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Hard Times for Low-Wage Latino Immigrants in inside San Francisco’s Mission District Susanne Jonas, University of California- Sanctuary City provisions for Central Grassroots. His study found that Santa Cruz) Americans to other undocumented cultural capital (e.g., major festivals, Bringing Social Science 3 istorically, San Francisco has immigrants in 1989. murals, restaurants) did not trans- to Policymakers Hbeen widely viewed in a favor- However, San Francisco’s larg- late into Latino socioeconomic or ASA Congressional Fellow, able context as a settlement for Latin est low-wage Latino immigrant political power vis-á-vis the city’s Wikler, brings her social American immigrants because of its groups—Central Americans and ruling elites and developers—partly science knowledge and ethnic diversity and multicultural val- Mexicans—have achieved only because these communities had a experiences to Capitol Hill. ues. The city has also been prominent limited upward mobility. Further, high proportion of non-citizens, for its generally they have experi- many of them undocumented. enced increasing The economic and political Social Media and the progressive poli- 4 socioeconomic dominance of downtown develop- ASA Annual Meeting tics and for being one of the most difficulties. ers, as well as structural transforma- Whether tweeting or favorable destina- Manuel Castells tions in the post-industrial political blogging, there is training tions for Central first analyzed economy of San Francisco in recent for that. American asylum San Francisco’s decades, made life less secure seekers during the Mission District for low-wage Latinos, especially 7 Teaching a Dual-Credit 1980s and 1990s. as a site for immigrants. The effect of living Course San Francisco’s Latino migrants in a post-industrial, technology- and citizens in his 1983 pioneering driven economy that was polar- A partnership between elected officials extended its 1985 critical analysis, The City and the an Iowa high school and a Continued on Page 6 local community college has its challenges as well as successes. Stephen Sweet to Edit MFP Thanks 9 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Teaching Sociology Donors Who Winners John Zipp, University of Akron Steve received his undergraduate Completed The latest awardees will degree at SUNY-Potsdam (1985) and eaching Sociology has been very work on empowering his M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. fortunate to have had a Their Five-Year high schoolers, using T (1994) at the University series of outstanding edi- writing assignments, and of New Hampshire. After tors, and their legacy will Leadership developing hands-on stints at SUNY-Potsdam continue with the appoint- computer tools. and Sloan Work and Family ment of Stephen Sweet Campaign Careers Institute at Cornell, as TS’s next editor. Steve he joined Ithaca College in From the Executive Officer...... 2 embodies the very defini- Pledge 2002. Science Policy...... 3 tion of a teacher/scholar, n honor of the 40th anniversary At the risk of a good and he already has consid- Stephen Sweet year of the Minority Fellowship Announcements...... 12 deal of oversimplification, I erable editorial experience Program (MFP), ASA is pleased to Obituaries...... 15 Steve has made major contributions that will benefit TS enormously. recognize those donors who have to teaching in three notable areas: As he wrote in his editor applica- finished (or will finish in 2014) their “radical pedagogy;” research and tion, “My vision is to continue to five-year pledges to the 2009 MFP teaching work and the family; and advance Teaching Sociology as the Leadership Campaign, which was teaching data analysis and quantita- primary venue for the scholarship of led by former ASA Vice President tive literacy. In each of these areas, teaching and learning, as well as the Margaret L. Andersen and ASA he has engaged our colleagues venue in which broader theoretical Executive Officer Sally T. Hillsman. through publishing important and political discussions concerning The MFP Leadership Campaign papers (e.g., five papers in Teaching pedagogy, curriculum, and the cen- was supported by 87 contributing Sociology, including one that has trality of teaching in the profession leaders, including Sociologists for been reprinted and been the subject are made visible.” Women in Society (SWS) and the of published comments), books (his Steve is currently an Associate Eastern Sociological Society (ESS). Data Analysis with SPSS is in its Professor of Sociology and (See the September/October 2009, Department Chair at Ithaca College. Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 5 footnotes • May/June 2014 To view the online version, visit 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

from the executive officer The Positive Value of ASA Membership from the Perspective of Those Who Haven’t Renewed he ASA has existed for more with other sociologists includ- total ASA membership. At the end faction, and even increasing levels Tthan a century, but the venerable ing those from outside the United of 2013 there were a total of 28,410 of trust and social activism beyond history of the Association States, and building section memberships, up from the organization itself (Stolle 2001). cannot blind us to the professional knowledge 21,366 in 2004. While the ASA The relatively small membership importance of under- and skills. The meeting as a whole has more than 13,000 communities in ASA sections may standing the current—and also provides a chance to members, the average section has be particularly effective sites for often changing—needs reconnect with colleagues fewer than 550 members. Sections this type of exchange and growth. of sociologists, as well as the factors and friends and explore wonder- might be compared to close-knit Section Listservs and newsletters that lead them to make decisions ful cities. (The governance of the scholarly neighborhoods within a often provide vibrant intellectual about where to invest their limited Association also depends upon the larger disciplinary community— debate, discussion, and support. time and resources. As part of our hours of hard work elected and they are where relatively small We were pleased that Footnotes ongoing work to align ASA activi- appointed members put in during groups of like-minded sociologists was ranked as the third-most useful ties and benefits with members’ the Annual Meeting to committees can exchange ideas, build relation- benefit of ASA membership. The interests and needs, we recently that guide our publication program, ships, and advance a particular facet Association’s newsletter, published conducted a small survey of former determine award winners, make of sociological knowledge. They are nine times a year, provides readable members of the ASA who had not ASA policy, and many other tasks a key way to connect profession- and engaging information about renewed their membership in the that enrich the discipline. We hope ally and intellectually at the Annual trends in higher education and the past two years. We asked about the members find these contributions Meeting with colleagues working in discipline, updates on scientific things that led them to join the ASA satisfying as well.) Members, of similar areas, to explore new areas policy, and news about members, in the past, which benefits of mem- course, receive a substantial dis- of scholarship, and to gain organiza- sections, and the Association itself. bership they viewed as the most count on Annual Meeting registra- tional experience that can translate So Why Haven’t They Renewed? useful during the years they were tion, and thus it is not surprising into running for an elected ASA members, and what led them not that membership numbers rise office or being appointed to an ASA Keeping in mind that the survey to renew their membership. I share during the early summer months committee. we have been discussing was of these results with you now because each year. former ASA members, why haven’t The Value of Benefits you, as members of ASA, are its Professional identity or prestige they renewed their membership? “owners.” ASA members, through was the second-most highly rated The former members were also Open-ended responses to a question direct action and through the reason for joining ASA. It is a asked to rate the usefulness of ASA about the reasons for not renewing actions of the elected and appointed privilege to be a sociologist! And the benefits or services. In this case they revolved around four key issues: Association Officers, have created ASA is indeed a prestigious orga- were asked to rate eleven items using professional life stage, place of the current structure and services nization as a result of its members’ a Likert scale. The three benefits that employment, economics, and plans of ASA and will decide its future contributions to the discipline in were seen as the most useful were: to attend the Annual Meeting. direction. the areas of teaching, research, and • ASA journals, More than a quarter of the applied sociology. Founded nearly • Participation in sections, respondents to our survey of non- Why Join? 110 years ago, it is largest and most • Footnotes newsletter. renewing members were retired The non-renewing members of influential professional association ASA publishes nine journals, and many of the responses from the ASA who received the survey for the discipline of sociology in which are complemented by four these individuals suggest that they had been members for at least three the world. Sociological research has additional journals published under saw ASA membership as not fully consecutive years prior to drop- demonstrated the ways in which the direction of individual ASA relatable to their current needs and ping their membership. We asked academic prestige is linked to sections. The creation of a tenth interests. We hope this is changing. them to rate nine possible reasons both quality of work and positions journal—which will cover all disci- ASA Council recently affirmed the for joining ranging from 1 (not rel- within networks of association and plinary areas and be open access— importance of serving sociologists in evant to their decision to join) to 5 social exchange. Membership in the was recently announced. (ASA is retirement by voting to establish the (extremely relevant to their decision ASA and presenting at its Annual currently inviting applications for the ASA Opportunities in Retirement to join). The three reasons for join- Meetings is a way of demonstrat- journal’s inaugural editor, see page Network (ASAORN), which builds ing that received the highest mean ing the value of one’s professional 4.) Journal articles are the coin of the on similar activities in the regional ratings among the nine were: contributions and helps establish a realm in the sociological knowledge sociological societies. In the begin- • Annual Meeting participation/ position within a prestigious disci- economy, and having access to them ning of May the group’s Listserv registration. plinary network. is essential for successful professional went live, generating so much dis- • Professional identity or prestige. Section membership was the activity in that economy. cussion and excitement among ASA • Section membership. third-most highly rated reason Membership in sections, while members that it surpassed the lists’ Clearly the Annual Meeting for joining the ASA. This was not the third-rated reason for joining, initial per-day limit for postings! plays a central role in the life of surprising because total section was viewed as the second most- Other responses suggested that Association members. The Annual memberships have continued to useful benefit of ASA member- former members who were working Meeting provides a valuable forum steadily grow over the last 10 years ship. Research has shown that in applied and professional set- for sharing current sociological and that upward trend continues Association membership is related tings saw ASA membership as less research and findings, networking to social capital, professional satis- even when there are small dips in Continued on Page 5

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Excessive Regulations Turning review boards and animal care and (individuals born in the United data and privacy. As a contribution to Scientists into Bureaucrats use committees. States between 1946 and 1964), who that review, he asked the Presidential Excessive regulations are consum- “Regulation and oversight of began turning 65 in 2011. The first Council of Advisors on Science and ing researchers’ time and research are needed to new report, An Aging Nation: The Technology (PCAST) to examine wasting taxpayer dollars, ensure accountability, Older Population in the United States, current and likely future capabilities says a report from the transparency and safety,” looks at the demographic changes of key technologies, both those asso- National Science Board said Arthur Bienenstock, to the 65-and-older population that ciated with the collection, analysis, (NSB), the policymak- chair of the NSB task will comprise 21 percent of the U.S. and use of big data and those that ing body of the National force that examined the population in 2050 and the impact can help to preserve privacy. After Science Foundation issue. “But excessive and that these changes will have on the reviewing the technical literature, and advisor to Congress and the ineffective requirements take scientists composition of the total population. consulting with additional experts President. The report, Reducing away from the bench unnecessarily and A second report, The Baby Boom whose research or product-devel- Investigators’ Administrative divert taxpayer dollars from research to Cohort in the United States: 2012 to opment activity focuses on the key Workload for Federally Funded superfluous grant administration. This 2060, focuses on the shifting size and technologies, engaging complemen- Research, recommends limiting pro- is a real problem, particularly in the structure of the baby boom popula- tary perspectives from social science posal requirements to those essential current budget climate.” tion. These briefs use data from the and the law, and deliberating over to evaluate merit; keeping reporting To download the full report, visit 2012 national projections of the U.S. what was learned, PCAST released focused on outcomes; and automat- nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ. population. For more information, its analysis, Big Data: A Technological ing payroll certification for effort jsp?ods_key=nsb1418. visit www.census.gov/newsroom/ Perspective. The report details the releases/archives/aging_population/ technical aspects of big data and reporting. Thousands of federally Exploring the Future of the cb14-84.html. privacy and begins by exploring funded scientists responded to NSB’s Aging Population request to identify requirements the changing nature of privacy as The nation’s 65-and-older popula- Presidential Science Advisors they believe unnecessarily increase computing technology has advanced tion is projected to reach 83.7 million Releases Report on Big Data their administrative workload. The and big data has come to the fore- in the year 2050, almost the 2012 and Privacy responses raised concerns related to front. The report outlines a number level of 43.1 million, according to Earlier this year, President Obama financial management, grant pro- of recommendations. For more two reports from the U.S. Census asked his counselor John Podesta posal preparation, reporting, person- information, visit www.whitehouse. Bureau. Much of this growth is to lead a comprehensive review of nel management, and institutional gov/blog/2014/05/01/pcast-releases- due to the aging of baby boomers policy issues at the intersection of big report-big-data-and-privacy.

