1995 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, CATHEDRAL HILL HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 6-9, 1995

THEME: SOCIOLOGY: CONSTRUCTING THE 21^ST CENTURY

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

Summary of Events

11:00am-6:00pm Registration

1:00-6:00pm Sessions

6:00-8:00pm Featured Session: What's Wrong with Sociology?

8:00pm Welcoming Reception

THURSDAY: 1:00-5:45 pm SESSIONS

1. TEACHING SEMINAR (1:00-2:00pm)

Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching

Organizer and Presider: Wendy Ng, San Jose State University

Deidre Tyler, Salt Lake City Community College and Wendy Ng, San Jose State: Beyond the Overhead Projector: A Look at New Technology and Teaching

2. TEACHING SEMINAR (2:10-3:10pm)

Co-Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women and the Committee on Teaching

Organizers: Valerie Jenness, Washington State University and Jeanne Stockard, University of Oregon

Presider: Valerie Jenness, Washington State University

Naomi Abrahams, Whitman College and Linda Heuser, Willamette University: Classroom Teaching and Gender

3. TEACHING SEMINAR (3:20-4:20pm)

Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching

Organizer and Presider: Hal Charnofsky, CSU, Dominguez Hills

Rachel Kahn-Hut, San Francisco State University: How to Make Good Teaching a Path to Tenure and Promotion

4. TEACHING SEMINAR (4:30-5:30pm)

Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching

Organizer and Presider: James Glynn, Bakersfield College

Deidre Tyler, Salt Lake City Community College and Karen Hanson, Allyn and Bacon Publishers: The Introductory Sociology Text Book: Valuable Tool or Educational Albatross?

THURSDAY: 2:00-3:45 pm SESSIONS

5. WORKSHOP: BEYOND TRANQUILIZERS: COPING WITH WORK AND ANXIETY

Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women

Organizer and Presenter: Laurie Wermuth, California State University, Chico

6. GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH: SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Organizer and Presider: Sally Raskoff, Pitzer College

Suzanne L. Maughan, Brigham Young University: Victim to Survivor: The Role of Family and Spouse in The Healing Process of Adults Molested as Children

Milmon F. Harrison, University of California, Santa Barbara: Unto the Least of These: Observations of Public Interaction Between Status Unequals

Linda E. Ellis, Humboldt State University: Heroic Rescuers and Their Motivations: A Comparative Study of Rescuers in The Los Angeles Civil Unrest of 1992 and Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe

7. SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS (SESSION I)

Organizer: Pamela Roby, University of California, Santa Cruz

Presider: Jane O’Dell-Baldarri, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gordon Clanton, San Diego State Univ.: Twenty Years of Jealousy Research

Robert Garot, University of California, Los Angeles: The Emotional Dynamics of “Being a Bureaucrat ‘’in a Section 8 Housing Program

John Heeren, California State University, San Bernardino: Disaster, Emotions and Social Bonding

Rebecca S. K. Li, University of California, Riverside: Emotional Labor: Does It Have To Be Bad for Workers?

Lisa Slattery Rashotte, University of Arizona: On the Universality of Emotions: A Warrant for Paralinguistic Research

8. FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE LIFE COURSE (SESSION 1)

Organizer and Presider: Karen Seccombe, University of Forida

Karen Pyke, and Vern Bengtson, University of Southern California: Caring for Elderly Family Members: The Construction of Family Ties in Three - Generational Families

Masako Ishii-Kuntz, University of California, Riverside: The Provision of Support For Elderly Parents Among Chinese, Japanese and Korean Americans

Macrina K. Abenoja, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Family Relationships and Life Satisfaction Among filipino Elderly in Hawaii

J. Daniel McMillin and Philip Silverman, California State University, Bakersfield: Intergenerational Relations Among Older North Americans and Chinese

9. LAW AND GENDER

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Lisa J. McIntyre, Washington State University

Mary Texeira, California State University, San Bernardino: Toward a Black Feminist Criminology: A Case Study

Laurel Hartley German, California State University, Chico: Civil Protection Orders

Christine Allison, UC Santa Barbara: Lesbian Mothers Who Lose Custody: Making Sense of Experience

Margaret S. Kelley, Redwood City, California: Race, Gender and Abortion Attitudes Among Bay Area Students

THURSDAY: 4:00-5:45 pm SESSIONS

10. CRIMINOLOGY-SOCIAL CONTROL: COMPARATIVE ASPECTS (SESSION I)

Organizer and Presider: David Shichor, California State University, San Bernardino and Robert O’Brien, University of Oregon

Joanna Claire Grey, University of New Mexico: Delinquency Intervention for Urban American Indian Youth in Albuquerque

Anees A. Haddad, La Sierra University: A Bright Chapter in Managing Juvenile Delinquency in New Zealand

Dennis D. Loo, UC Santa Cruz: Intraethnic Nature of Street Crime

Gene Kassebaum, and Dae-gyung Kwack, University of Hawaii: The Other MInorities: Ethinic Over and Under-Representation in Juvenile Justice and Corrections in Hawaii

Fida Mohammad, Eastern Washington University: Legitimation Crisis and Corruption in Pakistan

11. PERSPECTIVE FROM THE MEN’S MOVEMENT

Organizer and Presider: Frederick W. Preston, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Discussant: Murray Straus, University of New Hampshire

Paul Sargent, Southern California: The Absent Presence of Gender in The Lives of Male Elementary School Teachers

M. Rivka Polatnick, San Jose State University: Changing Men’s Minds: Education and Re-Education Programs to Prevent Male Violence Against Women

Frederick W. Preston, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Harry J. Mersmann, Chapman University: The Implications of Domestic Violence Research: Theory and Policy Considerations

12. PANEL: BECOMING MARKETABLE AND VITAE BUILDING

Sponsored by the Committee on Study Affairs

Organizers and Presiders: Lisa Jones, UC Irvine and Robert Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz

Lisa Jones, University of California, Irvine

Robert Thompson, UC Santa Cruz

Robert Gliner, San Jose State University

Witold Krassowski, Santa Clara University

13. Session has been canceled

14. AMERICAN INDIANS

Organizer and Presider: Russell Thornton, University of California, Berkeley

Gary Sandefur, Univ. of Wisconsin: Trends in American Indian Fertility and Mortality

Carol Ward, University of Utah: Sociology of American Indians

Russell Thornton, UC Berkeley: American Indian Tribal Enrollment

15. GANGS: TYPES AND REASONS (SESSION I)

Organizer and Presider: Lawrence C. Trostle, University of Alaska, Anchorage

James E. Elias and Carlos Morales, California State University, Northridge: From Gangs to Gangster: Latino Family Membership in Gangs—Introduction, Activities and Incarceration

Monica C. Tello, California State University, Los Angeles: Gang Members in Special Education

Joe Allen and Mary Yu, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Overview of Gang Activitiy and Membership in Hawaii

15a. TENURING WOMEN: WORKSHOP ON TEACHING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PORTFOLIOS FOR THE REVIEW PROCESS

Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women

Organizer and Presider: Rebecca Warner, Oregon State University

Cynthia Barnett-Shelby, Moorpark College

Carol Edelman, CSU, Chico

Kathryn Farr, Portland State University

Lisa McIntrye, Washington State University

15b. THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION'S 1995 SOROKIN LECTURE

Presider and Discussant: Elaine Alma Draper, University of Southern California

Mitchell Duneier, University of California, Santa Barbara: Andrea's Dream: An Ethnography of a Single Parent's Struggle to Rise from the Ranks of the Working Poor

THURSDAY: 6:00-8:00 pm SESSION

16. FEATURED SESSION: WHAT IS WRONG WITH SOCIOLOGY: NEW VOICES CONFRONT OLD PARADIGMS

Organizer and Presider: Rachel Kahn-Hut, San Francisco State University

Discussant: Clayton Dumont: San Francisco State University

Ronald W. Fagan, Pepperdine University and Raymond G. DeVries, St. Olaf College: The Practice of Sociology at Christian Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities

Jung Min Choi, Karen A. Callaghan, Barry University and John W. Murphy, University of Miami: Who’s Afraid of The Big Bad Postmodernist?

Mary Romero, University of Oregon: Apprenticeship Experiences of Women of Color in the Academic Work Place

Thomas J. Scheff, University of California, Santa Barbara: Part/ Whole Analysis of Meaning: Towards Theory and Method in the Human Sciences

THURSDAY: 8 pm RECEPTION

Welcoming Reception (no-host bar), Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

Summary of Events

8 am-6 pm Registration

8 am-4 pm Publisher’s Display

8:30 am-4 pm Sessions

8-10 am 1994-95 Council Meeting

8 am-4 pm Committee Meetings

12-1:50pm Informal Lunch Groups

4-5:30 pm Awards & Presidential

Address by Jane Prather

5:30-6:30 pm President’s Reception

8-9:50 pm Plenary Session

FRIDAY: 8:30-9:50 am SESSIONS

17. QUANTITATIVE METHODS

Organizer and Presider: Kenneth D. Bailey, UCLA

Phillip Bonacich, University of California, Los Angeles: When Are Social Networks Similar? A New Approach

Leslie S. Laczko, University of Ottawa: Interviewer Effects in a Bilingual Society: Some Canadian Evidence

J. Richard Johnson and Michael T. Ort, Johnson and Associates: The Artifacts of Hidden Action: Quantitative Evidence of Worker Dissimulation and its Use in Generating Changes in Performance

18. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON ROLE THEORY

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Peter Callero, Western Oregon State College

Linda L. Yellin, Pierce College: Role Acquisition: A Process Model

Charles Powers, University of Santa Clara: Roles in Virtual Corporations

Santa Clara Undergraduates (Senior Thesis Project Team): The Interpretation of Work and Family in the 1990s.

19. DEMOGRAPHY

Organizer and Presider: Kenneth Chew, University of California, Irvine

Xuanning Fu, Brigham Young University: A Longitudinal and Cross-Cultural Analysis of Fertility Decline

Patricia Gwartney-Gibbs and Amy Barlow, University of Oregon: The 1994 Oregon Population Survey: Assessing Intercensal Population Change

Charles F. Hohm and Mary McMahon, San Diego State University: The Age Dependency Ratio: Is it an Accurate Measure of Dependency?

