1986 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, THE WRITER’S MANOR, DENVER, COLORADO, APRIL 10-12, 1986

 

THEME: THE FUTURE OF SOCIOLOGY

 

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1986

 

SESSIONS

 

1.Historical Sociology

 

Organizer and Presider: Robert Hanneman, UC Riverside

 

Discussant: Charles Wetherell, UC Riverside

 

Philip L. Reichel, Univ. of Northern Colorado: A Socio-Historical Review of Policing in the Colonial and Ante-Bellum South

 

David A. Smith, UC Irvine: ‘Dependent Urbanization’ In Colonial America: The Case of Charleston, South Carolina

 

Jack Whalen and Marion S. Goldman, Univ. of Oregon: From the new Left to the New Enlightenment: The Methodological Implications of Public Attention to Private Lives

 

Robert O. Schulze, Univ. of Northern Colorado: F.D.R.’s Influentials: Some Demographics

 

Mary Freifeld, UC San Diego: Technological Change and the ‘Self-Acting’ Mule: A Study of Skill and the Sexual Division of Labor

 

2.Race and Ethnic Relations

 

Organizer and Presider: Edna Bonacich, UC Riverside

 

Discussants: Lucie Cheng, UCLA; Celestino Fernandez, Univ. of Arizona; Melvin Oliver, UCLA

 

Edna Bonacich, UC Riverside: The Future of Race Relations

 

3.Sociology of Religion—I

 

Organizer and Presider: James Duke, Brigham Young University

 

Stan L. Albrecht and Marie Cornwall, Brigham Young Univ.: Leaving Mormonism: Disengagement and Disaffiliation

 

Fred Sklar, CSU Hayward: Does Bereavement Training for Ministers Make a Difference: Interaction Styles Between Clergy and Their Parishioner Survivors

 

John Heeren, Donald B. Lindsey and Barbara W. Sirotnik, CSU San Bernardino: Rating the Prime Time Preachers: An Experiment

 

David R. Norsworthy, Whitman College: Southern Baptists Face Modernity

 

4.Social Policy

 

Organizer and Presider: Richard G. Rogers, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

 

Robert M. Hunter, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder: The Reform of Junior High Civic’s Curricula and Its Impact on Delinquent Behavior

 

Robert A. Hackenberg, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Policy Science of Applied Anthropology

 

Adele Platter, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Elderly Needs: Colorado’s Policy Implications

 

Susan Green, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Policy Implications for Increasing Prevalence of AIDS

 

Marie Valenzuela, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: The Impact of AIDS on the Insurance Industry

 

5.Sociology of Work

 

Organizer and Presider: James H. Frey, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

Carol Copp, CSU Fullerton: The Professional Association as the Locus of Dissent: Marxists and Institutionalists in Contemporary Economics

 

Diane Calderon, Arizona State Univ., Tempe: Structural Factors Affecting Confidence in Union Leadership

 

Charles P. Gallmeier, CSU Long Beach: Playing a Game as Work

 

Clifford L. Staples, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Houston: Working Out at Work: Corporate Wellness as a Control Strategy

 

David Dickens and James H. Frey, Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas: A Re-evaluation of the Work-Leisure Relationship

 

6.Sociological Theory—I

 

Organizer and Presider: Herman Turk, Univ. of Southern California

 

William C. Bogard, Colorado State University: Towards an Artistic Sociology

 

Herman Turk, Univ. of Southern California: Macrotheory and Number Crunching: Are They Coming Together?

David E. Willer, Univ. of Kansas: Social Structures and Historical Transition

 

7.Getting a Job: Academic and Non-Academic Opportunities

 

Organizer and Presider: Karen A. Miller, Arizona State Univ.

 

Panel Members: Frederick L. Campbell, Univ. of Washington; Bettina Huber, American Sociological Association, and Karen A. Miller, Arizona State Univ.

 

8.Medical Sociology

 

Organizer and Presider: Howard E. Freeman, UC Los Angeles

 

Discussant: Virginia L. Olesen, UC San Francisco

 

Howard E. Freeman, UC Los Angeles: The Present and Future of Medical Sociology

 

Karen A. Lyman, Univ. of Southern California: The Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Sociology of Medical Knowledge

 

Milton Bloombaum and Ted Gugelyk, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: The Post-Institutional Phase of the Leprosy Patient

 

Rumi Kato Price, UC Berkeley: Psychological Well-Being and Opiate Use

 

9.Environmental Sociology: The Problems of Social Impact Assessment

 

Organizer and Preside: Ron Little, Utah State Univ.

