Sarah Gaby, "Becoming Activists: How Organizations Engage and Politicize Youth" One promise of civic associations in the democratic realm is that they will reduce oppression (Galston 2000) and teach appreciation for differences (Theiss-Morse and Hibbing 2013). This positive outcome is … Read more
Wealth, Race, and Place: How Neighborhood Disadvantage from Adolescence to Middle Adulthood affects Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap at Age 50
Jonathan Horowitz, "Explaining Activist Participation in a Life Course Transition"
Race, Incarceration, and Health: Stress Related Disparities in the Carceral State
Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio Through an ethnographic case study of Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, Wounded City dispells the popular belief that a lack of community is the primary source of violence, arguing that competition for … Read more
The social impacts of extreme wealth are becoming matters of public and political, as well as academic interest, as sociologists update ‘elite studies’. Savage and Williams (2008) edited collection Remembering Elites explores the uber wealthy sociologically, albeit condensed around a … Read more
Cultural Fragmentation or Acquired Dispositions? An Analytic Approach to Accounting for Patterns of Cultural Change This talk outlines two ideal-typical models of cultural internalization – the cultural fragmentation (CF) model and the acquired dispositions (AD) model and considers the predictions … Read more
How Much Social Structure Is There?: The Challenge of Data Mining Presented by Paul Attewell Distinguished Professor of Sociology City University of New York Quantitative studies in the social sciences frequently report models that explain very small proportions of the … Read more
Life Course Events and Network Composition Presented by Peter V. Marsden Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Life course transitions—such as entry into marriage, divorce, labor market entry, or retirement—prompt people to increase their involvement in some social … Read more
The Puzzling Boom-Bust Cycle of Digitally-Fueled Movements: Organizational Consequences of Digital Technology One of the most puzzling aspects of new digitally-fueled movements has been their boom-bust cycle. Thanks to digital technologies, it has probably never been easier for dissidents to … Read more
