2025-06-04
1 小时 26 分钟Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Welcome to the London School of Economics.
It's great to see you tonight.
I am Mike Savage.
I'm Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the LSE.
and I'm a Professorial Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute.
And I'm really pleased to welcome David Gruski to this event tonight.
David is Edward Amos Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences,
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University.
As many of us know,
he's one of the leading American sociologists of inequality, poverty, stratification.
His publications are manifold.
I think what stands out to me is his willingness to think about American research in a much bigger global context.
So he's, as well as a major contribution to understanding poverty in the US,
he's also been very concerned about the multidimensional aspects of that,
thinking about questions of gender.
He's contributed to debates we've had about thinking about social class and questioning some of the ways in which British sociologists have understood class.
So he's really been prepared to kind of think big and think globally.
And today he's going to be presenting this very bold vision about a new data infrastructure for the social sciences,