 

Discussant: Joseph Jorgensen, UC Irvine and Richard Ranish, Utah State Univ.

 

Patrick C. Jobes, Montana State University: Failures of Social Impact Research: the Case of Reservation Impacts

 

Richard O. Clemmer, Univ. of Denver: The Regrettable Fragmentation of Impact Analysis

 

James G. Thompson and Garry Williams, Western Research Corporation: The Multiple Roles of the Social Impact Assessor: Scientist, Issues Analyst, Facilitator, Arbitrator and Conflict Manager

 

William R. Freudenburg, Washington State Univ.: The Role of Environmental State Process

 

James Bam burger, Alaska Legal Service: Challenging Government Impact Analysis

10.Sociology of Education—I

 

Organizer, Presider and Discussant: Leonard Gordon, Arizona State University

 

Virginia Olesen, Patricia Anderson, Sheryl Ruzck and Adele Clarke, UC San Francisco: Early Stages of Adopting and Implementing Innovative Curricular Content

 

Ronald Hardert, Arizona State Univ.: Social Factors Related to Adolescent Drug Abuse Among High School Students: A Test of Three Theories

 

Rosalind Mau, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa: Sources of Alienation in the Secondary School Setting in Hawaii

 

Dwight Lang, UC Berkeley: Is Higher Education Meritocratic? Recent Findings Regarding Equality and Inequality in the Academic Hierarchy

 

11.Sex Roles

 

Organizer and Presider: Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman, Washington State University

 

Discussant: Diane Mitsch Bush, Colorado State University

 

Robert Enright, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point: Working Class Women’s Attitudes toward Women’ s Role and the Feminist Movement

 

Susan B. Kaiser, Joan L. Chandler, Carla M. Freeman and Susan C. Carstens, UC Davis: Appearance Forms and Sex Role Ideology: A Characterization of Females on Saturday Morning Television

 

Annette Carney, Elizabeth Wong and Margaret Franklin, Univ. of Nevada, Reno: Impact of Parental Sex Role Attitudes on Females Mathematical Achievement

 

Richard Dukes, Joyce Calese, Robert Lake, James Scott and B. Shiver, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs: Father or Mother is Okay: Quality of Parenting as an Effect of Perceived Parent Gender

 

12.Computer Applications in Sociology—I

 

Organizer and Presider: Jane Reisman, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

 

Discussant: Theodore C. Wagenaar, Miami University

 

Sheila Cordray, Oregon State Univ.: Teaching with Micros: Issues in Integration

 

John Schiller, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Case Examples of Using Computer Programs in Teaching Sociology

 

Lawrence Hamilton, Univ. of Hampshire: Microcomputer Graphics for Statistical Analysis

 

Bryce Johnson and Victoria Sturtevant, Southern Oregon State College: A Comparison of Computer Interviewing with Traditional Paper and Pencil Format: Soliciting Sensitive Information

 

13.Criminology

 

Organizer and Presider: Travis Hirschi, Univ. of Arizona

 

F.D. Cousineau and D.C. Betts, Simon Fraser Univ.: The Rehabilitation Effectiveness Debate: A CITATION and Bibliometrics Analysis

Peter G. Garabedian, San Francisco State Univ.: The Impact of the Plea Bargaining Ban on Sentencing Under the California Victim’s Bill of Rights

 

Robert M. O’Brien, Univ. of Oregon: The Extent of Violent Crimes Within and Between Sexes

 

Earl Smith and Siu Kwong Wong, Washington State Univ.: Percent Black and Homicide Rate: A Test of Durkheim’s Proposition of Individuation

 

14.Getting Grants: Opportunities for Research Funding and Dissertation Support

 

Panel members: Marsha Ory, National Institute on Aging; Julius Pellegrino, National Center for Health Services Research

 

15.Applied Sociology

 

Organizer and Presider: Richard A. Berk, UC Santa Barbara

 

Discussants: Thomas Pullum, Univ. of Washington and Michael, Univ. of Arizona

 

