Cal State L.A. Faculty and Students
to Present Papers at the
72nd Annual Meeting of the
Pacific Sociological Association Faculty members and students from California State University, Los Angeles will join future and veteran sociologists at the 2001 Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) Meeting from Thursday, March 29-Sunday, April 1, 2001, at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco. The PSA is a professional association of sociologists for the western region of the United States and Canada. PSA membership includes professors and students working at colleges and universities located throughout the United States and Canada, but especially those who live in the western region of those countries. The following is a schedule of presentations by Cal State L.A. faculty members and students at this Spring PSA meeting: Thursday, March 29
1:45-3:15 p.m.
Session 17 - Ethnicity & Immigration in the United States
Ronald Tsukashima (faculty, Simi Valley resident): "Interest Groups, Supply and Demand, and Transitional Labor Migration from Post-World War II, Japan 1950-1960" Session 23 - The New Economy: Labor Process, Occupations & Labor Markets
Richard Anderson-Connolly (faculty, Alta Loma resident): "U of Puget Sound: Is Lean Mean? Job Engineering and Employee Well-Being" Session 24 - Fighting for Economic Justice: Poor & Working Class People's Movements
Anthony Francosco (graduate student, Los Angeles resident): "Activism on the Airwaves: Micro-Radio as a Venue for Grassroots Politics and Social Change" 3:30-5 p.m.
Session 35 - Drug Policy
James Maynard (graduate student, Huntington Beach resident): "Struggles to Transform Vulnerability to Corruption within a Competitive Ethos: Drug Policy and Sports" 5:15-6:45 p.m.
Session 46 - Transformational Mandates in Journalism: Sincerity or Pseudo-Activism?
Christina Bodinger de Uriarte (faculty, South Pasadena resident): "Narrow Patterns of Experience: Monodimensional Journalism"
Dasha Haas (graduate student, Alhambra resident): "Betrayed Portrayal: Media and Political Activism" Friday, March 30
8:30-10 a.m.
Session 50 - Undergraduate Student Papers on Corporate America
Hugo Torres (senior, Montebello resident): "New Economy and the DOT COM: Transformations in Corporate Culture and Beyond" Session 54 - Roundtables I
Table 2 - Race & Ethnic Inequality
Angela Fielder (graduate student, Los Angeles resident): "The African-American Sitcom: Product and Reinforcer of Symbolic Modern Racism" Table 5 - Methods I
Lawrence K. Hong (faculty, Montebello resident) with Robert W. Duff: "Modulated Participation-Observation: Managing the Dilemma of Distance in Field Research" Table 7 - Technology and Its Consequences
Vanessa Jones (graduate student, Los Angeles resident): "Going to Work on the Internet: The Impact of the Virtual Office on Family Lifestyle" Session 59 - Exploring the Race/Class Bind: Social Movements from a Global Historical Perspective
Terry R. Kandal (faculty, Los Angeles resident): "Finding Class in the Shadows of Racial/Ethno-National and Gender Conflicts and Identity Politics" 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Session 65 - Undergraduate Student Papers: Popular Culture
Herbert Sosa (senior, Los Angeles resident): "Re-Socialization in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century America: An Example of a European Captured and Adopted by a Native-American Tribe" 12 noon-1:30 p.m.
Session 84 - Gender and the New Information Technologies
Linda Yellin (faculty, Sherman Oaks resident): "Use of the Internet: The Effects of Gender and Race/Ethnicity" 1:45-3:15 p.m.
Session 87 - Quantitative Methods & Applications
K. William Wasson (faculty, San Gabriel resident): "Teaching Quantitative Methods Through Fieldwork Involving Members of the Community" Session 90 - Roundtables IV
Table 4 - Issues in Health Care
Julie M. Albright (faculty, Alhambra resident): "Lolita Online: Smoking Fetishization on the Internet" Saturday, March 31
8:30-10 a.m.
Session 108 - Reconstructing Gender
Jeff Inada (graduate student, Culver City resident): "Reconstruction or Subtle Sexism?: Implications of the Depictions of Gender in Contemporary Cartoons" 1:45-3:15 p.m.
Session 141 - Research in Social Psychology
Julie M. Albright (faculty, Alhambra resident): "Impression Management and Deception in Online Relationships" Session 142 - Legal Consciousness, Protest & the Limits of Law
M. Cecilia Macdowell Santos (faculty, Los Angeles resident): "Building Dubious Alliances: Women's NGOs and Gender-Sensitive Policing Facilities in Brazil" Session 143 - Sociological Methods
K. William Wasson (faculty, San Gabriel resident): "Teaching Synthesis of Theory and Method Utilizing the Concept of 'Status Consistency' in a Quantitative Research Methods Class" 5:15-6:45 p.m.
Session 162 - Undergraduate Student Papers: Gender Issues
Claudia Lodia (junior, Los Angeles resident): "Equals but Different?: The Social Construction of Butch and Femme in Lesbian Relationships" # # # | 