Elizabeth Wikler Is the 2013-14 ASA Congressional Fellow he 2013–14 American working at the Center for American technology-oriented Congressional tion to entitlement reform, there TSociological Association (ASA) Progress, Families USA, and the Fellows serving on Capitol Hill this is scientific evidence that could Congressional Fellowship was Congressional Hunger Center into year. Thanks to a partnership with usefully inform virtually all policy awarded to Elizabeth her Fellowship. the American Association for the decisions made on Capitol Hill if (Beth) Wikler. Since “The chance to conduct Advancement of Science (AAAS), the policymakers making them September, she has been … in-depth, quantita- the ASA Congressional Fellow has were knowledgeable about the working in the office tive analysis of a pressing a cohort of scientists to collaborate findings of social, behavioral, physi- of Senator Al Franken policy issue, using tools and with on Capitol Hill. cal, or biological sciences. Yet less (D-MN), where she focuses concepts from sociology, is The ASA Congressional than 5 percent of the members of on health-related policy. exactly the reason I entered Fellowship Program has collabo- Congress have advanced degrees in Before starting her fel- my PhD program,” Winkler rated with the AAAS fellowship the sciences. In addition, Congress lowship, Wikler received Elizabeth Wikler said in her application. program since 2011. This partner- has left the Office of Technology her PhD in health policy As an ASA ship has allowed the ASA fellow Assessment (OTA) unfunded since from Harvard University. Her dis- Congressional Fellow, Wikler brings to benefit from AAAS’ 40 years the 1990s. The ASA Congressional sertation addressed topics rang- her social science knowledge and of experience managing science Fellowship Program is designed to ing from Alzheimer’s disease and experiences to Capitol Hill, helping fellows on Capitol Hill. This places address these voids and to provide administrative costs to Medicaid Senator Franken make informed Wikler in a network of more legislators the necessary resources enrollment among low-income decisions about science issues than 2,600 fellows who are more to help them make informed policy parents. While at Harvard, Beth that benefit Minnesotans and the articulate and knowledgeable about choices. As Wikler wrote, “scholars was the recipient of the Jeremy nation as a whole. Her interests conducting and communicating are equipped to evaluate policy R. Knowles Graduate Student are in health policy reforms and their scientific research to support proposals, inject new perspectives Fellowship and the Malcolm anti-poverty policy. According to policy at national and international into policy debates, and help design Weiner Inequality and Social Beth, “Sociologists and other social levels. They have become more new policy proposals that avoid the Policy Fellowship. She received the scientists have a great deal to offer effective leaders in the public and pitfalls of earlier iterations.” Agency for Health Care Research policymaking, from methodological policy arenas as well as in academia, For more information on the ASA and Quality Training Grant. In rigor to knowledge of the history of industry and the non-governmental Congressional Fellowship, see the Funding addition to her academic training, social ideas.” sectors. page on the ASA Website. The deadline to Beth incorporates her experiences Wikler is is one of 35 science- and From climate change to educa- apply is February 1 of each year.

footnotes • May/June 2014 3 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org ASA to Offer Social Media Pre-Conference Workshop Nathan Palmer, Georgia Southern If you cannot attend the pre- Origins of the Task Force are interested in ramping up their University conference workshops, there will The ASA Social Media Task Force, digital media skills but are unable rofessors, We Need You!” be two additional workshops convened by ASA president Annette to attend the workshops. The site “Pexclaimed Nicholas Kristof in a offered during the meeting in San Lareau (University of Pennsylvania), is still in beta and will be officially New York Times op-ed. While almost Francisco. On Saturday, I will lead a was renamed the Task Force launched later this summer. The no professional academic would Blogging 101 workshop where you on Using Media to Increase the Task Force has also been working disagree with the idea that scholars can learn everything from upload- Visibility of Sociological Research with ASA staff on some redesigns of should engage with the public, it’s ing a photo to your blog to strategies and extended to 2017 at the March the ASA website and on ideas how really hard to know how, when, and for growing your blog’s reader- ASA Council meeting. “The world ASA can facilitate greater engage- where to start engaging them. A ship. On Sunday, Tressie McMillan is changing rapidly. I am often asked ment by sociologists in the public growing and thriving community of Cottom (PhD candidate, Emory by sociologists how to go about sphere through social media. scholars are answering Kristof’s call University) will host a workshop on getting research into the public eye,” For more information on the by using social media (e.g., Twitter, writing op-ed articles and getting President Lareau said when asked Annual Meeting workshops and to Facebook, blogging platforms) to them published. All the pre-confer- why she created the ASA Task Force learn how scholars are using social engage the public, find a broader ence workshops are free and open on Social Media. “I feel that socio- media, visit the JustPublics@365 audience for their research, and to to anyone who registers for them. logical research has much to offer website (justpublics365.commons. do his or her research. At the same Members need to sign up on the the world. Since social media is an gc.cuny.edu/about/) and ASA time, you can’t open up The Chronicle ASA website when registering for important way in which informa- Social Media Hub (mediacamp. of Higher Education without seeing the Annual Meeting; please do sign tion is communicated, I’d like to see gc.cuny.edu). I’d also be happy to a story about a scholar who got up early since space will fill quickly. sociologists take full advantage of field your questions at npalmer@ burned by their use of social media. Check the conference program for these opportunities.” georgiasouthern.edu or on Twitter Given this climate of uncertainty, it’s rooms and locations. The Task Force has been working @SociologySource. not surprising many sociologists are In addition to the workshops, a with the ASA leadership to build References unsure of how to proceed. “blogging area” will be available in a community site that will serve as The Hub, located in the exhibit hall. Kristof, Nicholas. 2014. “Professors, We Well good news, friends! The a hub for online skill development Need You!” New York Times, February 15, The Hub features tables, outlets, ASA Task Force on Using Media to and resources for scholars who Pp SR11. Increase the Visibility of Sociological technical support at the ready, Research (formerly the Social Media and everything else a social media Task Force) is here to help provide user could want. This will also be a some guidance. On Friday, August great place for social media novices Applications Invited for Inaugural 15, there will be a pre-conference to have their questions answered workshop on social media where and learn from more experienced Editor of the New ASA Open Access attendees at various levels of experi- colleagues. ence can learn how to use social Internet Access and Live Journal media to seize its promise and dodge Tweeting he ASA Committee on in the development of the structure its potential pitfalls. ASA provides complimentary These workshops will help TPublications has issued a call for of the editorial board and review basic bandwidth wireless Internet applications from scholars inter- process. The official term of service you build a wide variety of skills, access to meeting attendees in the including how to use social media ested in serving as the inaugural will be a minimum of three years session rooms during the Annual editor for the first ASA open access to begin as soon as possible so that (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, blogging Meeting. For those of you consider- platforms), how to do on-camera journal covering all subfields of the journal can begin accepting ing incorporating videos into your sociology. As the inaugural edi- submissions in 2014, if feasible, interviews, how to get an op-ed presentations, keep in mind that published, and more. You can tor, the successful candidate will with a possible appointment of up the basic bandwidth is sufficient to have the opportunity to shape this to an additional two years. register for this pre-conference allow web browsing, access to the workshop through the ASA website. exciting new addition to the ASA’s Candidates must be members of Annual Meeting app information, publications portfolio. the ASA and hold a tenured posi- This day-long event is a collabora- and e-mail access, but it will not tion of the ASA Task Force and The new open access journal tion or equivalent in an academic or support streaming data (including will provide an outlet for innova- non-academic setting. Applications JustPublics@365. Skype or FaceTime). The Social Media Pre- tive peer-reviewed scholarship that from members of underrepresented In ASA sessions, some members can be accessed freely and rapidly groups are encouraged. Conference workshops will be of the audience may use Twitter or closely modeled after the work- by users throughout the world. ASA encourages applications other forms of social media to share It will allow authors to submit for both sole editorships and shops offered by JustPublics@365, the results of papers presented. In a project funded by the Ford manuscripts electronically, receive co-editorships. rare instances people might wish to a publishing decision quickly, have The deadline for submission of Foundation and led by sociolo- record sessions; if you prefer that gist Jessie Daniels (City University article lengths unconstrained by application materials is July 1, 2014. audio recordings or video record- printed page limits, as well as have For detailed information on quali- of New York). The goal of the ings not occur, please share your JustPublics@365 project is to accepted articles published online fications, the selection process, and request with the audience. ASA immediately after editorial review requirements for the application connect academics, journalists, encourages all program participants and activists in ways that foster and acceptance. packet, visit www.asanet.org/jour- to be sensitive to the requests of The selected editor (or co- nals/ASAOpenAccessEditorCall. transformation on issues of social others. justice. editors) will be integrally involved cfm.

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MFP Association, and more recently, the Linda Burton McCune Foundation From Page 1 Southern Sociological Society and José Z. Calderón Ruth Milkman the Pacific Sociological Association. Craig Calhoun Joya Misra January 2010, March 2010, and Below is the list of donors who have Dan & Mary Ann Clawson Aldon & Kim Morris November 2010 issues of Footnotes completed their MFP Leadership Patricia Hill Collins Lisa Park & David Pellow for prior articles on the Leadership Campaign pledges (or who are on Randall Collins Mary Pattillo Campaign.) track to do so in 2014). Robert Crutchfield Ruth Peterson All of these leaders made a signifi- This list will also be featured at William D’Antonio Barbara Reskin* cant five-year commitment, or in a the 2014 MFP Benefit Reception N.J. Demerath Pamela Roby few cases a large one-time contribu- this August in San Francisco. As Marjorie DeVault Orlando Rodriguez tion, to help secure the future of MFP. other pledges become completed, Bonnie Thornton Dill Havidán Rodríguez This leadership came at a crucial ASA will continue to recognize Russell Dynes Judith Rollins time—following the end of NIMH these donors on future lists in Eastern Sociological Society Mary Romero & Eric Margolis T32 funding for MFP. The total Footnotes. And, watch for other D. Stanley Eitzen Bernice A. Pescosolido amount of the 2009 and 2010 pledges MFP 40th anniversary-themed Myra Marx Ferree & G. Donald Gerald Platt came to nearly $470,000 over five articles still to come in 2014! Ferree, Jr. Willie Pearson, Jr. years, bringing the Campaign close to Gary Alan Fine William Roy Completed pledges by: its original $500,000 goal. Charles Gallagher Rogelio Saenz Thank you again to all who have Richard Alba William Gamson Gary Sandefur supported the Campaign and also Margaret L. Andersen Cheryl Townsend Gilkes Sociologists for Women in Society to all those who provide annual Ronald & Jacqueline Angel Evelyn Nakano Glenn Gregory Squires support to MFP at ASA membership Anonymous Elizabeth Higginbotham Teresa Sullivan renewal time, by attending the MFP Janet L. Astner Sally T. Hillsman David T. Takeuchi Benefit Reception at each Annual William Bielby Judith Howard Verta Taylor & Leila R. Rupp Meeting, and through contributing Edna & Phil Bonacich Arne L. Kalleberg Edward Telles publication royalties. A special rec- Andrew Beveridge Felice Levine Kathleen Tierney ognition goes to our organizational Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Amanda Lewis & Tyrone Forman Don & Barbara Tomaskovic-Devey partners SWS, Alpha Kappa Delta, Christine Bose Cora B. Marrett David R. Williams the Midwest Sociological Society, the Clifford Broman Ramiro Martinez Charles Willie Association of Black Sociologists, Tony N. Brown Douglas S. Massey Maxine Baca Zinn and the Southwestern Sociological Michael Burawoy Doug McAdam * In honor of Carla B. Howery

