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50205 - Big Problems, Middle-Range Theories
Tue, August 12, 8:00 to 9:30am, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Concourse Level/Bronze, Michigan 1CDescription
This session seeks to highlight research that engages creatively with important contemporary social problems—climate change, political polarization, inequality, and racism, to name just a few possibilities. The session thus responds to multiple, prominent, recent calls to ground sociological theorizing in solving real social problems (Watts 2017; Prasad 2018). Consistent with these calls, we are particularly interested in work that (1) helps to resolve theoretical incoherencies by adopting a solution-oriented approach or (2) develops and tests middle-range theories in the context of specific social problems that have seen inadequate engagement by sociologists.
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Individual-Level Performance in a Diverse Group: Field Evidence from Microfinance in Mexico - Minjae Kim, Yale University; Minkyung Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
Landlord Aversion and Residential Segregation: An Agent-Based Simulation of Micro Segregation - Hao Liang, Cornell University; Keiichi Satoh, Hitotsubashi University
Limits to Helping in a Helping Profession: The Social Context of Psychiatrist Public Insurance Opt-Out - Daniel Tadmon, University of Notre Dame
Relational Mechanisms and Health Disparities - Chen-Shuo Hong, National Taiwan University; Linda Zhao, University of Chicago
Unmaking Boundaries: Inter-faction Dynamics during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests - Weijun Yuan, University of Chicago