Mike Males, University of California, Irvine: California’s Unexpected Teenage Suicide Decline

Judith Treas, UC Irvine: Old and New Americans: The Immigrant Elderly

20. THEORY IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE FRONTIERS

Organizer and Presider: Jodi O’Brien, University of Iowa

Discussant: Debra Friedman, University of Washington

Kenneth Allan, University of California, Riverside: A Standard Frame for the Study of Culture in the 21st Century

Valerie Malhorta Bentz and Wade Kenney, The fielding Institute: Building the Future from the Past: Kenneth Burke’s Answer to the Postmodern Charges Against Sociology

Martha Easton, University of Minnesota: Knowing Gender: Toward a Post-Structural Methodology

Natalie M. Berman, California Department of Transportation: An Exploration in Rhetorical Sociology: Preliminary Work Toward a Metatheory for the Sociology of Knowledge

21. WOMEN’S COMMUNITY ACTIVISM

Organizer and Presider: Naomi Abrahams, Whitman College

Discussant: Kendal Broad, Washington State University

Ellen Scott, UC Davis: Feminist Working Across Racial Divides: The Politics of Multiculturalism in Organizations fighting Violence Against Women

Shirley Jackson, University of California, Santa Barbara: African American Women and Community Empowerment: Dispelling Myths and Creating Opportunities

Mary E. Kelsey, California State University, San Bernardino: Welfare and Community Control: Increasing the Antipoverty Effects of Public Assistance Programs

Mara Benedict, Whitman College: Political Activism as Catalyst for Women's Recovery from Rape

22. IMMIGRANT WOMEN: AN ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSE (SESSION I)

Organizer and Presider: Parvin Abyaneh, Calif. State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona

Discussant: Norma Chinchilla, California State University, Long Beach

Minoo Moallem and Beatrice M. Bain, University of California, Berkeley: Iranian Diaspora and Masculinist Narratives of Family and Ethnicity

Lisa Hoffman, University of California, Davis: An Ethnographic Study of Identity Among a Small Group of Poor, Mexican Immigrant Women

Kyeyoung Park, University of California, Los Angeles: Sudden and Subtle Challenge: Disparity in Conception of Marriage and Gender in the Korean American Community

Parvin Abyaneh, Calif. State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona: Ideological Discourse and the Demographics of Immigrant Women

In-Sook Lim, University of Texas: Changes in Meanings and Implications of Breadwinning Among Korean Immigrants

23. SOCIOLOGY OF TERRORISM AND HATE GROUPS

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: James Aho, Idaho State University

Gayle Olson-Raymer, Policy Analysis and Research Associates: A Case Study of Hate and Terrorism: The United States

J. William Gibson, California State University, Long Beach: A Call to Arms: The Cultural and Political Significance of Gun Control to the Right Wing

Jack Shaffer and Samuel Oliner, Humboldt State University: Disaffiliation from Hate Groups

24. PUBLIC HEALTH AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles

Peter A. Dual, San Diego State University: Universities and Communities: Improving the Quality of Life

Florence Bonner, Howard University: The Politics of U.S. Healthcare Policies: Winners and Losers

Antonio McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania and Andrew London, University of California, Los Angeles: HIV Mortality and the African American Population

Dawn Chin-Quee, American Sociological Association and Nell A. Griffith, UCLA: Sexual Risk and African American Women: Psychological and Sociocultural Realities

25. SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION: COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS IN THE U.S.

Organizer and Presider: Gilbert R. Cadena, Pomona College

Anne Hendershott, University of San Diego: The Battle for Captive Souls

Thomas G. Lane, University of Cincinnati: God Talk: The Symbolic Environment of an Authoritarian Religious Sect

Mike Allen, George Fox College: Adjustment to Aging Perception and Performance

Lynne Isaacson, University of Oregon: Perspectives of Christian Fundamentalist Men and Women on Gender Roles and Marriage

26. ANTI-GAY MOVEMENTS

Organizer and Discussant: Susan Johnston, University of Oregon

Presider: Cheryl L. Cole, Univ. of Illinois

Lori H. Levy, Emory University: The End of the Rainbow: Heterosexism, Schools, and Cultural Politics

Michael Blain and Joseph De Angelis, Boise State University: Idaho’s No Special Rights Initiative: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Miranda Joseph, Stanford University: I Just Want Them to Know They Don’t Have to Be Christian: Gays, Christians and the Controversy Over the National Endowment for the Arts

Vernon L. Bates, Pacific University: Seeking Middle Ground: The Oregon Citizens Alliance and The Anti-Gay Rights Crusade

27. CRIMINOLOGY (SESSION II)

Organizers and Presiders: David Shichor, California State University, San Bernardino and Robert O’Brien, University of Oregon

Patricia O’Donnell Brummett and Daric L. Brummett, CSU Northridge: The Influence of Disposable Income on Violent Versus Nonviolent Crime

Terance D. Miethe and Kriss Drass, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Situational Elements of Predatory Crimes

Cheoleon Lee, University of California, Riverside: Assessing the Magnitudes of Gender and Age Differences on Fear of Crime and the Formation of Crime Watch Groups: An Application of Ordinal Log-Linear Analysis

Gary La Free, University of New Mexico and Kriss Drass, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: African American Crime and Collective Political Action in Postwar America, 1957-1988

Frank P. Williams III and Marilyn Mc Shane, California State University, San Bernardino: Some Observations on Conceptualization and Measurement in Criminology and Criminal Justice

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

1994-95 Council Embarcadero

Committee on Publications Russian Hill

FRIDAY: 10-11:50 am SESSIONS

28. BODY, SELF, AND SOCIETY

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University

Jennifer Dunn, University of California, Davis: Lady and the Tramp: The Social Construction of Sexual Identities

Rebecca M. Wepsic, University of California, San Francisco: Silicone Gel-filled Breast Implants: Cosmetic Responses and Questions of Choice

Shelley Kowalski, University of Oregon: Women in the Fun House Mirror: The Problematics of Women’s Self Portraiture

Melinda J. Milligan, University of California, Davis: Artist and Client: Negotiating the Tattooing Experience

29. WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (SESSION 1)

Organizer and Presider: Sing C. Chew, Humboldt State University

Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona: Eco-Alienation

Walter Goldfrank, University of California, Santa Cruz: The World-System and the Aconcagua Valley: Reflections on the Global and Local

Pietro Toggia and Pat Lauderdale, Arizona State University: The New World Order on Trial in Somalia

30. SOCIOLOGY OF WORK

Organizer and Presider: Jane Hood, University of New Mexico

Discussant: Ida Suhn, University of California, Santa Cruz

Nancy C. Jurik, Arizona State University: Getting Away and Getting By: The Negotiation of Paid Work and Family Life in Home Enterprises

Christopher Henke, University of California, San Diego: Modern Day Willies: Physical Plant Mechanics and Ingenuity in a Rationalized Setting

Marilyn Berger Chap, University of California, Santa Cruz: Meat, Meanings, and Management: Meat Department Aesthetics and the Degradation of Work

Thomas Murakami, University of Warick: Teamwork in East and West: A Comparison of Japanese and Western Manufacturing Teams

31. PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE: VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS

Organizer: Sharon K. Araji, University of Alaska, Anchorage

Murray Straus and Anita K. Mathur, University of New Hampshire: Corporal Punishment by Parents and Academic and Economic Achievement

Alberto Godenzi, University of New Hampshire: Where to find the Clues for Prevention: Sexual Assault from the View of Offenders

32. UNDERGRADUATE PAPERS (SESSION I)

Organizer: Michelle Bolduc, California State University, Northridge

Michael Pope, San Jose State Univ.: Residential Segregation in San Jose, Calif.

Andrew Dove, San Jose State University: Damn that B-9 is Hot!: The Manifest and Latent Functions of Bingo

Sarah Rial and Melanie Syron, University of Idaho: Student Outcome Assessment as Applied Research: An Undergraduate Viewpoint

Sarah Ann Miller, Eastern Washington University: Religion and Public Policy: The Case of Latin America

Stacey Studebaker, California State University, Northridge: Volunteerism and Police Community Representatives

Marisela Aguirre and Monica Tello, California State University, Los Angeles: Gang Initiation and Its Consequences

33. ORGANIZATIONS: SOME REALITIES IN DAILY EXPERIENCE (SESSION I)

Organizer and Presider: John Clark, University of Oregon

Stephen Kulis, Yinong Chong, and Heather Shaw, Arizona State University: Institutional Structure and the Representation of Black College Faculty

Mary Texeira, California State University, San Bernardino: Frontstage, Yes; Backstage, No: Why U.S. Policing Organizations are not Committed to Community-Based Policing

Pamela J. Forman, UC Davis: Understanding Women’s Subordination within Collegiate Athletics: An Ideological Examination of Governance Struggles

Patrick Withen, United States Forest Service: The Organizational Elements which Enhance Lower-Level Employee’s Participation in Organization-Wide Issues

Michael T. Ort, UCLA: Negotiating the Right-to-Decide: Redefining Power in the Corporation

34. TEACHING SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Organizer and Presider: Keith Farrington, Whitman College

Naomi Abrahams, William C. Bogard, Jan Mejer, and Keith Farrington, Whitman College: Tradition, Tumult, Technology: Teaching Sociology in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Institution in the 21st Century

David M. Lynch, J. Richard McFerron, Laura Southward, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Lee Bowker, Humboldt State University: Will Principles of Organization Apply to Sociology Departments and Sociology Teaching in the 21st Century

Regina Putyrae, Christopher Craske, Natalie Boero, and Kristin Barker, Linfield College: Teach Me Tonight: Homelessness, Ethnography, and the Reconstruction of a Radical Sociology

Kathy Dennick-Brecht, Robert Morris College: The Challenges of Multiculturalism to Teaching Sociology

35. COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Organizer and Presider: Robert Fiala, University of New Mexico

Dula Espinosa, Arizona State University: Citizenship and Public Policy: An Examination of Workers in Postmodern Germany and the United States

Jeremy M. Brown, Univ. of New Mexico: Essentials of an Architecture of the 21st Century: Questions of Purpose and Power

Yong Suk Jang and Young S. Kim, Stanford University: The Diffusion of Ministries of Science and Technology, 1960-1992: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Comparative Analysis

Byron Davis, Edward Kick, and Thomas Burns, Univ. of Utah: Military Participation and Educational Expansion as Alternative Paths to Third World Development

36: HATE CRIMES: INDIVIDUAL CAUSES AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES

Organizer and Presider: Valerie Jenness, Washington State University

Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte, CSU Los Angeles: Distinguishing Hate Crime from other Assaults or Persons and Property: Different Causes, Different Forms, Different Consequences

Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld, California State University, Stanislaus: The Identity of Hate Crime Victims and Offenders

Valerie Jenness, Washington State University: Hate Crimes in the United States: The Transformation of “Injured Persons” into “Victims” and the Extension of Victim Status to Multiple Constituencies

37. PANEL: NON-ACADEMIC CAREERS IN SOCIOLOGY

Organizer and Presider: Eric Jensen, Univ. of Idaho

Eric Jensen, Univ. of Idaho: Non-Academic Placing of Students

Ronald Everett, Univ. of Idaho: Federal Justice System Jobs

James K. Owens, Southwest Idaho Public Health Agency: Employment in Human Services and Social Policy

38. FEATURED SESSION: HIGHER EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA International

Organizer and Presider: Rodolfo Alvarez, Office of the President, University of California

William B. Baker, Vice President, University of California. Higher Education in California: Prospects for the Future

Discussants:

Russell W. Ellis, University of California, Berkeley

Patricia Wasielewski, University of Redlands

James Wood, San Diego State University

Robin Wolf, Diablo Valley College

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Committee on Sociological Practice Embarcadero

Awards Committee Russian Hill

FRIDAY: 12:00-1:50pm SESSIONS

39. INFORMAL LUNCH GROUPS ON TEACHING

Organizer: Jane E. Prather, California State University, Northridge

Choose a topic; go to lunch, meet colleagues, and talk about teaching

Susan Garfin, Sonoma State Univ.: Using Microcomputers in Teaching Sociology Meet at PSA Registration

Rodney Kingsnorth, California State University, Sacramento: Research and Teaching in the Area of the Criminal Justice System: Problems and Solutions Meet at Hotel Registration

Herman DeBose, CSU, Northridge: HIV-AIDS 101 in the Classroom Meet at Front of California Room

Marie Butler, Oxnard College: Designing Internships and Community fieldwork Meet at Front of International Room

Ann Wichman, University of LaVerne: Using Participant Based Research Meet at Front of

40. DOING DOMINANCE: PERFORMANCE OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER, & SEXUALITY

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Judith Howard, University of Washington

Jocelyn A. Hollander, University of Washington: Doing “Studs”: The Performance of Gendered Sexuality on Late-Night Television

Melissa S. Herbert, University of Arizona: Frederick the Great or Federick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women in the Military

Lori S. Kendall, UC Davis: Net Effects: Identity Performance on MUDs.