Vantage Point and sociological practice in graduate might be worth considering the value maintain active engagement in it. In from Page 2 training. ASA hopes that as graduate of membership relative to regular fact, it may be particularly impor- departments of sociology look in non-essential purchases. tant to maintain ASA membership relevant. The ASA mission statement depth at this issue, the Association Seventy percent of the non- during years when it is not possible explicitly states that the Association will be able to work with them to renewing ASA members responded for a member to attend the Annual serves researchers and practitioners make progress in how we respond to positively when asked if they Meeting in order to maintain in applied settings, as well as faculty the needs of sociologists working in planned to renew their member- connection to crucial professional working in colleges and universities. applied and/or professional research ship in the future. This ties back to networks and support intellectual But we know that meeting this part settings. But we know we need to be Annual Meeting participation being growth. of our mission has not been easy more creative. a key reason for people joining the As you reflect on the findings to achieve. I have been a member The cost of membership was also Association, and it reflects what presented here I welcome your of the ASA continuously since mentioned as a reason for not renew- we refer to as “membership churn” thoughts on the reasons you joined my graduate school days and also ing ASA membership. The ongo- or the practice of some members the ASA, the value of ASA member- spent the majority of my career in ing impact of the Great Recession dropping ASA membership during ship, and, in particular, specific ways non-academic professional research combined with startling reductions those years when they do not plan we could work together to more positions. The Sociological Practice in state-level investments in higher to attend the Annual Meeting. This fully support all of our members. and Public Sociology Section main- education have left many colleges is particularly important because Please send your comments to tains solid membership numbers, and universities facing real financial the survey also showed—as dis- [email protected]. and the Bureau of Labor Statistics challenges. Sociology departments cussed above—that the discounted References projects faster than average growth and research grants are becoming registration fee for attending the in graduate-level jobs related to less and less able to provide funds Annual Meeting was NOT among Stolle, Dietland. 2001. “Clubs and sociological practice through 2022. Congregations: The Benefits of Joining an for professional memberships and the top three most useful benefits Association” in Trust in Society, edited by At this year’s Annual Meeting, the travel. There is no question that many of membership. Access to jour- Karen S. Cook. New York: Russell Sage. theme of the Director of Graduate sociologists and their families make nals, participation in sections, and Studies Conference is “Preparing difficult decisions about where to Footnotes are all persistent benefits Sally T. Hillsman is Graduate Students for Multiple spend their personal income. It is an of membership that do not depend the Executive Officer Career Outcomes: Vision Mission understatement to say that for some on whether a member attends the of ASA. She can be and Implementation.” It focuses former members, ASA membership Annual Meeting in a given year. reached by email at directly on the importance of may not be the most important item They reflect a sociologist’s identifica- executive.office@ including both academic sociology in their budget. But for others, it tion with the discipline and desire to asanet.org.

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Mission Contested Space in the Inner 62.3 percent in From Page 1 Mission District 1990. But by For several decades, from the late 2010, Latinos ized into high-end and low-end 1960s to 2000, the Inner Mission had declined to service sectors (using Saskia Sassen’s District (IMD),1 the primary Latino 50 percent of framework) and that underwent neighborhood, resisted the tide of the IMD popu- spectacular booms and precipitous gentrification, partly because of the lation, and from declines since the 1990s, was felt organizing efforts by community 50 to 41 percent throughout San Francisco’s labor coalitions. Some areas in the IMD of the entire and housing markets. showed signs of economic deterio- MD—a sizeable In job markets, many Latinos, ration, overcrowded housing, crime decrease (data both U.S.-born and newly arriving and gangs; it was largely a barrio compiled by immigrants, have tended to remain of the working poor, but it was Brian Godfrey). In recent years, the presence of Internet cafes such as “L’s Caffé” show trapped as the “working poor,” their Latino space. But in the early Meanwhile, the the changes in the lower 24th Street neighborhood and the changing often needing more than one job 21st century, with San Francisco in non-Hispanic needs of its mixed residents. and/or remaining at the bottom of flux, this relative stability has been white popula- such as Metro/PCS have taken over the informal sector—for example, shattered. tion increased notably in the IMD, spaces near or previously occupied at day laborer street sites (men) or Perhaps more than any other from 47.3 percent in 2000 to 53 by Salvadoran/Mexican restaurants as maids and nannies (women). area of San Francisco, the IMD was percent in 2010. such as La Posta and Margarita’s In the late 1990s, a Guatemalan impacted by the rapid-fire boom Beginning in the late 1990s/early Pupusería.. The space occupied for soccer-league organizer told me and bust cycles of the high-tech sec- 2000s, gentrification and sky- decades by the Cuban-owned record how hard his compatriots had to tor in the late 1990s and early 2000s. rocketing rents as well as outright store Discolandia was taken over, work, “Aquí, no se vive, se sobre- Preexisting socioeconomic prob- evictions accelerated significantly when the owner retired, by a very vive” (“Here, we don’t live, we lems for Latinos were compounded in the IMD and the MD overall. As un-Latino restaurant, ”Pig and Pie.” survive”). by gentrification. Subsequently, the more high-tech workers moved in, In addition, some of the surviving As seen in previous articles in this Great Recession reduced the avail- evictions escalated in the MD more Latino businesses began catering series, both boom and bust periods ability of even low-wage jobs for than in other areas of San Francisco. to recently arrived professionals transformed San Francisco into one Latinos in San Francisco; and the Anti-displacement and tenant’s and tech workers. The longstand- of the least affordable urban areas high tech-driven economic recovery rights organizations put up a fight, ing Mexican restaurant and bakery for low-income residents. While this beginning around 2011 accelerated but were unable to stop this gentrifi- La Victoria became “La Victoria/ was the case previously, it has taken evictions and displacements. cation/expulsion process. Wholesome Bakery” in 2011, offer- on exaggerated proportions recently. As of 2000, Latino residents Increasingly during the early ing upscale cupcakes and expensive According to Census figures, San had resisted demographic decline, 2000s, the MD has lost its traditional fair-trade coffee (“De La Paz”) Francisco had the highest median remaining more or less stable from character as an affordable working- alongside traditional pan dulce, in rent in 2010-2012 (e.g., $3,250 a 1970 to 2000 at 14 percent of San class neighborhood. Rental and order to “keep up with the changing month for a two-bedroom apart- Francisco’s population, concentrated home prices have risen far-higher neighborhood,” as the owner told us. ment), higher even than New York mainly in the Mission District (MD) than in the nearby “Outer Mission” From a top-down analytical City. Additionally, San Francisco and along the Mission Street cor- and Excelsior districts, and home perspective, this re-socialization of has the least affordable home prices ridor to Daly City. During the 1980s prices have become virtually as space can be seen as a triumph for in the United States, with just 14 and 1990s, outright displacement high as in bordering middle-class developers and new middle-class percent of homes being accessible of Latino immigrants in the Inner Bernal Heights. For example, a residents in the city’s warmest, to middle-class buyers. On another Mission District advanced far more 600-square foot MD apartment was sunniest neighborhood, a mere dimension, a 2014 Brookings slowly than predicted. Unlike other being rented for $2,800 a month in 10-minute drive or public transit Institution report found that San neighborhoods of San Francisco that 2012. In addition, in a new condo ride to downtown. Viewed from the Francisco’s income inequality ratio, had been completely transformed by complex on Mission Street between bottom up, the IMD is, in Godfrey’s the second highest nationally, grew these dynamics in the mid- to late- 21st and 22nd Streets (formerly the formulation, a “barrio under siege,” faster between 2007 and 2012 than 20th century (as analyzed by Chester site of a large discount store patron- responding defensively to threats of with any other city. Hartman and others), gentrification ized largely by Latinos), condos are displacement and neoliberal spatial began on the being sold in 2014 at prices reaching restructuring. Low-wage Latinos IMD’s outer $1,000 to $1,250 per square foot. faced with displacement from the edges, but did Home prices in the MD overall MD during the early 2000s have not yet occur rose by 30 percent between March been forced to migrate, some to less wholesale in the 2010 and March 2013—the highest expensive neighborhoods in San core (around increase in the city. Francisco, but primarily to Oakland th lower 24th Street). No longer is lower 24 Street (at and farther east. Between 2000 and By 2000, the IMD’s core) simply a Latino 2005, according to Census data, 10 according to ethnic enclave, although Latinos still percent of San Francisco’s Latinos Census data, maintain a significant presence. To left the city. And many newly arriv- Latinos still mention only a few of the multiply- ing Latino migrants in the early made up 60.9 ing examples: internet cafes such as 2000s have avoided San Francisco percent of the “L’s,” exotic ice cream parlors, trendy altogether, instead locating directly La Victoria, lower 24th Street’s famous, longstanding Mexican bakery IMD population, Oriental and organic restaurants to the East Bay. and restaurant, now serves both traditional Latino and recently arrived compared with (e.g., “Sushi Bistro”), and businesses professional high-tech (non-Latino) clienteles. Continued on Page 7

6 footnotes • May/June 2014 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association Dual-Credit Partnership Between a High School and Hawkeye Community College Chad Van Cleve, Teacher at Cedar Falls community college in our town. To of this venture. To get me started, curriculum. In my earlier college High School in Cedar Falls, Iowa attend these classes students had they provided me with the sociol- instruction, I gave students the hen returning to the United to leave the high school campus, ogy department’s objectives for the syllabus with the expectation that WStates after teaching in Europe, which caused some students to course and a list of resources that they would have read for the two I filled out the online application miss more class time at the high instructors used at the community classes we had each week and my for teachers in the state of Iowa. It school than many administrators college. Student enrollment for competition was three or maybe was a time of economic downturn thought was manageable or even the course is not automatic; they four other courses, not five or six. and I was worried about finding appropriate. All of the AP classes have to obtain a certain score on Many of my high school students a job. To my delight, it did not were year-long and limited the the ACT or they have to meet felt overwhelmed by the work load take long to find employment and, options and variety of courses the reading and writing scores and the (perceived) lack of time in fact, having graduate work in in which students could enroll. set by the community college on to complete the work. I worked the field of sociology prompted a Teaching semester-long college the Compass Test. Students are around this by assigning smaller school to come looking for me. The courses in a dual-credit partnership screened to ensure that they have chunks of the chapters each day school was in dire need of someone with the community college at the the reading and writing skills and giving students related articles with graduate credentials to teach a high school turned out to be a logi- needed to be successful in a college and case studies each week before dual credit course in sociology. cal solution to these problems. course. we discussed them so that students One difference in teaching this could better manage their time. The desire for dual-credit Developing the First Class college-level course as opposed The difficulty of being over- courses developed a few years Having previously taught a before I started at Cedar Falls High to my earlier work as an adjunct whelmed by so many classes still Foundations of Education class at professor was that I met with raises its head from time to time School. The school wanted to pro- a small private college, I felt com- vide challenging courses for stu- students every day. While meeting for some students but overall is no fortable with the standard of work with students every day was a longer a problem. dents. There were some Advanced that would be expected for this Placement (AP) courses as well as positive, many of these students Outside of the workload, the course. The instructors at the com- were taking five or six classes as only other issue I have had with classes as the state university or the munity college were supportive part of their normal high school Continued on Page 8

