SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Crime and Justice
Room: Ballroom West


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Room: Ballroom West


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Labor Studies
Room: Ballroom West


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Social Problems Theory
Room: Ballroom West


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Session 029: Cross-Generational Sociological Lessons
Room: Salon 5

Sponsor: 

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Brittney Miles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Description: 

This panel will examine the critical insights we gain from looking across and between generations in the contexts of education, medicine, and rural communities in the United States and Nigeria. Specifically, this panel explores how resident doctors in Nigeria consider aging in place, Black place-making through historically Black K-12 schools, intersectional intergenerational social mobility through education among rural families of color, and how 1.5-generation immigrant youth navigate informational resources for college access. Together, these papers highlight how we learn from diverse populations to reveal layers of meaning-making across and between generations.

Papers:

“‘They Are Just More Approachable’: Immigrant Youth and the College Information Search,” Irina Chukhray, University of California, Davis

“A Journey beyond White Coats: Aging in Place Intention of Resident Doctors in South-west Nigeria,” Macellina Yinyinade Ijadunola, Obafemi Awolowo University

“Everything is Changing: Cross-generational Placemaking and Black High Schools,” Kierra N. Toney, University of Cincinnati

“Phased Retirement and the Devaluation of Older Workers in Academia,” Wendy Simonds, Georgia State University


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 030: Sex and Violence
Room: Drummond West

Sponsor: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities

Organizer &

Presider: alithia zamantakis, Northwestern University

Description: 

This session will explore the relationship between sex/sexuality and violence, the violence of (hetero)sexism, and the intersections of sex, violence, colonialism, and white supremacy.

Papers:

“Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Jewish Fear of Gendered Violence in Palestine/Israel,” Emily Schneider and Lillian Selznick, Northern Arizona University

“Appraisals of Childhood Sexual Experiences and Masculine Norms among Black and Latino Sexual Minority Men,” Ellen Benoit, North Jersey Community Research Initiative, Martin J.  Downing, Lehman College, CUNY and Jason M. Dotson, Wellness with Jason Dotson, LLC

“Exploring Similarities and Differences between Bullying and Gender-based Violence: An Intersectional Narrative Review,” Sarah Jane Brubaker and Zehra Sahin Ilkorkor, Virginia Commonwealth University

“Linked Lives and Disclosures of Sexual Assault in the Electronic Health Record,” Alyssa J. Davis, Savannah Bastian and Laura M. Carpenter, Vanderbilt University

“Memory Storytelling of Aids and Black Gay Living,” K. L. Broad, University of Florida


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Session 031: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Critical Methods for Studying Law and Society
Room: Ballroom West

Sponsor: Law and Society

Organizer: Michael Branch, Hartwick College

Description: 

This roundtable is a space meant to explore and develop critical methodological tools for studying the complex relationship between law, culture, and society. 

Roundtable #1 Title: Methodological Reflections

Presider & Discussant: Michael Branch, Hartwick College

Papers:

“Dying in Prison: A Study of Institutional Failure,” Hannah Schwendemen, University of Minnesota

“Virtual Law and Order: Navigating the Ordinary Affects and Cruel Optimisms of Video Games,” Michael Branch, Hartwick College


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Session 032: Who Speaks for the Community? Complicating Power, Representation and Decision Making
Room: Hemon

Sponsor: Community, Research, and Practice

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Susan Halverson, Portland State University

Description: 

Social science researchers likely all engage with communities in some way. But what does "community" actually mean? Who is included and excluded, and who participates? Who is considered a valid representative of the community? How is power distributed and used in communities? The papers in this session explore and complicate community power, representation, and decision-making in spatial/geographic, identity, and interest communities.

Papers:

“‘No One Can Tell Our Stories Like We Can’: The Ypsi Farmers and Gardeners Oral History Project,” Finn McLafferty Bell and Sasha Kindred, University of Michigan-Dearborn

“Civic Engagement in the Homeless Community: How the Homeless Are Left out of the Democratic Process, and What to Do about It,” Caitlin M. Krenn, New York University

“Community Power in Inclusionary Housing,” Susan Halverson, Portland State University

“The Financialization of Human Shelter and Community-based Public Sociology,” David Jaffee, University of North Florida


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 033: Understanding the Sociology of Violence in a Quebecois Context/Comprendre une "sociologie de la violence" dans un contexte québécois/
Room: Jarry

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizers &

Presiders: Eric Mykhalovskiy, York University
Jayne Malenfant, McGill University
Mitchell McLarnon, Concordia University

Description: 

This session opens up an opportunity for SSSP participants to gain insights into the diverse approaches to social justice scholarship in Québec. It features social scientists and researcher activists who reflect on the unique historical and political context of social problems research in Québec. Drawing on their experiences and research, they explore the challenges of working on a range of social justice issues within and across languages, borders, and perspectives. The session will create a space for dialogue about what this year’s Annual Meeting theme, “a sociology of violence” might mean to critical scholars, researchers, and activists in Québec, and how this interpretation relates to scholarship and activism in other parts of Canada and the United States.

