1996 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, WESTIN HOTEL, SEATTLE, MARCH 21-25, 1996
THEME: RENEWING OUR SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
Summary of Events
12:00 pm-7:00 pm Registration
1:00 pm-6:00 pm Sessions
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Welcoming Reception (Dessert)
THURSDAY: 1:00-2:30 PM SESSIONS
1. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
SOCIOLOGY’S CONTRIBUTION TO
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Organizer and Presider: Arnold G. Holden, USFS
Discussant: Sheila M. Cordray, Oregon State Univ
Robert E. Parker, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: The Threat to Sustainable Development in the Colorado River Basin: An Evaluation of Key Social Indicators
Tanya Pergola and Jarrett Paschel, Univ of Washington: Grumpies and Polyannas: New Evidence in the Debate Regarding Encounter Norms in the Wilderness Experience
2. FOCUS ON CROSS-CULTURAL MINORITY
FAMILIES
Organizer & Presider: Anees A. Haddad, La Sierra Univ
Discussant: Ian P. Chand, Loma Linda Univ
Augustine J. Kposowa, UC Riverside: Family and Racial Background Characteristics and Infant Survival in the U.S.: Evidence from the NMIHS
Ian P. Chand and Tamara A. Ilich, Loma Linda Univ: Satisfaction of Clients from Minority Families in Therapy with Marriage and Family Therapy Trainees
Anees A. Haddad, La Sierra Univ: The Maori Family of New Zealand - the Dawning of a Renaissance
3. CONSTRUCTING SEXUALITIES:
WOMEN’S NARRATIVES
Organizer and Presider: Lisa Jones, UC Irvine
Jennifer Dunn, UC Davis: Stalking Culture: Toward a Sociology of Violent Obsession
Alexandra Halkias, UC San Diego: Foreign Bodies, Sex and Nation: Abortion as Intervention in Modern Greece
Lisa Jones, UC Irvine: African American and European American Women Interpreting Their Sexual Lives: Love, Religion, Respect, & Power
4. VIRTUAL SELVES AND
VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Organizers: Lori S. Kendall and David R. Hall, University of California at Davis
Presider: David R. Hall, UC Davis
Discussant: Lori S. Kendall, UC Davis
Chad Thompson, York Univ: “Keeps Going and Going and Going” … Two Centuries of Virtualization
Ellis Godard, Univ of Virginia: Culture and Social Control on the Internet: A Behavioral Sociology of the Moral Order of Cyberspace
Julie M. Albright, Univ of Southern California: Now You See Her: The Emergence of Bisexual Identity in Text-Based Virtual Reality
5. PARTICIPATORY WKSHP: WAR, GENOCIDE,
AND OTHER LARGE-SCALE VIOLATIONS
OF HUMAN RIGHTS AS TOPICS IN
TRADITIONAL SOCIOLOGY COURSES
Organizer: Allen Grimshaw, Indiana Univ
Presider: Kurt Lang, Univ of Washington
Presenters: Allen Grimshaw, Indiana Univ
Kurt Lang, Univ of Washington
Michael Blain, Bosie State Univ
6. CHANGES IN AMERICAN WORK
PRACTICES & EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS
Organizer and Presider: Vicki Smith, UC Davis
Jennifer Bickham-Mendez, UC Davis: Of Mops and Maids: Continuities and Contradictions in Organized Paid Domestic Work
Gregory McLauchlan, Univ of Oregon: Where Community Meets Factory: The New Politics of Labor, Community, and Environmental Protection in High-Tech Industries
Judith Biewener, UC Berkeley: Workplace Transformation in the United States: Moving Beyond the Participative Model
7. IMMIGRANTS & ETHNIC COMMUNITIES: EVIDENCE FROM CALIFORNIA
Organizer & Presider: Abel Valenzuela, Jr., UCLA
Elizabeth Gonzales, UCLA: Determinants of Earnings and Employment Among Immigrant and Native-Born Latinos: The Relative Importance of Human Capital, Immigrant and Neighborhood Characteristics
Paul Lopez, Boise State Univ: Industry Location & Occup. Segmentation of Mexican & Anglo Immigrants, 1980-1990: An Empirical Analysis of Census Data of the LA Immigrant Community
Abel Valenzuela, Jr.,: UCLA: Labor Market Characteristics of Day Laborers in Los Angeles: Preliminary Findings
8. SPORT AND LEISURE
Organizer and Presider: Elizabeth E. Wheatley, UC Santa Cruz
Eddie Pate, Kevin Mihata, and Howard Stine, Univ of Washington: Working It Out: Attribution and the Presentation and Maintenance of Self
C. Keith Harrison, Washington State Univ: Perceptions of African American Male Student Athletes in Higher Education
Derek C. Coates, Univ of Michigan: Student-Athletes, Academic Success, and Self-Efficacy
8A. DIRECTIONS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING: ASSESSMENT, COLLABORATIVE LEARNING, AND LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Organizer and Presider: Anne Martin, Edmonds Community College
Peter Collier and Amy Driscoll, Portland State Univ: Assessing Student Outcomes in Service-Learning Classes
H. B. Cavalcanti, Univ of Richmond: Taking the Students Behind the Scences: Sociology of Education as an Education Practicum
Sharon Fuller, Univ of British Columbia: Here's the Beef: Power Pedagogy and Contemporary Cultural Studies
THURSDAY: 2:45-4:15 PM SESSIONS
9. DEMONSTRATIONS IN TEACHING
Organizer and Presider: Reed Geertsen, Utah State Univ
Giselle S. Blanche, CSU Fullerton: Awaken the Sociological Imagination with Music
Reed Geertsen, Utah State Univ: A Strategy for Making Research Data More Interesting
Christine Oakley, Washington State Univ: Teaching with Diversity in Mind
Don C. Larson, Continuing Education SW Utah: A Question Typology for Overcoming Student Reluctance in Electronic Distance Education
10. IDENTITIES ON THE MOVE: NEW
PERSPECTIVES IN IMMIGRATION STUDIES
Organizer: Diane L. Wolf, UC Davis
Presider: Kathie Friedman-Kasaba, Univ of Washington-Tacoma
Discussant: Jennifer Bickham Mendez, UC Davis
Norma Chinchilla, CSU Long Beach and Nora Hamilton, Univ of Southern California: Ambiguous Identities: Sojourner vs. Settler in the Context of Transnational Immigrant Communities
Diane L. Wolf and Lisa Hoffman, UC Davis: ‘Master Blenders’: Pilipino Immigrants & Contradictions in the Lives of Pilipino Immigrant Youth
Lionel Cantu, UC Irvine: Queer Borders: Sexuality, Citizenship, & Immigration Studies
11. SOCIALIZATION: THE (RE) PRODUC-
TION OF SOCIAL TEXTS AND PRACTICES
Organizer and Presider: Judith A. Howard, Univ of Washington
Discussant: Peter L. Callero, Western Oregon State College
Alicia D. Cast, Viktor Gecas, and Jan E. Stets, Washington State Univ: Reflected Appraisals and the Self-Concept: The Influence of Power
Peter J. Collier, Portland State Univ: Building Pro-Social Role Identities Through Socialization & Education: The Recycling Awareness Program
John N. Tinker, CSU Fresno: Ethnic Stereotypes Among College Students: A Classic Study Revisited
12. GREEN SOCIOLOGY: DYNAMIC PROCESSES
OF NATURE AS A SOCIAL REALITY
Organizer and Presider: Shelly K. Habel, Univ of Hawaii-Manoa
Discussant: Michael Meuser, UC Santa Cruz
Krista Paulsen, UC Santa Barbara: From Blowouts to Bureaucracies: Constructing Environmental Events as Democratic Opportunities
Olivier Tschannen and Catherine Lambelet, Universite de Neuchatel: The Social Construction of Global Warming
Joe Bandy, UC Santa Barbara: Spectacle or Sustainable Development? Global Regimes of Capital and the Management of the Natural Other in Ecotourism
13. DOWNTOWN PUBLIC LIFE? SPACES, PLACES AND PEOPLE
Organizer: Robert Herman, Pomona College
Presider & Discussant: Lyn H. Lofland, UC Davis
Russell Travis, CSU Bakersfield: Downtown Public Life: A Twelve Step Program of Recovery
Lawrence K. Hong, CSU Los Angeles and Robert W. Duff, Univ of Portland: The Center and the Peripheral: An Ecological Study of Dance Clubs in Los Angeles
Robert Herman, Pomona College: Downtown Placemakers and Public Life
14. PANEL: THE DISTRIBUTION OF
PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES & ITS IMPACT
ON DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD
Organizer: Laura Enriquez, UC Berkeley
Presider: David Myhre, UC San Diego
David Myhre, UC San Diego: Development Framed by Banking Standards: Campesinos, the State, & the Financial System in Rural Mexico
David Price, St. Martin’s College: The Relationship Between Power and Position in Irrigation Networks in Egypt’s Fayoum Oasis
Jack Thornburg, Univ of Puget Sound: Common Prop. in a Private Prop. World: Development & the Common Good in the Caribbean
15. PANEL: REVISITING THE CHILLY CLIMATE:
ISSUES FOR WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Organizer and Presider: Janet Lee, Oregon State Univ
Rebecca Warner, Oregon State Univ: Tenuring Women
Stephanie Sanford, Oregon State Univ: Sexual Harassment
Barbara Paige, Oregon State Univ: To Chair, Or Not To Chair
16. ECONOMICS AND CULTURE: A MACRO
PERSPECTIVE
Organizer and Presider: Nicole Woolsey Biggart, UC Davis
Discussant: Gary G. Hamilton, Univ of Wash.
Judith Sedaitis, Stanford Univ: Waking the Sleeping Giants: A Model of International High Technology Alliances with Transitional Economies
James P. Hawley, St. Mary’s College: Comparative Corp. Governance: Explaining Changing Patterns in France, the US, the UK & Germany
Daniel L. Jones, Univ of Arizona: How Can Culture Shape the Evolution of Industries? An Analytic and Conceptual Framework
16A. RACE, SEX, AND RESEARCH METHODS: TRANSNATIONAL REFLECTIONS ON TRANSGRESSIVE FIELD RESEARCH
Organizer and Presider, Frances Winddance Twine, Univ of Washington
Discussant: Jodi O'Brien, Seattle Univ
Julie O'Connell Davidson and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Univ of Leicester: Sympathy for the Devil: Deceit and Despair in Research with Sex Tourists
Jonathan W. Warren, UC Berkeley: The Value of Whiteness in Interracial Research: Race, Gender, and Nationality in Field Research in Brazil
Frances Winddance Twine, Univ of Washington: Transnational Transgressions: Reflections of a U.S. Black Feminist Studying Whiteness in Britain
THURSDAY, 4:30-6:00 PM SESSIONS
17. URBAN SOCIOLOGY
Organizer & Presider: Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., USC
Discussant: John Brown Childs, UC Santa Cruz
Robert E. Parker, UNLV: Military Spending and Urban Form in Southern Nevada
Angela James and Cynthia Cranford, USC: Black Women’s Urban Labor Market Experiences: The Los Angeles Case
Edward J.W. Park, USC: From Entry to Entrenchment: Korean Americans in the Los Angeles Garment Industry: 1970-1995
Eugene Labovitz, UC San Diego: Policy Implications of Racial Isolation of School Children in San Diego, California
18. THE FAMILY AND VIOLENCE
Organizer and Presider: Mary White Stewart, Univ of Nevada-Reno
Discussant: Sharon K. Araji, Univ of Alaska Anchorage
Yoko Baba, San Jose State Univ: A Comparative Study of Domestic Violence: Japanese and American Families
Shwu-Fen Wu and Candan Duran Aydintug, Univ of Colorado Denver: Informal and Formal Support Networks for Abused Women & Their Effectiveness: A Comparison of U.S. & Taiwan
Carol J. Ward and Elon Stander, BYU: The Effects of Recovery from Domestic Violence for Northern Cheyenne Women’s Identities And Roles within the Family and Community
19. COURTROOM DRAMATURGY AND THE
EXPERT WITNESS: THE CASE OF
CHANGE OF VENUE MOTIONS
Sponsored by the PSA Sociological Practice Committee
Organizer and Presider: Jerry Krause, Humboldt State Univ
Edmond Temple, St. Mary’s College: Change of Venue: Current Trends
Judith Little, Humboldt State Univ: Change of Venue: Sociologist Confronts the Real World
Ronald Dillehay, Univ of Nevada Reno: Social Science Evidence & Arguments for Changes of Venue
20. AIDS
Organizer: Ronald Andersen, UCLA
Presider: Charles Hunt, Univ of Utah
Charles Hunt, Univ of Utah: Historical Specificity and the Definition of AIDS
Fred W. Reed, Todd Rime, and William McBroom, Univ of Montana: Reactions to HIV/AIDS Policies Among University Students
Mary-Rose Mueller, UC San Francisco: Medical Administrators and the Allocation and Distribution of Professional Authority
21. WOMEN, HIERARCHY, AND EMOTIONS
AT WORK
Organizer and Presider: Marilyn Chap, UCSC
Discussant: Jane O’Dell, UCSC
Jennifer L. Pierce, Univ of Minnesota: Gender and Emotions in the Labor Process: Or ‘Are You My Mother?’ (Or My Paralegal?)
Bonnie Winfield, SUNY Binghamton: Women in Authority: Bitch or Nurturing Mother?
Marcia J. Marx, CSU San Bernardino: The Shadow Hierarchy and Women’s Power
22. LIFE STYLES AND IDENTITIES OF THE
INTERNATIONALLY MOBILE
Organizer, Presider and Discussant: Ann Baker Cottrell, San Diego State Univ
Brunhild Seeger-di Novi, Univ of Delaware: The Impact of Trans-Socialization on Identity & Self Concept of Immigrant Children & Adolescents
Kenji Ima, San Diego State Univ: Evolving Identities Among Southeast Asians
Simon Gottschalk, UNLV: Postmodern Biographies, Diasporic Subjectivities
23. COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF ETHNIC
CONFLICT
Organizer, Presider and Discussant: Pauline Spaulding, Univ of New Mexico
Garth Massey, Univ of Wyoming, Randy Hodson, Indiana Univ, and Dusko Sekulic, Flinders Univ: Fear, Power, and Anxiety: A Study of Ethnic/National Tolerance and Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia
Berch Berberoglu, Univ of Nevada Reno: Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the 20th Century: A Comparative Historical Analysis
Pauline Spaulding, Univ of New Mexico: The Current Status of Literature in Ethnic Conflict
24. THEMATIC SESSION WORKSHOP: USING
THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION TO
TEACH SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Presenters: David R. Simon & Joel Henderson, SDSU
24A. DIVERSE TOPICS I: RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE U.S.
