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Looking forward to the 2006 Annual Meeting in Montréal . . .
defining the rights of women, men, and Human Rights Is Focus of Welcoming Plenary social groups. Also, Gloria Steinem, tion. These include strengthening the Sané earned his doctoral degree in feminist activist and author, and The American Sociological interactions among researchers, policy- political science at Carleton University Lawrence Bobo, sociology professor at Association has a history of speaking makers, and international bodies such as in Ottawa, Canada, and a Masters of Stanford University, will discuss the shifting nature of inequalities of race in support of human rights globally, UNESCO toward advancing programs Science degree in public administra- especially in defense of in human rights and tion and public policy from the London and gender, which are deeply rooted in sociologists and other development, gender and School of Economics. He has published public and private consciousness. See Footnotes scholars persecuted for women’s rights, racism extensively on issues of development page 1 of the May/June for their beliefs or scholarly and discrimination, pov- and human rights. additional information on these plenary ❑ activities. A year ago, erty, and development of Sané joins other notable plenary sessions. the Council voted in civil society. speakers, including Ruth Bader favor of the American Sané is the Assistant- Ginsburg, Justice, Supreme Court of the Sociological Association Director General for United States, and Deborah Rhode, 2006 Annual Meeting Statement on Human Social Sciences and law professor at Stanford University, See page 4 for additional Rights on the Occasion Human Sciences, Ethics who will discuss the work of law, Annual Meeting coverage. of ASA’s Centenary. In and Human Rights lawyers, and the judiciary in changing continuation of its human at UNESCO in Paris. conceptual and legal boundaries rights support, the ASA As Assistant Director- invited UNESCO’s Pierre General he is responsible Sané, human rights for the development, advocate, to speak at the execution, and evaluation 2006 ASA Election Results Welcoming Ceremony Pierre Sané of UNESCO’s Poverty and of the Annual Meeting Human Rights program. ith more than 40% of eligible voters participating, ASA members have on Thursday, August 10, At Amnesty W elected Arne L. Kalleberg of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as 2006, in Montréal. International, he campaigned exten- President-Elect, Douglas McAdam of Stanford University as Vice President- Sané, formerly the Secretary General sively to raise human rights concerns Elect, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey as Secretary-Elect. Kalleberg, McAdam, of Amnesty International, will discuss worldwide and to strengthen the and Tomaskovic-Devey will serve one year as Elect and will then assume his work developing new programs of human rights movement. Before joining office at the end of the 2007 Annual Meeting. Kalleberg and the 2008 Program research-policy linkages in the study Amnesty International, he worked for 15 Committee will be responsible for shaping the 2008 ASA Annual Meeting, and management of social transforma- years in international development. scheduled for August 1–4, 2008, in Boston. Voters also elected four new Members-at-Large to serve on the ASA Council: Dalton Conley, New York University; Mary E. Pattillo, Northwestern University; Roscigno, Hodson Are Incoming Editors Mary Romero, Arizona State University; Rubén Rumbaut, University of California-Irvine. The new Council Members-at-Large will take office at the end of American Sociological Review of the Annual Meeting in Montreal. Members also elected four new members to the by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, income inequality, work and dignity, eth- Committee on Committees, six new members to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst nic intolerance and mental health, and Committee on Nominations, and two new members to organizational analyses. He has long had the Committee on Publications. Voters overwhelmingly Vincent J. Roscigno and Randy a flair for methodological innovation. approved four amendments to the Association’s bylaws, Hodson, both of The Ohio State His dissertation, which was published as and by a narrower margin approved renaming two ASA University, will be the next editors of an Academic Press monograph in 1983, awards: the ASA Distinguished Career of Scholarship ASA’s American Sociological Review, was the first project to merge firm-level Award will now be the W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished appointed by ASA Council for a three- data into a status-attainment-conceived Career of Scholarship Award, and the DuBois-Johnson- year term beginning in January 2007. survey of individuals. This dissertation Frasier Award will now be the Cox-Johnson-Frasier They will follow the editorship of Jerry and allied articles convinced a cohort Arne L. Kalleberg Award. A. Jacobs. of scholars, myself included, that it was There were 11,197 members eligible to vote in the 2006 Although no two individuals could possible and worth the effort to incorpo- election. Of those eligible, 4,515 members cast votes, constituting a 40% partici- comprehensively represent the range of rate information on real organizations pation rate. Over the five most recent elections participation had averaged 32%. intellectual complexity of contemporary into what were then becoming theoreti- We extend our warmest congratulations to the newly elected officers and sociology, these two cover a good deal cally unsatisfying individualistic attain- committee members, and thank everyone who served the Association by run- of the territory. Between them, they ment models. ning for office and by voting in this election. have produced influential and often Hodson’s current comparative President-Elect Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill intersecting configurations of histori- workplace ethnography project reverses cal, ethnographic, textual, and statisti- the flow of incorporation, showing that Vice President-Elect Douglas McAdam, Stanford University cal analyses. Their published work has it is possible to take the rich, contex- Secretary-Elect Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of spanned multiple continents, languages, tualized observations of workplaces Massachusetts-Amherst and political eras, and by last count, they generated by qualitative scholars over have collaborated with more than 60 co- the last 100 or so years and investigate Council Dalton Conley, New York University authors. All this from two scholars who general processes across ethnographic Mary E. Pattillo, Northwestern University are both young enough to be fathers of accounts. With doctoral students at both Mary Romero, Arizona State University children too young to reach the top shelf Indiana University and Ohio State, he Rubén Rumbaut, University of California-Irvine in a closet. has content coded all English language Committee Amy S. Wharton, Washington State University workplace ethnographies, producing on Publications Howard Winant, University of California-Santa Barbara Hodson a wonderfully rich set of quantitative Committee analyses supplemented by ethno- Suzanne M. Bianchi, University of Maryland-College Park Hodson’s research accomplishments on Nominations graphic detail. His 2001 monograph, Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago are consistently impressive. So far, his Kathleen Gerson, New York University sociological lenses have focused on titled Dignity at Work, uses these data to develop a coherent account of workplace Ross L. Matsueda, University of Washington respect, revealing among other things Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts-Amherst the importance of mismanagement in the Ann R. Tickamyer, Ohio University This issue: production of indignity and co-worker Committee Rebecca L. Clark, NICHD/National Institutes of Health Special coverage on conflict. on Committees Annette Lareau, University of Maryland-College Park Hurricane Katrina. Hodson earned his MA and PhD Gilda Laura Ochoa, Pomona College See page 6. Alford A. Young, Jr., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor See ASR Editors, page 8
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The Executive Officer’s Column In This Issue . . . Taking the Pulse of the Nation: Key National Indicators
Over the past year or so, ASA has been involved in a col- And the Winners Are... laborative venture at the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Be sure to congratulate the to create a web-based system of information that will provide key data on the “State of the USA.” Known as the Key National 2006 ASA award winners at the Indicators Initiative (KNII), this project evolved from a delib- 3 Annual Meeting. erative process emphasizing the need for “comprehensive, reliable indicator systems [to] measure progress toward broad societal goals.” The KNII acknowledges that we live in one of the most information-rich societies on earth, but we face the Find Out About Sally T. Hillsman paradox of information inaccessibility to all but the cognoscenti. Overwhelmed by data from a wide range of sources, we find it Bread and Circuses increasingly difficult to compile solid information on how society is faring across impor- Montréal Style tant domains. The accessible information tends to be fragmented and hard to locate; 4 thus, sound bites and personal opinion often substitute for data presented in a meaning- From its social solidarity and ful way on the complex and critical issues facing our society. activism to its never-before- Enabling an Informed Public midnight sleep habits, Montréal KNII was launched at a forum sponsored by the U.S. General Accountability Office is an interesting city. (GAO) and the NAS in early 2003 in response to this need for high quality, accurate, and easily usable data. Based on extensive research and review of indicator systems (includ- ing those in other countries), the GAO reported to Congress in 2005 that the business community, media, civic organizations, and educators expressed the need for a system The Sociology of reliable and accessible information in one place in order to make sound and of Consumption informed decisions on national and Find out more on the topics local policy issues and to ensure an 4 studied by researchers with the informed public. The goal is to provide Consumer Studies Research significant parts of the vast existing Vantage data systems in a highly usable, easily Network at the ASA Annual searchable location. Meeting. A Single Webportal Point At the heart of the system will be a state-of-the-art interactive webportal to provide timely data of the highest quality on the health of the nation. A high priority is being The Discussion placed on creating an information system that will be relevant to a wide range of public audiences and different types of users across segments of society. Part of making this on Cultural Diversity system relevant is to ensure that as much information as possible can be disaggregated in Québec from the national level to the state level and to the local community level where the 5 public is most engaged. In addition to spatial disaggregation, most data need to be More than a passing fad, cultural available over time and by age and race. diversity is a topic of debate and Useful Indicators study in Canada. Thus far, the KNII has focused on integrating input from stakeholders about three core domains—society, economy, and environment—to develop a robust set of indica- tors, and to define appropriate measures. KNII has also assembled data sources related Hurricane Katrina: to each domain as well as on a set of cross-cutting issues that span the three major areas. The guiding principles for selecting indicators and measures include: transparency, From Disaster objectivity and independence, reliability, accessibility, frequency of updating, focus on “what” rather than “why” of various phenomena, and aggregation rather than inter- Research pretation of data. Although the data presentation formats to be accessed through the 6 webportal will include definitions and references to sources, it will not include analyses, The social science studies draw conclusions from the data, or seek to answer causal questions. needed on the Gulf Coast are In spring 2006, a set of 30 “key” (or first-level) indicators from the three domains being organized by sociologists. was selected for a test on the webportal, currently under construction. The NAS also announced in June that the KNII would be spun off from the Academies as a nonprofit organization to maintain and operate the website, and to perform other organizational functions (such as issuing regular reports and press releases, holding conferences, and To a Field Study conducting regular assessments of the initiative). The NAS will continue its involve- ment in the KNII by establishing an NAS Forum or Roundtable to discuss and assess in New Orleans KNII as it matures. It is also likely that the KNII nonprofit will further enhance over- Sociologists and student sight by including advisory participation by stakeholder organizations. (For more 6 volunteers experience the information, visit
Engaging Sociologists The creation and availability of such an information system has important implica- tions for sociologists. Since educators and learners at all levels will be targeted as impor- Our Regular Features tant potential users, sociology has an important stake in ensuring that the most relevant and best data are available for presentation. From the outset of the initiative, a high Public Forum...... 8 priority was placed on openness of the system and on input from stakeholders across all domains. Sociologists are contributing to the design and implementation of the Departments...... 9 indicator system, and the Executive Office staff have had input through participation in national meetings and domain working groups. We anticipate that the ASA membership Obituaries...... 14 will also have an opportunity to experiment with the test version of the KNII data sys- tems that will be installed over the next year. We will keep you informed of the progress on the KNII, and will seek to provide an opportunity for your input and suggestions.
