1988 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, THE RIVIERA HOTEL, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, APRIL 6-8, 1988
THEME: A FESTIVAL OF SOCIOLOGY
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1988
SESSIONS
1.Professional Development Workshop
Rachel Kahn-Hut, San Francisco State; Barbara Roseblum: Getting Published in Professional Journals
2.Sociological Theory: Implications of Micro Processes
Organizer and Presider: Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside
Charles Powers, Univ. of Santa Clara: Role Definition as a Fundamental Process
Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside: The Microdynamics of Social Structure
Stephen R. Fuchs, UC Riverside: On the Microfoundations of Macro Sociology: A Critique of Microsociological Reductionism
3.Applied Gerontology: Bridging the Gap Between Theory, Research and Practice
Organizer and Presider: Andrea Fontana, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas
Discussant: Lori Kolbet, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas
Victoria D. Alexander, Stanford Univ.: Aging as a Societal Sector: Causes and Consequences of the Structuration of the Aging Industry
Eleen Bauman, Oregon State University: Progress and Problems in Research on Elder Abuse
Kareen A. Lyman, Univ. of Southern California: Theoretical and Policy Implications of Comparative Field Research in Alzheimer’s Day Care Centers
4.Cults and Social Influence
Organizer and Presider: Richard Ofshe, UC Berkeley
Sara Diamod, UC Berkeley: Wolves in Shepard’s Clothing: Religion and Politics
Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, UC Berkeley: Youth Culture and Satanic Cult Formation
David Allen, UC Berkeley: Revolutionary Rhetoric in a Cult Setting: A Case Analysis
Richard Ofshe, UC Berkeley: Police Brainwashing in America
5.Women and Technology
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Celia J. Orona, UC San Francisco
Kathryn A. Patterson, UC San Francisco: The Prevention of Preterm Birth as it Impacts on the Experience of Being Pregnant
Carol Ireson, Willamette Univ.: Women and Technology in Rural Lao Villages
Nan Paulsen Chico, CSU Hayward: Sex Preselection: Women and Technology
6.Education and the Black Presence In American Science
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Race/Ethnic Minorities
Organizer and Presider: Earl Smith, Washington State Univ.
Discussant: James Blackwell, Univ. of Massachusetts-Boston
Willie Pearson, Jr., Wake Forest Univ.; Richard Wells, Univ. of South Alabama; Richard Picou, College Station Texas: Race and Universalism in American Science and Sport: Some Theoretical Considerations
Kenneth Bechtel, Wake Forest Univ.: The Black Presence in American Science: A Socio-Historical Overview
Bernice Anderson, Educational Testing Service; Earl Smith, Washington State University: Application, Acceptance and Graduate Rates for Black Medical Students at Majority Medical Schools
7.Law and Social Control
Organizer and Presider: Ronald A. Farrell, New Mexico State Univ.
Discussant: Joseph R. Gusfield, UC San Diego
Edwin M. Lemert, UC Davis: Visions of Social Control: Probation Considered
Leslie t. Wilkings, State Univ. of New York at Albany: Abolishing Crime: Toward a Concept of Social Harm
Mark Calvin, George Mason Univ.: Control of the Underclass in a Dual Labor market
8.Filmkaleidscope
Film: God and money
9.Professoinal Development
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Teaching
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ.: Improving Student Writing
10.Substantive Roundtables
Organizers: Ann Sudngren, Tacoma Community College; Pepper Schwartz, Univ. of Washington
Nancy E. Durbin, Pennsylvania State Univ.: Determinants of Occupational Choice: Comparing Men and Women in Sweden
Karen D. Pyke, UC Irvine: Androgyny in Age-Heterogamous Marriages
R. Eric Havier, UC Berkeley: Media and Society: The Utilization and Effects of New Technologies
Christopher Birkbeck, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela; Patricia Bolton, Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers; Harvey Williams, Univ. of the Pacific: Problems in Field Research: Examples from Latin America
Katty Joy French, UC Riverside: Determinants of Job and Family Satisfactions: A Comparison of In-Home and Out-of-Home Workers
Jane Reisman, Pacific Lutheran University: Are We Really Having a Computer Revolution?
Natalie Margulies Berman, Grant Administrator-California Dept. of Transportation: An Exploration in Rhetorical Sociology: The Use of Semiotics in Developing a Metatheory for the Sociology of Knowledge
11.Poster Session
Coordinators: David R. Schmitt, Univ. of Washington; Robert W. Shotola, Portland State Univ.
