9:15-10:45am – Panel 1

Daniel Laurison, Sociology, UC Berkeley
“Constructing the Popular: Political Messaging and Strategic Campaign Professionals’ Views of Voters”

Strategic campaign professionals’ jobs entail producing political content designed to make candidates for elected office appeal to potential voters. They draw on, and in turn take part in shaping, popular and populist notions of what makes for good politics, good candidates, and good government. Their work is about both creating popularity and crafting appeals to the popular, and they play an essential role not only in American political campaigns but in every facet of the political field, as lobbyists, staff to officeholders, and in advocacy groups and PACs.

Despite the enormous power of this relatively new occupation, little scholarly work to this point has studied strategic campaign professionals. Political science is interested only in their effects on campaign strategy and election outcomes; no sociologist has taken an interest in their role in the political field or in the organizational or cultural structures within which they work. In this paper, part of a larger dissertation project, I look at the views and viewpoints of campaign professionals: how do they understand voters? What do they believe makes for a good or great political product, be it a speech, a mailing, or a broader message or strategy? And how do their relative positions–in social space, within the field, within campaigns, across parties–shape these views?  I draw on in-depth interviews with 60 political professionals who work in strategic decision-making roles in high-level (Presidential and Senate) races.  I outline both the assumptions and the explicit norms and criteria that influence their work, and show how their views of the “popular” classes and their populist leanings may serve, in fact, to keep most of politics profoundly unpopular with most of the public.

Alex Barnard, Sociology, UC Berkeley
“The Local Politics of Climate Change: Eco-Populism in the Ecuadorian Amazon”

How do “elite” issues and concerns become “popular” ones?  Climate change has traditionally been considered an almost quintessentially elite issue, with most contention over efforts to mitigate climate change taking place in the international arena between national governments and well-financed, Western-based non-governmental organizations.  Non-elite actors, particularly in the developing world, are usually thought to be too poor and too focused on more immediate pressures on their livelihoods to mobilize against an abstract, remote threat like climate change.  Indeed, most research on the popular dimensions of climate change focuses on these groups’ reactive attempts to adapt to climate processes they have no power to control.

This presentation would challenge this binary between “elite” and “popular” dimensions of climate change mitigation through a case study of Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative.  The initiative, proposed by the Ecuadorian state, represents an innovative attempt to reduce emissions through international payments for leaving one billion barrels of oil in an Amazonian national park unexploited.  Although the initiative has primarily been directed at and promoted within the international community, I show—drawing on fieldwork in the communities around the park—how the Yasuní-ITT proposal has become an object of popular concern and local collective action.  I argue that the initiative has been appropriated by local governments as a tool for populist mobilization against both the national government and indigenous populations.  Through this process, “elite” concern about climate change have become closely intertwined with “popular” issues of national and ethnic identity, regional development, and local environmental quality.

Although the Yasuní case is a particular one, this presentation would thus speak to broader questions about how and why elite discourses and concerns filter into popular consciousness and become salient topics for popular mobilization.

Charles Pearson, Cultural Anthropology, UC Davis
“Tea Party Technologies and Imaginaries: Experiments in a Participatory Conservative Politics”

Modes for popular political engagement are shifting as centralized, broadcast media systems are giving way to more participatory and interactive digital communication networks. Characterized as de-centralized, bottom-up, and social, these de-territorialized networks are composed of users who simultaneously consume and produce information. Such transformations are making it possible for individuals and groups to shape and direct popular discourse through developing their own specific communication networks. The advent of the libertarian-conservative Tea Party movement in the United states is one such response to this emergent political environment. Utilizing internet media for communicating and organizing, the movement is forging a de-centralized and participatory network politics. Yet, while a number of contemporary theorists and pundits have lauded network technologies for, as they intimate, their inherent ability to challenge the regulatory and disciplinary mechanisms of the 20^th century nation-state, Tea Party activists are building a politics grounded in a struggle to recuperate modernist forms of popular and national sovereignty. Responding to a felt global estrangement, activists are emphasizing, for example, transcendent values, doctrines of individualism, and territorialized forms of belonging. These values are ultimately embodied in the movement’s de-centralized network form. Reflecting the very qualms many activists have around emerging global forms of authority, the network has been embraced both as an organizational form and as a cultural ideal. Drawing on my extensive ethnographic research of the Tea Party movement, this paper will address the dense intertwining of digital media and theories and practices of liberty and freedom to offer a new dimension into how we think about the relationship between political imaginaries and emergent media technologies.

