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2006-2007
Organized by Pat Roos, Patrick Carr and Lee Clarke
All talks will be held in Lucy Stone Hall, A256 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
Weds., September 13 Pamela Stone, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
"Opting Out? Professional Women, Career Interruption, and Heading Home"
Weds., October 11 IRB certification (here is the chance for you, your grad students, or undergrad students to be IRB certified right here in the dept.).
This session will last 11:30 a.m. to approx. 3 p.m.
Pat Roos will be showing the IRB certification films (made available through ORSP) to her Soc. 501 grad course, and some undergrad students working with her. She is making this available to interested others (because of space limitations, this opportunity is available ONLY to Sociology department members and their graduate or undergraduate students). More details forthcoming, but please note that advanced registration with Pat IS REQUIRED.
Weds., November 15
Mauro Guillen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture."
Weds. November 29
Maria Kefalas, St. Joseph's University
"Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage"
Weds.April 25
Patrick McGovern from the London School of Economics, who is at Princeton for the year.
2005-2006
Organized by Paul McLean and Patrick Carr
October 12
11:30 AM
E. Kay Trimberger, Visiting Scholar, UC-Berkeley and Professor Emerita, Sonoma State University, “The New Single Woman: The Changing Lives and Consciousness of Mid-life Single Women in the U.S.”
December 7
11:30 AM
Camille Charles, University of Pennsylvania, “Won't You Be My Neighbor? Race, Class and Residence in a Prismatic Metropolis.”
February 8
11:30 AM
Mitchell Stevens, New York University, "Thinking Backwards about Higher Education"
February 15
11:30 AM
Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University, "The Chaining of Social Problems"
March 30*
LCB 109 2:30 PM
John H. Laub, University of Maryland, "Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up: A Fifty Year Follow-up Study of 500 Adolescent Offenders"
April 19
11:30 AM
Elizabeth Armstrong, Indiana University, “Enactments of Gender in Sexual Assault”
* This talk will be held on Thursday.
All talks will be held in Lucy Stone Hall A256
2004-2005
Organized by Ellen Idler and Paul Hirschfield
(Note talks held on Wednesdays, Lucy Stone Hall, Department Seminar Room A256, Livingston Campus 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, unless otherwise noted)
September 15, 2004
Ellen L. Idler, Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
“Religion in Health Research: Old Insights, New Methods”
October 13, 2004
Lazslo Szabo, Research Contract/Grant Specialist, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Rutgers University,
Talk topic: IRB Approval Process – “Title TBA”
October 27, 2004
David Popenoe, Professor of Sociology, Director of National Marriage Project, Rutgers University
“The State of Our Unions”
Thursday, November 18, 2004 – 10:30 AM:
Mimi Sheller, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster Univ., UK
“Demobilizing and Remobilizing the Caribbean: Recent and Future Research Agendas”
Tuesday, November 30, 2004 -- 11:30 AM:
Elizabeth Griffiths, Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto
“The Neighborhood Context of Homicide: A Closer Look at the Stability Assumption ”
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 -- 10:30 AM:
Patrick Carr, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Saint Joseph’s University, Pennsylvania
“We Never Call the Cops and Here’s Why: A Qualitative Examination of Legal Cynicism and Informal Social Control in Three Philadelphia Neighborhoods”
Friday, December 3, 2004 -- 11:30 AM:
Robyn Rodriguez, Ph.D Candidate, University of California-Berkeley.
“The Empire of Labor: The Philippine State, U.S. Imperial Legacies and the Globalization of Filipino Migrants ”
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 -- 10:30 AM
Catherine Lee, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program at the University of Michigan
“Race, Reproduction, and the Nation: Controlling Chinese and Japanese Immigration to the U.S., 1870-1924”
Monday, December 13, 2004– 10:30 AM:
Simon Cole, Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology Law & Society at the University of California-Irvine.
“Jackson Pollock, Judge Pollak, and the Dilemma of Fingerprint Expertise: Contested Knowledge Domains in Art and Science”
January 26, 2005
Jerry A. Jacobs, Merriam Term Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania;
Editor of American Sociological Review
“ASR’s Greatest Hits”
February 2, 2005
Devah I. Pager, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
“Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets.”
