The 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) will take place in New York City, from August 10 to 13, 2013. The theme this year, “Interrogating Inequality: Linking Micro and Macro,” asks: What is inequality, why is it, how does it come about, and what can we do to change it? ASA President Cecilia Ridgeway and the 2013 Program Committee have put together an exciting program that will include more than 600 individual sessions on everything from the latest and greatest books in the field, section roundtables, and countless other topics.

Among the twelve books that will be discussed at the Author Meets Critics Sessions are three Russell Sage publications:

• American Memories: Atrocities and the Law (Rose Series in Sociology, 2011), by Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King
  Scheduled Time: Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm
  American Memories rigorously examines how the United States remembers its own and others’ atrocities and how institutional responses to such crimes, including trials and tribunals, may help shape memories and perhaps impede future violence. For more information on this session, click here.


• Social Movements in the World System: The Politics of Crisis and Transformation (2012), by Jackie Smith and Dawn Wiest
  Scheduled Time: Mon Aug 12 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
  In Social Movements in the World-System, Smith and Wiest show how transnational activism since the end of the Cold War, including United Nations global conferences and more recently at World Trade Organization meetings, has shaped the ways groups organize. For more information on this session, click here.


• Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and American's Definitions of Family (2010), by Brian Powell, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman
Scheduled Time: Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm
Counted Out demonstrates that American definitions of family are becoming more expansive, but finds that the standard bearer for public conceptions of family continues to be a married, heterosexual couple with children. For more information on this session, click here.

More information about the ASA Annual Meeting, including an online Preliminary Program Schedule, can be found here.