Friday, August 6, 4:30 p.m. 55 Program Schedule equivalence and blockmodels; an introduction to local analysis including The length of each session/meeting activity is one hour dyadic and triadic analyses; and basic distribution theory and statistical and 45 minutes, unless noted otherwise. Session models. presiders and committee chairs should see that sessions The course text will be: Wasserman, Stanley and Faust, Katherine and meetings end on time to avoid conflicts with (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge, ENG and New York: Cambridge University Press. subsequent activities scheduled into the same room. 1999 ASA Chair Conference—Thursday, August 5, 1:00- Program Corrections: The information printed here 9:30 p.m.—Hilton Chicago, Williford C reflects session updates received from organizers through Section on Political Sociology Conference—Thursday, July 12, 1999. Changes received after that date appear in August 5, 1:00-5:00 p.m.—Hilton Chicago, Boulevard the Convention Bulletin distributed with the Final Program Rooms A-B-C packets. Please check that bulletin for the latest updates. Honors Program Orientation—Thursday, August 5, 1:30- 5:30 p.m.—Hilton Chicago, Marquette Pre-Meeting Activities ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____ Alpha Kappa Delta Executive Council—Thursday, August 5, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.—Hilton Chicago, Lake Erie Friday, August 6 North American Chinese Sociologists Association conference—Thursday, August 5, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.— 8:30 a.m. Meetings ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hilton Chicago, Joliet ____ Add Health National Scientific Advisory Committee— Committee on Nominations (to 4:15 p.m.)—Hilton Chicago, Thursday, August 5, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.—Hilton McCormick Room Chicago, Conference Room 4L 1. Didactic Seminar. Social Network Analysis (co- 8:30 a.m. Sessions sponsored by the Inter-University Consortium for ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____ Political and Social Research and the ASA Section on Methodology) 2. Thematic Session. Entrepreneurship and Hilton Chicago, Lake Huron Rebuilding Communities in Comparative Thursday, August 5, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon; 1:00-4:00 p.m. Perspective Ticket required for admission Hilton Chicago, Continental C Stanley Wasserman, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Organizer: John Sibley Butler, University of Texas, Austin; Katherine Faust, University of South Carolina and Patricia Greene, University of Missouri, Kansas This seminar will present an introduction to concepts, methods, and City applications of social network analysis in the social and behavioral Presider: Patricia Greene, University of Missouri, Kansas sciences. Social network analysis focuses on relationships between City social entities and is widely used in the social and behavioral sciences as Incubators and the Rebuilding of Communities. Michelle well as in economics, marketing, organizational behavior, and industrial engineering. This focus on relationships requires a special set of Chesser, Purdue University methods distinct from the usual statistics and data analysis techniques Micro-Lending and the Building of Communities in India. used to analyze the standard “cases by variables” data. Eliza Evans, University of Texas, Austin We will begin with the basic concepts and principles of social Turkey, Entrepreneurship, and Community. Liesl Riddle, network analysis, including the elements of the social network paradigm University of Texas, Austin and formal representations for social networks (graph theory and matrices). We will then discuss structural and locational properties of 3. Special Session. Transnational Communities at actors in social networks: centrality, prestige, and prominence; cohesive subgroups and cliques; equivalence of actors, including structural Century’s End 56 Friday, August 6, 4:30 p.m. Hilton Chicago, Boulevard B positions in academia. Each of the panelists will speak from his or her own experiences in administration. Issues to be covered include: using Organizer: Ruth Simms Hamilton, Michigan State University sociological skills in the work of administration, the value of training Presider: Jonathan W. Warren, University of Washington programs for potential administrators; finding your way into Engendering Social and Political Participation across administration, the impact of an administrative interlude or shift on a Borders. Peggy J. Levitt, Wellesley College sociologist’s career, and re-joining the faculty. Family Reunification of Japanese Brazilians in Japan: A Road to Permanent Settlement. Keiko Yamanaka, University of 6. Academic