pacificsoc.org

PSA Member Jodi O'Brien Denied Dean Position at Marquette University

Long time PSA member and Past President, Jodi O'Brien, was offered the position of dean at Marquette University. The President of Marquette later rescinded the offer.  You can read more about this controversy at the following links.

Huffington Post

Seattle University Spectator

Freedom Eden

Chronicle of Higher Education

Statement from PSA President, Past President and President Elect below.

State from from ASA President below.

Members of the association are encourage to send a letter of concern and support as well. 

Letter from PSA Presidential Officers

May 9, 2010

 

Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J.

Office of the President

Zilber Hall 441

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI 53201

 Dear President Wild:

 We are writing to you to express our concern over your decision to rescind your university’s offer to hire Dr. Jodi O’Brien as dean. 

 We three are currently serving as past-president, president, and president-elect of the Pacific Sociological Association.  We write to you not as representatives of the PSA membership, but as individuals who have been inspired by Dr. O’Brien’s leadership as a past president of this organization. 

 In our experience, Jodi O’Brien is a respected scholar and a brilliant and inspiring leader.  When we learned some weeks ago that Marquette University had hired Dr. O’Brien as dean, we were impressed with the university’s smart and forward-looking decision.  Now, as you have rescinded the hire, we can only wonder if you have buckled to voices of fear and exclusion.

We urge you listen to your colleagues who saw the same things in Jodi O’Brien that we see in her, and reverse your position on this matter.

 Sincerely,

 Michael A. Messner

Professor of Sociology and Chair of Gender Studies

University of Southern California

Immediate past president, Pacific Sociological Association

Sharon Araji

Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology

University of Colorado Denver,

President, Pacific Sociological Association

Beth Schneider

Professor of Sociology and Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Diversity and Equity

University of California, Santa Barbara

President-elect Pacific Sociological Association

American Sociological Association

1430 K Street NW, Suite 600 (202) 383-9005 executive.office@asanet.org

Washington, DC 20005 (202) 638-0882 fax www.asanet.org

(202) 638-0981 tdd

May 12, 2010

Reverend Robert Wild, S.J., President

Dr. John Pauly, Provost

Marquette University

Zilber Hall

PO Box 1881

Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881

By Fax: 414-228-3161

414-288-7664

Dear President Wild and Provost Pauly:

As President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), I am

profoundly concerned about your decision to rescind your offer to

sociologist Dr. Jodi O’Brien to become Dean of the College of Arts and

Sciences at Marquette University.

The ASA is the national scholarly society for American sociologists with

a national and international membership of over 14,000 most of whom

are employed in the academy. The ASA has a long-standing record of

rejecting any policies or actions in the academy that disqualify

candidates who are pursuing scholarly inquiry that is recognized as

legitimate within their disciplines. The Code of Ethics of the American

Sociological Association and the explicit policies of our Association also

reject any exclusion on the basis age; gender; race; ethnicity; national

origin; religion; sexual orientation; disability; health conditions;

marital, domestic, or parental status. We regard these standards to

reflect the fundamental principles of academic freedom and the core

mission of higher education in both scholarship and teaching.

We condemn the action of Marquette University’s senior officials in

rescinding its offer to Dr. O’Brien. By doing so, Marquette University

appears to have violated its own non-discrimination policy as well as

the principles of free inquiry that govern all great universities.

As a scientific discipline, sociology seeks to develop theoretical and

empirical understanding of complex social structures and social

processes through research and scholarship. This often means that

sociologists’ legitimate lines of inquiry take them into areas that can be

fraught with cultural and social conflict. The scholarship of sociology,

however, cannot abandon these areas; indeed, in its search to

contribute to learning and social well-being, sociology explicitly

promotes the vitality and diversity of research within our discipline. The

ASA has 50 special interest sections as part of our organizational

structure that reflect this diversity. From sections on Peace, War, and

Social Conflict and the Sociology of Education, to a section-in-formation

on Altruism and Social Solidarity and the Section on the Sociology of

Religion, to the long-standing Section on Sex and Gender and the

Section on Sexualities, these intellectual communities reflect areas of

active sociological scholarship. As the publisher of nine major scholarly

journals in sociology, the ASA includes high-quality, peer-reviewed

research in all these areas of scientific inquiry.

As a major institution of higher education, Marquette University should

acknowledge the professional and personal harm it has done to Dr.

O’Brien by rescinding its offer to her. Similarly, the university should

recognize that, by its action, Marquette has broken the principles of

academic freedom and professional collegiality and damaged the

university’s own stature as an institution of higher education.

As President of the American Sociological Association, I request that

Marquette University affirm its dedication to non-discrimination and

principles of academic freedom by extending an invitation to Dr. Jodi

O’Brien to be Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences that includes a

statement that the University desires her leadership. We are hopeful

that Marquette may still have the privilege of having this outstanding

sociologist within its community of scholars and leaders.

Sincerely yours,

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, PhD

President, American Sociological Association

Director, Center for Race and Gender, and

Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies

University of California, Berkeley 

 

2010 Annual Meeting

2010 ANNUAL MEETING, MARRIOTT OAKLAND CITY CENTER, APRIL 8-11

 

[NOTE: All presentations listed below may not have been presented due to last minute cancelations, illness, travel problems, etc.]

SESSIONS

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

summary of events

10:00 am - 7:00 pm registration

12:00 pm - 6:45 pm sessions

12:00 pm – 6:45 pm publisher exhibits

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm committee chairs dinner

7:30 pm -9:00 pm special evening film & video sessions

9:00 pm - 10:30 pm welcome and new members dessert reception

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

 

1) Institutional Agents & Institutional Culture I 

organizer: Brianne Davila, UCSB

discussant: Ricardo Stanton-Salazar, USC

David Boyns, Amy Denissen, Alexandra Gerbasi, & Herman DeBose, CSUN:  From Fee Hikes to Furloughs: The Effects of the CSU Economic Crisis on Institutional Culture, Commitment & Resistance

Brianne Davila, UCSB & Roseanne Macias, USC: Institutional Agents Creating Pathways to STEM Degrees for Latina/o Students

 

 

2) Current Issues in Occupations & Profession I 

organizer: Carolina Apesoa-Varano, UCD

Carolina Apesoa-Varano, UCD: Teamwork in the Hospital: The New Professionalism Revisited

 

3) Aging & the Body

organizer: Patricia Drew, CSU East Bay

Shelly J. Eriksen, CSU Long Beach: To Cut or Not to Cut? Cosmetic Surgery & the Difference Age Makes

Ada Diaconu-Muresan & Mary White Stewart, UNR: Predictors & Dimensions of Aging Anxiety among Female College Students

Sam Hyun Yoo, ASU: The Effect of Siblings on Health in Later Life

 

 

 

4) Indigenous Peoples & Education

organizer: Sheila Prados, NMSU

Sheila Prados, Sandra Way, Heather Johnson, Lisa Grayshield & Michael Waldo, NMSU: A Qualitative Study of American Indian Student College Success

Diane B. Hirshberg, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage & Rosita Worl, Sealaska Heritage Institute: Social Constructions & Education Policy: A Look at the Early Days of Formal Schooling for Indigenous Peoples in Alaska

 

 

5) The Digital Divide

organizer: Greg Morales, MAPA

Laura Robinson, Santa Clara Univ.: Temporal Tensions & Digital Inequality

Bayliss Camp & Josh Hammon, CSU Sacramento: Disability in Film: What Does the Mass Audience Think?

Greg Morales, MAPA: Digital Disenfranchisement: Digital Exclusive Global Networks & Formation of a Single Global Society

 

6) Politics, Policy & Community Corrections

organizers: Mario Paparozzi & Roger Guy, UNC Pembroke

Mario Paparozzi, UNC Pembroke: Reconciling What Works & Broken Windows: The Policy Relevance of Individual & Social Correlates to Recidivism Reduction

Roger Guy, UNC Pembroke: The Giant that Never Woke: Parole Authorities as the Lynchpin to Evidence-Based Practices

 

7) Globalization Issues

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Suzel Bozada-Deas, USC

Michaelangelo Anastasiou, PSU: Globalization, But Under What Conditions? The Case of the EU

Eric Hanley, Univ. of Kansas: The Social Drivers of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Developing Countries

Jessica White, New Mexico State Univ.: Conflict & Globalization: Exploring Theoretical Aspects of Terrorism

 

 

8) Humanism & The Sociological Imagination

organizer: Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley Univ.

Thomas Ward, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: C. Wright Mills & the Transformative Power of History

Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley Univ.: The Uphill Battle of Humanist Sociology: Challenges from Outside & Inside the Discipline

 

 

9) Social Inequalities, Fertility & Reproductive Technologies

organizer: Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay

Andrea Bertotti-Metoyer, Gonzaga Univ.: His or Hers: A Race/Class/Gender Analysis of Sterilization among Married & Cohabiting Women in the United States

Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay: When Things Go Wrong: Health Risk in Egg Donation

David Pieper, UCB: The Effects of Immigration on Fertility in the United States

Nathanael Lauster, Univ. of British Columbia: A Room to Grow: The Residential Density-Dependence of Fertility in Europe & the United States

 

 

10) Self & Identity I

organizer & discussant: Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado, Denver

Samuel H. Garrow & Andrew J. Dick, CSU Chico: Parent & Peer Influences on Tattooing among College Students

Peter J. Collier & Collin Fellows, PSU: Role Mastery, Schema Development & First-Generation College Student Success

Henry Chiu Hail, UCI: Negotiating National Identity within Cross-national Interaction: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of the Experiences of Chinese Students in the United States

Hannah B. Emery, UCB: Naming Choices Among California Parents

 

11) Globalization in the 21^st Century

organizer: Berch Berberoglu, UNR

Berch Berberoglu, UNR: Labor, Capital, & the State in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization

Irem Uz, UNR: Consequences of Globalization: Homogenization, Polarization or Hybridization?

Arthur Scarritt, Boise State Univ.: Radicalized Privatization: Neoliberalism & Indigenous Subordination in Highland & Peru

 

12) Author Meets Critics: A Reenchanted World: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by William Gibson

organizer: William Gibson,  CSU Long Beach

discussants: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento, Marc  Flacks, Yuba College, Jay Emerson Johnson, Pacific School of Religion & Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal

 

13) Immigrant & Refugee Health & Mental Health

organizer: Carl Stempel, CSU East Bay

Elizabeth Horevitz, UC Berkeley: The Latino Health Paradox: Does Acculturation Theory Tell US What We Need to Know? An Exploration Across Disciplines

Michael Chavez, UCR, Kay Kei-ho Pih, CSUN & Yanira Fuentes, CSULA: Struggling & Shut Out: Language Barrier, Health Care Information & Access to Health Care Services among Low Income Latina/o Immigrants in Southern California

Georgiana Bostean, UCI: Can the Behavioral Model Explain Nativity Differences in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Use?

Carl Stempel, CSU Easy Bay: The Influence of Resettlement Experiences on the Emotional Well-Being of Afghan Refugees

 

14) Social Movements, Protest & Social Change I

organizer: Robert Wonser, Pierce College

Wesley Shirley, Univ. of Oregon: The Animal Enterprise: Terrorism Act as State Repression of a Social Movement

James Stobaugh, Paul Morgan, B. Remy Cross & Kelly Ramsey, UCI: Project Chanology, Scientology & Memes: Shifting Notions of Movement Frames & Protest Strategy in the Age of Internet Culture

David Montejano, UCB: The Chicano Movement & Gang Violence, 1966-1972

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

 

15) Public Sociology & Community Service Learning I

(spons. by the Comm. on Teaching)

organizer: Amy Denissen, CSUN

Dennis Downey, Sara Griffin & Jessica Goede, CSUCI: Service Learning & Research Methods: Camarillo Certified Farmers Market Patron Survey 2009

Caleb M. Bush, Univ. of New Mexico: Gallup Service Learning & the Environment: Connecting Sociology to Students’ Lives Through Recycling

Daisy Rooks & Celia Winkler, Univ of Montana: Exploring Disciplinary Boundaries in a Service Learning Class

David Boyns & Dan McCollister, Pacific Lodge Boys Home: Boom the System: Teaching Sociology to Youth in the Correctional System

 

 

16) Undergraduate Research: Applied Sociological Research I

organizer: Robert Kettlitz, Hastings College

(spons. by the Comm. on Applied, Clinical & Practice)

Livier A. Gutierrez, UCB: Becoming a Latino Minuteman: Recruitment Strategies & a Shared Ideology

Stephanie Renee Dickey, Mesa State College: Nothing Has Changed: Increased Unemployment & the Gendered Division of Housework

Jose Lumbreras, UCSB: Surveillance, Control & Exclusion in Marginalized Latino Neighborhoods

 

 

17) Professions: Identity, Conflict, & Change

organizer: Elizabeth Chiarello, UCI

presider: Lori Freedman, UCSF

Elina Inkeri Makinen, Stanford Univ.: Surgeons & Normative Reitrement

Lorraine Evans, Univ. of Tennessee Chattanooga: The Media Construction Of A Professional Teacher After No Child Left Behind

Molly George, UCSB: Seeking Security in an Unstable Labor Market: The Professionalism of Life Coaching

Lori Freedman, UCSF: Values Clarification Workshops In Medical School: Teaching Professionalism Through A “Mindfulness” Lens.

 

18) Mathematical Sociology I

Organizer John Angle, The Inequality Process Institute

Phillip Bonacich, UCLA: A Model for Exploitation & Dependence in Networks

Victor M. Yakovenko, Univ. of Maryland: Insights From Statistical Physics Into The Distributions Of Money, Income & Wealth In A Society

Jesse B. Fletcher, UCR: Homophily or Hierarchy? Testing Assumptions of Cultural Diffusion through Computer Simulation

Jesse B. Fletcher, Jake Apkarian, Hiroko Inoue, Kirk Lawrence, Chris Chase-Dunn & Robert A. Hannerman, UCR: Complex Dynamics of a System of Simple Settlements

 

 

19) Drug Policy, Treatment, & The State

Organizer: Joshua S. Meisel, Humboldt State Univ.

Kevin Riley, UCLA: Drugs & the Surveillance State: The Organization of Federal Investigations into the Use of Amphetamines among Truck Drivers

Marc Sinclair, York Univ.: Harm Reduction & The Government of Drug Users in Canada: State & Extra-State Interventions

Joshua S. Meisel & Karen August, Humboldt State Univ.: “215 Friendly”? Claims-Making & Medical Marijuana

Norman R. Layne, Jr., UNC Pembroke: Women’s Substance Abuse Treatment & Drug Court

Amber Masters, Stephen J. Bahr, Bryan Taylor, & Danny Masters, BYU: Effectiveness of Drug Treatment Programs

 

 

20) Institutional Agents & Institutional Culture II

organizer: Brianne Davila, UCSB

David Frank, Karen Robinson & Jared Olesen, UCI: The Global Expansion of Environmental Education in Universities

Todd Hechtman & Sean Chabot, Eastern Washington Univ.: Imagining a Slow University

Leonard Gordon, ASU: The Emerging Emeritus Colleges as Institutional Agents & Institutional Culture

 

 

21) New Directions in Research on Work, Organizations, & Inequality

organizer: Julie Kmec, WSU

Jonathon Westover, Utah Valley, Univ.: Key Work Domains & Organizational Commitment & Job Satisfaction

Kjerstin Marie Elmen-Gruys, UCLA: Does This Make Me Look Fat? Gender Hierarchies, Size Stigma, & “Fat Talk” as Emotional Labor in a Women’s “Plus Size” Clothing Store

David Orzechowicz, UCD: Walk-in Closets on Tranny Lane: The Boundaries of a “Gay” Work Culture

Sondra N Barringer, University of Arizona, Assessing the Structure of Organizational Fields: Multilevel Latent Class Analysis as a Tool for Institutional Analysis

Julie Kmec, WSU & C. Elizabeth Hirsh, Cornell Univ.: An Organizational Analysis of the Relationship between Female Managers & Equity-Promoting HR Policies

 

 

22) Political Economy of Mass Media

Organizer: Andrew Jones, CSU Fresno

Lauren E. McDonald & Karen Morgaine, CSUN: Defining Americana: How High Profile Political TV Talk Show Hosts Use Patriotism & Fear To Frame Health Care & Immigration Policy Debates

Jennifer A. Strangfeld, Pacific Univ.: Keeping the Lights off: How Media Criticism of the Cheney Task Force Upholds Corporate Capitalism

Hiroko Minami, Univ. of Oregon: The Culture & Political Economy of Newspaper Workers In Japan

Daniele Loprieno, CSUN: Because “Truth” Is a Subjective Term & “Facts” Are What You Make Them: Perceived News Media Bias, Hostile Media Phenomena & the Spiral of Cynicism

 

23) Commodification of Sexuality

organizer: Kassia Wosick-Correa, New Mexico State Univ.

Diana Adams, Independent Scholar: Inside Session Wrestling

Brent David Jordan, Univ. of New Mexico: Breast Implants & Attractiveness: The Business of Trading Bucks for Breasts

Shane Evans, New Mexico State Univ.: The Best Policy: Honesty in Relationships & Internet Porn

Kassia Wosick-Correa, New Mexico State Univ.: Women Pricing Pleasure: Passion Parties as Sex Industry Consumption

 

 

24) State Sanctioned Violence

(spons. by Comm. on Civil Rights & Liberties)

organizer: Byron Lee, Temple Univ.

Marie Elizabeth Berry, UCLA: Mass Violence & the Political Empowerment of Women

Shayla Jean Chilliak, McGill Univ.: Governmentality, Surveillance, & the Exception: Citizenship & Immigration Detention in Canada

Matthias Thiemann, Columbia Univ.: From State as Provider to State as a Market Enabler: The State-Sanctioned Violence Of Consumer Credit

 

 

25) Sociology of Education I

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Charlene Shelton, Univ. of Colorado Denver

Charlene Shelton, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Political Economy & Education in a Post-Marxist World

Hilary Melander, Ramon Castillo & Carol Ward, BYU: A Case Study of the Effects of Student Participation Patterns on Standardized Test Performance in 21^st Century Learning Center-Sponsored After-School Programs

 

 

26) Beyond the Barnyard: Multiple Dimensions of Sustainability in Agriculture

organizer: Laura Earles, Lewis-Clark College

Ryanne Pilgeram, Univ. of Oregon: Constructing Sustainable Agriculture at a Northwest Farmers’ Market: Understanding the Performance of Sustainability Using an Intersectional Approach

Philip Mancus, College of the Redwoods: Plant Nutrients as Regional Commons: Implications for the Sustainability of Commodity Agriculture

 

27) Crime Reduction & Policing

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Edward Flores, USC

David Cherrington, Logan Theodore,  Kristen West, Carsey Johnson, Michael Rutkowski & Aubrey Winert, BYU: Using the Character Development Model to Examine the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Programs

Jessica Flores, New Mexico State Univ.: Policy Oversight: A Communities Education

David Cherrington, Chelsie Larsen, Christin Stradling, Ham Mitala & Michael Rutkowski, BYU: An Examination of the Impact of Behaviorism on Crime Reduction & Recidivism

 

28) Love & Marriage

(spons. by SWS West & Committee on Status of Women)

organizer & discussant: Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ.

