PROGRAM 77th ANNUAL PSA MEETING, HOLLYWOOD/UNIVERSAL CITY, APRIL 20-APRIL 23, 2006
THEME: Playing with Sociology: Pedagogy, Postmodernism, and Popular Culture
SESSIONS
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
Summary of Events
10:00 am - 7:00 pm Registration
12:00 pm - 6:45 pm Sessions
12:00 pm – 6:45 pm Publisher Exhibits
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Chairs Dinner
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm Welcome and New Members Reception
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Undergraduate Paper Session: Sociology of Popular Culture
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Amy Orr, Linfield College
Cassandra Johnson, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: Masked Agenda? Superhero Comics and the Construction of Deviance
Joy Huffman, USC: Rap Music: The Next Transitional Stage
Christina Winings, Whitman College: Broncs, Boots, and Booze: A Sociological Study of American Rodeo Culture
Robin Gibson, Mills College: How Policy is Played Out in the Classroom
Brian Cozen, UC Berkeley: Reading Kids’ TV: Differentiating Multiple Target Audiences in Contemporary Children’s Television Images
2) Is Another World Possible? Framing Globalization’s Discontents
Organizer: John Parsi, ASU
Carol Mueller, Salvador Restifo, and Julie Restifo, ASU-West: Mass Media Coverage of Transnational Social Movement Events
Scott Byrd, UC Irvine: Is Another Political Culture Possible? Horizontal Structures, Discursive Networks, and Organizational Learning at the World Social Forum
John Parsi, ASU: Another World Is Possible: The Global Social Justice Movement
3) Struggling Minority Families—Cross Culturally
Organizer: Anees A. Haddad, La Sierra Univ.
Scott N. Brooks, UCR: Making News: Young Black Men and Status Passage
Joyce Mumah, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: A Comparative Study of Marriage among the Wimbums of Cameroon and Hispanics of Northern New Mexico
Anees A. Haddad, La Sierra Univ.: Juvenile Jurisprudence and Minorities in Three Societies
4) Playing “Cops” and Robbers: Images of Police Officers on Television
Organizer: Jadi Morrow, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Camilla Sears, Simon Fraser Univ.: Cops on TV: An Examination of the Ideological Role of Reality TV
Jadi Morrow, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder: Reno 911: Comedic Understandings of the Police Identity
Phillip Fucella, UC Berkeley: By Fantasy of Force: Symbols of State Authority in the Erotic Imagination
5) Faculty/Student Collaborative Research
Organizer: Cheryl Radeloff, Minnesota State Univ.
Collin Fellow, David Morgan, and Peter Collier, Portland State Univ.: Measuring Student Role Mastery
Cheryl Radeloff and Adriane Brown, Minnesota State Univ.: Should the Bathwater be Thrown Out? Exploring the Dynamics of Feminist Teaching and Mentoring Methods
Brittin Leigh Wagner, Univ. of Washington and William Wagner, Minnesota State Univ.: Boomers and NeXters: research Collaboration between Faculty Imbued in Modernity and Graduate Students who Are the Product of Changing Postmodern Social Influences
Roseann Giarrusso, CSU LA and Julie Thomas and Trina Roldan, USC: Methodological Issues in the Sociology of Aging and the Life Course: Finding Inexpensive and Unobtrusive Measure of Cognitive Decline
6) Frontiers of Sociological Theory
Organizer: Rebecca Li, College of New Jersey
Kenneth Allan, Univ. of North Carolina-Greensboro: Ontological Sources: The Individual and Social Reality
Cherylynn Bassani, Univ. of British Columbia and Univ. College of the Fraser Valley: A Cross-National Test of Social Capital Theory: The Influence of Social Capital in the Family and School on Youth’s Math Scores
Jordan Camp, UCSB: Zapatismo and Autonomous Social Movements: Reading the Communiqués Politically
Rebecca Li, The College of New Jersey: Interactions Between Power and Distribution Macro-Dynamics
7) Pedagogy and Paradigmatic War
Organizer: Preeta Saxena and Robin Stalbaum, CSU Northridge
Jesse Fletcher, CSU Northridge: Collapsing the Dichotomy: Institutionalizing Triangulation in Sociology
Michael DeCesare, CSU Northridge: Making Soldiers of Our Students
Robin Stalbaum and Eileen Ie, CSU Northridge: Sociology Instructor Training: Practices in California Graduate Programs
Chad Hanson, Casper College: Competency Based Curriculum and Technology: Deskilling the Practice of Teaching in Colleges and Universities
8) Environmental Health and Environmental Justice I
Organizer: Lora Vess, Univ. of Oregon
Barb Snider, NAU: Slaughterhouses in America: The Impact on Individuals and Communities
Lora Vess, Univ. of Oregon: A PVC World? Three Occupations Challenge Its Usage
Thomas Shriver and Tamara Mix, Oklahoma State Univ. and Sherry Cable, Univ. of Tennessee: Invisible Injuries: Contested Illness Among Oak Ridge Workers
Brian Wolf, Colorado State Univ. Pueblo: Environmental Injustice? Sanctioning Recidivism among Environmental Offenders
9) Professional Ethics, Politics, and the Media
Organizer: Elaine Draper, CSU LA
William Freudenburg, UCSB: Humans, Hell, and Hurricanes: Learning the Lessons of Katrina
Diane Beeson, CSU East Bay and Tina Stevens, SFSU: Bandwagons and Boondoggles in Biotech: California’s Stem Cell Initiative
Elaine Draper, CSU LA: Toxic Truth Claims: Corporate Professionals’ Construction of Environmental Hazards
Steven Gordon, CSU LA: Hate Crime Hoaxes
10) Roundtable: Current Research in Race, Class, and/or Gender
(Sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Committee)
Organizer: Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay
Christina Baker, UC Irvine: How Social Support Mechanisms Influence the Success of Black and Latino College Students
Makiko Fuwa, UC Irvine: Women’s Economic Resources and Attitudes Toward Marriage
Jennifer Santos and Alice Macedo, CSU Stanislaus: Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence: A Survey within Stanislaus County
11) The Production and Reproduction of Hip-Hop Music and Culture
Organizer: Michael Barnes, UC Berkeley
Jason Robinson, UCSD: Black Los Angeles Redefined: Horace Tapscott and the Freestyle Fellowship
Jooyoung Lee, UCLA: On the Grind: The Practice and Everyday Hustle of Emceeing
Dilan Mahendran, UC Berkeley: “Blackness”, Authenticity, and Alterity: Formation of Youth Identity in Everyday Hip Hop Culture
Michael Barnes, UC Berkeley: “Give It Up or Turn It Loose”: Reproducing Race and Gender in DJ Performance
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
12) Negotiating Stressful Life Events Over the Life Course
Organizer: Deanna Chang, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania
Molly Allen, Indiana Univ. Pennsylvania: Growing Up Too Soon: A Story of Bereavement
Christian Vaccaro: PTSD and Anger: A Conversion Process
Angie Beeman, Univ. of Conn.: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Blend: The Truth About “Passing” from an Asian American Mixed Race Perspective
13) Workshop: Academic Job Search I: Getting Organized and Finding the Fit
Organizer: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey
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
14) Politics and Ecology
Organizer: Yvonne Braun, Univ. of Oregon
Robert Futrell, UNLV: Expertise and Alliances: How Citizens Transformed the U.S. Chemical Weapons Disposal Program
Gloria Beckley, Central Washington Univ.: The Northern Spotted Owl and the Old Growth Dispute and the Resonance of Scientific Claims
Amy Stercho, Humboldt State Univ. and Kari Norgaard, Whitman College: Denied Access to Traditional Tribal Management: Politics, River Ecology and Cultural Survival
Leakhena Nou, CSU Long Beach: Mavericks in Disguise? A Quest for Participatory Democracy in Cambodia
15) Ethnographies of Work I
Organizer: Jadi Morrow, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Donald Winiecki, Boise State Univ.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Effecting the Organization and One’s Self: Details from a Post-Structural Ethnography in Four Telephone Call Centers
Francesca Degiuli, UCSB: A Job with No Boundaries: Home Elder-Care Work in Italy
Corrin Kruegar, New Mexico State Univ.: The Construction of a True “Ideal Type” of Women in a Casual Dinning Restaurant
Bekka Rosenbaum, Univ. of Puget Sound: Chefs on the Edge: Acceptance of Alcohol Abuse Among Kitchen Workers
Danielle S. Rudes, UC Irvine: Negotiating Control: Parole Agent Strategies for Dealing with Organizational Change
16) Current Research on Chicana/os and Latina/os I
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Michael Calderon-Zaks, SUNY Binghamton: Some Key Issues in Chicano Racial Formation in Global-Historical Perspective
Gloria Gonzalez, UCLA: Chicana Adolescent Girls’ Image Perceptions and Experiences
Demetra Kalogrides, UC Davis: Academic Achievement among Latina and Non-Latino White Students: Evaluating the Segmented Assimilation Hypothesis
17) Engaging the Public: Sociology in the Public Sphere
Organizer: George Skiles, Moorpark College
Elizabeth Dermody Leonard, Vanguard Univ.: Re-Presenting Sociological Research to Prisoners: The Play is the Thing
Jays Janney, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington: Filming Your Own Arrest: Property, Evidence and Spectacle
Marilyn Dudley-Rowley, Alaska and Sonoma State Univ.: Public Sociology From Below
Ellis Godard, CSU Northridge: The Public Sociology of Sociology
David Boyns and Jesse Fletcher, CSU Northridge: Public Sociology, Disciplinary Limitations, and the Strong Program in Professional Sociology
18) Resistance Through Audio/Visual Media
Organizer: Patricia Vigil, Mesa State College
Alicia Lecher, New Mexico State Univ.: Media Representations and Police Debate on Homelessness in Alkmaar, Netherlands and Las Cruces, New Mexico
Alec Charles, Univ. of Luton: Paradise Regained: Psychoanalyzing the Teletubbies
Patricia Vigil, Mesa State College: New Voices, Still Singing: Bob Dylan Revisited and the Indigo Girls Compared
19) Sociology and the Promotion of Health
Organizer: Reed Geertsen, Utah State Univ.
Matt G. Mutchler, CSU Dominguez Hills, Leonardo Colemon, APLA, and Mark Schuster, UCLA/RAND: A Sociological Perspective: The Social and Cultural Contexts of HIV Risk Behaviors among HIV + Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women
Andrew V. Wister, Simon Fraser Univ.: Why Health Promotion Programs Fail to reach Their Goals: The Cardiovascular Health Best Practice Project
Reed Geertsen, Utah State Univ.: Lifestyle Risks in a Rural Population: Comparisons with Alameda County’s Health Practices Study
20) International Migration
Organizer: Michael B. Aguilera, Univ. of Oregon
Joon Kim, Colorado State Univ.: International Migration of Women: A New Commodity Frontier in South Korea’s Sex Industry
Helene Lee, UCSB: Beyond National Boundaries: Constructions of Ethnic Identity in the Korean Diaspora
Xiao E. Sun, Univ. of Oregon: Transnational Identity and Cross Cultural Ties of Recent Chinese immigrants to the United States
James Walsh, UCSB: Globalization and Transnational Migration: Bringing the State Back
Tekle Woldemikael, Univ. of Redlands: Diasporic Transnational Communities: The Case Of Eritrean Muslims and Christians In Orange County, California
21) Race, Crime and Injustice
Organizer: Katherine Beckett, Univ. of Washington
Presider and Discussant: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento
Jessica Thompson, Univ. of Puget Sound: Discretionary Authority and Disproportionate Minority Confinement in the Juvenile Justice System: A Washington State Case
Rebecca Trammell, UC Irvine: Race, Gender and the Changing Inmate Code
La Tanya Skiffer, CSU Dominguez Hills: A Critical Review of Scholarship on African-American Female Offenders
Paul Kaplan, UC Irvine: The American Creed and Capital Punishment
22) Varieties of Family Formation: Processes and Consequences I
Organizer: Karen Miller-Loessi, ASU
Presider: Stephanie Ayers, ASU
Bert Burraston, Jaime Franklin, Brittney Roberts, Jared Knudsen, Brad Rowan, and Rick Tornock, BYU: Family Formations, Parenting Style, Parent Involvement, Family Economic Wellbeing Influences on Childrens’ Academic Performance and Delinquency, A Mediated Model
Jennifer Harrison, ASU: Masculinity Effects: Boys from Single-Parent Households
Littisha A. Scott, ASU: Teen Sex in the Single-Parent Family: A Look at Single-Mother and Single-Father Families
23) Workshop: Online Teaching in Sociology
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Marisol Clark-Ibåñez: CSU San Marcos
Linda Scott and Marisol Clark-Ibåñez CSU San Marcos: Teaching Sociology Online
Patricia R. Hoffman, New Mexico State Univ.: Evaluating Your Online Class
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
24) Evaluating Social Programs: Successes, Failures, and Innovations
Organizer: Warren Lucas, NAU
Presider: Kooros Mahmoudi, NAU
Discussant: Bradley Parlin, Utah State Univ.
Karl Pfeiffer, Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage: Systems Failure in Child Protection: Narratives from Successful Ex-Foster Parents
Hillary Valderrama and Melissa Barfield, CSU San Bernardino: Impact of PRWORA Legislation on Housing Arrangements
Herman DeBose, CSU Northridge and Claudia Dorrington, Whittier College: A Community Based Organization’s Homeless Residential Program: A Follow-Up Evaluation
Elizabeth McEneaney and Beth Manke, CSU Long Beach: Community Service Learning: Do Recipients Benefit?
Amy Bueitner and Andrew Dick, CSU Chico: Student Volunteerism vs. Mandated Service-Learning: An Examination of a Service-Learning Organization
25) Men Teaching in K-12 Schools: Gender, Power and Education
Organizer: Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.
Jennifer Jacobson, ASU: Men’s Experiences in Early Childhood Education Teacher Appreciation Programs
Paul Sargent, San Diego State Univ.: Real Men or Real Teachers: Contradictions in the Lives of Male Elementary Teachers
Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.: Rural Elementary Teachers: Identities, Masculinities, Pedagogies
26) Exploring the Frontiers of Asian Transracial Adoption
Organizer: Mia Tuan, Univ. of Oregon
Presider: Khaya Clark, Univ. of Oregon and SUNY Binghamton
Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist, UNLV: From Kim Chee to Moon Cakes: Feeding Asian Adoptees’ Imaginings of Culture and Self
Tanya Kaanta, Colorado State: Social Factors Affecting Racial Identity Development in Transracial Asian Adopted College Students
Elizabeth Rienzi, Univ. of Oregon: Creating a Space of their Own
Natalie Cherot, UCSB and SUNY Binghamton: Global Biopolitical Orphans to Activist Adoptee Pedagogy
27) Cultural Production in Communities of Color
Organizer: Wendy Ng, San Jose State Univ.
