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1999 Annual Meeting ASA Seeks Editor for “Perspectives” Spotlight on Chicago Journal Second in a series of articles in anticipation of the 1999 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago The ASA Committee on Publications has extended the search for the inaugural by Anthony M. Orum dress, but Polish or Russian immigrants. editor of the new “perspectives” journal. University of Illinois at Chicago When immigration’s waves lap up against The deadline for applications is April 15, the sales counters of Chicago’s north 1999. The Committee on Publications There are two Chicagos today: one is suburban stores, one knows—really knows— requests that nominations, including self- etched deeply by modern social science that a sea of change may be underway. I first nominations or inquiries of interest, be writings, the other is no less vivid on our became aware of Chicago’s new immigrants submitted as soon as possible so that full streets. The one is the Chicago that has when I moved back here in the mid-1980s. I applications can meet the April deadline. gained recent fame from the writings of moved from a virtually all-white state As announced previously in Footnotes, William Julius Wilson and the many people university to the University of Illinois at the goal of this new journal is to synthe- who have followed his lead. This is the Chicago (UIC.). Even then it was obvious that Devon Avenue: A showplace of immigrant size and make accessible important arenas Chicago of the projects and the black the Chicago of today was very different from Chicago (photo by Anthony Orum) of knowledge, identify new developments underclass. The other is the one that I see the one depicted. When I began my first day and emerging issues, speak to questions daily on my walks, in the malls and markets, of teaching it seemed as though I had was maintained by a couple of young white significant to the discipline and beyond, and in my classrooms. It is the Chicago that climbed ashore at Ellis Island. There was such males who obviously had grown up in the and stimulate fresh thinking across reverberates with voices of an earlier age a rich and wonderful diversity of students— States. Two years ago I returned and found sociology and aligned fields. The journal when the city overflowed with immigrants Chinese students, Polish students, Russian the counter maintained by a young Latina. I aims to be a “must read” for sociologists, from abroad. Both Chicagos are authentic, students, Black students, many others. Many talked to her about where she was from, irrespective of their primary professional would become friends: the Korean child of but one—the one I see daily—has not learning she lived among a large group of roles, social and behavioral scientists in received nearly the attention recently as the immigrants, the Muslim student from Jordan, Mexican immigrants in Waukegan. She aligned disciplines, and policy makers other. Here in this short commentary I want the young Mexican immigrant who is the first described a growing and vital new Mexican and public intellectuals. As the first to correct that imbalance and share with you of his large family to attend college. Today community there as well as in nearby “general perspectives” journal in sociol- a few stories of how this other Chicago has UIC’s diversity mirrors Chicago’s new Highwood. She also talked about her intersected my own life, making me aware immigrant population. The percentages on ogy, the vision is broad in its reach and dealings with customers, explaining that unique in its niche. how today’s immigrants are transforming the the entire student body are: 49% white; 10% most were friendly, but some balked at her The Committee on Publications is in Chicago metropolitan area. African-American; 20% Asian; less than 1% English and told her she should learn to the midst of the search and has begun Immigrant Chicago is the one of which I Native American; 14% Hispanic; and 7% from speak better. was reminded several years ago. I had gone abroad. Foreshadowing the future, only 40% Conventional understandings have so contacting nominees. The Committee to a store to buy some gifts and approached a of UIC’s entering freshman class is white. blinded us to the changes occurring that the seeks the broadest possible input in the young woman clerk for help. She looked like Chicago in recent times has become a kind most significant sometimes escape our nomination of candidates with the any other clerk. But when she spoke, I of smorgasbord of new immigrants. In the attention. Remember Skokie, the place where breadth, skill, and ambition to bring this realized she was not speaking in a customary, northern suburbs there are not only Russian the neo-Nazis marched years ago, viewed by important project to fruition. Based on the easy English, but in one carrying traces of a and Polish immigrants, but many Mexicans, the many Jewish Holocaust survivors? Jews search and recommendations of the Russian, possibly Polish accent. I was too. A number of them hold unskilled, still live there, but the community is Committee on Publications, ASA Council intrigued and made a mental note of it. In poorly-paying jobs working for local changing. Consider this potent fact from the plans to make the appointment later this coming weeks I came to realize that more and landscape services, yet others hold service pages of the Chicago Tribune: Just months ago year. ASA Council and the Committee more of the department store clerks—in fact, jobs. When I started going to a nearby Sears it was announced that Skokie public schools recognize that, as with any new journal, it seemed to me the large majority—were store about ten years ago, the service counter no longer would allow students off for the the inaugural editor and her or his vision, much like this woman: youngish, American Jewish holidays. Why? Because now there energy, and commitment are key. are too few Jewish students in the Skokie The new editor will have the opportu- public schools to justify it. nity to be involved in the further develop- Council Approves New Task Or, take the case of Pilsen. Over the past ment of this publication, from the mix of forty years, the Pilsen area of Chicago has commissioned and unsolicited manu- Forces; Seeks Member Involvement become dramatically transformed from a site scripts, the kinds of articles to be in- once populated by Czech immigrants— cluded, and even what would be the most hence the name after a Bohemian city—to n February 6, the ASA Council winter 1999 Council meeting. compelling journal name. The founding O the center of Mexican culture in Chicago. voted to establish five Task Forces to Nominations, including self-nomina- editor should commit at least five years to Those who know little of the city, or only the undertake work of priority importance to tions are sought for the first four Task launch this project. This is a unique city of old, should take a trip there. It is only the Association and its membership. As Forces (the ASA/AAAS Task Force is opportunity to take the helm of a journal minutes from downtown. There are great described in this issue of Footnotes (see being seated with ASA’s incoming and bars and restaurants, and vibrant murals that aims to present accessibly the best of statements of purpose and charge), they outgoing representatives to AAAS). Ideas decorate the walls of several buildings in what sociology has to offer to itself and to are (1) the Task Force on the Implications for these Task Forces derived from and around 18th Street and Blue Island the rest of the intellectual community. of Assessing Faculty Productivity and recommendations provided to ASA Avenue. For additional information on the new Teaching Effectiveness, (2) the Task Force Council from the committees that were Last year our house was painted by a journal, see the article in September/ on the Articulation of Sociology in Two- retired in 1998 due to the committee man and his firm. His story and that of his October 1998 Footnotes (page 1). Potential Year and Four-Year Sociology Programs, restructuring. Based on their meetings last fellow workers illustrates today’s immigrant candidates for the editorship may e-mail (3) the Task Force on Current Knowledge August, the Committee on Teaching, the Chicago. Alex is a Russian immigrant. He Michael Schwartz, Chair of the ASA on Hate/Bias Acts on College and Committee on Freedom of Research and moved here in the early 1980s. He is smartly Committee on Publications (mschwartz@ University Campuses, (4) the Task Force Teaching, the Committee on International dressed, with a fluent English marked only notes.cc.sunysb.edu) or Executive Officer on the International Focus of American Sociology, the Committee on Hate/Bias by a certain heaviness. He wears a lot of gold Felice J. Levine ([email protected]) with Sociology, and (5) the Task Force on ASA/ Acts on College Campuses, the Commit- jewelry. I had an informal interview with their questions. Please submit applica- AAAS Relations. tee on Employment, the Committee on him, lasting for about an hour. He came to tions to Karen Gray Edwards, ASA These Task Forces will be seated in National Statistics, the Committee for the States just to make money, and he has— Director of Publications (edwards@ June, commence their work immediately, Sociologists in Government and Interna- lots of it. When he returns to Russia, he asanet.org) by April 15, 1999. ❑ and meet for the first time at the Annual tional Agencies and the Committee on learns the many stories of his friends who Meeting in August. The Task Force ASA-AAAS Relations submitted reports barely survive and wish they could get out. structure was adopted by ASA Council to and made recommendations on issues He has absolutely no regrets about leaving allow for a set of flexible and focused meriting Association attention. These Russia and has found many reasons to justify See pages 2-3 activities that reflect important needs of reports were considered by the Council his move here. the discipline. Therefore, all five Task Subcommittee on Committee Restructur- All of the men who work for Alex also are for important Forces are being asked to work in a timely ing, which recommended that Council Russian and Polish immigrants. All secured information on data way. Most are being established for one or immediately approve the establishment of their jobs through friends and relatives. Most two years in duration, with the exception these five Task Forces. just make out, not nearly as rich as Alex. One access and proposed of the ASA/AAAS Task Force that will Nominations are sought for the first of the best workmen is Josef. He’s about my report on its recommendation at the mid- revision of FOIA See Council, page 9 See Chicago, page 9

