Faculty and Student Presentations
New Marxian Times--7th International Rethinking Marxism Conference 2009, Amherst, Massachusetts
- Harry F. Dahms
Schumpeter Reloaded: Arrighi and the 21st Century - Shannon Williams
The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas: Rethinking Economic Integration After the Failures of Neoliberalism
International Environmental Politics European Sociological Association Conference 2009, Lisbon, Portugal
- Liam Hysjulien and William Markham
The Norwegian Whaling Controversy: Claimsmaking, Framing, and Science
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2009, San Francisco
- Stephanie A. Bohon
New Destinations for Mexican Immigrants: Does Place Matter? - Sherry Cable
Presider: Section on Environment and Technology - Meghan Conley
New Destinations for Mexican Immigrants: Does Place Matter? - Harry F. Dahms
Beyond Modernity as a Matrix of Alienation: Theorizing Utopian Possibilities in America - Paul K. Gellert
Financialization, Shareholder Value, and the Transformation of Timberland Ownership in North America - Andrew Gunnoe
Financialization, Shareholder Value, and the Transformation of Timberland Ownership in North America - Joongbaeck Kim
Social Contexts and Volunteerism: Resources or Constraints? - Katherine Morris
From Scuffletown to the Sunsphere: Urban Growth Machines in Downtown Knoxville - Carmel E. Price
New Destinations for Mexican Immigrants: Does Place Matter? - Jonathan D. Shefner
Moving Beyond Poor People’s Movements: Global Change and New Opportunities From Scuffletown to the Sunsphere: Urban Growth Machines in Downtown Knoxville - Julie B. Wiest
Presider: Section on Race and Gender
Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting 2009, New Orleans
- John H. Bradford
But What Does it Mean? A Critical Inquiry and Appraisal of Eco-structuralism - Sherry Cable and Thomas E. Shriver (Oklahoma State University)
State Suppression of Dissent: The Case of Environmental Activism in the Czech Republic - Meghan E. Conley, Lanier F. Basenberg, Suzanne Kurth
Third Wave Feminism: Rhetoric or Reality? - Harry F. Dahms
The Place of Critical Theory in Sociology - Harry F. Dahms
Economic Sociology in the 21st Century: Limitations and Possibilities - Elizabeth A. East
Alienation and Anti-Oppression: Practices of Youth Social Movements - Andrew A. Gunnoe
Exploring the TIMO Phenomenon: Shareholder Value, Financialization, and the Transformation of Timberland Ownership in North America - Sarah E. Hendricks, Stephanie A. Bohon
Carpooling as Transportation Adaptation among Racial Minorities - Liam Vangsnes Hysjulien
Urban Agricultural Projects and the Reshaping of Argentina - Katie M. Kirkpatrick
From Gay Street To Turkey Creek: Knoxville's Urban and Suburban Development Processes - Eric Royal Lybeck
Coercion, Capital and Communication: Potential Applications of Media Theory to Comparative Historical Political Economy - James N. Maples
Geographic Concentration of Workers and Quality of Life - Andrea Meltzer, Suzanne Kurth
Txt Me: The Role of Text Messaging in Building College Students Romantic Relationships - Angela H. Mounger, Suzanne Kurth
Discounting Disability Diagnoses: Attributions of Students Behavior - Meagan L. Nalls, Suzanne Kurth
The Dilemma: Being Disabled or Left Behind? - Carmel E. Price
Feminist Methodologies and Undergraduate Pedagogy - Jennifer R. Scroggins, Sara E. Malley
Punishing Environmental Crimes in Tennessee Counties - Steven J. Seiler
Negotiating the Self in Interstitial Space: A Study of Everyday Forms of Electronically Mediated Communication among College Students - Alex M. Stoner
Georgia's 2007 Drought: Willingness to Pay for an Annual Water Regulation Fee - Stacey U. Tucker
Agency, Citizenship, and Social Policy - Aerin L. Washington, Lois Presser
The Impact of Interaction: African American Attitudes Toward Police in Knoxville, Tennessee and the Effects of Negative Interactions on this Relationship
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2008, Boston
- Lanier F. Basenberg
Doing Emphasized Femininity for Pay: How Sex Workers and Drag Queens Use Femininity for Profit - Sherry Cable
Wounded by Friendly Fire: Policy Palliatives and Internal Conflict in the Gulf War Illness Movement - Paul Gellert
World Systems and the Dilemmas and Opportunities of Fieldwork - Thomas C. Hood
Chair: Christian Sociology - Joongbaeck Kim
The Effects of Physician’s Attitude on Patient’s Satisfaction with Medical Care - Suzanne B. Kurth
Doing Accounting: Toward a Dynamic Model - Lois Presser
Stories Held as Suspect - Wornie L. Reed
