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An upcoming Sociology colloquium of interest to all:

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Subject: Next Week's Colloquium: MICHAEL HOUT, MARGARET WEIR & IRENE
BLOEMRAAD, "Looking Beyond the Election: The Shape of America's Future"
Monday October 22, 2-3:30pm in 402 Barrows Hall
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Date:    Mon, October 15, 2012 2:40 pm
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Next Week's Colloquium: MICHAEL HOUT, MARGARET WEIR & IRENE BLOEMRAAD,
"Looking Beyond the Election: The Shape of America's Future" Monday
October 22, 2-3:30pm in 402 Barrows Hall


/For those who do not accept images in their email/:

“Looking Beyond the Election: The Shape of America’s Future”

/This is the first in an occasional series of panels exploring factors
shaping American society–and global society–now and in the future./

/The first panel includes distinguished faculty from Berkeley’s
Department of Sociology discussing the implications of widening
inequality, political stalemate, and growing diversity./

  * Mike Hout on widening educational and economic inequality
  * Margaret Weir on policy formation in an era of political stalemate
  * Irene Bloemraad on how immigration alters the political landscape

*Irene Bloemraad* is author of /Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating
Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada /(University of
California Press 2006) and the forthcoming /Being American/Becoming
American: Birthright Citizenship, Inequality and Immigrants’ Sense of
Belonging,/ among many other articles and edited books.

*Margaret Weir* is co-author of /Schooling for All: Race, Class and the
Decline of the Democratic Ideal /(Basic Books 1985), author of /Politics
and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States
/(Princeton University Press 1992), and editor of influential books on
social policy. Books in progress are /Challenging Metropolitan
Inequalities /(tentative title) and a co-authored book on /Risk Pooling
and the Political Development of State Health Care Reform/.

*Mike Hout* is co-author of /Century of Difference/ (Russell Sage
2006),/The Truth about Conservative Christians /(University of Chicago
Press 2006), and /Inequality by Design /(Princeton University Press
1996), and author of /Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility
in Ireland /(Harvard University Press 1989) as well as many influential
articles.
















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