Session Allocation
The number of sessions allocated to a Section at the Annual Meeting is determined by its membership count as of September 1. Sections meeting on the final day of the Annual Meeting (Tuesday) are granted one additional session. Additionally, Sections are allotted an extra session for a business meeting.
| Number of Members in a Section | Number of Sessions Earned |
| Less than 300 | 1 |
| 300-399 | 2 |
| 400-599 | 3 |
| 600-799 | 4 |
| 800-999 | 5 |
| 1000+ | 6 |
*View notice about 2026 session allocation changes.
2025 Section Days
The 2025 Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago on August 8-12, 2025. Section programming starts on Saturday, August 9, 2025.
Day 1 – Saturday, August 9
Biology and Society
Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology
International Migration
Labor and Labor Movements
Medical Sociology
Race, Gender, and Class
Sociology of Body and Embodiment
Sociology of Culture
Sociology of Development
Sociology of Education
Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations
Day 2 – Sunday, August 10
Aging and the Life Course
Children and Youth
Crime, Law, and Deviance
Global and Transnational Sociology
Inequality, Poverty and Mobility
Methodology
Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Social Psychology
Sociology of Consumers and Consumption
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Theory
Day 3 – Monday, August 11
Animals and Society
Community and Urban Sociology
Economic Sociology
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
History of Sociology and Social Thought
Latina/o Sociology
Mathematical Sociology
Political Economy of the World System
Political Sociology
Sociology of Emotions
Sociology of Human Rights
Sociology of Law
Sociology of Mental Health
Sociology of Population
Sociology of Sex and Gender
Day 4 – Tuesday, August 12
Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
Asia and Asian America
Comparative-Historical Sociology
Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society
Disability in Society
Drugs and Society
Environmental Sociology
Family
Marxist Sociology
Organizations, Occupations, and Work
Peace, War, and Social Conflict
Science, Knowledge, and Technology
Sociological Practice and Public Sociology
Sociology of Religion
Sociology of Sexualities
