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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 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 with others. period, sociologist Min Zhou (2014) In January, 128 scholars—includ- and knowledge where we can to modeled the way democratization Measuring Impact ing many sociologists—signed a advance human rights. For ASA, it supports international human rights public petition titled “Academics for raises the question about when and What effect will our letter to the regimes that create “commitment” Peace” that called on the Turkish how the Association can and should Turkish have? Not unexpectedly, and “concession” mechanisms that government to resume peace talks become involved with human ASA has received only one response in turn impact the likelihood of in the Kurdish regions of that coun- rights issues in ways that make a to date, from one of the university states formally ratifying interna- try, lift long-standing restrictive difference. It is relatively easy to talk presidents who was copied on our tional human rights treaties. curfews to end the use of military meaningfully about human rights; it letter. The response states, Doing More to Promote human force against citizens, and halt “[i]ts is far harder to do something mean- I received your email and also rights deliberate massacre and deportation ingful. ASA clearly has had scholars’ read the letter shared in your of Kurdish and other peoples in the rights in its sights for a long time. e-mail. Regretfully, we would Research. Research is import- region.” But even here, the situation is like to clearly express that we ant and more is needed. It was Most of the signatories to the complicated by the fact that colleges cannot share the opinions stated encouraged in Council’s centenary petition live and work in Turkey. All and universities in many parts of the in the letter. call for sociologists to vigorously were immediately denounced by the world and are directly controlled Central to understanding this pursue human rights objectives Turkish government which called by governments those governments response is the reality that, in the through their science. The theories them terrorists and traitors and can be the violator of human rights. current political climate in Turkey, and methods of sociology are well opened investigations against them. This is precisely the situation in this university president’s words suited to explore the impact of Several were arrested, others were Turkey. may be a necessary effort to protect human rights treaties, as Cole and fired, still others had their offices Zhou demonstrate. Sociology is ASA Takes Action his university and his own job as searched and cell phones and com- also especially useful for establish- On January 29, 2016, ASA sent much as it may be a reflection of his puters confiscated. According to the viewpoint. ing human rights indicators that online edition of the Turkish Sun, a letter to Turkey’s Prime Minister could define an empirical base for Ahmet Davutoğlu and President Direct responses to our letter 147 scholars are still under investi- are a weak indicator of its potential measuring treaty compliance. And, gation at this time and 17 have been Tayyip Erdoğan denouncing the of course, sociological methods can actions taken against the Turkish impact, which may well be reverber- dismissed from their jobs, including ating in sociology departments and be used to document and publi- at least four sociologists. scholars as a violation of Article 19 cize systematic abuse of human of Universal Declaration of Human academic communities in Turkey These actions are a clear violation and across the globe, especially rights by state actors. For example, of Turkey’s responsibility as a sig- Rights which stipulates that “every- Continued on Page 16

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Census: More than Half of and disability status. In 2015, the and conducting social science religious than men by several key Asians in U.S. Have a Bachelor’s majority of adults, 88 percent, were research.” The agency launched its measures of religious commit- or Higher at least high school graduates and Next Generation Social Science ment, although this pattern is not In March the U.S. Census more than half, 59 percent, had (NGS2) program in March, which universal and can vary by religious Bureau reported that the completed at least some aims to build tools and methods tradition. Overall, women are more percentage of Asians in college. One out of three for rigorous, reproducible social likely than men to be affiliated with the U.S. with a bachelor’s adults reported having at science studies at scales necessary to a religious organization; women degree or higher rose least a bachelor’s degree develop and validate causal models also pray more and are more to 54 percent in 2015, and 12 percent reported of human social behaviors. The inclined to say religion is “very up from 38 percent in having an advanced program will draw upon and build important” in their lives. These 1995, according to a new report, degree, such as a master’s, profes- across a wide array of disciplines— findings come from survey data Educational Attainment in the sional or doctorate degree. For more including sociology, economics, collected by Pew Research Center United States: 2015. In addition, information, visit www.census.gov/ political science, anthropology, and in up to 84 countries that compare Asians and non-Hispanic whites newsroom/press-releases/2016/ psychology, as well as information men and women in several different were more likely to hold a bachelor’s cb16-56.html. and computer sciences. For more aspects of religious commitment. information, visit www.darpa.mil/ However, the report also finds that degree or higher when compared DARPA: Accelerating Discovery news-events/2016-03-04 in some countries and faiths, men with Blacks and Hispanics. The with New Tools and Methods are more religious than women, report uses statistics from the for Next Generation Social Pew Research Center: Women at least by some measures. For Current Population Survey’s Annual Science Generally Are More Religious Social and Economic Supplement to instance, among Muslims and A press release from DARPA than Men examine the educational attain- Orthodox Jews, men are more likely (Defense Advanced Research A new Pew Research Center ment of adults who are age 25 and than women to attend worship Projects Agency stated that “The analysis of international census and older by demographic and social services at least weekly. To read the explosive growth of global dig- survey data, “The Gender Gap in characteristics, such as age, sex, full report, visit www.pewforum. ital connectivity has opened Religion Around the World,” finds race and Hispanic origin, nativity, org/2016/03/22/the-gender-gap-in- new possibilities for designing that women generally are more religion-around-the-world/.

Proposed Changes to the Common Rule — the Protection of Human Subjects John Kennedy, Indiana University, and will provide updates at the Seattle A minor change that will affect research will be exempt. This change Thomas Van Valey, Western Michigan workshop. sociologists minimally is that expe- will allow researchers to collect University The goals HHS gave for changing dited studies will no longer require sensitive, private information, plus tarting in 2011, the Department the Common Rule are related to continuing review. the secondary use of identified Sof Health and Human Services changes in the research process that The proposed changes to the data to be considered as exempt (HHS) began a process to revise have taken place since the Common informed consent documents category so long as strong privacy the Common Rule, which has not Rule was established. In particular, include requiring a list of the most protections are used. While exempt been changed since 1991. Last year, they are 1) to better protect human important information at the top of studies will not be reviewed by the HHS issued a Notice of Proposed subjects involved in research, and the document. That is, information IRB, researchers will be required to Rulemaking (NPRM) which spells 2) to simplify the current oversight essential for the participants to use a decision tool to be developed out the changes being proposed. system and reduce inappropriate determine if they want to participate by HHS to determine if the research This article will briefly review some administrative burdens. In the will be listed first. For sociolo- is exempt. The decision tool has not of the changes directly relevant to process, this should also reduce the gists, these include any reasonably yet been described. sociology and also announces a burden, delay, and ambiguity for foreseeable risks or benefits to the Perhaps the most significant Policy and Research Workshop to investigators, and facilitate valuable participants or others, contacts proposed change is to exclude many be held on the subject at the ASA research. for questions about the research, social and behavioral studies from and a statement that participation any review. The research currently Annual Meeting in Seattle (“What What Kinds of Changes? You Need to Know About the New is voluntary. The NPRM will also considered as exempt (i.e., surveys, Most of the proposed changes Common Rule”). allow researchers to more easily get interviews, educational tests, obser- will affect biomedical researchers The rules are only proposed waivers for signed consent if the vations) would be excluded. More much more than social and behav- at this time, and many organiza- practice follows community norms, information on how researchers ioral researchers. Three areas in tions, including the ASA through and also to use alternate methods will determine if their research is the NPRM that will have the most COSSA, have commented on them for documenting consent for mini- excluded will be released later. impact on sociologists relate to: 1) (see www.cossa.org/2016/01/12/ mal risk studies. changes to the format and layout Some Implications of the cossa-and-members-comment- In the NPRM, many social and of informed consent documents; Changes on-proposed-revisions-to-the- behavioral studies currently classi- 2) many social/behavioral studies The obvious immediate impli- common-rule/). The final rules fied as “Expedited” will be consid- now considered expedited will be cation of the proposed changes will likely differ from the proposed ered as exempt from the regulations. exempt; and 3) many exempt stud- will be a period of time (probably rules. If the final rules are released In particular, the expedited catego- ies will be excluded from review. ries which cover most sociological before the annual meeting, we Continued on Page 18 footnotes • March/April 2016 3 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Preparing for a 21st Century Job Hunt with a BA in Sociology

Jaime Hecht, ASA Academic and employed in social services or as ity is important when doing a job responsibilities of your ideal job will Professional Affairs counselors were also more likely to search. In a recent ASA Department help you understand what would he transition from college to the report overall satisfaction in their Affiliates webinar, Loren Collins, a be expected of you, as well as offer Tworking world can be daunt- careers. And those satisfied with career advisor at Humboldt State some insight on the reality of the ing. For sociology majors. many their jobs report higher use and University, shared the National job. If you look at the job boards of whom helps to translate their application of sociological concepts Association of Colleges and prior to being on the job market, education into meaningful work, in their day-to-day duties. Employers (NACE) examples of the you can begin to research some of the transition sometimes proves While social service jobs may seem top 10 skills employers want. Some the skills and qualifications needed even more complicated. While the like a natural application for sociol- examples are communication skills, for your ideal job and work toward sociology major provides students ogy students, the skills acquired with ability to work in a team, problem gaining them before graduation. Do with a variety of transferrable skills, the degree provide a foundation for a solving, organizational skills, and you see an organization with many it can leave room for interpretation variety of fields. Graduates have gone quantitative data analysis. By exam- openings? Explore their website. on how the sociological skill set on to teaching positions, research, ining this list, it becomes clear that Try to find a person within the orga- and sociological imagination can information technology, public rela- an applicant with a sociology degree nization to contact directly with an prepare students for successful tions, and sales and marketing roles holds many of the traits employers application. Often job boards direct and meaningful careers. Through (ASA 2015). The key is describing want. you to a generic inbox where appli- resumes, cover letters, and inter- how your degree offers the skills The numbers of job postings cations can get lost in the shuffle. views, sociology graduates can employers want. drop significantly when you filter I recommend finding an entry- promote their critical thinking, The task of actually searching for for entry-level positions. It is not level employee holding a position research, and analytic skills, which jobs can feel overwhelming. While a requirement to apply for an similar to one you want for yourself. can be applied to a wide range of everyone needs to log a certain entry-level position right after Ask them for an informational positions. It is my hope that this amount of time searching online, college, so if you see other positions interview. This informal meeting article can serve as a primer for the there are other meaningful and posted, consider applying. Draw is a great way to learn about their 21st century job hunt, and help alle- effective ways you can learn about on job experiences you had during personal experience, how they viate some of the anxiety that often careers, secure interviews, and land college and skills you learned in managed to land their job, and their arises as college comes to an end. rewarding jobs. your courses. Use any internships day-to-day responsibilities. or service work as examples of job Online Job Boards Resources at Your Doorstep (or Do Some Research experience. closer) The good news is that you can Most graduates begin their Experts in the field of recruit- harness the skills you acquire in job search on online job boards. ment and human resources say that Networking is an important part sociology and apply them to a vari- Idealist is a job board on which job boards are a good way to gather of searching for a job. By reaching ety of fields. To get an idea of the non-profit and non-governmental information, but may not be the out to personal connections as kind of jobs that are out there for organizations post directly. Simply final portal to landing a satisfying well as using social media, you can sociology majors, look at research Hired and Indeed are Google-like job. That isn’t to say applicants don’t increase your chances of learning on what recent graduates are doing, job aggregators. They pull together have success applying to a position about job openings, landing an such as the Bachelors and Beyond postings from a wide variety of directly from an online job posting, interview, and receiving a job offer. research series from the ASA company websites, job boards, and but that may be the exception and You should take advantage of Research Department). The brief, newspapers. not the rule. the job search resources you have Jobs, Careers and Sociological Skills: Below are the results from So what else can job boards help in your own backyard. If you are The Early Employment Experiences searches I conducted on Idealist. with? They can assist in learning a current student, find out what of 2012 Sociology Majors (2015), The search terms listed here can about your field of interest. Do you career services your university or reported that the largest number of serve as a starting point for your dream of working as a social media college offers. Talk to your depart- sociology graduates were employed search. manager for a nonprofit? Check ment chair. I stress this point: use in social services or as counsel- The term “sociology” yielded very out some of the job posts in this the free resources available on your ors (21.9%). Interestingly, those few results, which is why creativ- field. Getting a sense of the daily campus. Ask about job training and internships and resume writing and interview workshops. Search terms # of jobs posted (filtered for # of jobs posted (filtered for 4-year degree and full time) on full time, 4 year degree, and Talk to your professors about Idealist entry-level) on Idealist your interests and what you hope to do with your degree. It is possible they have a former student who sociology 138 4 now works for an agency aligned program assistant 2,703 232 with a field of interest. Even if they research assistant 1,468 168 don’t have a contact, they could social media 1,077 94 serve as a professional reference or write a recommendation for gradu- case management 753 53 ate school. education 4,514 354 LinkedIn: Get on it! Networking social services 2,183 169 is important and LinkedIn can serve as a starting point. I have spoken *search conducted on 12/16/15 and includes results from the United States only Continued on Page 18

