Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Michael W. Raphael, CUNY Graduate Center

Culture and cognition: The Durkheimian principle of sui generis synthesis vs. cognitive-based models of culture - Dmitry Kurakin, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Do Beliefs Matter? A Theoretical Discussion - Anna Holleman, Duke University

Sociology’s Emancipation from Philosophy: The Influence of Francis Bacon on Emile Durkheim - Shawn Van Valkenburgh, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Notion of Environment in Durkheim’s Sociology: Notes on the Differences Between Critical Realism and Quasi-Realism - Michael W. Raphael, CUNY Graduate Center

The Sacred in Sociology - Kevin Moran, Bloomfield College

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Hannah Waight, Princeton University

John Austin on Quantum Physics: Agency and the Non-Existent Present - Brien Hallett, University of Hawaii

On Relevance and Experience: A Schutzian Perspective to Biographical Research - Hermílio Santos, PUCRS

Pragmatism and Social Science: John Dewey’s Challenge - Hannah Waight, Princeton University

Pragmatism’s Problem of Habit and Parsons’ Action System Solution: a problem suppressed and a solution eluded - Michael E. Bare, University of Chicago

Rethinking the Time’s Arrow. Beginnings and the Sociology of the Future - Filipe Carreira da Silva, University of Lisbon

The Abstraction Problematic of The Body, Ours And Parsons - Michael E. Bare, University of Chicago

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Ken Cai Kowalski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From Elicitation of Beliefs to Observation of Readings in Opinion Research - Ken Cai Kowalski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

On Studying Collective Emotions in Culture - Rebecca Blackwell, University of South Florida

Violence and Social Order - Liam Downey, University of Colorado

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Samantha Leonard, Brandeis University

Performance, Performative: Thinking About Failure - Samantha Leonard, Brandeis University

The Embodied Dimensions of Creativity - Gordon Brett, University of Toronto

Theorizing Online Interaction: Three Perspectives - Audra Dugandzic, University of Notre Dame

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Paul Joosse, University of Hong Kong

Beyond us versus them: How national identities influence attitudes formation in response to nation-disturbing events - Yuval Feinstein, University of Haifa

Incredulous Onlookers and Social Levitation: Theorizing The Charismatic Performance of Donald Trump - Paul Joosse, University of Hong Kong

Shifting Modes of Conservative Thought and the Unsurprising 2016 Election Results - Joseph Lee Crane, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Almost Sovereign: Kosovo's NEWBORN Monument and the Indeterminacy of the State - Alissa Boguslaw, Coe College

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Sophia Boutilier, Stony Brook University

Consecration as a Population-Level Phenomenon - Fabien Accominotti, London School of Economics

Habits of the [Voluntary and Youthful] Heart: Individualism and Collectivism in Adulthood Transitions - Patricia Snell Herzog, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Solidarity from a Position of Privilege: Emotions as Bridges and Walls to Development Work - Sophia Boutilier, Stony Brook University

The Social Function of the Self: A Re-reading of George H. Mead on Self - Shanyang Zhao, Temple University

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Michael Hammond, University of Toronto

Advertising and Assemblages - Steven W. Sherlock, Saginaw Valley State University

Rethinking Imperialism with the Uneasy Category In-Between Imperiality and Coloniality - Pia Furkan, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Veda Hyunjin Kim, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Systems Diffused: The Modern Paradigm Shift in Economics, Politics and Culture - Armond Scott Hardwick, UC Riverside

The Sociological Theory of Reward Redistribution in the Body and the Easterlin Paradox in Well-Being Measures in the U.S. - Michael Hammond, University of Toronto

Viral Biopower: Emergence and proliferation of HIV and its consequence for global life and culture - Dean R. Ray, York University

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Dana Kornberg, University of Michigan

Competing for Jurisdiction: The Struggle for Practical Legitimation and the Persistence of Informal Economic Institutions - Dana Kornberg, University of Michigan

Habitus and How Kenyan Women Learned To Say ‘No’ To Female Genital Cutting - Young Eun Nam, Purdue University

Legal Standards and Moral Worth in Frontline Decision-Making: Evaluations of Victimization in US Asylum Determinations - Talia Shiff, Harvard University

Social Futures and Sociological Response: Climate Change - Jeffrey Broadbent, University of Minnesota; Pradip Swarnakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

The forest for the trees: Reintegrating cultural theory into Environmental Sociology - Allison Ford, University of Oregon

Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

Oded Marom, University of Southern California

Academic freedom at its roots: From Iqalto Academy to modern universities - Mariam Orkodashvili, Vanderbilt University

Being a secular teacher in a religious school: About passing and everyday forms of resistance - Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Monash University; Lotem Perry-Hazan, University of Haifa; Elizabeth Muzikovskaya, University of Haifa

General Theory of Action and Higher Education and Research: Parsons/Platt the American University Revisited - Helmut Staubmann, University of Innsbruck; Victor Meyer Lidz, Drexel University College of Medicine

Trying Not to Think About It: The Limits of Inter-ideological Collaboration in Prefigurative Movements - Oded Marom, University of Southern California