Charles Maxson, Grand Canyon College: Teaching the Marriage and Family Class
Joseph F. Jones, Portland State Univ.: Concepts in Cartoons: The Border of Sociology
Joseph J. Leon and Gary A. Cretser, Cal Poly Pomona: Confidential and License Marriage in California, 1974-1984
Lisa M. Heilbronn, UC Berkeley: The Seniotics of Alcohol: A Consideration of Alcohol Consumption on Television in the Context of Current Communications Research
Robert W. Shotola and Kathryn A. Farr, Portland State Univ.: Gender Schemata: A Factorial Approach
Steven J. Gold, Whittier College: Creatures as Commodities
12.Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime
Organizer and Presider: John C. Quicker, Cal State Dominguez Hills
Daniel Glazer and Margaret A. Gordon, Univ. of Southern California: Monetary vs. Confinement Penalties for Misdemeanors
Arthur J. Ramirez, Cal State Long Beach: Project ‘CIEN’ – Comprehensive Intervention Education Network/Program to Reduce Crime Among Chicano Juveniles
Richard D. Harries, Univ. of Portland; Michael Cole, Street Home for Boys: Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Sociological Study
David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado: Working Notes on Reforming Micro Delinquency Theory
13.Sociology of Health and Medicine
Organizer and Presider: Clyde R. Pope, Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region
Kurshida Khanom, NIPSOM– Dhaka, Bangladesh; Robert C. Leonard, Univ. of Arizona: A Hygiene Experiment in Rural Bangladesh: 1986
Viktor Gecas, Monica Seff, Margaret Ray, Washington State: Injury and Depression: The Mediating Effects of Self-Concept
Donald Freeborn, Clyde Pope, Bentson McFarland, John P. Mullooly, Center for Heath Research – Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region: Social Factors as Predictors of Mortality Among the Elderly
14.Sociological Study of Mormon Life
Organizer and Presider: Wilford E. Smith, Brigham Young University
John Jarvis, Washington State Univ.: Mormonism and the American Kingdom of God
Phillip Kunz, Brigham Young Univ.: Family Names Across Generations
Evan T. Peterson, Brigham Young Univ.: Grandparent-Grandchild Relations in the LDS Subculture
Jodi O’Brien, Univ. of Washington: A Rational Choice Explanation of the Basis of Voluntary Cooperation Among Mormons
Stan Albrecht and Marie Cornwell, Brigham Young Univ.: Life Events and Religious Change
15.Research On Women: Self Identity and Life Options
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Linda Heuser, Univ. of Oregon; Fred Hutchinson, Cancer Research Center
Barbara M. Lerch, UC Davis: Normal Schools and Finishing Schools: Comparing Educational Options for Ladies in Nineteenth Century America
Virginia Olesen, UC San Francisco: Dynamics of Change in One’s Profession and Self-Assessment: A Research Note on Aging Among Mid-Life Women
Mary Lou Parker, Univ. of Oregon: Choosing to be Childless: A Study of Voluntarily Childless Women
Jean E. Veevers and Sue Diers, Univ. of Victoria: Women’s Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Relationships: Life Stages and Life Satisfaction
16.Peace and War
Organizer and Presider: John Lofland, UC Davis
Jerome Rabow, Anthony C.R. Hernandez, Lynn R. Sappington, UC Los Angeles: American, English and Swedish College Students’ Attitudes Toward Peace and War
William Brigham, UC San Diego: Noncontentious Peace Organizations: Beyond War and Similar Associations
Earl A. Molander, Portland State Univ.: A Strategic Defense for Strategic Defense: The Military-Industrial Complex Defends Star Wars From its Critics
Sheila Cordray and Brandy Britton, Oregon State Univ.: Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam Veterans: Analysis of an Oregon Cohort
17.Community and Urban Sociology
Organizer and Presider: David L. Morgan, Portland State University
Tonya L. Schuster, Univ. of Michigan; Edgar W. Butler, UC Riverside: Characteristics of Personal Communities and Reciprocity
John S. DeWitt, Sandra K. Neese and James T. Richardson, Univ. of Nevada Reno: Identity, Work, and Attributions of Responsibility Among the Homeless
Julie K. Kaufman and Dennis W. Roncek, Kansas State Univ.: Patterns of Condominium Development: The Case of Denver
Glend Tellis and James B. Pick, UC Riverside: Types of Communities in the Borderlands Region of Mexico
18.Film Kaleldescope
Film: 10:30 The Last Empire
Film: 11:15 Ethnic Notions
19.Plenary
The Human Rights Movement: An Assessment in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Organizer and Presider: Leonard Gordon, Arizona State Univ.
