policies designed to resolve work/family conflicts, assessing how much PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (as of 5/12/2016) they remain projects about gender equality or not, as well as assessing This document is subject to change. Any their success as social policy. changes made will be made to the online 165. Thematic Session. One Year after Obergefell v. program. Hodges: The Case of Marriage Equality Session Organizer: Brian Powell, Indiana University Sunday, August 21 Presider: Elbert P. Almazan, Central Michigan University Panelists: Kathleen E. Hull, University of Minnesota The length of each daytime session/meeting activity Wendy Diane Manning, Bowling Green State is one hour and forty minutes, unless noted University otherwise. The usual turnover is as follows: Debra Umberson, The University of Texas at Austin 8:30am-10:10am Mary Bernstein, University of Connecticut 10:30am-12:10pm Discussant: Brian Powell, Indiana University 12:30pm-2:10pm Over a year has passed since the 2015 landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges in which the Supreme Court ruled that (whatever 2:30pm-4:10pm the decision is). To what extent were social movements, public opinion, 4:30pm-6:10pm and the academy responsible for these remarkable changes in legal rights for same-sex couples? To what extent do these legal changes Session presiders and committee chairs are reshape the agenda of LGBT social movements and scholarship on requested to see that sessions and meetings end on LGBT issues, family, the law, and social change? A panel of leading time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities sociologists of sexualities, family, the law, and social movements weighs in on these questions. scheduled into the same room. 166. Thematic Session. The Broken Spring: The Arab 7:00 am Meetings Uprisings and Their Aftermaths Community College Faculty Bagel Breakfast Session Organizer: Charles Kurzman, University of North Section on Human Rights Council Meeting Carolina Section on Sociology of Mental Health Council Meeting Presider: Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender Council Panelists: Brandon Gorman, University of North Carolina Meeting at Chapel Hill 8:30 am Meetings Hazem Kandil, Cambridge University American Sociological Review Editorial Board Neil Ketchley, University of Oxford Committee on Committees Dana M. Moss, University of California - Irvine Committee on Publications Discussants: Asef Bayat, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana Socius Editorial Meeting Zakia Salime, Rutgers University The "Arab Spring" uprisings of 2010-2011 produced a moment of Student Forum Business Meeting nearly unanimous jubilation in the Middle East and among observers Task Force on Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major worldwide. Among the celebrants was the field of social movement studies, which was initially puzzled by the sudden success of these 8:30 am Sessions largely peaceful mass movements, but eager to delve into new avenues of analysis that the uprisings launched into view, including the 164. Thematic Session. Gender Equity and Social uses of social media, the role of symbolic spaces, and the specter of Policy: Solving Work/Family Conflicts food insecurity. Several years later, optimism for the region has almost entirely disappeared, but these and other puzzles remain. This panel Session Organizer: Barbara Jane Risman, University of will examine the implications of the Arab Spring uprisings and their Illinois-Chicago tumultuous aftermaths for the study of social movements around the Presider: Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary world. The panel is composed of young scholars who conducted Panelists: Barbara M. Hobson, Stockholm University dissertation fieldwork in the region, with two senior scholars acting as discussants and instigators of audience participation, offering both Emeritus specific feedback on the papers and broader debate on underlying Mauro Migliavacca, University of Genoa issues: Can social movement studies be moved by analyses of a region Teresa Jurado-Guerrero, so often treated as culturally distant from the heart of the field? If so, Hana Hašková, Institute of Sociology of the Czech what can the field learn from cases whose dramatic turns have caused such whiplash among both participants and observers? Academy of Sciences Discussant: Janet Gornick, The Graduate Center / City 167. Thematic Session. U.S. Feminism in the 21st University of New York Century There remains a fundamental incompatibility between the structure Session Organizer: Jo Reger, Oakland University of the paid labor force and the ability to do caretaking labor for those with whom we have personal relationships. The presumption that Presider: Jo Reger, Oakland University “ideal workers” have domestic partners whose job it is to do caretaking Panelists: Anne Slater, Seattle Chapter of Radical work remains an underlying presumption within economic organizations Women which disadvantages women, and creates class divides among women Susan Stryker, University of Arizona based on the ability to outsource traditional female caretaking work. Resolving this dilemma is one project of feminists around the world. Whitney Peoples, University of Texas, Arlington This panel will bring together feminist researchers who are studying the Alison Dahl Crossley, Stanford University, Clayman Institute for Gender Research Mimi Schippers, Tulane University Discussant: Jo Reger, Oakland University Keeping in line with the mission of the caucus, this panel will U.S. feminist activism continues into the 21st century, addressing provide an opportunity to have a dialogue about how our queer long-standing as well as new issues all in a mix of debate, dissension, identities impact various aspects of the research process, which may unity, solidarity and division. This panel will explore some of the most include, but are certainly not limited to: acquiring funding, IRB pressing matters for contemporary feminists and provide an analysis of experiences, collaborating with other scholars, fieldwork, publishing, its history. The panelists will speak to issues of race, class, sexuality, etc. The panel will consist of scholars at various stages of their sex and gender in the U.S. women’s movement. academic careers (e.g., senior scholars, junior scholars, post-docs, and graduate students). Past panels were primarily comprised of Associate 168. Special Session. Attack on Public Education K- and Full Professors, which was another problem identified in the survey that this panel will overcome. In addition, we have included panelists 12 from both research and teaching centered institutions in order to reflect Session Organizer: Linda Renzulli, University of Georgia the diversity of experiences sociologists have based on their milieu. Presider: Linda Renzulli, University of Georgia The workshop will be open to all ASA members, and affiliation with the Panelists: Aaron M. Pallas, Teachers College, Columbia ASA Sociologists LGBTQ Caucus is not required. In fact, these workshops not only serve the needs of the existing members of the Univ. caucus, but also help to make the caucus more visible to other Adam Gamoran, William T. Grant Foundation members of ASA. Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University Amy Stuart Wells, Columbia University, Teachers 172. Policy and Research Workshop. National College Science Foundation: Proposal Development, Merit This panel brings together leading scholars doing work to change Review and Funding Opportunities the conversation about public education. Currently the attacks on Session Organizer: Patricia E. White, National Science education include the teaching profession, standardized testing and Foundation curriculum, and neo-liberal and privatization pressures when it comes to public education (e.g., charter schools, vouchers, homeschooling, Leader: Patricia E. White, National Science Foundation etc). The panelists will discuss attacks and efforts to change public Co-Leaders: Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona education, the implications of the changes occurring, and will offer Beth A. Rubin, UNC-Charlotte insight into whether and/or how sociologists might more effectively Marc Schneiberg, Reed College engage in these matters. This workshop targets graduate students, faculty, and researchers who are new at proposal writing and submission or interested in 169. Author Meets Critics Session. Labor's Love Lost learning about funding opportunities for sociological research at the The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in National Science Foundation (NSF). Representatives from NSF, its America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2014) by research review committees, and grantees will discuss the proposal Andrew J. Cherlin development process, elements of a competitive proposal, proposal submission and review, and funding opportunities for sociological Session Organizer: Frank F. Furstenberg, University of research. The format will be interactive, allowing for audience questions Pennsylvania and participation. Time is allotted for providing advice on how to Author: Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University prepare competitive doctoral dissertation proposals. Attend the Research Opportunities and Data Resources poster session for one- on-one discussions with NSF Program Officers. 170. Author Meets Critics Session. The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of 173. Student Forum Workshop Session. All My Racial Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2015) Friends Are Stressed: Mental Health, Social by Ellen Berrey Support, and Self-Care in Graduate School