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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, March 25, 2025 6:00 pm to 8:00 p
 m \n Main Auditorium, Mezzanine Floor \n Ontario Power Generation Buildin
 g, College and University \n 700 University Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 1Z5 
 \n\nSpeakers \nProfessor John Levi Martin \n\nDescription: \n Register: ht
 tps://forms.office.com/r/FqPDMWqLsZAbstract: With his last book, The True
 , the Good and the Beautiful: On the Rise and Fall and Rise of the Kantia
 n Architectonic of Action, just out, Professor Martin will focus in this
  lecture on what he hopes is his next book. Tying field theory to the theo
 ry of differentiation has proven extremely generative in the social scienc
 es and the humanities. However, we have confused the nature of the field 
 with talk of autonomy. This clarification allows us to see the core of fie
 ld theory being a new template for understanding self-organization--a temp
 late integrally bound up with the slow development of the modern state. Fi
 elds, far from being autonomous, are a specific form of state project wh
 ereby modern states domesticate areas of social life that resist direct ru
 le.John Levi Martin is currently the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor 
 of Sociology at the University of Chicago; previously, he held positions
  at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin
  at Madison, and at Rutgers University. He is a rarity of the modern acad
 emic discipline: a generalist. He has published three books in recent year
 s addressing the goals vs. practice of theory, methods, and statistics i
 n sociology and beyond. He just published The True, the Good and the Beau
 tiful, a book on the development of architectonics for the theory of acti
 on, and their relation to constitutional thought. He is also the author o
 f Social Structures, and The Explanation of Social Action, each given an
  Outstanding Book award by the Theory section of the American Sociological
  Association in 2010 and 2012 respectively. His most recent invited presen
 tations and keynotes at universities include talks at Cornell, Heidelberg
 , Copenhagen, Zhejiang, Duke, Wisconsin, UCLA, NYU, Stanford, McGi
 ll, Ma\nheim, Humboldt, St. Petersburg State, Ohio State, and Columbi
 a. He is currently the editor of the American Journal of Sociology. \n\nCo
 ntact Information: \n Blair Wheaton blair.wheaton@utoronto.ca \n700 Univer
 sity Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 1Z5 \n\nCategories \n Lectures \n\nAudiences 
 \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsG
 raduating StudentsProspective Graduate StudentsProspective UndergraduatesS
 taffUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:700 University Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 1Z5
SUMMARY:S.D. Clark Lecture 2025: Fields, Autonomy, and the State
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.sociology.utoronto.ca/events/sd-clark-lecture-2025
 -fields-autonomy-and-state
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