SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 067: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Living Wage and the Challenges of the Working and Nonworking Poor across Various Ethnic, Racial, and Migratory Profiles
Room: Jarry
Sponsor: Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Tracy L. Vargas, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Description: Work is typically heralded as a solution to poverty. Yet, for many workers, this is far from the truth. This Critical Dialogue highlights the struggles faced by workers in a global economy characterized by rising financial insecurity, precarity, and risk. Special attention will be given to disadvantaged groups, including women, racial minorities, and immigrants, who are more likely to find themselves living below the poverty line even while working. Panelists will discuss where individuals are situated in the labor market, what this means for their economic well-being, and how vulnerable populations can effectively challenge compounded inequality. We welcome a rich and active dialogue between audience members and panelists.
Papers:
“Balancing Work and Family Care in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Experiences of Women of Color and Immigrant Women in Detroit,” Anna Maria Santiago, Michigan State University
“Nuestro Trabajo Es Vida: Struggles at the Intersection of Productive and Reproductive Labor Among Migrant Latinas in the Pacific Northwest,” Lola Loustaunau, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Oppression and Resilience of Migrant Women in Morocco,” Isabelle E. Cole, School of International Training and Salve Regina University
“Toward a Living Wage in a Right to Work State,” Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Working All the Time: Why Immigrant Venezuelans Can’t Get Ahead in Florida,” Alayne Unterberger, Florida Institute for Community Studies
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 068: On the Market: Strategies for Landing a Job
Room: Salon 5
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Tsedale Melaku, Baruch College, CUNY
Presider: Angie Beeman, Baruch College, CUNY
Description: In this session, our panelists will share their experiences applying for jobs and hiring for various positions inside and outside of higher education. This session is intended to help you improve your chances of getting a job, whether inside academia (e.g., post-doc, balanced, research, or teaching-focused positions) or outside of the academy (e.g., non-profits, advocacy, foundations, Think tanks). We would like this session to be an immersive experience, where we hope that session attendees will include individuals who were on the job market this past year and are willing to share their experiences with others. Graduate students a year or more away from searching for a position are encouraged to attend.
Panelists:
Adriana Leela Bohm, Delaware County Community College
Elroi J. Windsor, University of West Georgia
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 069: Gender-Based Violence: Perceptions and Applications
Room: Drummond West
Sponsors:
Crime and Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizer &
Presider: Lloyd Klein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Description: This session examines the issue of gender-based violence through the application of specific analysis offered in five distinct papers. Topics covered include gender-based violence in Federal insurrection, Prostitution, cultural aspects of country music, digital evidence in sexual assault, and victim typology in sexual assault cases.
Papers:
“No Victim Is Ideal: Investigating the Influence of Perceptions of Ideal Victim Types on the Presence of SAMFEs in Sexual Assault Cases,” Alyssa J. Davis, Vanderbilt University
“Not Safe at Work, Not Safe at Home: Sexual Vulnerability in Military Spaces,” Stephanie Bonnes, University of New Haven
“Victims on Trial? The Role of Digital Evidence in Sexual Assault Proceedings,” Anna Gjika, SUNY New Paltz
“Anti-violence Work in Transition: From Radical Feminism to Picket Lines,” Elizabeth Quinlan, University of Saskatchewan
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 070: Structural Determinants of Health and Legal Needs
Room: Drummond Centre
Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Law and Society
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Organizer: William Cabin, New York University Silver School of Social Work
Presider &
Discussant: Justin R. Huft, University of California, Riverside
Description: The papers in this session will address the relationship between structural determinants of health and legal needs.
