Founded as a nonprofit professional organization in 1976, the Mid-South Sociological Association (MSSA) promotes the study and understanding of sociological issues and problems.
Award Winners
2012 Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book
Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters and Environmental Health Risks: Local and Global Environmental Struggles by Francis O. Adeola, University of New Orleans.
2012 Sociological Spectrum Paper of the Year
“On the Margins of the Periphery: Unassisted Childbirth and the Management of Layered Stigma” (Sociological Spectrum 32(5): 406-23) by Amy Chasteen-Miller, University of Southern Mississippi.
2012 Stanford M. Lyman Memorial Scholarship
Kristi L. Stringer, University of Alabama – Birmingham, Motherhood Stigma and Illicit Substance Use: The Impact of Socially Constructed Ideas of Motherhood on Treatment Seeking among Substance Using Women.
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Basudhara Sen (Jhumi), Oklahoma State University, Ethnic Identity Formation and Ritual Dynamics: An Analysis of First Generation Asian Indian Immigrants in the United States
2012 Graduate Student Paper of Distinction
"Peer versus Professional Trainers: Educating Fraternities about Rape and Sexual Assault." by Melani Duvall, University of Louisville
2012 Undergraduate Student Paper Competition
“Sex Toys, Child-raisers, and Home-makers: Hegemonic Gender Norms and College Women’s Sexual Experiences,” by Mary Wygle, Centenary College of Louisiana
Announcements
Upcoming Deadlines
Details for submissions is in This Flier
Annual Meeting
39th Annual MSSA Conference.
Action Sociology: Opportunities in a (Post) Modern World
October 23-26, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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