Changing Middle Classes: Comparative and Global Perspectives (Weatherhead Center)

Date: 

Friday, September 21, 2018 (All day) to Saturday, September 22, 2018 (All day)

Location: 

Harvard University | CGIS South Building | Belfer Case Study Room (S020)

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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 SavageMartin 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.