Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting 2013

The 2013 meeting will have a special focus on "Sustainable Communities/Sustainable Lives." What kinds of sociological inquiry can contribute to sustaining communities and lives in the twenty-first century? Among the many challenges are gender, racial, ethnic and hemispheric inequities; war and ethnic conflict; climate change and environmental racism; gender and sexual violence; health disparities and HIV/AIDs among other diseases and epidemics; and globalization of labor and finance. In response to these challenges activists have taken to the streets to call for social changes in leadership at all levels of government and for more equitable distribution of wealth and to provide for the basic needs of a growing population.