7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Reception at the
Marriott at Eagle Crest
Welcoming Remarks - Vernon Polite
Dean of the College of Education
Eastern Michigan University
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Organizers
are listed next to each session title.)
1. Applied Sociology - Jay
Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University (Alumni Room)
Laurel Hilliker, Michigan State University: "Altruism in the Care Giving of an Ill
Person and How it Applies to the Florida Schindler/Schiavo Case"
Arifa Kulsoom Javed, Wayne State
University: "Workshops on Acculturation Challenges and
Teen Conflict"
Karen Schaumann-Beltran, Alexis Simpson, Stephanie Matthews,
Judith Dahn and Amy Greschaw, Eastern Michigan University:
"How to Start a Welfare Rights Union on Your Campus"
Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University: "Why Applied Sociology Thrives at
'Lower-Tier' Institutions"
2. Sexuality, Gender and
Sport - Desire' Anastasia,
Wayne State University (Faculty Room)
Bryan Kingry, Wayne State University: "Review and Criticism of Major Themes in
Men's Studies Literature"
Giovanna Follo and Desire' Anastasia,
Wayne State University: "From the Olympics to the WWE, Female
Wrestlers Are Here: A
Comparative Gender
Analysis"
Danielle Soulliere, University of
Windsor: "Promoting Hegemonic
Masculinity: Messages about Manhood in World Wrestling Entertainment Programming"
Elizabeth Pare', Wayne State University:
"A Retrospective Look at Title IX: Past and Current Controversies"
3. Topics in Criminology - Liqun Cao, Eastern Michigan University (Tower Room)
Steven Stack, Wayne State University;
Liqun Cao,Eastern Michigan University
and Amy Adamczyk, Wayne State University: "Crime Volume and Law and Order Culture"
Paul S. Leighton, Eastern Michigan University:
"More Prison Time for Stealing Videos from K-Mart than for
Enron Crooks? A Tale of Two Criminals and Sentencing Inequality"
Marilyn Corsianos, Eastern Michigan University:
"Female Police Officers and Police Culture: Can Community
Policing Initiatives be used as Feminist Tools?"
10:00 - 10:25 a.m. Coffee
Break with Publishers' Representatives
We appreciate the support of
publishers! EVERYONE IS URGED TO VISIT THEIR
TABLES.
10:30 a.m. - 12:00
p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1. Social Interaction and Social Structure - Alan Hill, Delta College
(Alumni Room)
Joel Stillerman and Catherine Sundt, Grand
Valley State University: "Social Dimensions of Informal Commerce in
Santiago, Chile" Steven Stack, Wayne State University and Ira
Wasserman, Eastern Michigan University: "Social Correlates of Russian Roulette" Arifa Kulsoom Javed,
Wayne State University: "Challenges of Motherhood Among Recent
Immigrant Families" Michelle M. Proctor, Wayne State
University: "The Experiences of Working Class Families
in an Era of Uncertainty"
2.
Social
Movements - Michael
Macaluso, Western Michigan University (Faculty Room)
Andrea Love Sumpter, Wayne State
University: “Moving Forward: Education as a Civil
Right”
Lori Baralt, Michigan State University: "A Qualitative Study of the Negotiation of
Collective Identity in a Student Anti-War Group"
Barbara Richardson, Eastern Michigan University:
"Comparative Political Strategies for Social Change by Women’s Social Movements in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"
Michael Macaluso, Western Michigan
University: "AIMing for a Revolution: The American
Indian Movement"
3.
Research Findings and Issues - Betsy Cullum-Swan, Michigan
State University (Guild Room)
Laura Fuller-Loomis, Michigan State
University: "Domestic Violence in the Rural US:
Constraints and Attitudes"
Victoria G. Kosht, Wayne State University: "Potential Problematic Issues of
Ethnographic Research"
Thomas D. Fuentes and David A. Kinney,
Central Michigan University: "From High School Dropout to College
Graduate: Exploring the Role of a Successful
Alternative School in the Lives of Alienated
Adolescents"
Ann M. Natzke, Kathlyn M. Gossett and Nancy J. Herman-Kinney, Central Michigan University:
"The Hands that Cannot Rock the Cradle: Womens' Journeys through the World of
Postpartum Depression"
4. Patterns of
Segregation:
Persistence and Change - Charles
Thomas,
University of Michigan - Flint (Tower Room)
Jackie
M. Cutsinger and Jason C. Booza, Wayne State University:
"The Decline of Middle America and Its Impact on the American Landscape"
Roy C. Barnes, Wilfred G. Marston, and Charles B. Thomas, Jr.,
University of
Michigan-Flint: "Statistical vs. Social Integration: Lessons from Flint"
Oswald S. Warner, Grand Prairie Regional College: "Black-White Divide:
Racial
Residential Succession and Segregation in Saginaw, Michigan 1960-2000"
12:15 - 2:15 p.m. LUNCHEON AND PLENARY
SESSION (Guild Room)
Welcome - Juanita M. Reid Vice President for University Relations
Eastern Michigan University
Award
Presentations Keynote Address:
"Detroit: A Different Perspective and New Evidence
about the Nation's Most Maligned Place"
Reynolds Farley Research Professor,
Population
Studies Center
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
The University of Michigan Luncheon Music: Rex Lau, Piano
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. CONCURRENT
SESSIONS
1. Student Paper Session
- Michelle Loyd-Paige, Calvin
College (Alumni Room)
Deborah R. Winiarski, Calvin College: "Psychiatric Well Being: Scale Development for Measuring
Outcomes for the Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill"
Heidi Biedermann and Deborah Winiarski, Calvin College:
"Juvenile Probation: Measuring Balanced and Restorative
Justice and Community Probation"
Shandra Andrews, Calvin College: "A Look at Faith in Human Service Programs:
Does it Make a Difference?"
Porsche VanBrocklin-Fischer, Wayne State University:
"The Ten Lies Your Professor Told You about Online Survey Validity"
2. Immigration
in the
Post-9/11 World - Fumiko
Tonooka (Faculty Room)
Brian Fry, Indiana Wesleyan University:
"Vocabularies of Motive and the Politics of Immigration Reform"
Panel:
Charles Spurlock, Central Michigan
University Ahmed Wahby, Eastern Michigan
University/Market Strategies, Inc. E. Andreas Tomaszewski, Eastern Michigan
University
Paul Dean Webb, Eastern Michigan University
3. Global Gender
and Age Discrimination - Donna
Giuliani, Delta College (Guild Room)
Dimeji Togunde and Samantha Newman,
Albion College: "Child Labor As A Determinant of Fertility
Behavior in Urban Nigeria"
Dimeji Togunde and Arielle Carter,
Albion College: "Understanding The Effects of Parental
Socio-economic Status on Child Labor in
Nigeria"
Dwight Haase, University of Dayton:
"Microcredit and Gender
Inequality: The Case of Nicaragua's Informal Sector"
Brigitte H. Bechtold, Central
Michigan University and Donna Cooper Graves,
University of Tennessee at Martin: "Global Voices of Infanticide"
4. Workshop: Teaching High School Sociology - Jean Calabrese,
Northville High School (Tower Room)
4:15 - 5:00
p.m. Business
Meeting (Guild Room) 6:00 p.m. Informal dinner - optional