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On the Sociology of Sport by Letisha Brown

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The study of sport within sociology opens up new avenues for investigating several
things within the social world. Through sport scholarship, there is room for critical
examinations of sexuality, race, gender, class, age, health and more. For instance, Dr.
Ben Carrington’s Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora, offers a
detailed look into the creation of one of the most longstanding tropes of blackness—the
black athlete. Drawing upon scholars such as Fanon, and Hall, Carrington’s work offers
new insight to the ways in which the field of sport has been used to create, as well as
maintain conceptions of racial identity. Carrington’s work is an asset not only to sports
literature, but also within the context of cultural, diaspora and post/colonial studies as
well.

The study of sport also offers new ways to think about representation, specifically
as it pertains to masculine and feminine identities. The realm of sport is one stage in
which western ideals of the masculine and feminine are (re)produced. The history of the
Olympic Games for instance offers up several examples of the ways ideas of sex/gender
in western culture has been rendered within the context of heteronormativity. Early forms of “gender verification” within the games called for female athletes to undergo a visual examination given by a panel of gynecologists as a means of verifying that only “true” women were involved in the competition (Vannini & Fornssler, 2011). Though there had been incidences of men infiltrating female competitions, such practices became a spring board for determining means of sex/gender not only within sport but within the context of society at larger. To put it another way, the measuring stick of femininity and masculinity during these practices was based upon physical characteristics as the “true markers” of sex/gender.

It is important to look at the history of sport with a critical eye in order to fully examine
the ways in which such practices have been (re)produced within the context of the post/
colonial. Out of these naked parades grew, not only the “gender verification” of today—
chromosomal testing, etc.—but also drug testing within sport. Both drug and sex/gender
testing exist as a means of weeding out athletes who were “unnatural.” Studying sport
within the context of sociology offers scholars and researchers the ability to critically
examine contemporary notions of race, sex/gender, class, age and more.

There are a multitude of questions that still exist within sports sociology; questions that
can be answered via various theoretical frames. For those interested in studies of culture,
media studies, the body and embodiment, health, politics, and more the sociology of sport can offer you an entry point into your deepest area of interest. Jump into discourse.

References

Carrington, B. (2010). Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora. London: Sage.

Vannini, A. & Fornssler, B. (2011). “Girl, Interrupted: Interpreting Semenya’s Body, Gender Verification Testing, and Public Discourse.” Cultural Studies and Critical Methodologies, 11 (3) 243-257.

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Letisha Brown is PhD student in the Department of Sociology at UT-Austin. She is the 2011 winner of the Barbara A. Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award awarded by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. She received this honor for her paper, “The Spectacle of Blackness: Race, Representation and the Black Female Athlete.”

 

Austin, Gender and Sexuality, Political Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Gender, University of Texas at Austin Sociology

Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines call for submissions

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Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines has just published its ninth issue. Earlier this month, four current editorial staff members, Amy Lodge, Michelle Mott, Vivian Shaw, and Maggie Tate, hosted a round table discussion about working on an interdisciplinary journal. At the round table, the editors discussed the process for crafting an interdisciplinary call for papers, the procedure for producing the journal from the call for papers to the publication, and the move from a print journal to a web-based journal.

Intersections was founded in 2002 by graduate students in the English Department and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Over the last several years, a number of Sociology graduate students have served as editorial staff members, contributors, and peer-reviewers. The current staff also consists of graduate students from the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, Radio-Television-Film, American Studies, and African and African Diaspora Studies. As Amy, Michelle, Vivian, and Maggie walked us through the CFP for Issue 9: Gender and Social Justice and for the current CFP for Issue 10: Media(ting) Genders and Sexualities: Identity, Representation, and Politics in Media, they discussed how the editorial board works to find language that is broad enough to attract a wide array of submissions, but is specific enough to articulate a general theme. Choosing key terms that both reflect the editorial board’s interests and speak across many disciplines (recognizing that certain terms take on different meanings within various scholarly fields) is very challenging.

