PRI Faculty and Students Present Research at ASA 2006
Several PRI faculty and graduate students will present their research at the American Sociological Association's 101st Annual Meeting, to be held August 11-14, 2006 at the Palais de congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. The following list includes papers and posters by PRI faculty and students from the preliminary program.
For more information about the meeting, see http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?section=Meetings&name=2006+Convention+Home.
Friday, August 11
Table 07. Interracial Relationships and Identities
8:30 am-10:10 am
Shifting Boundaries: Trends in Racial and Ethnic Homogamy Within Cohabitation and Marriage
- Mary Elizabeth Campbell (University of Iowa)
- Molly A. Martin (Penn State)
Regular Session. Homelessness
10:30 am-12:10 pm
Homelessness and Hunger
- Barrett Lee (Penn State)
- Meredith Jill Greif (Penn State)
Table 10. Participative Movement
10:30 am-11:30 am
The Differential Participation of Leaders in a Nurturing Social Movement
- Cassandra Dorius (Penn State)
- John D. McCarthy (Penn State)
Section on Sociology of Religion Paper Session. Religious Organizations and Religious Economies
2:30 pm-4:10 pm
Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies: Explaining Cross-National Religious Persecution
- Brian J. Grim (Penn State)
- Roger Finke (Penn State)
Maximizing Organizational Resources: Selection Versus Production
- Christopher P. Scheitle (Penn State)
- Roger Finke (Penn State)
Table 15. Families and Social Class
4:30 pm-5:30 pm
Marriage, Work and Transitions from TANF
- Deborah R. Graefe (Penn State)
- Shelley K Irving (Penn State)
- Gordon F. De Jong (Penn State)
Saturday, August 12
Regular Session. Quantitative Methodology
8:30 am-10:10 am
Reliability Estimation for Survey Measures of Categoric Latent Variables
- Duane Francis Alwin (Penn State)
- Ryan Jay McCammon (University of Michigan)
- Jacob L. Felson (Penn State)
Regular Session. Cognitive Sociology
12:30 pm-2:10 pm
Cognition, Culture, and Institutions: Affinities within the Social Construction of Reality
- David P. Baker (Penn State)
- Steven Thorne (Penn State)
- Clancy Blair (Penn State)
- David Gamson (Penn State)
Table 20. Racial Inequalities
12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Who is Placed into Special Education?
- Jacob Hibel (Penn State)
- Paul Morgan (School of Education, Penn State)
- George Farkas (Penn State)
Regular Session. Life Course
2:30 pm-4:10 pm
Beliefs About Women's Labor in the Reunified Germany, 1991 to 2004
- Duane Francis Alwin (Penn State)
- Kristen Schultz Lee (Penn State)
- Paula Andreea Tufis (Penn State)
Sunday, August 13
Informational Poster Session. Research Funding Opportunities and Data Resources (part of the Annual Research Support Forum)
9:00 am-12:00 pm
American of Religion Data Archive, Department of Sociology, Penn State
- Roger Finke (Penn State)
- Christopher P. Scheitle (Penn State)
- Jamie M Harris (Penn State)
Section on Aging and the Life Course Paper Session. Institutions in the Life Course: Career Spaces, Transitions and Agencies of Regulation
10:30 am-12:10 pm
Tracing the Timing of Career Acquisition in a Contemporary Youth Cohort
- Jeylan T. Mortimer (University of Minnesota)
- Michael C. Vuolo (University of Minnesota)
- Jeremy Staff (Penn State)
- Sara Wakefield (University of Minnesota)
- Wanling Xie (University of Minnesota)
Table 08. Children and Health
10:30 am-11:30 am
Household Environmental Factors and Child Health Outcomes in Urban Informal Settlement Author:
- Tom O. Owuor (Penn State)
Table 10. Interpersonal Relationships and Youth
10:30 am-11:30 am
Friendship Network Structure and Quality and Adolescent Sexual Relationships
- Elisa A. Rustenbach (The Pennsyvania State University)
- Alan Booth (Penn State)
Table 11. Transitions in Becoming Adults
10:30 am-11:30 am
The Prospect of Change: Adolescent Male Perspectives on Marital Gender Relations in Ghana
- Ashley Elizabeth Frost (Penn State)
- Francis Nii-Amoo Dodoo (Penn State)
Table 01. Crime in Comparative Perspective
12:30 pm-2:10 pm
The Age-Homicide Relationship Across Time: A Study of Taiwan
- Hua Zhong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Darrell Steffensmeier (Penn State)
Regular Session. Fertility and Reproduction
2:30 pm-4:10 pm
The Transition to Early Fatherhood: National Estimates Based on Multiple Surveys
- Kathryn Hynes (Penn State)
- Felicia Tien-Ann Yang (Cornell University)
- Kara Joyner (Cornell University)
- H. Elizabeth Peters (Cornell University)
Table 08. Social Relationships and Social Support
2:30 pm-4:10 pm
It Takes Two: Couple Expectations and Father Caregiving in Cohabiting and Married Families Author:
- Bryndl E. Hohmann-Marriott (Penn State)
Spousal Support and Food-Related Behavior Change in Middle-Aged and Older Adults Living with Type 2 Diabetes
- Linda A. Wray (Penn State)
- Elizabeth Ann Beverly (Penn State)
- Carla K Miller (Penn State)
Monday, August 14
Table 08. Gendered Organizations
2:30pm - 4:10pm
At the time, I thought it was great: The Importance of Age in Labeling Sexual Harassment
- Amy M. Blackstone (University of Maine)
- Jason Houle (Penn State)
Section on Sociology of Population Paper Session. Sexual Behavior, Family Planning, and Fertility: New Findings from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth
4:30 pm-6:10 pm
Welfare Reform and the Partners of Unwed Mothers
- Deborah R. Graefe (Penn State)
- Daniel T. Lichter (Cornell University)
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