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7:00 Am Meetings ASA Business Meeting Palais Des Congrès De 7:00 am Meetings Connecticut Individual Choice and Public Health: Considerations of Risk, ASA Business Meeting Parenting, and Prevention in Childhood Vaccine Decisions. Palais des congrès de Montréal, 517B, 7:00-8:15am Jennifer A. Reich, University of Colorado Denver Society and Mental Health Editorial Board Meeting Heterogeneity in Network Structure and Health Seeking Palais des congrès de Montréal, 520B, 7:00-8:15am Behavior Associated with Health Ideation in a Senegalese Population. Jack Sandberg, George Washington 8:30 am Meetings University Discussants: Andrew J. Perrin, University of North Carolina, 2018 Public Understanding of Sociology Award Selection Chapel Hill Committee Peter S. Bearman, columbia university Palais des congrès de Montréal, 523A, 8:30-10:10am The panel examines multiple ways that the sociological study of culture contributes to improving population health science. Population health seeks to Department Resources Group (DRG) Training understand how population health outcomes are jointly shaped by the interplay Palais des congrès de Montréal, 516C, 8:30am-12:10pm of macro-level factors (e.g. stratification systems and cultural institutions) and individual-level phenomena (e.g. biology, cognition, behavior). This session Managing Editors focuses on one facet that is beginning to receive more attention within Palais des congrès de Montréal, 523B, 8:30am-12:10pm population health – culture. Panel members will address the following questions: (a) how do cultural frames, beliefs, and values impact health Orientation for New Section Officers behaviors, health care, and health promotion; (b) how do individual agency, social interaction, and cultural institutions combine to produce change in Palais des congrès de Montréal, 518B, 8:30-10:10am health; and (c) what contributions can students of culture address to improve health in the U.S. and across the globe? The panel features three speakers who Section on History of Sociology Council Meeting will present research that examines the cultural underpinnings of health at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, 512G, 8:30-9:30am population level. The two discussants will reflect on key questions and challenges in conducting research that can augment the contributions of Section on Sociology of Population Council Meeting research on culture to understand and improve the health of populations. Palais des congrès de Montréal, 512H, 8:30-9:30am 309. Thematic Session. Preserving Cultural Heritage: Sociological Methodology Editorial Board-CANCELLED Hegemony, Sustainability, and Global Commodification Palais des congrès de Montréal, 524A, 8:30-10:10am Palais des congrès de Montréal, 511E, 8:30-10:10am Session Organizer: Alvaro Santana-Acuña, Whitman College Sociology of Education Editorial Board Presider: Alexandra Marie Kowalski Palais des congrès de Montréal, 710A, 8:30-10:10am Trading Places: Pathways of Negotiating Space on World 8:30 am Sessions Heritage Sites. Robert Parthesius, Leiden University and New York University-Abu Dhabi 307. Thematic Session. Higher Education/Shifting World Society and World Heritage. Michael A. Elliott, Processes Towson University; Vaughn Schmutz, University of North Palais des congrès de Montréal, 511B, 8:30-10:10am Carolina at Charlotte Session Organizer: Yasemin Soysal, University of Essex Cultural Models of World Heritage: Leaders, Discerners, the Panelists: Kim Voss, University of California Persistent, and the Disengaged. Victoria Reyes, University Michael Sauder, University of Iowa of California, Riverside Francisco O. Ramirez, Stanford University Commodifying the Past: When Becoming World Heritage Site Yasemin Soysal, University of Essex Does More Harm than Good. Alvaro Santana-Acuña, Higher Education systems across the globe are being transformed. Recent Whitman College decades have seen the expansion of the core missions of higher education From Kyoto to Paris to Abu Dhabi, national and local governments strive systems (beyond teaching and research to driving regional and national to preserve their cultural heritage for present and future generations, whether economic development) along with their increasing embeddedness within a tangible (e.g., cities, buildings, and objects) or intangible (e.g., languages, wider framework of competition (facilitated by national and international songs, and rituals). Such efforts are often driven by the desire to acquire the excellence rankings) and assessments (via national quality assurance schemes). prestigious “World Heritage” label from UNESCO. Instituted in 1972, this This panel addresses the nature of university changes, the global forces that UNESCO program only adds to its list heritage of “outstanding universal lead to changes, and the cultural/institutional frames