February 23, 2005
David W. Garland, Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Sociology, New York University
“The Forms and Functions of America’s Capital Punishment System”
March 9, 2005
Special Panel discussion by members of the new editing team of the ASA publication, Contexts:
Jeffrey Goodwin, Editor, Contexts Magazine and Professor of Sociology, New York University
James M. Jasper, Editor, Contexts Magazine, Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University
Deborah S. Carr, Trends Editor, Contexts Magazine and Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
Lee B. Clarke, Editorial Board, Contexts Magazine and Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
Judith J. Friedman, Image Co-Editor, Contexts Magazine and Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
March 23, 2005
John L. Martin, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
"Are Things (Just) What They Are?"
March 30, 2005 - 9:00 AM-12:00n
Sociology Department Honors Students Present Honors Projects – Part One
“Names of undergraduate students presenting and times TBA”
March 30, 2005
Sociology Department Fifth Annual Poster Session –1:00 PM – 3:30 PM,
Lucy Stone Hall, Second Floor, A-Wing, Livingston Campus
”Poster Session Presenters TBA”
April 6, 2005 - 9:00 AM-12:00n
Sociology Department Honors Students Present Honors Projects – Part Two
“Names of undergraduate students presenting and times TBA”
April 20, 2005
Karen A. Cerulo, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
“What Is A Social Actor?”
2003-2004
Organized by Ellen Idler and Paul Hirschfield
September 17, 2003 -- 11:30 AM
Patricia A. Roos, Professor I - Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
"Navigating Transitions: Work, Family, and Community"
Co-authored with Mary K. Trigg and Mary S. Hartman
October 15, 2003 -- 11:30 AM
Benjamin Zablocki, Professor I - Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
"Gender Differences in Long Term Response to a Cult Stimulus in Early Adulthood"
November 19, 2003 -- 11:30 AM
Allan Wolfe, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center, Boston College
"The Transformation of American Religion"
December 3, 2003 -- 11:30 AM
Tom Rudel, Professor I
Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
"Methods for Messy Meta-Analyses: An Example from the Tropical Deforestation Literature"
March 10, 2004 -- 11:30 AM
Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education, New York University
“Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority”
2002-2003
Organized by Deborah Carr and Ethel Brooks
September 11, 2002
11:30 AM
Triveni Kuchi, Rutgers University Library
Research Productivity for the Electronic Scholar: Enhance your use of electronic resources with new Web databases, bibliographic search engines and more"
October 23, 2002
11:30 AM
Joel Best, Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, University of Delaware
Damned Lies and Statistics
Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department's Culture Workshop.
November 20, 2002
11:30 AM
Jodi O'Brien, Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology, and Director of Women's Studies, Seattle University
Doin' It in the Web: Emerging Discourses on Internet Sexuality
Jan. 29, 2003
11:30 AM
Averil Clarke, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women
"I Do" If I Could: Marriage, Meaning, and the Reproduction of Inequality
March 12, 2003
11:30 AM
Jackie Smith, Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University
Uneven Geography of Global Civil Society: National and Global Influences on Transnational Association
April 2, 2003
11:30 AM
Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University
Continuity and Change
Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department's Culture Workshop.
April 7, 2003
11:30 AM
Julia Adams, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan and Russell Sage Foundation Fellow
Class, State and other Crumbling Categories: Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again
Co-sponsored by the Macro-Historical Comparative Workshop
April 9, 2003
9:00 AM-12:00
Sociology Deparment Honors Students Present Honors Projects
April 9, 2003
1:30-3:30 PM
Sociology Deparment Third Annual Poster Session
Displayed in Lucy Stone Hall, Second Floor, A-Wing
April 10, 2003
11:30 AM
Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology
Title: TBA
April 10, 2003
4:30 PM
France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mapping Racial Formation and Antiracism in Europe: White Women and Blackness in Britain's First Non-White City
Sponsored by the Livingston College Fellows Global Futures Symposia
Talk will be held in College Hall, Livingston Student Center
2001-2002
Organized by Vilna Bashi and John Levi Martin
September 26
11:30 AM
Triveni Kuchi, Rutgers University Library
Tooling Up for Greater Research Productivity: Your New Library Liaison and Library Research Technologies
October 5
11:30AM
Kathryn J. Fox, University of Vermont
Disciplining Violent Minds: Dominant Discourse in Prison Cognitive Self-Change Programs
November 1
11:30AM
Douglas S. Massey, University of Pennsylvania
Blueprint for a Flawed Policy: Mexican Immigration During the 1990's
A joint presentation with the Global Futures Symposia Series... held in the Yorba Lounge in Tillet Hall on the Livingston Campus
December 5
11:30AM
Edwin Amenta, New York University
When Movements Matter: The Impact of the Townsend Plan
February 6
11:30AM
Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University
Urban Ethnography and the Collective Efficacy Debate
February 13
11:30AM
Bruce Western, Princeton University
Inequality in U.S. Imprisonment
April 3
9:00AM
Sociology Department Honors Students Present Honors Projects
First session: Day 1 of 2
April 10
9:00AM
Sociology Department's Honors Students Present Honors Projects
Second session: Day 2of 2
April 10
1:30PM
Sociology Deparment's Second Annual Poster Session
Lucy Stone Hall, Second Floor, A-Wing
April 11
12:00-1:30
Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University
Barking Up the Wrong Branch: Scientific Alternatives to the Current Model of Sociological Science
A joint presentation with the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research... held in the Institute Conference Room, 30 College Avenue
April 11
3:00-4:30
Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University
Jewish Names and the Names of Jews
A joint presentation with the Center for the Study of Jewish Life, 12 College Avenue
May 1
11:30AM
Victor Nee, Cornell University
Postsocialist Inequality
2000-2001
Organized by Julie Phillips and Sarah Rosenfield in the Department of Sociology
October 4
11:30 AM
Michael Hoenisch, Free University of Berlin
How Documentary Cinema has Framed the Holocaust.