Richard A. Berk, UC Santa Barbara: How Applied Sociology Can Save Basic Sociology

 

16.Complex Organizations

 

Organizers and Presiders: Lee Clarke and Oscar Grusky, UC Los Angeles

 

Discussants: Lee Clarke and Oscar Grusky, UCLA; Marshall Meyer, UC Riverside

 

Katherine L. Woodard, Univ. of Pittsburgh: Organizational Response to Community Needs

 

David Strang, Stanford University: The Centralization of American Education: District Consolidation 1938-1980

 

Lee Clarke: and Oscar Grusky, UC Los Angeles: The Future of the Sociology of Organizations

 

John Olson, Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers; Richard N. Osbom, Wayne State Univ.: Organizational Design of the Engineering Function and the Safety Performance of Nuclear Power Plants

 

Kevin Delaney, State Univ. of New York: Logic of Computers and Social Control: A Case Study of a New York Trading Company

 

Vicki Smith, UC Berkeley: When Managers Don’t Manage

Marshall Meyer, UC Riverside: What Happened to Industrial Sociology?

 

17.Deviance—I: Family Perspectives

 

Organizer and Presider: Eric Roole, Univ. of Colorado, Denver

 

Discussant: Robert M. Rigoli, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

 

Stephanie Amedeo-Eineker and Susan B. Tiano, Univ. of New Mexico: Blaming the Victim of Child Abuse

 

Faye Wood and Lyle Warner, Univ. of Nevada, Reno: The Relationship Between Child Abuse and Seriousness of Delinquent Behavior

 

Mildred Daley Pagelow, CSU Fullerton: Marital Rape

 

 

18.Symbolic Interaction

 

Organizer and Presider: Inger J. Sagatun, San Jose State University

 

Discussant: Chef Winton, San Jose State University

 

Michael Blain, Boise State University: Fighting Words and War Movements: What We Can Learn From Hitler’s Battle

 

Patricia Robinson, UC Davis: Body Work: The Organizational Manipulation of the Physical Self by the Female Figure Salon

 

Marcia Empey and Anna Kuhl, San Jose State Univ.: A Symbolic Interaction Approach to the Victimization of Parents of Murdered Children

 

A.D. Olmsted, The Univ. of Calgary: Collecting Popular Culture: Identity and Interaction in Mass Society

 

Susan Ellen Green, Univ. of Montana: A Comparative Descriptive Analysis of Two Instances of Face o Face Interaction

 

19.Sociological Theory—II

 

Organizer and Presider: Herman Turk, Univ. of Southern California

 

F. Douglas Cousineau, Simon Fraser Univ. B.C.: Theoretical Growth in Sociology: Some Methods of Appraisal

 

Robert L. Hamblin and June A. Hamblin, Univ. of Arizona: Collective Learning Theory: The Air Hijacking Epidemics

 

Jon P. Miller, Univ. of Southern California: Social Accounts and Organizational Decisions: Rethinking Weber’s Treatment of Rationality

 

20.Poster Session—I: Summary Research Reports

 

David Taylor, Univ. of Montana: ‘No Surrender!’ Paisleyism and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland

 

James A. Aho, Idaho State Univ.: Idaho Christian Patriotism: Preliminary Testing of Sociological Theories of Casuality

 

Mary White Stewart, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City: Seeing Red: Women, Men and Anger

 

Ronny E. Turner and Patricia Harvey, Colorado State Univ.: Six, Sex, Sin and Sorcery: The Social Construction of Gendered Religion

 

John Crank, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder: Legal Culture: A Re-examination of the Adversarial Perspective

 

Asghar Fathi, Univ. of Calgary: The Social Organization of the Islamic Pulpit as a Medium of Public Communication

 

21.Apha Kappa Delta: Information, Ideas, and Activities Exchange

 

Moderators: Lyn H. Lofland, UC Davis; James Duke, Brigham Young Univ.; Nancy Reichman, Univ. of Denver

 

22.Getting Published: Suggestions From Editors

 

Panel Members: Edgar Borgatta, Univ. of Washington; Bernard Farber, Arizona State Univ.; Leonard Pearlin, UC San Francisco

 

23.Plenary Session

 

Lois DeFleur, Washington State Univ.: Deviance and Social Control

 

Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, UC Berkeley: Ethnic Groups in Flux

