1997 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, HOLIDAY INN ON THE BAY, SAN DIEGO, APRIL 17-20,1997
THEME: KNOWING AND DOING: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIETY, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
THURSDAY APRIL 17
Summary of Events
10:30 am-7:00 pm Registration
12:00 pm-6:45 pm Sessions
9:00 pm-10:30 pm Welcoming Reception
THURSDAY 12:00-1:30 PM SESSIONS
1. Paper: Militias, Freeman, and Patriots: The Sociology of the Radical Right
Organizer: James A. Aho, Idaho State Univesity
David Snow, William Bunis, Jason Miller, and Jennifer Murdock, University of Arizona: Maintaining a Working Consensus in the Face of Ideological Dissensus: A Southwest Right-wing Group
Michael Blain, Boise State University: The Christian Right Movement, Victimage Rhetoric, and the Ritual Scapegoating of Homosexuals
Andrew L. Roth, UCLA: Strength in Numbers or Divide and Conquer? Affiliation and Disaffiliation in News Coverage of the1996 Montana Standoff
Marcy Sowa and Robert M. Kloss, CSU Sacramento: Vigilance, Vigilantism and Movement Ideology
2. Discussion: Physical and Sexual Violence Against Women
Organizer: Carol Martori, San Diego State University
Discussant: Michele Robertson, San Diego State University
Jessica Maez, CSU San Bernardino: Domestic Violence and the US Marine Corp: A Case Study of a Battered Women's Shelter
Samantha Martin, Chapman University: Domestic Violence Among Caucasians, African-Americans and Hispanics
Catherine Ann Adams, Chapman University: Sexual Harassment
Stacy Buxton: University of Colorado-Denver: Chemical Castration for Sexual Assault Offenders
3. Panel: Minorities in Urban Education: New Directions in Theory, Research, and School Restructuring
Organizer: Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar, UC San Diego
Discussant: Hugh (Bud) Mehan, UC San Diego
Pedro Noguera, UC Berkeley: Responding to the Crisis of the Black Male: Providing Support, Preventing Marginalization
Angela Valenzuela, Rice University: The Experience of Schooling: Immigrants and U.S.-Born Youth
Angela Lintz, UC San Diego: Pyramids, Pupils, and Empowerment: Constructing African American Identity in African American Schools
Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar, UC San Diego: Recasting Social Integration as Social Embeddedness: How Social Networks Facilitate Academic Persistence Among Minority High School Students
4. Paper: Classical and Current Views of the Role of Religion in Society: From Freud, Marx, and Weber to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell
Organizer: Jerry S. Maneker, CSU, Chico
Donald Nielsen, SUNY College-Oneonta: Lost Horizons: Theology, Religious Beliefs, and the "Strong Program" in the Sociology of Religion
Sharon Linzey, Pacific Christian College and Yakov Krotov, Moscow, Russia: The Role of Religion in Russian Society and How It Relates to Politics
Barbara Zajac and Pamela Preston, UC, Riverside: Charism, Personal Challenges, and Ordination of Outsiders to the Priesthood: A Log-Linear Analysis from the National Priests/Nuns Studies, 1993
Asia Kaftan, Arizona State University: Centesimus Annus and the Polish Constitution: Does Pope John Paul II Still Command the Attention of the Government of the Republic of Poland?
Jerry S. Maneker, CSU, Chico: Freud's Problem with Religion: The Case of Christianity
5. Paper: Influences of the Family Environment on Child and Adolescent Development
Organizer: Nazli Baydar, Battelle Center
Discussant: Diane Lye, University of Washington
Pamela Jull, Western Washington University: Education and Expense: Evaluating the Effects of Family Economic Resources on Secondary and Post Secondary School Attainment
Linda S. Stephens, Clemson University: If Parents Separate? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Predivorce Family Life on Adult Children's Relationships with Their Parents
Hsu-Chih Cheng, University of Utah: Family Structure, Inter-Language and Ethnic Identity in Chinese-American Children
6. Workshop: Creating a Comfortable Environment for Multicultural Learning
Organizers and Presenters: Cheryl Joseph and Deb Cash, College of Notre Dame
7. Paper: The Sociology of Jury Nullification
Organizer: Yvonne Bermudez, University of Nevada, Reno
Yvonne Bermudez, University of Nevada, Reno: Jury Nullication as a Defense Strategy for Women Victims Who Kill
James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno: Nonlenient Nullification: Cases Where Juries Find guilt or Liability when They Should Not
Dionne Maxwell, University of Nevada, Reno: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Jury Nullification
8. Applying Sociology Outside the Box I
Organizer: Nancy Durbin, Battelle Seattle Research Center
Kenneth D. Bailey, UCLA: The ASA Committee on Employment and its Activities Regarding Employment in Applied Settings
Judith K. Little, Humboldt State University: Applying Sociology: Problems and Issues for a Masters Program in a Rural Setting
Vernon L. Bates, Pacific University: On the Inside Looking Out: Devising Strategies for An Applied Sociology Program
Peter Phillips, Sonoma State University: Project Censored: Applied Sociology for 21 Years
9. Panel: Putting College Ahead of "A Life": How to Motivate Under Committed Students (Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Ann Baker Cottrell, San Diego State University
Pat Washington, San Diego State University: Moonlighting as College Students: Preferential Treatment Expectations of Paid Labor Force Participants Attending College Classes
Nancy J. Federman, San Diego State University: The Ultimate Teaching Machine: Learn or Die
Darla A. Calvet, Southwestern College: Specific Techniques for Engaging Students in Participatory Learning
10. Paper: Boys will be Boys: Social Constructions of Masculinities
Organizer and Presider: Harry J. Mersmann, Chapman University
L. Dale McPherson, Paradoxes in Presentation
Harry J. Mersmann, Chapman University: Power, Gaze, and Homophobia: The Beginings of a Theory
Sarah M. Augustine, University of New Mexico: Family Values Among Males in the Army
11. Paper: The Challenge of Knowing and Doing: Connecting Feminist Social Theory and Feminist Praxis
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Beth A. Quinn, Montana State Univesity-Bozeman
Jo Ann DeFiore, University of Washington- Bothell: Storytelling and Friendship: Women's Healing Through Theory and Praxis
Shelley Erikson, Southern Oregon State College: Women Teaching Men About Gender
Amanda Cross, University of Puget Sound: For Healing Must Begin: An Exploration of Domestic Violence
12. Panel: Marginal Lives: Deviance, Stigma and the Self
Organizer: Sadie Day Reynolds, University of California, Santa Cruz
Discussant: Marilyn Chap, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joshua S. Meisel, University of Colorado, Boulder: Cottage Kids: Identity Careers and Committed Youth
Lisa Pasko, University of Nevada, Reno: Stigma as Self-Identity: The Case of the Juvenile Sexual Offender
Jana Pershing, University of Washington: Honor Violators and the Midshipmen Who Snitch on Them: A Comparison of Marginal Groups at the U.S. Naval Academy
THURSDAY 1:45-3:15 PM SESSIONS
13. Paper: Sociological Insights and Research on Twelve-Step Groups
Organizer: Gary A. Cretser, Cal Poly Pomona
Discussant: Fred Preston, UNLV
Dorene Francis Doherty, Heather L. Dickerson, Matt E. Olson, and Michelle Peñaflor, Cal Poly Pomona: Mind Over Liquid Matters: The Efficacy of AA
J. Barry Gurdin, To Love and to Work, An Agency for Change: Twelve-Steps, Rational Recovery or Something Else?: What Most Effectively Helped a Highly Educated Professional Woman Cease Her Addiction to Heroin
Gary A. Cretser and William K. Lombardo, Cal Poly Pomona: Beneath the Mask: 12 Step Programs
14. Panel: Body, Power, and Social Interaction
Organizer: Margret Crowdes, CSU San Marcos
Christine Morton, UCLA: The Pregnant Body in Public
Sarah Phillips, Pacific University: The Artist's Model: A Study of Negotiated Meaning in Ambiguous Context
Julie Peggar, CSU San Marcos: Political Procreation
Patrick Carroll, UC San Diego: Medical Police, Sanitary Engineering, and the Body of the Modern Body Politic
15. Social Inferencing Theory
Organizer: Alexander Durig, California State University, San Marcos
Donna Peters, California State University, San Marcos: The Social Construction of ADHD: A Social Inferencing Perspective
Tony Bittar, California State University, San Marcos: The Meaningful Perception of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: A Social Inferencing Perspective
Alexander Durig, California State University, San Marcos: Autistic Perception as a Kind of Meaningful Perception
16. Paper: Graduate Student Paper Session: Feminist Perspectives
Organizer and Presider: Kimberly S. Harbison, UC Irvine
Mingshu Fan, UC Irvine: From State Intervention to Individual Reinvention and Negotiation: Understanding Chinese Women of the 1990's from a Feminist and Global Perspective
Kimberly S. Harbison, UC Irvine: Directive-Response Sequences Among Children: A Conversation-Analytic Examination of How Speakers Make Gender Matter
Tina A. Quartaroli, UC Irvine: A Feminist Network Perspective on Women's Retirement Living Choices
Lorraine Converse, San Jose State University: Happiness in Interracial Relationships
Leslie Bunnage, UC Irvine: Culture of Solidarity: The Impact of the 1934 General Strike on Organized Labor in San Francisco
17. Paper: Population
Organizer: Charles F. Hohm, San Diego State University
Xuanning Fu, Brigham Young University-Hawaii and Tim B. Heaton, Brigham Young University: Comparison of Outmarriers and Inmarriers in Hawaii: 1983-1994
Enrico Marcelli and David M. Heer USC: Unauthorized Mexicans and Public Assistance Usage in Los Angeles County
Kooros Mahmoudi and Kristi Hagen, Northern Arizona University: Tibetan Refugees: Internal and External Community Conflicts
Rodolpho Cruz, El Colegio de La Frontera Nortre: Population and Female Employment in Mexican Border Cities
18. Panel: Sociology's Role in Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Organizer: Judith A. Howard, University of Washington
Judith A. Howard, University of Washington
Mary Romero, Arizona State University
Janet Lee, Oregon State University
Luana Ross, UC, Davis
19. Panel: Clinical Sociology Certification
Organizer: Valerie Malhotra Bentz, The Fielding Institute
Don Bushnell, The Fielding Institute
Phil Robinette, Southern California College
20. Workshop: Gender and Leadership: Theory and Practical Implications
Organizer Laura E. Nathan, Mills College
Laura E. Nathan, Mills College
Patricia A. Noteboom and Florence Guido-DiBrito, University of Northern Iowa
21. Paper: Reorganizing Pacific Rim Economies: Theories and Strategies
Organizer: David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine
John Ratliff, University of California, San Diego: Global and Local Conflict: The Info-Communications Revolution and the Crisis of the Japanese Developmental State
Angie Ngoc Tran, California State University, Monterey Bay: Through the Eye of the Needle: Workers, the State, and Foreign Investment in the Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries
Maria del Rosio Barajas, University of California, Irvine: Mexican "Development" in the 1980's: The Role of Political and Economic Elites
22. Panel: What Green Means: Socially Constructing Nature in Theory and Practice
Organizer: Rik Scarce, Montana State University
Rik Scarce, Montana State University: Control, Freedom and the Social Construction of Wolves
Jeremy M. Brown, Albuquerque Technical and Vocational Institute:
Emerging Green Culture and Ideology: New Pespectives & Strategies within the Modern World System
Elisa Warner, Arizona State University: The Treatment of Nature Under Capitalism: A Classical Perspective on the Current Environmental Crisis
Kimberley D. Saliba, Indiana University: The Real Environmentalists: Rhetoric and the Social Construction of Conflicting Movement Identities
Stephen Zavestoski, WSU-Vancouver: Maintaining an Ecological Identity in an Unsupportive World: The Plight of Deep Ecologists
23. Panel: Sociology and the Media: Writing for Newspapers and Magazines
Organizer: Gordon Clanton, San Diego State University
George Bryjak, University of San Diego
James L. Wood, San Diego State University
Phillip Gay, San Diego State University
Peter Kaye, Editorial Director, KNSD-TV
24. Panel: Native Americans in Modern Society: Law, Politics, and Culture
Organizer: Ronald Steiner, Chapman University
Lola Worthington, CSU, Long Beach: American Indians, Higher Education, and Tribal Community Colleges
Paul Apodaca: Speaking God's Name: Theistic Terminology and Cultural Description
Ronald Steiner, Chapman University: Law, Social Science, and the Native American "Other"
THURSDAY 3:30-5:00 PM SESSIONS
25. Paper: Courtship and Marriage Processes: Theory, Research, and Applications
Organizer: Mary Riege Laner, Arizona State University
Presider: J. Neil Russell, Centers for Disease Control
Mary Riege Laner and Nicole A. Ventrone, Arizona State University: Egalitarian Daters/Traditionalist Dates
Sampson Lee Blair and Zhenchao Qian, Arizona State University: Parents, Peers, and Adolescents' Marital Aspirations: Ethnicity-Based Distinctions
Mary Holland Benin, Arizona State University: Household Division of Labor: The Impact of Changes in the Family Life Cycle
26. Panel: Delinquency and Families
Organizer: Laurie Schaffner, University of California, Berkeley
Fernando Parra, Cal Poly Pomona: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Veterano (older) Gang Members and the (Dys)Functional Aspects of the Role
Anne Nurse, University of California, Davis: Young Fathers and Incarceration: Preliminary Study Results
Karl Schonborn, California State University, Hayward: Gang Signs: Suburbia and the Supergang Threat
27. Panel: Rewriting the Body: Rewriting the Expert
Organizer: Sharon Fuller, University of British Columbia
Joan Anderson, University of British Columbia
Dana Collins, UC, Santa Barbara
Rick Gruneau, Simon Fraser University
Sharon Fuller, University of British Columbia
28. Panel: Human Sexuality: Current Knowledge and Action
Organizer: James E. Elias, CSU Northridge
Andrew Madison, University of California Irvine and David McWhiter, Psychiatrist, Private Practice: Homosexuality: Current Update
William Simon, University of Houston: Post Modern Sexuality
Barry Dank, CSU Long Beach: Legal Issues in Human Sexuality
Veronica Elias and James E. Elias, CSU Northridge: Sex Therapy
29. Paper: Gendered Activism: Culture and Identity in Social Movements
Organizers : Rachel L. Einwohner and Jocelyn A. Hollander, University of Washington
Presider: Jocelyn A. Hollander, University of Washington
Discussant: Rachel L. Einwohner, University of Washington
Bethany Gizzi, Arizona State University: Gender and Environmental Activism: The Implications of Women's Participation in Grassroots Environmental Organizations
Jim Fraser and Cori Groth, University of Utah: Negotiating Motherhood: Cultural Presentations of Abortion and Adoption
Belinda Robnett, UC Davis: Race, Class, and Culture Matter: Gender Relations in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
30. Panel: Queer Expressions: Research Perspectives on Sex and Desire
Organizer and Presider: Jodi O'Brien, Seattle University
Discussant: Arlene Stein, University of Oregon
Linda Van Leuven, UCLA: Research as Pleasure: Getting Data or Just Getting Off
Martha Shockey, Appalachian State University: Whose Voice is it Anyway? Letting Herstory Be Heard
Kari Lerum, University of Washington: Subjects of Desire: Queers, Sex Workers and Erotic Ethnographers
31. Visions of Change: Creativity, Art and Invention I (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizer and Presider: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State University
Angeline Kearns Blain and Michael Blain, Boise State University: Dancing as a Symbolic Form of Identity Practice: The Invention of Basque Ethnic Identity
Peter Simi, University of Nevada: Dinner at Planet of the Postmodern: Creative Commodities in the Era of Late-Capitalism
Colleen R. Hall-Patton, University of Nevada: Quilting: Communal Craft in an Age of Simulacra
Christopher Schmitt, Oregon State University: The Chef Talks Back: A Kitchen Worker Comments on Fine's 'Kitchens'
32. Paper: Reaching Underserved Populations: The Role of Medical Sociology
Organizer : Carol Somkin, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
Diane Beeson, CSU Hayward and Duana Fullwiley, UC Berkeley: Low Utilization of Genetic Testing Among African Americans: A Qualitative Analysis
Wendy Yoo, University of San Francisco and Grace Jeanmee Yoo, UC San Francisco: Health Care Needs of Korean Immigrants in Orange County
Elisabeth Gruskin, UC Berkeley: Sexual Orientation as a Sociodemographic Variable
33. Panel: Taboo Topics: Issues of Controversy and Constraint in Academia
(Sponsored by COFRAT & Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties)
Organizers : Sally Raskoff, Pitzer College and Marie Butler, Oxnard College
Presider: Sally Raskoff, Pitzer College
Discussant: Marie Butler, Oxnard College
Harvey Rich, CSU Northridge: David Duke, Liberal Guilt, Prop. 209, and P.C.