October 25
11:30AM
Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
Violence and the Inner City Poor
November 8
11:30AM
Niki Dickerson, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University
Race/Gender Hierarchy in the Labor Market: The Confluence of Residential Segregation and Labor Market Segregation
February 28
11:30AM
Orna Sasson-Levy, Hebrew University and the Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University
Masculinity and Citizenship: Constructing Gender and National Identities within the Israeli Military
March 23
11:30AM
Robert Zussman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Autobiographical Occasions
(Please note the Friday date)
April 4
10:00 AM
Sociology Honors Students Present Honors Projects
April 5
12:00-1:00
Theda Skocpol, Harvard University
From Membership to Advocacy: Civic Engagement in American Democracy
Talk co-sponsored by Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, FAS Political Science and the Rutgers University Sociology Department.
(Please note the Thursday date. Talk to be held in the Institute's conference room at 30 College Ave. in New Brunswick.)
1999-2000
Organized by Ann Mische and Paul McClean
October 13, 1999
11:30 AM
David Gibson
Taking Turns and Talking Ties: Conversational Sequences in Business Meetings.
David Gibson (Ph.D. Columbia University 1999) is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic Theory and Research and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. During the summer of 1999 he was an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. His research involves a quantitative study of turn-taking dynamics, network relations, and discursive moves in managerial teams. He is currently working on a book examining how people exercise agency in conversation.
October 27, 1999
11:30 AM
John Evans
Do Academics Create Consensual Discourse About Social Problems?
John H. Evans (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1998) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA and a post-doctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at Yale. His research focuses on how values are constructed and used in debates in the public sphere. His past work includes examinations of whether America is engaged in a "culture war," and a study of the rationalization of bioethical discourse. He is currently designing a project on commodification and health care.
November 3, 1999
11:30 AM
Philippa Pattison
Social Processes in Time and Space: A Modeling Framework.
Philippa Pattison is a Reader in the Department of Psychology at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Visiting Professor in the Center for the Social Sciences at Columbia University. She has a long-standing interest in algebraic representations for relational data, particularly for social networks. The work on networks is summarized in Algebraic Models for Social Networks, published by Cambridge University Press in 1993. More recent interests include the development of relational representations for interdependent social forms (with Ann Mische) and a general stochastic framework for relational data (with Stanley Wasserman and Garry Robins).
November 12-13, 1999
Miniconference - Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition
Conference organizer: Karen Cerulo, Rutgers University
For the preliminary program, click here
November 17, 1999
11:30 AM
Skip Shives, Dean of Students, Rutgers University
Behavioral Disruptions in the Classroom
February 24, 2000
4:30 PM
Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan
Political Disaffection: Cuba's Revolution and Exodus
Co-sponsored by FAS Puerto Rican And Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Sociology Departments.
Held in Rutgers Student Center, Room 411 A, B, C on College Ave Campus. Note the Thursday meeting date and 4:30 start time.
March 3, 2000
12:30 PM
Roger Gould, University of Chicago
Violence and Vendetta in Nineteenth Century Corsica
Note the Friday meeting date and 12:30 start time.
March 8, 2000
11:30AM
Peter Bearman, Columbia University
Friends, Lovers, Promises and STDs: New Research on Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Co-sponsored by Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and the FAS Sociology Department.
