(prior to fall 2010)
Sociology Colloquium Series 2006-2007
All colloquia are scheduled 12:00-1:30pm, Locations are TBA
- October 11, 2006 in SSPA 2112
Jill Quadagno ( Florida State University )
Why the US Has No National Health Insurance - October 20, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Matthew Salganik ( Columbia University )
The puzzling nature of success in cultural markets - October 25, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Cybelle Fox ( Harvard University )
Expelling the "Aliens": Race, Immigration and the American Welfare State - October 27, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Rebecca Glauber ( New York University )
Gender, Work, and the Diverging Outcomes of Fatherhood - November 1, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Arnout van de Rijt ( Cornell University )
Immigrant Assimilation: Rapid and Reversible - November 3, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Jake Rosenfeld ( Princeton University )
Consequences and Causes of Strike Decline in Post-Accord America - November 8, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Alexandra Kalev ( Princeton/Berkeley )
Cracking the Glass Cages? Job Segregation, the Restructuring of Work and Managerial Diversity - November 29, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Evan Schofer ( University of Minnesota )
The Structural Sources of Association - December 1, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Karolyn Tyson ( University of North Carolina )
On Becoming a Cultural Object: Academic Achievement and Acting White - December 6, 2006 in SSPB 4206
David Brunsma ( University of Missouri )
Mapping the Contours of (Multi)racial America: Critical Retrospectives and Prospects - December 8, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Ann Hironaka ( University of Minnesota )
The Construction of Consensus: The Interwar Tank Debates - December 13, 2006 in SSPB 4206
Art Alderson ( Indiana University, Bloomington )
Change in the World City System: How New is the "New Geography of Inequality?"
- January 17, 2006 in SSPB 4206
James M. Jasper ( Contexts Magazine )
Schoolmarms and Bad Boys: Sociology's Scandalized Reaction to Strategy - January 31, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Anthony Chen ( University of Michigan, Ann Arbor )
The Fifth Freedom: The Lost Origins of Affirmative Action in the United States, 1941-1972 - February 7, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Joshua Guetzkow ( University of California, Berkeley )
Bars vs. Butter: The Prison-Welfare Tradeoff in the U.S., 1970-1996 - February 21, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks ( University of California, Berkeley )
The Wages of Sin are Death: Sexual Stigma and Infant Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa - February 28, 2007 in SSPB 1208
Elijah Anderson ( University of Pennsylvania )
The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race Relations in Everyday Life - March 7, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Steven Pfaff ( University of Washington )
Emigration, Protest and the Collapse of East Germany - April 4, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Abigail Saguy ( University of California, Los Angeles )
Does this BMI Make Me Look Fat? Defining the Limits of “Normal” Body Weight - April 6, 2007, 12:00-2:30pm
Session 1: SSPB 4206
Jim Bachmeier, New Destination Contexts of Reception: Coethnic Concentration and the Earnings of Low-Skilled Mexican Immigrants
Jennifer Luchesi-Long, Latino Academic Success: The Effects of a School's Racial and Ethnic Composition on Testing Outcomes
Diana Pan, Coloring the Nest: Negotiating Race and Culture in Multiethnic Adoptive FamiliesSession 2: SSPB 4250
Shannan Chadek, Social Inequality and My Super Sweet Sixteen: Moral
Evaluations of Reality TV
Daisy Reyes, Transmission of Sexual Values: A Generational Analysis of
Women of Mexican Descent
Christopher Marcum, Trends in Euthanasia Attitudes from 1977 to 2004:
A Cohort Analysis
Lorien Jasney, Corporate Interlock Networks: An Analysis of Structure
and Constructal Theory - April 13, 2007, 12:00-2:30pm
Session 1: SSPB 4206
James Stobaugh, Evolving Frames: Framing the Debate Over Evolution in
the U.S. Courts
Allen Kim, Distant Patriarch to Expressive Dad: 'Ethnic' Toolkits and the Crafting of Evangelical Masculinities in the Father School Movement
Bobby Chen, Emotional Repertoire of Public Sphere: The Case of Global
Justice ProtestSession 2: SSPB 4250
Linda Borgen, Military Paths in Immigrant Incorporation
Hien Park, Transitions to Adulthood among the 1.5-Generation Indo-Chinese Immigrants
Ryan Pearce, Nationalism and Labor: Analyzing Strike Outcomes in
Revolutionary Shanghai
Scott Byrd, The Global Dynamics of Political Protest: Analysis of Individual Participation in 67 Countries - April 18, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Susan Watkins ( University of Pennsylvania )
Conversations into Texts: A Method for Studying the Content of Conversations about AIDS in Social Networks in Rural Malawi - May 2, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Matthias vom Hau ( Brown University )
State Power and Nationalism: Mexico in Comparative Perspective - May 9, 2007, in SSPB 4206
Mark Mizruchi ( University of Michigan )
Getting a Bonus: The Effects of Social Networks onPay among Commercial Bankers - May 23, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Belinda I. Reyes ( San Francisco State University )
U.S. Immigration Policies and Mexican Unauthorized Immigration - June 13, 2007 in SSPB 4206
