Panels
Session 1 (9.30--11.00):
Panel I: Religion's Influence Over Time and in Transition
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion
- Artemis at Brauron: an Analysis of the Cult Evidence and a Means for Cultural Distinction
Patricia Maloney, Yale University, patricia.maloney@yale.edu - Contrasting Images of Major Religious Transitions: How Mental Boundaries Allow Change or Prohibit It
Stephen Joseph Fichter, Rutgers University, stephen_fichter@hotmail.com - Serving God or Mammon? A Look at Religious Mutual Funds
Jared Peifer, Cornell University, jared.peifer@cornell.edu - Accounting for Short Term Mission Trips
LiErin Probasco, Princeton University, probasco@princeton.edu
Discussant: Bob Wuthnow, wuthnow@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology
Panel II: Exploring Economic Sociology
- Opportunity Valley--Forgotten City: Development Policy and Social Capital
W. Michael Donovan, University of Southern Maine, Michael.Donovan@cedarcrest.edu - Economic Globalization and Distributive Justice: The Impact of Foreign Trade on People's Attitude toward Inequality
Dong-Kyun Im, Harvard University, dongim@fas.harvard.edu - Towards a Socially-Embedded Development: A Value-Added Network Perspective for the Analysis of the Global Economy
Iva Petkova, Columbia University, iop2101@columbia.edu - "To Lend, or Not to Lend?": A Case Study of a Chinese Commercial Bank's Decision-Making on Corporate Loans
Ningxi Zhang, Cornell University, nz28@cornell.edu
Discussant: Martin Ruef, mruef@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology
Panel III: Leisure and Sport
- Poker and Its Less Popular Relatives: High School Gambling and the General Theory of Status Relations
Benjamin DiCicco-Bloom, University of Pennsylvania, bdicicco@sas.upenn.edu - Gambling as a Way of Life
Jacob Avery, University of Pennsylvania, javery@sas.upenn.edu - Peddling the Street: The Construction and Consumption of Black Masculinity in the NBA (adapted from Under the Boards:The Cultural Revolution in Basketball, University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
Jeffrey Lane, Princeton University, jflane@princeton.edu - "I Just Do What I Want"--Female Rugby Players and the Task of Maintaining Individual Agency Inside Structural Constraints
Alexa Yesukevich, Cornell University, apy3@cornell.edu
Discussant: King-To Yeung, kyeung@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology
Session 2 (11.15--12.45):
Panel I: Using Demographic Methods to Understand Diverse Populations
Co-sponsored by Princeton University's Office for Population Research
- The Mental Health Burden of Spousal Caregivers of Cancer Patients
Weihua An, Harvard University, weihuaan@fas.harvard.edu - HIV Infection, Marital Dissolution, and Migration in Malawi
Philip Anglewicz, University of Pennsylvania, panglewicz@gmail.com - Bundling of Welfare and the Elderly on Food Stamps: A Comparative Perspective
Sukriti Issar, Brown University, Sukriti_Issar@brown.edu - What Causes Son Preference in Korea and Taiwan to Decline After 1990?
Tin-chi Lin, Princeton University, tinlin@princeton.edu
Scott Lynch, slynch@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research
Panel II: Various Topics in the Sociology of Education
- Affect and Commitment: An Exploratory Study of White Female Teachers' Emotional Resilience in Urban Schools
Fatima Hafiz, Temple University, fhafiz01@temple.edu - High-Stakes Testing and Teacher Resistance: New York City Schools in an Era of Increased Accountability
Bart Liguori, Cornell University, bjl33@cornell.edu - Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement: How Important Is Student Race?
Jennifer Todd, Cornell University, jjt24@cornell.edu - Workplace Depoliticized: A Rural School in China
Dan Wang, Syracuse University, dwang03@syr.edu
Discussant: Angel Harris, angelh@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research
Panel III: Understanding Networks
- Creating Bridging Social Capital: In Japan, Volunteering is Endearing but Networking Is Not Working
Katherine Drake, Harvard University, drake@fas.harvard.edu - From Socializing to Networking? The Relationship between Social Capital and Internet Use
Amir Goldberg, Princeton University, amirg@princeton.edu - Motivations and Mechanisms in Free Software Production
Alexander Jerneck, University of Pennsylvania, ajerneck@soc.upenn.edu - Measuring Personal Network Size: A Comparison of Five Measures of Degree for Respondent-Driven Sampling Analysis
Cyprian Wejnert, Cornell University, cwejnert@gmail.com
Discussant: Delia Baldassarri, dbalda@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology
Panel IV: Discussing Civil Society
- Can Arts Associations Provide Civics Education? Governance Experience, Community Relations, and Social Capital Opportunities in Choral Societies
Matthew Baggetta, Harvard University, baggetta@fas.harvard.edu - Synergy, Mediation, or Exclusion: Towards a Theory of Citizen Participation in Urban Policy
Esther Hernandez-Medina, Brown University, esther@brown.edu - Fair Trade and the Social Dynamics of Moral Boundaries
Keith Brown, University of Pennsylvania, brownkei@sas.upenn.edu - Between States and Participants: Habermasian Bureaucrats and Deliberative Affirmative Action in Developing World Participatory Democracy
Christopher Gibson, Brown University, Christopher_Gibson@brown.edu
Discussant: Robin Rogers-Dillon, rhrogers@princeton.edu
