2010 Annual Meeting March 18-21, Boston, MA

Economic Crisis and New Social Realities


19. Author-Meets-Critics—
Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Post-Communist Russian by Alya Guseva

Thursday, March 18, 1:45-3:15 PM

Session Critic: Simone Polillo


28. Regular Paper Session— The Making and Unmaking of Nation States
Thursday, March 18, 1:45-3:15 PM

  • Haiming Yan - "Re-constructing Time: Calendrical Reform in China, 1911 - Present"

42. Regular Paper Session— Organizational Structures and Pressures for Change
Thursday, March 18, 3:30 PM—5:00 PM

  • Michael Wayne - "Teams, Race, Inequality, and the Status Quo: Post-Bureaucratic Employment in High-Performance Organizations"

59. Regular Paper Session— Rethinking the Impact of Globalization on Identities
Friday, March 19 8:30 AM—10:00 AM

  • Anne Castelvecchi - "Human Rights as Cosmopolitan Nationalism?"

71. Roundtable— Neoliberalism and the State
Friday, March 19 8:30 AM—10:00 AM

  • Yuliya Dudaronak - "Green Consumerism: The Gendered Side of the Popular Discourse on Citizenship and Consumption"

103. Roundtable— The Body as a Locus of Identity and Inequality
Friday, March 19 Sessions 10:15 AM—11:45 AM

  • Tristan Bridges - "Sexism without Sexists: The Persistence of Gender and Sexual Inequality in the U.S."

123. Regular Paper Session— Racial Variation in Work and Family Life
Friday, March 19 Sessions 12:00 PM—1:30 PM

  • Allison Pugh - "Postindustrial Flexibility and Commitment Among African-American and White Working Mothers"

126. Roundtable— Biracial Identity in the Contemporary U.S. Context
Friday, March 19 Sessions 12:00 PM—1:30 PM

  • Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl - "'Not Quite:' Navigating the Asian/White Multiracial Experience"

127. Roundtable— Comparative Perspectives on Education
Friday, March 19 Sessions 12:00 PM—1:30 PM

  • Jeff Dill - "Towards a Better World: The Moral Demands of Global Citizenship Education and the Collective Conscience of World Society"

130. Roundtable— Mental Health, Social Capital, and Well-Being
Friday, March 19 Sessions 12:00 PM—1:30 PM

  • Matthew Morrison - "From Coercion to Responsibility: Defining the Mentally Ill in an Age of Individualism"

148. Regular Paper Session— Economic Uncertainty and Social Inequality
Friday, March 19 1:45 PM—3:15 PM

  • Jennifer Silva - "Slight Expectations: Coming of Age in the Midst of Economic Uncertainty"

169. Regular Paper Session— Construction and Negotiation of Femininities
Friday, March 19 3:30 PM—5:00 PM

  • Niva Shooshy - "Beyond Good and Evil: Gender, Class and Symbolic Boundaries"

195. Regular Paper Session— Judgement of Art, Creation of Taste
Saturday, March 20 8:30 AM—10:00 AM

  • Daniel Finn - "Cultural Schemas of Criticism: Changing Dynamics in Film Reviews"

210. Regular Paper Session— Assessing Resistance to Medicalization
Saturday, March 20 10:15 AM—11:45 AM

  • Joe Davis & Ben Snyder - "Drawing the Line on ADHD: Medicalization, Public Opinion, and the Imperatives of Biocitizenship"

245. Roundtable— Negotiating Individual and Collective Memory
Saturday, March 20 12:00 PM—1:30 PM

  • Tara Tober - "Gazing into the Pensieve: The Problems with Conceptualizing Memory as "Storage and Retrieval"

248. Roundtable— Social Theory and the Changing Nature of Capitalism
Saturday, March 20 12:00 PM—1:30 PM

  • Julia Schroeder - "'Greed-talk': Weber, Politics and the Current Economic Crisis"

266. Regular Paper Session— The Political Imagination
Saturday, March 20 1:45 PM—3:15 PM

Session Presider: Yuliya Dudaronak


303. Regular Paper Session— Defining Mental Health
Sunday, March 21 8:30 AM—10:00 AM

  • Justin Snyder - "The Chance of Violence: Probabilistic Thinking and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder"

320. Regular Paper Session— Negotiating the Burden of Care in Chronic Illness
Sunday, March 21 10:15 AM—11:45 AM

Session Presider: Jennifer Silva


323. Regular Paper Session— Sociological Analysis of Health and Aging
Sunday, March 21 10:15 AM—11:45 AM

  • Campbell Buie- "Medicalization and Agency: An Exploration of Women's Resistance in a Highly-Medicalized Culture"

325. Regular Paper Session— Unequal Outcomes of Higher Education
Sunday, March 21 10:15 AM—11:45 AM

  • Josipa Roksa - "Accumulating Capital at Work: Social Class, Work during College, and Educational Success"

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