Dean Braa, Western Oregon State College: Hegemony and Critical Pedagogy
Jan L. Shear, CSU Northridge: Comparative Study of Alternative Schooling: Independent Study and Home School
34. Panel: Ethnography Revisited: Jack Douglas and His Students (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizer and Presider: Andrea Fontana, UNLV
David Altheide, Arizona State University
John M. Johnson, Arizona State University
Joe Kotarba, University of Houston
Patricia Adler, University of Colorado and Peter Adler, University of Denver
35. Book and Author Session: An Analysis of 50 Years of Drugs and Death on the Streets of America
Author: Lewis Yablonksy, CSU Northridge
Book: An Analysis of 50 Years of Drugs and Death on the Streets of America
36. Computers in the Classroom: Portals to Cyberspace
Organizer: David E. Kaufman, Central Washington University
Fred Reed, University of Montana: Exploring Commercial Software and the Internet for Research Applications
Dennis Bowker, University of Montana: Enhancing the Research Experience: Using the Internet to Set the Hook
Fred Smoller, Chapman University: How Helpful Was the Press in Campaign 1996? Students Use Computers to Find Out
THURSDAY 5:15-6:45 PM SESSIONS
37. Panel: Making the World of Sociology Problematic: The Reception of Dorothy Smith's Work and Ideas
Organizer: Sharon Fuller, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Dorothy Smith, The Ontario Institute of Education
Tim Diamond, CSU Los Angeles
Joan Busfield, University of Essex
Marie Campbell, University of Victoria
38. Paper: Social Power and Empowerment: Cultural Identity and the Commercial Construction of Popular Music
Organizers: George H. Lewis, University of the Pacific and Randy Blazak, Portland State University
Presider: Robert Shotola, Portland State University
George Lipsitz, UC, San Diego: Robert Johnson as Romantic Icon: Blues History and Radicalized Power
Randy Blazak, Portland State University: Gangstas, Tupac and the Commodification of Rebellion
Nancy Trevarthen, Arizona State University: I'm a Loser, So I'm Gonna Get Ya Wit My Gat: A Look at "Alternative Rock" and "Gangsta Rap"
James I. Bowie, University of Arizona: Ownership and Output in the Popular Music Industry, 1986-1996
Dipannita Basu, Pitzer College: Hip Hop and Black Entrepreneurship in the Cultural Industries
39. Panel: Growing Pains: Urban Changes and Conflicts in the American West
Organizer and Presider: Gary Lasky, UC Santa Cruz
Glenn Tsunokai, UC Riverside: Interstate Intolerance: Mass Migration of Californians to Oregon
Maurice Roos, California Department of Water Resources: The Top 11 Floods in California History
Max Herman, University of Arizona: Conquering the Divided Neighborhood: Urban Redevelopment in a Tucson, Arizona Barrio
R. Stanley Oden, UC Santa Cruz: Power Shift: A Political Sociological Analysis of Oakland, California, 1965-1996
40. Panel: Human Rights, Political Power and Democracy: What's Wrong in Southern Mexico
Organizer and Presider: Seth Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara
Translation: Olivia Salcido, Mission City Community Network
Seth Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara: The Surge Toward Democracy, Freedom and Human Rights in the World
Carmen Barragan, Autonomous University of Guerrero: Origin and Current Organization of Human Rights in Mexico
Jaime Cardoso, Autonomous University of Guerrero: Guerrero, Southern Mexico, and the Human Rights Dilemma
Roberto Canedo, Autonomous University of Guerrero: Economic Democracy and Human Rights in Mexico: What Is To Be Done?
41. Panel: Innovative Approaches to the Study of New Social Movements
Organizer : Sally A. Dittloff, University of Nevada, Reno
Discussant: Hank Johnston, San Diego State University
Stephan Desrochers, University of Nevada, Reno: Fearful White Flight: The Possible Role of Emotions in the Decision of Whites to Migrate
David A. Lott, University of Nevada, Reno: An Alternative Explanation of the Recruitment to and Participation in New Religious Movements Through a Socialization in Small Groups Perspective
Sally A. Dittloff, University of Nevada, Reno: Minority Influences Within the Women's Movement
Dionne Maxwell, University of Nevada, Reno: The Creation, Negotiation, and Maintenance of Gender Identity in New Religious Movements
42. Paper: Father's Involvement: Future Challenges and Policy Directions
Organizer: Randal D. Day, Washington State University
Craig Retallack and Candan Duran-Aydintug, University of Colorado, Denver: Fathers with Sole or Joint Cutody: Legal Involvement and Social Policy
Brent Taylor, USC: Emerging Alienation: Fatherhood in a Capitalist Society
Randal D. Day, Washington State University: The Movement to Collect Federal Data on Men in Families
43. Time, Space, and Interaction (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizer: Noel T. Byrne, Sonoma State University
Warren D. TenHouten, UCLA: The Temporal Quaternio: A Case Study of Australian Aborigines
Victoria Koehler-Jones, CSU, Sacramento: Temporal Identity and Perceptions of the Natural Environment
Marta L. Gaffney, UC, Santa Barbara: Temporal Features of Problematic Situations: Theoretical Significance of Mead's Continually Emergent Present
Mark Hutter, Rowen College: The Symbolism of the Skyscaper: A Tale of Three Cities -- New York, Moscow, and Hong Kong
44. Panel: Social Construction of Sexuality
Organizer Christopher Carrington, San Fancisco State University
Kristen Barker, Linfield College: Glowing Gonads: Sex, Science & a Videotape
Christopher Niemitz, UC Santa Cruz: It's in the Genes? Locating Sexuality in an Age of Political Conservativism
Gary Hampe, University of Wyoming: Male Sexual Identity: An Examination of What has been Ignored
John Master, UC Riverside: The Past is a Queer Country
45. Paper: Immigration, Race & Labor Markets
Organizer: Lisa Catanzarite, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Enrico Marcelli, University of Southern California
Abel Valenzuela, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles: Labor Market Characteristics of Day Laborers: Preliminary Findings from Los Angeles
Yoonies Park, University of California, Irvine: Korean Women Entrepreneurs in the Ethnic Economy
Ku-Sup Chin, University of California, Irvine: Transnational Community: Globalization of the Korean Community in Los Angeles
Jose Antonio Padin, Portland State University: Unusual Crossroads: How Labor Market Splits Undermined the "Race Card" in Puerto Rico's Transition to Capitalism
46. Paper: Bodies, Illness and Feelings (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizers: Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University and Angelo A. Alonzo, Ohio State University
Presider and Discussant: Jennifer Dunn, UC Davis
Kathleen Johnston, UC San Francisco: Patient Empowerment
Jennifer Fosket, UC San Francisco: Constructions of Knowledge of Breast Cancer
Allen Shelton, Whitman College: Body Maps: The Delights of Commodity Fetishization
Sarah R. Phillips, Pacific University and Debora A. Paterniti, Yale University: Art Mimics Life: Body Work and (Re) Presentation
47. Panel: Teaching the Sociology of Gender
Organizer: Heidi Tarver, Mills College
Presider: Laura Nathan, Mills College
Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California
Pamela Roby, UC Santa Cruz
Theresa Montini, Cal State Polytechnic University, Pomona
48. Paper: Qualitative Studies of Work and the Workplace (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizer Clark Molstad, California State University, San Bernardino
Susan B. Murray, De Anza College: Child Care Workers: Our Newest Kin
Leon Grunberg and Hannah Knudsen, University of Puget Sound: Employee's Reactions to Downsizing and Re-engineering at a Large American Company
Susan Schuller Friedman and Norman L. Friedman, Calif. State University, Los Angeles: The Unfolding of Typical Sales Interaction Sequences at Gemstone/Jewelry and Crafts Trade Shows
Gale Miller, Marquette University: Rethinking Qualitative Studies of Work and the Workplace
THURSDAY 7:00-8:30 PM MEETING
Committee Meeting: 1996-97 Chairs of PSA Committees Anthony's Star of the Sea Restaurant
THURSDAY 9:00-10:30 PM WELCOME RECEPTION
Welcoming Reception, Dessert
FRIDAY APRIL 18
Summary of Events
8:00 am-5:00 pm Registration
8:00 am-4:00 pm Sessions
8:30 am-5:00 pm Publisher's Display
4:00 pm-5:45 pm Awards and Presidential Address
5:45 pm-6:45 pm Presidential Reception
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Evening Sessions on Race, Class and Gender and
Class, State, and Revolution in the 20th Century
FRIDAY 8:00-9:45 AM SESSIONS
Meeting:
1996-97 Council Meeting, Rodolfo Alvarez Presiding
49. Panel: Trends in Survey Research (Sponsored by the American Association for Public Opinion Research)
Organizer: Charles D. Cowan, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Presider: Earl Babbie, Chapman University
William L. Nicholls II, U.S. Bureau of the Census: The Future of Data Collection: Trends in CATI\CAPI
Heather Hammer, Price-Waterhouse LLP: Expanded Use of Surveys: Litigation Support
Shapard Wolf, Jr., Arizona State University: Trends in University Survey Research
Earl Babbie, Chapman University: Some Postmodern Annoyances for Survey Research
50. Paper: Postmodernism and a Sociology of the Absurd
Organizer: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State Unversity
Stanford M. Lyman, Florida Alantic University: Postmodernism and a Sociology of the Absurd
Yoke-Sum Wong, University of Alberta: The Sense of Empire: Synesthesia in 19th Century and Early 20th Century Travelers' Tales of Singapore and Malaya
Peter Grahame, College of the Holy Cross: A Rare and Special Sight: Natualists, Interpretation, and the Construction of Nature in Ecotourism
51. Paper: Beyond the Boundaries: The Study of Organizational Fields
Organizer : Susanne C. Monahan, Montana State University
Discussant: Marc Ventresca, Northwestern University
Howard Lune and Miranda Martinez, New York University: Organizational Fields, Environments, and the Boundary Specification Problem: Implications for Embedded Subfields
Robert A. Hanneman, UC Riverside: The Evolution of Organizational Fields in the United States Salt Industry: 1793-1996
Jay Keeton, Keeton Partners/Seattle: Business Relations and Value
Cori Groth and George Miller, University of Utah: The Impact of Environmental and Organizational Factors on Principals' Perceived influence in Schools
52. Paper: Teaching Sociology: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, University of Alaska, Southeast
Joseph B. Gittler, Duke University: Possibilities of Integration in the Social Sciences
Vandana Kohli, CSU Bakersfield: Mapping New Horizons: Incorporating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into the Sociology Curriculum
Virginia Mulle and Christopher Weaver, University of Alaska Southeast: The Writing is on the Wall: Student Resistance to Linked Courses in Sociology and Composition
Lisa Bond-Maupin and Christine Eber, New Mexico State University: Integrating Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives in Introductory Classes
Robin Franck, Southwestern College: The Theory and Practice of Intracurricular Teaching: A Case Study of Pairing Sociology and English
53. Panel: Applying Sociology Outside the Box II
Organizer: Nancy Durbin, Battelle Seattle Research Center
Discussant: Debra Friedman, University of Washington
Rebecca Bohorques, Washington State University- Spokane: Applied Sociology in a Community Setting
Gregory A. Poremba, Jones & Stokes Associates: Obtaining the Skills, Getting the Job, and Working in Environmental Consulting and Private Business
Zoe Vaughn, Humboldt State University: Youth in Conflict, Learning to Resolve
Agnes Riedmann, CSU, Stanislaus: Implications of Welfare Reform: Perceptions of the Stanislaus County Business Community and Public Welfare Agencies
Chester A. Winton, San Jose State University: Using Symbolic Interaction Theory in Evaluating Child Custody Disputes
54. Paper: Pitfalls of Family Existence: Violence, Depression, and Divorce
Organizer and Presider: Karen Beasley Young, Chapman University
Arina Ulman, University of Colorado at Denver: Effects of Sibling Violence History on Family and Non-Family Violence in Adulthood
Sharon K. Davis and Wendy Rockenbaugh, University of LaVerne: Children of Divorce: Long Term Effects on College Students' Attitudes Toward Marriage, Love, Sex and Children
Robert K. Leik and Gail Duane, University of Minnesota and Mary Anne Chalkley, University of St. Thomas: Enhancing Resilience: The Role of Head Start and Cultural Context in Mitigating the Long Term Impact of Material Depression on Children
55. Paper: Undergraduate Student Papers - Studies in Self and Society
Organizer: Ted E. Thomas, Mills College
John Niederer, California State University, Los Angeles: The Origins and Implications of Semblance of Self Theory
Rachel Jose, Mills College: Social Class and Self-Esteem of Adolescents
Brent Dice and Norman Alerta, University of Colorado at Denver: Psychological Group Distinctiveness and Intergroup Bias: A Test of Tafjel's Social Identity Theory Between Two Groups of College Students
Denise Smith, CSU Los Angeles: Interracial Marriage: A Black and White Perspective
Amy Amper, Chaminade University: The Life-Cycle of the Marginal Man: Identifying Examples Among the Chinese in Kona, Hawai'i.