Organizer: Ann Sundgren, PSA Vice Chair and Program Chair
Presider: Jane Prather, CSU Northridge
Discussant: Tony Cortese, Southern Methodist University
Grace Marvin, CSU Chico: Opposing Viewpoints: California's Proposition 187
Anne Roschelle, Univ of San Francisco: Networks of Care: Social Support in a Puerto Rican Community
Paul Miller, Univ of Montana: Hunger Among Montana's American Indians: Three Hunger Studies
Michele Dunbar and H. Edward Ransford, USC: The Ethclass Phenomenon and Its Effect on Public Opinion in American Society
THURSDAY 8:30-10:00 PM SESSION
WELCOMING RECEPTION [DESERT] [No Host Bar] Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching
FRIDAY, MARCH 22
Summary of Events
8:00 am-5:30 pm Registration
8:00 am-5:45 pm Sessions
8:30 am-5:30 pm Book Exhibits in St. Helen's
5:45 pm-6:30 pm PSA Business Meeting
8:00 pm-10:00 pm Films & Critical Thinking
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Aikido and Family Conflict: Demonstration/Lecture
FRIDAY: 8:00-9:45 AM SESSIONS
Commitee Meetings: 1995-96 Council 8-10 am
25. THE FAMILY AND POVERTY —
SAME-O? SAME-O?
Organizer and Presider: Gary D. Hampe, Univ of Wyoming
Darlene L. Pina, CSU San Marcos: Medi-Cal Beneficiaries’ Experiences in HMO & Fee-for-Service Health Care: Comparisons by Family Structure
Robert K. Leik, Univ of Minnesota and Mary Anne Chalkley, Univ of St. Thomas: By Whose Standard? Assessing Female Headed, Poverty Families from Three Races
Kristen Rigoni and Gary D. Hampe, Univ of Wyoming: The Escape from Poverty and/or Welfare: A Path Analysis
26. SYMPOSIUM: THEORIZING THE STATE
IN THE WORLD SYSTEM
Organizer & Presider: Richard P. Appelbaum, UCSB
Jieli Li, UC Riverside: The Dual Nature of the State
Sara Schoonmaker, Univ of Redlands: Constructing an Open Market
Cynthia Siemsen Maki, UC Santa Cruz: The Renter State as a Developmental State: Theoretical Implications for the Environment
Tomoji Ishi, UC Berkeley: Diversifying the State: American Grassroots Groups and Japanese Companies
27. SYMPOSIUM: RACE, ETHNICITY AND
STRATIFIED SYSTEMS
Organizer and Presider: Joanna Claire Grey, Univ of New Mexico
Herman DeBose, CSU Northridge: A Comparison of the Level of Job Satisfaction Among African American Managers Employed in Private & Public Sector Organizations
Shelly K. Habel, Univ of Hawaii Manoa: Ethnic Tourism in China: Cultural Degredation or Cultural Revival
Lisa Weber, Univ of New Mexico: A Community in Conflict: Intergroup Violence in Farmington, NM
28. DEMOGRAPHY
Organizer and Presider: Charles F. Hohm, SDSU
Discussant: Charles Hirshman, Univ of Wash.
Xuanning Fu, Brigham Young Univ, Hawaii: Interracial Marriage in Hawaii: 1983-1992
Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman, San Diego State Univ: Marriage Markets and Black/White Differences in Labor, Marriage, and Welfare
Byoung Mohk Choi, Utah State Univ: Income Comparisons of Migrants: Using the Korean National Migration Survey
29. INFORMAL PANEL: POWER AND
KNOWLEDGE: SELECTION AND INTER-
PRETATION OF SOCIAL PHENOMENA
Organizer and Presider: Bilal Hashmi, Eastern Washington Univ
Robert Dunn, Colorado Coll.: Power & Knowledge
Rutledge Dennis, George Mason Univ: Power and Ethnic Identity
Jim Nolan, Norfolk State Univ: Who Says Knowledge is Power? Cases From the Criminal Justice System
Fida Mohammad, E. New Mexico Univ: Covering Islam in America: A Critique of the Media
Nicholas Sofios, Providence College: Power and Environment: Who Defines the Issues?
30. RENEWING SOCIOLOGICAL THINKING:
SOCIAL THEORY ACROSS DISCIPLINARY
BOUNDARIES
Organizer and Presider: Richard L. Kaplan, Columbia Univ and Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, UC Santa Barbara
Discussant: Arlene Stein, Univ of Oregon
James V. Spickard, Univ of Redlands: Ethics & Social Theory: The Cross-Fertilization of Two Supposedly Disparate Disciplines Through An Evaluation of the Logic of Universal Human Rights
Barbara Laslett, Univ of Minnesota: How SIGNS Ruined Me for Sociology: Or, Feminist Scholarship, Interdisciplinarity, and Boundary Maintenance in Sociology
Orville Lee, Northwestern Univ: Cultural Studies and Sociology
31. POPULAR CULTURE
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Rhoda Estep Macdonald, CSU Stanislaus
Jonathan Markovitz, UC San Diego: Female Paranoia as Survival Skill: Reason or Pathology in A Nightmare on Elm Street
Faye Linda Wachs and Shari Lee Dworkin, USC: Magic=Hero, Louganis=Carrier: Sexual Identity and Media Framing of HIV+ Athletes
Laura C. Brewer, Arizona State Univ: News Coverage of Internet Crime
David Hall, UC Davis: Talkin ‘Bout My Generation: Culture, Generation, and Identity in American Life
32. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF
MASCULINITY
Organizer, Presider and Discussant: Harry J. Mersmann, Chapman Univ
Beth A. Quinn, Montana State Univ: Workplace Tactics of Resistance: Sexual Harassment and Masculine “La Perruque”
Susan B. Murray, Univ of Redlands: We All Love Charley: Child Care and the Social Construction of Masculinity
L. D. McPherson, Univ of Utah: Very Straight Gays? … NOT!!!
Jacque Lynn Folton, Univ of Redlands: The Original Narcissus: The Social Construction of Masculine Beauty
33. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION: RECENT
STUDIES
Organizer and Presider: Martin Monto, Univ of Portland
Chester A. Winton, San Jose State Univ: Being One’s Own Informant: Applying Blumer in a Postmodern World
Dean Harper, Univ of Rochester: Some Sociological Observations on the Craft of Acting
Terri Anderson, UCLA: Accounting for God
Norman Alerta and Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ of Colorado, Denver: Athletic Achievement and Athletic Participation: Relationship Between Commitment to College Student-Athlete Role Identities and Role Performance
Paul M. La Marca and W. Alex Mason, Univ of Nevada, Reno: Self-View of Young Children: A Partial Test of the Reflected Appraisal Process
34. QUANTITATIVE METHODS: NEW
SOLUTIONS TO OLD PROBLEMS
Organizer & Presider: Julie Brines, Univ of Wash.
Discussant: Herb Costner, Univ of Washington
Daniel Rosenstark, Univ of Washington: Hollow Cores: Critiques and Alternatives
Jay Teachman and Karen Carver, Washington State Univ: Using Repeated Measures to Estimate BIAS
David Price, St. Martin's College and Devon D. Brewer, Univ of Washington: The Relationship between Power and Position in Irrigation Networks in Egypt's Fayoum Oasis
35. PANEL: PROBLEMS IN TEACHING AND
RESEARCH/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: CUR-
RENT DILEMMAS & FUTURE DIRECTION
Organizer and Presider: Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ
Jennifer Reich, Univ of California Davis
Sheila Henry, National Univ
Peter Phillips, Sonoma State Univ
36. MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT
Organizer and Presider: Lori A. Cramer, Oregon State Univ
Discussant: Sheila Cordray, Oregon State Univ
Elizabeth A. Schulte, Utah State Univ: New Management Practice for Our Public Lands: From Multiple Use to Ecosystem Management
Gordon Smith, Univ of Washington: Learning and Action in Implementation of the President’s Northwest Forest Plan
Wendy A. Sanborn, Utah State Univ: The Effect of Gender on Wildlife Professionals’ View Toward Stakeholder Priortization in Wildlife Management
Dawn M. Coppin & Krissa N. Wrigley, Utah State Univ: The Public’s Risk Assessment of Pesticides and Hazardous Waste
37. TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Organizer: Elaine A. Draper, UC Berkeley
Presider: Celia Orona, San Jose State Univ
Judith Sedaitis, Stanford Univ: Commercializing Military Technology: An Organizational Analysis of Russian Defense Conversion
Celia Orona, San Jose State Univ: Sociological Implications of Genetic Technology
Azmy Ibrahim, San Jose State Univ: The High-Tech Revolution: From Work Ethics to Leisure Ethics
38. SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE
Organizer and Presider: Stephan Fuchs, Univ of Virginia
Steven Ward, Western Connecticut State: The Two Cultures and Postmodern Theory
Kristin Barker, Linfield College: A Ship Upon A Stormy Sea: The Medicalization of Pregnancy
Loren Lutzenhizer, Washington State Univ and Elisabeth Shove, Center for the Study of Environmental Change, Lancaster U.K.: Coordinated Contractors and Contracting Knowledge: The Organizational Structure of Energy Efficiency
William Pearson, Jr., Wake Forest Univ: Ethnicity and the Baccalaureate Origins of Ph.D. Chemists
FRIDAY: 10:00-11:45 AM SESSIONS
Commitee Meetings: Committee on Teaching 10-11 am
Committee on Student Affairs 11-12 am
39. PANEL: MIGRATION & GENDER RELATIONS
Organizer: Parvin Abyaneh, Cal Poly
Presider: Norma Chinchilla, CSU Long Beach
Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley: Transnationalism, Migrancy and Gender Relations
Ann-Marie Fortier, Goldsmith College: Diasporic Community & the Self: Gendered images of the self in London Italian Religious Practices
Judi A. Kessler, UC Santa Barbara: Undocumented Latinas and Immigrant Status: Negotiating The fronteras of Illegality in Everyday Life
40. PANEL: BECOMING CITIZENS:
PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL
SOCIALIZATION
Organizer and Presider: Peter L. Callero, Western Oregon State College
Robert C. Liebman, Portland State Univ: A Perspective on Religion and The Public Sphere
Maureen Dolan, Western Oregon State College: A perspective on State Formation and Gendered Citizenship in Nicaragua
Jodi A. O’Brien, Seattle Univ: Perspectives from a Marginal Citizen
41. PANEL: ASIAN AMERICANS
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Hien Duc Do, San Jose State Univ
Zulema Valdez, UCLA: Ethnic Differences in Self-Employment Among Korean and Mexican Men in Los Angeles, 1960-1990
Linda Vo, UC Berkeley: Asian Americans, Asian Immigrants, and The Politics of Mobilization
David Asquith, San Jose State Univ: Asian American Students’ Experiences and Perception of the Campus Climate at a Large Muti-Ethnic Univ
42. ISSUES OF FREEDOM AND CONTROL ON
THE INTERNET
Organizer and Presider: Barry M. Dank, CSU Long Beach
Lance M. Cottrell, Infonex and Barbara Flowers Cottrell, UC Riverside: Implications of the Cypherpunk Revolution
Denise M. Dalaimo and Melissa J. Monson, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: Cyber-Society: Anarchy or Freedom of Speech
Jerry Schutte, CSU Northridge: The Politics of Communication on the Net: Notes on the Legal/Social Ramifications of Free Speech
Juniper Wiley, CSU Long Beach: Censorship in Cyberspace: The Orwellian Nightmare
43. WHITHER COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL
SOCIOLOGY?
Organizer: Jack A. Goldstone, UC Davis
Presider: Rosemary Hopcroft, Univ of North Carolina, Charlotte
Robert E. Buck, San Diego State Univ: Agency, Power Resources, and Economic Change
Rebecca S.K. Li, UC Riverside: Macro-Structural Analysis in Historical Sociology
Martyn Kingston, Univ of Puget Sound: Comparative South African and American Frontier and Early Urbanizing Experiences
44. CAREER TRAJECTORIES AND CAREER
CRASHES
Organizer and Presider: Barry Glassner, USC
Discussant: Linda Fuller, Univ of Oregon
Ruth Arnold, Univ of Connecticut: The Processes and Duration of Contingent Employment: The Impact of Education
Alicia V. Torres, UC Santa Barbara: White Collars and Pink Slips: How will Jobless Professionals use Weak Ties in the ‘90s?
