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2010 annual meeting page
MSS-NCSA Joint Annual Meeting
Meeting Theme: "Communities in an Age of Social Transformation"
Dates: Weds, Mar 31 - Saturday, Apr 3, 2010
Place: Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
Meeting Participation Deadlines:
Jan 25 - Last day to withdraw session or paper.
Mar 1 - Last day to submit papers to discussant.
Mar 12 - Last day to
POSTMARK by-mail pre-registration or to
PRE-REGISTER ONLINE.
Submit employment forms to MSS.
Request childcare or disability accommodation.
Take advantage of discounted hotel registration.
Apply for student travel awards.
PRE-REGISTRATION has ended for the upcoming annual meeting.
You may simultaneously join MSS AND?OR register for the meeting onsite in Chicago, beginning Wednesday, March 31, at 10:00 am.
PLEASE do not send membership payments to the MSS Exec Office between March 12 and March 31.
The exec officer does NOT have time to process them in this busy period right before the annual meeting!
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING
Registration rates will be:
$95 Nonstudent MSS members
$35 Student MSS members
$115 Nonmembers of MSS
Membership rates will be:
$21 student membership
$55 regular membership
$70 joint membership
$110 sustaining membership
$140 joint sustaining membership.
We hope to see you in Chicago!
If your child must accompany you to the annual meeting, MSS will help you subsidize quality childcare by paying up to 50% of the cost of quality childcare while you attend daytime conference sessions. To receive this benefit, you must first register for the meeting and make child care arrangements before March 12, 2010,by contacting Local Arrangements Chair David Boden, Lake Forest University by email, or by phone at (847)735-5254. A 4-hour minimum may apply; and child care takes place in your Marriott hotel room.
The MSS offers travel reimbursements of $100 each to 90 student members who participate in the annual meeting. To qualify, you must
Be a current MSS member,
Act as a presenter, organizer or discussant of an annual meeting session,
Pre-register for the 2010 annual meeting before Friday March 12th, and
Submit your request via e-mail by Friday March 12th to Student Director Sadie Pendaz by email.
In your email, include the following information:
Put “MSS Travel Award” in the e-mail subject line
In the body of the e-mail include: (1) your full name, (2) your institutional affiliation, (3) the session number in which you are participating. [Use the links at top of this page to access the session listing and its index.]
Award winners are randomly drawn from all applicants. [Last year - 130 applicants and 90 winners!]
If your name is randomly drawn, you will be notified in advance of the meeting, and can pick up your check at the 5th-floor MSS egistration desk in Chicago.
If your department has a job opening and wishes to have that position listed at the MSS Annual Meeting Employment Center, please complete this
Employer Position Form and ffollow the directions on the form for submitting it by March 12 to Local Arrangements Chair David Boden.
Employment-seeking Form
If you wish to have your credentials available to prospective employers at the MSS Employment Center, please complete this Employment-seeking Form and follow the directions on the form for submitting it by March 12 to Local Arrangements Chair David Boden.
Must I be an MSS member to participate in the conference?
Participants in the Annual Meeting must be members of the MSS. The only exceptions are foreign sociologists, non-sociologists and certain invited guests. The President-Elect, with assistance from the Executive Office, has the primary responsibility for ensuring that participants are members.[from the MSS Policies & Procedures.]
Annual Meeting Hotel - The Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, 540 North Michigan Ave.
FAQ: your hotel reservation
ALL rooms [single, double, triple, or quad] are $114 plus applicable taxes.
You must use the web page/phone number listed below to get the discount rate.
All conference sessions and events will take place at the Marriott.
NEW NEW NEW As of 3-15-10, discounted rooms are STILL available; and will be offered indefinitely, until the hotel runs out of rooms in the block.
MAKING YOUR HOTEL RESERVATION: [Please READ these directions.]
(1) Have your credit card ready. (2) The 'RESERVE YOUR ROOM' link will take you to 'Passkey,' Marriott's secure MSS-NCSA reservations web page. (3) SAVE your acknowledgment number in case you need to make a change.
If you are told that there are no rooms, try changing the type of room you're asking for. If you have questions, other difficulties, or are unable to complete your reservation, please phone MSS [608-787-8551]; or email MSS.
WARNING: The annual meeting packet gave a Passkey phone number as an alternate way to make a reservation, but people are not having good luck with this method. Please make your reservation using the link above, if possible; or call MSS for help.
MSS will also provide reasonable accommodations for disabilities. To make arrangements, please contact Local Arrangements Chair David Boden, Lake Forest University by email, or by phone at (847)735-5254. before March 12.
MSS offers an opportunity at the annual meeting to employers seeking to meet and interview candidates; and to prospective employees seeking to meet employers.
Please select the employer or employment-seeking form below; and follow directions for submission.
SPECIAL EVENTS & TOURS
TRANSPORTATION
Student events at the MSS-NCSA Joint Meeting
The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) will once again host the Carl Couch Banquet during the MSS annual meetings. The banquet will be held on Friday evening, April 2nd, from 7:00 pm until approximately 10:00 pm, at Nacional 27, a Latin-themed restaurant located at 325 W. Huron, about three blocks walk from the Chicago Marriott, site of the MSS meetings. [Preview your experience by visiting the restaurant’s website: Directions to Nacional 27 will be provided to those who sign up to attend.