Queens' College, CUNY, Department of Sociology
Associate Fellow, Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion
Session 3 (2.00--3.30):
Panel I: Arts and Culture
- Toward a Leisure Theory of Value: The Game of Bird-Watching and the Concern for Conservation in Great Britain
Stefan Bargeer, University of Chicago, bargheer@uchicago.edu - The New Urban Craftsman: Craft and Community in Post-Industrial Brooklyn
Michael Rainey, CUNY Graduate Center, MRainey@gc.cuny.edu - Tradition Modernity, and Autheticity in Riverdance
Bridget Rose Nolan, University of Pennsylvania, brnolan@sas.upenn.edu - mapping the Canon in the Museum's Space
Anna Zamora, Columbia University, aez2104@columbia.edu
Discussant: Jennifer Lena, jlena@princeton.edu >br />
Vanderbilt University's Department of Sociology
visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Panel II: Migration in a Global Context
Co-sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development
- Boundary Formation in Action: Nationalism, Immigration, and Categorical Inequality
Ernesto Castaneda, Columbia University, ec2183@columbia.edu - Ethnographic Study of Unauthorized Migrants in New Haven
Esther Chihye Kim, Yale University, esther.kim@yale.edu - The State and Civil Society: Partnerships for Development and Democracy
Daniela Villacres, Brown University, Daniela_Villacres@brown.edu
Discussant: Doug Massey, dmassey@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research
Panel III: Family and Youth
Co-sponsored by The Center for Research on Child Well-Being
- Resurgence of the "Separate Spheres" Arrangement? The Effect of Spousal Overwork on the Employment of Men and Women in Dual Earner Households
Youngjoo Cha, Cornell University, yc328@cornell.edu - Parental Dependence, Socialization and Hindered Development in Career
Sylvie Honig, University of Chicago, shonig@uchicago.edu - Marriage Choices of Women in Rural China: 1949--2000
Jing Song, Brown University, Jing_Song@brown.edu - Psychological Resources among New Parents and Children's Behavioral Outcomes: Change Over Time and Mechanisms of Transmission
Kristin Turney, University of Pennsylvania, turney@sas.upenn.edu
Discussant: Mary Clare Lennon, mlennon@princeton.edu
CUNY Graduate Center's Department of Sociology
Visiting Scholar at Princeton University's Center for Research on Child Well-Being
Panel IV: Identity and Boundaries
- Mind the Gap: Ways of Navigating Difference and Spaces Between
Nancy Alexander, Yale University, nalexander@callnet.com - Constructing Integration: The Alchemy of the Photograph
Mary Barr, Yale University, mary.barr@yale.edu - Boundaries and Bridges: Aboriginal-White Relations in Northwestern Ontario
Jeff Denis, Harvard University, jsdenis@fas.harvard.edu - Examining Korean Adoptee Gatherings through an Interaction Ritual Perspective
Elizabeth Raleigh, University of Pennsylvania, eraleigh@sas.upenn.edu
Discussant: Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, mpfk@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research
Session IV (3.45--5.15):
Panel I: Sociological Perspectives on International Issues
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International Regional Studies
- United in Diversity: The Determinants of European Union Citizenship
Oana Dan, Harvard University, odan@fas.harvard.eduSchool Expansion and Educational Stratification in China, 1981--2006
Maocan Guo, Harvard University, mguo@fas.harvard.edu - The Ties that Blind: The Story of the Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland
Bridget Rose Nolan, University of Pennsylvania, brnolan@sas.upenn.edu - Self-Employment in Urban China's Market Transition: Multiple Destinations, Diverging Pathways
Zi Pan, Yale University, zi.pan@yale.edu
Discussant: Alejandro Portes, aportes@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research
Panel II: Conversations about Cultural Sociology
- "Who Will Subsidize Our Emotional World?" Toward a Critique of Multiculturalism
Meirav Aharon-Gutman, Columbia University, ma2719@columbia.edu - Homophily and Cultural Reproduction in the Labor Market
Lauren A. Rivera, Harvard University, larivera@fas.harvard.edu - Reconciling the "Hostile Worlds" of Cultural Sociology and Social Psychology: An Outline for a Methodological Bridge
Matthew Hoffberg, Cornell University mdh54@cornell.edu - "The Anti-'Economic' Economy of Pure Art": Bourdeiuian Discourse of Legitimation Among Professional Dominatrices
Danielle J. Lindemann, Columbia University, djl2103@columbia.edu
Discussant: Paul DiMaggio, dimaggio@princeton.edu
Princeton University's Department of Sociology
Panel III: Topics in Political Sociology
- Iconicity of Peaceful Revolution: Comparative Study of Berlin and Warsaw, 1979--2004--A German Story
Dominik Bartmanski, Yale University, dominik.bartmanski@yale.edu - Negotiating the Post-Post-War Peace: The Indigenous Farmworkers' Movement in 21st Centuray Guatemala
Jennifer Costanza, Brown University, Jennifer_Costanza@brown.edu - Understanding Radicalization: Insights from an Agent-Based Model
Michael Genkin, mg324@cornell.edu and Alexander Gutfraind, both Cornell University - How to Critique Modernization
Baris Mucen, Rutgers University, mucen@eden.rutgers.edu
Discussant: Arthur Stinchcombe, a-stinch@northwestern.edu
Northwestern University's Department of Sociology
Visiting Professor, Princeton University's Department of Sociology