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2005 Junior Theorists Symposium

The Theory section every year organizes a Mini-Conference at the ASA meeting. Since 2005, the section has also organized a Junior Theorists Symposium. The Junior Theorists Symposium is a special one-day conference for up-and-coming theorists, organized by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association. This conference features scholars at a relatively early stage in their careers, and brings together young sociologists who are engaged in original theoretical work as part of their ongoing research..  It's a wonderful chance to spot budding talent among upcoming theorists as well as to hear some of the emerging debates in the discipline. The symposium is open to all ASA members and there is no registration needed.

"Thus there are ways of acting, thinking and feeling which possess the remarkable property of existing outside the consciousness of the individual. Not only are these types of behaviour and thinking external to the individual, but they are endued with a compelling and coercive power by virtue of which, whether he wishes it or not, they impose themselves upon him. Undoubtedly when I conform to them of my own free will, this coercion is not felt or felt hardly at all, since it is unnecessary... If I attempt to violate the rules of law they react against me so as to forestall my action, if there is still time."
-Emile Durkheim.
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The 2005 Symposium took place at the University of Pennsylvania, McNeil Building 286-7, on Friday, August 12, 2005, the day before the start of the ASA annual meeting.

The conference features advanced graduate students and recent PhDs presenting papers that speak to the present and future of sociological theory-where it is now, and where it should go from here. The panelists will discuss what they see as the most theoretically significant aspects of their current sociological research and will explain why their work may represent an important step for sociological theory. Offering original frameworks, the panelists will provide an assessment of the current state of sociological theory as seen from the vantage point of new entrants to the field. The Symposium consists of three thematically linked panels. Following the presentations in each panel, three senior scholars will comment on the various presentations.

The Junior Theorists Symposium 2005 is hosted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been organized by Mathieu Deflem, Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas, and Neil Gross on behalf of the ASA Theory Section. Scroll down or click here for the full program.

Though no registration is required, we appreciate your email should you plan to attend.

breakfast  09:00

Introduction  09:30 a.m. 

Murray Webster, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Theory Section Chair 2004-2005


Panel 1  -  What is Sociological Theory?  09:45-11:30 a.m. 

Chair: Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina

Participants: Isaac Reed, Yale University
Participants: Robb Willer, Cornell University
Participants: Erika Summers-Effler, University of Notre Dame
Participants: Gabi Abend, Northwestern University

Discussant: Charles Camic, University of Wisconsin, Madison

lunch break  11:30 - 01:00 

Panel 2  -  Theorizing Identity, Race, & Interaction  01:00-2:45 p.m.

Chair: Neil Gross, Harvard University

Participants: Scott Leon Washington, Princeton University
Participants: Simone Polillo, University of Pennsylvania
Participants: Pierre-Antoine Kremp, Princeton University
Participants: Kwai Ng, University of California, San Diego

Discussant: Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 3  -  Comparative and Global Theorizing  03:00-4:45 p.m. 
Chair: Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley 

Participants: Matthias Koenig, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Participants: Alexandra Kowalski, New York University
Participants: Fuyuki Kurasawa, York University, Toronto
Participants: Jonathan VanAntwerpen, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: Michèle Lamont, Harvard University

Click here for the full program with abstracts.
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