utilized to make sense of value.” This list now includes 1031 properties, the majority of which (801) are these changes. cultural sites. Most of these are found in Europe, while Africa has the lowest amount of them. This inequality suggests that preservation efforts entail 308. Thematic Session. Population Health and Culture: strategies to fix the boundaries of these cultural products. The result is an The Contributions of Sociological Theory and Methods “imagined heritage,” by which visitors are expected to experience in situ Palais des congrès de Montréal, 511D, 8:30-10:10am tangible objects or intangible activities that authentically portray peoples’ lives Session Organizer: Christine A. Bachrach, University of in a given past. This session will analyze the fabrication and preservation of cultural heritage. Who fabricates it and how? How is preservation understood Maryland and implemented in different cultural contexts? What role does the UNESCO Presider: Christine A. Bachrach, University of Maryland World Heritage program play in the production of global cultural hegemony? Transforming the Food System: A Cultural and Infrastructural Since World Heritage candidates must meet uniform criteria, can the Approach to Public Health. Andrew Deener, University of acquisition of World Heritage status endanger the preservation of a site due to cultural standardization? The session will also address the issue of 313. Policy and Research Workshop. Engage! How to Win sustainability by analyzing the clash between rising mass heritage tourism Over the Media, Promote Your Research and Become a (e.g., Prague’s historical center or India’s Taj Mahal) and preservationists’ call for more inclusive cultural heritage protection. Front Page Personality Palais des congrès de Montréal, 510D, 8:30-10:10am 310. Presidential Session on Current Societal Challenges. Session Organizer: Carmen Russell, American Sociological Trump’s Challenge to American Democracy? Association Palais des congrès de Montréal, 510C, 8:30-10:10am Leader: Carmen Russell, American Sociological Association Session Organizer: Michèle Lamont, Harvard University Panelists: Elizabeth Ghedi-Ehrlich, Scholars Strategy Network Presider: Peter Gourevitch, University of California-San Diego Emily Costello, The Conversation U.S. Panelists: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University Everyday, journalists are looking for expert sources on topics their Jacob Hacker, Yale University audiences care about, topics sociologists are natural experts in. They want to Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University talk to you... but are you ready to talk to them? The ASA is looking to bridge that gap and hosting a workshop/panel designed to help members improve Joan C. Williams, University of California - Hastings their public engagement practices. For that purpose, we are working with The College Conversation and Scholars Strategy Network and have invited them to come to Panelists will address the various ways in which the Trump presidency has Montreal to discuss how they can help sociologists promote their research to created new and distinct challenges for the American Polity, for the political the widest possible audience. The Conversation (theconversation.com) is an system, as well as for various groups of citizens and non-citizens. Offering independent source for informed commentary and analysis, all written by the different and complementary perspective, they will also draw conclusion and academic and research community and edited by journalists for the general make recommendations for the road ahead. public as a way of promoting a better understanding of current affairs and complex issues among the public at large. The Scholars Strategy Network 311. Special Session. Remaking Academic Life Across the (scholarsstrategynetwork.org) seeks to improve public policy and strengthen Globe: Institutional Ethnographies of the Corporate democracy by organizing scholars working in America's colleges and universities, connecting their research to policymakers, citizens associations, University and the media. The workshop panel will provide details on how to: • Pitch and Palais des congrès de Montréal, 511F, 8:30-10:10am write commentary, op-eds, essays and analysis for general interest media • Session Organizers: Marjorie L. DeVault, Syracuse University Promote oneself as an expert source on particular topics of interest to media Eric Mykhalovskiy, York University and public • Engage in an interview whether for print, TV, radio, and live Presider: Marjorie L. DeVault, Syracuse University broadcast • Build a portfolio of “news hits” in the course of creating a public persona as a subject matter expert Doing the "Ideal Academic": Gender, Class and Excellence in a "World Class" University. Rebecca Lund, Aalto 314. Policy
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