2007

PROGRAM 78th ANNUAL PSA MEETING, OAKLAND, CA MARCH 29-APRIL 1, 2007

THEME: SOCIOLOGY AND THE ACADEMY: ITS CURRENT AND PROSPECTIVE POSTION

SESSIONS

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
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
8:15 pm-9:00 pm evening video session: sociologist at work
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm welcome and new members dessert reception

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

1) Space, Place & Culture I
organizers: Brooke Neely, UCSB & Michelle Janning, Whitman College
Chris Wetzel, UC Berkeley: From Conflict to Consensus: Changing Cultures of Land in the Potawatomi Nation
Elena Windsong, Univ. of New Mexico: There’s No Place Like Home: Complexities in Conceptualizing Home
Rebecca Scott, UCSC: Uses of ATVs: Transgression, Property Rights & Tourism
Ophir Sefiha, ASU: Sacred Mountains Sacred Dollars: Multiple Discourses Surrounding Snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks

2) Forgiveness: Behavioral Dimensions
organizer: Darold Bigger, Walla Walla College
Barbara Hernandez, Loma Linda Univ.: An Overview of Forgiveness Research
Carla Gober, Loma Linda Univ.: Forgiveness & Memory
Frederic Luskin, Stanford Univ.: The Teaching of Forgiveness
Darold Bigger, Walla Walla College: Forgiveness: The Religious Dimension

3) Exploitation of Undocumented Workers
(sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties)
organizer: Liza Kuecker, Western New Mexico Univ.
Peter Brownell, Center for US-Mexican Studies: Sanctions for Whom? U.S. Worksite Immigration Enforcement & the Wages of Mexican Immigrants
Kathleen Dunn, Univ. of Colorado at Denver: Human Trafficking
Liza Kuecker, Western New Mexico Univ.: The Exploitation of Undocumented Workers: An International Perspective

4) Student Roundtable Discussion: Research Using the General Social Survey
organizer: Ellen Berg, CSU Sacramento
Julia Acuna, CSU Sacramento: African Americans’ Confidence in the Criminal Justice System
Alexis Clemons, CSU Sacramento: Social Class & Belief in the American Meritocracy
H. Tiffany King, CSU Sacramento: Religiosity & Health: A Quantitative Analysis Using the GSS
Monique Ford, CSU Sacramento: Neighborhood Diversity & Perceptions of African American Violence
LaTisha Clayton, CSU Sacramento: Union Membership & Perceptions of Control Over One’s Job
Ryan Fuller, CSU Sacramento: Social Class & Environmental Attitudes: A Regression Gauging Concern across Income Levels

5) Becoming an American: Immigrant & Later Generation Identity
organizer: Evelyn I. Rodriguez, USF
Alexandria Walton Radford, Princeton Univ.: Another Shade of White? Indian Immigrants in America
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, UC Berkeley: Extended Identities: Transnational Social Fields & Nigerian Second-Generation Immigrant Identity Formation
Jessica Vasquez, UC Berkeley: Race Across Generations: Thinned Attachment & Cultural Maintenance in Three-Generation Mexican American Families
Shigueru Tsuha, UCR: Japanese-Peruvian Identity & Group Affiliation

6) Consciousness & Social Change
organizer: Janine Minkler, Northern Arizona Univ.
Ellis Jones, UC Davis: Empowering Global Citizen-Consumers: The Democratization of Corporate Social Responsibility
Myra Ferell, Northern Arizona Univ.: The Sociology of Truth: The Absurd Reality of Perspective
Jessica Taft: UCSB: Open Your Eyes & See the Reality: Teenage Girl Activists Practices for Building Oppositional Consciousness
Toi Jean Carter, UCR: Camping In, Acting Out: An Ethnography of Activism, Solidarity & Resistance Among Allies of the South Central Farmers

7) Movement Research: Partnerships Between Social Justice Organizations, Funders & Researchers
organizer: Jessica Fields, SFSU
presider: Rita Melendez, SFSU
Flor Barajas Tena, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: The Role of Research in Community-Based Movements for Social Justice
Jessica Fields, SFSU & Isela Gonzalez, Forensic AIDS Project, SF Dept. of Public Health: Sharing Resources & Insights: Incarcerated Women, Educators & Researchers Studying Jail-Based HIV Education
Inger Brink & Surina Khan, The Women’s Foundation of California: Facilitators & Collaborators: Funders in the Research Process

8) Political Sociology
organizer: Alan Emery, CSU Fullerton
Mikhail Balaev, Univ. of Oregon: How International Trade & Militarization Influence Democracy: The Case of the Post-Soviet States
Songhua Hu, Stanford Univ.: China’s Socialist Revolution: A Perspective of Elite Competition
Alan Emery, CSU Fullerton: Absent Politics: The Neoconservative Theory of Democratic Regime Change

9) Masculinity & Identity
0rganizer: Daniel Morgan, Hawaii Pacific Univ.
Dan Pence, CSU Chico: Masculinities on Parade: Making Sense of What We See
James J. Dean, Sonoma State Univ.: Heterosexual Masculinities
James Thing, USC: We’re Here, We’re Queer, But We’re Not All the Same: Mexican Immigrant Men in Los Angeles Negotiating Multiple Identities

10) Graduate Student Paper Session: Open Topic
organizer: Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay
Lisa Speegle, Montana State Univ.: Socio-Economic Status & College Attendance
Benjamin A. McKune & John P. Hoffman, BYU: Academic Achievement & Delinquency: Modeling Reciprocal Effects
Megan S.Wright, Univ. of Arizona: Intergenerational Stratification & the United States Armed Forces: Early Educational Attainments of Military Dependents
Matthew Geraths, PSU: Early Sexual Intercourse: Subsequent Affects of Family Formation & Childbirth
Mirabel Nongni, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: Ethnic Identity in the African Diaspora

11) Workshop: Assignments & Activities that Work
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Marisol Clark-Ibanez, CSU San Marcos
Teri Pfiefer, UNLV: Shadowy Figures: A Pedagogical Exercise on ‘Othering’
Mark Bird, Community College of Southern Nevada: Prioritizing U.S. Child Abuse Factors: An Activity for Core Classes
John Gannon, Community College of Southern Nevada: Using Group Work to Increase Classroom Participation
Heather Wylie, Shasta Community College: Group Service-Learning Projects
Joan Meyers, UC Davis: Auto Ethnography as a Path to Sociological Imagination

12) Issues in Race & Ethnicity I
(sponsored by the Committee on Community College)
organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento: Conflicts, Global Inequalities, & a Mexican Transnational Community
Crystal C. Ramirez Barranti, CSU Sacramento: Non-Economic Factors & the Decision to Migration: Experiences of Mexican Immigrant Farmworkers in California
Anthony Blacksher, CSU San Marcos: Health Disparities in the Black Community & the Role of the Church
Matthew Powell, Diablo Valley College: Race, Pedagogy, & Learning Communities: The Ujima Program at Diablo Valle College
J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College: Empirical Research & the Black Panther Party

13) Ethnicity, Surveillance & The State
organizer: Mark Goodman, York Univ.
Lisa Welch, Southern Illinois Univ.-Edwardsville: Mainstreaming the Underclass: The New-Liberal Grand Narrative Meets the Lived Experience of Welfare Reform
Joe Takeda, Kwansei Gakuin Univ.: Immigration & Ethnicity in Japan
Mark Goodman, York Univ.: The ‘Black Family’ Under Scrutiny: Interrogating the Moynihan Report
Stacy K. McGoldrick, Cal Poly Pomona: Police, Riots & New Orleans Political Culture, 1854-1874

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

14) Mass Media & Social Control
organizer: Christopher J. Schneider, ASU
Christopher J. Schneider, ASU: Popular Culture: Music, Media & Everyday Life
Michael J. Coyle, ASU: The Language of Justice: Talking Justice with the Makers
Sam Kessler, ASU: Letters to the President: Music Preferences & Political Orientation of College Students

15) Airing the Dirty Laundry: Telling about Our Families & Communities
organizer: Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos
Coleen Fong, CSU East Bay: Marriages between Paper Sons & Rescued Prostitutes
Wendy Ng, San Jose State: Family Silences & Family Secrets: Reconstructing Chinese American Family History in the Era of Exclusion
Linda Pulliam, Humboldt State Univ.: Managing Stigma: How Families of Missing Persons Deal with Their Loved One’s Dirty Laundry
Marisol Flores, CSU San Marcos: Telling Our Mother’s Secrets

16) Sex Workers Rights Movements
organizer: Cheryl Radeloff, Minnesota State Univ.-Mankato
Crystal Jackson & Aleta Baldwin, UNLV: Who Notices When Sex Workers Unite? Theorizing a Liminal Social Movement
Antonia Levy, City Univ. of New York: The Prostitution Rights Movement in the US from an International Perspective
Charlene M. Tuchovsky, Univ. of Arizona: I Don’t Care if You’re Offended: Sex Workers Politics & Activism
Cheryl Radeloff, Minnesota State Univ.-Mankato: Basic Benefits for the Working Girl? The Dialogue between the State & Sex Worker Rights Movement

17) Current Research in Social Psychology
organizer: Michael M. Harrod, UCR
Michael J. Carter & Jan E. Stets, UCR: The Moral Self
David Orzechowicz, UC Davis: Work & Play: Actors Feeling Management & the Emotion Work/Emotional Labor Dichotomy
Yvonne Thai, UCR: The Altruistic Identity & Giving & Helping Behaviors
Allison Cantwell, UCR: Student Identity & Student Engagement

18) Complementary & Alternative Medicine
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Richard Lockwood, PSU
Joshua Murray, PSU: The Case for Naturopaths as Primary Care Providers
Wendy Chapkis, Univ. of Southern Maine & Richard J. Webb, CSU San Jose: Medical Marijuana: A ‘Crude Botanical’ in a World of ‘Pure Pharmaceuticals’

Richard Lockwood, PSU: Social Boundary Mechanisms: Professional Borrowing & Internal Differentiation

19) Critical Inquiries Into Domestic Violence
organizer: Susan B. Murray, San Jose State
Kristin L. Anderson, Western Washington Univ.: The Uses of Intimate Partner Violence Typologies: An Empirical Assessment
Zakiya Luna, Univ. of Michigan: States of Violence: Government, NGO & critical Perspectives on Violence
Hosai Ehsan, San Jose State: The Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Afghan Households
Adam Messinger, UCR: Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: Developing an Integrative Theory & Policy Recommendations

20) Assessment Practices
organizer: Judith Little, Humboldt State Univ.
Christine K. Oakley, WSU: Project Access
Kanghu Hsu, CSU Dominguez Hills & Denise Kinsella, Long Beach City College: A Review of the International Student Service Office
Doreen Anderson-Facile, CSU Bakersfield: Assessing the Graduate Program: What Do the Students Need to be Successful
Patricia K. Jennings, CSU East Bay: Structural & Ideological Barriers to Assessing Student Learning

21) Aspects of Higher Education
Organizer: Gregory T. Morales, SDSU
Lisa Wallace, SDSU: The New Majority of Status Seekers: The Socialization of Higher Education
Vanessa Rodriguez, Chaminade Univ.: Teaching Domestic Violence & Feminism from a Non-Mainstream Perspective
Gregory Morales, SDSU: Right Thinking-Deflecting Education
Patty Rangel, San Diego, CA: Multidisciplinary Research Funding

22) Religion & Community: I
organizer: David McKell, Northern Arizona Univ.
discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Univ.
James Reed & David McKell, Northern Arizona Univ.: Jesus in the Voting Booth: Observations on Religion & Voting Behavior
Thom Kearin, Weber State Univ.: Divided Religious Communities in Belfast Northern Ireland U.K.
Alexa Grochocki, Northern Arizona Univ.: A Search for Religion & Spiritual Fulfillment: Comparison between Germany & the U.S.A.
Alex Tucker & Jesse McKee, Northern Arizona Univ.: The Most Successful Religion in America “The NFL”: A Durkheim Perspective

23) Presidential Session: From the Outside In: Sociology Through the Eyes of Others
organizer: Stan Gaede, Gordon College
Robert A. Clark, Whitworth College: That Haircut Used to Look So Good…: The Changing Academic Ecology of Sociology in a Liberal Arts College
Charles F. Hohm, CSU Dominguez Hills: Thirty-Four Years of Viewing Sociology in the California State University System: A Dean’s Perspective on the Views of Non-Sociologists
Stan Gaede, Gordon College: Moving In & Out: A Former President’s Take on His Own Discipline

24) Student Session: Social Studies of Gender, Race & Socioeconomic Status
organizer: Amy Qiaoming Liu
, CSU Sacramento
Leisa Faulkner, CSU Sacramento: Race, Gender & Poverty
Jensen Kile, CSU Sacramento: Owning the Greener Grass: An Examination of Factors Affecting Homeownership
Lakeshia Lindner, CSU Sacramento: Race & Attitudes Towards Spanking
Jamie Snyder, CSU Sacramento: Socioeconomic Status & Voter Registration
Jessica Hayes, Amy Qiaoming Liu, Ginger Bennett & Kelley Burton, CSU Sacramento: Race, Gender, Class & Concerns about Civil Liberties
Kristie Harris, CSU Sacramento: Conscious Consumerism & the Fair Trade Movement: A Case Study in Sacramento

25) Race, Gender & Labor
organizer: Jake B. Wilson, UCR
Gary K. Perry, Seattle Univ.: Occupational Stereotyping in the Twenty-First Century: An Intersectionist Perspective
Karen Hossfeld, SFSU: Still ‘Small, Foreign & Female’ After All These Years: An Update on Immigrant Women Workers in Silicon Valley
Guida C. Man, York Univ.: Learning to be Good Citizens: Transnational Migration, Work & the Experience of Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada
Michael Chavez, Shigueru Tsuha & Jake B. Wilson, UCR: The Opposite of Brown: Mexican American & White Families & the Complexity of White Privilege

26) Sociology of Organizations I
organizer: Matthew Green, Univ. of Arizona
Gary Adler, Univ. of Arizona: Surviving the Storm: Organizational Change in Baton Rouge Catholic Churches
E. Carolina Apesoa-Varano, UC Davis: Boundary Work: Accomplishing Work among Hospital Practitioners
Matthew Green, Univ. of Arizona: Power & Commitment: Integrating Organizational & Social Exchange Theoretical Approaches

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

27) Presidential Session: A View From Below: The Hierarchy in Academic Sociology & the Community College Sociologist
(sponsored by the Committee on Community College)
organizer: Reid M. Helford, Columbia Basin College
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State: Reflections from the Middle: Making Sense of Elitism in our Midst
Joyce M. Johnson, Santa Rosa Junior College: Community College Sociology & the Pursuit of Community
Reid M. Helford, Columbia Basin College: Working in a High School with Ashtrays: The Community College Type

28) Using Films or Film Clips to Teach Sociological Concepts
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State Univ.
Mark Horowitz, New Mexico State Univ.: Teaching Critical Sociology through Documentation Films
Kell Joseph Akello Stone, El Camino College & Los Angles Southwest College: Multifacial: Race, Ethnicity, Identity & Society
Marisol Clark-Ibanez, CSU San Marcos & Susan Miller, Palomar College: Using Films in Sociology 101

29) Sociology, Ethics & Public Policy I
organizer & presider: Robert Gardner, Loma Linda Univ.
Diana R. Grant, Sonoma State: Police & Pot: Policy Implications of Relaxing Drug Use Standards for Officer Candidates
Ladan Ask, Claremont Graduate Univ.: Physician Addiction, Medical Ethics & Drug Policy
Sharon K. Araji: Sexually Aggressive Children: Consequences of Ignoring Their Existence

30) Encounters & Ethnographic Discoveries
organizer: Scott N. Brooks, UCR
Scott P. Murphy, UCR: With “The Guys”: Group Boundaries & Humor Across Levels of Analysis
Juan Pitones, UCR: From Bruce Lee to Royce Gracie: The New Martial Arts
Michael Chavez, UCR: Lowriders, Airbrushes & Performing Hypermasculinity
Scott N. Brooks, UCR: Paul’s Story: Innercity Networks & Tragedy

31) Music & Society
organizer: Garian Vigil, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Judah Matras & Edward H. Stanford, McGraw-Hill, Hebrew Univ. & Univ. of Haifa: Classical Music--Reports of Its Death Are Premature & Exaggerated: Findings & Insights from the Sociology of Music
Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento: Bike Messengers & Punk Rock
Nichols J. Bishop, Univ. of Colorado-Deniver & Health Sciences Center: Markets, Bureaucracies & the Wu-Tang Clan: Using William Ouchi’s Organizational Theory to Analyze American’s Hip Hop Super Group
Michel MacDonald, Edmonton, Alberta: Creating an Anglo Canadian Pub Culture

32) Religion & Gender
organizer: Nancy Martin, Univ. of Arizona
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ.: Mary Baker Eddy, Aimee Semple MacPherson, Terry Cole-Whittaker: Three Women Religious Leaders: Entrepreneurs, Celebrities & Feminists
Allen Kim, UCI: Biblical Father Formation: The Korean School Movement
Shawna L. Anderson & Jessica Hamar, Univ. of Arizona: Religiosity & Debt Differences by Gender

