Monday, August 14, 9:00 a.m. 49 Program Schedule The length of each session/meeting activities is one hour The course text will be Social Network Analysis: Methods and and forty minutes, unless noted otherwise. Session Applications (Cambridge, ENG and New York: Cambridge University presiders and committee chairs are requested to see that Press, 1994) by Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust. We will focus sessions and meetings end on time to avoid conflicts with on chapters 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, and 15 from this book. We recommend that seminar attendees obtain this book in advance and read the first few subsequent activities scheduled into the same room and to chapters prior to the session. allow participants time to transit between hotels. 2000 ASA Chair Conference (preregistration required)— Program Corrections: The information printed here Friday, August 11, 12:30-9:30 p.m.—Marriott Wardman reflects session updates received from organizers Park, Balcony CD through July 14, 2000. Changes received after that date 2. Didactic Seminar. So You Want to Do Applied Policy will appear in the Program Changes section of the Research? Convention Bulletin distributed with Final Program packets. Please check that bulletin for the latest updates. Howard University (shuttle departs from the Marriott) Friday, August 11, 1:00-6:00 p.m. Ticket required for admission Leaders: Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association Pre-Meeting Activities Beatrice Edwards, Public Services International This seminar is designed for those thinking of careers as applied Alpha Kappa Delta Executive Council—Friday, August 11, policy researchers (including advocacy research) and those teaching 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.—Marriott Wardman Park, Nathan courses in this area. In this overview, we introduce the following topic Hale areas: approaches to applied policy research from "purple prose" to cost-benefit analysis; gaining credibility for different types of research; North American Chinese Sociologists Association frequently used procedures and techniques, including types of research conference—Friday, August 11, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.)— used at different stages of the policy process; developing quantitative and qualitative evidence (the "number" and the "victim"); policy analysis Hilton Washington, Map and writing; and the ethics of applied research. Two hands-on activities Section on Political Sociology Conference—Friday, will illustrate the evidence gathering, the analysis, and the writing aspects of policy research. First, participants will work in groups to August 11, 8:30-5:30 p.m.—Hilton Washington, Monroe choose a policy issue (including standardized testing, contingent work, West welfare reform, or privatization of public services), conduct an Internet search for relevant data, and analyze their findings. Second, 1. Didactic Seminar. Social Network Analysis (co- participants will turn their findings into a piece of policy writing sponsored by the ICPSR and the ASA Section on appropriate to a specific policy forum. Methodology) 3. Professional Workshop. How to Navigate Congress Marriott Wardman Park, Harding Marriott Wardman Park, Coolidge Friday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Ticket required for admission Friday, August 11, 1:00-5:00 p.m. Leaders: Stanley Wasserman, University of Illinois, Urbana Ticket required for admission Katherine Faust, University of South Carolina Leader: Rachel Gragg, Legislative Assistant, Office of This seminar will present an introduction to concepts, methods, and Senator Paul D. Wellstone, United States Senate applications of social network analysis in the social and behavioral This professional workshop on will tell you all you ever wanted to sciences. Social network analysis focuses on relationships between know about how to approach members of Congress and their staff social entities and is widely used in the social and behavioral sciences as members on the Hill. This workshop will examine the best ways for social well as in economics, marketing, organizational behavior, and industrial scientists to participate in all stages of the legislative process. If you are engineering. This focus on relationships requires a special set of aiming to talk about your research, address an importance issue of methods distinct from the usual statistics and data analysis techniques science policy, "educate" about enhanced support for the social used to analyze the standard "cases by variables" data. sciences, or otherwise get your "message" across in informal meetings We will begin with the basic concepts and principles of social or testimony, this workshop is for you. How should you go about setting network analysis, including the elements of the social network paradigm up a meeting, what should you bring, what is the most effective