2:00-3:30pm – Panel 2

Hannah Emery, Sociology, UC Berkeley
“’Original, But Not Stupid’: Parents’ Quest for Distinctive Baby Names”

Over the last 75 years, American parents have increasingly rejected the “most popular” names for their children, seeking out ever more unique alternatives and creating a widening pool of American baby names. My paper moves beyond the existing quantitative analysis – which has demonstrated the independence of this distinctiveness-seeking behavior from demographics like parents’ race, native-born status or education – and uses in-depth interviews to examine how contemporary American parents explain the desire for a distinctive name. Preliminary findings suggest that these parents avoid popular names out of concern that their child might be insufficiently distinguished from the crowd, which might make the child feel less special or even less loved. Conversely, when parents give a child a distinctive name, they feel that it sets the child on a path to be a more fulfilled, successful, and socially adjusted adult. For these families, distinctiveness is both a goal and an intrinsic good: my data suggest that modern parents feel the capacity to “stand out” is one of the most important gifts to give a child.

Jennifer Richardson-Stovall, Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
“Image Slavery and Mass Media Pollution: The Sociopolitical Context of Beauty and Self Image in the Lives Of Black Women”

The ways in which African American women negotiate the intersections of popular media, dominant discourses of beauty, and identity are rarely explored.  This work brings into focus how African American women consume and make meaning of mediated popular images and representations of Black women.  This study engages a constellation of literature and theoretical perspectives, exploring historical representations of African American women and the beauty messages they contain.  Throughout this process I examine concepts of identity formation; discuss connections between difference and the politics of imagery; and investigate linkages between structural racism, popular media, and forms of cultural production.  Through an interrogation of the complexities in how African American women make meaning of images of themselves, in relationship to mass media, I seek to excavate a set of realities known to many, but rarely articulated in academia.

This study utilized empirical and qualitative methods that engage Black women, across four generational groups, through in-depth interviews, a series of three focus groups/ women’s healing circles, and individual journaling workshops.  The combination of methodologies allowed me to excavate and document the ideas, struggles, and attitudes of African American women pertaining to popular concepts of beauty, identity, and politics of media.  This study seeks to gain insight into old and new processes of “looking” and attempts to provide space for Black women to counter the enslaving seduction of media images that negatively impact identity and self-definition. With the goal of interrupting current hegemonic narratives, this study offers an analysis of the intersection of beauty, race, and feminisms while critiquing and interrupting cultural imperialism; and aims to join with Black feminist bodies of work in developing new theories that engage African American women to reflect and acknowledge the complex and varied realities of medias’ impact on gender, race, sex, equality, and identity as converging constructs.

David McArthur, Economics, University of Maryland
“Information Contagion”

Social media has replaced newspapers and television news for a large and growing segment of the population.  Consumers of social media rely on the collective communication decisions of their peers to keep them informed, and in turn they choose when to pass along information to others.  They may assume that the most important or interesting information will be repeated most often. However, the very process of finding and re-transmitting information tends to amplify small differences in its prevalence.  Chance can play a large role in determining popularity: information that happens to spread early becomes more likely to spread again. When many pieces of information are passing from person to person like competing contagions, the result is a heavy-tailed probability distribution for the number of people who become “infected” by each. In the upper tail of this distribution are a few pieces of information that by luck spread very quickly to many people, while most information has spread very little. I present data from spinn3r.com, a large index of social media, blogs and news websites, where the number of instances of different quoted phrases follows this signature distribution. Moreover, the count distribution is very similar for any subset of phrases regardless of topic, implying it is not related to the information content.  I derive this distribution from a statistical model of information contagion. It is robust to different modeling assumptions for agent’s communication behavior and remains heavy-tailed even when fully rational agents preferentially communicate less well-known information.  In simulations where every agent transmits the most valuable information she knows, the resulting popularity of information is only weakly correlated with value.

Essays and Analysis

Jason Adams, Williams College, Political Science: “Occupy Time”

Emily Brissette, University of California Berkeley, Sociology: “For the Fracture of Good Order: On “Violence” at Occupy Oakland”

Wendy Brown, University of California Berkeley, Political Science: Occupy Wall Street: Return of a Repressed Res-Publica

Craig Calhoun, New York University, Sociology: “Evicting the Public: Why has occupying public space led to such heavy-handed repression”

William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University, Political Science: “What is to Be Done”

Mike Davis, University of California Riverside, Creative Writing: “No More Bubble Gum”

Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith College, Political Science: “Claiming Division, Naming a Wrong”

Claude Fischer, University of California Berkeley, Sociology: “Occupy! Now What?”

