Past Annual Meetings
See below for a list of the past SSSP Annual Meetings.
Year | Date | City | Location | Program Theme | |
74 |
2024 | August 9-11 | Montréal, Quebec, Canada |
Le Centre Sheraton Montréal Hotel |
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73 |
2023 | August 18-20 | Philadelphia, PA |
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel |
Same Problem, Different Day: Recognizing and Responding to Recurring Social Problems |
72 |
2022 | August 5-7 | Los Angeles, CA |
Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza |
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71 |
2021 | August 4-7 | Chicago, IL |
The Swissôtel (in-person meeting cancelled due to COVID-19; held fully virtual meeting) |
Revolutionary Sociology: Truth, Healing, Reparations and Restructuring |
70 |
2020 | August 7-9 | San Francisco, CA |
Park Central Hotel (in-person meeting cancelled due to COVID-19; held virtual 1/2-day conference on August 7) |
Bringing Hope Back In: Sociological Imagination and Dreaming Transformation |
69 |
2019 | August 9-11 | New York, NY |
The Roosevelt Hotel |
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68 |
2018 | August 10-12 | Philadelphia, PA |
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel |
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67 |
2017 | August 11-13 | Montréal, Quebec, Canada |
Montréal Bonaventure Hotel |
Narratives in the World of Social Problems: |
66 |
2016 | August 19-21 | Seattle, WA |
Westin Seattle Hotel |
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65 |
2015 | August 21-23 | Chicago, IL |
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel |
Removing the Mask, Lifting the Veil: Race, Class, and Gender in the 21st Century |
64 |
2014 | August 15-17 | San Francisco, CA |
The San Francisco Marriott Marquis |
Fifty Years Later: From a War on Poverty to a War on the Poor |
63 |
2013 | August 9-11 | New York City, NY |
The Westin New York at Times Square |
Re-imagining Social Problems: Moving Beyond Social Constructionism |
62 |
2012 | August 16-18 | Denver, CO |
Grand Hyatt Denver |
The Art of Activism |
61 | 2011 | August 19-21 | Las Vegas, NV | Harrah's Las Vegas Hotel | Service Sociology |
60 | 2010 | August 13-15 | Atlanta, GA | The Sheraton Atlanta Hotel | Social Justice Work |
59 | 2009 | August 7-9 | San Francisco, CA | The Stanford Court Hotel | Race, Ethnicity, and the Continuing Problem of the Color Line |
58 | 2008 | July 31-August 2 | Boston, MA | The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers | Crossing Borders: Activist Scholarship, Globalization, and Social Justice |
57 | 2007 | August 10-12 | New York, NY | The Roosevelt Hotel | Research Matters: Creating Knowledge, Policy, and Justice |
56 | 2006 | August 10-12 | Montréal, Quebec, Canada | Hilton Montréal Bonaventure | Building Just, Diverse, and Democratic Communities |
55 | 2005 | August 12-14 | Philadelphia, PA | Crowne Plaza Hotel | Blowback: the Unintended Consequences of Social Problems Solutions |
54 | 2004 | August 13-15 | San Francisco, CA | Cathedral Hill Hotel | The Culture of Social Problems: Power, People, and History |
53 | 2003 | August 15-17 | Atlanta, GA | Wyndham Hotel | Justice and the Sociological Imagination: Theory, Research, Teaching, Practice & Action |
52 | 2002 | August 15-17 | Chicago, IL | W. Chicago City Center | The Future of Social Problems |
51 | 2001 | August 17-19 | Anaheim, CA | West Coast Anaheim Hotel | Celebrating Diversity and Protecting Human Rights |
50 | 2000 | August 11-13 | Washington, D.C. | Renaissance Mayflower Hotel | Inventing Social Justice: SSSP and the 21st Century |
49 | 1999 | August 5-7 | Chicago, IL | The Swissôtel | Citizenship in an Era of Globalization: Threats to and Struggles for Legal, Political, Social, and Cultural Rights |
48 | 1998 | August 20-22 | San Francisco, CA | The Hotel Nikko | Committing Social Change: Breaking and Entering the Establishment |
47 | 1997 | August 8-10 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | The Metropolitan Hotel | Creating a Just World: Leadership for the Twenty-First Century |
46 | 1996 | August 15-17 | New York, NY | The Crowne Plaza | Social Problems in the Public Eye |
45 | 1995 | August 18-20 | Washington, D.C. | The Stouffer Mayflower | Troubled Times: the Problems and Prospects of Urban Society at the End of the Twentieth Century |
44 | 1994 | August 4-6 | Los Angeles, CA | The Biltmore | Of Maps and Imaginations, Nature, Nuture, and Public Policy |
43 | 1993 | August 11-13 | Miami, FL | The Doral Ocean Beach Resort | Social Problems in a Global Economy |
42 | 1992 | August 18-20 | Pittsburg, PA | The Marriott Greentree Hotel |
