Name: Sabrina Strings, PhD (UC Berkeley Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow) – Thinness as an Investment in Whiteness
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February 2014
February 20, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

Sara Shostak (Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University) – What’s Sociology Got to Do With It?: Genetic Testing in Sociological Perspective, 1994-2014

Rare Book Room (9th Floor), Louise M. Darling Biomedical LibraryPlease RSVP to hyeyoungoh@ucla.edu.*The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
February 20, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Michael Storper (Dept of Geography) – The Sources of Urban Development: Wages, Housing and Amenity Gaps across American Cities
February 20, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Douglas W. Maynard (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison) – Asking to Speak to Another: An Ordinary Skill for Soliciting Survey Participation

Location: Royce 160Co-Sponsored with the Family Working Group and The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC)
February 21, 2014 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST

Jack Thomas and Calvin Ho – CPOWG Meeting with Jack Thomas and Calvin Ho

The UCLA Contentious Politics and Organizations Graduate Student Working GroupJake ThomasThe Neglected Qualitative Effects of State's Shift from Entry Point to Remote Control of MigrationCalvin HoExternal constraints and two-step leverage in a homeland-diaspora relationship
February 28, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - 1:50 pm PST

Donald Hernandez (Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York) – Disparities in the Well-Being of Diverse Children with Immigrant and the U.S.-born Parents.

GSEIS 111, Co-Sponsored with the International Institute and the UCLA Program on International Migration.
February 28, 2014 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm PST

Emily Yen – An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Implementation of Commercial Transportation Systems and the Development of Central Business Districts

UCLA Sociology Department Contentious Politics and Organizations Working Group
March 2014
March 5, 2014 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm PST

Annette Lareau, Stanley I. Sheerr Professor at the University of Pennsylvania – The Reproduction of Inequality

Dorothy Meier Lecture in honor of Suzanne BianchiQ&A and reception to follow.
March 6, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Jeffrey Robinson (Department of Communication, Portland State University) – How Patients Understand Physicians Solicitations of Additional Concerns: Implications for Agenda Setting in Primary Care

Location: Royce 160
March 6, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

John R. Hall – Patrimonialism Making Modernity: The U.S. Public Domain from Colonial Times to the Late Nineteenth Century.

The Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Sociology 237)
March 7, 2014 @ 12:30 pm PST

Sabrina Strings, PhD (UC Berkeley Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow) – Thinness as an Investment in Whiteness

The Gender Working Group (UCLA Sociology)** The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.