2003 PSA ANNUAL MEETING, PASADENA CALIFORNIA, SHERATON HOTEL APRIL 3-6
SESSIONS
THURSDAY, APRIL 3 2003
Summary of Events
10:00 am - 7:00 pm Registration
12:00 pm - 6:45 pm Sessions
12:00 pm-7:00 pm Publisher Exhibits
7:00 pm-9:00 pm Dinner for PSA Committee Chairs (Café Med, Paseo Colorado)
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm Welcome and New Members Reception (dessert, raffle, music)
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Substance Use and Abuse: Sociological Perspectives
Organizer and Discussant: Victor N. Shaw, CSU Northridge
Mike Cerneant, CSU Fullerton: Substance Use and Perceptions of Violence Among High School Students in Guam:
Amber Roth, CSU Northridge: Relapse Prevention: Alcohol and Drug Use Among the Mentally Ill
Jesus Uribe, CSU Northridge: Alcohol and Drug Use in College Fraternities
2) Sociology of Science: Social and Technical Influences in Knowledge Production
Organizer: John N. Parker, Arizona State Univ
David Conz, Arizona State Univ: Actor-Networks in International Scientific Collaboration
Janine Minkler, Northern Arizona Univ: Urban Sprawl & Cultural Productions of Time & Space
John N. Parker, Arizona State Univ: Social & Technical Barriers to Making Tacit Knowledge Portable
3) Sociology of Higher Education
Organizer: Stephen Brint, UC Riverside
Charles S. Levy, UC Riverside: General Education in Community Colleges: Does the General Education Curriculum Prevent Students from Attaining Their Vocationally Oriented Goals?
Rick Braatz, San Diego State Univ: An Ethnographic Analysis of Full-Time Black Professors’ Experiences at One Predominantly White Southwestern University
Lori Turk-Bicakci, UC Riverside: Actor and Institutional Factors Influencing University Ties with Industry
Mazen Hashem, UC Riverside: Curriculum Change: An Institutional Critique of Internalist and Resource Dependence Theories
David John Frank, UC Irvine and Jay Gabler, Harvard Univ: Worldwide Changes in the Teaching and Research Emphases of Universities Over the 20th Century
4) Queer/LGBT Youth In California: Activities, Organizers, Agents of Change
(Sponsored by Committee on Gay Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgenderal Persons)
Organizers and Discussants: Sara C. Sutler-Cohen, UC Santa Cruz and Jennifer A. Shockey, San Jose State Univ
Lee Maranto, UC Santa Cruz: Queer/LGBT Youth Voice, Choice, and Political Noise
Andreana Clay, UC Davis: ‘Am I Black or White? Am I Straight or Gay?’: Competing Identities Among Queer Youth Activists of Color
Samuel Banales, UC Berkeley and Trinity A. Ordona, City College of San Francisco: The Queer Influence in Today’s Youth Movement and the Potentialities of An Integrated Politics for Organizing Against Racism Along and Across The Color Line: A Case Study of The Youth Force Coalition (San Francisco)
5) Structural and Cultural Perspectives on Social Inequality
Organizer: Maria Charles, UC San Diego
Litao Zhao, Stanford Univ: Backgrounds, Timing and Paths to Private Entrepreneurship: Rural China as a Case
Daniela Carpano, UC San Diego: Reconceptualizing Maternity Policies: A Cross-National Study of Paid Leave Provisions
Jim Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ: Occupational Mobility and Trust: Reconsidering Mobility Effects
Carol Ward and Eric Dahlin, BYU: Seasonal Employment and Food Assistance Among the Northern Cheyenne
6) Crime, Justice, and Media
Organizer: Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State Univ
Karen Sternheimer, USC: Anatomy of a Kidnapping Scare: How the Press Framed the 2002 Child Abductions
Chantal Faucher, Simon Fraser Univ: Youth Crime and Justice in the Canadian Press
Camilla A. Sears, Simon Fraser Univ: Exploring Boundaries: An Analysis of Peoples’ Perceptions Regarding Rap Music, Youth Culture and Crime
Allison Hicks, Pacific Lutheran University: Rationalizations of Violence in Children’s Cartoons
7) The United States as Hyperpower: Reworking the World In Its Own Image
Organizer: Jacqueline M. Keil, Kean Univ
Mansour Bonakdian, Phoenix, AZ: Hyper-Hegemony and Geo-Political Hetotopia: The Bush Administration, Globalism, and the Reconfiguratoin of the Middle East
Dennis D. Loo, Cal Poly Univ Pomona: Full Spectrum Dominance: Over There and Over Here
Tony Rosahn Samara: UC Santa Barbara: State Security in Transition: The United States and the War on Crime in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Robert Hollenbaugh, Univ of Southern California: The Impact of US Foreign Aid on Democratization in the Developing World
8) Non-Traditional Approaches to Teaching: Distance Learning, Service
Learning, and Study Abroad (Sponsored by the Committee on Community Colleges)
Organizers: Patricia Robinson, College of the Canyons and Pam Flaherty, Sacramento City College
Stephen Miraglia and Steffan Busch, Utah Valley State College: Creating a Successful Online Learning Community
Ellis Jones, Sacramento City College: Service Heresy: Creative Alternatives to Traditional Service-Learning
Debra David, San Jose State Univ, William Dailey, CSU Fresno and Patricia Robinson and Harry Howard, Jr, College of the Canyons: Intergenerational Collaborations: Integrating Service-Learning Projects Into the Classroom, Campus, and Community
Pam Flaherty, Sacramento City College: Locking-In the Links: Curriculum Development and the Use of Alternative Teaching Pedagogy
9a) Sexually Explicit Adult Consumers: Erotica or Porn
Organizer: James E. Elias, CSU Northridge
Greg Gibson, Amancio Elizaga, and Farnad J. Darnell, Humboldt State Univ: Realdoll.com: Flesh or Fantasy
James Elias and Eileen Te, CSU Northridge and Carmel Rosal, Central Texas College Consortium: Characteristics of 400 Hard Core Porn Consumers
Billi Gordon, UCLA and James Elias, CSU Northridge: Lethal Forms of Sexual Expression
9b) The Politics of Women’s Rights Under Globalization
Organizer: Cecilia Santos, Univ of San Franciso
Perrin L. Elkind, UC Berkeley: Grassroots Women’s Groups in Latin America, 1998-2002: The Change They Seek and the Links Across National Boundaries
Mitra Hoshiar, College of the Canyons: Women, Culture, and Change: The Politics of Iran
Trish Erwin, UC Irvine: Exporting U.S.-Based Domestic Violence Reform: The Unintended Consequences of Individual Rights Discourse for Women Who are Battered
10) Undergraduate Student Roundtable Discussion: Religion: Current
Research from Los Angeles (Preliminary Reports from the Inaugural Cohort of Undergraduate Research Awardees from the Center for Religion and Civic Culture)
Organizer: Gregory C. Stanczak, USC
Rigoberto Garcia, USC: Religion and Health Seeking Behaviors Among Adolescents in Los Angeles Public Schools
Stephen Hood and Lynn Swartz-Dodd, USC: Social and Political Change in Iron Age Anatolia
Yeghig Keshishian, USC: Two Schisms, One Holy Armenian Apostolic Church: A Study of the Architectural and Doctrinal Differences of Armenian Churches in Greater Los Angeles
Nilay Vora, USC: Reconstructing the Mahatma
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
11) Does One Size Fit All? Teaching in Different Institutions
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer and Presider: Sally Raskoff, Los Angeles Valley College
Mike Vivian, Los Angeles Valley College: Large Community College
Karen Sternheimer, USC: Large Research University
Sande Harte, Mount St. Mary’s College: Small Private Secular Women’s College
Jane Prather, CSU Northridge: Large State ‘Comprehensive’ University
Peter Nardi, Pitzer College: Small Private College
12) The Dynamics of Race
Organizer: Roger Roots, UNLV
Presider: Dula Espinosa, Univ of Houston, Clear Lake
Becky Tatum, Univ of Houston, Clear Lake: Trying Juveniles as Adults: A Case of Racial and Ethnic Bias?
Garry L. Rolison, CSU San Marcos and Dula Espinosa, Univ of Houston, Clear Lake: Reaganism and Urban Black and Latino Poverty in the United States
Ernie Thomson, Univ of LaVerne: Death Penalty Discrimination: Myth or Reality
Kathy Rolison, Arizona State Univ: Cherokee Women’s Experiences: A Comparison from the 19th and 20th Centuries
13) Social Psychology
Organizer: Viktor Gecas, WSU
Peter L. Callero, Western Oregon Univ: The Sociology of the Self
Teresa Tsuhima, WSU: Community and Family Contexts, Social Integration, and Black Female Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Childbearing
Mark A. Konty, WSU: Identities and Deviance: Moving Beyond the “Deviant Identity”
Floy Scott and June Ellestad, Univ of Montana: Making Connections: Daily Interaction and the Cell Phone
Steven Nelson, Univ of Arizona: What’s in a Label: Can Redefinition Choices be Predicted by Affect Control Theory Principles?
14) Social Construction of Sexuality: Fetishizing the ‘Other’
Organizer: Melinda M. Nagai, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
Discussant: Matt Brown, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
Elisabeth Sheff, Univ of Colorado, Boulder: Polyamorous Relationships: Stigma of the Forbidden Fruit
Mako Fitts, Arizona State Univ: Constructing the New Exotic ‘Other’: Female Erotica in Rap Music Videos, 1990-2002
Glenda Walden, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, “I’ve Got a Great Story!’: Eroticizing the “Unusual”
15) Advocacy and Social Policy
Organizer: Virginia S. Fink and Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ of Colorado, Denver
Dennis Downey, Univ of Utah: Strategic Capacity and Political Opportunity: Shaping Human Relations Advocacy
Virginia S. Fink, Univ of Colorado, Denver: Institutionalization of Advocacy
Wendy Miller, Univ of Colorado, Denver: Toward an Understanding of the “Victimized Self”
Hector J. Preciado, Greenlining Institute: Funding Our Own Democracy: A Study of the Effects of Public Funding on Minority Candidates and Voters
16) The Politics of the Body I
Organizer: LaShaune Johnson, UC Santa Barbara
Juan Santos, UC Barbara: Beyond Skin Deep: An Analysis of Xicanas with Tattoos
Margaret Hunter, Loyola Marymount Univ: Racism, Sexism and Cosmetic Surgery
Moira O’Neil, UC Santa Barbara: ‘Aesthetics’: Dissecting and Consuming Female Bodies
Erika Derkas, Univ of New Mexico: CRACK: Neo-colonization of the Reproductive Body
17) Globalization and Violence Against Women
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Kathryn A. Farr, Portland State Univ
Stephanie J. Nawyn, USC: Equal Opportunity Refuge: Bringing Gender Theory into Refugee Policy
Manali Desai, UC Riverside: Dowry Deaths in Neoliberal India: Explaining Recent Trends
William L. Cox, Northern Arizona Univ: An Exploration of Structural Misogyny and Its Cross-Cultural Impact on Increasing Female Suicide Rates
Sandra Ezquerra and Brian Wolf, Univ of Oregon: CONAVIGUA: Women Organize Against Political Violence in Guatemala
18) Health Care and Social Policy
Organizer: Laurie Wermuth, CSU Chico
Eldon L. Wegner, Univ of Hawaii Manoa: Ethnic Disparities in Help-Seeking Among Adolescents with Mental Health Problems
Olga Bright, UC Irvine: Health Care: The Monopoly Game
Stephanie Ayers, Bailey CO: Social Movement Organizations and Health Care Reform
Young-Taek Kim and Linda Hodges, Utah State Univ: Obesity and Perceived Life-Expectancy Among the Elderly
Chao-Chin Lu, BYU and Ken R. Smith, Univ of Utah: The Influences of Formal and Informal Social Support on the Use of Colorectal Cancer
19) Where I live: The Effect of Neighborhood Context on Young People
Organizer: Diane Sicotte, Arizona State Univ
Zen-yin Chen, CSU San Bernardino: Prior versus Concurrent Parental Behavior and Adolescent Association with Achievement Oriented Peers
Scott A. Desmond, Univ of Washington: Direct and Indirect Effects of Neighborhood Characteristics on the Delinquency of Adolescents
Stefanie Bailey Mollborn, Stanford Univ: Who Says It’s So Bad? Racial, Ethnic, and Neighborhood Differences in Teen Parenthood Norms
20) Producing and Consuming Culture I
Organizer, D. Angus Vail, Willamette Univ
Presider: Linda Heuser, Willamette Univ
Michael Francis Johnston, UCLA: Producing Acupuncture for Physicians and Patients
Paul Fotsch, CSU Monterey Bay: The Impact of Tourism on Historic Cannery Row
Elizabeth Bennett, UC Santa Cruz: Staging Nature
Judith Little, Emilyn Sheffield, Brett Eldridge, and Jeff Jiang, Humboldt State Univ: California Welcome Centers Construct “California.”
21) Undergraduate Student Paper Session: Social Institution: Religion, Education, and Medicine (Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska, Southeast
Presider: Dan Ryan, Mills College
Christian Ferney, Linfield College: New Standards, Old Problems? Funding and the Certificate of Initial Mastery
Shelia Biallas, Pacific Lutheran Univ: Differences in the Representation of Eastern and Western Religions in Newspaper Articles
Melissa Powell, Univ of Puget Sound: Boutique Medicine: Growing Trends in Commodification Without Regard for Justice
Lori Huibregtse, Pacific Lutheran Univ: Leaving the Sciences: Where Are Undergraduates Going?