Papers:
“Assessing the Mitigating Effects of Social Capital Infrastructure on the Associations between Extreme Heat, Rurality, Older Age Structures, and Physical and Mental Health Outcomes,” Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas, SUNY Oneonta
“Belief and Wellbeing: Evaluating Health Outcomes in Religious and Secular Hospitals in California,” Justin R. Huft, University of California, Riverside
“Fight, Flight, Freeze: How Tenants Respond to and Cope with Eviction,” Natalie J. Cholula, Portland State University
“Making the Connections across the Health Care Continuum: Assessing the Impact of the JaxCareConnect Community Based Health Care Consortium,” Jeffry Will and Tracy Milligan, University of North Florida Center for Community Initiatives
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 071: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing the Academy using Institutional Ethnography and Other Approaches: From Theory to Praxis
Room: Drummond East
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Global
Institutional Ethnography
Organizers: Angela E. Fillingim, San Francisco State University
Urmitapa Dutta, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Presider/Discussant: Molly Clark-Barol, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Description: This critical dialogue session dives into the complexities of decolonizing academic spaces, methodologies, and epistemologies. The papers will showcase how activist scholars center and attend to structurally marginalized voices in pursuit of epistemic justice. Employing anti-colonial, intersectional, and transnational lenses, they interrogate dominant knowledge systems while exploring the liberatory potential of diverse onto-epistemologies and research methodologies. Beyond critique, this critical session seeks actionable pathways, bridging the gap between theory and praxis to dismantle colonial legacies within academia and beyond. Join us as we connect ideas with action to co-create more just and pluriversal ecologies of knowledge.
Papers:
“Black Agency, Racial Imperialism, and the Creation of a Racial State -- the Case of Haiti,” Rodney D. Coates, Miami University
“Ethnography, CBPR, and Theory: Tensions in Sociological Research as Liberatory Praxis,” Molly Clark-Barol, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Filling in the Blanks: South to South Exchanges of Blackness, (Re)Shifting Research as Resistance, and (Re)Negotiations of Difference in the Diaspora,” Masonya J. Bennett, Kennesaw State University
“Understanding Justice, Equity, Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEADI) from Perspective of Unveiled Histories,” Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico
“What and Who’s Research Is ‘Real’: The Role of Qualitative Social Scientists within Medical Institutions,” Melinda Leigh Maconi, Carley Geiss and Hayden J. Fulton, Moffitt Cancer Center
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 072: Author Meets Critics: Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington by Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens, & Darryl L. Chambers, Rutgers University Press, 2023
Room: Salon 7
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Claire M. Renzetti, University of Kentucky
Presider: Jamie J. Fader, Temple University
Description: In their book, Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington, authors Yasser Payne, Brooklynn Hitchens, and Darryl Chambers, present their ethnographic study of the relationship between structural opportunity and violence in the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Through their engagement with city residents who were formerly involved with street activities and/or the criminal justice system, the authors provide a radical reconceptualization of violence in low-income Black communities, showing how involvement in violence and crime is a logical, "resilient" response to the perverse context of structural inequality. The authors will be joined by a panel of scholars who will engage in an insightful discussion of this important work.
Authors:
Yasser Arafat Payne, University of Delaware
Brooklynn K. Hitchens, University of Maryland
Darryl L. Chambers, Center for Structural Equity and University of Delaware
Critics:
Jamie J. Fader, Temple University
Anthony A. Peguero, Arizona State University
Louis Edgar Esparza, California State University, Los Angeles
Robert L. Peralta, The University of Akron
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 073: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Educators at Work
Room: Ballroom West
Sponsor: Educational Problems
Organizer: Kyla Walters, Sonoma State University
Description: Authors consider theoretical and applied approaches to potential impacts, or even transformation of students and workers through educational praxis.
Roundtable #1 Title: Curricular Interventions
Presider:
Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University
Discussant:
Stephani Williams, Northern Arizona University
Papers:
“Online Education: Styles and Approaches to Instruction by Gender and Experience,” Whitney DeCamp, Western Michigan University
“Incorporating Career Readiness into Curriculum through Research, Application, and Intentionality,” Stephani Williams and Madison Heck, Northern Arizona University
“Encouraging Productive Behavior in Student Teams with Interventions - Part II,” Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University
Roundtable #2 Title: Labor, Education, and Inequality
Presider:
Amanda J. Brockman, Northern Kentucky University
Papers:
“Teachers’ Class in the Classroom: Trends in the Socioeconomic Background of Teachers over the Last 50 Years,” Matthew Erkenbrack, University of California, Irvine
“Revitalizing the Role of Relative Deprivation: An Analysis of Contemporary Teacher Protest Strike Emergence,” Amanda J. Brockman, Northern Kentucky University
“Research and Learning Model of Union Education,” Jelger A. Kalmijn, California State University, San Marcos
“Gender, Care, and Bargaining for the Common Good,” John O'Connor and Christina Barmon, Central Connecticut State University
“From Rise and Grind to Acting Your Wage: An Analysis of Changing U.S. Workplace Attitudes,” Erica Mildner, University of British Columbia
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 074: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Teaching about Environmental Social Problems
Room: Ballroom West
Sponsors: Environment and Technology
Teaching Social Problems
Organizers: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University
Description: This session, organized as a session for “papers in the round,” explores the challenges and opportunities that relate to the teaching of environmental problems. The session takes a broad view on environmental problems and includes papers on teaching climate justice and on methods and strategies for teaching environmental justice. It also includes papers that discuss the teaching of environmental social problems through the use of research results and a discussion on how to develop Ecopedagogy, considering the specific pedagogical challenges and considerations inherent to teaching environmental social problems. The organizers envision robust conversations pertaining to the many facets of teaching about environmental issues.
