Workshop Schedule Spring 2006
Bruce Western and Devah Pager, organizersSESSIONS: Mondays 12:15 to 1:30, 165 Wallace Hall.
February 6 (CI)
Ian Roxborough (SUNY-Stonybrook)
"Battle Management in an Information-Age Military: Organizational culture and 'the military mind.'"
February 13 (ES)
Peter Levin (Barnard College)
"The Organization of Prices in Futures Trading."
February 20 (CI)
Neil Gross (Harvard University)
"Richard Rorty's Pragmatism: The Social Origins of a Philosophy."
February 27 (ES)
Jonas Pontusson (Princeton, Politics)
"Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries."
March 6 (CI)
Martin Gilens (Princeton Department of Politics)
"Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness"
March 13 (ES)
Jeff Manza (Northwestern University)
"Textbook Sociology"
March 20 (Spring Recess)
No colloquium. Enjoy the break!
March 27 (CI)
Richard Brooks (Yale Law School)
"Race and Uncertainty"
This event is co-sponsored with the
Program in Law and Public Affairs
April 3 (ES)
Lawrence King (Yale University)
"The Sociology of Economic Genocide: Rapid Large-Scale Privatization and the Post-Communist
mortality Crisis."
April 10 (CI)
Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp (University of California- Santa Barbara)
"Cultural Performances as Social Movement Tactics: Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret"
Co-sponsored with the LGBT Center and the Womenís Center
April 17 (ES)
Hannah Brueckner (Yale University)
"Occupational Aspriations, Gender Segregation, and the Gender Gap in Wages."
April 24 (CI)
Amy Binder (University of California- San Diego)
"Transforming Lives, Preserving Selves: Poor Women's Struggles in Transitional Housing."
May 1 (ES)
Viviana Zelizer (Princeton)
"Circuits and Boundaries in Economic Life."
ES: Economic Sociology
CI: Culture and Inequality
