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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

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)