2008 Annual Meeting August 1-4, Boston, MA
Worlds of Work
Section on Children and Youth Roundtable Session
Friday, August 1 8:30-9:30 am, Sheraton Boston
Session Organizer: Allison Pugh
Section on Teaching and Learning Refereed Roundtable Session
Table 7. Scaffolding for Student Success through Diverse Instructional Strategies: A Potpourri of Best Practices
Friday, August 1 2:30-4:10 pm, Sheraton Boston
Gayle D'Andrea - "A Path from Stigma to Success: Making the Transition from
High School Dropout to College Student."
Section on Marxist Sociology Roundtable Session and Business Meeting
Table 16. Gender, Race, and Class in Late Capitalism
Friday, August 1 4:30-5:30 pm, Boston Marriott Copley Place
Presider: Matthew W. Hughey
Matthew Hughey - "No One Can Say I'm Racist or Boring: Epidermal Capital,
White Debt,
and Shared Economies of Racial Meaning."
Section on Sociology of Culture, Roundtable Session
Table 7. Culture and Social Change
Friday, August 1 4:30-6:10 pm, Sheraton Boston
Tatiana Omeltchenko - "'Are you the Evil Ones' On a Cultural Sociology of Deliberative Talk"
Cultural Sociology: Language, Memory, and National Transformation, Regular Session
Saturday, August 2 10:30 am - 12:10 pm, Boston Marriott Copely Place
Discussant: Jeffrey Olick
Section on Political Sociology / New Directions in Political Economy
Saturday, August 2 10:30 am - 12:10 pm, Sheraton Boston
Simone Polillo - "States, Money and the Reputational Work of Elites"
Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work / Roundtable Session
Table 20. Winds of Industrial Change
Sunday, August 3 10:30 - 11:30 am, Sheraton Boston
Bhavani Arabandi - "The ‘New’ Workplace: Changing Work Practices in the Service Sector in India"
Cultural Studies, Regular Session
Sunday, August 3 2:30 - 4:10 pm, Boston Marriott Copely Place
Carey Sargent - "Local Musicians in the Age of Digital Reproduction"
Section on Sociology of the Family Paper Session
Care Work, Housework, and Consumption in Families
Sunday, August 3 4:30 - 6:10 pm, Sheraton Boston
Presider & Session Organizer : Allison Pugh
Section on Sociology of Education Roundtable Session
Table 18. Downside of Peer Groups
Sunday, August 4 10:30 am - 12:10 pm, Sheraton Boston
Murray Milner - "Adolescent Cultures in India and the U.S.: Explaining Peer
Inequality in Secondary Schools."
Parenthood, Regular Session
Monday, August 4 12:30-2:10 pm, Boston Marriott Copeley Place
Allison Pugh - "When Parents Say No: Resisting Children's Consumer Desires"
Gender and Work: Work Hours and Work Effect, Regular Session
Monday, August 4 2:30-4:10 pm, Hilton Boston Back Bay
Elizabeth Gorman - "Gender and Self-Reported Discretionary Work Effort"
Section on Economic Sociology Invited Session: Law & Organizations
Monday, August 4 4:30-6:10 pm, Hilton Boston Back Bay
Elizabeth Gorman - "Hierarchical Rank and Women's Organizational Mobility:
Glass Ceilings in Corporate Law Firms "