Ronald Lesthaeghe ( University of Michigan )
The Making of the Modern Western Family and the Politics of Moral Control: An Illustration for the Low Countries, 1450-1900
Fall 2007
- Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 3:30-5:00, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Michael T. Heaney ( University of Florida )
Coalition Dissolution and Network Dynamics in the American Antiwar Movement - Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Immigration
Susan Coutin ( University of California, Irvine - Criminology, Law, and Society )
Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States - Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 12:00-1:00pm , SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography
Wang Feng ( University of California, Irvine - Sociology )
Globalizing Production, Shrinking Reproduction: How Does China Fit into the Picture? - Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Gender, Work and Family
Matt Huffman ( University of California, Irvine - Sociology )
Management Matters? Female Managers and Workplace Gender Segregation, 1975-2005 - Friday, October 19, 2007, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Heather Haveman ( University of California, Berkeley )
Antislavery in America: The Press, the Pulpit, and the Rise of Antislavery Societies - Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 5:00-6:00pm, SSPA 2112
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography
David Swanson ( University of California, Riverside )
Counting the Gulf Coast: A demographer gauges Katrina's impact in Mississippi - Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Natalia Sarkisian ( Boston College )
The Color of Family Ties: Culture, Structure, and Kin Support - Friday, October 26, 2007, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Rene Almeling ( University of California, Los Angeles )
Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material - Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Andrew Penner ( University of California, Berkeley )
Society, Biology, and Gender Differences in High Mathematical Achievement - Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Gender, Work and Family
Maria Estela Zarate ( University of California, Irvine - Education )
When Do Grades Matter? Gender Differences in Trajectories to College - Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Melanie Hughes ( Ohio State University )
Double Barriers and Strategic Opportunities: Explaining Minority Women’s Legislative Representation Worldwide - Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography
James Swanson ( University of California, irvine - Child Development )
The National Children's Health Study - Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Colloquium Series
Filip Agneessens ( Ghent University )
The importance of social capital for performance in knowledge-intensive groups: a multi-level perspective focusing on content, structure and resources of network ties - Friday, November 16, 2007, 10:00-11:30am, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Stephen Vaisey ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill )
Motivation and Justification: A Dual-Process Theory of Culture in Action - Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Immigration
Dowell Meyers ( University of Southern California )
Immigrants and Boomers: New Understanding for a New Civic Integration
Winter 2008
- Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Gender, Work and Family
Berna Torr ( RAND Labor and Population )
Black-White Differences in the Coresidential Experience of Mothers of Young Children, 1880 to 2000 - Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography Fernando Torres-Gil ( University of California, Los Angeles )
The New Aging: The Coming Nexus of Demographics, Race and Immigration - Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Immigration
James Bachmeier (Ph.D. student in Sociology)
School or Work, or School and Work? Enrollment and Intergenerational Variation in Work Activity among Mexican-Origin Adolescents - Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Bert Klandermans ( Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam )
Protest Participation Among Immigrants - Thursday, January 24, 2008, 5:30-6:30 Reception; 6:30-8 Dinner & Talk, UCI Club (Main
Dining Hall)
Manuel Castells ( University of Southern California )
The Urban Form of the Information Age - Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography
Andrew Noymer ( University of California, Irvine - Sociology )
The Twentieth Century Evolution of American Mortality - Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPA 2112
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Robert Sampson ( Harvard University )
Neighborhood Effects and the Social Reproduction of Inequality
* Event co-sponsored by the Dept. of Criminology, Law & Society - Friday, February 1, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SE1 112
Robert Sampson ( Harvard University )
The Immigration and Diversity Debate: Insights from Criminology
* Event co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology - Monday, February 4, 2008, 12:00-2:00pm, SEII 2372
Lauren Edelman ( University of California, Berkeley )
When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures - Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Gender, Work and Family
Marigee Bacolod ( University of California, Irvine - Economics )
Two Sides of the Same Coin: U.S. "Residual Inequality" and the Gender Gap - Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Immigration