33) Activism & Academia: Graduate Employee Organizing & its Implications for Academic Work
organizer: Robert Vodicka, Univ. of Kansas
Lora Vess, Univ. of Oregon: Working for a Degree or Working for Change? The Influence of Labor Activism on Scholarship
Cedric de Leon, Univ. of Michigan: From Organizer to Teacher: Confessions of a Johnny-Come-Lately
Robert Vodicka, Univ. of Kansas: A Revaluation of All Academic Values

34) The Ballroom Phenomenon: Dance, Sexuality & Pop Culture
organizer & presider: Robert C. Bulman, St. Mary’s College
Emily A. Arnold & Abram Jackson, UCSF & Marlon M. Bailey, UC Berkeley: Coming of Age in the Ballroom Community: The Role Ballroom Participation Plays in Sexual & Gender Identity Formation
Celine Pettyjohn & Markus Kemmelmeier, UNR: Swingers: Masculinities & Male Sexualities in Ballroom Dance
Leslie Killgore, College of the Holy Cross: Ballroom Dancing: The Hidden World of Student Development in College
Allison Yamanashi, Saint Mary’s College of California: Sex & Gender on the Dance Floor: Exploring the Popularity of Ballroom Dance
Brandon Olszewski, Univ. of Oregon: El Cuerpo del Baile: The Phenomenological & Interpersonal Dynamics of Tango

35) Graduate Student Session: Race Matters: Critical Perspectives on Race
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer: Alicia M. Gonzales, CSU San Marcos
Ana M. Ardon, CSU San Marcos: Conciencia en Accion: Latino Family Involvement in the U.S. Educational System
Fredi Garcia, CSU San Marcos: Ethnography on Day Laborers: Racial Demarcations & Their Everyday Struggles
Anthony Blacksher, CSU San Marcos: Health Disparities in the Black Community & the Role of the Church
Marisol Flores, CSU San Marcos: Making Whiteness Visible: An Evaluation of the United Way’s Somos Familia Initiative

36) Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism & Political Violence
organizer: Colin J. Beck, Stanford Univ.
Alan Emery, CSU Fullerton: Legitimacy Crisis: Terrorism, State Terrorism & the Coming Defeat of U.S. Foreign Policy in Iraq
Ashraf Zahedi, UC Berkeley: Ideological Framing of Terrorism & Its Implications for World Peace
Bayliss J. Camp, Texas Christian Univ. & Ziad Munson, Lehigh Univ.: The Perceived Efficacy of Airport Security Screening Rituals
Edina Bohanec, UC Berkeley: Life Makers: A Nonviolent Approach to Transnational Islamic Activism

37) Sexuality & Social Institutions
organizer: Liahna E. Gordon, CSU Chico
Jays Janney, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington: How a Social Movement Made Australians Gay
Jillian Deri, Simon Fraser Univ.: Polyamory’s Challenge to Institutionalized Monogamy & the Coexistence of Contradictions
Libby Truesdell, SFSU: Queering Sexuality Education: Upheaval in Education
Kari Lerum, Univ. of Washington, Bothell: The Promise of Post-Modern Sex Education

38) Graduate Student Paper Session: Open Topic
organizer: Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay
Jane Ohgami, Stanford: Economic Disadvantage or Gender Equality: The Significance of a Gender Specific Account of Female Offending & the Gender Gap in Crime, 1993-2003
Alexis S. McCurn, UCSB: Fighting for the Front Stage: How the 1960s Became the Masculine Decade in Terms of Group Leadership of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Kristin Scherrer, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor: Reinventing the Wheel(?): How Does Research on Queer Identity & Health Utilize (or not) Racial/Ethnic Discrimination Theories?
Rebecca Karb, Univ. of Michigan: Childhood Health in Context: Neighborhood Safety & Body Mass Index Trajectories
Pat Crowley, Northern Arizona Univ.: Maintaining the Image: The Subculture of Skateboarding Strives to Keep its Deviant Label

39) Undergraduate Paper Session: The Social Construction of Identity I
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Nicole Ball, USC: Preschool: How Economics, Philosophy & Environment Shapes a Child’s Experience
Monica Nelson, Linfield College: Networking Websites & the Construction of Identity
Thea Chroman, Mills College: Bonding vs. Bounding: Taglit/Birthright in Israel & the Role of Conflict in Identity Construction
Christine Dembicki, Univ. College of the Fraser Valley: The Feline/Human Relationship: Furthering Interactionist Possibilities
Tom Van Heuvelen, Univ. of Puget Sound: A Conflict of Interest: Religious & Consumer Identities within the Megachurch

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
5:15 pm - 6:45 pm

40) Author Meets Critics: Chris Rhomberg, No There: Race, Class & Political Community in Oakland
organizer: Sohaila Shakib, CSU Dominguez Hills
presider: Ricky Bluthenthal, CSU Dominguez Hills
Author: Chris Rhomberg, Yale Univ.
Critics: Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
Isaac Martin, UCSD;
Stan Oden, CSU Sacramento

41) This session was canceled.

42) Sociology of Knowledge
organizer: Jennifer A. Winther, UCLA
discussant: Aaron Panofsky, UC Berkeley
Donald Winiecki, Boise State Univ.: Expert Witnesses & the Law: An Early Investigation of the Creation of Subjects & Subjectivity
Jennifer A. Winther, UCLA: Expert Knowledge in Policy ad Practice: Statisticians in Modern Japan
John Parker, ASU: Scientific Integration: Collaborative Dynamics of Disciplinary Synthesis
Justin Lee, UCLA: Institutionalizing Integration: A Sociological Investigation of the Science & Practice of Pyschotherapy Integration,

43) Undergraduate Session: Research & Theory on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Persons
(sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
organizer: Linda Silber, Baker Univ.
Arthur Chiu, UC Berkeley: The Construction of Sexual Identity
Jo Macdonald, Otago Univ of New Zeeland.: Embodying the Outlaw: Subversive Freedom from Discursive Foundationalism
Julianne Oothoudt, Linfield College: Household Division of Labor in Cohabiting Same-Sex Couples
Lindsey Balogh, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Transsexuals’ Struggles at Keeping Relationships
Althea Dunstan, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Do GLBT Support Systems Lessen the Effects of Bullying?

44) Sociology of Religion
organizer: James W. Coleman, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Presider: Nels Paulson, ASU
Anna Bruzzese, Los Angeles Pierce College: Starting Over, Moving On: The Functions of Support Groups for Separated & Divorced Catholics
Nels Paulson, ASU: Liberal Values, Religion & the Disputable Variance between Western & Islamic Civilizations
Stephanie Patterson, Saugus, CA: Congregation’s Affects on the Children of Spiritual Leaders’ Faith & Their Development of a Religious Self
John Mihelich, Univ. of Idaho & Jennifer Haylett, UC Davis: Religion & Youth: Doing the Best they Can

45) Popular Critiques of Capitalism
organizer: Charles S. Varano, CSU Sacramento
Antonia Levy & Jamie McCallum, CUNY Graduate Center: The New Impatience: The Anarchist Spirit & the Movement for Global Justice
Justin Paulson, Seattle Univ.: Popular/Populist Critiques of Capitalism & the American Right
Joergen Bro, Univ. of Utah: The Effect of Globalization on the Development of Political Democracy in the Developing World from 1974-2000

46) Sociology of Mental Health & Mental Disorder
organizer: Gary A. Cretser, CSU Pomona
Rebecca Godderis, Univ. of Calgary: I Have Sometimes Chosen to Live in a Fantasy World: A narrative Analysis of Brooke Shields’ Postpartum Depression Memoir
Lianna Hart, CSU Sonoma: Experiences of Mothers Who Have Children With Autism
Michelle Gladman, UNLV: Ecopsychology: Psychosocial & Environmental (Re)Connections
Gary Cretser, CSU Pomona: The Faster I Work, The Behinder I Get: Job Structure & Distress

47) Organizing Outside the Academy: Associations, Sections, and Discussion Groups
organizer: Ellis Godard, CSU Northridge
Discussant: Ellis Godard, CSU Northridge
Dean S. Dorn, CSU Sacramento: The History of the PSA
Douglas Parker, CSU Long Beach: Sociologists without Borders: History, Challenges & Prospects

48) Workshop: Repositioning Sociology in 3D for Social Justice: A Participatory Workshop
organizers: Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos & Jennifer Eichstedt, Humboldt State
presenters: Sharon Elise, Marisol Flores, Fredi Garcia & Anthony Blacksher, CSU San Marcos & Jennifer Eichstedt, Humboldt State Univ.
[Participants will be challenged to engage race, class, gender, and sexuality critically. This workshop is party based on a multi-media art and theatre installation that Jennifer hosted at Humboldt State Univ., which included confronting attendees with a variety of cultural forms, including a “theatre of the oppressed” where different voices, including the “audience” articulated racism and antiracism. The workshop also will include the performance of poetry and will create active participation by attendees. Our goals are to encourage sociologists to think more creatively about how to teach for social justice, and to challenge the discipline of sociology to consider creative analytical work to “count” as academic work and receive credit towards tenure for it (e.g., poetry and artistic work, community events.]

49) Working with Kids: Programs Targeting Children & Adolescents
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Joshua S. Meisel, Humboldt State Univ.
presider: David Dominguez, Humboldt State Univ.
Francine Byrne, Center for Families, Children & the Courts-Judicial Council of CA: Evaluating Programs for Infants & Toddlers: Speaking for the Voiceless
Tracesea Slater, Univ. of Colorado at Denver: Mattering & the Will to Learn among Middle School Students
Barbara Kessel. Univ. of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center: Service Providers’ Perspectives on Adolescent Homelessness
Tucker Brown & Mary Benin, ASU: The Effects of Adolescents’ Extra-Curricular Activities on High School Graduation

50) Studies of Race & Gender at Work
organizers: Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State Univ. & Anastasia Prokos, UNLV
Marisa Young, University of Calgary: Productivity among Law Firm Lawyers: Does Gender Matter?
Wendy M. Paulson, UCI: Is Sexual Harassment an Organizational Level Problem?
Sharon Bird & Florence Hamrick, Iowa State Univ.: Workplace Diversity Training: Use of Case Studies to Reveal Subtle Mechanisms of Gender & Race Exclusion
Kristen Schilt, UCLA: Gender Matters: Gender Discrimination in Transgender Workplace Transitions

51) Pirate-Professors, Deviant Departments & Disappeared Programs
Organizer: Marilyn Dudley-Flores, OPS-Alaska
Gregory T. Morales, SDSU: “Views of Education from Beyond this World” – Emails & Conversations with my Dearly Departed Mentor ‘Boz’
Jim Pass, astrosciology.com Educating Astrosociologists: The Need to Bring Outer Space Into Social Science Classrooms
Martin Katchen, Univ. of Sydney: The Denial of Educational & Employment Opportunity Due to the Discovery of Evidence Contradictory to the Axiomatic Assumption of Harmlessness of High Demand Religious Movements: A Case Study of the Normative Negation of Conflict of Interest from Australia
Stewart B. Whitney & Marilyn Dudley-Flores, OPS-Alaska: The Fascist Trend in American Academe: “Disappearing” Sociology at Niagara University, New York
Gregory T. Morales, SDSU: Brown Balled: Exclusion of Mexican American Students in Higher Education

52) Color-Struck: Teaching & Learning About Race in the Academy
organizer: Michael Barnes, UC Berkeley
Debra Guckenheimer, UCSB: Am I a Racist? Challenging Students on Privilege
Nicki Lisa Cole, UCSB: Opening Doors with Satire in the Race Classroom
Mark Toney, UC Berkeley: The Fuck UP Factor: Differential Treatment Based on Race When Students Fall Short
Jerome Rabow & Pauline Yeghnazar, UCLA: The Failure of Non-Racism & the Success of Anti-Racism: Teaching Anti-Racism in the University
Mark Beeman & Matt Duthie, Northern Arizona Univ.: Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Sociology Texts

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Committee Chairs’ Dinner B Restaurant, invitation only

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
8:15 pm – 9:00 pm

52A) Video Session: Sociologist at Work: A Retrospective Look at John Lofland’s Classic Study of the Doomsday Cult
organizer: Ray Olson, College of Dupage
[A thirty-minute film featuring an interview with John Lofland as he describes the participant observation research methodology he used in conducting a yearlong study of a radical cult. This project resulted in his doctoral dissertation and publication of two books, The Doomsday Cult and Analyzing Social Settings. This film is based on a five step research model; Planning, Research Design, Gathering data, Analyzing data and Interpretation of Results. Highlights of the film include: locating a group to study and obtaining permission to do the research, maintaining objectivity, organizing the data and his experiences as a year long participant observer. The film was produced in 1978 by the College of Dupage.]

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Welcome & New Members Reception Toppers (21st Fl)
(Sponsored by the Membership Committee and the Endowment Committee) [Meet President Charles Hohm. Dessert, coffee, soft drinks will be served. The Endowment Committee will sponsor a raffle for prizes.]

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
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 2006-2007 council meeting
12:00 pm –1:30 pm luncheon for 2008 program committee
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm awards and presidential address
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm presidential reception

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
8:30 am – 10:00 am

53A) Undergraduate Paper Session: Research in Gender and Sexualities
[sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta]
organizer: Virginia Mulle, University of Alaska Southeast
presider: Sine Anahita, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Robert Street, Whitman College: What Are We Doing to Our Boys? A Sociological Perspective
Katie Condit, Univ. of Puget Sound: Homosexuality and the Church
Brittney Brulotte, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Tattoos: Why People Get Them Based on Gender
Kamber Ruth, UC Berkeley: Age Grading and Gender Differentiation in Children's Toys
Sara Pierce-Magdalik, Whitman College: Collegiate Acquaintance Rape and Its Correlates

53) Multiethnic Identity & Ethnic Work
Organizer: Patricia Vigil, Mesa Sate College-Montrose Center
Jennifer A. Jones, UC Berkeley: Beyond Recognition: Creating Meaning within Multiracial Categorization
Ynez Wilson Hirst, St. Mary’s College & Belinda C. Lum, USC: All Mixed Up: Identity Construction in Multigenerational Multiracial Families
Amy Andre, SFSU: On My Skin/En Mi Piel
Patricia Vigil, Mesa Sate College-Montrose Center: But You Don’t Look Like a Mexican: Finding Space in a Multiracial Family

54) Teaching Qualitative Methods
organizers: Sally Davies Netzley, SDSU & Liahna E. Gordon, CSU Chico
Amy Leisenring, San Jose State: Using Classroom Observations to Teach Qualitative Research Methods
Sally Davies Netzley, SDSU: Collaborative Interviewing Projects in the Classroom
Liahna E. Gordon, CSU Chico: Beyond Coding: Teaching Students to See Patterns in Qualitative Data
Richard Mora, Occidental College: Your Word is Your Currency: Conducting Ethical Ethnographic Research

55) Using Self as a Source of Data
organizers: Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College & Alan L. Ryave, CSU Dominguez Hills
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ.: Pseudowidowhood: The Death Expert Becomes a Source of Data Herself
Karl Bryant, UCSB: Methods & Lies: Notes from the Researcher/Researched Divide
Monica Lomeli, CSU Dominguez Hills: Self-Other Comparisons in Every Day Life: Some General Findings
Jeni Tholmer, CSU Dominguez Hills: Transformation in Self-Other Comparisons

56) Graduate & Undergraduate Student Session: Sociological Studies of Parenting, Identical Twins & Military Deployment
organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC
presider: Suzel Bozada-Deas, USC
Sue Coffman, Chapman Univ.: Fathers & Their Mothers: Exploring the Impact of Mother’s Parenting Skills Upon Their Adult Sons’ Nurturing Capabilities as Fathers & the Possibility of Reducing Domestic Disharmony
Amanda M. Shigihara, San Jose State: The Tie That Binds: A Sociological Study of Identical Twins
Stephanie Burres, Humboldt State Univ.: Relationship Styles of Soldiers: An Analysis of Relations & Attachment Styles Following Military Deployment
Stephanie D’Auria, UCR: Constructing Parenting Ideologies: The Facts and the Fiction

57) Sociology of Art
organizer: Bernie Lau, CSU Northridge
Douglas Kellner, UCLA: Marcuse & Baudrillard: For and Against Art
Jesse Fletcher, UCR: Rationalization Procedures in Musical Production
Molly Griffith, PSU: But is it Art? Gender & Authority Attainment in the Arts Professions
Jonathan L. Stern, UCSD: Virtual Art: Understanding Reality & Framing Artistic Creation in Second Life

58) The Fat Studies Reader
organizer: Esther Rothblum, SDSU & Sondra Solovay, Law Office of Sondra Solovay
Deb Burgard, Los Altos, CA: What is ‘Health at Every Size’?
Nathaniel C. Pyle, UCSB: Double Stigma: Fat Men & Their Males Admirers
D. Lacy Asbill, Girls Moving Forward: “I’m Allowed to be a Sexual Being”: The Distinctive Social Condition of the Fat Burlesque State
Dana Schuster, Redwood City, CA: Exorcising the Exercises Myth: Creating Women of Substance
Elana Dykewoman, SFSU: Are We Ready to Throw Our Weight Around? Fat Women & Political Activism

