Random List of Sessions/Roundtables Portland 2008
SESSION ORGANIZERS: THIS IS A RANDOM LIST OF SESSIONS/ROUNDTABLES FOR THE CONFERENCE IN PORTLAND. WE HOPE TO HVE THE PRELIM PROGRAM UP ON THE WEB BY DECEMBER 18TH OR SO.
Sociology of Memory: New & Old Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private? I
organizer: Noel E Packard, The New School Univ.
Christina D Weber, North Dakota State Univ.: Negotiating Public & Private Memory through commemorative Sites
William A Hayes, Gonzaga Univ.: Cyber Memorials, Netizens & Political Change: South Korean Mnemonic Practices in the Early Twenty-First Century
Lois A West, Florida International Univ.: Bias Issues for Qualitative Methods
Andres Pickel, Trent Univ.: Between Homo Sociologicus & Homo Biologicus: The Reflexive Self in the Age of Neuroscience
Sociology of Memory: New & Old Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private? II
organizer: Noel E Packard, The New School Univ.
discussant: Christina D Weber, North Dakota State Univ.
Betsy Pohlman, UCSF: Who Gets to Forget?
Janelle Lynn Wilson, Univ. of Minnesota Duluth: Nuances of Nostalgia
Ben Herzog, Yale Univ.: Collective Forgetting: Reflections on Residual Expression
Meral Akbas, Middle East Teknik Univ.: Within and/or Beyond Prison Bars
Does Sociology Deserve to be Called a Science?
organizer: Charles Powers, Santa Clara Univ.,
Judith Howard, Univ. of Washington: Defining Science
Jonathan Turner, UCR: Returning to Social Physics
Benton Johnson, Univ. of Oregon: Where is Sociology Going?
Workshop: Information Literacy: The Partnership of Sociology Faculty & Social Science Librarians
organizer: Edward L Kain, Southwestern Univ., [What kind of research skills should sociology majors possess as they investigate the secondary literature on a topic, write a research proposal or a term paper, and interpret the content of scholarly articles? At what stage of their sociology education – and in what ways – can research and information skills be incorporated into the curriculum? How are students’ information skills to be assessed within the framework of the recommendations by the ASA Task Force on the Undergraduate Major? Information literacy is an aspect of critical thinking in sociology. Faculty and social science librarians can find common ground on this point and creatively collaborate so that students are not left to their own devices to find and evaluate appropriate sources of information and use data and other resources effectively and ethically. In this workshop, experienced sociology faculty and librarians will introduce the Information Literacy Standards for sociology. They will present strategies, technique, and examples for designing and modifying assignments, curricula, and assessments that will help students meet the standards and become more savvy researchers. The workshop will emphasize ways for faculty and librarians who specialize in sociology or social science to collaborate and to develop assessable, information-rich coursework that is embedded strategically in the major curriculum]
Patti Caravello, UCLA
Triveni Kuchi, Rutgers, The State Univ. of NJ
Susan Macicak, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Edward L Kain, Southwestern Univ.
Positive Movements in Sociological Theory
organizer: Seth Abrutyn, UCR,
Kirk Lawrence, UCR: A Matter of Definition(s): The Many Uses of Rent
Kris Proctor, UCR: Criminological Theory Integration & General Social Processes: Towards a More General Synthesis of Theory
Richard Niemeyer, UCR: Genetics, Hormones & Neurons, Oh My!: How Modern Biology Can Provide Mead’s Mind a Body
The Assault Against Tenure: Memorial Session to Honor James Wood
organizer: Georgie Weatherby, Gonzaga Univ.,
Georgie Weatherby, Gonzaga Univ.
Charles F Hohm, CSU Dominguez Hills
Pat Lauderdale, ASU
Creating a Standardized, Rigorous Undergraduate Sociology
organizer: Charles F Hohm, CSU Dominguez Hills,
Edward L Kain, Southwestern Univ.: If You Build It, They Will Learn: Using National Standards to Create a Challenging, yet Flexible Sociology Curriculum
Judith Little, Humboldt State Univ.: Perceptions of the Rigor of the Sociology Major: Comparing those Majoring in Sociology with those Majoring in Other Disciplines
Laura Nichols, Santa Clara Univ.: Sequencing, Scientizing & Schlepping: The Sociology Major at Santa Clara University
Kristen Anderson, Western Washington Univ.: Standardization & Its Limits: The “Career Killer” & the Capstone
Getting Published: Meet the Editors
organizers: Marilyn Fernandez & Charles Powers, Santa Clara Univ.,
Amy Wharton, WSU, Editor, Social Problems
Don Barrett, CSU San Marcos & Richard Serpe, Kent State Univ.: Past Editors, Sociological Perspectives
Marilyn Fernandez & Charles Powers, Santa Clara Univ.: Editors, Social Perspectives
Video Session: Human Rights in the Philippines
organizer: Peter Chua San Jose State Univ. & Claire Oliveros, Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
Sociology on Southeast Asian Societies I: Economy, Culture & Social Transformations
organizer: Peter Chua
Joseph Harris, Univ. of Wisconsin: Building Nation, Excluding Other: Racial & Ethnic Classification in Thailand
Aurora Donzelli, Institute of Social Sciences of the Univ. of Lisbon & Dr. Goncalo D. Santos, London School of Economics: “Rice Intimacies”: Comparative Reflections of Kinship in Rural Southeast Asia (Upland Sulawesi) & South China (Northern Guangdong)
Kimberley Hoagan, UCB: The Client-Worker Relationship among Different Sectors of Saigon’s Sexualized Economy
Sociology on Southeast Asian Societies II: Economy, Culture & Social Transformation
organizer: Peter Chua, San Jose State Univ.
Allan Warnke, Malaspina Univ. College: Cultural Diversity & National Unity in Indonesia
Prisciliano T. Bauzon & Ernesto A. Buenaventura Jr., Univ. of Southern Mindanao: Children in the Clutches of War, Central Mindanao- 1997, 2000, 2003
Gustav Brown, UCLA: Framing Matters: Strategies, Institutions & Vioilence in Kalimanian & Maluku
Minorities in Education
organizer: Delores E. Cleary, Central Washington Univ.
Janice Russell, Univ. of Nevada Reno: Federally Mandated Accountability Standards, Testing & Achievement Gaps: Culture & Socialization Issues
Tarasawa Beth, Emory Univ.: Fight or Flight? Limited English Proficient Students & School Segregation in Metropolitan Atlanta
Marian A Ross, CSU & Palomar College: Zero Tolerance Policies in Two Schools: How Race & Class Affect Implementation of Discipline
Pui-Yan Lam, Eastern Washington Univ.: Educational Experiences & Aspirations of American Indian Students in Spokane, Washington: An Exploratory Study
Emmanuel D. Harris, Univ. of North Carolina Wilmington: Remembering Our School
Constructing Race in Modern Diasporas
organizer: Sunil Kukreja, Univ. of Puget Sound
Roksana Badruddoja, CSU Fresno: Racial & Ethnic Imaginary: ‘Second-Generation’ South Asian-American Women & Projects of (Re-) Negotiation
Sudarat Musikawong, Willamette Univ.: The Linkages: Diasporas in Los Angeles & New York
Leakhena M Nou, CSU Long Beach: On the Edges of Indigenous: A Personal Narrative of a Cambodian Sociologist
Lata Murti, USC: Rejecting Race: The Class Strategies of First-Generation Indian Immigrant Doctors in Southern California
Rhonda E Dugan, CSU Bakersfield: “‘I’ll be Welsh to the Day I Die’: Negotiations of Racial & National Identity for Black Welsh Women in the United States”
Contemporary Asian American Issues
organizer: Sunil Kukreja, Univ. of Puget Sound
Julie Tram Parker, Portland State Univ.: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Southeast Asian American Sub-Populations
Leck Intharath, San Diego State Univ.: The Function of Music for Asian Americans: Nostalgia for Parents & Social Acceptance for the 2nd Generation & Beyond
Ashley Koda & Roy Kwon, UCR: Untying Myth from Reality: A Reconsideration of Popular U.S. Conceptions of Spousal Abuse Amongst Asian American Communities
Melissa-Ann Nielo Nievera, San Francisco State Univ.: The Dream Divide: Filipino Americans in Non-Traditional Careers & Intergenerational Conflict
Sociology of Media
organizer: Stephen Zafirau, USC
Ginna Husting, Mike Hayes, Holly Hayman & Jillian Foster, Boise State Univ.: Obesity, Contagion & Control in U.S. Popular Media
Casey Welch, Boise State Univ.: The Face of Crime in American Newspapers
Alicia D Simmons, Stanford Univ.: Life at Five: The Influence of News Media Consumption on Whites’ Symbolic Racism Attitudes Toward African-Americans
Theory & Popular Culture
organizer: Christopher Schneider, ASU
Larry Van Sickle, Rollins College: Vonnegut’s Legacy for Sociology: Beware of the Truth
Neda Maghbouleh, UCSB: De-Centered Subjects in a Diasporic Cultural Center: The Production of Persian-Language Popular Music & Media Across Two Generations of Iranian “Exiles” in Los Angeles
Marshall D Smith, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder: A Comparison of W.E.B. DuBois’s Masterwork & the Masterful Lyrics of Tupac Shakur
Janet Armentor-Cota, Doreen Anderson-Facile & Moniqe Ferrano, CSU Bakersfield: Is Texas Holding Them Back?
Ariane Hanemaayer, Univ. of Waterloo & Christopher J Schneider, ASU: Technology & Interactionism
Social & Cultural Capital
organizer & discussant: Peter Callero, Western Oregon Univ.
Peter Callero, Western Oregon Univ. & David L Morgan, Portland State Univ.: The Toolkit Revisited: Role Mastery & Cultural Capital
Scott M Myers & Carrie B Myers, Montana State Univ.: Getting Ready for College: Preparation, Social & Cultural Capital & At-Risk-Status
Shane Brown & Morgan M Millar, WSU.: Social Capital & Engineering Undergraduates: An Analysis of the Effect of Living-Learning Communities on Student Achievement & Retention
Brian James Soller, CSU East Bay: Social & Cultural Capital & Substance Use Among Adolescents
Roundtable: Social & Symbolic Capital
organizer: Peter Callero, Western Oregon Univ.
Camillie Miller, BYU: Patterns of Participation: The Long-Term Effects of Teens Creating Social Capital
Ammon Franklin, BYU: A Typology of Social Capital Definitions
Katrina E Kimport, UCSB: Marriage as Symbolic Capital
The Messiness of Applied Sociology
organizer: Marilyn Fernandez, Santa Clara Univ.
Roy Childs, Univ. of the Pacific: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, Or Who Cares? Myths & Realities of Applied Social Research
Phil Robinette, Vanguard Univ. The Birth & Death of Two Community Counseling Centers
Shannon Adair Williams, UCSC: The Curious Lives of Numbers: Collecting Educational Data in Afghanistan
Marie Rose Wong, Seattle Univ.: The Messiness of Teaching Urban Planning”
Urban Imagery
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
discussant: Jim Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ.
Fern Helfand, Univ. of British Columbia-Okanagan: From Forested Hills to Paved Plateaus
J.J. Schlictman, Univ. of San Diego: A Dialogue of Growth
James Dickson, Rider Univ.: Capitalist Dereliction
Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.: The Gentrification of the U Street Corridor
Community Change
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
discussant: Mary Gallant, Rowan Univ.
Jeremy Flaherty, Spencer James, Utah State Univ. & Ralph B. Brown, BYU: Rural Community Satisfaction & Attachment in Mass Consumer Society
Mara Marks & Jim D. Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ.: Demographic Change & Perceptions of Race & Ethnicity in Los Angeles
Hannah D Sherrard & Keth Farrington, Whitman College: From Prison Town to Wine Connoisseur’s Destination
Lucas Owen Kirkpatrick, UCD: The Two ‘Logics’ of Community Development
Undergraduate Roundtable: Community Imagery
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer & presider: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
Lindsey Grace Paup, Univ. of Puget Sound: Imagining the Grit City: Tacoma, Washington….
Alicia Schock, Univ. of New Mexico: Disaster Subculture in Chronically Prone Communities
Kristin E George, Millis College: Mapping the Shared City
Matthew Jelen & Natalie Soder, Humboldt State Univ.: Humboldt Exchange Community Currency Program
Undergraduate Roundtable: Community Housing & Racial Relations
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
presider: Thomas J Keil, ASU West
Allisoon Elizabeth Beller, Univ. of Puget Sound: Examining Differential Outcomes of Tacoma’s Housing First Program
Laura D Chandler, Sonoma State Univ.: Co-Housing: Community’s Built Identity & Longevity Consciousness
Crystal Ponce, CSU Fullerton: Black-Latino/a Relations in Southern California’s Inland Empire
Faith Applewhite, Whitman College: Cultural Genocide & Gender
Teaching Undergraduate Research Methods
organizer: Linda Heuser, Willamette Univ.
Linda J. Henderson, St. Mary’s Univ. College, Calgary & Univ. of Calgary: “Making Methods REAL for Students: One Approach to Lab Assignments”
Michael John Coyle, CSU Chico: Research Methods as an Opportunity to Teach Lifelong-Learning Skills & to Make Community Contributions
Linda Heuser, Willamette Univ.: The Pros & Cons of Community-Based Action Research
The Complexity of Sexual Identities
organizer: Karen Pyke, UCR
Eve I Shapiro, Univ. of Connecticut: (Re)Braiding Gender & Sexual Identity in a Drag Performance Troupe
Jane Ward, UCR: Straight White Dudes: Unpacking the Co-Consecutive Relationship between Racial & Sexual Identities
Kristin Scherrer, Univ. of Michigan: How Asexuality Complicates Our Understandings of Sexual Identity
Religion & Community
organizer: David McKell, Northern Arizona Univ.
discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Univ.
Rob Reynolds, Weber State Univ.: This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land
John Greenfield, NAU: Defusing Al-Qaeda: Breaking the Link between Nationalism & Religious Differences
Meghan Robison, Oregon State Univ.: When Community Fails: Assessing Disaffiliation & Congregational Culture
Allison Heard, UNR: Race & Religion in the Bible Belt: Parental Attitudes towards Interfaith Relationships
David McKell, NAU: The Sebeel Community Revisited 2007: Case Study of a Grassroots Christian Palestinian Community
Religion & Community II
organizer: David McKell, Northern Arizona Univ.
James Reed & David McKell, NAU: Jesus in the Voting Booth Revisited: Analysis & Prediction of Religion in the 2008 Election
Adam Bloomfield, New Mexico State Univ.: Religious Stability through the College Years for both Students & Non-Students
Janice Russell & James Richardson, UNR: Understanding Tortuous Jurisprudence Regarding Religion in Public Schools
Tiffiany Gourley, Univ. of Colorado: The Religiosity of College Students
Ryan Siu, Western Washington Univ.: Bible Study, Choir Practice & Liberty for All: How Religious Networking Affects Political Tolerance
GIS in the Social Sciences
organizer: Sheila Steinberg, Humboldt State Univ.
Jennifer L Harrison, ASU: Facilities Releasing Toxins: A Comparative Study of Arizona Copper Mining Towns & the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Jyoti V Rawal, Humboldt State Univ.: A Spatial Analysis of Geographic Access to Healthcare for Rural Residents: Del Norte County, California
Jenny Novak-Wrye, Humboldt State Univ.: When the Btg One Hits Will Humboldt County Be Ready? Exploring Place & Preparedness
Josef Robert Eckert, Steve Steinberg & Sheila Steinberg, Humboldt State Univ.: Public Participation: GIS & Agricultural Workers’ Health
Family Labor & Paid Employment
organizer: Sally Gallagher, Oregon State Univ.
Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State Univ.: How Long A Parental Leave Is Long Enough & Who Should Take It? Academic Work & Parental Leave In Finland & The U.S.
Anne Roberts, Utrecht Univ, The Netherlands & Tanja Van der Lippe & Esther Kluwer, Utrecht Univ.: Working Out Family Life. The Influence On Mothers’ & Fathers’ Work Demands On The Frequency Of Child-Related Care &Leisure Activities
Marisa C Young, Univ. of Toronto: Friend or Foe? The Precarious Nature of Family-Friendly Work Settings
Angela D. Broadus, Ada Diaconu-Muresan & Kati Toth, UNR: Gender & U.S. Attitudes toward Maternal Employment
Sociology of Law
organizer & discussant: Rebeca Sandefur, Stanford Univ.
Joseph A Conti, UCSB: The Ambiguity of Dispute Settlement Rulings at the World Trade Organization
Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico: Just The Beginning: A Social History of the U.S. Black Bench
Kathryne M Tafolla Young, Stanford Univ.: Deviance & Control: Understanding of Legality among Cockfighters
Careers & Contexts in Higher Education: Diverse Perspectives on Diversity
organizer: Robert Liebman, Portland State Univ.
Discussants: Carol Mack & Martha Balshem, Portland State Univ.
Christine M. Cress, Portland State Univ. & Jennifer L. Hart, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia: Playing Soccer on the Football Field: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities for Women Faculty
Tina Burdsall, Robert Liebman & Carolyn Zook, Portland State Univ.: Contrasting Faculty Work Modes: En-gendering Difference
Rowanna Carpenter, Portland State Univ.: All on the Same Page? Contrasting Faculty & Staff Perceptions of University Commitment to Diversity
Kelle Lawrence, Porland State Univ.: Beyond Mission Statements: Diversity Initiatives In Action
Race, Class & Gender Issues in Education
organizer: Dolores E Cleary, Central Washington Univ.
Julianne McNalley, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Equity with Competing Interests
Liann Nicole Seiter, Kristen Anderson & Carol Ward BYU: An Evaluation of 21st Century After-School Programs & Their Impact on ESL Students
MeCherri Denise Traver, New Mexico State Univ.: African American Students’ Perceptions of Historically Black Colleges & Universities & Predominately White Institutions.
Michael P. Perez, CSU Fullerton, Contradictions of Higher Learning in Cultural Diversity Classes: Critical Race Pedagogy & Postcolonial Reflections
Inequalities in the Educational System
organizer: Dolores E Cleary, Central Washington Univ.