Discussant: Troy Duster, UC Berkeley: On Assessing the State of Human Rights Since Dr. King
Rudolfo Alvarez, UC Los Angeles: On the Hispanic Emergence
A.Wade Smith, Arizona State Univ.: On Dimensions of Black Social Policy Views
Jean Stockard, Univ. of Oregon: On Women’s Aspirations and Equal Opportunity
20.Professoinal Development Workshop
Lionel A. Maldonado, American Sociological Association: The ASA Certification Program for Sociological Practice
21.Substantive Roundtables
Organizers: Ann Sundren, Tacoma Community College and Pepper Schwartz, Univ. of Washington
Kathryn Henderson, UC San Diego: Language and Power in Group Decision-Making
Jean E. Veevers, Univ. of Victoria; Ellen M. Gee, Simon Fraser Univ.: Godliness and Loneliness? Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Religion and Dimensions of Family Structure
Patricia Cee, Chapman College: Structural Aspects of Denial in Families
T.F. Hartnagel and H. Krahn, Univ. of Alberta: Labour Market Status and Criminal Behavior Among High School Dropouts
Alexandra Naryanski, UC Riverside: Is There a Biological Basis of Human Social Organization?
Laurinda Herrick, UC Davis: Deconstructing Gender: Androgyny as a Mythical Construct
Michael A. Toth, Weber State College: What is There to Guide Us? The Argument for Gender
22.Social Change: Modernization and Development
Organizer and Presider: George M. Thomas, Arizona State University
Robert Fiala, Univ. of New Mexico: The International System, Labor Force Structure, and the Character of Development in Lesser Developed Countries
Susan Tiano, Univ. of New Mexico: Export Processing and the Female Labor Force: A Case Study from Northern Mexico
Thomas B. Gold and Gwo-shyong Shieh, UC Berkeley: Transitions from Authoritarianism in East Asia: Empirical Observations
Eun Mee Kim, Univ. of Southern California: The United States vs. Japanese MNC (Multinational Corporations) Investments in Korea
23.Perspectives on the Family – I
Organizer and Presider: Jane C. Hood, Univ. of New Mexico
Discussant: Karren Baird Olson, Univ. of New Mexico; Chester Winton, San Jose State University
Judith A. Barker, Univ. of Oregon: Family Autonomy vs. Intervention: ‘Ideal’ vs. ‘Non-Ideal’ Families
Fred Sklar, San Jose State University; Shirley F. Hartley, CSU Hayward: Grief as a Family Affair: The Exclusion of Close Friends as Legitimate Survivors
Mary Riege Laner, Arizona State Univ.: Competition and Combativeness in Courtship: Reports from Men
Mildred Daley Pagelow, CSU Fullerton: Neither Baby Nor Adults – Victims of Family ; Violence Nobody notices – Adolescents
24.Sociology of the Offbeat
Organizer and Presider Douglas Degher, Northern Arizona University
Azmy Ibrahim, San Jose State Univ.: Televisions as an Inanimate Primary Group
Charles Varni, Hancock College: Political Socialization: The Case of the Golden Girls of Wrestling
Pat Wasielewski, Judith A. Morrison and Kathy Ogren, Univ. of Redlands
Doug Degher and Stu Hadden, Northern Arizona University: Side-Kicks, or This is a Fine Mess You’ve Gotten Me Into’
25.Sociological Issues In Criminal Justice
Organizer and Presider: Henry N. Pontell, UC Irvine
Ronald W. Fagan, Pepperdine Univ.: Knowledge and Suppor for the Criminal Justice System
Sally S. Simpson, Univ. of Oregon: Corporate Crime as Strategy: The Intra-Organizational Sources of Anti-Trust
Hiroshi Fukurai, UC Berkeley; Edgar W. Butler, UC Riverside; Richard Krooth, California Institute of Management: The Rights of Black People: The Supreme Court, Equal Representation of Peers and Jury Selection Between 1880 and 1980
Henry N. Pontell, UC Irvine: Jail Overcrowding in California
26.The ‘New’ Immigrants: Social and Economic Adaptation
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Race/Ethnic Minorities
Organizer and Presider: Michael Omi, UC Berkeley
Don Mar, San Francisco State Univ.: Ethnic Labor Markets: A Case Study of Recent Chinese Immigrants
Richard P. Baker, Boise State Univ.: The Refugee Assimilation: A Study of Polish and Czech Refugees
Reynaldo Baca, Dexter Bryan, and Anotonio Gomez, CSU Dominguez Hills
27.Gender and Work
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Jane Prather, CSU Northridge
Janet Lee, Mankato State Univ.: Promotion of Female Work Culture in Direct Sales
Victoria Billings, UC Los Angeles Retail Dress for Success: Key-Noting Women’s Career Opportunities in a Transformed Garment Industry: 1899-1940
