The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Urban Social Processes Workshop

Spring 2010 Schedule

All meetings will take place from 4:00 to 6 PM in William James Hall 601.


Feb 11:

The Role of Theory in Urban Ethnographic Research
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor

Feb 25:  

More than Yuppie Scum: A Typology of Gentrification
Ann Owens, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy

Mar 11:

Order without Legibility: Legal and Economic Formality and Informality in an American Neighborhood’s Property Management
Debbie Becher, Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 1:

The Spatial Stratification of Neighborhood Effects and Residential Mobility Pathways of the Urban Poor
Corina Graif, PhD Candidate in Sociology

April 22:

The Perils of Brokerage: Structural Holes and the Risk of Violent Victimization
David Hureau, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy and Andrew Papachristos, Department of Sociology, UMass Amherst

April 29:

Ghetto: The Birth of a Place, the Spread of an Idea
Mitchell Duneier, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University

 

Updated: April 21, 2010

 

 

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