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Julia McQuillan, University of had perspectives that were broader changed the cost-sharing for the successes. Long story short, in June Nebraska-Lincoln than most faculty. We no longer online program, and I needed to I found out I was going to stay on f the many occupations I aspired thought primarily about our careers, figure out a better approach to bud- as chair. Did I go back to the ASA Oto as a child, “Department but about the whole department. geting. I wanted a winning strategy Chairs conference? Yes indeed I did. Chair” never came to mind. It didn’t We were aware of the need to be to garner more alumni donations. This time during breakfast I even sneak in during graduate knowledgeable about higher educa- Our undergraduate program was had a great surprise: one of my school or my early faculty years. tion policies and trends in general, trying to increase internships and first undergraduate students was Yet, to my great surprise, in July plus the need to read handbooks, student engagement. I had ques- now a new department chair. We of 2012, I switched from planning bylaws, and legal-ish e-mails from tions about more beneficial faculty reminisced and then started talking courses and big research dreams university administrators. All of evaluations, and I wanted to talk about what we hoped to get out (after directing our department a sudden I was supposed to know through challenges and see what of the workshop. I wanted ideas survey research unit) to learning how to ask alumni to give money others were doing... Plus, I wanted about how to have more balance how to be a department chair. I felt and to make critical decisions about information on helping our alumni (some teaching and research as overwhelmed and scared. I wanted needed resources. with job searches. And, how could well as chair work), learn to let go to maintain the success of my dear I was surprised how helpful it was I get more majors? I was happy more (delegating responsibilities department. to hear about issues that I should be that I did attend. I felt fortified to and prioritizing), and new insights The former chair forwarded thinking about (but was not) and to finish the APR (Academic Program to help with the ongoing budget, to me ASA’s “Chairlink,” which realize things about my department Review) and energized to charge staffing, retention, majors, commu- described the Chairs pre-confer- I should be grateful for. ahead with the exciting opportunity nication, and department climate to lead a great department. issues. In 2015, we were hiring in ence. I signed up right away. Returning for More the area of sexualities, and I was I don’t remember the exact I attended the Chairs Conference Practice Makes Perfect? program in August 2012, but I excited that the workshop would again the next year because a year A few months into the following have a round table discussion know that each speaker and activity as chair brought up new concerns semester I forgot much of what I provided useful information. In on making a department more that I wanted help with. I’ll admit had learned. I didn’t ask for as much LGBTQA friendly. I liked to think, addition, talking to colleagues over that the first semester was so rough help as I should have from col- meal breaks was invaluable. I had as a feminist and a gender scholar, I wanted to quit academia, not leagues to prepare the APR report. that my department was in good little questions (how do you find just being chair. The second time I I was teaching a graduate methods a last-minute instructor? When shape, but I wanted to make sure. attended the Chairs Conference I seminar to help the department but What I learned at the conference should I cancel a class? How do had new questions and even words forgot how time intensive it was. We I keep up with e-mail?) to big led me to consider ways to make the of wisdom to pass on to the chairs had a new dean who was full of new department, including syllabi and questions (how much should I starting out. It was fun to engage ideas—leading to more e-mails and focus on online classes? How do I classes, more inclusive and welcom- in “gallows humor”: (a) you had a meetings. By November I had had ing. I also listened to chairs who handle dual-career issues? What graduate student not show up? We enough I sent an e-mail telling the can I do to increase majors? What have served in their position for a had one quit mid-semester! (b) you Dean and the Department that, after while discuss pacing and picking about finances?) I received multiple got your copy paper budget cut? three years of service, I was stepping answers, perspectives, and frame- challenges to work on in a reason- We lost all of our distance educa- down the next summer. able sequence. works for thinking about all of these tion money that was paying for our In the subsequent months, I put questions and questions I had not temporary instructors; (c) You had more of what I learned from the Still Learning even though of. In addition, I real- four graduate assistants in a 3 desk Chair Conference into practice. With my fourth Chair ized I was not alone. Everyone was office? We had our emerti faculty No longer worried about failing, I Conference, in addition to knowl- dealing with multiple challenges, all share an office; (d) You lost asked for help and delegated more. edge learning and community few had had administrative training your part time office assistant? Our I did what I thought was best for discussions, I added a new reason to handle a million dollar budget, 30-year office administrator retired the department (even when others to attend: time for reflection and public relations, personnel manage- – and we had to figure out the secret grumbled) and prepared the office thinking through a vision for the ment, and institutional bureaucracy. administrative assistant network, and files for the next chair. I enjoyed coming year. During the meet- Networking how to get the best classrooms, how the glowing APR report from our ing I wrote notes about goals and In addition to the excellent pro- to get people paid on time, how to external team, and reveled in the thinking creatively about the bigger gram, speakers, and table topics, it handle tricky hiring paperwork, and changes we were making based on picture. I realized that too often I was great to talk to other people who more. Top that! data and analysis done during the was stuck in day-to-day crises and had similar foci and needs. Even for- Twice. That should be enough. APR. I felt a little sad that I would issues (Is the promotion letter to the mer chairs in my department could Right? I should have fun in the not be helping to hire new faculty dean done? Did you finalize the fac- not necessarily understand the cur- conference city rather than attend and would not shepherd some ulty meeting minutes? Did you cap rent situation due to rapid changes another Chairs Conference? Well, faculty through promotion to asso- the online class? Did you review the in higher education. (Our former I went a third time. I still did not ciate or full. I wondered if I could documents for the college meeting chair had become an associate dean, feel that I had a full handle on being let go of thinking about teaching with the Dean? Finish the Human making some conversations subject a chair. I was working on being schedules, investing in research Resources hiring paper work? to conflicts of interest.) pre-emptive so that I did not have to ideas, and finding creative solutions Approve the teaching assignments?) Spending time with other do retention offers. I wanted more to issues such as work/life balance, and neglected to think about the department chairs—new and expe- diversity in our program. We had dual career, nominating people for big picture. I decided to use the less revenue because the university awards, and celebrating department rienced—was delightful. Attendees Continued on Page 12 footnotes • March/April 2016 5 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

Election color-blind society and discipline, we Indiana University, 2007-2008. Candidates for Vice From Page 1 must be willing to consider enacting Publications: Cheng, Simon and President-Elect race-conscious policies today. Race Brian Powell. 2015. “Measurement, Education: matters in both clear and subtle Methods, and Divergent Patterns: Vincent J. Roscigno PhD, University ways and we must tackle forthrightly Reassessing the Effects of Same-Sex Present of Wisconsin, the multiple ways in which it does. Parenting.” Social Science Research Professional 1993; MA, Despite our limitations, sociologists 52:615-626; Hamilton, Laura, Position: University of should not shy away from becom- Claudia Geist, and Brian Powell. Distinguished Wisconsin, 1987; ing “patriots of humanity” as 19th 2011. “Marital Name Change as a Professor of Arts BA, University of century Puerto Rican sociologist Window into Gender Attitudes.” & Sciences in Puerto Rico-Rio Eugenio María de Hostos advocated. Gender & Society 25:145-175; Powell, Sociology, Ohio Piedras, 1984 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Sociologists can bring clarity to Brian, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia State University, Positions Held numerous debates and can do so Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman. 2010. 2012-Present. Vincent J. Roscigno in ASA: Committee on Nominations, without partisanship or compromis- Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations Former 2010-11; Council Member of ing social scientific standards. We are and Americans’ Definitions of Family. Professional Positions: Professor of American Sociological Association, not Comtean priests with singular New York: Russell Sage Foundation/ Sociology, Ohio State University, 2003-2006; Member of ASA Public access to the truth, but our work American Sociological Association 2005-2012; Associate Professor of Understanding of Sociology Award and actions can contribute to build Rose Series; Cheng, Simon and Brian Sociology, Ohio State University, Selection Committee, 2001-2003; a more democratic, inclusive, and Powell. 2007. “Under and Beyond 2001-2005; Assistant Professor of Chair of Section of Racial and Ethnic humane world. Another sociology is Constraints: Resource Allocation Sociology, Ohio State University, Minorities, 1999-2000; Editorial possible! to Young Children from Biracial Columbus, OH, 2001-2005. Board of Contexts, 2007-2010. Families.” American Journal of Education: PhD, North Carolina Brian Powell Offices Held in Other Sociology 112:1044-1094; Hamilton, State University, 1996; MS, North Organizations: President-Elect Present Laura, Simon Cheng, and Brian Carolina State University, 1991; BA, Southern Sociological Society, 2017- Professional Powell. 2007. “Adoptive Parents, University of Arizona, 1989. 18; Associate Editor of Sociology of Position: Chair, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Positions Held in ASA: ASA Race and Ethnicity, 2015-Present; Department Importance of Biological Ties for Program Committee, 2015 and Editorial Board of Social Currents, of Sociology, Parental Investment.” American 2016 Meetings; ASA Publications 2014-Present; Advisory Editor of Indiana Sociological Review 72:95-116. Committee, 2012-2015; Co-Editor, Social Problems, 2014-Present; University, Personal Statement: I take an American Sociological Review, 2007- Publications: Bonilla-Silva, Bloomington, optimistic view of the ASA and its 2009; Outstanding Dissertation Eduardo. 2015. “More Than IN, 2014-present Brian Powell members. The ASA includes an Award Selection Committee, 2004- Prejudice: Restatement, Critical Former impressive group of sociologists 2006; Outstanding Graduate Paper Reelections, and New Directions Professional Positions: James H. Rudy who excel in so many aspects of our Award Committee, Organizations, in Critical Race Theory.” Sociology Professor of Sociology, 2008-Present; profession and who give me great Occupations & Work Section, 2006. of Race and Ethnicity. 1(1):1-15; Affiliated Faculty, Kinsey Institute, optimism about the discipline’s Offices Held in Other Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2013. Indiana University, 2013-Present; future—even during a period of Organizations: Founding Co-Editor, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Affiliated Faculty, Department of time when the discipline, the ASA, Social Currents, Journal of the Racism and the Persistence of Racial Gender Students, Indiana University, and higher education face daunting Southern Sociological Society, Inequality in America (4th ed.). 1986-Present challenges. The ASA must be fully 2013-Present; Executive Committee, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield.; Education: PhD, Emory University, inclusive and transparent in serving Southern Sociological Society, Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2012. “The 1984; MA, Indiana University, 1980; its members—whether they are 2009-2013; President, Southern Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The BA, Hobart College, 1976 employed in liberal arts colleges, Sociological Society, 2009-2010; Racial Grammar of Everyday Life Positions Held in ASA: ASA research universities, applied set- Committee on the Profession, in Contemporary America.” Ethnic Vice-President, 2012-2013; ASA tings, or elsewhere; whether they are Southern Sociological Society, and Racial Studies. 35(2): 173-194; Council Member, 2012-2015; Chair, students beginning their academic 2004-2007; Committee on the Status Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2004. “From ASA Section on Social Psychology, career or sociologists who have of Women, Southern Sociological Bi-Racial to Tri-Racial: Towards a 2011-2012; Chair, ASA Section reached retirement; whether they Society, 2001-2004. New System of Racial Stratification on Sociology of Education, 2009- are motivated primarily by teach- Publications: Roscigno, Vincent in the USA.” Ethnic and Racial 2010; Member, ASA Publications ing, research or advocacy; whether J., Julia Miller Cantzler, Salvatore J. Studies. 27(6): 931-950; Bonilla-Silva, Committee, 2002-2005. they assign greater importance to Restifo, and Joshua Guetzkow. 2015. Eduardo. 1997. “Rethinking Racism: Offices Held in Other disciplinary concerns or to broader “Legitimation, State Repression and Toward a Structural Interpretation.” Organizations: Board Member, social policy. As someone who is the Sioux Massacre at Wounded American Sociological Review. General Social Survey Board of committed to quality teaching, K n e e .” Mobilization 20:17-40; 62:465-480. Overseers, 2015-Present; Board research excellence, and meaning- Byron, Reginald and Vincent J. Personal Statement: The sociolog- Member, Council on Contemporary ful public engagement and who Roscigno. 2014. “Relational Power, ical imagination is mighty powerful, Families , 2011-2012; Founding has worked with small liberal arts Legitimation and Pregnancy but it is not almighty. Sociology, for Member, Teaching and Learning colleges, research universities, and Discrimination.” Gender & Society instance, needs to address its “race Introductory Sociology (TLIS) applied settings, I look forward to 28:438-462; Roscigno, Vincent J., problem.” Race, like all social cleav- Network, 2010-Present; Member, representing, promoting participa- Diana Karafin, and Griff Tester. 2009. ages, shapes deeply our personal lives National Science Foundation tion among, providing transparency “The Complexities and Processes and how we transact our sociological Sociology and Dissertation Advisory to, and advocating for the ASA of Racial Housing Discrimination.” affairs. Accordingly, if we dream of a Panel, 2002-2004, 2006-2008, 2009- membership. 2010; President, Phi Beta Kappa, Continued on the Next Page

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The following article is one of many included in the ASA Task Force on Social Media’s Promoting Sociological Research: A Toolkit, which provides tips and testimonials about promoting sociology. Tips for Promoting a New Book Abigail C. Saguy, University of months after publication, to spend voices and quality of ideas we hear current events related to the topic of California-Los Angeles on book promotion tasks. It also in the world.” Not only did this my book. Thus, when the American y first book, What Is Sexual meant being willing to drop every- workshop provide me with an effec- Medical Association (AMA) decided MHarassment? From Capitol thing if an opportunity, say, to write tive crash course in op-ed writing, to define obesity as a disease, TIME Hill to the Sorbonne, based on my an op-ed presented itself. but it also came with year-long asked me to comment. I had many doctoral dissertation, came out in In September, when my book access to mentors, who would read other demands at the moment, but 2003. At the time, I was an assistant was in press, I began planning for and comment on my drafts within I dropped everything to write 550 professor and feeling pressure to the January 2013 release. I reached 48 hours. words on the topic. show that I was making headway on out to supportive colleagues to help As pressures to be thin and diet- Following this publication, the a new, postdissertation project. I was organize author-meets-critic panels ing were important themes in my U.S. News and World Report asked also negotiating the demands of car- at regional conferences, including book, I saw the upcoming New Year me to take part in an online debate ing for a new baby. As a result, I did the Pacific Sociological Association celebration and associated resolu- on the same topic. Via listservs, I not feel that I could afford to spend and the Southern Sociological tions as a great hook for an op-ed encouraged colleagues working on too much time promoting my book, Association, and at UCLA. I also piece. As this was an event that similar topics to vote and was grat- something that I regretted later. submitted my book for consider- could be predicted with certainty, it ified to receive the greatest number After spending a decade research- ation for an author-meets-critic provided me with ample lead time to of votes of the seven contributors! ing and writing a book, it’s a shame panel at the 2014 ASA meeting and write, solicit feedback, rewrite, solicit During this time, I also created a not to spend the time necessary to was deeply honored that my book more feedback, and rewrite again. Facebook page and Twitter account make sure that book gets as wide an was among 19 books (out of 350 After several drafts, “Why we that I updated regularly with inter- audience as possible! submissions) to be accepted. I let Diet” was published in the Los esting links related to the topic of my When my second book, What’s my colleagues at other universities Angeles Times op-ed section on book. At one point, I had an under- Wrong with Fat?, was published know that I would be delighted to January 4, 2013. I continued writing graduate research assistant help in 2013, I vowed not to make the present a book talk in their seminar op-eds in the months that followed, identify and post relevant content. I same mistake. This time, I promised series. including a piece on “size profil- created a personal webpage, where I ing”—the tendency of doctors to posted the first chapter of my book myself, I would give myself permis- Becoming a Media Source sion to spend time promoting the assume that any ailment suffered and links to media coverage. Importantly, I enrolled in an by a heavy patient is due to their book. For me, prioritizing the work all-day workshop on op-ed and Publishers Help of book promotion was the first step weight without doing proper tests— other public writing, provided by in the Washington Post. Oxford University Press and to success. This meant reserving the Op-Ed Project, a “social venture UCLA publicists also worked some time each day, during the first As I published more, editors founded to increase the range of began to seek me out to comment on Continued on Page 17

