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Communities: Yours, Mine and Ours April 29, 2011 Presented by Department of Sociology University of Minnesota 909 Social Sciences Building Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-4300 www.soc.umn.edu A WELCOME FROM THE CHAIR Dear Colleagues, Alumni and Friends, On behalf of the faculty and students of the Department of Sociology, I would like to welcome you to our annual SRI. Each year, SRI celebrates our intellectual community and the research, teaching, and service achievements of our students, faculty and staff. Most importantly, SRI provides a forum for our students to discuss their research and debate current issues in the discipline. This year we are honored that Annette Lareau, Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, will be providing the keynote address. Professor Lareau is one of the foremost experts on social class and family life. Her current project considers how parents with young children decide where to live. It is insights into this new project that we will have the privilege to hear in her keynote address, “Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress.” We hope you can join us for what will be an exceptional presentation. Please join me in celebrating another dynamic and creative year of accomplishments. Warm regards, Chris Uggen Professor and Chair SRI COMMITTEES SRI Committee: Professors Jeff Broadbent and Enid Logan; graduate students Sarah Lageson and Hollie Nyseth; undergraduate students Michael Blix, Ryan Parenteau, Jacob Tache and Erika Trask; staff member Mary Drew. Graduate Student Research Paper Award: Professors Jeff Broadbent and Josh Page; graduate student, Kirsten O’Brien. Undergraduate Student Research Paper Award: Professor Gabrielle Ferrales; graduate students, Kyle Green and Darin Mather. Graduate Instructor Award: Undergraduate student, Michael Blix; graduate students, Anne Kaduk and Shawn Wick. Graduate & Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards: Graduate students, Suzy Maves McElrath and Madison Van Oort; undergraduate student, Ryan Parenteau. Department Service Award: Graduate Students Hollie Nyseth and Sarah Lageson. Faculty Mentoring Award: Graduate students, Abby Hagel and Kia Heise. Engaged Scholarship Award: Graduate students, Kristin Haltinner and Laurie Knies. Public Sociology Award: Professors Enid Logan and Chris Uggen. SPECIAL THANKS Department Staff: Kerrie Deef, Mary Drew, Robert Fox, Melissa Mason, Ann Miller, Hilda Mork, Tony Odufuye, Letta Page, Jane Peterson, Becky Mooney, Emily Philipp, and Holly Schoonover. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IN BRIEF Friday, April 29 Hubert H. Humphrey Center Atrium & Conference Center 9:00 — 9:15 am Check-in and light breakfast 9:15 —10:15 am Panel Session I 1A. Contestation, Conversion and the Politics of Consumption (room 180) 1B. Community Service Learning as a Capstone Experience (room 184) 1C. Child and Youth Experiences in Social Context (room 186) 10:15 — 10:30 am Break 10:30 — 12:00 pm Program & Keynote address - Cowles Auditorium Welcome: James Parente, Dean, College of Liberal Arts Public Sociology Award Presentation Keynote Address: Annette Lareau Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress 12:00 — 1:00 pm Lunch — Atrium (rsvp required) 1:00 — 2:00 pm Panel Session II 2A. Women, Men & Hippies: Revisiting the Feminist Scholarship of Helen Hacker (room 180) 2B. Immigration and Entrepreneurs (room 186) 2C. Global and Transnational Sociology (room 184) 2:00 — 2:15 pm Break 2:15 — 3:15 pm Panel Session III 3A. Contemporary Representations and Management of US Marginalities (room 186) 3B. Crime, Stigma and Control (room 180) 3C. Sociology in the “Real World” (room 184) 7:00-10:00 pm Reception, Awards Ceremony, & Grad Student Program (rsvp required) Hubert H. Humphrey Atrium MORNING PANEL SESSIONS All session are in the Humphrey Center 9:00-9:15 CHECK IN AND LIGHT BREAKFAST 9:15-10:15 PANEL SESSION I A. CONTESTATION, CONVERSION AND THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION (180) Presider: Teresa Gowan Kyle Green and Madison Van Oort, “We Wear, We Wear, We Wear No Pants”: The Crisis of Masculinity in the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials. Sian Butcher, Constructing the Postapartheid Consumer: Tracking a Discursive Genealogy of South Africa's 'Black Diamonds.’ Sinan Erensu, “Water Flows Turk Stares": Green Energy Developments and Water Dispossession in Turkish Black Sea Coast. Dan Winchester, “They’re a part of who I am:” Icons, Experience, and the Place of Things in the Making of Religious Selves. B. COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING AS A CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE (184) Presider: Doug Hartmann Mageen Caines, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Jose Gallardo, Clues Language and Mentoring Program Trischa Heitman, Heading Home Hennepin: Youth Homelessness Nicole Saffert, New Brighton Schools Afterschool Lifeskills/Community Partnership with Youth Emily Valentine-Grimm and Stephan Pyskir, Communities United Against Police Brutality C. CHILD AND YOUTH EXPERIENCES IN SOCIAL CONTEXT (186) Presider: Sarah Shannon Ashly Rieland, Childhood Out-of-Home Placement: Assessment Process as Contributing Factors to Racial Disparities. Jeff Brown, Sport-Based Interventions in Community and Youth Programs. Betsy Priem, The Effects of the Hijab on College Female Body Image. 