2471 - Coser Salon

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

The Coser Salon features a lecture presented by the winner of the previous year’s Coser Award to a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology. Although the award winner need not be a theorist, her or his work must exemplify the sociological ideals that Lewis Coser represented, including resisting the fragmentation of sociology, maintaining the discipline's critical edge, and insuring the predominance of substance over method.

Sub Unit

• Theory Section

Session Organizer

• John R. Hall, University of California-Davis

Presider

• Marion Fourcade, University of California-Berkeley

Individual Presentations

• Thick Concepts and Sociological Research - Gabriel Abend, New York University