Please note: Workshop readings are automatically available to current participants only and require authentication (password). Off- campus CCS Fellows should contact the CCS Administrator to gain access as needed.
The CCS Workshop is held in the 2nd floor seminar room at 210 Prospect Street from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, followed by lunch.
Spring3/13: No Workshop ~ Spring Recess 3/20: No Workshop ~ Spring Recess 3/27: Ruth Braunstein ~ CANCELLED 4/3: Giselinde Kuipers ~ CANCELLED 4/10: Simon Cottle ~ CANCELLED 4/17: Nadya Jaworsky ~ CANCELLED |
Workshop 9/6: Jongryul ChoiKeimyung University, Korea. CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow Alexander’s Thesis of Generalization of Values Reconsidered: Focusing on the 2008 Candlelight Vigils in South Korea |
Workshop 9/13: Rui GaoBeijing Foreign Studies University, China. CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow Both documents should be read; please read the paper first and then “Some Written Thoughts”Cacophonous Memories of the War: Revision of the Official Narrative on the War of Resistance against Japan in Post-Mao China and its LimitationsSome Written Thoughts |
Workshop 9/20: Nelson Arteaga BotelloFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), México, CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow Violence, democracy and the civil sphere Mexico: the 1994 election campaign |
Workshop 9/27: Ian SheinheitLehman College, CUNY ~ CCS Faculty Fellow Narrating Victories and Defeats: Polarized Media and ‘Horserace’ Coverage in Contemporary U.S. Presidential Elections |
Workshop 10/4: Lily IvanovaUniversity of British Columbia ~ CCS Visiting Predoctoral Fellow Understanding Genocide: Advancing a Sociology of Thinking for Theory and Culture |
Workshop 10/11: Peter KivistoAugustana College ~ CCS Faculty Fellow Immigration Raids and the Liberalism of Fear: The Case of Postville, Iowa |
Workshop 10/25: Jessica DawsonUnited States Academy at West Point Thank You for Your Service:
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Workshop 11/1: Jean-François CôtéUniversité du Québec à Montréal, Canada Structural or Dialectical Hermeneutics? Further Epistemological and Theoretical questions in Cultural Sociology |
Workshop 11/8: Iddo TavoryNew York University Awards and Morality in Pro Bono Advertising(with Sonia Prelat and Shelly Ronen)There are two documents for this week. The main reading is a chapter of the book (The Elephant in the Field: Awards and Recognition) that will be the main focus. The supplemental document is an overview of the entire book, to give readers a sense of the whole. |
Workshop 11/15: Jacob DerechinYale University Cultural ShockwavesThere are two documents for this week. In addition to the main reading there is supplemental document containing a gallery of images generated through this analysis. |
Workshop 12/6: Philip SmithYale University ~ CCS Director Co Author ~ Dominik Zelinsky ~ University of Edinburgh; CCS Predoctoral Fellow From Remarque to Rubbish: A Model of Literary Degradation (with Dominik Zelinski)Abstract: For too long the sociology of the arts has emphasised social processes over symbolic and moral factors in explaining the rise and fall of artistic reputations. We offer a new approach that gives greater centrality to pollution dynamics. Specifically, we turn to the literary field, identify “literary degradation”, and show there are two pathways along which this degradation occurs – via a reclassification of the oeuvre, and of the author. The paper engages in a sustained analysis of the Danish writer known as Sven Hassel. Between the 1950s and 1970s he fell from his initial position as an acclaimed high-culture figure likened to Remarque or Hemingway and became seen as an unimportant writer of militaristic pulp. Hassel’s case allows us to analytically distinguish both of the pathways of degradation, identify some intermediate mechanisms, and show how these might be divergently activated in regional contexts. In his native Denmark, Sven Hassel became a shady persona non grata and the very presence of his works in public libraries was questioned. In the United Kingdom, where he sold over 15 million copies of his books, he remains remembered an author of slightly controversial violent novels for a largely uneducated male audience. |
Workshop 12/13: Sandra SimonsenHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ~ CCS Visiting Graduate Student Bacteria, Garbage and Pigs: Interpreting the Symbolic Meanings of Metaphors in Jewish Ultra-Orthodox PropagandaAbstract: Present paper focuses on the symbolic meanings of metaphors and their potential social effects. Specifically, it examines the case of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox “Ḥardakim” poster campaign distributed throughout Ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel in 2013. The overall aim of the campaign was to prevent Ultra-Orthodox men from serving in the Israeli army. In light of cultural sociology’s strong program and social group theory, the paper interprets the symbolic meanings of the main metaphors in the campaign in order to reconstruct the lifeworld of this religious group. On that basis, it offers a discussion of how metaphors were strategically utilized in order to draw social boundaries, uphold social norms and sanction group members who deviate from those. The paper’s empirical contribution is a case study of how symbolic meanings of metaphors as a part of propagandistic communication targets and exploits social identities in order to mobilize collective emotions thereby provoking certain actions. It contributes theoretically by arguing that deeming norm-deviant group members internal threats is an efficient propaganda tool for maintaining intragroup behavioral codes. |
Workshop 1/17: Andrea VoyerStockholm University, Sweden ~ CCS Faculty Fellow No Time for Bowling: The cultural and economic logic of parental involvement |
Workshop 1/24: Emily CampbellCollege of the Holy Cross ~ CCS Research Affiliate Silence of the Many: Exclusionary Drift in Post Racial America |
Workshop 1/31: Rachel ShermanThe New School ~ CCS Faculty Fellow Uncommon Sense about Class Entitlement: Wealthy Progressives Challenge Meritocracy and Moral Worth |
Workshop 2/7: Dorothy WuYale University ~ CCS Junior Fellow Can Pop Culture Allay Resentment? Japan’s Influence in China Today |
Workshop 2/14: Anne TaylorYale University ~ CCS Junior Fellow Populism, Poetry, and Political Organizing: Performances of Fusion with Bernie Sanders’ Imagined Civil Sphere |
Workshop 2/21: Ben CarringtonUniversity of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Who’s Afraid of Cultural Studies? Recovering the Sociological Imagination, From C. Wright Mills to Stuart Hall |
Workshop 2/28: Anne Warfield RawlsBentley University and University of Siegen Jason TurowetzUniversity of Siegen On Meaning: the Meaning of a Particular Social Fact – “Suicide” – as discussed by Parsons, Garfinkel, Goffman and Sacks in 1964 |
Workshop 3/6: Alford Young, Jr.University of Michigan Extending the Dialogue on Ambition and Attainment: Interrogating the Character and Development of Imaginations about Mobility (with Carla O’Connor, University of Michigan)Abstract: During the latter part of the twentieth century, research in social mobility has almost exclusively relied on the concepts of aspirations and expectations in the effort to assess subjective orientations to future prospects and desires. This paper advances sociological approaches to mobility research by responding to some methodological and conceptual limitations inherent in this approach. A new interpretive framework is proposed that includes an extended vocabulary for delineating and assessing the distinct mental constructs that comprise subjective orientations to mobility. This framework also helps in deciphering the agency-related consequences of an absence of any of these constructs in an individual’s orientation to mobility. The utility of this vocabulary is illustrated by applying it to some case examples from two fieldwork projects. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the vocabulary for advancing understandings of subjectivity in the mobility process. |
Workshop 3/27: Ruth BraunsteinUniversity of Connecticut ~ CCS Faculty Fellow The Moral Meaning of Taxes |
Workshop 4/3: Giselinde Kuipers ~ CANCELLEDUniversity of Leuven, Belgium Beauty as Taste and Duty |
Workshop 4/10: Simon Cottle ~ CANCELLEDCardiff University, United Kingdom ~ CCS Faculty Fellow Victors, Vanquished and Victims: Visualizing Atrocity from the Ancient Past to the Global Present |
Workshop 4/17: Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky ~ CANCELLEDMasaryk University, Czech Republic ~ CCS Faculty Fellow “Build that wall!” Narrating the U.S.-Mexico Border |