Invited Paper Session I: Theoretical Cultures across the Disciplines
Tuesday, 8/17/2004 from 12:30 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.

Michele Lamont - Harvard University (Organizer & Presider)

Don Brenneis (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Bracketing Theory: Culture, Ethnography, and the Spaces In Between

Judith P. Butler (University of California, Berkeley)
To be announced

Hazel Markus (Stanford University)
Psychological Theory: Made in the USA

Richard Rorty (Stanford University)
Philosophical Geniuses and Professional Philosophers

Michele Lamont - Harvard University (Discussant)

Invited Paper Session II: Theoretical Cultures within Sociology
Tuesday, 8/17/2004 from 8:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.

Julia P. Adams - Yale University (Organizer)
Michele Lamont - Harvard University (Organizer)

Robin Stryker - University of Minnesota (Presider)

Michael Burawoy (University of California, Berkeley)
The Tempestuous Marriage of Marxism and Sociology

Karen S. Cook (Stanford University)
Theories of Choice, Behavior, and Social Interaction

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (City University of New York Graduate Center)
On the Persistence and Negotiation of Boundaries: Culture, Gender, Structure, 
and Social Change

George Steinmetz (University of Michigan)
Are All Comparisons Odious?: The Location of Theory in American Sociology

Julia P. Adams - Yale University (Discussant)

Invited Paper Session III: Analyzing Theoretical Cultures
Tuesday, 8/17/2004 from 2:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.

Neil L. Gross - University of Southern California (Organizer)
Michele Lamont - Harvard University (Organizer)

Neil L. Gross - University of Southern California (Presider)

Bob Connell (University of Sydney, Australia)
Northern Theory: On the Global Political Geography of Social Theory

Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas (University of California, Berkeley)
Of Price and Men: The Theoretical Cultures of Economics

Karin D. Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago)
Analyzing Postmodern Cultures

Margaret R. Somers (University of Michigan)
How the Market Wins: Why All Theoretical Cultures Are Not Created Equal

Craig Calhoun - Social Science Research Council (Discussant)

Conflict, Marginality, and Intellect: Research Inspired by Lewis A. Coser 
(co-sponsored with the Section on History of Sociology)
Monday, 8/16/2004 from 4:30 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.

Andrew J. Perrin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Walter W. Powell (Stanford University)

Participant(s):

Walter W. Powell - Stanford University (Presider)

Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University)
Generally Speaking: The Logic and Mechanics of Social Pattern Analysis

Kevin T. Leicht (The University of Iowa), J. Craig Jenkins (Ohio State University)
Social Movement Entrepreneurs and Endogenous Preferences: Lewis Coser's 
Functions of Social Conflict Revisited

Gad Yair (Hebrew University)
Israel and the Exile of Intellectual Caliber

Barbara R. Walters (CUNY-KCC)
The Politics of Aesthetic Judgment

Barbara Anna Misztal (University of Leicester)
Towards a Typology of Civil Courage among Public Intellectuals

Theory Section Refereed Roundtables (one-hour)

Tuesday, 8/17/2004 from 10:30 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.

Table 1. Identity and Society

Benjamin W. Dalton (Duke University)
The Iron Cage and the Digital Matrix: Castells and Cultural Transformations in 
the Information Age

James J. Chriss (Cleveland State University)
Identity Shopping

Barbara Anna Misztal (University of Leicester)
The importance of civil courage

Y M. Bodemann (University of Toronto)
From Berlin to Chicago and Beyond: Georg Simmel and the Journey of his 'Stranger'

Stephen W. Benard (Cornell University)
Boundary Patrols in Collective Action: Rational Foundations of Durkheimian Solidarity
 

Table 2. Macro/Micro, Structure/Agency, Other Foundational Concerns

Douglas A Marshall (University of Illinois-Springfield)
The Dangers of Purity: On the Incompatabilty of 'Pure Sociology' and Science

Vani Suresh Kulkarni (University of Pennsylvania)
Values in Action: Understanding the Relationship Between Values, Social Interaction 
and Micro-Macro Link

Jeffrey K. Beemer (University of Massachusetts)
Validating Indexical Expressions or Situating Communicative Competencies: 
A Re-examination of the Structure-Agency Problem 

Charles Dudley Girard (Univ. of South Carolina), Casey A Borch (University of Connecticut)
Using Monte Carlo Methods to Extend Network Exchange Theory and Research
 

Table 3. Revisiting Foucault

Cihan Ziya Tugal (Northwestern University)
'Foucault': Reconceptualizing Resistance

Isaac A. Reed (Yale University)
Renarrating Foucault: Archaeology and Cultural Sociology

Jorge Arditi (University at Buffalo)
Social Knowledge, Social ontology, and the Order of Things: Re-reading the Early Foucault
 

Table 4. Agency, Interpersonal Relationships, and Weber

Jimi Adams (Ohio State University)
Finding the Fourth Legitimate Form of Domination

Yusheng Peng (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Kinship Networks, Village Industry, and Max Weber

Alexander Lascaux (Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Trust and Uncertainty: A Critical Reassessment

Mamadi K. Corra (East Carolina University)
Separation and Exclusion: Distinctly Modern Conditions of Power?
 

Table 5. Epistemological Concerns, Past and Present

Dmitri Shalin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Hermeneutics and Prejudice: Heidegger's and Gadamer's Tnought in Its Historical Setting

Mohammad H Tamdgidi (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Private Sociologies and Burawoy's Sociology Types: Reflections on Newtonian 
and Quantum Sociological Imaginations

Michele Ann Adams (Tulane University)
The Religious Roots of Family Sociology
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