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call for papers, etc 2009 meeting

Westin Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego April 8 (Wed)--April 11 (Sat)

Theme: THE SHIFTING FOUNDATIONS OF INEQUALITY

CALL FOR PAPERS (This Page is Currently Under Construction)

 

You are encouraged to submit abstract or completed paper to be considered for inclusion in the 2009 Annual Meeting at the Westing Gaslamp Quuarter in downtown San Diego April 8-11, 2009.  Completed papers and extended abstracts may be given more consideration for acceptance than an outline or brief abstract (two or three paragraphs for example).

Deadline for submission is October 15, 2008

Please follow the procedures below.

1) Look through the List of Sessions in the Call for Papers.

2) Select the best session for your submission and submit your completed paper, extended abstract (a two to three page summary of your intended presentation), idea, proposal, or brief abstract to the session organizer listed.  All submissions must be sent online.

3) If your submission does not fit any of our listed sessions or if your submission would work best as a roundtable, please send your submission directly via email to the Program Chair, Dennis Downey at dennis.downey@cusci.edu   If you are an undergraduate student, please see the Roundtables for Undergraduates or the Poster Session for Undergraduates in the Call for Papers.

4) Fill out the Online Submission Form, which includes attaching your submission by locating it on your hard drive through brousing on your hard drive. In addition to providing detailed contact information on yourself as the author of the submission, you will also be asked to provide detailed contact information on all of your co-authors.  You will immediately receive a confirmation if your submission is successful. This confirmation indicates only that your submission was sent to the session organizer successfully; it does not mean the session organizer has accepted your submission.  If you need to contact the organizer, you may do so either by phone or email, numbers and addresses are listed in the Call for Papers.

5) Do not submit the same work to more than ONE session organizer at the same time.

6) You can submit more than one proposed presentation, but each submission must be submitted to no more than ONE organizer at a time.

7) Special Note to Undergraduate and Graduate Students. The PSA welcomes and encourages participation in our program by undergraduate and graduate students.  To best accommodate undergraduate participation, the Program Committee has organized two types of sessions: Undergraduate Roundtable Open Topic Sessions and Undergraduate Poster Sessions.  Undergraduate students can submit proposals to only these two types of sessions. Graduate students can submit their work to any listed session in the call for papers, to the Graduate Student Roundtable Session or to the Graduate Student Paper Open Topics Session.

8) If your submission is NOT accepted, the session organizer will inform you.  If your paper is not accepted, you can then send it to another session/organizer or to the Program Chair, Dennis Downey at dennis.downey@csuci.edu who may be able to find a place for your presentation in the annual program.

 

REGISTRATION FEES, MEMBERSHIP, HOTEL INFORMATION, AV EQUIPMENT REQUEST, STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS, NOMINATIONS FOR PSA AWARDS, AND INFORMAITON ON SAN DIEGO

 

Membership Dues / Registration Fees (if you are listed on the program in Portland you will need to pay membership dues and registration fees; download the Membership and Registration Form which you can mail or fax to the PSA office or you can pay membership and registration fees online (secure site))

Audio Visual Equipment Requests (be sure to inform your session organizer of any AV you will need for your presentation well in advance of the meeting; late requests will not be honored)

Hotel Information and online reservation for the Portland Marriott

Welcome to San Diego: Information on Portland 

Student Travel Awards for the 2009 Annual Meeting

Call for Nominations for 2009 Awards

2009 annual meeting

2009 Annual Meeting: April 8-11, Westin Gaslamp Quarter, downtown San Diego

The 80th annual meeting of the PSA will take place on April 8-11 2009 at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego.  Please note that the meeting in 2009 will take place starting on Wednesday April 8th and end early afternoon on Saturday April 11th.*

MEETING THEME:  THE SHIFTING FOUNDATIONS OF INEQUALITY.  The 2009 PSA Program will focus on social inequality, broadly defined, and on its causes and far-reaching consequences.  The program invites us to take stock of sociological knowledge on inequality.  It prompts us to reexamine the ways in which the study of inequality informs and motivates the subfields of our discipline.  It addresses the urgent need to understand how inequality persists, how it changes, and how it can be resisted.   How are social institutions--our families, schools, media and legal system--implicated in the perpetuation of inequality? What emerging or newly recognized forms of inequality demand the attention of sociologists?  What strategies and interventions succeed in narrowing the gaps between individuals or communities?  How do we better communicate what we know about inequality to our students, policy-makers and the general public?

CALL FOR PAPERS.  The initial Call for Papers will be available by early June.  Submissions must be made online. The deadline for submission is October 15, 2008.

HOTEL INFORMATION. The Westin Gaslamp Quarter is located steps away from Horton Plaza and the Gaslamp Quarter.  There are many nearby restaurants and bars.  Find out moor and book a room

* The reason for the change from our normal Thursday through Sunday is that Sunday April 12th is Easter.  And the reason for meeting April 8-11 is the greatly reduced sleeping room rate at the Westin. The PSA rate will be $149 single or double.  The normal rates at the Westin are from $225-285. The PSA last met in downtown San Diego in 1997.

 

student travel awards 2009

Travel Grant Awards for Students for the Annual Meeting in 2008 in Portland

With the approval of Council, the PSA Endowment Committee will once again offer up to  fifty $125 travel grants available to help pay expenses for graduate and undergraduate students who are giving a presentation at the annual meeting in Portland.

