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.
Fall 2013 Schedule
| Sept 3 | Organizational meeting |
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| Sept 10 | Jee Jee Kim. Intro Freedom? Human Trafficking in Sino-North Korean Border Regions |
| Sept 17 | Pauline Cullen. The European Social Platform: Strategic Coalition or Social Movement Organizational Community? |
| Sept 24 | Chaeyoon Lim. A Better Life in First Class: Inequality in Experienced Well-being and Time Use in South Korea |
| Oct 1 | Victor Jew. Re mapping Wisconsin's Racial Landscape: Refugee Policymaking as Contingent Path Dependencies, 1975-1980. |
| Oct 8 | Bob Thomas. Academic Industry? A Historical Look at the Use of Research Autonomy in Industry |
| Oct 15 | Barry Eidlin. Class vs. Special Interest: Labor Regimes and Union Strength in the US and Canada 1911-2011 |
| Oct 22 | Javier Rodriguez |
| Oct 29 | Yue Du |
| Nov 5 | Paul Pryse. Tea Party: Status Anxiety vs. Power Devaluation |
| Nov 12 | Tianna Paschel |
| Nov 19 | Hae Yeon Choo. " Selling Fantasies of Rescue: Intimate Labor among Filipina Migrant Hostesses and American GIs in a Shifting Global Order " |
| Nov 26 | Michael Blix |
| Dec 3 | Rahul Mahajan. Legitimization vs. Latent Functions: Torture, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Military Accountability in the Post-9/11 Era. |
| Dec 10 | Zach Baumgart. Policing and Political Participation. |
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" |