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MONDAY, AUGUST 12 world economic relations. Others will consider how and why elite relations (both among the economic elite and between economic and The length of each daytime session/meeting activity political elites) may present a strategic point of agency in how nations is one hour and forty minutes, unless noted navigate their position within the potent constraints of world economic otherwise. The usual turnover schedule is as hierarchies. follows: 8:30 am – 10:10 am 289. Thematic Session. Ending an Epidemic in an Era 10:30 am – 12:10 pm of Rising Inequality? The AIDS Paradox in the 12:30 pm – 2:10 pm United States 2:30 pm – 4:10 pm 4:30 pm – 6:10 pm Session Organizer: Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes, Northwestern University Session presiders and committee chairs are Presider: Judith D. Auerbach, Independent Science and requested to see that sessions and meetings end on Policy Consultant time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities Betwixt and Between: Navigating HIV Treatment scheduled into the same room. Through Cycles of Incarceration. Megan Lee Comfort, RTI International 7:00 am Meetings A Transdisciplinary Social Network, Venue, and Section on Aging and the Life Course Council Meeting -- Community Intervention to Healp Recently-infected African American Men Who Have Sex with Men Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict Council (MSM). Samuel R. Friedman, Natl. Development & Meeting -- Research Inst. The HIV Epidemic among African Americans in Section on Sociology of Religion Council Meeting -- Washington DC. Sanyu A. Mojola, University of 8:30 am Meetings Colorado-Boulder Resources Gained, Resources Lost: Negotiating 2014 Dissertation Award Selection Committee -- Economic Survival and Mobility while Living with HIV/AIDS. Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes, Northwestern 2014 Program Committee -- University For the first time since the discovery of the disease, researchers, Department Resources Group (DRG) Training -- clinicians, activists, and advocates see promising opportunities to end the AIDS pandemic due to recent innovations in prevention and Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) -- treatment strategies. However, the most consequential medical advances must be coupled with structural shifts to ensure that the Journal of Health and Social Behavior Editorial Board -- access and efficacy of these discoveries are not hampered by pervasive inequalities. This session will focus on the ways in which Orientation for New Section Officers -- HIV/AIDS highlights structural, institutional, and interpersonal inequalities and will require a focused and thoughtful engagement with Social Psychology Quarterly Editorial Board -- issues of economic, political, and social inequality in order to end the epidemic. Panelists will speak to the social determinants of HIV risk, Teaching Sociology Editorial Board -- prevention, and treatment as well as the sociological lessons that the epidemic reveals about the relationship between inequality and health. 8:30 am Sessions Special attention will be paid to the disparate and ongoing impact of the epidemic on particular populations (e.g. Blacks, gay men/Men who 288. Thematic Session. Elites: A Micro Foundation of have sex with men, low-income groups) in the United States. Global Inequality? 290. Thematic Session. Qualitative Approaches to Session Organizer: Leslie C. Gates, State University of Studying Inequality New York-Binghamton Presider: Leslie C. Gates, State University of New York- Session Organizer: Kathryn J. Edin, Harvard University Binghamton Presider: Linda Marie Burton, Duke University Panelists: Vivek Chibber, New York University Panelists: Sudhir A. Venkatesh, Columbia University Nitsan Chorev, Brown University Katherine Shelley Newman, Johns Hopkins University Richard Lachmann, State University of New York- Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University Albany Sara S. McLanahan, Princeton University Discussant: Linda Marie Burton, Duke University James Mahoney, Northwestern University This session explores the contributions that various applications of This panel redirects attention from within country inequality to the qualitative and mixed methods research have made to illuminating key main component of global inequality: national differences in economic features of inequality in American society over the last 20 years. The development. This redirection demands a concomitant shift in the panel features scholars who have conducted ethnography focused on primary micro-foundation of inequality from identities and their role in crime and youth violence in public housing, the texture of off-the-books shaping interactions among individuals to elite relations. Taking as their work in jobless ghettos, the experience of downward mobility, and the starting point a world-historical perspective, some will discuss the lives of low wage “burger barn” workers. It also features the principal relative value of studying elite relations within the handful of societies investigators of two large mixed method studies; a welfare reform study and international institutions that have historically defined the terms of conducted in three cities a study of unwed births to mothers and fathers addition, the panelists will share their unique insights as department living in large U.S. cities. Two ethnographers, Venkatesh and Newman, chairs, recently tenured faculty, and faculty with joint appointments. will reflect on the contributions of ethnographic and in-depth interview This is an interactive workshop. The panelists will share brief approaches to our understanding of inequality, and of life at the bottom comments, and participants will then be invited to join in the discussion. of the class distribution. Two quantitative sociologists, Cherlin and McLanahan, along with presider/discussant, Linda Burton, will share 294. Policy and Research Workshop. Data for Social their views of the contributions of mixed method research to Science Research: Availability, Accessibility and understanding broad policy shifts that have attempted to address inequality and social trends that are associated with inequality. Research Possibilities 291. Thematic Session. The Limits of Resistance Session Organizer: Patricia E. White, National Science Foundation Session Organizer: Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Leader: Patricia E. White, National Science Foundation Institute of Technology Co-Leaders: Janet Gornick, City University of New York- Presider: Salo Vinocur Coslovsky, New York University Graduate Center Panelists: Patricia M. Ewick, Clark University Sheela Kennedy, University of Minnesota Marc W. Steinberg, Smith College Jim Saliba, University of Minnesota Ruthanne Huising, McGill University Tom W. Smith, National Opinion Research Center John Lyneis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of supports large-scale data infrastructure projects. These data resources are widely used by scholars across the social sciences and provide Technology excellent tools for sociologists seeking high quality data to complete Discussant: John-Paul Ferguson, Stanford University comparative research, assess trends in public attitudes, and examine In his essay, “On Superordination and Subordintion,” Simmel wrote educational outcomes in more precise geographical locations. They that absolute coercion, even with the most cruel tyrant, is always are also excellent resources for both undergraduate and graduate distinctly relative, that even in the most tyrannical situation the research classes. Representatives for the General Social Survey subordinate has some degrees of freedom. Short of physical violation (GSS), Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), International Integrated Public and death, resistance only demands a price for its realization. The Micro-Data Series (IPUMS-International), and the School Attendance research presented on this panel draws from diverse settings (union Boundary Information System (SABINS), will describe these data , organizing, scientific laboratories, chemical processing plants, and accessibility and availability, and examples of major research findings.. religious social movements) to explore the ways in which both the The session is interactive; audience participation is encouraged. willingness and capacity to resist greater authority and power (i.e., attitudes and behaviors of resistance) are developed in different 295. Teaching Workshop. Teaching Social Theory - organizational settings and with varying moral and political New Approaches for Bringing Social Theory to commitments. Life 292. Author Meets Critics Session. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses Session Organizer: Charles H. Powers, Santa Clara (University of Chicago Press, 2011) by Richard University Arum and Josipa Roksa Leader: Charles H. Powers, Santa Clara University This workshop introduces one approach for helping students to (a) ground their inquires in theory, (b) seek theoretically meaningful Session Organizer: Catherine White Berheide, Skidmore answers to big questions, and (c) appreciate the living character of College theory in sociology. Authors: Richard Arum, New York University Josipa Roksa, University of Virginia 296. MFP Research Session. Issues in Youth Critics: Roberta Espinoza, Pitzer College Experiences, Community, and Education Kathleen McKinney, Illinois State University Mitchell L. Stevens, Stanford University Session Organizers: Jean H. Shin, American TBD Sociological Association Beth Floyd, American Sociological