2018 American Sociological Association Meetings
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 11-14, 2016
Click below to see the intellectual abundance of the theory section at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia. Save time skimming the giant program, we've got all you need to know about Theory Section sponsored events, including:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 11-14, 2016
Click below to see the intellectual abundance of the theory section at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia. Save time skimming the giant program, we've got all you need to know about Theory Section sponsored events, including:
- session on Social Theory and Modernity in Crisis
- an invited session on sociology and philosophy in conversation
- the Coser Memorial Lecture by Gabriel Abend
- sessions on the role and future of grand or general theory
- section roundtables, business meeting, and reception
Sunday, August 12
8:30am - 10:10am | Social Theory and Political Modernity in Crisis: Authority, Power, and Violence
#1270 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 6, Level 4)
Isaac Ariail Reed and Anne Marie Champagne, organizers and presiders.
The rise of new nationalisms, the breakdown of governmental norms, the reconfiguration of the post-1989 order: the world outruns theoretical schemas designed to comprehend the trentes glorieuses and the Reagan era. What conceptual resources can be made available for both identifying and explaining the prevailing social and political trends of our own era? And what can these concepts help us comprehend about the relationship between authority and authoritarianism, power and crisis, symbolic violence and bodily harm? This session will explore these themes, with a particular eye towards the crisis of liberal politics.
10:30am-12:10pm | Sociology and Philosophy in Conversation
#2266 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 2, Level 4
Isaac Ariail Reed and Anne Marie Champagne, organizers and presiders.
Sociology was born, in part, via engagement with philosophy, and sociological thinkers routinely engage philosophical themes. What are the particular points of communication between philosophy and sociology today? How can philosophical concerns with epistemology and ontology inform social theory, and vice versa? How can sociologists and philosophers think together about definitions and conceptualizations, evidence and argument? And what might we say about the intersection of political philosophy and empirical sociology?
12:30 - 1:30 | Theory Refereed Roundtables - Marriott: Salon G, Level 5
Alison Gerber, organizer
1:30 - 2:10pm | Theory Section Business Meeting and Awards
#2383 - Marriott: Marriott: Salon G, Level 5
2:30 - 4:10 | Coser Salon, Gabriel Abend - Thick Concepts and Sociological Research
#2471 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 7, Level 4
The Coser Salon features a lecture presented by the winner of the previous year’s Coser Award to a “mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology. Although the award winner need not be a theorist, her or his work must exemplify the sociological ideals that Lewis Coser represented, including resisting the fragmentation of sociology, maintaining the discipline’s critical edge, and ensuring the predominance of substance over method.”
7:30 - 9:30Pm | Theory Section reception
McGillan’s Olde Ale House, 1310 Drury St, Philadelphia, PA
Joint with Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
Monday, August 13
8:30am - 10:10am | Trespassing/poaching/raiding/transcending
Session i: Schema, Conceptualization, and Tools for Sociological Analysis
#3168 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 4, Level 4
John R. Hall and Simeon Newman, organizers
John R. Hall, presider
Is the era of what C. Wright Mills called ‘grand theory’ past? What are the prospects for less holistic but still ‘general’ theory? What about ‘social theory’ that transcends the critical and normative boundaries of conventional sociological theory? Few sociologists today search for the cohesive conceptual framework of someone like Talcott Parsons--the object of Mill’s critique. Yet robust projects of bounded theorizing continue accross diverse topoi, however constructed. This session focuses on how sociologists can use both classical and more contemporary sociological theories, separately or in relation to one another, to connect research across subfields, topics, arenas, and varieties of social phenomena.
10:30am-12:10pm | Trespassing/poaching/raiding/transcending
Session Ii: Culture, Action, Practice, and Occasion
#3268 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 4, Level 4
John R. Hall and Simeon Newman, organizers
John R. Hall, presider
Is the era of what C. Wright Mills called ‘grand theory’ past? What are the prospects for less holistic but still ‘general’ theory? What about ‘social theory’ that transcends the critical and normative boundaries of conventional sociological theory? Few sociologists today search for the cohesive conceptual framework of someone like Talcott Parsons--the object of Mill’s critique. Yet robust projects of bounded theorizing continue accross diverse topoi, however constructed. This session focuses on how sociologists can use both classical and contemporary sociological theories, separately or in relation to one another, to address the complex of issues connecting culture, action, practice, and structurations of social life.
8:30am - 10:10am | Social Theory and Political Modernity in Crisis: Authority, Power, and Violence
#1270 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 6, Level 4)
Isaac Ariail Reed and Anne Marie Champagne, organizers and presiders.