Carolyn Gilstrap, ASU: Gender & Marital Status Impacts on Poor Mental Health

Rachel Bryant-Anderson, UCSC: The Family Work Arrangements of Couples Aiming for Equality

Troy McGinnis, Texas A&M San Antonio & Cheryl Radeloff, Minnesota State Univ: Marriage as Prophylaxis: Movement Discourse & Safe-Sex Practice among Non-Heterosexuals

Lisa Kietzer, UCLA: Marital Issues in Conversation

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

 

29) Mathematical Sociology II

organizer: John Angle, The Inequality Process Institute

Geoffrey Tootell, SJSU & Michael Lovaglia, Univ. of Iowa: Sociological Propositional Networks, Robertson-Seymour Our Theory & a Problem in the Social Sciences: Is Stratification Useful?

Hiroko Inoue, UCR: Evolution of Social Complexity

John Chandler Johnson, Stanford Univ.: The Subtle Strength of Weak Scope Conditions: A Nascent Model of Structural Emergence Embedded in Structural Sociology

Geoffrey Tootell & Amy Vu, SJSU: Extending Status Characteristics Theory to Macrosociology

 

 

30) Impact of Globalization on Asian Societies I: Cultural, Political & Ethical Issues

organizers: Ching-wa Wong, Hong Kong Poly Univ. & Wai-kit Choi, CSULA

Gary Coyne, UCR: Globalization & Language: English & Mandarin Chinese

David J. Ashley & Yarong Jiang Ashley, Univ. of Wyoming: “Unhappy China”: Global Capitalist Crisis, & China’s Quest for a National Identity

Wai-kit Choi, CSULA: An Analysis of China’s Economic Impacts on Third World Development

 

31) Presidential Session: Global, Multiple, Relevant, Sharp: Can We Do Good Sociology on a World Scale?

[The PSA 2010 theme “Revitalizing the Sociological Imagination” is timely & it meets up with the debates now occurring around the world. The hegemony of a European/US Canon has been challenged by the recognition of multiple sociologies & social theory from the global periphery. We can now see the possibility of a re-configured post-colonial world sociology. But what will it look like in detail? How can different knowledge systems articulate? How will we practice a post-colonial world sociology?  What is the role of sociologists in the sociological superpower, the USA? In this session, three active researchers who have experience both in the USA & in the global periphery open a discussion on these themes.]

organizer: Raewyn Connell, Univ. of Sydney

Raka Ray, UCB, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana & Raewyn Connell, Univ. of Sydney

 

 

32) The Sociology of Risk

organizer: Sarah Quinn, UCB

Corey M. Abramson, UCB: Caged Morality: The Moral World & Risk-Based Subculture of Middle-Class Cage Fighters

Stephen Smith, UCB: Hijacking Counterterrorism: risky Politics in the Post-9/11 Era

 

 

33) Author Meets Critics: Black Men Can’t Shoot By Scott Brooks

organizer: Randol Contreras, CSU Fullerton

discussants: Nikki Jones, UCSB; Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ, Randol Contreras, CSU Fullerton & Scott Brooks, UCR

 

 

34) Researching Vulnerable Populations

organizer: James Sutton, CSU Chico

Mike Rutkowski, Tisah Quarnberg, Jason Simons, Brian D Harris & Jackie Freeman, BYU: Assessing MTV’s True Life as a Sociological Research Method

Alexander Weiland, CSU Humboldt: United States Representations of Homelessness: An Extensive Literature Review

Naomi R. McCool, CSU Fullerton:  Disabled & Educated: An Oral History of the Transition Experiences of Disabled College Students

Elaine Lois Saavedra, New Mexico State Univ.: Blind Pedestrian in Las Cruces New Mexico

 

 

35) Family, Youth & Children

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Nicholas Wolfinger, Univ. of Utah

Manata Hashemi, UCB: Aspirations, Poverty & Behavior: Youth in the Middle East

James Sanders, WSU: Parents’ Marital Status & Educational Well-Being of Children in Stepfamilies

Edson Rodriguez, USC: Orchestrated Freneticism: Temporal Culture in Professional Class Families in Southern California

Nicholas Wolfinger, Univ. of Utah: Parental Divorce & Offspring Religious Behavior: Evidence from the General Social Survey

 

 

 

36) New Media & Forms of Social Reproduction: Focusing The Sociological Imagination on Digital Inequality

organizer: Laura Robinson, Santa Clara Univ.

Jenny L Le, Texas A &M Univ.: Limited Portrayals of Asians in the Media

Jeremy Schulz, UCB: Digital Inequality & Career Aspirations: The Domino Affect of Unequal Access to Resources

T.L. Brink, Crafton Hills College: Texting: A Demographic & Benefit Profile

Jen Schradie, UCB: Digital Production Inequality-Persistent or Temporal?

Gregory Morales, MAPA: The Virtual Library:  The Construction of Unrealized Identities & Behavior Norms

 

 

37) Social Movements, Protest & Social Change II

organizer: Robert G. Wonser, Pierce College

Emily Brissette, UCB: Permanent War & Empire: Antiwar Constructions of Empire & the State

Robert Storey, McMaster Univ.: Workers’ Compensation & Injured Workers in Ontario: Rebuilding a Movement

Todd Wallenius & Keith Farrington, Whitman College: The Civil Rights Movement & Black Popular Music of the Late 50s & Early to Mid 60s: Whither Sam Cooke: The Godfather of Soul & Hitsville U.S.A.?

 

38) US & Latin American Culture

organizer: Juven Parra, CSULA

Martha Galeana, CSULA: The Post-Structural View of Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica

Jimmy Centeno, CSULA: Chicano & Latino Coloniality

Lisbeth Espinosa, CSULA: The Changing Aesthetics of Murals in Los Angeles

Pablo Victoria, CSULA: Applying Elements of the Socio-Psychological Perspective To Bodybuilding

Silvia Santos, CSULA: Fast-Food Advertisement, Food Retail Industry, & Food Consumption of the Low-Income in Two American Cities

 

 

39) Author Meets Critics: The Culture of Teenage Mothers by Joanna Gregson

presider: Teresa Ciabattari, Pacific Lutheran University

discussants: Glenda D. Walden, Univ. of Colorado Boulder,  Jennifer A. Reich, Univ. of Denver & Joanna Gregson, PLU

 

 

40) Current Research on Latino/as I

organizer: Alicia Gonzales, CSUSM

Danielle L. Clark, UCSD: Overlooked Success: Mexican-American Business Owners’ Mobilization of Social Capital

Stephanie Ayers, Stephen Kulis & Flavio Marsiglia, ASU: Understanding How Latino Ethnic Appearance Impacts Substance Abuse Through Generational Status

Arthur Scarritt & Alexandra Ornelas, Boise State Univ.: Diverse Latino Health: A Review Of Differentiation As A Factor For Wellbeing

Marisol Flores, CSUSM: Where Have All The Mexicans Gone?“ICEd”!

 

 

41) Gender & Faculty Careers in STEM Disciplines: Research from NSF ADVANCE Institutions 

organizer: Amy Wharton, WSU Vancouver

discussants: Amy Wharton, WSU, Sharon Bird, Iowa State Univ., Dana Britton, Kansas State Univ. & Christina Falci, Univ. of Nebraska

 

 

42) Gender Potpourri: Consumption, Health, Law & Sport

organizer & discussant: Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ.

Nicole Willms, USC: Everybody Plays: Gender Inclusion in the Japanese American Basketball Leagues

Patti Donze, UCLA: Whatever Happened to the Reasonable Woman?

Elizabeth Reiter, Utah State Univ.: Self Perceived Gender Role Identity & Development of Eating Disorders in College-Aged Women

Alison Crossley & Nicki Cole, UCSB: A Critical Interrogation of the Intersection of Consumption & Feminism

 

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

5:15 pm - 6:45 pm

 

43) Sociology of Sexuality

organizers: Ellen Berg & Jacqueline Carrigan, CSU Sacramento

Amy Stone, Trinity Univ.: Compulsory Heterosexuality, Gender Normativity & The Sorority Rush Process

Liahna E. Gordon & Deena Ainsworth, CSU Chico: Scientific Perspectives on Sex Addiction: A Content Analysis

Ellen Berg & Jacqueline Carrigan, CSU Sacramento: Trust Me, I’m a Doctor: Sexual Scripts on Grey’s Anatomy

 

44) Sociology of Work & Organizations

organizer: Jonathan Westover, Utah Valley Univ.

Tasha Iglesias, SDSU: Union Staff Unionization

Wee Kiat Lim, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder: The Daily Grind: A Window to IT Support Work

Shannon Gleeson, UCSC: Waiting for Payday: Patterns in Federal Wage & Hour Enforcement

Jonathan Westover, Utah Valley Univ.: An Examination of Workers’ Perceived Job Satisfaction & Public Service Motivation in the U.S.: 1989-2005

 

 

45) Self & Identity II

organizer: Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado Denver

discussant: Brandon Christian, Univ. of Colorado Denver

Allison Cantwell & Peter Burke, UCR: Exploring the Implications of Distributed Identity

Jennifer Jewell Kutzleb, UCD:  The Makings of a Writer: Practicing Identities in the Writing Group

Kathy J. Kuipers, Sarah L. Moesser & Camarin Metcalf, Univ. of Montana: Rural versus Urban Identities & Gender Overcompensation

Candan Duran-Aydintug & Leigh Ingram, Univ. of Colorado, Denver: Victim or Survivor

 

 

46) The Complex Work of Social Change:  Social Movements & Organizations

organizer: Cassandra Engeman, UCSB

Kelly M Ramsey, UCI:  Is Re-Election Enough? Advocacy Groups’ Expertise & Access to Congressional Committee Hearings

James Stobaugh, UCI: Framing Religion:  Social Movement Framing of Separation of Church & State Issues

Krista Marie Frederico & Maren Christiansen, BYU:  Family Formation & Organizational Actors:  Trends in the Growth & Decline of Reproductive Industries Across Forty Years

 

 

47) Sociology of the Body

(spons. by Comm. on the Status of Women)

organizer: Patricia Drew, CSU East Bay

Katherine M. Martinez, Univ. of Colorado: Self-Objectification Among Bondage, Discipline, D/S, Sadism, & Masochism (BDSM) Participants: Using a Multi-methods Approach to Describe BDSM Participants’ Experiences of Their Bodies

Megan S. Wright, Univ. of Arizona: Disability & (In) Visibility: Negotiating Corporeality, Identity, & Community

Elizabeth M. Reiter, Utah State Univ.: The Impact of Body Weight on Self-Esteem

Elizabeth Aura McClintock, Stanford Univ.: Pubertal Timing & Adolescent Body Image: Effects into Young Adulthood

 

 

48) Social Class & Inequality

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

Elizabeth Miller, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick & Mark LaGory: Univ. of Oregon: Time & Place Without a Place of One’s Own: Understanding Homelessness in a Broader Context

 

49) Gender Ethnicity & Sexuality

(spons. by Committee on GLBT)

organizers: James Thing, USC & Byron Lee, Temple Univ.

Kara Young, UCB: When & Where She is Entered: The Production of Racialized, Classed Masculinities & The Woman-of-Color Body in Hip Hop

Mako Fitts, Seattle Univ.: Women-Centered Space: A New Typography of Race, Gender & Sexuality in Hip-Hop

Amy C Wilkins, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder: “I Learned That Some Things You Just Don’t Say:” Black College Men & Interracial Relationship Talk

 

 

50) Toward a Sociology of the Trace

organizer & discussant: Macarena Gomez-Barris, USC

presider: Herman Gray, UCSC

Barbara Barnes, UCB: Eco-Adventures in the American West: Innocence, Conflict & Nation Making in Emptied Landscapes

Tanya McNeill, UCSC: Entangled Belongings: Family, Nation & Sexuality

Rebecca Scott, Univ. of Missouri: Sacrifice & Citizenship: Mountaintop Removal Mining in West Virginia

Marie Sarita Gaytan, Bowdoin College: Tequila & the Making of Mexican Masculinity

 

 

51) Technological Innovations in Teaching

(spons. by the Comm. on Teaching)

organizer: Michelle Camacho, USD

Marshall D. Smith, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder: Getting Them to Spin the Web: How to Incorporate Student Produced Blogs & Wikis into Course Plans

Esteban del Rio, USD: Cultivating Activism, Engagement & Embodied Deliberation in a Media Studies Blog

Deidre Ann Tyler, Salt Lake City Community College: Using Wimba for E-Portfolio Presentations

Chuyan E. Song, CSU Chico: Bringing in Local & Global Guest Speakers through the Web

T.L. Brink, Crafton Hills College: Edustream: Online Repository Of Educational Videos

 

52) Immigrant & Transnational Families

organizer: Kristy Shih, UCR

Dwayne Plaza & Lauren Plaza, Oregon State Univ.: An Examination of the Transnational Remittance Practices of Caribbean-Canadian Families

Sandra Araujo, Univ. of Granada, Claudia Pedone, Institute d’Infancia I Mon Urba & Belen Agrela, Univ. of Jaen: Family Transnationalism, Gender & Migration Policies: Latin American Migrant Families in Spain

Wade Jacobsen, BYU: The Children of Immigrants: Parental Involvement & Academic Performance

Tanya Nieri, UCR, Monica Parsai, ASU & Deisy Huerta, UCR: Gap or Overlap? Differences in Acculturation between Mexican Immigrant Parents & Their Children

Kristy Shih & Tanya Nieri, UCR: White Families Parent Differently than We Do? Parenting Frames & Parental Identity among Chinese Immigrant Parents

 

53) Undergraduate Research: Applied Sociological Research II

organizer: Robert Kettlitz, Hastings College

(spon. By the Comm. on Applied, Clinical & Practice)

Becca Williams, Linfield College: We’ve Got to Come Together: Networking to Meet Needs in a Rural Community

Bree Robins, Hastings College: Can the Number of Sexually violet Offenses Be Reduced? A Look at the Working Motives of Rapists & Strategies to Reduce the Occurrence of Sexual Assault

Samantha Minne, Hastings College: Formation of New Relationships in Later Life: A Response to Loneliness

Chrissy Peard, Hastings College: Perceptions about Society: How Does Watching Television Influence Attitudes?

Claire Wielenga, Oregon State Univ.: The Effect of Race on Attitudes about Capital Punishment Controlling for Education

 

54) Special Session-Conversation: Memories of C. Wright Mills, His Antagonism Toward Quantitative & Mathematical Sociology & Columbia University’s Sociology Department

organizer: John Angle, The Inequality Process Institute

discussant: Victor Yakovenko, Univ. of Maryland

Geoffrey Tootell, SJSU: Social Class, Quantitative Measures, Inequalities & Rigor

 

55) Current Research at the California DMV: DUI, Suspended/Revoked Drivers, Negligent Operators & Graduated Licensing

organizer: Bayliss Camp, CA Dept of Motor Vehicles

presiders: David DeYoung, CADMV

Michael Gebers, CADMV: The Enhanced Negligent Operator Treatment & Evaluation System: Summary of Findings

Erin Griffin, CADMV: Vehicle Ownership Among Disqualified Drivers who Re-Offend

Patrice Rogers, CADMV: Toward Identifying the Barriers to License Reinstatement Following a DUI

Scott V. Masten, CADMV: Effectiveness of Graduated Driver Licensing Law Components for Reducing Teen Crashes

 

56) Sociology of Memory: New & Classical Conceptualizations of Memory I

organizer: Noel Packard, The New School Univ.

discussant: William Hayes, Gonzaga Univ.

Pamela Sugiman, Ryerson Univ.: Interpreting the Past in Personal Memory: Japanese Canadian Women’s & Men’s Agentic Narratives of Racial Oppression

Audrey Yan Min, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong: Overcoming Trauma: Collective Tacit Understanding—A Case Study of The Great Leap Famine in X Village

Noel Packard, The New School: Marx, Mead & “Commodity Memory” Continued.

Lindsay R. Parker, Univ. of Alberta: Presence or Absence of Mind: The Theorist, the Lawyer, the Doctor & the Automaton

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

 

57) Video Session: Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness 

[The 20^th century Jewish-American anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits re-defined black history & black people, making it possible for a people formerly despised as “Negroes” to pride themselves as African Americans. The film delves into the historical & ongoing struggle over who has the power to understand & ascribe meaning to their own cultural identity & who does not. Who has access to the production of knowledge? What is “objective study?” What consequences are there when we deny a people the right to define themselves?]

 

58) Using Film to Examine Gender, Race & Class in Human Trafficking

(spons. by Comm. on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties)

[note, wine and cheese will be served]

organizers: Patricia Little, Marcia Marx, Elsa Valdez, & Mary Texeira, CSUSB

 

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

 

Welcome & New Members Reception

 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

summary of events

7:00 am – 8:15 am ASA Chair’s Breakfast

8:00 am – 5:00 pm registration Foyer

8:15 am -  10:30 am 2009-2010 Council Meeting

8:30 am – 5:00 pm sessions

8:30 am – 5:00 pm committee meetings

8:30 am – 5:00 pm publisher exhibits Foyer

8:30 am – 10:00 am 2009-2010 council meeting

12:00 pm –1:30 pm luncheon for 2011 program committee

3:30 pm – 3:15 pm Sociological Perspectives Board Meeting

5:15 pm – 6:15 pm awards and presidential address

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm presidential reception

7:30 pm – 8: 30 pm Keynote Session: Michael Burawoy on C.W. Mills

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

8:30-10:00 am

 

59) Sociological Theory

organizer: David Boyns

Megan S. Wright, Univ. of Arizona: Extending Foucault: The Intersection of Institution & Individual Status Characteristics in the Enactment & Effects of Disciplinary Power

David Boyns, CSUN: Parasociality: A Theory of Presence in Real & Imaginary Social Worlds

Nick Corrette, CSUN: Political Alienation & The University

Jordan Ruble, CSUN: Theorizing Christian Practices & Exchange Relationships

Vincent Jeffries, CSUN: The Nature & Functions of Critical Practice in the Holistic Model of Public Sociology

 

60) Author Meets Critics: We Fight to Win: Inequality & the Politics of Youth room Activism by Hava Gordon

organizer: Jennifer A. Reich, Univ. of Denver

discussants: Jessica Fields, SFSU, Amy C. Wilkins, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; C.J. Joanna Gregson, Pacific Lutheran Univ., Allison J. Pugh, Univ. of Virginia & Hava Gordon, Univ. of Denver

 

61) Research & Theory on New Family Forms I

organizer: Carl Stempel, CSU East Bay

presider & discussant: Brian Soller, The Ohio State Univ.

