Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 024: New Directions in Social Problems Theory
Room: Spire Parlor

Sponsor: Social Problems Theory

Organizer &

Presider: Clara Mey, University of Delaware

Description: 

This session focuses on examining new theoretical directions in social problems research.

Papers:

“Fatness in Academia: An Examination of the Production and Reproduction of Anti-fat Bias in Knowledge Creation,” Clara Mey, University of Delaware

“Consuming Killers: The Interpretation of Serial Killers within Cultural Productions and Media,” Clara G. Tsoumbakopoulos and Brian Monahan, Baldwin Wallace University

“How Episodic Framings in Press Coverage of Mass Shootings Impede Policy Narratives,” Brian Monahan, Baldwin Wallace University

“Power to the People: A Guide to Community-based Initiatives,” Daya F. Meshri, University of Miami

“Relational Colonialisms and a Turn to Place Based Epistemologies,” Sione Lynn Pili Lister, Arizona State University, Winner of the Social Problems Theory Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Normalizing Discrimination? From Structural Racism to Unintentional Bias in Automobile Insurance,” Stève Bernardin, Université Gustave Eiffel

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