[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, February 28th - Christopher Winship - (please RSVP)

[Harvard STS]

*STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Christopher Winship*
*Sociology and Harvard Kennedy School*
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*Genesis of Justice: Boston Cops, Black Ministers, and Youth Violence*
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Monday, February 28th
12:15-2:00 p.m.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts <sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<sts at hks.harvard.edu>
 by 5pm Thursday, February 24th.

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*Abstract:* For many decades, the social sciences have carried out extensive
empirical studies of groups’ and individuals’ claims, disputes, and
understandings about “objectivity” and “truth”, most importantly in the
context of science. How is it, however, that people come to understand a
situation as “just,” or as I will argue, more precisely, (in) (in) just. I
investigate how a partnership emerged in Boston in the 1990’s between the
Boston Police Department and a group of inner city ministers known as the
Ten Point Coalition to deal with the problem of youth violence.  Central to
the partnership is the development of a set of procedures for dealing with
difficult and complicated situations in a “just” way.

*Biography*: Christopher Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology
and a member of the HKS senior faculty.

A complete list of STS Circle at Harvard events can be found on our website:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/sts_circle/
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