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Friday/Saturday,August 19 & 20 develop communications strategies, tools, and techniques that PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (as of 5/12/2016) researchers can use to translate the growing body of research on This document is subject to change. Any immigration and immigration reform to members of the public and policymakers. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn the changes made will be made to the online research base that informs the framing recommendations and will program. include ample opportunities for participants to begin to apply them to translate their own research to non-academic audiences. Through this workshop, participants will learn to recognize problematic and optimal Friday, August 19 framing strategies, get practice in deconstructing and reconstructing communications around an important social issue, and explore the 8:00 am Meetings potential of a shared communications strategy in building issue coalitions and informing public policy. Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Council Meeting (Bethany Titus) 2. Course. Creating Opportunities for Student- Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) (Earl Wright) Facilitated Discussions in the Classroom and the Department Chairs Conference. Studying Sociology / Broader Community Doing Sociology: Connecting the Dots to Meaningful Session Organizer and Leader: Suzanne R. Goodney Employment Outcomes for Majors Lea, Interactivity Foundation North American Chinese Sociologists Association During courses that use the IF model, students connect and bond more with fellow students – particularly those from different (Xiaoling Shu) backgrounds – both inside and outside of class. Faculty, too, come to see and connect with students in more meaningful ways as they have a 8:30 am Meetings chance to really hear where students are coming from and to connect Gender, Science and Organizations Writing Workshop with them as mentors/coaches. During this intensive workshop, you (Laura Hirshfield) will learn the IF method by doing/using it, with feedback as we go along Orientation for 1st Year Minority Fellowship Program on best practices. You will have time to think about how it might fit into one of your classes, and you will be ready to hit the ground running (MFP) Fellows should you decide to use it even in a Fall 2016 course. There will be Program for the International Assessment of Adult lots of time for questions, and you will receive unlimited access to IF’s Competencies Mini-Conference (Lindsey Wilkinson) wide range of teaching support materials, student guides, rubrics, Section on Teaching and Learning Pre-conference policy reports, and even a guide for using our discussions in online forums/classes. We will also support you via phone/email consultation Workshop: The Relevant Syllabus, Interating Current once you return to campus so that you can truly adapt this method to Events into Our Classes (Melinda Messineo) your particular class(es). We look forward to spending an engaging day with you! 9:00 am Meetings Group Processes ( David Melamed) 3. Course. MAXQDA 12 for Windows and Mac Joint Pre-conference: Section on Sociology of Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) Software Training Mathematics; Section on Rationality and Society; Session Organizer and Leader: Neville Li, MAXQDA Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology Introduction: MAXQDA is a powerful qualitative data analysis software program used by researchers in education, government, (Douglas Heckathorn) NGOs and the commercial sector worldwide. In this workshop, we will Mind, Self and Society (Lauren Langman) learn the key functions of the software. Learning will be interactive and hands-on with sufficient time for participants to practice. Participants 10:00 am Sessions can walk out the classroom and start using MAXQDA in their projects right away! Learning objectives: 1. To identify what MAXQDA is and 1. Course. Reframing Immigration and Immigration how it is different from other QDA software; 2. To learn the basic Reform: A Workshop on Strategic functions of MAXQDA including creating a project, coding, using visual tools, conducting text retrieval, and creating models for presentations Communications (presented by The Frameworks and team meetings; 3. To interact in a hands-on learning environment Institute) and be able to use MAXQDA in your own projects right after the class. Session Organizer and Leader: Moira E. O'Neil, Technical requirements: Students will need to come with a laptop with FrameWorks Institute MAXQDA version 12 already installed. It can be a purchased full license or a 30-day free trial downloaded from the company’s website. Co-Leader: Marisa Gerstein Pineau, The Framewords This class is for MAXQDA for Windows AND Mac and is designed for Institute the beginner and intermediate level. Outline I. Introduction to MAXQDA The American Immigration Council has noted, “study after study II. Coding III. Other useful tools IV. Variables V. Modeling - Using has shown that commonsense immigration reform will strengthen the MAXMaps to visualize your data VI. Data Analysis and Exploration VII. economy, spur innovation, reduce the deficit and increase U.S. trade Mixed Methods Analysis VIII. MAXDictio for quantitative content and exports.” Yet, current public discourse is highly divisive, policy analysis IX. Practice exercises/mini-test X. Questions & Answers change elusive and expert knowledge about immigration is drowned out or ignored. To address the need for meaningful, productive 4. Course. Qualitative Comparative Analysis and conversations that lead to strong public support for immigration and Fuzzy Sets immigration reform, immigration experts joined forces with communications experts to explore what Americans know about Session Organizer and Leader: Charles C. Ragin, immigration, how this knowledge base differs from what experts would University of California-Irvine like them to know, and what communications techniques can be The analytic challenge of case-oriented research is not simply that leveraged to build support for adopting and implementing meaningful the number of cases is small, but that researchers gain useful in-depth solutions. With funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur knowledge of cases that is difficult to represent using conventional Foundation, the FrameWorks Institute conducted a series of studies to forms (e.g., representations that emphasize the “net effects” of “independent variables”). The researcher is left wondering how to represent knowledge of cases in a way that is meaningful and compact, Katherine R. Rowell, Sinclair Community College but which also does not deny case complexity. Set-theoretic methods Esther Isabelle Wilder, Lehman College such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), the central focus of This course will focus on how professors can integrate analyses of this workshop, offer a solution. QCA is fundamentally a case-oriented U.S. Census and American Community Survey (ACS) data in relevant, method that can be applied to small-to-moderate size Ns. It is most user-friendly ways in such courses as Intro Sociology, Social Problems, useful when researchers have knowledge of each case included in an Stratification, Race Relations, the Family, Sociology of Aging, investigation, there is a relatively small number of such cases (e.g., 10- Population, and more. Adding data analysis to substantive 50), and the investigator seeks to compare cases as configurations. undergraduate sociology courses supports the American Sociological With these methods it is possible to construct representations of cross- Association initiatives to introduce students to data "early and often” case patterns that allow for substantial heterogeneity and diversity. This throughout the curriculum. This course will introduce resources workshop offers an introduction to the approach and to the use of the available for integrating data analysis into a wide range of sociology software package fsQCA (a free download from www.fsqca.com). Both course subjects and levels. Participants will learn about the Social the crisp (i.e., Boolean) and fuzzy-set versions of the method will be Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) directed by Professor Frey at presented. Fuzzy set analysis is gaining popularity in the social the University of Michigan. The course will begin with an overview of sciences today because of the close connections it enables among the SSDAN project and data analysis materials. Brief tutorials on the verbal theory, substantive knowledge (especially in the assessment of easy-to-use software tools will follow, with examples drawn from degree of set membership), and the analysis of empirical evidence. existing U.S. Census and ACS access tools. In a “hands-on” session, Fuzzy sets are especially useful in case-oriented research, where the two person teams will “play the role of students” and conduct analyses investigator has a degree of familiarity with the cases included in the of pre-tailored 1950-2010 Census, and 2010 ACS data. investigation and seeks to understand cases configurationally—as specific combinations of aspects or elements. Using fuzzy-set methods, case outcomes can be examined in ways that allow for causal 2:00 pm Meetings complexity, where different combinations of causally relevant conditions combine to generate the outcome in question. Also, with set-theoretic Association of Korean Sociologists in America (AKSA) methods it is a possible to evaluate arguments that causal conditions (Hyeyoung Woo) are necessary or sufficient. Analyses of this type are outside the scope of conventional analytic methods.
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