1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIOLOGY

         

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

May 14-17, 2007, Athens, Greece

 

Organized by

THE SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT

OF THE

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

(AT.IN.E.R.)

Under the auspices of the

National Center for Social Research (EKKE)

 

Conference Venue: National Center for Social Research,

14-18 Mesogeion Avenue, Athens, Greece.

 

Organizing AND SCIENTIFIC Committee

 

1.      Dr. John Yfantopoulos, Head, Health Research Unit, ATINER, President, National Center for Social Research &, Professor of Health Economics and Social Policy, University of Athens, Greece. 

2.      Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER.

3.      Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

4.      Dr. Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos, Academic Member, Sociology Research Unit & Head, Tourism Research Unit, ATINER.

5.      Vivian Gales, Academic Member, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER & Assistant Professor, University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece.

6.       Dr. Theofilos Theophanides, Academic Member, ATINER & Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

7.      Zoi Boutsioli, Ph.D. Student, University of Kent, U.K.

 

 

ADMINISTRATION

Fani Balaska, Natasa Filiou, Eirini Letzou, Thomas Papanikos, Sylia Sakka

Conference Program

 

Monday, May 14th, 2007

(The time for each session includes a 10 minutes coffee break)

 

07:30-08:00 Registration

08:00-08:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

1.       1.      Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER.

2.       2.      Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER & Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

  

08:30-10:00 SESSION I: Structures and Challenges in a Changing World

Chair: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER & Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

 Murguia, S., Associate Professor, California State University San Bernardino, USA. Worldly Worries:  Global Conspiracies of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.

Agius, N., Lecturer, University of Malta, Malta. The Rise of Extreme Right Wing Politics in Malta.

Frey, R.S., Professor, The University of Tennessee, USA. Modernization and Sustainability in the World-System: The Cross-National Evidence.

.Biester, C., Researcher, University Duisburg, Germany. The Social Structure of Knowledge Societies.

 

10:00-11:40 SESSION II: Social Change in Comparative Perspectives

Chair: Dr. Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos, Academic Member, Sociology Research Unit & Head, Tourism Research Unit, ATINER.

1.      Ozmete, E., Associate Professor, Ankara University, Turkey & Gonen, E., Associate Professor, Ankara University, Turkey. Quality of Life as an Indicator of Human Development: An Ecosystem Approach.

2.      Kaipainen, P., Researcher, University of Turku, Finland. Analysing Biographies of World-Renowned Philosophers: Bourdieuan and Latourian Approaches in Comparison.

3.      Kivinen, O., Professor, University of Turku, Finland. Bourdieuan Habitus Versus Pragmatist Habits.

 

11:40-12:30 SESSION III: Back to the Classics: The Meeting of Sociology with Philosophy

Chair: Boulahanis, J.,  Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University, USA.

1.      McCarthy, G., Professor, Kenyon College, USA. “Aristotle and Weber: The Classical Origins of Phronesic or Moral Social Science.

2.      Evans, M., Chair, The Integrated Program in Human Studies. Kenyon College, USA. Herodotus, Logos … and Sociology.

 

12:30-14:00 SESSION IV: Health Care and Its Provision

Chair: Frey, R.S., Professor, The University of Tennessee, USA.

1.      Chappell, N., Professor, University of Victoria, Canada. Social Capital; How Important is it for Our Health?

2.      Drenovsky, C., Associate Professor, Shippensburg University, USA. An Investigation of Undergraduate Students’ Motivation for Pursuing or Avoiding Hospice Training.

3.      Malacrida, C., Associate Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada. Services for Mothers with Disabilities: Surveillance, Gender Struggles and Infantalization.

4.      Marx, M., Associate Professor, California State University, USA. A Case Study of Nurse Managers: How Networks Facilitate Communication in a Hospital’s Bureaucracy.

 

14:00-15:00: LUNCH (Inside the Conference Venue)

 

15:00-17:00 SESSION V: Ethnicity, Identity and Culture: Local Applications, Global Concerns

Chair: Chappell, N., Professor, University of Victoria, Canada.

1.      Kazemipur, A., Associate Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada. Cultural Diversity: An Asset or a Liability? The Case of Canada.

2.      Kang, H-K., Assistant Professor, Fordham University, USA. Contestation, Negotiation, and Historicity: Discursive Construction of Seattle’s International District.

3.      Katsas, G., Associate Professor, The American College of Greece. An Exploration of Social Exclusion: The Case of Pontians in Greece.

4.      Stefanescu, S., Researcher, Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy, Romania. National vs. European Identity and Social Representations of "Europe" in the Present Romanian Society.

5.      Lan, P.C. Associate Professor, National Taiwan University. Taiwan. White Priviledges, English Capital and Cultural Ghettolization: Westerner Marriage Migrants in Taiwan.

6.      Devadason, R., Researcher, University of Bristol, UK. Imagined Futures: Globalizing Cities, Migrations and Urban Identities.

7.      Erdogan, S., PhD Student, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Negotiating Identities in a Host Society.

 

 

17:00 – 18:00: SESSION VI: Constructions of Reality

Chair: Kazemipur, A., Associate Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada.

1.      Eneroth, B., Associate Professor, MAM/BTH, Sweden. On the Incidental and Casual Nature of Human Reality and Social World.

