Economic Sociology Seminar

2011-2012
Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00 pm

Seminars at the MIT location meet in the new Sloan Building in E62-450.
Seminars at the Harvard location meet at 1550 William James Hall.

Sep 14th Harvard	Jiayin Zhang, MIT A Lack of Security or a Lack of Capital: Acculturative Conservatism in Immigrant Naming download abstract	iCal
Sep 21st MIT	Eunmi Mun, Harvard The Downside of Social Construction: Organizational Responses to the Equal Employment Opportunity Law in Japan	iCal
Sep 28th Harvard	Cristobal Young, Stanford ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION IN THE MARKET FOR MEDICINE: The Relationship Between Patient Satisfaction and Hospital Quality download paper	iCal
Oct 5th MIT	Christopher Rider, Emory Networks, hiring, and attainment: Evidence from law firm dissolutions download abstract download paper	iCal
Oct 12th MIT	Toshio Yamagishi, Hokkaido University Trust, Social Intelligence and Culture download abstract	iCal
Oct 19th Harvard	John Lyneis, MIT Choreographed Compliance: The Failure of Bureaucratic Rules in Petrochemical Plants download abstract	iCal
Oct 26th MIT	Jiwook Jung, Harvard Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1984-2006 download abstract	iCal
Nov 2nd Harvard	Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Mannheim The Governance of European Pension Fund Capitalism in Times of Uncertainty download abstract	iCal
Nov 9th Harvard	Michael Sauder, University of Iowa and Robert Wood Johnson Fellow Football and Status download abstract download paper	iCal
Nov 16th MIT	Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard Aligning Collective Production with Social Need: Evidence from Wikipedia download abstract	iCal
Nov 30th Harvard	George Lan, MIT Do Job-Seekers Benefit from Contacts? A Direct Test download abstract	iCal
Feb 8th Harvard	Marion Fourcade, U.C. Berkeley Kieran Healy, Duke University Economic Categories in Neoliberal Society. download abstract	iCal
Feb 15th MIT	Steven Vaisey, Duke Cultural Depth and Social Change download abstract	iCal
Feb 22nd Harvard	Kaisa Snellman, Kennedy School Window-Dressers and Closet-Conformists: Dual Decoupling in the Spread of the Wall-Street Model of the Firm download abstract	iCal
Feb 29th MIT	Christopher Marquis, HBS The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing? download abstract	iCal
Mar 7th Harvard	Duncan Gallie, Oxford Economic Crisis and the Quality of Work download abstract	iCal
Mar 21st MIT	Donald MacKenzie, Edinburgh Drilling Through the Allegheny Mountains: Liquidity, Materiality and High-Frequency Trading download abstract	iCal
Apr 4th MIT	Aleksandra (Olenka) Kacperczyk, MIT Internal Social Comparisons and Risky Organizational Change: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry download abstract	iCal
Apr 11th Harvard	Tammar Zilber, Hebrew University The Dynamics of Institutionalization as Translation download abstract	iCal
Apr 18th MIT	Rene Almeling, Yale A Market for Bodily Knowledge: Analyzing the Medical Profession's Response to Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing download abstract	iCal
Apr 25th Harvard	John Skrentny, U.C. San Diego After Civil Rights: Race and Reform in the New American Workplace	iCal
May 2nd MIT	Anne Fleischer, University of Toronto Social Categories and Market Value: The Market for Engagement Rings on eBay download abstract	iCal

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About the Seminar

Inaugurated at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1997, the Economic Sociology Seminar aims to be the home for cutting-edge economic sociology in the greater Boston social science research community. Since 2003, the seminar has been jointly run by faculty from the Sloan School's Economic Sociology Program and the Harvard Department of Sociology. Meeting at MIT and Harvard in alternating weeks during the academic year, presenters and participants represent a diverse array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. What we share is a commitment to engage the array of research that has recently come under the heading of economic sociology and thereby to improve upon existing models of organizations, markets, and other key economic institutions.

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