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Sexualities in the Modern World? @UTAustinSOC says yes, in a big way. While our faculty, graduate students and alumni always represent at ASA, Longhorns will steer this year’s sexualities’ conversation in many directions. In glancing over the schedule, I found 82 presentations and table sessions and I’m sure there are more. I include a few of our graduate student presenters below.

Anima Adjepong
“I Want Ghana to Continue to Live in the United States”: Cultural Identity among Second generation Ghanaian immigrants

Claims about the absence of transnational activities among second-generation immigrants do not often consider how racialization shapes these processes. This paper examines the extent to which the U.S.-born children of Ghanaian immigrants participate in a “transnational social field” (Glick-Schiller 2005; Levitt and Glick-Schiller 2004) where they simultaneously engage in Ghanaian life and culture, while fully immersed in American life. Ethnographic investigation of an organization that comprises 1.5- (foreign-born immigrants who moved to the United States prior to or during adolescence and attended school here) and second-generation Ghanaians in Houston, Texas leads me to ask why a group of ostensibly American youth would so strongly identify as Ghanaians. This ethnography examines the ways in which identifying with Ghana and as Ghanaians helps these mostly U.S.-raised youth make sense of their difference as racialized Americans and foreign Ghanaians.

Shantel Gabrieal Buggs
‘Your Momma Is Day-Glow White’: Questioning The Politics Of Racial Identity, Loyalty, And Obligation

This article utilizes discourse analysis and an autoethnographic approach to explore the impact of U.S. racial and ethnic categorization on the experiences of an individual marked as ‘mixed-race’ in terms of individual identity and familial/cultural group loyalty and obligation(s). This essay focuses on an incidence of public policing through the popular social networking platform Facebook, centering on the invocation of racial obligation by white friends and family members. I analyze how racial loyalty is articulated by friends and family members in their posts on my personal Facebook page and how this ‘loyalty’ is used as means of regulating my mixed-race identity performance. This essay aims to understand several things, namely how identity is mediated through the invocation of racial obligation and how tension around identity plays out in the multiracial family.

Caity Collins
Work-Family Policies And Working Mothers: A Comparative Study Of Germany, Sweden, Italy, And The United States

Despite women’s common struggles to balance motherhood and employment, western countries have responded with drastically different work-family policies. Drawing on 100 in-depth interviews and field observation with middle-income working mothers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the United States, I examine how different ideals of gender, motherhood, and employment are reflected in and reinforced by the work-family policy regimes of these four countries. Given these different policy regimes, I investigate how working mothers negotiate the constraints and opportunities facing them daily as they balance motherhood and employment. Depending on a country’s level of policy support for women’s employment and caregiving, I observed variation in (1) how closely mothers identify with their policy regime’s ideal of motherhood and the “ideal worker,” and (2) the extent to which they experience guilt and tension about their identities as a mother and a worker. This is the first comparative study to incorporate mothers’ voices into the scholarly debates about the relationship between gender inequality and work-family policy around the world. Understanding women’s perspectives about what works – and what hinders – their achievement of work-family balance should be central to any scholarly endeavor to craft, advocate for, and implement work-family policy as a force for social change.

Elizabeth Cozzolino and Christine L. Williams
Child Support Queens and Disappointing Dads: Gender and Child Support Compliance

Despite increased spending on child support enforcement in the U.S. over the past 30 years, child support collections remain around 40%. Existing literature focuses on three main explanations for this low compliance: poor enforcement, inability to pay, and unwillingness to pay. These explanations either neglect gender or rely on outdated assumptions about gender. Our analysis of in-depth interviews with 21 members of separated families reveals two controlling images of separated parenthood—the child support queen and the disappointing dad—that may help explain the underpayment of child support. In a reversal of traditional parenting roles, we find that separated mothers are now evaluated on their ability to financially provide for their children while separated fathers are evaluated on the time and care that they provide. We argue that these changing expectations of fatherhood and motherhood may contribute to men’s unwillingness to pay child support and women’s reluctance to demand compliance.

Rachel Donnelly
Intergenerational Changes and Health: the Effects of Downward Educational Mobility

A clear majority of high school graduates in the United States decide to enroll in college. In addition to many economic benefits, higher levels of education create opportunities for better health. Social stratification by education creates inequalities in education and health that are socially reproduced within families. Given the context of educational expansion in the United States, this study used data from the General Social Survey to explore the detriments to self-rated health when adult children receive less education than their parents and how these detriments differ by sex and race/ethnicity. Binomial logistic regression models of self-rated health indicated that an individual completing less years of education than his/her mother (downward intergenerational educational mobility) increases the likelihood of reporting fair or poor health. In an era where an increasing number of Americans are completing higher levels of education, these findings illustrate the detrimental effects on health for those who are left behind.

Marc Garcia
Prevalence and Trends in Morbidity and Disability among Mexican American Elders in the Southwestern United States, 1993-2011

The aim of this study was to examine trends in morbidity and disability among elderly Mexican Americans residing in the southwestern United States. Seventeen-year panel data from the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly were used to make detailed comparisons specific to nativity, gender and five-year age groups. Results show that foreign-born and U.S.-born Mexican Americans, with a few exceptions, have similar prevalence rates for morbidity regardless of gender. Conversely, IADL prevalence is higher for foreign-born women. Nativity is found to be a significant predictor of IADL disability for females and ADL disability for males. The differences we report have important implications for health services and health policy. Given the rapid aging of the Mexican American population, the prevention and treatment of medical conditions and disabilities, particularly among the foreign-born should be a major public health priority to reduce ADL and IADL dependence in the community.

