Index to Footnotes Issues and Articles

This is a fully searchable text index of article titles from Footnotes (and its 1972 precursor, The American Sociologist). When completed, each issue will be linked to an online version of that issue. To jump to a specific year, select one of the links below.

1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

October 1972 (Volume 7, Number 8) (pdf file; 5.7 MB)

· Coser and Lenski at the Top of the Ticket (ASA Candidates)

· Eliot Friedson Wins Sorokin Award

· Editorial: Ten Years that Shook No World

· Mirra Komarovsky, Barnard College, President of ASA

· A Decade in Review and a Preview of Dues (Audit)

· Minorities and Women in Sociology: Are Opportunities Changing (by Maurice Jackson, ASA Executive Specialist)

· Talent Bank Still Open for Deposits

· In-Groups and Out-Groups (New/Terminated ASA Sections)

· White House Fellows

· The Grilling of the Monteleone

· ASA Establishes SAS Award for Methodology

· Backwash from Bourbon Street: Questions and Answers from the Titles of Papers in the Annual Program

· Annual Meeting Program Items

· Sociologists Join Citizen Effort to Dispel Myths on Population Growth

· Honors to the Honor Society

· Jackson Adds Age to Sex and Minority Concerns

· Social Indicators Center in Washington

· Letters to the Editor (Howard J. Lewis, Harry A. Scarr, James M. Fendrich, Edgar F. Borgatta)

· “How Many Are We?”

· NSF Research Grants (for fiscal year ending June 30, 1972)

· Social Forces Editor Change (Everett K. Wilson)

· Deaths: Wayland J. Hayes, John Kosa, Mary van Kleeck, Thomas Jackson Woofter, Jr.

· Obituaries: Lee Marshall Brooks, Donald P. Kent, Glenn Almer Bakkum, Purna Chandra Subudhi, Joseph William McGee, Thomas Johnson

The American Sociologist

November 1972 (Volume 7, Number 9) (pdf file; 6.7 MB)

· Who Shall Govern? Know Your Council Nominees (ASA Candidates)

· Eliot Friedson Elected to NAS Institute of Medicine

· Publish and Perish--If You Don’t Get Permission: Guidelines to Copyright Materials

· David Heise to Edit Sociological Methodology

· Oligarchic Complaint Proposes Selective Constraint to Counter Editorial Ecospecies

· Letters to the Editor (Edgar Chasteen, Davida P. Gates, M.I.A. Bulmer, Warren E. Solomon)

· Addenda to List of PhDs

Special Section on Studies and Comments on the Profession

· Recent Trends in Graduate Training: Preliminary Results of a Survey (Robert W, Habenstein)

· Quantitative and Collaborative Trends in American Sociological Research (Narsi Patel)

· Measuring Sociological Productivity: A Review and a Proposal (Frank Clemente)

· The Failure of 100 Divided by 3 to Equal 33-1/3 (Arthur E. Nudelman and Clifford C. Landers)

· Journal Productivity of PhD Sociologists (Richard F. Larson, Marc L. Petrowsky, and Joseph S. Vandiver)

· Publish or Perish: Book Productivity and Academic Rank at 26 Elite Universities (Richard Doering)

· University and Departmental Determinants of the Prestige of Sociology Departments (Walter F. Abbott)

· Sociologists on the Move (Clyde W. Franklin, Jr., Wen L. Li and Laurel R. Walum)

· Outcome Measures and Social Action Experiments: An Immodest Proposal for Redirecting Research Efforts (Howard E. Freeman)

· Variations in Introductory Sociology Courses (Howard D. Schwartz and Cary S. Kart)

· A Note on Teaching Basic Sociological Concepts (Susan O. Gustavus)

The American Sociologist

December 1972 (Volume 7, Number 10) (pdf file; 3.0 MB)

· Westward Ho! Council Convenes in San Francisco

· 1973 Program Additions

· Opportunities for Professors Emeriti and Graduate Students in Developing Institutions

· Suggestions for Annual Program? 1973 Program Closed; 1974 Program Open

· Research Probed from Policy Implications and New Directions in Graduate Training

· Panel on Social Experimentation

· TAS Leaves Tabloid and Returns to Journal Format

· The Fall and Rise of the Academic Job Market for Sociologists (Kurt Finsterbusch)

· An Anniversary: 20 Years of Sociological Abstracts

· Minutes from August 26, 1972 Council Meeting (1972 Council)

· Minutes from August 27, 1972 Council Meeting (1973 Council)

· Minutes from August 31-September 1, 1972 Council Meeting (1973 Council)

· Minutes from August 29-30, 1972 Business Meetings

· Obituaries: John Kosa

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January 1973 (Volume 1, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.6 MB)

· Fog Lifts as Council Moves at Golden Gate

· A Note on Footnotes

· 456 New PhDs Seek Employment

· Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching (COFRAT) Gets Guidelines for Go at Grievances

· Free Sociological Inquiry

· Sex and Publication Credit

· Economizing Be Hanged; We Need to Add Some New Functionalities on Our Campuses

· East Europe Turning to Sociologists for Some Answers (Robert G. Kaiser and Dan Morgan)

· 1973 ASA Committees and Representatives

· International Sociological Association (ISA) Announces the Eighth World Congress of Sociology

· Short Skis to Cast Editor

· Obituaries: Thomas Jackson Woofter, Morris Gilmore Caldwell

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February 1973 (Volume 1, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.8 MB)

· Discussion Group Summary: Carmel Conference Ponders Graduate Training Options

· Last Chance: March 1 Deadline for Directory of Members Entry

· Annual Meeting Update: Ten Roads to Refreshment in 1973

· Change in Nominees: Smith for Eckland vs. Thompson

· ASA on SAS Award: Methodology Selection Committee Announced

· Five Areas to be Probed: What Have We Learned

· Open Forum: Howard Schuman , “Introduction to Alien Research”; Lois B. DeFleur, “Squeeze on Discipline”; Herb Costner, “Stratch a Sociologist”; Water R. Gove, “Hardnosed Journal”; Joan Aldous, “Is Anyone Listening”; Charles E. Bidwell, “Skills, Commitments, Capacities”; Kurt W. Back, “Social Value of Science”; Richard L. Simpson, “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom” Burkart Holzner, “More Time for Doctoral Study”; W. Richard Scott, “New Organizational Forms”; Robert L. Hall, “Create C.A.S.S.”; Robert F. Winch, “A Plurality of Themes”

· On to Montreal: 1974 Program Committee Meets

· Interpersonal Rating Scale

· Clarification: ASA Reprint Policies and Permission Fees

· Socio-Crostic No. 2 (crossword puzzle)

· Sociologists on Board: TV Political Advertising to be Collected and Catalogued for Research

· Guide to Help Community Leaders Use 1970 Census Data

· Presidential Box: Famous Last Words (from Lester F. Ward’s 1906 ASA Presidential Address)

· Letter to the Editor: “Change-Agent Delighted” (Robert W. Friedrichs)

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March 1973 (Volume 1, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· Coleman Prods Government and Probes: Ten Principles Governing Research

· Facts Confirm Rumors: Training Grants to Terminate

· Focus and Locus of: Center for Coordination of Research on Social Indicators

· Open Forum: H.M. Blalock, Jr., “Thoughts on the Development of Sociology”; Gertrude MacFarlane, “On Canadianism”; Joan Huber, “On Criteria for Hiring, Promotion, Tenure”

· Letter to the Editor: “Whop Drop Boomerang (Paul M. Roman); “Edgar Eats On” (Edgar F. Borgatta)

· Presidential Box: Famous Last Words (from Albion Small’s 1912 ASA Presidential Address)

· What’s the Message: Communications to the Executive Office

· Deaths: Kimball Young, Thomas D. Eliot

· Obituaries: Samuel Koenig

· Prometheus Bound? New Archives Invites Participation by Students of Change and Social Policy

· Notes on Votes: Youth Timid in Turnout in 1972 Presidential Election

· Anonymous Contribution: Sociological Theorists Comment on 1972 Election

· Minutes from December 2, 1972 meeting of 1973 Council

· Minutes from December 3, 1972 Interim meeting of 1973 Council

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April 1973 (Volume 1, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.6 MB)

· NSF Sponsors Six Summer Institutes for Secondary School Teachers in Sociology

· New Mandate for CSWS

· Institute International de Sociologie

· Structure Functions as Council and Committees Convene in Quarterly Confab

· Open Forum: Philo Wasburn, “On Letters of Recommendation”; David R. Fendrick, “On the Modern-Day Tower of Babel”

· Call for Limericks

· Afrikaans to Zulu: The Many Tongues of Higher Education

· Questions and Answers: The NORC National Data Program for the Social Sciences

· “The Limits of Growth” Explored

· Note to Sociology Departments: How to Start a Chapter of AKD

· Sex Semantics from The Vermont Sociologist

· Scholars Examine Value of Social Scientists in Public Policy (William Chapman, Washington Post Staff Writer, with introduction by Harold J. Laski)

· A Tribute to Conrad Taeuber

· Active Amitai: The Many Roles of a Sociologist

· Letters to the Editor: “Challenge to Council” (Dudley Duncan); Corrections on Soviet Sociology (Wesley A. Fisher)

· Obituaries: Benjamin Kaplan

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May 1973 (Volume 1, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· New ASA Publication: The Status of Women in Sociology, 1968-1972

· How Far from Providence? Participation in the Annual Program: Preliminary Report

· Ida Harper Simpson to Edit Rose Monograph Series

· Undergraduate Education Asserts that “The Best is Last”--On ASA New York Program

· Letters to the Editor: “Graduate Training Options” (Ludwig L. Geismar); “Response to Geismar” (Herbert L. Costner); “Michigan Program” (John E. Tropman); “Scale Trail” (Carl L. Harter); “A Response to Coleman’s ‘Ten Principles Governing Policy Research [March 1973]” (Ivan Chapman); “Brockinvwestrange” (Don Brockway III); “Letters of Recommendation” (Richard J. Hill); “Support Robert Bellah” (Jessie Bernard); “Undergraduate Section Newsletter” (Melvin J. Williams); “Response to Blalock” (Jiri Kolaja); “Imaginative Fee Structure” (David R. Carlin); “Purge of Radical Sociologists” (Jack Nusan Porter); “Personal Tribute to Warner E. Gettys” (Reece McGee)

· Methodology Section Sponsors Training Institute

· Grantsmanship and Other Matters

· Federal Service Entrance Examinations

· Backlash Mounts for Women and Minorities: Reverse Bias Alleged in College Hiring (Bart Barnes)

· A Strategy for Science Education in the 1970s

· Impressions from a Romanian Sociologist: Among Social Scientists in America (Erno Gall)

· Pittsburgh Launches an Applied Sociology Program

· Where Do You Publish? Sociologists to Compile Directory of Journals

· “The American Soldier” Revisited

· Lloyd Rogler Appointed to National Advisory Mental Health Council

· Obituaries: Kimball Young, John J. Kane

· Call for Syllabi and Reading Lists on World Conflicts

· Minutes of March 3-4, 1973 meeting of the 1973 Council

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August 1973 (Volume 1, Number 6) (pdf file; 6.6 MB)

· President-Elect Peter Blau Posts Plans for 1975 Montreal Meeting

· Presidential Perspective from New York: The Year in Review (Mirra Komarovsky)

· Our New President Peter Blau (Peter H. Rossi)

· Panels to Probe Publishing and Federal Research Funding

· Election Results: Coser President, Smelser Vice President, Form Secretary

· Change in By-Laws Proposed: Vote on Nominations Procedures Scheduled

· Special Fund Created and Study Groups on Theoretical and Methodological Issues Authorized

· Faulty Engineers or Neglected Experts?

· A Mentor of Sociologists [Talcott Parsons] Retires After 42 Years at Harvard Post (Robert Reinhold)

· Open Forum: “Reactions to Coleman on Policy Research” (LaMar T. Empey); “The Problem of ‘Policy’” (Edmund Volkart); “On Obstacles to the Development of New Fields in Sociology” (Robert C. Atchley); “Editor of ASR Responds” (James F. Short, Jr.); “Editor of Sociometry Responds” (Richard J. Hill)

· Letters to the Editor: “Grievances” (Peter H. Rossi); “Response to Blalock” (Morton King); “Utopias, Power, Love” (Don Brockway III); “No Purge” (Nicholas J. Demerath); “GRE Scores Again” (James W. Loewen); “Urge Affirmative Action” (Marjorie G. Kelley); “Need for Data” (Joan Huber); “Letter to Skewed Association” (Marshall I. Farkas); “CSWS Protest” (Cora Bagley Marrett, Rose Laub Coser, Karen O. Mason, Shirley Nuss, Murray A. Straus, James Sweet, Lenore J. Weitzman); “Letters of Recommendation Revisited” (Philo Wasburn); “Letters Controversy” (James Boudoris)

· The Academic Woman . . . Male vs. Female: A Bread-and-Butter Issue

· Support and Promote Affirmative Action Programs

· Capitol Gains

· Obituaries: Henry Allen Bullock, Serwood Dean Fox

· Report of the Secretary (J. Milton Yinger)

· Report of the Executive Officer (Otto N. Larsen)

· Report of the Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women (Maurice Jackson)

· Editors’ Reports

· Committee Reports

· Minutes from the June 2-3, 1974 meeting of the 1973 Council

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October 1973 (Volume 1, Number 7)

· Million Dollar Minority Fellowship Program

· Guidelines for Funding New Approaches to Problems of the Discipline

· Joan R. Harris Named ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women

· Membership Categories May Be Revised As Canadian Call for Constitutional Revision Heeded

· Open Forum: “The Sociological Condition: A Response to Blalock” (Ann E. Davis

· Section Resurrection: Social Psychology Lives Again

· Everything High at 68^th Annual Meeting

· $10,000 to ISA for 8^th World Congress

· ASA Presidents Parley in New York

· Questions and Answers from the New York Program

· Letters: “Competition for What Ales Us” (Saul D. Feldman; “ASA Membership Trends: Correction” (Robert A. Rothman); “Annual Meeting Program” (Y. Michal Bodemann)

· Academies Elect Sociologists to Membership

· Awards of NATO Senior Fellowships in Science

· NIE Research Policy Announced

· Sociologists on NIE Review Panels

· Deaths: Erwin O. Smigel, Emory S. Bogardus

· Obituaries: Sigurd Johansen, Warner Ensign Gettys

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November 1973 (Volume 1, Number 8) (pdf file; 4.3 MB)

· Elections Loom with Western Bloom: Blalock and Short to Vie for Presidency; Inkeles and Simon for Vice-Presidency

· ASA Annual Awards

· Open Forum: “The Statistician in Sociology: Some Recent Levels of Pain” (Sanford Labovitz)

· Eight Candidates for Four Council Positions

· Final Call for Papers: Fifteen Sessions Added to 1974 Program in Montreal

· Americans Involved in Planning for International Meetings in Israel and Greece

· An Easy Way to Analyze Qualitative Variables

· ASA Council Member (Renee Fox) Selected as Visiting Scholar

· The 1973 Academic Job Market for Sociologists (Kurt Finsterbusch)

· Fewer Openings: Sociologists Still in Demand, but Job Outlook Is Clouded

· Zelditch and (Helen) Hughes Appointed as New ASA Editors (Zelditch ASR, Hughes ASA Reader Series on Issues and Trends in Sociology)

· Committee on Professional Ethics Calls for Cases

· Massachusetts Senate Adopts Resolution for the Employment of Sociologists

· PSAC: Last Hurrah from Panel on Youth (John Walsh)

· Major Opportunity for Research in Washington, DC (National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Fellowship)

· Postscripts to a Presidential Address (Russell Dynes, from North Central Sociological Association, May 10, 1973)

· Call for Mimeographed Papers: New NCSA Directory Established

· Obituaries: Emory Stephen Bogardus

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December 1973 (Volume 1, Number 9) (pdf file; 3.0 MB)

· Bennett Berger to Edit Contemporary Sociology

· New ASA Directory of Members and Guide to Graduate Departments Available

· Dues Billing Delayed for 1974 Membership Renewal

· 1974 ASA Committees and Representatives

· Open Forum: “Affirmative Action in Action” (Edgar Borgatta)

· Affirmative Action--Affirmative Results? (Maurice Jackson)

· Letters to the Editor: “A Very Small Fable for Our Times” (Midred Seltzer); “Correspondence on Conflict Methodology between Peter M. Blau, ASA President, and T.R. Young, Director, The Red Feature Institute” (Peter Blau, T.R. Young); “Committee Calls for Aid to Chile” (Maurice Zeitlin); “Perchilda from Pullerchild, Washington” (William R. Catton, Jr.); “Kudos for Karate” (Erwin Krohl)

· Annual Membership Dues Rates

· Minutes from August 30, 1973 meeting of the 1974 Council

· Minutes from August 29, 1973 Business Meeting

· Call for Nominations for ASA Sorokin and Stouffer Awards

· Nominations Opened and Canadians Internationalized as Members Vote to Revise ASA By-Laws

· Auditor’s Report, June 30, 1973

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January 1974 (Volume 2, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.6 MB)

· Editorial: Footnotes, One Year Later

· 1975 Program Committee Solicits Suggestions for San Francisco Meeting

· Sociologists Meet in Chicago for Undergraduate Workshop Organized by Hans Mauksch

· Roster of Sociologists Available: 460 New PhDs Seek Employment

· Certification Requirements for Teaching Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology in Secondary Schools (Margo Johnson, APA)

· Sociology Honor Society Invites Chapter Applications

· A Year of Experience in Undergraduate Innovative Learning in Brigham Young Program

· Sociologists Among Fulbright-Hays Foreign Scholars in U.S. in 1973-74

· Sociologists Work in Agency for International Development

· Sociology and Foreign Policy: Peter Blau Represents ASA at State Department Conference

· PSA Call for Research Papers by Undergraduates

· New Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Announced

· A Modest Proposal (Et tu Sociology?) (John Condry)

· A Tribute to Maurice Jackson by the Caucus of Black Sociologists

· Washington University-St. Louis Launches Departmental Newsletter

· Nutrition and and the Behavioral Sciences

· Sociological Organizations on the Intra-Regional Level

· How ASA Responds to Threats Against Freedom of Research and Teaching

· ASA Announces Graduate Fellowships for Minority Students, 1974-75

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February 1974 (Volume 2, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· Doubleheader in Canada: Eighth World Congress of Sociology, Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, and ASA Annual Meeting All to be Held in August 1974

· Open Nominations Add 15 Candidates to 1974 Election Ballot

· Working Papers: Innovation and Invitation (Peter Blau)

· Open Forum: “Expanding the Labor Market for Sociologists” (Lawrence Rhoades)

· Where in the World is ASA? (about foreign members)

· SWS and CSWSD Announce Legislation Project for Sociologists

· SSRC Launches Committee on Work and Personality in the Middle Years

· Letters to the Editor: “Response to Labovitz” (Franklyn Nelson)

· Obituaries: James D. Thompson, Erwin O. Smigel, Mason Griff, James Mickel Williams

· Sociologists in ARI (U.S. Army Research Institute): A New Name, a New Approach to Social Research in the Army

· Minutes of December 1, 1974 meeting of 1974 Council

· Program for International Sociological Association Eighth World Congress of Sociology on “Science and Revolution in Contemporary Societies” (August 18-24, 1974, Toronto)

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March 1974 (Volume 2, Number 3) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· What is a Sociologist? U.S. Department of Labor to Revise the Dictionary of Occupational Titles

· Request for Information: A Study of the Confidentiality of Social Science Research Sources and Data

· Focus on Social Structure Sharpens as 25 Features are Announced for 69th Annual Meeting in Montreal

· Social Research and Development: Notes on the Budget of the U.S. for FY1975

· U.S. Civil Service Commission Moves to Strengthen Relations with Universities

· No Run on RANN by Sociologists: Small Turnout Yields Large Grants for Research Applied to National Needs

· Letters to the Editor: “Data on ASA Election” (Peter Blau); “Negative Reaction to Affirmative Action” (Pierre van den Berghe); “On Conflict Methodology” (Hin-Wai Wong); “The Statistician in Sociology” (Julia Mewes)

· University Presidents Call for Aid to Chilean Scholars

· Faculty Recruitment and Affirmative Action (Linda Kumi, ASA Research Assistant)

· ASR Leads ASA Publication Circulation in 1973

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April 1974 (Volume 2, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· Facts Compiled from Directory: Non-Academic Employment of ASA Members

· ASA Council Makes New Appointments

· G. Franklin Edwards and Ralph Turner to Represent ASA in ISA

· Committee on Environmental Sociology Appointed

· ASA Council Member Orville Brim, Jr., Heads Foundation for Child Development

· Search Committee for New ASA Executive Officer

· Open Forum: “A Possible Way to Increase Employment Opportunities for Sociologists” (Paul Snyder); “The Challenge of New Roles for Sociologists in Academic and Non-Academic Settings” (Annabelle B. Motz); “Boundary Maintenance and Shiboleths in the Grove of Academe” (B. Eugene Griessman)

· Q’s and A’s About the ASA

· Interdisciplinary Cooperation Brings Social Science to High Schools

· Letters to the Editor: Letter to Leonid Brezhnev from Peter Blau; “Comment on Edgar Borgatta, ‘Affirmative Action in Action’” (Joan Huber); “Rejoinder to Joan Huber” (Edgar Borgatta); “Love, Sociological Style” (Bob Sessions); “Employment” (Arlene Kershaw); “Summation” (Werner D. von der Ohe); “Response from ISA” (Reuben Hill); “Environmental Sociology” (Joel Smith); “Footnotes Fan” (Gerald Marwell)

· Jessie Bernard Wins Stuart Rice Merit Award

· Institute of International Sociology Celebrates Sixth Anniversary

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May 1974 (Volume 2, Number 5) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· First Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded

· Schedule Lengthened, Fees Altered for Annual Meeting in Montreal

· Authors to ASA Journal Articles to Share Equally in Reprint Fee Revenue

· Council Meets for Mid-Year Review

· Sociology, Energy, and the NSF Budget

· 1970 Census Public Use Sample Data File Available

· SSSP Meetings in Montreal to Feature International Perspectives on Equal Rights

· Survey Research Problems Getting Worse, Study Says

· AKD Now 50 Years Old

· Q’s and A’s About the ASA

· Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to American Sociological Society for Sale at $250

· Minutes from March 9, 1974 meeting of 1974 Council

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August 1974 (Volume 2, Number 6) (pdf file; 4.3 MB)

· President-Elect Lewis Coser Posts Plans for San Francisco Meeting

· Presidential Perspective from Montreal: The Year in Review (ASA President Peter Blau)

· International Flavor Marks Montreal Meeting

· Portrait of New President Lewis Coser

· 1975 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers

· Secretary J. Milton Yinger Sums Up Three Year Term

· Alfred McClung Lee New President-Elect; Alex Inkeles New Vice President-Elect

· NIMH Offers Research Opportunities at ASA

· New ASA Appointments: William A. Anderson, Director of Minority Fellowship Program; Lawrence J. Rhoades New Executive Associate

· Questions and Answers from the Montreal Program

· Open Forum: “Erase Homo Sapiens” (John James); “Possible Nominees for 1973-76 ASA Offices” (Albert D. Biderman); “Sociology and Social Policy” (Pamela Roby); “A New Course Proposal: Sociology in Practice” (Jack Nusan Porter); “A Conventional Method of Extracting Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors” (Larry Chase); “Does the Ivory Tower Turn to Plastic in the Real World?” (Margaret DiCanio); “Organizing the Profession at the State Level” (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· Letters to the Editor: “Legal Rationale for the Sociologist’s Role in Researching Social Impacts” (Pamela Dee Savatsky); “Chilling Response” (R.P. Cuzzort); “Gouldner’s ‘Is’” (Don Martindale); “Seminal Plot” (Mary Schwab); “Response to Motz” (Stephanie Garrett); “To: Dean of Faculty” (Stanley Grupp)

· Obituaries: Irene Barnes Taeuber

· Report of the Executive Officer (Otto Larsen)

· Report of the Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women (Joan Harris)

· Editors’ Reports

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

· Section Reports

· Minutes of June 1, 1974 meeting of 1974 Council

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October 1974 (Volume 2, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· 1975 Program Supplement

· ASA Launches Study to Improve Undergraduate Programs in Sociology

· First 20 MFP Fellows Start Training; Applications Open for Second Round

· Open Forum: “Colony Hutterites as Research Subjects” (S.C. Lee); “Inside the Corps of Engineers” (E. Jackson Baur)

· Photos from 1974 Annual Meeting in Montreal

· Social Forces Marks Golden Anniversary

· Computer-Based Undergraduate Curriculum Materials Exchange

· National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elect Sociologists to Membership

· New Source of Info on Personalized Instructional Methods

· Boys Town Center for Youth Development at Stanford

· Invitation for Research on TV and Social Behavior

· Letters to the Editor: “What Is the Use of Statistics in Sociology?” (Hung-tak Lee); “Response to RANN” (D.S. Mileti); “Affirmative Action” (Kenneth R. Temblay, Jr.); “Affirmative Action without Affirmative Results: The Irony of Affirmative Action in Action” (Bhagwati P.K. Poddar); “Scolded” (Jessie Bernard); “Constructing Social Systems” (Bernard Phillips)

· AAAS Seeks College Teachers for Short Course Program

· Materials Sought for Exhibits on Exemplary Social Graphics

· Protection of the Subjects of Social Research

· Conference on Transnational Problems

· Sociologist David Goslin Named Executive Director of NRC Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences

· Obituaries: F. Stuart Chapin, Carl Mayer, Ivan Vallier, James M. Reinhardt, Edmund deSchweinitz Brunner, Mark Benney

· Socio-Crostic #3 (crossword puzzle, by Gerald Marwell)

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November 1974 (Volume 2, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· ASA Renews Grants for Problems of the Discipline

· ASA Committee Selects Candidates for 1975

· Open Nominations Procedures Outlined

· Undergraduate Study Seeks Proposals

· Suggestions Solicited for 1976 Annual Meeting Program

· Open Forum: “Inside the Committee on Nominations” (Richard Hall); “Cultural Lag in Sociology: A Byte of a Minority Problem” (C. Jack Gilchrist, Fred S. Halley, John Sonquist); “Toward a More Appropriate Bibliography” (Warren Hagstrom, Gerald Marwell, Kenneth Newton)

· Otis Dudley Duncan and Leo A. Goodman Receive 1974 Stouffer Award

· HUD Grants for Dissertation Research

· Executive Officer Establishes New Links to Committees

· Two Sessions Added to 1975 Program

· Sorokin Award to Clifford Geertz and Christopher Jencks

· Minority Fellowship Deadline Set

· Graduate Departments Report Downward Trend in Undergraduate Enrollments

· Graduate Departments Cite Areas of Competent Training

· Council Takes Action on ASA Publications

· Help for Handicapped Students Solicited

· Pictures from 1974 Annual Meeting DAN Night

· Obituaries: J.L. Moreno

· Programs Offered on Western Europe

· Questions and Answers on Areas of Sociological Competence

· Non-Sexist Terminology

· 1975 PhD Roster Forms

· Minutes from August 26, 1974 meeting of 1974 Council

· Auditor’s Report, June 30, 1974

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December 1974 (Volume 2, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· New Editors Appointed for ASA Journals (Doris Entwisle SOE, Allen Grimshaw TAS, Mary Goss JHSB)

· Working Paper Sessions Retained for 1975 Annual Meeting

· Unfunded ASA Fellows Named

· ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women Sought

· Director for ASA Minority Fellowship Program Sought

· Call for Topics and Presenters for 1976 Didactic Seminars

· Open Forum: Otis Dudley Duncan Requests Reconsideration of Stouffer Award (says Leo Goodman should be sole recipient); Leo Goodman Seeks Broader Mandate for Stouffer Award

· Letters to the Editor: “University of Karachi Needs Books” (Marvin Sussman); “African Teacher Wants Books” (Julius Chiwata)

· NSF Announces 46 Sociology Research Grants

· Sociologists Serve as LEAA Fellows; More Fellowships Open

· Rutgers Searches For Non-Academic Jobs for Sociologists

· NRC Research Associateships

· Minority Fellowship Deadline

· Sociologists Named Fulbright-Hays Scholars

· Russell Sage Offers Resident Fellowships

· Procedures Outlined for Sending Address Changes to ASA Office

· Transfer Student Problem Cited; Action Urged

· Record Voter Turnout Recorded for First ASA Presidential Runoff

· Summer Fellowships in Mental Health

· 1975 Program Adds Social Indicator Session

· Manuscripts Solicited for Rose Monograph Series

· Sociologist Samuel Stern Writes Column for Weekly Newspaper

· More Sociology Majors Gained Than Lost to Other Disciplines

· Comparison of Annual Meetings Shows Stability, Change

· Guinean Professor Seeks Correspondent (Merton Bland)

· Nominations Sought for ASA Awards

· Academic Job Market Report: Some Good News and Some Bad News

· Obituaries: Harold W. Saunders

· Training in Genetics Available Summer 1974

· American Association for Public Opinion Research Seeks Student Papers for Competition

· Photographs Wanted for Traveling Exhibit

· Media Internships Offered by AAAS

· ASA Executive Office Located at Landmark Address in Washington

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January 1975 (Volume 3, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· ASA Committee Appointments and Representatives

· NSF Program Outlined; Emphasized Areas Cited (by Larry Rhoades, ASA Executive Associate; first in a series of articles on the research mission and interests of federal agencies)

· Plenary Sessions, Thematic Panels for 1975 Annual Meeting in San Francisco

· NEH Summer Seminars Offered to Undergraduate Teachers

· Job Hunting Hints Given to Undergraduate Majors

· Open Forum: “Discriminatory Practices Against Non-Citizens Assailed” (Bradley W. Parlin and Kooros M. Mahmondi)

· Letters to the Editor: “Wants Information on Rejected Proposals” (Donald B. Wallace); “Turnaround Time” (Daniel Koenig)

· Elbridge Sibley Traces 50-Year History of SSRC

· Sociological Methodology 1975 Available

· Limits to Growth Offers $20,000 In Prizes for Research Papers

· New PhD Roster for Sale

· Graduate Departments Included in 1975 Guide

· Policy Change on Page Charges May Yield Funds for ASA Journals

· Women and Minorities in Sociology: Findings from Annual ASA Audit (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women)

· Call for Papers on Auto Safety

· Social Indicator Publications Ready

· State Associations Increase to 20

· Sources for Information on Federal Jobs

· New Committee on Annual Meeting Child Care Seeks Volunteers

· Sociologists Active in ACLS

· Nominations Invited for ASA DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award

· State Department Offers Internships in Intercultural Communications

· Summary Institute in Survey Research Techniques

· Candidates Sought for ASA Executive Posts

· Applied Communication Research, Inc. Seeks Innovations in Disseminating Scientific, Technical Information

· Applied Sociology Yields Environmental Awards

· Evaluation Research Training Offered by New Sociological and Demographic Institute at the University of Massachusetts

· Questionnaires for 1975 Directory of Members Mailed

· International Journal on Language Problems Seeks Articles

· NSF Publications on Programs, Grants, Rules, and Procedures

· Fulbright-Hays Program Seeks Applications

· Problems of the Discipline Grant Proposal Deadline: February 1

Footnotes

February 1975 (Volume 3, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.8 MB)

· Council Acts on Resolutions from Annual Business Meeting

· Open Nomination Process Adds 17 Candidates to 1975 Ballot

· 501 New PhDs Seeking Jobs

· 13 Didactic Seminars Announced for Annual Meeting in San Francisco

· Federal Control: Debate Rates Over Rules for Research

· Self Control: Ethics Committee Concerns Cited; Reactions Invited (Cynthia Fuchs Epstein)

· Open Forum: “Stouffer Committee Affirms Action; Asks for Mandate Interpretation” (John A. Clausen); “Hors d’oeuvres: Threat or Menace” (Roy Lotz and Robert M. Regoli); “Comments on Issues Related to Environmental Sociology” (Patrick C. Jobes)

· Letters to the Editor: “New Sampling Designs” (Riley E. Dunlap)

· Rockefeller-Form Program Invites Applications for Policy Research

· Renee Fox to Serve Second Year as Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

· AKD Elects Officers, Adds Chapters and Contest

· Sociological Focus Sharpens “Focus on Policy”

· Michigan State University Holds Workshop on Visual Methods

· NEH Supports 22 Humanistically-Oriented Projects

· First Undergraduate Audit Compares Graduate and Undergraduate Departments (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women)

· Six Sociologists Visit U.S. Under Fulbright-Hays Program

· Video Tapes, Monograph Series Issued by International Sociological Association

· ASA Directory Mailing Rescheduled for March

· Minorities and Women: Notes on Guidelines to Affirmative Action (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women)

· Immigration History Research Center at University of Minnesota Offers Research Funds to Study White Ethnic Groups

· Social Problems Solicits Manuscripts for Special Issue on Women

· Integrity of Federal Statistics Systems Scrutinized by ASA Committee on Government Statistics

· Roper Center Prepares Survey Trend Data for Social Indicator Research

· Notre Dame Council Endorses Part-Time Faculty Appointments

· ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education Seeks Assessments of Four Areas in Education

· British Survey Center Offers Fellowships

· Journal of Social Issues Extends Call for Papers

· Institut International de Sociologie to Hold 26th International Congress

· Update on ASA Project on Undergraduate Education

· Socio-Crostic #4 (William Petersen)

· Minutes from December 7, 1974, meeting of 1975 Council

· Obituaries: Bernard Sklar, Joseph Bram

Footnotes

March 1975 (Volume 3, Number 3) (pdf file; 1.5 MB)

· Hans Mauksch Named ASA Executive Officer

· Professional Workshops Added to 1975 Program

· NIMH Cites Social Science Research Interests and Funding (Larry Rhoades, ASA Executive Associate)

· Group Flights to San Francisco Meeting

· Retired Sociologists Wanted for Registry

· Roper Center Data Bank Provides Opportunities for Secondary Analysis

· Minorities and Women: DuBois Conference Papers Summarized (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women)

· NIMH Announces Basic and Applied Grants to Sociologists for 78 Projects

· SSRC Workshops and Fellowships Offered on Criminal Justice Indicators

· AAAS Congressional Fellows Program Seeks Candidates

· Travel Research Association Announces Contest for Student Papers on Travel or Tourism

· Info on Data Banks Wanted for Footnotes Listing

Footnotes

April 1975 (Volume 3, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Social R&D Study May Set Terms for National Debate

· National Center for Public Service Internship Programs

· Author’s Guide to Selected Journals Launches New ASA Series

· State Associations Exploring Role in Several Areas

· New Sections on Marxist and Environmental Sociology Forming for 1976

· Special Vote Scheduled on ASA Constitutional Issues

· Open Forum: “Blalock Replies to Duncan on Methodology” (H.M. Blalock, Jr.); “Metric Conversion: Study Needed” (Saul D. Feldman); “Quantification: No Substitution for Insight” (Charles P. Flynn)

· DC Sociological Society Gives Employment Assistance to Sociology Majors (Steven Cades)

· Arithmetical Statistics: A Different Approach (Richard G. Lefkon)

· Undergraduate Sociology Curriculum Emphasizes “Practical” Courses

· Black Doctorates in Sociology Total 185; 53 Added Since 1968

· Roster of Black Doctorates Ready

· Did ASA Start Trend to Washington?

· NIE Provides Funding for 27 Sociology Projects

· University of Chicago Expands Post-Doc Program

· SWS Seeking Input for Publications

· Salisbury State College Offers Academic Credit to Students Attending Annual Meeting

· New Volume Relates Social Policy to Sociology

· Letters to the Editor: “Cussler Legal Defense Fund” (Herbert Blumer, Lewis A. Coser, Alfred McClung Lee, Albert J. McQueen, Stanton Wheeler, Charlotte Wolf, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Carelton W. Smith); “SWS Pleased with Child Care” (Judith Lorber); “Affirmative Action Column Draws Comment” (Edgar F. Borgatta); “Parsons Restates View on Research Needs” (Carole W. Parsons); “Journal Editor Replies on Turnaround Problem” (Gary H. Winkel); “Taiwan Department Seeks Ties with U.S. Counterparts” (Daniel Ross)

· Minorities and Women: Report on Roster Workshop (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women)

· NEXU.S.: Only a Phone Call Away!

