Monday, August 24
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
experiences and their impact on well-being. One panelist explores how Monday, August 24 these contextual factors matter for understanding later mental health, while another focuses on variability in the character of these experiences (casual sexual experience, involvement in concurrent The length of each daytime session/meeting activity relationships) as influences on young adult relationship dynamics is one hour and forty minutes, unless noted (including relationship satisfaction, intimate partner violence). Two otherwise. The usual turnover is as follows: panelists draw more explicit links to policy: one suggests the need to move beyond the focus on issues of identity and family support to 8:30am-10:10am consider how structural conditions (of schools, but also political climate) 10:30am-12:10pm make a difference for understanding LGBTQ health and well-being. A 12:30pm-2:10pm fourth panelist uses the example of Chicago’s new school-based sex 2:30pm-4:10pm education initiative to highlight ways in which intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality necessarily complicate the 4:30pm-6:10pm successful implementation of a broad-based curriculum. Session presiders and committee chairs are 310. Thematic Session. Sexualities in the Penal requested to see that sessions and meetings end on World time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities Session Organizer: Megan Lee Comfort, RTI scheduled into the same room. International 7:00 am Meetings Presider: Megan Lee Comfort, RTI International Section on Aging and the Life Course Council Meeting Panelists: Jessica Fields, San Francisco State University Section on Body and Embodiment Council Meeting Valerie Jenness, University of California-Irvine Section on Children and Youth Council Meeting Erin M. Kerrison, University of Pennsylvania Section on Consumers and Consumption Council Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation and Meeting Northwestern University Section on Medical Sociology Council Meeting Jay W. Borchert, University of Michigan Section on Methodology Council Meeting Discussant: Megan Lee Comfort, RTI International In correctional facilities in the United States, the expression of Section on Sociology of Culture Council Meeting sexuality is framed as problematic and requiring heavy censorship, and sexual behavior is prohibited and considered as grounds for further 8:00 am Meetings punishment. This Thematic Session delves into this repressive 2016 Program Committee environment to illuminate how incarcerated people think about, enact, and manage sexuality. Presenters will explore the questions and 8:30 am Meetings insights that arise when conducting participatory sexuality research with 2016 Public Understanding of Sociology Award Selection women in jail; the challenges facing transgender prisoners as they navigate a highly binary, genitalia-based classification system; how the Committee Prison Rape Elimination Act has in turn eliminated possibilities for 2016 W.E.B. Dubois Award for Distinguished Scholarship consensual sex among prisoners; and the repercussions of formerly Selection Committee incarcerated queer women constructing heteronormative households in American Sociological Review Editorial Board an effort to conform to parole officers’ expectations. Committee on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and 311. Thematic Session. Sexuality and Space or Place Transgendered Persons in Sociology Session Organizer: Amy L. Stone, Trinity University Department Resources Group (DRG) Training Presider: Eve Ilana Shapiro, University of California- Film/Video Screening. Romeo Romeo Santa Barbara Orientation for New Section Officers Panelists: Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University Rose Series in Sociology Editorial Board Amin Ghaziani, University of British Columbia Sociological Methodology Editorial Board Amy L. Stone, Trinity University Teaching Sociology Editorial Board Katherine McFarland Bruce, Elon University 8:30 am Sessions Discussant: Eve Ilana Shapiro, University of California- Santa Barbara 309. Thematic Session. Adolescent Sexualities in This panel reflects on the organization of sexualities within different kinds of spaces and places, including ephemeral and transformed Context spaces. From the Pride parade to the gay neighborhood, this panel Session Organizer: Peggy C. Giordano, Bowling Green considers the role of different spaces in supporting and cultivating State University sexual cultures. This panel engages with questions of sexuality and Presider: Peggy C. Giordano, Bowling Green State space with attention to the ephemerality of some queer spaces. University 312. Thematic Session. Where is the Sex in Sexuality Panelists: Ann Meier, University of Minnesota Studies? Peggy C. Giordano, Bowling Green State