1984 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, THE SEATTLE SHERATON, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, APRIL 13-14, 1984
THEME: THE QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING SOCIOLOGY IN CONTEXT
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1984
SESSIONS
1.Demography
Organizer and Presider: John A. McQuiston, University of Montana
Discussant: Lawrence R. Carter, University of Oregon
Barrett A. Lee, Vanderbilt Univ.: Stability and Change in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods, 1970-1980
Richard H. Anderson, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Relative Economic Position and the Number of Children: A Test of the Esterlin Hypothesis with Individual Data
2.Sociology of Religion
Organizer and Presider: Patrick McNamara, The Univ. of New Mexico
Discussants: John Whitworth, Simon Fraser Univ. and Marion V. Dearman, CSU Los Angeles
David L. Preston, San Diego State Univ.: Meditation and Conversion: Reconsideration of Standard Socialization Theory
Rennie Warburton, Univ. of Victoria: Marxism, Feminism, and the Sociology of Religion
Merlin Brinkerhoff, Univ. of Calgary and Reginald Bibby, Univ. of Lethbridge: Circulation of the Saints, South American Style: A Comparative Study
Richard G. Peterson, United States International Univ.: With Love, Reverend Terry’: Exploration of a Southern California Sect
3.Applied Sociology
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Dennis S. Mileti, Colorado State University
Raymond E. Williams, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage: Role Conflict in the program Director Position: A Barrier to Effective Program Evaluation
Phyllis D. Coontz, Univ. of Pittsburgh: Uses for and Using the Ethnographic Method
Paul r. Zelus, Idaho State University: Predicting Freshman Attrition at a Small Liberal Arts College
Reyes Ramos, Univ. of Colorado: Hispanics and Floods: A Case Study
4.Critical Theory
Organizer and Presider: David Harvey, University of Nevada Reno
Robert Dunn, CSU Hayward: The Critical Theory of Mass Communications: The Case of The Frankfort School
Thomas Meisenhlder, California State College San Bernardino: Language, Society, and Reason: Interpreting Habermas
Michael Blain, Boise State University: The Strategy of Michel Foucault’s Discourse
5.Clinical Marriage and Family: The Interface of Sociology with Marriage and Family Therapy
Organizer and Presider: Anees A. Haddad, Loma Linda University
Discussant: Thomas Lasswell, Univ. of Southern California
Chester A. Winton, San Jose State Univ.: Sociological Theory and Family Therapy
Tony Brandon and Michelle Naden, Loma Linda University: The Socio-historical Roots of Marriage and Family Therapy
Inger Johanne Sagatun and Louise Prince, UC Riverside: Cognitive Therapy: A Sociological Analysis
Ian P. Chand, LLU—La Sierra Campus: Sociology and Marriage and Family Therapy—Points of Intersection: A Research Perspective
Helena Hershel, Univ. of Hawaii: Family Structure and Psychosis: A Treatment Model
6.Humanistic Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Morris F Friedell, UC Santa Barbara
Marlene Sway, CSU Chico: How the Gypsies Use Their Legal System to Regulate Territory and Control Deviants
James A. Aho, Idaho State Univ.: The Theological Dimension: A Celebration of Ernest Becker on the Tenth Anniversary of His Death
Morris F. Friedell, UC Santa Barbara: Human Dignity versus Happiness?-The Social Scientist Contends with the Grand Inquisitor
Geoffrey Wallace, UC Santa Barbara: I-Thou, I-It, and the New Scarcity
7.Gender Inequality
Organizer and Presider: Nona Glazer, Portland State University
Cindy Stearns, UC Davis: A Test of the Professionalization Model: The Case of Nursing
Eleen Baumann, Oregon State University: The Impact of Reagonomics and the New Right
Joan Acker, Univ. of Oregon: Social Relations of Distribution: A Reconceptualization
Aliza Keddem, Univ. of Oregon: Wives’ Work and the Adequacy of Income
8.Peaces Studies and Conflict Resolution
Organizer and Presider: Stan Shively, Oregon State University
Sheila Cordray, Oregon State Univ.: Catholicism and Nuclear Disarmament: A Survey of the American Bishops’ Pastoral Letter
Jan Buehler, Oregon State Univ.: The Women’s Peace Camp Movement: A Comparative Study
Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., and Chris Curry, Oregon State University: Role Playing Social Life in the Days After: The NEWORLD Exercise