—Sally T. Hillsman July/August 2006 Footnotes
Sociologist Informs Senators PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE About Universal Health Insurance ✔ Professors’ salaries still not up to inflation level . . . . For the second Invitation from Senator Reid puts sociological perspective front and center consecutive year, the increase in overall average salaries for college and at annual Issues Conference of the Democratic Policy Committee university professors failed to keep up with the rate of inflation, according to the latest report, The Devaluing of Higher Education: The Annual Report on Sociologist Jill Quadagno, the Economic Status of the Profession, 2005–06, from the American Association Mildred and Claude Pepper of University Professors. Overall average salaries for all ranks of full-time Eminent Scholar in Social faculty across all types of institutions rose 3.1 percent between 2004–05 and Gerontology at Florida State 2005–06, according to the report. When adjusted for inflation, however, University, was invited by average salaries declined by 0.3 percent, following a 0.5 percent decrease Senator Harry Reid (NV) to make in 2004–05, a rate of decline not seen since 1978–79 to 1980–81. The salary a presentation at the annual gap between full-time faculty at public colleges and universities and their Issues Conference for Democratic counterparts at private institutions continued to widen in 2005–06. This Senators. The conference was held disparity seriously disadvantages public institutions trying to attract and in Philadelphia in late April and retain the most qualified faculty. The report also finds that the increasing was organized by the Democratic costs of benefits, especially health insurance, represent a continuing strain Policy Committee, chaired by on college and university budgets. This year’s report gives an indication Senator Byron Dorgan (ND). of how low the pay for part-time faculty is. The report can be accessed at Quadagno presented on a Sociologist Jill Quadagno [center] with U.S. Senator
Looking forward to the 2006 Annual Meeting in Montréal . . .
agencies have brought sociology into the Montréal (as its citizens sometimes Bread and Circuses front line. forget) is part of Québec, and Québec (as many Quebeckers would prefer to A Regional Session explores the politics and culture of Montréal City as Theatre, Poverty as Spectacle forget) is part of Canada, which is not (as Every summer, Montréal’s interna- some Americans appear to think) part by Christopher McAll, old language frontiers, the new multieth- tional Just for Laughs festival flows out of the United States. Identity is a tricky nic population, and the coming-to-power Université de Montréal of the “quartier des spectacles” and the business and nowhere more so than in of the French-speaking majority combine “quartier latin” and takes over part of a Montréal, where one can be Anglophone to produce a city where the collision n August 11, in the heart of large 1960s social housing complex. This or Francophone in the morning, O of difference generates unpredictable Montréal’s Chinatown, a special regional is social theatre on a grand scale, serving Canadian at lunch-time and Québécois outcomes. session of the ASA Annual Meeting will up poverty with surreal humor, com- of Italian origin in the afternoon. This is be devoted to the host city around the all very confusing in Chinatown where Dough plete with hot dog vendors on tricycles. theme, “bread and circuses.” At first Federico Fellini-style rules. Another official Canadian bilingual multicultural- glance, Montréal appears to be a typical A tradition of social solidarity and aspect of Québec’s culture is its most ism meets official Québécois intercul- North American town of parking lots activism rooted in a not-so-distant past, popular television series, the “Bougons,” turalism in a French framework, with and condominiums. There is something when Francophones were over-rep- which tells the story of a family of wel- Chinese subtitles. These mysteries will unusual about the place, however, and resented in Montréal’s working-class fare frauds who gleefully and imagina- be resolved during two regional sessions it’s not just the army of volunteer and neighborhoods, has left a legacy of tively rip off the system, while Montréal on “Bread” and “Circuses,” at the Old community groups devoted to issues of community activism, unionization, newspapers run Laundry, 90, rue de la Gauchetière East, “bread” in the broad sense of the word— and a unique health and social services pictures of the on Friday, August one group for every 500 residents in the 11, in Chinatown, network that is state-run and commu- homeless sitting in In Montréal, old language frontiers, greater downtown area. It is also to do nity-oriented (at least in theory). These the snow or fungus one block east with “circuses,” Montrealers appear- are currently strained given the transfor- growing on the the new multiethnic population, and of St-Laurence ing to have the capacity to generate an mation of work, ever-present poverty, walls of run-down the coming-to-power of the French- Boulevard. The almost unlimited quantity of festivals homelessness and the tendency of the apartments. Not speaking majority combine to produce Old Laundry is and cultural events. state to unload whatever responsibilities just a stone’s throw everybody, of a city where the collision of difference In the 1960s, the iron grip of the it can onto whoever is prepared to take course, watches the from the Palais des Church on everything from education to them (at the lowest cost). Immigrants, Bougons. Is this generates unpredictable outcomes. congrès. For more reproduction suddenly loosened. They women, and the young bear the brunt of the uncrossable information on called it the “Quiet Revolution.” The workplace restructuring, with new forms frontier for some cultural “omnivores”? Montréal and the regional sessions, see revolution is still going on but it is not of labor-organizing bringing together the Or is it just Quebeckers being different the 2006 preliminary program at
The Rhetoric of Openness to Cultural Diversity in Québec by Michèle Ollivier and Linda Pietrantonio, University of Ottawa identities are open, fluid, and elective. cultural spaces—by displaying an eclec- Pluralistic multiculturalism, by contrast, tic or a cosmopolitan outlook—requires “Cosmopolitan” vs. “Pluralistic” maintains that ethnic groups form stable large amounts of economic and cultural n the social sciences and public I Issues of cultural diversity have been and permanent communities whose col- resources. Although we cannot say that discourse, openness to diversity and the hotly debated in Canada over the past lective rights need to be protected and public policies by themselves can pro- ability to move freely across geographi- decades, mainly on the themes of insti- maintained over time. mote access to such resources, promotion cal and symbolic spaces are increasingly tutionally recognized language as well While stressing that he agrees with of diversity is linked to struggles against presented as a new normative ideal as migration. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Hollinger on the benefits of fluid and discrimination in important areas such regulating all aspects of social life, from Québec government adopted a series multiple identities, Kymlicka (1998) as education and the workplace. individuals’ sense of self to international of measures to protect French, includ- argues that openness is always defined relations. A search in the Web of Science Appropriating Diversity ing mandatory primary and secondary in relation to specific socio-histori- reveals an increase of 1,700% (from 20 education in French for immigrants and cal contexts and levels of analysis. He The rhetoric of diversity is used not to 358) for the term “cultural diversity” exclusive or predominant use of French distinguishes between cultural minori- only by agents belonging to already from 1985–89 to 1995–99. Cultural diver- on all public-interest and commercial ties resulting from immigration and constituted social categories. Rather, sity, as a tool for understanding social signs. Whereas these policies have some- national minorities that were involun- as the examples above illustrate, open- realities, takes many forms, including the times been interpreted as an expression tarily incorporated in nation states as a ness to diversity is appropriated in recent shift from snobbish to omnivo- of ethnic nationalism to preserve cultural result of military conflict. In the United various ways by social agents as part rous tastes (Peterson 1992) identified by homogeneity, and therefore antithetical States, as in Canada, the cosmopolitan of ongoing efforts to define themselves cultural sociologists, concerns with nor- to cultural diversity, Québec has also multiculturalism advocated by Hollinger within relations of power. In the field of mative pluralism and multiculturalism been an international leader in struggles is considered desirable within the stable cultural policy, in particular, “cultural in ethnic studies (Juteau 2003), the focus to preserve cultural diversity. Along and permanent boundaries of the nation diversity” emerged toward the end of on hybridity in anthropology (Friedman with the efforts of the Canadian federal state, and within a specific and strong the 1990s to legitimize and protect the 2001), cosmopolitanism in political government, this contributed to the national project. Contrary to Hollinger, cultural specificities of nations. This is a sociology (Beck 2001), and concerns for adoption, in 2005, of the Convention on who considers Québec nationalistic peculiar usage of cultural diversity since the intersection of multiple oppressions the Protection and Promotion of Cultural policies as emblematic of a rejection of traditionally the politics of culture relied first tackled by American black feminists Contents and Artistic Expressions under diversity, Kymlicka argues that Québec is on the idea of cultural homogeneity to (Hooks 1981). In Québec over the last the auspices of UNESCO. legitimately attempting to secure a level legitimize the existence of a nation. At decade, the term “cultural diversity” has Québec provides an interesting of national sovereignty that is a normal the international level, a main goal of the acquired a currency that the term “multi- example of how social entities—be they prerogative of nation states. The role of politics of diversity was to regulate the culturalism” never had, especially within individuals or nations—use the rhetoric Québec in the international development mighty United States and its commer- political and cultural institutions. of openness to cultural diversity to legiti- of cultural diversity within the politics cial power to expand American culture The semantics of cultural diversity is mize or undermine specific positions on of culture might prove both to be right through its cultural goods (Pietrantonio certainly not fixed nor is its usage very culture or politics. Our goal here is not to or wrong. These policies, Kymlicka 2002). Yet, openness to diversity at one stable, but in this discursive universe, determine Québec’s openness, nor is it argues, are compatible at the individual level of analysis (e.g., in international terms such as diverse, open, eclectic, to question the intrinsic value of diver- level with attitudes of openness to ethnic relations) does not necessarily imply hybrid, cosmopolitan, and enlightened sity as a social good. Rather, our main and cultural diversity, as evidenced taking diversity into consideration at are often opposed to what is defined concern is to examine how the rhetoric by Québec policies and practices with other levels (e.g., domestic policy). It as unitary, fixed, local, and regressive of diversity is used in various ways to regard to immigrants. What is contested is possible to be open to diversity as a (Fridman and Ollivier 2004). The rhetoric regulate power relations. here is not the intrinsic value of openness social ethic in the broad sense of the term of diversity linked to openness is to be One example of how the semantics to diversity as a social good. Rather, it is a without taking into account its intrinsic analyzed, we believe, as a new standard of the term is to be read through rela- question of which public policies embody dynamic. Within nation states, diversity of differentiation attached to various tions of power is the debate between the ideal of openness to diversity. as a concept has been fostered by minori- types of struggles—as individuals and University of California-Berkeley ties to challenge perceptions about the communities seek to legitimate their Américanité historian David Hollinger and Canadian social order in terms of social classes, own attributes and practices in light of political scientist Will Kymlicka on An alternative strategy adopted gender, and heteronormality. what is considered socially desirable. multicultural identities in Québec. In his by intellectuals and artists in Québec The paradox is that the more nations This includes strategies to question the work on postethnic identity, Hollinger from the 1980s has been to emphasize and individuals define themselves exclu- value of openness to diversity in specific (1995) contrasts two types of multicultur- Québec’s américanité. Moving away sively in terms of openness to diversity, contexts as well as efforts to define one’s alism. Cosmopolitan multiculturalism, he from an identity based exclusively or the more the differences that make them cultural production, policies, and atti- argues, is based on the idea that cultural primarily on a unitary French heritage, unique erode. Preserving diversity thus tudes as embodying the new ideal. proponents of américanité celebrate what requires some form of closure, or, at they perceive as the common features least, maintaining a dynamic tension. Consumption, from page 4 between Québec and other new-world This tension stands at the heart of the societies of the Americas: multiple influ- impetus of Canada and Québec for the life). Marketers and producers endlessly abroad; and ences, cultural hybridity, the rootless- implementation of the recent interna- consult research on consumers and the • The impact of material aspirations on ness of a frontiers mentality. Redefining tional Convention on the Protection and expressed desires, lifestyles, practices, the timing of marriage, with a focus Québec identity in terms of americanité Promotion of Cultural Contents and and the meanings they attach to goods on homeownership. may be considered an attempt to move Artistic Expressions. and entertainment. The character of away from a unitary and discredited cities and neighborhoods, city planning, Not a “Sideline” vision of the nation toward a definition References and community activism engage with Consumers, consumption, and com- more in line with the discourse of open- Beck, Ulrich. 