Douglas Degher and Richard Fernandez, Northern Arizona Univ: Becoming Deadwood: Transformations of Identity
Debora Bone, Stanford Univ: Transformations in a Female Profession: Emotion, Work, and Nursing, from Florence Nightingale to Total Quality Management
*45. SPECIAL SESSION: MEET THE AUTHOR:
LOS DOS MUNDOS, RURAL MEXICAN AMERICANS, ANOTHER AMERICA
Organizer: Ann S. Sundgren: PSA Vice-President
Presider: Leonard D Cain, Jr. Portland State University
Richard Baker, Boise State Univ: Los Dos Mundos: Rural Mexican Americans, Another America
*46. SPECIAL SESSION: FEMINIST THEORY:
A CONTINUING CONVERSATION
Organizer and Presider: Pamela Roby, UCSC
Joan Acker, Univ of Oregon andDorothy E. Smith, Ontario Institute for Education: Feminist Theory: A Continuing Conversation
47. INFORMAL PANEL: THE DEVIANT
POSITION OF CRIMINOLOGISTS IN
SOCIOLOGY
Organizer and Presider: Randy R. Gainey, Old Dominion Univ
Randy R. Gainey, Old Dominion Univ and L. Edward Day, Univ of Memphis: Publishing Criminology in the Sociological Trinity: The Past 25 Years of ASA, AJS and SF
L. Edward Day, Univ of Memphis, Robert J. Bursik, Jr., Univ of Oklahoma, and Bruce J. Arneklev, Florida Atlantic Univ: Jumping a Sinking Ship or Cruising to Paradise: Making the Move From Sociology to Criminal Justice
Robert D. Crutchfield, George S. Bridges, & Joseph G. Weis, Univ of Wash.: The Deviant Role of Criminology: Reflections on the Decision to Stay
48. PARTICIPATORY PANEL: STUDENT
RESISTANCE TO SENSITIVE TOPICS:
CONFRONTING MYTHS, STEREOTYPES
AND BIAS
Organizer and Presider: Paul W. O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus: Overcoming Stereotypes in Race and Ethnic classes
Walter E. Doraz, CSU Stanislaus: Myths and Reality in Gerontological Courses
George D. Muedeking, CSU Stanislaus: Victim Contests: Constructing Victimhood in a Victimology Class
Margaret Schlaug, CSU Stanislaus: Sensitive Cultural Issues in Teaching
49. PANEL: ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT
Organizer and Presider: Denise Lach, Battelle Seattle Research Center
Discussant: Grey McLauchlan, Univ of Oregon
Tanya Pergola, Univ of Washington: Rational Capitalism Hunts Down the Endangered Species Act
J. William Gibson, CSU Long Beach: Playa Vista: Theme Park for the 21st Century?
Luiz Barbosa, San Francisco State Univ: Indian Identity and Environmental Conflict in the Brazilian Rainforest: A World-Systemic View
Gary Lasky, UCSC: Impact of Differential Urban Settlement Patterns on Flooding in California
50. NEW FAMILY, NEW PERSPECTIVES ON
THE FAMILY
Organizer and Presider: Patricia A. Gwartney, Univ of Oregon
Discussant: Mirian M. Johnson, Univ of Oregon
Nancy J. Davis, DePauw Univ, and Robert V. Robinson, Indiana Univ: Class Identities of Wives and Husbands in the United States, 1974-1994: Independent, Borrowed, or Shared?
Patricia Emerson, Univ of Southern California and Jane Bock, Cal State Polytechnic Univ: Extremes Converge: Shared Stigma in Opposing Marital Structures
Scott Harris, Univ of Oregon: Equality and Marital Satisfaction: A Research Proposal from a Sociological Perspective
Celia J. Orona, San Jose State Univ: The “Work” of Negotiated Identity: Today’s Grandmothers
51. PERSPECTIVES ON GENOCIDE IN THE
20TH CENTURY
Organizer and Presider: Carol Edelman, CSU Chico
Kelly Cooley, Univ of Nevada, Reno: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Genocide: A Sociological Analysis of the Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Arlene Stein, Univ of Oregon: Sex, Death and Historical Memory: The Holocaust as Symbolic Resource for Contemporary Social Movement
Robert Johnson, American Univ and Paul S. Leighton, Univ of San Francisco: Black Genocide?: Preliminary Thoughts on the Plight of America’s Impoverished Blacks
Carol Edelman, and Samuel Edelman, CSU Chico: Sociopathic Mass Persuasion: A Precursor of Genocide
52. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION: THE
EMPIRICAL EDGE
Organizer and Presider: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State Univ
Andy Fontana & William Miller, UNLV: 8 Ball in the Corner: a Symbolic Image of Pocket Billiard
Dee Southard, Univ of Oregon: Uneasy Sanctuary: Homeless Campers Using Public Lands
David L. Altheide, Arizona State Univ: Fear and the Ecology of Communication
Stan Saxton, Univ of Dayton: An Empirical Analysis of Coordinated Activity
Clark Molstad, CSU San Bernardino: Coping With Work Alienation: Storytelling as a Release
FRIDAY: 12:00-1:45 PM SESSIONS
Commitee Meetings: Committee on Nominations 12-1 pm
Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities 1-2 pm
53. ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON PATIENT AND PROVIDER BEHAVIOR
Organizer: Ronald Andersen, UCLA
Presider: Sharon Fuller, Univ of BC
Sharon Fuller, Univ of BC: A Radical Rewriting?: Psychiatry and the Anorexic Body
Michael Hechter and James Ranger-Moore, Univ of Arizona and Guillermina Jasso, NYU: How Does Social Structure Affect Behavior?: The Indeterminacy of Individual Values
Marian Katz, UCLA: Alternative Medicine as a Mode of Doctor-Patient Interaction
54. WOMEN, RACE, AND INCARCERATION
Organizer: Dula J. Espinosa, Arizona State Univ
Presider & Discussant: Connie L. McNeely, UCSB
Garry L. Rolison, Arizona State Univ: Substance Abuse and Racial Differences Among Currently Incarcerated Women
J.R. Woodward, Arizona State Univ: Female Incarceration by Race
George Tacker & Ernie Thomson, Arizona State Univ-West Campus: The Decline in the Execution of Women in the U.S. in the 20th Century
Dula J. Espinosa, Arizona State Univ: The New Trend in Poor, Female-of-Color Offenders: Motherhood, Drugs, and Fetal Abuse
55. PANEL: GAY AND LESBIAN RELATION-
SHIPS: FRIENDSHIPS, FAMILIES, AND
OTHER STRANGERS
Organizer and Presider: Peter M. Nardi, Pitzer College
Discussant: Lawrence Sneden, CSU Northridge
Dwight Fee, UC Santa Barbara: Coming Over: Friendship Between Straight and Gay Men
Dana Rosenfeld, UCLA: Family Relationships & Social Worlds of the Lesbian and Gay Elderly
Linda Silber, Southern Utah Univ: Lesbian Mothers in Utah’s Promised Land
Christopher Carrington, Univ of Massachusetts: Kin Work Among Lesbigay Families
Marieka M. Klawitter, Univ of Washington: Did They Find Each Other or Create Each Other?: Labor Market Linkages Between Partners in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples
56. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Organizer & Presider: Karen Seccombe, Univ of Florida
Melanie Stander, Univ of Wash.: A Social Structural Theory of Premenstrual Syndrome: Female Labor-Force Participation & Educational Attainment
William H. McBroom and Fred W. Reed, Univ of Montana: Antecedents and Consequences of the Termination of Prenatal Care
Gail Balzell-Long, CSU Chico: Implications for Midwifery in Rural Northern California
Eldon L. Wegner, Univ of Hawaii, Manoa: Some Good News About Reducing Health Inequalities: Changes in the Assoc. of SES & Low Birth Weight
Sally Bowman, Alexis Walker, Alan Acock, and Fuzhong Li, Oregon State Univ: Subjective Assessments of Health in Elderly Mother-Adult Daughter Pairs
*57. SPECIAL SESSION: CONSTRUCTING
INCLUSIVE SOCIAL THEORY: TRANS-
FORMING THE PRIVILEGED DISCOURSE
OF THE DISCIPLINE
Organizer: PSA Comm. on the Status of Women
Presider: Jean Stockard, Univ of Oregon
Judith Howard, Univ of Washington
Scott Coltrane, UC Riverside
Janet Lee, Oregon State Univ
58. INFORMAL PANEL: WASTE MANAGE-
MENT, COMMUNITY, AND TECHNOLOGY:
CONTEMPORARY POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Organizer and Presider: J. D. Wulfhorst, Utah State Univ
Panelists: Kristi Branch, Battelle
Patricia Boiko, Univ of Washington
Eugene Rosa, Washington State Univ
Lori Cramer, Oregon State Univ
J.D. Wulfhorst, Utah State Univ
59. SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DYS-
60. FUNCTIONAL FAMILIES AND CODEPENDENCY
Organizer and Presider: Charles Varni, Allan Hancock College
Gary A. Cretser and William K. Lombardo, Cal State Polytechnic Univ, Pomona: Codependency Reexamined: Enabling to Labeling, Abnormality and Gender Difference
Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska Southeast and Ed Bodiford, Tarleton State Univ: The Branch Davidians: An Alternative Family Form?
Pamela Marques, CSU Stanislaus: Dysfunctionality and Codependency: An Ecofeminist Perspective
Charles Varni, Allan Hancock College: Feminist Perspective on Codependency: A Critical Analysis
60. ROUNDTABLES
Presider: David Kaufman, Central Wash. Univ
Table 1: Student Experience
Sponsored by the Comm. on Student Affairs
Dennis Loo, UCSC and Ginna Babcock, Univ of Idaho: Surviving Grad School: The Experience for Traditional and Non-traditional Students
Lisa Slattery Ra
shotte, Univ of Arizona: Student Involvement in Prof. Sociological Assoc.
Table 2: Potpourri I
Herman L. DeBose & Loretta Winters, CSU Northridge: Identity Issues of Bi-Racial Individuals
Hazel Hull, UCSB: Families without Fathers: The “Baby Boom” Among Single Women & Lesbian Couples
Table 3: Sociology and Sociologists
Jerry S. Maneker, CSU Chico: The Credibility of Sociology
John R. Dugan, Central Wash. Univ: The Sociologist as Consultant: Opportunity & Conflict
James D. Goltz, EQE International Inc.: Sociologists in Unique Multi-Disciplinary Settings
Fred Preston, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: Sociological Reprise: Credibility, Applicability, and Political Inanity
Table 4: Gender I
Adam Arvidsson, Univ of Lund: Movies Stars, Individuals, and Human Beings: The Consumer in a Swedish Women’s Magazine 1945-1990
Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSU Los Angeles: Gender Differentiation in Social Constructions of Success in Popular Magazines
Nella Van Dyke and Brenda Wilhelm, Univ of Arizona: Gender and Social Movements
Table 5: Threat Against Tenure
Sponsored by the Comm. on Civil Rights & Liberties
Presider and Discussion Leader: Georgie Ann Weatherby, Washington State Univ Vancouver
Presenter: James T. Richardson, Univ of Nevada Reno: The Threat Against Tenure as an Issue in Academia
Table 6: Development in the Third World
Organizer Laura Enriques, UC Berkeley
Wen H. Kuo and Hsu-chih Cheng, Univ of Utah: Democratic Transformation and Public Contestation: The Case of Taiwan
Philip Kretsedemas, Univ of Minnesota: Western Ideology, Third World Politics: A Critical Review of the Divestment of the Jamaican Media
Table 7: The International Impacts of U.S. Drug Policy
Eric L. Jensen, Univ of Idaho and Benedikt Fischer, Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto
Table 8: Topics in Symbolic Interaction
Gary Tiedeman, Oregon State Univ: Teaching Symbolic Interaction
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ: Writing Symbolic Interaction
Table 9: Mental Health Issues
Kerry M. Brooks, Univ of Minnesota: The ‘Prozac Boom’: Depression, Normalization, Women, and the Media
Diane Favreau, UC San Diego: Shrink Resistance: Psychiatric Consumers/Survivors as a New Voice in the Mental Health System
Thomas Hunnicutt, Humboldt State Univ: Shame and Rage: Emotions and the Social Construction of Dissociated Personalities, A Discourse Analysis of the Bridge Gulch Massacre in 1852 in Northern California
61. COURTSHIP & MARRIAGE PROCESSES
Organizer: Mary R. Laner, Arizona State Univ
Presider: J. Neil Russell, Arizona State Univ
Mary Riege Laner and J. Neil Russell, Arizona State Univ: The Pleasures and Problems of Dating: Middle and Late Adolescent Experiences Compared
Shelly Habel, Univ of Hawaii, Monoa: Social Change, Economic Reform and Wedding Behavior in Urban China
Lawrence K. Hong, CSU Los Angeles: Japan’s Response to the Marriage Squeeze of the 80s: Adaptation and Innovation in Courtship
Vincent Jeffries, CSU Northridge: Toward a Theory of Marital Quality and Stability: The Dynamics of Virtue and Attraction
62. CRIME, LAW & SOCIETY IN THE 1990s
Organizer and Presider: Richard A. Leo, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
Stacey Squires, CSU Dominguez Hills: Law Enforcement and Conflict Management
Hiroshi Fukurai and Darryl Davies, UC Santa Cruz: Presumption of Innocence: Factual Innocence vs. Legal Innocence
Steven Patrick, Shannon Smith, and Devin Dinius, Boise State Univ: Differences in Inmate-Inmate and Inmate-Staff Altercations
63. STYLES OF REFLECTION: POPULAR
CULTURE AND THE ARTS
Organizer and Presider: George H. Lewis, Univ of the Pacific
Discusssant: Robert Shotola, Portland State Univ
Marshall Battani, UC Davis: Routinizing Nostalgia: The Emergency of Photographic Meaning in Nineteenth Century America
Leslie Cole, USC: Best Pictures and New Right Politics: The Construction of Race and Gender in Hollywood’s Unforgiven and Forrest Gump
Randy Blazak, Portland State Univ: Conflict and Functionalist Paradigms in Popular Music: Marx and Durkheim in the Top 40
Jacqualine Pagani, UC Irvine: Political Correctness & Legitimation: Ideological Competition in the Los Angeles Performance Art World
64. THE SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIOLOGY
Organizer: David Waller, Univ of Texas Arlington
Presider: Stephan Fuchs, Univ of Virginia
Jason D. Smith, Univ of Arizona: Plutzner’s Thesis and Professional Distance in Sociological Training: A Qualitative Study
Natalie Margulies Berman, California Dept of Transportation: An Inquiry into the Logic of Sociological Explanations: Preliminary Work toward an Expistemology for Sociology
Martin Orr, Boise State Univ: The Vocabulary of Sociology, 1973-1994: A Content Analysis
65. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION: TRAILS AND
REFLECTIONS
Organizer and Presider: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State Univ
Steven Black, Office of the Public Defender: War Crimes, Conscience and Community: The Case of Steven Black, Alice Metzger and Katherine Ann Power
Lewis Carter, Washington State Univ: Finding Facts and Making Sense: The Researcher’s Ambivalent Challenge
Kenneth Liberman, Univ of Oregon: From Meditation to Walkabout: Ways of Knowing and Being Known
66. SOME POLITICAL AND ETHICAL IMPLI-
CATIONS OF REALITIES OF & RESEARCH
ON GENOCIDE AND OTHER LARGE-
SCALE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Organizer and Presider: Allen D. Grimshaw, Indiana Univ
Discussants: Troy Duster, UC Berkeley and Kai Erikson, Yale Univ
David Stannard, Univ of Hawaii: Was the Holocaust Unique?: History as Culture Violence
Gideon Sjoberg, Univ of Texas: Human Rights: Implications for Social Theory & Research
FRIDAY 2:00-3:45 PM SESSIONS
Commitee Meetings: Awards Committee 2-3 pm
Membership Committee 3-4 pm
*67. SPECIAL SESSION PANEL: THEORETICAL
RENEWAL FROM THE MAINSTREAM:
CRITICISMS OF THE ANTI-SCIENCE
MOVEMENT IN SOCIOLOGY
Organizer & Presider: Jonathan Turner, UC Riverside
Stephan Fuchs, Univ of Virginia
Karen Cook, Duke Univ
Randall Collins, UC Riverside
Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford Univ
Jonathan Turner, UC Riverside
68. MODELING SOCIAL ACTION
Organizer and Presider: Joseph M. Whitmeyer, UNC-Charlotte
Angelo A. Alonzo and Nancy R. Reynolds, Ohio State Univ: The Structure of Emotions During Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Model of Coping
David Gutierrez Karp, Univ of Washington: Egoistic vs. Moral Cooperation: Will Free Individuals Provide Collective Goods?
