Power and Inequalities (PI) Workshop
Up one levelFridays, 11:30 to 12:30 in the Sociology Department Board Room. All interested students and faculty are welcome.
The Power and Inequalities (PI) Workshop provides an opportunity for sociology graduate students and faculty to receive comments and suggestions on their works in progress. Papers are pre-distributed. After brief, optional remarks by the author, two discussants speak for approximately ten minutes each. The author responds then other participants offer comments. For additional information about the workshop, please contact Drew Halfmann or Dina Okamoto.
Papers are available online to authorized users. If you are not affiliated with UC Davis, please contact the author directly for access. Downloading of published and unpublished papers is intended for educational purposes only and adherence to copyright laws is assumed.
| Date | Description | Presenter | Discussants |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 16, 2009 | The Intellectual as a Practical Classification: The Case of Chinese Communism | Eddy U | John Hall, Shaun Geer |
| January 30, 2009 | Carrying the Weight: Gender Differences in Mexican American Postsecondary Pathways | Sarah Ovink | Kim Shauman, Simon Weffer (UC Merced) |
| February 13, 2009 | Sluts Unite! The Political and Cultural Organization of Sex Workers | Valerie Feldman | Monica Williams, Bill McCarthy |
| February 27, 2009 | Neoliberalism Happens, But How? | Michael McQuarrie | Alison Alkon (University of the Pacific), Guy Ben-Porat (Ben-Gurion University) |
| March 06, 2009 | Struggling for Decent Housing: Displacements, Blurred Situations and Activist Exhaustion | Eric Doidy (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) | Beth Rose Middleton (UC Berkeley) |
| April 03, 2009 | Live and Let Buy? Consumerism, Secularization and Liberalism | Guy Ben-Porat (Ben-Gurion University) | Matt Keller, Fred Block |
| April 24, 2009 | The Structuring of Active Development: Immigrant Youth Participation in School-Sponsored Activities | Dina Okamoto, Cassie Hartzog, and Dan Herda | Bob Faris, Erika Jackson |
| May 08, 2009 | Distrusting School Officials: Barriers to College Information | Melanie Jones | Yifei Zhu, Irenee Beattie (UC Merced) |
| June 05, 2009 | Academic Achievement and Same Race Aggression | Bob Faris | Bruce Haynes and Melanie Jones |