Azmy Ibrahim, San Jose State Univ.: A Proposal for World Disarmament
9.Sociology of Education
Organizer and Presider: Jean Stockard, Univ. of Oregon
Discussant: Leonard Gordon, Arizona State University
Lynn T. Osborne, Anne H. Rhu, Ronald W. Smith, University of Nevada Las Vegas: The Social Construction of Learning Disabilities: A Study of the Labeling Process in Education
Dwight Land, Univ. of Oregon: Educational Equality and the Academic Hierarchy
Bruce Staggers, Mary Nance-Ulrich, Herman J. Loether, CSU Dominguez Hills: A Comparative Study of Student Values: 1950 and 1980
Robert M. O’Brien, Barnie Jones, Univ. of Oregon: The Reliability of School Level Aggregate Variables: A Research Note
10.Sociology of the Family
Organizer and Presider: Gary D. Hampe, University of Wyoming
David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado; Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside: An Analysis of Sex Discrimination in Four Types of American Families
Karen Seccombe, Washington State Univ.: Toward an Explanation of Differential Societal Divorce Rates
Stephen Bahr, Brigham Young University; Randal D. Day, South Dakota State University: Gender, Marital Status, and Economic Well-Being
11.Medical Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Gloria V. Engel, Univ. of Southern California
Discussant: G. Nanjundappa, CSU Fullerton
Julia Brown, The Oregon Health Sciences University: The Hale Elderly: Health Behavior and Health Status
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University: Intrusive Illness
H. Edward Ransford, Univ. of Southern California: Health Protective Behavior, Ethclass, and Outlooks Toward the Health System
Ilse J. Volinn, Univ. of Washington: Disease and Stigma, Personal Accounts as Analytical Methodology: The Case of Cerebral Palsy
12.Developments in Statistical Analysis
Organizer and Presider: Herman J. Loether, CSU Dominguez Hills
Rae r. Newton, CSU Fullerton; Richard T. Serpe, Purdue University: Estimating Structural Models of Attributions for Achievement
Gordon Stavig, California Department of Health Services: Applying Correlation and Regression Procedures to Univariate Distributions
Donald G. McTavish and Ellen Pirro, Univ. of Minnesota: Some Issues in Contextual Content Analysis
David Nasatir, CSU Dominguez Hills: Some Reflections on the New Technology for Statistics in the Social Sciences
13.Classical Sociological Theory
Organizer and Presider: James T. Duke, Brigham Young University
Discussant: Lee Freese, Washington State University
Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside: What If the Early Masters had Followed Auguste Conte’s Advice
Marco Orru, UC Davis: Anomie and Social Theory in Ancient Greece
Michael Epelbaum, Stanford University: Veblen’s and Weber’s Conceptions of Austerity and Luxury
Chad Richardson, Pan American University: Social Bonds and Social Structure
14.Comparative Sociology
Organizer and Presider: William B. Van Groenou, CSU Hayward
Martin H. Kaniki, Univ. of Zambia and Fort Lewis College: Forman Education and Social Conflict in Africa: The Zambian Experience
Khairih Kasmeh, University of Damascus, Syria and Notre Dame Univ.: Trends of Modernization in the Arab Middle East in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Brij B. Khare, CSU San Bernardino: Value Concordance and the Educational Environment: A Comparison of India and China
Okete J.E. Shiroya, Keyatta University College, Nairobi and Murray State University: The Role of Nationalism in the Modernization of East Africa
15.Stress, Coping, and Social Support
Organizer and Presider: David L. Morgan, UC Riverside
P. Bolton and J. McStay, Batelle Human Affairs Research Centers: Dimensions of Social Support: A Comparison of Ethnic Groups
E.W. Butler and H. Fukurai, UC Riverside: Bereavement and Social Networks
R.J. Johnson and R.M. Gray, University of Utah: Impact of Chronic Illness on Social Support
W.H. Kuo, University of Utah: Coping with Racial Discrimination
G. Nanjundappa, CSU Fullerton and Robert Friis, UC Irvine: Employment Status and Depression Among Diabetic Persons: A Case Control Study
Leonard Perlin, UC San Francisco: Social Structure and Social Support
16.Utopias and Social Analysis
Organizer and Presiders: Marilyn Garber and Steve R. Riskin, CSU Dominguez Hills
