2009 Annual Meeting Submission Cover Sheet
Call for Papers
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| Session # | Session Title | Sponsor(s) | Organizer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immigrant Enclaves and Residential Segregation - THEMATIC | Community Research and Development |
Keil, Thomas J.
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| 2 | Research Matters | Community Research and Development |
Sandoval, Onésimo (Ness)
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| 3 | Community Research and Development Roundtables | Community Research and Development |
Majka, Linda
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| 4 | Environmental Racism - THEMATIC | Community Research and Development
Environment and Technology Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Cassiman, Shawn A.
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| 5 | Impact of Globalization on Communities in Less Developed Nations | Community Research and Development
Global |
Mitra, Debarashmi
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| 6 | Community-based Efforts Targeting Racial and Ethnic Inequities and Disadvantages - THEMATIC | Community Research and Development
Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Troche-Rodriguez, Madeline
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| 7 | Experiential Learning, Service Learning, and Community Internships | Community Research and Development
Teaching Social Problems |
MacLean, Vicky M.
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| 8 | Community-based Research: Working Toward Social Change and Social Justice | Conflict, Social Action, and Change |
Perkins, Deborah G.
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| 9 | Conflict and Change: The Challenges of Contemporary Immigration | Conflict, Social Action, and Change |
Ambler, Susan
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| 10 | The Role of Ideology and the Media in Escalating Social Conflict | Conflict, Social Action, and Change |
Kurth, Suzanne B.
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| 11 | Participatory Research, Public Participation and Environmental Issues | Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Environment and Technology |
Perkins, Deborah G.
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| 12 | Developments in Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency |
Colomy, Paul
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| 13 | Crime and the Color Line - THEMATIC | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency |
Carlson, Melanie
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| 14 | Surveillance, Policing, and Social Control | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency |
Fernandez, Luis
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| 15 | Family and Juvenile Delinquency | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Family |
Cunningham-Stringer, Ebonie L.
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| 16 | Adolescent Problem Behavior: Criminological and Health Perspectives | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services |
Leech, Tamara
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| 17 | Offender Reentry | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Society |
Fox, Kathryn J.
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| 18 | Sociology of Law: Open Session | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Society |
Trautner, Mary Nell
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| 19 | Victims and the Law | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Society |
Weiss, Karen
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| 20 | Wrongful Convictions and False Confessions | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Society |
Horowitz, Emily B.
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| 21 | Juvenile Law | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Society Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Weiss, Karen
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| 22 | Criminal Justice and Mental Health Treatment | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Mental Health |
Peyrot, Mark F.
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| 23 | Inequality and Crime | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Poverty, Class, and Inequality |
Greer, Kim
Hunter, Vicki L. (co-organizers) |
| 24 | Theorizing Crime Stories | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Social Problems Theory |
Spencer, J. William
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| 25 | Peer Groups and Delinquency Studies | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Whiteford, Sarah
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| 26 | The Elderly and Crime | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Gonzalez, Luz
Morewitz, Stephen J. (co-organizers) |
| 27 | The Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability - THEMATIC | Disabilities |
Leiter, Valerie
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| 28 | Disability Activism and Policy | Disabilities |
Chait, Marlene
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| 29 | Disability and Gender | Disabilities |
Gardner, Carol Brooks
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| 30 | Representing Disabilities in Social Problems Textbooks | Disabilities
Educational Problems Social Problems Theory Teaching Social Problems |
Lowney, Kathleen
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| 31 | Is Mental Illness a Disability? Issues and Concerns | Disabilities
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Mental Health |
Morrison, Linda J.
Ettorre, Elizabeth (co-organizers) |
| 32 | Theorizing about Chronic Illness and Disability | Disabilities
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Social Problems Theory |
Bender, Alexis A.
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| 33 | The Management of Disability Services: Workers' and Users' Perspectives | Disabilities
Institutional Ethnography |
Brunson, Jeremy L.
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| 34 | Emerging Patterns of Substance Abuse | Drinking and Drugs |
Kelly, Brian C.
