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SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 produce consequences at more local levels? • What paradoxes of inequality do you see? Following brief presentations by the panelists, The length of each daytime session/meeting activity audience members will be invited to work in small groups to consider is one hour and forty minutes, unless noted whether there are there fundamental, generic processes that produce otherwise. The usual turnover schedule is as and reproduce inequality regardless of the type of inequality at issue follows: (and, if so, what they are) or whether it all “just depends” (and, if so, on what). Small groups will have an opportunity to share their 8:30 am – 10:10 am conversations with the larger group throughout the session. Panelists 10:30 am – 12:10 pm will close the session by reflecting on the groups’ comments and the 12:30 pm – 2:10 pm challenges and opportunities they suggest for fresh insight into the 2:30 pm – 4:10 pm nature of inequality and the processes that support it. 4:30 pm – 6:10 pm 136. Thematic Session. Does Having Children Make Session presiders and committee chairs are You Poor? requested to see that sessions and meetings end on time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities Session Organizer: Kathryn J. Edin, Harvard University scheduled into the same room. Presider: Kelly Musick, Cornell University His Gain, Her Pain? The Motherhood Penalty and the 7:00 am Meetings Fatherhood Premium within Coresidential Couples. Alexandra A. Killewald, Harvard University; Javier Community College Faculty Breakfast -- Garcia-Manglano, University of Maryland Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity What does Early and Umplanned Fertility Cost Women Council Meeting -- and Men, and What Can We Do about It? Ronald Mincy, Columbia University Section on Children and Youth Council Meeting -- Will Kids Make Me Poor? Prospective Views on the Price of Parenthood among Disadvantaged Youth. Kathryn Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Council J. Edin, Harvard University; Holly Michelle Wood, Meeting -- Harvard University; Geniece Crawford, Harvard Section on Marxist Sociology Council Meeting -- University; Monica C. Bell, Harvard University Employment and Income Changes Associated with 8:30 am Meetings Parenthood. Christine M. Percheski, Northwestern University Ad Hoc Committee on Social Media Policy Issues -- How do the fatherhood premium and the motherhood penalty sort out among co-residental couples? Is her pain his gain? And what Committee on Committees -- demographic groups are the winners and losers once the household math is done (premium minus penalty). What about for America’s most Committee on Publications -- vulnerable mothers and fathers, who generally give birth outside of marriage and raise their children while living apart? What policy Section on Methodology Council and Business Meeting - implications flow from what we know? And how do we implement - them, given the political landscape today? How do teens growing up in disadvantaged circumstances, both boys and girls, perceive the price of Sociological Theory Editorial Board -- parenthood before they have a child—what do they think the stakes of early fertility are? This session addresses each question with fresh Sociology of Education Editorial Board -- data and new ideas. 8:30 am Sessions 137. Thematic Session. Inequality at the Bar 135. Thematic Session. Conceptualizing Inequality: Session Organizers: Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Processes and Paradoxes Institute of Technology Carroll Seron, University of California-Irvine Session Organizer: Jane D. McLeod, Indiana University Presider: Carroll Seron, University of California-Irvine Presider: Jane D. McLeod, Indiana University Panelists: John Skrentny, University of California-San Panelists: Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts- Diego Amherst Geoff K. Ward, University of California-Irvine Timothy P. Moran, State University of New York- Amy Farrell, Northeastern University Stony Brook Kitty C. Calavita, University of California-Irvine Michael L. Schwalbe, North Carolina State University Valerie Jenness, University of California-Irvine Sociology offers many different conceptualizations of the processes Catherine Lee, State University of New Jersey- that create and maintain inequality. This interactive session features panelists from different intellectual traditions who will discuss the Rutgers challenges and opportunities of reaching across intellectual divides to Discussant: Osagie Obasogie, University of California- understand how inequality is produced and reproduced across different Berkeley structures, contexts, and situations. Three questions will guide the “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor panelists’ remarks: • How do you conceptualize inequality? • How do to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” This national and international inequalities in political and economic power provocative quotation by Anatole France remains prescient and frames Klinenberg the sociology of law. In this panel we examine multiple ways in legal practices resist or reproduce the forces of social inequality. Session Organizer: Naomi Gerstel, University of 138. Thematic Session. Queering Marriage or Massachusetts Marrying Heteronormativity? Debating Same Sex Author: Eric Klinenberg, New York University Marriage Critics: Katherine Shelley Newman, Johns Hopkins University Session Organizer: Verta A. Taylor, University of Michael J. Rosenfeld, Stanford University California-Santa Barbara Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland-College Park Presider: Verta A. Taylor, University of California-Santa TBD Barbara 141. Regional Spotlight Session. Mega Projects and Evolution, Revolution: American's Changing View the Politics of Development in New York Regarding Same-Sex Marriage. Brian Powell, Indiana University Session Organizer: David Halle, University of California- Odd Couples: Gay Marriage, Mainstream Consensus Los Angeles and Queer Resistance in Scandinavia. Jens Presider: David Halle, University of California-Los Rydstrom, Lund University-Sweden Angeles Gay but not Queer: Academic Misrecognition of the Panelists: Rick Bell, American Institute of Architects Lesbian and Gay Marital Subject. Adam Isaiah Vishaan Chakrabarti, Columbia University Green, University of Toronto Michael Sorkin, City University of New York-City Marrying for the Kids: How Insider Perspectives have College Changed Marriage Equality Tactics. Katrina E. David Halle, University of California-Los Angeles Kimport, University of California-San Francisco Discussant: Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York- Academic Research and Researchers in the Policy and Graduate Center Legal Debate on Same-Sex Marriage. Lee Badgett, A city like New York must be able to implement mega projects. This University of Massachusetts-Amherst session looks at the many issues surrounding mega projects in New The Final Frontier? Same-Sex Marriage and the Future York. These include which new ones do we most need right now and of the LGBT Movement. Mary Bernstein, University how can we get them built, what are the obstacles that often make mega projects hard to pull off, which recently achieved mega projects of Connecticut; Nancy A. Naples, University of are the best and how, if at all, should they be improved. We define a Connecticut “mega project,” as “a very big project in the context of where it is being Attitudes toward gays and lesbians have changed so much over planned or built, and with a significant public component (via e.g. the past decade that more than half of Americans think that being gay financing, or authority such as zoning).” is morally acceptable and that gay and lesbian couples should have the right to legally marry. Same-sex marriage, nevertheless, remains one of 142. Professional Development Workshop. the most contentious issues in American society and is illegal in most Flourishing in a Liminal Zone: Career Advice for states. The papers in this session will examine the debate over same- sex marriage among the general public, as well as among gay and Adjuncts lesbian activists who remain divided over the issue, concentrating on the U.S., Scandinavia, and Australia. The session will consider the Session Organizer: Andrea D. Miller, Webster University impact of social movements, activists, and academic experts on shifts Leader: Andrea D. Miller, Webster University in public opinion, the law, and public policy pertaining to same-sex marriage. Panelists: Marisa Camille Allison, George Mason University 139. Thematic Session. Social Media and Social Rebecca Bach, Duke University Inequalities Suzanne B. Maurer, According to a 2012 report published by The Chronicle of Higher Session Organizer: Gina Neff, University of Washington Education, over two-thirds of college faculty hold adjunct, temporary or contingent, non-tenure track positions. Moreover, the American Presider: Gina Neff, University of Washington Association of University Professors reminds us that when graduate Panelists: Lee Rainie, Pew Internet and American Life students are included in the numbers, the ratio of contingent to full-time Project faculty becomes even more marked. Sociology is no exception to Duncan J. Watts, Microsoft Research these trends. This workshop provides attendees with the opportunity to find solution-oriented strategies to help navigate the ever-increasing Ethnography as Big Data: Making the Case for Cultural numbers of contingent faculty on university campuses. Participants will Approaches to Social Media