This year, 52 faculty members and graduate students from Sociology at the University of Toronto are participating in the Annual Meeting of the American Sociology Association (ASA). In addition to the people presenting papers, some members are also participating as session organizers, discussants, or journal editorial panelists. This year, the meeting will take place online. The meetings will happen between August 8th and August 11th. Here is a list of the names of academic papers, and/or sections that will be presented below by the day of presentations. Student and recent graduate presenters are shown in italics. Please refer to the ASA Program for complete information.
Saturday, August 8th
Jennifer Peruniak, How Transracial Adoptees See and Negotiate Race
Cynthia J. Cranford and Patricia Roach (with Jennifer Nazareno of Brown University), Organizing Unlikely Subjects: The Constraints and Possibilities for Domestic Worker Organizing in California
David Nicholas Pettinicchio and Jordan Foster, ‘This is Real Beauty’: Defining the Boundaries of Aesthetic Citizenship
Mircea Gherghina, Start-Ups, Social Embeddedness, and Investment Networks
Catherine Tze Hsuan Yeh and Alicia Eads, The Language of Inequality: Inequality in Sociology and Economics, 1886-2015
Andrew Miles and Catherine Tze Hsuan Yeh, Social Locations, Contexts, and Value Development: Testing Whether Demographic Predictors of Personal Values Vary Cross-Nationally
Blair Wheaton, The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and Implications for Mental Health in Mid-Adulthood
Cynthia J. Cranford, Organizing Domestic and Care Workers: A Conversation Across University and Community
Scott Schieman (with Alex E. Bierman of University of Calgary and Marisa Christine Young of McMaster University), The Roots of Loneliness in Disadvantage and Exploitation: Implications for Health of the Working Population
Jonathan Horowitz (with Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), One Event, Two Processes, and Migration in Young Adulthood
Hae Yeon Choo, A Global Urban Sociology of Evictions and Displacement
Sara Mizen (with Andy Walter Holmes of U of T, Anthropology), Ideas for Future Research Roundtable, Table 8: LGBT Families and Life Course
Yangsook Kim, Government Workers and Paid-Daughters: Immigrant Homecare Workers' Worker Subjectivities in Publicly Funded Care Work
Mitra Mokhtari, An “Extra Target on Your Back”: Somali-Canadian Youth & Barriers in Edmonton’s Public School Board
Sunday, August 9th
William Michelson, Daniel Silver, Fernando A. Calderón Figueroa, and Olimpia Bidian, The Dilemmas of Spatializing Social Issues
Daniel Silver and Fernando A. Calderón Figueroa, Cities and Big Data
Chris M. Smith, Urban Issues: Inequality, Institutions, and Place
Markus Schafer (with Laura Upenieks, University of Texas at San Antonio), Religious Attendance and Physical Health in Later Life: A Life Course Approach
Michelle Pannor Silver, Sociology of Aging
Catherine Tze Hsuan Yeh, Section on Political Sociology Refereed Roundtables
Ioana Sendroiu, 'Probably Tomorrow I'll Become a War Criminal': Autocratic Legalism as Transnational Regime Change
Ronit Dinovitzer, Section of Sociology of Law Business Meeting
Patricia Louie, Mapping Multiracial vs. Monoracial Heath Disparities
Elliot Fonarev, Using Legal Cases as Ethnographic Objects to Assess Gender Identity Making in Human Rights Law
Kim Pernell (with Jiwook Jung of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Rethinking Moral Hazard: Competing Drivers of Bank Risk-Taking, 1993-2015
Steve G. Hoffman, Other Realities: Using Simulation in Disaster and Emergency Management to Create and Recreate Worlds
Jooyoung Kim Lee, Microsociologies: Methods & Perspectives on Interaction
Irene Boeckmann, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019) by Caitlyn Colins
Ronit Dinovitzer and Andreea Mogosanu, Understanding the Motherhood Penalty Among Private Sector Lawyers: The Effects of Entrenched Masculinity
Ron Levi and Ioana Sendroiu, Partnership Patterns, Performances, and the Spread of Human Rights
Monday, August 10th
Chris M. Smith, Racializing Police Violence