The travel grant awards will be open only to undergraduate and graduate students who are not employed full-time in an academic or non-academic institution. Students who are eligible must also be listed as a presenter or co-presenter in a conference session in the PSA Preliminary Program for San Diego. The Preliminary Program will be published in the January 2009 Newsletter. Eligible students must also be members of the PSA in 2009 and must have paid pre-registration fees for the conference.  Membership on a PSA committee does not qualify.

Procedures for Application for a Travel Grant

Students who meet the eligibility requirements above, need to send via email their name and email address to the Co-Chair of the Endowment Committee: Diedre Tyler, Salt Lake Community College. DEIDRE.TYLER@SLCC.EDU . The deadline for submission is February 27, 2009. A random-numbers table will be used to assign a number to all eligible applicants.  A random drawing will determine the recipients of the travel awards. Recipients will receive an Email confirming they have won an award no later than March 10, 2008. All recipients must pick up their $125.00 travel grant at the PSA Registration Table at the conference.  Identification will be required. 

av request information

Let your session organizer know of your AV needs for the Meeting in Portland

All presenters are responsible for informing the session organizers of the PSA Office  of their need for special AV equipment.  All meeting rooms in Portland will have a data projector for powerpoint, so no need to order those.  However, the PSA does not provide laptops or adaptors for laptops; we do however provide VGA cables.  

Please be clear about what you will need in addition to a data projector for power point.

A) Old fashioned overhead projector for transparencies

B)  DVD player with TV Monitor

C) VHS player with TV Monitor

D) CD audio player

E) Flip Chart

f) Other?

ONLY ORDER WHAT YOU WILL DEFINITELY NEED AND USE. AV equipment is extremely expensive to rent.

Late requests will not be honored!

hotel information 2009

HOTEL INFORMATION WESTIN GASLAMP QUARTER, DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO, APRIL 8-11 2009

The 2009 Annual Meeting will take place at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego at 910 Broadway Circle, 92101. [Please note there is also another Westin hotel on Broadway. Thos is the Westin San Diego on West Broadway. That Westin is NOT the site of the PSA conference. ]

At the PSA hotel, Westin Gaslamp Quarter, you are steps away from San Diego's historic and vibrant Gaslamp Quarter, featuring fine shopping, restaurants, entertainment and culture. There are overt 125 restaurants and nightclubs in the Quarter. The hotel is located just blocks from Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres baseball team. In addition, the hotel is just outside the Horton Plaza Shopping Center, which features 187 shops and a variety of restaurants.

The hotel’s 450 guest rooms have soothing color palettes and striking city and bay views. Sleeping rooms come with the Westin Heavenly Bed®, pleasant sitting area, flat-screen TV, and spa-like bath amenities.  The hotel also has an outdoor swimming pool and whirlpool, 24-hour fitness center, and Horton’s Bar and Grill and the Café San Diego.

Support the PSA by booking at the Westin. This will assure that your Association meets its sleeping room contract and will keep convention costs low, since thousands of dollars in meeting room rental will not have to be paid to the Westin. Not meeting the psa “room block” would have serious financial consequences and would most likely increase the cost of registration at future meetings.

The PSA 2009 Convention Rate is $149 single or double plus occupancy tax (12.565%). Reservations can be made online at starwoodmeeting.com/book/psa09 or by calling 1-800-937-8461 or the hotel directly at 610-619-8912.  Please ask for the psa convention rate. ALL RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY MARCH 8, 2009 in order to be eligible to receive the psa rate. However please note that the psa discounted room block could easily sell out before the March 8th deadline; if so the hotel may still have rooms both before and after this date, but at a rate-available basis.

Please Note: Upon your arrival at The Westin Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego your departure date will be confirmed. There is a $75.00 fee for departing prior to the confirmed date.

GETTING THERE

From the San Diego Airport

Airport Shuttles

Convenient shuttle transportation to the Westin Horton Plaza is available for those flying into the San Diego International Airport.

Cloud 9 Shuttle (http://www.cloud9shuttle.com/)
Phone: 1 (800) 9-SHUTTLE

Driving Directions

    * From Northeast

      Take I-15 South to 163 South. 163 will end and put you on 10th Avenue. Proceed to Broadway and turn right. Turn left on Broadway Circle. The hotel is on the right.

    * From South

      Take I-5 North and exit at J Street, which is a one-way street. Take J Street to Market Street and turn left. Proceed to First Avenue and turn right. Then turn right at E Street. The hotel is on the corner.

    * From East

      Take I-8 East to 163 South. 163 will end and put you on 10th Avenue. Proceed to Broadway and turn right. Turn left on Broadway Circle. The hotel is on the right.

    * From Northwest

      Take I-5 and exit at Front Street, which is a one-way street. Proceed to E Street and turn left. The hotel is on the right.

HOTEL PARKING
Valet Parking is available but is very expensive. Valet Parking
Valet parking service is available 24 hours a day at the front door of The Westin Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego.