59) Politics & Social Psychology: The Examination of Political Themes Using Social Psychological Concepts
organizer: Matt Grindal, CSU Northridge
Keith Appleby, Univ. of Oregon: Political Knowledge & the Mind: The Relationship between Education Intelligence, Cognitive Style & Response Stability
Clayton D. Peoples, UNR: Class, Conformity & Political Attitudes/Behavior
Matt Grindal, CSU Northridge: Double Consciousness, Laissez-Faire Racism & Black/White Differential in Public Opinion

60) Antiracism in Latin America
organizer: Stanley R. Bailey, UCI
Michelle Peria, UCI: Passing Affirmative Action Legislation in Rio de Janeiro: The Intersection of Social Movements, Media & Local Politics
Ines C. Fritz, Boston Univ.: How Brazilians Are Becoming Black: Color, Cliques & Class in Boston
Solange Simoes, Tiffany Griffin, Tiffany Joseph & Courtney Cogburn, Univ. of Michigan, Melissa Rayner, Eastern Michigan Univ. & Mauro Jeronymo, Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais : Who is Black in Brazil? The Complexities of Race Identities & Affirmative Action in a Racially Mixed Society

61) Youth & Crime
organizer: Camilla A. Sears, Simon Fraser Univ.
Joshua A. Meisel & Jerad Landeros, Humboldt State Univ.: ‘If It Bleeds Does It Lead?’ A Content Analysis of Crime News Coverage
Chris O’Connor, Univ. of Calgary: ‘Doing It for the Excitement’: Pleasure, Boredom & Risk in the Crime of Autotheft

62) Men, Masculinities & Bodies
organizer: Don Naylor, USC
Lauren Sardi Ross, Univ. of Connecticut: It’s Not Easy Being a Man: Tensions & Suppressions in African American & Latino Males’ Discussions of Masculinity, Body Image & Race
Juan M. Pitones, UCR, Kay Pih, CSU Northridge & Akihiko Hirose, Univ. of Colorado at Denver: Tap or Snap: The Institutional Construction of Masculinities in the Ultimate Fighting Championship & Pride Fight Champ
Kristen Barber, USC: Cutting Hair, Consuming Beauty: Masculinity & Class in the Hair Salon

63) Service Learning & Sociological Practice
organizer: Richard Lockwood, PSU
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
Rachel House, Camp Fire USA Alaska: Community Connectedness & Middle School Students: An Assessment of Service Learning Programs
Christine Oakley, WSU: Katrina Advocacy Project
Richard White, PSU: Extracting Meaning from Experience – Authentic Service & Higher Learning in Portland State University’s Community Development Program
Kathy Sutter, PSU: Quantifying Habermas for Facilitators: An Analytic Framework for Evaluating Deliberations

64) Author Meets Critics: Clare Weber, Visions of Solidarity: US Peace Activists in Nicaragua from War to Women’s Activism & Globalization
organizer: Sohaila Shakib, CSU Dominguez Hills
Author: Clare Weber, CSU Dominguez Hills
Critics: Esther Hernandez, CSULA
Jocelyn Pacleb, Cal Poly Pomona
Vivian Price, CSU Dominguez Hills
Dennis Downey, Univ. of Utah

65) Represent: Race, Gender & Identity in Hip-Hop Music & Culture I
organizer: Michael Barnes, UC Berkeley
Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Armstrong Atlantic State Univ.: Sista MC Droppin Rhymes with a Beat: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Songs Performed by African American Female Rap Artists
Kurt Newman, UCSB: To See You Coming Round: Southern Hip-Hop, Working-Class Culture & the Politics of Interracial Enjoyment
Freeden Oeur, UC Berkeley: Authenticating Sincerity: The Identities of Female Bay Area DJs
Jooyoung Lee, UCLA: Rap Dreams: The Careers of Underground Rappers in South Central Los Angeles

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
10:15 am - 11:45 am

66) Revising the Sociology Undergraduate Program
organizer: Dennis J. Downey, Univ. of Utah
Charles Powers & Marilyn Fernandez, Santa Clara Univ.: Curricular Change: Lessons from the Written Record of a Well Documented Department
Tekle Woldemikael, Chapman Univ.: Balancing Pedagogy Innovations with Curricular Expectations in Sociology
Kristin L, Anderson, Western Washington Univ.: Asking New Sociology Students to Analyze Real Data: Curricular Challenges & Benefits
Dale Lindekugel, Eastern Washington Univ.: The Curriculum Integration Project
Todd A. Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento: Assessing the Program Assessment Movement: A Critical View

67) Issues in Race & Ethnicity II
(sponsored by the Committee on Community College)
organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
Margaret Hunter, Loyola Marymount: Colorblind Discourse & the New Racism
Tina Quicoli, CSU Northridge: The Social Construction of Race in Bahia Brazil
Ashley Weber & Andrew Dick, CSU Chico: Southern Heritage versus Racism: A Study of Students’ Perceptions of the Confederate Flag
Fredi Garcia, CSU San Marcos: Latinos & Whiteness: Racial Assimilation among Immigrants

68) This session has been canceled.

69) Sociology, Ethics & Public Policy II
organizer & presider: Robert Gardner, Loma Linda Univ.
George Dzimiri, Loma Linda Univ.: African Ethics & the Business Response to Employees with AIDS
Amy Stumpf, California Baptist Univ.: Christian Social Ethics & Human Rights: Implications for Public Policy
Vicki Smith, CSU San Bernardino: The Ethics of Secrecy, Transparency & National Security Policy
Christiane Schubert, Loma Linda Univ.: Defining Failure: The Language, Meaning & Ethics of Medical Error
Patricia Leslie, Point Loma Nazarene Univ.: Exploring an Ethic of Care for the Homeless

70) Conversation Analysis & Ethnomethodology
organizer: Andrew L. Roth, Sonoma State Univ.
Elizabeth Stokoe & Derek Edwards, Loughborough Univ.: Doing Accusations & Denials with Identity Categories
Geoffrey Raymond & Gene Lerner, UCSB: Some Elementary Forms of Social Co-Ordination in Interaction
Ingrid Li, UCSB: Claiming Prior, Independent Knowledge as a Basis for Action: The Case of ‘Exactly’ As a Response
Kevin Whitehead, UCSB: Explicating Racial Logics

71) Family Matters: Old & New
organizers: Sharon Elise & Jill Weigt, CSU San Marcos
Rebecca M. Thomas, Erik Schwinger, Michael Gortari & Clayton D. Peoples, UNR: Way Better than a Talk Show: Using a Panel of Sociologists to Make Family Concepts More Real & Foster the Sociological Imagination
Barbara G. Holthus, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa: Japanese Women’s Magazines: Discourses on Men & Marriage Since 1970
Mai-Ling Garcia, UC Berkeley: The Company Picnic: An Analysis of Community Building amongst Military Families
Vera Mounkam, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: Effects of Single Parenthood on Children’s Well-Being

72) The Workings of the Criminal Justice System
organizer: Valerie Jenness, UCI
David J. Cherrington, Kindra Clemence, Jessica Larkin & Jamie Lauchner, BYU: The Effects of Punishment Programs on Recidivism
Nora M. Ngafeeson, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: The Problem of Recidivism in Cameroon
Ryoko Yamamoto, Univ. of Hawaii: From Criminals to Risk Populations: Crime, Migration & Collective Retribution in Japan
Frank P. Williams, III, Marilyn McShane & Terry Richardson, Univ. of Houston: Racial Profiling in DWI Traffic Stops
Deirdre Bowen, Seattle Univ.: Calling Your Bluff: How Defense Attorneys Adapt Plea Bargaining Strategies

73) Sociology of Memory I: New & Old Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private?
organizer: Noel Packard, The New School
presider: Ester Hernandez, CSULA
Martin H. Katchen, Univ. of Sydney: The Dissociation of Dissociation: From the Cult of Brainwashing Paradigm to the False Memory Paradigm
Christina Weber, North Dakota State: Negotiating Public & Private Memory through Commemorative Sites: A Comparative Analysis of Three Memorials
Anika Walke, Univ. of Oldenburg: Reconsidering the Past: Interviews with Jewish Survivors in the Post-Soviet Context
Leonid Andreevich Shiriaev, UFA State Aviation Technical Univ.: Memory as Wealth

74) Constructing Masculinities
organizer: Don Naylor, USC
Nathan Erickson, Univ. of Oregon: Lunchball: Complicity in the Reproduction of Hegemonic Masculinities
James Rouse Iniguez, SFSU: Object Youth: Young Adult Men Queering Gender in a Pursuit of Community
Hedy Red Dexter, Univ. of Northern Colorado: Expressions of Masculine Angst

75) Workshop: Choosing & Being Chosen: Planning for Graduate School I
(sponsored by the Committee on Student Affairs)
[Note: This is part I of a three-part session dealing with graduate school; part II (Session #105) is a workshop on applying to graduate school; part III (Session #141) is navigating graduate school from a student’s perspective.]
organizer: Alicia Gonzalez, CSU San Marcos
presenters: Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ.
Richard T. Serpe, Kent State
Linda Shaw, CSU San Marcos
Alicia Gonzalez, CSU San Marcos

76) Author Meets Commentators: Ivan Light: Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets & Regulations in Los Angeles
organizer: Michael Francis Johnston, UCLA
author: Ivan Light, UCLA
Commentators: Michael Aguilera, Univ. of Oregon
Gabriela Sandoval, UCSC
Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley

77) The Rhetoric & the Reality of Being an Applied Sociologist
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Joshua S. Meisel, Humboldt State Univ.
Amy Qiaoming Liu, CSU Sacramento: Challenges & Potentials of Public & Applied Sociology
Leora Lawton, TechSociety Research: In Private Industry, No One Knows What Sociologists Can Do
Barry Krisberg, National Council on Crime & Delinquency: The Role of Applied research in the Pursuit of Justice

78) Presidential Session: All Those Years of Questioning Authority & Now You're the Dean! Sociologists as Academic Leaders
organizer: Roberta Lessor, Chapman Univ.
Barbara Feldman, Montclair State Univ.
Gary Kiger, Utah State Univ.
Paul Wong, SDSU

79) Resource Extraction, Culture & Environmental Justice
organizer: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento
presider & discussant: Loran Sheley, CSU Sacramento
Kari Norgaard & Faith Applewhite, Whitman College: Experiencing Cultural Genocide in 2006: Mental Health Impacts of Environmental Decline for Members of the Karuk Tribe of California
Elizabeth Bennett & Rebecca Scott, UCSC: Branding Resources: Natures, Cultures, Communities
Nelta Edwards, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage: Statistical Significance & Environmental Justice

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

80) Going Beyond Difference in the Study of Gender
organizer: Jennifer Jacobson, ASU
Ada Diaconu-Muresan & Mary White Stewart, UNR: Interpretations of Sexist Humor: A Study of Romanian College Students
Todd Migliaccio, Ellen Berg & Rosemary Anzini-Varesio, CSU Sacramento: An Exploration of Pain, Injury & Identity in Women’s Professional Football
Pavel V. Vasiliev, UNLV: Creating & Interpreting the Postmodern Body: Does Female Bodybuilding Blur or Reaffirm the Gender Dichotomies?
Christy Craig, Colorado State Univ.: Creating Empowered Spaces

81) Art in the Social World: Beyond Beauty
organizer: Bernie Lau, CSU Northridge
Eleanore Wildburger, Univ. of Klagenfurt: Fine Art at the Interface of the ‘Exotic,’ the ‘Primitive’ & ‘Big Business’
Elisabeth Gigler, Univ. of Klagenfurt: Indigenous Australian Photography: Trapped Between Universality and/or Exoticism?
Justin Allen Berg, WSU: Omnivores & Univores: Estimating the Effects of Socialization & Social Networks on Cultural Consumption
Robin Stalbaum, CSU Northridge: Sociology of New Media Art

82) The Craft of Evaluating Student Learning
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Michael Francis Johnston, UCLA
Tamara Sniezek, CSU Stanislaus: Group Quizzes
Harvey Rich, CSU Northridge: Testing & Class Involvement with Technology: Classroom Clickers & WebCT
Reed Geertsen, Utah State Univ.: Problem-Based Assessment

83) Sociology of Sport
organizer: Faye Linda Wachs, CSU Pomona
Joseph Stroh, Northern Arizona Univ.: Endurance Running: Assessment of a Paradox
Carl Stempel, CSU East Bay: Fitness Sports, High Culture & the Sense of Distinction
Steve Dumas & Kevin Young, Univ. of Calgary: Ice Hockey Violence as Righteous Slaughter: A Katzian Contribution to the Sociology of Sport
Christopher Daskalos, Vista, CA: “Locals Only”: The Impact of Modernity Upon a Local Surfing Context

84) Waking the Sleeping Giant? Organizing & The Immigrants Rights Movement
organizer: Roberto G. Gonzales, UCI
Jesse Diaz, Jr., UCR: Race, Immigration & Amnesty: Immigration Rights in the Post-9/11 Era
Minerva S. Gomez, Orange County DREAM Team Coalition: Fighting to Secure a Place at the Table: Immigrant Students in a New Era
Eun Sook Lee, National Korean American Service & Educational Consortium: Educating, Organizing & Advocating: Projecting a Critical Voice on Immigrant Right Issues
Armando Ibarra, UCI: New Destinations, Old Struggles: Challenges & a Changing Landscape

85) Religion & Community: II
organizer: David McKell, Northern Arizona Univ.
discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Univ.
Joseph Churpek, Northern Arizona Univ.: The Social Evolution of 20th Century American Catholicism: A Memetics Approach
Kiki Valdez-Simpson, Northern Arizona Univ.: Gay ad Lesbian Evangelical Christians: A Study of Conflicting Identities
Stacy Keogh, Univ. of New Mexico: Nexus: Religion in the Public University
Matthew Hornbeck & Robert Lyons, Northern Arizona Univ.: Structural Analysis of Emergent Christian Communities

86) Collective Social Action: The Role of MySpace, The World Wide Web & Technology
organizer: Rebekah Villafana, CSU Northridge
Robert DiCarlo, Northern Arizona Univ.: Communicating in New Ways: Qualitative Interviews with MySpace Users
Nathaniel Warren, Western Washington Univ.: MySpace: A New Portal for Hate in the 21st Century?
Emily Schwartz, Univ. of Puget Sound: Facebook, MySpace & the NORML Website: Organizing a College chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
Nicki Lisa Cole, Jon D. Cruz & Jason Bohrer, UCSB: MySpace: Musical Anarchy or Hegemony?

87) Sociology of Memory II: New & Old Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private?
organizer: Noel Packard, The New School
presider: Ester Hernandez, CSULA
Christopher Marcum, UCI: Collective Memory & Memorial: The Case of the Resurrected Celebrity
Snezhana Valerievna Korovina-Reymers, UFA State Aviation Technical Univ.: Problems of the Boundaries of Memory & Polychomatization of the Language of Culture
Noel Packard, The New School: Applying Weber’s Status Group Model to the False Memory Syndrome Foundation
Muriel Mellow, The Univ. of Lethbridge: Memory & Caring: The Shift from Personal Memory to Collective Communication in the Care of Alzheimer’s Patients

88) Activism & Academia: Linking Campus to Community
organizer: Benjamin Shepard, CSU Long Beach
Benjamin Shepard, CUS Long Beach: Bridging the Practice Divide: From Campus to Community & Back Again
Gil Gardner, Regis Univ.: Opportunities & Barriers to University Involvement in the Community: The Case of Prison Education Programs
Rebecca Overmeyer-Velazquez, Whittier College: Sending Trash by Train Out of Los Angeles County: An Environmental Injustice?
Patricia Literte, USC: Apathetic or Misunderstood: College Students & Activism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Larry Bogad, UC Davis: Tactical Performance & the Contested Campus

89) The Aging Experience
organizer: Leah Rohlfsen, ASU
Maria Monserud, WSU: Transition to Adulthood & Gandparent-Grandchild Relationships
Wei Zhang, Univ. of Texas: How Do Socioeconomic Status & Religious Participation Interact to Benefit Health of the Very Old Chinese?
Leah Rohlfsen & Cecilia Menjivar, ASU: Escaping Stereotypes: Older Women’s’ Perceptions of Old Age & Aging
Gary Horlacher & Vern Bengtson, USC: Effects of Changing Values on Aging & Personal Health

90) Multiracial Identity: Current Theoretical & Empirical Research I
organizers: Josef Casteneda-Liles & G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB
Rebecca Klatch, UCSD: Mixed-Race Men & Masculinity
Andrew Jolivette, USF: Mixed Race Gay Men & HIV: A Community History
Rebecca Romo, UCSB: The Blaxican Experience: Multiracial Black/Chicanas/os in California
Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., UCSB: Mexicans, Filipinos & Mexipino Identity in San Diego

91) Sex Education
organizer: Tina Fetner, McMaster Univ.
Amie Hess, New York Univ.: Is Sex Education without Sex Still Sex Education?
Carole Joffe, UC Davis: Just Say ‘Maybe’? Progressive Sex Educators & The Search for Nuance in a Polarized World
Jessica Fields, SFSU: Inside the Black Box: Notes from the Sex Ed Classroom
Kristin Luker, UC Berkeley: Sexuality & the Future of the Feminist Movement