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The Executive Officer’s Column In This Issue . . . Sociologists Take Note: Data Access and Proposed Use of FOIA The Fiscal 1999 Omnibus Spending Law (Pub. L. No. 105-277) AAAS Speaks Out passed last November included a provision requiring that Federal awarding agencies “ensure that all data produced under an award will on FOIA be made available to the public through the procedures established under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).” This provision was the The American Association for culmination of an effort by the Congressional leadership who was the Advancement of Science’s concerned about gaining access to the data from scientific studies used Council passes resolution on to promulgate regulations by Federal agencies. At that time, the Office FOIA demands. of Management and Budget was charged with revising Circular A-110 to interpret this provision. OMB has issued a proposed revision (Federal Register, February 4, 1999, pp. 5684-85) and seeks comments by April 5, 1999. NSF Searches The proposed change would substantially alter the scope of the Freedom of Information Act, which heretofore did not consider all research data produced under Federal awards to be Underway “Federal records.” Previously under the Supreme Court’s decision in Forsham v. Harris, 445 U.S. 169, 179-80 (1980), data that are in the files of a recipient of a Federal award, but not in The National Science the files of a Federal agency, would not otherwise be available under FOIA. The change to Foundation solicits Circular A-110 being proposed by OMB reads as follows: applications and nominations “The Federal government has the right to (1) obtain, reproduce, publish or otherwise use the data for important positions. first produced under an award, and (2) authorize others to receive, reproduce, publish, or otherwise 3 use such data for Federal purposes. In addition, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for data relating to published research findings produced under an award that were used by the Federal Government in developing policy or rules, the Federal awarding agency shall, within a reasonable time, obtain the requested data through the procedures established under the FOIA. If the Federal awarding agency obtains the data solely in response to a FOIA request, the Pallas Heads SOE agency may charge the requester a reasonable fee Aaron Pallas, Michigan State equaling the full incremental cost of obtaining the data. This fee should reflect costs incurred by the University, is the new editor of agency, the recipient, and applicable subrecipients. Sociology of Education. This fee is in addition to any fees the agency may 4 assess under the FOIA.” OMB explains that “after publication of research findings used by the Federal government in The Code on developing policy or rules, the research results and underlying data would be available to the public in Confidentiality accordance with the FOIA.” The proposed revision also requires Federal agencies, in re- sponse to a FOIA request, to obtain the requested data from the recipient of the Federal Members of the Committee on award. It is given “a reasonable time to do so.” The processing of the data will be done by the Professional Ethics (COPE) agency “in accordance with the standard procedural and substantive rules that govern FOIA respond to members’ queries requests.” These include the “exemptions” from the FOIA’s requirement to disclose records, that include “personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would on limits of confidentiality. constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” 5 The problem with the proposed revision and potentially with having research data produced under Federal awards available through procedures established by FOIA is that the scope and process of what is intended is too broad and too vague. What is meant by data? Will the proposed revision be limited only to data purposefully collected for Federal policy NSF Rewards making (and how, given the proposed language, will that be determined)? What constitutes Sociologists publication and when would results or data need to be made accessible? How would the FOIA exemptions align with rules governing the protection of human subjects; what would The National Science consent mean under these circumstances and how would confidentiality and privacy be Foundation’s Sociology secured? How would Federal agencies undertake this task and protect the integrity of the Program announces research scientific enterprise while weighing the legitimacy of FOIA requests under this new provi- sion? And, most fundamentally, is FOIA the right framework for ensuring data disclosure and dissertation grants. under federal awards or by what vehicle(s) might this most appropriately be achieved? The debate is not and should not be about data sharing and disclosure of scientific data. 6 These are important principles that govern the scientific enterprise. The scientific community, including the social science community, has a longstanding commitment to data access for secondary analysis, verification of findings, testing of rival hypotheses, and other appropriate scientific use. This subject formed the basis of an excellent report and recommendations on Council Reinstates Sharing Research Data issued by the National Academy of Sciences in 1985. The Report’s Recommendation 3 specifically indicated that “Data relevant to public policy should be shared as Emeritus Category quickly and widely as possible” consonant with public release after prior appropriate review. ASA Council approves the Federal agencies like the National Science Foundation have taken seriously data sharing and reintatement of emeritus access consonant with human subjects protection and data preservation. The 1997 revision of the ASA Code of Ethics (approved by our membership) expanded consideration of these membership; vote by members principles in Section 13.05(a-f). And, in 1998, ASA approved a data sharing statement for all to follow in next election. work published in ASA journals. 7 Unfortunately the draft revision of OMB Circular A-110 is on a fast track with a 60-day comment period, without having been subject to extensive public input, analysis, or debate. The issues, however, are large enough and important enough to commend such a process. The American Sociological Association is working with other scientific societies in crafting a response and trying to provide broader advice on how data access and disclosure should be Our Regular Features addressed. On January 24, 1999, the Council of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science (AAAS) passed a resolution of concern about the draft regulations (see page Public Affairs...... 3 3). Since the proposed revisions could effect all research, individual sociologists are encour- Departments...... 10 aged to respond. If you do so, please copy ASA and keep us posted on your views. We, too, will use Footnotes and the ASA homepage (http://www.asanet.org) for updates.—Felice J. Obituaries ...... 14 Levine ❑ FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES 3

AAAS Passes Resolution On Freedom of Information Act Demands The American Association for the Whereas, this mandate may also raise Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council serious threats to the privacy of human passed the following resolution on January subjects in federally-funded research PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE 24, 1999, expressing their concern about projects, and may even undermine the the issues discussed in “The Open Win- participation of these subjects in ✔ dow” (see page 2). research necessary to reach scientifically FIPSE Cancels Grant Competition . . . . The U.S. Department of Education’s valid conclusions; and Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) cancelled its grant Resolution competition on January 13 after concluding that Congressionally directed spending Whereas, this mandate also raises left no room for a meaningful competition. FIPSE has been an important source of Expressing Concern About Legislation serious threats to the protection of support for higher education research, but the allocation for 1999 of $9.5 million Opening all Federally-Funded Research proprietary and national security quickly became meaningless with earmarks and directions from Congress on how Awards to Freedom of Information Act information and to the intellectual funds should be spent (i.e., which projects to support where). (FOIA) Demands property rights of those who conduct ✔ Sampling and the Census: Going, Going, Gone . . . . January 25 brought the long such research, and may subject them to Whereas, the Congress in 1998 passed awaited Supreme Court decision on Census 2000 and almost an end to the debate FOIA demands both from competitors legislation requiring that all data on whether sampling would be allowed. The Court ruling did not address whether produced under federal awards be and from other self- interested parties; sampling violated the Constitution but narrowly ruled (5-4) against its use for ap- made available to the public through and portionment purposes. The debate now shifts to whether for other purposes sam- the procedures established under the Whereas, this mandate thus also imposes pling and adjustment may be used (in particular redistricting and distribution of Freedom of Information Act (HR 4328, significant uncompensated burdens of Federal funds). Full funding for a large post-enumeration survey remains critical to directing amendment of Section —.36 cost and effort on all recipients of allow overall and differential coverage errors to be measured. of OMB Circular A-110; and federal research grants, including ✔ Important Departures Pending at NSF . . . . Bennett Bertenthal, Assistant Director Whereas, this provision was not sub- universities, hospitals, and other for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science at the National Science Foundation jected to public hearings or debate, and nonprofit scientific research organiza- (NSF), returns to an academic post no later than the end of 1999. As the senior social now risks causing serious unintended tions; and scientist at NSF, this position is vital to the continued enhancement of basic research consequences; and Whereas, the American Association for in these sciences at NSF and even government-wide. Sociologist William Julius Wil- son has been asked to head the screening committee for a successor. Barry the Advancement of Science supports Whereas, draft regulations implement- Markovsky, Program Director for Sociology, returns to the University of Iowa in the public disclosure of scientific data ing this provision by the Office of August. See announcements this page for both slots. Management and Budget are believed that form the evidentiary basis for ✔ to be imminent; and scientific findings and regulatory Meanwhile . . . . NSF Reorganization of SBER Research Augers Growth . . . . decisions, at the appropriate time and What was billed as a fast-track effort to split the Social, Behavioral and Economic Whereas, the implementation of this with appropriate safeguards for the Research Division (SBER) in January 1998 has come to fruition effective January 31, legislation would create a sweeping concerns identified above; and 1999. The two new research divisions are Social and Economic Sciences (Sociol- new precedent for extending the scope ogy; Economics; Political Science; Law and Social Science; Methods, Measurement of FOIA to materials that have never Whereas, the American Association for and Statistics; Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences; Innovation and Organiza- before been considered government the Advancement of Science stands tional Change; Ethics and Values; Science and Technology Studies; Cross-Disciplin- records, including, potentially, the ready to provide advice and counsel as ary Activities) and Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (Human Cognition and Per- entire files and notes of researchers necessary to support appropriate public ception, Linguistics, Social Psychology, Child Learning and Development, Cultural receiving federal funding; and disclosures of scientific data produced Anthropology, Archaeology, and Geography and Regional Sciences). Announce- under federal awards; ment of the split noted the different research priorities and methods of the two groups. Whereas, this mandate may have the While there may be more virtue to accentuating the similarities than the differences Be It Therefore Resolved, that the Council effect of requiring premature disclosure across the social and behavioral sciences, two research “units” should provide more urges that the leadership of the Ameri- of research data and results, disrupting chance to promote these sciences and advocate for necessary research dollars. the processes of