Melanie T Jones, UC Davis: Disconnected Ties: Social Class & Access to College Information
Brit A DelMoral & Diane B Hirsberg, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage: An Exploration of Experiences & Outcomes of Recent Alaska Native Mt. Edgecumbe High School Graduates
Elisabeth Stuart & Kristie J.R. Philips, BYU: Choice & Segregation in Salt Lake City
Tamela McNulty, Montana State Univ.: Making the Grade in Florida: Accountability, Organization Response & Instructional Practice
Elvia Ramirez, CSU Sacramento: ‘It Was a Scary Process for Me’: Chicanos/Latinos (as) Navigating through the Graduate School Application Maze
Power/Knowledge, Discourse & the Subject of Society
organizer: Don Winiecki, Boise State Univ.
Michael J Blain, Boise State Univ.: The Politics of Victimage: Power & Ritual Subjection in the U.S. Global War on Terrorism
William Bogard, Whitman College: New Forms of Enclosure: Capital’s Reaction to the Crisis of the Disciplines
Ian Michael Mullins, CSU Northridge: Subjectivity Through the Construction & Use of Narrative by Disenfranchised Authors
Don Winieck, Boise State Univ.: The Expert Witnesses & Courtroom Discourse: A Case of Applying both Micro& Macro Forms of Discourse Analysis
Alem Kebede, CSU Bakersfield: Pierre Bourdieu & Social Movements
The Sociology of Science, Knowledge & Technology
Organizer & discussant: John Parker, ASU
Ilkay Savci & Recep Varcin, Ankara Univ.: Consolidation of the Supply of National Innovation Systems: Conflict or Coordination?
Laura Ann Hunter, Univ. of Arizona: Parenthood & Scientific Productivity: New Methods & Evidence
Eva Wingren, ASU: Theater of Uncertainty: A Performance Analysis of Scientist-Policy-Maker Interactions in a Boundary Organization
Dynette Reynolds, Univ. of Utah: The Farmer & the Engineer: A Case Study of Atomic Entanglement in the 20th-Century Mormon Utah
Steve Garlick, Univ. of Victoria: Organizing Nature: Sex, Philosophy & the Biological
The Sociology of Work & Organizations I
organizer: John Parker, ASU
David Peppas, New School Univ.: The Social Life of a Robot: Memisis & Technological Alterity
Molly George, Life Coaching & the Commodity Frontier: A Case Study of a Pioneering Semi-Profession
Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley State College: Intrinsic & Extrinsic Rewards in White- & Blue-Collar Work: Complex & Multidimensional
Rebecca S.K. Li, The College of New Jersey: Routinization of Charismatic Authority in a Non-Profit Organization: A Participant Observation
The Sociology of Work & Organization II
organizer: John Parker, ASU
Joel Schoening, Shippensburg Univ.: Cooperative Conformity: The Worker Managed Labor Process in the Global Economy
Harvey Eric Rich, CSU Northridge: Faculty Perspectives about Quantitative Student Evaluations
Jonathan Westover, Univ. of Utah: Recent Changes in Job Characteristics, Job Quality & Job-Satisfaction in the U.S. & Aboard: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Job Quality Characteristics & Perceived Job Satisfaction in a Changing World Economy
Matthew Green & Joy E. Inouye, Univ. of Arizona: Is Work Truly Becoming Home? The Prevalence of Work-Related Network Ties
Immigrant Religion
organizer & discussant: Sarah Stohlman, USC
Helen Kiyong, Whitman College: Putting God First: Religiosity among Second Generation Korean Americans
Thien-Huong T Ninh, USC: Ethnicity & Religion: Dimensions & Trajectories in the Lives of Second-Generation Vietnamese American Caodais in Southern California
Brenda L Green, Univ. of New Mexico: The Intersection of Gendered, Racial & Religious Identities among Arab American Women
Russell Jeung, San Francisco State Univ.: Cambodian American Parenting, Religion & 1.5 Generation Educational Attainment
The Complexity of Identity
organizer: Karen Pyke, UCR
Joanna Gregson & Michelle L Ceynar, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Finding ‘Me’ Again: Women’s Post Divorce Identity Shifts
Matthew J Geraths, Portland State Univ.: Contextualizing Identity: The Effect of Living Abroad on Student Identity
Phillip Silverman, CSU Bakersfield: Identity & Lifestyles in Contemporary Taiwan
Brad Nabors, USC: Constructing Atheist Identity
Critical Media Studies
organizer: Amy Egan, Univ. of Calgary
Tauna Starbuck Sisco, Purdue Univ.: ‘I Heard Foam Cups Were Better Than Paper’: The Social Construction of Panhandlers as Savvy Game-Playing Victimizers.
Ann Marie Strahm, CSU Stanislaus: Framing of War & Occupation in the U.S. Prestige Press
Nicki Lisa Cole & Alison Crossley, UCSB: The Sun Never Sets in the Land of Chic: Celebreality & the Maintenance of Class Hierarchy
Clayton C Childress, UCSB: Variations in Talk from Trash to Simulated Courtrooms
International Immigration
(sponsored by the Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
organizer: Michael Aguilera, Univ. of Oregon
Lilach Lev Ari, Bar Ilan Univ.: Returning to the Homeland; Gender & Assimilation among Former Israeli Migrants
Ajlina Karamehic, Missouri Institute of Mental Health, Hisako Matsuo, Saint Louis Univ. & Wai Cheah, Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville: Life Satisfaction of Bosnian Refugees in St. Louis, Missouri
Matthew R Sanderson, Univ. of Utah: Undocumented Mexican Migration in Global Perspective
Amy Crevola & Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State Univ.: Caribbean Transnational Culture Being Maintained Via Internet Web Sites
Race & Ethnicity I
(sponsored by the Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
organizer: Michael Aguilera, Univ. of Oregon
Stephen Corral, Univ. of Arizona: Gender & Employment in Indian Country During the 1990’s
Vikas Kumar Gumbhir, Gonzaga Univ.: An Institutional Perspective on Racial Profiling
Bonnie Lynn Mitchell-Green, Ferris State Univ.: Cultures of Resistance: A Theoretical Framework for the Persistence of Ethnic Identity among Small-Scale Societies
Brooke Neely, UCSB: Racialized Space/Place in the Black Hills
Joshua B. Padilla, Jose H. Vargas & Lyssette Chavez, UNR: Increases in Hispanic Transracial Adoption of Hispanics: The Factors Driving It & Special Implication for the Hispanic Culture
Race & Ethnicity II
(sponsored by the Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
organizer: Michael Aguilera, Univ. of Oregon
John D Foster, Univ. of Arkansas Pine Bluff: Optimistic Robots: Contradictions in the Race Discourse of White College Students
Patricia E Literte, CSU Fullerton: Black-Latino/a Relations in Southern California’s Inland Empire
Laura Mangels, UCB: Racial Classification in Brazil: Discrepancies between Observed & Self-Identified Race
Charlie V Morgan, BYU: Clarifying Race & Ethnicity: A Study of 1st & 2nd Generation Mixed Couples in Southern California
Jerome Rabow, CSU Northridge, Leonard Grannick, Independent Contractor & Pauline Yeghnezar, New York Univ.: Transforming Identities: The Movement from Non-Racist to Anti-Racist Identity in A University Setting
The Social Punishment of Physical Appearance
organizer & discussant: Bonnie Berry, Social Problems Research Group
Bob Faris, UC Davis: Most Likely To Be Bullied: Using Yearbook Pictures to Predict Involvement in Bullying
Sharnay Brown & Deirdre Sommerlad-Rogers, Univ. of Idaho: Weight Discrimination in the U.S.
Bonnie Berry, Social Problems Research Group: Appearance Bias: Many Forms, Many Consequences
Monique Ferranto, CSU Bakersfield: Intra-Cultural Prejudice: Skin-Tone Stratification among African Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Sociology as a “Playful” Activity
organizer: Douglas Degher, Northern Arizona Univ.
Glenda Walden, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder: Sociology as Infinite Game
Barbara Adams, The New School Univ.: James Bond & the Obsolescence of Q: Politics & Technology
Thomas A Reiling, Portland State Univ.: Searching for the Guild: Ethnography in Online Game Communities
Alex Joseph Tucker, NAU: Smack Talking &Fantasy Sports
Yvonne Luna, Doug Degher & Richard Fernandez, NAU: Becoming a Biker: Personal Identity Transformation
James Payne & Walter Doraz, CSU, Stanislaus: Sausage: Links to the Social World
Youth Engagement & Involvement
organizer: Christopher O’Connor, Univ. of Calgary
Hava Rachel Gordon, Univ. of Denver: The Role of Adults in Youth Movements for Social Justice: Age, Gender, Race & Class Contexts
Patricia E Literte, CSU Fullerton: Apathetic or Misunderstood? College Students & Activism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Jessica K Taft, UCSB: We’re Not Special: Teenage Girl Activists & the ‘Exceptionalism’ of Youth Engagement
Liana E. Thompson, UCSC: Teenyboppers & Transgression: Challenging Early 1960s Gender Norms through Adrogyny Recognition
Gender & Risk
organizer: Christopher O’Connor, Univ. of Calgary
Jason Lee Crockett, Univ. of Arizona: Gone to the Dogs: Gender & Risk at the Public Dog Park
Daniel Eugene Harden II, UNLV: Gender Socialization & Physical Violence at Parties & in Nightclubs & Bars
Amanda J Burnam, NMSU: Analysis of Urban Slums Using a Gender Perspective
Amy Egan & Christopher O’Connor, Univ. of Calgary: Who’s at Risk? A Media Analysis of Women & Terrorism
Environmental Sociology I: Applied & Theoretical
organizer: Anne Mottek Lucas, Northern Arizona Univ.
discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Univ.
John Hix Teeple, UC Davis: ‘Shaped by Wind & Water’: Ecological Selfhood in American Women’s Nature Writing
Camille S Brown, UNR: Risky Behaviors in Yellowstone National Park; The Role of Decision Making & Justice on Visitors’ Behavior
Lydia Rose, DeVry Univ.: Nature as Nurturing: Exploring our National Parks & Monuments as a Sociologist
James Rice, New Mexico State Univ.: Material Consumption & Social Development within the Periphery of the World Economy: An Ecological Analysis of Maternal Mortality
Environmental Sociology II: Applied
organizer: Anne Mottek Lucas, Northern Arizona Univ.
discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Univ.
Anthony E. Ladd, Loyola Univ. New Orleans, Duane Gill & John Marszalek, Mississippi State Univ.: Dissatisfaction & Feelings of Recreancy among Displaced New Orleans College Students Regarding Disaster Responses to Hurricane Katrina
Frickel Scott, WSU: Risk & Recovery in St. Roch: Environmental Sociology on the Ground in Post-Karina New Orleans
David M Burley, Soka Univ. of America: The Symbolic Significance of Trees: Place Attachment & Land Loss in Costal Louisiana
Situating Transnational Feminism in the Americas
organizer & discussant: Sylvanna M Falcon, Connecticut College
Khanum Shaikh, UCLA: Gender, Religiosity & Muslims in Multicultural Canada: The Case of Al-Huda International
Molly Talcott, UCSB: Neoliberalism as Violence Against Women: Transnational Feminist Observations from the Mexican South
Jenifer Rae Vernon, UCSD: Born Again Wo-man, through the Ritual of the Live Poetry Event
Mexican Migration
organizer & discussant: Matthew Sanderson, Univ. of Utah
Daniel E Martinez, Univ. of Arizona: Migrant Deaths on the Arizona/Sonora Border: A Quantitative Analysis of Demographic Changes & Causes of Death by Regional Sending-Community
Monica Parsai & Tanya A Nieri, ASU: Paradoxes of Parenting for Mexican Immigrant Adults
Eduardo Ortiz, E Helen Berry, Sang Lim Lee & Michael B Toney, Utah State Univ.: The Internal Migration of Mexican & other Hispanics: Comparisons of Primary & Repeat Migration in the United States
James D Bachmeier, UCI: Migrant Network Saturation & the Earnings of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Gender & Aging
organizers & discussants: Mary White Stewart & Ada Diaconu-Muresan, UNR
Cheryl Ann Maes & Morgan Green, UNR: She’s Less of a Woman, but He’s More of a Man
Andrew Hund, Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage: Grandbots & Silver Cyborgs: Biotechnology in Aged Populations
Robin Pleau, UC Davis: Gender, Life-Course & Structural Effects on Rates of Post-Retirement
Daniel Harold Poole, Univ. of Utah: The Effect of Childbearing on Mortality: A Historical Analysis of How Number of Children Affected Utah Women’s Longevity
Gender an Public Policy: Progress, Stalled Revolution or Backlash?
organizer & discussant: Judy Hennessy, Central Washington Univ.
Debb Thorne, Ohio Univ.
Jill M Weigt, CSU San Marcos
Amy Wharton, WSU
Everyday Life as Symbolic Interaction I: The Emergence of Meaning & Society
(sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
organizer: Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads Univ.
Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads Univ.: Authenticity as Motivation & Aesthetic Experience: An Ethnography of Scholars’ Research Work
Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State Univ.: Smell, Odor, & Somatic Work: Sense-Making & Sensory Management
Robert Gardner, Linfield College: Going With the Flow: Improvisation & Creativity in Emergent Relief Groups
Christopher Schmitt, UCR: Something Old, Something New: Creating International Community One Interaction at a Time
Everyday Life as Symbolic Interaction II: The Social Ecology of Material, Technological & Media Culture
(sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
organizer: Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads Univ.
Chris Schneider, ASU: Digitizing the Ecology of Communication: Exploring the Implications of Twenty-First Century Communication & Information Technologies
Ariane Hanemaayer, Univ. of Waterloo: Collateral Splatter: Experiencing & Managing Emotionality on the Paintball Field
Leslie Wasson, Chapman Univ.: Renovations: the House as Symbolic Identity
Shoon Lio, UCR: The Vietnamization of the Iraq War: Winning Hearts & Minds of the American People
Roundtable: Independent Research Projects by Oregon State University Students
organizer: Scott Morgan Akins, Oregon State Univ.
Robin Grupper, Oregon State Univ.: It All Started When He Hit Me Back: Community Responses To Violent David Graham, Oregon State Univ.: The Russian Offenders Ethnic Population in Oregon & American Influence
Evil & Resistance to Evil
organizers: Samuel P Oliner, Humboldt State Univ. & Jefferey Gunn, Univ. of Oregon
Jefferey Gunn, Univ. of Oregon: The Structure & Social Psychology of Evil
Mark Bauermeister, Iowa State Univ.: Silently Standing By: Explaining the Nature of Bystanders
Matthew Jelen, Humboldt State Univ.: The Nature & Variety of Resistance to Genocide
Jason Whitley, Humboldt State Univ.: The Nature & Variety of Heroism: A Comparative & Historical Analysis
Sociology of Health, Illness & Medicine
organizer: Rebecca Godderis, Univ. of Calgary
Presider: Marisa C Young, Univ. of Calgary
Jonathan H Westover, Univ. of Utah: The Impact of Job Characteristics on Worker Health & Occupational Differences in the Experience of Mortality
Roger A Wojtkiewicz, Ball State Univ. & Ronald S Everett, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage: Effects of Living with a Single Parent or Stepparent on Teenage Cigarette Smoking: The Contributions of Family Background, Family Disruption, School Engagement & Parenting Practices
Melanie Arthur, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks & Thomas A LaVeist, Johns Hopkins Univ.: Socioeconomic Disparity in Referral for Coronary Angiography
Wade Travis & Sophie Kauffman, Colorado College: The Race/Ethnic Gap in Health: Social Class or Social Capital Effect?
Poster Sessions: Open Topics
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
Andreea Elena Coca, Whitman College: Where’s the Family in Disney Family Entertainment? Absent Mothers, Clueless Fathers & Family Dynamics in Disney Animated Feature-Length Films
Tyler Keith Sharp, Central Washington Univ.: The Srole Scale: An Investigation of Conceptual Validity
Matthew Kiyoshi Curry, Occidental College: Race, Class & Perceived Social Stratification in the United States
Nicole D Schmidt, Whittier College: Constructing Homelessness: Perceptions among Service Providers & Target Population
Jeffrey O Sacha, And the Crowd Goes Wild: A Look at Fan Culture in the University Environment
Kristen Joy Daniels, David L Snowden, Jacquelyn N VanOrman, BYU: Microfranchising in Developing Nations
Anjuli Anna Martin, Whitman College: The Green Fashion Statement: Implications of Using Clothes & Accessories to Portray Green Ideals
Alexandria Kay Orr, Gonzaga Univ.: Class Cultures Present in Universities Today
Ali Christine Casqueiro & Stephen Martin Sykora, Gonzaga Univ.: Diaspora of Gender
Mike Spencer & Anyaa Lynn Carter, Gonzaga Univ.: Mixed Martial Arts
AKD Chapter, Southern Utah Univ.: Continuum: Strengthening& Developing Women‘s Organizations & Academic Programs at Southern Utah University
Kimberly Nolan, Hawaii Pacific Univ.: Where Have All the Feminists Gone?