Election junior scholars and graduate stu- of Minnesota, (GSS), 2016-2020; Minnesota From the Previous Page dents; U.S. and international scholars; 1995-2001. Department of Corrections Human and those on the tenure track, those Education: Subjects Committee, 2009-2015; Social Problems 56:46-69; Roscigno, holding adjunct/lecturing positions, PhD, University Executive Secretary, American Vincent J., Donald Tomaskovic- and those who are in more applied of Wisconsin, Society of Criminology, 2003-2009; Devey, and Martha Crowley. 2006. arenas—find nothing short of a sup- 1995; MS, Associate Editor, Law and Society “Education and the Inequalities of portive, nurturing organization with University of Review, 2003-2006. Place.” Social Forces 94:2121-2145; a forward-thinking leadership and an Wisconsin, Publications: McLaughlin, Roscigno, Vincent J. and Randy open ear. Such inclusivity in principle 1990; BA, Christopher Uggen Heather, Christopher Uggen, and Hodson. 2004. “The Organizational and practice is essential for the ASA University of Amy Blackstone. 2012. “Sexual and Social Foundations of Worker to thrive. Indeed, if elected, I would Wisconsin, 1986 Harassment, Workplace Authority, Resistance.” American Sociological carry this as the guiding principal Positions Held in ASA: Public and the Paradox of Power.” Review 69: 14-39. into all formal and informal responsi- Understanding of Sociology American Sociological Review Personal Statement: I am truly bilities of the Vice President. Award Committee, 2014-2016; 77:625-47; Massoglia, Michael honored that I have been nominated Chair, ASA Section on Crime, and Christopher Uggen. 2010. Christopher Uggen for the position of Vice President Law, and Deviance, 2014-2015; “Settling Down and Aging Out: of the ASA—an organization Present Professional Position: Editor, Contexts, 2008-2011; ASA Toward an Interactionist Theory that reflects many voices and that McKnight Professor of Sociology Publications Committee, 2008-2011; of Desistance and the Transition to continues to play an important part and Law, University of Minnesota, Nominations Committee, Section Adulthood.” American Journal of in my ongoing excitement about 2006-present. on Crime, Law and Deviance, Sociology 116:543-82; Manza, Jeff, the “doing” of sociology. If elected, Former Professional Positions: 2010-2011. and Christopher Uggen. Locked I will strive to insure that the many Professor of Sociology, University Offices Held in Other Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and faces of our field—including those of Minnesota, 2005-2006; Associate Organizations: Editor and Publisher, American Democracy. 2006, 2008. underrepresented in our ranks; at Professor of Sociology, University TheSocietyPages.org (with Doug New York: Oxford University Press; large research and smaller liberal arts of Minnesota, 2001-2005; Assistant Hartmann), 2010-present; Board of Uggen, Christopher, and Jeff Manza. institutions; senior and especially Professor of Sociology, University Overseers, General Social Survey Continued on Page 17 footnotes • March/April 2016 7 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Teaching and Technology

Maxine P. Atkinson and Emily Medina, enthusiastic about discussing the for students. Class time can be saved In short, there are technologies North Carolina State University points he made (www.ted.com/talks/ for tasks that need to be accom- that can effectively be used for facul- o instructors, student engagement richard_wilkinson?language=en) plished face-to-face. There are also ty-to-student communication both several technologies that can be used inside and outside class and stu- is an is an important issue. With Communication in the T to encourage student-to-student dent-to-student interaction inside advances in technology, there are Classroom greater options, but determining the interaction. Learning management or outside the classroom. So, what’s There are also technologies systems contain the ability to create the rub? None of the technologies best approach can be overwhelming. designed for classroom use that Landon Schnabel, in a TRAILS essay group discussions. Persell (2004) can be effectively used without care- can encourage faculty/student or provides an exemplar of structured ful consideration and planning. We (2014), provides a useful organi- student/student communication zational scheme for exploring and web-based discussions that proved must know what we want students within the classroom. Our favorites to be quite effective. Social media to accomplish, and we have to assess discussing the pedagogical uses of include Google apps like Google technology. There are at least four and online discussion boards can be whether the technologies we choose Docs and Google Slides. These are used to engage students with different help our students meet our planned categories of technologies based on free apps, and several students can whether you are considering using preferences for participation. Social learning outcomes. There are no work on the same document or slide media like Facebook Groups can be magic bullets. technology inside the classroom at the same time. In large classes, used to elicit discussion, especially for References or outside and whether you need “clickers,” Poll Everywhere, or Top a technology whose primary use is students who may not feel com- Hat can be used to take attendance, fortable participating in large-class Andrist, Lester, Valerie Chepp, Paul Dean, communication and Michel V. Miller. 2014. “Toward provide a discussion. from faculty reading quiz, a Video Pedagogy: With a Teaching to students or Technology on the Side Typology with Learning Goals.” Teaching Technology should not or compile Sociology 42(3):196-206. between and student Technology should not neces- necessarily be our first plan of Atkinson, Maxine P. and Kathleen S. among students responses to sarily be our first plan of action, and faculty. action, even in large classes. Tried Lowney. 2015. In the Trenches: Teaching questions you even in large classes. Tried and true and Learning Sociology. New York, NY: In the and true teaching techniques, such construct. Poll teaching techniques, such as discus- W.W. Norton. Classroom as discussion and informal writing, Everywhere sion and informal writing, can be Hill, Andrea, Tammi Arford, Amy Lubitow, and Leandra M. Smollin. 2012. “I’m Let’s start can be used in any discipline to and Top Hat used in any discipline to encourage are applica- engagement and deep thinking. Ambivalent about It”: The Dilemmas with technol- of PowerPoint.” Teaching Sociology encourage engagement and deep tions that allow There are also many activities spe- ogy that we 40(3):242-256. thinking. students to cifically designed to teach sociolog- can use inside Pertz, Tal H. and Michael A. Messner. use their own ical concepts that can be effectively our classrooms 2013. “Stand Up/Sit Down Structure to get across a devices and used even in large classes. For and Agency Activity.” Class Activity message. The technology that imme- appear to be gaining in popularity example, Peretz and Messner (2013) published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. diately comes to mind is PowerPoint because students do not have to buy created a classroom activity to teach an additional piece of equipment, social structure and individual Washington DC: American Sociological (or Prezi or Keynote). There is a Association. (http://trails.asanet.org) reason that everyone knows the and they are less likely to forget agency by asking students to stand their own phones and laptops. up or sit down depending upon the Persell, Caroline Hodges. 2004. “Using phrase “death by PowerPoint.” Don’t Focused Web-based Discussions to go there! But PowerPoint can help Of course, there are serious dis- conditions under which they chose Enhance Student Engagement and Deep focus a discussion, present charts and advantages to encouraging students to take the class in which they are Understanding.” Teaching Sociology 32(1):61-78. tables, and embed engaging visuals to actively use their devices in class. enrolled. This activity can be used and video clips (Hill, Arford, Lubiow, They are quite likely to be distracted with up to 300 students. Check Schnabel ,Landon. 2014. “Technology in the Traditional Classroom.” Essay and Smollin 2012). PowerPoint is by the opportunity to use social TRAILS and Teaching Sociology for media for something other than class research-based teaching methods. published in TRAILS: Teaching Resource not as useful in presenting detailed and Innovations Library for Sociology. purposes. You have to decide how to See Atkinson and Lowney (2015) information. Articles and books still Washington, DC American Sociological offer the best solution for complex handle that, but we know of no way for a more extended discussion of Association. (trails.asanet.org). and detailed evidence and arguments. to assure that students will not try to teaching and technology. In addition to PowerPoint, we find multitask other than to make sure an amazing array of YouTube videos, that they are provided with multiple Special Announcement! TED Talks, and videos. Sociological opportunities for engagement. In Cinema (www.thesociological- our small classes, we ban phone and cinema.com) is a rich resource for computer use unless we specifically videos and film clips (see Andrist, request students to use them. If you Chepp, Dean and Miller 2014). Used are using a “clicker” type technology thoughtfully, these technologies can and are asking students to respond help keep student attention focused multiple times during the class, ban- on your topic and can powerfully ning devices is not practical. illustrate basic sociological concepts. Outside Class Communication For example, Richard Wilkinson’s Learning management systems 2011 TED Talk on global inequality or course websites can be used to is both informative and appeal- provide information or instructions ing. Students in our classes were

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Michelle M. Camacho, Fellow, American ing our itinerary (when Ghana with my Council on Education was eliminated and Morocco anti-climactic n January of 2015, I boarded the added, I scrapped our analysis of response that IMV Explorer ship as a faculty cash crops and added sociolog- the best we member of the Institute for ical examination of the tourism can do is listen Shipboard Education industry.) Preparing each course and learn and Semester at required immersion from resilient Sea (SAS) program, in the socio-polit- communities, then operating ical and historical and take our under the academic narratives of each activist efforts sponsorship of country we would home to analo- the University of visit. In researching gous social Virginia (UVA). materials for the problems. Sociology of Food From the port of San Co-Curricular class, for example, Diego we crossed Challenges The Semester at Sea students at a Cape Town Community Kitchen the Pacific with 700 I learned about the Rohingya Muslim I had students, 35 faculty, long been a minority population ship, as is true in all institutions 50 administrative skeptic about the merits of visiting Michelle Camacho on the Semester and the difficulties of higher education, it is clear staff and 150 crew ports for short jaunts, contrasted at Sea ship near coast of Cochin, India of accessing a Halal that a transformational leader sets members on board. with a full semester abroad in diet in Myanmar. the tone through programming, In 112 days, we a single country. How can one In Capetown, South Africa, I anticipating challenges, empower- circumnavigated the globe visiting fully experience the high impact designed a practicum to inves- ing faculty to follow the lead, and Japan, China, Vietnam, Myanmar of cross-cultural understanding tigate contemporary urban food producing a climate that breeds (Burma), India, South Africa, that comes with international Namibia, Morocco (for about insecurities. For that field lab, an mutual respect and belonging. NGO leader walked us through exchange in a timeframe that feels 5-6 days each), and disembarked more like a vacation? Yet, there is Ship Life Challenges in England. True to the mission his township, demonstrating the value in the comparative scope, On the ship privacy is an of the program, the experience scarcity of fresh produce, as we even for a short interval. It is a imagined space unless one can reshaped my understanding of the had read about. He surprised great privilege to have access to a tolerate the isolation of a small world and my own sense of self us by inviting us to an informal wide-range of spaces, to begin to cabin. As a woman professor I’m within it; however, not in ways I home-brewing and offered us develop more informed questions used to keeping my work/life had predicted. I am often asked, tastes from the shared bucket of after spending time reading about balance in check by maintaining “Would you do it again?” sorghum beer crafted by women entrepreneurs. We asked questions and studying each, and to be able silos around each. Choosing to Academic Challenges about, and optionally tasted, the to sociologically consider the his- bring my family on the voyage Though hired 18 months in “smiley” (smoked sheep’s head) torical conditions that construct was an odd, but a life-changing, advance, I did not grasp the sold for $5 USD, open-air on a current issues. challenge. My eldest daughter significant time required to design street corner. What I did not realize was that took courses on the ship, and my my three Sociology courses so In the Methods of Social Inquiry the SAS experience is more than spouse homeschooled our other they would align with our ports of course, we practiced participant the sum of its ports; it is like living children. I gave public lectures for call. This was particularly difficult observation at a Zen meditation on another campus for a semester. the evening academic program- as the risk of Ebola kept chang- temple in Kamakura, Japan, and UVA leaders on the ship referred ming, and for the first time in their at the end of the course, students to our voyage on an “academi- lives my family attended my talks. were required cal village”—a term coined by Not many know that I’m a certified to develop a Thomas Jefferson to capture the fitness instructor as a hobby, and proposal for holistic learning experience as it it was a pleasure to offer group the Fulbright transcends the classroom. With exercise courses for the shipboard Scholar such a large shipboard community, community, even when the waves program. activated by the pulsating enthusi- rocked us wildly. Many excellent My greatest asm to learn, one might think that faculty, staff, and crew members challenge was a healthy campus climate would became close friends (it’s a rare gift teaching Social be ensured. Not exactly. At one to develop new deep friendships Inequalities point, two other professors and mid-life). And I would be remiss in a context I were asked by the resident hall not to mention the hundreds of where students leaders to offer evening program- bright and curious students that hoped to arrive ming to address the toxicity of also inspired me, and from whom at a destination racism and bias-incidents on the I learned new skills. It’s taken me and “make a ship itself, and to offer a frame- almost a year to fully process the difference.” work for reflecting on our relative immersive experience. But the They were privileges as outsiders in each port. answer is, “yes!” In a heartbeat, I Semester at Sea students learning and listening at a Burmese school. disappointed Reflecting on academic leader- would do it again.