Sally Raskoff, CSU Northridge: Family Leave, Flexible Benefits, Child Care: Employer Responses to Women’s Increased
28.Film Kaleidesope
Film: Downwind, Downstream
29.Pleary Session: The Ten0Year Outlook Report on the Social Sciences
Organizer and Presider: Stanley Lieberson, UC Berkeley
Respondents: Herbert L. Costner, Univ. of Washington; James F. Short, Washington State Univ.; Morris Zelditch, Stanford University
Neil J. Smelser, UC Berkeley: Overview of the Ten-Year Report on the Social Sciences
30.Business Meeting
Stanley Lieberson, 1988 PSA President
Frederick W. Preston, 1988 PSA Secretary-Treasurer
31.Plenary Session: Sociological Issues in AIDS
Organizer and Presider: James A. Wiley, UC Berkeley
Richard A. Berk, Univ. of Southern California: Anticipating the Social Consequence of AIDS
Jamea A, Wiley, UC Berkeley: Sociological Aspects of AIDS Transmission
THURSDAY, APRIL7, 1988
32.Professional Development Workshop
Clarice Stasz, Sonoma State Univ.: Chairs Workshop: Helping Disillusioned , Apathetic or Burnt-out Facility
33. Computer Applications – Demonstration
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Teaching
Coordinator: Lee Haggerty, Portland State Univ.
Using Micro Computers in Teaching and Research: Software Demonstrations
Organizer and Presider: John Hedderson, Univ. of Texas El Paso
Presenters: Howard Daudistel, Univ. of Texas El Paso; Richard J. Harris, Univ. of Texas San Antonio; John McQuiston, Univ. of Montana Missoula; John Hedderson, Univ. of Texas El Paso
34.Medical Sociology: Issues for the 1990’s
Organizer and Presider: Daryl Evans, Univ. of Kansas
Karen Seccombe, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage: Shifting Demographics and Social Change: Who Should Care for Our Elderly?
James T. Richardson, John DeWitt and Sandra Neese, Univ. of Nevada, Reno; Don Carns, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas: Attitudes Toward Aids and Confidentiality of Test Results
Pamela J. Riley and Gary Kiger, Utah State Univ.: The Relationship Between Stress, Social Support, and Chronic Illness in Rural Areas
Stan Deviney and Judith Wartman, Univ. of Kansas: Changes in Employee—Provided Insurance, 1951-1984
35.Contemporary Ethnography
Organizer and Presider: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State University
Maryellen Boyle, UC San Diego: Entry Into the People’s Republic of China: A Meta-Linguistic Prescription for Culture Shock
Charles P. Gallmeier, CSU Long Beach: Juicing, Burning and Tooting: Observing Drug use Among Professional Hockey Players
Steve Cornish, Univ. of Redlands: The Ethnography of Industrial Decline
Christopher Schmitt, Oregon State Univ.: On the Bus: Following the Grateful Dead
36.Race and Sport: Contributions to Social Theory
Organizer and Presider: John C. Phillips, Univ. of the Pacific
Discussant: James Frey, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas
Earl Smith and Monica Seff, Washington State Univ.: The Segregation by Position in Baseball Hypothesis Revisited
Hal Charnofsky, CSU Dominguez Hills: Sport Sociology and Race Relations Courses: Where Have You Gone Jackie Robinson?
37.Critical Theory
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: David R. Dickens, Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas
David Harvey, Univ. of Nevada, Reno: Models of Poverty: A Critical Theory Approach
Jams Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ.: Community and Critical Theory
William Bogard, Whitman College: Sociology in the Absence of the Social: The Significance of Baudrillard for Contemporary Social Thought
David Ashley, Univ. of Wyoming: Habermas and Post-Modernism
38.Complex Organizations
Organizer and Presider: Ronald W. Smith, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas
Discussant: Donald Carns, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dean Frease, Univ. of Lethbridge: Taking Dialectics Seriously: Dialectics and the ‘Degeneration’ Thesis in a Producer Coop
Mark C. Suchman, Stanford University: Toward an Institutional Ecology: Notes on the Structural Dynamics of Organizational Communities
Geremia Veglia, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas: Organizational Logic: A Critique of Abrahamsson
39.Sociology of Everyday Life
Organizer and Presider: John M. Johnson, Arizona State Univ.