Brian Andrew Moody, Linfield College: From the Street to the Gallery: Protest Art in Oaxaca, Mexico
Molly Ann Wendy, Gonzaga Univ.: Gender & Body Politics
Taylor Elaine Smith, Northern Marianas College: Gender & Alcohol Use among Youth in the Northern Mariana Islands
Semona Igama, Northern Marianas College: Gender & Marijuana Use in the Northern Marianas Islands
Jae Hee Kim, Northern Marianas College: Dimensions of Mother Attachment & Their Impact on Delinquency among Pacific Islanders
Carlyne L Kujath, Central Washington Univ.: Facebook & MySpace: Creating Online Relationships
Miriam Walther, BYU: ‘Real Victory’: Reducing Recidivism
Media Representation of Immigrants
(sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties)
[Note: wine, cheese & soft drinks will be served in this session.]
organizers & presenters: Marcia Marx, Patricia Little, Mary Texeria & Elsa Valdez, CSU San Bernardino:
Food, Culture & Social Organizations
organizers: Kay Kei-ho Pih, CSU Northridge & Akihiko Hirose, Univ. of Colorado Denver
Alison Hope Alkon, UC Davis: From Value to Values: Sustainable Consumption of Farmers Markets
Roksana Badruddoja, CSU Fresno: Second Generation South Asian-American Women & Territories of the Self
Matthew Troy Duthie, NAU: The Sociology of Wine: Presentation, Language & Identity
Ana Prata, CSU Northridge: From Women into Citizens: A Feminist Analysis of Political & Gender Socialization in Portuguese Magazines, 1965-1985
Andrea Jane Dassopoulos, UNLV: ‘Cook For Peace’: Building Community among the Homeless through Meal Sharing
The Self in a Postmodern World
organizer: Christopher Daskalos, Vista
discussant: Garry Rolison, CSU San Marcos
Jonelle Mae Myers, CSU San Marcos: Research, Reflection & Resolution: The Development of a Fluid Self-Identity through Family & Personal History
Christy M Glass & K Herbert Hardwick, Utah State Univ.: From Body Modification to Sexual Subcultures: Toward a Theory of Extreme Cultural Practice
Scott W Renshaw, UNLV: Pastiche, Identity & Time
Teri H Pfeifer, UNLV: Pseudo-Individuality, Pseudo-Activity & Mythology: Adorno & Horkheimer’s Treatment of ‘Unfree’ Free Time
Justice System Processes
organizers: Jennifer Sumner & Krist Matsuda, UCI
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
Randy Blazak, Portland State Univ.: Today’s Hate Criminal Is Tomorrow’s Neighbor
Tonya Danielle Lindsey, UCSB: Race, Crime & Corrections: The Problem of the Twenty-First Century
Anne M Catto, Pendulum Foundation & Gilbert C Gardner, Regis Univ.: The First Juvenile Clemency Board in the U.S.: An Analysis of a Community Struggle
Bert O Burraston, David J Cherrington, Stephen Bahr, Ryan Sandberg, Josh Osborne& Leslie Kawai, BYU: Results from the Real Victory Research Project in Reducing Problem Behavior of Parolees & Probationers
Angela Harvey, Ohio State Univ. Newark: Constructing the Relationship between Competence to Stand Trial (CST) & Culpability: How Court Actors Use CST for Case Processing Decisions in Juvenile Court
Kinship in the United States
organizer: Robert Bausch, Cameron Univ.
Maria A Monserud, WSU: Contact & Closeness between Young Adults & Grandparents
Karla B Hackstaff, NAU:Claiming Identities: The Motivations& Narrations of Family Genealogists
Alisa C Van Langeveld & Randal D Day, BYU: Effects of the Sibling Relationship on Hope & Optimism
Asian/Pacific Islander Communities & Social Movements in the United States
organizer: Shoon Lio & Adalberto Aguirre, UCR
Dana Y Nakano, UCI: Affected Leadership: Panethnic Collective Identity in Contemporary Asian American Social Movements
Kim Geron, CSU East Bay: An Exploration of the Diverse Forms of Movement Building by Asians in America
Joy Takako Taylor, Orange Coast College:
‘Come on in, Join in’: Obon Dance Events in California Communities
Gender Reproduction & Resistance in Popular Culture
organizer: Dan Pence, CSU Chico
William Ryan Force, Univ. of Missouri: Semiotically Saturated Suds: Beer Ads & the Mediation of Masculinity
Heather Flynn, UC Davis: The Writing on Bathroom Walls: Social Relationship Revealed
Elena Ariel Windsong, Univ. of New Mexico: Not Ready to Make Nice: A Qualitative Analysis of the Dixie Chics & Country Radio
Katrina E Kimport, UCSB: Institutions & the Visibility of Queer Identity: Analysis of Butch-Femme Marriage Photographs
Graduate Student Paper Session: Making Boundaries, Place & Policies
organizer: Melanie Jones, UC Davis
discussant: Robert Moorehead, UC Davis
Brian D Veazey, UC Davis: Postcards from the Edge: Cosmopolitan Boundary-Work at the Limits of Francophonie
Christina Jane Hatcher, UCSC: Gender, the State & the Politics of Eligibility: Congressional Hearings on Welfare Reform, 1997-2006
Rosamaria Sasha Rosen, Irene Yen & Judith Barker, USF: Sense of Belonging & the Meaning of Home for Older Adults: Developing a Sociology of Place
Jay George Dean, Portland State Univ.: Incarcerated & Employed: The Privatization of Prison Labor in Oregon
Graduate Student Paper Session: Mobility & Status in Education
organizer: Melanie Jones, UC Davis
Devora Shamah & Katherine MacTavish, OSU: Looking toward the Future: Examining Aspirations among Rural Youth
Jessica R Winitzky, Univ. of Utah: Ivy-Covered Boards: The Path from Elite Universities to Corporate Board Membership
Jennifer Brooke Arney, ASU: Behavioral Domains as Predictors of Acceptance by Peers: As Assessment of Differences by Gender
Tina Burdsall, Portland State Univ.: Do I Really Belong Here? The Effects of Differences in Paths through Higher Education on Graduate Student Perception on Legitimacy
Graduate Student Paper Session: Rethinking Gender Attitudes, Identity & Images
organizer: Melanie Jones, UC Davis
discussant: Ara A Francis, UC Davis
Rachel Lynne Bryant-Anderson, UCSC: Advertising Images & the Division of Household Labor
Alison Crossley, UCSC: The Continuing Impact of U.S. Second Wave Feminism: Transnational Mobility, International Students & the Negotiation of Feminism
Elba Munoz, CSU LA: Variations in Attitudes Caused by Romantic Jealousy among Unmarried & Married Couples
Nina Chanklin, CSU LA: Attitude Towards the Transgendered in Thailand: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Globalization on Attitude Change
Crime & Delinquency
organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Frank P Williams III, Barbara Belbot & Marilyn McShane, Univ. of Houston: The Criminalization of Hoarding
Sharon Kantoroski Davis, Univ. of La Verne: Pyrrhic Victories: An Analysis of Incarcerated Male Delinquents’ Interactional Strategies to Gain Power & Control
David Musick & Kristine G Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado: What Makes a Murderer? The Etiology of Serious Criminal Violence
Crime & Delinquency II
organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Michael K Ostrowsky, Southern Utah Univ.: In Search of the ‘True Relationship’ between Marijuana Use & Violent Behavior
Vivian Amantana, Western Oregon Univ.: School Residential Status & Youth Report of Alcohol Use & Opportunities for Other Rule Breaking Behaviors: A Study of Boarding & Day School Students in A Ghanaian High School
Kraig Lee Hays & David Blurton, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: General Strain Theory, Key Strains, Crime & Deviance
Bohsiu Wu, CSU Sacramento: Intimate Homicide: Social Deprivation, Backlash &Collective Efficacy
Crime & Delinquency III
organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Melissa A Thompson & Stephanie Reinauer, Portland State Univ.: Gender Differences In Drugs, Depression & Crime
Shelley Eriksen, CSU Long Beach & Vickie Jensen, CSU Northridge: Brothers & Bullies: Social Correlatse of Sibling & Juvenile Violence
Luis Octavio Curiel, Deborah Hoch, Israel Frank Kingmansu, Jason Benjamin Lorenzana, Jose Jacob Sanchez & Susan Shaw, CSU Northridge: Incarceration, Recidivism & Transitional Support Services for Female Youth Offenders in California
Rafik Mohamed & Erik Drew Fritsvold, Univ. of San Diego: Dopeman: Wheeling & Dealing in Illicit Drugs on College Campuses
Crime & Delinquency IV
organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Rachel Ann Eddington, Univ. of Utah: Young Offenders Adriff: Criminal Offense & the Transition into Adulthood in England & Wales
Noel S Austin, Vanderbilt Univ.: Examining Status Characteristics of Power among Bullies & Victims of Bullying
Laura Mangels & Sarah Dunbrook Macdonald, UCB: Contextualizing Crime in Communities: The Effect of Neighborhood Segregation on Victimization Patterns
Jaysen Ferestad, Portland State Univ.: Exploring the Impact of the Montana Meth Project on the Social Reintegration of Montana Meth Addicts
Society & Environmental Crises
organizer: S Rowan Wolf, Portland Comm. College
discussant: Kimberly D Smith, Portland Comm. College
Kerry Greer, Indiana Univ.: State Histories & the Framing of a Water Dispute: An Analysiss of the Discourse Over Water Rights in the Klamath Basin
James Mulherin, UCSC: Fossil Energy Depletion & Climate Crises Require Integrated Multilevel Approach
Krista Bywater, UCSB: Economic Globalization & the Global Water Crisis
S Rowan Wolf, Portland Comm. College: Global Migration in the Era of Globalization, Global Conflict & Environmental Collapse
Evaluating Social Programs: Successes, Failures & Innovative Approaches I
(sponsored by the Committee on Applied, Practice & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Warren Lucas, NAU
discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, NAU
Shannon T Browne & Corbrett Hodson, Utah State Univ.: Grading ‘Aging-Out’ Programs: Towards Effective Interventions
Peter John Collier, Collin Fellows & David L Morgan, Portland State Univ.: Student First: Evaluating a Program for Improving First-Generation Student Retention & Performance in Higher Education
Hilary Melander, Martha Jean Miller & Carol Ward, BYU: Volunteers, True Helps Or Disruptions? An Observational Study of Volunteers in 21st Century After-School Programs in Utah
Hilary Melander, Mandy Madsen & Ammon Franklin, BYU: An Evaluation of an NGO Summer Program with the Deaf in Ghana: A Case Study of Signs of Hope International
Evaluating Social Programs: Successes, Failures & Innovative Approaches II
(sponsored by the Committee on Applied, Practice & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Warren Lucas, NAU
discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, NAU
Bert O Burraston, David J Cherrington, Stephen Bahr, Stephen Liddle, Sarah Larsen, Amy Dean & Paul Risenmay, BYU: Effectiveness of a Cognitive Treatment Programs with Cell Phone Intervention on Reducing Juvenile Delinquency
Russell E Travis, CSU Bakersfield: The Road Towards Ending Homelessness: A Different Avenue
Christine Kay Oakley, WSU: The Multiple Identities of a Rural Program Evaluator
John E Glass, Collin County Comm. College: Details, Details, Details: What You Don’t Learn about Program Evaluation in Graduate School
Language, Semiotics & Social Discourse
organizer: Daniel Cortese, UCSF
Michael John Coyle, CSU Chico: The Language of Justice: Exposing Social & Criminal Justice Discourse
Julie A Dowling, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: ‘Its Their World, Not Mine’: Contemporary Constructions of Chicano/a Identity
Audrey E Devine Eller, Rutgers Univ.: Language Ideologies As Mediating Forces on Linguistic Relativity
Patti Lynne Donze, UCLA: Labeling Gender in Popular Culture
Queering Heterosexuality
(sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
organizer: Byron Lee, Temple Univ.
Eve I Shapiro, Univ. of Connecticut: Larry Craig, Ted Haggard & Mark Foley: Media Negotiations of Identity & Sexual Behavior
Ioana D Mateescu, CSU Northridge: Variations on Young Women’s Understandings of Same-Sex Sexuality
Byron Lee, Temple Univ.: I Can Even Think Straight! Men Seeking Men in Craigslist Personal Ads
Intersections: Racial, Ethnic & Sexual Identities
(sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
organizers: James Thing USC & Byron Lee, Temple Univ.
Roksana Badruddoja, CSU Fresno: Queer Spaces, Places & Gender: The Tropologies of Ronica & Rupa
James Joseph Dean, Sonoma State Univ.: African American Male Sexuality Within & Outside State Prisons
Tamera Ceceila Nicole Overton, UCB: African American Male Sexuality within & Outside State Prisons
Queered Masculinities
organizer: Byron Lee, Temple Univ.
Meghan Duffy, UCSD: Metrosexuality as Masculinity
Matt Dee Cottrell, Utah State Univ.: Queered Masculinities in James Bond Films
Byron Lee, Temple Univ.: It’s a Question of Breeding: Examining Masculinities in Bareback Porn
Gender & Asian Immigrant/Asian American Experiences
organizer: Akiko Yasuike, Cal Lutheran
Karen D Pyke, UCR: Resistance or Complicity? Racialized Stereotypes of Masculinities & Desire among Asian Americans
Kristy Y Shih & Karen D Pyke, UCR: Gendered & Generational Politics in the Relations of Chinese Immigrant Mothers
Akiko Yasuike, Cal Lutheran: We Live in a Small Transnational Corporate Village: The ‘Chuzar’ Identity of Japanese Wives
Issues in Mental Health I
organizer: Sabrina Alimahomed, UCR
Karl Byrant, SUNY-New Paltz: “Responding to Misinformation with Good Science’: How Therapists Who ‘Cure’ Gays Explain & Understand Their Work
Mike Chavez, UCR: Caregiver Stress, Relapsing/Remitting Illness & Heteropatriarchy
Jake B Wilson, UCR: “Working in a ‘Man’s World’: Women Longshore Workers & Sexual Harassment on the Waterfront
Sabrina Alimahomed, UCR: Living Under the Veil of Suspicion: Mental Health Issues for Arab Americans/Muslims post 9/11
Education Policies & Diversity
organizer: Katie Furuyama, UCI
John R Harris, Claremont Graduate Univ.: Just Another Brick in The Wall: An Evaluation of California’s Responses to the Educational Provisions of the McKinney-Vento Act
Tamela McNulty Eitle, Montana State Univ.: Making the Grade in Florida: Accountability, Organizational Response & Instructional Practice
Leonard Gordon, ASU: Addressing the Sometimes Conflicting Dual Core Campus Policy Principles of Advancing Racial Diversity & Academic Freedom
Inequality in the Educational System
organizer: Katie Furuyama, UCI
Lashawnda Nichelle Henderson, UCSB: Drop Out Rates in Inner City High School: A Look at Compton High School
Emmanuel D Harris II, Univ. of North Carolina Wilmington: Remembering Our School: Revisiting a Black School in the South During Segregation & Afterwards
Nancy Lopez & Jane Hood, Univ. of New Mexico: The Discipline Gap: Disparities in High School Discipline by Race, Class, Gender & Special Education Status: A Preliminary Research Report
Melanie Jones, UC Davis: Disconnected Ties: Social Class & Access to College Information among African American Students
Astrosociology: Replicating Human Societies in Outer Space
organizer: Jim Pass, Astrosociology.com
Jim Pass, Astrosociology.com: Replicating Human Societies in Outer Space: An Astrosociological Approach
Albert A Harrison, UC Davis: Origin & Evolution of Space Culture from Project Mercury to Mars
Elizabeth Song Lockard, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: ‘Symbiocracy’: Space Based on the Principles of Mutualism & Symbiotization
Marilyn Dudley-Flores, OPS-Alaska: Conducting Sociology: ‘Offworld’: Transitioning from Human Factors to the Social Sciences
The Contradictions of Empire: The End of the New American Century
organizer: Margin Orr, Boise State Univ.
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, UCSB: Teaching Smoke Signals: Fatherhood, Forgiveness & ‘Freedom’
Berch Berberoglu, UNR: Decline & Fall of the American Empire: The Contradictions of U.S. Global Dominance in the Early 21st Century
Martin Orr, Boise State Univ.: Imperialist Rivalry at the End of the Age of Oil: A Class Analysis
Issues in Mental Health II
organizer: Sabrina Alimahomed, UCR
Martha Elliot & Barbara Kohlengerg, UNR: Narratives from Survivors of Near-Lethal Suicide Attempts
Jayme E Day, Univ. of Utah: Health Problems & the Homeless Population
Karl Bryant, SUNY-New Paltz: Responding to Misinformation with Good Science: How Therapists Who ‘Cure’ Gays Explain & Understand Their Work
Feminist Studies of the Americas
organizer: Molly Talcott, UCSB
Julie Denise Shayne, Univ. of Washington, Bothel: Gender, Culture & Resistance in the Chilean Diaspora
Serena Cosgrove, La Fundacion Avina: Where Gender & Ethnicity Meet: Mapuche Women & Civil Society Leadership in Chile
Molly Talcott, UCSB: ‘El Aire es Nuestro’: Indigenous Youth, Community Radio & Human Rights in Southern Mexico
Youth & the Medical Domain
organizer: Tina Burdsall, Portland State Univ.
Elizabeth C Harris CSU East Bay: Class& the Social Construction of Cognitive Disabilities in Children
Ara A Francis, UC Davis: Signs of Trouble: How Parents Come to View Their Children as Having Significant Problems
Mikaela J Dufur, BYU: Differences in Child Health Outcomes in Single-Mother & Single-Father Households
Gender Resistance & Empowerment I
organizer: Jocelyn Hollander, Univ. of Oregon
Jill A. Bakehorn, UC Davis: ‘I’m Not Not a Feminis’”: Women-Made Porn & Ambivalence about Feminism
Susan A Mann, Univ. of New Orleans, Michael D. Grimes, Louisiana State Univ.: Feminism & Imperialism, 1890-1920: Our Anti-Imperialist Sisters: MIA from the ASA
Robin L Baker, Portland State Univ.: Exploring Female Former Prisoners’ Strategies for Resisting the ‘Deviant’ Women label
Pavel V Vasiliev, UNLVs: Roller Derby: A Sport, Subculture, or Social Movement Community
Gender Resistance & Empowerment II
organizer: Jocelyn Hollander, Univ. of Oregon
discussant: Ellen Scott, Univ. of Oregon
Lynn R. Horton, Chapman Univ.: Women, Land & Power in Rural Nicaragua
Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Univ. of Oregon: Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Women & the Fight for Environmental Justice in the Appalachian Coalfields
Jessica Ruth Stephan, Humboldt State Univ.: Pussies Unite! Empowerment & Solidarity through Participation in the V-Day Movement
Jaime Becker, UC Davis: Revolutionizing Gender in Moments of Macrostructural Contestation
Globalization, State & Development I
organizer: Rebecca S K Li, The College of New Jersey
Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento, Dam Development & Displacement: The Environmental & Social Costs of China’s Three Gorges Dam
Victoria Carty, Chapman Univ.: Capitalist Measures within a Socialist Model: A Commodity Chains Analysis of the Emerging Cuban Tourism Industry
James Rice, New Mexico State Univ.: Child Mortality Rates & the Built Environment in the Developing Countries: A Cross-National Examination of the Impact of Urban Slums on Social Development
Mazen Hashem, CSU Northridge: Mobilized Minority Groups in Arab Societies: Anticipated Outcomes of New Political Formations
Globalization, State & Development II
organizer: Rebecca S K Li, The College of New Jersey
Anna Sher, SUNY Stony Brook.: Corporatization of Property Relations & Concentration of Power: The Case of Russia or A General Trend?
