Several culture panels were brought up to our attention by members of the Section: Title: Global Work, Culture and Inequality Sun, August 13, 10:30am to 12:10pm Session Description: Multiple scholars have documented the power of work as a moral measure in the United States. Despite increased work precariousness, and some reported ambivalence about work by cohort or generation, there is evidence that many invest … Continue reading A couple more Culture panels
by Marcel Fournier, Full Professor, Université de Montréal[1] Sociology is at once a witness, a critic, and an actor of/in society. In Québec perhaps more than anywhere else the relationship between the sociology of art and culture on the one hand and Québecois society on the other has been a complex one–too complex to permit more than a superficial overview here. Concerns with art and … Continue reading The Sociology of Art and Culture in Contemporary Québec: an Historical Overview
Download as PDF document here Online ASA program (with locations) here SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 8:30-10:10 AM HISTORY IN CULTURAL EXPLANATION Organizer and Presider: Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame Neoliberal Discourse and Racial Imaginaries: Two Temporalities. Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego * How Authors’ Practices Shaped Their Ideas: Literature and Philosophy in Germany versus Britain, 1740- 1820. Richard Biernacki, University of California-San Diego * … Continue reading Culture Section and Culture-Related Sessions @ASA2017, Montréal, Aug. 11-16
Section on Sociology of Culture Refereed Roundtable Session (Sunday, Aug. 13, 10:30 am) Session Organizers: Brian McKernan, The Sage Colleges; Hannah Linda Wohl, Northwestern University Table 01. Comparative and Transnational Culture Table Presider: Aneesh Aneesh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Cultural Manifestations of Settler Colonialism. Clifford L. Broman, Michigan State University * Shikha Bista, Deliberative Ideals Across Diverse Cultures. Jensen Sass, University of Canberra * Micro-Macro Emergence: … Continue reading Refereed Roundtables @ ASA 2017
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 2017 Junior Theorists Symposium Montreal, Quebec, Canada August 11, 2017 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 20, 2017 We invite submissions of extended abstracts for the 11th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS), to be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on August 11th, 2017, the day before the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The JTS is a one-day conference featuring the … Continue reading Junior Theorists Symposium
Alexandra Kowalski (Princeton & Central European University) Michèle Lamont was born in Toronto and raised in Québec, trained as a student in Ottawa and Paris, and as a scholar at Stanford and Princeton. She has been teaching at Harvard University since 2002, where she is currently the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, and Director … Continue reading Q&A with Michèle Lamont, ASA President-Elect
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