THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 and NHES data. Researchers who have previously attended an overview seminar on these studies, or who have attended an in- depth training on one of the studies and are not interested in the 8:00 am Meetings other NCES studies, probably will not benefit from this seminar. Department Chairs Conference: The Academic Department as a Real Utopia: Clear-headed 2. Course. Using a Thematic Approach to Approaches to an Idealistic Endeavor – Colorado Incorporate Service Learning in Teaching and Convention Center Curriculum: Improving Student Engagement Section on Mathematical Sociology and Section on and Career Outcomes Rationality and Society Pre-conference. – Colorado Convention Center Colorado Convention Center Session Organizer: Heather Sullivan-Catlin, State Section on Teaching and Learning Pre-conference. University of New York-Postdam The Art of at the Heart of Learner-Centered Leader: Heather Sullivan-Catlin, State University of Teaching (Melinda Messineo) – Colorado New York-Postdam Convention Center Service-learning is a pedagogy that involves students in community service activities as part of a course curriculum in order to deepen their understanding of course content and promote 8:00 am Other Groups achievement of wider educational objectives such as those related Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Council Meeting to civic engagement, career development and personal growth. (Bethany Titus) – Hyatt Regency Denver This course is for graduate students and faculty who would like to Consumer Studies Research Network Pre- begin using service-learning pedagogy or to deepen their practice. The course will cover the following topics: service-learning course Conference. (Daniel Cook) – Hyatt Regency design (with an emphasis on the use of themes for incorporating Denver the service-learning component), student learning outcomes, Group Processes (Jessica Collett) – Hyatt Regency integrative learning activities and reflection, best practices, Denver campus-community partnerships, evaluation and assessment, and more. The course will combine lecture with active learning Writing Workshop: Gender, Science, and elements and a variety of resources will be provided to Organizations (Kathrin Zippel) – Colorado participants. Convention Center 12:00 pm Meetings 8:30 am Meetings Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Pre- conference. – Colorado Convention Center Orientation for 1st Year Minority Fellowship Section on Human Rights Pre-conference. – Colorado Program (MFP) Fellows – Colorado Convention Convention Center Center 1:30 pm Meetings 10:00 am Courses Directors of Graduate Study Conference: Fostering 1. Course. Early Childhood Surveys at the Meaningful Diversity in Graduate Sociology National Center for Education Statistics: They Programs: Insights from the Report of the ASA Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS) Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic and the National Household Education Minorities in Sociology – Colorado Convention Surveys Program (NHES) Center Colorado Convention Center Session Organizer: Gail M. Mulligan, National 1:30 pm Course Center for Education Statistics Leader: Gail M. Mulligan, National Center for 3. Course. Handling Model Uncertainty in Education Statistics Sociological Research The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will Colorado Convention Center conduct a 1-day training seminar on three large-scale data Session Organizer: Cristobal Young, Stanford collections focusing on early childhood: the Early Childhood University Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), and Leader: Cristobal Young, Stanford University the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES). The In the course of statistical analysis, authors estimate a large seminar will present overviews of the study designs and technical number of models but only report a handful of the results. issues associated with using and analyzing the data, highlights Computing power has greatly lowered the cost of running extra about the data collected from 1991 through 2007 pertaining to models, but there are still strict space limitations for publishing children from birth through 8th grade, information on how the these estimates in top journals. The result is a large and growing surveys complement each other, and computer demonstrations of asymmetry of information between analyst and reader. The applied software that assists users in preparing data for analyses. A brief modeling process produces a much wider range of estimates than is overview of NCES’s newest early childhood study (of the children suggested by the usual standard errors or confidence intervals. The in kindergarten in 2010-11) will also be provided. The seminar is risk is that many published papers may contain non-robust for graduate students, faculty, and researchers who have a solid findings, in which small, sensible changes in model specification understanding of statistics and limited familiarity with the ECLS produce large changes in results. There is a need for more transparent and rigorous methods for understanding and reporting model uncertainty and the stability of results across models. This session will provide a comprehensive introduction to the problem of model uncertainty. The session will also showcase a new program that uses combinatory methods to (1) generate a large number of plausible, slightly different regression models for a given data set, (2) estimate all of them, and (3) report the results as a distribution of estimates. How often is a coefficient of interest statistically significant? How frequently does the coefficient change signs? Participants are encouraged to bring a working data set in Stata format to use as empirical examples in session. 4:00 pm Meetings Honors Program Orientation – Colorado Convention Center 7:00 pm Sessions 4. Opening Plenary Session. Equality Hyatt Regency Denver Session Organizer: Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin Presider: Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin Panelists: Philippe van Parijs, Louvain-le-Neuve Judith Lorber, City University of New York- Brooklyn College and Graduate Center Kimberle Crenshaw, University of California-Los Angeles At the core of the idea of real utopias is the problem of realizing ideals of social justice, and in one way or another, these ideals are always bound up with questions about equality. Equality is also part of the normative context for one of the central preoccupations of sociology – understanding the causes and consequences of diverse forms of inequality, especially class, gender and race. This first plenary, then, will examine various issues connecting equality and real utopias. 9:00 pm Receptions Welcoming Reception – Hyatt Regency Denver FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 York-Stony Brook The length of each daytime session/meeting Panelists: Judith Lorber, City University of New activity is one hour and forty minutes, unless York-Brooklyn College and Graduate Center noted otherwise. The usual turnover schedule is as Barbara Jane Risman, University of Illinois- follows: Chicago 8:30 am – 10:10 am Jessica Holden Sherwood, University of Rhode 10:30 am – 12:10 pm Island 12:30 pm – 2:10 pm Discussant: Michael Kimmel, State University of 2:30 pm – 4:10 pm New York-Stony Brook 4:30 pm – 6:10 pm The women’s movement has waved through societies across the globe for more than a century, and yet inequality between Session presiders and committee chairs are women and men still stubbornly remains. In many ways and in requested to see that sessions and meetings end on many places, feminist-inspired change has been dramatic. Today, time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities there are women leaders in many venues, but other women are at scheduled into the same room. the bottom of the economic scale. All women are vulnerable to misogyny, rape, and sexual violence. Another continued area of 7:00 am Meetings gender inequality is the unequal division of domestic labor that still burdens heterosexual women with children living in committed Section on Children and Youth Council Meeting – relationships. How do we create a less gendered and more equal Hyatt Regency Denver social structure? We argue we must move beyond categorizing Section on Economic Sociology Council Meeting – people by sex category for any significant purpose beyond actual Hyatt Regency Denver biological differences. We suggest a vision for such a society and social policies that might implement such a utopian vision. Section on Labor and Labor Movements Council Meeting – Hyatt Regency Denver 6. Thematic Session. Real Utopian Data Systems and Performance Metrics 8:30 am Meetings Colorado Convention Center 2013 W.E.B. Dubois Award for Distinguished Session Organizer: Jerry A. Jacobs, University of Scholarship Selection Committee – Hyatt Pennsylvania Regency Denver Presider: Jerry A. Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania American Sociological Review Editorial Board – Performance Accountability in Higher Education. Hyatt Regency Denver Kevin J. Dougherty, Columbia University Committee on Nominations – Hyatt Regency Denver Looking for Health in All the Wrong Places: Quality Committee on Professional Ethics – Hyatt Regency Measures and Error Rates in Medical Care. Ross Denver Koppel, University of Pennsylvania Contemporary Sociology Editorial Board – Hyatt Wiki Surveys: Open and Quantifiable Social Data Regency Denver Collection. Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton Current Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Fellows University – Hyatt Regency