56. Paper: Elites: Power, Politics, and Policy
Organizer: Peter Phillips, Sonoma State University
Johanna K. Beckman, UC, San Diego: Making the Political Economic: Political Elites and Economic Experts in Socialist Hungary
Martyn Kingston, University of Puget Sound: Explaining the Rise and Fall of Apartheid from within the Afrikaner Power Elite
Mary E. Kelsey, CSU, San Bernardino: Replacing Social Services with Coercion: A Critique of Republican Welfare Reform Proposals
57. Community Action Research with a Social Service Agency: Evaluating Cultural Competency
Organizer: Darlene L. Pina, CSU San Marcos
Carol A. Wilkinson, CSU San Marcos: Evaluating Cultural Competency in a Social Service Agency: A Community Action Research Approach
Maria Mendez, CSU San Marcos: Understanding the Needs of Low-Income Latino Immigrants
Patricia Dunatte, CSU San Marcos: Latino Immigrants' Experiences in a Human Service Agency: The Client's Perspective
Laura Canty-Swapp, CSU San Marcos: Race, Assimilation, and Organizations: The Cultural Competency Conflict
Darlene L. Pina, CSU San Marcos: Enhancing Cultural Competency in a Human Sevice Organization: Clinical Sociology In Action
58. Panel: Changing Hats; The Interactionist Looks at Identity Transformation
Organizer: Douglas Degher, Northern Arizona University
Jonathan Wynn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: I Was a Teenage Poseur
Teresa Davidson, Northern Arizona University: Identity Formation & Standards of Beauty
Gerald Hughes, Northern Arizona University: I No Longer Ride a Harley: A Model of Subcultural Disengagement
Janet Shim, University of California, San Francisco: Shifting Identities: Narratives of Asians & Pacific Islanders Living with HIV
Walter Doraz, California State University, Stanislaus: Roleless Metamorphosis: The Case for Aged Identities
59. Paper: Symbolic Interaction: New Directions in Symbolic Interaction (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizer: Martin Monto, University of Portland
Deborah A. Henderson and Christine A. Yalda, Arizona State Univesity: Footnotes to Plato: The Interactional Constitution of Power
Michelle Adams and David Boyns, UC Riverside: Social Interaction and the Mediated Other
Lora Bex Lempert, University of Michigan, Dearborn: School Daze: African American Grandparents Raising Their Adolescent Grandchildren
Lynne Isaacson, University of Oregon: Gender and Interaction at a Promise Keepers Conference
60. Workshop: Developing Computer-Based Instructional Materials
Organizers: Edward Nelson and Elizabeth Nelson, CSU Fresno
Nan Chico, CSU Hayward: How to Integrate Web Materials Into a Graduate Seminar
Jim Ross, CSU Bakersfield: An Issue Dialogue for Critical Thinking
Elizabeth Nelson and Edward Nelson, CSU Fresno: Using SPSS to Teach Critical Thinking
Robert Christie, CSU Dominguez Hills: Cooperative Learning Software for Teaching Theory
John Tinker, CSU Fresno: Using Microcase to Teach Introductory Sociology
Kashka Celinska, University of Utah: Using Computer Tutor Programs in Teaching Introductory Sociology
FRIDAY 10:00-11:45 AM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings:
10:00-11:00 Committee on Committees
11:00-12:00 Awards Committee
61. Paper: The Criminal Courts: Prosecution and Sentencing Issues
Organizer: Rodney Kingsnorth, CSU Sacramento
Discussant: Al Johnson, LA County Public Defenders Office
Rodney Kingsnorth and John Lopez, CSU Sacramento: Sexual Assault: The Role of the Interracial Dyad in Case Processing in Sacramento County, 1992-1994
Gary Giewat, University of Nevada, Reno: Juror Honesty During Voir Dire
Sharon K. Davis and Yvonne Gentry, University of La Verne: Juvenile Justice in the 1990's: Public Attitudes Toward the Juvenile Death Penalty, Rehabilitation and the Criminal Justice System
Gina Chance, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute: Capital Punishment: Has Furman Made a Difference?
62. Paper: Women of Color: Issues and Activism
Organizer: Liza L. Kuecker, Montana State University, Billings
Brooke Gondara, Western Heritage Center: Indian Women Have Babies: Norplant, Internal Colonialism and Race Genocide
Jenny Chamberlain, Brigham Young University: Variables Impacting Life Satisfaction for Women of Color
Maria D. Cuevas, Washington State University: Community Work as Family Work: Chicana Activism
Velma M. Guillory-Taylor, Sonoma State University: Utilization of Organizational Structure: Strategies for Women of Color to Combat Racism and Sexism in Academe
63. Paper: Place, Community, and Citizen Participation in Environmental Decision Making
Organizer: Lorie Higgins, Washington State University
Linda Kruger, University of Washington: Understanding Place as a Cultural System: Implications of Theory and Method
Brian Elliot and Andrew McKinnon, University of British Columbia: Environmentalism and the Revitalization of the Public Sphere
William Gibson, CSU Long Beach: Ecological Activism Is a Way People Affirm That They Belong to a Place and Have the Right to Defend it
Joshua Dunsby, UC San Diego: Ten in One Million: Negotiating Health Risk Standards and Public Notifications
64. Paper: The Social Context of Death, Dying, and Disposal of the Dead
Organizer : Jacque Lynn Foltyn, University of Redlands
Kevin O'Neill, University of Redlands: The Rise and Fall of American Death in the 19th & 20th Centuries
Cecelia Julag-Ay, California State University, San Bernardino: Did Teen Angel and the Leader of the Pack Slay Puff the Magic Dragon
Katherine E. Jackson, University of Colorado, Denver: The Parents of Terminally-Ill Children: The Stages of Death & Dying Experienced by the Parents
Claire Langham, University of Redlands: Visions of Death That Structure Life
65. Film/Video: The Ad and the Ego: The Social Psychology of Advertising Culture
Organizer and Presenter: Bernard McGrane, Chapman University
66. Author Meets Critics: "American Gay" by Stephen O. Murray
Organizer: Peter Nardi, Pitzer College
Author: Stephen O. Murray, American Gay
Critics: Steven Epstein, UC San Diego, Michael Messner, USC; and
Beth Schneider, UC Santa Barbara
67. Panel: Confronting the "Urban" in Urban School Reform
Organizer and Discussant: Pedro Noguera, UC Berkeley
Shawn Ginwright, UC Berkeley: Afrocentricsm as Social Movement and Its Influence on Urban Schools
Tamara Prevost, UC Berkeley: Charter Schools and Immigrant Language Minority Students: Good Intentions are not Enough
Elise Huggins, UC Berkeley: Detracking the Urban High School
David Kaiser, UC Berkeley: Battlin' Nihilism in an Alternative Urban High School
68. Paper: Class, Ideology and Knowledge: Historical Materialist Approaches to the Sociology of Knowledge and Science
Organizer: Martin Orr, Boise State University
Cori Barrera, Bosie State University: Mass Media and Ideological Hegemony: A Class Analysis
Mark Jones, UC San Diego: Technical Coder: Description and Critique in Technology Studies
Jeremy Maxand, Bosie State University: From Reification to Reductionism: Theoretical Fallacies and the Sociology of Knowledge
Martin Orr, Boise State University: Toward a Sociology of Social Science: A Content Analysis of the Criminal Justice Abstracts
69. Paper: Undergraduate Student Papers - Sociology of Deviance
Organizer: Ted E. Thomas, Mills College
Suzanne Porras, California State University, Los Angeles: Significant Age Differences in Courtship
Antonio Solorio, California State University, Los Angeles: Deviance and Social Control: A Case Study of a Crime Victim
Salvador Manzo, California State University, Los Angeles: A Gender Based Content Analysis of the Children's Program
Daniel Santos, California State University, Los Angeles: Does Violence in the Media Influence Children to Behave Aggressively?: An Experiment
70. Panel: The Underprepared Student: The How and Where of Remediation (Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer and Presider: Ann Baker Cottrell, San Diego State University
Vriginia Mulle, University of Alaska, Southeast: Overcoming the Pitfalls of Remediation
Carol Sweedler-Brown, San Diego State University: Myths, Realities, and Politics: Administering a Developmental Education Program at the CSU "Flagship" Campus
Deborah Poole, San Diego State University: Issues Affecting ESL 'Remediation' in Higher Education
Elise Miller, San Diego State University: Beyond 'Bonehead English': Remedial Writing in an Integrated Curriculum
71. Paper: Gambling: Quantitative and Qualitative Research, Participation and Policy
Organizer Fredrick W. Preston, UNLV
William Thompson and Ricardo Gazel, UNLV: The Social Costs of Gambling: A Model and Some New Data
Fredrick W. Preston and Ronald W. Smith, UNLV: Difficulties in Measuring Problem Gambling
Christian Marfels, Dalhousie University: The Entertainment Aspect of Casino Gaming
Fredrick W. Preston, UNLV, Bo Bernhard, Harvard University, Robert Hunter, Nevada Psychological Associates & Charter Hospital, and Cherry McDowell, Charter Hospital: Outcome Indicators for Success in Gamblers Anonymous and Problem Gambling Treatment
72. Discussion: The ASA's Revised Code of Ethics: Ethical Conduct for Sociologists' Work
Organizer and Presenter: Carla Howery, Deputy Director, The American Sociological Association
FRIDAY 12:00 PM-1:45 PM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings:
12:00-1:00 Committee on Teaching
1:00-2:00 Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical
73. Roundtables
General Organizer and Presider: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Table 1. Impact of Work and Family Experiences on Gender Attitudes of Youth
Organizer: Rachel Kahn-Hut, San Francisco State University
Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski, Weber State University: Work and Family Experiences: Effects on Gender Role Attitudes of Youth
Table 2. Religion
Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Tahmoores Sarraf, Idaho State University: Islamic Enclave in the U.S.A.: Black Muslims, Muslim Immigrants and AfroAmerican Orthodox Muslims
Table 3. Homelessness, Migration, and Retreatism
Organizer: P. A. Dee Southard, University of Oregon
Edna Molina, UCLA: Negotiating Homelessness: Getting By with a Little Help from Their Friends
Kurt Borchard, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Squatting on the Las Vegas Strip
Mindi Sheffield, Western Oregon State College: Distant Voices of Homeless Youth
Table 4. Role, Self & Identity
Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Marilyn Garber and Steve R. Riskin, CSU, Domingues Hills: Self-Defining the Self in Sickness: Doctors and Patients Entangled
Linda L. Yellin, CSU, Los Angeles: Role Transition, Identity, and the Acquisition of Role-Sets
Table 5. The Practice of Teaching: Innovative Approaches to Undergraduate Statistics
Organizer: Rae R. Newton, California State University, Fullerton
Discussant: Giselle Blanche, Fullerton Community College
Tammy Lewis, Denison University and Anne Nurse, University of California, Davis: An Exercise for Teaching the Concept of Sampling Distribution
Nelta Edwards, Arizona State University: Using Students in Class Grading as a Teaching Tool in Statistics Courses
Table 6. A Potpourri: Undergraduate Roundtable
Organizers Shoon Lio and Will Kennedy, San Diego State University
Amanda Turner, California State University, San Marcos: Violence in Cyberspace
Heidi Graham, Western Oregon State College: Deinstitutionalization of Developmentally Disabled Individuals
Cynthia Morriss, Western Oregon State College: Activism in the Doctor-Assisted Suicide
Rod Powell, San Diego State University: A Content Analysis of Personal Advertisements Placed by Male and Female Hetero- and Homosexuals in Major West Coast and Midwest Metropolitan Cities
Table 7. Labor-Academic Connections: Creative Brainstorming
Organizer: Ellen Dannin, California Western School of Law
William Kramer, UCLA-LA MAP
Donald Cohen, San Diego-Imperial Counties Central Labor Council
Table 8. A Theory-Guided Search for Gender Equality
Rae Blumberg, UC San Diego: Pockets Without Patriarchy: A Theory-Guided Search for Gender Equality in [Remote Areas of] Ecuador, Thailand and China
74. Panel: Immigration and Cities
Organizer: Mehdi Bozorgmehr, The City College, CUNY
Discussant: Ivan Light, UCLA
Mehdi Bozorgmehr, The City College, City University of New York: Immigrant Cities: Los Angeles and New York
Pyong Gap Min, Queens College and Graduate School, CUNY: A Middleman Minority: Korean Immigrants in New York and Los Angeles
Ruben G. Rumbaut, Michigan State University: Growing Up American: A Longitudinal Study of Children of Immigrants in San Diego and Miami in the 1990's
Cristina Szanton-Blanc, Columbia University: Transnationalism Among Filipinos in New York and Manila
75. Panel: Qualitative Studies of Youth (Sponsored by SSIS)
Organizer: Marc Flacks, University of California, Santa Cruz
David Hall, University of California, Davis: The Missing Generation: Age, Culture, and Collective Identity on Campus
Lori Jensen, University of Southern California: When Two Worlds Collide: The Merging of Unconventional Youth Subcultures and Conservative Religion
M. A. Bortner, Arizona State Univerity: Qualitative Research in Juvenile Prisons: Trotsky and the Church Lady Do Time
76. Panel: Qualitative Methods of Knowing and Doing: Paradigms in Practice
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Karla B. Hackstaff, Northern Arizona University
Teresa Swartz, UC San Diego: Ethnography and Social Policy: The Power and Potential of Participant Observation
Jane Szucs, Northern Arizona University: Critical Ethnography and the Practice of Social Work
Jane Hood, University of New Mexico: Sampling Strategies for Ethnographic Studies
Elizabeth C. Rudd, UC Berkeley: Gender Relations in Post-Communist Germany: Interpreting What Men and Women Said About How German Unification Has Changed Their Lives
Christine A. Yalda, Arizona State University: Being My Other Self: Collaborative Research on Assyrian Women
77. Paper: Political Behavior
Organizer: Judith Stepan-Norris, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Deborah Kaplan, UC, Irvine
Robert Biggert, Southern Utah University and David Weakliem, University of Connecticut: Region and Political Opinion in the Contemporary United States
Peter Callero, Western Oregon State College:The Colonization of a State Legislature
Irving Gold, McMaster University: Jewish Political Behavior: Liberal or Pragmatic: The 1989 Quebec Provincial Election
David Broudy, University of New Mexico: Human Rights as Organizational Ideology, Social Change, and International Networking
Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, Middle East Technical University: Political Attitudes and Party Preferences in Turkey
78. Paper: Seeing, Knowing, and Doing: Visual Sociology and the Role of the Visual in Sociological Practice
Organizer: Shelley Kowalski, University of Oregon
Margarethe Kusenbach, UCLA: Right Lane Must Exit: Driving the Freeway in Los Angeles
Melinda J. Stone, UC, San Diego: Archiving Practices and the Case of Home Movies
Chandra Mukerji, UC, San Diego: Employing Visual Evidence for Historical Sociology: The Case of 14th Century French Uses of Space
Eric Margolis, Arizona State University: Picturing Labor: A Visual Ethnography of the Coal Mine Labor Process
Sydney Hart, UC Santa Cruz: Material Culture, Museums and Representation
79. Paper: Queer Worlds: Empirical Studies of Sexuality
Organizer: Jodi O'Brien, Seattle University
Erich Steinman, University of Washington: Will an Amorphous Center Hold?: Gender and Conflict in Bisexual Communities
Alison Ekizian, San Diego State University: Visible Localized Gay Communities: Interpersonal Relationships, Networks, and Ethos
Matt Mutchler, UC, Santa Barbara: The Queer Politics of Throwing a Parade
80. Panel: The Industry of Criminal Punishment
Organizer: Sadie Day Reynolds, University of California, Santa Cruz
David Musick and Kristine G. Musick, University of Northern Colorado and Alan Mobley, University of Callifornia, Irvine: Examining Recent Growth in U.S. Federal Corrections and Identifying a Vocabulary for Assessing Its Consequences
Gregory Chris Brown, Chapman University: Punishment Theory: The Justification for the Overreliance on Prisons
John R. Millay, Eastern Oregon State College: Prisons, Profits, and Politics: Exploring the
Limits of Privatization
81. Panel: Peak Experiences in the Classroom: Getting High on Teaching Sociology
Organizer: Hal Charnofsky, CSU Dominguez Hills
Hal Charnofsky, CSU Dominguez Hills
Bernard McGrane, Chapman University
Judith Little, Humboldt State University
Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College
82. Paper: Engendering Violence: The Local and the Global (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Jennifer L. Dunn, UC Davis
Norma Jean Ashbeck, Whitman College: An Auto Ethnography of Domestic Violence
Naomi Abrahams, Whitman College: Bruised Silence: Domestic Violence and Discursive Politics in Eastern Washington
Sharon K. Davis and Erika Tellez, University of La Verne: Violence in Relationships: A Comparison of Three Ethnicities' Attitudes, Prevalence and Severity
Anne Rauhamaa, CSU Northridge: A Comparison of the Explanations of Rape in the United States and Finland
83. Paper: Business and Professional Employment of Sociology BA's and MA's
Organizer: James L. Wood, San Diego State University
Discussant: Kelly Smith, San Diego State University
Juan Gonzales, CSU Hayward: The Employment of Recent Undergraduates from Sociology Programs
Ronald E. Hughes, CSU Fullerton: Alumni Survey of Sociology Graduate Students
Catherine Youtkus, San Diego State University: Employment of Sociology Graduates: A Practical Guide
Elizabeth Nelson, CSU Fresno: Mentoring and Service Learning
84. Paper: Studying Whiteness in the 1990's: Knowledge, Uses, & Limitations
Organizer Jennifer L. Eichstedt, Mary Washington College
Discussant: David Wellman, University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter Simi and Jennifer Schneider, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Fear of a Black Planet: Constructions of Whiteness on the World Wide Web
Ellen Scott, University of California, Davis: Beyond Marking Whiteness: What Now? Lessons from the Field
Jennifer L. Eichstedt, Mary Washington College: Sociology: The Study of Whiteness; What We're Learning & Whether It Matters
FRIDAY 2:00-3:45 PM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings:
2:00-3:00 Committee on the Status of Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals
3:00-4:00 Committee on Nominations
85. Roundtables
General Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Table 1. Group Conflict and Assault
Organizer : Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Pamela J. Preston, UC, Riverside: Authority/Challenger Group Conflict: A Simulation of a Synthesis of Simmel's Model of Conflict Intensity and Turk's Model of Political Violence
Phillip W. Davis, Georgia State University: Intimate Assault in Public: When Strangers Step In
Table 2. Women, Migrancy, Nationalism and Citizenship (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Minoo Moallem, San Jose State University
Joslin K. Pua, UC Berkeley: Contours of Diasporic Indianness and National Identities in Trinidad
Shelly Feldman, Cornell University: Civil Society Lost: Individualism Recasting, Rethinking State Society Relations in the Democratic Politics of Contemporary Bangladesh
Caroline Danielson, University of Nevada, Reno: Citizenship as Kinship: Women and Immigrants' Citizenship in turn-of-the Century United States
Table 3. [This table has been canceled.]
