THE BULLETIN is a
publication of the North Carolina
Sociological Association. The NCSA is
open to any person engaged in teaching
or research in sociology, or in a field
of applied sociology, as well as to any
student whose major interest is
sociology. Members receive
NORTH CAROLINA SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
2015-2016
President:
Bill Smith, NC State University,
wrs@nscu.edu
President-Elect:
Steven Gunkel, Wake Forest University,
gunkelse@wfu.edu
Treasurer: Beth Davison,
Appalachian State University,
davisonb@appstate.edu
Secretary: Sue Pauley, Wingate
University, supaul@wingate.edu
Editor of Sociation Today and
Webmaster:
George H. Conklin, NC Central University,
Emeritus. gconklin@nccu.edu
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS
Jake Day, UNC - Wilmington,
dayj@uncw.edu
Cindy Dollar, UNC - Greensboro,
cbdollar@uncg.edu
Kim Ebert, NC State University,
kim_ebert@ncsu.edu
Heather Griffiths, Fayetteville
State University, hgriffit@uncfsu.edu
Terrell Hayes, Highpoint
University, thayes@highpoint.edu
Ken Muir, Appalachian State
University, muirkb@appstate.edu
Hideki Morooka, Fayetteville
State
University, hmorooka@uncfsu.edu
Cecile N. Yancu, Winston-Salem
State University, yancuc@wssu.edu
Ana Maria Wahl, Wake Forest
University, wahlam@wfu.edu
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editor of THE
BULLETIN is...
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Lippard, Appalachian State
University,
lippardcd@appstate.edu.
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2016 ANNUAL
NCSA CONFERENCE
"Doing Justice:
Community, Social, or Criminal?"
Winston-Salem,
NC
February 12, 2016
Wake Forest University Innovation
Quarter
by Steve Gunkel, President-Elect
I am delighted to
announce this year’s Annual Conference
will be hosted by Wake Forest University
at the Innovation Quarter located in
downtown Winston-Salem on Friday,
February 12th!
This year’s
meeting is organized around the theme
“Doing Justice: Community, Social, or
Criminal?”
Justice remains
both elusive and contentious and this
year’s conference provides us with an
opportunity to critically examine
justice from multiple perspectives and
struggles for its realization across
economic, political, and health
dimensions.
This year’s
conference offers a blend of both
invited and open panels exploring the
multifaceted nature of justice: mass
incarceration and reentry programs;
political activism and mobilization;
wrongful conviction and the plight of
exonerees; and enforcement and detention
practices tied to immigration. We
provide more detail (below) on these and
several other panels we hope you will
attend. We also look forward to
receiving your original papers in the
areas noted and we hope that you will
encourage your undergraduate students to
take part in what promises to be an
exciting facet of this year’s conference
– student poster
sessions!
Call
for NCSA 2016 Conference
Participation
Struggles for justice have captivated
public attention as these have unfolded
at the international and national level
as well as here in North Carolina.
From the migration crisis to the “Black
Lives Matter” movement to the “Moral
Mondays” marches – justice (or its
denial) has galvanized these
struggles.
The theme for this
year’s conference will promote a
critical and wide-ranging examination of
these struggles as we pose the question
- “Doing Justice: Community, Social, or
Criminal?” As we come together for our
annual conference, four sessions will
focus on this common theme: first, the
ways in which mass incarceration and the
re-entry process for prisoners have
undermined justice; second, the
political context shaping perceptions of
poverty and extremism; racial and social
class disparities in physical and mental
health; and wrongful conviction and the
plight of exonerees. Within two of
these four sessions, we have a handful
of slots remaining -- please submit
original papers (following the
guidelines listed below) addressing
wrongful conviction to Dr. Steve Gunkel,
Wake Forest University (gunkelse@wfu.edu)
and politics to Dr. Ana-María González
Wahl, Wake Forest University (wahlam@wfu.edu).
The notion
of justice can be explored from so many
vantage points and can cover a multitude
of contexts; we look forward to
receiving original work for several
additional sessions:
Immigration:
Enforcement and detention practices,
provision of educational opportunities,
economic realities, and the
criminalization of immigration all point
to the justice issues related to this
year’s conference theme. We look
forward to submissions related to these
and other facets of immigration in North
Carolina and beyond. Please submit
papers related to immigration to Dr. Kim
Ebert, North Carolina State University (kim_ebert@ncsu.edu).