 

24.Computer Applications in Sociology II: An Informal Demonstration Session

 

Organizer: Jane Reisman, Pacific Lutheran University

 

Mary Beth Susman, Community College of Denver: Computer Testing

Bryce Johnson and Victoria Sturtevant, South Oregon State College: Computerized Interviewing

 

Lawrence Hamilton, Univ. of New Hampshire: Computerized Graphics

 

John Schiller, Pacific Lutheran Univ.: Courseware

 

25.Urban Sociology Yet To Come: Directions For The 1990s

 

Organizer and Presider: Barrett A. Lee, Vanderbilt University

 

Panel Members: Dennis R. Judd, Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis; Barrett A. Lee, Vanderbilt Univ. ; Lyn H. Lofland, UC Davis

 

 

26.Sociologies of Everyday Life—I

 

Organizer: Andrea Fontana, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

Presider and Discussant: Frederick W. Preston, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

Patricia Adler, Oklahoma State Univ. and Peter Adler, Tulsa Univ.: Advances in Everyday Life Methodology: Morality, Subjectivity, Participation and Commitment

 

Frederick W. Preston and Andrea Fontana, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas: City of Lights

 

Jeffrey Ferrell, Regis College, and Stith Benneth, Colorado Observations: Into the Breach: Common Knowledge in Music Video

 

David Altheide and Robert Snow, Arizona State Univ.: Electronics Imagery and Social Interaction

 

27.Teaching Sociology

 

Organizer and Presider: William C. Martin, CSU Chico

 

Robert M. Schwieder and Gary A. Cretser, Cal Poly Univ. and Sheila Cordray, Oregon State Univ.: We Will Survive, But Will the Discipline? Or, Can There Be Quality Sociology in a Shrinking Market?

 

H. Reed Geertsen, Utah State Univ.: Simulation, Theory Construction, and Research

 

Kathleen E. Kaiser, CSU Chico: Bringing the Applied into the Fold: Contracting and Mentoring

 

Kris Bulcroft and Michael Leming, St. Olaf College: Teaching Undergraduates about Research Methods and Statistics: Doing-Sociology as a Team

 

Mary Beth Susman, Community College of Denver: Developing Computer Based Education and Self-Pacing for Introductory Sociology: A Teacher’s Perspective

 

William C. Martin, CSU Chico: What’s Working Well in Undergraduate Sociology: A survey of PSA Departments

 

28.Minority Relations

 

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Celestino Fernandez, Univ. of Arizona

 

Peter Nelligan and Allen Martin, Univ. of Texas: Differential Ethnic Participation in Business Activities in the Hawaiian Islands During the 19^th Century

 

Tomoji Ishi, UC Berkeley: A Comparative Study of Occupational Distributions: Japanese Immigrants in Brazil and the United States

 

Richard B. Hill, Jr., San Diego State Univ.: Class and Education Conflict in California’s Imperial Valley: A Case Study of a Border County

 

Phylis Cancilla Martinellie and Richard Nagaswa, Arizona State University: A Further Test the ‘Model Minority’ Thesis: Japanese Americans in a Sunbelt State

 

29.Sociology of Education—II

 

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Leonard Gordon, Arizona State Univ.

 

Warren Ten Houten, UC Los Angeles: Australian Aborigines Outperform Whites at Visual Closure

 

John Booker, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks: The Institutionalization of a Teacher Corp Program: From ARTTC to X-CED to What?

 

Theodore Wagenaar, Miami Univ.: Financial Aid and Postsecondary Education Attendance: 1972-1980

 

Yasemin Soysal and David Strang, Stanford Univ.: The Timing of National Education: 19^th Century Europe

 

30.The Future of Sociology of Law

 

Organizer and Presider: H. Laurence Ross, Univ. of New Mexico

 

Discussants: Stewart Macaulay, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison and Patrick Lauderdale, Arizona State University

 

Lee Teitelbaum and H. Laurence Ross, Univ. of Mexico: The Future of the Sociology of Law

 

31.Professional Certification By The ASA: Question and Answers

 

Bettina Huber, Deputy Executive Officer, American Sociological Association

 

32.World Culture

 

Organizer: Francisco O. Ramirez, San Francisco State Univ.

 

Presider: David Strang, Stanford Univ.

