REPRODUCTION OF INEQUALITY: A Conference in Honor of Annette Lareau
APRIL 28, 2023 | 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM | Reception to follow
University of Pennsylvania | Hall of Flags | Houston Hall
(This event is in-person only. There is no option to join remotely. Thank you for understanding.)
Conference Program
9:30 – 11:00 am
Opening Remarks
Melissa Wilde, Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Inequality in How People Are Seen
Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Sociology, Harvard University
From Cultural Capital to Recognition: Framing Worth
Karolyn Tyson, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Georgetown University
Black Communities, Trust, and Inequality
Shani Evans, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University
Making White Space: Counter Narratives on Black Displacement
Julia Wrigley, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Who Could Leave Domestic Work? The Making of a Black Women’s Occupation in the North, 1900-1940
Van Tran, Associate Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Asian Americans and Pandemic Discrimination
Presider: Chenoa Flippen, Professor of Sociology and Director of Center for the Study of Ethnicity Race and Immigration (CSERI), University of Pennsylvania
11:00 – 11:15 am
Break
11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Inequalities in the World of Education
Maia Cucchiara, Associate Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University & Sherelle Ferguson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California at Irvine & Sidra Sheikh, PhD Candidate, Temple University
“Love is not enough:” Race and Academic Expectations in Innovative Urban High Schools
Yi-lin Chiang, Associate Professor of Sociology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition
Elliot Weininger, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Brockport
Is Concerted Cultivation Universalizing?
Peter Harvey, Postdoctoral Fellow, Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard University
How Schools Teach Children Their Social Station
Presider: Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
12:45 – 1:45 pm
Lunch
1:45 – 3:15 pm
Families and Institutions
Karyn Lacy, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
No Family is an Island
Blair Sackett, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America (book co-authors Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau)
Aliya Rao, Assistant Professor Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions
Jessica Calarco, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maternal Gratitude: How Expectations of Appreciation Discourage Mothers from Seeking Fathers’ Support with Parenting
Presider: Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Wealth, Class Reproduction, and Mobility
Shamus Khan, Willard Thorp Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Princeton University
Culture and Elites: New Directions
Doron Shiffer-Sebba, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
The Family Office: How Elite Family Bureaucratization Perpetuates Wealth Inequality
Judith Levine, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Public Policy Lab, Temple University
Crossing the Bridge: Weak Ties and Inequality in the Post-College Job Search
Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Poverty by America
Presider: Emilio A. Parrado, Director of the Population Studies Center, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
5:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Annette Lareau, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Reception to follow
Please contact Julia Hawthorne with questions at: jhaw@sas.upenn.edu.