Table 4. Comparative Sociology
Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Martin Orr, Boise State University: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Northern Ireland as a Test Case
Ashakant Nimbark, Dowling College: Future of Mass Media Impact on Third World Societies
Table 5. Undergraduate Students - Sociology of the Family
Organizer: Ted E. Thomas, Mills College
Roberta Espinoza, Pomona College: Ethnicity, The Division of Household Labor and Marital Dissolution: A Comparison of Mexican Americans and Non-Latino Whites
Sara Sutler-Cohen, Mills College: Support or Non-Support for Breastfeeding Hospitalized Mothers Following Childbirth
Audrey Leung, California State University, Los Angeles: My Old Woman, My Four Children
Angie Rose, Mills College: From Third World Reminiscences to First World Realities: Indo-Guyanese Women in the United States
Table 6. New Directions in Doing/Presenting Sociological Research
Organizer: Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos
Ronda Priest, University of Southern Indiana: TV News and the Creation of Reality: A Proposed Method of Inquiry
Yvette J. Samson, UC Riverside, Michelle Crockett, UCLA, and Reba N. Page, Harvard: How Teachers and Researchers Make Sense of High School Science
Table 7. Community: Relevance and Research
Organizer: Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos
Margarethe Kusenbach, UCLA: Relevance of Local Community in Everyday Life
Paul Miller, University of Montana: Coping with Block Grants: The New Research Challenge to Sociology of the Community
Jeremy Brown, Albuquerque Technical and Vocational Institute: A Communitarian Green Alternative: A Strategy for Survial and Social Transformation
Table 8. Consequences of the Rich Getting Richer
Denny Braun, Mankato State University: The Consequences of the Rich Getting Richer
86. Paper: The Politics of Appearance: Men, Women, and the Changing Role of Gender
Organizer: Jacque Lynn Foltyn, University of Redlands
Susan Kaiser and Joan Chandler, University of California, Davis: Style and Subjectivity in Academic Female Culture: Politics, Aesthetics, and Becoming
Leslie Cole, University of Southern California: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Fairest at the Mall?: Purchasing Femininity and the Makeover Mentality in America
Julie Brines, University of Washington: Multitasking: Gender Display Via the Content and Segregation of Household Work
Kristi Hagen, Northern Arizona University: Stripping and Women's Choice
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, University of Redlands: From the Iliad to Post-Modern Theory: Gender and the War on Beauty
87. Paper: Environmental Policy and Social Institutions: National and Global
Organizers: Thomas J. Burns and Edward L. Kick, University of Utah
Tanya Pergola, University of Washington: How Much is a Salmon Worth?
Marlene Lehtinen, University of Utah and Oleg Gubin and Oxana Kostiouchenko, University of Utah & Moscow State University: Socio-Ecological Catastrophe: The Case of Chernobyl
Michelina Miraglia, CSU Northridge: Crime Against the Environment: The Regulation and Enforcement Process
Byron L. Davis, University of Utah: Social, Technological, and Environmental Change in the Late 20th Century
Rae Lesser Blumberg, UC San Diego: Gender, Economic Development and Environmental Stewardship: Some Hypotheses with Data from Asia and Latin America
88. Paper: Family Work
Organizer: Rachel Kahn-Hut, San Francisco State University
Suzanne Vaughan and Paul C. Luken, Arizona State University, West: Here and There/Now and Then: The Social Organization of Women's Moving Experience
Teresa Swartz, UC, San Diego: Providing for Families Through Caring for Children: The Economic and Gender Strategies of Foster Parenting
Francesca M. Cancian, UC, Irvine: Caring Work: Shifting the Research Agenda on Work and Family
Christopher Carrington, University of Massachusetts: Consumption Work Among Lesbigay Families
89. Paper: Families in the U.S.: Where Are We Going?
Organizer and Discussant: Sharon K. Araji, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Candan Duran-Aydintug, University of Colorado, Denver: Social Support Received by Different Family Structures: Its Sources and Determinants
Twyla Hill, UC Irvine: Legally Extending the Family: An Event History Analysis of Grandparent Visitation Rights
Kyle N. Weir, USC: Family Governance: Policy-making within Families
Karen Pyke, UC Irvine: Where are Asian Immigrant Families Going? Lessons from Adult Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants
90. Paper: Popular Music, Culture and Society
Organizers: Randy Blazak, Portland State University and George H. Lewis, University of the Pacific
Mark Mattern, Chapman University: Theorizing Political Action in Popular Music: Beyond Opposition, Resistance and Struggle
Anna Szemere, UC, San Diego: Claiming Spaces: Countercultural Music and the City in Hungary
Heema Govindje, UC, Davis: Hindi Film Songs: Constructing a Bridge for the South Asian Immigrant
Jose Padin, Portland State University: Colonialization in Reverse: Music and Migration in the Recreation of an African Puerto Rican Heritage
George H. Lewis, University of the Pacific: Hillbilly Deluxe: The Cultural Construction of Modern Country
91. Paper: Gender Issues in Cyberspace (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Denise M. Dalaimo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Discussant: Lori Kendall, UC Davis
Gerald Schutte, CSUN: Gender Differences in the Virtual Classroom: A Case Study of the CSUN Campus Web Project
Jaimie Phillips, UNLV: M or F?: Deconstructing Binary Gender in Online Interactions
Melissa Monson, UNLV: Sexual Harassment: Online Gender Differences
Chelsea Starr, UC Irvine: America Online vs. Riot Grrl Chat: Framing Sex and Feminist Cybermovement
92. Paper: Prime Time Television: The Socializing of America
Organizer: Yvonne Iwasa, Treasure Valley Community College
Robert V. Robinson and Elton F. Jackson, Indiana University: The Mass Media and the Erosion of Trust in America
Raymond J. Mohl, Humboldt State: The Deceptive Demographics of the Television Family
Noreen Begoray, UC Santa Barbara: Gender, Sexuality, and Interpersonal Relationships in Television Situation Comedies, 1994-1996
Yvonne Iwasa, Treasure Valley Community College: Reality Crime and Danger Television Shows and the Fear of Crime: A Quantitative Analysis
Wendy L. DeBoer, USC: Closures and Disclosures: A Strategy for Framing Fear in Television Newsmagazines
93. Women, Girls, and Education
Organizer: Marie Butler, Oxnard College
Lilach Lev Ari, Haifa University: Gender Differences in Mathematics Among Arab and Jewish Youth in Israel
Michelle Inkley, Brigham Young University: Factors Influencing Educational Attainment in Bolivia, Columbia, and Peru
Susan Blank, University of California, Irvine: Learning about Cultural Diversity from Peers: Differences for Girls and Boys
Marie Butler, Oxnard College: The Role of Teachers in Gender Socialization
94. Paper: Self and Identity in the Real World I
Organizer: Viktor Gecas, Washington State University
Presider: James H. Frey, UNLV
Norbert Wiley, Univesity of Illinois, Urbana: Privacy and the Self
James H. Frey, UNLV: Ghost Workers: Identity Management in Secret and Disavowed Occupations
James J. Dowd, University of Georgia: Remembering Vietnam: The Narrative Identity Construction of a Military Generation
David R. Hall and Melinda J. Milligan, UC Davis: Interviewing X'ers: Methodological Notes on Youth Identity Research
95. Paper: Threats to Tenure and Academic Freedom (Sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights and Liberties)
Organizers James L. Wood, San Diego State University and Jean Stockard, University of Oregon
Robert K. Leik, University of Minnesota: There's Far More Than Tenure on the Butcher Block: The Crisis at the University of Minnesota
Charles L. Elkins, Florida International University: From Plantation to Corporation: The Attacks on Academic Freedom and Tenure in Florida
James L. Wood, San Diego State University: The Attacks on Tenure: A Summary and Response
96. Panel: Drive-By Justice: Race and the Law
Organizer: Mary Texeira, CSU San Bernadino
Kathleen Auerhahn, UC Riverside: Symbolic Threat and Social Control: Incarceration in California
Randall Shelden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and William Brown, University of Michigan, Flint: Gangs, Family Values, Racism and Human Rights
Ernie Thomson, Arizona State University West: Discrimination in Death Sentencing: Basic Patterns
Rebecca Lynn Brabo Silva, UC Santa Cruz: The Social Construction of Chicano Youth Gangs
FRIDAY 4:00-5:45 PM PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
97. Awards and Presidential Address
Awards: Hal Charnofsky, CSU Dominguez Hills, Chair of the Awards Committee and Eugene Labovitz, University of San Diego,
Chair of the Social Conscience Award Committee
Introduction of the President: David A. Snow, University of Arizona, President-elect 1998
Rodolfo Alvarez, UCLA, President: Knowing and Doing: Sociology and Society, Sociological Practice and Social Problems
FRIDAY 5:30-6:45 PM PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION
Presidential Reception
FRIDAY 8:30-10:00 PM SESSIONS
98a. Workshop: Race, Class and Gender: A Participatory Pedagogical Exercise
Organizers: Marcia Marx and Mary Texeira, CSU San Bernardino
[All Presentations will focus on teaching from a multicultural and gender sensitive perspective. Wine and Cheese will be served.]
Marcia Marx, CSU San Bernardino
Mary Texeira, CSU San Bernardino
Herman Debose, CSU Northridge
98b. Paper: Class, State, and Revolution in the 20th Century
Organizer and Presider: Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno
Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno: The Class Nature of the State and Revolution in the 20th Century
Rebecca S. K. Li, UC Riverside: Where do We Find Revolutions in the 20th Century?
