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Colloquium Series: Thad Dominia

Hamilton Hall, Conference Room 271 102 Emerson DR, CHAPEL HILL, NC, United States

Thad Domina, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Education "Membership Has Its Privileges’: Status Incentives and Categorical Inequality in Education" Prizes – formal systems that publicly allocate rewards for exemplary behavior – play an increasingly important role in … Read more

Colloquium Series: Arthur Alderson, Indiana University, Bloomington , IN

Hamilton Hall, Conference Room 271 102 Emerson DR, CHAPEL HILL, NC, United States

"Inequality, Status, and Subjective Well-Being"   Subjective well–being is shaped by social inequality.  For instance, in every society for which we have data, rich people tend to be happier than poor people. Using unique data gathered by the author on … Read more

Colloquium Series – Practice Job Talk: Ali Kadivar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Hamilton Hall, Conference Room 271 102 Emerson DR, CHAPEL HILL, NC, United States

Mass Mobilization and the Durability of New Democracies A generation ago, political scientist Samuel Huntington commented that “democratic regimes that last have seldom, if ever, been instituted by mass popular actors” (1984:212). This paper subjects this observation to empirical investigation … Read more

Colloquium Series: Sarah Soule, Stanford University

Hamilton Hall, Conference Room 271 102 Emerson DR, CHAPEL HILL, NC, United States +1 more

Social Forces Visiting Scholar Sarah Soule, Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960-1995 Abstract: This paper examines the diffusion of protest … Read more