Rates:

    * First hour (or fraction thereof): $8.00
    * Each additional hour: $4.00
    * Daily maximum: $36.00
    * Overnight discount for hotel guests: $29.00
PARKING NEAR THE HOTEL
There are many parking lots and parking structures near the Westin Gas Lamp Quarter that may be cheaper by the day.  To download a map of the parking lots click here (http://www.dtsd.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/parking.home)

2008 annual meeting program

2008 ANNUAL MEETING: PORTLAND OREGON APRIL 11-13

 

Theme: The Messiness of Human Social Life: Complexity, Contradiction, Tension & Ambguity

SESSIONS

THURSDAY, APRIL 10
summary of events
10:00 am - 7:00 pm registration
12:00 pm - 6:45 pm sessions
12:00 pm – 6:45 pm publisher exhibits
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm committee chairs dinner
7:30 pm -9:00 pm special evening sessions: workshop on acting against oppression & a video session on human rights in the Philippines
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm welcome and new members dessert reception

THURSDAY, APRIL 10
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

1) 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

2) 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

3) Gender & Public Policy: Progress, Stalled Revolution or Backlash? 
organizer & discussant: Judith Hennessy, Central Washington Univ.
Deborah Thorne, Ohio Univ.
Jill M Weigt, CSU San Marcos
Amy Wharton, WSU-Vancouver

4) 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

5) Graduate Student Paper Session: Mobility & Status in Education 
organizer: Melanie Jones, UC Davis
presider: Carlos Bravo, 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: An 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

6) Confucian or Confusion? The Sociology of Asian Values in Postwar NIC Development 
organizer: Eric Haruo Honda, Applied Sociologist
Eric Hauro Honda, Applied Sociologist: ‘Singapore-Sling’: 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

7) Sociology of Law 
organizer & discussant: Rebecca L. 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. TafollaYoung, Stanford Univ.: Lay Jurisprudence: Popular Understandings of Constitutional Guarantees in the Criminal Justice Context

8) Teaching By Film, in Prison & in the Microsoft Era
organizer: Program Committee
presider: Jane Prather, CSU Northridge
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

9) Complex &Ambiguous Dilemmas in Applied Research 
(sponsored by the Committee on Applied, Practice & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSULA
Brian Neil Jarrett, Salisbury Univ.: Reflexity in Practice: Toward Integral Mediation
Rick Garvey, Rand Corporation: Dilemmas in Working with Complex Populations
Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSULA: Ethical Issues & Contracted Dilemmas in Applied Research

10) Crime & Delinquency I   
organizer: David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Frank P Williams III, Barbara Belbot & Marilyn McShane, Univ. of Houston & L. Thomas Winfree, NMSU: The Criminalization of Hoarding
Sharon Kantorowski 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

11) Environmental Sociology I: Applied & Theoretical   
organizer: Anne Mottek Lucas, Northern Arizona Univ.
discussant: Kooros Mahmoudi, Northern Arizona Univ.
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

12) 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

13) Issues in Mental Health 
organizer: Sabrina Alimahomed, UCR
Karl Bryant, 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 & Shigeru Tshua, 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

THURSDAY, APRIL 10
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

14) 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

15) Raising the Status of Sociology 
organizer: Dennis Downey, CSUCI
discussant: Charles Hohm, CSUDH
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

16) Intersections: Racial, Ethnic & Sexual Identities 
(sponsored by the Committees on GLBT & Race & Ethnicity)
organizers: James Thing USC & Byron Lee, Temple Univ.
James Joseph Dean, Sonoma State Univ.: Racial Heterosexual Femininities
Tamera Ceceila Nicole Overton, UCB: African American Male Sexuality within & Outside State Prisons
James Thing, USC: Negotiating Ethnicity, Immigration & Sexuality: The Multi-Layered Identities of Gay Mexican Immigrant Men

17) Gender Resistance & Empowerment I   
organizer: Jocelyn Hollander, Univ. of Oregon
Jill A. Bakehorn, UC Davis: ‘I’m Not Not a Feminist’: 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, UNLV: Roller Derby: A Sport, Subculture, or Social Movement Community

18) 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

19) 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

20) 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 American Women
Kristy Y Shih & Karen D. Pyke, UCR: Gendered & Generational Politics in the Relations of Chinese Immigrant Mothers, Their Married Sons & Daughters-in-Law
Akiko Yasuike, Cal Lutheran: We Live in a Small Transnational Corporate Village: The ‘Chuzai’ Identity of Japanese Wives

21) Language, Semiotics & Social Discourse 
organizer & discussant: Daniel K. Cortese, UCSF
Michael J. Coyle, CSU Chico: The Language of Justice: Exposing Social & Criminal Justice Discourse
Julie A Dowling, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: ‘It’s Their Word, Not Mine’: Contemporary Constructions of Chicano/a Identity
Audrey E Devine Eller, Rutgers Univ.: Language Ideologies As Mediating Forces on Linguistic Relativity
Patti L. Donze, UCLA: Labeling Gender in Popular Culture

22) 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
Kate Luther, UCR & Joanna Gregson, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Mother & Inmate: Status Conflict in a Prison Nursery

23) 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
Ken Laundra & Ashley Vasnaik, Univ. of Portland: Illegal Dumping of Toxic Waste on Public Lands
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

24) Living & Learning: Teaching Beyond the Classroom 
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Adam Rafalovich, Pacific Univ.
Dan Morgan & Lacey Schroeder, 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

25) Counterforce to McDonaldization: Improvisation in Everyday Life 
organizer: Linda Pulliam, Humboldt State Univ.
Ali R. Chaudhary, Humboldt State Univ.: Talkin 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

26) 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

THURSDAY, APRIL 10
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

27) 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

28) Consciousness & Social Change 
organizer: Janine Minkler, NAU
Brandon Troy Olszewski, Univ. of Oregon: Inner Stillness & Intimate Activism: The Revolutionary Potential of Appalachian Music
Justin Paulson, 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

29) Presidential Session: Constructing Race in Modern Diasporas 
organizer: Sunil Kukreja, Univ. of Puget Sound
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”

30) 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

31) 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 Experienced 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

32) Presidential Session: 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

33) 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.: Live at Five: The Influence of News Media Consumption on Whites’ Feelings of Racial Resentment Toward Blacks

34) 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 Drowkin, 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