Erika Grajeda
A “Safe Space” for Undocumented Immigrant Workers?: The Case of the San Francisco Day Labor Program and Women’s Collective

In the U.S., more than 117,600 immigrant, displaced, and homeless workers gather daily in public settings such as street corners, storefronts, and in recent years, worker centers, to procure “off-the books” employment. While “informal” or unregulated hiring sites have long been a common feature of the urban landscape, day labor worker centers represent a new organizational model that emerged in recent years to halt the exploitative practices associated with curbside hiring. Worker centers are thus said to represent a “safe space” for marginalized immigrant workers, particularly a growing number of women who are turning to these organizations to secure employment. While these immigrant organizations are increasingly taking on the role of labor market intermediary, creating recognizable day labor markets and sorting low-wage workers into the world of work in the U.S., they have been largely overlooked by scholars. This article examines new (day) labor organizing in the Latin American immigrant community through an ethnographic case study of the San Francisco Day Labor Program and Women’s Collective (SFDLP-WC). Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with SFDLP-WC staff, members, and volunteers, I show that assumptions about gender difference are encoded into the worker center’s organizational practices, ideologies, and distributions of power, ultimately placing undue burden on the women members. I find that while worker centers are purported to be “safe havens” for undocumented workers, particularly women, they may actually reproduce existing structures of gender, race, and class inequality.

Pamela Neumann
“Rutas y Desvios: Gender-based Violence, Bureaucratic Practices and (in)Justice in Nicaragua”

In Nicaragua, like other countries in Latin America, women’s police stations serve as the critical first point of contact with the state for women experiencing various forms of domestic violence. With the passage of Law 779 (Ley Integral contra la Violencia hacia las Mujeres) in 2012, new requirements, such as prohibiting mediation and detaining suspected offenders, were introduced. A year later, Law 779 was reformed to permit mediation again under limited circumstances. Then, in August 2014, Nicaragua’s President Ortega signed an executive decree altering Law 779 to incorporate the involvement of community-level “Gabinetes de Familia” in the resolution of certain domestic violence cases. Drawing on participant observation in women’s police stations and in-depth interviews with women victims, this paper analyzes the relationship between these legal and political developments and the everyday interactions that women have with police. In doing so, it highlights both the constraints of local state actors embedded in a web of partisan bureaucracy as well as their agentic role in shaping different women’s ability to access legal justice in domestic violence cases.

Cristian Paredes
Attendance at Museums and Live Theaters: Ethnic Disparities in Highbrow Out-of-the-House Leisure Consumption in Houston

Dynamics of compensation for the deprivations of segregation and discrimination, and the support of multiculturalism derived from ethnic cohesion explain the consumption of out-of-home highbrow leisure events by minority/ethnic individuals, immigrants, and their descendants as efforts toward their integration and assimilation in metropolitan areas. Using data from the Houston Area Survey, I examine whether there are any significant ethnic disparities in the attendance at museums and live theatres, which represent a relevant dimension of out-of-home highbrow leisure in Houston. I found that the odds of frequently attending museums and live theatres are lower for Anglos compared with non-Anglos, and higher for U.S.-born individuals with at least one foreign parent compared with U.S.-born individuals with U.S.-born parents. These findings reveal that the audiences of museums and live theatres in Houston are already characterized by a noteworthy ethnic diversity.

Marcos Perez
What About my Parents? Three Dilemmas of a Community-Based Campus Organization.

Based on a year of ethnographic research on a large organization of undocumented college students, this paper explores the contradictions experienced by activists in one of today’s most important social movements in the United States: the DREAMers. I argue that the dual nature of the organization under study, which is both community-grounded and campus-based, generates three dilemmas that severely affect the group and its members. The first dilemma concerns the organization’s goals, and is experienced as the hard choice between focusing on the needs of undocumented students and pursuing a more inclusive agenda that incorporates their families. The second dilemma is related to the organization’s mobilizing structures, and is caused by its strong ties to the local Latino community, which provides many types of resources but at the same time hinders the group’s appeal to other ethnic and national groups. Finally, the third dilemma stems from the clash between the member’s own identities as hard-working Americans and their experiences of exclusion and discrimination. I describe how these contradictions generate tensions among activists and how they complicate the relations with allied organizations. I also discuss how my findings apply to the nation-wide immigration reform movement. I conclude by exploring how the three dilemmas might shed light on the challenges currently faced by immigrant communities in the United States.

Juan Portillo
Is there really a “female advantage” in higher education? Reconceptualizing the “boy crisis” in education

A topic that dominates education these days is the “crisis” faced by boys’ due to underachievement relative to girls in education. In her best selling book, The War Against Boys: How misguided feminism is harming our young men (2001), Christina Hoff Sommers writes that “it’s a bad time to be a boy in America” (p. 13). She claims that misguided efforts of feminist and women’s groups have resulted in pathologizing boys and men, leading boys to be shut out of educational attainment because of teachers’ perceptions of their “bad behavior” compared to girls’ “good behavior.” This sentiment is accentuated in higher education, as scholars and others are alarmed over an apparent “dominance” of women, who earn a larger proportion of college degrees than men. However, it is not statistics but rather: (a) moral claims about discrimination against boys (particularly boys of color); and (b) a “female advantage” that is to blame for boys’ “disadvantage,” which are misguidedly at the root of most scholarly work done on this topic. In this paper, I will address current understandings of a “boys’ educational crisis” and show that it is a dangerous framing that follows heteropatriarchal logics without challenging gender norms. I argue that: (1) Men of color can easily fall into the trap of speaking ONLY from personal experience, blinding them to the way in which masculinity and male privilege also shape their experiences and their relative disadvantage; (2) A dichotomy that reproduces male dominance is re-created, disguised as “true equality.”