Krista Bywater, UCSB: Globalization, Development & Water Governance: Anti-Privatization Water Struggles in India
Cecilia Dionco, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa: Jollibee & Nationhood: A Philippine to McDonaldization
Kristen Shorette, UCI: Globalization & National Development: Accounting for Variation in Income & Regional Aggregates
Gender & Body Politics
organizer: April Dawn Cubbage-Vega, UCR
C.J. Pascoe, UCB & Natalie Christine Boero, San Jose State Univ.: The Construction of Femininity on Pro-Anorexia Discussion Groups
Patricia Drew, UCSB: Disavowing Beauty: Gendered Beauty Expectations & Weight Loss Surgery Patients
Andrea Bertotti Metoyer, Gonzaga Univ.: Disproportionate Usage of Long-Term Contraception Along Color & Class Lines
Noa Logan Klein, UCSB: Managing Gender & Sexuality in Massage Therapy
Gender & Embodiment
organizer: April Dawn Cubbage-Vega, UCR
Juan Pitones, UCR: Bodies, Sweat & Rolling: Constructing the Body in Mixed Martial Arts Training
Amanda Michiko Shigihara, San Jose State Univ.: Embodied Limitation
Clayton C, Childress, UCSB: Meaning-Making in Pro-Anorexic Journaling: A Case Study
Carol Glasser, Belinda Robnett & Cynthia Feliciano, UCI: Choosing Bodies Online: Race-Ethnic & Sex Differences of Internet Daters’ Body Type Preferences
Economic Inequity I
organizer: Richard Anderson-Connolly, Univ. of Puget Sound
Garrett Andrew Schneider, Univ. of Arizona: Is Consumer Debt Increasing Wealth Disparities?
Rachel Best, UCB: Shaky Foothold: The Effects of Social Origins on Employment Stability
Ming Ming Chiu, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong: Equal Learning Opportunities, More Science Learning: Inequality Mechanisms in 41 Countries
Richard Anderson-Connolly, Univ. of Puget Sound: Housing the Chronically Homeless: Assessing the Housing First Model
Economic Inequity II
organizer: Richard Anderson-Connolly, Univ. of Puget Sound
Jonathan Westover, Univ. of Utah: Economic Inequality & the Record of Microfinance: The Effectiveness/Ineffectiveness of Microfinance Programs as a Means of Alleviating Poverty
David M Merolla, Richard Serpe, Kent State Univ. & Matthew O Hunt, Northeastern Univ.: Local Community & Beliefs about Stratification: A Multi-Level Analysis
Gregory T Morales, Mexican American Political Association: Economic Arbitrage: Profits, Facts, & ‘Factions’
Animals & Society
organizer: Keith Appleby, Univ. of Oregon
discussant: Lora Vess, Univ. of Oregon
Stefan B Longo, Univ. of Oregon: La Tonnara: The Socio-Ecological Significance of the Sicilian Bluefin Tuna Fishery
Patrick Jackson, Sonoma State Univ.: Negotiation of Meanings in New Public Spaces: A Study of Dog Parks
Lindsay Lorraine Scott, Univ. of Colorado: Beyond the Breed: Race & Class Influences in the American Pit Bull Terrier Ban
Rebecca J Clausen, Univ. of Oregon: Changing the Essence of Salmon: A Case Study of Salmon Farming in the Pacific Northwest & Alaska
Wesley Dee Shirley, Univ. of Oregon: Animal Rights & Social Movements: New Directions
Militarization, Military Conflict & Political Process
organizer: Mikhail Balaev, Univ. of Oregon
Susan Carol Kingsbury, Univ. of Washington: Organized Political Violence, Political Institutions, & Opportunities: Northern Ireland 1969 to 1997
Jacqueline Adams, UCB: Art For Human Rights: Visual Communication as a Means of Resistance in Pinochet’s Chile
Patricia A Gwartney, Univ. of Oregon: Exploring the White Male Effect in Terrorism & War Attitudes
Kenneth James Barr, UCR: Preparing for Urban Warfare
Daniel Harold Poole, Univ. of Utah: Indirect Health Consequences of War
Methodological & Philosophical Issues
organizer: Andrew Bamford, Southern Utah Univ.
presider: Martyn Kingston, Southern Utah Univ.
Wai Kit Choi, CSULA: Reflections on Sociological Knowledge & the Frankfurt School
Don Winiecki, Boise State Univ.: An Ethnostatistical Analysis of Performance Measurement
Dean M Braa, Western Oregon Univ.: The Integration of Critical Realism & Critical Pedagogy
Roundtable: The Graduate School Experience: Applying & Surviving
(sponsored by the Committee on Student Affairs)
organizer: Michael Barnes, UCB
Tracy Royce, UCSB: Refusing to Do the ‘Smart’ Thing: Making Graduate School Work for You
Cesar Rodriguez, UCSB: Getting into Graduate School & Surviving/Thriving in Your First Year
Heather Guevara, Portland State Univ.: Exploring the Transition Experiences of New
Graduate Students at Portland State Univ.
Michael Barnes, UCB: How I Survived Or Everything You Wanted to Know about Grad School but Were Afraid to Ask
The Crossover: Hip-Hop, Commercialization & American Culture
organizer: Michael Barnes, UCB
Louis Arthur Marquis, USC: Hip-Hop Now: Symbolic Boundaries within Hip-Hop
Ashley C Rondini, Brandeis Univ.: Battling for Credibility: Hip Hop, Turntablism & Status
Ian Michael Mullins, CSU Northridge: Redefinition & Representation in Rap: How the African American Literary Tradition Became Explorable
Andrew Ryan, George Mason Univ.: How Cultural Imperialism Has Hurt Hip-Hop Culture
Morgan Wells, Independent Researcher: ‘Graffitalism’: The Commercialization or Graffiti Culture
Asian Families I
organizer: Cheylynn Bassani, Univ. of British Colombia & Univ. College of the Fraser Valley
Humound Alqashan, Kuwait Univ.: Enrichment Training Programs & Successful Marriage in Kuwait: A Field Study of Kuwait Couples
Roksana Badruddoja, CSU Fresno: The ABCD (Ameriacan-Born Confused Desi) Conundrum? Women, Marriage & Alternative Formations of Power
Katherin Flower, Jacksonville Univ.: Love Connections: The Dating Experiences of Asians & Asian Americans
June H Sun & Hyojoung Kim, CSULA: The Effects of Parental Discussion of Sexual Activity & Attitude in Korean-American College-Aged Adults
Asian Families II
organizer: Cheylynn Bassani, Univ. of British Colombia & Univ. College of the Fraser Valley
Ming Ming Chiu, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong: Families, Economies, Cultures & Science Achievement in 41 Countries: Country, School & Student Level Analyses
Humoud Alqashan & Hna Al-Thani, Kuwait Univ.: Divorce in Qatar: A Field Study about Reasons for Divorce & the Characteristics of Divorced Couples
Humoud Alqashan, Kuwait Univ.: The Impact of Parental Disruption on Kuwaiti’s Adolescents: A Comparative Study on Children from Intact & Broken Families
Cherylynn Bassani, Univ. of British Colombia & Univ. College of the Fraser Valley: Health Differences: Single & Two Parent Male vs. Female Headed Families in Japan
Immigrant Health
organizer: Cheylynn Bassani, Univ. of British Colombia & Univ. College of the Fraser Valley
Paul Wong & Karen Henschell, SDSU: Hispanic & Native American Youths’ Response to an Organ Donor Education Intervention
Lisa Gojsic, Univ. College of the Fraser Valley: The Health of Black People of Canada: ‘Outsiders’ Within
Cherylynn Bassani, Univ. of British Colombia & Univ. College of the Fraser Valley: Canadian Immigrant Children’s Health
Articulations of Social Space: Culture(s), Identity(s) & Environment(s)
organizer: Elizabeth Bennett, UCSC
Jennifer Eichstedt, Humboldt State Univ.: Creating & Breaking White Spaces & Identities
Brooke Neely, UCSB: Studying Culture, Land & History: Research Dilemmas & Concerns
Kevin Wehr, CSU Sacramento: You Say ‘tomAYto’, I Say ‘tomAHtoe’: Cross-Race & Cross-Cultural Differences in Perception of the Environment
Clare Sears, SFSU: Trans-ing the City: Cross-Dressing Law & the Regulation of Urban Space
Complex &Ambiguous Ethical Dilemmas in Applied Research
(sponsored by the Committee on Applied, Practice & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSULA
Brian Neil Jarrett, Slisbury Univ.: Reflexity in Practice: Toward Integral Mediation
Rick Gravey, Rand Corporation: Dilemmas in Working with Complex Populations
Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSULA: Ethical Issues & Contracted Dilemmas in Applied Research
Workshop: Learning Courses Online
(sponsored by the Committee on Applied, Practice & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Cristine Bodinger-deUriarte, CSULA
Deidre Ann Tyler, Salt Lake Comm. College: Online Students & the Domestic Violence Project
Anthony Francisco, CSULA: Cardboard Condos & Online Classes, Service Learning & Poverty Studies
Cristina Bodinger-deUirarte, CSULA: Life Span Online Classes & Service Learning: Intersections of Cyberspace & Community Service
Roundtable: The Intersection Between Race & Ethnicity & Communities
organizer: Lyndsay Boggess, UCI
Chad Farrell, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage & Barrett A Lee, Pennsylvania State Univ.: Neighborhood Racial Change in the Multiethnic Metropolis
Lyndsay Boggess, UCI: African American & Latino Violence in Racially Diverse Communities
Politics & Ecology
organizer: Yvonne Braun, Univ. of Oregon
Veronica Dujon, Portland State Univ.: In the Absence of Affluence: The Struggle fro Sustainability in the Third World
Connie L Engel, ASU: Contested Terrain: The Environmental Debate in Breast Cancer Science & Policy
Erik Solvead Nielsen, UCSB: The Carrying Capacity of the Commons in Darfur
Authors Meets Critics: Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School and Working Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders
organizer: Karl Bryant, SUNY New Paltz & Peter Nardi, Pitzer College
authors: C.J. Pascoe, UCB & Yvette Taylor, Univ. of Newcastle
commentators: James J Dean, Sonoma State Univ. & Jane Ward, UCR
Gender & Work
organizer: Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Reed College
Justine Tinker, Stanford Univ.: Unintended Consequences of Equal Employment Opportunity Laws: Sexual Harassment Training & Gender Stereotypes
Amy M. Denissen, CSU Northridge: That’s Fancy for Me! Lesbian Tradeswomen & Compulsory Heterosexuality in the Building Trades
Joy E Pixley, UCI: Career Prioritizing in Dual-Earner Couples & Spouses’ Relative Career Gains to Major Decisions
Mary Burbach-Cooper, WSU: Employment Advertising: Recruiting Gender?
Relations Between Two & Four Year Schools
organizer: Marie Butler, Oxnard College
Chad M Hanson, Casper College: Transfer Not: The Case for the Community College Baccalaureate
April E Armstrong, Portland State Univ.: Transfer Students at an Urban University: Does First Generation Status Matter?
Chunyan Song, Christine L Sylvia & Tony Waters, CSU Chico: Methods & Results from the 2007 International Students Survey, a Multi-Method Project Involving Undergraduate Research Methods
Farm or Pharm: Marijuana as Medicine
organizer: Wendy Chapkis, Univ. of Southern Maine
Ann Alter, Humboldt State Univ.
Leland R Berger, Attorney at Law, Portland, OR
Wendy Chapkis, Univ. of Southern Maine
Valerie Corral, Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, Santa Cruz, CA
Julie Little, Humboldt State Univ.
Assignments that Work I
(sponsored by the Committee on Teacing)
organizer: Marisol Clark-Ibanez, CSU San Marcos
Sylvanna Falcon, Connecticut College: Teaching Affirmative Action: Upsetting the Meritocracy Generation
Stacey Allen, El Camino College, Heidi Piedra & Lorena Ruiz, Community as Classroom
Colleen Fong, CSU East Bay: Teaching about Immigrant & Refugee Women through Oral History
John Gannon & Linda Gannon, Community College of Southern Nevada: Applied Learning & Memory Strategies for Sociology
Assignments that Work II
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Marisol Clark-Ibanez, CSU San Marcos
Patricia Hoffman, New Mexico State Univ.: Measuring Working Knowledge of Students from an Introductory Statistics Class
Heather Kohl Flynn, UC Davis: Effectively Using Independent Research Projects with Upper Division Students
Kathleen Grove, CSU San Marcos: Abortion: Helping Students Find Middle Ground on a Controversial Topic
William Wasson, CSULA: Sociology of Gender Roles
Minorities in Education
organizer: Delores E Cleary, Central Washington Univ.
Julie Tram Parker, Portland State Univ.: The Socioeconomic Analysis of Southeast Asian American Sub-Populations
Janice Russell, UNR: Federally Mandated Accountability Standards, Testing & Achievement Gaps: Culture & Socialization Issues
Tarasawa Beth, Emory Univ.: Fight or Flight? Limited English Proficient Students & School Segregation in Metropolitan Atlanta
Marian A Ross, CSU/Palomar College: Zero Tolerance Policies in Two Schools: How Race & Class Affect Implementation of Discipline
Pui-Yan Lam & Raphael Guillory, Eastern Washington Univ.: Educational Experiences & Aspirations of American Indian Students in Spokane, Washington: An Exploratory Study
Consumer Goods, Ideology & Knowledge
Marie Sarita Gaytan, UCSC: Negotiating Tradition & Manufacturing Modernity: Tequila & Mexican Identity
Nicki Cole, UCSB: Global Capitalism, Global Knowledge: The Case of Fair Trade Coffee
Sarah Rodriguez, UCSB: Wine: The Aesthetics of Luxury Product
Joan Budesa, UCSB: The Cultural Consumption of Nostalgia: Exploring Yesterday’s Memories with Pierre Bourdieu
Sociology of Tourism: Analyses of Space & Place
organizer: Dana Collins, CSU Fullerton
Mark J Salvaggio, UNLV: Backpackers’ Sources of Information: Consumption of Space, Place, Culture, & Scapes
Brooke Neely, UCSB: Monuments, Saloons & Tipis: Tourism, Historical Memory & Knowledge of Place
Elizabeth Bennett, UCSC: Roadside Spectacle: Contradictory Nature Narratives in Tourist Studies
Richard Patrick Bixler, Univ. of Montana: Contested Places: Rural Social Landscapes Under Transition
Abigail Andrews, UCB: Touring the Revolution: U.S. American Activist Tourists & the Zapatista Movement
Race, Class & Gender in Sport & the Media
organizer: Cheryl Cooky, CSU Fullerton
Carl Stempel, CSU East Bay: Race, Class & Gender Intersections in the Relationship between Militarism & Televised Masculinist Sport
Cheryl Cooky, CSU Fullerton, Faye Wachs, CSU Pomona, Shari L Dowrkin, Columbia Univ & Michael A Messner, USC: If 50 Cents Can Say It, Why Can’t I? Imus on Sporting Women, Hip Hop Culture & the Displacement of Blame in the Mainstream Media
Nathan Rousseau, Jacksonville Univ.: Success Ill-Defined: How Society’s ‘Definition of the Situation’ Works Against the Interests of Black America
Sport & Social Problems: Promises & Limitations
organizer: Cheryl Cooky, CSU Fullerton
Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ.: Is Sex Segregated Sport Undemocratic?
Amanda Joy Stemen, CSU Long Beach: The Use of Sport in Promoting Peace amongst Traditionally Warrior Groups
Faye Linda Wachs, Laura Chase, Dana Fagen, Lori Ottaviano, Christina Cotran, Lisa Williams, Rocio Navarro & Sara Hanna, Cal Poly Pomona: Docile Bodies: An Assessment of an Innovative Middle- School Physical Education Curriculum with a Largely Latino Student Population
Transgender Issues
organizer: Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ.
(sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
Stphen Wieting, Univ. of Iowa: Aspects of Transsexuality within Different Cultures: Frequency, Roles, Styles & Societal Evaluations
Bryan Sluggett, Univ. of Alberta: Barriers to Further Transgender Inclusion in the Olympics
Ann Travers, Simon Fraser Univ.: Transgender Inclusion in Lesbian Softball Leagues
Institutional Ethnography, From Theory to Practice
organizer: Michael K Corman, Univ. of Calgary
discussant: Paul C Luken, Univ. of West Georgia
Sebastian Bonet, Univ. of Victoria: Understanding the Concept ‘Problematic’ in Institutional Ethnography: Lessons From Althusser
Deborah Dergousoff, Simon Fraser Univ.: Institutional Ethnography: A Study of ‘Quality’ & Relational Accountability in Non-Certified ‘Fair Trade’
Melissa Edwards, Univ. of Victoria: Exploring Symbolic Violence in Music Education: An Institutional Ethnography
Michael K Corman, Univ. of Calgary: Institutional Capture-What Is It & What To Do About It? Using an Inquisitive Role & Reflexive/Linguistic Turns in Sociology
Mental Health & Mental Disorder: Complexity, Contradiction & Ambiguity
organizer: Gary Crester, Cal Poly Pomona
Marcos A Bote & Maria M Talbott, Portland State Univ.: Hoarding Behavior: A Meta-Analysis of Interventions
Daniel J Madron, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County: The Revival of Positive Mental Health
Laurie A Roades, Cal Poly Pomona: Gender & Mental Health: Ongoing Challenges in Diagnosis
Gary Crester, Cal Poly Pomona: Alcohol Dependence & Stigma: A Comparison with Other Disorders
Rethinking Globalism: Impact of Globalization, Neoliberalism & Transnationaliusm on Communities & Identities
organizer: Mary Danico, Cal Poly Pomona
Emily Ignacio, Univ. of Washington-Tacoma: Discover the Philippines: Diasporic Reponses (Reactions?) to Neoliberal Economic Policies vi Tourism
Hung Thai, Pomona College: Orientalism & the Trope of Arranged Marriages in an Era of Asian Globalization
Mary Danico, Cal Poly Pomona: Globalized Identities & Communities: The Impact of Reverse Migration in Seoul
Jack Fong, Cal Poly Pomona: Distances in Being: Globalization & the Existentialization of Identities
Mothering Across Situations
oranizer: Stephanie C. D’Auria, UCR
Jessica Lyn Butler, USC: The Culture(s) of Teenage Pregnancy
Lydia Rose, DeVry Univ.: Ice Moms: Motherhood & the Progression of Mono-Goal Childrearing
Stephanie A Williamson, BYU: Mothers of Children with Autism: A Change of Identity
Kate Luther, UCR & Joanna Gregson, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Mother & Inmate: Status Conflict in a Prison Nursery
Yvonne Thai & Stephanie C. D’Auria, UCR: Developing Empathy through Mothering
The Tensions of Mothering
organizer: Stephanie C. D’Auria, UCR
Stephanie Ayers, ASU: Stay-at-Home Moms & the Matrix of Contradictions
Leslie Stanley-Stevens, Texas A&M: Transition to Motherhood: The Role of Gender Inequality in Women’s Work & Family Decisions
Cindy A Stearns, Sonoma State Univ.: Mothering & the Work of Breastfeeding
Michelle M Camacho, Univ. of San Diego: Bearing Children on the Tenure Track: Survival Strategies from the Trenches
Dolores Ortiz, UCR: A Queer Analysis of Breasfeeding in Public: Energy, Production & Consumption
Varieties of Motherhood
organizer: Stephanie C. D’Auria, UCR
Kristy Shi, UCR: My Mother-in-Law Isn’t My Mother! Chinese-American Women’s Construction of Motherhood
Sandra Barboza, UCR: Navigating with Social Capital: The Importance of Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Educational Attainment of Mexican American Females
Stephanie C. D’Auria, UCR: Parent Education through a Cultural Lens
Tracey Hoover, UCR: Marketing Motherhood in Films: A Content Analysis of the Prevalence of Motherhood as an Occupation in Classic Hollywood Films
Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Social Issues
organizer: Herman DeBose, CSU Northridge
Beth A Wilson, Metro State College of Denver: Transforming Interdisciplinary Degree Programs: Long Range Planning in the Social Sciences
David Alan Blumenkrantz, CSU Northridge: Presentation of Documentary/Social Work Collaboration at the University Level
Jessica Nicole Larkin, Seth Chamberlain Melling, David J Cherrington, Stephen Bahr, Bert O Burraston, Sarah Larsen, BYU: Methodological Issues of the Longitudinal Study of Parolees & Probationers: Overcoming the Challenges
Innovative Teaching
organizer: Erica Dawn Dixon, South Puget Sound Comm. College
Julie Aldcroft, South Puget Sound Comm. College: Using Radio in the 21st Century Classroom
Louise Hull, Green River Comm. College: Guiding Students to ‘Lean Into’ Death in a Death-Denying Culture Using Various Modalities
Erica Dawn Dixon, South Puget Sound Comm. College: Teaching Diverse Sexualities from Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
Framing & Meaning-Making in Social Movements
organizers: Dennis Downey, CSUCI & Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ.
discussant: Sharon S. Oselin, UCI
Lisa M Martinez, Univ. of Denver: Politicizing the Family: Family-Focused Frames & their Implications for Latino Political Action
Zakiya T Luna, Univ. of Michigan: Marching toward Reproductive Justice
Pepper G Glass, UCLA: Common Sense & the Reproduction of Social Movements
Alem Kebede, CSU Bakersfield: Defensive Retroactive & Projective Framing in the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974
Raising the Status of Sociology
organizer: Dennis Downey, CSUCI
Judy K Treas, UCI: Lessons from UC Irvine: How A Scrappy Department Gained National Recognition & Raised Its Status in the University
Amy Liu, CSU Sacramento: Social Research & the Status of Sociology: A Case Study from CSU Sacramento
Veronica Dujon, Portland State Univ.: The Center for Health & Social Inequality Research: Advancing Collaborative Sociological Research at Portland State & Within Our Community
Social Movements in Organizational/Institutional Contexts
organizer: organizer: Dennis Downey, CSUCI & Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ.
discussant: Dennis Downey, CSUCI
Elizabeth Anne Chiarello, UCI: Who Invited the Pharmacist? How Social Movements Affect Law & Professional Policy
Lora Vess, Univ. of Oregon: PVC, Professionals & Politics: The Making of a Public Interest Health Movement
Debra Guckenheimer, UCSB: Social Movements in Organizations: Advances & Tensions in Scholarship
Transitional Dynamics & Globalization of Social Movements
organizers: Dennis Downey, CSUCI & Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ.
discussant: Christine Petit, UCR
Jeremiah Bohr, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign: Reality Tourism: Social Movement or Hedonistic Voyeurism?
Matther Eddy, Univ. of Oregon: I Feel Free-- Freedom Summer Abroad: Biography & Meaning among International Human Rights Workers
Joanna L Robinson, Univ. of British Columbia: Contentious Politics in the 21st Century: Social Movements, Transnationalism & the Political Process
Connie Robinson, Central Washington Univ.: National Movements & Transnational Geopolitical Opportunity Structures: The Case of the Yugoslav Committee
Roundtable: Teaching about Terrorism
organizer: Nelta Edwards, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
discussants: John Riley, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage; Christine A Yalda, Grand Valley State Univ.
Others TBA
Author Meets Critics: Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement by Luis A Fernandez
organizer: Nelta Edwards, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
discussants: Jules Boycoff, Pacific Univ.
Patrick F Gillham, Univ. of Idaho
Tony R Samara, George Mason Univ.
Nelta Edwards, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
Kristian Williams; Jules Boycoff, Pacific Univ.
Political Sociology
organizer: Alan Emery, CSU Fullerton
Amanda Armenta, UCLA: Creating Legitimacy: Cuban Strategies During Two Eras of Mass Emigration
Michael J Blain, Boise State Univ.: Power & Subjection in U.S. Political Discourse: An Empirical Test of the Foucaultian ‘Governmentality’ Interpretation of Modern Society
Jahyouk Koo, Univ. of Virginia: Political Participation in Online Group Contexts: Four Cases of Online Political Community from South Korea & the United States (2000-2008)
Katherine McFarland, Univ. of North Caroline at Chapel Hill: The Framing of Morality in Political Culture & the Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage
Stacy Kathryn McGoldrick & Faye Linda Wachs, Cal Poly Pomona: Is Terrorism the New Crime? Perspectives on the Place of Terrorism in Political Discourse
Working Class Studies
organizer: Roxanne Gerbrandt, Univ. of Oregon
Andrew Rhys Jones, CSU Fresno: The Philanthropist & the Pauper: How Working Class Students Can Avoid An Overwhelming Education Debt-Burden
Ann M Strahm, CSU Stanislaus: Class Dismissed: Ideological & Educational Gatekeeping & the Poor Student
Philip M Mancus, Univ. of Oregon: Sustainable Production. Community Viability & the Promise of the Alternative Agriculture Movement: The Case of the Cotton Mill Farmers’ Market
Laura Evalina Earles, Lews Clark State College: The Centrality of Labor in Community Supported Agriculture
Globalization & Social Control
organizers: Luis Fernandez, NAU & Patrick Gillham, Univ. of Utah
Brian Wolf, Univ. of Idaho & Joseph De Angelis, Ohio Univ.: ‘Don’t Tase Me, Bro’: Tracing Out the Discursive Struggle Over Tasers & the New Global Market in Policy-Energy Weapons
Tony Roshan Samara, George Mason Univ.: Extraordinary Rendition & the New Security Networks of Global Governance
Luis Fernandez, NAU & Amory Starr, Boston College: The Logic of Global Governance: Geography, Law & Political Economy
Patrick Gillham, Univ. of Idaho: Controlling Global Justice Protests: The Use of Selective Incapacitation Across Western Democracies
How to Get Your Students Into Ph.D. Programs
(sponsored by the Committee on Student Affairs)
organizer: Liahna E Gordon, CSU Chico
Michael A Messner, USC
Richard T Serpe, Kent State Univ.
Jane Ward, UCR
Len Gordon, ASU
John Roberts, Univ. of New Mexico
Robert O’Brien, Univ. of Oregon
Urban Sociology
organizer: Matthew Green, Univ. of Arizona
Jon R Norman, Stanford Univ.: Paths of Success or Failure for Small Metro Areas between 1970- 2000
Basil J Sherlock, CSU East Bay: The Historical Development of Urbanized Regions in California
Jeffrey Kentor & Michael Timberlake, Univ. of Utah: Interlocking Corporate Directories & the Global City Hierarchy
J.J. Schlichtman, Univ. of San Diego: Choreographing a Global Niche: The Temporality of High Point, North Carolina
NGOs & Globalization
organizer: Nels Paulson, ASU
Jamie Rebecca Rowen, UCB: Transitional Justice NGOs
Nathaniel Thomas Warren, Western Washington Univ.: Children’s Future in India
Nels Richard Paulson, ASU: Global Hunting, Governance, Neoliberalism & NGOs
Natasha Marie Sacouman, Univ. of Maryland: Discerning Differences in Nongovernmental Organizations
Political Economy
organizer: Justin Paulson, Seattle Univ.
Berch Berberoglu, UNR: The Political Economy of Globalization: Capitalist Expansion, Class Struggle, & Social Transformation on a Global Scale
Nicole Tamar Oretsky, New School Univ.: Shelter Injustice: A Political Model for Housing Poverty Research
Sean P Donahoe, Applied Sociologist: Capital Flows are People Too: Remittances & Offshore Finance in a Global Political Economy
Social Movement Strategies I: Tactics & Organizing Strategies
organizer: Justin Paulson, Seattle Univ.
Marizen Aguilar Santos, Queens College-City Univ. of New York: How Protest Strategies Succeed or Fail: Media as a Political Opportunity for the People Power Movements in the Philippines & Burma
Gary Coyne, UCR: Social Movement Networking
Jennifer B Rogers, UCSB: The Power of Radio in the APPO Movement
Lisa Ann Leitz, UCSB: The Strategic Deployment of Identity & Emotion in the Military Peace Movement
Social Movement Strategies II: Strategies & Rhetorics of the Right
organizer: Justin Paulson, Seattle Univ.
Charles Brown, Albright College: Wise Use Environmentalism: The Interfaith Stewardship Alliance & Its Framing of the Current Environmental Crisis
Pete Simi, Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha & Robert Futrell, UNLV: Imagining Blood & Soil: Racial Kinship among Aryan Activists
Amy L Stone, Trinity Univ.: Gay Rights & Special Rights at the Ballot Box: Tactical Interaction between Opposing Social Movements
Social Movement Strategies II: Nationalism & Transnationalism
organizer: Justin Paulson, Seattle Univ.
Joshua David Hendrick, UCSC: Transnational Religious Nationalism: Globalization, Muslim Networks, & The Turkish Movement of M. Fethullah Gullen
Mi Park, Dalhousie Univ.: Framing Free Trade Agreements: The Politics of Nationalism in the Anti-Neoliberal Globalization Movement in South Korea
Abigail Andrews, UCB: Vectors of Voice: Possibilities for Southern Leverage within Transnational Advocacy Networks
Sociology of Climate Change
organizer: Justin Paulson, Seattle Univ.
Kari Marie Norgaard & Leora Stein, Whitman College: Climate Change & The Social Organization of Denial: A Comparative Study between the U.S. & Norway
Mark Bird, College of Southern Nevada: Twenty Sociological Events Linked to Global Warming
Andrew Rhys Jones, CSU Fresno & Eric M. Edwards, Univ. of Oregon: Of Wine Making & Global Warming: Northern Viticulture’s Embrace of Climate Change, Its Hope for Beneficial Impacts & the Unpleasant Realities of Climate Change
Conversation: Crashing Into Sociology: The Introductory Course of Life-Changing Experiences
organizer & presenter: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ.
Moral Complexities &Ambiguities: Lessons from Ethnographers
organizer: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ.
Scott N Brooks, UCR: ‘That’s My Man’: The Ethnographer as Friend
Matthew C Brown, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder: Researching Sex, Talking Sex: Participation & Research in Sex Spaces
Randol Contreras, Towson Univ.: ‘Yo Kid, You Losin’ It’: The Moral Complexities of an Ethnography of South Bronx Drug Robbers
Michelle M. Jacob, Univ. of San Diego: Ethnography as Tool for Change (or Co-optation?): Notes on the Methodology of Institutionalizing ‘Diversity’
Sociologists without Borders: Human Rights Violations
organizer: Douglas A Parker, CSU Long Beach
Barbara Sutton, State Univ. of New York & Kari Norgaard, Whitman College: Citizens Perceptions of State Violence & Human Rights: A Comprehensive Study, Argentina & the United States
Louis Edgar Esparza, SUNY Stony Brook: Human Rights Law & Mobilization in Columbia, Peru & Venezuela
Douglas A Parker, CSU Long Beach: Violations of Human Rights in the Workplace
Geta Cojucar, Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach: Human Violations Against People with Mental Disabilities
Countering McDonaldization: Improvisng in Everyday Life
organizer: Linda Pulliam, Humboldt State Univ.
Ali R. Chaudahry, Humboldt State Univ.: Talking Jazz: A Micro-Ethnographic Study of Improvisation in University Classroom Discourse
Scott Patrick Murphy, UCR: Accomplishing Improvisation: Humor in a Corner Donut Shop
Travis Byrne, Humboldt State Univ.: Temporal Improvisation While Living Off the Grid
Living & Learning: Teaching Beyond the Classroom
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Adam Rafalovich, Southern Oregon Univ.
Dan Morgan, Hawaii Pacific Univ.: The Art of Loving to Teach
Timothy James Haney, Univ. of Oregon: Doing What Sociologists Do: A Student-Engineered Exercise for Understanding Workplace Inequality
Erich W Steinman, Pitzer College: Working with American Indian Communities: Lessons from A Teaching Project Featuring University-Tribal Collaboration
Michelle Inderbitzin, Heather Boyd, Erin Wilson & Courtney Shrifter, OSU: Our Class in Prison: The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program in the Oregon State Penitentiary
Adam Rafalovich, Pacific Univ.: Breaching to Learn, Learning to Breach: Ethnomethods & Intro Sociology
Pedagogy for Social Change
Organizer: Beth Ribet, UCLA
Leslie Bunnage, Univ. of Puget Sound
William Hayes, Gonzaga Univ.
Rita Kohli, UCLA
Beth Ribet, UCLA
Saul Sarabia, UCLA
Masculinities
organizer: Michelle Robertson, Willamette Univ.
Kristin Ann Cutler, WSU: Multiple Masculinities? A Content Analysis of Men in the Print Media
Cenk Ozbay, USC: Segments of Masculinity: Neoliberalism, Globalization & Work
Irenee R. Beattie & Lyssa L Thaden, WSU: Masculinity in Adolescent School/Family Contexts & the Female Advantage in College Completion
Violence Against Women
organizers: Debra Guckenheimer & Tracy Royce, UCSB
Jennifer L Zoltanski, WSU Vancouver: Understanding Rape in War: A Synthesis of Historical Cases & Strategic Purposes
Zeynep Kurtulus Korkman, UCSB: Solidarity Against Violence: Feminist Organizations & the State
Elizabeth B. Erbaugh, Grinell College: Constructing LGBTIQ Intimate Partner Violence as a Social Problem
Kimberly J. Valdez, New Mexico Highlands Univ.: The Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Programs in an Area with Relatively High Rates: The Case of San Miguel County
Feminist Research
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Camilla Sears, SFU
Megan S Wright, Karen E Gordon, Cindy L Cain, Jason Lee Crockett, Sarah Ilene Strand & Monika J Ulrich, Univ. of Arizona: Irresponsible Speech: Clarifying the Differences Between Behavior & Identity in Sexuality Research
Sarah Flett, NAU: The Power of a Name: Women’s Studies Versus Gender Studies & the Trend to Name Change
Marina Sarran, UCSC: On Being Italian: Defining Italianness in America
What is the Status of Women Today?
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Camilla Sears, SFU
Christyna Maria Serrano, UCB: Leaking Pipelines: Doctoral Student Family Formation
Sara Nicole Price, Whittier College: Deconstructing the Indian Response to HIV/AIDS: Factors in the Increasing Vulnerability of Married Women
Miriam Grace Walther, BYU: Gendering of Major Choice: What do College Students Perceive to Influence Them?
Katie Marie Mills, Humboldt State Univ.: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
Group Processes I: Status Processes & Implications
organizer: David Schafer, ASU & Jessica Collett, Univ. of Notre Dame
discussant: Cecilia L Ridgeway, Stanford Univ.
