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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 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.

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“Changing Middle Classes:Comparative and Global Perspectives”

September 21–22, 2018

SCHEDULE

LOCATION

“Changing Middle Classes:
Comparative and Global Perspectives”