Heather Schmidt, Univ of Puget Sound: Work-Family Conflict and College Faculty: Gender and Generational Differences
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
22) Teaching U.S. – Based Race, Class, and Gender in the Shadow of Globalization
Organizer: Gilda L. Ochoa, Pomona College
Kimberly D. Nettles, UC Davis: Outside of the “Big Bad West”: Teaching “Third World” Agency in Post-Colonial Women’s Studies
Edith Wen-Chu Chen, CSU Northridge: Asian Americans, Gender, and Work: A Teaching Activity
Estela Ballon, Cal Poly Univ Pomona: Teaching: The First Year
Gilda L. Ochoa, Pomona College: Challenging Power and Privilege in the Classroom
23) Mediation on Trial: Problems and Prospects of an Emerging Profession
Organizer: R.S. Ratner, Univ of British Columbia
George Pavlich, Univ of Alberta: Healing Harms: Mediation, Restoration, and Purity
R.S. Ratner, Univ of British Columbia: On Becoming a Profession: Carving the “Mediation” Niche
Andrew Woolford, Univ of Manitoba: Selling Mediation: The Marketing of Alternative Dispute Resolution
24) When Laws Backfire: Unintended Impacts of Public Policy
Organizer: Roger Roots, UNLV
Eldon L. Wegner, Univ of Hawaii: Legal Welfare Fraud Among Middle Class Families: Manipulating the Medicaid Program for Long-Term Care
Judith Hennessy and Alison Cliath, WSU: “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby”: Citizens at Conception? Prenatal Personhood and SCHIP Eligibility
Christine K. ley, WSU: Going It Alone: Public Health Improvement Without Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Perry Russell and Fred Preston, UNLV: Airport Security in the Wake of 9/11
25) International and Global Inequalities of the Political Economy and/or Environment
Organizer and Presider: Andrew Jorgenson, UC Riverside
Discussant: Christopher Chase-Dunn, UC Riverside
Joseph Conti, UC Santa Barbara: The Structural Bias of Complex Claims-Making: Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization, 1995-2002
James Rice, Washington State Univ: Economic Liberalization Policies and the Ecology of Human Societies
Paul Stevenson, Univ of Winnipeg: Transnational Corporate Capitalism, Imperialism, Inequality, and the End of the World
Kanghu Hsu, CSU Dominguez Hills: Measure of Income Inequality in Global Cities
Trichur K. Ganesh, St. Lawrence Univ: Global Power and Global Inequality in the Political Economy of the 21st Century
26) Motherhood I
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Fiona Nelson, Univ of Calgary
Lynn Comerford, CSU Hayward: Rejecting an Ideology of Motherhood: The Implications of Co-Custody Laws
Grace J. Yoo, San Francisco State Univ: Keeping My Children Alive: Mothering During the Korean War
Fiona Nelson, Univ of Calgary: Cultural Rituals on the Journey into Motherhood: The Making of Maternal Identities
27) Asian Families
Organizer: Cherylynn Bassani, Univ of Calgary
Cherylynn Bassani, Univ of Calgary: Networks and Academic Well-being of Japanese Children
Sharon Linzey, George Fox Univ and Tongchang Lui, Qingdao Univ: Population Issues in China
Tingting Lu, Univ of Calgary: How are they Doing – Investigating Asian-Canadian Children’s Mental Health
Charlie Morgan, UC Irvine: Intermarriage Among the Buraku People: Marriage Patterns and Trends
28) Service Learning: An Empirical Example
Organizer: Paul W. O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus
Agnes Riedman, CSU Stanislaus: In Whose Service is Service Learning
James T. Payne, CSU Stanislaus: Failure as Success: Student Field Experiences
Walter Doraz, CSU Stanislaus: From Internship/Practice to Service Learning: A Course Metamorphosis
George Meudigking, CSU Stanislaus: Service Learning: Possible Directions for the Future
29) How to Survive the Academy: The Intersections of Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
(Sponsored by the Committee on Race and Ethnicity)
Organizer: Mary Yu Danico: Cal Poly UNIV, Pomona
Jose Calderon, Pitzer College: Lessons From a Public and Activist Intellectual: Research, Teaching, and Organizing for Change
Mary Yu Danico, Cal Poly Univ Pomona: Challenging The Hegemony Of The Academy: Battling The Ism’s in Higher Education
Brett Stockdill, Cal Poly Univ Pomona: Activism and the Academy: Bridging the Gap
Linda Trinh Vo, UC Irvine: The Dilemmas of Being a “Model Minority” Academic: Class, Gender, Race, and the Politics of Professionalization
30) Producing and Consuming Culture II
Organizer: D. Angus Vail, Willamette Univ
Presider: Linda Heuser, Willamette Univ
Lisa L. Sharp, USC: Terrorists in Film: Are Their Portrayals Gendered?
Jessica Vasquez, UC Berkeley: Textual Power: How Ethnic Literature Influences Self-Concept and Worldview
Sara Schoonmaker, Univ of Redlands: Consuming Class, Race, and Gender through Family Life
Regina M. Marchi, UC San Diego: US Day of the Dead Celebrations: Not Just for Latinos Anymore
31) Death, Dying, and Disposal
Organizer: Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ
David L. Monk, CSU Sacramento: End of Life Decisions as Social Exchange
Sarah Jorgensen, Univ of Puget Sound: Single Parent Families through Death and Divorce: The Effects on Children’s Attainment
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ: When There’s Nothing Left: Reembodying the Disembodied Body
Martha Long Ice, Concordia College: Living Toward Dying, Death, and Disposal
32) Undergraduate Student Paper Session: Defining Deviance and Deviant Behaviors (Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska Southeast
Presider: Joanna Higginson, Pacific Lutheran Univ
Discussant: Allison Hicks, Pacific Lutheran Univ
April Fernandes, Univ of Southern California: Deviance in the Classroom
Sarah Hodgson, Pacific Lutheran Univ: Cutting Through the Silence: Giving a Voice to Cutters
Anna Marsh, Univ of Puget Sound: Eating Disorders in College Women: A Look at Sororities and Athletic Teams
Tiffani Chambers, Univ of New Mexico: Effective Parenting Styles and Normative Adolescent Deviance
Nicole Loutsenhizer, Mills College: The Power of Pretty: How to do Attractiveness in American Society
33) Roundtable Discussion: Environmental Issues of Southern California
Organizer: Karl P. Reitz, Chapman Univ
Kimberely Brown, CSU San Marcos: Barriers to Recycling in North San Diego: A Qualitative Study
Michele Weber, The s Institute: Open Spaces and Concrete Places: Integrating the Environmental Movement in Southern California
Karl P. Reitz, Chapman UNIV: Ornamental Landscaping: Alternatives and the Impediments to Change: Is Permaculture Possible?
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
34) Visual Sociology: Exploring Method, Form, and Presentation
Organizer: Gregory C. Stanczak, Univ of Southern California
Leslie Cole, Univ of Southern California: Televisions, Palm Pilots, and P.C.’s: Integrating Technology to Create a Sociological Vision
Sam Minkler, Northern Arizona Univ: Photographing within the Community of Red lake Chapter, Navajo Nation Establishing Date from a Navajo Perspective
Stephen Papson, St. Lawrence Univ; Robert Goldman, Lewis & Clark Univ: Website Production: Aesthetics and Design and Sociology
35) Animal Ethics: Issues and Applications
Organizer: Gary Tiedeman, Oregon State Univ
Sheila Cordray, Oregon State Univ: What’s In a Name? The Symbolic Nature of the Human-Animal Bond
Janice C. Swanson, Kansas State Univ: Fast Food, Freedom, and Animal Welfare: A Scientist’s Perspective
Candace Croney, Oregon State Univ: Open Minds? Obstacles to Teaching and Applying Ethics in Animal Agriculture
Paul B. Thompson, Purdue Univ: Getting Pragmatic about Farm Animal Welfare: Philosophical Pragmatism and the Problematization of Livestock Production
36) Sociology and the Sex Industry
Organizer: Mary Nell Trautner, Univ of Arizona
Sharon S. Oselin, UC Irvine: Leaving the Streets: Transformation of Prostitute Identity Through Rehabilitation
Carissa Sindon, Univ of Nevada Reno: The Sex Industry: History, Globalization, and Resistance
Mary Nell Trautner, Univ of Arizona: The Organizational Influences of the Performance of Sexuality: The Case of Exotic Dance Clubs
37) Sociology of Health
Organizer: Reed Geertsen, Utah State Univ
Peggy McDonough, Univ of Toronto: Poverty and Health: A Dynamic Approach
Pamela Elkind, Eastern Washington Univ: Factors Influencing Health and Safety Behavioral Intentions in Agriculture
Irena Stepanikova and Norman H. Nie, Stanford Univ: The Importance of Time Spent Socializing for Mental Well-Being: Evidence from a National Study
Reed Geertsen, Utah State Univ: Sense and Nonsense in the Promotion of Health
38) Social Science Applications
Organizer: James L. Wood, San Diego State Univ
James L. Wood, San Diego State Univ: A Comparative Analysis of Tenure Procedures in Universities, Law Schools, and Medical Schools
Kristi M. Norton, San Diego State Univ: Democracy’s Great Virtual Hope
Vanessa O. Kirwood, San Diego State Univ: The 1996 Welfare Transformation: The Process of Social Policy
Michael J. Carter, San Diego State Univ: Curriculum Changes in Elementary Education: The Effect of Merit Pay, Content Standards, and Scripted Learning on Contemporary Pedagogy
Maureen E. Steinel, San Diego State Univ: A Comparative Analysis of Mass Media Framing of Anti-Globalization Protests: The WTO Seattle 1999 Protests, the WEF New York 2002 Protests, and the World Bank/IMF Washington D.C. 2002 Protests
39) Ethnicity and Immigration to the United States
(Sponsored by the Committee on Race and Ethnicity)
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Carmina Brittain, UC San Diego: The Transnationalization of Prejudice: The Relationship between Immigration and Racialization of Peer Groups in American Public Schools
Roberto De Anda, Portland State Univ: Marginal Employment among Mexican-Origin Women
Huei-Hsia Wu, Boise State Univ: Wages and Employment Differences between Immigrant Asian American and Native-born Non Hispanic White Wives: A 2sls Simultaneous Equations Approach
40) Your First Year Towards Tenure: Things You Should Know
Organizer: Ronda Priest, Univ of Southern Indiana
Ronda Priest, Univ of Southern Indiana: Your Teaching Responsibilities
Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey: Your Research Responsibilities
Melinda Messineo, Ball State: Your Service Responsibilities
41) Religion and Public Life
Organizer: Jon Miller, USC
James William Coleman, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Salvador Murguia, UC Santa Barbara: Missionary Work and Religious Diffusion: The Spread of Buddhism in the West
Salvador Murguia, UC Santa Barbara: A Drinking Group with a Running Problem
Sara Anable and Sally Gallagher, Oregon State Univ: Pastors, Traditions, and Religious Community
Gerardo Marti, Azusa Pacific Univ: Mosaic: Diversity, Creativity, and Religion in Los Angeles
42) Service Learning Pedagogy and Practice
Organizer: Susan Harris, Univ of Southern California
Anne Marenco, College of the Canyons: Service-Learning as a Teaching Method
Tracie Gardner, College of the Canyons: Akron meets Los Angeles: A Success Story of Volunteer and Service-Learning
Robin Franck, Southwestern College: A Community College – UC Service-Learning Partnership Model
43) Undergraduate Student Paper Session: Issues of Race and Ethnicity (Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska Southeast
Presider: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ
Discussant: Shelia Biallas, Pacific Lutheran Univ
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Pomona College: Impact of Identity on the Educational Experiences of Black Students
Eva Zendejas, Mills College: Tracking Tracks: A Case Study of Belmont High School
Pablo I. Hernandez, CSU Los Angeles: Machismo: How a Latino Learns His Manhood
James McKeever, CSU Los Angeles: Black Exploitation Film Today
Lara McCormick, Univ of Puget Sound: The Role of Stereotypes in Latino-Anglo Relations: A Case Study of Centro Latino in Tacoma, WA
44a) The Politics of Marriage
Organizer: Michele Adams, UC Riverside
Kevin Hannan, Eastern Washington Univ: A Comparative Analysis of Cultural of Cultural Gender Roles and the Effects on Single Fatherhood in Ireland and the United States
Jacqueline Chapin and Marilyn Engstrom, UC Riverside: On Two Becoming One: Exploring the Paradoxes of Choice in Marital Naming
Michele Adams, UC Riverside: Demonizing Feminism in Marriage Movement Discourse: The Social Construction on the “Anti-Family” Feminist
44b) Roundtable Discussion: Ethnic Studies Issues in Sociology
Organizer: A. Rafik Mohmaed, Univ of San Diego
Lucinda Garcia, Univ of Colorado Denver: Gender Oppression and the Process of Chicana Identity Formation in Higher Education
Melvin Echols, Jr. CSU Fullerton: The Use of Literature in Creating Hegemony in Colonial America
Alicia Walters, Univ of San Diego: Confronting Racism in the Classroom
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
7:00-9:00 pm
Dinner for Chairs of PSA Committees
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Welcome And New Members Reception
(Sponsored by the Membership and Endowment Committee)
[Live Music-The Wood Trio, Dessert, Coffee, Soft Drinks, No Host Bar, and Raffle to Support the Endowment Fund.]
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2003
Summary of events
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Publisher Exhibits
8:30 am – 3:15 pm Sessions
8:30 am – 3:15 pm Committee Meetings
8:30 am - 10:00 am 2003 Council Meeting
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm Awards and Presidential Address
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Presidential Reception
6:30 pm--8:30 pm Film Session
8:30 pm--10:00 pm Special Session on Civil Liberties and Iraq
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Committee Meetings
2002-2003 PSA Council Meeting
(Stockard, Howard, Babbie, Serpe, Hood, Hohm, Araji, Miler-Loessi, Martinelli, O’Brien, Kulis, Fernandez, and Dorn)
Committee on Teaching
(Raskoff, Powers, McPherson, Dalaimo, Clancy, and Martinez)
Committee on Membership
(Robertson, Adams, Sargent, Edles, Wermuth, and Palmer)
45) Religion Session I
Organizer: Reginald W. Bibby, UNIV
Stephen T. Russell and Anna Muraco, UC Davis and Tony D’Augelli, Pennsylvania State Univ: Religion, Mental Health and Sexual Minority Youth
James Penner, Univ of Lethbridge: Does Religion Really Make Any Difference? Values and Canadian Youth
Jonathan Mermis-Cava, UC Davis: The World Community for Christian Meditation
Andrew Malinowski, Univ of South Wales: The Role of Paranormal Experiences in the Affiliation Process of Spiritualism
46) Transitional Families In A Global Economy
Organizers: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine M. Avila, Univ of Southern California
Ernestine M. Avila, Univ of Southern California: Latina/o Transnational Mothers and Fathers Living And Working In The U.S.: Challenges and Ways of Coping
Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento: Perception and Practice of Empowerment Along Transnational Mexican Families
Paul Lopez, CSU Chico: Braceros and Their Families in The Migration Experience
Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Univ of Southern California: Mujeres y Braceros Luchando En El Abandono: Mexican Labor and The Politics Of Family and Gender in Mexico and The United States, 1942-1965
47) Life Cycle Issues in the 21st Century
Organizer: J. Daniel McMillin, CSU Bakersfield
Discussant: Patricia Jennings, CSU Bakersfield
Jon Snodgrass, CSU Los Angeles: The Dimension of Spirit in Human Development in the 21st Century
Melanie A. Wakeman, Univ of Tulsa: Social Change and Intergenerational Solidarity: Mother/Daughter Relationships in the 2nd Half of the 20th Century
Alecia Mendez Gonzales, CSU San Marcos: Life Span Resources and Informal Networks for Later Life Support Among Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Parents
Laura Hecht, Philip Silverman, and Daniel McMillin, CSU Bakersfield: Social Network Types and Quality of Life Among the Elderly in the U.S. and Taiwan
48) Activism After September 11th
Organizer: Deana A. Rohlinger, UC Irvine
Discussant: Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate Univ
Echo Fields, Southern Oregon Univ: Navigating the Straits of Feminisms and Islamisms: Implications for Informed Activism
Sharon Davis, Ann Wichman, Aghop Der-Karabetian, Winona Foote, and Nur Bandek, Univ of La Verne: Behavioral Reactions of College Students After the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Deborah Gerson, San Francisco State Univ: Occupied Minds: The Aftermath of Pro-Palestinian Mobilization at San Francisco State University
G. William Domhoff, UC Santa Cruz: Fresh Start: What Activists Could do if they took the Social Sciences Seriously
49) Teaching Controversial Topics: Structural and Political Issues
Organizer: Cheryl Radeloff, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas
Killi Gilbert, Univ of Colorado Boulder: What’s a White Girl Like You Doing in a Classroom Like This?