Martha Hansen, Whitman College: Eating the Other: A Look at Ethnic Restaurants as Cultural Mediums of Exchange
Xuan Santos, UCSB: The Productions of Chicana/o Tattoos
Elgrie Hurd III, San Jose State Univ.: Tupac: Searching for the True Definition Among the Discourses
Melinda Messineo, Ball State Univ.: Community Reflections on Black Culture Representations on Black Entertainment Television
28) Women and Criminal Justice I
Organizer: Mirelle Cohen, Univ. of Puget Sound
Erika Derkas, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: A “Punitive” Mind Over “What” Matters: Fetal Right’s vs. Women’s Rights
Sharon Kantorowski Davis and Deborah Paker, Univ. of La Verne: Rock-A-Bye Baby: Attorney’s Views on Reforming Current Laws and Legal Defenses for Women with Postpartum Depression
Doreen Anderson-Facile and Mark Salvaggio, CSU Bakersfield: Not In My Neighborhood: Registered Sex Offenders
Anke Therese Schulz, UCSF: Domestic Violence and Family Privacy: On Battered Women and the Private Domain
29) Sociology for Fun: From the Sublime to the Absurd
Organizer: Doug Degher, NAU
Meghan McCaffery, NAU: A Third Alternative? A Look at Transgender Bathrooms
James Payne and Walter Doraz, CSU Stanislaus: Sociology of Sausage: A Common Link to Society
Myra Ferell, NAU: The Sociology of Truth: The Absurd Reality of Perspective
Richard Fernandez and Doug Degher and Gerald Hughes, NAU: Talking Tragedy: If it Doesn’t Kill You it Makes You Stronger
30) Gender: A Potpourri of Issues I
Organizer: Sally Raskoff, LAVCC
Presider: Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
Carol Minton, California Baptist Univ.: Teaching Gender Roles and Challenges through Popular Music
Preeta Saxena, CSU Northridge: Interview Study of Women with Breast Implants
Melissa Fowler, New Mexico State Univ.: Oppression of Women in the Welfare System
Ruth X. Liu, San Diego State Univ, and Zeng-yin Chen, CSU San Bernardino: The Effect of Marital Conflict and Marital Disruption on Depression Affect: A Comparison between Women In and Out of Poverty
31) The Sociology of Music
Organizer: Garian Vigil, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
John Merrill, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: On the Means of Musical Production
Shannon M. Coffey,and Robert M. Regoli, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Rap and Hip-Hop in Academia: Demographics and Their Influence on Pedagogy
Rebecca Mills and Keith Farrington, Whitman College: The “DreamWorld” Revisited: The Portrayal of Women and Men in Music Videos, 2000-2005
Eric Lovelin, Whitman College: Music Preferences in the College Subculture: how Tastes Differ and Alter in Shared Social Spaces
32) Varieties of Family Formation: Processes and Consequences II
Organizer: Karen Miller-Loessi, ASU
Presider: Stephanie Ayers, ASU
Jill S. Grigsby and Katie Beaton, Pomona College: The Effects of Work and Education on Ever-Marrying among Women in the United States
Renee Ellis, UC Irvine: From Moving to Marriage: Age and Cohort Differences in Transitions from Cohabitation to Marriage
Jillian Deri, Simon Fraser Univ.: Queer Polyamorous Women and Empowerment
Sam S. Kim, Karen-Miller-Loessi, Zeynep Kilic, Jongtae Kim, and Minhee Cho, ASU: Birthparent-Adult Adoptee Reunions: A Korean Media Event
33) Undergraduate Paper Session: The Social Construction of Identity
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Dan Ryan, Mills College
Norberto Godina, New Mexico State Univ.: Linguistic Preference, Political Perspective, and Ethic Self-Identification among Bilingual Latino Students in the Southwest
Lexi Shiovitz, USC: “Predatory Self-Esteem Boosting” and the Creation of the Gifted Identity
Kathleen Tam, UC Berkeley: Peer Ethnicity: A Search for Ethnic Identity in Student Groups
Macy Boggs, Boise State Univ.: Finding Freedom: A Discourse Analysis of Whitehouse Speeches
Natalie Khorochev, UC Berkeley: Urban Camping: Rethinking Homelessness from the Ground Up
34) Teaching Qualitative Methods: Syllabi, Assignments and Other Ideas
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Marisol Clark-Ibåñez and Linda Shaw, CSU San Marcos
Debbie Storrs, Univ. of Idaho: “Keeping It Real”: The Emotional Journey of Learning to be a Qualitative Researcher
Liahna Gordon, CSU Chico: Teaching Qualitative Data Analysis with ATLAS
Joan Budesa, UCSB, Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College and Alan Ryave, CSU Dominguez Hills: Using Systematic Self Observation in the Classroom
Marisol Clark-Ibåñez, CSU San Marcos: Using Workshops in Qualitative Methods
35) The Gendered and Racialized Workplace
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Anastasia Prokos, UNLV and Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State Univ.
Mikaela Dufur, BYU: Race, Sex, and Glass Ceilings in Managerial Work: The Role of Productivity in Obtaining Top Positions
Faye Wachs and Jill Nemiro, Cal Poly Pomona: Speaking Out on Gender: Reflections on Women’s Advancement in the STEM Disciplines
Leah Rohlfsens and Deborah Sullivan, ASU: The Anesthesia Turf Battle: Gender Differences in Workplace Interactions
Molly George, UCSB: Gendered Expertise: Masculinized and Feminized Professionalism in Personal Training
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
36) The Sociology of Sport: Current Topics
Organizer: Tim Delaney, SUNY Oswego
John Phillips, Univ. of the Pacific: Changes in Racial Representation in Sports: Is Theory Keeping Pace?
Tim Madigan, St. John Fisher College: Xtreme Sports: The Evolution from Thrills to Rules
Tim Delaney, SUNY Oswego: Sports Heroes as Representatives of Culture
37) Digital Culture
Organizer: Molly Moloney, UCSB
Sara Schoonmaker, Univ. of Redlands: Coding the Digital Commons: Free Software as a Global Public Good
Sima Forghani, Elena Sosnovskaya and Apryll Chin, CSU Northridge: Move Over Monopoly: A Portrait of World of Warcraft Players and Computer-Mediated Effervescence
Molly Moloney, UCSB: Television Frames: (Re)constructing Television in a Digital Age
38) Infusing Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom
Organizers Cheryl Radeloff and Christopher Corely, Minnesota State Univ.
Michael Perez and Sandy Koh, CSU Fullerton: Negotiating Identity and Learning from a Native Pacific Perspective: Contradictions of Higher Learning in Cultural Diversity Classes
John Foran, UCSB: Teaching as a Revolutionary Act
Krista Bywater, UCSB: The Difference between Teaching and Preaching: Using Feminist and Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom
39) Multiracial Families
Organizer: Eileen Walsh, CSU Fullerton
Bruce Hoskins, USC: Looking for the Perfect “Stereotype”: Issues of Race in Multiracial Families
Karla Hackstaff, NAU: Ethno-Racial Identity Formation via Genealogy
Mona Swallow, CSU Fullerton: African American Women Raising Biracial Children
Eileen Walsh, CSU Fullerton: Gendered Whiteness in Families on the Color Line
40) Gender and Popular Culture
Organizer: Melanie Klein, CSU Northridge
Margaret Hunter and Kathleen Soto, Loyola Marymount Univ.: Party Music or Racist Pornography? An Analysis of Rap Music Lyrics
Kathleen Stanley and Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State Univ.: The Gendered Culture of Texas Hold ‘Em on a College Campus
Tracy Citeroni, Univ. of Mary Washington: Starvation as a Collective Body Project? The Social Construction of Online “Pro-Anorexia” Networks
Karla Hewlett-Winthrope, UCLA: Social Constructions of Beauty: Can Men Assess Their Own Beauty?
41) Baudrillard and Lyotard Reconsidered
Organizer: Andrew Bamford, Southern Utah Univ.
Mark Wanstall, Leeds Metropolitan Univ.: On the Death of Science, the Victory of Relativism: Postmodernism as the Academy’s Suicide
Alexander Riley, Bucknell Univ.: The Politics of the Impossible Question of “Au-Dela”: A Micro-Sociology of Intellectuals Approach to Understanding the Meaning of the Work of the Work of Baudrillard, Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida
Andrew Bamford, Southern Utah Univ.: “Language Games” in Lyotard
42) Society at 24 Frames per Second: Exploring Sociology Through Film
Organizer: David Boyns, CSU Northridge
Marc Flacks, CSU Long Beach: Slackers, Somnambulists, and Holy Moments: Liminality and Communitas in Films About Emerging Adulthood
Matthew Grindal, CSU Northridge: Cinema and Anomie in 1970’s America
David Boyns and Robert Wonser, CSU Northridge: The Ownership of Critics: Patterns of Bias among Movie Reviews
Renee Ellis, UC Irvine: Reflections of Realism or Idealism? The Portrayal of Family in Children’s Animated Motion Pictures
43) Music and Identity
Organizer: Garian Vigil, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Thomas Harrison, Univ. of Central Florida: Hard Rock Music and Identity: Audience Perception of Two Van Halen Vocalists, 1978-1986
Michael Barnes, UC Berkeley: Fakin’ the Funk? Constructing and Negotiating Blackness in Hip-Hop
Athena Elafros, McMaster Univ.: “The Bitch Ya Love to Hate”: Representations of the Identity of the “Bitch” in late 1980s Rap Music
44) Globalization, State, and Development I
Organizer: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey
Kelley D. Strawn, Willamette Univ.: Popular Protest and the Structural-Adjustment State: Mexico, 1999-2000
Tryon Woods, UC Irvine: Development and Slavery: Genealogies of Violence
Markus Hadler, Stanford Univ.: Political Culture in Europe and the U.S.: A Globalization of Democratic Views?
Robert Hollenbaugh, USC: Gender, the State, and Democracy for Whom? A comparative Assessment of Women’s Rights in Democratic and Non-Democratic Nations
45) Human Rights on the U.S./Mexico Border
Organizer: Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Univ. of Arizona
Discussant: Celestino Fernandez, Univ. of Arizona
Daniel Martinez and Inez Durate, Univ. of Arizona: Examining Deaths on the Arizona/Sonora Border: Institutions, Demographic Changes, and the Search for Human Dignity
Anna O’Leary, Univ. of Arizona: In Labor: Undocumented Migrant Women and Laboring for Social Justice on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Pat Antonio Goldsmith, Univ of Wisconsin Parkside and Mary Romero, ASU: Immigration Law Enforcement of “Mexicanness”: A View from the Perspectives of Suspected “Aliens,” “Foreigners,” and “Illegals”
46) Environmental Health and Environmental Justice II
Organizer: Lora Vess, Univ. of Oregon
Mark Bird, Community College of S. Nevada: A Water Induced Economic Collapse of California?
Janine Minkler, NAU: Is Responsible Development Sustainable? The Case of Cave Creek, Arizona
Lara Skinner, Univ. of Oregon: Environmental Justice and the Built Environment
Keith Appleby, Univ. of Oregon: Borders of Vulnerability: Exploring the Relationship Between Political Boundaries and Technological Hazards
47) Race and Sexualities
(Sponsored by the Committees on the Status of Women, Race and Ethnicity, and GLBT)
Organizer: Sabrina Alimahomed, UCR
Susy J. Zepeda, UCSC: Locating Chicana Lesbians in History: Exploring Alternative Methodologies
Richard N. Pitt, Jr., Vanderbilt Univ.: Still Looking for My Jonathan: Black Gay Men’s Management of Religious and Sexual Identity Conflicts
Dolores Ortiz, UCR: Chicana Heterosexuality: Navigating between and within Personal and Cultural Desires
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Committee Chairs’ Dinner at a City Walk restaurant, Invitation Only
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Welcome And New Members Reception (Sponsored by the Membership Committee and the Endowment Committee) [Meet President Peter Nardi. Desert, coffee, soft drinks will be served. The Endowment Committee will sponsor a raffle for prizes.]
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
Summary of Events
7:30 am – 9:00 am SWS Breakfast
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Sessions
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Committee Meetings
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Publisher Exhibits
8:30 am – 9:45 am 2006 Council Meeting
12:00 pm –1:30 pm Luncheon for 2007 Program Committee
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm Awards and Presidential Address
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm Presidential Reception
7:15 pm –9:00 pm Evening Session: Dangerous Times
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
7:30 am – 9:00 am
SWS Breakfast
[Continental Breakfast for SWS members]
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
8:30 am – 10:00 am
48) Postmodern Social Theory and Its Critics
Organizer: David Boyns and George Skiles, CSU Northridge
Thomas Ward, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: C. Wright Mills and Postmodernism
Daniel Harden and Pavel Vasiliev, UNLV: Languid Multiplicity: A Global Postmodern Condition and its Potential to Dull the Edges of Meaning
David Dickens, UNLV: The Logic of Postmodern Social Theory
Elena Sosnovskaya and David Boyns, CSU Northridge: Technologically Mediated Interaction: Postmodern Context and Future Directions
John A. Stover III, Loyola Univ. Chicago: Is Burning Man a Successful, Post-Modern, New Religious Movement?
49) Kabbalah as Popular Culture
Organizer: Linda Yellin, CSU Northridge
Jody Myers, CSU Northridge: New Age Religion and the Kabala Centre in America
Jane Bichmacher de Glasman, Rio Janeiro State Univ.: From Initiated to Just Started
Howard Gontovnick, Concordia Univ.: Kabbalah 2000: The Emergence of a New Religious Movement
50) Session Canceled
51) Ethnographies of Work II
Organizer: Jadi Morrow, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Gretchen Purser, UC Berkeley: The Waiting Game: An Ethnography of a Corporate Day Agency
Jonathan Kau and Carol Ward, BYU: Students as Emotional Vampires: Teacher Burnout in an Alternative School
Chris Minerd, UCSB: 24/7 Nation: A Study of Night Labor in the United States
Carolina Apesoa-Varano, UC Davis: I’m Not Supposed to Do That!!: The Ambivalence of Occupational Boundaries in Hospital Work
52) Academics as Activists or Activists as Academics
Organizer: Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.
Jose Zapata Calderon, Cal Poly Pomona: Participatory Pedagogy, Action, and Research for Social Change
Nadia Raza, Lane Community College: Decolonizing Pedagogies: Education for Liberation
Jordan Camp, UCSB: Activist Scholarship: But Is It Political?
Scott C. Byrd, UC Irvine: Rogue Scholars: Navigating the Activist and Academic Communities
Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ: One Foot in Both Worlds: Professor as Activist, Activist as Professor
Ryan Mann Hamilton, Humboldt State Univ.: Rhythm + Resistance
53) Gender: A Potpourri of Issues II
Organizer: Sally Raskoff, LAVCC
Presider: Ellen Berg, CSU Sacramento
Mike Moodian, Pepperdine: A Proposed Intercultural Training Model for Generation Y Female College Graduates
Erin Cech, UCSD: Dilbert in Stilettos: Understanding the Gender Schemas of Female Engineering Students
Preeta Saxena, CSU Northridge: Fashion: An Oppression in Islam
Greggor Mattson, UC Berkeley: Moral Certainty and Contentious Politics: Putting Practice Into Theory
Gail Nelson, CSU Bakersfield: Non-Traditional Female College Students: Great Expectations
54) Globalization, State, and Development II
Organizer: Rebecca S. K. Li, The College of New Jersey
Ting Jiang, UC Irvine: Rebuilding the Old Age Safety Net: A Comparative Study on the Impact of Economic Globalization on China and Russia’s Pension Reforms
James Rice, WSU: Trade Dependency Processes and Social Well-Being: A Cross-National Analysis
Rebecca S. K. Li, The College of New Jersey: Impacts of Globalization on China’s Reform
55) Mexican Immigration: Past and Current Experiences
Organizer: Roberto M. de Anda, Portland State Univ.