Presider/Organizer: Prisons and Prisoners - Steven Seiler
Doing Accounting: Toward a Dynamic Model - Jonathan D. Shefner
World Systems and the Dilemmas and Opportunities of Fieldwork
Civil Society, Neo-Liberal Reform, and Political Action in Mexico and Ecuador - Stacey Ussery Tucker
Empowerment Zone Initiative: Progressive or Passive Policy
Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting 2008, Richmond
- Randall Adams
Migrant Remittances - Randall Adams
An Examination of Macro and Micro Factors from the New Immigrant Survey - Lanier F. Basenberg
The Linguistic Discourse Surrounding Homoerotic Experimentation - John Bradford
The Function of the Production of (Meta) Knowledge in the 21st Century: Selfmediation
or Embeddedness? - Harry F. Dahms
Theorizing Globalization: How Marx, Durkheim, and Weber Never Have Been More Relevant - Harry F. Dahms
Globalization and Critical Theory: A New Opportunity for Sociology? - Lyndsay H. Dawson
The Shift of E-Wastes from China to Africa - Elizabeth A. East
Millennial Activists: Strong Individuals in Social Movements - Andrew Gunnoe
Structural Changes in the Global Timber Industry: Globalization, Neoliberalism, & Financialization - Sarah E. Hendricks
Phenotype and Immigration: A Multi-Methods Approach - Liam Hysjulien
Claimsmaking and Norwegian Whaling - Suzanne B. Kurth, Thomas C. Hood
Types of Cooperative Social Relations: The Work Trip Carpool - Sara E. Malley
Disproportional Placement of Environmental Hazards and Social Movements - James N. Maples
The Impact of Industrial Concentration On Quality of Life - James N. Maples
Worker Conflict and Human Survival - Carmel E. Price
Population Growth in Metropolitan Areas and Environmental Degradation - Aaron T. Rowland
Reconceptualizing Democracy for the 21st Century - Steven Seiler
Social Interaction and Self-Presentation through Everyday Forms of Mediated Communications - Alex M. Stoner
Marx and Durkheim: Toward a More Complex Theory of Nature-Society Relationships - Stacey U. Tucker, Stephanie A. Bohon
Cultural Attachment and Immigrant Behavior: Remittance-Sending among US Latinos - Julie B. Wiest
Paths to Social Goods: White, Male Offending in a Cultural Context - Shannon Williams
Historical Change, Modern Society, and Implications for Social Research
American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2008, St. Louis
- Regina Benedict
Female Inmates: An Exploratory Study - Regina Benedict
Compounding Issues: Qualitative Interviews of Older Female Inmates - Hoan N. Bui, Carmel E. Price
Social Capital and Women’s Post-Incarceration Adjustment - Ben Feldmeyer
Immigration and Violence: The Offsetting Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Hispanic Violence - Sara Elizabeth Malley
Gender, Reentry, and the (Unmet) Needs of Women - Lois Presser
Control Deficits and Mass Harm: Revisiting Control Balance Theory - Jennifer Rhiannon Scroggins
Gender, Reentry, and the (Unmet) Needs of Women
Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting 2008, Boston
- R. Scott Frey
The Flow of Heavy Metals in the World-System - Suzanne B. Kurth and Julie B. Wiest
Face-to-Faceplate: The Impact of Technologically Mediated Communication on Interaction - Steven J. Seiler
When the Backstage Disappears: Social Interaction and Impression Management through Everyday Forms of Electronically Mediated Communication - Stacey U. Tucker
Pentecostalism and Race Relations - Sarah Whiteford
Gender, Race, and Age in Adolescent Peer Groups: Effects on Substance Use
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2007, New York
- Sherry Cable
The Invisible Injuries of the Risk Society: Contested Illness Among Nuclear Weapons Workers - Scott R. Frey
The Flow of Toxic Materials in the World-System - Paul K. Gellert
Re-Peripheralization of the Indonesian Political Economy: From Resource-based Industrialization Back to Resource Exports - Donald W. Hastings
Presider: Section on Environment and Technology - Thomas C. Hood
Session Organizer: Professional Ethics - Suzanne B. Kurth
Face-to-Face Interaction and Technologically Mediated Communication - Jonathan D. Shefner
Explaining the Pink Tide: Austerity, Protest, and Electoral Change in Latin-America
From Angry Wave to Pink Tide: Austerity, Protest, and Electoral Change in Latin-America - Michal Tamuz
Expertise, Availability, or Reciprocity? Explaining the Consultation Networks of Nurses in an Intensive Care Unit - Stacey Ussery Tucker
The “Dis-Welfare” State: Poverty and Social Policy in the U.S. - Julie B. Wiest
