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Conference Program
October 24th and 25th 2014
Lives of Labor: Work and Labor in the Twenty-first Century
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221 South Quarterline
Muskegon, MI 49442
Friday October 24th
Registration/Check-in
Overbrook Theatre Lobby,
5:30-6:45south side of campus
Reception, Music, Hors d’oeuvres
6:00-6:50
Overbrook Theatre Lobby
Play: Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn
Overbrook Theatre
7:00-8:30
Panel discussion with actor Bob Weick, sociologists Michael
Burawoy, Elena Gapova, Bonnie Wright and Nicholas Budimir.
Facilitated by Larry T. Reynolds (CMU).
Saturday October 25th
RegistrationStevenson Center Lobby,
off north parking lot.
8:00-12:00
Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:00
Stevenson Center Lobby
Exhibit: 1100 Stevenson Center Lecture Hall
8:00am-4:00pm
Muskegon Community College Labor Movement Wall
Generously Donated by Muskegon’s Labor Movement
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Concurrent Sessions I - Stevenson Center Classrooms
9:00am-10:30am
A) Science, Technology, and Society
Chair: Weston M. Eaton, Michigan State University
Room 1222
Ryan Gunderson and Diana Stuart, Michigan State University and Brian Petersen, Western Michigan University
A Critical Examination of Geoengineering: From How to Why
Xueshi Li, Michigan State University
Making Sense of High-Tech Organic Agriculture in China: A Content Analysis
Weston M. Eaton, Michigan State University
Naturalized and Contested Bioenergy: Constructing the Problematics and Nonproblematics of
Renewable Energy Development
B) Student Paper Session I: Race, community, identity
Room 1218
Chair: Michael Macaluso, Grand Valley State University,
Derek Roberts and Ari Goodman, Oakland University
Assessing Perceptions of Detroit Across Race, Class, and Space
Irma Ramirez, Grand Valley State University
Underrepresented Identities and Fields of Studies within Study Abroad: A Case Study
Ian Pearson, Grand Valley State University
Mental Illness and Literacy in Immigrants
Landon Hughes, Grand Valley State University
Community Engagement within the University: A Reflection on a Qualitative Research
Partnership in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
C) Institutions, Education, and Interaction
Chair: Dawn Hinton, Saginaw Valley State University
Room 1224
Brian Fry, Indiana Wesleyan University
Problem-based Learning: Challenges and Opportunities for Doing Sociology with Empathy
David Luke, University of Kentucky
Increasing Inclusion: Studying the Pursuit of Racial Diversity
Amanda Levitt, Wayne State University
Zachary Brewster, Wayne State University
At the Intersection of Food and Fat: Exploring the Link Between Obesity and Customers’
Experiences in Full-service Restaurants
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D) Deviance and Criminal Justice
Chair: Elisha Marr, Calvin College
Room 1204
Barry Goetz, Western Michigan University
On the Frontlines of the Welfare State: How the Fire Service and Police Shape Social Problems
Ronald Kramer, Western Michigan University
Conceptualizing Climate Change as Crime
Nicole Kremers, Calvin College
Premeditated Murder: A Study on Homicide and Suicide in the United States
Caroline McFadden, The George Washington University
Incarcerated Women: Victimhood, Empowerment, and Resistance in Prison
Coffee Break – Stevenson Center Lobby
10:30-10:45
Concurrent Sessions II – Stevenson Center Classrooms
10:45-12:15
A) International DevelopmentRoom 1224
Chair: Joseph Verscheve, Grand Valley State University
Morgan Olson, Grand Valley State University
Western Conceptions of Psychopathology as Neocolonialism in West Africa: Toward An Understanding Global Mental Health
Abdullah F. Alrebh, Michigan State University
The Public Presentation of Authority in Saudi Arabia During the 20th Century:
A Discursive Analysis of The London Times and The New York Times
Erin Craft-Otterbacher, Grand Valley State University
International Sustainability Health Education and Water:
Locally Sourced & Community Based Equitable Development in Ghana.