James D. Bachmeier, UC Irvine: Beyond the Borderlands: The Determinants of the Earnings of Recent Immigrants from Mexico
Jeff D. Peterson, Linfield College: Getting by on Your Own: Latino Migrants in Small Oregon Communities
Jody A. Agius and Jennifer Lee, UC Irvine: Moving Up and Moving Out: The Mexican Origin Middle Class in Los Angeles
Roberto G. Gonzales, UC Irvine: Growing Up on the Margins: The Lives of the Children of Mexican Unauthorized Migrants
56) Changing Communities I
Organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
Discussant: Thomas J. Keil, ASU
Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State Univ.: Is Historic Preservation History? The Fate of Preservation in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Jim Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ.: A Creek Runs Through It: Recreational and Environmental Interests in West Los Angeles
Jon Norman, UC Berkeley: Assessing change in Small Cities in the U.S., 1970-2000
Mark Hutter, DeMond Miller, and Jason D. Rivera, Rowan Univ.: Street Murals and Community Identity: A Comparison of Neighborhood Art in Los Angeles, CA and Philadelphia PA
57) Motherhood and Fatherhood
Organizer and Discussant: Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado Denver
Benjamin McKune and Sachiko Jensen, BYU: Gender, Parental Education, and the Discrepancy between Parent and Child Aspirations for Educational Attainment
Edythe Krampe and Rae Newton, CSU Fullerton: Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Presence: The Father Presence Questionnaire
Sharon Squires, CSU Dominguez Hills: You Are Not the Father: The Impact of Paternity Testing and Paternity Fraud in the African American Community
Cynthia Irvine, CSU Fullerton: The Effects of Maternal Depression, Conflict in the Home, and Gender of the Child on Child Abuse, A Multivariate Analysis
Anna Narvid, Los Angeles, CA: College Students’ Perceptions on “New Fatherhood”
58) Issues in Race and Ethnicity I
(Sponsored by the Committee on Community Colleges)
Organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
Gene Kirschner and Anastasia Prokos, UNLV: Race, Ethnicity, Income and Homeownership in the U.S.: What gaps Remain in the 21st Century?
Ynez Wilson Hirst: Saint Mary’s College of California: Race, Family Structure, and Education: Does Race Really Matter?
John Gannon and Linda Gannon, Community College of South Nevada: Helping the Diverse Student Population: Applied Study Strategies
Jennifer Lowman, Univ. of Nevada-Reno: Principles’ Views of Diverse Student Groups in Nevada
Josh Stovall, Spencer James, Mark Simpson and Ralph Brown, BYU: Reciprocity, Race and Power in a Rural Mississippi Delta Town
59) Using Hollywood Films to Highlight Sociological Concepts
Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching
Organizer: Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State Univ.
Mark Rubinfeld, Westminster College: Toward a Sociology of Hollywood: Yesterday’s Pop as Today’s Pedagogy
Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay: Teaching Social Inequality Through Film
Thomas Linneman, The College of William and Mary: Popular Film in the Classroom: Using Clips Without Losing Context
60) Open Topic Roundtables I
Table 1) (Undergraduates): Sociology of Popular Culture
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Sharon Araji, Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage
Sara Howard, Mills College: Just Friendster Her: A Look at the Presentation of Self and Social Networking via Friendster and Myspace
Michelle Brittan, Univ. of Puget Sound: Is There Anything on the Menu That Doesn’t Have Meat? How People Adopt and Maintain a Vegetarian Lifestyle
Ashley John Craft, Pomona College: Game Theory: The Massively Multiplayer Phenomenon
Daniel Warnke, Stefan Novotny, Jose Diaz and Reem Sheikh, Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage: What is the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Popular Culture?
Table 2) Black Feminist Theorizing at the Intersections of Auto-Ethnography, Narrative, and Memoir
Organizer: Kimberly D. Nettles, UC Davis
Kyla Johnson, Pomona Colleges: In the Mix: Multiracial Black Students at the Claremont Colleges
Robin Boylorn, Univ. of South Florida: “Sit with Your Legs Closed!” and Other Lessons From My Childhood: A Black Woman’s Reflection on the Influence of Black Matriarchy
Table 3) Sports and Homosexuality
(Sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
Organizer: William Wagner III, CSU Bakersfield
Eric Anderson, Univ. of Bath: Influencing the Outcome
Daniel Morgan, Hawaii Pacific Univ.: Roller Derby Skaters
Table 4) Social Change and Global Perspectives: The Case of South Africa
Organizer: Derek Greenfield, St. Augustine’s College
Smitha Radhakrishnan, UC Berkeley: Post-Apartheid (Inter)Cultural Production: Performing the Complexities of the Rainbow Nation
Alan Emery, CSU Fullerton and Ellen Reese, UCR: Proto-Ideologies and Social Movement Coalitions: The Rise of Non-Racialism within South African’s Anti-Apartheid Movement
Derek Greenfield, St. Augustine’s College: When I Hear Afrikaans in the Classroom and Never My Language, I Get Rebellious: A Study of Institutionalized Language
Table 5) (Undergraduates): The Social Construction of Appearance
Organizer: Virgina Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Mirelle Cohen, Univ. of Puget Sound
Nikole Cappiello, Univ. of Puget Sound: The Scars of Breast Cancer: Surviving Disfigurment and Reconstructing the Feminine Self
Megan Brian, Mills College: The Importance of Being Dandy: Beau Brummell, Oscar Wilde and David Bowie
Catherine Mullarkey, Whitman College: A Look at Social Support and Its Influence on Weight Loss Attempts
Jamie Kalikakis, Westminster College: Blood and Guts: The Subculture of Women and Tattooing
Jocelyn Blore, UC Berkeley: Disordered Eating from Within and Without
Table 6) (Undergraduates): Has the Representation of Family Structure in Television Media Changed Over Time?
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
Kari Bernardini, CSU Sacramento
Tatiana Scheibe, CSU Sacramento
Evan Miller, CSU Sacramento
Kimberly Punty, CSU Sacramento
Kathryn Blue, CSU Sacramento
Jeannie Dufour, CSU Sacramento
Table 7) (Undergraduates): Oregon and Youth Risky Behavior
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Scott Akins, Oregon State Univ.
Kinsley Hubel, Oregon State Univ.
Sanjay Soman, Oregon State Univ.
Kelley Fawcet, Oregon State Univ.
Debbie Wiser, Oregon State Univ.
Annie McMahon, Oregon State Univ.
Andrea Hawley, Oregon State Univ.
Chelsea Newton, Oregon State Univ.
Table 8) Crime and Inequality
Organizer: Michael Perez, CSU Fullerton
Mila Huston-Warren, CSU Fullerton: Environmental Justice
Robert Guzman, CSU Fullerton: Feminist Perspectives on Female Juvenile Offending, and the Negative Impact of Equality, Power Structure and Gender Issues
Rhonda Wiens, CSU Fullerton: An Analysis of the “Benefits” of Chivalry in the Criminal Justice System
Bruce Rojas, CSU Fullerton: A Comprehensive Approach to the Study of Battered Woman
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
10:15 am - 11:45 am
61) Workshop on Sociology and General Education
Organizers and Presenters: Carla Howery, American Sociological Association and Gary Hampe, Univ. of Wyoming
[This workshop will present examples and rationales for sociology’s part in liberal education and general education requirements, including goals for global education, diversity and multicultural education, quantitative literacy, written and oral skill development, and freshmen seminars and multidisciplinary courses.]
62) Video: The Corporation
Organizer and Presider: Thomas Linneman, The College of William and Mary
63) Ethnicity and Immigration to the United States I
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Dan Morgan, Hawaii Pacific Univ.: Beyond Calle Ocho: Voices of Non-Cuban Hispanics in South Florida (Second Generation Puerto Ricans and Dominicans)
Michael Francis Johnston and Ivan Light, UCLA: Foreign Born Immigration to New Settlement Metros in the United States
Gillian Creese and Brandy Wiebe, Univ. of British Columbia: Migration, Deskilling and Under-Employment: Gender, Race and “Survival Work” in Vancouver
64) Meet the Editors
Organizers: Donald Barrett, CSU San Marcos and Richard Serpe, Kent State Univ.
Amy Wharton, WSU-Vancouver, Editor Social Problems
Simon Gottschalk, UNLV, Editor Symbolic Interaction
Richard Serpe, Kent State Univ., Co-Editor Sociological Perspectives
Donald Barrett, CSU San Marcos, Co-Editor, Sociological Perspectives
65) Presidential Session: The Automobile and Public Transit in Southern California: Collision or Complement?
Organizer: Rudi Volti, Pitzer College
Matthew Barrett, LA County Metropolitan Transit Authority
Matthew Roth, Automobile Club of Southern California
Rudi Volti, Pitzer College
66) The Historical Women Sociologists: Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Organizer: Jane Prather, CSU Northridge
Tyler Haugen, CSU Northridge: Harriet Martineau, The First Woman Sociologist
Eileen Ie, CSU Northridge: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, More than Meets the Eye
Kari Meyers, CSU Northridge: From the “Yellow Wallpaper” to the Process of Joint Custody: The Legal Subordination of Mothers
67) The Jewish Community: Transition or Transformation
Organizer: Linda Yellin, CSU Northridge
Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College: Urban and Suburban Jews
Shawn Landres, UCLA: Attendance Is My Commitment: Synagogue Participation Among Baby Boomer and Generation X Jews in Los Angeles
Tobin Belzer, USC: Jewish Community and Generation X
Dana Greene, Appalachian State Univ.: Deep Fried Chicken Livers and Other Southern Jewish Delicacies: Exploring Southern Jewish Identity in Mississippi
68) Degradation Ceremonies: The Contemporary Relevance of Garfinkel’s Programmatic Framework on Its 50th Anniversary
Organizer: Andrew L. Roth, Sonoma State Univ.
Pier Paolo Giglioli, Univ. of Bologna and Giolo Fele, Univ. of Trento: The Communicative Forms of Degradation Ceremonies
Andrew Bamford, Southern Utah Univ.: The Continued and Successful Degradation of Ethnomethodology
Steve Sherwood, UCLA: Narrating Degradation: The Wounds and Their Magic
Andrew L. Roth, Sonoma State: To Render Denunciation Useless: The Historical Context and Contemporary Relevance of Garfinkel’s Degradation Paper
69) Whiteness and Racial Minorities I
Organizers: Adalberto Aguirre and Shoon Lio, UCR
Camille Charles, Kimberly Torres, and Rachelle J. Brunn, Univ. of Pennsylvania: Black like Who? Exploring the racial, Ethnic, and Class Diversity of Black Students at Selective Colleges and Universities
Sandra Susan Smith and Jennifer Anne Meri Jones UC Berkeley: Fear of Selling Out and Performance of Race Consciousness
Josef Castaneda-Liles, UCSB: Like One of Us: Flexible Whiteness and the Maintenance of White Privilege
Meera Deo and Jenny Jong-Hwa Lee, UCLA: Lights, Camera and Little Action: Cultural Representations of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in Prime Time Television
Michael Calderon-Zaks, SUNY Binghamton: The Formality of a “Mexican Race”: The 1930 U.S. Census in Socio-Historical Perspective
70) Popular Culture and Political Mobilization
Organizers: Andreana Clay, SFSU and Jessica Ayo McKinney, UC Irvine
Amanda Branker, SFSU: Dancehall Politics: Mapping Cultural resistance in Caribbean Communal Spaces
Jessica Ayo McKinney, UC Irvine: Hip Hop in Action: Mobilization and Popular Culture
Juan Hernandez, SFSU: Hip Hop Knowledge: Learning and Understanding Social Inequality
71) Changing Communities II
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
Presider: Mary Gallant, Rowan Univ.Jennifer M. Nations and Lynn England, BYU: The Influence of Community Characteristics and Change in the Decision to Migrate from a Rural Utah Town
Richard E. Ocejo, City Univ. of NY: The Persistence of Place: Urban Change, Gentrification, and the Survival of an Urban Bar
Elena Windsong, Colorado State Univ.: Place Attachment and Communes
72) Sociology of Science and Knowledge
Organizer: John N. Parker, ASU
John N. Parker, ASU: Organizations and Scientific Integration
Willie Pearson, Jr., and Yu Tao, Georgia Institute of Technology: Who Will Do Science? Revisiting the Supply and Demand Debate
Jim Pass, Astrosociology.com and Long Beach City College: The Potential of Sociology in the Space Age: Developing Astrosociology to Fill an Extraordinary Void
Sine Anahita, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: Commodifying the Fires of Ancestors: Pursuing the Aurora Borealis for War and Profit
73) Field Trip: Space, Place, and Desire: A Visit to a Sex Club for Gay Men
Organizer: Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.
[Note: We will be traveling to the club together by public transportation and will meet at the PSA registration desk at 10:45 AM on Friday April 21, as we need to be at the club by Noon. The session is from Noon-1:30 PM and then we will travel back to the conference. Contact Eric Rofes (eerofes@aol.com) for more information and to make a reservation for your spot in this field trip.]
Ralph Bolton, Pomona College: Ethical Issues in Sex Research: Legitimate Concerns or Moral Meddling?
Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.: A History and Sociology of Slammer’s Sex Club
Matt C. Brown, University of Colorado Boulder: Sex Space and Sex: Reclaiming the Erotic
74) Open Topic Roundtables II
Table 1) (Undergraduates): Childhood and Adolescence
Organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC
Nathan Perkins, USC: Childhood in the Comics
Christina To, USC: Making Meaning of the World: Children’s Construction of Race
Karen Cohoe, USC: Maintaining Adolescents’ Sexual Morality Through Fear
Alessandra Albrizzio, USC: No Children in the Classrooms: How Educational Aspirations Protect Against Teen Pregnancies- A Review of the Literature
Table 2) Increasing Classroom Discussion: Strategies and Activities
Organizer: Scott Melzer, Albion College
Georgie Weatherby, Gonzaga Univ.: Transformation Through Action in the Classroom
Nadia Raza, Lane Community College: Pedagogy for Praxis: Initiating Sites of Knowledge Production
Scott Melzer, Albion College: Responsibility of Victim/Perpetrator Exercises
Risa Garelick, Coconino Community College: Simple Ways to Inspire Classroom Discussion
Table 3) Therapeutic Courts and Criminal Justice
Organizer: Ronald Everett, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
Teresa Madden, CSU Northridge and Michael Doyle, California Lutheran Univ.: Girls and Juvenile Drug Court
Ursula Castellano, Ohio State Univ.: The Pathways Program: Suspending Judgment in a Therapeutic Courtroom
Table 4) Interracial Dating and Relationships in the 21st Century
Organizer: Cynthia Feliciano, UC Irvine
Carol Glasser, UC Irvine: Selecting Bodies: Ethnic and Sex Differences in Online Daters’ Body Type Preferences for Potential Dates
Cynthia Feliciano, Belinda Robnett and Golnaz Komaie, UC Irvine: Race Still Matters: Dating Preferences among Whites in the U.S.
Table 5) Life Under Empire: Aspects of Terrorism and Slave Labor in a Post 9/11 World
Organizer: Alan Emery, CSU Fullerton
Tara De La Cruz, CSU Fullerton: Terrorism and Self-Censorship: Examining the Effects of 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on Self-Censorship in the United States
Sal Hernandez, CSU Fullerton: Contemporary Slavery in America and Abroad: How Regional and Global Economics Has Transformed Labor
Amber Irish and Kimberly Spencer, CSU Fullerton: The Patriot Act: Effects on the American Muslim Community
Andrew Hirsch, CSU Fullerton: Terrorism: Threat or Tool?
Table 6) (Undergraduates): The Undergraduate Student Experience
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Michelle M. Jacob, Mira Costa College
Naseem Bazargan, UC Berkeley: The Suitcase Clinic and It’s Intricacies: A Student-Run Service Providing Organization
Eduanya Durr, Mira Costa College: Front and Back Stage Work with College Students
Adolfo Rio Blanco, UC Berkeley: Cowboys Don’t Last
Angela Anderson, Univ. of Alaska Southeast: You Have to Work with What You Get: Funding Needs for Homeless Services
Table 7) (Undergraduates): Political Sociology
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Leon Grunberg, Univ. of Puget Sound
Becky Gresh, Mira Costa College: Global Stratification: A Quality of Life Comparison between Most Industrialized Nations and Latin American Countries
Yvonne Hsu, UCR: Integration of 19th Century Chinese Elites
Cassandra Brulotte, Linfield College: Cyborgs and Mutants and Spice, Oh My! The Effect of Science Fiction on Sociopolitical Beliefs
Katherine Egeland, Mills College: Outside of Everything: American Expatriate Writers, Globalization, and Never Really Going Home
Table 8) Issues in Community Colleges
(Sponsored by the Committee on Community Colleges)
Organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
Marie Butler, Oxnard College: Oxnard College: Organizational Structure in Academic Departments and the Faculty Union
Michael Hart, Broward Community College: Broward Community College: Organizational Structure in Academic Departments and the Faculty Union
Reid Helford, Columbia Basin College: Columbia Basin College: Organizational Structure in Academic Departments and the Faculty Union
J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College: Contra Costa College: Organizational Structure in Academic Departments and the Faculty Union
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
75) Teaching about Social Justice
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Richelle S. Swan, CSU San Marcos
Nelta M. Edwards and Patrick Gillham, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage: Tips on Teaching about Globalization
Sylvanna Falcon, UCSB: But Aren’t We the Most Free?
