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Dalton Conley Becomes First Sociologist to Receive the National Science Board’s Prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award by Johanna Ebner, Public or engineering supported by NSF. In Information Office and addition to a medal, the awardee Lee Herring, Public Affairs Office receives a grant of $500,000 over a three- year period for scientific research or WASHINGTON, DC, MAY 25, 2005—The advanced study in the mathematical, National Science Foundation (NSF), the physical, medical, biological, engineer- independent federal agency that ing, social, or other sciences at the supports much of the nation’s funda- institution of the recipient’s choice. mental research across nearly all fields of More than 200 senior-level science science, recognized sociology professor policymakers, scientists, and science Dalton C. Conley, New York University press attended the elaborate event at (NYU), as one of the country’s top which the Vannevar Bush Award and - ImageCatcher News young scientists. The 35-year-old Conley National Science Board (NSB) Public received the 30th annual Alan T. Service Award were also presented. Also Waterman Award, named for NSF’s first in attendance were Conley’s parents director, at a formal, black-tie event, at (Ellen and Steve), Lawrence Wu, Chair
photo by Christy Bowe photo by of the NYU sociology department, and
the U.S. Department of State in Washing- courtesy of National Science Foundation ton, DC. It is the first time a sociologist friends and associates of the event’s has received this honor. Befitting the Dalton C. Conley [left] receives the National Science Board’s Alan T. Waterman Award other awardees: Robert W. Galvin, award’s historic significance, the ASA from National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement at a ceremony in the elegant retired CEO of Motorola, Inc., who Council issued an official public state- Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room and Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. received the Vannevar Bush Award; Ira ment shortly after NSF announced the Department of State. Flatow, National Public Radio, who award in late April (see
2005 ASA Annual Meeting . . . Our 100th Meeting! Reflecting on ASA’s Philly Delights: Where to Walk, Look, Centennial Year, 2005 Take Kids, and Do a Little Shopping The third article in a series highlighting ASA’s upcoming 2005 At this time 100 years ago . . . Americans worked an average of 57.7 hrs/ centennial meeting in Philadelphia week, earning $3.75/hr,* and life expectancy was 48.7 years. Meanwhile, the American Sociological Society was born, as C.W.A. Veditz, the first ASA by Magali Sarfatti Larson, Ballet, the Relâche Ensemble, or the secretary, gathered a group to determine “the desirability and feasibility of experimental performance art at the Temple University forming some sort of an organization of sociologists.” (1905) Painted Bride Arts Center. At least some “It’s a 19th-century city, and it should have performances during 75 years ago . . . the average work week was 43.9 hrs at $4.61/hr,* and life works!” That is what a delighted British August. For classic jazz and less classic expectancy was 59.7. At the 1930 Annual Meeting of the American Sociologi- historian said about Philadelphia the music, David Grazian will be your guide cal Society, the number of sections had grown to nine (Rural Sociology, Social first time I showed him around. What’s in the July/August Footnotes Annual Statistics, Educational Sociology, Teaching of Sociology, Community, Sociol- more, Philadelphia is simultaneously an Meeting article. Our downtown “art” ogy of Religion, Sociology of the Family, Sociology and Social Work, and 18th-, a 19th-, and a 20th-century city, all cinemas, the Ritz Five, Ritz East, and the Sociology and Psychiatry). (1930) while becoming a 21st-century city. Still Ritz Bourse, are in Society Hill. A 50 years ago . . . the average work week was 40.7 hrs at $9.08/hr,* and life the fifth largest U.S. city, Philadelphia, marvelous old theater, the Prince, on expectancy was 69.6. Around that same time, 1949 to 1959, the Society was in like other major cities, is beset by grave Chestnut, just off Broad Street, stages its golden era, as membership expanded from 2,673 to 6,436; and Annual problems, some of which (e.g., flight of repertory cinema and musicals. Meeting registrations increased from about 500 to more than 1,400. people to the suburbs and flight of industry for any low wage place) we Sample Itineraries 25 years ago . . . the average work week was 39.7 hrs at $11.53/hr,* and life expectancy was 73.7. At the ASA, the membership was 12,868; revenue was have been among the first to experience. To lure you out of the hotels, I Yet Philly still is eminently livable and almost $1.1 million; and the Minority Fellowship Program had supported 168 propose a few itineraries, most of them fellows and added 21 new PhDs to the profession. (1980) fascinating. Sociologist David Elesh will walking tours. You are bound to dis- show you the many faces of Philadel- cover much, much more. If you do not * In 1990 Constant Dollars phia in a tour that has captivated feel like walking, the blue bus called sociologists, urbanists, and even his “PHLASH” stops at 12th and Market friends and relatives! Streets in front of the Marriott and at Annual Meeting Supplement in This Issue! Traveler Magazine ranks Philadelphia most tourist sites, all the way to the Art among one of the best restaurant cities in Museum. It costs $4 for all day, $10 for a This issue contains a special pullout insert with high- the country, and you likely have heard family, or $1 each time you board (for lights, program information, planned centennial sessions, about the Philadelphia Orchestra. Be more details, see www.gophila.com/ and forms for the upcoming 2005 Annual Meeting in sure to check on their programs (in the phlash). You could not possibly do all summer, the orchestra performs at the these tours, but let us give you choices Philadelphia. See
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The Executive Officer’s Column In This Issue . . . What Really Mattered to the Supreme Court Over the years, ASA has submitted amicus curiae briefs to Articles accompanied by the logo are part the U.S. Supreme Court to bring social science data and analysis to the attention of the justices. The most recent was in Michigan of a series commemorating ASA’s centennial year. v. Grutter, the affirmative action case in which ASA provided The series began in the January 2005 Footnotes. sociological research on the impact of race (see
Dumps Why This Matters to Sociologists A public sociologist heeds the call of The press gave short shrift to what was controlling in the case’s outcome and to the C. Wright Mills and explores various extremely powerful role of social and behavioral science in the majority opinion and in 4 the critiques by dissenting Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Antonin Scalia. sanitation options. To help make our scientific work more relevant to the resolution of key social Sociological Research issues in the legal arena, I urge sociolo- gists and students to read these opinions Influences U.S. to see what social and behavioral science was useful, why it was important, and Legislation how it was interpreted on both sides. Let 5 While seeking media attention, me guide you to the sociological high- lights. research on abuse influences marriage promotion legislation. Concepts, Evidence, and Interpretations The Court rejected imposition of the death penalty for offenders under 18 based on Majority Rules on concepts it used in Atkins v. Virginia to prohibit the execution of a mentally retarded person: that is, capital punishment must be limited not only to offenders who commit Capitol Hill the “most serious crimes” but also to those whose “extreme culpability” makes them the most deserving of execution. What is culpability? The ASA Congressional Fellow finds Using data from psychology and sociology in an amicus curiae brief by the American 5 that it is tough to get bills passed Psychological Association, the Supreme Court majority concluded that offenders under the age of 18 are not as culpable or blameworthy as adults by extending to 17-year-olds when you are in the minority (party). the reasoning it applied in barring capital punishment for juveniles 16 and under in Thompson v. Oklahoma. The Court said offenders under age 18 cannot reliably be New Editors at classified among the worst offenders, because their susceptibility to immature and irresponsible behavior means their conduct is not as reprehensible as that of an adult; Contemporary Sociology their relative lack of control over their surroundings means they are more susceptible to negative influences; and their youthful struggle to define their identity means that even UC-Irvine professors Valerie Jenness, heinous behavior cannot be evidence of an irretrievably depraved character. How do David Smith, and Judith Stepan- we determine culpability? Norris, take over the editorial helm In this major section of its opinion, the Court explicitly relied upon “the scientific 8 and sociological studies” provided by Roper and his amici. The Court concluded: “The at Contemporary Sociology. differences between juvenile and adult offenders are too marked and well understood to risk allowing a youthful person to receive the death penalty despite insufficient Sociology and Bioethics culpability.” In short, the Court selected age 18 as the developmental dividing line based on the social and psychological evidence. It continued by concluding that this Explored categorical decision was necessary because juries were not able to reliably determine an individual’s degree of culpability: “An unacceptable likelihood exists that the brutality A conference on the relationship of or cold-blooded nature of any particular crime would overpower mitigating arguments sociology to the field of bioethics based on youth as a matter of course, even where the juvenile offender’s objective was made possible by an ASA grant. immature, vulnerability and lack of true depravity should require a sentence less severe 21 than death.” The dissents are equally interesting with regard to the interpretation of scientific 2005 Regional data. Justice O’Connor did not challenge the basic data, agreeing that “[a]dolescents as a class are undoubtedly less mature, and therefore less culpable for their misconduct Associations’ Winners than adults.” But she firmly rejected the use of this evidence by the Court in the Roper case. There was no evidence presented, she said, that legislatures could not reach a The seven regional sociological reasonable conclusion “that at least some 17-year old murderers are sufficiently mature societies award winners are to deserve the death penalty” or that juries could not make a decision about an announced. individual’s degree of culpability. Disputing the use of the scientific evidence to support the Court’s age-18 cut-off for extreme culpability, she argued, “At most, the Court’s argument suggests that the average 17-year-old murderer is not as culpable as 21 the average adult murderer.” By contrast, she argued other types of scientific evidence are definitive: “‘Mentally retarded’ offenders, as we understood that category in Atkins, are defined by precisely the characteristics which render death an excessive punishment. A mentally retarded person is, ‘by definition,’ one whose cognitive and behavioral capacities have been proven to fall below a certain minimum.” Justice Scalia, on the other hand, challenges the scientific evidence itself by saying that what was presented was selective data; that is, the Court was “picking and choosing those [scientific and sociological studies] that support its position. It never Our Regular Features explains why those particular studies are methodologically sound; none was ever entered into evidence or tested in an adversarial proceeding.” But, turning the table on Public Sociology ...... 4 himself, Scalia then argues that the Court has previously recognized the social science research of Kalven and Zeisel in The American Jury (1966) as evidence that juries can Public Forum...... 22 indeed make difficult individual judgments. Departments...... 24 These fascinating, nuanced discussions should appeal to sociologists wanting to apply their research at the juncture of public policy and appellate courts. ❑ Obituaries ...... 26 —Sally T. Hillsman MAY/JUNE 2005 FOOTNOTES 3
Sociologists Receive Guggenheims PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE Two sociologists were among the Study,” an ongoing interdisciplinary 186 writers, scholars, and scientists of all study of the consequences of the 1996 disciplines awarded this year’s presti- welfare reform law for parents and gious Guggenheim Fellowships in children. He is the author of a textbook ✔ President’s science advisor urges social science’s recognition of their distinguished in the sociology of the family, Public and help to interpret funding trends . . . . The U.S. presi- achievement in the past as well as their Private Families: An Introduction. dential science advisor, John Marburger, challenged exceptional promise for the future. The Western, Professor of Sociology, the science community to help him answer the big fellowships are for the advancement of Princeton University, will study the questions regarding science and technology statistics. professionals in the natural sciences, growth and consequences of American Speaking at the Science and Technology (S&T) Forum social sciences, humanities, and the inequality. His research interests broadly of the American Association for the Advancement of creative arts so they can undertake include political and comparative Science (AAAS) on April 21, Marburger said, “I am important research. sociology, stratification and inequality, suggesting that the nascent field of the social science Sociologists Andrew Cherlin (The and methodology. More specifically, he of science policy needs to grow up, and quickly.” He Johns Hopkins University) and Bruce has studied how institutions shape labor called for a re-evaluation of the framework used to Western (Princeton University) were market outcomes. Most recently, he evaluate S&T policies and assess their strength, re- John Marburger chosen from among nearly 3,000 edited Imprisoning America: the Social ferring to the current process as “primitive.” applicants from the United States and Effects of Mass Incarceration, edited with Marburger made the comments during a briefing to an audience of some 300 Canada for awards totaling more than Mary Patillo and David Weiman (Russell scientists and science policymakers, stating that he believes that a new effort $7.1 million. Decisions are based on Sage Foundation, 2004). can be organized with minimal federal funding. At the AAAS, he declined tak- recommendations from hundreds of United States Senator Simon ing a position on “whether [science and technology trends] are good or bad expert advisors and approved by the Guggenheim and his wife, as a memorial based on the data … because we don’t have adequate models.” He encouraged Foundation’s Board of Trustees. to their son, established the John Simon scientists to use the methods and literature of the social science disciplines to Cherlin, Griswold Professor of Public Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in