We’ll start at 7 pm with a cocktail hour (cash bar, of course). Dinner will begin at 8:00 pm and conclude by 10:00 pm. The dinner menu will be five courses: First course: Chips, salsa and guacamole; second course – tapas; third course – salad; fourth course – entrees; fifth course – dessert [not included in your advance cost, but can be added, if desired]. They will accommodate special dietary requests, if known in advance.
The cost of the dinner will be $60 per person. This price includes tax and gratuity. I’m sure you understand that our contractual arrangements with the restaurant require an advance commitment and payments. Therefore, your reservation will not be made until the coordinator has received your check. Please note: Reservations must be postmarked on or before Friday, March 12, in order for your seat to be guaranteed. For more information, contact Laurie at (515) 988-4810 or by email.
Where is the student suite? Get directions at 5th-floor registration as soon as you arrive.
Just for student members: The student hospitality suite in the Chicago Marriott Downtown will be open to MSS and NCSA student members throughout the conference. In the suite, we’ll have free snacks, and information about local food and entertainment. It’s a great place to meet and socialize with fellow sociology students!
Need travel funds? $9000 available! See below! The MSS offers travel reimbursements of $100 each to 90 student members who participate in the annual meeting. Interested? Go here.
Meet ‘n greet on Wednesday!
On Wednesday at 7 pm - join us for a quick conference overview/meet & greet.
Pizza party on Friday!!
Join us again on Friday night for a pizza party in the hospitality suite.Just $3 – and show your conference badge. See you there!
IRegister for the meeting NOW!
f you haven't joined MSS or registered for the meeting yet - do it now, so that you'll receive emailed information and special invitations during the run-up to the meeting. But be SURE to do it before March 12 - that's the cutoff date for advance registration.
Tour Cost:: $40 each. Includes transportation, tour materials, and small donation to Chicago Center.
The West Side is often overlooked by visitors to Chicago. While more “gritty” than other areas of the city, West Side has a wide diversity of vibrant ethnic communities. From the trendy neighborhoods in West Town to the excitement of Pilsen, this tour will cover the array of socioeconomic conditions and urban responses: communities in transition is most definitely the focus here.
Tour Organizers: Chicago Center for Urban Life & Culture.*
*About the Chicago Center: The Chicago Center was founded in the late sixties when a group of college professors and students came to Chicago to create a hands-on learning environment. The organization incorporated as a non-profit in 1970 and was known as the Urban Life Center until 2006. Recognized nationwide as a leader in experiential education, the organization took Chicago Center as its new name, to reflect their commitment and relationship to one of North America’s most dynamic cities. Chicago Center’s mission is to equip college students and other participants to learn from diverse urban communities through innovative programs, seminars and internships. The Center expands the traditional classroom with a community-based, first-voices pedagogy that prepares its students for greater self-awareness and global citizenship.
TOUR #2
Burnham’s City Beautiful Tour of Chicago
Thursday, April 1, 1:00 - 2:30 pm.
Maximum of 25 per tour.
Tour cost: $25 per tour/ $40 for both. Includes transportation and tour materials.
TOUR #3
Burnham’s City Beautiful Tour of Chicago - SAME as Tour #2, except for time!
Thursday, April 1, 2:30 - 4:00 pm.
Maximum of 25 per tour.
Tour cost: $25 per tour/ $40 for both. Includes transportation and tour materials.
Daniel Burnham, an architect and urban planner of the City Beautiful school, left an indelible stamp on the city of Chicago. Burnham was motivated by a desire to keep the city appealing to upper and middle-class residents and to provide cultural uplift for the lower class and immigrant population. His efforts in this regard were manifest in the “White City” of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, a variety of buildings in the loop, and the celebrated 1909 “Plan of Chicago,” written with Edward Bennett. Burnham’s thumbprint is still visible on the city - and still included in urban and regional planning discussions.
Take one of two tours (or do both): Tour One - Navy Pier and downtown; Tour Two - Jackson Park (the site of the Columbian Exposition) and the South Side. Tour One focuses on the Plan of Chicago and its continuing influence in Chicagoland; Tour Two focuses on Burnham’s vision for the future of the city and the history of Chicago as a “dual metropolis.” The tours will occur sequentially with a hotel stop between them.
Tour Organizer: Holly Swyers, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lake Forest College.
TOUR #4
Black Metropolis Tour
Friday, April 2, 8:30 am – 11:00 am.
Maximum of 36 per tour.
Tour Cost: $35 each. Includes transportation and tour materials.
Chicago is well known as a city divided along race lines. This tour focuses upon the African-American experience in two neighborhoods of vibrant cultural energy: Bronzeville and “back of the yards.” Discover the “other” Chicago.
Tour Organizer: Erik Gellman, Department of History and Philosophy, Roosevelt University.