Brandon Robinson
Doing Sexual Responsibility: Gay Men Navigating HIV Online

In this article, the author draws on 15 in-depth interviews with self-identified HIV negative gay men who use Adam4Adam.com for sexual purposes. The author examines how HIV discourses influence these men’s lives as they navigate their intimate and sexual relationships in cyberspace, and the author introduces the concept of doing sexual responsibility to illuminate how managing sexual health, HIV, and risk plays out on the interactional level within gay men’s online encounters. Specifically, the author shows how these men use the website interface to screen other users for HIV and how these men disclose one’s own status and safe sex practices. The author also exposes how these practices lead to the stigmatization of HIV positive individuals on the website. Lastly, the author uncovers how trust can lead to a contradiction of how gay men feel they should act and how they do act in certain sexual encounters. The author concludes that new ways of discussing sexuality, HIV, and sexual health need to be engendered.

Luis Romero
“From La Migra to El Amigo: The INS Campaign to Befriend Undocumented Immigrants during IRCA

Before the passage of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), the relationship between undocumented immigrants and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was highly antagonistic. Undocumented immigrants were distrustful of the immigration service due to its deportation mission that implemented deceitful tactics, including using children to lure their undocumented parents and sending letters to immigrants promising legalization only to deport them once they arrived to INS offices. However, this changed for a brief period after the passage of IRCA when INS transformed its image in the eyes of immigrants and became their amigo – their friend. INS accomplished this by engaging in a furious public relations campaign and training their staff to be supportive of immigrants as they applied for legal status – unprecedented measures for an agency that was set on deporting immigrants. This paper explains why INS, an organization that was defined by its enforcement duties and attempted to push out undocumented migrants, became an organization that altered its mission during IRCA to help undocumented migrants gain legal status. The author differs from other explanations of INS’ behavior during IRCA by extending interest-convergence theory and the implications that converging interests have on undocumented immigrants and racial minorities. Using a historical and content analysis of INS interviews, government documents and independent reports, the author expands interest-convergence theory to examine INS’ motivations for helping undocumented immigrants and transforming from the antagonistic migra to their amigo.

Connor Sheehan
Race and Ethnic Differences in Reconstructing Childhood Health

Using the Health and Retirement Survey (n = 9,696) we analyze how race/ethnic disparities in retrospective ratings of child health and current levels of functional limitations are influenced by controls for specific sets of childhood health and socioeconomic conditions. This research is important because the lifecourse framework has become reliant on retrospective measures to operationalize child health. Generally, it’s assumed that reports of childhood health, socioeconomic status and diseases operate similarly across racial and ethnic groups, a questionable supposition considering substantial stratification in life experiences and access to medical care. Indeed, we find considerable race/ethnic differences in retrospective reports of child health with Blacks and Hispanics having higher odds of “fair/poor” child health than Whites. These differences are strengthened when childhood diseases are controlled for, and mediated when socioeconomic conditions are controlled. The lack of access to the health care system likely leads to underreporting of specific childhood conditions among minorities which leads to a suppressor effect when childhood diseases are controlled. Results from negative binomial models predicting the current number of functional limitations largely echo, albeit less strongly, the findings from the retrospective measures. Our results suggest that race/ethnic health disparities begin in childhood but also that childhood health is appraised differently between race/ethnic groups. Due to the observed differences, future life course work should use more general measures of child health than specific when exploring the origins of health disparities.

Chelsea Smith
Change Over Time in Attitudes about Abortion Laws Relative to Recent Restrictions in Texas

Recent laws and regulations in the state of Texas have severely restricted access to abortion care; however, less is known about public opinion regarding such legislation. This study used the Houston Area Survey to investigate attitudes about abortion laws in 2009 (n = 1,393) and 2013 (n = 1,213), as a before-and-after comparison of 2011 restrictions. Descriptive results indicated a decrease in the proportion of Houstonians who were against restrictive abortion laws and who also reported conservative stances on welfare and immigration. Logistic regression analyses revealed that both before and after the 2011 legislation, the strongest predictors of public opinion on abortion laws were attitudes about gay marriage and political party affiliation. Multivariate results also suggested that Houstonians who were older and foreign-born were less supportive of restrictive abortion laws only following 2011 legislation. The findings of this study thus revealed continuity and change in attitudes (and correlates of attitudes) about abortion laws among respondents in the biggest city in Texas before and after the implementation of legislation severely limiting women’s access to abortion.

The study also has implications for current and future impacts on public opinion of the 2013 legislation, which received national attention following state Senator Wendy Davis’ filibuster. Nationally, one in five pregnancies in 2008 end in abortion and in Texas this statistic is slightly lower at 15% of all pregnancies (Guttmacher 2011). Abortions performed in Texas account for 7% of all abortions in the United States; however, in 2008 33% of women lived in one of the 92% of Texas counties without an abortion provider (Guttmacher 2011). Although legal, abortion is an increasingly difficult procedure for Texas women to obtain because of recent laws targeting providers. Legislation in 2003, 2011, and 2013 not only inhibited providers’ ability to serve their patients but also created obstacles to women seeking abortions. Tied to the recent legislation is the increasingly vitriolic public discourse and debate surrounding abortion laws. In this study, I take advantage of a unique dataset, the Houston Area Survey (HAS), to investigate public opinion about abortion laws before and after the 2011 legislation.

