About Us
Politics, Culture, and Society (familiarly known as PCS) is a weekly training seminar of graduate students and faculty in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. PCS meets Tuesdays 12:30-2:00 in Room 8108, Sewell Social Science Building. Most sessions are devoted to relatively informal faculty or student presentations of work in progress, followed by lively discussion. Papers (optional) are circulated in advance through the PCS email list.
We are interested in research in a broad range of sociological areas, including but not limited to political sociology and cultural sociology; we are open to a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and both quantitative and qualitative methods. Visitors and newcomers are welcome.
If you want to be on the email list, contact Pamela Oliver or use the ListStar interface to add yourself to the PCS list. The name of the list you want is just "PCS". You need an SSC account to access ListStar. If you do not have an SSC account or do not know how to use ListStar, you may send email to oliver@ssc.wisc.edu or freeland@ssc.wisc.edu or cgoldber@ssc.wisc.edu, the authorized list administrators.
Spring 2013 Schedule
| Jan 22 | Organizing session |
| Jan 29 | Barry Eidlin Class vs. Special Interest: Labor Regimes in the US and Canada |
| Feb 5 | Chaeyoon Lim How Was Your Weekend? Religion and Good Life |
| Feb 12 | Matt Kearney Parsimony in Class Analysis |
| Feb 19 | Seong Won. Cross-national variation in STEM occupational aspirations. |
| Feb 26 | Pamela Oliver. The Ethnic Dimension in Social Movements |
| March 5 | Richard Aviles Historical Trends in Electoral Racial Threat: Preliminary Results |
| March 12 | Zach Baumgart |
| March 19 | Political sociology prelim discussion. |
| March 26 | Spring break. No session. |
| April 2 | Alex Hanna - "Media and the Dilemma of Collective Action in the Egyptian Revolution" |
| April 9 | |
| April 16 | Aliza Luft. : "Risk-taking behavior in violent social contexts: Resistance among perpetrators in the 1994 Rwandan genocide." Paper draft: PDF MS Word |
| April 23 | Anya Paretskaya "This is What Democracy Sounds Like: Protest Songs of the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising." |
| April 30 | Di Wang Survival of Feminist Activism in China |
| May 7 | Robert Vargas. ""Gangstering Grants: Politics and the Persistence of Gang Violence in Chicago" |
Ari Adut some time in April
Fall 2013 Schedule
| Sept 3 | Organizational meeting |
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| Sept 10 | |
| Sept 17 | Pauline Cullen |
| Sept 24 | |
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