TOUR #5
Discovering the Chicago School
Friday, April 2, 9:00 am – noon.
Maximum of 36 per tour.
Tour cost: $25. Includes transportation and tour materials.
The Chicago School of Urban Sociology produced some of the most memorable studies of urban life in the 1920s. While many of the neighborhoods have been lost to the aggressive urban renewal programs of the 1960s and the 1990s, there is still much to be seen.
The Gold Coast and the Slum: In many respects the near north side neighborhoods are much as described by Harvey Zorbaugh in the 1920s. Artists’ lofts and galleries may be found in Tower Town; high-rise apartments are located along the Gold Coast; several blocks away is tenement housing and the remains of the older SRO rooming houses described by Zorbaugh as the “world of furnished rooms;” beyond that is the area known as Little Hell. This area figured prominently in Frederick Thrasher’s The Gang and is also the neighborhood where “Stanley,” the delinquent jack-roller, lived for the first seventeen years of his life as recorded in Clifford Shaw’s The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story.
Cabrini Green Public Housing Projects and Marshall Field Apartments: Before the introduction of public housing, wealthy philanthropists developed private low-income housing, as seen in the vaguely art-deco Marshall Field Apartments built in 1928. Cabrini Green was built not just in the midst of Little Italy, but at the precise coordinates of Little Hell (North Avenue and Clybourne) which, even in the 1920s, had the city’s highest incidence of murder. The project earned a well-deserved reputation for being one of the country’s worst public housing projects.
Polish Peasant in Europe and America: The Milwaukee-North Avenue area was the central axis for the Polish community in Chicago in the first decade of the 1900s when W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki began work on what would become The Polish Peasant. Although not usually connected with the Chicago School studies, it is clear that Thomas was the pivotal figure in the Chicago School: It was Thomas who recruited Robert Park to the university, and students were instructed in the collection and use of personal documents throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Although Thomas and Znaniecki discuss the social disorganization of the immigrant community, they emphasize the reconstruction of immigrant cultures in the urban metropolis.
The Hobo: The title of Nels Anderson’s study may obscure its relevance for urban research at the beginning of the new millennium. Subtitled The Sociology of the Homeless Man, Anderson begins by differentiating among some seven different types of homeless men; the hobo is but one of these characteristic types. His descriptions of hobo life are based upon personal experience. Especially interesting are his maps showing the various urban institutions which concentrate in the area around Madison and Halsted Streets.
The Ghetto: Louis Wirth’s dissertation presents a study of the historical development of the Jewish ghetto in Europe and, in the second half of the book, a study of Jewish immigration and the formation of the Jewish ghettoes in Chicago. We have a description of the Halsted Street ghetto in the 1920s as well as the expansion of the ghetto into “Deutschland” along 22nd Street and Independence Boulevard, where the Marx Brothers would perform in Yiddish theaters in the 1930s.
Tour Organizer: Ray Hutchison, Urban and Regional Studies, UW – Green Bay
TOUR #6
Tour of Chicago’s North Side
Friday, April 2, 9:30 am – noon.
Maximum of 13 per tour.
Tour Cost:: $40 each. Includes transportation, tour materials, and small donation to Chicago Center.
The transformation of North Side communities from River North and Cabrini Green to Boystown, Uptown, and Devon Street will be part of a comprehensive look at gentrification, development and displacement north of the Loop. Known mostly for Lincoln Park and Wrigleyville, the North Side is a complex cornucopia of cultures, religions and nationalities which extends far beyond the stereotype of the Gold Coast and yuppies. See more info in Tour #1 description.
Tour Organizers: Chicago Center for Urban Life & Culture.*
*About the Chicago Center: The Chicago Center was founded in the late sixties when a group of college professors and students came to Chicago to create a hands-on learning environment. The organization incorporated as a non-profit in 1970 and was known as the Urban Life Center until 2006. Recognized nationwide as a leader in experiential education, the organization took Chicago Center as its new name, to reflect their commitment and relationship to one of North America’s most dynamic cities. Chicago Center’s mission is to equip college students and other participants to learn from diverse urban communities through innovative programs, seminars and internships. The Center expands the traditional classroom with a community-based, first-voices pedagogy that prepares its students for greater self-awareness and global citizenship.
Sign up for tours when you register. To add another tour later, just complete another registration form, paying only for the additional tour.
FINAL PROGRAM:This pdf document is the FINAL program for the MSS-NCSA conference, and includes a name index, with session [not page!] numbers.
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Need to contact someone in your session? Use the Preliminary Program Index, below, to look up email addresses, but PAY NO ATTENTION to the session numbers in this index, as they are outdated.
MISTAKES in the program? A list of errata will be compiled and handed out with the program book. Send updates to Deb Swanson.
Graduate Students: Earn a 2010 NCSA-MSS Future Faculty Certificate! Graduate students who attend any THREE of the sessions marked in BOLD text and any TWO additional sessions l will receive a certificate of completion. For each session you attend, have the session presider initial the Future Faculty tracking sheet that will be included with your program material.
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