Gaston Gordillo, University of British Columbia, Anthropology: “The Human Chain as a Non-Violent Weapon”

David Graeber, Goldsmiths University of London, Anthropology: “Occupy Wall Streets Anarchist Roots”

Richard Grusin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, English: “Premediation and the Virtual Occupation of Wall Street”

Michael Hardt (Duke University, Literature) and Antonio Negri (European Graduate School): “The Fight for ‘Real Democracy’ at the Heart of Occupy Wall Street”

David Harvey, The City University of New York, Anthropology: “The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis”

Michael Kennedy, Brown University, Sociology and International Studies: “Global Solidarity and the Occupy Movement”

Chris Herring (University of California Berkeley, Sociology) and Zoltan Gluck (City University of New York, Anthropology): “The Homeless Question of Occupy”

Mike King, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Vacancies of Capitalism: Occupations and the Fulfillment of Human Needs

Kristin Lawler, College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City, Sociology: “Fear of a Slacker Revolution: Occupy Wall Street and the cultural politics of class struggle”

Terra Lawson-Remer, The New School, International Affairs: “#Occupy Democracy”

George Lakoff, University of California Berkeley, Linguistics: “How Occupy Wall Street’s Moral Vision Can Beat the Disastrous Conservative Worldview”

Peter Marcuse, Columbia University, Urban Planning: “Occupy and the Provision of Public Space: The City’s Responsibilities”

Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University, Media, Culture and Communication: “Occupy Theory”

Adrian Pabst, University of Kent, Politics: “The Resurgence of the Civic”

John Protevi, Louisiana State University, French Studies: “Semantic, Pragmatic, and Affective Enactment at OWS”

Francesca Polletta, University of California Irvine, Sociology: “Maybe your better off not holding hands and singing We Shall Overcome”

David Ronfeldt, RAND Corporation: “What the Occupy Movement Means: Visions from Two Theories”

Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, Sociology: “The Global Street Comes to Wall Street”

Helena Sheehan, Dublin City University, Communications: Occupying Dublin: Considerations at the Crossroads.

Jen Schradie, University of California Berkeley, Sociology: “Why Tents Still Matter”

Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, Government: “Why Occupy Wall Street is not the Tea Party of the Left”

Alex Vitale, Brooklyn College CUNY, Sociology: “NYPD and OWS: A Clash of Styles”

McKenzie Wark, The New School, Liberal Studies: “This Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit”

Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin Madison, Sociology: “Occupy Wall Street and Transformational Strategy”

Slavoj Zizek, New York University, German: “Actual Politics”

OWS Series and Journal Issues

TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy Includes contributions by Judith Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Theory & Event: Occupy Wall Street Supplement

Occupy the Future: Short opinion essays by Stanford faculty.

Possible Futures: A Project of the Social Science Research Council

Society and Space forum on The Occupy Movement.: Short opinion essays by the journal’s editorial board.

Lectures & Speeches: Scholars @ Occupy!

Michael Burawoy @ Occupy Cal: Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Burawoy & Claude Fischer on Occupy: Professors of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.

Robert Reich @ Occupy Cal: Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.

David Harvey @ Occupy London: Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, The City University of New York.

Manuel Castells @ Occupy London: Professor of Sociology, Open University of Catalonia & Professor of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California.

Angela Davis @ Occupy Oakland: Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Cornel West @ Occupy Wall Street: Professor of the University in the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University.

Slavoj Zizek @ Occupy Wall Street: Global Distinguished Professor of German, New York University.

Judith Butler @ Occupy Wall Street: Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley.

Helena Sheehan @ Occupy Dublin: Professor Emerita, Dublin City University.

Dispatches

Zoltan Gluck, City University of New York: Dear New York, Welcome to the Student Movement

Rossen Djagalov, Harvard University:  Reflections on Occupy Harvard

Ying Qian, Harvard University: Occupying Harvard Yard

Max Fraser, Yale University: Why I got Arrested at Occupy Wall Street

Abigail Andrews, University of California Berkeley: Occupy Oakland: Continue the Discussion

Daniel Aldana Cohen, New York University: Amorous Analogies: How #OWS Connects the Dots

Jack Jackson, University of California Berkeley: No Confidence

Michael A. McCarthy, New York University: What the Labor Movement can Learn from an Art Auction

Research (Under Construction)

Benjamin Arditi, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM: Insurgencies don’t have a plan —they are the plan: The politics of vanishing mediators of the indignados in 2011

“OWS Research”: Survey Data from OccupyWallst.com by Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, Sociology, City University of New York. Wave 1 Report. Wave 2 Report.

