Sociology

Recent decades have seen a global shift away from the traditional self-regulation of the professions toward hybrid forms of regulation in which professions, the state, and market actors all play significant roles.

Shining Wang, Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

Yen-Yu Lin’s dissertation project, Colors of the Empire: Visual Representations of Race and Gender in Colonial Taiwan, examines the racialized and gendered “rule of difference” through material culture with an empirical focus on Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule (1895-1945).

Using South Korea’s pharmaceuticals industry and Argentina’s agri-biotech sector as case studies, this research delves into how the contemporary developmental states navigate the complex regulation-innovation nexus.

By expanding insights from the cultural sociology of disaster and suffering, this project explores how the state, social scientists, and victims’ parents struggle to find the meaning of suffering.

China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power in a post-Covid world.

“Colorism” — the institutionalized hierarchy which privileges white or light skin color — appears to have been increasingly globalized in recent years.

This project will try to fix the lack of diverse material that often we find while teaching a language.

Talks on the Economy, Market, Politics and Organizations (TEMPO) is an interdisciplinary workshop of faculty and graduate students devoted to the development of empirical work exploring the global and/or comparative dimension of “the economic” in social life.

This project looks at the evolution of economic discourse in post-WWII Italy, with a specific focus on the annual reports authored and delivered to the public by the Italian Central Bank.