University Session Organizer: Juan J. Battle, City University of New Stephen T. Russell, University of Arizona York-Graduate Center Lorena Garcia, University of Illinois-Chicago Presider: Juan J. Battle, City University of New York- Recognizing limits of the “problem behavior” perspective on adolescent sexuality, panel members explore individual, relationship, Graduate Center and broader contextual (school, neighborhood) influences on sexual Panelists: Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, University of Texas- Austin the concept has waned, discouraged by post-modernist critiques and Angelique Harris, Marquette University displaced by new waves of more empirically oriented gender analysis. Panelists will discuss these questions: What does it mean to describe Antonio (Jay) Pastrana, City University of New York- some aspects of economic and social structure as patriarchal? Is the John Jay College overarching concept of patriarchy still useful for understanding gender Tanya Saunders, The Ohio State University inequality? If so, what aspects of patriarchy have the most important This session will explore the question of whether and how we effects today and what does this suggest feminist activists and policy inquire and write about sexual practices in sociological research. makers should focus on? How can scholars analyze differences across Beyond identity and attractionality, how does behavior – sex – enter space and over time in patriarchal systems embedded in a global into this particular dialogue of sexuality studies? Special attention will capitalist economy? be paid to how researchers have studied and can study the intersection(s) of sexuality and race. More specifically, when dealing 315. Special Session. Race and Policing Post- with these issues, how has the field interrogated experiences of racial Feguson and sexual minorities? What are ways that these unique populations Session Organizer: Devah Pager, Harvard University are being empowered, pathologized, or both? What populations are not being considered? What are the unexplored questions? In this Panelists: Lawrence W. Sherman, University of session, leading scholars in the field will examine how these questions Pennsylvania (and answers) can be better incorporated into our research, teaching, Nikki Jones, University of California-Berkeley and (professional) service. Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University This session grapples with the issues of race and policing in the 313. Special Session. Audits and Field Experiments post-Ferguson era. How can we understand the individual and Session Organizer: S. Michael Gaddis, University of organizational processes that lead to fatal encounters between the Michigan police and civilians, and how can we explain the disproportionate Presider: S. Michael Gaddis, University of Michigan policing of young black men? How do young men and and women of color experience policing in their communities and how do these Résumé Audits in Unconventional Contexts: Auditing interactions shape their outlook and sense of opportunity? Drawing on Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Elite U.S. Law perspectives from criminology, ethnography, and social psychology, our Firms. András Tilcsik, University of Toronto panelists will open a conversation about these pressing social The Stigma of Place: Choosing a Socially Relevant concerns. Definition of Neighborhood in an Experimental Audit 316. Special Session. The 50th Anniversary of the Study. Max Besbris, New York University; Jacob Voting Rights Act and the Future of American William Faber, New York University; Peter M. Rich, Democracy New York University Session Organizer: Jeff Manza, New York University Which Jobs, Which Schools, Which Resumes?: Presider: Jeff Manza, New York University Challenges in Designing and Conducting a Labor Panelists: Frances Fox Piven, City University of New Market Resume Study. William J. Carbonaro, York University of Notre Dame; Jonathan D. Schwarz, Ellen Katz, University of Michigan University of Notre Dame Kareem Crayton, Duke University By Any Other Name: Two Experiments to Examine Pamela Karlan, Stanford University Perceptions of Race and Social Class from Names. The right to vote is fundamental in a democratic society, one which S. Michael Gaddis, University of Michigan gives meaning and power to all other rights. The Voting Rights Act Discussant: Raj Andrew Ghoshal, Goucher College (VRA) of 1965 was a crowning achievement of the civil rights Audit studies and other field experiments allow researchers to movement, finally establishing the right to vote for all American citizens. make strong causal claims and explore questions that are often difficult Yet the VRA has had a tortured history in the hands of federal courts, to answer with observational data. These experiments have grown in partisan legislators