223 - Thematic Session. Sexual Harassment in the Social World

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Sexual harassment has become a key social problem, affecting both how targeted victims function as well as permeating the environments of those witnessing the harassment. This panel brings together prominent sociologists who will draw on their own empirical research and theoretical insights to address such issues as: How does sexual harassment intersect with racial harassment? What structural and cultural processes enable sexual harassment to occur and continue? In what ways do cultural understandings of body weight affect sexual harassment? As more interpersonal exchanges use electronic communications, how is sexual harassment mediated, intensified, or diffused by the internet? In what ways has the discipline of sociology changed how it has studied and understood sexual harassment and how do we as sociologists need to reconsider our own theoretical formulations, emphases, and empirical foci?

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Elizabeth A. Hoffmann, Purdue University

Presider

• Anna-Maria Marshall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Panelists

• Heather McLaughlin, Oklahoma State University

• Sandy Welsh, University of Toronto

• Abigail C. Saguy, University of California-Los Angeles

• Mary Thierry Texeira, California State University-San Bernardino