"Generating Social Inequalities" will be the topic of a conference being held at Yale Friday-Saturday, May 4-5.
The event is the inaugural conference of the newly established Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale's Department of Sociology. It is co-sponsored by the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
The conference will explore the question of how socio-economic inequalities are generated across the life course, with an emphasis on families and households, social mobility, education, labor markets, health, race and gender. Lectures will focus on how the mechanisms generating social inequalities are shaped through institutions, and how they vary systematically between societies and across historical periods.
The conference brings together top scholars in the field of social inequality. Speakers include Richard Breen, professor of sociology at Yale; Greg Duncan, Northwestern University; David Grusky, Stanford University; Michael Hout, University of California-Berkeley; and Guillermina Jasso, New York University.
Karl Ulrich Mayer, professor and chair of sociology at Yale and founder of CIQLE, will give the opening remarks.
A complete program for "Generating Social Inequalities" can be found online at www.yale.edu/ciqle/ciqleinauguralprogram.html. The event is free and open to the public.
The center was founded in 2003 and provides research opportunities for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and international visitors.
The Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course is co-directed by Mayer and professors Hannah Brückner and Breen. Its mission is to support empirical research on inequalities of social class, generation and gender and how they are brought about through processes across the life course. Among the topics being explored are family formation, educational trajectories, vocational training, labor market entry, occupational careers and income trajectories, retirement and aging, as well as corresponding social policies. For further information, visit the website at www.yale.edu/ciqle or contact ciqle@yale.edu.
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