Bea Goldman, Ithaca College: The Classroom as Utopia
Jean Glass and Robert Glass, Audubon Junior High School, Van Nuys High School: Utopian Experiments in an Insular Community in British Columbia
Lois Feuer, CSU Dominguez Hills: Literary Utopias
Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College: The Dialectic of Utopia
Jerry Jacobs, Syracuse University: The Mall: A Micro-Utopian Community
17.Sociology of Sports: The 1984 Olympic Games
Organizer and Presider: Hal Chamofsky, CSU Dominguez Hills
Discussant: James Frey, Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas
John Phillips, Univ. of the Pacific: Racial Lines of Diffusion of the Flop Technique in the High jump
Cheryl Cole, Univ. of Southern California: Sex Roles and Stereotypes: The Impact on Women’s Athleticism and the Olympic Games
David Nasatir and Hal Charnofsk, CSU Dominguez Hills: A Clash of Bureaucracies: Unanticipated Consequences of Constructing the Olympic Velodrome at CSU Dominguez Hills
18.Social Psychology and Gender
Organizers and Presiders: Judith A. Howard, Univ. of Washington; Gary I. Schulman, UC Santa Barbara
Richard T. Serpe, Purdue University and Cynthia L. Sipe, Indiana University: Sex Differences in Self-Esteem and Attributions to General Life Success
Michael Finigan, Univ. of Wisconsin-La Cross: Experimental Research on Sex Ratio and Gender Roles in Small Task Groups
Sandra K. Gill, Univ. of Oregon: Sex Role Differences: Expressiveness, Instrumentalnes and Independence
Gary I. Schulman and Jean Blanchard, UC Santa Barbara: Gender Stereotypes: The Issues of Age nd Appearance Sub-Categories
Jean Ross-Franklin, UC Riverside and Susan Schuller Friedman, Department of Family Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific: The Effect of Age, Gender and Marital Status on Patterns of Social Interaction
19.Plenary Session
Presider: LaMar T. Emprey, Univ. of Southern California
Speaker: James F. Short, Jr., President, American Sociological Association and Washington State University: The Responsibilities of Scholarships
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984
20. The Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Organizer and Presider: Karen A. Lyman, Univ. of Southern California
Discussant: Edgar Butler, UC Riverside
Carole Campbell, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: The Waiting Room Sex Survey
Wayne Plasek, CSU Northridge; Saundra Loman, UC Los Angeles: Problems of Sex Preference Discrimination in Scientific and Engineering Work Places
Michael Finn Anderson, Idaho State University: The Repeal of the California Mentally Disordered Sex Offender Law
Robin J. M. Vogler, Univ. of Southern California: Analysis of Body Imagery and Sexuality with Bulimia, Bulimarexia and Anorexia Nervosa Patients
21.Environmental Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Bill Devall, CSU Humboldt
Discussant: Larry Buffington, CSU Humboldt
William Catton, Jr., Washington State Univ.: Conflicting Functions of Environment
Patrick Jobes, Univ. of Montana: Social Control of Dirty Work: Conflict Avoidance in Rural Social Impact Assessment
Tin Holmes, Univ. of Idaho: Cultural Eutrophication of Idaho Lakes: A Sociological Analysis and Discussion
22.Historical Sociology
Organizer: Carol Conell, Stanford University
Presider: George Thomas, Arizona State University
Discussants: Gary Hamilton, UC Davis; George Thomas, Arizona State University
Jeffrey Haydu, UC Berkeley: British American Solutions for The Labor Problem: Employer Strategies in the Metal Trades, 1898-1901
Lori Kent and Nancy Durbin, University of Washington: From Farm to Factory or From Farm to College: Female Opportunity Structures in 1900
Keith M. Moore, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison: Part-Time Farming: The Changing Relationship Between Industry and Agriculture in American History
23.Winners of Distinguished Student Paper Competition
Organizer and Presider: David Shichor, CSU San Bernardino
First Prize: William G. Staples, Univ. of Southern California: Toward a Structural Perspective on Gender Bias in the Juvenile Court
Second Prize: Michael J. Harrington, UC Davis: The 1983 Conversion From Group to Individual Electricity Billing at Anderson Place Apartment Complex
Third Prize: Shirley j. Neff, CSU Chico: The Concept of Self and Role and Conflict: Applications to Female Patients at N.I.M.H.