92) Evaluating Social Programs: Successes, Failures & Innovations
organizer: Warren C. Lucas, Northern Arizona Univ.
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied, and Clinical Sociology)
Bert Burraston & Seth Melling, BYU: The Effectiveness of Boot Camps in Reducing Recidivism: Are They Worth the Risk?
Mary Gee, Jason Savolainen, Sima Forghani & Davis Ja, Davis Y. Ja & Associates, Inc.: Developing a Theory of Change Model – Program Evaluation Challenges & Lessons Learned in Working with a Peer-Driven Recovery
Raechel Lizon, Benjamin McKune & Francisco E. Brown, BYU: Assessing Outcomes: An Evaluation of the 21st Century After-School Program
Nancy Wessel, Central Washington Univ.: Applying Sociology: Practical Issues in Program Evaluation
Yvonne Luna, Northern Arizona Univ.: The Lived Experience of Single Welfare Mothers: Criticisms & Proposed Modifications to the Welfare System

93) Author Meets Critics: Kathy Charmaz, Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis
(sponsored by The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
organizer & presider: Christopher Schmitt, UCR
Author: Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ.
Critics: Adele Clarke, UCSF
Jane Hood, Univ. of New Mexico
Lyn Lofland, UC Davis
Virginia Olesen, UCSF
Christopher Schmitt, UCR

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

94) Graduate Student Paper Session: Advances in Qualitative Research I
organizer: Sally Davies Netzley, SDSU
Yung-Yi Diana Pan, UCI: Coloring the Nest: The Significance of Chinese Identity & Culture in Adoptive Families
Erica Morales, UCLA: Crossing the Line: The Factors that Affect African American & Latino Friendships & Romantic Relationships
Matthew Rotondi, SDSU: Financing College through Debt: A Qualitative Study of Motivations & Experiences of the Student Debtor
Michael C. Campbell, UCI: Understanding America’s Transition to Mass Incarceration through Archival Research: Explaining Change in California & Texas

95) Globalization, State & Development I
organizer: Rebecca S. K. Li, The College of New Jersey
Berch Berberoglu, UNR: Globalization & Change: The Nature, Dynamics & Impact of Globalization in the 21st Century
Kelley D. Strawn, Willamette Univ. & Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey: State Structure & Neo-Liberal Market Reforms: Comparing Mexico & China
Lynn Horton, Chapman Univ.: ‘Good Governance’ & Development in Central America
Byung-Soo Kim, Univ. of Missouri: The Transformation of Korean Business Groups after the Asian Financial Crisis

96) Teaching about Social Justice & Crime
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Richelle S. Swan, CSU San Marcos
Mark Horowitz, New Mexico State Univ.: Teaching Social Justice with a Multiperspectival Method: Personal Identity, Language & Value Commitments in the Class
Jodie Lawston, CSU San Marcos: You Want Me to Learn What?! The Trials & Tribulations of Teaching Issues of Social Justice
Joshua Meisel, Humboldt State Univ.: Experiential Teaching Opportunities in Criminology
Richelle S. Swan, CSU San Marcos: Bringing Issues of Social Justice into Criminology & Justice Studies Classrooms

97) Power, Resistance & the Future of Sociology
organizer: Martin Orr, Boise State Univ.
Richard Anderson-Connolly, Univ. of Puget Sound: The Sociology of Economic Sociology
Martin Orr, Boise State Univ.: Power, Resistance, & the Development of Sociology
Thomas S. Ward, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: Developing a Public Sociology: Moving from Theory & Research to Practice
Brian Wolf, Colorado State Univ.-Pueblo: Rebels & Criminals: Reconceptualizing Positive Deviance & Resistance in Contemporary Sociology

98) Online Worlds: Play, Conflict & Community in Cyberspace I
organizers: Elena Sosnovskaya, Sima Forghani & David Boyns, CSU Northridge
Jonathan L. Stern, UCSD: Identity & Virtual Interaction: The Lure of Anonymity
Melissa Naylor, Whitman College: MySelf via MySpace: Adolescent Identity Formation & the Effects of Internet Social Networking Sites
Janet Armentor-Cota, CSU Bakersfield: Community, Performance & Power Relations in a Web Chat Room
Christina Papazian, Elizabeth Bloom, Karuyna Jayasena, Robert Wonser & Jonathan Bullinger, CSU Northridge: Manipulating MySpace to Construct Identity
C. J. Pascoe, UC Berkeley & Natalie Boero. San Jose State Univ.: No Wannarexics Allowed: The Creation of Community on Pro-Anorexia & Pro-Bulimia Blogs & Websites

99) Video Session: The Price of Renewal
organizer: Dennis J. Downey, Univ. of Utah
presider: Karen Hossfeld, SFSU
panelist/filmmaker: Paul Espinosa, Espinosa Productions
[This perceptive documentary examines complex issues of community development, philanthropy, and civic engagement by chronicling the long-term redevelopment of an older, deteriorating neighborhood called City Heights, often referred to as the Ellis Island of San Diego.]

100) Sociology of Religion: Mainstream & New Age
organizer: Linda Yellin, CSU Northridge
Amy Andre, SFSU & Nzinga Kone, Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group: Second Glances: Two African-American Women Take A Closer Look a Their Jewish Identities
Charles R. Sarno, Holy Names Univ.: A Very Partial Genealogy of Some of the Appearances & Disappearances of the Holy Ghost in the New World

101) First Nations & Higher Education
(sponsored by the Committee on Membership)
organizers: Kari Norgaard & Rebecca Mills, Whitman College
Sandra Way, New Mexico State Univ.: American Indian Students & the Transition to College
Kay Fenimore-Smith, Whitman College: The Power of Place: One School’s Odyssey Toward Creating an Ethnocentric Charter School
Rebecca Mills, Whitman College: Disconnections between First Nations College Studenst & Academia
Carol Ward, BYU: What are the Effects on Tribal College Student Attitudes & Performance of a New Mastery Based Instructional System? A Case Study of the Northern Cheyenne
Michelle Jacob, Univ. of San Diego: Look at All Those Indians! Actively Working for Diversity & Inclusion in the Academy

102) How Families Cope with Juvenile Delinquency
organizer: Anees A. Haddad, La Sierra Univ.
Ara Francis, UC Davis: Middle Class Parents & the Stigma of Having a Problem Child
Burt Burraston, Leslie Kaai, Kirk Melton & Miriam Walther, BYU: Evaluating Parenting Interventions for the Reduction of Juvenile Delinquency: What’s a Parent to Do?
Anees A. Haddad, La Sierra Univ.: Reforming the Justice System to Assist Parents Dealing with Juvenile Delinquency

103) Activities for Sustained Student Engagement
(sponsored by the Committee on Community Colleges)
organizers: Nadia K. Raza, Lane Community College & Debjani Chakrabarti, Columbia Basin College
Amy Holzgang, Cerritos College & Sarah Barfels, Kirkwood Community College: Tale of Two Cities: Creating Student Engagement through an Online Virtual Learning Community in California & Iowa
Maria Corral-Ribordy, Humboldt State Univ.: Picture the Class: Digital Historiography
Georgie Ann Weatherby, Gonzaga Univ.: From Passive to Active: Transformation of the Learner in the Classroom
Mary Texeira, CSU San Bernardino: Teaching Kozol in a Race & Racism Class

104) Race in Global-Historical Perspective
organizer: Michael Calderon-Zaks, SUNY Binghamton
Jessica Vasquez & Chris Wetzel, UC Berkeley: Making Authentic Identity: Tradition & the Invention of Racial Selves
Ellen Reese, Rebecca Giem, Erika Gutierrez & Linda Kim, UCR: The Contours of Color at the World Social Forum: Reflections on Radicalized Politics, Representation & the Global Justice Movement
Alexandro Jose Gradilla, CSU Fullerton: Problematic Risks/Risky Problems: A Critical Analysis of U.S. Mexicans’ Culture & Official Discourse
Marc de Jong, USC: Racial Formation in the United States & the Netherlands Indies: The Role of Power & Politics in Constructing the “Mulatto” & “Indo-European” in the 19th and 20th Centuries

105) Workshop: Applying to Graduate Schools II
(sponsored by the Committee on Student Affairs)
[Note: This is Part II of a three-part session dealing with graduate school; part I (Session #75) is a workshop on choosing & being chosen for graduate school; part III (Session ##141) is navigating graduate school from a student’s perspective.]
organizers: Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ. & Olga Bright, CSU Chico
presenters: Olga Bright, CSU Chico
Jackie Carrigan CSU Sacramento
Liahna Gordon, CSU Chico
Jeffrey Gunn, Univ. of Oregon
Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State Univ.

106) Masculinities, Fathering & the Media 206
organizer: Don Naylor, USC
Jennifer Utrata, UC Berkeley: Lowering the Bar: Why Nonresident Fathers Criticize Men in Russia
Teresa Ciabattari, Sonoma State: Ideologies of Fatherhood among Unmarried Fathers: Race, Masculinities & the Father Role
Margaret J. Greer, National Univ.: Masculinity on the Edge: Gender Ideology in Rescue Me
Daniel K. Cortese, Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education, San Francisco & Pamela M. Ling, UCSF: Fired Up: The Social Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity & Heteronormative Sexuality in Tobacco-Created Lifestyle Magazines

107) Presidential Session: Sociology Today: Greater than the Sum of its Parts?
organizer: Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association
[Note: There is strong pessimism among some sociologists that we are losing status in the academy because sociology no longer has a core but rather a series of unrelated specialties. Is this the case, especially in institutions of higher education with norms that increasingly support “interdisciplinarity” and entrepreneurship? This session examines the “increased specialization equals low status” argument by investigating the work that sociologists do and the power and relation of specialties in sociology. The three presenters question the core versus specialty dichotomy. Panelists examine what skills, concepts, and specialties sociologists learn in school and what they take with them into positions outside as well as inside professorate. They examine how centrality and specialization can be measured, whether by size, or by patterns of influence, and whether or not crossing specialties and engaging in integrative work promotes breakthroughs in sociology.]

Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association, The Mission of Sociology: Carrying the Flag for Concepts, Skills & Specialties
James Ennis, Tufts Univ.: What Makes a Sociological Specialty ‘Central’?
Erin Leahey, Univ. of Arizona: Specialization & Integration in Sociology

108) Undergraduate Student Poster Session
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
Michael D. Farrell, Univ. of Alaska Southeast: Culture & Ethnocentrism: In a Multicultural Society is There a Difference?
Sana Saeed, CSU Long Beach: Ecuador: Working Towards a More Inclusive Form of Globalization
Hayley Coombs & Members of the AKD Chapter of Southern Utah Univ.: The Struggle for a Women’s Center on a Small Southwestern University Campus
Sarah Lacy & Amanda Young, CSU Long Beach: Gender Roles Paraded on MySpace: Enforcing Patriarchy Through Photoshop
Erik Pyper, BYU: Rockin’ in the Free World
David Nettles, Holy Names Univ.: Attitudes Toward Women in Leadership Positions Across Denominations
Janette Diaz, CSU Dominguez Hills: From Invisibility to Integration: The African Descent Populations in Durango, Mexico
Margarita Gomez, CSU Dominguez Hills: Fighting for a Healthier Future: A Community-Based Research on the Organizing Efforts for Equitable Mental Health Services
Hala Mohammad, USC: Current Misrepresentation of Middle Eastern Women: Resurrecting Orientalism & Restructuring Empire?
Lori Lundell, Weber State Univ.: It’s About Time: An Evaluation of Shiftworker’s Time Management

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

109) Issues in the Sociology of Childhood: Perspectives, Methods & Trends
organizer: Khaya D. Clark, Univ. of Oregon
Hannah B. Emery, UC Berkeley: Popular Culture & the Child Author
Kathryn Gold Hadley, CSU Sacramento: “Are You Chinese? Ethnic Identities in Chinese School
Marisol Clark-Ibanez, CSU San Marcos: Inner-City Children in Sharper Focus: Sociology of Childhood & Photo-Elicitation Interviews

110) SocHarmony.com: The Role of Technology in Relationships
organizer: Apryll Chin, CSU Northridge
Heather Kohler Flynn, UC Davis & Adam Schwartz, Univ. of Arizona: Performing Friendships on the Virtual College Campus
Kristin Scherrer, Univ. of Michigan: Asexual Identities, Asexual Relationships: Finding Self & Others Online
Karen E. Gordon & Megan S. Wright, Univ. of Arizona: Myspace is Ourspace: Identity Production, Co-Production, & Co-optation on a Popular Networking Site

111) Work & the Workplace
organizer: Elaine Draper, CSU Los Angeles
Ofer Sharone, UC Berkeley: Job Seekers as Professional Workers; The Depoliticizing Work-Game of Job Searching
Jonathan H. Westover, Univ. of Utah: Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Job Quality Characteristics & Perceived Job Satisfaction from Post & Neo-Fordist Perspectives
Elaine Draper, CSU Los Angeles: Professional Ethics from the Inside Out: Conflicting Loyalties & Liability Fears in the Workplace
Cenk Ozbay, USC: Mall Fantasies? Gender, Class & Workplace in Istanbul

112) Strategies for Social Movements & Social Change: I
organizer: Dennis J. Downey, Univ. of Utah
presider: Kara Zugman, CSU Dominguez Hills
Jennifer Rogers, UCSB: How Activists Manage Daily Life
Nichole Zlatunich, UCSC: “Choice” Frame Disputes: Activists Defending Abortion
Raj Ghoshal, Univ. of North Carolina: Challenging Collective Memory: The Greensboro Massacre & the Greensboro Truth & Recollection Commission
Tony Silvaggio, Humboldt State Univ.: Twenty-five Years of Radical Forest Defense in the United States: Resistance at the Point of Extraction, Consumption, & Production

113) Graduate Student Paper Session: Advances in Qualitative Research II
organizer: Sally Davies Netzley, SDSU
Somer Hall, SDSU: The Impact of Gendered Perspectives on the Experience of Endometriosis
Christopher Schmitt, UCR: Answering Hobbes’ Problem: Contradictions in Community Life
Leck Intharath, SDSU: Maintaining Multiple Identities: Second Generation Asian Americans in Hip Hop
J. Ayo Alabi, UCI: Hip Hop Political Organizations & Passive Observation in Case Study Research

114) Critical Social Theory
organizers: Benjamin Frymer & Ada Jaarsma, Sonoma State Univ.
Tyson Lewis, Montclair State Univ.: Biopower & Play: Contemporary Reflections on Herbert Marcuse & Education
Douglas Kellner, UCLA: The Frankfurt School Goes Global: How Many Generations, How Many Theories?
Jeffrey Paris, USF: What is Third Generation Critical Theory?

115) Advertising & Consumerism in Contemporary Society
organizers: David Boyns, Eileen Ie & Robert Wonser, CSU Northridge
Adam Rafalovich, Pacific Univ.: How Effective is Cease-and-Desist Regulation? The Case of the Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs
Simon Gottschalk, UNLV: Hypermodernity & the Culture of Excess: Superlatives in Commercials
Robert Wonser, CSU Northridge: MySpace as a Marketer’s Space: MySpace & Consumerism
Benjamin A. Lewin, ASU: Pharmaceutical Direct-To-Consumer Advertising: Patients as Consumers & Advertising Effects on Patient Satisfaction

116) Sociology & Film: The Examination of Cinema Using Sociological Themes
organizer: Matt Grindal, CSU Northridge
Thomas J. Scheff, UCSB: Lost & Found in Translation: A Film on Alienation/Solidarity
Wayne S. Wooden, CSU Pomona: Social-Cultural & Critical Responses to Brokeback Mountain
Marisol Martinez Vazquez, San Jose State: Murales de Mi Tierra Street Gallery
Olga Maria Hungar, Jafencity Universitat Hamburg: The Representation of the Modern City Exemplified with Films from the 1960s & 1970s

117) Evaluating Criminal Justice Programs
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Joshua S. Meisel, Humboldt State Univ.
presider: Mark G. Harmon, Univ. of Oregon
Diana R. Grant, Sonoma State: Program Review Issues & Strategies for Criminology & Criminal Justice Programs
Mark G. Harmon, Univ. of Oregon: Sentencing Guidelines: The Effect on Imprisonment Rates Over Time
Bruce Bennett, STAR & David Cherrington, Stephen Liddle, Stephen J. Bahr, Caleb Navarre & Jonathan Hersam, BYU: An Innovative Program to Help Probationers & Parolees Desist from Crime
David Cherrington, Stephen Liddle, Jessica Larkin & Hoonku Song, BYU, Bruce Bennett, STAR: Using the Character Development Model to Examine the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Programs

118) Activism & Academia: Creating a Transformative Knowledge & a Radical Research Agenda
organizer: A. James McKeever, USC
Michelle Wafer, CSU Los Angeles: Transformative Knowledge for Race Uplift: A Comparative Study of Race Women & Black Feminists’ Contributions to Social Change
Julio Tsuha, UCR: Praxis & Academia: The Case of United Students Against Sweatshops at the Univ. of California Riverside
Antonia Levy & Jamie McCallum, CNUY Graduate Center: Teaching & Learning from Students of Social Movements
Angela D. Broadus & Mary White Stewart, UNR & Tyler Stewart, Reno, NV: A Feminist Pedagogy for Incarcerated Women
Michael Chavez, UC Riverside: The “Via Yo” Generaiton: Tall Tails, Inaccuracies & Divide between us & the Old Guard of Activism

119) Reactive Ethnicity: Reasserting Identity in the Face of Opposition
organizer: Ruben G. Rumbaut, UCI
Presider: Russell Jeung, SFSU
Yung-Yi Diana Pan & Samantha N. N. Cross, UCI: Consuming Culture: Maintaining Authenticity in a Cosmopolitan Society
Jim Bachmeier & Jennifer Hernandez, UCI: Citizenship Attainment of Labor Migrants in Liberal Democracies: Mexicans in the U.S. & Turks in Germany
Julie H. Song, UCI: Seoul Searching: Second Generation Korean Americans’ Linear & Reactive Religiosity

120) Transgender Issues
(sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
organizer: Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ.
Amy L. Stone, Trinity Univ.: Responding to Transgender Smear Tactics: The Political Negotiations of LGBH
Clare Sears, USC: Dragging It Into the Streets: Cross-Dressing Law & Transgender Protest in 1960s San Francisco
Byron Lee, Simon Fraser Univ.: Redefining Transitions: The Trans Moment in Body Enhancement
Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ.: Transgender Inclusion in Lesbian Softball Leagues

121) Authors Meet Critics: Dennis Loo & Peter Phillips, Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush & Cheney
organizer: Fay Linda Wachs, Cal Poly Pomona
authors: Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona & Peter Phillips, Sonoma State Univ.
Critics: Larry Everest, Berkeley, CA
Vikram Amar, Hastings Law School
Beth Roy, UC Berkeley;
Shari L. Dworkin, Columbia Univ.
Barbara Bowley, Woodbury Univ.