Frank D. Bean ( University of California, Irvine - Sociology )
Cultural Repertoires and Public Assistance Receipt: Explaining the Distinctiveness of Mexican Immigrant Welfare Behaviors - Friday, February 22, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPA 2112
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Dalton Conley ( New York University )
Learning from Natural Experiments in Public Policy: Offspring Sex Mix and the Effect of PAC Money on Congressional Voting & The Longterm Mortality Effects of Vietnam Era Military Service - Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography
David Neumark ( University of California, Irvine - Economics )
Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration - Monday, March 3, 2008, 2:00-3:30pm, UCI Student Center: Pacific Ballroom D
- The 2007-08 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series
Philip Bennett ( Managing Editor, Washington Post )
Covering Islam: A Challenge for American Journalism - Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Gender, Work and Family
Sara Wakefield (University of California, Irvine - Criminology, Law, and Society)
The Transition to Parenthood for Criminal Offenders - Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 11:30-1:30pm, SSPA 2112
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Immigration
Hiroshi Motomura (Professor of Law, University of North Carolina)
Immigration Outside the Law: A Conceptual Roadmap - Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 5206
Mark Selden ( Cornell University )
War Atrocities, Historical Memory, and Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific: From Nanjing to Abu Ghraib
Spring 2008
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Immigration
Gillian Stevens ( University of Illinois )
Is Younger Quicker? Age at Arrival and the Rapidity of English Acquisition among Immigrant Children in the U.S. - Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography
Hal Stern ( University of California, Irvine - Statistics )
The American Community Survey (ACS) and its Impact on Demographic Research - Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Gender, Work and Family
Catherine Bolzendahl ( University of California, Irvine - Sociology )
Beyond Symbols: Support of Marital Right and Benefits for Non-Traditional Couples - Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Immigration
Maurice Crul ( University of Amsterdam )
The Integration of the Second Generation in Europe. The Importance of the National and Local Integration Context - Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 12:00-3:00, SSPB 4206
-Sociology Department 2nd Year Paper Presentation
Elizabeth Sowers
Working Conditions and Opinions on Unionization among Truck Drivers
Michelle Peria
Maquiladora Work in Agua Prieta, Mexico: Integration or Exploitation?
Michael Landis
Social Movement Survival: How the Intelligent Design Movement Persists
James Bany
Reconstructing Identity: The Conversion Process and Identity Outcomes in the Ex-gay Movement - Friday, April 25, 2008, 12:00-3:00, SSPB 4206
-Sociology Department 2nd Year Paper Presentation
Zoya Gubernskaya
Changing Attitudes toward Marriage and Children in Six Countries
Jared Olesen
Newspaper Coverage of Environmental Movement Organizations 1988-2008
Vincent Laus
Breaking Free: The Persistence of Drug Usage and Social Connections for Filipino Americans
Brian Gillespie
Where You Are, Where You Go, and Who You Know: The Influence of Social Capital, Residential Mobility, Demographic, and Community Effects on Child Academic Achievement and Behavioral Problems - Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 12:15-1:15, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Immigration
Thomas Jimenez & April Linton ( Assistant Professors, University of California, San Diego )
Contexts for Bilingualism among US-Born Latinos - Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 12:00-3:00, SSPB 4206
-Sociology Department 2nd Year Paper Presentation
Fernando Chirino
Sexist Antagonism and Split Labor Market Theory
Kristen Shorette
The Effects of Structural Inequalities on Economic and Social Development: A Global Comparative Analysis
Stefan Malizia
Globalization and Environmental Governance
Laurie Neighbors
The Basel Ban Amendment: Predictors of Global Waste Trade Treaty Ratification - Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography
Anne Roeters ( Doctoral Fellow, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands )
Parents' work demands and activities with children - Friday, May 9, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Cecilia Menjívar ( Arizona State University )
Legal Violence?: Immigration Law in the Lives of Central Americans in the United States
* Event co-sponsored by the Dept. Chicano/Latino Studies & Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society - Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Elizabeth Fussell ( Tulane and Washington State )
Post-Katrina New Orleans as a New Migrant Destination - Thursday, May 15, 2008, 12:30-2:00pm, SSPA 2112
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Diane Vaughan ( Columbia University )
Theorizing: Interpretive Work in Qualitative Analysis
* Event co-sponsored by the Center for Organizational Research - Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series
Miruna Petrescu-Prahova ( Ph.D. student in Sociology )
Bridging Simulation and Inference in the Study of Residential Segregation: A Case Study - Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