35) Minorities in Education 
organizer: Delores E. Cleary, Central Washington Univ.
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, Grossmont College & 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

36) Graduate Student Paper Session: Attitudes, Identity & Images 
organizer: Melanie Jones, UC Davis
presider: Ara A Francis, UC Davis
Rachel Lynne Bryant-Anderson, UCSC: Advertising Images & the Division of Household Labor
Alison Crossley, UCSB: 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

37) 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

38) Teaching Sociological Theory 
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Liza L. Kuecker, Western New Mexico University
Clayton D. Peoples, UNR Teaching about a Fourth ‘Big’ Theorist: Giving Simmel his Due 
Kathy A. Zawicki, St. Bonaventure Univ.: Why I Love Teaching Theory & How You Can Too!
Linda Silber, Union College The Resourceful Generalist Meets Theory
Laura Fry, NAU & Don Traut, University of Arizona: Hierarchical Beats: Using Musical Rhythm to Teach Social Stratification

39) 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

THURSDAY, APRIL 10
5:15 pm - 6:45 pm

40) 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 Earles, Lews-Clark State College: The Centrality of Labor in Community Supported Agriculture

41) 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

42) Race & Ethnicity I
(sponsored by the Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
organizer: Michael Aguilera, Univ. of Oregon
discussant: José Padin, Portland State Univ.
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

43) Social Movement Strategies I: 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

44) Marriage, Partnership & Parenting 
organizer: Kerry Woodward, UCB
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

45) 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 Chicks & Country Radio
Katrina E Kimport, UCSB: Institutions & the Visibility of Queer Identity: Analysis of Butch-Femme Marriage Photographs

46) Sociology of Tourism: Analyses of Space & Place 
organizer: Dana Collins, CSU Fullerton
Mark J Salvaggio, UNLV: Backpacker 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

47) Consumer Goods, Ideology & Knowledge 
organizer: Nikki Cole, UCSB
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 a Luxury Product
Joan Budesa, UCSB: The Cultural Consumption of Nostalgia: Exploring Yesterday’s Memories with Pierre Bourdieu

48) 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 Tarver, 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

49) Justice System Processes
organizers: Jennifer Sumner & Kristy 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

50) 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, 1800-1900

51) Difficult Dialogs in Higher Ed: How to Work with Tensions Surrounding Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, Religion & Culture 
organizer: Nelta M. Edwards, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
discussants: Deborah Evind, Jeannie LaFrance, Kelle Lawrence, Portland Community College & Libby Roderick, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage

52) Metronaturals: Gentrification in the Pacific Northwest 
organizer: Gary Kinte Perry, Seattle Univ.
discussants: Jose Padin, Portland State Univ., Nancy Raquel Mirabal, SFSU & Gary Perry, Seattle Univ.
Videos: Northeast Passage: The Inner-City & the American Dream (explores gentrification in Portland) & Boom: The Sound of Eviction (explores gentrification in San Francisco)

THURSDAY, APRIL 10
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

53) Video Session: Human Rights in the Philippines 
{This session will be followed by the Welcome Reception)
organizer: Peter Chua San Jose State Univ. & Claire Oliveros, Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

54) Workshop: Acting Against Oppression: Using Theater to Promote Tolerance 
(Note. The Welcome reception will follow this session.{
organizer: Nelta M. Edwards, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
presenter: Jeannie LaFrance, Portland Community College

THURSDAY, APRIL 10
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Welcome & New Members Reception  mt. hood
(sponsored by the Membership Committee and the Endowment Committee) [Meet President Jodi O’Brien. Dessert, coffee, soft drinks will be served. The Endowment Committee will sponsor a raffle for prizes.]

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
summary of events
7:00 am – 8:15 am SWS breakfast
8:00 am – 10:00 am ASA Breakfast for Dept Chairs (pre-registration required through the ASA)
8:00 am – 5:00 pm registration
8:30 am – 5:00 pm sessions
8:30 am – 5:00 pm committee meetings
8:30 am – 5:00 pm publisher exhibits
8:30 am – 10:00 am 2007-2008 council meeting
12:00 pm –1:30 pm luncheon for 2009 program committee
1:45 pm  - 3:15 pm SP editorial board meeting
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm awards and presidential address
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm presidential reception
7:30 pm – 8: 30 pm special evening session, Aggression Abroad & Repression at Home

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
8:30-10:00 am
55) 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
Lois A West, Florida International Univ.: Bias Issues for Qualitative Methods
Janelle Lynn Wilson, Univ. of Minnesota Duluth: Nuances of Nostalgia

56) Presidential Session: 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 Boykoff, Pacific Univ.
Patrick F Gillham, Univ. of Idaho
Tony Roshan Samara, George Mason Univ.
Nelta Edwards, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage
Kristian Williams, author of Enemies in Blue

57) 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

58) Gender & Emotions 
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Cynthia Siemsen , CSU Chico
Jocelyn Hollander, Univ. of Oregon, Transforming Emotion, Transforming Gender: Women’s Experiences of Self-Defense Training
Jennifer Lois, Western Washington Univ.: Homeschooling Mothers' Emotional Capital
Jillian Heather Deri, Simon, Fraser Univ.: Queer Polyamorous Women and the Sociology of Jealousy   
Antonia Levy, CUNY Graduate Center: Sex for Sale. An Exploration into the Management of Emotions in Prostitution

59) Service Learning & Sociological Practice 
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer, Richard Lockwood, Portland State Univ.
Lindsay Hixson, SUNY Albany: Capitalize on Community: Public Sociology, Service Learning & HIV Prevention
Sean C. Davis, New Mexico State Univ.: Sociology & Service Learning: Answering the Call of Concerned Citizens
Susan Carol Kingsbury & Susan Pitchford, Univ. of Washington: Innocents Abroad: Teaching Sociology through International Study Programs