2001. “Redefining Power in the ness to diversity, in which identity is by Global Age: Eight Theses.” Dissent. pp. issues of consumption in the form of modities blend with social trends and essence open and fluid. 83–89. tourism, shopping centers, streetscapes, everyday practices and are inseparable In other circumstances, it is the Fridman, Viviana and Michèle Ollivier. 2004. and the like. Global consumer markets from them. Consumption cannot be “Ouverture ostentatoire à la diversité et cos- unconditional value of openness that is mopolitisme. Vers une nouvelle configura- and media are centrally involved in the conceptualized as either a derivative tensions of culture clash, industry reloca- debated—and again in the context of the tion discursive?” Sociologie et sociétés, 36(1). aspect of social life or as a sideline to it. regulation of power relations. For exam- Friedman, Jonathan. 2001. “Des racines tions, worker exploitation, and environ- Thus, the study of consumption, CSRN et (de)routes: Tropes pour trekkers: ple, the acquisition of a second language Intellectuels en diaspora et theories noma- mental damage. members maintain, represents a field The range, scope, and variety of is usually considered positive, since it des.” Homme, 156:187–206. of scholarly inquiry in and of itself, not leads to increased capacity to under- Hollinger, David. 1995. Postethnic America: research projects by CSRN members reducible to others, yet not independent stand different cultures. However, some Beyond Multiculturalism. New York: Basic demonstrate the diverse vitality of the Books. of them either. researchers in education argue that early field. Examples of their research include: Hooks, Bell. 1981. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Those interested in consumption second-language training has different Women and Feminism. Boston: South End The metamorphosis of a working • studies should look for the CSRN table at implications, depending on the strength Press. landscape in the Caribbean into a site Juteau, Danielle. 2003. “Canada: A Pluralist the ASA meeting in Montréal and consult of the first language. It hasadditive effects Perspective.” Pp. 249–261 in The Social of consumption for ecotourists; the meeting schedule for sessions and when the first language is strongly estab- Construction of Diversity: Recasting the Master • How China's emerging service sector times, including the meeting time and lished and supported by cultural institu- Narrative of Industrial Nations, edited by D. and consumer culture are intertwined Juteau and C. Harzig with the collaboration place for a brief business meeting. Also, tions because the outcome is a good of Irina Schmitt. New York: Berghahn Press. in structural inequalities; the second edition of Syllabi and Teaching knowledge of two languages. However, Kymlicka, Will. 1998. “American • Grocery store data and what it reveals Materials in the Sociology of Consumption bilingual education may have subtractive Multiculturalism in the International about neighborhood homogeneity; will be available at the ASA publications effects in less favorable contexts, leading Arena.” Dissent, 73. The “how” and “why” of poverty Landry, Rodrigue and Réal Allard. 1999. • area (see page 8). The CSRN website either to the disappearance of the first “L’éducation dans la francophonie minori- fads and fashions across popular and its recent digital newsletters con- language or to imperfect knowledge of taire.” Pp. 403–433, in Francophonies mino- culture today that make stylish, recre- tain further information, including a both (Landry and Allard 1999). ritaires au Canada: L’état des lieux, edited by ational, and often expensive “fun” of J.-Y. Thériault, Moncton: Éditions l’Acadie. listing of members and their research From the viewpoint of cultural Peterson, Richard A. 1992. “Understanding symbols of lower class statuses; interests, announcements, books of note, minorities, then, openness to diversity Audience Segmentation: From Elite and • The formation of Taiwanese con- and relevant ASA sessions. CSRN has a is not necessarily a source of cultural Mass to Omnivore and Univore,” Poetics sumer culture; enrichment, especially when it is defined 21:243–258. meeting scheduled for Friday, August Pietrantonio, Linda. 2002. “Who Is ‘We’? as unconditional acceptance of majority • The household lifecycle and the role 11. Interested parties should consult the An Exploratory Study of the Notion of culture. This is a rejoinder to sociological of credit/debt as it influences cogni- Final Program for the room. Contact Dan the ‘Majority’ and Cultural Policy.” Pp. research showing that the ability to move 142-156 in Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. tive and behavioral consumption Cook ([email protected]) with comments at will across social, geographical, and 34(3), Special Issue: The New French outcomes in the United States and or queries. ❑ Fact in Montréal: Francization, Diversity, Globalization. July/August 2006 Footnotes
When Katrina, Rita, and Wilma Took the Nation by Storm: One Year Later . . .
after the Hurricane. The meeting sought for sociologists working mainly in one SSRC Task Force Reports on Hurricane both to provide help to sociologists of these fields to be aware of the work of uprooted by the disaster, help mobilize colleagues in others. The Task Force is Katrina and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast the production of needed sociological especially concerned with strenghtening knowledge, and explore ways to encour- connections between disaster research by Craig Calhoun and Kai Erikson, and determinants of government invest- age the intellectual response of soci- and other fields. Likewise, the impact of Social Science Research Council ment (or lack of investment, in the case ologists. The SSRC had independently Hurricane Katrina and the challenges of of New Orleans’ inadequate levees), organized a web forum on Katrina rebuilding the Gulf Coast have attracted When Hurricane Katrina struck among many other issues. Equally, (understandingkatrina.ssrc.org) to bring a range of researchers from around the New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in early the forced exodus from New Orleans together sociologists familiar with the United States (and other countries). September 2005, it wrought, among raised crucial sociological concerns. The affected area to help chart an agenda. These need connections to the sociolo- other legacies, enormous destruction of patterns in terms of who left, where The ASA Fund for the Advancement gists with long experience of working in physical property, disruption of human they went, how they reorganized their of the Discipline made a small grant to New Orleans and intimate knowledge of lives, and upheaval of the social texture lives, and whether they would return Erikson to bring sociologists together local conditions and resources. Not least, of a vibrant city. It also raised basic social all raised both empirical and analytic and help to chart an agenda. This helped many younger sociologists are exploring science questions and created an urgent questions that intersected the core lead to the creation of a Task Force on dissertation projects responding to the need for social science knowledge to themes of race, class, and the spatial Hurricane Katrina based at the SSRC, disaster. They need connections to more inform public action. And indeed, it organization of economic opportunity supported by the MacArthur and Russell senior sociologists working in relevant made publicly manifest the centrality of for both human beings and capital. The Sage Foundations, and chaired by subfields but often not in their home social factors to understanding what some process of rebuilding the Gulf Coast has Erikson. departments—and for that matter, to persist in labeling a “natural” disaster. raised a range of additional questions each other. about issues such as housing and labor Task Force on Hurricane Research Hub Structuring Opportunities markets, who has voice in decision-mak- The Task Force mandate is to help the ing, the relationship of public to private The ways in which race, gender, social scientists working on Hurricane To support the work of the Task Force, actors, the cohesion and character of class, and age structured the impact Katrina and its aftermath to connect the SSRC has begun development of neighborhoods, and indeed the cultural of Hurricane Katrina were clearly in better to each other, set a collective a web-based “research hub” that will and social meaning of the city itself. the foreground. Understanding the agenda, create stronger connections facilitate sharing of data and analyses between different lines of intellectual among researchers as well as broader responses of different social institutions New York Meeting to the emergency the hurricane created work, and bring the results of social access to completed research. It should was also immediately significant. But To advance the latter agenda, the science analysis to public actors. Several be especially useful to those starting new just as important were questions about Executive Office and President Cynthia kinds of connections are important. The research projects who will find not only why vulnerabilities and preparedness Fuchs Epstein convened a small group in problems posed by Hurricane Katrina bibliographical information and links to were structured as they were. These New York City, including President-Elect speak to different subfields of sociology, intellectual resources but a map of work demanded inquiries into the relationship Frances Fox Piven, former ASA presi- for example, from race to urban demog- in progress that will help them plan their between built and natural environment, dents Troy Duster and Kai Erikson, and raphy and most obviously, perhaps, to own better. population dynamics and urban growth, SSRC president Craig Calhoun shortly the sociology of disasters. It is important See SSRC, page 7
to board. Everyone was scared, hungry, The survivors of Hurricane Katrina A House of Refuge and helpless. We crawled, climbed, and continue to experience the eye of a ‘cry’ to God to give us strength to get storm—a government that is dragging its by Dana M. Greene and James R. Peacock, Appalachian State University on the roofs of our feet with assist- homes. Some of us ing the neediest. Following the Southern Sociological Society’s Annual Meetings in New Orleans made it, many of On August 31, us did not.” For six 2006, any home in in March 2006, sociologists Greene and Peacock decided to try to organize days, Jamal rowed the Lower Ninth student volunteers to assist with the rebuilding efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward a boat from rooftop Ward that does not to rooftop rescuing show evidence of and to try to make a difference. In May, they arrived with student volunteers in people who had to “concerted effort” tow. While working on another house, the group was approached by a woman cut holes through toward rebuilding requesting assistance. This woman, a Katrina survivor, indicated that she was on their roofs to escape will fall prey to the raging flood “eminent domain.” “everyone’s lists” but had not yet received assistance. Asking that she be called waters. He died But the govern- “Ms. Debra,” she asked if the group would assist with saving her mother’s crystal when his rescue ment is giving very chandeliers. Here’s one story collected from the rubble. boat capsized. little guidance as In March 2006, to what constitutes Ms. Debra’s bedroom was destroyed by Hurri- we had the oppor- “concerted effort” cane Katrina’s flood waters. stories framed among the rubble and the tunity to tour still- and what will be n the heart of the Lower Ninth I eerie emptiness of the streets. restricted sections sufficient to enable Ward of New Orleans sits a small, Ms. Debra describes herself as “basi- of the Lower Ninth Ward. In fact, only residents to hold onto their property. ordinary, brick house. It is the home cally homeless, crying out for help recently have all areas even been open Few can afford to clear their property of Debra Green, a Hurricane Katrina to rebuild a home left to me by my to residents and others willing to join of debris and to abate the ever-pres- survivor. Ms. Debra mother.” Although the clean-up effort. Yellow tape reading ent black mold from their homes. This and her son, Jamal, those in the Lower “chemical spill” draped over the school means that the government will bulldoze were once members of Ninth Ward were bus that was hit by the barge that surged the structures and confiscate the land a vibrant community warned about the through the levee. itself—and will do on Derbigny Street—a ferocity of the storm Washing