24.Political Sociology
Organizer: William Roy, UC Los Angeles
Presider and Discussant: Michael Allen, Washington State University
Douglas J. Bristow, Oregon State Univ.: The Language of Ideology
Will C. Kenneday and Warner Bollmberg, Jr., San Diego State Univ.: Social Policy and Political Boundaries: The United States Mexican Border
Jerry Lembocke, Lawrence Univ.: Class, Politics and Organizational Theory
25.Personal Computer Lifestyles: A Symposium on the Purchase and Use of Microcomputers
Organizers and Presenters: Richard F. Curtis and Maynard F. Erickson, Univ. of Arizona
26.Complex Organizations
Organizer and Presider: Phillip Kunz, Brigham Young University
Discussant: William Reeves, Univ. of Calgary
Susan L. Eberley, Barry L. Johnson, W. Keith Warner, Brigham Young Univ.: Organizational Dilemmas: The Legitimation of Ambivalence
Geoffrey Tootell, Karen Zikan, Joseph Murphy, Linda Mason, Howard Swann, and C. Michael Otten, San Jose State University: Optimizing the Effects of Organizational Design Upon Productivity
George A. Miller, Univ. of Utah: A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Structure in the United States and Sweden
27.The Sociology of Disasters
Organizer and Presider: Thomas E. Drabek, Univ. of Denver
Discussant: Patricia A. Bolton, Battelle Human Affairs Research Center
Robert Bolin, New Mexico State University: Race and Recovery: Responses to Disaster
Richard B. Hill, Jr., San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus: Social and Political Conflicts of the 1983 Colorado River Flood
David E. Kaufman and Richard m. Wilson, Central Washington Univ.: Social Impact of Lower Conlitz River Restoration
Dennis S. Mileti, Colorado State University: Sociology in Litigation: Applications of Disaster Research
28.Leisure and Popular Culture
Organizer: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State University
B. Two Lenz and James H. Frey, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas: Job Satisfaction in the Arts: the Case of Musicians
George H. Lewis, Univ. of the Pacific: Style in Revolt: Social Protest and the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance
Eleen A. Baumann and Barbara Anderson, Oregon State Univ.: Confessions of a Hairdresser: Fabricated Beauty and the Self
Patricia Robinson, UC Davis: The Making of a Deviant: Living with a Negative Body Image in a World of Ideals
Michelle Grismer and Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State Univ.: Perceived Threat and Response in the Literature of Retreatist Subculture
29.Political Economy: Marxism in 1984
Organizer and Presider: Richard H. Ogles, Univ. of Colorado Denver
Discussant: Robert Dunne, Colorado College
Dean E. Frease, Univ. of Lethbridge: Feudal Companionage and the Modern Delinquent Gang: Dialecttics and Group Development
Ruth Taplin, San Jose State University: Traditional Chinese Kinship Structures: Implications for the Success of Chinese Socialism
Andrea Gabriel, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs: Perspective on Feminism and Marxism
30.Improving the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Women in Sociology
Organizers nd Presiders: Maurice Jackson, UC Riverside and Jean Stockard, Univ. of Oregon
Albert Saenz, CSU Dominguez Hills: Motivations of Hispanic Women in Higher Education
Juan L. Gonzales, Jr., CSU Hayward: Establishing a Directory for Minorities and Women in Sociology in the Pacific Region
Leonard Gordon, Arizona State Univ.: A Survey of the Status of racial and Ethnic Minorities and Women in Sociology in the Pacific Region
31.Evaluation Research
Organizer and Presider: Lincoln Fry, Loyola-Marymount University
Malcolm Klein, Univ. of Southern California: The Fate of Labeling Theory in Two Evaluation Projects
Sandra K. Gil, Univ. of Oregon: An Evaluation of Family Counseling Services and Refinement of Personal State Inventory
James Mathieu, Loyola Marymount Univ.: Elderly Inmates in Two California State Prisons: Chino (male) and Frontera (female)
Barbara Mathieu, UC Los Angeles: Role and Function of the Inmate Advisory Council at California Institution for Women
32.The Sociology of Knowledge
Organizer and Presider: Richard P. Madsen, UC San Diego