Brian Soller: The Ohio State Univ.: Family & School-Level Effects on Young Adult Cohabitation Outcomes

Nicole Iturriaga, UC Berkely: Among women & Wives: A Qualitative Study of Female Networking & Solidarity among Suburban Polygynists in the United States

Edson Rodriguez, USC: Temporality & The Time-Bind: Expanding Our Theoretical Approach

 

62) Medical Sociology I

organizer: Tina Burdsall, PSU

Amy Miller-Hagen, Univ. of Oregon: Transcending the Home/Hospital Divide: Hospital Transport & the Potential for Collaborative Relations between Home Birth Midwives & Medical Personnel

Alicia D. Bonaparte, Pitzer College: Race & Birthing Work: The Case of Granny Midwifery in the Early 20^th Century

Sophia Nathenson, Univ. of Utah: Use of Complementary & Alternative Medicine: Associations with Preventive Health Behavior

Kent Sandstrom, Univ. of Northern Iowa: HIV/AIDS & the Management of Other’s Emotions: Hidden Burdens of Illness Work

 

63) Intergenerational Relationships

organizer: Edythe Krampe, CSU Fullerton

discussant: Judith Treas, UCI

Radheeka Ranmali Jayasundera, USC: Why Don’t Grandparents Claim Responsibility for Grandchildren in Skipped Generation Households?

Edythe Krampe & Rae R. Newton, CSU Fullerton: Mama Done Told Me: Age, Ethnicity, Family Structure & Young Adult Women’s Relationships with Their Fathers

Merril Silverstein & Jessica Lendon, USC: Intergenerational Transmission of Religiosity to Adolescent & Young Adult Grandchildren: A Multidimensional Perspective

 

 

64) Current Research on Latina/os II

organizer: Alicia Gonzales, CSUSM

Jessica M. Vasquez, Univ. of Kansas: Gendered & Generational Splits among Mexican Americans

Glenda Marisol Flores, USC: Latina Elementary School Teachers: Professional Narratives & Multiracial Relationships in Racial/Ethnic Minority Schools

José A. Cobas, ASU: Two Sides of the Melting Pot: Latinos’ Resistance to Oppression

Fredi Garcia, CSUSM: First-Generation Mexican Immigrants in North San Diego County: Social Networks & the Impact of Social Isolation & Contact in Race Relations

Daisy Verduzco Reyes, UCI: Choosing Labels: Latino Students & Ethnic Identities

 

 

65) Sexuality & Sexual Regulation in Institutions

organizer: Amy Denissen, CSUN

Ruth Meyers, CSU Fullerton: Religiously Queer: Negotiating Sexual Identity with Catholic Doctrine

Brian Gerow, PSU: An Ethnographic Study of Queer Identified Clergy in Portland, Oregon

Laah L. Wallace, PSU: Caregivers’ Responses to the Sexuality of Adults with Developmental Disabilities Living in 24-Hour Residential Care

 

66) Presidential Session: Work & Families in a Changing World

organizer: Lynne Casper, USC

discussants: Arlie Hochschild, UCB, Suzanne Bianchi, Univ. of Maryland & Mignon Moore, UCLA

 

67) Open

 

68) Postsecondary Transitions

organizer & discussant: Sandra Way, New Mexico State Univ.

Kelly Camak, CSU Fullerton: What is “College Ready”?

Marcia Belcheir & Sharon McGuire Boise State Univ.: Transfer Student Characteristics Matter in Student Success

Christa Zinke & Matthew Bahr, Gonzaga Univ.: The Nomads of Academia: Understanding Transfer Student Decisions Satisfaction & Experience at a Four Year Liberal Arts University

 

69) The Social Content of Literature: Looking at the Novel as a Source of Post-Event Participant Observation

organizer: Greg Morales, MAPA

Greg Morales, MAPA: A Critical Study of Eroticism in Don Quixote

Jennifer Marie Whitmer, UNLV: Sociology Through Literature: The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

 

70) Revitalizing the Sociological Imagination: Human Populations & the Environment in the Age of Exponential Growth

organizer & discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, NAU

Kyle Knight & Eugene Rosa, WSU: Sustainability & Human Well-Being: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Environmental Efficiency of Well-Being

Ben Brucato, NAU: Characterizing a Paradigm Shift: The U.N. Construction of Sustainable Development & the Greening of Globalism

 

71) Sociology of Memory: New & Classical Conceptualizations of Memory II

organizer: Noel Packard, The New School

presider: Noel Packard, The New School

discussant: Anika Walke, UCSC

Audrey Yang Min, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong: Overcoming Trauma: Collective Tacit Understanding: A Case Study of the Great Leap Famine in X Village

Christopher Wetzel, Stonehill College:  From the Treaty to the Trail:  Nation-Building & the Process of Making Old Memories New

Jennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee:  Landscapes of European Memory: Biodiversity & Collective Remembrance

 

72) Roundtables

 

Table 1: Health Inequalities & Social Activism

organizer & discussant: Angelique Harris, CSU Fullerton

Rachel Best, UCB: Health Social Movement Disparities: Patients’ Race & Gender & the Number & Size of Disease Organizations

Angelique Harris, CSU Fullerton: AIDS Activism Among Black Women

 

Table 2: Issues in Teaching Sociology

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Christine Oakley, WSU

Megan Miller, Melissa Govea, Amiteshwar Virk, Dana Collins & Naomi McCool, CSU Fullerton: Facilitating Professor-Graduate Student Dialogue on Economic & Institutional Barriers to Education

Christine Oakley, WSU: Integrating Social Theory into the Undergraduate Capstone Experience

 

Table 3: Undergraduate: GLBT Issues & Sexualities I

organizer & discussant: Anna Muraco, Loyola Marymount Univ.

Alison Louise Hughes, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Views of Homosexuality

Stephanie Delise Jones & Simon Weffer-Elizondo, UC Merced: Understanding the Dynamics of Proposition 8 Protest

Susannah Elizabeth Lowe, Whitman College: The Privilege of Secrecy: GLBTQ & Religious Identities

Claudia Maria Brena, Chapman Univ.: Beyond Legal Matters: The Effects of Prop 8 in the LBGT Community in Orange County

 

Table 4: Undergraduate: Political Sociology

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Richard Anderson-Connolly, Univ. of Puget Sound

Steve Perez, USD: Power to the People? Techno-Power & Generational Political Shift

Gabriel Amaro, CSUSM: Political Fragmentation & Its Effects on Residential Segregation

Alex Kerr, Whitman College: Landlords & the Law

Orion Hughes-Knowles, Whitman College: Considering the Manifestations of Micro-Capitalism within Informal Social Networks

 

Table 5: Undergraduate: The Social Construction of Identity

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Vikas Gumbhir, Conzaga Univ.

Yvonne Sherwood, Eastern Washington Univ.: Definition Begets Deficiency: A Critical Analysis of the Creation of a Contested Indigenous Identity

Jennifer Stewart, Linfield College: Returning “Home?”  Exploring Identity in Korean-American Adoptees

Barbara McDermott, BYU: Gangsters & Naughty Children: Colored Perceptions of Juvenile Delinquency in East London, South Africa

Claire Carter, Linfield College: Emigration as a Rite of Passage in Contemporary Irish Culture

Lori L. Fazzino, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: It Defines Me as a Person! Identity Construction & Stigma Management among Bipolar Patients

 

Table 6: Undergraduate: Gender Issues

organizer: Linda Rillorta, Mt. San Antonio College

presider: Linda Reillorta, Mt. San Antonio College

Graceyln Marie Bateman, Santa Clara Univ.: Masculinity: Leading Males to Premature Death?

Cheryl D. Jamison, UCB: The Women’s Liberation Movement vs. the Opt-Out Revolution: Is Opting Out still in?

Alexis Marie Mesko, CSU Fullerton: Gendered Views on Pornography

Peggy O. Wong, UCB: Contemporary Use of Birth Control

Susan Lynn Nelson, Mt. San Antonio College: Sex Trafficking: Knowledge & Attitudes of Southern California College Students

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

10:15 am - 11:45 am

 

73) Teaching Sexuality in Sociology Courses

organizers: Emily Kazyak & Kristin S. Scherrer, Univ. of Michigan

presider: Denise Bailey, Univ. of Michigan

Cindy L Cain, Univ. of Arizona: How to Make Your Problem Their Problem: Utilizing Problem-Based Learning to Teach Sociology of Sexuality

Laura Hirshfield, Univ. of Michigan: Navigating Discussions of Intimate Relationships in Classroom Settings

Denise Bailey, Univ. of Michigan: FemSexies: Facilitating Emergent Feminist Sexualities

 

74) Globalization, State & Development I

organizer: Rebecca S.K. Li

Nichole Zlatunich, UCSC: Population, Politics, Policies & Programs in Uganda

Malgorzata Maria Kurjanska, UCB: Peruvian Coffee Cooperatives: A Study In The Potential & Limitations of Fairtrade As A Modern Approach To Development

Gary Coyne, UCR; Jesse Fletcher, UCR: Nationalism & Globalization

Ghirmay Ghebreslasse: Determinants of HIV Prevalence: A Cross National Study Of Less Developed Countries

 

75) Teaching Focus Group Methodology

organizer, Sheila Katz, Sonoma State Univ.

Teresa R. Sobieszczyk, Univ. of Montana: Engaging Focus Groups as a Research Methodology

Sheila Katz, Sonoma State Univ.: Teaching Focus Groups to Undergraduate Sociology Majors

Sheila Katz, Lauren M. Stavish & Jessica Muscatell, Sonoma State Univ.: Perspectives on Undergraduates Learning Focus Group Methodology

Rebecca Goe, Marea Hudoba, Carly Phillips & Diane Matthews, Univ. of Montana.: Graduate Student Perspectives on Learning Focus Group Methodology

 

76) Queer Citizenship

(spons. by Committee on GLBT)

organizer: Byron Lee, Temple Univ.

Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ.: Queering Citizenship? Women Ski Jumpers & the 2010 Olympics

Jason J. Hopkins, UCSB: Queer Citizenship, the Public Sphere, & the Role of the Family

Becki L. Ross, Univ. of British Columbia: Outdoor Brothel Culture: How Sex Workers Navigated the Queerly Neo-Liberal Logics of Exclusion in Vancouver’s West End, 1975-1985

Byron Lee, Temple Univ.: Colliding into Citizenship: Remembering 1981, Gay Men, & A Claimed Vancouver Neighborhood

 

77) Consciousness & Social Change

organizer: Janine Schipper, NAU

Nori Henk, Azusa Pacific Univ: A Different World, A Sense of Purpose & Agency

Rhonda Gail McAtee, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: Music as  a Catalyst for Collective Consciousness

Zakiya Luna, Univ. of Michigan: Engaging Activists Consciousness through Feminism & Human Rights

Kelly Laurel Drummond, The Univ. of Puget Sound: Environmental Art & Public Spaces in Creating Social Change

Linda Barker, NAU: Re-Birthing Myself:  Perceptions of Coming Out & the Interplay between Personal & Social

 

78) Presidential Session: Racial Formation in the Age of Obama

organizer Howard Winant, UCSB

discussants: Prudence L. Carter, Stanford Univ. , Daniel Martinez HoSang, Univ. of Oregon, Gary Delgado, Applied Research Center & Howard Winant, UCSB

 

79) Medical Sociology II

organizer: Tina Burdsall, PSU

Eric Van Rite, UCSD: Between Risk & Reform: Medical Error, Patient Safety & the Politics of Prevention

Shannon Gleeson, UCSC: Rights in Name Only: An Examination of the Workers Compensation System in California

 

80) Curriculum Content for a Two-Semester Research Methods Course with an Applied Emphasis

organizer: Robert E. Kettlitz, Hastings College

(spons. by the Comm. on Applied, Clinical & Practice)

Robert E. Kettlitz, Hastings College: Various Strategies for Teaching a Two-Semester Sequence of Research Methods

Jim Wiest, Hastings College: Research Methods & Senior Topics: A Two Semester Sequence of Research Methods

Amy Liu, CSU Sacramento: Sociology 102A & 102B: A Two Semester Sequence of Research Methods

 

81) Does Presence Mean Equality? Gendered Analysis of Women in the Academy

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast

presider: Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico

Nancy C. Jurik, ASU: Ramped Up: ‘Agro’ Masculinities & Doing Gender in the ‘New’ American University

Raewyn Connell, The Univ. of Sydney: Gendered Workers in a World Industry: Academic Women & Academic Men in the Practice & Politics of Knowledge Production

Jodi O’Brien, Seattle Univ.: Hidden Transcripts: Women in Academic Administration

Sharon Elise, CSUSM: The Game of Getting: Playing a Losing Hand

 

82) Human Trafficking: Its Sociological Analysis & Proposals for Change

organizer: A. Carli Richie-Zavaleta, Mira Costa College

Elizabeth Reeves-Arreaga & Priscilla Balcaceres, Long Beach City College: Mentoring Students: Stopping Sex Slavery in Nepal

Arduizur C. Richie-Zavaleta, Mira Costa College: Analysis of Sex Trade & Human Trafficking Patterns

Rachel Cansler, Long Beach City College: A Sociological Analysis of Sex Trafficking & How People Respond to the Issue

 

83) Migration & Nation

organizer: Cinzia Solari, UCB

presider: Peter Ekman, UCB

Peter Ekman, UCB: El Fet Diferencial? Language, Immigration & the Boundaries of Catalan Nationhood

Sandra Gil Arajuo, Univ. of Granada: Immigration, Interrogation & Nation-Building: The Catalan Case

Marti Morris, Univ. of Utah: Comparing South-to-South & South-to-North Migrant Characteristics from Peru

Peter Loebach, Univ. of Utah: Cumulative Causation Theory Applied to the Philippines

Tekle Woldemikael, Chapman Univ.: Globalization & Eritrean Diaspora

 

84) Environmental Sociology I: Consumption & Risk

organizer: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento

Dennis Downey & Sara Griffin, CSUCI: Camarillo Farmers Market: Patron Patterns & Preferences

David Diaz, CSULA: Consumption & SUV Environmentalism

Jennifer Givens, Univ. of Utah: Environmental Values: Individual & Country-Level Determinants

Laurie Wermuth, CSU Chico: Eat Like a Human: Ecological & Social Justice Issues in the Food Movement

Kathy Zawicki, St. Bonaventure Univ.: A Path to the Future: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

 

85) Family Transformation

organizer: Jennifer Utrata, Univ. of Puget Sound

Jennifer Randles, UCB: Marriage Promotion & the Logic of Lived Experience: Debating Relationship Education for Fragile Families

Michelle Y Janning & Helen Brambrink, Whitman College: A Family’s Self Definition Through Photographs: How Rules & Roles Affect Who’s In & Out

Tamara Sniezek, CSU Stanislaus: Matrimorphosis: The Process of Becoming an Engaged Couple

Emir Loy, USC: Changing Household Dynamics: Latina/o Adolescent Street Vendors in Los Angeles

 

86) Roundtables

 

 

Table 1: Undergraduate: Contemporary Social Issues

organizer: Linda Rillorta, Mt. San Antonio College

presider: Regina Davis-Sowers, Santa Clara Univ.

Nicholas Raymond Gomez, UCLA: Stereotyping & Deviance among Spectators at Urban Sporting Events

Marco T. Fagoada, Cal Poly Pomona: Children Who Assume Adult Roles In Immigrant Families

Yanina Rojas, UCSB: Gay Marriage: An Examination Of The Social Consequences

Roger Rojas, Cal Poly Pomona: Round For Round Analysis of The Obama Vs McCain Bout: A Content & Textual Analysis

Annie Liangchun Lin, UCB: Re-telling Retail: Working at the Intersection of High-Tech & Retail

Sergio Antonio Beltran, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Perceptions of Race & Juvenile Delinquency

 

Table 2: Culture

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Brady Potts, USC

Paul Price, Pasadena City College: The Structure of Waiting

Julee DeHose, New Mexico State Univ.: Programs that Attempt to Restore or Enhance Cultural Knowledge

Jesse Wagner, Portland State Univ.: Creating Community & Articulating Authenticity: The Timbres Army & Cultural Production & Reproduction

 

Table 3: Mixed Race & Identity: The Social Construction of Race

organizers: Michael McKail & Joanna Norton, UCR

Krystale Littlejohn, Stanford Univ.: Interracial Dating & Endogamy among Mixed race Youth in the U.S.

Charlene Johnson, Univ. of New Mexico: “Brokers” of Culture: Hearing Children of Deaf Adults at the Interchange of Ethnic Identity

 

Table 4: Undergraduate: GLBT Issues & Sexualities II

organizer & discussant: Anna Muraco, Loyola Marymount Univ.

Scarlet Chi-Man Chan, UCSB: Backstage Drama: Self-Fashioning, Surveillance & Intimacy between Exotic Dancers

Christine Narae Han, Loyola Marymount Univ: Hooking-Up

Denise C. Benetatos, CSU Fullerton: The Marginalized Masculine Male

 

Table 5: Undergraduate: Health & Well-Being

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Ben Lewin, Univ. of Puget Sound

Cirila Vasquez-Guzman, Whitman College: Increasing Patients’ Use of Social Networks for Health Information: An Increasing Role of the Health Care System?

Chantal Gregory, Mesa State College: It’s Not Just a Problem Down There: Health Care Issues among Indigenous Groups in Nicaragua & the United States

Karin Miller & Daniel Krystosek, CSU Sacramento: How Nativity Affects the Relationship between Discrimination & Physical Health: Differences within Black Ethnicities

Craig Geffre, Linfield College: The Language of Gluten Intolerance in Online Support Networks

Adrienne Ramm, Western Washington Univ.: Marital Status & Self-Rated Health, 1972-2008

 

Table 6: Undergraduate: Social Movements

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Joanna Gregson, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

Burrel Vann, CSU Fullerton: Mobilized for Action: Student Participation in Orange County

Hannah Minor, Univ. of Puget Sound: The Craft of Knitting: Non-Commercial Production & Contemporary Capitalism

Alexandra Ornelas-Gonzales, Boise State Univ.: Support for Success: An Exploration of the Support Networks of Latino Students in the College Assistance Migrant Program

Jennie Kuckertz, USD: The Practical Case Against the Death Penalty

 

Table 7: Undergraduate: Family, Intimate & Familial Contexts

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Brenda Wilhelm, Mesa State College

Denise Benetatos, CSU Fullerton: Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Interracial Lesbian Relationships

Miyoko Fujii Patricelli, Whitman College: Half-Empty or Half-Full? A Study of Half-Sibling Relationships

Melinda Varju, BYU: Parenting: How to Raise the Happiest & Most Successful Kids

 

Table 8: Undergraduate: Coming of Age in the Digital World

organizer: Laura Robinson, Santa Clara Univ.

discussant: Alejandra Moreno, Santa Clara Univ.

Rebecca Fox-Bivona, Santa Clara Univ.:  Educational & Career Aspirations for Youth in the Digital Divide

Anne Volmert, Santa Clara Univ.: Information Technologies as Primary Resources

Elva L. Salinas, Santa Clara Univ.: Understanding the Reproduction of Digital Inequalities

Eleni Ellenikiotis, Santa Clara Univ.: Gender & Socioeconomic Status of Youth Values

Valerie Adrian, Evergreen State Univ.: Thin”ternet: A Look into Online Pro-ANA Communities

 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

 

87) Environmental Sociology II: Race, Class & Space

organizer: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento

Cheryl Holzmeyer, UCB:  C. Wright Mills & Rebecca Solnit: Renewing the Sociological Imagination at the Intersections of Biography, History & Ecology

Kari Norgaard, Whitman College: Environmental Decline & Changing Gender Roles: What Happens to Karuk Masculinity When There Are no Fish?

