Plenary, Thematic, and Special Sessions

PLENARY SESSIONS
 
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1
9:50am – 11:00am
Session 57:              SSSP Business Meeting (open to SSSP members)
 
11:10am – 12:20pm
Session 58:              Presidential Address (open to SSSP members)
 
THEMATIC SESSIONS
 
THURSDAY, JULY 31
8:30am – 10:10am
Session 3:                Outsiders Within Sociologists in the Late 2000’s: Achievements, Limitations, and Strategies
Session 9:                Crossing Borders: Immigration and Family
 
10:30am – 12:10pm
Session 13:              New Directions in Disability Research and Theory
Session 20:              Border Control/Social Control: Theorizing Immigration as a Social Problem
 
12:30pm – 2:10pm
Session 23:              Family, Education, and Activism
Session 28:              Social Change and Participatory Research
 
4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session 38:              Getting Out of the Ivory Tower: Applying Scholarship to Activism
Session 41:              Borderland: Human Rights and Animal Rights
Session 43:              North/South Dialogue: Globalization and Human Rights: Contradictions and Opportunities
Session 44:              Crossing Borders and Mental Illness
 
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1
8:00am – 9:40am
Session 48:              Defining Borders: Race, Ethnicity and Place
Session 50:              Claimsmaking Plus: Advancing the Constructionist Project by Building Bridges to other Approaches
Session 53:              Globalization, Migration, and Economic Diaspora
 
12:30pm – 2:10pm
Session 67:              Social Organization of Knowledge Production Across National, Disciplinary, and Institutional Borders
 
2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session 71:              Challenging Borders: Construction of ‘Health’ and ‘Pathologies’
Session 73:              Advocating for Justice across the Life Course
Session 75:              Social Problems and Theories of Identities: The Global Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Session 80:              Moving Beyond the Traditional: Innovative Strategies in the Social Problems Classroom
 
4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session 89:              The Human-Animal Bond: New Directions in Research
 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
10:30am – 12:10pm
Session 111:             The Politics of the Global Commons
 
12:30pm – 2:10pm
Session 116:             Crossing Borders: New Immigrant Communities
Session 121:             Globalization, Immigration, and Health
Session 122:             Consumption, Sustainability and the Global-local Interface
Session 125:             Crossing Borders of Gender and Sexuality
 
2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session 130:            Health, Activism and Social Justice
Session 131:            Inequalities: Constructing and Resisting Identities
Session 132:            Social Services, Movements, and Justice: Supporting Families Through Activism
Session 133:            Politics of Crossing: Labor Migration in Global/Transnational Context
Session 134:            Activist Scholarship, Symbolic Politics and Environmental Struggles
Session 136:            Latin American and Caribbean Immigration
 
SPECIAL SESSIONS
 
THURSDAY, JULY 31
2:30pm – 4:10pm
Session 34:              Academics and Political Campaigns
 
4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session 39:              Border Crossing: A Working Session on Immigration Research
 
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1
12:30pm – 2:10pm
Session 66:              Social Determinants of Violence: A Public Health Approach
 
4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session 83:              Student Award Winning Papers I
Session 84:              Border Crossing: A Working Session on Economic Justice Research
 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
10:30am – 12:10pm
Session 106:            Student Award Winning Papers II

4:30pm – 6:10pm
Session 145:            Student Award Winning Papers III