Michael Lovaglia, Richard Harris, Shane D Soboroff, Christopher P Kelley, Univ. of Iowa, Christabel L Rogalin, Purdue Univ. & Jeffrey W Lucas, Univ. of Maryland: Age-Gender Interaction in Leader Assessment: The Importance of Experience
Donna Ann Lancianese, Univ. of Iowa: Evaluations & the Self Over Time: An Expectation States Approach
Scott Patrick Murphy, UCR: Status Distinction & Status Change Via Inter-Group Humor: Locating Enjoyment in Humorous Amusement
Alison Jean Bianchi, Univ. of Iowa & Robyn E Parker, Kent State Univ.: Computer Literacy as Social Status: A Quantitative Case Study of University Faculty & Instructors
Group Processes II: Interaction & Decision-Making
organizer: David Schafer, ASU & Jessica Collett, Univ. of Notre Dame
discussants: Gretchen Peterson, CSULA & Lisa S. Rashotte, Univ. of North Carolina Charlotte
Allison Michelle Cantwell & Peter J. Burke, UCR: Group Polarization or Close Shitf? A Study of Group Decision Making
Ming Ming Chiu, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong: Flowing Toward Correct Contributions During Group Problem Solving: A Statistical Discourse Analysis
Louis N Gray, WSU, Alexander Takeuchi, Univ. of North Alabama & May Takeuchi, Univ. of West Alabama: Tit-for-Tat & the Balancing of Costs in Group Interaction
Deborah Kraklow, Univ. of Notre Dame: More than Idle Chatter: The Effects of Increased Peer Interaction of Classroom Culture
Group Processes III: Solidarity, Stereotypes & Self
organizer: David Schafer, ASU & Jessica Collett, Univ. of Notre Dame
discussant: Jan E. Stets, UCR
David Melamed, Monica Whitham & Will Hamilton, Univ. of Arizona: Neighborhood Effects & Racial Differences on Deviant Identities
Carl Ash Neblett, Univ. of Notre Dame: Ambivalence & Group Availability
Markus Kemmelmeier, Angela D Broadus & Joshua B Padilla, UNR: ‘We Call Ourselves Survivors’: A Social Identity Account of Intergroup Violence in New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina
Christine F Boxer, Univ. of Iowa: Do Group Level Stereotypes Predict Individual-Directed Judgments?
Families & Social Inequality
organizer: Karen Seccombe, Portland State Univ.
Lisa Thiebaud, Univ. of Arizona: How Does Welfare Affect Material Hardship in Low-Income Single- Mother Households?
Timothy James Haney, Univ. of Oregon: Individual Characteristics or Neighborhood Context? Exploring Determinants of Employment & Welfare Receipt among Single Mothers
Toni Lynn Sirotzki, WSU: The Effects of Family Structure & Stability on Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Career Planning as a Catalyst for Resocialization
organizer: Gwen Sheldon, CSU Chico
Jennifer R Robinson, CSU Chico: Application of Resocialization in Career & Life Planning
Pamella S Healy, CSU Chico: The Revolving Door: The Resoialization Process Confronted by College Students
Gwen Sheldon, CSU Chico: The Role of Assessment in Facilitating Resocialization in the Workplace
Lee Scott Walker, CSU Chico: The Role of Career Development in Major Life Transitions
Labor Market, Unions & Economic Sociology
organizer: Ann Shirley, Univ. of Oregon
Ofer Sharone, UCB: Passion or Transaction: A Cross-National Comparison of the Work of Job Searching
Ying-Shan Wei, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: Influence of Elderly Care on Middle-Age Women’s Labor Market Withdrawal
Ann Shirley Leymon & Caleb Southworth, Univ. of Oregon: Democracy or Autocracy: Leadership Turnover in National Unions, 1980-2000
Author Meets Critics: Bootstrap Dreams: US Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform
organizer: Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico
Author: Nancy Jurik, ASU
Critics: Dean Braa, Western Oregon Univ.
Marlese Durr, Wright State Univ.
Clare Weber, CSUDH
Undergraduate Roundtable: Research & Theory on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered & Queer Persons
(sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
organizer: Linda Silber
Jamila Jamison Sinlao, USF: Silencing Our Own: Homophobia & Heterosexism in the African-American Community
Shaylynn Steele Healey, Whitman College: Out & Proud? A Rural Community’s Approach to GLBTQ Youth
Gerald J. Slaughter, UCB: African American Gay Male’s Perceptions of Homophobia & Its Effect on Ethnic Identity
Teaching & Technology
organizer: Stephen Smith, BYU Idaho
Charles A Dickinson, Boise State Univ.: Clickers in the Classroom: The Student Response System Coming to a Classroom Near You?
Alex Joseph Tucker, NAU: I Love Technology, but Not As Much As You, You See: Using Popular Media to Teach Sociology
Erik Anthony Pyper, Bryce Hannibal, Devan Hunt, Brian Nielsen & Josh Burgess, BYU Idaho: Standard Teaching Methods, Better or Behind? A Look at Podcasting in the Classroom
Sustainable Communities
organizer: Lora Stone, Univ. of Saint Francis
Bonnie Lynn Mitchell-Green, Ferris State Univ.: Social Sustainability
Jonathan Kenji Iiyama, SFSU.: Individual Services & Community Maintenance: Effects of Changing Demographics on Japanese American Non-Profit Organizations
Jennifer Adams Mendoza, Liann Nicole Seiter & Ralph B Brown, BYU: Women’s Community Participation & Its Influence on Community Viability
Jessica Augusta Crowe, WSU: Economic Development in the Non-Metropolitan West: The Influence of Built, Natural & Social Capital
Collective Action, Social Movements & Protest: Directions for Contemporary Research
organizer: Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ. & Dennis Downey, CSUCI
Kelly Jean Bergstrand, Univ. of Arizona: Behavioral Tendencies & Social Movement Participation
Scott C Byrd, UCI: Back to Basics: Relational Approaches to Multi-Organizational Fields
Pang Ching Chen, UCI: Emotional Repertoire in the Public Sphere: The Case of Global Justice Protest
Social Movements: Mobilizing the Margins
organizer: Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ. & Dennis Downey, CSU CI
Mark Toney, UCB: A Second Chance for the First Time: Movement Formation among Formerly Incarcerated People
Daniel D. Martin, Univ. of Minnesota Duluth: Towards a Theory of Organizational Peel-Off: Outlaw Emotion & (Non-) Activism in Victims’ Rights Organizations
Candace Elaine Griffith, UNLV: Protesting Immigration: How the Minutemen are Rising Again to Save America
Victoria Carty, Chapman Univ.: Labor Unrest in the Global Industry: Worker Resistance in Panama
State Contention, Policy Outcomes & Social Movements
organizer: Kelley Strawn, Willamette Univ. & Dennis Downey, CSUCI
Stephen Corral, Univ. of Arizona: Policy Regimes as a Social Movement Outcome
Jamie McCallum & Antonia Levy, CUNY Graduate Center: On Aborted Revolution. Ideas & Roles of Civil Rights Groups During the ‘Wende’ in East Germany 1989/90
Jung Woo Pek, Univ. of Utah: Short Success & Possibility of New Political Communicative Structure: A Case Study of Nosamo’s Organization & Activities in the 2002 South Korean Presidential Election
Conceptualizing Class & Inequalities
organizer: Jeff Torlino, UVSC
Claton D. Peoples, UNR: Gradational Versus Relational Conceptualizations of Class & Their Consequences for Political Power Research
Russell Travis, CSU Bakersfield: Cracks
Laura Nichols, Karla Arango & Geraldine Linarte, Santa Clara Univ.: Bouncing, Staging & Maintaining: Symbolic Boundaries & Expressions of Cultural Capital in Higher Education
Berch Berberoglu, UNR: Class Conflict in the Age of Globalization
Robert Hauhart, St Martin’s Univ.: The Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Role of Southern Fried Humor in Contemporary Class Society
New Challenges Facing Immigrant Workers & Families
organizer: Carolyn P. Turnovsky, UCSB
Theo J Majka & Linda C Majka, Univ. of Dayton: Barriers to Structural Assimilation: Institutional Obstacles to Accommodating Recent Immigrants in a Mid-Size Rustbelt City
Veronica Montes, UCSB: The Transformations Experiences by Guatemalan Transnational Families
Kristine M Zentgraf & Norma Chinchilla, CSU Long Beach: Challenges of Reunited Immigrant Families
Dan Zuberi, Univ. of British Columbia: Outsourced: Immigrant Hospital Support Workers in Vancouver
Racial Segregation/Integration in Social Network
organizer: Eileen Walsh, CSU Fullerton
Julie Kmec & Lindsey B Trimble, WSU: Does It Pay to Have a Referral Just Like You? Social Network Ties & Work Reward
Lindsey B Trimble, WSU: The Spatial Mismatch of Job Information: How Does Geographic Proximity of Network Ties Affect Job Information Dissemination?
James McKeever, USC: Paying It Forward, African-American Men’s Work & Volunteerism as a Service to Community
Jesse Rude, UC Davis: Interracial Friendship Development & Management among Black & White Adults: A Qualitative Approach
Gender & Medicine
organizer: Liberty Walther, UCSD
Jennifer L Harrison, ASU: Contraceptive Decisions: A Qualitative Approach to the Study of Planned Behaviors
Sarah C Cosby & Tracy A Waltz, UCSF: Exploring the Complexity of Abortion Opinion among Abortion Patients
Andrea Rae Eller, Middle Tennessee State Univ.: Viva Viagra! Medicalization & the Cure for a Masculinity Crisis
Heather Brooke Wylie, Shasta College: The Politics of Integration: A Comparative Analysis of the Professional Projects of Licensed Midwives, Certified Nurse Midwives & Acupuncturists
Apology & Reconciliation Processes
organizer: Betsy Watson, Humboldt State Univ.
Jennifer Eichstedt, Humboldt State Univ.: When You Are White You Are Right: Reconciliation with the Wiyot Tribe
Betsy Watson, Humboldt State Univ.: Reconciliation within an Activist Organization
Karen Nelson, Humboldt State Univ.: Is Apology Necessary for Reconciliation?
Globalization, Labor & the Transformation of Work
organizer: Jonathan Westover, Univ. of Utah
Neha Ojha & Jawaharlai Nehru Univ. New Delhi: Globalization & Gender Inequality among Blue Collared Workers of the Industrial Sector
Shobha Hamal Gurung, Southern Utah Univ.: Invisible Migrants in the Formal Global Economy: The Case of Nepali Women in the U.S.
Markus Hadler, Institute of International Studies: How the Proliferation of Economic& Human Rights Institutions is Mutually Slowed Down by Their Effects on Public Opinion
Yvonne A. Braun, Univ. of Oregon: The Reproduction of Inequality: Race, Gender & the Social Organization of Work at Sites of Large-Scale Development Projects
Crime & Justice in the 21st Century
organizer: Stephani Williams, NAU
David Tubatsi Masiloane, Univ. of South Africa: Dealing with Economic Crisis: The Difficulty in Policing Illegal Immigrants in South Africa
Johanna Brenner & Robin Lynn Baker, Portland State Univ.: The Effect of Social Marginalization on Victims’ Reporting of Crime
Paul D. Steele, Morehead State Univ.: Child Sexual Abuse on New Mexico Tribal Lands 1999-2006: Disclosure Behaviors among Tribal & Non-Tribal Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
Stehpani Williams, NAU: Media Impact on Fear of Crime
Race & Ethnicity I
(sponsored by the Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
organizer: Stephani Williams, NAU
Alyssa Marie Newman, UCB: Issues in Mixed Race Identity Formation-Pressures Towards a Monoracial Identity in Multiracial Black High School Students
Laura Elise Enriquez, Pomona College: Educating the Academic Elite in Systems of Inequality: The Hidden Curriculum of Academic Programs
Annette Marie Alfonsi, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Ethnicity & Self Identity at a Primarily White Campus
Katelin Grace Lucariello, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Change in the Intergenerational Continuity of Educational Attainment: The Complex Roles of Race & Gender
Race & Ethnicity II
(sponsored by the Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
organizer: Stephani Williams, NAU
Patrick Michael Magee-Jenks, Whittier College: From the Bronx to Wall Street: How the Commodification of Hip Hop Has Shaped a Generation
Jesse Benjamin Cruz, USC: Emerging Identities: Racial Formations & the Nicaraguan Autonomy Movement
Omar Sayyed, Loyola Marymount Univ.: Aging Immigrants in America: Why & How Health Risks Are Compounding for This Aging Cohorts
Marriage, Partnership & Parenting
organizer: Kerry Woodward, UCB
Roskana Badruddoja, CSU Fresno: Cultural Autonomy: Boundaries of ‘Second-Generation’ South Asian American Marriage Practices
Mark Toney, UCB: The Poverty of Family Formation
Ammon Franklin, Mikaela J Dufur, & John P Hoffmann, BYU: Complexities in Isolating Family Type Data in Add Health: The Case of Same-Sex Parents
Welfare Reform
organizer: Kerry Woodward, UCB
Dana Y Nakano, UCI: Out of Time: Employed Asian Americans & the Effects of Welfare Reform in California
Sheila M Katz, Vanderbilt Univ.: Pathways to Success: Women’s Routes Through College After ‘Ending Welfare As We Know It’
Paula Fomby, Univ. of Colorado Denver & Health Sciences Center: Food Stamp Program Participation among U.S.-Born Children of Legal Immigrants Before & After the Farm Bill Act of 2002
Judith Hennessy, Central Washington Univ.: TANF Reauthorization: Navigating the New Work Rules
Recent Ethnographic Studies on Men & Masculinities
organizer: Sharon Yee, ASU
Moira Eileen O’Neil, UCSB: Masculinizing Mental Illness: A Historical Ethnography of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 1890s-1920s
Monika J Ulrich, Univ. of Arizona: Manly Birth: Hegemonic Masculinity in Childbirth Education
Cenk Ozbay, USC: Globalization & Men: Crossroads at Workplace
Sociology of Genocide
organizer: Carolyn Zook, Portland State Univ.
Jennifer L Zoltanski, WSU Vancouver: Surveying Laws & Provisions Against Wartime Rape: From Property Crime to Crime Against Humanity
Maral Necole Attallah, College of the Redwoods: Denial: The Final State of Genocide
Mark Beeman & Jesse McKee, NAU: Covering Genocide: An Analysis of Sociology Texts
Carolyn Zook, Portland State Univ.: Who Cares? The Careers of Social Activists on Genocide in Darfur
Empirical Advances in Sexuality Research
organizer: Kathleen Guidroz, Mt. Saint Mary’s Univ.
Sarah Ilene Strand, Univ. of Arizona: The Gendered Discourses of Safer Sex: MPV & HPV & the Demonization of Women’s Sexuality
Jorge Fontdevila, CSU Fullerton: Framing Dilemmas during Sex: HIV Risk among Mexican Gay Immigrants
Eugene Walls, Univ. of Denver: The Effects of Interactions between Hostile Heterosexism & Sub-Domains of Modern Heterosexism on Support for Lesbian & Gay Rights
Sheri Manuel, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland: Becoming the Homovoyeur: Homosexual Representation in Queer as Folk
Ya-Chien Wang, Michigan State Univ.: A Meta-Analytic Synthesis of Culturally Sensitive HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions in the U.S., 1996-2006
Roundtable: Kids & School
organizers: Katie Hadley & Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
Katie Hadley, CSU Sacramento: Understanding Ethnicity through Children’s Eyes: Observing & Interviewing Chinese School Students
Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento: Authority in Group Experiences: Teacher Impact on Bullying Experiences
Applying for Jobs in Academia
organizers: Katie Hadley & Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
Katie Hadley & Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
TBA
Corrections & Imprisonment
organizer: Mark G. Harmon, Univ. of Oregon
Rebekah Rosemary Villafana, CSU Northridge: Violence Inside: From a Prisoner’s Perspective
Jay George Dean, Portland State Univ.: Incarcerated & Employed: the Privatization of Prison Labor in Oregon
Mark G. Harmon, Univ. of Oregon: Sentencing Reforms: The Effect on Race & Gender
Self, Class, Society
organizers: Robert Hauhart, St. Martin’s Univ.& David Boyns, CSU Northridge
Krysia N. Mossakowski, Univ. of Miami: Socioeconomic Status & Psychological Well-Being in Young Adulthood: The Significance of the Self-Concept
Stephen G. Wieting, Univ. of Iowa: Religion & Radical Assaults on the Self
David Boyns, CSU Northridge: Self-Based Emotional Energy in Stratified Interaction Rituals
Robert Hauhart, St. Martin’s Univ.: War Injuries & Advances in Body Part Replacement in the Context of Class Society
Reconsidering the Undergraduate Capstone Course I
organizer: Robert C. Hauhart, St. Martin’s Univ. & Jon Grahe, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Margaret J. Greer, National Univ.: Brave New World: The Liberal Arts Capstone Course, Online Education & the Student-as-Consumer
James P. Marshall, Univ. of Northern Colorado: A Critical & Constructive Critique of the Capstone Course in Sociology
Christine Kay Oakley, WSU: The Return of the Capstone Course in WSU’s Undergraduate Curriculum
Randal D. Day & Jeremy Yorgason, BYU: Flourishing Families: An Undergraduate Capstone Research Project
Reconsidering the Undergraduate Capstone Course II
organizers: Robert C. Hauhart, St. Martin’s Univ. & Jon Grahe, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Kathy A. Zawicki, St. Bonaventure Univ.: In Search of Inquiry, Excellence & Inspiration: The Senior Capstone Course at St. Bonaventure Univ.
Lynn Hunnicutt & Karen Travis, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: The Capstone Experience in Economics
Jon Grahe, Pacific Lutheran Univ. & Robert C. Hauhart, St. Martin’s Univ.: The Undergraduate Capstone Course in the Social Sciences: Results from a Regional Survey
Roundtable: Multiracial Families in a Changing Society
organizer: Ynez Wilson Hirst, St. Mary’s Collge of California
Maggie Y. Chiang, Utah State Univ.: Interracial Marriage & Migration Patterns: Education, Social Support, Divorce Rate & Discrimination
Trina Elizabeth Carline Bolton, Minnesota State Univ.: Mixed by Adoption: Narratives of Women of Color Raised by White Families
Pedagogies for Online Learning
organizer: Patricia R. Hoffman, New Mexico State Univ.
discussant: Lee Hamilton< New Mexico State Univ.
