ASAA
THE 2002 ARKANSAS
SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Annual Conference
Globalization and Inequalities
October 4, 2002
Donaghey Student Center
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
8:30 - 8:50 a.m.: Registration
Refreshment by Dr. David Briscoe
DSC Room A
8:50 - 8:55 a.m.: Welcome
Dr. Alan Marks, Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Gerontology, UALR.
SESSIONS:
DSC Room A
9:00 - 9:50 a.m.:
- David Briscoe (UALR): "An Ethnographic Analysis of a Small African Community in Northeast Carbondale, Illinois with Emphasis on Selected Cases of Elderly African Americans and their relationship with Kin as Advocates of Formal Services."
- Steve Worden and John King (UA): "A Content Analysis: Identifying a Religious Program from the Writings of the Founder."
- Gordon D. Morgan (UA): "The Sociology of Whiteness: A Course First in Arkansas."
DSC Room B
10:00 - 10:50 a.m.:
- Allison Vetter (UCA): "Premarital Cohabitation, Marital Quality and Risk of Divorce: Testing the Selection Hypothesis."
- David Briscoe (UALR): "Women of Color and their Perspective of Radical Feminists."
- Alan Marks (UALR): "Conceptualizations of Suicidal Behavior."
PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
DSC Room C
10:00 - 10:50 a.m.:
- M. Doug Buffalo (UALR): Human Subjects Review Committee
Panelists: John King (UA), Ed Powers (UCA), Doc Gibson (HSU), Don Well (HSU), Joyce Shepard (HSU), Shanta Sharma (HSU).
DSC Room A
11:00 - 11:50 a.m.:
- Terry Richard (UALR): 9/11 Revisited: A Look at American Policy and the War on Terrorism
Panelists: Alan Marks (UALR), Robert E. Sanderson (UALR), Caroline Turturro (UALR).
LUNCH (on your own):
12:00 - 12:50 p.m.: UALR Capital Dining in DSC
STUDENT SESSIONS:
DSC Room A
1:00 - 1:50 p.m.: Kinko Ito (UALR): Potpourri 1
- Arlene Johnson (UALR): "The Abortion Dilemma: A Re-examination of a Student's Perspective."
- Shawn Bakr (UALR): "Can Family Structure Predict Children's Educational Attainment?"
- Erica Whitefield (UALR): "A Comparative Analysis of Women and Newborn Nutrition: Perspective and Behavior."
- Casondia Robinson (UALR): "Changing an African-American Community from Inside Out."
DSC Room B
2:00 - 2:50 p.m.:
- Kinko Ito (UALR): Potpourri 2
- Lisa Bilello (UALR): "The Changes in UALR Faculty 1972 - 2002."
- Monique Miller (UALR): "Target Distribution Center: An Organizational Analysis."
- Angie Turner (UALR): "Zen Buddhism."
- Joseph McSherry (UALR): "Police and Society in Japan."
- Karen Tricot (UALR): "Life as a Stage: Impression Management."
BUSINESS MEETING:
DSC Room C
3:00 - 3:50 p.m.: Presidential address by Shanta Sharma (HSU)
Business meeting
DINNER:
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Restaurant to be decided
Arkansas Sociological and Anthropological Association: http://www.ualr.edu/~asaa