The Department of Sociology hosts a variety of weekly workshops. Each are tied to graduate courses but all are welcome to participate.
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The Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS)
Analysis in the social science tradition, with openings to normative themes such as democracy, justice, tolerance and civility.
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The Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality (CERSI)
CERSI is a weekly workshop focusing on theoretical and methodological issues in the areas of the life course, social inequality and related topics
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The Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences (CHESS)
This center spans the social sciences and humanities, bringing together scholars to answer large questions that help us understand the world we live in.
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Comparative Research Workshop (CRW)
A weekly seminar in which work-in-progress by visiting scholars, Yale graduate students, and Yale faculty from Sociology and other disciplines is discussed.
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Political Violence and its Legacies (PVL)
designed to foster a wide-ranging conversation at Yale and beyond about political violence and its effects that transcends narrow disciplinary and methodological divisions.
Affiliated Initiatives
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Human Nature Lab (HNL)
We aim to create and expand our understanding of how human social networks affect behavior and health, and how they are biologically and genetically encoded.
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Urban Ethnography Project (UEP)
The Urban Ethnography Project at Yale supports the ethnographic study of urban life and culture.
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Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS)
FDS connects data scientists and researchers. Together, we inspire new possibilities and approaches to solving problems, and advance foundational data science research.