· World Health Organization Offers Travel Funds

· Texas Christian University Establishes Data Center on Drug Abuse

· Obituaries: Leonard Reissman, Thomas F. O’Dea, Joseph H. Bunzel, John F. O’Rourke, Joseph Kelly Johnson, Frank J. Cannavale, Jr., Miron Constantinescu, Carl Martin Rosenquist

· Researchers Seek Info on Legal Regulation of Life Styles

· ISI Offers Philadelphia Tours to Scientists During Bicentennial

· Social Science Quarterly Seeks Manuscripts for Special Issue on Society and Scarcity

· New Section on World Conflicts in Formation

· Japan Society Announces Grants

Footnotes

May 1975 (Volume 3, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· 39 ASA Minority Fellows Named; Some Funding Needed

· Council Establishes 12-Week Reporting Rule for Editors

· ASA Runoff Election Required for President, Vice President

· Undergraduate Project Attracts 75 Volunteers

· First Annual ASA “Roast” Set for San Francisco Meeting

· ASA in 1980: Counsel to Council on Planning (Otto N. Larsen, ASA Executive Officer)

· Open Forum: “Sewell Responds to Proxmire on NSF Funding of Basic Research” (William H. Sewell); “Comments on Multiple Submissions Policy” (A. Emerson Smith); “Training Needs for Non-Academic Jobs Cited” (Edward E. Harris)

· ASA Committee Seeks Information from Non-Academic Sociologists (Leonard I. Pearlin)

· Ethnographic Study Proposals Sought

· Foundation Center Provides Information on Funding by Foundations

· Child Care Committee Reports on Arrangements for San Francisco Meeting (Jerome H. Skolnick)

· Assembly Charged with Relating Social Science to Government Policy

· Professional Workshop Participants Announced

· NEH Wants Proposals for Summer Seminars

· Planned Change Proposals Sought for Award Competition

· Committee on Status of Women in Sociology Schedules Open Session for Annual Meeting

· German Marshall Fund Offers Fellowships for Work on Industrial Societies

· Letters to the Editor: “Change Proposed in ASA Ballot” (Ithiel de Sola Pool); “Would You Respond to This Vacancy Ad?” (Charles Burton); “ISA Deviance Committee Outlines Major Goals” (Jim Hackler); “Wants Tables, Figures Inserted in Text” (Warren O. Hagstrom)

· Regional Science Association Announces Dissertation Award

· Minutes from March 8, 1975, meeting of 1975 Council

· AAAS Seeks Papers for Psychological-Social-Cultural Prize

· Call for Papers for Third Conference on Behavior Research and Technology in Higher Education

· Deaths: Ely Chinoy, Caroline Rose

· Second Round of Proposals on Teaching Undergraduate Sociology Due in October

Footnotes

August 1975 (Volume 3, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.8 MB)

· Sociology for Whom? President-Elect Alfred McClung Lee States 1976 Program Theme

· Conflict and Dissensus: President Lewis Coser Underscores Program Theme for San Francisco

· Amnesty Statement Endorsed; Members Split on ASA Action

· Registry of Retired Sociologists Available

· Special Phone Number for San Francisco Meeting

· Study in Contrasts: Portrait of New ASA President Alfred McClung Lee

· 70th Annual Meeting Sets Participation Records

· Open Forum: “ASA Editors Not Paradigm Enforcers; Mirror Work of Profession” (Lee Freese); “Calls for ASA Initiatives on Research Rules” (John R. Maiolo)

· Deadlines and Procedures Posted for 1976 Annual Meeting in New York

· 1975 ASA Directory of Members Available

· SSSI Notes Newsletter

· ASA Author’s Guide to Selected Journals Available

· Lucy W. Sells Named ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women

· Proposals Wanted by ASA Undergraduate Sociology Project

· Phillip Carey Named ASA Minority Fellowship Program Director

· ISA 9th World Congress to be Held in Uppsala, Sweden

· Pacific Sociological Association Adopts Bicentennial Theme for 1976 Meeting

· Bicentennial Youth Debates Program Invites Participants

· Social Science Information Service Seeks Research Findings on Pending Legislation

· New Journal, Sociological Practice, Announced

· Richard Yinger Seeks New Specialty Based on Extraterrestrial Life

· Wilson Fellowships Offer Support for Major Scholarly Undertakings

· RANN Offers Disaster Research Funding

· Quizzical Guide to San Francisco Program Sessions

· Report of the ASA Executive Officer (Otto N. Larsen)

· Report of the Secretary (William Form)

· Committee Reports

· Editors’ Reports

· Section Reports

· Representative Reports

· Special Report of the Investigation of the Commitment to Affirmative Action by the University of California-Berkeley Department of Sociology

· Obituaries: Carl Cleveland Taylor, Caroline B. Rose, Oliver Cromwell Cox

· Runoff Vote Elects J. Milton Yinger ASA President and Suzanne Keller Vice President

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Announced

· Minority Program Strengthened by Spivack Fellowship Grants

· First ASA President Lester Frank Ward Memorialized in Cathedral

Footnotes

October 1975 (Volume 3, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.3 MB)

· Sorokin Award Presented to Immanuel Wallerstein; Stouffer Award Presented to Harrison White

· Council Ruling Requires Membership for Program Participation

· R&D Funding at State Level Quadruples

· About the 1975 Meeting Held in San Francisco

· 1976 RANN Objectives Outlined

· Open Forum: “Sociologists Need to Address Foundational Issues of Discipline” (Stephen Turner)

· A Glossary of Sociological Terms (Arthur E. Nudelman, Donald H. Smith, Barbara E. Nudelman, James B. Haugh)

· New Social Indicators Edition Adds Three Areas

· High School Students Given College Introduction to Social Sciences

· NAS Admits One Sociologist Among 14 New Candidates

· NSF Programs Provide Support for Student Research Projects

· Student Assistants Provided by AID

· Letters to the Editor: “Suggests Career Option: Management Consultant” (Linda Pappas); “Quantification Needed in Sociology as Well” (David F. Greenberg)

· Talmon Competition Wants Manuscripts

· Invitation for Proposals on Teaching Undergraduate Sociology

· A Note from the New Editor of The American Sociologist (Alan D. Grimshaw)

· American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honors Seven Sociologists

· Guggenheim Grants Awarded to Nine Sociologists

Footnotes

November 1975 (Volume 3, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.2 MB)

· Sessions Added for 1976 Program

· Candidates Selected for 1976 Elections

· Open Nominations Procedure

· Open Forum: “On Publishing” (Helena Z. Lopata)

· Letters to the Editor: “In Memory of Oliver C. Cox” (Edward Harris and Rhoda Lois Goldstein); “Sociologists Gay Caucus” (Steering Committee)

· Order Form for 1975 Convention Cassettes

· Obituaries: Rupert Bayless Vance, Lathrop V. Beale, Benjamin F. McLuckie, Floyd Nelson House, Tilman M. Cantrell

· Auditor’s Report, June 30, 1975

· ASA Publication on Sociologists in Non-Academic Employment Available

· Invitation to Participate in Program of Undergraduate Teaching Recognition

Footnotes

December 1975 (Volume 3, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.5 MB)

· Council Changes Fiscal Year to Calendar Year; Begins Long Range Planning

· New Policies for ASA Publications

· 1976 Program Reminder

· Political Scientists Give American Sociological Review High Ratings

· Open Forum: “Justice and Affirmative Action” (Paul Riedesel); “Affirmative Action and Principled Ethics” (Stephen K. Sanderson); “Affirmative Action Continued” (Richard D. Alba)

· Obituaries: Ely Chinoy

· Minority Fellowship Program Application Deadline

· Sociologists Elected to Institute of Medicine

· Minutes from August 30, 1975, meeting of 1976 Council

Footnotes

January 1976 (Volume 4, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.5 MB)

· Reaction to ASA Report on Integrity of Federal Statistics

· Mathematics, Minorities and Women (Lucy W. Sells, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women)

· Survey Conducted on Teacher Development in Sociology (Bill Ewens, Diane Emling)

· Inaugural Remarks by ASA President Alfred McClung Lee (from 1975 Annual Meeting Business Meeting)

· Deaths: Arthur J. Field

· Open Forum: “In Response to Helena Lopata” (Bernard Goldstein, Arlene Kaplan Daniels); “A Journal of Abstracts” (Lee H. Bowker)

· Workshop on Faculty Development to be Held in Philadelphia

· State Department Seeks Qualified Consultants

Footnotes

February 1976 (Volume 4, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.5 MB)

· Council Meetings to be Open to Members

· NSF Issues Guidelines for New Program on Research Initiation and Support

· National Science Board Notes Social Science Deficiencies

· Minority Fellowship Program Enters Third Year

· Council Takes Action on Ethics, Conditions of Research and Teaching

· Notes from the International Sociological Association

· 1976 ASA Committees and Representatives

· Presidents of State Associations Recommend Actions

· Mental Health Postdoctoral Training Program in Quantitative Anthropology (at University of California-Berkeley)

· Nominations Invited to 1976 ASA Awards (Sorokin, Stouffer, and DuBois-Johnson-Frazier)

Footnotes

March 1976 (Volume 4, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Special Election Issue: Biographies of Candidates for ASA Office

· Petition Candidates

· Petition Received to Change Constitution and By-Laws

· Minutes from December 5, 1975, meeting of 1976 Council

· Conference on Measurement of Social and Economic Data and Public Policy

· Appeal Procedures Outlined by NSF

· The Decline of Academic Morality

· Nominations Invited to ASR and CS Editorships

· Alex Inkeles and David Norton Smith Receive Hadley Cantril Memorial Award

· The Year the Annual Meeting Stood Still (Otto Larsen)

Footnotes

April 1976 (Volume 4, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· In Favor of Referendum Proposals (Alfred McClung Lee, Pamela Roby, Carol A. Brown, Leo P. Chall, Ted Goertzel, William Kuvelsky, Elizabeth Briant Lee, S.M. Miller, John Moland, Jr., Dorothy K. Newman, Kurt H. Wolff)

· Reasons for ASA Council Opposition to the Petition

· Interpretation of Proposed Changes to Constitution and By-Laws

· New Editors Appointed for Three ASA Publications in 1977 (Robin M. Williams, Jr., Rose Monograph Series; Howard M. Schuman, Sociometry; Karl F. Schuessler, Sociological Methodology)

· Council Task Group Seeks Volunteers

· ASA Renews Grants for Problems of the Discipline

· Cornell Journal of Social Relations Publishes Special Issue in Memory of Leonard Reissman

· Open Forum: “Replies to Riedesel, Sanderson, and Alba” (Joan Huber); “Opportunities for Sociologists through U.S. Department of Labor” (William F. Whyte)

· Teacher Development Workshop Planned, Applications Invited

Footnotes

May 1976 (Volume 4, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· ASA Council and Committees to Hold Open Meetings in New York

· ASA Election Districts, Elections, and Representation

· Three Sociologists Elected to NAS

· ASA Teacher Development Project Funded by Lilly

· Correspondence Received in Response to Forthcoming Referendum (Arlene Kaplan Daniels, et al., for SWS; Alfred McClung Lee, et al.; Jay Demerath; David Knoke; Sheldon Stryker; John Peace; Barbara Hetrick, et al.)

· To the Friends of the Late Ely Chinoy

· Sociologists Named Recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships

· Higher Education in the Nation’s Consciousness

· Census Bureau Seeks Suggestions on 20th Decennial

· Clearinghouses Offer Sociologists Variety of Services

· Open Forum: “Saints Stink While Whores Smell Good: A Lesson from the Social Theories of Robert Merton” (Don Martindale)

· Letters to the Editor (J.L. Fischer; Ann Arlov; Charles M. Unkovic and W.T. Austin)

· Eastern Sociological Society Honors Paul Lazarsfeld

· Auditor’s Report, December 31, 1975

· Undergraduates Report Observations of 1975 Annual Meeting

· Minutes from March 6, 1976, meeting of 1976 Council

Footnotes

August 1976 (Volume 4, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.1 MB)

· Valedictory: A Report on the Year 1975-76 (by outgoing ASA President Alfred McClung Lee)

· Shared and Divergent Perspectives: President-Elect J. Milton Yinger Announces Theme

· Report of the Secretary (William Form)

· Portrait of New President J. Milton Yinger

· 1977 Program: Call for Papers (Sessions and Organizers)

· Report of Executive Officer Hans Mauksch

· Presidential Election Unresolved--Runoff Ballot Mailed; Alice Rossi Elected Vice President, James Short Secretary

· ASA Revises Reporting Dates

· Teaching Undergraduate Sociology Project Newsletter

· Sue Titus Reid Appointed ASA Executive Associate

· Open Forum: “Recruiting and Job Hunting Through Footnotes” (William Bruce Cameron, Raymond H. Wheeler); “Translation Guide to Reading Letters of Reference” (John J. Hartman)

· Increases in Social Science Degrees Anticipated

· NSF Gets Committee Report

· Letters to the Editor (William Foote Whyte; Jackson Toby; Thomas M. Kando; A Student Member; Dirk Hoerder; Amitai Etzioni)

· Social Systems Research Center Program in Innovative Teaching

· ASA Teacher Development Workshop in Texas

· ADAMHA Sets Grant Application Deadline

· ASA Employment Bulletin to Become Separate Publication

· Peace Research Abstracts Journal Seeks Abstractors

Footnotes

October 1976 (Volume 4, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.7 MB)

· ASA Major Awards Announced in New York: Jeffrey Paige and Robert Bellah Win Sorokin Award; Hylan Garnet Lewis Wins DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award; Selection of Stouffer Recipient Delayed Due to Award Selection Committee Chair Paul Lazarsfeld’s Death

· Amos Hawley is New ASA President Elect

· 1977 Program Additions

· Proposed Amendments to Constitution and By-Laws Rejected in Referendum Vote

· Search Authorized for New ASA Executive Officer

· Cornerhouse Fund Provides Dissertation Fellowships

· Meeting with Representatives of Latin American Sociological Association

· Sociologists Appointed to NSF Posts: Herbert Costner Appointed Director of Social Sciences Division; H. Laurence Ross New Director of Law and Social Sciences; William A. Anderson Appointed Program Manager in RANN

· Teacher Development Workshop Held at Boston College

· National Graduate University Offers Courses on Grants

· AID Internship Applications Invited

· Institutions Currently Under AAUP Censure

· ACLS Travel Grants Available

Footnotes

November 1976 (Volume 4, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.3 MB)

· Council Reviews Long Range Planning

· Candidates Selected for 1977 Elections

· Council Reinstates Full Section Day

· MFP Reception Held During Annual Meeting

· ASA Council Meeting Schedule

· Federal Funds for Social Science Research

· Open Forum: “Making Sense of Affirmative Action” (William Austin); “The Annual Meetings for Whom?” (Kenneth Wilson and Christa Reiser); “A Divergent Perspective from the ‘Shared and the Divergent Perspectives . . . Theme’” (John R. Maiolo)

· Programs in NSF’s Division of Social Sciences

· The Editorial Policy of the American Sociological Review (Morris Zelditch, ASR Editor)

· Letters to the Editor (James S. Coleman; Joe Feagin; Alexander D. Blumenstiel; Harold S. Stamm; Charles P. Flynn; Carol Van Steenberg; Robin Karasik; Kenneth H. Reichstein; George Floro)

· Paul Williams New ASA MFP Director

· Privacy Study Commission Hearing

· Social Indicators 1976 Seeks Papers

· News from the International Sociological Association

· Obituaries: Donald Winston Ball, Yoon Hough Kim, Samuel Harman Lowrie, Maurice Manel, Charles H. Newton, Thomas Lynn Smith, Shirley A. Staff (and editor’s note that obituaries which had been moved to TAS will be published in Footnotes again)

Footnotes

December 1976 (Volume 4, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.5 MB)

· Additional Candidates for 1977 Ballot

· Study of Nontraditional Careers Planned

· ASA Experiments with Programs Newsletter

· EOB Committee Follows Council: Reviews Executive Office Staff

· Council Confronts Crunch for Space at Annual Meeting

· 1977 Program Additions

· Teaching Column

· Minutes of September 1, 1976, meeting of 1976 Council

· Minutes of September 4, 1976, meeting of 1977 Council

· Section Reports

· Obituaries: Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Dinko A. Tomasic, Joyce O. Hertzler

Footnotes

January 1977 (Volume 5, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.6 MB)

· Due Date Extended for MFP Applications

· Information Discussion Sessions Planned for 1977 Annual Meeting

· Second Dues Renewal Mailed

· The Editorial Policy of Sociological Methodology

· Call for 1978 Program Suggestions

· ASA Signs Contract with Cambridge University Press to Publish Rose Monograph Series

· Letters to the Editor: Charles C. Moskos, Jr., and Morris Janowitz Respond to Kenneth Reichstein; Irwin Deutscher; Alexander D. Blumenstiel

· AAAS Symposium on Behavioral Research Training in Medicine and Health

· Books and Journals for Asia

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

Footnotes

February 1977 (Volume 5, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.0 MB)

· Changes in Tax Law Affect Faculty Members

· Variety of Government Agencies Support Research for Funding

· Herbert Gans Added to Committee on Publications Slate

· ASA Answers Privacy Commission Proposals

· Search for Executive Associates Started

· Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development Opens

· New AKD Officers

· Nominations Invited for Sorokin, Stouffer, and DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Awards

· Undergraduate Field Research Planned Again for 1977 Meeting

· Committees and Representatives

· Open Forum: “Dissminating Sociological Knowledge Through Teaching Function” (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· NSF Highlight: Law and Social Sciences Program

· Letters to the Editor: DC Chapter of SWS; John Mogey; Ralph H. Turner

· Obituaries: Myron Herbert Levenson, Louise Ann Johnson

· Research and Instructional Resources for the Social Sciences

· LEAA Exemplary Projects Information Available

· Privacy Commission Policy and Program Recommendations

· Commitee Reports

Footnotes

March 1977 (Volume 5, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· The President at Mid-Year (J. Milton Yinger)

· Russell R. Dynes Named ASA Executive Officer

· International Issues Permeate Council Deliberations

· ASA Election Issue: Candidate Biographies

· National Labor Surveys

· Petition Candidates

· Editors’ Reports

· Job Market for College Grads Brighter

· Federal Summer Jobs for Students

Footnotes

April 1977 (Volume 5, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.6 MB)

· Russell Dynes Chairs NAS Committee on International Disaster Assistance

· ASA at Faculty-Publishers Symposium

· Annual Meeting Program Continued (J. Milton Yinger)

· Increase in Academic Employment

· Schuman on Sociometry (Howard Schuman)

· New from the ISA

· New Data on Marriage and Divorce

· Open Forum: “Uses and Abuses of the Terms ‘Racism’ and ‘Racist’” (H. Goodrich)

· Minutes from January 7, 1977, meeting of 1977 Council

· Statistical Abstract Available from Bureau of the Census

Footnotes

May 1977 (Volume 5, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.2 MB)

· Council Ponders New ASA Journal for Non-Specialists

· Rita J. Simon New ASR Editor

· Norval Glenn New CS Editor

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Announced

· Sociology and Related Disciplines: Shared and Divergent Perspectives (Annual Meeting Plenary and Thematic Sessions)

· Sociometry Becomes Social Psychology

· Change Magazine to Feature Teaching of Sociology

· Open Meetings Planned by ASA Committees on Women and Minorities

· NSF Seeks Minorities, Women, and Handicapped

· NEH Seeks 1978 Summer Program Directors

· Letters to the Editor (Charles Powers; Daniel Lerner; Joan Huber; Francis D. Glamser; William Falk and Forrest A. Deseran; Irene R. Kiernan)

· Robert Merton and Seymour Spilerman Join Russell Sage Foundation as Distinguished Scholars

· Changes in 1977 Committees and Representatives

· Call for Papers for Special Issue of TAS on “Alternative Theoretical Perspectives”

· Open Forum: “The Gift: A Typology of Responses from Editors and Reviewers to Unsolicited Papers Submitted for Publication” (Walter Abbott); “Advocates Further Development of State Associations” (Lawrence J. Rhoades); “An Historical Sketch of the Relationship Between the Regional Sociological Societies and the ASA, 1934-1977” (John Pease, Barbara Hetrick)

· John Scanzoni New ASA Representative to Journal of Consumer Research

· Obituaries: Charles H. Anderson, San Schulman, Eileen Markley Znaniecki, Harry Braverman

Footnotes

August 1977 (Volume 5, Number 6) (pdf file; 4.2 MB)

· Report of the ASA President (J. Milton Yinger)

· President Elect Amos H. Hawley Announces Theme for 1978 Program: Societal Growth Processes and Implications

· Special Supplement on the Status of Minorities

· An Introduction to Amos Hawley, ASA President 1977-78 (Everett K. Wilson)

· Program Call for Papers

· Officers of Regional Societies and ASA Meet to Improve Cooperation

· Hubert Blalock President-Elect, Charles Glock, Vice President-Elect

· Two Executive Office Appointments: Doris Wilkinson is Executive Associate for Careers, Minorities and Women; Larry Rhoades Chosen as Executive Associate for Program

· Report of the Executive Officer (Hans Mauksch)

· ASA Council Revises Employment Bulletin Procedures for 1978

· ASA Testimony Before Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects

· Sociologists to Participate in 1977-78 NSF Chautauqua-Type Short Courses

· Allen Grimshaw Reflects on The American Sociologist

· Early Mailing for 1978 Dues Renewals Announced

· Annual Meeting Child Care Program Set

· Obituaries: Dorothy Swaine Thomas, Donald Ramsey Young, Leonard Z. Breen, Robert F. Winch

· Minutes of March 25, 1977, meeting of 1977 Council

· COFRAT Report on the Case of Dr. Paul J. Nyden and the Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

Footnotes

October 1977 (Volume 5, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.3 MB)

· ASA Project on Undergraduate Sociology Receives Funds for Follow-Up Project

· ASA Committee on Expanding Employment Opportunities Makes Recommendations

· Council Sets Guidelines for ASA Journals

· Council Approves $10 Processing Fees for ASA Journals

· Spivack Fellowships Available for 1977

· ASA Award Winners: Kai Erikson and Perry Anderson Win Sorokin Award; Mirra Komarovsky Wins First Jessie Bernard Award; Otis Dudley Duncan Wins Stouffer Award

· Annual Meeting Program Changes for 1978

· Open Forum: “Urges Revision of Ethic Code to Include Teaching and Student Rights” (John F. Galliher); “Introductory Sociology” (Ruth Harriet Jacobs; poem)

· Amos Hawley, Herbert Hyman, Norman Ryder, and Arthur Stinchcombe Elected to AAAS Membership

· Eight Sociologists Win Guggenheim Awards

· World Congress Set for Uppsala in August

· Undergraduate Project Adds More Resources; Revised Annotated Bibliography and Books

· NEH Sets Deadline for Teacher Fellowships

· Notre Dame Planning Student Convention

· Massachusetts Sociological Association Celebrates 10th Anniversary

· Obituaries: James McElvoy III, Virlyn A. Boyd, Stephen Schafer

· Minutes of June 10, 1977, meeting of 1977 Council

Footnotes

November 1977 (Volume 5, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· Travel Arrangements Set for World Congress in Uppsala

· ADAMHA Places Emphasis on Post-Doctoral Fellowships

· Program Committee Seeks Suggestions

· Teaching Resources Group Becomes Operational

· Nominations Committee Announces 1978 President, Vice President Candidates

· Commission Supports Confidentiality of Data

· Candidates Sought for SOE and JHSB Editorships

· Yale Project Links Social Sciences to Energy

· Letters to the Editor: “Questions Use of Photographs, Need for Date of Terminal Degree” (Paul M. Roman); “Emphasizes Goals of Social Psychology” (Howard Schuman); “Wants to Reduce Application Materials” (F.C. Rochte); “Need Applied Emphasis in Graduate Programs” (Alexander D. Blumenstiel); “Opposes Changing Name of Section” (Pawel Horoszowksi); “Supports Broadening Concept of Racism” (Darnell F. Hawkins); “Defends Broader Definition of Racism” (Kenneth Reichstein)

· Sorokin Collection at University of Saskatchewan

· Pre-Service Workshop Scheduled for Sacramento by ASA Project

· NORC Cumulative Survey Data Set Available

· Research by Students Funded by NSF

· NSF Announces New Fellowships

· NEH Offers Summer Seminars for College Teachers

· Change Magazine Publications Available from Project Office

· Undergraduate Education Section Orders Second Printing of Syllabi Set

· Third New England Undergraduate Research Conference in Sociology

· Eugene Griessman Receives Fulbright Lectureship

· George F. Bishop Awarded Grant

· Educational Testing Service Seeks Social Scientist to Develop Research Program

· Obituaries: Sanford Labovitz, Louise E. Dotson, Jaroslav G. Moravec, Ronald C. Engle, June Sklar

· Postdoctoral Grants Available for East European Studies

· Ken Dossar Receives Mass Media Internship from AAAS

· Changes for 1978 Program

· Council Adopts Petition Guidelines

· Editors Receive Grant to Develop Association

· Eastern Sociological Society Receives Grant from Falk Fund

· University of Minnesota Names Building for Sociologist Malcom Macdonald Wiley

Footnotes

December 1977 (Volume 5, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.3 MB)

· Minority Fellowship Program Funds 28

· National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Seeks Proposals

· Committee on Executive Office and Budget Urges Prompt Payment of Dues

· Roland Liebert to Direct NSF Program

· Sociological Follies Slated for San Francisco Meeting

· Commission Urges Removal of Identifiers

· ASA Suggests FAD Donation for Gift Givers

· Council, Committee Candidates Announced for 1978 Election

· Center on Youth Development Dedicated at Catholic University

· Changes Announced for 1978 Meeting

· Sociologists Receive Fulbright Awards

· Requirements for Fulbright Award Applications

· First “Inter-Nos” Column from Executive Officer Russell Dynes

· Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association Meeting Accents Teaching, Draws Large Turnout

· Obituaries: Benjamin Nelson, Peter P. Klassen, Eleanor E. Carroll, Martin W. Davis, C. Edward Noll

· Minutes of September 7, 1977, meeting of 1977 Council

· Minutes of September 10, 1977, meeting of 1978 Council

· Percentage of Women Doctorates in Sociology Increases (Doris Wilkinson)

· Nathan Keyfitz Elected to NAS

· Deaths: Harry Alpert

Footnotes

January 1978 (Volume 6, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.9 MB)

· Is Sociology Relevant to the “Real” World? Yes, but . . .

· Minority Fellowship Program Compiles Impressive Four Year Record

· Teaching Workshop Scheduled for Midwest Meeting

· Committee Structure Revised by ASA Council

· Sociologist Andrew Lind’s Classroom on Wheels

· Commission Addressed Conditions at Disclosure

· Aging Symposium Set for AAAS Meeting

· Minority Fellowship Program Offers Applied Fellowships

· Ode to Boston: Center of the Universe (a poem by Spencer Condie)

· Open Forum: “Recommends Specific Training for Federal Careers” (Ronald Manderscheid)

· ASA Committee on Expanding Employment Opportunities Seeks Sociologists in Non-Academic Settings

· Applied Sociology Workshop Slated for Pacific Meeting

· Danforth Program Offers Fellowships

· Sale of Teaching Materials Shows Substantial Increase

· NIA Seeks Health Scientist Administrator

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· SPSSI Announces Dissertation Prizes

· Obituaries: T. Earl Sullenger

· The American Sociologist Features New Perspectives

· Family Impact Survey Underway

· NCJRS Offers Free Services

· Preparing Worldwide Report on Health Systems Researcg

Footnotes

February 1978 (Volume 6, Number 2) (pdf file; 8.6 MB)

· Decline in Social Science Majors

· Candidates for ASA Election

· Non Academic Settings Supportive of Research

· New ASA Publications: Careers in Sociology, 1978 Guide, Directory of Members, Directory of Departments

· Committee Structure for 1978

· ICPSR Programs Provide Training Opporrtunities

· Sociologists Head Seminars for College Teachers

· Obituaries: John M. Foskett

· Elizabeth Briant Lee Elected President of Association for Humanist Sociology

· World Congress of Sociology Theme, Travel, Grants

· Eastern Sociological Society Forms Lectureship Committee

· Social Indicators Issued by Commerce Department

· Teaching vs. Research: Everett Wilson Calls for Revision of Teaching Role in Sociology

· Occupational Data File Available

· Eastern Sociological Society Meeting Schedules Innovative Sessions

· Emory University Program Studies English Health Care

· Committee on Alternative Resources Seeks Support

· Proposals Sought on Institutional Racism

· Conference on Meta-Theory

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Forum Debates Business Responsibility

· Paul Chalfant Elected Mid-South Sociological Association President

· NIH Forum Seeks Sociologists

· AAAS Seeks Congressional Fellowship Applicants

· Committee Appointments

· New HRAF Improves Potential for Worldwide Theory Testing

· Council Seeks Advice on Election Procedures

Footnotes

March 1978 (Volume 6, Number 3) (pdf file; 5.4 MB)

· Council Approves Continuation of Problems of Discipline Program

· Non-Academic Settings: Breadth and Depth Needed in Graduate Training

· Workshop Held on Opportunities in Federal Employment

· Midwest Sociological Society Examines Structural Paradigm

· Southern Sociological Society Special Sessions

· NIE Plans New Programs and Expands Others

· Election Edition: Candidate Biographies

· Notre Dame Research Convention

· On Verses Versus Boston (a poem by Suzanne Fleming)

· Open Forum: “Seeks More Effective Organization of Sociologists” (Wade H. Andrews); “Cites Need to Notice How Much Learning is Taking Place” (Reyes Ramos)

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Information Sought on Memorial Session Held to Honor Harry Braverman

· Obituaries: Harry Alpert, Henry A. Bowman, Carroll D. Clark, Norman S. Hayner

· Committee on Publications Report

· Editors’ Reports

· Letters to the Editor: “Piener Rgues 4 Reformd Spelling” (S. Colum Gilfillan); “Photos Provide Data for Voting Decisions” (Cecelia E. Sudia); “Request Fewer Letters of Reference” (Phyllis C. Barrins)

· Survey on Ethical Issues in Evaluation Research

· ASA Project Plans Workshops in Florida and Colorado

Footnotes

April 1978 (Volume 6, Number 4) (pdf file; 4.0 MB)

· ASA Teaching Newsletter Seeks Subscribers

· ASA Creates New Award Structure

· Several ABASS Studies Underway

· Departmental Role Focuses on Undergraduate Teaching

· NSF Reorganizes RANN Program

· Alternative Career Opportunities Outlined by Sociologists

· ISA Travel Information

· Spivack Fellowship Deadline Set for June 1

· Nominations Sought for Myrdal Prizes

· Percent of Social Science Degrees Decreases in 1970s

· Second Edition of Inquiries in Sociology Published

· Pennsylvania Sociological Society Officers

· Open Forum: “Assets Minority Employment Prospects Bright” (Phillip Carey); “Seeks Questions for Practical Research Bank” (Donald E. Allen)

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Election Studies Given Long-Range Funding

· Center for Rape Prevention Offers Three Categories of Grants

· Center Seeks Proposals on Reproductive Behavior

· Proposals Sought on Social Factors Related to Oral Health

· Sociological Follies Need Volunteers

· Mount Vernon College Offers Facilities for Summer Programs

· Visual Sociologists Invite Participation

· Obituaries: Robert L. Kanter, Paul L. Wuebben, Morton DeCorcey Nachlas

· Minutes of January 13, 1978, meeting of 1978 Council

· More Editors’ Reports

· More Committee Reports

· Section Reports

· After Thoughts; Final Words

· Departments Attend ASA Teaching Workshop

· NCSA Focuses on Human Rights, Undergraduate Teaching

· New Videotape on Computer Graphics

· ASA Award Deadlines

Footnotes

May 1978 (Volume 6, Number 5) (pdf file; 5.2 MB)

· Council Debates ERA Issues and Convention Sites

· Federal Budget Requests for Social Science Outlined

· COGRAT Issues Recommendations on Initial Appointments

· Plenary and Thematic Sessions Emphasize Grown Phenomena

· First Spivack Fellowships Announced

· ASA Committee on the Profession Seeks Information on COINTELPRO Activities

· ASA Committee on the Profession Seeks Information on Unethical Publishers

· Non-Academic Settings: Sociologists React to and Discuss Meaning of Labels

· Countries Request Fulbrights in Sociology

· Spivack Fellowship Application Deadline

· Conference to Examine Research Regulations

· ASA Award Deadlines

· New National Council Soliciting Research Proposals on Soviet Union and East Europe

· Section on Aging Seeks Members

· Academic Advising: Full-Time Position Termed “Rewarding”

· ASA Annual Meeting to Serve as Lab: New Sponsor Named

· Population Policy Proposals Sought

· Journal of Applied Behavioral Science Seeks Editor

· AAAS Socio-Psychological Prize Competition

· New Members Named to NSF Advisory Group

· Citizens Willing to Fund Research

· Research Proposals Sought on Health Costs

· NCSA Session Focuses on Futures for Sociologists

· ASA Problem of Discipline Grants Supporting Three Groups

· COFRAT: Guidelines for Initiation Appointments (including suggested letter of initial appointment offer)

· Western Massachusetts Consortium Holds First Meeting

· Council Considering Offering Group Insurance

· Lazarsfeld Lectures Begin; Hans Zeisel to Give First Lecture

· Minutes of March 11, 1978, meeting of 1978 Council

· Committee Reports

· Time, Space Allocation Guidelines Announced for Annual Meetings

· Award Winning Student Films

· Auditor’s Report: December 31, 1977

· Letters to the Editor: Difficulties in Selecting Job Applicants (Lauren H. Seiler)

· DC Society Holds Job Conference for Undergraduates

· Obituaries: D. Mehdi Azimi

· New Service Provides Quick Access to Federal Statistics

· Inter-Organizational Cooperation Produces Workshop on Introductory Sociology Course (Robert E. Kennedy, Jr., and Mohammad Tavakoli)

· ASA Receives Funds for Abt Prize on the Conditions of Social Research

· NIMH Wants More Research on Minority Groups

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes

August 1978 (Volume 6, Number 6) (pdf file; 6.2 MB)

· Report of the President: Amos Hawley Cites New ASA Actions

· President Elect Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. Announces Theme for 1979 Annual Meeting

· Peter Rossi Wins Presidential Runoff; Helen MacGill Hughes Elected Vice President

· Monanes Make Bequest to ASA for Two Programs

· Teaching Center Relocates to ASA Office

· Sociologists in Non-Academic Jobs Suggest Actions

· William Foote Whyte Heads Effort to Link Academia and Congress

· Portrait of the New ASA President: A Bundle of Contradictions: Which is the Real Tad Blalock? (Gerhard Lenski)

· General Sessions and Organizers Named for 1979 ASA Meeting

· Sociological Follies Cancelled

· ASA Developing Non-Academic Roster

· Editors Selected for ASA Journals: Howard B. Kaplan, JHSB; Alan C. Kerckhoff, SOE; Allen Grimshaw to Remain TAS Editor While Council Considers Future

· Effort Underway to Improve Reporting of Social Sciences

· Mid-South Sociological Association Launches New Journal, Sociological Forum

· Postsecondary Research Group Forms in AERA

· Washington Forms State Association

· Report of the Secretary: Short: Remodeling, Finances and Divisive Tendencies (James F. Short, Jr.)