Discussant: Bennet M. Berger, UC San Diego; Richard P. Madsen, UC San Diego
Volker Neja, Memoril Univ. of Newfoundland; Nico Stehr, The Univ. of Alberta: Karl Mannheim as Émigré Scholar: Ideology and Utopia and the Story of its Translation
Mariclar Mosto, UC San Diego: The Structuring of the Social World: Facts or Contracts
Gary Hamilton, UC Davis: The New History in Sociology: A Critical Evaluation of Comparative-Historical Sociology
Robert W. Balch, Univ. of Montana: The Social Construction of Reality in Religious Defection: A Conversational Analysis
33.Gender Roles
Organizer and Presider: Richard Vandiver, Univ. of Montana
Discussant: Elaine Enarson, U.S. Forest Service
Jan Miller, Univ. of Montana: It’s a Full-time Job’: Mothers Who Stay Home
Angela Garcia, UC Santa Cruz: Shift Work: Topic Change in Cross-sex Conversation
Joanne Oreskovich, Anita Wilson, William H. McBroom, Nancy S. Blom, Stefani M. Forster, Kathleen A. Corak, Karren B. Olson, Fred W. Reed, Karl O. Edwards, Peter T. Schmitz, Univ. of Montana: Sources of Change in Sex Role Traditionalism and Selected Life Values: A Longitudinal Study
Cheryl Hall, UC San Francisco: Women in the Weight Room: Identity and Physical Strength
34.Juvenile Delinquency
Organizer and Presider: Eric L. Jensen, Univ. of Idaho
Susan Puckett, Washington State University: Peer Involvement, Normative Standards, and Adolescent Drinking: A Panel Analysis of Underlying Casual Models
Joseph Weis and Edward Day, Univ. of Washington: An Experiment in Community Based Delinquency Prevention
Sally Sublette, Idaho State University: Child Sexual Abuse: The Socio-political Aspects of Program Development in a Conversation Rural Community
35.Mass Communications
Organizer and Presider: Susan B. Kaiser, UC Davis
Discussants: Margaret Rucker and Nicole Biggart, UC Davis
Robert Britt Horwitz, UC San Diego: Law, Technology and Social Change: The divestiture of AT&T
Joan L. Chandler, Susan B. Kaiser, and Margaret Rudy, UC Davis: Images of Older Adults in the Media: The Impact of Appearance-related Stereotypes on Older Consumers
David L. Altheide and Robert P. Snow, Arizona State Univ.: The Format of TV Network News
Laura L. Appleton and John R. Dugan, Central Washington Univ.: Media Broadcasts of Election Returns and Voter Alienation: (A five to ten minute “news note”)
36.World Systems
Organizer: Albert Bergeson, Univ. of Arizona
Presider: Edgar V. Kiser, Univ. of Arizona
Terry Boswell, Univ. of Arizona: The World System and Social Revolutions: An Exploratory Essay on Contradictory Locations in the World Formation
Larry Sirow and Lawrence Wu, Stanford Univ.: Ideological Processes of the World System: The Case of State Action on the U.N. Human Rights Instrument
Scott Werker, Univ. of Wisconsin: Beyond the Dependency Paradigm
Edgar V. Kiser, Univ. of Arizona; Kriss A. Drass, Western Washington Univ.: An Exploratory Study of the Determinants of the Production of Utopian Literature in the Modern World System
37.Phenomenological Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Myron Orleans, CSU Fullerton
Burke C. Thomas, Eastern Oregon State College and David W. Powell, U.S. Forest Service: The Problem of Practical Actor ‘Rationality’: Some Cases of Common Sense Response to ‘Exceptions’
Theodore Hajjar, Nicaragua Task Force – L.A. CISPES: Victims of Suicide: Some Explanatory Confusions
Janet Heken, Chapman College: Secrecy, Disclosure and Identity: The Social Control of Knowledge
Marianna King, Santa Monica Mid City Neighbors: The Phenomenological World of the Heavy Television Viewer
38.Socioogy of Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Organizer and Presider: Gary A Cretser, Cal Poly University, Pomona
Carol A.B. Warren, Univ. of Southern California: Electroconvulsive Therapy, the Self, and Family Relations
Libby O. Ruch, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa; Joseph J. Leon, Cal Poly Univ., Pomona; John Gartrell, Univ. of Alberta and Jerry Brennen, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa: Sexual Assault Trauma at Follow-up: An Exploratory Model and Multivariate Analysis of the Rape Trauma Syndrome
Richard Ropers and Marjorie J. Robertson, UC Los Angeles: The Urban Homeless: Deinstitutionalized or Disenfranchised?
