Date: Sunday, August 9

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Session 075: New Directions in Social Problems Theory
Room: Broadway I

Sponsor: Social Problems Theory

Organizer &

Presider: Clara Mey, University of Delaware

Description: 

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

Papers:

“Rebranding Restriction and Surveillance: Noom as a Case Study of the Cultural Politics of the Body,” Sydney Dyck and Clara Mey, University of Delaware

“Using Culture in Everyday Life,” Amir B. Marvasti, Penn State Altoona

“Cruel and Usual: Recursive Racial Cruelty at the U.S. Immigration Court,” Nabila N. Islam, Brown University

“Genocide Denial and Narrative Affordances,” Lois Presser, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“A Framework for Ongoing Settler Colonialism Rooted in Indigenous Sociology,” Melissa Horner-Petrone, University of Missouri, Winner of the Social Problems Theory Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Repowering: An Indigenous-Centered Theoretical Elaboration of Empowerment Theory,” Stephen Silva-Brave, The University of Texas at Arlington

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