutional Analysis

January 30, 2007

Robin Stryker
Toward a Framework for Assessing the Utility of Frames

February 6, 2007

J. Michael Oakes (Division of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Neighborhood Effects on Health: WHy Epidemiology Needs More Sociology

February 13, 2007

Rhys Williams (University of Cincinnati)
Immigration, National Identity, and the Good Society

February 20, 2007

C. Matthew Snipp
Counting the Multiracial Population of the United States

February 27, 2007

Yanjie Bian
Favor, Matching, and Structural Holes: Network Effects on Work Earnings in China

March 6, 2007

Pao Lee and Doug Hartmann
Culture, Habitus and Segmented Assimilation: The Case of Hmong Import Racing

March 20, 2007

Katherin Flower Kim
Love Connections: The Dating Experiences of Asian and Asian Americans

March 23, 2007 - Note: This is a Friday

Laren B. Edelman (UC - Berkeley), Linda H. Krieger (UC - Berkeley), Scott R. Eliason, Catherine R. Albiston (UC - Berkeley), and Virginia Mellema (EEOC)
When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Instituionalized Employment Structures

March 27, 2007

Arturo Baiocchi and Teresa Swartz
Privatization, Welfare Reform and the New Business of Foster Care: An Examination of Market-Oriented Discourse in Current Child Welfare

April 3, 2007

Scott Eliason, Eric Tranby and Jeylan Mortimer
Market Attainments over the Early Life Course: Evidence from the Youth Development Study

April 10, 2007

Penny Edgell and Danielle Docka
Ideals of Family and Gender in Diverse Religious Communities

April 17, 2007

Ann Meier, Kathy Hull, and Tim Ortyl
Relationship Values and Gender in Diverse Religious Communities

April 24, 2007

Jukka Savolainen (National Research Institute for Legal Policy, Helsinki, Finland)
Recidivism and Reintegration: The Specific Effects of Sentencing on Employment, Family and Crime

May 1, 2007

Enid Logan
Marking and Unmarking Race: Unraveling the Logic of Social Ascription in Cuban Catholic Marital Records, 1899-1940