The current issue and last two issues are available in print copy (at no cost). You can obtain a copy by emailing: intersections.journal@gmail.com. In addition, the current issue is available to view online at: http://intersections.utexas.org. The Intersections Editorial Board are accepting submissions for article abstracts, book reviews, and creative submissions until December 1, 2011. See Call for Papers below for details:

CFP: Media(ting) Genders and Sexualities: Identity, Representation, and Politics in Media
Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines is an interdisciplinary graduate student publication welcoming work from current graduate students. We are committed to the interdisciplinary research of women’s and gender issues and are affiliated with the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

The journal encourages scholars in all fields to contribute scholarly essays, book reviews, and creative writing relating to this issue’s theme, Media(ting) Genders and Sexualities: Identity, Representation, and Politics in Media. We expect that this theme will inspire submissions that put gender and sexuality in conversation with intersecting identities of race, economic class, disability, nationality, and indigeneity, and encourage submissions on all forms of media.
Submissions might address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

● Representations of gender, sexuality, and race
● Property, authorship, and expression in local and transnational contexts
● Queering media
● Space and the body in media
● Social media and popular culture

The deadline for 200 – 300 word abstracts is December 1, 2011. We use a digital Open Journal System for submissions. To submit your abstract, please make an account on our website: intersections.utexas.org. You will be able to track your submission through your account. Questions should be sent to editors at intersections.journal@gmail.com
Completed papers and artwork are due by February 1, 2012. All submissions should include the author’s name, institution and department, contact information, title of submission, and word count. Scholarly essays and creative writing should be less than 5000 words.  For book reviews, please email intersections.journal@gmail.com for a list of possible titles. Book reviews should be between 750 –1250 words and include publication information about books reviewed.

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Addenda errata, or, Toward a sociology without society

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In ‘What’s in an Error? A Lévy Walk from Astronomy to the Social Sciences’ Isaac talked about how it was really error, or more precisely, the idea and observation that errors in natural scientific experiments and measurements seem to exhibit certain repeatable properties, or laws, that formed the foundation of the study of probability and statistics. Only against a background of noise, variance and aberrations was a concept of normal (eg average man), as well as the idea of truth as non-error, able to emerge and take shape. Versions of these concepts remain central to the social sciences from the 18th century to this day.

Alex Weinreb brought up the point that the rise of statistics and its incorporation into social studies were coeval with the relative geographic immobility of people in the 18th century. What struck me was how much statistical sociology is tied to criminology since its inception. Adolphe Quetelet, the founder of statistical sociology, was a criminologist and used his method primarily to study crime causation. Even the Lévy walk was a mathematical concept, I believe, first developed out of practical application to track down prison escapees within certain calculated perimeters. Given its strong ties to Staatswissenschaft, the emergence of social statistics seems to go hand in hand with that of governance and social control, policy and police–hence the centrality of the normal-pathological distinction.

Nonetheless, the historical contingency of something doesn’t necessarily invalidate its internal consistency. Statistics does describe something, and presents reality, at least in part, in certain ways. Amanda’s presentation outlined some of these principles or consistencies and addressed the utilities and limitations, risks and yields, of a number of statistical models (eg instrumental variables). Alex pointed out that current multilevel nonlinear social statistical models even seem to vindicate many previous, non-statistics-based sociological observations. The underlying assumption in the debate on merits of statistics-based sociology versus those of non-statistics-based sociology is interesting, in that proponents typically put forth that what can’t be empirically verified can’t be included as true, while opponents counter what’s true often lies beyond empirical verification itself. The positions perhaps are not so contradictory as they seem, for there is a supposition common to both, and that is, large-scale phenomena are necessarily somehow more complex than small-scale phenomena (if the distinction of large and small even holds). Here, the statistician’s or (for the lack of a better term) ‘positive sociologist’s’ role becomes merely one of delimitation, whereas that of the ‘critical sociologist’ becomes one of extension of epistemic scope. Expansion and edification are not mutually exclusive.

Perhaps it is this very assumption that needs questioning. Is it really easier to predict the motion of a cell or atom than it is to predict how someone or group will behave? Physics has shown us that the opposite can actually be the case. Large-scale phenomena, as such, are to a far extent stable and relatively easily predictable; it’s when we get down to the micro- and nano-levels of reality that laws collapse and things become very uncertain. Light may be both particle and wave, and yet this keyboard on which I’m typing, I’m fairly certain, won’t suddenly turn into a dove and fly away.