Mission local backlash in which the Mayor acts, S-Comm From Page 6 unilaterally decreed that informa- detained and tion on undocumented arrestees deported many In late April 2014, as Footnotes would be shared with ICE at the non-criminal was going to press, IMD Latino time of arrest rather than convic- immigrants, cultural, community, merchant, and tion. The Board of Supervisors including some political leaders formally launched voted overwhelmingly to force the legal residents. a major initiative to create a Latino mayor to retract the measure in San Francisco Cultural District around the lower 2009. (This resolution was authored County had 24th Street core. While it will not by Supervisor David Campos, a among the affect real estate prices, this is a Guatemalan immigrant who became highest rates of significant move to preserve the the first elected Latino to represent deportation of area’s Latino heritage, identity, and voting District 9, covering most of non-criminals Muralists on Cesar Chavez Day in 2010 symbolize the campaign to contributions to San Francisco. the MD and Bernal Heights.) But for or minor preserve the Latino character of the Inner Mission District “Hood.” Sanctuary Contested the longer-range outlook, with the offenders under changing voter demographics of San S-Comm: Transforming Regions (University of Texas Press, forthcoming) Politically, San Francisco’s Francisco, it is uncertain whether 77.6 percent (of 241 cases) between undocumented Latino immigrants elected officials will remain as com- October 2008 and February 2011. Notes face new threats to sanctuary protec- mitted to Sanctuary City. In 2013, the Board of Supervisors tions. These protections have been 1 The Mission District as a whole as Much more ominous was the passed a “Due Process for All” mea- defined by census tracts, is bounded by in place for two decades, maintained mandatory 2008 federal “Secure sure, refusing cooperation with ICE Cesar Chavez Street to the south, the 101 in part by constant organizing by Communities” (S-Comm) Program, in most, but not all cases. Freeway to the east and north, Market large immigrant rights coalitions. Street in the northwest corner, and through which ICE imposed the pri- On balance, San Francisco, like Dolores Street to the west; it includes, in Sanctuary City has meant, among macy of federal authorities in carry- other local jurisdictions, has lost other things, non-cooperation addition to the Inner Mission District, the ing out deportations, without regard some of its relative autonomy, upscale Western area between Valencia with deportation procedures of the for local laws or public opinion. so that sanctuary is no longer a and Dolores Streets, and the more th Immigration and Naturalization S-Comm required local police to guaranteed protection. The tug of industrial/mixed Northern Area from 17 Street north to 101. The Inner Mission Service (currently Immigration share fingerprints of undocumented war is likely to continue, increasing and Customs Enforcement [ICE] District is bounded by Cesar Chavez to arrestees with ICE and to hold them fear and uncertainty among San the south, the 101 Freeway to the east, 17th within the Department of Homeland in detention until ICE could pick Francisco’s Latino immigrants. Street to the north, Valencia Street to the Security). them up. While it was supposed east. For our purposes, the “core” refers In 2008, a few high-profile cases Susanne Jonas, University of California- to the smaller area in and around lower to focus on immigrants who had th of undocumented immigrant youth Santa Cruz, is co-author with Nestor 24 Street, between Mission Street and committed serious violent criminal Rodríguez of Guatemala-U.S. Migration: committing serious crimes led to a Potrero Avenue.

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Sweet who will manage book and film the innovative work of our last two have addressed this concern. The From Page 1 reviews. Michele is an associate pro- editors—Elizabeth Grauerholz and second special issue would be “The fessor of sociology at Elizabethtown current editor Kathleen Lowney. Use of Media and New Technologies fourth edition and has helped scores College and has a record of meri- One of Liz’s great advancements in the Classroom.” of undergraduates across the last 15 torious teaching and dedication to was to partner with ASR to develop One additional innovation years), materials for ASA’s TRAILS innovative instruction, mentoring, the teaching implications of recent proposed by Steve is to create (Teaching Resource and Innovations and professional development of research articles, while Kathleen a Teaching Sociology Index that Library for Sociology), and through students. She has been the advisor commissioned a number of articles would be published on the Teaching countless workshops and presenta- on more than 20 award-winning that reviewed textbooks in popular Sociology website and structured tions on teaching for a wide range of student research papers and mul- substantive fields (e.g., deviance, in a manner so that future editors professional associations. tiple student publications. She and stratification). Each produced impor- would be expected to update it upon Given that Steve already has Steve have a successful track record tant special issues, including on such publication of subsequent issues served for nine years on TS’s editorial of working together on teaching topics as quantitative literacy, writing, of the journal. In this manner, the board, including co-editing a special presentations and other related ini- assessment and graduate student Teaching Sociology Index would be a issue on cultivating quantitative tiatives. Michele’s goal is that books teaching, and a retrospective on the current and complete catalog, facili- literacy (2006), it is easy to see why and films will be accepted and solic- sociological imagination. tating the creation and refinement he is a great choice for its next editor. ited from academic publishers and Steve will continue in this latter of courses as well as a means to Beyond Teaching Sociology, his edito- film distributors within two years of tradition, as he plans to use guest document the frequency of publica- rial experience also includes guest the date of publication or release. In editors to publish two special issues. tion of specific topics and concerns editing for the journal Community, addition, advanced undergraduate The first will be on “The Sociology within the journal. Work and Family and co-editing the students at Elizabethtown College Curriculum” and it will address the A Personal Note Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia will assist Michele in identifying challenges of coordinating learning (2007-2010). His most recent book, potential books and films from the between classes and of creating a On a personal level, I would place The Work-Family Interface (2014), latest catalogs. cohesive array of classes. One of the Steve among the very best col- includes submissions from 22 key recommendations of the ASA leagues with whom I have worked Plans for Teaching Sociology authors, and his co-edited book, The Task Force on the Undergraduate across my almost 40-year career. He Work-Family Handbook (2006), con- Each new editor of a journal builds Major concluded that such an is smart, careful, thorough, prompt tains 34 chapters written by leading on the successes of her/his predeces- integrated curriculum is one of the (he is always the first person to scholars in the field sors, and Steve is very fortunate to most important means by which respond to an e-mail), kind, fair, Steve will be joined by Associate have been preceded by a series of learning is advanced, yet relatively and generous. Sounds like exactly Editor Michele Lee Kozimor-King, terrific editors. For example, take few articles in Teaching Sociology what we all want in an editor!

editor transitions Dual-Credit transcript. An additional motiva- From Page 7 tion encouraging students to be Contemporary Sociology: As of August 1, 2014, all books, prepared and work hard in the reviews, and correspondence should be sent to the new editor, students is that when they are in course is that if a student earns a Michael Sauder, Department of Sociology, 140 Seashore Hall West, dual-credit sociology they are no grade of a C- or higher the school Iowa City, IA 52242; [email protected]. longer high school students, they will pay for the course. This is Contexts: As of August 1, 2014, new proposals and submissions are instead under the rules of the communicated to parents prior to should be sent to the new editors, Syed Ali and Philip Cohen, Contexts college. The penalties for aca- enrollment so many parents sup- Editorial Office, Department of Sociology, 2112 Art-Sociology Build- demic dishonesty are much more port and push their children to ing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; editors@contexts. severe at the college so I take put forth their best effort. org. Correspondence regarding revisions of manuscripts under review note to remind all students of this As my teaching loads have will continue to be received until August 15, 2014, by the outgoing difference. Furthermore, policy grown to a point where I primarily editors, Jodi O’Brien and Arlene Stein; [email protected]. changes that are school wide often instruct sociology classes, I have Social Psychology Quarterly: As of August 1, 2014, all new submis- do not apply to the college course been grateful for the opportunity sions should be sent to the new editors, Richard T. Serpe and Jan if the policy runs counter to the to teach the dual-credit course E. Stets. Please address all correspondence to Jan E. Stets, Depart- policy of the college (e.g., late with energized and inquiring ment of Sociology, Watkins Hall, University of California, Riverside, work, retakes, and extra credit students. I have had many students CA 92521-0419; [email protected]. Correspondence regarding revisions policies). visit me and tell me how my course of manuscripts already under review will continue to be received until August 31, 2014, by the outgoing editor, Karen Hegtvedt, Motivations and other dual-credit courses have prepared them as they entered Department of Sociology, 1555 Dickey Drive, Emory University, The experience of teaching Atlanta, GA 30322; [email protected]. post-secondary institutions. The dual-credit sociology has been safety of the dual-credit option at Teaching Sociology: As of August 1, 2014, all new submissions quite satisfying. Student motiva- the high school versus traveling should be sent to the new editor, Stephen Sweet, Department of tion to participate in class is high. to a strange building on a college Sociology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850; teachingsociology@ I believe that much of their moti- campus has inspired students who ithaca.edu. Correspondence regarding revisions of manuscripts vation is an interest in the subject did not think they were “college already under review will continue to be received until September of sociology, but I am well aware 30, 2014, by the outgoing editor, Kathleen Lowney, Department of material” with the confidence to go of other motivations including Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Valdosta State Uni- to college and pursue a profes- that the grade students receive versity, Valdosta, GA 31698-0060; [email protected]. sional degree. in my course goes on a college

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Investigating Dynamic Models of he Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund is a small grants program of the American Sociological Social Processes. TAssociation. It supports projects that advance the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) within the disci- The grant will aid Kitts to pline of sociology. The Carnegie Foundation defines SoTL as “problem posing about an issue of teaching or learn- develop hands-on computer tools ing, study of the problem through methods appropriate to the disciplinary epistemologies, applications of results that allow students (and research- to practice, communication of results, self-reflection, and peer review” (2001). The 2014 selection committee has ers) to explore social processes awarded $2,000 grants to three projects. With the help of this fund, the recipients can begin meaningful work that and social theories using dynamic will help advance sociological pedagogy. The ASA would like to congratulate the following recipients: computer simulations. Kitts believes that understanding the link Jesse Holzman, Carolina Calvillo, academic work while also critically tivate this skill. Kane’s project will between micro-level interactions Michael De Anda Muñiz, William analyzing the problems that face consist of interviews with sociol- and macro-level dynamics could Scarborough, and Barbara their community. Throughout the ogy instructors about how they have profound impact on the ways Risman, University of Illinois at 2013 fall semester several graduate think about, design, and assess we engage in basic sociological Chicago, for Empowering High students from UIC served as men- writing assignments and a content research. An increasing number of School Students through Teaching tors and advisors to the high school analysis of those assignments. sociologists are using computa- and Research. students, providing guidance and This research seeks to answer tional models to clarify theoretical A group of graduate students feedback throughout the research four questions: what do sociology problems in social dynamics, often from the University of Illinois at process. The grant will allow the instructors want to accomplish in by applying computer simulations Chicago (UIC) have partnered high school students to present assigning writing?; What do their of sociological theories. Although with an alternative high school their research at the upcoming ASA assignments look like and why?; a handful of interdisciplinary on the southwest side of Chicago. Annual Meeting in San Francisco. how do instructors assess writing?; centers teach these tools, only a few The joint program was aimed at Danielle Kane, DePauw University, and to what extent do instructors sociology programs currently offer both preparing students for college for How Sociology Instructors Use draw on campus resources? This training in computational model- and developing active citizenship Writing Assignments to Teach project aims to serve the need of ing, and this training is also not and community engagement. By Critical Thinking Skills. scholars who are teaching sociol- available in other departments or creating an AP-like Sociology class While it is generally agreed that ogy to increase the impact of writ- disciplines. The grant will support and implementing sociological the study of sociology increases ing assignments. the development of a suite of com- methodology in a community-based critical thinking ability, there is James Kitts, University of puter simulation tools for class- research project, the high school little empirical research on how Massachusetts, for Interactive room use that will be disseminated students produced college-level specific sociology assignments cul- tools for Teaching, Learning, and online for free.