Jennifer L. Eichstedt, UC Santa Cruz: Doing Dominance: Multiculturalism and the Involvement of Whites in the Production of Ethnic Art

41. CLINICAL SOCIOLOGY (SESSION I)

Organizer and Presider: David Musick, University of Northern Colorado

Discussant: Michael J. Sullivan, Freeman, Sullivan, and Company

Colleen Fitzpatrick, University of Northern Colorado and Patricia Romano, Colorado State University: Emotional Abuse in the Workplace

Chester A. Winton, San Jose State University: Training Family Therapists: A Court/University Partnership

Reyes Ramos, University of Texas: More Than Research Informants: A Case Study of Helping Recovering Addicts

Lewis F. Carter, Washington State University and Nicola Valley Institute of Technology: Cross Cultural Approaches to Mathematics and Statistics in a first Nations College

Mary E. Kelsey, CSU San Bernardino: Welfare and Community Control

42. POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY: ISSUES OF POLITICAL POWER (SESSION I)

Organizer and Presider: Judith Stepan-Norris, University of California, Irvine

Discussant: Hank Johnston, San Diego State University

Peter Phillips, Sonoma State University: Webs of Power: Bohemia and Politics

Sara Diamond, Berkeley, California: Historical Antecedents of the Christian Right

Margaret Riordan, Lynnwood, WA: “Be All That You Can Be”: Agency & Relationship in Catholic Activism

43. AIDS: NUMBERS, MEANING, AND QUESTIONS

Organizer: Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University

Presider and Discussant: Stephen O. Murray, El Instituto Obregon

Laurie Wermuth, California State University, Chico: Women and HIV Risk in Rural Northern California: Factors Associated with Risky Behaviors

Katherine Lineberger and Candan Duran-Aydintug, University of Colorado, Denver: A Demographic And Socioeconomic Description of the Women Who Died of AIDS

Andrew S. London, UCLA: The Demography of Parent-Teen Communication about AIDS in the United States, 1987-1992

Oedojo Soedirham, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa: AIDS: Indonesia Seeking Ways to Cope

44. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Organizer and Presider: Hector L. Delgado, University of Arizona

Discussant: John Lofland, UC Davis

Hector L. Delgado, University of Arizona: Talking with and about Undocumented Immigrants

Carole Joffe, University of California, Davis: Abortion and the Dilemmas of Politically Engaged Research

Richard Mitchell, Oregon State University: Out of the Mouths of Babes: The Elevation of Innocence over Evidence

45. BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN APPLIED SOCIOLOGY & THE COMMUNITY

Organizer and Presider: Gary H. Tiedeman, Oregon State University

Richard H. Anderson and Karl H. Flaming, University of Colorado, Denver: The Applied Sociologist, the Agency, and the Community: Interpreting the Issues

Eric L. Jensen, Univ. of Idaho: Applied Sociology And Community Service: A Case Example

Candia Varni and Charles Varni, Allan Hancock College: Applied Social Sciences and Community Organizing/Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Sociology and Family-Consumer Sciences

Jennifer Warren, University of Hawaii, Manoa: Community as a Sense of Belonging: Is There Strength in Numbers?

46. SOCIOBIOGRAPHY: SOCIETY AND BIOGRAPHY

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Robert D. Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz

Carole Case, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: How “Old Money” Constructs Life

Gloria H. Cuadraz, Arizona State University and Lynet Uttal, University of Memphis: More than Just Variables: Doing Race, Class, and Gender in Interview - Based Studies

Paul Luken and Suzanne Vaughan, Arizona State University West: Living Alone: Contradictions in Housing Discourse and Women’s Experience

47. TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY WORKFORCE: DIVERSITY, DOWNSIZING, AND OTHER ISSUES

Organizer and Presider: Frederick R. Lynch, Claremont McKenna College

Stephen Kulis and Heather Shaw, Arizona State University: Racial Segregation in the Academic Workplace: Evidence from 1991 EED Reports

Lisa Catanzarite and Linda Derksen, UC San Diego: Labor Force Participation Among Mothers: Ethnic Diversity and Theoretical Deficiency

Dean Braa and Preston O’Hara, Western Oregon State College: Oregon Steel Mills: A Case Study in the Success and Failure of Worker Ownership

Carolyn Jew, Provo, Utah: Diversity and Discrimination in Corporations

48. NATIONAL AND ETHNIC BOUNDARIES AND IDENTITY

Organizer: Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, St. Mary’s College

Presider: Stephanie Marquez, California State University, Hayward

Cathy Petrissans, University of California, Riverside: Racial and Ethnic Boundaries: A Theory of “Weness and Theyness”

Begona Echeverria, University of California, San Diego: Education, Employment, and Community: Euskera and the Construction of Basque Nationalism

Efren N. Padilla, California State University, Hayward: Reverse Colonialism: A Theoretical Inquiry into the Social Construction of Filipino Identity

49. BLACK WOMEN: ISSUES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Organizer and Presider: Grace C. Massey, University of California, Berkeley

Ingrid Banks, University of California, Berkeley: Black Women and Personal Income: Projections for the 21st Century

Elaine Bell Kaplan, USC: Black Women and Their Children: Exploring Academic Strategies for Success

Grace C. Massey, University of California, Berkeley: Professional Black Women: The Bittersweet Taste of Success

Jean E. Daniels, California State University, Northridge: The African American Female Elderly: Challenges in the 21st Century

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Committee on Status of Racial & Ethnic Minorities Embarcadero

Committee on Nominations Russian Hill

FRIDAY: 2-3:50 pm SESSIONS

50. FEATURED SESSION: DECONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING EASTERN EUROPE: PROSPECTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Organizer and Presider: Thomas Kando, California State University, Sacramento

Gyorgy Csepeli, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest: Social Psychological Consequences of the Transition from Totalitarianism to Democracy

Akos Rona-tas, University of California, San Diego: The Czech and Hungarian Business Elites

Janusz Reykowski, Polish Academy of Science: Popular Concepts of Democracy as a Factor in Social Change

51. PRACTIONER WORKSHOP: INCLUSIONARY SOCIOLOGY: INCLUDING NEGLECTED GROUPS (WOMEN, MINORITIES, OTHERS) IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

Organizer, Presider, and Workshop Presenter: Kenneth D. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles

52. COMMUNITIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT

Organizer and Presider: Lori A. Cramer, Oregon State University

Eugene Clark, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point: A Second Generation Environmental Problem Comes to a Community

Mik Moore, Cabrillo College: Social Processes in the Definition of Water Resource Issues in California

Leonard Nevarez, University of California, Santa Barbara: Just Wait until There’s a Drought: Mediating Environmental Crises for Urban Growth

Harriet H. Christensen and Catherine Woods Richardson, USDA Forest Service: Barriers to Including Rural Communities in Ecosystem Management: Conflicting Views of Humans and Nature

53. WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (SESSION II)

Organizer and Presider: Sing C. Chew, Humboldt State University

Discussant: Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona

Hung-Kai Wang and Chi-Tung Hong, National Taiwan University: A Preliminary Study of the Spatial Activities of Taipei Agents in the Global Cultural Reconstruction

John M. Talbot, University of California, Berkeley: Where Does Your Coffee Dollar Go? The Division of Income Along the Coffee Commodity Chain

Carol Miller, University of Arizona: Women in the Work Force: A World-Systems Analysis

Christian Harlow, Humboldt State Univ.: The Prospect for Social Change: Implications of the Debate on the Origin and Nature of the World-System

54. SEXUAL HARASSMENT OR HARASSMENT OF SEXUALITY: A DEBATE ON INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN ACADEMIA

Sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Organizer and Presider: Carol Edelman, California State University, Chico

Barry Dank, California State University, Long Beach and Leslie Cole, University of Southern California: Big Sisterism and the Dictatorship of Academic Virtue

Shahla Mokhtarzada, American River College: Faculty and Student/Staff Relationships: Are They first Amendment Rights or Sexual Harassment?

