You are invited to a book talk of interest to the COR community…

Matthew Clair [1] (Stanford University)
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court

Monday, April 4, 2022
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT
UCI Law | EDU 1111

This event will take place in person at UCI Law with a live stream available on Zoom for remote participation. Zoom details will be sent upon registration.

The number of Americans arrested, brought to court and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privilege and Punishment [3] [2] examines how racial and class inequalities are embedded in the attorney-client relationship, providing a devastating portrait of inequality and injustice within and beyond the criminal courts.

Matthew Clair conducted extensive fieldwork in the Boston court system, attending criminal hearings and interviewing defendants, lawyers, judges, police officers and probation officers. In this eye-opening book, he uncovers how privilege and inequality play out in criminal court interactions. When disadvantaged defendants try to learn their legal rights and advocate for themselves, lawyers and judges often silence, coerce and punish them. Privileged defendants, who are more likely to trust their defense attorneys, delegate authority to their lawyers, defer to judges, and are rewarded for their compliance. Clair shows how attempts to exercise legal rights often backfire on the poor and on working-class people of color, and how effective legal
representation alone is no guarantee of justice.

Privilege and Punishment draws needed attention to the injustices that are perpetuated by the attorney-client relationship in today’s criminal courts, and describes the reforms needed to correct them.

Dr. Matthew Clair is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and (by courtesy) the Law School at Stanford University. His scholarship broadly examines how cultural meanings and interactions reflect, reproduce and challenge various dimensions of social inequality, legal violence and injustice. His research has been published in Criminology, Law & Social Inquiry, Social Science & Medicine and Social Forces and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Society of Criminology, the Center for American Political Studies, and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management.

Monday, April 4, 2022
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT
UCI Law | EDU 1111

This event will take place in person at UCI Law with a live stream available on Zoom for remote participation. Zoom details will be sent upon RSVP [2].

For more event details or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email centers@law.uci.edu

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You are invited to a talk of interest to the COR community…

Professor Richard Arum, School of Education

“Improving Undergraduate Education Measurement: Implications for
Sociology”

Friday, March 11, 12noon-1:15pm

Location: Social Science Plaza B (SSPB) 4250

Also possible to attend via Zoom Meeting ID: 918 2246 4754

https://uci.zoom.us/j/91822464754

ABSTRACT: An interdisciplinary research team at UCI has come together to develop and implement a state-of-the-art undergraduate measurement project that integrates unprecedented data on student experiences, trajectories and outcomes. Administrative records, learning management system click-stream data, (weekly) longitudinal survey responses, experiential sampling logs and innovative performance assessments have been collected since Fall 2019. The projects goals and efforts will be described, implications for the field of sociology will be discussed, and preliminary findings on undergraduate education before and during the pandemic and the campus’ move to remote instruction will be presented.

BIO: Richard Arum is professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology, criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine. He recently served as dean of the UCI School of Education, chair of the NYU Sociology Department, senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and director of the Education Research Program at the Social Science Research Council. He is author of Judging School Discipline; coauthor of Aspiring Adults Adrift and Academically Adrift; as well as coeditor of Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessment for the 21st Century, Improving Learning Environments: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspectives and Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. He received a M.Ed. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Sociology from U.C., Berkeley.

You are invited to a talk of interest to the COR community…

Minh Cao

Doctoral Candidate, Merage School of Business

4pm-5:30pm
Zoom: https://uci.zoom.us/j/96978185870

Title: ‘The realm of the ridiculous’: Straddling intimacy and professionalism in college admission consulting

Abstract: This paper presents an ethnographic study on Icarus, an admission consulting firm serving international students applying to college programs in English-speaking countries. My study focuses on the relationship between consultants at Icarus and their customers. The customers demanded personal care and associated this care with intimacy and personal connections, while the consultants wanted personal boundaries in their relationship with customers. As a result, consultants at Icarus constantly straddled intimacy and professionalism by eroding and rebuilding personal boundaries in their daily interactions with customers. Eventually, consultants became exhausted and accepted the indeterminacy of the paradoxical tensions in their relationship with customers.

Dear COR Community,

A talk of interest…

Beth Bechky
Seymour Milstein Professor of Ethics and Corporate Governance and Strategy
_New York University_

“Are the Robots Coming for Your Job? Advancing the Next Wave of Studies
of Technology and Work”

Friday, October 15 * 2-3 p.m.
Donald Bren Hall 6011
_Reception to follow on 6th Floor Patio_

_In Person Encouraged for UCI Students, Faculty, Researchers, and Staff_
_On Zoom for the Public (Use Meeting ID 960 8227 0307 [1])_

ABSTRACT: Organizations are investing considerable resources into developing and deploying AI algorithms to achieve their goals, accompanied by increasing media hype, both laudatory and critical. Informed by three decades of field research on how technologies are actually used at work, I raise a set of dilemmas about expertise, collaboration, and institutional structures that any organization implementing AI should consider. I ground this inquiry in my empirical studies of how organizational and occupational dynamics shape work in organizations, using an extended example from my ethnography of forensic scientists in a crime lab. I suggest that taking a systems approach is imperative for understanding how AI impacts the workplace. Without tracing organizational and institutional influences such as enactments of roles, patterns of collaboration, and dynamics across functional, disciplinary and occupational boundaries, our understanding of how AI influences work will be decoupled from reality.

Bio: Beth Bechky is the Seymour Milstein Professor of Ethics and Corporate Governance and Strategy at the Stern School of Business and a professor of sociology (by courtesy) at New York University. Beth’s recent book, _Blood, Powder and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof_, was published by Princeton University Press. In it, she shows how the work of forensic scientists is fraught with the tensions of serving justice–constantly having to anticipate the expectations of the world of law and the assumptions of the public–while also staying true to their scientific ideals.

As an organizational ethnographer, Beth’s research reveals the technical complexity of the modern workplace. She studies how workers collaborate to solve problems, struggle to coordinate, and manage the challenges of technological change. In addition to Beth’s in-depth engagement in a crime lab, in previous projects she locked up sets and made copies as a production assistant in the film industry, assembled semiconductor equipment in a clean room, and assisted technicians in a biotech lab. She has published her work in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly_, _Academy of Management Journal_, _Organization Science _and_American Journal of Sociology_.

Beth’s interest in the workplace began as a research associate at Xerox PARC, followed by faculty appointments at the Wharton School, UC Davis and her current position at NYU. She earned a doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering and a masters degree in Sociology from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
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