The Open Access Movement and Activism for the “Knowledge Commons” ver the last 25 years, the publica- and many smaller publishers are National Institutes of Health already with OA publishing. 5 Librarians at Otion industry has seen a more struggling to survive. require that government-funded the University of Pittsburgh represent than 70 percent growth in its schol- As with any highly consolidated research be published via Open an important segment of the OA arly content. Yet today, far fewer industry, this has meant rising costs Access. movement, providing support for companies control the bulk of publi- for consumers. The cost of academic TheOA movement refers to the editors and researchers and helping cation. Northern Illinois University journals has risen more than 300 advocates for the publication of advance understandings of OA and Professor of percent in the past content that is freely accessible online. related innovations such as Creative Library Sciences 20 years, and many SPARC, an international alliance of Commons.6 Mary H. Munroe university libraries academic and research libraries, is one Concerns about Open Access concludes that are eliminating of a growing number of organiza- because of the some journal tions helping build the movement, in Not surprisingly, the industry is mergers and subscriptions as a part by supporting the development becoming nervous about the OA 7 acquisitions in the result.3 Shrinking of online, peer-reviewed journals. movement. Professional associa- industry, university libraries now university budgets exacerbate University libraries are also increas- tions like the American Sociological purchase most of their books and inequalities in access to scholarly ingly coming together to actively sup- Association, which rely on revenues journals from the same 12 compa- research and publications. port OA publishing. The University of from journals to support their oper- nies. Six companies control 40 of the In response to these trends, Pittsburgh’s University Library System ations, are affected. Publishers, such major scholarly publishers.1 universities and government agen- is among the leaders in this regard. as SAGE and Palgrave MacMillan, Large publishing firms like Reed cies are coming together to back a It is a member of the Open Access are publishing their own open access Elsevier have achieved profit margins rapidly growing movement for open Scholarly Publishers Association, journals and seeking other ways 8 as high as 36 percent. These rates access (OA). Both claim that they (as and it offers a publishing service for to monetize OA content. Many compare with those of leading compa- well as taxpayers) should not have online journals that includes an online commercial publishers now offer an nies in the most profitable (also highly to pay twice for access to scholarly manuscript submission and process- option for traditional subscription- concentrated) industries. Of course, research,4 and they have begun to ing service at minimal cost. It also based journals to charge authors a these high rates of return are charac- fight the growing commodification supports a fund to help OA authors fee to unlock individual articles for 2 teristic of the few largest publishers, of knowledge. Agencies such as the pay any publication fees associated Continued on Page 10 footnotes • May/June 2014 9 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

ASA Forum determines the quality and cred- attracted to the ideas and values References ibility of content. behind OA. Yet, this means a funda- From Page 9 1 www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers Scholarly publishing metrics mental re-thinking of the publishing Open Access (a hybrid model of such as the journal impact factor industry and groups like the ASA 2 For many of these large firms, scholarly 9 journal publications represent one compo- “Gold Open Access” ). also help reinforce the interests of that rely on revenues from publish- nent of their operations, thus overall profit There have been efforts to commercial publishers. Their selec- ing. While we may not want to pay rates reflect diverse revenue streams. discredit the OA movement by rein- tion criteria are often opaque. Since higher member dues, do we want 3 allenpress.com/system/files/pdfs/library/ forcing the assumption that online most OA journals are newer and less our association siding with publish- ap_journal_pricing_study_2010.pdf and OA sources are less reliable established than their print coun- ers and against legislation that 4 www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/ than printed ones. For instance, in a terparts, relatively few have been requires federally funded research to expanding-public-access-results-federally- recent Science article, “Who’s Afraid incorporated into the mainstream be published in OA sources? These funded-research of Peer Review?,” John Bohannon indices. Many authors are there- are matters the ASA membership 5 Some OA journals use these fees to reported on a study in which he fore hesitant to publish in them. In should discuss and debate. support their operation costs, since they submitted a bogus manuscript to cannot rely on paid subscriptions. response, OA advocates are working Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh, over 300 OA journals. He found that to develop alternative metrics to is the editor of the Journal of World- 6 Creative Commons is an alternative to conventional copyright agreements nearly half of the journals accepted assess the scholarly impact of OA Systems Research. She is a member of the paper. However, the absence of that allows authors to freely share their publications. the International Network of Scholar work and ensure attribution. (see: a control group led more critical By continuing to publish in Activists’ Working Group to defend us.creativecommons.org). readers to suggest that the problem the Knowledge Commons and is on traditional ways, sociologists are 7 www.thestreet.com/story/11560589/1/ruk- the Leadership Committee of internet is not likely unique to OA publica- participating in the enclosure of the the-maturing-threat-of-open-access.html tions. Nevertheless, Bohannon’s advocacy group, May First/People Link. knowledge commons, whether we 8 www.insidehighered.com/ article helped fuel the impres- intend to or not. As the American Thanks to Timothy Deliyannides, the staff of the Office of Scholarly Communication news/2013/06/05/publishers-universities- sion that OA sources contain less Sociological Association begins its both-prep-open-access-plans and Publishing at the University of rigorous content than conventional own OA journal, members need Pittsburgh, and Bob Glidden for their 9 For a definition of the “Green” and sources. In reality, it is the editorial to be informed about the issues assistance. “Gold” varieties of Open Access see: policy and practices of a journal that at stake. Many scholars may be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access.

Congratulations to the ISA Travel Sociologists Elected to the Grant Awardees American Academy of Arts &

ith support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), ASA has Sciences Wprovided travel grants to U.S. sociologists who will be attending the XVIII wo U.S.-based sociologists were inequality in education. Among his International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology in Tamong some of the world’s major works were a series of studies Yokohama, Japan. This year ASA received more than 120 applications in this most accomplished leaders from on tracking and ability grouping competition. Of those 120 applicants nearly 50 were awarded between $1,000 academia, business, public affairs, that identified consequences for stu- and $1,500. The ISA World Congress will take place July 13-19, 2014. the humanities, and the arts who dent achievement and revealed the were recently elected members of mechanisms through which those Kathryn F. Anderson Miho Iwata the American Academy of Arts consequences occurred. Yumiko Aratani Keri E. Iyall Smith and Sciences. In late April, the Sherry R. Turkle is Abby Jeffrey T. Jackson Oluwakemi M. Balogun Academy announced its selec- Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of PamelaI. Jackson Rosemary L. Barberet tion of 204 members, including the Social Studies of Science and Pablo Lapegna Loretta E. Bass sociologists Adam Gamoran Technology in the Program in Robert J. MacPherson Sampson Lee Blair Science, Technology, and Society at Katherine E. Maich (Education) and Sherry Roxanne Amy Brainer Turkle (Archaeology, Anthropology, MIT. She is also the founder (2001) Casey Brienza Noriko Matsumoto Setsuko Matsuzawa Sociology, Geography, and and current director of the MIT Yi-Lin Chiang Demography), as part of its 2014 Initiative on Technology and Self. Marion Coddou Erin L. McDonnell Cecilia Menjivar Class of Fellows. One of the nation’s Turkle writes on the “subjective Michele Companion Robert W. Mowry most prestigious honorary societies, side” of people’s relationships with D’Lane R. Compton Robert N. Parker the Academy is also a leading center technology, especially computers. Justin T. Denney Tola Olu Pearce for independent policy research. She is an expert on mobile technol- Michael C. Dreiling Lori Peek Adam Gamoran is the President ogy, social networking, and sociable Barry Eidlin Anthony J. Roberts of the William T. Grant Foundation, robotics. David Scott FitzGerald Cesar F. Rosado Marzan Before that he was the MacArthur The Academy will welcome David F. Greenberg Patricia G. Steinhoff Professor of Sociology and this year’s new class at its annual Michele R. Gregory Esther Sullivan Educational Policy Studies and Induction Ceremony on October Alya Guseva Kazuko Suzuki former Director of the Wisconsin 11, 2014, at its headquarters in Brooke Harrington Melissa M. Valle Center for Education Research. His Cambridge, MA. For more informa- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Roberta J. Villalon research interests include school tion, visit www.amacad.org/content/ Matthew W. Hughey Jared M. Wright organization, stratification, and news/pressReleases.aspx ?pr=217.

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ix sociologists are among the Zai Liang (State University of book about the recent patterns in between federal law and laboratory S18 leading social scientists New York-Albany) will write a racial and socioeconomic academic science. She finds that new federal recently appointed 2014–2015 book on patterns of employment achievement gaps in the United lab regulations and audits, often Visiting Scholars at the Russell and settlement among recent States, focusing on achievement implemented in the name of safety, Sage Foundation. During their Chinese immigrants in the United trends in metropolitan school threaten the autonomy of scientific tenure at the Foundation, Visiting States. The book will examine the districts. He will assess the extent practice and establish precedents Scholars will pursue research and role of employment agencies in the to which achievement gaps can for the legal surveillance of similar writing projects that will promote process of immigrant settlement be attributed to socioeconomic innovation-based professions. the Foundation’s commitment to in non-gateway destinations, as disparities between groups. He will One of the oldest American strengthening the social sciences. well as the challenges of securing also estimate the effects of a set of foundations, the Russell Sage All Visiting Scholars undertake jobs and operating businesses for education policies on ameliorating Foundation was established by timely social science research and immigrants in these locations. these gaps. Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for apply their research to significant Ann Morning (New York Aliya Saperstein (Stanford “the improvement of social and social problems. While Visiting University), working with University) will write a book on living conditions in the United Scholars typically work on projects Marcello Maneri, will complete how changes in racial status are States.” In its early years the related to the Foundation’s current a book comparing the ways that related to changes in social status. Foundation undertook major programs, a number of scholars Americans and Italians assess The book builds on her research on projects in low-income housing, whose research falls outside the group differences such as race and the fluidity of racial perceptions, urban planning, social work, and Foundation’s active programs also nationality. She will look at how including analyses of how people labor reform. The Foundation participate. national conceptions of culture and self-identify racially, how they are now dedicates itself exclusively to Richard D. Alba (City University biology shape individuals’ beliefs classified by others, and how con- strengthening the methods, data, of New York-Graduate Center) about what distinguish ethnic ceptions of race shift both within and theoretical core of the social will write a series of articles about groups from one another. She finds and across generations. She finds sciences as a means of diagnosing the demographic transformation that due to increasing non-white that these micro-level changes social problems and improving of working-age Americans and its immigration to the United States, carry significant implications for social policies. The Foundation is impact on the ethnic and racial Americans’ conceptions of racial the persistence of racial inequality. the current publisher of volumes in composition of the upper tiers of difference are starting to resemble Susan Silbey (Massachusetts the ASA Rose Series in Sociology. the workforce. The project will those held by Italians and other Institute of Technology) will For additional information on the evaluate the nature and significance Western Europeans. employ 10 years of ethnographic Russell Sage Foundation Visiting of the growing diversity in top-tier Sean Reardon (Stanford research to write a book that Scholars Program, visit /www.rus- occupations such as finance. University, Education) will write a examines the growing tension sellsage.org/visiting-scholars.