60) Asian Families I 
organizer: Cherylynn 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

61) International Immigration 
(sponsored by the Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
organizer: Michael Aguilera, Univ. of Oregon
discussant: Jessica Vasquez, Univ. of Kansas
Lilach Lev Ari, Oranim Academic College of Education & Bar Ilan Univ.: Returning to the Homeland; Gender & Assimilation among Former Israeli Migrants
Matthew R Sanderson, Univ. of Utah: Undocumented Mexican Migration in Global Perspective
Hisako Matsuo, St. Louis Univ., Wai Hsien Cheah, SIU Edwardsville, Ajlina Karamehic-Mouratovic, Missouri Institute of Mental Health & Alma Poljarevic, St. Louis Univ.: Life Satisfaction of Bosnian refugees in St. Louis, Missouri
Amy Crevola & Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State Univ.: Caribbean Transnational Culture Being Maintained Via Internet Web Sites

62) 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

63) Sociologists without Borders: Human Rights Violations 
organizer: Douglas A Parker, CSU Long Beach
Barbara Sutton, SUNY Albany & Kari Norgaard, Whitman College: Citizens Perceptions of State Violence & Human Rights: A Comparative Study, Argentina & the United States
Louis Edgar Esparza, SUNY Stony Brook: Human Rights Law & Mobilization in Colombia, Peru & Venezuela
Geta Cojucar, Independent Scholar: Resisting Human Violations Against People with Mental Disabilities
Douglas A Parker, CSU Long Beach: Violations of Human Rights in the Workplace

64) Workshop: Pedagogy for Social Change 
organizers: Beth Ribet, UCLA, Leslie Bunnage, Univ. of Puget Sound & William Hayes, Gonzaga Univ.
Leslie Bunnage, Univ. of Puget Sound
William Hayes, Gonzaga Univ.
Rita Kohli, UCLA
Beth Ribet, UCLA
Saul Sarabia, UCLA

65) 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
Dennis Holmes, Macalester College: African American Males & Military Enlistment: A Research Note
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

66) 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
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

67) Community Change 
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
discussant: Mary Gallant, Rowan Univ.
Jeremy Flaherty, Utah State Univ. & Spencer James & Ralph B. Brown, BYU: Rural Community Satisfaction & Attachment in Mass Consumer Society
Mara Marks & James 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

68A) Sociology of Housing 
organizer: Mark Edwards, OSU
discussant: Megan Lee, OSU
Sine Anahita, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks: Water & Myth Work: Community Narratives about Alaska Water Poverty
Emily Tumpson Molina, UCSB: The District of Columbia’s Alley Dwelling Acts: Slum Reclamation & the Origins of Federal Housing Policy
Jason Lee Crockett, Univ. of Arizona: Who is a Member? Definitions of Community & Co-Housing Decision-Making
Melissa Torgerson & Mark Edwards, OSU: Perceptions or Reality? Measuring Housing Adequacy in the U.S.

68) Empirical Advances in Sexuality Research 
organizer: Kathleen Guidroz, Mt. Saint Mary’s Univ.
Sarah Ilene Strand, Univ. of Arizona: Human Papillomavirus Discourse & the Construction of Women’s Sexuality
Jorge Fontdevila, CSU Fullerton: Framing Dilemmas during Sex: HIV Risk among Mexican Gay Immigrants
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

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
10:15 am - 11:45 am

69) Asian Families II 
organizer: Cherylynn Bassani, Univ. of British Colombia & Univ. College of the Fraser Valley
Humoud Alqashan, Kuwait Univ.: Enrichment Training Programs & Successful Marriage in Kuwait: A Field Study of Kuwait Couples
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

70) 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  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’Connor, Univ. of Calgary: Who’s a Risk? A Media Analysis of Women & Terrorism

71) Sociology of Memory: New & Old Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private? II 
organizer: Noel E Packard, The New School Univ.
Ben Herzog, Yale Univ.: Collective Forgetting: Reflections on  Residual Expression
Meral Akbas, Middle East Teknik Univ.: Within and/or Beyond Prison Bars: Life History Narratives of Women as Political Prisoners
William A Hayes, Gonzaga Univ.: Cyber Memorials, Netizens & Political Change: South Korean Mnemonic Practices in the Early Twenty-First Century

72) Reconsidering the Undergraduate Capstone Course I 
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

73) Presidential Session: Farm or Pharm: Marijuana as Medicine 
[Note.  This session is Part I of a two part sequence.  Part II (96A, at noon) is a related video session, Dispensing Cannabis: The California Story.]
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
Judith Little, Humboldt State Univ.