· Problems of the Discipline Grant Deadline

· Employment Projections, Job Seeking Tips Presented for Undergraduate, Graduate Sociology Trainees (Doris Wilkinson)

· Foundation Seeks Proposals on Current Values

· Sociologists Receive Grants for Population Policy Studies

· Non-Profit Organizations Fund Sociologists (Guggenheim, German Marshall Fund, ACLS/SSRC, ACLS)

· ASA Projects Schedule Workshops for Departmental Chairs and New Teachers

· Report of the Executive Officer: Executive Office Functions to ASA Constitution (Russell Dynes)

· ASA Historical Materials Sought

· What Do You Do in the Executive Office? An Empirical Answer (Russell Dynes)

· ASA Staff: An Introduction by Person and Job Activities

· Minority Fellowship Program: First PhD, Celestino Fernandez, Fulfilling Its Promise

· Proposals Wanted on Health of Children

· Minority Fellowship Program Facing Funding Reductions

· Researchers on Western Europe Sought

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Regulations for Research on Children

· Wisconsin Association Plans Teaching Workshop

· Section on Methodology Announces Training Institute at Annual Meeting

· Leaflet on Information Act

· Organizations Elect Sociologists

· NSF Facing Large Budget Cut

· Clinical Sociology Network Launched

· ASA Conducts Referendum on Site of 1980 Annual Meeting (because Atlanta is not in an ERA state)

· Sociologists Selected Woodrow Wilson Scholars

· Recommendations for Review Board to be Published

· Student Journal Directory Seeking Information

· Letters to the Editor: On the New Careers in Sociology: “Unrealistic Picture on Roles, Market” (Jon Darling, Roslyn Darling); “Reads Well, Likes Gender Balance” (Charles A. Goldsmid); “An Improvement, a Disappointment” (Monica M. Morris). Other: “Must Return to a Quality System” (Pierre L. van den Berghe)

· Open Forum: “Visions of Utopia” (Don Martindale)

· TAS Wants Ideas on Academic Freedom

· Obituaries: Frieda Fligelman, Winston W. Ehrmann, Hans W. Mattick, Harley O. Preston, Olive M. Stone

· Harry Alpert Fund Established

· Copies of National Drug Abuse Studies Available from NIDA

· Late Charge Instituted for Late ASA Dues Payment

· Clearinghouse on Academic Freedom Created

· Funds Available for NIMH Grants

· Grants Awarded for World Congress Travel

Footnotes

October 1978 (Volume 6, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.0 MB)

· Editor’s Note: Continuous series on “Social Science and Government” launched

· Social Science and Government: Study Examines Federal Investment in Social Science (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· Nathan Glazer: Graduate Training Needs Professional Perspective

· Program Committee Seeks Suggestions

· Annual Meeting Moves to New York, Result of Referendum

· Alice Meyers, ASA Administrative Officer, to Retire

· New ISA Officers

· Assessing Interest in Social Aspects of Space Utilization

· David Mechanic Resigns Council Seat; Pauline Bart Accepts Council Post (Caroline Perrucci takes Bart’s Seat on Committee on Nominations)

· Corresponding with ASA

· Jessie Bernard Award Guidelines Announced

· Privacy Research Competition Seeks Proposals

· From Social R&D to Social Knowledge P&A

· Problems Hamper Social Organization of Social Research Effort (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· Oversight Institutions Named

· Federal Funds: How Much, From Where, For What, For Whom (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· ASA Projects Slate Workshop for New Teachers

· Syllabi Set on Sociology of Education Available from Teaching Resources Center

· Supplementary Sessions

· Undergraduate Teachers Participate in NEH Summer Seminars

· Sociologists Teaching Chatauqua Courses: Apply Now

· Registry of Retired Sociology Being Updated

· Obituaries: Betty Radley Green, Hei Chu Kim, Robert Lee Sutherland

· Lecture Series Honors Robert F. Winch

· Minutes of June 16, 1978, meeting of 1978 Council

· Another View of Graduate Education

· Civil Service Commission Expands Program to Graduate Students

Footnotes

November 1978 (Volume 6, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.8 MB)

· Lilly Awards Second Grant to ASA Teacher Development Project

· Candidates for ASA Offices

· Teaching Resources Group Expands as Demand Increases in Third Year

· Minority Fellowship Program Receives Additional Funds

· Participation of Sociologists in Fulbright Program Reviewed (Russell Dynes)

· Spivack Fellowships Awarded

· Eubank Collection Donated to Chicago

· COINTELPRO Activities

· Proposals Wanted on Diet and Nutrition

· Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Being Organized

· ASA Involvement in International Scene

· Sociologists Named Fulbright Scholars for 1978-79

· Tax Deductions for Attending Meetings in Other Countries

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· A Profile: Minorities in Sociology and Other Behavioral Sciences (Doris Wilkinson)

· International Effort: Integration of Social Science Information

· ASA Guidelines Cited for Exercising Right to Petition

· Statisticians Honor Three Sociologists

· New AID Division Seeks Social Science Feedback

· SPSSI Task Force Seeks Input

· Paper Discusses Statistical Disclosure

· Teaching Positions Overseas

· General Social Survey Results Available

· Human Relations Area File Announces Summer Workshop

· Section Organizers

· Photos of Former ASA Presidents Available

· Science Citation Index Data Base Leased by NSF

Footnotes

December 1978 (Volume 6, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.3 MB)

· NIE Awards ASA Grant for Research Skills Institute

· ASA Council, Committee Candidates

· Social Science and Government: NSF Council Preparing Reports on Science Policy Issues (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· Sociologists to Participate in AAAS Meeting

· Blalock: A Personal Appeal for Suggestions

· NSF Seeks Replacement for Herbert Costner

· Studies Wanted on Drug Abuse

· Nominations Sought for Editors of Rose Monograph Series and SPQ

· Open Forum: “ABS Statement Assails Book by Wilson”; “Black Sociologist Backs Wilson” (William A. Sampson); “Wants to Remove Restrictions on Meeting Papers” (Lee H. Bowker); “Suggest New Course of Action for State Sociological Associations” (Charlene Rushton Black)

· Section on Visual Sociology Being Organized

· Sociologists Place in SPSSI Dissertation Award Competition

· ASA Council Opposes Proposition 6

· MFP Invites Applications

· Minutes of September 6, 1978, meeting of 1978 Council

· Career Bibliography II: More Resources for Sociology Trainees (Doris Wilkinson)

· Alternative Careers for Academics Bulletin

· Visiting Fulbrights Open to Invitations

· Study Project on Social Research and Development Publications Available

· Donations to ASA Fund for the Discipline Invited

Footnotes

January 1979 (Volume 7, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.0 MB)

· Science and Technology Report Shows Need for Social Sciences (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award Given Posthumously to Ira de Augustine Reid

· William Foote Whyte Becomes ASA Presidential Candidate through Open Nominations Process

· William H. Sewell Heads National Commission on Research

· Congress Adds to R&D Funding for Fiscal Year 1979

· Teaching/Learning Strategy Accents Citizenship Role

· Annual Reviews: Assistance in Keeping Up with Developments; Suggestions Invited

· ASA Solicits Proposals on Invasion of Privacy for Abt Award

· Society for Social Studies of Science Elect Lowell Hargens and Jerry Gaston to Offices

· Uppsala ISA Tax Forms Lost

· FCC Children’s Television Task Force Seeks Studies

· Journal of the History of Sociology Founded to Celebrate Centenniel of Teaching of Sociology

· ASA Represented at APHA Meeting

· Eleven ASA Minority Fellows Have Received PhDs

· Research Program Proposed on Female Equity in Education

· Samuel Leinhardt Named SM Editor

· James McCartney Named TAS Editor

· Three New Publishing Ventures Announced for Social Sciences

· Council of Editors Formed to Promote Cooperation and Communication

· British Sociological Association Assumes Control of Journal, Moves to New Offices

· Studies Sought on Effect of Inflation and Taxation on Consumers

· National Archives Contain Data for Research and Teaching

· Committee on National Statistics Seeks Input on Incomplete Survey Data

· New York State Sociological Association, South Carolina Sociological Association Announce Election Results

· University of California-Berkeley Begins Teaching Assistant Training Program

· Brown University Receives Grant from Henry Luce Foundation

· Letters to the Editor: “Teach General Skills of Analysis” (Paul M. Gustafson)

· NIMH Solicits Proposals for Fellowships

· Obituaries: Leo G. Reeder, Buford H. Junker, C. Terence Pihlblad, Henry L. Manheim, Joseph Chiozza Lagey

· National Research and Information Center Offers Services to Facilitate Research on Death

· Minutes of September 9, 1978, meeting of 1979 Council

· NSF Sets Proposal Limits

· Language-International Studies Commission Identifies Focus; Allen Kassof is Member

· Survey of Longitudinal Studies

· Institutional Review Board Comments Invited

Footnotes

February 1979 (Volume 7, Number 2) (pdf file;1.3 MB)

· Thematic Panels Announced for Boston Annual Meeting

· Changes in Committee Structure Limited to Ad Hoc Category

· William D’Antonio: Curriculum Needs to be Turned Inside Out

· NEH Offers Summer Seminars for College Teachers

· NIE Wants Proposals on Teaching and Learning

· Center for Population Research Issues Call for Applications on Unwanted Pregnancy Studies

· Merriam Professorship in Political Science at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

· Success of First ASA Projects Chair Workshop Leads to Planning Another

· Social Problems Syllabi Available from TRC

· East-West Population Institute Sponsors Population Summer Seminar

· Editors’ Reports

· Committee Appointments

· Murray Melbin Wins AAAS Socio-Psychological Price

· Fulbright Opportunities

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes

March 1979 (Volume 7, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.8 MB)

· Referendum Slated on Membership-Dues Structure

· Sociological Inventory: Ready for Reviews

· Election Edition: Candidate Biographies

· Plenary Sessions Announced for Boston Annual Meeting

· Applications Invited for Spivack Fellowships

· ASA Award Deadlines

· Paris Conference on Sociology of Education

· National Archives Offers Courses

· Cancer Institute Seeks Proposals

· Kenneth Prewitt Named SSRC President

· Report of Status of Women in Sociology, 1934-1977 (Doris Wilkinson)

· Sociologists Help Produce Handbook on Educational Planning

· Footnotes Publishes Classified Ads

· NCSA Workshop on Educating Applied Sociologists

· ASA Projects Workshop Begins Development of Network for Training Graduate Students to Teach

· Interfuture Provides Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

· Association for Humanist Sociology Announces Election Results, New Address

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Committee Reports

· RFP Performance of Agencies Assessed

· Council Approves Insurance Plan

· Matilda Riley, Orville Brim Elected to Institute of Medicine

· Survey Research Techniques Summer Seminar

· Rose Monograph Series Enters Second Decade; 20 Titles Issued

· Sociology and ASA Course Becomes National Honors Program

· Employment Bulletin Encourages Non-Academic Listings

· New 1979 Guide to Graduate Departments

· New Edition of Registry of Retired Sociologists Available

Footnotes

April 1979 (Volume 7, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.8 MB)

· Changes Made in Space Allocation at Annual Meeting

· Committee on Sections Re-Established

· Preferential Voting Set for ASA Election

· Plenary Marks Symbolic Transfer of Responsibility (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· ASA Offers Opportunity to Form Ad Hoc Research Groups

· Task Force on Certification/Accreditation Created

· ADAMHA Raises Small Grant Limit

· NSF Launches Program to Improve Management of Research Projects

· Section Dues Increased for 1980

· Section on Methodology Training Institute

· Five Sessions to Focus on Teaching at ASA Meeting

· Texas Establishes Monetary Teaching Award

· Pennsylvania Sociological Society Elects Officers

· Feeder System Developed by Illinois Wesleyan AKD

· NIE Invites Proposals on Organizational Process

· Planning Survey of PhD Nurses

· NEH Offers Fellowships to Teachers

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Youth Values Report

· Census Experts Wanted for Project

· Summer Program in Medical Sociology at Boston University

· Minutes of January 23, 1979, meeting of 1979 Council

· Section Reports

· Criminal Justice Studies Underway at Northwestern University

· Obituaries: James Tamplin Laing, Svend Henry Reimer

· Biopolitical Research Center Established at Northern Illinois University

· Problems of Discipline Program Funds Three Projects; Proposals Solicited

· Council Expands Membership and Mission of Problems of Discipline Committee

· Humanities Report Final Report Due

Footnotes

May 1979 (Volume 7, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.2 MB)

· China Reinstates Sociology as a Branch of Science

· Council Establishes Two Major Awards, Approves Publications Policies

· Golden Fleece Suite Reaches Supreme Court

· ASA President Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. Urges More Support for Minorities in Science

· Debates on Major Theoretical Issues Set for Boston Annual Meeting

· Edward Shils Named NEH Jefferson Lecturer

· Committee on Profession Reports Results of Survey: Fewer Scholar/Publisher Problems than Expected

· Milton Gordon Encourages Closer Links Between Psychology and Sociology in ESS Presidential Address

· ASA Professional Workshop Series

· Techniques for Teaching Concepts Available from TRC

· Didactic Seminars Aim to Update Knowledge, Skills

· More TRC Syllabi Sets Being Developed; Submissions Invited

· Ethelyn Davis Receives Cornaro Award

· California State-Northridge Course Explores Sociological Dimensions of Industrialization and Settlement of Space

· ICPSR Summer Program on Quantitative Methods

· Anthropology Editors Donate Royalties to Minority Fellowship Program

· Analysis of 1971-77 Job Listings Available

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Cartoon by David Adams, Ohio State-Lima

· Letters to the Editor: “Caution Expressed on Free Services” (Thomas C. Nelson); “Underrepresentation of White Males” (Samuel Mueller); “Free Academic Use of Meeting Papers” (Bo G. Eriksson); “Urges International Approach to Sociology” (Maria Maxfield); “Social Consequences of Science and Technology” (Shirley Kolack)

· Countries Want Sociologist Fulbright Scholars

· Auditor’s Report, December 31, 1978

· Obituaries: Melville Dalton, Hans Heinrich Gerth

· Executive Associates Doris Wilkinson and Lawrence J. Rhoades Reappointed

· Committee on Publications Report

· Representative Reports

· Richard Ofshe Shares Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

· Nominations Invited for Committees on Nominations, Committees

· New ASA Publications: Guide to Graduate Departments, Directory of Departments, Directory of Members, Federal Funding Programs for Social Scientists, Guidelines for Initial Appointments in Sociology

Footnotes

August 1979 (Volume 7, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.0 MB)

· Report of the President: Hubert Blalock, Jr. Stresses Long-Term Issues

· President-Elect Peter Rossi Recognizes Diversity in 1980 Annual Meeting Theme

· William Foote Whyte New ASA President; Renee Fox, Vice President; Herbert Costner, Secretary

· ASA Council Takes Actions in Support of Teaching

· Portrait of ASA President Peter Rossi: A Robin Hooding Heavyweight at the Helm

· Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1980 Annual Meeting

· Clinical Sociology Association Organized

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes; to Alice Myers on her retirement)

· Open Forum: “Institutional Review Boards: Legal-Administrative Bases” (James M. Murtha, Lauren H. Seiler)

· Tributes to Talcot Parsons, 1902-1979

· ASA Research Skills Development Institute Held at Morgan State

· George Bohrnstedt Named SPQ Editor

· Suzanne Keller Named Rose Editor

· Student Reception Scheduled for 1979 Annual Meeting

· Report of the Secretary: James F. Short, Jr. Outlines Association Actions in Search for Equity

· MFP Given New Grant; Dissertation Awards Made

· ASA Projects Schedule Second Chair Workshop

· New Teaching Resources Available at Annual Meeting

· Sociologists Win Guggenheims

· NEH Offers Year-Long Seminars for Teachers

· Hospitality Suite for Teachers at 1979 Annual Meeting

· Census Bureau Developing Workbook

· Chautauqua Course Schedule Ready

· Boston Meeting: Last Hurrah for Alice (on Alice Myers’ Retirement)

· Sheldon Stryker’s NCSA Presidential Address: Identity Crisis in Sociology Calls for Common Vision of Relevance

· Michael Schudsen, Gail Lapidus Named Rockefeller Fellows

· Research Wanted on Immigration

· Journalist-Sociologist (Richard Ofshe) Team Wins Pulitzer Prize

· Support Solicited for Textbook Suite

· Report of the Executive Officer: Russell Dynes Reviews Executive Office Activities and Restructuring

· Problems of Discipline Grant Proposal Deadline

· Minutes of March 10, 1979, meeting of 1979 Council

· John and Ruth Useem Honored for Scholarship on International Exchanges

· Orville Brim, Jr. Receives Kurt Lewin Award

· Social Science and Government: Supreme Court Rules Researchers Are Not Public Figures (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· Membership Renewal Incorporates Referendum Changes

Footnotes

October 1979 (Volume 7, Number 7) (pdf file; 3.8 MB)

· Council Approves Theory Annual, Constitutional Referendum

· Social Science and Government: IRB Regulations Published by HEW

· April 1980 Designated “Teaching of Sociology” Month by ASA Projects

· Candidates Announced

· Helen Fein Wins Sorokin Award

· Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer and Nancy Chodorow Win Jessie Bernard Award

· Last Spivack Fellows Chosen

· IRB Regulations: An Opposing View from Ithiel de Sola Pool

· Minority Fellowship Program Announces Spivack Dissertation Awards

· MFP Seeks 1980-81 Applicants

· COFRAT: Evolution of Mission During First Decade

· COFRAT Procedures for Investigating Cases

· IPA Positions Available at Health Research Center

· Supplementary Sessions at 1980 Annual Meeting

· Obituaries: Fred Cottrell, Louis Schneider, Grace Duncan Hopper, Ruth Viola Reed

· Deaths: David V. Glass, Hillquit Linch

· Nominations Invited for ASR, CS, JHSB, and SOE Editorships

· Proposals Wanted on Soviet Union, Eastern Europe

· Maurice Falk Medical Lecture Series Seeking Sociologists

· NSF Offers Fellowships

Footnotes

November 1979 (Volume 7, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.5 MB)

· Annual Meeting to Explore Frontiers of Social Inventions (William Foote Whyte)

· Minority Fellowship Program Receives Funds for Applied Fellowships

· Social Science and Government: Study Reports Trouble Ahead for University Research (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· Open Forum: “Problems of Professional Nomads Need Attention” (J. Allen Whitt and Charles Derber)

· Sociologists Win Fulbright Awards

· Sociological Horoscope (periodic feature by Jackie Boles)

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Obituaries: William Earle Cole, Allan W. Eister, Lawrence La Fave, Paul W. Massing

· Minutes from June 15, 1979, meeting of 1979 Council

· Sociologists Receive Honorable Mentions for Allport Prize

· ASA Guidelines for Exercising Right to Petition

· New Youth Survey Added to Longitudinal Labor Force Study

· Charles Y. Glock Honored by B’nai B’rith

Footnotes

December 1979 (Volume 7, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· First Common Wealth Awards Honor Robert K. Merton and Kingsley Davis

· Poster Sessions Scheduled for 1980 Annual Meeting

· Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees

· Historical Series Commemorating ASA’s 75th Anniversary Begins

· Teaching Workshops Set for April 1980

· SSRC/ACLS Grants to Sociologists for International Research

· MFP Names 10 Research Fellows; Five More Fellows Receive PhDs

· Second Research Skills Institute Set for UCLA

· ASA Council Censures University of Vermont

· Matilda Riley Heads Social Research at NIA

· NSF Sociology Program Managers Offer Assistance to Colleagues

· Nominations Invited for ASA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship

· Iner Nos (Russell Dynes on Paul Chalfant)

· NSF Equipment Grants

· Books Wanted for China

· Efforts to Establish ASA Section on Racial and Cultural Minorities

· Human Resources Workshop at Howard University

· Argentinian Worker Wants Books to Continue Study

· Obituaries: Alex Simirenko, Karen A. Laidlaw

· Deaths: Myron (Mike) Lewis, Everett V. Stonequist, Elijah L. White, Ernest M. Banzet

· Minutes of August 30, 1979, meeting of 1979 Council

· Minutes of September 1, 1979, meeting of 1980 Council

· Referendum: Proposed Changes in ASA Constitution, By-Laws

· Council on Social Work Education Approves Programs

· Letters to the Editor: “Sexism in Sociology” (Barrie Thorne, Lewis Coser, Joyce Ladner, Essie Manuel Rutledge, Pepper Schwartz, Gaye Tuchman); “Sociology and NIMH Training Programs” (for Social Science Fellowship Training Committee, William T. Liu and Roberta G. Simmons)

· Problems of Discipline Grants Support Collaborative Scholarship; Proposals Invited

Footnotes

January 1980 (Volume 8, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.0 MB)

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Sociologists Form Separate, Independent Society (Lawrence J. Rhoades; first in a series on the history of ASA)

· NCES Reports Unexpected Rise in College Enrollments

· NSF Sociology Program 72 Grants in FY 1979

· ASA Projects Invite Participation in Teaching Month Observance

· Social Science and Government: Strategy Proposed for Preserving Research Excellence thru Year 2000 (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· Nominations Invited for DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award

· Presidential Commission Calls for Languages and International Studies

· Health Service System Research Program Started

· NIE Seeks Proposals on School Organization; Nine Sociologists Funded

· Sociologists Named to Peace Commission

· NEH Announces Summer Seminars for College Teachers

· Chair Workshop Initiates Effort to Start Newsletter for Sociology Department Chairs

· ASA Projects Revises Schedule for Teaching Workshops

· Letters to the Editor: “Commends Comment on Nomads” (Helen J. Raschke); “Sociological Methodology Policies Outlined” (Samuel Leinhardt, SM Editor); “Graduate Student Comments on Faculty” (Name withheld); “Is This Your Typical Day?” (Warren R. Paap, Bill Hanson)

· Proposed ASA Code of Ethics: Reactions Solicited

· Obie Clayon, ASA Minority Fellow, Receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award

· Sexual Biases in Sociological Research: Problems and Issues (prepared by the Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology)

· Obituaries: Jerome Davis, Gino Gemani, John A. O’Donnell

· Privacy Research Proposals Wanted

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes

February 1980 (Volume 8, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· Council Actions Revamp Committee Structure for 1980

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Society Aids Creation of Social Science Institutions

· Application Deadline Set for ASA Research Skills Development Institute

· ASA Considering Faculty Conference on Organizational Analysis

· Six Mini-Workshops Scheduled for Teaching Sociology Month

· Open Forum: “Language Courses Based on Social Science Content” (Magoroh Maruyama)

· Letters to the Editor: “Questions Access to Books in China” (Werner Cohn); “Openness Reported; Encourages Support” (response by Russell Dynes)

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Produce Two Books; Another Forthcoming

· Efforts Continue to Organize State Sociological Associations

· Applications Invited for Indiana University Training Program in Measurement

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Committee Reports

· AKD Announces Officers

· Population Reports Service Changes

· ASA Committee Appointments

· Scholars from Nine Countries Become Visiting Fulbright Scholars

Footnotes

March 1980 (Volume 8, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.9 MB)

· Council Approves Tri-Partite Editorship for Theory Annual; Other Council Actions

· Four Monographs Added to Rose Series in 1979

· Open Nominations Candidates Announced

· Plenary Sessions to Focus on Critical Institutions

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Society Grows in Size and Complexity in First 25 Years

· Open Forum: “Mauksch Urges Participation in April: Teaching Month” (Hans O. Mauksch)

· ASA Teaching Newsletter Seeks Subscribers

· Graduate Students Win Fulbrights

· Seventh Mini-Workshop Set for April

· NSF Seeks Candidates for Associate Program Director in Sociology Program

· Workshop on Developmental Transitions in the Lives of Women and Men

· AAAS Committee Details Legal Protection for Whistle Blowing

· NCSA Offers Employment Service

· Guide to Graduate Departments Available

· ASA May Offer Faculty Conference on Organizational Analysis

· Federal Funding Level for Social/Behavioral Science Indicates Low National Priority

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Obituaries: Austin L. Porterfield, Winifred Raushenbush

· Editors’ Reports

· Candidate Biographies

· Applications Invited for Research Workshop at Howard University

· Nominations Invited for ASA Award for Career of Distinguished Scholarship

· ASA Diamond Anniversary Contest Quiz

Footnotes

April 1980 (Volume 8, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.0 MB)

· Social Science and Government: Congress Urged to Support Basic Social Science Research

· Thematic Sessions Announced for 1980 Annual Meeting

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Society Experienced Major Social Change in Turbulent 1930s

· William D’Antonio to Edit Contemporary Sociology

· ASA Meeting Serves as Classroom for Honors Course

· Nominations Invited to ASA Teaching Award

· Nominations Still Open for Editorships of JHSB, SOE

· NSF Funding Cut; Workshop on Organizational Analysis Cancelled

· Institute on Health and Health Care Slated

· A Synopsis: Projections for the Profession in the 1980s (Doris Y. Wilkinson)

· Conference on Organizational Taxonomies

· NIH Seeks Health Science Administrator

· Minutes of January 19, 1980, meeting of 1980 Council

· Section Reports

· Nominations Invited for ASA Distinguished Scholarship Award

· Guide Shjows Variety in Degree Grantors

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes

May 1980 (Volume 8, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· Survey of ASA Members Scheduled for June

· Council Launches Teaching Services Program; Other Council Actions

· ASA Meeting Features Variety of Sessions

· NIMH Awards 99 Grants to Sociologists in FY 1979

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Currents of Change Flow Through Society as Second Quarter-Century Begins

· Open Forum: “Applied Sociology Suggested as Best Generic Term” (Alexander Boros)

· Summer Programs Provide Opportunities for Development

· Peter Burger, Randall Collins, Irving Zeitlin Named Editors for Sociological Theory

· Publish-or-Perish Policy Hurting Scholarly Journals, Says Helen Hughes in ESS Presidential Address

· The American Sociologist Invites Papers for Possible Special Issue on “The ASA at 75”

· ASA Reference Materials Available

· A Summary: Sections and the Changing Structure of ASA (Doris Wilkinson)

· Event-History Data Workshop to be Held at Columbia University

· Council Accepts Recommendations of COFRAT

· Nominations Invited for ASA Elected and Appointed Positions

· Bills Support Confidentiality of Data (Bradford H. Gray)

· Annual Meeting Child Care. Room Sharing

· Nominations Invited for Distinguished Scholarship Award

· Task Group on Homosexuality Questionnaire

· Council Resolution: Privacy Due Rape Victims

· Countries Seek Sociology Fulbright Scholars

· Auditor’s Report: December 31, 1979

· Problems of Discipline Awards Four Grants; Deadline August 1

· Chautauqua Short Courses

· NIA Expands Social Research on Aging

· NSF Sociology Directors Describe Program, Provide Data on Projects

· Nancy Tuma, Mayer Zald Appointed to NSF Sociology Review Panel

· Teachers Information Exchange Telephone Referral Service

· NSF Minority Fellowships

· ACE Study Says College Enrollments May Not Decline as Expected

· Committee Reports

· More 1979 Section Reports

· Representative Reports

· Office of Naval Research Interested in Organizational Socialization

· Robert Merton First Sociologist to Win Talcott Parsons Prize

· Prixmire to Pay Settlement in Golden Fleece Libel Suit

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes

August 1980 (Volume 8, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.5 MB)

· Report of the President: Peter Rossi Expresses Concern about Diversity in Sociology

· President Elect William Foote Whyte Aims 1981 Program at Reorientation of Research

· Erving Goffman Elected ASA President; Joan Huber New Vice President

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Major Organizational Steps Taken During Disruptive 1940s

· William Form Named Interim Editor of ASR

· Portrait of New ASA President: Bill Whyte: In Essence a Participant Observer

· Otto Larsen Directs Social Sciences at NSF

· Leonard Gordon Calls for Consensus on Rules of Evidence

· Research Data Not Available Through Freedom of Information Act

· A Presidential Invitation to the Annual Meeting (Peter Rossi)

· Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1981 Annual Meeting

· Teaching Workshops Set for November

· Teaching Sociology Month Attracts Nationwide Support

· Submissions Invited to ASA Teaching Newsletter

· New TRC Products

· Max Weber: A Spy!

· NIMH Office of Prevention

· Harold L.Sheppard Advises President Carter on Aging

· Site Options for Annual Meetings Outlined by Study Committee

· Problems of Discipline Grant Proposals Invited

· Clinical Sociology to Hold Presentations, Workshops in New York City

· Harvard University Seeks Full Professor in Social Psychology

· ASA Minority Fellowship Program: The First Seven Years (Paul Williams)

· MFP Fellows, Spivack Awards Announced

· Students Begin Graduate Training as NSF Fellows

· Report of the Secretary: James F. Short, Jr., Cites Changes, Remaining Problems as Tenure Ends

· Community Section Honors Helen and Robert Lynds

· Departmental Alumni Night Scheduled

· Report of the Executive Officer: Russell Dynes Outlines Association Activities

· Meeting on Indexing ASA Journals

· NSF Program on Law and Social Sciences Invites Research Proposals

· National Council Formed to Promote Languages, International Studies

· Paul Freddolino Receives ASA Privacy Research Award, Funded by Abt

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· University of California-San Francisco Seeks Director of Program in Human Development and Aging

· Revised Code of Ethics; Discussion Set for Annual Meeting

· NIJ Announces Research Program in Evaluation and Research Methods

· Student Reception Set for Annual Meeting

· Social Survey Data Ready

· Proposals Wanted on Substance Abuse

· Diamond Anniversary Quiz: Questions, Answers, Winner

· Letters to the Editor: “Rosenthal Questions COFRAT Findings” (Steven J. Rosenthal); “Support Sociology in High Schools” (James L. Wood, Phillip T. Gay)

· Sociologists Win Guggenheims

· Sociologists Receive Public Service Residencies

· NSF Program on Science in Developing Countries Established

· NSF Advisory Council Seeks Innovative Research Proposals

· Sociologists Awarded Marshall Fund Fellowships

· Minutes of March 15, 1980, meeting of 1980 Council

· ISI Expands Grants Program

· Abt Associates to Offer Applied Statistics Workshops

· SSS Presidential Address: Peter Rossi Cites Opportunities in Applied Social Research

· Program Changes

· Sociologists Given Lectures on Education

· Harvard University Seeks Non-Tenure Appointees

· Simirenko Apple: Tribute to a Colleague

Footnotes

October 1980 (Volume 8, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· Sheldon Stryker Named ASR Editor

· New Theory Annual, Sociological Theory, Ready to Receive Submissions

· New Products Available from Teaching Resources Center

· Nominations Invited for Rose, SM, SPQ, TAS Editorships

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Society Prospers as Golden Era Gets Underway in Expansive 1950s

· Open Forum: “Suggests Restructuring Criteria for Faculty Recruitment” (Magoroh Maruyama)

· Doris Wilkinson Moves to Howard University

· Careers, Minorities and Women: Skills Assessment: Marketing Our Assets (Doris Wilkinson)

· Attend ASA Research Skills Development Institute

· Evaluation Research Society Establishes Job Bank

· Nominations Invited for Jessie Bernard Award

· Sociology in China: Its Restoration and Future Role

· TAS Article on China

· The China Connection in American Sociology: Scholarly and Personal

· American Sociologists Assisting Restoration in China

· Seeming an Indigenous Form (Martin Whyte and Burton Pasternak)

· Journal, Social Sciences in China, Started

· Learned Societies Urged to Support Humanities

· Students Receive NSF Research Grants

· NEH Offers Fellowships to Undergraduate Teachers

· Ideas for Evaluating and Tesing Students Wanted for TRC Document

· Undergraduate Section Invites Submissions for 1981 Program

· James J. Zuiches and Paul Burstein Named NSF Sociology Program Directors

· Enrollment Started for Disability Insurance Plan

· ASA Subcommittee on Certification Seeks Input

· Marshall Sklare Named Director of Jewish Center at Brandeis University

· Proposals Invited on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

· Obituaries: Read Bain, Henry D. McKay, Hae Young Lee, Robert H. Talbert

· Deaths: Edward C. Jandy, William Jones, Carl F. Kraenzel

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Sociologists Receive Fulbright Awards for Research and Teaching in 19 Countries

· Inventory Clearance Sale on Rose Monographs

Footnotes

November 1980 (Volume 8, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· ASA Awards: Career of Distinguished Scholarship, Robert K. Merton; Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Peter M. Blau and Theda Skocpol; Contributions to Teaching, Everett K. Wilson; DuBois-Johnson-Frazier, Joseph S. Himes

· Social Science Directorate Included in NSF Reorganization Plan

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Association Reaches Zenith in Tumultuous 1960s

· Candidates for ASA President, Vice President

· Careers, Minorities, Women: Evaluating Graduate Education in Sociology (Doris Wilkinson)

· Minnesota Women’s Center Project Explores Science and Technology Careers for Women

· James Coleman, Otis Dudley Duncan Receive 1980 Common Wealth Awards

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Minority Fellowship Program Seeks 1981-82 Applicants

· NSF Awards Applied Grants to Sociologists

· Maurice Falk Medical Lecture Series Seeks Lecturers, Host Institutions

· Reorganization Plan for LEAA

· ASA Guidelines Cited for Exercising Right to Petition

· Obituaries: David Street, Audrey Russell Jackson

· Universities Using TRG Visits More than Colleges

· Hans Mauksch Receives Undergraduate Education Section Award

· Departments Given NSF Equipment Grants

· Survey of Departments Conducted to Gather Information on Teaching Innovations

Footnotes

December 1980 (Volume 8, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· Committee on Nominations Completes Slate for 1981 Election

· Freeman Outlines Major Issues Related to Applied Sociology (Howard E. Freeman)

· Teaching Endowment Fund Receives Challenge Grants

· ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Association Enters Period of Consolidation and Transition in 1970s

· Leonard Pearlin Named JHSB Editor; Maureen Hallinan to Edit SOE

· Three Study Groups Receive Problems of Discipline Grants

· Supply and Demand Data Wanted on Sociologists by ASA Committee

· TAS Special Issue on “The ASA at 75” to be Published in February 1981

· Minutes of August 29, 1980, meeting of 1980 Council

· Minutes of September 1, 1980, meeting of 1981 Council

· TRC Issues Two-Volume Family Syllabi Set

· Georgia Sociological Association Sponsors Teaching Workshops

· Vita on Women Being Collected by ASA Committee on Status of Women

· Nominations Invited for ASA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship

Footnotes

January 1981 (Volume 9, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· NSF Sociology Program Announces Recipients of FY 1980 Awards

· William Foote Whyte Describes Common Culture Pattern of Annual Meetings

· NEH Offers Summer Seminars for Undergraduate Teachers

· Grace Henderson Assumes Responsibilities for ASA Careers, Minorities, and Women

· MFP Deadline February 1

· ADAMHA Funds Research through National Institutes

· Nominations Invited for Jessie Bernard Award, Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship

· Conference on Women in the Professions to be Held at Purdue University

· Research Workshop Scheduled at Howard University

· Obituaries: August Hollingshead, Werner J. Cahnman, Richard E. DuWors, John James

· Deaths: Rollin Chambliss, William Christian Lehmann

· Memorial Planned for Martin Haskell

· Studies in Higher Education Surveys Departments

· Teaching Services Program Plans Workshop Series

· Letters to the Editor: “Task Group Clarifies Surveys on Homosexuality” (John Gagnon, Joan Huber, Suzanne Keller, Ron Lawson, Patricia Miller, William Simon

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes

February 1981 (Volume 9, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· NSF Merges Basic and Applied; No Social Science Directorate

· Social Inventions Featured at 1981 Annual Meeting

· New Staff Needed in ASA Executive Office

· New Registry of Retired Sociologists Planned

· National ASA Teaching Workshops Set for May 14-19

· ASA Workshops Held on Planning and Evaluation

· Ideas Needed for TRC: Minority Syllabi, Testing Students

· Barriers to Support of Social Sciences: Alpert 1958

· Fulbright awards

· Liaison Representatives Needed for Work Areas

· ASA Committee on World Sociology Seeks Liaison with Social Scientists Around World

· NSF Chautauqua Courses

· “Emile n’ Maz” (cartoon by D. Adams)

· ASA Committee Appointments Announced

· Jessie Bernard Award Nominations Sought

· Graduate Students Receive 1980-81 Fulbright Awards for Overseas Study

· Obituaries: Kingsley H. Birge, Henry J. Browne, George K. Hesslink

· Committee Reports

· Four Receive SSSI Awards

· 10th World Congress of Sociology to be Held in Mexico City

· Departments Receive DOE Grants for Minorities

· Lesley College Announces New Program in Mental Health Management

· Problems of Discipline Grants Available: Deadline May 1

· NIE Grant Proposals Due

· Requests for Other Group Activities at Annual Meeting Due

Footnotes

March 1981 (Volume 9, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.1 MB)

· OMB Guts NSF Social Science Budget

· Toronto Plenaries Announced

· Final Research Regulations Approved: Most Social Science Research Exempt

· ASA Council Meetings; Actions Discussed

· NEH to Hold Seminar on Language

· System Research Program at NIMH

· Jo Ann Ruckel Appointed ASA Administrative Officer

· Candidate Biographies (Election Issue)

· Petition Candidates Announced

· NSF Director Otto Larsen: Need for Continuing Support for Social Sciences

· Nominations Sought for ASA Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching

· Duke University Department Survives “Creative Retrenchment” (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· “Middletown” Revisited: Documentary Planned on Community Studies by Robert and Helen Lynd

· Obituaries: Alvin Ward Gouldner, Vernon K. Dibble

· International Conference Set for University of Pittsburgh

· ASA Voting Study Planned

· Inter Nos (Russell Dunes)

· Editors’ Reports

· National Series of ASA Teaching Workshops Planned for May 14-19

· ASA Teaching Newsletter Subscription Form

Footnotes

April 1981 (Volume 9, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· Social Science Research and Training Support Cut

· Workshops and Seminars Set for 1981 Annual Meeting

· Sociologists Receive Grants from NIMH

· Committee on Sections Proposes Change in By-Laws (increase in members required)

· Seventh Annual Honors Program Scheduled

· TRC Seeks Contributions for Handbook on Humor in Teaching Sociology

· SSRC Plans Research on Social Indicators

· Rockefeller Fellowships Awarded

· Social Indicators III Issued by Commerce Department

· Census Reports Available

· Federal Statistics Council Opens Office

· Panel Study Data File

· Additional Fulbright Awards

· Gail E. Thomas Donates Royalties to MFP

· States Develop Programs to Improve Research Environment

· 1980 AAAS Socio-Psychological Prize Awarded to Bib Latane, Stephen Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Nominations Invited to Distinguished Scholarship, Teaching Awards

· Census Data Set Available

· Cheryl Miller, Stephen Kalberg Receive NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships

· ASA Contributors

· Obituaries: William C. Lehmann, Arthur Hiederhoffer

· Social Security Administration Plans Retirement Study

· Section Reports

· SSRC, ACLS Fellowships Announced

· Letters to the Editor: Irwin Deutscher, Stanford W. Gregory, Jr.