Sociologist Jean Baudrillard once said that knowledge is a high-definition screen onto which the low-definition image that is reality is projected. What may this mean for the sociological apparatus? How may the relation between theory and evidence, knowledge and object, itself be re-conceived within the field? Amidst such questions, Isaac’s and Amanda’s talks remind us of a level of reflexivity that is both essential and useful to the practice and imagination of sociology.

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Durkheim’s Anomie in the Modern Era: A Discussion on Greece and the Occupy Wall Street Movement

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This week, American Public Media’s Marketplace featured a story on the growing debt crisis in Greece. The radio interview of BBC’s Paul Mason piqued my curiosity when the discussion briefly turned to Émile Durkheim’s concept of anomie.

What are your thoughts? Share your comments below, and feel free to use the following questions as guidelines:

  • What kind of comparisons can we draw between the sentiments in Greece and the developing Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States?
  • What other theoretical frameworks could be applied to the growing disillusionment in Greece? In the U.S.?
  • What implications might the situation in Greece have for the European Union?
[Edit: The Occupy Wall Street movement has now expanded to Austin. Read about today’s protest here.] 
Austin, Globalization and Development, Latin American Studies, Political Sociology, Sociological Theory, University of Texas at Austin Sociology, Work, Occupations and Organizations

2011-12 Brownbag Series off to a fine start

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On Monday, October 3, 2011 Marcos Perez, Pamela Neumann and Katie Sobering discussed their summer field research in Argentina and Peru. Thanks to faculty and students who engaged the panelists in a lively conversation, prompting the expansion of brownbag format to allow for an hour or more of discussion after presentations. Read more

Vivian Shaw, Christine Wheatley and Ori Swed discussed their summer fieldwork in Japan, Mexico and Israel yesterday at a brownbag luncheon, initiating our Graduate Student Panel and Presentation series for Fall 2011 Read more

Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Sociological Theory

“The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference,” an invited lecture by Dr. Roderick Ferguson

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Roderick Ferguson – “The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference”
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. in SAC 1.118
Reception will follow the conclusion of the lecture.

In this talk, Dr. Ferguson critiques the production of normativity as modern institutions incorporate racialized, gendered, and sexualized differences. By centering gender and sexuality, his work offers a framework for analyzing racial formations as heterogenous and anti-essentialist.

Roderick Ferguson is Associate Professor and Department Chair of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the co-editor of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization and author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique.

*Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of English, the Department of American Studies, the Center for Women and Gender Studies, and the John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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We are so excited to welcome Dr. Roderick Ferguson for his talk, “The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference” on Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3PM in SAC 1.118. This interdisciplinary event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of English, the Department of American Studies, the Center for Women and Gender Studies, and the John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Sociology Race and Ethnicity Group will also host Dr. Ferguson at its October meeting the following day to engage a discussion of select chapters from his new work, Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization, co-edited with Grace Kyungwon Hong.

Check out more about this event on Facebook.

Sociological Theory

Sociology for whom? For what?

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Back in 2004, then-president of the American Sociological Association Michael Burawoy sparked intense debate with his call for a renewed public sociology. In his introduction to the Italian translation (Sociologica 2007) of his published remarks to the ASA conference (“For Public Sociology”), he notes that in other parts of the world (he cites South Africa but this is also historically true in Latin America) that the common division made in the U.S. between “professional,” “policy,” “critical” and “public sociology” is often blurred or even non-existent.  In an increasingly globalized world, does it make it sense to approach the sociological discipline (and “division of labor”) from a more international perspective, as Burawoy suggests? Furthermore, is the role of our academic labor to “defend…human society from market tyranny and state despotism” (Burawoy 2007: 12) or, should we be content with more modest aims–the production of reliable data, for example (see Tittle 2004)?

These are some of the complex questions that–like so many scholars before us–my peers and I are grappling with as the fall semester begins. I suspect the answers will defy discovery, but in the meantime, this is a conversation that is worth continuing.


	

	
	




	
	

				

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Stratification and the Multiplicity of Sociologies

		

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Isaac Sasson


Introductory courses on stratification, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, typically include a discussion of the classic correspondence between Kingsley Davis & Wilbert Moore and Melvin Tumin that took place over the pages of ASR between 1945 and 1953. I was originally exposed to this theoretical debate, which may well be one of the most famous in the history of sociology, in an Introduction to Sociology class during my freshman year in college. I distinctly remember the underlying subtext demarcating Tumin’s conflictual arguments as superior to the functionalist approach of his contemporary peers. Structural-functionalism was dead to us before we even realized what it was.