Christine Wheatley
Social Effects of Immigrant Detention, Removal, and Return

The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) marks a restrictionist and punitive turn in contemporary United States immigration enforcement. The IIRIRA has made it significantly easier to deport non-U.S. citizens (Hagan, Eschbach and Rodríguez 2008; Rodríguez and Hagan 2004) and accounts for the nearly ten-fold increase in deportations since its passage, with Mexican citizens representing the vast majority of deportations. Despite these trends, few studies have examined the social impacts of IIRIRA, particularly such impacts of increases in detention and deportation. My research addresses this lacunae in immigration literature by assessing the intended and unintended consequences of IIRIRA for Mexican nationals, the largest group impacted by the legislation. In this paper, I uncover and examine the social effects of post-IIRIRA deportation law and practices on returning migrants in Mexico—Mexican nationals who recently returned to Mexico after living in the U.S. without documents, including deportees and other non-deportee returnees. I consider how current U.S. immigration enforcement affects their lives now, how it stays with them (or not) back in Mexico. I consider how this enforcement constrains them in Mexico—the various tangible and intangible, concrete and abstract forms of constraint they experience as a result of interacting, in some capacity, with the system of U.S. immigration enforcement.

American Hustle – Women in the Culture Industry

by UT Austin post doctoral researcher Allyson Stokes
contributing to Work in Progress
The Sony hacking scandal of 2014 has Americans talking about gender inequality. One of the notorious leaked emails revealed that the two female stars of the film American Hustle, Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence, earned less back-end compensation for the film than their male co-stars, Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper (7% versus 9%). This despite the fact that all four actors are comparable in terms of star power, critical acclaim, and award nominations for their performances.
Information also came to light about a pay gap between top executives. Among the 17 Sony employees whose salaries topped 1 million dollars, there is only one woman – Hannah Minghella, Co-president of Production at Columbia Pictures. Even more striking is the fact that Minghella earns much less than her co-president, Michael Deluca, a man with the exact same job title. While Deluca’s salary is 2.4 million, Minghella earns 1.5 million annually. Full post. . .

Why should I bother with social media?

Our social media savvy tweeters dominated at ASA and keep our blog lively with new posts weekly.  This article from ASA answers the question: Why bother with social media at all?

Bv0dL79IEAAsHmvBlogger Marc Smith’s Twitter Analysis Graph from the ASA annual conference.

Blogger Philip N. Cohen’s Family Inequality blog post on the twitter graph.

Why should I bother? (link to ASA article)

The shortest, simplest answer to the question “why should I bother?” is “You don’t have to.” Really, you don’t have to be on television if CNN calls. You don’t need a Twitter account. But, there are some reasons you might want to do these things.

Here are just a few.

Using social media can facilitate:

1. Establishing yourself as an expert

2. Conceptualizing and developing ideas

3. Developing a reputation for your thoughts, ideas and interactions

4. Building relationships

Media Sociology Blog – ASA pre-conference summary

UTAustinSOC party at ASA bringing together old friends and new

The Financial Crisis, Gender, and Graduate School: An Interview with Megan Tobias Neely

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Recently, Dr. Christine Williams interviewed Megan Tobias Neely for the blog Work in Progress – the official blog of the ASA’s Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.

Neely’s interview is part four of a four-part panel on the health of the Sociology of Work.

Synopsis of Neely’s Interview:

Christine Williams responds to Chris from a different angle, presenting an interview with Megan Tobias Neely, who just defended her PhD thesis proposal for an ethnographic study of hedge fund managers. Megan notes that professors, fellow grad students, and even those within the hedge fund industry have been very interested in her research. While there are differences in studying this industry versus others – most notably, a need to be careful to neither demonize nor glorify her subjects – she concludes that “My goal is no different than that of my fellow graduate students who are studying low wage workers—contextualizing their social worlds and learning about how they make sense of their daily work lives.”

The panel on the health of the Sociology of Work can be found here: A Health Check on the Sociology of Work

Dr. Christine Williams Wins 2013 Feminist Mentor Award

Williams is given the Mentoring Award and a superhero cape at the SWS banquet at ASA, surrounded by students and colleagues.
Williams is given the Mentoring Award and a superhero cape at the SWS banquet at ASA, surrounded by students and colleagues.

Sociologists for Women in Society honors Professor Christine Williams with the 2013 Feminist Mentoring Award.

The Mentoring Award honors an SWS member who is an outstanding feminist mentor. In establishing the award, SWS recognized that feminist mentoring is an important and concrete way to encourage feminist scholarship, membership in the academy, and feminist change.

The award was presented to Dr. Williams at the SWS summer banquet during the 2013 ASA annual meeting in New York.

Kudos, Christine!

UT Austin SOC presenting at ASA

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The University of Texas at Austin is well-represented once again at the American Sociological Association‘s Annual meeting in New York, New York. You can find the Annual meeting program schedule here. Listed below are UT Austin students and faculty who will be presenting their work August 10-13.  Abstracts of their work

Adjepong, Lady Anima
Regular Session. Race, Class, and Gender
Unit: Race, Class, and Gender
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: What Do You Call a Woman with One Blackeye? Readings Bruises on Women Rugby Players

Angel, Jacqueline L.
Table 04. Living Arrangements
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Aging and the Life Course / Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: Contextualizing Older Mexican American Living Arrangements: The New Old Age and the Constraints of Culture

Angel, Ronald J.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior Editorial Board
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant

Arevalo, Ellyn Margaret
B. Table 20. Sex and Gender
Unit: Open Referreed Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter on individual submission: The Self-Perceived Effects of Pornography by Those Who Use It

Averett, Kate H.
Regular Session. Family and Kinship: Gender and Families
Unit: Family and Kinship
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: Raising Them to Be Who They Truly Are: LGBTQ Parents Resisting Heteronormative Gender
Table 10. Fathering and Labor Force Participation
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Beaver, Travis
Table 06. Music and Culture
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Culture / Section on Sociology of Culture Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter on individual submission: Devo’s “Standardized Computer Rock”?: The Influence of Critiques of Mass Culture on Music Criticism