Jeremy M. Brown, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute: Crisis and Revolution in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries: A World System View of Social and Ecological Transformations
Richard A. Dello Buono, Dominican University: From Survival to Development: Cuban Socialism After the Special Period
SATURDAY APRIL 19TH
Summary of Events
8:00 am-5:00 pm Registration
8:00 am-5:15 pm Sessions
8:30 am-5:00 pm Publisher's Display
10:00 am-11:45 am Plenary: Murray Straus on Spanking
12:00 pm-1:45 pm Plenary: Gideon Sjoberg on Tenure
2:00 pm-3:45 pm Plenary: Murray Milner on Status Relations
5:30 pm-6:00 pm PSA Business Meeting
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Plenary: African American Women and Feminist Thought
10:00 pm-11:00 pm Student Party/Reception
SATURDAY 8:00-9:45 AM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings:
8:00-9:00 Committee on the Status of Women
9:00-10:00 Committee on Student Affairs
99. Roundtables
General Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Table 1. Gender
Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Clyde R. Pope and Carla Green, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research: Gender, Symptoms, and the Sick Role
Dale W. Byrne, Sonoma State University: Gendered Deviance Designations
Christine De Maria, UC San Diego: Gender Stratification in the Legal Profession
Table 2. Innovations in Teaching at Community Colleges
Organizer and Presider: Carla Howery, American Sociolgical Association
Anne Martin, Edmonds Community College
Tina Martinez, Blue Mountain Community College
Table 3. Sites of Power, Dominance, and Resistance (Undergraduates)
Organizer: Shoon Lio, San Diego State University
Discussant: Jennifer Lester, San Diego State University
Robert Rodriguez, California State University, Los Angeles: The Chicana Lesbian Feminist: A Research Note
Kathleen M. Collins, California State University, San Bernardino: African Americans and the U.S. Drug War: Identifying the Missing Link
Adela Sussman, University of Utah: The Clarion Movement in Utah
Katy Pinto, San Diego State University: Discourse on the Border: A Comparative Analysis of a San Diego and Tijuana News Program
Table 4. Studies in Sociology of Education (Undegraduates)
Organizer: Ted E. Thomas, Mills College
Tom Massouris, California State University, Los Angeles: Researchers and Ethnicity: Recent Trends in Sociological Ethnic Studies
Tobias Nava and Tommy Hoan Lu, San Jose State University: The Relationship Between Parental Support and Campus Adjustment: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Mexican College Students
Hilary Preston, Mills College: The Dance for Power Program in Oakland Public Schools
Angelina Montenegro, Cal State University, San Bernardino: The Effects of Parental Support and Encouragement: Mentors, and Personal Characteristics of Chicano College Graduates
Table 5. Public Policy
Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Patricia A. Taylor, University of Wyoming: Managing Science Under Budget Restrictions
John L. McMullan, Saint Mary's University: Policing, Modernity, and Governmentality
Dean Harper, University of Rochester: Public Thinking on the Health Care Dilemma
Table 6. Work
Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Jang-Young Lee, Kookmin University: Earnings Inequality Between Rural and Urban in Korea
Donald F. Freeborn, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research: Predictions of Job Satisfaction of Physicians in Managed Care
Valerie Callahan, UC, Riverside: Work Antonomy and Work Identity Salience Among African-Americans, Whites and Latinos
Table 7. Applied Sociology
Organizer: Anne Hendershott, University of San Diego
Tony Samara and Amory Starr, UC, Santa Barbara: Applied Sociology: Snakeoil or Salvation? Repositioning Sociological Knowledge
Pamela Richards, Analysis and Evaluation Network: Evaluation Research for Non-Profits
Robert Moser, Catholic Charities of San Diego: Welcoming the Stranger: Implementing Successful Programs for Refugees and Immigrants through Applying Sociological Theory and Methods
Susan Harris and Holly Lynn Pedersen, USC: Clinical Applications
Barbara H. Ackermann, USC: A Suburban Tale of Homes and Food
Table 8. Cross-Border Organizing in the Garment Industry
Ralph Armbruster, UC Riverside: Cross-Border Organizing in the Garment Industry: The Phillips Van-Heusen Campaign
100. Paper: The Sociology of 'Built Environments'
Organizer: Noel T. Byrne, Sonoma State University
Melinda J. Milligan, UC, Davis: Creating Stages for Social Interaction: Participants' Assumptions in Architectural and Design Processes
Margarethe Kusenbach, UCLA: Tracing the City: Spatial Practices in the Everyday Lives of Hollywood Residents
Laura C. Brewer, Arizona State University: The CyberPark Friendship Program: Managing Identities and Developing Relationships Over the Internet
101. Paper: Marriage and Family: Getting Connected, Staying Connected or Straying Apart
Organizer Karen Beasley Young, Chapman University
Julie M. Albright, USC: Attraction and Courtship Via Computer Mediated Communication
S. Alex Takeuchi, Washington State University: Mate Selection Based on Behavioral/Exchange Principles
Julie Brines, University of Washington: Black White Differences in the Risk of Marital Disruption
Nicholas H. Wolfinger, UCLA: Parental Divorce and Offspring Homogamy: Consequences for Partner Selection and Union Duration
102. Paper: Distance Education: Constructing a Virtual Community at the Fielding Institute
Organizers: Rodney Beaulieu, The Fielding Institute and Wayne Mellinger, Ventura College
Karen Takle Quinn, KTQ & Associates and Joy K. Moll, Permuta Corporation: A New Model of Adult Distance Behavior
Rena Palloff, John F. Kennedy University and Keith Pratt, Ottawa University: Playing in the Cyberspace Sandbox: The Intersection of the Human and Electronic Communities
Mary Ann Zarrett, Moorhead University: Emotion, Gender, and Computer-Mediated Communication: An Analysis of the Experience and Expression of Emotion by Women and Men
Lou Martucci and Carolyn Steigmeier, The Fielding Institute and Deborah Ferro Burke, The Birkshire Institute for Action Learning: Distance Organizational Development Collaboration: A Mini Case Exhibiting Macro Principles by Three Student-Practitioners
103. Paper: Sociology of Education
Organizer: Richard Baker, Boise State University
Heidi Barajas Howarth, University of Minnesota: Facilitating Out: Chicano Latino Youth and the Public School Experience
Michelle Inkley and Tim Heaton, Brigham Young University: Education for All: The Latin American Experience
Richard Baker, Boise State University: Mexican American Students: A Study of Educationally and Culturally Discounted Youth
Wayne Plasek, Cal State University, Northridge: Latino College Students and Academic Achievement: An Update
104. Paper: Just Another Fad? Implications of Chaos and Complexity Theories for Sociology
Organizers: Kevin Mihata and Howard Stine, University of Washington
Kevin Mihata and Howard Stine, University of Washington: Complexity in Social Theory
Steven Patrick, Boise State Univesity and Robert Hanneman, UC Riverside: Unexpected Outcomes as Chaos in Sociological Theory
Adriane Schaeffer, University of Washington: Using Complexity in Studying Social Problems: The Application of Neural Networks and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to the Study of Organized Crime
T.R. Young, Central Michigan University: Chaos Theory and the Knowledge Process: Implications for a Post-Modern Philosophy of Science
105. Panel: Negotiating Women's Sexualities I (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer and Moderator: Dae Fox, San Diego State University
Lori Jones, San Diego State University: The Population Debate: Where Are Women Situated
Jerilynn Popp and David Boyns, UC Riverside: Date Rape or Date Ritual? When Rape is an Expression of "Normative" Sex Role Behavior
Jodi O'Brien, Seattle University: (Un) gendering Lesbian Desire
Erin Thompson, San Diego State University: Ockam's Razor: Hegemonic Identity and Telepresence
106. Paper: Advances in Evolutionary Sociology and Human Ecology
Organizer: Alexandra R. Maryanski, UC Riverside
Lee Freese, Washington State University: Evolution, Ecology, Environment and Disease
William R. Catton, Jr., Washington State University: Where We Came From: Does it Make a Difference?
Richard Machalek, University of Wyoming: Who Needs Friends? A Neo-Darwinian "Just So" Story
Alexandra R. Maryanski, UC Riverside: Doing What Comes Naturally: Humans in Nature
107. Paper: Science Studies: Bridging Social Theory and Scientific Practice
Organizer: Linda Derksen, UC San Diego
Bart Simon, UC San Diego: Survival and the Production of Knowledge: The Case of Cold Fusion
Mark Jones, UC San Diego: Chance and Accident in Scientific Practice
Linda Derksen, UC San Diego: Towards a Sociology of Measurement: Objectivity as the Removal of Subjectivity in the DNA Typing Controversy
Christopher Henke, UC San Diego: Science and Work: Connecting Two Sociological Literatures
108. Paper: A Rickety Bridge to the 21st Century: Social and Health Policy During the Clinton Era
Organizer: Marta Elliott, University of Nevada, Reno
John F. Packham, University of Nevada, Reno: Social Class and Health in the U.S.: An Assessment of "Upstream" and "Downstream" Policy Solutions to the Problem of Class-Based Inequalities in Health Status
Marta Elliott and John F. Packham, University of Nevada, Reno: Social Class and Smoking: A Social Psychological Model of Tobacco Use in the U.S.
Thomas M. Brundige, University of Nevada, Reno: Welfare Reform at What Price? A Proposal for an Evaluation of the Application of Welfare Reform in Nevada
Stephan Desrochers, University of Nevada, Reno: The Family and Medical Leave Act and Its Impact on Working Parents and Their Employers
Sara McAffee-Wall, University of Nevada, Reno: Orphaned by AIDS: Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
109. Paper: Historical and Comparative Sociology: Theoretical Considerations
Organizer: Robert Enoch Buck, San Diego State University
Mazen Hashem, University of California, Riverside: State Breakdown: Remarks on Demographic and Multidimensional Models
John W. Murphy, University of Miami and Jung Min Choi and Karen Callaghan, Barry University: Old Pluralism Versus New Multiculturalism
Rebecca S. K. Li, University of California, Riverside: A Macrostructural Model of Societal Disintegration
Akihito Hirose, University of Colorado, Denver: The Role of Time in Past and Current Sociological Theory
110. Panel: Redefining Native Resources: Identity, Social Change and Indian Gaming (Sponsored by the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities)
Organizers: Joanna Grey, University of New Mexico and Delores Black Conner Cleary, Central Washington University
John Bodinger, University of Texas: Native American Identity on the Mashantucket
Delores Black Connor Cleary, Central Washington University: Self and Identity on an Indian Reservation: A Study in Adaptation
Lewis Carter, Washington State University: Cultural Reciprocity: Lakota Outreach to "The Four Races"
SATURDAY 10:00-11:45 AM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings:
10:00-11:00 Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
11:00-12:00 Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
111. Plenary: Spanking Children: The Social Causes, Effects on Society, and Policy Implications
Organizer: Rodolfo Alvarez, UCLA
Murray A. Straus, University of New Hampshire: Spanking Children: The Social Causes, Effects on Society, and Policy Implications
112. Paper: Up in Smoke: Tobacco in Contemporary Society
Organizer: Joshua Meisel, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tom Abernathy, McMaster University: Policy as an Instrument of Social Control: The Ontario Tobacco Control Act
Steven Patrick, Boise State University: Prison Tobacco Bans: Rehabilitation, Punishment or Inmate Management Tool
Todd E. Kennedy, Oregon State University: Adolescent Use of Tobacco: Effects of Parental Use and Extracurricular Activities
Rachel Strametz, Oregon State University: Gender, Self-Esteem and Peer Influence as Indicators of Adolescent Tobacco Use
Anna Belinda Sandoval, Oregon State University: Alcohol Use Among Teenagers in Benton County
113. Panel (Undergraduates): Gendered Images, Perceptions, and Experiences in the U.S.
Organizers: Karen Pyke, UC Irvine and Shoon Lio, San Diego State University
Presider: Susan Blank, UC Irvine
Carla Olson, Chapman University: Images of Women in the Media: Images of Fashion or Images of Death
Juan Santos, CSU Los Angeles: Subordination of Women in Pornography
Sabrina Ericastilla, UC Irvine: Perceptions of Homosexuality: Ethnic Comparisons
114. [This session has been canceled.]
115. Paper: Surf's Up! Pacific B & C
Organizer: Elizabeth Chambers Mulholland, Irvine Valley College
Dee Southard, University of Oregon: Expanding Horizons: Electronic Communication and Classroom Teaching
Cori Groth, University of Utah and Laura Brewer, Arizona State University: Discussion Groups on the Internet: Applications for Introductory Sociology Courses
Joe Taylor, University of Utah: Cyber Sex & Gender: Using the Internet to Teach Sociology of Gender
Laura Hecht, California State University, Bakersfield: Using the Web to Put It All Together: Student Projects in Comparative Urban Analysis
116. Paper: Gender & the Labor Market
Organizer: Lisa Catanzarite, University of California, San Diego
Deborah A. Henderson, Arizona State University: Rosie the Riveter: The Cultural Adventures of an Empty Signifier
Maria Charles, University of California, San Diego: Sex Segregation in Comparative Perspective
John C. Alessio, St. Cloud State University: Subverting Gender Equity at the University
Steven Kulis, Arizona State University: Discriminatory Organizational Contexts and Women's Representation on Science Faculties
117. Paper: Self and Identity in the Real World II
Organizer: Viktor Gecas, Washington State University
Presider: Peter L. Callero, Western Oregon State College
Alan L. Ryave, CSU Domingues Hills and Noelie Rodriquez, Hawaii Community College: Notes on the Interrelationship Between Seld-Concept and Social Comparisons in Everyday Life
Alicia Cast and Peter Burke, Washington State University: Bringing Up Baby: An Identity Theory Approach to Parental Behavior
David Boyns and Michelle Adams, UC Riverside: Conceptualizing the Self in a Mediated World
Susan Wigington and Candan Duran-Aydintug, University of Colorado, Denver: An Extension of Goffman's Front and Back Stage: What Else is There?
118. Paper: Mobilization: Advances in Social Movement Research
Organizer: Hank Johnston, San Diego State University
William K. Caroll, University of Victoria and R.S. Ratner, University of British Columbia: Strategies of Cultural Engagement: Social Movements and the Mass Media
Rebecca Klatch, UC San Diego: The 1960's, The New Right and the New Left: Issues of Gender and Feminism
Carol Mueller, Arizona State University West: The Tip of the Iceberg: Media Models in Protest Event Data
David Snow and Doug McAdam, University of Arizona: Identites and Identity Work Process with Social Movements: Clarifying the Muddied Waters
Judy Stepan-Norris and Quan Nguyen, UC Irvine: Participation in Social Movement Activities: The Union Connection
119. Paper: Religious Membership, Identity, and Belief
Organizer: Patrick Gillham, University of Colorado at Boulder
Discussant: Phil Robinette, Southern California College
Line Nyhagen Predelli, University of Southern California: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in a Nineteenth-Century Religious Mission: Challenges, Conflicts, and Changes
Ozden Ozbay, University of Colorado at Denver: Amish Groups and Individuals by Affiliation
Patty Shelby, CSU Fullerton: Amish Perceptions: Balancing Cultural Uniformity with Adaptation Among the Amish of Holmes County
120. Panel: Mexican-U.S. Border Issues
Organizer: Will C. Kennedy, San Diego State University
Will C. Kennedy, San Diego State University: Geography, Urbanization and U.S. Mexican Border Politics
Ben Seeley, Exec. Director, Border Solution Task Force: Immigration, Population, Economics and Standard of Living
Roberto Martinez, Director, U.S. Mexico Border Program: Human Rights and Militarization on the U.S. Mexico Border
Isidro Ortiz, San Diego State University: The Struggle Against Immigrant Bashing and Racism: An Analysis
Gonzalo Santos, California State University, Bakersfield: Migration in the 21st Century, Between Sociological Praxis and Public Policy
121. Paper: A Brave New World? Surveillance, Technology and New Social Problems
Organizers: Ann Marie Wood, University of California, Berkeley and Mary Virnoche, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ann Marie Wood, University of California, Berkeley: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes: Love, Trust and Surveillance in the Family
Christopher Taylor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Visual Surveillance: Contemporary Sociological Issues
Gary T. Marx, Stanford University: Social Functions and Dysfunctions of Anonymity
Mary Virnoche, University of Colorado, Boulder: When a Stranger Calls: Strange Making Technologies and Frameworks of Strangeness
Terance D. Miethe, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Whistleblowing in a Surveillance Society: The Costs and Benefits of Exposing Organizational Misconduct
122. Paper: Sport in Society and Social Relations I
Organizer: James H. Frey, UNLV
Presider: Becky Beal, University of the Pacific
Reginald W. Bibby, University of Lethbridge: Receptivity and Resistance to Americanization: The Case of Professional Football in Canada
William McTeer, Wilfrid Laurier University and Philip White, McMaster University: Predicting Adult Sport Involvement in Canada: Testing the School Socialization Theory
R.S. Breckenridge and Pat Goldsmith, University of Arizona: The Impact of Team Racial Heterogeniety on Baseball Attendance and Revenue
Jamie Bryshun and Kevin Mark Young, University of Calgary: Bald Heads and Beer: An Exploratory Analysis of Veteran/Rookie Relations in Sport Subcultures
SATURDAY 12:00-1:45 PM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings:
12:00-l:30 1998 Program Committee for the Annual Meeting next year in San Francisco Anthony's Star of the Sea Restaurant
12:00-1:00 Committee on the Freedom of Research & Teaching
1:00-2:00 Social Conscience Committee
123. Roundtables
General Organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Table 1. The Sociology of Work (Undergraduates)
Organizer: Ted E. Thomas, Mills College
Charles Fossett, California State University, Los Angeles: Dollars and Deviance: Privatization of Prisons
Malcolm Potter, California State University, Los Angeles: Social Psychological Aspects of Downsizing
Lorrie Cox, Mills College: Maquiladoras, An Historical Analysis
Table 2. The Pacific Sociologist: New Directions
[This will be a discussion on the direction of the PSA's Newsletter. Please attend and bring your ideas about what should be published in our Newsletter.]