Several years later I came across the same correspondence during a graduate seminar on stratification here at UT. The second time was only slightly different, as this time I read not only the two original articles but also Davis’ response to Tumin. This happened by pure coincidence – unintended by me or the professor who taught the seminar – as Davis’ response simply followed Tumin’s seminal paper in the very same issue of ASR. Intrigued by the continuing correspondence I went on reading the extra few pages, only a couple of mouse clicks away on JSTOR.


In any case, the slight difference of reading the response to the response transformed it, at least for me, from an almost “evolutionary” sequence of theories to a living, breathing, and contested correspondence. I have to admit, I found Davis’ response to be quite dull – except for one major argument. According to Davis, the disagreement with Tumin stems from a misinterpretation (or an alternative definition) of the concept of stratification. While Davis & Moore’s original article focuses on the question of stratification of social positions, Tumin’s article focuses on the stratification of individuals in society. Read More

	

	
	




	
	

				

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Monday ASA Events

		

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Monday, August 22th UT SOC presentations:


Adut, Ari – Thematic Session: Scandal Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm

Session Organizer – Presenter on individual submission: Scandal and the Public Sphere


Bhatt, Wasudha

Table 06. Roundtables: Immigrants from a Race, Gender, and Class Perspective

Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Section on Race, Gender, and Class

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm

Presenter on individual submission: Racist Medicine: Indian physicians’ experiences with racism, and sexism in U.S. medical workplaces


Julie Beicken

Table 03. Impacts and Outcomes

Unit: Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 11:30am

Presenter: “The Impact of Eugenics on U.S. Coercive Sterilization Legislation in the Early 20th Century”


Blanchard, Sarah

Table 08. International and Comparative Perspectives on Educational Outcomes

Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtables.

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Presenter: “Scholars without Borders: The Graduate School Trajectories of International Students at a Major Research University”


Brown, Letisha

Table 05. Democracy and Social Organization

Unit / Sub Unit: Theory Section / Section on Theory Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 9:30am

Presenter: “The Black Panther Party for Self Defense: A Marxist, Maoist, Black Nationalist Organization”


Charrad, Mounira Maya

Section on Comparative/Historical Sociology Paper Session. Islam and the Modern World

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Presenter on individual submission: “Patrimonial Politics: Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq”


Crosnoe, Robert

Section on Sociology of Education Council and Business Meeting

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm

Session Submission Role: Participant


Cuvi, Jacinto

Regular Session. Historical Sociology/Processes II: States, Societies, & Symbolic Power

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Presenter: “Blowing the institutional gridlock: informal institutions and symbolic action in the reform of Sunat”


Danielle Dirks (PhD 2011, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Occidental College)

Student Forum Workshop. Different Types of Publication Opportunities for Students

Unit: Student Forum Sessions

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm

Session Submission Role: Panelist


Ha, Hyun Jeong, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Paper Session.

Open Topic on Collective Behavior and Social Movements.

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Presenter on individual submission: “Islamic Feminism, A New Paradigm to Crack out Patriarchy in Egypt”


Paul Stanley Kasun

Table 10. Public Opinion on Immigration

Unit: Section on International Migration Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 11:30am

Presenter: “Immigration Perspectives Structured Racism and Religion; Attitudes of Welcoming, Economic Threat, Illegal Immigration Toward Immigrants”


Lodge, Amy 

Section on Aging and the Life Course Paper Session. Age and Sociological Imagination: Individual and Micro-level Dynamics

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Presenter: “Age and Embodied Masculinities: Mid-Life Gay and Heterosexual Men Talk about their Bodies”


McFarland, Michael

Table 23. Religion and Health

Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Presenter: “Does a Cancer Diagnosis Influence Religiosity? Integrating a Life Course Perspective”


Mueller, Anna Strassmann

Table 08. International and Comparative Perspectives on Educational Outcomes

Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable.

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Non-Presenter: “Scholars without Borders: The Graduate School Trajectories of International Students at a Major Research University”

Table 18. Friends and Peer Networks in Schools

Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable.

