Academic Year 2008 – 2009
September
- September 3, 2008, 12pm – Roundup of selected UNC presentations from ASA’s Summer 2008 meetings
- September 10, 2008, 12pm – Kim Manturuk, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Evaluating Causality in the Relationship between Homeownership and Social Capital”
- September 17, 2008, 12pm – Kyle Longest, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Identity in Action: Adolescent Religious Identity in the Transition to Adulthood”
- September 22, 2008, 12 pm – Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, CEI Speaker Series, “Constraining and Enabling Nanotechnology Innovation: The Interplay of Logics and Categories”
- September 25, 2008, 12 pm – Ruben Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine, “Paradise Shift: Mobility and Inequality in Southern California”
- September 26, 2008, 12pm – Linda Molm, University of Arizona, “Forms of Exchange and Integrative Bonds” (time and date subject to change)
October
- October 1, 2008, 12pm – Mairead Moloney, UNC-Chapel Hill
- October 8, 2008, 12pm – Barbara Entwisle, UNC-Chapel Hill, “The National Children’s Study in North Carolina: A Sociologist’s Perspective,” *This event will be held in 151 Hamilton Hall
- October 24, 2008, 12pm – Tim Bartley, Indiana University, CEI Speaker Series, “Structuring Transnational Fields of Governance: Networks, Legitimation, and the Evolution of Ethical Sourcing”
- October 29, 2008, 12pm – Hedwig Lee, UNC-Chapel Hill
November
- November 5, 2008, 12pm – Amy Lucas and Jessica Hardie, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Economic Factors and Relationship Quality among Young Couples: A Comparison of Cohabitation and Marriage”
- November 12, 2008, 12pm – Matt Ezzell, UNC-Chapel Hill, “‘I’m in Control’: Claiming Masculinity in a Therapeutic Community”
- November 19, 2008 – CANCELLED
- November 20, 2008, 12pm – David Hsu, University of Pennsylvania, CEI Speaker Series, “Entrepreneur-venture Capitalist Matching: Resource Versus Homophily Effects”
December
- December 3, 2008, 12pm – Peter Conrad, Brandeis University (Social Forces Visiting Scholar)
January
- January 15, 2009, 12pm – Brayden King, Northwestern University, CEI Speaker Series, “Institutional Sources of Differentiation: The Emergence of Identities in Arizona’s Charter Schools”
- January 28, 2009, 12pm – Mark Chaves, Duke University, “Continuity and Change in American Religion”
February
- February 4, 2009, 12pm – Lindsey King, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Job Insecurity in the Context of Welfare State Structure”
- February 12, 2009, 12pm – Mike McQuarrie, University of California – Davis, CEI Speaker Series, “Institutional Entrepreneurs and the Reconstruction of Urban Governance”
- February 25, 2009, 12pm – Michele Lamont, Harvard University
- February 27, 2009, 12pm – Peter Bearman, Columbia University, “Understanding the Increasing Prevalence of Autism”
March
- March 5, 2009, 12pm – Rachel Sherman, New School for Social Research, CEI Speaker Series, “‘Time is Our Commodity’: Gender & the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Emerging Personal Concierge and Errand Industry”
- March 18, 2009, 12pm – John C. Scott, UNC-Chapel Hill, “All Politics Is (Not) Local: The Structure of Lobbying in North Carolina”
- March 25, 2009, 12pm – JD Daw and Jessica Hardie, UNC-Chapel Hill, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Inequality in Subjective Labor Market Success at Mid-Life”
April
- April 1, 2009, 12pm – Karolyn Tyson, UNC-Chapel Hill, “On Becoming a Cultural Object: Race and Academic Achievement after/Brown/”
- April 8, 2009, 12pm – Judith Blau, UNC-Chapel Hill, panel discussion on “Experiential Learning and Grading”
- April 15, 2009 12pm – Rick Fantasia, Smith College, Doris Selo Memorial Lecture, “Cooking the Books of the Symbolic Economy: French Gastronomy in the Age of Neo-Liberalism”