Brown, Letisha
Section on Race, Gender, and Class Paper Session. The (Un) Anticipated Consequences of Race, Class, and Gender Surveillance in Public Space
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Race, Gender, and Class / The (Un) Anticipated Consequences of Race, Class, and Gender Surveillance in Public Space
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Sporting Bodies in Descent: An Intersectional look at Black Female Athletes
Student Forum Paper Session 1
Unit: Student Forum Sessions
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Presider


Butler, John Sibley

A. Table 29. Political Economy
Unit: Open Referreed Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Hi-Tech and Military Capital- Israel’s Economic Development Model
Regular Session. Blacks and African Americans
Unit: Blacks and African Americans
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: Old Southern Codes in New Legal Bottles? Race, Sexual Harassment and Organizational Science

Cantu, Phillip
Section on Disability and Society Paper Session. Interrogating Disability as an Axis of Inequality
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Disability and Society / Interrogating Disability as an Axis of Inequality
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 12:30 to 2:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Meritocracy for some: Disability and Bachelor’s Degree Attainment.

Cavanagh, Shannon
Regular Session. Social Class and the Early Life Course
Unit: Children/Youth/Adolescents
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Session Organizer
Regular Session. Social Connections and Adolescent Development
Unit: Children/Youth/Adolescents
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Session Organizer
Table 02. Gender and Sexuality
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Communication and Information Technologies / Section on Communication and Information Technologies Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Presenter on individual submission: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Gender, Agency, and Homophily in Online Dating
Table 17. Gender Ideologies, Differences, and Norms
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender / Section on Sex and Gender Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 9:30am
Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Charrad, Mounira Maya
Regular Session. Arabs and Arab Americans
Unit: Arabs and Arab Americans
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Presider
Regular Session. Sociology of Middle East and Muslim Societies
Unit / Sub Unit: Middle East and Muslim Societies, Sociology of / Sociology of Middle East and Muslim Societies
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: WOMAN FRIENDLY REFORMS OF ISLAMIC LAW UNDER AUTHORITARIANISM: Tunisia from the 1950s TO 2010

Chen, Wenhong
Section on Communication and Information Technologies Paper Session. Who’s Lonely Now? Examining the Impacts of Technology Use on Social Connections and Relationships
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Communication and Information Technologies / Who’s Lonely Now? Examining the Impacts of Technology Use on Social Connections and Relationships
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Communication Matters: Usage Pattern, Social Capital, and ICT Impacts in the American Workplace
Table 03. Health and Healthcare
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Communication and Information Technologies / Section on Communication and Information Technologies Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Presenter on individual submission: Correlates of Informational and Participatory eHealth Behaviors
Table 10. The Social Media Landscape – China and Korea
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Communication and Information Technologies / Section on Communication and Information Technologies Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Chen, Yu
Table 04. International Cities, Segregation and Neoliberalism
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Community and Urban Sociology / Section on Community and Urban Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Presenter on individual submission: What is Unique about Fraccionamientos? Study of a settlement type in Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico

Collins, Caitlyn McKenzie
Table 08. Work/Family Balance
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter on individual submission: Just How Family Friendly? Women’s Experiences with Work-Family Policies in Germany

Cozzolino, Elizabeth
Student Forum Paper Session 1
Unit: Student Forum Sessions
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: Bringing God into the Bedroom: Weber’s Religious Rejections of the World and Evangelical Sex Manuals

Crosnoe, Robert
Regular Session. Challenges in Policy and Practice
Unit: Education
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Session Organizer
Regular Session. Paths to College
Unit: Education
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 12:30 to 2:10pm
Session Submission Role: Session Organizer
Regular Session. Race, Class, and Gender in Education
Unit: Education
Schedule Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Session Organizer
Table 19. Families and Child Well-being
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Non-Presenter on individual submission: Maternal Employment Trajectories and Early Childhood Academic Achievement

Dondero, Molly
Table 03. Immigrants and Education
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on International Migration / Section on International Migration Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Immigrant-Native Differences in Saving for College

Gabriel, Paige
Section on Sex and Gender Roundtable Session (one-hour). Table 01. Art, Representation, and Images I
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender / Section on Sex and Gender Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 9:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Handguns and High Heels: Male and Female Agency in Movie Posters

Garcia, Marc Anthony
Table 06. Immigration and Health
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Medical Sociology / Section on Medical Sociology Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Nativity Differentials in the Prevalence of Comorbidity and Disability among Elderly Latinos

Glass, Jennifer L.
Author Meets Critics Session. Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and American’s Definitions of Family (Russell Sage, 2010) by Brian Powell, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman
Unit: Author Meets Critics
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Session Organizer
Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address
Unit: Plenary and Presidential Panels
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Session Submission Role: Presider
Thematic Session. Shifting Meanings of Family and Work
Unit: Thematic Sessions
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 12:30 to 2:10pm
Session Submission Role: Discussant

Ha, Hyun Jeong
Regular Session. Sociology of Middle East and Muslim Societies
Unit / Sub Unit: Middle East and Muslim Societies, Sociology of / Sociology of Middle East and Muslim Societies
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: WOMAN FRIENDLY REFORMS OF ISLAMIC LAW UNDER AUTHORITARIANISM: Tunisia from the 1950s TO 2010

Hayward, Mark D.
Section on Aging and the Life Course Invited Session. Life Course Studies and Biology: Opportunities and Challenges
Unit: Section Invited
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Session Submission Role: Panelist
Section on Aging and the Life Course Invited Session. Matilda White Riley Lecture (one-hour)
Unit: Section Invited
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 12:30 to 1:30pm
Session Submission Role: Session Organizer
Section on Sociology of Population Paper Session. The Social Demography of Race-Ethnicity
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Population / The Social Demography of Race-Ethnicity
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Session Submission Role: Discussant