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Seattle the most ethnically diverse zip codes the middle valley From Page 1 in the U.S. Originally one of the bounded by First main locations for the indigenous Hill and Capitol Capitol Hill has housed the coun- Salish people, the Rainier Valley Hill to the west tercultural element of Seattle from Electric Railway linked Columbia and Madrona the 1950s and ‘60s through the Kurt City to downtown Seattle in 1891 and Leschi to Cobain grunge period and into the and brought new (white) settlers the east (about current eclectic and modern music into the valley. Restrictive covenants two miles on Bus scene. You will find multi-color elsewhere in Seattle mostly bypassed #27 which you bows and banners that read “You Columbia City, keeping the neigh- can pick up near Are Welcome Here” and similar- borhood ethnically diverse. Through the Convention ly-styled crosswalks that celebrate most of the 1900s this area was the Center). In solidarity with the LGBTQIA com- home of various immigrant groups. the late 1800s Fisherman’s Terminal, located in the Ballard-Interbay neighborhood, is home to the North Pacific Fishing Fleet. Photo: Alabastro Photography munity. The neighborhood wrestles Early European waves of immigra- the CD was a over issues of affordable housing, tion, as well a largely post-WWII predominantly Avenue came to be known as “Film income inequality, and gentrifica- African American migration, settled Jewish neighborhood. It has also Row.” The film industry in Belltown tion. The area in Columbia served as a long-time home to remained a central feature of this is marked by City. In the Seattle’s African American commu- neighborhood through the 1960s. key landmarks Affordable and classic latter part nity, which grew rapidly imme- The only remaining screening room including of the 1900s diately post-WWII. In the 1960s, is the Jewel Box Theatre opened in two original housing stock brought minority it became a civil rights activists like Edwin 1926 and located on 2nd Avenue in the Olmsted green- professionals, artists, gay and destination Pratt fought to end segregation in Rendezvous Bar. Currently undergo- belt projects lesbian couples, and “urban for Asian and schooling and housing in Seattle. ing massive redevelopment, Belltown (Volunteer and pioneers” in the 80s and 90s to South Pacific Community organizations like the has seen triple digit population Cal Anderson create one of the most unique migrants as Central Area Motivation Program growth since 1990. New apartment Parks), well as recent (now called Centerstone) date from buildings and high rises are continu- Lakeview neighborhoods in Seattle. African this period and continue to be ing to emerge as the city experi- Cemetery immigrants active. The neighborhood has more ences vast economic growth and a with its and refugees. recently become home to Seattle’s resurgence of downtown living. With notable residents Bruce and Economic depression and increasing thriving Ethiopian community, now this neighborhood revival brings new Brandon Lee as well as Kikisoblu crime between the 1960s and ‘80s among the largest in the United boutiques, top rated restaurants, and (Princess Angeline), the Seattle drove many out of the neighbor- States. The Central District is pubs. Belltown’s Olympic Park along Asian Art Museum, St. Mark’s hood. A strong grassroots organiza- primarily residential, with a variety the waterfront on the Western span Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle Central tional movement formed to reverse of wood houses that are among the of the neighborhood offers sweeping Community College, and Cornish the neighborhood decline, building oldest in the city. The recent eco- views of the Puget Sound and the College for the Arts. safer streets, improving local busi- nomic booms in Seattle has led to Olympic Mountains and hosts a Columbia City. About four miles nesses, and designating historical gentrification in the neighborhood, sculpture exhibit run by the Seattle southeast of the Convention Center status to part of the main North- with the pace and visibility of change Art Museum. is Columbia City (take Seattle’s Link South corridor (Rainier Avenue). and issues of affordability for long- Ballard. Northwest of the Light Rail), a trendy and gentrifying Affordable and classic housing stock time residents increasing in recent Convention Center (about three old neighborhood located in one of brought minority professionals, years. Small businesses line the miles from downtown and a #40 bus artists, gay and les- thoroughfare of 23rd Avenue, with ride through Fremont) sits Ballard bian couples, and soul food and Ethiopian restaurants on the Lake Washington Ship Canal “urban pioneers” in along Cherry Street. Cultural insti- waterway. Formerly the home of the the 1980s and ‘90s tutions include the Langston Hughes Shilshole people of the Duwamish to create one of the Performing Arts Institute housed Tribe, Ballard was originally known most unique neigh- in a landmark building and former as an erstwhile Scandinavian borhoods in Seattle. synagogue, the Pratt Fine Arts fishing town. The first recorded Gentrification and Center, and the Northwest African European migrants arrived in 1862 rising housing American Museum. and Ballard incorporated as an costs in Seattle Belltown. Belltown lies between independent town in 1890 and was have altered some the iconic Space Needle and Pike annexed by Seattle in 1907. Ballard’s features of the Place Market. It is a 10- to 15-minute original population migrated to neighborhood, walk from the Convention Center to work in lumber and fishing. Once yet Columbia City its southern starting point. Originally considered the “shingle capital remains a true Denny Hill, the hill was sluiced in the th th of the world,” deindustrialization melting pot. late 19 and early 20 centuries to a brought economic hardship to the Central District. much lower height and developed area in the 1970s and ‘80s, before it The Central into a low-rent, semi-industrial th rebounded with Seattle’s burgeoning District (CD) is a district. In the early 20 century, tech industry of the 1990s. Today’s diverse and rapidly Belltown became a hub for screen- Ballard has many of the markers of changing neigh- ing rooms and movie-distributors. an established, in-demand neigh- Pioneer Square, Seattle’s “first neighborhood,” is known for its borhood, located in By 1910, Virginia Street and Third Renaissance Revival architecture. Photo: Alabastro Photography Continued on Page 12

10 footnotes • March/April 2016 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association The Sociology of Migration and Understanding Recent Transformations in U.S. Anti-immigrant Sentiment Steven Gold, Michigan State University Longstanding Anti-Immigrant tance of immigrants and refugees, Basing his campaign on the negative Views however, proved to be fleeting. effects of immigration and endors- he United States often celebrates By the late 1970s and early 1980s, ing the “Save Our State” Proposition its status as a nation of immi- Putting beliefs on immigration T a revival of calls for restrictions 187, which sought to deny an array grants. It is the number one immi- into historical context can help us on immigrants was documented. of benefits for undocumented immi- grant destination in the world, with realize how we got to where we are A 1979 Gallop poll revealed that grants, Wilson was able to mobilize a foreign-born population compris- today. The historical record reveals th 57 percent of the public opposed voters and win re-election (Zolberg ing 41 million persons, 61 percent that from the late 19 century until admitting the Vietnamese boat 2007). Prop 187 was approved by a of whom have entered since 2000. the dawn of the Cold War, hostil- people and majority of In recent years, however, vitriolic ity towards immigration has been 32 percent white, black, characterizations of immigrants significant and often incorporated favored their and Asian and draconian plans for their into governmental action. An array admission. voters and exclusion have been floated by of laws, including the Johnson Reed In a March enjoyed the political candidates to a surprisingly Act, excluded immigrants from 1982 Roper support of receptive public. While the U.S. various countries and capped the Survey, 66 nearly a third extended refugee status to 3 million total number of entrants to 150,000 percent of of Latinos, persons since 1975, only about 28 annually from the 1920s until the those polled despite its percent of the American public passage of the Hart Cellar Act of said they targeting currently endorses the continued 1965. In July 1938, two-thirds of wanted Mexican admission of Syrian refugees. Only Americans surveyed agreed with the immigration migrants as 1,854 Syrian refugees—mostly proposition that “we should try to cut back the source of single mothers and their children— keep them out” regarding political and only 4 California’s have been granted entry between refugees fleeing fascist states in percent said social and 2012 and September 2015. Recent Europe—the vast majority of whom they wanted economic expressions of hostility towards were Jewish (Tharoor 2015) more aliens admitted (Harwood troubles. immigrants and refugees and the From the dawn of the Cold War 1986). Following the success of anti-im- adoption of an anti-immigrant until the late 1980s, international The staying power of the bipar- migrant mobilization, California platform by the Republican Party concerns rather than public opinion tisan consensus on immigration voters were provided the oppor- are regarded by editorial writers drove U.S. immigration policy. As can be seen in the passage of the tunity to express their hostility and other pundits as evidence of research has found, seeking to dis- Immigration Reform and Control towards benefits for immigrants a fundamental transformation in credit communism, rules regarding Act of 1986 (IRCA) signed into (and others) in an anti-affirma- American attitudes towards migra- immigration and the admission of law by President Ronald Reagan. It tive action proposition (Prop 209 tion (Fox 2014). Is anti-immigrant refugees were implemented by a provided permanent residency to of 1996), and an anti-bilingual sentiment a recent phenomenon? bipartisan Washington consensus. approximately 2.6 million formerly education measure (Prop 227 of If so, what is the source of this dra- Within this context, the admission undocumented immigrants who 1998), both of which passed. While matic transformation? of several million persons from had been living in theUnited States Proposition 187 was declared Sociologists and other scholars Cuba, Southeast Asia, and the prior to 1982, and for the first time unconstitutional, the electoral of migration have much to offer Soviet Bloc, together with generous penalized employers for hiring rewards generated by appealing to our understanding of changing support for their resettlement, was undocumented workers. to popular hostility to immigrants attitudes towards immigration. quickly approved. were clearly demonstrated by the They have studied popular reactions During the 1950s and 1960s, Politicization of Anti- success of the Wilson strategy. towards international migration the Cold War context and unprec- immigration Movements edented prosperity did reverse a Since then, the advent of cable for decades, among a wide range of A few years after the passage degree of popular antipathy towards news, the Internet, and social media groups and locations, under various of IRCA, local and international the admission of migrants and have created additional venues for social and economic conditions, political events had the effect of refugees. In 1965, efforts to appeal anti-immigrant sentiments. Their using diverse methods (Gold and unraveling consensus on immi- to recently independent nations mobilization has shaped the fate of Nawyn 2013). Contrary to the dra- gration. The collapse of the Soviet and the pro-equality climate of the individual candidates, legislative matic pronouncements of editorial Union in 1991 meant that the Cold Voting Rights Act, which passed agendas, organizations and social writers, sociologists often refer to War agenda lost its influence as the that same year, resulted in the movements on the local, state, and institutional and historical reasons major factor shaping bipartisan pol- enactment of the relatively unpop- national level. to account for public perceptions icy. This opened the door for using ular Hart Cellar immigration bill. However, just as Governor about the place of immigrants in resentment against immigration as This bill removed nationality quotas Wilson discovered the political American society. Sociologists a wedge issue on the local, state, and and played a major role in increas- rewards of cultivating anti-immi- might attribute these sentiments national level. ing the arrival of immigrants to the grant sentiment, other prescient to the increased opportunity of Pete Wilson, incumbent governor United States. (even as its framers observers found that mustering the individuals, social movements, and of California who was doing poorly assured the public that it would not votes of first-generation citizens political organizations to elicit and in the polls as he faced reelection transform the demography of the and their allies became easier in the reward such opinions through an in 1994, demonstrated the electoral American people). wake of anti-immigrant mobiliz- array of forums that have become potential of anti-immigrant opinion. Popular support for the accep- available only recently. Continued on Page 12 footnotes • March/April 2016 11 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

Department Chairs department, and what other depart- From Page 5 ments are thinking about and doing Seattle explore, including Fremont (or to advance sociology and the success “The Center of the Universe” conference for reflection as well as From Page 10 of our research and our students. complete with a bridge troll and knowledge accumulation. In addi- The most valuable way for me to borhood: good restaurants and an authentic Soviet-era statue tion, I tried to be open to my blind have a retreat from the day-to-day bars (found on Ballard Avenue of Vladimir Lenin), Pioneer spots and limitations. What was I pressures of running a department or Market Street), a year-round Square (Seattle’s first neighbor- not even thinking about that could and to think about a vision for the Sunday farmers market, and hood known for its Renaissance be helpful for my department? future of my department is to go to new high rises (with high rents). Revival architecture and home Carving out time to think big pic- the ASA chairs and directors work- Ballard has a vibrant Folk and of the Seattle Underground), the ture, learn from others, talk things shop. Where else can I get concen- Americana music scene mixed International District (the center through, and look at issues from trated, fruitful information on how with local Seattle indie rock at of Seattle’s Asian Community new angles was refreshing. Plus, to improve as a chair and to support the notable Tractor and Sunset and the Panama Hotel, featured looking back was a touchstone: what department members? I have no Taverns. It is also the home of the in the novel Hotel on the Corner had I implemented in the last year? idea and I don’t need to worry about Hiram M. Chittendon (Salmon) of Bitter and Sweet), and South What had I handled well? What it. I get “booster shots” from the Locks—where it is possible to Lake Union (home to the Gates could I do better this year? Department Affiliates webinars, but observe salmon on their annual Foundation and Amazon). There Will I go next year? That is my not the valuable casual networking migration “run” and a fair num- is no subway (mass transit was plan. I need to be re-exposed to new that comes from in-person conversa- ber of non-migratory weekend defeated in the late 60s) but the ideas and solutions because our tions. Therefore, if you are a new or kayakers from mid-June through bus system isn’t bad and it’s a department priorities shift year to returning department chair, I hope September. great place for a walk on either year. In addition, I want to know the to see you in Seattle the day before Of course there are many a sunny or typical Seattle nearly larger trends, how ASA can help my the formal meetings start. other notable neighborhoods to rainy day.