Policing
and Justice:
Community-Oriented Policing Strategies
(COPS), the purported “Ferguson Effect”,
stop-and-frisk policies, and the broad
array of factors influencing
police-citizen contact point to a
heightened sense of awareness and
questioning of policing. We look
forward to submissions related to the
police, policing, and public perceptions
of policing in North Carolina and
national context. Please submit
policing-related papers to Dr. Ken
Bechtel, Wake Forest University (c/o Ms.
Erica Talley: talleyel@wfu.edu).
Social
Justice: Issues
such as the “school-to-prison pipeline”,
food insecurity and food deserts (with
some of the worst instances here in the
Triad and across the state), and growing
polarization within the state highlight
real barriers to the realization of
social justice. We would like to
solicit work that addresses insurgency
and identity; countermovement dynamics
and their impact; and polarization in
political, racial, and economic realms.
Please submit social justice-related
papers to Dr. Tangela Towns,
Winston-Salem State University (townsta@wssu.edu).
Improving
Teaching and Scholarship:
New for this year’s conference! In
what ways can we improve our teaching
and research efforts in sociology?
To what extent do our research projects
inform our teaching efforts? What
teaching strategies have proven to be
particularly successful in building the
“sociological imagination” of our
students? This panel is not confined
solely to teaching strategies focused on
justice and we encourage the submission
of original papers exploring pedagogy
and sociology to Dr. Saylor
Breckenridge, Wake Forest University (breckers@wfu.edu).
New
This Year – Undergraduate Student
Poster Sessions! This
year’s conference will feature the work
of our promising undergraduates in the
form of multiple poster sessions.
Students that are working on projects
related to the pursuit of justice
(community, social, or criminal) are
invited to present their original work
in an informal poster session in which
they will address questions about their
sociological research. Faculty are
especially encouraged to facilitate this
opportunity for their students.
Poster presentation submissions should
include the name(s) and affiliation (and
contact information for authors) as well
as a title and brief abstract of the
work to be presented. Posters should
display data, policy analysis, or
theoretical work in a visually appealing
format that will encourage interaction
with poster session attendees. Display
easels will be provided on-site.
Please direct all poster session-related
inquiries to Dr. Ana-María González
Wahl, Wake Forest University (wahlam@wfu.edu).
Also
New This Year – Special Panel for
Winners of Himes Student Paper
Awards!
This year’s conference will feature a
panel dedicated solely to the
presentation of papers that have
garnered the prestigious Himes Award
named for NCSA’s founding President
Joseph S. Himes. The winning
undergraduate and graduate students will
provide a presentation of their
exemplary scholarship in a panel
session.
Submission
Guidelines
To
be considered for a place on the
program, individuals should use the
following guidelines:
--Undergraduate and graduate
students, professors, and professional
community members using sociological
theory and research methods are
encouraged to submit items for
consideration. Graduate students are
highly encouraged to submit!
--Submissions for any session listed
above should include:
o The title of the
paper, report, or presentation
o Names and affiliations
and contact information for all authors
o An extended abstract.
--Extended
abstracts should be approximately
450-550 words and must include the
following sections: objectives and
theoretical framework, methods and data
sources, and findings.
All submissions
must be sent to the session organizer.
If you don't know where your paper may
fit, please contact Dr. Steve Gunkel (gunkelse@wfu.edu).
Those
coming in for an overnight stay are
recommended to contact the Brookstown
Inn located at 200 Brookstown Ave.
(336-725-1120; website: http://www.brookstowninn.com/).
The hotel is approximately one mile from
the Innovation Quarter. We recommend
parking in the public (w/ fee) parking
deck for Innovation Quarter (located at
4th and Church Street) which is a
five-minute walk from IQ.
Additional information for the
Brookstown Inn will be posted in the
near future (with promo codes and
additional contact information).
Call
for Submissions
2015
Himes Outstanding Student
Sociology Paper Awards
The
North Carolina Sociological Association
seeks papers that represent excellence in
sociological analysis from both
undergraduate and graduate students.