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| 35 | Drug Abuse: Race, Ethnicity, and the Problem of the Color Line - THEMATIC | Drinking and Drugs |
Valdez, Avelardo
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| 36 | Drinking and Drugs Roundtables | Drinking and Drugs |
Draus, Paul
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| 37 | Medical Marijuana | Drinking and Drugs
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services |
Sifaneck, Stephen
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| 38 | Sexuality and Substance Abuse | Drinking and Drugs
Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities |
Wells, Brooke
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| 39 | Youth and Alcohol Use | Drinking and Drugs
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Wolfe, Joseph D.
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| 40 | Teaching About Race in the Color-blind Era - THEMATIC | Educational Problems |
Macomber, Kristine C.
Rusche, Sarah E. (co-organizers) |
| 41 | Teaching About Crime and Juvenile Delinquency | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Educational Problems Law and Society Program Committee Racial and Ethnic Minorities Teaching Social Problems |
Grant, Otis B.
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| 42 | Teaching About Human Rights | Educational Problems
Global Law and Society Poverty, Class, and Inequality Program Committee Racial and Ethnic Minorities Teaching Social Problems |
Grant, Otis B.
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| 43 | Institutional Technologies of Education | Educational Problems
Institutional Ethnography |
Andre-Bechely, Lois
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| 44 | Disaster, Risk and Inequality - THEMATIC | Environment and Technology |
Bevc, Christine
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| 45 | Issues in Environmental Sociology | Environment and Technology |
Mix, Tamara
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| 46 | Just Sustainabilities in the Urban Landscape | Environment and Technology |
Lang, Steven R.
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| 47 | Globalization and Environmental Justice | Environment and Technology
Global |
Steele, David F.
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| 48 | The Environment, Health and Justice | Environment and Technology
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services |
Robinson, Erin E.
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| 49 | The Footprint of Scholarship | Environment and Technology
Institutional Ethnography |
Eastwood, Lauren
Turner, Susan M. (co-organizers) |
| 50 | Legal Issues Regarding Animals and the Environment | Environment and Technology
Law and Society |
Zilney, Lisa Anne
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| 51 | Negotiating the Environmental Justice Frame | Environment and Technology
Law and Society |
London, Jonathan
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| 52 | Environment, Peace, and Social Justice | Community Research and Development
Environment and Technology Poverty, Class, and Inequality |
Andrzejewski, Julie
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| 53 | Family Policy | Family |
Mezey, Nancy
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| 54 | Race and Families - THEMATIC | Family |
Janning, Michelle Y.
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| 55 | Youth, Family and Community Programs | Family |
Cunningham-Stringer, Ebonie L.
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| 56 | Infertility and Alternative Paths to Parenthood | Family
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services |
Wilson, Kristin
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| 57 | Mapping Families, Jobs, and Schools | Family
Institutional Ethnography |
Griffith, Alison
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| 58 | Families in Poverty | Family
Poverty, Class, and Inequality |
Kanieski, Mary Ann
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| 59 | Families on the Color-Line - THEMATIC | Family
Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Chito Childs, Erica
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| 60 | Queer Families | Family
Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities |
Mezey, Nancy
McCauley, Jaime (co-organizers) |
| 61 | Giving and Receiving Care | Family
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Dillaway, Heather E.
Paré, Elizabeth R. (co-organizers) |
| 62 | Global Dynamics in the Pacific Rim - THEMATIC | Global |
McGovern, Ligaya Lindio
Rodriguez, Robyn (co-organizers) |
| 63 | Human Rights: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity and Immigration | Global |
Dale, John
Samara, Tony (co-organizers) |
| 64 | Race, Ethnicity and Global Conflict | Global |
Egan, Daniel
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| 65 | Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion in the Neo-liberal Agenda and Participatory Development | Community Research and Development
Global |
Shefner, Jon
Smith, David A. (co-organizers) |
| 66 | Alternative Globalizations | Global
Journal of Critical Sociology |
Dale, John
Egan, Daniel (co-organizers) |
| 67 | Neo-liberal Articulations of Imperialism | Global
Journal of Critical Sociology Marxist & World System Sections-ASA |
Dello Buono, Richard A.
