Social Class: How Does it Work?

Conference Program Schedule

*A book, Social Class: How Does it Work (edited by Annette Lareau and Dalton Conley) containing revised papers from the conference is expected to be published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2007*

April 21 - 22, 2006
19 West 4^th Street, New York University
The conference is free and open to the public
Friday April 21^st

8:00 to 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome, Eric Wanner, Russell Sage Foundation
Annette Lareau, University of Mary land

Public Sociology: A View of Social Class from the World of Journalists
8:45 to 10:15
Presider: Dalton Conley, New York University

Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Janny Scott, Reporter, The New York Times
Roger Hodge, Editor, Harpers Magazine

10:15 to 10:30 Coffee Break

Social Class: An Overview
Presider: Annette Lareau, University of Maryland

10:30 - 10:45 Dalton Conley, New York University, "Introduction"

10:45 - 11:05 Erik Olin Wright, University of Madison, "Alternative Conceptions of Class: An Overview"

11:05 - 11:45 Michael Hout, "Looking for Class in Its Causes and Consequences"

11:45 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

Friday Afternoon Social Class: Empirical Evidence
Presider: David Grusky, Stanford University

Health
1:00 - 1:40 Rich Carpiano, University of Wisconsin, Bruce Link, Columbia University, Madison, and Jo Phelan, Columbia University "Health and Inequality"

Family
1:40 - 2:20 Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan "Class Battles: Challenging the Black Middle Class Monolith"

Break:2:20 - 2:30

Social Class: How Does it Work (continued)
Presider: Nicole Beisel, Northwestern University

Culture
2:30 - 3:10 Annette Lareau, University of Maryland, and Elliot Weininger, SUNY Brockport: "Class, Culture, and Child Rearing"

Neighborhood
3:10 - 3:50 Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University, "Race, Class, and Place"

3:50 to 4:00 Break

Social Class: Themes and Issues from the Day
Presider: Pam Walters, Indiana University

4:00 - 4:20 Michele Lamont, Harvard University

4:20 - 5:00 Conversation

Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00 to 6:00 for all conference participants

Saturday: April 22^nd 9:00 a.m. to 1p.m.

Saturday morning Class: How Does it Work? Empirical Evidence

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Presider: Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley

Class and Mobility
9:00 - 9:40 John Goldthorpe and Michelle Jackson, Oxford University, Nuffield College, "Education - Base Meritocracy: the Barriers to its Realisation"

Class and Gender
9:40 - 10:20 Leslie McCall, Northwestern University, "Class and Gender"

10:20 - 10:35 Coffee Break

Social Class and Politics:
Presider: Julia Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center

10:35 - 11:15 Jeff Manza, Northwestern, and Clem Brooks, Indiana University, "Classes and Politics"

Social Class: New Approaches
11:15 - 11:55 David Grusky, Stanford University, and Kim Weeden, Cornell University: "An Empirical Analysis of Social Class"

11:55 - 12:05 Break: Coffee and snacks

Summing Up: Social Class: How Does it Work?

Reflections on the conference and the implications for theory
12:05 - 1:15

Presider: Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley

Panel: Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison
John Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, Oxford University

LUNCH AND DISCUSSION WITH AUTHORS AND CO - AUTHORS INVOLVED IN THE EDITED VOLUME 1:30 - 3:00

This conference was co - organized by Dalton Conley, Michael Hout, David Grusky, and Annette Lareau. We are grateful to the Russell Sage Foundation for generous support of the conference as well as to the Center for the Study of Inequality, Stanford University, and the Center for Advanced Social Science Research, New York University, and the Maryland Population Center, the Consortium for Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and the Department of Sociology at University of Maryland.