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Discussant: Amy L. Best, George Mason University MONDAY, AUGUST 22 This session will showcase new sociological research on bullying, harassment, and school violence. While bullying in school has long been The length of each daytime session/meeting activity is one identified as a problem, research on the topic has tended to focus on psychological aspects rather than on social dimensions. More recently, hour and forty minutes, unless noted otherwise. The usual however, sociologists have identified the role that bullying and harassment turnover schedule is as follows: play in creating and maintaining social conflicts and inequalities along lines of 8:30 am – 10:10 am race, gender, and sexual orientation. The media of harassment - physical, 10:30 am – 12:10 pm verbal, and virtual - have also come under scrutiny by sociologists. Moreover, schools' differential responses to various forms of violence may exacerbate 12:30 pm – 2:10 pm inequalities, as offenses involving weapons are treated with zero tolerance 2:30 pm – 4:10 pm (sometimes to absurd degrees, as when students are suspended for plastic 4:30 pm – 6:10 pm knives) while harassment that does not involve weapons may be unseen or ignored by authority figures. Session presiders and committee chairs are requested to see that sessions and meetings end on time to avoid 314. Thematic Session. Conflict, Bargaining, and Pay: The conflicts with subsequent activities scheduled into the same Sociology of Earnings Inequality room. Caesars Palace Las Vegas Session Organizer: Thomas A. DiPrete, University of 7:00 am Meetings Wisconsin, Madison Presider: Thomas A. DiPrete, University of Wisconsin, Section on Aging and the Life Course Council Meeting -- Madison Caesars Palace Las Vegas The Strategic Logic of Conflict Socialization: Labor, Section on Children and Youth Council Meeting -- Caesars Community and the Politics of Low-wage Work. Dorian Palace Las Vegas T. Warren, Columbia University Executive Pay and Perceptions of Inequality and Opportunity. Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Council Leslie McCall, Northwestern University Meeting -- Caesars Palace Las Vegas Worker Advocacy in Freelance Occupational Labor Markets. Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University Section on Medical Sociology Council Meeting -- Caesars Power, Workers, and Inequality. David Brady, Duke Palace Las Vegas University Earnings inequality has grown in the U.S. over the past quarter century for 8:30 am Meetings many reasons. While inequality trends respond to changes in the distribution of skills and returns to skill, these factors are themselves shaped by social and 2012 Program Committee -- Caesars Palace Las Vegas institutional forces involving employment relations, partisan politics, labor unions and collective bargaining, the gendered division of labor within Award Selection Committee Chairs with the Committee on households, and racial discrimination. The papers in this session will explore Awards -- Caesars Palace Las Vegas the connection between these factors and the current structure of earnings inequality in the U.S., and may also compare the strength and impact of these Orientation for New Section Officers -- Caesars Palace Las forces in America and other industrialized countries. Vegas 315. Thematic Session. Informal Economy of Urban 8:30 am Sessions Violence Caesars Palace Las Vegas 313. Thematic Session. Bullying, Harassment, and School Session Organizer: Waverly Duck, Yale University Violence Caesars Palace Las Vegas 316. Thematic Session. The Great Decline in Global Session Organizer: Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin- Conflict since the End of the Cold War Madison Caesars Palace Las Vegas Presider: Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin-Madison Session Organizer: Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason Flirting, Teasing or Harming? Gendered and Sexualized University Dimensions of Bullying and Harassment in High School. Presider: Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University C.J. Pascoe, Colorado College Trends in the Volume and Intensity of Conflict Since 1995: A Cyberbullying: A New Form of Harassment in Schools of Just Startling Decline. Andrew Mack, Human Security Project another Moral Panic? Linda M. Waldron, Christopher and Simon Fraser University Newport University The Sociology of Civil War and the Changing Character of School Bullying Experiences: LBGT Youth and the 21st Century Conflict. Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University Intersections of Race and Gender. George L. Wimberly, Old Revolutions, New Revolutions: Paths toward 21st Century American Educational Research Association Radical Social Change. John Foran, University of Taking Sides: How Do Urban and Suburban Schools Respond California-Santa Barbara to the Bullying and Harassment of Vulnerable or Global Trends in State Fragility and Conflict. Monty Marginalized Students? Paul Hirschfield, Rutgers Marshall, George Mason University; Jack A. Goldstone, University George Mason University The Regulation of Violence in Non-state Armed Actors: Presider: Robert Lang, Brookings Institution and University of Ideology, Discipline, and Organizational Structure. Nevada-Las Vegas Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University Panelists: William H. Frey, Brookings Institution One of the more striking and still as of yet not explained, trends in global Audrey Singer, The Brookings Institution conflict is the stunning fall in civil wars and battle deaths worldwide since Robert Lang, Brookings Institution and University of 1999. For example, between 1999 and 2005, the number of conflicts in Africa fell by 56%, and the number of annual battle deaths fell by 98%! Great Nevada-Las Vegas Revolutions have been replaced by Color Revolutions, and low-casualty Christina Nicholas, University of Nevada-Las Vegas irregular warfare and terrorism has largely replaced conventional war. For The Mountain West—Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico example, in the 8-year war in Afghanistan between NATO coalition forces and and Utah— have experienced some of the fastest population growth, the Taliban, deaths have totalled only 1,700, or about 17 per month. If this is demographic shift and urban transformation. Thus, the region has grown war, it marks a radical change in what we think of as war, with displaced nearly three times faster than the United States as a whole over the past two peoples in the millions but battle deaths only in the thousands. What factors -- decades, with majority of the growth occurring in six metropolitan areas. And global, technological, strategic -- account for this change in the nature and while the region remains primarily white, it has experienced an increase in volume of conflicts? Hispanic population growth. The panel will use 2010 census data to examine population change, Hispanic population growth, and metropolitan expansion in 317. Special Session. Achievement Gap Research for the the Mountain West. The panelists will then discuss the economic, social and 21st Century political impacts and implications as evident of the 2010 census. Caesars Palace Las Vegas 320. Policy and Research Workshop. Social Science Date Session Organizer: Angel Luis Harris, Princeton University Infrastructure Presider: Angel Luis Harris, Princeton University Caesars Palace Las Vegas Panelists: Meredith Phillips, University of California-Los Session Organizer: Regina E. Werum, Emory University Angeles Leader: Regina E. Werum, Emory University Karolyn Tyson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Co-Leaders: Katherine Meyer, National Science Foundation Keith D. Robinson, University of Michigan Tom W. Smith, National Opinion Research Center Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania R. Saylor Breckenridge, Wake Forest University The racial achievement gap should be considered a national crisis and among the biggest social problems facing the United States during this Janet Gornick, The Graduate Center / City University of century. With the advent of the school voucher movement and the push to end New York affirmative-action programs over the past decade, the issue of race-based and Salvatore Saporito, The College of William and Mary ethnicity-based test score gaps has garnered increased attention from policy Sheela Kennedy, University of Minnesota makers and the general public. Further contributing to a sense of urgency is The Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) that 2010 marks the birth year for the first cohort of youth who will enter supports large-scale data resources and participates in the review and funding college in 2028, the final year of the 25-year span allotted by the 2003 of interdisciplinary research with other NSF programs. These include the Supreme Court ruling for the use of affirmative action. The purpose of the Science, Technology and Society (STS), Innovation and Organizational panel is to bring together sociologists who study education to discuss the racial Sciences (IOS), Methodology, Measurement and Statistics (MMS) and Law achievement gap. Specifically, each panelist will discuss 1) the state of what and Social Science (LSS), and Science of Innovation Science of Science and we currently know about the achievement gap (e.g., trends and causes), 2) the Innovation Policy (SciSIP) programs. In 2009 the Sociology Program direction education researchers should take during the next decade, 3) and renewed support for the General Social Survey (GSS); it also supports the potential solutions to the problem. Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the International Integrated Public Micro-Data Series (IPUMS-International), and