March 22, 2000
11:30 AM
Francesca Polletta, Columbia University
Cold, Political Decisions in the Beloved Community: The Rise and Fall of Radical Democracy in the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1966
March 29, 2000
11:30 AM
Benjamin Zablocki, John Martin, J. Anna Looney, King-to Yeung, Rutgers University
The Urban Commune Project: A 25-Year Longitudinal Study
April 5, 2000
9:00 AM
Sociology Department Honors Students Present Honors Projects
Note the 9:00 start time.
April 26, 2000
11:30 AM
Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University
Supply, Demand, and the Culture of Place.
Wendy Griswold is a Professor of Sociology and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, and is, for the current academic year, Jean Gimbel Lane Professor of Humanities at Northwestern. She is the author of Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London theatre, 1576-1980, and a forthcoming book on Nigerian novels. Her research has also included publications on West Indian literary interpretation, the sociology of literature, and the sociology of culture.
1998-1999
Organized by Karen Cerulo in conjunction with CSRI
October 2, 1998 1:30 PM (Friday)
Joshua Gamson, Yale University
Producing "Freaks": Daytime Talk Shows and Sexual Boundary-Making.
Drawing on extensive research about the production content and reception of daytime, topic-oriented TV talk shows, especially those focused on sexual noncomformity, this talk examines their paradoxical dynamics: voice and exploitation diversity and stereotyping normalizing and ritualized disdain are tightly linked. These paradoxes I argue, are not features of free-floating political ad cultural discourses but the result of concrete, everyday institutional and activity. I look at several ways in which this plays out when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people appear on talk shows-one of the few mass cultural settings where they have been popular, visible subjects for decades. I examine how the class divisions on which the talk show genre is built structure representations of sexuality; how the conventions of authority and expertise on which talk show industry depends structure the fate of both mainstream pro-gay rhetoric and right-win anti-gay rhetoric, and how a tension between predictability and unpredictability built into programming strategies leads both to trouble-making for abnormal-normal boundaries, and to a revised version of these lines in which some homosexualities are normalized.
October 7, 1998 -- 11:30AM
Shelley Myer, Rutgers University
Bringing the Individual into the Sociology of Science.
October 14, 1998 -- 11:30AM
Donald Black, University of Virginia
University Professor of the Social Sciences
The Genealogy of Pure Sociology.
This lecture outlines the genealogy of pure sociology, a theoretical paradigm without psychology, teleology, or even people. Pure sociology predicts and explains the behavior of social life with its location and direction in social space -- its social structure. Pure sociology differs radically from classical and modern sociology, both of which normally explain the behavior of persons and groups psychologically (with assumptions, assertions, or implications about subjectivity) and teleologically (as a means to an end). Modern sociology is often ideological as well. Sociology thus fails to be what it claims: the science of social life.
October 21, 1998 -- 11:30AM
John Markoff, University of Pittsburgh
Where and When Was Democracy Invented?
October 28, 1998 -- 11:30AM
Mike Aronoff, Rutgers FAS Outreach Speaker
Department of Political Science,Co-Sponsored by Sociology Department's FAS Outreach Program .
Balancing Ethics and Politics: The Spy Novels of John Le Carre.
Using espionage as a metaphor for politics, John le Carre’ explores the dilemmas that confront individuals and governments during and in the aftermath of the Cold War. His unforgettable characters struggle to maintain personal and professional integrity while facing conflicting personal, institutional, and ideological loyalties. In The Spy Novels of John le Carre’, author Myron Aronoff interprets the ambiguous ethical and political implications of the work of John le Carr6, revealing him to be one of the most important political writers of our time. Aronoff shows how through his writing, le Carre’ poses the difficult question the extent to which western governments justified in pursuing raison d'e’tat without undermining the very democratic freedoms that they claim to defend. He also draws parallels between the self-parody of le Carre’ and that of the seventeenth century Dutch artist Jan Steen, and explains how it expresses a unique form of ambiguous moralism. In this volume Aronoff relates le Carre's fictional world to the real world of espionage and demonstrates the need to balance the imperatives of ethics and politics in regard to some of the most pressing issues facing the world today.
November 4, 1998 -- 11:30AM
Marta Tienda, Princeton University
Co-sponsored by FAS Distinguished Lecture Series
Color and Opportunity
February 10,1999 -- 11:00AM
Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School
Broeklundian Professor of Sociology
Let’s Shop! Places, Stories, and Languages of Consumption
Sharon Zukin is Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, and Professor of Sociology at City University Graduate School. She is the author of Cultures of Cities, Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World, Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change, and Beyond Marx and Tito. Recent articles and book chapters include: "Urban Lifestyles: Diversity and Standardization in Spaces of Consumption" in Urban Studies; "How ‘Bad’ Is It? Institutions and Intentions in the Study of the American Ghetto" (with Robert Baskerville et al.), in International Journal Of Urban And Regional Research; "From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary: Discursive Practices of Growth and Decline," in Urban Affairs Review; and "The Careers of Chefs" (with Priscilla Ferguson) in Eating Culture (Suny Press).
