BU Sociology at ASA 2023
118th Annual Meeting: The Educative Power of Sociology
August 17-21, 2023 | Philadelphia, PA | #ASA2023
The 118th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) starts this week! This year’s ASA will be in Philadelphia from August 17th to the 21st. It provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share knowledge and new directions in research and practice.
BU Sociology faculty and graduate students will be represented throughout the 600 programmatic sessions that provide a scholarly outlet for more than 3,000 research papers, over 4,500 presenters, and 5,000 attendees. Here’s where you can find us:
FACULTY
Ana Villarreal:
My article “The Logistics of Fear: Violence and the Stratifying Power of Emotion” published in Emotions & Society last year won the 2023 Outstanding Contribution Award from the Sociology of Emotions Section. I’ll be receiving the award at the section business meeting on Friday, August 18, 5 pm, Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin Hall 11.
Joe Harris:
I’ll be presenting on a panel in the following invited session:
Sociology of Medicine and Global Epidemics
Fri, August 18, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Grand Ballroom Salon C
One more item: Recent graduate and incoming University of Vermont Assistant Professor Jon Shaffer co-organized this year’s Junior Theorist Symposium that will be held on Thursday, August 17. For more information and to attend, visit http://www.asatheory.org/junior-theorist-symposium.html
Debby Carr:
Sunday August 20
8 – 9:30 a.m. Medical Sociology Roundtable Session Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Level 5, Grand Ballroom Salon F
Table 3: Discrimination – Obesity and Perceived Discrimination in the United States: Does Disability Buffer or Magnify the Association? – Deborah Carr, Boston University; Stuti Das, Boston University
7 pm: SALC Dessert and “Speed Mentoring” Reception, 7:00-8:30 pm, Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Level 5, Grand Ballroom Salon G
Deborah Carr, Host, “Strategies for Success in Tenure Track Positions” table
Monday August 21
8 – 9:30 a.m. Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables and Research Working Groups Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level, 103A
Table 5: Aging in Place – Population Aging and Heat Exposure: Which U.S. Regions Are At Greatest Risk and Why? – Deborah Carr, Boston University; Ian Sue Wing; Giacomo Falchetta
10 – 11 a.m. 50417. Section on Aging and the Life Course. Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level, 103C.
“On the Significance of [Old] Age in Sociology: Why Every Sociologist Needs to Understand Aging and the Life Course” Deborah Carr, Boston University
11am – noon. . Section on Aging and the Life Course Business Meeting Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level, 103C.
Will receive 2023 SALC Distinguished Mentoring Award
Ashley Mears
- Thao Nguyen and I, along with other labor and economic sociologists, co-organized an ASA Pre-conference Workshop on Platform Economies
Thursday August 17, 2023, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Digital platforms are transforming the landscape of work, reshaping service and creative sectors, and redefining perceptions of market interactions, competition, and collaboration. These platforms contribute to the rise of precarious employment, increasing inequality, and a shift of risk from organizations to individuals. Yet, within platform capitalism, some actors view themselves as entrepreneurs rather than exploited workers. This raises crucial questions about when platforms foster entrepreneurship versus breeding precarity and deepening inequality; how these dynamics intertwine across different platforms and industries; how intersectional inequalities affect platform work; and how global perspectives can provide fresh insights into these platform-institutional ecology relationships.
The 2023 ASA pre-conference workshop on platform economies aims to foster conversations on these pressing issues. This one-day event meets just prior to the ASA annual meeting. It includes four panels with paper presentations as well as some short speed presentations. You can find the final schedule and event details on our website sites.google.com/bu.edu/oowpreconference23.
Our workshop is open to the public, and registration is required. This workshop is made possible by the American Sociological Association’s section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work (OOW), the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and the Center on Digital Culture and Society (CDCS) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Again, we look forward to welcoming everyone in Philadelphia. Please email us at platform.asa23@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.