Stephen King, CSU Chico: Sexual Harassment from an Administrator’s Perspective: Legality versus Liberty

55. GENDER AND HEALTH

Organizer and Presider: Sue Fisher, Wesleyan University

Sharon E. Preves, University of Minnesota: Transforming the Hot Flash into the Power Surge: Observation and Interviews of Women in Midlife

Kathryn Ann Farr and Maria Wilson-Figueroa, Portland State University: Latino Health and Health Care in Oregon: Experiences and Perspectives of Adult Latina Women

Julia E. Dvorin, University of California, Santa Barbara: The “Subtle but Significant Shift”: Identity Work and Cancer

Kathleen Johnston, Barbara Gerbert, and Thomas Bleecker, University of California, San Francisco: Interactive Multimedia Sexual Risk Assessments in the Medical Setting: Using a "Video Doctor" to Screen Patients

Christine La Fia, Jennifer Fosket, and Laura E. Nathan, Mills College: Alone with Masses: Young Women’s Understanding of Their Experiences with Breast Cancer

56. PANEL: PERSPECTIVES ON THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DEVIANCE: LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE MEDIA, AND OTHER SOCIAL CONTROL FORCES

Organizer and Presider: Laura E. Gomez, University of California, Los Angeles

Gary Cavender and Aogan Mulcahy, Arizona State Univ.: Trial by Fire: Media Constructions of Corporate Deviance

Lisa Sanchez, UC Irvine: Street Walking in Gendered Space: A Study of the Resistance and Reconstruction of a Social Problem from the Inside-Out

James Richardson, Sophia Gatowski, and Shirley Dobbin, University of Nevada, Reno: Informal Social Control and Child Sex Abuse Cases

57. PANEL: THE GAY NINETIES? THE IMPACT OF PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS ON THE LIVES OF GAYS, LESBIANS, AND BISEXUALS

Organizer: Melissa S. Herbert, University of Arizona

Presider: Valerie Jenness, Washington State University

Stephen O. Murray, El Instituto Obregon

Susan Dalton, University of California, Santa Barbara

Arthur W. Redman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Melissa S. Herbert, University of Arizona

Jennifer L Eichstedt, UC Santa Cruz

58. SURVIVING AND RESISTING: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Organizer and Presider: Janet Lee, Oregon State University

Mary K. Yu, University of Hawaii, Manoa: Surviving Love

Lora Lempert, University of Michigan, Dearborn: Language Obstacles in the Narratives of Abused Women

Libby Ruch and James Palmore, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa and Chang-Hwai Wang, National Central Univ. (ROC): The Role of Negative Life Change & Social Support in the Aftermath of Sexual Assault

Sally Davies-Netzley, University of California, Irvine: Prevalence of Victimization Among Homeless Mentally Ill Women

59. ENVIRONMENTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATURAL PHENOMENA

Organizer and Presider: Loren Lutzenhiser, Washington State University

Dennis Bray, University of Alberta and Nico Stehr and Hans von Storch, Max Planck Institut fur Meterologie, Hamburg: Contingent Societal Responses to Climatic Changes: Some Historical Cases

William Devall, Humboldt State Univ.: Whatever Happened to Ecology? Political, Social, and Philosophical Questions in the Environmental Movement Since 1970

J. William Gibson, California State University, Long Beach: Paradise Regained? Animism, Eden, and the Ocean Ecology Movement

60. AMERICAN FAMILIES IN TRANSITION

Organizer and Presider: Diane N. Lye, University of Washington

Rachel R. Barich, UC Santa Barbara: Changing Expectations about the Institution of Marriage, 1967-1994

Stephen Bahr, Robert Biggert, and Lai Yan, Brigham Young University: The Adoption of No-Fault Divorce Laws by American States, 1960-1985

Leslie Minor, Central Oregon Community College: Traditional Values, Religiosity, and Early Socialization as Predictors of Employment Status During the Transition to Parenthood

Katherine McDade, Pacific Lutheran University: Race, Class, Gender, and Parents’ Attitudes about Autonomy and Discipline

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Committee on Student Affairs Embarcadero

Committee on Membership Russian Hill

FRIDAY: 4-5:30 pm SESSION

61. PLENARY SESSION: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND AWARDS CEREMONY I

Awards Presentation: Diane Beeson, California State University, Hawyard

Introduction: Thomas Scheff, University of California, Santa Barbara

Presidential Address: Jane E. Prather, CSU Northridge: What Sociologists Are Learning about the Next Generation of Students: Are We Prepared to Teach in the 21st Century?

FRIDAY: 5:30-6:30 pm RECEPTION

Presidential Reception (no-host bar): Honoring International Scholars and Past PSA Presidents

FRIDAY: 6:30-7:30 pm MEETING

Meeting of the Lesbian and Gay Caucus of the American Sociological Association Embarcadero

FRIDAY: 8-9:50 pm PLENARY EVENING SESSION

62. PLENARY: THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND NAFTA: THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF BOUNDARY REMOVAL

Organizers and Presiders: Robert Leik and Sheila Leik, University of Minnesota

Gudmund Hernes, Minister, The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research, and Church Affairs

Harry Hiller, Sociology Department, University of Calgary

John Saxe-Fernández, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, Ciudad Universitaria

William Brustein, Center for European Studies, University of Minnesota

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

Summary of Events

8:00 am-6:00 pm Registration

8:00 am-4:00 pm Committee Meetings

8:30 am-5:50 pm Sessions

8:30 am-5:00 pm Publisher’s Display

10:00 am-11:50am Plenary: Feminist Theory

12:00-1:50 pm Informal Lunch Groups

6:00-6:30 pm PSA Business Meeting

8:30-10:00 pm Plenary: AIDS

SATURDAY: 8:30-9:50 am SESSIONS

63. ROUNDTABLES

Organizer: Rodolfo Alvarez, President’s Office, University of California

Table 1: Kooros M. Mahmoudi and Douglas W. Degher, Northern Arizona University: Tibetan Refugees: Comparing Salt Lake City and Dharamsala

Table 2: Jonathan Markovitz, University of California, San Diego: Fairy Tales: Socialization and Social Control

Table 3: Elizabeth Nelson and Edward Nelson, California State University, Fresno, and Jim Ross, California State University, Bakersfield: Developing Computer-based Instructional Materials

Table 4: Missy Peterson, Humboldt State University: Positive Functions of Eccentricity: Successful Geriatrics

Table 5: Wayne Plasek, California State University, Northridge: Focusing on World-Systems Theory in Teaching Sociology

Table 6: Rosemary Powers, University of California, Davis: Dangerous Passages: Sex Education in Secondary Schools

Table 7: Norella Putney-Hyde, University of Southern California: Women’s Success in the Workplace

Table 8: Charles E. Reasons, Public Interest Advocacy Center: The Theory of Social Change and Legal Practice

Table 9: M. Edward Rowe, Grand Canyon University: Entertainment as News

64. GANGS: TYPES AND REASONS (SESSION II)

Organizer and Presider: Lawrence C. Trostle, University of Alaska, Anchorage

Amory Starr, University of California, Santa Barbara: U.S. Youth Workers’ Theories and Techniques

Randall G. Shelden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Comparing Gangs and Non-Gang Juvenile Offenders

Lawrence C. Trostle, University of Alaska, Anchorage: Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Creation of a Gang Problem

65. NEW PERSPECTIVES IN EVOLUTIONARY SOCIOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Organizer and Presider: Alexandra Maryanski, University of California, Riverside

Jonathan H. Turner, University of California, Riverside: Why Are Humans so Emotional?: An Evolutionary Theory

Lee Freese, Washington State University: Evolution, Ecology, and Environments

William R. Catton, Jr., Washington State University: Durkheim Reconsidered in Light of Allopatric Speciation

Alexandra Maryanski: University of California, Riverside: The Evolutionary Foundations of the first Social Institutions

66. CONCEPTUAL HYBRIDS: CULTURE, SPACE, AND SOCIAL FORMS

Organizer and Presider: Jodi O’Brien, University of Iowa

Marc Smith, University of California, Los Angeles: Connection, Consumption, Community? Future Visions and Fateful Choices on the Electronic Frontier

Anthony Freitas, University of California, San Diego and Susan Kaiser and Tania Hammidi, University of California, Davis: Queer Styles and Cultural Spaces

Eddie Pate, University of Washington: Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Non-Familiar Individuals

Shelley Kowalski, University of Oregon: The Image That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography

Linda Van Leuven, University of California, Los Angeles: “I Need a Screw”: Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement

67. SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Organizer and Presider: James B. Pick, University of Redlands

Discussant: Pini Herman, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles

David E. Kaufman, Central Washington University: Studying Socioeconomic Impacts of Internal Migration Using GIS and Traditional Methods

Dan Ryan, Yale University: Access to Information is Neither the Problem nor the Solution

Edgar Butler, UC Riverside and Hiroshi Fukurai, UC Santa Cruz: Race and the Jury: The O. J. Simpson, Rodney King, and McMartin Cases

Deidre A. Tyler, Salt Lake Community College: Instructional Use of Technology in the 21st Century: Interactive and Distance Learning

68. IMMIGRANT WOMEN: AN ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSE (SESSION II)

Organizer and Presider: Parvin Abyaneh, Calif. State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona

Discussant: Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley

Cynthia Cranford, University of Southern California: Is American a Meritocracy?: The Case of Mexican and Central American Immigrant Women

Teresa Gerber, Brigham Young University: What Type of Latin Woman Can Belong in the USA?

Kristine M. Zentgraf, University of California, Los Angeles: Gender and Survival Strategies Among Central American Immigrants

Stephanie Amedeo Marquez, California State University, Hayward: Implications of the Portrayal of 'Hispanic' Women in Sociological Thought

Sarah Yeraka and Susan Chu Sung, San Francisco State University: The Middle Easterner Population: A Study of their Needs

69. RACE AND THE HUMAN GNOME PROJECT

Organizer and Presider: Diane Beeson, California State University, Hayward

Discussant: Howard Pinderhughes, University of California, San Francisco

Elaine Draper, University of Southern California: Race and Genetics in the Workplace

Pat Jennings, University of Kentucky: Western Science and Oppositional Dichotomies: Forging New Models of Understanding Public Attitudes Toward Life Intervention Techniques

Ronald N. Jordan, California State University, Hayward: Constructions of Genetics in the Black Press: A Recent Socio-historical Analysis

Robert Yamashita and Wendell R. Thomas, University of California, Berkeley: The Contested Terrain of Genetic Disease: Family and Clinical Realities Across Ethnic Groups

70. ORGANIZATIONS: HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS (SESSION II)

Organizer and Presider: John Clark, University of Oregon

Daniel L. Jones and James Ranger-Moore, University of Arizona: Competition, Organizational Size, and Failure

Michael Dawson, University of Oregon: “Not Totally Uncontrollable”: Large Corporations and American Culture in the Age of Marketing

Young S. Kim, Stanford University: Perpetual Differentiation in Government Structure and Economic Effectiveness, 1950-1990

Melinda J. Milligan, University of California, Davis: Individual Control and the Built Environment of the Workplace

71. VIOLENCE AND STATES IN THE MODERN WORLD

Organizer and Presider: Robert Fiala, University of New Mexico

Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno: The Politics of Violence: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Conflict on a World Scale

Cynthia Siemsen Maki, UC Santa Cruz: The Rentier State in the World-System: Toward a New Model

Sandra Woerle and Julie Burt, Univ. of Wyoming: Revolutionary Empowerment: A Comparative Study of Women’s Roles in the Revolutionary Movements of Nicaragua and Romania

John Foran, Linda Klouzal, and Jean Pierre Rivera, University of California, Santa Barbara: Who Makes Revolution?: Class, Gender, and Race in the Cuban, Mexican, and Nicaraguan Revolutions

72. WORKSHOP: TEACHING RESOURCES FOR SOCIOLOGIST: THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION'S TEACHING RESOURCE CENTER

Organizer: Jane E. Prather, California State University, Northridge

Workshop Presenters: Dean S. Dorn, California State University, Sacramento and Ann Sundgren, Tacoma Community College

73. ALCOHOL AND DRUGS IN SOCIETY

Organizer and Presider: Karen M. Jennison, University of Northern Colorado

Wen C. Wang, Calif. State Univ. Northridge: Demographic Characteristics of Drug Users & Their Influences in P.R. China

