Conference on Inequality

Conference tackles inequity The Stanford Daily, May 19, 2005 by Debashish Bakshi Members of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, or IRiSS, tacked issues of social, racial and gender-based inequality during a conference yesterday in the Tresidder Oak Room. “Great universities have a responsibility to solve global challenges,” University Provost John Etchemendy said in his introductory remarks. “And such challenges are solved at the intersection of the social sciences.” …more

 

Welcome

John Etchemendy, Provost
Karen Cook, Senior Associate Dean for Social Sciences
and Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS)

 

Session 1:

Inequality and Criminal Justice

Introduction by Roger Clay, President, The National Economic Development and Law Center

“Unfair by Design: Black Americans’ View of the Mass Imprisonment Society”
Lawrence Bobo, Professor of Sociology, director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (session chair)

“Inequality and Criminal Justice: The Limits of Constitutional Law”
Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law

“Mass Imprisonment and American Inequality."
Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

 

Session 2:

Inequality and US Health Care

Introduction by Hannah Valantine, senior associate dean for diversity and leadership and Director, Heart Transplantation Research, School of Medicine

“Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: Is it Really that Bad?”
Clarence Braddock, Associate Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine

 

Session 3:

The Changing Significance of Race in American Society

Introduction by Claude Steele, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, and co-director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity

“Resurrecting the Ghost of Lewis Henry Morgan? Science, Public Policy and Racial Classifications."”
Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology (session chair)

“Genomes and Race: A Focus on Difference”
Joanna L. Mountain, Assistant Professor of Anthropological Sciences and Department of Genetics

"The Physician's Dilemma: When Can We Use a Patient's Race to Predict Genetic Ancestry and the Expected Outcome of Treatment.”
Donald Barr, Associate Professor of Sociology, SIIS Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Associate

 

Session 4:

Gender and Inequality

Introduction by David Grusky, Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Inequality

“Gender in America: What’s Changing? What’s Not?”
Paula England, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Research Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (session chair)

“Sex Segregation in Comparative Perspective: Toward a New Paradigm”
Maria Charles, Associate Professor of Sociology, U.C. San Diego

“Does Paid Family Leave Help or Hurt Gender Equality?”
Janet C. Gornick, Associate Professor of Political Science, City University of New York

 

Closing Comments

Sharon Long, Vernon R. & Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities & Sciences