2019 Annual Meeting Final Program
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IN RECOGNITION OF PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SERVICE PRESIDENTS OF SSSP, 1952-2021 Ernest W. Burgess 1952-1953 S. M. Miller 1975-1976 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 1998-1999 Alfred McClung Lee 1953-1954 Bernard Beck 1976-1977 Robert Perrucci 1999-2000 Herbert Blumer 1954-1955 Jacqueline Wiseman 1977-1978 John F. Galliher 2000-2001 Arnold M. Rose 1955-1956 John I. Kitsuse 1978-1979 Joel Best 2001-2002 Mabel Elliot 1956-1957 Frances Fox Piven 1979-1980 Nancy C. Jurik 2002-2003 Byron Fox 1957-1958 James E. Blackwell 1980-1981 Kathleen J. Ferraro 2003-2004 Richard Schermerhorn 1958-1959 Egon Bittner 1981-1982 Gary Alan Fine 2004-2005 Alfred R. Lindesmith 1959-1960 Helena Z. Lopata 1982-1983 Claire M. Renzetti 2005-2006 Alvin W. Gouldner 1960-1961 Louis Kriesberg 1983-1984 Valerie Jenness 2006-2007 Marshall B. Clinard 1961-1962 Joan W. Moore 1984-1985 Nancy A. Naples 2007-2008 Marvin B. Sussman 1962-1963 Rodolfo Alvarez 1985-1986 Steven E. Barkan 2008-2009 Jessie Bernard 1963-1964 Arlene Kaplan Daniels 1986-1987 JoAnn L. Miller 2009-2010 Irwin Deutscher 1964-1965 Doris Y. Wilkinson 1987-1988 A. Javier Treviño 2010-2011 Howard S. Becker 1965-1966 Joseph R. Gusfield 1988-1989 Wendy Simonds 2011-2012 Melvin Tumin 1966-1967 Murray Straus 1989-1990 R.A. Dello Buono 2012-2013 Lewis Coser 1967-1968 James A. Geschwender 1990-1991 Anna Maria Santiago 2013-2014 Albert J. Reiss, Jr. 1968-1969 Stephen J. Pfohl 1991-1992 Marlese Durr 2014-2015 Raymond W. Mack 1969-1970 William Chambliss 1992-1993 David A. Smith 2015-2016 Kai Erikson 1970-1971 Barbara Katz Rothman 1993-1994 Donileen R. Loseke 2016-2017 Albert K. Cohen 1971-1972 James D. Orcutt 1994-1995 Luis A. Fernandez 2017-2018 Edwin M. Lemert 1972-1973 Peter Conrad 1995-1996 Nancy J. Mezey 2018-2019 Rose Coser 1973-1974 Pamela A. Roby 1996-1997 Heather M. Dalmage 2019-2020 Stanton Wheeler 1974-1975 Beth B. Hess 1997-1998 Corey Dolgon 2020-2021 EDITORS OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS, 1953-2021 Jerome Himmelhoch 1953-1958 James D. Orcutt 1984-1987 Ted Chiricos 2008-2011 Erwin O. Smigel 1958-1961 Joseph Schneider 1987-1990 Becky Pettit 2011-2014 Howard S. Becker 1961-1965 Merry Morash 1990-1993 Nilda Flores-González 2014-2015 Hyman Rodman 1965-1969 Robert Perrucci 1993-1996 Pamela Anne Quiroz 2014-2018 David Gold 1969-1975 Joel Best 1996-1999 Annulla Linders 2018-2021 Arlene Kaplan Daniels 1975-1978 David A. Smith 1999-2002 Earl Wright II 2018-2021 Richard Colvard 1978-1981 James A. Holstein 2002-2005 Malcolm Spector 1981-1984 Amy S. Wharton 2005-2008 FINAL PROGRAM The Society for the Study of Social Problems 69th Annual Meeting August 9-11, 2019 Roosevelt Hotel 45 East 45th Street & Madison Avenue New York City, New York 2019 Theme: Illuminating the SOCIAL in Social Problems In his book, The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise, the late Allan G. Johnson wrote that the most important thing sociology teaches us is that we are always participating in social systems that are larger than ourselves. Because we are constantly shaping and being shaped by social systems, individualistic models do not work for understanding the social world or for solving social problems. Indeed, Johnson tells us that if we want to solve social problems, we need to understand, explain, and address what is “social” about those problems. Nancy J. Mezey The theme for the 2019 SSSP meetings is a call for social justice theorists, empiricists, Monmouth University SSSP President practitioners, activists, policy makers, and analysts, to draw deeply and widely on (2018-2019) sociological teachings to illuminate the social in all aspects of social problems. If our founding scholars were correct, then our ability to illuminate the social in social problems will help solve some of the major social problems of our time. The move away from individualistic models is critical in such an illumination. Individualist models focus on the characteristics of individuals without looking at the relationships that connect individuals to each other, to groups, or to larger society. Johnson reminds us that people do not exist outside of systems, and systems cannot function without people. And yet, “people are not systems, and systems are not people,” but the relationship between the two is critical to understanding the social world and the problems caused by unequal power relationships institutionalized throughout history. In other words, a forest is not just a bunch of individual trees, but rather “a collection of trees that exist in a particular relation to one another.” Similarly, society is not simply a collection of unrelated individuals, but rather a collection of people that exist in a particular relation to one another; and those relationships create the very essence of