Roundtable #1 Title: Teaching About Environmental Social Problems
Presiders:
Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University
Discussant:
Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Papers:
“Ecopedagogy: A Framework for Countering ‘Post-truth,’ ‘Anti-woke,’ and Individualistic Politics in the Classroom,” Lauren Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh
“Teaching Climate Justice: A Research Agenda,” Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
“Teaching Environmental Justice: Methods and Strategies for Social Work Education,” Sara E. Strayer, Alliant International University and Stephen W. Stoeffler, Kutztown University
“Teaching about Environmental Social Problems through First-hand Research Results: Strategies to Prepare Tools and Presentations for Students and Professionals,” Morena Tartari, Northumbria University and Hamide Elif Üzümcü, University of Padua
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 075: Understanding Stigma and Responses to Drug Use
Room: Hemon
Sponsor: Drinking and Drugs
Organizers: Juliette Roddy, Northern Arizona University
Dina Perrone, California State University, Long Beach
David Frank, New York University
Presider &
Discussant: Alexander S. Bennett, New York University
Description: Understanding how stigma impacts the treatment of people who use drugs.
Papers:
“Substance Use, Stigma, and Using Research to Inform Community Response,” Simon Purdy, SUNY Delhi
“‘Harm Reduction Policies Are Great.… but Those Drug Users Are Always Trying to Get One over on You’: History, Structural Stigma and Violence, and the Limits of Harm Reduction Expansion,” Alexander S. Bennett, New York University
“Using Mobile Technology to Identify and Respond to Critical Gaps in Harm Reduction Knowledge and Access to Resources among PWID: Results of a Pilot Study,” Honoria Guarino, CUNY School of Public Health
“Crime and Policing around Cannabis Dispensaries in Seattle,” Joshua Chanin and Burrel Vann, San Diego State University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 076: Race, Class, Gender, and Mental Health
Room: Joyce
Sponsor: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Organizer: Alex Trillo, Saint Peter's University
Presider: Giovani Burgos, Adelphi University
Description: Race, Class, Gender, and Mental Health
Papers:
“‘I Read Quite a Bit, and That Brings Me in a lot of Escapist-based Joy’: The Value of Asking about Joy among Black Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults in Florida,” Courtney Marcia Gardner and Shannon K. Carter, University of Central Florida
“Differences in Mental Health Outcomes for an Exclusively LGBTQ+ Sample in Oklahoma,” Eden Dean Ellen Nay and Kelley Sittner, Oklahoma State University
“Generating the Troubled Teen: A Content Analysis of the Troubled Teen Industry’s Recruitment Tactics,” Annie McDonnell, The George Washington University
“Mental Health and Health-seeking Behaviors amongst Married U.S. and Foreign-born Black Populations,” Tia M. Dickerson, Columbia University and Dana J. McCalla, Howard University
“Psychotic White Men and Bipolar Black Women? Racialized and Gendered Implications of Mental Health Terminology,” Amy L. Johnson, Lehigh University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 077: Culture in Conflict, Action, and Change II: Narrative, Community, Discourse, and Identity
Room: Musset
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 roles and effects of narrative, community, discourse, and identity in experience of, mobilization against, and resistance to victimization, violence, and marginalization.
Papers:
“Caste and Lawfare: Anti-caste Legislations, Hinduphobia and the Case of Global Hindutva in the US,” Debadatta Chakraborty, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Macro-micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone,” Jillian P. LaBranche, University of Minnesota
“Community and Belonging: The Role of Collective Narratives and Meta-stories in the Decision-making of Iranians in the Atlantic Canadian Cities,” Foroogh Mohammadi, Acadia University
