Resources

Cafes and Communities

Precarity Lab Slack Channel! Join us on Slack to Connect!
Check out monthly meetings at Ethnographic Cafe
Interested in Ethnography in and of Organizations? See Ethnography Atelier
Wanna meet and chat with the authors of recently published articles? Check out SER-Cafe

BU Resources and More

BU Center for Innovation in Social Sciences
BU Urban Inequality Workshop
Open courses on Qualitative Methods by Susan Silbey (MIT): Interview Process & Data Coding and Analysis

Select Courses

BU Sociology / Understanding Meritocracy with Jonathan Mijs
BU Sociology / Sociology of Law with Heather Schoenfeld
BU Sociology / Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations with Saida Grundy
BU Questrom / Design of Field Methods with Siobhan O’Mahony
BU Questrom / The Craft of Theorizing Research with Michel Anteby
BU Questrom / Macro Organizational Theory with Leroy Gonsalves
BU Sociology / Qualitative Methods with Japonica Brown-Saracino
BU Sociology / Economic Sociology Seminar with Alya Guseva
BU Sociology / Graduate Seminar in Academic Writing with Alya Guseva
BU Wheelock / Culture, Capital, and Classrooms with Anthony Abraham Jack

Fall 2025 Schedule

09/17, Wed, 2:30:-3:30 pm: Ya-Ching Huang, “Cultural meanings and Decisions in Pediatric Palliative Care.” @Questrom School o f Business, HAR615

10/22, Wed, 2:30-3:30 pm: Jenna Song, “Commercialization and Connection Intertwined: How BookTubers’ Relational Signaling Contributes to Audience Support.” @Questrom School of Business, HAR615

11/12, Wed, 12:00-1:15 pm: Isak Ladegaard, “Platforms Against the State,” jointly organized with the BU Department of Sociology, Room 241

11/19, Wed, 2:30-3:30pm: Ashley Mears, “Now You See Me: Inside the Economy of Misdirection.”@Questrom School of Business, HAR615

12/3, Wed, 2:30-3:30pm: Allison Wigen, “Fishermen as Artists: Cultural Production in Times of Change.” @Questrom School of Business, HAR615

All events will take place in-person and on Zoom.

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