Preliminary Program Schedule 102nd ASA Annual Meeting August 11-14, 2007 New York, New York Locations: The facility in which each program session and meeting activity is being held is shown with each listing. The specific room location of program/meeting activities is available only in the Final Program, which is distributed on-site in New York to meeting registrants. Program Corrections: The information printed here reflects session updates received from organizers through June 11, 2007. Corrections for the Final Program were due by June 15, 2007. Changes received too late for the Final Program will appear in the Program Changes section of the Convention Bulletin which is distributed to meeting registrants on-site. File Updates: Please note that this pdf file will NOT be updated; it is a snapshot of the program schedule at one point in time. For up to date information, search the online Preliminary Program database accessible via the ASA website. Warning: This version of the program schedule does not reflect presenters being dropped from sessions because they have (1) not preregistered, or (2) exceeded the number of listings permitted by the program policies. 1 Friday, August 10 nd Opening of the 102 Annual Conferences Meeting Chairs Conference (8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; ticket required for admission) — Hilton New York 7:00 p.m. Plenary Directors of Graduate Study Conference (12:30 – 5:00 p.m.; ticket required for admission) — Hilton New York 2. Plenary Session. Democratic Transition: The Example of Chile Courses Hilton New York 1. Pre-convention Course. Funding Sources for Social Session Organizers: Susan Eckstein, Boston Science Research University; and Frances Fox Piven, City University Hilton New York of New York Ticket required for admission Presider: Frances Fox Piven, City University of New Leaders: Mercedes Rubio, National Inst of Mental Health York Christine O'Brien, National Academies Fellowships Introduction. Alejandro Portes, Princeton University Offices Democracy in Chile. Ricardo Lagos, former President This four (4) hour course intends to provide the participants with greater working knowledge of the types of funding mechanisms, application process, of Chile review and decision making of federal training grants, in particular those Richard Lagos played a central role in the tumultuous events sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science that defined Chilean history for the past three decades, from the Foundation. The workshop will be interactive where participants are rise and overthrow of the government of Salvador Allende, through encouraged to ask questions and be prepared for hands-on activities. the bitter years of military dictatorship, followed by the successful establishment of a social-democratic government under the leadership of Lagos, and continuing under the presidency of Meetings Michelle Bachelet. What distinguished the Lagos period, and recommends it for scrutiny and perhaps for emulation, is the Honors Program Orientation (4:00 – 6:00 p.m.) — Sheraton relatively peaceful transition under his leadership from the brutal New York Pinochet regime to the current Chilean democracy. For more Minority Fellowship Program Orientation for New Fellows information about this session and Ricardo Lagos, view the (8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) — Hilton New York following article published in ASA Footnotes (February 2007): 'Without Yesterday There Is No Tomorrow: Ricardo Lagos and Chile's Democratic Transition' by Peter Winn, Tufts University. Other Groups Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Council Meeting (8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.) — Hilton New York 9:00 p.m. Receptions North American Chinese Sociologists Association (NACSA) Annual Conference (8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.) — Hilton New Welcoming Party — Hilton New York York All meeting registrants are invited to the Welcoming Party which follows the Opening Plenary Session on Thursday evening, August Psychological Aspects of Society (Lauren Langman, Lynn 10, and celebrates the opening of the 102nd Annual Meeting. This Chancer) (9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.) — Sheraton New York social hour kicks off at 9:00 PM and provides opportunities to renew Section on Teaching & Learning Pre-Convention Workshop — past acquaintances, chat with old friends, and find a newcomer to Hilton New York befriend. New members and first-time meeting attendees are particularly encouraged to come and have fun! 2 Saturday, August 11 8:30 a.m. Sessions 3. Thematic Session. Debating Church and State: The length of each daytime session/meeting activity is one Religious-Political Groups Advocating Different hour and forty minutes, unless noted otherwise. The usual Versions of a 'Better World' (co-sponsored by the turnover schedule is as follows: Association for the Sociology of Religion) 8:30 