University of Toronto Sociology at the Annual Meeting of the 2016 American Sociological Association
Our Sociology faculty members and graduate students are very active with the American Sociological Association, with over 60 of them appearing in this year’s program either as presented or an organizer of a panel. See the program for more information. Here are some of the highlights:
Saturday, August 20
Irene Boeckmann
Fatherhood and Breadwinning: Race and Class Differences in First-time Fathers’ Long-term Employment Patterns
Monica Boyd; Naomi Lightman
Gender, Nativity and Race in Care Work: The More Things Change….
Clayton Childress
I Don’t Make Objects, I Make Projects: Selling Things and Selling Selves in Contemporary Art-making
Jennifer Jihye Chun
Globalizing the Grassroots: Care Worker Organizing and the Redefinition of 21st Century Labour Politics
Paulina Garcia del Moral
Feminicidio, Transnational Human Rights Advocacy and Transnational Legal Activism
Phil Goodman
Conservative Politics, Sacred Crows, and Sacrificial Lambs: The Role of ‘Evidence’ During Canada’s Prison Farm Closures
Josee Johnston
Spitting that Real vs. Keeping It Misogynistic: Hip-Hop, Class, and Masculinity in New Food Media
Andrew Miles
Measuring Automatic Cognition: Practical Advances for Sociological Research Using Dual-process Models
Atsushi Narisada
Palatable Unjust Desserts: How Procedural Justice Weakens the Pain of Perceived Pay Inequity
David Nicholas Pettinicchio
The Universalizing Effects of Unionism: Policy, Inequality and Disability
Markus H. Schafer
Social Networks and Mastery after Driving Cessation: A Gendered Life Course Approach
Lawrence Hamilton Williams
Active Intuition: The Patterned Spontaneity of Decision-making
Sunday, August 21
Sida Liu
The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
Jonathan Tomas Koltai; Scott Schieman; Ronit Dinovitzer
Status-based Stress Exposure and Well-being in the Legal Profession
Andrew Miles
Turf Wars of Truly Understanding Culture? Moving Beyond Isolation and Importation to Genuine Cross-disciplinary Engagement
Melissa A. Milkie
Time Deficits with Children: The Relationship to Mothers’ and Fathers’ Mental and Physical Health
Diana Lee Miller
Sustainable and Unsustainable Semi-Professionalism: Grassroots Music Careers in Folk and Metal
Ito Peng
Care and Migration Policies in Japan and South Korea
Scott Schieman; Atsushi Narisada
Under-rewarded Boss: Gender, Workplace Power, and the Distress of Perceived Pay Inequity
Monday, August 22
Salina Abji
Because Deportation is Violence Against Women: On the Politics of State Responsibility and Women’s Human Rights
Holly Campeau
The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Blueville War: Policing, Standards, and Cultural Match
Bahar Hashemi
Canadian Newspaper Representations of Family violence among Immigrant Communities: Analyzing Shifts Over Time
Vanina Leschziner
The American Fame Game: Academic Status and Public Renown in Post-war Social Sciences
Ron Levi; Ioana Vladescu
The Structure of Claims after Atrocity: Justifications, Values, and Proposals from the Holocaust Swiss Banks Litigation
Patricia Louie
Whose Body Matters? Representations of Race and Skin Colour in Medical Textbooks
William Magee; Laura Upenieks
Supervisory Level and Anger About Work
Maria M. Majerski
The Economic Integration of Immigrants: Social Networks, Social Capital, and the Impact of Gender
Melissa A. Milkie
You Must Work Hard: Changes in U.S. Adults’ Values for Children 1986-2012
Jean-Francois Nault
Education, Religion, and Identity in French Ontario: A Case Study of French-language Catholic School Choice
Merin Oleschuk; Blair Wheaton
The Relevance of Women’s Income on Household Gender Inequality Across Class and National Context
David Nicholas Pettinicchio
Punctuated Incrementalism: How American Disability Rights Policymaking Sheds Light on Institutional Continuity and Change
Tuesday, Aug. 23
Katelin Albert
Making the Classroom, Making Sex Ed: A School-based Ethnography of Ontario’s Sexual Health Classrooms
Catherine Man Chuen Cheng
Constructing Immigrant Citizen-subjects in Exceptional States: Governmentality and Chinese Marriage Migrants in Taiwan and HongKong
Hae Yeon Choo
Maternal Guardians: Intimate Labor, Migration, and the Pursuit of Gendered Citizenship in South Korea
Bonnie H. Erickson
Multiple Pathways to Ethnic Social Capitals
- Omar Faruque
Confronting Capital: The Limits of Transnational Activism and Human Rights-based CSR Initiatives
Elise Maiolino
I’m not Male, not White, Want to Start There?: Identity Work in Toronto’s Mayoral Election
Jaime Nikolaou
Commemorating Morgentaler? Reflections on Movement Leadership, 25 Years Later
Kristie O’Neill
Traditional Beneficiaries: Trade Bans, Exemptions, and Morality Embodied in Diets
Matthew Parbst; Blair Wheaton
The Buffering Role of the Welfare State on SES differences in Depression
Luisa Farah Schwartzman
Brazilian Lives Matter, and what Race and the United States Got to do With it
Daniel Silver
Visual Social Thought
Laura Upenieks
Beyond America? Cross-national Contexts and Religious versus Secular Membership Effects on Self-rated Health
Barry Wellman
Older Adults Networking On and Off Digital Media: Initial Findings from the Fourth East York Study
Blair Wheaton; Patricia Joy Louie
A New Perspective on Maternal Employment and Child Mental Health: A Cautionary Tale
Tony Huiquan Zhang
Weather Effects on Social Movements: Evidence from Washington D.C. and New York City, 1960-1995