Scott Myers-Lipton, San Jose State Univ.: Teaching about Poverty from a Solutions-Based Approach
Clayton D. Peoples, UNLV: The “Genie” in the Strat Teaching Repertoire: New uses of the Gini Coefficent in Stratification Classes
Susan B. Murray and Yoko Baba, San Jose State Univ.: Home Is Where Injustice Begins: A Pedagogy of Intimate Violence
76) Doing Drag: Performances of Gender and Sexuality
(Sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
Organizer: Eve Shapiro, UCSB
Discussant: Verta Taylor, UCSB
Melissa Hendrickson, Univ. of Idaho: “Are You a Girl or a Boy?” Entertainment or Activism: The Making of the Modern Drag King
Amanda Swarr, Univ. of Washington: Interstices of Race and Gender in South African Urban Drag
Eve Shaprio, UCSB: Making Messy Drag: Queering Gender, Sexuality, and Politics
77) Choosing and Being Chosen: Considerations in Applying to Graduate Programs and Insights on How Graduate Programs Choose Their Students
Organizers: Alicia Gonzales, CSU San Marcos and Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ.
Beth E. Schneider, UCSB
Richard T. Serpe, Kent State Univ.
Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ.
78) Sex, Gender and Sport
Organizer: Eric Anderson, Univ. of Bath
Danny Osborne, UCLA and William Wagner III, CSU Bakersfield: Homophobia and the Good and the Bad of High School Extracurricular Activities
Todd Migliaccio and Ellen Berg, CSU Sacramento: The Significance and Theoretical Importance of Women Playing Football
Phil White, McMaster Univ. and Bill McTeer, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.: Curls for the Girls? Sex Differences in Exercise Patterns and Equipment Usage at a University Fitness Centre
Jonathan Markovitz, Pitzer College and Alexander Riley, Bucknell Univ.: Anatomy of a Spectacle: Race, Gender and Memory in the Kobe Bryant Rape Case
79) Crime and Criminal Justice
Organizer: Mirelle Cohen, Univ. of Puget Sound
Terry Miethe, UNLV: Lethal and Non-Lethal Physical Assaults: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Their Structural Profiles
Paul Harris, James Fisher and Stephan Bahr, BYU: Back Behind Bars: Factors Predicting Recidivism among Recent Parolees
Stephanie Olguin, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: Reintegration and Recidivism
80) The Faces of Globalization
Organizer: John Parsi, ASU
Smitha Radhakrishnan, UC Berkeley: Rethinking Knowledge for Development: “Global” Indian Knowledge Workers and the “New” India
Parul Baxi, CSU East Bay: Globalization of Nothing: The Human Face of Call Center Worker Experiences in Gurgaon India
Mark Horowitz and Sandra Way, New Mexico State Univ.: Globalization and Rising Expectations in Mexico’s Maquiladora Zone
81) Ethnicity and Immigration in the United States II
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Golnaz Komaie, UC Irvine: Ethnic Identity Formation among Second-Generation Iranian Americans
Nicholas C. DelSordi, ASU: Understanding Mexican American Ethnic and Cultural Integration Across the Generations: A Phoenix Area Study
Christine Oh, UC Irvine: Antecedents of Success: The Achievement-Esteem Paradox of Koreans and Mexicans at UC Irvine
82) Health and Well-Being in the Era of Welfare Reform
Organizer: Karen Seccombe, Portland State Univ.
Presider: Erika Derkas, New Mexico Highlands Univ.
Yvonne Luna, NAU: Resistance as Survival and Well-Being in an Era of Welfare Reform
Lisa Sun-Hee Park, UCSD: The Racial Politics of Immigrant Reproduction: The Impact of Welfare and Immigration Reform on Access to Prenatal Care
Angela Willeto, NAU: Native American Kids 2003: Indian Children’s Well-Being Indicators for 14 States
Erika Derkas, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: Health and Well-Being in the Era of Welfare Reform
83) Hip-Hop as Critical Pedagogy and Tool for Empowerment
Organizer: Derek Greenfield, St Augustine’s College
Derek Greenfield, St. Augustine’s College: What’s the Deal with the Middle-Aged Jewish Guy Teaching Hip-Hop
Darryl Brice, Highline Community College and Derrick Brooms, Loyola Univ. Chicago: Droppin’ Knowledge: Hip-Hop and The Way We Teach
Michael Barnes, UC Berkeley: It’s Bigger than Hip-Hop: Teaching Rap Culture as a Microcosm for Society
84) Cultural Sociology
Organizer: Nina Eliasoph, USC
Brady Potts, USC: Everyday Institutions and Culture in the New Institutionalism
Kari Norgaard, Whitman College: Cultural Norms of Time and Space: Global Warming and the Social Organization of Denial
Dustin Kidd, Temple Univ.: From Social Structure to Cultural Structure: The Case of Popular Culture
Alem Kebede and Philippe Duhart, CSU Bakersfield: Symbolic Power and the Emergent Vernacular of the Rastafari
85) Spirituality in Popular Culture
Organizer: Megan Hartzell, UNLV
Megan Hartzell, UNLV: Spirituality as Resistance: Common Codes in Early New Age Books
Brian Baker, CSU Sacramento: The Idea of American Indians in the New Age: Indian Spirituality Re-Invented and Re-Presented
John Mihelich and Jennifer Gatzke, Univ. of Idaho: Northern Quest: Reflexive Spirituality and the Return of the Sacred in Northern Exposure Fan Practice
Hans Bakker, Univ. of Guelph: Yoga as Serious Leisure: The Mass Society Adaptation of a Civilizational Construct
86) Childhood and Adolescence
Organizer: Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado Denver
Yuki Kato, UC Irvine: Coming of Age in a Bubble: Spatial Sociology of Suburban Adolescents
Raechel Lizon and Michael Rutkowski, BYU: The Purpose of School and the Adolescent’s Future Plans
Shokoufeh Zarini and Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Gender and Racial Representation in Children’s Television Programming: A Comparison between PBS and Toon Disney
Linda D. Silber, Angelo State Univ.: The Normalization of Dissatisfaction: Why 4th and 5th Grade Girls Worry about Their Appearance
87) Open Topic Roundtables III
Table 1) Teaching Popular Culture to the Popular Culture Generation: Challenges and Opportunities
Organizer and Presider: Celestino Fernandez, Univ. of Arizona
Table 2) Baseball in North American Culture
Organizer: Nicholas L. Parsons, WSU-Vancouver
Allan Warnke, Malaspina Univ. College: Cultural Diffusion and the Expansion of Baseball in Western Canada: A study of American Values and the Western Canada Baseball League, 1955-1960
Taj Mahon-Haft, WSU: Damn Yankees or Damn New York? The Impact of Location on the Performance of Free Agents
Nicholas L. Parsons, WSU-Vancouver: The Death of a Great Ball Player: Assessing the Relationship between Dying, Memory, and the Economic Value of Baseball Cards
Table 3) Post Modern Global Mass Society: From McDonaldization to Outsourcing
Organizer: Leonard Gordon, ASU
Robert Duff, Univ. of Portland, and Lawrence K. Hong, CSU L.A.: The Development of Macau As a Gambling and Vacation Center in Asia: An Aspect of Post Modern Global Mass Society
Leonard Gordon, ASU: A Historical Assessment of Postmodern Mass Global Society Analysis
Table 4) Issues of Offering Gerontology Programs
Organizer: Paul O’Brien and James Payne, CSU Stanislaus
Paul O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus: Lessons Learned from Getting Approval of an Interdisciplinary Gerontology Program
James Payne, CSU Stanislaus: Focus on Rural Gerontology
Walter Doraz, CSU Stanislaus: A Synoptic View of Aging Today
Tamara Sniezek, CSU Stanislaus: Using Qualitative Data in Support of Academic Programs: A Case Study in Gerontology
Table 5) (Undergraduates): Issues in Education
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Joanna Gregson, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Peter Daniels, Univ. of Puget Sound: My Child’s Left Behind: Perspectives on Standardized Testing in the State of Washington’s Secondary Schools
Kelly Fawcett, Oregon State Univ.: Race, Class, and School Climate
Shawnrey Notto, Pomona College: Emotion Work: Intersecting Emotions, Art, and Expression in the Classroom
Table 6) (Undergraduates): Criminology and the Criminal Justice System
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Jane Hood, Univ. of New Mexico
Dianne Sheridan, Lori Brandt, Patrick Hurt, and Carmen Morris, Southern Utah Univ. : Restoring Youth Programs
Patricia Penn, Univ. of La Verne: Guilty or Innocent? Views from the Legal Profession on What Affects Jury Verdicts
Vanessa Salazar, Univ. of New Mexico: Understanding Prosecutorial Decision Making of Violent Crimes in Bernalillo County
Kirsten Walker, Univ. of New Mexico: Public Opinion on Sex Offender Legislation
Jaime Franklin, BYU: Juvenile Boot Camps’ Effectiveness
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
88) Becoming a Consultant: Moving from the Academy to the Community
(Sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied and Clinical Sociology)
Organizer: Joshua Meisel, Humboldt State Univ.
John Dugan, Central Washington Univ.
Brian Mattson, SocioLogic
Jacqueline Carrigan, CSU Sacramento
89) Queers and Inequality
(Sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
Organizer: William Wagner III, CSU Bakersfield
Tom Waidzunas, UCSD: Sciences of Liberation: Gay Teen Suicide, Risk, and Resilience
Roksana Badruddoja, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey: Queer Spaces, Places, and Gender: The Tropologies of Ronica and Rupa
Donald Barrett, CSU San Marcos: Working Class Gay Men: The Fit with an Increasingly Heteronormative Definition of Relationships
Brian J. Gillespie and Karla Hewlett-Winthrope, CSU Los Angeles, The Effects of Heterosexist Society on Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence
90) Issues in Race and Ethnicity II
(Sponsored by the Committee on Community Colleges)
Organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
Garry Rolison, CSU San Marcos and Katherine Rolison: An Uneasy Adoption: Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw Freed People in Arizona
Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos: Black and Blue in California: Collective Identity, Cooperation, and Multiracial Realities
Tonmar Johnson, Solano Community College: Young African American Males, Sports and Socialization
J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College: James R. L. Diggs and the Niagara Movement: A Case Study of a Forgotten Black Sociologist
91) Assignments That Work
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Organizer: Marisol Clark-Ibåñez: CSU San Marcos
Terry Humphrey, Palomar College: My Life Through a Lens: Family Photos as Teaching Tools
Dick Skeen and Robert DiCarlo, NAU: Complexities of Social Identity Revealed through Reflective Assignments
Kathleen Kaiser, CSU Chico: Want to Take It Outside? Applying Sociology in Non-Traditional Settings
Dennis Downey, Univ. of Utah: Learning about Diversity and Exploring Identity through Qualitative Interviews
92) Workshop: Academic Job Search II: Interviews and Handling Job Offers
Organizer: Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey
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
93) Popular Culture: Empirical Studies of Production, Reception and Identity
Organizer: Nancy Wang Yuen, UCLA
Discussant: Jon Cruz, UCSB
Jennifer A. Winther, UCLA: The Embodiment of Sound and Cohesion in Music
Christina Chin, UCLA: Marginal Spaces, Identity, and Rave Culture: An Ethnographic Study on Marginal Youth and Raves
Noriko Milman, UCLA: Emergent Readers: Exploring Kids, Television, and Race
Sylvia J. Martin, UC Irvine: Cultural Productions in Hollywood and Hong Kong
Nancy Wang Yuen, UCLA: Performance, Identity, and Authenticity: Professional Actors in Hollywood
94) The Sociology of Sociology
Organizer: Ellis Godard, CSU Northridge
Charles Varano, CSU Sacramento: PSA Presidential Addresses: Knowledge and Discourse over 70 Years
Jonathan Dirk Van Antwerpen, UC Berkeley: Public Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Imagination
Jonathan Turner, UCR: Has Sociology Disintegrated?
Calvin Morrill, UC Irvine: Sociology on the Books versus Sociology in Action
95) Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Disorder
Organizer: Gary Cretser, Cal Poly Pomona
Christine Cerven, UCR: Psychological Well-Being, Socioeconomic Status, and the Accumulation of Multiple Identities
Bo J. Bernhard and Robert Futrell, UNLV: Vice Capades: Historical and Clinical Sociological Perspectives on Gambling Problems
Michelle Gladman, UNLV: The DSM: Definitions, Perspectives, and Sociological Indicators of Gender and Sexual Shaming
David Daniel Bogumil, UCLA, Gary Cretser and Debra Ko, Cal Poly Pomona, and Joya Parenteau, Project Angel Food: The Attribution of Community Organization, Treatment and Service Quality: The Social Integration, Interdependence, and Community of HIV/AIDS and Severely Ill Persons
96) Right Wing Ideology, Its Advocates, Influence, and Opponents
Organizers: Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona and Joyce Johnson, Santa Rosa Junior College
G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB: The Multiracial Phenomenon and the Neoconservative Agenda: Racial Formation in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Alan Emery and Laura Sanger, CSU Fullerton: Odd Bedfellow; An Analysis of the Political Alliance between Neoconservatives and Christian Fundamentalists
David Ashley and Ryan Sandefer, Univ. of Wyoming: Faith Based Initiatives and the New Right
Elizabeth Chiarello, UC Irvine: Using Conscience as a Social Movement Strategy
97) Immigrants, Community Organizing, and Social Justice
Organizer: Belinda Lum, USC
Jackie Gabriel, Colorado State Univ.: Si, Se Puede: A Case Study of a Labor-Community Organizing Campaign among Immigrant Meatpacking Workers
Rigoberto Rodriquez, USC: Entrepreneurial Governance: Enterprising Citizens, Restructuring the Local State, and Mexican Immigrants in Santa Ana, California
Gilbert Felipe Mireles, Whitman College: State, Industry, and Ethnicity: Political Participation among California’s Farm Workers
98) Teaching Statistics to Undergraduates
Organizer: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Elizabeth Nelson and Xuanning Fu, CSU Fresno: Integrating Quantitative Skills into the Sociology Curriculum: The CSU Fresno Project
Sharon Methvin, Clark College: Teaching Undergraduate Statistics Using Personal Dating Ads
Michael DeCesare, CSU Northridge: A New Approach to Diagnosing and Treating ‘Statistics Anxiety’
99) Presidential Session: Dynamics of Social Inequality: Sport as Contested Terrain
Organizer: Michael A. Messner, USC
Eric Anderson, Univ. of Bath: Hoist the Anchor: How Sport Stymies Social Progress on Gender and Sexuality Issues
Kathleen Yep, Pitzer College: ‘We Were Rough and Tough’: Negotiating Femininity, Class, and Race in Chinatown Basketball
Sherri Grasmuck, Temple Univ.: ‘Baseball Is All We Had’: Community Identity, Boys’ Baseball, and Racial Integration in a Gentrifying Neighborhood
100) Open Topic Roundtables IV
Table 1) Gender and Asian Americans
Organizer: Akin Yasuike, Whittier College
Helen Kim, Whitman College: Work, Family and Bodies: Second Generation Korean American Women “Doing Gender”
Melissa Fujiwara, USC: Making Subaltern Masculinities: The Production of Japanese American Masculinities
Table 2) Diversity of Sociological Topics: Motorcycles and Development, Mediator Identity, Prison Healthcare, and the Work of Ernest Becker
Organizer: Sally Raskoff, LAVCC
John Hustedt and Jacob Cluff, BYU: Motorcycles and Development in Southeast Asia
Brian Jarrett, Univ. of Hawaii, Exploring the Neutrality Debate: A Contestation for Mediator Identity
Jorge E. Serano, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: The Work of Ernest Becker
Tabi White, UC Berkeley: Duct Tape: An Evaluation of Medical Technical Assistants in California Prison Healthcare
Table 3) (Undergraduates): The Social Construction of Identity
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Mary Kelsey, UC Berkeley
Sharon Han, UC Berkeley: Christianity in Korea
Tom Van Heuvelen, Univ. of Puget Sound: Staying and Leaving: The Construction of Identity Through the Workplace
Aislinn Addington, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Future Plans and Expectations of Children in a Socially Homogenous Environment
Elindres Apelin, UCSB: The Spirit of the Individual Will Reveal Itself
Angela Smith, UC Berkeley: New Small Autonomous Schools and Their Impact on Students’ Educational Aspirations
Table 4) (Undergraduates): Immigration
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska- SE
Presider: Robert Gardner, Linfield College
Julia Putinsev, Linfield College: Response to Terrorism: Social Discourse in Great Britain
Ares Papageorge, UC Berkeley: Kinds of Discrimination Operative Against Immigrants in Greece
David Rodriguez, CSU Long Beach: The Story of the Second and 1 ½ Generations
Cinthia Rivera, CSU Long Beach: United and Strong: Facilitating Family Re-Unification and Strengthening Social Networks Through the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act and the LIFE Act
Veronica Aguirre, CSU Long Beach: Mexican Immigration into the United States
Table 5) (Undergraduates): Gender Issues
(Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska-SE
Presider: Sine Anahita, Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks
Emily Nordwind, UC Berkeley: Independence, Partnership and Identity Formation
Terin Walton-Rantz and Max Baker, Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks: Deviant for a Day: Bigenderal Transgression
Kirsty McLaren, Westminster College: Masculinity Identities and Pop Sensibilities: Hollywood’s Depiction of Gender Roles
Rachel Williams, New Mexico State Univ.: Exploring Gender Role Expectation Construction in Preschool Children through Children’s Literature
Mai-Ling Garcia, UC Berkeley: The Military Family and the Institution
Table 6) The Professor as Court Jester in the Imperial State
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ.
