SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Session 063: New Work in Social Problems Theory
Room: Jarry

Sponsor: Social Problems Theory

Organizer &

Presider: Clara Mey, University of Delaware

Description: 

This session explores new trends and developments in social problems theory. 

Papers:

“Big White Elephant at the Ballot Box: Reckoning with the Suggestive Power of Trumpism,” Stephen Pfohl, Boston College

“Hurt People Hurt People: Theorizing Liminal Complicity in the Reproduction of Inequality,” Andrew J. Shapiro, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Honorable Mention in the Social Problems Theory Division’s Student Paper Competition

“The Process of Managing Stigma for Those Bereaved by a Drug-related Death,” Timothy Chesnik, University of Delaware, Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University and Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, University of Delaware

“Toward a Sociology of Facts,” Joel Best, University of Delaware

“Understanding Motivation for Service Learning with Identity Theory,” Anne A. Statham, University of Southern Indiana and Helen Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Parkside