machine with the property community where that struck the city parts dangled from what it pleases. children raced one on August 29, 2005, a tree. Homes with- It wasn’t until another around the few had the ability out roofs, cars and nine months after block on their bikes or the resources to boats scattered like the disaster that all and skateboards. It’s a evacuate. Residents toys, vehicles and of the Lower Ninth place where neighbors walking or driving houses overturned Ward was finally borrowed sugar and out of the area were by the force of reopened to resi- tools from one another stopped on bridges water: these are the dents to take stock and chatted over the and overpasses images that greeted of the damage to back fence while hang- as escape routes us as we wandered their property and ing sheets and towels became over- through the streets. attempt to make an to dry in the hot whelmed. Katrina Perhaps the saddest effort at regaining Louisiana sun. Today, not only destroyed aspect of all of this their rights to it. in the Lower Ninth Ms. Debra’s home, is that very little Ms. Debra’s kitchen—cleared and gutted by Moreover, as the Ward, there is silence. it also took away has changed since Appalachian State University and St. Augustine’s Lower Ninth Ward There are no dogs Ms. Debra standing outside her home on her 19-year-old son, the flood waters College volunteers—is ready for rebuilding when primarily housed barking, no sounds Derbigny Street. Jamal. For six days receded. Trees still the government gives the green light. the working of children playing in Jamal refused to lay on roofs, houses poor—predomi- the streets, no radios playing music, no leave the Lower Ninth Ward, knowing sit on their foundations awkwardly, and nantly people of color—it appears that laughter. But quiet voices are beginning that others needed assistance. As Ms. personal effects—teddy bears, books, the government is placing less social to be heard. Voices like Debra Green’s Debra recalls, “Our government rode by records, clothing scattered everywhere— value on assisting the area with rebuilt are calling out their stories of survival— on boats with guns, refusing to allow us lie in the hot sun covered with grey silt. See House, page 7 July/August 2006 Footnotes
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Other sociologists active in the Task (or have been) in contact, and then to Force include those noted below as well place those data in some kind of national Retrospectives on the Death as the following members of an SSRC repository where they can be available, Advisory Board: Eric Klinenberg, Shirley with appropriate safeguards in place, for and Life of Jane Jacobs Laska, Harvey Molotch, Katherine research purposes. Newman, Walter Peacock, Charles The second is to make the rounds Perrow, Havidán Rodríguez, James of community groups in New Orleans by Anthony Orum, Short, Kathleen Tierney, Mary Waters, and along the Gulf Coast that have been University of Illinois-Chicago and William Julius Wilson. Andrew active in tracing the whereabouts of Lakoff, an assistant professor of sociol- absent neighbors. In April of this year, Jane Jacobs, venerable urban scholar and vener- ogy at the University of California-San The third is to locate sociologists and ated political activist, died in Toronto. Author most famously of The Diego, has taken a leave of absence to other social scientists already at work in Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs left an enormous impact join the SSRC staff leading this project. local communities now serving as places and influence on the way we think and act about cities. To commemorate He is also helping to develop a broader of refuge for evacuees, and to supple- her legacy, City & Community, the journal of the Community and Urban portfolio of research into the privati- ment their efforts by putting people into Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, asked six zation of risk, the vulnerability and the field at critical intersections through eminent urban scholars to provide brief retrospectives on Jacobs’ life and security of vital systems, and the nature which we have reason to suppose work. and social construction of emergencies, migrant streams flow. This is a way of Those commentaries will appear in the September issue of the journal. preparedness, and response. putting old and reliable sociological find- They are written by Herbert Gans, Barry Wellman, Sharon Zukin, Peter ings on patterns of migration to work. Dreier, Philip Kasinitz, and David Halle. They cover all facets of the life Research Agenda • Studies of the affected areas with and times of Jacobs, among them, her days in Scranton, PA, and the West At the fall 2005 New York meeting an emphasis on how they developed the Village of New York City. Gans, for example, writes that “Jane’s youth- convened by Epstein, Erikson described social and cultural flavor they had before ful experiences in Scranton and in the West Village may have led to her a group of sociologists who have done a the disaster, how they fared during the celebration of white working class neighborhoods, which became the good deal of work on disasters in general emergency itself, and how they are fac- underlying theme in The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In it, she and on the environmental vulnerabilities ing the tasks of reconstruction. Two stud- wrote glowingly not only about her West Village area, but also about the of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in ies are now on the drawing board (about North End of Boston and the ‘Back of the Yards’ neighborhood in Chicago, particular and who have been meeting which we will report further later). The another old Irish neighborhood that spawned the city’s famous Mayor for a number of years. Several members first is a study of three neighborhoods in Richard Daley. Jane’s romance with, and romantic image of, these neigh- of that group gathered a few days later New Orleans that reflect the demo- borhoods blossomed into the urban ideal and the urban policy themes she in Lafayette, LA, to begin discussion of graphic range of the city's population. advocated in The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” a research agenda that seemed crucial The second is a study of three small Peter Dreier, an urban scholar, but also an advisor to mayors and a to the work of learning from Katrina communities along the Louisiana coast long-time activist, compares Jacobs’ work and influence to other seminal and using that learning to help repair that reflect varying degrees of impact writings. He observes that “[s]ometimes a book can change history. Books the human damage done by it. That from Katrina. These studies will be co- often influence ideas, but only rarely do they catalyze activism. In the gathering included Erikson, William ordinated in such a way as to make 1960s, a handful of books triggered movements for reform. These include Freudenburg, Robert Gramling, Stephen later comparison possible, since, in a Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1962), which inspired the war Kroll-Smith, Shirley Laska, and John very important sociological sense, New on poverty; Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), which helped galvanize Stephen Picou. That core of persons met Orleans and the coast were struck by the environmental movement; Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique five weeks later in Mobile, AL, joined quite different disasters and for that (1963), the manifesto of modern feminism; Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any this time by Lee Clarke, Duane Gill, reason are likely to respond to what hap- Speed (1965), which made its author a household name and precipitated Brent Marshall, Havidán Rodríguez, pened to them in distinctive ways. the rise of the consumer movement; and Stokely Carmichael and Charles and Dennis Wenger. The group then met • Studies of organizational responses Hamilton’s Black Power (1966), which signaled the civil rights movement’s a third time in New Orleans in March to Katrina. These will take a number of transformation toward black separatism. Jane Jacobs’ 1961 book, The Death of this year, joined on this occasion by forms, beginning with an analysis of the and Life of Great American Cities, belongs in this pantheon. Perhaps more Walter Peacock and Kathleen Tierney. efforts of scientific experts to inform pub- than anyone during the past half century, Jacobs changed the way we The research priorities that emerged lic officials—who are in a position to do think about livable cities.” from those discussions are as follows. something about it—of the vulnerabili- And David Halle, of the University of California-Los Angeles, writes They should be understood as general ties of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. that many people think of Jacobs as a conservative, but that this image headings rather than particular propos- Among the most spectacular mishaps of “could not survive a basic reading of the text and I have long concluded als, although work along those lines is Katrina is the fact that what happened that many of those who cite Jacobs in this way have not read her .... She either in the planning stage or under way. to New Orleans had been predicted over is absolutely not against new buildings, tall buildings, modern buildings, • An effort to track those persons, and over by prominent experts and that or buildings whose units are expensive to rent or purchase. She believes numbering in the several hundreds of these warnings had not been taken seri- that urban neighborhoods should have a good number of such buildings, thousands, who evacuated from the path ously by policy makers. That was one of along with a healthy mixture of other types (e.g., older, smaller, and less of Katrina and now find themselves a a number of serious system failures. expensive structures). long way from the places they called • Longitudinal studies of the well- All of this follows logically from her stress throughout [The Death and home. This will require three different being and coping strategies of persons Life of Great American Cities] on the virtue of diversity.” initiatives: impacted by Katrina both along the coast Jacobs has something to teach not only urbanists but also all sociolo- The first is to gain access to data now and in New Orleans. gists. This set of retrospective essays underscores just how important and in the files of FEMA, the Red Cross, These initiatives will be reported vital her ideas remain today. ❑ other agencies with whom evacuees are on further in subsequent issues of Footnotes. ❑
House, from page 6 neighborhoods and communities, prefer- their lives, and desires for their proper- Derbigny Street into a house of refuge— ring to bring in large-scale developers ties. Instead of complete despair, many perhaps a shelter for battered women, a and focus on profit and tourism. of those with whom we spoke indicated safe haven for teens, or site of recovery Volunteers are pitching in to gut a desire to return to their neighborhoods, for those addicted—a place for anyone houses, fight the mold, and secure sup- rebuild, and reconnect with family and needing shelter from a storm. ❑ plies. We hope our story will encour- friends who resided there before. Some age others to take action and develop neighbors perished, some permanently an agenda that will assist more of the relocated, but more want to reclaim their victims of these two storms: Hurricane sense of community. They want to be a Katrina and governmental inaction. The community where they can again borrow fact that the lack of governmental assis- sugar from one another and chat over tance and guidance is further victimizing the back fence. those already displaced by Katrina led us But these are more than individual to organize a week-long service trip for dreams. Although Ms. Debra’s personal our students to travel to the Lower Ninth St. Augustine’s College (Raleigh, NC) student loss is too great for her to move back into Ward to help residents demonstrate a volunteer guts Ms. Debra’s living room. the house she inherited from her mother “concerted effort” toward rebuilding. and shared with her son, she, too, wishes Pairing with Common Ground, a grass- gut four houses. In the process, we to give back to her community. After roots organization that is coordinating became acquainted with several of the coming to terms with Katrina, the loss of efforts to spare Lower Ninth Ward resi- residents (like Ms. Debra) and learned of her belongings, and the heroic death of Appalachian State University student volunteers dents from the perils of eminent domain, their visions for the rebirth of their com- her son, Ms. Debra has decided to trans- clear rubble to save Ms. Debra’s property from we worked to remove the contents and munities and neighborhoods, renewal of form the small, ordinary brick home on governmental seizure under “eminent domain.” July/August 2006 Footnotes
