The Proceeding of The 1st International Conference on Sociology Education

UPI International Conference on Sociology Education (UPI ICSE) 2015 is the first conference held by Sociology Education Study Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, on October 12, 2015. The theme of UPI ICSE 2015 is “Education for Sustainability Development and Empowering Community”, and we indeed welcome many insights from educators, researchers, artists, scholars, managers, graduate students and sociologists from different part of the worlds to present and discuss their research, developments and innovations in the fields of Sociology. The theme is to focus on the key role of education in all aspects of life, particularly in relation to develop sustainability and community empowerment. The papers in this volume have a wide range of topics, which are ethno pedagogy, ethnic relations, culture and changes, gender and human rights, identity and social cohesion, sociology of gender, social security and public health, collective behavior and social movements, and many others

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations.

Asthma is a common disease with a complex risk architecture including both genetic and environmental factors. We performed a meta-analysis of North American genome-wide association studies of asthma in 5,416 individuals with asthma (cases) including individuals of European American, African American or African Caribbean, and Latino ancestry, with replication in an additional 12,649 individuals from the same ethnic groups. We identified five susceptibility loci. Four were at previously reported loci on 17q21, near IL1RL1, TSLP and IL33, but we report for the first time, to our knowledge, that these loci are associated with asthma risk in three ethnic groups. In addition, we identified a new asthma susceptibility locus at PYHIN1, with the association being specific to individuals of African descent (P = 3.9 × 10(-9)). These results suggest that some asthma susceptibility loci are robust to differences in ancestry when sufficiently large samples sizes are investigated, and that ancestry-specific associations also contribute to the complex genetic architecture of asthma

A Study of the Effects of Participation in the Helper Model of Service Learning in Early Adolescence

The Service Learning Impact Study is a multifaceted multi-year study funded by the William T. Grant Foundation to examine the impact of the Helper Model of service learning. This research is exploring whether and how participation by middle school students contributes to the development of academic or school-related skills, enhances psychosocial abilities, and leads to the acquisition of skills for the school to work transition. The goals of this project are to: • examine the impact of participating during early adolescence in service learning (Helper Program) • identify how impact is related to program characteristics and the types of service students perform • develop a preliminary framework and exploratory hypotheses of the relationship between reflection and the service learning experienc