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Non-Presenter: “Adolescent Society and the Social Dynamics of Friendship Formation in American High Schools”



Muller, Chandra

Section on Sociology of Education Council and Business Meeting

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm

Session Submission Role: Chair

Section on Sociology of Education Paper Session. Transitions, Adjustment, and Mobility in Educational Attainment

Unit: Open Topic on Sociology of Education (4 Sessions).

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Non-Presenter: ” The Shape of the River from Middle through High School: Race, Gender, and Grade Trajectories”

Table 07. Academic and Social Determinants of College Attainment

Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable – Presider

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Table 08. International and Comparative Perspectives on Educational Outcomes

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Non-Presenter: “Scholars without Borders: The Graduate School Trajectories of International Students at a Major Research University”

Table 18. Friends and Peer Networks in Schools

Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable.

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Non-Presenter: “Adolescent Society and the Social Dynamics of Friendship Formation in American High Schools”


Pattison, Evangeleen

Table 02. Classical Theory and Contemporary Sociology

Unit: Section on Theory Roundtables

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 9:30am

Presenter: “Education and Stratification: The Role of Class and Status in Structuring Educational Opportunities”

Table 20. Extracurricular Influences on Equity in Academic Outcomes

Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable.

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Presenter: “The Role of Sports Participation on Advanced Math Course-taking for Black and White Males”


Pudrovska, Tetyana

Table 16. Mental Health

Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Non-Presenter on individual submission: “Spousal Mental Health Concordance”

Table 23. Religion and Health

Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Non-Presenter: “Does a Cancer Diagnosis Influence Religiosity? Integrating a Life Course Perspective”


Reid, Megan

Table 09. Race, Gender, Class & Policy

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm Roundtable

Presenter on individual submission: “Deservingness” and Waiting for Help After Hurricane Katrina”


Rodriguez, Nestor P.

Table 06. Immigrants from a Race, Gender, and Class Perspective – Roundtables

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm

Presenter: “Racist Medicine: Indian physicians’ experiences with racism, and sexism in U.S. medical workplaces”


Ryan, Tricia

Table 03. Comparative Health Policy

Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Presenter: “Unintended Consequences to Health Reform: Patient Responses to Family Medicine and Village Health Committees in Kyrgyzstan”


Sakamoto, Arthur 

C. Table 03. Migration

Unit: Open Refereed Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Non-Presenter: “Revisiting Malthus for Developed Nations? Non-Poor Population Growth as a Population Characteristic”



Sasson, Isaac

C. Table 03. Migration (3)

Unit: Open Refereed Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Presenter: “Revisiting Malthus for Developed Nations? Non-Poor Population Growth as a Population” Characteristic



Shafeek Amin, Neveen Fawzy

Table 03. Immigrant Education

Section on International Migration Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 11:30am

Presenter: “Religiosity and Academic Achievement among Immigrant Adolescents in the U.S”


Shifrer, Dara

Section on Sociology of Religion Paper Session. Religious Movements and Institutions

Unit:Religious Movements and Institutions.

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Presenter: “Education and Religion: Compromises toward the Preservation of a Separatist Community”


Sutton, April M

Section on Sociology of Education Paper Session. Transitions, Adjustment, and Mobility in Educational Attainment

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Presenter: “The Shape of the River from Middle through High School: Race, Gender, and Grade Trajectories”

Table 22. Exploring the Influence of Cultural Capital Across Diverse Settings

Unit: Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Session Submission Role: Table Presider


Thomeer, Mieke

Table 16. Mental Health

Unit: Section on Medical Sociology Refereed Roundtables

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm

Presenter on individual submission: “Spousal Mental Health Concordance”


Umberson, Deb

Section on Aging and the Life Course Paper Session. Age and Sociological Imagination: Individual and Micro-level Dynamics

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Non-Presenter: “Age and Embodied Masculinities: Mid-Life Gay and Heterosexual Men Talk about their Bodies”


Wheatley, M. Christine

Table 06. Legal Status and Deportation

Unit: Section on International Migration Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 11:30am

Presenter: “Push Back: U.S. Immigration Policy, Deportations, and the Reincorporation of Involuntary Return Migrants in Mexico”


Williams, Christine L.