Justin Tuggle, Univ. of Wyoming: Status Politics & the Shasta County Smoking Ban

Charles Varni, Allan Hancock College: The Addictive Society, Codependency, and Dysfunctional Families: A Neo-Functionalist Critique

Michael Blain and Michael Le Duc, Boise State University: The War on Drugs: A Foucauldian Geneological Critique

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Committee on Civil Rights & Liberties Embarcadero

Committee on Committees Russian Hill

SATURDAY: 10-11:50 am SESSIONS

74. BOOK SESSION-AUTHOR MEETS THE CRITICS: HATE CRIMES: CONFRONTING VIOLENCE AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAY MEN

Organizer and Presider: Valerie Jenness, Washington State University

Authors: Edited by Gregory M. Herek and Kevin T. Berrill

Book: Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men

Critics: Kendal Broad, Washington State University; John DeCecco, San Francisco State University; Brian Levin, Center for the Study of Ethnic and Racial Violence

75. POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY: STATE STUDIES (SESSION II)

Organizer and Presider: Judith Stepan-Norris, University of California, Irvine

Discussant: Michael Allen, Washington State University

Gregory McLauchlan, University of Oregon and Gregory Hooks, Washington State University: A Cold War Modernity: Organizing Big Science & Big Technology in the American State, 1940-1994

Caleb Southworth, University of California, Los Angeles: A New Deal for the Black Belt South? A Geographic Analysis of State Actions During the Roosevelt Years

Patrick Ledger, University of Arizona: From Social Reform to Political Rights: State Adoption of Woman Suffrage Laws in the U.S., 1860-1920

Steph Lambert, David Jacobson, and George Thomas, Arizona State University: Transnational Authority, Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice

Young S. Kim, Stanford University: Increasing Complexity of Government Structure and Contemporary World Polity, 1950-1990: A Cross-National Confirmatory Factor Analysis

76. STUDYING CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS OF VIOLENCE IN fiLM: SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Alan Woolfolk, Oglethorpe University

Nick Browne, University of California, Los Angeles: Scarred for Life: Analyzing film Violence

William Simon, University of Houston and Adam Simon, Malibu, CA: Alternative Uses of Violent Images

J Greg Getz, Baylor College of Medicine: “Let There be Light” Versus “Make My Day”: Filmic Violence and Symbolic Self-Completion

77. SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE WELFARE STATE: TAKING CARE OF VICTIMS AND PUNISHING VILLAINS

Organizer and Presider: Laura Gomez

Discussant: Charles Reasons, British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Center

Mark G. Lettiere, University of California, Davis: Caught in the Matrix: San Francisco’s Homeless and the Construction of Criminality

Laura Beth Nielsen, University of California, Berkeley: Welfare Reform as Social Control of the American Family: Race, Gender, and Class Issues

Laura E. Gomez, University of California, Los Angeles: A Battle of Competing Social Control Institutions: Public Health, Social Welfare, and Criminal Justice Contestation for Ownership of Pregnant Women’s Drug Use as a Social Problem

78. TECHNOSCIENCE STUDIES

Organizers and Presiders: Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco and Charris Cussins, University of California, San Diego

Mark Jones, University of California, San Diego: Issues of Structure and Agency in Critical Theory and Constructivist Studies of Technology

Eileen Crist, University of California, San Diego: Signing Chimps and Dancing Bees: Controversies about Language in the Animal World

Richard Jonasse, UC San Diego: Cartesian Landscapes: Computer Visualization of Earth Science Data

Jon Guice, UC San Diego: Up the Shoulders of Science: Irony in Ethnographic Studies of Science and Technology

79. WORKSHOP: CENSORSHIP & POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IN THE CLASSROOM

Organizer: Cheryl Tyree, CSU Chico

Sponsored by the Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Liza Kuecker, Montana State University: Teaching About Race, Class, and Gender Under the Cloud of “Political Correctness”

Cheryl Tyree, California State University, Chico: Breaking the “P.C.” Barrier: Implications and Ramifications for Professors, for Students, for Learning

80. UNDERGRADUATE PAPERS (SESSION II)

Organizer and Presider: Teresa Madden, California State University, Northridge

Brian Dement, Central Oregon Community College: Predictability of Employment Status of First-Time Mothers Through Comparisons of Traditionality of Values, Socio-Demographic Variables, Maternal Characteristics, and Perception of Infant Needs

Daryl Jarvis and Joyce SantoDiamond, California State University, Los Angeles: Development of an Instrument to Measure the Relationship between Orientation to Traditional Roles and Societal Identity in Widowhood

Joshua James Keels, San Francisco State University: Queer Theory: Redefining Sexual and Gender Realities

April Hartline Garren, Western Oregon State College: Directions for an Interactionist Study of Pain Definition & Valuation

Maria Ruano, California State University, Los Angeles: A Comparative Study of Elderly People Living in Convalescent Homes and Independently

Craig Barres, Whittier College: The Politics of Medicine

81. RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD: INTER-GROUP DYNAMICS

Organizer and Presider: Georgie Ann Weatherby, Washington State University, Vancouver

Kazem Alamdari, California State University, Los Angeles: The Defeat of Religious Fundamentalism by Itself: Iran as a Case Study

Charles J. Brody, Tulane University: Religion and Concern for the Environment in Thirteen European Nations

Irene C. Lin, University of Southern California: A Comparative Study of New Immigrant Congregations: A Spanish and a Chinese Evangelical Free Church

James T. Richardson, Univ. of Nevada, Reno: Media Treatments of Minority Religions in Australia and the U.S.

82. GENDER AND EMOTIONS

Organizer and Presider: Karen Pugliesi, Northern Arizona University

Patricia Wasielewski, University of Redlands: Daring to Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Gender, Ethnicity, and Emotions in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”

Noreen Begoray, University of California, Santa Barbara: What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Social Psychology, Gender Studies, and Feminists’ Explanation for Romantic Love in Heterosexual Relationships

Karla B. Hackstaff, Northern Arizona University: Spousal Strategies in a Culture of Divorce: Redistributing the Martial Work Ethic

Patricia Domingues, California State University, San Bernardino: God’s Plan: How Christian Women Subordinate Themselves to Men

Deborah Bone Davis, University of California, San Francisco: Cost Containment, Emotional Containment, and Other Dilemmas of Nursing Under Managed Care

83. PLENARY: FEMINIST THEORY IN SOCIOLOGY—PAST PATHS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES

Organizer, and Presider: Jane E. Prather, California State University, Northridge

Speakers: Joan Acker, Univ. of Oregon

Dorothy Smith, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada

84. WORKSHOP: THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR

Organizer: Keith Farrington, Whitman College

Workshop Presenter: Lee Bowker, Humboldt State University

85. ROUNDTABLES

Organizer: Rodolfo Alvarez, Office of the President, University of California

Table 1: Janicemarie Allard, California State University, Los Angeles: Alternative Learning Models in Teaching Sociology

Table 2: Ashakant Nimbark, Dowling College: Television: The Transformation of Rural Communities in Asia

Table 3: Anne Blau, Sausalito, CA: Sex, Gender, Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Table 4: James H. Bracy, California State University, Northridge: African American Men: Facing the 21st Century

Table 5: Elisabeth O. Burgess, USC: Gender & Aging: From Role Differentiation to Role Merging

Table 6: Marie Butler, Oxnard College: Irish Marriage Patterns

Table 7: Noel T. Byrne, Sonoma State University: Timing Obligations: An Emergent Moral Order

Table 8: Amon Emeka, College of the Redwoods: On the Racial Frontier: Lack of Anti-black Affect in the Western United States

Table 9: Ralph Armbruster, UC Riverside: Accumulation Crises, Global Restructuring and Central and North American Labor Internationalism

Table 10: Mary Texeira, California State University, San Bernardino: The Racialization of Sexual Harassment: A Case Study of African American Women in Policing

Table 11: Maxine Leeds, University of California, Berkeley: The Politics of Hair

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

1996 PSA Program Committee for Meetings in Seattle Embarcadero

Committee on Status of Women Russian Hill

SATURDAY: 12-1:50 pm SESSIONS

86. INFORMAL LUNCH GROUPS

Organizer, Jane Prather, California State University, Northridge

Choose a topic; go to lunch; meet colleagues; talk about teaching

Ann Sundgren, Tacoma Community College: Teaching Social Problems Meet at PSA Registration

Ann Wichman, University of La Verne: Sharing Effective Classroom Simulations Meet at Hotel Registration

Robin Wolf, Diablo Valley College: Teaching Ideas for Sociology of the Family Meet at Front of California Room

Phylis Martinelli, St. Mary’s College: Teaching About the Immigrant Experience Meet at Front of International Room

87. PANEL: FRAMED IN RACE, GENDER, AND CLASS: SITUATING THE SIMPSON CASE IN SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE

Organizer and Presider: Karen Hossfeld, San Francisco State University

Hardy Frye, University of California, Santa Cruz: Are Crimes Becoming More Race-Specifically Defined?

Karen Hossfeld, San Francisco State University: “You See Gender, I See Race” (Again): Framing Violence Against Women in Racially-Charged Times

Erna Smith, San Francisco State University: Journalism and Justice: The Media and the O. J. Simpson Case

Kum-Kum Bhavnani, University of California, Santa Barbara: Legal, Media, and Cultural Meanings of Rape and Sexual Harassment in the U.S.: The Hill, Kennedy, Tyson, and Simpson Cases

88. COMPUTER SIMULATION AND THEORY CONSTRUCTION

Organizer and Presider: Barbara F. Meeker, University of Maryland

William Feinberg, University of Cincinnati: On the Potential for Reactive Hate Crimes: Extending Blau’s Macrostructural Theory with Computer Simulation

Heidi Hanson, University of Minnesota: The Process of Global Democratization: A Theory and Simulation

Robert K. Leik, University of Minnesota: Exploring Nonlinear Path Models via Computer Simulation

Barbara F. Meeker, University of Maryland: Simulating Competition Between Groups with Nonlinear Difference Equations, Assuming Reactive Parameter Changes

89. CLINICAL SOCIOLOGY (SESSION II)

Organizer: David Musick, University of Northern Colorado

Presider: Lewis F. Carter, Washington State University

Discussant: Karen Pugliesi, Northern Arizona University

Margaret Lambeth, University of Northern Colorado: Necessary Worth: A Clinical Application of Feminist Theory

Charles E. Starnes, Oregon State University: 21st Century Welfare: Welfare as We Know It?