122) Globalization & The Environment
organizer: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento
presider & discussant: Loran Sheley, CSU Sacramento
Catherine May, Northern Arizona Univ.: The Global Humanitarian Movement & Conservation
Nels Paulson, ASU: Conceptualizing Global to Local Relationships & the Environment
Stephen Zavetoski, USF: Local & Global Health Social Movement Responses to the Globalization of Environmental Health Hazards

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm

123) Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony
Presider: Dean S. Dorn, CSU Sacramento, Executive Director
Awards Presentation: Virginia Mulle, Coordinator, Awards Committee; Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, St. Mary’s College & Laura Nathan, Mills College, Social Conscience Award
President’s Introduction: Jodi O’Brien, Seattle Univ., President Elect
Presidential Address: Charles F. Hohm, CSU Dominguez Hills: Sociology in the Academy: How the Discipline is Viewed by Administrators

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm

Presidential Reception
[Co-sponsored by the American Sociological Association]

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
summary of events
8:00 am – 4:30 pm registration
8:30 am – 4:00 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 race, ethnicity & women reception
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm video session on custody
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm video session on pedagogy
9:30 pm – 10:30 pm student reception

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
8:30 am – 10:00 am

124A) This session was canceled.

124) Workshop: Alternative Approaches to Teaching Sociology
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State Univ.
Marcia Hernandez, Univ. of the Pacific: Envisioning Alternatives to Racialized Space
Huiying Wei-Arthus, Weber State Univ.: How to Change Students’ Minds? Blaming the Victims for Their Social & Economic Status in the U.S.
Rob Reynolds, Weber State Univ.: Bringing Theory Back In: On the Need for 21st Century Social Theory in Introduction to Sociology Textbooks
Gordon Clanton, SDSU: Size Matters: Teaching the Large Introductory Course

125) Globalization, Migration & Labor
organizer: Joergen Bro, Univ. of Utah
Matthew Mahutga, UCI: Upgrading the Positional Power of Nations? Dominance, Subordination & Growth in the World Economy, 1965-2000
Cassandra Engeman, UCSB: In Dubious Battle: U.S. Unions, the Working-Class & Global Capital
Jane Yamashiro, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa & Univ. of Tokyo: Stratified Returns of the Diaspora: Japanese Americans & Japanese Brazilians in Japan
Mary Yu Danico, Cal Poly Pomona: Pinays in Transition: Filipina Domestic Workers in Korea

126) LBG Issues
organizer: Liahna E. Gordon, CSU Chico
Karen E. Gordon & Megan S.Wright, Univ. of Arizona: Double Jeopardy: Safe Sex Discourses in a Forgotten Population
Kristen Scherrer, Univ. of Michigan: Fluid Sexuality or Stable Identity? Constructing & Managing Identity Outside the Sexuality Binary
Carmen Fortes, David Orzechowicz & Diane Felmlee, UC Davis: Fairy Tales: Attraction in Same Sex Relationships

127) Latino Life in New Immigrant Frontiers
organizer: Susan E. Mannon, Utah State Univ.
Xuanning Fu, CSU Fresno: Latino Intermarriage & Assimilation
Carlos Garcia, San Jose State: Moving to the Country: Understanding the Rural Resettlement of Mexican Immigrants
Erin Michaels, PSU: ‘How I learned to Fail in School Without Really Trying’: Exploring the Achievement Gap for Immigrant & Second Generation Latino Students in New Gateways
Brian Rich, Transylvania Univ.: Pervasive Fear, Complex Social Problems, Inadequate Defensive Resources: Challenges to Latino Community-Building on the ‘Wild East’ Frontier of Kentucky

128) Space, Place & Culture II
organizers: Michelle Janning, Whitman College & Brooke Neely, UCSB
Elizabeth Bennett, UCSC: The Place of Memory in Public Spaces of Nature
Gabriel Gill-Austern, Whitman College: Lost People, Lost Traditions: The Cultural Ramifications of Forced & Prolonged Displacement in Acholiland
Nik Janos, UCSC: A Right to the City? Grassroots Relief, Privilege & a New New Orleans
Joanna Davis, UCSB: Scenes in Place: Music, Ideology, & the Possibilities of Location
Brooke Neely, UCSB: Contested Land, Contested Place: Negotiating Politics, Culture & History in the Black Hills

129) Sociology & Higher Education
organizer: James L. Wood, SDSU
James L. Wood, SDSU: Sociology & Higher Education: An Overview
Jonathan McLeod, San Diego Mesa College: The Social Sciences in Higher Education, A Perspective from 2007
Myrna Goodman, Sonoma State: University & Community Partnerships: The Case of a Holocaust & Genocide Study Center
Harvey E. Rich & David Boyns, CSU Northridge: Comparing Attitudes & Perspectives of Full-Time & Part-Time Faculty Toward Student Evaluations

130) Multiracial Identity in the University: Challenges, Critiques & Contributions
organizers: Josef Casteneda-Liles & G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB
G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB: Betwixt & Between: Teaching Multiraciality in the University Classroom
Rasmia Kirmani, New School Univ.: Don’t Be Moved: Overcoming Resistance to Mixed Race Research
Herman L. DeBose & Tina Quicoli, CSU Northridge: Methodological Issues Encountered When Researching Interracial Couples & Biracial/Multiracial Individuals
Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., UCSB & Natalie Cherot, SUNY-Binghamton & UCSB: Teaching Multiplicity at UCSB: Asian American Studies
Jeffrey A. S. Moniz, Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa: Multiraciality & Multiethnicity in the University: The Case of Hawaii

131) Changing Communities: I
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
presider & discussant: DeMond Shondell Miller, Rowan Univ.
Margaret Ullman, Whitman College: Social Impacts of Tourism & Domestic In-Migration in Blue Mountain Country
Matthew Jelen, Humboldt State Univ.: Community & Sociopolitical Participation: An Investigation into the Changing Power Base of Humboldt County
Jon Norman, UC Berkeley: How Do National & International Forces Affect Urban Change in the U.S.? An Examination of Smaller Metro Areas Fates between 1970 & 2000
Cosme F. Perez Caal, UCSB: Identity as Resistance in the Global City: Transnational Identities Among Mayas in Los Angeles

132) Fat Identities & Bodies
organizer: Lesleigh Owen, UCSC
Tracy Royce, UCSB: Fat Oppression & Violence against Women
N. L. Klein & Nathaniel C. Pyle, UCSB: Teaching Size Acceptance: How Our Bodies Matter
Douglas Degher, Northern Arizona Univ.: No Way Out: The Organizational Promotion of Permanent Deviant Identities

133) Ladies First: The Role of Women in Hip-Hop
organizer: Andreana Clay, SFSU
Stephanie D. Sears, USF: Lil Mamas Dance: The Negotiation of Girlhood in Hip Hop Culture
J. Ayo Alabi, UCI: Rethinking the Political: Objectification & Activism
Mako Fitts, Seattle Univ. & Julie Chang Schulman, Seattle, WA: ‘Doin It For the Love’: Urban Arts & Activism in Seattle’s Hip-Hop Communities

134) Muslim Americans: Organizations, Identities & Challenges
organizer: Christine Soriea Sheikh, Univ. of Arizona
Erik Love, UCSB: Divided or United: Middle Eastern Americans in Detroit
Coby V. Meyers, Vanderbilt Univ.: Muslim-American Public School Exit: The Development of the Islamic School
Christine Soriea Sheikh, Univ. of Arizona: What Does It Mean to be a Muslim? Muslim American Faith Narratives & Religious Identity Accounts

135) Undergraduate Paper Session: Sociology of Race & Ethnicity in the Academy
(sponsored by the Committee on Race and Ethnicity)
organizer: Sharon Yee, ASU
Diana Khuu, Pomona College: Emerging Voices: Reflection of Vietnamese Australian Young People Involved in Melbourne’s Community Arts
Lorien R. Hunter, ASU: Reification in Prime Time
Miriam Vargas Solis, UC Berkeley: Maintaining & Mitigating Social Inequality through Annexation in Modesto, CA

136) Roundtables
Table 1: Reviving : A Reflection on the Activism & Scholarship of Eric Rofes
(sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
organizer: Benjamin Shepard, CSU Long Beach
presider: Don Barrett, CSU San Marcos
Benjamin Shepard, CSU Long Beach & Liz Highleyman, San Francisco, CA: Friendship, Activism & Queer Worldmaking: Reflections on the Scholarship & Movement Work of Eric Rofes
Donald Barrett, CSU San Marcos: Gay Scholarship from the Front Lines: A Reconsideration of Eric Rofes
E. Michael Gorman, San Jose State: Reflections on Reviving the Tribe: 10 Years After

Table 2: Sociology & Real World Ethics
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSU Los Angeles
Elizabeth McEneaney, CSU Long Beach: Protection, Risk & Profit: The Use of Children In Applied Research
Don Winiecki, Boise State Univ.: Institutional Research Boards (IRBs) & Sociological Research: Necessary (?) but Not Sufficient
Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSU Los Angeles: Dancing with Cash Cows: Ethical Dilemmas in Soft Money Research

Table 3: Environmental Sociology: Technology, Business & Policy
organizer: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento
presider & discussant: Ray Ortega, CSU Sacramento
Lou Jacobson, Humboldt State Univ: The Diffusion of a New Light
Marc Bauermeister, Humboldt State Univ.: Suburbanization & Waste: Small Farm Disinvestment in Eastern Nebraska
Kazumi Kondoh, WSU: Urban Growth & the Challenge of Urban Government: A Case Study of the Urban Heat Island Mitigation Policies & Practices in Tokyo
Eric Hess, Whitman College: Fashionable Sustainability: Rethinking Business in the Outdoor Apparel Industry

Table 4: The Future of Ethnic Identity: Case Studies of 1.5 & Second-Generation Young Adults in Southern
organizer: Ruben G. Rumbaut, UCI
presider: Roberto G. Gonzalez, UCI
Golnaz Komai, UCI: Drawing Boundaries: The Ambiguous Nature of Iranian Identity in Southern California
Monica Trieu, UCI: What Makes an Identity Ethnic? A Comparative Study of Intra-National Identity Formation among 1.5 & Second-Generations
Charles V. Morgan, UCI: I am part…WHOLE: A Study of Multiracial & Multiethnic Identities among the 1.5 & Second Generations

Table 5: What’s Mine is Yours: Sharing Your Best Online Assignments
organizer: Risa Lynn Garelick, Coconino Community College/Northern Arizona Univ.
Patricia Hoffman, New Mexico State Univ.: Teaching Tricks for Online Research Papers
Lee Hamilton & Elaine Saavedra, New Mexico State Univ.: Students Reactions to Online Learning Activities: A Survey
Risa Lynn Garelick, Coconino Community College/Northern Arizona Univ.: Getting Students Interested: Linking Online Assignments to Real Life

Table 6: Trends in Education I: Male Enrollment
organizer: Paul W. O’Brien CSU Stanislaus
Tamara Sniezek, CSU Stanislaus: Using Qualitative research Design in Student Retention
Angel Sanchez, CSU Stanislaus: Data Trends in Male Enrollment Data
Paul W. O’Brien, CSU Stanislaus: The Politics of Male enrollment Trends

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
10:15 am - 11:45 am

137) Presidential Session: Looking at Sociology from Across the Fence: What Makes a Department a Good Department?
organizer: Scott McNall, Provost CSU Chico
James Houpis, Dean of Natural Sciences, CSU Chico
Sarah Blackstone, Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts, CSU Chico
Eduardo M. Ochoa, Provost, Sonoma State Univ.

138) Author Meets Critics: Shari L. Dworkin & Leslie Heywood, Built to Win: The Female Athlete as a Cultural Icon
organizer: Sohaila Shakib, CSU Dominguez Hills
Authors: Shari L. Dworkin, NYSPI & Columbia Univ. & Leslie Haywood, SUNY Binghamton
Critics: Faye Wachs, Cal Poly Pomona; Cheryl Cooky, CSU Fullerton; Rita Liberti, CSU East Bay

139) Mediating Gender in a Changing World I
organizers: Robin Stalbaum & Tina Quicoli, CSU Northridge
Carol A. Minton, California Baptist Univ.: Mediating Gender in the Changing World of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Marianne Cooper, UC Berkeley: Creating Security in Insecure Times: The Gendered Division of Security Work in Families
Lisette Rodriguez, CSU Northridge: Exotic Dancers: Consequences of Identity within the Context of a Deviant Occupation
Ashraf Zahedi, UC Berkeley: Transnational Communities in Iran: The Significance of Gendered Citizenship

140) Ethnicity & Immigration in the United States I
organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Lilach Lev Ari, Oranim, Academic College of Education & Bar IIan Univ.: : Gender, Migration & Ethnicity: Israeli Migrants in the US
April Bates, Univ. of Colorado at Denver: Immigration: A Look at Twentieth Century Legislation
Shigueru Tsuha, UCR: Twice Immigrants: A Study of Identity & Community Formation of Japanese-Peruvians in Southern California

141) Navigating the Graduate School Experience: Student Perspectives III
(sponsored by the Committee on Student Affairs)
[Note, this is part III of a three-part session dealing with graduate school; part I (Session #75) is planning for graduate school; part II (Session #105) is applying for graduate school.]
organizer: Mary Nell Trautner, SUNY-Buffalo
presider: Jessica Stephan, Humboldt State Univ.
Jeff A. Larson, Univ. of Arizona
Dana Maher, UNLV
Debra Guckenheimer, UCSB
Tonya Lindsey, UCSB
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, UCSB
Marcia Hernandez, Univ. of the Pacific

142) The Growing Gap: Issues on Social Stratification
organizer: Rebekah Villafana & Apryll Chin, CSU Northridge
Jesus Hernandez, UC Davis: Subprime Lending Patterns in Sacramento
Jim Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ.: The Reorganization of Labor, Credit & Commodity Markets within the Class Structure
Spencer James, Ralph Brown, Josh Stovall & Todd Goodsell, BYU: Where Will the Middle Class Survive? Thrift Stores & Yard Sales as a New Shadow Economy
Margaret Gough, Oakland, CA: Examining the Association between Income & Stay-at-Home Motherhood
Irena Stepanikova, Univ. of South Carolina: Inequality in Quality: Toward a Better Understanding of Micro-Level Mechanisms Underlying Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

143) Nontraditional Professionals: The Study of Marginalized Work & Occupations: I
organizer: Jennifer L. Harrison, ASU
Antonia Levy, City University of New York Graduate Center: Sex for Sale. An Exploration into the Management of Emotions in Prostitution
Brittania McNair, Montana State Univ.: Stigma with-in Exotic Dance Clubs
Joseph O’Neill, Holy Names Univ.: Worker Control & Job Satisfaction
Mason Nottingham, Arizona State: Informal Caregiving & Martial Satisfaction
Laura D. Chandler, Somona State Univ.: Emotional Labor in the Veterinary Field: Organizational Rules & Interpersonal Emotion

144) This session was canceled.

