What Is The Empirical?
A One Day Conference organised by the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Poster (PDF format)
Friday 8 June 2007
Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre, Ben Pimlott Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
What is the role and place of the category of the empirical in the discipline of Sociology today? Why have disputes over this category emerged? And what do these disputes, in turn, tell us about contemporary Sociology? This one day conference brings together a cast of international speakers to address and critically debate these questions and problematics and ultimately to reframe the empirical for contemporary Sociology.
Conference programme
| 9.30-10am | Registration and refreshments |
| 10-11.15am | Session 1 |
| Jeffrey C. Alexander ‘Nothing Is Empirical without Theory: A Cultural Sociological Approach to the Analysis of Social Reality?’ |
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| John Urry ‘Mobile methods and the 'empirical' |
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| 11.15-11.45am | Refreshments |
| 11.45am-1pm | Session 2 |
| Mariam Fraser 'Sociology and the Limits of Knowing' |
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| Nick Gane ‘Empiricism and Concepts’ |
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| 1-2pm | Lunch |
| 2-3.15pm | Session 3 |
| Patricia Ticineto Clough ‘The New Empiricism and Bodily Matter’ |
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| David Oswell
'Infancy, generation and experience: notes on the Sociological empirical and toward a political theory of children's association' |
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| 3.15-3.45pm | Refreshments |
| 3.45-5pm | Session 4 |
| Alan Irwin 'Expert evidence and the empirical’ |
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| Mike Savage ‘Transactional data and the coming crisis of empirical sociology’ |
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| 5pm | Closing comments |
For more information about this conference, please e-mail Jane Offerman.
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