74) Race & Ethnicity II 
(sponsored by the Committee on Race & Ethnicity)
organizer: Michael Aguilera, Univ. of Oregon
discussant: Julie Dowling, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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
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

75) Queered Masculinities 
organizer: Byron Lee, Temple Univ.
(sponsored by the Committee on GLBT)
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

76) The Contradictions of Empire: The End of the New American Century 
organizer: Martin 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

77) 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
Rebecca S. K. Li, The College of New Jersey: Globalization, Cultural Change & Population Pressure in China
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

78) 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

79) The Crossover: Hip-Hop, Commercialization & American Culture 
organizer: Michael Barnes, CSU Long Beach
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 Exportable
Andrew Ryan, George Mason Univ.: How Cultural Imperialism Has Hurt Hip-Hop Culture

80) 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. Phillips, BYU: Choice & Segregation in Salt Lake City
Elvia Ramirez, CSU Sacramento: ‘It Was a Scary Process for Me’: Chicanos/Latinos (as) Navigating through the Graduate School Application Maze

81) 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?
Matthew 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

82A) Aging & the Life Course 
organizer: Anna Muraco, Loyola Marymount Univ.
Alair MacLean & Nichols L. Parsons, WSU Vancouver: Military Transitions: Predictors & Outcomes of Military Service
Nicholas Joseph Bishop, ASU: Alzheimers & Embodiment: Dementia in Consumer Culture
Jennifer Brooke Arney, ASU: A Survival Analysis of Predictors Influencing Elders’ Entry into Nursing Care Facilities
Kristin Scherrer, Univ. of Michigan: How Has Sexuality Aged?  Content on Sexuality in Gerontological Research

82) 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

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

83) 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

84) Presidential Session: Qualitative Methodology: Negotiating Access & Relationships in the Field 
organizer: Monica McDermott, Stanford Univ.
discussant: Kathryne TafollaYoung, 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

85) Presidential Workshop: GIS For Sociologists 
[This workshop serves as an introduction to GIS & Spatial Modeling applied to sociology & related disciplines.]
organizer and presenter: Robert Nash Parker, UCR

86) Mental Health & Mental Disorder: Complexity, Contradiction & Ambiguity 
organizer: Gary Cretser, 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 Cretser, Cal Poly Pomona: Mental Disorders & Stigma: Depression versus Schizophrenia

87) 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 & Jillian Deri, Simon Fraser Univ.: Transgender Inclusion in Lesbian Softball Leagues

88) 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 Roeters, Tanja Van der Lippe & Esther Kluwer, Utrecht Univ.: Working Out Family Life. The Influence of 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

89) 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

90) 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 & Monique Ferrano, CSU Bakersfield: Is Texas Hold’em Holding Them Back?
Ariane Hanemaayer, Univ. of Waterloo & Christopher J Schneider, ASU: Technology & Interactionism

91) 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

92) 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
Fred W. Preston & Geremia Veglia, UNLV: The Education System in South Texas

93) 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’: The Structuring of New Societies in Space Based on the Principles of Mutualism & Symbiotization
Marilyn Dudley-Flores, OPS-Alaska: Conducting Sociology ‘Offworld’: Transitioning from Human Factors to the Social Sciences

94) Urban Imagery 
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
discussant: James Faught, Loyola Marymount Univ.
Fern Helfand, Univ. of British Columbia-Okanagan: From Forested Hills to Paved Plateaus
J. J. Schlichtman, Univ. of San Diego: A Dialogue of Growth
James Dickinson, Rider Univ.: Capitalist Dereliction
Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.: The Gentrification of the U Street Corridor

95) The Sociology of Work & Organizations I 
organizer: John Parker, ASU
David Peppas, New School Univ.: The Social Life of a Robot: Mimesis & Technological Alterity
Molly George, UCSB: 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

96) Creating a Standardized, Rigorous Undergraduate Sociology Curriculum
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

96A) Film Session: Dispensing Cannabis: The California Story 
[Note.  This film session is part II of a sequence.  Part 1 is a regular session (73, 10:15 am)), Farm or Pharm: Marijuana as Medicine.]
organizer & film director, Ann Alter, Humboldt State Univ.
Voices from the inside discuss the practices and issues involved in distributing medical cannabis.  Of the 12 states in 2006 that permit medical cannabis use, California is the only state that allows for distribution of the medicine.  How and where do people get their medicine?  How does one insure that their medicine is clean, safe and of sufficient quality?  Dispensing Cannabis travels to five unique medical cannabis dispensaries.  Tours of ACT UP San Francisco and the San Francisco Patients Cooperative show the variety that exists within retail model dispensaries.  Humboldt Patient Resource Center of Arcata gives us an unprecedented look at a clinic style dispensary with an in-house organic garden.  On the eastern side of the state we visit the Tehama Health Collective where caregiver Jason Browne explains their operation.  In Santa Cruz we meet Valerie and Michael Corral and the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM), a unique community of chronically and terminally ill people brought together by their shared need for cannabis.

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

Sociological Perspectives Editorial Board Meeting lower lower lobby
(C. Powers, M. Fernandez & others)

97) Presidential Session: Chicana Authors Reflect on Contributions of This Bridge Called My Back 
organizer: Mako Fitts, Seattle Univ.
discussants: Denise Segura, UCSB, Cynthia Bejarano, New Mexico State Univ. & Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Univ. of Arizona

98) 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

99) Positive Movements in Sociological Theory   
organizer: Seth Abrutyn, UCR,
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
Seth Abrutyn, UCR: A General Theory of Institutional Autonomy
Jesse B. Fletcher, UCR: Enjoying Deflection: A Call for the Inclusion of Humor in Affect Control Theory

100) Economic Inequality 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 Footholds: 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

101) 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: Racial Disparities in Medicaid Managed Care
Wei Zhang & Van M. Ta, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: Socioeconomic Status, Types of Social Support & Mental Health among Asian Americans
Ingrid Kittlaus, Univ. of Toronto: A Study of Physical Disability in the Greater Toronto Area: Independent Living or Re-Institutionalization?