The rise of new nationalisms, the breakdown of governmental norms, the reconfiguration of the post-1989 order: the world outruns theoretical schemas designed to comprehend the trentes glorieuses and the Reagan era. What conceptual resources can be made available for both identifying and explaining the prevailing social and political trends of our own era? And what can these concepts help us comprehend about the relationship between authority and authoritarianism, power and crisis, symbolic violence and bodily harm? This session will explore these themes, with a particular eye towards the crisis of liberal politics.
- Julia Adams, Yale University
- Michael Rodriguez, Northwestern University
- Jeffrey Goldfarb, New School for Social Research
- Dylan Riley, University of California, Berkeley
10:30am-12:10pm | Sociology and Philosophy in Conversation
#2266 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 2, Level 4
Isaac Ariail Reed and Anne Marie Champagne, organizers and presiders.
Sociology was born, in part, via engagement with philosophy, and sociological thinkers routinely engage philosophical themes. What are the particular points of communication between philosophy and sociology today? How can philosophical concerns with epistemology and ontology inform social theory, and vice versa? How can sociologists and philosophers think together about definitions and conceptualizations, evidence and argument? And what might we say about the intersection of political philosophy and empirical sociology?
- Fuyuki Kurasawa, York University
- Luvell Anderson, University of Memphis
- Paige Sweet, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Christopher Muller, University of California, Berkeley
- Christopher Winship, Harvard University
12:30 - 1:30 | Theory Refereed Roundtables - Marriott: Salon G, Level 5
Alison Gerber, organizer
1:30 - 2:10pm | Theory Section Business Meeting and Awards
#2383 - Marriott: Marriott: Salon G, Level 5
2:30 - 4:10 | Coser Salon, Gabriel Abend - Thick Concepts and Sociological Research
#2471 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 7, Level 4
The Coser Salon features a lecture presented by the winner of the previous year’s Coser Award to a “mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology. Although the award winner need not be a theorist, her or his work must exemplify the sociological ideals that Lewis Coser represented, including resisting the fragmentation of sociology, maintaining the discipline’s critical edge, and ensuring the predominance of substance over method.”
7:30 - 9:30Pm | Theory Section reception
McGillan’s Olde Ale House, 1310 Drury St, Philadelphia, PA
Joint with Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
Monday, August 13
8:30am - 10:10am | Trespassing/poaching/raiding/transcending
Session i: Schema, Conceptualization, and Tools for Sociological Analysis
#3168 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 4, Level 4
John R. Hall and Simeon Newman, organizers
John R. Hall, presider
Is the era of what C. Wright Mills called ‘grand theory’ past? What are the prospects for less holistic but still ‘general’ theory? What about ‘social theory’ that transcends the critical and normative boundaries of conventional sociological theory? Few sociologists today search for the cohesive conceptual framework of someone like Talcott Parsons--the object of Mill’s critique. Yet robust projects of bounded theorizing continue accross diverse topoi, however constructed. This session focuses on how sociologists can use both classical and more contemporary sociological theories, separately or in relation to one another, to connect research across subfields, topics, arenas, and varieties of social phenomena.
- Risto K. Heiskala, University of Tempere - “For a Holistic Social Science: From the IEMP Model to the NACEVP Model”
- Daniel A. Sherwood, City University of New York - “The Reality of Structural Racism: Knowledge, Critique, Emancipation”
- Paul Joosse, University of Hong Kong - “Gender and Charismatic Authority: On the Prospect of the Contemporary Relevance of a Classical Concept”
- Whitney D. Johnson, University of Notre Dame - “Hearing Value: Taking Time for Embodied Perceptions and Judgement”
- Discussant: Ann Mische, University of Norte Dame
10:30am-12:10pm | Trespassing/poaching/raiding/transcending
Session Ii: Culture, Action, Practice, and Occasion
#3268 - Marriott: Franklin Hall 4, Level 4
John R. Hall and Simeon Newman, organizers
John R. Hall, presider
Is the era of what C. Wright Mills called ‘grand theory’ past? What are the prospects for less holistic but still ‘general’ theory? What about ‘social theory’ that transcends the critical and normative boundaries of conventional sociological theory? Few sociologists today search for the cohesive conceptual framework of someone like Talcott Parsons--the object of Mill’s critique. Yet robust projects of bounded theorizing continue accross diverse topoi, however constructed. This session focuses on how sociologists can use both classical and contemporary sociological theories, separately or in relation to one another, to address the complex of issues connecting culture, action, practice, and structurations of social life.
- Jason Turowetz, University of Siegen, Anne Warfield Rawls, Bentley University - “Garfinkle, Parsons, and the Discovery of Culture”
- Mary Shi, University of California, Berkeley - “Reflective Action as an Object of Sociological Inquiry: Bourdieu and Beyond”
- Michael Strand, Brandeis University - “The Two Main Varieties of Practice Theory”
- Abigail Jorgensen, University of Norte Dame - “A Theory of Occassions: The Presentation of the Self in Non-Everyday Life”
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