Centennial Celebration

2005 marks the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. The 2005 Program Committee, chaired by President Duster, created a Subcommittee on the ASA Centennial consisting of Caroline Persell as chair, Troy Duster, Patricia Collins, Jill Quadagno, and Sally Hillsman. The subcommittee selected more than 20 sessions and videos specific to commemorating ASA’s centennial year.

Sessions

100 Years of American Sociology: A Theory Anthology
100 Years of Health Policy Research: A Retrospective Assessment of    Sociological Contributions
100 Years of Self and Identity Research
A Century of Applied and Clinical Sociology (co-sponsored with the Society    of Applied Sociology and the Sociological Practice Association)
A Century’s Worth of Sociology’s Contribution to the Study of Disablity
Assessing the Feminist Revolution: Gender Transformations in Sociology
Assessing the Scientific Basis of American Sociology: A Century of Knowledge    Claims
Comparative Perspectives on the Teaching of Sociology: A Century of    Transmission
Conventional Wisdom, Marginalizing Difference and Other Sociological Blind    Spots
Curricula of the Future: What Should Students of Sociology Be Learning?
Envisioning Public Sociology in the 21st Century
The Formation of American Sociology in International Context (co-sponsored    by the ASA Section on History of Sociology)
Formation of Intellectual Boundaries
From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Social Survey in American    Sociology
Knowledge Accumulation in Sociology
Landmark Sociological Studies: Delayed Pre-War Classics (co-sponsored by    the ASA Section on History of Sociology)
Large Data Resources in Sociology
Perspectives on Stigma and Mental Illness at the Centennial
The Rising and Ebbing of Sociology’s Significance in the United States (co-   sponsored by the ASA Section on History of Sociology)
Sociology Faces the Holocaust and Genocide
Three Decades of Social Change: Evidence from the General Social Survey    (GSS)
W.E.B. DuBois and Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Negro and Beyond (co-   sponsored by the ASA Section on History of Sociology)

Film/Video

100 Years of Progress: Presidential Reflections will be presented preceeding the opening plenary session on Friday, August 12, and in ASA’s centennial exhibit area. This documentary is based upon glimpses of sociological thought expressed by the respective presidents of the American Sociological Association from 1906 to the present.