Preliminary Program 2008 Annual Meeting Richmond, Virginia April 9-12, 2008 Index to participants begins on p. 48 1. SSS President's Plenary Wednesday, April 9 Sessions 12:30 PM—1:45 PM 2. SSS Site Selection Committee Meeting (Exec Board (15)) Sessions 2:00 PM—6:00 PM 3. Executive Committee Meeting 4/9 (Exec Board (15)) • Stephanie A. Bohon, University of Tennessee ([email protected]) • Judith R. Blau, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill ([email protected]) • Christopher G. Ellison, The University of Texas at Austin ([email protected]) • David Maume, University of Cincinnati ([email protected]) • Ronald C. Wimberley, North Carolina State University ([email protected]) • Angela Jones, Elon University ([email protected]) • David Brunsma, University of Missouri-Columbia • Larry W. Isaac, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) • Kate Slevin, College of William & Mary ([email protected]) • Jeralynn S. Cossman, Mississippi State University ([email protected]) • Kirsten Dellinger, University of Mississippi ([email protected]) • Jeanne S. Hurlbert, Louisiana State University ([email protected]) • Michael Hughes, Virginia Tech ([email protected]) • Obie Clayton, Morehouse University ([email protected]) • Dennis R. McSeveney, University of New Orleans ([email protected]) Thursday, April 10 Sessions 7:30 AM—11:00 AM 4. Executive Committee Meeting 4/10 (Exec Board (15)) • Stephanie A. Bohon, University of Tennessee ([email protected]) • Judith R. Blau, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill ([email protected]) • Christopher G. Ellison, The University of Texas at Austin ([email protected]) • David Maume, University of Cincinnati ([email protected]) • Ronald C. Wimberley, North Carolina State University ([email protected]) • Angela Jones, Elon University ([email protected]) • David Brunsma, University of Missouri-Columbia • Larry W. Isaac, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) • Kate Slevin, College of William & Mary ([email protected]) • Jeralynn S. Cossman, Mississippi State University ([email protected]) 2 • Kirsten Dellinger, University of Mississippi ([email protected]) • Jeanne S. Hurlbert, Louisiana State University ([email protected]) • Michael Hughes, Virginia Tech ([email protected]) • Obie Clayton, Morehouse University ([email protected]) • Dennis R. McSeveney, University of New Orleans ([email protected]) Sessions 8:00 AM—5:00 PM 5. Book Exhibit Thursday (Salon E (12)) Sessions 9:00 AM—10:30 AM 6. Crime and Justice (Salon 7 Cap (30)) • Critical Components of Criminal Justice Decisionmaking: A Choices and Constraints Framework, Sanjay Marwah, Guilford College ([email protected]) ; Jerry Joplin, Guilford College • The Importance of Measurement in Determining the Effectiveness of Opportunity Theory in Explaining Bullying Victimization: The Revised 2005 School Crime Supplement as a Case Study, Ann Marie Popp, Duquesne University ([email protected]) • Self-defined Religiosity and Support for Capital Punishment, Matilda Brown, Univeristy of South Carolina Aiken ([email protected]) ; Douglas L. Kuck, University of South Carolina- Aiken • Demographic and Abuse Characteristics Associated with Protective Orders, Michelle Emerson, Kennesaw State University ([email protected]) ; Brian Chamberlain, Kennesaw State University 7. Health and Medical Services (Madison (30)) • Use of Health Care Services in the Appalachian Mountain Region of South West Virginia, Marion R. Manton, Christopher Newport University ([email protected]) ; Gwendolyn Thornton, Christopher Newport University • The Politics of Universal Healthcare, La Fleur F. Small, Wright State University ([email protected]) • Health Care Experiences of Lesbians Living in the South: The Role of Health Insurance, Erika L. Austin, University of Alabama at Birmingham ([email protected]) ; Jay A. Irwin, University of Alabama at Birmingham • Medical Error: The Patient Experience, Linda A. Treiber, Kennesaw State University ([email protected]) 3 8. Potpourri III (Salon 8 Cap (30)) • Relative Deprivation and Attention Selection, Robert E. Freeland, UNC Charlotte ([email protected]) • Distinguishing Mental Health from Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective-Abstract, Daniel Jay Madron, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ([email protected]) • Ill buy you breakfast if you take your pills: the use of incentives to encourage compliance in TB treatment., Kristy Maher, Furman University ([email protected]) • Intervening Variables in the Effect of Athletic Expenditures on School District Performance, Russell Eugene Ward, Jr., Francis Marion University ([email protected]) 9. Paper Session— Campus Communities: Ties that Bind and Those that Tear (Dominion (30)) Presider: Kennon J. Rice, Albright