analysis, interpretation can Association for the Advancement of ✔ and peer review that normally and Science bring these concerns in a timely IOM Report on NIH—Worth a Read . . . . The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs, has received considerable press for calling properly precede such public disclo- fashion to the attention of the Congress for enhanced public input at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). For social sure; and and the Administration. ❑ scientists and policy “wonks,” two other of the twelve recommendations are espe- cially notable: Recommendation 3 calls for increased analysis and use of health data and increased research on the impact of research on the public’s health. Recom- Applications and Nominations mendation 10 urges Congress to use cautiously its authority to set priorities at NIH because it lacks appropriate expertise to judge scientific opportunities. The full text Sought for Key NSF Positions of the IOM report is available on line (http://www.nap.edu). ✔ Funds for Cancer Research Include Behavior . . . . The American Cancer Society Director for the Sociology Assistant Director for has initiated a program in Targeted Research Grants that includes about 2 million per year directed to Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Quality of Life and to Health Program Social, Behavioral, and Policy and Outcomes. Deadlines are April 1 and October 15 with details available on line (http://www.cancer.org). NSF’s Division of Social, Behavioral Economic Sciences and Economic Research is recruiting a The Directorate for Social, Behavioral, Director for the Sociology Program, who, and Economic Sciences (SBE) is recruiting along with the permanent Sociology for the Assistant Director for Social, Behav- Program Staff, will evaluate sociology ioral, and Economic Sciences to provide proposals, chair meetings of the Sociol- leadership and direction to the NSF pro- ogy Advisory Panel, represent NSF at How to Comment on Proposed Revision grams which support research and educa- professional meetings and perform other tion in all fields of the social, behavioral, and to OMB Circular A-110 interesting and challenging tasks on a economic sciences; programs of international one to two year rotational basis. The collaborative research; and programs Dates: Comments must be received by OMB by April 5, 1999. position will be available starting August involving the analysis and dissemination of 1999. NSF will match expected income data covering the health of U.S. science and Addresses: Comments on this proposed revision should be addressed to: F. James and benefits, so that the incumbent can technology enterprise. The incumbent is Charney, Policy Analyst, Office of Management and Budget, Room 6025, New work at NSF with no financial loss. Time responsible for planning and implementing Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. If possible, please include a for independent research is also nego- programs, priorities, and policy within the word processing version of comments on a computer disk. Comments may also tiable. Applicants must have a PhD or framework of statutory and National Science be submitted via e-mail to: [email protected]. Please include the full body equivalent experience in sociology. Four board authority. S/he must have outstand- of e-mail comments in the text of the message and not as an attachment. Please or more years of research and teaching ing leadership abilities; a deep sense of include the name, title, organization, postal address, and e-mail address in the experience beyond the PhD are required. scholarship; a grasp of the issues and opp- text of the message. Charney may be contacted at (202) 395-3993 for further in- For further information, contact William ortunities facing international partnerships formation. Butz, Director, Division of Social, and the social, behavioral, and economic sci- Behavioral and Economic Research, (703) ences in education and research; and a com- Other Comments: Those wishing to submit comments directly to Congress can 306-1760, [email protected]); Barry mitment to the goals and strategies of the send letters to the Senate and House leadership and to their own representatives. Markovsky, (703) 306-1756, NSF. Send applications to AD/SBE Screen- Please send copies of all e-mails or other correspondence to ASA: Felice J. Levine, Execu- [email protected]; or Patricia White ing Committee via e-mail ([email protected]) (703) 306-1756, pwhite@nsf. gov. See the or to Joseph Bordogna, Acting Deputy tive Officer, American Sociological Association,1307 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 700, NSF homepage for more details. Director, NSF Suite 1205, 4201 Wilson Washington, DC 20005-4701, or via e-mail ([email protected]). Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. ❑ 4 FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES Aaron Pallas Leads Sociology of Education by Gary Natriello, Columbia University ship for New Education. At the same time tee member, award committee member, he maintained his long-standing interest program chair, and section chair for the The ASA Council’s appointment of in the use of statistical data for policy Sociology of Education Section of ASA. In Aaron Pallas to become editor of Sociology making, authoring reports on statewide addition to being a regular manuscript of Education will give the journal an editor student record systems for the National reviewer for countless journals in with the perfect combination of expertise Education Goals Panel and on Federal sociology and education, he has served as and sensibility to continue its long data on educational attainment and the an editorial board member for Teachers tradition of publishing the best work in transition to work for the Board on College Record, American Educational the area. Aaron brings a range of research, Children and Families and the Committee Research Journal, and American Journal of teaching, policy analysis, and editorial on National Statistics of the National Education. Most recently, Aaron has been skills to the editorship. Research Council. In 1997 Aaron was the series editor for Research in Sociology Aaron did his undergraduate work at promoted to full professor in the College of Education and Socialization. the University of Virgina, earning a B.A. in of Education with an affiliate appointment Aaron’s various activities have made sociology in 1979. From there he entered in the Department of Sociology. him well known to scholars in both the PhD Program in Sociology at Johns Aaron has also written about the sociology and education. Of course my Hopkins University. Working with Aaron Pallas preparation of educators in papers with graduate students know Aaron best as Edward McDill, Doris Entwisle, and Karl his colleague David Labaree, and about the guitar player in the band, School Alexander, Aaron focused on the sociology out, and cognitive development, authoring the preparation of educational researchers Violence, from their annual appearances of education. Aaron published a number a range of papers that appeared in with Anna Neumann and Penelope at the Michigan State University recep- of papers while completing his degree, journals such as the American Sociological Peterson. Aaron’s most recent work has tion at the Annual Meeting of the and these papers signal what was to Review, Sociology of Education, Social Forces, focused on the long-term impact of American Educational Research Associa- become a continuing feature of his career: and the American Journal of Education. educational experiences on the lives of tion. My sons know him best as the guy an interest in bringing the most robust Also, at this time Aaron worked along adults. He is presently engaged in a multi- who left them the stuffed Garfield toy intellectual perspectives and advanced with Doris Entwisle and Karl Alexander year qualitative study of schooling office mascot when he left Teachers methods of sociology to the study of on their Beginning School Study. Together experiences reported retrospectively by College. My wife knows him best as the current issues and problems in education. they authored a series of papers on the middle-aged adults. Appropriately, this man who left a job in New York to move Together with Karl Alexander, Aaron schooling experiences of kindergarten and work joins his enduring interests in the with his new wife to her first academic examined the likely impact of the new first grade students that appeared in effects of schooling and life-course appointment in Michigan. And I know curriculum requirements envisioned by journals such as Sociology of Education, development. him best as a great colleague and terrific The Nation at Risk Report, and contributed Child Development, Social Psychological In addition to his extensive research friend who has made major contributions to the growing controversy over the Quarterly, and the American Educational agenda, Aaron as made major service to the development of our field. He will relative effectiveness of public and contributions to the profession. He has be a truly wonderful editor for Sociology Research Journal. ❑ Catholic schools. Additional work with In the late 1980’s Aaron joined Edward served as a council member, program of Education. Karl Alexander focused on school process McDill and myself on a project for the committee member, nominations commit- models and the impact of student course Committee for Economic Development to taking on cognitive achievement. Joined synthesize knowledge about effective by Ed McDill and myself, Aaron examined schooling for disadvantaged youth. This the potential impact of the nascent project resulted in a book, Schooling standards movement on at-risk students. Disadvantaged Children, and a series of “It’s in the ASR . . .” In 1984 he completed his thesis on the articles in journals such as Educational problem of high school dropouts, apply- Researcher, Teachers College Record, Urban Children of the Cultural Revolution ing a life-course perspective, and arguing Education, and the yearbook of the that dropping out was associated with National Society for the Study of Educa- by Glenn Firebaugh, Editor years are more likely to be college accelerated role transitions. Throughout tion. During this same time period while graduates than are their urban contem- his years at Hopkins Aaron also worked at Teachers College Aaron worked with One of the grandest social experi- poraries who were not sent down. And on numerous projects at the Center for the Joseph Grannis and Carolyn Riehl on the ments of the 20th Century was fueled by there is no statistically significant Social Organization of Schools. evaluation of the New York City Dropout Mao Zedong’s 1968 declaration that “It is difference in income between those who Aaron took his first professional Prevention Initiative, the largest dropout necessary for the educated youth to go to were sent down and those who were not, position as a statistician with the Nation intervention program ever implemented. the countryside, and be re-educated by after the effects of education, occupation, Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. He also joined Carolyn Riehl and myself the poor peasants.” From 1967 to 1978 type of work organization, and so on, are Department of Education where, among on a multi-year study of high schools more than 17 million urban youth were controlled for. other things, he worked on the prepara- serving very high concentrations of sent to live and work in rural areas. In In their short comment on the Zhou- tion of The Condition of Education. He also disadvantaged students. In 1989 Aaron the February issue of the American Hou study, Kevin Chen and Xiaonong began work on synthesizing the literature was promoted to associate professor at Sociological Review Xueguang Zhou and Cheng—also among those sent down— on school climate and its effects on student Teachers College. Liren Hou draw on data from a repre- reflect on why the consequences of the performance. In 1990 Aaron joined the faculty of the sentative national sample of urban send-down experience were not more A year later he took a position as an College of Education at Michigan State residents in 20 cities in China to examine severe. They write: “When leaving for assistant professor of sociology and University as an associate professor. In the the subsequent life experiences of these the countryside, sent-down youth were education at Teachers College, Columbia early 1990’s he authored a series of key “children of the Cultural Revolution.” told that their main task was to learn University. There he taught courses in reports on the condition of education in Zhou and Hou have a personal as revolutionary spirit from peasants, to social stratification, school organization, Michigan for the Business and Commu- well as a professional interest in the life- reform their petty bourgeois minds, and and life-course analysis. He continued his nity Alliance and the Michigan Partner- course consequences of the send-down to build a socialist countryside under the work on school organization, dropping experience. As sent-down youth them- guidance of the ‘revolutionary peasants.’ selves, the two Duke University sociolo- What they actually had to learn, how- gists dedicate the article to the genera- ever, was the survival strategy of an tion of sent-down youth. They write underclass that has no freedom or Proposals Due June 15, 1999 (acknowledgment footnote): “Like many resources and the social skills to deal others in this generation, the send-down with greedy and corrupt local cadres.” Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline experience has affected our families and Chen and Cheng speculate that the us in profound ways. We are grateful survival skills acquired by the sent- that academic research allows us to tell down youth compensated for their ASA/NSF Small Grants Program their stories.” nonstandard life course experiences. Supported by the National Science Foundation and the ASA, the goal of this award Zhou and Hou find some evidence is to nurture the development of scientific knowledge by funding small, that sent-down youth were disadvan- Also in the February issue groundbreaking research initiatives and other important scientific research activi- taged in both the marriage and labor The February issue of ASR contains ties. FAD awards provide scholars with venture capital for innovative research that markets. Sent-down youth who returned seven other articles. One is Jill has the potential for challenging the discipline, stimulating new lines of research, after a short period were significantly Quadagno’s Presidential address on the and creating new networks of scientific collaboration. The award is intended to better off than those who remained in United States as a capital investment provide opportunities for substantive and methodological breakthroughs, broaden rural areas for a longer period. Sent- welfare state. There are two studies of the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and provide leverage for acquisition of down youth who remained in rural areas the effects of context on family stability, a additional research funds. Maximum award is $5,000. more than six years tended to marry and study of maternity leave policies in U.S. Application Information: Web: http://www.asanet.org/Funding/fad.htm have children later, and they are more organizations, a study of occupational E-mail: [email protected] likely to be employed in less advanta- sex segregation, a study of how talent Telephone: (202) 383-9005 ext. 312 geous locations in the urban labor force. agencies affect the earnings of Holly- Mail: FAD Awards, ASA, 1307 New York Avenue NW, Yet the send-down experience did no wood screenwriters, and a study that Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005-4701 apparent harm to their education. Sent- introduces two cross-national indexes of down youth who returned within six injustice. ❑ FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES 5

Confidentiality and the 1997 ASA Code of Ethics: A Query

by John Lowman and Ted Palys newer Code of Ethics with regard to the information and risk future harm to the of the information generated through Simon Fraser University confidentiality and its limits. child. The recognition of such a narrow their professional work.” These are limit to confidentiality is expressed in critical sections of the 1997 Code, since it We are writing to seek clarification of References Section 11.02(b) of the Code: “Sociologists is now incumbent upon a researcher to the confidentiality provisions of the 1997 Lowman, J. and Palys, T.S. The liability of may confront unanticipated circumstances be fully informed about all laws and ASA Code of Ethics (Section 11) in view of ethics. CAUT Bulletin, 1998, June, p.28. where they become aware of information rules that may limit or alter guarantees of how changes from the 1989 version may that is clearly health- or life-threatening to confidentiality. Further, researchers may affect our ability to offer guarantees of Marshall, M.A. When is a Secret Not a research participants. . . .In these cases, Secret? http://www.arcacia.com/newslet- not promise absolute confidentiality if their unlimited confidentiality to research sociologists balance the importance of ters/issue6-1992/secret.htm 1992. ability to do so is limited or if they are participants, and defend them by resorting guarantees of confidentiality with other unwilling to maintain confidentiality in to the so-called “Wigmore criteria,” a Traynor, M. Countering the Excessive principles in the Code of Ethics, standards these situations. common law test that can be used to Subpoena for Scholarly Research. Law and of conduct, and applicable law.” Although limitations to confidentiality Contemporary Problems, 1996, 59(3), 119- establish researcher-participant privilege Further, consistent with the ethical under health- or life-threatening circum- 148. on a case-by-case basis. These criteria were standard enunciated in Section 11.02(b), the stances may be the exception, the successfully invoked by Russel Ogden, the 1997 Code in Section 11.02(a) cautions Committee on Professional Ethics only researcher in Canada ever to be faced sociologists before commencing research to (COPE) recognized the importance of with a charge of contempt for refusing to Confidentiality and the be fully informed about all laws or rules writing a Code that sociologists would divulge confidential information to a court 1997 ASA Code of Ethics: which may limit or alter guarantees of not violate when a decision is made to (Lowman & Palys, 1998). confidentiality. In such situations where divulge confidential information under The Wigmore criteria require that: A Response from COPE laws and/or rules exist (and hence can be such circumstances. Further, the 1997 (1) The communications must originate anticipated), it is incumbent upon research- Code places greater responsibility on in a confidence that they will not be Joyce Iutcovich, Chair (1999) ers to determine their ability to guarantee sociologists to be aware of these limita- disclosed; Sue Hoppe, Past Chair (1998) absolute confidentiality. Given this reality, tions and to discuss them with research (2) This element of confidentiality must John Kennedy, Past Chair (1997) the Code of Ethics also includes a standard participants, students, employees, clients, Felice J. Levine, Executive Office Liaison be essential to the full and satisfactory whereby researchers are obliged to discuss or others at the outset of their research. maintenance of the relation between the Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) confidentiality and its limits with research If you have further questions about parties; subjects. Section 11.03(a) states: “When this or other sections of the 1997 Code of (3) The relation must be one which in The query from John Lowman and sociologists establish a scientific or Ethics please contact Joyce Iutcovich at the opinion of the community ought to be Ted Palys concerning confidentiality and professional relationship with persons, [email protected] or (814) 453- its treatment in the new ASA Code of sedulously fostered; and they discuss (1) the relevant limitations on 4713. ❑ (4) The injury that would inure to the Ethics is an important one. One’s ability confidentiality, and (2) the foreseeable uses relation by the disclosure of the communi- to pledge confidentiality to research cations must be greater than the benefit participants is a cornerstone of research thereby gained for the correct disposal of involving human subjects. Further, a litigation. (Wigmore, 1905, p.3185) researcher’s obligation to maintain the Two changes in the 1997 Code may confidentiality of information lies at the Public Forum adversely affect use of these criteria: heart of the ethical principles of science (1) The addition of admonitions to and research. Thus, the changes in the researchers to consider legal “limitations” ASA Code of Ethics regarding the Creativity in Graduate Schools to confidentiality in Section 11.02(a); and limitations to confidentiality were crafted (2) The removal of a statement in the with the utmost care and reflection. By Graduate education in sociology as in But it is not all that is needed to under- 1989 Principles (section E5) that “Confi- clarifying the principle, the goal was to other social science fields is largely focused stand the world. Similarly, knowing a lot dential information provided by research strengthen, not to erode it. on pushing students to be analytical, to about facts and the way the world participants must be treated as such by The changes in the Code were not question data, analyses, theories (except operates are also important and fre- sociologists, even when this information intended to undermine a researcher’s those of their teachers!). What is wrong quently underestimated in attempts to enjoys no legal protection or privilege and commitment to confidentiality or to with this analytical stress is the outlook explain and theorize about the world. legal force is applied.” The 1997 Code subjugate research ethics to law. In the that we instill in our students. Penetrating Frequently, our students know much (Section 11.01(b)) replaces this with: 1997, there are now seven clauses in criticism exhibits the merit of a student. more about various theories than they “Although confidentiality may be subject Section 11.01 specifically addressed to the Consequently, students strive to tear down, about the situations and structures which to limitations, in general sociologists are significance and scope of Maintaining not to build beyond arguments that they the theories seek to illuminate. Creativity obliged to respect the confidentiality of Confidentiality. As Section 11.01(b) states hear or read. may grow when students have more information and the sources of that “Confidential information provided by An unintended result is the heightened knowledge of the world and are encour- information even if there is no legal research participants, students, employ- insecurity and competitiveness among aged to apply questions to this knowl- protection or privilege to do so.” ees, clients, or others is treated as such by many graduate students. Another is that edge. Any apparent acceptance of externally sociologists even if there is no legal graduate students often are locked into A creative approach to graduate imposed a priori limitations to confidential- protection or privilege to do so.” Al- do’s and don’ts, the modes of thinking education is not a substitute for an ity may undermine the first criterion of the though the phrase “even when . . . legal