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Website for the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association

2009 Theory Mini-Conference & Annual Meeting Events

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The Theory Section organizes a Mini-Conference every year at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Since 2005, the Section has also organized a Junior Theorists Symposium. And since 2006, we have held a lecture and salon for the Coser Award winner.

Section events at and near the 2009 ASA Annual Meetings include the following. (A schedule follows, below.)

A joint reception will be held with the Section on Culture. Please join us!
This year's Theory Mini-Conference will be held Sunday August 8 and Sunday August 9 at the Hilton San Francisco.
The Section Business Meeting will be held Saturday, August 8, 11:30am-12:10pm, at the Hilton San Francisco.
The Coser Lecture and Salon will be held Saturday, August 8, 2:30pm-4:10pm, at the Hilton San Francisco.
The 2009 Junior Theorists Symposium will be announced soon.
And, don't forget the Theory Roundtables!
And there is more theory at the ASA as well.

Mini-Conferences:x2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 |

Lewis Coser Award Lecture and Salon: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |

Junior Theorists Symposium:x2009 | 2008 | 2005 |

"Thus there are ways of acting, thinking and feeling which possess the remarkable property of existing outside the consciousness of the individual. Not only are these types of behaviour and thinking external to the individual, but they are endued with a compelling and coercive power by virtue of which, whether he wishes it or not, they impose themselves upon him. Undoubtedly when I conform to them of my own free will, this coercion is not felt or felt hardly at all, since it is unnecessary... If I attempt to violate the rules of law they react against me so as to forestall my action, if there is still time."

-Emile Durkheim.

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XXX2009 Meetings Schedule

All events at Hilton San Francisco, except where noted.

Saturday, August 8
- 8:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.: Open Submission Session
- 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Roundtables
- 11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.: Section Business Meeting
- 2:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.: Coser Lecture and Salon
- 4:30 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.: Issues in Micro Theory
- 6:30 p.m. - 8:10 p.m.: Joint Reception (Park 55 Hotel)
Sunday, August 9
- 8:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.: Issues in Macro Theory
- 10:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.: Issues in the Interface of Micro and Macro Theory

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XXX2009 Theory Mini-Conference

Issues in Micro Theory - Saturday, August 8, 4:30pm-6:10pm, Hilton San Francisco

Session organizer and presider: Peter J. Burke, UC Riverside
Accidental Explanation: On the Signal Importance of Noise - Michael Macy, Cornell University
Language Use and Interaction in the Context of Ethnomethodology and Pragmatism - Douglas Maynard, University of Wisconsin
Expanding the Domain of Expectation Research Programs - Robert Shelly, Ohio University
Identity Theory in Sociology - Jan Stets, National Science Foundation and UC Riverside

Issues in Macro Theory - Sunday, August 9, 8:30am-10:10am, Hilton San Francisco

Session organizer and presider: Anne Kane, University of Houston
Building Macro-Theory from Comparative Cases: Balancing the Singular and the General - Jack Goldstone, George Mason University
When Does Reasonable Persistence Become Falsification Denial? - Patrick Nolan, University of South Carolina
Macrosociology in the Global Age - George Ritzer, University of Maryland
Globalization and Macrosociologies - William Robinson, UC Santa Barbara

Issues in the Interface of Micro and Macro Theory - Sunday, August 9, 10:30am-12:10pm, Hilton San Francisco

Session organizer and presider: Peter J. Burke, UC Riverside
At the Crossroads of Microsociology and Macrosociology: Toward a Theoretical Unificiation - Guillermina Jasso, New York University
Causal Relations between Micro and Macro - R. Keith Sawyer, Washington University
A General Theoretical Scheme for Linking Levels of Social Reality - Jonathan Turner, UC Riverside
Social Exchange and the Micro-Macro Interface - Linda Molm, University of Arizona

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XXXTheory Section Open Roundtables

The Theory Section's open roundtables will be held Saturday, August 8, 10:30am-11:30am, at the Hilton San Francisco:

Table 1: Community and Social Relationships
         Charles A. Plante, McGill University
         Jeff Livesay, Colorado College
         Tad P. Skotnicki, UC San Diego

Table 2: Contemporary Theoretical Issues I
         Sean O’Riain, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
         Russell James Funk, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
         Youn Ok Lee, Clinton Key, Kimberly R. Manturuk and Sondra J.
         Smolek, UNC Chapel Hill
         Hilary Anne Davidson, University of Notre Dame

Table 3: Contemporary Theoretical Issues II
         Margareta Bertilsson, University of Copenhagen
         Daniel Silver, University of Chicago
         Mucahit Bilici, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Table 4: Issues in Classical Theory
         Vincent Jeffries, California State University Northridge
         Paul Stanley Kasun, University of Texas Austin
         Leon H. Warshay, Wayne State University
         Ryu Sung Hee, Korea University

Table 5: Issues in Environmental Sociology
Christopher S. Oliver, Michigan State University
Andrew V. Bedrous, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Table 6: Issues in Post-Modern, Post-Industrial, and Post-Structural Theory
         Calixto Melero, Texas A&M University
         Nathan Michael Jurgenson, Universeity of Maryland College Park
         Gordon C. Chang and Josh D. Shapiro, UC San Diego

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XXXOther Theory Section Activities at the Annual Meeting

The Theory Section Business Meeting will be held on Saturday, August 8, 11:30am-12:10pm, at the Hilton San Francisco. This meeting includes the Theory Section prize announcements, financial report, committee elections, and other section business. All section members are invited and encouraged to attend.

A joint reception will be held with the Section on Sociology of Culture Joint Reception Saturday, August 8, 6:30pm-8:10pm, at the Parc 55 Hotel.

The second Lewis A. Coser Lecture and Salon will be hosted on Saturday, August 8, 2:30pm-4:10pm, at the Hilton San Francisco. This session honors the recipient of the 2008 Lewis A. Coser Memorial
Award, Loïc Wacquant, who will give the memorial lecture, titled "The Body, the Ghetto, and the Penal State". Additionally, the 2009 award will be presented to Mustafa Emirbayer, who will give the lecture in 2010. Professor Wacquant's lecture will be followed by a salon and reception with wine and food.

The Junior Theorists Symposium was last held at Harvard University, July 31, 2008, 8:30am-4:15pm, organized by Isaac Reed (University of Colorado) and Erika Summers-Effler (University of Notre Dame). Details on the 2009 Junior Theorists Symposium will be posted as soon as they are available.

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XXXOther Theory at the 2009 ASA Meetings

Open Submission Session: Linking Micro and Macro Approaches to Meaning
Saturday, August 8, 8:30am-10:10am, Hilton San Francisco

Session organizer and presider: Anne Kane, University of Houston Session
Micro, Macro and the Varying Things in between: The Field of Humanitarian Relief - Monika Krause, University of Trent
Moving on from the Objectivity Obsession: Toward a New Theory of Media, Opinion Formation, and Deliberative Politics - Ron Jacobs, SUNY Albany and Eleanor Townsley, Mount Holyoke College
Switchings under Uncertainty: The Coming and Becoming of Meanings - Harrison White, Columbia University
Discussant: Isaac A. Reed, University of Colorado Boulder

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