Cornell Soc at ASA

“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

student holding award from ASA
Ph.D. student, Hao Liang, with his ASA Best Student Research Paper Award (honorable mention, Asia and Asian American Section) and travel award

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

 

Check out the full 2025 ASA program 

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