Clayton D. Peoples, UNR: Sociology and Critical Analysis as Public Good: reducing Normative Explanations in the Classroom to Avoid Liberal Bias
Bill Grigsby, Eastern Oregon Univ.: Sociology of Bullshit or Bullshit Sociology?
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
101) Expressions of Feminism(s) In Unlikely Places
Organizers: Mary Thierry Texeira and Elsa O. Valdez, CSU San Bernardino
Karla L. Hewlett-Winthrope, CSULA: The Call for Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation
Wendy Paulson, UC Irvine: Islamic Feminists: Negotiating Space and Identity
Evelyn Rodriguez, USF: Defy(n)ing Womanhood: Negotiating Second-Generation Female Identities in Filipina Debutantes and Mexican Quinceañeras
Anaheita Yazdipour and David Lopez, CSU Northridge: Gender, Power, and Cultural Capital at Club Perversion: An Exploratory Study
Evan Stallcup, Coconino Community College: Gender Flipping in Cars (Or “Driving in Cars with Girls”): Woman as Driver with Man as Passenger Video: Human Rights in
102) Queer Art, Queer Politics, Queer Theory
(Sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
Organizer: Erika Laine Austin, UCLA
Discussant: Dustin Kidd, Temple Univ.
Cenk Ozbay, USC: Virilities for Rent: Queering Class in Istanbul
Stefanie Snider, USC: Fat Girls and Size Queens: Visual Productions of the Fat and Queer Self in Contemporary American Culture
Dustin Kidd, Temple Univ.: Guerilla Politics, Gorilla Art, Guerilla Girls
Carey Sargent, Univ. of Virginia: Noise as Queer Sound in an Experimental Music Community
Catherine R. Connolly, Univ. of Wyoming: Gay Families, Pop Culture and the Law
103) Presidential Session: Latinas/os and Education
Organizer: Gilda Ochoa, Pomona College
Gloria Romero, California Senate Majority Leader and Senate District 24
Joshua Pechthalt, United Teachers of Los Angeles and Manual Arts High School
Tara Yosso, UCSB: Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline
Jeanett Castellanos, UC Irvine, Latinas/os and the Doctorate: Current Status, Experiences and Recommendations
104) Sociology of Sexuality I
Organizer, Jacqueline A. Carrigan, CSU Sacramento
Agnes Riedmann and Phyllis Gerstenfeld, CSU Stanislaus: The Stigma of the “Slut”: Adult Lives of Girls with a Reputation
Jillian Deri, Simon Fraser Univ.: Queer Polyamorous Women and Creative Reformulations of Power
James Dean, Sonoma State Univ.: The Social Construction of Heterosexual Identities
Kassia Wossick-Correa, UC Irvine: Negotiating Sexual Intimacy within Nonmonogamous Relationships
105) Leadership and Political Mobilization: Does Gender Still Matter?
Organizer: Belinda Robnett, UC Irvine
Christine Petit, UCR: Feminist Activism or Feminine Activism? Codepink and the Politics of Femininity
Verta Taylor, UCSB: The Performance of Gender in Social Movements
Katrina Kimport, UCSB: The Campaign to Make Emergency Contraception Available Over-the-Counter: The Role of Gender in Framing Contests
Belinda Robnett: UC Irvine: Gender Matters: Post-Civil Rights African American Political Mobilization
106) Immigrant Religion
Organizer: Sarah Stohlman, USC
Julie Song, UC Irvine: Holier Than Thou? 1.5 and 2nd Generation Korean Americans and Ethno-Racial Boundaries in Co-Ethnic and Pan-Racial Churches
Xiao E. Sun, Univ. of Oregon: YJ Chinese Church: An Ethnic Community of Chinese Christians in the U.S.
Won Yoon, La Sierra Univ.: Age and Perception of Immigrant Churches Among Second-Generation Korean Americans
Steve Zafirau and Sarah Stohlman, USC: Radio Nueva Vida: Religious Cultural Production Across Ethnic Boundaries
107) Drugs in Society I
Organizer: Melinda Nagai, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Stephen Kulis, Scott Yabiku, Flavio Marsiglia, Benjamin Lewin, and Tanya Nieri, ASU: The Effects of School Ethnic Majority on the Efficacy of a Youth Substance Prevention Program
Jonathan Hersam, Stephen J. Bahr, Marko Moreno, and Jonathan Oliver, BYU: Substance Abuse Treatment Programs; What Works and What Does Not
Sherry Larkins and Richard Rawson, UCLA: Sexual Effects of Methamphetamine
108) Religion and Community I
Organizer: David McKell, NAU
Discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, NAU
Christina Torres, Mills College: Anthropology of Religion: The Study of Shamans and Mediums
Kiki Valdez Simpson, NAU: Coming Out “Saved”: A Clear Journey to God
Matthew Hornbeck and Robert Lyons, NAU: A Participant Observer’s Sociological Critique of Contemporary Christianity
Alex Tucker and Will Fisher and Heather Smith, BYU, Idaho: The Socio-political Attitudes of Mormon LDS Students
109) Women and Criminal Justice II
Organizer: Mirelle Cohen, Univ. of Puget Sound
Rodney Kingsnorth, CSU Sacramento: Intimate Partner Violence: An Analysis of Variables Associated with Trial and Conviction Rates
Patricia Bigwood, NAU: Abuse From the Bench: How the American Judiciary Perpetuates Abuse of Protective Mothers and Their Children in Domestic Violence Custody Disputes
Kate Luther, UCR: Negotiating Parole: The Parole Experiences of Battered Women
Anke Therese Schulz, UCSF: Domestic Violence, Victim Safety, and Battered Women’s Encounters with a Liberal Court
110) The Perils and Promise of Postmodern Pedagogy
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ. and Michael Francis Johnston, UCLA
Discussant: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento
Michael Francis Johnston, UCLA: Theory Backed by Evidence: Student Teamwork
Stavros Karageorgis, CSU Northridge: Fear of Unknown Contingencies Arising from Student Teams
Derek Greenfield, Saint Augustine’s College: Bringing “Pedagogical Assumptiveness” to the Surface
111) Issues in Race and Ethnicity III
(Sponsored by the Committee on Community Colleges)
Organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB: Critical Hybridity and Postcolonial Blackness: The Multiracial Movement in the United States and the Black Movement in Brazil
Tina Quicoli, CSU Northridge: The Social Construction of Race in Bahia, Brazil
Jennifer Nations and Lynn England, BYU: The Need for Cultural Bridges Between Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara and the Mexican Government and People: A Case Study
Christopher Schneider, ASU: Rap Music and the Spoken Word: An Ethnic Discourse?
Carly Sanders, Whitman College: Performing Ethnicity: The Multi-Ethnic Woman’s Negotiation with “Exoticism”
112) Public Sociology and the Media: Sociologists Examining Their Media Experiences
Organizer: Steven Ortiz, Oregon State Univ.
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ.-La Jolla: Can You Comment? The Academic Expert in the Infotainment Era
Gordon Clanton, San Diego State Univ.: Public Sociology
via the Media: Being Interviewed on Radio and Television
J. William Gibson, CSU Long Beach: Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Book and Magazine Genres for Public Sociology
Jane Hood, Univ. of New Mexico: Becoming a Media-Created Expert: Joys and Tribulations
Steven Ortiz, Oregon State Univ.: Reflecting on Media Experiences: The Private Thoughts of a Public Sociologist
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm
113) Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony
Presider: Dean S. Dorn, CSU Sacramento, Executive Director
Awards Presentation: Laura Grindstaff, UC Davis, Chair Awards Committee and
Jane Prather and Teresa Madden Co-Chairs, Social Conscience Committee
President’s Introduction: Charles F. Hohm, CSU Dominguez Hills, PSA President-elect
Presidential Address: Peter Nardi, Pitzer College: Playing with Sociology: Truth in the Pleasant Disguise of Illusion
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Presidential Reception
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
7:15 pm – 9:00 pm
114) Dangerous Times, Opportune Times: Censorship, Katrina and Impeachment
Session Organizers: Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona and Joyce Johnston, Santa Rose Junior College
Discussant/Moderator: Sharon Araji, University of Alaska Anchorage
Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento: Denying Disaster: Hurricane Katrina, Global Warming, and the Politics of Refusal
Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona: Untruth, Injustice and the American Way of Terror and Torture
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
Summary of Events
8:00 am – 4:30 pm Registration
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Publisher Exhibits
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Committee Meetings
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Sessions
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm Business Meeting
5:15 pm – 6:30 pm GLBT Reception
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Status of Race/Ethnicity & Women Reception
9:30 pm – 10:30 pm Student Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
8:30 am – 10:00 am Sessions
115) Workshop on Assessment of the Sociology Major
Organizers and Presenters: Carla Howery, American Sociological Association and Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico
[This workshop will share strategies and rationales for evaluating the learning outcomes of sociology programs to assess the quality of the major and identify areas of strength and targets for improvement. The ASA’s Task Force on Assessment of the Sociology Major has created a useful manual to assist departments with this important work.]
116) Fun and Games: Teaching Sociological Concepts through Activity and Popular Culture
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State Univ.
Charles Sarno, Holy Names Univ.: The Sociological Cocktail Party
Jason J. Leiker, Utah State Univ.: Stop that Lecture!!! Three Fun Activities for Large Enrollment Sociology Courses
Dan Pence, CSU Chico: Ideology, Education, and The Game Show, Jeopardy: Using Popular Culture to Teach Sociology
Flournoy Phelps, BYU: Class Comic: Comic Strips in Introductory Sociology
117) Queer Activism and Institutional Change
Organizer: Nicole Raeburn, USF
Jane Ward, UCR: Institutionalizing Intersectionality: How the Mainstream Obsession with Diversity is Transforming Lesbian and Gay Organizations
Karl Bryant, UCSB: Diagnosing the Debates over Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood: Toward a New Culture of Practice
Kimberly D. Richman, USF: Same-Sex Marriage and Legal Consciousness: Preliminary Findings
Steven A. Boutcher, UC Irvine: Making Lemonade: Turning Adverse Decisions into Opportunities for Mobilization
Beth Schneider and Carly Chillmon, UCSB: Straight Eye for the Queer Campus: Problematizing Institutional Change
118) New Approaches to Latino/a Sociology
Organizer: Julie A. Dowling, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Miyawaki, CSU Northridge: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Encounters with Ethnic Boundaries
Julio C. Capeles, New Mexico State Univ.: The Construction of Ethnic Identity:
Puerto Ricans in El Paso
Gabriela Sandoval,, UCSC: Reconceptualizing the Panethnic
Latino Voting Bloc
Victor M. Rios, Univ. of San Francisco “Don’t Act Like a Bitch”: Latino Male
Youth, the Street, and Masculinity
119) Working with Kids: Community and School Programs Targeting Children and Adolescents
(Sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied, and Clinical Sociology)
Organizer: Joshua Meisel, Humboldt State Univ.
Sara Joy Cordonnier, CSU Sacramento: The Effect of School-Based Mentoring and Perceived Parental Involvement on the Academic Cultural Capital and Role-Specific Self-Esteem of the Student-Based Identity
Elena I. Flores, S.F. State Univ.: Creating Spaces that Support Free Expression of Gender and Sexuality in Community-Based Peer Educational Programs
Mary E. Virnoche and Lori Cortez, Humboldt State Univ.: Making Decisions: Girls and Math and Science Course-Taking
Stacey Caillier, UC Davis: Young People, Art, and Literacies; Paths Into and Out of Schools
120) Choosing a Program of Graduate Study in Sociology
(Sponsored by the Student Affairs Committee)
Organizers: Gail Wallace, Iowa State Univ. and Erika Laine Austin, UCLA
Erika Laine Austin, UCLA: When It’s Time to Leave: Deciding to Transfer, Delay, or Quit Graduate School
Julie Hartman, Michigan State Univ.: Making Lemonade from Life’s Lemons: What to Do When Your Program Isn’t What You Bargained For
Melanie Carlson, Univ. of Central Florida: ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’: Deciding on Whether to Remain at Your Current Institution for Graduate School or to Move Elsewhere
Melanie Heath, USC: Going Places, Making Choices: Finding the Right Graduate Program
Lisa Marie Rohrabacher, Humboldt State Univ.: Using the Internet as a Tool to Choose a Graduate Program of Study in Sociology
121) Author Meets Critics: A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling: Status Quo or Status Queer
Presider: Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.
Author: Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.
Critics: Jennifer Eichstedt, Humboldt State Univ.
Ann René Elsbree, CSU San Marcos
122) Video Session: Domestic Violence and Child Custody: Are the Courts Friend or Foe?
(Sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties)
Organizer and Presider: Sharon Araji, University of Alaska Anchorage
[This session is a video and discussion of three studies that have been done in the states of Massachusetts, Arizona, and Alaska on domestic violence, child custody and the courts.]
