Summer 2002
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A Note from the Section Chair Hi All. My first greeting note as Section Chair was written in the fall, mid-semester for those of us in academics. Now the spring semester is winding down and I am scrambling, along with many of you, to wrap things up (grades for graduating seniors being a matter of particular urgency!). So another school year has come and gone. I now have 30 under my belt, which ought to qualify me for some kind of award. In the real world, I would most likely be long gone—a Hopkins tie or some such trinket, a pat on the back, and, I would like to think, many good wishes. But academics are a different kind of world, and on good days, I feel as though I am just hitting my stride (I’ll keep to myself how I feel on the not-so-good days). It has been a busy year, and on balance a good one. Part of the busyness, and lots of the goodness, has involved section business. Stephen Plank and I, with help from Aaron Pallas at Teachers College and lots of reviewers, have just finalized the session sections and roundtables for Chicago. You can see for yourselves elsewhere in this issue the result of those labors—ours and yours. We had many wonderful submissions and the result, we believe, is an exciting lineup for Chicago. Stephen, by the way, really took charge of the process. We all owe him a debt of gratitude, most especially I. It is a big job under the best of circumstances, but beyond the expected headaches, Stephen had to master ASA’s new web-based submission/review procedures. I’m sure it will be wonderful once all the glitches are worked out, but this year’s trial run complicated life immensely for Stephen—and for many of you also, in that decisions were delayed while materials circulated round and round electronically. I should mention too that the intellectual feast awaiting us in Chicago includes several additional education sessions organized by Rita Kirshstein for the Program Committee. We are in for a real treat! This is not Section business, but I cannot help mentioning here that Stephen, already a research scientist colleague at the Center for Social Organization of Schools here at Hopkins, will be joining the Sociology faculty as of July 1. And he’ll be accompanied by two more new hires with specialties in education, Stefanie DeLuca, who is finishing her Ph.D. in Human Development at Northwestern, and Pam Bennett, who is finishing her Ph.D. at Michigan in their social-demography program (Pam will be doing a post-doc at Hopkins before moving into her faculty slot). Lots of exciting Soc of Ed things going on at The Hop, and I’m thrilled to have three such terrific new colleagues joining our faculty! But it is not all good news. I am sure you have all heard of Al Kerckhoff’s passing, a tragic loss for all of us. The ASA Program Committee has authorized a special session to honor of Al and his awesome scholarly contributions. The session is being sponsored by the Section and organized in partnership with the Duke sociology department. I am honored to be representing the Section as co-organizer; Angie O’Rand is representing the department. It is impossible to involve everyone who should be involved, but there will be Duke colleagues and some of Al’s friends from the wider sociological community. I understand too that some of Al’s family will attend. Please look for this very special session in the program and try to be there. The program schedule, by the way is complicated. We do not know the details yet, but you can anticipate that Section activities will be spread over several days. Saturday is Section Day, but there are only 4 session slots on Saturday and we have more than 4 sessions. At least one, we are told, is likely to spill over to Sunday. And owing to plenaries on Saturday, we are obliged to hold the Section Reception on Friday. That being the case, we have decided to have the Section dinner on Friday also (Susan Dauber, our Local Arrangements Chicago insider, tells me she’s located a terrific place for us!). So, it is a weekend stretch, and I hope most of you will be there for the duration! On to the Windy City! Best, |
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Tribute to Alan Kerckhoff – Special Session
The ASA Program Committee for Chicago has authorized a special session to honor Alan Kerckhoff’s memory and recognize his career contributions to research and scholarship in sociology of education. The session, sponsored by the Section, is being organized in partnership with the Department of Sociology at Duke University.
Karl Alexander, representing the Section, and Angela O’Rand, representing Duke, are serving as co-organizers and will share presiding duties at the Session.
The time and place of the session have yet to be determined by ASA, but the following persons, friends all of Al’s, will be participating:
Claudia Buchmann, Duke University
Ernest Campbell, Vanderbilt University (ret.)