stated goals of SWS betray the organi- find it a tragic shame that SWS appears zation’s activist motives and the desired to have turned from the progressive effect its survey is intended to have. Committee of the Status of Women in Public Forum Inasmuch as this goal is narrowly per- Sociology, which promoted equality, ceived in terms of the number of females to a conservative force that opposes ASA Candidates: the ASA asks of candidates and pub- elected to ASA positions, the SWS survey inclusiveness and resorts to sterile lishes in Footnotes, because there is no is at best obsolete, at worst a litmus test. gender-based voting. Such a practice I Reply to Deflem need for information redundancy—our I should be taken-aback by the find objectionable most of all in view of members read Footnotes. And, like the implication that I would not be fit to all candidates running for ASA offices Mathieu Deflem, in the May/June ASA, SWS shares the candidates’ verba- run for an ASA office because I was deserving the right to be treated on 2006 issue of Footnotes (p. 12), expressed tim responses with our members, letting unaware of a practice that is not part the basis of their professional surprise—after he became a candidate them decide for themselves if any of the of ASA procedures but is instituted by qualifications. an external organization. Candidates for ASA Council—to have received a information is relevant to their vote, and Mathieu Deflem, University of South Caro- for ASA Council have a duty to reply questionnaire from the Sociologists for we make no effort to predigest candidate lina, [email protected] Women in Society (SWS). SWS has a responses for our readers. We feel that to any query from ASA members, be it 24-year history of sending this short and the candidates’ statements (or lack of individually or collectively organized simple questionnaire to candidates seek- responses) speak for themselves. within the ASA, but they need feel no ing ASA elected office. Because this is such responsibility when questions come New ASA publication! Christine E. Bose, University at Albany- such a long-established practice, we were from outside our Association. Even the Syllabi and Instructional taken-aback by his lack of awareness of SUNY, President, Sociologists for Women overlap between the memberships of the questionnaire prior to his becoming in Society the organizations does not deny the fact Resources for Teaching the a candidate for an ASA office. The title Catherine Zimmer, University of North that SWS is not a constituency within Sociology of Consumers and of his letter to the editor (“Single-issue Carolina-Chapel Hill, Vice President and the ASA and, therefore, cannot claim Consumption (Second Edition) Voting Tactic?”) suggests he is concerned Membership Chair, Sociologists for Women to represent the ASA electorate or any Edited by Daniel Thomas Cook, J. Michael Ryan, that SWS members vote for ASA candi- in Society part thereof. Not even the interlocking directorates that currently exist between and Meghan Ashlin Rich. A new set of teaching dates based solely on issues related to materials related to consumers, commodities, gender equality, and he expresses con- Response to SWS SWS and the ASA Executive Office and and consumption includes, 16 undergraduate cern that the results of the SWS survey Council can alter this fact. syllabi, seven graduate syllabi, five assign- are used to prepare a “voting strategy” Although the title of my May/June Of the five candidates who did not ments, four essays and URL lists. Graduate, for our members. Footnotes (p. 12) letter to the editor respond to the SWS survey this year, undergraduate, marketing, and international All members of the ASA, includ- (“Single-issue Voting Tactic?”) was pro- two were female. Should SWS members contributions are included in this volume. This publication is available in hard copy and as an ing those who belong to other related vided by the Footnotes managing editor, really heed the call to have these non- e-book. 200pp., 2006 Stock # 371.C06 organizations, are free to contact candi- it reflects my main concern about the responses speak for themselves, these 6 dates about their opinions on whatever Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) candidates should not be receiving SWS To order this publication visit the ASA issues concern them, and we do not survey well—a concern that has been support. That is very unlikely, however, homepage at www.asanet.org and click on think that our practice needs justifica- expressed in the pages of this newslet- as the SWS platform is not defined as “Bookstore.” tion. Nonetheless, we take this brief ter by other ASA members in at least promoting gender diversity but as maxi- 6 opportunity to clarify that SWS does not the past 14 years (and in near identical mizing the professional opportunities repeat the same sorts of questions that terms). The very name, bylaws, and for women in sociology. More broadly, I
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degrees at the University of Wisconsin, Strikes, 1929–1934, is an important work beyond departmental affiliation and par- As an editorial team, Vinnie Roscigno after doing his undergraduate work in of history documenting one of the larg- enthood. Both have extensive editorial and Randy Hodson share many traits, sociology at the University of Wyoming. est mass strikes in U.S. history. It is an experience, and they have labored over but they are also two quite different He held tenured appointments in sociol- equally important work in sociology, the last few years as co-authors. Together people. While both regularly play poker, ogy at Indiana University-Bloomington showing the mutual constitution of labor they have published a series of papers on like to fish, and both are reported to and University of Texas-Austin, before insurgency and cultural production dignity and resistance at work. Because be married to a remarkable woman moving to Ohio State in 1996. facilitated by the emergence of radio. A ASR editing requires them to manage named “Susan,” I have both personal recent review in Contemporary Sociology the equivalent of a business, includ- and indirect knowledge that these are in Roscigno suggests that this book is destined to ing staff, a large editorial board, and fact two different women; one is a great Roscigno also joined the faculty at become a social movement classic. a diverse set of customers who are simul- poker player, and the other a fine fisher- Ohio State in 1996 where he has focused While it is difficult to predict the taneously—through our professional man. With Susan Rogers, Randy has on social movements, the sociology of future, I am willing to venture that association—their bosses, Roscigno’s two children—Debbie (age 3) and Susie education, historical sociology, strati- during his co-editorship, Roscigno will and Hodson’s intellectual sensitivi- (age 1)—both born in China. Vinnie and fication, the labor movement, and the educate us in an entertaining way as ties to issues of respect and insurgency Susan Roscigno also have two children. production of culture— Danaher and Roscigno have entertained may be useful adjuncts to undertaking Allegra is 10, a budding scientist and a typically crafting analy- many of us already by pausing this exacting job. Both are very clever artist. Seven- ses that combine two or mid-lecture, hoisting guitar praised by co-workers and year-old Sam is an active three of these approaches and mandolin, and illustrat- co-authors as extraordi- gymnast and a creative in a single sociological stand-up comic. project. After publishing They are variously described as broad-minded, One of my informants praised Hodson’s cooking a series of articles on the possessors of unbounded energy, sensible spatial-political economy skills, suggesting that of race in the American decision makers, committed to evidence-based he will edit as well as he South during graduate knowledge, joys to work with, professionally cooks and that as a result school, he moved on to a ASR could not have a organized and persistent, even dogged, and pas- better “chef.” Roscigno dissertation on race and sionate about sociology, fairness, and justice. educational inequality was singled out for his that has lead to many constructive help with ing their point by singing nary choices for ASR. They other people’s research, articles on the school, Randy Hodson Vincent Roscigno community, and family the songs that mobilized are variously described as a skill that we all hope to context of educational textile workers in the rural broad-minded, possessors encounter in the editors success and failure. Carolinas 70 years ago. Roscigno’s next of unbounded energy, sensible decision to whom we entrust our work. Roscigno Roscigno’s most recent work in the project, with a series of talented doctoral makers, committed to evidence-based will probably be the firstASR editor to field of academic achievement makes the students, analyses both qualitatively and knowledge, joys to work with, profes- routinely wear a baseball cap to work. strong and potentially disturbing distinc- quantitatively thousands of accounts sionally organized and persistent, even We all look forward to a productive and tion between the availability of family of discrimination in employment and dogged, and passionate about sociology, creative editorship and thank them for and school resources for the education housing. After earning an undergradu- fairness, and justice. Many of the people taking on this collective task on behalf of of children and the family- and school- ate degree in sociology at the University with whom I talked about this editorial the discipline. level decisions to actually invest those of Arizona, Roscigno earned MS and team stressed their methodological and I would like to thank David Bills, resources in children’s futures. His recent PhD degrees at North Carolina State theoretical openness and predicted that Judith Blau, Claudia Buckmann, Camille work with William Danaher (College of University. as editors they would be welcome to Charles, Tim Dowd, William Form, Charleston) is well known among social diverse intellectual contributions and Jerry Jacobs, Lisa Keister, Garth Massey, Collectivity movement, labor, and culture scholars. be likely to innovate, perhaps even take Rory McVeigh, David Snow, and George Their 2004 monograph, The Voices of Collectively, Roscigno and Hodson some risks, in the types and format of Wilson for contributing insights and ❑ Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile share a remarkable number of traits articles published in ASR. stories used in this article. July/August 2006 Footnotes
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Tribune and South China Morning Post. On Bill D’Antonio and Tony Pogorelc, both sociological thought in commemoration liberal vs. conservative cultural politics. Ivan Light, University of California-Los March 7, Bob also appeared on Minnesota of The Catholic University of America, of Ibn Khaldun’s 6th centenary since his Angeles, wrote an opinion piece for the Public Radio’s one-hour Midmorning call- were featured in the March 10 National death in 1406. Also, the Aljazeera Satellite James Gramlich, PhD Candidate at Uni- April 16 Los Angles Times on how LA kept in program, debating the article and his Catholic Reporter, which discussed findings Channel aired an interview with Dha- versity of Illinois-Chicago, was recently out immigrants. recent book, The Marketing of Rebellion: from their research on the social move- ouadi on his book, New Explorations into interviewed on the topic of urban home- Insurgents, Media, and International Activ- ment VOTF (Voice of the Faithful). The the Making of Ibn Khaldun’s Umran Mind, lessness for the forthcoming documentary April Linton, University of California-San ism, with Hugh Parmer, president of the same issue featured the symposium they in April 2006. “Leaving Kansas.” Diego, was quoted in a May 21 New York American Refugee Committee. On April organized at Boston College on VOTF and Times article on English being designated 22, he was interviewed about the book on noted comments by panelists Nancy Am- Peter Dreier, Occidental College, was Guang Guo and Yuying Tong, both of as America’s national language. National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition merman, Michele Dillon, Bill Gamson, quoted in the May 7 New York Times in a the University of North Carolina, were with Scott Simon. and John McCarthy. story about the serious shortage of hous- profiled in a May 30 Washington Post ar- John R. Logan, Brown University, was ing in California. He was also quoted in ticle for their research on the D4 receptor quoted in a May 17 Washington Post article Jennie Brand, University of Michigan, Arnold Dashefsky, University of Con- the Los Angeles Times on May 11 about gene in twins. on the changing face of who returns to was quoted in a May 11 Washington Post necticut, was quoted in the April 12 a new ordinance to protect the loss of New Orleans. Logan has begun a long- article about her research that found that Washington Post about competition in the residential hotel units for very poor Angela Hattery and Earl Smith, both of term study of demographic change in graduates from elite colleges did not religious marketplace in an article on inno- residents. His article, “John Edwards and Wake Forest University, were quoted in an post-Katrina New Orleans. end up with higher-status jobs or higher vations regarding the Passover festival. the Politics of Poverty,” was published on April 7, 2006, USA Today article concern- incomes than their peers from less re- the CommonDreams website on April 15, ing violence against women in relation Robert Manning, Rochester Institute of nowned universities. James Davidson, Purdue University, was 2006. He was quoted in two Los Angeles to a recent incident involving the Duke Technology, was quoted in an April 11, quoted in a May 13 Washington Post article Times articles on February 19 and March University male lacrosse team. 2006, Associated Press story about Citi- Xavier de Souza Briggs was quoted in on sex scandals in the Catholic Church 30 about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s group, Inc., and the rise of personal debt the New York Times, on May 28, 2006, in changing the way people view priests. plans for Los Angeles and in a Los Ange- Samuel C. Heilman, City University of and bankruptcies in the United States. a story on the long-term effects of hous- les Times article on March 4 about Maria New York, wrote an op-ed on Orthodox He was also interviewed live on the Al ing and school desegregation on low- Nancy J. Davis, DePauw University, was Elena Durazo’s election to head the LA