Society for the Study of Social Problems

Organizer & Presider: Manuel Pino, Scottsdale Community College

"Human Rights Violations in Brazil," Mariana Leal Ferreira, San Francisco State University

"A Legal History of Indigenous People's Involvement in the U.N.," Alberto Saldamando, Staff attorney, International Indian Treaty Council

"Indigenous People's Right to Development," Manuel Pino, Scottsdale Community College

"The Right to Food," Antonio Gonzales, International Indian Treaty Council

THEMATIC
Session 55: Doing Activism and Research: Views from Inside the Anti-Globalization Movement (Session II) Room: California

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Luis Fernandez, Arizona State University

"Bringing Down the Walls: Participatory Observation, Objectivity, and Power in the Anti Globalization Movement," Luis Fernandez, Arizona State University

"This is What Democracy Looks Like: Praxis in a Global Uprising," Amory Starr, Chapman University

"Linking the Web: Research, Activism, and Social Change," Randall Amster, Prescott College

"Adversarial Methods: Linking Academia to Grassroots Social Movements," Robert Ovetz, New College of California

"Practicing Militant Ethnography within Movements against Corporate Globalism," Jeffrey S. Juris, University of California and USC Annenberg School of Communication, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Session 56: Evolving Drug Markets Room: Pacific Heights

Sponsor: Drinking and Drugs Division

Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Sheigla Murphy, Institute for Scientific Analysis

"'I'm Not a Real Dealer': The Identity Process of Ecstasy Sellers," Camille Jacinto, Sheigla Murphy, and Paloma Sales, Institute for Scientific Analysis

"What's in a Label?: Ecstasy Sellers'  Perceptions of Pill Brands," Micheline Duterte, Paloma Sales, and Camille Jacinto, Institute for Scientific Analysis

"Emerging Roles of Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans in Illegal Drug Markets," Avelardo Valdez, University of Houston

"The Uses of Race and Class in the Lives of Drug Dealing Suburban Youth," Brian C. Kelly and Miguel A. Munoz, Columbia University

"Variation in Drug Expense among Manhattan Arrestees across Drug User Types," Andrew Golub and Bruce D. Johnson, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

Session 57: Education, Educational Settings, and Crime Room: Sea Cliff

Sponsors: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division

Educational Problems Division

Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Ken Kyle, Pennsylvania State University, Capital College

"Can Sociology Help Prevent Future Columbines?" Teresa Donati, Fairleigh Dickinson University

"High School Educators' Discursive Production of Student Violence," Brenda Solomon, University of Vermont

"Education and Delinquency in Chicago: Options for Youth and Questions for Researchers," Susan P. Mayer, University of Chicago

"'I Know You'll Like It': Gender Differences in Sexually Coercive Behavior," Poco Kernsmith, Wayne State University and Roger Kernsmith, Eastern Michigan University

"Space, Place, and Juvenile Justice for Girls in the Midwest," L. Susan Williams, Kansas State University

Session 58: Health Effects: Intersection of Race and Poverty Room: Marina

Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division
Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division

Organizers & Presiders: Stephen Morewitz, Stephen J. Morewitz, Ph.D. & Associates

Stephani Williams, Arizona State University

Discussant: Stephen Morewitz, Stephen J. Morewitz, Ph.D. & Associates

"Flower Power: Assessing the Impact of Magnolia and Azalea on Minority Health Disparities in the Urban Core of Jacksonville, Florida," Jeffry A. Will, Irma Hall, Maura Driscoll, and Tim Cheney, Northeast Florida Center for Community Initiatives

"HIV Positive Women's Reproductive Decisions and their Confidants Participation: Power, and Race Issues and the Complexities of the Relationship," Donna B. Barnes, Elisabeth Ochsner, and Timothy Smith, California State University, Hayward

"The Influence of Health Care Delivery on Satisfaction with Care: Links Between Race, Class and Inequality in Urban Contexts," Gniesha Y. Dinwiddie, University of Pennsylvania

"Chronic Disease and Affordability of Prescription Drugs: Socioeconomic and Demographic Differences," Stephen Morewitz, Stephen J. Morewitz, Ph.D. & Associates

Session 59: Law and Social Policy II Room: Twin Peaks

Sponsor: Law and Society Division

Organizer: Lloyd Klein, Bemidji State University

Presider &  Discussant: Otis B. Grant, Indiana University, South Bend

Papers:

"Mechanisms of Interest Group Influence on Regulatory Enforcement," Peter Shrock, University of Albany

"Are the Indigent Too Poor for Bankruptcy? A Critical Legal Interpretation of the Theory of 'Fresh Start' Within a Law and Economics Paradigm," Otis B. Grant, Indiana University, South Bend

"The Construction of Disinheritance as Deviant for the Maintenance of Inequality," Michael Lepore, Georgia State University

"Girls in Trouble: Law and Social Problems," Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Domestic Violence State Legislation: Examining the Effects of No-Drop Prosecution Policies in Domestic Violence Cases," Gabrielle Ferrales, Northwestern University

Session 60: Homelessness and Social Policy Room: Cathedral Hill B

Sponsor: Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division

Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Leon Anderson, Ohio University

"Homeless Activism, State Responses and Media Representation," Talmadge Wright, Loyola University Chicago

"Domestic Service and Homelessness Among Nineteenth Century American Women," Harry Murray, Nazareth College of Rochester

"Exclusion and Destitution: Race, Affordable Housing, and the Homeless in a Midwestern City," George Carter III, University of Michigan

"Designing and Using Research as part of an Advocacy Agenda to Address Homelessness," Christine C. George, Loyola University Chicago

Session 61: Financial Stress and Health Room: Telegraph Hill A

Sponsor: Mental Health Division

Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Maxine Thompson, North Carolina State University

"Nativity, Family Context and Drug Dependence: The Role of Cumulative Adversity," R. Jay Turner, John Taylor, and Donald A. Lloyd, Florida State University

"The Burden of Care among Nurses in Homes for the Elderly," Siegfried Weyerer, Central Institute of Mental Health

"Economic Stress and Depression: The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender," Jessica Hernandez and Tiffani Saunders, Indiana University

THEMATIC
Session 62: People, Power and History: Constructing the United States Room: Telegraph Hill B

Sponsor: Social Problems Theory Division

Organizer: Donileen R. Loseke, University of South Florida

Presider: Mitch Berbrier, University of Alabama in Huntsville

"Patriotism as a Social Problem: Keying, Memory and National Identity," Tim Kubal, California State University

"Bridge over Troubled Waters: Race, Power, and the Development of Urban Democracy," Michael J. Fortner, Harvard University

"Appalachian Cultural Identity and the Imagination of Empire," Barbara L. Kunkle, Shawnee State University

"Vulnerability and Convergence in the World Trade Center Disaster: Social Management of People-Types in Crisis," Jeannette N. Sutton, University of Colorado

"Minority Social Movements and Senior Citizen Organizations," Paula S. Brush, Western Michigan University

Session 63: Performance: Daddy Does Cybernetics: Diary of a Mental Patient  Room: Cathedral Hill A

Sponsor: Program Committee

Performer: Jackie Orr, Syracuse University

Presider: TBA