Anti-Immigrant uencies calling for such changes. and longstanding among wide Handbook of Migration Studies, London and New York: Routledge. From Page 11 Even with the widely observed swaths of the public. The reasons opposition between Republicans for its recent acceptability might be Harwood, Edwin 1986 “American Public ing (Portes and Rumbaut 2014). and immigrant communities, the partly attributable to opportunities Opinion and U. S. Immigration Policy” Hopeful Democrats assume that The Annals of the American Academy political landscape is not immune to express opposition to immigra- of Political and Social Science, Vol. 487, favorable demographics might turn to change. Factors such as the tion in a manner that would have Immigration and American Public Policy "red" states with significant migrant short attention span of voters, the been politically unacceptable prior (Sep): 201-212. populations such as Texas and appeal of new agendas, and the to the 1990s. In this way, analyses Portes, Alejandro and Ruben Rumbaut Arizona "blue," thus brightening imagination of political opera- presented by sociologists and other 2014. Immigrant American: A Portrait 4e. long-term prospects for their party tives have been known to redirect scholars of migration can help us Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of in environments where it currently public opinion in short notice. The account for changes in popular California Press. holds little sway. successes of Ted Cruz and Marco views of immigration. Suro, Robert 2016 Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in the Iowa Caucus suggests Rubio Made History. Didn’t You Hear? Current Impacts References New York Times, February 3. that Latino candidates—albeit ones In retrospect, there are several who minimize their linkage with Fox, Lauren. 2014. Anti-Immigrant Hate Tharoor, Ishaan 2015. “What Americans Coming From Everyday Americans. US thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of outcomes reflecting the increased immigrant communities (at least politicization of anti-immigrant News and World Report. July 24. World War II” Washington Post, wapo.com when campaigning in heavily white November 17. Golash-Boza, Tanya. 2011. Immigration attitudes. First, the politicization of primary states)—may appeal to anti-immigrant sentiment has been Nation?: Raids, Detentions and Zolberg, Aristide, 2007. Immigration voters who recently embraced xeno- Control Policy: Law and Implementation. a successful strategy, at least in the Deportations in Post-911 America 2011. phobic agendas (Suro 2016). Paradigm Publishers. Pp. 30-42 in Mary Waters and Reed Ueda short term. Just as the adoption with Helen B. Marrow (eds.) The New Finally, because President Gold, Steven J. and Stephanie J. Nawyn. and encouragement of an anti-im- Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 2013. The Routledge International Obama’s administration has main- 1965. Cambridge, Harvard. migrant agenda turned the tide for tained an unprecedented program Governor Wilson in 1994, so has of immigrant deportation, which it mobilized voters in a variety of remains a source of conflict with other locations. the very constituencies who are Send Us Your News Despite the growing demand for seen as insuring Democratic Party harsh anti-immigrant policies, few dominance, good relations with Were you recently promoted? Have of the goals of such movements— pro-immigrant constituencies could including the denial of basic rights potentially disintegrate (Golash- a book published? Or were you and public services for undoc- Boza 2011). quoted in the news? Did you win umented immigrants, the mass The degree of anti-immigrant an award? Or maybe you know about a funding deportation of migrant populations, sentiment currently displayed in the suspension of “birthright citi- U.S. society is sizeable and strongly opportunity or want to promote your meeting to zenship,” and other measures—have felt. However, despite aphorisms other sociologists? Send your announcements to been implemented. This is largely about America’s status as “a nation because these matters are beyond of immigrants,” evidence of Footnotes at [email protected]. the influence of the electoral constit- anti-immigrant sentiment is clear

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ASA Dues more than $100,000, received higher to $85,000 in 2015 paid $14 more Management (AOM), which are From Page 1 increases: $66 more if you earned in real dollars than they had paid 13 national scholarly societies often under $125,000, $91 if you earned years earlier; and so on, progressively, mentioned by ASA members in Prior to that, the income bands had between $125,000 and $150,000, until members earning at the top comparison to ASA. We will discuss not been changed for 16 years, not and $116 for those earning above end of the ASA income categories these two comparisons below since 1997. 2 The number of income $150,000 ($150,000 or more) paid $104 more because they are not as similar to bands was increased in 2013 from in dues in 2015 than in 2002. ASA, AAA, or APSA as one might Where are we now? six to nine because inflation had initially think. changed the structure of sociolo- There are three very reasonable How do ASA dues compare gists’ incomes since the mid-1990s questions I hear from members as with similar social science Sociology, Anthropology and and the number of ASA members do others on Council: associations? Political Science. reporting they were in the top dues • How much have ASA member To answer this question takes a The ASA, AAA, and APSA all category ($70,000+) was becoming dues increased over the last little more interpretation because we have income-based dues structures a majority of the membership. ASA decade? need to decide what the compara- for regular members and they have members earning $70,000 a year tive framework is. Over many years, roughly similar dues ranges. ASA • How do ASA dues compare were paying the same dues as those the American Anthropological dues range from $50 to $360; AAA’s with those of similar social making over $150,000. Members Association (AAA), the American from $60 to $326; and APSA’s from science associations? also voted in a new “Unemployed” Political Science Association $45 to $320. These associations category in 2011 (effective 2012) • How do ASA member dues (APSA), and the American have similar lower-income dues and the “Emeritus” category was compare with what we get for Sociological Association (ASA) have amounts, but they have somewhat expanded to allow any retired them? engaged in a variety of self-compar- larger dues differences in the top sociologist to join the Association at isons and provided these to their income categories. ASA’s are slightly How much have member dues a reduced rate rather than just those members. Why these associations? more progressive by having both increased? who had been long-term members. This comparison has been custom- more dues bands and higher dues Actual dues amounts changed The best timeframe for address- ary because all are core national amounts at the top of the range 3 modestly as a result of the 2011 ing this is 2015 compared to 2002. disciplinary societies in the social (incomes of $150,000 or more). membership vote. For those report- The data are in Table 1. Column sciences and are quite similar in the Lower income members. ASA ing incomes from under $20,000 a (7) shows that members reporting size of memberships and annual and APSA have similar subsidized year to $39,999, the dues amounts annual incomes of less than $70,000 budgets, as well as the range of dues categories for Student and increased $10 or less beginning experienced dues increases over services we provide to our members Unemployed members, which enable in 2013; for incomes reported at the last 13 years in real (or con- and those we engage in on behalf of them to be full members of their $40,000- 69,999, the increase was stant) dollars from $6 to $8 dollars. our respective disciplines. national disciplinary societies for $13 to $16; for $70,000-$84,999 Students paid $4 more. Table 2 provides this compar- modest amounts ($50 and $52 for incomes, the increase was $26; Factoring in the 31.7 percent ison. The table also includes the students and $50 and $45 for unem- from $85,000-$99,999, it was $46. inflation rate across this period, ASA American Economic Association ployed, respectively). AAA does not Members who reported incomes members who earned from $70,000 (AEA) and the Academy of Continued on Page 14

TABLE 1 (1) (4) (6) (7) (2) (3) (5) 2002 Dues 2015 Dues Dues Paid in Actual Dues Paid 2002 Dues 2002 Dues 2015 Dues Categories by Categories 2015 Compared to In 2015 Compared Amounts with Amounts in Amounts with Self-Reported Added in 2011 by Dues Paid in 2002 to Inflation Adjusted Included Journal 2015 Dollars Included Journal Income* member vote (5)-(2) 2002 Dues (5)-(3)

Unemployed $50 ($5) ($23)

Under $20,000 $55 $73 $80 $25 $7

$20,000-$29,999 $55 $73 $80 $25 $7

$30,000-$39,000 $89 $117 $125 $36 $8

$40,000-$54,999 $132 $174 $180 $48 $6

$55,000-$69,999 $170 $224 $230 $60 $6

$70,000 and Over $186 $246 $70,000-$84,999 $260 $74 $14

$85,000-$99,999 $280 $34

$100,000-$124,999 $300 $54

$125,000-$149,999 $325 $79

$150,000 and Over $350 $104

Students $35 $46 $50 $15 $4

*Last dues structure change voted in prior to most recent change voted in 2011.

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ASA Dues $100,000 or more, these associa- means. This is more evident for ASA AOM) and this impacts AEA’s dues From Page 13 tions have three income bands to and APSA, but all three organiza- structure and amounts. AEA’s dues determine the dues amount. The tions do this to some extent. are low and the structure simple. distinguish graduate students or the categories are the same for ASA Middle range income members. It has three income categories (less unemployed from other members; and AAA; in each band ASA has a This roughly covers a range of than $70,000, $70,000 to $105,000, people in both these groups select higher dues amount than AAA (dif- $40,000 a year for ASA and APSA and over $105,000) and three dues an income category and pay the ferences from $34 to $45). All three and $25,000 for AAA to $100,000 amounts that are within a $20 range same dues amounts as anyone else.4 APSA dues amounts are lower than for all three organizations (Table 2). ($20, $30, $40 respectively). This means that AAA’s graduate either ASA or AAA. The dues for If you earn $40,000, your dues are How is this possible? It is the students and the unemployed pay members earning $100,000 or more $185 for ASA membership, $174 for result of AEA’s major revenue higher dues than comparable mem- are from $310 to $360 (a $50 range) AAA (difference of $9) and $145 for source. AEA publishes EconLit bers in ASA and APSA, although for ASA; from $265-$326 (a $61 APSA (a difference of $40). If you which is an electronic index that APSA has a two-year limit for the range) for AAA; and $241-$320 (a earn $54,999 you still pay $185 for includes 120 years of economic Unemployed and ASA does not. $79 dollar range) for APSA. The top ASA and you pay $204 for AAA and literature and to which most For regular members earning dues for the three organizations are $170 for APSA (a $34 range). If you academic, government, and other less than $40,000, APSA has a flat $360, $326, and $320 (a $40 range). earn $80,000, you pay dues of $267 research libraries and institutions dues amount of $98 and ASA has When comparing the bottom for ASA, $235 for AAA, and $207 subscribe.(www.aeaweb.org/econlit/ a range of $80 to $125. AAA has a and the top of the dues structure for for APSA (a $60 dollar range). index.php). According to an AEA range of $60 to $138 for incomes these three national social science Secretary-Treasurer, the revenue Economics and Academy of under $25,000. If you earn less than organizations, the progressivity produced from EconLit is suffi- Management. $30,000 you pay $80 to join the principle is evident: lower income cient to subsidize most (probably ASA; $98 to join the APSA; and members pay less and higher The American Economic all) of AEA’s expenses; therefore, from $60 to $174 to join AAA. income members pay more, reflect- Association (AEA) has very differ- AEA’s policy is to set dues and Higher income members. For ing a policy of temporarily subsi- ent revenue structure from ASA, members reporting incomes of dizing dues for members of limited ASA, and APSA (as well as from the Continued on the Next Page

TABLE 2

American American American Political Academy of American Economics Assn. Sociological Assn. Anthropological Science Assn. Management (AEA) (ASA) Assn. (AAA) (APSA) (AOM)

Professional, grad Regular $ $ Professional $ Academic& Exec All $ student, & retired

Unemployed $50 Unemployed^^ $45

80 <20,000 $60

30-39,999 125 20-24,999 138 <$40,000 98

40-54,999 185 25-49,999 174 40-49,999 145

55-69,999 236 50-74,000 204 50-59,999 170 <70,000 $20

70-85,999 267 75-99,000 235 60-79,999 186 $182*** 70-105,000 30

85-99,999 288 80-99,999 207 >105 40

100-124,999 310 100-124,999 265 100-134,999 241

125-149,999 335 125-149,000 296 135-199,000 271

150,000+ 360 150,000+ 326 >200,000 320

Associate 103 ~150** 45

Student 50 Undergraduate only 35 52 91***

International* 55 30 40

Over $25,000^ 66 Emeritus 50 91 Under 25,000 40

*from low income countries. ** dues + one mandatory section= full dues amount. ^ must have 25 years of continuous APSA membership; ASA anyone may be a retired member regardless of past membership. ^^ two year limit; ASA no limit.. *** 38% of ASA regular members’ dues are the same or less than AOM dues. ASA students pay 45% less than AOM student members and, unlike AOM, ASA student members are full voting members of the ASA.