Troy McGinnis, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: Contradictions in Conscience: The Spirit of Equality and the Heroism of the Average White Male
Patricia Heisser Metoyer and Cheryl Radeloff, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: Deconstructing Notions of Comfort
50) Student, Peer or Administration Evaluation of Faculty
Organizer: Harvey E. Rich, CSU Northridge
Jessica Luedtke, San Diego State Univ: Graduate Teaching Assistant and Faculty Teaching Effectiveness: Are They Comparable?
Robin Franck, Southwestern College: Evaluation of Faculty at the Community College: A Critical Analysis
Jordan J. Titus, Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks: Exploring the Meaning of Numerical Student Ratings of Teaching
Harvey E. Rich, CSU Northridge: Faculty Perception of Student Evaluations
51) Queers and Inequality
(Sponsored by the Committee on LGBT)
Organizer: Brett Stockdill, Cal Poly Univ., Pomona
Ruth-Ellen M. Grimes and Christopher J. Cameron Cal Poly Univ Pomona and Austin T. Turk, UC Riverside: Hate Crimes, Gay Bashing and Gang Violence: The Riverside, CA Experience
Maria Mercedes Gomez, New School for Social Research and Columbia Law School: Exclusionary Practices: Hate-Crimes Law and the Negotiation of the Lesbian ‘Other’
Billy Wagner, CSU Bakersfield” The Social Networks of Gay Men
Huda Jadallah, UC Santa Barbara: Sexual Transgression in Arab American Communities
52) Politics of the Body II
Organizer and Discussant: LaShaune Johnson, UC Santa Barbara
Janet Lee, Oregon State Univ: Blood Stories Revisited: Young Women’s Experiences of Menarche
Ja’Nean Palacios, UC Santa Barbara: Naturally Curly: Towards an Understanding of Women’s Experiences with Curly Hair
Linda Silber, and Joey L. Buckley, Montana State Univ Billings: The Body Talk of 4th and 5th Grade Girls
53) Changing Communities I
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer and Presider: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ
Discussant: William Yoels, Univ of Alabama, Birmingham
Mary Gallant, Rowan Univ: Beyond the Nineteenth Century: Movement of Thought and Community as Emergent
Luis L.M. Aguilar, Paty Tomic and Ricardo Trumper, Okanagan Univ College: White Fright in the Hinterland
Don Stewart, UNLV: Reinventing Community: Building New Structures within a Diverse Population
Raymond M. Weinstein, Univ of South Carolina: Residential Coney Island: A Neighborhood in its Last Stage
54) Advertising and Consumerism in Contemporary Society
Organizer: David Boyns, CSU Northridge
Victoria Carty, Niagara Univ: Title IX and its Effects: Enhanced Gender Equality or a Reassertion of Patriarchcal Hegemony?
Melinda Messineo, Ball State Univ: Putting it in Black and White: Image of Race in Niche Television Advertising Markets
Ruby Kopelov, Univ of New Mexico: Magazine Advertising Rhetoric and Appeals: Prevalence of Figures of Speech and Emotional Appeals in Personal Use and Care Product Ads
R. Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence Univ: Emotional Consumption and Exotic Dance
55) Intersection of Race and Gender
Organizer: Stephani Williams, Arizona State Univ
Lisa M. Martinez, Univ of Arizona: The Factors that Account for Adolescent Latinas’ Success in School
Deidre Ann Tyler, Salt Lake Community College: The Elimination of Race and Gender: Teaching On Line Classes
Karla Melo, Saratoga, CA: Maintaining Manhood While Homeless
Gail Wallace, Iowa State Univ: Exploring The Social Psychology Or Black Women’s Everyday Lives From A Black Feminist Epistemology
56) Undergraduate Roundtable Discussion: Issues in the Sociology of
Deviance
Organizer and Presider: Keith Farrington, Whitman College
Diane Reid, Mills College: Where Clothes Make the Man: Professional Cross-Dressers and Social Division
Maria Isabel Tovar, USC: ‘You Can Stay but Don’t Come Too Close’: The Methodological Challenges of Studying Deviant Populations
Kellee Boyer, Southern Oregon Univ: Theorizing Domestic Violence
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
10:15 am - 11:45 am
Committee Meetings
California Sociological Association Board Meeting
(Valerie Callanan, organizer. vcallana@csusm.edu)
Committee on Publications
(Stets, Lee, Ng, Biblarz, Elliott, Vaughn, Nardi, Callero, Nichols, Robnett, and Orr)
57) Science & Technology Studies: Interconnectedness and Chaos
Organizer: Bob Moore, Palo Alto Research Center
Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ: The Virtual Teen: Youth Cultures and the Integration of Computer-Mediated Communication
Rebecca E. Grinter and Margery A. Eldridge, Palo Alto Research Center: Wnt2tlk? Luv2tlk! Everyday Teenage Text Messaging Practices
Anthony Yiu, Stanford Univ: Competition or Symbiosis: A Match Between Online and Offline Contacts
Kathryn Gilpatric, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas: “Chaos,” “Complexity” and Sociology
58) Author Meets the Critics: Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
(Sponsored by the Awards Committee)
Organizer: Valerie Jenness, UC Irvine
Author: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, USC, recipient of the PSAs 2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award.
Critics: Susan Coutin, UC Irvine
Hector L. Delgado, Univ of La Verne
Barbara Laslett, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy A. Naples, Univ of Connecticut
59) Social Science and Terrorism: A Dialogue
Organizer: Michael Blain, Boise State Univ
James David Ballard, CSU Northridge: Asymmetrical Sabotage Tactics and the Post-Modern Terrorist
Michael Blain, Boise State Univ: On the Genealogy of ‘Terrorism’
Randy Blazak, Portland State Univ: Hate Crimes and Terrorism
60) Presidential Session: Linking Social Science to Social Policy: Advice from the Field
Organizer: Jean Stockard, Univ of Oregon
Patricia MacCorquodale, Univ of Arizona: Combining Research, Social Policy, and Social Action
Sally Bowman, Oregon State Univ: Innovative Ways of Reaching Policy Makers
Jack Whalen, Palo Alto Research Center: Applying Sociological Research to the Workplace
61) Sociology of Economic Life I
Organizer: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego
Jane Zavisca, UC Berkeley: Survival Discourses in Russia: The Meaning of the Myth of the Urban Peasant
Caleb Southworth and Leontina M. Hormel, Univ of Oregon: Under What Conditions Can Informal Employment Lead to Market Growth, A Comparison of Two Russian Regions
Jianjun Zhang, UC Berkeley: Patterns of Development and Inequality Comparing Two Regional Development Patterns in Transitional China
62) Sociologists as Activists: Bridging Academia and Community
Organizer: Mary Nell Trautner, Univ of Arizona
K. William Wasson, CSU Los Angeles: University-Community Empowerment Collaboration
Sara Grineski, Arizona State Univ: Community-University Collaboration in an Environmental Justice Neighborhood
Peter Phillips, Sonoma State Univ: Project Censored: Sociology and Media Activism
63) Religion Session II
Organizer: Reginald W. Bibby, Univ of Lethbridge
Presider: James Penner, Univ of Lethbridge
Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College: Cult or Religion? The Social Construction of Religious Legitimacy
Vernon L. Bates, Pacific Univ: The Jesus Seminar: The Sacralization of Secularism
Paul Sloan, Boise State Univ: The Kievan Christian Ethic and the Spirit of Soviet Communism
Reginald W. Bibby, Univ of Lethbridge: Circulation of the Saints: One Final Look at How Conservative Churches Grow
64) Gender and Criminal Justice
Organizer: Vickie Jensen, CSU Northridge
Mirelle Cohen, Univ of Puget Sound: Mentoring Female Juvenile Delinquents: Impacts on Recidivism, Self-Esteem, and Lifestyle
Rodney Kingsnorth, CSU Sacramento: Domestic Violence: The Impact of Treatment and Treatment Length on Batterer Recidivism
John Heeren and Jill Messing, CSU San Bernardino: Men as Multiple Murderers in Domestic Contexts
Joanna G. Higginson, Pacific Lutheran Univ: The Reproduction of Femininity in a Women’s Prison
Mary Jo Poole, CSU San Marcos: Women, Crime, and Family Matters
65) Sociology of Education I
Organizer, Lynn M. Mulkey, Univ South Carolina Beaufort
Gary Dworkin, Univ of Houston and The Australian National Univ, Lawrence J. Saha, The Australian National Univ, and Antwanette N. Hill, Univ of Houston: Teacher Burnout and Perceptions of a Democratic School Environment
Amy Orr, Linfield College: Single-Parenting and Achievement: Not Enough Time or Not Enough Assets?
Jane C. Hood and John W. Krogman, Univ of New Mexico: The Literacy Crisis: An Agenda for Social Science Research
Ethel G. Nicdao, Univ of New Mexico: American Indian Boarding Schools and Their Effect on Assimilation and Biculturalism: A Review of the Literature and An Empirical Test
Teresa Eastlund, Univ of Puget Sound: The Tacoma School of the Arts: A Case Study of Arts-Focused Education
66) In and Out and In Again: Navigating The Rocky Terrain of
Racial Identity I
Organizer: Mary Thierry Texeira, CSU San Bernardino
Stacey Morales, CSU Fullerton and Nikki Morales, CSU San Bernardino: The Regeneration of Mexican-American Identity in the Wake of Proposition 187
Janelle Orsi, Pomona College: Institutionalized Contusion: The Function of Multiculturalist Discourse in Shaping White College Student’s Understanding of Racism as a System of Oppression
Rebecca Overmyer-Velasquez, UC Santa Barbara: The Mexican Nationalist Project For Racial and Ethnic Integration, 1955-1965
Jane Yamashire, Univ of Hawaii, Manoa: Negotiating Meaninglessness: Identity Formation Among Japanese Americans in Japan
67) New Ethnographies I
(Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
Organizer and Presider: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State Univ
Gretchen Purser, UC Berkeley: Doing Day Labor: Ethnographies Tales
Leslie Paik, UCLA: Are You Truly a Recovering Dope Fiend? Evaluating Clients’ ‘Authenticity’ in a Residential Drug Treatment Program
Anna Romina Guevarra, UC San Francisco: Promoting Overseas Employment and Producing a Culture of Labor Migration: Reflections on Philippines’ Labor Export Policy
Richard Widick, UC Santa Barbara: Trouble in the Forest
68) Roundtable Discussion: Toward A Sociology of Dreams
Organizers: Benjamin Lewin and John N. Parker, Arizona State Univ
Scott Renshaw, Arizona State UNIV: Dreams: The Definition of the Situation
Celia Briar and Mary Murray, Massey Univ: I Dream, Therefore I Am: Towards A Sociology of Dreaming
Benjamin Lewin and John N. Parker, Arizona State Univ: Field of Dreams: Synthesis and Future Possibilities
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Committee Meetings
2004 (San Francisco) Program Committee Meeting/Luncheon CHARLEY’S BAR
Committee on Race and Ethnicity
(Camacho, Mohamed, Shiao, Danico, Fujiwara, Washington, Singer, and Hernandez)
Social Conscience Committee
(Hondagneu-Sotel and Delgado)
69) Motherhood II
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Fiona Nelson, Univ of Calgary
Rachel M. Barber, Univ of Puget Sound: Knowledge and Perceptions of Female Students at the University of Puget Sound about Fertility and the Reproductive Life Cycle
Hazel Hull, UC Santa Barbara: Good Mothers and “Othering” Bad Mothers: Salvaging a Spoiled Identity
Akiko Yasuike, Univ of Southern California: Doing Gender, Doing Mothering: Japanese Maternal Femininity
70) Migration and Culture
Organizer: German Vega Briones, El Collegio de la Frontera
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, USC and Luis Escala-Rabadan, El Collegio de la Frontera: Collective Identity, Leadership, and Organizational Culture Among Indigenous and Mestizo Mexican Migrants
German Vega Briones, El Collegio de la Frontera: It's Possible to Talk About Losers on the Migration Phenomenon: A Cultural Perspective
Daniel Melero Malpica, UCLA: Community Formation Among Indigenous Mexicans in Los Angeles: The Case of Zapatec Immigrants
Carmina Brittain, Univ of California Davis: Learning about School in Transnational Social Spaces: Experiences of Chinese and Mexican Immigrant Students
Zeynep Kilic, Arizona State Univ: Organizational Attempts at Popular Images and Individual Responses: Representations and Strategies of the Turkish Community in Berlin
71) Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
Organizer: Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State Univ
Anne M. Crawford, Laura Hecht and Kenneth L. Nyberg, CSU Bakersfield: First-time Young Adolescent Offenders: Interventions, Risk, and Strength Factors
Timothy Hartnagel, Univ of Alberta: Youth Crime and Justice in Alberta: Rhetoric and Reality
Jane Ann Le, San Jose State Univ: Model Minority Deviance: Asian Americans in Juvenile Hall
Laura Mihailoft, UC Berkeley: Crisis, Controversy, and the Creation of the California Youth Authority: Looking at the Emergence of Modern Juvenile Justice Through Public Policy
72) Sociology of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure
Organizer: William G. McTeer, Wilfrid Laurier Univ
Discussant: Philip G. White, McMaster Univ
Michael Atkinson, Memorial Univ and Kevin Young, Univ of Calgary: Media Treatment of Security Issues at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games: The Consolidation of a Nation Under Threat
Christopher Todd Daskalos, Mira Costa College, San Elijo: Poor Conditions: Surfing in a Mass-Marketed and Over-Rationalized Culture
Stephani Williams and Lindsey Fees, Arizona State Univ: Assimilating Student-Athletes: Affects on Assimilation into Collegiate Academic Life by Race and Gender
Sean Perdue and William G. McTeer, Wilfrid Laurier Univ and Philip G. White, McMaster Univ: High School Sport Participation and Youth Crime: Testing the Deterrence Hypothesis
73) Historical Sociology I
Organizer: Janet Lee, Oregon State Univ
Helga K. Hallgrimsdottir, Univ of Victoria: The Politics of Purity: Ideology and Frame in the Programmatic Appeals of the Knights of Labour and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Amy Kate Bailey, Univ of Washington: Fertility and Revolution: Reproductive Control as a Manifestation of Secular Individualism in Revolutionary Europe
Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan, Arizona State Univ: Standardized Housing Through Child-Rearing, 1900-1940
Marie Butler, Oxnard College: Toward a Revisionist View: Marriage Practices in Pre-Famine Ireland
74) Dramaturgy: Continuing the Lineage of Erving Goffman
Organizer: John N. Parker, Arizona State Univ
Steven M. Ortiz, Oregon State Univ: Managing Public Encounters with Groupies: A Goffmanesque Analysis of Strategic Performances by Wives of Professional Athletes
Bart W. Miles, Arizona State Univ: The Role of Social Establishment in Defining a Stigmatized Social Identity
Chester Winton, San Jose State Univ: The “As If” Character of Social Roles
Susan B. Murray, San Jose State Univ: A Spy, A Shill, A Go-Between, or A Sociologist: Unveiling the “Observer” in Participant Observer
75) Parents and Parenting Roles
Organizers: Ellen Berg and Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
Edythe M. Krampe, CSU Fullerton: When is the Father Really There? Father Presence from the Viewpoint of the Child
David W. Haas, BYU: The Effects of Shared Parental Decision-Making on Infant Mortality: A Study of Bolivia and Colombia
Oertel Sparks, BYU: Single Black Mothers in South Africa: Age at Marriage
Katharine Diemert, College of the Canyons: Child Abuse and Neglect: Protecting Our Future
76) Biracial/Multiracial Identity and Socio-Economic Status/Issues
Organizer: Herman L. DeBose, CSU Northridge
Josef Manuel Liles, UC Santa Barbara: Racial Insiders? Offspring of Mexican/White Intermarriage and Whiteness
Kristyan Kouri, CSU Northridge: Income Variations Among Black/White Interracial Couples
G. Reginald Daniel, UC Santa Barbara: From White Domination to White Hegemony: Color, Culture, Class, and the New Racial Divide
Laura Edles, CSU Northridge: Who Are My People? A Preliminary Discussion of the Complexities of Race, Class, Gender, and Culture
77) Sociology of Economic Life II
Organizers: Akos Rona-Tas, UC San Diego and Caleb Southworth, Univ of Oregon
Jay Keeton, Lake Forest Park, WA: New Venture Trajectories
Richard Anderson-Connolly, Univ of Puget Sound: Toward a Synthesis of Economics and Sociology
Richard Chabot, Humphreys College: Capital Acquisition Among Small and Micro-Businesses in the Philippines
Charles Varano, CSU Sacramento: The Moral Economy of Capitalism in the United States
78) Social Movements and Mass Media
Organizer: Deana Rohlinger, UC Irvine
Discussant: David Meyer, UC Irvine
Martin Orr, Boise State Univ: Social Movements and the Development of Mass Media
Clayton Peoples, Ohio State Univ: Framing, Tactics, and the Media: How Social Movements Can Attract Positive Media Attention
William Brislen and Clayton Peoples, Ohio State Univ: Strike or Lockout? Media Bias in Portrayals of the Autumn 2002 Dockworkers Lockout
79) New Data for Sociology Department Chairs, Graduate Directors and Others from the American Sociological Association’s Department Survey COLORADO
Presider and Presenter: Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association
80) This session has been canceled.
