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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