102) Issues in the 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

103) Gender & Body Politics I 
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
April Dawn Cubbage-Vega, UCR: Mother May I?  Why Mother's Reinforce and Transmit Cultural Beauty Ideals to Their Daughters

104) Everyday Life as Symbolic Interaction I: The Social Ecology of Material, Technological & Media Culture 
(sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
organizer: Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads Univ.
Christopher 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

105) 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 J. 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

106) Relations Between Two & Four Year Schools I 
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?
Christine L Sylvia,  Chunyan Song & Tony Waters, CSU Chico: Challenges in Calculating Two-Year College Transfer Rates

107) 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

108) Qualitative Methodology: Web Research Methods 
organizer: Monica McDermott, Stanford Univ.
Discussant: Morgan Ames, Stanford Univ.
Cindy L. Cain, Univ. of Arizona: Are We behind the Curve? Web Research Methods in Progress
Robert Charles Di Carlo, Applied Sociologist: Going Digital: Rethinking Qualitative Data Collection for the 21st Century
Marcella C. Gemelli, ASU: Piecing Together the Puzzle: Making Sense of Qualitative Data

109) 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 Directorates & the Global City Hierarchy
J..J. Schlichtman, Univ. of San Diego: Niche City: Exploiting the Opportunities of the Global Economy

110) 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

110A) Sociology of Sport 
organizer: Program Committee
Presider: William G. McTeer, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Nicholas Bishop, ASU, Pliable Horizons of Rationality: Modern Postural Yoga & Disciplined Body
L. Tanya Robnett, CSUN:  Identity & Athletics: How Female Athletes Manage Femininity & Masculinity on & Off he Court
William G. McTeer and Phillip White, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Canadian-American Differences in the Social Background of Players Drafted to the NHL
Steven Dumas & Kevin Young, Univ. of Calgary: Speak Softly & Carry a Big Stick: Methodological Experiences in the Study of Ice Hockey Violence

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

111) 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

112) 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

113) Presidential Session: Home Girls: 25 Years Later 
(co-sponsored by the Association of Black Sociologists)
organizer: Gary Kinte Perry, Seattle Univ.
moderator:  Mako Fitts, Seattle Univ
discussants: Elaine Bell Kaplan, USC, Jacqueline Bobo, UCSC, Hillary Potter, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Flora Wilson Bridges, Seattle Univ. & BarBara Scott, Northeastern Univ.

114) Presidential 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, techniques, 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. & 2008 Recipient of the ASA Distinguished Teaching Award

115) Assignments that Work I 
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
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, College of Southern Nevada: Applied Learning & Memory Strategies for Sociology

116) 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 Noble, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa: Jollibee & Nationhood: A Philippine to McDonaldization
Kristen Shorette, UCI: Globalization & National Development: Accounting for Variation in Income & Regional Aggregates

117) 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
Earl Babbie: Chapman Univ.: Sociology: The First Science

118) 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
Nahtasha C.J. Garza-Swindle, New Mexico State Univ.: The Cultural Negotiations Mexican Immigrants Face within the United States: Acculturation vs. Assimilation
Enrico Marcelli & Pascale Joassart: SDSU: Proximity to Banks & Remittance Behavior among Brazilian & Dominican Immigrants by Legal Status

119) Workshop: Service Learning Courses Online 
(sponsored by the Committee on Applied, Practice & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Cristina 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

120) Conceptualizing Class & Inequalities 
organizers: Jeff Torlina, Utah Valley State College & Robert Hauhart, St Martin’s Univ.
Clayton 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

121) 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

122) Roundtables 

Table 1: The Graduate School Experience: Applying & Surviving 
(sponsored by the Committee on Student Affairs)
organizer: Michael Barnes, CSU Long Beach
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.
Yousef K. Baker, UCSB: Balancing Career & Interest: Overcoming the Anxieties of Thinking about Applying & Being a First Year Student
Michael Barnes, CSU Long Beach: How I Survived Or Everything You Wanted to Know about Grad School but Were Afraid to Ask

Table 2: Undergraduates: The Socialization Process 
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
Sue Anahita, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks
Jenny Rose McCracken, UCB: Love in Children’s Literature: Content Analysis & Reader Response
Emily Brooke Sterling, Univ. of Puget Sound: Social Movements in Cyberspace: Negotiating Activist Identities within Amnesty Interactional
Andrea E. Doyle, OSU: ‘Gender-R-Us’: The Socialization of Gender in Terms of Toys
Sangita Devaskar, UCB: Cultural Identity & Assimilation in the South Asian American Community

Table 3: Undergraduates: Sociology of Crime & Deviance 
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Daniel Renfrow, 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 United States Adolescents
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

Table 4: Undergraduates: 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

Table 5: Undergraduates: 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 Achievers 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
Eric Pyper, BYU Idaho: Portable Media Devices, Podcasts & Teaching

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm

Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony 

123) Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony 
presider: Dean S. Dorn, Executive Director & CSU Sacramento
Awards Presentation: Anna Leon-Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ., Chair Awards Committee; Carolyn Zook & Randy Blazak, Portland State Univ., Social Conscience Committee Award
President’s Introduction: Judith Treas, UCI
Presidential Address:  Jodi O’Brien, Seattle Univ.: Sociology as an Epistomology of Contradiction

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm

Presidential Reception  mt. hood

FRIDAY, APRIL 11
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

124) Special Session: Aggression Abroad & Repression at Home
(sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties)
organizer: Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona
Magid Shihade, UC Davis: Aggression Abroad & Repression at Home: The American-Israeli Connection & Its Impact Inside & Outside the Academy
Barbara Bowley, Woodbury Univ.: Surveillance & Unfettered Executive Power
Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona: Fighting Terror with Terror