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Committee Meetings
Endowment Committee
(Collier, Stockard, Serpe, Kronenfeld, Lessor, and Downey)
Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching
(Ericksen, Orr, Murray, Delaney, Bassani, and Olson)
81) Research on Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking Skills
Organizer: Patricia Clancy, Hawaii Pacific Univ
Ellen C. Berg, CSU Sacramento: Assessing Student Learning Outcomes with pre-and post-test short writing Assignments
Barbara J. Bowley, Woodbury Univ and Dennis D. Loo, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona: Meeting Student Expectations? Rather, Raising Student Expectations
Suzanne Vaughan and Lisa Kammerlocher, Arizona State Univ West: 9/11: Critical Thinking and Social Change
Chandler Washburne, Fresno State: Promoting Thinking Skills Through the Use of the “Focus Communication Group System”
82) Presentation of Self and Popular Culture
Organizer: Sharon Yee, Arizona State Univ
Discussant: Ben Lewin, Arizona State Univ
Sharon Yee, Arizona State Univ: Looking for Love: Racial Differences in Presentation of Self in Personal Advertisements
Teah Chadderdon, Northern Arizona Univ: Female Motorcyclists: A Sociological Analysis of Women Who Ride
Linda Silber and Jen Smithson, Montana State Univ, Billings: How Do Montanans Age 50 and Older Portray Themselves in Personal Ads?
Nancy Wang Yuen, UCLA: Performing Race, Negotiating Identity: Occupational Strategies of Asian American Professional Actors
Scott Renshaw, Arizona State Univ: Scenes and Secondary Adjustments
83) Researching Hate Crime: Causes and Cures
Organizer and Presider: Randy Blazak, Portland State Univ
Terri Kelly, Portland State Univ: Considerations in Applying Restorative Justice Principles and Practices to Cases of Hate Crime
Pete Simi, Univ Nevada, Las Vegas: From Youthful Rebellion to Organized Crime: Street Gangs, Social Processes, and Subcultural Trajectories
Ari Crocket, Portland State Univ: Power Maintenance Feedback Loop and Hate Group Status
Randy Blazak, Portland State Univ: Prison Odinism and the Racial Holy War: Masculine Hate
84) Knowledge Politics
Organizer: Nico Stehr, University of Vienna
Discussants: Aaron Cicourel, UC San Diego and Steven Brint, UC Riverside
Peter Weingart, Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany: The Power of Knowledge
Rogers Hollingsworth, Univ of Wisconsin Madison: The Institutional and Organizational Constraints on the Production of New Knowledge
85) Preparing for Academic Job Search I: Getting Organized and Finding the Fit (Sponsored by the Committee of Student Affairs)
Organizer: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey
Presenters: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey; Melinda Messineo, Ball State Univ; Michael P. Perez, CSU Fullerton; Ronda Priest, Univ of Southern Indiana; Barbara Zajac, Indiana State Univ
86) Bodies In Action
Organizer: Mardi Kidwell, UC Santa Barbara
Discussant: Jack Whalen, Palo Alto Research Center
Lars Linton, UC Santa Barbara: Before the Beginning: Action and Embodiment in Preparing to Speak
Bob Moore, Palo Alto Research Center: Embodied Description and Technological Change at a Quick Print Shop
Mardi Kidwell and Don Zimmerman, UC Santa Barbara: Disappearing acts: How Very Young Children Manage the Visibility of their Misconduct in Interactions with Caregivers
87) Social Theory in the 21st Century
Organizer and Presider: Albert J. Bergesen, Univ of Arizona
Panelists: Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside
Sing C. Chew, Humboldt State Univ
Leonard Hochberg, Louisiana State Univ
John Mohr, UC Santa Barbara
88) Film Session: Senorita Extraviada “Missing Young Woman”
(This documentary by Lourdes Portillo reveals the tragedy of Globalization and won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival)
Organizer: Jane Prather, CSU Northridge
Presider: Teresa Madden, CSU Northridge
Discussants: Marta Lopez-Garza and Mary Pardo, CSU Northridge
89) In and Out and In Again: Navigating the Rocky Terrain of Racial
Identity II
Organizer: Mary Thierry Texeira, CSU San Bernardino
Jose A, Cobas and Gigi Asem, Arizona State Univ: Racial Marker Salience: White, African-American, Asian-American and Hispanic Perspectives
Fletcher D. Coleman, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: Praise Vernacular and the Afro-American Identity
Chalane Lechuga, Univ of Denver: An Exploratory Study of the Factors that Influence the Identity of Non-Spanish-Speaking Chicanas
Patricia Literte, Univ of Southern California: Relevancy of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Duality Complex to Mixed Race Identity
90) Sexualized Identities and Social Change
Organizer: Deanna Chang, Indian Univ of Pennsylvania
Karen Baird-Olson, CSU Northridge and Carol Ward, BYU: Emerging Identities and Cultural Renaissance among Plains Indian Women
Sue Marie Wright and Melisa Noel, Eastern Washington Univ: Romance, Adolescents and the Internet
Angie Beeman, Univ of Connecticut: A Gendered Analysis of Emotional Segregation in India
Cheri Jo Pascoe, UC Berkeley: “Dude, You’re a Fag”: Heterohormativity and the Making of Masculinity
Daniel K. H. Cortese, Univ of Texas Austin: “Parity (in) Equality”: The Queer Dilemma of Gender in GLBT
91) Changing Communities II
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer and Presider: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ
Ralph B. Brown, Brigham Young Univ: Changing Communities by Changing How We Think of Them: Reconceptualizing Community as Story
DeMond S. Miller, Rowan Univ: Community-based Leadership and Community Building in CDCs
Carol L. Cole, CSU Bakersfield: Social Cohesion Across Geographic Boundaries
Karen Brinton and Sheila Steinberg, Humboldt State Univ: Building Rural Community Capacity: A Comparative Study
James D. Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ: Should We Stay or Should We Go? : The Context of the Vote on Secession in L.A.
92) Undergraduate Roundtable Discussion: Institutional Structures and
Their Consequences
Organizer: Keith Farrington, Whitman College
Presider: Christy Baker-Smith, Whitman College
Alisha Rosenfeld, Univ. of Arizona: Drunk with Influence: Connections Between the Alcohol Lobby and High-Ranking Political Figures
Nancy Nguyen, Oberlin College: Haunting Within the Vietnamese American Community: The Effects of Institutionalized Structures on Community Building
Ryan Kelly Masters, Western Washington Univ: Intergenerational Transmission of Veteran Status: Fathers and Sons, 1966-1981
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
93) Presidential Address and Awards
Ceremony
Presider: Dean S. Dorn, CSU Sacramento
Awards Presentation: Charles Varano, CSU Sacramento, Chair Awards Committee and Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo, USC, Chair of the Social Conscience Award Committee
President’s Introduction: Earl Babbie, Chapman Univ, PSA President-elect
Presidential Address: Jean Stockard, Univ of Oregon: Social Science, Social Policy, and Lethal Violence
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
5:15-6:45 PM
Presidential Reception ????
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
6:30-8:30 PM
94) Film Session: Teaching About Race and Racism Using Very
Cool Films (wine and snacks included)
Organizers and Presiders: Mary Thierry Texeira and Elsa Valdez, CSU San Bernardino
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
8:30-10:00 PM
95) Special Session: The War on Civil Liberties and The War on
Iraq (Sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties )
Organizer: Dennis D, Loo, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona
Discussant: Marcia Marx, CSU San Bernardino
Stephen Rohde Esq., ACLU: Liberty and Truth are the First Casualties of War
Dennis D. Loo, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona: Unintended Symmetry? Full Spectrum Dominance, and Asymmetrical Warfare
Mahmood Ibrahim, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona: Israeli-Palestinian Relations After the Election
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2003
Summary of events
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Publisher Exhibits
8:30 am - 6:45 pm Committee Meetings
8:30 am – 6:45 pm Sessions
6:45 pm-7:15 pm Business Meeting
9:30 pm-10:30 pm Student Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
8:30 am – 10:00 am Sessions
Committee Meetings
Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
(Loo, Marx, Baker, Sutler-Cohen, Camacho, and Lerum)
Committee on Committees
(Hood,, Naples, Brines, Park, Hollander, Shiao, Raeburn, Pershing and DeBose)
96) Doing Undergraduate Research: Perspectives from Students and Faculty
Organizer: Stephani Williams, Arizona State UNIV
Amy Qiaoming Liu and Monan Nina Shoman, CSU Sacramento: Annual Surveys in the Sacramento Region and Undergraduate Research at CSUS.
Lindsey Fees, Arizona State Univ: Doing Research: The First Experience
Sharon Yee, Arizona State Univ: Undergraduate Research: A View From Both Sides
Stephani Williams, Arizona State Univ: Mentoring the Undergraduate Student: Lessons and Rewards
97) Immigration and Gender Reconstructions
Organizers: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine M. Avila, Univ of Southern California
Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, Univ of Texas, Austin: Fathering Chicana Sexuality: Mexican Immigrant Men’s Views of their Daughter’s Virginity
Sarah M. Stohlman, Baylor Univ: Migration, Gender Role Reconstruction, and the Effect of Church-Based Networks
Edna A. Viruell-Fuentes, Univ of Michigan: Structure and Meaning of Mexican Immigrant Women’s Transnational Social Networks: A Preliminary Analysis
Akiko Yasuike, Univ of Southern California: Japanese Corporate Transnational Families: The Impact of Corporate Masculinity and Femininity on Migration Experiences
98) Criminology
Organizer: David Musick, Univ of Northern Colorado
Alexander Shvarts, Univ of Toronto: Russian Mafia: The Explanatory Power of Rational Choice Theory
Curtis Jackson-Jacobs, UCLA: Persisting in Fist-Fighting During Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Results from an Ethnographic Study
Justin T. Denney, Univ of Colorado, Boulder: Applying and Extending a Durkheimian Thesis: Integration, Fear of Crime, and Attitudes Toward Police
Joseph Macrina, Univ of Colorado, Denver: Homicidal Stalkers, the Catathymic Process, and Chaos Theory: Utilizing Nonlinear Dynamical Principles to Understand the Development of Extreme Sociopathic Behaviors
99) Emotion Norms, Display Rules: Gender, Race, Ethnic, Class and Cross-Cultural
Organizer: Gary A. Cretser, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona
Mike Cerneant, CSU Fullerton: Social Distress and Inequality: How Do Age, Gender Difference and Satisfaction with One’s Life Influence Emotion?
