(Date within brackets following some news items below is the date of the item's initial posting on the main homepage (www2.asanet.org) or the date of the item's last editing.)

» Research indicates that a school's integration level affects minorities' sense of injustice. Read press release. [7/8/05]

» ASA Action Alert . . .
Congressional amendment to NIH funding bill threatens research peer review process. [6/22/05, 7/6/05]

» Now Available . . .
The 2005 ASA Directory of Members, with more than 12,000 entries. Visit the ASA online bookstore to purchase a copy today. [6/22/05]

» ASA Congressional Briefing . . .
Sociologists doing research on social networks educate congressional audience about the useful applications of this work in epidemiology, public health, and counterterrorism efforts.[6/7/05]

» ASA Election Results . . .
With more grace and less acrimony than a U.S. presidential election, ASA's 2005 poll boasts a record number and proportion of eligible voters. Learn about upcoming ASA leadership. [6/15/05]

» Star Sociologist on Capitol Hill . . .
Waterman Awardee sociologist Dalton Conley will explain NSF-funded research to congressional audience at annual Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition. [6/14/05]

» Now Available Online . . .
Michael Burawoy's 2004 Public Sociology presidential address [166KB PDF] from February 2005 American Sociological Review. [5/3/05]

» American Sociological Review's February 2005 Patterson & Kaufman article [254KB PDF] is the topic of a May 1 New York Times op-ed and a BBC interview on popularity trends of cricket and the implications for international relations. [5/2/05]

» Now Available Online . . .
Contents of the April 2005 issue of Footnotes newsletter. Member login required. [4/18/05]

» Now Available . . .
The 2005 Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Visit the ASA online bookstore. [4/14/05]

» Now Available . . .
With back issues of ASA's Teaching Sociology now archived in JSTOR, this online journal database presently houses the full ASA journal back-issue collection. Member login required. [4/14/05]

» Call for Nominations . . .
NIH's inaugural Matilda White Riley Lecture honors ASA Past-President. [4/4/05]

» Be a Part of History . . .
Don't miss being listed in ASA's 2005 centennial edition of the Directory of Members. Renew by April 15 to ensure your name is in this historic document.

» America's health care delivery system and the social causes of its strengths and failings are examined in a Special Issue of ASA's Journal of Health and Social Behavior. See ASA press release. [3/23/05]

» The lead article in the Journal of the American Medical Association by sociologist R. Koppel examines information tech's contributions to medical error/efficiency, receiving extensive national media coverage. [3/18/05]

» View contents of the March 2005 Footnotes newsletter. [3/18/05]

» Sampson & Raudenbush were featured on National Public Radio's Morning Edition about their Social Psychology Quarterly research article on "broken windows." See ASA press release on perceived neighborhood disorder. [3/3/05]

» ASA Council makes case for social bases of gender differences in science careers; responds to public debate initiated by Harvard President. [2/28/05]

» ASA President Troy Duster addresses ground-breaking gene research in February 18 AAAS Science magazine (p. 1050), on National Public Radio and in Christian Science Monitor. [2/17/05, 3/3/05]

» Now Available . . .
Report on Status of Persons with Disabilities in Sociology (PDF, 242 KB). [2/10/05]

» Visit the new Task Force on Public Sociology website. [2/4/05]

» New ASA Centennial resources . . .
An index of article titles & links to issues of Footnotes newsletter (1972-present). [2/3/05]

» Attention Medical Sociologists . . .
NIH invites award applications from innovative social science researchers. [1/26/05]

» Academic sociology departments are invited to participate in an IRB-approved survey on sociology BAs. [1/18/05]

» List of humanitarian aid organizations for helping victims of South Asia Tsunami. [1/15/05]

» ASA's centennial inspires expansion of Sorokin Lecture program. Institutional applications are invited. [1/14/05]

» Disaster experts are available to the press to discuss social effects of South Asia Tsunami. [1/14/05]