explore S&T trends and research and development (R&D) measurement. To Policy and Sociology, The Johns 1925. The Foundation offers fellowships scientists’ consternation, Marburger’s opinion of science policy “is that it is to a Hopkins University, will study marriage to further the development of scholars great extent a branch of economics.” At the AAAS, Marburger also defended and family in early 21st-century and artists by assisting them to engage in the president’s federal S&T budget proposals for fiscal year 2006 and touted America. He has published books and research. In the last decade, nearly 30 the president’s R&D spending over the past five years, most of which went to articles on topics such as marriage and sociologists have been named doubling the National Institutes of Health’s budget. divorce, children’s well-being, Guggenheim fellows, including ASA intergenerational relations, family Past-Vice President Richard Alba and ✔ Census report on people of Arab ancestry living in the United States . . . . policy, and welfare policy. He is the ASA Past-President Jill Quadagno. ❑ The Census Bureau recently released the characteristics report on the U.S. Arab principal investigator of the “Three-City population from Census 2000 data. The report, We the People of Arab Ancestry in the United States, includes figures and bulleted descriptions on factors such as age, sex, marital status, household type, nativity, citizenship status, English- speaking ability, educational attainment, occupation, earnings, and median Sociologist Brings Data to Federal income. It also includes the Arab population (those who reported only Arab groups), and the Arab population broken down in detail for Lebanese, Egyp- Debate on Bankruptcy Reform Bill tian, Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian, Moroccan, Iraqi, “Arab” or “Arabic,” and a Senate Banking Committee, House catch-all “Other Arab” group. In addition, there are two tables, one showing staff learn about credit card debt the number who reported these detailed groups alone and those reporting alone or in combination with another ancestry, and another showing the characteris- In May, following President Bush’s tics for both the alone and alone or in combination groups. The report is part of April 20 signing into law the Bankruptcy a series of Census 2000 special reports, presenting data on demographic, so- Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act cial, and economic characteristics of this population as a whole, as well as of of 2005, sociologist Robert Manning, profes- the largest groups within this population at the national level. See the report at sor of sociology at Rochester Institute of
PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY Urban Ore’s Startup Sociology translates to public action . . . Looking for an opportunity to develop my ideas, I migrated to Berkeley, California. Four days later I fortuitously found work scavenging at the city- This occasional column highlights sociologists who successfully engage owned dump. Sweating from my labors, with thousands of seagulls wheeling sociology in the civic arena in service to organizations and communities. Over overhead, and the smell of decomposing organics in my clothes, I often gazed the years, members of ASA and sociologists as individual professionals and at the University of California campus uphill to the east. It helped to visualize citizens have sought to make the knowledge we generate directly relevant to myself as a scientist in a clean white lab coat, with the dump and its proce- our communities, countries, and the world community. Many sociologists within dures as my living laboratory. Now I could actually recover materials and the academy and in other sectors practice the translation of expert knowledge return them to commerce with no interference! It was a start. to numerous critical issues through consultation, advisement, testimony, The catch was that our little team of workers had to sell enough recovered commentary, writing, and participation in a variety of activities and venues. goods to pay the bills. I could do as many studies as I could afford, and often Readers are invited to submit contributions, but consult with Managing Editor did studies even when I could not afford them. The enterprise was incorpo- Lee Herring ([email protected], 202-383-9005 x320) prior to submitting your rated in 1981 as Urban Ore. draft (1,000 to 1,200 words maximum). After a presentation I gave to the California Governor’s Office of Appropri- ate Technology, a staff person (who later became my wife) asked what a sociologist was doing in solid waste, a field dominated by engineers. My answer: recycling has all the technology it needs for full development, and What Happened When I Took My now we must change people’s behavior. Sociological Imagination Social Change and Experiment The larger social change is to switch people’s disposal options, preferences, to the Dump and habits away from the landfill and into our conserving marketplace. The ultimate goal was, and still is, to end landfilling, waste incineration, and “The third way in which the social scientist may attempt to resource destruction by conserving everything that can be reused, recycled, or realize the value of reason and its role in human affairs is composted. The corporate purpose, “To End the Age of Waste,” is printed on also well known, and sometimes even practiced. It is to every sales receipt as is “Thank you for conserving resources,” in order to both remain independent, to do one’s own work, to select one’s reframe our customers’ attitudes and give a pat on their “psychic back.” own problems, but to direct this work at kings as well as to Today, at a conceptual level, Urban Ore is a sociology experiment that ‘publics’.” worked. At a material level it is a functioning company working 360 days a – C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination year adhering to the reuse part of the “reduce, reuse, recycle” disposal hierar- chy. As part of an ecology of commerce, we are a retail business that receives by Daniel Knapp, University of Oregon discards, sells merchandise, and feeds scrap into other recycling businesses. The economics of disposal are a major financial driver for us and for the other As a graduate student, I absorbed many great sociologists’ teachings. But 56,000 recycling enterprises that have grown steadily into a $236-billion when it came my turn to teach undergraduates what sociology is and how industry, according to a National Recycling Coalition’s 2003 study. useful it could be, my touchstone text for General Sociology was C. Wright Urban Ore started small and capital-bereft, with only the right to salvage Mills’ The Sociological Imagination. I required my students to write an acceptably from the dump. Now we are a three-acre enterprise with a payroll of about $1 accurate summary of Mills’ great work. million a year. Our customers are a cross-section of the San Francisco Bay Area. It was the late 1960s, and powerful social movements were sweeping the We are a business providing disposal services for unwanted goods and a vast country. I agreed with Mills that applied sociology could be a useful activist array of low-cost merchandise for sale. style and thought that by using sociological methods, I could create knowledge The virtual dimension of Urban Ore is the sum of our varied studies and that would lead informed “publics” to self-organize and change things for the social interventions. In the early days we presented decision-makers with better. So after only a half-dozen years in two universities, his summons onsite insights fresh from the dump, usually at city meetings. Our information helped propel me out of the academy. At 35, I retired from academe and went aided Berkeley voters in reversing the city council’s unanimous 1980 decision toward—What? to build a capital-intensive and resource-monopolizing It took about four years to settle into a garbage incinerator. We helped write and pass a ballot niche in the global and local appropriate initiative that postponed the incinerator. Later we technology (AT) movement. Appropriate collaborated on a second Berkeley voter initiative that technologists worldwide were rethink- set a 50% recycling goal and extended the burn ban. ing and redesigning practical processes This initiative also passed convincingly after a raucous that were linked to social troubles. campaign. Before retiring from academe, I had Our most ambitious legislation passed in 1989, a county ballot initiative we taught extensively from AT journals and research reports. The approach was co-authored, which added a surcharge of $6 per ton, rising with the Consumer both progressive and conservative. AT’s practitioners often embedded them- Price Index, to materials wasted at the three county landfills. It raised the selves in commerce, so they provided jobs for people; conserved resources or county’s recycling goal to 75%. A new agency was created to pump the added value to materials; and created wealth, goods, and trade while prevent- millions of dollars that this surcharge raised back into funding and capitalizing ing waste and reducing pressure on the wilderness. resource recovery. More than a decade later, Measure D, as it is known, has worked remarkably well: landfill volumes are down; resource recovery Plans to Mine Resources from the Dump Were Trashed enterprises are up. Many Alameda County cities have exceeded the 50% My first contribution to the field, “Mine the Trash Cans, Not the Land,” was recycling goal and are on their way to 75%. published in Rain: A Journal of Appropriate Technology. It compared and con- Internationally, we have fielded a theory of zero waste, or total recycling, trasted these two disposal systems for discarded materials: Capital-intensive that shows how to divide the entire waste stream into 12 categories of recy- wasting through incineration, landfilling, or both; and labor- and quality- clable commodities. We have worked with people from various governments intensive resource recovery (resource conservation) through reusing, recycling, and NGOs to design more than two dozen resource-recovery sites matched and composting. both to the 12 discard categories, and to the range of incoming load types and It was equally fascinating and frustrating to analyze the conflicts between volumes. these opposites. Politics aside, switching from destroying to conserving In March 2005, I filed for Social Security. Unlike my colleagues who kept materials would be an immense physical task requiring behavioral changes on their professorships, I have not yet retired from my second sociological career a culture-wide scale. This raised many questions about organization, capital, as CEO of a for-profit materials-recovery corporation. When people ask me if I location, and other logistics, including who would do the work? own Urban Ore, I nod and add, “it owns me, too.” I am the administration, so I took a low-paying job as co-director of a county AT agency in Oregon that when things do not go right, there’s no one but myself to blame. started a governmental recycling program. Several research teams did on-site Now I can say from considerable experience that applied sociology can be studies at various waste dumping areas operated by the county’s solid waste very helpful to an activist style. I used it in a social movement to create a new division. Our “assays” struck significant veins of highly recoverable and industry. The key was to use sociological insights and research methods as part marketable commodities. We quantified resource flows and multiplied ex- of a strategy to create a business that could support my colleagues, staff, and pected tonnages times projected market prices, sketched facility designs and me while we indulged my sociological habits of mind: doing research, writing business plans for labor-intensive resource-recovery operations, and projected technical reports, speaking, teaching, and organizing for social change. Reuse that we could conserve resources while preventing pollution and even generat- was a good fit for me. ing county income. But our initiatives were blocked. We were only permitted to Editor’s note: Dan Knapp presented the opening plenary speech on “Resource observe and write reports. Recovery Parks: The Science of Zero Waste” at the Illinois Recyling Association’s 2005 Conference in early June in Springfield. ❑ MAY/JUNE 2005 FOOTNOTES 5
Sociologists Impact Interpretation of Federal Welfare Legislation by Lee Herring, Public Affairs Office, and These mothers were less likely than programs with unre- Johanna Ebner, Public Information Office others to have had stable, long-term solved issues from intimate relationships as adults, the childhood abuse that Researchers often rely solely on the study found. Rather, they were more could prevent successful media to publicize their results. But they likely to have had a series of short-term marriages. On February would do well to remember that a relationships, many of them abusive. 10, Rector testified before policy-relevant piece could attract The authors concluded, “Unless the Congress on marriage another equally important audience: the problem [of sexual abuse and domestic promotion and, citing the policymakers themselves. violence] is addressed, the feasibility— ASR article, stated that for A team of sociologists, led by Andrew and the fairness—of pro-marriage women who have Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University, and exhortations and public policies is in suffered childhood abuse, Linda Burton, Pennsylvania State question.” “it would be important to University, recently learned this lesson During this period, Congress was offer services that may when a press release about their Decem- considering adding funds for marriage help them improve ber 2004 American Sociological Review promotion programs to the welfare current relationships article, “The Influence of Physical and reform legislation, which it must rather than simply Sexual Abuse on Marriage and Cohabi- reauthorize. Most activists in the abandoning them to a Andrew Cherlin [pictured], Johns Hopkins University, and Linda tation,” did not attract the anticipated domestic violence community were persistent pattern of Burton, Pennsylvania State University, spoke at a March amount of media coverage. Instead, their concerned that marriage promotion relationship failure.” congressional staff briefing on “Welfare Reauthorization and article garnered attention from nonprofit could push women into abusive relation- The manuscript also Marriage Promotion,” presenting results of their study that will organizations, lobbying groups, and ships. They preferred not to have reached Lisalyn Jacobs, have a direct impact on how welfare legislation is interpreted and congressional staff, government- Vice President of Govern- implemented. leading to its use in funded pro- ment Relations for Legal the political debates To be eligible for a [marriage promo- grams at all; Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal and providing protections and appropri- about government- tion] grant, applicants must consult but if the Defense and Education Fund), who ate assistance; and what they will do, to sponsored marriage with domestic violence organiza- programs were invited Cherlin and Burton to speak at a the extent relevant, to ensure that promotion policies. tions that have demonstrated exper- created, they March 9 congressional staff briefing on participation in the programs is volun- Both the ASA tise working with survivors of do- wanted “Welfare Reauthorization and Marriage tary and to inform potential participants Congress to Promotion.” Cherlin and Burton media office and the mestic violence in developing poli- that participation is voluntary.” press office at the require that presented the results of their study at a cies, procedures, programs and A Senate Finance Committee staff National Institute of providers session that included a speaker from the member told Cherlin that the article had Child Health and training necessary to appropriately recognize the Institute for Women’s Policy Research been useful. While it is too soon to know Human Develop- address domestic violence in fami- magnitude of and first-person testimony of battered whether this language will remain in the ment, the major lies served by programs and activi- domestic women’s experiences with welfare final version of the bill, Cherlin and his funder of their ties funded through the grant. violence and reform. co-authors may have made a significant consult with When the Senate Finance Committee research, issued — Senate Finance Committee contribution to modifying the marriage releases in mid- local domestic conducted its “mark-up” of the marriage promotion provisions of the welfare January on their violence promotion provisions in March, it reform bill. The inclusion of the lan- article (co-authored with Tera Hurt, organizations when setting up a pro- included substantial language about guage was the result of many organiza- University of Georgia, and Diane gram. Recognizing the value of the domestic violence. “To be eligible for a tions working on the issue. Purvin, Wellesley College). To prepare to article, Cherlin and Burton’s contacts [marriage promotion] grant,” the Ironically, the press release itself speak with reporters, Cherlin and circulated the manuscript to others, Committee staff wrote, “applicants must elicited little coverage. Only CBS radio Burton contacted leaders in the domestic including staff members on the key consult with domestic violence organiza- news, a few newspapers, and several violence policy community and staff committees in the Senate and the House. tions that have demonstrated expertise Internet news sites reported on it. “I members at several Washington non- In the meantime, Cherlin was asked working with survivors of domestic guess the moral of the story is that profit groups in early January and sent to speak to participants in the Journal- violence in developing policies, proce- researchers should call the attention of them the manuscript on condition that ism Fellows in Child and Family Policy dures, programs and training necessary the policy world to their articles, rather they not cite it before the release date. program, sponsored by the University of to appropriately address domestic than sitting back and waiting for They hoped to receive comments that Maryland, along with Robert Rector of violence in families served by programs reporters to contact them,” said Cherlin. would be helpful in responding to the Heritage Foundation, on January 24. and activities funded through the “And it helps if the timing is right. We questions. Rector, an influential supporter of grant.” They also must “describe in their were fortunate that the article was Drawing upon both survey and marriage promotion programs, had applications how their proposed released just as Congress was consider- ethnographic data from the authors’ expressed skepticism that these pro- programs or activities will deal with ing this issue.” “Three-City Study” of low-income grams needed to take domestic violence issues of domestic violence; establish Discuss this article in the ASA member families, the article reported that one- into consideration. But he acknowledged protocols for helping identify instances forums at
by Tomás Jiménez, On Being in the Minority Two recent examples illustrate how ASA Congressional Fellow the structure of the House, and the way myself with his stance on subcommittees, the majority in which the majority operates, can As I began looking for a position as most issues. But what I have party determines which marginalize the minority party. In the an ASA Congressional Fellow, I sought learned in my first three legislation comes to the floor 108th Congress (2004), Jim Sensenbrenner the advice of previous fellows and months as an ASA Congres- for a vote and which does (R-WI) and other House Republicans current and former congressional sional Fellow is that the not. If, for example, a nearly stalled major homeland security staffers. While these informal consult- advice that I chose not to representative introduces a legislation because the bill did not ants provided wide-ranging advice, follow rings true: it is tough bill that is a legislative include restrictions on immigration. In nearly every one of them advised to accomplish much as a priority for Republicans, the exchange for Sensenbrenner’s support of against taking a position with a minority minority member in the Speaker, along with the the homeland security bill, the House party member (i.e., Democrat) of the House. Majority Leader (Tom DeLay) Republican’s leadership promised to House of Representatives. “They simply can urge the chair of the take up a stand-alone bill that included have no power to get anything done,” Majoritarian Rule committee that has jurisdic- Sensenbrenner’s immigration restric- Tomás Jiménez tions when the 109th Congress began in they uniformly stated. Yet, like an The difficultly of being a tion over that bill to expedite 2005. True to their word, the Republican adolescent who proceeds to act precisely Democrat in the current House stems its movement through the leaders made sure that Sensenbrenner’s contrary to advising adults, I took a both from the structure of the House and committee and ensure that it comes to a Real ID Act of 2005 skipped committee position in the Office of Congressman the way in which the majority party (i.e., vote. consideration, received an expedited Mike Honda, a Democrat from Republicans) operates within this The majority party’s dominance in th vote, and was one of the first major California’s 15 district. context. Where structure is concerned, the House extends beyond structure and pieces of legislation on which the House My decision to work for Congress- the House is a “majoritarian” arm of into the very rules that govern the voted (and passed) in the 109th Congress. man Honda was not motivated by Congress, meaning that the majority legislative process. Unlike the Senate, His bill was then included in the juvenile tendencies, or by lack of other party controls most aspects of the where legislative process rules are emergency supplemental appropriations options. I chose to accept a position in legislative arrangement. The Speaker of relatively fixed, the House makes its bill for Afghanistan and Iraq. The rapid Rep. Honda’s office for all of the “right” the House, Dennis Hastert,1 presides rules anew each Congress, and can movement of the Sensenbrenner bill reasons: I grew up in his district (com- over the House and appoints the chair of adopt and change the rules. Since the through the House and its inclusion in prising about half of the Silicon Valley), all committees and subcommittees. With majority party controls the rules commit- the emergency appropriations bill have long respected the Congressman as control over all of the committees and tee, it can mold the rules of the legisla- an individual and politician, and align tive game to suit their needs. See Congressional, page 23 6 MAY/JUNE 2005 FOOTNOTES
Philadelphia, from page 1
The Parkway and Museums and Mennonite farmers. The market is Walk to City Hall and bear right, pass open every day except in front of Mayor Rizzo’s statue and take Sunday, and you can the Parkway, beyond the small Love also find jewelry, Park (notice Robert Indiana’s sculpture somewhat unusual only recently—and stupidly—snatched clothes, organic soaps, away from champion skateboarders). At and any kitchen tool Logan Circle, you will find the Free rian Boat House Row. East River Drive, you may ever have wanted at Library. With 6 million volumes and a one of our urban delights, begins here Foster’s Gourmet Cookware. unique Rare Books Department, it is one and goes all the way to the Wissahickon Citizens managed to save this of the great U.S. libraries; check its free and the North East districts, part of beloved shopping and eating programs. Leaving the Library, one block which will be shown and narrated by place from destruction by the to your left on 20th Street will take you our own Elijah Anderson in a tour down Convention Center, and you back within sight of the graceful fountain Germantown Avenue. You will also be will be grateful, as we are. by the second Alexander Calder. In front able to descend the Parkway by bus Chinatown surrounds the of you on the Circle is the Academy of with Sherri Grasmuck, who will tell you Reading Terminal, north to Natural Sciences, founded in 1812, about its urban conflicts and take you to Spring Garden and east to small, but with lots of dinosaur replicas th the Eastern Penitentiary of Tocquevillian about 8 Street. It is open for for kids; to the left, the dark red pile of fame; adults and kids love this spooky dinner and enriched by a the Catholic Cathedral; to the right, the radial prison. variety of Asian restaurants. Franklin Institute’s science museum and You find classic stores and planetarium, as remarkable for its Center City and the Reading Market markets, but check also Lily historical artifacts as for contemporary Song’s New China Bookstore exhibits. Just behind the Institute, at 210 Walk two blocks west toward City at 1010 Race Street for music st 21 Street, is the delightful Please Touch Hall, at the intersection of Market and and videos as well as books, Museum for younger children. These are Broad Streets, so wittily described by and her brand new Shanghai active, progressive institutions, often as Michael Zuckerman in the February Bazaar at 1016 Race. exciting for adults as they are for the 2005 Footnotes article (p. 1). It is worth On Market Street, the kids, but if you have time for only one visiting the Council chambers and the Gallery, at 10th Street, is linked visit, you may have to turn left on the observation deck, which are free. One underground by an enormous side allées of the Parkway, toward the block north on Broad, at the corner of food court to Market Place, Schuylkill River and our world-class Cherry Street, you can admire the eastward, all the way to 7th. The Philadelphia skyline Museum of Art. On the way, the small renovation of the Pennsylvania Acad- Chain stores like K-Mart and Rodin Museum on your right contains emy of Fine Arts, Frank Furness’s a sometimes better variety of clothing south and to the right of Independence original works by the master. eclectic masterpiece, but you should also and shoe stores, perfumes, and candies Hall, but a few blocks down you will Ascend the Philadelphia Museum of find some time for the great collection of proliferate. The anchor store strives to find the stately 18th century First Bank of Art’s monumental steps slowly (al- American art (its most famous painting maintain the elegance of the old the United States at 116 South 3rd and though you are allowed to run up, like may well be Peaceable Kingdom, by Strawbridge and Clothier. You can walk two great buildings by William Strick- Rocky Balboa), look back on the Park- Edward Hicks, but my favorite is with air conditioning to 7th Street and land, one of the 19th century great way and City Hall, and enter the Great Horace Pippin’s Hanging of John Brown). visit the exceptional African American American architects: the Philadelphia Stairs Hall. You must not miss the South and east of City Hall, Lord and Museum at 7th and Arch Streets before Exchange at 3rd and Walnut, and the second-floor medieval and Renaissance Taylor’s clothing store occupies the getting to Independence Hall: you will Second Bank, on Chestnut, between 4th galleries, renovated to house the Johnson building of the celebrated John find there over a million photographs of and 5th. Still, my favorite is Carpenter collection and Italian and Flemish art Wanamaker department store by Daniel African American life in Philadelphia, as Hall, in the park, between the First Bank holdings. My opinion many times Burnham; you can take the kids to hear well as records of the slave trade and all and Chestnut Street, site of the First confirmed by European visitors is that the world’s largest pipe organ playing at aspects of enslaved and free Black life in Continental Congress, as delightful an we have the most stunning painting by noon and at 5 PM. Three blocks south on America, including the epochal struggle example of 18th century architecture as Broad Street, on for liberation. The Atwater Kent one can find in the country. Crossing your right, you Museum is immediately south of Chestnut, on the north side, between will see the Market, at 15 South 7th, and it contains Fourth and Orianna, you can enter historic Union one of the most extensive collections of Franklin’s Court, where Franklin’s print Club, and Americana in the country, including shop and rental houses used to be. The continue past Norman Rockwell paintings. Across the first Post Office opens on the Market the old Acad- street, the Balch Institute of Ethnic Street side, and our great Philadelphia emy of Music, Studies still houses artifacts, collections architect Robert Venturi has erected the very and a very important library, even “ghost houses” and “archeological modern Wilma though it has merged with the Historical exhibits” to represent what no longer is. theater by Society of Pennsylvania. The subterranean museum is equally Hardy, imaginative and fun for children. Holzmann, Independence Hall, Society Hill, Society Hill, the area that surrounds Pfeiffer, on and a Little of South Philly the National Historical Park on the south your left, and The National Historical Park, the is one of the first and most successful the Merriam on urban renovations in the United States. your right, “most historic square mile in the US,” is obviously a “must see” for your kids It is impossible to tell you what to do in toward the detail, but we are lucky that our col- brand new, (just make them go!). The Park is on both The Avenue of the Arts at nighttime sides of Market, between 6th and 5th, with league George Dowdall has offered to rather flashy, guide a walking tour. This extraordinary but acoustically the Liberty Bell enshrined in the middle, the Visitors Center on the left (north) district encloses the largest concentration Rogier van der Weyden in the world. But perfect Kimmel Center for the Perform- of 18th- and early 19th-century houses you do not want to miss the Mulhenny ing Arts, home of the Philadelphia side of Market and farther away the beautiful and brand new Constitution and cobblestone streets in the country. If and Gallatin collections of Impressionists Orchestra, by the fashionable architect you cannot go with George, get a guide and modern art, or the most important Rafael Viñoly. Tours are free everyday Center. Kim Scheppele has organized for us a special session in the Center, on the book, or a map from the Visitors’ Center Duchamps in the world and some of the except Monday, at 1 PM. often conflictive process by which it and explore Society Hill on foot, discov- most beautiful Brancusis in the re- If you cross Broad going east, ering the elegant St. Peter’s Church (at nowned Arensberg collection. Undeni- retracing your steps to Locust Street, you came to be. The U.S. Park Service runs several tours daily in the summer, most Third and Pine, in front of Thaddeus ably one of the four most important will find the Library Company of Kosciusko’s house), the Physick and museums in the country, it is worth a Philadelphia, at number 1314, the first of them free. They will show you Independence Hall, Bishop White’s Powel houses, and the lovely Pine and special trip to Philadelphia. Closed on subscription library in the United States, Delancey Streets. Walk through Head Mondays, and free on Sundays before 1 founded in 1731 by Ben Franklin, of house (at 309 Walnut) and Dolly Todd’s th House Square, all the way south to the th at 4 and Walnut. Widowed in 1793 by PM; it has a good cafeteria, an elegant course. From there, turn left on 12 the yellow fever epidemic, Dolly later Old Swedes or Gloria Dei Church, built restaurant, and at least three great stores. Street, cross Market, walk one block, in 1700, at Water Street between Chris- I highly recommend it as a shopping cross Filbert; you are about to enter one married a young politician, James Madison, who turned out to be a good tian and Washington (a long way, but venue for interesting crafts, art books, of our most cherished living monu- worth it!); it is exactly like a little country and beautiful objects. In the back of the ments, the Reading Terminal Market. bet. Independence Hall is the “cradle of the country,” as they say, and the church in Central Sweden. Museum, look at the Schuylkill’s Walk around, taste, drink, enjoy! From You may want to wander around in waterfalls, graced on the right by the Wednesday to Saturday, you can buy building itself is worth seeing. The lovely, shady Washington Square is south Philly and head west on Christian neo-classic Water Works and the Victo- pretzels and shoofly pie from Amish toward the 9th Street market, which non- MAY/JUNE 2005 FOOTNOTES 7
locals call “Italian.” It is a great outdoor the big discount store at Chestnut and temporary exhibitions that are worth the food market, open every day except 17th is a lot more fun and full of real trip. And our superb Fairmount Park, Sunday afternoon and Mondays, a bargains in European designer clothes. the largest urban park in the world, with bustling street of stalls and shops Return to Walnut Street and turn right. its grandiose old villas, Japanese Tea between Christian and Federal and a Walnut, 17th and 18th Streets are the House, Memorial Hall, and two superb living demonstration of the city’s domain of fancy restaurants and elegant River Drives. Other things to know changing ethnic composition. You can stores. The latter you can find in every about include: Temple University’s also walk west on South Street from big city, but we are grateful they have urban archives, the Charles Blockson Head House Square. South Street is the not fled to the suburbs. Walking west on Afro-American Collection, the concerts historic dividing line between Society Walnut, you will soon arrive at Ritten- at Rock Hall, the dance performances, Hill and Philadelphia’s formerly black house Square, one of Penn’s four and the excellent student theater; the neighborhoods (where W.E.B. Dubois original squares, a green island of remnants of grandeur, industrial and did his research for The Philadelphia repose surrounded by open-air cafés bourgeois, amidst the devastation of Negro); a nightly Mecca for young and hotels (the Rittenhouse boasts North Philadelphia; the Freedom people, it is quiet during the day. It has Lacroix’s restaurant, considered “sub- Theater; Edgar Allan Poe’s house; the some fun shops in a neighborhood of lime” by connoisseurs). At 130 South Octavia Hill Association; the Wagner excellent BYOB restaurants, and a great 19th, the very European café La Museum of Science; the Taller store for used books, the Book Trader at Colombe, has exceptionally good coffee, Puertoriqueño on vibrant North 5th, the 5th. better than in Italy [although some say main artery of the Barrio. I also have not that Caffé Hausbrandt, close to the mentioned the authentic working-class Old City, North of Market hotels at 207 S 15th Street, is better, neighborhoods (Kensington, Fishtown, Every guidebook will send you to maybe; what it does have is Internet Port Richmond, Pennsport to the south), Elfreth’s Alley on North Second Street, Carpenter Hall access from 7 am to 10 PM]. Off or the house of John Coltrane and that th the oldest street continuously inhabited Rittenhouse Square, at 18 and Locust, of Paul Robeson, or some of the most in the United States, of which the as a huge and rather ugly statue of Ben is the famous Curtis Institute of Music, beautiful residential wooded areas I residents are inordinately proud (Lewis Franklin made of pennies. Cross Third where you can inquire if the students are have ever seen in any city—Mount Airy Mumford derided, their exaggerated Street toward Betsy Ross’s House—the offering any concerts (they are free in and Chestnut Hill—or the Wissahickon love for these “mean little houses,” but much married lady probably did not live season) and the Art League is one block Valley, which could easily be some- they are really cute; there is one you can in this one, but in one just like it in this South. In the streets adjacent to where in the mountains, miles away. Or visit, and realize how small the people neighborhood. It is well worth a visit, Rittenhouse, or around Fitler Square, at Manayunk, with its now fashionable th nd must have been!). Your kids will love especially with the kids. At 235 4 Street, Pine and 22 , and all the way to the Main Street, the bike race’s “Wall,” and Fireman’s Hall, at 147 North Second, going under the big bridge, you will Schuylkill River, are some of the prettiest the old canal . . . . where Franklin founded the first find, beside the Painted Bride Art urban sights in the United States. But you will come back. If you look volunteer fire company. I love Old City Center, the oldest Methodist church in I have only begun to scratch the with open eyes and mind at this old with its old cast-iron buildings, its little continuous use in the world, St. George, surface of Philadelphia! But I cannot contradictory city, you will never again streets, its old factories (converted into with its museum and lovely garden. omit the University of Pennsylvania condone one of those ignorant jokes super-expensive lofts, alas), its working Opposite St. George is Catholic St. Museum of Archaeology and Anthro- about Philadelphia. And you will feel stores dedicated to restaurant equip- Augustine, rebuilt in 1847 after the pology, at 3260 South Street, a beautiful, sorry for those living in gentrified and ment, its vistas of the Ben Franklin original was burnt down in the frighten- Victorian, and hip University City. It is prettified cities without even knowing ❑ Bridge, which is lighted in delicate blue ing anti-Catholic riots of 1844. I left truly one of the country’s best, with they do. at night, its harmonious architectural beautiful Christ Church for the end. It is Egyptian and Mayan holdings and and social eclecticism. It has great new on Second Street, just off Arch, but it is cafés (try Le Petit 4’s pastry shop at 160 reachable from Third, through the North Third) and truly interesting uneven cobblestones of lovely Church galleries and shops. Claire Renzeti Street. As you go, stop at Old City Coffee Teachers Teaching Teachers, An recommends The Clay Studio (139 North on your left, which was for many years 2nd) and The Works Gallery (303 Cherry the only place with decent espresso in ASA Pre-Conference Street). Along Third Street, the Tribal Philadelphia ... how times change! At the Home offers antique objects from Africa, Rectory, rest in the peaceful garden off The focus of this special ASA pre-conference course, “Teachers Teaching while Flotsam and Jetsam and Indigo Market Street, and enter the magnificent Teachers,” will be on graduate teaching assistants and first-time instructors, Arts offer more eclectic items. Further interior. It is the most historic shrine in bringing experts in the field of teaching and learning together with approxi- north, at 501 Vine Street, find the America, but to me it symbolizes a sort mately 25 participants to Philadelphia for more than seven hours of presen- renowned Wood Turning Center, a of utopian Jamesian view of America, tations, workshops, discussions on teaching issues, and small group gallery and resource center. One can find graceful and simple and unassuming, mentoring. The pre-conference course will be held on August 12, the day fun clothing and accessories on North against the somber and hierarchical before ASA Annual Meeting begins, from 8:30 AM to 12 noon and 2 to 6 PM. In Third, or at Me & Blue, at 311 Market mood of much grander European addition to the pre-conference, participants can attend many events on Street, on the second floor. churches. Christ Church’s interior, where teaching during the ASA meetings. Old City extends north of Market, George Washington and Betsy Ross The pre-conference course includes two panels, “How Do They Do It? th came to worship, resembles an airy, sun- between 5 and Front, starting at the Successful Teaching Strategies,” featuring award-winning teachers, and drenched, white drawing room. It is one Constitution Center and moving toward “Getting a Job” with sociologists who have expertise on the topic. Partici- Girard Avenue and the gentrifying of the places I prefer in this remarkable city. pants will be able to select four workshops from a number of topics; these Northern Liberties (if you can, check out workshops will be held throughout the day. Other presentations on “Pitfalls Second Street between Spring Garden Rittenhouse Square and in Teaching: What Works/What Doesn’t” and brief presentations by noted and Poplar at night!). Old City has more Traditional Shopping sociologists will round out the day. Each participant will be offered the than its share of historical sites: Ben and opportunity to continue working with a teaching mentor after the pre- Deborah Franklin are buried in the old You can spend a lot of time here, but conference. Christ Church burial grounds at 5th and my description is brief. Seven blocks Arch. A few steps north on 5th Street, south from the hotels, on Pine, begin- Participants will select from a number of concurrent workshops led by visit the United States Mint and take the ning at 13th, you will find our charming experts; topics will include: creating a course from scratch, managing self-guided tour, or go half a block south, Antiques Row, all the way to Pine and classroom dynamics, “Should You Take a Stand? Controversial Issues in the toward the unique National Museum of 9th. Between 9th and 8th admire the first Classroom,” teaching the large class, ethical issues in teaching and academia, American Jewish History, housed hospital in the United States, Pennsylva- assessment in the classroom, teaching styles/multiple intelligences, evaluat- together with the “Synagogue of the nia Hospital, and its delightful medicinal ing teaching performance, writing and presenting on teaching and learning, American Revolution.” Heading east, herb garden. and other topics. down Arch Street, are other sites to visit: Second, you should go toward Those interested in participating should sign up in the ASA conference the most important Quaker Meeting Rittenhouse Square: walk to Broad pre-registration period. Information will be on the ASA website, the ASA House in the country, on the right, Street, turn left, go to the famous old Section for Teaching and Learning in Sociology web page, and from Jeanne between 4th and 3rd, site of the Yearly hotel Bellevue at the corner of Walnut Ballantine, Sociology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, e-mail Meeting and a haven for progressive and Broad, which has a few pricey shops [email protected] or Greg Weiss, Sociology, Roanoke College, movements in the city. Inside, you will and a lower-level food court where I Salem, VA 24153-3794, e-mail [email protected]. Materials and refresh- find scenes of the life of William Penn particularly like the Mexican food stand. ments will be covered by the registration fee. that emphasize the founder’s historical However, two blocks north, at Chestnut th The “Teachers Teaching Teachers” pre-conference is organized and importance; around it, a very interesting and 17 , Liberty Place has the ubiqui- sponsored by the American Sociological Association and the ASA Section on burial ground. Just across the street from tous “rather upscale” shops and food Teaching and Learning in Sociology and draws on the talents and expertise the Meeting House, you can see through that you find everywhere; the glass- of section members and leaders in ASA from around the country and from iron gates the charmingly restored enclosed atrium is nice, although it has ❑ houses of historic Loxley Court, as well now become an urban cliché. Daffy’s, all types of institutions, from community colleges to research universities. 8 MAY/JUNE 2005 FOOTNOTES
Contemporary Sociology Comes to UC-Irvine by Christine Byrd, University Movement in Perspective (Aldyne de the power and privilege of families of California-Irvine Gruyter, 1993). Her research has been descended from aristocratic lineages. published in American Sociological Review, She is also investigating the revitaliza- Faculty at the University of Annual Review of Sociology, Law & Society tion of the U.S. labor movement by California-Irvine (UCI) will co-edit the Review, Gender & Society, Social Problems, focusing on AFL-CIO’s Union Summer journal Contemporary Sociology for three American Behavioral Scientist, Sociological program, and its role in union victories years beginning in January 2006. In Perspectives, Journal of Criminal Law and as well as its consequences for recruiting collaboration with UCI’s School of Social Criminology, Law and Critique, Research in labor activists. Ecology and the School of Social Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Judith Stepan-Norris Stepan-Norris has served as an Sciences, the journal will be co-edited by and the Journal of Hate Studies. associate editor for Social Problems and Valerie Jenness, David Smith, and Judith Jenness has been recognized with an editorial board member for both Stepan-Norris. awards from the Gustavus Myers Center Stepan-Norris is a Professor of Mobilization: An International Journal, the Recognizing that Contemporary for the Study of Bigotry and Human Sociology at UCI, and Associate Director ASA Rose Monograph Series, Sociological Sociology is a site for lively discussions Rights in North America, the Society for of UCI’s Center for the Study of Democ- Perspectives and Sociological Inquiry. and exchanges as well as a place to the Study of Social Problems, the Pacific racy. Her research interests center on the Stepan-Norris is the co-author of Left consider the larger issues in the field, the Sociological Association, and the interrelationships between union Out: Reds and America’s Industrial Unions UCI team plans to continue features University of California. Jenness has leadership, union democracy, and (Cambridge, 2003) and Talking Union such as themed symposia and “author presented her research to the U.S. workers’ consciousness. Her work has (University of Illinois Press, 1996). Her meets the critics” exchanges. They are Congress and the National Academy of focused on American unions affiliated work has been published in Social preparing to develop a series of discus- Sciences. with the Congress of Industrial Organi- Problems, Social Forces, the American sions to systematically highlight the zations (CIO) from the 1930s through the Sociological Review, Annual Review of ways in which sociology can inform mid-1950s, when union political activi- Sociology, American Journal of Sociology, public debate and public policy. ties were at a peak. Her recent research and Sociological Inquiry. She is the co- The team will draw heavily on the focuses on how workers’ participation in recipient of the Max Weber Award for a wealth of talent within the Department highly democratic, militant, and radical Distinguished Book, Distinguished of Sociology, which includes 23 faculty, union local politics impacted their Assistant Professor Award for Research, and the Department of Criminology, political actions in their neighborhoods. Inaugural Labor Studies Award for Law and Society, with its 22 faculty (six Another project (with Rick Grannis) Distinguished Publication, and twice of whom also hold courtesy appoint- investigates kinship patterns of the received the Award for Distinguished David Smith ❑ ments in sociology). American elite, and asks whether the Scholarship in Political Sociology. In choosing the editorial board, the American Revolution marked the end to co-editors plan to select members Smith is a Professor of Sociology and representing a diverse range of geo- a Professor of Planning, Policy and Design at UCI. As a comparative graphic locations, subfields, back- from page 1 grounds, and home institutions. sociologist, his research interests include Conley, Jenness, Smith, and Stepan-Norris international trade and exchange in the “As a Waterman awardee, Conley said Conley. “Our basic units of analysis, worked together previously on the world-economy (and it’s implications for will join a long line of distinguished like the family, and our conceptual editorial team for Social Problems (1999 to economic growth and development; scientists,” said ASA Executive Officer frameworks, like race and class, are 2002). As co-editors of Contemporary global industrialization and “commodity Sally T. Hillsman, “but he will blaze at ever-shifting as we study them.” To top Sociology, each will assume responsibility chains”—especially in the Pacific Rim least one trail in this path by being the off sociology’s formidable list of investi- for processing books in his or her area of region.) He specializes in apparel and first sociologist and only the second gational obstacles, Conley noted that expertise. garment manufacturing; the dynamics of technological dependence, and technol- behavioral/social scientist to have “many of the topics we study (e.g., About the Co-editors ogy transfer in East Asia; Third World received the award. The Association also gender and sexuality, race and class, cities and development; and global feels a certain sense of validation, family life) are, by design, the most urbanization). because ASA recognized Conley’s politically charged and most personally Previously, Smith was editor of Social scientific promise early in his career by sensitive topics one could address. That Problems, and served on the editorial awarding him the ASA’s Outstanding doesn’t make research easy. When board of the ASA Rose Monograph Series. Dissertation Award in 1997.” Conley had you’ve got all those together then you’ve He is currently a member of the system- received the dissertation award for his got the challenges of sociology….” wide University of California Press research on “Being Black, Living in the Conley is Professor of Sociology and Editorial Committee, and serves on the Red: Wealth and the Cycle of Racial Public Policy at New York University Valerie Jenness editorial and advisory board of the Inequality.” and Director of NYU’s Center for Journal of World-System Research, Research “Dalton Conley is one of the most Advanced Social Science Research. He is in Political Sociology, and Urban Studies. creative and productive sociologists at also Adjunct Professor of Community Jenness is Professor and Chair of With a grant from the National work today,” said Craig Calhoun, Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Criminology, Law and Society and a Science Foundation, Smith is currently President of the Social Science Research Medicine and a Research Associate at professor in the sociology department at researching globalization in the network Council. “His work is reshaping how the National Bureau of Economic UCI. Her research focuses on the links of world cities, combining statistical sociologists think about inequality—and Research. His research focuses on how between deviance and social control analysis of city-to-city connections with also building bridges to economics, socioeconomic status is transmitted (especially law), gender, and social case studies of particular urban areas. public health, and vital policy debates.” across generations and on the public change (especially social movements). Recently, he was involved with several “Sociology is among the hardest policies that affect that process. In this She has published numerous articles on research projects doing on-site research sciences of all—harder than the prover- vein, he studies sibling differences in the politics of prostitution, AIDS and in South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and bial rocket science,” Conley stated upon socioeconomic success; racial inequali- civil liberties, hate crimes and hate crime China. Smith is the author of Third World receiving the award and after thanking ties; the measurement of class and social law, and multiple social movements in Cities in Global Perspective (Westview his relatives, friends, and the NSF and status; and how health and biology the United States. She is currently Press, 1996). He is co-editor of the NSB. “Imagine a science where you can’t affect (and are affected by) social working on a multi-year study of prison forthcoming Nature, Raw Materials and do controlled experiments—the . . . position. violence, including rape. Political Economy (Elsevier, 2005), Labor staple of most bench science,” perhaps Last year, Conley published The Jenness has a multitude of editorial Versus Empire: Race, Gender and Migration implicitly explaining why this is only the Pecking Order, a book the Washington Post experiences, including serving as an (Routledge Press, 2004), States and second Waterman Award recognition of called “lucid and provocative” in its associate editor for Social Problems, as Sovereignty in the Global Economy a social scientist. Commiserating with explanation of how the forces of income, well as being advisory editor for the (Routledge, 1999), and A New World zoologists and paleontologists, whom he gender, health, and birth order in journals Criminology, Social Problems, Order? Global Transformations in the Late said “share the difficulty of having to families result in “a tangled web” of Gender & Society, Research in Political Twentieth Center (Greenwood Press, piece together observational data inequalities that create a family’s own Sociology, Sexuality & Culture, and Race, 1995). His research has been published without . . . experiments,” Conley pecking order. An NSF Faculty Early Sex and Class. in American Sociological Review; Social explained that sociologists are forced to Career Award supported Conley’s four- Jenness is the co-editor of Public Forces; Population Research and Policy “impute causal processes, not just year study upon which the book, and Policy, Democracy, and Social Movements Review; International Migration Review; describe or classify the world” all while related papers, is based. Conley has (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Review of International Political Economy; accommodating the multiple levels of written numerous papers and articles She is author of three books: Making Hate American Behavioral Scientist; Science, analysis that constantly and integrally and several other books, including Being a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Technology and Human Values; Urban interact. Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Enforcement Practice (Russell Sage Studies; Urban Affairs Quarterly; and An additional thorn in sociologists’ Social Policy in America, The Starting Gate: Foundation, 2001), Hate Crimes: New International Social Science Journal. professional lives is “the complication Birth Weight and Life Chances, and Honky. Social Movements and the Politics of that . . . reality changes as you study it, For more information, see the Violence (Aldyne de Gruyter, 1997), and and by virtue of the fact that you study National Science Foundation website at Making it Work: The Prostitutes’ Rights it,” analogous to Heisenberg’s uncer-
The Intersection of Sociology and Bioethics 2005 Regional Sociological Associations’ Award Winners by Joseph E. Davis, University of Virginia, social nuance in ethical reasoning and Raymond DeVries, St. Olaf College, decisionmaking. Those outside of a Eastern Sociological Society and John H. Evans, University of Califor- medical setting, by contrast, are often Candace Rogers Award: Sangeeta Parashar, University of Maryland-College Park nia-San Diego engaged in a “sociology of bioethics,” Rose Laub Coser Award: Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, CUNY Graduate Center; Honorable studying ethical dilemmas in medicine Mention: Minjeong Kim, SUNY-Albany In March, 30 scholars from around through, and in an effort to further, Komarovsky Book Award: Richard Alba and Victor Nee for Remaking the American the United States, as well as Canada and sociological understanding of health, Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration; Honorable Mentions: Vivek England, gathered in Washington, DC, medicine, and the professions. The Chibber for Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India; Jerry A. for a two-day conference to explore the relationship between these two types of Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson for The Time Divide: Work, Family and Gender Inequality; relationship of sociology to the field of scholarship has been little discussed. The Mario Luis Small for Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston bioethics and to the ethical questions conference, then, aimed to press the Barrio raised by technological developments in question of how sociology can effec- 2004-2005 Robin M. Williams, Jr., Lectureship Acknowledgement: Jack Levin, medicine. The first day of meetings were tively and institutionally contribute to Northeastern University held at Georgetown University and the field of bioethics and bring differ- 2005-2006 Robin M. Williams, Jr., Lecturer: Vincent Parrillo, William Paterson Univer- included several formal presentations, ently situated sociologists into conversa- sity semi-structured discussions, and an tion with one another. Merit Award: William A. Gamson, Boston College and Caroline Hodges Persell, New evening dinner and keynote speaker. By all accounts, the conference made York University significant progress. The discussions The second day was organized as a four- North Central Sociological Association session “mini-conference” within the were wide ranging yet focused around annual meeting of the Eastern Sociologi- exploring the intersection of sociology Graduate Student Paper Winners: Judson Everitt, Indiana University; Jeffrey Dixon cal Society (ESS) and was open to all ESS and bioethics. In one of the Georgetown and Janice McCabe, Indiana University; Julie A Swando, Indiana University; Ryotero meeting attendees. Originally designed sessions, to give a sense for the topics, Uemura, Indiana University as a conference for 20 participants, participants discussed a provocative Undergraduate Student Paper Winners: Rachel K. Beck, United States Military organizers underestimated the level of paper by “guest” bioethicist Leigh Academy; HyeJin Kim, University of Notre Dame; Tosha Smith, Saint Mary’s interest in this area of inquiry. The Turner, McGill University, who chal- College conference quickly grew to 30 scholars lenged standard social science critiques from sociology departments, bioethics of bioethics as unfair and, most telling, Southwestern Sociological Association centers, and medical schools before empirically unfounded. In the same Distinguished Paper: “Civic Engagement and County Economic Growth in Appala- registration had to be closed for reasons session, Barbara Katz Rothman, City chia During the 1990s,” by Carson Mencken and Christopher Bader, Baylor Univer- of space and available funding. University of New York, weighted in sity with a self-described “cranky critique” Outstanding Doctoral-level Paper: ”Beyond the Castro: Examining Gay and Lesbian Sociological Origins of her own, arguing that as sociologists Enclaves in the San Francisco Bay Area,” by Amanda K. Baumle, and D’Lane Compton, Texas A&M University The conference’s organizing premise are drawn into discussions of ethical Outstanding Master’s-level Paper: “Residential Segregation by Race, Poverty Status, was that sociology has an important issues, it is “essential that we do not and Household Type: Findings from Houston, Texas,” by Lindsay Howden, Texas contribution to make to bioethics. It is allow the terms to be established by those who call upon A&M University little remembered Outstanding Undergraduate-level Paper: “Homosexuality in Postcolonial Delirium: now, but bioethics us.” The conference, then, aimed During his keynote Critically Revisiting the Politics of Cultural Relativism,” by Ajnesh Prasad, Queen’s began as an interdisci- to press the question of how University plinary conversation address, bioethics sociology can effectively pioneer Daniel that included a and institutionally contribute Pacific Sociological Association number of well- Callahan, founder of Award for Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives: Karin Elizabeth known sociologists, to the field of bioethics and the Hastings Center Peterson, University of North Carolina-Asheville for “Discourse and Display: The such as Renee Fox and bring differently situated and one who has long Modern Eye, Entrepreneurship, and the Cultural Transformation of the Patchwork Robin Williams. Over sociologists into conversa- decried the tion with one another. marginalization of the Quilt” the years, however, as Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching: Rose Weitz, Arizona State the field developed social sciences in bioethics debates, offered a number of University and was institutionalized, it came to be Award for Distinguished Contributions to Practice: Kari M. Norgaard, University of dominated by philosophers and forms of suggestions for sociologists who want to engage the field, including thoughtful California-Davis argumentation drawn from analytic Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Paper: Yvonne A. Braun, University of philosophy. Sociologists, along with proposals on the “is/ought” problem. The ESS panels concerned the “Ethics California-Irvine, for “Resettlement and Risk: Women’s Community Work in scholars from other disciplines, moved Lesotho” of Research,” “Constructing Ethics at the to the periphery, a move that has Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper: Nicole Kemper, Jessica Margins of Life,” “Sociology of Bioeth- impoverished bioethical debates. Crewse, and Elizabeth Budd, Santa Clara University, for a collaborative research ics,” and “Research Subjects: Consent Despite marginalization, sociologists project, “Community Service Organizations and the Experiences of Student Volun- have nonetheless made important and Misconceptions.” teers: Applied Sociology in Action” individual contributions. Conference In the wrap-up session at the end of organizers, mindful of these contribu- the conference, participants called for Southern Sociological Society tions and seeking to build upon them, future meetings of the group and the creation of additional avenues for Charles S. Johnson Award: Delores P. Aldridge, Emory University recognized that sociology has theoretical Martin S. Levin Distinguished Service Award: Abbott L. Ferriss, Emory University and methodological tools that can ongoing communication. The organizers are also pursuing various avenues for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Idee Winfield, College of Charleston fruitfully deepen and expand the agenda The Odum Award, Best Graduate Student Paper: Carissa Froyum, North Carolina publishing some of the exemplary of bioethics. At the same time, they State University, “Making Meaning of Sexuality: Low-Income African American conference papers. If interested in being recognized the general lack of communi- Teens and Their Beliefs in Sexuality” a part of future communications with cation between scholars who are The Odum Award, Best Undergraduate Paper: Scott Jacques, University of Georgia, working on bioethical questions from a this nascent group, contact John Evans at for “The Management of Predation Among Young, Middle Class Drug Dealers” sociological perspective. For example, [email protected]. those who are located in medical schools The conference was made possible by New England Sociological Association a grant from the ASA Fund for the and bioethics centers are typically New England Sociologist of the Year Award: Alexander Liazos, Regis College engaged in “sociology in bioethics.” Advancement of the Discipline and a Working within the dominant bioethical matching grant from the Center on Midwest Sociological Society framework, they call attention to the Religion and Democracy at the Univer- ❑ Social Action Awards: Access Works; Resource Center of the Americas importance of sensitivity to cultural and sity of Virginia. Distinguished Service Awards: Carla Howery, American Sociological Association; Peter Kivisto, Augustana College International Sociological Association World Congress President’s Special Awards: Betty Havens (posthumously); Eric Reed, University of The International Sociological Association (ISA) is holding its World Congress of Iowa Sociology for the first time in Africa. The theme of the July 23-29 16th Congress is “The Student Paper Competition Winners Graduate Division: Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising World.” First Prize: Jun Xu, Indiana University, “Why Do Minorities Participate Less? The Effects of Immigration, Education, and Electoral Process on Asian American Voter Durban provides with an opportunity to encounter a society in transition, in a context highly Registration and Turnout” cognizant of the importance of social science in reconstruction and development. With its Second Prize: superb facilities and infrastructure, Durban has a proven track record of hosting interna- Catherine Bolzendahl and Sigrun Olafsdottir, Indiana University, “Public tional events and conferences. Solutions or Private Problems? Understanding U.S. Support for Family Policy in a Comparative Perspective” ISA’s goal is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of school of thought, Third Prize: Valerie Lewis, University of Notre Dame, “Social Energy Theory Ex- scientific approach, or opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the tended” world. Its members come from 109 countries. ISA is a member of the International Social Science Council and is a Non-Governmental Organization in formal associate relations with Undergraduate Division: UNESCO and special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the First Prize: HyeJin Kim, University of Notre Dame, “Class, Culture, and Conflict: United Nations. African American - Korean American Conflict in South LA” Second Prize: Devan Starks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “School Attainment: For more information, see
Whose Science Is behind legislators we can influence the policy process, and we might also be able to the Science in Qualitative Public Forum effect congressional redistricting in 2012. Methodology? In summary, public interest sociolo- gists would strive to produce timely, Roberta Spalter-Roth’s March 2005 place in the early 1970s continue to gain effective, we must become involved in policy-oriented studies. They could then Footnotes article, “Putting the Science in momentum. The days of value-free politics. Therefore, I propose a new employ this information in their lobby- Qualitative Methodology,” (p. 6) is a inquiry based on a God’s eye view of brand of sociology, “public interest ing efforts. However, no lobbyist can be welcome report of a 2003 National reality are judged by many to be over. sociology.” The public interest should effective with hostile legislators. There- Science Foundation (NSF) workshop on Today, many agree that all inquiry is not be conceived in narrow political fore, a political action committee would the “Scientific Foundations of Qualita- moral and political. Further, today we terms. Instead, it should be seen as social be a necessity to elect sympathetic tive Research” (see Ragin, Nagel and know that men and women write culture justice. John Rawls has indirectly defined legislators. White, 2004). Social scientists should pay differently, and writing is not an inno- such a conception through his idea of All this may appear alien, or even attention any time NSF shows interest in cent practice. Experimental, reflexive “justice as fairness.” He argues that the worse, “merely practical,” to academics. qualitative inquiry. However, Spalter- ways of writing first-person ethno- primary subject of justice is the basic However, if you are upset with the drift Roth’s report and the NSF workshop graphic texts are now commonplace. structure of society. By this he means the of our country, you should ask yourself require comment on several grounds, Critical personal narratives have become way in which the major social institu- one question: Do we have a choice? a central feature of counter-hegemonic, tions distribute fundamental rights and each of which turns on the meaning of George C. Klein, Oakton Community four terms: science, research, qualitative, decolonizing methodologies (Mutua and duties and determine the division of College, [email protected] and methodology. Swadener, 2004, p. 16). advantages. In her summary, Spalter-Roth asks if Sadly, none of this literature is Since sociologists are trained as qualitative research can be scientific, and evident in the NSF report, or in Spalter- researchers, the initial job of public Institutionalizing Public if so, how can it be strengthened and Roth’s summary. This is unfortunate interest sociology would be to study Sociology properly evaluated? She notes that there because it creates the impression that social justice; that is we would need to has been concern at NSF about the lack somehow the sociological branch of the create a public interest sociology think There has been considerable discus- of uniform standards for evaluating social sciences is out of touch with these tank to examine, for example, the civil sion in Footnotes and ASA generally qualitative proposals. The workshop developments that are now three liberties, economic opportunities, and about public sociology (i.e., efforts to participants agreed that because NSF decades old. social conditions of our society as well as “bring sociology to publics beyond the funds rigorous research, qualitative how our society affects other nations. academy,” as ASA Past-President proposals should not be submitted at an References The perspective would be analogous to Michael Burawoy most simply defines early stage, and if possible reliance on Lincoln, Yvonna S., and Gaile S. Cannella. that of the public interest attorney. These the idea (Burawoy et al. 2004: 104)). grounded theory should be avoided. 2004. “Dangerous Discourses: Method- attorneys serve the public interest by Relatively little of that talk, however, has Research applications should include ological Conservatism and Governmental representing those who are focused on how exactly to begin turning statements on the possible impact of the Regimes of Truth.” Qualitative Inquiry, 10 underrepresented. The public interest that idea into practice institutionally. If researcher’s presence on the study. They (1): 5-14. sociologist, too, could represent certain public sociology is to become more than Mutua, Kagendoo, and Beth Blue Swadner, should also offer discussions of underrepresented groups and publish- a fleeting debate that recedes with the 2004. “Introduction.” Pp. 1-23 in ing our studies. Or, we could examine replicability, data analysis, data Decolonizing Research in Cross-cultural passing of the ASA presidential torch, the individuals, groups, or structures archiving, and the procedures that will Contexts: Critical Personal Narratives, edited our discipline’s departments and be used for interpreting disconfirming by Kagendo Mutua and Beth Blue that promote or hinder attainment of professional societies must begin evidence. Swadener. Albany: SUNY Press. social justice. Also within the purview of institutionalizing public engagement. To The science in NSF seems to be a Ragin, Charles C., Joane Nagel and Patricia public interest sociologist is the extent to this end, below I present some very positivist science based on traditional White. 2004. “Workshop on Scientific which the public is under-informed on practical ways enterprising faculty and/ notions of validity and reliability. NSF’s Foundations of Qualitative Research.” specific topics. or students to begin institutionalizing qualitative research is scientific, if it National Science Foundation. A model for the functioning of such a public sociology in their respective Schwandt, Thomas. 2000. “Three Epistemo- conforms to these criteria. A positivist research institute might be the conserva- department or society. logical Stances for Qualitative Inquiry.” tive Heritage Foundation. The Founda- methodology becomes the vehicle for Pp. 189-213 in Handbook of Qualitative tion serves as a resource bank and an writing and evaluating grant applica- Research (2nd ed.), edited by N. K. Denzin What Departments Can Do academic network for its in-house staff tions. and Y. S. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, CA: • Initiate public sociology email lists to and 1,000 scholars who provide ideas It is as if these guidelines were Sage Publications. facilitate intra- or inter-departmental and information for congressional written in a time warp. Over the last Spalter-Roth, Roberta. 2005. “Putting the discussion on how to advance public Science in Qualitative Methodology.” ASA testimony and conferences. The Founda- three decades the field of qualitative sociology in the department, the Footnotes, 33, 3 (March): 6. tion serves as a clearinghouse, a conduit, research has become an interdisciplinary university, and beyond. and a catalyst for conservative intellectu- field in its own right. Qualitative inquiry Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois- • Develop a workshop or series of als and activists. Instead of producing is the name for a movement that began Urbana-Champaign, n-denzin workshops to train graduate students grand theory, the Foundation concen- in the early 1970s in the academy and faculty in the various ways @staff.uiuc.edu trates on producing short issue analyses (Schwandt, 2000). The interpretive and public sociology can be practiced. for legislators, as well as broader policy critical paradigms, in their multiple Such workshops could discuss getting On the Creation of studies. forms, are central to this movement. published in popular media, connect- We could form such a think tank by Complex literatures are now attached to ing with community organizations for “Public Interest securing grants as seed money. Once the research methodologies, strategies of research and/or teaching, and think tank is established we would take inquiry, interpretive paradigms, and Sociology” educating sociologists on how to criteria for reading and evaluating our policy papers and begin our second Few agree on what falls within the work with local, state, or national inquiry itself. job—as lobbyists. definition “public sociology.” In order to media producers and artists to Indeed, this movement encompasses An ideal place to conduct such avoid a definitional row, one can engage in visual sociology. multiple paradigmatic formulations. It lobbying is in legislatures, where power circumscribe the field by examining • Establish a volunteer departmental also includes complex epistemological is decentralized and specialization is what public sociologists actually do: committee of students and faculty and ethical criticisms of traditional social common. In Washington most problems planning, program development, interested in advancing public science research. Within this space, are dealt with in congressional commit- evaluation, policy analysis, and research. sociology. Such a committee could grounded theory has become a domi- tees or subcommittees. Here, govern- Planners write plans that are placed on develop a public sociology workshop, nant interpretive model. Few today mental experts join with legislators and shelves and often forgotten; program create a departmental resource list for speak of data, reliability, validity, or lobbyists to form “subgovernments.” developers create programs that seldom doing public sociology, and facilitate disconfirmed hypotheses. The move- These subgovernments comprise the function in the manner in which they joint ventures between the depart- ment now has its own journals, scientific expert, the interested, and the engaged. were intended to function; evaluation ment and local video documentar- associations, annual conferences and However, public interest lobbies have research often is considered to be ians, filmmakers, cartoonists, artists, workshops, and faculty positions. a weakness. They are long on programs, second-rate and is often ignored, except photographers, journalists, web Today the field of qualitative research issues, and ideologies; however, they are by the program’s enemies; policy designers, etc. There is little reason is defined by a series of essential short on vote-getting ability. That is, they analysts may be influential as staff aids, why sociology must be limited to the tensions, contradictions, and hesitations. lack the sheer political muscle of or they may be a “voice in the wilder- printed word in books and journals The methodological conservatism or organized labor or corporate groups. ness”; and policy researchers often take too few read. fundamentalism embedded in the “Sheer political muscle” here means months, or even years, to produce educational and scientific initiatives of money—campaign contributions. conclusions that others see as impracti- What Professional Societies Can Do the Bush Administration have inscribed Therefore, the third job of public interest cal or naïve. In all these positions, public narrowly defined governmental regimes sociologists would be to create a political • Our professional societies could sociologists are marginal to the policy of truth (Lincoln and Canella, 2004, p. 7). action committee. It is unlikely that such establish awards for quality sociology process. In its criteria for evaluating qualitative a committee could raise large amounts that measurably reaches relatively So we must view public sociology research, it seems that NSF wants to of money. However, with modest wide audiences (e.g., measured in from a new point of view. Public reproduce this narrow model of truth. amounts of money we could have an sales, subscriptions), or that success- sociology is not merely sociology. Rather, The transformations in the field of impact on carefully selected state fully reaches the least-advantaged it is sociology in politics. Thus, to be qualitative research that were taking legislative races. By electing sympathetic publics. MAY/JUNE 2005 FOOTNOTES 11
• Professional societies could also Scholars of teaching and learning establish public sociology investment continually find that far more learning, funds (PSIFs), allowing them to retention, and application take place in generate their own funds for public Public Forum classes that stress active and interactive sociology rather than rely strictly on learning over long lectures, and this outside funding agencies. A PSIF the power elite during the last two out of the room, but I hope the dialog regardless of the quality of the lecturer. would support public sociology decades of his long life would be did indeed continue through email and Why should we suppose that our projects that hold the promise of honored at this troubling time in the city contacts long after. colleagues are that different? Perhaps generating revenue through wider that harbors a cracked liberty bell. The evaluations of the session noted fear of forgetting something and not the limitations (need for more handouts, paid public consumption. Our Werner Lange, Edinboro University of appearing knowledgeable forces us back more space, more coordination) but a professional societies could thus Philadelphia to filling every allotted moment (and become investors in the public strong refrain of affirmation threaded usually a few extra) with uninterrupted sociology projects of their members. Editor’s Note: An Annual Meeting tour through them all. Some said it was by far reading of text. Each society would assume the risk of Germantown Avenue, led by Elijah the liveliest and most useful session they I am dazzled by the wealth of session that some of these projects would not Anderson of the University of Pennsyl- had attended in long time. Many noted topics at the annual meetings. Yet I often succeed in generating revenue, but vania, will explore the neighborhood of that they were taking away much more wonder about the efficiency of traveling those that do would be required to the well-to-do, the middle classes, the practical material than from a typical thousands of miles to hear a paper read pay a percentage of their revenue working poor, and the very poor—the session. A couple said they wished all that I could read or skim myself from back to the PSIF to finance still more diverse segments of urban society. The sessions could be conducted like this. I home. What makes the meetings exciting promising projects. Initial PSIF tour will end by visiting Philadelphia wonder if more could be. and worth the trip is the gathering of a revenue could come from annual neighborhoods, now parts of Center City I am sure that many went on to community of scholars with common budget allocation by the society, Philadelphia, that were studied by inspiring and informative talks, others to interests and diverse perspectives. solicited donations from targeted W.E.B. DuBois at the turn of the last useful workshops. But I also suspect that Although this plea has been made high donors, and/or a donation century. See the Annual Meeting insert others went on to sessions where they before, perhaps it is time again to call for check-off box on membership for more information. heard papers read that they themselves sessions that maximize the dynamism of applications. could read back home in a good journal bringing those diverse perspectives into • Develop media resources that could Utilizing the Energy of or online in less time. Some no doubt a single place, and that make the most of include: (1) A practical guide to went on to sessions in which the paper the privilege of face to face interaction in getting one’s sociological work into Interactive Sessions reading took too much time, so that a world that is increasingly dominated various media, (2) Training modules Editing ASA’s Social Stratification there was no time even for a conclusion by electronically mediated communica- for departments interested in teach- Courses: Syllabi & Instructional Material let alone discussion. Others probably tion. I’ll look forward to talking about ing their faculty and students how to (one of several teaching guides in the squinted at regression coefficients buried your best ideas and learning experiences successfully engage the media, and ASA Resource Materials for Teaching) often in hard-to-see overheads and at the meetings, but if you don’t mind, (3) An online list of ways members comes with an invitation to present a PowerPoint presentations, thinking that I’ll read the paper and study the coeffi- have successfully gotten their work workshop at the annual meetings on they would have to wait for the article, cients when I get home. into popular media. teaching about inequality. The first two or read the handout on the airplane, to get the point. Scott R. Sernau, Indiana University-South times, I formed a panel of contributors to Bend, [email protected] References the teaching guide. We had some very Burawoy, Michael, et al. 2004. “Public fine presentations and I enjoyed meeting Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston and hearing from the contributors. This Congressional, from page 5 College.” Social Problems 51: 1: 103-130. time I decided to try something differ- (despite its irrelevance to war appropria- mounting negative publicity and souring Paul Lachelier, a PhD candidate at the ent. I was working with a co-editor and decided that we would co-lead a tions) illustrates the power of the public opinion. Democratic Leader University of Wisconsin-Madison, can be discussion rather than form a panel. We majority to control both content and fate Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats reached at [email protected]. would still invite all the contributors to of legislation. called on reporters to herald their cries join us informally. The second example illustrates how of foul play and unfairness. Another Centennial We had a few of the usual logistic the majority can make the rules favor- The fact that the minority has nothing difficulties. Our room was down a long able to their legislative and political to lose provides a second tool for Much is being made, at least within hallway and hard to find. The room was goals. As Majority Leader, Tom DeLay contesting majority power. Virtually the ASA, of the fact that this year marks set up with microphones up front for a was being investigated for possible every bill introduced by a minority the centennial anniversary of America’s two-person panel and many rows of improper fundraising activities, in a member dies in the doldrums of the pre-eminent professional association of chairs in a deep narrow room. We move to protect their leader, House committee with jurisdiction over that sociologists. That is understandable, rearranged the chairs into a long oval as Republicans seriously considered bill, and many Democrats know that proper and predictable. However, there people came in. In spite of the location changing a rule that forces members they have no realistic chance of getting is another centennial of an event of and the competition of a beautiful sunny indicted by a state grand jury to step committee consideration on their enormous significance to our society and San Francisco afternoon, the room down from their House leadership post. legislation. Taking a “nothing to lose” science that seems to be passing without continued to fill, indicating strong Although Republicans originally enacted approach, Democrats can introduce bills even so much as a footnote. interest in the teaching workshop. I the rule in order to remove indicted that speak to their agenda, without fear I refer to the Niagara Movement. opened the session with a few key Democrats, House Republicans were of political rebuke. Democrats introduce Exactly 100 years ago this July a small themes that emerged from our syllabus willing to rescind the rule if it could save literally thousands of bills that never but potent group of African-Americans guide and some practical ideas that their embattled political leader. Bowing make it out of committee, cognizant of filled with righteous anger over rampant could be taken home, offering a few to political pressure and public scrutiny, the fact that while they will never get racism in America gathered on the handouts of ideas, and then websites Republicans decided not to pursue the credit for passing legislation, they also Canadian side of Niagara Falls to where more could be found as the rule change, but there is little doubt that know that they will rarely get blamed declare war on American apartheid and handouts ran out. But after setting the they could have. for bad legislation. When constituents chart a plan for victory. They were led by tone, we turned to the growing group for complain about the passage of legisla- W.E.B. DuBois, a founder of the scientific their own ideas and struggles in these What’s Left for the Minority? tion (or lack thereof) or budget cuts, study of society in America and argu- key topic areas. Sociologists are never Democrats can always answer that they ably the most important by far. Certainly The fact that Republicans did not hard to get talking and soon the room introduced a bill that would have done no American sociologist contributed push for the rule change shows that the was buzzing with ideas as one partici- well by constituents but that the republi- more to social progress in the 20th majority cannot simply do anything it pant after another built on previous can majority didn’t allow a vote. century. wants. The minority does have some ideas, offered alternatives, or raised new Of course, most Democrats have It was his inspiring unity of theory recourse. Because there is no equivalent questions. sincere intensions with the bills they with praxis in the formation of the to the Senate filibuster in the House, the The discussion could likely have introduce despite the obstacles. One Niagara Movement exactly a century minority lacks a key mechanism for continued all afternoon but about ten senior colleague told me that House ago and its organizational successor, the blocking legislation. Thus, the tools that minutes short of our allotted time, I Democrats like Congressman Honda are NAACP, which ultimately changed the exist for the minority party rest largely ended the session and gave them their the “Don Quixotes” of Congress, course of race relations in America and outside of the formal political process. assignment. This was to find others in because they continue to fight, even if beyond, including the ASA. When trying to overcome majority the room who had offered ideas that there is no realistic chance of gaining Surely such pioneering work in the control, Democrats turn to the public. intrigued them, or who were working on ground. Until Democrats regain control best traditions of sociology is worthy of While the majority might not listen to similar questions, and to exchange cards of the House, they will continue to tilt recognition by the ASA. What better democratic gripes about legislation or and emails. The room was once again against windmills while Republicans occasion and place to accomplish this procedural malfeasance, it does yield to buzzing with animated mingling rule the land. ❑ task than at the centennial conference of media scrutiny and public opinion. By participants—some contributors to the shining enough light on a particular the ASA in Philadelphia, the City of 1 collection, some seasoned instructors, Speaker Hastert has imposed a “majority Brotherly Love, where DuBois founded issue, the minority can pressure the some graduate students seeking new of the majority” rule, meaning that no urban sociology? It also seems fitting majority. What made it difficult for ideas or offering new innovation. Finally, bill shall receive a vote unless the that this role model for sociologists who Republicans to enact a rule change to the very patient people coming for the majority of co-sponsors are Republicans. was so unjustly vilified and harassed by save DeLay’s position were not direct next session managed to chase everyone pleas from House Democrats, but 12 MAY/JUNE 2005 FOOTNOTES
in organizations. Travel funding is avail- Institute for Advanced Study at the gies. Proposal is due June 13, 2005. For United States Institute of Peace invites Call for Papers able to 10 junior scholars. Contact: Pam School of Social Science invites applica- more information, visit
American Council of Learned Societies uisite for this Fellowship. However, if the terests related to the topics of peace, war, Rosabeth Kanter, wrote an article in the married today being higher than during (ACLS) announce the annual Abe Fellow- research project requires language ability, and social conflict. Send applications by March 24 Miami Herald on the suitability any previous war. ship Program competition. The Abe Fel- the applicant should provide evidence of June 15, 2005, to Lynne Woehrle, Chair of of men as CEOs and the ability of CEOs lowship is designed to encourage inter- adequate proficiency to complete the the PWSC Membership Committee, to regain the trust of their peers. Gina Neff, University of California-San national multidisciplinary research on project. Projects proposing to address key Mount Mary College, 2900 N. Diego, was quoted in a March 9 article in topics of pressing global concern. The policy issues or seeking to develop a con- Menomonee River Parkway, Milwaukee, Ross Koppel, University of Pennsylva- the New York Times about work conditions program seeks to foster the development crete policy proposal must reflect non- WI 53222; email: [email protected]; nia, had his lead article on computers and in the video game industry. of a new generation of researchers who partisan positions. Applications must be type “PWSC Award” in the subject line medical error featured in a JAMA (Jour- H. Wesley Perkins, Hobart & William are interested in policy-relevant topics of submitted online at
Mathieu Deflem, University of South Fellowships in the Social Carolina, was interviewed March 16 for a feature on aviation security on WPRO radio, Providence, RI. He was also in two Sciences and Humanities articles in the September 2004 issue of Defense Security & Control magazine.
Scholar Selection and Services Office Morten Ender, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was quoted in the March 15 One Woodrow Wilson Plaza New York Times Health and Science sec- 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW tions about his research on interpersonal Washington, DC 20004-3027 communication media devices used by U.S. military service members in Iraq and E-mail: [email protected] their military families and the implica- Tel: (202) 691-4170 tions for well-being, information over- Fax: (202) 691-4001 load, morale, and notifications of deaths and serious injuries. Ender was also quoted in the Albuquerque Tribune on March 19 regarding the ethnic, racial, and The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars gender distribution of U.S. military ser- announces the opening of its 2006–2007 Fellowship competi- vice members killed in Iraq. tion.The Center awards academic year residential fellowships Amitai Etzioni, George Washington Uni- to men and women from any country with outstanding proj- versity, wrote a letter to the editor on binge drinking among 21 year olds that ect proposals on national and/or international issues. Topics appeared in the March 19 New York Times. and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges Donna Gaines was quoted in a March 21 or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illu- New York Daily News article on the effect mine policy issues of contemporary importance. of MTV on its young fans. She was also interviewed March 23 on WBAI’s Citywatch on suicide, addiction, popular Fellows are provided offices, access to the Library of culture, civil liberties, and faith. Congress,Windows-based computers, and research assistants. Herbert Gans, Columbia University, The application deadline is October 1, 2005. For eligibil- wrote a letter to the editor on race as a social construct that appeared in the ity requirements and application guidelines, please contact the March 20 New York Times.
Center. If you wish to download the application, please visit Richard Hogan, Purdue University, was our Web site at www.wilsoncenter.org. a panelist on WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s roundtable series on U.S. Social Security and retirement on April 4, dis- cussing the history and politics of Social www.WilsonCenter.org Security. 14 MAY/JUNE 2005 FOOTNOTES
Harold L. Wilensky, University of Cali- hancement of cultural awareness at cials and experts on the topic of fiscal sur- send applications and nominations to: fornia-Berkeley, was quoted in an op-ed American University. veillance. Donald Cunnigen, Department of Sociol- Deaths piece in the New York Times on November ogy-Anthropology, University of Rhode 15, 2004, regarding his research on the Kathleen F. Slevin, College of William Island, Kingston, RI 02881-0808. For Marijean Ferguson, Chair of the Depart- politics of taxing. and Mary, was awarded the State Coun- more information, contact Donald ment of Sociology at La Roche College, cil of Higher Education for Virginia Members’ New Cunnigen, ABS Publications Committee died February 25 in Pittsburgh, PA. 2005 Outstanding Faculty Award for con- Chairperson, at: [email protected] tributions in research, teaching and ser- Books Awards vice. In addition, she was awarded Will- iam and Mary’s 2005 Phi Beta Kappa Obituaries Teaching Award. Dean John Champion, Texas A & M In- Patti Adler, University of Colorado, has ternational University, Research Methods Contact been awarded the Boulder Faculty As- Sarah E. Winslow, University of Pennsyl- for Criminal Justice and Criminology, 3rd ed. Warren E. Kalbach sembly Excellence in Research Award for vania, received a 2005 Dissertation Grant (Prentice Hall, 2006). The ASA Latina/o Sociology Section in- (1922-2005) 2005. in Women’s Studies and Women and vites graduate students and new faculty Dr. Warren E. Kalbach, Adjunct Profes- Children’s Health for her work, “Income, Adele E. Clarke, University of California- to participate in a Professional Develop- sor of Sociology at the University Judith Auerbach, American Foundation Employment, and Childbearing: An San Francisco, Situational Analysis: ment Workshop organized by the section of Calgary, Canada, died April 2, 2005 at for AIDS Research, was awarded the Pub- Analysis of Persistence and Variation.” Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn for the meeting in Philadelphia. The lic Leadership Education 2005 Mentor (Sage, 2005). workshop is scheduled for August 12, the age of 82. He was born in Seattle, grew Award. from 1:30 to 5:30 PM. The workshop will up there, and attended the University of Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman, Washington focus on three areas: Getting Through Washington for his undergraduate and Jeff Chin, Le Moyne College, was selected People State University, and Teresa M. Cooney, Graduate School, Getting Published, Get- graduate degrees (BA, 1949, MA, 1953, for the college’s 2004-05 Bea Robinson University of Missouri-Columbia, Fami- ting a Job. Contact Hector L. Delgado at and PhD, 1960). He taught first at Port- Advisor of the Year Award. He was se- lies in Context: An Introduction (Roxbury [email protected] as soon as possible. land State University, where he was the Diane E. Davis, Massachusetts Institute lected for the school’s 2003-04 Richard Publishing Company, 2005). There is no fee to participate. first director of the population research McKeon S.J. Scholar of the Year Award last of Technology, was recently appointed the center. He taught later at the University year. Associate Dean of the School of Architec- Yi Li, University of Illinois, The Structure Library of the Law Institute, Vilnius, of Alberta, Edmonton, and more recently, ture and Planning. and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification Lithuania, needs help to build up its li- at the University of Toronto. He was in- Carol Estes and Charlene Harrington, (University Press of America, 2005) brary holdings in English. The library strumental in establishing population re- Robert Getso, had an article published University of California-San Francisco, currently has fewer than 50 books in the search centers at both of these universi- in the June 2004 issue of International Jour- Keith M. Moore, Virginia Polytechnic received the American Journal of Nurs- areas of criminology and related areas. ties. He retired as Professor Emeritus of nal of the Sociology of Law about his re- Institute and State University, Conflict, ing Book of the Year Award for Health Your contribution is tax-deductible. Send Sociology at the University of Toronto, but search on the institutional model of U.S. Social Capital and Managing Natural Re- Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health books to Algimans Cepas, Director, Insti- he continued to teach and engage in re- Supreme Court decision-making. sources: A West African Case Study (CABI Care Delivery System, 4th edition (Jones tute of Law, Gedimino av 39, Ankstoji str. search at the University of Calgary, where and Bartlett Publishers). Estes also re- Publishing, 2005). he was an Adjunct Professor from 1999 Judy Howard, currently Chair of the De- 1, LT-01109 Vilnius, Lithuania or to Liqun ceived the Betsy Lasor Memorial Lecture- to 2005. He was a specialist in demogra- partment of Women’s Studies and Profes- Peter M. Nardi, Pitzer College, Interpret- Cao, PhD, Department of Sociology, An- ship at Oregon Health Sciences Univer- phy, beginning his work in that area as a sor of Sociology at the University of Wash- ing Data: A Guide to Understanding Research thropology, and Criminology, Eastern sity and the 2004 Hollis Turnham Advo- graduate student in the Population Cen- ington, will become the Divisional Dean (Allyn & Bacon, 2006); and Doing Survey Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. cacy award from the National Association ter at the University of Washington. He for Social Sciences at the University of Research: A Guide to Quantitative Methods, of State Long Term Care Ombudsman. was well known in Canada and also, in- Washington, beginning in September Second Edition (Allyn & Bacon, 2006). ternationally, for his work on Canada’s Amie P. Hess, New York University, re- 2005. population and immigration. He wrote a ceived a 2005 Dissertation Grant in Jill Quadagno, Florida State University, Summer Programs number of books and monographs on Women’s Studies and Women and Suzanne Trager Ortega, currently Vice One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has these topics. Children’s Health for her work, “A Leap Provost for Advanced Studies and Dean No National Health Insurance (Oxford, The NIH Office of Behavioral and So- Dr. Kalbach was inducted into the of Faith: the Politics of Implementation in of the Graduate School at the University 2005). cial Sciences Research is sponsoring a Royal Society of Canada in 1989 and was Abstinence-Only Sex Education.” of Missouri-Columbia, will become the Summer Institute to address essential Barbara Katz Rothman, City University awarded the Outstanding Contribution Dean of the Graduate School and Vice conceptual, methodological, and practi- of New York, Weaving a Family:Untangling Award by the Canadian Sociology and Michael Messner, University of Southern Provost at the University of Washington, cal issues involved in planning and car- Race and Adoption (Beacon Press, 2005). Anthropology Association in 1997. He California, is the 2006 SWS Distinguished beginning in August 2005. rying out research on psychosocial inter- also received the Lifetime Achievement Feminist Lecturer. ventions. The Institute will take place in Harold L. Wilensky, University of Cali- Jonathan H. Turner, University of Cali- Award from the Canadian Ethnic Stud- Washington, DC, from July 18 to 22. For fornia-Berkeley, summarized findings in fornia-Riverside and Jan E. Stets, Univer- ies Association in 2004. Celine-Marie Pascal, American Univer- more information, visit
Joseph Zajda, Australian Catholic Uni- versity, editor, International Handbook on Globalization, Education and Policy Research Global Pedagogies and Policies (Springer 2005).
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