WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 1 Our Society Is Therefore Manifested in Our Taboos (Callois 1959)

stigmatization or punishment for transgression. What is sacred in WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 1 our society is therefore manifested in our taboos (Callois 1959). 001. Registration and Information The sacred and taboo are symbiotic: the existence of one helps Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting identify and define the other. Marshall (2010) regards the sacred Event as “absolute in obliging those observer(s) to engage in or avoid 7:30 to 7:00 pm certain behaviors toward it” (66). Its “absolute” nature can produce behavior that is largely void of conscious reasoning Hyatt Regency: Floor 4th - Regency Foyer (Haidt 2001; Vaisey 2009). Hitherto, economic sociologists have Session Organizer: not paid due attention to the relationship between money, Lora J Bristow, Humboldt State University sanctity, and taboo. Though it is easy to identify areas of 002. Alpha Kappa Delta Teaching and Learning Pre-Conference financial taboo (e.g. that Americans generally don’t like to talk about money), there has been insufficient analysis of the sacred Teaching Sociology elements these taboos indicate or why we comply. With data Workshop or demonstration session from thirty interviews, this paper attempts to answer Wuthnow’s 8:00 to 12:00 pm (1996) call to “pry into some of our most commonsensical, Hyatt Regency: Floor 4th - Beacon Ballroom A widely taken-for-granted assumptions about money” in order to Session Organizer: understand what financial taboo does and how individuals Lora J Bristow, Humboldt State University explain their lack of or adherence to the taboos deeply embedded in our culture. I argue that financial taboos indicate intimate Participant: connections between money and sacred values, experiences, and Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Pre-Conference on Teaching and beliefs, and that our inability to talk openly about money can Learning Jeffrey Chin, LeMoyne College exacerbate and perpetuate social and economic inequalities. organized and run by AKD Who is in Debt? A Class Based Analysis of Consumption on 003. Book Exhibit Credit Zaibu Nissa Tufail, University of California, Irvine Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting This paper uses the Survey of Consumer Finances to examine Event factors influencing the indebtedness of U.S. households in 2010. In particular, the role of structural constraints, institutional 8:00 to 6:00 pm conditions and cultural forces on indebtedness are assessed. Two Hyatt Regency: Regency Ballroom H central questions motivate this work. First, what drives Session Organizer: household debt—is it economic vulnerability, a culture of debt or Lora J Bristow, Humboldt State University status based consumption? Second, how does the impact of structural and cultural forces on indebtedness vary by class 004. Culture, Economy, and Economic Action position? Results from one set of analyses illustrate that cultural, Economic Sociology structural, and institutional forces are embedded in economic Formal research session action. That is, these forces are co-constituted in their effects on 12:00 to 1:30 pm household indebtedness. Findings from the second set of analyses Hyatt Regency: Floor 1st - Harbor indicate that class position, which engenders significant variation Session Organizer: of not just structural factors (income liquidity and net wealth), but institutional (state transfers) and cultural ones (attitudes and Elizabeth Sowers, CSU Channel Islands status), matters in determining how households consume, Thus, Presider: there is support for the notion that households hold distinct Fang-Yi Huang, University of Florida understandings of how to deploy their credit, and these rationales Participants: vary according to class membership. Fertility Assimilation: The Role of Culture Nanneh Chehras, “Immigrants Aren't the Only People that are Paid Cash Under University of California, Irvine the Table” Luis Antonio Vila-Henninger, University of I show that socioeconomic factors poorly explain fertility Arizona assimilation among Chinese, Indian, and South Korean women. This article investigates the different and often conflicting Instead, culturally driven child sex preferences account for interpretations of inequality concerning illegal immigrant differences between immigrant and native fertility levels. First participation in United States labor markets that voters use to generation Chinese, Indian, and South Korean women make up interpret and evaluate the direct democratic regulation of these the largest group of immigrants from countries in which son markets. I analyze collective strategies that voters employ in preference is a well-documented phenomenon. I find that this their role as policymakers for “Arizona Stop Illegal Hiring, preference