Richard Campbell, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tom DiPrete, Duke University
Maureen Hallinan, University of Notre Dame
Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley
Jeylan Mortimer, University of Minnesota
Aaron Pallas, Teachers College, Columbia University
2002 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION PAPER SESSIONS AND REFEREED ROUNDTABLE
The sociology of education section will sponsor four paper sessions and one refereed roundtable session (which will share a time slot with the section business meeting, as it traditionally does). Note also that Rita Kirshstein has organized five other sociology of education “regular paper sessions.” As for the section-sponsored sessions, Stephen Plank and Karl Alexander, with help from volunteer readers at Johns Hopkins and Teachers College-Columbia, have assembled the following:
Paper Session 1: Assessment, Evaluation, and Accountability
Presider: Jon Lorence, University of Houston
Papers:
Emily Beller, University of California, Berkeley
Schools and the relationship between test scores and grades
Tiffani Chin, University of California, Los Angeles
The accountable classroom: How assessment and evaluation influence everyday classroom practices
James Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
High-stakes graduation testing: Delays in on-time graduation for at-risk high school students
Joel Andreas, University of California, Los Angeles
The impact of the examination system, and its elimination, on the development of rural education in China
Discussion: Aaron Pallas, Teachers College, Columbia University
Paper Session 2: Comparing Systems of Schooling
Presider: TBA
Papers:
Claudia Buchmann, Duke University
Family structure and educational outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Kenya and South Africa
Aaron Benavot and Nura Resh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Educational governance, school autonomy and curricular implementation: A comparative study of Arab and Jewish schools in Israel
Kathryn Schiller, State University of New York, Albany; and Chandra Muller, University of Texas, Austin
Raising the bar: State policies and students’ mathematics and science course taking
Christopher Swanson, Johns Hopkins University
A comparative anatomy of reform: Standards and accountability in education
Discussion: Mary Brinton, Cornell University
Paper Session 3: Peers, Parents, and Socialization
Presider: Stephen Plank, Johns Hopkins University
Papers:
Roberta Garner, Judith Bootcheck, Michael Lorr, and Kathryn Rauch, DePaul University
The adolescent society revisited: Cultures, crowds, climates, and status structures in seven secondary schools
Janel Benson, University of Pennsylvania
The effects of friendship networks on achievement and the transition to college
Daniel McFarland, Stanford University; and Simon Rodan, INSEAD, France
Did they follow a rule or make a decision? Educational mobility patterns and the problem of embeddedness
Kimberly Maier, Barbara Schneider, and Linda Waite, University of Chicago
Socialization processes of the transmission of educational aspirations
Discussion: Kenneth Frank, Michigan State University
Paper Session 4: The Puzzle of Attachment to School
Presider: Roslyn Mickelson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Papers:
Edward Morris, University of Texas, Austin
‘Tuck in that shirt!’: Race, gender, and discipline in an urban school
Amy Langenkamp, University of Texas, Austin
Crippled from within and without: Bilingual education and one school’s challenges
Ruth Curran Neild, University of Pennsylvania; Scott Stoner-Eby, University of North Carolina; and Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania
High school dropout: The ninth grade connection
Lisa Chavez, WestEd
Access to advanced mathematics for 1992 Latino high school graduates: The role of gate keeping math courses
Discussion: Elizabeth Cohen, Stanford University
Refereed Roundtables
1. Leadership and School Organization
Discussant: Louis Foleno, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Ce Shen, Boston College; and LiangYin Shen, Qing Hua University
How American middle schools differ from schools of East Asian countries: A discriminant analysis based on cross- national data from TIMSS 1999
Alexander Wiseman, University of Tulsa
A cross-national analysis of school principals as organizational managers
Sally Kilgore, Modern Red Schoolhouse Institute; and James Jones, Mississippi State University
Leadership in comprehensive school reform initiatives: The case of the Modern Red Schoolhouse
2. Parental Involvement and Social Structure
Discussant: Erin McNamara Horvat, Temple University
Jennifer Pearson, University of Texas, Austin; Michelle Frisco, Iowa State University; and Chandra Muller, University of Texas, Austin
