Culture and Society Workshop at UCSD

Schedule 2010-2011, 12:30-1:50, SSB101

The Culture and Society Workshop is a forum for presenting work in progress broadly related to cultural sociology. Presenters are typically a mix of UCSD graduate students, UCSD faculty and faculty from other institutions in the U.S. We are informal, so bring your lunch. The workshop is organized by Amy Binder, Mary Blair-Loy, John H. Evans, Tom Medvetz and Kwai Ng.

Papers are not intended for general circulation, and will be removed from this site immediately after the meeting at which they are discussed. Whenever possible, papers for the next meeting will be posted in PDF format approximately one week before the meeting. Schedules for previous years can be found here

Schedule

Fall 2010

No workshops this Fall. Please come to the job talks.

Winter 2011

January 20 (Thursday)
Wendy Griswold , Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
Standards for Conviction in Cultural Sociology

January 28 (Friday) -- NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE -- SSB107
Delia Baldassarri , Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Political Belief Networks: Socio-Cognitive heterogeneity in American Public Opinion
Co-Sponsored with the American Politics and Institutions Project of the Political Science Department

February 8 (Tuesday)
Corey Fields , Department of Sociology, Stanford University
My People, My People: How Competing Ideas about Black People Shape african-American Republican Politics
(Co-Sponsored with Conservative Movements Workshop)

March 3 (Thursday)
Francesca Polletta , Department of Sociology, UC Irvine
Accounting for Women's Participation and Influence in Political Talk

Spring 2011

April 5(Tuesday)
Cynthia Schairer , Department of Sociology, UCSD
Human Hardware: How Prosthetic Legs Became Everyday Body Parts

April 29(FRIDAY: 2:00-3:30)
Jal Mehta , School of Education, Harvard University
The Chastened Dream: The Relationship between Social Science, Social Policy, and Social Progress

May 10 (Tuesday)
Shari Dworkin , School of Nursing, UCSF
Shifting Cultural Notions of Masculinity: A Qualitative Analysis From Two High HIV Seroprevalence Provinces in South Africa

May 26 (Thursday)
Mary Blair-Loy , Department of Sociology, UCSD
How Work Devotion Is Shaped By Firms, Jobs and Markets