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SPRING 2013 |
All colloquia are held in DYN 400 3:30-5:30 pm
with reception to follow *unless otherwise noted. |
February February 7Learning from China: Sociology vs Neo-Classical Economics In China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change (2013), we - drawing on a decade’s research and experience - argue that China‘s is not neo-liberal. Instead there are neo-Daoist and Neo-Confucian routines, which - though they may not have worked for the economy in Max Weber’s time -, are eminently suited to the 21st Century. The relational, embedded forms of economic life and urban property relations China may be closer to Adam Smith’s empiricism (and ethics) than to Weberian rationalism. Neo-liberalism has it basis in neo-classical economics. Carl Menger, one of the founders of neoclassicism was a major influence on Weber in the Methodenstreit at the founding of German Sociology: an influence that still may be dominant in today. Sociology should instead learn from China: it should draw on its own phenomenological routines and neo-institutional political economy (e.g. Ostrom) in a critique of both the neo-classical subject and neo-liberalism. Director of the Center for Global Policy, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Democratic Transitions: New Insights from Graphic Analysis February 28 Vanderbilt University The Beginnings of the 'End of Privacy' in the Modern U.S. *co-sponsored with IASC - to be held at Watson Manor, reception to follow March March 21The Event and the City *to be held at Watson Manor, reception to follow For a Postcolonial Sociology April April 11April 25 Kara Fitzgibbon, Sarah Hollaender, Katrina VanBlaircum, Hexuan Zhang
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