Preconference Sessions

Tuesday, November 2, 2010
#
TCRM
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Marquette Room 2

Theory Construction / Research Methodology Participatory Workshop

Constructing Social Theory

David Bell

Every theory consists of both a description of some causal logic (the theoretical orientation) and an application of that logic to some class of empirical situations (the theory itself). This workshop will show ways to make this distinction so as to heighten the clarity of theory discourse.

#
TCRM 1A
11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Marquette Room 3

Adopting Measures and Weights for Family Contexts

TCRM Workshop Session 1

Discussants: Robert Larzelere; Shannon Weaver

#
TCRM 2A
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Marquette Room 2

Intergenerational Family Processes

TCRM Workshop Sessions 2

Discussants: Bert N. Adams; Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan

#
TCRM 2B
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Marquette Room 3

Development in Mid and Later Life

TCRM Workshop Sessions 2
#
TCRM 3A
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Marquette Room 2

Family Science: Implications for Practice and Philosophy

TCRM Workshop Sessions 3

Discussant: Katherine Allen

#
TCRM 3B
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Marquette Room 3

Theorizing About Health and Families

TCRM Workshop Sessions 3
#
TCRM 4A
4:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Marquette Room 2

Parenting: Networks and Systems

TCRM Workshop Sessions 4

Discussants: Daniel Perlman

#
TCRM 4B
4:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Marquette Room 1

Mentoring Tables: Pairing Junior and Senior Scholars

TCRM Workshop Sessions 4
#
TCRM Plenary
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Marquette Rooms 3 and 4

TCRM Workshop Opening Reception and Plenary Session

From ‘Work-Family’ to the ‘Gendered Life Course’ and ‘Fit’: Five Challenges to the Field

Phyllis Moen, Ph.D., McKnight Presidential Chair of Sociology, University of Minnesota