This year, 22 faculty members and 25 graduate students from Sociology at the University of Toronto are presenting papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociology Association in Montreal. In addition to the people presenting papers, a number of our community are also participating as session organizers, discussants or journal editorial panel members. The meetings happen between August 12th and August 15th. We have listed the papers we're presenting below in the order of their occurrence, with student presenters shown in italics. Note that some of the papers have unlisted co-authors from other universities. Please refer to the ASA Program for complete information.
Saturday, August 12th
Bill Magee, Optimistic Positivity and Pessimistic Negativity Among American Adults: Effects of Birth-Cohort, Age, Gender, and Race
Jaime Nikolaou, Teen Pregnancy and Doula Care: A Space for Feminist Praxis?
Andrew Nevin, Technological Tethering, Cohort Effects, and the Work-Family Interface
Andreea Mogosanu, Historical Change in Gender Differences in Mastery: The Role of Education and Employment
Ioana Sendroiu and Laura Upenieks, Gender ‘In Practice’: Rethinking the Use of Male Practice Players in NCAA Women’s Basketball
Emine Fidan Elcioglu, The State Effect at the Border: Avoiding Totalizing Theories of Political Power in Migration Studies
Paul Pritchard, A Bifurcated Welcome? Examining the Willingness to Include Seasonal Agricultural Workers in the Host Community
Yukiko Tanaka, Managing Risk, Pursuing Opportunities: Immigration, Citizenship, and Security in Canada
Gordon Brett, Feminist Theory and Embodied Cognition: Bridging the Disciplinary Gap
Mitch McGivor, Inequality in Higher Education: Student Debt, Social Background, and Labour Market Outcomes
Sarah Cappeliez, Wine Nerds and Pleasure-seekers: Understanding Wine Taste Formation and Practice
Katelin Albert, Negotiating State Policy in the Improvised Classroom: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Sexual Health Classrooms
Marie-Lise Drappon-Bisson, Tactical Reproduction in the Pro-Choice Movement in Northern Ireland: Alliance for Choice’s Path Towards Successful Tactics
Milos Brocic, Cultivating Conviction or Negotiating Nuance? Assessing the Impact of Associations on Ideological Polarization
Omar Faruque, Neoliberal Development, Privatizing Nature, and Subaltern Resistance in Bangladesh
Sunday, August 13th
Dan Silver, The Political Order of the City: Neighborhoods and Voting in Toronto, 1997-2014
Andreea Mogosanu and Laura Upenieks, Social Change and the Evolution of Gender Differences in Depression: An Age-Cohort Consideration
Markus Schafer, Religious Attendance Heterogamy and Partnership Quality in Later Life
Atsushi Narisada, Buffering-Resource or Status-Disconfirmation? How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Relationship between Perceived Under-Reward and Distress
Josee Johnston, On (not) Knowing Where Your Food Comes From: Children, Meat, and Ethical Eating
Ann Mullen, Labored Meanings: Contemporary Artists and the Process and Problems of Producing Artistic Meaning
Lawrence Williams, Dilemmas: Where No Schema Has Gone Before
Patricia Landolt, How Does Multicultural Canada’s Ethnicizing Imperative Shape Latin American Political Incorporation?
Merin Oleschuk, Consuming the Family Meal: News Media Constructions of Home Cooking and Health
Sarah Shah, The Context of Birth Country Gender Inequality on Mental Health Outcomes of Intimate Partner Violence
Louise Birsell-Bauer, Precarious Professionals: Gender Relations in the Academic Profession and the Feminization of Employment Norms
Geoff Wodtke, Regression-based Adjustment for Time-varying Confounders
Monday, August 14th
Markus Schafer, The Role of Health in Late Life Social Inclusion and Exclusion
Kim Pernell, Institutionalized Meaning and Policymaking: Revisiting the Causes of American Financial Deregulation
Cynthia Guzman, Revisiting the Feminist Theory of the State
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Policing Race, Moral Panic and the Growth of Black Prisoners in Canada
David Pettinicchio, Beyond Employment Inequality: Wealth Disparities by Disability Status in Canada and the United States
Yangsook Kim, Good Care in the Elderly Care Sector of South Korea: Gendered Immigration and Ethnic Boundaries
Ioana Sendroiu and Ron Levi, Legality and Exclusion: Discrimination, Legal Cynicism and System Avoidance across the European Roma Experience
Lawrence Williams, Bounded Reflexivity: How Expectations Shape Careers
Irene Boeckmann, Contested Hegemony: Fatherhood Wage Effects across Two U.S. Birth Cohorts
Jennifer Chun and Cynthia Cranford, Becoming Homecare Workers: Chinese Immigrant Women in California's Oakland Chinatown
Katelin Albert and Steve G. Hoffman, Undone Science and Canadian Health Research
Ronit Dinovitzer, The New Place of Corporate Law Firms in the Structuring of Elite Legal Careers
Melissa Milkie and Scott Schieman, Who Helps with the Homework? Inequity in Parenting Responsibilities and Relationship Quality among Employed Parents
Matthew Parbst, The Impact of Public Opinion on Policy in Cross-National Perspective
Tony Zhang, The Princelings in China: How Do They Benefit from their Red Parents?
Rania Salem, Structural Accommodations of Classic Patriarchy: Women and Workplace Gender Segregation in Qatar
Tuesday, August 15th
Patricia Louie and Blair Wheaton, Revisiting the Black-White Paradox in Mental Disorder in Three Cohorts of Black and White Americans
Jenna Valleriani, Breaking the law for the greater good? Core-stigmatized Organizations and Medical Cannabis Dispensaries in Canada
Martin Lukk, What Kind of Writing is Sociology? Literary Form and Theoretical Integration in the Human Sciences
Jerry Flores, Gender on the Run: Wanted Latinas in a southern California Barrio
Jean-Francois Nault, Determinants of Linguistic Retention: The Case of Ontario’s Francophone Official-Language Minorities
Luisa Farah Schwartzmann, Color Violence, Deadly Geographies and the Meanings of “Race” in Brazil
Jonathan Koltai and Scott Schieman, Financial Strain, Mastery, and Psychological Distress: A Comment on Spuriousness in the Stress Proces