New York State Sociological Association
53rd Annual Conference
Wells College, Aurora New York
October 14-15, 2005
Professors Laura McClusky and Leslie Miller-Bernal, Co-Presidents, NYSSA
Friday, October 14, 2005
Registration 12:30-6 p.m.
Macmillan [Mac] Hall Lobby
NOTE: All sessions will take place in Macmillan Hall. Even-numbered rooms
are located on the north side of the building, odd-numbered rooms are on
the south side.
SESSIONS 1-4, 2:00-3:45 p.m.
1 GLOBALIZATION: THEORY AND CONSEQUENCES
Room 121
Session chair: Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Wells College
Presenter: William Skipper, SUNY at Cortland
Understanding Economic Inequalities in the U.S.: The
Need for a Global Context
Presenter: Fouad Makki, Cornell University
Globalization Theory or a Theory of Globalization
Presenter: Nathan Bucar, SUNY at Cortland
Laborers v. Capitalists and Core v. Periphery: The Dynamics
of Global Capitalism
Presenter: Siobhan McCollum, SUNY at Buffalo
World Poverty and the Pro-Poor Tourism Movement
2 THE WORLDS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND
THEIR FAMILIES
Room 300
Session chair: Michael Niman, SUNY at Buffalo
Presenter: Jenna Dell, Elmira College
Defining Success: The Perceptions of Undergraduate College
Students
Presenter: Janet Kaye, SUNY at Buffalo
“Socko Performances on Campus”: Domestic Violence in National
News Magazines 1981-2001
Presenter: Korni Swaroop Kumar, SUNY at Brockport and
Yonne Hall, Florida Atlantic University
Identifying Dimensions of Family Violence: The Importance
of Student Sexual Narratives
Presenter: Henry Vandenburgh, Bridgewater State College
Teaching Social Statistics to Mastery
3 SOCIOLOGY AND POPULAR CULTURE
Room 313
Session Chair: Tim Delaney, SUNY at Oswego
Presenter: Stephanie Bennett, SUNY at Oswego
The Extension of Adolescence: The Trend of 22-25 Year
Olds Moving Back Home
Presenter: Tim Delaney and Patrick Tanzini, SUNY at Oswego
Drunk Shamings: A Contemporary Degradation Ceremony
Presenter: Tim Delaney, SUNY at Oswego
Seinology: A Sociological Analysis of Seinfeld
4 HEALTH AND GENDER ISSUES, EBONY MAGAZINE, 1969-2004
Room 321
Session Chair: Leslie Miller-Bernal, Wells College
Presenter: Jen Aronson, Wells College
Ebony Magazine as an Agent of Socialization
Presenter: Christina Rose, Wells College
Health Concerns Portrayed in Ebony over Time
Presenters: Lisa Gibson and Nicole Lamarre, Wells College
Portrayal of Gender Roles in Ebony’s Advertisements
and Articles over Time
SESSIONS 5-8, 4:00 – 5:45
5 CULTURE AND INEQUALITY
Room: 121
Session Chair: Jaskiran Mathur, St. Francis College
Presenter: Paul Fuller, St. John Fisher College
The Moral Technology of Psychoactive Medications: Changes
in the Meanings of Medication and
the Processes of Governing the “Authentic” Self in an
AD/HD Support Group
Presenter: Timothy McCorry, SUNY at Buffalo
Alternatives to the Traditional Criminal Justice System:
An Assessment of Victim-Offender Mediation
and Neighborhood Accountability Boards in the United
States
Niharika Banerjea, University at Buffalo
Volunteers or Workers? An Ethnographic Analysis of Participatory
Development Practices in a Slum in Kolkata, India
Timothy Madigan, St. John Fisher College
Stigma and Governmentality
Patricia Neff, University at Buffalo
Geneaology of AD/HD
6 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Room 300
Session Chair: Laura McClusky, Wells
College
Presenter: Cynthia Cook, SUNY Rockland Community College
The Impact of Focus Group; Discussion on Minority Participation
in Health Care Research or Clinical Trials
Presenter: Nicole Lamarre, Wells College
Homosexual Identity Self-disclosure: An Examination of
In-group, Out-group Processes
Presenter: Qing Zeng, Tompkins Cortland Community College,
and Yong Dai, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
The Generation of Economic Reform: The Problems and Promises
of Chinese Children and Adolescents
Presenter: John Seem, St. John Fisher College
Human Service Administration as Clinical Sociology of
Empowerment
7 ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY
Room: 313
Session Chair: Alexander Thomas, SUNY at Oneonta
Presenter: Kirsten Lauber, University at Albany
Do International Air Pollution Protocols Work?
