Berkeley Sociology and the College of Letters and Science will host an inaugural lecture on the 2024 Election in remembrance and celebration of the late Sociology Emeritus Professor Neil J. Smelser. The event, open to the public, will feature Sociology Professor Emerita Arlie Hochschild, a distinguished member of Berkeley Sociology, friend and colleague of Professor Smelser. In this talk, Hochschild will pay tribute to Smelser by drawing on his extraordinary cornucopia of ideas to help understand the forces at work in the 2024 election. How has the MAGA movement come to dominate the...