Hummer, Robert A.
Table 06. Physical Functioning
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Aging and the Life Course / Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: Race/Ethnic and Nativity Differentials in Physical Functioning during Middle and Late Life

Humphries, Melissa
Table 03. Immigrants and Education
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on International Migration / Section on International Migration Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Non-Presenter on individual submission: Immigrant-Native Differences in Saving for College
Table 13. Higher Education 3
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Education / Section on Sociology of Education Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter on individual submission: Exploring the Connection between College Credits and Young Adult Health

Jensen, Katherine Christine
Regular Session. Sociology of Law
Unit / Sub Unit: Law, Sociology of / Sociology of Law
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: A Critique of Credibility: The Asylum-Screening Process in Brazil

Kasun, Paul Stanley
Table 06. Religion and/or Fertility in Family Life
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Table 16. Migration and Religion
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on International Migration / Section on International Migration Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Immigration Laws Broken and Functioning: Religious and Racial Worldviews

Keith, Robyn Alexandra
Regular Session. Internet and Society 2
Unit: Internet and Society
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Which Niche? Agency and Homophily in Online Voluntary Organizations

Kendig, Sarah M.
Table 19. Families and Child Well-being
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Non-Presenter on individual submission: Maternal Employment Trajectories and Early Childhood Academic Achievement

Kilanski, Kristine
Regular Session. Affirmative Action
Unit: Affirmative Action
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: The Problem with Corporate Diversity

Kim, Yujin
Table 09. Families in East Asia
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Bridal Pregnancy and Women’s Educational Attainment in South Korea

Kirk, David S.
Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance Invited Session. Crime and the Financial Crisis
Unit: Section Invited
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: Economic Insecurity, and the Proliferation of Concealed Handgun Licenses in Texas

Lariscy, Joseph
Regular Session. Mortality
Unit: Mortality
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 12:30 to 2:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: The Significance of Differential Record Linkage for Understanding Black-White Survival Inequality

Lee, Jinwoo

Table 09. Families in East Asia
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Bridal Pregnancy and Women’s Educational Attainment in South Korea

Lodge, Amy C.
Section on Body and Embodiment Paper Session. The Body and Embodiment
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Body and Embodiment / The Body and Embodiment
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Gendered, Raced Body Projects: Body Image Concerns and Exercise Over the Life Course
Table 06. Physical Functioning
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Aging and the Life Course / Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Family of Origin and Physical Activity Trajectories over the Life Course: A Qualitative, Intersectional Analysis

Maldonado, Amias Shanti
Table 09. Relationships of Power
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Sexualities / Section on Sociology of Sexualities Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter on individual submission: Erotic Domination and Protest Masculinity: Fixing Crises in the Gender Order
Table 15. Work and Labor I
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender / Section on Sex and Gender Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 9:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Work, Weddings, and Promises: Gender in Long Term Cohabitation

Marteleto, Leticia
Sociology of Education Editorial Board
Unit: Meetings
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant

Melvin, Jennifer
Table 06. Physical Functioning
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Aging and the Life Course / Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Race/Ethnic and Nativity Differentials in Physical Functioning during Middle and Late Life

Muller, Chandra
Regular Session. Affirmative Action
Unit: Affirmative Action
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: The Problem with Corporate Diversity
Table 09. STEM Issues
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Education / Section on Sociology of Education Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: Sports as Protective Gear for Women in STEM Fields

Pattison, Evangeleen

Table 09. STEM Issues
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Education / Section on Sociology of Education Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter on individual submission: Sports as Protective Gear for Women in STEM Fields

Paxton, Pamela M.
2014 Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee
Unit: Meetings
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Participant
Regular Session. Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Unit: Religion
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Volunteering and the Dimensions of Religiosity: A Cross-National Analysis

Perez, Marcos Emilio
Regular Session. Ideology and Identity in Social Movements
Unit: Social Movements
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: Iron Fellows: Commitment and Disengagement in a Poor People’s Movement

Popan, Adrian Teodor
Table 19. Political Leadership and Socialization
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Political Sociology / Section on Political Sociology Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Presenter on individual submission: Cult of Personality: Social Actors Behind the Stage

Powers, Daniel A.
Section on Sociology of Population Paper Session. The Social Demography of Race-Ethnicity
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Population / The Social Demography of Race-Ethnicity
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Erosion of Advantage: Decomposing Race/Ethnic Differences in Infant Mortality Rates among Older Mothers

Prickett, Kate C.
Table 04. Living Arrangements
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Aging and the Life Course / Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Contextualizing Older Mexican American Living Arrangements: The New Old Age and the Constraints of Culture
Table 19. Families and Child Well-being
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Maternal Employment Trajectories and Early Childhood Academic Achievement

Raley, Kelly
Section on Sociology of Population Paper Session. The Social Demography of Race-Ethnicity
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Population / The Social Demography of Race-Ethnicity
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Session Submission Roles: Presider, Session Organizer
Section on the Sociology of the Family Paper Session. Family Stratification
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Family Stratification
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Roles: Presider, Session Organizer

Ramos-Wada, Aida Isela
Section on Sociology of Religion Paper Session. Intersections II – Religion/Race/Ethnicity
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Religion / Intersections II – Religion/Race/Ethnicity
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Testing and Developing Theories of Religious Conversion among US Latinos

Regnerus, Mark D.
Special Session. Gender Politics in Heterosexual Sex
Unit: Special Sessions
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Panelist

Reith, Nicholas E.