145) Retheorizing Butch/Femme
organizers: Jane Ward, UCR & Eve Shapiro, USF
Jane Ward, UCR & Margaux Cowden, UCI: Is there a Femme Politics?
Elizabeth Eno, SFSU: Femme Identities & Community Negotiations
Karl Bryant, UCSB: Butch-Femme Men? The Politics & Possibilities of Queer Male Gendered Desire

146) Changing Communities II
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
Lyn H. Lofland, UC Davis: Land Speculators & the Thrill of Risk: Emotion as an Agent of Community Change
Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State: Emotions & Historic Preservation
DeMond Shondell Miller & Clem Durham, Rowan Univ. & Randolph Burnside, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale: Risky Ventures: Riskscape & Redevelopment after Disaster
Richard Carl Chabot, Humphreys College: Community Development in California’s Central Valley

147) Body Image & the Social Construct of Self
organizer: Laura Scott, CSU Northridge
Dennis J. Downey, Justine Reel & Sonya SooHoo, Univ. of Utah & Melissa Walker, Naropa Univ.: Contrasting the Body Image Norms across Dance Forms: The Intersection of Leisure & Gender Identities
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ.: The Looks Ladder: The Social Construction of the Ugly, Homely, Average & Beautiful Selves
Joanna R. Davis, UCSB: Who Not to Be?: Gender & Age Norms on What Not to Wear
Laura Scott, CSU Northridge: Working It Out: The Effects of Body Image on the Identity of Gym Members
Patricia Drew, UCSB: “But then I Learned”: Patients Reframe Weight Loss Surgery Discourses

148) Political Economy of the Environment
organizer and discussant: Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento
Elaine Paul & Loran Sheley, CSU Sacramento: An Examination of Factors that Contribute to Higher Rate of Recycling
Kirk Lawrence, UCR: ‘Ecological Rent’: A Theory of Ecological Degradation within the World System
James Rice, New Mexico State Univ.: Environmental Cost-Shifting & Deforestation 1990-2000: A Cross-National Analysis

149) Teaching Sociological Theory: Issues, Strategies & Alternatives
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Liza Kuecker, Western New Mexico Univ.
presider: Akihiko Hirose, Univ. of Colorado at Denver
Keith Farrington, Whitman College: Using Specific Periods & Events in American History to Animate Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology: A Pedagogical Exercise in the Co-Employment of the Disciplines of Sociology & History
Marilyn D. Moore, California Baptist Univ.: Massclusivity Project: Taking the Boring Out of Theory
James P. Marshall, Univ. of Northern Colorado: Strategies for Teaching Social Theory in Applied Sociology Programs

150) Roundtables
Table 1: The Sociology of Health, Trauma Care, Infertility & Racial Bias
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Joshua S. Meisel, Humboldt State Univ.
presider: Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSU Los Angeles
Mary Dinsdale, PSU: Consequences of Injury for the Uninsured: Disparities in Trauma Care
Diane M. Lemos, Univ. of Colorado-Denver: Understanding the Infertile Identity within the Framework of Volunteerism for the National Infertility Association

Table 2: Table 2: Trends in Education II: High School Sociology and Transfer Students
organizer: Sally Raskoff, Los Angeles Valley College
Vaughn Nocholas Toland, Metro State College & Candan Duran-Aydintug, Univ. of Colorado-Denver: Integration of Community College Transfer Students with Special Focus on Sociology Undergraduate Courses
Michael DeCesare, CSU Northridge: The Structure of High School Sociology Courses: Concerns, Causes & Consequences

Table 3: Class, Race, Gender & the College Experience I
organizer: Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay
Jessica Lindsey, CSU East Bay: Talking to Others: When College Students & Non-College Educated Individuals Interact
Erica Malveaux, CSU East Bay: The Quality of Education Received by Black Students at CSU East Bay
Shawn Johnson, CSU East Bay: The Experiences of CSUEB Students

Table 4: Service Learning in the Introductory Sociology Classroom
(sponsored by the Committee on Community College)
organizer: Reid Helford, Columbia Basin College
Judith Hennessy, Central Washington Univ.: Developing Sociological Imagination through Service Learning in the Introductory Social Problems Course
Reid Helford, Columbia Basin College: Service Learning in the Community College Classroom

Table 5: Innovation & Change from the Sociology Classroom to the Department
Nathan Meeker, Stephen Smith, Mike Abel, Steve Stokes, Mike Tatum & Richard Whiting, BYU Idaho: Departmental Metamorphoses: From the Associates Degree to the Bachelor of Arts

Table 6: The Gendered Criminalization of Drug Use
organizer: Alexis Martinez, UCSF
Jean Toner, Central Michigan Univ.: Addiction as Resistance, Recovery as Praxis
Erika Derkas, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: Criminalization of Prenatal Drug Use & the Effects on Women’s Health
Alexis Martinez, UCSF: Social Inequalities, Drug-Related Arrests & HIV Risk Among Women

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

151) Author Meets Critics: Jeffrey Alexander, The Civil Sphere
organizer: Karen Sternheimer, USC
presider: Nina Eliasoph, USC
author: Jeffrey Alexander, Yale Univ.
critics: John R. Hall, UC Davis
Richard Biernacki, UCSD
Georgia Warnke, UCR

152) Who Rules America? 40 Years Later
organizer: Harold Kerbo, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
presider: Richard Flacks, UCSB
Robert Perrucci, Purdue Univ.
Richard Flacks, UCSB
Clayton Peoples, UNR
William Domhoff, UCSC

153) Mediating Gender in a Changing World II
organizers: Tina Quicoli & Robin Stalbaum, CSU Northridge
Jesse Fletcher, CUS Riverside & Preeta Saxena, CSU Northridge: Gendered Reactions to Classical Theorists
Nneka Ozoude, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: The Effect of Globalization on Immigrant Third World Women’s Role as Mothers & Wives
Suzanne Becker, UNLV: Fishnets, Fights & Feminism: Reflections of Contemporary Sexuality within Women’s Roller Derby
Brenda Green, Univ. of New Mexico: New Discourses of Identity: Arab-American Women & Gender Role Ideologies in Marriage

154) Does Sociology Challenge the Dominant Discourse on Race & Ethnicity?
organizers: Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Shoon Lio, UCR
Mary Romero, ASU: Crossing the Immigration & Race Border: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Immigration Studies
Edward Flores, USC: Gender-Wise: A Liberal Approach to Second Generation Immigrants in the Inner-City
Dennis J. Downey & Jonathan H. Westover, Univ. of Utah: Multiculturalism: Shifting Academic Rhetoric & Popular Discourse
Jennifer Simmers & Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., UCR: Challenging the Discourse on Race & Ethnicity

155) Workshop on the Academic Job Search: Getting Ready, Letter, CV, Interviews & After
organizer: Rebecca S. K. Li, The College of New Jersey
presenters: Rebecca S. K. Li, The College of New Jersey; Michael P. Perez, CSU Fullerton & Ronda Priest, Univ. of Southern Indiana

156) Communities, Globalization & Its Consequences
organizer: Echo Fields, Southern Oregon Univ.
Karen Miller-Loessi, Kathlyn M. Shahan & Jennifer L. Harrison, ASU: The Impact of Globalization on Copper Mining Communities in Rural Arizona
Susan E. Mannon & Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Utah State Univ.: Community-Based Tourism in Rural Costa Rica

157) Criminology
organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Ann Charvat, In Service, Inc.: Working It Out: A Model for Restorative Justice in the Family
Herman L. Debose, CSU Northridge: A Theatre Arts Program for At-Risk Youth
Sharon K. Davis, La Verne Univ.: The Denial of Responsibility Among Incarcerated Male Juvenile Delinquents
David Musick & Kristine Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado: Capital Punishment: Cruel & Unusual or State-of-the-Art & Humane?

158) Women & Education
organizer: Barbara Mori, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Ana Villalobos, UC Berkeley: The Socialized Gendering of Intellectual Skills: A New Explanation of Why Males & Females Perform Differently in Math
Barbara Mori, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: Chinese & Japanese Women Look to Future Parental Obligations
Helen Kim & Amanda Peden, Whitman College: You Can Never Be Too Thin? Racialized & Gendered Constructions of Body Size among Second Generation Korean American College Women

159) Native Americans in the Sociological Discourse
organizers: Ashley N. Koda, UCR & Michelle Jacob, Univ. of San Diego
Sachiko Jensen, Provo, UT: Culture & Self-Efficacy in Northern Cheyenne Math Education: An Evaluation of Curricular Changes at Chief Dull Knife College
Jean Toner, Central Michigan Univ.: Borders, Belonging, & Domestic Sovereignty: Two Women’s Stories
Scott Myers-Lipton, San Jose State: Native American Contributions to Egalitarianism
S. Meredith Morris, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: On Miranda & Misrepresentation: A Look at the Rights of Native American Defendants in the Criminal Justice System
Stephen Corral, Tucson, AZ; Karl Eschbach, Univ. of Texas; Miriam Jorgensen, Stephanie Carroll & Rachel Starks, Univ. of Arizona & Jonathan Taylor, The Taylor Policy Group, Inc.: Accounting for Change in Per Capita Income for American Indians Living on Indian Lands

160) The Interface of Medical Sociology & the Technoscientific Transformation of Health & Illness
organizer: Sheba George, Charles R. Drew Univ. of Medicine & Science
Discussant: Eldon Wegner, University of Hawaii Manoa
Joshua Murray, Univ. of Oregon: Sickness for Sale: Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising & the Medicalization of Life
Alison Hamilton Brown, UCLA: The Eyes Can See Better When They’re right There: The Importance of Physician Physical Presence in Perceptions of Telemed
Paul Robinson, Charles R. Drew Univ. of Medicine & Science: The Significance of Place & Geographical Information Sciences (GIS) Technologies in Health & Illness Research
Gerald Markle, Western Michigan Univ.: A Thought Experiment on the Disappearance of Medicine

161) Social Movements Old & New
organizer: James T. Richardson, UNR
Erik Schwinger, UNR: Marginalization Devices in Newspaper Coverage of 2006 Election Protest in Mexico: Content Analysis of Three Countries’ Major Newspapers
Aaron D. McVean, UNR: The Gathering: Print Media & Government Treatments of the Rainbow Gathering
Angela D. Broadus, UNR: Murder in Mexico: Collective Responses to Mass Murder of Women in Cuidad Juarez & Chihuahua, Mexico
Aaron Modica, UNR: The Class Basis of Immigration Rallies
James T. Richardson, Jennifer Shoemaker & Jared Chamberlain, UNR: Promotion of Religious Freedom: The Campaign For & Against State Level Religious Freedom Restoration Acts

162) Astrosociology: Boldly Expanding the Traditional Limits of Sociology
organizer: Jim Pass, Astrosociology.com
Marilyn Dudley-Rowley & Thomas Gangale, OPS-Alaska: Astrosociology: To Boldly Go Where Sociology is Needed the Most & is Afraid to Tread
John M. Wilkes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Astrosociology & the Next Generation of Technology Assessment
Albert A. Harrison, UC Davis: Astrosociology, Human Factors & the U.S. Space Program
Jim Pass, Astrosociology.com & Joseph Palaia, 4Frontiers Corporation: Applied Astrosociology in Action: Practical Planning for a Genuine Mars Settlement

163) Sociological Theory
organizer: David Boyns, CSU Northridge
Robert C. Hauhart, Saint Martins Univ.: Some Principals of Stratification Revisited
Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley State College: Working Class Definitions of Class, Occupational Prestige & Mobility
David Boyns, CSU Northridge: Revved & Reviled: The Emotional Energy Dynamics of the Sociological Self

164): Roundtables
Table 1: Educational Inequality in Secondary & Post-Secondary Outcomes
organizer: Demetra Kalogrides, UC Davis
presider: Erika Felts, UC Davis
Melanie Jones, UC Davis: Social Class & Entitlement: Engagement in Classroom Participation
Sarah Ovink, UC Davis: Gender & Racial Inequality in High School Dropouts
Julie Siebens, UC Davis: Major (In)Decisions: Social Class & Stability across Fields of Study
Demetra Kalogrides, UC Davis: A Hazard Model of College Attrition

Table 2: Disciplining Femininity: Critical Perspectives on Women Prisoners
organizer: Garry Rolison, CSU San Marcos
Jodi Lawston, CSU San Marcos: Activism in the California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Garry Rolison, CSU San Marcos: Disciplining the Feminine: Women Prisoners
Sharon Elise, CSU San Marcos: Regina’s Story: Narrating the Process of Prisonification

Table 3: Educating a Diverse Student Body
organizer: Laura Nichols, Santa Clara Univ.
presider: Cristina Sanidad, Santa Clara Univ.
Collin Fellows, PSU: Closing the Gap With Population Specific Mentoring Programs
Vivian Price, Patricia Kalayjian & Cathy Jacobs, CSU Dominguez Hills: Engaging in Diversity in Interdisciplinary Studies
Marko Moreno, Robert Bubb & Harold Miller, BYU: Enhancing the Academic Achievement & Graduate School Preparation of Multicultural Psychology Majors

Table 4: Family, Religion & Identity Construction in Diverse Contexts
organizer: A. Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College
Parisa Samaie, CSU Long Beach: First & Second Generation Iranians in the United States & their Attitudes toward Marriage
Joy Lam, USC: Religious & Ethnic Identities Reconstruction of Chinese Muslim Converts in Malaysia: The Role of Family
A. Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College: The Christian Family as Icon of American Evangelical Protestant identity: Its Shallower Historical Roots

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

165) Presidential Session: Sociology’s Status in the Academy: Perspectives of Administrators Who Are Sociologists
Organizer: Charles F. Hohm, CSU Dominguez Hills
Panelists: Melvin Oliver, Dean, Division of Social Sciences, UCSB
George Bridges, President, Whitman College
Roberta Lessor, Dean, College of Arts & Letters, Chapman Univ.
Scott McNall, Provost, CSU Chico

166) Changing Communities: III
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
presider & discussant: Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State
Ivester Sukari, UC Berkeley: Both Sides of the Gentrification Coin: Revanchist & Emancipatory Gentrification in One Chicago Community
Jeff Torlina, Jordan Haug, Bethany Williams & Kristie Binks, Utah Valley State College: The Challenge of Reduction in Mechanical Solidarity: Citizens’ Attitudes toward Change in their Community
Thomas J. Keil, ASU West: The Changing Face of Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region
Kazumi Kondoh, WSU: The Role of Civic Networks in Conserving Urban Green Spaces & Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect: A Comparative Case Study in Two Suburban Communities in Tokyo

167) Multiracial Identity: Current Theoretical & Empirical Research II
organizers: Josef Casteneda-Liles & G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB
Ethan Johnson, PSU: Escaping Blackness: The Multiracial or Mesitzo/a Identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region
Tina Quicoli, CSU Northridge: Alienated from the Black Movement: The Case of Multiracial Brazilians
G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB: The Brazilian & United States Racial Orders: Changing Points of Reference

168) Author Meets Critics: Sheba George, When Women Come First: Gender & Class in Transnational Migration
organizer: Sohaila Shakib, CSU Dominguez Hills
Author: Sheba George, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Sciences
Critics: Russell Jeung, SFSU
Clare Weber, CSU Dominguez Hills
Gilda Ochoa, Pomona College
Evelyn Rodriguez, USF

169) Film Session: Voices of Pain, Voices of Hope
[This session focuses on teaching antiracism in the university.]
organizer: Jerome Rabow, UCLA
Discussants: Herman DeBose & Amy Denissen, CSU Northridge
Edna Molina, CSU Bakersfield

170) Neighborhoods, Social Capital & Violence
organizers: Shoon Lio & Louis Tuthill, UCR
Jayme Day & Ming Wen, Univ. of Utah: Social Capital & Adolescent Mental Health: The Role of Family, School & Neighborhood
Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Univ. of Oregon: There Ain’t No Bond in Town Like There Used to Be: The Destruction of Social Capital in the West Virginia Coalfields
Kate Luther, Louis Tuthill & Lisa Fahres Murphy, UCR: Impact of Neighborhoods on Domestic Violence
Shoon Lio, Louis Tuthill, Eric Vega & Scott Coltrane: UCR: Neighborhoods & the Perceptions of Violence

171) Feminist Research
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Camilla A Sears, Simon Fraser Univ.
Ladan Dejam, CSU Northridge: Girls, Math & Institutionalized Gender Bias Toward Them
Jenny Amin, Danny Osborne & Paul G. Davies, UCLA: Explaining Abortion Attitudes from a Feminist Perspective
Nicolette Anne Marie Pacho, San Jose State: Hegemonic Masculinity & Male Interpretations of Female Objectification
Debra Guckenheimer, UCSB: Feminist Social Service Organizations & Accountability
Melanie A. Hulbert, George Fox Univ.: The Way Forward: Women Finding Their Voice in a Culture of Confusion

172) Meet the Editors
organizer: Donald C. Barrett, CSU San Marcos
Donald C. Barrett, CSU San Marcos & Coeditor, Sociological Perspectives, Richard T. Serpe, Kent State Univ. & Coeditor Sociological Perspectives & Amy Wharton, WSU & Editor, Social Problems

173) Hegemonic Potpourri: Teaching Global, Political & Institutional Sociology
organizer: Eric Haruo Honda, Indepenent Resarcher
Eric Haruo Honda, Independent Researcher: Losing Ground?: A Spatial Model of Hegemonic Regime Survival Amid Rivals & Resistance
Scott David Parker, UNR: Re-imagining Politics: C. Wright Mills, Methodology & the Craft of Political Inquiry
Clayton Peoples, UNR: Teaching about Who Dominates Policy in the U.S.
Tina Martinez, Blue Mountain Community College: Exploring Global Inequalities Through the Camera’s Lens

174) Sociology of Organizations II
organizer: Matthew Green, Univ. of Arizona
Eric R. Cheney, Central Washington Univ. & Robert R. Faulkner, U Mass Amherst: Structural Holes & the Corporate Merger & Acquisition Market
Ann Shirley, Univ. of Oregon: The Effect of Unionization on Wage Dispersion within Corporations
Chandler Washburne, CSU Fresno: The Organizational Wars
Jonathan H. Westover & William S. Hesterly, Univ. of Utah: Firm Performance, Expectations & CEO Succession: From a Sociological Perspective

175) Represent: Race, Gender & Identity in Hip-Hop Music & Culture II
organizer: Michael Barnes, UC Berkeley
Ela Eylem Gezen, Univ. of Michigan: Aziza-A: Oriental Hip Hop Made in Germany
Scooter Pegram, Indiana Univ. Northwest: Representing Reality through French Hip-Hop: Integration, Exclusion & Expressions of Identity among Young Haitian Males
Stephen Piper, Univ. of Leeds: Fake Means Foreign: The Construction of the Gangsta as Commodified Stereotype in the Imagination of Real Englishness
David McLaughlin, Ohio State Univ.: A Lo Cubano: Orishas, Cuban Identity & Transnational Migrations

176) Making the Nation: Citizenship, Belonging & National Identity
organizer: Marie Sarita Gaytan, UCSC
Discussant: Macarena Gomez-Barris, USC
Nik Janos, UCSC: Picking Up the Pieces: Grassroots Relief Work & Citizen Formation in the Social Disaster of Hurricane Katrina
Karl Ren-Hung Wu, Univ. of British Columbia: The Anxious Giant: China & the De-Siniczed Conception of Imagined Communities in Taiwan & Hong Kong (1970s-2000s)
Daphne Kwok, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, San Francisco: Angel Island Immigration Station: The Pacific Enforcer of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Elizabeth Bennett, UCSC: Landscape, Nature & Belonging?