Face-to-Face Interaction and Technologically Mediated Communication
Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting 2007, Atlanta
- Randall Adams
Glorious Inconsistencies: God, Mammon, and Unionism in the 18th and 19th Century - Casey E. Cordy
Conceptions of Violence - Charles Cleland, Scott Frey, Thomas Hood
The Culture of Counties and the 2004 Presidential Election - Harry F. Dahms
Sociology of Prejudice Between Psychoanalysis and "Socioanalysis" - Harry F. Dahms
Sociology as the Dynamic Social Science of Modern Society - Andrew A. Gunnoe
Society, Nature, and the Rise of Industrial Forestry in the Southeastern United States
Brian Langley, Suzanne B. Kurth,
Winning and Losing: Defining "Meth" As a Problem of the Rural South - James N. Maples
For Rent: A Political Economy Review of the New River Gorge - Katherine L. Morris
Government and Industry: Conditions, Consequences, and Contradictions in Southern Communities - Harwood D Schaffer, Pracha Koonnathamdee
Beyond the Cash Register: An Examination of the Full Social and Economic Costs of Industrialized Pork Production - Steven J. Seiler
Doing Accounts: Toward a Synthetic Model for Accounting Processes - Steven J. Seiler
The Postself and the Dynamics of Posthumous Impression Management - W. Ryan Wishart, Robert E. Jones
Extraction, Exploitation, and the Logic of Energy Commodities in Appalachia - Julie B. Wiest
Serial Society: Serial Murder in American Culture
American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2007, Atlanta
- Regina Benedict, Hoan N. Bui, Sarah Whiteford
Female Adolescent Sexual Activity: A Network Analysis of the Influence of Males in Female Friendship Networks - Hoan N. Bui
A Feminist Criminology of Men - Hoan N. Bui
Race, Immigration Adaptation, and Delinquency - Hoan N. Bui
Community Characteristics, Immigration Status, and Delinquency - Hoan N. Bui
Gender Issues in Examining the Causes and Correlates of Offending - Hoan N. Bui
Immigration, Neighborhood Contexts, and Crime - Lois Presser
A Feminist Criminology of Men - Sarah Whiteford
Delinquent Peers: Exploring the Operation of Homophily through Social Network Analysis - Sarah Whiteford
Causes and Correlates of Delinquency: Families, Peers and Communities - Sarah Whiteford
Girls and Delinquency: Understanding High-Risk Behaviors and Youth Court Processing
Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting 2007, New York
- Paul Gellert
Re-Peripheralization of the Indonesian Political Economy: From Resource-Based Industrialization back to Resource Exports - Katherine Morris
From Scuffletown to the Sunsphere: Downtown Knoxville Development and the Urban Growth Machine - Lois Presser
The Narratives of Offenders - Jon Shefner
From Angry Wave to Pink Tide: Austerity, Protest, and Electoral Change in Latin America - Julie B. Wiest
Modern-Day Medea: The Social Identity of Women Who Kill Their Children
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2006, Montreal
- Sherry Cable
The Story of CHE: Environmental Challenges in the Atomic City
- John Lawrence Gulick
Sino-Russian Geo-Economical Integration: The Feasible Alternative to Chinese Hegemony on a Shrinking Planet? - Thomas C. Hood
Chair: Christian Sociology - Eleanor T. Lewis
Variations in Vigilance: Focusing Physician Attention on Medical Mishaps - Michal Tamuz
Variations in Vigilance: Focusing Physician Attention on Medical Mishaps
American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2006, Los Angeles
- Gina Benedict, Hoan N. Bui
Female Inmates and Barriers to Re-entry - Gina Benedict, Hoan N. Bui
Mothering after Prison Release: Interpersonal Barriers to Family Reunification - Hoan N. Bui
Human Capital, Social Capital, and Abused Women’s Choice of Helping Services - Anne A. Carroll
Injecting an Advantage: Motivations for Steroid Use & The Implications for Masculinity Patterns of Substance Abuse - Rahim Manji
Cost-Benefit Analysis, the Death Penalty, and Rationales for Punishment - Lois Presser, Casey Elizabeth Cordy
Mothering after Prison Release: Interpersonal Barriers to Family Reunification - Lois Presser
Difference and Powerlessness: A Narrative Theory of Harmful Action - Lois Presser
Narrative Approaches to Understanding Violence and Crime? - Sarah Whiteford
Mechanisms for the Effects of Involvement on Delinquency
Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting 2006 Montreal
- R. Scott Frey
Infant Mortality in the World-System: The Cross-National Evidence - Suzanne Kurth, Julie Wiest, Hoan Bui and Sarah Whiteford
Injustice in the Workplace: The Persistence of Sexual Harassment