Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Kate Cairns, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers

Social Class, Scarcity, and Nutrition Transitions: Pressures Shaping Eating Behaviors in Urban Mexico - Susan Bridle-Fitzpatrick, Tulane University

All Consuming: Using Consumer Culture to Teach Sociological Thinking - Kate Cairns, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers; Josee Johnston, University of Toronto

Vette-ing the American Dream: Nostalgia, Social Capital and Corvette Communities - Virginia Katherine D'Antonio, Northern Virginia Community College

Household Consumption of Financial Instruments and Wealth Inequality - Angelina Grigoryeva, Princeton University

New Urbanism, Consumer-citizenship and the Emerging ‘Eco-habitus’ - Sergio Antonio Cabrera, University of Texas-Austin

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Terence Emmett McDonnell, University of Notre Dame

Tracing Patterns in Meaning Instability over an Object's Life Course - Terence Emmett McDonnell, University of Notre Dame

Things That Don’t Talk: Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park and Brute Meanings of Cultural Objects - Fiona Rose-Greenland, University of Chicago

Materiality and Inarticulacy - Chandra Mukerji, University of California-San Diego

To Show or To Use? Examining the Means and Ends of Museum Collection Objects - Gemma Mangione, Northwestern University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Paul R. Lichterman, University of Southern California

New metaphors for investigating culture in everyday life - Edson Cruz Rodriguez, University of Southern California; Kushan Dasgupta, University of Southern California; Paul R. Lichterman, University of Southern California

Uncovering Embedded Stealth Subcultures Within Formal Institutions: The Case of Mainstream Meditation - Jaime Kucinskas, Hamilton College

Talk About Good Engineering - Joseph Klett, Yale University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Frederick Schiff, University of Houston

Enjoy or Resist? Audience Reception of Revolutionary Model Operas in Communist China - Hexuan Zhang, University of Virginia

Explicit and Symbolic Violence in Rap Music, 1992-2014 - Nick Bloom, Duke University; Brian Aronson, State University of New York-Stony Brook

Martin Scorsese’s Sojourn as the Iconic American White-Ethnic - Paul D. Lopes, Colgate University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Vera L. Zolberg, New School for Social Research

Collective Memories and Cultural Identities in Transitional China - Wenjie Liao, University of Minnesota

Whitewashing the Nation - The Controversial Collective Memory of the “House of Terror” in Budapest - Helge Johannes Marahrens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Four Little Girls - Birmingham’s Trauma Narrative - Sandra K. Gill, Gettysburg College

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Michelle F. Weinberger, Northwestern University

A Life Course Perspective on Cultural Capital Acquisition - Lok See Loretta Ho, University of Toronto; Blair Wheaton, University of Toronto; Shyon S. Baumann, University of Toronto

Bridging Spaces, Cultural Capital and Gender in Two Grassroots Music Scenes - Diana Lee Miller, University of Toronto

Structural Gender Inequalities and Gender Differences in Highbrow Cultural Consumption - Susan Lagaert, Ghent University; Henk Roose, Ghent University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Bruno Cousin, University of Lille 1

Sailing Ships in Murky Waters: Boundary Making through Contentious Fan Practices on Tumblr - Victoria Marie Gonzalez, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers

The Cultural Logic of Whiteness: Symbolic Boundaries, White Racial Framing, and White Supremacist Discourse - Marshall Allen Taylor, University of Notre Dame

The Role of Symbolic Boundaries in the Social Stratification of Intellectuals - Will Keats-Osborn, University of British Columbia

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

For Good and Country: Nationalism and the Diffusion of Humanitarianism in the Late Nineteenth Century - Shai M. Dromi, Yale University

Politics of Incivility in Post-Colonial Hong Kong - Siu Han Chan, United International College, Hong Kong

Sequencing Whistle Blowers: An Exploration of Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden from 2010-2014 - Naniette Helene Coleman, University of California-Berkeley

Varieties of Opinion Polarization: Analysis of Public Opinion Structure of South Korea - Myung Ji Yang, University of Hawaii-Manoa; Dong Kyun Im, University of Seoul

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Joseph G. A. Trumino, St. John's University

Familiarity and Moderation as Taste Markers - Tracing the Blasé Attitude in Musical Taste - Friedolin Merhout, Duke University

Prestige and Homophily: The Interactional Advantages of Cultural Tastes - Matthew Stimpson, University of California-Berkeley; Sandra Kai Nakagawa, Stanford University

What Does Friendship Mean? How Cultural Capital Conditions the Meanings of Social Relationships - Kyle Puetz, University of Arizona

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Chelsea Rae Kelly, University of Georgia

Emerging Adulthood and Reinventing Community: Productive Instability in Contemporary Institutions - Matty Lichtenstein, University of California - Berkley

Planning the Means and Ends of Post-Service Life - Meredith A. Kleykamp, University of Maryland; Sidra J. Montgomery, University of Maryland; Alexis Pang, New York University; Kristin Schrader, GBX Consultants, Inc.