Adolescent sexual decision making: Parental involvement, family structure, and academic achievement
Ralph McNeal, University of Connecticut
Do parents respond to reduced achievement and increased truancy by becoming involved? Investigating the parent involvement ‘reactive hypothesis’
Todd Bernhardt, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park
Parental network diversity and mathematical achievement: A theoretical explanation
3. Parental Involvement and Assimilation
Discussant: Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University
Suet-ling Pong, Pennsylvania State University; Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins University; and Erica Gardner, Pennsylvania State University
Parental involvement and children’s educational achievement
Erendira Rueda, University of California, Berkeley
Opinion formation in context: A qualitative study of Latino parents’ opinions about bilingual education
Ling Wang, Pennsylvania State University
Immigrant generation status and educational achievement: Understanding the paradox of assimilation in American life
4. The Teaching Profession: Entry and Exit
Discussant: Mary Haywood Metz, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jo Anne Preston, Brandeis University
Gender segregation, transformation of job structures, and the feminization of school teaching
Jason LaTurner, University of Texas, Austin
The choice to teach: A focus on gender
Susan Wiley, independent researcher
School processes and teacher attrition in the United States: Inequality for students in high minority schools
J. Gregg Robinson, Grossmont College
Teachers and poverty: Ideology and demography in the selection and retention of teachers in schools with high poverty rates
5. Teaching: The Search for Connection and Success
Discussant: Cynthia Coburn, University of Pittsburgh
Kelly Fulton, University of Texas, Austin
(Dis)connection in the classroom: Social dimensions of residential mobility
Sarah Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
School success: Examining the linkages among success, school organization, and human agency
Mustafa Ozcan, Rhode Island College; and James Maxey, American College Testing
The effects of teacher incentive programs on student outcomes: The case of Iowa
Lorraine Evans, University of Georgia
Teaching teams and autonomy
6. Contextual Effects of Schools and Communities
Discussant: William Carbonaro, University of Notre Dame
Elizabeth Stearns, Duke University
School ethnic composition and high school dropout: A test of Kanter’s token hypothesis
Jennifer McKnight, Kimberly Torres, and Ruth Curran Neild, University of Pennsylvania
Reassessing the big-fish-little-pond effect: Examining academic self-concept and scholastic achievement among urban high school students as they transition to college
Lori Hill, University of Michigan
Community structure, network composition, and social capital for college
7. Tracking: Placement and Effects
Discussant: Julia Smith, Oakland University
Dennis Kass, Chicago Urban League; and Andrew Hayes, University of Michigan
Differential achievement in math and science: An analysis of the influence of class
Regina Werum, Emory University
Teasing out cultural and social capital effects: A case study of track placement patterns among Latinos
Estela Ballon, University of California, Los Angeles
Racial differences in high school math track assignment
8. Mentoring and Guidance in and around Schools
Discussant: TBA
George Wimberly and Richard Noeth, ACT Inc.
African American and Hispanic students’ college planning: The role of the urban school
Suellen Butler, Pennsylvania State University, Delco
School based mentoring: An analysis of best practice recognized by teachers and principals in six urban schools
David Kinney, Brent Harger, Lisa Tiger, and Todd Williamson, Central Michigan University
Native American educational success and culture: An applied research project and pilot mentoring program
9. Migration, Place, and Identity
Discussant: Tomas Rodriguez, University of Chicago
Yasusuke Minami, Seijo University
Student career of Japanese returnee and overseas children
Lisa Konczal, Florida International University
Homeland references: Forming the academic attitudes of Nicaraguan immigrant adolescents
Cynthia Feliciano, University of California, Los Angeles
Educational selectivity and U.S. immigration: How do immigrants compare to those left behind?
10. Just-Plain-Interesting Potpourri
(no discussant scheduled)
Francisco Ramirez, Stanford University
Eyes wide shut: University, state, and society
Riad Nasser, Fairleigh Dickinson University
National identity in Jordanian school textbooks
John Robert Warren and Jennifer Lee, University of Washington
Do job characteristics affect employed high school students’ educational outcomes?