Presenter: Brian Fletcher, SUNY at Brockport
Anti-Democratic Tendencies in the Bureaucratic Organization
of Hazardous Waste Clean-up in New York State
Presenters: Amy Guptill, SUNY at Brockport and Rick Welsh,
Clarkson University
Can Relationship Marketing Prevent the Corporatization
of Organics? A case study of OFARM
Presenter: Michael Niman, SUNY at Buffalo
Unnatural Disasters: The Media Provides No Context or
Depth in its Disaster Reporting
8 TRANSGENDERING: ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES Room:
321
Session Chair: Kay Valentine, Nazareth College
Presenter: Victoria Munoz, Wells College
Trans-lating Gender: Transgender Narratives of Race,
Class, and Sexuality
Presenter: Judith Van Allen, Cornell University
How Do "Bodies Matter"? Changing the World and Social
Consciousness vs. Surgically Changing the Body
Presenter: Laura Purdy, Wells College
A Bioethics Perspective on Transex Procedures
6:00-7:00
P.M.
RECEPTION, with GREETINGS FROM WELLS PRESIDENT, LISA MARSH RYERSON
Aurora Inn, Main Street
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Banquet and Keynote Address
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Nancy Denton, University
at Albany
“Inequality and Place”
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Registration 8:00-12:00 p.m., Macmillan Hall Lobby
Continental Breakfast 8:00-9:00 a.m., Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall,
third floor
SESSIONS 9 -12, 9:00-10:45
a.m.
9 INEQUALITIES BY RACE AND PLACE
Room 121
Session Chair: Paul Murray, Siena College
Presenter: Patricia Tweet, SUNY at Brockport
Deepening Inequalities: An Urban Perspective
Presenter: Frank McVeigh, Muhlenberg College
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Deepening Racial Inequality
Presenters: Alexander Thomas, SUNY at Oneonta, Polly
Smith, Utica College, and
William Wilkerson, SUNY at Oneonta
Down and Out in Upstate: Four Myths about Economic Decline
in Upstate New York
10 TEACHING GENDER INEQUALITY: THEN AND NOW
Room 300
Session Chair: Laura McClusky, Wells College
Presenter: Kay Valentine, Nazareth College
Teaching About Gender Inequality: From Western to Global
and Singular to Plural
Presenter: Joan Spade, SUNY at Brockport
Teaching About Gender Inequality: From Additive to Intersectional
Analysis and Roles to Institution
Presenter: Denise Copelton, SUNY Brockport
Teaching About Gender Inequality: From Blatant to Subtle
and Covert Inequality
11 RELATIONSHIPS: ROMANTIC, MENTORING, FRIENDSHIP, AND VIRTUAL
Room 313
Session Chair: Leslie Miller-Bernal, Wells College
Presenter: Daniel Santore, University at Albany
Hedging Our Bets? Individualization, Heterosexual Intimacy,
and Gender
Presenter: Nadirah Blassingame, Wells College
The Wells Family over Time: Examining the Relationships
of Faculty and Students, 1868-present
Presenter: Heather Moscheo, Siena College
Circus Performers: College Students’ Ability to Juggle
Relationships
Presenter: Amitra Hodge, SUNY at Buffalo
Male Video Chat Users’ Perceptions about Female Video
Chat Users
12 THE LANGUAGE OF DISPOSSESSION: INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES OVER DISCOURSE,
LAND, AND RESOURCES
Room 321
Session Chair: David Van Arsdale, Tompkins Cortland Community
College
Presenter: Ernest Olson, Wells College
The Language of Dispossession: Indigenous Struggles over
Discourse, Land, and
Resources
Presenter: Lauren E. Eastwood, SUNY at Plattsburg
International Negotiations of “Free, Prior and Informed
Consent” and
the Attempted Production of the “Phantom Citizen”
Presenter: Meghan Y. McCune, Michigan State University
"No Sovereign Nation, No Reservation": Framing Haudenosaunee
Sovereignty through Land Claim Discourse
Presenter: Ariel Merkel, Wells College ‘05
Rhetorical Strategies for Kanaka Maoli Cultural Revitalization
and Survival
SESSIONS 13-16, 11:00 a.m.- 12:45
p.m.
