1997

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