March 3, 1999 -- 11:30AM
Shawna Hudson, Rutgers University
Dangerous Liaisons: The Presentation of Morality Tales in Television Messages about Sexuality
March 10 1999 -- 11:30AM Discussion on Economic Sociology.
March 24, 1999 -- 11:30AM
Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania
Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology
Managing to Make it: Urban Families and Adolescent Success
March 31, 1999 -- 9:00AM Sociology Department Honors Students Present Honors Projects
April 14, 1999 -- 11:30AM
Rick Phillips, Rutgers University
‘Sacred Canopy’ or ‘Divine Economy’?: Religious Pluralism and the Transformation of U.S. Denominations
April 23, 1999 -- 11:30AM (Friday)
David Halle, UCLA
Director, UCLA LeRoy Neiman Center for the Study of American Society & Culture
Professor, Dept. of Sociology, UCLA, & Adjunct Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
New York and Los Angeles: How Different, How Similar?
1997-1998
Organized by Judith Friedman and Karen Cerulo
September 24, 1997 Sarah Rosenfield, Associate Professor
Sociology Department, Rutgers.
Splitting the Difference: Gender, Mental Health and the Self
Recent research indicates that strong gender differences in psychopathology arise in early adolescence. This implies potential roles for socialization practices and dimensions of the self. The specific divisions a society makes by gender shape the development and the constitution of the self in males and females. Thus these conceptions and social practices that split the genders have implications for the disorders that differentially plague males and females.
October 4, 1997 Michael Shafer
Director of CASE (Citizenship and Service Education Program.)
CASE in the classroom
Michael Shafer and several graduate students who have taught courses with CASE internships will describe ways you can use CASE in your own classes. Students in CASE class enroll for an additional 1 credit internship, thus providing a way for students to bring real world experiences back to the classroom. The staff at CASE arranges student placement and monitors internship hours.
October 15, 1997 Ann Orloff, Associate Professor
Sociology Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin
Gender and Welfare State Restructuring in Australia, Canada, England,
and the U.S.
Ann Orloff’s new book, States, Markets, and Families: Gender, Liberalism, and Social Policy in Australia,
Canada, England, and the United States (Cambridge University Press) will be out in 1998. She has published articles on gender and the welfare state in the American Sociological Review (1993) and the
(1996) Annual Review of Sociology.
October 22, 1997 Eviatar Zerubavel, Professor
Sociology Department, Rutgers.
The Social Structure of the Past: Steps toward a Socio-Mental Geology
Drawing on some earlier work presented in Hidden Rhythms, The Seven-Day Circle, The Fine Line, and
Social Mindscapes, Zerubavel will integrate major concepts and findings from both cognitive sociology and the sociology of time in an attempt to develop a "structural sociology of memory".
October 29, 1997
Sergei Shukenda
Sociology Dept., Kazan State University, Russia
The Rise of cults in Russia After the Break-up of the Soviet Union
Sergei Shukenda is at Rutgers for several months to study U.S. responses to cults. Many cults, including some active in the U.S., are growing rapidly, now, in Russia. Shukenda will discuss peculiarities of the current Russian situation that make cults particularly attractive, now, to young people in Russia.
November 12, 1997 Lynn Chancer
Dept. of Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University
Provoking Assaults: Gender, Race, and Class in High Profile Crimes
This talk is a preview of Chancer current analysis of recent high profile crime cases that have become symbolic. Chancer examines the interaction of media, law, and social movement participation around these high-profile crime cases. From this, she develops a thesis about the role of symbolic crime cases in U.S. culture, and she also relates these crimes to broader questions of contemporary social theory.
February 11, 1998
Viviana Zelizer
Princeton University
The Purchase of Intimacy.
"The Purchase of Intimacy" examines the place of monetary transfers in erotically-tinged social relations. Using three exemplary legal cases-- taken from tax law, contract law, and tort law-- where sexual relations intersect with monetary payments, the paper makes three different arguments: (1) in routine social relations the significance of payments shifts radically depending on the content and meaning of the social relation involved; (2) a whole class of legal disputes concerning payments arise precisely because of disagreements over the quality of the social relation involved, and (3) discrepancies between ways of evaluating and explaining social relations in routine social life and in the legal arena present difficult problems of translation.