 

Robert Fiala, Univ. of New Mexico: The Service Sector and the Social Construction of Economic Growth

 

Yasemin Soysal and Connie McNeely, Stanford Univ.: Resistance to Cultural Hegemony: Televisions Flows in the Third World

 

Francisco O. Ramirez, San Francisco State Univ.: Global Changes, World Myths, and the Demise of Cultural Gender

 

33.Class, Stratification and Gender

 

Organizer and Presider: Joan Acker, Univ. of Oregon

 

Karen Petersen, American Univ.: Social vs. Technical Relations of Production: Reformulating Kohn’s Concept of Occupational Self-Direction

Elizabeth Mown, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Fetal Stratification: High Tech Reproduction (and old sociology?) in the New China

 

Amy Wharton, Stanford Univ.: New Directions in Gender Stratification Research

 

Carol Andreas, Colorado Springs, Colorado: The Feminist Dialectic: Class and the Women’s Movement

 

Joan Acker, Univ. of Oregon: Comment: Emerging Issues in the Study of Class, Stratification, and Gender

 

34.Family: Qualities of The Marital Relationship as Causes and Consequences

 

Organizer and Presider: Rhonda J.V. Montgomery, Univ. of Washington

 

Discussants: Rebecca Warner, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Karen Seccombe, Univ. of Washington

 

Patricia Thomas Crane, CSU Fullerton: Childbearing Post-ponement: Marital and Lifestyle Differences Between Voluntarily Childless Wives and Wives Who Intend to Have Children

 

Bartolomeo J. Palisi and Myron Orleans, CSU Fullerton: Adjustment to Stepfatherhood: Marital History, Status and Resources

 

Eugen Lupri, The Univ. of Calgary: Conjugal Violence in Canadian Families

 

William R. Catton, Jr., Washington State Univ.: Potential Effects of a ‘Divorce Heritage’

 

Donald E. Stull, Karl D. Kosloski and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery, Univ. of Washington: Predictors of Well-being among Caregivers of the Elderly

 

35.Sociologies of Everyday Life—II

 

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Andrea Fontana, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

John M. Johnson, Arizona State Univ.: Cultivated Ignorance

 

John Hillebrand, UC San Diego: Comedians, Loners and Gossips: Arbitrating the Rules of Male Friendships

 

Colette Bruegel and Robert Bruegel, Boulder, Colorado: Everyday Medical and Social Management of a Child with Spina Bifida

 

Jack D. Douglas, UC San Diego: The Strange and Mysterious Sex Life of Savages

 

36.Juvenile Delinquency

 

Organizer and Presider: Robert Regoli, Univ. of Colorado Boulder

 

Discussant: Eric D. Poole, Univ. of Colorado, Denver

 

John E. Donovan, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder: A Typological Approach to Ineractionism in the Explanation of Adolescent Deviant Behavior

 

David Musick, Univ. of Northern Colorado: Working Notes on the Conceptual Context of Delinquency in the United States

 

Joe Weis, Univ. of Washington: A Test of Adolescent Sub-Culture Theory

 

37.Sociology of Age, Aging and the Aged

 

Organizer and Presider: Judith Treas, Univ. of Southern California

 

Discussant: Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ.

 

Judith Treas and Patricia Passuth, Univ. of Southern California: The Three Sociologies: Age, Aging, and the Aged

 

Barbara S. Lawrence, UC Los Angeles: An Organizational Theory of Age Effects

 

Dale Dannefer, Univ. of Rochester: The Matthew Effect and the Life Course: Aging as Intracohort Differentiation

 

Denise D. Bielby, UC Santa Barbara: Sources of Diversity in Economic Well-Being of the Elderly

 

38.Didactic Seminar—Lisrel: Procedures and Problems

 

Jerald R. Herting and Herbert L. Costner, Univ. of Washington

 

39.Deviance II: Comparative Perspective

 

Organizer and Presider: Eric Poole, Univ. of Colorado Denver

 

Discussant: Stuart Hayden, Northern Arizona State University Flagstaff

 

Chris Girard, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison: The Dubious Legacy of Freud: An Empirical Critique of Frustration—Aggression Theories of Suicide

 

Frederick L. Whitman, Arizona State Univ.: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Homosexuality, Transvestism and Transsexualism