*If you have a link, essay, or work of research that you would like to contribute or connect to this forum please email the journal at bjssubmissions@gmail.com. Full-length articles may also be considered for inclusion in the Journal’s print edition on “The Popular.”: http://bjsonline.org/2011/06/call-for-papers/.

Essays on the site will explore a number of subjects related to:

• Comparisons: Historical and Global
• New trends in social movements
• Law enforcement and public order
• Urban governance and public space
• Strategies and tactics of protest
• Leadership at every level
• Response of the American public
• Media coverage of the movement
• The use of new media in social movements
• Occupy and the fight to defend public education
• The politics of financial crisis

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Volume LIV, 2010

S. A. Williams, “Intersections of Accountability: Measuring the Effectiveness of International Development NGOs”
D. Shubowitz, “Centripetal and Centrifugal: Tensions in the Religious Scholarship of Orthodox Jewish Women”
M. D. Daschuk, “Messageboard Confessional: Online Discourse and the Production of the ‘Emo Kid’”
D. D. Caputo-Levine, “Arguing Science, Creating Race: The 2005 FDA Approval Hearings for BiDil”
F. Oeur, “Book Review: Between Good and Ghetto”
G. Eyal and B. Hart, Keynote Address, 2010 BJS Annual Conference, with responses from S. Schweik and N. Fligstein

Volume LIII, 2009

G. Günel, “Producing Neoliberal Subjects: The Case of Koç University”
E. Yoruk, “Labor Discipline in the Informal Economy: The Semi-Formal Professional Code of Istanbul’s Apparel Urban Factory”
A. I. Ross, “Dirty Desire: The Uses and Misuses of Public Urinals in Nineteenth-Century Paris”
J. Gray-O’Connor, “Solutions in Search of Problems: The Construction of Urban Inequality in ‘Smart Growth’ Discourse”
A. Bayat, Keynote Address, 2009 BJS Annual Conference

Volume LII, 2008

L.Westbrook, “Vulnerable Subjecthood: The Risks and Benefits of the Struggle for Hate Crime Legislation
A.K. Thompson, “You Can’t Do Gender in a Riot: Violence and Post-Representational Politics”
D. Yonucu, “A Story of a Squatter Neighborhood: From the Place of the ‘Dangerous Classes’ to the ‘Place of Danger’”
A.U. Lowry, “Saving Private Sychev: Russian Masculinities, Army Hazing, and Social Norms”
Roundtable Discussion: Teresa Caldeira, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, James Holston, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Peter Evans (moderator)

Volume LI, 2007

R. Centner, “Redevelopment from Crisis to Crisis: Urban Fixes of Structural Adjustment in Argentina”

W.T. Evans, “Counter-Hegemony at Work: Resistance, Contradiction and Emergent Culture Inside a Worker-Occupied Hotel”

E. Hernández-Medina, “Globalizing Participation: ‘Exporting’ the Participatory Budgeting Model from Brazil to the Dominican Republic”

M. Levien, “India’s Double-Movement: Polayni and the National Alliance of People’s Movements”

H. Gautney, “Political Organization on the Global Left”

A.K. Thompson, “Bringing the War Home: Anti-Globalization and the Search for the Local”

W. Bello, “Globalization in Retreat: Capitalist Overstretch, Civil Society and the Crisis of the Global Project”

Volume L, 2006

A. Goldberg, “Confronting the Absent–Present: Material and Discursive Power in Israeli–Palestinian Political Alliances”

S. Newmahr, “Experiences of Power in SM: A Challenge to Power Theory”

R. Godderis, “Food for Thought: An Analysis of Power and Identity in Prison Food Narratives”

R.L. Mize, “Power (In)-Action: State and Agribusiness in the Making of the Bracero Total Institution”

M. Paret and S. Gleeson, “International Migration in Macro-Stratification Perspective: Bringing Power Back In.”

E. O. Wright, “Socialism as Social Empowerment”

M. Burawoy, P. Evans, A. Harris, D. Moon, and E. O. Wright, “Roundtable Discussion: Possibilities for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century”

Volume XLIX, 2005

L.Schmalzbauer, “Transamerican Dreamers: The Relationship of Honduran Transmigrants to the Ideology of the American Dream and Consumer Society”

K. Danna Lynch, “Advertising Motherhood: Image, Ideology, and Consumption”

Y. Besen, “Consumption of Production: A Study of Part-Time Youth Labor in Suburban America”

J. Konefal and M.Mascarenhas, “The Shifting Political Economy of the Global Agrifood System: Consumption and the Treadmill of Production”