- Population, Society and Inequality Colloquium Series -- Demography
Thurston Domina ( University of California, Irvine - Education )
Students Left Behind: Developing a Valid Measure of High School Completion
Fall 2008
- Friday, November 21, 2008, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Ivan Light ( University of California, Los Angeles )
Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles -- Follow-up Research
Winter 2009
- Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Recruitment candidate
Wenhong Chen ( Duke University )
Appreciating the Complexity: Ethnic Diversity and Generalized Trust in the Melting Pot - Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Peter Marsden ( Harvard University )
Trends in Informal Social Participation, 1974-2006 - Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
James Fowler ( University of California, San Diego )
Friendships Moderate an Association Between a Dopamine Gene Variant and Political Ideology - Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Judith Seltzer ( University of California, Los Angeles )
Intergenerational Relationships in U. S. Families
Spring 2009
- Monday, April 20, 2009, 2:00-3:30, SSPB 5206
The Center for the Study of Democracy and The Department of Sociology present
Riley Dunlap ( Oklahoma State University )
The Globalization of Environmental Concerns - Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Event co-sponsored by the Department of Education
Steven Brint ( University of California, Riverside )
The Market Model and the Growth and Decline of Academic Fields in U.S. Colleges and Universities, 1975-2000 - Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Linda Waite ( University of Chicago )
Fight or Flight vs Tend and Befriend: Social Isolation and Hypertension, co-authored with Martha McClintock, Erin York Cornwell, Lissa Patterson, and Juyeon Kim.
Fall 2009
- Friday, October 30, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Eric Anderson (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
Inclusive Masculinities: Declining Homohysteria and Changing Gendered Behaviors among University Men - Friday, November 6, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Ted Gerber (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Russian women on family formation, prostitution, and sexual harassment: results of a recent survey - Friday, November 13, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Christian Welzel (Jacobs University, Germany)
The Human Empowerment Framework as a Guide to Analyze Social Change - Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Gilda Ochoa (Pomona College)
(Re)Framing the Gap: Deconstructing Hegemonic Discourses of Race and Class in a Southern California High School
Winter 2010
- Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Amy Binder (University of California, San Diego)
“Civil” or “Provocative”? Varieties of Conservative Student Style and Discourse in American Universities - Friday, January 22, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Peter I. Rose (Smith College)
Race and Reason: Reflections on the Life and Contributions of Robin M. Williams, Jr. - Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies Departments present
Leisy J. Abrego (University of California, Irvine)
Barely Subsisting to Thriving: The Significance of Legal Status and Gender for Salvadoran Transnational Families - Friday, February 5, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Sarah Soule (Stanford University)
Protesting While Black: The Differential Policing of US Protesters, 1960-1990 - Friday, February 19, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Stefan Timmermans (University of California, Los Angeles)
Constructing Disease in the Genomics Era: Newborn Screening and the Advent of Patients-in-Waiting - Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00-9:00pm, SBSG 1517
- Social Sciences Expert Speaker Series
Frank Bean (Department of Sociology and Economics), Leo Chavez (Department of Anthropology and Chicano/Latino Studies), and Cynthia Feliciano (Department of Chicano Latino Studies and Sociology)
Changing Perceptions, Making Connections: Social Scientists Explore New Findings in Immigration & Population Research
Spring 2010
- Friday, April 16, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Scott Brooks (University of California, Riverside)
Black Men Can't Shoot - Thursday, May 6, 2010, 3:30-5:00, Student Center Pacific Ballroom B
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Event co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Democracy
David Grusky (Stanford University)
Gloom, Doom, & the Spectacular Rise in Inequality: Does the Economic Crisis Provide an Opportunity for Change? - Friday, May 7, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SB 116
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Event co-sponsored with the Paul Merage School of Business
Mark Mizruchi (University of Michigan)
CEO Ideology and Corporate Political Action: A Theoretical and Historical Account - Friday, May 14, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Charles Ragin (University of Arizona)
Intersecting Inequalities: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Family Background, Test Scores, and Poverty - Friday, May 28, 2010, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
- Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Aliya Saperstein (University of Oregon)
The Consequences of Racial Fluidity for Inequality in the United States
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