J. Richard Johnson, J. Richard Johnson and Associates: Sociological Foundations of Organizational Development

David Musick and Kristine Gunsaulus-Musick, University of Northern Colorado: A Prospectus for Teaching the Sociology and Psychology of Violence in Educational and Penal Settings

90. AIDS: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF VALUES AND ACTIONS International

Organizer: Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University

Presider and Discussant: Don Pence, Southern Utah University

Donna B. Barnes, California State University, Hayward: Is Altruism a form of Morality?: A Case Study of Self-Disclosure by HIV-Infected People

Sohaila Shakib, University of Southern California: The Perception of AIDS and its Effect on the Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors of College Students: A Qualitative Analysis of Factors Related to Condom Use

Matt Mutchler, University of California, Santa Barbara: The Pride Mission: AIDS, Community Building, and Safer Sex Among a Micro-Cohort of the AIDS Generation

Christine K. Oakley, Washington State University: Owning HIV/AIDS Prevention: The Construction of Life-Saving Reform

91. DEVIANCE AND DIVERSITY

Organizer and Presider: Joseph F. Jones, Portland State University

Susan Elizabeth Gerard, University of California, Davis: Out About Being Fat

Jennifer Reck, University of Redlands: Renaming the Violence: Toward a Definition of Lesbian Battering

Sherri Cavan, San Francisco State University: The Great Graffiti Wars of the Late 20th Century

92. PANEL: THE JOB SEARCH AND NEGOTIATIONS

Organizers and Presiders: Lisa Jones, University of California, Irvine and Robert Thompson, UC Santa Cruz

David Smith, UC Irvine

Lionel Maldonado, California State University, San Marcos

Gloria Cuadraz, Arizona State University

93. PANEL: EDUCATIONAL POLICY & TECHNOLOGY ACCESS: CRADLE OR COFFIN?

Organizer and Presider: Kathleen E. Kaiser, California State University, Chico

Marshelle Thobaben, Humboldt State University

Sam Edelman, CSU Chico

Rollie Hauser, CSU Chico

Cheryl Harrison, CSU Sacramento

Kathleen Kaiser, CSU Chico

94. RURAL COMMUNITIES IN POST-MODERN SOCIETIES: COMMUNITY RIGHTS AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Organizer: Harley Johansen, University of Idaho

Presider: H.R. Delaney, Northern Arizona University

Shelia Cordray, Oregon State University: Standing the Test of Time: Oregon’s Century Farms

H. R. Delaney, Harold A. Widdison, and Stanley Swarts, Northern Arizona University: Community: Rights, Individualism, and the Common Good

Richard Baker, Boise State University: Mexican-American Politics and Resistance in a Rural Idaho Community

Paul Miller, University of Montana: Hunger in Montana Public Schools: A Study of Third-Graders and Their Teachers and Principals

95. REALITY OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: DATA GATHERING AND ANALYSIS

Organizer and Presider: Lisa J. McIntyre, Washington State University

Richard Leo, University of Colorado, Boulder: Trial AND Tribulations: Courts, Ethnography, and the Need for Evidentiary Privilege for Academic Researchers

Alexandra Goulding, University of Minnesota: In Defense of Going Native

Kendal Broad, Washington State University: Double Insider Status

Barbara Trepagnier, University of California, Santa Barbara: Exploring Unintended Racism in White Women

Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College and Alan L. Ryave, California State University, Dominguez Hills: Introducing Systematic Self-Observation: A Research Method that Reveals Observed and Neglected Features of Everyday Life

96. MEDIATED AND VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER

Organizer: Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California

Presider: Tracy Faye Tolbert, University of Southern California

Discussant: Robert Dunn, California State University, Hayward

Laura Grindstaff and Julie Palsmeier, University of California, Santa Barbara: Cuming Soon on CD-ROM: Virtual Valerie II: Initializing Pornographic Fantasies in Cyberspace

Julie Albright, University of Southern California: Online Love: Sex, Gender, and Relationships in Cyberspace

96a. VIDEO SESSION: ENTERTAINMENT TV

Rhoda E. Macdonald, CSU Stanislaus and Terry Macdonald, San Jose State: Entertainment Television: Gender and Ethnicity in Health Care Delivery

97. ROUNDTABLES

Organizer: Rodolfo Alvarez, Office of The President, University of California

Table 1: Norman L. Friedman, California State University, Los Angeles: Public Utterances and Private Agendas: Job-Hungry Hollywood Actors and Their Special Casting Directors Workshops.

Table 2: Raj S. Gandhi, The Univ. of Calgary: Life & Death in Three Indian Cities

Table 3: John Gartrell, University of Alberta and David Gartrell, University of Victoria: Sociological Positivism: Rebuffing Its Challengers

Table 4: Susan E. Green, Johnson State College: The Wellness Program in The United States Forest Service

Table 5: Black Popular Culture: Darnell M. Hunt, University of Southern California: Black Popular Culture: Message and Medium; Shawn C. Royal and Peter Levin, University of Southern California: Who You Calling a Bitch? Rap at the Intersection of Race and Gender; Deidre Tyler, Salt Lake Community College: A Black Big Band in Mississippi (1957-1977)

Table 6: Kichi Iwamoto and Marilyn Fernandez, Santa Clara Univ., and Mark Hutter and John Myers, Rowan College of New Jersey: Teaching Race, Class and Gender in The Introductory Courses

Table 7: Karen Kendrick, University of California, Irvine: Researching Sexual Harassment and Assault: An Exploration of Boundaries

Table 8: Rodney Kingsnorth and Carole Barnes, California State University, Sacramento: Race, Drugs, and Criminal Court Processing

Table 9: Marjorie Seashore, San Francisco State University, Gordon Clanton, San Diego State University, and Henry Ettman, University of Nevada, Reno: Teaching Sociological Inquiry: Current Events, English Literature, and the Sociological Imagination

Table 10: Joseph Corbett, University of California, Irvine: The Transition from Modernity to Postmodernity: Material and Symbolic Practice

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Committee on Freedom of Research & Teaching Embarcadero

Committee on Status of Homosexuals Russian Hill

SATURDAY 2-3:50 pm SESSIONS

98. FEATURED: THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIOLOGY

Organizer and Presider: Rodolfo Alvarez, Office of The President, University of California

Presenter: Wendell Bell, Yale University: The Sociology of the Future and The Future of Sociology

Discussants: Jonathan Turner, University of California, Riverside

Lyn Lofland, UC Davis

Francesca Cancian, UC Irvine

99. VIDEO ON VIETNAM

Producers and Directors: Robert Gliner and Hien Do, San Jose State University: Vietnam: At the Crossroads (PBS documentary)

100. SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT

Organizer and Presider: John C. Phillips, University of the Pacific

Mark Hutter, Rowan College: Baseball as a Community Representation

Tim Delaney, Montana State University: Please God Let The Browns Win: Fans’ Perspective on Sports as Religion

Ginna Babcock, University of Idaho: Paintball: A Sport in The Making

101. ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN: CURRENT ISSUES AND LINES OF RESEARCH

Organizer and Presider: Mia Tuan, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California, Berkeley

Amy Lee, University of Michigan: Korean American Women’s Labor Force Participation, Earnings, and Education in Comparative Perspective

Tarry Hum, University of California, Los Angeles: The Triple Burden: Women’s Work in The Ethnic Economy

Karen A. Joe, University of Hawaii at Manoa: The Life and Times of Asian Pacific American Drug Users: An Ethnographic Study

102. TEACHING SESSION: PEDAGOGY AS PRACTICE: HOW CAN TEACHING PROMOTE SOCIAL CHANGE?

Organizer and Presider: Theresa A. Martinez, University of Utah

Discussant: Diana J. Torrez, University of North Texas

Maralee Mayberry, and Margaret Rees, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Feminist Pedagogy As Interdisciplinary Praxis in Science Education

Theresa A. Martinez, University of Utah: Promoting Social Change with Popular Culture: Music in the Race Relations Classroom

Helen Meloy, Marta Gaffney, and Hazel Hull, University of California, Santa Barbara: Providing Students With Critical Thinking Skills: Using Cognitive Dissonance as Theory and Practice in Teaching Social Problems

103. TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF CHILDREN

Organizer: Barrie Thorne, University of Southern California

Presider and Discussant: Sally Raskoff, Pitzer College

LeAnne Cox and Keith Farrington, Whitman College: “Traumatic Event” or “No Big Deal”? The Impact of Prison Visitation Upon Minor Age Children

Susan Blank, University of California, Irvine: Vietnamese and Mexican Children Together: A Look at Their Play Groups

Karen Sternheimer, University of Southern California: “Someday My Prince Will Come”: The Disney Film and The Gendering of Children

Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego: Cultural Linkages Between Children and Animals

104. SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE: CONSTRUCTING FUTURE ENVIRONMENTS

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Jan Mejer, Whitman College

David R. Hall, University of California, Davis: The Social Construction of Physiological “Need”: Human Comfort as Lived Experience

Jane E. Dillon, Whittier College: Factors Influencing Implementation of the California Coastal Act

Rebecca McLain, Sylvia Kantor, Christina Robinson, and Margaret Shannon, Univ. of Washington: Knowledge, Rules, and Policy Development: Managing Special Forest Products in the Pacific Northwest

105. THREATS TO FREEDOM OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH

Organizer and Presider: Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Oregon State University

Barry M. Dank, California State University, Long Beach: What’s Academic Freedom Got To Do with It? Critiquing Campus Sexual Taboos

Jodi O’Brien, University of Iowa: Who’s Burning Paris? Pedagogy, Censorship and Responsibility

W. Kent Buys, Asia-Pacific International Consultants: The New Coolie Labor? Chinese Students at United State Universities

Frederick R. Lynch, Claremont McKenna College: Disarming Politically-Correct Land Mines on the Diversity Research Trail

106. LEADERSHIP AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN INTER-ETHNIC, INTER-CULTURAL, AND INTERNATIONAL SETTINGS

Organizer and Presider: Robert E. Howell, Washington State University

Sergey B. Bystriantsev, St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University and Robert E. Howell, Washington State University: The Experience of Two Sociologists when Teaching a Course on Conflict Management for the first Time at a Major University in Russia

J. Verne Cromartie, Chapman University: Attitudes of California Public University Tenured Sociologists Toward an Ethnic Studies General Educational Requirement

107. ROUNDTABLES

Organizer (Tables 1-3): Hal Charnofsky, CSU, Dominguez Hills and The Committee on Teaching

Organizer (Tables 4-10): Rodolfo Alvarez, Office of the President, University of California

Table 1: Lester Pincu, California State University, Fresno: How to Teach About Criminology

Table 2: Robin Wolf, Diablo Valley College: How to Teach About the Family

Table 3: Charles F. Hohm, San Diego State Univ.: How to Teach About Demography

Table 4: Linda Heuser, Willamette University: Death Education: A Model of Student-Directed Learning

Table 5: Lisa Jones, University of California, Irvine and Robert Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz: Adjusting to The Graduate Student Role: Politics and Decisions

Table 6: L. Dale McPherson, University of Utah: Empowering Gay and Lesbian Students in the Classroom

Table 7: Inger J. Sagatun-Edwards, San Jose State University, Jan Johnston, Stanford University, and Linda Girdner, American Bar Association, Washington, D.C.: Gender and Parental Abduction

Table 8: Jerald E. Schutte, California State University, Northridge: Technology in the Classroom: Uses and Methods of Evaluating Computer Based Instruction