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ASA Dues and students do not join every and use of sociology to society. of Social Science Associations From the Previous Page professional organization for the This broad and long-term view (COSSA), the National same reason. Some sociological of ASA’s mission encompasses Humanities Alliance (NHA), member journal subscriptions at a associations (often smaller ones ASA as professional association and and the Council of Professional minimum. than ASA with lower dues) focus on national scholarly society for the Associations on Federal From the services side, AEA a subsection of the discipline such whole discipline of sociology. This Statistics (COPAFS); focuses largely on its role as a as those in a geographic region or implies that while ASA focuses its • intra- and inter-disciplinary publisher. Beyond its chief paid staff scholarly specialty (such as regional resources on serving its dues-paying activities at the national and member (the Secretary-Treasurer), sociological associations, Population members, it does so in ways that international levels through who is part time and always an Association of America, American also impact professional sociologists ASA’s organizational mem- economics faculty member at Society of Criminology). Some have who are not ASA members, the bership and active partici- Vanderbilt University, most of AEA’s particular disciplinary perspectives discipline itself, and (hopefully) the pation in the International other paid staff focus on publica- (such as Sociologists for Women in larger public and policy makers. Sociological Association (ISA), tions: AEA’s paid editors and staff Society, Association for Humanist Because of this, ASA does not have American Association for of its eight journals and EconLit; a Sociology, Association of Black one internal member constituency the Advancement of Science publications manager, administra- Sociologists). They differ from but many, and they are all active (AAAS), and the American tive officer, and conference manager. the ASA in that ASA is a national within the Association. (ASA has Council of Learned Societies The membership of AEA’s govern- disciplinary society recognized by one of the highest voting rates in the (ACLS). ing “Executive Committee” reflects bodies such as the International association world.) • communication of sociological this primary publications mission. Sociological Association (ISA) A few illustrations of what ASA’s scholarship to the public and The Executive Committee is com- as the national association for constituencies ask for: posed of 11 appointed members policy makers through ASA sociology in the United States. • the highest quality scholarship (Secretary-Treasurer, publications press releases to our national That position conveys a somewhat through ASA’s extensive jour- director, eight journal editors, and media network, connecting different mission for ASA, one nal publishing program and the managing director of EconLit) journalists with sociologists that overlaps with and is some- ASA’s small grants program to and 10 elected members (President, who can speak authorita- times different from those of other fund scholars who are advanc- President-elect, 2 Vice Presidents, tively via our Member Expert sociological associations. While all ing the discipline (FAD); 6 members at large). (See www.aea- national disciplinary associations Database, actively engaging in web.org/AboutAEA/board.php.) focus on scholarly publications, • the highest quality scholar- social media, and developing a While it stretches the term to annual meetings, and member ship of teaching and learning dynamic new website; call AEA’s dues structure “progres- communications, most also engage through journals and the • support of sociology depart- sive,” the Academy of Management in a wider range of services for their peer-reviewed digital library of ment chairs through the ASA (AOM) explicitly eschews progres- members, support all members of teaching materials (TRAILS) Department Affiliates (DA) sivity. It has a single dues rate or their disciplines (whether or not as well as our competitive Program, Chairlink and chairs “flat tax” of $182 for all full mem- they are association members), and teaching enhancement fund listserv, the ASA Department bers. For students and emeriti (who engage in disciplinary advocacy of (TEF) small grant program to Resources Group of trained are not full voting members), AOM many types. These are activities that fund creative teaching; consultants, ASA research, has a second flat dues rate of $91. It are not necessarily done by other • research-based knowledge about and Interfolio ByCommittee as has a strong international mission types of scholarly associations. the profession and discipline a recruitment and hiring tool (just under half its membership is ASA is both a scholarly society through the ASA Research for DAs; from outside North America as are and a professional association. Department which has a high • support of at-risk sociology more than half its journal submis- There are undoubtedly some ASA success rate in securing com- departments by preparing sions) and its services side reflects members (and non-members) who petitive grants from federal extensive, tailored letters of this. The AOM Annual Report men- would prefer ASA to be a traditional agencies and foundations and support drawing upon empir- tions the activities of its 25 divisions scholarly society and focus narrowly in publishing its results; ical national and comparable and interest groups, two of its four on its publications, annual meetings, • support of students through department data developed journals, its 5-day annual meeting, and sections (probably adding in the ASA Minority Fellowship by the ASA Research and electronic communications today’s world the Job Bank and core Program (MFP)—financially Department; among its 20,000 members. governance functions such as disci- supported by regional and In short, there is not much orga- plinary awards). But ASA members • support of retired sociologists specialized sociology societies nizational comparability between and their elected leaders have not through the Opportunities in as well as the ASA, the Student ASA, AAA, and APSA on the one taken that perspective across most of Retirement Network (ORN) Forum and Honors Program, hand and AEA and AOM on the the Association’s history, especially that was started by retired and specialized publications other that would encourage dues since the 1950s. The broader direc- retiring ASA members and is (e.g., ASA Guide to Graduate comparisons. tion for guiding ASA’s activities and now institutionalized; Departments, Independent services is reflected in ASA’s Mission How do ASA member dues Variable), and access to • support of community engaged Statement, which includes compare to what we get for Interfolio Dossier, TRAILS, sociologists through the ASA them? • Serving sociologists in their and ASA Job Bank; Community Action Resources work, Initiative small grants This is undoubtedly the crux • advocacy for federal research program; of dues issues in any membership • Advancing sociology as a sci- funding through our exten- organization. Why are we paying ence and profession, and sive efforts as a governing • support of high school teachers for our membership? And what are • Promoting the contributions member of the Consortium of sociology through devel- we getting? 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Vantage Point Organizational leadership. and its applications” across the scientist who had been invited to From Page 2 ASA has been working to pro- full spectrum of sciences from present at the Annual Meeting. mote human rights through our sociology to physics. The results In December of 2010, three years sociologist Patrick Ball, founder of role as a founding member of of this study were presented at the after ASA filed suit in the U.S the Human Rights Data Analysis the Science and Human Rights United Nations in Geneva and District Court in Boston, with the Group, employs rigorous social Coalition (SHRC) of the American have informed the work of the concerted effort of the ASA, the science methods to bring truth Association for the Advancement U.N. Committee on Economic American Civil Liberties Union, the and accountability to human rights of Science. The SHRC was founded, Social and Cultural Rights moving American Association of University abuses across the globe. in part, to bring scientists’ voices to forward. They recently received Professors, the American-Arab Member the consid- additional funding from the Open Anti-Discrimination Committee, activities. eration of Society Institute for a pilot study and the Boston Coalition of The ASA ASA has a history of fighting for the meaning expanding their work to interna- Palestinian Rights to overturn the Section on of Article tional scientists. State Department’s action then Human Rights, the right of ASA members to hear 15 of the International contacts and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham founded in and engage with foreign scholars at International cooperation are recognized in the Clinton signed orders ending his 2010, works our meetings. Covenant on language of Article 15 as essential exclusion. within the Economic to scientific advancement. They also ASA can be proud of our record Association Social and develop and sustain the professional in human rights, but we must also to actively Cultural and personal networks that support continue to use the strength of our “promote and support critical, Rights. Article 15 states that all the fight for human rights over professional association as well interdisciplinary, and international people have the right “to enjoy the the long run. For several decades as our disciplinary theories and engagement with human rights benefits of scientific progress and through successful proposals to methods to urge, as Council said in scholarship, teaching and practice, its application.” ASA Director of the National Science Foundation its centennial statement, as well as to foster human rights Academic and Professional Affairs (NFS), ASA has provided com- all governments to resist approaches to the sociological Margaret Weigers Vitullo worked petitively awarded travel funds to attempts to restrict scientific enterprise.” The section currently closely with Jessica Wyndham, support U.S.-based scholars attend exchange within and across has more than 250 active members Director of the SHRC, on a study the International Sociological national boundaries and to and each year offers a graduate stu- of scientists from 17 different Association (ISA) congresses that actively promote dialogue, dent paper award and the Gordon disciplinary groups to consider take place every four years. Since debate and discussion across all Hirabayashi Human Rights Book the meaning of the right to “enjoy Council’s centennial statement barriers to communication and Award. the benefits of scientific progress alone, we have enabled 164 sociolo- collaboration, and to uphold gists to attend the ISA through the the spirit and the substance NSF travel funds. of the articles of the Universal Council also ensures that there Declaration of Human Rights are opportunities within the ASA to technical expertise the Association and other international ASA Dues encourage international exchange needs to do so. agreements that affirm the From Page 15 and the development of professional ASA could choose to continue importance of full equality of relationships. In 2008 ASA estab- opment and publication of to have progressive but lower dues. all peoples and cultures; social lished the International Affiliate the ASA National Standards It could not do this, however, and and personal security; health membership category for scholars for High School Sociology a continue to serve the internal care and education; freedom to residing in non-OECD countries. national listserv of high school constituencies or the Association’s join trade unions and otherwise Council has a policy of holding the sociologists, and a new perma- larger disciplinary mission that the assemble; a just wage and an ASA Annual Meeting once a decade nent High School Program; membership has encouraged and adequate standard of living; in Canada. Council also provides and the freedom to participate • ethical support of sociologists financially supported since at least th substantial financial support to in and benefit from scientific affected by potentially uneth- the middle of the 20 century. every Program Committee to ensure advancement. ical professional behavior by Endnotes that it can bring international ASA members; and References 1 March 11, 2011, Footnotes. “ASA Council scholars to present and engage at • support of at-risk scholars Proposes Revised Dues Structure for meetings. Cole, Wade M. 2015. “International Human through letters of concern Member Approval.” Fighting in court. Bringing Rights and Domestic Income Inequality: signed by the ASA President(s) 2 There was a member approved change to international scholars to our A Difficult Case of Compliance in World the dues in 2002 that involved payment Society.” American Sociological Review on behalf of the membership meetings, however, isn’t always 80(2):359-390. to governmental, political, or for journal but not the income bands; the as easy as it sounds, especially comparison of 2015 with 2002, therefore, Zhou, Min. 2014. “Signaling Commitments, institutional leaders both inter- is more comparable than going back to as the visa policies of the United Make Concessions: Democratization and nationally and in the U.S. compare with 1997. States have grown more stringent state ratification of international human These are member-driven activ- 3 2002 was when the last substantive since 9-11. But ASA has a history rights treaties, 1966-2006. Rationality and Society 26(4):475-508. ities with the active engagement change in what members received as of fighting for the right of ASA of staff. ASA has not increased its membership benefits changed before the members to hear and engage with change voted on in 2011. 2015 is the last foreign scholars at our meetings. Sally T. Hillsman is staffing level in several decades year for which we have inflation-adjusted the Executive Officer (about 27 to 29 FTEs), but has dues amounts. In 2007, for example, the U.S. Department of State denied a of ASA. She can be changed the type of staff in order to 4 AAA has a $35 membership category for visa to Professor Adam Habib, a reached by email at meet the challenges of ASA’s mission undergraduates. executive.office@ st prominent South African social in the 21 century and to provide the asanet.org.

16 footnotes • March/April 2016 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association BlackLivesMatter: “Where Is the Outrage?” he attention given to the current Scholars are asking social science bers of these organizations display surveillance warrant a response, I Tstate of institutional racism across organizations, “Where is the out- their institutional affiliations proudly ask “Where is the outrage?” many of the nation’s college campuses rage?” Indeed, the appreciation of at annual meetings and conferences, The supporters of is painful to read and hear. Yet, the the support provided by many can’t which raises the question, “Where is “BlackLivesMatter” protestors need silence of the masses of social science be underestimated. The continued the outrage?” to know that that they are “heard” organizations that cries, “I’m sorry that The members of social science by the social science organizations, routinely shout for this is happening organizations who are from a diverse which they have supported for years. social justice, an to you,” and “I wish population working at predomi- The focus on “the new face of social end to institutional I could help” are nately white institutions are often movements” at several conferences discrimination, and helpful. However, in faced with unfavorable judgments this year is a reminder that talking other social ills is 2016, it’s not enough of their intellect, authenticity, and and activism are not synonymous. screeching like nails and in reality it credentials—on a daily basis—from The protestors at institutors of across a chalkboard. Where is the never was. The power of educational well-meaning students, colleagues, higher education and loyal support- outrage? institutions that proudly claim and administration. ers of the social science organiza- The protest, “BlackLivesMatter” is “social justice” and “diversity” while The contemporary research of the tions need to ‘hear’ the voices of more than a cry from the count- allowing practices and policies that struggles these faculty and student the organizations that they have less mothers that have lost their injure the psychological well being organization members face to main- historically supported. The question, children to violence at the hands of students and faculty of color is tain their careers, livelihood, and “Where is the outrage?” and “Where of representatives of the state. The disheartening and disingenuous. wellbeing remains unaddressed in a is your voice?” demands a 2016 protest, “BlackLivesMatter” is bigger In concert with these “social justice ‘meaningful way’ by the social sci- response that is louder than the pro- than the violence and brutality that flag waving institutions of higher ence organizations that these mem- testors on college campuses who are has left a trail of scars on the black education” are the numerous social bers have supported and continue to fighting institutional discrimination, body. The students, faculty, staff, science organizations that are support. The outcry of demands on which has so long been shrouded in and other supporters from all racial funded by faculty and students of all college campuses, by students, fac- a sheet of “institutional policies and and ethnic backgrounds, socio- classes, races, and ethnicities. These ulty, and supporters are a powerful practices.” Silence was not an option economic status, and geographic same social science organizations symbol that “BlackLivesMatter” and in the 1960s and shouldn’t be an locations are letting the country raise money and protest feverishly the waving of a flag of diversity is not option in 2016. know, “BlackLivesMatter” and the about human rights violations in inclusion. To the supporters of social Ruth Thompson-Miller, University of voices of the oppressed will not be other parts of the world, and yet science organizations, institutions of Dayton silenced. The historical tactics of they are painfully and virtually silent higher learning, and the faculty who A shorter version of this article appeared fear, intimidation, and threats will about the violations of rights in their stroll comfortably across the campus as a “Letter” to the Chronicle of Higher not work in 2016. own backyards. The faithful mem- without worry of questioning or Education.

