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

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