Guillermina Jasso, New York Univ and Murray Webster, Jr., UNC-Charlotte: Modeling the Gender Gap in Fair Incomes
Joseph M. Whitmeyer, UNC Charlotte: The Power of the Middleman - A Theoretical Analysis
69. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION: SELF AND
SENSIBILITY
Organizer and Presider: Martin Monto, Univ of Portland
Discussant: Leah Robin, UCLA
Norbert Wiley, Univ of Ill. and UCB: 3 Views of the Self: Substantive, Decentered, & Eliminated
Kenneth Allan, UNC Greensboro: Toward a Neo-Median Theory of the Self
Scott Grills, Augustana Univ College: The Sociologists’ Moment (or When Things Fall Apart): Problematic Action, Uncertain Relations, and the Convention Floor
Seth Fisher and Patricia Kosich UC Santa Barbara: Symbolic Interactionism and the Object Relations Theory of Early Socialization
70. DIASPORA, GLOBAL MIGRATION, AND
WORLD SYSTEMS
Organizer and Presider: Keiko Yamanaka, UCB
Discussant: Ruth Simms Hamilton, Mich. State Univ
Vandana Kohli, CSU Bakersfield: A Century of the Asian Indian Presence in the U.S.
Kristi Hagen and Kooros Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Univ: Tibetan Refugees in the United States: Assimilation or Accommodation
Kyeyoung Park, UCLA: Floating Identities: Creation of a Korean Transnational Space among Korean Immigrants form South America
Keiko Yamanaka, UC Berkeley: A New Diaspora: Return Migration of Japanese-Brazilians in Japan
71. FEMINISM AND FAMILIES
Organizer and Presider: Sue Maria Wright, Eastern Washington Univ
Discussant: Miriam Johnson, Univ of Oregon
Karla B. Hackstaff, Northern Arizona Univ: Marriage and Construction of Ideology: Wives Construct Male Dominance & Gender Equality
Kay Aldrich, Southern Oregon State College: Gender, Sexuality and Kinship: Portraits of Lesbian Families in the 1990s
Janet Lee and Jennifer Sasser-Coen, Oregon State Univ: Sexualization and Changing Relationships in the Family at Menarche
Andrea Tiffany, Eastern Washington Univ: Approaching the Sociology of Children from a Feminist Perspective
72. TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS FROM A
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Organizer and Presider: Charles F. Hohm, San Diego State Univ
Charles F. Hohm, San Diego State Univ: Globalizing the Curriculum in Social Problems with Attention to Local Problems
James A. Glynn, Bakersfield Coll.: The World’s Children: Problems of Poverty, Disease, & Neglect
Fenno Ogutu, Diablo Valley College: Globalizing the Curriculum in Social Problems: Developing Countries and the Case of Africa
*73. SPECIAL SESSION PANEL: THE
GREENING OF SOCIOLOGY
Organizer and Presider: Albert Bergesen, Univ of Arizona
Lee Freese, Washington State Univ
Sing C. Chew, Humboldt State Univ
Alexandra Maryanski, UC Riverside
Andrew Szasz, UC Santa Cruz
74. PANEL: THE SOCIOLOGY OF CYBERSPACE
COMMUNITIES
Organizer and Presider: Marc A. Smith, UCLA
Peter Kollock, UCLA: Gift Economies in Cyberspace Communities
Byron Burkhalter, UCLA: Race in Cyberspace: The Culture of Costless Communities
Lori S. Kendall, UC Davis: Is There A There, There? Exploring the Limits of a Virtual Community
Mary Virnoche, Univ of Colorado: Gemeinshaft & Gesellshaft: Community and Transition in Electronic Forums
75. INEQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE I:
GENDER AT WORK
Organizer: Jennifer L. Pierce, Univ of Minn.
Presider: Deborah Smith, Univ of Minnesota
Karen Pugliesi, N. Arizona Univ: Gender, Jobs and Emotional Labor in Complex Organization
Sharon Bird, Washington State Univ: Stand By your Man? Workgroup Heterogeneity as a Determinant of Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction
Charlene Suneson, USC: The Effect of Physical Requirements of Occupations on the Job Satisfaction of Women
76. THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Organizer and Presider: James L. Wood, San Diego State Univ
James L. Wood, San Diego State Univ: The Future of Higher Education: An Overview
Jess Bravin, UC Berkeley and Kevin Welner, UCLA: Preserving the Future of Public Higher Education Through the Initiative Process
Rolf Schulze, San Diego State Univ: Unions and the Future of Higher Education
Darla A. Calvet, Palomar Community College & SW Community College: Adjunct Faculty: A Valued Investment or Temporary Labor Source?
Ger Veglia and Kym Dawson, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology: Perceptions of Organizational Structure and Outcome Measures of First Nations Education in Canada
Ramona Romain, CSU Fullerton: Alternative Education, Summer Bridge: Its Impact on Individual Self-Concept and Academic Development for Higher Education
**77. THEMATIC SESSION CONVERSATION:
THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION AT
WORK: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Organizer and Presider: Ann S. Sundgren, PSA Vice President
Arnold G. Holden, U.S. Forest Service: The Sociological Imagination at Work: Developing Environmental Policy
Robert Nash Parker, Prevention Research Center: Violence, Substance Abuse, and Public Health
78. MASS MEDIA
Organizer and Presider: Rhoda Estep Macdonald, CSU Stanislaus
Discussant: Barry Dank, CSU Long Beach
Lisa Bond-Maupin and Gray Cavender, Arizona State Univ: A Devoted Mother: Women As Victims on Reality TV
P. Terry Macdonald, San Jose State Univ: Prime Time Crime Revisited, 1995-1996
Lisa Barnett and Michael P. Allen, Washington State Univ: Social Classes, Alternative Readings, and Popular Texts: Audience Reception of E.R.
Ashakant Nimbark, Dowling College: Worshipping at the Electronic Altar: TV Viewers in India
79. CLASS, GENDER, & ETHNIC IDENTITY
Organizer and Presider: Stephanie A. Marquez, CSU Hayward
Discussant: Cynthia Cranford, USC
Marc Pizarro, UCLA: The Social Construction and Evolution of Chicana/o Identity: Lessons for Community-Based Change
JoAnn De Fiore, Whitman College: Gender and Race Differences in Friendship
Nella Van Dyke, Univ of Arizona: Toward a Theory of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Barbara Trepagnier: Inverted Standpoint Theory
*80. SPECIAL SESSION: MEET THE AUTHOR -
LILLIAN RUBIN AND READERS:
FAMILIES ON THE FAULT LINE
Organizer and Presider: Pamela Roby, UCSC
Author, Lillian Rubin: Families on the Fault Line: America’s Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race and Ethnicity
Readers: Troy Duster, UC Berkeley; Evelyn Nakano Glenn, UC Berkeley; Scott Coltrane, UC Riverside
80A. Conversation with Community College Sociologists
Sponsored by the ASA
Presider: Carla Howery, Deputy Executive Officer, ASA
[Come and have tea/coffee with representatives of the American Sociological Association, the Pacific Sociological Association, and state associations to talk about smiliarities and differences in teaching sociology in different types of institutions and contexts.]
FRIDAY 4:00-5:45 PM SESSIONS
Commitee Meetings: Committee on Committees 4-5:30 pm
81. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION: INTERPRETING
COMMUNITY THROUGH FILM
Organizer and Presider: Marry B. Adelman, Seattle Univ
Marry B. Adelman, Seattle Univ and Lawrence R. Frey, Loyola Univ, Chicago: The Fragile Community: Studying Communication and Community Life in a Residential Facility for People with AIDS
*82. SPECIAL SESSION: THE SOCIOLOGICAL
CONTRIBUTIONS OF AARON CICOUREL
Organizer and Presider: Hugh B. Mehan, UC San Diego and Melvin Pollner, UCLA
Renee Anspach, Univ of Michigan
Troy Duster, UC Berkeley
Robert M. Emerson, UCLA
Allen Grimshaw, Indiana University
John Kitsuse, UC Santa Cruz
Harvey Molotch, UC Santa Barbara
Reception to follow
83. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: THE ENVIRON-
MENTAL MOVEMENT
Organizer and Presider: Angela G. Mertig, Washington State Univ
Discussant: Lisa R. Carley, Wash. State Univ
Victoria Sturtevant, Southern Oregon State College: Forest Community Partnership Groups: Transformative Practice or Social Movement
Brian Elliott and Raewyn Bassett, Univ of British Columbia: Contested Identities: Grassroots Struggles over Health Environmental Hazards in the Lower Fraser Basin
Mik Moore, Cabrillo College: Coalition Building Between Native American and Environmental Groups in Opposition to Development: The Case of the New Los Padres Dam Project
Tony Silvaggio, Humboldt State Univ: Grassroots Environmental Organizations
84. SPACE, PLACE, IDENTITY: THE SOCIOLOGY
OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Melinda J. Milligan: UC Davis
Bonnie M. Winfield, State Univ of NY-Binghamton: Creating a Place to Call Home: Community Land Trusts and Rebuilding of an Urban Neighborhood
Andrew Sussman, Univ of New Mexico: Re-Placing the Big Sky: The Politics of Identity in Northwest Montana
Thomas F. Gieryn, Indiana Univ: Cloning Laboratory Space for Molecular Biologists
85. WOMEN, NATIONALISM, FUNDAMEN-
TALISM, AND CITIZENSHIP
Organizer and Presider: Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley
Shelley Feldman, Cornell Univ: Position as Contexts and Frames: Interpreting Fundamentalism and Contested Citizenship in Contemporary Bangladesh
Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley: Subjectivity and Gendered Citizenship, Political Participation in the Community of God
Alexandra Halkias, UC San Diego: Conceiving Female Citizenship in Modern Greece: Nation and Greek Orthodoxy in the Press, Portrayals of Abortion
Dana M. Greene, Univ of Michigan: Gendered Symbols and Religious Nationalism in Egyptian Women’s Novellas
Thembisa Waetjen, Univ of Oregon: Imagined Continuities: Historicizing the Concept of a Gendered Nation
86. VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES AND COMMU-
NICATION: THEORIZING A SOCIOLOGY
OF THE INTERNET
Organizer: Robert Nideffer and Benjamin Bratton, UC Santa Barbara
Presider: Paolo Gardinali, UC Santa Barbara
David Decker, CSU San Bernardino: A Comparison of Presentation of Self in Cyberspace with Face-to-Face Interaction
Rodney Beaulieu, UC Santa Barbara, and Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ventura College: Constructing a Virtual Community Through Electronic Communication: The Case of Distance Education
Julie Albright, Univ of Southern California: Post Organic Sociology: Challenges to Research on the Cyber Frontier
Denise M. Dalaimo and Melissa J. Monson, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: Is that Appropriate Behavior?: Sub-cultural Norms in Cyberspace
87. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
ON INTIMACY AND FAMILY
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: David M. Newman, DePauw Univ
Pamela Preston, UC Riverside: The Effect of the Presence of Children on Adults’ Activity and Life Satisfaction
Paul T. Munroe, Stanford Univ and Yoko Baba and Lorraine S. Converse, San Jose State Univ: Maintenance of Self Identity: An Application of Affect Control Theory to Abusive Relationships
Laurie Schaffner Montes, UC Berkeley: Searching for Connection: A New Look at Teenaged Runaways
88. MAPPING REALITY: CONTEMPORARY
THEORIES
Organizer and Presider: Jodi O’Brien, Seattle Univ
Clayton W. Dumont, Jr., San Francisco State Univ: Considering Affirmative Action: The Analytical and Political Utility of Postmodernism
Jerome Rabow, Danielle Edwards, Denise Martinez, and Sadaf Rabizadeh, UCLA: My Money Doesn’t Care Whom I Sleep With: The Pink Triangle Experiment
Kim Wittenstrom, Rutgers Univ: Cognition and Change: Pinning Down the Effects of Open and Contradictory Meaning Structures
**89. THEMATIC SESSION CONVERSATION:
THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION AT
WORK: PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS AND
AIDS PREVENTION
Organizer and Presider: Ann S. Sundgren, PSA Vice-President
Laurie Wermuth, CSU Chico: The Sociological Imagination at Work: AIDS Prevention
James D. Goltz, EQE International: The Sociological Imagination at Work: Public Policy Analysis
90. RENEWING OUR ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAG-
INATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Organizer and Presider: Elizabeth E. Wheatley, UC Santa Cruz
Christine Lafia and Laura E. Nathan, Mills College: Revisiting Our Ethnographic Roles: The Ethnographer as Stranger and Friend
Marc Flacks, UC Santa Cruz: Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Popular Culture and the Ethnographic Imagination
Peter R. Ibarra and Linda Van Leuven, UCLA: Teaching Microscopic Ethnography: For an Appreciation of Temporality, Self-Reflexivity, and Mundaneity
91. PANEL: FEMINIST PUBLISHING
Organizer and Presider: Judith A. Howard, Univ of Washington and Barbara Laslett, Univ of Minnesota
Judith A. Howard, Univ of Washington, Editor, SIGNS
Barbara Laslett, Univ of Minnesota, Former Editor, SIGNS
Beth Schneider, UC Santa Barbara, Editor GENDER AND SOCIETY
92. ROUNDTABLES
Presider: David Kaufman, Central Washington Univ
Table 1: Sexuality and the Academy
Veronica Elias & James Elias, CSU Northridge: Human Sexuality Curricula in Colleges and Universities
Barry Dank, CSU Long Beach: The Dynamics of Campus Sexual Correctness: From the University of British Columbia to the University of Pennsylvania
Table 2: Drugs, Crime, and Rehabilitation
John R. (Jack) Dugan, Central Washington Univ and Ronald S. Everett, Univ of Idaho: Drugs, Crime, and Rehabilitation: The Sociological Perspective
Karen Sevren, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology: A Small Community's Acceptance of a Rehab Center for Youthful Sex Offenders
Table 3: Teaching Innovations
Jerrold A. Nussbaum, San Francisco State Univ and Russell Travis, CSU Bakersfield: Using the News: Integrating Current Events into Classroom Assignments
Harry J. Mersman, Chapman Univ: Teaching a Course on Men and Masculinity