February 18, 1998
Donald Light
Rutgers University
The Social Character of Markets in Health Care.
ABSTRACT: This article begins by analyzing central problems in the neoclassical theory of competition and why they make competition untenable in health care. These problems are purportedly solved by the economic theory known as managed competition but are not. The argument then turns to good sociological reasons why this "bad" economic theory has become the predominant paradigm for transforming American health care into managed care systems. Fligstein's work on how leading firms develop conceptions of market structures in order to control them provides a persuasive explanation, and a number of extensions to his concepts are suggested, particularly concerning the implications of a given conception for the quality of life in a society. The article then shows how the sociological theory predicts actual behavior better than the economic theory. It concludes by asking for research to determine the degree to which managed competition as a conception of control is enabling executive teams to exploit their firms and the industry in ways that harm patients and benefit themselves.
February 25, 1998
Marti Blose
Rutgers University
Women and Tattoos: An Exploratory Study of the Body as an Instrument of Empowerment.
As the border between private and public, the body is very much the matter of everyday activity and experience in identity work on both collective and individual levels ( Schatzski and Natter, 1996 ). In this paper, I use tattooing as a vehicle to provide insight regarding how women empower themselves through the achievement of beauty. Further, I investigate the cognitive contrast between permanent and temporary adornment and evaluate self-perception and coping strategies tattooed women implement to confront negative stereotypes associated with body art. My study is primarily qualitative, and employs autoethnography, interview, and survey data. In transforming the natural body into a cultural body, women and men make their physicality meaningful to not only others, but also to themselves.
March 4, 1998
Randall Collins
Univ. of Pennsylvania
An Interaction Ritual Theory of Sexuality.
The theme is that sexual behavior, with all its historical variations, is preeminently sociological in character. Its ritualism, taboos, emotional/symbolic solidarities and violations, call out for an application of the Durkheim/Goffman theoretical tradition. Sexuality is Goffmanian stage-setting as well as the backstage per excelllence; it is part of the idealized and stratified social order, as well as the ritualism of the intimate.
March 11, 1998
Karen Knorr Cetina, University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Visiting Professor, Princeton University 1997-98
Global Microstructures: The Interactional Order of Financial Markets and Epistemic Embeddedness.
This paper is on the one hand simply a first attempt to characterize what goes on on the trading floors of financial institutions, the kind of setting that defines global financial markets. It is also an attempt to see if microsociology (interactionism, ethnomethodology and the like) can contribute anything to understand global spheres. This attempt challenges, I hope, two assumptions. The first is that interaction structures are tied and limited to local face-to-face situations; the second is that globalization requires, via an implied increase of complexity of social institutions, a macrosociological perspective. Global microstructures is the term we choose for structures which are global in spread but microsociological in character. They are also what instantiates technology systems as sequentially and culturally specific accomplished actions. The paper also points to the the epistemic embeddedness of global financial markets. By this we mean that the reality of financial markets is a knowledge reality, it is constituted by the specifiable epistemic work of financial analysts, specialists, economists and the like.
March 24, 1998 at 1:00 pm (Friday)
Myra Marx Ferree, University of Connecticut
Talking About Women and Wombs: Gender Politics and Abortion Discourse in the U.S. and Germany.
Abortion has been a significant political issue in both Germany and the US in the past twenty-five years. In some regards the developments in both countries have been parallel, in that there was a first round of reform in the early 1970s that secured some legal right to abortion and a second round of policy debate and change in the late 1980s that modified the initial decision. In other regards, the policy conditions are diametrically opposed: the German constitutional court in1975 found that the constitution extended to include the fetus in the state's mandate to protect life, while the US court in Roe v. Wade found the American constitution offered a woman a right to choose abortion in the protection of individual privacy. The courts framed the issue in terms that shaped key elements of the later debate. American discourse about abortion is strongly led by individual rights framing, while German discourse is dominated by fetal life claims. This is true forthe 'disadvantaged" side as well. American pro-life arguments also use individual privacy claims and German pro-choice advocates argue that "the best protection of unborn life is the conscience of the mother." The two discourses differ in several other significant ways as well. In the US, social movements play a critical role in the media discourse while they are nearly invisible in German newspapers, narrative plays a much stronger role in American than in German discourse, andGerman discourse is closely tied to specific policy decisions in the legislature and strongly and increasingly dominated by the parties. Overall, for better or worse, it appears that US public discourse is more open and a better fit to models of discursive democracy.
