8:30 a.m. Session 20: Technology and Society. Organizer and Presider: Frederick H. Buttel.

12:30 p.m. Session 73: Social Aspects of Risk. Organizer and Presider: Elaine Alma Draper. Discussion: Mark Suchman.

12:30 p.m. Session 74: Rural Sociology: Case Studies of Contemporary Issues. Organizer and Discussant: Paul R. Eberts; Presider: William W. Falk.

8:30 a.m. Session 110. Social Research and Policy in the Circumpolar North: What Can Sociology Offer? Organizer and Presider: Carole L. Seyfrit. Panel: Carole L. Seyfrit, Fae Korsmo, Birger Poppel, and Cynthia M. Duncan.

8:30 a.m. Session 132. Refereed Roundtables on Community and Urban Sociology. Table 11: Spatial Attachment: Community and Conflict.

8:30 a.m. Session 136. Interactionist Approaches to Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Organizers: Adele E. Clarke and Monica J. Casper. Presider: Monica J. Casper. Discussion: Monica J. Casper and Isabelle Baszanger.

10:30 a.m. Session 140. Science Policy and Core Issues and Opportunities in the Social Sciences. Organizer and Presider: Felice J. Levine. Panel: William Butz, NSF; Ellen Stover, NIMH; and Judith D. Auerbach, Office of Science and Technology Policy.

10:30 a.m. Session 149. Computer Technology and Social Change. Organizer: David B. Bills. Discussion: Stephen Barley.

10:30 a.m. Session 152. Food and Agriculture. Organizer and Presider: Mara Miele. Discussion: Alessandro Bonanno.

10:30 a.m. Session 164. Material Culture. Organizer, Presider, and Discussant: Thomas F. Gieryn.

12:30 p.m. Session 192. Refereed Roundtables on Science, Knowledge, and Technology. Organizer: Steven Epstein. Followed by Business Meeting.

2:30 p.m. Session 219. Environmental Issues from a Race, Gender, Class Perspective. Organizer: Glenn S. Johnson. Presider: Robert D. Bullard.

8:30 a.m. Session 242. Refereed Roundtables on Environment and Technology. Organizer: Thomas K. Rudel.

1. Ecological Modernization; 2. Environmental Justice; 3. Disasters; 4. The Social Construction of the Environment; 5. Human Ecology;

6. International Environmentalism. Followed by Business Meeting at 9:30 a.m.

9:30 a.m. Environment and Technology Section Award Presentations and Business Meeting.

10:30 a.m. Session 266. Global Dimensions of the Environmental Crisis. Organizer: Thomas K. Rudel. Presider: Steven Brechin. Discussant: David Sonnenfeld.

2:30 p.m. Session 296. The Economic Sociology of the Environment. Organizer: Thomas K. Rudel. Presider: Kenneth Gould. Discussion: Loren Lutzenhiser.

4:30 p.m. Session 323. Environmentalism and the Environmental Movement. Organizer: Thomas K. Rudel. Presider: Lori Hunter. Discussion: Susan H. Roschke.

6:30 p.m. Section Reception!

Held jointly with Racial and Ethnic Minorities; Marxist Sociology; and Race, Gender, and Class.
 
 

8:30 a.m. Session 337. Teaching Environmental Sociology Workshop. Organizers and Presiders: Karen Krause Klundt and J. Timmons Roberts. Panel: J. Timmons Roberts, Susan H. Roschke, and F. Kurt Cylke.

8:30 a.m. Session 341. Disasters. Organizer: Brenda Phillips. Presider: David M. Neal.

8:30 a.m. Session 344. Environmental Politics: Global, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives. Organizer: Jeffrey Broadbent. Presider: Allan Schnaiberg. Discussion: David Frank.

10:30 a.m. Session 370. Local Ecosystem Management: Politics, Organization, and Values. Organizer: Jeffrey Broadbent. Presider: Harvey Molotch. Discussion: Andrew Szasz.

10:30 a.m. Session 383. National Comparative Development and World-Systems Analysis: Alternative or Complementary Research Programs? Organizer: Giovanni Arrighi. Presider: Janet Abu-Lughod. Panel: Giovanni Arrighi, Gary Gereffi, Valentine Moghadam, and Alejandro Portes.

12:30 p.m. Session 389. Sustainable Development. Organizer: Lee Freese.

12:30 p.m. Session 413. Roundtables on Political Economy of the World System. Table 5: Science, Technology, and the Environment in the World-System. Table Presider: F. Scott Frey.

12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tour 10. NASA/Ames Research Center.

2:30 p.m. Session 415. Environmental Justice: Advances in Theory, Research, and Methodology. Organizer and Presider: Dorceta E. Taylor.

2:30 p.m. Session 435. The Environment and the World Economy. Organizer: J. Timmons Roberts. Discussion: Fred Buttel and Giovanni Arrighi.

4:30 p.m. Session 449. Public Environmental Concern: Conditions of Increase and Diffusion. Organizer: Jeffrey Broadbent. Discussion: Riley Dunlap.

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