Tips and have opportunity costs. I Election the central dilemmas of the day. As From Page 7 recently wrote two pieces for From Page 7 a “big tent” sociologist, I value the Zocalo Forum, both of which richness and diversity of our field hard to get the word out about ended up being reprinted by 2002. “Democratic Contraction? and the science and activism that my book. Oxford sent books larger media outlets, including The Political Consequences of Felon sociology inspires. Effective ASA to various news outlets and the TIME and USA Today. I would Disenfranchisement in the United leadership helps put our productive UCLA publicist Meg Sullivan like to conclude by saying that I States.” American Sociological Review internal tensions to good purpose, helped me write a press release. believe that it is important that 67:777-803; Uggen, Christopher . while advocating to external audi- While it is impossible to know sociologists take part in public 2000. “Work as a Turning Point in the ences on behalf of our membership. for sure, I suspect this work was debates about issues on which Life Course of Criminals: A Duration As Vice President, I will work instrumental in the New York we have expertise. It is a privi- Model of Age, Employment, and to expand the reach and impact Times review of my book and lege to spend one’s life conduct- Recidivism.” American Sociological of sociology, to use old and new the invitations I received (and ing research and analyzing the Review 65:529-46. media to bring sociology to more accepted!) to be interviewed world in which we live. I believe Personal Statement: Thanks students, and to sustain and nurture about my book on various NPR that it is a crime to hoard the for considering me for ASA Vice the research infrastructure that affiliated channels. fruits of this labor. We owe it to President. My agenda is to bring advances sociological knowledge. Now 18 months since the society to share what we have sociology to broader visibil- The elected members of the Committee publication of my book, I am learned in a variety of forums. ity and influence. I will seek to on Nominations prepared most of the doing less to actively promote One important venue is, of ensure that the next sociological slates of candidates for the 2016 election. it. I do not update my Facebook course, undergraduate teaching. generation has the material and In order to be eligible to vote in the page or Twitter feed as regu- Op-ed–and other public writing intellectual resources they need 2016 election, you must have renewed larly. However, I do continue to is another. I would love to see to flourish. As editor (at Contexts your membership by March 31. If you accept invitations to speak about even more sociologists in the and TheSocietyPages, with Doug have any questions about the slate of the book and to write op-eds, pages and screens of various Hartmann), department chair, and candidates or the petition process, e-mail even when these invitations media outlets! in public and policy work, I’ve seen [email protected] or call (202) arrive at inconvenient times how sociology speaks powerfully to 383-9005.

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21st Century Job Hunt cants who put sociology-related access this webinar recording Changes From Page 4 skills on their resume, regardless via the department portal. From Page 3 of the level of mastery, felt more Gather a group of students to individuals in management roles confident and received more job together for a viewing. an extended one) when there will who report checking a candidate’s offers. The takeaway: Remember Contact [email protected] with be confusion at the local IRB level LinkedIn page as the first step in the why sociology inspires you, be any questions or comments. regarding the decisions about applicant review process. It is also confident, and sell yourself. Your how specific research projects Jaime Hecht has a BS in sociology from a good place to connect with indi- degree will get you in the door and will be handled. In order to avoid Florida State University and a MA in viduals who work for organizations delays, sociologists embarking then the rest is on the job training. applied sociology from the University of or fields that interest you. LinkedIn Graduates are happy they chose Central Florida. upon research projects during this can also be an alternative when it’s sociology because its meaning and period would be well advised to References difficult to make it to the “young relevance goes beyond a career; it be conversant with the proposed professional” face-to-face happy sets you up to be a critical thinker Senter, Mary Robert Spalter- Roth, Nicole changes. hours, or if you live in a town that and a productive and contributing Van Vooren. 2012. Social Capital, In addition, the ASA Code of doesn’t offer them. When you set up member of society. Good luck with Organizational Capital, and the Job Ethics, which is currently in the Market for New Sociology Graduates your LinkedIn account be sure to your job search! Survey. Washington, DC: Department process of revision, will reflect any join the ASA LinkedIn group. changes in the Common Rule (see Additional Resources of Research and Development on the Alumni associations: Most major Discipline and Profession, American www.asanet.org/about/ethics.cfm). cities have alumni association • 21st Century Careers with Sociological Association. This will likely affect those stan- chapters. They often organize an Undergraduate Degree in Spalter-Roth, Nicole Van Vooren, Mary dards dealing research, informed networking events. If you are on Sociology. This popular booklet Senter. 2014. Recent Sociology Alumni: consent, and confidentiality. Since the job hunt it may make sense to contains profiles of sociology Would they Major Again. Washington, the membership of the ASA must DC: Department of Research and attend some of these events. People graduates who are applying Development on the Discipline and approve any changes to the Code of WHOhave gotten jobs with the help their degree in a variety of Profession, American Sociological Ethics, all recommended changes of alumni or other contacts may be fields, as well as more tips for Association. will be publicized and open for willing to pay it forward. navigating today’s job market. American Sociological Association. comment. At our workshop in 2013. 21st Century Careers with an Seattle we will further elaborate the Don’t Forget Why You Studied • Nuts and Bolts of Applying for Undergraduate Degree in Sociology. changes in the Common Rule and Sociology a Job with a Bachelors Degree Washington, DC: Teaching Resources their implications for the revisions A 2014 ASA "BA and Beyond" in Sociology. Chairs in ASA Center, American Sociological Association. to the Code. research brief revealed that appli- Affiliate departments can

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January 21 Orlando Sentinel article, Less Religious, but They’re Feeling Post article, “Martin Luther King Was a media outlets, including The Virgin- “Brothers’ Road Trip Calls for Van, More Wonder,” and a January 26 World Democratic Socialist,” ian-Pilot on January 28 and the Hawaii Spam, Blogging.” Religion News article, “Richard Dawkins’ Riley Dunlap, Oklahoma State Tribune-Herald on February 3. J. Gordon Arbuckle, Iowa State Atheist Organization Merges with University, and Robert Brulle, Drexel Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota, University, was quoted in a February Center for Inquiry.” University, were quoted in a January and Erin Kelly, Massachusetts Institute 1 Scientific American article, “Climate Robert G. 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Evidence From in the Foot.” quoted in articles about Bernie Sanders mentioned in a January 13 article in the Work, Family, and Health Network.” The study, whose other co-authors Robert Brulle, Drexel University, wrote in a number of media outlets, including The Guardian, titled, “The ‘Gaytrication’ The New Yorker on October 12, The Effect: Why Gay Neighbourhoods Are include Wen Fan, Boston College, and a January 6 Washington Post opinion Shi-Rong Lee, University of Minneso- piece, “America Has Been Duped on Boston Globe on October 31, and The Being Priced Out.” New York Times on November 25. He ta, was covered in a number of other Climate Change.” Mark Granovetter, Stanford Univer- media outlets, such as the Deseret News was also quoted in a November 20 Al sity, was mentioned in a January 21 Meghan Burke, Illinois Wesleyan Jazeera article about the growing rent on January 18 and Boston.com on University, and Margaret Andersen, Fortune article, “10 Ways for Silicon January 21. control movement in the United States. Valley to Delay its Decline and Fall.” University of Delaware, were quoted In addition, Dreier was interviewed on Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, in a January 18 Huffington Post article, the NPR station KPCC on two topics: a Miriam Greenberg, University of was interviewed in January about her “These Are the States Making the Most strike of truck drivers at the Los Angeles California-Santa Cruz, was quoted in a new book, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Racial Progress.” Port on October 27 and whether January 31 Vancouver Sun article, “The Reparations, and Reconciliation on Jessica Carbino, Tinder, was quoted in socialism should be a dirty word in $31b ‘Green’ Branding of Vancouver.” NPR’s “All Things Considered,” WNYC’s a January 11 Bustle article, “This Is the America on November 6. He also wrote Kathleen Mullan Harris, University of “The Brian Lehrer Show,” WUNC’s “The Most Popular Clothing Color on Tinder.” an October 27 Salon article,” “Now Louie North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted State of Things,” KERA’s “Think,” and Gohmert and Fox News will mansplain in a January 6 Huffington Post article, WEAA’s “The Mark Steiner Show.” Her Jessica Collet, University of Notre Planned Parenthood: The New Lie book was also featured in The Boston Dame, was quoted in a February 1 “Friends Are as Important to Your Right-Wing Men Can’t Stop Pushing,” an Health as Diet and Exercise.” Globe, Nature, Slate, Aeon, and Pacific Quartz article, “Is Imposter Syndrome a October 28 CNN.com article, “What Is Standard. Sign of Greatness?” Democratic Socialism, American Style?,” Richard Hogan, Purdue University, was quoted in a January 11 Oregonian Guðmundur Oddsson, Northern Marianne Cooper, Stanford Univer- a November 2015 American Prospect Michigan University, was quoted in a sity, was quoted in July 16 Refinery29 article, “Hedge Funds: The Ultimate article, “Wealth Gap Makes Retirement More Elusive for Blacks, Latinos.” January 27 Quartz article, “The Case for article, “More Working Women Is the Absentee Landlord,” a November 24 Disarming America’s Police Force.” Solution to Our Economic Woes,” a July Huffington Post article, “The New Wave Jason Houle, Dartmouth College, was 28 Atlantic article, “Teen Girls and the of Campus Protest: What’s Behind the quoted about his new research in a Melvin L. 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Mailed to all ASA members. Charles Perrow, Yale University, was Heather McKee Hurwitz, Barnard Editor: Sally T. Hillsman Associate Editor: Margaret Weigers Vitullo mentioned in a January 30 VICE article, College, was quoted in a January 31 Managing Editor: Johanna Olexy Secretary: Mary Romero “Does Tragedy Prove That Space Explo- Rolling Stone article, “‘March for Bernie’ ration Is Worth It?” Article submissions are limited to 1,000 words and must have journalistic value Is an Occupy Wall Street Homecoming.” Robert Putnam, Harvard University, (e.g., timeliness, significant impact, general interest) rather than be research ori- Andrew Jorgenson, Boston College, was mentioned in a January 29 New ented or scholarly in nature. 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Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of Cal- intensification and (re)development Antonio, was named the Mark G. Yudof Stephen J. Morewitz, California State ifornia-Irvine, and Robert J. Sampson, projects in Koreatown and Monterey College of Public Policy Dean’s Endow- University-East Bay, Runaway and Harvard University, were quoted and Park, Los Angeles. ment Professorship, in recognition of Homeless Youth: New Research and Clini- Daniel E. Martinez, George Washing- Angie Y. Chung, University at Albany, his academic distinction, leadership, cal Perspectives (Springer, 2016). ton University, was mentioned in a was awarded the 2016 Dr. Thomas Tam and professional service. Jeffrey Rothstein, Grand Valley State January 14 New York Times article, “Data Visiting Professorship in Asian Ameri- University, When Good Jobs Go Bad: Link Immigrants to Low Rates of Crime.” can Studies at the CUNY Grad Center New Books Globalization, De-unionization, and Sharon Sassler, Cornell University, and Asian American Research Institute Kevin B. Bales, University of Hull, Blood Declining Job Quality in the North Amer- was quoted in a January 5 Star Tribune for spring 2016. and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and ican Auto Industry (Rutgers University article, “Marriage Proposals Are Still a Michael G. Flaherty, Eckerd College, the Secret to Saving the World (Random Press, 2016). Guy Thing.” was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in House, 2016). Arthur Scarritt, Boise State University, David R. Segal, University of Maryland, the Department of Culture and Society Erynn Masi de Casanova, University Racial Spoils from Native Soils: How was quoted in a January 10 San at Aarhus University, Denmark, for of Cincinnati, Buttoned Up: Clothing, Neoliberalism Steals Indigenous Lands in Antonio Express-News article on the January through June of 2017. Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity Highland Peru (Lexington Books, 2015). potential impact on military recruiting Akiko Hashimoto, University of Pitts- (Cornell University Press, 2015). Kae Sekine, Aichi Gakuin University, of the opening to women of combat burgh, won the Scholarly Achievement Alessandro Bonanno, Sam Houston specialties and units from which they Manisha Desai, University of Connecti- Award of the North Central Sociologi- cut, Subaltern Movements in India: State University, The Contradictions have previously been excluded on cal Association for her book, The Long of Neoliberal Agri-Food (West Virginia the basis of gender. The article also Gendered Geographies of Struggle Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Against Neoliberal Development (Rout- University Press, 2016). appeared in the Houston Chronicle on Identity in Japan (Oxford University January 10. ledge Contemporary South Asia Series) Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Kathy Mer- Press, 2015). (Routledge, 2015). lock Jackson, and Lisa Lyon Payne, H. Luke Shaefer, University of Andrew S. London, Syracuse Universi- Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Mis- all of Virginia Wesleyan College, The In- Michigan, was quoted and Kathryn ty, has been named a Maxwell School tersection of Star Culture in America and Edin, Johns Hopkins University, was souri, Tone Alm Andreassen and Per 10th Decade Faculty Scholar recogniz- Koren Solvang, both of Oslo Universi- International Medical Tourism: Celebrity mentioned in a January 13 Huffington ing his excellence in citizenship teach- Treatment (Lexington Books, 2016). Post article, “There Have to Be Better ty of Applied Sciences, Eds., Reimag- ing, research, and public engagement ining the Human Service Relationship W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Ways to Fight Poverty. The White House at Syracuse University. He will receive Wants to Find Them.” (Columbia University Press, 2016). Virginia, Nicholas H. Wolfinger, funding for three years to support his University of Utah, Soul Mates: Religion, William Julius Wilson, Harvard Univer- work. Madonna Harrington Meyer and Elizabeth Daniele, both of Syracuse Sex, Love and Marriage among African sity, was quoted in a February 1 New Doug Meyer, University of Virginia, Americans and Latinos (Oxford Universi- York Times article, “Black America and University, Gerontology: Changes, Chal- was awarded the 2015 Stonewall Hon- lenges, and Solutions (Praeger, 2016). ty Press, 2016). the Class Divide.” or Book from the American Library As- David Karp, Boston College, William Joyce E. 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Morrison, United a Smile’ Takes a Toll on Women,” which from the Society for Scientific Study of Melvin L. Kohn, Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, Adventures in Sociology: My Life as a Nations, Michael R. Glass, University of mentions Arlie Hochschild, University Sexuality. Pittsburg, Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town of California-Berkeley, Louwanda Cross-National Scholar (self-published, Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana 2016). and the Loss of Middle-Class Neigh- Evans, Millsaps College, and Jennifer University, was recently awarded a borhoods (New York University Press, Pierce, University of Minnesota. NARSAD (National Alliance for Research Kathleen Odell Korgen, William 2016). Nicholas H. Wolfinger, University of on Schizophrenia and Depression) Paterson University, Ed., Race Policy and Multiracial American (University of Richard Wood, University of New Utah, was the subject of a January Distinguished Investigator Grant. The Mexico, and Brad Fulton, Indiana 19 Deseret News Q&A article, “Soul award provides support for experi- Chicago Press, 2016). Mates: What’s Important for Latinos, enced investigators conducting neuro- African-Americans When it Comes to biological and behavioral research. Family Life and Love?,” which also men- tioned W. Bradford Wilcox, University People of Virginia, and Elijah Anderson, Yale University. Angela J. Hattery, George Mason Uni- th versity, was elected Treasurer-Elect of 111 ASA Annual Queen Meccasia Zabriskie, New the Sociologists for Women in Society Meeting College of Florida, was quoted in a Jan- (SWS) in their 2016 election. uary 30 Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, August 20-23, 2016 “‘Stepping’ Along a Path of Academia.” Abby L. Ferber, University of Colo- rado -Colorado Springs, was elected Washington State Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College, President-Elect of the Sociologists for CUNY, was quoted in a January 19 New Women in Society (SWS) in their 2016 Convention Center York Times article, “Brooklyn Neighbor- election. hood May Finally Get Its Way for an Old Seattle, WA Hospital Site.” Vrushali Patil, Florida International University, was elected Secretary of the Sociologists for Women in Society Awards (SWS) in their 2016 election. Angie Y. Chung, University at Albany, Jack Nusan Porter, Davis Center for in collaboration with co-PIs Jan Lin, Russian and Eurasian Studies, has been Occidental College, and Sookhee Oh, nominated for a Nobel Peace prize for Korea University, was awarded a 2-year his work in genocide studies and the $137, 314 National Science Foundation prediction of genocide. grant to examine the role of immigrant pro-growth elites in promoting land Rogelio Sáenz, University of Texas-San