April 1, 1998
Undergraduate Honors Presentations
April 8, 1998
Undergraduate Honors Presentations
April 15, 1998
Brian Hall, Rutgers University
Chinese Americans at the Border of Christian Faith.
April 22, 1998 at 11:30 am
Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
E Pluribus Unum: Bilingualism in the Immigrant Second Generation.
We examine patterns of language adaptation in a sample of over 5,000 second generation students in South Florida and Southern California. Knowledge of English is near universal and preference for that language is dominant among most immigrant nationalities. On the other hand, only a minority remain fluent in the parental languages and there are wide variations among immigrant groups in the extent of their parental linguistic retention. These variations are important for theory and policy because they affect the speed of acculturation and the extent to which sizable pools of fluent bilinguals will be created by today's second generation. We employ multivariate and multi-level analyses to identify the principal factors accounting for variation in foreign language maintenance and bilingualism. While a number of variables emerge as significant predictors, they do not account for differences across immigrant nationalities which become even more sharply delineated. A clear disjuncture exists between children of Asian and Hispanic backgrounds whose parental language maintenance and bilingual fluency vary significantly. Reasons for this divergence are explored and their policy implications are discussed.
Co-sponsored with the "Institute for Health" , the "Edward J.Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy" and the "Center for Latino Arts and Culture"
This talk will be held in the Edward J. Bloustein School, Civic
Square, Special Events Forum, College Ave Campus.
April 24, 1998 at 2:00 pm
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University, John Cowels Professor of Sociology
"The Liability of Isolation: Why We Still Need Affirmative Action."
Orlando Patterson received his early education in his native Jamaica, his B.Sc. in Economics from UCWI-London University and went on to take a Ph.D in Sociology from the London School of Economics in 1965. After faculty appointments at the London School of Economics and his Alma Mater the University of the West Indies, he moved to Harvard in 1969-70 as a visiting professor and the following year, was appointed there to a Full Professorship in Sociology. He is the author of eight books and several book-length government reports on urban poverty, prepared while he was special advisor to Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica during the seventies. His first academic work, The Sociology of Slavery: Jamaica 1655-1838, published in 1967, explored the problems of slavery and freedom, as well as the roots of racism and poverty in Jamaica, and these have remained his main, lifelong interests, although later explored in comparative terms.
Slavery as a worldwide institution was examined in Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study which in 1982, was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association. He explored the problems of race and ethnicity cross-nationally in his 1977 book, Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse. The first of a two volume historical sociology of freedom, entitled Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1991.
He is presently completing the second volume of Freedom, dealing with the modern world. At the same time, he is shifting the focus of his research to contemporary America with special emphasis on the intersecting problems of race, immigration and multiculturalism. The first volume of a trilogy in this area, The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s "Racial" Crisis, is available from Civitas/Counterpoint. The second, Rituals of Blood: God Sex and Violence in America’s Culture of "Race", will be published in October 1998.
Patterson has also published three novels, The Children of Sisyphus, which won the prize for best work of fiction in English at the Dakar Festival of Negro Arts in 1965; An Absence of Ruins; and Die the Long Day.
He was awarded the UCLA Medal in 1992, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This talk will be held in the Yorba Lounge in Tillet Hall on Livingston Campus
1996-1997
Organized by Judith Friedman, Kathryn Edin, and Leslie McCall
Marty Blose, Wayne Brekhus & Mary Chayko "Teaching Sociology. Practical and Pedagogical Strategies for Graduate Students"
Robin Wagner-Pacifici "Theorizing Contingency or Speaking of Stand-offs"
Kathryn Edin "Single Mothers and Economic Survival: Life without the Safety Net"
Mary Gatta "It’s just not worth it: a sociological analysis of emotions in restaurant tipping"
Rich Eckstein "Having fun doing research"
Jozsef Borocz "Reaction as Progress: Economists as Intellectuals"
John Logan "Less Separate, More Equal? Residential Patterns of Truly Advantage Minorities and immigrants in New York"
Marty Oppenheimer "A case study in powers structure network analysis: Talcott Parson’s Mission to Germany"
Philip Kasinitz "The Paradoxes of Poverty and Place: The Case of Red Hook"
Helmut Anheier "Social Movement Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Nazi Party 1925-30"
1995-1996
Organized by Lee Clarke and Helmut Anheier
September 20
Robert Lang, Sociology Department, Rutgers University
"From Maps to Myth: The Census, Turner, and The Frontier's Place in the American Mind"
October 11
Michele Lamont, Sociology Department, Princeton University
"The Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-Racism in France and the U.S.: Biology, Morality, Psychology, and Political Culture"
October 18
Lee Clarke, Sociology Department, Rutgers University
"Controlling the Uncontrollable: The Organizational Production of Fantasy Documents"
November 1
Edward Amenta, Sociology Department, New York University
"Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and The Origins of American Public Social Provision"
November 15
Patricia Roos and Joan Manley, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University & Sociology Department, Louisiana State University
"From Matron to Maven: The Feminization of Human Resource Management"
December 6
Monica Devanas & Gary Gigliotti, Teaching Excellence Center, Rutgers University
"On Peer Review of Teaching"
January 24
Kristen Purcell, Sociology Department, Rutgers University
On A Level Playing Field: The Creation of Social Comparability
January 31
James Jasper, Sociology Department, New York University
Emotions, Rationality, and Protest: Has the Cultural Turn Run Its Course?
