Organizers: Danielle Kane, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Pennsylvania & Simone Polillo, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Pennsylvania
For more information, please contact dkane@ssc.upenn.edu.

Program

Keynote Address: Connecting Lives Through Netting Together

• Barry Wellman, Univ. of Toronto

Panel 1: Network Formation, Maintenance and Dissolution

• Ronald Burt, Univ. of Chicago | Emotional Activity Around Structural Holes

• Danielle Kane, Penn | Gendered Network Evolution: When Is Density a Master Category?

• Keith Hampton, Penn | Neighborhood Networks In the Information City

• Discussant: Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke Univ.

• David Gibson, Penn | All the News That Fits to Print: Priorities and Turning Points On the Front Page of the New York Times, 1980-2005
• Simone Polillo, Penn | The Center-Local Dimensions of the Cash Nexus: States and Finance In Territorial Perspective
• Martin Ruef, Princeton Univ. | Norms of Distributive Justice In Formal Organizations
• Discussant: John Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Program

Panel I: Ethnographic Approaches to Economic Sociology
 (Chaired by Mark Zbaracki)

• Mitch Abolafia, SUNY

• Nicole Biggart, UC Davis

• Leslie Perlow, Harvard

• David Stark, Columbia

Panel II: Work, Family, and Economic Sociology
 (Chaired by Nancy Rothbard)

• Lotte Bailyn, MIT

• Phyllis Moen, Cornell

• Amy Wharton, Washington State Univ.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

The purpose of this panel is to define the contours, major theoretical thrusts and controversies in the field of economic sociology. Panelists will present conceptual or theoretical work as opposed to empirical analyses, although they will draw from the insights of empirical studies in the field.

Confirmed panelists:

Paul J. DiMaggio, Princeton
"The Future of the Firm"

Mark Granovetter, Stanford
"Economic Sociology at the Crossroads"

Harrison White, Columbia
"Markets in Networks"

Chair and Discussant: Randall Collins, Penn

Globalization is a process by which social, economic and political units in the world become increasingly affected by and aware of each other. This panel will review the major conceptual tools that economic sociology has proposed to understand globalization, and discuss empirical research on aspects of globalization’s effects on the economy, society and political processes.

Confirmed panelists:

Susan Eckstein, Boston University
"Globalization and Mobilization: Third World Social Movements at the Dawn of the New Millennium"

Alejandro Portes, Princeton
"The Role of Social Capital and Embeddedness in Economic Development: Some Theoretical Reflections"

Charles Sabel, Columbia
"Formal and Informal Organization in the Age of Globalization"

Chair and Discussant: Marshall Meyer, Penn  

Economic sociology has developed most strongly among those who study organizations, but this literature has often ignored gender. During the same recent period, a burgeoning literature on gender and labor markets has developed, some of which considers organizational issues. This panel features leading researchers who have brought these literatures together and advanced them through cutting edge empirical research.

Confirmed panelists:

James Baron and Michael Hannan, Stanford
"Determinants of Gender Composition in New High-tech Firms"

Denise Bielby and William Bielby, UC Santa Barbara
"Who Works Hard for the Money? A Comparison of Theories about Work Effort and Organizational Commitment"

Barbara Reskin, Harvard
"A Multilevel Theory of Employment Discrimination"

Chairs and Discussants: Paula England and Jerry Jacobs, Penn

Douglas Massey, Chair of the Penn Sociology Department

Harbir Singh, Chair of the Management Department, Wharton School

Mauro F. Guillén, Institute for Advanced Study & Wharton School

Chair & Discussant: Randall Collins, Penn Sociology Department

Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern
"Credit and Credibility: Toward a Sociology of Economic Trust"

Neil Fligstein, UC Berkeley
"Agreements and Disagreements in the ‘New’ Sociology of Markets"

Viviana Zelizer, Princeton: "Sociology and Law Confront Sexual Transactions."

Chairs & Discussants: Kathryn Edin, Penn Sociology Department, and Paula England, Arizona & Penn Sociology Department

Wayne Baker, Michigan
"Social Capital and Diffusion Processes"

Ronald S. Burt, Chicago
"The Network Structure of Social Capital"

Nicole Woolsey Biggart, UC Davis
"Systems of Exchange: A Typological Analysis"

Miguel A. Centeno, Princeton
"Who Calls Whom? Networks and Globalization"

Chair & Discussant: Bruce Kogut, Wharton School

Victor Nee, Cornell
"Markets, Robust Economic Action, and the Problem of Embeddeness"

David Stark, Columbia
"Postsocialist Portfolios: Network Strategies in the Shadow of the State"

Eleanor Westney, MIT
"The Japanese Business System in Transition"