Jews in the April 9 New York Times. Franken Show on Air America radio on income minority children and families quoted in a May 13 Toronto Star article on County Federation of Labor. April 27. in Yonkers, New York. He and Margery her research with Robert V. Robinson, John Henretta and Matthew Van Voorhis, Austin Turner, the Urban Institute, wrote Indiana University, which appeared in the Gili S. Drori, Stanford University, was both of the University of Florida, and Beth Patricia Y. Martin, Florida State Uni- an op-ed in the Boston Globe on October April American Sociological Review. Their interviewed by Moira Gunn on the na- J. Soldo, University of Pennsylvania, were versity, had her research on feelings of 5, 2005, about lessons of “assisted hous- research was on religious orthodoxy in tionally syndicated radio show TechNa- cited for their research on stepchildren and self-derogation in boys, relative to drug ing mobility programs” for the massive Islamic countries. tion about her new book, Global E-litism: college assistance in a May 18 Washington dependence nine years later, cited in the relocation of poor black families forced Digital Technology, Social Inequality, and Post article. April 25, 2006, edition of the London Times. out by Hurricane Katrina. Joseph De Angelis, Ohio University, and Transnationality. It was cited also in a number of health Aaron Kupchik, Arizona State University, David Hirsh, University of London, was newsletters around the United States, Sarah Burgard, University of Michigan, had their research on the effect of police Troy Duster, New York University, was a guest on the May 26, 2006, airing of the including the Rocky Mountain News and was quoted in an April 8 issue of the oversight on the attitudes of citizens and quoted in an April 12, 2006, New York Little Atoms show on London’s Resonance Medical News Today. Washington Post for her study, which officers featured in newspaper articles by Times article about the public’s use of com- 104.4 FM radio station about a campaign concluded that chronic job insecurity was the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain mercially marketed but speculative DNA by a major British academic union, the Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Florida Interna- more strongly linked to poor health and News on April 19, 2006. assessments that purportedly determine National Association of Teachers in Fur- tional University, was quoted in the Boston depression than was actual job loss or a geographic or ethnic ancestry. He also was ther and Higher Education, to foster a Globe on January 1, 2006, in an article on brush with life-threatening illness. Mathieu Deflem, University of South quoted in a May 11 Washington Post article cultural and academic boycott of Israeli immigration and crime, in the Townhall. Carolina, was quoted in “Muslims Find on using familial testing of fingerprints to academics. com Opinion Column by Fox News Radio Phillip N. Cohen, University of North Giving to Charity Now Harder,” The solve crimes. Host Tony Snow on March 31, 2006, and Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Melissa Milk- Toledo Blade, March 6, 2006, and inter- Allan V. Horwitz, Rutgers University, and was interviewed for the National Public ie, University of Maryland-College viewed about Mexican-Canadian police Mark Edwards, Oregon State University, Jerome C. Wakefield, New York Univer- Radio Morning Edition show on April Park, were quoted in a WebMD article cooperation for the Global TV Network on was interviewed about his research on sity, were cited in a May 23 Chronicle of 27, 2006, about illegal immigration and about mothers deciding between being February 27, 2006. He also was quoted in poverty levels on KVAL-TV in Eugene, Higher Education article on their research crime. stay-at-home moms or returning to the “On Behalf of Muslims, ACLU Seeks FBI Oregon, and KEX, KXL, and KUGN radio in the winter 2006 issue of Contexts about workforce. Surveillance Data” in the Los Angeles Times in western Oregon on May 26. The report flawed surveys inflating frequency esti- Duane A. Matcha, Siena College, was on May 16, 2006. was reported on Oregon Public Radio, Air mates of mental illness. quoted in The Record on April 17, in the Dalton Conley, New York University, was America, the Oregonian, the Register Guard, article “Baby Boomers Expected to Retire quoted in a May 7 New York Times article Tina Deshotels and Craig Forsyth, Jack- and an Associated Press article. Shirley A. Jackson, Southern Connecticut with Gusto.” about the power of money and how it sonville State University, had their article State University, was interviewed on April affects friendships. from Deviant Behavior, “Strategic Flirting Felix Elwert and Nicholas A. Christakis, 23 on WVIT-TV NBC Hartford on the tele- Micki McGee was interviewed by and the Emotional Tab of Exotic Dancing,” both of Harvard University, had their ar- vision show Black Perspectives, regarding WNYC’s Brian Lehrer about her new Shelly Correll, Cornell University, had discussed in the May 4 Washington Post. ticle from the American Sociological Review African American girls and self-esteem. book Self-Help, Inc: Makeover Culture in her research on the employment discrimi- on the racial influence on the likelihood American Life in late March. nation against mothers featured on the Mahmoud Dhaouadi, University of Tunis, of a widow dying shortly after their William Kandel, U.S. Department of Paula Zahn show on CNN May 2. was interviewed on Tunis 7 Satellite Chan- spouse’s death the subject of a March 1 Agriculture, was quoted in an April Michael Messner, University of Southern nel aired in February on Ibn Khaldun’s Time.com article. 8 Washington Post article on the expansion California, and Michael Kimmel, State of immigrants to non-metro areas. University of New York-Stony Brook, Morten Ender, United States Military were quoted in an Associated Press ar- Academy, was quoted in an April 27 The Stephen Klineberg, Rice University, was ticle about a Silicon Valley fight club. The TH !NNUAL Student Voice, a weekly newspaper at quoted in a March 29 Washington Post article appeared in numerous national Syracuse University, in a special issue on article, which cited his survey of Hous- publications May 29 and 30, including 1UALITATIVE 2ESEARCH the War on Terror. He also was quoted in a ton-area residents by finding that three- CNN.com, Seattle Post Intelligencer, USA March 27 San Jose Mercury News article, fourths believed that helping the refugees Today, San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston 3UMMER )NTENSIVE titled “Net keeps troops, loves ones in put a “considerable strain” on the com- Globe, and the Houston Chronicle. touch amid war in Iraq: Non-profit pro- munity, and two-thirds blamed evacuees *UNE s ,ONG )SLAND .EW 9ORK vides free telecom service to military.” for a surge in violent crime. C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite was reviewed retrospectively in the May 14 Joyce Ladner, Brookings Institution, was 4AKE COURSES TAUGHT BY LEADING 3OCIOLOGISTS IN THE lELD Toby A. Ten Eyck, Michigan State Uni- New York Times for its societal impact and versity, was quoted in the Lansing State quoted in a May 4 New York Times article its continuing significance today, 50 years OF QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS Journal on May 2 concerning American on an unlikely pardon for civil rights after its publication. )NSTRUCTOR #OURSE 4ITLES idealism, social movements, and collec- advocate, Clyde Kennard. tive behavior. Torin Monahan, Arizona State University, %LIJAH !NDERSON s %VERYDAY %THNOGRAPHY Edward O. Laumann, University of Chi- was quoted in a May 30 New York Times Nancy Foner, Hunter College-City Uni- cago, was quoted in an April 19 Associated article on how technology is facilitating +ATHY #HARMAZ s 'ROUNDED 4HEORY versity of New York, was quoted in a Press article about his research survey on identity theft. s 7RITING 2ITES FOR 1UALITATIVE 2ESEARCH May 8 Washington Post article about the the sexual satisfaction in various coun- relevance of early 20th century concerns to tries. The article appeared in more than Stephen J. Morewitz, California State "ELISA 'ONZALEZ s #OMMUNITY "ASED 2ESEARCH the current U.S. immigration debate. 350 newspapers worldwide. University-East Bay, was quoted in a !LEX 4RILLO February 16 article in The Capital about 2AY -AIETTA s -ULTIDIMENSIONAL 1UALITATIVE !NALYSIS Herbert Gans, Columbia University, was C.N. Le, University of Massachusetts- whether a public incident involving the quoted in the May 21, 2006, New York Times Amherst, was quoted in the April 11, Maryland State Comptroller and former Magazine about a proposed design for a 2006, issue of The Christian Science Monitor, Governor and a young woman at the $OUG -AYNARD s %THNOMETHODOLOGY AND new West Harlem campus of Columbia discussing the various factors affecting Board of Public Works meeting in the #ONVERSATION !NALYSIS University and fear in the community of continuing high levels of immigration Maryland State House constituted sexual s !NALYZING !UDIO AND 6IDEO $ATA the implications for gentrification of the from China in the context of a recent harassment. neighborhood. discovery of 22 illegal immigrants from $AVID -ORGAN s &OCUS 'ROUPS China inside a cargo container at the Port Gina Neff, University of Washington, was s )NTEGRATING 1UALITATIVE AND Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College, of Seattle. quoted in a May 30 New York Times op-ed 1UANTITATIVE !NALYSIS was quoted in Christianity Today the week about the culture of summer internships. Zai Liang, State University of New York- AND MORE of January 30 on the passing of Coretta Scott King. Albany, was quoted in April 24 issue of Kristin Park, Westminster College, was s 1UALITATIVE 2ESEARCH $ESIGN s .ARRATIVE )NQUIRY s %THICS IN 1UALITATIVE the New Yorker magazine about recent interviewed in the March 2006 issue of 2ESEARCH s 7ORKING WITH )2"S s "UILDING #ODES AND -EMOING s $EVELOP Peggy Giordano, Bowling Green State international migration from China’s Health magazine about her research on the ING A 2ESEARCH 0ROPOSAL s 4YPES AND 4YPOLOGIES IN 1UALITATIVE !NALYSIS University, had her research on teenage Fujian province. motivations for voluntary childlessness s 0UBLISHING A #REDIBLE -ANUSCRIPT s -OVING FROM #ODES TO &INDINGS s boys’ romantic relationships profiled in among American women. 1UALITATIVE )NTERVIEWING s 7RITING THE 1UALITATIVE $ISSERTATION a May 15 Philadelphia Inquirer article. Her Donald Light, University of Medicine research appeared in the April issue of the and Dentistry of New Jersey, had a new Joel Perlman, Bard College, had his recent American Sociological Review. analysis of global funds to research study, “Italians Then, Mexicans Now,” men- neglected diseases covered by many tioned by Robert J. Samuelson in an April INFORMATION RESEARCHTALKCOM Todd Gitlin, Columbia University, pub- European papers through coverage by 20, 2006, op-ed in the Washington Post. WWWRESEARCHTALKCOM lished in the May 5, 2006, Chronicle of Reuters and the Associated Press in Ge- Higher Education a discussion of three neva on April 20. J. Steven Picou, University of South books published in 2006 in relation to Alabama, was featured in a documentary 12 July/August 2006 Footnotes
produced by the Sierra Club, titled “The Jeremy Straughn’s, Purdue University, versity, has been awarded the Stuart A. the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld Day the Water Died.” survey of national identity in America Rice Award for Career Achievement by the University, Germany. He is spending the People was the subject of an article in the April District of Columbia Sociological Society summer term as the Niklas Luhmann Eric Plutzer and Juliana Sandell, both of 24 issue of The Christian Science Monitor. for her outstanding lifetime achievement Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University. Ramón Bosque-Pérez was invited to Pennsylvania State University, were pro- On April 25, he was interviewed on-air in scholarship on gender. present testimony at a congressional filed in a May 30 Washington Post article by Ted Simons of KTAR News Radio 620 Arvind Rajagopal, New York University, briefing held by the Judiciary Commit- for their research on voter participation about the survey. Lee Clarke, Rutgers University, has been has received a fellowship at the Woodrow tee Democratic Office at the U.S. House among adults who were children of di- awarded Princeton University’s Anschutz Wilson International Center for Scholars of Representatives. The briefing was vorced parents. Steven Taylor, Syracuse University, was Distinguished Fellowship for 2006–07 by for next year in Washington, DC, for his intended to gather information on alleged interviewed about the disabled in the the Program in American Studies. project, “Violence, Publicity and Secular- FBI misconduct in Puerto Rico following Harriet B. Presser’s, University of Mary- workplace on a May 12 Marketplace show ism.” the September 23, 2005, incident in which land, research on shift workers received on National Public Radio. Susan Dimock and Janine DeWitt-Hef- Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was killed in the town extensive coverage in an article in the fner have been awarded a Service Award Eugene (Gene) Rosa, Washington State of Hormigueros and the February 10, 2006, April 4 Wall Street Journal. The same day, Debra Umberson, University of Texas- from the District of Columbia Sociological University, was awarded the Distin- incident in which numerous Puerto Rican she was interviewed by Robert Goodman Austin, was quoted in an April 18 Wash- Society for their service to that organiza- guished Achievement Award of the Col- journalists and bystanders were pepper- on the same subject on CBS News Radio. ington Post article on her research