Sociologists Receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships It’s Here! 21st Century n April, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellows. Cecilia Menjívar is Cowden IGuggenheim Foundation Jack A. Goldstone is the Distinguished Professor in the Careers in announced the winners for Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Sanford School of Social and Sociology the 90th annual Unites States Jr. Professor of Public Policy at Family Dynamics at Arizona and Canadian Guggenheim George Mason University and State University. Her research 2nd Edition Fellowship Awards. Among the a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus examines how state power mani- almost three thousand appli- Center. Goldstone’s research fests itself in the microprocesses cations, 177 fellowships were focuses on the conditions of everyday life. Specifically, awarded to a diverse group of for building political stabil- her work seeks to understand artists, scientists, and schol- ity and economic growth in the impact of structural forces, ars. Guggenheim Fellows are developing nations. His latest as shaped by the state, on appointed on the basis of prior book is Political Demography: individuals and how they in achievement and exceptional How Population Changes are turn respond from their social promise. One of the hallmarks Reshaping International Security positions, attaching meaning to of the Guggenheim Fellowship and National Politics (2012). their actions. Her Guggenheim program is the diversity of its He is currently studying the Fellowship project will focus on Fellows. Fifty-six disciplines impact of global population writing Living with the Law in Price: $1/Single Copy, and 83 academic institu- changes on social and economic Arizona: Immigrants’ Everyday $75/100 Copies tions are represented by this development. Among his many Encounters With and Through year’s Fellows. Sociologists awards is the ASA Distinguished Law, based on her longitudi-

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phies.” This special issue develops the Conference on Giovanni Arrighi’s For more information, visit www. Call for Papers method of world-system biography. Long Twentieth Century, October sciencebg.net/en/. Publications If there is a single critique of world- 10-11, 2014, Binghamton, NY. Theme: June 11-15, 2014. The 16th Interna- systems analysis, which has stuck “The Long Twentieth Century: Money, tional Conference, Elenite Holiday Contemporary Social Science calls over the past three decades, though Power, and the Origins of Our Times.” for papers for its special issue “High- Village, Bulgaria. Theme: “Materials, unfairly, it is the charge of reduction- Arrighi’s book covered a wide range of Methods, and Technologies.” For more Speed Rail – Fast Track to Where?” The ism. Deadline: May 31, 2014. Contact: his interests: the historical evolution proposal to construct a high-speed information, visit www.sciencebg.net/ Kevan Harris at [email protected] of capitalism as a world-system, labor en/. rail, HS2, from London to Birmingham or Brendan McQuade at bmcquadl@ supplies and movements, hegemonies by 2026, and, ultimately, to the North binghamton.edu. For more informa- and the interstate system, financializa- July 31 - August 3, 2014. Institute for of England during the 2030s, is one of tion, visit www.jwsr.org/wp-content/ tion, peripheralization, semiperipheral Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, the biggest and most controversial UK uploads/2014/02/2014-02-JWSR-Spe- states, the illusion of development, the Pasadena, CA. Theme: “Does God Play infrastructure projects for a generation. cial-Issue-CFP.pdf. construction of Southern Africa as a re- Dice? Randomness & Divine Provi- This special issue creates an interdis- gion of the world economy, and, most dence.” Contact: Oskar Gruewald at ciplinary forum for the social sciences The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory [email protected]. For more information, invites academic editorial contribu- presciently, the rise of China and East to contribute their analyses of such Asia, more generally. Deadline: June visit www.JIS3.org/symposium2014. projects. For more information, visit tors. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory html. presents a major landmark reference 1, 2014. Contact: Ravi Palat at palat@ www.explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ binghamton.edu. pgas/contemporary-social-science- publication. The encyclopedia is six August 18, 2014, Critical Sociology special-issue-hs2. volumes with one volume of entries Mid-South Sociological Association Panels, San Francisco, CA. Theme: “Call related to introduction to theory; two (MSSA) 2014 Conference, November for Tribute and Reflections: The Life International Journal of Humanities volumes covering the humanistic disci- 5-8, 2014, Mobile, AL. Theme: “Sociol- and Work of Rod Bush.” On December and Social Science (IJHSS) is an open plines; and three volumes covering the ogy and Globalization: Exploring 5, 2013 we lost a valued colleague and access, peer-reviewed, and refereed in- scientific and empirical disciplines. This Diversity, Paradigmatic Shifts and Criti- comrade in the person of Roderick ternational journal published by Center structure reflects the two branches of cal Frameworks from a Social Context.” Douglas Bush. Rod was committed in for Promoting Ideas, USA. IJHSS aims theory study that evolved in the early Deadline to submit abstract: Septem- his scholarship and activism to bring- to promote interdisciplinary studies 20th Century. Contact: Thomas Walzer ber 26, 2014. Contact: Anita Bledsoe- ing about a more just world. Rod was in humanities and social science and at [email protected], (608) Gardner at [email protected]. highly regarded for his contributions become the leading journal in humani- 513-5597. For more information, visit www. that deepened our understanding of ties and social science in the world. midsouthsoc.org/conference/2014- this unjust world and his efforts toward Contact: [email protected]. For more Conferences mssa-conference-call-for-papers. what might be done to transform it. information, visit www.ijhssnet.com. Contact: Robert Newby at rnewby@ California Sociological Association Second International Conference on frontier.com or Melanie Bush at Journal of Organizational Behavior Survey Methods in Multinational, (JOB) invites submissions for its forth- (CSA), November 7-8, 2014, Riverside, [email protected] or (917) CA. Theme: “Social Responsibility.” Multiregional and Multicultural 846-6722. coming special issue “Can Neurons Contexts (3MC), July 2016, Chicago, Manage?” This issue will be guest ed- Some of the sessions will address issues surrounding globalization and the IL. This conference will bring together August 27-29, 2014. The Fifth Confer- ited by Dirk Lindebaum. Deadline: July researchers and survey practitioners ence of European Studies in Sym- 17, 2015. Contact: Neal M. Ashkanasy ways in which California and the United States are involved in global processes. concerned with survey methodology bolic Interaction, Aalborg University, at [email protected]. For more and practice in comparative contexts. Denmark. Theme: “The Times They Are information, visit www.onlinelibrary. Local adaptations and innovations will also be considered in comparative Conference contributions will help a-Changin’.” Contact: esssi2014@socsci. wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28IS document current best practices aau.dk. For more information, visit SN%291099-1379. and global contexts. Other sessions touch upon many related concerns and and stimulate new ideas for further www.esssi2014.aau.dk/. Journal of World-Systems Research interests. Contact: Anne Morenco at research and development. Deadline: September 1-5, 2014. The 13th Inter- (JWSR) is accepting papers for its [email protected]. For more July 1, 2014. Contact: Timothy Johnson national Conference, Elenite Holiday special issue on “World-System Biogra- information, visit www.cal-soc.org. at [email protected] or Beth-Ellen Pennell at Village, Bulgaria. Theme: “Economy and [email protected]. For more infor- Business.” For more information, visit mation, www.csdiworkshop.org. www.sciencebg.net/en/. Symposium at the University of September 4-8, 2014. The 5th Inter- Mississippi, October 23-24, 2014, national Conference, Elenite Holiday Oxford, MS. Theme: “Symbols of Exclu- Village, Bulgaria. Theme: “Education, sion: The Semiotics of Race in Public Research and Development.” For more Spaces.” The United States Holocaust information, visit www.sciencebg. Published monthly with combined issues in May/June, July/August, and September/ Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph, and net/en/. October. Mailed to all ASA members. Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the University September 7-11, 2014. The 8th Inter- Editor: Sally T. Hillsman Associate Editor: Margaret Weigers Vitullo of Mississippi’s Department of Sociol- national Conference, Elenite Holiday Managing Editor: Johanna Olexy Secretary: Mary Romero ogy and Anthropology and Critical Village, Bulgaria. Theme: “Language, Individual and Society.” For more infor- Article submissions are limited to 1,000 words and must have journalistic value (e.g., Race Studies Group invite applications mation, visit www.sciencebg.net/en/. timeliness, significant impact, general interest) rather than be research oriented or for a symposium on the semiotics of race in public spaces and efforts to rd scholarly in nature. Submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board for pos- September 10-14, 2014. The 3 memorialize histories of racialized sible publication. “ASA Forum” (including letters to the editor) contributions are International Conference, Elenite Holi- atrocities. Deadline: June 13, 2014. day Village, Bulgaria. Theme: “Media limited to 400–600 words; “Obituaries,” 500–700 words; and “Announcements,” 200 Contact: Krista Hegburg at khegburg@ and Mass Communication.” For more words. 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October 13-14, 2014. 22nd Annual Becky L. Beal, California State Gordon Douglas, University of Charles Gallagher, La Salle University, Symposium on Family Issues, Nittany University-East Bay, was quoted in an Chicago, was quoted in a January 27 was quoted in an April 10 CNN.com Lion Inn, University Park, PA. Theme: April 12 Orange County Register article, Fast Company article, “Can Graffiti Be article, “Has The Roberts Court Placed “Gender and Couple Relations.” Con- “Skateboarders, Cities Clash Over Good for Cities?” and in a February Landmark 1964 Civil Rights Law on a tact: Carolyn Scott at [email protected]. Public Spaces.” 25 Outside Magazine article on the Hit List?” For more information, visit www.pop. Alex Bierman, University of Calgary, rising trend of “guerrilla” bicycling Heather Gautney, Fordham Univer- psu.edu/events/2014/22nd-annual- was quoted in an April 10 U.S. News infrastructure. He was quoted based sity, wrote a March 15 New York Times symposium-on-family-issues. and World report article about his re- on his recently published City & letter to the editor about U.S. attitudes cent Social Psychology Quarterly study, Community article on “Do-It-Yourself toward leadership. Funding which examined the mental health Urban Design” improvements in North American cities. Meredith Greif, Johns Hopkins Univer- Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust toll exacted on the large numbers of sity, was quoted in an April 14 Smith- offers research grants to non-profit civilians who work with the military in Kathryn Edin and Tim Nelson, both of sonianMag.org article, “The American organizations, for research into the war zones. The study, co-authored with Johns Hopkins University, and William Dream Doesn’t Mean The Same Thing causes of alcoholism or substance Ryan Kelty, Washington College, was Julius Wilson, Harvard University, were to White People and Minorities.” abuse. Basic, clinical and social- also the subject of April 10 Philly.com quoted in an article, “What If Every- environmental proposals will all be and April 9 Gothamist articles. thing You Knew about Poverty Was Kevan Harris, Princeton University, was quoted in an April 11 Washington considered. Grants approximately Kathleen Blee, University of Pitts- Wrong?,” which appeared in the March/ $200,0000 this year and will consider April issue of Mother Jones. Post article, “To Save Money, Iran Ends burgh, wrote an April 15 CNN.com Popular Cash Payout Program.” requests for up to $50,000. Deadline: opinion piece, “Why Do Racists And Robert Faris, University of California- August 30, 2014. Contact: Katharine G. Anti-Semites Kill.” Davis, and Diane Felmlee, Pennsyl- William Helmreich, CUNY-Graduate Lidz at [email protected]; 31 vania State University, were quoted Center, CUNY, was interviewed on NY1 Independence Court, Wayne, PA 19087; Philip Brenner, University of Massa- News and WNBC TV News about his chusetts-Boston, was featured April in an April 2 Los Angeles Times article (610) 647-4974; fax (610) 647-8316. about their recent American Sociologi- book, The New York Nobody Knows: 10 on NPR’s Morning Edition, about his Walking 6,000 Miles in the City. Reviews research on whether peoples’ reports cal Review study, which suggests that Fellowships for most adolescents, becoming more of the book have appeared in The New of their religious behavior match up York Times, The Guardian, and The Times The San Francisco Foundation an- with what they actually do. popular both increases their risk of get- ting bullied and worsens the negative (of London), and he was interviewed nounces it has four positions open for Victor Tan Chen, University of Califor- by the Christian Science Monitor. its Multicultural Fellowship Program. consequences of being victimized. A nia-Berkeley, Ofer Sharone, Massachu- number of other media outlets also Heather Hlavka, Marquette University, The Multicultural Fellowship Program setts Institute of Technology, and Vicki selects young professionals of color covered the study including USA Today, was quoted in an April 15 Huffing- Smith, University of California-Davis, the New York Daily News, TIME.com, ton Post article about her Gender with the promise and passion to create were cited in a March 25 BBC News significant social change. By working Slate, U.S. News and World Report, NPR. Society study, which found that girls Magazine article on the social-psycho- org, CBSNews.com, and Jezebel on and young women rarely reported with the grant-making teams and logical and structural difficulties faced contributing to numerous projects April 1. incidents of abuse because they by long-term unemployed Americans regarded sexual violence against them across the San Francisco Foundation, who are searching for jobs. Claude Fischer, University of fellows gain hands-on dynamic leader- California-Berkeley, and Robb Willer, as normal. The study was also featured ship experience. For more information, Carolyn Chernoff, Skidmore College, Stanford University, were quoted in a in a number of other media outlets visit www.sff.org/programs/special- was featured in a March 28 Philadelphia December 19 San Francisco Chronicle including Cosmopolitan on April 16, programs-and-funds/multicultural- City Paper article, “A Talk With The Penn article, “End Of Line For 415 - 2nd Area MSNBC.com on April 15, and Jezebel fellowship-program. Ph.D Teaching That The Sociology of Mi- Code Coming For S.F., Marin.” and Salon on April 14. ley Cyrus Course You’ve Heard About.” Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Loyola Univer- Arlie Russell Hochschild, University Competitions Elizabeth Cherry, Manhattanville Col- sity, and Catherine Bliss, University of of California-Berkeley, was quoted The Association for Humanist Sociol- lege, was quoted in an April 9 Pacific California-San Francisco, were quoted in an April 13 New York Times op-ed, ogy (AHS) is pleased to announce their Northwest Inlander article, “Between in a March 24 Chronicle of Higher “Women’s Unequal Lot.” 2014 Book Award. Authors, publishers, Man And Beast.” Education article, “In Research Involving Jocelyn Hollander, University of and AHS members may nominate books Jay Coakley, University of Colorado– Genome Analysis, Some See A New Oregon, was quoted in an April 16 Re- for consideration. The winner will be rec- Colorado Springs, and Reuben Buford Racism.” uters article, “Rape-Prevention Program ognized at our annual meeting, October May, Texas A&M University, were Cuts Sexual Assaults In Kenya.” 8-12, 2014, in Cleveland, OH. Nomina- quoted in a March 25 Slate article, “Rich tions should be for sociology or inter- Kids Are Soft, Poor Kids Need To Be disciplinary social science books that Toughened Up.” save the date approach their subjects from a humanist perspective. Eligible books should have Dalton Conley, New York University, been published in the calendar year was quoted in an NPR.org article and 2013 or the first half of 2014. Deadline: interviewed on NPR’s “Weekend Edition June 15, 2014. Contact: Bhoomi K. Tha- Sunday” on March 23 about his book, kore at bhoomi.thakore@northwestern. Parentology: Everything You Wanted edu. For more information, visit www. to Know about the Science of Raising ccsu.edu/page.cfm?p=12486. Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask. He was also quoted in an April 15 Huffington Post Canada article, “Will An In the News Unusual Baby Name Affect Your Child’s Asad L. Asad, Harvard University, Chances In Life?” wrote an April 10 Pacific-Standard Maxine Craig, University of California- article, “How Recent Immigration Davis, was quoted in a February Complicates Our Racial Justice Policies,” 15 story on NPR’s Weekend Edition which mentions Tomás Jiménez, Stan- Saturday and in an NPR.org article, ford University, and Douglas Massey, about the Ebony Fashion Fair and the Princeton University. changing history on the catwalk. Edward Avery-Natale, North Dakota Daniel Curran, University of Dayton, State University, was quoted in a March was mentioned in an April 15 ESPN. 16 Deseret News article, “Missing Hero- com article, “Look Back, Look Ahead: 109th ASA Annual Meeting | August 16-19, 2014 | San Francisco, CA ines: Why Hollywood Believes Only Atlantic 10.” Men Can Save the World.”