 

R. George Kirkpatrick, San Diego State Univ.: Rapport, Trust and Test of Admission to the Inner Circles of Neo Pagan Witchcraft

 

40.Social Psychology I: Toward Synthesis

 

Organizer and Presider: Karen S. Cook, Univ. of Washington

 

C. David Gartrell, Univ. of Victoria: Network Approaches to Social Evaluation

 

Jonathan H. Turner, UC Riverside: Toward a Sociological Theory of Motivation

 

Thomas F. Pettigrew, UC Santa Cruz: Toward Unity and Bold Theory: Popperian Suggestions for Two Persistent Problems of Social Psychology

 

Karen S. Cook, Univ. of Washington: The Sociological Foundations of Social Psychology: A Comment on Models of Action, Reaction and Interaction

 

41.Latin America

 

Organizer and Presider: David E. Lopez, UC Los Angeles

 

Lisa Fuentes, Stanford University: The Stabilizing Role of the Latin American Middle Class: A Reassessment

David S. McKell, Northern Arizona University Flagstaff: Religion and Revolution in Nicaragua

 

Diane Davis, Brown University: Mexico’s Debt Crisis

 

Susan Tiano, Univ. of New Mexico: Autonomy and Traditionality Among Maquila Workers in Mexicall

 

42.Sociology of Health

 

Organizer and Presider: Rita Braito, Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis

 

Dorothy Everts, Arizona State Univ.: Role Distance as a Measure of Mental Health

 

Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State Univ.: Salvaging a Self: Maintaining a Healthy Self in the Face of Devastating Illness

 

Katherine Woodard and Herbert C. Chulburg, Univ. of Pittsburg: Differences in Social Networks Between Patients with Psychiatric and Physical Diagnosis

H. Edward Runsford, Univ. of Southern California:  Correlates of Preventive Behavior Among Women

 

Susan Calhoun-Studer, and Alvin Goldberg, Univ. of Denver; Rita Braito, Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis: Health Orientation, Self Concept, and Breast Self Examination Among Professional Women

 

43.Applied Environmental Sociology

 

Organizer and Presider: Ron Little, Utah State Univ.

 

Discussants: Charles Cortesse, Univ of Denver and Patrick Jones, Montana State Univ.

 

Paul Mohai, Utah State Univ.: The Role of Data in the EIS Process: Evidence from RARE II

 

John S. Miller, Univ. of Arkansas Little rock: Applying Environmental Sociology

 

Karl H. Flaming and Philip H. Smith, Univ. of Colorado, Denver and Marilyn Stember, Univ. of Colorado, Health Sciences Center: Predictors of Public Compliance with the Better Air Campaign and other Air Quality Strategies in Denver

 

Robert Stallings, UC Los Angeles: Reporting to Work Voluntarily: Multivariate Analysis of the Mobilization of Standby Resources in Disaster

 

44.Feminist Theory and Research

 

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Miriam M. Johnson, Univ. of Oregon

 

Therese Ten Tusscher, UC Berkeley: Patriarchy, Capitalism and the New Right

 

Trudy Mills, Univ. of Arizona: Battered Wives: Passive Victims or Constrained Actors?

 

Diane Mitsch Busch, Colorado State Univ.: Gender and Methods of Inquiry: Some Problems With Current Conceptions of Gender Similarity and Difference

 

Marta E. Giminez, Univ. of Colorado Boulder: Capitalist Development: Class Struggle and Sexual Politics

 

45.What is Worth Teaching in Sociology?

 

Organizer and Presider: Frederick L. Campbell, Univ. of Washington

 

Panel Members: Frederick L. Campbell, Univ. of Washington; William Brustein, Univ. of Utah; William Catton, Washington State Univ.; Debra Friedman, Univ. of Arizona; Rodney Stark, Univ. of Washington

 

46.Awards and Student Paper Competition Winners Penthouse

 

Presider: David Schichor, CSU San Bernardino

 

Distinguished Scholarship Award: Claude S. Fischer, UC Berkeley: To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City

 

Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Practice: Thomas E. Lasswell, Univ. of Southern California

 

Distinguished Student Papers

 

First Place: Kathy Murguia, California State College Bakersfield: Weinstein’s Theory and the Mechanization of the Processed Tomato Industry

 

