74th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting
Pasadena, California
April 3 - 6, 2003.

L.A. at Play Presentations

PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEETING
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 3 – 6, 2003
SHERATON HOTEL PASADENA

Organizer: Maggie Kusenbach (UCLA)

PANEL: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PUBLIC PARKS
Sunday, April 6, 8:30 to 10 am

Presider: Nori Milman (UCLA)

Mindelyn Buford (UCLA):
"Homeless Men in Public Parks: Assumptions versus Realities"

Ricardo Ramirez (Pitzer College):
"Illegal Activities at Parks: Deviant Uses of Public Space"

Kate Madden (UCLA) and Andy Oxman (UCLA):
"Dog Owners and Conflict: How Trouble Shapes a Social Community"

Natalie Nunez (Pasadena City College):
"The Facilitation of Gender Separation at Public Parks"

Discussant: Robert Emerson (UCLA)

PANEL: DOING FIELDWORK IN PUBLIC PARKS
Sunday, April 6, 10:15 to 11:45 am

Presider: Brandon Berry (UCLA)

Alicia Juskewycz (Pomona College):
"Navigating Group Membership in Park Recreation: Opportunities and Limitations of Participatory Fieldwork"

Kristal Adams (Occidental College):
"Gender Differences in Fieldwork Contacts"

Sangeeta Kalsi (UCLA):
"Impression Management of Public Park Employees in Ethnographic Interviews"

Beatriz Paez (California State University Northridge)
"Reclaiming the Land: Doing Ethnographic Research at a South Los Angeles Park."

Discussant: Jack Katz (UCLA)