SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Permanent Organization and Strategic Planning Committee, 2024-25 & 2025-26
Room: Medinah Parlor
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Community, Research, and Practice
Room: Water Tower Parlor
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Room: Water Tower Parlor
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 020: Pursuing Racial Justice to Improve Health Inequities in Historically Marginalized Groups
Room: Kimball Room
Sponsor: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Organizers: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut
Virginia Kuulei Berndt, McDaniel College
Presider &
Discussant: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut
Description: Current Heath Sociology and Public Health Scholarship acknowledge the need to eliminate health inequities in order to achieve health justice. However, despite awareness of this great need, much discussion in academic and policy circles are concerned with socioeconomic resources exclusively and neglect how groups from marginalized disadvantaged communities experience multiple oppressions simultaneously and overtime. This session will explore the interface of social protest for human and civil rights that communities are still fighting in the quest for racial justice and good health. Topics include health, human rights, environmental justice, criminology, education, and more, which make connections between racial justice and human rights related to various social determinants which drive adverse health outcomes.
Papers:
“Financial Hardship among Americans with Long COVID: An Intersectional Analysis,” Bita Nezamdoust, Georgia State University
“Healing Justice as a Community Organizing Methodology for Health Equity and Racial Justice: A Quasi Experiment with Restore Oakland,” Melanie Brazzell, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University and Tash Nguyen, Restore Oakland
“Hispanic LEP Patients’ Perceptions of Physicians’ Interpersonal Communication Habits as Mediators of Medical Test Delays,” Jamilah A. Watson, University of Delaware
“Invulnerable, Inferior, or Invisible: Health Inequities & Narrative Tropes about Black Bodies in American Medicine,” Ashley C. Rondini, Franklin & Marshall College and Rachel H. Kowalsky, Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital
“Slavery and the Legacy of Racism on Health Outcomes among African Descendants in the Americas and the Caribbean,” Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 021: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Diverse Families at the Margins/LGBTQ+/Parents and Children with Disabilities
Room: Chicago Room
Sponsors: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Tia M. Dickerson, Columbia University
Description: Papers in this session will focus on the topic of diverse families at the margins.
Papers:
“Navigating Dual Cultures and Well-being: Parental Support among Asylum Seeker and Refugee Families in Hong Kong,” Padmore Adusei Amoah, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
“Of Men, Metas, and Masculinity: Polyamory as a Site of Resistance,” Natalie Dickson, The University of Oklahoma
“Reworking Identity, Reworking Heteronormativity: The Case of Tongqi in China,” Tori Shucheng Yang, University of British Columbia, Hui Xie, University of Wisconsin and Changhui Song, Henan Normal University
“There in My Time of Need: Identity Support and Queer Fictive Kinship,” Maximillian Calleo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“What’s Behind the ‘Oxford Study’? Relationship-based Stigma and the Symbolic Significance of East Asian Woman/White Man Unions,” Olivia Y. Hu, University of Pennsylvania, Winner of the Gender Division’s Student Paper Competition
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 022: Resistance and Survival
Room: Grant Park Parlor
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Melanie E.L. Bush, Adelphi University
Description: Over the last 600 years, the globe has been organized through hierarchies reflecting the capitalist imperialist, white supremacist, Euro and Western-centered, heteronormative patriarchal world-system. We are now witnessing a great upheaval characterized by multiple crises of new proportions. Our times also exemplify intensifying resistance, particularly of those who have faced the brunt of the system’s brutality. Local organizers will share reflections on the way forward at a time when genocide is televised, fascism is on the rise and democratic processes that existed if at all, are being abandoned. They will highlight the work they are doing in relation to the current moment. A cross-movement dialogue will seek to draw lessons and lift possibilities for engagement, for those in attendance.
Panelists:
Darakshan Raja, Muslims for Just Futures
Patrick Baranovskis, Chicago Patchwork Farms
Abbie Illenberger, Chicago Teachers Union
Saqib Bhatti, Action Center on Race and the Economy
Frank Chapman, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
Xochitl Espinosa, Co-op Ed Center
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 023: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Using IE to Explore Intersecting Crises: Climate, Social Justice, Housing, and Health
Room: Hancock Parlor
Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography
Organizer: TBD ,
Presider/Discussant: To Be Determined, TBD
Description: This session features institutional ethnographies of intersecting social and environmental crises.
Papers:
“Ideologies of Growth: Fueling/Organizing Climate and Social Justice Crises,” Lauren Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh
“Producing the Crisis of Opioid Use Disorder: The Transformation of Opioid Use into a Medical Affliction,” Leigha Comer, Western University and Graham George Macdonald, University of Toronto, Humber River Health
“Refugee Experience in the Upper Midwest United States of America: An Institutional Ethnography,” Doriane E. Paso, North Dakota State University
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