Special Session. Postindustrial Culture and the Flexible Self: Beyond the Cubicle

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Session Submission Role: Discussant


Young, Michael

Thematic Session. Scandal

Scheduled Time: Mon, Aug 22 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm

Session Submission Role: Discussant

	

	
	




	
	

				

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Department Alumni Night from 9:30 -11:30 in the Augustus I & II, Emperor’s level of Caesar’s Palace


Saturday, August 20th UT SOC presentations:


Brown, Dustin C

Regular Session. Health Issues in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Presenter on individual submission: “Same-Sex Cohabitation and Self-Rated Health”


Charrad, Mounira Maya

Regular Session. Middle East and Muslim Societies

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Non-Presenter: “The Moroccan Gentle Revolution: Women’s Activism and 2004 Reforms of Islamic Law”

Section on Comparative/Historical Sociology Paper Session. Islam and the Modern World


Chen, Wenhong

Table 19. The Impact of Modern Technology – Refereed Roundtables.

Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Community and Urban Sociology

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Presenter: “The Social Capital Effects: Embedded Resources, Tie Strength, and the Digital Divides”


Ebot, Jane Ofundem

Table 02. Causes and Consequences of Health for Children

Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Population Refereed Roundtable.

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Presenter: “There’s No Place Like Home: Urban-rural Differentials in Nutritional Status among Children in Ethiopia”


Frederick, Angela

Regular Session. Narrative, Biography, and Culture

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Presenter: “Bringing Narrative In: Storytelling, Political Ambition, and Womens’ Paths to Public Office”


Henderson, Andrea

Regular Session. Religion

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Presenter: “Race-based Discrimination, Religious Involvement and Mental Health among Black Americans”


Hopkins, Kristine

Regular Session. Immigrant Communities/Families II: Family Dynamics and Parenting

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm

Non-Presenter: “Acculturation and Parent-Teen Communication about Sex among Mexican-origin Families”


Lariscy, Joseph Tyler

Regular Session. Immigrant Communities/Families II: Family Dynamics and Parenting

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm

Presenter: “Acculturation and Parent-Teen Communication about Sex among Mexican-origin Families”


Masters, Ryan Kelly

Table 03. Theory and Political Ideology

Unit: Student Forum Session

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Session Submission Role: Table Presider


Paxton, Pamela

Table 12. Gender and Politics

Unit: Section on Political Sociology Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Non-Presenter: “Criminal Violence, Political Resources, and Women’s Political Victories”

Table 13. Civil Discourse and Civic Engagement

Unit: Section on Political Sociology Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Presenter: “Checkbooks in the Heartland: Change Over Time in Voluntary Association Membership”


Reczek, Corinne E.

Regular Session. Health Issues in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Presenter: Same-Sex Cohabitation and Self-Rated Health

Section on Medical Sociology Paper Session. Mechanisms of Health: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

Scheduled Time: Tue, Aug 23 – 12:30pm – 2:10pm

Presenter: “The Promotion of Unhealthy Habits in Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Intimate Partnerships”


Shifrer, Dara

Regular Session. Disability and Social Life

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Presenter: “Social Influences on the Attitudes and Behaviors of High School Students Identified with LD”

Section on Sociology of Education Paper Session. Exploring Racial-Ethnic Inequalities from Kindergarten to College


Shaw, Vivian

Table 02. Gender and Culture

Unit: Student Forum Sessions

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 10:30am – 12:10pm

Session Submission Role: Table Presider


Stephan, Rita

Regular Session. Middle East and Muslim Societies

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 8:30am – 10:10am

Presenter : “The Moroccan Gentle Revolution:Women’s Activism and 2004 Reforms of Islamic Law”


Stroud, Angela R.

Table 05. Gender and Violence

Unit: Section on Sex and Gender Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Presenter on individual submission: “Gender, Violence and Concealed Handgun Licensing”


Young, Michael

Regular Session. Religion II

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm

Presenter: “Rebellion and Breakthrough: Evangelical Disruptions, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Values”


Zarrugh, Amina

Table 05. Gender and Violence

Unit: Section on Sex and Gender Roundtable

Scheduled Time: Sat, Aug 20 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Presenter: “Revenge of the Virtuous Women”: Framing of Gender and Violence in Palestinian Militant Organizations”