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It is our time to take center stage as leaders in social science. What do sociologists have to say about the evolving economic landscape and emerging new social realities? Join us as this convention marks a new beginning.

The Top 10+1 Reasons to Attend the ESS Meeting March 18-21st 2010:

HEAR from Colleagues like Phyllis Moen, Juliet Schor, David Pellow, Marshall Ganz, Ruth Milkman, David Grazian, Dan Clawson, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Dalton Conley, Sharon Zukin, Michele Lamont, Carmen Sirianni, Joya Misra, Peggy Levitt, Sarah Babb, Davita Glassberg … and many more! Learn how new social realities are emerging from this economic crisis, reframing issues of retirement, the environment, housing, jobs, healthcare, immigration, markets, globalization and public life.

DISCUSS cultural perspectives on the economic crisis, social mechanisms maintaining and sustaining markets, economic insecurities and family stress, migration and citizenship among workers in the informal economy, and the clamor of those for their share of the American Dream. Panelists on these topics include: Richard Alba, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Orlando Patterson, Arlene Stein, Thomas Cushman, Alya Guseva, Mary Waters, Silvia Dominguez, Robert Ross, Bryan Turner, Rhacel Parrenas.

ATTEND a conversation with Dorothy Smith, Alison Griffith, Nancy Naples and Marjorie DeVault on “Dorothy Smith’s Sociology for Women/People and the Institutional Ethnography Approach”

MEET activists and practitioners peppered throughout the various panels, such as Kalila Barnett, Executive Director, Alternatives for Community and the Environment; Janice Loux, President UNITE HERE Local 26, Yehuda Reinarz, President of Brandeis University – all of whom are the frontlines of the ways people and institutions are rethinking, organizing, resisting and changing.

ATTEND A MINI-CONFERENCE on Friday and/or Saturday. There are several choices: "Gender, Family and Work in the Obama Era" organized by Lynn Chancer, Arlene Skolnick, Sharson Sassler and Kathleen Gerson – or “Poverty, Inequality and Work” organized by Don Tomaskovic-Devey and Steve Vallas -- or one on urban ethnography with Elijah Anderson, Mitch Duneier, and Sudhir Venkatesh.

BE STIMULATED BY AN EXCITING LINE-UP OF AUTHORS-MEETS-CRITICS SESSIONS:

• Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorhmehr, Backlash/911: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond
• Susan Bell, DES Daughters: Embodied knowledge and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics
• Tim Black, When a heart turns rock solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers on and off the Streets
• Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs, The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Healthcare in America
• Katherine Chen, Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event
• Rob Faulkner and Howard S. Becker, “Do You Know…?”: The Jazz Repertoire in Action
• Kathleen Gerson, The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America
• Alya Guseva, Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Post Communist Russia
• Douglas Harper and Patrizia Facciolo, The Italian Way: Food and Social Life
• Michael Kimmel, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
• Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race
• Gaye Tuchman, Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University
• Amy Wells, Both Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregation's Graduates
• Allison Carey, On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in 20th Century America

AND meet our new ESS authors at THE NEW book reception.

CELEBRATE the work of Naomi Gerstel at Thursday’s Robin Williams Lecture

ENGAGE IN "CONVERSATIONS WITH” Craig Calhoun, Alan Wolfe, Prema Kurien, Margaret Anderson, Katrina MacDonald, Bill Gamson, Wendy Cage, Larry Bobo, Bill Wilson, Nancy Hopkins, Nancy Ammerman, Judith Blau and many more top scholars on topics ranging from the future of liberalism to the shape of religion in the U.S.

HONOR the work of Rosabeth Moss Kanter at Friday’s plenary with organzier Margaret Anderson and panelists Rakesh Khurana, Don Tomaskovic-Devey and Ronnie Steinberg.

BE A JAZZY SOCIOLOGIST and "jam" with Tim Wolfe and fellow jazz sociologists on Friday night, and after the Saturday night awards ceremony have a martini while listening to Rob Faulkner and ensemble play jazz!

CATCH UP at our “classy” newly renovated Park Plaza in downtown Boston with old friends, present your research;

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