Informal Discussion Roundtables

Brian Starks, Kennesaw State University

Black Ethnic and Immigrant Families - Ivy Forsythe-Brown, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Bringing Bourdieu into Political Sociological Research - David L. Swartz, Boston University

Decades of Social Change: Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia and Central Asia - Mehrangiz Najafizadeh, University of Kansas

Democratic Organizing and the Academy - Elizabeth McKenna, University of California-Berkeley

Engaging Medical Clinicians in Qualitative Sociological Research - Chris Gillespie, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veteran's Hospital

Getting Your Applied Sociology Program Accredited: Tips From a Successful Program - Elizabeth A. Larsen, California University-Pennsylvania; Beverly Jane Ross, California University-Pennsylvania

Integrating Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence - Michelle VanNatta, Dominican University; Masae Yuasa, Hiroshima City University

Making the Invisible Visible: African American Women in the Criminal Justice System - Candice LaShell Hill, Texas A&M University; Louwanda Evans, Millsaps College

Mapping and Theorizing San Francisco Castro's Aging Population in an Era of Rising Inequality - Carmen E. Fortes, University of California-Davis

Precious Qualitative Interview - Archiving and Reanalysis Possibilties - Isabell Kathrin Stamm, University of California-Berkeley

Secondary and Vicarious Trauma in Teaching Gender Violence: Coping with Disclosures of Violence Victimization and Perpetration - Christine Plumeri, Monroe Community College

Social Movements and Popular Culture - Jesse Klein, Florida State University

Sociological Mindfulness and Altruism: The Interdependence of Presence, Praxis, and Societal Change - Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Alliant International University and Coherent Change Consulting; John Eric Baugher, University of Southern Maine

The Health of Nations: Examining Health Care Reforms in China and Russia - Shih-Chi Lin, University of Oregon

The Occupational Attainment of Asian Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities - Sanga Kim, University of Iowa