R. Jamie Herring, “The Nation State as Global Consumer: Three Cases of Military Consumption”

G. Ritzer, J. Stepnisky, and J. Lemich, “The ‘Magical’ World of Consumption: Transforming Nothing into Something”

C. Fischer, A. Hochschild, G. Ritzer, N. Scheper-Hughes, and K. Voss, “Roundtable Discussion: Considering the ‘Magical’ World of Consumption”

Volume XLVIII, 2004

A. Friedman, “Looking for the Body in Sociological Literature on Gender”

A. Wetterberg, “My Body, My Choice…My Responsibility: The Pregnant Woman as Caretaker of the Fetal Person”

J. Davis, “Bad Breast-Feeders/Good Mothers: Constructing the Maternal Body in Public”

M. Messner, “Patriarchs and Losers: Rethinking Men’s Interests”

S. Harper, “The Measure of a Man: Conceptualizations of Masculinity among High Achieving African American Male College Students”

S. Garlick, “Distinctly Feminine: On the Relationship between Men and Art”

M. Messner, D. Moon, R. Ray, and B. Thorne, “The Reconstitution of Gender in Contemporary Society: A Roundtable Discussion”

Volume XLVII, 2003

C. Calhoun, “The Elusive Cosmopolitan Ideal”

V. Petrova, “Are We Going to Have a Race of Angels? Post-Communist Interpretations of Bulgarian Dissident Cinema”

J. Chi, “National–Ethnic Identity Negotiation in Malaysia and Singapore: A State–Society Interaction Perspective”

B. Heindl, “Debating the Embargo: Transnational Political Activity in the Cuban American Community, 1959–1997”

S. Pasquetti, “A Journey in Palestine, Spring 2002: A Photo Essay”

A. Christou, “Persisting Identities: Locating the Self and Theorizing the Nation”

B. Hall, “Modernization and the Social Construction of National Identity: The Case of Taiwanese Identity”

C. Calhoun, P. Cheah, P. Evans, and R. Ray, “Discourse of Nationalism and Transnationalism in Political Mobilization: A Roundtable Discussion”

Volume XLVI, 2002

S. Sassen, “The Repositioning of Citizenship”

R. Brooks, “Step-Mother Tongue: Language and Ethnicity among Bulgarian Pomaks”

T. Miley, “The Discourse of Language and Nation in Catalonia”

R. Overmayer-Velázquez, “The Anti-Quincentenary Campaign in Guerrero, Mexico: Indigenous Identity and the Dismantling of the Myth of Revolution”

I. Wigger, “Against the Laws of Civilization?: Race, Gender, and Nation in the International Racist Campaign against the Black Shame”

J. York, “Forests for Whom?: Ethnic Politics of Conservation in Northern Thailand, 1996–2001”

G. Hart, E. Glenn, A. Ong, S. Sassen, M. Burawoy (moderator), “Race, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: A Roundtable Discussion”

P. Bourdieu, “Some Questions for the True Masters of the World”

L. Wacquant, “An Inventive and Iconoclastic Scientist”

L. Wacquant, “Taking Bourdieu into the Field”

Volume XLV, 2001

J. Schor, “The Triple Imperative: Global Ecology, Poverty, and Worktime Reduction”

C. Broughton, “Work Programs and Welfare Recipients: an Ethnography of Work-Based Welfare Reform”

C. Shun-ching Chan, “Reenchantment of the Workplace: The Interplay of Religiosity and Rationality”

E. Collom, “Clarifying the Cross-Class Support for Workplace Democracy”

T. Gowan, “The Homeless Recyclers of San Francisco: A Photo Essay”

L. Sun-Hee Park, “Between Adulthood and Childhood: the Boundary Work of Immigrant Entrepreneurial Children”

M.B. Schaafsma, “Women Lawyer’s Resistance to Work Overload: Making Time for Families”

B. Townsend, “Dual-Earner Couples and Long Work Hours: A Structural and Life Course Perspective”

A. Hochschild, N. Fligstein, K. Voss, J. Schor, and M. Burawoy, “Roundtable on Overwork: Causes and Consequences of Rising Work Hours”

Volume XLIV, 1999–2000

A. Stinchcombe, “Making a Living in the 21st Century and the Intellectual Consequences of Making a Living”

J. Diamond, “Beyond Social Class: Cultural Resources and Educational Participation among Low-Income Black Parents”

C. Henke, “The Mechanics of Workplace Order: Toward a Sociology of Repair”

M. Maldonado, M. Valdés-Pizzini, and A. Latoni, “Owning and Contesting El Yunque: Forest Resources, Politics and Culture in Puerto Rico”

