You are cordially invited to our annual
Alpha
Kappa Delta (the sociology honor's society) honor's lecture on Thursday,
March 27, 1-2 pm, Kunsela Café/MPR, Kunsela Hall.
Dr. Jamie Dangler, Statewide UUP V.P. of
Academic
Affairs and Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Cortland,
will be
speaking on Applying Sociology to the Practical World: A Case
Study in
the Use of Sociological Concepts and Analysis in Efforts to
Advance
Family-Friendly Workplace Policies.
Dr. Dangler will discuss the ways sociological
concepts and analysis were used in efforts to build support for
paid
family leave and other policies to accommodate women and men who
need to
balance work and family demands. She will highlight the
grassroots
organizing effort that developed within the union movement more
than 10
years ago and how that effort emerged in the context of a
broader
national and international effort to address family leave and
work-family balance as a fundamental workers' issue.
Through a narrative that combines the personal
and the
political, she will highlight the role of sociological
constructs
related to class, ethnicity, gender, social justice, the
importance of
institutional supports to advance societal needs, and the
intersection
of individual and collective needs and practice.