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Home : Meetings : Meeting Archives : 2007 Annual Meeting : 2007 Annual Meeting | Thematic Sessions
   
 

2007 Annual Meeting | Thematic Sessions

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Thematic Sessions

Thematic Sessions provide abundant opportunities to think in-depth about this year’s meeting theme, “Is Another World Possible? Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Politics.” Over forty sessions delve into important social and political issues, explore international and interdisciplinary viewpoints, and speculate on different visions of future possibilities.

Thematic Sessions Listing [Details]
 
  Closing the Low Road: Strategies for Economic Justice in the Wal-
    Mart Era

Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable: Service and
    Advocacy at the Grassroots (co-sponsored by
    the Association for the Sociology of Religion)
Community Organizing

Comparative and Historical Perspective on the Politics of
    Incarceration
Corporations, Markets, and Progress: A Contexts Forum
Debating Church and State: Religious-Political Groups Advocating
    Different Version of a
Developments in Latin America
Election 2008
The Emerging Chinese Capitalism and Its Sociological Challenges
Empire’s Law
Environmental Constraints on Development
Environmental Injustice in a Global Economy
Envisioning Another World: Globalization, Religion, and Grassroots
    Movements
Envisioning Real Utopias
Funding the “Left” and the “Right”
The Future of Cuba
The Future of Social Security
The Future of the Labor Movement
Genocide: Darfur and Other Deadly Cases
Globalization and Environmental Governance: Is Another World
    Possible?
Gone with the Wind: Equal Rights Mobilization in the 21st Century
Higher Education Disparities: Affirmative Action, Educational
    Diversity and Student Learning
Is a Caring Society Possible: Sociological Perspectives on
    Carework
The Media and Corporate Fraud and Abuse
The New Politics of Race and Racialization
Politics of Immigration
The Politics of the Global Governance Institutions
Progressive Tradition in American Sociology: Once Hidden then Lost
    and Now Recuperated.
Race, Class, and Gender: Religion's Role in Existing Institutional
    Arrangements (co-sponsored with the Association for the
    Sociology of Religion)
The Religious Right and U.S. Politics
Reproductive Justice: Is Another World Possible?
Science, Democracy, and Environment: Contributions of Barry
    Commoner
Social Inequality and Social Mobility
Sociologists Doing Politics
Stat Wars: Debates over the Meanings of Social Data
Terrorism: Old and New
Theorizing Another World: Marx and Polanyi
Transformations of Global Governance: The Role of NGOs
The University as a Site for Political Action
War and Violence From the Ground Up
What Are the Implications of the Zapatista Experience for the
    Resurgent Left in Latin America (and beyond)?
Who Rules America? A Forty Year Retrospective
Please refer to the online Searchable Program for details on each Thematic Session.