· New Registry of Retired Sociologists Available

Footnotes

May 1981 (Volume 9, Number 5) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· ASA Joins with Other Organizations to Establish Consortium to Support Congressional Liaison Office (COSSA)

· NIDA and NIAAA Awards

· MFP Fellows Selected; Support Uncertain

· ASA Applied Sociology Conference Set for DC

· Countries Seek Fulbrights in Sociology

· Auditor’s Report

· National Committee for 1980 Census Research Established

· ICPSR to Distribute 1980 Census Data Files

· Travel Funds Available for Grenoble Meeting

· Minority Students Receive NSF Awards

· Information on 1981 Annual Meeting: Air Travel, Child Care, Room Sharing

· Inter Nos: Thoughts--Pure and Applied--on the Administration Budget for Social Science (Russell Dynes)

· SWS Establishes Natalie Allon Defense Fund

· ASA/SSSP To Co-Sponsor Sessions at Annual Meeting

· TAS Invites Papers for Special Issue on Financing Sociological Research

· Nominations Invited for ASA Elected and Appointed Positions

· Sections Plan Annual Meeting Activities

· Materials on Clinical Sociology Sought for Upcoming Bibliography

· Council Minutes from January 23, 1981, meeting of 1981 Council

· New ASA Guide, Directories Available

· Obituaries: Robert Graham Caldwell

· New TRC Syllabi Set on Environmental Sociology

Footnotes

August 1981 (Volume 9, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.8 MB)

· Alice Rossi Wins ASA Presidency; Everett K. Wilson New Vice President

· ASA President William Foote Whyte Calls for Practical Sociology

· ASA Workshop on Directions in Applied Sociology

· Search for New ASA Executive Officer

· Gallaudet University to Sponsor Interpreters at Annual Meeting

· ASA Biographical Directory of Members Scheduled for 1982

· New ASA President: Presentation of Erving Goffman

· ASA Survey Results: Members Like Services; Want More

· Alex Inkeles, Charles Tilly Elected to National Academy of Sciences

· New Executive Office Appointments: Carla Howery, Bettina Huber, Paul Williams

· Lawrence Rhoades Accepts NIMY Position

· Invitation to the Annual Meeting

· COSSA Responds to Budget Crisis

· Canadian Postal Strike May Affect Hotel Reservations for Annual Meeting

· Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1982 ASA Annual Meeting

· Program Committee Encourages Papers on Range of Methodologies

· Report of the Secretary: Herbert Costner Reports Executive Office Activities and Changes

· Nominations Invited for 1984-86 CS Editorship

· Boyd Printing Company President Henry Quellmalz’s 30 Years of Service Recognized and Appreciated

· Report of the Executive Officer: Russell Dynes Outlines Association Activities

· Portrait of William Edward Burghardt DuBois on National Public Radio Series

· Clinical Sociology Association to Hold Workshops in Toronto

· Problems of Discipline Grant Deadline: November 1

· TRC Offers Three New Products

· TRC Seeks Submissions for Resources on Humor, Testing Students

· Teaching Newsletter to Resume in 1982

· Sociologists Receive 1981 Humanities Awards

· ASA Reports on Women’s Participation Available

· Preston Valien Receives Stuart Rice Award from CDSA

· Cora Marrett to Chair NSF Committee

· Samuel Heilman, Wolf V. Heydebrand, Elliott Rudwick Receive ACLS Awards

· History of the ASA: 1905-1980 Available

· National Scientific Associations Support Social Sciences

· James Bjorkman and Wolfgang Teckenberg Receive German Marshall Fund Fellowships

· Regional Officers Announced

· John Lofland: Sociologists Need a More Activist Stance

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· ASA Focuses on Career Planning and Development (Grace Henderson)

· NRC Workshop Report Released

· ISA Invites ASA Members to 10th World Congress

· Currency Exchange at Annual Meeting

· ISA Library Program Expands

· Six Receive NSF Fellowships

· Sociological Theory Invites Manuscripts

· Sociologists Win Guggenheims

· Minutes of May 16, 1981, meeting of 1981 ASA Council

· ASA Representative Reports

· More 1980 ASA Committee Reports

· Obituaries: Edward Wadsworth Gregory, Leonard Louis Linden, Richard T. Morris, Jane Cassels Record, David Rodnick, Paul Kecskemeti

· Deaths: Vernon Davies

· Data Gathering Efforts Hampered by Funding Cuts

· Clinical Sociology Association Initiates Curriculum File

· New ASA Insurance Plans Offered

· Military Family Center Established

· Letters to the Editor: Wade H. Andrews

Footnotes

October 1981 (Volume 9, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· ASA Awards Announced: Career of Distinguished Scholarship--Everett C. Hughes; Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship--E. Digby Baltzell and Morris Rosenberg; Distinguished Contributions to Teaching--Hans O. Mauksch; Jessie Bernard Award--Elise Boulding

· Council to Review ASA Publications Program

· ASA Applied Workshop Set

· COSSA to Continue Budget Monitoring

· COSSA Contributions Needed

· Mayer Zald Appointed to Council as Sheldon Styker Resigns to Edit ASR

· Two Programs Receive NSF Grants for Teaching

· National Humanities Alliance Formed

· New ASA Editors: Rose Series--Ernest Campbell; TAS--Robert Perrucci

· ASA Section Sponsors New Volume on Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives

· Thirteen Receive Fulbright Grants

· Congressional Committee Open to Social Sciences

· Oliphant Cartoon on social science study (reprinted from Washington Star)

· Twenty States Participate in New Polling Network

· Howard Becker, Peter Blau Receive 1981 Common Wealth Awards

· 15th Century Data Files Finally Available

· Report of the President: William Foote Whyte Reviews Term; Emphasizes Field Work

· Annual Meeting Successful Despite “Strikes” Against It

· Photographs from 1981 Annual Meeting

· Changes Needed in Graduate Sociology Training for the 1980s (Edward C. McDonagh and Kent P. Schwirian)

· Obituaries: Tamme Wittermans, Jane Alison Weiss

· Letters to the Editor: “Human Subjects Catch-22?” (Ithiel de Sola Pool)

· ASA Guidelines for Exercising Right to Petition

Footnotes

November 1981 (Volume 9, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· NIMH to Support Some Social Research

· Candidates for 1982 ASA Offices

· Non-Academic Employers Surveyed

· Program Committee Invites Suggestions for Annual Meting

· New Human Subjects Policies Announced; Exemptions Outlined (Bettina Huber)

· Scientific and Technical Personnel Data Tapes Available

· New International Education Register

· Sociology Fulbrights Announced

· William Flinn Assesses Rural Sociology

· Harris Sourcebook Published

· Three Receive NEH Grants

· SSRC Fellowships and Grants Announced

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Deadline February 1

· SSSP Award Honors Alfred and Elizabeth Lee

· Filmed Introductory Course Developed

· Midwest Universities Offer Minority Fellowships

· Regional Meeting Calendar

· Deaths: Donald R. Baker, Wendell H. Bash, Rayman Charles Forston, Samuel Kincheloe

· Interuniversity Institute

· Heart Attack Victims Sought for Study

· MFP Seeks 1982-83 Applicants

Footnotes

December 1981 (Volume 9, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· ASA Election Slate Announced

· Council Unable to Act on Complaint Against Brandeis University

· COSSA Shows Interdisciplinary Cooperation is Effective; Long-Term Commitment Needed

· Needed Research in the Sociology of Age (Matilda White Riley)

· Comments on ASA Handicapped Services Wanted

· A Commentary: Gutting Affirmative Action--New Policy in Action (Bettina Huber)

· Administration’s Budget Threatens Fulbright Program

· NEH Publishes Application Deadlines

· 10th World Congress Set for Mexico City, August 16-21, 1982

· New JHSB Editorial Address

· Federal Funding for the Social Sciences: Threats and Responses (Kenneth Prewitt and David L. Sills)

· Deaths: Rensis Likert, T. Scott Miyakawa

· Over 50 TRC Products Available; More Being Developed

· Teaching Services Program Announces Spring Workshops

· Social Science Photo Exhibit at Northwestern University

· Teaching Information Exchange

Footnotes

January 1982 (Volume 10, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.5 MB)

· New ASA Editors: Peter Burke, SPQ; Nancy Tuma, SM

· Sociologists Receive 1981 NSF Grants

· NSF Advisory Committee

· SOE to Publish Special Issue Focusing on Coleman Study

· Applied Workshop Held in Washington,DC

· Fulbrights Awarded to 24 Sociologists

· World Congress Set for August; Travel Grants Expected

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Peer Review Study Findings Spark Controversy

· Applied Sociology Association Thrives in Sacramento

· Archibald Haller Awarded Order of Merit

· Annual Meeting Honors Program Attracts 23

· Executive Office Wants Ideas on Teaching

· Regional Teaching Workshops Scheduled for March

· Minutes of August 27, 1981, meeting of 1981 ASA Council

· Urban Institute to Award Minority Fellowships

· Deaths: Dorothy Jean Young (wife of T.R. Young)

Footnotes

February 1982 (Volume 10, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· MFP Has 40 Graduates; Now Aids 62

· Committees Appointed

· NIMH Proposal Survey

· Peace Academy Bill Introduced in Congress

· Petition Candidates

· San Francisco Annual Meeting Sessions Announced

· World Congress Travel Grants

· Sociology PhD Production Declines in Late 1970s (Bettina J. Huber)

· Robert Nisbet Appointed to Advisory Group

· Doonesbury Cartoon on Sociology Cuts

· Spivack Dissertation Fellows

· Minutes of August 29, 1981, meeting of 1982 Council

· Section Reports

· Deaths: David W. Craigie (mini-obitary), James E. McKeown

· Obituaries: Morroe Berger, Carlo Caldarola, Forrest D. Dill, T. Scott Miyakawa, Douglas S. Yamamura

· Nominations Sought for Major ASA Awards

· How ASA Committees are Chosen (Bettina J. Huber)

· Member Contributions

Footnotes

March 1982 (Volume 10, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.0 MB)

· Special Election Issue

· Referendum Set on Membership Requirements and Dues

· Council Discontinues TAS; Keeps SOE, Annuals

· COSSA Gears Up for New Budget Fight

· SSRC Begins Series on Social Indicators

· Update of Registry of Retired Sociologists Planned

· Federal Agency Research Budgets: Complex and Deceptive

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Available

· Candidate Election Biographies

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Editors’ Reports

· ASA to Hold Workshop on Teaching Applied Sociology

· State Association News

· Samuel Bloom Receives Sage Award

· Annual Meeting Space Requests: Other Groups

· Deaths: Andrew Moore (son of Burt and Joan Moore)

Footnotes

April 1982 (Volume 10, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· San Francisco Plenaries, Other Special Sessions

· Teaching Resources Group Available to Help Departments

· Sex and Gender in the Social Sciences: New Publication Available

· Sociological Theory Accepting Submissions for Second Annual Volume

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded

· New NCES Publications and Data Files on High School Students Available

· Miyakawa Fellowship Find

· TRC Releases “Up the Job Market”

· Linda Keller Brown Heads U.S.ICA Programs

· Fulbright Program to Get More Money; Has New Openings

· Sociology Editors on Writing

· Robert Cole and Zoltan Tar Receive Grants from NEH

· Committee Reports

· Charles Willie to Study Desegration Plans

· New Membership Directory, Departmental Guides Available

· More ASA Contributors

Footnotes

May 1982 (Volume 10, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· New Sociology Research Grants Down Sharply at NIMH

· NIA Supports Program in Behavioral Science Research

· Four New Titles Added to Rose Monograph Series

· Rose Series New Editor’s Statement (Ernest Campbell)

· Ten Students Selected for ASA MFP Fellowships

· Preliminary Program in the Mail

· New Registry of Retired Sociologists Available

· Open Forum: On the Council Proposal to Modify Membership (Charles E. King); Code of Ethics Contradiction (Donald M. Heer)

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

· Information on Travel, Hotels, Child Care for 1982 Annual Meeting

· Auditor’s Report

· More Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

· Section Reports

· Deaths: James A. Beaudry

· More ASA Contributors

· Letters to the Editor: “On Affirmative Action” (Judith Lorber); “On Professionalism” (Virginia M. Paulsen); “On the Future of Sociology” (Wayne Wheeler); “On the Use of Languages” (Jack Nusan Porter)

Footnotes

August 1982 (Volume 10, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.8 MB)

· Election Results: James F. Short, Jr., is ASA President Elect; Edgar Borgatta is Vice President Elect; Theodore Caplow is Secretary Elect

· William D’Antonio Chosen to Head Executive Office (William Form)

· Meetings to Focus on Age and Gender; Innovative Sessions Planned

· Robin Williams, Jr., and Shmuel Eisenstadt Elected to NAS

· SM Submission Addresses

· Deadline for Problems of the Discipline Grants

· Task Force to Study Employment and Other Issues (Edna Bonacich)

· Invitation to 1982 Annual Meeting

· Alice S. Rossi: A Profile of the New ASA President (Joan Huber)

· Support Urged for NEH

· Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1983 Annual Meeting

· Craig Calhoun, Jan Fritz Receive Kellogg Awards

· New Annual Review of Sociology Available (Ralph Turner)

· Census Users’ Guide

· North Central Award Given to Russell Dynes, Butler Jones, and John Useem

· Census Bureau Will Tabulate Data for All Zip Code Areas

· ACLS Awards

· Preferential Voting Used in ASA Elections

· Federal Statistics Users Testify Before Congress

· NICHD to Support Research on Adolescence

· Executive Officer’s Report: Members and Staff Involved in Many Activities (Russell Dynes)

· New Center for Women’s Research Established at Memphis State

· Deaths: Raymond L. Hightower, Judson T. Landis, A.A. Smick

· SWS Job Service

· Diane Welch Vines Named White House Fellow

· Charles Nam Focuses on Sociology and Population in Southern Sociological Society Presidential Address

· Minutes of the January 22, 1982, meeting of 1982 Council

· ASA Teaching Workshops Scheduled for 1982 Annual Meeting

· Inter Nos (Russell Dynes; his farewell column)

Footnotes

October 1982 (Volume 10, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.6 MB)

· Jerold Heiss, then Barbara Laslett, to Edit CS

· Major ASA Award Recipients: Kingsley Davis, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Stanley Lieberson, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; John Pock, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Daniel C. Thompson, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award

· Charles Tilly Receives Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service

· Program Theme: The Social Fabric (James F. Short, Jr.)

· Travel Grants Awarded for World Congress

· Letters to the Editor: “Marxist Section Report Clarification” (James Geschwender); “TAS Phase-Out and Ethics” (Robert W. Friedrichs)

· Nominations Sought for JHSB Editorship

· Report of the Secretary: Budget Concerns Dominate Year; 1982 Outlook Uncertain (Herbert Costner)

· Five Sociologists Win Guggenheims

· New Insurance Plan Offerred

· Deaths: Harold C. Hoffsommer

· Submissions Sought for TRC Publication on Stratification and Inequality

· Annual Meeting Registration and Attendence Continue to Decline

· Personal Reflections on the 1982 Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio)

· Scenes from San Francisco (photos)

· NIMH Research Funds Available

· June Workshop Focuses on Teaching Applied Sociology

· CIC Minority Fellowships Offered

· Photographs Needed as Teaching Aids for Introductory Courses

· New Applied Sociology Career Booklets Available from ASA (Embarking/Mastering)

Footnotes

November 1982 (Volume 10, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.5 MB)

· Charles Tiley Receives Common Wealth Award

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Made to Two Groups

· Council Considers Resolutions Passed at Business Meeting

· Alva Myrdal Receives Nobel Prize

· Doing Sociology in Detroit

· NSF Announces Continuation of Graduate Fellowship Programs

· Open Forum: “Sociologists Should Limit Criticism” (Virginia M. Paulsen)

· Many Sociologists Communicate to “Larger Audiences” (Russell Dynes)

· Observing (William D’Antonio; new Executive Officer’s column)

· New Edition of Publishing Options Available

· ASA Petition Guidelines

· Two National Reports Highlight Need for Basic Research

· Three Sociologists (Harriet Friedman, Lee Rainwater, Erik Wright) Receive German Marshall Fund Awards

· Obituaries: Cecil Lynn French, Neal Gross, James E. McKeown

· Conferences Get Grants from Problems of Discipline Fund

· Handicapped Directory Information Sought

· Nominations Invited for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award

· Deaths: Frana S. Wendell

· Australian National Survey

Footnotes

December 1982 (Volume 10, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· Nominations Committee Announces 1983 ASA Slate

· Erving Goffman, Past ASA President, Dies

· A Letter from the President: Detroit: A Good Setting for an Annual Meeting (Alice S. Rossi)

· Task Group on Homosexuality Report Published

· Departmental Visits Program Continues to be Successful

· Open Forum: “An Alternative Approach to Discipline’s Funding Problems” (Cynthia B. Flynn); “The Future of Sociology and the University: A Reply” (Edna Bonacich)

· Observing: “On Consciousness Raising, and Other Matters” (William D’Antonio)

· NCFR Honors Reuben Hill

· New Applied Lists Available from ASA

· Sociologists Would Benefit from More ISA Participation (Melvin Kohn)

· John Gilderbloom, Richard Appelbaum Receive McGregor Award

· Association of Sociologists in Business and Industry Formed by ASA Practice Section

· Committee on Women Compiling Vitae

· Minorities and Women in Sociology: An Update (Paul Williams)

· Obituaries: Michael J. Hindelang

· Russell Sage Foundation Program Announcement

· Four Sociologists (James Coleman, Steven Del Sesto, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Samuel Ross Cohen) Receive Russell Sage Awards

· The Sociology of Names: Having Fun with the ASA Directory (David O. Friedrichs)

· Urban Theory and Policy Conference

Footnotes

January 1983 (Volume 11, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.3 MB)

· Social Science Grant Proposals Down Sharply at NIMH

· 1983 Election Slate Completed

· An Official Invitation to Detroit (Mel Ravitz)

· January is a Good Time to Visit Representatives (Helen Rauch)

· SOE to Publish Special Issue on Ethnographic Studies

· A Tribute to Erving Goffman (Arlene Daniels; Russell Dynes)

· Rabel Burdge Receivs Research Award

· Visiting Fulbright Scholars Announced

· Denis Johnston Lectures in China

· Population Council Administers International Research Awards

· Information Requested on Foreign Travelers

· COFRAT Guidelines for Initial Appointments in Sociology

· Suggested Letter for Initial Appointments Offer

· Letters to the Editor: Are Women Sociologists Invisible? (Judith Lorber)

· Herbert Kelman Receives New York Science Award

· Minutes of September 9, 1982, meeting of 1982 Council

· American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Sociologists

Footnotes

February 1983 (Volume 11, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· MFP in 10th Year Supports 57 Students

· Membership Renewals Down 10 Percent

· Publications Committee Reviews CS

· Letter from the President: Death of Everett Hughes Evokes Celebration of His Life (Alice S. Rossi)

· Association Committees Appointed

· New Congress Term Calls for Reassessment of COSSA Role (William F. Whyte)

· New ISA Address in The Netherlands

· Open Forum: On Teaching Introductory Sociology: A Commentary (Robert J. Hockin and Mary M. Wilkes Karraker)

· Committee on Statistics Wants Input

· Otto Larsen Takes New Position at NSF

· State Societies (Pennsylvania, Arkansas) Elect New Officers

· Special Issue of TAS on “Financing Sociological Research” Available

· Observing (William D’Antonio)

· Fourth Teaching Workshop Series to Start in April

· Special Annual Meeting Sessions Will Focus on Problems Facing City of Detroit

· NSF Supports NORC Survey

· Bernice Neugarten Receives Gerontology Award

· Annual Meeting Space for Other Groups

· New Funding Opportunities at NIMH

· David Mechanic Appointed to National Advisory Council on Aging

· Minutes of September 11, 1982, meeting of 1983 ASA Council

· Letters to the Editor: ASA Urged to Report Data on Handicapped (Robert Z. Segalman)

· Obituaries: Harold C. Hoffsommer, Judson T. Landis, Frederick B. Parker, Donald Roy (died 1980)

· Census Bureau Offers Courses

· 1982 AAAS Election Results

· Member Contributions

Footnotes

March 1983 (Volume 11, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.0 MB)

· Special Election Issue

· NSF Budget Increases

· NSF Announces Sociology Grants for FY1982

· Council Adopts 1983 Budget

· Politics Dominate Research Programs at NIE

· ASA Congressional Fellowship Established

· Joanne Miller Heads Sociology at NSF

· NSF Seeks Associate Director for Sociology

· Observing (William D’Antonio)

· Windsor Will Welcome ASA Visitors to 1983 Annual Meeting

· 1983 Candidate Biographies

· Petition Candidates Announced

· Section Reports

· Committee Reports

· Congressional Fellowship Provides New Insights for Sociologist (Richard K. Scotch)

· Letters to the Editor: On Non-Academic Employment (Nina Gruen)

Footnotes

April 1983 (Volume 11, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· Decline in Research Support from NIMH Continues

· Letter from the President: Detroit Center Plight Eases; Festivals Overlap Meetings (Alice Rossi)

· Registry of Retired Sociologists to be Updated

· New Criteria Set for Small Grants Program

· ASA Sponsors New Workshops

· FY1984 Research Budget Has Mixed Message

· Annual Meeting Session to Honor Works of Erving Goffman and Everett Hughes (Alice Rossi)

· Letter to the Editor: “Issues Regarding Ethics Code Enforcement” (Rodolfo Alvarez)

· Four VPI Faculty Receive Fulbrights

· World Sociology Committee Establishes Area Liaisons

· NEH Fellowships Announced

· ASA Insurance Plan Special Enrollment Period

· Open Forum: “Sociologists Must Contribute to World Peace Movement” (Allen D. Grimshaw); “Report Shows Excessive Concern for Underdogs” (Thomas M. Kando)

· Toward the 1990 Census

· Undergraduate Overseas Plan

· Obituaries: Everett Cherrington Hughes, Walter Phillips, Kenneth Evans

· Procedures Proposed for Ethics Code Enforcement

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

· TRC Wants Submissions for Computer Instruction in Sociology

· Deaths: Barbara Snell Dorhenwend, Frank W. Notestein

Footnotes

May 1983 (Volume 11, Number 5) (pdf file; 1.8 MB)

· New Research Grants fron NIA Behavioral Research Program

· Letter from the President: Detroit Program in Final Form: Age and Gender Are in Focus (Alice Rossi)

· Sociological Practitioners: Their Characteristics and Role in the Profession (Bettina Huber)

· Committee on Certification Seeks Assistance

· 1983 Preliminary Program in the Mail

· Information on 1983 Annual Meeting

· Fulbright Applications Being Accepted

· Observing (William D’Antonio)

· 1982 Auditor’s Report

· Guidelines for Congressional Visits

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

· Obituaries: Desmond M. Camacho, Rochard Marc Emerson, Gerald W. McDonald, Jeremiah Patrick Shalloo, Carle C. Zimmerman

· Ninth Annual Honors Program Set for Annual Meeting

· Member Contributions

Footnotes

August 1983 (Volume 11, Number 6) (pdf file; 13.5 MB)

· Election Results: Kai T. Erikson is ASA President Elect; Morris Rosenberg is Vice President Elect

· 1984 Annual Meeting to Focus on “The Social Fabric”

· Carol H. Weiss Appointed first ASA Congressional Fellow

· American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Stanley Lieberson and Albert J. Reiss, Jr.

· Members Offered Three Workshops in Spring

· New Registry of Retired Sociologists Available

· James F. Short, Jr.: A Profile of the New ASA President (Lois B. DeFleur)

· Information for the Hearing Impaired

· Sociologists Receive NEH Awards

· Invitation to the Annual Meeting

· Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1984 Annual Meeting

· Open Forum: “Report from Task Group on Homosexuality Defended” (Janet Saltzman Chafetz); “ASA Should Assist More with Job Hunting” (Gregory D. Squires); “Members Need More Detailed Information About ASA Finances” (Leonard Broom)

· New SM Editor Invites Submissions

· Executive Officer’s Report: Association Membership Shows Continuing Decline (William D’Antonio)

· Women in Departmental Administrative Positions (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Bettina Huber)

· New MFP Fellows Selected

· Sociologists Shaping Public Policy: Two Profiles (William Darrow and Wendell Hester profiled by Carla B. Howery)

· Alva Myrdal, Applied Sociologist

· Five Sociologists Receive Guggenheims

· Editors’ Reports

· Obituaries: Raymond F. Sletto, Margaret L. Helfrich, Carl A. Nissen, Thomas E. Ryther, Allan Sharlin, John T. Washington

· Sociology Is Key to Orderly Change (James E. Teele)

· Richard Suzman Joins NIA

· Linda Grant Wins Women in Education Award

· TRC Seeks Social Theory Syllabi

· T. Franklin Williams New NIA Director

· NCES Will Conduct High School Survey Followup

· Stephen Spitzer Produces Videotape on Applied Sociology

· GSS Board Seeks

Footnotes

October 1983 (Volume 11, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· ASA Major Award Recipients: Herbert Blumer, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Orlando Patterson, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; David Riesman, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Alice S. Rossi, Jessie Bernard Award

· Council Discusses Certification Report; Adopts Guidelines for Hiring Women

· Sociologists’ Salaries (Bettina Huber)

· New Problems of the Discipline Grants Deadline

· Open Forum: “Members Should Question Publication of Anonymous Reviews” (H. Leon Abrams, Jr.)

· William H. Sewell Receives Common Wealth Award

· MacArthur Prize Given to Robert Merton

· Deaths: Franz Adler, Katharine Jocher, Robert O. Richards, Herbert W. Roll

· SWS Resolution on Appointment of Marjorie Fine Knowles as TIAA-CREF Board Member

· Robert Roberts Receives Kellogg Award

· Observing (William D’Antonio)

· AKD Undergoing Change (Marie Marschall Fuller, AKD President)

· William Kornblum, Paula Rayman Hold Seminars for Congressmen

· Howard Freeman Elected to Institute of Medicine

· New Sections on Asian and Asian America/Political Sociology Seek Members

· NSF Minority Fellowships Offered

· Alice Rossi’s SSS Presidential Address Available

· New TRC Products

· 1984 Coupon Listing

Footnotes

November 1983 (Volume 11, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· NIMH Releases Behavioral Sciences Research Report

· Nominations Committee Announces 1984 Candidates

· Committee on Publications Evaluates JHSB

· Reflections on a Changing Academic Job Market (Gary S. Foster, Edward W. Gregory, Jr.)

· William R. Freudenburg Is Second ASA Congressional Fellow

· ASA Minority Fellowships Available

· Proposal Submissions Down (reprinted from COSSA Washington Update)

· Thomas Guterbock New NSF Associate

· Peace Academy Legislation Debated in Congress

· Observing (William D’Antonio)

· Scenes from Detroit (photos)

· Ellen Louise Idler Receives Newcombe Award

· NRC Commemorates Ogburn Report

· ASA Applied Sociology Collection Now Available from Jossey-Bass

· Charles Tilley Receives German Marshall Fund Fellowship

· 1984 ASA Teaching Workshops Scheduled

· Obituaries: Ernst Borinski, Lionel I. Dannick, Gregory Prentice Stone

· Five Sociologists Receive ACLS Awards

· NIA Invites Grant Applications

· NRC to Award 35 Minority Fellowships

· Dental Institute Supports Social Research

· TRC Seeks Criminology Teaching Materials

· COSSA Newsletter Available by Subscription

· Clinical Sociology College at Georgetown University

· Open Forum: “Hiring Guidelines Questioned” (Edgar F. Borgatta)

· SSRC Workshop

· CIC Minority Fellowships Offered

· Rose Monograph Series Invites Submissions

Footnotes

December 1983 (Volume 11, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· Eugene Gallagher to Edit JHSB

· Sociologists at NIH

· 1985 Program Theme: “Working and Not Working”

· Report of the President: End of Term Brings Mixture of Relief and Regret (Alice S. Rossi)

· More Candidates for 1984 Election

· Open Forum: “More Comments Regarding Anonymous Reviews” (Harold Orlans, Immanuel Wallerstein, Rebecca D. Dixon); “World Conflict Research Needed” (Kurt Lang)

· Census Bureau Offers Courses

· Observing (William D’Antonio)

· Annual Meeting Job Clinic

· 1984 Professional Development Workshops

· CIES Announces 1984 Visiting Fulbright Scholars

· Seminar on Medical Sociology Held in People’s Republic of China

· Student Fulbright-Hays Awards

· Film on Fred Crawford Available

· Rodolfo Alvarez Receives First AKD Bogardus Award

· Adolescent Pregnancy Data Archive Established

· A Sociologist in Retirement (by Stuart A. Queen, the oldest living ASA past president, with introduction by Raymond V. Bowers)

· Applied Sociologists in Western U.S.

· 1983 Annual Meeting Goffman/Hughes Memorial Session Available on Tape

· Using the Computer to Teach Sociology (William S. Johnson)

· Lists of Applied Sociologists Available from ASA

· University of North Dakota Honors John M. Gallette

· Letter to the Editor: “Amnesty International Protests Sentence” (Ivan Light)

· COPAFS Gets Favorable Review

· Senate Committee Looks at Relocation of Census Bureau

· Census Bureau Reports Available

· Center Studies Employee Ownership

· Local Decision-Making and Fiscal Policy in U.S. and European Cities Examined

· Deaths: Joy Glick (wife of Paul Glick)

· Richard Levinson Receives Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship

· Vassar Receives Grant for New Theory Course

Footnotes

January 1984 (Volume 12, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.2 MB)

· ASA President: San Antonio . . . A Fine Convention City (James F. Short, Jr.)

· NIA Programs Seek Proposals

· Professional Development Workshops Address Teaching (Carla Howery)

· Candidates Named for Committee on Committees

· Edward Shils Wins Balkan Prize for Scholarly Contributions

· Irving Louis Horowitz Calls for Nobel Prize in Social Science

· Social Scientists Head for China; Alice Rossi Chairs Delegation

· Open Forum: “Applied Sociology Can Advance Discipline” (Albert E. Gollin)

· Letter to the Editor: “Mortality, Not Morality” (Richard E. Barrett)

· Other International Society (International Sociological Association) Schedules Meeting in Seattle (Marie L. Borgatta)

· Observing (William D’Antonio)

· NSF Announces New Program

· GAO Offers Several Opportunities for Sociologists (Carla Howery)

· TRG Campus Visits Cover Range of Topics

· Obituaries: Raymond Aron, Noel P. Gist, Robert O. Richards, Chung-Wu Chang

· Nominations Invited for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award

Footnotes

February 1984 (Volume 12, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.0 MB)

· Short Outlines Plenary and Thematic Sessions (James F. Short, Jr.)

· More Candidates Not Likely

· NRC Symposium Commemorates Pioneering Social Trends Report (Lawrence J. Rhoades; first in a series)

· Bienvenidos a San Antonio! (Edward Murguia)

· Council Actions Show Consistent Support for Rights of Homosexuals

· Employment Bulletin “Phone-In” Fee to Increase

· Open Forum: “Caucus Seeks Assistance for Unemployed/Underemployed Sociologists” (Samuel R. Friedman, Gregory D. Squires, Thomas A. Lyson, Edna Bonacich)

· CONDUIT Offers Computer-Based Learning Materials in Sociology (Ronald E. Anderson)

· University of Wisconsin Symposium on Rural Sociology

· Teaching Column: TSP Promotes Computer Literacy for Teachers (Carla Howery)

· The World Bank: Shift to Target Groups Involves Sociologists in Planned Development (by Carla Howery, on Michael Cernea)

· Letter to the Editor: “Seminal vs. Germinal Ideas” (Pauline B. Bart)

· ASA Professional Workshop Schedule

· Annual Meeting Space Available for Other Groups

· Medical Sociology Section Receives Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

· Nominations Requested for ASA Awards

· Roslyn Arlin Mickelson Wins SSRC Fellowship

· Techical Advisor: Sociologist Aids Agricultural Projects in Caribbean (by Carla Howery, on Michael G. Patton)

· ASA Petition Guidelines

· Census Bureau Releases Catalog on Data

· Observing: Task Force on Social Studies in the High Schools (William D’Antonio)

· Obituaries: Dorothy M. Dohen

· Deaths: Osvaldo Barreras

· Minutes of January 29, 1983, meeting of 1983 Council

· Sociologists: Resource for Congress

Footnotes

March 1984 (Volume 12, Number 3) (pdf file; 10.5 MB)

· Special Election Issues

· Mayor of San Antonio Extends Personal Invitation (Henry G. Cisneros)

· Council Approves Balanced Budget

· ASA Launches Summer Fellowship Program

· New Constitutional, Standing Committees Added to ASA Structure

· ASA Council Discusses Certification and Licensure Issues (Bettina Huber)

· Carnegie Corporation Aims Grant Programs at Broad Goals

· New Footnotes Column Reports Sociology, Sociologists in Mass Media

· COPAFS Elects Sociologists (Laure Sharpe, Conrad Taeuber) to Executive Committee

· Obgurn Puzzle: What to Do About Science . . . About Social Action? (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· Observing: COSSA Reports on Social Science Funding (William D’Antonio)

· Letter to the Editor: Responding to Horowitz on Social Science Nobel Prize (Matthew Melko)

· Member Contributions

· Curriculum Innovation: Degree Offered in Emergency Management

· Vita Summaries of Minority Sociologists Sought by ASA Committee

· 1984 Candidate Biographies

· New Policies and Procedures Outlined for Member Referendum

· Committee Reports

· Section Reports

· Obituaries: Peter A. Munch

Footnotes

April 1984 (Volume 12, Number 4) (pdf file; 6.9 MB)

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded

· Annual Meeting: Didactic Seminars, Mini-Courses Focus on Research Methodology

· ASA Teaching Services Program Seeks Coordinator for Workshops, Department Visits

· NSF Awards 58 Grants to Sociologists in 1983

· Neil Smelser: Research and Theory Have Altered Ogburn Vision (Lawrence J. Rhoades; third in a series)

· Council Receives Briefing on Teaching Program (Carla Howery)

· ASA Executive Office Reorganizes; Five Managers Appointed (William D’Antonio)

· ASA Workshop Held on Applied Sociology Programs and Curricula

· Biographical Directories on Sale to Reduce Inventory

· Incorporating Women Faculty in Sociology Departments During 1980s; Report Sets 1990 Hiring Targets for Women in Tenured Ranks

· More ASA Contributors

· Observing: Social Science Funding (William D’Antonio)

· David Phillips Wins AAAS Prize

· Discount Airfares Available for Annual Meeting Travel

· Obituaries: William L. Gum, Selz Cabot Mayo, Leonard W. Moss, Judith Handel

· Editors’ Reports

· Section Reports

· OMB to Revise Basis for Collecting Industrial Data

Footnotes

May 1984 (Volume 12, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Study Seeks Research Opportunities in Behavioral and Social Sciences (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· NIMH Awards 45 Grants to Sociologists in 1983

· Paul Starr Awarded Pulitzer Prize

· Lynn Atwater and William Martin: Communicating Sociology Through Mass Media (Carla Howery)

· Annual Meeting Workshops Focus on Applied Settings

· Albert J. Reiss, Jr.: Social Policy Is Shaped in Crucible of Social Change (Lawrence J. Rhoades; last in a series)

· San Antonio Serves as Bridge Between Hemispheres (John M. Donahue)

· Come to San Antonio: About the 1984 Annual Meeting

· Survey to College Data on Services Needed by Persons with Disabilities

· 10th Annual Honors Program

· Membership Committee Reports Survey Suggestions, Criticism (Holly Holland and Carla Howery)

· Jessie Bernard at 80: Reflections on Life and Sociology (an interview by Carla Howery)

· Nona Glazer Awarded NSF Fellowship

· Program Officers Outline Roads to Federal Support of Research

· 1984 Guide Available

· Roberta Balstad Miller Takes NSF Post; COSSA Position Open

· Career Expert Richard Irish to Conduct Job Clinic

· Foundation Seeks to Aid Minority Sociologists

· W. Clark Roof, Robert Cole Named Wilson Scholars

· Pennsylvania State Association Establishes Record; First to Publish Book

· Letters to the Editor: “Nobel Prize” (Andreas Buss); “Seminal Ideas” (Robert J. McNamara); “More Seminal Ideas” (James M. Henslin)

· Volunteers Needed to Monitor Licensing Issues in Each State

· Gary Albrecht Chosen Editor of The Sociological Quarterly

· SOE Moves to Notre Dame

· SSRC Concentrates on Long-Term Needs of Social Sciences (David L. Sills)

· Senate Proposes More Oversight on Statistics Policy

· 1983 Auditor’s Report

· Observing: Audit (William D’Antonio)

· Foreign Student Travel Grant to Annual Meeting

· ICPSR To Fund Teaching Packages

· Committee Reports

· Section Reports

· Representative Reports

· Seminar Explores Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methods

· JHSB Moves to University of Kentucky

· Professorships Established at George Mason

· Obituaries: Simon Marcson, Ivan Belknap

Footnotes

August 1984 (Volume 12, Number 6) (pdf file; 8.7 MB)

· Election Results: Matilda White Riley is ASA President Elect; Rose Coser Vice President Elect

· 1985 Annual Meeting to Discuss Sociology of Work

· ASA Seeks Assistant Executive Officer to Administer MFP

· Political Leaders Will Address San Antonio Gathering in August

· TSP Coordinator Sought

· 1984 Annual Meeting Highlights: Orientation Party, Chinese Scholars, Honors Program

· Renee Fox Receives Reeder Award

· Statistics Session Added

· Rural Sociology Society to Meet in August

· San Antonio Has Much to Offer (Alice Franzke)

· Portrait of the President: Kai Erikson, a Scholar for All Seasons, Will Lead ASA in 1985 (Marvin Bressler)

· Observing (William D’Antonio)

· Virginia Sociological Association Elects Officers

· ASA Service Workshop Has Openings

· Joyce Reeves, George Baldwin Receive Kellogg Fellowships

· TRC Offers 11 New Products

· Behavioral Science Project: How Do You View the Future of Sociology and Research (Lawrence J. Rhoades)

· COPAFS Report

· Who’s Who Clarified

· New Cohort of MFP Fellows

· Corherhouse Fund Gives $10,000 to MFP

· DC Fellow in GAO: Sociologist Raymond Russell Uses DC Fellowship to Study Employee Ownership

· Post Inventory Sale on ASA Publications

· Sessions and Organizers Announced for 1985 Annual Meeting

· Secretary’s Report: A Year of Notable Progress (Theodore Caplow)

· Sociologists: Resource for Congress

· Sociologists in the Media: Set Your Radio Dial to Sociology (by Carla Howery on Jack Levin)

· Obituaries: Calvert Dedrick

· James Ault, Jr., Receives NEH Grant

· Court Case Establishes Limited Protection for Scholars (on Mario Brujaha)

· Letter from Mario Brujaha

· Deaths: A. Eugene Havens, Cheryl Allyn Miller

· David Segal Studies Relationships Between Government and Individual

· Executive Officer’s Report: Internal Changes in Acivities

· Minutes of the September 3, 1983, meeting of 1983 Council

· Open Forum: On the “Mass Media” Column (Janet Saltzman Chafetz, A. Gary Dworkin, Joseph A. Kotarba, David Gottlieb)

· Letter to the Editor: Response to Cernea (Ruth L. Love)

· Ruth Thaler New Footnotes Managing Editor

Footnotes

October 1984 (Volume 12, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· ASA Major Award Recipients: Morris Janowitz, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Marcia Guttentag and Paul Secord, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; Joseph Bensman, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Joyce A. Ladner, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier

· Deadline announced for Problems of the Discipline Grants

· Membership Renewals, Coupons Are on the Way

· MFP Funded; Director Paul Williams Honored

· Matilda White Riley Receives Common Wealth Award

· New Spivack Fellowships

· Section Awards

· ASA Certification Program Accepted in Principle (Bettina Huber)

· Scenes from the 1984 Annual Meeting (photos)

· Observing: On the Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio)

· Congressman Henry Gonzalez: Research on Policy Issues Needed

· James F. Short, Jr.: Risks Demand In-Depth Research, Analysis (Presidential Address)

· Threat to Confidentiality of Fieldnotes; Council Authorizes $2,000 Contribution to Brahuja Defense

· Vilma Nunez Receives First Latin American Scholar Award

· Media Coverage at Annual Meeting

· Teaching: Ways to Improve Sociology Programs (Carla Howery)

· New ASA Teaching Endowment Fund Supports Innovative Teaching

· TRC Seeks Syllabi on Marriage and Family

· Here’s How Annual Meeting Sites Are Chosen

· New Brochure, Career Possibilities, Outlines Jobs in Sociology

· James Laue Heads New Center for Metropolitan Studies

· COSSA, NIMH Name New Directors

· Minutes of September 5, 1983, meeting of 1984 Council

· TRC Issues Call for Papers

Footnotes

November 1984 (Volume 12, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.3 MB)

· Robert Merton Honored by Who’s Who as Founder of Sociology of Science

· 1985 Candidates Announced

· New ASA Journal on Teaching Sociology Seeks Journal (before ASA purchased TS from Sage)

· Nominations Open for Jessie Bernard Award

· Independent Scholars: An Emergent Intellectual Grouping (Bettina Huber)

· Planning, Research, Timing Key to Getting Applied Jobs (Phillip Monchar)

· TRC Seeks Materials on Sociology of Law

· Nominations Open for Teaching Award

· International Institute of Sociology Holds Successful Meeting

· Code of Ethics Revision Planned

· Observing: National Peace Academy (William D’Antonio)

· Revised Code of Ethics Available

· Resources for Independent Scholars

· Update on ASA Group Insurance

· Special Inventory Reduction Prices on Rose Monographs

· Teaching: Workshop on Using Computers

· Internship Opportunities Abound in Nation’s Capital

· Nominations Open for Scholarship Award

· General Survey Data Available

· Obituaries: Franz Adler, A. Eugene Havens, Alden Dykstra Miller

Footnotes

December 1984 (Volume 12, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.2 MB)

· President’s Report: Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Reflections on a Rewarding Year (James F. Short, Jr.)

