Academic Year 2010 – 2011
Spring 2011 Series
January
- January 26, 2011: Margarita Mooney, UNC-Chapel Hill. “Opportunities and Challenges in Engaged Scholarship: Faith Makes Us Live and the 2010 Haitian Earthquake”
February
- February 17, 2011: Mario Small, University of Chicago: “Rethinking Social Capital.”
- February 23, 2011: Liana Richardson, UNC-CH: “Reproducing Racial Inequality Across Generations: Life Course and Contextual Influences on Birth Outcomes”
March
- March 24, 2011: Social Forces Visiting Scholar, Neil Gross, University of British Columbia: “Are Professors Liberal?”
- March 30, 2011: Adia Harvey, Georgia State University: “Are Some Emotions Marked Whites Only: Racialized Feeling Rules in Professional Workplaces”
April
- April 6, 2011: Doris Selo Memorial Lecture, Hilary Levey Friedman, Harvard University: “Playing to Win: Raising Girls in a Competitive Culture”
- April 20, 2011: Christine Bachrach, Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor, UNC-CH and Duke, “Cultural Confusion: Why Cultural Sociology Needs a Model of Mind”
May
- May 4, 2011: UNC-CH at the PAAs: Sociology department members share their PAA presentations
- Matt Bradshaw, Cheryl Roberts, Margarita Mooney, and Glen Elder, UNC-Chapel Hill. “Financial Hardship, Religious Resources, and Psychological Well-Being in Late Life”
- Jamie Lewis, UNC-Chapel Hill. “Patterns in American Fathers’ Fathering Attitudes”
- Lisa Pearce and Shrada Shresth, UNC-Chapel Hill. “When Nature Becomes Disenchanted: The Role of Ideational Change in Models of Environmental Degradation”
Fall 2010 Series
September
- September 8, 2010: UNC at the ASAs: Sociology department members share their ASA presentations
- Ian Conlon and Kate McFarland, UNC-Chapel Hill. “Concrete Language and Sexual Prejudice: The Effect of Question Wording on Opinion of Same-Sex Marriage”
- Janette Dill, UNC-Chapel Hill. “The Changing Nature of Career Development in Health Care Organizations: The Case of Low-Wage Workers”
- Charles Seguin and Andy Andrews, UNC-Chapel Hill. “Making America Dry: Ethnicity, Religion, and Urbanization in the Adoption of Prohibition, 1890-1919”
- September 15, 2010: Kayo Suzuki, UNC-Chapel Hill. “The Transition to Unmarried Childbirth: Socialization and Opportunity Cost Explanations”
- September 22, 2010: Gerardo Marti, Davidson College. “I Just Wish I Could Be Black”: African Americans, Gospel Music, and the Persistence of Racial Stereotypes in Multiracial Churches”
October
- October 13, 2010: Andrew Peyton, UNC-Chapel Hill. “‘It’s Not About Not Drinking’: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Health and Illness Using Alcoholics Anonymous”
- October 27, 2010: JD Daw, UNC-Chapel Hill. “Waiting to Live: The Contributions of Social, Geographic, Medical, and Biological Factors to the Creation of Disparities in Kidney Transplantation”
November
- November 3, 2010: Rosemary Hopcroft, UNC-Charlotte. “The Complementarities Between Sociological and Evolutionary Theory: The Case of Gender Inequality.”
- November 10, 2010: Social Forces Invited Speaker – Steve Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago. “Race and Religion in the American Republic”
- November 17, 2010: Yingchun Ji, UNC-Chapel Hill. “Understanding How Economic and Ideational Factors Combine to Influence the Timing of Marriage”
December
- December 1, 2010: Odum Graduate Student Award Winner Presentation – Shawn Bauldry, UNC-Chapel Hill. “Income and Self-Identified Class of First-Generation Post-Secondary Students Over the Life-Course”