Sara Lewis, St. Lawrence Univ: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Mental Health
Steven L. Gordon, CSU Los Angeles: Mass Emotions of Civilian Populations Facing Imminent Threat
Gordon Clanton, San Diego State Univ: Emotion Management in Professional Baseball, Basketball, and Football
Gary A. Cretser and Tracey K. Hoover, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona: Easier Said Than Felt: Display Rules and Emotion Norms in 12-Step Groups
100) Political Sociology
Organizer: Echo E. Fields, Southern Oregon Univ
Alan Emery, CSU Fullerton: Theoretical Conceptions of Power and Democratization in South Africa
Jeff Larson, Univ of Arizona: The Limits of Collective Action Repertoires
Clayton Peoples, Ohio State Univ: Relations and Political Outcomes: A Sociological Approach to the Study of Roll Call Voting
Diedre Tyler, Salt Lake Community College: A Black Women in Utah Politics
Jeff Manza, Northwestern Univ, Clem Brooks, Indiana Univ, and Christopher Uggen, Univ of Minnesota: ‘Civil Death’ Or Civil Rights? Public Attitudes Towards Felon Disfranchisement In The United States
101) The Sociological Imagination: Using Family History and Biographical Research
Organizer: Susan Palmer, Walla Walla Community College
Debbie Storrs, Univ of Idaho: “I Know Someday You’ll Be Mad at Me”: Pain, Growth and Consequences of Research Collaboration with Family Members
E. Ann Neel, Univ of Puget Sound: The Road Home: How a Research on 19th Century Families Turned into a Project on Self-Examination
Karla B. Hackstaff, Northern Arizona Univ: Doing Genealogy: Families Forged via Biography and History
102) Military Sociology
Organizer and Discussant: Peter A. Padilla, ASU
Mary L. Tilden, USMC: Gay Men and Lesbians in the Military
Yuko Kurashina, Univ of Maryland: The Social Construction of Peacekeeping in Japanese Society
Raymond M. Weinstein, Univ of South Carolina: Occupation G.I. Blues: American Soldiers in Postwar Germany
Clayton Agent, Arizona State Univ: The Changing Military Division of Labor and Special Operations Forces
Peter A. Padilla and Mary Laner, ASU: Civilian Influences on U.S. Army Recruitment Themes: 1915-1953
103) Masculinities and Femininities
Organizer: Cheri .J. Pascoe, UC Berkeley
Faye Linda Wachs, Cal Poly Univ Pomona and Shari Dworkin, Columbia Univ: Size Matters: Embodied (Gendered) Relations of Power and Privilege
Lauren Joseph, UC Irvine: Breaking the Mold: Challenges to Hegemonic Masculinity from within the Fraternity System
Ross Haenfler, Univ of Colorado Boulder: Manhood in Contradiction: The Two Faces of Straight Edge
Jason Sofianos, Eastern Oregon Univ: Unmasking Homophobia: Evaluation of ‘Liberal’ Perspectives on the Prevalence of Hyper-Masculinity and Gender Conformity
104) Youth, Gangs and Delinquency
Organizer: Fernando Parra, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona
James A. Parra, CSU Los Angeles: The High Risk Offender: A Research Proposal & Some Preliminary Notes
Maria Guzman, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona: Community Suggested Gang Interventions
Frank Malgesini, Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua: Factors in Delinquency Among Youth in Chihuahua
Emma Escobedo, Universidad de Chihuahua: Values and Behavior Among Chihuahua Youth
Kenyatta Watkins, Los Angeles County Probation Department: Programs That Impact Incarcerated Youth
105) Sociology of Education II
Organizer, Lynn M. Mulkey, Univ of South Carolina Beaufort
Gary Dworkin, Univ of Houston and The Australian National Univ and Jon Lorence, Laurence A. Toenjes and Antwanette N. Hill, Univ of Houston: The Effects of Early and Delayed Student Retention on Subsequent Standardized Test Performance and Enrollment Through High School: Some Impacts of High-Stakes Testing
Erin Amundson, Univ of Colorado Denver: Factors that Contribute to Success and Failure of At-Risk Students
Paula J. Walsh, UNLV: After the Bell Rings: The Examination of an Educational After School Program
Annette M. Hunt, CSU Los Angeles: Identity Negotiation Among Teachers and Its Implications for Educational Policy
106) Undergraduate Paper Session: Deviance In Oregon I
Organizer: Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State Univ
Discussant: Kevin Williams, Oregon State Univ
Kelsy Kretschmer, Oregon State Univ: Rethinking Adolescent Depression: New Evidence in Gendered Manifestation in Oregon
Christina Vidlund, Oregon State Univ: Effect of Divorce on the Amount and Frequency of Substance Abuse Among Young Males in Oregon
Lisa Hasko, Oregon State Univ: Young Women, Body Image, and the Media: Socializing the Waif in Oregon
Teresa Casey, UC Davis: Issues of Self-Esteem as Risk Factors for Drug Use in Oregon
107) Roundtable Discussion: The Sociology of Women and Breast
Cancer
Organizer: Kristine G. Musick, Univ of Northern Colorado
Lashaune Johnson, UC Santa Barbara: The Struggle of a Lifetime: Breast Cancer Survivorship
Ligaya Smith and Debora Paterniti, UC Davis: Online Discussions of Medical Questions: A Look at a Breast Cancer Discussion Group
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
10:15 am - 11:45 am
Committee Meetings
California State University Chairs Meeting
Committee on Status of Women
(Lerum, Lombardi, Butler, Lee, Adams, and Jacob)
Committee on California State University Graduate Coordinators
Meeting (Vickie Jensen, CSU Northridge, Organizer)
108) Intersectionalities: Conceptual Frameworks
Organizer and Presider: Jodi O’Brien, Seattle Univ
Michele Berger, Univ of North Carolina
Salvador Vidal Ortiz, City Univ of New York
Others To Be Announced
109) Author Meets Critics: Shades of White: Kids and Racial Identities in High School
Organizer: Jiannbin Lee Shiao, Univ of Oregon
Author: Pamela Perry, UC Santa Cruz
Critics: Khaya Clark, Univ of Oregon, Thomas Macias, Univ of Illinois, and Linda Trinh Vo, UC Irvine
110) Presidential Session Title: Secession of the San Fernando Valley: Anatomy of the Near Break-Up of Los Angeles.
Organizer: Harvey E. Rich, CSU, Northridge
David Ralph Diaz, CSU Northridge: The Lost Promise of Secession: A Failure of Leadership and Political Strategy.
Martin Saiz and Tom Hogen-Esch, CSU Northridge: An Anatomy of Failure: Why the San Fernando Valley Failed to Secede from Los Angeles.
Jim Ingram, San Diego State Univ and Shoon Lio, UC Riverside: Charter Reform, Neighborhood Governance and Secession: The Los Angeles Experience, 1909-2002
Jerald G. Schutte, CSU Northridge: Valley Succession: The Demographics of Defeat
111) The Sociology of Popular Culture I
Organizer: John Mihelich, Univ of Idaho
Discussant: Virginia S. Fink, Univ of Colorado, Denver
John Mihelich, Univ of Idaho: Still America’s Game: Labor, Time, and Community in Baseball
Jennifer Eichstedt, Humboldt Univ: Popular Culture: Reproducing Racial Identities and Power
Rebecca Plante, Wittenberg Univ: “Crossing Over”: Symbolic Language in One Medium’s Lexicon
Lesleigh J. Owen, UC Santa Cruz: Charlie’s Angels and the Layering of Gendered Experiences
112) New Ethnographies II
(Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
Organizer and Presider: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State Univ
Dee Southard, Southern Oregon Univ: Inventing Ourselves: Identity Representation and Distancing Talk Within a Population of Rural Homeless Youth
Adele Kubein, Oregon State Univ: Homeless Rural Youth in Transition
Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State Univ: Negotiating Femininity with Boys Behind Bars
Steven M. Ortiz, Oregon State Univ: Gender Management as an Ethnographic Process: Interpreting Masculinity with Wives of Professional Athletes
Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State Univ: Mad Mike and Other Rural Oregon Secrets
113) The Illogic of Sociological Explanations and Issues in Social Surveys COLORADO
Organizer: Marilyn Whalen, Palo Alto Research Center
Presider: Jacqueline A. Carrigan, CSU Sacramento
Colter Mitchell, BYU: Examining the Accuracy of Reporting Divorce: Comparing Divorce Records and Survey Data
James Fenelon, CSU San Bernardino and Rodney Brod, Univ of Montana: Privileged Discourse of Race, Gender, and Class Ideologies in Affirmative Action Surveys
Yili Xu, University of Colorado Denver: Structural Profile Analysis: A New Method of Analyzing Survey Data
Natalie M. Berman, San Pedro CA: The Syntactic Connection: Glossing the Illogic of Sociological Explanations
114) Teaching Social Problems: Ideas, Tools, and Techniques
Organizer: Ellis Jones, Sacramento City College
Scott A. Desmond, Univ of Washington: Prioritizing Social Problems
William Brislen and Clayton D. Peoples, Ohio State Univ: Using A Hypothetical Distribution of Grades To Introduce Issues Of Inequality, Stratification, And Mobility
Ellis Jones, Sacramento City College: The Missing Piece: Empowering Students to Make A Difference Around Social Problems
115) Gender, Sexuality and Social Construction
Organizers: Todd Migliaccio and Ellen Berg, CSU Sacramento
Jaime Anstee, Univ of Nevada Reno: The Social Construction of Gender and Aging: An Analysis of Electronic Greeting Cards
Martina Espinosa, CSU Fullerton: A Radical View of Devalued Femininity: A Woman’s Choices and ‘Worth’ in a Society Built by Men
Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State Univ: Investing Women: The Meaning of Gender, Markets, and Economic Opportunity in a Women’s Investment Group
Steven D. Williams, Univ of Southern Indiana: Homoeroticism and Homophobia; Identifying Points of Convergence and Divergence in Popular Culture
116) A Conversation About Ann Swidler’s, Talk of Love: How Culture Matters
Organizer: Neil Gross, Univ of Southern California
Discussant and Author: Ann Swidler, UC Berkeley
Chandra Mukerji, UC San Diego
Paul Lichterman, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
Rick Fantasia, Smith College
Isaac Reed, Yale Univ
117) Classical Social Theory: Relevancy to Modern Society
Organizer, Tim Delaney, Canisius College
Vincent Jeffries, CSU Northridge: Using Classical Interactionist Theory to Understand Long Lasting Marriages
Tim Madigan, Empire State College: The Application of Nietzsche’s Theories to Modern Society
Allene Wilcox, University of Buffalo: August Comte: His Works and Their Relevancy to Modern Society
Tim Delaney, Canisius College: The Relevancy of Herbert Spencer to Modern Sociological Theory
118) Contemporary Research on Globalization
Organizer: Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, UC Riverside
Micelle Bata, Univ of Arizona: Global State-Building & the Transformation of Nationalism
Berch Berberoglu and David Lott, Univ of Nevada, Reno: The Globalization of Capital and Transnational Corporations: Researching the Global 500
Caleb Southworth and Derek Darves, Univ of Oregon: Workers in the Global Economy: Trade, Investment & Manufacturing Employment Outcomes
Joseph Conti, UC Santa Barbara: Structural Power & Dispute in the World Trade Organization
119) Undergraduate Poster Session: Gender, Marriage and Family
Organizer: Keith Farrington, Whitman College
Merissa Gremminger, Western Washington Univ: Women’s Status and the Content of Personal Ads Placed by Men
Valerie West and Andy Johnson, Western Washington Univ: Effects of Custody Type on Later Parent-Child Relations
Tanya Atwood, Western Washington Univ: The Effects of Parents’ Perceived Relationship Quality on Early Marriage Expectations and Current Marital Quality
Anna Arnold and Kasey Horton, Western Washington Univ: The Effects of Maternal Employment on Child Outcomes: Comparing the Intervening Effects of Parental Involvement and Psychological Well-Being
Carissa Coleman and Stacey Kitchen, Western Washington Univ: Types of Parenting Styles and Their Effects on the Child’s Later Adult Intimate Relationships
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Committee Meetings
Committee on Student Affairs
(Renfrow, Adams, Sutler-Cohen, Lerum, Rohlinger, and Hirose)
Open Discussion Meeting: Starting an SWS Regional Chapter
120) Author Meets Critics: How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor
Organizer: Lynn Rapaport, Pomona College
Author: Roger Waldinger, UCLA
Critics: Edna Bonacich, UC Riverside; Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, USC; and David Kyle, UC Davis
121) Indian Gaming: Sovereignty and Social Change
Organizer and Discussant: James Fenelon, CSU San Bernardino
Roy F. Janisch, Arizona State Unv: Indian Gaming and Economic Development on the Lake Traverse Reservation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe
R. Fred Wacker, Wayne State Univ: Michigan Gambling: The Interaction of Native, Little Vegas and Ontario Provincial Casinos
Chris Wetzel, UC Berkeley: Intratribal Contention Over Indian Gaming: Implications for Syncretic Tribalism
Erich Steinman, Univ of Washington: The Institutionalization of State-Tribal Relations
122) Women, Girls, and Education
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Marie Butler, Oxnard College:
Linda Kekelis, Chabot Space and Science Center and Rebecca Wepsic Ancheta, Stanford Univ: Girls and Technology: Findings from the Techbridge Program
Erin Amundson, Univ of Colorado Denver: Girls in Education: Factors that Contribute to Success and Failure
Marcia Hernandez, Univ of Albany: Seeking Sisterhood: An Exploration of Women’s Experience in Historically Black Sororities
123) A Potpourri of Sociological Work: Foucault and Sport Psychology; Discourse on Schools; Leisure Attitudes Between Urban and Rural Residents; and Teaching Sociological Theory to Undergraduates
Organizer: Marilyn Whalen, Palo Alto Research Center
Presider: Michael Blain, Boise State Univ
Michael Toney, Utah State Univ and Jang-Young Lee, Kookmin Univ: Life Satisfaction and Leisure Attitudes between Urban and Rural Persons
Melvin Echols, CSU Fullerton: The Use of Literature as a Means to Bring about Discourse in Society
David Marple, Loyola Marymount: Foucault and Sport Psychology: Understudied Issues of the “Mental and Emotional” Body
Marc Flacks, CSU Long Beach: Get a Real Job!: The Transition to Adulthood as a Basis for Teaching Sociological Theory
124) Sociology of Memory
Organizer: Noel Packard, New School Univ
Linda Yellin, CSU Northridge: Social Constructions of Memory and the Role of "Ex”
Mary Gallant, Rowan Univ: Community and Remembrance, Fragmentation and Renewal: Contending Forces in Response to Terrorism
Amy C. Fish, Northern Arizona Univ: Collective Memory: The Organized Memory of Mankind
Noel Packard, New School Univ: Checkered Pasts: If You Ask, Then Listen-The Flip Side of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
125) Preparing for Academic Job Search II: Interviews and Handling Job Offers COLORADO (Sponsored by the Committee of Student Affairs)
Organizer: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey
Presenters: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey; Melinda Messineo, Ball State Univ; Michael P. Perez, CSU Fullerton; Ronda Priest, Univ of Southern Indiana; Barbara Zajac, Indiana State Univ
126) Social Policy and Social Organization: How Particular Social Programs
Have Effected Social Systems and/or Organizations
Organizer: Warren C. Lucas, Northern Arizona Univ
Discussant: Bradley Parlin, Utah State Univ
Gwen McEvoy, UCLA: She Has To Be A Professional: Polish Social Workers on the Frontlines of Systemic Transformation
Neil Wieloch, Utah State Univ: Harm Reduction: Policy Implications for a New Public Health
Mike Aquino and Kooros M. Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Univ: Media Driven Images of Drugs: A Content Analysis
James Derry, Utah State Univ: Social Policy and Regulation of the Communication Industries
127) Law and Society
Organizer: Ann Marie Wood, UC Berkeley
Ann Marie Wood, UC Berkeley: Surveillance in the Workplace: The Role of the State
Joshua Page, UC Berkeley: Felonious Education: Criminal ‘Practice’ in Edward Bunker’s Proto-Ethnography
Dave McKell and Traci Bunker, Northern Arizona Univ, Frank P. Williams III, Prairie View A&M Univ and Marilyn D. McShane, Univ of Houston: Prosecuting Polygamy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Dag MacLeod and Ron Pi, Administrative Office of the Courts: Are Americans Becoming Less Litigious? An Examination of the Decline in Civil Case Filings in California
Jeffrey Sallaz, UC Berkeley: The Presentation of Selling Everyday Vice: Symbolic Politics and Casino Law in South Africa and California
128) Sociology of Corrections I
Organizer: David Musick, Univ of Northern Colorado
Herman L. DeBose, Doug Kaback, and Masae T. Salseth, CSU Northridge: Theatre Project With At-Risk Youth
David Musick and Kristine G. Musick, Univ of Northern Colorado: Profiting From Punishment: Corporations and American Prisons
Jaime M. Oberlander and Keith Farrington, Whitman College: Collective Social Agency in the Prison Environment: A Historical Case Study
Paul C. Price, Pasadena City College: Everyday Control at Opportunity Boys’ Home
129) Changing Sex Norms
Organizer: Edward J. Clarke, Vanguard Univ
Janet Lever, CSU Los Angeles: “Don’t fish in the company pond”: Are Normative Constraints on Workplace
Julie Ohlander, Pennsylvania State Univ and Jeanne Batalova and Judith Treas, UC Irvine: How Does Education Affect Attitudes Toward Homosexual Sex?
