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Sociologists to explore real utopias at annual meeting in Denver, August 17-20
Date:7/10/2012

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Creating Workplace Gender Equality

Friday, Aug. 17, 2:30 4:10 PM (Colorado Convention Center, Room 207, Street Level)

Three decades of scholarship on gender and work is mostly backwards looking, focusing mainly on how the gender system creates workplace disparities. This session will look forward and answer the questionwhere do we think the gender revolution is taking us as it applies to the workplace? During the session, distinguished gender scholars will share their visions of how the gender revolution is to move us towards a workplace free of gender bias.

Global Warming and the Prospects for Real Utopias

Friday, Aug. 17, 2:30 4:10 PM (Colorado Convention Center, Room 301, Street Level)

The massively disruptive consequences of global climate change challenge the very idea of real utopias. This ongoing and accelerating environmental disruption will render many utopian projects obsolete, and may threaten the very viability of global institutions and practices. Yet, we still cling to nave notions of sustainability or other utopian visions. The existing efforts to address global climate change utilizing the established political and economic institutions have failed, and the proposed solutions are incommensurate to the scale of the problem. This session will explore the issue of global climate change, and what, if anything, remains of utopian projects in light of our environmental situation.

Real Utopian Visions of Health Care

Friday, Aug. 17, 4:30 6:10 PM (Colorado Convention Center, Room 207, Street Level)

Medical care should be about helping patients and their families. But, in today's dysfunctional health care system, such notions of "patient-centered care" are often only given lip service. The important question seems to be: is the patient at the center of well-coordinated teamwork or is the patient collateral damage of the health care version of a civil war? This panel will co
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