instilled in them by their teachers. Too analytical capacity—or vice versa. The Wigmore test. We are thus concerned a force is applied” has been eliminated in many PhDs never really graduate beyond former is much less emphasized than the court could interpret the recognition of the 1997 Code, this was not to imply that the outlook, orientation or style of their analytic, critical style. “limitations” to confidentiality, combined sociologists should divulge confidential graduate student days. Implied in the distinction between with deletion of the phrase “and legal information when pressure from the They are clones, acolytes, not originals creative and analytical student experi- force is applied,” as evidence the ASA had courts or legal sanction is brought to who have built on or outgrown the style or ences is the division between two ap- softened its commitment to research bear. modes of their preparation days. proaches to graduate education. One is confidentiality by subjugating research However, the new Code was written What is too-often lacking, then, in the (empty) vessel mode-graduate ethics to law. The statement in the 1989 in recognition of the realities of ethical graduate education is stimulating the education fills the student vessels with Principles about maintaining confidential- decision making specifically with respect creativity of students. Instead of harping what they need for the rest of their career. ity even when “legal force is applied,” was to human protection. Researchers may be on the question, say, is this finding or The other orientation is that graduate valuable precisely because it represented confronted with unanticipated circum- theory reliable or valid, might we ask the education is a starter process and that a unambiguous evidence that confidentiality stances that are clearly health- or life- question: If this is true or interesting, what student is enabled and encouraged to is crucial to the research enterprise, and threatening to research participants, follows from that? What light would this grow overtime. In this view, we all are in a worth fighting for (Wigmore criterion 2). students, employees, clients, or others. finding or ideas shed on other issues? How continuous growth pattern—or likely to Also, it clearly recognized a researcher’s When such circumstances arise, it may to defend this proposition? What prior become stale. Graduate education should freedom to pledge unlimited confidential- require rethinking the guarantees of events, trends, structures, or attitudes help us to evolve and deepen continu- ity to research participants (criterion 1), confidentiality, regardless of the law would have been involved in leading to ously, rather than mainly working off the which legal opinion in both Canada and/or application of legal force to this conclusion? Why, how, and so what human and social capitals of our student (Marshall, 1992) and the United States divulge information. are questions that should have a prominent days. (Traynor, 1996) suggests are essential to the For example, if a researcher discovers place in our teaching styles. Needed, then, is a balance between legal defense of confidentiality agree- child abuse while gathering ethnographic A creative method could also be an today’s analytical emphasis and a concern ments. data about family life, what should the analytical issue. For example, can one have for promoting the creativity of students We wonder whether the changes noted researcher do? The underlying intent of confidence that the prior conditions and graduate education. above arose because the architects of the the ethical principles applied to research necessary to have led to this result had A creative outlook does not mean that new Code felt the “legal force” clause was with human subjects is to protect the occurred? “anything goes.” Interesting conjectures redundant, or a shift in the ethical philoso- subjects from harm or risk. In this But this convergence between the should be subjected to analytical and data phy underlying it. Because these issues situation, a researcher faces a choice. analytical and creative should not obscure tests. Standards are not undermined. could be crucial for researchers who find Report the child abuse with a potential the independent importance of inciting the What changes are the roads which lead to themselves subpoenaed, we request breach of confidentiality promised to the juices of creativity. interesting ideas worthy of testing. parent or maintain the confidentiality of The analytical stance is certainly useful. clarification about how to interpret the S.M. Miller, Boston College ❑ 6 FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES

NSF Sociology Program Announces 1998 Grants The Sociology Program of the National Brown University, “A Cooperative • Troyer, Lisa, University of Iowa, “The • Kohn, Melvin; Cory Heyman, Johns Science Foundation (NSF) announces its Analysis of Union Formation,” $187,609. Transfer of Effects from Conflicting First Hopkins University, “Getting a First Job: awards for basic research support and • Johnson, Cathryn, Emory University, and Second-Order Expectations Across Translating Academic Credentials into dissertation improvement for fiscal year “Analyzing the Effects of Formal Position Interaction Settings,” $61,020. Labor-Market Position,” $7,450. 1998. The Program is a major source of and Leader Legitimacy on Leader- • Vanneman, Reeve, University of Maryland • Lamont, Michele; Abigail C. Saguy, funding for sociological work. See page 2 for Subordinate Interaction,” $17,983. College Park, “Collaborative Research: Princeton University, “Conceptions of contact information. • Kohn, Melvin, Johns Hopkins University, The Demand for Female Labor, “ $93,610. Gender-Based Harassment in France “The Psychological Dynamics of Radical • Webster, Murray, Joseph M. Whitmeyer, and the United States,” $3,400. Research Grants Social Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of University of North Carolina Charlotte, • Lovaglia, Michael; Anne F. Eisenberg, • Acevedo, Luz del Alba, University Puerto Employed and Unemployed Ukrainian “Collaborative Research: The Emergence University of Iowa, “Legitimation Rico-Rio Piedras, “Data Base for the Study Men and Women,” $141,081. of Status Orders in Discussion Groups,” Networks in Fringe and Normal of Gender Inequalities in the Labor • Large, Michael, California state University $76,548. Sciences,” $7,500. Market,” $18,000. San Marcos, “Affect and Judgment in • Willer, David, University of South Carolina • Macy, Michael; James A. 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Listings appear in the following format: • Nock, Steven, James D. Wright, Laura $7,500. • Charles, Maria, University of California- Sanchez, University of Virginia, “Impact of Faculty Advisor; Ph.D. student, Institution, • San Diego, “RUI: Gender Equality and the Covenant Marriage Law on Families,” Title, Amount Osa, Maryjane; Christilla Roederer, University of South Carolina Columbia, Inequality in Higher Education: Interna- $53,688. • Appelbaum, Richard; Judi A. Kessler, “Extra-Institutional Politics and the tional Trends and National Nuances,” University of California Santa Barbara, • O’Rand, Angela, Duke University, “The Construction of Europe: The European- $138,378. “The Global Apparel Industry and Determinants and Consequences of ization of Agricultural Politics,” $7,493. • Cotter, David A., Union College, “Collabo- Midlife Education,” $28,398. Transnational Production Networks: North American Economic Integration • Rubin, Beth; John E. 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State University and A&M College, Pennsylvania State University-Univer- University of New York-Stony Brook, “Diffusion of a Social Innovation: Cov- sity Park, “The Peer Group Revisited: A • Elman, Cheryl. University of Akron, “The Heroes of Suburbia Consideration enant Marriage,” $64,397. Network Approach for Understanding “Collaborative Research: The Determi- of Social Class, Race, Gender and Delinquency,” $3,153. nants and Consequences of Midlife • Skvoretz, John, University of South Community in Suburban Volunteer Fire Education,” $65,022. Carolina-Columbia, “Collaborative Departments,” $7,474. • Suchman, Mark; Elizabeth A. 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Louis, “The Dynamics of Impression and Institutions: Business Groups in New York and London: A Study of Formation Among the Chinese,” $112,184. Taiwan’s Economic Development 1960’s- • Granovetter, Mark, Stanford University, Transnational Labor Migration,” $7,336. “Reciprocity in the Russian Labor Market: • Smith, Robert, Barnard College, “Determi- 1990’s,” $7,490. • Wacquant, Loic; Kimberly M. DaCosta, Its Role in the Transition from State nants of Education and Mobility among • Griswold, Wendy; Erin Augis, University of University of California Berkeley, Socialism,” $133,162. Second- Generation Mexican-Americans,” Chicago, “Muslim Women in Senegal: “Remaking the Color Line: Social Bases $101,389. 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Adolescent Development,” $148,282. of Iowa, “Delinquency and Depression: • White, Harrison; David R. Gibson, Gendered Reactions to Stress,” $4,769. • Hein, Jeremy, University of Wisconsin Eau • Steelman, Lala, University of South Columbia University, “Conversational Claire, “Explaining Variation in Minority Carolina Columbia, “Collaborative • Kasinitz, Philip; Dae Y. Kim, City Univer- Turn-Taking in Network Context,” Identity Among Cambodian and Hmong Research: Parental Age and Allocation of sity of New York-Graduate School, “In $6,470. Refugees in the United States,” $61,889. Resources to Offspring,” $78,586. and Out of the Ethnic Economy: Labor • Zeitlin, Maurice; Max Stevens, University Market Outcomes of the Second Genera- • Hermsen, Joan, University of Missouri • Treas, Judith, University of California of California Los Angeles, “Industrial tion Korean Americans in New York,” Columbia, “Collaborative Research: The Irvine, “Social and Psychological Aspects Conflicts and Union Politics in $7,500. Demand for Female Labor,” $46,128. of Marital and Non-marital Relation- America’s Mining Industries, 1890- ships,” $81,633. • Hogan, Dennis, Frances K. Goldscheider, 1917,” $5,114. ❑ FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES 7