Second Place: Noah J. Fritz, Arizona State Univ.: The Impact of Television on the Missing Children Issua

 

Third Place (tie): Barbara Corry, Univ. of Southern California: Of Guts and Glory: An Ethnographic Journey into the World of the Stand-up Comic

 

Third Place (tie): Robert E. Lee Roberts, Univ. of Southern California: Ideology, the Media, and the Creation of Culture: A Look at the Herpes Epidemic

 

47.PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

 

Presider: Bernard Farber, Arizona State University

 

Edgar Borgatta, Univ. of Washington: The Future of Sociology: The Basis for Optimism

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1986

 

48.Demography

 

Organizer and Presider: Thomas W. Pullum, Univ. of Washington

 

Discussant: Brian Pitcher, Utah State Univ.

 

Thomas W. Pullum, Univ. of Washington: Sociological Perspectives in Demography

 

Patricia A. Gwarthey—Gibbs, Univ. of Oregon: The Influences of Spousal Characteristics and Premarital Cohabitation on Age at Marriage, 1970 and 1980

 

Lawrence A. Carter, Univ. of Oregon: Age Patterns at First Marriage: Structural Characteristics of Frequency Distributions for Premaritally Cohabiting and Noncohabiting Brides 1970-1980

 

Lloyd B. Potter, Univ. of Texas: Parts of the Net Migration Machine: Sign, Turnover and Migration Efficiency

 

49.Mass Communications

 

Presider and Discussant: Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Washington State Univ. and Univ. of Southern California

 

David Altheide, Arizona State Univ. Format and Symbols in T.V. Coverage of Terrorism in the United States and Great Britain

 

Noah Fritz, Arizona State University: The Impact of T.V. on the Missing Children Issue

 

Joel Best, CSU Fresno: Famous for Fifteen Minutes: Notes on the Researcher as News Maker

 

Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Washington State Univ. and Annenberg School of Communications, Univ. of Southern California: The Future of Mass Media Inquiry in Sociology

 

50.Socialization: Acquiring a Self

 

Organizer and Presider: Barbara C. Ilardi, Univ. of Rochester

 

Discussant: Karen A. Miller, Arizona State University

 

Barbara C. Ilardi and James P. Connell, Univ. of Rochester: Through Different Lenses: Teachers’ and Children’s Views of Children’s Self Concepts

 

Richard B. Felson and Mark Reed, State Univ. of New York at Albany: The Effects of Parents on the Self-Appraisals of Children

 

Elain S. Dannefer, Univ. of Rochester: Tracing Market Demands and Professional Identity: The Case of Guidance Counselors

 

William A. Faunce, Michigan State Univ.: The Effects of Work on Self-Esteem

 

 

.51.Migration and Immigration

 

Organizer and Presider: Teresa A. Sullivan, The Univ. of Texas at Austin

 

Norma Chichilla, California State Univ.: Central American Migration: toward a Structural Explanation

 

Mokerrom Hossain, Univ. of California: Emigration and Class Structure: The Case of Bangladesh

 

Penny A. Briner and John W. Fox, Univ. of Northern Colorado: Occupational Mobility of Male and Female Irish Immigrants

 

Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence Westbrook, Audrey Singer, and Lloyd Potter, The Univ. of Texas at Austin: The Persistence of Debt Migration: Evidence from Consumer Bankruptcy Files

 

52.Quantitative Research Methodology

 

Organizer and Presider: Herbert L. Costner, Univ. of Washington

 

Jerald R. Herting, Univ. of Washington: ‘Weak’ versus ‘Poor’ Indicators in Multiple Indicator Models

 

David Huizinga and Delbert Elliott, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder: Rethinking Reliablity and Validity

 

Herbert L. Costner, Univ. of Washington: The Design of Variables

 

53.Poster Session II

 

A. Research Reports:

           

David Nasatir, CSU Dominguez Hills: Collegiate Drinking Patterns and Consequences: Where Which Students Turn for Help—and Why

 

Dean A. Purdy and Jack A. Taylor, Bowling Green State Univ.: The Successful College Student: The Relationship of Academic and Social Integration to Academic Achievement

 

Nancy E. Durbin. Pennsylvania State University: The Match Between Worker and Job: Skilled Requirements and Gender Composition of Occupation

 

B. Demonstration

 