123) Social Movements and Culture
Organizer: Timothy Kubal, CSU Fresno
Alem Kebede, CSU Bakersfield: Culture, Ideology, and Revolution: The Case of Ethiopia
Mitra Rokni, San Jose Sate Univ.: Modernity in Iran: The Constitutional Movement
Kim Smith, Portland Community College: Leave No Trace: Environmental Activism Amid the Revelry of Burning Man
Rebecca Trammell, UC Irvine: From Heroes to Outcasts: How State Concessions Impact the Collective Identity of Social Movement Activists
124) Institutional Ethnography
Organizer: Yvonne Braun, Univ. of Oregon
Michael Corman, Univ. of Victoria: The Diagnosis Process of Autism: An Explication of Social and Institutional Processes from Multiple Standpoints
Chris Goff, Univ. of Oregon: Hearts and Minds in the Caring Workplace
Sandrine Zerbib, UC Irvine: From the Everyday Life of Bi-National Gay Couples in France to a Traditional Division of Labor
Yvonne Braun, Univ. of Oregon and Sandrine Zerbib, UC Irvine: Going Micro to Go Macro: Investigating Everyday Life in Two Worlds
125) Censorship and the Academy: Analyses and Case Studies
(Sponsored by the Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching)
Organizers: Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona and Joyce Johnson, Santa Rosa Junior College
Josef Castaneda-Liles, UCSB: Diversity for Neoconservatives: The New “Academic Freedom” Movements and the Battleground of Political Discourse
Joyce Johnson, Santa Rose Junior College: Intimidation Tactics and Responses: the Case of Santa Rosa Junior College
Marcia Marx, CSU San Bernardino: The GOP and Intimidation at CSU San Bernardino
126) Current Research on Chicana/os and Latina/os II
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Elvia Ramirez, UCR: Chicana/os and Latina/os in Higher Education: The Role of Public Policy in the Structuring of Opportunity
Ali Uscilka, Mills College: ¿Quién Eres? The Role of Language in Latino Ethnic Identity
Amada Armenta, UCLA: Creating Community in a West LA Park
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
10:15 am - 11:45 am
127) Globalization and Local Communities
Organizer: Matthew Sanderson, Univ. of Utah
Kara Zugman, CSU Dominguez Hills: “Zapatismo” as a Global Political Vision: Constructing Political Autonomy in Los Angeles
Charles Heying, Portland State Univ.: The Homegrown Designer Industry in Portland, Oregon: Contradictions of Local Distinctiveness
Dennis Downey and Michael Timberlake, Univ. of Utah and David A. Smith, UC Irvine: Structuring Diversity in Post-Urban California, 1970-2000: Sectoral Agglomeration and the Ethnic Division of Labor
Matthew Sanderson, Univ. of Utah: Globalized Capital, Globalized Labor: The Impact of Globalization on LCDs in the Contemporary World-Economy
128) Drugs in Society II
Organizer: Melinda Nagai, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Karen Miller-Loessi, Lorraine Moya Sales, David Becerra, Linda Ryan, Tanya Nieri, Junghee Lee and Jennifer Harrison, ASU: Community Economic Volatility and Substance Use Among Youth: The Case of Arizona Copper Mining Towns
Geraint Osborne, Univ. of Alberta and Curtis Fogel, Memorial Univ.: The Responsible Use of Marijuana: A Qualitative Study
Sally Lasko, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: The Multiple Cost of Incarcerating Non-Violent Drug Offenders: Insights from the Latest Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports
Melinda Nagai, Univ. of Colorado Boulder and Brian Reid, Salt Lake Valley Health Dept. and Marjean Searcy, Salt Lake City Police Dept.: Multi-Collaborative Drug Impact Assessment: An Exploratory Study on Salt Lake County Clandestine Methamphetamine Labs and Decontamination Data 2002-2005
129) New Directions in Microsociology
Organizer: Peter Callero, Western Oregon Univ.
Thomas Scheff. UCSB
David Snow, UC Irvine.
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ.
130) Sociology of Sexuality II
Organizer: Jacqueline A. Carrigan, CSU Sacramento
Julie Hartman, Michigan State Univ.: Performance of Sexual Identities
Shabnam Shenasi Azari, UC Irvine: The Negotiation of Family and Sexuality among Iranian American College Students
Stephanie Sears, USF: Dancing Black Womanhood
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ.: The Eroticization and Selling of the Corpse: The Rise of the Dead Body in Popular Culture
Nathaniel C. Pyle, UC Santa Barbara and Michael I. Loewy, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks: An Invisible Community: Fat Men and the Men Who Love Them
131) Race, Racialization, and Race Relations in Southern California
Organizer: Rowena Robles, Loyola Marymount Univ.
Gloria Gonzalez, UCLA: Racialized Bodies
Faustina M. DuCros, UCLA: Louisiana Creoles of Color in Los Angeles: Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Identity
Evelyn Rodriguez, USF: Coming of Age Rituals in Mexican and Filipino American Immigrant Families
Erin Kimura and Kimberly Griffin, UCLA: Being a Minority amongst Minorities: Exploring the Experiences and Interactions of Latino Students at a Predominantly Asian American High School
132) The ASA Sorokin Lecture on Pedagogy
(Sponsored by the American Sociological Association)
Organizer and Presider: Peter Nardi, Pitzer College
Caroline H. Persell, New York Univ.: What Should Students Understand about Sociology and How Might We Get There?
[Note: Caroline H. Persell was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award by the ASA in Philadelphia last August.]
133) Gender and Immigration in the Era Globalization I
Organizer: Sandra Ezquerra, Univ. of Oregon
Nihal Celik, Univ. of Georgia: Immigrant Women Domestic Workers in Turkey
Sandra Ezquerra, Univ. of Oregon: An Intersectional Analysis of the State: the Construction of Filipina Migrants in the San Francisco Bay Area
Kathrynn Farr, Portland State Univ.: Sexual Violence Against Women Uprooted by Intrastate Conflicts in a Globalized World
Keren Mazuz, Ben-Gurion Univ. of Negev, Israel: Practicing the Sate, Discoursing the Nation: One the Interactions between Jews and Filipino Women in Israel
134) Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(Sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied, and Clinical Sociology)
Organizer: Richard S. Lockwood, Portland State Univ.
Michael Francis Johnston, Ka-Kit Hui, and Roshan Bastani, UCLA: Patient Care Coordination from the Acupuncturist Perspective: Insights from a Theoretical Sample
Georgiana Bostean, UC Irvine: Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Immigrant Assimilation
Richard S. Lockwood, Portland State Univ.: Physicians Providing Alternative Medicine: Regional Similarities before NCCAM
135) Session Cancelled
136) Understanding Childhood from Children’s Perspectives: Pop Culture and Peer Culture
Organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC
Jessica Poser, Harvard Univ.: Frames of Reference: An Ethnography of Children’s Representational Practices
Jennifer Reich, Univ. of Denver: Children’s Challenges to Efforts to Save Them: An Ethnographic Examination of Children’s Interactions with Child Protective Social Workers
Melissa Salazar, UC Davis: Counting Croutons: Children’s Food Culture in the School Lunchroom
Kathryn Gold Hadley, CSU Sacramento: Creating Peer Cultures in a Chinese School
Raechel Lizon, BYU: Playing it Cool: Adolescent Popularity, Identity, and School Involvement
137) Advertising and Consumerism in Contemporary Society
Organizer: David Boyns and George Skiles, CSU Northridge
Alex Loretto and David Boyns, CSU Northridge: Aquafetish: A Study of Bottled Water Consumption
Melinda Messineo, Ball State Univ.: Images of Gender and Niche Advertising: Spike TV vs. Lifetime Television
Eileen Ie, and David Boyns, CSU Northridge: On Postmodern Hunger: A Study of Mass Media Deprivation
Giselle Touzard, UNLV: Attorney Advertisement: From Public Service to Business
138) Author Meets Critics: Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture
Organizer: Marc Flacks, CSU Long Beach
Author: Robert C. Bulman, St. Mary’s College
Critics: Betsy McEneaney, CSU Long Beach
TBA, CSU Long Beach
Michele Weiss, New Line Cinema
Marc Flacks, CSU Long Beach
Stacy Beckley. CSU Long Beach
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
139) Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities,
Exercises, and Strategies for Classrooms and Communities
Organizer and Discussant: Edith Wen-Chu Chen, CSU Northridge
Gina Masequesmay, CSU Northridge: Teaching about Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues
W. David Wakefield, CSU, Northridge: Understanding Privilege in American Society
Edith Wen-Chu Chen, CSU Northridge: Deconstructing the Model Minority Image: Asian Pacific Americans, Race, Class, Gender and Work
140) Pedagogies of Hope: Promoting Civic Engagement in a Bad News World
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ.
James P. Marshall, Univ. of Northern Colorado: Promoting Hope and Civic Engagement through Applied Sociology
Christopher Campbell, Univ. of Washington: Charrettes, Partnerships, and Community Projects: Lessons from the Planning Profession for Creating a Better World
Bill Grigsby and Linda Jerofke, Eastern Washington Univ.: Creating a Haven from Hunger: Building social Capital in Rural Oregon
141) Gender and Immigration in the Era of Globalization II
Organizer: Sandra Ezquerra, Univ. of Oregon
Maria E. De La Torre, Univ. of Oregon: Emasculation, Military Crossings, and Migrant “Invasions” in the Aftermath of Katrina
C. Allison Newby, New Mexico State Univ.: Gendered Crossings: Migration and Transborder Dynamics in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas
Gretchen Purser and Greggor Mattson, UC Berkeley: Day Laborers and Night Walkers: The Gendered Moralities for Migrant Workers
142) Natural Resource Sociology: Problems and Policies I
Organizer: Brandon Chapman, WSU
Caroline Lee, UCSD: What Difference Does Participation Make? Competing Cultures of Deliberation in Conservation Decision-Making
Troy Lepper, Colorado State Univ.: Banking on a Better Day: Water Banking in the Arkansas Valley
Brandon Chapman, WSU: Shoreline Exchange and Resilient Management in Latin American Artisanal Fisheries
143) Cinematic Sociologies: Film and Sociology, Film as Sociology
Organizer: Martin Hughes and Danielle Biconik, Indian Univ. of Pennsylvania
Robert Bulman, Saint Mary’s College: The Sociological Imagination Goes to Hollywood: Notes on Developing a Sociology of Film
Macarena Gomez-Barris, USC: Enacted Memories: Marilu Mallet’s La Cueca Sola
Thomas Barry, Central Oregon Community College: Rock and Roll Mythology and Ideology
Seio Nakajima, UC Berkeley: Watching the Documentary in Contemporary Urban Chinese Film Clubs: Consumption as Production of Public Discourse
Martin Hughes and Danielle Biconik, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania: Down Sunset Boulevard: Have Movies About Hollywood Changed as Hollywood Has Changed?
144) Masculinities I
Organizer Don Naylor, USC
Discussant: Rebecca Klatch, UCSD
Stacey L. Coleman, Univ. of Oregon: Doing Masculinity Differently? Men Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity
Kumiko Nemoto, Western Kentucky Univ.: Paradoxes of Racialized Desires: the Construction of White Masculinities among Asian American Women
John A. Stover III, Loyola Univ. Chicago: Working the Radical Faerie Runway: Replications of Hegemonic Masculinity
Rebecca Scott, UCSC: Masculinity and Mining
145) Author Meets Critics: Goffman Unbound! A New Paradigm
Presider: Thomas J. Scheff, UCSB
Author: Thomas J. Scheff, UCSB
Critics: John Heritage, UCLA
Aaron Cicourel, UCSD
146) Popular Culture: Games, Fame, Fortune and Friends
Organizer: Beth Jennings, Pitzer College
Angela DiLaura, Pitzer College: Sex Education and Sexual Behavior in Students at Claremont Colleges
Corey O’Malley and Issac Speer, Pitzer College: Transcendent Motivation of the Islamic Revolution
David Price, Pitzer College: A Skateboarder’s Journey
Garett Staley, Pitzer College: Don’t Fold Before the Miracle Happens: Poker Recovery and a Sense of Belonging
147) Playing Sociologist with Harry Potter
Organizer: Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte
Gunnar Valgeirsson, CSU Los Angeles: Sociology of Sport Plays Quidditch
Derrick Patterson, CSU Los Angeles: Caste Systems and Class Bias in the Wizarding World
Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSU Los Angeles: Class Consciousness and False Consciousness among the Elves
Anthony Francoso, UCSB: Hermione and the Failure of Social Agency
148) Advances in Domestic and International HIV/AIDS Research
Organizer: Shari Dworkin, Columbia Univ.
Lisa Taylor, Oregon State Univ.: Oppression and the AIDS Crisis: An Examination of the Attitudes and Practices of African American Women on a College Campus
Kari Lerum, Univ. of Washington Bothell: Sex Workers and AIDS Activists: A Cross National Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Intervention Programs
Mike Stirratt, Columbia Univ.: Beyond Condoms: Emergent Sexual Risk Reduction Practices of Among Gay Men
Shari Dworkin, Columbia Univ.: The Intersection of Microfinance and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Global Debates, Needs, and Evidence
149) Sociology of Memory: New Conceptualizations of Social Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private?
Organizer: Noel Packard, The New School
Discussant: Ester E. Hernandez, CSU L.A.
Snezhana Korovina-Reymers, UFA State Aviation Technical University: The Role of Polychromatic Phenomena in the Semantic Movement in the Social Time
Dino Koutsolioutsos, Pacific Oaks College: The Culture of Psychotherapy and Collective Memory Loss in the American Family
Roberta Bartoletti, University of Urbino: The Crisis of Collective Memory and the Tourist Exploitation of Nostalgia: The Case History of Heidiland-Heididorf in the Swiss Alps
Noel Packard, The New School: Care and Control of Psychotherapy: The Goring Institute and the FMSF Compared
150) Transforming the Body, Transforming the Self: Body Modification and Identity
Organizer: Desire J.M. Anastasia, Wayne State Univ.
Xuan Santos, UCSB: Tattooed por Vida: The Intersectionality of Race, Class, Gender and Tattoos
Katie DeVriese, ASU: The Underground World of Suspension
Desire J. M. Anastasia, Wayne State Univ.: Equality and Identity of Tattooed Women in Educational Television Programming: A Qualitative Content Analysis
Ada Van Roekel, New Mexico State Univ.: Inking Culture: The Role of Tattoo Artists in Managing Female Client Identities
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm
151) The Sociology of Bluegrass and Old Time Music
Organizer: Garian Vigil, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Melissa Burnell, SFSU: Mountain Feminism: A Critical Look at the Music of Hazel Dickens and the Feminist Space with Bluegrass Music
Robert Gardner, Linfield College: The Sociology of Bluegrass
Marion Leighon-Levy, Rounder Records: Examinations in Class Difference in Hazel and Alice
Garian Vigil, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Identity and Old Time String Band Music
152) Author Meets Critics: Changing Corporate America from the Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights
Organizer: Verta Taylor, UCSB
Author: Nicole Raeburn, USF
Critics: Jane Ward, UCR
David Meyer, UC Irvine
Kristen Schilt, UCLA
153) Sex and TV: Subverting Gender on the Small Screen
Organizer: Randy Blazak, Portland State University
Charisse Corsbie-Massay, USC, Television Conventions and Beauty Pageant Ideology
Yolanda V. Sanders, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: How a Sexualized Media’s Portrayal of Women’s Bodies Inform Our Society’s Notion of the Beauty Ideal: What Messages Are Embedded Within the Media’s Portrayal of the Female Body?"
Randy Blazak, Portland State Univ.: Desperate Househusbands: The Failed Prophecy of Stay-At-Home Dads"
154) Children and Parents
Organizer: Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado Denver
C. Ariel Richardson, UC Berkeley: Boy’s Literacy
Tsui-o Tai, UC Irvine: Child Poverty in Taiwan: An International Perspective
Jessica A. Balsam, Linfield College: Women and Work: A Theological Dilemma
April Cubbage-Vega, UCR: Adolescent Girls’ Body Image: Resistance, Complicity and the Role of Female Relationships
Amy Lynn Santos and Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Is It Better to Give When You Conceive?