Council Votes to Spotlight on Departments Reinstate Emeritus An occasional column showcasing accomplishments and Membership innovations in sociology departments At its meeting in August 1998, ASA Council took action to open discussion on the role of emeritus members in the St. Cloud Awarded First CACS Accreditation Association. In particular, Council favored re-establishing the emeritus membership category for persons who had been he Commission on Applied and accreditation as a way to obtain external In the last year, the department faculty T members for at least 10 years and are Clinical Sociology (CACS) has accredited recognition of its programs. The have started new initiatives which reflect retired from their primary employment as the Applied Sociology Concentration in the accreditation process provided excellent efforts to apply and incorporate sociologists. Department of Sociology and feedback on our program and will enable classroom and community-based learning The emeritus status was previously us to further expand and improve it. As a activities. For example, the department Anthropology at St. Cloud State University. eliminated for the 1997 membership year result of accreditation we have already received a $20,000 Campus Compact1 St. Cloud’s program is the first to be when ASA members voted to change the received inquiries from other programs. grant to develop curricula incorporating accredited by the Commission. The ASA By-Laws in 1996. At that time, James Sherohman, director of the service-learning into classes on aging, accreditation process consists of a self- emeritus members who wished to continue study by the Department, a site visit, and a applied sociology concentration, said that juvenile delinquency, and social ASA membership were expected either to response to the findings of the site visit. the program requires an internship, a responsibility. As part of their service pay dues based on their current income In describing the criteria for complex organizations course, and a learning, students are working in various (with or without electing journals) or to accreditation, Harry Perlstadt, the chair of capstone sociological practice course. departments of a local nursing home, become an associate member. Between the the Commission, said that “the program Students also take two courses that assisted living apartments, area agency 1996 and the 1997 membership years, 232 of should enable students to integrate emphasize advanced research methods on aging, and a senior center. Other the former emeritus members did not sociological theory, knowledge, and skills or applications in substantive areas. In students are working with the St. Cloud renew their membership. During its in a practice setting. Students also should addition, students in the applied Area Violence Prevention Council and January 1998 meeting, Council asked the learn to maintain a professional orientation concentration take a number of core with law enforcement representatives, Executive Office to determine the reasons and adhere to ethical standards. The courses that are required of students in judges, public officials, and social service why the former emeritus members allowed program should have a liberal arts the regular sociology major as well. staff to establish and promote a their memberships to lapse. To assess the foundation and should educate students to These include a sophomore-level class in restorative justice model in the reasons, the Executive Office undertook a be critical thinkers who can communicate social inequality, two courses community. In November, Dr. Elizabeth survey of all former emeritus members who effectively in oral and written form.” emphasizing sociological theory, a two- Scheel and her students collaborated with did not renew for the 1998 membership Perlstadt noted that “the program at St. course methods and statistics sequence, community representatives to sponsor a year. Cloud State was especially strong in the and a senior project. half-day workshop on restorative justice. The emeritus members were very following respects: the diversity and The department has undertaken a In addition, three department staff responsive to the survey and many shared expertise of the faculty, the well thought careful process of curriculum review of signed a five-year contract with a regional lengthy comments regarding the change in out and sequenced curriculum, the variety which the applied program is a part. community development organization to status. The termination of the emeritus of research methodologies the students are Using the American Sociological evaluate program outcomes and outcome category had a significant impact on their exposed to, the links to alumni and their Association’s report Liberal Learning and measurement. decision to allow their memberships to use as guest lecturers and members of the the Sociology Curriculum, the department Information on the accreditation lapse. Over three-fourths of the survey advisory board, and especially the worked with several ASA Departmental process and standards for the accredita- respondents said that the value of ASA management of the internship program, Resources Group consultants to identify tion may be found at the Commission’s membership was no longer worth the cost which is a model to be emulated.” goals of the major, sequences of courses, website: http://as2.ipfw.edu/trier/ at the higher dues rates. However, many Linda Havir, chair of the department, and ways to strengthen the intellectual cacs.htm. former emeritus members were still said that St. Cloud undertook accreditation rigor of the major. The department's Interested undergraduate programs interested in being members of ASA. Most as part of its periodic department review. process of curriculum revision is are encouraged to contact Harry Perlstadt respondents were interested in receiving She said Dean Richard Lewis and Vice- summarized in Sherohman, James (1997) at Michigan State University, Footnotes but not as interested in subscrib- President for Academic Affairs Suzanne “Implementing ‘Study in Depth’ at St. [email protected]. For information ing to ASA journals at this point in their Williams were supportive of our Cloud State University,” Teaching on the department, contact: Linda Havir, lives. They expressed a strong commitment application. The institution values Sociology 25(2):160-167. chair, at [email protected] or by to their identification as sociologists and phone at (320) 255-2294. understand the importance of ASA mem- bership to them. Footnote In February 1999, Council approved a motion to re-instate the emeritus member 1For a story on the Compact and Medical Sociologists Win Major category. Because this is a by-laws change, opportunities for sociologists, see Sandra the proposal will be included in a spring Enos story in the December 1998 issue of election ballot sent to all members. ❑ Research Awards Footnotes. ❑ by Donald W. Light, Linda Aiken, the Claire Fagin Profes- Rutgers University sor of Nursing and Sociology at the Sociology Abroad University of Pennsylvania, won an Two of the nine coveted Robert Investigator Award to carry forward her Wood Johnson (RWJ) Investigator powerful and unique research on the Vive la Sociologie! Vive la France! Awards, which provide 2-3 years of ways in which organizational aspects of salary and research support to carry out hospitals and hospital care affect patient How Donald Davis spent last Marx’s birthplace in Trier, Germany. an original, individual project, went this outcomes. For example, she used the summer will make you envious. Davis, an Besides focusing on sociology in year to medical sociologists. No other natural experiment of special AIDS units assistant professor of sociology at Dalton France and Germany, Davis also worked discipline had more than one winner. to analyze the reorganization of work College in north Georgia, offered a unique hard to expose his students to European Phil Brown at Brown University and authority. Besides her contributions five-week sociology semester in northeast culture and politics. “We visited five received an award to investigate con- to organizational sociology and the France. Don taught Introduction to countries in five weeks, including tested illnesses, such as the Gulf War sociology of the professions, Linda has a Sociology and Environmental Sociology Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Syndrome, asthma and small air par- strong policy focus, and this RWJ project at the Georgia Tech campus in Metz, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. In ticles, and environmental causes of will focus on manipulable features of France, which is located in the Lorraine Strasbourg, we were able to tour the breast cancer. In each case, the lay hospital organization that can improve province near southern Germany. European Parliament, where members of discovery of disease and lay advocacy patient outcomes at lower costs. Profes- Students enrolled from the entire Univer- the European Green Party were holding play a significant role in scientific sor Aiken’s project will also analyze the sity of Georgia system, many of whom forth.” Apparently students liked the disputes and the contested construction implications for nursing education and were participating in a larger study hands-on approach. Gail Rosen, an of reality about whether, and the degree health workforce policy. abroad program sponsored by the engineering student from Georgia Tech, to which, the disorder is environmen- These two awards attest to the high university system’s European Council. remarked that “in the States, you only tally induced. Professor Brown will intellectual quality of the current “There is no better place than France to read about cultures in various countries, research and analyze the roles of activist generation of medical sociologists when teach sociology,” remarked Davis. but in Dr. Davis’ sociology class, we got to groups, industry, government, the pitted against the best researchers from “France is the birthplace of the discipline, observe a different country each week for professions and the media, and the ways political science, economics, public so names like Durkheim and Comte carry ourselves. You can’t beat the hands-on in which these dynamics affect scientific health, the clinical sciences, philosophy a great deal of intellectual clout.” Over experience.” investigations of the disease and the and history. Each project reflects the course of the semester, Davis was able Although he is planning to teach in development of responses to it. This important contributions to sociology to take students to the graves of Saint Paris, France next year in another work significantly expands on Brown’s more broadly and to policy. Aiken and Simon, Ferdinand Braudel, and Auguste European Council program, Davis notes well known and critically acclaimed Brown join the ranks of sociologists who Comte, all of whom are buried in Père that this past summer will be a hard one earlier research on the Woburn toxic have won the Investigator Award in Lachaise, the famous Paris cemetery to beat. “For a teacher of sociology,” where rock-legend Jim Morrison is also concluded Davis, “a summer in France is waste case, that appeared in No Safe previous years, including David Me- ❑ Place. The current feature file, A Civil chanic, Brad Gray, David Williams, laid to rest. Another highlight of the a dream come true.” Action, is about the Woburn case. Theda Skocpol and Richard Scott. ❑ semester, added Davis, was a visit to Karl 8 FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES

State Sociological Associations The Rewards of Going “Out of the Box” by John E. Farley successful meetings we have ever had. Louis really get involved, as we hoped, the number one complaint of East St. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville The idea was the brainchild of Jack and give attendees a sense of the flavor of Louisans is the constant negative 1997-98 ISA President Harkins, 1995-96 ISA President. He felt, their community?” portrayal of their community. correctly, that such an inner city location I should not have worried. Local poets The staff of the East St. Louis Center State sociological associations often would offer opportunities to do different and writers under the leadership of East of Southern Illinois University- either meet annually at one location that is kinds of things than we can normally do St. Louis Poet Laureate Eugene B. Edwardsville (SIUE) were eager to host central to their state’s population, or at our meetings. He also felt that it Redmond were more than happy to our meeting, and bent over backward to rotate on a regular basis among two or would be a good way to encourage schedule one of their major annual events make it a rousing success. It has been a three locations. The latter certainly had greater participation from the southern to coincide with our meetings—and to long time since I attended a meeting been true of the Illinois Sociological part of the state. After all, East St. Louis schedule a session about the creative where I felt the staff of the host facility Association (ISA) in recent years, as and the surrounding communities in the writing community in East St. Louis. were so happy to have us. Because at the nearly all of the meetings in the 1990s Illinois part of the St. Louis metropolitan And just two days before our meeting, it time there was no hotel in East St. Louis have been held either in the suburbs of area do constitute the second-largest was announced that new plans to (though one is under construction now), Chicago or in the Rockford area where the concentration of population in the state, revitalize East St. Louis would center we had to stay across the river in St. population is concentrated. Over the and the higher education institutions in around the community’s creative and Louis—but the commute became an more than 15 years that I have been a that area have historically had limited artistic assets. Indeed, assets of the advantage, as attendees got a real flavor member, the organization had never met involvement with the ISA. community became a major emphasis of of city life by riding between the hotel farther south than Bloomington-Normal, It fell to me to organize the meetings, our meetings. We chose the theme, and the East St. Louis center on located near the center of the state. in part because I had said that I would “Assets and Challenges of the Inner City” MetroLink, the St. Louis area’s relatively Our experience this year, however, agree to run for ISA President “whenever because while we wanted to analyze the new and award-winning light rail transit shows that there can be some real advan- ISA holds a meeting south of social conditions that have made life in system. tage to going “out of the box” and doing Bloomington.” Though enthusiastic about places like East St. Louis difficult, we The biggest advantage of meeting in things differently on occasion. We met an East St. Louis meeting, I worried along also wanted to emphasize the many East St. Louis, though, was that this this year in a totally different region, with the rest of the ISA board. “Will assets of such places that are often location truly brought the assets and southwest Illinois —and a totally different anyone from up north come this far overlooked by the media and even, as challenges of the inner city into our kind of place from our usual suburban south?” “Will people believe the horror Mitchell Dunier has pointed out in Slim’s meetings. Meeting sessions addressed locations, East St. Louis. And the result stories they’ve heard about East St. Louis Table, by sociologists. Ask anyone from the effects of riverboat gambling on East seems to have been one of the most and stay away?” “Will people in East St. East St. Louis and you will find out that St. Louis; participant observation in inner-city public housing in St. Louis; the fair housing movement in the St. Louis- East St. Louis area (in which sociologists Sociology and Service-Learning: Lessons from the Field and sociology graduates are heavily involved); and research in East St. Louis by Carolyn Vasques-Scalera student instructor. cultures shape perceptions and behaviors, schools. At another session, SIUE and Mark Chesler One of the unique aspects of the how the social locations of students, site Professor Jennifer Hamer and her University of Michigan Michigan program is its peer facilitation clients, and site staff impact their experi- students presented papers on African component. Each section of Project ences, how the distribution of power/ American families, based largely on n the December 1998 issue of Community (4-10 students) is led by one resources in society impact people’s life I research in East St. Louis, to a packed Footnotes, Sandra Enos described the or more trained undergraduate Peer chances (for example, the uneven distribu- house. ISA members learned about the Campus Compact and other resources Coordinators, most of whom were tion of health/illness, and of sentencing University of Illinois’ East St. Louis for sociologists interested in integrating previous students in the course. Peer and incarceration), how organizations Action Research Project and its use of service learning into their curricula. In Coordinators, with the training and make and enforce rules for people’s community empowerment tactics. We that article, Professor Enos noted that support of Center staff, Sociology behaviors. The dual goals of self reflection chose Professor Harry Edwards of the there are various aims and motivations graduate student instructors, and a and social analysis stimulate not only the University of California at Berkeley as underlying individual faculty interest in Sociology faculty member, are respon- development of students’ sociological one of our keynote speakers, in part community service learning and varied sible for the organization and facilitation imaginations, but skills and values because of he is an East St. Louis native. levels of institutional support for such of weekly seminars with students and necessary for informed citizenship. Our other keynote speaker was Profes- programs; both of which impact the their site visits. Coordinators are also (3) To serve and learn in a supportive sor Mark Rank of the George Warren chosen modes of combining service and responsible for attending weekly staff environment, one that promotes exploration Brown School of Social Work at Wash- learning. This short piece provides a meetings, keeping their own reflective rather than the regurgitation of academic ington University. Though their subject brief overview of the goals and opera- journals which are read by Center staff facts, encountering community realities matter was somewhat different, both tions of one community service learning and GSIs, and writing a final analytic- often different from our own, accepting keynote speakers sounded the common program that has been in existence for 25 reflective paper read by the Sociology peer leadership and the unique opportu- theme that everyone has a personal years. Our experience raises some faculty member. Peer coordinators may nity to learn from one another and from interest in what happens to poor people questions regarding the connections elect to receive academic credit for their experience. By developing a community of and to inner city residents. And both between sociology and service learning, coordinating experience and many learners with peers and community gave convincing sociological evidence of questions that may provide both caution coordinators opt to continue coordinat- members, students learn to value multiple why this is true. Edwards also spoke and encouragement to interested ing even after they have received the forms of knowledge and to act on their personally about the importance colleagues. maximum number of credits allowed by knowledge. Learning by doing becomes maintaining a viable creative arts Sociology 389, “Project Community,” the university for community service- inextricably linked with learning to do, that community in places like East St. Louis, is a service-learning course begun at the learning courses. is, empowering students not only to study recalling his own experiences with the University of Michigan in 1973. Each Project Community’s mission and the social world, but be able to act on it in vibrant blues and jazz community that academic term, the Sociology Depart- corresponding pedagogy have its roots ways that contribute to democratic life. thrived there during his youth. ment, in conjunction with The Center for in the concepts of liberationist education Combining community service with Our fears that people would not come Community Service and Learning, offers (Freire 1970), experiential learning sociological learning has raised several to East St. Louis turned out to be un- 40 or more sections of Project Commu- (Dewey 1938; Kolb 1984), and praxis challenges, not the least of which is founded. In fact, the meetings were the nity, in which 200-250 students enroll, (Galura 1993,1995; Howard 1993), ideas differing, perhaps even competing, best-attended we have had in recent receiving 1-4 academic credits for their that are key not only to those interested definitions of what service and learning history. Comments and post-meeting e- participation. We place students in in pedagogy, but in democratic citizen- each mean. What is considered worthwhile mails confirmed that the meeting site and community agencies dealing with ship as well. As such, our goals for service and learning may vary according to program did have a special impact on its criminal justice, schooling, healthcare, students are three-fold: students’ interests, the needs of the participants. homelessness, domestic violence, and for (1) To engage in community service, community agency, departmental priori- Did the meeting have an impact on the past year, social change, where they doing “good works,” seeing parts of the ties, and the mission of the educational East St. Louis residents? I think the provide services such as tutoring, community/world students are usually institution. Sometimes the logistics of site answer to that is best captured by childcare, administrative assistance, not familiar with, testing some academic placement are difficult to manage, which comments made by East St. Louis Poet companionship, debate and drama knowledge in real world settings, can lead to delays and discouragement. Laureate Eugene B. Redmond at the workshops, creative writing programs, bringing those new insights back to other When organizational rules and expecta- poetry reading event, when he wel- and special outreach projects. In addition classes, and engaging in this with others. tions are not clear to participants, or do not comed ISA to the event: “I was telling a to community service, the requirements By collaborating with a diverse set of permit them to have a meaningful experi- friend that the Illinois Sociological of the course include participation in a peers and community members, students ence, role confusion and frustration can Association had chosen East St. Louis as weekly seminar, readings, and critical not only engage in community service, result. the location of its annual meeting. He reflection papers in which students are but they experience the ideals of commu- Another set of challenges arises when said, ‘You mean St. Louis, don’t you?’ encouraged to make connections nity and collaboration first hand, ideals students prioritize service over learning, And I said, ‘No, I mean East St. Louis.’ between their experiences at site and essential to democratic life. resisting attempts to reflect on and analyze East St. Louis is coming back, and here is larger social structural issues. Students (2) To gain a sociological perspective, their experiences in a sociological frame. an important professional organization write a final analytic paper at the end of developing better understanding of how that wants to be part of that.” ❑ the term that is read by a graduate social structures and institutional See Service Learning, page 9 FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES 9