Shoon Lio, Univ. of Illinois-Springfield & Vincent Bozonier, UCR: The Uprooting of Peace, Conflict & Identity: A social Constructionist Analysis of the Destruction of Olive Tress in the West Bank & Gaza Strip

Elizabeth Bennett, UCSC: Insiders, Outsiders, Space & Belonging in the Luna Tree-Sit’s Aftermath

 

88) Presidential Session: Intellectual Convergence: Sociology & Interdisciplinarity

organizer: Herman Gray, UCSC

Toby Miller, UCR: Media & Cultural Studies

Christopher Smith, USC: Cultural Studies & Communication

Jennifer Reardon, UCSC: Justice & Genomics

 

89) Proposition 8, the LGBT Movement & the Voters

organizer: Amy Stone, Trinity Univ.

Bayliss Camp, CSU Sacramento: Picking Sides In The Marriage Debate: Additional Evidence Regarding Cross-Cutting Electoral Cleavages

Michael Bourgeois, UCSB: Constructing Marriage, Sexuality & Threat: The Institutional Framing of Same Sex Marriage in California

Anna Sorensen, UCSB: Proposition 8 in Santa Barbara County: What Happens When Local Activists Modify Mainstream Tactics

Amy Stone, Trinity Univ.: Proposition 8 & Beyond: Winning at the Ballot Box in the Future

 

90) The Sociology of Emotions

organizer: David Boyns, CSU Northridge

Jillian Deri, Simon Fraser Univ.: Jealousy, Compersion & the Culture of Polyamory

Noelie M. Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College & Alan L. Ryave, CSUDH: Inappropriate Emotions in Everyday Life

Cindy L. Cain, Univ. of Arizona: Being There at the End of Life

Mitch Monsour, Univ. of Oregon: The Significance of Positive Freedom: A Cross-National Study of the Effects of Decommodification on Generalized Anxiety

Jennifer Utrata, Univ. of Puget Sound: The Cultural Logic of Single Motherhood in Russia: Feeling Rules & Pragmatic Realism

 

91) Marxist Sociology

organizer: Berch Berberoglu, UNR

Berch Berberoglu, UNR: The Relevance of Marxism in Sociology Today

Nicki Cole, UCSB: The Ethical Consumer & The New Commodity Fetishism

Daniel Auerback, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder: A Dialectic of Environmental & Ecological Justice

 

92) Pop Music & Public Sexuality

organizer: Michael MacDonald, Univ. of Alberta

Laurica Brown, UCSB: Marketing Movements: The Benefits & (Failures) of Selling Social Justice

Alina Polyakova, UCB: The Culture of Economic Integration: Eurovision & European Identity

Patti Donze, UCLA: Heterosexuality is Totally Metal: Ritual Community & Separation in a Local Music Club

 

93) Globalization, State & Development II

organizer: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey

Ashraf Zahedi, UCB: Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Gender Policies in Afghanistan

Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey: Globalization & State Power: The Chinese Experience

Eric Hanley, Univ. of Kansas: The Social Determinants of Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in 86 Countries, 1992-2004

 

94) Gender & Crime

organizer: Kate Luther, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

Hadar Aviram & Annick Persinger, UC Hastings College of Law: Perceiving & Reporting Domestic Violence Incidents in Unconventional Settings: A Vignette Survey Study

Colleen Hackett, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Framing Subjectivities & Discourses for Women Ex-Offenders

Rodney Kingsnorth, CSU Sacramento: Intimate Partner Violence: Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Sacramento County

Stephanie D’Auria, UCR: The Bars that Bound Me: A Study of Female Parolees

 

95) Military & Education

organizer: Donald Barrett, CSUSM

Dara Elizabeth Naphan, UNR: The Experiences of Military Veterans in Higher Education

Donald Barrett, CSUSM: To ROTC or NOT? Perceptions of the Military

Phillip Fucella, UCB: Love’s Duty: Context Effects on the Creation of Sentiment Among Military Spouses

 

96) Social Movements: Transnational & Multinational Contexts

organizers: Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ. & Elizabeth Chiarello, UCI

Brian D. Cook, Stanford Univ.: The Political Economy of Protest after Democratic Transitions: The Emergence of Collective Action in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1994-2009

Erin M. Evans, UCI: Constitutional Inclusion of Animal Rights in Germany & Switzerland: A Dynamic Approach to Political Opportunity

Angela E. Fillingim, UCB: Search: A Case Study of Transnational a Social Movement

Jesse B. Fletcher, Gary Coyne & Preeta Saxena, UCR: From Recruitment to Participation: Bridging the Gap Between Collective Action & Differential Recruitment

 

97) Men & Masculinities I

organizer: Tal Peretz

discussant: Suzel Bozada Deas, USC

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, CSU Long Beach: Men Along the Shore: Working-Class Masculinities in Crisis

Lucas M Forsberg, UCLA: Father Involvement & Children’s Education In the US

Charlene Shelton, Univ. of Colorado Denver: The New Man: How Boys’ Images are Affected by The Media

 

98) Sociology of Memory: Personal or Commodity, Public or Private?  III

organizer: Noel Packard, The New School

discussant: Christopher Wetzel, Stonehill College

Evelyn Rodriguez, USF: “Pagalaala Na” Ritual Memories as Immigrant Emotional Operating Material

Brooke Neely, UCSB: Carved Mountains & the Politics of Race, Place, & Memory

William Hayes, Gonzaga Univ:  Torturing the Past: State & Private Regulation of Nationalist & Democratic Memories in South Korea

 

99) Qualitative Research on Poverty

organizer & discussant: Sheila Katz, Sonoma State Univ.

Kathy Zawicki, St. Bonaventure Univ.: Who We Are: Poverty in the U.S.

Dick Skeen & Michael Van Ness, NAU:  Hidden Proclamations: A Content Analysis of Homeless-Pace Graffiti

Leisa Faulkner, CSU Sacramento: A Photographic & Qualitative Study of Haitian Children in Abject Poverty from Their Own Perspective

Linda Nguyen, UCI: Vietnamese Women & the Urban Informal Economy

 

100) Roundtables

 

Table 1: The Sociological Imagination Online

organizer: Sally Raskoff, LAVC

Karen Sternheimer, USC & Sally Raskoff, LAVC: Everyday Sociology Blog

 

Table 2: Undergraduate: GLBT Issues & Sexualities III

organizer & discussant: Anna Muraco, Loyola Marymount Univ.

Erik Santacruz, UCB: Homosexuality & Public Opinion

Elena Marie Sanchez, UCB: Homosexuality in Hispanic Families

Rafael Eduardo Delgado, UCB: The Role of Identity in QPOC Organizing: Intersections of Race & Sexuality

Haruki Eda, SFSU: Colonized Queer Male Desire: Heteronormative Racial Stereotypes in U.S. Gay Pornography

 

Table 3: Undergraduate: Women’s Issues (The Body)

(spons. by the Comm. on the Status of Women)

organizers: Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico & Camilla A. Sears, Simon Fraser Univ.

Giselle D. Cunanan & Monica Garcia, Gonzaga Univ.: Aching Muscles & Growling Stomachs: The Female College Body under Gender Surveillance & Disciplinary Regimes

Sheerein Hosseini, SFSU: Arab Women & Sexual Health: Examining Culturally Relevant Access to Sexual Health Education

Lea Antoinette Pandozzi, Gonzaga Univ.: The Pregnancy Curve: Caring in an Unwanted Pregnancy

Molly Ingersoll Carroll, Whitman College: Toxic Inheritance: Breast Milk Contamination & Motherhood.

 

Table 4: Undergraduate: Structure & Inequality I

organizer: Ann Strahm, CSU-Stanislaus

Ana Mercado, CSU Stanislaus: The Hidden Causes of Divorce

Gregory Topete, CSU Stanislaus: Emile Durkheim’s Suicide & Modernity

Barbara Olave, CSU Stanislaus: The New Customer Service: Outsourcing Higher Education

Brytni Corso, CSU Stanislaus: The Modern Definition of Collective Consciousness

Steven Johnson, CSU Stanislaus: Society Writes the Songs: Modern Music in Society

Sarah Vossler, CSU Fresno: Wal-Mart: The Modern Imperialist

Brian Cortes, CSU Fresno: Perceptions & Influences on a Political Participation Among Asian Americans

 

Table 5: Undergraduate: Feminist Research

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Mary Kelsey, UC Berkeley

Keshia Ramey, Mills College: Gender Identity & Performance within Stud Culture

Sandra Nakagawa, UC Berkeley: Gender Under Fire: Female Responses to Gender Identity Threats

Maura Pisciotta, Gonzaga Univ.: A Movement By Any Other Name: Feminism as the New F-Word

Allison McGrath, Western Washington Univ.: Fearing Feminism: The Disconnect between Gender Attitudes & Feminist Identity

Leah Weinzapfel, Univ. of Southern Indiana: Online Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign & Women’s Issues

 

 

Table 6: Undergraduate: Subcultures in Society

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

Ross Becker, Univ. of Puget Sound: Exploring the Changing Social Function of Bars

Paulette Soltani, Gonzaga Univ.: Quality of Life: An Ethnography on the Role & Use of Technology in Assisted Living Facilities

Jessica Kizer, Cal Poly Pomona: Are They Fundamentalist? A Web Analysis of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Official Website

Terry Blaszczak, Univ. of Puget Sound: Gravity Brawl: The Story of Rock Climbing

Arrin Lemos, Chapman Univ.: The Brothers in Blue: An Exploratory Study of the Subculture of Police Officers

 

Table 7: New Directions in Qualitative Research

organizer: Amy Denissen, CSUN

Marco Santiani, CSUN: The Negative Influences of Technological Change on Latina/o Workers in the Medical Industry

Ester Villegas-Sandoval, CSUN: Achieving the American Dream: Undocumented Students in Post-Secondary Education

Daniele Loprieno, CSUN: Combating Apathy, Inspiring Resistance: Effects of the CSU Budget Cuts on Student Participation & Protest

Kat Sohn, CSUN: Educational Outlook of Undergraduate Students During the Budget Crisis at CSU Northridge

 

Table 8: Culture, Identity & Resistance

organizer: Authur Reed, Vanderbilt Univ.

Katherine Everhart, Vanderbilt Univ.: Cultura=Identidad: The Use of Art in Social Movements

Carly Rush, Vanderbilt Univ.: Sounds of a Silent Music: Identity Construction & Music in Deaf Culture

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

 

101) Down Here on the Ground: Connecting Theory to the Real World for Our Students

organizer: Michael Barnes, CSU Long Beach

Sarah Taylor, Paul Wright, Kilolo Brodi, Phu Phan & Dianne Woods, CSU East Bay: Teaching Praxis: Values, Goals, & Challenges

Michael Barnes, CSU Long Beach: Down Here on the Ground: Connecting Theory to the Real World

Douglas Degher, Richard Fernandez & Yvonne M. Luna, NAU: Applying Sociological Theory in Everyday Life Settings

 

102) Impact of Globalization on Asian Societies II: Consequences of Economic Globalization

 organizers: Ching-wa Wong, Hong Kong Poly Univ. & Wai-kit Choi, CSULA

Ting Jiang, Metro State College of Denver:  Globalization Impact o China’s Pension Reform---The World Bank, IMF, & China’s Pension Policy Formulation

Hiroko Inoue, UCR: Impact of Globalization on East Asian systems

Parul Baxi, UCD: The Global Discourse on Corporate Social Responsibility & Globalization- Voices from India & the United States

 

103) Quantitative Methods

organizer: Robert M. O’Brien, Univ. of Oregon

Robert M. O’Brien & Mark Leyman, Univ. of Oregon: Counterfactuals & the Specification of Panel Models

Robert Nash Parker & Kevin McCaffree, UCR: Combining Survey Data with Spatial Data: the Case of Single Serve Alcohol Containers & Violence

 

 

104) Presidential Session: Is Light Right? The Politics & Economics of Skin Color

organizer: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, UCB & President of the American Sociological Association

Christina Sue, Univ. of Colorado Boulder

Margaret Hunter, Mills

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, UCB & ASA

 

105) Social Problems & Public Policy

organizer: Rachel Best & Hana Brown, UCB

Karyn Andrade, SUNY Albany: Racism, Homophobia & The Diffusion Of Marriage Policies

Kelly M. Ramsey, UCI:  Development Policy Meets Morality Policy: Human Embryonic Stem Cell & Closing Policy Innovation in the US States

Dan Ryan, Mills College & Gillian Hadfield, USC: Democracy, Courts & the Information Order

 

106) Author Meets Critic: Longing & Belonging: Parents, Children & Consumer Culture by Allison J. Pugh

organizer: Karla Hackstaff, NAU

discussants: France Twine, UCSB, Prudence Carter, Stanford Univ., Diane L. Wolf, UC Davis

& Allison L. Pugh, Univ. of Virginia

 

107) Politics of Sustainability I

organizer: Lora Vess, Missouri State Univ.

Robert Gardner, Linfield College: The Role of Grassroots Organizations & Volunteers in Southeast Texas after Hurricane Ike

Lora Vess, Missouri State Univ.: The Triple Bottom Line of Sustainability:

Economics √, Environment √, Equity?

Amatzya Mezahav, Ft. Lewis College: Sustainability & the “New” International Monetary Fund

 

108) Sociology & Social Class

organizer: Charles Varano, CSU Sacramento

Alicia Edison & George Yancey, Univ. of North Texas: Black & White Movies: Crash between Class & Biracial Identity

Beth Hartung, Maricela Lemus & Lazaro Enriquez, CSUCI: Measuring the Impact of a Move: Residents in an Affordab le Housing Community Three Years Later

KuoRay Mao, Univ. of Kansas & Kay Kei-ho Pih, CSUN: Ending the Poverty Trap: How Social & Human Capital Influence Patterns of Social Stratification & Migration in Northwestern China

 

 

109) Sexuality & Politics I

organizer: Karl Bryant, SUNY New Paltz & Tom Waidzunas, UCSD

discussant: Dana Collins, CSU Fullerton

Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, Univ. of Texas at Austin: Rethinking Incest in Mexico: The Sexual Politics of Ambiguity & Silence

Evren Savci, USC: Who Killed Ahmet Yildiz?: State, Family & Sexuality in Turkey

Kari Lerum, UW Bothell: Is it still a “Special Evil?” Anti-Trafficking Discourse, Sex Work Activism, & The Obama Administration

 

110) Gendered Violence

organizer: Debra Guckenheimer, UCSB

presider: Mark Cohan, Seattle Univ.

Carrie Sillito, Univ. of Utah: Intimate Partner Violence Health Outcomes

Meiko Arai, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: Documenting the Domestic Violence Movement in Japan: Examinations of Asahi Daily Newspaper from 1985 to 2008

Mark Cohan, Seattle Univ.: Conceivable Victims: The Duke LaCrosse Case & Contemporary Rape Discourse

Erika Derkas & Lori Duran, New Mexico Highlands Univ.:  Rape Myth Prevalence among College Students: Gender, Cultural Specificity & Rural Considerations

 

111) Sport & Social Injustice/Inequality 

organizer: Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ.

Faye L. Wachs & Laura Chase, Cal Poly Pomona: Confessional Solutions for Docile Bodies: Explaining the Failure of Obesity Intervention

Raul Perez, UCI: Boys in the Hood: Latinos, Competitive Baseball in South Central Los Angeles, & the Intersections of Race, Class & Immigration

Collin R. Flake & Erin L. Moore, BYU: Advantage Men: The Gender Pay Gap in Professional Tennis

Cheryl Cooky, Purdue Univ., Shari Dworkin, UCSF & Ranissa Dycus, Purdue Univ.: Sport, Sex & Gender (In) Justice: The Case of South African Track Star Caster Semenya

Lauren S. Morimoto, Sonoma State Univ.: Sucker Punches & Death Threats: Reading the “Poor Sportsmanship” of LeGarrette Blount & Serena Williams

 

 

112) Past PSA President’s Session: The Current State & Future of the University

organizers: Glenn Goodwin & Sharon K. Davis, University of La Verne

[Each of the panelists, all of them past presidents of PSA, will respond briefly to two recent articles commenting on the current state & future of the University in American Society. Discussion then will be opened to the panelist responding to each other & to questions, comments & discussion from the audience. Come join us with your concerns, views, & thoughts about the current state & future of the university.]

discussants: Jane Prather, CSUN, David Snow, UCI, Chuck Hohm, CSUDH & Judith Treas, UCI

 

113) Universal Health Care in the United States: Challenges & Prospects

organizer: Augustine Kposowa

presider: Aikaterini Glyniadaki, UCR

discussant: Glenn T. Tsunokai, Western Washington Univ.

Jennifer L. Christian, California Lutheran Univ.: One National Uninsured-Just the Way We Want It: An Analysis of Public Opinion, Media Discourse & Presidential Rhetoric on Health Policy

Kara N. Dillard, Kansas State Univ.: Using Public Deliberation To Identify The Challenges & Prospects Of U.S. Health Care Reform

Dennis H. Marke, United Methodist General Hospital & Augustine Kposowa, UCR: Professional Ethics & Preventable Deaths in Sierra Leone: A Health Care Meltdown

Gina Kim & Augustine Kposowa, UCR: Social Disadvantage & Infant Mortality in the United States: Could Universal Health Care Make a Difference?

 

114) Roundtables

 

Table 1: Undergraduate: Women’s Issues

organizers: Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico & Camilla Sears, Simon Fraser Univ.

(spons. by Comm. on the Status of Women)

Deseure C. DeBerry, Eastern Washington Univ.: African American Women: Experiences of Oppression & Resistance Working Entry-Level Position in Spokane, Washington

Victoria Renee Nelson, UCD: Gender in the Media: Women Representation

Lauren Michelle Stavish, Sonoma State Univ.: Obstacles & Identities: The Impact of Gender & Class on Aspiring Graduate Students

Kira K. Wilpone-Jordan, Univ. of Puget Sound: Gender Representations in Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics

 

Table 2: Undergraduate: Urban Communities

(spons by AKD)

organizer & presider: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.

James Patrick Bevan-Lee, Whitman College: Gang Behavior Assessment of Walla Walla

Amanda Hart, Univ. of Puget Sound: Who You Calling Knitta: A Social & Cultural Comparison of Knitting, Knit Graffiti Movements

Sara N. Jackson, Univ. of Puget Sound: Hilltop: The Experience of Development

Daniel Wu, USC: Re-placing the Residents of LA Live: Politics, Policy & Growth Conditions.