155) C. Wright Mills and the Power Elite: Playing with the Text Fifty Years Later
Organizer: Eric Honda, CSU Fresno and Scott Parker, Univ. of Nevada-Reno
William Domhoff, UCSC: The Power Elite at the Age 50: The Right, The Wrong, and the Overlooked
Richard Zweigenhaft, Guilford College: Diversity in the Power Elite: 1956, 1996 and 2006
Clifford Staples, Univ. of North Dakota: A Global Power Elite?
Allan Warnke, Malaspina Univ. College: The Bilderbergers and C. Wright Mills’ Concept of the Higher Circles
156) Masculinities II
Organizer: Don Naylor, USC
Cenk Ozbay, USC: Virilities for Rent: Queering Class Boundaries in Istanbul
Lindsey Brooke Fees and John Parsi, ASU: The Heterosexuality of Contemporary Man: The Path from Metrosexual to Ubersexual
Marc de Jong, USC: Masculinity, Nationalism, and News Frames: A Dutch Case Study
Nicholas C. Delsordi, ASU: Inequality and Relationship Structure in the Gay and Lesbian Community: The Role of Sex, Gender, and Feminist Identity
157) Sociology of Religion I
Organizer: Dana Greene, Appalachian State Univ.
Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay: Gender, Religion, and Infertility: Religious Experience and Women’s Responses to Infertility
Benjamin McKune, BYU: Religiosity and Academic Achievement Among American Adolescents
Amanda Peden, Whitman College: Worshiping the Body: Body-Work and Identity in Seventh Day Adventism and the Environmental Movement
158) “Asian Fusion?” Myths and Realities of Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Asian Americans II
Organizers: Kayoko Sekiyama and Sam S. Kim, ASU
Roksana Badruddoja, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey: Second-Generation South Asian American Women, Territories of the Self, and the Power of Hegemony (or Not): (Authentic) Cultural Production and Consumption as Sites of Visibility and Invisibility
Yung-Yi (Diana) Pan, UC Irvine: Through the Transnational Kaleidoscope: Taiwanese American Women’s Shifting Gender Ideologies
Melissa Fujiwara, USC: “It Was Legal to Hate Us”: Confronting State Racialization through Personal Agency in the Aftermath of the WWII Japanese American Concentration Camps
Michael P. Perez, CSU Fullerton: Where’s the “Pacific” in “Asian Pacific?”: To ‘P’ or Not to ‘P,’ To ‘A’ or Not to ‘A’ as Told from a Diasporic Pacific Islander Perspective
159) Curricular Models in Sociology
Organizers: Charles Powers and Marilyn Fernandez, Santa Clara Univ.
Charles Powers and Marilyn Fernandez, Santa Clara Univ.: Evolution of a Developmental Curriculum: A Case Study of the Sociology Program at Santa Clara University
J. Daniel McMillin and Kenneth Nyberg, CSU Bakersfield: The Role of an Applied Research Center in Professional Development of Sociology Majors: A Case Study of California State University Bakersfield
Charles F. Hohm CSU Dominguez Hills: Pursuit of Curricular Excellence in Sociology: A Dean’s View
160) Crime, Delinquency, and Deviance
Organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Sharon Kantorowski Davis, Univ. of La Verne: You Can’t Go Home Again: Caseworker Accounts of Family Situations of Delinquent Boys Who Emancipate
Matthew Boswell, San Jose Sate Univ.: Testing the General Theory of Crime in an Ethnically Diverse Population
David Musick and Kristine G. Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado: Prison Perversions Revisited: Sex, Violence, and Disease
161) Current Research on Chicana/os and Latina/os III
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento: A Critical Analysis of the Relationship between Levels of Racial Diversity at Work and labor Conditions Experienced by Mexican Transnational Migrants
David R. Diaz, CSU Northridge: Barrio Urbanism and the Structural Influence of Chicanos on Spatial Relations in the Cities of the Southwest
Mario Barera, UC Berkeley: Are Latinos a Racialized Minority?
162) Navigating the Academic Career: Common Issues and Uncommon Strategies
Organizer: Victor Shaw, CSU Northridge
Ruth Masters, CSU Fresno: Critical Lessons for the Faculty: Some Observations as Chair of Our University’s Board on Retention and Tenure…?
Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State Univ.: Issues in Orienting New Faculty: Thoughts from Both Sides of the Divide
Sandra Way, New Mexico State Univ. and Gary Pivo, Univ. of Arizona: Underrepresented Minority Student Attrition in Graduate Education: A Multi-Level Survival Analysis
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ.: What’s Good Writing in Feminist Research? What Can Feminist Researchers Learn about Good Writing?
Abby Javurek-Humig and Cecily Jeser-Cannavale, New Mexico State Univ. and Lisa Frehill, UC Irvine: New Mexico State University: Junior Faculty Navigating the Promotion and Tenure Process
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
163) Applied Sociology
(Sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied, Clinical Sociology)
Organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Fred Preston, UNLV: Methodological Challenges in Outcome Measurement
Jamee Roberts, Westminster College: What We Want To Believe: Society’s Reaction to Deviance and Sexual Offender Treatment Efficacy
Ronald Smith, UNLV: Architectural Sociology as Public Sociology
164) Author Meets Critics: The Mismeasure of Crime
Organizer: Scott Akins, Oregon State Univ.
Authors: Clayton Mosher, WSU, Terry Miethe, UNLV and Dretha Phillips, WSU
Critics: James F. Short Jr., WSU
Charles R. Tittle, North Carolina State Univ.
Robert O’Brien, Univ. of Oregon
165) Facing the Limits of Medical Care: How Much is Enough? Issues of Cost, Quality and Access
Organizer: Eldon Wegner, Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa
Karla L. Hewlett-Winthrope, CSU Los Angeles: Is There a Right Health Care System?
Marcia Marx, CSU San Bernardino: A Structural Analysis of the Medical Bureaucracy: Comparing Theories of Organizations
Olga Bright, CSU Chico: Immigrants Labor Market Concentration and Access to Health Insurance
Eldon Wegner, Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa: European Efforts to Reform Health Care Under the Current Public Financial Crisis
Stephanie Ayers, ASU: Chronic Illness and Health Seeking Information on the Internet
166) Video: Creating a Place at the Table
(Sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
Organizer: Deborah Singer, San Diego, CA
Film Producers: Kathy Hines and Becky Burklee, Sun and Moon Vision Productions
167) Applying for Academic Jobs
(Sponsored by the Committee on Student Affairs)
Organizer: Emily Walton, Univ. of Washington
Kristin Bates, CSU San Marcos: Getting Started: Timeline for Job Search and Preparation of Application Materials
William Roy, UCLA: The Academic Job Talk
Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State Univ.: The Academic Interview
April Linton, UCSD: More on the Academic Interview
168) What Happened to Sisterhood? Feminist Reflections on Collective Struggle
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Michelle M. Jacob, MiraCosta College
Rebecca Jasso-Aguilar, Univ. of New Mexico: Women’s Participation in Cochabamba’s Water Struggle: Theoretical Underpinnings of a New Kind of Resistance
Sylvanna Falcon, UCSB: Cross-Border Dialogues: Feminists from the Americas Discussing Transnational Alliances and Struggle
Yen Le Espiritu, UCSD: A Critical Transnational Perspective on Sisterhood
Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos: Been Using My Tears to Mop Your Floor
169) Evaluation of the Efficacy of Juvenile Delinquency: Diversion, Prevention, and Intervention Programs
Organizer: Andrew Dick, CSU Chico and Kenneth Laundra, Southern Utah Univ.
James McKeever, USC: Captive Audience, Captive Presenters
Veronica Van Ry, Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office and J. Daniel McMillin, CSU Bakersfield: The Kern County Truancy Reduction Program: The Effectiveness of a Program to Reduce Unexcused Absences and Cost Savings
Rachel McKneely and Michael Rutkowski and Jaime Franklin and Bert Burraston, BYU: Parenting Interventions for the Reduction of Juvenile Delinquency
James Lee, San Jose State Univ. and Philip Carr and Tiffanie Burke, Univ. of South Alabama: Digging Out of Trouble: Archeology as Educational and Prosocial Activity
David J. Cherrington, James K. Fisher, and HoonKu Song, BYU: The Effectiveness of Cognitive Treatment Programs in Changing Behavior
170) A Different Pedagogy: Collaboration, Hope, and Action in Faculty/Student Training and Research
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ., and Jessica Fields, SFSU
Discussant: Jodi O’Brien, Seattle Univ.
Jessica Fields and Elena Flores, SFSU: Teachers, Learners, Colleagues, and Mentors: Rethinking Faculty and Student Relationships
Valerie Francisco, SFSU: Transformative Pedagogy: Humanizing Research and Researchers
Dana Rudie and Elizabeth Trusdell, SFSU: Creating and Challenging Safe Space: Race and Sexuality in a Research Group
171) “Asian Fusion”?: Myths and Realities of Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Asian Americans I
Organizers: Kayoko Sekiyama and Sam S. Kim, ASU
Li Zhu, ASU: Exploratory Study on Multiracial Cohabitation: Comparison between Asian Americans and Whites
Keith Robinson and Angel Harris, Univ. of Michigan: Can Parental and Peer Culture Explain Inequality in Test Performance and College Enrollment between Whites and Asian Americans?
Yun Zhou, ASU: The Influence of Cultural Background and Education on Asian American’s Family Formation in Early Adulthood
Mike Cerneant, Insight Worldwide Research: Vietnamese Perceptions of Birth Control: An Applied Approach
172) Sports and Fitness in a Globalized World I
Organizer: Faye Wachs, Cal Poly Pomona
Laura Chase, Cal Poly Pomona: Clydesdale, Athena, Filly or Penguin: Exploring the Construction of Distance Running Identity, Virtual Running Communities
Carl Stempel, CSU East Bay: The Gendered Ritual Functions of High School Sports and the Conversion of Sporting Capital to Economic Capital
Kevin Young, Univ. of Calgary: Shadow Dancing: Disclosure, Deflection, and Disguise in the Canadian Hazing Debate
Faye Wachs, Cal Poly Pomona and Shari Dworkin, Columbia University: Size Matters: Male Body Panic and the Third Wave Crisis of Masculinity
173) To Live and Die in L.A.: Race, Hip Hop and Popular Culture I
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Race and Ethnicity)
Organizer: Sharon Yee, ASU
Discussant: Keith Harrison, ASU
Christopher Schneider, ASU: Rap Music and Legal Definitions of Obscenity: A Case of Black Male Sexuality and United States Obscenity Law
Katie Furuyama, UC Irvine: Filipina/o and Korean American Represent: Racial and Ethnic Identity in Accessing Hip Hop Culture
Mako Fitts, Seattle Univ.: Giving Voice to the Auteur: Industry Insiders and Their Perspectives on Cultural Production
173A)Video Session: China: The Search for Common Ground
Organizer and Presider: Raymond Olson, Producer, College of Dupage
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
5:15 pm-6:00 pm
PSA Business Meeting
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
9:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Student Reception (Note: Books donated by the publishers and $50 PSA checks will be raffled off.)
SUNDAY, APRIL 23
Summary of Events
8:00 am - 10:00 am Registration
8:30 am – 1:30 pm Sessions
8:30 am – 10:00 am 2007 Council Meeting
SUNDAY, APRIL 23
8:30 am – 10:00 am
174) Music and Resistance
Organizer: Ryan Moore, Florida Atlantic Univ.
Mike Roberts, SDSU: A Working Class Hero is Something To Be: The Musicians’ Union’s Attempt to Ban the Beatles
Robert Vodicka, Univ. of Kansas: “This isn’t Van Halen” or Black Flag’s Lessons for the Academy
Matt Stahl, UCSD: Artists vs. Hired Hands: Work for Hire and Dispossessive Authorship in the American Recording Industry
Ryan Moore, Florida Atlantic Univ.: What Would Jerry Do? Rethinking Countercultural Resistance
175) Sociological Theory
Organizer: David Boyns, CSU Northridge
Sandra Casillas, UCR: Organizational Culture and an Examination of Anthony Giddens
Mazen Hashem, CSU Northridge: Neglected Dimensions in Ethnic Relations Explanatory Models
Gary Horlacher, USC: Dynamic Systems Modeling of Changing Value Systems: Gay/Lesbian Mormons
Bernie Lau, CSU Northridge: Pluralism in Sociology: A Theory of Sociological Justification
David A. Lopez and Natalie F. Trizzino, CSU Northridge: The Expressionist Art Movement and Industrial Music Culture: A Working Paper
176) Whiteness and Racial Minorities II
Organizers: Adalberto Aguirre and Shoon Lio, UCR
Mary Romero, ASU: Wearing the Emperor’s Clothes, Speaking English, and Other Forms of disciplining Brown Bodies in Domestic Service: A Narrative from Maid’s Daughter
James Fenelon, CSU San Bernardino: Indian or Tribal: Racial and Ethno-National Representations in a Sea of Whiteness
Lisa Sun-Hee Park, UCSD: Consuming Citizenship: The Racial Paradox of Growing Up Asian American
Kimberly Torres, Univ. of Pennsylvania: If You’re a Black Person, You Should at Least Understand Where I’m Coming From: Segregation and the Interracial Divide among Black Students at an Ivy League University
177) Social Inequalities in Health
Organizer: Olga Bright, CSU Chico
Sheila Steinberg, Steven Steinberg, and Jennifer Pollom, Humboldt State Univ.: Mapping Social Inequalities in Health: Examining the Role of Poverty
Linda Ramos, California Lutheran Univ.: Death in a Stratified Society: The Effects of Social Stratification on Dying Strategies of Terminal Cancer Patients
Michelle Bata, Fordham Univ.: The Political Economy of Obesity
Roberto Castro and Lauren Castro, BYU: Effects of Income, Gender, Age, and Industry on Workers’ Compensation Claim Denials in Utah
Juyeon Son, Univ. of Oregon: Immigrant Health Effects: Sameness and Differences of Immigrants and Their Impact on Health Status
178) Visual Sociology
Organizer: Melanie Klein, CSU Northridge
Thomas Kemple, Univ. of British Columbia and Laura Huey, Kwantlen Univ. College: Observing the Observers: The Dialectic of Invisibility and Counter-Surveillance on “Skid Row”
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ.-La Jolla and Karen Offitzer, National Univ.-Los Angeles: Visualizing Death: Documenting the Rise of the Corpse in Contemporary Pop Culture
DeMond Miller, Rowan Univ.: The Aesthetic Value of Landscapes and Place Orientation After a Natural Disaster
Donna Patte-Ballard, College of the Canyons and James Ballard, CSU Northridge:
Transmuting One’s Social Identity Through Art: The Art of the Sociological Imagination
179) Issues Concerning Young Adults
Organizer: Andrea Haar, Univ. of Colorado-Denver
Presider: Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colordo-Denver
Barb Mitchell, Simon Fraser Univ.: Chaos, Uncertainty and the Changing Life Course: Theorizing Emergent Transitions to Adulthood in Contemporary Society
Maria Monserud, WSU: Intergenerational Relationship and Affectual Solidarity between Young Adults and Their Grandparents
Oertel Sparks, BYU: The Connection Between Religion and Self-Worth for High School Students
180) Sociology of Religion II
Organizer: Dana Greene, Appalachian State Univ.