SATURDAY, APRIL 12
summary of events
8:00 am – 4:30 pm registration
8:30 am – 4:00 pm publisher exhibits
8:30 am – 5:00 pm committee meetings
8:30 am – 5:00 pm sessions
5:15 pm - 6:15 pm presidential session honoring the work of Dorothy Smith on Institutional Ethnography
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm business meeting
6:30 -7:30 pm Dorothy Smith reception
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm committee on GLBT reception
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm committees on race, ethnicity & women reception
7:30- 9:00 pm Special Evening Video Session: Media Representation of Immigrants [wine & cheese will be served]
9:00 pm – 10:30 pm student reception

SATURDAY, APRIL 12
8:30 am – 10:00 am

125) Presidential Workshop: Applying for Jobs in Academia 
organizers: Katie Hadley & Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
Katie Hadley & Todd Migliaccio, CSU Sacramento
Karen Pyke, UCR
Anna Leon Guerrero, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Sally Raskoff, La Valley College

126) Economic Inequality 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’

127) What is the Status of Women Today? 
(sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women)
organizer: Camilla Sears, SFU
presider: Teresa Ciabattari, Pacific Lutheran Univ.
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

128) 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

129) Issues in Crime & Corrections 
organizer: Program Committee
presider: Boshiu Wu, CSU Sacramento
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

130) 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
Scott Frickel, WSU & Christopher Lane, Tulane Univ.: 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

131) Immigrant Health 
(sponsored by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
organizer: Cherylynn 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

132) Sociology on Southeast Asian Societies I: Economy, Culture & Social Transformations 
organizer: Peter Chua, San Jose State Univ.
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 & Goncalo D. Santos, London School of Economics: “Rice Intimacies”: Comparative Reflections of Kinship in Rural Southeast Asia (Upland Sulawesi) & South China (Northern Guangdong)
Kimberley Hoang, UCB: What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Intimate Relations in Ho Chi Minh City’s Sex Industry

133) 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
Michelle M Camacho, Univ. of San Diego: Bearing Children on the Tenure Track: Survival Strategies from the Trenches
Cindy A Stearns, Sonoma State Univ.: Mothering & the Work of Breastfeeding

134) 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 via 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

135) Group Processes I: Status Processes & Implications 
organizer: David Schaefer, 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

136) Political Sociology 
organizer: Alan Emery, CSU Fullerton
Amada 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

137) Assignments that Work II 
(sponsored by the Committee on Teaching)
organizer: Richelle Swan, 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, Palomar College: Abortion: Helping Students Find Middle Ground on a Controversial Topic
William Wasson, CSULA: Sociology of Gender Roles

138) Undergraduate Session: 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

139) Roundtables 

Table 1: Social & Symbolic Capital
organizer: Peter Callero, Western Oregon Univ.
Ammon Franklin, BYU: A Typology of Social Capital Definitions
Katrina E Kimport, UCSB: Marriage as Symbolic Capital

Table 2: Undergraduates: 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

Table 3: Undergraduates: 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

Table 4: Undergraduates: Community Imagery 
(sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta)
organizer: Mark Hutter, Rowan Univ.
presider: Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State 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

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140) The Complexity of Sexual Identities 
organizer: Karen Pyke, UCR
presider & discussant: Rebecca Klatch, UCSD
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-Constitutive Relationship between Racial & Sexual Identities
Kristin Scherrer, Univ. of Michigan: How Asexuality Complicates Our Understandings of Sexual Identity

141) Presidential Workshop: Getting Published: Meet the Editors 
organizers: Marilyn Fernandez & Charles Powers, Santa Clara Univ.,
Amy Wharton, Editor & Associate Editors, Clayton Mosher & Nella Van Dyke: WSU, Social Problems
Don Barrett, CSU San Marcos & Richard Serpe, Kent State Univ.:  Past Editors, Sociological Perspectives
Marilyn Fernandez & Charles Powers, Santa Clara Univ.: New Editors, Social Perspectives

142) 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

143) 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

144)  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, Nicholas Petersen, Mable Lam & Chrystelle Browman, 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

145) Graduate Student Paper Session: Making Boundaries, Place & Policies 
organizer: Melanie Jones, UC Davis
presider: 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, UCSF: Sense of Belonging & the Meaning of Home for Older Adults: Developing a Sociology of Place

146) Group Processes II: Solidarity, Stereotypes & Self 
organizer: David Schaefer, 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?

147) 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

148) 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

149) Solutions to Poverty in Today’s Economy: An Examination of  Bootstrap Dreams: US Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform by Nancy Jurik 
organizer: Cynthia Siemsen, CSU Chico
Critics: Dean Braa, Western Oregon Univ.
Marlese Durr, Wright State Univ.
Clare Weber, CSUDH

150)  Session Canceled

151) Moral Complexities &Ambiguities: Lessons from Ethnographers 
organizer: Rosemary Powers, Eastern Oregon Univ. & Rebecca Allahyari, School for Advanced Research
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’

152) Politics & Ecology 
organizer: Yvonne Braun, Univ. of Oregon
Veronica Dujon, Portland State Univ.: In the Absence of Affluence: The Struggle for Sustainability in the Third World
Connie L Engel, ASU: Contested Terrain: The Environmental Debate in Breast Cancer Science & Policy
Erik Solevad Nielsen, UCSB: The Carrying Capacity of the Commons in Darfur

153) Gender & Work 
organizer: Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Reed College
discussant: Yan Li, Stanford Univ.
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?

154) Roundtables 

Table 1: Undergraduates: Inequalities of Class, Race, Ethnicity & Gender 
organizer: Virginia Mulle, Univ. of Alaska Southeast
presider: Sunil Kukreja, Univ. of Puget Sound
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