GROUP PROCESSES CONFERENCE

The 13^th annual Group Processes Conference was held on Friday, August 11, 2000, in Washington, D. C.,  the day before the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. The conference was held in the ASA convention hotel, the Washington Hilton, from 8:30 am to 5:30pm. Conference organizers were Murray Webster and Barbara Meeker.

Program:

8:30-9:30: Breakfast and Organizational Topics

9:30-11:30: Session I. The Interplay of Basic and Applied Studies of Group Processes.

* Elizabeth G Cohen "What happens to theory when you move into action?"
* Cecilia L Ridgeway "The construction of status and the conservation of gender 
inequality"
* Robert K Leik "Toward the relevance of group processes to applied settings"

To see a draft of Bob Leik's paper, click here

11:30-1:30: Lunch and Roundtables

1. James C Kimberly (University of Nebraska), "Consensus on Group Culture as
Determining the Integration of Forms of Bureaucratic and Charismatic
Authority and the Operation of External Status and Exchange Processes."

2. Karen Hegtvedt and Cathryn Johnson (Emory University), "Justice Beyond
the Individual: A Future with Legitimation."

3. Lisa Slattery Rashotte (UNC Charlotte), "A Preview of Meaning Insight and
Contrast Sensitivity Programs for Status Experiments."

4. David Wagner (U. Albany SUNY) “Expectation States and Symbolic Interactionism: 
Similarities and Differences”

1:30-3:00: Session II. Network Structures, Power, and Communication Patterns

* Philip Bonacich: "Simulations and Experiments on the Evolution of Exchange 
Networks" 
* Noah E Friedkin and Eugene C Johnsen: "Control Loss in Organizational Hierarchies" 
* Brent Simpson and Michael W. Macy, Cornell University: "Coalitions in Network 
Exchange"
* Michael W. Macy and David Strang, Cornell University: The Secret of Failure:
How Worthless Ideas Spread among Rational Skeptics"

3:00-3:30: Break.

3:30-5:00: The New Generation of Group Processes Researchers (NSF Dissertation 
Award recipients)

1. Dana L Haynie, "A Network Approach for Understanding Delinquency"
(Advisor, Darrell Steffensmeier, Penn State University). 

2. Stuart Hysom, "Goal Objects, Performance Expectations, and Group
Structure" (Advisor, Cathryn Johnson, Emory University).

3. Mamadi Corra, "The Effects of Ordering in Exchange Networks" (Advisor,
David Willer, University of South Carolina).

4. Jeffrey W Lucas, "Status, Legitimacy, and the Institutionalization 
of women as Leaders" (Advisor, Michael J Lovaglia, University of Iowa).

5. Gretchen Peterson, "The Perception of Fairness in Social Exchange"
(Advisor, Linda D Molm, University of Arizona).

5:00-5:30: Summaries, Planning for 2001, Adjournment

Next year's conference will be organized by Philip Bonacich, 
Eugene Johnson and Noah Friedkin. For information, contact
Phil Bonacich,  bonacich@soc.ucla.edu.

To see a list of conference attenders click here.

To see some photos from this year's conference, click here.