College Republicans and the Moral Order - Jeffrey L. Kidder, Northern Illinois University

Crafting Identities in an Age of Individualism: An Ethnographic Study of Life Coaching - Michal Pagis, Bar-Ilan University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

A Return to Strauss: Imagining the City - Carolyn Chernoff, Skidmore College

Place and Position Taking in a Decentering Global Field - Samuel Shaw, Vanderbilt University

Toward a Social Topography: Status as a Spatial Practice - Zach Richer, University of Maryland

Arts in the City: Key Currents in the Urban Sociology of Art - Nicholas P. Dempsey, Eckerd College

False Consciousness in a Spraycan: Discussing Street Art and its Social Control in Austin, Texas - Rachel Romero, Texas State University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Fernando Dominguez-Rubio, University of California-San Diego

Durkheim's Two Semiotics - Andrea Cossu, University of Trento

Is another Social Science Possible? The Decolonial Option. - Alexander I. Stingl, Drexel University

Semiotization and Strategization: From Intelligibility to Efficacy - Marc Garcelon, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Iva Petkova, Davidson College

Carnivalization, Dionic Action, and the Transformation of Normal - Diane M. Grams, Loyola University-Chicago; Lauren Langman, Loyola University-Chicago

Comedians Doing Bits: Reconsidering the Autotelic Quality of Play - Nathan James Dern, Columbia University

Lost in Hyper-Reality: The End of American Generations in Actuality - Anna Brinkman, Sogang University; Seil Oh, Sogang University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Representing ‘Middle East Women’: A Critical Analysis of The Fertile Crescent Project - Nil Uzun, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers

Imagination and Metaphor: Explaining Social Generational Change in Support for Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S. - Peter Hart-Brinson, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Karen Hooge Michalka, University of Notre Dame

Perceived Value Compatibility in a Muslim American Community - Melissa J. K. Howe, NORC-University of Chicago

The Episodic and the Semantic: Future Scenario Building in a Migratory Context - Maria Islas Lopez, University of Denver

Waiting for Gadeaux: A Case Study of the Tempography of Hyper-Marginalization in New Orleans - Daina Cheyenne Harvey, College of the Holy Cross

The Moral Economies of Self-interest: The Case of Proposition 202 (2008) “Arizona Stop Illegal Hiring” - Luis Antonio Vila-Henninger, University of Arizona

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Nathaniel Porter, Pennsylvania State University

Feeling Heavy, Feeling Doomed: Narratives, Embodiment, and Authentic Cultural Engagement - Benjamin Lee Hutcherson, University of Colorado

Sociology of Karaoke - Joanna Rullo, University of California-Davis

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Charles Spurlock, Langston University

Developing the Theory of Popularity: An Empirical Assessment of Stability and Social Position - Tristan L. Botelho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Phech Colatat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gatekeeping, Homophily, and Status Orders among Live-Music Venues in Atlanta - Yun Tai, University of Virginia

Theorizing the Field of Localized Music Venues: Hierarchies and Segmentation - Nikki-Marie Brown, McMaster University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Stephen Harold Riggins, Memorial University

Commercialization and legitimacy in the Field of Popular Music - Vaughn Schmutz, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Pop Careers: Changing Locational Dynamics of Charting Musicians from Vinyl Age to Digital Age - Amanda Brandellero, University of Amsterdam; Marc Verboord, Erasmus University Rotterdam

The Role of Gender and Race in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Sara Ashlee Bledsoe, Emory University

To Purchase or Pirate: Copyright Infringement and the Valuation of Digital Media. - Lance Stewart, University of Toronto

Music as a Technology of Mental Well-Being - Daniel Semenza, Emory University

Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, University of California-Los Angeles

Jeffrey A. Halley, University of Texas-San Antonio

Restoring the Jersey Shore after Sandy: Art and Asserting Community - Elizabeth Borland, College of New Jersey; Jessica Scardino, College of New Jersey