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Perspectives
A NEWSLETTER OF THE ASA THEORY SECTION


section sessions for asa 2015

5/22/2015

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Joint Reception: Theory Section and Section on History of Sociology
Saturday, August 22, 6:30-8:30PM
Offsite: Roosevelt University, Room 418, Wabash Building, 425 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605

Theory Section Roundtables
Organizers: Fiona Rose-Greenland (Chicago) and Daniel Hirschman (Michigan)
Monday, August 24, 8:30-9:30AM

Theory Section Business Meeting
Monday, August 24, 9:30-10:30AM
Theory Section Invited Session: Lewis A. Coser Memorial Lecture and Salon
Monday, August 24, 10:30AM-12:10PM

Session Organizer: John W. Mohr (UCSB)

Presider: Andrew J. Perrin (UNC Chapel Hill)

Panelist: Marion Fourcade (Berkeley)


Theory Section Paper Session: The Promise and Pitfalls of ‘Nuance’ in Sociological Theory
Monday, August 24, 2:30-4:10PM

Session Organizer: Stephen Vaisey (Duke)

Presider: Stephen Vaisey (Duke)

“Fuck Nuance” (Kieran Healy, Duke University)

“Ratio via Machina: Three Standards of Mechanistic Explanation in Sociology” (Natalie Brooke Aviles, UCSD: Isaac Ariail Reed, University of Colorado, Boulder)

“Social Action, Social Structure, and Their Discontents: Bourdieu and an Alternative” (Serena Liu, University of Essex)


Theory Section Paper Session: Theory, Method, Data, and Representation
Monday, August 24, 4:30-6:10PM

Session Organizer: Andrew J. Perrin (UNCCH)

Presider: Andrew J. Perrin (UNC)

“Explaining the Past While Studying the Present: History as Born and Performed” (Pepper Glass, Weber State University)

“From Meaning to Behavior: Mental Representation, the Patterning of Social Life, and Cultural Analysis” (Lynette Shaw, University of Washington; Nina Lyn Cesare, University of Washington; Michael Hughes Esposito, University of Washington)

“Fuzzy Logic, Semantic Networks, and Theory Development in the Sociological Analysis of Texts” (Matthew Chandler, University of Notre Dame)

“Unpacking Swidler’s Tool Kit: Using Citation Networks to Theorize Contemporary Theory” (Daryl Carr*)
*It is with great sadness that we mourn that passing of Daryl Carr, a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Sociology at Boston University (1984-2015).

Discussant: Andrew J. Perrin (UNC)


Theory Section Paper Session: Theorizing Inequalities
Tuesday, August 25, 8:30-10:10AM

Session Organizer: C.J. Pascoe (Oregon)

Presider: Matthew Norton (Oregon)

“Linguistic Modernity: The Limits of Ideology and State Power in the Creation of Modern Standard Languages” (Jeffrey Weng, Berkeley)

“Sociology and Political Science in the Patrimonial Society: Implications of Piketty’s Capital” (Francois Bonnet, CNRS; Clement Thery, Columbia University – Bard College)

“The Politics of Equals: Towards a Theory of Equality in Sociology (Brian T. Connor, University of Massachusetts)

“Theorizing the Role of Symbolic Boundaries in Segmented Labour Markets: Clues from Inside the Academy” (Louise Birdsell Bauer, University of Toronto)

Discussant: Ryan Light (Oregon)


Theory Section Paper Session: Theorizing the Social: Studies of Science and Technology
Tuesday, August 25, 10:30AM-12:10PM

Session Organizer: Sara N. Shostak (Brandeis University)

Presider: Sara N. Shostak (Brandeis University)

“Acting as Neither Individual Nor Professional: Physicians’ Constitutive Ambivalence in Adopting Complex Technologies” (Daniel Menchik, Michigan State University)

“Enacting a Museum: How the Creation Museum Works as an Alternative Institution” (Kathleen C. Oberlin, Grinnell College)

“Value Added Modeling in Teacher Evaluation: A Case Study in Economic Imperialism?” (Zachary Webster Griffen, UCLA; Aaron Panofsky, UCLA)

“The Prehistory of Population Censuses in the Italian Regional States” (Rebecca Jean Emigh, UCLA; Dylan John Riley, UC-Berkeley; Patricia Ahmed, South Dakota State University-University Center)

“Who Knows? Medical Expertise in the Internet Era” (Kristin Kay Barker, University of New Mexico)

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