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Culture and Social Analysis Workshop


Department of Sociology
Harvard University

Fall 2006/Spring 2007
Fridays, 12:00-2:00 pm
William James Hall, Room 601
33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
 Faculty coordinators: Neil Gross,      
Michèle Lamont, and Jason Kaufman      
Student coordinator: Chana Teeger       

Spring 2005 Papers and Background Readings

Mon., February 14, 2005, 4 pm, WJH 105
Presenter: Jeffrey Alexander
(Yale University)

Cultural Pragmatics: Mediating Textual and Instrumental Approaches to Culture via a New Performance Theory
 
Thurs., February 17, 2005, 4 pm, WJH 601
Presenter: Bruno Latour
(Center for Sociology of Innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris)
Gabriel Tarde: A Long Overdue Alternative
to the Sociology of the Social
Friday, March 4, 12:00-2:00 PM
Presenter: Natasha Warikoo
(Harvard University)

Taste Preferences, Cultural Meanings, and Race among Children of Immigrants in London and New York
 
Friday, March 11, 12:00-2:00 PM
Presenter: Steven Shapin
(Harvard University)

Accounting For Taste: The Wine World
 
Friday, March 18, 12:00-2:00 PM
Presenter: Dennis Altman
(LaTrobe University)

Gore Vidal and the Sociological Imagination
 
Friday, March 25, 12:00-2:00 PM
Presenter: Jay Gabler
(Harvard University)

Actors and the Environment: A New Model of
Change in Cultural Fields
 
Monday, April 11, 4:00 PM - WJH 3 - New Place and Time!
Presenter: Gianpaolo Baiocchi
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Militants and Citizens: The Politics of
Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre
 
Friday, April 22, 12:00-2:00 PM
Presenter: Wendy Roth
(Harvard University)

Latino Before the World: Panethnicity,
Transnational Media, and the Transmission of Identity
 
Friday, April 29, 12:00-2:00 PM
Presenter: Stanley Lieberson
(Harvard University)

Co-author: Freda B. Lynn

Popularity As A Taste:
An Application to the Naming Process
 
Friday, May 6, 12:00-2:00 PM
Presenter: Wayne Baker
(University of Michigan)

America's Crisis of Values:
Reality and Perception
(preview)
 
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