Table 4: Gender II
Thomas J. Burns, Univ of Utah: Continental Drift: Comparing Gender and Class Based Effects in the Expansion of French and German Secondary Schools
Delores E. Cleary, Central Washington Univ: Gender Differences in the Use of AFDC
Carla Olson, Chapman Univ: Women’s Informal Networks/Committees
Table 5: Potpourri II
Stuart Nicholson, Berne Univ: Action and Emptiness: Process Orientation-A Meditation in Art and Education
Louise Rollin, USC: The Effects of Local Politics on Regional Population Distribution
Isabelle Healey, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology: The Difference Between Cognitive Therapy and Drug Therapy for Women with Depression Due to Breast Cancer
Table 6: Symbolic Interaction: Johns and Jargon
Martin Monto, Univ of Portland: Redefining Prostitution by Focusing on the Johns: The Unusual Approach of the Sexual Exploitation Education Project (SEEP)
Table 7: Delinquency and Deviant Behavior
Lewis Yablonsky, East Texas State Univ: The Multi-Purpose Violent Drug Gang: A 50 Year Perspective
Dennis Bowker, Univ of Montana: Parental Attachments and the Delinquent Youth
Table 8: Research and Medical Issues
Richard G. Mitchell, Jr. Oregon State Univ: Dealing with Human Subjects Review Boards
Rukshana Thampapillai, Chapman Univ: Culture and Health Care
William Yoels, Univ of Alabama: Towards a Social Psychology of Medical Practice
Table 9: Out of the Classroom and Into the Community: Sociology in Action
Presider: Cheryl A. Joseph, College of Notre Dame
Presenters: Thania Rodriguez, Kathleen Soto, and Reina Loyola, College of Notre Dame
Table 10: Professional Dilemmas of Program Evaluation: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't
Harvey Williams, UOP, Presider
Katarin Jurich, Central Washington University
Trish Bolton, Battelle
Bonnie Berry, Pacific Lutheran University
93. PANEL: UNIV RESEARCH CENTERS:
PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS
Organizer & Presider: Edward Nelson, CSU Fresno
Richard Serpe, CSU San Marcos
Carole Barnes, CSU Sacramento
Roy Childs, Univ of Pacific
Kenneth Nyberg, CSU Bakersfield
*94. SPECIAL SESSION SYMPOSIUM:
SOCIOLOGY AFTER THE CRISIS
Organizer and Presider: Avery F. Gordon, UC Santa Barbara
Charles Lemert, Wesleyan Univ
Herman Gray, UC Santa Cruz
Jon Cruz, UC Santa Cruz
Avery Gordon, UC Santa Barbara
FRIDAY 5:45-6:30 PM SESSION
PSA ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
FRIDAY 6:30-7:30 PM
Commitee Meeting: CSUS Sociology Department Chairs 6:30-7:30 pm
FRIDAY 8:00-10:00 PM SESSION
*95. SPECIAL SESSION: TEACHING CRITICAL
THINKING ABOUT RACE THROUGH FILM
Organizers and Presiders: Marcia Marx, Mary Texeira, and Patricia Domingues CSU San Bernardino
Wine and cheese will be served
FRIDAY 8:30-10:00 PM SESSION
*95A SPECIAL SESSION: LECTURE/
DEMONSTRATION: AIKIDO AND THE
DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT IN FAMILY
SYSTEMS
Organizer: Tom Scheff, Univ of California, Santa Barbara
Donald N. Levine, Univ of Chicago
SATURDAY, MARCH 23
Summary of Events
8:00 am-4:00 pm Registration
8:00 am-4:00 pm Sessions
8:30 am-4:00 pm Book Exhibits in St. Helen's
4:00 pm-5:45 pm Awards & Presidential Address
5:45 pm-6:30 pm Presidential Reception
6:30 pm-7:30 pm Student Reception
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Evening Session:
Honoring C. W. Mills
SATURDAY: 8:00 - 9:45 AM SESSIONS
Commitee Meetings: Social Conscience/Action Committee 8-9 am
Practice Committee 9-10 am
96. BREAKFAST AND OPEN FORUM WITH
SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT CHAIRS
Sponsored by the American Sociological Association
Organizer and Presider: Carla B. Howery, Deputy Executive Office, ASA
**97. THEMATIC SESSION: THE SOCIOLOGICAL
IMAGINATION LOOKS AT ‘THE CONTRACT
WITH AMERICA’
Organizer: Ann S. Sundgren, PSA Vice-President
Presider: Diane Beeson, CSU Hayward
Albert J. Bergesen, Univ of Arizona: Whose Contract on Whose America?
D. Stanley Eitzen, Colorado State Univ: Dismantling the Welfare State: Policies and Consequences
Nancy A. Naples, UC Irvine: Whose Dream Is This Anyway?: The Gender Subtext of the Contract of America
Melvin L. Oliver, UCLA: A "Contract" With Which America?
98. MARKING THE QUEER: SEXUALITY AND
THE BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL FORM
Organizer and Presider: Jodi O’Brien, Seattle Univ
Andrea Hoplight, Univ of New Mexico: The Creation of a New Sexuality in the U.S. Latin-American Borderlands
Sara Kendall, San Diego State Univ: Queer Places and Spaces
Kari Lerum, Univ of Washington: Boundary Mavericks: A Video Ethnography
Tom Linneman, Univ of Washington: Getting the Word Out: Gay and Lesbian Studies in Northwest Bookstores
L. D. McPherson, Univ of Utah: Subcultural Boundaries: Stigma and Sanctions Among Drag Queens
99. A CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE RITZER,
‘EXPRESSING AMERICA’: A CRITIQUE OF
THE GLOBAL CREDIT CARD SOCIETY
Organizer: Ann S. Sundgren , PSA Vice-President
Presider: Doug Snyder, Bowie State University
Presenter: George Ritzer, Univ of Maryland, College Park
100 ADOLESCENTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT
WHAT WORKS: QUALITATIVE STUDIES
OF SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL AND COMMU-
NITY PROGRAMS
Organizer and Presider: David A. Kinney, Central Michigan Univ
Marilyn J. Hoppe, Univ of Washington: Teens Speak Out About HIV/AIDS: A report of Qualitative and Quantitative Data on the Knowledge of Risk and Decision-Making
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Univ of Illinois, Chicago: Believing in the American Dream and Hitting the Wall: How Latinos Cope with College Failure
Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl, Univ of British Columbia and Judith P. Elliott, West Virginia Univ: The Quality of Rural Schools: Voices of the Consumers
Amanda E. Lewis and Gilberto O. Conchas, Univ of Michigan: Making School Meaningful for Adolescents: A Qualitative Study of Teachers Working Together
101. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HEALTH
CARE DELIVERY
Organizers: Ronald Andersen, UCLA
Presider: Deborah Glick, UCLA
Deborah Glick, UCLA and Jenny Kronenfield, Arizona State Univ: Response to Child Injury Risks Among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Parents
Mary Lou Finley and Nancy Sugg, Univ of Washington: Issues in Access to Health Care for Homeless Single Women
David Grembowski, D. Patrick and A. Rousell, Univ of Washington, K. Cook, Duke Univ, : Managed Care and Physician Referral: A Social Exchange Perspective
Debora A. Paterniti, Yale Univ and Sara R. Phillips, Pacific Univ: What Is and What Ought to Be: Sociological Thinking in the Realm of Health Policy
102. UNDERGRADUATE PAPER SESSION:
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM —
AVOCATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Organizer: Karen Admire, Oregon State Univ
Presiders: Scott and Kim Petersen, Oregon State Univ
Janet Long, CSU San Bernardino: Marital Adjustment and Satisfaction: A Study of African American Couples
Kim Petersen, Oregon State Univ: A Choreography of an Auction
Scott Petersen, Oregon State Univ : A Study of Accountants
Tara Arnold, Mills College: Creating Personal Balance: Women Entrepreneurs
103. BEYOND HIGH AND LOW: CRITICAL
APPROACHES TO POPULAR AESTHETICS
AND MEANING
Organizer and Presider: Marshall Battani, UC Davis
Denise D. Bielby: Whose Stories Are These?: The Struggle For Ownership of Soap Opera Narratives
Phil Zuckerman, Univ of Oregon: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Snoop Doggy Dogg: Critical Theory and Rap
David Lundgren, UC Santa Cruz: The ‘Nature of the Beast’: Film, Class and The Politics of Crime
104. GENDER AND THE LAW
Organizer and Presider: Kathryn Ann Farr, Portland State Univ
Jodi A. Ross and Mary White Stewart, Univ of Nevada: The Problematic Negotiation of Medical Records: Gender, Culture, and Medicine
Sheila Yacob, Portland State Univ: The Social Construction of Stalking as a Social Problem
Kathryn Ann Farr, Portland State Univ: Lesbians on Death Row
Elizabeth D. Leonard, UC Riverside: Battered Women in Prison for Killing Abusive Husbands
Maryam Shirvani and Ron Steiner, Chapman Univ: Comparing Divorce in Iran and America
105. THE ENVIRONMENT AND THIRD
WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Organizer and Presider: John B. Foster, Univ of Oregon
Tammy Lewis, UC Davis: Growing Green: How U.S. Environmental Groups Influence the Environmental Sector in Latin America
Veronica Dujon, Portland State Univ : Ecotourism as a Non-Traditional Export: Theoretical Implications for Development Strategy
David A. Sonnenfeld, UC Santa Cruz: Finland, Sweden, and the Development of ‘Sustainable’ Pulp and Paper Production in Southeast Asia
106. CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
Organizer and Presider: Steven Clayman, UCLA
Angela Garcia, Univ of Cincinnati: The Relevance of Gender to the Analysis of Talk in Institutional Settings
Andrew L. Roth, UCLA: Turn Final Word Repeats as a Device For ‘ Doing Answering’ in an Institutional Setting
Margaret H. Szymanski, UC Santa Barbara: Organizing Talk in Activity: Re- and Dis-Engaging Talk
Alan L. Ryave and Joseph Tracewell, CSU Dominguez Hills, and Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College: Withholding Compliments in Everyday Life: The Covert Management and Expression of Disaffiliation
Michele A Wakin, UC Santa Barbara: The Incorporation of Technology in Interaction: Technological Innovations in Calls to Directory Assistance
107. SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
Organizer and Presider: Jane O’Dell, UC Santa Cruz
Catherine M. Petrissans, Loyola Marymount Univ : Affective Maximization and the Persistence of Ethnicity
Alexander Durig and Sheldon Zhang, CSU San Marcos: Shame is Red and Guilt is Black: Toward a Meaningful Understanding of Shame and Guilt
Ronda L. Priest and Rebecca S. K. Li, UC Riverside: Cultural Differences in Decoding Emotions: A Re-analysis of Ekman and Friesen’s Data
Warren D. TenHouten, UCLA: Emotions and Social Relations: A Formal Theory
108. CONVERSATION: THE GAY AND LESBIAN MOVEMENT: CURRENT TRENDS
Organizer and Presider: Kendal Broad, Washington State Univ
Valerie Jenness,Washington State University
Susan Johnston, University of Oregon
109. GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER SESSION:
MICRO PERSPECTIVE
Organizer: Sadie Day Reynolds, Univ of Oregon
Presider: Marilyn Chap,Univ of California, Santa Cruz
Patricia Jordan, Humboldt State Univ: Symbolic Reparation and Self-Esteem: Exploring Community Conferences as a New Alternative for Familia Elderly Abuse Intervention
Lisa Slattery Rashotte, Univ of Arizona: Gazing and Influence in a Small Group Setting
Sadie Day Reynolds, Univ of Oregon: Preliminary Research on the Underuse of Needle Exchange Programs: Methodological Issues and Hypotheses
Craig D.P. Helmstetter, Univ of Oregon: ‘Agency Folks’ and ‘Publics’: An Ethnography of Local Land-Use Agencies
Browyn Conrad, Washington State Univ: Flirtation: An Exploration of Its Nature and Functions
SATURDAY 10:00-11:45 AM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings: Committee on Publications 10-12pm
110. AUTHOR MEETS READERS: ELIZABETH
LOFTUS, THE MYTH OF REPRESSED
MEMORIES
Organizer and Presider: Richard Leo, Univ of Colorado
Author, Elizabeth Loftus: The Myth of Repressed Memories
Readers: Dick Skeen, Northern Arizona Univ; Suzanne P. Johnson, UC Berkeley; Richard Leo, Univ of Colorado
*111. SPECIAL SESSION PANEL: MEET THE PUBLISHERS:
GETTING STARTED IN PUBLISHING
AND FINDING A PUBLISHER FOR YOUR
BOOK
Organizer and Presider: Robin Wolf, Diablo Valley College
Alan McClare, Sociology Editor, Addison-Wesley-Longman Publishers
Steve Jordan, Sociology Editor, Harcourt Brace Publishers
Nancy Roberts, Sociology Editor, Prentice Hall Publishers
Stephen Rutter, Sociology Editor, Pine Forge Press
*112. SPECIAL SESSION: INDIVIDUALITY AND
SOCIAL CONTROL: A CELEBRATION OF
TAMOTSU SHIBUTANI’S CONTRIBUTIONS
TO SOCIOLOGY
Organizer and Presider: Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang, Univ of Washington
Discussant: Kian M. Kwan, CSU Northridge
Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Northwestern Univ: On Biography: Graduate School in the ‘50s and Beyond
Denise Williams, CSU Dominguez Hills: On Collective Behavior: Forging a Political Coalition
Anselm Strauss, UC San Francisco: On the Chicago Tradition: Generalization and Variation
Frank Miyamoto, Univ of Washington: On Ethnic Relations: Intergroup Conflict and Intragroup Factionalism
Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside: On Theory: Cognition, Emotion and Interaction
Horst Jurgen Helle, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet: On Shibutani’s Developing Perspective on Identity Issues
Kian M. Kwan: Discussion - Overview and Presentation to Tamotsu Shibutani of the festschrift: Individuality and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Tamotsu Shibutani
Reception to follow
113. LAW AND SOCIETY
Organizer & Presider: Charles E. Reasons, British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Center
Discussant: Michael P. Doherty, British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Center
Terance D. Miethe, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: The Legal Protection of Whistle Blowers
Hiroshi Fukurai, UC Santa Cruz: The Quota Jury: Applications of Affirmative Action in Jury Selection
Dara Mendyuk, CSU Fullerton: Dying on Death Row in America: Public Perceptions Regarding Methods of Execution in the United States
Victor Kogan, Saint Martin's College: The Jury: What to do with Racial and Ethnic Partiality?