Robert Petrin, University of Chicago
Discourse as resource: The distribution and effects of instruction for 10th grade math and science
11. Representation, Opportunity, and Success in Higher Educational Institutions
Discussant: Catherine Riegle-Crumb, University of Colorado, Boulder
Hisashi Yamagata and Donna Williams, Association of American Medical Colleges
Does an increase in minority faculty influence minority student representation in medical schools? Comparison of minority and female students at U.S. medical schools, 1980-2000
Michael Wise, Appalachian State University; Catherine Harris, Wake Forest University; Velma Watts, Wake Forest University; and Willie Pearson, Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology
Feelings of discrimination among students and traditional predictors of academic success in medical school
Reza Nakhaie, University of Windsor
Gender differences in publication among university professors in Canada
12. Access and Attainment Across Time and Place
Discussant: Jeanne Ballantine, Wright State University
Manyee Wong, Northwestern University
Changes in the educational attainment process over four decades: A preliminary investigation
Isik Aytac, Bogazici University; and Bruce Rankin, Koc University
Gender inequality in access to education and school attainment: The case of Turkey
Raymond Wong, University of California, Santa Barbara
Educational stratification in Eastern Europe under socialism
13. Charter Schools and Vouchers: Politics and Practice
Discussant: David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame
Elizabeth McEneaney, OISE/University of Toronto
Relative performance and niche-based competition between charter and non-charter public schools
Laura Kleckner, University of Cincinnati
Education reform: Does the Education Reform Bill reflect public opinion on school vouchers and charter schools?
Marisol Clark-Ibanez, University of California, Davis
Making meaning: Ability grouping and inequality at a charter school and non-charter public school in the inner-city
14. Student Behavior: Links to School, Family, and Community
Discussant: Christy Lleras, Pennsylvania State University
Kazuaki Uekawa and Charles Bidwell, University of Chicago
High school as a network organization and its implications for adolescents’ problem behaviors: Evidence from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth
Steven Sheldon and Joyce Epstein, Johns Hopkins University
Improving student behavior and discipline with family and community involvement
Stephen Plank, Johns Hopkins University
Student behavior and school organization: Cross-national analyses of the TIMSS data
15. Discipline and Social Control
Discussant: James Ainsworth-Darnell, Georgia State University
Paul Hirschfield, Northwestern University
Schools, delinquents, and prisons: Extending the correspondence thesis
Robert Garot, University of California, Los Angeles
“It’s the WAY you wear them”: The enforcement of school dress codes and the embodiment of dress at an inner-city alternative school
Sandra Way, University of Arizona
The influence of high school discipline and perceptions of authority on student behavior
16. Business and Private Interests in Education
Discussant: Daniel McFarland, Stanford University
Katherine Hughes, Margaret Terry Orr, and Melinda Mechur Karp, Teachers College, Columbia University
‘Business Partnerships for American Education’: Employer involvement in the National Academy Foundation’s High School Career Academies
Scott Davies, McMaster University
School choice by default? Understanding the growing demand for private tutoring in Canada
Keiko Hirao, Sophia University
Privatized education market and maternal employment in Japan
17. Evaluation and Aspiration
Discussant: Gary Dworkin, University of Houston
Min-Hsiung Huang, Academia Sinica
Learning effects of public screening and evaluative examinations: A cross-national study
Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University; James Rosenbaum, Northwestern University; and Takehiko Kariya, University of Tokyo
Beyond achievement scores: The effects of exit exams on the effort and aspirations of high school students
Regina Deil-Amen, Northwestern University
Warming up aspirations among community college students: Identity in context
Thematic (Invited) Session for 2002 ASA Meetings
The Sociology of Community Colleges
Organizer and Presider: David B. Bills, University of Iowa Presenters Kevin Dougherty, Teachers College, Columbia University
“Class and Economy: New Roles of Community Colleges in Social Stratification and Economic Development.”
Steven Brint, University of California-Riverside
“Few Remaining Dreams: Community Colleges and the Rationalization of American Higher Education since 1985.”
Regina Deil-Amen, James E. Rosenbaum, and Berit Vannebo, Northwestern University
“Community Colleges and Social Reproduction: Social Skills as Cultural Capital”
Debra Bragg, University of Illinois
“How Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Impact Student Transition from High School to College and Work”
Discussant: Carol Schmid, Guilford Technical Community College
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Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia
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Annual Section Dinner
August 16, 2002
7 p.m. Cocktails
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Please join us for this enjoyable and delectable event. Start with cocktails and hors d’ouevres in Quincy Park overlooking the Chicago River, and then enjoy the fine, contemporary cuisine in this critically acclaimed restaurant.
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2002 - 2003
Chair: Karl Alexander, Johns Hopkins University, kla2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Chair-elect: Barbara Schneider, schneidr@norcmail.uchicago.edu
Treasurer/Secretary: Kevin Dougherty, kdougher@manhattan.edu
Past Chair: David Baker, dpb4@psu.edu
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