The Weatherhead Research Cluster on
Comparative Inequality and Inclusion
invites you to their upcoming conference
“Changing Middle Classes:
Comparative and Global Perspectives”
September 21–22, 2018
Our cluster’s goal is to gain a more fine-grained understanding of the many complex processes that feed both inequality and inclusion. We consider in particular how to reduce recognition gaps in advanced industrial societies.
SCHEDULE
Friday, September 21
- Session I—Middle Class Formation: State Capacity, Expertise, and Labor Markets in the Global South
- Session II—Spatial Segregation, Homophily, and Social and Symbolic Boundaries
- Session III—Class Consolidation: Identity, Distinction, and Cultural Practices
- Keynote—The Geopolitics of Inequality: The Remaking of Elites and Middle Classes
Mike Savage, Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
Saturday, September 22
- Session IV—Class Trajectories and Mobility
- Session V—Politics and Social Movements
- Concluding Session—What We Have Learned
Full Conference Agenda | PDF: 37KB
LOCATION
Harvard University
CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge Street
Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
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Organizer: Michèle Lamont
Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