Organizers and Editors of the PSA Newsletter, The Pacific Sociologist:
Michael Blain, Boise State University
Richard Baker, Boise State University
Martin Orr, Boise State University
Steven Patrick, Boise State University
Table 3. Immigration and Social Conflict: Globalization, Ethnicity, and the State
Organizer: Lawrence Sneden, CSU Northridge
David Jacobson, Arizona State University: New Frontiers, Territory, Social Space, and the State
Enrico Marcelli, University of Southern California and Grant Power, Service Through Economic Parternship: Globalization and the Rise of Restrictionist Immigration Sentiment
Nicole Andrea Ventrone, Arizona State University: Italian Immigrants to America: Factors in the Transformation of an Ethnopolitcal Identity
Dennis J. Downey, UC Irvine: Managing Diversity in Post-Suburban California
Table 4. Teaching About Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Organizers and Presenters: Linda L. Shaw, CSU San Marcos and Rachel I. Fretz, UCLA
Table 5. Environmental Racism
Organizer: Brooke Gondara, Montana State Univesity
Brooke Gondara, Montana State University, Billings: You Can't Eat Money and Color is Hazardous to Your Health
Nelta Edwards, Arizona State University: Science and the Politics of Knowledge: Cancer at Point Hope, AK
Table 6. Social Movement Unionism and Community-Based Worker Organizations: New Directions for the Labor Movement?
Organizer: Ralph Armbruster, UC Riverside
Ralph Armbruster and Kim Geron, UC Riverside: Beyond Old and New Social Movements: Social Movement Unionism in the United States
Andrew Perrin, UC Berkeley: Community and Labor Organizing in Rochester, New York: Social Movement Unionism in the Public Sector
Kara Zugman, UC Santa Barbara: Fuerza Unida
Table 7. Anger in the Classroom
Organizer: Tina Martinez, Blue Mountain Community College
Lisa Bond-Maupin, New Mexico State University
Dan Pence, Southern Utah University
Judith Little, Humboldt State University
Bonni Ach, Chapman Univesity
Table 8. The Media, Youth, Sport, and Role Models
Organizer: C. Keith Harrison, Washington State University
Patricia McCrone, San Diego State University: Academic Achievements, Aspirations, and Attitudes of Male and Female
Athletes: A Comparative Analysis
Stephen Papson, St. Lawrence University and Robert Goldman, Lewis and Clark University: Nike and the Construction of a Celebrity Democracy
Chelsea Newman, Washington State University: An Analysis of Black and White Role Models in Sport Media Images
C. Keith Harrison, Washington State University and Maureen M. Smith, CSU Sacramento: Print and Mass Media Effects on African American Male Identity in the Context of Sport
Rayanne Zackery and C. Keith Harrison, Washington State University, Reneford Reese, Cal Poly Pomona, and Otis Harrison, University of Redlands: Hero Construction in an Advertisement/Public Relations Context: Effects on Youth in Society
124. Discussion: Sociology of Affirmative Action (Sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties)
Organizer: Peter Phillips, Sonoma State University
Dula J. Espinosa, Arizona State University: Democracy, Political Power and Affirmative Action
Wendy Leo, University of Minnesota: Affirmative Action: A Legal and Social Historical Analysis
Victor Kogan, St. Martin's College: Does Disparate Impact Prohibition Amount to Equal Result Requirement?
Julie Cowgill and Nancy Jurik, Arizona State University: "Creating Entrepreneurs": The Dimensions of Identity in a Peer Lending Program
125. Paper: Family and Work Interaction
Organizer: Rachel Kahn-Hut, San Francisco State University
Presider: Phylis Martinelli, St. Mary's College
Laura M. Hecht, CSU Bakersfield: Role Activities, Chronic Role Strains, and Psychological Well Being: The Logistics of Combining Work and Family Roles
Norman Suarez Alerta, University of Colorado, Denver: Division of Labor and Dual--Earner Families: Effects of Objective Realities and Subjective Perceptions of Equity on Spousal Well Being
126. Paper: Controlling Our Youth: The Treatment and Corrections Industries
Organizer and Discussant: Joshua Meisel, University of Colorado, Boulder
James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno: New Religions as Half-Way Houses
Harindar Dhindsa, University of Utah: Correction Industry and Authoritarianism
M. A. Bortner, Arizona State University: Cultural Symbolism and Political Currency: Barriers to Change in Juvenile Prisons
127. Plenary: Sustaining Science and Democracy: Toward a Theoretical Defense of Tenure
Organizer: Rodolfo Alvarez, UCLA
Gideon Sjoberg, University of Texas, Austin: Sustaining Science and Democracy: Toward a Theoretical Defense of Tenure
128. Paper: Sexuality in a Global Context
Organizer: Lionel Cantu, UC Irvine
Roland A. Cardoza, San Jose State: Hispanic Male Homosexuality and Family Reactions
Brandy M. Britton, Susan Pendleton, and Ran Kim, University of Maryland Baltimore County: Domestic Violence and Women's Drug Use and HIV Risk
Lionel Cantu, UC Irvine: Sexuality and Migration: Research Implications
Quan Nguyen, UC Irvine: Playing it Straight: Heterosexuality and Gay Pornography
129. Paper: Women and Work: Race and Class as Occupational Barriers
Organizer: Shelley Kowalski, University of Oregon
Karyn Teressa Andrade and Robert M. Kloss, CSU, Sacramento: Sound Off: Homophobia, Sexism and the Deselection of Women Soldiers in the United States Military
Jennifer Pierce, University of Minnesota: Women Legal Workers: Strategically Friendly or Relational Actors
Sally Davies-Netzley, UC, Irvine: Negotiating Elite Circles of Power: Ideology, Practice and Women Above the Glass Ceiling
Steven C. Velasco, UC, Santa Barbara: Gender, Work-Characteristics and Earnings: Exploring the Link Between Work Preferences and Work Outcomes
130. Panel: New Immigrants, New Unions?: Organizers Talking Organizing
Organizer: Hector L. Delgado, UC Irvine
Peter Olney, Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project
Patricia Recinos, AFL-CIO
Cecilia Ruiz, United Farm Workers
Benjamin Rodriguez, Cabinet Makers Local 721
131. Paper: Postmodern Social Theory
Organizer: George Ritzer, University of Maryland
Presider: Bill Bogard, Whitman College
Discussant: Doug Kellner, UCLA
Tom Kando, CSU, Sacramento: Postmodernism: Old Wine in New Bottles
Sara Schoonmaker, University of Redlands: Postcolonial/Postimperial: Tracing Power, History, Capitalism
Bill Bogard, Whitman College: Sense and Segmentarity: Some Markers of a Deleuzian Sociology
132. Paper: Sociological Practice Relevant to Community Service and Agencies I
Organizer: Fred Hoffman, Blackburn Psychiatric Facilities
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Discussant: Bill Wasson, CSU, Los Angeles
Janet Long, USC: Street Level Bureaucrats: A Study of Group Homes
Bob Cline, El Dorado Oaks and Alma Lodge and Fred Hoffman, Blackburn Psychiatric Facilities: "The Rehabilitation Option": A Managed Care Boondoggle in Mental Health
Kevin F. McNeill, UC, Riverside: Results of a County Wide Assessment of the Perceived Importance of Human Services Needs
Edgar W. Butler and Glenn Tsunokai, UC, Riverside: Developing a Sociological Database for Community Service Agencies
133. Paper: Gay and Lesbian Studies and Sociological Practice
Organizer Peter M. Nardi, Pitzer College
Presider: Theresa Montini, Cal Poly Pomona
Thomas J. Linneman, University of Washington: A Tale of Two Cities: How Gays, Lesbians, and Conservative Christians React to Differing Political Climates
Dana Rosenfeld, UCLA: We Don't Know from These Things: Identity and Community Among the Lesbian and Gay Elderly
Ann Vogel, University of Washington: The Organization of Inflexibility: Observations of Heterosexist Education
John Vincke and Lieven De Rycke, University of Ghent and Ralph Bolton, Pomona College: Identity Theory and Gay Identity: The Moderating Effect of Identity Salience and Identity Related Stress
134. Panel: A Memorial Tribute to the Life and Work of Anselm Strauss
Organizers: Roberta Lessor, Chapman University and Cheryl Jackson Hall, Western State College
Presider: Cheryl Jackson Hall, Western State College
David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA
Roberta Lessor, Chapman University
Katarin Jurich, Central Washington State University
SATURDAY 2:00-3:45 PM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings:
2:00-3:00 California State University Department Chairs
3:00-4:00 Membership Committee
135. Film/Video: Color of Fear (Sponsored by the Committee on Race and Ethnicity. Note, a discussion will follow the showing of the film, see Session 149 at 4:00 PM)
Organizers: Diana Tumminia, CSU-Sacramento and Celia J. Orona, San Jose State University
136. Paper: Undergraduate Life and Experience
Organizer: Karen Admire, Oregon State University
Presider: Judith Little, Humboldt State University
Alma Garcia and Perlita Dicochea, Santa Clara University: Mending the Broken Web: The Lives of Chicana/Mexican American Women in Higher Education
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. and Barbara Zajac, UC Riverside: Vocational Goals and Family Priorities: Differences Between Female and Male Undergraduates
Bonnie Ross and Laurie Dodge, Chapman University: The Nontraditional Student in the Nontraditional Setting: The Undergraduate Experience
137. Plenar: A General Theory of Status Relations [This session is sponsored by the American Sociological Association*]
Presider: Rodolfo Alvarez: UCLA
Murray Milner, Jr., University of Virginia: Brahmans, Nerds, and Supermodels: A General Theory of Status Relations Applied to Pre-modern, Modern, and Postmodern Society
*Professor Murray Milner is the ASA's Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award Lecturer for 1996-97. He was given this award for his book, Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture, Oxford University Press
138. Paper: The Changing Workplace
Organizer: Elaine Draper, UC Berkeley
Leon Grunberg and Hannah Knudsen, University of Puget Sound: The Promise and Reality of Teamwork at a Large American Company
Nancy Durbin, Battelle Seattle Research Center: The Tooltime Effect: Bigger and Better Equipment, Less Productivity
Elaine Draper, UC Berkeley: Lemmings in the Workplace: Drug Testing and Employee Selection
Laurie Wermuth and Jerry Maneker, CSU Chico: The Changing Workplace for University Faculty: Examples from California
139. Panel: Same Gender Marriage/Domestic Partnership
Organizer: Eldon L. Wegner, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Eldon L. Wegner, University of Hawaii, Manoa: Current Legal Status of the Same-Gender Marriage Case in Hawaii and Political and Community Reactions
Anne Rubenstein, Chapman University: What Do We Mean When We Say Marriage?
Peter Nardi, Pitzer College: Gay Marriage Issues: Back to the Future
Susan Dalton, UC, Santa Barbara: You and Me and Baby Makes Three: The Legal Complexities of Constructing Lesbian and Gay Families Outside of Marriage
140. Paper: Mass Media: Agent of Socialization
Organizer: Tina Martinez, Blue Mountain Community College
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Discussant: Ashakant Nimbark, Dowling College
Irene C. Lin, USC: A Study of Public Television Culture: The World Belonging to Children and the Elite
Mava Lani Keao-Botkin, CSU Fullerton: Television Viewing Habits, Self-Disclosure, and "Liking" for Talk Show Guests
Pamela S. Guzman, CSU Fullerton: The Studio Audience in Television Talk Shows: A Qualitative Study
Patty Dominguez-Little, CSU, San Bernardino: Only a Fairytale? The Perpetuation of Race, Class, and Gender in Disney Animated Feature Films
141. Paper: Urban Sociology: Toward the Year 2000
Organizer: Ted E. Thomas, Mills College
K. William Wasson, California State University, Los Angeles: Cities of the 21st Century: Construyendo Comunidades En El Barrio: Neighborhood Social Action and Empowerment
Lawrence K. Hong, California State University, Los Angeles: Virtual Chinese-American Community: A Content Analysis of URLS
Edgar W. Butler, UC, Riverside, James B. Pick, University of Redlands and W. James Herrick, Computer Network Consulting: Economic Transformation and Mexico: Megacity in the Year 2000
Ted E. Thomas, Mills College: The Evolution and Devolution of Regional Planning in Edmonton, Canada: A Case Study
142. Paper: Sociology: Gender and the Body
Organizer: Jennifer Fosket, UC San Francisco
Discussant: Monica Casper, UC Santa Cruz
Candan Duran-Aydintug and M.J. Lane, University of Colorado, Denver: Attitudes Toward New Reproductive Technologies
Alex Preda, University of Biefeld: "Women" and "Infants" Which Weren't Any: The Rhetorical Economy of Medical Aids-Risk Categories
Teresa Scherzer, UC San Francisco: Queer Girls & Straight Medicine
Mary Gardner, USC: Stormy Weather: Gender Differences in Depressive Symptomology
Brent Dice, University of Colorado, Denver: Factors Associated with 'Relapse' in Unsafe Sexual Behavior Among Gay and Bisexual Males
143. Panel: Teaching Matters I (Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Jerome Rabow, University of California, Los Angeles
Walter Allen, University of Calfornia, Los Angeles: Betwixt and Between: Committed Teaching in a Research University
Reed Geersten, University of Utah: A Containment Strategy for Developing Excellence in Teaching
Judith Howard, University of Washington: The Politics of a Teaching Culture
144. Paper: Political Sociology: Issues Concerning the State Pacific B & C
Organizer: Judith Stepan-Norris, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: John Torpey, University of California, Irvine
Berkeley Miller, American Institute for Research and William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University: The Theory of the State and the Wagner Act: New Insights from the Passage of State Collective Bargaining Laws
Tekle Woldemikael, University of Redlands: War, State Formation and Nationalism: The Formation of the Eritrean State
David Jacobson, Arizona State University: New Frontiers: Territory, Social Spaces and the State
Michael Dreiling, University of Oregon: Corporate Inner Circles and Nafta Policy Networks: Leadership and Class Strategy
Michael Carley, East Palo Alto, CA: Defining Various Tactics of State Repression of Social Movement Organizations
145. Paper: Development in Newly Industrializing Countries
Organizer: Wen H. Kuo, University of Utah
Jose A. Padin, Portland State University: Developmental Failures Among NICs
Thomas Burns, Ed Kick, Byron Davis, and Simon Cheng, University of Utah: Environmental Problems in Industrializing Countries
Sunil Kukreja, University of Puget Sound: The Politics of Development: The Malaysian Experience
Liya Wang, Baldwin-Wallace College: National Development of the Newly Industrializing Countries
Tom Meisenhelder, California State University, San Bernardino: The Developmental State in Mauritius
146. Paper: Symbolic Interaction: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizer: Scott Grills, Augustana University College
Lonnie Athens, Seton Hall University: The Violent Person and the Community: An Interactionist Perspective
W. Alex Mason and Colleen I. Murray, University of Nevada, Reno: Reflected Appraisals and Problem Behaviors: Implications for Risk and Resilience Among Adolescent Females
Robert Prus, University of Waterloo and Scott Grills, Augustana University College: The Deviant Mystique: Notes on the Dramatization of Evil
SATURDAY 4:00-5:30 PM SESSIONS
Committee Meetings:
4:00-5:30 Committee on Publications
147. Panel: Teaching Matters II (Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Jerome Rabow, University of California, Los Angeles
Jodi O'Brien, Seattle University: Learning Not to Care
Jonathan Turner, University of California, Riverside: Teaching and Research or Teaching vs. Research?