 

Table 3: Undergraduate: Structure & Inequality II

organizer: Ann Strahm, CSU-Stanislaus

presider: Andrew Jones, CSU Fresno

Jennifer Martinez, CSU Stanislaus: Global Social Inequalities in Africa: A Theoretical Interpretation of Coercion, Structured De-Population, & Restriction of Resources

LaTanya Willis-Snow, CSU Stanislaus: Don’t get Caught by the Pink Reaper

Jamie Hardman, CSU Stanislaus: Pink Collar Distinction: A Look at Television’s Portrayal of Women in the Office & Their Actual Experiences

Marisela Evert-Burks, CSU Stanislaus: Sociology in Continuation Schools

Janet Mendez, CSU Stanislaus: Minorities & the Matrix of Domination

Susan Lawson, CSU Stanislaus: The Cherokee Journey

Margaret Middleton, CSU Stanislaus:  Moments of Respite for Weary Caregivers: Assessing the Physical & emotional Needs of Informal Primary Caregivers & Identifying Instances of Meaningful Interaction with Loved Ones Experiencing Alzheimer's Type Dementia

Estela Acebedo, CSU Fresno: Over-Use Of Antibiotics As A Cultural Tradition Among Mexican-Americans

 

Table 4: Theoretical Issues & Ethics

organizer: Karen Sternheimer: USC

presider: Christine Payne, SDSU

Rebecca Raymond, Humboldt State Univ.: A Brief Summary of the Theory of Responsive Cohesion

Christine Payne, SDSU: Domination of Objects, Liberation of Subjects: Dialectic Enlightenment Reconsidered

 

Table 5: Contemporary Issues in Juvenile Delinquency & Juvenile Justice

organizer: Brian Smith, Central Michigan Univ.

Melissa K. McDonough, Mills College: Reentry for Girls: A Concise Look & a Path Forward for the TYC

Brian James Soller, Ohio State Univ.: Crime & Cultivation: An Empirical Test of the Effects of Concerted Cultivation on Adolescent Delinquency

 

Table 6: Undergraduate: Homelessness in America

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Sally Raskoff, LA Valley College

?

Jackelin Chavez, UOP: Homeless Veterans in California: A Theoretical Examination

Lupe Sema, SFSU: Gender & Homelessness

Yvonne Sherwood, Eastern Washington Univ.: Perception of the Homeless: An Analysis of the Formulation of Perceptions of the Stigmatized Other

 

Table 7: Undergraduate: The Sociology of Education

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Amy Orr, Linfield College

Nicole Schulz, Whitman College: The Non-Medical Use of Prescription Stimulants as a Study Aid on Campus

Susan Estrada, SFSU: “R” Is for Reflexive

Galen Cobb, Whitman College: What is Left Behind? The Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on the Organization of Schools, the Teaching Profession & the Lives of Educators

Katherine Hood, UC Berkeley: The Summer Research Opportunities Program & the Pursuit of Graduate Education

Barinia Uribe, USD: Social Capital & Latino Adolescents’ Expectations & Aspirations for the Future

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

 

115) Author Meets Critic: Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loïc Wacquant

Organizer: Carl Stempel, CSU East Bay

Critics: Malcom Feeley, UCB Law, Joel Handler, UCLA Law, Mona Lynch, UCI, Ellen Reese, UCR & Loïc Wacquant, UCB

 

116) Current Issues in Occupations & Profession II

organizer: Carolina Apesoa-Varano, UCD

Jonathon Westover, Utah Valley Univ.: International Differences in Public Service Motivation & Job Satisfaction

Hiroko Minami, Univ. of Oregon: A Dual Labor System in the Workplace Reinforces Perceived Privileged Workers’ False Consciousness: An Ethnographic Study of a Japanese Local Newspaper

Krista D. Shackleford, Univ. of Waterloo: A Matter of Trust? The Call For Accountability In The Nonprofit/Voluntary Sector

 

117) Doing Feminist Research

(spons. by the Comm. on the Status of Women)

organizer: Camilla Sears, Simon Fraser Univ.
Rachel Renee Sarabia, UCSB: Navigating the Projects as a Woman of Color Feminist Urban Ethnographer

Anika Walke, UCSC: Responsibility, Agency, the Public & the Private: Biographical Interviews in Post-Soviet Russia

Alaina Fernandez, CSU Chico: Microcredit & Women’s Outward Mobility In Rural Bangladesh: A Feminist Study of the Grameen Bank

 

118) Immigration, Race & Social Movements

organizer: Katie Furuyama, UCI

Esther Villegas-Sandoval, CSUN: Post Secondary Education for Undocumented Students: Who Will Favor Policy Benefiting Illegal Immigrants & Who Will Not?

Veronica Terriquez, Manuel Pastor & Rhonda Ortiz, USC: Building Multi-Racial Alliances for Social Change

Joon Kim, Colorado State Univ.: The Politics of Culture in Multicultural Korea

 

119) From Consumers to Producers of Knowledge: Helping Students Enter the Community of Scholars

(spons. by the Comm. on Teaching)

organizer: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ.

Discussants: Teresa Ciabattari, Pacific Lutheran Univ., Sharon Araji, Univ. of Colorado Denver & Vikas Gumbhir, Gonzaga Univ.

 

120) Getting Together & Staying Together

organizer: Scott Brooks, UCR

Discussants: Paula England, Stanford, Joanna Norton, UCR, Britnee Meitzenhemmer, UCR, Khaleelah Hardie, Univ. of Maryland & Scott Brooks, UCR

 

121) Social Movements & Social Transformation

organizer: Berch Berberoglu, UNR

Julie Denise Shayne, UW Bothell: Emotions, Culture, & the Chilean Solidarity Movement

Emily Cummins, New Mexico State Univ.: Viewing Economic Globalization Through the Lens of the Feminist Movement

 

122) Transgender Issues

organizer: Ann Travers, Simon Fraser University

Pamela Nicole Martin, Univ. of Colorado, Denver: Transition Into Better Health: A Review of the HIV Status of Transgender Populations in the US

Widow Centauri, SDSU: The Postmodern Intersection of Lesbian & Transgender Politics

Ann Travers & Jillian Deri, Simon Fraser Univ.: Lesbian Softball Leagues: A Window on the Queer Future

 

123) Workshop: Submitting to the NSF for Funding

Organizer & presenter: Jan Stets, National Science Foundation & UCR

 

124) Politics of Sustainability II

organizer: Lora Vess, Missouri State Univ.

Katherine Glover, Humboldt State Univ.: Ecosystem-Based Management: Potential for a Collaborative Process

Joel Schoening, Shippensburg State Univ.: State Policy & Sustainability: Pennsylvania’s Main Street Program

Paul Prew, Minnesota State Univ. Mankato: How Marx & Autopoiesis May Help Understand Our Relationship with Nature

 

125) Qualitative Research on Welfare

organizer & discussant: Sheila Katz, Sonoma State Univ.

Kerry Woodward, CSU Long Beach: School or Therapy? Two Approaches to Empowering Welfare-Reliant Women

Yvonne Luna, NAU: Qualitative Research on Single Welfare Mothers

Monika Ulrich, Arkansas State Univ.: Leprosy & the Plague: State Surveillance of Low-Income Fathers

 

126) Presidential Session: Gender, Sexuality & the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic

organizer: Shari L. Dworkin, UCSF

presider/discussant: Judith D. Auerbach, San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Sanyu Amimo Mojola, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder: Consuming Women: Becoming Modern in the Age of AIDS

Jorge Fontdevila, CSU Fullerton: Communicative, Power & Resource Asymmetries in Heterosexual Relationships: Implications for HIV

Shari L. Dworkin, UCSF: What Is “Feminist Empowerment” In HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions? What Else Needs To Be Done?

 

127) Deviance & Social Control I: The Intersection of Identity & Environment

organizer: Jennifer Murphy, CSU Sacramento

Randy Blazak, Portland State Univ.: The Prison Hate Machine: Recruitment into Racist Prison Gangs

Elizabeth A Joniak, UCLA: “I’m Street, This is the Street Life, & This is My Block!” How & Why Street Kids Use Deviant Behaviors to Claim an Identity “Of the Street” & to Control Their Block

Tonya D. Lindsey, CDCR & Phillip Goodman, UCI: A New Dimension to an Old Debate: The Importation & Adaptation of Race Categories in the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation

Angela Wyatt, Hastings College: Tobacco in Athletics

 

 

128) Roundtables

 

Table 1: Issues with Utilizing Technology in Teaching

organizer: Brian Smith, Central Michigan Univ.

presider: Deborah Smith, Saginaw Valley State Univ.

Sangyoub Park, Washburn Univ.: Sociology & YouTube

Michael Harrod & Judith Hennessy, Central Washington Univ.: All the World’s Online Except When the Server is Down

Margaret Greer, National Univ.: The Virtual Truth about Online Teaching

Deborah Smith, Saginaw Valley State Univ. & Brian Smith, Central Michigan Univ.: Online Teaching: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

 

Table 2: Issues in the Community College

organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

Obed Vazquez, Diablo Valley College: Diablo Valley & the California Budget Crisis: Implications for the Sociology Program

Ronald Chapman, Antelope Valley College: Antelope Valley College & the California Budget Crisis: Implications for the Sociology Program

Peter Suczek, College of the Redwoods: College of the Redwoods & the California Budget Crisis: Implications for the Sociology Program

Tonmar Johnson, Solano Community College: Solano Community College & the California Budget Crisis: Implications for the Sociology Program

J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College: Contra Costa College & the California Budget Crisis: Implications for the Sociology Program

 

Table 3: Working Class Studies

organizers: Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley Univ. & Robert Hauhart, St Martin’s Univ.

Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley Univ.: The Stigma of Working Class Identity in Social Research

Robert Hauhart, St. Martin’s Univ.: Hacks & Cons: Reciprocal Patterns of Prison Adaptation & the Dilemma for Reintegration

S. Aaron Hegde, CSU Bakersfield: ReDREAMing the American Dream: The Impact of the Economy on Undocumented Workers

Julie Beck & Sarah Taylor, CSU East Bay: Alcohol & Drug Use among Low-Income College Students: Rethinking the Dilemmas of Emerging Adulthood

 

Table 4: Undergraduate: Social Problems & Programs

organizer: Linda Rillorta, Mt. San Antonio College

Sun Kim, Chapman Univ: Marijuana Anonymous Meetings & Their Contribution To Addiction Recovery

Bethanye Satterwhite, Linfield College: Community Supported Agriculture: Reclaiming Community & Connection in Modern American Life

Isabel Duenas, USC: Homeboy Industries Providing a New Perspective on the Way to Combat Crime: Jobs not Jails

Sandeep Kaur Brar, Mills College: Social Capital Within Social Networks: Do Elderly Immigrants Face Unique Challenges in Building Networks & Accessing Social Resources?

Rosa M. Bravo, UCB: Case Study of How Latino Parents’ Access College Information

Alison T. DeHotels & Amanda K. Ardery, Mesa State College: Class Perceptions in a Time of Unemployment

 

Table 5: The Integral Mediation Project

discussant: Brian Jarrett, Salisbury Univ.: The Integral Mediation Project: Are We Purchasing Theoretical Consistency at the Expense of Effective Field Practice?

 

Table 6: Undergraduate: The Transition to Adulthood

organizer: Laura Nichols, Santa Clara Univ.

Heather M. Gifford, Boise State Univ.: Identifying Student Perceptions: The Effect of Parent-Child Relationships on Attitudes Towards Academic Abilities Requisite for Success

Rebecca Elizabeth Fox-Bivona, Santa Clara Univ.: Strategies for Extending Adolescence in a Bad Economy

Lindsay Harke, Santa Clara Univ.: Ethnicity & Class Effects on What is Important in the Dream Jobs of Highschoolers

Bianca McNeil, Santa Clara Univ.: The Effects of Self Identified Ethnicity & Parental Socio Economic Status on Student Occupational Aspirations

Katie Cole, Santa Clara Univ.: Online Activities & the Duration of Internet Access among Youth

 

Table 7: Undergraduate: Minorities: Race, Gender & Ethnicity

Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

Presider: Sunil Kukreja, Univ. of Puget Sound

Grant Varvil, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage: Alaska’s Female Commercial Fisherman: A Comparison of Characteristics of Female & Male Permit Holders

Ann Tai, UC Berkeley: Role of Public Interest Lawyers in Improving the Legal Access for Low-Income Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.

Anthony Peterson, Central Washington Univ.: Ethnic Cleansing & Terror in the Pacific Northwest

Emily Williams, Central Washington Univ.: Retention of Students of Color in Higher Education

 

Table 8: Undergraduate: Communities

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

(spons. by AKD)

presider: Kate Luther, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

Lara Goodrich, Whitman College: The Business of Town-and-Gown Relations: Whitman College Students in Downtown Walla Walla

Jacqueline Kamm, Whitman College: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Organizational Culture & Institutional Innovation

Olton Rensch, SFSU: Understanding Youth Development & Organizational Capacity

Martha Valadez, UOP: Food Disparities in Stockton, CA: Who Truly Takes a Bite of the Fresh, Ripe California Peach & Is It Really Fresh & Ripe?

Marjorie Tweedy, Univ. of Puget Sound: Identity Formation Among “Graduates” Involved in the Zuna Linnick Project

 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

5:15 pm – 6:15 pm

 

Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony 

 

129) Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony

presider: Dean S. Dorn, CSU Sacramento

Awards Presentations: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE & PSA Secretary; Teresa Ciabattari, PLU & Elaine Draper, CSULA, Awards Comm.; Phylis Martinelli, St Mary’s College & J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College, Social Conscience Award; President’s Introduction, Sharon Araji, Univ. of Colorado Denver, President-elect; Presidential Address: Michael Messner, USC: A Pedagogy of

Superordinates: How Invisible Is the Knapsack of Privilege?

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

6:15 pm – 7:15 pm

 

Presidential Reception

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 

130) Presidential Session-Key Note Address 

organizer: Michael Messner, USC

Michael Burawoy, UCB: On Political Imagination: C. Wright Mills’s Sociological Imagination & Beyond

 

SATURDAY, APRIL  10

summary of events

7:00 am _ 8:15 am SWS Breakfast

8:00 am – 4:00 pm registration

8:30 am – 4:00 pm publisher exhibits

8:30 am – 5:00 pm committee meetings

8:30 am – 5:00 pm sessions

1:45 pm -  3:15 pm CSA Board Meeting

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm business meeting

5:30 pm -  6:30 pm committee on GLBT reception

5:30 pm  - 6:30 pm Humanist Sociology reception

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm committees on race, ethnicity & women reception

5:30 pm -  6:30 pm community college committee reception

9:15 pm – 10:30 pm student reception

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

8:30 am – 10:00 am

 

131) Food, Community & Social Activism

organizer: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

Stefanie Stauffer, UCSB: Towards a Gated Community of Food or a Rustbelt Revival? A Story of Decay, Renewal, Urban Gardening & Hope in SE Michigan

Patricia Allen, UCSC, Carolyn Sachs, Penn State Univ., & Christina Hatcher, UCSC: Food Justice Social Movements: Addressing Gender, Race & Class Inequalities in the Food System

Jennifer Rogers, Christine Shearer & Barbara Harthorn, UCSB: GM & Nano in Our food: Public Perceptions, Reactions & Movements

 

132) Transcending the Gender Binary

organizer: Meredith Williams, WSU

discussant: Nishant Shahani, WSU

Jaime Becker, UCD: Gender System Persistence: Processes & Mechanisms

Julie Sinclair-Palm, SFSU: Transgender Margins: Female-Bodied Gender Non-Conforming People in Transgender Studies

Widow Centauri, SDSU: Who You Calling Grrrl? Overcoming Binary Based Vocabulary

Meredith Williams, WSU: Making a Monster: Media Construction of Gender Non-Conforming Homicide Victim

Carmen Fortes, UCD: Gender Identities at Play in the “Hole in the Wall Saloon:” Did Durkheim Have It Right?

 

 

133) Sexualities Across Contexts

organizers: Kristin Scherrer & Emily Kazyak, Univ. of Michigan

presider: James Joseph Dean, Sonoma State Univ.

Christin L. Munsch, Cornell Univ.: The Effect of Unemployment, Occupational Sex Composition & Relative Income Disparity on Infidelity for Men & Women

Kent L. Sandstrom, Univ. of Northern Iowa: Negotiating Sex & Intimacy: Challenges Faced by People Living with HIV Disease

James Joseph Dean, Sonoma State Univ.: Thinking Intersectionality: Sexualities & the Politics of Multiple Identities

Keith Appleby, Univ. of Oregon: A Critical Social Psychology of the “Seduction Community:” Or, How NOT to Sleep with Beautiful Women

William Wagner, CSUCI: HIV/AIDS Knowledge & Sexual Behavior among Gay Men in the California Central Valley

 

134) Sexuality, Gender & Media

organizer: Eileen Ie, CSUN

Omar A Mushtaq, CSU Fullerton: Bollywood & Gendered Discourse

Amanda Rosaria Ybarra, Humboldt State Univ.: Unmasking Tinkerbell: Gender Performance in the Walt Disney Company

Amiteshwar Virk, CSU Fullerton: There Is A Rule Narim, Only A Man Can Be Someone Or Something:  Disney’s Assertion Of Traditional Sex-Role Stereotypes

Natalie Purcell, UCSC: Feminist Perspectives on the Sexualization of Girls: Finding Common Ground in an Emerging Debate

 

135) Open

 

136) Minority & First-Generation College Student Experiences

organizer: Sandra Way, New Mexico State Univ.

discussant: Peter J. Collier, PSU State Univ.

Phylis Cancilla Martinelli & H. Jacob Seilo, St Mary’s College: Defining & Assessing Campus Climate: Influencing the Educational Experience of Minority Students

Qiana Lightner, New Mexico State Univ.: White Out: Exploring the Role of Multicultural Centers in Predominately White Institutions

Laura Nichols, Lindsay Harke, Karen Hernandez & Angel Islas, Santa Clara Univ.: The Depth & Use of Social Capital on the Path to Medical School

 

137) The Sociology of Online Social Worlds

organizer: David Boyns, CSUN

Marik Xavier-Brier, SFSU: Cruising in Cyberspace: An Exploration of Gay Cultures of Second Life

Geoffrey D. Glenn, Stephanie Noren, Megan Ruch & Megan Croley, Gonzaga Univ., Joshua David Seim, Portand State Univ. & Kevin Tavares, UW: Facebook as an Agent for Social Change: Really?

Jennifer A. Reich, University of Denver: Facebook, Google, & Researcher-Participant Interaction: New Technological Challenges in Qualitative Research

Vikas Kumar Gumbhir & Michael F. Aiello, Gonzaga Univ.: Policing the Digital Frontier: A Descriptive Study of Municipal Police Presence on the Internet

 

138) Movies & Musicals: Utilizing Pop Culture to Demonstrate Sociological Concepts

organizer: Linda Rillorta, Mt. San Antonio College

presider: Michelle Stewart-Thomas, Mt. San Antonio College

Lori Ann Ottaviano, UCR: Buffy: Instigator or Just One in the Crowd?