· Intellectual Pleasures in Nation’s Capital During Annual Meeting (Carla Howery)

· New Nominations for 1985 Elections

· NSF Seeks Sociologists for Two Positions

· Nominations Sought for North Central Region Award

· Observing: COSSA (William D’Antonio)

· Teaching Workshops to Focus on Basic Skills and More

· Open Forum: Sociologists and Writing Skills (Jeff Broadbent)

· TSP Campus Visits Called Helpful to Departments (Hans O. Mauksch)

· AKD Competition Open for Student Papers

· Plug Into Microcomputer Users’ Groups Through ASA

· Coupon Listing Corrections

· Publicizing Sociological Activities Serves Important Function for the Discipline (Albert E. Gollin)

· TRC Call for Syllabi

· Career Possibilities for Sociology Graduates (Bettina J. Huber; reprint of brochure)

· Sociologist Esther Ngan-Ling Chow Honored for Contributions to Women of Color

· Teaching: Applied Sociology Programs (Carla Howery)

Footnotes

January 1985 (Volume 13, Number 1) (pdf file; 4.6 MB)

· 1986 Program Committee Announces Theme: “Social Structures and Human Lives”

· Enjoy Capital Culture During 1985 Annual Meeting (Ruth Thaler)

· Editor Sought for New Teaching Journal

· Public Relations Program Features Multi-faceted Efforts (Carla Howery)

· NIH Offers Funding Opportunities for Sociologists (Janet M. Cuca)

· Nominations Open for ASA Scholarship Award

· Observing: ACLS/COSSA Meetings (William V. D’Antonio)

· Sociologists Receive NSF/NIMH Grants

· Upcoming Teaching Workshops

· TRC Seeks Ideas on Advising for Monograph

· Teaching: Sociology in High School (Carla Howery)

· Salary Update: 1983-84 Figures for Academics (Bettina Huber)

· Everett Hughes Collection Dedicated in Paris (Arlene Kaplan Daniels)

· Obituaries: Aida K. Tomeh, Dwight W. Culver, Joseph T. Klapper, Cheryl Allyn Miller

· Nominations Open for ASA Family Section Award

· SSSP Seeks Executive Officer

· Sociologists Participate in African Seminar

· Sociologists Attend Symposium in China

Footnotes

February 1985 (Volume 13, Number 2) (pdf file; 5.9 MB)

· No ASA Petition Candidates Likely

· 1985 Annual Meeting Plenary, Thematic Sessions Deal with Facets of Work (Kai Erikson)

· Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Sherry Turkle Honored by Ms. Magazine

· National Peace Institute Update (Ruth Thaler)

· Teaching: Preparing Graduate Students to Teach (Carla Howery)

· Pennsylvania Sociological Society Announces New Officers

· Ford Program Funds Minority Scholars (Laure Sharp)

· Observing: In Praise of Excellence (on Henry Quellmalz) (William D’Antonio)

· Professional Workshops for March 1995

· Two Views of German Sociology (Dean Gerstein and Jiri Kolaja)

· Editor Sough for New ASA Teaching Journal)

· Robin M. Williams, Jr., New Editor of Sociological Forum

· Conrad Taeuber Looks Back Over 50 Years of Demography (an interview by Carla Howery)

· New Insurance Available to ASA Members

· Deaths: Anita Kassen Fischer, Robin Williams III, Linda Keller Brown, Rex M. Johnson, Bell Boone Beard, Dorothy D. “Dee Dee” Vellenga, James S. Davie, Janina Adamczyk

· Obituaries: Ch’eng-K’un Chung, John H. Mabry

· Special Prices on Rose Monographs and Other Publications

· ASA Committees and Representatives

· Contributions to ASA Programs

· Letter to the Editor: On letters of reference as opposed to names of referees (D. Katongo-Male)

· Minutes of August 30, 1984, Meeting of ASA Council

Footnotes

March 1985 (Volume 13, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.8 MB)

· Special Election Issue: Candidate Biographies

· D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, Jr., Extends Welcome to Sociologists

· 1986 ASA Annual Meeting Site, Dates Changed (to New York City)

· Community Surveys Train Students, Provide Service (Carla Howery)

· William Ewens Named Teaching Services Program Field Coordinator

· Editors Sought for ST, ASR, CS

· Spring 1985 Regional Meetings

· Teaching Materials Sought for Sex and Gender

· Observing: Council Actions/Mario Brajuha (William D’Antonio)

· Libraries Seek Donations

· Nominations Sought for ASA Medical Sociology Section Dissertation Award

· By-Laws Change Proposed: Program Committee composition

· Job Clinic and Workshop on Federal Jobs Offering During 1985 Annual Meeting

· “The Sociologist’s Song” (a record)

· Publishing Options Available Again

· Teaching: Rewarding Effective Teaching (Carla Howery)

· Workshop on Evaluations to be Offered May 1985

· ASA Needs Information on Using Libraries

· Professional Workshops Aid Career Growth and Change

· AKD Awards Presented

· Kinsey Awards Open

· Clinical Sociology Review Seeks Editor

· Obituaries: Anita Kassen Fischer, Mildred Kornacker

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

· Minutes of September 1, 1984, meeting of ASA Council

· 1985 Guide to Graduate Departments Available

· How ASA Committees Are Chosen (and application form for committee service)

Footnotes

April 1985 (Volume 13, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Lionel Maldonado Joins ASA Staff

· Council Takes Action on Multifaceted Initiative on Certification and Licensure

· New ASA Award for Distinguished Career in Practice of Sociology

· Greetings from DC Congressman Walter Fauntroy

· Rockefeller Foundation Minority Group Scholar Fellowships Awarded

· State Licensure Monitors Appointed

· S. Frankl Miyamoto Named to HHS Advisory Council

· Discount Air Fares for Annual Meeting Travel

· Three Yugoslav Sociologists Sentenced

· ASA Workshop on Strengthening Graduate Education

· Observing: The Federal Budget for FY1986 (William D’Antonio)

· Dispute Resolution Gains Ground (Maria R. Volpe)

· Summer Internships Available at ASA Office

· ASA Commission Proposes Policy-Related Research Directions (Bettina Huber)

· Teaching: Team Teaching Benefits Faculty, Students, Curriculum (Carla Howery)

· Three Committees Present Proposals to ASA Council

· Minority Sociologists and Their Status in Academia

· Sociology Around the Globe

· NCSA Establishes Tomeh Award

· C. Matthew Snipp Is American Statistical Association Fellow

· Eight Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded

· Travel Grants to Annual Meeting Available to Foreign Students

· Good Ideas Column

· Promote Your Book in ASA Journals

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

· Editors Reports

Footnotes

May 1985 (Volume 13, Number 5) (pdf file; 1.9 MB)

· Mario Brajuha Fieldnotes Case Resolved; Scholars’ Rights Supported (Ruth Thaler)

· Membership Committee Initiates System of Area Representatives

· A Tribute to Paul Williams (Robert B. Hill)

· Lively Plenary Sessions Set for Annual Meeting

· Everything You Need to Know About the 1985 Annual Meeting

· Getting Students Involved in the Annual Meeting (Carla Howery)

· Annual Media Media Relations Shaping Up Well (Ruth Thaler)

· Observing: ASA’s Budget in Balance (William D’Antonio)

· 1984 Audit

· Sociology Series Wins Public Affairs Honors

· ASA Contributors

· Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (George Dowdall, Ross Koppel, Arthur Shostak)

· NEH Funding Guide Available

· Teaching Endowment Fund Gets Boost from Undergraduate Education Section

· Daniel Ross and Robert Reimer Are Leaders in Asian Universities

· Open Forum: “Social Science Research and Congressional Policy” (Richard M. Levinson)

· Sociology Theory Becomes ASA Journal

· Employment Patterns in Sociology Available

· Obituaries: Robert Cooley Angell, Theodore M. Newcomb, Romolo Toigo

· ASA Medical Sociology Section Graduate Internship Program Seeks Input

· Section Reports

· ASA Workshops on Using Computers

Footnotes

August 1985 (Volume 13, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.6 MB)

· Election Results: Melvin Kohn is ASA President Elect; Mayer Zald, Vice President Elect; Michael Aiken, Secretary-Elect

· A New Look: New Design for Footnotes

· American Sociological Foundation Established by Council

· 1985 Annual Meeting Update

· Secretary’s Report: 1986: A Year of Accomplishment (Theodore Caplow)

· Executive Officer’s Report: Pursuing Short and Long-Range Goals (William D’Antonio)

· 1985 Annual Meeting: Discover and Rediscover Washington, DC (William Martineau)

· Microcomputer Users to Meet at Annual Meeting

· Letter to the Editor: Whyte on Whyte (William F. Whyte)

· Annual Meeting Presenters: Keep It Short

· Wingspread Conference Focuses on Teaching (Carla Howery)

· ASA Purchases Teaching Sociology from Sage

· Teaching Endowment Fund Established

· ASA Summer Interns

· NSF Changes Submission Dates

· COSSA to Meet

· 1986 Professional Development Workshops

· 1986 World Congress to be Held in New Delhi (Ann Kremers)

· Clifford Clogg New SM Editor

· Open Forum: “Sociology Outside the Academy” (Melvin Kohn)

· New ASA Major Medical Insurance Plan Offered

· The Status of Minorities and Women in ASA (Bettina Huber; first in a series)

· Membership Committee’s 80% Club (Departments with 80% or more faculty being ASA members)

· Profile of the ASA President: Matilda White Riley: Of Her Times and Ahead of Her Time (Anne Foner)

· 1986 Annual Meeting: Focus on Social Structures and Human Lives; Sessions, Organizers Announced

· New 1986 Dues Structure

· Deaths: Rue Bucher, George Dixon, Isaac Franck, Eileen H. Hepburn, Betty Irish, Sylvia Lasser, Don Martindale

· Obituaries: Leonard Slater Cottrell, Jr., James P. Earp, John A. Kinneman, Paul Meadows, Adolph S. Tomars, Dorothy D. Vellenga, Eugene Weinstein

· Minutes of February 2, 1985, meeting of ASA Council

· Committee Report

Footnotes

October 1985 (Volume 13, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· ASA Major Award Recipients: Reinhard Bendix, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Duncan Gallie, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Joan Huber and Judith Stacey, Jessie Bernard Award

· A Good Meeting that Almost Wasn’t (on the switch of locations due to Hilton fire) (Stephen C. Warren)

· ASA Council Censures University of California-Santa Cruz

· IIS International Congress to be Held in Portugal

· Problems of the Discipline Grants Open

· New TS Editor: Theodore Wagenaar

· New SM Editor: Clifford C. Clogg

· Nominees Sought for SOE Editor

· 1987 ASA Candidates

· New ST Editor: Norbert Wiley

· Thank You to ASA Staff (Kai Erikson)

· Peter Rossi Receives Common Wealth Award

· Council Briefs

· Observing: Notes from the Washington, DC Convention (William D’Antonio)

· 1985 Annual Meeting: Retrospective (photos)

· Three Sections Present Awards During Annual Meeting

· New Sessions for 1986 Annual Meeting

· Clinical Sociology Syllabi Set Available

· MFP Announces Fellows for 1985-86

· 1985 Exhibits Called Successful (Karen Gray Edwards)

· MFP Receives Cornerhouse Grant

· Teaching: Teaching Using Discussion (William Ewens)

· Attend Dallas Workshop on Teaching Applied/Clinical Sociology

· SPQ Evaluation Stresses New Submissions (Bettina Huber)

· Open Forum: “On Neofunctionalism” (Charles H. Page); “War & Peace” (William A. Gamson and James M. Skelly)

· Two Sociology Associations Celebrate First Decade: Gay Caucus (Meredith Gould)/Association for Humanist Sociology (Stuart Hills)

· Passing On Sociology Back in Print

· Mark Abrahamson, Stanley Presser Head NSF Sociology Program

· Sociology Around the World

· Hans Zeisel and Harriet Zuckerman Elected to AAAS

· Deaths: Rose Goldsen, Reuben Hill, Paul H. Landis

· Obituaries: Rue Bucher, Don Albert Martindale, John Seidler, Francis Montgomery Sim

· 1986 Guide Listings Due

Footnotes

November 1985 (Volume 13, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· 1987 Program Theme: “Cross-National Research in Sociology”

· Lenore Weitzman’s Research Plans Key Role in New Research

· MFP Task Force Begins

· Norbert Wiley: Profile of the New ST Editor

· 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Sessions on Uses of Sociology New Feature

· Wohlers Offers New Disability Income Insurance Plan

· Fulbright Grants Still Available

· Observing: Your Voice Counts (William D’Antonio)

· Sociological Practice Notes: Ronald Lippitt Receives Clinical Sociology Association Career Award

· ASA Contributors: Thanks!

· Indiana University Sociologists Celebrate 100th Anniversary

· Sociologists Demonstrate at South African Embassy

· Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (Ross Koppel, George Dowdall, Arthur Shostak)

· Employment Bulletin Fees to Increase

· University of California-San Francisco Sociology Celebrates 25 Years

· The Status of Minorities and Women in ASA (Bettina Huber; second in a series)

· Sociologists Receive Brazil Merit Awards

· Open Forum: “A Walk on the Applied Side: Ideology and the Celebration of Applied Sociology” (Gregory D. Squires, Thomas A. Lyson); “The Pricking of a Sacred Cow” (Cecil L. Willis, Richard H. Wells, J. Steven Picou)

· Mark Granovetter Wins Theory Prize

· Section on Aging Honors George Maddox

· SSRC Appoints Francis X. Sutton President

· David Jenness: COSSA Director Discusses Plans (an interview by Carla Howery)

· Reference Format for ASA Journals to Change in 1986

· COSSA’s “Breakfast on the Hill” (John Hammer)

· Teaching Program Sponsors Workshops

· COPAFS Reports on Activities and Accomplishments (Kathy Wallman)

· Ilene Nagel Appointed to New Sentencing Commission

· TRC Offers 12 New Products

· Accuracy in Academia Group Targets Radical Faculty

· New Asia/Asian America Section Holds Sessions, Elects Officers

· GSA Presents Kleemeier Award to George Maddox

· Obituaries: Paul M. Houser, Paul J. Landis, Arthur Liebman

Footnotes

December 1985 (Volume 13, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· Nominations for 1986 Elections

· American Sociological Foundation Off and Running

· The Outcome of the Mario Brajuha Case: Legal Implications for Sociologists

· President’s Report: Recollections and Gratitude (Kai Erikson)

· Capital Comment (column)

· ISA World Congress Travel Arrangements

· House Task Force Holds Hearings on Social Science

· 1986 Regional Meeting Schedule

· Sociological Practice (column)

· ASA Contributors

· Teaching: Applied Curriculum Can Enhance Liberal Arts Learning (Kathryn Grzeldowski, Jim Mitchell)

· Sociologists Honored with NSF/NIMH Awards

· Gary Hamilton Touts Fulbright Experience

· ACLS Awards

· Fulbright Awards

· GSA Awards

· ASA/ACLS Conducts Survey of Scholars

· Mark Abraham, Stanley Presser Share Plans, Advice: NSF’s Sociology Program Spearheads Research (an interview by Carla Howery)

· Open Forum: “Whyte Revisited: Further Thoughts on Improving Annual Meetings” (Gary S. Foster); “Barriers Between Sociology” (Amitai Etzioni); “Communicating Sociology as a Useful Humanistic Science at the State Level” (Catherine T. Harris)

· Alice Rossi, Daniel Gallego Appointed to Council on Aging

· Obituaries: Rose K. Goldsen, Reuben L. Hill, Werner Stark

Footnotes

January 1986 (Volume 14, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· Four New (Petition) Candidates File for ASA Presidency--Edgar Borgatta, Amitai Etzioni, Albert J. Reiss, Jr., and Neil J. Smelser

· Enjoy New York on Fewer Dollars a Day (William Silverman)

· 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Further Highlights of the Emerging Program (Matilda White Riley)

· Observing: COSSA Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio)

· ASA Launches New Effort in Professional Development (Carla Howery)

· ASA Members Respond to ACLS Survey

· Nominations Sought for ASA Awards

· Salary Update: 1984-85 Figures for Academics

· Materials Sought for ASA Liberal Arts Monograph

· Two Conferences at Windspread Focus on Teaching: The Wingspread Conference on Teaching (Catherine White Berheide) and the National Conference on Higher Education (Theodore Wagenaar)

· Open Forum: “Why Neofunctionalism: Two Responses to Page” (Jeffrey C. Alexander and David Scuilli); “Looking Backward and Forward” (Claude C. Bowman)

· 1986 Directory of Members Begins Production

· Annual Meeting Space Available for Other Groups

· Leo Goodman, Teresa Sullivan, Robert Gutman Win Major Awards

· Teaching: “Professional Socialization Among Undergraduate Sociology Students” (Barbara R. Keating); “Taking Action for Undergraduate Student Participation” (Carla Howery)

· Resources for Under- and Unemployed Sociologists

· TRC Seeks Sociology of Religion Materials

· Soviet-U.S. Exchanges Begin at 1985 ASA Annual Meeting

· More Contributors

· Five Teaching Services Program Workshops Coming in Spring

· Minutes of August 31, 1985, meeting of ASA Council

Footnotes

February 1986 (Volume 14, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· ASA Seeks New Professional Staff: Assistant Executive Officer for New Professional Development Program

· No Petition Candidates for Council, Committees

· 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Seminars, Courses, Workshops (Matilda White Riley)

· ASF Launches Three-Year Endowment Campaign

· Observing: Facing the Challenges (William D’Antonio)

· Letter to the Editor: Vote for the Nominated ASA President Candidates (William J. Chambliss)

· ASA Awards Near Deadlines

· Tour Information for ISA Meetings in India

· The New Budget Game: Welcome to Gramm-Rudman-Hollings (prepared by COSSA)

· Members Respond to New Journals (ST and TS); More Libraries Needed

· Sociologists Active in HHS Task Force on Minority Health (Lionel Maldonado)

· Katrina Johnson Serves as Task Force Director

· NIA Awards Grants for Research

· Members Invited to Apply for Annual Meeting Table Space

· Ask ASA! (new column)

· ASA, Other Sociology Organizations Work Together

· Materials Sought for Teaching Social Ecology

· Thanks to Contributors

· Teaching: Microcomputers Aid Teaching Research Methods (Russell K. Schutt)

· ASA Committees and Representatives

· Three Computer Workshops Offered in June

· New Capstone Course at GWU

· Teaching: A Computer Assisted Introductory Sociology Course (David Ellison)

· New Teaching Resources Available

· Special Issue of Quarterly Journal of Ideology on Controversy in the Classroom

· NSF Minority Research Initiative

· Howard F. Taylor to Lead Study of Minority Students

· Deaths: Minerva Etzioni (wife of Amitai Etzioni)

· Obituaries: Leonard Clayton Kercher

· Committee Reports

Footnotes

March 1986 (Volume 14, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.4 MB)

· Special Election Issue

· New York: Public Spaces are Resting Places

· The ASF Endowment Campaign: The Price of Commitment (William D’Antonio)

· The Minority Fellowship Program: A Successful Program at the Crossroads (Lionel Maldonado)

· Observing: Council Adopts Balanced Budget for 1986 (William D’Antonio)

· 1985 Audit

· Eight Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded

· 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Thematic and Plenary Sessions Take Shape (Matilda White Riley)

· Council Creates Editor-Designate Position; Rose, SPQ Editors Sought

· Feedback Sought on Guidelines for Parttime Faculty

· Council Acts on Business Meeting Resolutions: Affirms Policy to South Africa

· Publications Committee Evaluates SOE; Finds Scope Could be Broadened Still Further (Bettina Huber)

· Methodology Section Establishes Lazarsfeld Award

· Sociology of Religion Submissions Sought

· Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees

· Deaths: Joseph Ben-David, Alva Myrdal, Elliott M. Rudwick

· Obituaries: Herbert H. Hyman

· Committee Reports

· Section Reports

Footnotes

April 1986 (Volume 14, Number 4) (pdf file; 3.8 MB)

· Profiles of New ASA Editors: William Form (ASR), Ida Harper Simpson (CS), Philip Wexler (SOE)

· ASF Endowment Campaign Mounts Spring Telethon

· PhD Certification Program to Begin (Bettina Huber)

· 1987 Program Update: Theme is “Cross-National Research in Sociology”

· Observing: Social Science and the Federal Budget, FY87 (William D’Antonio)

· 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Regular Sessions, Roundtables, Tours, and More (Matilda White Riley)

· Exploring Greenwich Village (Caroline Hodges Persell)

· Hispanic Diversity in New York (Lloyd H. Rogler)

· New Presidential Series Volume Available: James F. Short, Jr.’s The Social Fabric

· NEH Acting Director John Agresto Advises Sociologists Seeking NEH Support (an interview by Carla Howery)

· E. Pluribus Unum (Asoke Basu)

· Polish, Czech, German Cooperation in Urban/Regional Sociology

· FY87 Budget Report Available from COSSA

· Open Forum: “Neofunctionalism: Long on Rhetoric, Short (As Yet) on Substance” (George Ritzer); “More on the Neofunctionalism Debate” (R. Stephen Warner); “On Chambliss and Alternative Candidates” (Kendrick S. Thompson)

· Submissions Sought on Historical Sociology

· A Place in Science: ASA Involvement in the AAAS

· Job Clinic Again Annual Meeting Feature

· ISA Update

· Annual Meeting Travel Grants for Foreign Students

· Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (Ross Koppel, George Dowdall, Arthur Shostak)

· Develop Greater Computer/Teaching Skills this Summer at ASA Workshops

· Teaching: High School Sociology: A View from California (Dean Dorn)

· Ethical Guidelines Covering the Publication Process (Barbara Reskin)

· On the Difference Between Reviewing and Being Reviewed (Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., reprinted from Science)

· Sociological Perspectives on Drunk Driving (Ellen Berg)

· The ASA Journal Calendar

· Good Ideas

· Council Reaffirms Constraints on Self, Committees

· Paulo Freire and William F. Whyte Discuss Practice and Teaching

· Update on Alpha Kappa Delta (Jerry Michel)

· Ask ASA

· Students: Attend the Annual Meeting

· Information on Competency Tests Sought

· Computer Network Exchange

· NIMH Reorganizes; New Division Created

· Congressman George Willer Receives Award

· Catastrophe Insurance Plan

· Rosabeth Moss Kanter Joins Harvard Business School Faculty

· Daniel Monti Receives Curators Publication Award

· Philip McMichael Receives Allan Sharlin Memorial Award

· William Chambliss Receives Criminal Justice Award

· 1986 ASA Reference Materials Available at a Discount

· Deaths: Waldo Wadsworth Burchard, H. Warren Dunham, Frank E. Hartung, Donald Marsh, Mary B. Treudley

· Obituaries: Gladys Meyer, Elliott Rudwick, Arthur F. Wileden

· Committee Reports, Section Reports, Representative Reports

Footnotes

May 1986 (Volume 14, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.3 MB’ note that first page of issue is mislabeled May 1985)

· ASA Award Winners: Edward Shils, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Sister Marie Augusta Neal, Distinguished Contribution to Teaching; Conrad Taeuber, Career Award for the Practice of Sociology

· 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: In Anticipation of the Annual Meeting (Matilda White Riley)

· Annual SM to be Published by ASA (Bettina Huber)

· Observing: Questions and Answers (William D’Antonio)

· Jessie Bernard Award Open for Nominations

· Barrie Thorne, 1986 Miller Lecturer, Available for Campus Visits

· Minority Representation in U.S. Departments (Stephen Kulis, Karen A. Miller, Morris Axelrod, Leonard Gordon; first in a series)

· Looking for Something To Do? Attend the 1986 Annual Meeting!

· New York Offers Convention Attendees Fashion in Action (Ruth P. Rubinstein)

· ASA Hosts Congressional Seminar on Work and Family Policies

· ASF Plans Fund-Raising Auction for Annual Meeting

· Sociological Tours of the World

· IIS Changes Schedule for Future Congresses

· Topical Supplements Planned to the General Social Survey

· New Culture, Emotions Sections

· Faculty Exchange Center

· TSP Sponsoring Workshop on Computers

· Ad for Nancy Shaw Legal Defense Fund

· Deaths: William H. Exum, Sarah Alice Mayfield Rice, Leila Rosen Young

· Obituaries: H. Warren Dunham, Frank E. Hartung, Donald C. Marsh

· Section Reports

· Editors Reports

· Special Pre-Publication Offer on SM86

Footnotes

August 1986 (Volume 14, Number 6) (pdf file; 10.0 MB)

· Election Results: Herbert J. Gans is ASA President Elect; Richard J. Hill Vice President Elect

· Stephen A. Buff Joins ASA Staff

· Members Respond to ASF Campaign

· 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Program Highlights: Join Us in New York (Matilda White Riley)

· A Snapshot Tour of New York

· Sociologists in Business Organize Network

· Media Plans Press Forward (Ruth Thaler and Carla Howery)

· ASF to Hold Auction at Annual Meeting (Jay Demerath)

· Secretary’s Report: Today’s ASA: Redefining Our Goals (Theodore Caplow)

· Executive Officer’s Report: A Year of New Activities (William D’Antonio)

· Observing: ASA’s 1985 Budget Audit: A Smaller than Expected Deficit (William D’Antonio)

· 1985 Audit

· Textook Donations Sought

· Thank You ASA Contributors

· Sociology Around the World (Carla Howery)

· SWS/DCSS Make Donations

· Open Forum: “Media Interest in a Sociology Course” (Jerry M. Lewis); “Sociological Forces” (Donald L. Metz); “Poem” (Bob LaFleur)

· NSF Graduate Fellowship Awards

· Stanford Fellows

· Letter to the Editor: Blind Voting (Harry Perlstadt)

· Flourishing Exchanges Between Chinese and American Sociologists (Nan Lin)

· The Prosperity of China: Celebrating the Seventh Anniversary of the Reestablishment of Chinese Sociology (Wang Kang)

· The American Sociologist (TAS) Resumes Publication

· Media and Sociology: Positive Press (Carla Howery)

· NRC Funds Projects by Three Sociologists

· 1987 Call for Papers: Sessions, Organizers Announced

· Pre-Publication Offer on Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals

· Culture Section Now Organizing

· ASF T-Shirts

· International Society of Political Psychology

· New Section on Emotions

· Deaths: Charles R. Lawrence, Edward Sagarin

· Obituaries: William Henry Exum, Leila Rosen Young

· Minutes of January 31, 1986, meeting of ASA Council

Footnotes

October 1986 (Volume 14, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· ASA Major Award Recipients: Edward A. Shils, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Sister Marie Augusta Neal, Career of Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Conrad Taeuber, Career of Distinguished Contributions to Practice of Sociology; Aldon Morris and Lenore Weitzman, Distinguished Scholarly Publications; James Blackwell, Dubois-Johnson-Franzier Award; John Clausen, Common Wealth Award

· Major Addresses Focus on Aging, Sociological Lives (Ellen Berg)

· Clausen Donates Half of Common Wealth Award Stipend to ASF

· New Sections on Culture, Emotions Off to Good Start

· Council Briefs

· 1986 Annual Meeting: The Greatest Show on Earth (Ellen Berg)

· Nominations Invited for Innovative Jensen Scholarship

· Applications Invited for Problems of the Discipline Grants

· Scenes from New York

· A Celebration of Practice

· 1987 Guide Listing Forms Mailed

· MFP Announces New Fellows for 1986-87

· MFP Fundraising Efforts and Contributions

· Profile of the President: Melvin L. Kohn: Linking Social Structure and Personality (Glen H. Elder, Jr.)

· Observing: Postlude to the 1986 Election (William D’Antonio)

· TRC Seeks Submissions for Monograph on Branch Campuses

· Teaching: Zero Base and Safety Valve: Procedures for Curriculum Revision (Charlotte Vaughan, Reece McGee)

· New Venture at NSF: An Organizations Database

· Theory Is the Key in Introductory Sociology at Vassar (Ellen Burg)

· Open Forum: “The Black Family: Under Attack Again” (Joyce E. Williams); “Still More on Neofunctionalism” (Seth Knoepler); “Lest We Hope in Vain: On the First Anniversary of the U.S. Institute of Peace” (Peter Nishiyama)

· Peace Institute Announces Grant Procedures

· Deaths: Kenneth Olsen, Robert Verbeck

· Obituaries: Edward Sagarin, Mary Lees, Roger L. Riffer

· Frederic Wakeman New SSRC President

· Update on ST

Footnotes

November 1986 (Volume 14, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· 1988 Annual Meeting Theme: Sociology in America (Herbert J. Gans)

· 1988 Candidates for ASA President, Vice President

· Sections Bestow Awards in New York

· ASA/MFP Doctoral Fellowship Applications

· Observing: Rethinking the Dues Structure (William D’Antonio)

· Emotions Section Gets Off the Ground

· Letter From the Editor: Apology for “ad hominem” statements about Talcott Parsons and Jeffrey Alexander (William D’Antonio)

· Registry of Retired Sociologists Available

· 1987 Program Update: More Sessions, Organizers

· Order the Cumulative Index Now

· Report of the IIS Congress

· New TRC Products Debut at Annual Meeting

· Louis Goodman Appointed Dean at American University

· SM86 Now Available

· ASA/Duke University Sponsor Jensen Award

· Daniel Sullivan New President of Allegheny College

· Life on the Applied/Clinical Side (Thomas J. Rice)

· Update on Human Rights Cases (Carla Howery)

· Rose and Lewis Coser Retire

· Submissions Solicited for 1987 Teaching Resources

· ASA Sponsors Seminars for Federal Employers (Bettina Huber)

· Interactive Videodisc Technology as Revolution

· 1986 Gerontology Fellows

· Lois DeFleur Named Provost at University of Missouri-Columbia

· Obituaries: Cesar Grana

Footnotes

December 1986 (Volume 14, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· 1987 Annual Meeting Theme: “Cross National Research in Sociology” (Melvin L. Kohn)

· ASA Reaffirms Atlanta in 1988

· Candidates Announced for 1987 Election (Council/Committees)

· Observing: The Undergraduate Program in Sociology (William D’Antonio)

· Stalking the Undergraduate Credit Hour: Some Ideas and Tactics (Gerald Marwell)

· TSP Field Coordinator: Report on the First Year (William Ewens)

· Call for Rural Sociology Materials

· From the Past President: Report on 1986: Integrative Impuses in the Discipline (Matilda White Riley)

· “Lost” Authors: ASA Owes You Reprint Fees!

· NAE/NRC Fellows

· COSSA Acts as Catalyst for OMB Investigation

· Sociologist Donald W. Light Writes for Scientific American

· Subscribe to COSSA Washington Update

· Update on Certification (Lionel Maldonado)

· 1987 Regional Meeting Schedule

· TRC Seeks Religion Submissions

· ASA Contributors

· Annual Meeting Media Papers Published

· Researching the Church from Within (Carla Howery)

· Sociological Perspectives on AIDS (Ellen Berg)

· ASA/NSF/Census Research Program (Arnold Reznek)

· Lewis Coser Appointed PBK Scholar

· Teaching: Problems Foreign Students Face as Teaching Assistants (Akbar Mahdi, John Useem, William Ewens)

· Attend Teaching Workshop on Establishing Research Centers

· Open Forum: “An Unanticipated Retirement Obstacle” (George K. Floro); “The Practice and the Discipline: Why We Must Choose” (Henry H. Brownstein)

· NIMH Research Grants

· Sociologists Win Guggenheim, NSF, ACLS Fellowships and Grants

· New Beneficiary Survey from Social Security

· The Greatest Books of Sociology (Delbert C. Miller)

· Deaths: Marston McCluggage

· Obituaries: Kenneth Marvin Olson, James A. Sartain

Footnotes

January 1987 (Volume 15, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Andrew Greeley Makes $50,000 Challenge Grant to ASF

· New Sections Established: Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Culture

· Joseph Gittler Bequest Funds Two Sociology Chairs at George Mason University

· Robert Merton Receives Honorary Degree from Oxford

· Increasing the Effectiveness of the ASA Public Information Program

· Nominations Sought for ASA Awards

· Council Acts on Paul Cameron Case

· Industrial Sociology: The Competitive Edge (Robert H. Guest)

· Teaching Column: Problems Foreign Students Face as Teaching Assistants (Akbar Mahdi)

· Teaching Services Program to Hold Workshop on Changing the Sociology Curriculum

· National Science Foundation FY1986 Awards

· Teaching Column: Grading Electronically (Nicholas Mullins)

· Homelessness in Three Dimensions: Professors, Practitioners, and Politicians (Russell K. Schutt and Gerald R. Garrett)

· Carnegie Corporation Appoints 24 Members to Council on Adolescent Development

· Minority Representation in U.S. Departments of Sociology (Stephen Kulis, Karen A. Miller, Morris Axelrod, and Leonard Gordon)

· Sociological Practitioners Get More Respect (George C. Zeller)

· Open Forum: “Look to Literature” (Thomas J. Scheff)

· Council on International Educational Exchange Honors John Useem and Ruth Hill Useem

· Reflections on the ISA Meeting in New Delhi (Larry Suter)

· Electronic Network Committee Plans New Service

· Good Ideas

· Obituaries: Nels Anderson, Joel Van Meter Berreman, Carol A. Fromme, Ronald Lippitt, Charles S. Perry

· Minutes of September 2, 1986, meeting of 1985-86 ASA Council

Footnotes

February 1987 (Volume 15, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· ASA Professional Development Program Shapes Up (Stephen A. Buff)

· New Section on Sociology of Culture (Ellen Berg)

· Observing: “Bits ‘n Pieces” (William V. D’Antonio)

· Teaching Services Program Sponsors Practice Workshop

· Donald Pierson Honored by University of Bahia (Brazil)

· Get Yourself Some Press Coverage (Carla B. Howery)

· ASA Committees and Representatives

· Open Forum: “A Response to Miller’s ‘Great Books’” (Ellen Ziskind Berg); “Professional Dignity” (Michael A. Faia); “ASA and Politics” (Seymour Yellin)

· Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop

· ASF Contributors

· Sociologists and Big Science: Applied Sociology in Multidisciplinary Research (David Gottlieb)

· Sociologists Receive 1986-87 Fulbright Grants

· Robert M. Hauser Receives Lazarsfeld Award

· ASA Award Nomination Reminders

· NSF Seeks Applicants for Sociology Program Director

· Teaching Column: Measuring Up to Writing Good Multiple Choice Tests (Carla B. Howery)

· Deaths: Dick Haas, Robert T. LaPiere

· Minutes from September 6, 1986, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council

· Section Reports

Footnotes

March 1987 (Volume 15, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· ASA Establishes Practice Journal (Sociological Practice Review); First Editor South

· ASF Pursues Second Hundred Thousand (Jay Demerath)

· University of California Agrees to Settlement with Nancy Shaw

· 1987 Annual Meeting: Ethnic Diversity Enlivens Chicago (William T. Liu)

· Observing: Council Struggles to Balance 1987 Budget (William D’Antonio)

· Council Briefs

· Teaching Services Program to Hold Workshop on Integrating Computers into the Curriculum

· Feminist Theory: Moving Sociology from the “Malestream” (Ellen Berg)

· Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees

· MFP Task Force Changes Direction, Marches On

· Gary Becker Receives NIH MERIT Award

· Teaching Sociology Holds Lottery for Student Subscriptions

· Sociologists’ AIDS Network Formed

· ASA Contributors

· AKD Elects New Officers

· Deaths: Charles Flynn, Mrs. Paul Takagi

· Obituaries: Richard T. LaPiere

· Section Reports

Footnotes

April 1987 (Volume 15, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· Career Expert (Richard Irish) to Conduct 1987 Annual Meeting Job Clinic

· Seven Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded

· Nancy Shaw Awarded Tenure by University of California-Santa Cruz

· Editor Sought for Sociological Practice Review

· Observing: Meeting the Challenges (William D’Antonio)

· Soviet Sociologist (Tatyana Zaslavskaya) Calls for Attention to Her Science

· The Sixth Circle or “Dis Must be the Place” (Albert Hunter)

· Richard Ofshe Wins Case Against Synanon (Lionel Maldonado)

· Marge Clark and Ember Reichgott Bring Sociology to State Houses (Carla B. Howery)

· June Competition for Problems of the Discipline Grants

· Medical Sociology Section Graduate Internship Program in Applied Medical Sociology

· Honors Program Accepting Applications for Annual Meeting

· Available June 1987: Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals

· COPAFS: Meeting the Challenges of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

· TSP Field Coordinator Sought

· Letters to the Editor: “Business as Usual” (Ralph L. Spencer); “A Letter from Another Publisher” (Franklin C. Graham; responding to Ted Peacock)

· TSP Workshop on Critical Thinking

· Wolhlers Insurance Offers Daily Cash Benefits

· Ellen Black Winston Honored by American Association of University Women

· Open Forum: “More Greatest Books” (Claude C. Bowman); “Take Care in Labeling” (Robert M. Marsh; response to Kulis et al.)

