Session I: Classical Theory
Monday, 8/18/2003 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

Organizer(s):
Ira J. Cohen - Rutgers University
Linda D. Molm - University of Arizona

Participant(s):
Ira J. Cohen - Rutgers University (Presider)
Margaret R. Somers - University of Michigan (Panelist)
Charles Tilly - Columbia University (Panelist)
Bryan S. Turner - Cambridge University (Panelist)
Eviatar Zerubavel - Rutgers University (Panelist)
Charles Lemert - Wesleyan University (Discussant)
Cecilia L. Ridgeway - Stanford University (Discussant)

Session II: Formal Theory
Monday, 8/18/2003 from 2:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.

Organizer(s):
Cecilia L. Ridgeway - Stanford University
Linda D. Molm - University of Arizona

Participant(s):
Cecilia L. Ridgeway - Stanford University (Presider)
Lynn Smith-Lovin - University of Arizona (Panelist)
Michael Hechter - University of Washington (Panelist)
Michael Macy - Cornell University (Panelist)
Joseph Berger - Stanford University (Panelist)
Dorothy Smith - University of Toronto (Discussant)
Ira J. Cohen - Rutgers University (Discussant)

Session III: Critical Theory
Monday, 8/18/2003 from 4:30 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.

Organizer(s):
Charles Lemert - Wesleyan University
Dorothy Smith - University of Toronto

Participant(s):
Charles Lemert - Wesleyan University (Presider, Panelist)
Audrey M Sprenger - University of Denver (Panelist)
Shana Cohen - George Washington University (Panelist)
Douglas S. Aoki - University of Alberta (Panelist)
Jonathan Cutler - Wesleyan University (Panelist)
Sharon Rosenberg - University of Alberta (Panelist)
Ira J. Cohen - Rutgers University (Discussant)
Cecilia L. Ridgeway - Stanford University (Discussant)

Session IV: Recent Advances in Theory
Tuesday, 8/19/2003 from 8:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.

Organizer(s):
Jane Sell - Texas A&M University

Participant(s):
Jane Sell - Texas A&M University (Presider)

Blane DaSilva - University of South Carolina (Presenter)
David Willer - University of South Carolina (Presenter)
Title: Compound Exchange Networks: Theory and Experimental Data for Exclusive and Null Connected Subnetworks

Carl W. Roberts - Iowa State University (Presenter)
Title: Reading Personhood

Yong Wang - Iowa State University (Presenter)
Title: Reading Personhood

Anne W Esacove - University of Michigan (Presenter)
Title: Mediating, Sense-Making and Linking: A Description of the Process and Mechanisms of Personal Narrative Creation

Aaron M Beim - Northwestern University (Presenter)
Title: Toward an Interactive Theory of Collective Memory: Culture, Cognition, and the Institutionalization of Memory Schema

Jane Sell - Texas A&M University (Discussant)

Monday, 8/18/2003 from 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.

Organizer(s):
Noah P. Mark - Stanford University

Table 1:

Blane DaSilva - University of South Carolina (Presenter)
Title: Compound Exchange Networks: Theory and Experimental Data for Exclusive and Null Connected Subnetworks

Joseph H. Gerteis - University of Minnesota (Presenter)
Title: Remapping Multiculturalism: Visions of Incorporation, Diversity, Solidarity

Table 2:

Minjoo Oh - University of Mississippi (Presenter)
Title: Heterotopic Embodiment: Uncontainable Boundaries of the Body

Carnie E Friese - University of California, San Francisco (Presenter)
Title: Sorted Sperm or Sexed Embryos? A Social Worlds/Arena Analysis of Preconception Sex Selection

Table 3:

Berit Irene Vannebo - Northwestern University (Presenter)
Title: Modernity as Value Rationalization

JuLeigh Coleman Petty - Northwestern University (Presenter)
Title: Universalizing Technologies in modernity

Table 4:

Benjamin Gregg - University of Texas-Austin (Presenter)
Title: Decoupling State from Nation Through Structure and Agency

Dylan John Riley - University of California, Davis (Presenter)
Title: Political Society and the 'Party Form' : The Missing Link in Historical Sociology

Table 5:

Kazem Alamdari - California State University, Los Angeles (Presenter)
Title: Religion and Development Revisited:Comparing Islam and Christianity

Margarita M. Palacios - New School University (Presenter)
Title: On Sacredness and Transgression: Understanding Social Antagonism

Table 6:

Lonnie Athens - Seton Hall University (Presenter)
Title: Domination: The Missing Principle in Mead's Analysis of Society

Russell Lee Rockwell - no current affiliation (Presenter)
Title: The Social Relevance of Hegel's Absolute Idea: Herbert Marcuse's Two Hegel Books

Table 7:

Helmut Staubmann - University of Innsbruck (Presenter)
Title: Culture as a Subsystem of Action: Talcott Parsons and Cultural Sociology

Gabriel A Acevedo - Yale University (Presenter)
Title: On Durkheim's Fatalism: The "Hidden" Link Between Anomie & Alienation 

Table 8:

Denise Anthony - Dartmouth College (Presenter)
Title: Social Capital in the Creation of Financial Capital: Social Control in Microcredit Borrowing Groups

Nan Lin - Duke University (Presenter)
Title: Social Capital: Social Resources, Civic Engagement, or Trust?