Jerome Rabow and Jill Stein, University of California, Los Angeles: Teaching Matters: Voice and Art
148. Paper: Modernizing Postmodernism, Postmodernizing Modernism
Organizer: George Ritzer, University of Maryland
Presider: Bill Bogard, Whitman College
Robert Dunn, CSU, Hayward: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Destabilization of Identity
Kate Hausbeck, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Allen Shelton, Whitman College: Exotic Departures: Physicalizing the Postmodern
Doug Goodman, University of Maryland: Appropriating Postmodernism
Doug Kellner, UCLA: Social Theory Between the Modern and the Postmodern
149. Panel: Using the Film "Color of Fear" In the Classroom (Sponsored by the Committee on Race and Ethnicity. Note, the film will be shown in session 135)
Organizers: Diana Tumminia, CSU-Sacramento and Celia J. Orona, San Jose State Univesity
Sandra McDonald, UC Davis: Facilitating "The Color of Fear"
Celia J. Orona, CSU San Jose: Confronting Barriers to Rational Discourse: Things Your Mother Never Told You
Diana Tumminia, CSU Sacramento: Some Experiences Using "The Color of Fear" in the Classroom
150. Paper: Historical and Comparative Sociology
Organizer: Robert Enoch Buck, San Diego State University
Jieli Li, Ohio University: The Dynamics of Interaction Rituals and Social Movements: A Comparative Analysis
Martyn Kingston and Kay Clark, University of Puget Sound: Comparative Historical Methodology and Race and State in South Africa and the United States
Valdimir Oberonko, UC San Diego: How the Soviet Union was Abandoned by Its Own Elites
Francisco O. Ramirez and Elizabeth H. McEneaney, Stanford University: From Women's Suffrage to Reproduction Rights?: Cross-National Considerations
151. Paper: Organizing Immigrant Workers in California: Does Gender Matter?
Organizers: Hector L. Delgado, University of California, Irvine and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California
Presider: Pierrette Hondgneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California
Margaret M. Zamudio, University of Colorado, Boulder: Gendered and Racialized Struggles in the Process of Class Formation: The Case of Immigrant Latinas at the New Otani Hotel
Hector L. Delgado, University of California, Irvine: Women Organizing, Organizing Women: Immigrant Women and Unionization in Los Angeles
Bindi Shah, University of California, Davis: Cultural Struggles as Precursors to Labor Struggles: Chinese Immigrant Women Organizing in the Bay Area
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California and Cristina Riegos, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles: Sin Organizacion, No Hay Solucion: Latina Domestic Workers and Non-Traditional Labor Strategies
152. Paper: Issues of Practice in Program Evaluation (Sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied and Clinical Sociology)
Organizer: Harvey Williams, University of the Pacific
Discussant: Paul T. Melevin, Encinitas, CA
Lawrence M. Hynson, Jr. and Mark Riegel, Oklahoma State University: Evaluating Community Practice: Employers' Perspective of Sociology Interns
Cassandra Rasmussen, Brigham Young University: A Program Evaluation of 'Project Vision'
Harvey Williams, University of the Pacific: Academic Sociologists as Evaluators: Problems of Role Strain and Role Conflict
153. Panel: Youth, Pleasure, and Social Change
Organizer: George Lipsitz, UC San Diego
Ryan Moore, UC San Diego: Deindustrialization, Grunge Rock, and Social Change in the 1980s and 1990s
Michael Willard, University of Minnesota: Youth Culture and Southern California in the 1960s
Laura Choe, UC San Diego: Asian Americans in Hip Hop
154. Paper: Deviance Crime and Program Evaluation I:
Organizer: Sharon K. Araji, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Discussant: Karl Pfeiffer, University of Alaska Anchorage
John R. Dugan, Central Washington University and Ronald S. Everett, University of Idaho, Moscow: Drugs and Crime: Does Therapy Work?
Matt Carlson, University of Texas, Austin: Legal Intervention and Cessation of Domestic Violence: The Effectiveness of Protective Orders
Virginia Mulle, Univesity of Alaska Southeast: Alternatives to Incarceration: An Alaskan Experience
J. Neil Russell, Centers for Disease Control: Probation Outcome in Arizona: A Program Evaluation
155. Paper: Sociology of Aging
Organizer: Dana Rosenfeld, UCLA
Presider and Discussant: David Unruh, UCLA
Dana Rosenfeld, UCLA: You Damned Well Better Have a Support System: Problems and Problem Solving Among the Lesbian and Gay Elderly
Eldon L. Wegner, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Long-Term Care Insurance: Lessons from New Provisions in German Health Care
Grace Yoo, UC San Francisco: Disability, Language and Culture: Asian Immigrant Elderly in Nursing Homes
Elon Mangelson-Stander, Brigham Young University and Melanie Stander, University of Washington: Perception of Well-being or Happiness in Mid to Later Life as a Function of Marital Status, Health and Loneliness
Jean Waight, District Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound: Income Stratification at Retirement: Continuity or Change?
156. Paper: Qualitative Research (Undergraduates)
Organizer: Stephanie Amedeo Marquez, CSU, Hayward
Melinda I. Iwen, University of Puget Sound: Cross-Cultural Research and Understanding Problematics of Identity, Ideology, and Personal Need
Mary-Shannon Martin, University of Puget Sound: AIDS Prevention and Educational Strategies: Moving Beyond the 'One-Size-Fits-All' Approach
Mark Lewis, University of Puget Sound: The Arab-American: Recovering Heritage and Cultural-Political Context, Adaptation in the United States
Eva Clay, Chapman University: Coffee House Culture
Tom Edwards, University of Puget Sound: Social Control and the Internet: The Telecommunciations Act of 1996
157. Department Chairs: Issues and Problems
Organizer and Presider: Carla Howery, Deputy Director, American Sociological Association
Jeanne Curran, CSU-Dominguez Hills
Kenneth Nyberg, CSU-Bakersfield
Harvey Rich, CSU-Northridge
158. Panel: Women, Men, and the Law
Organizer: Michelle Patterson, San Francisco, CA
Mary White Stewart, University of Nevada, Reno: Science or Junk Science in the Courtroom: Its Impact on Breast Implant Litigation
Daniel H. Willick Esq., Law Offices of Daniel H. Willick: Does the Law Victimize Women: Issues in Medicine and Psychotherapy Concerning the Obligation to Report Spousal Abuse
Angela Garcia, University of Cincinnati: Women and Men in Divorce Mediation: Negotiating Gendered Roles
Jane O'Dell, UC Santa Cruz: His, Hers, or Ours: Women's Property Rights and the Changing Definition of Property
SATURDAY 5:30-6:00 PM BUSINESS MEETING
Annual Business Meeting
SATURDAY 8:30-10:00 PM SESSION
159. Plenary: Feminist Thought by and about African American Women
Organizer: Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos
Belinda Robnett, UC Davis: The "Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology" Revisited: Black Feminism and Academia
Elaine Bell Kaplan, USC: Black Feminist Thought about White Feminist Uses/Abuses of Black Feminism
Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos: To Build a Base for Black Feminism: Daring to "Dis" the Discipline
SATURDAY 10:00-11:00 PM STUDENT PARTY
Student Party/Reception
[Books will be raffled off and a drawing will be held for $50 checks from the PSA to help the lucky winners with meeting expenses.]
SUNDAY APRIL 20
Summary of Events
8:00 am-10:30 am Registration
8:00 am-1:00 pm Sessions
SUNDAY 8:00-9:30 AM SESSIONS
Committee Meeting:
1997-98 Council, David Snow Presiding
160. Panel: Gender in the Global Context (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Parvin Abyaneh, Cal Poly Pomona
Karrah Lompa, Whittier College: Gender Differences in U.S. and Canadian Refugee Policy and Asylum Requirements
Michelle Inkley, Brigham Young University: Educational Attainment of Children in Bolivia, Columbia, and Peru
Huiying Wei-Arthus, Weber State University: A Study of Hong Kong Men's "Secondary Wives" in Mainland China
Randa Nasser, University of Utah: Arab American Men's Attitudes Toward Women's Status and Roles
161. Paper: U.S. and International Poverty
Organizer: Royal Loresco, Oklahoma State University
Paul Shattuck, Portand State University: Using Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Data to Evaluate Modernization and Dependency Explanations of the Unequal Distribution of Income in Developing Countries
Jean E. Daniels, CSU Northridge: Poverty in California
Edna Molina, UCLA: Social Networking Among the Inner-City Homeless: A Study of Latinos and African Americans
Gaither Loewenstein, Humphreys College: The New Underclass Revisited: Research on Downward Mobility, 1985-1995
162. Paper: Sociology of Emotions
Organizer: Warren D. TenHouten, UCLA
Michael W. Gillespie, University of Ablerta: Balance and Total Effect Versus Positive and Negative Affect as Fundamental Dimensions of Emotional Experience
Robert Thamm, San Jose State University: The Totality of Emotional Experience
Yvette J. Samson, UC Riverside: Shame: The Subtle Tool of Parents
Laurenc L. DeVita, Sociological Services: The Bubble's Skin: A Complex Biocultural Perspective of Meaning
Julie Davis, CSU Fullerton: Accepting Grief After Parental Death
163. Paper: Transitions from Socialism
Organizer: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego
Discussant: Gil Eyal, UCLA
Eric Hanley, UCLA: Cadre Capitalism in Hungary and Poland: Property Ownership and Business Formation Among Communist-Era Elites
Mitja Hafner-Fink, University of Ljubljana, Solvenia: Changing Social Structure in the Process of Transition From Socialism: the Case of Slovenia
Randy Hodson, Ohio State University, Dusko Sekulic, Flinders University of South Australia and Garth Massey, University of Wyoming: Liberalism and Entrepreneurship in Post-War Croatia
Kazimierz Z. Poznanski, University of Washington: Economics and Politics of Reconcentration in Transition
164. Panel: Women, Ethnicity and Work (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Mary Texeira, CSU San Bernadino
Ernestine Avila, USC: Latin American Immigrant Women and "Other" People's Children
Matt Huffman, UC Santa Barbara: Gender Differences in the Perceptions of Unfairness in the Workplace
Kari Lerum, University of Washington: Doing the Dirty Work: Child Care, House Cleaning, Food Service, Sex Work
Guida Man, University of Toronto: Losing Their Privilege: Social Organization of Work and the Experience of the Hong Kong Middle-Class Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada
165. Paper: The Financial Squeeze on Higher Education: Efficient Productivity or Disastrous Downsizing?
Organizer: James L. Wood, San Diego State University
Kevin Welner, UCLA: Overcoming Inaction: Using the Initiative Process to Coerce Change in Higher Education Finance and Governance
Lorena T. Valenzuela, San Francisco State University: Higher Education Funding: A Student Perspective
Julia D. Fox, University of Oregon: Leasing the Ivory Tower: A Case Study of Freeport-McMoRan and Loyola University, New Orleans
James L. Wood, San Diego State University: Higher Education Funding in Comparative Perspective
Burke Grandjean, University of Wyoming: The Academic Department as Profit Center: Entrepreneurial Responses to the Funding Crisis in Higher Education
166. Paper: Sociological Practice Relevant to Community, Service and Agencies II
Organizer: Fred Hoffman, Blackburn Psychiatric Facilities
Discussant: William Wasson, CSU Los Angeles
Roseanne Murphy and Cheryl A. Joseph, College of Notre Dame: Social Change Through Social Service
Joseph B. Gittler, Duke University: Ethical Components of Applied Sociology with Special Reference to Conflict Resolution
Angela Garcia, University of Cincinnati: Creating Agreement in Mediation Hearings: How Mediators and Disputants Participate in Proposed Negotiations
John P. Myers, Rowan College: Theory Testing and Sociological Practice Through the Field Experience Course in Sociology
167. Paper: Visions of Change: Creativity, Art and Invention II (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizers: Dean Harper, University of Rochester and Richard Mitchell, Oregon State University
Presider: Dean Harper, University of Rochester
Benjamin Sims, UC San Diego: Putting Structures to the Test: Mobilizing Resources in an Engineering Laboratory
Dina Okamoto, Karen Christopher, Sandra Way, and Irenee Beattie, University of Arizona: Love for Sale: How Singles Organizations Mediate Partner Searchers
Dean Harper, University of Rochester: The Stage Play and Its Audience
Susan Batey, Northern Arizona University: Art Therapy: Inspiration or Oxymoron?