Marshall D. Smith, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Projecting Sociology: Using Film to Illuminate Concepts

Michelle Stewart-Thomas, Mt. San Antonio College: Why “Fast Cars” & “Lost Selves” Aren’t Enough: Using Tracy Chapman & Eminem’s Music to Teach about Poverty & the Sociological Imagination

Yesenia King, Mt. San Antonio College: Comedic Methods: Pop Culture Comedy Utilized to Engage Sociology Students

Linda Rillorta, Mt. San Antonio College: “Wicked” Sociology: Utilizing Musicals in the Application of Sociological Concepts

Regina Davis-Sowers, Santa Clara Univ.: Family Film Analysis

 

 

139) Crime & Delinquency I

Organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado

Laurie A. Drapela, WSU Vancouver & Nick McRee, Univ. of Portland: Does Distance Make the Heart Grow Fonder? Considering the Impact of Visitor’s Physical Proximity to Prison on Inmates’ Visitation Rates & Disciplinary Infractions

Sharon K. Davis, Univ. of La Verne: Aspirational Dreams & Realities of Incarcerated Delinquent Males

David Musick & Kristine G. Musick: Head Injuries & Capital Murder: Expanding a Model of Serious Criminal Violence

 

140) Race/Ethnicity & Education I

organizer: Elvia Ramirez, CSU Sacramento

Sheila Pierre, Humboldt State Univ.: Social Inequality, Retention, & Higher Education: Humboldt State Univ. Case Study

Maribel Rosendo-Servin, CSU Sacramento: A Case of Educational Apartheid, a Magnet Fortress, & Community Resistance at Centro Valley High: A Race, Class, & Gender Standpoint Analysis

Elvia Ramirez, CSU Sacramento: Examining Chicano/Latino(a) Graduate School Choice Processes

Cesar Rodriguez, UCSB: Punitive Investments Amid Neoliberal Abandonment: the School to Prison Pipeline

 

141) Global Connections & Local Movements

organizer: Pepper G. Glass, LAVC

Rachel Gong, Stanford Univ.: Internet Politics & State Media Control: Candidate Weblogs in Malaysia

Kara Z. Dellacioppa, CSUDH: Zapatismo as a Theory of Social Change

Melissa Nicole Govea, CSU Fullerton: Women, Activism & Globalization in the Zapatista Movement

Clare Weber, CSUDH: Immigrant Women’s Community Activism in the Global Port City of Long Beach, CA

 

142) Thinking & Planning for your Future: Grad School?

(spons. by Student Affairs Comm.)

organizer: Sally Raskoff, LAVC

presider: Tina Burdsall, PSU

Mary E. Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ.: Matchmaking—Finding a Program Right for You

Randy Blazak, PSU: The Role of Advisement

Liahna E. Gordon, CSU Chico: TBA

Tina Burdsall, PSU : TBA

 

143) Sociology in the Public & Private Sectors

(spons. Comm. on Applied Sociology)

organizer: Donald Winiecki, Boise State Univ.

Kelly M. Ramsey, UCI: All for One or Nothing at All: Epistemology & Ethics in Expert Advice to Policymaking

James Lee, Chelsea White & Rebecca Wang, SJSU: Sunday Friends: A Working Alternative to Charity

Donald Winiecki, Boise State Univ.: Mixing Academic & Applied Sociology: What Happened during & After a Sociologically Informed Ethnography in Call Centers

 

 

144) Health Disparities, Morbidity & Mortality

organizer: Augustine Kposowa, UCR

Discussant: Davison Bideshi, Western Illinois Univ.

Gina Kim, UCR: Why Do You Need Help? The Stigma of Psychological Help Seeking Within & Beyond the Asian American Community

Rebecca E. Goe, Univ. of Montana: An Exploratory Analysis of Health Insurance Decisions Among Small Business Owners in Rural Western Montana

Augustine Kposowa & Aikaterini Glyniadaki, UCR: Gender, Race & Infectious Diseases in the United States: A Cross-County Analysis

 

144A) Doing Ethnography

organizer: Kathryn Hadley, CSU Sacramento

Scott Murphy, UCR: No, No, No…That’s My “White” Name, My Real Name Is_______: On Psedonymizing & Whiteness

David Orzechowicz, UCD: The Emotion Work of Fieldwork: A Confessional Tale

Anna Keck, CSU Sacramento: Doing Ethnography in a Virtual World

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

10:15 am - 11:45 am

 

145) The Turn Against the “Public Option” for Higher Education

(Spons. by Comm. on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights)

0rganizer: Don Barrett, CSU San Marcos

discussants: Don Barrett, CSU San Marcos, Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos Dennis Loo, CSU Pomona & Marcia Marx, CSU San Bernardino

 

146) Inequalities in Academia

Organizers: Ryanne Pilgeram & Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Univ. of Oregon

Karen D. Pyke, UCR: How the Myth that Faculty Can ‘Just Say No’ to Service Obscures & Promotes Gender & Race Discrimination

Stephanie Ann Malin & Anita Harker Armstrong, Utah State Univ.: Bringing Women into the Fold: The Advance Program’s Semi-Formal Mentoring Within the University

Lynn McAlister, Univ. of Idaho & Leontina M. Hormel, Univ. of Idaho: Privatization of Higher Education & Inequality: A Study of How Professors Explain Student Loan Debt Among Their Peers

Shannon Elizabeth Bell,  Christina Ergas, Ryanne Pilgeram, Sarah Cribbs, Katie Rodgers, Martha Camargo, Elizabeth Miller, Nathan Erickson, Jocelyn Hollander, Ellen Scott, Univ. of Oregon, Yvonne Braun, Joan Acker & Aliya Saperstein, Univ. of Oregon: The Burden of Invisible Work in Academia: Preliminary Findings from a Study of Time Use at the University of Oregon

 

147) Sociology of Sport & Physical Activity I

organizer: William McTeer, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.

discussant: Philip G. White, McMaster Univ.

Jeffrey O. Sacha, USC: Trainers & the Development of Habitus in Boxing

Rocco Mastrantoni, NAU: On the Sharp End: An In-Depth Look at the Sport of Rock Climbing

Anyaa Lynn Carter, Gonzaga Univ.: Harder Than It Looks

 

 

148) Feminist Media Studies

organizer Camilla Sears, Simon Fraser Univ.

(spons. by the Comm. on the Status of Women)

Linda J. Kim, UCR: Gendered Discourse about Sex & the City: Who’s Getting Carried Away?

Melinda Jo Messineo, Ball State Univ.: “I Don’t Watch Lifetime Television Because I’m a Feminist”: An Analysis of Niche Television Station Preferences & Cultural Production

Anna Christine Smedley, UNLV: The Meaning of Twilight: The Readership of Middle-Aged Women

Marcia D. Hernandez, UOP: Sisterhood in the Ivory Tower on Film: An Intersectional Analysis of School Daze & Stomp the Yard

 

149) Immigrant Women: Tales of Identity

(spons. by Comm. on the Status of Women)

organizer: Zeynep Kilic, Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage

discussant: Sang Hea Kil, SJSU

Ruth Milkman, UCLA & Veronica Terriquez, USC: Gender & the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement

Gillian L. Creeze, Univ. of British Columbia: ‘Do I Belong Here?’ African Immigrant Women Negotiating Identity In Canada

Evelyn I. Rodriguez, UCSF: Cotillions & Connections: Family Rituals & Immigrant Incorporation.

 

150) Social Inequality & Education

organizer: Roberta Espinoza: CSU Fullerton

Bejanmin Gibbs, Brett Peterson & Tiffany Wright, BYU: Before the Bell: Assessing the Role of Non-School Factors on School Outcomes in 5^th Grade

Jane Hood, Univ. of New Mexico: The Special Edification of Boys (1972-2006)

Amy Orr, Linfield College: The Challenge of Diversity: Immigration & Educational Equality in Sweden

Robert Moorehead, UC Davis: Passing It On: Immigrant Children, Japanese Schools & the Reproduction of Inequality

 

151) Presidential Session-Author Meets Critics: Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not To Sign California’s Loyalty Oath by Bob Blauner

organizer: Michael Messner, USC

Author: Bob Blauner, UC Berkeley

Critics: Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Franklin & Marshall College, Michael Burawoy, UCB & Howard Schachman, UCB

 

 

152) Great Ideas for Teaching the Sociological Imagination

organizer: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ.

(spons. by the Comm. on Teaching)

Laura E. Earles, Lewis-Clark College: Cultivating an Environmental Sociological Imagination: Connecting Individual Behavior to Structural Realities through an Experiential Research Assignment

John B. Gannon, College of Southern Nevada: Using Suicide to Teach the Sociological Imagination

Sangyoub Park, Washburn Univ.: Deconstructing Condoms through the Sociological Imagination

 

153) Crime & Delinquency II

Organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado

Matthew C. Leone, Camille Brown & Victoria Springer, UNR: Occupational Risk in the Wild: Preliminary Findings from Wildlife Officers Regarding Crime in State Parks in the Mountain West Region

James Sutton, CSU Chico: Give ‘Em The World: Undergraduate Students Interest in Comparative Criminology & Its Scant Coverage

Ninochka McTaggart & Matthew Grindal, UCR: A New Model for Understanding Adolescent Drug Use Among African-Americans: Cultural Identity, Racial Socialization, Ethnic Socialization & Perceived Discrimination

Mark J. Bird, College of Southern Nevada: How PSA Sociologists & Students Evaluate the Causes of Crime

 

154) Video Session: Bullying:  High School  & Middle Schools

organizer: Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento

discussants: Todd Migliaccio & Juliana Raskauskas, CSU Sacramento

 

155) Special Session: A Quarter-Century Retrospective: Abortion & The Politics of Motherhood & Its Sociological Influences

organizers: Elizabeth Chiarello, UCI & Dennis  Downey, CSUCI

discussants: Lori Freedman, UCSF, Drew Halfmann, UCD, Karla Hackstaff, NAU & Author Kristin Luker, UCB

 

156) Teaching Statistics to Undergraduates

organizer: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

Patricia Hoffman, New Mexico State Univ.: Using Journaling to Overcome Math Anxiety in Undergraduate Statistics

Daniel Poole, Univ. of Utah: Teaching Statistics Online

Linda Henderson, St Mary’s University College: Inspiring Creativity Through Social Statistics: A Student Perspective

 

157) Evaluating Social Programs: Successes, Failures & Innovations

(spons. by Comm. on Practice, Applied, & Clinical Sociology)

0rganizer: Warren Lucas, NAU

discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, NAU

Raymond Stephen Varela, NHMU: Evaluation of “Noches de Familias” Program

Bert O. Burraston, Mike Rutkowski, Thomas Bibber, Jordan Alford, Michael Kelly, Lance Clemons, Taylor Payne, Myles Englund, & Rebecca Richardson, BYU: Results from the Real Victory Research Project in Reducing Recidivism & Problem Behaviors of Probationers

Brittin Wagner, Univ. of Washington & Sabrina Bonaparte, Univ. of Washington: (Re)Modeling Suicide Risk: Data Structure, HLM & Failure to Capture the Sociological Imagination

Christine Oakley, WSU: Sociological Insights on Program Evaluation as a Loosely Coupled Process  

 

158) Doing Research: Race, Class & Sexuality in the Field

organizers: Kristen Barber & Suzel Bozada-Deas, USC

discussant: Danielle Hidalgo, UCSB

Kjerstin  Elmen-Gruys, UCLA: “Twig Arms” in the Land of “Real Women:”  Conducting Feminist Research Across the Size Boundary

Suzel Bozada-Deas, USC: Doing Research: Who Do I Need to be for You to be in My Research?

Juan Pitones, UCR: The Brown Coat Effect: The Researchers’ Guide to Constructing Identity through Chicano Sociological Research

Glenda Flores, USC: “I’m Hatin’ on You Because You Are Getting a Ph.D:” Negotiating Occupational Status in Los Angeles Elementary Schools

 

158A) Immigrants, Legal Status & Workplace Rights

organizer: Shannon Gleeson, UCSC

Kristel Acacio, UCB: Temporary vs. Permanent: Visa Allocation for Foreign-Educated Nurses

Marcos Lopez, UCSC: Strangers in Their Own Land: Indigenous Farm Worker Politics & Organizing in Baja California

Daniel Olmos, UCSB: Banning the Leaf Blower: The Politics of Consumer Citizenship & Socialized Dignity in Los Angeles

 

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

 

159) Teaching Today’s College Students

organizer: Amy Leisenring, SJSU

Linda Heuser, Willamette Univ.: Conversation Partners: Learning about Sociology Cross-Culturally

Melinda Jo Messineo, Ball State Univ.: Today’s College Students & Technology

Michelle Lauren Robertson, St. Edward’s Univ.: “Danger, Will Robinson!” Safety in the Academic Classroom

Anjana Narayan & Andrew Lau, Cal Poly Pomona: Digital Distractions in Today’s Classrooms

 

160) Class & Class Conflict

organizer; Berch Berberoglu, UNR

Berch Berberoglu, UNR: The Centrality of Class Analysis in the Study of Class & Class Conflict

Martin Orr, Boise State Univ.: The “Great Recession”: A Class Analysis

Clayton Peoples, UNR: Class, Class Conflict & the State

 

161)Author Meets Critics: Undermining Race-Ethnic Identity in Arizona Copper Camps by Phylis Martinelli

organizer: Phylis Martinelli, St. Mary’s College

discussants: Leonard Gordon, ASU, Shannon Gleeson, UCSC, Tom Reifer, Univ. of San Diego & Phylis Martinelli, St Mary’s College

 

162) Community & Religion I

organizer: David McKell, NAU

discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, NAU

James Phillips, BYU: Adolescent Religious Expression: One More Dimension to Explain the Gender Gap in Religious Participation

Giana Cicchelli, CSU Fullerton: A Living Religion: Modern Witchcraft & Shamanism from a Sociological Perspective

Fatumata Saho, Univ. of New Mexico: From Denominational Churches to Non-Denominational Churches

David McKell, NAU: A Faith-Based Palestinian Community Caught in the Crossfire

 

163) Environmental Sociology III: Environmental Inequality

organizer: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento

Stephanie Gonzales, Adams State College: Market Forces & Invasion-Succession: Does Pollution Encourage Segregation?

Alison Alkon, UOP: A Fertile Field: Cultivating Space for Food Justice

Stacey Bosick, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Hurricane Katrina as a Turning Point

 

164) New Directions: Research on Framing & Social Movements

organizers: Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ. & Elizabeth Chiarello, UCI

Katrina Running, Univ. of Arizona: Examining the Roles of Scientific Knowledge, Framing & Ideology in the Human Response to Climate Change

Yvonne Braun, Univ. of Oregon; Michael C. Dreiling, Univ. of Oregon: From Developmentalism to HIV/AIDS Crisis: The Amplification of Women’s Rights in Lesotho

Daniel B. Eisen, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: Using Narratives to Construct & Convey Public & Private Frames

Kelly M. Ramsey, B. Remy Cross, Paul Morgan & James Stobaugh, UCI: They Accidentally the Theory: Lessons of Project Chanology for Researching Difficult Movements

 

165) Deviance & Social Control II: Sanctioning Deviance

organizer: Jennifer Murphy, CSU Sacramento

discussant: Cid Martinez, CSU Sacramento

Sergio Duarte, Cal Poly Pomona: Reflections at Glenn Rockey Camp

Jen Reck, SFSU: “I Don’t Want It In My Backyard Because I’m Afraid of These People!” Criminalization of Homeless Youth in San Francisco’s Castro

David J. Cherrington, Kristen West, Logan Theodore, Kirk Folsom, Merilee Van Diver, Joan Mockler, chelsie Larsen, Michael Rutkowski & Bert Burraston, BYU: The Effectiveness of Cognitive Treatment Programs in Changing Behavior

Brian Wolf, Univ. of Idaho & Joseph DeAngelis & Brandon Long, Univ. of Ohio: Office Perceptions of the Public Controversy Over Electroshock Weapons

Jeanine Cunningham, CSU Sacramento: Religious Fundamentalism & Punitive Ideology

 

166) Sociology of Sport & Physical Activity II

organizer: William McTeer, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.

discussant: Phillip G. White, McMaster Univ.

William McTeer, Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Philip G. White, McMaster Univ. & Peter Baxter, Wilfrid Laurier Univ: Youth Sport Participation & Pro-Social Development

Alexandra Olympia Hendley, UCSB: When Does Context Matter? The Identity Work of Female Youth Soccer Players

Gesine K. Hearn, Idaho State Univ.: The Brotherhood of Pain: Persistent Pain among College Football Players

 

167) What’s Love Got to Do With It? The Social/Emotional World of Pop Songs

presenter: Tom Scheff, UCSB

discussant: Robert W. Fuller, Independent Scholar

 

168) The Other California-The Great Central Valley: People, Cultures & Transitions

organizer: Paul W. O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus

Paul W. O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus: Central Valley Demographic Transitions

Tamara Sniezek, CSU Stanislaus: Male College Enrollment in the California Central Valley

Rocio Garcia, CSU Stanislaus: Breaking the Mold: Promoting a Refined Pluralistic Logic for Understanding Assimilation Among Mexican Women in the US

Robert C. Bulman, St. Mary’s College: In Search of California: A Sociological Journey

Simon Weffer-Elizondo, UC Merced & Marcia Hernandez, UOP: Challenges & Opportunities for Creating Healthy Communities in the San Joaquin Valley

Cathy Wong, CSU Stanislaus: Learning that Transforms: Lessons from the Tenderloin

James T. Payne, CSU Stanislaus: Hunting Hunger Data

 

 

169) Inequality & Urban Growth

organizer: Jen Gray-O’Connor, UC Santa Cruz

discussant: Miriam Greenberg, UC Santa Cruz

Jon R. Norman, Loyola Univ: Does Being A Small City Help the Little Guy? Levels of Economic Inequality in Smaller Metro Areas in the U.S., 1970-2000

Jesus Hernandez, UCD: Race, Market Constraints & the Housing Crisis: Critical Links to Segregation & Mortgage Redlining

Mako Fitts, Seattle Univ.: Hip-Hop & the Growth Machine: Impacts on Gentrification on Urban Cultural Production

Nik Janos, UCSC: City of Nature: Hurricane Betsy, Vulnerability, & The Production Of Socio-Natural Space In New Orleans

 

170) Meet the Editors

organizers & discussants: Marilyn Fernandez & Chuck Powers, co-editors, Sociological Perspectives & Santa Clara Univ.

 

171) Making Sociology Matter 

organizer: Alicia M. Gonzales, CSUSM

Mona Smith, CSUSM: Educational/Narcissistic Entitlement Belief & the Social Costs: From College to the Workforce

Jacob Rosalez, CSUSM: National Health Care, What’s Next?

