AUGUST 6-10, 2021
A virtual 2021 ASA Annual Meeting
A virtual 2021 ASA Annual Meeting
BUSINESS MEETING
Tuesday, August 10 11:00-11:30am EDT
Learn more about section activities, shape decisions, and volunteer to become more involved in the section. If you can’t make it, you can still volunteer here. Zoom link will be in the ASA online schedule
Family Section Roundtable Sessions
Tuesday Aug 10 11:30-12:25pm EDT
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, University of Pennsylvania
Vadricka Etienne, University of Nevada, Reno
Table topics:
Table 01. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Family
Table 02. The Impact of COVID-19 on Work-Family Balance
Table 03. Work-Family Balance and Conflict
Table 04. Childrearing and Parents’ Relations with Young Children
Table 05. Work-Family Policies and Paid Parental Leave
Table 06. Intergenerational Relationships and Extended Families
Table 07. Family Life and Health Outcomes
Table 08. Early Family Formation and Partner Selection
Table 09. Family and Marriage Inequalities
For a complete list of papers and participants in roundtable sessions, see the online program.
RECEPTION
Tuesday, August 10 12:25-12:45pm EDT
Celebrate our award winners and join breakout rooms for socializing in small groups.
Check your email for the Zoom link.
Tuesday, August 10 11:00-11:30am EDT
Learn more about section activities, shape decisions, and volunteer to become more involved in the section. If you can’t make it, you can still volunteer here. Zoom link will be in the ASA online schedule
Family Section Roundtable Sessions
Tuesday Aug 10 11:30-12:25pm EDT
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, University of Pennsylvania
Vadricka Etienne, University of Nevada, Reno
Table topics:
Table 01. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Family
Table 02. The Impact of COVID-19 on Work-Family Balance
Table 03. Work-Family Balance and Conflict
Table 04. Childrearing and Parents’ Relations with Young Children
Table 05. Work-Family Policies and Paid Parental Leave
Table 06. Intergenerational Relationships and Extended Families
Table 07. Family Life and Health Outcomes
Table 08. Early Family Formation and Partner Selection
Table 09. Family and Marriage Inequalities
For a complete list of papers and participants in roundtable sessions, see the online program.
RECEPTION
Tuesday, August 10 12:25-12:45pm EDT
Celebrate our award winners and join breakout rooms for socializing in small groups.
Check your email for the Zoom link.
The 2021 Family Section's sessions are listed below.
Zoom links to sessions will be available prior to the meeting to registered participants via the ASA online program (except for the reception for which the link was emailed to the Family Section listserv).
Family Patterns and Population Change
Monday Aug 9 12:45-2:10pm EDT
(co-hosted with the Section on Sociology of Population)
Pamela Smock, University of Michigan
Youngmin Yi, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gendered Educational Gradient of Marriage Entry in Urban and Rural China: the Roles of Marriage Markets (Haoming Song, Zhenchao Qian)
Once in a blue moon: Barriers to intermarriage among second-generation Muslims in France (Lucas Germain Drouhot, Mauricio Bucca)
Opting Out or Left Out? Gendered Pathways to Singlehood in South Korea (Paul Yunsik Chang, Jihye Oh, Young-Mi Kim)
Women’s Educational Expansion and the Educational Gradient in Childbearing (Federica Querin)
Parenthood and Families Across the Life Course
Monday Aug 9 2:30-3:55pm EDT
Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox, University of Florida
Household Debt, Maternal Well-Being, and Child Adjustment: Examining the Family Stress Model by Family Structure (Valerie Heintz-Martin, Claudia Recksiedler, Alexandra Langmeyer)
Sources of Family Income Across Childhood in Families with Nonresident Fathers (Paula W. Fomby, Hope Harvey, Kelly Musick)
Why Are Adults’ Lives Persistently Unequal? The Intergenerational Effects Behind the Process of Persistent Inequality (Rona Geffen)
Role Transitions and Financial Well-Being: A Study of Women Across the Life Course (Anna E. Acosta Russian, Pamela Braboy Jackson)
Relationship Quality Between Older Parents and Children: Impact on Parents’ Cognitive Functioning (Yan Zhang)
Race, Ethnicity, and Families
Tuesday Aug 10 12:45-2:10pm EDT
(co-hosted with the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities)
Christina Cross, Harvard University
"Can't Just Send Our Children into the World": Black Motherwork around Adolescent's Experiences of Racism (Mia Brantley)
Family Complexity and Teachers’ Perceptions of Parental Supportiveness (Emma Romell)
Income Heterogeneity among Black Families: Behavioral Explanations Versus Racialized Space (Deadric T. Williams, Regina S. Baker)
Shifting Ideological Racial Frames Among Interracially Married Black Women and White Men in the American Midwest (Sidney L Harris (Galan))
Social Class or Social Context? Mexican Immigrant Parenting in Under-Resourced Latinx School-Communities (David Enrique Rangel, Dylan Letellier)
Families and COVID-19
Tuesday Aug 10 2:30-3:55pm EDT
Margaret Gough Courtney, University of La Verne
Richard Petts, Ball State University
Gendered Consequences of a Weak Care Infrastructure: School Reopening Plans and Parents’ Employment During the Pandemic (Caitlyn Collins, Leah Ruppanner, Liana Christin Landivar, Liana Christin Landivar, William Joslyn Scarborough)
Gendering the Pandemic: Women’s and Men’s Time Use during COVID-19 (Liana C. Sayer, Xu Yan, Long Doan, Robert Gordon Rinderknecht)
Marital Status, Gender, and Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US (Mieke Beth Thomeer)
Mechanisms of gender gaps in paid work during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Yasmin Mertehikian, Pilar Gonalons-Pons)
“Sometimes It’s Okay to Be Bored” Social Class in Mothers' Oversight of Children’s Time During COVID-19 (Mahala Dyer Stewart, Hope Flowers Medina, Jahmali Matthews)
Open Family Section Session
Tuesday Aug 10 4:15-5:40pm EDT
Hope Harvey, University of Kentucky
Kristin Perkins, Georgetown University
Flexplace Work and Partnered Fathers' Time in Housework and Childcare (Daniel L. Carlson, Richard J. Petts, Joanna Pepin)
Friend, Foe, or Forget ‘Em?: A Case Study of LGBTQ Adult Sibling Relationships (Rin Reczek, Lawrence Wellman Stacey, Chloe Dunston)
Racial Disparities in Family Trajectories and Financial Transfers to Young Adult Children (Mariana Amorim, Sarah Deming)
The Polarization of Everyday Family Life in Germany (Carolin Deuflhard)
What Do They Mean by Egalitarian? How Couples Make Sense of Gender Equality in their Relationships (Maria Ines Martinez Echague)