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Jerry A. Jacobs, University of Penn- Steven Stack, Wayne State University, in collaboration with Dream Team Los Peacemaking Approach to Criminology: sylvania, was mentioned in an April 7 was quoted in an April 5 Newsweek Angeles. A Collection of Writings (University Press Chronicle of Higher Education article, article, “Did Kurt Cobain’s Death Lower of America, 2014), The Bad Things You “Recession Spurred Enrollments in the Suicide Rate in 1994.” Transitions Have Heard About Italian Americans Are STEM Fields, Study Finds,” and in an Wrong: Essays on Popular Prejudice (The Stephen Steinberg, Queens College Linda Burton, Duke University, is the April 7 Inside Higher Ed article, “The and CUNY-Graduate Center, wrote Edwin Mellen Press, 2014), and The Ital- STEM Enrollment Boom.” new Dean of the Social Sciences Divi- ian/American Experience: A Collection a March 11 Boston Review piece sion for Trinity College. Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North about The Triple Package: How Three of Essays (University Press of America, Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in a Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall Emily Fairchild, New College of 2012). March 25 New York Times article and of Cultural Groups in America by Amy Florida, was promoted to Associate Dorit Geva, Central European Uni- in a March 25 story on NPR’s “Market- Chua and Jed Rubenfeld and was Professor of Sociology at the New Col- versity, Conscription, Family, and the place” on the issue of freelancers and quoted in an April 5 Austin American- lege of Florida effective August 2014. Modern State: A Comparative Study of the temp economy. Statesman article, “Scholars Debate Dennis M. Rome, University of France and the United States (Cam- Lane Kenworthy, University of Johnson Legacy on Eve of Civil Wisconsin-Parkside, has accepted an bridge University Press, 2013). Arizona, was featured in a March 25 Rights Summit.” offer from Columbus State University Marco Hauptmeier, Cardiff University, post on The New York Times’ “Economix” Zeynep Tufekci, University of North to become the next dean of CSU’s Col- and Matt Vidal, King’s College London, blog about inequality. Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in an lege of Letters and Sciences, effective Eds., Comparative Political Economy of July 1, 2014. Annette Lareau, University of Penn- April 14 Atlantic article, “Behind the Ma- Work (Palgrave, 2014). sylvania, was quoted in St. Louis Post- chine’s Back: How Social Media Users Vera Hernandez and Nelson Arnaldo, Dispatch March 29, St. Louis Business Avoid Getting Turned into Big Data.” People University of Puerto Rico, Respeto, Journal March 26, and St. Louis Public Lisa Wade, Occidental College, wrote Caitlin Patler, University of California- Justicia y Dignidad. (Isla Negra Editores, Radio March 25 articles about how an April 7 Pacific-Standard article, Los Angeles, has accepted a 2014 2013). Washington University in St. Louis is “Chicago’s Disappearing Middle Class,” University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the UC Jerry A. Jacobs, University of Penn- reviving its sociology department. which mentions Sean Reardon, Stan- sylvania, In Defense of Disciplines: ford University, and Kendra Bischoff, Irvine Department of Criminology, Law Wendy Manning, Bowling Green State and Society. Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in University, was interviewed April 7 Cornell University. the Research University (University of on “The David Pakman Show” about Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Glenn W. Muschert, Miami University, Chicago Press, 2014). was elected Secretary (2014-2015) same-sex marriage and children. was quoted in an April 5 Globe and Mail Michelle M. Jacob, University of San column, “The New Meaning Of Well of the Society for the Study of Social Harvey Molotch, New York University, Problems (SSSP). Diego, Yakama Rising: Indigenous was quoted in an April 16 Atlantic Connected.” Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and article, “The Private Lives of Public Robb Willer, Stanford University, was David A. Smith, University of Califor- Healing (University of Arizona Press, Bathrooms.” quoted in a March 28 Huffington Post nia-Irvine, was elected President-Elect 2013). (2014-2015) and President (2015-2016) Andrew Papachristos, Yale University, UK article, “10 Reasons Why It’s Good to Madonna Harrington Meyer, Syra- Gossip at Work.” of the Society for the Study of Social was featured in an April 15 Chicago Problems (SSSP). cuse University, Grandmothers at Work: magazine article, “Chicago Gun Vio- Tiantian Yang and Howard Aldrich, Juggling Families and Jobs (New York lence: Big Numbers, But A Surprisingly both of University of North Carolina- Ronnie J. Stienberg, Vanderbilt Uni- University Press, 2014). Small Network.” Chapel Hill, were quoted in an April versity, was elected Vice President-Elect (2014-2015) and Vice President (2015- Philip R. Newman and Barbara M. Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan, 9 Huffington Post article, “Business Newman, University of Rhode Island. Partnerships With Men Often Don’t 2016) of the Society for the Study of was interviewed April 12 on BBC World Social Problems (SSSP). Development Through Life: A Psychoso- Service about the French Foreign Minis- Benefit Women, According To Study,” cial Approach, 12th edition (Cengage ter’s first visit to Cuba in 30 years. centered around their recent American Learning, 2015). Sociological Review study. New Books Barbara Risman, University of Illinois- Victor Roudometof, University of Chicago, was interviewed April 9 on Gabriel Abend, New York University, Cyprus, Globalization and Orthodox Wisconsin Public Radio about how the Awards The Moral Background: An Inquiry into Christianity: The Transformations of a number of stay-at-home moms is on Rebecca Bach, Duke University, received the History of Business Ethics (Princeton Religious Tradition (Routledge, 2014). the rise. the 2014 Robert B. Cox Distinguished University Press, 2014). Teaching Award from Duke University. David Yamane, Wake Forest University, Richard Sennett, London School of Karl Alexander, Johns Hopkins Uni- Becoming Catholic: Finding Rome in the Economics, was mentioned in an April Andrew Beveridge, Queens College versity, Doris Entwisle, Johns Hopkins American Religious Landscape (Oxford 17 BBC.com article, “The Welfare State: and CUNY-Graduate Center, Social University, Linda Olson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). Charity That Wounds?” Explorer website [www.socialex- University, The Long Shadow: Family plorer.com], which he co-founded, was Background, Disadvantaged Urban Joseph Scott, University of Washing- awarded Best Education Website in the Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood New Programs ton, was quoted in an April 9 Seattle 18th Annual Webby Awards. (Russell Sage Foundation, 2014) a Rice University has launched the Times column, “Being Ethiopian In volume in the ASA’s Rose Series in Scientists in International Context (SIIC), Seattle.” William Helmreich, CUNY-Graduate Sociology. a research program that investigates Center, received the Prose Award, social influences on science, including Theda Skocpol, Harvard University, Professional & Scholarly Division of the David Baranov, St. John Fisher Col- was quoted in an April 12 Christian lege, Dialectics of Inquiry Across the ethics, religion, gender, and family. Association of American Publishers, Organized as three related studies—Re- Science Monitor article, “Is the Tea Party runner-up and Honorable Mention for Historical Social Sciences (Routledge, Running Out Of Steam?” 2014). ligion among Scientists in International his book, The New York Nobody Knows: Context (RASIC), Ethics among Scien- Brian Soller, University of New Walking 6,000 Miles in the City (Princ- Peter Dreier, Occidental College, John tists in International Context (EASIC), Mexico, was quoted in an April 16 eton University Press, 2013). Mollenkopf, CUNY-Graduate Center, and Gender among Scientists in PsychCentral.com article about his Meg Wilkes Karraker, University of St. Todd Swanstrom, University of Mis- International Context (G-SIC)-SIIC is the recent Journal of Health and Social Thomas, is the recipient of the John Ire- souri-St. Louis, Place Matters: Metropolis first transnational study of these topics. Behavior study, which found that for land Presidential Award for Outstand- for the 21st Century, 3rd edition, revised Contact: Elaine Howard Ecklund at siic@ adolescent girls, having a romantic ing Achievement as a Teacher Scholar. (Kansas University Press, 2014). rice.edu or [email protected]. For more relationship differently than what they information, visit www.siic.rice.edu/. imagined has negative implications for Caitlin Patler, University of California- Leta Hong Fincher, Tsinghua Univer- their mental health. The study was also Los Angeles, was awarded an Action sity, ‘Leftover’ Women: The Resurgence featured in a number of other media Research Grant from the Sociological of Gender Inequality in China (Palgrave Summer Programs outlets including The Times of India on Initiatives Foundation for her study of MacMillan, 2014). 3rd Annual Learning Science Work- April 16. applicants to the Deferred Action for Louis Gesualdi, St. John’s University, A shop, Pittsburgh, PA. June 14-15, 2014. Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program Theme: “Research and Innovation for