Melissa Rae Ingold, New Mexico State Univ.: Relating Pedagogical Practice to Thinking Hierarchy
Patricia R. Hoffman, New Mexico State Univ.: Online Outcomes Assessment & Accreditation
Cecilia Dionco Noble, Univ. Of Hawaii at Manoa: Social Inquiry Teaching Model: Ensuring Student-Centered & socio-Cultural Responsive Curriculum on Web-Quests
Confucian or Confusion? The Sociology of Asian Values in Postwar NIC Development
organizer: Eric Haruo Honda, Applied Sociologist
Eric Hauro Honda, Applied Sociologist: ‘Singapore-Sing’: Breaking Down the Sino-Malayan Ethnic Conflict with the PAP Setup via a Model of Creditable Commitment & Control
Nalani Basan, CSU San Bernardino: The Communist Party of China (CPC): The Truth Behind the Regime
Scott David Parker, UNR: Only a Short Dream: Neo-Confucianism, Neoliberalism & South Korea
Trauma, Witness, Memory in the Public & Private Spaces
organizer: Immigration Issues
organizer: Program Committee
presider: Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento
Matthew Tompkins, UCSB: Losing Ground: The Cost & Burdens of Coming to America Borne by Central American Immigrants in a Post 9/11 Era
Haruna Myagawa Fukui, ASU: Immigrant Women Entrepreneurship in the Era Of Neoliberalism & Globalization: Accentuating ‘Family Values’
Nahtasha C.J. Garza-Swindle, New Mexico State Univ.: The Cultural Negotiations Mexican Immigrants Face within the United States: Acculturation vs. Assimilation
Rita Martinez-Salas, Oregon State Univ.: The Value of La Mujer: Generations of Mexican Migrant Women of Oregon
Enrico Marcelli & Pascale Joassart-Marcelli: SDSU: Proximity to Banks & Remittance Behavior among Brazilian & Dominican Immigrants by Legal Status
Husting, Boise State Univ.
Robyn J. Green, Carleton Univ.: Absence of Ghosts? Representation, Trauma & Heritage Institutions in Canada
Samuel D. Shea, Portland State Univ.: Perceived Risk, Fear of Crime & Behavior Constraints: An urban University Case
Ginna Husting, Boise State Univ.: Virginia Wolf & Representing War: Lessons from Three Guineas
Sociology of Sport: The Student Athlete
(sponsored by the Committee on Community College)
organizer: Tonmar Johnson, Solano Comm. College
Gesine Kuespert Hearn, Idaho State Univ.: Injury Matters: The Experience of Injury among College Football Players
Amada L. Ebner, UCI: Transitional Lives, Transitional Roles: Female Collegiate Triathletes & the Struggle for Identity Formation
Victoria Springer, UNR: Brains, Brawn & Balls: Examining the Construction of Gender as identity, Interaction & Institution
Shane Griggs, Idaho State Univ.: The Meaning & Significance of Concussion among College Football Players
Work & Unions
organizers Jerry Kimery, Independent Scholar & Preston Rudy, San Jose State Univ.
Antonia Levy, CUNY Graduate Center: New Issues Regarding Sex Workers’ Rights in Germany after Decriminalization
Jerry Kimery, Independent Scholar: Left Holding the Bag: Union & Nonunion Package Handlers in East Los Angeles
Luis M. Aguiar, Univ. of British Columbia Okanagan: Global Unions Then & Now
Jonathan H. Westover, Univ. of Utah: The Changing Nature of Work in the U.S.: A Neo & Post-Fordist Look at General Motors & Google Inc.
Comparative Historical Sociology: Theory & Application I
organizer: Martyn Kingston, Southern Utah Univ.
Rebecca S, K. Li, The College of New Jersey: Lessons from a Historical-Comparative Study of Rebellions in Qing China for Understanding Contemporary China
Alexandria Walton Radford, Princeton Univ.: The Role of Context of Reception in Immigrants’ Economic Success: A Historical & Comparative Analysis of Northern Italians in Valparaiso, Chile ^ San Francisco, California 1870-1920
Christian P. Ferney, Duke Univ.: Scientific National Symbols: ‘Developing’ Nationalism in Australia, Canada & the United States, 1915-1960
Comparative Historical Sociology: Theory & Application II
organizer: Martyn Kingston, Southern Utah Univ.
Caleb M. Bush, Univ. of New Mexico: Land, Livestock & Labor: The ‘Net of Incorporation’ in the History of Mining, Stock Reduction & Wage Work on the Navajo Reservation
Robert Enoch Buck, SDSU.: Upward Mobility in a Nineteenth Centruy New England Village, 1780-1850
Cary Coyne, UCR: State Power & Industrial Capitalism in Late-Imperial China & Western Europe, 1899-1900
Family Values? Government Policies & Family Disruptions
(sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties)
organizer: Liza L. Kuecker, Western New Mexico Univ
Deirdre Mary Bowen, Seattle Univ.: The Imprisoned Parent: Differential Familial Power in Same-Sex Families
Carole McKenna, ASU: Patterns of Inclusion & the Micro-Macro Power Arrangements between the Military Spouse & Military Institution
Michael Ray Cope, BYU: Adoption & Fathers’ Rights
Zeynep Kurtulus Korkman, UCSB: Fathers’ Rights, Mothers’ Duties: Child Custody Contestations in Istanbul, Turkey
Issues in Race & Ethnicity I
(sponsored by the Committee on Comm. Colleges)
organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
Sharon Elise & Gary L. Rolison, CSU San Marcos: Critical Race Studies, Public Sociology & the Activist Imperative
Rashad Shabazz, UCSC: The Men of the Robert Taylor Housing Projects: Prison Masculinity & Carceral Landscapes on Chicago’s Southside
Tonmar Johnson, Solano Comm. College: Attitudes of College Students & Non-College Students toward Being African
J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College: Social Problems & Identification: Aspects of the Black Panther Party as a Social Movement
Issues in Race & Ethnicity II
(sponsored by the Committee on Community College)
organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
Hiroshi Fukurai, Christopher Lee & Dolores Gonzalez, UCSC: Wrongful Acquittals: Miscarriage of Justice in Potentially Capital-Lynching Cases
Jennifer J. Pope, Utah State Univ.: Images of Minidoka: Visual Constructions of the Model Minority Myth
Katelin Grace Lucariello, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Change in the Intergenerational Continuity of Educational Attainment: The Complex Roles of Race & Gender
Stefanie T. Stauffer, UCSB: ‘Siamo Invasi’: Nationalism, Neoliberalism & Exclusion in the Shadow of Fortress Europe: Italy & the Lega Nord
Issues in Community College
(sponsored by the Committee on Community Colleges)
organizer: J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College
Tonmar Johnson, Solano Comm. College: Teaching the Sociology of Sports: Challenges & Prospects
Deidre Tyler, Salt Lake City Comm. College: Diversity Issues in the Community College
Michael Samano, Lane Comm. College: Workload Issues for Faculty of Color in Predominately White Institutions: Cultural Taxation in the Community Colleges
J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College: Teaching, Learning & Curriculum: The Case of the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series at contra Costa College
Roundtable: Teaching Statistics to Undergraduates
organizer: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Linda J. Henderson, St. Mary’s Univ. College & Univ. of Calgary: Applying social Statistics (and even having a bit of fun doing it!): The Consultants’ Challenge
Elizabeth H. McEneaney, CSU Long Beach: The Impact of Peer Editing & Rewriting on Development of Quantitative Reasoning
Pharmaceuticals & Medicalization
organizer: Benjamin Lewin, ASU
Liahna E. Gordon, CSU Chico: A New Field is Born: The Medicalization of Sexual Addiction
Heather L. Hartley, Portland State Univ.: The Impact of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Findings on the FDA Review of the Intrinsa Testosterone Patch
Maurice Penner, USF: Physician Autonomy Constrained: Insurance Company Influence on Physician Drug Prescribing
Medical Sociology
organizer: Benjamin Lewin, ASU
Discussant: Nicholas Bishop, ASU
Jeremy Marshal, Univ. of Utah: Family Structure & the Risk of Childhood Obesity
Teresa n’ha-Pagani, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Before & After: Experiences of Bariatric Surgery
Alicia E. Suarez, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Living with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV): What Do People Know about Their Illness & Why Does it Matter?
Sachiko Reed, UCSC: On Implications if Genetic Research & Mixed Race Identity(ies).
Health, Race & Ethnicity & Socioeconomic Status
organizer: Benjamin Lewin, ASU
Tiffany Lynette Locus, ASU: Shared Experiences of African-Americans & Hispanics in the Healthcare System
Pooya S. Naderi, Univ. of Kansas: Access to Care among Vulnerable Populations Enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan
Wei Zhang & Van M. Ta, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: Socioeconomic Status, Types of Social Support & Mental Health among Asian Americans
Applied Health Research
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Richard Lockwood, Portland State Univ.
Karen E. Gordon & Megan S. Wright, Univ. of Arizona: Safe Sex for Women Who Have Sex with Women: Talking as a Form of Protection
Matt G. Mutchler, Erin Cooper CSU Dominquez Hills & Ronald A. Brooks, UCLA: Applying Research Methods in Community-Based Organizations for Program Planning: Lessons Learned from a Large AIDS Service Organization
Matthew J. Carlson, Portland State Univ., Bill Wright, Center for Outcomes Research & Education & Rachel Solotaroff, Central City Concern: Does Maintaining an Usual Source of Care Soften the Impact of Coverage Disruptions
Paul Wong, SDSU: Objective & Subjective Barriers to Increasing Receptiveness to Organ Donation among Arab Americans
Complementary & Alternative Medicine
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Richard Lockwood, Portland State Univ.
Marian Lisa Katz, UCLA: Not Quite Doctors: the Status Concerns of American Acupuncturists
Michele Tracy Berger, UNC Chapel Hill: Yoga Instructors as Health Professionals? Emerging Identities
Richard Lockwood, Portland State Univ. & Julie Chinnock, Outside In Clinic: Naturopathic Physicians in the Public Health Workforce: Processes of Internal Differentiation
Aggression Abroad & Repression at Home
(sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties)
organizer: Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona
Mahmood Ibrahim, Cal Poly Pomona: Occupation of Palestine, Repression of American Minds
Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona: Fighting Terror with Terror
Others TBA
Current Research on Chicana/os & Latina/os I
organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Mary Romero, ASU: Racial Profilng Latino/a Families & Immigration Raids: A Study of Racism & the State
Jessica M. Vasquez, Univ. of Kansas: Blurred Borders: Flexible Ethnicity: Racialization & the Dynamics of Third Generation Mexican American Identity
Alicia Mendez Gonzales, CSU San Marcos: Salience of Culture
Current Research on Chican/os & Latina/os II
organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Gladys Garcia Lopez, UCSB: Nunca Te Toman En Cuenta [They Never Take You into Account]: The Challenges of Inclusion & Strategies for Success of Chicana Attorneys
Adam M. Moore, BYU: An Examination of Mexican American Acculturation, Perceived Barriers to Psychotherapy Access & Beliefs about Psychotherapy Effectiveness
Brianne Amber Davila, UCSB: Multiple Marginalities: Chicana/o Students in Special Education
Ethnicity & Immigration in the United States I
organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Jill S. Grigsby & Gladys E. Reyes, Pomona College: Residential Segregation by Educational Attainment
Gonzalo F. Santos, CSU Bakersfield: Migrant Labor Pains: The Entangled Pregnancy of North American Peoplehood
Christie D. Batson, UNLV: Latina Occupational & Economic Incorporation in the Hotel & Resort Industry of Las Vegas
Ethnicity & Immigration in the United States II
organizer: Paul Lopez, CSU Chico
Kathleen M. Marker, UCSD: The Role of Ethnicity & Religion in Arab American Small Business Networks
Maria-Elena D. Diaz, Univ. of Notre Dame: Asian Immigration, Asian Diversity & Occupational Segregation: The Influence of Community Characteristics on Asian Voting Behavior in the 2000 Presidential Election
Edward Flores, USC: ’I am Somebody’: Victory Outreach, Masculinity & Upward Mobility in Low-Income Latino Neighborhoods
Ethnographies of Social Change in the Americas
organizer: Susan Mannon, Utah State Univ.
Natasha Marie Sacouman, Univ. of Maryland: Interdependent & Interrelated Social Processes: An Ethnographic Investigation
Arthur Scarritt, Boise State Univ.: Racialized Ethnic Compromise: The Micro-Politics of Land Privatization in Highland Peru
Jennifer B. Rogers, UCSB: Ethnography & Social Change: Field Work during the APPO Movement
Pepper G. Glass, UCLA: Out of Left Field: Doing Ethnography on Political Activists
Sharon S. Oselin, UCI & Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Univ. of British Columbia: On the Ground: An Ethnographic Analysis of Movement-Countermovement Dynamics
Immigration to New Destinations
organizer: Monica McDermott, Stanford Univ.
Laura Lopez-Sanders, Stanford Univ.: Immigrant Inc.: Latino Work in the New South
Angie P. Mejia, Portland State Univ.: Las Pioneras: New Immigrant Destinations & the Gendered Experiences of Latina Immigrants
Susan E. Mannon & Rebecca Smith, Utah State Univ.: Latino Fault Lines: Intra-Latino Relations & Tensions in Northern Utah
Melissa Sheridan Ember-Herbert, Hamline Univ.: ‘That’s It, I’m Moving to Canada’: Social Policy as Social Justice
Qualitative Methodology
organizer: Monica McDermott, Stanford Univ.
Discussant: Laura Lopez-Sanders, Stanford Univ.
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ.: Advancing Social Constructionism Through Grounded Theory
Yung-Yi Diana Pan, Elizabeth Anne Chiarello & James E. Stobaugh, UCI: The Mega Church & the Framing of Social Problems; A Multi-Level team-Oriented Qualitative Approach
Lisa Cox Hall, Univ. of Colorado Denver: Special Issues with Older women in a Qualitative Breast Cancer Study
Qualitative Methodology: Negotiating Access & Relationships in the Field
organizer: Monica McDermott, Stanford Univ.
discussant: Kathryne Tafolla Young, Stanford Univ.
Tonya Danielle Lindsey, UCSB: Am I In Yet? Researching in a Department of corrections Adult Facility
Elizabeth A Joniak, UCLA: The Messiness of Ethnographic Research: Rethinking ‘Getting In’ & ‘Getting Close’
ShienPei Chang, Portland VA Medical Center: A Personal Account of Survey Interviewing in Taiwan
Shelley K. Erickson, ASU: Safeguarding Anonymity: Or How I learned to Ignore Participants in the Classroom
Qualitative Methodology: Web Research Methods organizer: Monica McDermott, Stanford Univ.
Discussant: Morgan Ames, Stanford Univ.
Ciny L. Cain, Univ. of Arizona: Are We behind the Curve? Web Research Methods in Progress
Robert Charles Di Carlo, Applied Sociologist: MySpace.com & the Presentation of Self: A New Site for the Construction of identities
Marcella C. Gemelli, ASU: Piecing Together the Puzzle: Making Sense of Qualitative Data
Sociology of Migration
organizer: Angie Mejia, Portland State Univ.
Sabeen Sandhu, UCI: Between Downward Assimilation & a Minority Culture of Mobility: The Children of Asian Indian Elites
Elvia Ramirez & Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento: Transnationalism, Mexican Communities & the Shaping of Perceptions of Gender Equality & Inequality Across Borders
Angie Mejia, Portland State Univ.: Cuentame: Focus Groups & Research with Latina Immigrant Mothers
Reinventing the Introductory Sociology Course
organizer: Harry Mersman, Delta College
Karen Lang Krause, Saginaw Valley State Univ.: Virtual International Collaboration: Engaging Students in Direct Interactive Learning
Nathaneil C. Pyle, Noa Logan Klein & Stefanie T. Stauffer, UCSB: Sociology & ‘The Simpsons’
Harry Mersmann, Delta College: Doing It Differently: Rethinking Intro Sociology
Student Learning Outcome, Assessment & Sociology
organizer: Harry Mersmann, Delta college
Monika J. Ulrich, Univ. of Arizona: One-Skill Embedding in Sociology Courses
Melodye Gaye Lehnerer, College of Southern Nevada & Judith Little, Humboldt State Univ.: Student Learning & Assessment as Seen Through the Eyes of an Accreditor
Marilyn D. Moore, California Baptist Univ: Evaluative Strategies in Behavioral Sciences: Developing Socratic Skills in Undergraduate Students
Consciousness & Social Change
organizer: Janine Minkler, NAU
Brandon Troy Olszewski, Univ. of Oregon: Inner Stillness & Intimate Activism: The Revolutionary Potential for Appalachian Music
Justin Paulsen, Seattle Univ.: The Messiness of Agency: ‘True’ & ‘False’ Consciousness & Social Change
Damien Contessa, NAU: Wildlife, Eco-Alienation & the Re-Enchantment of the Natural Ethic
Robert Lyons, NAU: Fingers in the Glove, Egos in the Cage: Literary Discourse on Freedom, Repression & Social Accountability
Race, Gender & Sexuality in Video Games
organizer: Melissa Monson, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Chad A. Parson, UCR: Master (Chief) Status in Video Games
Carol A. Minton & Samuel Cash, California Baptist Univ.: Worlds of Warcraft: Creating Gender, Race & Group Identity
Melissa Monson, Metropolitan State College of Denver: Reifying Race: identity Politics in the World of Warcraft
Issues Related to the Freedom of Research & Teaching
(sponsored by COFRAT)
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Cheryl Radeloff, Minnesota State Univ.
Charles A. Dickinson, Boise State Univ.; We All Know You’re a Liberal: Images of a Sociology Instructor
Leonard Gordon, ASU: Addressing the Dual Core Campus Policy Principles of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
Troy McGinnis, Northeast Longview College: Constructing the Glass Closet: Protectionist Rhetoric as institutional Constraint of ‘Controversial’ Research
Global Forces & Women’s Lives
organizer: Susan Murray, San Jose State Univ.