Christina Ryder and Edward J. Clarke, Vanguard Univ: Homosexuality and Christian Response: Exploring Attitudinal Differences
130) Using Self As A Source of Data
Organizer: Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College and Alan Ryave, CSU Dominguez Hills
Eric Silva, UC Davis: Using the Self as a Source of Data in the Sociology of Work
Rebecca Green, Cerritos College: Social Comparisons in Everyday Life: Using Systematic Self-Observation
Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College and Alan Ryave, CSU Dominguez Hills: The Withholding of Complaints: Using Systematic Self-Observation
Marilyn Garber and Steve R. Riskin, CSU Dominguez Hills: The Epistemology of Access to Self
131) Undergraduate Roundtable Discussion: Deviance in Oregon II
Organizer and Discussant: Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State Univ
Ashwini Prasad, Oregon State Univ: Body Perception and Self Image: A Comparison of Non-White and White Women in Benton County, Oregon
Rachel Lewis-Porter, Oregon State Univ: Examining the Relationship Between Educational Attainment and Job Satisfaction Through the Oregon Population Survey
Shannon Proctor, Oregon State Univ: A New lesson From Chicken Little: How Can We Learn to Read?
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Committee Meetings
Committee on Nominations
(Howard, Vo, Romero, and Ng)
Committee on Awards
(Varano, Rotolo, Kahn-Hut, Glynn, Pence, Prather, Jenness, and Hondagneu-Sotelo)
132) The Social Psychology of Male Violence
Organizer: Thomas J. Scheff, UC Santa Barbara
Thomas J. Scheff, UC Santa Barbara: The Social Psychology of Male Violence
Discussants: Margaret George-Cramer, UC Santa Barbara and Chris Poulson, Pomona College
133) Workshop: What Can You Do with An Undergraduate Degree in
Sociology?
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizers and Presenters: Sharon K. Araji, Univ of Alaska Anchorage and Christine ley, Washington State Univ
134) Undergraduate Student Paper Session: Family Issues in Society
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska Southeast
Presider: Nelta Edwards, Univ of Alaska Southeast
Discussant: Shelly Williams, Univ of Alaska Anchorage
Erica Hunter, Pacific Lutheran Univ: The Use of Rational, Aggressive Verbal and Physically Aggressive Violent Conflict Tactics in Response to Conflict in Sibling Relationships
Andrea M. Kippes, UC Santa Cruz: What Affect do Female Caregivers have on the Crafting Abilities of Their grown Children?
Rachel Herndon, Mills College: Desperately Seeking Someone: Religious Communities in Online Personal Ad Services
Jessie Muhm, Pacific Lutheran Univ: Stigma Management Among Children From Divorce
135) Men, Women, and Politics of Appearance
Organizer: Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ
Kris Gill, Mills College: Being Read: What Social Gaze Means in a Transgender Context
Michelle Janning, Whitman College: Gendered Spaceds: Home as Appearance
Margaret Greer, National Univ: The “Appearance” of Equality: Changing Gender Norms in Fashion and Grooming
Jessie Colbert, Humboldt State Univ: Labiaplasty: Redefining the Standards of Genital Normalcy
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ: From Julius Caesar to Eminem: The Politics of Male Blondeness
136) Children of Immigrants: Research on the New Second Generation
Organizer: Karen Pyke, UC Riverside
Min Zhou, UCLA: Ethnic Language Schools and the System of Supplementary Education
Leisy Abrego, UCLA: “I Can’t Go to College ‘Cause I Don’t Have Papers’”: The Educational and Life Experiences of Undocumented Latino Youth
Lisa Sun-Hee Park, UC San Diego: Ensuring Upward Mobility: Obligations of Children of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Christine Oh, UC Irvine: Adaptation Orientation and the Mental Outlooks of Young First and Second Generation Mexicans and Koreans
Karen Pyke, UC Riverside: “We Were the Weak Little Guys that You Could Push Around”: Second Generation Asian American Males and Gendered Racism
137) Presidential Session: Sociological Perspectives on the Middle East
Organizer: Jean Stockard, Univ of Oregon
Presenter: Grant Farr, Portland State Univ
138) Sociology of Popular Culture II
Organizer: John Mihelich, Univ of Idaho
Discussant: Jennifer Eichstedt, Humboldt Univ
Virginia S. Fink, Univ of Colorado, Denver: Tracing Oprah’s Influence
Kip Lamers, Northern Arizona Univ: The Environmental Movement in Popular Movies: Has There Been an Impact?
David C. Barrows and Mary E. Conklin, Point Loma Nazarene Univ: Tattoos Among Evangelical Christians
Tim Novak, San Diego State Univ: Considering the Presence of Noise: Toward New Directions for the Sociological Investigation of Popular Music
139) World-System Studies
Organizer and Presider: Christopher Chase-Dunn, UC Riverside
Discussant: Helmut Anheier, UCLA
Albert J. Bergesen, Univ of Arizona: Is Terrorism Globalizing?
David Smith, UC Irvine: International Trade Networks and World-Economy Structure: Into the Twenty-First Century
Tieting Su, CSU Los Angeles: Major Social Cycles
Michael Elliott, Emory Univ: A Cult of the Individual for A Global Society: The Worldwide Expansion of Human Rights Ideology
140) Minorities In Education I
Organizer: Phillip D. Robinette, Vanguard Univ
Jean McDougall, Univ of Puget Sound: Latino Education in Tacoma, Washington
Amy Bennet, Carrie Lindburg, and Amy J. Smith, Vanguard Univ: Social Interaction Factors Influencing the Academic Success of Mexican American High School Students: A Pilot Study
141) Teaching Introductory Sociology
(Sponsored by the Committee on Community Colleges)
Organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College: Teaching Introductory Sociology and the Contra Transmission of Culture Study
Sue Dowden, El Camino College: Teaching With Power Point
Stacey Allen, El Camino College: Collaborative Class Activities
Elaine Cannon, El Camino College: Multi Media in Class Presentations
142) Getting Published in Academic Journals: Meet the Editors (Sponsored by the Publication’s Committee)
Organizer, Peter Nardi, Pitzer College
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ: Editor of Symbolic Interaction
Simon Gottschalk, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas: Editor, Symbolic Interaction
Peter M. Nardi, Pitzer College: Editor, Sociological Perspectives
Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Stanford Univ: Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly
Jonathan Turner, UC Riverside: Editor, Sociological Theory
143) Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Statistics for Sociology
Undergraduates
Organizer: John R. Dugan, Central Washington UNIV
Louis N. Gray, Washington State Univ: Being Skeptical: Observations on the Uses of Statistics in the Social Sciences
Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ: Cholesterol and Grade Scores: Merging Multiple Learning Styles in Statistics
Carrie B. Myers and Scott M. Myers, Washington State Univ: Assessing Assessment: Testing the Effects of Two Evaluation Approaches in an Undergraduate Statistics Course
John R. Dugan, Central Washington Univ: Math Phobia: A Conceptualization
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Committee Meetings
Community College Meeting
144) Sociology of Corrections II
Organizer: David Musick, Univ of Northern Colorado
Danielle S. Rudes, UC Irvine: Ironies of Reintegration: Parole Agents as Contributors to Deviance
Rebecca Godderis, Kwantlen Univ College: Something to Chew On: An Examination of the Prison Food Experience
Amanda Dean, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas and James David Ballard, CSU Northridge: Socio-Cultural and Structural Factors Associated With Providing Mental Health
Roger Roots, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas: Constitutional Rights of Prisoners in the Nineteenth Century
145) Undergraduate Student Paper Session: Sociological Theory in Research
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska Southeast
Presider: Sharon Araji, Univ of Alaska Anchorage
Discussant: Bradley Burnett, Univ of Alaska Anchorage
Gilbert J. Salazar, CSU Los Angeles: Effects of ‘Politically Correct’ Labeling After a National Disaster
Dominique Avery, Linfield College: Dietary Choices as Reactions to the Physical and Social Environment
Nicholas R. Jaskolsi and Krista M. Lindsay, Univ of Arizona: An Examination of Ford’s Role in Fuel Standards
Dee A. Montero, Mills College: Best in Show: The Intersection of Pets and Social Class in America
Aaron Nelson, Univ of Puget Sound: HIV Storytelling – Experience, Salvation, and Narration
Deagon B. Williams, Mills College: It’s Jus’ Food…Or Is it?: An Examination of Food Attitudes as Cultural Indicators
146) Great Ideas for Teaching Sensitive and Controversial Topics
Organizer: Patricia Clancy, Hawaii Pacific Univ
Margaret George-Cramer and Hazel Hull, UC Santa Barbara: Teaching Race as an ‘Interior Journey’ through First Person Narrative: Linking the Personal and Structural in Toi Derricotte’s The Black Notebooks
Patricia Clancy, Hawaii Pacific Univ: Tapping Emotional Learning Through Video Presentations of the Insider’s Perspective
Jamie Needleman, Marnie Dobson, and Francesca Cancian, UC Irvine: Teaching Violence Against Women: Student Empowerment and Instructor Responsibility
147) Scholarship and Activism: A Tribute to Dr. Lionel Cantu, 1965-2002 (A reception will immediately follow this session.)
(Sponsored by the Committee on Status of Race and Ethnicity.
Organizer: Michelle Madsen Camacho, Univ of San Diego
Discussant: Tomas Almaguer, San Francisco State Univ
Patricia Zavella, UCSC: Gay Chicano masculinities: Reflections on Power, Privilege and Identity by Three Men
Nancy Naples, Univ of Connecticut: Border Crossing: Lionel Cantu’s Work on the Sexuality of Migration
James Thing, UCSC: Scholarship and Activism: Dimensions of Sexuality and Migration
Sarita Gaytan, UCSC: Reflections on Mentorship
148) Looking at Ourselves: The Sociology of Sociology
Organizer: Matthew T. Evans, BYU
Matthew T. Evans, BYU: Attendance at PSA 2002 Vancouver: A Detailed Empirical Study
Kenneth L. Nyberg, Patricia Jennings, and Alem Kebede and Associations, CSU Bakersfield: Sociology at the Perimeter: The ASA and Regional Sociological Association Programs, Including The Pacific Sociological Association 1960-1980
149) Gender and Health Policy Issues
(A reception sponsored by SWS and the Committee on the Status of Women will immediately follow this session.)