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Marriott Marquis Hotel 10:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Session Organizer and Presider: William V. D'Antonio, 12:30 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. Catholic University 2:30 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. Evangelical/Republican: Rhetoric and Organization in the 4:30 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. Emergence of a Political Identity. Nancy Ammerman, Session presiders and committee chairs are requested to Boston University see that sessions and meetings end on time to avoid Remembering that Politics Shapes Religion: The conflicts with subsequent activities scheduled into the same Contemporary U.S. Gene Burns, Michigan State University room. Religion, Culture Wars, and Polarization in the U.S. Congress, 1971-2006. Steven A. Tuch, The George Washington University; William V. D'Antonio, Catholic University These papers will assess the ways religious groups use politics to protect and promote their own values and interests, and how political groups in turn use religion for their own purposes. The papers may include reflections on 7:00 a.m. Meetings how these two sectors of society may or may not have expanded society's vision of a better world, and may or may not have facilitated progress toward Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis their vision of a better world. Council Meeting — Sheraton New York 4. Thematic Session. Envisioning Real Utopias Hilton New York 8:00 a.m. Meetings Session Organizer and Presider: Erik Olin Wright, University Chairs Conference, continued (ticket required for admission) of Wisconsin — Hilton New York Consumer-Topia: Envisioning a New Culture of Consuming. MFP Fellows — Hilton New York Juliet Schor, Boston College An Imaginary Map to Noplace. Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts 8:00 a.m. Other Groups Imagining and Enacting Postcapitalist Economies. Katherine Gibson, Australian National University; Julie Graham, AKD Sociological Inquiry Editorial Board Meeting — Hilton University of Massachusetts, Amherst New York Taking the 'Social' in Socialism Seriously. Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin To answer the question “Is another world possible?” we must not only 8:30 a.m. Meetings understand the nature of barriers to social change in the world in which we live and the forces for social transformation that can potentially challenge those Committee on Nominations (to 12:10 p.m.) — Hilton New barriers. We also need some understanding of emancipatory alternatives York beyond those barriers: what they would be like, how they would work, how Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology they could be sustained, what dilemmas and contradictions they might embody. This session will explore a variety of perspectives on envisioning Selection Committee — Sheraton New York “real utopias” - imagined alternatives that embody emancipatory aspirations Honors Program Kickoff — Sheraton New York and yet have the potential to become real social environments for human Journal of Health and Social Behavior Editorial Board — flourishing. Hilton New York Rose Series in Sociology Editorial Board — Hilton New York 5. Thematic Session. Who Rules America? A Forty Year Section on Community and Urban Sociology Council Meeting Retrospective (to 9:30 a.m.) — Sheraton New York Sheraton New York Task Force on the Master's Degree in Sociology — Sheraton Session Organizer: Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate University New York Panel: Andrew Hacker, City University of New York-Queens College Robert J.S. Ross, Clark University Aldon D. Morris, Northwestern University Jill Quadagno, Florida State University The 2007 meetings will mark the 40th anniversary of the original edition of Who Rules America? This session will examine the durability of the original thesis of Who Rules America ?, the value of the additions and changes made to the thesis in the ensuing years leading to the fifth edition, and the usefulness of the perspective on progressive change and for understanding contemporary politics and envisioning the possibility of another world. A look 3 at the continued impact of power structure research fits perfectly with the Hilton New York theme of the meetings. For understanding contemporary politics and the Session Organizer: Kathleen Piker-King, Mount Union possibility of another world, one must have a critical understanding of the power structure and an analysis of how progressives might enter the political College process. Panel: Edward L. Kain, Southwestern University Keith Alan Roberts, Hanover College 6. Special Session. Disrupting Race: Racial Domination Gregory L. Weiss, Roanoke College without Races? Kathleen Piker-King, Mount Union College Hilton New York The workshop will cover the following topics: preparing an effective Session Organizer and Presider: Mara Loveman, University of vitae, constructing an effective