on the tion. lege of Liberal Arts. sprayed by agents conducting a search. He declining health of older individuals in also submitted written testimony, titled Jack Nusan Porter, The Spencer Institute, a bad marriage. Her research appeared John Foran, University of California-Santa Jan Yager, University of Connecticut, was “The FBI and Puerto Rico: Notes on a was quoted in the April 7, 2006, Boston Jew- in the March 2006 Journal of Health and Barbara, and Paul Lichterman, University a recipient of the Alumni Achievement Conflictive History,” based on his research ish Advocate about a prominent cantor who Social Behavior. of Southern California, both received the Award for 2006 from the City University during the last few years on political per- resigned to protest rabbis officiating at gay Distinguished Scholarship Award from of New York, Graduate Center. Her es- secution and the politics of human rights marriages in conservative synagogues. He Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American Univer- the Pacific Sociological Association. say, “Getting Back on Track,” published in the Puerto Rican context. was quoted in the March 10 Newton TAB sity, was interviewed April 11 on Escucha in The Chronicle of Higher Education, was regarding a recent study that revealed an y Ponte Trucha by Radio Campesina, Herbert Haines, State University of New awarded Best Creative Writing of the Year- Richard P. Devine, Insight: Classroom increase in discrimination by real estate a southwest radio station focusing on York-Cortland, has been awarded a 2006 Narrative by the Connecticut Press Club in Based Research (ICBR), presented a pa- brokers involved in home sales and rentals migrant populations, about the impact Research and Scholarship Award by the their 2006 Communications Contest. per in April 2006, titled “Unconditional in Newton, MA. He was also interviewed of immigration on the sexuality of Latin SUNY Research Foundation in recognition Positive Regard for Students: Humanistic on Channel 7 Boston TV’s The Five O’clock American immigrants. of his funded research projects. Teaching,” as part of the 9th Annual Mas- News on March 7, 2006, about the increase sachusetts Community College Confer- in random violence in relation to post- Michele Wakin, Bridgewater State Col- Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University, ence on Teaching, Learning, and Student modern theories of confusion between lege, was quoted in a front-page article in has been awarded a John Simon Gug- Transitions Development. reality and hyper-reality. the New York Times on April 2. The article genheim Memorial Fellowship for the focused on people who live in their cars 2006–2007 year. Barbara Altman is retiring from the Na- Irving Krauss, Northern Illinois Uni- Mark Rank, Washington University-St. as a form of housing. tional Center for Health Statistics. versity, has been elected Chair of the Louis, and Katherine S. Newman, Princ- Carole Joffe, University of California- Alpine County, CA, Democratic Central eton University, were quoted in a May 8 John Robert Warren, University of Minne- Davis, recently won the “Faculty Distin- James N. Baron, Stanford University, Committee. New York Times article about the increasing sota, was quoted in a May 23 Washington guished Public Service Award” at UC Da- will join the faculty of the Yale School of chances that Americans will live in pover- Post article on the differing statistics on vis for her work with reproductive health Management effective July 1. Gary LaFree, University of Maryland-Col- ty at some point in their lives. Daniel A. high school dropouts. and reproductive rights organizations and lege Park, has been named a Fellow of the Sandoval and Thomas A. Hirschl, both for her public sociology efforts. Shannon N. Davis has joined the faculty American Society of Criminology. of Cornell University, were also referred Kenneth Westhues, University of Wa- at George Mason University as an Assis- to for their research with Rank. terloo, was quoted in an April 14, 2006, Craig D. Lair, University of Maryland, re- tant Professor. Michele Lamont, Harvard University, Chronicle of Higher Education article about ceived the Irene B. Taeuber Award for Out- has been named Chair of the Council for Edward B. Reeves, Morehead State “mobbing” behavior among feuding fac- standing Student Paper, titled “Toward an Patricia G. Greene, Babson College, has European Studies for 2006–2009. University, had his research featured in ulty in higher education. Application of Global Commodity Chain been named Provost of Babson College an April 10 Chronicle of Higher Education Analysis to the ‘Production’ of Service effective July 1, 2006. Donald Light, University of Medicine and article about the likelihood of completing Hella Winston, The Graduate Center- Work Providers: The Case of Domestic Dentistry of New Jersey, has been invited a college degree as a function of quality of CUNY, wrote an op-ed, “An Unorthodox Workers and Flight Attendants.” Akil Kokayi Khalfani, ATIRA Corp., to be a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute one’s high school and other demographic Passover,” in the April 23 New York Times began a new appointment as the Director for Advanced Study for the academic year variables such as socioeconomic status on the Passover celebrations of formerly Kyriacos C. Markides, University of of the Africana Institute at Essex County 2006–2007. and family expectations about college Orthodox Jews. Maine, has won the University of Maine’s College on May 1, 2006. degrees. Presidential Research and Creative Jack Nusan Porter, The Spencer Institute, Achievement Award. Valentine Moghadam, UNESCO, will join was elected an official delegate to the Cornelius Riordan, Providence College, the faculty of Purdue University as Pro- Democratic State Convention in Worces- was quoted on the topic of same sex Sam Marullo, Georgetown University, fessor of Sociology and Women’s Studies ter, MA, for the governor’s race. schools in a May 1 Washington Post article Awards was awarded the 2006 Morris Rosenberg and as Director of the Women’s Studies on what makes schools great. Merit Award for Recent Achievement Program, in January 2007. Lloyd H. Rogler, Fordham University, Steven E. Barkan, University of Maine, by the District of Columbia Sociological was designated a “superstar” in medical David R. Segal, University of Maryland, has won the 2006 “Texty” Textbook Ex- Society. Sharon Preves has been promoted to As- research by a team of health economists was quoted in The Record on his research cellence Award in the Humanities and sociate Professor with tenure at Hamline at Columbia University. on the decline of military enlistments Social Sciences category from the Text Michael Messner, University of Southern University. among high school graduates. He was and Academic Authors Association for his California, received the USC Associates Mary C. Waters, Harvard University, and quoted in the New York Times on Febru- Criminology: A Sociological Understanding, Award for Excellence in Teaching. Joanne C. Sandberg, Vanderbilt Univer- Lawrence Bobo, Stanford University, were ary 5 on the military recruiting mission 3rd edition. sity, will join the faculty at High Point Uni- elected into the American Academy of today and on February 9 on his research John W. Meyer, Stanford University, versity as Assistant Professor in the fall. Arts & Sciences 226th Class of Fellows. with Mady W. Segal on increasing enlist- Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, American Uni- was awarded an honorary doctorate of ments among Hispanics. He was quoted on February 6 in the San Antonio Express- News on the success of the Texas National Guard in meeting its enlistment goals. He was quoted on February 16 in the Scripps- Howard newspapers on military enlist- ment rules regarding hairstyles, cosmetics, and jewelry. He was quoted on February 28 in the Knight-Ridder newspapers, and interviewed on CBS News on poll results showing that most U.S. troops supported withdrawal from Iraq within a year. He was quoted on March 2 in the Baltimore Sun on the transition from military service to college. He was interviewed on March 7 in the Washington Post regarding declining applications to the U.S. Naval Academy at TrustedData developed for researchers, by researchers. Annapolis. He was quoted in the New York Times on March 12 and in the Boston Globe on March 13 on Army claims that a large One of the most reliable resources for studying complex health care topics, the Healthcare Cost majority of young American men do not and Utilization Project (HCUP) has earned the trust of health services and policy researchers meet the minimum standards for military alike. HCUP is a family of powerful health care databases, software tools, and products for service. And he was interviewed late in advancing meaningful research. With nearly 400 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, March by Michigan Radio, the Tokyo Broad- HCUP compiles comprehensive health care data that encompass 90 percent of U.S. community cast System, and by teleSUR regarding his research on military manpower. hospital discharges for all payers. Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, you can trust HCUP to help you find the answers you need. Marc A. 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Karen Sternheimer, University of South- ern California, commented in a May 11 Washington Post article about violent video games being easy targets for politicians.
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of New England, 2006). Organization Theory (Cambridge Univer- Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Brown Uni- elorette Parties (Rutgers University Press, Members’ New sity Press, 2005). versity, Globalization and the Future of the 2006). Winifred Breines, Northeastern Univer- Welfare State (University of Pittsburgh Books sity, The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, and Hokyu Press, 2005). Stephen J. Morewitz, California State History of White and Black Women in the Hwang, all of Stanford University, Global- University-East Bay, Chronic Diseases Lu Ann Aday, University of Texas, Rein- Feminist Movement (Oxford University ization and Organization: World Society and Kathleen E. Hull, University of Min- and Health Care: New Trends in Diabetes, venting Public Health: Policies and Practices Press, 2006). Organizational Change (Oxford University nesota. Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Fibromyalgia, Low for a Healthy Nation (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, Press, 2006). Politics of Love and Law (Cambridge Uni- Back Pain, Cardiovascular Disease and Can- 2005); Designing and Conducting Health Jackson W. Carroll, Duke University, versity Press, 2006). cer (Springer, 2006). Surveys: A Comprehensive Guide, 3rd edi- God’s Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the Paula J. Dubeck, University of Cincinna- tion (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2006). Shaping of Congregations (Eerdmans, ti, and Dana Dunn, University of Texas- William Kandel and David L. Brown, Kenneth J. Neubeck, University of Con- 2006). Arlington, Workplace/Women’s Place: An Population Change and Rural Society necticut, When Welfare Disappears: The Case Howard Aldrich, University of North Anthology (3rd edition) (Roxbury 2006). (Springer, 2006). for Economic Human Rights (Routledge, Carolina-Chapel Hill, Organizations Richard P. Coleman, Kansas State Univer- 2006). Evolving (2nd edition), co-authored with sity, The Kansas City Establishment: Leader- Barbara Finlay, Texas A&M, Before the Matthew Lange, MacGill University, Martin Ruef (Sage Publications, 2006); ship Through Two Centuries in a Midwestern Second Wave: Gender in the Sociological and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Brown Donald A. Nielsen, Horrible Workers: Max Organizations and Environments, paper- Metropolis (KS Publishing, Inc., 2006). Tradition (Prentice-Hall, 2006). University, States and Development: Histori- Stirner, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Johnson back edition (BookSurge, 2006). cal Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance and the Charles Manson Circle: Studies in Thomas Crow and Vijayan K. Pillai, Jennifer N. Fish, Old Dominion Univer- (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Moral Experience and Cultural Expression David L. Altheide, Arizona State Uni- University of Texas-Arlington, Designing sity, Domestic Democracy: At Home in South (Lexington Books, 2005). versity, Terrorism and the Politics of Fear a Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program: Africa (Routledge, 2006). Laura J. Miller, Brandies University, (AltaMira Press, 2006). The Behavioral Performance Theory (Edwin Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Martin Oppenheimer, Rutgers Universi- Mellen Press, 2006). Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore, The New Culture of Consumption (The University ty, The Hate Handbook: Oppressors, Victims, Charles F. Andrain and James T. Smith, Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, of Chicago Press, 2006). and Fighters (Lexington Books, 2005). San Diego State University, Political Gerald F. Davis and Mayer N. Zald, Networks, and Power (University of Wis- Democracy, Trust, and Social Justice: A both of University of Michigan, Doug consin Press, 2006). Beth Montemurro, Pennsylvania State Robert Perinbanayagam, Hunter Col- Comparative Overview (University Press McAdam and W. Richard Scott, both of University-Abington, Something Old, lege-City University of New York, Games Stanford University, Social Movements and Miguel Glatzer, Watson Institute, and Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bach- and Sport in Everyday Life: Dialogues and Narratives of the Self (Paradigm Publish- ers, 2006).