» New study refines understanding of impact of "broken windows" in neighborhoods. [1/14/05]

» ASA Action Alert . . .
Contact U.S. Labor Dept. about data on women workers. [1/12/05]

» Now Available . . .
Task Force report on the undergraduate major. [1/7/05]

» Attention Tsunami Researchers ...
NSF invites Human & Social Dynamics expedited small grant applications. Feb. 1 response recommended. [1/27/05]

» Apply by Feb. 1, 2005, for small grants through ASA's Community Action Research Initiative. [1/11/05]

» Apply by Feb. 1, 2005, for ASA's Congressional Fellowship. [1/11/05]

» Apply by Feb. 1, 2005, for ASA's Teaching Enhancement Fund grant. [1/11/05]

» ASA/New Yorker Cartoon Products are now available in the ASA online store. And start "laughing out loud" with the ASA/New Yorker Sociologist's Book of Cartoons. [12/22/05]

» Missed 2004's Record-setting Annual Meeting?
Order audio-video DVDs of the major public addresses & plenary sessions. [12/22/05]

» Online submission of papers is now open for ASA's 2005 Annual Meeting. Submission deadline is Jan. 18. [12/17/04]

» Seeking departments to participate in new ASA survey on BAs. [12/17/04]

» ASA members qualify for major discounts on publications & memberships. See 2005 Coupon Listing. [12/14/04]

» Sociological Research is cited in the New York Times' annual compendium of Year in Ideas. [12/13/04]

» Now Available . . .
ASA task force brief on costs/benefits of hiring temporary faculty. [PDF 483KB] [12/3/04]

» Feel like you're in a time warp? You may be among other Americans balancing work and family but sensing time eludes them. Read press release. [11/22/04]

» 2004 Meeting Was a Success . . . Public Sociologies [8/2004]
» » The 2004 Annual Meeting drew ASA's highest ever number of registrants, 5,560!! Order audio-video DVDs of major public addresses and plenary sessions. Read transcript of Arundhati Roy's speech, read San Francisco Chronicle coverage. Read Mary Robinson's speech. Read a summary of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's address. Watch this space for more links to plenary speech text and other material.
» » Read a Footnotes newsletter article series on the speakers & San Fran'. Or, download a 1.7MB PDF file (68 pgs) of the Public Sociology brochure, which contains all the articles.
» » ASA Supports San Francisco hotel workers union. Read ASA Council statement. [11/17/04]

» 2004 Report on Status of Women in Sociology released. [11/15/04]

» Study suggests Native American people & land are disproportionately exposed to military munitions hazards. [10/27/04]

» Document delivery . . .
. . . for any ASA journal article! Many members may use JSTOR or Ingenta; others may have ASA find/send the article (via pdf on email, fax, mail) for $10 each. To order, complete secure online form.

» Attn: Holiday Shoppers . . .
Purchase the ASA/New Yorker Sociologist's Book of Cartoons, and start celebrating ASA's centennial ! Give the "gift of knowledge" through a gift subscription to Contexts magazine. [12/2/04, 10/20/04]

» Attn: Teachers . . .
Help close quantitative reasoning gaps with Small Grants for Integrating Data Analysis in the Sociology Curriculum. Deadline is Dec. 1.

» Workshop Invitation: Integrating Data Analysis throughout the Sociology Curriculum - March 2005. [10/23/04]

» ASA supports integrity of American science. See statements regarding U.S. appointments to science positions/committees and selections for international bodies. See Footnotes for background. [10/19/04]

» Nominations of journalists, editors, producers, & filmakers are invited for new ASA Media Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues by Apr. 1 deadline.

