University of Minnesota
Department of Sociology
soc@umn.edu
612-624-4300


Department of Sociology's home page.

Home > News & Events > Workshop Series > Past Workshops : Spring 2008 Sociology Workshop Series

Spring 2008 Sociology Workshop Series

May 5, 2008

Design and Early Results from the Minnesota Exits and Entries Project
Chris Uggen, Shelly Schaefer, and Colleagues

April 29, 2008

Panel Conditioning Effects in Longitudinal Social Science Surveys
Rob Warren

April 22, 2008

The State and the Interaction between Class and Ethnic Stratification: Explaining World- Wide Differences in Inequality
Max Haller (University of Graz)

April 15, 2008

Scholarly Careers in Criminology: Gender, Cohort, and Institutional Effects
Sarah Flood

April 8, 2008

The Declining Significance of Race Revisited: Race, Parental Education, and Academic Achievement
Eric Grodsky (University of California-Davis)

April 1, 2008

The Minnesota Prison Officers Survey Project: A Progress Report
Jeanette Hussemann and Josh Page

The Effects of Macro- and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Status on Child Mortality in Brazil, 1970 to 2000
Elaine Hernandez and Rob Warren

March 25, 2008

Varieties of the Life Course
Duane Alwin (Pennsylvania State University)

March 11, 2008

Cultural Boundaries and African American Views toward African Immigrant Entitlements
Sadie Pendaz

March 4, 2008

Homelands and Indigenous Identities
Carolyn Liebler

Have Asian American Men Reached Labor Market Parity with Whites? Further Evidence on the Over-Education Hypothesis
Changhwan Kim (Minnesota Population Center)

February 26, 2008

Do Human Rights Trials Deter Future Human Rights Violations?
Kathryn Sikkink (Department of Political Science)

February 19, 2008

Power in Striptease? An Ethnography of Burlesque Performance
Vania Brightman and Teresa Gowan

Humanism Instead of Human Rights? The Challenge of Beijing 2008 to Olympic Idealism
Doug Hartmann

February 12, 2008

Loving and Working: A Comparative View on the Historical Development and Present Use of Social Statistics about Unemployment and Divorce
Christian Fleck (University of Graz)

February 7, 2008

(Thursday)

Porous and Fuzzy Boundaries: A Network Approach to Corporate Diversification
David Knoke and Emanuela Todeva (University of Surrey)

February 5, 2008

What the Social Studies of Finance Can Tell Us about Markets and Socioeconomic Inequality
Karen Ho (Department of Anthropology)

January 29, 2008

Adolescent Parricides
Carl Malmquist

January 22, 2008

"Rooted in the Black Community But Not Limited By It": Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the uses of Race in American Political Discourse
Enid Logan