The CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) invites you to the first presentation of the CIDR Demography Seminar Series for academic year 2019-20: Title: "The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority and Minority in 21st Century America" Speaker: Professor Richard Alba CUNY Graduate Center Location Information: Baruch College - Newman Vertical Campus (View Map) 55 Lexington Ave New York, NY... Read more »
Student paper discussion: Sebastian (dissertation work) Journal review session: We decided to do some research on the existing urban studies journals and their scope; each of us would pick one journal, look at its most recent issues and online articles with a goal to identify the journal's thematic preferences, the overall style of publications, etc.... Read more »
"What's Gender Got to Do With It? Deepening the Ethnographic Imagination" Speaker: Professors Lynn Chancer and Michaela Soyer
The Return of the Native: Similarities and Differences between Western-Europe and the US in Anti-Black Racism, Islamophobia, and Populism Public Lecture by Professor Duyvendak (Amsterdam) Co-Sponsored by the Immigration Seminar Series and Program in Sociology, CUNY
The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. Please come and join us! Light refreshments will be served. Isabel Gil Everaert (CUNY Sociology): Central American Migration in Mexico Karen Okigbo (CUNY Sociology) Adam Brooks (Columbia Social Work): Refugees and mental... Read more »
Title: Decolonizing Classical Theory: A 'Contrapuntal' Reading of Auguste Comte Speaker: Zine Magubane, Boston College Description: At first glance, the writings of Auguste Comte (the 'father' of positivism) would seem to offer very little of value for postcolonial sociology. Indeed, in the standard ways that Comte appears in disciplinary histories, this would appear at first... Read more »
"Class Identities and Attitudes Towards Immigration and Race among Working-Class Whites" Speaker: Monica McDermott Associate Professor of Sociology, T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, and Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation
Student paper discussion: Anna (dissertation work) Reading: Small, Mario. 2019. "The Role of Space in the Formation of Social Ties." Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 45:111-132. Contact: gcurbanstudiesworkshop@gmail.com
The Sociology PhD Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY is hosting an open house informational event for prospective students. Come and meet the Graduate Center sociology faculty and students! We look forward to meeting and chatting with you! Don't forget to bring questions!! Click to RSVP
This workshop of faculty and graduate students meets about once a month to discuss a wide range of issues related to the study of criminology, law, deviance and policy. We read one or two papers per month in these areas, sometimes from students and sometimes from faculty, and we also usually host one guest speaker... Read more »