» ASA urges congressional leadership to fully fund Census Bureau’s American Community Survey because of strategic economic and policy value. See details. [10/18/04]

» ASA membership hit 13,712 at the end of the 2004 membership year, the highest since 1977! View graphic. [10/20/04]

» ASA President Troy Duster was quoted extensively in The New York Times Magazine (Oct. 10, pp. 47-51) about pharmacogenomics. View article online, if registered with the New York Times. [10/10/04]

» Visit new online store to order merchandise with ASA's new centennial logo or the traditional ASA logo.

» Chronicle of Higher Ed' Debate: Sociologists respond pro and con in the Chronicle's Oct. 1 "Letters to the Editor" (p. B17) to Michael Burawoy's Aug. 13 opinion on public sociology (see Chronicle, vol. 50, #49, p. B24). For readers with a Chronicle subscription, see pro/con letters here and Burawoy's opinion here. [10/1/04]

» AAAS workshop generates social science and technology research agenda to improve U.S. voting process. See interim report and webcast on Sept. 21 at 10:00am EDT. [9/19/04]

» Overcoming Americans' reluctance to donate blood, organs. [9/7/04]

» Finding the elusive proof of inequality in U.S. workplaces. [9/7/04]

» Using the Internet to strengthen neighborliness. [9/9/04]

» U.S. House approves unprecedented symbolic interference with science. Read ASA Action Alert. [9/7/04]

» ASA's 2003 Financial Audit Report (89KB PDF file) is now available. Watch this space for upcoming ASA committee and task force reports. [9/5/04]

» Tune in to CSPAN's Book TV on Sat., Sept. 4, at 8am to see the Aug. 16 Annual Meeting plenary speech of Arundhati Roy. [9/2/04]

» "Sociology Meets Human Rights." Read Mary Robinson's opinion on "Public Sociology" in the August 13 San Francisco Chronicle. [8/13/04]

» "To Advance, Sociology Must Not Retreat" . . . . Read ASA Past-President M. Burawoy's opinion on the importance of "Public Sociology" in the August 13 Chronicle of Higher Education. [8/13/04]

» Transitioning to adulthood is harder to do, according to new research. [8/2/04]

» Has your salary peaked? Leveled off? Read the latest ASA Sociology Wage Growth trend analysis.

» Epstein elected ASA 2006 President; read about 2004 election results. [6/16/04]

» View contents of the July/August 2004 Footnotes newsletter. [7/31/04]

» How could we have missed this item till now? . . . the New York Times selected sociological research on voting as one of 2003's notable ideas!

» Young black males more likely to serve in prison than in military or earn college degree, study shows. [5/24/04]

» ASA will commemorate the occasion of the 50th anniversary (May 17) of Brown vs Board of Education with a special Annual Meeting Thematic Session. [5/16/04]

» Read a Member Resolution on, and discuss research relevant to, the proposed U.S. Constitution amendment to define marriage.

» Journals Solicit Papers for ASA Centennial Special Issues . . .
»»Teaching Sociology call.

» ASA holds successful Hill briefing on immigration policy-related research. [4/19/04]

» View contents of the April 2004 Footnotes newsletter. [4/12/04]

» Capitol Hill briefing featuring a sociologist's research on job loss draws a congressional crowd. [3/30/04]

» Track your 2004 Annual Meeting paper submission.

» Learn about ASA's centennial 2005 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

» Familiarity changes attitudes toward homeless. [3/22/04]

» Women are not sole victims of sexual harassment. [3/22/04]

» March 21 New York Times article features ASA member Devah Pager and role of her ASA award-winning dissertation in national policy. [3/21/04]

» Want to size-up your academic department? View series of five new tables. Also, see data on race/ethnicity/gender of ASA membership.

» Current ASA members can now take advantage of "premium content" through a new Members-only website feature. Look for the golden key symbol, as in the following example . . .

» Attn: Young Sociologists. When's the best time to have a baby? Preview the latest ASA research brief.

» View contents of the March 2004 Footnotes newsletter. [3/15/04]

» Access Past President William Bielby's 2003 presidential address, as published in the February American Sociological Review.