Papers:

“Epistemological Terror: Québec and the Threat of Black Studies,” Philippe Néméh-Nombré, Saint Paul University

“Languages and Epistemological Violence: Histories of HIV/AIDS and Montréal’s Haitian Communities,” Viviane Namaste, Concordia University

“Equity and Advocacy in University-community Collaborations: Supporting Montreal Social Movements through Community-based Action Research Networks,” Alex Megelas, Concordia University

“Extended and Chosen Family: Lessons from Quebec on Experiential Knowledge, Peer Support, and Love as a Liberatory Practice for People from Care,” Marcelle Partouche Gutierrrez, National School of Public Administration

“In Search of Harmonious Coexistence alongside Suffering: Issues in Mediating Visible Homelessness in Public Spaces,” Anick Desrosiers, McGill University


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Session 034: Teaching Social Problems with a Transnational Perspective
Room: Joyce

Sponsors: Teaching Social Problems
Transnational Initiatives Committee

Organizers &

Presiders: Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Discussant: Morena Tartari, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Description: 

In the contemporary global landscape, most social issues extend beyond national borders, prompting us to adopt a transnational perspective that reexamines them through historical and geopolitical approaches. This session offers a platform for scholars, instructors, and activists to collaboratively explore the potential and challenges of integrating a transnational perspective into classroom discussions on social issues.

Papers:

“Embracing Open Educational Resources (OER) in Sociology: A Case Study of SUNY Oneonta’s Department of Sociology,” Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas and Elizabeth K. Seale, SUNY Oneonta

“Intertwining the Significance of Critical Race Theory and the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity,” Christine M. Capili, University of Oregon

“Teaching Health and the Media: A Transnational Perspective,” A. Susana Ramirez, University of California, Merced

“Who Are You? Using Personal Storytelling to Teach Sociological Concepts,” Monnica Gavin, Clark State College


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Session 035: Global Health, Climate, Inequality and Environment I
Room: Kafka

Sponsors: Environment and Technology
Global
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Poverty, Class, and Inequality

Organizer &

Presider: Clare E. B. Cannon, University of California, Davis

Description: 

This session tackles issues related to global health, climate, inequality and the environment.

Papers:

“Under What Conditions Are Ethnic Enclaves Beneficial for Health in Urban Areas? - A Conceptual Framework,” Oluwaseun Temitope Emoruwa, University of Alabama at Birmingham

“‘Ready to Abandon Your Community?’: Unsaid Analysis of Disaster Capitalism Impacts on Native Hawaiians Post Maui Wildfire,” Sydney M. Shevat and Helen E. Wilds, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Environmental Risk and the Reorganization of Urban Inequality in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century,” Jonathan Tollefson, Brown University, Winner of the Environment and Technology Division’s Student Paper Competition

“A Feminist Community-Based Participatory Action Research Approach to Advance Climate Justice,” Clare E. B. Cannon, University of California, Davis

“Corporate Corruption and Energy Transitions: Global Harm within a World-systems Framework,” Kimberly Ann Haliburda, University of Tennessee, Knoxville


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 036: Reckoning with Institutional Violence: Perspectives across Organizational Contexts
Room: Musset

Sponsor: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Julio A. Alicea, Rutgers University-Camden

Description: 

This session seeks to examine how a range of organizations (i.e., social service organizations, government agencies, hospitals, schools, workplaces, etc.) create and reproduce inequality through institutional violence. Here institutional violence is understood as how policies, practices, and routines that contribute to forms of stratification and injustice within an organization. In focusing on institutional violence, this session calls attention to meso-level machinations of inequality that then resonate with and reinforce inequalities on micro and macro levels.

Papers:

“Methadone Access in Police Custody Healthcare as Denied Care: Strategies and Consequences of Detainment in Police Custody in England, UK,” Stephanie Mulrine and Gethin Rees, Newcastle University

“Misguided Fantasies of Resistance: Volatile Service Encounters at U.S. Dollar Stores,” Tracy L. Vargas, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

“Organizational Neglect: Unsympathetic Racial Crisis Response as Institutional Violence,” Julio A. Alicea, Rutgers University-Camden

“Racial Equity in Homelessness Response: A Qualitative Study of Two Urban Communities,” Molly K. Richard, Boston University


Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 037: Culture in Conflict, Action, and Change I: Mobilization, Organizing, Resistance, and Politicization
Room: Lamartine

Sponsor: Conflict, Social Action, and Change

Organizer &

Discussant: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

Presider: Michael Lee Hurst Jr., Swansea Mutual Aid Resource Treasury

Description: 

Papers in this session explore the ways symbolic and subjective factors (e.g., community-based culture, ideology, narrative, and trust) shape the experiences and outcomes of activist/organizer/movement mobilization, politicization, organization, and resistance. 

Papers:

“Mobilizing Potential: Pathways to Engaged Citizenship,” Sadie Dempsey, University of Wisconsin

“Barriers to Participation in Protest,” Burrel Vann, San Diego State University

“Mobilizing Cultures, Community Action Toolkits, and Rules of Resistance against Crimes of the Powerful,” C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University