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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
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