The
Michigan Sociological Association
and
Western Michigan University

welcome you to the

2003 Annual Meeting of the

MICHIGAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

November 1, 2003
Western Michigan University


Social Action:
Using Sociology to Change the World

Friday, October 31, 2003



Happy Halloween!
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.      Reception, Baymont Inn  (All are welcome whether or not staying at the hotel.)   


Saturday, November 1, 2003
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.      Registration, Fetzer Center
8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 1 p.m. Book Displays

8:30 - 9:15 a.m. PLENARY SESSION
Panel discussion: Using Sociology to Change the World

Session Chair: Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University

Panelists:
Michael Hamm, Michigan State University
Ron Westrum, Eastern Michigan University
Mary Cay Sengstock, Wayne State University

9:30 - 10:45 a.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Media and Popular Culture

Session Chair: Cheryl Boudreaux, Grand Valley State University

Marshall Battani, Grand Valley State University:
"The 'Nature' of Melancholia: Advertising Jingles, Snapshots, and the
Desires of the Bourgeoisie."

Tim Bower and Janine Ralston, Western Michigan University:
"Creating the OTHER in Socio-political Cartoons"

Women and Activism

Session Chair: Karen Lang Krause, Saginaw Valley State University

Suzanne Spencer-Wood, Oakland University:
"Activist Strategies of Reform Women Around the Turn of the 20th Century."

Nicole Poma, Saginaw Valley State University:
"The Face of Feminist Activism in 2003."

Edna Ewell, Eastern Michigan University:
"On the Inside Looking In: The Outsider Within as a Social Activist."

Karen Schauman, Easter Michigan University, and
Sylvia Orduño, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:  
"From Civil Rights, to the League Of Revolutionary Black Workers to
Welfare Rights: A Tribute to Marion Kramer."

Discussant: Barbara Richardson, Eastern Michigan University

Student Paper Session

Session Chair: Nancy J. Herman-Kinney, Central Michigan University
 
Donna Giuliani, Central Michigan University:
"Content Analysis Confirms Elitist Male Bias in Michigan Newspapers."

Pakky Gerkin, Western Michigan University:
"European Football Fans and Hooliganism: An Ethnographic Investigation"
 
Colleen Wilson, Central Michigan University:
"Western Science or Capitalist Agenda?
 An Investigation of Research Funding and Leading Scientific Literature"

Dan White, Western Michigan University:
"Norm-Breaking in a Faith-Based Youth Residential Treatment Facility"

 Discussant:  David A. Kinney, Central Michigan University

10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break with Publishers' Representatives

We appreciate the support of publishers!
EVERYONE IS URGED TO VISIT THEIR TABLES
.


11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
 
Uni-planet e-zine

Session Chair: Cheryl Boudreaux, Grand Valley State University

Presentation: Devereaux Kennedy, Grand Valley State University
"Using Technology to Empower Undergraduates"

History of Women in Sociology and the Social Sciences

Session Chair: Barbara Richardson, Eastern Michigan University

Edna Ewell, Eastern Michigan University:
"Lucy Lane's Impact on Mary McLeod Bethune."

Karen Schauman, Eastern Michigan University:
"The European Left's Influence on the Women of Hull House."

Barbara Richardson, Eastern Michigan University:
"The Cambridge/Hull House Research Connection and the University of Chicago."

Barbara Bilge, Eastern Michigan University:
"Jewish American Women Anthropologists: 1890-1941."

African-American Studies as Social Action

Session Chair: Bill Whit, Grand Valley State University

Panelists: Ronald Stephens, Grand Valley State University
                 Robert Newby, Central Michigan University

12:45 - 2:15 p.m.  LUNCHEON AND PLENARY SESSION
Welcome
Award Presentations

 Keynote Address
 

"Community-based Food Systems:
 Components and Potential for Michigan"


 
Michael W. Hamm

 C.S. Mott Chair of Sustainable Agriculture
 Michigan State University

2:30 - 3:45 p.m.  CONCURRENT SESSIONS 

Family, Gender and Social Action

Session Chair: Sarah Smith, Delta College

Sherrie Ladegast, Grand Valley State University:
"An Ethnographic Study of Antiwar Protesters"

Khalida P. Zaki, Michigan State University:
"Muslim Youth, Schools, and Parental Concerns among
 Muslim Community of Greater Lansing Area - Michigan"

Littisha A. Scott, Grand Valley State University:
"Does the Number Matter?  An Investigative
 Study of the Relationship Between Household
 Composition and Juvenile Delinquency"

Laura Colmenero-Chilberg, Marygrove College:
"Gender Boundary Transgression in Popular Fiction"

Roundtable with Cooley Award Winner,
Ron Westrum, Eastern Michigan University


Session Chair: Bob Thaler, Saginaw Valley State University

Teaching Sociology to Change the World

Session Chair: Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University

Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University
Mary Cay Sengstock, Wayne State University
Jennifer Stewart, Grand Valley State University:
"A Call to Action"

4:00 p.m.  Business Meeting

6:00 p.m. Informal dinner - optional Location to be announced




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