· Black-on-Black Crime: Old Wine, New Bottle (Bernard D. Headley)

· TSP Workshop on Community-Based Learning

· Norman Goodman Recognized for Teaching Excellence

· Deaths: Alvin C. Dorse, Anne K. Peters, Peter New

· Obituaries: Harry Jennings Crockett, Jr., Philip M. Marcus

· Section Reports

· Committee Reports

Footnotes

May 1987 (Volume 15, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· Lois Lee Takes Back Children from the Night

· ASF Endowment Campaign: A Rationale (Jay Demerath)

· ASA Awards Announced: Wilbert E. Moore, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; William A. Gamson, Distinguished Contribution to Teaching; John W. Riley, Distinguished Career for the Practice of Sociology

· Observing: Meeting the Challenge? (William D’Antonio)

· Carla Howery and James Fremming Are Proud Parents of Kevin Carl Fremming, Born March 16

· Committee Appointed to Review ASA Dues Structure

· Panel Urges More Large NSF Awards

· 1987 Annual Meeting: Chicago: Your Kind of Town (Robert F. Lovely)

· Travel Grants for Students

· Methods and Statistics Requirements for the MA Degree: Some Data from Sociology Departments (Bettina J. Huber; first in a series)

· Black Sociologists at Washington State University: A Homecoming (Robert F. Meier)

· SWS Presents Miller Lectureship to Barbara Reskin

· James F. Short, Jr., Receives Washington State Excellence Award

· William Darrow Reports on AIDS Among Prostitutes

· Letter-Writing Campaign Helps Keep Yugoslav Sociologist Milan Nikolic Out of Jail

· TSP Field Coordinator Sough

· 1987 Annual Meeting Information

· Open Forum: “On Paul Cameron” (Chester L. Hunt)

· Obituaries: George Benello, Charles P. Flynn, Paul H. Jacobsen, Herbert Menzel

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

· Editors’ Reports

Footnotes

August 1987 (Volume 15, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.7 MB)

· Joan Huber Elected ASA President; Glen H. Elder, Jr., is Vice President

· Savoring the “Second City” (Chicago; Phil Nyden)

· Teresa Sullivan New Editor of the Rose Monograph Series

· Karen S. Cook New Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly

· Executive Officer’s Report: A Five-Year Review (William D’Antonio)

· Observing: 1986 Audit: A Precarious Balance (William D’Antonio)

· NSF Organizations Data Base Awards

· Milton Yinger Honored at Oberlin

· Sociologists Win Guggenheim Fellowships

· James S. Coleman Receives Honorary Degree from University of Southern California

· Gerontological Society of America Fellows Announced

· Regional Societies Bestow Awards (SSS, NCSA, MSS)

· William Julius Wilson Receives MacArthur Award

· 1988 Call for Papers: ASA in Atlanta

· Annual Review of Sociology: Stability and Change (W. Richard Scott)

· Matida White Riley and Harold Wilensky Elected to AAAS

· Frances Mullaney and Davida Weinberg Are Newcombe Fellows

· NIMH Develops Guidelines for Research on Women’s Mental Health

· Ed Chasteen: Sociologist’s Biking Odyssey

· Update on ASA Press Activities

· Students Win Teaching Sociology Subscription Lottery

· Sociological Practice Association Annual Meeting

· David Goslin to Leave National Research Council

· The Social Sciences in the National Academy of Sciences

· Clinton Jesser Runs in Peace Maraton

· Dutch Sociologists to Attend ASA Annual Meeting

· Deaths: Emory Kimbrough, Jr., Herman R. Lantz

· Obituaries: Donald N. Barrett, Herbert Blumer, Ira H. Cisin, Alvin C. Dorse, Fredric Lee DuBow, Harry Fishman, John T. Gullahorn, Gunnar Myrdal, Anne K. Peters, Konstantin Symmons

· Minutes from January 23, 1987, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council

Footnotes

October 1987 (Volume 15, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· ASA Awards Presented in Chicago: Sandra Harding and Judith Rollins, Jessie Bernard Award; William A. Gamson, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; John W. Riley, Jr., Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Wilbert E. Moore, Career of Distinguished Scholarship

· MFP Invites Applications

· Observing: Reflections on the ASA Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio)

· Council Briefs

· Herb Gans: “How Do You Known That?” (Judith Blau)

· MFP Announces New 1987-88 Fellows

· Catastrophe Major Medical Plan

· TRC Seeks Teaching Materials

· Amitai Etzioni Awarded Professorship at Harvard Business School

· Graduate Students Receive Spencer Dissertation Fellowships

· Rural Sociological Society Presents Awards

· Menno Boldt Receives Haultain Prize

· David Garth Taylor Receives APSA Book Award

· ASA/NSF Grant Deadline

· Six Receive ASA/NSF Grants

· New TRC Products Available

· New Rose Monograph on Social Investment by Severyn Bruyn

· Deaths: Donald R. Cressey, Frederick Fliegel, Hans Haferkamp, Uriel Schoenbach

· Obituaries: Paul Duncan-Jones, Gilberto Freyre, Roger H. Jehenson, Emory Kimbrough, Jr., Herman R. Lantz

Footnotes

November 1987 (Volume 15, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Strengthening Sociology’s Position in the University (Joan Huber)

· 1989 Annual Meeting Program Topics, Organizers Invited

· MFP Invites Applications

· Candidates for 1989 President-Elect, Vice President-Elect

· Observing: Rethinking the Intellectual Challenge (William D’Antonio)

· Sociologist-Journalist Sought for Clearinghouse

· NIMH Increases Funding for Sociology

· 1988 Annual Meeting Program Update: ASA in Atlanta

· Sections Present 1987 Awards in Chicago

· SSSI Annual Spring Symposium Held in Urbana

· Soviet and U.S. Sociologists Work Together (Michael Swafford)

· AKD Holds Statewide Initiation

· Media Beat: Sociologist as Columnist (Gordon Clanton)

· GSS Survey: An Update (Duane F. Alwin)

· Obituaries: Margaret T. Cussler, Milla A. Alihan

· Minutes from August 20, 1987, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council

· Minutes from August 22, 1987, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council

Footnotes

December 1987 (Volume 15, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· Candidates Announced for 1988 ASA Election

· Updated Figures on Faculty Salaries (Bettina J. Huber)

· MFP Invites Applications

· Membership Benefits Packages Sent Bulk Rate

· Two Vignettes of Academia in Latin America (Donald P. Irish)

· On Sabbatical in Nicaragua (Joel P. Lazinger)

· Aid Request from Nicaraguan Sociologists

· SSA Auction to Benefit MFP

· Books in Third World Countries

· New ASA Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology

· Open Forum: “ASA and Politics, Left and Right” (Mark Iutcovich); “More on Cameron” (Committee on Status of Homosexuals in Sociology); “Expansively ‘Doing’ Sociology: Thoughts on the Limits and Linkages of Sociological Practice” (Norman L. Friedman)

· ASA Department Services Program Begins

· Sociology in China: A New Approach (Richard H. Hall)

· Teaching Workshop Looks at Local Research Centers

· Good Ideas

· Study of “Natural Experiment in History” Completed

· Ask ASA

· National Institute on Aging Research Grants

· National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships

· National Institute on Mental Health Research Grants

· National Research Council Minority Fellowships

· SSRC/ACLS Grant Foreign Area Awards

· 1987 National Science Foundation Awards

· ASA Section on Microcomputers Considered

· TSP Workshop on Integrating Computers into the Curriculum

· ASA Contributors

· 1988 Regional Meeting Schedule

· Sociology in the Field: A Variety of Work Roles at U.S.DA (Lambert N. Wenner)

· ASA/NSF/Census Research Program (Arnold Reznek)

· ASA Award Deadlines

· Deaths: Stuart Queen, Fred Roy Yoder

· Obituaries: Donald R. Cressey, Gerard DeGre, Frederick Fliegel, Eugene M. Kleban

Footnotes

January 1988 (Volume 16, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· Membership Survey Results Help Guide Future (Carla B. Howery)

· Clearinghouse Seeks News, Media Contacts

· ASA President Herbert Gans Honored by SUNY-Albany

· Sociology Major (Tim Brown) Wins Heisman Trophy

· A Newcomer’s View of NSF (about Phyllis Moen; by Carla B. Howery)

· Committee on World Sociology Liaison Coordinators

· Observing: Bits and Pieces (William D’Antonio)

· Teaching Column: Teaching Courses in Controversial and Value-Laden Areas (Kathleen McKinney)

· TSP Workshop on Local Research Centers

· The Presentation of Minorities in Sociology (Richard R. Verdugo and James E. Blackwell)

· Peter Rossi Presents First Jensen Lectures

· “Sociologist’s Song” Available from TRC

· The Resurgence of Sociology at California State University-Los Angeles (Ralph Thomlinson)

· Jonathan R. Cole Named Vice President, Arts and Sciences, at Columbia University

· Barbara Katz Rothman Named SWS Miller Lecturer

· Guidelines for Employment of Part-Time Faculty

· Congressions of a Part-Time Professor (Thomas K. Pinhey)

· Open Forum: ”For More Sociology/Society Interface” (Amitai Etzioni); “South Korean Sociologist Imprisoned” (Alvin L. Jacobson)

· ISA Group Urges Housing Reform

· Three Books Win SSSP Award

· Nominations Sought for ASA Awards

· The Treatment of Gender in Research

· A Varied Menu of Teaching Workshops

· Sociological Networking (Russell K. Schutt for the Electronic Sociological Network Committee)

· New TRC Product on Inclusive Curriculum

· Certification, Licensure, and Legitimacy (Lisa King)

· Deaths: Maurice Jackson, Jay Schulman, Louis Zurcher

· Obituaries: Stuart A. Queen, Fred R. Yoder

Footnotes

February 1988 (Volume 16, Number 2) (pdf file; 2/4 MB)

· Robin M. Williams, Jr., Receives Common Wealth Award

· MFP Makes Dissertation Awards for 1987-88

· Editors Sought for American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior

· TSP Workshop on Computers

· Observing: Honors and Achievements (William D’Antonio)

· Sociologists Receive NEH Awards

· Inside 1722: Edwards and Frensilli Guide Publications

· Methods and Statistics Requirement for the MA Degree (Bettina J. Huber; second in a series)

· Sociologists Receive NIDA Research Grants

· 1987-88 Fulbright Awards

· Nominations Sought for ASA Awards

· Open Forum: “And God Created Man . . .” (Raymond Eve); “On the Theory of Culture” (Robert Wuthnow); “Nicaragua: A Vibrant, Open Society” (Richard A. Dello Buono)

· Women & Minorities

· The Computer Network

· More ASA Contributors

· The Social World of Florida’s Mariel Cubans (Lionel Maldonado)

· ASA’s Cumulative Index: A Welcome Aid to Many

· TSP Workshop on “Teaching the Sociology of Family Violence”

· Sociology of the Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 (Olaf Larson)

· Fire at University of Dayton

· Letter to the Editor: “A Media Event Worth Viewing” (Thomas J. Scheff)

· Open Forum: “Bureaucracy at the Indo-U.S. Subcommission” (Helena Z. Lopata)

· Manhattan Study: A Classic

· Raising Your Hand Just Won’t Do (Gary T. Marx)

· Social/Behavioral Science Research Funding: 1988 Federal Budget

· Ask ASA

· Deaths: Wilbert E. Moore

· Obituaries: Graham Tomlinson

· Section Reports

Footnotes

March 1988 (Volume 16, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· MFP Expands to Undergraduates, Postdocs

· David Armor: The Sociologist as Policy Maker

· Observing: 1988’s Balanced Budget: A Commentary (William D’Antonio)

· Inside 1722: Astner Conducts Annual Meetings

· ASA Council Approves Credit Card Proposal

· ASA Council Tackles a Full Agenda at Mid-Year Meeting (Council Briefs)

· Editors Sought for ASR, JHSB

· TSP Workshop on Participatory Research and Community-Based Education

· New TRC Product: Teaching Sociology on the Branch Campus

· Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees

· Obituaries: Jack London, William G. Mather, Jay Schulman

· Editors’ Reports

· Section Reports

· Committee Reports

Footnotes

April 1988 (Volume 16, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Explore Atlanta on Sociology Tours

· New Think Tank Links Research and Policy on Women: Heidi Hartmann (Carla Howery)

· Publications Committee Evaluates JHSB

· Observing: Is It Morning Again in Sociology (William D’Antonio)

· Inside 1722: “Good Morning . . . . ASA; May I Help You”—Nancy Sylvester

· STEP Grants for Meeting Travel

· Representation of Women in U.S. Sociology Departments (Karen A. Miller, Stephen Kulis, Leonard Gordon, and Morris Axelrod)

· Reach Out and Touch Someone: A Report on AIDS (Ellen Berg)

· Ask ASA

· Professional Ethics and the ASA (Barbara Altizer and Benigno Aguirre)

· Open Forum: “And Sociologists Created Man” (Pierre van den Berghe)

· Ronald Kessler Wins MERIT Award

· 1988 Annual Meeting: Sociology by Subway in Atlanta (Brian Sherman)

· Rosabeth Moss Kanter Writes on “Massachusetts Miracle” with Dukakis

· Richard Irish to Lead 1988 Annual Meeting Job Clinic

· Improving Sociology’s Relations with Journals (Herbert Gans)

· Funding and Activities of the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development

· Sociologists Think Science (magazine)

· ASA Honors Program in Atlanta

· University of Southern California Prepares Sociologists to Do Family Therapy (Carla Howery)

· NSF Seeks Applicants for Sociology Position

· POD Grants and Deadline Announced

· New Section on Microcomputing

· New Footnotes Columns Need Input (New Books, Commentary and Ideas)

· Deaths: Beverly Duncan, Irving Goldaber, Wayne C. Rohrer, Barbara Rosenblum

· Obituaries: Joseph Bensman, Wilbert Ellis Moore

· Section Reports

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

Footnotes

May 1988 (Volume 16, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Robin M. Williams, Jr., Honored in Common Wealth Ceremony

· How to Improve Your Teaching in Atlanta

· ASA Award Winners Announced

· Observing: The ASA Dues Structure (William D’Antonio)

· Inside 1722: Good Luck and Thank You, Bettina (Huber)

· Lois K. Cohen Named Phillips Visiting Professor at Columbia University

· Encouraging NSF Funding of Qualitative Research (Herbert J. Gans, ASA President)

· Second Biennial Update: The Status of Minorities and Women Within ASA (Bettina J. Huber)

· Conference Looks at Race/Ethnic Relations in 1990s (Lionel A. Maldonado)

· Charles U. Smith Receives Florida A&M Award

· SSSP to Meet in Conjunction with ASA

· ASA in Atlanta: All About the 1988 Annual Meeting

· “Born Again” Documentary to Screen at 1988 Annual Meeting in Atlanta

· Deaths: Harry Abravanel, J. Don Harris, Joan Holley

· Obituaries: Theodore Abel, Beverly Duncan, Bruce H. Mayhew, Wayne C. Rohrer, Barbara Rosenblum

· Committee Reports

· Section Reports

· Minutes of January 28, 1988, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council

Footnotes

August 1988 (Volume 16, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· William Julius Wilson Elected ASA President; Edna Bonacich Vice President; Beth B. Hess Secretary

· Atlanta: Old South, New South (Charles Karcher and Barbara Karcher)

· Executive Officer’s Report: A Year of Progress and Problems (William D’Antonio)

· Inside 1722: A Front Office Dynamic Duo—Frances M. Foster and Angela Foster Grisby

· Michael Aiken Appointed Provost at University of Pennsylvania

· Observing: 1987 Audit: ASA Budget in Balance (William D’Antonio)

· 1987 Audit

· Two Special Events at 1988 Annual Meeting: Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities 10^th Anniversary; Filmmaker Fred Wiseman to Show New Film, “Missile”

· 1989 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

· Deaths: Harold Feldman, Nicholas Mullins, Wai-Ying

· Obituaries: Irving Goldaber, John W. Hudson, Maurice Jackson, John E. Mayer, Louis Anthony Zurcher

Footnotes

October 1988 (Volume 16, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· Major ASA Awards Given at 1988 Annual Meeting: George Homans, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Paul Glick, Career of Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Sociology; Sharon McPherron and Charles A. Goldsmid, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Michael Mann, Distinguished Scholarly Publication; Doris Y. Wilkinson, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award

· ASF Trustees Make First Grant, to MFP

· Editors Sough for TS, ST, SPR

· Dues Renewal Underway

· President’s Report: The 1988 ASA Presidency: A Personal Account (Herbert J. Gans)

· Observing: Bits ‘n Pieces from the 1988 Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio)

· Profile of the President: Joan Huber: Sociological Theory and Common Sense (Mary Ann Lamanna)

· 1989 Annual Meeting Theme: Macro/Micro Sociology

· J. Michael Brooks Leads ASA Teaching Services Program

· Sections Bestow Awards at ASA Annual Meeting

· Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals Available on Disk

· Winners of Raffle for Airline Tickets

· Upcoming in Teaching Sociology: An Article by George Ritzer on “Textbookgate” (Ellen Berg)

· Council Establishes Standing Committee on Employment (Stephen A. Buff)

· POD Grant Deadlines, Winners Announced

· ASA and Duke University Invite Nominations for Jensen Lectureship

· Deaths: Ruth Bleier

· Obituaries: Albert B. Blumenthal, Robert Galen Burnight, Hugh Carter, Manuel Elmer, Harold Feldman, Nicholas C. Mullins

Footnotes

November 1988 (Volume 16, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Breakthrough: New Federal Job Description for Sociology (Stephen A. Buff)

· 1990 Program Committee Invites Suggestions for Sessions

· 1989 Candidates Announced

· NIMH Program for Hispanics Celebrates 11^th Anniversary

· Observing: David Kingsbury Resigns NSF Post (William D’Antonio)

· MFP Fellows Announced for 1988-89

· Benefits of the ASA Credit Card

· Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matilda White Riley Included in Ladies Home Journal’s “100 Most Important Women in 1988”

· Minority Scholars Awarded NRC Fellowships

· CIES Invites Applications for Awards

· More Section Awards Presented In Atlanta

· Ideas and Commentary: How Can the ASA Increase the Representation of Practitioners in the Membership, Program, and Elected Leadership? With: “Make Membership Worthwhile” (Meredith Gould); “Helping Practitioners Reclaim Their Sociological Identities” (Elizabeth J. Clark); “Making Membership Worth More to Us” (Theodore A. Lamb); “A Useful List of Ideas” (David J. Kallen); “Outreach to Practicing Sociologists” (Mitchell A. Pravatiner)

· Open Forum: Differing Views on the ASA’s Annual Meeting Child Care Service—“A Commendation . . .” (Carolyn Howe and Jerry Lembke); “ . . . And a Complaint” (Art Stinchcombe); “A Note from the Executive Office” (Carla Howery)

· Two Sociologists (David Grusky and Mark Mizruchi) Receive NSF Awards

· ASA in San Francisco: Update on 1989 Program Sessions

· Women’s Representation Among Graduate Students in Sociology (Karen A. Miller, Stephen Kulis, Leonard Gordon, and Morris Axelrod)

· The Whys of ASA Membership: “Why I Belong to the ASA” (Earl Babbie); “Graduate Students and the ASA” (Lorna Lueker)

· Area Representatives Provide Local Linkages

· New ASA Dissertation Award; Nominations Invited

· Anthony Giddens Joins University of California-Santa Barbara Sociology Department

· Group Disability Income Insurance

· Honors Program Honor Hans Mauksch

· Philip Converse Named Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

· Deaths: Paul Riesman

· Obituaries: Shelley Coverman, Laud Humphreys, Andrew William Lind, Herbert Scott, Jr.

Footnotes

December 1988 (Volume 16, Number 9) (pdf file; 3.7 MB)

· Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees

· Last Chance for a 1988 Tax Deduction: ASF Endowment Campaign Sprints to the Finish Line

· 1990 Annual Meeting Theme: Sociology and the Public Agenda (William Julius Wilson)

· Observing: Forming Partnerships with Soviets and Our High Schools (William D’Antonio)

· New Coalition to Promote International Education: Coalition for the Advancement of Foreign Languages and International Studies (Stephen A. Buff)

· The AIDS Experience (about Levi Kamel; by Ellen Berg)

· The Prison as Classroom (Carla B. Howery)

· Experiment Station Directors Support New Social Science Research Initiatives (ESCOP)

· Share Your Teaching Materials with TRC

· New Materials from the ASA Teaching Resources Center

· Teaching Resources Group Continues Visitation Program

· ASA Emeritus Membership

· The Hispanic Center at Arizona State University

· ASA Contributors

· Media Beat: Promoting Yourself or Your Research to a Wider Audience (Jan Yager)

· Natalie Allon’s Books Donated to University of Pittsburgh

· Sociological Practice Association Establishes Charles Good Gomillion Collection at Paine College

· TSP Workshop on Outcomes Assessment

· ASA Council Considers Redistricting

· Sociologists Garner Awards and Grants: NICHHD, NSF, NIA

· Space Available for Other Activities at 1989 Annual Meeting

· 1989 Regional Meeting Schedule

· Open Forum: “Calling Names” (Judith Lorber); “On the Resectioning of Culture” (Eugene Rochberg-Halton); “Part-Time Professional Work” (Susan B. Prager); “Candidate Qualifications” (name withheld); “Gender Bias Paranoia” (Richard Zeller); “To the Editor” (Sharon Georgianna); “Image and Conviction in Sociology” (Richard C.J. Kilminster)

· Humanist Sociology in South Africa (David O. Friedrichs)

· Ideas and Commentary: “Should the ASA Offer Commercial Benefits?” (Jeanne Ballantine); “The ASA Master Card” (Marie R. Haug)

· Nominations Invited for 1990 ASA Awards

· Mental Health Services Research Conference Held at ASA

· New Concerns Surface Over Imprisoned South Korean Sociologist (Carla Howery)

· Media Beat: Sociologist as Television Commentor (Brian S. Vargus)

· Malaysian Sociologists Arrested; Letters of Protest Requested

· Sociology Department at University of Dayton Damaged by Fire (Patrick G. Donnelly)

· IIS International Congress to be Held in Rome, June 1989

· “On Retirement” (a poem by J. Saltman)

· Deaths: David Dodge, H. Kent Geiger, Morris Janowitz, Milton Rokeach, Muzafer Sherif

· Obituaries: (William) Douglas Martin Chittick, Burton R. Fisher, Barbara Hargrove

· Minutes from August 27, 1988, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council

· Minutes from August 28, 1988, meeting of 1988-89 ASA Council

Footnotes

January 1989 (Volume 17, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· Sorokin Lives! Centennial Observations (Barry V. Johnston)

· NSF Seeks New Director of Division of Social and Economic Science

· Departmental Services Program in Second Year

· Observing: From Page Costs to Soviet Guests (William D’Antonio)

· Inside 1722: ASA’s Meetings and Marketing Manager—Jen Suter

· Sex and Gender Section Honors Karen Hossfeld

· Public Opinion and Reform in China (David S. Mason and Ken Colburn)

· American Nurses’ Association Conducts Leadership Seminars for Women of Color

· Update on Alpha Kappa Delta

· Ohio State and Pennsylvania State Host Student Receptions in Atlanta

· Open Forum: “More on Sociological Practice” (Christine Wright-Isak); “Response to SOE Section Award” (James Coleman)

· Will and Dorothy Lissner Retire from American Journal of Economics and Sociology

· Ask ASA

· Teaching: A Proposal for Enhancing Anticipatory Socialization to Graduate School (Robert L. Hummel and Gary S. Foster)

· Issues Debated at World-System Conference on “War and Revolution” (Terry Boswell and Frank Lechner)

· Honors Program Continues to Shine

· Facilitating Data Sharing (Josefina J. Card)

· Deaths: Joel Cantor

· Obituaries: Robert E. Corley, David L. Dodge, Milton Rokeach, Muzafer Sherif

· Section Reports

Footnotes

February 1989 (Volume 17, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· 1989 Annual Meeting: What Ever Happened to the Haight-Asbury? (Sherri Cavan)

· Sociology and the Humanities Closing the Gap (Joseph R. Gusfield)

· No Petition Candidates for ASA Election

· 1989 Annual Meeting: Plenaries and Thematics

· Increasing the Pool of Reviewers for ASA Journals

· Thanks to ASA Members Responding to Survey

· Long-Term Care Group Insurance Available

· Plagiarism Case Documented (Foon plagiarized Wilson)

· Association for the Sociology of Religion Turns 50

· ASA Panel on Federal Employment

· Mary Fennell New JHSB Editor

· Chairs of Graduate Departments: Where Do They Come From? (Thomas Van Valey and Kathleen A. Tiemann)

· ISA Competition for Young Sociologists

· Stephen J. Morewitz Founds Litigation Firm

· NIAAA Funds Sociologists, Seeks Proposals on Alcohol and AIDS

· ASA Holds Workshop on Teaching About the Sociology of Family Crises

· What Do Our Introductory Sociology Students Know? (Richard F. Tomasson)

· Teaching: Teaching, Internships, and Employment: An Opportunity for Humane Social Change (Richard Salem and Charles S. Green III)

· ASA Holds Writing Skills Workshop

· Rich Survey Data Available from ICPSR

· Open Forum: “A Request for Clarification” (on the Levi Kamel story; Thomas Ford Hoult); “The High Cost of Meeting” (Julie M. Gricar and Erich Hirsch); “Activity in the Park Service” (William H. Key)

· Jonathan R. Cole Named New Provost at Columbia University

· Section Reports

· Deaths: Ozzie G. Simmons, Donald Campion, Ann Davis

· Obituaries: David B. Carpenter, Morriz Janowitz, Walter Cade Reckless

Footnotes

March 1989 (Volume 17, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· 1989 Annual Meeting: Tenderloin Mosaic (Sherri Cavan)

· Examination for ASA Certification at the MA Level Available at 1989 Annual Meeting (Herbert L. Costner)

· Observing: Reviewing the ASA Budget (William D’Antonio)

· ASA Council Adopts Revised Code of Ethics (Barbara Walters Altizer)

· SWS Names Maxine Baca Zinn 1989 Miller Lecturer

· Candidates for ASA President, Vice President

· Online Searches as a Data Source (Michael A. Faia)

· NSF Sociology Program: New Initiatives, Cautious Optimism (about Robert Althauser and Phyllis Moen; by Carla B. Howery)

· Section on Sociology of Education Needs Teaching Ideas for Curriculum Guide

· Open Forum: “A Call to Read the Original Sorokin and Sumner” (Alfred McClung Lee; “On the Confusion of Social Justice and Social Reality” (Reece McGee); “The Possibility of a Rational Discourse in Sociology?” (Pierre L. van den Berghe); “Overcoming Gender Bias” (Graves E. Enck and James D. Preston); “Investigating Equality of Opportunity in Ulster” (Robert L. Miller); “Asking the Right Questions” (Monica B. Morris); “Complexity of an American’s Experience in South Africa” (Michael J. Pravetz); “Response to Pravetz” (David O. Friedrichs)

· AIDS, Gay Men, and Their (Invisible) Sociology (Stephen O. Murray)

· More ASA Contributors

· ASA/NSF Small Grant Awards

· NSF Seeks Information on How NSF Grants Contributed to Non-Academic Activities (Roberta Balstad Miller)

· Obituaries: Jess M. Carrillo, Anne E. Davis, Ozzie G. Simmons

· Committee Reports

Footnotes

April 1989 (Volume 17, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· 1989 Annual Meeting: The Castro in Transition (Kay Tiblier)

· Alice S. Rossi Wins Common Wealth Award

· Inside the ASA Budget: The Annual Meeting (Janet L. Astner)

· Observing: Bits ‘n Pieces (William D’Antonio)

· Sociologists Working in Israel: “Building Sociology and a New State: Sociologists at Work in Israel” (Shulamit Reinharz); “Inside the Peacekeeping Forces” (David R. Segal); “Organizational Consulting in Israel” (Bruce Alan Phillips)

· Deaths: John F. Cuber

· Obituaries: Marie Ann Bandl

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

· Editors’ Reports

· Minutes from the January 26, 1989, meeting of the 1988-89 ASA Council

Footnotes

May 1989 (Volume 17, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· 1989 Annual Meeting: Berkeley: Updating the Image(s) (E. Barbara Phillips)

· Robert Dentler New Editor of SPR

· ASA Award Winners Announced

· Clifford Clogg Editor of JASA

· Observing: International Linkages and Jobs at Home (William D’Antonio)

· David Featherman is New SSRC President

· Linda Aiken Wins Sociological Practice Section Award

· Participate in the POD Grant Program (Richard H. Hall)

· Washington University Department of Sociology to Close

· AAC project on the Sociology Major

· Is There a Future for the ASA Child Care Program? (Jen L. Suter)

· Richard Irish to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic

· Good Ideas

· Enjoy a Laugh with SWS

· ASA in San Francisco: All About the 1989 Annual Meeting

· Open Forum: “Humanities and Social Sciences Link to Inform Policy” (Robert P. Wolensky); “Which Came First?” (Richard F. Tomasson); “Cultural Literacy, Indeed?!” (Naomi Rosenthal); “A Response to Coleman” (John C. Leggett); “Coleman Was Right” (Chester L. Hunt); “More on Coleman” (Alfred McClung Lee)

· Inside the ASA Budget: Minority Fellowship Program (Lionel Maldonado)

· Deaths: Arthur Seeger, Robert Clay, Robert W. Hodge

Footnotes

August 1989 (Volume 17, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.1 MB)

· Stanley Lieberson Elected ASA President; Barbara Reskin is Vice President

· 1989 Annual Meeting: Art, Food, and Politics in the City by the Bay (Sherri Cavan)

· Common Wealth Award: Alice Rossi on Love and Work

· Executive Officer’s Report: Sociology on the Move (William D’Antonio)

· 1989 Audit: ASA Budget Shows Small Surplus

· Inside 1722: Sharon Gray—ASA’s Institutional Memory

· Late Breaking News About the 1989 Annual Meeting, including “The Accessibility of ASA Meetings: A Progress Report to the Membership” (R. Greg Emerton, Chair, ASA Committee on Society and Persons with Disabilities)

· Media Beat: David and Goliath in Media Relations (Carla B. Howery)

· Federal Job Description Available

· SWS Enbraces Unity and Diversity (Carla B. Howery)

· Give an ASA Gift Membership

· ASA Goes Electronic: ASA’s New Fax Number and Bitnet Address

· Adeline Levine Receives Honorary Degree from Beaver College

· Deaths: George C. Homans, G.W. Levi Kamel, Richard Troiden

· Obituaries: John F. Cuber, Robert W. Hodge, Alfred W. Jones, Magdalena Sokolowska, Frederic W. Terrien, Helmut R. Wagner

Footnotes

September 1989 (Volume 17, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.2 MB)

· Future Organizational Trends of the ASA (a report of the ASA Ad Hoc Committee on ASA Future Organizational Trends)

· 1990 Call for Papers: Regular Session Topics and Organizers for 1990 Annual Meeting

· Washington University’s Sociology Department: An Update

· NSF Fellowships Valuable to Scholars and Institutions (Edward Murguia)

· Urgent Need for Sociology Departments to Encourage NSF Graduate and Minority Fellowship Applications

· NSF Celebrates 25,000^th Fellowship (Robert Althauser)

· Teaching Workshop on Teaching About Substance Abuse and Prevention Efforts

· Engineers Confer with Sociologists on Technological Change

· Plagiarism Discovered; ASA Takes Action (by Stephen A. Buff; about Jerri Husch’s dissertation being plagiarized in Mellen Press’s book by Stephen H. Barnes)

· COPAFS: Confronting the Challenges (Katherine Wallman)

· NRC Committee Releases AIDS Report

· Revised Code of Ethics Applies to All Sociologists’ Work Settings (Ruth L. Love)

· American Sociological Foundation: Doing Well and Doing Good (James F. Short)

· Durkheim Studies Moves to Illinois

· Doris Wilkinson’s Odyssey Back In Time (Susan Frensilli)

· Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Receives 1988 Balzan Prize

· Section Reports

Footnotes

October 1989 (Volume 17, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Major ASA Awards Given in San Francisco: Jessie Bernard, Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship; David L. Sills, Award for a Distinguished Career in the Practice of Sociology; James A. Davis, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Charles Tilly, Award for a Distinguished Scholarly Publication; Samuel Cohn and Joan Robinson Acker, Jessie Bernard Award

· Gerald Marwell to Edit ASR

· Observing: Reflections on the 1989 Annual Meeting in San Francisco (William D’Antonio)

· William D’Antonio to Retire; Search for New Executive Officer Begun

· Eight Receive ASA/NSF Small Grant Awards; New Proposals Due

· Annual Review Discount Increased

· Profile of the President: William Julius Wilson: A Bold and Sober Intellect (Katherine O’Sullivan See)

· Section Award Winners Honored at 1989 Annual Meeting

· 1990 Guide Listings Due

· Dues Renewals in the Mail

· President’s Report: Events of the Passing Year in Retrospect (Joan Huber)

· Honors Program Joins ASA; Seeks Director for 1990

· IIS-ISA and Oaths Opposing Apartheid: “On Promoting Open Exchange of Scholarly Work” (Edgar F. Borgatta); “Apartheid in Focus” (Else Oyen); “A View on ISA and World Politics” (Margaret Archer); “Rejoinder” (Edgar Borgatta)

· Deaths: Stefann Nowak, Hugh Anderson Johnson, Priscilla Kiehnle Warner

· Obituaries: Albert E. Chabot, Douglas Ensminger, Harold Finestone, Mark Lefton, John E. Owen, Edgar Tristam Thompson, Richard R. Troiden

Footnotes

November 1989 (Volume 17, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· MFP Initiates Undergraduate Component

· Alan Sica to Edit Sociological Theory

· Dean Dorn to Edit Teaching Sociology

· Candidates for ASA President and Vice President

· Observing: Positive News in Sociology (William D’Antonio)

· Inside 1722: “Dr. D’Antonio’s Office”—Juanita Hampton

· ASA Area Representatives and Coordinators

· ASA Now has TDD Machine

· The Rebuilding of Sociology in the Soviet Union: “Soviet Sociology Today: Possibilities for Cooperation” (Louise Shelley); “Lecturing in the U.S.SR” (Harvey Molotch); “The Face, and Pace, of Change in the Soviet Union” (Michael Swafford)

· Travel Awards for 1990 ISA Meeting

· More Section Award Winners from Annual Meeting

· ASA Teaching Services Program: New Products, Workshops, Submissions Sought

· ASA Contributors

· Ask ASA

· Sociologists Honored with Awards: Richard Tessler and Bernice Pescosolido Receive NIMH Awards; Vern Bengtson Receives MERIT Award; Jacqueline Wiseman Receives SSSI Award

· 1990 Annual Meeting: Update on Program Sessions; Space for Other Groups

· Suggestions Solicited for 1991 Annual Meeting Program

· Coming in 1990: Sociological Practice Review

· Subcommission on Women in East Germany, U.S.

· Deaths: Wolfram Eberhard, Stanley Grupp, Robert Laufer

· Obituaries: Hanan C. Selvin

· Minutes from the August 12, 1989, meeting of 1988-89 ASA Council

Footnotes

December 1989 (Volume 17, Number 10) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Candidates Announced for 1990 Elections

· ASA Successful in Pursuing Plagiarism Case (on Husch/Mellen)

· White House Science Advisor (D. Allan Bromley) “Speaks” to COSSA

· Observing: Advocacy for a Diverse Clientele (William D’Antonio)

· Inside 1722: “Sections Are Where It’s At”—Caroline Bugno

· New Organization for Chairs of PhD Departments

· Sociologists Receive Awards: Joseph Kasof Wins ASA Social Psychology Section Award; Thelma McCormack Receives Honorary Degree from Mount Saint Vincent University; H. Laurence Ross Wins Widmark Prize; Paul Dimaggio, Gary Hamilton, and Theda Skocpol Win Guggenheims; Gary Marx to Give Jensen Lecturer

· ASA Staff Attend Other Meetings

· Summer School and Sociological Theory: Dead Head Sociology and Canoeing Toward Utopia (Carla B. Howery)

· Sociologists Keep Pressure on Washington University Administration

· Short Takes

· MFP Announces 1989-90 Fellows

· Update on MFP Funding

· The Evaluation of Sociology Journals by Political Scientists (David Jacobs); journal rankings

· 1990 Regional Meeting Schedule

· Open Forum: “More on Sociology in Israel” (Stanley Cohen); “A View on Arab Palestine” (Hassan Elnajjar)

· Who Are You Going to Call? TRG! (Teaching Resources Group)

· Deaths: Robert David

· Obituaries: Wayman J. (Bud) Crow, Wolfram Everhard, Robert S. Laufer, Forrest E. LaViolette, Stefan Nowak, George Simpson, Priscilla Kiehnle Warner

· Minutes of August 13, 1989, meeting of 1989-90 ASA Council

Footnotes

January 1990 (Volume 18, Number 1) (pdf file; 3.8 MB)

· Observing: In Memorium (on the sociologists murdered in El Salvador; William D’Antonio)

· Nominations Requested for 1991 ASA Awards

· Rosabeth Moss Kanter Appointed Editor of Harvard Business Review

· Minority Roster Project Begins

· Open Forum: “We Should be Able to Move Easily Between Teaching and Practice” (Henry H. Brownstein); “Focusing Again on Open Scholarly Exchange” (Paolo Ammassari)

· Inside the ASA Budget: Publications (Karen Gray Edwards)

· Support for Independent Scholars

· Independent Scholars Needed for Research Project

· Center for Research on Women is a Goldmine (Carla B. Howery)

· Emeritus Member Criteria Changed

· Clyda Rent is New President of Mississippi University for Women (Carla B. Howery)

· Southern Sociological Society Clearinghouse for Hate Crimes

· Scholarly Exchanges Between Hungary and the U.S. (Anthony Obershall)

· Agenda Proposed for Arctic Social Sciences

· Eastern European Cities in Comparative Perspective

· The Development of Sociology in New Zealand (Paul Spooney)

· Sociologists Study Food and Society

· Good Ideas

· Open Forum: “How Was Plagiarism Overlooked?” (Ben Agger); “Rejoinder on Foon Plagiarism Case”; “Is ASA Committed to Sociological Practice?” (David J. Kallen); “The Voting Rights of Student Members” (Donald Davis, Melvin F. Hall, Kari Lerum, Mark Meyerson and 36 other students); “Technology Is Too Important to be Left to the Engineers” (Ruth Love); “Steve Buff Replies” (Stephen A. Buff); “Unethical Publishers: Why Not Do Something About Them?” (Anne-Marie Ambert)

· Pre-Publication Discount on 1990 Biographical Directory of Members

· China’s Long Hot Summer (Peter M. Nardi)

· Nancy Tuma Returns from China

· Fiske on Departments of Sociology (Richard A. Wright)

· Authors and Networks: Gender in Sociological Journal Articles (Maren Lockwood Carden)

· Review Copies of College Texts Can be Returned Painlessly

· Short Takes

· AAP’s Education Division Statement on Principles for College Publishing

· Teaching: Merit Pay and Assessment of Teaching: A Procedure for Peer Evaluation in Multidisplinary Unites (Keith A. Roberts)

· Small World: Fulbright Scholars Visit U.S.