February 14
Allan Horwitz, Helene Raskin White, Sandy Howell-White, Sociology Department and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
Gender Differences in the Mental Health Outcomes of Marital Dissolution
March 6
Ryan Smith, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
Race and Job Authority
March 20
Ira Cohen, Sociology Department, Rutgers University
All Solidarities are Local
March 27
Richard Williams, Sociology Department, Rutgers University
April 3
Kelly Moore, Sociology Department, Barnard College
The Organizational Limits of Radicalism: The Unhappy Marriage of Radical Science and Radical Feminism
April 17
Sarah McClanahan
Child Support In The US: Is It Still Working? Will It Help?
April 24
Tom Rudel and Judy Gerson, Sociology Department and Human Ecology, Rutgers University
Towards an Ecological Explanation for Post-Modernism
1994-1995
Organized by Lee Clarke and Helmut Anheier
Patricia Fernandez-Kelley
Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
"Feminist Theory and Practice: Facing Current Challenges"
Miguel Centeno
Sociology, Princeton University
"Blood and Debt: State-Making in Latin America"
Andrew Greeley
Sociology, University of Chicago
"The Spousal Image of God"
Manfred Kuechler
Sociology, Hunter College
"Xenophobia and Anti-Foreigner Sentiments in Europe: A Comparative Analysis"
Magali Safarti-Larson
Sociology, Temple University
"The Rise and Fall of Post-Modernism: A Sociology of American Architecture"
Charles Kadushin
Sociology, CUNY
"The French Financial Elite: A Network Study"
Wayne Brekhus
Sociology, Rutgers University
"Chameleons by Day, Peacocks by Night: Guppies (Gay Yuppies) in Suburbia"
Kai Erikson
Sociology, Yale University
"A New Species of Trouble"
Mary Chayko
Sociology, Rutgers University
"Connecting: The Mental Construction of Social Ties"
Sydney Halpern
Sociology, University of Illinois
"Risks and Research Ethics"
Chris Nippert-Eng
Sociology, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Calendars, Keys, and Commutes: The Art of Boundary Work"
1993-1994
Organized by Lee Clarke and Helmut Anheier
Blair Wheaton
Sociology, University of Toronto
Joan Manley
Sociology, Rutgers University
"Building Better Corporate Citizens: TQM and Professional Bureaucracies"
Kathleen Gerson
Sociology, New York University
"Men's Changing Commitment to Family and Work"
Ruth Simpson
Sociology, Rutgers University
"Society as Text: Rhetoric In (not of) Sociology"
Sandy Howell-White
Sociology, Rutgers University
"Perceptions of Risk and Choice of Birth Provider"
Paul DiMaggio
Sociology, Princeton University
Elin Waring
School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
"Conceptualizing Criminal Organizations"
Ilene De Vault
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
"Cross Gender Strikes in the Early AFL"
Robert Alford
Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
"The Art of Asking Research Questions: Toward a Theory of Method"
1992-1993
Organized by Lee Clarke
Donna Gaines
School of Communications, New York University
Vicki Smith
Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Paul Attewell
Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
1991-1992
Organized by Karen Cerulo
Charles Tilly
Sociology, New School for Social Research
Michael Schwartz
Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook
James D. Wright
Sociology, Tulane University
Robert Wuthnow
Sociology, Princeton University
1990-1991
Organized by Karen Cerulo
Jeffrey Goldfarb
Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Marion Levy
Sociology, Princeton University
Charles Perrow
Sociology, Yale University
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