McGovern, Ligaya Lindio (co-organizers) |
| 68 | The Globalization of Service Work: Comparative Perspectives | Global
Labor Studies Marxist Section-ASA |
Arabandi, Bhavani
Dolgon, Corey (co-organizers) |
| 69 | Neoliberalism, Global Inequality, and Resistance | Global
Marxist Section-ASA |
Smith, David A.
Shefner, Jon (co-organizers) |
| 70 | Global Intersections of Gender, Race and Class | Global
Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
McGovern, Ligaya Lindio
Gunes, Fatime (co-organizers) |
| 71 | Theorizing Community-Level Interventions: Towards Eliminating Racial Inequalities in Health - THEMATIC | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services |
Schulz, Amy J.
Haines, Valerie (co-organizers) |
| 72 | Implicit/Explicit Racism: Understanding the Role of Institutions in Contributing to Health (Care) Disparities - THEMATIC | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services |
Sewell, Abigail
Paterniti, Debora (co-organizers) |
| 73 | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Roundtables | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services |
Ihara, Emily S.
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| 74 | The Personal is Political: Health Activism | Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services |
Lorenz, Laura
Elson, Jean (co-organizers) |
| 75 | The Social Organization of Health Care: In Whose Interests? | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Institutional Ethnography |
Rankin, Janet M.
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| 76 | Inequality and Struggle: The Health and Well-Being of Workers | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Labor Studies |
Ihara, Emily S.
Dolgon, Corey (co-organizers) |
| 77 | The Synergy of Physical and Mental Health | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Mental Health |
Scheid, Teresa Linnea
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| 78 | Teaching about Health and Illness | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Program Committee |
Berbrier, Mitchell
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| 79 | Race, Ethnicity, Migration and Health | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Viruell-Fuentes, Edna
Ihara, Emily S. (co-organizers) |
| 80 | Death and Dying (Roundtable) | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Baugher, John
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| 81 | Gender, Aging, and Medical Technology | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Stults, Cheryl D.
Brooks, Abigail (co-organizers) |
| 82 | Innovative Approaches to Eldercare | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Steinberg, Ronnie J.
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| 83 | New Research in Institutional Ethnography | Institutional Ethnography |
Rankin, Janet M.
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| 84 | Focus on Methods: Discovering, Developing, and Questioning IE Problematics | Institutional Ethnography |
Grahame, Peter R.
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| 85 | Immigration and Racialization: Institutional Ethnographic Studies - THEMATIC | Institutional Ethnography |
Shan, Hongxia
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| 86 | Mapping the Discursive Coordination of Global Action | Global
Institutional Ethnography |
Campbell, Marie
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| 87 | SMOs, NGOs and Labor | Labor Studies |
Baker, Chris W.
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| 88 | Current Controversies in Labor Poltics and Reform | Labor Studies |
Ross, Robert J.S.
Early, Steve (co-organizers) |
| 89 | Youth, Organizing and Work | Labor Studies
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Dillaway, Heather E.
Roth, Reuben N. (co-organizers) |
| 90 | Teaching the Sociology of Law | Law and Society |
Deflem, Mathieu
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| 91 | Race, Policing, and Law - THEMATIC | Law and Society |
Lea, Suzanne
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| 92 | Structure in Courtroom Process | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Law and Society |
Weiss, Karen
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| 93 | Social Embeddedness and Mental Health | Mental Health |
Lloyd, Donald A.
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| 94 | Mass Killings at Universities and Schools | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Mental Health |
Hughes, Michael
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| 95 | Mental Health and Natural Disasters | Environment and Technology
Mental Health |
Picou, J. Steven
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| 96 | Mental Health Stigma, Labeling, and Access to Care: What's Race Got To Do With It? - THEMATIC | Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Mental Health |
Martin, Jack
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| 97 | Intersecting Inequalities: Considering the Place of Race | Poverty, Class, and Inequality |
Luna, Yvonne
Wesely, Jennifer K. (co-organizers) |
| 98 | Inequality and Animal Rights | Poverty, Class, and Inequality |
Nocella, II, Anthony J.