D. Sohoni, “Choosing the Big City: Destination Choices of Asian Immigrants to the West Coast of the United States”

R. Wyrod, “Warriors of the South Side: Race and the Body in the Martial Arts of Black Chicago”

Volume XLIII, 1998–1999

J. Escoffier, “The Invention of Safer Sex: Vernacular Knowledge, Gay Politics, and HIV Prevention”

D. Collins, “Lesbian Pornographic Production: Creating Social–Cultural Space for Subverting Representations of Sexuality”

M. Irvine, “From ‘Social Evil’ to Public Health Menace: The Justifications and Implications of Strict Approaches to Prostitutes in the HIV Epidemic”

M. Loe, “‘Dildos in our Toolboxes’: The Production of Sexuality at a Pro-Feminist Sex Toy Store”

R. Rowden, “Developing Savages, Spreading Democracy: Popular Conceptions of North–South Relations”

Volume XLII, 1997–1998

C. Calhoun, “Nationalism and the Contradictions of Modernity”

A.F. Maril, “Negotiating Gender: A Case Study of Researcher–Respondent Constructions of Gender”

M. Prasad, “Taking the State Back Out: Turkey’s Kemalist Revolution”

W. Shu, “The Emergence of Taiwanese Nationalism: A Preliminary Work on an Approach to Interactive Episodic Discourse”

J. Wengrofsky, “Holy Days and Hallowed Ground: An Episode of Symbolic Reconstruction in the Public Sphere”

Volume XLI, 1996–1997

S. Butler, “Television, Video Games, and Literacy: A Study of Composing Strategy and Children at Risk in a First Grade Writing Workshop”

P. Grossman, “Identity Crisis: The Dialectics of Rock, Punk, and Grunge”

R. Hollands, “From Shipyards to Nightclubs: Restructuring Young Adults’ Employment, Household, and Consumption Identities in the North-East of England”

J. Lagree, “Youth in Europe: Cultural Patterns of Transition”

J. LeTendre, “Youth and Schooling in Japan: Competition with Peers”

M. Marks, “We are Fighting for the Liberation of Our People: Justifications of Violence by Activist Youth in Diepkloof, Soweto”

F. Macia-Lees and P. Sharpe, “Women Writing and Their Bodies: Exploring the Conjunction of Writing Difficulties, Eating Disorders, and Construction of Self Among American Female Adolescents”

Volume XL, 1995–1996

R. Moss Kanter and T.L. Pittinsky, “New Worlds for Social Inquiry”

M. Castells, S. Yazawa and E. Kiselyova, “Insurgents Against the New Global Order: A Comparative Analysis of Zapatistas in Mexico, the American Militia, and Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo”

R. Benson, “Global Knowledge: How Media Effects Research Can Aid Globalization Theorizing”

G. Engbersen, “The Unknown City”

J. M. Talbot, “Regulating the Coffee Commodity Chain: Internationalization and the Coffee Cartel”

Volume XXXIX, 1994–1995

C. Boyes-Watson, “Record-Keeping as a Technology of Power”

K. Gotham, “Ironies of Oversight: State Power, Democratic Legitimacy, and the Creation of Congressional Intelligence Committees”

D. Guthrie, “From Cultures of Violence to Social Control: An Analysis of Violent Crime in U.S. Counties with Implications for Social Policy”

D. Jaffee, “The Recalcitrant Human Factor: Social Control in Organizational Theory and Management Practice”

L. Carroll, “Backlash Against Peasant Gains in Rural Democratization: The Experience of Leftist County Executives”

Volume XXXVIII, 1993–1994

C. Tilly, “Social Movements as Historically Specific Clusters of Political Performances”

S. Staggenborg et al., “Women’s Culture and Social Change: Evidence from the National Women’s Music Festival”

J. Boies and N. Pichardo, “The Committee on the Present Danger: A Case for the Importance of Elite Social Movement Organizations”