Postmodernity as a Social Problem: Race, Class, Gender, and the New World Order |
41 | 1991 | August 21-23 | Cincinnati, OH | The Westin Hotel of Cincinnati | Scholarship in Pursuit of the Just Society |
40 | 1990 | August 9-11 | Washington, D.C. | L'Enfant Plaza Hotel | Coercion and Punishment: Creation or Cause of Social Problems |
39 | 1989 | August 6-8 | Berkeley, CA | Claremont Resort Hotel | Social Problems as Social Movements: Defining and Mobilizing Reform |
38 | 1988 | August 21-23 | Atlanta, GA | Westin Peachtree Plaza | Contradictions and Conflicts: Building a Healthy Society |
37 | 1987 | August 14-16 | Chicago, IL | The Bismark Hotel | The Transformation of Work in Modern Society |
36 | 1986 | August 26-29 | New York, NY | New York Hilton | Individual Initiative in an Interdependent World |
35 | 1985 | August 23-26 | Washington, D.C. | Shoreham Hotel | Winding Down the Welfare State: Social Problems in an Era of Federal Devolution |
34 | 1984 | August 23-26 | San Antonio, TX | Mariott Hotel and San Antonio Convention Center | Conflict and Inequality: Linkages in and Beyong the U.S. |
33 | 1983 | August 27-30 | Detroit, MI | Westin Hotel | The Making of Social Problems: Social Construction and Maintenance of Social Problems Over Time |
32 | 1982 | September 3-6 | San Francisco CA | Sheraton-Palace Hotel | Autonomy and Technique: How Far May We Go Before Solutions to All Problems Will Begin to Diminish Human Life? |
31 | 1981 | August 21-24 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Park Plaza Hotel | National Issues, International Dilemmas, and the Reconstruction of Social Problems |
30 | 1980 | August 23-26 | New York, NY | Sheraton Centre Hotel | Social Problmes as the International Nexus of Rebellion |
29 | 1979 | August 24-27 | Boston, MA | Park-Plaza Hotel | Politics and the Production of Social Problems |
28 | 1978 | September 1-4 | San Francisco, CA | Sheraton-Palace Hotel | Social Problems in an Interdependent World |
27 | 1977 | September 2-5 | Chicago, IL | The Drake Hotel | We the People: the Politics fo Speaking in the Name of Society |
26 | 1976 | August 27-30 | New York, NY | The Roosevelt Hotel | The Political Economy of Social Problems |
25 | 1975 | August 22-25 | San Francisco, CA | St. Francis Hotel | The Way We Were |
24 | 1974 | August 23-26 | Montréal, Quebec, Canada | McGill University | Equal Rights |
23 | 1973 | August 24-27 | New York, NY | The Warwick | Public Policy in a Society of Services |
22 | 1972 | August 25-28 | New Orleans, LA | Hotel Monteleone | Presidential Address: The Social Problems of the University: To Crises of Legitimacy |
21 | 1971 | August 28-29 | Denver, CO | University of Denver, College of Law | Law, Politics, and Social Science |
20 | 1970 | August 29-30 | Washington, D.C. | Sheraton-Park Hotel | Social Constraints on Social Problems Research |
19 | 1969 | August 31-September 2 | San Francisco, CA | San Francisco-Hilton Hotel | Social Problems, Social Policy, and Social Crisis |
18 | 1968 | August 24-27 | Boston, MA | Sheraton-Boston Hotel | The Uses and Abuses of Social Research: The Perspectives of the Local Practitioner, Clientele, and Investigator |
17 | 1967 | August 26-29 | San Francisco, CA | San Francisco-Hilton Hotel | Major Social Changes in Our Time |
16 | 1966 | August 27-28 | Miami, FL | Fountainebleau Hotel | The Role of Force and Power in the Creation and Solution of Social Problems Research |
15 | 1965 | August 28-29 | Chicago, IL | Edgewater Beach Hotel | Ethical Problems in Social Problems Research |
14 | 1964 | August 29-20 | Montréal, Quebec, Canada | Sheraton-Mt. Royal Hotel | Perspectives and Strategies |
13 | 1963 | August 23-25 | Los Angeles, CA | Statler-Hilton Hotel | Toward a Unity of Theory, Research, and Action |
12 | 1962 | August 27-29 | Washington, D.C. | n/a | n/a |
11 | 1961 | August 28-29 | St. Louis, MO | Chase Park Plaza Hotel | The Emerging Applied Social Sciences: Opportunities and Problems |
10 | 1960 | August 27-29 | New York, NY | Governor Clinton Hotel | Work and Leisure |
9 | 1959 | September 2-5 | Chicago, IL | Edgewater Beach Hotel | n/a |
8 | 1958 | August 25-29 | Seattle, WA | University of Washington | Implications of Government Spending |
7 | 1957 | August 26-29 | Washington, D.C. | Shoreham Hotel | n/a |
6 | 1956 | September 6-9 | Detroit, MI | Slater Hotel | The Interrelationships between Sociology and Social Work |
5 | 1955 | August 30-September 2 | Washington, D.C. | Shoreham Hotel | n/a |
4 | 1954 | September 8-11 | Urbana-Champaign, IL | University of Illinois | n/a |
3 | 1953 | August 29-September 1 | Berkeley, CA | n/a | n/a |
2 | 1952 | September 4-6 | Atlantic City, NJ | Ritz Carlton | n/a |
1 | 1951 | September 6 | Chicago, IL | Roosevelt College | n/a |