NCSA
membership fees and NCSA conference fees are
deferred for all awardees who attend the
NCSA conference. Students who apply
for the award should be prepared to attend
the annual meeting and present their work as
part of the special Himes Award Winner
Session on Friday, February 12, 2016.
Eligibility
requirements: Any current student enrolled
in a community college, four-year college,
or university in North Carolina may submit a
paper for consideration. Students who
graduated in Spring or Summer 2015 are
eligible to submit a paper for the 2015
awards. Please note that: (1) Co-authored
papers written by graduate students are
eligible for the graduate paper award and
co-authored papers written by undergraduates
are eligible for the undergraduate award.
Cash awards will be evenly split among
authors of award winning papers. (2)
Coauthored papers between students and
faculty and between graduate students and
undergraduate students are ineligible. (3)
The same individual may be eligible to win
the undergraduate award once and the
graduate award once.
Award:
This competition comes with a monetary award
($150 for the winning undergraduate papers,
$250 for the top graduate paper), and a
certificate of recognition from the
association. Three awards are available: one
for graduate students, and one each for
undergraduates at four-year institutions,
and two-year institutions. Award winners are
recognized at the NCSA annual meeting and
their papers are published on the official
NCSA website. Faculty mentors are also
recognized at the annual meeting, and
department chairs and college deans are
forwarded award information for contract and
promotion purposes.
Judgment criteria include:
-- accurate, focused, and thorough
review of the pertinent sociological
literature
-- use of method related to topic
-- appropriate use of evidence in
drawing conclusions
-- ability to use theoretical analysis
and interpretation
-- insight and creativity
-- writing skill, clarity, and coherence
and proper use of citations and
documentation
Submission
guidelines: Please email as a Word or PDF
file attachment a blind copy of the paper
and a separate cover letter describing the
student's year in school, institutional
affiliation, & faculty mentor
information to: Dr. Heather Griffiths (hgriffit@uncfsu.edu).
The deadline for submission is December 10,
2015. If you have any questions, please
contact Dr. Heather Griffiths by e-mail.
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Sociation Today Offers Articles on
a Variety of Issues
The Spring/Summer 2015
issue of Sociation Today
features articles on a comparisons of
metropolitan areas in the North and South to
discuss the black-white wealth gap. Another
article focuses on family and gender-role
attitudes to understand normative drinking
rates. Focusing on Kannapolis, North Carolina,
one article discusses what happens to
displaced workers from a recent industry shut
down. The last two articles focus on music as
torture and the funding schemes of the tea
party.
Articles are now being
accepted for the Fall/Winter 2016 issue.
Please consider sending your work into Sociation
Today. Articles may be submitted at any
time to the webmaster, George Conklin
(gconklin@nccu.edu.
A cumulative, searchable
index of SOCIATION TODAY is
available from the
Directory of Open Access Journals.
VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED!
Interested in getting
involved with NCSA? The
Executive Council is looking for
volunteers to serve as an Executive
Council member or the Newsletter
editor for the association immediately.
If you are interested, then please
contact Steven Gunkel at
gunkelse@wfu.edu or 336-758-5466.
After-Action Report: 2015 Annual
Conference
Last year's annual conference organized
and hosted by Dr. Bill Smith at NC State
University was a great success! Over 75
people attended a number of key sessions
on community building issues in and around
North Carolina. Some sessions examined
issues communities face as immigration
populations have increased in the area.
Another session focused on urban
development and how zoning, mortgage
approvals, and gentrification have
impacted communities. Other sessions
included examining rural communities, the
growth of the LGBTQA communities, and a
session on health and environments.
Finally, Dr. Beth Davison showcased her
document on the Cone textile industry in
North Carolina.
A number of excellent undergraduate and
graduate student papers were considered
for the Himes Student Paper Awards.
However, after much deliberation, the
following papers were 2015 recepients of
the Himes Awards:
Graduate Paper Award: Daniel J.
Ness and Dr. Wei Zhao. "“Institutions and
Social Inequality: A Market Based
Approach."
Undergraduate Paper Award: Kaitlin
Stober and Dr. Alexis Franzese. "The Role
of Developmental Disability in Family
Completion."
Congrats to these recipients!
Himes
Award Winners from 2015!
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