Sociology of Culture

The Sociology of Culture Workshop provides a focal point for faculty and students working on or simply interested in the sociology of culture, broadly defined--from the most minute forms of meaning-making in action to studies of public representations, or the global diffusion of ideas and practices. We will meet online monthly to discuss papers by visiting presenters. Faculty and doctoral students are welcome to join by contacting one of the three organizers, Paul DiMaggio (pd1092@nyu.edu), Carly Knight (crk3@nyu.edu) or Iddo Tavory (iddo.tavory@nyu.edu). Workshops will be held on Thursdays from 6:00-7:45pm in the Memorial Room (4130).

September 14 - Paul DiMaggio (NYU), Ramina Sotoudeh (Yale), Karyn Vilbig (NYU) and Hana Shepherd (Rutgers). “How Americans View Science and Religion: An Institutional Perspective.” **6:15-8:00 pm**

September 28 - Abigail Saguy, UCLA. “Gender Neutral: Equality and Inclusion."

October 12 - Kusha Sefat (University of Tehran). “Time and Objects: The Irreversible Temporal Slope and the Latency of Technical Things.”

October 26 - Eeva Luhtakallio and Veikko Eranti (University of Helsink)i. “Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society.”

November 9 - Barbara Kiviat (Stanford University). “The Evolution of Actuarial Fairness.”

November 30 - Wenhao Jiang (NYU). “The Cultural Devaluation of Feminized Work: The Evolution of Occupational Prestige and Gender Stereotyping in the United States, 1900-2019.”

December 14 - Di Zhou (NYU) and Yinxian Zhang (Queens College). “Nationalist AI? Variation in GPT Models’ Political Knowledge and Sentiment in English and Simplified Chinese.”