Discussant: David L. Altheide, Arizona State Univ.
Celia J. Orona, UC San Francisco: The Temporal Dimensions of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alan L. Ryave, CSU Dominguez Hills; Noelie Rodriguez, Univ. of Hawaii, Hilo: Telling Lies in Everyday Life
William R. Catton, Jr., Washington State Univ.: Institutionalized or Endemic Deceit
Patricia Adler, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Peter Adler, Univ. of Denver: The Everyday World of College Athletics
40.Film Kaleidoscope
Film: Speaking Our Peace
41.Professional Development Workshop
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Teaching
Carol Barnes and Dean Dorn, CSU Sacramento: Teaching Critical Thinking in a Sociology Class
42.Teaching Roundtables
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Teaching
Organizer: Ann Sundgren, Tacoma Community College
Lee H. Bowker, Humboldt State Univ.; J. Richard McFerron, David M. Lynch, and Joni Masquelier, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania: Supporting Teaching and Faculty Development in Sociology: Research in Progress
Jeanne Kohl and David McNabb, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Research & Teaching Horizons: Taking the Interdisciplinary Approach
Daniel Haytin, Sonoma State Univ.: Classroom Discussions as the Central Element in Teaching Effectiveness
Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang, Univ. of Washington: Public Opinion in an Era of Continuous Polling: Are There Alternatives to Survey Research?
Ann Neel, Univ. of Puget Sound: Uses of Personal and Family History in Teaching Sociology
Reed Geertson and Ralph Brown, Utah State Univ.: Strategies for Improving Teaching in Sociology
Roberta Lessor, Chapman College: Teaching About Peace and War in the Context of a Liberal Arts Freshman Seminar
43.Computer Assisted Instruction in Introduction To Sociology Courses
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Teaching
Organizer: James Lee Christensen, Boise State Univ.
Presider: Anthony Walsh, Boise State Univ.
Ellis L. Knox, Boise State University: Computer Graphics in the Classroom
James Lee Christensen, Boise State Univ.: Statistics and The Computer in Introductory Classes
44.Law and Society
Organizer: Ronald R. Farrell, New Mexico State Univ.
Presider: Henry J. Steadman, Policy Research Association, SUNV-Albany
Discussant: Robert F. Meiser, Washington State University
Mark C. Suchman, Stanford Univ. and Yale Law School: Invention and Ritual: Notes on the Relationship of Magic and Intellectual Property in Non-Literate Societies
Karen Joe, UC Davis: Milk Carton Madness: The Heart of the Missing Children Crisis
Mark S. Kaplan and Steven Hecker, Univ. of Oregon: Employee Drug Testing as Social Control
John DeWitt, Litigation Technologies, Reno, Nevada; Elaine Enarson, Univ. of Nevada, Reno; Mary Pat Treuthart, Nevada School of Law: Gender Bias in Nevada Courts
45.Current Topics in Social Psychology
Organizer: Karen Cook, Univ. of Washington
Presider and Discussant: Norman Alexander, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
David Newman, Univ. of Washington: Power and Attributions in Close Relationships
Stephen Patrick, UC Riverside: Freud’s Gender Identification Theory: A Sociological Reinterpretation of a Computer Simulation
Linda Boynton, UC Davis: Attire as a Reflection of Mennonite Identity
Paul M. Wegner, Boise State University: Basic Training: Discipline and the Soldier
46.Political Sociology: Democracy, Politics, The State
Organizer and Presider: G. William Domhoff, UC Santa Cruz
Yong-chuan Liu, Stanford University: An Examination of the Non-Linear Relationship Between Socio-Economic Development and the Democratic Performance
Berch Berberoglu, Univ. of Nevada, Reno: The Crisis of the State in Late Capitalist Society
Michael P. Allen and Philip Broyles, Washington State Univ.: Class Hegemony and Political Finance: The Presidential Campaign Contributions of Wealthy Capitalist Families
G. William Domhoff, Stevenson College, UC Santa Cruz: The Ruling Class Does rule: The Confessions of Fred Block and the Origins of the IMF
47.Religion and Politics in the United States
Organizer and Presider: David r. Norsworthy, Whitman College
Discussant: James T. Richardson, Univ. of Nevada, Reno
Gilbert R. Cadena, Stanford University: Religion and Politics in the Southwest: Chicano Clergy and Empowerment
David R. Norsworthy, Whitman College: Southern Baptists Turn Political
48.Research on Women: Methodological and Policy Issues
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Jean Stockard, Univ. of Oregon
Sharon K. Araji, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage; Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman, Washington State Univ.: The Status of Women in the Pacific Sociological Region: An Update
Masako Ishii-Kuntz, UC Riverside: Comparative Views on the Status of Women: Japan and the United States
Cathy Reback, Whittier College: Researching Lesbian Sexualities: Sociology and Marginality
49.Health Consequences of the Nuclear Age
Organizer and Presider: Ronald A. Hardert, Arizona State Univ.