College • "Those Whipper-Snappers Urinated in My Pansies": The Social Construction of Town/Gown Hostility, Kelly A. Cross, Albright College ([email protected]) ; Kennon J. Rice, Albright College • Institional Diversity and Collective Memory: African Americans on a Predominantly White Campus, Stephanie M. McClure, Georgia College & State University ([email protected]) • A Safe Place to Live: Developing a Housing Policy for Transgendered Students, Amy Dellinger Page, Appalachian State University ([email protected]) • Dropping Back In: A Path from GED to College Degree, Gayle A. D'Andrea, University of Virginia ([email protected]) 10. Paper Session— Campus Happenings (Jefferson (30)) • Is There a Boy Crisis?, John Lack, Virginia Commonwealth University ([email protected]) • Radical Jessies Go Underground: A Case Study of College Administration and Faculty Response to Social Movements and Political Power of the Early Civil Rights Era, Helen Lewis ([email protected]) ; Sandra Godwin, Georgia College & State University • Biological and Tenure Clocks: A Comparative Analysis of Tenure-Track Womens Experiences in European and American Universities, Meredith Ann Katz, Virginia Tech ([email protected]) • Race, Secondary School Course of Study, and College Type, Elizabeth Stearns, University of North Carolina-Charlotte ([email protected]) ; Stephanie Potochnick, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Stephanie Moller, UNC-Charlotte 11. Paper Session— In the Wake of Katrina I (Monroe (30)) Presider: Angela G. Mertig, Middle Tennessee State University • When, where, and how? Understanding the Hurricane Katrina evacuation decisions of low-income women from New Orleans., Jessica Pardee, University of Central Florida ([email protected]) • Teaching Through the Storm: Socialization and the Transfer of Social Capital in a New Orleans Upward Bound Program, Adeyemi K. Stembridge, American University ([email protected]) ; Ebony M. Duncan, Vanderbilt University; Thanh Ly, American University • Political Imaginaries of Church and State after Hurricane Katrina, Gabriel A. Santos, Lynchburg College ([email protected]) ; Tyler Curtis, Lynchburg College • Family Pets and Hurricane Evacuation Decisions, Christa Reiser, East Carolina University ([email protected]) ; Kenneth Wilson, East Carolina University; Sean Aube, East Carolina University 4 12. Paper Session— Islam and the Politics of the West (Commonwealth (30)) Presider: Stephen C. Poulson, James Madison University Organizer: Stephen C. Poulson, James Madison University ([email protected]) • Riding the Tide of Fear: Prejudice and Moral Panic Over Muslims in the U.S. and France, Scott A. Bonn, Drew University ([email protected]) ; Caitlin Killian, Drew University • Political Islam(s) and the Question of Islamofascism, Junaid Ahmad, William and Mary College ([email protected]) • Swansong: Unraveling American Misconceptions toward the Religion of Islam in Post- September 11th America, Catherine M. Lafuente, University of South Florida ([email protected]) • Sociological Understanding of Islam in the West, Steven Rosenthal, Hampton University ([email protected]) 13. Paper Session— Origins of Crime and Violence (Salon 2 Cap (30)) • Violent Southern Women: Understanding the Effects of a Southern Subculture of Violence, Julia M. D'Antonio, Louisiana State University ([email protected]) • Scots-Irish Women and the Southern Culture of Violence: The influence of Scots-Irish Females on high rates of Southern Violence, Emily R. Berthelot, Louisiana State University ([email protected]) ; Troy C. Blanchard, Louisiana State University • Substance Use and Its Effects on Labor Market Outcomes for Women, Chantel M. Dufrene, Louisiana State University ([email protected]) • Race, Gender and Juvenile Detention Decision Making, Michael J. Leiber, Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs ([email protected]) ; Kristan C. Fox, Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs 14. Paper Session— Perceptions of Health and Medical Providers (Salon 3 Cap (30)) • Problem-Solvers or Problems? Physician Perceptions of Mississippi Health Care Providers, Debra Street, University at Buffalo, SUNY ([email protected]) • Do Race, Class, and Gender have an Effect on Perceptions of Physician Thoroughness and Competency?, Justin Coran, University of Florida ([email protected]) • Public Perception of U.S. Government's Role in Health Care, Chastity Lynn Blankenship, University of Central Florida ([email protected]) ; David Gay, University of Central Florida • Self-perception measurement in adolescents with physical disabilities, Amy M. Sorensen, Virginia Tech ([email protected]) 15. Paper Session— Social Control (Salon 6 Cap (30)) • Actor's Perceptions of Self after Self-Directed Actions in Affect Control Theory,