177) Strategies for Social Movements & Social Change: II
organizer: Dennis J. Downey, Univ. of Utah
Ellis Jones, UC Davis & Ross Haenfler, Univ. of Mississippi: Building Progressive Movements from the Bottom Up: Democratizing Activism by Engaging Individuals in Social Responsibility
Kara Zugman, CSU Dominguez Hills: The Other Campaign: The EZLN’s New Political Culture in the 2006 Mexican Presidential Campaign
Christine Petit, Linda J. Kim & Ellen Reese, UCR: Putting Meat on the Skeleton of Woman’s Bones: Strategies Favored by Feminists at the World Social Forum
Justin Paulson, Seattle Univ.: Social Change & the Anti-Hegemonic Imagination

178) Undergraduate Paper Session: The Social Construction of Identity II
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Sunil Kukreja, Univ. of Puget Sound
Mary Kameko Shibata, UC Berkeley: Skin Deep: The Effects of Race, Class & Gender on the Physical Body & Identity Formation in Elementary Education
Racheal Ward, Western Washington Univ.: The Role of Urbanity in Lesbian Identity Displayed in Same Sex Personal Ads
Cassandra Mitchell, Univ. of the Pacific: Fraternal Twins: The Origin of Conflict between Skinhead Groups in the United States
Anna Sorenson, CSU Chico: Tertiary Deviance & Social Movements: Demonstrated through an Analysis of the GLBTQ Movement
Benjamin Rese, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Managing Masculinity & Self-Injury

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

179) Discourse, Power, Subjectivity: Inspecting the Production of Subjects & Subjectivity in Society
organizer: Don Winiecki, Boise State Univ.
William Bogard, Whitman College: Deleuze & Machines: A Politics of Technology?
Nicki Lisa Cole, UCSB: Constructing & Consuming the Third World: Globalization as It Is Mapped by the Discourse of Coffee & Tea
Catherine Naillon, Boise State Univ.: BDSM: The Question of Consent
Rashad Shabazz, UCSC: “Kitchenettes” Black Communists & “Subversive Sex”: An Analysis of the Penal Society in an American City
Jill Thomas, ASU: Briefcases & Babysitters: Corporate Discourses & the Construction of the “Supermom” in Working Mother Magazine
Michael Blain, Boise State Univ.: The Politics of Victimage: Power & Subjection in the Global War on Terror

180) Women & Crime
organizer: Kate Luther, UCR
Sharon Oselin, UCI: For Life, God & the Kids: An Analysis of Leaving Street Prostitution via Intervention Programs
Amy Egan, Univ. of Calgary: Dressing Up Terrorism: A Media Analysis of Women Terrorists
Helena B. Valenzuela, ASU: Self-Help: Wisdom Shared by Children of Imprisoned Women
Hong Xiao, Central Washington Univ. & Jeanne Blackburn, ASU: Gender & Perceptions of Partner Violence: Responses of College Students

181) Gay Cultural Markers: Their Use & Misuse
(sponsored by the Committee on LBGT)
[Note: A reception sponsored by the Committee on LBGT will immediately follow this session]
organizer: Donald C. Barrett, CSU San Marcos
Jason Crockett, Univ. of Arizona: Cultural Mapping of the GLBTQ Movement
Beth E. Schneider, UCSB: Olivia Cruising & Dinah Dancing: Markers of Lesbian Play & Lesbian Political Generations
Benjamin Shepard, CSU Long Beach: Sex Panic!
John Stover, Loyola Univ. Chicago: From Demonstration to Parade: Shifts in the Meaning of Gay Pride Day
Tom Waidzunas, UCSD: Somewhere Under the Rainbow: Assessing Pride Flags as Markers of ‘Gay Space’ & Global Citizenship
Mark Wilson, Pacific School of Religion & UC Berkeley: Ironical Misrepresentations of Race

182) The Intersections of Race, Class & Gender in Academia
(sponsored by The Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
[Note: A reception sponsored by the Committees on the Status of Women & Race and Ethnicity will immediately follow this session.]
organizer: Gilda Ochoa, Pomona College
Connie L. McNeely, George Mason Univ. & David H. Kamens, Northern Illinois Univ.: Organizational Dynamics & Impacts on U.S. Faculty Diversity
Summer Gray, Pomona College: Beyond In-Between: Epistemological Boundaries & the Marginalization of Women of Color in Social Research
Maricela DeMirjyn, Trina Bolton & Heather Tracy, Minnesota State Univ.: Academic Locations & Identities: Narrative In-Sites for Women of Color Courses
Sharon Yee, ASU: Women of Color Athletic Director’s Experiences: The Intersections of Race & Gender

183) Performance & Authenticity in Music
organizer: Garian Vigil, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Daniel E. Harden II, UNLV : The History & End of Rock’n’Roll Transgression
Mary Heiden, Univ. of North Texas: Levels of Expectation: Musica Rhetoric and the Eloquent Discourse of Performance
Steven D. Williams, Univ. of Southern Indiana: Authenticity in Popular Music: A Movable Feast
J. Dwight Hines, UCSB: Beholden to No One: The Veiled Sentiments of Country-and-Western Music
Adam Rafalovich, Pacific Univ.: Metal Music & the New Masculinity: Rage, Fear & Submission

184) Film Session: The Legacy of Apollo: Enduring Gifts to Humanity & Discussion of Astrosociological Issues
organizer: Jim Pass, Astrosociology.com
discussant: Kathleen Connell, The Connell Whittaker Group, Producer & Principal Investigator (Director, Michael Danty)

185) Workshop: Seeing Through Our Subjects’ Eyes: Using Photography in the Research Process
organizers: Elaine Bell Kaplan & Karen Sternheimer, USC
[This workshop will explore the promises, possibilities & pitfalls of using photography while conducting sociological research. The organizers will focus in particular on using photography with adolescent subjects and provide visual examples from their research. Participants are also encouraged to share their experiences using photography & other visual aides in research.]

186) Food, Culture & Social Organizations
organizer: Akihiko Hirose, Univ. of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center
Kathy Zawicki, St. Bonaventure Univ.: The Culture of the Guinness Book of World Records: A Case Study of Competitive Eating
Steve Zafirau, USC: I Am Not What I Eat: Transgressing the Status Boundaries of McDonalds Consumption
Adrienne Lee, Univ. of Puget Sound: Feeding an ‘Authentic’ Ethnic Identity: A Gastronomic Study of Diasporic Punjabi Households
Nicholas J. Bishop, Univ. of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center: Kick it Up a Notch: Comparison of For Profit & Public Television Cooking Programming & the Display of Gender
Sal Johnston, Whittier College: Eat Your Politics: Eat Local, Visibility & the Reconfiguration of Food Politics

187) Ethnomethodology & Sociology
organizer: Andrew Bamford, Southern Utah Univ.
Philippe Rouchy, Blekinge Institute of Technology: Sociologists Read Kuhn: A History of Systematic Misunderstandings
Brandon Olszewski, Univ. of Oregon: The Practical Work of Coding: An Ethnomethodological Inquiry
Eric Rivera, Loyola Marymount Univ.: Observing How Meaningful & Orderly Activities Are Achieved: Video & Ethnographic Study of Mexican-American Children’s Conflicts in a Preschool Setting
Andrew Bamford, Southern Utah Univ.: Bourdieu & Ethnomethodology

188) Globalization, State & Development II
organizer: Rebecca S. K. Li, The College of New Jersey
Andrew Heller, Colorado State Univ.-Fort Collins: Coffee Certification Systems & Small Producer Cooperatives: A Tool for Development or a Tool of the Market?
Jennifer Rogers, UCSB: On the Trail of Maize: Tracking a Vanishing Seed through a Maze of Globalization & the Struggle from Below
Wai-Kit Choi, UCI: Theories, Global City & the Urban Growth Regime
Ting Jiang, UCI: Globalization & Welfare Spending in Transitional Economies: A Cross-Sectional Time-Series Analysis, 1993-2002
Gary Coyne, UCR: Views on State Action among Alternative-globalization Activists

189) Issues in Sociological Theory
organizer: Hiroko Inoue, UCR
Kristopher Proctor, UCR: State Craft & Accommodation Strategies: Establishing Order When Mechanisms of Social Control Fail
Seth Abrutyn, UCR: Toward a General Theory of Institutional Autonomy
Kirk Lawrence, UCR: Disrupted Networks: Global Elites, 1840-1917

190) Micro Matters: What Really Works in Teaching About Everyday Life
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Joyce M. Johnson, Santa Rosa Junior College
Andrew L. Roth, Sonoma State: Explore Your Umwelt: Bringing Goffman’s Concept to Life
Judith Richlin-Klonsky, Santa Rosa Junior College: Using Out-of-Class Exercises to Connect Course Concepts to Students’ Everyday Lives
Heather Kohler Flynn, Sonoma State: The Sociology of Gender in Everyday Life
Jill Weigt, CSU San Marcos: It’s All About Me: Three Assignments which Incorporate Student Experience as Pedagogical Practice

191) Lay Participation in Legal Decision Making: Deliberative Democracy & Civilian Checks & Balance Mechanism in Legal Systems
organizer: Hiroshi Fukurai, UCSC
Robert E. Precht, Univ. of Montana: Empowering Citizens to Judge: Similarities between Japans Saiban-in & Classic Jury
John Gastil, Univ. of Washington: The Civic Impact of Jury Service
Kaoru Kurosawa, Tokyo Univ.: Persuading the Reluctant: A Minority Influence Approach
Frances M. Lanthier, UCSC: Racial & Gender Disparity in Teen Court Practices
Hiroshi Fukurai, UCSC: The New Grand Jury System in Japan: Prosecutorial Review Commissions & Its Role as an Agent of Social Change

192) Roundtables
Table 1: Undergraduate Roundtable Research in Education
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Joanna Gregson, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Bradley Cramer, New Mexico State Univ.: Money or Meaning? Monetary Motivation & Choice of Major among University Students
Geri Ann Holmes Harlan, Univ. of Puget Sound: Strict Father or Nurturing Parent Model? Competing Visions of Highly Capable Educational Programs as Expressed by Some Parents, Teachers & Administrators at a Pacific Northwest Middle School
Genell Patterson, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Gender Differences in Academic Dishonesty

Table 2: The Status Of Women
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Marta Elliott, UNR
Brynn Holland, UC Berkeley: Women in the Holocaust
Samira Samadani, UC Berkeley: The Privatization of Raising Children in our Society
Amy Sweeney, UC Berkeley: Gender Socialization of Children Raised in Female-Headed Households
Amber Miller, Humboldt State Univ.: Gender Presentation on MySpace through Content Analysis of Student Profiles at Humboldt State

Table 3: Drug Policy Reform
[sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology]
organizer: Gunnar Valgeirsson, CSU Los Angeles
Bruce Mirken, Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, DC: Drug Policy Reform: Marijuana Policy Project
Dale Gierienger, California NORML, San Francisco: Drug Policy Reform: NORML
Jennifer Kern, Drug Policy Alliance, San Francisco: Drug Policy Reform: Drug Policy Alliance

Table 4: Undergraduate Roundtable: Research on Health & Well Being
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Sharon Araji, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
Sheri Leung, USC: APLA: Mental Health & Counseling Opportunities of Lower Socioeconomic Individuals Affected with AIDS
Tom VanHeuvelen, Univ. of Puget Sound: Mass Layoffs & Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study
Becca Goe, Univ. of Puget Sound: Low Income Health Care: 1990s Welfare Reforms, Washington State Policy & Access to Low Income Healthcare

Table 5: Class, Race, Gender & the College Experience II
organizer: Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay
Asmara Ogbai, UCSB: Class, Race, Gender & the College Experience
Shawn Griffin, Univ. of Montana: Strength of Social Networks & Types of Support Available to Single Parent College Students
Cynthia Kozak, CSU East Bay: The Relationship between Church & Life Satisfaction

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
5:15pm - 6:45 pm

PSA Business Meeting

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
5:15 pm-6:45 pm

193A Video Ethnography as Pedagogical Device: Elements of the Biker Subculture
organizer & presenter: Scott A. Reid, Univ of Texas Brownsville
This work delineates the incorporation of video ethnography as a pedagogical device in university classroom settings. Via this medium, students are enabled to witness first-hand, ‘real world’ phenomenon that otherwise prove inaccessible. Video ethnography in the current work involves a multiplicity of motorcycle rallies and associated activities with a focus on the internationally based Gypsy motorcycle club. The ethnography accentuates a plethora of elements that collectively comprise subcultures, group reality construction processes, hierarchically based role expectations, and status affirming social rituals.
[Note, wine & cheese will be served during this session.]

193) Video Session: Voices: Domestic Violence Victims, Contested Child Custody & the Courts
(sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties)
organizers & presenters: Sharon Araji, Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage
[Note, wine & cheese will be served during this session.]

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
9:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Student Reception
(Note: Books donated by the publishers and $50 PSA checks will be raffled off.)

SUNDAY, APRIL 1

summary of events
8:00 am - 10:00 am registration
8:30 am – 10:00 am 2007-2008 Council Meeting
8:30 am – 1:30 pm sessions

SUNDAY, APRIL 1
8:30 am – 10:00 am

194) Graduate Student Session: Does Class Matter? Exploring Social Class in Contemporary Society
organizer: Jane Emery Prather, CSU Northridge
Michelle Lee Ann DeMont, CSU Northridge: No Child Left Behind: The Struggle of Single Mothers Trying to Overcome Poverty
Laura Scott, CSU Northridge: Under Three Strikes: California’s Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Law & Its Impact upon Families
Elena Sosnovskaya, CSU Northridge: Divorce in Cross-Class Marriages: Downward Social Mobility of Women and Children in Los Angeles

195) Education System & Student Self
organizer: Anna Narvid, CSU Northridge
Anna Narvid, CSU Northridge: Student Alienation: The Affect of University Structure on Student Self
Matthew J. Geraths, PSU: The Power of Context: The Process of Identity Change While Studying Abroad
Erin Kleymann, New Mexico State Univ.: Student Motivations & Choice of College Major

196) Reducing the Risk: The Response of Higher Education to Underrepresented Populations
organizer: Collin E. Fellows, PSU
Thomas J. Halverson, Univ. of Washington: Do Your Parent’s Friends Determine Your College Future? Exploring Early Identification & Development of the College-Bound Social Networks for Parents of Low Income & First Generation College-Bound 4th & 5th Graders
Deirdre Bowen, Seattle Univ.: What Everybody’s Thinking but Nobody’s Saying: Underrepresented Minority Students’ Knowledge & Experience in the Face of Anti-Affirmative Action Responses
Mary Fletcher, PSU: The Imposter Syndrome: Its Impact on First-Generation Female College Students Experiences in Higher Education

197) Writing Sociology Outside Academe
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSU Los Angeles
Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSU Los Angeles: Bottom-Lining Research for the Private Sector
Michael Cerneant, San Clemente, CA: Presenting Quantitative Material to the Statistically Disinclined
Marcel Morales, East Los Angeles College: Writing for Practitioners: Eldercare & the Sociologist

198) From the Streets to the Slums: Issues of Poverty
organizer: Rebekah Villafana & Apryll Chin, CSU Northridge
Scott Myers-Lipton, San Jose State: Social Solutions to Poverty: A Top Ten List
Egan Brinkman, Whitman College: Urban vs. Rural Homelessness: Perceptions of Absolute Poverty in the World’s Wealthiest Nation
Apryll Chin, CSU Northridge: Living Without Health Insurance