» The ASA e-mail and fax server crashed on March 12, causing virtually all e-mail and faxes to ASA over a ten-day period to be lost. If you sent an e-mail or fax to ASA dated Friday, March 5, through Sunday, March 14, please resend it to us. We apologize for the inconvenience. [3/15/04]

» Asian Culture Is Changing Mainstream America. [3/19/04]

» Media Advisory: Congressional briefing on the national policy implications of job losses and manufacturing decline in rural America. [3/24/04]

» The most accessed document in the final quarter of 2003: Toni Watt's Sociology of Education article, "Are Small Schools and Private Schools Better . . . ?" See press release.

» New editions of ASA teaching materials are available: Disability Studies and Sociology and Sociology of Children & Childhood. See catalog.

» Call for Nominations: ASA 2005 major awards.

» Call for nominations for 2004 ASA Section awards & new Coser theory award.

» ASA journals go online in 2004 through Ingenta service. See sample issues . . .

» View contents of the January 2004 Footnotes newsletter. [1/14/04]

» View contents of the December 2003 Footnotes newsletter. [12/13/03]

» A December 4, 2003, New England Journal of Medicine editorial, spurred by Congress, strongly endorses value of NIH-supported social science research. [12/4/03]

» ASA members now can easily access a directory of ASA member e-mail addresses after logging in at members' webpage.

» Read the ASA final report on assessing faculty productivity and the final report on diversity issues regarding ASA journals.

» The state of sociology: Need today's data yesterday? Recently updated summaries of trends in the profession to help you and your students get ahead.

» National policy to promote marriage should be informed by data.

» Democratic presidential campaigns use ASA 2003 award-winning dissertation research findings in debates, speeches.

» Largest national analysis contradicts conventional wisdom that small or private schools better serve adolescent emotional development.

» ASA Executive Officer statement supporting NIH peer review and NIH-funded research.

» Policy audience learns useful sociological lessons about natural and intentional disasters at Capitol Hill briefing.

» Human subjects research protections don't apply to oral history interviews.

» Ominous development in potential congressional threat to integrity of basic science.

» View contents of the Sept./Oct. 2003 Footnotes newsletter.

» Statement on the defeat of California's Proposition 54.

» Comparison of graduate & undergraduate sociology programs.

» Veteran NASA flight director "kicks" himself for not having taken more college sociology.

» ASA membership is at a four-year high! And the nearly 20,200 section members is a historic high!

» Contexts magazine Call for Editor.

» Congress isn't so easily bought, according to researcher.

» Visit Contexts magazine's redesigned website. Read press release.

» Congressional assault on peer review is defeated. Social science community is poised for a possible Senate attack.

» ASA helps welcome new NIH heads.

» View content of July/Aug. 2003 Footnotes newsletter.

» NSF-funded sociologists discuss research with White House science heads & U.S. Reps. at Capitol Hill exhibition.

» ASA's first electronic election yields centennial leadership.

» Membership passes member resolution on war in Iraq. Join a related discussion.

» ASA's successful Hill briefing held on race data & analysis.

» New Rose Series publication, America's Newcomers, enters debate on immigration policy.

» Read sample feature articles in the spring 2003 Contexts magazine: Genetic technology and Saad Ibrahim's letter from Cairo.

» Peer review under attack: today! (July 10, 2003).

» Catch sociologist Ruth Wallace on Public TV on June 20-22.

» Egyptian-American sociologist and advocate Saad Ibrahim to be Annual Meeting special guest.

» Library Journal puts Contexts among the top 10 of new 2002 magazines. Press release.

» ASA Past-President William J. (Si) Goode died on May 4.

» Career, job, & fellowship sources for students.

» Final report on sociology's articulation in two- & four-yr programs.

» ASA files Supreme Court brief (PDF) supporting the University of Michigan. Press release.

» ASA's official statement on race (PDF). Press release.

» Contexts wins prestigious scholarly publication award.