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| 99 | Alternative Economic Systems: Breaking the Barriers of "Free Market" Capitalism | Poverty, Class, and Inequality |
Alessio, John C.
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| 100 | Social Action to Alleviate Poverty and Inequality - Roundtable | Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Poverty, Class, and Inequality |
Welch, Lisa
Cassiman, Shawn A. (co-organizers) |
| 101 | Disability and Inequality | Disabilities
Poverty, Class, and Inequality |
Cassiman, Shawn A.
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| 102 | Current Challenges in Teaching about Inequality Along the Color Line | Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Racial and Ethnic Minorities Teaching Social Problems |
Gengler, Amanda
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| 103 | Targeting the Poor, Social Policy, Race, and Lived Experience | Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Welch, Lisa
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| 104 | Ageism and Economic Inequality: Understanding Intersections | Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Rogne, Leah
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| 105 | Representations of Race in the Media - THEMATIC | Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Messineo, Melinda J.
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| 106 | New Directions in Research on Race and Ethnicity (Papers in the Round) | Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Chito Childs, Erica
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| 107 | Indigenous Peoples (Papers in the Round) | Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Mascarenhas, Michael
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| 108 | Latinos and the Criminal Justice System | Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
Diaz-Cotto, Juanita
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| 109 | Public Discourse and Racial Inequality (Roundtables) | Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Social Problems Theory |
Harris, Scott R.
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| 110 | Race, Ethnicity, and Aging - THEMATIC | Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Bonner, Aisha A.
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| 111 | GLBTQ Racism and Anti-Racism | Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities |
Broad, Kendal
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| 112 | Pungent with Peril: Historical and Modern Medicalization of BDSM/Kink Sexualities | Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities |
Bienvenu II, Robert V.
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| 113 | Coming Out Experiences and Non-Heterosexual Identities: Past, Present, and Future | Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities |
Kahn, Marni
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| 114 | The Problem of New Racisms: Theorizing the Changing Nature of Racism - THEMATIC | Social Problems Theory |
Berard, Tim
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| 115 | Social Problems Textbooks and Disability | Social Problems Theory
Teaching Social Problems |
Lowney, Kathleen
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| 116 | The Declining Significance of Race Revised - THEMATIC | Sociology and Social Welfare |
Caputo, Richard K.
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| 117 | Race and the Welfare State: Comparative Perspectives - THEMATIC | Sociology and Social Welfare |
Pimpare, Stephen
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| 118 | Welfare Reform: Does Race Matter? - THEMATIC | Sociology and Social Welfare |
Deprez, Luisa
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| 119 | Gender and Sports | Sport Sociology |
Asbury, Kathleen
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| 120 | Social Problems in Sports? | Sport Sociology |
Asbury, Kathleen
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| 121 | Race and Sport | Sport Sociology |
Williams, Stephani
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| 122 | Problematizing White Privilege in the Social Problems Classroom - THEMATIC | Teaching Social Problems |
Warner, Susan C.
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| 123 | Using Popular Culture in the Social Problems Classroom | Teaching Social Problems |
Kelly, Christopher G.
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| 124 | Activism Across the Life Course | Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Gordon, Hava
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| 125 | Race, Gender and the Body Politic - THEMATIC | Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Elrod, Leslie
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| 126 | Childhoods | Youth, Aging, and the Life Course |
Gage, Elizabeth
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| 127 | Disasters and Social Justice | Program Committee |
Brown, Bethany
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| 128 | Race and the 2008 Presidential Election | Program Committee |
Barkan, Steven E.
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| 129 | The 1960s and 1970s Movements for Racial and Ethnic Equality | Program Committee |
Barkan, Steven E.
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| 130 | Teaching About Poverty | Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Program Committee |
Berbrier, Mitchell
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