Rumiko Nakai, Arizona State University: Hibakusha: Victims of Atomic Bombs
Michael E. Karian, Arizona State University: Nuclear Weapons Testing: A Historical Analysis of Effects on Human Populations
Ronald A. Hardert, Arizona State Univ.: Health Consequences of the Nuclear Fuel and Weapons Cycles: Methodological Considerations
Debra A. Edwards, Arizona State Univ.: On Becoming a Peace Protester: The Process of Becoming a Civil Disobedient
50.Film Kaleidoscope
10:30 – Still Killing Us Softly
11:15 – A Game Called Justice
51.Plenary Session: Critic Meets Author
Critics: Troy Duster, UC Berkeley; Hardy Frye, UC Santa Cruz; Earl Smith, Washington State University
William Julius Wilson, Univ. of Chicago: The Truly Disadvantaged
52.Professional Development Workshop
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Teaching
Fred Campbell, Univ. of Washington: Training Graduate Students to Teach
53.Social Psychology: Reward and Punishment Applications
Organizer and Presider: Louis Gray, Washington State University
Mark Stafford, Washington State University: Individual and Social Choice: Punishment and Reward Punishments
Irving Tallman, Washington State Univ.: Reward and Punishment in the Structure of Groups
Sanford Dornbusch and Julie Elworth, Stanford University: Punishment and Reward Applications in Educational Settings
54.Perspectives on the Family – II
Organizer and Presider: Joseph W. Scott, Univ. of Washington
Robert E. Lee Roberts and Vern L. Bengston, Univ. of Southern California: Value Similarities and Contrasts in Three Generations Families
Andrea R. Greenberg, Washington State Univ.: Victims of Domestic Violence: Determinants of Their Length of Abuse
Myron Orleans and Bartolomeo Palisi, CSU Fullerton: Family Satisfaction of Step-Fathers: Marital Adjustment, Decision-Making and Step Children Relations
Joseph W. Scott, Univ. of Washington: We are FAM-I-LY: Black Male and Female Kin Networks
55.Demography and Population Issues
Organizer and Presider: Robert E. Rucker, Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas
E. Helen Berry, Utah State University: The Timing of Migration and Fertility
Richard H. Ropers and Oakley Gordon, Southern Utah State: The Demographics of a Rural Homeless Population
Linda Roe, Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas: Outmigrations in Rural Communities
56.Social Movements Involving Children
Organizer and Presider: James T. Richardson, Univ. of Nevada Reno
Maralee Mayberry, Univ. of Oregon: The Home Schooling Movement: Cleavages and Commonalities Among Movement Membership
Vernon Bates, Pacific University: Motivation and Resource Mobilization in the Fundamentalist Home School Movement
Earl Molander and Ellen West, Portland State Univ.: Public and Private Initiatives in the Corporate Childcare Movement
57.Popular Culture
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Ella Taylor, Univ. of Washington
Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington, UC Santa Barbara: The Hearts of Men and Women: Portraying Commitment in the 1980’s
Linda Boynton, UC Davis: The Use of Attire by the Amish and Mennonites in The Projection of Ethno-Religious Identity
Thomas Perdue, Univ. of Washington: MTV and Its Audience: Mass Media & Changing Conventions of Meaning
M.Trankel, P.A. Summers, T. Fowler, C. Buskirk, Arizona State Univ. & Univ. of Montana: A Behavioral Inventory for Identifying Types of Aggression
58.Men and Masculinity: New Directions In Theory and Research
Organizer and Presider: Alfredo Mirande, UC Riverside
Michael Mesner, Univ. of Southern California: Feminism and the New Men’s Studies
Elsa D. Valdez, UC Riversider: Latino Men and the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSR): An Empirical Analysis
Alfredo Mirande, UC Riverside: Are Latinos Really that ‘Macho’: Some Preliminary Findings and Observations
59.Women and Public Policy
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Johanna Brenner, Portland State University
Rebecca Warner, Oakland University: Economic, Political, Institutional and Demographic Determinants of Representative Bureaucracy: The Case of the Incorporation of Women into Municipal Police Departments
Leslie Minor and Kenneth S.Y. Chew, UC Irvine: Other People’s Children: Parental Status, Employment and Women’s Preferences in Government Policy Affecting Children
Janna Allquis, Portland State Univ.: Feminist Activists in Politics: The Relationship Between Socio-Economic Status, Political Goals, and Levels of Participation by Members of Woman’s Political Organization
60.Social Impacts of Hazardous Technologies: Nuclear Repository Issues
Organizer and Presider: Pamela Dee Elkind, Eastern Washington Univ.