2.      Hablemitoglu, S., Associate Professor, Ankara University, Turkey. Women and Violence: A Research on Perceptions of Turkish Community Living in Holland.

3.      Clancy, S., M.A. Candidate, University of Guelph, Canada. Dressing our Identity: Symbolic Expression of our Bodies and Fashion in Identity Formation.

 

18:00-20:30 FREE AFTERNOON

SHOP AND WALK AROUND PLAKA AND ACROPOLIS

 

 

20:30-22:30 GREEK NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT        

Place: STAMATOPOULOS TAVERN, 26 Lissiou Street, Plaka, Tel.: 210 3228722

 

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

 

09:00-10:40 SESSION VII: Issues and Concerns in an Aging Society

Chair: Gales, V., Assistant Professor, University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece.

1.      Smith, D., Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg, Canada. Achieving Wisdom: Older Adults' Definitions of Spirituality and Expectations for Spiritual Care in a Long-term Residential Setting.

2.      Strain, L., Professor, University of Alberta, Canada, Wanless, D., Research Coordinator, University of Alberta, Canada & Maxwell, C., University of Calgary, Canada. Family Support for Frail Older Adults in Residential Care Settings.

3.      Wu, Z., Professor, University of Victoria, Canada, Penning, M., Associate Professor, University of Victoria, Canada, Zheng, C., Research Associate, University of Victoria, Canada, Schimmele, C., Ph.D. Student, University of Victoria, Canada & Noh, S., Professor, University of Toronto, Canada. Marital Status, Mental Illness, and Hospitall Utilization among Older Adults.

4.      Levy, P., Assistant Professor, Fort Hays State University, USA. Assessment Factors of Spirituality with Cultural Diverse Chronically Ill Adults and their Families.

5.   Oloyede, Olajide, Department Chair, University of Western Cape, South Africa. Narratives of Diabetes Among the Rural Poor in South Africa.

 

10:40-11:30 SESSION VIII: Policing, Safety, and Public Perceptions of Deviance

Chair: Levy, P., Assistant Professor, Fort Hays State University, USA.

1.      Boulahanis, J., Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University, USA. Mapping the Fear: The Social Construction of Homicide Pre and Post-Katrina in New Orleans.

2.      Lithopoulos, S., Researcher, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Canada. Comparative Indigenous Policing Models: Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

4.      Marks, P., Lecturer, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands & Van Sluis, A., Lectuter, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Comparative Analysis of Public Safety Policy of Antwerp and Rotterdam.

5.      Owen, M., Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg, Canada Violence in the Lives of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities.

 

11:30-13:30 SESSION IX: Deviance, Policing and Crime

Chair: Smith, D., Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg, Canada.

1.      Jennison, K., Professor, University of Northern Colorado, USA & Johnson, K., Director, University of Northern Colorado, USA. School Behavior Problems Among Young Children of Problem Drinking Parents: A National Intercohort Longitudinal Study in the United States: 1994-2004.

2.      Au, G., PhD Student, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The Social Construction of Drug Abuse in Hong Kong.

3.      Phua, V., Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College, USA. Clients, Sugar Daddies, or Mentors: Relationships between Kept-Boys and their Male Sponsors.

4.      Harris, C., Associate Professor, Michigan State University, USA. Synchronous Comparison of Risk Perceptions Concerning Food Safety of European and United States Consumers.

 

 

 

 13:30-14:30: LUNCH (INSIDE THE CONFERENCE VENUE)

 

 

 

 

14:30-16:40 SESSION X: Gendered Identities: Patterns and New Directions

Chair: Bolton, S., Professor, Strathclyde University, UK.

1.      Crane, B., Associate Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. Traditional and Changing Constructs of Femininity and Masculinity: Effects of Good Girl/Bad Girl &Tough Guy/Sweet Guy Dualities on Young Men and Women in the United States.

2.      Heasley, R., Associate Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. Changing Masculinities: Challenging Dominant Paradigms of Hetero-Masculinity.

3.      Kaye, P. Associate Professor, Principia College, USA & Miller, W., Associate Professor, Principia College, USA.  Global Voices & Women's Choices:  Areas of Critical Concern for Women's Advancement.

4.      Broyles, P., Associate Professor, Shippensburg University, USA. The Gender Pay Gap of Chemists.

5.   Pandelejmoni, E., Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria. Life Behind Walls-Women’s Everyday Life in Urban Shkodra First Half of the 20th Century.

 

 

 

17:00-20:00 FREE TIME FOR SHOPPING AROUND SYNTAGMA SQUARE OR/AND VISIT THE NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF ATHENS

 

 

20:00-21:30 DINNER    

Place: Hellenic American Union, Union Restaurant, 7th Floor, 5 Didotou & Massalias Street, 210 3680015.

 

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

One Day Cruise to the Aegean Islands (includes Lunch)
07:00 Bus Departure from Omonoia Square (Confirm Exact Time and Place during registration)

20:30 Return to the Center of Athens.

 

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Socio-Archaeological tour and lunch in a Greek Tavern

8:30: Bus Departure from the Center of Athens

10:00: Visit Elefsina

11:30: Visit the Cities of Megara, Alepochori, Psatha and Porto Germano

12:30: Lunch at Villia Village

14:30: Visit the City of Theva

16:00 Return to Athens