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The 60th Annual Conference of the
Pennsylvania Sociological Society

Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
Mansfield, Pa.
October 22-23, 2010

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr Ziad Munson
Class of 1961 Associate Professor of Sociology, Lehigh University

“Conservatism and Change:
Locating Conservative Social Movements in the Transformation of America”
The paradigmatic social movements studied by sociologists are progressive ones. The Civil Rights movement, women's movement, labor movement, and environmental movement, and the like are the stock and trade of scholars interested in social movements and change. Yet America today is increasingly dominated by conservative social movements that seek much different goals than their progressive counterparts. My remarks will focus on this new terrain of change and transformation. What does it mean to talk about conservative change? How are conservative movements different, if at all, from progressive ones? And how has conservative mobilization over the last twenty years, and particularly over the last five years, altered the terrain on which disagreements over politics, culture, and society take place

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FRIDAY EVENING SPEAKER:
Jason Weigle
Department of Rural Sociology, Penn State
"Resilience, Community and Perceptions of Marcellus Shale Development in the Pennsylvania Wilds: Reframing the Discussion"

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