199) Studying Up: Ethnographies of Power
organizer: Jadi Morrow, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
Merav Sadi-Nakar, UCLA: Ethnography of Special-Needs: Family Environment, IQ & The Over Representation of Minorities in Special Needs Framework
Sophia E. Hammett, Univ. of New Mexico: Voluntourism: Negotiating, Structure & Agency in Stipended Service
Jadi Morrow, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder: Are Studies of the Police Studies of Power?
Alem Kebede, CSU Bakersfield: The Social Construction of Dictatorship; The Case of Mengistu of Ethiopia

200) Gender Justice: Gains & Losses in the Oughts
organizer: Karla B. Hackstaff, Northern Arizona Univ.
Deon Hett, Northern Arizona Univ.: The Effects of Current Child Care Conditions in the U.S. on Maternal Employment: Issues of Gender Equality
Magdalena Vanya, UC Davis: Legal Fetishism & Ghettoized Feminism: The Unintended Consequences of the Global Struggle Against Domestic Violence
Sarah Flett, Northern Arizona Univ.: Female Genital Mutilation: Cultural Relativism versus Human Rights Violation
Shahin Gerami, San Jose State Univ. & Melodye Lehnerer, Community College of Southern Nevada: Gender & International Violence: The Direct & Indirect Costs to Women

201) Issues In Immigrant Experiences & Health
organizer: Juyeon Son, Univ. of Oregon
Olga Bright, CSU Chico: Immigrant & Native Labor Market Experiences & Medicaid Coverage, 1994-2002
Tamiko Eto, San Jose State: Assimilation of Idaho Mexican Americans: Health Care & Educational Attainment Patterns 1994-2004
Leakhena Nou, CSU Long Beach: A Qualitative Examination of the Psychosocial Adjustment of Khmer Refugees in Three Massachusetts Communities

202) Doing Gender: 30 Years Later
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico
Dan Ryan, Mills College: Women, Men & the Information Order
Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico: Doing Candidate, Doing Gender: The Presidential Bid of Hillary Rodham Clinton

203) Activism & Academia: Creating Pedagogies of Resistance & Revolution in the Classroom
organizers: Nadia K. Raza, Lane Community College & Sharon Methvin, Nanjing Health School
Marcia Marx, CSU San Bernardino: Activist Pedagogy: The Case of Taco Bell, CFA & Designated Suppliers
Megan Seely, Sierra College: Fight Like a Girl: Integrating Feminist Pedagogy & Incorporating Activism into College Classrooms
Jordan Camp & Daniel Olmos, UCSB: The Disciplinary Figure of Sociological Inquiry: Knowledge Production in a Historic Moment of Planetary Insurrection
John Foran, UCSB: Cultivating Optimism in the Classroom

204) Disparities in the U.S. Health Care System
organizer: Stephanie Allen, Univ. of Colorado
Jodie M. Dewey, Loyola Univ.: Contesting Medical Boundaries
Stephanie Allen, Univ. of Colorado: Patient Satisfaction of Physician Communication: Are Patients Really That Satisfied?
Nicholas Bishop, Univ. of Colorado-Denver & Health Sciences Center: Gendered Aging in the American Health Care System
Roy Kwon, UCR: The Social Element of Triaging in the United States: Medical Triaging vs. Social Triaging
Helina Demissie, Univ. of Colorado: Fistula: An Example of Health Care Disparities

205) Current Research on Chicana/os & Latina/os
organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Roberto M. De Anda, PSU: Managed Migration: Braceros Then, Guest Workers Now
Jody Agius, UCI: Latina Spaces: The Role of Ethnic Voluntary Associations Among the Mexican-Origin Middle Class
Glenda M. Flores, USC: Chicana/Latina Teachers: Motivations for Entering the Teaching Profession & Occupational Experiences Depending on the Racial/Ethnic Balance of the School Site

SUNDAY, APRIL 1
10:15 am – 11:45 am

206) Current Migrational Patterns & Trends in the U.S.
organizer: Stephanie Allen, Univ. of Colorado
Beth A. Wilson, Western Carolina Univ. & Michael B. Toney & E. Helen Berry, Utah State Univ.: Onward Migration Differentials among Hispanics & non-Hispanic Blacks & Whites in the U.S. 1979-2002
Basil J. Sherlock & Juan L. Gonzales, CSU East Bay: The Longterm Growth of Urban Regions in California: The Historical Evolution of Parallel Megalopolises
Efren N. Padilla, CSU East Bay: Social & Legal Conditions of Filipino Migration to the U.S.

207) Understanding the Sociology Diaspora: The Importance of Ethnic Studies rom 202
organizer: Michelle Jacob, Univ. of San Diego
Sylvanna Falcon, UCSB: Speaking to Each Other & Not Past Each Other: Bridging Ethnic Studies & Sociology
Andrew Jolivette, SFSU: American Indian Studies & Sociology: Understanding Racial & Cultural Formation Theory through Mixed Race Studies: An Examination of Louisiana Creoles
Michelle Camacho & A. Rafik Mohamed, Univ. of San Diego: Past, Present, Future: Locating Ethnic Studies in Sociology

208) Undergraduate Session: The Status of Women II
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Marta Elliott, UNR
Pamela Kay Wallace, UC Berkeley: Time Has Run Out: Coping Strategies after Welfare Reform
Kira Levy, UC Berkeley: Gender & Migration: A Transnational Study of Gender Constructs among Mexican Immigrants
Katherine Mauldin, UNR: Gender & Attitudes Toward Mental Illness
Kali Steele, Mills College: Women for Peace: Personal Power through Transformational Politics

209) Social Geographies of Health
organizer: Alexis Martinez, UCSF
Junhua Yu, Univ. of Alabama: The Impact of the Social & Natural Environment on Health Status
Sukari Ivester, UC Berkeley: Health Inequalities & the Urban Foodscape: Evidence from Alameda County
Anthony DiStefano, UCSF: Suicidality & Self-Harm among Sexual Minorities in Japan

210) Sociology of Breast Cancer
organizer: Grace J. Yoo, SFSU:
presider & discussant: Maren Klawiter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chris VanOnselen, UCSF & Caryn Aviv, Univ. of Denver: Employment Patterns & Inequalities among Breast Cancer Survivors from Diverse Ethnic Groups
Maria Elena Gonzalez, Stanford Univ. & Erin McCoy & Ellen G. Levine, SFSU: Spirituality & Religious Support among Diverse Breast Cancer Survivors
Heather Law & Grace J. Yoo, SFSU: Constructions of Risk: Narratives of Diverse Breast Cancer Survivors

211) Sociological Activism: From Service Learning to Participatory Action Research
organizer: Sally Raskoff, Los Angeles Valley College
Coleen Begley, Agnes Alvarez & Liza Cruz, CSU Northridge: Homeless Social Issues Portrayed through Photojournalism
Susan Harris, Kara Lemma & Poorni Otilingam, USC: Engaged Pedagogies

212) Nontraditional Professionals: The Study of Marginalized Work & Occupations: II
organizer: Jennifer L. Harrison, ASU
Lori Freedman, UC Davis: The Marginalization of Abortion in the Medical World
Molly George, UCSB: The Construction of Expertise in Semi-Professional Service Work
Jennifer L. Harrison, ASU: The Professionalism of Local Musicians: An Exploratory Study of the Coffee Shop Circuit
Erin Malone, UCSD: Legitimizing Practices: A Study of Emotion Work within Bureaucracy
Jennifer Arney, ASU: Dramatization in the Death Care Industry: The Modern Funeral Director as Master Conductor in Theatrical Production

213) Strategies for Social Movements & Social Change: III
organizer: Dennis J. Downey, Univ. of Utah
presider: Christine Petit, UCR
Karl Ren-Hung Wu, Univ. of British Columbia: Human Chains vs. Missiles: Contentious Movements in a Non-Provocative Manner – an Analysis of the 2003 ‘Holding Hands’ Movement in Taiwan
Nori Henk, Loyola Univ. of Chicago: Emphasizing the Movement of New Religious Movements: A Quest for a United World & Focolare Movement
Roy Kwon & Ashley Koda, UCR: WSF: World Scholars Forum?
Robin DeCook, Whitman College: AIDS & Agriculture: Differing Tactics in the Protest Movement against the Thai-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

214) Midlife & Aging Families
organizer: Edythe M. Krampe, CSU Fullerton
Albert Y. Chen, CSU Fullerton: The Effects of Filial Piety on Asian American Caregiving & Emotional Stress
Kristy Y. Shih & Karen Pyke, UCR: Power, Resistance & Patriarchy in Chinese Immigrant Mother/Daughter-in-Law Relations
Jamey K. Flynn, CSU Fullerton: Self-Image, Social Networks & Adjustment to Widowhood in Later Life
Edythe M. Krampe, CSU Fullerton: Father Presence in Middle Age & Older Women

215) University & Community Partnerships: How Does Sociology Help Communities?
organizer: Matt G. Mutchler, CSU Dominguez Hills
Mako Fitts & Gary Perry, Seattle Univ.: Revitalizing a Critical Ethnography in the Study of Gentrification
Esther Castillo & Matt G. Mutchler, CSU Dominguez Hills, James Thing, USC & Tara McKay, AIDS Project Los Angeles & UCLA: Doing Community-Based, Participatory Research to Address Sex, Drugs & HIV among Young Gay Men of Color from a Sociological Perspective
Tamara Sniezek and Peggy Stepro, CSU Stanislaus: Developing a Homeless Resource Center: A University-Community Partnership
Cassandra D. Engeman, UCSB: Incorporating Students into Community-University Partnerships: A Case Study of the Holyoke Community Outreach Partners

216) Undergraduate Paper Session: The Contribution of Sociology Students in Connecting the Academy to the Community
[sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta]
organizer: Virginia Mulle, University of Alaska Southeast
presider: Amy Orr, Linfield College
Darci J. Pauser, UC Berkeley: Houseless: Agents of Our Own Destruction
Zachary Spierling, Fresno Pacific Univ.: The Impact of a Bar: A Crime Rate Study
Kristen Jurkovich, UC Berkeley: High School Youth in a Central Californian Town: Is College Out of Reach?
Marian Marx, Mills College: Students as Parents: An Exploratory Study of the Resources Available to Students with Children or Expecting Children at East Oakland Community High

217) Online Worlds: Play, Conflict & Community in Cyberspace II
organizers: Elena Sosnovskaya, Sima Forghani & David Boyns, CSU Northridge
Robert J. Moore, Palo Alto Research Center & E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison: Role-Playing Practices in Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds
Chad Parsons, UCR: The Halo Effect: Role Construction in an Online Competitive Environment
Melissa J. Monson, Metro State College of Denver: Epeen Envy: Forging Masculinity in the World of Warcraft
Elena A. Sosnovskaya, CSU Northridge: Community & Social Solidarity in Cyberspace: The Nature of Guilds Relations in the World of Warcraft
David Boyns, CSU Northridge: The Savory Deviant Delight: A Study of the Violation of Trust & Normative Order in an Online World

218) Graduate Student Paper Session: Open Topic
organizer: Patricia Jennings, CSU East Bay
Amy Alton, CSU East Bay: Invisible Zapatistas: Women’s Work Outside the EZLN
Michele Collins, CSU East Bay: Using the Internet to Find a Spouse
Carolyn Glesmann, CSU East Bay: Factors Affecting Housing Selection for Interracial Couples in the Bay Area
Brian Soller, CSU East Bay: The Effect of Social Perceptions & Alcohol & Tobacco Use on Adolescent Marijuana Use

SUNDAY, APRIL 1
12:00 pm -1:30 pm

219) Centering Women of Color in Theory & Research
organizer: Sabrina Alimahomed, UCR
Amy Andre SFSU & Marlene Barberousse-Nikolin, Austin TX: Up the Mountain from Petitionville: A Conversation with Two Haitian American Queer Women
Roksana Badruddoja, Rutgers Univ.: From Research to Process to Non-Oppression to Negotiation of Power
Libby Culclasure, Whitman Colleg: Negotiating Two Worlds: Acculturation, Mental Health & Attempted Suicide among Adolescent Latinas
Sabrina Alimahomed, UCR: ‘The Good Ole’ (White) Girls’ Club: The Continuing Exclusion of Women of Color

220) Undergraduate Session: The Status of Women II
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Marta Elliott, UNR
Amber Burkan, UC Berkeley: Postmenopausal Women: Redefining Body Image & Sexuality
Julieta Carrillo, CSU Chico: Examining the Sexual Agency of Chicanas at Midlife
Becky Kruse, Fresno Pacific Univ.: A Comparative Study of Body Dissatisfaction among the College-Aged
Erika Robillard, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: A Glimpse into the Deviant Job of Stripping

221) Women Researching & Teaching Hip-Hop: The Role of the Academic
organizer: Andreana Clay, SFSU
Felicia Viator, UC Berkeley: It’s My Beat: The Role of Women in the Early Development of Hip Hop
Diane Keeling, Colorado State Univ.: The Way She Moves
Kate Furuyama, UCI: Talking About Race & Gender

222) Where Sociology Connects with Psychology
organizer: Fumiko Hosokawa, CSU Dominguez Hills
Fumiko Hosokawa & Michele Linden, CSU Dominguez Hills: Where Sociology Connects with Psychology: An Analysis of the American Family
Lee Jin Baek, Yonsei Univ.: The Sociological Analysis of the Affection Generation
Merav Sadi-Nakar, UCLA: The Making of Difference: Psychology, Class & Ethnicity in Action & the Battle Over Special Education
Vincent Jeffries, CSU Northridge: The Nature of Love: Personality & Interpersonal Perspectives

223) Studying Social Movements in & Through the Media
organizer: Edwin Amenta, UCI
Edwin Amenta & James Stobaugh, UCI, Neal Caren, Univ. of Michigan & Sheera Olasky, NYU: Theories of Social Movements & the Newspaper Coverage of U.S. SMOs in the Twentieth Century
Elizabeth Chiarello, UCI: Prescription Coverage: How Third Parties Shape Mass Media Discourse Regarding Pro-Life Pharmacists
Kelsey Kretschmer UCI: Breaking through: Small Movement Organizations & the Media
Kelly Ramsey, UCI: From Senate to Seen It to Say What?: Advocacy Coalitions for Social Security Privatization in Major & Minor Media

224) Ethnicity & Immigration in the United States II

organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Elsa O. Valdez, CSU San Bernardino: Anti-Immigration Internet Media: Narratives & Images
Tanya Nieri, ASU: School Composition & Students’ Acculturation Experience: How Classmates Shape Children’s Cultural Identity

225) Ethnography: Working with the Method
organizer: Jadi Morrow, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Charles Sarno, Holy Names Univ.: Some Chiefly Charming Stories: How Can You Say that Race is No Laughing Matter?
Jennifer Rogers & Tonya Lindsey: UCSB: Doing Gender at Night: Team Ethnography & Analytic Interpretations
Jadi Morrow, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder: Gaining Trust with the Police
Mark J. Salvaggio, CSU Bakersfield: Backpacker Ethnography in the Ruta Maya

226) Sociology of Collegiate Athletics in American Higher Education
organizer: Sharon Yee, ASU
Timothy Kniseley & Beth Fredericks, ASU: The Image of Athletics
Linda Heuser & Jerry Gray, Willamette Univ.: The Experience & Management of Time among NCAA Division III Athletics
Terri Tupper, Northern Arizona Univ.: For the Love of the Game: Dedication & Desire in Women’s Ice Hockey
Desiree Serrano, ASU: Intercollegiate Softball & Women of Color

227) Relationships & Social Support Across the Life Span
organizer: Anna Muraco, Loyola Marymount Univ.
Heather Kohler Flynn, UC Davis: Friendship Characteristics & Transitions Across the Adolescent to Early Adulthood Trajectory of the Life Course: A Thirteen-Year Longitudinal Study
Jesse Rude, UC Davis: With a Little Help from my Friends: Adolescent Identities as Group-Mediated Performance
Leonard Gordon, ASU: Rena & Me

228) Sociology in the Community: Engaging Community in Collaborative Research with Community Based Participatory Research Methods
organizer: Susan E. Stockdale, UCLA
Sue Marie Wright, Edwin Fonseca & Steffani Ortega, Eastern Washington Univ.: Probably for the Rest of Our Lives
Stacy A. Hammons, Fresno Pacific Univ.: Collaborative Research between the University & the Community: The Challenge of Defining Community
Mary Gee, Monica Molina & Davis Ja, Davis Y. Ja & Associates, Inc.: Youth Educating & Advocating for Health (YEAH): Developing a Theory of Change Model & Preliminary Evaluation Findings
Bowen Chung, UCLA, Charles Edward Corbett, Andrea Jones, Loretta Jones, Ted Booker, Tanika Foster-Spates, Barry E. Collins, Ruth Klap, Naihua Duan, Deborah Glik, Paul Koegel & Kenneth B. Wells: Health African American Families: Talking Wellness: Results of a Community Partnered Participatory Research Project to Engage an African American Community Around Depression through the Arts
Kavita Patel, UCLA, Delores A. Hill, Kaiser Permanente, Ruthie Gray, United Women in Transition, Nisaa Madyun, L.A. County Department of Mental Health & Loretta Jones, Healthy African Families: Community Assessment of the Effect of Environmental Factors on Depression