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University, A Shared Future: Faith-Based 50 PhD candidates, advanced master might inform U.S. policies toward sion of Chuck: “As one of his advisees, Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical students and young Post-Docs. www. Cuba. In March 23 of last year, Peter I observed a sense of fairness that was Democracy (University of Chicago berlinsummerschool.de. Kornbluh referred to Chuck’s piece at his very core. I personally regarded Press, 2015). (52 years after it appeared!) in his own him as a wise old sage who was very Deaths article in The Nation, saying: honest and compassionate as well as Summer Programs On November 27, 1962, the highly intelligent in the classroom.” Alan Booth, distinguished professor Daniel noted that during his doctoral Simon Initiative’s LearnLab Summer emeritus of sociology, human develop- magazine [The Nation] ran a comprehensive analysis by studies, he came across one of Chuck’s School, July 11-15, 2016, Carnegie ment, and demography at Pennsylva- earlier articles and remembered think- Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. The nia State University, died on December California sociologist Charles D. Bolton on the postcrisis agenda ing that “it was absolutely brilliant.” summer school will provide a concep- 23 at the age of 80. I was also in Chuck’s classroom as a tual background and considerable of the peace movement and the need for Kennedy to learn the graduate student, and I consider him hands-on experience in developing, Obituaries to have been the spark that ignited running, and analyzing technology-en- lessons of near-nuclear Arma- geddon. Perhaps Bolton’s call my sociological imagination; as his hanced learning experiments. Materi- Charles D. Bolton subsequent colleague for 24 years, I als are drawn from research as well as for reforming U.S. policy toward 1921-2016 Cuba was included in the presi- thought of him as a true intellectual abbreviated portions from our Masters Charles D. Bolton, a highly respected and a cherished friend. Attesting of Educational Technology and Applied dent’s briefing papers, because sociologist, died on January 1, 2016 in in early 1963, Kennedy began to Chuck’s important theoretical Learning Science (METALS) curriculum. Portland, OR at the age of 94. He was contributions, another PSU colleague, The fee for attending the summer to explore a ‘sweet approach’ born in Topeka, KS, but his family soon toward Cuba. Professor Emeritus Jan Hajda, notes school is $950. Deadline: May 15, moved to Denver, where he spent that he “regards him as an innova- 2016. Contact: Michael Bett at mbett@ Chuck also actively served the com- the remainder of his childhood. After munity in California. Lectures on social tive symbolic interactionist whose cs.cmu.edu. For more information, visit: attending Oberlin College for two dissertation on why people fall in love www.learnlab.org/. psychiatry that he had prepared for years, he served three years in the U.S. his classes at Davis were considered and get married led to a restatement Bar-Ilan University (Israel) 2016 Army during World War II. Following so useful that they were duplicated of the formation of the ‘I’ component Summer Certificate Program in his discharge, he received his BA from and distributed to California’s state of the self.” Conflict Resolution. Theme: “Identi- Denver University in 1947, and a year psychiatric hospitals; he also served Much of Chuck’s recreational time ty-Based Conflict Resolution-Overview.” later his Master’s degree in sociology a term on the California State Prison was spent in the outdoors, and he This interdisciplinary four-week pro- from Stanford University. In 1959 he System Appointment Board. regularly hiked and fished throughout gram (June 30 - July 28, 2016) offers 10 was awarded his PhD in sociology the northwest. In 1980, he designed academic credits (five courses, taught from the University of Chicago. It was Arriving at PSU in 1964, Chuck quickly proved to be a capable and helped build a cabin overlooking in English, including an internship there that he met his wife, Mary Ellen the Columbia Gorge, where he and his in NGOs and think tanks). Students Lund, who died in 2012. He is survived leader and important innovator in the Department of Sociology and in the family spent many pleasurable hours. receive a certificate of participation by his three daughters, Gael, Suzanne He also had a passion for traveling, upon completion of all five courses and Jeanni, along with nine grandchil- University. one year after he began his tenure at PSU, he became Chair often with his wife Mary and occa- (issued by the University’s Program on dren and nine great-grandchildren. sionally with his children. He counted Conflict Resolution, Management and of the Department (1965-1970), and During his graduate school years, then was re-elected Chair for another 62 countries among those he visited, Negotiation). The MA-level academic Chuck taught intermittently at Colora- including three treks in Nepal, the last credits can be recognized in conjunc- term (1977-1980). At the same time, do College, Denver University, and the Chuck embarked on a new profession- one at the age of 70. Additionally, he tion with the policy of the students’ University of Illinois at Chicago. Addi- and Mary were long-time activists in home universities. The program pro- al challenge. In the late 1960s, as part tionally, while still in graduate school, of a consortium led by the Univer- support of peace, environmental, and vides theoretical insights and practical he published two important articles social justice causes. Finally, as a child training. Individual courses (6 days sity of Oregon, PSU received funds in prestigious journals: “Sociological from a federal grant to develop the he became a stalwart Chicago Cubs each) can also be taken. Admission is Relativism and the New Freedom” in fan, an “addiction,” say his daughters, open to holders of undergraduate and first PSU doctoral program, initially Ethics, 1957, and “Behavior, Experi- called Urban Studies. Chuck played “from which he never escaped.” graduate degrees as well as current ence, and Relationships: A Symbolic advanced undergraduate students and a major role in the development Kathryn Farr, Portland State University Interactionist Point of View” in the of this program. As Leonard Cain current graduate students. Contact: American Journal of Sociology, 1958. John Henry Gagnon Rafi Nets at summer.CRidentity@biu. (Professor Emeritus of Sociology and With a growing reputation, he Urban Studies and a key player in the 1931-2016 ac.il. For more information, visit www. was offered and accepted a faculty pconfl.biu.ac.il/en/node/1950. development of the Urban Studies-af- John Henry Gagnon, a towering appointment in the Department of filiated Institute on Aging) recalled, figure in the sociological study of sex- Berlin Summer School in Social Sociology at the University of Califor- Chuck’s position as Chair, “together uality, died on February 11, 2016, from Sciences, July 17-28, 2016, Berlin, nia-Davis in 1959, where he remained with his leadership skills allowed him complications from pancreatic cancer. Germany. The summer school aims until accepting a faculty position in to find success in developing this He was 84. to promote young researchers by the Sociology Department at Portland new, creative doctoral program that Gagnon spent his entire career—with strengthening their methodological State University (PSU) in 1964. became a model for two additional several interruptions as a Visiting Pro- understanding in linking theory and interdisciplinary doctoral programs at While at Davis, Chuck continued fessor at Princeton, Harvard, and the empirical research. The two=week pro- Portland State.” his record of excellence, publishing University of Essex—as a Distinguished gram creates an excellent basis for the several articles and co-authoring with His importance to the program was advancement of their current research Professor of Sociology at the State Kenneth Kammeyer, The University recognized with a faculty appoint- University of New York-Stony Brook. He designs. The Berlin Summer School is a Student: A Study of Student Behavior ment in Urban Studies (now the joint endeavor of the Berlin Graduate was also a lifetime Fellow at Churchill and Values, 1963. Again affirming College of Urban and Public Affairs). College, Cambridge, UK, and received School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at his reputation as a highly qualified During his second term as Chair, he Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the an honorary doctorate from Glasgow sociologist, Chuck was asked to write also served as Acting Dean of the Caledonian University in 2006. WZB Berlin Social Science Center. The an article for The Nation on the peace School of Urban Studies (1979-1980). Born to working-class itinerant international summer school is open to movement’s experiences as they He held the dual appointments until parents, Gagnon spent his early years his retirement in 1987. in migrant worker tents in southern Chuck was no less sterling in the California, destined, he thought, for a Footnotes Obituary Policy classroom. He was highly thought career as an aircraft mechanic in Long Footnotes accepts obituaries about sociologists at all career levels, from of by students, considered to be not Beach. A chance meeting led to his ad- only an excellent teacher, but also universities, community colleges, and non-academic institutions. Obit- mission to the College at the University an admirable human being. Former of Chicago, where, under the visionary uaries should be no more than 900 words. Please send death notices graduate student Daniel Martin Robert M. Hutchins, the university and inquiries about obituaries to [email protected]. (Professor of Sociology, University of was receptive to smart non-traditional Minnesota-Duluth) offered his impres-

22 footnotes • March/April 2016 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements students. The College of the University and Rogers it was the collaborative Laumann and Gagnon), and a popular and consultations. In retirement, they of Chicago was like Shangri-La to Gag- synthesis that produced their best work, Sex in America (co-authored with lived in Nice, France, for 11 years, non. He discovered the library, a per- work; while each was talented in their Gina Kolata), for more mainstream and, for the last three years in Palm fect escape for a boy who was outside own individual ways, their collabora- audiences. These volumes represent Springs, CA. Until his death, they were his milieu. He lost himself in literature, tion brought forth a third entity that the largest and most ambitious study each other’s sounding boards for all read voraciously, widely and pretty redefined a field. of American sexual behavior ever serious writing and thinking as well as indiscriminately. One of his work-study While at the Kinsey Institute, from undertaken in our history. best friends. campus jobs was returning books to 1965 to 1968 (and in a long-distance Several of his books have been trans- At a colleague, John was known for their shelves, and he recalled reading collaboration until 1973), Gagnon and lated into French, German, Russian, his dazzling brilliance, his capacious one for every two he shelved. Simon applied many of their Chica- Chinese, Thai and other languages. In knowledge of literature and culture, his After graduation, he stayed at Chica- go-bred insights to the study of sex- recognition of his importance, the ASA mordant wit and his intellectual and go for a PhD in sociology, working with uality. In a sense, their arguments are Sexualities section annually presents personal generosity. He and Cathy had Everett Hughes. Like fellow graduate simple; their implications, vast. Sex— the Gagnon and Simon award to a a tendency to “adopt” young scholars students Howard Becker and Erving sexual behavior, that is—is profoundly scholar of sexualities. and artists; their home was always a Goffman, Gagnon became interested social. And sex—sexual identity, the Though known primarily for his hive of research and convivial conver- in the extension of the term “career” identity constructed through sex—is writings and lectures on sexuality, sation. To many, including this writer, to all arenas of social life, especially among the central building blocks of Gagnon also wrote about sexuality, he was a colleague, co-author, mentor, the non-occupational world. This was our identities. marriage and the family, tourism, friend, and commuting partner. particularly the case with deviance. Their 1973 book, Sexual Conduct, and simulation and gaming with his He is survived by Cathy, four loving The career model offered a normative changed how we think about sex and second wife, sociologist and photog- children, and several grandchildren structure to the non-normative and introduced the social constructionist rapher Cathy Greenblat. Their nearly -- and an entire subfield of sociology he seemingly unstructured conduct. There model. The sexual scripts model was 38 years together took them all over helped to bring into existence. were governing rules, hierarchies that the first effort to understand what the world to present at conferences Michael Kimmel, Stony Brook University structured mobility, and standards of we now think of as the evaluation. “The careers of a banker “performative” aspect of and a gangster could be analyzed in sexual identity. It remains exactly the same way,” Gagnon told an the single most important interviewer: “learning how to do a job, theoretical work in a field acquiring skills and insider knowledge, that the work itself herald- learning how to deal with all of the ed. Without Gagnon and Journals of the American other social actors in a particular social Simon, there could not have milieu.” been a Judith Butler. Sociological Association One of the many jobs Gagnon held The emerging HIV crisis in to support himself as a student was as the late 1980s provided an Assistant Warden at the Cook County impetus for a return to an Jail for over three years, where he empirical study of sexual understanding people in their social worlds had “evolved into someone who was behavior. With Ed Laumann believed to know something about and Robert Michael at drugs, delinquency, crime and prisons.” Chicago (and with collabo- moving through time and space All of which made him the perfect rators Stuart Michaels and VOLUME 14 / NUMBER 3 / SUMMER 2015 U.S. $14.00 fi ghting over bars and bathrooms CAN $15.00 contexts.org the freedom of fi ction a publication of the candidate when Wardell Pomeroy, one american sociological association dancing at nasa Martina Morris), the group inside the irb of Kinsey’s original collaborators, came undertook a major federally through Chicago looking for a social funded study of sexual be- scientist/criminologist to help with the VOLUME 56 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2015 Volume 78 ♦ Number 4 ♦ December 2015 havior. That is, until Sen. Jes- SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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