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizers and Discussant: Michelle Jacob and LaShaune Johnson, UC Santa Barbara
Karl Bryant, UCSB: ‘Disorder’ and the Shifting Concept of Gender Identity
Heather Nelson, UC Davis: Resisting the Mind/Body Split: How and Why Women Choose Alternative Birth Providers
Patricia Drew, UCSB: Commodifying Sperm: From Natural Substance to Medical Industry
Ann Stromberg Pitzer College: Costa Rican Women in the Banana Industry: Their Work, Health, Family Life, and Aspirations
150) The ASA Sorokin Lecture: Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation in Early Adulthood
Organizer: American Sociological Association
Presider: Harvey Rich, CSU Northridge
Rubén Rumbaut, UC Irvine: Legacies: The Story Of The Immigrant Second Generation In Early Adulthood
151) New Ethnographies III
(Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
Organize: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State Univ
Presider Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ: Data and Deliberation in Qualitative Research: New Concerns about Credibility
Tekle Woldemikael, Univ of Redlands: Muslim and Christian Eritreans in the United States: Bridging the Divide
Rolita LaForge, Oregon State Univ: Gender Construction in a Rural Skateboard Park
Phillip Vannini, Washington State Univ: The Paradox of Coherence: Life Course Struggles of Authenticity and the Writing of Becoming
152a) Dissertation Funding and Grant Writing
(Sponsored by the Committee of Student Affairs)
Organizer: Deana A. Rohlinger, UC Irvine
Julie Hoigaard, UC Irvine: The Tricks to Finding Funding
Calvin Morril, UC Irvine: The ABCs of Writing a Proposal
Yang Su, UC Irvine: Writing Proposals that Speak to the Audience and Constructing Budgets
Ellen Reese, Univ of California Riverside: Stories from the Trenches: The Nature of Your Topic and Applying for Funding Inside and Outside of Your Home Institution
152b) Sociology of HIV/AIDS
Organizer: Daniel G. Renfrow, Univ of Washington
Lori Pfingst, Univ of Washington: The Influence of Macrostructural Variables on STD Transmission
Keyvan Alan Kashkooli, UC Berkeley: Gender Inequality and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pamela Leong, Univ of Southern California: The African-American Church: A Potential Model for HIV/AIDS Intervention
153) Roundtable Discussion: Collaboration Processes in Community
Building: Ideals and Reality
Organizer: Roy Childs, Univ of the Pacific
Desmond deMoore and Ronald Kruse: San Joaquin Community Data Cooperative: Insights on Community-Based Collaboration from a Multi-Program Evaluation of Youth and Family Development Projects:
Harvey Williams, Univ of the Pacific: Assessing the Effects of School Based Social Service Programs on Social Agency Collaboration
Roy Childs, Univ of the Pacific: Place-Based Community Building: An Incentive for Collaboration?
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm
Committee Meetings
Committee on Practice, Applied, and Clinical Sociology
(Kettlitz, Kuecker, Richards, Powers, Musick, Hansen, Steinberg, and Tashiro)
Committee on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgendered Persons (Sutler-Cohen, Silber, Stockdill, Raeburn, Washington, Travers, and Singer)
154) Sociology of Gender: Comparative Perspective
Organizer: Christine Min Wotipka, Stanford Univ
Yuriy Savelyev, Sam Houston State Univ: Institutional Emancipation and Gender Transformation: Cross-Cultural Analysis
Todd A. Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento: Engendering Differences: A Structural Analysis of Gender Differences in Friendship
Sarah E. Gilman, UC Berkeley: Women’s Organizing in Tunisia: Negotiating the State and Civil Society
155) Contexts of Illness and Caregiving
Organizer, Debora A. Paterniti and Clare Stacey, UC Davis
Lara Foley, Univ of Tulsa: “Midwifery Can Feed You or Kill You:” Midwives, Caregiving, and Burn-Out
Clare Stacey, UC Davis: “I Was Born to Do This”: Moral Repertories of Paid and Unpaid Caregivers
Betty L. McCall, Whitman College: Harvest Pork Choppie, Peas and Pearl Onions: A Look at a Community-Based Nutrition Program
Marisa M. Smith, VA San Diego Health Care System: Post-traumatic Therapies and the Reconstruction of Masculinity
Stuart Henderson, UC Davis: Routine Miseries and Managed Despair: Caring for Suffering in Medical Settings
156) Ethnic Communities
Organizer: David A. Lopez, CSU Northridge
Alex Liu, Univ of Southern California: From Chinatown to Chinanet
Natalie Cherot, SUNY-Binghamton: Building Vietnamese Adoptee Community
Patricia E. Literte, Univ of Southern California: The Murals of Los Angeles African and Mexican American Neighborhoods: The Facilitation of Place within Community and Continuins Ethnic Stratification in Los Angeles
Jeff D. Peterson, Linfield College: Latinos and Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Concept of Latino Cultural Citizenship in Small, Rural Communities
157) Using Feature Films and Documentaries in the Classroom
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer and Discussant: Tina Martinez, Blue Mountain Community College
Gary D. Hampe, Univ of Wyoming: Can We Be “Judicious” in the Use of Visual Media in Class
Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State Univ: Illustrating Sociological Concepts through Documentaries
Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ: Films on the Sociology Classroom
Lora Stone, Univ of New Mexico: Film in Theory, Core, and Topics Courses
158) Reading Theory In Daily Life
Organizers: Marilyn Garber and Steve R. Riskin, CSU Dominguez Hills
Marilyn Garber and Steve Riskin, CSU Dominguez Hills: Reading Theory in Daily Life
Orenda Warren, CSU Dominguez Hills: Women of Color: Empowerment Through the Arts
Linda Groff, CSU Dominguez Hills: The Big Picture: Trends in Macro-History, Global Civilizations and Peace
Steve Riskin, CSU Dominguez Hills: Writing Fiction to Read Reality
Marilyn Garber, CSU Dominguez Hills: Veiling in Law, Literature and Life
159) Family Diversity: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice
Organizer: Merril Silverstein, Univ of Southern California
Discussant: Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Univ of Utah
Mary Ella Viehe, Univ of Southern California: Latino Domestic Violence in Los Angeles County, 1995-1998
Susan C. Harris, Univ of Southern California: Relative Strangers: Kinship Caregiving in the Los Angeles County Child Welfare System
Ynez Wilson Hirst, Univ of Southern California: Race Childhood Family Structure, and Education: Changes Over Time
Barbara A. Mitchell, Simon Fraser Univ.; Andrew V. Wister and Ellen M. Gee, Simon Fraser Univ, NC: The Ethnic and Family Nexus of Home Leaving and Home Returning Among Canadian Young Adults
160a) Rethinking Durkheim for the 21st Century
Organizer: Shoon k, UC Riverside
Alexandra Maryanski, UC Riverside: Totems and the Origins of Religion
Allan Warnke, Malaspina Univ College: Durkheim’s Concept of Anomic During A Decline in Social Integration: The Case of Contemporary British Columbia
Omar Lizardo, Univ of Arizona: Reconstruction Durkheim’s Theory of Religion: The Role of Micro Mechanisms
Shoon Lio, UC Riverside: Durkheim’s Civil Religion and The Construction of Empowered Selves
160b) Immigration and the New Inequality
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Lisa Catanzarite, UCLA
Sabeen Sandhu, UC Irvine: Segmentation in the Silicon Valley: The Economic Incorporation of High Skilled Asian Indian Immigrants
Gretchen Purser, UC Berkeley: In Search of Dignity: Work and Worth among Immigrant Day Laborers
Susan Coutin, UC Irvine and Ester Hernandez, CSU Los Angeles: Remitting Citizenship: Exclusion, Inclusion, and Exchange
Katheryn E. Martin, Univ of San Diego: Fractured Families: “Siento…una Tristeza:” Voices of Those Who Stay Behind
161a) Undergraduate Student Paper Session: Political Sociology: Movements, Activism, and Change
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska Southeast
Presider: Eldon L. Wegner, Univ of Hawaii, Manoa
Discussant: Victoria Savalei, UCLA
Rebekah M. Szlosek, Univ of Puget Sound: The Personal Ideologies of Skilled Blue-Collar Workers in the 21st Century, and Social Theorists Predictions: A Qualitative Study of Skilled Blue-Collar Workers in the Puget Sound Area and How They Are Viable Instruments for Social Change
Lauren Duran, Mills College: Filling in the Gaps of the Federal Policy Regarding Airport Noise Pollution: Interorganizational Relations
Katy Van Hoey, Univ of Arizona: Arizona’s Power Elite
David Colbeck, Linfield College: American Environmentalism and Consumer Supported Agriculture: The Ideology of an Alternative Lifestyle
Anneke Mohr, Univ of Puget Sound: Creative Protest: A Study in Latin American Artistic Activism
161b) Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Portfolios: What Are They, And Do I Really Need One? (Sponsored by the Student Affairs Committee)
Organizer: Daniel G. Renfrow, Univ of Washington
Judith A. Howard, Univ of Washington
Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State Univ
Kristin Bates, CSU San Marcos
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
6:45 pm-7:15 pm
PSA Business Meeting
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
9:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Student Reception
(Note: Books donated by the publishers and $50 PSA checks will be raffled off.)
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2003
Summary of events
8:00 am - 10:00 am Registration
8:30 am – 1:30 pm Sessions
8:30 am – 10:00 am 2003-2004 Council Meeting
SUNDAY, APRIL 6
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Meeting
2003-2004 PSA Council Meeting
( Babbie, Stockard, Serpe, Hood, O’Brien, Kulis, Fernandez, Schwartz, Espiritu, Blain, Hossfeld, Texeira, and Dorn)
162) Applied Community Research I
(Sponsored by the Committee on Applied, Clinical and Practice Sociology)
Organizer: Sheila Steinberg, Humboldt State Univ
Flaxen D.L. Conway, Oregon State Univ and Jennifer Gilden, Pacific Fisheries Management Council: Investing in Trust: Improving the Troubled Yet Interdependent Relationship Between the Fishing Community and the Fisheries Management Community
Charles Clark, Humboldt State Univ: Studying Maya Communities in the Rainforest: Developing an Encompassing Comparison Through Directed Interviews
Yili Xu, Univ of Colorado Denver; Mora Fiedler, Colorado Springs Police Dept.; Karl Flaming, Univ of Colorado Denver: Community Policing Indicators
Helga Kristin Hallgimsdottir, Univ of Victoria: Culturalist Theory and Community Based Research: Practical and Epistemological Affinities
163) Historical Sociology II
Organizer: Janet Lee, Oregon State Univ
Presider: Marie Butler, Oxnard College
Alem Kebede, CSU Bakersfield: The Dynamics of Political and Civil Society and Athletic Cult in Ethiopia
Roger Roots, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas: The Rights of Slaves, 1800-1860
Janet Lee, Oregon State Univ: This was Life! Accidental Modernism and Inadvertent Feminism in Women’s Stories of the Great War
164) Undergraduate Student Paper Session: Gender in Society
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer and Presider: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska Southeast
Discussant: Annette Nelson-Wright, UC Santa Cruz
Becky Beyer, Univ of Colorado, Denver: Cultural Routines and Gender Identity
Morgan Coats, Linfield College: Gender in Equestrian Sport
Lori VanBuggenum, Emily Sly and Debbie Storrs, Univ of Idaho: Feminist Led Activist Movement to Empower (FLAME)
Erin Ann Mandeson, Mills College: Arsenic and Old Lace vs. Jack the Ripper An Explanation into Societal Perceptions of the Female Serial Killer
Andrea Hanson, Pacific Lutheran Univ: Evaluation of Operation S.M.A.R.T.
165) Chicana/os and Latina/os: Old Ideas and New Ideas
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Mario T. Garcia, UC Santa Barbara: Presente! Father Luis Olivares and the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles, 1982-1993
Paul Lopez, CSU Chico: Braceos, Migrant Workers and New Guest Worker Program
Marisol Moreno, UC Santa Barbara: Beyond Cultural Nationalism: Exploring Alternative Identities, Visions, and Strategies in the Chicano/a Student Movement of Southern California, 1967-1973
166) Qualitative Studies of Work and Organizations
Organizer: Clark Molstad, CSU San Bernardino
Joan S. M. Meyers, UC Davis: Workplace Structure and Workplace Identity in Worker-Owned Cooperatives
Stephen Miraglia, Kirk Young, and Jason Fairbourne, Utah Valley State College: Case Study of US Diamond: How Organizations Can Do It Right
Amy Singer, Univ of Washington: Institutional Ethnography and Children’s Book Publishing
Donald Winiecki, Boise State Univ: Shadowboxing with Data: The Production of Power/Knowledge and the Worker as Subject/Object in Contemporary Call Center Organizations
167) Service Learning: Assessing Empirical Results
(Sponsored by the committee on Practice, Applied, and Clinical Sociology
Organizer: Dan Pence, CSU Chico
Brenda Kowalewski, Weber State Univ: Teaching Social Problems: Ideas, Tools, and Techniques
Deanna Berg, CSU Chico: The Citizen Identity: Contact Analysis of Capstone Courses’ Citizenship Aims
Chin Hu and Ken Laundra, Southern Utah Univ and Dan Pence, CSU Chico: Evaluating Service Learning: Empirical Evidence
168) Doing Fieldwork in Public Parks
Organizer: Maggie Kusanbach, UCLA
Presider: Brandon Berry UCLA
Discussant: Jack Katz, UCLA
Alicia Juskewycz, Pomona College: Navigating Group Membership in Park Recreation: Opportunities and Limitations of Participatory Fieldwork
Kristal Adams, Occidental College: Gender Differences in Fieldwork Contacts
Sangeeta Kalsi, UCLA: Impression Management of Public Park Employees in Ethnographic Interviews
Beatriz Paez, CSU Northridge: Reclaiming the Land: Doing Ethnographic Research at a South Los Angeles Park
169) Frontiers of Sociological Theory
Organizers: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey and Jonathan Turner, UC Riverside
Omar A. Lizardo, Univ of Arizona: Towards a Knowledge-Interaction of Group Formation and Inequality
Lucinda Garcia, Univ of Colorado, Denver: Theory in the Sociology of Law: Donald Black’s Theory of the Third Party
Malcolm Potter, LA Valley College and LA Pierce College: The Relationship Between Downsizing and the Alteration in the Personal Saving Rate and the Temporary Work Force
Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey: State-Elite Relations and State Power
170) Domestic Violence: From Theory to Practice
Organizers: Elizabeth C. Conniff and Shoon Lio, UC Riverside
Dallan F. Flake, BYU: Explaining Wife Abuse in Peru: An Ecological Approach
Gabriela E. Segura, CSU Northridge: Mothers Parenting Through Domestic Violence
Elizabeth C. Conniff, UC Riverside: Identity Control Theory and Post-Probation Abusive Behaviors of Convicted Batterers
171) A Plurality of New Feminist Voices on Sexuality
Organizer: Dick Skeen, Northern Arizona Univ
Nick Berry and Mika Galilee-Belfer, Northern Arizona Univ: Internet Imagery: The New Looking Glass
Chelsea Werthen and Amelia Zirkle, Northern Arizona Univ: Got Orgasm? Are Feminists Still Faking It?