168. Paper: Women of Color: Sharing Experience and Knowledge
Organizer: Diana Tumminia, CSU Sacramento
Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, USC: Feminist Theory and the Intersections between Gender, Race, and Class: Psychotherapeutic Applications with Latinas
Jeannie Hahn, USC: Cultural and Historical Issues Affecting the Involvement of Asian-American Women in the Feminist Movement
Velma Guillory-Taylor, Sonoma State University: The Cross-Over: A Black Women's Journey Through Higher Education
Margaret Hunter, UCLA: Colonized Beauty: A Theoretical Analysis of Black Women and Skin Color
169. Paper: Advances in Research on Asian/Pacific Islanders: Knowledge and Its Utilization
Organizers: Paul Wong, Washington State University and Richard Nagasawa, Arizona State University
Discussant: Paul Wong, Washington State University
Yinong Chong, Center for Health Statistics and Richard Nagasawa, Arizona State University: Income Returns and Mobility of Asian American and White College Graduates: A Test of Competing Hypotheses
Zhenchao Qian, Arizona State University: Diffential Assimilation?: Interracial Marriage Between Native-Born and Immigrants, 1980-1990
Karen Yun-Shy Lee, University of California, San Diego and Christopher Paul, University of California, Los Angeles: Reexamining Causal Factors for Chinese American Intermarriage
Carol S. Takao-McIntyre, Arizona State University: The Missing Link in Japanese-American Narrative: A Theoretical Examination of the Kibei Experience
170. Paper: Political Sociology: Expanding the Frontiers of the Racial State
Organizer: Mary E. Kelsey, CSU San Bernardino
Martyn Kingston, University of Puget Sound: The Threat of Affirmative Action in the United States and South Africa: Comparative History, Philosophy and Politics
Michele D. Dunbar, USC: Race and Class Controversy in Post-Civil Rights America: A Critique of the Wilson Thesis
Veronica G. Dahir, Mara Merlino, and Sally Dittloff, University of Nevada, Reno: The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Shared and Unshared Definitions in the Law
Kathleen Ertter, CSU San Bernardino: Senate Bill 2112: Racial Codes and the Defense of Local Privilege
Irving Gold, McMaster University: Ethnicity and Politics: The Jews of Montreal
SUNDAY 9:45-11:15 AM SESSIONS
171. Panel: Studying Social Action in Cyberspace: Methods, Models and Exemplary Works
Organizers: Marc A. Smith, UCLA and Lori Kendall, UC Davis
Marc A. Smith, UCLA: Measuring the Social Structure of Usenet
Lori Kendall, UC Davis: Reflections on Online Participant Observation
Elizabeth Reid, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology: Historical Studies of Network Development
172. Panel: Classic Sexuality and Gender: Reflections on White European Male Writings
Organizer and Discussant: Mary E. Virnoche, University of Colorado, Boulder
A. Leigh Ingram, University of Colorado, Denver: Classical Thinking and the City: Threats to the Power Structure by Urbanization
Virginia Fink, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs: Max Weber and Riane Eisler: A Comparison of Views of Sexuality
Christine Morton, UCLA: The Stranger in our Midst: Sociological Theory and the Fetus
Lori L. Reid and Andrew Jones, University of Arizona: Obscuring Sexuality and Gender in Social Relations: Implications of Simmel's Theory of Social Structure for Contemporary Network Theory
173. Panel: Culture Race and Power
Organizer and Discussant: George Lipsitz, UC San Diego
Herman Gray, UC Santa Cruz: Watching Race
Rod Ferguson, UC San Diego: Literature and the Black Intellectual
Doug Hartman, UC San Diego: The Olympic Games and Race
174. Paper: Sport in Society and Social Relations II
Organizer and Presider: James H. Frey, UNLV
Philip White, McMaster University and Kevin Young, University of Calgary: Sport and Dangerous Masculinities
Tim Delaney, SUNY-Oswego: Professional Sport and Relations with Community
Bob Lien, UC Riverside: The Socialbility of the Long Distance Runner: Generating Emotional Energy from the Ritual of Running
Faye Linda Wachs and Shari Lee Dworkin, USC: Hegemonic Masculinity, Sports, and the Problem with HIV/AIDS: Media Framing of HIV Positive Attitudes
Wayne S. Wooden and Steven A. Koszis, Cal Poly Pomona: Women and Professional Boxing
175. Paper: Religion and Modernization
Organizer: Charles F. Hall, California Lutheran University
Charles F. Hall, California Lutheran University: The Christian Left: Who Are They and How Are They Different from the Christian Right?
Mark Beeman and Jerret LeMay, Northern Arizona University: The Other Function of Religion
Hui-Tzu Grace Chou, University of California, Riverside: Explaining the Spread of the Creationist Movement
Patrick Gillham, University of Colorado, Boulder: Social Control, Biochips and the Mark of the Beast: Linking Religious Apocalyptic Belief & Surveillance Technology
176. Panel: Constructionist Theory
Organizers: David L. Preston and D. Shoon Lio, San Diego State University
David L. Preston, San Diego State University and Gary Novak, San Diego Mesa College: Mindfulness East and West: Worldmaking and Worldfinding
Melissa Foster, Western Oregon State College: The Social Construction of Clinical Depression
Carolyn M. O'Neill, San Diego State University: Constructing and Deconstructing the Myths of "America"
Mary M. Garbesi, San Diego State University: Consumerism and Cultural Practices
Susan Alexander, San Diego State University: Constructionist Analysis of "Schindler's List"
Shoon Lio, San Diego State University: Remembering America: Constructing American Citizenship
177. Panel: The New Faculty Experience: What You Didn't Learn in Graduate School
Organizers: Tina Martinez, Blue Mountain Community College and Yvonne Iwasa, Treasure Valley Community College
Beth Quinn, Montana State University, Bozeman
Jim Fraser, University of Utah
Paul W. O'Brien, CSU Stanislaus
Yvonne Iwasa, Treasure Valley Community College
Tina Martinez, Blue Mountain Community College
178. Panel: Women Building Bridges: A Discussion with Mentor-Mentee Pairs (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Rebecca L. Warner, Oregon State University
Mentor-Mentees: Pair #1
Judith Howard, University of Washington
Jocelyn Hollander, University of Washington
Rachel Einwohner, University of Washington
Mentor-Mentees: Pair #2
Jean Stockard, University of Oregon
Sally Bowman, Oregon State Univesity
179. Panel: Body Politics (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Elizabeth E. Wheatley, University of California, Santa Cruz
Laura Mamo, University of California, San Francisco: Artificial Insemination and "Lesbian" Bodies: The "Other" Family Planning
Erika Derkas, University of New Mexico: Intentional Childlessness as a Form of Agency for Women
Hokulani Aikau and Andreana Clay, University of Memphis: Biracial Identity in Black and White
Elizabeth E. Wheatley, University of California, Santa Cruz: "Reducing" Risks, Normalizing Bodies: Risk Discourse and the Politics of "Prevention"
180. Paper: A Scientific Sociology? Ideas and Challenges from the Natural Sciences
Organizers: Howard Stine and Kevin Mihata, University of Washington
Discussant: Alan F. Jensen, CSU Chico
Gerard A. Arthus, Ogden, UT: Binary Blindness and Relativism: The Problem of Theory and Logic in the Social Sciences
Laurenc DeVita, CSU Humboldt: A Complex Sociological Perspective of Making Meaning; Making Complex Meaning of a Sociological Perspective
Simeon Hein, Fractal Imagination Inc: Living in a Lorentz Contraction: Technology, Virtual Velocities, and the Fractal Flattening Effect
Jane R. Pennington, Miami, Florida: Chaos, Complexity, and Quantum Theories: Implications for Sociology
181. Panel: Tenure Under Fire (Sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights & Liberties & COFRAT)
Organizer: Georgie Ann Weatherby, Gonzaga University
Panelists: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran University; James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno; Pat Lauderdale, Arizona State University; David Theo Goldberg, Arizona State University; Gaither Loewenstein, Humphreys College; Juan L. Gonzales, Jr., CSU Hayward; and Stephen J. Bahr, Brigham Young University
182. Panel: Negotiating Women's Sexualities II (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer and Moderator: Dae Fox, San Diego State University
Jim Fraser and Cori Groth, University of Utah: The Mobilization of Culture in Mass Media: Discussions of Motherhood
Barbara Flowers Cottrell, UC Riverside: Brave New World or the Same Old Story: Negotiating Gender in Cyberspace
Tania Hammidi, UC Davis: Women's Masculinity: Negotiating Style Against the Threat of Violence
183. Paper: Parents and the X Generation: Which Way Is Up?
Organizer and Presider: Karen Beasley Young, Chapman University
Connie Anderson, USC: Fatherhood Culture, Conduct, and Identity in Pro-Feminist and "Promise Keeper" Men
Debra Miller, Flathead Community College: Children and Youth: Changing Definitions of Childhood and Adolescence
Murray Milner, Jr., University of Virginia: How to Turn Your Undergraduates into Real Researchers: Studying Adolescent Status Systems
SUNDAY 11:30 AM-1:00 PM SESSIONS
184. Paper: Deviance, Crime, and Program Evaluation: Session II
Organizer: Sharon K. Araji, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Discussant: J. Neil Russell, Centers for Disease Control
Jerry Osburn, Angelo State University: Youth at Social Risk
Edgar W. Butler, Michelle Adams, and Glenn Tsunokai, UC Riverside: Is There Such a Thing as Evaluation of Anti-Violence Programs?
185. Panel: Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting: A Debate Between Proponents of Cultural Deficiency Models and Structural-Environmental Perspectives
Organizer: Elsa O. Valdez, CSU San Bernardino
Mary Beth Kelsey, CSU San Bernardino: Confronting the Myths Surrounding Teen Parents
Harindar Dhindsa, University of Utah: Mother Role Performance in Indian Society
Elsa O. Valdez, CSU San Bernardino: Teen Parenting in the 90's: The Role of Social Support Systems
186. Paper: Gender, Crime, and Public Policy (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Stephanie Amedeo Marquez, CSU Hayward
Patty O'Donnell Brummett, CSU Northridge: Relative Deprivation: An Analysis of Economic Indicators of Violent vs. Property Crime in California
Lisa Bond-Maupin, New Mexico State University and Gray Cavender and Nancy C. Jurick, Arizona State University: The Construction of Gender in Reality-Crime T.V.
Elizabeth Leonard, UC, Riverside: Battered Women in Prison
Nick Larsen, Chapman University: The Aftermath of Canadian Prostitution Law Reform: A Case Study in Differential Enforcement
Jerilynn Popp and David Boyns, UC Riverside: Perceiving Date Rape as 'Real' Rape: Towards a Theory of Sexual Aggression
187. Paper: SPSS or MicroCase?
Organizer: Elizabeth Chambers Mulholland, Irvine Valley College
Discussant: George Dowdall, St. Joseph's University
Gary Hampe, University of Wyoming: Microcase: Experiences in the Classroom
Stephen Kulis and Mary Benin, Arizona State University: Introducing Undergraduates to Sociological Research Through MicroCase & SPSS
Liya Wang, Baldwin Wallace: Using MicroCase in Lower Division Courses
Dennis Bowker, University of Montana: Erudition in a Methods Course: Using SPSS to Enhance the Undergraduate Experience
188. Paper: Intersections of Theory and Practice: Softening the Pure vs. Applied Dichotomy in Sociology
Organizer: Robert E. L. Roberts, CSU San Marcos
Agnes Riedmann, CSU Stanislaus: Implications of Welfare Reform: Perceptions of the Stanislaus Business Community and Public Welfare Agencies
Donald Barrett, CSU San Marcos: Intergrating Applied Research and Theory: Examples from HIV Sexual-Risks and Coping
Randa Nasser, University of Utah: Weber's Call for a Value-Free Sociology: An Appeal for Methodological Objectivity or a Decoy Against Praxis?
Robert E.L. Roberts, CSU San Marcos: Social Theory and Public Policy: A Generative Approach
189. Panel: Gender in Four Institutions: The State, Religion, Education, and Family
Organizers: Karen Pyke, UC Irvine and Shoon Lio, San Diego State University
Presider: Elisabeth Burgess, USC
Amy Tsukamoto, Weber State University: The Effect of Religion on Women and Men's Gender Role Attitudes
Joan Coleman, Western Oregon State College: Gender Discrimination in College Athletics
Debra Riggs, Southern Utah University: Gender Ideologies and the Division of Household Labor
Mumtaz Mohammedi and Van-Dzung Nguyen, UC Irvine: Talking Equality, Thinking Dominance: Martial Expectations of Young Korean and Vietnamese
190. Panel: From High-Tech Lynchings to Women Who Kill: Race and Gender in Mass Media Portrayals of Violence
Organizers: Jonathan Markovitz, UC San Diego and Alexandra Halkias, UC San Diego
Jonathan Markovitz, UC San Diego: The Law and the Accused: What Does it Mean to Displace Revenge?
Alexandra Halkias, UC San Diego: Prisons and Postmodernity in the U.S.: Nation and Gender in Media Representations of State Violence
Samantha Goldstein, UC San Diego: Protecting Their Personal Effects: The Politics of Revenge in "the Ladies' Club" and "I Spit on Your Grave"
Vicki Mayer, UC San Diego: Good T.V. Cop - Bad Neighborhood: How Violent Reality-Based Programs Represent the Brazilian Citizen
Mumtaz Mohammedi and Van-Dzung Nguyen, UC Irvine: Talking Equality, Thinking Dominance: Martial Expectations of Young Korean and Vietnamese Men
191. Paper: Social Class as Lived Experience (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizer: Marilyn Berger Chap, UC Santa Cruz
Chelsea Starr, UC Irvine: Social Class, Lived Experience, and Emotional Capital
Deborah K. Thorne, Washington State University: Working-Class Women's Upward Social Mobility: Consequences for Parental and Sibling Relations
Deborah Henderson, Arizona State University: Social Class Trouble: Ambiguity and the Negotiation of Power
192. Paper: Gender, Law and Violence
Organizers: Karen Kendrick, UC Irvine and David Lundgren, UC Santa Cruz
Discussant: Karen Kendrick, UC Irvine
Kathryn Farr, Portland State University: Race and Gender Configurations in the Cases of Women on Death Row
David Lundgren, UC Santa Cruz: Gendering Serial Murder
Martin Monto, University of Portland: Prostitution's "Customers": A Profile of the Men Attending Johns Intervention Programs
193. Symbolic Interaction: Undergraduates (Sponsored by SSSI)
Organizer: Michael Douglas Ketchum, UC Santa Cruz
Michael Douglas Ketchum, UC, Santa Cruz: Changing Masculinities: Male Veteran's Transformation of Gender Ideology and Practice, Post-Service
Victoria Alford, Chapman University: Patriarchal Values: Influencing Women's Inequality in the Workplace Through Education and Class
Moria Santino, CSU Chico: Between Worlds: A Social Stratification of Interracial Marriages
Maria Tafoya, Chapman University: Alcoholics 'R Us'
194. Panel: Chicana(o)s and Latina(o)s: New Ideas and Old Debates
Organizer: Paul Lopez, Boise State University
Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, USC: Experts Advice to Latino Families: Latino Clinicians and the Latino Families They Serve
Paul Lopez, Boise State University: Labor market Inequality and Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area
Maria Wilson-Figueroa, Portland State University: Decision Making and Marital Satisfaction Among Employed Latinas