mode of and formal representations for social networks (graph theory and writing, should you prepare an opening statement for an office visit, how matrices). We will then discuss structural and locational properties of informal can you be, how do you best anticipate questions, and how actors in social networks: centrality, prestige, and prominence; cohesive much time can you expect are just some of the questions that are "fair subgroups and cliques; equivalence of actors, including structural game" in this session. The workshop will provide information and equivalence and block models; an introduction to local analysis including materials that will help prepare you for meetings and presentations. Bring dyadic and triadic analyses; and basic distribution theory and statistical your questions, though. No question is too foolish in dealing with politics models. and navigating Congress. 50 Monday, August 14, 9:00 a.m. Honors Program Orientation—Friday, August 11, 1:30-5:30 8:30 a.m. Sessions p.m.—Hilton Washington, Caucus Committee on Publications—Friday, August 11, 2:00-5:30 4. Thematic Session. Latinos and Racism p.m.—Hilton Washington, Chevy Chase Marriott Wardman Park, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3 Section on Undergraduate Education Council—Friday, Organizer and Presider: Hernan Vera, University of August 11, 4:00-5:30 p.m.—Hilton Washington, C326 Florida Proposition 187: A Case of Institutionalized Racism. Jorge ASA Journal Editors—Friday, August 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m.— Bustamante, University of Notre Dame Hilton Washington, Chevy Chase Latino Racism: Overcoming Expressions of Racial Honors Program Roundtables—Friday, August 11, 7:30- Antagonism in Latino Communities. Gilberto 9:30 p.m.—Hilton Washington, Jefferson West Cardenas, University of Notre Dame An Assessment of the Status of Latinos in Sociology: Minor Advances and Major Challenges. Rogelio Saenz, Texas A&M University Discussion: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Texas A&M University 5. Special Session. Old Boundaries and New Frontiers: The Challenges and Achievements of U.S. Muslim Saturday, August 12 Women The length of each session/meeting activities is one hour Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A and forty minutes, unless noted otherwise. Session Organizer and Presider: Jen'nan Ghazal Read, University of presiders and committee chairs are requested to see that Texas, Austin sessions and meetings end on time to avoid conflicts with Ethnic Identity as a Challenge: Exploring the Boundaries of subsequent activities scheduled into the same room and to Gender, Race, and Religion. Kristine J. Ajrouch, allow participants time to transit between hotels. University of Michigan The Challenges of Being Poor, Muslim, and Female in an American City. Louise Cainkar, University of Illinois, 7:00 a.m. Meetings Chicago The Religious Tie: Gender, Identity and the Ambivalence of Section on Aging and the Life Course Council Meeting (to Assimilation. Kathleen M. Moore, University of 8:15 a.m.)—Hilton Washington, Independence Connecticut Section on Sociology of Culture Council Meeting (to 8:15 Behind the Veil, Beyond Veiling: Recent Anthropological a.m.)—Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8217 Observations. Fadwa El Guindi, University of Southern California Discussion: Yvonne Y. Haddad, Georgetown University 8:30 a.m. Meetings 6. Special Session. The Prison Industrial Complex ASA Chairs Conference (to 2:10 p.m.)—Marriott Wardman Hilton Washington, Jefferson East Park, Balcony CD Organizer and Presider: John Galliher, University of Missouri, Committee on Nominations (to 4:10 p.m.)—Hilton Columbia Washington, Hamilton The War on Drugs and the Prison Industrial Complex. William Committee on Publications (to 4:10 p.m.)—Hilton Chambliss, George Washington University Washington, Hemisphere Racism and the Prison Industrial Complex. David Patrick Honors Program—Hilton Washington, State Keys, West Texas A&M University Privatization and the Prison Industrial Complex. Yngva Digernes, University of Missouri, Columbia 8:30 a.m. Other Groups Discussion: James Austin, George Washington University AKD Sociological Inquiry Editorial Board—Marriott Wardman 7. Special Session. Politics and the Urban Context of Park, Park Tower 8209 Homelessness Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B Organizer: Leon Anderson, Ohio University Presider: Mark LaGory, University of Alabama, Birmingham Monday, August 14, 9:00 a.m. 51 Space, Politics, and the Strategic Responses of the 11. Professional Workshop. Careers or Interludes in Homeless. David A. Snow and Michael Mulcahy, Academic Administration University of Arizona Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Out of Sight—Out of Mind: Anti-Homeless Laws, Litigation Leaders: Jean Dowdall, A.T. Kearney Executive Search and Alternatives in 50 United States Cities. Kelly Charles