Angelina Grigoryeva (with Nina Bandelj of University of California-Irvine), The Price of Parenting: Wealth, Race and Financial Activities for Children, 1998-2016
Jonathan Horowitz (with Jill Hamm and Kerrylin Lambert of UNC-Chapel Hill), The Price of Parenting: Wealth, Race and Financial Activities for Children, 1998-2016
Fedor A. Dokshin and Mircea Gherghina, Green in the Wallet: Political Identity, Financial Incentives, and the Diffusion of Residential Solar Photovoltaics
Joshua Harold, The Holocaust, Israel, and the Everyday Politics of Collective Memory Mobilization
David Nicholas Pettinicchio, Past, Present, and Future: 30 Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act
Kim de Laat, Valuations of Diversity: Exploring the Socio-Economic Role of Marquee Quotas in Creative Industries
Tuesday, August 11th
Kristin Plys, For a Rodneyan World Systems Analysis: Returning to the Dar es Salaam School
Kim de Laat, Barriers to Flexible Work Arrangements: New Evidence on the Role of Work Culture and Structure
Ali Greey, Preclusive Portals: The Spatial Stakes of "Determining Gender" in Binary-Gendered Restrooms and Locker Rooms
David Nicholas Pettinicchio (with Michelle Lee Maroto of University of Alberta), “Working in the Shadows of Society”: Disability Subminimum Wages and the Reproduction of Inequality
Ann L. Mullen, Beyond Classification, Decoding, and Meaning-Making: Contemporary Artists’ Perspectives on the Reception of Visual Art
Natalie Julia Adamyk, Governing Through Less Governance: Women’s Shelters and the Creation of the “Shelter-Citizen”
Carmen Lamothe, Reframing Public Health Problems: A Qualitative Examination of Public Health Apps in the United States
Michael Hammond, Section on Evolution, Biology, and Society Business Meeting
Kristin Plys, Political Economy of the World System Roundtables, Table 2: Core/Periphery Relations
Marion Blute, On Human Nature: New Approaches in the 21st Century
Sharla N. Alegria, Jobs, Occupations, and Professions
Franklynn Bartol, Sex/Gender in the Brain: Is Neuroplasticity the New Neurodeterminism?
Youngrong Lee, “It is Not Meant to Be Work”: How Do Workers Become Consumers in the Gig Economy?
Jordan Foster, “My Money and My Heart”: Buying a Birkin and Class Boundaries Online
Scott Schieman and Philip James Badawy, Control and the Health Effects of Work-Family Conflict: A Longitudinal Test of Generalized versus Specific Stress-Buffering
Michelle Pannor Silver, Section on Sociology of Consumers and Consumption Roundtables, Table 2: Body and Health
Merin Oleschuk, Expanding the Joys of Cooking: How Class Shapes the Emotional Work of Preparing Family Meals
David Nicholas Pettinicchio, Living on the Poverty Line: Low Wage Work, Precarity, and the New Economy
Noam Keren, A Radical State of Mind: When Radical Social-Movements and States Collide, The Case of 269Life
Angelina Grigoryeva, Theory Section Refereed Roundtables, Table 1: Theorizing Polity and Society-1, Table 2: Theorizing Polity and Society-2, Table 3: Theorizing Violence and Conflict, Table 4: Toward a Theory of Economic Action, Table 5: Theorizing Social Interaction and Self-Presentation, Table 6: Revisting Sociology of Classical Theory, Table 7: Theoretical Foundations of Social Justice and Inequality, Table 8: Novel Theoretical Approaches to Social Life
Christos Orfanidis, Theory Section Refereed Roundtables, Table 5: Theorizing Social Interaction and Self-Presentation
Tahseen Shams, International Migration Roundtables, Table 1: Critical Refugee Studies I, Table 2: Critical Refugee Studies II, Table 3: Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and Nationalism, Table 4: Educational Trajectories and Evolving Demographics, Table 5: Health, Wellness, and Migration, Table 6: Immigration Lawmaking and Political Activism, Table 7: Undocumented Immigration, Table 8: Refugee Resettlement and Community Formation, Table 9: Gendered Approaches to Migration I, Table 10: Gendered Approaches to Migration II, Table 11: Immigrant Workers and the Labor Market I, Table 12: Immigrant Workers and the Labor Market II, Table 13: Comparative Migration Studies, Table 14: Global Migration I, Table 15: Global Migration II