13 SOCIAL POLICIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Room 121
Session Chair: William Skipper, SUNY at Cortland
Presenter: Jamie Faricellia Dangler, SUNY at Cortland
Inadequate Family Leave Policies as a Source of Gender
and Status Inequalities in Academia
Presenters: Frank Ridzi and Amber Rush, Le Moyne College
Welfare Justice and Front-line Discretion: The Case of
California
Presenter: Emily Horowitz, St. Francis College
Hospital Segregation in New York
Presenter: John Asimakouskopoulos, Bronx Community College
The New Civil Rights Movement: Global Active Resistance
to Inequality
14 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Room 300
Session Chair: Thomas Baker, Schenectady Community College
Presenter: Paul Murray, Siena College
Exploring the Meanings of Patriotism
Presenter: Michael Kaune, St. Francis College
Changes in Lifestyle in Response to Terrorism
Presenter: Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Wells College
Reflections on Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Social
Indicators of Liberal, Social, and Transitional Democracies
Presenter: Naomi Stockwell, Wells College
Eating as a Political Act: The Expression of Gender and
Power through Food
15 ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH: ISSUES AND EXAMPLES
Room 313
Session Chair: Polly Smith, Utica College
Presenter: David Van Arsdale, Tompkins Cortland Community
College
Waiting for Work: An Ethnography of Industrial Temporary
Help Workers
Presenter: Jill Rosentel, Wells College
Eight Hours on My Feet and All I Got was This Lousy Drink:
Five Social Cues that Promote Alcohol Use in the Drink Serving Industry
Presenter: Laura McClusky, Wells College
The Importance of Humanizing the Social Sciences: Step
One - Ethnographic Methods
16 PREPARING TEACHERS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND: ADDRESSING SOCIAL
JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY
Room 321
Session Chair: Joan Spade, SUNY at Brockport
Presenter: Ethel King-Mckenzie, Wells College
Teaching for Social Justice
Presenter: Susan Talbot, Wells College
The Inclusive Classroom: An Extension of and Springboard
to Social Justice
Susan Wansor, Wells College
Children’s Literature: Helping to Bridge the Gaps
Lily Cavanaugh ’04, Wells College
Education for Liberation: Making a Case for Revising
the New York State Learning Standards
1:00-2:30 PM.
Buffet Lunch
Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall (third floor)
Awards Presentations: Laura McClusky and Leslie Miller-Bernal, NYSSA
Co-Presidents
2:30-3:30 PM
Luncheon Speaker: Rebecca Plante, Ithaca College
The Sexual Self:
Exploring Gender and Sexualities Through Popular Culture
3:30 to 4:30 PM
Business Meeting.
Room 326
Everyone
is encouraged to attend!
Preliminary agenda:
Discussion of permanent website for NYSSA,
next few years’ meeting places and society officers,
ways of increasing involvement and commitment to NYSSA,
members’ suggestions and concerns