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New York State Sociological Association
54 th Annual Meeting ٭ Friday & Saturday ٭ October 6 – 7, 2006
SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
Coordinated by:
Dr. Korni Swaroop Kumar, President NYS Sociological Association,
SUNY Brockport
Friday, October 6
Registration Seymour College Union – Ballroom 12:30 – 6:00 pm
Session I Seymour College Union – Various Room 2:00 – 3:30 pm
A Social Research Perspectives – Room 114
Chair: James Ross, SUNY College at Brockport
Presenter: Henry Vandenburgh, Bridgewater State College
- A Sociologist as Campus Research Fellow
Presenter: James Ross, SUNY College at Brockport
- SMYLOG-Style Analysis Applied to Courtroom Workgroup Analysis
Presenter: Flavia Rivera
- Assessing After School Programs’ Effectiveness in Preventing Delinquency: The Utility of the
Social Development Model
Presenter: Sarah Smith
- Defining Relational Aggression in Bullying Science and Law: A Symbolic Interactionist
Perspective
B Future of NYSSA – Room 209
Chair: Edward Thibault
- Roundtable Discussion: Think Tank Group
Discussants: Tim Delaney, SUNY Oswego; Korni Kumar, SUNY College at Brockport; Tom Baker and Laura McClusky, Wells College; Dick Loader and Jaskiran Mathur, St. Francis College
C Political Sociology – Room B116
Chair: Jaskiran Mathur, St. Francis College
Presenter: Martha Easton, Elmira College
- Discourse and Political Decision Making: Norway Against the European Union
Presenter: Eric Kaldor, SUNY College at Brockport
- Beyond Discretion: A Typology of Autonomy in Multinational Enterprise Subsidiaries
Presenter: Michael Kaune and Emily Horowitz, St. Francis College
- Social Data or Social Theory? Contrasting Approaches to Teaching Race in the Social Sciences
Presenter: Andria Strano
- Class and Gender: The Relationship Between Systems of Difference and Social Change
Break 3:30 – 3:45 pm
Session II 3:45 – 5:15 pm
D Health/Drugs – Room 119
Chair: Korni Kumar, SUNY College at Brockport
Presenter: Denise Copelton, SUNY College at Brockport
- The Social Meanings & Functions of Organized Walking for Older Adults
Presenter: Rebecca McGee, SUNY College at Brockport
- Breast is Best? A Comparison of Breastfeeding and Bottlefeeding Experiences Among a
Diverse Group of Mothers
Presenter: Stephanie A. Bennett, SUNY Oneonta
- Alcohol and Substance Abuse: Impact on Children
Presenter: Gary Metz and Korni Kumar SUNY College at Brockport
- Drugs and Society: Social Policy Implications
E Violence & Social Policy – Room 187
Chair: Kim Cattat, SUNY College at Brockport
Presenter: Kim Cattat (Criminal Justice) and Jason Dauenhauer (Social Work), SUNY College at
Brockport, and Art Mason, Lifespan
- Evaluation of Adult Protective Services: Perspectives of Community Professionals
Presenter: Bivette Stodghill, SUNY College at Brockport
- Examining Children’s Attitudes Toward Authority in the Aftermath of Domestic Violence
Presenter: Laura J. McClusky, Wells College
- Some Limits of Agency: Belizean Mayan Women’s Strategies for Enduring, Escaping and
Preventing Studying Domestic Violence
F Connecting Researchers and Activists – Room 209
Chair: David Baronov, St. John Fisher College
Presenter: Paul C. Fuller, St. John Fisher College; Tim McCorry, Buffalo State College; Patricia
Neff, University at Buffalo; Andy Dillon, Rochester Indy Media; Ted Forsyth, Rochester
Anarchist Forum; Jon Greenbaum, Rochester Metro Justice; and Angel Santiago,
Marketview Heights Association
- Dialogues in Social Movements
| President’s Reception Welcome – | Seymour College Union | 5:30 – 6:30 pm |
| Banquet | Seymour College Union | 6:30 – 7:30 pm |
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| Keynote Address Professor John J. Macionis – Sociology Confronts the World: Past, Present and Future |
Seymour College Union | 7:30 – 8:30 pm |
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Business Meeting Seymour College Union – Room 209 8:00 – 9:00 am