Bartolomeo J. Palisi, CSU Fullerton: Voluntary Association and Subjective Well-Being in Three Metropolitan Areas
Wayne Wooden, Cal Poly University, Pomona: Severely Disturbed Juvenile Firesetters: A Comparative Perspective
39.Urban Sociology
Organizer: Amy Somers, Antelope Valley Domestic Violence Council
Presider and Discussant: John Wardwell, Washington State University
Charles F. Hohm, San Diego State Univ.: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Residential Income Property Ownership Patterns
Gerald K. Barrish, Univ. of Washington: Status Maintenance in Central Cities, 1950-1970
Marjorie Robertson and Richard Ropers, UC Los Angeles: The New Urban Homeless in Los Angeles
40.Presidential Address
Presider: William R. Catton, Jr., Washington State University
Speaker: LaMar T. Empey, University of Southern California
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1984
41.Urban Sociology II
Organizer and Presider: Kenneth D. Bailey, UC Los Angeles
Laura Nathan Mills College: Social Science Data Archives: Resource for the Urban Researcher
Jacqueline Sherer, Oakland Univ.: School-Community Interorganizational Networks in a Desegregated Urban Field
Rosalie J. Palisi, Bartolomeo J. Palisi, CSU Fullerton: Status and Voluntary Associations: A Cross-Cultural Study of Males in Three Metropolitan Areas
Kenneth D. Bailey, UC Los Angeles: From POET to PISTOL: Moving Beyond the Ecological Complex
42.Social Psychology
Organizers: Judith A. Howard, Univ. of Washington; Gary I. Schulman, UC Santa Barbara
Presider: Judith A. Howard, Univ. of Washington
Peter L. Callero, UC Riverside: Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Role-Identity
Roseann Giarusso, UC Los Angeles: Incorporating Exchange Concepts in Structural and Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Role Theory
Inger J. Sagatun, UC Riverside: Social Interaction Between Handicapped and Non-Handicapped Persons
Fred W. Reed, William H. McBoom, Susan G. Simmons, Clarence E. Burns, Lee Hargraves, Russell Henderson, Nancy Trankel, Roger B. Baeth, Margi Wales, Montana State Univ.: Family Structure, Youth-Parent Agreement and Behavior: Rethinking Intergenerational Transmission of Value
Toshio Yamagishi, Hokkaido University, Japan: An Experiment on the Free-Riding Problem
43.Death and Dying
Organizer and Presider: Harold A. Widdison, Northern Arizona University
Discussant: Howard R. DeLaney, Northern Arizona University
Emma Coffin, Idaho State Univ.: Resolving the Problem of Care takers in a Death and Dying Situation
Glenn M. Vernon, Univ. of Utah: Dying is Preferable to Living
Harold A. Widdison, Northern Arizona Univ.: Ethical Research Considerations: Interviewing the Dying and Bereaved
Victor A. Christopherson, Univ. of Arizona: Dimensions of Bereavement: Elderly Widows
44.Gender Roles-II
Organizer: Richard Vandiver, Univ. of Montana
Presider: Michael Low, Univ. of Montana
Discussant: C. LeRoy Anderson, Univ. of Montana
Patricia Thomas Crane, CSU Fullerton: Childbearing Postponement and the Decision to Parent or Not as They Relate to Wives’ Career Plans and Occupational Variables
Scott Swain, UC Irvine: The Feminization of Love
Robert W. Duff, Univ. of Portland; Lawrence K. Hong, CSU Los Angeles: Women Bodybuilders: The New Femininity?
Kathryn Ann Farr and Joseph Jones, Portland State University: Gender Roles in Urban Single Bars
45.Sociology of Art
Organizer and Presider: Chandra Mukerji, UC San Diego
Bennetta Jules-Rosette, UC San Diego: The Tourist Art System: A Methodology for Analyzing Popular Art and Culture
Ray Hutchinson, Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas: Blazon Nouveau: Symbolic Representation in Chicato Grang Graffiti
Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk, UC San Diego: Gender and Death: The Funiary Art of Tonga
Kathryn Callahan, UC San Diego: The Folk-Art Museum: A Problem of Definition
46.Criminology
Organizer and Presider: Bernard Berk, CSU Los Angeles
Joel Best, CSU Fresno: Crime and Control in the Twin Cities: Organizational Practices and Arrests in Minneapolis-St. Paul 1889-1913
Donald Gibbons and Annette Jolin, Portland State Univ.: Policing The Police: The Portland Experience
Raymond G. DeVries, Westmont College: Midwifery on Trial: Legal Regulations and Misbehaving Midwives
Rose Weitz and Deborah Sullivan, Arizona State Univ.: Virtuous Deviance and Identity Maintenance Among Midwives
47.Death and Dying (Now Session 43)
48.Teaching Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Sheila M. Cordray, Oregon State University
Richard P. Baker, Boise State University: Writing: An Overlooked Teaching Technique for Sociology
Ronald W. Fagan, Jr., Pepperdine University: An Evaluation of a Semester Urban Internship Program: Implications for Applied Sociology
David E. Kaufman, Central Washington Univ.: Computer Assisted Instruction in Sociology—Is it