Adele Clarke, UC San Francisco: Teaching Women’s Health in Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools: New Curricula

 

Susan Rogers, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder: The Consumer Consultant Model of Health Relations: The Question of Role Adaptations

 

54.Research Training Programs and Postdoctoral Opportunities

 

Organizer and Presider: Ike Grusky, UC Los Angeles

 

Panel Members: Ike Grusky, UCLA; Ken Lutterman, National Institute of Mental Health, and W. Richard Scott, Stanford University

 

55.New Directions in Qualitative Research

 

Organizer and Presider: Virginia Olesen, UC San Francisco

 

Adele E. Clarke, UC San Francisco: Qualitative Research in the Historical Sociology of Science: Issues and Challenges

 

Echo E. Fields, Southern Oregon State College: Qualitative Content Analysis of Television News

 

Juniper Wiley, UC San Diego: The Shock of Unrecognition as a Problem in Participant-Observation

 

56.Mico-Macro Linkages

 

Organizer and Presider: Debra Friedman, Univ. of Arizona

 

Michael Hechter and Debra Friedman, Univ. of Arizona: The Limits to Rational Choice Theory

 

William Brustein, Univ. of Utah, and Margaret Levi, Univ. of Washington: The Geography of Rebellion: Rulers, Rebels, and Regions, 1500-1700

 

Malka Applebaum-Maizee, Univ. of Washington: The Transaction Cost Analysis of Collective Action

 

57.Social Stress and Illness

 

Organizer and Presider: Robert M. Gray, Univ. of Utah

 

Libby O. Ruch, Univ. of Hawaii; John Gartrell, Univ. of Alberta; Joseph Leon, Cal Poly University Pomona: An Explanatory Longitudinal, Multivariate Model of Adjustment to Sexual Assault and Other Life Stresses

 

Robert Gray, Univ. of Utah, and Robert Johnson, Baylor Medical School: Social Supports and Depressive Arthritis Patients

 

Jane E. Prather and Nancy V. Minkow, CSU Northridge: The Search for Help: Issues Affecting Women Seeking Treatment for Psychotropic Dependencies

 

Ted C. Smith, Univ. of Utah: Community Change, Social Supports and Mental Health in Development-Impacted Localities

 

Harold A. Widdison and Howard G. Salisbury, Northern Arizona Univ.: The Delayed Stress Syndrome: A Pathological Grief Reaction?

 

58.Sociology of Religion II

 

Organizer and Presider: James Duke, Brigham Young University

 

Tanice G. Foltz, UC San Diego: The Role of Experential Rituals in Socializing Apprentice Practitioners: A Case Study of a Para-Religious Healing Group

 

Cornellius G. Hughes, Univ. of Southern Colorado: Postscript to Public Relief: The Rescue Mission

 

Lewis F. Carter, Washington State Univ.: The ‘New Renunciates’ of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: Enlightenment and Entertainment through Meditation and Social Experimentation

 

H.K.M. Somawantha, Univ. of Alberta: The Spirit of Religion and the Secular Interest: Max Weber’s Thesis

 

59.The Future of Sociology: Mathematical Sociology

 

Organizer and Presider: Brian L. Pitcher, Utah State Univ.

 

R. Frank Falk and J. Jack McArdle, Univ. of Virginia Charlottesville: Latent Variable Path Analysis Using RAM Graphics

 

Bryan R. Spykerman and Brian L. Pitcher, Utah State Univ.: Dimensionality of the Rotter Inter-External Locus of Control Scale

 

Kenneth D. Bailey, UCLA: Information-Theoretic Measures of Inequality

 

Robert L. Hamblin, Univ. of Arizona: Modeling the Development and Collapse of the Classic Maya

 

60.Social Psychology II: Theoretical and Applied Issues

 

Organizer: Karen S. Cook, Univ. of Washington

 

Presider: Jerome Rabow, UCLA

 

Jerome Rabow and C.A. Neuman, UCLA: Attitudes, Behavior, and Social Influence in Alcohol Consumption

 

Stephen Kulis, Arizona State Univ.: The Subjective Consequences of Welfare Cuts

 

Patricia A. Bolton and Jon Olson, Battelle Seattle Research Center: Formal and Informal Sources of Assistance: Variations in Use by Disaster Stricken Families