Debbie McBride, CSUSM: Domestically Abused Women & Their Pets

Rita Naranjo, CSUSM: The Personal is Political: A Critical Analysis of the Fight & Plight of Foster Care Youths & Alumni

Lori Walkington, CSUSM: Reading the Male Gaze: Sexual Identity Construction Online for Big Beautiful Women

 

172) Where Do I Go from Here?  Using Your MA or PhD in Sociology to Secure Academic & Non-Academic Jobs

(spons. by the Comm. on Student Affairs)

organizer: Sharon Oselin, CSULA

discussants: Bayliss Camp, CSU Sacramento, Kate Luther, Pacific Lutheran Univ., Roberto G. Gonzales, Univ. of Washington & Jody Agius Vallejo, USC

 

172A) Sociology of Children & Youth

organizer: Kathryn Hadley, CSU Sacramento

Karl Bryant & Ruth Lindner, SUNY New Paltz: The Emergence of a New Social Subjectivity: The Case of Transgender Childhood

Richard Mora, Occidental College: Do It For Your Pubic Hairs: Latino Boys, Masculinity & Puberty

Mary Christianakis, Occidental  College: I Ain’t Losing To No Squeak: Expertise in the Teaching & Learning of Videogames

 

173) Undergraduate Poster Sessions: Open Topics foyer

(spons. by AKD)

organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska SE

1. Katie A. Marquette, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage: Equal Rights/Equal Benefits: An Exploration of Domestic Partner Benefits & Employment Protections in Alaska’s Private Sector

2. Marie E. Wilson & Hope Gagen, Vanguard University of Southern California:  Child Development, Homelessness & the Role of Preschool

3. Tasha Randall Galardi, Oregon State Univ.: Legacies of the Bracero Program: A Case Study of Family Mobility & Transnational

Linkages in the Pacific Northwest

4. Rebekah Mary Gardner & James Harper, BYU:

Positive & Negative Affect, Forgiveness, & Relationship Quality in Married Couples

5. Benjamin R. Malczyk, BYU: Dyadic Patterns Of Plans Following Retirement Among Middle-Aged Couples

6. Alison Nicole French, UOP: Forcible Sex Offenses: An In Depth View of Rape at Pacific

7. Veronica Lyn Scheele, Chapman Univ.: “Typically Feminine, But in a Skinnier Way:” The Impact of Media, Lifestyle & Family Background on Female Body Image

8. Latricia Sutton, CSU Chico: A Comparison of Educational Attainment Outcomes for Different Racial & Ethnic Groups in California

9. Kaitlin Brooke McAlister & Kim Whatcott, BYU: Maternal Gatekeeping & Father Involvement

10. Carol Ann Litster, BYU: The Intersection Between Academic & Ethnic Identity

11. Travis Hall, BYU Idaho: The Impact of Religiosity on Individuals Overcoming Poverty

12.  Alyssa Cross, Vanguard Univ.: Recuriting the Next Generaton of Homeless

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

 

174) GIS for Environment, Health & Community

organizer: Sheila Steinberg, Humboldt State Univ.

Sheila Pierre & Laura Atkins, Humboldt State Univ.: Social Factors in Relation to Suicide in California

Jacqui Brennan & Joni Warren, Humboldt State Univ.: Spatial Politics & Homelessness, Arcata CA

Jenny Mayberry, Humboldt State Univ.: Community-Based Fire Literacy: An Evaluation of Community Wildfire

 

 

175) Presidential Session: Riding the Glass Escalators & Selling Barbies: Christine Williams’ Contributions to the Sociology of Work

organizer: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, USC

Amy Hanser, Univ. of British Columbia, Abigail Saguy, UCLA, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, USC &

Christine Williams, Univ. of Texas Austin

 

176) Issues in Race & Ethnicity I

organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

Amon Emeka, USC: The Changing Effects of Race & Ethnicity on Unemployment in the U.S., 1960-2000

Sara Cribbs, Univ. of Oregon & D. Mark Austin, Univ. of Louisville: Enduring Pictures in Our Heads: The Continuance of Authoritarianism & Racial Stereotyping

Chinyere Osuji, UCLA: Marriage & Mistura: Black-White Couples in Los Angeles & Rio de Janeiro

Andrea Hardeman & Sereen Walker, BYU: The Intricacies of Religion & Ethnic Identity among International Adoptions in Utah

 

177) Self & Identity III

organizer: Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado Denver

discussant: Andrea Haar, Univ. of Colorado Denver

Tyler S. Schafer, UNLV: Religious Justifications for Recreational Violence

Michaelangelo Anastasiou, PSU: Self, Power & Nationalism

Anabela Conceicao Pereira, Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa: Self, Identity & Body Representations on Contemporary Art World

 

 

178) The Immigrant Experience in the United States: Integration or Alienation I

organizer: Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento

Deborah Hobden, UCSB: Arrival & Its (Dis)contents: A Study of African Refugee Resettlement in Salt Lake City, Utah

Jennifer A. Jones, UCB:  Soul & Salsa: Social Exclusion & Linked Fate among Afro-Mexicans & Mestizo Mexicans in North Carolina

Bao Lo, UCB:  Hmong Youth:  Socio-Structural Barriers to Integration

Sarah Morando, UCLA: Paths to Mobility:  The Mexican Second Generation At Work in a New Destination

 

179) Facebook, Faculty-Technology & the Classroom in the 21^st Century

organizer: Paul W. O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus

Brittin Wagner, Univ. of Washington: A Lesson for Teachers: Social Isolation Online & in the Classroom

Dwaine E. Plaza & Kathleen Stanley, Oregon State Univ.: MySpace as a Site of Sociological Investigation: Applying the Theories of Goffman & Cooley to a Virtual Community

Andrew Jones, CSU Fresno: Twittering in Tehran: Internet Technology & Social Movements In Repressive Regimes

 

180) Social Inequality & Higher Education

organizer: Roberta Espinoza, CSU Fullerton

Peter Collier, David Morgan & Collin Fellows, PSU: Leveling he Playing Field: Importing Cultural Capital & Promoting First-Generation College Freshmen Success

Amy Leisenring, SJSU: A Qualitative Exploration of the Challenges Faced by Full-time College Students Who Work

Rick Braatz, SDSU: Class Barriers in Sociology Doctoral Programs: Experiences of Graduate Students from Working Class Backgrounds

Roberta Espinoza, CSU Fullerton, Cynthia Alcantar, Claremont Graduate Univ. & Jessica Coronel, CSU Fullerton: Mentoring Women of Color in Doctoral Education

Kelly Camak, CSU Fullerton: The Role of Caring in the Classroom

 

181) Working with Alpha Kappa Delta Student Organizations to Use the Sociological Imagination

organizer: Patricia R. Hoffman, New Mexico State Univ.

Lori Ann Ottaviano, UCR: An Undergraduate Student’s Perspective

Kassia Wosick-Correa, New Mexico State Univ.: Aim Even Higher: Ensuring Success in AKD Efforts

Sharon Araji, Univ. of Colorado Denver: The Role of Honor Societies in Career Development & Employment Opportunities

Christine Oakley, WSU: Student Writers/Award Winners: Working with Students to Submit Award Winning Papers

 

182) Public Sociology & Community Service Learning II

(spons. by the Comm. on Teaching)

organizer: Amy Denissen, CSUN

Robert Owen Gardner, Linfield College: Engaging Students in Service: Yamhill County’s Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness

Jennifer Jacobson, Yavapai College: A Comparison of Two Introduction to Sociology Courses: One with a Service Learning Requirement & One Without

Abigil L. Richardson, Mesa State College: The Perils & Promise of Conducting Community-Based Research with Undergraduates: What I Wish I Knew Before Starting This Project

 

183) Sexuality & Politics II

organizer: Karl Bryant, SUNY New Paltz & Tom Waidsunas, UCSD

discussant: Beth E. Schneider, UCSB

Tom J. Waidzunas, UCSD: The New “Sexual Orientation Identity:” Producing the American Psychological Association Report on Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

Tayler Cusick, CSU Fullerton: Sex Education: Intro to Queer Theories Heteronormative Sex Education & the Resistance to Gay-Inclusive Curricula

Valerie Feldman, UCD: The Politics of Sex Work in San Francisco: Legitimating Voices from the Fray

 

184) The Military Meets Sociology

organizer: Linda Heuser, Willamette Univ.

Nicole Beach, NAU: The Re-Socialization of Military Veterans & Deviant Behavior as a Civilian

Kelly Ramsey, UCI: War Should Be Safe, Legal & Rare: The Weinberger & Powell Doctrines & Opportunities for U.S. Antiwar Activism, 1973-2006

Bianca Baggiarini, York Univ.: Commodifying Violence: An Analysis of Wartime Rape & Private Military Corporations in Iraq

 

185) Author Meets Critics: Genealogies of Citizenship:  Markets, Statelessness & the Right to Have Rights by Margaret R. Somers

organizer & presider: Fred Block, UC Davis

author: Margaret R. Somers, Univ. of Michigan & Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

critics: William Roy, UCLA, Saba Mahmood, Jonathon Simon & Peter Evans, UC Berkeley & John R. Hall, UC Davis

 

186) Food, Culture & Social Organizations

organizer: Akihiko Hirose, Univ. of Colorado, Denver

presider: Kay Kei-ho Pih, CSUN

Chunyan E. Song, Julie Schneider, Keiko Goto, Nadine Hoser & Yoko Yoshikawa, CSU Chico: Food & Children in Four Different Cultures: The Impact of Globalization, Culture, & Family on Food Consumption among Preschool-Age Children

Amanda M. Shigihara, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder: Restaurant Workers: Unseen Lives of Those Who Serve You

KuoRay Mao, Univ. of Kansas: Not only Kabobs: How Increasing Meat Consumption Changes Political Organization in Northwestern China

Akihiko Hirose, Univ. of Colorado, Denver & Kay Kei-ho Pih, CSUN: “No Asians Working Here:” Otherness & Authenticity in Gastronomical Orientalism  

 

187) Changes in Higher Education & Academic Publishing: Views from All Sides

organizer: Steve Rutter, Routledge

Inside Publishing: Steve Rutter, Publisher, Routledge & Mitch Allen, Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc.

Inside Higher Education & Sociology: Jeremy Schulz, UC Berkeley, Laura Robinson, Santa Clara Univ., & Susan Mannon, Utah State Univ.

 

187A) Social Movements & Organizations

organizers: Elizabeth Chiarello, UCI & Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ.

Zeynep Atalay, Univ. of Maryland: Muslim Grass-roots Activism: A New Direction in Collective Action?

Adrian Cruz, Univ. of Redlands: An Inevitable Coalition? The Merger of Two People & Two Unions in the California Farm Workers Movement

Daisy Reyes, UCI: Latino Student Politics: Constructing Ethnic Identities through Organizations

Chris Hardnack, Univ. of Oregon: Identity Competition & Participation in a Radical SMO: A Case Study of a Local Revolutionary Socialist Organization

Katie Mills, Humboldt State Univ.: I Can Has Activism? An Online Collective Identity Engages with the Real World within the Context of a Social Movement

Amy Stone, Trinity Univ.: Fight the Right! Protect Gay Marriage! How National LGBT Organizations Spread Tactics to Local Gay Right Campaigns

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

 

188) Aging & Mental Health

organizer: Carolina Apesoa-Varano

Ladson Hinton & Carolina Apesoa-Varano, UC Davis; Judith Barker, UC San Francisco: Family & Dementia: An Exploration of Responses to Aggressive Behavior

 

189) Sexual Bodies & Identities in a Technological Age

organizer: Eve Shapiro, Westfield State College

Katie Ann Hasson, UCB: No Need To Bleed? Menstrual Suppression, The “Pill Period” & Technologies Of Gendered Bodies

Jill A. Bakehorn, UCD: “More Than Anonymous Pink Parts:” “Real” People & Authenticity in Women-Made Porn

Patricia Drew, CSU East Bay: Women, Aging, & The Marketing of Vaginoplasty

 

190) Globalization, Labor & the Transformation of Work 

organizer: Jonathan Westover, Utah Valley Univ.

Chris Chase-Dunn, UCR: Global Class Formation & the New Global Left

Jonathan A. Muir, Ralph Brown, & Tim Heaton, BYU: Engines of Change

Matt Dee Cottrell, Utah State Univ.: Rules Change But The Game Stays The Same: An Analysis of Neoliberal Global Development & Labor Within The Informal Economy Of Drugs

Jason Y. Struna, UCR: The Global Working Class & the Transnational Proletariat: Class Fractions & Vanguards in the Global System

 

191) Migration, Community & Politics

organizer: Yung-Yi Diana Pan, UCI

discussant: Jody Agius Vallejo, USC

Travis Luther, Univ. of Colorado Denver: When the buffalo Roam

Darryl O. Freeman, SFSU: Is Somalian Assimilation a Zero Sum Game?
Sheilamae Reyes, Ohio State Univ.: The Role of Structural Assimilation for Latinos’ Political & Civic Participation

Sabeen Sandhu, Santa Clara Univ.: Migration & Medical Degrees: U.S. Foreign Born Medical Graduates

K. William Wasson, CSULA: Students Empowering Communities through the Training of Community Members

 

192) Multi-Racial & Multi-Ethnic Identity: Contemporary Trends in Research

organizer: Shigueru Tshua, UCR & Reginald Daniel, UCSB

Adam Louis Horowitz, Stanford Univ.: Don’t Hate on the Halfies: Religious Identity Formation Among Children of Inter-Religious Couples

Shigueru, Tshua, UCR: The Stacked Bar Model of Ethnic Identity: Peruvian Nikkei’s Shifting Identities from Peru to California

Rebecca Romo, UCSB: Between Black & Brown: Blaxican Identity in the United States

Reginald Daniel, UCSB: Hypocritical Hydridity & the Critical Difference: Postraciality in the Age of Obama

 

193) The Sociology of Music

Organizer: Leck Intharath, National Univ.

Kara Young, UCB: The Culture of Production & The Production of Cultural Products by Hip Hop Artists in the San Francisco/Bay Area

Linda Henderson, St. Mary’s University College: The Music of His Life: A Sociological Memoir of My Father

Joshua Seim, PSU: The Sub-Subculture: How Straight Edge Membership Boundaries Are Defined & Regulated by the Broader Hardcore-Punk Music Scene

Karen Gordon, Univ. of Arizona: Revisiting Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media Depictions of Harm in Heavy Metal & Rap Music

 

194) Applying for Jobs in Academia

organizer: Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento

discussants: Sally Raskoff, LAVC, Celestino Fernandez, Univ. of Arizona, Kathryn Hadley, CSU Sacramento, Jacqueline Foltyn, National Univ. & Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

 

195) Collaborative Research: Experiences, Methods, & Challenges

organizers: Shannon Bell & Ryanne Pilgeram, Univ of Oregon

Gretchen Purser, UCD: Collaborative Research & Campus Activism

 

Katie Rodgers & Jocelyn Hollander, Univ. of Oregon: Beyond Master-Slave: Graduate Student & Faculty Collaboration

Elizabeth Miller, Martha Camargo,  Ryanne Pilgeram & Yvonne Braun, Univ. of Oregon: The University of Oregon Social Science Feminist Research Interest Group: Making Collaboration Work with a Large Graduate Student/Faculty Research Team

 

196) Urban Communities

organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.

discussant: Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State Univ.

Thomas J. Keil & Andrew Kirby, New College ASU.: Neighborliness in Private & Public Communities

Alesia F. Montgomery, MSU: The Sight of Loss

Amon Emeka & Hoest Heap of Birds USC: Understanding American Indian Poverty Levels by Tribe in Urban & Rural Contexts

James D. Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ.: Homeownership, Local Attachment & Civic Participation

 

197) New Case Studies in Social Movements Research

organizers: Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ. & Elizabeth Chiarello, UCI

Nick Corrette, CSUN: New Case Studies in Social Movements Reseach

Ian S. Hussey, York Univ.: Activism as Work: An Experiential Account of Fair Trade Activism in Canada

Angela Lee, UNR: Predatory Lending: The Rise of the Anti-Payday Lending Movement

Laura K. Wegener, Portland State Univ.: Peace, War & Principled Action-A Study of Veterans & the Peace Movement

 

198) The Declining Significance of Gender? 

organizer: Judith Hennessy, Central Washington Univ.

June Ellestad & Kendra Halverson, Univ. of Montana: Does “He” Imply “She”? The Effects of Gendered Language on Implicit Associations

Pamela McMullin-Messier, Central Washington Univ.: Is There A Continuing Weakness In The Relevance Of Gender To Demographers?

 

199) Presidential Session: The Feminist Imagination & Sociology

organizer: Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford Univ.

Barrie Thorne, UCB: Academic Disciplines & the Nurturance & Suppression of Feminist Imagination

Shelley Correll, Stanford Univ.: What Can Experimental Approaches Contribute to Our Feminist Imagination?

Abigail C. Saguy, UCLA: New Directions in Gender & Intersectionality

Paula England, Stanford Univ.: How Should Feminists Interpret Contemporary (Hetero)Sexual Practices Among Young Adults?

 

200) Classic Ethnography Remixed

organizer & discussant: Scott Brooks , UCR

Esther Kim, Yale Univ., Scott Patrick Murphy, UCR & Sharon Oselin, CSULA.

 

201) Visual Sociology: From Images Comes Understanding

organizer: Akello “Kell” Stone, El Camino College/W. Los Angeles College

discussant: Beverly Yuen Thompson, Texas Woman’s Univ.

 [Visual Sociology is concerned with the visual dimensions of social life. This includes the use of visual media(1) as a data collection technique, (2) produced by cultures, subcultures, & countercultures as a subject of study & (3) the use of visual media to communicate sociological understandings to professional & public audiences. In this session, we will examine the study, production, & use of visual images, data & materials in teaching, research & applied activities, & to foster the development & use of still photographs, film, video, & electronically transmitted images in sociology & other social sciences & related disciplines & applications.]