Melanie Bertram and Tracey Madigan, Northern Arizona Univ: Shattering the Image: Reshaping Sexual Minds
Becky Springer, Northern Arizona Univ: Female Bodied Masculinity: Bodies, Meaning and Sexuality
J. Carnes and Robert Dicarlo, Northern Arizona Univ: Unexpected Sexual Disclosures: A Sociological Analysis
172) Queering Sociology (Sponsored by the Committee on LGBT)
Organizers: Brett Stockdill, Cal Poly Univ Pomona; Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ
Mechelle Hutchens, CSU Sacramento: The Seventh Sense:Gaydar and Queer Aesthetics
Eric Anderson, UC Irvine: Queers in Sport I: Openly Gay Athletes Contesting Hegemonic Masculinity in a Homophobic Environment
Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ: Queers in Sport II: Transgender Politics in North American Lesbian
173) Undergraduate Roundtable Discussion: Social Policy and the Use
of Sociology to Improve Society
Organizer: Keith Farrington, Whitman College
Presider: Brooke Neely, Whitman College
Christy Baker-Smith and Lauren Grote, Whitman College: ‘Now That I’m Out, Will You Let Me In?’ A Review of the Services Provided to Child Abuse Perpetrators in the Walla Walla Valley
Karen E. Snyder, CSU Sacramento: Education and Perceptions of Self-Sufficiency among TANF Recipients in Yolo County
Bekki Szlosek, Univ Of Puget Sound: So Where Do We Go From Here? We’re Sociologists – How Do We Instigate Change?
SUNDAY, APRIL 6
10:15 am – 11:45 pm
174) Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Notes from the Field
Organizer: James Mulherin, UC Santa Cruz
Michelle Jacob, UC Santa Barbara: Can A Native Go Researcher? Notes from the North American Indigenous Games
Barbara J. Pepek, Alaska Pacific Univ: Traditional Communities and the US Census: Restoring Data for Western Alaska
Martin Tolich, Massey Univ: Pakeha Paralysis: Cultural Safety for those Researching the General Population of Aotearoa
175) Minorities in Education II
Organizer: Phillip D. Robinette, Vanguard Univ
Presider: Edward Clarke, Vanguard Univ
Susanne M. Burcell and Joshua S. Meisel, Humboldt State Univ: Creating Community in Higher Education: An Evaluation of Humboldt State University’s Indian Teacher and Educational Personnel Program (ITEPP)
Stephen Kulis and Flavio Francisco Marsiglia, Arizon State Univ: Native American Students’ Sense of Belonging in School: A Protective Factor Against Drug Use
Jon Winterton and Yili Xu, Univ of Colorado Denver: Integrating Perspectives for International and Domestic Students
176) Violence and Social Policy
Organizers: Virginia S. Fink and Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ of Colorado, Denver
Celia Winkler and Shelley Icenhower, Univ of Montana: Women-Unfriendly States and Violence
Virginia Fink, Lucinda Garcia, and Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ of Colorado, Denver: Violence at the Workplace: What We Need To Know
Karen E. Duffala, Denver, CO: How Social Policy Polarizes Groups and Populations: A Treatise on Empowerment
177) Gender, Deviance and Stigma
Organizer: Carol Holdt, Portland State Univ
Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski, Weber State Univ: Understanding Stereotypes of LDS Women: An Application of Torton Beck’s Framework
Sarah M. Pitcher, CSU San Marcos: The Public Life of Treatments: Women, Allergies and Self-Preservation
Eric Anderson, UC Irvine: Male Gender Transgression in An Era of Decreased Homophobia
Teri Pfeifer, UNLV: Domestic Goddess Turned Queen of Mean Turned Insider Trader
Carol Holdt, Portland State Univ: The Role of Partners in Women’s Decisions to be Childfree
178) Civil Liberties and the Demise of Civil Society in the Wake of September 11
(Sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties)
Organizer: Dennis D. Loo, Cal Poly Univ, Pomona
Discussant: Marcia Marx, CSU San Bernardino
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Sharene Irsane, Univ of Southern California: Registering the Backlash: Muslim and Arab American Community
M. Christopher Stringer, Northern Arizona Univ: Effects of 9/11 on Arizonans’ Attitudes Toward Racial Profiling
Joshua Lattin, Brigham Young Univ: BYU: A Private University or Authoritarian Regime? Analysis of a Private University’s Social Structure of Power
179) Youth Speak Out: Social Activism and Other Acts of Resistance
in the 21st Century
Organizer: Andreana Clay, UC Davis
Discussant: Belinda Robnett, UC Irvine
Jeffrey Sweat, UC Davis: A Very Gay Straight: Identity and Activism in a School-based Social Movement
Pepper Glass, UCLA: Reds, Greens and In-between: Invoking anarchism in a Social Movement
Fazila Bhimji, UCLA: Latino/a Youth Contest for Equity in the Public School System: A Political and Theoretical Perspective
180) The Social Life of Public Parks
Organizer: Maggie Kusenbach, UCLA
Presider: Nori Milman, UCLA
Discussant: Robert Emerson, UCLA
Mindelyn Buford, UCLA: Homeless Men in Public Parks: Assumptions versus Realities
Ricardo Ramirez, Pitzer College: Illegal Activities at Parks: Deviant Uses of Public Space
Kate Madden and Andrea Oxman, UCLA: Dog Owners and Conflict: How Trouble Shapes a Social Community
Natalie Nunez, Pasadena City College: The Facilitation of Gender Separation at Public Parks
181) Environmental Justice
Organizer: Gary E. Reed, Univ of Idaho
Presider: Richard York, Univ of Oregon
Richard York, Univ of Oregon: Gender Inequality and Environmental Degradation
Erin Amundson, Univ of Colorado Denver: Environmental Racism in My Own Backyard
Jennifer Roman-Rossington, CSU Northridge: Are People of Color Less Concerned About Environmental Degradation Than Whites?
Nathan Rousseau, Jacksonville Univ: Politics, Religion, and Environmental Protection in a Southern City
Nelta M. Edwards, Univ of Alaska, Anchorage: Contaminated Communities
182) TANF Reauthorization: The Next Reign of Welfare Reform
Organizer: Lynn Fujiwara, Univ of Oregon
Elizabeth E. Bartle and Gabriela Segura, CSU Northridge: Immigration and Welfare Policy
Marcella Gemelli, Portland State Univ: Discourses of Motherhood and Welfare: A Comparison of Activist and Non-Activist Low-Income Single Mothers
Jill Weight, CSU San Marcos: Welfare Reform and Mother-Care
Lynn Fujiwara, Univ of Oregon: TANF and the Gendered Racial Politics of Motherhood and Citizenship
183) Social Policy and Community Development
(Sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied and Clinical Sociology)
Organizer and Presider: Valerie Callanan, CSU San Marcos
Melissa A. Barfield, CSU San Bernardino: The Effects of Spatial and Economic Context on Women’s Quality of Employment after Welfare Reform
Gerald S. Berman, Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks: Social Services and Indigenous Populations in Remote Areas: Village Alaska and the Negev Bedouin (Israel)
Yuki Kato, UC Irvine: Myth of White, Middle-class Suburbia: Declining Significance of Race in American Suburbs
Barbara Zajac, Indiana State Univ: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Developing Successful University-City Partnerships
184) Social Policy and Penology: Current Status and Predictions for the Future
Organizer: Warren C. Lucas, Northern Arizona Univ
Panel: John Irwin, San Francisco State Univ
James J. Hamm, Middle Ground Prison Reform
Keith Alan Rocci, Arizona State Univ
185) Undergraduate Roundtable Discussion: Student Sociologists Look
at Issues in Higher Education
Organizer: Keith Farrington, Whitman College
Presider: Lauren Grote, Whitman College
Kathleen Yager, Oberlin College: Claiming and Education: Non-Traditional Student Social and Academic Experiences at a Select Undergraduate Four-Year College
Brooke Neeley, Whitman College: ‘The Weirdness of Marriage’: Contradictions within the Attitudes of Liberal Arts College Students
Martha Palacios, USC: Sororities and Fraternities based on Ethnicity: Is it a Form of Segregation? College Students Respond
Katie Van Hoey, Univ. of Arizona: Food for Thought: An Empirical Study of the Eating Habits of an On-Campus Student Population
SUNDAY, APRIL 6
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
186) New Ways of Understanding the Social: Using Focus Groups and Other Alternative Methodologies in Sociological Research
Organizer: Hazel Hull, UC Santa Barbara
Suellen Gawler Butler, Pennsylvania State Univ and Delaware County Campus: Support Groups that Meet Online: A Context for Studying Social Relationships and Group Advocacy
Chris Hurl, Univ of Victoria: The Praxis of Map-(Un)making
David Morgan and Peter J. Collier, Portland State Univ: Symbolic Interactionism and Focus Groups
Carmel L. Rosal, Central Texas College Consortium: A Focus Group Study of Social Science Faculty Members and Undergraduate Students in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
Jessica Taft, UC Santa Barbara: Focus Groups, The Sociological Imagination and Political Education
187) Reactionary Movements: Theories and Case Studies
Organizer and Presider: Ellen Reese, UC Riverside
Shoon Lio, UC Riverside: Speak American: California’s English-Only Movement and the Construction of a Moral Panic
Scott Melzer, UC Riverside: ‘Patriots and Freedom Fighters’: Gendered Framing Processes and the National Rifle Association
Ellen Reese, UC Riverside: Oppositional Consciousness and Reactionary Movements: A Theoretical Framework
188) Local/Non-Local Dialectics Within and Across Social Institutions
Organizer: Matthew T. Evans, BYU
Matthew T. Evans, BYU: How Does Federal Money Reach Local Institutions? A Comprehensive Qualitative Study in Muncie, Indiana
Melissa Hippard, Colorado State University: Environmental Policy and the Decentralization of Bureaucratic Authority: Hybrid Organizations, Power, and Democracy
Judith K. Little, Humboldt State Univ and Emilyn Sheffield, Brett Eldridge, and Jeff Jiang, CSU Chico: Local Dominance: California Welcome Centers and California Department of Tourism
189) Sexuality of Specific Populations
Organizer: James E. Elias, CSU Northridge
Winston Wild, Beverly Hills: Sexuality and Sexual Behavior of the Blind
Wilbert Gordon, UCLA: Black Stallion Mystic: Images of Black Male Sexuality
James E. Elias, CSU Northridge: Sexual Activity of “Dirty Old Men”
190) Internationalizing the Undergraduate Curriculum COLORADO
Organizer: Hong Xiao, Central Washington Univ:
Nancy G. Wessel, Central Washington Univ: The Sociologist Abroad: Teaching Sociology in Mexico
Hong Xiao, Central Washington Univ: Opportunities and Challenges in Mentoring Undergraduate Research in China
Susan Alexander, Saint Mary’s College: Disrupting Disney(fication): Creating Critical Analysis in a European Study Abroad Program
Lachelle Norris, Tennessee Technological Univ and Dianne Rasch, Ancilla College:: Internationalizing the Undergraduate Curriculum: Faculty Voices from the Field
191) Punishment, Drugs, and Society
Organizer: Joshua S. Meisel, Humboldt State UNIV
Richelle Swan, UC Irvine and Susan Mendoza Rouswell, Orange County Youth and Family Services: Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century: The Rise of Restorative Justice, Alternatives to Punishment and Alternatives Punishments for Youth
Heather McCarty, UC Berkeley: Rehabilitating the Con-Boss System
Jacqueline A. Carrigan, CSU Sacramento: Drug Use and Domestic Violence
192) Sociological Theory
Organizer: David Boyns, CSU Northridge
Gregory C. Gibson, Humboldt State Univ: Social Structural Explanations of Altruism: Recent Innovations in Social Exchange Theory
Vaugh C. Schmutz, Brigham Young Univ: Theorizing Rationality and Ethics: Distinguishing Habermas’ Discourse Theory of Ethics from Bauman’s Levinasian Postmodern Ethics
James David Ballard and David Boyns, CSU Northridge: Toward a Sociological Theory of Terrorism
Laura Edles, CSU Northridge: Who’s In, Who’s Out, and Why: Political and Theoretical Debates in Social Theory
193) Cancelled
194) Applied Community Research II
(Sponsored by the Committee on Applied, Clinical and Practice Sociology)
Organizer: Sheila Steinberg, Humboldt State UNIV
Michael Levy, Humboldt State Univ: The Dynamics of Youth Violence: An Intervention Model for Humboldt County and Beyond
Allegra Willhite, Whitman College: Evaluating the Evaluators: Effectiveness of the Criteria of Non-profits Imposed by Charitable Organizations
Nadia Raza, Humboldt State Univ: Ecological Sustainability and Applied Environmental Values
Alexander Simon and Steven Clark, Utah Valley State College: Exploring the Potential Ecological and Social Impacts of the Material Aspirations of Undergraduate Students
195) Drug Legislation and Social Policy: Intended and Unintended Consequences
Organizer: Warren C. Lucas, Northern Arizona State Univ
Discussant: Kooros M. Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona State Univ
Cynthia Barnett, Moorpark College: Cigarette Smoking Patterns on a California Community College: An Examination of the Impact of the Implementation of a New Smoking Policy
Jaclyn Veillette, Sacramento State Univ: Peer Influence and the Importance of Conformity: A Study of College Alcohol Use
Brad Candido, CSU Sacramento: Type of Drug and Location of Use: An Analysis of Sacramento Arrestee Drug Use Patterns
Mika Galilee-Belfer, Northern Arizona Univ: Why the Crack/Powder Sentencing Disparity? : A Longitudinal Study
196) Undergraduate Student Paper Session: Methods of Methods in Undergraduate Research (Sponsored Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ of Alaska Southeast
Presider: Amy Orr, Linfield College
Discussant: Sydney Thompson, Univ of Alaska Anchorage
Janna Bisetti, Univ of Puget Sound: Remann Hall: An Ethnographic Study of Juvenile Detention Centers
Claudia Pena, Mills College: Small Claims and Big Questions
James A. Hulbert, Pacific Lutheran Univ: Walking Into the Straight Life: A Content Analysis of ‘Ex-Gay’ Ministry Websites
Scott C. Reeves, Univ of Puget Sound: Traditional Healing in the Andean Region: Cultural Adaptations and the Evolved Medicine
D. Lacy Asbill, Mills College: How to Make a Sociological Quilt: Technology and Tradition in Quilting Communities
197) Roundtable Discussion: Minorities in Education III
Organizer: Phillip D. Robinette, Vanguard Univ
Patricia E. Literte, UNIV of Southern California: Rethinking Barrio and Ghetto Schools as Internally Colonized Institutions: Conceptions of Racial Inequity and Youth Agency in a Post Civil Rights Era
Jessica L. Grimes, CSU Fullerton: The Educational Process: Perpetuating the Myths and Subordinating the Groups
Helene Lee, UC Santa Barbara: Understanding the Crisis of Education Through Conversations with Teachers