Table 9: William Yoels, University of Alabama-Birmingham: Studying Medicine Up-Close: Problems and Prospects

Table 10: Jerome Rabow, Danielle Edwards, and Denise Martinez, UCLA: "My Money Doesn't Care Who I Sleep With:" The Pink Triangle Experiment

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Committee on Teaching Embarcadero

Sociology Department Chairs, CSU System Russian Hill

SATURDAY: 4-5:50 pm SESSIONS

108. QUEER SCHOLARSHIP: RESEARCH ON LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ISSUES IN THE CONTEXT OF RACE AND CLASS

Organizer and Presider: Julia Wallace, University of Oregon

Maureen Sullivan, University of California, Davis: Rozzie and Harriet?: The Division of Labor and Family Patterns of Lesbian Co-Parent Families

Elizabeth Armstrong, University of California, Berkeley: The Diversification of Queer Identities Organization Proliferation in San Francisco, 1953-1994

Cheryl Cole, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Imagined Communities: Sexing The Body, Sport, and the National Identity in Cold War American

Arlene Stein and Susan Johnston, University of Oregon: Sexual Minorities, Identity Politics and the Right: The Case of Oregon

109. NEGOTIATED IDENTITY IN A MULTIETHNIC SOCIETY

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, St. Mary’s College

Hokulani Aikau, University of Memphis: Trouble Makers: The Construction of Polynesian Students’ Identity in Utah

Karen A. Joe, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geoffrey Hunt, and Dan Waldorf, Institute for Scientific Analysis: Born to Kill? Culture and Ethnic Identity Among Southeast Asian Gang Members

Susan V. Overstreet, Brigham Young University: An Ethnic Approach to the Study of the Deaf Community

Elsa Valdez, California State University, San Bernardino and Ann M. Cooper, New Mexico Highlands University: Effects of Ancestry and Geographical Location on Ethnic Identity Among Hispanic/Latino University Undergraduate Student in Northern New Mexico and Southern California

110. WORKSHOP: ZEN AND ADIDAS: MANAGING STRESS IN ACADEMIA

Organizer and Presenter: Laurie Wermuth, California State University, Chico

111. ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY: ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Organizer and Presider: Alfonso Morales, University of Arizona

Louis Corsino, Concordia University and Maricela Soto, California School of Psychology: Mexican- American Ethnic Entrepreneurship

Patrick Martin, University of Arizona: The Household as The Unit of Analysis in The Ethnic Enclose Economy

Yoonies Park, University of California, Irvine: Subcontracting and the Informalization of Labor in The Janitorial Industry in Los Angeles: Korean Immigrants In The Janitorial Industry

112. SOCIAL CHANGE

Organizer and Presider: Linda Fuller, University of Oregon

Bradley Scharf, Seattle University: Distributional Effects of Changing Social Policy in Germany’s Eastern States

Laura Enriquez, University of California, Berkeley: The Transformation of Food Crop Production in Contemporary Cuba

Frank Bardacke, Watsonville, CA: Activist and Translator of Subcomandante Marcos and The Zapatista Army of National Liberation Letters and Communiqués

Sue Wright, Eastern Washington University and Colleen Mack-Canty, University of Oregon: The Radical Potential of Feminist Parenting

113. VIDEO DOCUMENTARY AND DISCUSSION

Presenter: Charles Choy Wong, University of La Verne

Video: Separate Lives/Broken Dreams

Discussion: Angel Island Archival Research Using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

115. CARING WORK IN FAMILIES

Organizer and Presider: Karen Pyke, University of Southern California

Francesca Cancian, University of California, Irvine and Stacey Oliker, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: What is Caring? Gender, Class, and Ways of Caring for Family Members

Lynet Uttal, University of Memphis: Good Mothers, Bad Mothers, Other Mothers: Making Sense of Child Care

Christopher Carrington, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Feeding Queer Families

Karen Pyke, University of Southern California and Scott Coltrane, University of California, Riverside: Gendered Feelings of Entitlement, Obligation, and Gratitude in Family Work

116. CULTURAL THEORY AND THE DIMENSIONS OF MICRO INTERACTION

Organizer and Presider: Richard Boyle, University of New Mexico

Discussant: Robert Fiala, University of New Mexico

Theresa Montini, Whittier College: Field notes on The Foreclosure of Disclosure

Warren Ten Houten, UCLA Grid - Group Analysis: Application to Community Studies

K. John Fisher, University of Queensland: Comparison of Australian and U.S. Students on Cultural Theory Measures

117. DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH TO HELP CHANGE THE WORLD: THE CASE OF SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS CORPORATION

Organizer and Presider: Fred Hoffman, Scientific Analysis Corporation

Discussant: Ann Metcalf, Mills College

Marsha Rosenbaum, Institute for Scientific Analysis: Grantsmanship at Scientific Analysis Corporation

Geoffrey Hunt, Institute for Scientific Analysis: The Culture of Smoking: Two Sociological Analyses of Smoking Behavior

Sheigla Murphy, Scientific Analysis Corporation: Ethnographic Evaluation in Community Based Research

Fred Hoffman, Scientific Analysis Corporation: Developing “Cultural Competence” for Sociological Practice: Studying, Treating, and Preventing Substance Abuse in High Risk Ethnic Populations

117a. A CONVERSATION WITH EDITORS OF SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTERS

This session is open to all participants who are interested in becoming a newsletter editor.

Richard Dello Buono, Rosary College, River Forest Illinois: Editor, Society for the Study of Social Problems Newsletter

J. Daniel McMillin, California State University, Bakersfield: Editor, California Sociological Association Newsletter

Dean S. Dorn, California State University, Sacramento: Editor, PSA Newsletter

SATURDAY: 6:00-6:30 pm BUSINESS MEETING

SATURDAY 6:30-7:30 pm RECEPTION

Reception (no-host bar), Sponsored by the Student Affairs Committee

SATURDAY: 8:30-10 pm SESSION

118. PLENARY: NEW DIRECTIONS IN UNDERSTANDING AIDS International

Organizer: Eleen Baumann, University of Oregon

Presider: Charles Geshekter, California State University, Chico

Presenters: Charles Geshekter, California State University, Chico

Michael Botkin (Counseling Psychologist), San Francisco, CA

Peter Duesberg, UC Berkeley

Phillip E. Johnson, UC Berkeley

Thomas Avena (Poet), San Francisco, California

SUNDAY, APRIL 9

Summary of Events

8-10 am Registration

8:30-11:45 am Sessions

8-9:50 am 1995-96 Council

SUNDAY: 8:00-10 am MEETING

1995-96 Council Embarcadero

SUNDAY: 8:30-10 am SESSIONS

119. GROUP PROCESSES

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

Discussant: Linda Molm, University of Arizona and Karen S. Hegtvedt, Emory University

Murray Webster Jr., University of North Carolina-Charlotte and Stuart J. Hyson, San Francisco State University: The Generality of Sexual Orientation as a Status Characteristic

Sabrina Freeman, Stanford University: Double Standards and Pay: The Relationship Between Standards for Performance and Rewards

Joachim Schneider, University of Washington: Gender Struggles and Expectations States: The Combining Principles Revisited

Anthony Floyd, and Morris Zelditch, Stanford University: Consensus, Disensus and Justifications

David Karp, University of Washington: Cooperation and Pro-Environmental Behavior

120. PUBLIC POLICY AND THE PUBLIC USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Organizer and Presider: Sheila Cordray, Oregon State University

Discussant: Lori Cramer, Oregon State University

Dee Southard, Oregon State University: Life on The Move: Homeless People Using Public Lands for Non-recreational Camping

Patrick Withen, United States Forest Service: Lower-level Employees’ Participation in Public Policy: Wildland firefighters’ Participation in National fire Policy Formulation

Kathleen Halvorsen and Margaret Shannon, Institute for Resources in Society: Crossing Boundaries and Barriers: Multi-faceted Trust and Cooperative Land Management Processes

Tammy Lewis, University of California, Davis: The Role of International NGOs in the development of Third World Environmental Policy

121. ETHNIC FAMILIES

Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Juan L. Gonzales, Jr., California State University, Hayward

In-Sook Lim, Universitiy of Texas: Interplay of Women’s Resource, Gender, and Family in the Changes and Continuity of Gender Roles Among Korean Immigrant Families

Mary Thompson, Brigham Young University: Roles of Chinese Peasant Women

Carol J. Ward and Elon Stander, Brigham Young University: Native American Women and Recovery: Northern Cheyenne Women’s Experiences with Personal, Family and Community Recovery

Juan L. Gonzales Jr., California State University, Hayward: A Comparison of Fertility Rates Among Mexican Americans, Mexican Legal Residents, and Mexican Nationals: 1990

122. DECONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING EASTERN EUROPE: PROSPECTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Organizer and Presider: Thomas Kando, California State University, Sacramento

Discussant: Robert Kloss, California State University, Sacramento

Garth Massey, University of Wyoming: The Premature Obituary of Hungarian Cooperative Agriculture

John Richardson, University of California, San Diego: The Realities and Limitations of Institutionally Engineered Solutions to Ethnic Conflict in inter-war Czechoslovakia

Jozsef Vigh, Eotvos Lorand University: Changes in Criminal Policy during the Initial Transformation (1989-1994) of Hungarian Society

123. PANEL: LOCATING THE STRUGGLE: CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION OF POWER, INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Organizer and Presider: Jennifer L. Eichstedt, UC Santa Cruz

Discussant: Herman Gray, University of California, Santa Cruz

Julie D. Haase, University of California, Davis: Class Dismissed? Roseanne and the Changing Face of Working Class Iconography

Maribel Alvarez, University of Arizona: Multiculturalism, Identity and Cultural Politics

Hal Aronson, University of California, Santa Cruz: Mobilizing Identity: The Role of Culture in Community Struggles Against Environmental Hazards

124. CENTRALITY AND MARGINALITY: MINORITY RESEARCHERS, ETHNIC MARGINALITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Organizer and Presider: Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, St. Mary’s College

Jae H. Kwun, University of California at Irvine: The Korean-American Economy and the Centrality of Race

Jie Zheng and Wen H. Kuo, University of Utah: Primary Assimilation of Asian-Americans: A Study of Social Network Among Asians

Heidi Howarth, University of Minnesota: Minority Researchers and Marginalized Populations: A Look at Attitudes of Hierarchy Domination and Exploitaiton

125. SOCIOLOGY’S CONTRIBUTION TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY

Organizer and Presider: Hal Charnofsky, CSU Dominguez Hills

Veronica Elias, and James Elias, CSU Northridge: Goffman’s Dramaturgy and the Concepts of “Definition of the Situation,” “Front and Back Region,” and “Impression Management” in Marriage and Family Therapy

Hal Charnofsky, California State University, Dominguez Hills: Some Contributions of Sociology to a Master’s Degree Program in Marriage and Family Therapy

