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Spring 2007 Sociology Workshop Series

January 16, 2007

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

January 23, 2007

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

January 25,2007 - Note: this is a Thursday

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

January 30, 2007

Toward a Framework for Assessing the Utility of Frames
Robin Stryker

February 6, 2007

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

February 13, 2007

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

February 20, 2007

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

February 27, 2007

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

March 6, 2007

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

March 20, 2007

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

March 23, 2007 - Note: This is a Friday

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

March 27, 2007

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

April 3, 2007

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

April 10, 2007

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

April 17, 2007

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

April 24, 2007

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

May 1, 2007

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