UC Sociologists Featured at National Meeting in New York
The University of Cincinnatis Department of Sociology will be represented at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Aug. 11-14 in New York City an event estimated to draw as many as 6,000 attendees. Through eye-opening and innovative panels, workshops and sessions examining American electoral politics, popular culture, the politics of natural disasters, immigration, the religious right, economic development and the politics of incarceration, the ASA Annual Meeting promises to educate and challenge attendees and members of the press, states the association in a news release.
The meeting is themed, Is Another World Possible? ASA President Frances Fox Piven states, Our world is changing very fast, and it is at times like this that sociological analysis should be sharpest, most illuminating and also most useful.
Here are the UC-researched topics to be presented at the meeting:
Saturday, Aug, 11
8:30-10:10 a.m. Some Things Ethnomethodology Can Say About Power (and Already Has) Stephen Groschwitrz, UC doctoral student in sociology
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Nature, Culture and Machines in the Ecovillage Movement Kelly Moore, UC assistant professor of sociology, and Alan Wright, UC masters student in sociology
2:30-4:10 p.m. Whites Naming Whiteness: White Doctors and Nurses on Racial Inequality Jennifer Malat, UC associate professor of sociology
4:30-6:10 p.m. It is Not Only About Losing Weight: Talk of Diet in Urban Metropolises of India Jaita Talukdar, UC doctoral candidate in sociology
Sunday, Aug. 12
8:30 -9:30 a.m. Workplace Structure and Flexible Work Arrangements: Examining How Workplaces Fall Short and Why Workers Accept It Lisa M. Fisher and Therese A. Sprinkle, UC doctoral candidates in sociology
10:30 11:30 a.m. Are Latinos Becoming White? Determinants of Latinos Racial Self-Identification in the U.S. Joseph Michael, UC sociology doctoral candidate and researcher at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago, and Jeffrey Timberlake, UC assistant professor of sociology
10:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m. Women. Depression and Anti-Depressants: Extending a Social Structural Model to Explain the Use of Anti-Depressants Jaita Talukdar, UC doctoral candidate in sociology
10:30-11:30 a.m. Scratchin and Surviving or Movin on Up? Two Sources of Change in Childrens Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Jeffrey Timberlake, UC assistant professor of sociology
Monday, Aug. 13
8:30 a.m.-10:10 a.m. Acting in Concert or Concerts of Action: Challenges and Opportunities in the Campaigns Against Female Executions, 1895-1915 Annulla Linders, UC associate professor of sociology
2:30-4:10 p.m. Gender Differences in Providing Urgent Child Care Among Dual-Earner Parents David Maume, UC professor of sociology
The ASA is a non-profit membership association dedicated to serving sociologists in their work, advancing sociology as a science and profession and promoting the contributions and use of sociology to society.
UCs Department of Sociology in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences has faculty with national reputations and award-winning publications and research grants.
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