S. Stryker, “Knowledge and Power in the Students for a Democratic Society, 1960–1970”

T. Ingalsbee, “Resource and Action Mobilization Theories: The New Social-Psychological Research Agenda”

D. Meyer and W. Hathaway, “Competition and Cooperation in Social Movement Coalitions: Lobbying for Peace in the 1980s”

A. Melucci, “Paradoxes of Post-Industrial Democracy in Everyday Life and Social Movements”

F. Adu-Febiri, “The State, Racism, and Domination in Contemporary Capitalist Societies”

N. Stevenson, “Habermas, Mass Culture, and the Future of the Public Sphere”

Volume XXXVII, 1992

A. Buckser, “Lynching as Ritual in the American South”

M. Schwalbe, “Male Supremacy and the Narrowing of the Moral Self”

H. Tarver, “The Creation of American National Identity: 1774–1796”

M. Taylor, “Can You Go Home Again?: Black Gentrification and the Dilemma of Difference”

A. Mattson and S. Duncombe, “Public Space, Private Place: The Contested Terrain of Tompkins Square Park”

M. Rousseau, “The Politics of Language and Trade in Québec, Canada: Toward an Autonomous Francophone State”

Volume XXXVI, 1991

Symposium on the New Deal and the Welfare State:

G.W. Domhoff, “Class, Power, and Parties in the New Deal: A Critique of Skocpol’s State Autonomy Theory”

R. Kirkendall, “Domhoff and a New Political History”

E. Hawley, “A Comment on Domhoff’s ‘Class, Power, and Parties in the New Deal’”

W. Graebner, “A ‘Big Bang’ — or a Whimper?”

K. Finegold, “Between All and Nothing: A Comment on G. William Domhoff’s ‘Class, Power, and Parties in the New Deal’”

J. Manza, “G. William Domhoff and the Political Sociology of the New Deal”

Volume XXXV, 1990

D. Bell, “The Misreading of Ideology: The Social Determination of Ideas in Marx’s Work”

B. Rose, “The Triumph of Social Control? A Look At Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man, 25 Years Later”

N. Naderi, “Max Weber and the Study of the Middle East: A Critical Analysis”

T. Luff, “Wicce: Adding a Spiritual Dimension to Feminism”

R. Stoecker, “Taming the Beast: Maintainng Democracy in Community-Controlled Redevelopment”

Volume XXXIV, 1989

Memorium for Carol Hatch. Interview with Pierre Bourdieu.

L. Wacquant, “For a Socio-Analysis of Intellectuals: On Homo Academicus”

E. Clement Brooks and Jeff Manza, “Theories, Theorists, and the Social World: An Introduction to the Symposium on the Foundations of Radical Social Science”

L. Collins and Judith Stacey, “Salvation or Emancipation? Reflections on the Wright/Burawoy Exchange”

A. Wolfe, “Human Beings and the Sociology of Erik Olin Wright”

E. Bonacich, “Marxim in the University: A Search for Consciousness”

E. Flacks, “Comment on Wright and Burawoy”

M. Schwalbe, “Meadian Ethics for Marxist Sociology”

H. Aptheker, “On the Wright–Burawoy Exchange”

D. Walker, “In Defense of Realism and Dialectical Materialism: A Friendly Critique of Wright and Burawoy’s Marxist Philosophy”

U. Yalcin, “On Why Philosophers and Social Scientists Should Talk to Each Other”

A. Stinchcombe, “The Questions Erik Wright Poses to Workers vs. Those History Poses”

L. Wacquant, “Social Ontology, Epistemology, and Class: On Wright’s and Burawoy’s Politics of Knowledge”

B. Agger, “Is Wright Wrong (Or Should Burawoy Be Buried?): Reflections on the Crisis of the ‘Crisis of Marxism”

E. Olin Wright, “Marxism as Social Science”

M. Burawoy, “Marxism, Philosophy, and Science”

“On the Continued Use of Controlled Substances in Northern California”: A Letter from Paul Picone

Volume XXXIII, 1988

P. Adler, “Automation, Skill and the Future of Capitalism”

P. Johnston, “The Politics of Public Work: A Theory of Public Work and Labor Struggle”

J. Torpey, “A New ‘Slave Revolt in Morals’?: The Meaning of the Debate over Feminist Ethics”

L. Shingawa & G. Pang, “Intraethnic, Interethnic, and Interracial Marriages Among Asian Anericans in California”

O. Lee, “Observations on Anthropological Thinking about the Culture Concept”

C. Kurzman, “The Rhetoric of Science: Strategies for Logical Leaping”

Volume XXXII, 1987

P. Bourdieu, “What Makes a Social Class?”

E.O. Wright and M. Burawoy, Exchange on Classes and Analytical Marxism

N. Eliasoph, “Politeness, Power, and Women’s Language”

K.V. Hansen, “Feminist Conceptions of Public and Private”

A. Rajagopal, “And the Poor Get Gassed: Multinational-Aided Development and the State”

U. Beck, “The Anthropological Shock: Chernobyl and the Contours of the Risk Society”

E. Nichols, “U.S. Nuclear Power and the Success of the American Anti-Nuclear Movement”

J.M. Bale, “Right-Wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post–World War II Europe”