Panelists: Stan Albrecht, Brigham Young Univ.; Chris Cluett, Battelle Human Affairs Res. Center; Riley Dunlap, Washington State Univ.; Tom Greidner, S.A.I.C; Bill Kelley, Eastern Washington University; Richard Krannich, Utah State University
61.Film Kaleidoscope
Film: Focusing on AIDS
62.PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Stanley Lieberson, UC Berkeley: Asking Too Much, Expecting Too Little
63.Plenary Session: Sorokin Award Winner Lecture
Presider: Thomas Gold, UC Berkeley
Lecturer: Andrew G. Walder, Harvard University: The Social Structure of Communist States: Implications of Research for Sociological Theory
64.Reception: ASA Minority Fellows
65.Reception: Graduate/Undergraduate Students
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1988
66.Professional Development Workshop
Gary Jensen, Univ. of Arizona: Publishing in Sociology Journals: Advice from Editors to Students
67.General Issues Concerning the Environment
Organizer and Presider: Patrick C. Jones, Montana State University
Philip Catton, Univ. of Western Ontario: Concerning the Implications for Critical Theory of an Affinity Between the Dialectical-Materialist Notion of Contradiction and the Ecological Notion of Succession
Robert A. Stallings, Univ. of Southern California: Acts of Nature, Human Agency, and Public Problems: An Examination of Keynoter Comments
Kenneth Liberman, Univ. of Oregon: The Native Environment
Lewis Carter, Washington State Univ.: Negotiation of Social Impact Scope Conditions: The Case of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State
Kostas Teriakidis, Oregon State Univ.: Environmental Sociology and the Conceptualization of Irrigation Transformation
68.Sociology of Arts and Literature
Organizer and Presider: Sam Gilmore, UC Irvine
Chandra Mukerji, Univ. of San Diego: Cultivating Power: A Sociology of Gardens
Jann Pasler, Univ. of San Diego: The Making of a Reputation
Victoria D. Alexander, Stanford Univ.: The Effects of Public and Corporate Funding on Art Museum Exhibits
Samuel Gilmore, UC Irvine: Repertory Organizations: The Rationalization of Artistic Activity
69.Criminology
Organizer and Presider: Don Gibbons, Portland State University
James W. Burfeind, Valparaiso Univ.: The Role of the Family in Delinquency Causation: A Consideration of Interaction Effects
Sharon F. Davis, Univ. of LaVerne: Incarceration and Perception of Time: The Expandable Present
Wayne S. Wooden, Cal State Polytechnic Univ. Pomona: Older Men Behind Bars
Kathryn A. Farr and Don C. Gibbons, Portland State University
70.Sociology of Knowledge
Organizer and Presider: Bilal Hashmi, Eastern Washington University
David Waller, UC Riverside: Dynamics of Accepting and Rejecting Discoveries in Sociology
Jeffers Chertok, Eastern Washington University: Social Interest and Categorical Structures: Conceptions of History and Social Change
Connie J. Veldink, Everett Community College: Scientific Controversy: The Bee Language Case
71.The Many Faces of Race-Ethnicity
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Race/Ethnic Minorities
Organizer and Presider: John Liu, UC Irvine
Gary A. Cretser, Cal State Poly-Pomona: Inter-ethnic Marriage in the United Kingdom
G. Nanjudappa, Cal State Fullerton; Robert Friif, UC Irvine: Health Behavior and Acculturation of Mexican-American Clinic Patients: Does Migration Status Make a Difference?
