Sessions, Receptions, and Meetings during the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
Friday, August 1
Reception
6:30 pm
Joint Reception: Section on History of Sociology and the Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Reception for graduate students following, at 8:15 at Brasserie Jo
http://www.colonnadehotel.com/brasserie_jo
Saturday, August 2
Meetings
7:00 am
Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Council Meeting
Boston Marriott Copley Place
9:30-10:10am
Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Business Meeting
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Roundtables
174. Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Refereed Roundtable Session and Business Meeting
Boston Marriott Copley Place
8:30-9:30am, Roundtables:
Organizer: Elizabeth Popp-Berman, State University of New York-Albany
Table 1. Environment
Presider: Rick Welsh, Clarkson University
Dreams and Detriments: The Realities of the Digital Economy. Joseph Simpson and Jan-Martijn Meij, Oklahoma State University
Technoscience, Anaerobic Digester Technology and the Dairy Industry. Rick Welsh, Clarkson University; Gilbert W. Gillespie J.r and Megan E. Gremelspacher, Cornell University
The Tragedy of the Un-Commons? Toward a Renewed Focus on Equity, Inequality and Social Structure in Environmental Sociology. William R. Freudenburg, University of California-Santa Barbara
Table 2. Health and Medicine
Presider: Eric R. Van Rite, University of California-San Diego
Extending the Human Lifespan:Achievements and Challenges of Genetic Research on Aging. Marcie Lambrix, Michael Flatt and Jennifer Fishman, Case Western Reserve University
Face Debates: Face Transplantation as (Non)Vital Intervention. Heather Laine Talley, Vanderbilt University
Patient Safety Goes Global: International Standardization, Patient Inclusion and the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Eric R. Van Rite, University of California-San Diego
Table 3. Knowledge in the Social World
Presider: Marc J. Ventresca, University of Oxford
Keywords in Culture & Economy: 'Postindustrial,' 'Information,' and 'Knowledge' as Modifiers, 1950-2005. Marc J. Ventresca, University of Oxford; Steven Rosenberg, University of Chicago
Unfortunate Performativity: The Poliheuristic Theory and Israeli Decision making in July 2006. Uri Shwed, Columbia University
Why Is There No Decimal Metric System in the United States? Hector Vera, New School for Social Research
The Buzz Mill and Consumption of Cultural Products: Hollywood Movies. Brian Uzzi, Sara Soderstrom, and Daniel Diermeier Northwestern University
Table 4. Knowledge Structures and Boundaries
Presider: Regina Buonaccorsi Smardon, University of Pennsylvania
Dynamics of Emerging Academic Organizations. Kyle Siler, Cornell University
Social Problems in American Sociology, 1963-1999. Ryan A. Light, Ohio State University
The Social Ecology of Participation Customs: Comparing Two Case Studies. Regina Buonaccorsi Smardon, University of Pennsylvania; Steve Fifield, Katherine McGurn Centellas and Jennifer Naomi Koester, University of Delaware
Table 5. Nanotechnology and Computing
Presider: Rachel Parker, University of California-Santa Barbara
China's Bid to Become a Global Nanotech Leader: Advancing nanotechnology through State-Led Programs and International Collaborations. Rachel Parker and Richard P. Appelbaum, University of California-Santa Barbara
Scaling Innovation across Domains. Zack Kertcher, University of Chicago
University Research Perspectives on the Social Organization and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology Research, Development and Manufacturing Collaborations. Jennifer H. Geertsma, University Massachusetts-Amherst
Table 6. Scientific Careers
Presider: Amanda K. Damarin, Georgia Institute of Technology
American Muslim Engineers and Applied Scientists and the Spirit of Pragmatism. Richard P. Cimino, New School for Social Research
The Recognition of Weak Ties: The Effect of Postdoctoral Fellowships on Academic Performance. Ana Fernandez, Sussex University
Who Gets Jobs in Emerging Fields, How, and Why? Pathways into Website Production Work. Amanda K. Damarin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Table 7. Scientists as Entrepreneurs
Presider: Jeannette Anastasia Colyvas, Northwestern University
Conflict between Science and Market in the Creation of Chinese Academic Entrepreneurship. Dali Ma, Drexel University
Expanding Entrepreneurship: Women and Foreign-born Founders of New England Biotechnology Firms. Jim McQuaid, Laurel Smith-Doerr and Daniel Joseph Monti, Boston University
Measures, Metrics, and Myopia: The Challenges and Ramifications of Sustaining Academic Entrepreneurship. Jeannette Anastasia Colyvas, Northwestern University
Sessions
10:30 a.m.
218. Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Invited Session. Workforces and Workplaces of Science and Technology
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Organizer and Presider: Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Institute of Technology
Specialization and Income Inequality among Academic Biologists. Erin Leahey and Laura Hunter, University of Arizona
Inventors and their Inventions: Understanding the Innovation Process. John P. Walsh, Georgia Technology Institute
Patenting the Practice of Scientific Collaboration: Stem Cells in the US and Beyond. Fiona E. Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Funding Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Science and Scientists in Congress. Jason Owen-Smith, University of Michigan
Discussants: Sandra L. Hanson, Catholic University of America ; Monica Gaughan, University of Georgia
New and emerging directions in the research on the workforces and practices in science, technology, and innovation-across academic, industrial, and governmental sectors.
12:30 a.m.
262. Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Invited Session. Author Meets Critics: Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research, by Steven Epstein (Chicago, 2007)
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Organizer and Presider: Daniel Lee Kleinman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Critics: Phil Brown, Brown University Alondra Nelson, Yale University Fiona E. Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Author: Steven G. Epstein, University of California-San Diego
This session is devoted to a critical discussion of 2007 Robert K. Merton Award winner Steven Epstein's Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (Chicago, 2007). Epstein's work is a study of the politics of inclusion and the management of difference in biomedical research in the U.S.
2:30 p.m.
301. Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Paper Session. Science and Power
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Session Organizer: Daniel Lee Kleinman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Delegate or Perish: How Dependence on Competitive Grants has Influenced the Current Organization of Research and Training in the Biomedical Sciences in Canada. Annalisa Salonius, Cornell University
Scientific Expertise in Japan: Institutionalizing Statistical Knowledge in the Modern Period. Jennifer A. Winther, University of California-Los Angeles
The Mindful Hands of Peasants: Construction of the Eight-Lock Staircase at Fonseranes. Chandra Mukerji, University of California-San Diego
Culture and Collaboration: International Graduate Training and Science in Developing Areas. Marcus Antonius Hidalgo Ynalvez, Texas A&M International University; Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University
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