C. Joppke, “The Crisis of the Welfare State, Collective Consumption, and the Rise of New Social Actors”

L.D. Brush, “Understanding the Welfare Wars: Privatization in Britain Under Thatcher”

T. Ishi, “Class Conflict, the State, and Linkage: Nurses from the Philippines”

Volume XXXI, 1986

M. Rogin, “The Countersubversive Tradition in American Politics”

B. Mahnkopf, “Hegemony in the Workplace”

C. Joppke, “On the Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu”

H. Dubiel, “The Spector of Populism”

A. Stein, “Between Organization and Movement: ACORN and the Alinsky Model”

M. Winter and E. Robert, “Thirty Years of the BJS”

Volume XXX, 1985

R. Penn, “Britain in 1984: A Dual Crisis for Labour”

S. Walters, “Caught in the Web: A Critique of Spiritual Feminism”

G. Hunter, “Commitment and Autonomy in Art”

S.K. Cho, “Dilemmas of Export-Led Industrialization in Korea”

J. Habermas, “Civil Disobedience”

Interview with Robert N. Bellah

Volume XXIX, 1984

T. Strathman, “Child Rearing Literature in America”

M. Gilens, “Gender Psychology and Electoral Politics”

D. Segura, “Labor Market Stratification and Chicanas”

J. Pierce, “Functionalism and Chicano Family Research”

J. Holman, “Underdevelopment Aid”

J. Jasper, “Art and Audiences”

Volume XXVIII, 1983

V. Smith, “The Circular Trap: Women and Part-Time Work”

L. Bishop, “The Family: Prison, Haven or Vanguard?”

L. Blum, “Politics and Policy-Making: The Comparable Worth Debate”

C. Reinarman, “Unemployment and Economic Crisis”

J. Cohen, “Rethinking Social Movements”

“THE POPULAR”

The Berkeley Journal of Sociology Annual Conference 2012
16 March 2012
Eshleman Library, 7th floor of Eshleman Hall
UC Berkeley

Sponsored by the Berkeley Department of Sociology, Institute of Governmental Studies, Center for the Comparative Study of Right Wing Movements
For more information, contact bjs@berkeley.edu.

The Berkeley Journal of Sociology invites you to a conference regarding the political, cultural, social, and technological facets of “the popular.” What are the relationships between the popular, appeals to the popular, and social and economic conditions or structures? What key lines of difference emerge within the popular? How might the concept of “the popular” itself work to obscure important divisions or fissures? How do various sites of inquiry illuminate or problematize the very notion of “the popular” as a meaningful descriptor? How might popular phenomena be distinguished, and what is the significance of this distinction? The conference will feature two graduate student panels and two keynote addresses, by Isaac Martin (UCSD) and Laura
Grindstaff (UC Davis).

PROGRAM

9:00–9:15 am – Coffee & Light Refreshments

9:15–10:45 am – Graduate-Student Panel 1

11:00–12:30 pm – Isaac Martin, Sociology, UCSD: “A Social Movement for the One Percent”
Respondents: Paul Pierson, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Dylan Riley, Sociology, UC Berkeley

12:30–1:45 pm – Lunch Break

2:00–3:30pm – Graduate-Student Panel 2

4:00–5:30pm – Laura Grindstaff, Sociology, UC Davis: “Reality TV and the Production of ‘Ordinary Celebrity’: Notes from the Field”
Respondents: Joshua Gamson, Sociology, USF
G. Cristina Mora, Sociology, UC Berkeley

5:30–7:00 pm – Dinner (420 Barrows Hall)

Directions: Eshelman Library, 7th floor of Eshleman Hall, on Bancroft Way between Telegraph Ave. and Dana St.

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Contents:

Keynote Address, 2011 BJS Annual Conference: “Cosmopolitanization” of the Nation and Citizen: European Dilemmas
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal

Responses to Yasemin Soysal
Sarah Song
Irene Bloemraad

Geographies of Expectation and Contestation: Stories of Wixárika University Students and Professionals in Guadalajara and Tepic, Mexico
Diana Negrín da Silva

NAFTA and Gatekeeper: A Theoretical Assessment of Border Enforcement in the Era of the Neoliberal State
Edwin Ackerman

Borders and Exploitation: Migrant Labor Systems in California and South Africa
Marcel Paret

Ethnic Brother or Artificial Namesake? The Construction of Tajik Identity in Afghanistan and Tajikistan
Ryan Brasher

Book Review: Citizenship and Immigration
Sarah Hall

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