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Enhancing Achievement and Equity.” ing. He received 20 research grants, federal government, Rodney served James “Jim” McAllister LearnLab, an NSF Science of Learning and from that work he wrote or edited on public advisory committees in the 1944-2014 Center (SLC) at Carnegie Mellon and 22 books and published 72 journal Institute of Medicine, the National A humble social justice cham- the University of Pittsburgh, has an articles. But it is not the quantity of his Center for Health Statistics, and the pion, Jim McAllister passed away exciting summer research opportunity work that is most impressive. Among Pan American Health Organization. peacefully on March 29, 2014, at the available to early career researchers Rodney’s books are landmark volumes Perhaps most importantly, Rodney has age of 70 after a short illness. Jim in the fields of psychology, education, that helped to frame the nascent served on numerous study sections completed his PhD at Michigan State computer science, human-computer fields of medical sociology (two for the NIMH, the Administration on University (Lansing, MI) and returned interfaces and language technolo- editions of the Sociology of Medicine, Aging, the National Cancer Institute, to his home Australia in 1989 where gies. Contact: Jo Bodnar at jobodnar@ 1970 and 1978), community medicine and the Department of Veterans he was a lecturer in Sociology at cs.cmu.edu. For more information, visit (Community Medicine: Some New Affairs, and he was a member of the Flinders University (Adelaide, South www.learnlab.org/opportunities/sum- Perspectives, 1978), social gerontology National Advisory Council for the Australia), and later at Central merworkshop.php. (Medical Care for the Aged: From Social National Institute on Aging. In these Queensland University (Rockhamp- Data Matters: Data Science Summer Problem to Federal Program, with Hank roles he fought for the recognition ton, Queensland) until his retirement Workshop Series Sponsored by the Brehm, 1980), and geriatric medicine and acceptance of medical sociology in 2008. (Fundamentals of Geriatric Medicine, as a legitimate endeavor worthy of National Consortium for Data Science A fundamental belief that all (NCDS), the Renaissance Computing In- with Ronald Cape and Isadore Ross- substantial research support. man, 1983). humans are equally worth respect, stitute (RENCI), and the Odum Institute Rodney was also an extraordinary freedom, and quality of life energized for Research in Social Science, the Among Rodney’s many articles is mentor. For Rodney, his trainees, be Jim’s prolific projects. Jim was known “Data Matters: Data Science Summer the classic 1965 piece in the American they graduate students, post-doctoral as a tireless advocate in the pursuit Workshop Series” is a week-long series Journal of Public Health on psychosocial fellows, or junior faculty, came first, last, of social justice in both his profes- of classes for researchers, data analysts, factors that affect the use of commu- and always. All of the success and ac- sional and personal life choices, and other individuals who wish to nity health resources. Then there was colades accrued to them, and if some- including work for Dying with Dignity increase their skills in data studies and the first-rate series that appeared in the thing didn’t work out, well then it was Queensland, his rural sociological integrate data science methods into late 1960s and early 1970s in Inquiry, his error for not trying harder. Rodney research for Central Queensland Uni- their research designs and skill sets. Medical Care, Public Health Reports, believed that the role of the mentor versity, and his involvement in the Na- Scholars, analysts, and researchers the Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, was to provide every opportunity to tional Tertiary Education Union. Jim from all disciplines and industries are and the American Journal of Public trainees, and to give them all of the prided himself in pursuing a life filled welcome. For more information, visit Health on the emergence of Medicare, encouragement and support possible. with humility, humor, fairness, and www.odum.unc.edu/datamatters. organized medicine’s reaction to it, and But he never did their work for them. fighting for what is good and right. its short-term effects. Rodney’s 1970 Rather, Rodney simply inspired them Firmly committed to social justice pieces on the growth of established to do it themselves. For some trainees and abhorring systems that arbitrarily Deaths professions (Journal of Health and Social this took longer than for others. But it Micheal S. Jarrett, Reverend of the determined a person’s worth on the Behavior) and on cultural vs. situational always happened. Rodney was patient basis of wealth and power, he actively First Presbyterian Church of LaFollette, explanations of health behavior among and loyal to a fault with his trainees. TN and husband to Stephanie Bohon, worked with ordinary people to fight the poor (Social Science Quarterly) But the academic accomplishment for social change. His work included University of Tennessee, passed away were intriguing and provocative. And that was most meaningful to Rodney April, 5, 2014. sociological analysis of the sugar cane of course one would be remiss not to was his teaching of medical students. industry, paid-labor/farm workers, William E. Knox, University of North note the groundbreaking 1980s series We all teach, of course, but teaching unions, and the class consequences of Carolina-Greensboro, died at his home that appeared in the Journal of Medical medical sociology or aging and the rural restructuring on global and local on December 2, 2013. Education, the Journal of the American life course has relatively little if any levels. He also fought for people who Geriatrics Society, and the Sociology effect on the health care delivery sys- wish to die with dignity. Honoring Obituaries of Health and Illness on the emerging tem. If you want to change the future his views of equality, he did not allow and shifting dyadic coalitions involved of health care, the most important himself to be referred to with the PhD when the older patient, her caregiver, Rodney M. Coe vineyard to work in is training future or doctor status. and physician interact. Finally, in the physicians and medical school faculty. 1933-2014 late 1980s and early 1990s there were Following his retirement Jim and his For three decades at Saint Louis Uni- wife Judi lived on a small rural block Rodney M. Coe passed from this life his series of papers in Behavior, Health versity, that is what Rodney did. He to the next on March 14, 2014, at 80 and Aging and the Journal of Commu- in the hinterland of Queensland’s brought the principles, precepts, and Sunshine Coast where he continued years of age. He is survived by the nity Health that empirically assessed values of medical sociology to life for woman of his dreams, Elaine Elwell and refined the sense of coherence his interest in union activities and nearly 4,000 student-physicians. And human rights issues while developing Coe, to whom he was joyfully wed for concept in the context of morbidity although they certainly did not all 59 years, by their four children, seven and mortality. his hobbies of lapidary and horticul- wind up with a sociological imagina- ture and permaculture. Jim’s legacy grandchildren, and two great-grand- It is not surprising, therefore, that tion, they did all have an apprecia- children, all of whom he deeply loved. will continue to influence the work in 1996 Rodney received the Leo G. tion for the import of social factors of Dying with Dignity Queensland. Rodney received his PhD in sociol- Reeder Award from the Medical Soci- in health, illness, and the delivery of This beloved, gentle, and “very decent ogy from Washington University ology Section of the American Socio- health care. Now that’s impact! human being” left the world a better logical Association, its highest honor. (WUSL) in St. Louis in 1962, and was Fredric D. Wolinsky, the University of place because he was here. His Reeder Award Lecture, published on the faculty at his alma mater when Iowa, and James C. Romeis, Saint Louis in 1997 in the Journal of Health and Yvonne Vissing, Salem State University the great rift between Laud Hum- University phreys and Alvin Gouldner exploded Social Behavior, was titled “The Magic into fisticuffs. As did many of his of Science and the Science of Magic: colleagues, Rodney resigned when an Essay on the Process of Healing,” Gouldner (who was alleged to have and it may have been Rodney’s most started the clash) was exonerated thoughtful article ever. by the WUSL Chancellor. Saint Louis Rodney championed the role of Send Us Your News University was fortunate enough to medical sociology and its value in Were you recently promoted? Have a book immediately land Rodney, where he other professional societies, and car- joined the Department of Community ried that fight into important levels of published? Or were you quoted in the news? Medicine and remained until he re- the federal government. In terms of Did you win an award? Or maybe you know tired 29 years later, serving for the last other professional societies, Rodney 10 years as Department Head. served as Secretary of the Gerontolog- about a funding opportunity or want to Over the course of his career, Rodney ical Society of America and was twice promote your meeting to other sociologists? Send your amassed a record of professional the Co-Chair for its annual meeting announcements to Footnotes at [email protected]. scholarship that was simply outstand- program committee. In terms of the

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