114. PANEL: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE
B.S.?: THE CURRENT JOB MARKET FOR
SOCIOLOGY GRADUATES
Organizer and Presider: Ginna Babcock, Univ of Idaho
Panel Participants will be representatives from--
The Graduate Program in Sociology at the University of Washington
The Graduate Program in Sociology at Washington State University
State of Washington Social Services Department
Boeing Corporation
*115. SPECIAL SESSION PANEL: TALK RADIO
& ITS CULTURAL IMPACT ON SOCIETY
Organizer and Presider: Gary Warren Melton, Humboldt State Univ
Richard Carvell, Arkansas State Univ: Historical Overview of Talk Radio
John Craft, Arizona State Univ: A Management and Economics Perspective Toward Talk Radio at the Local Market Level
Fred Davis, Washington State Univ: Talk Radio Considerations from the Network Perspective
Val Limburg, Washington State Univ: Legal and Ethical Considerations on Talk Radio
116. COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL
MACROSOCIOLOGY: EMPIRICAL STUDIES
Organizer: John Foran, UC Santa Barbara
Presider and Discussant: Robert Enoch Buck, San Diego State Univ
Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Univ of North Carolina-Charlotte and Rebecca Jean Emigh, UCLA: Divergent Paths of Agrarian Capitalism: Eastern England and Tuscany 1300-1700
Jie-li Li, UC Riverside: State Formation vs. State Fragmentation: A Comparative Analysis of the American Civil War and the Chinese Taiping Rebellion in the Mid-19th Century
Cyd A. Crue, Univ of Utah: The Asiatic Mode: Power and Hierarchy in the Mormon Church
Martyn Kingston, Univ of Puget Sound: ‘Affirmative Action’ in South Africa and the United States
117. GENDERED EDUCATION: DIVERSE
PERSPECTIVES ON PROCESSES AND
OUTCOMES
Organizer and Presider: Karen Bradley, Western Washington Univ
Barbara Heather, Univ of Alberta: Girls That Matter: Gender, Class and Agency in Social Control
Rosemary Powers, UC Davis: Gender, Sexuality and Secondary Education: Competing Discourses and Teacher Agency
Wayne Plasek, CSU Northridge: Machismo and Academic Performance Among Latino College Students
Vegavahini Subramaniam, Western Washington Univ: Sector Differences in Education Effects on African American Women’s Career Attainments
118. SOCIAL MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT:
CHANGE AND CONSTANCY OVER TIME
Organizer and Presider: Kendal L. Broad, Washington State Univ
Craig S. Leedham, Colorado State Univ: Communicative Action and Emerging Social Movements: Culture, Community, and the Sustainable Agriculture Movement
Steph Lambert, Arizona State Univ: The Bureaucratization of a Social Movement: An Examination of International Human Rights Organizations
Chris Rhomberg, UC Berkeley: Racial Formation and Political Mobilization: The Black Community in West Oakland, 1950-1970
Amory Starr, UC Santa Barbara: Lay Economy: California Responses to Social and Environmental Crises
119. PEACE & WAR IN AN INSTITUTIONAL
CONTEXT
Organizer and Presider: Thomas J. Burns, Univ of Utah
Heidi D. Fain, Univ of Utah: A Behavioral Ecology of War and Genocide
Jerry Lembcke, Holy Cross College: The Politics of Memory: Myth, Spit, and Vietnam Vets
Ronald A. Hardert, Arizona State Univ and Linda Blalock Hardert, Educational Consultant: Psychosocial Effects of the Threat of War on Children and Young Adults
Oleg Gubin, Univ of Utah (& Moscow State Univ); Edward L. Kick, Univ of Utah; Rongxun Liang, Univ of Utah (& Shandong Academy of Social Sciences): War, Peace and Social Institutions in China and Russia
120. POLITICS OF THE BODY
Organizer and Presider: Janet Lee, Oregon State Univ
Elizabeth Wheatley, UC Santa Cruz: Minding the Body: Heart Dis-ease and the Contradictions of Medical Mandates
Monica Molina, Arizona State Univ: The Picture of Health: Social Construction in Women’s Magazines
Mary White Stewart and Jodi A. Ross, Univ of Nevada: Discreditable Stigma: The Intersection of Femininity and Plastic Surgery
Susan Markens, C. H. Browner, Nancy Press, UCLA: Eating for Two: The Construction of Maternal-Fetal Conflict as Seen Through the Dietary Practices of Pregnant American Women
121. FEAR OF CRIME: QUALITATIVE
APPROACHES
Organizer and Presider: Peter R. Ibarra, UCLA
Dennis Loo, UC Santa Cruz: A Qualitative Analysis of Crime News
Peter R. Ibarra, UCLA: Time and the Fear of Crime
Stephanie Marquez, CSU Hayward: How are Fear of Crime and Risk of Crime Related? Some Evidence of an Inverse Relationship
Tom Vander Ven, Univ of Cincinnati: ‘Asking for Trouble’: Demonstrative Caution in Public and the Predatory Response
122. UNDERGRADUATE PAPER SESSION:
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: RESEARCH
IN HEALTH, FITNESS AND SPORTS
Organizer and Presider: Karen Admire, Oregon State University
Tracey Levin, Mills College: Coping with Uncertainty in Breast Cancer Remission
Maggie Tiblier, Mills College: Who’s Choice? A Look Into the Options of the Physician and the Pregnant Cancer Patient
Taj Simmons, Linfield College: Weight Room Subculture
Alexander Wegmann, Linfield College: An Ethnographic Study of Sports Enthusiasts in a College Setting
123. POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY I: NATURE AND
ROLE OF THE STATE
Organizer: Richard M. Coughlin, Univ of New Mexico
Presider and Discussant: Robert Fiala, Univ of New Mexico
Christopher Paul, UCLA and the RAND Corporation: A Critical Review of the Various Theories on the State and Their Positions on State Autonomy and Capacity
Wen H. Kuo, Univ of Utah: Democratic Transformation in a Developmental State: The Case of Taiwan
James David Ballard: Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: Localizing Studies of International/ Transnational Terrorism: Federal and State Autonomy
Robert Biggert, Southern Utah Univ and Matt Bahr, Purdue Univ : Explaining the Pace of Reform: Labor Legislation in the United States, 1910-1960
SATURDAY 12:00-1:45 PM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings: Committee on Freedom of Teaching and Research 12-1 pm
Committee on Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals 1-2 pm
124. EVALUATING CRIME AND CORRECTIONS
POLICY
Organizer and Presider: Eleen A. Baumann, Univ of Oregon
Dale Lindekugel, Eastern Washington Univ: Neighborhood Based Supervision: Putting Community into Community Corrections
J. Neil Russell, Arizona State Univ: Evaluating Corrections Policy: Methodological Issues of Probation Outcome Studies
Steven Patrick, Shannon Smith, Devin Dinius, Boise State Univ: Some Correlates of Perceived Crowding in a Medium Security Prison
Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, Middle East Technical Univ: Crying Out for Better Education and Training: A Case of the Turkish Police Academy
Gordon James Knowles, Univ of Hawaii: Male Prison Rape: A Search for Causation and Prevention
125. SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
Organizer and Presider: Reginald W. Bibby, Univ of Lethbridge
Discussant: James Richardson, Univ of Nevada
Philip M. Harris and Gregory C. Stanczak, USC: The L.A. Church of Christ as a New Religious Movement: An Ethnographic Analysis of Conversion and Organization
Sydney Hart, UC Santa Cruz: Celebrating the (Gendered) Jewish Self: An Ethnographic Study of Adult B’Nai Mitzvah
Ethan J. Hersch and Ann Wichman, Univ of La Verne: Moral Reasoning and Religious Orientation in College Students
Jeff D. Peterson and Katherine I. Hyzy, Linfield College: Theology and Citizenship: Quaker and Catholic Visions of Peace, Justice, and the Environment
Lynne M. Isaacson, Univ of Oregon: The Ascendency of Marriage and Changing Dynamics of Commitment: Dyadic Withdrawal in a Jesus-Based Communal Movement
126. PARTICIPATORY PANEL: ON TEACHING
HUMANISTIC SOCIOLOGY OR TEACHING
HUMANISTICALLY
Organizer and Presider: Glenn A. Goodwin, Pitzer College
Jan Pielke Brennecke, San Bernardino Valley College: The Challenge of Teaching Humanistic Sociology Humanistically at a Community College
Dipannita Basu, Pitzer College: Conflicts and Issues in Teaching the Trans-Atlantic Black Experience
Roberta Lessor, Chapman Univ: Humanistic Teaching in a Study Abroad Course
Victoria Sturtevant and Cecile Baril, Southern Oregon State College: Imparting the Sociological Imagination: Freeing Students from their ‘Personal Orbits’
127. WORLD SYSTEM AND WORLD HISTORY
Organizer and Presider: Sing C. Chew, Humboldt State Univ
Al Bergesen, Univ of Arizona: Deny, Stretch, and Let Go: Three Approaches to World History
George Modelski, Univ of Washington: Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics
Kenneth Barr, State Univ of New York - Binghamton: The Metamorphosis of Business Enterprise in World-Historical Perspective
*128. SPECIAL SESSION BOOK PANEL: RACISM: DIALOGUE,
DEBATE, OR DIATRIBE?
Organizer and Presider: Celia J. Orona, CSU San Jose
Sponsored by the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Hien Duc Do, CSU San Jose: A Review of Beyond Black and White by Manning Marable
Joanna Grey, Univ of New Mexico: A Review of The End of Racism: Principles for a Multicultural Society by Dinesh D’Souza
Ruben Martinez, Colorado Univ - Colorado Springs: A Review of The Bubbling Cauldron by Michael Peter Smith and Joe R. Feagin
David Muga, Skagit Valley College: Racism: In and Out of the Academy, A Position Paper
129. NEW RESEARCH ON LATINOS-LATINAS
Organizer and Presider: Felipe Gonzales, Univ of New Mexico
James E. Elias, Carlos Morales, Elizar De Los Santos, Ernie Carrasco, and Nazanin Dardashti, CSU Northridge: Latino Gang Membership & Family Ties: Characteristics of 100 Incarcerated & Nonincarcerated Gang Members
Christine Rack, Sally Margolin, Univ of New Mexico & Susan Barnes-Anderson, Albuquerque Metropolitan Court Mediation Ctr: Latino Disadvantage: The Linkage of Cultural & Structural Factors in Small Claims Dispute
Teresa A. Martinez, Univ of Utah: The Oppositional Culture of the Storyteller: Mestiza Consciousness Raising in Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands
130. WOMEN, ETHNICITY AND WORK
Organizer and Presider: Marilyn Chap, UCSC
Discussant: Amy Wharton, Washington State Univ
Shelley Kowalski, Univ of Oregon: From the Shop Floor to the Beauty Shop: Female Factory Workers and Feminine Ideals in a Post-War Polish American Community
Mary Thierry Texeira, CSU San Bernardino: Who Protects and Serves Me?: Case Study of Perceptions of Discrimination of African American Women in One U.S. Law Enforcement Agency
Karen Christopher, Univ of Arizona: Black and White Women’s Recent Employment Trends
131. EVALUATING INTERVENTIONS:
QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES
Organizer and Presider: Robert Nash Parker, Prevention Research Center
Discussant: Robert F. Saltz, Prevention Research Center
Ronald W. Fagan, Pepperdine Univ: Religious Nonprofit Organizations: An Examination of Rescue Missions and the Homeless
Julie A. Hogan, UNLV: State of Nevada Drug Prevention Program Evaluation
Joshua S. Meisel, Univ of Colorado - Boulder: ‘Doing’ Program Evaluation Research: Notes from the Field
Robert Nash Parker and Randi S. Cartmill, Prevention Research Center: Evaluating a Multifaceted Community Intervention: Alcohol and Violent Crime
132. LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE LOS
ANGELES NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE
Organizer and Discussant: Paul W. O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus
Paul W. O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus: Lessons Learned Following the First 48 Hours After the Northridge Earthquake
Harvey Rich, CSU Northridge: An Organizational & Social Psychological Analysis of CSU Northridge After the Northridge Earthquake
JoAnn DeRouen Darlington and Eve Passerini, Univ of Colorado Boulder: Urban Developments and Megacities: Vulnerability to Disaster
**133. THEMATIC SESSION WORKSHOP: TEACHING THE SOCIOLOG-
ICAL IMAGINATION: NOTHING VENTURED
NOTHING GAINED
Organizer and Presider: Bruce Ravelli, Univ of Victoria
Virginia Paulsen, Univ of Washington: We Can Give the Answer, but What’s the Question?