10:15-10:30 BREAK 10:30-12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Cowles Auditorium (off Humphrey Center Atrium) Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania, Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress 12:00-1:00 LUNCH – Humphrey Center Atrium – rsvp required AFTERNOON PANEL SESSIONS 1:00-2:00 PANEL SESSION II A. WOMEN, MEN & HIPPIES: REVISITING THE FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP OF HELEN HACKER (180) Short introduction by Chris Uggen Heather McLaughlin, Women as a Minority Group Tim Ortyl, Homosexuals as a Minority Group Kyle Green,The New Burdens of Masculinity Anne Kaduk, Marital Power Cross-Culturally Kia Heise, Class and Race Differences in Gender Roles Daniel Winchester, Clergymen and Hippies B. IMMIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURS (186) Presider: Ryan Alaniz Shivan Hanuman, African Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Impact on the Community. Roda Hassan, Entrepreneurship and Local Support in the African Communities. Lidiya Girma, African Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Search for Belonging in the Greater Twin Cities. C. GLOBAL AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (184) Presider: Wes Longhofer Meghan Zacher, Remembering Darfur: The US State Department, Non- Governmental Organizations, & the Role of the ICC Darfur. Yi Zhan, Social Networks and the Job Attainment Process in China. Jennifer Sau, The Effects of Worldwide Abortion Policies on Fertility Levels. Amy Alsup, Discourses of Religion & Revolution: Opinion Pieces in Nicaragua’s La Prensa During the Sandinista Government. 2:00-2:15 BREAK 2:15-3:15 PANEL SESSION III A. CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS & MANAGEMENT OF US MARGINALITIES (186) Discussant: Sarah Whetstone Myrl Beam, At the Limits of “By and For”: Space, Struggle, and The Non- Profitization of Queer Youth. Madison Van Oort, Managing the 'Recovery': Job Searching in the Twin Cities. Hui Wilcox, Stories of Hmong Farmers: Discursive Construction of Hmong American Identities and Realities. Rachel Grewell, The Preference for Local in Food Aid: Tracing Discourse through the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. B. CRIME, STIGMA AND SOCIAL CONTROL (180) Presider: Heather McLaughlin Luke Schieve, A Comparative Analysis of Secular and Religious Terrori Rica Rachut, Establishing Trust in Problematic Exchange Relationships: Interactions between Officers and Informants. Sarah Lageson, Employer Decisions Regarding Criminal Records: A Comparison of Self-Reported and Observed Behavior. C. SOCIOLOGY IN THE “REAL WORLD” (184) A panel of Ph.D. alumni discuss how they found jobs with a sociology degree and how they use sociology in their nonprofit, government, and corporate positions. A Spring 2011 Contexts article by Hollie Nyseth, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy Maves, “Embedded Sociologists,” is highlighted. 7:00 PM RECEPTION AND AWARDS CEREMONY – Humphrey atrium KEYNOTE ADRESS Professor Annette Lareau “Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress” Annette Lareau is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has completed extensive field work studying the daily lives of both African-Americans and European-Americans. She is also credited with the creation of the term concerted cultivation. This concept refers to middle class child rearing practices. She says that this differs from the parents of children in working class families, who attribute much of their child raising tactics to the accomplishment of natural growth. Her field research is the basis for her book Unequal Childhoods, which explained in detail her research and interviews with 88 children and their parents. The subjects included white and black children from middle class, working class, and poor families. Through her observations she discovered differences in parenting styles that related to class distinctions. Specifically, she observed how different family circumstances influenced the children's performance and interactions in and out of school. Her findings allowed her to draw a major distinction between the parenting styles of working class / poor parents and middle class parents. In this book, she highlights the benefits and shortcomings of raising children through either concerted cultivation or natural growth. She is also the author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education, coeditor of Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic