Volume 35 July/August 2007 Number 6
Looking forward to the 2007 ASA Annual Meeting in New York . . . New York: A Unique Immigrant City ASA General by Nancy Foner, Hunter College and the proportion of immigrants in the city was grandparents or great-grandparents who Election Results Graduate Center of CUNY 20 percent or more in all but one census arrived from Russia or Italy a century ago in the last great immigration wave. Many Patricia Hill Collins Elected ASA year (1970), and even then it stood at 18 President; Margaret Andersen There is only one New York, especially percent. The peak point of the century black New Yorkers are descended from when it comes to immigration. New was 1910, when 41 percent of New immigrants who arrived in the early 20th Vice President York City is America’s classic immigrant Yorkers were foreign-born, but the actual century from the then-British Caribbean. atricia Hill Collins, University of city as the major historic numbers are at an all- Immigrant Diversity P gateway for the country’s time high today. New Maryland, has been elected to serve eastern and southern York had a whopping New York’s contemporary immigrant as the 100th President of the American European arrivals a cen- 2.9 million immigrants population stands out for its extraor- Sociological Association (ASA) for 2008- tury ago and continues as in 2000 or 36 percent of dinary diversity. What is remarkable is 09. Margaret Andersen of the University a major receiving center the population. the large number from so many dif- of Delaware has today. Its immigrant Given the city’s ferent countries. In 2000, the top three been elected Vice history, the composi- immigrant history and groups—Dominicans, Chinese, and President-Elect. tion—and extraordinary the enormous con- Jamaicans—were just under 30 percent Collins and Andersen diversity—of its cur- temporary inflow, the of all the foreign-born. No other country will assume their rent immigrant streams, vast majority of New accounted for more than five percent, and respective offices in and its institutions have Yorkers have a close there were substantial numbers of many August 2008, follow- combined to make it an immigrant connec- West Indian, Latin American, Asian, and ing a year of service immigrant city like no tion. If they are not an European nationalities. as President-Elect other in the United States. immigrant, they have a parent or grand- The incredible ethnic diversity of New and Vice President- parent who is. A remarkable 60 percent York’s immigrants is matched by the Elect, respectively. Successive Waves of New Yorkers—or almost 5 million heterogeneity of their skills. The mixture Collins and the 2009 Patricia Hill Collins New York City is accustomed to immi- people—are immigrants or children of of nationalities has ensured a mix of class Program Committee gration. Throughout the 20th century, the immigrants. Several million more have and occupational origins. In 2000, nearly a are responsible for shaping the ASA quarter of foreign-born New Yorkers age Annual Meeting, which will be held in 25 and older had a college degree; at the San Francisco, CA, August 8-11, 2009. other end of the spectrum, 35 percent had As President, Collins also will serve as Looking forward to the 2007 ASA Annual Meeting in New York . . . not completed high school. Chair of the ASA Council, which gov- erns the Association and its policies. Changing Ethnoracial Groups Prospects for Change in American Patricia Hill Collins is the 2007 Of great significance is that each recipient of the ASA Distinguished Book Politics ethnoracial group in New York City Award for her book Black Sexual Politics: by Bonnie Thornton Dill, Representative John Conyers, Jr., (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian) African Americans, Gender, and the New University of Maryland Democrat from Detroit, MI, was re- includes a substantial proportion of recent Racism. This book exemplifies Collins’ elected to his 21st term in the U.S. House See New York, page 5 See Election, page 5 With the campaign season leading of Representatives representing the 14th up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election Congressional District in November already in full swing, the appearance of 2006. Having entered the House of Barbara Ehrenreich and John Conyers at Representatives in 1964, Conyers is the Hartmann and Uggen Are the New an evening plenary promises to provide second most senior member of that cham- timely and provocative commentary ber. After serving as Chair of the House Editors of Contexts on the theme of this year’s meetings: Is Committee on Government Operations by Ronald Aminzade, Another World Possible? (now renamed Government Reform) from Future of Contexts University of Minnesota The plenary session, titled “The Future 1989–1994, Congressman Conyers was Contexts was created to bring socio- of American Politics,” on Monday, August elected by his congressional colleagues Contexts is moving to the University logical knowledge and insights to a 13, 2007, from 8:00–9:30 pm features a to Chair the pivotal House Committee on of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. The wider public audience. The new edi- dialogue on the next steps in American the Judiciary. As Chair of the Judiciary new editors, Christopher Uggen and tors plan to build on the legacy estab- politics. This wide-ranging plenary fea- Committee, Rep. Conyers has introduced Doug Hartmann, work together closely lished by Claude Fischer and New York tures a lively pair of presentations by John and endorsed legislation to advance civil as Chair and Associate Chair of their University’s Jeff Goodwin and Jim Jasper Conyers, veteran member of Congress, liberties, ensure equal protection and department. They share a passion for and to launch several new initiatives stalwart and courageous progressive, access to the voting booth, and combat research that speaks to audiences within to expand the journal’s circulation and and now Chair of the House Judiciary violence against women. Since September and beyond the academy, media impact. These include Committee, and Barbara Ehrenreich, 11, 2001, he has worked to strike a balance teaching that provides stu- feature-length articles written pundit and humorist, and author of the between keeping our country safe from dents with learning opportu- about (rather than by) sociolo- best-seller Nickle and Dimed, and the much terrorism and protecting the civil liberties nities outside the classroom, gists and sociology by estab- praised Dancing in the Streets: A History of of our citizens. and service that utilizes socio- lished professional writers. Collective Joy. The speakers will explore Rep. Conyers has spent his entire logical knowledge to address They plan to streamline and the impact of a range of contemporary career fighting for social justice, in his pressing public issues. re-focus the back matter of the social, political, and economic phenomena state, in the nation, and internationally. The journal will rely on magazine by inviting non- on U.S. politics and provide a perspec- Congressman Conyers is one of the 13 a diverse editorial team sociologists (both scholars and tive on the potential for progressive social founding members of the Congressional that will include faculty public figures) to write about change both in the United States and the Black Caucus (CBC) and is considered the and graduate students in important works of sociology world. See Prospects, page 8 the Minnesota Sociology and by asking sociologists to Department, academic and reflect on works outside of applied sociologists from the Twin the field. The new editors also hope to Cities area, and media professionals of expand the contributors to Contexts to Special Issue of Science magazine for regional and national stature. Contexts include applied sociologists and sociolo- Annual Meeting attendees will be housed in a department with a gists at more teaching-oriented schools. long-standing commitment to publicly They want to create a journal that is Gratis copies of Science available at this year’s engaged sociology and community part- attentive to sociological insights con- nerships. The University of Minnesota, cerning popular cultural practices and Annual Meeting! See p. 16 for details. which has an historic mission to foster trends. civic engagement, is situated in a major See Editors, page 9 metropolitan area.
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The Executive Officer’s Column In This Issue . . . Advancing the Placement of Sociology The commitment of ASA to support the development of an Advanced Placement (AP) exam in sociology continues. One Sociologists on the Hill of my earliest Footnotes columns as Executive Officer was “The Sociology Pipeline Begins in High School” (February 2003) Discuss Military Matters in which I summarized ASA activities related to high school sociology curricula that were presented at the National Science Audience members asked and Foundation’s (NSF) January Conference on Educational 3 Reform and Human Resource Development in the Social and sociologists told about the “Don’t Behavioral Sciences. Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Our message to NSF was the importance of ensuring a Sally T. Hillsman full pipeline of students flowing into higher education sociol- ogy curricula across the nation. We needed to improve K-12 science education in sociology as part of enhancing U.S. science education generally, Moscow Students and by facilitating development of a long-range plan of action for educational reform, Protest University research, and human resource development in the social and behavioral sciences. Our recommendation to create more rational and comprehensive structures to achieve Conditions these goals through efforts to reach “down” earlier in the education pipeline was 4 deliberate. A commission makes Advanced Placement Course and Test recommendations to improve Since then, the ASA Task Force on the AP Course in Sociology, led by Caroline conditions of work and study at Persell, Barbara Schneider, and Teresa Sullivan, has developed and successfully Moscow State. piloted sociology courses in both Chicago and Princeton high schools and held work- shops for high school sociology teachers in San Francisco and social studies teachers in Baltimore. Persell and Schneider also received a curriculum development grant from NSF to assess and refine the course The All-Consuming with inquiry-based web materials and classroom exercises specifically targeted World of Encyclopedias at college-level students. Editing 11 volumes of an These are impressive efforts. Yet sociology remains missing from the Vantage 4 encyclopedia and an online College Board’s queue of new AP exams. version is not an easy task. While the College Board offers a College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) test in Introductory Sociology, college credit or advanced standing is Point not guaranteed by a good CLEP score. More important, there is no AP course attached Open Forum on the to the CLEP test. It is the AP course that research shows is crucial to improving the access of youth to higher education, science careers, and college retention. This is espe- General Social Survey cially true for urban and inner-city youth who are currently unequally provided with access to AP courses. The survey, currently run by the Out of 34 AP subject areas and 33 CLEP subject areas, there are 10 subject areas that 5 National Opinion Research Center, currently offer both an AP test and a CLEP test—Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, French Language, German Language, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Psychology, Spanish is up for a re-bid. Language, and U.S. History. A sociology AP course, such as that developed by ASA, Minority Fellowship Program with an accompanying AP test would be an important addition because it contains subject matter of interest to adolescents, improves quantitative literacy vital to science What Is MFP?
• The ASA Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) education generally, and develops students’ confidence in their ability to compete for has existed since 1974 and is funded primarilyIntroducing a New by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, with some co-funding from the and succeed in higher education. National Institute on Drug Abuse. We view it as a vital • MFP is also generously supported by annualMFP Cohort The rationale for a sociology AP course and test is compelling. contributions from Alpha Kappa Delta, the Midwest Sociological Society, Sociologists for Women in Society, the Association of Black intervention in the system of access to and retention in scientific careers. It can help achieve Sociologists, the Southwestern Sociological Association, and numerous individual ASA members. Meet the 10 new Minority Fellows a better pipeline flow into the sciences, enhance the teaching of sociology and related science curricula in both secondary and higher education, and bring the College Who Can Apply? 6 at the Annual Meeting. • Applicants can be new or continuing graduate students in sociology, who are Board’s Advanced Placement offerings into better alignment with nation’s current enrolled in a program that grants the PhD. NIMH Fellows must be enrolled in departments with a strong background in mental health research. There are a number of General Fellowships as well. science needs. This is an especially important outreach effort to members of underrep- • Applicants must be members of an underrepresented minority group in the United States (e.g., Blacks/African-Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Asians or Pacific Islanders, resented minority groups and other underserved populations who attend high schools or American Indians or Alaska Natives). • Applicants must also be U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals of the U.S., or have been in urban and rural areas without AP courses. lawfully admitted to the U.S. for permanent residence. Also Introducing ASA’s What Is the Process? • Application deadline is January 31; notifications are Expanding Access to Science Careers made by April 30. New APAP Director • Fellowship is awarded for 12 months and typically renewable for up to 3 years in total. Tuition and fees are arranged with the home department. Because college sociology departments have had considerable success in their • Fellows are selected each year by the MFP Advisory Panel, a Vitullo joins ASA’s Executive efforts to attract minority students as majors, there is a potentially strong connection rotating, appointed group of scholars in sociology, especially in mental health. 7 Office. between having AP sociology and giving more minority students a head start on earn- ing college credit and advanced standing, instilling the confidence to succeed academ- ically in college, and providing a boost to recruitment and retention efforts. And for all students who are interested in sociology, earning credit through an AP sociology exam Praxis Makes Perfect can potentially jump start taking higher-level sociology courses, seeking internships and research opportunities, and considering graduate school. St. Olaf professor finds his NSF is the nation’s premier basic science agency. Its program devoted to the sociological imagination doing discipline of sociology, as well as its other science and cross-disciplinary programs, provides millions of dollars annually to sociologists and sociology graduate students. 8 research and teaching in Thailand. Sociologists receive tens of millions of dollars of support for disciplinary and inter-dis- ciplinary health and illness research from the National Institutes of Health and from many private foundations. The subject matter of this disciplinary and interdisciplin- ary research suggests that sociology is not only an important scientific domain in its own right, but that as part of the nation’s K-12 science education enterprise. It is also a potentially strong link to developing an interest in science and a sense of scientific competency in America’s youth. Our Regular Features The ASA is committed to continuing our efforts to establish an AP curriculum and test as a crucial part of improving U.S. science education and expanding access to Public Forum...... 9 higher education and science careers. Departments...... 10 —Sally T. Hillsman Obituaries...... 15 July/August 2007 Footnotes
Sociologists Brief Senate Audience PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE on Social-Cultural Factors Affecting ✔ Women: Feeling stereotyped with lower academic performance? You’re Military Recruitment and Retention not alone . . . . A report from the National Academies finds that stereo- types negatively affect women’s academic performance. Women exposed Military sociologists presented research and data on family and culture to academic stereotyping demonstrate poorer scholastic performance as well as the historical context of the Pentagon’s DADT policy than women who are not exposed to such stereotypes. This exposure to stereotypes belittling women’s academic skills caused female stu- Washington, DC, May 18, 2007—The American Sociological Association held a congres- dents who participated in the study to become distracted and worried, sional briefing, hosted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, to present practical social which interfered with their ability to use problem-solving skills most science data and research findings of relevance to U.S. military recruitment and reten- effectively. The report, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of tion today. The purpose of the briefing was to provide timely information pertinent to Women in Academic Science and Engineering, concludes that women are the news of the day, the reportedly overstretched U.S. military in Iraq. Troops serving underrepresented at higher levels of science and engineering academics unprecedented third and fourth tours has provoked debate about military preparedness because of the influence of gender bias and the disadvantages that such among national policymakers in need of useful information to inform federal actions. bias generates. For more information, see
Student Protesters Successful at Promoting Sociology to the Media Moscow State University by Sujata Sinha, by Johanna Olexy, sociologists and academic groups, ASA Public Information Office ASA Public Information Office ASA Council and the Executive Office t is an exciting time for the ASA and its Media Relations Program. In the last sent a letter of support in March on I An activist campaign by students at behalf of the Moscow State sociology six months, we have introduced several innovative ideas, including “branding” Moscow State University (MSU) to influ- the discipline of sociology, and are continuing to think “outside the box” in order students. Addressed to the Dean of ence the conditions and curricula in the the Department of Sociology, Vladimir to bring ASA into a new era of communication. sociology department has ended with a The ASA Public Information Office (PIO) has implemented ground-breaking Ivanovich Dobrenkov and Sadovnichy, special commission finding that educa- the letter stated, “The problems these initiatives unique to social science communication. As Media Relations Officer, tional quality is lacking at MSU’s sociol- I have taken a proactive and aggressive approach to promote ASA journals and students have identified must be ogy department. The rare and audacious addressed if the quality of training in research. Our efforts have generated media coverage for the American Sociological student protest, which reached worldwide Review, Contexts, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior in local, national, and Sociology is to be restored, and the notice, sought an open and democratic important concerns of Russian society international news outlets, including Reuters, Associated Press, USA Today, The New spirit to be restored to the department. York Times, Times of London, CNN, Al Jazeera International, and ABC News. are to be studied and analyzed from The protest began in February when a scientific sociological perspective…. Current Initiatives sociology student activists, who called We stand with the students who have themselves the OD Group, petitioned initiated this protest, and we urge you to In addition, we are now planning for news events by staying on top of media the dean to revitalize the curriculum by daybooks and government policies relevant to sociology, such as the Department consider their legitimate demands and inviting foreign professors to speak and peaceful efforts to support reform.” of Defense “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy (see p. 3 of this issue). One of our top by providing opportunities for meaning- priorities is to monitor constantly the news in order to promote our experts as ful research. In addition to objections to Student Claims soon as news breaks. This method has proven to be particularly successful dur- the perceived entrenched anti-Western According to students at MSU, sociol- ing the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech University. Our media advisory promot- attitudes and creeping nationalism, the ing member expertise in the area of school violence ensured that the sociological ogy students at the University were students complained of living conditions under persistent surveillance by video perspective was communicated effectively during and after the shocking events and studying conditions. According to of that day. Subsequently, ASA members were interviewed by major news cameras, harassed by security guards, a student statement, “The curriculum arrested by the police for no legitimate organizations such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, Inside Edition, CBS’s Early Show, is unbearably tedious, and teachers are ABC’s Nightline, Good Morning America, and on Al Jazeera International. Our reason, prevented from seeking oppor- not allowed do to anything about it. The tunities to study abroad, and forced to members also wrote opinion pieces for the Baltimore Sun and The Chronicle of ‘education’ at our department is purely Higher Education. study a curriculum that heavily empha- fictitious. Conditions at the department sizes anti-Semitic propaganda. In a call The Public Information Office has also partnered with the Health and Behavior are reminiscent of a barrack.” News Service, a health news wire service supported by the Center for the for support from the MSU students, they Advancement of Health, in order to enhance publicity for the Journal of Health and Student Claims Have Merit said “We demand that the curricula be Social Behavior. This partnership has generated coverage from many news outlets, changed, competent teachers be invited, The protests, marked by arrests and students be informed about foreign including Reuters Health, Forbes, MSNBC, Washington Post, and many more. accusations that student activists were As part of an innovative approach to branding sociology and raising aware- exchange programs, the rude security paid “provocateurs” and “extremists,” guards be dismissed, the rigid gating ness of the discipline nationally, we will be working with a video news release proved victorious for the students who service to broadcast our research to more than 200 local television stations across system be abolished, and a minimum of reached out to leading Russian sociolo- basic amenities be provided.” the United States, including several Spanish-language stations. The project, called gists and sociologists in the West. In April, Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (DBIS), operated by the American In a March 22 New York Times article, the results from the special commission of Dobrenkov said that the student claims Institute of Physics, will give ASA the unique advantage of being the only social vice rectors and faculty members at MSU science affiliate working with them. ‘’are full of hints, rumors and half- were released. The study found that there truths.’’ He did concede that the living Annual Meeting Outreach Efforts was merit to student claims that the dean conditions were poor and said that they was more concerned with power than would be improved. Days before the The Annual Meeting is fast approaching, and ASA’s PIO is planning to pull with scholarship. According to a May 4 out all the stops. Keynote Speaker, former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, will report was released, the Dean contin- Chronicle of Higher Education article, the ued to object to activists’ requests and meet with journalists. In addition to such media availabilities, we plan on pro- commission, appointed by Rector Viktor moting the Annual Meeting research and presenters full force. claimed, in a letter to Russian President A. Sadovnichy, requested that the dean Vladimir Putin, that the protests were On a personal note, my position here has been a rewarding and challenging take a series of steps to involve young experience for me. It is always a gratifying feeling to come into a newly created financed by “certain political powers of instructors and improve the conditions for a pro-Western orientation.” Despite his role and see it morph into a successful program. I look forward to the coming work and study. The article said, “Among year and hope we continue our successes in promoting ASA and the member- strong statements, after the commission other steps requested in the order, the results were released, he said that he ship. Be assured, members will be hear- rector asked the department to stop the ing more from the ASA Media Relations would fully comply with the commission Join the discussion about this article fluctuation in staff numbers and to cease and seeing more of its successes. Always instructions. at
35 Years Later… Elections, from page 1 work in the areas of racial theory, inter- 2006 election, 78.96% of the votes were Planning for the Future of the General sectional theory, black feminist theory cast electronically. and gender. Margaret Andersen was the Below is the full slate of newly elected Social Survey recipient of the 2006 ASA Jessie Bernard officers. by Roberta Spalter-Roth, ASA Research including sociologists Michael Hout, Award for her tireless efforts in creat- and Development Department Barbara Entwisle, Suzanne Bianchi, President-Elect ing scholarly work that has enlarged the Mark Chavez, Steven Nock, and Robert horizons of sociology to encompass fully Patricia Hill Collins, University of Tell a group of 20-somethings, who Mare. However, much of the discussion the role of women in society. Maryland were sociology majors, that you have focused on the future content, methods, The four newly elected Council just come back from a day-long meeting and operations of the soon to be re-bid Vice President-Elect Members-at-Large are: Marjorie about the future of the General Social survey. DeVault, Syracuse University; Clara Margaret L. Andersen, University of Survey (GSS) and to your surprise they Rodriguez, Fordham University; Marc Delaware not only know what you are talking The GSS of Tomorrow Schneiberg, Reed College; and Robin about but are interested in what you The topics discussed at the May GSS Council Stryker, University of Minnesota. have to say. This reaction is not sur- re-bid meeting included the following: Also elected were two members to the Marjorie L. DeVault, Syracuse University prising because the GSS, an attitudinal • Changing the relations between Committee on Publications, six mem- Clara Rodriguez, Fordham University survey with core questions about job sat- respondents and surveyors so that bers to the Committee on Nominations, Marc Schneiberg, Reed College isfaction, politics, health, racial attitudes, the GSS is more interactive; and four members to the Committee on Robin Stryker, University of Minnesota religion, gender roles, standards of liv- • Integrating information on indi- Committees. ing, and personal well-being, and special viduals, households, communities, Committee on Publications In announcing the results of the modules, is among the most widely and society, as well as contextual election, Secretary Franklin Wilson and Patricia Yancey Martin, Florida State used surveys in sociology. The survey, information about workplaces Executive Officer Sally T. Hillsman University conducted since 1972, is employed in and other organizations in which extended their heartiest congratulations Christine L. Williams, University of undergraduate research methods classes, individuals participate; to the newly elected officers and commit- Texas–Austin in graduate student dissertations, and • Developing multi-method designs tee members, and appreciation to all who in faculty members’ books and journal including experiments, cohort Committee on Nominations have served the Association by running articles. analysis, ethno-methodology, geo- for office and by voting in this election. Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State The purpose of the GSS meeting, held mapping, and bio-markers; University May 2-3, 2007, was to gather informa- • Overcoming some current difficul- A Growth Pattern Tyrone Forman, University of tion for an October 1, 2007, Request for ties including an out-of date-web- Continuing a pattern of growth, mem- Illinois–Chicago Proposals (RFP) by the National Science site, hard to use data archives, and bers of the ASA community took part in Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State Foundation (NSF). The RFP is a “re-bid- the lack of instructional materials, the 2007 election in record numbers. Of University ding” of the GSS. The result may be that especially for students and new the 11,212 members eligible to vote, 4,841 Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University the survey will no longer be conducted users; cast ballots in this election. This translates Mario Luis Small, University of Chicago by the National Opinion Research • Collaborating and integrating with to a very strong 43.18% participation rate, Deirdre Royster, College of William and Corporation, the organization that has other surveys such as the Panel which surpasses the participation rates of Mary run 25 surveys with more than 46,000 Survey of Income Dynamics, the similar scholarly societies. Many non- respondents since the survey’s inception. General Election Survey, and the Committee on Committees profit associations typically have partici- International Social Survey; and The GSS of Today pation rates among eligible voters of less Sara R. Curran, University of • Staying on the “cutting edge,” on than 20%. ASA Sections also made a very Washington The GSS, under the direction of the frontiers of new knowledge strong showing, with 21 Sections record- Ivy Kennelly, George Washington Tom W. Smith, James Davis, Norman in order to galvanize the role of ing more than 50% participation in their University Bradburn, and Peter Marsden, with the social sciences in the federal 2007 elections. Tina Martinez, Blue Mountain the advice of a Board of Overseers and government. Of the 4,841 votes cast, 81.72% were Community College funding by the NSF Sociology Program, Several current and former members cast online, with the remaining 18.18% Mark C. Suchman, University of has become part of the infrastructure of of the Board of Overseers commented of the votes cast via paper ballots. In the Wisconsin–Madison the social sciences. Major changes were on the difficulties of fulfilling NSF’s made in 1993 including a reduction of demands to be cutting-edge and to the core questions by about one-third implement massive changes within the New York, from page 1 and the solicitation of pay-as-you-go constraints of the current NSF funding- modules. Modules have been submitted level for the survey. Several participants immigrants. fourth among the top sending countries by prominent sociologists (including called for a new funding structure that New York’s black population is being to New York City, Poland was 15th, and presidents and council members of the did not include the need to raise money Caribbeanized by the enormous West about one out of four of the city’s non- American Sociological Association) on through the marketing of modules. Indian influx, and a small but grow- Hispanic whites was foreign born. topics such as work organizations, men- tal health, inter-group relations, gender, ing number of Africans is adding new Additional advice on re-bidding the diversity. In 2000, one out of five immi- New York Institutions and the information society. An overview and history of the GSS will be solicited at a session grant New Yorkers (nearly 600,000) Immigrants come to a city whose devoted to the topic on August 11, 2007, was from the non-Hispanic Caribbean, institutions bear the stamp of earlier content, methodology, and operations of from 2:30-4:10 PM at the ASA Annual mostly Jamaicans, Guyanese, Haitians, European immigration, and they are the survey was presented at the meet- ing by the directors and by current and Meeting in New York City. and Trinidadians. Altogether, more than leaving their mark. Labor unions are a a quarter of the city’s 2 million non- powerful presence in New York, many past members of the Board of Overseers, Hispanic blacks were foreign born. formed and led in the past by Jewish, A third of the city’s immigrants are Italian, and Irish immigrants. Today, the from Latin America. Gone are the days rank and file includes large numbers of The City University of New York—the this year’s Immigrant History Week (a when Hispanic meant Puerto Rican; immigrants from the Caribbean, Latin largest urban public university system celebration of immigrants’ contributions Puerto Ricans are now only about a third America, and Asia who are beginning to in the nation, with more than 226,000 to the city sponsored by the Mayor’s of the city’s Hispanic population, outnum- move up into various leadership posi- degree-credit students—was well-known Office of Immigrant Affairs) was “New bered by a combination of Dominicans, tions. Perhaps the most famous immi- for providing a pathway to mobility York Immigrants.” Mexicans, Ecuadorians, Colombians, and grant union leader is Roger Toussaint, for the children of Jewish immigrants. Despite the progress, immigrants in other Latin Americans. In the last 15 years, the Trinidadian-born president of the Today it is serving the same role for tens New York still often end up in low- the number of Mexicans has grown by Transport Workers Union who was in of thousands of newcomers as well as paid, unpleasant jobs that nobody else leaps and bounds. Still, in 2005, they were charge during the 2005 transit strike. a growing second-generation. In fall wants, and there is plenty of ethnic and only five percent of the immigrant total Ethnic politics is the lifeblood of New 2006, 38 percent of first-time freshmen racial prejudice and discrimination. Yet in New York—compared to 40 percent or York City politics. For many years, politi- at CUNY’s 11 senior and six commu- because of its history, its institutions, and more of the immigrant population in the cians made ritual visits to the “three nity colleges were born outside the the composition of its population, New other top American immigrant cities (Los Is”—Israel, Italy, and Ireland—the touch- United States, and CUNY boasts that its York is a city that feels comfortable with Angeles, Houston, and Chicago). stones of so many Jewish and Catholic undergraduates speak 131 languages in immigration. A New York Times story A quarter of New York City’s foreign- voters. By 2003, after two years in office, addition to English and represent 172 put it well in describing how Rudolph born are Asians; Chinese are still the Mayor Michael Bloomberg had already countries. Giuliani, when mayor of New York, largest group, but there are also many visited the Dominican Republic three Celebrating Immigrants championed the cause of immigrants Koreans, Indians, and Filipinos, as well as times. Many Catholic churches have and defended the undocumented, but a growing number of Bangladeshis and been “Mexicanized,” “Dominicanized,” In general, New York is a city that on the campaign trail for the Republican Pakistanis. New York continues to receive and “Haitian-Creolized.” St. Patrick’s likes to celebrate immigrants. Republican presidential nomination has taken a substantial numbers of European immi- Cathedral, the seat of the Catholic arch- and Democratic mayors praise immi- much harsher tone. As the story noted, grants. In 2000, the former Soviet Union diocese of New York, holds a mass every grants for revitalizing the city’s economy he is a long way from Ellis Island. (including Russia and Ukraine) ranked Sunday in Spanish. and neighborhoods, and the slogan for July/August 2007 Footnotes
Public Policy and at the Center for the graduate career, she participated in Introducing MFP Cohort 34 Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at residence life and was an elected board UIC. His research choices reflect his member of the multicultural student University of New York (CUNY). At the desire to understand the ways in which organization on campus. Driven by an The American Sociological Association CUNY Graduate School and University race, class, and gender interact at, and interest in the life experiences of low- and the Minority Fellowship Program Center, Tracy advanced to candidacy between, the macro, meso, and micro- income women, she wrote her senior (MFP) are pleased to introduce the 10 new with distinction in 2005 and has com- levels of social systems. His dissertation and later her Ronald E. McNair theses Fellows who comprise MFP Cohort 34. pleted an interdisciplinary concentration is designed to be a sociological interven- on this topic. Subsequently, Deidre The MFP Advisory Panel met this past in Advanced Social Research. She holds tion in the study of racial socialization. began her Master’s work at Indiana spring in Washington, DC, to review the an en-route Master’s degree in sociol- Until recently, Mosi has maintained University, where she received an highly competitive pool of applicants. ogy from Queens College (CUNY), and several long-term volunteer positions Indiana University McNair Fellowship Cohort 34 consists of PhD candidates with is also pursuing an MA in Public Health with non-profit organizations that focus in 2005. Her graduate thesis is titled strong research interests in the sociol- with a concentration in Urban Health on minority education in urban settings. “Does Parenthood Offer an Emotional ogy of mental health and mental illness, in a joint program with Hunter College. He is also the current host of Mojos’ Pen, Benefit?” in which she examines the race and ethnicity, and the discipline in Tracy’s research interests include the a spoken word poetry set that is held on socio-emotional realms of parenthood, general. social construction of illness, immigra- the UIC campus. paying particular attention to mental The new MFP Fellows will officially tion and ethnicity, and international law health outcomes. Her interests encom- begin their training on August 1, 2007. and human rights. Her dissertation, “The Melissa Kew (NIMH Fellow) pass the areas of social psychology, As an early part of their training, the Pathology of Victimhood: Mental Health Undergraduate Institution: mental health, stratification, and the Fellows will attend the 2007 Annual and the Social Construction of ‘Trauma’ University of Toronto family. Meeting in New York, where they will Among Refugee/Asylum-Seeking Graduate Institution: attend a day-long orientation with a Survivors of Political Violence,” is based University of Chicago Tiffani Saunders (NIMH Fellow) brief history of ASA and MFP followed on quantitative and qualitative research Melissa grew up sur- Undergraduate by research presentations by sociologists with a cross-section of West and Central rounded by the golden Institution: Bowie State with expertise in mental health, medical African, Tibetan, and Eastern European veld in South Africa and University sociology, and race and ethnicity. During clients of the Bellevue/NYU Program for then moved to frosty Graduate the remainder of their time in New York, Survivors of Torture in New York City. Canada at age 12. She earned a BA and Institution: Indiana they will participate in numerous sessions Tracy has articles under review in the MA in sociology from the University University-Bloomington and workshops, attend MFP-sponsored Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries, of Toronto and is currently pursuing a Tiffani is a PhD events, and meet sociologists with similar Social Theory and Health, and International PhD in sociology at the University of student in sociology research interests. Migration. Tracy is a native New Yorker. Chicago. Melissa has been involved with at Indiana University. She graduated The Minority Fellowship Program, projects at the East Bay AIDS Research summa cum laude from Bowie State established in 1974, is funded primarily Kimberly R. Huyser (NIMH Fellow) Institute focusing on HIV-related stigma, University with a BS in sociology and through a T-32 training grant provided by Undergraduate Institution: late presentation to care, community criminal justice. Her research interests the National Institute of Mental Health Calvin College beliefs about HIV, and anti-retroviral encompass the subfields of family, men- (NIMH), with some recent co-funding Graduate Institution: drug adherence. As a doctoral student tal health, and race, class, and gender. by the National Institute of Drug Abuse University of at the University of Chicago, Melissa’s She is currently working on two proj- (NIDA). MFP is also supported by gener- Texas-Austin primary research area is the sociology ects: one explores the impact of various ous contributions from Alpha Kappa Kimberly is a doctoral of sexuality. Her dissertation explores financial resources on mental health Delta (AKD), Sociologists for Women in student in the Department the sexual relationships of HIV-positive and the other examines the role of social Society (SWS), the Midwest Sociological of Sociology and graduate women pre- and post-diagnosis. She is mobility on the mental health of the Society (MSS), the Association of Black student trainee at the Population Research particularly interested in the influence of black middle class. When not conduct- Sociologists (ABS), the Southwestern Center at the University of Texas-Austin. mental health on the sexual risk-taking ing research, she enjoys spending time Sociological Association (SWSA), and ASA Kimberly’s research specializations are of HIV-positive minority women living with her son, playing the violin, danc- Council, as well as contributions from in racial and ethnic relations and the in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area. ing in a local ensemble, and visiting many individual ASA members. sociology and demography of Native family in other parts of the country. Americans. Kimberly has also been a Armando Lara-Millan (NIMH Fellow) Ana Campos-Holland (NIDA Fellow) National Institute of Child Health and Undergraduate Demetrius Semien (AKD Fellow) Undergraduate Institution: Human Development Pre-doctoral Institution: University of Undergraduate University of California- Trainee, Navajo Nation Chief Manuelito California-Riverside Institution: Trinity Santa Barbara Scholar, and Calvin College Graduate Graduate Institution: University Graduate Institution: Study Fellow. Kimberly grew up in Northwestern University Graduate Institution: University of Iowa Window Rock, AZ, which is the political Armando majored University of North Ana received her BA capital of the Navajo Nation. Living on in sociology at the Carolina-Chapel Hill from the University of the reservation, she witnessed firsthand University of California- Demetrius is a grad- California-Santa Barbara the economic disadvantage faced by her Riverside, where he graduated with uate of Yale Divinity with four majors: anthropology, Chicana/ family, but also the systematic inequality honors. During his time there he was School (’00) and is a PhD candidate o studies, Latin American & Iberian stud- faced by the Navajo people. Kimberly’s a research assistant for the Institute at the University of North Carolina. ies, and sociology. After being introduced research focuses on understanding how of Research on World-Systems. Later, Demetrius has worked extensively to sociological research through the ASA American Indians recover and resist he broadened his research interests by with ethnographic projects, qualitative MOST Program, under Beth Schneider’s mental health problems, and on how this participating in two National Science interviews and focus group discussions. mentorship, she selected the University understanding may contribute to the Foundation internships in demography While at Yale University, Demetrius of Iowa to study sociology at the gradu- persistent and cohesive American Indian and urban ethnography. During his served as Race Dialogue Coordinator ate level. She is specializing in criminol- ethnic group and ethnic identity. She undergraduate career, Armando was for the Yale University-New Haven ogy and stratification, with a focus on has co-authored an article due out later fortunate to have worked with profes- community for the Association of substance/drug treatment, the impact this year in the Journal for the Scientific sors Scott Brooks, Chris Chase-Dunn, American Colleges and Universities’ parental unconventional behavior has on Study of Religion titled “Racially Diverse Robert Emerson, Jack Katz, Tom Reifer, Racial Legacies and Learning: An American children’s everyday experiences, and gen- Congregations: Organizational Identity and Andrés Villarreal. Armando is cur- Dialogue Project and for President der and crime. She is currently developing and the Accommodation of Differences.” rently pursuing a PhD in sociology at Clinton’s Initiative on Race. Demetrius her dissertation project, which addresses Northwestern University. He has begun wrote his MA thesis, “The Influence the relationship between health risk Mosi Adesina Ifatunji (MSS/ABS Fellow) an ethnographic investigation into the of God Talk and Religious Gateways behaviors (such as drug use), gender, and Undergraduate Institution: drug abuse experiences of homeless per- on Adolescent Volunteerism,” on the crime. It was initially a product of partici- University of Illinois at sons within the context of public-space. interaction between religion and the pation in the National Hispanic Scientists Chicago In his free time, Armando enjoys playing community volunteer activities of Network on Drug Abuse Summer Training Graduate Institution: basketball and exploring cities. He has adolescents. His dissertation involves Institute sponsored by NIDA/NIH with University of Illinois at lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles, collecting interviews to examine the specialized mentorship from Avelardo Chicago and has recently adjusted to the climate motivations for and benefits of re- Valdéz and Alice Cepeda. Ana is commit- Mosi was born in in Chicago. entry efforts among prison industry ted to the inquiry of substance/drug use Normal, IL, but spent workers and faith volunteers. In 2006, Deidre Lynn Redmond (NIMH Fellow) from the sociological perspective because much of his childhood and adolescence Demetrius was a recipient of a Tanner Undergraduate Institution: of the impact it has on children, families, in Oakland, CA. After completing high Award for graduate students for excel- Adrian College and communities. school, he moved back to the Chicago lence in undergraduate teaching at area to attend the University of Illinois Graduate the University of North Carolina. That Tracy Chu (NIMH Fellow) at Chicago (UIC) where he double Institution: Indiana same year, he presented a working Undergraduate Institution: majored in African American Studies and University-Bloomington paper on this topic at a conference at the Hunter College, CUNY Psychology. He is now a PhD student Deidre grew up in Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Graduate Institution: in the Department of Sociology at UIC, Cleveland, OH. She at Duke University. CUNY Graduate Center with a concentration in race, ethnicity, received her BA in Tracy graduated with honors with and gender. He is also a Graduate Fellow criminal justice and political science from a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and See MFP, page 7 at the Institute for Research on Race and Adrian College. Throughout her under- sociology from Hunter College, City July/August 2007 Footnotes
Vitullo to Direct ASA’s The Labor Section and ABS Academic and Professional Celebrate the DuBois Legacy by Michael Schwartz, and workers’ organizations, including Affairs Program Stony Brook State University UNITE (the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees), the he 2007 ASA Annual Meeting will Garment Workers Center in Los Angeles, he American Sociological Association A Learner and Leader T T celebrate a hallmark event at the awards the anti-sweatshop movement, the port is pleased to announce that Margaret During her nine years at Gallaudet, ceremony: The name change of one of trucker organizing effort, and the Writers Weigers Vitullo has been appointed first as the Director of the Criminology ASA’s highest awards to the “W.E.B. Guild of America, west. as the newest ASA staff sociologist Concentration and the last three years DuBois Career for Distinguished The fourth panelist is Dorian T. and Director of the Academic and as Department Chair, Vitullo contrib- Scholarship Award” (see the November Warren, Assistant Professor of Political Professional Affairs Program (APAP). uted exponentially to increasing the 2006 and May/June 2006 Footnotes). To Science in the School of International and Vitullo joins ASA from Gallaudet department’s enrollment and creating commemorate this inaugural moment, Public Affairs at Columbia University. University in Washington, DC, where a sequenced curriculum. Having been the Association of Black Sociologists and He specializes in the study of inequal- she was Department Chair and hired as a hearing person with limited the Labor Section of the ASA will host a ity and American politics, the political Associate Professor of Sociology. She experience in the deaf com- special intellectual and social event, titled organization of marginalized groups and began working at ASA full-time munity, she seized the oppor- “W.E.B. DuBois and Labor.” The session the concatenation of American public on July 30, just in time for our tunity to learn American will feature panelists David Levering policy with race, ethnicity and labor. Annual Meeting. Sign Language and began Lewis, Edna Bonacich, Dorian Warren, His scholarly work interests replicate As APAP Director, Vitullo will teaching without an inter- and Aldon Morris, who collectively repre- those of DuBois, and Warren relies on oversee the Teaching Resources preter by her third semester. sent the remarkable range and impact of a DuBoisian perspective in seeking to Center (TRC), which currently Vitullo worked previously at DuBois’ thought. deepen and extend our understanding of contains more than 80 publica- the Agency for Health Care The premier scholar on the work and American political development. tions, including syllabi sets and Policy and Research and the life of W.E.B. DuBois is David Levering Aldon Morris, Professor of Sociology teaching techniques, which can American Association for the Lewis, the Julius Silver University and Associate Dean at Northwestern be ordered through the ASA Advancement of Science’s Professor at New York University. Both University will preside over the panel. website and by phone. She will Program in Science and volumes of his DuBois biography (W.E.B. His work focuses on race, religion and also manage the Departmental Margaret Weigers Human Rights. Her research Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 class, and movements for social change. Resources Group (DRG), which Vitullo interests have led her to study and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality The author of the classic Origins of the is composed of more than 50 people with hearing loss in and the American Century, 1919-1963) won Civil Rights Movement, and winner of specially trained consultants who are the criminal justice system and examine Pulitzer prizes (in 1993 and 2000), making the ASA Distinguished Contribution to available for department visits and a variety of health and medical phe- him the only author to win Pulitzers for Scholarship Award, his work focuses on teaching workshops. Vitullo will work nomena through cultural and social- two works dealing with the same subject. DuBois’ intellectual legacy. A lifetime as to advance the teaching and profes- psychological lenses. As a member of The volumes provide energy and momen- a political activist and public sociologist sional practice of sociology, supervise the Gallaudet Sociology Department, tum for the surge of DuBoisian thought in in the DuBoisian tradition, Morris was a the updating of ASA career materials Vitullo built on APAP’s Integrating the last two decades. consultant for the award-winning docu- and administer other support programs Data Analysis (IDA) initiative and Edna Bonacich, Emeritus Professor mentary Eyes on the Prize and frequently such as the Teaching Enhancement brought quantitative data analysis to all of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at appears in the media on racial, class, and Grants. Vitullo will also serve as staff introductory sociology courses taught University of California-Riverside, has gender equality issues. liaison to several ASA committees and at Gallaudet. As Department Chair, focused a lifetime of research on race and All attendees are invited to this task forces that engage issues of teach- she attended the annual ASA Chair class, with an emphasis on racial divisions August 13 event commemorating ing, learning, and sociological practice Conference and will now have the in the working class. She, like DuBois, inauguration of the W.E.B. DuBois within and outside the discipline. opportunity as APAP Director to plan has engaged in a generation of public Distinguished Career of Scholarship it and the Directors of Graduate Study sociology, working with several unions Award. Conference. Announcing the new appointment , from page 6 MFP in June, ASA Executive Officer Sally Encyclopedia, from page 4 T. Hillsman said, “ASA’s Academic Alena Singleton (NIMH Fellow) and Professional Affairs Program they promised and sometimes much more. deceased sociologists (based on the belief Undergraduate Institution: search for a new director is fortunate I read all of the entries, sometimes that in at least some cases the passage Hunter College, CUNY to have caught Margaret’s attention. several times. While daunting, it had its of time was needed in order to decide Graduate Institution: Her creativity and high energy will con- rewards not only in, I hope, higher-quality whether inclusion was warranted). As Rutgers University tribute greatly to building on the strong entries, but also in the fact that I learned time passes new possibilities for entries Alena began her foundation of this ASA program’s many about areas of sociology far removed from present themselves on a regular basis. academic career as a important components. Margaret’s aca- my own interests and highly specific topics For example, since the completion of budding biologist and demic experience and her contributions about which I knew little or nothing. More the bound version of the encyclopedia, medical school hopeful. to advancing teaching and learning in important, I know that readers who spend such notables as Jacques Derrida, John She wanted to practice medicine and sociology make her well-suited to lead only a short time with these entries will Kenneth Galbraith, Betty Friedan, and conduct scientific research that would APAP and meet the challenges of the find the experience edifying. Jean Baudrillard have died. Entries on address unmet physical and mental st 21 century.” these notables (and undoubtedly oth- health needs in underserved communi- On a more personal note, Vitullo Why Go Online? ers) will be added in regular updates of ties throughout the country. However, received her PhD in Sociology from the The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology BEOS Online. shortly after beginning college, she University of Michigan in 1994, focus- (BEOS) is now a physical reality and, There is, of course, already a great realized that no matter how intellectu- ing on both social organization and on the surface, it would seem that my deal of information available online ally stimulating her scientific endeavors social psychology. She and her husband work on it is completed. However, that (and elsewhere) on many of the topics might be, they still left her asking why Rick reside in Takoma Park, MD, with is far from the case as it lives on in BEOS covered in the encyclopedia. Why, then, certain populations were underserved their children Jazmín (6) and Lucas Online (see www.sociologyencyclopedia. should one consult BEOS Online rather in the first place, which led her to take (4). When time allows, Vitullo enjoys com/overview.asp). We are well into the than one or more of these other sources? up the study of human cultures instead hiking trails that take her far from the process of creating lists of new entries and For one thing, all entries are vetted by of cell cultures. Alena is currently a nearest roads. She is happy to recount lining up authors to write them. Why new the Editor and in the case of the origi- sociology doctoral student at Rutgers her stories of performing manual labor entries? After all, the bound version of nal entries in the bound volume, by an University-New Brunswick, where she in a Texas shipyard to get through her the Encyclopedia was published only a few Advisory Editor, as well. Thus, consult- does work surrounding cultural changes first year of college at Rice University. months ago. ing BEOS Online gives greater assurance in racialized feminine beauty ideals, pop Be sure to congratulate her on her First, even the nearly 1,800 entries, 10 of the quality of the material found there, culture portrayals of racialized female new position at the Annual Meeting in volumes (plus an 11th devoted to the index), as well as of its accuracy. For another, beauty, and their impact on the body August. 6,000 pages, and 3.5 million words do not each entry is part of a broader and more image and mental health outcomes of come close to exhausting what could be systematic treatment of sociology than diverse populations. She also studies the written about sociology. Second, sociology is available elsewhere. Thus, it is the classification systems used to catego- continues to develop and expand with new totality of what is available, as well as rize mental disorders and the impact Just Released! concepts, ideas, theories, methods, and the the interrelationship of the entries (as that these classification rubrics have on like, and they need to be added to a live made clear by systematic cross-referenc- both professional and lay conceptions 2007 Directory resource. Third, areas already covered by ing), that differentiates The Blackwell of mental dysfunction. Alena has strong of Members print entries continue to evolve and need Encyclopedia of Sociology and BEOS interests in mental health, medical sociol- to be revised and updated to reflect those Online, as well as the combination of the ogy, social cognition, race/ethnicity, and changes. Finally, we made a decision to two, from other alternatives on, or off, gender/sexuality studies. www.asanet.org/bookstore include entries in the encyclopedia only on the Internet. July/August 2007 Footnotes
ings were never enough; I needed and wanted to become involved in sociological Public Sociology praxis. Sociology translates to public action . . . A Connection in Thailand After 19 years of teaching, research, and writing, my wife and I were selected to This occasional column highlights sociologists who successfully engage soci- be the field supervisors of St. Olaf’s semester in Asia. It was during this assign- ology in the civic arena in service to organizations and communities. Over ment that I first came to Chiang Mai University (CMU) and I fell in love with the years, members of ASA and sociologists as individual professionals and Thailand and its people. Since then, I have returned to Thailand each year for citizens have sought to make the knowledge we generate directly relevant a month or more of research, study, and/or teaching. In 1995, I was selected as to our communities, countries, and the world community. Many sociologists the first St. Olaf-CMU American exchange scholar and lived in Thailand for nine within the academy and in other sectors practice the translation of expert months while I did research on the tribal people of Thailand. knowledge to numerous critical issues through consultation, advisement, In 2001, my wife, Ann Leming, and I created the Spring Semester in Thailand academic program, affiliated with the CMU Faculty of Humanities testimony, commentary, writing, and participation in a variety of activities (AmazingThailand.org). We have returned each year bringing American students and venues. Readers are invited to submit contributions, but consult with from numerous U.S. colleges and universities to Thailand to study the Thai lan- Managing Editor Johanna Olexy ([email protected], 202-383-9005 x312) guage, culture, and arts. I have also continued my research and writing while in prior to submitting your draft (1,000 to 1,200 words maximum). Thailand, focusing on the Karen tribal people in the Mae Chaem district of Chiang Mai province. After producing a documentary film on the Karen people in the mountainous area of Mae Chaem district (see www.stolaf.edu/people/leming/film.htm), I real- Sociological Research and Praxis: ized that I wanted to go beyond sociological understanding. My praxis lead me to help the Karen tribal people to build schools and educational hostels so that future An Autobiographical and Karen generations could receive a better education while learning about their distinct cultural practices and ways of life. Retrospective Account Playing Santa Claus by Michael R. Leming, St. Olaf College I returned to Northfield, MN, and participated in fundraising efforts for the As a 58-year-old seasoned professor of sociology, I realize I have had many support of educational opportunities. Because I looked like Santa Claus, I played careers in my profession. A friend and professional colleague once told me the part for wealthy residents of my community who received a visit from Santa that if a professional is to extend his or her career at a single location, either in exchange for a $50-donation to the education of tribal children. Returning home the professor or the university must be able to change. one evening after a Santa “gig,” I stopped for gas still dressed in my Buddhism teaches its devotees, for example, that to Santa suit. Soon kids from a local mobile home park came to the gas find contentment in this life one must be able to adjust to station. The response of these children and their excitement gave me impermanence in this world. I have been fortunate to have the idea to go door-to-door and wish the poorest children of my “vil- had many careers in my 36 years at St. Olaf College. I have lage” a Merry Christmas. changed the focus of my career a number of times—from a Now at my annual visit to the Northfield Viking Terrace Mobile teacher, a researcher, a scholar, an author, an entrepreneur, Home Park, my wife, daughter, and her husband pass out gifts to the a practitioner, an interpreter, a middle-man, a community children and give each family pictures of their children with Santa. activist, and a tour guide. But as I try to understand my Service Through Art own career through my sociological imagination, I see that there is a dominant theme that illuminates it, which is During the 2006 Christmas season, again dressed as Santa, I vis- “Research (including academic knowledge and understand- ited my local high school and invited the art students to give a gift ing) and Praxis.” of art to Thai tribal children living in a remote educational hostel. During my academic years in the late 1960s and early I gave these Northfield students pictures of 40 children who live at 70s, the foremost question for my generation of sociologists the Hilltribe Resources and Development Center, which is an out- was, “Sociology for what?” At the same time the predomi- reach home to about 120 children ages 4 to 20, who come together nant methodological paradigm was survey research and to receive an education because there is no school in their village or quantitative sociology, which relied on mathematical mod- because they have no family. els and computer-generated regression equations to explain Last semester, while living in Thailand teaching 30 American social behavior. students, we delivered the portraits to the children while our spring semester students were doing ethnographic research in Ban Mai From a Textbook to Action Phattana. My primary research interests then were the sociology The situations in my life change, but the theme remains the same, of religion and social thanatology. Within 10 years of earning my doctorate, I “Research and Praxis.” Perhaps it was a former student who most helped me to collaborated with George Dickinson, to produce the textbook Understanding, realize this. She was from Japan and had been offered acceptance at a Japanese Dying, Death and Bereavement (now in its sixth edition). After its publication, I university when she felt ambivalence about continuing her education in America. was asked to give a series of lectures to launch a hospice program in my own I told her, “Follow your heart.” That night I was asked to speak before a student community. The hospice nurse who asked me to speak then asked if I would group at St. Olaf, and began to reflect on what it means to follow one’s heart. Was be willing to serve as a hospice volunteer for a patient who was not expected I living that advice? Where were my education, vocation, and heart leading me? to live through the night. That one patient lead to eight years of service as a I realized that I was neither in touch with my heart nor my professional call- hospice volunteer and to the beginnings of a new program in Northfield, MN, ing. It was then that I discovered that my heart was directing my wife and me to dedicated to community education and awareness of HIV/AIDS. Thailand. Shortly afterward, we decided to go to part time at St. Olaf and begin As I look back, I realize that my empirical research and theoretical writ- our Thailand program. In retrospect, I can now say without reservation, “Praxis makes perfect.”
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Dean of that group. In his 40 plus years American writer, columnist, feminist, University. Citing her interest in social Socialists of America. in Congress, some of his major accom- and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich change she opted for political activism For sociologists, a first step toward plishments include: The Violence Against is the author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) instead of pursuing a scientific career. understanding the future of American Women Act of 1994, the Motor Voter Bill Getting By In America (2001), Global Woman: In 2006, Ehrenreich founded United politics is to make visible the processes of 1993, the Martin Luther King Holiday Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Professionals, an organization described that obscure and dispute sociological per- Act of 1983, the Alcohol Warning Label Act Economy (co-edited with Arlie Hochschild, as “a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership spectives in contemporary society. Conyers of 1988, and the Jazz Preservation Act of 2003), Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit organization for white-collar workers, and Ehrenreich have never retreated from 1987. He was also the driving force behind of the American Dream (2005), and most regardless of profession or employ- an opportunity to expose abuses of power the Help America Vote Act of 2002. In a recently Dancing in the Streets: A History of ment status. We reach out to all unem- or the profiteers of inequality. Organized world currently dominated by globaliza- Collective Joy (2007). She joins the discussion ployed, underemployed, and anxiously by ASA President Frances Fox Piven and tion, ethnic conflicts, and terrorism, Rep. with the goals of stimulating a better under- employed workers—people who bought presided over by Peter Dreier, this plenary Conyers is committed to promoting peace standing of our future in American politics. the American dream that education and will prompt a discussion of critical per- and understanding. He has worked dili- Ehrenreich studied physics at Reed credentials could lead to a secure middle spectives on American politics by explor- gently to turn back the war effort against College, graduating in 1963. Her senior class life, but now find their lives disrupted ing how political conflicts, institutions, and Iraq. In 2002, he voted against Joint House thesis was titled Electrochemical Oscillations by forces beyond their control”
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ASA Should Not Support I (Alternative Modes of China Public Forum Transportation to) New York I was surprised and affronted to see ASA’s instructions on how to get to in the May 2007 Member News and Notes New York City (NYC) were less than that the ASA is offering members a tour to Catholics and Protestants, or those out- beaten to death. China has quickly thorough. China. Numerous organizations agree that side officially sanctioned churches. They become the world’s largest exporter of First, why list only airports? From China’s human rights record is one of the will not see jailed dissidents who speak fur, most of which comes from animals many parts of the United States, such as worst on the planet. Many are calling for a out for democracy and are “Re-educated who are skinned alive. In studying the Portland, ME; Burlington, VT; Richmond, boycott of products made in China and of through labor.” They will not see the treatment of animals, I have endured VA; and of course the Northeastern corri- the 2008 Olympics. However, the ASA has people of Tibet, occupied, repressed, and hours of video footage depicting various dor, the most comfortable and productive decided to send more of our dollars to the made paupers by China since 1949. They kinds of brutality. However, the footage way is by Amtrak. Overnight Amtrak most brutal nation. will not see the eviction of human rights taken in a Chinese fur farm will haunt service comes from Atlanta and Chicago, The online description mentions that activists from their homes in Beijing, me to my grave. and given that one has to sleep anyway, the trip will “help reveal the beauty in an effort to minimize the “prob- These represent just a few examples can also be time-effective. Greyhound of this ancient society” and will give a lems” that might occur during the 2008 from an appalling record. To verify these services NYC from cities throughout the “first-hand view of traditional life.” The Olympics. claims or learn more, perhaps start with Northeast and other points in the East. tourists will see what the Chinese govern- To me, China’s record on animal the websites of Amnesty International Then there are the bargain buses, such as ment has approved and sanitized, much rights also matters. Although its treat- (www.amnesty.org) and Animals Asia the “Chinatown Express,” which might as they would have done if they visited ment of people is shameful, its treatment (www.animalsasia.org). be of particular interest to graduate stu- Nazi Germany in the 1930s and seen a of animals is far, far worse. China’s zoos The ASA has refused to hold its dents. But only if you told them. dynamic, well-run society. I will list a few have been called “insane asylums for annual convention in cities where hotel Second, the ways suggested to get to instances of what ASA tourists will not see animals,” and a “national disgrace.”1 Its workers are engaged in labor disputes. Manhattan from the airports are without in China. They will not witness the forced live animal markets are hellish places To offer a tour to China seems hypo- exception expensive and subject to sur- abortions, confiscations of property, and where one can purchase nearly any kind critical and irresponsible. When the full face traffic. What about the “train to the heavy fines levied to enforce the one-child of living creature. China is the world’s details become available in September, plane” service to JFK? The Amtrak and NJ policy. They will not see the weapons, leading dealer in rare and endangered please do not bother mailing them to me. Transit service, complete with monorail, helicopters, and vehicles sold to Sudan, species. The rhino, tiger, and bear have from Newark? The NYC bus and subway Leslie Irvine, University of Colorado- sustaining the brutal conflict in Darfur. become critically endangered through service from LaGuardia? Boulder They will not see China’s oil trade with their use in traditional Chinese medicine. These alternatives are not only Sudan, bankrolling the genocide. The tour Endnotes cheaper, they are also much more envi- In 2006, China engaged in a reactionary 1 http://news.sky.com/skynews/arti- will not include glimpses of the state- campaign to control rabies. Tens of thou- cle/0,,30200-1266775,00.html ronmentally friendly than airplanes and sponsored violence suffered regularly by sands of pet dogs were confiscated and shuttles. Next time, please do better. members of the Falun Gong, as well as executed—not “put to sleep,” but simply James W. Loewen, [email protected] Editors, from page 1
The editors hope to establish for study of how Americans understand American Sociological Review, American into blogging and public criminology Contexts a much larger and more sig- the nature and consequences of racial Journal of Sociology, and Criminology, and have provided him with a deep, practi- nificant web presence that will comple- and religious diversity and how ethnic, discussed them in a variety of media cal understanding of the challenges of ment and expand the print content of racial, and religious identities shape outlets, including the New York Times, The Internet interface. Chris has been mar- the journal. An electronic portal will understandings of the obligations of Economist, and National Public Radio. ried for 20 years to Rhonda, a physical facilitate access to articles and enable the citizenship and visions of “the good With Jeff Manza, he wrote Locked Out: therapist whom he met at age 16 when journal to produce content that is more society.” The Mosaic Project recently Felon Disenfranchisement and American he was a busboy and she was a host- timely and topical than the current print garnered considerable national media Democracy (2006). ess. When not answering questions medium allows. It will provide timely attention from Time, Newsweek, and Chris’s teaching interests include from ex-cons about their voting rights, coverage of sociologists who engage National Public Radio for its findings crime and drug use, discrimination broadcasting on the radio, and working public issues and make it easier for about race and insights about atheists, and inequality, and sexual harassment, to overhaul voting laws, Chris can be media professionals to establish contacts moral boundaries, and cultural member- and he has incorporated community found spending time with his children, with them. The goal is to make Contexts ship in America. service learning into his criminology Hope (13), an aspiring actress and singer, a standard reference for journalists, Doug teaches classes on race relations, courses. His work as an expert witness and Tor (16), a nonconformist and active writers, and opinion leaders by having contemporary social theory, and quali- and in providing public testimony on athlete. Chris is also a jogger who has it serve as the point of entry to sociologi- tative research methods, and recently felon disenfranchisement has garnered run 16 marathons and a guitar player cal knowledge for the news media and taught a new course on public sociology national recognition and a number of who claims to “sing worse than Bob policymakers. The journal will profile designed to give students an opportunity awards, while his more recent forays Dylan.” sociologists to reflect on how engaged in path- the knowledge, breaking policy The goal is to make Contexts a standard skills, and insights work or public reference for journalists, writers, and of sociology can Tell Us What You Want—What advocacy, or soci- opinion leaders by having it serve as the be applied in ologists who are lives and careers You Really, Really Want—in teaching innova- point of entry to sociological knowledge outside of the tive courses that for the news media and policymakers. University. He Footnotes Newsletter . . . change the lives is married to of their students—sociologists, in short, sociologist Teresa Swartz, University Get your opinions heard at an Open Forum gathering reader who are making an impact in the public of Minnesota, who recently published input on useful content realm. a book on non-profit foster care and is currently researching intergenerational Attend a special Open Forum at the 2007 ASA About the Editors relationships. When he is not appearing Annual Meeting in New York City to let ASA editorial M staff know your opinions on the content of Footnotes ay/June 2007 Looking forward to the 2007 ASA A V Douglas Hartmann grew up in Cape in the media to discuss race relations oluMe 35 Down and Out nnualin NewMeeting in NewYork York . . . City n uMber 5 Despite Well-Intentione
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Inde ited to in shelters as well announced a 10 alls enormous concerns a again, raising providers, as thousands of under HSP rules, ed, then-Governor Ge-year agreement with service providers, an mong advocates, individuals still families in the pro between Memphis and Saint Louis that culture topics, Doug is busy coaching and develop 9,000 orgenew unitsPataki o to finance d homeless families. literally sleeping on gram are prohibited- portive housing—sub Counting the Homeless f sup city streets and i from leaving wel housing with socia sidized permanent- for work, despite farethe The numbers of stre the subway system.n traditionally been hard cally homeless peoplel services—for and pe chroni fact that their rental et homeless have City estimates usua with disabilities. The key ide - assistance is reduced to count, with ople living Low Wages and High Rent than both scholarly countslly ending a up lower ing Bloomberg wa time, housing costs haveeach beenyear. skyAt the sa a motivat One reason for rising fami estimates by advocate on temporary sheltes to reduce the reliance- ing while wages cannot ke nd the lessness may be flaws in th me Professor Kim Hoppe Sociologist until 1973, Footnotes is undergoing its first supply of cost-effectiver and suppo to expand the ly home rocket s. In recent years, “Housing Stability Plus” progra - According to data ep up. - classic ing, which is an idea tha e city’s Census Bureau’s Reckoning With rHome (author of the rtive hous Launched in December 2 collected by the the Mailman School of Publ gists have long adv t many sociolo - m (HSP). Survey, between 2002Housing and 2005and Vacancy ( lessness is the hometown of Rush Limbaugh. The youth soccer, basketball, and baseball federal Section 8 vouchers004 f to replace Columbia University, ha ) from ocated. - Bloomberg’s initiative to bui families, HSP recent data available ic Health at supportive housing was part of or homeless the most with the Ci s worked closely subsidies to familiesprovided to move declining the rent apartments available), the number of ty’s Department of Homeless plan announced a year ld more Services as it conducted an annu of shelters and into per at rents of less than homelessness in N a larger earlier to reduce However, the numb m out al thirds over five years.ew YorkAt t City by two- manent housing. lies moved to pe City released and posted on i er of homeless fami Looking forward to the 2007 See Homeless hat time, the 11% last year to 5,950,rmanent the housingl fell by detailed implementa - , page 8 ts website in four years, and HSP mo major graphic and format “facelift,” to be unveiled in timelines and targets. Unfort owest number ASA Annual Meeting in New York tion plans with families in its second ye Plenary Examines Popular Culture despite the laudable and ambit ved fewer unately, than in its first (4,52 ar of operation as Propaganda and Critique . . . racial and cultural divides of his home- and enjoying the company of his two ious goals 4,033 families in 2006).4 families in 2005 vs. Part of the problem with t by Bonnie Thornton D Maryland and ASA Vicill, University of Eliza Pavalko to Serve as the Nexthe cur - e President can serve as a force f opular and commercial cul Editor of P change also in or progressive social long been important sites of cultura creases. For example, there JHSB flict, where ideas about soc tures have is considerable deba are persuasively embedded l con culture’s capacity to tea around popular January 2008. by Tom Gieryn, ial relations - Indiana Univer stant negotiation with critique inequality within a capiddress issues of and in con structure, where the disse sity-Bloomington ideas. Academic discussion - talist economic s of such ideas and ideologies is so t town community sparked an enduring children, Ben (12) and Emma (9). Eliza K. Pavalko has been selec cheeky authors in the year culture started as soon as co mination of to succeed Peggy T s on popular to economic resources. These t mass society formed itself, and ightly bound the ted she will respond to them as ntemporary Journal of Health hoitsand Soc as editor of s ahead, and on popular culture that were suggest that to understan (JHSB), and her colleagues at to her horses: kind and firm. hemes ial Behavior she responds oped at that time still influe the views entertainment and populard where global University-Blooming culture as propa devel- headed, one should b two reasons to congratulate heIndiana Early Career nce popular culture are ton now have ganda and critique- afresh at the starting pointegin by looking Department’s annual awar Eliza Pavalko did her unde mental cultural, politica r. At the ate work at Guilford Colle within contempo : The funda April, Eliza was named the As globalism spreads, the - Meanwhile, reader opinions on the content are d ceremony in Carolina, and completed her dorgradu- rary America. - l, and economic Polly S. Grimshaw Pro ge in North Allen D. and formulations, polit landscape of Sociology. in 1987 at Florida State Univers Given the intellectual fessor of a dissertation on “Lab ctorate explosion in popular investmentsical ab stakes, and contemporary Christopher Uggen Eliza and I share a com ity, with America as it interest in issues of racial identity and is a native-born scholarly inter mon interest in horse manure or Processes and - Welfare State Formation est in popular - which popular and commeout the extent to stands today. although her focus is more o the United States, 1900-193 , in culture, which can serve as a force for The plenary’s the production end w Her MA thesis at Flo rcial cultures n encompasses such format is a moder is on its consumption. Eliza 0.” social change also increprogressive hile mine tackled a different problemrida State mediums as comic b ated conversation - spends many hours rid “Measures of Self-Assessed hip-hop, television and ases. among cultural and training horses. My roses : ooks, digital media, ing Health: Comparing Hea “Popular Culture as Propagan producers, critics, benefit wonderfully fro the Internet, the systematically being gathered through focus groups, Indicators Among Olderlth Critique” plenary on Au “multilogue” orchest and scholars. In a manure that Eliza’s horses pr m the Males.” Traces of bo offers diverse perspectives ab da and Gray of the Universityrated of Califo by Herman duce in abundanc projects can be foundth through early gust 11, 2007, Santa Cruz, five distingu o- extent to which these cultu privilege and later led to two books on Minnesotan whose turbulent ado- a story for anothere, time. but thatWhat is out Eliza’s career of pr out the ticipants will explore the lim rnia- as a force for progressive soc ished par Eliza does with her horse research. She has maintain - res can serve challenges, and possibilities o - Eliza K. Pavalko oductive Central to this year’s t itations, might shed light on her di an interest in macro-level ial change. in the popular and commerci s just ed World Possible: Sociologicalheme, P“Is Another tendencies as the new editor of and policy relevant aspe arena as well as its use and m f critique spositions and and Contemporary Po al culture Our colleague Jane McLeod de health care, along with an in erspectives for understanding contem est in micro-environmental cts of is dedicated to the develo Eliza as the perfect balance JHSB. litics,” this plenary life. Their conversation will probilization of health and well-being. It dialogue not only between cla porary social and firmness: “Her triump scribes determinantster- pment of critical lens for examinin of kindness appropriate that Eliza’s fir sociological perspectives interviews, and this Open Forum, titled “What Do a cheeky horse is a sight to be seems most ssical and dilemmas, and challenges in ovide a h in taming based on her master’s th rary politics but also betwe g the goals, No doubt Eliza wil st publication, and contempo in creating and dissemin authored with Melissa H States and the peoples and l face at leasthold!” a few esis and co- en the United- volved tries whom we affect and wh products. ating these the subject: Race, Culture and the Revolt lescence in Saint Paul led to a long- ardy, appeared their coun As globalism spreads, the int - Participants include: See tual formulations, political stao affect us. Sarah Banet-Weiser JHSB Editor , page 4 popular investments ab ellec- professor in the Annenberg is associate S which popular and commer kes, and Communication. Her teachin out the extent to research interests include fe chool of Published cial cultures g and by the minist the aMerican - Footnotes sociological See You Like, and Not Like, about ASA ?” The Plenary of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic term interest in deviance, crime, and association , page 8 Protests and Their Aftermath and Ethnicity social justice. Chris is a Distinguished forum will be held on Monday, August 13, from and Race: Making Identities in a Changing McKnight Professor of Sociology and 8:30–10:10 AM in the Hilton New York. World (with Stephen Cornell). Doug is serves as executive secretary of the ASA editorial staff will solicit structured and free-form input from current president of the Sociologists of American Society of Criminology. His Footnotes readers about reader preferences, reading habits, and content. Minnesota and serves on the editorial research focuses on law and deviance, Among several questions to be entertained will be how the newsletter can boards of Ethnic and Racial Studies and especially on how former prisoners man- better serve members, what are the popular sections and features presently, the Journal of Sports and Social Issues. age to put their lives back together. He and how do readers use information learned from Footnotes? ASA editorial He is a co-principal investigator of the has published his research findings in staff encourage your attendance. American Mosaic Project, a collaborative numerous academic journals, including 10 July/August 2007 Footnotes
man Union. Theme: “Sociology Matters: analysis, regulatory barriers to afford- which the name refers. In most of these Call for Papers Looking In, Looking Out.” Have a session able housing, rural housing, housing for public debates, gender has not played as Meetings idea? Or a paper to present? Contact: Scott persons with special needs, subsidized prominent a role as race or class, despite Meetings Foster at [email protected]. For addi- housing, university partnerships, urban the fact that gendered ideas about crime, August 10, 2007. 5th International Care- tional news and information as it becomes revitalization and community develop- poverty, victimhood, refugee status, work Conference, CUNY Graduate Center. The Association for Applied and Clini- available, visit the SOM website
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Following the October 2006 National and demonstrated accomplishment. Institutes of Health (NIH) conference organized by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), Understanding and Reducing Disparities in Health: Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Contributions (see
Research on Interventions that Promote Research Careers. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued an RFA for R01 research grant proposals addressing “Research on Interventions that Promote Research Careers.” Letters of intent are due September 24, and full applications 12 July/August 2007 Footnotes
are due October 22, 2007. This funding op- civic responsibility; and (2) Leadership or ton Post, on the role of sociological factors lic Reporter, February 16, 2007. An article Post article about a Washington, DC, portunity is to support research that will potential leadership in the development of motivating the Virginia Tech shootings. about the death and legacy of Martin escort service. test assumptions regarding existing or others as leaders, scholars, and citizens. Luther King appeared in the online edi- potential interventions that are intended A faculty member or administrator must James E. Blackwell, University of Massa- tion of the American Prospect magazine Joseph Gasper, Johns Hopkins Univer- to increase the preparedness for careers nominate the student, with a supporting chusetts-Boston, was quoted in the April on January 15, 2007. Drier published an sity, was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed, in biomedical and behavioral research, letter from a second faculty member or ad- 6 Chronicle of Higher Education in its lead op-ed in the Sunday Los Angeles Times ABC News, and Al Jazeera International, with a particular interest in those inter- ministrator. The following materials must article “High Debt for Black Scholars” on May 27 and another op-ed in the LA on April 16, 2007, on the Virginia Tech ventions specifically designed to increase be submitted: (1) a nomination letter from on his research on the presence of black Business Journal on May 29. He and Kelly shootings. He was also quoted along with the number of underrepresented minority a faculty member or administrator; (2) a faculty as the strongest predictor of black Candaele coauthored an article, “How Peggy Giordano in an article on the Vir- students entering careers in biomedical supporting letter from a second faculty student enrollment in graduate schools. the Employee Free Choice Act Would ginia Tech shootings by the French news and behavioral research. Comparative member or administrator; (3) a statement Help Colleges” in the May 7 issue of the agency, Agence France Presse, on April research that analyses the experience of from the student indicating how he or Dallas Blanchard, University of West Chronicle of Higher Education. A different 17, 2007. Gasper also wrote an opinion all ethnicities in order to place that of she meets the award criteria; (4) a copy of Florida, was quoted in a May 27 Wash- version of this article appeared on sev- piece on the Virginia Tech shootings for underrepresented students in context the student’s curriculum vitae. Nominees ington Post article on Memorial Day in eral websites, including TomPaine.Com, the Baltimore Sun, on April 19, 2007. and to learn whether and how interven- must also complete an online form with the panhandle of Florida as a gay pride AlterNet, and Common Dreams. He was tions should be tailored to make more all contact information. The awards pro- event. quoted in LA City Beat on May 9 about Naomi Gerstel, University of Massachu- underrepresented students successful vide AAC&U membership and financial LA’s housing crisis and in the Pasadena setts-Amherst, and Natalia Sarkisian, in biomedical careers is particularly support for graduate students to attend Wayne Brekhus, University of Missouri- Weekly April 26 and May 1) about the re- Boston College, were the subject of a May encouraged. Learn more at
were quoted in a May 25 New York Times Jeff Manza, Northwestern University, and Don O’Meara, University of Cincinnati- The article was about his September 2006 Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College, and op-ed by David Brooks on the economic Christopher Uggen, University of Min- Raymond Walters College, was quoted Sociological Theory article on the social Christian Smith, University of Notre boom of the non-Hispanic white Catho- nesota, had their book Locked Out: Felon in an article on cross-gender friendships organization of notification. Dame, were quoted in a May 25 Washing- lics. The article was based largely on Disenfranchisement and American Democracy in the June 2007 issue of Men’s Health ton Post article about atheism. Keister’s research on the topic. reviewed in the April 12 New York Review magazine. Pepper Schwartz, University of Wash- of Books. ington, was quoted on April 19, 2007, in Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University, Suzanne Goodney Lea, Gallaudet Uni- Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University, USA Today, in an article on why more and was quoted in a May 20, 2007, business versity, used her theoretical understand- Torin Monahan, Arizona State University, was quoted in an April 29 USA Today article more people feel comfortable cheating on section article in the Washington Post ing of the role interaction plays in self was interviewed on NPR about the social on her research that examined American at- their spouses on business trips. She was about the psychological phenomenon formation and how this potentially ex- implications of electronic surveillance, titudes toward mental health in children. interviewed by the International Herald of “mental accounting” in which people plains the formation of a violent identity March 9, 2007. He was also quoted in a Tribune on April 10, 2007, about her new keep tabs on their income and expendi- in Virginia Tech shooter Seung Hui Cho March 11, 2007, East Valley Tribune article Mark Regnerus, University of Texas- book, Prime: Adventures and Advice on tures and how that affects their purchases for the April 17 edition of ABC World News on public surveillance in Phoenix. Austin, was quoted in the article “Even Sex, Love and the Sensual Years, and was and time spent earning money. Tonight. She was also interviewed in the Evangelical Teens Do It: How Religious profiled in an April 19 New York Times April 18 edition of The Guardian Unlimited Katherine Newman, Princeton University, Beliefs Do, and Don’t, Influence Sexual interview article on Schwartz as a sociolo- (UK) regarding the packet of videos and appeared in the media numerous times Behavior” by Hanna Rosin on May 30, gist as sex expert. pictures Cho sent to NBC News. during the week of April 16, 2007, on the 2007, on Slate.com. Virginia Tech shootings. She was inter- Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois- Awards Edward Laumann, University of Chicago, viewed by CNN’s Lou Dobbs, Inside Edition, Gene Rosa, Washington State University, Chicago, was a featured guest on the was quoted and his research was featured the CBS Early Show, ABC’s Nightline, Good was interviewed by the Canadian Broad- NPR-affiliate WBEZ-FM’s Eight Forty- Todd E. Bernhardt, Broward Community in a May 22 Washington Post article about Morning America, and wrote an opinion casting Corporation (CBC), for a national Eight program on March 28, 2007. Schaff- College, received the Cleveland Clinic sexual relationships and sex research. piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education. TV news special on the relationship be- ner discussed her book Girls in Trouble of Florida Endowed Teaching Chair. He She was quoted on April 22, 2007, in The tween consumption and climate change. with the Law, the current state of juvenile was one of 10 recipients chosen from a Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, wrote a Washington Post about how the violence detention centers, and her personal con- college-wide competition. Each recipi- letter to the editor about migrant workers, this generation of children has seen has Michael J. Rosenfeld, Stanford University, nections to her research. ent receives a professional stipend and which appeared in the May 6 issue of the shaped, but not hardened, their outlook and C.N. Le, University of Massachusetts- a program stipend, for a total of $22,500 New York Times. on life. She also wrote a letter to the editor Amherst, were quoted in an April 13 As- Juliet B. Schor, Boston College, and Sha- awarded over three years to further en- about a Maureen Dowd column that ap- sociated Press article on the recent surge in ron Zukin, Brooklyn College, was quoted hance educational excellence. Jerry M. Lewis, was quoted in a May 2 peared in the April 28 New York Times. interracial marriages. The article appeared in an April 22 New York Times article on New York Times article on the release of a in numerous media sources, including the the shopping obsession of pre-teens or G. William Domhoff, University of recording of the alleged orders to shoot Patrick D. Nolan, University of South Washington Post and the USA Today. tweens. California-Santa Cruz, received the at the 1970 Kent State protests. Carolina, was quoted advocating allow- University of California’s Constantine ing concealed weapons permit holders to Virginia Rutter, Framingham State Col- Kim Scipes, Purdue University North Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award. Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University, carry handguns on college and university lege, was quoted in Variety on April 3, Central, was interviewed about current The award honors outstanding scholarly appeared on NPR’s Fair Game, on May 7, campuses in South Carolina as a means of 2007, on how marriage is represented in social developments in Venezuela on work and/or educational service since 2007, to talk about friendship in American deterring or minimizing future campus the HBO series, The Sopranos. She was also the V Headline Venezuela Newshour that is retirement by UC faculty emeriti in the society. violence in a May 10 article in the Charleston interviewed along with Ira Silver, Fram- broadcast around the world on American humanities or social sciences. Post and Courier. ingham State College, on April 19, 2007, by Voices Radio Network on May 29. Michael Macy, Cornell University, was The Boston Globe, on their Global Warming Stephanie Ellis and Steve Tuch, received quoted in the Wall Street Journal in an Jay Olshansky, University of Illinois, Teach-In at Framingham State College. David R. Segal, University of Maryland, Service Awards for service to the District article about how social computing is was quoted in an April 6, 2007, CNN.com was quoted in the Baltimore Sun on April of Columbia Sociological Society opening up new research opportunities article on so-called “anti-aging medicine” Dan Ryan, Mills College, was the subject 2 on the changing nature of communica- in the study of on-line communities like and expresses the opinion that it is an of a May 22 New York Times article about tion about war, including the posting on Angela Hattery and Earl Smith, both Facebook, Second Life, and Wikipedia. expensive hoax. having spam filters for emails from friends. blogs of letters originally written during of Wake Forest University, received the World War II, and on April 12 regarding Teaching and Innovation Award bestowed the consequences of extending army tours by the Teaching and Learning Center at in Iraq from 12 to 15 months. Wake Forest University for their course In 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the Social Stratification in the Deep South, Greg Smithsimon was quoted by the taught during the summers of 2003, 2005 American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching Chicago Tribune on April 2, Reuters on and to be offered in 2007. This course was March 19, and interviewed on AM 930, featured in Footnotes, Wake Forest Maga- controversy when he Cleveland on April 3 regarding a study zine, and Public Sociologies Reader. by his students in which they “dropped” issued an impassioned wallets on the streets of New York and Christine L. Himes was named the found 82 percent were returned. Syracuse University United Methodist call for a “public soci- Scholar/Teacher of the Year. The award Karen Sternheimer, University of South- recognizes the ideal combination of schol- ology.” Burawoy ern California, was interviewed by radio arly endeavor and effective teaching by a stations KFWB (Los Angeles) and CHQR faculty member. argued that sociology (Calgary) on February 28, 2007, about her Contexts article, “Do Video Games Kill.” Janet Huber Lowry, Austin College, should speak beyond Reuters also wrote a story based on this received The Scholarship Award for the article, which ran in USA Today, the San Social Science Division. The certificate of the university, engag- Diego Union Tribune, and other newspa- $500 acknowledged her co-edited book pers in March 2007. (with Kamal K. Misra), Recent Studies on ing with social move- Indian Women-Empirical Work of Social Sci- ments and deepening N. Prabha Unnithan, Colorado State entists, several workshops on assessment University, was interviewed for and at regional gatherings in 2006: ESS, MSS an understanding of quoted in an article entitled “How Honest (with Carla Howery & Diane Pike), and Is Aspen?” which appeared in The Aspen SSA (with Judith Warner), and a recent the historical and Times on April 7, 2007. grant for a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad to India this summer for which social context in Duncan J. Watts, Columbia University, she is project director. wrote an article in the April 15 New York which they exist. Now, Times “Idea Lab” on cumulative advan- Mairead Moloney, University of North tage as a predictor of and reason for a Carolina-Chapel Hill, has been selected renowned sociologists best seller. as the 2007 Sociologists for Women in Society Beth Hess Scholar. come together to Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, was quoted in a June 2 New Thomas K. Pinhey, University of Hawai’i- debate the perils and York Times article on race and police Hilo, received the Excellence in Schol- shootings. arly/Creative Award for the academic the potentials of year 2006-2007. William Julius Wilson, Harvard Univer- Burawoy’s challenge. sity, was quoted and pictured in a May 7, Harriet Presser, University of Maryland, 2007, Washington Post feature story about has been selected by the American As- 2008 Democratic presidential nomination sociation of University Women (AAUW) candidate John Edwards’ anti-poverty Educational Foundation Board of Direc- proposals. tors as the recipient of the 2007 Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award. This PUBLIC Bruce Western, Princeton University, award was bestowed on Presser for her had his book Punishment and Inequality lifetime of outstanding college and uni- SOCIOLOGY in America reviewed in the April 12 New versity teaching, her publication record, York Review of Books. and the impact she has had on women in Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century the profession and in the community. DAN CLAWSON, ROBERT ZUSSMAN, JOYA MISRA, NAOMI GERSTEL, RANDALL STOKES, Guobin Yang, Barnard College, was inter- viewed and cited by the leading German Heather Ridolfo, University of Maryland, DOUGLAS L. ANDERTON, AND MICHAEL BURAWOY, Editors newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung on Sep- received the Irene B. Taeuber Graduate tember 9, 2006, on collective memories of Student Paper Award from the District of Mao and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Columbia Sociological Society. $21.95 paperback, $55.00 hardcover at bookstores or www.ucpress.edu He was featured on the Brian Lehrer Live TV show on February 28, 2007, discussing Vincent Roscigno was selected as a social and political issues in China and Joan Huber Faculty Fellow for Research on the Wisconsin Public Radio Here on Excellence (2007-2009) in the College of Earth show on April 12, 2007, discussing Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ohio State China’s environmental issues. University. 14 July/August 2007 Footnotes
Benita Roth, Binghamton University, The Search for the Self (Rutgers University to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award People Press, 2007). (Princeton University Press, 2007). New Publications for Excellence in Teaching for the Aca- demic Year 2006-07. She also received the Philip Cohen, University of North Caro- Bonnie Berry, Social Problems Research Victoria Pitts-Taylor, CUNY, Surgery A glance at the debut issue of Inter- Heller-Bernard Award from the Center lina-Chapel Hill, testified April 12 before Group, Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic national Political Sociology: A new for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY for the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor Social Power (Praeger Publishers, 2007). Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2007). journal. The influence of social theorists 2006-07 for her project “Anti-AIDS Activ- and Pensions Committee at a hearing such as Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx ism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the titled, “Closing the Gap: Equal Pay for Howard Brick, Washington University in Laura Raynolds, Colorado State Univer- on international-relations theory are 2000s: From Streets to Suits.” Women Workers,” concerning legislation St. Louis, Transcending Capitalism: Visions of sity, Douglas Murray, Colorado State easily found in the classic texts of that submitted by Hillary Clinton (the Pay- a New Society in Modern American Thought University, and John Wilkinson, Federal discipline, say the editors-in-chief of this Richard Sennett, London School of Eco- check Fairness Act) and Tom Harkin (the (Cornell University Press, 2006). Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, eds., new journal, yet “discussion of the im- nomics, received the 2006 Hegel Prize Fair Pay Act). Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming portance of such influences remains rela- from the German city of Stuttgart for his Richard A. Dello Buono, UNICEF, and Globalization (Routledge Press, 2007). tively muted.” Through the journal, they lifetime achievement in the humanities Brian Gran, Case Western Reserve Univer- Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr., University of hope to establish a “resource for those and social sciences. sity, has been invited to serve on the UNI- Panama, eds., Un Continente en la Encru- Vincent J. Roscigno, Ohio State Univer- who rightly think” that international CEF Innocenti Research Centre’s Expert cijada: Nuestra America en Transformación sity, The Face of Discrimination: How Race relations, sociological theory, and social Kathleen F. Slevin, College of William and Scientific Committee on Independent [A Continent at the Crossroads: Latin and Gender Impact Work and Home Lives analysis can all benefit one another. The and Mary, recently received the College’s Human Rights Institutions for Children. America in Transformation] (CELA-Pan- (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). journal will appear quarterly and will Thomas Jefferson Award. The award is The Innocenti Research Centre is the main ama, 2007). explore topics such as the sociology of presented each year to a faculty member research arm of UNICEF. Emily Rosenbaum, Fordham University, the international-relations discipline, for significant service through his or her Colin Campbell, University of York, The and Samantha Friedman, Northeastern the sociology of political movements, ur- personal activities, influence, and leader- Madonna Harrington Meyer, Syracuse Easternization of the West: A Thematic Ac- University, The Housing Divide: How Gen- banization patterns, and the sociology of ship. University, was recently named Laura J. count of Cultural Change in the Modern Era erations of Immigrants Fare in New York’s militaries. The first issue includes an ex- and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for (Paradigm Publishers, 2007). Housing Market (New York University amination of airport security procedures Margaret Somers, received the Lewis A. Teaching Excellence. Press, 2006). from the standpoint of Foucault, by Mark Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Set- Angie Y. Chung, University at Albany, B. Salter. In a separate article, Gary T. ting in 2006 while the 2007 award was Leslie Hossfeld, University of North Caro- Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Coopera- Earl Smith, Wake Forest University, Race, Marx discusses 38 techno-fallacies of the given to George Steinmetz. lina Wilmington, was an invited speaker tion in Korean American Politics (Stanford Sport and the American Dream (Carolina information age. The journal is available at a bi-partisan congressional briefing on University Press, 2007). Academic Press, 2007). through Blackwell Publishing. Gregory Squires, George Washington Capitol Hill titled, “Rethinking US Trade University, received the 2007 Stuart A. Policies for the Common Good,” in March Bertram J. Cohler, University of Chi- Richard Swedberg, Cornell University, Rice Merit Award for Career Achievement 2007. The key theme of the briefing focused cago, Writing Desires: Sixty Years of Gay Principles of Economic Sociology (Princeton from the District of Columbia Sociological on trade and livelihoods. Autobiography (University of Wisconsin University Press, 2007). Society. Press, 2007). Caught in the Web Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University, Gresham M. Sykes, University of Vir- Lois Vitt, Institute for Socio-Financial and Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University, Mahmoud Dhaouadi, Sultan Qaboos ginia, The Society of Captives: A Study of Crime and Society: A Comparative Studies, received the Morris Rosenberg were among the members elected to the University-Oman, The Other Face of Modern a Maximum Security Prison (Princeton Criminology Tour of the World. An- Award for Recent Achievement from the American Philosophical Society. Tunisian Society (Tibr Ezzaman, 2006). University Press, 2007). nouncing a new global criminology District of Columbia Sociological Society. website where criminology professors Jack Nusan Porter, Spencer Institute for Michele Dillon, University of New Christophe Van den Bulte, University of and students can: Publish their papers, Social Research, was elected treasurer of Hampshire, and Paul Wink, Wellesley Pennsylvania, and Stefan Wuyts, Tilburg works-in-progress, and articles regard- the International Association of Genocide College, In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing University, Social Networks and Marketing ing global criminology; Research sub- Transitions Scholars. Religious Belief, Practice, and Change (Uni- (Marketing Science Institute, 2007). jects in global criminology by accessing versity of California Press, 2007). Interpol and United Nations data sets Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University, The and text information for all countries of Roksana Badruddoja has been named at Chicago, received a Fulbright-Garcia John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Purchase of Intimacy (Princeton Univer- the world; Learn about a new text for an Assistant Professor at California State Robles grant to spend AY2007-2008 at Kalleberg, University of North Carolina, sity Press, 2007). Introductory Criminology that is truly University-Fresno, Women’s Studies the University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, eds., Ending Poverty in America: How to global in scope. The Global Criminol- Program. Mexico. Restore the American Dream (New Press, ogy website called Crime and Society: 2007). A Comparative Criminology Tour of the J. Michael Brooks has retired from Valdo- Michael Schulman, North Carolina State Other World is at
CA; his niece Jackie Hallier of Kansas City, done to us. We scholars are particularly departmental, college, and university Hoos graduated from Radcliffe College Obituaries KS; his niece Janice Hopkins of Plymouth, adept at that. We filter the troubles we bodies. As University of Toledo (UT) while working in a department store. She CA; and his nephew Jim Pulley of Breck- observe through screens of our own Faculty Senate President (1996-97), he founded Jewish Vocational Services for John H. Burma endridge, MO. devising, treating them as data to be ably supported faculty initiatives while underemployed women while study- (1913–2006) John was a member of the Claremont processed, slices of life to be assigned working constructively and creatively ing for a master’s degree in sociology, United Church of Christ, where a memo- a proper place in the order of things, with student, staff, and administrative which she received in 1942, under social John Harmon Burma, Jr., died August rial service was held on Saturday, Sept. moments to be lifted out of the flow of groups. As a professor in the Department psychologist Gordon Allport at Harvard 22, 2006, in Claremont, CA, at the age of 2, 2006. time to serve as specimens of something of Sociology & Anthropology and as a University. At the end of World War II, she 93. A resident of Claremont since 1970, more general. frequent community lecturer, he brought moved to Berkeley with her husband and Robert M. Timm, Ukiah, California he had suffered for several years from Markusen would not do that. He did both academic theory and applied worked on her PhD. Alzheimer’s disease. not scan those landscapes with a detached rhetoric to his audiences as a dynamic After receiving her degree, Dr. Hoos Eric Markusen He was born April 2, 1913, in Dal- clinical eye. He drew them in, invited speaker. Patrick was known as much for worked at the university, first in the (1946–2007) las, TX, the only child of the Rev. John them into the core of his being, because his dedication to and career mentoring of Institute of Industrial Relations, then as H. Burma and Manetta Knock Burma. Eric Markusen died on January 29, 2007, he thought he could not truly understand his students as for his research. His past the only social scientist at the Space Sci- While growing up, he lived in Dallas; at the age of 60. Any death that early is the suffering of others if he did not make students can be found on the faculties of ences Laboratory. She became concerned in Dubuque, Iowa; and subsequently in hard to fathom. But he was so youthful a an effort to experience it himself. He made a number of colleges and universities about the effect of satellite surveillance Waxahachie, TX, where he attended high 60—so vital and sturdy and spirited—that it a part of himself and in doing so he and on the staff of regional and national on personal privacy and how decisions school. John graduated from Trinity Uni- the