Presider: Reginald Bibby, Univ. of Lethbridge
Nels Paulson, ASU: Religion, Disaster Relief, and the Media
Reginald Bibby, Univ. of Lethbridge: Why Bother With Organized Religion? The Views of Insiders, Outsiders, and Fence-Sitters
Gordon Clanton, San Diego State Univ.: American Religious Diversity: Some Political Implications
Anna Bruzzese, SUNY Stony Brook: As Catholic as the Pope: How the Separated and Divorced Catholics Have Contested Their Marginalization
181) Undergraduate Paper Session: Research and Theory on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Persons
(Sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
Organizer: Dodd Bogart, Univ. of New Mexico
Geoffrey Fojtasek, UC Berkeley: Queer Eye for Straight America
Marc Sinclair, Univ. College of the Fraser Valley: A Reexamination of Laud Humphrey’s Tearoom Trade
Jay Paranada, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Transatlantic Queer Culture: A Dissection of US and UK Male Students
Chris Johnson, Susan Merrit, Azin Alavizadeh, and Nicholas Vay, Mira Costa Community College: Alternate Male Gender Identities in Native American Culture
182) Race, Gender and Prison
Organizer: Rebecca Trammell, UC Irvine
Discussant: Ingrid Bosetti, UC Urvine
Rebecca Trammell, Ingrid Bosetti, Ann Tran, and Christopher Peters: UC Irvine: Rethinking Prison Research: Triangulation. Methodology and the Importance of Asking the Right Question
Sharon O. Oselin, UC Irvine: Alternatives to Prison: Prostitutes Sentenced to a Treatment Program
Matthew Boswell, San Jose State Univ.: Informal Social Controls and Inmate Attitudes in a Local Jail
Phillip Goodman, UC Irvine: Racializing Moves: An Ethnography of Race and Segregation in California’s Reception Centers
183) Natural and Resource Sociology: Problems and Policies II
Session Organizer: Brandon Chapman, WSU
Martin Orr, Boise State Univ.: A Sociology of Peak Oil: Causes, Consequences, and the Future
Kathy Kaiser, CSU Chico: Tempest in a Tea Pot or How We Got “LEED” Sustainability Project for Student Services Building at CSU Chico
Terri Pfeifer, UNLV: If Wilderness is a Virgin, Then You Know She Really Wants It: Linguistic Therapy of the Language of the Environment
Ashley Apel, Whitman College: Saving Nemo: Community Involvement in the Development of Marine Protected Areas
184) Navigating Higher Education in California: From Community Colleges to State Universities
Organizer: Victor Shaw, CSU Northridge
Ruth Masters, CSU Fresno
Betty Condon Odello, Pierce College
Cindy Parish, San Bernardino Valley College
Patty Robinson, College of Canyons
Kathy Oborn, Pierce College
185) Transforming the Body, Transforming the Self: Cultural Bodies and Identity
Organizer: Desire J.M. Anastasia, Wayne State Univ.
Shelley Eriksen, CSU Long Beach, and Sara Goering, Univ. of Washington, Seattle: Cosmetic Surgery and the Medicalization of Identity
Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union: Creating the Christian Body: Practices of Bodily Change in Evangelical Christianity
Rebekah Villafana, CSU Northridge: To Pierce or Not to Pierce: The Why Behind Removable Body Modifications
Chrisy Moutsatsos, UC Irvine: The Gaze of the Global Cosmetic Industry and Local Bodies in the Urban Greek Day Spa
SUNDAY, APRIL 23
10:15 am – 11:45 am
186) California’s Medical Marijuana Law: Assessing the Implementation and Impact of Proposition 215
(Sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied, and Clinical Sociology)
Organizer: Jesse Goplen, Humboldt State Univ.
Lisa Rohrabacher, Humboldt State Univ.: Future Medicalization of Cannabis
Matthew Compton, Humboldt State Univ.: Focusing the Sociological Lens on a Medical Marijuana Documentary
Donald Chia Humboldt State Univ.: Production, Distribution, and Regulation of Medical Cannabis
Tim Faiella, Humboldt State Univ.: Medicinal Marijuana: Medication or Legitimized Recreation?
Jesse Goplen, Humboldt State Univ.: Becoming a Medical “Marijuana User”: Becker’s Thesis Today
187) Immigrant Workers and Guest Worker Programs
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Roberto M. De Anda, Portland State Univ.: The Bracero Program and contemporary Proposals for a guest Worker Program
Huei-Hsia Wu and Richard Baker, Boise State Univ.: Undocumented Mexican Migrant Workers in the Idaho Labor Market: A Sociodemographic Profile
Stephanie Allen, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Residency and Immigrants’ Language Skills: A Quantitative Study of How Length of Residency in the U.S. Affects Immigrants’ Language Skills
188) Mediated Images, Constructed Realities
Organizers: Lindsey Brook Fees and John Parsi, ASU
Christopher Clayton Childress, UCSB: Ordering the Court: The Transmission of reception of Morality in “Reality” Courtrooms
Michelle Janning, Whitman College: The Reality of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: A Participant Observation Study of the Cultural Production of Community
Hillary K. Valderrama, UCR: A Picture of Welfare in America
Tamara Mix, Oklahoma State Univ.: Wilderness Symbols or Bloodthirsty Killers? The Role of Media Representation in Alaska’s Aerial Wolf Control Controversy
Nicki Lisa Cole, UCSB: Live form New York: Racial Formation on Saturday Night Live!
189) Strategies for Teaching Undergraduate Students Writing in Sociology
Organizer: Linda Heuser, Willamette Univ.
Susan Palmer, Walla Walla Community College: Scaffolding: Build It the Write Way
Amy Qiaoming Liu, CSU Sacramento: How to Make Writing Social Research Papers Easy but Effective: Learning Tools in Undergraduate Teaching
Debra Guckenheimer, UCSB: Writing and Sociology: A Bi-Disciplinary Approach
Linda Heuser, Willamette Univ.: The Writing Studio: A Pilot Project
190) Undergraduate Paper Session: Race and Ethnicity
(Sponsored by the Committee on Race and Ethnicity)
Organizer: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Katherine Courtnage, Linfield College: The Other Side of the Tracks: Peer Segregation in High School
Terin Walton-Rantz, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: Film Media Depictions of the African American “Race”
Maggie Chiang, Boise State Univ.: Demographic Changes and urban Education of Racial Minority Children in Idaho
Antoine Diwight Roberson, Los Angeles, CA: The Manifestation of Poverty in Inner City Los Angeles
191) Sport and Fitness in a Globalized World II
Organizer: Faye Wachs, Cal Poly Pomona
Katrina Brown, Univ. of Wyoming: Towards the Globalization of Title IX: A Socio-Legal Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Gender, Equity via Sports Law
Jessica Chin, Univ. of Maryland-College Park: Global Capitalism Meets Local Post-Communism: Tensions in Transition as Expressed Through Sport and Physical Culture in Contemporary Romania
Jang-young Lee, Kookmin Univ., HanGon Kim, Yeungnam Univ. and Byoung Mohk Choi, Far East Univ.: The Relation Between International Competitiveness and Olympic Results
192) Democracy and Capitalism II
Organizer: Ernest Cioffi, Cal Poly Pomona
Clifford Staples, Univ. of North Dakota: Citizenship and Transnational Corporate Governance
Mark Horowitz, New Mexico State Univ.: Theorizing Beyond Capitalism in an Uncertain Mood
Clayton Peoples, Univ. of Nevada-Reno: Contradictions in Capitalist Democracy: Is it Really “Rule by the People” or is it “Rule by the Few?”
Nicholas C. Delsordi, ASU: The Effects of Neoliberal Policy Shifts on Democratic Governance among Western States Under Differing Cultural and Structural Conditions
193) Juvenile Delinquency: Qualitative Findings
Organizer: Kenneth Laundra, Southern Utah Univ. and Andrew Dick, CSU Chico
Paul-Jahi Price, Pasadena City College: Resident Leaving: Juvenile Hall
Sarah Ovink, UC Davis: Helping the Kids and Keeping the Lights On: Power, Legitimacy and Boundary Maintenance in an Urban Truancy Reduction Program
Courtney Rochelle, UC Berkeley: Female Gang Research in the San Francisco Bay Area
194) Open Session
195) Risk, Thrill, and Sex without Condoms: Applying Edgework: The Sociology of Risk Taking (Stephen Lyng, editor) to Gay Men’s Sex
[Note: We encourage all participants to read Edgework in advance of this session and bring their thoughts about its application to barebacking, sexual risk, and transgression among gay men.]
Organizer: Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.
Don Barrett, CSU San Marcos
Tony Valenzuela, W. Hollywood
Eric Rofes, Humboldt State Univ.
196) Cutting-Edge Content Analysis of Popular Culture
Organizer: Thomas Linneman, The College of William and Mary
Simon Gottschalk, UNLV: Fatal Acceleration: A Postmodern Analysis of Web Commercials
Tim Delaney, SUNY Oswego: A Qualitative Analysis of Seinfeld
Thomas Linneman, The College of William and Mary: Mainstream Coverage of Anti-Gay Speech Incidents
197) Issues in Sociological Theory
Organizer: Hiroko Inoue, UCR
Seth Abrutyn, UC Riverside: Toward an Integrative Theory of Group Solidarity: The American Jewish Community as a Case Study
Kirk Lawrence, UC Riverside: Ecological Rent: A World-Systems Perspective
Kristopher Proctor and Richard Niemeyer, UC Riverside: Social Power, Statecraft, and Political Crime
Michael Corman, Univ. of Victoria: Critical Research Strategies and Eco-Feminism: The Need to Reorient Social Inquiry for Inclusion of Ecology
SUNDAY, APRIL 23
12:00 pm -1:30 pm
198) Making Sociology Matter
Organizer: Alicia Gonzales, CSU San Marcos
Fredi Garcia, CSU San Marcos: Latinos and Racial Assimilation: Immigrants’ Perspective about Race
Susan Cratty, CSU San Marcos: Accommodation without Assimilation? A Critical Assessment of the AVID Program
Tamara Muizelaar, CSU San Marcos: Gender Equity in Math Classrooms
Ana M. Ardon, CSU San Marcos: Educational Disparities of Latina Teen Moms
199) Religion and Community II
Organizer: David McKell, NAU
Discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Uni.
Marilyn McShane and Frank Williams III, Univ. of Houston and Thomas Winfree, New Mexico State Univ.: Religion, Crime and Delinquency
Timothy Kubal, CSU Fresno: The Discourse of Civil Religion and the National Origin Myth
John Mihelich, Univ. of Idaho: Mary Mother of Jesus as “Our Lady of the Rockies”: Reflexive Catholic Practice and Community Culture
200) Undergraduate Paper Session: Gender
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Cythnia Siemsen, CSU Chico
Alaina Fernandez, CSU Chico: Online Merchandising: A Case Study of Gender Ideology and America’s Pastime.
Dana Perry, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Gender Roles in Western Classical Music.
Ronald Zibang Tong: UC Berkeley, Gender, Motherhood, Workplace: The Singapore Family.
Samantha Wolsky, Cal Poly Pomona: Differences in Men and Women’s Sports Literature: The Construction of Gender Ideals through a Market System of Advertisements and Fitness.
201) Discourse, Power, Subjectivity: Inspecting the Production of Subjects and Subjectivity in Society
Organizer: Don Winiecki, Boise State Univ.
Bill Bogard, Whitman College: Touching in Advance: The Control/Pleasure Horizon of Haptic Surveillance
Michael Blain, Boise State Univ.: The Politics of Victimage: Power and Subjection in the Global War on Terror
Christopher Schneider, ASU: Marxist and Foucauldian Perspectives of Consciousness: An Analysis of History and Power and the Resultant Social Development
Don Winiecki, Boise State Univ.: Making and Maintaining the Subject in Call Centre Work
202) Ethnicity and Immigration to the United States III
Organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Roksana Badruddoja, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey: White Spaces and Brown Traveling Bodies: A Project of Re-Working Otherness
Xuanning Fu, CSU Fresno: Immigration and Its Potential Impact on Hawai’i’s Racial Composition: 1971-2000
Julie A. Dowling, Univ. of Illinois Champaign and C. Alison Newby, New Mexico State Univ.: Just Because We Speak the Same Language, Doesn’t Mean We Understand Each other: Afro-Cuban Encounters with Mexicans in the U.S. Southwest
203) Politics in Flux
Organizer: John Parsi, ASU
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Kenneth J. Barr, Andres Carlson, Rebecca Glem, Yvonne Hsu, Linda Kim, Kirk Lawrence, Shoon Lio, Richard Niemeyer, Christine Petit, Thomas E. Reifer, and Christopher Schmitt, UCR Global Elites Research Group: The Precursors of Conflict: Contours of Elite Integration in the 19th Century
Robert Hughes, New Mexico State Univ.: Exploring the “Apolitical” Middle: When “Left” and “Right” Don’t Apply
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas E. Refier, Richard Niemyere, and Anders Carlson, UCR: Trade Networks and the Contours of Conflict: A World War I Case Study
204) To Live and Die in L.A.: Race, Hip Hop, and Popular Culture II
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Race and Ethnicity)
Organizer: Sharon Yee, ASU
Discussant: Keith Harrison, ASU
Robert Alridge, Desiree Serrano, and Sharon Yee, ASU: Hip Hop: Music for all Races
Mike Chavez, UCR: The Myth of the Lowrider Gangbanger: Cholos, Ranflas and the Misconstruction of Race
Jooyoung Lee, UCLA: You Wanna Battle? Negotiating Peer Reputation and Social Order in the Emcee Cipher
William Broussard, Univ. of Arizona: Yo, Did the Prez Just Call Osama a “Hater”? The Cruel Irony of Hp-Hop Language in Popular Culture
205) Transformative Learning Experiences: What Are They and How Do You Get Them?
(Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
Organizer: Cathy Wong, CSU Stanislaus
Tamara Sniezek, CSU Stanislaus: Transformative Learning Within a Family Class
Elham Gheytanchi, Los Angeles Valley College: Teaching with an Accent
Echo Fields, Southern Oregon Univ.: SMISOC, Self-Ethnography, and Transformation in the Sociology Capstone Course
206) The Postmodern Family
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
Organizer: Marie Butler, Oxnard College
Lynn Comerford, CSU East Bay: Power and the Reproduction of Sexed Custodial Parenting
Davis Patterson, Univ. of Washington-Seattle: Negotiating Family Belonging: Same-Sex Couples, Supports and Strains
Leah Wagner, UC Irvine: Fairness and Housework: A Cross-National Comparison
Monique Balsam, Shawnee State Univ.: Kinship and Solidarity in Postmodern Families
207) Collective Memory
Organizer: John Ely, Saint Mary’s College
Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, Saint Mary’s College: Collective Memories: Alameda Point, California
John Ely, Saint Mary’s College: Exorcising Ghosts: The Repressing, Co-Opting and/or Quarantining of Historical Trauma in Transitional Romania
208) Keeping It Real(ity)? (Mis)Representations of Race and Gender on Reality Television Programs
Organizer: Rhonda E. Dugan, CSU Bakersfield
Gary Kinte Perry, Seattle Univ.: Black Judges and The(ir) Courtroom Drama: Symbols of Racial-Gender Progress or Twenty-First Century Minstrels?
Melissa Monson, Metropolitan State College of Denver: Ethnocentrism and the Amazing Race
Christina Collinwood and Jovan Pino, CSU Bakersfield: The Original Reality
Eduardo Batista, Univ. of Illinois Chicago and Rhonda E. Dugan, CSU Bakersfield: Voting Rites: Race, Gender, and the Ritual of Participant Elimination of Reality Television Programs
209) Producing Citizenship in Everyday Life
Organizer: Jeffrey Montez de Oca, USC
Jeffrey Montez de Oca, USC: Sport: Practices of Citizenship in Everyday Life
Megan Thiele, UC Irvine: Explaining Variance in State Spending in Public Post-Secondary Education: A Look at Legislature Identification with Target Populations
Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College: Mexican Illegal Aliens in the 20th Century U.S.