Economics and Sociology Workshop Fall 2009

SESSIONS: Mondays 12:15 to 1:30, Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall).

September 21
Heather Haveman (Department of Sociology, Berkeley)
“Going (More) Public: Ownership Reform among Chinese Firms.” (click for paper)
Leading the discussion: Rourke O’Brien (Department of Sociology, Princeton).

October 5
Charles Perrow (Department of Sociology, Yale)
“Organizations and Global Warming.” (click for paper)

Leading the discussion: Erik Vickstrom (Department of Sociology, Princeton).

October 26 (co-sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs)
Alexandra Kalev (Department of Sociology, University of Arizona)
"How You Downsize Is Who You Downsize: Structural Vulnerability and Accountability in Layoffs" (click for paper)
Leading the discussion: Victoria Reyes (Department of Sociology, Princeton).

November 9
Deborah Becher (Visiting Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
“The Political and Moral Classification of Property Ownership: the Case of Eminent Domain.” Practice job talk.

November 23
Dominic Akyel (Doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany)
"Digging deeper into the funeral market: The marketization of the German death-care industry."

December 7
Ezra Zuckerman (Sloan School of Management, MIT)
"Why Identity? A Prolegomenon to any Account of Social Organization or Human Action."
Leading the discussion: David Pedulla (Department of Sociology, Princeton).