Regular Session. Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Unit: Religion
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Volunteering and the Dimensions of Religiosity: A Cross-National Analysis

Riegle-Crumb, Catherine
Regular Session. Paths to College
Unit: Education
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 12:30 to 2:10pm
Session Submission Role: Discussant

Robinson, Brandon Andrew
Section on Sociology of Sexualities Paper Session. Interrogating Inequalities within LGBTQ Communities: Secondary Marginalization
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Sexualities / Interrogating Inequalities within LGBTQ Communities: Secondary Marginalization
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: The Beauty of Online Dating: Quotidian Practices of Sexual Racism on a Gay Dating Site

Robinson, Keith D.
Sociology of Education Editorial Board
Unit: Meetings
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Participant

Rodriguez, Nestor P.
Regular Session. Immigration Enforcement, Deportations, and Exclusion
Unit: Immigrant Communities/Families
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Presider
Presenter on individual submission: Deportations in the United States: Implications for Immigrant Communities
Section on Latino/a Sociology Paper Session. Immigrants, Illegality and Belonging
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Latino/a Sociology / Immigrants, Illegality and Belonging
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: American State “Reforms” to Manage its Undocumented Immigrant Population, 1920-2012

Ross, Catherine E.
Table 06. Health and Well Being 2
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility / Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Reconceptualizing the Association between Food Insufficiency and Body Weight: Distinguishing Hunger from Economic Hardship

Rudrappa, Sharmila
Contexts Editorial Board
Unit: Meetings
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Session Submission Role: Participant

Ryan, Tricia S.
C. Table 15. Health Care Policies and Practices
Unit: Open Referreed Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Medical Education in Kyrgyz Health Care Reform: The Case of Unexpected Out Migration from Rural Kyrgyzstan

Sakamoto, Arthur
Regular Session. Asians and Asian Americans
Unit: Asians and Asian Americans
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Roles: Presider, Session Organizer
Table 10. Class, Status, and the Pursuit of Mobility
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Section on Race, Gender and Class Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 2:30 to 3:30pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: The Socioeconomic Attainments of Filipino, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Thai Americans

Salinas, Viviana
Table 06. Religion and/or Fertility in Family Life
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Presenter on individual submission: Union Transitions after the First Birth in Chile

Shafeek Amin, Neveen Fawzy
Table 06. Immigration and Health
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Medical Sociology / Section on Medical Sociology Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Immigrant Health: A Comparison between Middle Eastern Immigrants and US-born Whites

Skalamera, Julie
Regular Session. Social Class and the Early Life Course
Unit: Children/Youth/Adolescents
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Session Submission Role: Presider

Smith, Chelsea
Section on Children and Youth Paper Session. The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Developing Skills, Capacities and Orientations for Success
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Children and Youth / The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Developing Skills, Capacities and Orientations for Success
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: The Push and the Pull: Adolescents’ Expectations for Early Pregnancy

Sobering, Katie
Table 13. Movement-state Interactions
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Political Sociology / Section on Political Sociology Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Presenter on individual submission: ¡Mierda…todo! (Shit…all of it!): Science, Embodiment and the Fight Over Environmental Contamination in Northwest Argentina

Sullivan, Esther
Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Paper Session. What Can Ethnography Teach Us About Inequality, Poverty and Mobility?
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility / What Can Ethnography Teach Us About Inequality, Poverty and Mobility?
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 6:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Half-way Homeowners: Eviction and Forced Relocation among Homeowners in Manufactured Home Parks in Florida

Sutton, April M.
Table 02. Labor Markets
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Sociology of Education / Section on Sociology of Education Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider
Presenter on individual submission: Learning to Labor or Preparing For Power? Local Labor Contexts and Differential Opportunities to Learn

Swed, Ori
A. Table 29. Political Economy
Unit: Open Referreed Roundtables
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Thomeer, Mieke Beth
Regular Session. Mental Health 2
Unit: Mental Health
Scheduled Time: Sat Aug 10 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: Chronic Conditions and Distress within Marriage: A Dyadic Approach
Table 15. Family and Health
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on the Sociology of the Family / Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 11:30am
Session Submission Role: Table Presider

Umberson, Debra
Author Meets Critics Session. Invisible Families Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women (University of California Press, 2011) by Mignon R. Moore
Unit: Author Meets Critics
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Role: Critic
Special Session. Sociological Research on Happiness
Unit: Special Sessions
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am
Presenter on individual submission: Gender and Happiness

Wheatley, Christine
Section on Latino/a Sociology Paper Session. Immigrants, Illegality and Belonging
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Latino/a Sociology / Immigrants, Illegality and Belonging
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Presenter on individual submission: American State “Reforms” to Manage its Undocumented Immigrant Population, 1920-2012

Williams, Christine L.
Regular Session. Affirmative Action
Unit: Affirmative Action
Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: The Problem with Corporate Diversity
Thematic Session. The Micropolitics of Domination
Unit: Thematic Sessions
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
Session Submission Roles: Discussant, Presider and Session Organizer

Young, Michael P.

Table 15. Political Organizing and Social Protest
Unit / Sub Unit: Section on Political Sociology / Section on Political Sociology Roundtables (one-hour)
Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 4:30 to 5:30pm
Non-Presenter on individual submission: Religious Activism in Tocqueville’s America: The Temperance and Anti-Slavery Movements in New York State, 1828-1838

Dr. Jacqui Angel Wins ASA Outstanding Publication Award

Dr. Jacqui Angel. Photo courtesy of the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Dr. Jacqui Angel. Photo courtesy of the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Dr. Jacqui Angel is a winner of the 2013 Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association section on Aging and the Life Course. This award honors an outstanding recent contribution to the field of sociology of aging and the life course. The award is honoring the book, co-authored by Dr. Angel and Dr. Rick Settersten (Oregon State University), Handbook of Sociology of Aging. Dr. Angel and Dr. Settersten will receive the award at this year’s ASA meetings in New York.