Beverly Yuen Thompson, Texas Woman’s Univ.: The Making of Covered: A Visual Ethnography of Heavily Tattooed W omen & Female Tattooists

Akello “Kell” Stone, ECC/WLAC: New Media: An Engaging Approach to Sociological Enlightenment & Analysis

Sarah Bratchell, Southern Connecticut State Univ.: Women in Black Power: A Visual Dialogue

Roya Rastegar, UCSC: New Frontier: Curating  “Physical Cinema” at the Sundance Festival

Regina Rhymes, Cypress College: Examining Gender Stereotypes in Reality Love Shows

 

201A) Video  Session: Voices of Pain, Voices of Hope

organizer: Jerome Rabow, UCLA & CSUN

[This session focuses on teaching about racism in the university.]

discussants: Karen Sternheimer, USC & Sarah E. Cribbs, Univ. of Oregon

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

5:15 – 6:00 PM

 

PSA Business Meeting  room 212

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

5:15 – 6:30 PM

 

Reception for Humanist Sociology 

Reception for Committee on GLBT 

Reception for Committees on Status of Women & Race and Ethnicity

Reception for Committee on Community Colleges

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

7:30 – 9:00 pm

 

202) Wars & Occupations

organizer: Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona

(spons. by the Comm. on Civil Rights & Liberties)

David Flores, Univ. of Michigan: Experiencing War & Politics: the Sources of Vietnam Veteran Political Attitudes

Yousef K. Baker, UCSB: Exceptionality to Normalcy: Legitimation of Foreign Intervention in Iraqi Law

Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona: The Limits of Power: U.S. Empire v. the World

 

203) Video Session: Codes of Gender: Identity & Performance in Pop Culture 

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Edson Rodriguez, USC

[Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies Erving Goffman’s groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance.  Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman’s central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity & femininity.  The film looks beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products & beyond analyses of gender that focus on biological difference or issues of surface objectification & beauty, taking us into the two-tiered terrain of identity & power relations.  With its sustained focus on the fundamental importance of gender, power, & how our perceptions of what it means to be a man or a woman get reproduced & reinforced on the level of culture in our everyday lives, The Codes of Gender is certain to inspire discussion & debate across a range of disciplines.]  Produced by: Media Education Foundation

 

204) Video Session: Tulia Texas

presiders: Cassandra Herrman & Kelly Whalen, producers

[Though its scrupulous investigation of a landmark case, this documentary uncovers the deep-rooted assumptions about race & crime that still permeate our society & undermines our justice system. The film convincingly shows how the “war on drugs” has become a war on due process waged against African Americans. California Newsreel]

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 10

9:15 pm – 10:30 pm

 

Student Reception 

(Note: Books donated by the publishers and $50 PSA checks will be raffled off.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 11

 

summary of events

8:00 am – 10:00 am registration

8:30 am – 10:00 am 2010-2011 Council Meeting

8:30 am – 1:15 pm sessions

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 11

8:30 am – 10:00 am

 

205) Crime & Delinquency III

organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado

Victoria Springer, Janice Russell, Matthew C. Leone & James T. Richardson, UNR: The Economy of Crime: Exploring Patterns of Felony Offending & Judicial Sentencing Outcomes Among Economically Diverse Counties in Nevada

Rocco Mastrantoni, NAU: On the Rails: A Look at the Sub-Culture of Freight Train Riding

Alexander Weiland, Humbold State Univ.: United States Represenatations of Homelessness: An Extensive Literature Review

 

206) Work & Social Networks

organizer: Kjersten Whittington, Reed College

discussant: Daniel Wang, Stanford Univ.

Kathleen Marker, UCSD: Keeping Business Within the Family: Religion & Ethnicity in Business & Marriage Networks

Brittin Wagner, Univ. of Washington: Social Networks in Mental Health Care

Sandra S. Smith & Laura M. Mangels, UCB: Searching for Work with a Criminal Record: Patterns of Social Capital Activation

 

207) Open

 

208) Aging, Health & Disability

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Carrie Sillito, Univ. of Utah

Hangon Kim, Yeungnam Univ.: Factors Impacting on the Successful Aging of South Korea

Carrie Sillito & Kathy Franchek-Roa, Univ. of Utah: Childhood Health & Behavioral Effects of Intimate Partner Violence

Shannon Browne & Janae Sirrine, Utah State Univ.: Utah’s Response to Emotional Child Abuse

 

209) Middle Eastern Communities in the U.S.

organizer: Neda Maghbouleh, UCSB

Sabrina Akbar Alimahomed, UCR: Generation Islam: Arab Muslim Americans & Racial Politics after 9/11

Maryam Griffin, UCSB: Thinking Outside the White box: Middle Eastern College Students Organize for Identity

Zeynep Killic, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage: Turkish Immigrant Associations in the U.S.: Representation By/For Whom?

 

210) Men & Masculinities II

organizer: Tal Peretz

discussant: Kristen Barber, USC

Tal Peretz, USC: How Good Are the Good Guys? Contradictions in College Men’s Anti-Sexist Activism

Lauren D. Stewart, Univ. of Oregon: Oppositional Masculinities: A Qualitative Study of Allies Against Rape Culture

Scott Patrick Murphy, UCR: Becoming “Good Men” At A Neighborhood Garage Sale

 

211) Power, The Environment & Sharing

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Alison Cliath, CSU Fullerton

Armando Lara-Millan, Northwestern Univ.: Power from Below: Combining the Logics of Connection & Disconnection

Alison Cliath, CSU Fullerton: Sharrows: A Case of State Organized Sharing of Public Space

 

212) Gender Inequity & Social Crime

organizer: Charity Perry-Turner, CSULA

discussant: Richard A. Fraser, CSULA

Ruzanna Karmiryan, CSULA: Armenian Woman Pays a Price for the Myth that She Is Godly Chosen, Special & Exclusive

Richard A. Fraser, CSULA: Gender Inequities in Child Custody

Robert Dunkley, Chapman Univ: Sheriff-Coroner: The Effects of “Double Office” on Death Investigations in California Counties from 1990-1997

 

213) The Immigrant Experience in the United States: Integration or Alienation II

organizer: Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento

AnnMarie Beasley, CSU Sacramento:  Acts of Violence:  Neoliberalism, Culturally Constructed Fear, & Mexican Immigration to the U.S.

Daniel E. Martinez & Paola A. Molina, Univ. of Arizona & Kraig Beyerlein, Univ. of Notre Dame:  Neither Here nor There:  An Analysis of Undocumented Migrants’ Decisions upon Repatriation

Brian D. Harris, Jason D. Simons, Charlie V. Morgan & Ramon Castillo, BYU: Perceptions of Immigrants an Analysis of Online News Reader Commentary

Julie Roman, CSU Sacramento:  The Hidden Side of Sex Trafficking:  Supply & Demand in the Global Perspective

Gokhan Savas, Syracuse Univ.: Social Inequality, Immigration & Global Economy:  The Case of Mexican Immigration to the United States

 

214) Community & Religion II

organizer: David McKell, NAU

discussant: T. L. Brink, Crafton Hills College

Gordon Clanton, SDSU: Mapping the American Protestant Terrain: Mainline, Evangelical, Sectarian

Rachael Chatterson, UCI: The Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Modern World Culture

Laura Loeb, UCLA: The Call & Response Worship Tradition from a Conversation Analysis Perspective

Matt Lye, Univ. of Waterloo: People of the Word: Interfaith Dialogue in Pluralistic Community Formation

 

215) Characteristics of Status Attainment In Education & Environmental Science & Ecology

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Jonathan Herman, Sacred Heart Univ.

Yanira Fuentes, CSULA: Student Mobility & Its Effects on Latino Students

Ghirmay Ghebreslasse, New Mexico State Univ.: Ethnicity & College Performance: A Case Study of First-Year College Students at New Mexico State Univ.

John Parker, Christopher Lortie & Allesina Stephano, National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis: Characterizing a Scientific Elite: The Social Characteristics of the Most Highly Cited Scientists in Environmental Science & Ecology

Jonathan Herman, Sacred Heart Univ.: Non-Cognitive Motivations/Influences for Ascertaining Higher Education amongst Albanian Americans/Immigrants

 

216) Race/Ethnicity & Education II

organizer: Elvia Ramirez, CSU Sacramento

Michael Moodian, Chapman Univ.: Assessing Intercultural Effectiveness in Higher Education

Pui-Yan Lam, Gina Mikel Petrie & Tracey McHenry, Eastern Washington Univ.: Nice, Respectful International Students No More? Race, Nationality & Perceptions of Mainland Chinese Students in Sino-American Dual Degree Programs

William R. Austin, CSU Fullerton: Silence & Double Speak: Whiteness in Classroom Practices

 

217) Bourdieuan Sociology

organizer: Carl Stempel, CSU East Bay

Nathaniel Freiburger, UC Davis: The Institutional Environment of Academia & the Elaboration of the Intellectual

Elif Lostuvali, UC Berkeley: Bourdieu & the Study of University-Industry Research Alliances

Jamila Sinlao, UCSB: Beyond the Veil: Bourdieu, Distinction & the Social Stratification of the Wedding

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 11

10:15 am – 11:45 am

 

218) Author Meets Critic: Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event by Katherine K. Chen

discussants, Jeff Sallaz, Univ. of Arizona, Michael McQuarrie & Katherine K. Chen, The City College of NY

 

219) Embodying Academia: Theoretical, Methodological, & Practical Reflections

organizer: Danielle Hidalgo & Tracy Royce, UC Santa Barbara

Sondra N. Barringer, Univ. of Arizona: Examining the Extent of Strategic Adaptation in Times of Government Retrenchment: The Case of Public Higher Education

Shannon M. Coffey, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Under-Represented Students & Academia: Identity Formation & the Implications of Inhabiting a Marginal Position

 

220) Minority Experiences

organizer: Aya Kimura Ida, CSU Sacramento

Sabeen Sandhu, Santa Clara Univ.: Migration & Medical Degrees: U.S. Born Foreign Medical Graduates

Sarah Schlabach, UCLA: Family, Race & Gender: What Does It Mean To Be Multiracial?

Aya Kimura Ida, CSU Sacramento: Coping with Discrimination: Role of Self-Esteem for African Americans, Caribbean Americans & European Americans

 

221) Issues in Race & Ethnicity II

organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

Jabou McCoy, UCD: The Obama Era: Post-Racial Society or Politics as Usual?

Natasha Howard, Univ. of New Mexico: Anti-Black Racial Ideology in the “Post-Racial” Era

J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College: Pioneer Sociologists, New York City & the NAACP

 

222) The Political Economy of Inequality

organizer: Richard Anderson-Connolly, Univ. of Puget Sound

Matthew Mahutga, UCR, Garrett Grainger, University of Central Florida, Andrew Jorgenson, University of Utah & Roy Kwon, UCR: Developing Equity or Structuring Inequality? Toward a Political Economy of Income Inequality

Caleb M Bush, Univ. of New Mexico: Gallup World-Economic Expansion, the ‘Net of Incorporation’ & The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, 1880-1974

Ann Strahm, CSU Stanislaus: Dead Canaries & The Financial Coalmine: The Not So New Class Warfare

Richard Anderson-Connelly, Univ. of Puget Sound: The Lasting Contributions of Marxist Theory to Contemporary Political Economy

 

223) The Growing Impact of Medicalization

organizer: Benjamin Lewin, Univ. of Puget Sound

Cara Chiaraluce, UCD:  The Role of Medicalization & Empowerment in Asthma Mobilization

 

224) The Immigrant Experience in the United States: Integration or Alienation III

organizer: Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento

Marisol Flores, CSUSM:  Corridos de Las Aves en Jauladas: Constructions of Mexicana Identities

Ghirmay Ghebreslasse, New Mexico State Univ.: Identify Crisis Among Contemporary Black Immigrants In The United States

Cid Martinez, CSU Sacramento: The Catholic Church, Social Order & Latino Immigrants in South Los Angeles

David Pieper, UCB:  The Effects of Immigration on Age, Structure in the United States

 

225) The Sociology of Performance

organizers: Jin Young You & Jen Gray-O’Connor, UCSC

Joanna M. Rullo, UCD: Empty Orchestra, Crowded Bars: Karaoke As Co-Authorship

Rebecca Fay Elliott, UCB: Where the Kids Have no Names: Celebrity Activism & the Performance of Concern for Africa

Raul Perez, UCI: The Sociology of Stand-Up Comedy: Strategic Ways to Perform Race

Darren Willet, UCSC: Forging Transcommunal Alliances Through Music

 

226) Religion & Immigration

organizer: Jessica Hamar Martinez, Univ. of Arizona

Marian Awny Azab, ASU-West: They Are Trying to Reach Americans But They Can’t

Daniel Martinez, Univ. of Arizona & Kraig Beyerlein, Univ. of Notre Dame: The Role of Religion in the Undocumented Crossing Experience

Jessica Hama Martinez, Univ. of Arizona: Religious Switching among Latinos: Preliminary Findings from the Chicago Latino Congregations Study

 

227) Social Inequality & K-12 Education

organizer: Roberta Espinoza, CSU Fullerton

Audrey Devine Eller, Rutgers Univ.: Mixed Messages: Stratified Post-Secondary Guidance Counseling within One High School

Janice Russell, UNR: The Effects of Cultural Capital on High School Dropouts

Nathan Dollar, Colorado State Univ.: “Playing School:” Latinos & Role Performance as Students

Sarah Santillanes, Univ. of New Mexico: Using a Weberian Framework to Explain Race & Class Reproduction in Albuquerque: A Textual Analysis of Yearbooks

 

228) Gendered Inequalities

organizer: Susan B. Murray, SJSU

Melissann Lorene Herron, SDSU: Situational Last Name Use as Fragmentation of Self: An Analysis of Women who Keep Their Names after Marriage

Marta Elliott, Katherine Mauldin & Victoria Springer, UNR: Gender, Personal Relationships, & Distress

Christy M. Glass, Utah State Univ. & Eva Fodor, Central European Univ.: From the Fast Track to the Mommy Track: Firm-Level Recruitment, Hiring & Promotion Practices in Post-Socialist Hungary

 

229) Open

 

230) Research & Theory on New Family Forms II: Same-Sex Couples

organizer: Carl Stempel, CSU East Bay

presider: Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay

Nathanael Lauster & Adam Easterbrook, Univ. of British Columbia: Discrimination by Familial Relation

Melanie Duncan & Markus Kemmelmeier, UNR: Same-Sex Marriage & the Parenting Debate: An Essentialist Approach to Undergraduate Student Attitudes

Rafael Colonna, UC Berkeley: How Gender & Blood relations Affect Meanings & Choices of Parental terms among Same-Gender Couples with Children

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 11

12:00 pm -1:30 pm

 

231) Gender, Borders & Boundaries

(spons by SWS West & the Committee on the Status of Women)

organizer: Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ.

discussant: Jennifer Eichstedt, Humboldt State Univ.

Ashraf Zahedi, UC Berkeley: Micro Finance & Economic Empowerment of Afghan Women

Fatma Durak, CSU Northridge: The Controversial Headscarf (Veiling) Issue: Opinions of Women Wearing the Headscarf in Turkey

Yesenia King, Mt. San Antonio College: Latina Muslims: In the Borderlands

 

232) Trust & Society

organizer: Alexandria Gerbasi, CSUN

Gesemia Nelson, Metropolitan State College of Denver: Trust & Civic Engagement: Residents of Mercy Housing Colorado

Kyra Greene, SDSU; Alexandra Gerbasi, CSUN: Race, Education & Trust

Phillip Fucella, UCB:  Blue Star Banners: Context Effects On The Meaning & Function Of A Symbol Of Sacrifice

 

233) Contemporary Suburbia

organizer: Emily Molina, UCSB

Lucas O. Kirkpatrick & Casey Gallagher, UCD: Section 8 Moves to the Exurbs: Low-Income Housing Policy, Suburban Revanchism & the “Dark Side” of Social Capital

Cesar Rodriguez, UCSB: Disposable Subjects: Racialized Youth Targeted by Practices of Punitive Exclusion in (Sub)urban Developments

Erik Nielsen, UCSB: Regionalism & Cities as “Smart Growth Machines”

Armando Ornelas Lara-Millan, Northwestern Univ.: From Meaningless Cities & Suburbs to the Historically Embedded “Suburban Moment”

Deidre Pfeiffer, UCLA: African American Migartion to California’s Inland Empire: A Springborad to Social Mobility?

 

234) Age & Sexuality

(spons. by Committee on GLBT)

organizer: Byron Lee, Temple Univ.

presider: Donald Barrett, CSU San Marcso

Matt Rowe, UCB: Becoming Gay Men: Life Histories of Two Generations Reconsidered

Betsy Marie Dorsett, SFSU: Towards a Radical Theory of Aging: Intersections of Old Age, Disability & Queerness

Jessica Cobb, UCB: The Child as Sexual Citizen

 

235) Sharing: Examining Strategies, Processes & Outcomes of Sharing

organizer: Alison Cliath, CSU Fullerton

Elizabeth Joniak, UCLA: The Complexities & Consequences of Sharing in a Population of Street Kids

Russell Belk, York Univ. & Rosa Llamas, Univ. of Leon: The Nature & Effects of Sharing: A Multicultural Study

Christina Ergas, Univ. of Oregon: Sharing for Sustainability: Community in an Urban Eco-Village

Alex Goldman, Univ. of Florida: Sharability: Prospects for Reallocating Durable Household Goods

 

236) Race & Sexuality

organizer: Jason Crockett, Univ. of Arizona

Adam Louis Horowitz, Stanford Univ.: Border Bending, Queer Blending: A Comparison of Race Networks between Sexual Orientations

Karen E. Gordon, Univ. of Arizona: Race & the Distribution of Registered Sex Offenders

Matthew Grindal, UCR: Structural Influences of the Black/White Variation in Homosexual Tolerance: Towards a Comprehensive Model

 

237) Graduate Students Engage the Sociological Imagination in a Turbulent World

organizers: Michelle Harris & Karla Hackstaff, NAU

Atsuko Kawakami, ASU: The Effect of Wife’s Employment on Marital Happiness

Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando, NAU: Psychological Challenges of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Why Behavioral Change Is So Difficult to Achieve

Jessica Wood, NAU: Professional Athletes: Wrong-Doing & Public Perceptions

Sarah Spring, NAU: Where Are the Birds & the Bees? Discourse Around Sex Ed in Arizona Schools

Damien Contessa, NAU: An Unlikely Narrative: The Sociological Imagination & the Reinvention of the Self in an Age of Uncertainty

 

238) Gender & Identity

organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC

presider: Kegan Alee, UCSB

Chereka Dickerson, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Niggaz, Bitches, Cars & Cribs: Idealizing Black Masculine Identity to Erase Black Feminine Identity

Kegan Allee, UCSB: Rock Climbers Defying Gravity & Gender Expectations

Aundrea Snitker, PSU: Stay-at-Home Fathers: Gender Identity & the Division of Household Labor

 

239) Virtual Worlds & Video Games

organizer: Melissa Monson, Metropolitan State College Denver

T.L. Brink, Crafton Hills College: Video games, Birth Order & Identity

Jon Sanderson, Adams State College: A SIM(ply) Beautiful World

Melissa Monson, Metropolitan State College Denver: Hero Stories: Racial Identity in City of Heroes

 

240) Race Matters

organizer: Alicia Gonzales, CSUSM

Lourdes Shahamiri, CSUSM: Assessment of Hispanic-Serving Institution CSUSM: Model for Improving Retention

Jacob Rosalez, CSUSM: Passing for White: Effects on Health Status for Latinos in the United States

Patricia Guevarra, CSUSM: Beneath the Maria Claras: Second Generation Filipina Americans’ Negotiation

Barbara Reyes, CSUSM: Undocumented Motherhood

 

241) The Real Deal: Students Discuss Best/Worse Experiences with Faculty

organizer: Michael Barnes, CSU Long Beach

Lori Ann Ottaviano, UCR

Sarah MacDonald, UCB

Brian Rosenberg, Univ. of Oregon

Sarah E. Cribbs, Univ. of Oregon

 

242) International Adoption

organizer: Charlie V. Morgan, BYU

Leslie K Wang, UCB:  Returning to China: The Experience of Adopted Chinese Children and Their Parents 

Kazuyo Kubo, University of Redlands:  Producing Multiculturalism: Family Formation Through Transnational Adoption  

Kelsae Stentzel & Charlie V. Morgan, BYU:  The Integration of International Adoptees in Utah 

 

243) Real Women in Academia

organizer: Anna Sorensen, UCSB

Anna Sorensen: UCSB

Danielle Hidalgo, UCSB

Rachel Sarabia, UCSB

Tina Burdsall, Portland State Univ.