Larry Shinagawa and Amado Cabeza, UC Berkeley: Household Type and Wage Earner Occupational Status as Correlates of Household Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Nativity in California
72.Comparative/Historical Sociology: New Answers to Old Questions
Organizer and Presider: William Brustein, Univ.of Utah
Discussant: Len Hochberg, Stanford University
Edgar Kiser, Univ. of Iowa: Principal Agent Theory of the Absolutist State
Glen Perusek, Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Utah: The Internal Politics of the United Automobile Workers, 1967-1983: Rational Action in Changing Patterns of Industrial Conflict
Homa Firouzbakhch, Univ. of Utah: A Demographic Explanations of Revolution: The Cases of the French and Iranian Revolutions
Lana Harrison, Univ. of Michigan: Drugs: The Historical Antecedents of Legality and Illegality
John Hall, Univ. of Missouri: Mode of Discourse and the Problem of Historical Inquiry
73.Gender Issues in Health and Family
Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology
Organizer and Presider: Jane Prather, CSU Northridge
Libby Ruch and Stephanie Amedo, Univ. of Hawaii; John Gartrell, Univ. of Alberta: Assessment of Sexual Assault
Patricia Robinson, UC Davis: Managing a Women’s Problem: The Use of 19th Century Pressaries
Patricia O’Hagan, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: The Female-Male Relation and the Impact on the Pregnancy Process
Tamar Becker, CSU Northridge: Young Adults’ View of Their Parents: Gender Differentiation and Search for Intimacy
74.Professional Development Workshop
Lionel A. Maldonado, Director, ASA Minority Fellowship Program: The Challenge Ahead: The Recruitment of Minorities to Sociology. Current and New ASA Initiatives
75.The Use of Computers in Population Studies
Organizer and Presider: Ed Schafer, Portland State University
Edgar Butler, Glenda Tellis, James Pick, UC Riverside: A Systematic Approach to a Demographic and Geographic Data Base System for Mexico
Thomas Pullum, Univ. of Texas Austin; Lucky Tedrow, Western Washington Univ.; George Imerwahr, Univ. of Washington: Demographic Computing in Three Academic Environments: Commonalities and Differences
Jeffry Tayman, San Diego Area Council of Governments
76.Sociology of Emotions
Organizer and Presider: Eleen A. Baumann, Oregon State University
Juniper Wiley, UC San Diego: The Virtuoso, Amateur, and Strategist: Emotion Work and Emotion Roles in a Therapeutic Community
Laurice Lane Goldberg, Arizona State University: RET, Limerence and Jealousy
Steven M. Ortiz, UC Berkeley: Emotional Life of the Athlete’s Wife
Martin Tolich, UC Davis: Supermarket Emotion Work
77.Sociology of Health and Medicine – II
Organizer and Presider: Clyde R. Pope, Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region
David Asquith, San Jose State University: Student Responses to the AIDS Crisis
Robert M. Gray, David H. Justice, Donna J. Chapla, University of Utah: The Influence of Childhood Family Experiences on Sexual Practices and the Onset of Cancer of the Cervix
Anthony Walsh, Boise State University; Patricia Ann Walsh, Boise Veterans Administration Hospital: Love: Its Effect on Self-Esteem Among Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Stephen Bar, Brigham Young University: Family Relationships and Adolescent Drug Use
78.Work, Occupations and Professions
Organizer and Presider: Roberto M. DeAnda, Univ. of Arizona
Carole Diem, Univ. of Arizona: Is He Heavy? He’s My Brother: The Occupational Activity of Women Without Brothers
Melanie Archer, UC Berkeley: Self-Employment and Family enterprise in Industrializing Detroit: 1880-1900
Anna Russo Hazan, UC San Diego: Reduction in Force: What Happened to the Work?
Debora A. Paterniti, UC Davis: Giving Report: Narrative Competence and Social Control in a Medical Setting
79.Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Organizer and Presider: Jeff Ferrell, Regis College
Diane Favreau, UC San Diego: The American Food Revolution: Trend or Social Movement?
Christine M. Griffin, Boise State Univ.: Empowerment: A Study in the Rhetoric of Peace Movement Motives
Bartolomeo J. Palisi and Bonni Korn, CSU Fullerton: National Trends in Voluntary Association Memberships: 1974-84
Jeff Ferrell, Regis College: The Song the Capitalist never Sings: The Brotherhood of Timber Workers and the Culture of Conflict
80.Deviancy
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Steven R. Burkett, Washington State University
Carole Case, New Mexico State Univ. Las Cruces: Strain Theory: Illustration from Ethnographies of Subcultures
David Ward and S.R. Burkett, Washington State University: Moral Condemnation, Perceived Risk of Punishment and Marijuana Use
Carol A. Bailey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute/Sate University; Steve Gibbons and Merlin Darby, Western Oregon State College: Sexual Assault as a Contributing Factor in the Onset of Bulimia
Robert F. Meier, Washington State Univ.: Reconciling Reactivist and Normativist Conceptions of Deviance