Registration Seymour College Union - Ballroom 8:30 – 10:30 am
Session I Seymour College Union – Various Room 9:15 – 10:45 am
G Sociology and Psychology – Room B116
Chair: Tim Madigan, St. John Fisher College
Presenter: Tim Madigan, St. John Fisher College
- George Herbert Mead Unbound! – The Continuing Influence of Mead’s Thoughts
Presenter: John Seem, St. John Fisher College
- What is Self? A Diversity of Perspectives and Their Implications
Presenter: Barbara Lowe, St. John Fisher College
- Mead’s “Social Self” and Character Analysis in A Bronx Tale
Presenter: Katrina Arndt, St. John Fisher College
- The Social Construction of Special Education
H Social Problems – Room B116
Chair: Sandro Sehic, Utica, NY
Presenter: Sandro Sehic, Utics, NY
- Impact of Globalism: Case Study – City of Utica
Presenter: Janel Doyle, Wells College
- Defining the Normal: Stigma Management and Exhibiting Deviance in Carnival Culture
Presenter: Nicole Lamarre
- The Deviance of Desire: Situational Homosexuality, Multi-Dimensional Sexuality and the
Deconstruction of Sexual Deviance
Presenter: Jamet D.H. Hinkel, D’Youville College
- Hatha Yoda as a Self-Directed and Self-Applied Health Care
I Community & Political Implications – Room 228
Chair: Tom Baker,
Presenter: Janel Doyle, Wells College
- The Power of Community: Stigma Management Within Carnival Culture
Presenter: Carrie Parola and Alexander R. Thomas, SUNY Oneonta, and
Polly J. Smith, Utica College
- New Style Suburbs: Patterns of Land Use in the Suburbanizing Catskills
Presenter: Mark Braun, SUNY Cobleskill
- Think Global Today and Act Local Tomorrow: How College Students Applied Indicators of
Environmental Sustainability in a Small Upstate New York Community
Presenter: John Asimakopoulos, CUNY Bronx
- The Private Property Elephant: An Anarcho-SSA Analysis of Globalization
J Religion/Community – Room 114
Chair: Timothy McCorry, Buffalo State College
Presenter: Nicholas Coulter,
- Studies of the Megidol Church Community
Presenter: Bruce Luske,
- Holy Sparks and Spiritual Fire: Social Justice as Mystical Oneness
Presenter: Patricia Tweet, SUNY College at Brockport
- Globalization and Nonprofit Organizations: The Role of Local Civil Society in Economic
Restructuring in Rochester, New York
Presenter: Timothy McCorry, Buffalo State College, and Paul C. Fuller, St. John Fisher College
- The Politics of Signification: Organizational Framing Processes and Articulations of Crime
And Blight in an Urban Development Coalition
Break 10:45 – 11:00 am
Session II Seymour College Union – Various Rooms 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
K Social Construction – Room 220
Chair: Timothy Levonyan Radloff, SUNY Fredonia
Presenter: Alexa A. Bigelow, St. John Fisher College
- Theorizing the Self: Implications from James and Mead
Presenter: Lisa Pittari, SUNY Oneonta
- Gay Rights Movement and Perception
Presenter: Timothy Levonyan Radloff, SUNY Fredonia
- Measuring the Impact of Higher Education on Racial Prejudice and Opposition to Race-Based
Policy
Presenter: Michael I. Niman,
- Racism and New York’s Anti-Casino Movement
L The Sociology of Sport – Room 187
Chair: Tim Delaney, SUNY Oswego
Presenter: Tim Madigan, St. John Fisher College
- Say It Ain’t So, Barry: The Ethical Implications of Steroid Use in Professional Sports
Presenter: Emily Dane, St. John Fisher College
- An Analysis of Female Images in Sports Films
Presenter: Alan Pogroszewski, St. John Fisher College
- The Michael Jordan Tax
Presenter: Tim Delaney, SUNY Oswego
- Gambling in Sport
M Online Journal – NYSSA – Room 209
Chair: Laura McClusky, Wells College
- Panel Discussion of NYSSA Online Journal
Discussants: Paul Fuller, St. John Fisher College; Laura McClusky, Wells College; and
Tim McCorry, Buffalo State College
Buffet Lunch and Awards 12:00 – 12:30 pm
Closing Plenary Session 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Professor Louis Kriesberg

