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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

 

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 MADE ONLINL.

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 (under construction, should be live by early June) 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.

 

  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.*  The meeting occurs during Easter and Passover Week.

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.

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

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

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)

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS for the 2009 Annual Meeting.  Fifty $125 travel grants will be available for the San Diego Meeting.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR PSA AWARDS.

WELCOME TO SAN DIEGO: Information on San Diego

* The reason for the change from our normal Thursday through Sunday is that Sunday April 12th is Easter. The meeting week is also Passover.  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 $200 to $400. The PSA last met in downtown San Diego in 1997. 

 

fall election 2007 Results

Elections are conducted in October/early November

Election results 2007, elected candidates

 

President/Vice President

 

President: Michael Messner (USC)

 

Vice President: Amy Wharton (WSU-Vancouver)

 

PSA Council

 

Southern Region: Karen Pyke (UC Riverside

 

Northern Region: Michelle Inderbitzin (Oregon State)

 

Central Region: Ellen Berg (CSU Sacramento)

Graduate Student Council Position Northern Region: Kelly Fawcett (Washington State)

 

 

Committee on Committees

 

Southern Region: Faye Wachs (Cal Poly Pomona)

 

Northern Region: Peter Callero (Western Oregon)

 

Central Region: James Dean (Sonoma State)

 

Nominations Committee

 

Southern Region: Adalberto Aguirre (UC Riverside)

In additon, the proposed change to the PSA bylaws passed, allowing for electronic voting in future elections.

committees

Information related to PSA committees is broken up across several different articles. However, you can browse through all committee-related information below.

 

Contact the PSA Secretary, Virginia Mulle, if you have any questions about any of these committees.

 

• current committee membership
• committee and Council meeting times in Portland 2008
• committee reports
• volunteer to serve on a committee
• full list of all committees (each includes description, composition, chair duties and responsibilities, suggested calendar, and agenda):
  • audit committee
  • awards committee
  • committee on practice, applied & clinical
  • program committee
  • publications committee
  • committee on the status of racial & ethnic minorities
  • student affairs committee
  • nominations committee
  • committee on committees
  • committee on civil liberties & civil rights
  • committee on freedom of research & teaching
  • social conscience committee
  • contract monitoring committee
  • committee on the status of women in sociology
  • endowment committee
  • committee on the status of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons in sociology
  • membership committee
  • site selection committee
  • committee on teaching
  • committee on community colleges

2007

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

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

SESSIONS

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
summary of events
10:00 am - 7:00 pm registration
12:00 pm - 6:45 pm sessions
12:00 pm – 6:45 pm publisher exhibits
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm chairs dinner
8:15 pm-9:00 pm evening video session: sociologist at work
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm welcome and new members dessert reception

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41) This session was canceled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Committee Chairs’ Dinner B Restaurant, invitation only

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
8:15 pm – 9:00 pm

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

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

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
summary of events
7:30 am – 9:00 am SWS breakfast
8:00 am – 5:00 pm registration
8:30 am – 5:00 pm sessions
8:30 am – 5:00 pm committee meetings
8:30 am – 5:00 pm publisher exhibits
8:30 am – 9:45 am 2006-2007 council meeting
12:00 pm –1:30 pm luncheon for 2008 program committee
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm awards and presidential address
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm presidential reception

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
8:30 am – 10:00 am

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

68) This session has been canceled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm

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

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
summary of events
8:00 am – 4:30 pm registration
8:30 am – 4:00 pm publisher exhibits
8:30 am – 5:00 pm committee meetings
8:30 am – 5:00 pm sessions
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm business meeting
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm GLBT Reception
5:15 pm – 6:30 pm race, ethnicity & women reception
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm video session on custody
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm video session on pedagogy
9:30 pm – 10:30 pm student reception

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
8:30 am – 10:00 am

124A) This session was canceled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

144) This session was canceled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm

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

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