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Fall 2009 Sociology Workshop Series

Tuesdays 4:00-5:15pm, 1114 Social Science. Download Schedule (PDF)

September 15, 2009

Post Civil Rights, Post Jesse Jackson, and Post Racial? Upon Not Taking the Wrong Lessons about Race from the 2008 President Election
Enid Logan

September 22, 2009

Losing the Fight Against Obesity: The Weight of the Evidence
Ross Macmillan, J. Michael Oakes, & Naomi Duke

September 29, 2009

Paradoxes of Power: A Longitudinal Analysis of Sexual Harassment in Young Adulthood
Heather McLaughlin, Chriss Uggen, & Amy Blackstone

October 06, 2009

Welfare States of Labor Markets?: Family Policies and Women's Employment Inequality in 14 Advanced Capitalist Democracies
Eric Tranby

October 13, 2009

Social Organization and Political Process: US Pluralism, German Bureaucratism and Japan's "Butterfly State"
Jeff Broadbent

October 20, 2009

Navigating the Stages of Innovation in the US Biotechnolgy Industry
Eric Dahlin

October 27, 2009

Threads in the Transnational Family Fabric: Peruvian Women's and Men's Roles in the Interweaving Gender and Ethnicity
Erika Busse

November 03, 2009

Addiction Treatment as Neoliberal Poverty Managment
Teresa Gowan

November 10, 2009

To Wait or Too Late? Links Between Parents' Age and Child Well-Being
Ann Meier

November 17, 2009

Good Governance, Corruption , and Neo-Liberalism: The Chase of Tanzania
Ron Aminzade

November 24, 2009

When Does International Mobilization Matter? The Case of Changing Rates of Female Genital Cutting
Liz Boyle, Wenjie Liao, & Amelia Corl

December 01, 2009

Moving Beyond the Right to Education in International Development: Developing Measures of Gender Equality and Empowerment
Joan DeJaeghere (Department of Organization, Leadership, Policy, and Development)

December 08, 2009

Non-Compliance with Work-Family Policies in Korean Organizations: Extending Institutional Research to a New Legal Context
Kyungmim Baek & Erin Kelly

December 08, 2009

The Modern Octopus: Newspapers Take on the 'Powerful Prison Guards Union'
Kia Heise & Josh Page

December 15, 2009 – Note Change

When Do People Vote to Raise Taxes?: The Social Context of Support for School Operating Levies
Jim Saliba & Rob Warren