"Social Heuristics, Norms, and Wisdom"
September 27
Barnaby Marsh, Department of Zoology, Oxford University

"Comparative Assimilation: Blurred vs. Bright Boundaries in France, Germany, and the U.S."
October 21
Richard Alba, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany

"Small World Networks"
November 1
Steven Strogatz, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University

"The North American Naturalization Gap: An Institutional Approach to Immigrants' Political Incorporation"
November 11
Irene Bloemraad, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

"How Small Worlds Make Big Differences: The Case of the Broadway Musical Industry"
February 4
Brian Uzzi, Kellogg School of Management, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University

"The American Civil Rights Movement and the Theory of Civil Society"
February 10
Jeffrey Alexander, Department of Sociology, Yale University

The Messenger Lectures: Francis Fukuyama
FEBRUARY 18, 20, AND 21
Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University and CSES board member, gave three public lectures at Cornell University on the theme of "The State After September 11."
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CSES Inaugural Symposium
FEBRUARY 19
With a spectacular view above Cayuga's Waters, leaders in economic sociology convened at the top floor of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus to give presentations in celebration of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society's first year and to begin to envision its future.
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"The Small World of the American Corporate Elite, 1982-2001"
March 14
Gerald Davis, University of Michigan Business School

Mini-Conference on Avner Greif's Work: "Economics, Culture, and Institutions"
MARCH 27
CSES hosted a mini-conference on a seminal forthcoming study by Stanford economist Avner Greif, who argues that the traditional economic analysis needs to be made broader to encompass social variables, and that this can be done through a combination of historical studies and game theory. The empirical material upon which Greif draws is about merchants in the late Middle Ages.
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Conference on "Institutional Change in East Asia"
APRIL 4-5
Bringing together 17 scholars of East Asia from at home and abroad, this international conference was a very exciting event given the significance of continued economic globalization and domestic social change in East Asia. Open to members of the Cornell community and general public, the two-day event was jointly sponsored by the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, the East Asia Program, and the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture.
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"A New Look at Race and Ethnic Disparities in Educational Ambitions Among High School Seniors"
April 28
Charles Hirschman, Department of Sociology, University of Washington