· Joseph L. Tropea Runs Capital Market Workshops for Poles

· New in 1990: Sociological Practice Review

· Travel Awards for 1990 ISA Meetings

· New TRC Resource: Training Teaching Assistants

· Funding Opportunities and Awards for Sociologists: NSF, NICHD, NIMH

· Obituaries: C. Norman Alexander

· Section on Sociology of Aging Introduces Series of Research Committees

Footnotes

February 1990 (Volume 18, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Mirra Komarovsky Receives Common Wealth Award

· 1991 Annual Meeting Theme: “The World of Ethnic Relations” (Stanley Lieberson)

· 1990 Petition Candidates Announced

· Observing: Monitoring Ourselves: The ASA Election Process; Considering Accreditation (William D’Antonio)

· Inside 1722: Maru Corrado—“Here’s what I’m doing with a BA a Sociology”

· John Hagan Wins Criminology Award

· A Peace Movement Has Emerged Against the War on Drugs (Craig Reinarman, Harry Gene Levine)

· The the Editor: Peter Rossi Apologizes (Peter H. Rossi)

· Teaching: Making the Evaluation Process More Credible (Carla B. Howery)

· New Research Institute Named to Honor Sociology (on Julian Samora; by Susan Frensilli)

· Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: J. Richard Udry Receives MERIT Award; Arlene Kaplan Daniels Named Miller Lecturer; Pastore Honored by University of Wisconsin

· Open Forum: “Publishing Vote Totals: A Loss for Democracy” (Bernardt Lieberman)

· AAAS Program Takes Journals to African Researchers

· ASF Receives First Will Bequest from Hanan C. Selvin’s Estate

· ASA Committees and Representatives

· IIS 29^th International Congress in Rome

· Increasing Committee Participation by Members Employed at Two- and Four-Year Institutions and Practitioners

· Transaction to Reissue Social Psychology Volume

· The Trouble with Feminist Theory (Michael A. Faia)

· New UCLA Training Program on AIDS

· Good Ideas

· Departmental Services Program in Third Year

· ASA Contributors

· Deaths: Mary Moynihan Dolan

· Obituaries: Michael Eugene Choukas, Dwight Dean, Richard J. Hill

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports

Footnotes

March 1990 (Volume 18, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Population Association of American Moves to ASA Office

· Council Briefs

· Attention: Overseas Members

· Friends of Sociology at Washington University

· Observing: An Action Packed Council Meeting

· Candidates for ASA President, Vice President

· A Briefing on the Census (Harvey M. Choldin)

· David Bills to Lead ASA Honors Program

· Subcommittee Reviews Sociology of Education (Susan Frensilli)

· Open Forum: “Keeping the Focus on Apartheid” (Else Oyen)

· Zelda Gamson Directs New Resource Center for Educators

· MFP Receives Grant from Leo Chall

· Charles Chakerian Establishes Research Fund at Yale

· Medical Sociology Section Honors Samuel Bloom

· Call for Examples of Research with Grass Roots Groups

· Short Takes

· Deaths: Richard J. Hill

· Obituaries: Robert L. David, Segundo Montes

· Section Reports

· Committee Reports

· Representative Reports

Footnotes

April 1990 (Volume 18, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· Washington University Update—A Close Vote: Faculty Almost Overturns Dean’s Decision

· Sociological Practice Review Soon to Make Its Debut!

· Contribute to Child Care! Remember the Voluntary Contribution on the Annual Meeting Registration Form

· Capitol Steps to Perform at Annual Meeting

· Please Contact the ASA: On Insurance, On Teaching

· Observing: The ASA Budget: Direct and Indirect Costs (William D’Antonio)

· Marie Haug Honored at Case Western Reserve University

· New Teaching Resource: The Internship Handbook

· SSSI Holds Symposium on Subjectivity (Carolyn Ellis and Michael Flaherty)

· Open Forum: “Tenure Decisions and Equal Employment: An Opportunity for Research” (Paul Burstein)

· The Multifaceted Career of a “Retired” Sociologist (Donald P. Irish)

· Visiting Germany: Impressions of a German Expatriot (Joachim Savelsburg)

· IPFW Makes Links with Poland

· Practice Beat: On the Transition from the Academy to a Career in Business (Kenneth R. Donow)

· Minutes from January 19, 1990, meeting of the 1989-90 ASA Council

· Editors’ Reports

Footnotes

May 1990 (Volume 18, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.3 MB)

· 1990 Annual Meeting: Beyond Your High School Class Trip to Washington

· Major ASA Award Winners Announced

· Minority Opportunity Summer Training Launched

· STEP Awards Cancelled

· Set Sail for the Teaching Endowment Fund

· Observing: More Bits and Pieces (William D’Antonio)

· Inside the ASA Budget: The Teaching Services Program (Carla B. Howery)

· Inside 1722: The Busy Business Office—Cassandra Twardowsky and Barbara Bouquet

· Teaching: Teaching the Lessons of the Vietnam War (Carla B. Howery)

· ASF/NSF Grants; New Deadline Nears

· Update on ASA Insurance Programs

· The Student Sociologist Reaches Undergraduates

· Help Cover ASA’s Printing Costs (Voluntary Page Charges)

· Honors Program Wants a Few Good Students

· ASA in Washington, DC: All About the 1990 Annual Meeting

· Open Forum: “Are We Part of the Problem?” (Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.); “To ASA Members” (Nikolay A. Smodlev); “A Structuralist’s View” (George A. Hillary; a poem written for his introductory sociology students)

· Richard Irish to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic

· East Carolina University Honors D.D. Garrett

· Deaths: Bruno Bettleheim, John H. Staggers

· Obituaries: Stanley E. Grupp, Robert William Janes, Patricia L. Kendall, Belle Milton Sicurella, Hans Speier

· TSP Seeks Field Coordinator

Footnotes

August 1990 (Volume 18, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· James Coleman Elected President; Doris Wilkinson is Vice President

· ASA’s New Executive Officer: Felice J. Levine

· 1990 Annual Meeting: Adams-Morgan: A DC Neighborhood to Explore

· New ASA Phone System to Begin

· Executive Officer’s Report: Routine and Non-Routine Events Make a Busy Year (William D’Antonio)

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Late Breaking News

· Inside the ASA Budget: Sections (Carla B. Howery)

· Sociology at the National Science Foundation: A Bright Future (an interview with Murray A. Webster, Jr., and Gwendolyn L. Lewis; by Carla B. Howery)

· 1989 Audit: Surplus Strengthens Reserve

· Charles U. Smith Receives Washington State University Centennial Award

· Sociology Award to Honor Elbridge Sibley

· NSF Programs of Interest to Sociologists

· Celestino Fernandez is New Vice President at University of Arizona

· Deaths: Ralph David Abernathy, Donald J. Newman

· Obituaries: Howard D. Abramowitz, Marian MacNeil Deininger, Ras Mohun Halder, Elizabeth L. Mullins, Edward Strong, Harold Wildstein, Michelle Wimbley

Footnotes

September 1990 (Volume 18, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· Mirra Komarovsky on Family and Work (Common Wealth Award)

· AAC Report on the Undergraduate Major

· MFP Director Lionel Maldonado Leaves ASA

· ASA Begins New Phone System

· Minority Roster Ready for Use

· Profile of the President: Stanley Lieberson: No Shortage of Interesting Questions (Mary C. Waters)

· Soviet Sociologists and Students Speak on Capitol Hill (Stephen A. Buff)

· Universities Bestow Honors on Tatiana Zaslavskaya

· American Chemical Society Releases Data

· Daniel Monti: Working for Civil Rights by Linking Research to Politics (Carla B. Howery)

· Inside 1722: Everything You Ordered Is in the Mail—Don Stanley and David Matthews

· Center for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities

· Open Forum: “The Ethics of an Internship” (David C. Barrows); “On ‘Homophobia’” (Panos Bardis); “Czech Sociology Rebuilds” (Bohumil Geist); “Another View on Society in Israel” (Aaron Antonovsky); “Teaching Evaluated by Students” (Panos Bardis); “Rejoinder on Feminist Theory” (Roslyn Wallach Bologh); “Education and Evaluation” (Panos Bardis)

· Most Grad Students are Women

· Writing the Social Text: Anthropological, Literary Perspectives (Richard Brown)

· Gary Marx Presents Jensen Lectures

· Good Ideas

· 1991 Annual Meeting Call for Papers: Topics and Organizers Announced: Focus on Change in Regular Sessions

· Sex and Gender Directory Ready

· Special Issue of Teaching Sociology on Medical Sociology

· Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: Albert J. Reiss, Jr., New ICS President; Morris Rosenberg Honored by ESS; David L. Altheide Honored by Arizona State University

· Deaths: Lee C. Binhammer, Robert Bower

· Obituaries: Helen M. Feeney, Marianne A. (Tracey) Paget, Hubert O’Gorman

· Directory of Sociological Practitioners

Footnotes

October 1990 (Volume 18, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Major ASA Awards Presented at Annual Meeting: Robin M. Williams, Jr., Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee, Award for a Distinguished Career in the Practice of Sociology; Southwest Texas State University Sociology Program, Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch for Urban Fortunes, with special recognition to Kim Scheppele for Legal Secrets, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award; Vedat Milor, Dissertation Award; William Julius Wilson, Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award

· Observing: On Past and Future Annual Meetings (William D’Antonio)

· MFP Announces Fellows for 1990-91, Seeks Applications for 1991-92

· ASA/NSF Grants Awarded; New Deadline Nears

· ASA Contributors

· Open Forum: “What is Feminist Theory?” (Francesca M. Cancian)

· Section Award Winners Honored at Annual Meeting

· Deaths: John C. Belcher, Jr., St. Clair Drake

· Obituaries: Esther Lucile Brown

Footnotes

November 1990 (Volume 18, Number 9) (pdf file; 4.0 MB)

· Walter E. Massey Named New NSF Director

· Neil Smelser is Elected ISA Vice President

· Suggestions Solicited for 1992 Annual Meeting Program

· ASA Publications: Order through Boyd

· Observing: Should the Social Sciences Go On Their Own at NSF? (William D’Antonio)

· Inside the ASA Budget: The Professional Development Program (Stephen A. Buff)

· Minority Opportunity Summer Training (MOST) Has a Great First Program

· Secretary’s Report: The Work of the Executive Office and Budget Committee (Beth B. Hess)

· The “Quality” of Journals in Sociology Reconsidered: Objective Measurers of Journal Influence (Michael Patrick Allen)

· Jeffrey Alexander Receives Gold Shield Prize

· TRC Seeks Submissions, Announces New Products

· Harvard Business Review Wants You!

· Community Forum Discussion: What’s Next (Edna Bonacich)

· International Institute of Sociology Meeting to be Held in Kobe, Japan

· Sociologists Visit the World Bank

· James Blackwell Prize and Fellowship Established

· Lenore Weitzman Wins Harvard Teaching Award

· Lois DeFleur Appointed President of SUNY-Binghamton

· An Appeal to Sociologists All Over the World (about human rights in Eastern-Central Europe; by The Hungarian Sociological Association)

· NSF Seeks New Sociology Program Directors

· More Section Awards from the 1990 Annual Meeting

· Update on 1991 Annual Meeting Program Sessions

· Teaching: How Am I Teaching? (reprinted from Center for Teaching and Professional Development Newsletter, Sonoma State University, December 1989)

· Sociologists in Higher Administration: A Symposium Introduction (Riley E. Dunlap)

· Where the Jobs Are: Openings in Sociology Departments, 1984 to 1989

· Robert Groves New Census Associate Director

· Norman Goodman Honored by SUNY-Stony Brook

· Two Issues of Sociological Practice Review Now Available (Stephen A. Buff)

· Open Forum: “A View from the Left” (T.R. Young with rejoinder by ASA); “What Do We Mean by ‘Paradigm’?” (Wendell Bell); “On Undergraduate Program Accreditation” (Anthony J. Blasi); “Social Science for the 1990s: A New Synthesis of Qualitative Methods and Environmental Ethics” (Maurice A. Renard and Paul M. Baker); “More on ‘Homophobia’” (Joel I. Brodksy)

· Good Ideas

· International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Opens Moscow Office

· Deaths: Myra Elizabeth Mack Chang (assassinated in Guatemala City), Joanne R. Frankel

· Obituaries: C. Arnold Anderson, Robert T. Bower, Jack E. Dodson, Norbert Elias

Footnotes

December 1990 (Volume 18, Number 10) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Candidates Announced for 1991 ASA Election

· A Challenge and an Opportunity: ASF Fellowships (Matilda White Riley and James F. Short, Jr.)

· Observing: Cincinnati: More than the Reds and Mapplethorpe (William D’Antonio)

· Nominations Invited for Third Jensen Lectureship

· 1991 Regional Meeting Schedule

· ASA Departmental Services Program

· Status of Women Faculty in Graduate Departments: 1973 and 1988 (Leonard Beeghley and Debra Van Ausdale)

· Unique Barriers Women of Color Faculty Encounter (Denise Segura and K. Sue Jewell)

· The Graduate Commencement Address at Tulane University: Sociology’s Pomposity and Utility (James D. Wright)

· Sociology in the New York Times (William Silverman)

· California Sociological Association Holds First General Meeting

· Funding Opportunities and Awards for Sociologists: NSF, NICHD

· A Decade of the New Chinese Sociology (Ming Yan)

· Good Ideas

· ASA Campus Representatives

· AAAS Minority Scholars Workshop

· Obituaries: Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang, George Caspar Homans, Constant Jacquet, Gary M. Maranell, George D. McCune, Basil George Zimmer

· Minutes from August 14, 1990, meeting of 1989-90 ASA Council

Footnotes

January 1991 (Volume 19, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Update on El Salvador: Toward an Enduring Memorial (Stephen A. Buff)

· Peter Marsden: New Editor of Sociological Methodology (Joseph Galaskiewicz)

· The ASA Congressional Fellowship Program: Help Send a Sociologist to Washington (Raymond Russel, Congressional Fellowship Fund)

· Observing: BBS Task Force Recommends Separate Directorate for Social Sciences (William D’Antonio)

· Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (planning third annual meeting)

· Mental Illness Issues to Consider (excerpt of ASA Annual Meeting presentation by Dr. Lewis Judd)

· National Institute of Mental Health Grants (awarded 102 research grants)

· Nominations Requested for 1991 ASA Awards

· Highlighting the AAC Report on the Undergraduate Major: Sequencing Significant Legislation on Disabilities Issues (Carla B. Howery)

· Upcoming Teaching Workshops: “Teaching About Substance Abuse and Prevention Efforts”; “Teaching Critical Thinking Skills”

· ASA Honors Program (information and call for applications)

· University of California Santa Barbara Recieves Sun Microsystems Grant

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Cincinnati: A Drive-to as Well as a Fly-to City

· ASA Seeks Two New Staff Assistant Executive Officers

· Obituaries: Jerry Walker Combs, Jr., Sakari Sariola

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports, Representative Report; Committee Report

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February 1991 (Volume 19, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Robert K. Merton Professorship Established

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Appalachians in Cincinnati: “A Case Study in Ethnic Group Formation” (Philip J. Obermiller)

· Editors Sought for SPQ, Rose Series

· Observing: Membership and Dues Structure (William D’Antonio)

· Inside the ASA Budget: Association Governance (William H. Martineau and Caroline Bugno)

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner. Child Care Program Passed to Janet Onnie from Jen Suter

· Highlighting the AAC Report on the Sociology Major: Goals (Carla B. Howery)

· Teaching: “Making Letters of Reference More Meaningful About Teaching” (Carla B. Howery)

· Open Forum: “An Intellectual Aid Package for Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union?” (Charles Derber); “Is There Bias in ASR Article Selection?” (Thomas J. Scheff); “Spell it Right” (Thomas L. Van Valey)

· Toward a Sociology of Energy (Barbara C. Farhar)

· Sociology Informs an Electric Utility Industry Workshop

· 10 years of Research Support From NIA (Matilda White Riley)

· Which Campus Will Host MOST?

· ASA Seeks Two New Staff Assistant Executive Officers

· Louis Willie Takes a Backswing at Segregation

· Obituaries: John Cheslow Belcher, Jr., Albert “Steve” Foley, Vernon J. Parenton, Lloyd V. Temme

· Offical Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports

Footnotes

March 1991 (Volume 19, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Keyfitz Named 1991 Common Wealth Award Winner

· Powell to Edit Contemporary Sociology (Paul DiMaggio, Charles Perrow, Doug McAdam)

· 1991 Annual Meeting: New Sections in Formation: Alcohol and Drugs, Sociology of Mental Health, Latina/o Sociology

· Observing: War in the Gulf: A Challenge for the Social Sciences (William D’Antonio)

· Six Receive ASA/NSF Small Grants; Next Deadline Nears

· Student Membership Is the Future of ASA

· Council Briefs. Meeting in January 18-20, 1991

· Insurance and Credit Cards – Membership Benefits of Junk Mail?

· Student Voting Rights to be Voted Upon

· Making ASA Governance More Inclusive (Carla B. Howery)

· ASA Officers, Committee Members Serve the Profession: List of ASA Officers, Committees, and Official Representatives.

· Council Endorses the Seville Statement on Violence (Stephen A. Buff)

· Candidates for President, Vice-President, Secretary: Biographical sketches of the Candidates

· A Century of Sociology at Kansas (Alan Sica)

· IIS Congress to be Held in Kobe, Japan

· IIS Travel Arrangments for 1991 Meeting in Kobe, Japan

· Deaths: Edward P. Hutchinson

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the first meeting of the 1990-91 Council (August 15, 1990), Committee Reports, Representative Reports, Section Reports

Footnotes

April 1991 (Volume 19, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Lazarsfeld Award Made to Hubert M. Blalock

· Know the Land and the Life It Will Support (Daniel J. Ransohoff)

· Jeanne Ballantine Leads Teaching Services Program Field Office

· Observing: More Bits and Pieces (William D’Antonio)

· New Mental Health Section Forms

· Subcommittee Reviews the Rose Monograph Series (Karen Gray Edwards)

· SWS Holds Mid-Year Meeting

· Teaching: What I Learned on an NSF Panel (Carla B. Howery)

· ASA Teaching Resources Group Seeks New Members

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Didactic Seminars. Sessions prepared for the Annual Meeting by the 1991 Program Committee

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner. Cincinnati (Janet Onnie)

· Sociologists Receive Honors, Awards: Light Invited to British Institute Lecture Series; Glassman Named Princeton Fellow; Elder Wins NIMH and GSA Awards; Rent Honored by Florida State

· Career Expert to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic

· Academic Leadership: The Role of the Chair

· A Question of Academic Freedom in Japan (Jeffrey Broadbent)

· Mission, Future of the Association of Black Sociologists (Florence Bonner)

· First Meeting of Managing Editors Held in Albany

· Open Forum: “A Critique of the Seville Statement on Violence” (Robert M. Marsh); “Students Should Get to Vote” (Melvin F. Hall); “On Bias in ASR: A Reply to Scheff” (Gerald Maxwell); “Network Analysis on the Bulgarian Frontier” (Barry Wellman)

· Obituaries: Hubert M. (Tad) Blalock, Mary Driscoll, Edward P. Hutchinson, Arnold J. Levine

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports, Editors’ Reports, Committee Reports

Footnotes

May 1991 (Volume 19, Number 5) (pdf file; 3.5 MB)

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Visit Cincinnati . . . Rich History, a Vibrant Present

· Introducing ASA’s New Executive Officer: Felice Levine (Richard Lempert)

· Winners of Major ASA Awards Announced

· Observing: The Common Wealth Awards and COSSA (William D’ Antonio)

· All About the 1991 Annual Meeting in Cincinnati

· Subcommittee Reaffirms SPQ’s Importance and Quality (Karen Gray Edwards)

· Council Censures Mississippi State University: Letter to Donald W. Zacharias by Stanley Lieberson and William D’Antonio

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner. Child Care Program for the 1991 Annual Meeting (Janet Onnie)

· Salvaging Sociology’s Past (Stephen Turner)

· Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: Midway College Honors Doris Wilkinson; Francesca Cancian is 1991 Miller/SWS Lecturer; Brint and Karabel Honored for Landmark Study

· Government Sociologists Move Ahead with Network (Stephen A. Buff)

· Media Beat: Jerry M. Lewis analyzes media interviews regarding Kent State tragedy; Ed Kain participates in a game show in Hollywood

· Teaching: Socialization for Effective Teaching: Loyola’s Teaching Fellows Program (Carla B. Howery)

· ISA and Apartheid

· A Structural Solution to Scientific Fraud, Misconduct

· Consider a Student Prize from Your Department

· Deaths: Philip Whitney Blumstein

· Obituaries: Reinhard Bendix, Rita Braito, John C. Gessner, Benjamin J. Keeley, Alfred R. Lindesmith, Ulysses Santamaria

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports, Minutes of the second meeting of the 1990-91 Council (January 18, 1991)

Footnotes

August 1991 (Volume 19, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· Seymour Martin Lipset elected ASA President; Jill Quadagno Vice President; Arlene Daniels Secretary

· Two New ASA Professional Staff Begin in August: Janet Mancini Billson and Tahi Lani Mottl (Carla B. Howery)

· Executive Officer’s Report: Bidding a Fond Farewell to ASA and its Staff (William D’Antonio)

· 1990 ASA Audit

· Update on ASA Sections: New Section on Latina/o Sociology; New Sections Hold Meetings in Cincinnati

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Annual Meeting Section Update

· NORC Establishes Washington, DC, Office

· Survey of Senior Sociologists (James G. Hougland, Jr.)

· Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students

· Committee on Membership Constituency Survey #1: Racial and Ethnic Minority Members of ASA

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner. “Kidvention 91” (Janet Onnie)

· A Clarification on ASA’s Investment Policy

· Open Forum: “More on the Seville Statement: Three Views” (Jen Hlavaceck); “Why Are All ASA Managing Editors Women?” (Harold L. Orbach); “Winning the Peace” (Afif I. Tannous); “Preserve Sociology’s History” (Harold Orbach)

· Teaching: “The Backlash Against Democratic Education: The Illiberal Construction of Imaginary Enemies” (Becky Wangsgarrd Thompson)

· Inmates Graduate from Oklahoma Colleges

· The Sociology of Children: A New ASA Section? “Is There Sufficient Interest to Establish a Sociology of Children?” (Gertrud Lenzer)

· Matilda White Riley Honored: Rank of Meritorious Executive in the Senior Executive Service Conferred to Dr. Riley by the President of the United States

· Purdue University Honors Carolyn C. Perrucci: First Violet Hass Recognition Award given by the Council on the Status of Women at Purdue University

· Sociologists Named Wilson Fellows: Jonathan B. Imber, Jerzy Szacki, Dennis H. Wrong

· Highlighting the AAC Report: “Levels in Sequenced Major” (Carla B. Howery)

· On Raising Hopes on Raising Sociology: “ASA Membership in the 90’s and Beyond” (Stephen F. Steele)

· Open Forum: “A Response to Van Valey” (Glenn Firebaugh); “From the University of Central America” (Charles J. Bierne); “Czechoslovak Sociological Association News” (Miloslav Petrusek)

· ASA’s International Outreach

· Fulbright Winners

· Mechanic, Wilson Elected to National Academy of Sciences

· Late Breaking News About the 1991 Annual Meeting

· Robert Perrucci Named 1991 Distinguished Alumnus by Purdue University

· Deaths: Albert D’ Antonio, Jerzy Kosinski, Isabel Cary Lundberg, Allen R. Potter, John Shope

· Obituaries: Philip Whitney Blumstein, Esther Lucile Brown, W. Byron (Casey) Groves, Guy B. Johnson, Harald Pedersen, Norman Washburne

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Editor’s Reports

Footnotes

September 1991 (Volume 19, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· $750,000 Gift Awarded to ASA: “Cornerhouse Funds Spivack Program in Applied Social Research”

· Senate Action: “Social Science Triumphs in Congress After Setback on American Teenage Study”

· COSSA Action Alert

· Profile of the President: James S. Coleman: “Intellectual Energy and an Ambivalent Response” (Aage B. Sorensen)

· News from the 1991 Annual Meeting

· Matilda White Riley Named Senior Social Scientist at NIA (Katrina Johnson)

· Teaching: “Handling the Hordes: Teaching Large Classes” (Carla B. Howery)

· 1992 Call for Papers: Open Submission Topics and Organizers Announced for 1992 Annual Meeting

· AJS to Publish Special Issue: “New Research Links Medical Sociology to New Work in Medicine” (Donald W. Light)

· Gerald Marwell Appointed Ely Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

· An Idea Borrowed and Worth Thinking About (Irwin Deutscher)

· Sociology in the Former German Democratic Republic (Hildegard Nickel)

· ISA Working Group on Tourism Formed

· Global Damage from Oilfires: Image and Reality (Claire W. Gilbert)

· Deaths: Morris Forslund

· Obituaries: Rudolf Heberle, John Henry Shope, Robert G. Wegmann

Footnotes

October 1991 (Volume 19, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· Major ASA Awards Presented at 1991 Annual Meeting: Mira Komarovsky, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; The Systems of Professions by Andrew Abbott, Distinguished Publication Award; Charles G. Gomillion, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Recreating Motherhood by Barbara Kattz Rothman, Jessie Bernard Award; “Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany” by Rogers Brubaker , Dissertation Award; Nathan Keyfitz was introduced to receive the tribute of all sociologists gathered

· The Open Window: First Column as Executive Officer (Felice J. Levine)

· Secretary’s Report: “Another Very Good Year for ASA” (Beth B. Hess)

· Six Receive ASA/NSF Grants; New Deadline Nears

· Duke University Honors Contemporary Sociology and Robert Merton (Karen Gray Edwards)

· D’Antonio: “Thank You!” (William V. D’Antonio)

· An Interview with Robert K. Merton: “Knowledge Transcends National Boundaries” (Ming Yan)

· Minority Opportunity Summer Training Has a Great Second Program

· New Sites for MOST Program

· Quadagno Speaks to Florida State University Grads

· ASA Section Award Winners Honored in Cincinnati

· Deaths: Bruno M. Cormier, Leon L. Zikowski

· Obituaries: Morris A. Forslund, Ruth Ann Pitts, R. Welling Roskelley

Footnotes

November 1991 (Volume 19, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· NSF Creates Separate Directorate for Social Science

· Strengthening Sociology’s Position in the University (William Falk)

· ASA Council Acts on Resolutions in Cincinnati: “Lifting of HIV Entry Restrictions Endorsed”; “Military Policy on Gays Opposed”; “National Health Care Legislation Action” (Janet Mancini Billson)

· 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner: Kidvention ’91 a success. (Janet Onnie)

· The Open Window: National Science Foundation. (Felice J. Levine)

· ASA Committee on National Statistics

· Minority Fellowship Program Announces Fellows

· Greetings from the New MAP Director (Tahi Mottl)

· More Section Awards from the 1991 Annual Meeting

· Update on 1992 Annual Meeting Program Sessions

· Space for Other Activities Available at 1992 Annual Meeting

· Janet Mancini Billson on Transitions

· Open Forum: “More on the Seville Statement” (Sharon Linzey)

· Deaths: Sr. Mary Edward Healy

· Obituaries: E. (Edward) William Noland, Harvey L. Smith

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the 3rd meeting of the 1990-91 Council (August 26, 1991)

Footnotes

December 1991 (Volume 19, Number 10) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Candidates Announced for Offices, Council, Committees

· Julia Wrigley to Edit Sociology of Education (Edna Bonacich)

· Demystifying the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics (J. Michael Armer)

· The Open Window: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Support of Social Research on Adult and Adolescent Sexual Behavior (Felice J. Levine)

· Sociologists’ AIDS Network Update (Rose Weitz)

· The Sociology of Children: “A New ASA Section Progress Report” (Gertrude Lenzer)

· The ASA Honors Program: Strong at its 19^th Year (David Bills)

· Robert K. Merton Receives Award on 50^th Anniversary of Focused Interview (Albert E. Gollin)

· Sandra L. Hefforth to Give Jensen Lectures

· Recruitment and Retention of Women Sociologists (Helen Rose Ebaugh)

· Singout on Sociology (Mitchell A. Pravatiner)

· Membership Committee Initiatives for Graduate Students, Campus Reps

· Teachers for a Democratic Culture

· Global Research Opportunities for Sociology: “Funding Alert U.S.DA” (James J. Zuiches); “Global Perspectives on Sociolegal Studies”; “Human Dimensions of Global Change: A Research Opportunity”

· Sociology Around the World: “International Sociologists in U.S. Fulbright Programs”; “International Notes” (Linda Fuller)

· Textbook Publishers Okay Major Test of Comp Copy Return Mailers

· Expert Witnesses for ASA Clearinghouse

· Open Forum: “Self-Righteous Feminism and Political Correctness” (Eugene Rochberg-Halton); “Questioning Unearned Privileges” (Abraham S. Blumberg); “This Is a Debate” (John Sumser); “American Psycho Boycott Urged” (Joey Sprague); “Honors by Default?” (Mary F. Rogers); “The Lone Vote to Censure” (William Foote Whyte)

· Comparative Historical Section Award

· Obituaries: William R. Beer, Richard A. Schermerhorn, Harwin L. Voss

Footnotes

January 1992 (Volume 20, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.1 MB)

· Action Alert: “Congressional Directive on Sexual Behavior Research: Your Letters Are Needed Now!”

· Calling All ABDs: An Opportunity to Teach in Eastern Europe (Janet Mancini Billson)

· The American Sociologist – Revised and Resubmitted (interview with Richard H. Hall)

· The Open Window: Priorities for the Coming Year. (Felice J. Levine)

· Wisconsin Sociologists Successfully Challenge Restrictive Bill (Janet Mancini Billson)

· ASA State Licensing Monitor Program: An Opportunity to Serve (Janet Onnie)

Footnotes

February 1992 (Volume 20, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.4 MB)

· 1992 Annual Meeting: “Plan for Pittsburgh . . . A City for Living” (Tracey Modic)

· “ . . . Look Ahead to Miami: 1993 Annual Meeting Theme: Transition to Democracy” (Seymour Martin Lipset)

· The Open Window: National Research Council Public Forum. (Felice J. Levine)

· Open Forum: “Teachers for a Democratic Culture: Commentary and Apologies” (Dan McMurry, Paul Hollander, Carla B. Howery)

· Stanley Lieberson Honored with Endowed Chair at Harvard (Wendy Hanson)

· From Academia to the Market Place: “Sociologists in Business and Public Administration” (Lewis F. Carter)

· Some Reflections on Sociology’s Future in California (Charles Hohm)

· James E. Blackwell and Julian Samora Honored as Mentors

· Revising the ASA Code of Ethics

· Open Forum: “To the Editor” (Robert K. Merton); “Needed: Better Hiring Practices” (Ali-Akbar Mahdi); “To President James S. Coleman” (Donald F. Gildea)

· Sociology of Aging Distinguished Scholar Award

· Teaching: “Aging Course Promises and Delivers Time for Contemplation” (Donna Phillips)

· Focus Group Workshop to Precede 1992 Annual Meeting (Janet Mancini Billson)

· A Studious Retirement (Nancy Wick)

· New Graduate Program at Humboldt State University (Betsy Watson)

· Environment and Technology Award Winner – Kai Erikson (Allan Schnaiberg)

· The Invisibility of Sociology: The State of Our Discipline (William A. Pearman)

· Scientists Keep an Eye on Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) Reshuffle (Tina Adler)

· The “Lost Generation” and Other Concerns: The ASA Committee on Employment (Thomas Lyson)

· Deaths: Larry (Lucky) Baber, Nason Hall

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the first meeting of the 1991-92 Council (August 27, 1991)

Footnotes

March 1992 (Volume 20, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Marrett to Lead new Directorate at the National Science Foundation

· Spivack Program Launched with Briefing Papers (Carla B. Howery)

· 1992 Annual Meeting: “Plans for Pittsburgh: An American Renaissance” (Tracey Jill Modic)

· The Open Window: Sociology Department at Yale University. (Felice J. Levine)

· Walter W. Powell Wins the Max Weber Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Section on Organizations and Occupations

· Teaching: New Thrust in Defining Scholarly Work; Four New Sections in the Making (Carla B. Howery)

· Four New Sections in the Making: Alcohol and Drugs, Sociology of Children, Sociology of Law, Mental Health

· Open Forum (Andrew Abbott)

· Henry Etzkowitz and Mary Frank Fox Receive Major National Science Foundation Grant

· Candidates for ASA President, Vice-President: William A. Gamson, Charles Tilly (President-Elect); Barrie Thorne, Charles V. Willie (Vice President-Elect)

· The 1990 Census and the Politics of Apportionment (Patrick G. Feeney)

· International Institute of Sociology Meets in Kobe, Japan

· D’ Antonio Elected International Institute of Sociology President

· Four Receive American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Grants; June Deadline Nears

· Observations on the Passing of the Soviet Empire (Wayne Youngquist)

· Perestroika for Russian Health Care? (Donald W. Light)

· ASA Officers, Council, Committee Members

· Sociological Statement on War and Violence

· Deaths: Theodore Miles, Charles Page, Morris Rosenberg, A. Donald Williams

· Obituaries: Lucky Larry Baber

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports

Footnotes

April 1992 (Volume 20, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· 1992 Annual Meeting: “Pittsburgh: A Region in Structural Change” (Burkart Holzner)

· The Federal Network: A New Career Opportunity (Janet Mancini Billson)

· 1992 Congressional Fellowship: June 1 Deadline

· The Open Window: Program on Research on the Profession (Felice J. Levine)

· Council Briefs (Carla B. Howery)

· Council Passes Policy on Exhibits, Ads, Sales

· Special Funding Opportunities: National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Research Grants; NSF Graduate Research Traineeships; Human Dimensions of Global Change; American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Small Grants: June 15 Deadline

· Open Forum: “Do Not Cite?” (Barry Wellman)

· Teaching: Ethical Guidelines for Faculty (Carla B. Howery)

· Three Sociologists Are Council for Advencement and Support of Education Top Teachers (Wendy Hanson)

· North Carolina High School for Social Sciences (Carla B. Howery)

· Teaching: A World of Gestures (Carla B. Howery)

· Sociology of Children Section Approved (Gertrud Lenzer)

· Federal Government Ethics Standards: “To Lunch or Not to Lunch?”

· National Science Foundation Sociology Awards for 1991

· Charles Price Loomis’ “Festgabe” (Julius Rivera)

· Sociologists for Women in Society Holds Meeting on Social Policy (Carla B. Howery)

· Obituaries: Paolo Ammassari, Hope Tisdale Eldridge, Peter Wayne Falkman, Marjorie E. Fiske, Morris Rosenberg

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Committee Reports

· Deaths: Marshall Sklare, Hans Zeisel

Footnotes

May 1992 (Volume 20, Number 5) (pdf file; 3.8 MB)

· 1992 Annual Meeting: “Plan for Pittsburgh: The Pleasantries of Pittsburgh” (Charles F. Hanna)

· Winners of Major ASA Awards

· ASA Joins National Mental Health Leadership Forum

· The Open Window: International Sociology (Felice J. Levine)

· Sociologists Respond to Newsweek’s “Lonely Crowd”: “Sociology: An Idea Whose Time Has Come” (Earl Babbie); “Sociology’s Lonely Crowd – Indeed!” (William V. D’Antonio)

· University of Chicago Sociology Department Celebrates Centennial (William Harms)

· Dips in the Academic Job Market? (Janet Mancini Billson)

· Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: Lazarsfeld Award to Hans Zeisel (Clifford Clogg); Amy S. Hubbard Receives Student Paper Award (Elton Jackson); Aldrich Named Kenan Professor

· Hate Crimes Task Force Compiles Materials

· All About the 1992 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh!

· Teaching: Ethnic Diversity at Indiana University: A Tale of Eight Campuses (Barry V. Johnston)

· Writing Tips for Sociologists: Keeping It Simple (Karen Feinberg)

· MacArthur Travel Grants Approved for ASA Annual Meeting

· Social Science and the Challenge of Global Environmental Change (Roberta Balstad Miller)

· International News and Notes: The International Social Survey Program (Tom W. Smith); The Polish Sociological Association in Transition (Antoni Sulek); International Funding Opportunities (Laury Saligman); The Road to Acquafredda: An International Workshop on Academic-Industry Relations (Henry Etzkowitz)

· Open Forum: “When Promotion Goes Too Far” (Robert J. Stevenson); “Professional Ethics Revisited” (Barbara Walters Altizar)

· The Federal Bureau of Investigation and American Sociology (Mike Keen)

· 1992 Annual Meeting: Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh Offers Much for Students (Kathy Rowell)

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports; Section Reports; Council Minutes: Minutes of the second meeting of the 1991-92 Council (January 30, 1992)

· Deaths: Jay Artis, Carl Harter

· Obituaries: Mhyra Schway Minnis, Robert W. O’Brien, Marshall Sklare, Hans Ziesel

Footnotes

August 1992 (Volume 20, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· William A. Gamson Elected ASA President; Barrie Thorne is Vice President

· 1992 Annual Meeting: “Plans for Pittsburgh: The Many Faces of Religion in Pittsburgh” (Paula Kane)

· William Sims Bainbridge Appointed Sociology Program Director at National Science Foundation

· The Open Window: Executive Officer’s Report: The Challenges Ahead (Felice J. Levine)

· San Diego State University’s Sociology Department Faces Cuts (Carla B. Howery)

· Edward J. Lawler Succeeds Karen Cook as Social Psychology Quarterly Editor (Morris Zelditch, Jr.)