mind almost refuses to register the became witness and participant as well as organizations. He often taught Introduc- about nuclear power and nuclear waste versity, where his father was the presi- fact. He died of pancreatic cancer. He observer. He was a skilled theorist, but he tion to Sociology, converting countless were being made. dent, in 1933 with a major in sociology learned of it last November and was gone also knew what it was like out there. students to the major. Dr. Hoos moved to Brookline, MA, in and minors in German and Bible, after before three months were out. Markusen emerged from the life he McGuire became Director of The 1990 and according to her family, “loved having also taken courses at the Univer- Markusen made his home in Min- lived an immensely caring, generous, University of Toledo’s Urban Affairs opera and hated to iron.” sity of Wisconsin and the University of nesota. He graduated from Macalester loving person. This may not be an ap- Center (UAC) in 1999, and served in Her husband, Sidney S. Hoos, died in Southern California. Prior to and during College in St. Paul, earned a PhD from the propriate observation to make in a profes- that capacity until 2005. There, he fused 1979. Survivors include two daughters, pursuit of his MA at the University of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, sional tribute like this. But those were also his research interests, community activ- Phyllis Daniels of Goldendale, WA, and Texas, he taught at Sherman High School and spent most of his working career at the qualities that made him a scholar of ist role, and university administrative Judith Hoos Fox of Jamaica Plain, MA; and served as principal of Crisp High Southwest Minnesota State University very special parts. In the end, it was his talents. His community involvement three granddaughters; and three great- School and Whitewright High School, at Marshall. particular kind of intellectual sensibility, through UAC included service on the grandchildren. where he also coached an undefeated In that sense, he had an established his aptitude for seeing human meaning City of Toledo Electrical Franchise Re- A longer version of this obituary was written football team. He was an instructor in base. But he devoted the whole of his in scenes of havoc, that were his gift to view Committee and as UT’s liaison to by Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post Staff sociology during summer sessions at the adult life to an unrelenting study of the those he tried to help and those he tried The Ohio Urban University Program. In Writer, and was published May 4, 2007. University of Texas-Austin. sources of human cruelty and suffering, to teach. He understood the plight of his his role as Director of UAC, he facilitated He received his MA degree in sociol- journeying to distant regions of the world fellow humans in a way few of us, if any, collaborative, interdisciplinary research ogy and education from the University where people were engaged in the harsh are able, and he did things for them, tes- among faculty from across the university D. Lawrence Wieder of Texas in 1938, following completion of business of slaughtering or otherwise tified on their behalf in a way few of us, to serve both the public and private (1938–2007) his thesis, “An Emergent Fascist Move- making life unbearable for one another. if any, can match. A listing of his accom- sectors in Toledo and Ohio. Patrick was ment in America: A Sociological Study.” He visited Hiroshima and Auschwitz plishments—the important books and well known for his ability to construct D. Lawrence Wieder, 68, Professor This was followed by completion of his early in his career, knowing them as the articles he published, the collections he networks among diverse faculty to work Emeritus of Communication at the Uni- PhD in sociology and economics at the opening moments of a new age in hu- edited, the commissions he served on, the on problems of interest to the Toledo versity of Oklahoma, died November 30, University of Nebraska in 1941, with man history. Once having established lectures he gave, the other responsibilities community. As part of these efforts, he at Norman Regional Hospital, following his dissertation on “Migration from a a place in what came to be known as he accepted—simply cannot convey that. established a book series by UT faculty a long and courageous battle with pan- Nebraska County During the Drought- “genocide studies,” he made scores of They were all of a piece. In the end it was about Toledo’s various ethnic subpopu- creatic cancer. Depression”. visits to Rwanda, Chad, Ethiopia, Eritrea, the life that mattered, and that life made lations. These books included The Irish Dr. Wieder was born in Mason City, Burma continued his academic career the lands once known as Yugoslavia, a tremendous difference. in Toledo (2005) by his departmental IA, May 4, 1938, and was raised in Santa at Grinnell College in Iowa in 1941. Dur- and numerous places where humans Markusen was a great teacher. He was colleague Seamus P. Metress and books Barbara, where he met and married the ing his 29 years at Grinnell, he reached live in distress. He spent much of the also a great interviewer. He thought his on the Hungarian and African-American former Karen Couch of Norman, OK, his the rank of Professor of Sociology and last five years of his life in Copenhagen task was to establish contact rather than communities in Toledo. wife of 34 years. Anthropology and served for a time as as Research Director and then as Senior to extract information, which is exactly After stepping down as Director at He received his bachelor’s degree at the Chair of the Department and of the Di- Researcher of the Department for Holo- why data poured out of the exchange. UAC, Patrick continued his research University of California-Santa Barbara vision of Social Studies. He was named caust and Genocide Studies of the Danish The interviews he conducted in Yugo- and writing on the topic of “brain drain” (UCSB), and his doctorate from UCLA in the Lucy Leland Professor of Sociology Institute for International Studies. slavia were transcribed in my office, and until very recently. His manuscript, High 1969. He was a member of the sociology in 1961. For a number of years, he served By my count, the words “genocide” or the person who did that work was so School Graduation and Brain Drain: Sur- department at UCSB until 1975, when as a Justice of the Peace in Poweshiek “genocidal” are featured in the titles of taken by the humanity and grace of the vey Results and Insights from the Toledo he joined the faculty of the University County, IA. While at Grinnell, he also 22 of the 38 books and articles he wrote voice she had been listening to, as well Metropolitan Area, released by UAC of Oklahoma. He taught sociology at the taught summer sessions at the Universi- between 1980 and 2005, “Nuclear War” or as by the richness of the information the just before his death, outlined strategies University of Oklahoma for several years ty of Minnesota, New Mexico Highlands “Total War” are found in 10, and of the re- voice elicited, that she embraced him, a for the retention of Ohio’s high school and moved to the department of com- University, the University of Nevada, maining five, two refer to “Collective Vio- stranger, when he walked for the first time graduates in the face of the traditional fo- munication in 1983, serving as interim Whittier College, and the University of lence,” two to “The Holocaust,” and one into her office. cus on college graduates, and examined chair in 2000. Redlands. During 1946-47, he taught at each to “Rwanda” and “Yugoslavia.” Markusen leaves behind a daughter, local, regional, and national recruitment His many publications include a book Pomona College. Fluent in Spanish, he Mass killing was both the focus of Maria, and a wondrous partner, Randi, markets as well as retention. considered a standard in ethnomethodol- traveled and studied extensively in Mex- his professional work and a private who was his closest colleague and clos- Patrick McGuire was born in Malone, ogy, Language and Social Reality: The ico and in Costa Rica. In 1970, he became preoccupation. He was drawn to human est friend as well as a loving spouse. He NY on July 13, 1953. He is survived by Case of Telling the Convict Code and Professor of Sociology and Criminology troubles by a profound sense of urgency, leaves behind thousands who were made his life partner, Linda Pertusati; children, many articles and conference presenta- at California State Polytechnic Univer- a compelling need to confront them, feel better by him and learned from him. And Erin and Seamus McGuire; parents, Flo- tions in his fields. He was a founding sity–Pomona, from which he retired in them, understand them, bear witness he leaves behind a smile and a spirit and rilda (Boyer) and Charles McGuire, NY; editor and Associate Editor of Human 1982 as Professor Emeritus. to them, and, above all, do something a gentle dignity that will be a part of the sister Megan (Gary) Woodworth, NM; Studies for 22 years. He served as an offi- Dr. Burma was an authority on Span- about them. living world so long as those who knew brother, Terry (Marianne) McGuire, NY; cer of numerous professional associations, ish-speaking minorities in the United Markusen knew (and was content him remain alive. nephew Kevin and niece Katie. including the Society for Phenomenology States, and his book Spanish Speaking for others to know) that this sense of and the Human Sciences, a Society which Kai Erikson, Yale University Barbara Chesney, University of Toledo; Steve Groups in the United States (Duke Uni- urgency began early in life. He had what he helped to found. He served on the Revard, Kansas State University versity Press, 1954) was reprinted in 1961 he described as “a difficult and turbulent Center for Advanced Research in Phe- Patrick McGuire and 1974. He authored and co-authored childhood.” Both of his parents suffered nomenology as an International Advisory (1953–2007) Ida R. Hoos several college textbooks, including from levels of pain so great that they took Board Member and as an Editorial Board (d. 2007) Mexican-Americans in the United States: their own lives, separately, when Eric Patrick McGuire, Associate Professor of Member of Research in Language and So- A Reader (1970). He served as a contrib- was an adolescent. Markusen managed Sociology in the Department of Sociology Ida Russakoff Hoos, 94, a research so- cial Interaction for more than 12 years. He uting author in 1960 for the White House somehow to fuse that terrible beginning &Anthropology and former Director of ciologist who was an early critic of using was an active member of many national Conference on Children and Youth re- into so deep an empathy for, and so clear the Urban Affairs Center at The Univer- technology to study social issues, died professional organizations, including the garding Mexican-American youth, and an understanding of, the pain of others—a sity of Toledo, died on March 18, 2007. April 24 of pneumonia at Massachusetts National Communication Association, as a consultant on migratory agricultural transformation of astonishing generosity His devotion to family and profession General Hospital in Boston. which presented him with a lifetime labor for the U.S. Department of Labor under the circumstances—that he became during a long battle with cancer earned Hoos became interested in the ef- achievement award in 2004. and for the National Teacher Corps. He one of the world’s foremost scholars of him the profound respect of the university fects of automation and technology on Among the many courses he taught was a life member of the American Socio- genocide and a person of uncommon community. workers while completing her doctoral were those in Nonverbal Communication logical Association, past president of the decency and compassion. Dr. McGuire completed his PhD (1986) degree at the University of California Theory and Research, Ethnomethodology, Midwest Sociological Society, past editor At 60, Eric Markusen had seen more at SUNY Stonybrook. He began his pro- at Berkeley, which she received in 1959. Conversation Analysis, Face to Face Inter- of Midwest Sociologist, and a member human misery up close than most of us fessional career focusing on political so- Her dissertation was later published as action, Ethnography of Communication, of the Review Board of Editors of The are able to imagine. He and I were part- ciology and political economy, including “Automation in the Office” (1961). She Qualitative Methods, Deviant Behavior, Sociological Quarterly. ners on one of the projects he had been his research on Marxist theory in From the subsequently published more books on Social Problems, Sociology of Aging, John was an avid coin and stamp col- drawn to so urgently, the civil wars that Left Bank to the Mainstream: Historical retraining employees and a critique of Sociological Theory, and Phenomenology lector and had a particular interest in followed the collapse of Yugoslavia in the Debates and Contemporary Research in systems analysis in public policy. and the Human Sciences. Mexican coins, which he enjoyed while 1990s. In our traveling we passed through Marxist Sociology (1994). His work with Using cost-benefit analysis to make He was preceded in death by his father, traveling throughout Mexico during villages by the hundred that had been Mark Granovetter and Michael Schwartz policy decisions is “about as neutral as Donald Walter Wieder, and is survived by summers and sabbaticals. In retirement, leveled. We visited the site of what may examined the social construction of the asking a fox into a henhouse to observe his mother, Carolyn Allen Wieder, brother, he and his wife Dorothy enjoyed many have been the most vicious concentra- early electrical industry in the United the color of the eggs,” she told the New Norman Wieder, niece Deborah Fisher, cruises to destinations throughout the tion camp south of Auschwitz. We made States. From this work came a number York Times in 1982 as Reagan admin- and nephew David Wieder, all of Santa world. An excellent marksman since our way through the rubble of Vukovar, of journal articles and book chapters that istration appointees began applying Barbara, CA, and by his wife, Karen, his his days as a young man growing up shelled for 90 days by Serb artillery. We include Electric Charges: The Social Con- business concepts to governmental son, Robert Wieder of Eustis, VA, and his in Texas, he won cruise skeet shooting met and talked to persons whose spirits struction of Rate Systems (2005) and The matters. daughter, Katharine Wieder of Norman. competitions in his 80s. had been crushed. Making of an Industry: Electricity in the Hoos, who retired in 1982, was a con- Donations in his memory can be made John was preceded in death by his Markusen absorbed all this in without United States (1998). Patrick’s interest in sultant to the National Science Founda- to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network wife, Hughlette Beasley Burma in 1952; averting his eyes for a second. He was Irish politics and the struggle for human tion, the National Academy of Sciences, (PanCAN.org) or to any other national by an infant son in 1950, by his daugh- wholly immersed in those scenes, as he rights and freedom in British occupied NASA, the Office of Technology Assess- cancer research institute. ter Susan B. Huntoon in 1970, and by had been so often before, but without Ireland spanned the entirety of his profes- ment and the Energy Department. In Karen Wieder, Oklahoma University and his wife Dorothy Ann Pulley Burma in any protection from them. Most of us sional career. 1976, she was dubbed by writer-politi- George Psathas, Boston University 2004. He is survived by his son-in-law, learn to take shelter from such exposure, His strong commitment to faculty cian Frances Farenthold in a Redbook Dr. Peter Huntoon of Boulder City, NV; wrapping ourselves in layers of emotional rights was evidenced by Dr. McGuire’s magazine article as one of “44 Women his nephew, Dr. Robert Timm of Ukiah, insulation to make sure that no damage is active participation in a broad range of Who Could Save America.” 16 July/August 2007 Footnotes
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