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Friday, August 9, 8:30am
“Can Socially Responsible Investing Activists Change Corporate
Behavior?” Paul Dean, Ohio Wesleyan University
“Occupy Wall Street and the Renewal of Socialist Critique,”
John O'Connor and Mary Jo A. Callaghan, Central Connecticut
State University
“‘Where Was It Made?’: Fair Trade Consumption and the
Importance of Place,” Mary Beth Finch, Northwestern University
“Identity, Affect, and Embodiment in Protest to U.S. Security
Regimes: The Case of Allies on the Migrant Trail,” Chandra Russo,
UC Santa Barbara
Session 7:
Sponsor:
Organizer &
Presider:
Discussant:
Papers:
Moving Beyond Ignoring Social Constructionism
I: What is Critical?
Room: Gershwin I
Social Problems Theory
Mitch Berbrier, University of Alabama
Valerie Jenness, University of California - Irvine
“Beyond the ‘Reality’ of Torture: Forms of Acknowledgement
and the Possibilities of a Critical Constructionism,” Jared Del
Rosso, University of Denver
“Litmus Tests: Judging Social Problems Theory by Critical/
Feminist/Libertarian Standards,” Joel Best, University of
Delaware
“The Importance of the Constructionist Approach to Inequality,”
Scott R. Harris, Saint Louis University
“Moving Beyond Constructing Social Problems: The Critical
Potential in Social Construction Perspectives,” Donileen R.
Loseke, University of South Florida
Session 8:
Sponsors:
Organizer &
Presider:
Papers:
Disabilities Across the Life Course
Room: Gramercy
Disabilities
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course
Chris Wellin, Illinois State University
“‘On Not Movin‘ Out: Interstate Variation in Medicaid Home &
Community Based Services,” Brian R. Grossman, San Jose State
University
Transitions Out of the Family Home for Adults with Down
Syndrome,” Michael Gibbons, Middle Georgia State College
“Contexts for Reimaging Place and Home: The Case of Elderly
Households Who Must Confront Non-Normative Late Life
Housing Options,” Karl H. Flaming, Barbara Vance and Pete
Padilla, University of Colorado Denver
“Dual, Yet Dueling Illnesses: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Comorbid
Illness Experience,” Brandon Attell, Georgia State
University, Gail Markle and Linda Treiber, Kennesaw State
University
“Where Everybody May Not Know Your Name: The Importance
of Elastic Ties,” Stacy Torres, New York University
Session 9:
Sponsor:
Organizer &
Presider:
Papers:
#PussyRiot: Class Consciousness and Social
Protest in the 21st Century
Room: Imperial
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Eric Turner, University of New Mexico
“Everything but the Funnel Cake: Social Media and Aesthetic
Tactics in the University of Puerto Rico Student Movement of
2010,” Katherine Everhart, Vanderbilt University
“Making Power Visible: Pussy Riot, Political Spectacle, and
Activism,” Nadia Shapkina, Kansas State University
“Que se Vayan Todos! Understanding Political Outcomes of
Austerity Protests,” Eric Turner, University of New Mexico
“Rising Popular Protests and Riots in China: Findings from News
Data,” Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Inst. of Sociology, Academia Sinica
“We Are the 99 Percent: The Rise of Poverty and the Decline of
Poverty Stigma,” Joan Maya Mazelis and Brendan M. Gaughan,
Rutgers University - Camden
Session 10:
Sponsor:
Organizer:
Presider:
Papers:
Law, Policy and Institutional Ethnography
Room: Ambassador II
Institutional Ethnography
Lauren E. Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh
Laura Bisaillon, McGill University
“Boss Texts in New Mexico’s Organization of Teachers’
Professional Development,” LaNysha T. Adams, University of
New Mexico
“Fatality Review and Safety Audit (FRASA): Applying Institutional
Ethnography to Domestic Violence,” Kathleen J. Ferraro and
Neil S. Websdale, Northern Arizona University
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