B) Marginalized Discourses and Social Justice
Chair: Kalvin DaRonne Harvell, Henry Ford College
Room 1204
Shannon Brennamen, Michigan State University
An Institutional Problem: Race and Health Disparities
Granton Brooks, Independent Afrocentric Scholar
The Whitewashing of Labor: Fired before Hired!
William A. Carrington, Wayne State University
Labor and Ex-Offenders: Marginalized from the Work Place
Ashley N. Edwards, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Engagement in VISUAL Sociology! Obligated to Look: Confronting Historical Images of Race.
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C) Insights Into the Publication Process – Perspectives From The MSR
Panelists: Editors of the Michigan Sociological Review
Lisa Hickman, Grand Valley State University
Rachel Campbell, Grand Valley State University
Room 1222
D) Gender: Social Change Agents and Social Policy Agendas
Chair: Karen Lang Krause, Saginaw Valley State University
Room 1218
Barbara Richardson, Professor Emeritus, Eastern Michigan University.
Lobbying for Labor: The Legacy of Francis Perkins
Elena Gapova, Western Michigan University
Becoming Visible in the Digital Age: The Class and Media Dimensions of the Pussy Riot Affair 1
Rosina Hassoun, Saginaw Valley State University
Arab American Women and the Power of the Purse
Luncheon, Awards Ceremony, and
Keynote Address
12:30-2:15
Collegiate Hall-Follow the signs!
Keynote Speaker: Michael Burawoy, University of California-Berkeley.
Forty Years of Labor
Forty years after doing the ethnographic research for his groundbreaking study of the capitalist labor
process and worker consciousness, Manufacturing Consent, Michael Burawoy reflects upon and
synthesizes changes in capitalist labor and the field which studies it.
Concurrent Sessions III -- Stevenson Center Classrooms
2:30-4:00
A) Labor Panel: Workers, Professors and Students: Coalitions or Collisions?Room 1200
Chair: Nicholas Budimir, Muskegon Community College
Participants:
• Michael Burawoy, University of California-Berkeley, Professor
• Stan Burnell, Michigan Education Association, Negotiator
• Jim Chase, Teamsters Local 406, Business Agent, Organizer
• Michael Jackson, Muskegon Community College, Student
• Louise Jezierski, Michigan State University, Professor
• Carman Pierce, Muskegon Community College, Student
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B) Student Paper Session II: Family, Education, and the Life Course Room 1222
Chair: Rachel Campbell, Grand Valley State University
Florence J. Alexander, Saginaw Valley State University
The Standardization of Education:
College Student’s Attitudes regarding Socioeconomic Status in relation to ACT Scores
Brooke J. Tiefenbach, Lake Superior State University
An Assessment of the Effects of Poverty on Risk Perceptions and Risk Behaviors in Adolescents
Zachary Henderson Western Michigan University Lee Honors College
From Foster Care to becoming a Family Member:
The transition from being in foster care to becoming adopted
C) Roundtable on Race, Class, and Gender: The Case of Ferguson
Chair: Dawn Hinton, Saginaw Valley State University
Participants:
• Kim Lacey, Saginaw Valley State University
• Beth Jorgensen, Saginaw Valley State University
• Tierra Tivis, Oakland University
• Laura MacIntyre, University of Michigan - Flint
Room 1224
D) Teaching Introduction to Sociology: What’s Your Take-Away?
Room 1218
Co-Chairs:Chuck Bowden, Mid Michigan Community College
Jessica Chamberlin, Mid Michigan Community College
Alan Hill, Delta College
This session is a roundtable discussion of what students who only have one sociology class should
take away from the introductory course. All are welcome to do brief presentations or just join the
conversation.
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Business Meeting
All Registered Attendees are Members and Welcome
Coffee and non-Sweet refreshment
4:15-6:00
Room 1200
Post-Conference Dinner
(not included in Conference fee)
The Lake House
730 TERRACE POINT BLVD.
MUSKEGON, MI 49440
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