Billy J. Ulibarri, Univ. of New Mexico: Deserving & Underserving Victims: Anti-Human Trafficking Laws in Four Countries
Jon Williams, New Mexico State Univ.: Maquiladora Laborers & Femicide: The Case of Cuidad Juarez
Llkay Savci, Ankara Univ.: Social Relationship Patters of Daily Life in an Open Prison for Women in Turkey: A Case Study
Erika Derkas, New Mexico Highland Univ.: Embracing Sex Work’s Complexity: The Move to Decriminalize Sex Work Globally
Roundtable: Declining Male College Enrollment
organizer: Paul w. O’Brien, CSU Sanislaus
Paul W. O’Brien, CUS Stanislaus: Declining Male Enrollment & Public Perceptions
Agnes Riedmann, CSU Stanislaus: Male College Enrollment: (Un)Spinning the Numbers
Tamara Sniezek, CSU Stanislaus: Focus Group Research on Male College Enrollment
Angel Sanchez, CSU Stanislaus: Understanding CSU Systemwide Male Enrollment Trends
Development in Quantitative Methods
organizer: Robert M. O’Brien, Univ. of Oregon
Terry D. Miethe, Timothy C. Hart, UNLV & Wendy C. Regoeczi, Cleveland State Univ.: The Conjuctive Analysis of Case Configurations: An Exploratory Method for Discrete Multivariate Analyses of Crime Data
Chunyan Song, CSU Chico & Stephen Sills, UNC Greensboro: Methods & Results from the 2007 International Students’ Survey: A Multi-Method Project Involving Undergraduate Research Method Students
Robert M. O’Brien, Univ. of Oregon: Two Methods for Examining Cohort Effects in Age-Period Cohort Models
Gender & Risk
organizer: Christopher O’Conner, Univ. of Calgary
Jason Lee Crockett, Univ. of Arizona: Gone to the Dogs: Gender & Risk at the Public Dog Park
Daniel Eugene Harden II, UNLV: Gender Socialization & Physical Violence at Parties & in Nightclubs & Bars
Amada J. Burnam, NMSU: Analysis of Urban Slums Using a Gender Perspective
Stephanie J. Skourtes, Univ of British Columbia: Hegemony & Youth Studies: the Contested Meanings of ‘Normal’ & ‘Marginal’ When Talking about Girls
Amy Egan & Christopher O’Conner, Univ. of Calgary: Who’s a Risk? A Media Analysis of Women & Terrorism
Youth Engagement & Involvement
organizer: Christopher O’Conner, Univ. of Calgary
Rachel Gordon, Univ. of Denver: The Role of Adults in Youth Movements for Social Justice: Age, Gender, Race & Class Contexts
Patricia E. Literte, CSU Fullerton: Apathetic or Misunderstood? College Students & Activism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Jessica K. Taft, UCSB: We’re Not Special: Teenage Girl Activists & the ‘Exceptionalism’ of Youth Engagement
Issues in Media Relations: Sociologists Examining Their Media Experiences
Organizer & discussant: Steven Ortiz, OSU
Russell Travis, CSU Bakersfield: Bridging the Gap between Campus & Community: The Homeless Quarters Experiment
Laura Mangels & Rachel Best, UCB: The Academy & the Press: Reflecting on Tensions & Tradeoffs
Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National Univ.: Lost & Found in Translation: A Sociologist Examines Web, Podcast & Blog Experiences Featuring Her Research
Undergraduate Roundtable: Technology & the Internet
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Vikas Kumar Gumbhir, Gonzaga Univ.
Emily Brooke Sterling, Univ. of Puget Sound: Music Piracy: A Study of Morality in Cyberspace
Kimberly Ann Sykora & John-Paul Monteagudo, New Mexico State Univ.: Online Teaching
Scott A. Dunham, Univ. of Puget Sound: The Role of Online Culinary Communities in the Maintenance of Cultural identity in Diasporic Communities
John R. Asheraft, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: Confluence in the North American Topfreedom Social Movement
Elaine Saavedra, New Mexico Sate Univ.: The Contract & Congruence of the Value Students Place on Teaching Activities across On-Line & On-Campus Courses
Undergraduate Roundtable: Medical Sociology
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, St. Mary’s College
Maria G. Ochoa Hidalgo, Eastern Oregon Univ.: Hungry Souls
Brittan Brooks Lapham, Western Washington Univ: Polypharmacy among Geriatric Care Patients in Oregon: A Longitudinal Study with Latent Class Growth Analysis
Elke N. Webb, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: The Social Determinants of Health Care Access in Bangladesh
Teresa Yig-Ting Chan, UCB: Mental Health Coping Methods of Chinese American College Students
Omar Sayyed, Loyola Marymount Univ.: Aging Immigrants in America: Why & How Health Risks Are Compounding for this Aging Cohort
Undergraduate Roundtable: Gender Issues
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Teresa Ciabattari, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Natalie Brooke Aviles, UCB: Victims & Vectors: Gendering the Human Papillomavirus
Kerri R. Feider & Paula T. Hguyen, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Gender & Attitudes towards Persons with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)
Rocio Angelica Rodarte, New Mexico State Univ.: Attitudes toward the Safety of Children’s Toys: Does Gender Matter?
Rosalie N. L. Arndt, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: The Gendered Natures of Competition
Rachel Lee Powers, UCB: Gender & MySpace.com
Undergraduate Roundtable: Sociology of Religion
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Mary Kelsey, UCB
Kelly Erin Zeiler, Univ. of Puget Sound: Original Design & Gender Identity: The Cosmology of Evangelical Christianity
Ryanne H. Filbey, Univ. of Puget Sound: Evangelical Christianity in West Africa
Tracey Lynn Waring, Eastern Washington Univ.: Spiritual Identity: A Bridge to Re-Entry
Undergraduate Roundtable: Sociology of he Family
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Ellen Berg, CSU Sacramento
Mira Ann Whyman & Megan E. Lemmon, Western Washington Univ.: Military Service: the Transition from Cohabitation to Marriage
Kimberly Slone, New Mexico State Univ.: What Are the Specific Needs of Non-Traditional Students Residing in Student Family Housing?
Lianna Hart, Sonoma State Univ.: Therapeutic Mothering: Maternal Practices s as an Autism Intervention
Erin Christine Quinten, BYU: Homosexual Parenting: Potential Effects of Parent Sexuality on Aggressive Behavior in Adolescents
Undergraduate Roundtable: Social Stigma
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Anna Leon-Guerreo, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Kelsie Marie Melton, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Suicide Attempts & Media Representations of Stigma
Raeonna Justine Einerson, UCB: Street Spirit: Navigating the Ideologies & Stigmas Surround Homelessness in America
Messica Marie Porquez, Chapman Univ.: The Internal Processes & Personal Transformation of Gang Disaffiliation for Mexican American Males in Southern California
Janine Rita Miller, Chapman Univ.: Discrimination & Stigma toward the Mentally Ill
Undergraduate Roundtable: Academic Performance & Assessment
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Amy Orr, Linfield College
Matthew Kory Grey, Univ. of Puget Sound: Where Have All the Achiever’s Gone? Program Assessment of the Washington State Achievers Scholarship
Martha Jean Miller, BYU: Involvement to Excel: A Case Study of Academic Performance of After-School Program Participation
Fernanda Farrell & Francisco Bravo, CSU Long Beach: Educational Experiences of immigrant Children: The Impact of Family Separation & Reunification
Eric Pyper, BYU: Portable Media Devices, Podcast & Teaching
Annette Alfonsi, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Ethnicity & Self Identity at Primarily White Educational Institutions
Undergraduate Roundtable: Sexualities
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Daniel Renfrow, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Raziel Dasha Valino, Autonomous Univ. of the State of Morelos: From Cultural Remesas to Wanabes: Mexican Sexuality & Migration & the Role of Telenovelas
Sara Ryan Rosenthal, UCB: What is the Best Treatment? CBI versus Healthy Sexuality Education
Christopher Michael Curd, CSU Long Beach: Adult Male Virgins: Identity, Isolation & Self-Esteem
Cassandra Johnson & Joshua Hovis, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: Plot? What Plot? Hot Sex or Subversive Challenges to Hegemonic Sexuality?
Undergraduate Roundtable: The Socialization Process
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
Sue Anahita, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks
Jenny Riose McCracken, UCB: Love in Children’s Literature: Content Analysis & Reader Response
Leisl D. Olson, Montana Sate Univ.: Gender Bias in Children’s Picture books: A Look at Caldecott Winner & ‘Honors’ Books between 1995-2005
Andrea E. Doyle, OSU: ‘Gender-R-Us’: The Socialization of Gender in Terms of Toys
Lisa A. Moore, Whitman College: Structural Changes in the U.S. Public School System: A Weberian Perspective
Sangita Devaskur, UCB: Cult8ral Identity & Assimilation in the South Asian American Community
Undergraduate Roundtable: Sociology of Crime & Deviance
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Joanna Gregson, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Robert Troy Moore, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: You Don’t Eat No Meat!? The Deviant Lifestyle of Vegans & Vegetarians
Jessica Mary Case, CSU Long Beach: Risky Business: Explaining Voluntary Risk-Taking Behaviors in the U.S.
Lauren Raye Landon, Gonzaga Univ.: Resident Assistants: Managing & Explaining Their Own Deviant Behavior
Caitlin Parry McKenna, Gonzaga Univ.: Deviant Behavior in Exceptional College Students
John Michael Halushka, UCB: From STEP to Prop 21: Rethinking Discourse about Crime in California
Undergraduate Roundtable: Economic Sociology: Consumerism & Work
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Leon Grunberg, Univ. of Puget Sound
Chelsea Elizabeth Mazar, & Laura Anderson, BYU: The Glass Escalator: Why Are Men Not Riding It?
C. Sofia Salazar-Rubio, UCB: A Sociological Perspective on Green Consumerism
Jessica Mages Farley, Whitman College: Environmentally Sustainable Viticulure in the Walla Walla Valley
Eleanor U. Donovan, Univ of Puget Sound: Making Religion ‘Cool’: A Case Study of Evangelical Youth Sub-Cultural Identity
Undergraduate Roundtable: Communities
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Sally Raskoff, Los Angeles Valley College
Soun-Ja Marie Walters, New Mexico State Univ.: The Search for Factors that Contribute to the Development of Social Activism
Edwin Fonseca, Eastern Washington Univ.: Creating an Authentic Community in the Sociology Intro Class
Shelby Diane Bue, Fresno Pacific Univ.: Including Underserved Hispanic Oncology Patients & Their Families in Educational Events & Services: Professional Perceptions & Implications for the Future
Stephanie Palmer Noren, Gonzaga Univ.: Can You Ever Go Home? Small Town Youths, Their Transitions to Four-Year Institutions & the Problems They Face
Allison Lynn Withey, Univ. of Montana: Everyday Politeness in the University Community
Undergraduate Roundtable: Inequalities of Class, Race, Ethnicity & Gender
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Sunil Kukreja, Univ. of Puget Sound
Elizabeth Sara Focella, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: Invisible People: the Portrayal of Alaska Natives in Alaska’s High School Textbooks
Bridget Teal Jankovsky, UCB: Energy Development & Dine Culture: Environmental Inequality on the Dine Reservation
Claudia Plesa, Eastern Oregon Univ.: The United States Financial Aid System & the Perpetuation of Inequality
Daniel Widner & Jason Olson, WSU: An Investigation of Muslim Discrimination in the Labor Market
Jeanette Surphen, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: The Jury Is In: Do Women Still Experience Gender Discrimination in the Police Force?
Undergraduate Roundtable: The Social Construction of Identity I
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Sine Anahita, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks
Lauren Nicole Iverson, Univ. of Puget Sound: Women’s Roller Derby: The Formation of Gendered Identities in the World of a Contact Sport
Debbie Vy Khanh Nguyen, Mills College: Discerning Tastes & Class: A Study on Specialized Knowledge & Cultural Capital
Carlota de los Milagros Dorn, UCB: Peer Reference Groups & College-Aged Sexuality
Max Rosenfeld Besbris, UCB: The Applied Art of Pimping
Jamila Sinlao, USF: Falling through the Cracks: A Study of Risk Factors & the Social Construction of HIV/AIDS
Undergraduate Roundtable: The Social Construction of Identity II
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Sharon Araji, Univ. of Colorado Denver
Caity M. Collins, Whitman College: Bedrooms & Belongings: Material Representations of Divorce for Adolescents
Carolyn J. Webb, Mills College: Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Dog Owner Impression Management
Nicole Marie Marshall, Univ. of Puget Sound: Identity, Beauty & Rebellion: Trends on Body Art & Simmel’s Theory of Fashion
Taylor Levy, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Role Strain, Identity Formation & Professional Development: A Comparative Analysis of Chilean & Argentine Sign Language
Jocelyn Skillman, Univ. of Puget Sound: Narrative of Pains: Pain’s Negotiation & Potentially Diagnostic Orientation among University of Puget Sound Students
Roundtable: An Academic Con Game: Banning Student Professor Sexual Relationships
organizer: Barry Dank, CSU Long Beach
discussants: P.J. Johnston, Univ. of Iowa
Kari Lerum, Univ. of Washington Bothell
Conversation & Critique of Gendering Bodies by Sara L. Crawley, Lara J. Foley & Constance L. Shehan
organizer: Jodi O’Brien, Seattle Univ.
presider: Clare Sears, SFSU
discussant: Sara Crawley, Univ. of South Florida & Lara Foley, Univ. of Tulsa
presenters: Clare Sears, SFSU, Dana Britton, Kansas State Univ. & Wendy Chapkis, Univ. of Southern Main
Sociology of Food
Organizer: Ginna Husting: Boise State Univ.
Leontina M. Hormel, Univ. of Idaho: Social Meaning in Household Food Production: Tracing Gender, Class & Post-Soviet Social Change in a Central Ukrainian Town
Juven Parra, CSULA: Food as a Coercive Instrument in Inner City High Schools
Jeff London, CUNY Graduate Center: The Performance of Class in the Culinary Terrain: The Passively Learned Wisdom of the Well-Equipped Connoisseur
Issues in Crime & Corrections
organizer: Program Committee
presider: Boshu Wu, CSU Sacramento
Ronald Everett, Andre Rosay & William Hurr, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: Evaluating Community Perceptions & Public Comment on the Issue of Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Alaska Juvenile Justice System to Help Define the Problem & Suggest Changes to Justice Policy
Ron F. Sandquist, Portland State Univ.: Criminal Activity among Entheogen Users
Michael J. Coyle, CSU Chico: Crime & Justice in Argentina: A Cross National Comparison with the U.S.
Christine Petit, UCR: La Lucha Sigue: Police Repression in MacArthur Park, May 2007
Roundtable: Environmental Issues
organizer: Program Committee
June Ellestad & Megan Tanner, Univ. of Montana: Conflict & Perceptions during Redevelopment: A Case Study at the Milltown Dam Superfund Site
Erik Drew Fritsvold, Univ. of San Diego: Under the Law: Legal Consciousness & Racial Environmentalism Activism
Welfare & Poverty
organizer: Program Committee
Christy M. Glass & Sandra Marquart-Pyatt, Utah State Univ.: The Politics of Welfare in Transition: Back to Class?
Keeonna Harris, CSU San Bernardino: Back to Work: Assessing College Student’s Attitudes Towards Welfare Recipients
Charity Perry, CSULA: Cultural Attitudes Toward Poverty
Roundtable: The Community
organizer: Program Commitee
Seth Abrutyn, UCR: Shared Culture & External Threat: Untangling the Strands of Commitment & Solidarity in the Jewish Community
Matthew R. Colling, BYU: Communified: Consumption Habits in the Rural Community
Roundtable: The Online World: Security & Dot.Com Organizations
organizer: Program Committee
Sean Donahoe, Applied Sociologist: Netroots on (and for) the Net: Net Neutrality, Surveillance & Activism Online
Linus Huang, UCB: From Waterfalls to Iterative Enhancement: Organization Power & Transformation in a Dot.Com Startup.
Roundtable: Teaching By Film, in Prison & in the Microsoft Era
organizer: Program Committee
presider: Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
Debra Guckenheimer, UCSB: Using Films in the Classroom
Jane Prather, CSU Northridge: Lessons Learned: An Ethnographic Account of Teaching Sociology in a Women’s Maximum Security Prison
Brandon Troy Olszewski, Univ. of Oregon: The Privatization of Teaching: School Reform in the Microsoft Era
Immigration Issues
organizer: Program Committee
presider: Manuel Barajas, CSU Sacramento
Matthew Tompkins, UCSB: Losing Ground: The Cost & Burdens of Coming to America Borne by Central American Immigrants in a Post 9/11 Era
Haruna Myagawa Fukui, ASU: Immigrant Women Entrepreneurship in the Era Of Neoliberalism & Globalization: Accentuating ‘Family Values’
Nahtasha C.J. Garza-Swindle, New Mexico State Univ.: The Cultural Negotiations Mexican Immigrants Face within the United States: Acculturation vs. Assimilation
Rita Martinez-Salas, Oregon State Univ.: The Value of La Mujer: Generations of Mexican Migrant Women of Oregon
Enrico Marcelli & Pascale Joassart-Marcelli: SDSU: Proximity to Banks & Remittance Behavior among Brazilian & Dominican Immigrants by Legal Status
Roundtable: Sociology of Religion
organizer: Program Committee
Chris A. Wood, Lea Michell Wood & Deirdre Sommerlad-Rogers, Univ. of Idaho: Conversion to Neo-Paganism
Melanie A. Hulbert & Mark Terry, George Fox Univ.: The Sacred Vessel: How Notions of Beauty & Body Inform Christian Feminine Identity
James T. Richardson &Jennifer S. Shoemaker, UNR: Religious Freedom & Minority Religions: The Case of the UDV Church in New Mexico
Roundtable: Political Sociology
organizer: Program Committee
Mikael Balaev, Univ. of Oregon: Democracy & World-Systems Analysis: A Combinatory Approach
Augustine Kposowa & Roy Kwon UCR, The Sociological Consequences of Political Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
James Reed, NAU: Toward ‘Powerology’: A Model for Description & Analysis of Fundamental Dynamics in Social Interaction
Matthew Colling, BYU: Charisma of the Moderns
Roundtable: Gender Issues I
organizer: Program Committee
Patti Lynne Donze, UCLA: Gender Disparities in Record Label Promotional Support
Mieko T. Failey, UCB: Gender & Stereotyping in the Personal Lives & Identity of Exotic Dancers
Glenda M. Flores, USC: Latina Teachers: Gender, Race & Inequality Regimes in Elementary Schools
Joanna Gregson & Michelle L. Ceynar, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Finding ‘Me’: Women’s Post-Divorce Identity Shifts
Roundtable: Gender issues II
organizer: Program Committee
Jonathan Westover, Univ. of Utah: The Changing Nature of Gender in the Workplace: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Gender Differences in Job Quality Characteristics & Perceived Job Satisfaction
Suleyman C. Bozkus & Adem Y. Elveren, Univ. of Utah: An Analysis of a Private Pension Scheme in Turkey: A Gender Perspective