Jack Nusan Porter, The Spencer Institute, The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspectives (Roman and Littlefield, 2006); Is Sociology Dead? Sociological Theory and Social Praxis in a Postmodern Era (Roman fellowships available and Littlefield, forthcoming). William Alex Pridemore, Indiana Uni- versity, Ruling Russia: Law, Crime, and Justice in a Changing Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
Richard Quinney, Once Again the Wonder The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (Borderland Books, 2006). R. A. Settersten, Jr., F. F. Furstenberg, Jr., and R. G. Rumbaut, On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press, University awards 45 funded residential 2005).
Harold E. Smith, Northern Illinois Uni- versity, Gayla S. Nieminen, and May Kyi Win, Historical Dictionary of Thailand fellowships each year designed to support scholars, (Scarecrow Press, 2005).
Vicki Smith, University of California- Davis, Worker Participation: Current Re- search and Future Trends in Research in the scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise Sociology of Work, Vol. 16. (Elsevier/JAI Press, 2006).
Gregory D. Squires and Charis E. Ku- brin, both of The George Washington Uni- versity, Privileged Places: Race, Residence, and demonstrated accomplishment. and the Structure of Opportunity (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006).
Helmut Staubmann, University of Inns- bruck, Action Theory: Methodological Stud- ies (Transaction Publishers, 2006).
For more information, A. Javier Trevino, Wheaton College, please contact: George C. Homans, History, Theory, and Method (Paradigm Publishers, 2006). Radcliffe Application Office Ronald Weitzer and Steven Tuch, both of 34 Concord Ave. The George Washington University, Race Cambridge, MA 02138 and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2006). 617-496-1324 Dennis H. Wrong, New York University, [email protected] The Persistence of the Particular (Transac- www.radcliffe.edu tion Publishers, 2005). David Yamane, Wake Forest University, and Sarah MacMillan, University of Notre Dame, Real Stories of Christian Initiation: Lessons for and from the RCIA (Liturgical Press, 2006).
Mary K. Zimmerman, University of Kansas, Jacquelyn S. Litt, University of Missouri, and Christine E. Rose, Univer- sity of Albany-SUNY, Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework (Stanford University Press, 2006).
Dan Zuberi, University of British Colum- bia-Vancouver, Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada (Cornell Univer- sity Press, 2006). 14 July/August 2006 Footnotes
petition for Mellon/ACLS Fellowships (the highest academic rank at LSU) from 27, 2006. In a quiet, modest, occasionally people and career paths on their own Other for Recent Doctoral Recipients will take an agricultural discipline and the Agri- forceful, and always effective way, Tom terms, to deal with disagreements with- place in 2007–2008. Eligibility for these cultural Experiment Station. Bertrand Ford was more than a “triple threat.” His out losing perspective, to recognize the Organizations 25 Fellowships will be limited to schol- was also a visiting professor and guest major contributions spanned the fields of sometimes hidden strengths in people, ars who held Dissertation Completion lecturer at many universities and deliv- rural sociology, sociology of the South, and to be frank but kind when pointing Humanity & Society. Applicants are Fellowships (or were highly ranked in ered addresses at sociology conferences demography, international development, out aspects of performance that needed to sought for the position of Book Review that fellowship competition) and who worldwide. He retired in 1978. and Appalachian culture. He served as be improved. Beyond his skills as a men- Editor of Humanity & Society, the journal completed their dissertations within the Bertrand departed life on February President of the Rural Sociological Society tor, Tom was fun to be around. Regardless for the Association for Humanist Sociol- period specified in their first fellowship 26, 2006, at his home in Baton Rouge, (1972–73) and of the Southern Sociological of the situation, he could find humor in it ogy. The Book Review Editor is respon- application. Awardees will have up to two Louisiana. He was 87 years of age. His Society (1976–77). Most of Tom’s profes- and entertain his companions with stories sible for the solicitation of books, selection years from the date of the award to take professional career spanned 60 years, sional career was spent at the University of and wry observations. of reviewers, and editing of reviews. The up fellowship tenure. For more informa- including 37 years in the Department of Kentucky, where he served from 1956 until Thomas R. Ford was born in 1923 in assignment is for a renewable three-year tion, visit
Professionally, Tom provided exper- Hamden, CT, at age 83. He had recently around the world. at Harvard University, the study has first person to hold both offices. A member tise that often transcended traditional suffered a series of micro-strokes. Now a part of ordinary vocabulary in discovered surprisingly large differences of the American Academy of Arts and specializations. His study of the health As a research director for President corporate and governmental life, proac- in crime rates within poverty areas, dif- Sciences and a Fellow of the American characteristics and status of Kentuckians, Lyndon Johnson’s Commission on Law tive management was so novel when Reiss ferences rooted in social structure and Statistical Association, he held visiting published in book form as Health and De- Enforcement and Administration of Jus- suggested it in 1965 that the American culture. appointments at Cambridge University, mography in Kentucky by the University of tice in 1966, Reiss pioneered a new method Sociological Review rejected an article he Albert John Reiss, Jr., was born on Australian National University, Harvard Kentucky Press, was a basic document in of studying violence by direct observation co-authored with David Bordua, saying December 9, 1922, in Cascade, WI. He University, and the NIJ. He was the winner the planning of the University’s then new in natural settings using laboratory- the word “proactive” did not exist in the interrupted his education at Marquette of the ASC’s Sutherland Award in 1981, Medical Center. He devoted his sabbati- like precision. His 36 trained observers English language. (The article was later University to serve as a meteorologist the German Society of Criminology’s cal leave periods to the study of cultures checked boxes on questionnaires to record published by the American Journal of Sociol- with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World Beccaria Medal in 1990 and the ISC’s in several developing countries (Peru, the behavior of 11,255 citizens in 5,360 ogy.) The Oxford English Dictionary (1989, War II. He worked his way through the Prix Durkheim in 1998. He was awarded Colombia, Costa Rica) and was looked incidents, in about 10% of which some Vol. XII, p. 533) now credits Reiss with PhD program in sociology at the Univer- honorary doctorates by the University to for his knowledge of Latin American level of violence emerged. Reiss found that the first printed usage of the word in its sity of Chicago, working on and leading of Montréal and the John Jay College of cultures. His edited, The Southern Ap- the risk of violence depended heavily on common modern meaning. a range of studies on probation, juvenile Criminal Justice. In 2002, his doctoral stu- palachian Region: A Survey, published by whether the police encounter was “proac- Reiss also pioneered the use of surveys delinquency, and neighborhoods, as well dents and colleagues honored him with a the University of Kentucky Press, helped tive” or “reactive” (i.e., whether police had of self-reported crimes, discovering high as teaching at the University. Promoted to festschrift, titled Crime and Social Organiza- guide the creation of the federal Appala- been invited to intervene in a situation by rates of undetected delinquency among assistant professor when he finished his tion. In 1996, the ASA named its Award for chian Regional Commission and remains a a citizen who was present at the scene, or middle- and upper-class juveniles, chal- doctorate in 1949, he moved to Vanderbilt Distinguished Scholarship in Crime, Law classic historical work on Appalachia. Tom whether police had intervened on their lenging the orthodox view that delinquen- University as Chairman of the Sociology and Deviance in Reiss’s honor. served as a member of President Lyndon own initiative). He theorized that citizen cy was simply a product of poverty. Department in 1952. He left Vanderbilt in Contributions in lieu of flowers may be Johnson’s National Advisory Committee invitations would cause police action to Reiss’s interests in measuring crime 1959 for the University of Iowa and from sent to the Reiss Award endowment (see on Rural Poverty and was a contributor to be seen as more legitimate and that such emphasized the organization of criminal there to the University of Wisconsin, prior below) or to the Yale Art Gallery, a place the Committee’s still vibrant report, “The interventions would provoke less resis- networks, both among delinquents and to accepting the chair in sociology at the that gave Albert Reiss much delight. He is People Left Behind.” tance by all citizens present, including legitimate businesses. He encouraged University of Michigan in 1961, where he survived by his constant companion and Tom is survived by his wife of 56 years, those placed under arrest. police chiefs from Peoria to Stockholm did his field research on the police. wife for many years, Emma Hutto Reiss, Harriet Lowrey Ford, their four adult This quantitative observational method to plot the co-offending patterns among From 1970 till his retirement in 1993, Re- a daughter, Amy, and two sons, Peter and children, Margaret, Janet, Charlotte, and also produced the first systematic sam- delinquents to find the “typhoid Marys” iss taught at Yale University, where he was Paul, and seven grandchildren. Mark, five grandchildren, and devoted pling of police misconduct, finding that who seem to stimulate crime in many the William Graham Sumner Professor of Lawrence W. Sherman, University of Penn- friends who cherish the memory of his 14% of the police officers were observed first offenders. While most criminologists Sociology. At Yale he published The Police sylvania wisdom, his energy, his expertise, his to take bribes or steal merchandise from emphasized the number of crimes an and the Public, his influential treatise on the humor, his kindness, and his “can do it burglarized premises. The study made offender committed, Reiss emphasized social organization of police encounters – let’s do it” spirit. Memorial contribu- headlines for reporting that 75% of white the number of new criminals an offender with citizens, and became increasingly Tax-deductible donations in Al tions may be made to the Sanders-Brown police expressed racial prejudice against recruited as co-offenders. engaged in developing the field of crimi- Center on Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease blacks. Yet Reiss also found that there At the corporate level, Reiss focused nology. Serving as a senior advisor to a Reiss’s memory can be made to Research Center, University of Kentucky, was no difference in police brutality rates on patterns of collusion linking organiza- wide range of survey, experimental, and the endowment of the Albert J. 915A South Limestone, Lexington, KY against blacks and whites. tions. President Jimmy Carter’s adminis- observational research projects in Europe, Reiss, Jr. Award for Distinguished 40503-1048. Reiss’s analysis of the reactive–proac- tration commissioned Reiss to write two Asia, and the United States, he helped re- Scholarship in Crime, Law tive distinction helped shape a revolution reports on how to measure corporate and design the National Crime Victimization Robert Straus and James Hougland, Univer- in police practices. With better computer organizational crime more systematically. Survey, the annual report on crime rates & Deviance. Make contribu- sity of Kentucky software and rapid crime mapping, police Reiss was later appointed by the National in the United States, published by the tions payable to the American organizations could use Reiss’s frame- Institute of Justice (NIJ) to co-chair the Bureau of Justice Statistics. He also chaired Albert Reiss Sociological Association, with a work to define specific crime patterns design of the largest study of crime and the National Academy of Sciences com- (1922–2006) and “proactively” assign officers to deflect human development ever conducted, mittee on Understanding and Preventing notation for the “Reiss Award,” Criminologist Albert J. Reiss, Jr., a them. This was the foundation for major the Project on Human Development in Violence, co-editing its four-volume final and sent to: Sally T. Hillsman, Yale University sociologist who gave the innovations in policing in New York City Chicago Neighborhoods. Jointly funded report in 1993. PhD, Executive Officer, ASA, word “proactive” its modern English in the 1990s under Commissioner William by the MacArthur Foundation and NIJ, Reiss was elected President of the usage—stemming from his field research Bratton and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the $40-million project gathered both American Society of Criminology (ASC) 1307 New York Ave., NW, # 700, on violence that sparked a revolution including the “Compstat” method of observational and interview data. Now in 1984 and of the International Society of Washington, DC 20005 in police practices—died on April 27 in assigning police patrols later adopted led by Felton Earls and Robert Sampson Criminology (ISC) in Paris in 1990–95, the
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