· Learning the Right Lessons From Yale (Kai Erikson)

· 1992 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner: Pittsburgh (Janet Onnie)

· SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation): Democratic Rights and Professional Risks (Penelope Canan)

· 1992 Annual Meeting: Pittsburgh’s Ethnic Heritage (Tracey Modic)

· Open Forum: “In Support of TDC and Freedom of Expression” (Peter M. Blau); “Sociologists Are in TDC” (Barbara J. Risman); “More on NAS and TDC” (Monroe Lerner); Putting It Into Perspective” (Martin Oppenheimer); Denouncing the NOW Boycott” (Ted G. Goertzel); “The State of Sociology” (John E. Glass); “Sociology’s Identity Crisis” (Jack Nusan Porter); “The Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Survey: A Supplement” (Florence Bonner); “The SWS Survey: Single-Issue Politics” (Jack P. Gibbs)

· Deaths: Fr. Paul H. Furfey, Marvin E. Olsen

· Obituaries: Jay W. Artis, Carl L. Harter, Helen MacGill Hughes, Alfred McClung Lee, Charles Hunt Page, Chester Levon Rash

Footnotes

September 1992 (Volume 20, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Profile of the ASA President: “Seymour Martin Lipset: The World Is His Oyster” (Mildred Schwartz)

· Catherine White Berheide New Congressional Fellow (Carla B. Howery)

· Update on San Diego State University (Carla B. Howery)

· The Open Window: Keep the American Sociological Foundation Congressional Fellowship Thriving (Felice J. Levine)

· Cora Marrett Organizes New Directorate

· Marta Tienda to Lead National Science Foundation Advisory Board

· Joan Huber Appointed Vice-President and Provost at Ohio State University (William Martineau)

· ASA Research Program Progresses (Carla B. Howery)

· Sociology at Tulane Celebrates 90^th Anniversary (James D. Wright)

· American Academy of Arts and Sciences Awards Prize to Daniel Bell

· Stephen Cole New Editor of Sociological Forum

· Riley E. Dunlap Named Gallup Fellow

· International News and Notes: Gender and Perestroika: A Personal Account (Barbara Risman); International Funding Opportunities (Laury Saligman); Sociology and Change in the Former U.S.SR (Michael Swafford); International Network on Personal Relationships (Steven Duck); Sociologists Respond to Call for International Teaching Opportunity (Janet Mancini Billson); International Institute of Sociology Centenary Congress at the Sorbonne (William V. D’Antonio); Suggestions for International Book Donations (S. “Meena” Meenakshy); News from Abroad About a Special Relationship (Vaneeta-marie D’Andrea)

· Sociologists Play Key Roles with U.S. Commisssion on Women in the Military (H. Lovell Smith)

· Massachusetts Sociological Association Becomes New England Sociological Association (Walter F. Carroll)

· Teaching: Think Science Education, Think NSF (National Science Foundation)! (Carla B. Howery)

· Phyllis Moen Named Director of New Life Course Institute of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University

· Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students (Departmental Prize for Outstanding Sociology Students)

· 1991 ASA Audit: Limited Resources, Good Financial Health

· Obituaries: Paul Hanly Furfey, Aaron Lipman, Marvin E. Olsen, Lee M. Wiggins, Jr.

Footnotes

October 1992 (Volume 20, Number 8) (pdf file; 4.7 MB)

· Major ASA Awards Presented at 1992 Annual Meeting: Daniel Bell, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Foundations of Social Theory by James S. Coleman, Distinguished Publication Award; Theodore C. Wagenaar, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Matilda White Riley and Elliot Liebow, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Andrew Billingsley, Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award; Elizabeth Mitchell, ASA Dissertation Award

· ASA Ceases Publication of Sociological Practice Review

· Suggestions Solicited for 1994 Program: “Theme: The Challenge of Democratic Participation”

· The Open Window: Enhancing the Stature of Sociology in the Academy (Felice J. Levine)

· San Diego Layoffs Rescinded (Carla B. Howery)

· Annual Meeting Tops Attendance Record

· Scenes from the 1992 Annual Meeting

· Report of the ASA Secretary: A Successful Stewardship for the Future (Beth B. Hess)

· Eight Receive ASA/NSF Grants; November Deadline Next

· Section Award Winners Honored at Annual Meeting

· Annual Meeting 1993 Call for Papers: Open Submission Topics, Section Organizers Announced

· Space for Other Activities at the 1993 Annual Meeting

· ASA Committee on the Freedom of Research and Teaching Confronts Barriers

· Nominations Invited for Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Theory Editors

· Which Campus Will Host Minority Opportunity Summer Training?

· Council Briefs

· Open Forum: “Gender Equality is Relevant” (Steve Derne); “SWS Questions Assess Inclusiveness” (Leonard Gordon)

· Deaths: M. Patricia Golden, Joseph S. Himes, Walter Jewell

· Obituaries: Nason E. Hall, William Maxwell McCord, John C. McKinney, Edmund Howell Volkart, Sister Frances Jerome Woods, CDP

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Representative Reports

Footnotes

November 1992 (Volume 20, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.5 MB)

· Commission to Study the Future of National Science Foundation (Carla B. Howery)

· Judith Blau to Edit ASA Rose Monograph Series (Howard E. Aldrich and Kent Redding)

· 1993 Annual Meeting: “Make it to Miami!” August 13-17, Fontainbleau Hilton; Theme: Transition to Democracy (Seymour Martin Lipset)

· The Open Window: ASA Speaks to National Science Foundation Commission (Felice J. Levine)

· Strengthening the State of Sociology on Campus: Creativity and Consensus: Building a Sociology Department (Mike Otten); Strengthening the Position of Sociology Within the University (Lois B. DeFleur); Some Virtues of Sociology (Herbert J. Gans); Temporaries in Sociology (Beth Hartung)

· GRE Scores and Graduate School Success (James L. Wood and Amy C. Wong)

· Writing Tips for Sociologists: Using Verbs to Add Strength (Karen Feinberg)

· International News and Notes: Resident Peoples and National Parks (Patrick C. West and Steven R. Brechin)

· The Job Market in Sociology (Dan Clawson and Kathleen Holmes)

· Resources for Teaching and Research at Sociometrics (Elinore Lurie)

· Hunter College Social Research Graduate Program in 20^th Year (Michael Wood)

· Senior Sociologists’ View of ASA (James G. Hougland, Jr. and Joyce M. Iutcovich)

· Minority Fellowship Program Announces Fellows for 1992-93

· Deaths: Louis M. Beck

· Obituaries: Ford W. Cleere, Joseph S. Himes, Edward E. McKenna, James A. Peterson, Nora K. Stewart

Footnotes

December 1992 (Volume 20, Number 10) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· 1993 Annual Meeting: “Miami: Crossroads of the Americas”

· Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees

· Deadline March 15: 1993 Congressional Fellowship

· ASA President Seynour Martin Lipset Part of Mandate for Change

· The Open Window: ASA Represented on Committee to Protect Children as Research Subjects (Felice J. Levine)

· Inside 1722: Sulakshana “Sulu” Ghoting Has Your (Membership) Number (Maru Corrada and Carla Howery)

· William Julius Wilson Elected Consortium of Social Science Association President

· Judy Auerbach Will Become Senior Program Officer with the Institute of Medicine’s Division of Biobehavioral Sciences and Mental Disorders of the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council

· Nominations Requested for 1994 Major ASA Awards

· International News and Notes: The East is Sociological (Clarence Y.H. Lo); The First European Conference of Sociology (Haldun Gulalp)

· Opportunities with the General Social Survey (Barbara Reskin)

· Open Forum: “Gibbs and Gordon Differ on SWS Questionnaire” (Jack P. Gibbs, Leonard Gordon)

· ASA Section News: Section on Law Invities New Members; Section on Latino/a Sociology (Julia E. Curry); Section on Rational Choice Begins Activities; Sociology of Children Section Interfaces with Other Groups (Gertrud Lenzer); Kathleen S. Crittenden Receives Mauksch Award (Henry Olsen); Herbert Gans Receives Lynd Award (Terry Nichols Clark); Susan Cott Watkins Wins Duncan Award (Douglas S. Massey); Section Awards—It’s Time to Nominate

· Award-Winning Teachers: Paul J. Baker Named Distinguished Professor; Keith Farrington Named Professor of the Year; Hal Charnofsky Honored by California State University System; Harriet Presser Honored by George Washington University

· Deaths: John P. Conrad, Howard E. Freeman, Charles Grigg, William Philips, Jr.

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes: Minutes of the Third Meeting of the 1991-92 Council (August 23, 1992); Minutes of the first meeting of the 1992-93 Council (August 24, 1992)

Footnotes

January 1993 (Volume 21, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· 1993 Annual Meeting: “Miami: Postmodern from Birth”

· Spivack Program Sponsors Work-Family Linkages Briefing (Paula Trubisky)

· Panel Releases Report on Future of the National Science Foundation

· The Open Window: The Children Are Our Future (Felice J. Levine)

· National Research Council Panel Looks at Understanding and Preventing Violence

· Update on San Diego State Defense Fund

· Students get the “MOST” Out of Summer at Michigan (Silvia Pedraza)

· Teaching: How Sociologists Are Grappling with Outcome Assessment: “Figuring Out the Assessment Landscape” (Mike Otten); “A Tale of Assessment” (Ardyth Stimson); “Assessment From the Beginning: A Case Study” (James A. Reynolds, Ronald A. Stevens)

· Sociologists Participate in Focus Group Training (Janet Mancini Billson)

· Working Group Conference on Feminist Organizations

· Jonathan Turner New Editor of Sociological Perspectives

· Open Forum: “Revisiting History: Hughes and Lee” (Irwin Deutscher); “A Department Under Threat?” (Peter V. Marsden); “Sociology at Harvard: Toward a Paradigm Shift” (Jack Nusan Porter); “Looking Forward to Miami” (Barry Wellman)

· Clusters (Robert R. Montgomery)

· Alleviating Professional Immobility in Sociology: Faculty Exchange as a Remedy (Richard M. Coughlin)

· Writing Tips: Noun Strings (Karen Feinberg)

· International News and Notes: UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Inter-Governmental Social Science Program (Ali Kazancigil); An Open Letter from the Institute of Socio-political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences (Gennadi Osipov); Higher Education, Feminist Style (Janet Mancini Billson)

· Deaths: Jacob G. Franz, James W. Longest

· Obituaries: Charles M. Grigg, Gordon Shipman, Charles B. Spaulding

Footnotes

February 1993 (Volume 21, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· 1993 Annual Meeting: The Long Shadow of Hurricane Andrew

· Search for New Sociological Theory Editor Continues

· March 15 Deadline: 1993 Congressional Fellowship

· The Open Window: ASA Resolution on Gays in the Military (Felice J. Levine)

· Florence Bonner Interim ASA Minority Affairs Program Director

· Roberta Balstad Miller Leaves National Science Foundation for Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

· Applications Invited for National Science Foundation Social Science Director

· ASA Seeks New Staff: Staff Sociologist/ Director of Minority Affairs

· Focus on Departments: A Discipline in Trouble: Why More Sociology Departments May be Closing Shortly (David M. Lynch, J. Richard McFerron, Lee H. Bowker, Ian A.C. Beckford)

· The “Lost Generation” of Sociologists (Thomas A. Lyson, Gregory D. Squires)

· Conferences Held on Issues of Sexual Harassment: “Sociologists Against Sexual Harassment” (Kristen Dowling); “A Two for One Media Opportunity: Scientists’ Institute for Public Information and ASA” (Wendy Hanson); “Second International Conference on Campus Sexual Assault” (Kristen Dowling)

· Open Forum: “Are There Floor Scores?” (Janet Saltzman Chafetz); “Graduate Record Examination Issues to Consider” (Ross M. Stolzenberg); “Throw Out the Graduate Record Examinations? Whoa!” (Sheldon G. Levy); “Use Graduate Record Examinations Appropriately” (Robert M. Hauser)

· Input Sought for Code of Ethics Revision

· International News and Notes: Parochial Content Reported in U.S. Undergraduate Sociology (J. Michael Armer)

· Caroline Hodges Persell Named as First Williams Lecturer by Eastern Sociological Society

· University of California-Berkeley Establishes Fellowship in Honor of Reinhard Bendix

· Deaths: Selden D. Bacon, David Caplovitz

· Obituaries: Frances Robbins Allen, James H. Barnett, William M. Phillips, Jr.

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Annual Reports

Footnotes

March 1993 (Volume 21, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.1 MB)

· ASA Sponsors Media Briefing on Family/ Medical Leave Act

· 1993 Annual Meeting: “Cuban Miami: No Passport Required”

· Petition Candidates Added to Ballot for ASA Elections

· The Open Window: ASA Meets With California State University Sysytem Sociology Department Chairs (Felice J. Levine)

· Council Briefs (Carla B. Howery)

· SSAs (State Sociological Association): A Strategic Link in Sociology’s Future (Marlynn L. May)

· State Societies Are Important Partners (Carla B. Howery)

· Focus on Departments: How Our Department’s Enrollment Grew by Over 400% in Three Years! (Henry W. Fischer III)

· Award Named for Professor Rozanne Brooks

· Candidates for ASA President, Vice President: Amitai Etzioni, Neil Joseph Smelser, Mayer N. Zald (President-Elect); Karen S. Cook, Richard (Dick) Scott (Vice President-Elect)

· San Diego State University Update: Contracts and Tenure (Charles F. Hohm)

· Professional Socialization and ASA Membership (Roberta Lessor)

· Steamship Quanza (Kristen Dowling)

· Can We Do Research Differently? A New Institute Says Yes

· Unconventional Medicine at the National Institute of Health

· Deaths: Rebecca A. Donovan, Leonard H. Jordan, Jr., Roberta Simmons

· Obituaries: Selden D. Bacon, Howard Freeman, M. Patricia Golden, J.W. Longest, Arthur Raymond Mangus, Helen Tibbitts

Footnotes

April 1993 (Volume 21, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.7 MB)

· 1993 Annual Meeting: “Miami: More Than Just a Pretty Face”

· Social Impact Assessment Workshop to Precede Annual Meeting (Janet Mancini Billson)

· ASA Congressional Fellowship Update (Catherine White Berheide)

· The Open Window: MOST: A Pipeline to Diversity in Sociology (Felice J. Levine)

· ASA Plans Briefing on AIDS

· Seven ASA/NSF (National Science Foundation) Grants Awarded

· International News and Notes: Uzbek Center for Sociological Research: Student Opportunties (Janet Mancini Billson)

· Walter L. Goldfrank Receives Grant to Study Chile’s Fruit Export Region

· Submissions Sought: ASA/NSF Small Grant Program

· Award-Winning Sociologists: Microcomputing Section Award (Robert Leik); Jean A. Dowdall President Elect of Simmons College

· Open Forum: “Are Our Troubles Unavoidable or Have We Brought Them on Ourselves” (Gerhard Lenski); “More on the Harvard Debate” (Bradley J. Buchner); “Parson’s Real Moral?” (Gaye Tuchman); The Census and Apportionment: An Update” (Pat Feeney)

· Teaching: Sociologists Become More Involved with Outcome Assessment (Carla B. Howery)

· Students Satisfied with Sociology BA as a Liberal Arts Degree (Steven E. Barkan)

· Mammoth Discovery Becomes Innovative Teaching Tool

· ASA Officers, Council, and Committee Members

· Deaths: Ralph G. Hurlin, Leo Lowenthal, Sophia Fagin McDowell

· Obituaries: Ely Chertok, Fred Davis

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the second meeting of the 1992-93 Council (January 22, 1993)

Footnotes

May 1993 (Volume 21, Number 5) (pdf file; 4.0 MB)

· 1993 Annual Meeting: “Black Miami: Searching for a Voice”

· Paula England to Edit American Sociological Review

· Peter Cookson is Selected ASA’s New Congressional Fellow

· Winners of Major ASA Awards: Joan R. Acker, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Jack Goldstone for Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Distinguished Publication Award; Grace M. Barnes, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, and Lynn Weber, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Patricia Hill Collins, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber, and Dorothy E. Smith, Jessie Bernard Award

· The Open Window: ASA Files Amicus Brief Protecting Confidential Research Information (Felice J. Levine)

· ASA Addresses Miami Boycott: Special Plenary on African American Employment in Miami

· Join in the 1993 Annual Meeting in Miami Beach

· Regional Campuses and Regional Scholars

· Partnering Departments: Building Identity Among Graduate Students (Janet Mancini Billson)

· Sociology and Real Estate: A Rewarding Combination (Rachelle Cummins)

· Michael T. Aiken New Univesity of Illinois Chancellor

· Open Forum: Responses to the “Lost Generation” and “A Discipline in Trouble”: “Looking for the ‘Lost Generation’ in All the Worng Places” (Ross Koppel); “Just How Lost Are We?” (Felica B. Le Clare); “Call for Rigor” (Pauline E. Council); “Introductory Sociology and a Revitalized Discipline” (Ted G. Goertzel); “Publishers Assault Quality Education in Campaign to Control Photocopy Coursepacks” (John Lofland); “The State Level Picture” (Alan Hill); “GRE Scores and Graduate School Success: A Response to the Commentaries” (James L. Wood, Amy C. Wong)

· International News and Notes: The Road to Bucharest: Science in Transition in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe (Henry Etzkowitz); Sociologists Teaching in Eastern Europe: “Frustration and Inspiration” (Dennis Layton)

· Inside 1722: Win-Win: When Interns Become Employees

· Three Centers Focus on Family and Gender Issues: A New and Distinguished Life Course Institute; Brandeis’ Family and Children’s Policy Center; Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality (Rachelle L. Cummins)

· State Licensing Program Welcomes New Monitors (Wendy Hanson)

· ASA Small Grants Program: Conference on the Meaning and Measurement of Gender

· Writing Tips: Active and Passive Verbs (Karen Feinberg)

· Interdisciplinary Working Group on Homicide Research

· Latest News from the Federal Network (Wendy Hanson)

· Bum Raps: Daydreams of a Weary Conferencer (Barry Wellman)

· Deaths: Brewton Berry, Kenneth Boulding, Joseph R. DeMartini, Martin P. Levine

· Obituaries: Sidney H. Aronson, Jann Adel Ackert Azumi, August F. Beatke, Blanche Greer, Ralph G. Hurlin, Olga Scarpetta

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports, Committee Reports, Representative Reports

Footnotes

August 1993 (Volume 21, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.0 MB)

· Amitai Etzioni Elected ASA President; Karen S. Cook is Vice President

· Ramom Torrecilha to Lead ASA Minority Affairs Program

· The Open Window: Sociology Graduate Student Jailed; Scholars’ Privilege Under Attack (Felice J. Levine)

· Spivack Program Sponsors AIDS Briefing, Violence Workshop

· Inside 1722: Mitch Edelstein Directs ASA Administration and Finance

· Funding Opportunities Day is August 14

· Boycott of Miami Settled with Gains for African-American Community (Carla B. Howery)

· National Science Foundation’s Sociology Program Encourages Submission of Grant Proposals (William Sims Bainbridge, Martin K. Whyte)

· Ronald J. Angel to Edit Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Norval D. Glenn)

· ASA Congressional Fellows: Peter Cookson Begins Congressional Fellowship on Education Issues; Catherine White Berheide on the ASA Congressional Fellowship (Catherine White Berheide)

· Sociologists Testify in Congress: William Julius Wilson Lobbies for National Science Foundation Funding for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE); Felice J. Levine Argues for Research Resources at Office of Justice Programs (OJP) of the Department of Justice

· Deaths: Judith Blake

· Obituaries: Brewton Berry, Tom Bottomore, David Caplovitz, Joe DeMartini, Roberta G. Simmons, Orry C. Walz

Footnotes

October 1993 (Volume 21, Number 7) (pdf file; 5.0 MB)

· ASA Award Winners Reflect Broad Spectrum of Sociology

· Richard Scarce Remains Jailed; ASA Council Advocates for Researcher’s Privilege

· Suggestions Solicited for 1995 Annual Meeting Program: Theme: “Community of Communities: Shaping Our Future”

· The Open Window: ASA Works in Coalition to Advance Social and Behavioral Sciences at the National Institute of Health (Felice J. Levine)

· 1993 Annual Meeting: We Made It to Miami! A Great Meeting and a Beach Too!

· Profile of the President: William A. Gamson: The Benefits of Serious Play (Meyer N. Zald)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: Theme: The Challenge of Democratic Participation

· ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Program – Apply by December 10

· ASA Section Awards Presented in Miami

· Open Forum: A Discipline in Trouble? Three Responses to Lynch et al.: “Midwest Sociologists Critique Deans’ Study” (Barbara Ryan); “A Response to Ryan et al.” (David M. Lynch, J. Richard McFerron, Lee H. Bowker, Ian A.C. Beckford); “Less Handwringing and More New Analysis” (Nathan Keyfitz)

· Deaths: Ruth Shonle Cavan, James C. Laue, John C. Osolnach

· Obituaries: Walter L. Baeumler, Leonard G. Benson, Patricia Ann Brewster Begin, Judith Blake, Alfred Hunter, Martin P. Levine, Mark Van de Vall

Footnotes

November 1993 (Volume 21, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.9 MB)

· Minority Opportunities through School Transformation (MOST II) Receives Funding form Ford Foundation (Ramon S. Torrecilha)

· February 1 Deadline: 1994 Congressional Fellowship

· Richard A. Scarce Released from Jail

· The Open Window: ASA Testifies to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on Social Dimensions of AIDS (Felice J. Levine)

· Section on Sociology of Religion in Formation

· Kathleen McKinney to Edit Teaching Sociology (Kathleen Tiemann)

· ASA/National Science Foundation Awards; Next Deadline December 10

· Good Ideas

· Minority Fellowship Program Dissertation Awards

· Teaching: How an Inexpensive Computer and Fax/Modem Can Improve or Facilitate Your Teaching and/or Research (William R. Aho)

· Mathematical Sociology Section to be Formed

· International News and Notes: Record Attendance at the 31^st Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (David Sciulli); Appeal to Libraries and Individuals; Italian-American Sociologists Participate in Pisa-Fenova Conference; Wanted: Books and Journals for Asia, China, Indochina, the Philippines, Mongolia and Other Countries; A World-Systems Electronic Conferencing Network: wsn

· New Caucus of South Asian Sociologists Forming

· Inside 1722: Valerie is Valuable

· Jeremiah Kaplan, The Free Press, and Post-War Sociology (Seymour Martin Lipset)

· ASA Congressional Fellow Update (Peter W. Cookson, Jr.)

· Pine Forge Press Forges a New Trend in Publishing (Carla B. Howery)

· Persian Gulf War Effects on Psychiatric Inpatients

· Deaths: Julien Freund

· Obituaries: Norman W. Bell, James Bennett, Paul J. Jehlik, James H. Laue, David Trevor Lewis

Footnotes

December 1993 (Volume 21, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· ASA Promotes Social Research at the National Institute of Health (Paula Trubisky)

· Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, and Committees

· Sociology Departments Sought for New Minority Opportunties through School Transformation (MOST) Program – February 4 deadline

· The Open Window: ASA Focuses on the Academy (Felice J. Levine)

· Social Scientists Gather to Discuss Genocide (Paula Trubisky)

· Award-Winning Sociologists: Matilda White Riley Presents Pepper Lecture; Andrew Cherlin Receives $1.5 Million National Institute for Health Award; Doris Y. Wilkinson Receives Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) Distinguished Scholar Award; Arlie Hochschild Receives Sloan Foundation Grant; ASA Nominee Joyce Ladner Selected for Jessie Bernard Wise Woman Award

· Sociology of Gambling? You Bet! (Carla B. Howery)

· Nominations Invited for 1995 Major ASA Awards

· International News and Notes: North American Chinese Sociologists Association (NACSA) Holds Conference on “Gender Issues In Chinese Societies”; International Sociological Association (ISA) Looks to Bielefeld

· Can We Talk? Bertice Berry Begins National TV Talk Show (Nina Alesci)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: Looking Ahead to Los Angeles ’94: Space for Other Activities at the 1994 Annual Meeting; Think Posters! (Beth Hess)

· 1993 Annual Meeting: More ASA Section Award Winners in Miami: Christian Suter Wins Political Economy of the World Sysytem (PEWS) Award (Philip McMichael); Gerald Suttles Wind Lynd Award (Ruth Horowitz)

· ASA Sections Invite Nominations for 1994 Awards

· Building an Applied Information Network (Janet M. Ruane)

· Faculty Writing Groups and Professional Development (Kathleen A. Tiemann)

· Minority Affairs Program News: Last Call for 1994 Minority Fellowship Program Competition; Minority Fellowship Program Dissertation Awards; Minority Fellowship Program Awardees

· Winner of Raffle Ticket Announced

· Writing Tips: Fad Words and Fuzzy Phrases (Karen Feinberg)

· Open Forum: “A Response to Lofland” (Harold Orlans); “Where Do Sociologists Come From?” (Robert J. Stevenson); “Recognition of Sociology: A Tale of Two Cities” (Dean Conley)

· Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students

· 1993 Honors Program Students Announced

· Deaths: Hans O. Mauksch

Footnotes

January 1994 (Volume 22, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· Felice J. Levine Meets with Chairs: Core Disciplines at Issue in Kentucky Universities

· Federal Science Policy Is the Theme for the 1993 Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) Annual Meeting

· ASA Department Affiliates Program: Forging a Partnership to Strengthen Sociology (Janet Mancini Billson)

· The Open Window: A Foot in the White House Door (Felice J. Levine)

· Secretary’s Report: 1993 Marked by Financial Stability, Programmatic Accomplishments (Arlene Kaplan Daniels)

· Lessons from Waco (Nancy T. Ammerman)

· ASA MOST Program Seeks Departmental Participation (Ramon S. Torrecilha)

· Neal Lane and Allan Kornberg Appointed to Key Positions at the National Science Foundation

· 1994 Annual Meeting: ASA Increases Attention on Accessabilty Issues: 1994 Annual Meeting Site Reviewed (Janet L. Astner)

· Teaching: Increased National Attention Focuses on Preparing Graduate Students to Teach (Carla B. Howery)

· ASA to Survey Members About Gay and Lesbian Issues

· United States Holocaust Institute

· Nominations Invited for the Jensen Lectureship

· Sociologists Receive Honors, Awards: Bill Darrow Receives 1993 Award for Sociological Practice; 1993 Cheryl Miller/Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Lecturer

· Sociology of Religion Seeks to Become a New ASA Section

· Open Forum: “A Bright Future for William and Mary” (Satoshi Ito); “Stealing Books and the Sociological Imagination” (N. Prabha Unnithan); “The Closing of Sociology Departments: Changing Our View, Not the Dean’s View” (Lynn Mulkey and John Wildeman); “Scorned” (Anonymous)

· 1992 Audit: ASA’s Stable Financial Future

· Writing Tips: Verb Tenses (Karen Feinberg)

· Obituaries: Henry A. Gordon, Hans O. Mauksh

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes of the 1992-93 Council Meeting (1993 ASA Annual Meeting)

Footnotes

February 1994 (Volume 22, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.4 MB)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: Los Angeles: The City With Zeal for Innovations (Harvey Molotch)

· The Open Window: ASA—Moving Forward for Sociology (Felice J. Levine)

· Two More Section Award Nominations Sought

· National Science Foundation Search: Law and Social Science Program Director

· ASA Regional Reps Sought

· An Analysis of General Interest Sociology Journals (Richard A. Wright)

· Deaths: Earl D.C. Brewer, Werner J. Cahnman, Leo Chall, James W. Gladden, Albert G. Hess, Mervin G. Smith, George J. Vlasak, John Wildeman

· Obituaries: Kenneth P. Wilkinson

Footnotes

March 1994 (Volume 22, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.8 MB)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: Re-Inventing the Multi-Racial and Multi-Ethnic City of the 21^st Century? (Melvin L. Oliver)

· Code of Professional Ethics Revision (John Kennedy, Barbara Melber)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: Documentary Visions of Los Angeles (Barrie Thorne)

· The Open Window: Academic Freedom and the Role of ASA (Felice J. Levine)

· On the Well-Being of Graduate Departments

· ASA MOST Program Seeks Host Sites for Summer 1995 (Ramon Torrecilha)

· New Opportunities for Sociologists in HIV/AIDS Prevention Planning (Paula Trubisky)

· Candidates for ASA President, Vice President, Secretary

· National Science Foundation Search: Sociology Program Director

· International News and Notes: On Sociology in Japan and Japanese Sociological Society; Russian Libraries and Archives Available by E-Mail (Carol Erickson); The Russian Businessman: His Leanings and Interests (Vladimir Gubernatorov)

· Professional Socialization for What? (David Yamane)

· Open Forum: “ASA’s Candidate Slate” (Barbara Katz Rothman); “Some Questions About Confidentiality” (Lee Clarke); “Funding for Sociology” (James L. Wood); “Full Papers in Advance? No.” (Henry J. Steadman); “Contemporary Sociology, New Editor or New Orientation?” (Guy Ankerl); “Can Sociologists Study Personality?” (Russell Eisenman)

· Obituaries: Benedict S. Alper, Ruth Shonle Cavan, Leo Chall, Marshall Jones, John Wildeman

· Official Reports and Proceedings: 1993-94 Council Minutes (no date listed)

Footnotes

April 1994 (Volume 22, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: Gay in Los Angeles (Peter M. Nardi)

· International Sociological Association Travel Grant Applications Due May 13: XIII World Congress of Sociology

· 1994 Annual Meeting Theme: Explaining and Preventing Genocide (William A. Gamson)

· The Open Window: Moving on to Move Forward: Core Programs Reorient the Executive Office (Felice J. Levine)

· News from the Minority Affairs Program: Bridging the Diversity Gap (Ramon S. Torrecilha)

· MOST Program Seeks Graduate Sites (Ramon S. Torrecilha)

· ASA Works to Protect School-Based Research

· Sociology and National Health Care Reform (Ronald Manderscheid)

· Council Briefs

· National Science Foundation Sociology Program Awards for Fiscal Year 1993

· Teaching: Preparing Graduate Students for Teaching in U.S. and Canadian Sociology Departments (Bernice A. Pescosolido and Melissa A. Milkie); Using a Computer to Improve Classroom Teaching and (Even) Meeting Presentations: A Footnote to Footnotes Article (William R. Aho)

· Neil J. Smelser and Wendy Baldwin Assume Key Posts: Smelser to Head Institute of Advanced Study; Baldwin Named National Institute of Health Deputy Director

· Six Receive Small Grant Awards; New Proposals Due

· Update on Scarce Case and the Scholar’s Privilege

· ASA Aids Sociology at California State University-Northridge

· Open Forum: “Support for the Nominations Process” (Denise D. Bielby, et. al.); “The Academic Demand for Sociologists” (Robert J. Stevenson)

· Research Program on the Discipline and Profession: Sociology Departments and Their Affinities

· Writing Tips: Enough of “That” (Karen Feinberg)

· Mady Wechsler Segal, Charles V. Willie Awarded Lectureships: Mady Wechsler Segal 1994 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lecturer on Women and Social Change; Charles Willie Named Eastern Sociological Society Williams Lecturer

· Environmental Newsletter Founded and Published by Sociologist (Nina Alesci)

· Inside 1722: Monica Joyi is a Special Addition to ASA

· Survey Shows Attendees Satisfied with 1993 ASA Annual Meeting

· ASA Seeks New Teaching Services Field Coordinator

· Deaths: Melvin Tumin

· Obituaries: Joseph H. Fichter, James W. Gladden, Phil Campbell

Footnotes

May 1994 (Volume 22, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.8 MB)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: The Production of Mass Culture (William Bielby and Denise Bielby)

· Winners of Major ASA Awards: Lewis A. Coser, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Reece McGee, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Nelson Foote, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Charles V. Willie, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award; Mitchell Duneier for his book Slim’s Table, Distinguished Scholarly Publication

· MOST Selects Undergraduate Departments

· The Open Window: The Challenge of Democratic Participation Here at Home (Felice J. Levine)

· Role of the Chair Workshop to Embrace Three Chair Meetings (Janet Mancini Billson)

· A New Means of Communication with ASA

· Don’t Miss the 1994 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles!

· 1994 Annual Meeting: A Different Kind of Business Meeting

· Craig Calhoun to Edit Sociological Theory (Michael D. Kennedy)

· Expert Witnessing: Memoirs of Beginner (Ann Goetting)

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes: 1994 Mid-Winter Council Meeting (January 28-30, 1994)

· Deaths: Lynn Atwater, George H. Gardner, Harry M. Johnson, A. Wade Smith

· Obituaries: Vailes Daka-Mulwanda, Reverend Joseph L. Kerrins, CSSR, Janet Lee Koenigsamen, J. Zvi Namenwirth, Alden Speare, Jr., Gordon G. Wallace, David M. Willems

Footnotes

Summer 1994 (Volume 22, Number 6) (pdf file; 4.2 MB)

· Maureen Hallinan Elected ASA President; Myra Marx Ferree is Vice-President; Teresa Sullivan Secretary

· Jill S. Quadagno Selected as ASA Congressional Fellow (Carla B. Howery)

· Revitalizing Public Education: Sociologists Speak Out (Paula Trubisky)

· The Open Window: Valuing Communication (Felice J. Levine)

· Bringing Sociology Back In: A “Little” Big Success Story (Janet Mancini Billson)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: Looking to Los Angeles ’94

· Funding Opportunities for Sociologists in Mental Health

· ASA Facilitates International Travel Grants for Sociologists (Janet Mancini Billson)

· International Scholars to Visit U.S. on Fulbrights

· Sociologists Receive Honors, Awards: Matilda White Riley Honored by National Academy of Sciences and Radcliffe College; Ronald Abeles Named Associate Director at the National Institute on Aging; Sheldon Steinhauser Receives Honorary Degree; Kathleen Blee Named Research Professor; James S. Coleman Honored by Polish Sociological Association; Theda Skocpol Book Selected by Phi Beta Kappa; Joane Nagel New Jensen Lecturer

· “Socumentaries” Prove Pictures Worth a Thousand Words (Nina L. Alesci)

· Joint Program in Survey Methodology Flourishes (Elizabeth E. Schuster)

· Writing Tips: “We met a man with a hairpiece named Melvin”; The Importance of Word Order (Karen Feinberg)

· Sociologists Help Rewrite Law on Whistleblowers

· American Association for the Advencement of Science and Georgia on My Mind (Phyllis Moen)

· Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students

· Society for Applied Sociology Annual Meeting Theme: Using Sociology Around the World

· Open Forum: “The Vision for Contemporary Sociology” (Craig Calhoun); “MOST II?: A View from the Trenches” (John Kinch); “A Code of Ethics for COPE” (Leonard Broom); “Many Sociologists Do Incorporate Personality Variables into Their Theories and Research” (Michael Klausner); “Cheap Shots at Minorities?” (Irwin Deutscher)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: An Opportunity to Innovate, Do “The Vision Thing” in Los Angeles (John Angle)

· A New Means of Communication with ASA

· 1993 Audit: ASA’s Solid Financial Picture

· Theorizing South Africa (S.M. Miller)

· Deaths: Daniel Levinson, Rabbi Samuel Teitelbaum

· Obituaries: Lynn Atwater, Marshall H. Becker, Patrick L. Biernacki, Rhoda Lois Blumberg, H. Paul Chalfant, George Henry Gardner, Harry M. Johnson, Leo Meltzer, Ralph Miliband, G. Peter Paulhe, A. Wade Smith

· Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

Footnotes

October 1994 (Volume 22, Number 7) (pdf file; 5.5 MB)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: ASA Major Award Winners Honored in Los Angeles

· 1994 Annual Meeting Highlights (Janet L. Astner)

· 1996 Annual Meeting Theme: “Social Change: Opportunities and Constraints”

· The Open Window: American Sociological Foundation: Building for the Future of Sociology (Felice J. Levine)

· Ann Petersen Appointed to Key National Science Foundation Post

· Profile of the President: Amitai Etzioni: The Active Sociologist (Richard M. Coughlin)

· Window on Washington: Clinton Officials Address Sociologists (Paula Trubisky); Institute of Medicine Urges Support of Social and Behavioral Science Research (Paula Trubisky)

· Robert K. Merton, William Julius Wilson Wilson Receive Awards: Merton Wins Medal of Science; W.J. Wilson Awarded Seidman Prize

· Immanuel Wallerstein Elected International Sociological Association President

· Adrian Raftery is New Editor of Sociological Methodology (Michael Hout)

· ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Proposals Due

· Amitai Etzioni Receives Honorary Degrees

· ASA Committee Focuses on Graduate Education (Carla B. Howery)

· The Sociology Graduate Record Examination: Problems and Prospects (Richard H. Hall)

· Two Sections Approved (Rational Choice and Sociology of Religion); One More in Formation (International Migration)

· 1994 Annual Meeting: Role of the Chair Workshop Tackles Questions at Annual Meeting (Janet Mancini Billson)

· The “Lost Generation” Survey: Preliminary Analysis of Qualitative Responses (Margot B. Kempers)

· ASA Sections Bestow Awards in Los Angeles

· Deaths: Carl Couch, Rose Laub Coser, Albert H. Hobbs, Elliott Liebow, Dick Lopata, Edward S. Weeks, Jr.

· Obituaries: Robert H. Barker, Robert Bugoslaw, Chester L. Hunt, Leo Kuper, Melvin M. Tumin, Leslie D. Zeleny

Footnotes

November 1994 (Volume 22, Number 8) (pdf file; 6.2 MB)

· Dan Clawson to Edit Contemporary Sociology (Naomi Gerstel and Robert Zussman)

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