Organizing committee: Tim Bartley, Victor Tan Chen, Ashley Mears, Thao Nguyen, Benjamin Shestakofsky, Steven Vallas, Zoe Zhao
The Econ Soc section is hosting a joint reception on Saturday the 19th which I co-organized.
- At this pre-conference, Taylor Beauvais and I will present our co-authored paper, “The Addiction of a Viral High: How Platforms Propel Commitment in the Creator Economy“
- I’ve organized, as chair of the Economic Sociology section, a joint reception:
Joint Reception with Organizations, Occupations, and Work; Economic Sociology; Comparative Historical Sociology
When: Sat. Aug. 19, 6:30 – 8:30
Where: Mitten Hall at Temple University
How: It’s a 15-minute train ride on pubic transportation from the conference.
What: Great food, cash bar, drink tickets, lots of sociologists.
Details: Mitten Hall at Temple University has provided a quirky and beautiful space, called the Great Court. We’ll have a buffet with vegan and cheesesteak nibbles and many things in between, drinks, and toasts for our sections’ award winners. Do join!
Susan Eckstein:
I am the recipient of the Latin American Studies Association 2023 Kalman Silvert Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Jessica Simes:
I received Honorable Mention for the inaugural Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award from the ASA Crime, Law, and Deviance Section for my book Punishing Places.
Heather Schoenfeld:
I present the following paper on a Qualitative Methods Panel at 4 PM on Friday August 18th. Leveraging the Insights of Depth: A Staged Strategy for Building Qualitative Case Studies of American State-Level Policy
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Taylor Beauvais:
I will be at an ASA preconference presenting a paper I’m coauthoring with Ashley Mears. My presentation will be during the 10:30am session of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work mini conference on Thursday August 17th in the Anneberg School of communications at UPenn.
Leping Wang:
Regular Session on Racism and Anti-racism III
Sat, August 19, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 111B
“Authors of their Own Adversity: Dutch and American Non-Racists, Racists, Ambivalent Racists, and Inequality Beliefs”
Leping Wang, Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs, Boston University
Sociology of Religion Roundtables
Sat, August 19, 12:00-1:00pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level, 113B
Table 8: Sociology of Religion Roundtables – Religiosity, Humanism, and Spirituality
“Selection into Higher Education by Religion and Subsequent Religious Decline in a United States Cohort”
Rachel J. Bacon, Center for Mind and Culture; Leping Wang, Boston University
I am also presiding the Regular Session on Social Networks.
Sun, August 20, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 109A
Meghann Lucy:
I received a student paper award from the Consumers and Consumption Section for my paper “Divestment as Investment: ‘Kondo-ing’ Selves in the Context of Overaccumulation,” have been elected as the student representative for the Consumers and Consumption Section, and will be presenting at a Community and Urban Sociology roundtable session: Policing and Spatial Surveillance (on Fri, August 18, 2:00 to 3:00pm, in the Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Grand Ballroom Salon F).
Elinore Avni:
I will present my paper “Caring for Care: Cross-National Difference in Attitudes towards Governmental Support for Elder and Child Care”
On Saturday 8/19 at 10am at the Student Forum Refereed Roundtable, at: Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Level 5, Grand Ballroom Salon E, Roundtable 6.
Kristen Tzoc:
My roundtable presentations will be at 8am on Monday August 21st at the SALC section.
Situated Decision Making: New Sociological Directions
Section on Rationality and Society Roundtables
Andrea Beltrán-Lizarazo:
I will be presenting a paper at the Theory Section Roundtables, Mon, August 21, 10:00 to 11:00am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 103B.
I will present in the Table 4: Exile, alienation, and the law, the paper “Punishment as a Sociological Object: A Typology.”
Thao P. Nguyen:
Ashley Mears and I have been part of the organizing committee for the ASA OOW Pre-conference workshop on platform economies. Link here for more info. I’ll also be doing a speed presentation there.