Return-Path: sendmail 8.6.4/UCSD-2.2-sun Thu, 2 Dec 1993 17:29:10 -0800 for socgrad-list Thu, 2 Dec 1993 17:29:06 -0800 for Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 19:41:03 EST From: Joya Misra Organization: Emory University - Atlanta, Georgia, USA Subject: SSSP MEETINGS To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU I've gotten enough personal messages asking about SSSP to decide to post to the list about these meetings. The SSSP, as I mentioned before, is the Society forthe Study of Social Problems. SSSP is great, people who really care about the things we as sociologists are trying to explain and understand, people who are involved and thoughtful and activists. Papers should be the appropriate length for a 15-20 minute presentation. They are due to the organizers by January 31, 1994. The meetings will be held August 4-6, at The Biltmore in Los Angeles. For general info about annual meeting registration and housing, write: SSSP, 906 McClung Tower, The University of Tennesssee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0490. The theme for this years meetings is "On Maps and Imaginations, Nature, Nurture, and Public Policy" At the end of this message is a description of what is meant by this theme...if you have something relevant you'dlike to submit, submit it to: Paula Dressel & Wendy Simonds c/o Wendy Simonds Women's Studies Program 210 Physics Building Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 We'll also be doing little informal get-togethers on the interplay between the personal and political. To quote "In ways more and less dramatic, in how we teach, how we parent, how we vote, how we retire, we express underlying convictions about the nature of social and personal life. Whether we are talking about aging or adoption, our sexuality or our scholarship, these meetins will allow that personal voice to be heard, the sociological imagination as it informs our daily lives." Send any suggestions for these informal sessions to me. There are lots of regularsessions as well. Rather than typing all the addresses of organizers in here (I'm tired already...and I'm very very busy right now), I'l just hit the sections, and you guys feel free to message me for specific addresses. Community Research and Development -Urban Violence -Public Worries or Private Problems: What is the Nature of Social Problem -Multi-Ethnic Communities: The Definitions and Effects on Urban Policy -Rebuilding the Community in Los Angeles: Who, What,How -Urban Land Use and Environmental Issues Crime and Juvenile Delinquency -general call Drinking and Drugs -Intergenerational Patterns of Drugs, Alcohol, and Violence -general call Educational Problems -Education and Social Change -general call Environment and Technology -Environmenal Crime and Environmental Justice -general call Family -The Changing Map of Family Life: Social and Biological Sources -Legislation and Family Preservation:Adoption, Custody, and Communities -Family Violnce and Public Policy Mental Health Policy andHealth Services -Genetics, Illness, and Disability: A Social Scientific View -General call -Health Care and Poverty: Initiatives for Change -Health Issues inthe Workplace Conflict, SOcial Action, and Change -General Call Labor Studies -The Braverman Legacy: Twenty Years of _Labor and Monopoly Capital_ -General Call -Labor Migration and Immigration Law and Society -General call Poverty, Class and Inequality -Issues of Poverty, Class, and Inequality: Student Paper Competition -Effects of Issues of Poverty, Class, and Inequality on Biological Determinism Debate -Challenges to the "Underclass" Notion of the Etiology and Development of Poverty Psychiatric Sociology -General call Racial and Ethnic Minorities -General call -Race, Class, and Gender: A Feminist Perspective -Violence and Gangs -Immigrants Sexual Behavior -General call Social Problems Theory -Science, Technology, and Medicine -Human Rights, Morality, and a Critique of SOcial Problems Theory -Is There a Future for Critical Theory? -Other topics Sociology and SocialWelfare -The Sociological Imagination and Social Welfare:Problems of the 90s -The Crises of Everyday Life: Inequality and SOcial Welfare -Roundtable Youth, Aging, and the Life Course -Health Care Reform in a Comparative Perspective: Problems for the Young and Elderly -Caregiving Across Generations -Issues of Retirement by Gender, Race, and Class -Minority Youth and the Criminal Justic System -Social Problems of Youth, Aging, and the Life Course -Problems of Older Womenin the Social Sciences And the main theme of the conference this year is, to quote from the flyer... "A new genetic and biological determinism permeats American culture...embraced and rejected at various times by both left and right...While the discussion rages on the sports pages and in the academic journals, the current fascoination with "nature" in the ongoing nature/nurture debate is accompanied by the full regalia of scientific discourse...As social scientists, sociologists, socialtheorists, thinkers, and philosophers, most of us have not thought that the causes of resolutions or social problems lie in our hormones or out genomes. We come from a different tradition and we seeka different map...So think critically about theways that the new genetics and the new biological determinism are coming to shape public discourse on social problems, and help use the sociological imagination to map our own course." That's all folks.... Joya Misra SOCAK663@EMUVM1.BITNET OR SOCAK663@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU ********************************************************************* Dept. of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322