Michele Linden, California State University, Dominguez Hills: The Concept of Family Systems as a Sociological Contribution to Marriage and Family Therapy

Elizabeth Leonard, University of California, Riverside: Family Relations in Abusive Homes: Three Sociological Perspectives

126. PANEL: SOCIOLOGY AND CULTURAL POLITICS: NIKE STYLE

Organizer and Presider: Cheryle L. Cole, University of Illinois

Jermy Howell, University of California, San Francisco: A Revolution in Motion: Advertising and the Politics of Nostalgia

Cheryl L. Cole and Samantha King, University of Illinois: Just Do It—Just Say No: Promotional Culture, America’s Drug War and The New Politics of Urban Consumption

David L. Andrews, University of Memphis: Nike’s Affective Basketball Economy: The Politics of Representation in the Post-modern American Mediascape

Amy S. Hribar, University of Illinois: The Depoliticization and Commodification of Feminism: Nike Style

127. MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY: HEALTH AND ILLNESS

Organizer and Presider: Laura E. Nathan, Mills College

Angelo A. Alonzo, Ohio State University and Nancy R. Reynolds, University of Rochester: Responding to Signs and Symptoms of Acute Myocardial Infarctions: How do you Educate the Public? A Social Psychological Approach to Intervention

Leah Robin, University of California, Los Angeles: Pain as Ineffable: Avoidant Coping Strategies Among Cardiac Patients

Tovah Bates, University of California, San Francisco: Loss of Self in Alzheimer’s Disease: Perspectives of the Afflicted

Jennifer R. Myhre, University of California, San Francisco: The Meaning Of Breast Cancer: Activists in Dialogue with Medicine and Social Science

Carol Somkin, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Research Division: Sociodemographic Factors and Mammography Use in an HMO

128. ROUNDTABLES

Organizer (Tables 1-2): Hal Charnofsky, CSU, Dominguez Hills and The Committee on Teaching

Organizer (Tables 3-12): Rodolfo Alvarez, Office of The President, University of California

Table 1: Noelie Rodriguez, Hawaii Community College: How to Teach About Class and Power

Table 2: Fumiko Hosokawa, California State University, Dominguez Hills: How to Teach About Race and Ethnic Relations

Table 3: Janicemarie Allard, California State University, Los Angeles: Uses of Sociology in the Legal Profession

Table 4: John Clark, Univ. of Oregon: What is Cross Cultural Research Teaching Us?

Table 5: Rena Palloff, LCWS and Keith Pratt, MS, Alameda, CA: Human and Electronic Communities: Playing in the Cyberspace Sandbox

Table 6: David Raden, Purdue University Calumet: Ethnocentrism Among American Whites

Table 7: Lawrence Sneden, California State University, Northridge: Torn Cultures and the Clash of Civilizations

Table 8: Kathy Snyder, Nora O’Neil-Rood and Kenneth L. Nyberg, California State University, Bakersfield: Average Students: The Neglected Majority

Table 9: Mary White Stewart, University of Nevada, Reno: Breast Implants: Medicalization of Women’s Bodies

Table 10: Tim McGettigan, Washington State University: Effects of Media on Ethnographic Subjects

Table 11: Lynn C. Jones, University of Arizona: Social Movements: The Law and Legal Actors

SUNDAY: 10:15-11:45 am SESSIONS

129. INFORMAL CONVERSATION: POSTMODERN EXPLORATION OF THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIZING

Organizer and Presider: Clayton Dumont, San Francisco State University

S. M. Shamsul Alam, Southern Oregon State College: Development as Hegemony: A Subalternist Perspective

Tugrul Ilter, University of Oregon: The Unassimilable Otherness of the “Post” of Postmodern and the Cultural Radicality of Sociology

Julia Wallace, University of Oregon: Reading Durkheim for Postmodernism

Martin Orr, Boise State University: A Critical Evaluation of Alternative Approaches to the Problem of Intellectual Diversity: Toward a Sociology of the Sociology of Sociology

130. ALTRUISM: THE ANTIDOTE OF HUMAN DIVISIVENESS

Organizer and Presider: Samuel P. Oliner, Humboldt State University

Discussant: Paul Crosbie, Humboldt State University

Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University: The Mobilization of Moral Outrage: Calvinist and Socialist Jewish Rescue Networks in Nazi-Occupied Holland

Pearl Oliner, Humboldt State University: Promoting Caring Institutions: Changing Culture From Within

Rebecca Anne Allahyari, University of California, Davis: Caring and Moral Selving at the Loaves and Fishes "Soup Kitchen"

Vincent Jeffries, California State University, Northridge: Virtue and the Altruistic Personality

131. ASIAN AMERICANS

Organizer and Presider: Efren N. Padilla, California State University, Hayward

Colleen Fong, California State University, Hayward: Mail-Order Brides: Victims or Social Agents?

Carol Sumi Takao, California State University, Hayward: The Koto-An Instrument of Persistence in Japanese-American Culture

David Swift, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Military Intelligence Service Nisei in World War II

Timothy Fong, California State University, Northridge: Ted Dang and His Mayoral Challenge in Oakland, California

Nancy Morrison, University of Hawaii: Human Capital Theory

132. POWER, MORALITIES, OPPRESSIONS AND BODIES

Organizer and Presider: Debora Paterniti, University of California, Davis

Susan Elizabeth Gerard, University of California, Davis: Overcoming “Obesity”: A Contest for the Definition of the Situation

Debora Paterniti, University of California, Davis: Practicing Medicine: Body Work And Moral Concerns

David Altheide, Arizona State University: Problem Frame and TV News

Patrick Carroll, University of California, San Diego: Science, Power, Bodies: The Mobilizaiton of Nature as State Formation

133. SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS (SESSION II)

Organizer and Presider: Pamela Roby, University of California, Santa Cruz

Deborah A. Smith, University of Minnesota: For Love or Money? Work and Emotional Labor in a Social Movement Organization

Amanda Konradi, Ohio University: Emotion Management in the Rage Trial Process: Pre-Emptive and Recovery Strategies

Jennifer L. Pierce, University of Minnesota: Reflections on fieldwork in a Complex Organization: Lawyers, Ethnographic Authority and the Feminist Outlaw

Virginia Olesen, University of California, San Francisco: Emotions in Changing Institutional Contexts: The Importance of “Evocative Transformations”

134. FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE LIFE COURSE (SESSION II)

Organizer: Karen Seccombe, Univ. of Florida

Presider: Virginia Mulle, University of Alaska Southeast

Leslie Minor and Brian Dement, Central Oregon Community College: The Value of Children and Traditional Values as Predictors of Employment Status During the Transition to Parenthood

David F. Greenberg, New York University: Is Divorce Genetic: A Critique of Helen fisher’s Bio-Anthropology of Divorce

James A. Guthrie, University of New Hampshire: Children’s Perception of Familial Support After Experiencing Parental Death

Ginna Babcock, University of Idaho: Long Distance Mothers: Attributions and Consequences of Non-Residential Mothering

135. GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH: SUBCULTURES

Organizer: Sally Raskoff, Pitzer College

Presider: Jackie Rogers, University of Southern California

Randal Doane, San Francisco State University: The Musician and Secondary Socialization on the American Road

Stace H. Christianson, Brigham Young University: Mormon Women’s Sense of Empowerment

Kimberly A. Mahaffy, University of New Hampshire: Construction and Application of a Lesbian Identity Management Scale

Carolyn Jew, Brigham Young University: Family Resemblance? How New Asian Immigrants Compare with the Model Minority

136. WOMEN AND WORK: THE IMPACT/ EFFECTS OF GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION

Organizer and Presider: Denise A. Segura, University of California, Santa Barbara

Garth Massey, University of Wyoming: Women in the Transition to Capitalist Labor Markets: The Hungarian Situation

Jane A. Greathouse, Claremont, CA: Ethnic and Racial Differences and Similarities in the Success Paths of Women

Carolyn Aman, University of Arizona: Comparable Worth and Feminism

137. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SPORT: PUBLIC RELATIONS, MONEY & SEX

Organizer and Presider: Carl Stempel, California State University, Hayward

Stephani Williams, Arizona State University: Baseball: Attendance, Players Strike, Public Relations, and Michael Jordan

Carl Stempel, California State University, Hayward: The Sport Sociologist: Sociological Practice and the Sex Metaphor

138. CRIMINOLOGY: STUDIES OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM (SESSION III)

Organizer and Presider: David Shichor, California State University, San Bernardino andand Robert O’Brien, University of Oregon

Frances Coles, California State University, San Bernardino: Drug Court: Rehabilitation Revisited?

John R. Dugan, Central Washington State University and Ronald S. Everett, University of Idaho: A Dose of Reality: Examing the Effects of Reality Therapy on Institutional and Post-Release Behavior of Jail Inmates

Dale K. Sechrest and Don A. Josi, California State University, San Bernardino: Problems of Correctional Officers and Treatment Staff Interaction in a Calirfornia Treatment Program

Laurel German and Michael Moore, California State University, Chico: Social Interaction Within Prison Walls

139. BODY POLITICS: PHILOSOPHIES AND ISSUES OF THE BODY

Organizer and Presider: Janet Lee, Oregon State University

Martha McCaughey, University of California, Santa Barbara: Fleshing Out the Discomforts of Femininity: Comparing Female Anorexia with Male Compulsive Body Building

Jacque Lynn Foltyn, University of Redlands: Feminism, Beauty, and the Old and New Somatics

Morra Killoran, Whittier College: Feminists and the Phallus: Gendered Power and Societal Control in Liberated/ Occupied Cyprus

Adele E. Clarke, University California, San Francisco: Modernity, Postmodernity and Reproductive Processes

140. ROUNDTABLES

Organizer: Rodolfo Alvarez, Office of The President, University of California

Table 1: Jayne Thomas, Los Angeles Community College: Teaching About Transsexualism and Transvestism in Sociology of Gender Classes

Table 2: Ted E. Thomas, Mills College and Victor Jones, University of California, Berkeley: Comparative Urban Sociology: Canada and the United States

Table 3: Robert Thompson, Lynn Fujiwara, and Kim Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz: What Is It Like To Be a Graduate Student

Table 4: Russell Travis, California State University, Bakersfield: Linquistic Socialization: The Psychological Development of Children

Table 5: Nella Van Dyke, University of Arizona: Networks and The Mobilizaiton of Collective Action Participants

Table 6: Harvey Williams, University of the Pacific, Katarin Jurich, Central Washington State University, J. Richard Johnson, J. Richard Johnson and Associates, and Bonnie Berry, Pacific Lutheran University: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: The Ethical and Professional Dilemmas of Researchers Hired for Program Evaluation

Table 7: Angela Yancik, University of Arizona: Varieties of Urban Life: Artists, Service Workers, and the Homeless

Table 8: J. Barry Gurdin, San Francisco, California: Anti-Semitism and Jewish Renewal in Contemporary Sociology: A Critical Reflection on Recent Texts