for sons is sustained after migration. Second Proposition 202” (2008) and how these strategies vary according generation women do not exhibit a bias toward sons, and instead to class and party. My findings bridge scholarship from political their fertility behavior, similar to that of native women, is sociology and economic sociology by revealing that voters indicative of a preference for mixed sibling sex composition. embed self-interest and market rationality in morality in a variety Using OLS, I find a small decline in the immigrant and native of ways that vary according to class and party. fertility gap of 0.075 children across generations. If I condition 005. Emotions and Identity Management on households that achieved their preferred child sex Social Psychology, Identity, and Emotions composition outcome, then there is a substantial decline in the fertility differential (0.484). Once second generation immigrants Formal research session adopt the native preference for mixed sex children, their fertility 12:00 to 1:30 pm behavior becomes similar to natives and fertility assimilation Hyatt Regency: Floor First - Pacific occurs. Session Organizer: Pleased to Comply: Why We Don't Talk About Money and Kathy J Kuipers, University of Montana What Financial Taboo Does Lindsay J. DePalma, University Presider: of California-San Diego Eric Alexander Baldwin, University of California, Irvine Durkheim (1995) argued that sanctity is not an inherent property, Participants: but a projection bestowed onto a person, object, or act by society itself. Its existence in our everyday lives is often demarcated by Affective Identity Work: The Social Construction of Emergent behavioral codes of conduct, coupled with varying degrees of Target Language Identities through Affective Identity Work Steven Arxer, University of North Texas at Dallas; Maria masculinity. All respondents perceived bisexuality as a valid Ciriza-Lope, University of North Texas at Dallas; Marco identity except one lesbian respondent who felt this identity Shappeck, University of North Texas at Dallas negated her “stable” identity as a lesbian. This finding is supported by research on lesbians and gay men who dismiss This paper seeks to address a need in the sociology of emotion bisexuality as a valid sexuality in order to clearly define the literature for studies examining the practical strategies used in oppressed and oppressors in political movements. Given this developing social identities through affective social stances. This view toward bisexuality, sociologists should research the effects paper uses both a developed sociological lens of identity work of sexual exclusion on the LGBTQ+ movement and on the lives and empirical case study of an adult ESL (English Second of bisexual individuals. Language) classroom to illustrate how emergent language identity is linked to the social construction of affect. ESL “They Called it Home”: Place and Home Among Second students rely on their identity work, as the product of both Generation Louisianans in Los Angeles Faustina M DuCros, personal and social affective narration, to construct an emergent San Jose State University language identity. It is shown that adult ESL students’ identity This paper draws on data from an interview study comparing the as second language learners is locally constituted, as are the experiences of 47 first and second generation Louisianans who challenges and opportunities for this identity formation. arrived in Los Angeles during the Great Migration era of the Refashioning 'Rugged Individualism': Trauma Work, Emotions, 1930s through 1970s. Here I conduct a preliminary exploration and Power in the Re-entry Therapeutic Encounter Kathleen of how some members of the second generation used the idea of Anne Bassett, University of York “home” in their narratives to navigate their relationships to Louisiana as a hometown referent. In many cases they talked This presentation is based on four in-depth, qualitative interviews about Louisiana as home from their own perspective and through with mental health practitioners who assist individuals re- the lens of their parents’ perspective. The place identity entering their communities after prison at a residential re-entry categories of being from Louisiana and children of migrants grew center in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Extending out of an attachment to Louisiana that resulted from interaction Hochschild’s (1979, 1983, 1989, 1990) and Moon’s (2005) the second generation had in the place itself, but also that which theorization of feelings, emotion management, and power, they had in Los Angeles with other Louisianans. These Illouz’s (2008) work on therapeutic individualism, Gould’s interactions and the nostalgia resulting from their displacement (2009) theorization of political (in)action and emotions,

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