Workplace Workshop. Ethics and Teaching California, Berkeley in Sociology: Student Preconceptions and Gender, Class, and Network: Social Structure and Migration Professional Responses (co-sponsored by the ASA Patterns among Transnational Israelis. Steven J. Gold, Committee on Professional Ethics) Michigan State University Hilton Chicago, Lake Huron Discussion: Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, California State Leader: Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana University University, Long Beach Panel: Robert Carini, Indiana University Presenters will discuss the key points of their papers, after which the discussant will present a summary and highlight critical points. Terri Demon, Indiana University Following this, the audience will be invited to interact with the presenters Matthew Oware, Indiana University and the discussant. Camilla Salusbury, Indiana University Carla D. Shirley, Indiana University 4. Special Session. Diversity Issues in Rural American This workshop addresses a number of ethical issues we face as (co-sponsored by the Rural Sociological teachers and which form the topic of a number of recent efforts in the Society/Kellogg Diversity Initiative Subcommittee on discipline, including the Preparing Future Faculty Program. We will (1) examine where students get their ideas about the college experience Curriculum Transformation) through viewing images in popular film, (2) discuss the areas of ethical Hilton Palmer House, Parlor G concern that they raise for sociologists in the classroom, and (3) provide helpful materials both from the CASEBOOK and READER being Organizer and Presider: Carol A. Jenkins, Glendale developed to accompany the ASA Code of Ethics as well as from other Community College, Arizona new or forthcoming publications. Building Civic Culture in Rural Mississippi: The Delta’s New Black Middle Class. Cynthia Duncan, University of New 7. Open Refereed Roundtables. Economy, Labor Markets, Hampshire and Organization Bingo, Blackjack, and One-Armed Bandits in the Northwoods: Hilton Chicago, Private Dining Room 4 Indian Gaming in Wisconsin. Annette Kuhlmann, University of Wisconsin, Baraboo Campus Organizer: Christopher K. Vanderpool, Michigan State Rurality, Institutional Disadvantage, and University Achievement/Attainment. Martha L. Crowley and Vincent 1. Does Competition in Markets Electrify Capitalism? J. Roscigno, Ohio State University Table Presider: Dag MacLeod, Johns Hopkins University Immigration and Community in Iowa: How Many Have Come Small Business Community Values and Their Relationship to and What Is the Impact? Sandra Charvat Burke and Competitive Strategies. Terry L. Besser and Nancy Willis J. Goudy, Iowa State University Miller, Iowa State University Living Together: Rural Diversity in Knox County, Ohio. Cartel Stability in A Competitive Market: Insights from the Howard L. Sacks, Kenyon College, Ohio Great Electrical Conspiracy. Eric Cheney, Gene A. Fisher, and Robert R. Faulkner, University of 5. Professional Workshop. Careers or Interludes in Massachusetts; and Wayne E. Baker, University of Academic Administration Michigan A Sociology of the Economics of Electric Power Industry Hilton Palmer House, Parlor H Restructuring. Kenneth Zimmerman, Oklahoma Organizer: Kathleen M. McCourt, Loyola University of Corporation Commission Chicago Bringing Capitalism Back into the Study of Markets: A Panel: Kirsten A. Gronbjerg, Indiana University Theoretical Critique of the New Economic Sociology. Dag Brad Stewart, University of St. Thomas MacLeod, Johns Hopkins University Teresa A. Sullivan, University of Texas, Austin 2. Structuration and Fragmentation of Labor Markets Table Presider: Matt Huffman, University of California, Santa It may be that a disproportionate number of sociologists enter Barbara academic administration. Yet, while organizational behavior, Self-Employment: Something New or the Revitalization of an interpersonal relations, and institutional conflict and change may seem Old Phenomenon? Towards a Disaggregated natural subject matters for sociologists, the realities of academic Theorization. Rachel Cohen, University of California, Los administration often pose unanticipated challenges. This workshop will Angeles focus on the rewards and pitfalls for sociologists assuming administrative Friday, August 6, 4:30 p.m. 57 Organizational Recruitment, Job Search Methods, and Sex Conducting Evaluations in an Audit Environment: Evaluating Segregation: Further Evidence. Matt Huffman, University Arizona’s At-Risk Preschool Program. Elizabeth A. of California, Irvine; and Lisa Torres and Steven Velasco, Holtzapple, Arizona Office of the Auditor General University of California, Santa Barbara Child Care Improvement on a Shoe-String: Evaluating