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Volume 44 • Number 3 • March/April 2016 ASA is Seattle Bound! M.Cadigan, E. Carll, C. Gilroy, city. The Sheraton and Convention its designer, James Moore, it was inside T. Marques, T. Thomas, and J. Herting, Center are located in the downtown called Broadway Hill for its main University of Washington, and shopping core. Restaurants, theaters, thoroughfare, still present today. J. McKinney, Seattle Pacific University, and iconic landmarks such as the Broadway Avenue (in addition to 3 Possible Changes to f you simply attempt to enjoy Pike Place Market, the Seattle water- 10th, 12th, 15th, and 19th Avenues) Common Rule ISeattle by staying in or front, Seattle Center, and the continues to sustain much of “the Space Needle are all within Hill’s” cultural and economic How will possible proposed around the Sheraton Hotel walking distance (stop by the engines. This neighborhood is changes to the Common and the Washington State Market to visit the world’s one of the city’s most bustling Rule affect the social Convention Center you first Starbucks and pick up and densely developed residential sciences? will miss a key feature of Seattle: its neighborhoods. a fresh bouquet of flowers). and commercial districts. Unique The topography of Seattle Radiating from this down- restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and 4 Advice for lends itself to the creation of town core are a variety of non-chain retail storefronts are Undergraduates unique spaces defined by a must-visit neighborhoods. main features and the east-west Pike-Pine Corridor epitomizes Preparing for a Job variety of hills, valleys, and water- Venture Out and Discover Search fronts. The long-standing patterns much of the community’s vitality. Capitol Hill. This neighbor- of ethnic and racial segregation, The neighborhood attracts young Recognize the skills a hood is due east of the Convention migrations, and new economic service-industry professionals, sociology degree has given Center, just a 10- to 15-minute dynamics uniquely define a variety educated bar-goers (fed by local you and start your research uphill walk along Pike Street puts of historically distinct, well-estab- universities), and a burgeoning and networking. you on Broadway. Before it was lished, and also emerging features of population of high-tech workers. named Capitol Hill in 1901 by the social and built landscape of the Continued on Page 10 5 Finding Real Value in the Chairs Conference Again and again, one chair finds a community and the knowledge that she needs Report of the ASA Secretary on ASA Candidates for to make it as a sociology department chair. Dues: A Comparative Perspective the 2016 ASA Mary Romero, ASA Secretary, cial burden of paying for “public Election 7 Tips to Harness (Social) Arizona State University goods”—the support of the disci- Media to Promote a n last month’s Footnotes, I provided pline that the Association provides n accordance with election policies Book Ithe membership with data on the on behalf of all sociologists—as Iestablished by the ASA Council, The first tip is that it takes finances of our Association. As well as for important core “pro- biographical sketches of the candi- time and you need to make Secretary, part of my responsibility fessional services” the Association dates for ASA leadership (President yourself available is to keep members informed about provides to individuals who become and Vice-President) positions are the Association’s business matters, members. Progressivity also enables published in Footnotes (see below). members of the Association to col- The candidates appear in alphabet- Using Technology to especially when they directly impact 8 lectively subsidize some categories ical order by office. Biographical Engage Students members. As I reported in January Footnotes, “Member Revenues” of membership, such as students sketches for all candidates will be Technology can help are the second largest source of and the unemployed, in order to available online when ballots are communicate with the Association’s annual revenues fully include them in our national sent to current voting members in students in and out of the and constitute a third of the total. disciplinary society despite limited mid-April. classroom, but tried and (Member revenues are mostly means. Candidates for President-Elect true techniques are also membership and section dues but ASA members have supported important. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva also include what members pay for this principle with their votes. The additional print journals.) elected Council cannot change the Present Professional Position: From the Executive Officer .................2 dues structure or dues amounts Professor and Chair of Sociology, Dues and the Dues Structure1 members pay (except for inflation Science Policy .........................................3 2006-present. For many decades, the ASA adjustments) “without the consent Former Professional Positions: ASA Forum ............................................ 17 dues structure has been based on of the governed,” that is, our vote. Assistant to Full Professor, Texas Announcements ................................. 18 members’ self-reported income. As The dues structure (income bands) A&M University, 1998-2005; Obituaries .............................................. 22 a guiding principle, progressivity was changed by member vote in Assistant Professor, University of tries to have everyone experience 2011 for implementation in 2013. Michigan, 1993-1998. approximately the same finan- Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 6 footnotes • March/April 2016 To view the online version, visit <www.asanet.org/footnotes/marchapril16/index.html> 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org from the executive officer Human Rights and the Scholarly Society: What Is ASA’s Role? n the occasion of the ASA natory to the Universal Declaration one has the right to freedom of because ASA is not a lone voice. Ocentennial in 2005, Council reit- of Human Rights, the International opinion and expression [including Global university leaders need the erated the Association’s “strongest Convention on Civil and Political the right] to hold opinions without support of the international com- support for the basic civil and polit- Rights, the International Covenant interference and to seek, receive munity when support from inside ical freedoms of peoples on Economic Social and and impact information and ideas their own countries is, by necessity, of all nations as articu- Cultural Rights, and the through any media regardless of muted. International standards lated by the Universal European Convention for frontiers.” ASA’s letter was signed by of conduct matter, and commu- Declaration of Human the Protection of Human President Ruth Milkman, past-Pres- nicating publicly in the strongest Rights (UDHR).” The Rights and Fundamental ident Paula England, and President possible voice that the international statement continues, “ASA emphat- Freedoms to protect freedom of Elect Michèle Lamont. ASA also community recognizes the impor- ically endorses these principles of thought, expression, and assembly. joined in signing a letter published tance of modern universities to the basic human rights as fundamental by the Scholars at Risk academic economic growth and international The Larger Context to free scientific inquiry and human network. ASA has widely dissem- standing of a country isn’t nothing. development.” It concludes by stat- Promotion and protection of inated our protests through social But measuring the impact of ing, “At its centenary, the American human rights constitutes a complex media, and we continue to follow human rights at the macro level Sociological Association re-commits arena. Human rights are cultural the actions of the Turkish govern- is notoriously difficult, although itself to vigorous pursuit of these and ideological concepts, but they ment, including the recent firing some encouraging evidence is goals through scientific scholarship, are also legal concepts. When states of the four sociologists who were beginning to appear. For example, international exchange, the freedom become parties to international signatories to the original petition. in an analysis of data from 1981 to of unjustly imprisoned or silenced human rights covenants, they are ASA will continue to work on their 2005 for more than 100 countries, scholars, and active promotion of ratifying treaties that have the behalf both behind the scenes and Wade M. Cole found that becoming human rights.” power of law. But responsibility for through public letters. a signatory to the International This is a laudable and important human rights and for holding actors This is only the most recent Covenant on Economic, Social statement by Council. Not many accountable to uphold the law is action the Association has taken and Cultural Rights resulted in scholarly societies have taken such a not limited to state actors. Council’s and it will certainly not be the last. reductions in income inequality strong public stance. But what does centenary statement implies our Members continue to bring these across a broad range of developed it mean to our Association a decade professional recognition of those situations to the attention of ASA and developing countries (2015). later? responsibilities both to respect and ASA typically takes some In another study drawing on data human rights in our own work as appropriate action, often in collabo- from 140 countries over a 40- year Crisis in Turkey sociologists and to use our science ration