Congratulations, Jacqui! 

ASA 2012 Visions of Graduate Student Utopias


UT Austin citizens past and present: Dana Britton (Professor, Rutgers), Christine Williams, (Chair, UT Sociology), Kirsten Dellinger (Chair, Univ of Mississippi), Jeff Jackson (Assoc Prof, Univ of Mississippi), Kumiko Nemoto (Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University), and Patti Giuffre (Professor, Texas State)
 
Graduate Coordinator Evelyn Porter’s ASA report:

My focus this year at ASA was the Director of Graduate Studies meeting and networking with UT Austin alums at the Departmental Alumni Night. Many thanks to those of you who stopped by our table to say hello, it was great to see you! Next year in New York, we will have a reception, so plan to attend.

The most valuable part of the conference for me was the DGS meeting. I discovered (much to my delight) that UT Austin has substantial student support systems in place that many other universities have not developed. These include: an annual reporting system for students and mentors; a blog and other social media outlets; student-led brown bags, panel discussions and research presentations; health and well-being forums and other community building events (Spiderhouse salon, lunch on the patio, afternoon teas). Most of these programs are collaborations between students, faculty and staff. UT Austin is better able to focus on graduate student health and well being because staff are willing and able to provide support that faculty are often too busy to initiate. Twenty-seven colleges and universities had representatives at the meeting and we were one of two with an annual reporting system in place for students and mentors. I was one of two staff members attending and it made me very appreciative of the resources UT Austin has at its disposal. Considering our 80 ASA presenters (primarily graduate students) at the conference and the department’s multi-year funding of admitted students, what we offer to students academically and financially far surpasses most other universities. Most universities are dealing with overt competition among students for TAships and RAships and are unable to offer multi-year funding packages. Additionally, we have been fortunate to fund professional development opportunities for conference presentations and workshops thanks to university and faculty largesse.

The DGS report this year was from the ASA Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Sociology. I was again impressed by the way our department embraces and exemplifies diversity in a healthy, collaborative community-minded environment.

From the Graduate Student Under Represented Minority survey:

Grad School to Faculty – career paths for Underrepresented members
How does physical and mental health among minority students and faculty impact their career paths? Too many students and faculty of color are dying young. Second tier publications from minority faculty include a lot of titles about marginalization and troubled journeys. What are the characteristics of mentoring that advance the career path of URM grad students into faculty roles? Support for URM students must include building cultural and institutional capital.

URM students want to give a different lens to social problems. Students reported that the university did not value what they wanted to study. This was portrayed as having to fight for what they wanted to do. The framing was “we’re supportive” but nothing was done to further their research goals. Core committee members told one person to avoid controversial issues. Mentoring should include learning about health disparities, equity issues and language issues as well as gender and sexual minority perspectives.

What worked best was when students found the opportunity to learn the language of context, to conceptualize social change in a way that was understood by the academe. Supporting intellectual needs was found to be as important as funding and other forms of support. More focused support for the development of social and cultural capital, knowing how to ask questions, for instance is recommended. First generation students often don’t have the background or the desire to leave their cultural enclave. Discomfort must be acknowledged and assisted, class differences should be considered and thoughtful responses offered. Giving future faculty an understanding about how academia works, the dynamics of the academy is vital. Mentors who praise their students in front of their peers offer a boon to anyone on the market. Being merciless with insistence on the quality of writing while communicating that you care is also vital.

Positive experiences improve confidence and give a sense of belonging. Mentors can provide buffers to micro aggressions and perceptions of URM students as undeserving of “special” consideration:
• Provide practical skills for writing, analysis, grant-writing and collaboration techniques.
• Provide dominant cultural capital including: how to act and how not to act; what to expect; formal and informal rules of the academy and how to negotiate comments of racism, elitism, sexism and ethnocentrism.
• Reveal the supports, processes and dominant culture “inside scoop” that leads to success in the academy.
• Respect and support for diversity of thought and scholarship. The values and perspectives of new members of the academy must be incorporated.

SREM reported grad student advice to programs:
• Listen to minority student voices – groups should meet with faculty to convey feelings
• Peer mentoring – other students providing social support
• Funding Support – systematic support for students with fellowships and research
• Better communication among various departmental constituents
• Faculty should publish with their students
• Adjusting and accounting for socioeconomic /cultural backgrounds
• More support for peer networks
• Inadequate race scholarship, need more courses on race theory
• Have a graduate student annual conference in which graduate students present their work.

While the graduate student survey addresses URM specific issues, most of the mentoring suggestions apply to all graduate students. I am heartened by the Sociology department’s dedication to furthering the scholarship and well being of its graduate students and look forward to collaborating with all of you to ensure our quality of life here at UT Austin remains superb.

Study Presented at ASA Reveals Link Between Marriage and Alcohol Consumption

New research finds long-term marriage linked to lower alcohol consumption in men, but higher alcohol consumption in women. The study was presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver, CO.

Based on survey data and interviews, researchers revealed that married men reported consuming the lowest number of drinks, compared with single, divorced, and widowed men, in part due to their wives’ lower levels of drinking. However, married women consumed more drinks than long-term divorced or recently widowed women, probably because they lived with men who had higher levels of alcohol use.

The study was conducted by Corinne Reczek, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, and University of Texas at Austin alum; Tetyana Pudrovska, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography at The Pennsylvania State University; Deborah Carr, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University; and Debra Umberson, Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin.

For a feature of the study, visit CBS News.