2008 Annual Meeting February 21-24, New York City
Beyond Ourselves: Sociology in a Global Mode
Paper Session I: "Looking Beyond Ourselves: Understanding the Global Construction of Gender Identity"
Saturday, February 23 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Session Presider: Rae Blumberg
- Bhavani Aribandi - "Manu and the'New' Woman: An Inquiry into Women's Status in the Post-Liberalization Period in India"
- Rae Blumberg - "Mothers of Invention? A Myth-breaking Look at Women's Key Roles in Subsistence Technology - Past, Present and Future"
- Tristan Bridges - "The Feminist Politics of Homosocial Groups of Men"
- Deborah Rexrode - "The Changing Role of Women in the Church: Barriers or Gateways to Financial Giving"
- Tara Tober - "The Gendered Significance of the Family Meal"
Paper Session II: "Global Views of Sociology in Local, Reglional and National Identity"
Saturday, February 23 8:30am - 10:00am
Session Presider: Deborah Rexrode
- Sema Akboga - "Construction of the Turkish Nation: Turks as Civilizers of the World"
- Da-Wei Hsu - "Imperialism, War History and the Promotion of German Classical Music"
- Matthew Hughey - "White Guise: Navigating (Dis)similarities of White Identity Formations"
- Carey Sargent - "Making Mountains into Men: Memory and Mourning in the Fall of the Old Man of the Mountain"
- Gulay Turkmen - "A Durkheimian Analysis on Nationalism and Religion in Turkey: The Case of the Turkish History Thesis and the Turkish-Islamic Synthesis"
Session III - Roundtable: "Globalized Gendered Effects on Education, Labor and Technology "
Saturday, February 23 10:15am - 11:45am
Session Presider: Deborah Rexrode
- Alana Bibeau - "Mothers of Invention: Examining 'Experts' Construction of Pregnancy and Birth"
- Ellen Markowitz - "Girls' Engagement with Math: Beliefs, Behavior, and Belonging"
- David Morris - "Cohabiting Families and the Academic Outcomes of Sons and Daughters"
- Madison Sandy - "Globalization's Gendered Effects on Labor and Equality: An Updated Discussion of Women in Mexico's Maquiladoras"
- Peipei Xiang - "The Intergenerational Influence on Gender Difference and Gender Stratification"