Dana Greene and Derek Coates, Univ of Michigan: Introducing Disability Studies into the Field of Sociology
Margaret S. Crowdes, CSU San Marcos: Embodying Sociological Imagination: A Pedagogic Suggestion for Linking Bodies to Minds
Martin Orr, Boise State Univ: Dispelling the Relevance of Personal Responsibility: Cannibalism as Deviance and Conformity
Rosemary Powers, UC Davis: Teaching Sociology of Education Through Critical Autobiography
Kristin Barker and Christopher Craske, Linfield College: Teaching the Sociological Imagination: Down and Out in America
134. INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: BECOMING
EFFECTIVE LEADERS
Organizer & Workshop Leader: Pamela Roby, UCSC
135. SOCIALIZATION
Organizer: Marilyn Whalen, Univ of Oregon and Institute for Research on Learning
Presider: Denise Lach, Oregon State Univ
Sharon K. Davis and Melia A. McIntyre, Univ of La Verne: Sex-Role Stereotyping in Award Winning Children’s Books: Has the Last Decade Brought Change?
Russell Travis, CSU Bakersfield: It Takes A Whole Village To Raise An Idiot
Cheryl Maes and Yvette Farmer, Univ of Nevada: Gender Role Messages in TV Commercials
Linda Yellin, CSU Los Angeles: Role Transitions: Factors Influencing Differential Outcomes
136. THEORIES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Organizer: Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside
Presider: Tammy Lewis, UC Davis
James V. Spickard, Univ of Redlands: Reasons and Rebellions: Toward a Neo-Weberian Rethinking of Social Movement Action Theory
Mazen Hashem, UC Riverside: A Synthesis of Theory on Social Movements
John Lofland, UC Davis: Social Movements as Insurgent Realities: Definitional Differences and Differences They Make
David A. Snow, Liam Downey, Andrew Jones, Univ of Arizona and Dan Cress, Univ of Colorado: Disrupting the Quotidian: Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Breakdown and Collective Action
SATURDAY 2:00-3:45 PM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings: Committee on Civil Rights and Liberties 2-3 pm
Committee on Status of Women 3-4 pm
137. THEORETICAL & RESEARCH AGENDAS
IN COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN THE
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Organizer and Presider: Francisco O. Ramirez, Stanford Univ
John Richardson, Western Washington Univ: The Dialectics of Special Education Categories
Pamela Barnhouse Walters, Indiana Univ : Class, Race, and Schooling in the United States: Cross-Regional Patterns and Dynamics
Steven Brint, UC Riverside: Patterns of Variation in National Educational Systems in the Industrialized World: Causes and Consequences
Francisco O. Ramirez, Stanford Univ : World Educational Models and Organizational Fields
138. CRIMINAL JUSTICE, MEDIA AND PUBLIC
PERCEPTIONS IN THE 1990S
Organizer and Presider: Richard A. Leo, Univ of Colorado Boulder
Dennis D. Loo, UC Santa Cruz: Public Opinion, Polls, Crime and the Media in the 1990s
Mark Lettiere, UC Davis: Reel Crime: Images of Social Control, Political Power and Criminal Law in the Golden State
139. UNDERGRADUATE PAPER SESSION:
RESEARCH IN MEDIA, CULTURE, AND
POLITICS
Organizer and Presider: Karen Admire, Oregon State Univ
Jo Ann Ybarra, Mills College: Reasonable Approaches Toward Affirmative Action
Cheryl Maes, Univ of Nevada: Gender Role Messages in TV Commercials
Lila Martin, CSU San Bernardino: Female Mutilation, USA: Drawing Parallels Between Female Genital Mutilation ‘Over There’ and Impossible Standards of Sexuality that are Imposed on Women in This Culture
Brian Wolf, Boise State Univ: Social Problems as Social Control: An Examination of Power and Knowledge Discourse in the Context of Drug Abuse
*140. SPECIAL SESSION: DISTINGUISHED
LECTURE
Organizer and Presider: Tom Scheff, Univ of California, Santa Barbara
Donald N. Levine, Univ of Chicago: Sociology and the Nation-state in an Era of Shifting Boundaries
141. SYMPOSIUM ON MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS
IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Organizer and Presider: David M. Heer, USC
Cynthia Cranford, USC: Labor Migration Among Mexican Immigrant Women in Los Angeles County
Enrico Marcelli, USC: Labor Market Effects of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles County
A. Ghaffar Mughal, USC: Welfare Participation of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles County
Zulema Valdez, UCLA: Ethnic Differences in Self-Employment Among Korean and Mexican Men in Los Angeles
142. GENDER, VIOLENCE AND IDENTITY
Organizer & Discussant: Lisa Jones, UC Irvine
Karen Kendrick, UC Irvine: The Myth of the Battered Woman: Race, Class, Gender and the Construction of Shelter Residents
Ellen Scott, UC Davis: Fostering Diversity, Confronting Racism: Explaining the Differences in a Battered Women’s Shelter and a Rape Crisis Center
Jennifer Dunn, UC Davis: Defining Women: Agency and Victimization in the Negotiation of Sexual Initiation
143. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS
Organizers: Nancy C. Jurik, Arizona State Univ and Marguerite Marin-Mendez, Gonzaga Univ
Presider: Marguerite Marin-Mendez, Gonzaga Univ
Sharon Reitman and Sianan Demirel, Univ of Washington: Explaining Collective Action Outcomes: Labor Strikes in the U.S. Bituminous Coal Mining Industry, 1881-1886
Pamela J. Aronson, Univ of Minnesota: Different Contexts, Different Meanings: Political and Feminist Identities and the Women’s Movement
David Broudy, Univ of New Mexico: Organization for Change: Guatemalan Refugee Society
Julie Cowgill and Nancy C. Jurik, Arizona State Univ: Cooperation or Accommodation?: Bureaucratic Slippage in a Micro-Enterprise Loan Program
144. THE ROLE OF THE STATE AND THE
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY IN THIRD
WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Organizer: Laura Enriquez, UC Berkeley
Presider: Berch Berberoglu, Univ of Nevada - Reno
Berch Berberoglu, Univ of Nevada - Reno: The Political Economy of Development in the Third World in the Post Cold War Era
Randa Nasser, Univ of Utah: The Effects of Dependency on the Social Well-Being of Third World Countries: New Operational Definitions of Dependency
John M. Talbot, UC Berkeley: Problems of Development in a Global Economy: The Interaction of Domestic and International Coffee Policies
Young S. Kim, Hokyu Hwang and Yong Suk Jang, Stanford Univ: Structural Alteration and its Functional Effectiveness of Modern Nation-States: A Study on the Ministry of International Trade
145. DIVERSE TOPICS II
Organizer: Ann Sundgren, PSA Vice-President and Program Chair
Presider: Jane Prather, CSU Northridge
Adam Arvidsson, Univ of Lund: The Language of Commodities - From Stratification to Functional Differentiation
Herman Loether, CSU Dominguez Hills: Perceived Threat and Behavioral Change
Laura Desfor Edles, Univ of Hawaii-Manoa: Cultural Theory in Sociology
Laurel A. German and Lamar Andrews, CSU Chico: Vilfredo Pareto Revisited
Kazem Alamdari, CSU Los Angeles: How to Reach a Sustainable Democracy: Economic Democratization Versus Economic Liberalization in the Third World
146. HEALTH AND DISEASE
Organizer: Karen Seccombe, Univ of Florida
Presider: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska-Southeast
J. R. Woodward and Ronald Hardert, Arizona State Univ: Evidence for a Synergistic Theory of Chemical Exposure and Cancer
Holly E. Jeffcoat, Utah State Univ: HIV/AIDS in Indian Country: A Historical, Contemporary, and Future High Risk Behavior Model
Charles Hunt, Univ of Utah: Historical Specificity and the Definition of AIDS
Dan Pence, Southern Utah Univ: The Effects of Sex Education on High Risk Behaviors
147. WORKSHOP ON FACULTY ROLES AND
REWARDS
Sponsored by the American Sociological Association
Drawing on the Boyer book, Scholarship Reconsidered, this workshop will address issues related to a broader definition of scholarly work within sociology, methods to evaluate those forms of scholarship, particularly teaching, and ways that sociology departments can take the lead in enhancing faculty roles and accomplishments over the life cycle.
Carla B. Howery, Deputy Executive Officer, ASA
**148. THEMATIC SESSION CONVERSATION:
THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION AT
WORK: PUBLIC OFFICE AND PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY
Organizer, Ann S. Sundgren , Tacoma Community College
Senator Jeanne Kohl, Ph.D., State Senator, 36th District, Washington State Senate: The Sociological Imagination at Work—Political Applications in Public Office
Charles Reasons, Ph.D., LL.B., British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre: The Sociological Imagination at Work: Public Interest Advocacy
149. ALCOHOL AND DRUGS: PREVALENCE
AND BEHAVIOR
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Karen M. Jennison, Univ of Northern Colorado
Gordon James Knowles, Univ of Hawaii-Manoa: Research Notes on Crack Cocaine in Honolulu, Hawaii’s Chinatown, 1995: Runners, Dealers, Pushers, and Users
J. David Newcomb and Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ of Colorado-Denver: Drinking Behavior: How Attributions for Responsibility and Control Are Related to People’s Negative Attitudes
Stephen J. Bahr, Bingdao Li, Brigham Young Univ and Anastasios C. Marcos, The American College of Greece: Family, Religious, Educational, and Peer Influences on Adolescent Drug Use
Nancy E. Durbin, Battelle and Lisa A. Cubbins, Univ of Cincinnati: Do Work Requirements and Occupational Context Affect Worker Alcohol Use?
150. WORKSHOP: RESEARCH AND TEACHING
INSTITUTIONS: BRIDGING THE GAP
Organizers: Sara Steen and Kristin Bates, Univ of Washington
Judith Howard, Univ of Washington: The Advanced Seminar in Teacher Training
Kristin Bates and Tom Linneman, Univ of Washington: Professional Training Through Exposure to Teaching Institutions
Charles Lawrence, Seattle Univ: The Role and Perspectives of Partner Institutions
David Karp, Univ of Washington-Bothell Campus: Lessons Learned: The Impact of PFF
SATURDAY 4:00-5:45 PM SESSION
**151. THEMATIC SESSION: AWARD CEREMONY & PRESIDENTIAL
ADDRESS
Award Announcements and Presentations: Judith Howard, Univ of Washington, Chair of the Awards Committee
Introduction of the President: Rodolfo Alvarez, President-elect, UCLA
Presidential Address: Thomas J. Scheff, UC Santa Barbara: A Vision of Sociology
SATURDAY 5:45-6:30 PM SESSION
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION
SATURDAY 6:30-7:30 PM SESSION
RECEPTION FOR STUDENTS, Sponsored by the Student Affairs Committee
[A raffle will be held for books and several $50 checks from the PSA to help students with expenses for attending the meeting.]
SATURDAY 8:30-10:00 PM SESSION
**152. THEMATIC SESSION: IMAGINEERING
FOR A PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: WHAT
WOULD C. W. MILLS SAY TODAY ABOUT
OUR SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION?
Organizer and Presider: Robert M. Kloss, CSU Sacramento
Glenn A. Goodwin, Pitzer College
G. William Domhoff, UC Santa Cruz
George Ritzer, Univ of Maryland
Marcia J. Marx, CSU San Bernardino
SUNDAY, MARCH 24
Summary of Events
8:00 am-10:00 am Registration
8:00 am-1:15 pm Sessions
SUNDAY 8:00-9:30 AM SESSIONS
Committee Meeting: 1996-97 Council 8-10 am
153. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Organizer and Presider: Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside
Nico Stehr, Univ of British Columbia: The Texture of Modern Society: The Logic and a Critique of the Orthodox Perspective
Kenneth L. Nyberg, CSU Bakersfield: Social Physics: Sociology and the Search for an Alternative Theoretical Analogy
Richard Machalek, Univ of Wyoming: Why ‘Evolutionary Psychologists’ Need Sociology
154. WOMEN, WELFARE, AND ECONOMICE
WELL BEING
Organizer and Presider: Ann M. Cooper, New Mexico Highlands Univ
Eva Fodor, UCLA: Gender in Transition: Unemployment in Post-State Socialist Societies
Julie Press, UCLA: Child Care Constraints, Work, and Poverty in Los Angeles: A Look at the Other Side of the Equation
Mary E. Kelsey, CSU San Bernardino: Replacing Social Services with Coercion: A Critique of Republican Welfare Reform Proposals
155. PANEL: TEACHING ABOUT TOPICS
WHICH ARE DIFFICULT TO DISCUSS
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Robin Wolf, Diablo Valley College
Phylis Martinelli, St. Mary’s College: Teaching about Race and Ethnicity
Sarah Phillips, Pacific Univ: Teaching about Sexuality in An Age of Sexual Correctness
Agnes Riedmann, Diablo Valley College: Asking Students to Write Collaborative Anthologies: Talking in Writing about Difficult Topics
156. PANEL: THIRTY YEARS OF RESEARCH
ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN SPORT:
TIME FOR A NEW THEORY?
Organizer and Presider: John C. Phillips, Univ of the Pacific
C. Keith Harrison, Washington State Univ
Earl Smith, Pacific Lutheran Univ
Hal Charnofsky, CSU Dominguez Hills
157. PANEL: INEQUALITY IN THE WORK
PLACE II: RACE AND GENDER AT WORK
Organizer and Presider: Jennifer L. Pierce, Univ of Minnesota
Marilyn Chap, UCSC: Women Meatcutters?: The Effects of Male Constructions of Gender in the Meat Department
Heidi Howarth, Univ of Minnesota: Working at Schooling: Young Hispanas in the Process of Education
Stephen Kulis, Nelta Edwards, and Heather Shaw, Arizona State Univ: Gender Segregation in the Academic Workplace
158. ELITES: POWER, POLICY, AND POLITICS
Organizer and Presider: Peter Phillips, Sonoma State Univ
Michael J. Webber, Univ of San Francisco: The Golden Rule Revisited: Business Elites, Campaign Finance, and the 1936 Presidential Election
Christopher Paul, UCLA & the RAND Corporation: The Impact of Structural and Institutional Change on Recruitment, Reproduction, and Circulation of Elites in the Transition from Socialism in Eastern Europe
Irving Kraus, Northern Illinois Univ: The Impact of Political Decisions on Occupations and Class
159. ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Leslie Minor-Evans, Central Oregon Community College
Leslie Minor-Evans, Central Oregon Community College: Balancing Work and Family: Employment and Psycho-Social Factors in First Time Mothers’ Experiences
Brenda Marstellar Kowalewski, Weber State Univ: Work and Family Experiences: Do They Affect Gender Over Time?