what is “social” in our lives. So when we illuminate the social in social problems, we are illuminating the patterned, structural, and institutionalized relationships that exist among us and connect us together to create our larger social world. Because of an increasing focus on individualistic models, public discourse lacks a social structural analysis regarding race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, mass incarceration, and immigration, to name a few. For the 2019 SSSP meetings, I call on our membership to reclaim and refocus that public discourse. Let us carefully consider the connective spaces between the trees that creates the larger forests; the spaces in which social problems are embedded and perpetuated by unequal power relationships. Let us push forward our disciplinary roots to explain what is social about social problems, so that what we understand to be obvious becomes obvious to everyone around us and becomes part of popular thought and parlance. 1 As a community of social science and social justice researchers, activists, and practitioners, I invite the SSSP membership to join together during the 2019 meetings in New York City to use our collective sociological imaginations to explore each corner of the social world. Our exploration should have the explicit and strategic intention of illuminating the social in social problems and applying what we study and practice in pursuit of becoming a more just global society. While in New York City, explore this great urban forest as well. Go north on the Manhattan island to Harlem and see the birthplace of some of the greatest American culture. Travel to the southern part of the island and discover how Wall Street got its name. While there, find out where over 10,000 people of African descent were buried in the 1700s, or visit the areas where immigrants lived in tenement homes and started small businesses. Take a ferry to Ellis Island or Liberty Island. Stroll or bike through Central Park, walk the High Line, or visit any number of the green spaces in the City. Take a subway to Brooklyn to see Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party.” Travel to Greenwich Village and check out where a significant part of the modern LGBTQ movement began. And of course, take in the many shows and good eats that NYC has to offer. As you wander around, think about how the spaces of the City connect the seemingly separate neighborhoods and histories to create one large and complex city. Just as the possibilities of exploring and connecting the many spaces in NYC are endless, so are the possibilities of exploring and connecting the endless spaces of the social world. And as NYC becomes a more illuminated city to you as you explore, let us use our expertise in August 2019 to help illuminate the social in social problems with an intention of informing the rest of the world. Nancy J. Mezey, SSSP President Monmouth University 2019 Program Committee E. Brooke Kelly, Chair, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Yvonne M. Luna, Northern Arizona University Derron O. Wallace, Brandeis University Stephani Williams, Northern Arizona University On behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Michele Koontz, Administrative Officer & Meeting Manager, wishes to thank President Nancy J. Mezey; Program Committee Chair E. Brooke Kelly and her committee Yvonne M. Luna, Derron O. Wallace, and Stephani Williams; Local Arrangements Committee Chair Keumjae Park and her committee Sophie Foster-Palmer, Melanie Lorek, and Nga Than; Executive Officer Héctor L. Delgado; Assistant to the Administrative Officer Kelsey K. Arnold; Information Technology Specialist Rachel Cogburn; and Graduate Research Associate and Webmaster Caitlin Mize for their contributions to the program. Additional thanks to artist Dr. Johanna Foster, Monmouth University, who created the program artwork and graphic artist Pam Kachel, Mariner Art and Design, who created the program cover and the conference bag design. A special thanks to our sponsors for their financial contributions to program activities: Vassar College, Department of Sociology; Michigan State University, Department of Sociology; and Monmouth University, Office of the Provost; and to the Journal of Occupational Science and Oxford University Press for their financial contributions to the conference bags. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I. Annual Meeting Information 2019 Theme: Illuminating the SOCIAL in Social Problems ....... 1 PART I. Annual Meeting Information ........................................ 3 Annual Meeting Schedule Annual Meeting Schedule .......................................................... 3 Welcome to New York! .............................................................. 4 The official days of the 2019 SSSP Annual Meeting are Friday, Welcome to the Big Apple–The Student Edition! ..................