“Reimagining the Future of Work” was the theme of this year’s American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, which was held in Chicago, IL from August 8-12, 2025.
Several Cornell Sociology Community members participated in the 120th ASA meeting. Their involvement in the conference is outlined below:
Pre-conference session:
The Sociology of Climate Change - Dan Hirschman and Jamie Louise Budnick
Regular Session. Intergenerational Mobility:
Is College Really ‘the’ Equalizer? Accounting for the Hidden Barriers to Social Mobility - Haowen Zheng
Section on Sociology of Culture. Culture and Computational Social Science. (Co-sponsored by Section on Mathematical Sociology):
Generative AI in Sociological Research: A Survey of Computational Sociologists - AJ Alvero
Regular Session. Elections and Partisan Politics:
Social Bases of Partisanship: Cleavage Structures and Intersections - Barum Park
Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility:
Safety Net Policies and Income Inadequacy at the Transition to Parenthood - Kelly Musick & Chae Kim
Section on International Migration Roundtables. Immigration Policy and Politics (table 12):
Safe Third Country Agreements and the Protection of Rights - Nathan Ly
Section on Labor and Labor Movements Roundtables:
Session organizer, Andrew Wolf
Sociology of Education Roundtables. DEI Policies in Education (table 8):
The place of international students in Institutional Diversity Messages of US higher Education Institutions - Jaeun Lim
Sociology of Education Roundtables. Equity, Belonging, and Identity: Unpacking the Forces Shaping Educational Outcomes (table 17):
Examining Immigrant School Belonging: An Alternative Consideration of Retention and Academic Achievement - E. Lee
Regular Session. Emerging Work Practices in the Age of AI:
Session organizer, Karen Levy
Section on Aging and the Life Course. Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood:
Early Arrests, Network Disadvantage, and Legal Cynicism Across the Life Course - Lili Dodderidge & Erin York Cornwell
Regular Session. The Culture and Politics of Emerging Technology:
Presider and Organizer, Karen Levy
Thematic Session. Drugs, Money, and Work:
Drug courts, employment, and wages - Sadé Lindsay
Section on Methodology. Machine Learning and Classical Statistical Approaches: Trade-offs, Integration, and Debate (Co-sponsored by Section on Mathematical Sociology):
Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy - AJ Alvero
Regular Session. Urban Mobility:
Contextualizing Exposure: Social Connectedness, Social Participation, and Daily Urban Mobility Patterns - Álvaro Padilla Pozo
Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables, Social Networks, Isolation, and Aging (table 4):
Session organizer and table presider, Adriana Reyes
Regular Session. Digital Sociology: Politics, Artificial Intelligence, and Online Community:
From Blue Lives Matter to Black Lives Matter: Hashtag Hijacking During the George Floyd Protests - AJ Alvero
Thematic Session. Opportunities and Barriers in Today’s World of Work: Democratizing Work and Ownership:
Panelist, Shannon Gleeson
Regular Session. Place and Inequality:
Place-Based and Person-Based Investment in Children and Families - Alexandra Cooperstock & Laura M. Tach
Section on Sociology of Population. Demography and the Future of Work:
How Demographic Changes Drive Internal Migration Decline Among Heterosexual Couples: A Cohort-Based Approach - Haowen Zheng
Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender Roundtables. Reproductive Justice (table 5):
Narratives of Reproductive Decision-Making in the Unprecedented Present and an Unimaginable Future - Jamie Budnick & Shio Lim
Special Session. After GPT: How do we do Higher Ed now?
AI Homogenization and College Admissions - AJ Alvero
Section on Economic Sociology Roundtables. Innovation and entrepreneurship (table 10):
Can Developmental Bureaucracy Foster Transformative Technologies?: Diffusion and Adaptation of the DARPA Model in Korea - Soul Han
Section on Economic Sociology Roundtables. Finance, Credits, and Rules (table 11):
Insurance and Climate Change: California Wildfires and the Homeowners Insurance Crisis - Edoardo Di Vincenzo
Section on Sociology of Population Roundtables. Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Health (table 3):
Skin Tone Stratification and the Hispanic Health Paradox - Thelonious Goerz
Section on Sociology of Population Roundtables. Policy Change, Gender, and Reproductive Health (table 6):
Access to Abortion Clinics in the Post-Dobbs Era: Distance measures and State Abortion Bans - Chae Kim
Regular Session. Experimental Examinations of Social Psychological Processes:
A Large Experimental Test of the Effectiveness of Highly Cited Climate Change Messaging Strategies - Jan Gerrit Voelkel
Student Forum. Student Forum Refereed Roundtables. Theoretical Sociology (roundtable 18):
Role Redefinition and Resistance Strategies: a Heuristic Approach to Executive Aggrandizement under the Trump Administration - Wanru Ni & Simon Chanezon
Community and Urban Sociology Section. Urban Sociology and the Legacy of Chicago:
Trust in Motion: Neighborhood social context and trust in realtime - Nathália Santos
Section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society. Big Problems, Middle-Range Theories:
Landlord Aversion and Residential Segregation: An AgentBased Simulation of Micro Segregation - Hao Liang
Regular Session. Health Inequalities Across the Life Course:
Cumulative Criminal Legal Contact and Physical Health Limitations at the End of Emerging Adulthood - Sadé Lindsay
Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Roundtables. Collaborations and Networks (table 5):
Falling Flat: The Limits of Networking for Women in Music - Seokyoung Kim
Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Roundtables. Precarious and Nonstandard Work (table 18):
The Rise and Fall of Employment Precarity in China: Marketization Dynamics and Sectoral Disparities - Zhipeng Zhou
Family Section Roundtables. Childrearing & Parenthood (table 1):
Generational Differences in Childrearing Values in the United States - Hyo Joo Lee
Section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society. Networks, Inequality, and Social Integration:
Network Integration: Inter- and Co-ethnic Network Features and Sequential Residential Patterns - Hao Liang
Section on Sociology of Religion. Religion and the Therapeutic:
Spirituality in Psychotherapy: A Comparative Study of Traditional and Holistic Approaches to Contemporary Crises - Shio Lim