James Ranger-Moore, Univ of Arizona: Thinking About Life and Death: Determinants of Directive Formulation
160. CONVERSATION: (WO)MENTORING
DIVERSE GRADUATE STUDENTS
Organizer and Presider: Sara Schwartz Kendall, San Diego State Univ
Jodi A. O’Brien, Seattle Univ: The Organized Contradictions of Diversity/Assimilation: Sitting Ducks and Other Role-Mode Paradoxes
Therese Baker, CSU San Marcos: Advising MA Students in a New Graduate Program
Debra Fox, San Diego State Univ: Gender and Its Effects on Mentoring and Career Aspirations
161. CLASS STRUCTURE & CLASS STRUGGLE
Organizer and Presider: Berch Berberoglu, Univ of Nevada-Reno
Julia D. Fox, Univ of Oregon: The New Class War and the Rightward Shift of the State
Dean Braa, Western Oregon State College: Tenant Struggle as Class Struggle in a Midwestern City
Lisa Pasko, Univ of Nevada-Reno: Aging, Class, and Power: The Elderly’s Response to Long-term Care
162. SOCIAL DEVIANCE
Organizer and Presider: Judith Little, Humboldt State Univ
Discussant: David Greenberg, New York Univ
T. P. Schwartz and Donna Schwartz-Barcott, Social Research Services: Disinheritance and Other Testamentary Behaviors as Deviance
Deanna Chang, Univ of Hawaii-Manoa: The Conversion of a Violated Self: A Battered Woman’s Process of Becoming a Self-Saver
Laurenc DeVita, Humboldt State Univ: Rumor Transmission as Deviance Creation
SUNDAY 9:45-11:30 AM SESSIONS
163. Debate Topic: Resolved: It will be Another Fifty Years at least Before Women Become Legitimate Participants in Organizations
Organizer and Presider, Julie Elworth, Univ of Texas-Dallas
Julie Elworth, Univ of Texas-Dallas
Winifred Poster, Chicago Illinois
Nancy Langton, Univ of British Columbia
Jennifer Cliff, Univ of British Columbia
164. PANEL: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND
URBAN EDUCATION
Organizer and Presider: Pedro Noguera, UCB
Elise Huggins, UCB: De-Tracking An Urban High School
Brian Smith, Arizona State Univ: Social Reproduction and Theories of Delinquency
Cori Groth, Univ of Utah: Dropout Prevention and Student Identity
Jonathan Warren, UCB: The Construction of Racial Identity in an Urban School
165. GRADUATE STUDENT PAPERS: MACRO
PERSPECTIVE
Organizer and Presider: Steph Lambert, Arizona State Univ
Theodore R. Curry, Washington State Univ: Global Environmental Change and Claims-Making Activities: The Social Construction and Deconstruction of Global Warming and Ozone Depletion as Social Problems
Zeynep Ozgen, Arizona State Univ: Turkish Identity Questioned at the Doorstep of Europe: Turkey and the E.U.
Patrick Martin, Univ of Arizona: Racism on Campus: Why More American Universities Have Not Abandoned Native American Mascots
Patrick Goldsmith, Univ of Arizona: Macrosociology and Peak Performance Athletics: An Ecological Analysis of Three Perspectives
166. HEALTH CARE REFORM AND INNOVA-
TION IN WASHINGTON STATE
Organizers: Mary-Lou Finley, Univ of Washington and Ronald Andersen, UCLA
Presider: Mary-Lou Finley, Univ of Washington
Aaron Katz, Univ of Washington: The Rise and Fall of Health Care Reform
Cindy Madden, Univ of Washington: Heath Care Reform in Pieces: The Basic Health Plan
Elizabeth Swain, 45th Street Clinic, Seattle: The Evolution of a Community Controlled Heath Plan
Rebecca Bohorques, Washington State Univ: The Public Health Improvement Plan in Rural Northeast Washington State
Austin Ross, Univ of Washington: Organizational Affiliations: A Contemporary Strategy for Health Care Delivery
167. UNDERGRADUATE SESSION
Organizer and Presider: Karen Admire, Oregon State Univ
Natalie Boero, Linfield College: To Be or Not to Be a Feminist: An Attitudinal Inventory
De L’Aurore Kyly, Linfield College: Sisters of the Road Cafe
JoAnn Kanshige, UC Irvine: Voices of Mothers: The Impact of Vietnamese Mothers on Their Daughter's Gender Relationships
Steve Hoffman, UC Irvine: Constructing Black Bodies Through Puglisim: Race, Class, and Masculity in Popular Images of Boxers
Michelle Heiberg, UC Irvine: Contextual Effects on Racial Preference
Jason Riggs, San Francisco State Univ: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Valerie Campbell, Univ of Puget Sound: A Case of North-West Natural Resource Conflict: Tribal Rights, Property Owners, and Ethnic Identity
168. POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY II: IMPLICA-
TIONS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
Organizer: Richard M. Coughlin, Univ of New Mexico
Presider and Discussant: James David Ballard, Univ of Nevada-Las Vegas
William Canak, Middle Tennessee State Univ and Berkeley Miller, American Institute of Research: Bargaining Under the Law of the Jungle
Martyn Kingston, Univ of Puget Sound: Assessing the Effects of Apartheid on African Modernization
Mary B. Kelsey and Mary Texeira, CSU San Bernardino: Repression and the Retrenched Welfare State
Carol Axtell Ray, San Jose State Univ: Threatened Values and Social Problems in Contemporary America: Stretching the Sociological Imagination
169. WORK, FAMILY, AND CHILDREN
Organizer and Presider: Jean Stockard, Univ of Oregon
Discussant: Marie Butler, Oxnard College
Masako Ishii-Kuntz, UC Tokyo Study Center: Men’s Work and Fatherhood in Japan
Theresa Deussen, Univ of Michigan: The ‘New Father’: Wishful Thinking or Alternative Masculinity
Deborah K. Thorne and Amy Wharton, Washington State Univ: When Mother Matters: Gender, Social Origins, and the Reproduction of Social Class
170. CONSTRUCTING CRIME, DELINQUENCY,
AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Organizer and Presider: William D. Darrough, CSU Los Angeles
Darren Hendrickson, Utah State Univ: The Construction of a Social Problem via a Social Movement: The Case of Marijuana Use in the United States
Michael T. Matthews, UC Riverside and Ann Wichman, LaVerne Univ: Media and Misrepresentation: Crime in the Newspapers
Wayne Martin Melinger, Ventura College: Gang Murders, ‘Innocent Victims,’ and Audience Identification: The Stephanie Kuhen Murder in the Los Angeles Times
William D. Darrough, CSU Los Angeles: Picturing Violence: The Use of Images in the Dialectics of Police Accountability
171. QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY
Organizer and Presider: Noel T. Byrne, Sonoma State Univ
Discussant: Elizabeth J. Watson, Humboldt State Univ
Timothy McGettigan, Washington State Univ, Tri-Cities: An Adventure in Production: Motion Picture Cameras and the Documentation of Spectacle
Christine LaFia and Laura E. Nathan, Mills College: Innovative Applications of Focus-Group Method
Julia E. Dvorin, UC Santa Barbara: Aren’t You Biased?: Reflections on a Researcher’s Involvement with Her Subject(s)
Marta L. Gaffney, UC Santa Barbara: The Social Construction of Reality, Self-Conscious Problem-Solving, and the Process of Making Personal Changes: A Model and Method
172. URBAN ARCHITECTURE
Organizer and Presider: Mark Hutter, Rowan College
David L. Andrews, Univ of Memphis: Learning from Nike Town: The Form and Symbolism of Post-Urban Architecture
James Abbott, Rowan College: Triumph as Tragedy: Unfulfilled Promises of Post-Fire Chicago Architecture
Helen Searing, Smith College: Working-Class Symbolism in the Housing of the Amsterdam School
Mark Hutter, Rowan College: Sentiment, Symbolism, and Power in the Moscow Cityscape
173. SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THE ACADEMY
Organizer and Presider: Gloria H. Cuadraz, Arizona State Univ Phoenix
Adalberto Aquirre and Melinda Messineo, UC Riverside: Racially Motivated Incidents in Higher Education: A Fragile Institutional Climate for Minority Students
Alexandra Goulding, Univ of Minnesota: Racial Formation in Higher Education: Resistance as a Racial Project
Gloria H. Cuadraz, Arizona State Univ-Phoenix: Chicana/o Generations vs. Mexican American Conservatives: Meritocratic Ideology and the Reproduction of Inequality
Marc Pizarro, UCLA: Dialogical, Praxis-Oriented Research: A Response to Contemporary Methodological Discourse
SUNDAY 11:45-1:15 PM SESSIONS
174. JUVENILE JUSTICE
Organizer and Presider: Eric L. Jensen, Univ of Idaho
Inger J. Sagatun-Edwards, San Jose State Univ: Preventing Delinquency: Early Intervention for Drug Exposed Infants
Laurie Schaffner Montes, UC Berkeley: Court-Ordered Parenting Clinics
Eric L. Jensen, Sarah Rial, Douglas Day, Will Flanegan, Amy Johnson, Kelley Kirgsland, Miwako Nakamota, and Carrie Schroeder, Univ of Idaho: An Evaluation of a Youth Accountability Board Program
Terance D. Miethe and Richard C. McCorkle, Univ of Nevada-Las Vegas: Anti-Gang Legislation and Public Policy
175. DRINKING AND DRUGS: TREATMENT
AND PREVENTION
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Jane C. Hood, Univ of New Mexico
Dennis Bowker and James Burfeind, Univ of Montana: Indicators of Effectiveness: Implications for DARE Evaluation
Devon D. Brewer, Richard Catalano, Kevin Haggerty, Randy Gainey, and Charles B. Fleming, Univ of Washington: A Meta Analysis of Factors Related to Continued Drug Use During and After Treatment for Opiate Addiction
Randall Ireson, Oregon Dept. of Corrections and Eleen Baumann, Univ of Oregon: Methodological Issues in Evaluating Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs for Prison Inmates
John R. Dugan, Central Washington Univ and Ronald S. Everett, Univ of Idaho: The Effects of Drug Therapy on Post-Release Criminal Behavior of Jail Inmates
176. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE ‘90s:
COLLECTIVE IDENTITY AND COMMUNI-
TY LEVEL ORGANIZING
Organizer and Presider: Valerie Jenness, Washington State Univ
Brenda L. Beagan, Univ of British Columbia: Producing Collective Identities: Issues for Social Movement Theory and Praxis
Peter Dreier, Occidental College: Alinsky’s Children: Dilemmas of Community Organizing in a Global Economy
Jennifer L. Eichstedt, Mary Washington College: Anti-Racist Organizations: The Position of Whites’ Questions of Identity and Action
Perry L. Seymour, Univ of Minnesota: Identity Dilemmas Within and Between Social Movements
177. PARTICIPATORY PANEL: PEDAGOGY AND
STUDENT-COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
Organizer and Presider: Sally Raskoff, Pitzer College
Susan Harris, Univ of Southern California: The Social Construction of Reality: Shaping Students’ Perceptions in Urban Environments
Jennifer Dwyer, Oregon State Univ: Participatory Program Impacts on Student Attitudes Toward the U.S. Forest Service
Karen Monkman, Univ of Southern California: Empowerment Education: Linking Community Involvement and Adult Learning in International Contexts
178. WOMEN AND HEALTH: PATIENTS,
PROVIDERS, AND CAREGIVERS
Organizers: Roberta Lessor, Chapman Univ and Donna B. Barnes, CSU Hayward
Presider: Roberta Lessor, Chapman Univ
K. Johnston and B. Gerbert, UC San Francisco: HIV-Positive Patients’ Preferences and Beliefs about Health Care Professionals’ Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Race/Ethnicity
K. Karlberg, CSU Hayward: The Women’s Health Movement: Thirty Years of Political Advocacy Evaluated
R. Nasser, Univ of Utah: Women’s Health and Well-Being: An Efficient Method to Explain the Gaps Between Women of the Third World and the First World
J. Baldrige Vargas, Chapman Univ: Caregivers of the Gravely Ill: Perspectives from the Field
179. SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS: EMOTIONS
AND FAMILY
Organizers: Jane O’Dell, UC Santa Cruz and Diane Beeson, CSU Hayward
Karen Pyke and Vern Bengtson, Univ of Southern California: Emotional Stances, Boundaries, and Hidden Power in Three Generational Families
Yvette Samson, UC Riverside: Shame on You!: An Analysis of Shame Between and Among Children and Their Parents
Joan Beerline, UC Davis, Ambivalence and Change: Women in Transition
June Ellestad and Jan E. Stets, Washington State Univ: An Identity Theory Approach to Jealousy and Motherhood
180. [This session has been cancelled.]
181. GENDER AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Organizer and Presider: Naomi Abrahams, Whitman College
Discussant: Angela Mertig, Washington State Univ
Judy Taylor, UC Santa Barbara: Case X: Irish Feminism and Reproductive Rites of Passage
Bindi Shah, UC Santa Barbara: The Contemporary Filipino Feminist-Nationalist Movement
Edward J. McCaughan, UC Santa Cruz: Women, Social Movements, and Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexico
182. UNDERGRADUATE SESSION
Organizer: Karen Admire, Oregon State Univ
Presider: Chrinstine Lafia, Mills College
Nicole Gendler, Mills College: For the Love of Barbie: Barbie Dolls’ Influence Over Girls’ Socialization
Constance Holdsambeck, Mills College: Intervention Services for Lesbians
Michael Pope & Monica Aceituno, San Jose State Univ: An Analysis of Race/Ethnic Residential Segregation in San Jose
Sandra Garcia, Mills College: The Teacher and the “Other”: The Perpetuation of Social Stratification in the Classroom