Chicago, from page 1 Task Forces, from page 1 age, i.e. oldish. We chatted at length about enormously successful, and, according to four Task Forces. The deadline is Monday, In establishing these Task Forces, his past. He came to join an uncle and has a student of mine who has studied the May 3. Nominations, including self- Council underscored its commitment to lived here ten years. His English is not family, it has provided a rich reservoir of nominations, should include a statement the broad participation of the ASA good; he and his wife speak Polish at home. jobs for family and friends as well as of interest and brief biographical sketch on membership in the Association’s work. When he lived in Poland he taught Ameri- eating, of course. relevant background and expertise. Send Future Task Force ideas (typically to be can history at a high school. A very well- There are many such stories about materials to the Subcommittee on Commit- submitted each fall and considered at the educated man, he was forced to become a Chicago today, some more comforting tee Restructuring, c/o ASA, 1307 New mid-year meeting of Council) may come painter because he knew no English when than others. What I have told you here are York Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, from across the Association, including he arrived but had a family to support. but a few tidbits. I don’t mean to suggest DC 20005. The Subcommittee (Linda from ASA members, sections, committees, Nevertheless he is very glad he made the that this other Chicago should replace Waite, Chair) will review nominees and or Council itself. Council urges members move. entirely the current one of social science submit a list of potential appointees to will relevant interests to volunteer to Not all the tales of immigrants have fame, but I do hope you can get a taste Council for selection. Appointments are to serve on the first set of Task Forces. happy ending. Several months ago it was and feel for it yourselves. Remember this be made in early June. reported (Chicago Sun-Times, September 11, is where much of modern American 1998, p. 11) that several women from Latvia sociology began. What you will discover had been brought to the States on false now is something like that on which Park Task Forces: Purpose and Charge promises by a Russian immigrant. Assuring and Burgess, Wirth and Addams, cut their the young women of jobs as dancers, plenty sociological teeth. Immigrant Chicago is The Council approved the following Task Forces and their “charges.” of money and the “good life,” the man alive – large, diverse, colorful, and even (1) Task Force on the Implications of Assessing Faculty Productivity and Teaching lured them to Chicago where he forced touched by its share of tragedy. Areas like Effectiveness them to work as strippers and prostitutes. the Mexican community in Waukegan; He had, in fact, enslaved them. Reported as Devon Avenue, and the Indo-Pakistani The purpose of this Task Force is to examine the measures used by universities, col- leges, and various external agencies to assess faculty productivity and to determine if these the first of its kind of the Chicago area, I am shopping district, in Rogers Park; Pilsen measures threaten the freedom of faculty teaching and research. Over the past decade, sure it will not be the last. on the near Westside; Koreatown on the such factors as the application of a corporate model to academia and pressures from exter- Numbers of new Chinese immigrants Northwest side; and the new expanding nal agencies such as state higher education commissions have resulted in increasing de- also have reached Chicago’s streets. Chinatown—these and others like them mand for faculty to be assessed at even greater levels. Measures such as post-tenure re- Chinatown has grown in size over the past represent Chicago in flux. They furnish view, outcome assessment, and evaluation of faculty teaching loads are more common- several decades, and new concentrations of rich and memorable glimpses into our place and could either provide useful information or could be used to diminish the free- Chinese immigrants arise in different future—and they remind us of an dom and flexibility of faculty to be effective scholars and teachers. This Task Force will places, including Westmont and Naperville. inextinguishable past. examine these issues and report to Council, with information on “best practices” and any Judging from the experience of a number of * I am especially grateful to Steve Warner and recommendations appropriate for ASA action. This Task Force would be comprised of six our recent Chinese graduate students, John Johnstone for their reactions to an earlier faculty members and two academic administrators with nominations being sought through many Chinese immigrants are finding version of these notes, and to William Erbe, an “open call” to the membership and to Department Chairs. The Task Force would pro- employment in the computer industry, as Andy Montgomery and the many Chicagoans vide a progress report to the Chair Conference and to Council in August 2000 and prepare analysts and programmers. Others work in who put together the latest compendium of a final report to Council no later than August 2001. restaurants. One of my favorite restaurants facts on Chicago’s areas and neighborhood, in Chinatown is run by a family that moved (2) Task Force on Articulation of Sociology in Two-Year and Four-Year Sociology Local Community Fact Book: Chicago here from Hong Kong a few years ago. Programs Metropolitan Area, 1990 (Department of They decided to close their restaurant in Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago). The purpose of this Task Force is to examine sociology programs in community colleges Hong Kong. Its replacement here has been ❑ in light of current guidelines for sociology in the undergraduate curriculum and to de- velop curriculum guidelines that would be useful for community college programs as well as for linking two-year and four-year programs. Community colleges are the most rapidly expanding part of higher education with national policy pressing for associate arts (AA) Service Learning, from page 8 rather than high school diplomas as the minimal degree. Students pursuing such degrees frequently intend to transfer to 4-year programs. Models and guidelines can enhance soci- ology in two-year institutions and facilitate the continued study of sociology in four-year On the one hand, this can lead to good exists when we attempt to create institutions. This Task Force would be comprised of eight members, four from community but unreflective community work. On the liberationist educational programs colleges and four from BA granting colleges or universities with nominations being sought other, it can lead to students viewing the within larger “banking” institutions. through an “open call” to the membership and to Department Chairs. A draft report of the course as a “blow-off,” shirking intellec- These challenges are not all negative Task Force would be considered by the Chairs and by ASA Council in August 2000, with a tual responsibilities in search of “feel problems to “fix” or avoid, however. final report to Council no later than August 2001. good” experiences, or reproducing Some of the questions they raise, like the “victim-blame” interpretations of the connection between community service, (3) Task Force on Current Knowledge on Hate/Bias Acts on College and University Campuses social world. Academically-oriented learning, and social change, or choices departments and colleagues also may between peer-led and instructor-led The purpose of the Task Force is to examine the existing empirical literature (including view such efforts as inappropriate, non- teaching, are important issues (indeed, that available from institutional studies and reports) and prepare a report about what is rigorous, or not deserving of academic sociological ones), and when we grapple known about the scope and nature of hate/bias acts on campuses, successful preventive strategies and response mechanisms, and model programs. The document should be based credit. with them, we can create better educa- on extant research materials and should usefully inform sociologists and the broader aca- Still another set of challenges emerges tional programs throughout our univer- sities. demic community on that knowledge. Also, the report should serve as a valuable compan- when students transition into the new ion to the teaching materials developed by an initial ASA task force on this subject. The Additional information on Project way of learning that this community Task Force would be comprised of six members with relevant research background or ex- service-learning mission requires. Community can be found at: perience, with nominations being sought through an “open call.” The Task Force would be Students’ socialization in an educational www.umich.edu/~ocsl . expected to undertake this work and submit a report to Council in August 2000. and social culture that values individual- ism, expertise, and myths of meritocracy, References (4) Task Force on the International Focus of American Sociology has negative ramifications for the kind of Dewey, John. 1938. Experience and The purpose of this Task Force is to provide the Association with a comprehensive re- experiential co-learning environment Education. NY: Collier. view of the international focus of the Association. The American Sociological Association mentioned above. Students often initially Enos, Sandra. 1998. “The Campus has a long and strong commitment to international sociology. In recent years, the 1997, 1999, and 2000 Annual Meeting themes have a strong international focus. The role of this resist the peer leadership aspects of the Compact: A Resource for Sociology course since they have been socialized to Task Force is to undertake specific activities that reinforce this commitment. The Task Force and Service- Learning.” Footnotes 26 will review the ASA teaching materials and propose any additional materials that might be expect and respect an older, authorita- (9). American Sociological Association. tive, and supposedly more knowledge- developed. The Task Force will also examine the overall content of the Annual Meeting able professor, rather than one’s peers, Freire, Paulo. 1970. Pedagogy of the Program beyond just the sessions designed by the Program Committees to evaluate the international content. In addition, the Task Force will generate a list of Web sites that can community members, or even oneself as Oppressed. NY: Continuum. serve as data resources and also seek long-term, external funding in order to enhance the potential teachers. Galura, Joseph, et. al. (Ed.). 1995. Praxis presence of non-US scholars participating at the Annual Meeting. The Task Force will be Moreover, many students have been III: Voices in Dialogue. Ann Arbor, MI: comprised of six members with relevant expertise in international research and teaching, taught to “objectively” study the world OCSL Press. with nominations being sought through an “open call.” The Task Force would submit its “out there,” rather than engage with it Galura, Joseph, et. al. (Ed.). 1993. Praxis report to Council in August 2000. and treat our classrooms as part of the II: Service-Learning Resources for (5) Task Force on ASA/AAAS Relations social world. Differences amongst University Students, Staff and Faculty. students and amongst students and site Ann Arbor, MI: OCSL Press. The purpose of this Task Force is to consider how the representation of sociology and clients, political correctness, and the the American Sociological Association can best be advanced within the Association for the multicultural angst that plagues all Howard, Jeffrey (Ed.). 1993. Praxis I: A Advancement of Science (AAAS). The Task Force would be comprised of nine persons, the learning environments are challenging Faculty Casebook on Community Service four outgoing ASA representatives to sections K (Social and Economic), Q (Education), U enough to adult educators who have Learning. Ann Arbor, MI: OCSL Press. (Statistics), and CAIP (Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs) and the four years of experience, but can be even Kolb, David. 1984. Experiential Learning: incoming representatives and one at-large member from the former ASA-AAAS Commit- more challenging to peer leaders. Experience as a source of learning and tee with considerable interest in and organizational experience with AAAS. This Task Force Finally, all the above challenges are development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: will provide Council with a report and specific recommendation by its mid-winter meet- ing in 2000. [This Task Force does not need volunteers]. ❑ compounded by the larger challenge that Prentice Hall. ❑ 10 FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES

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This ASA Teach- tute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Aus- ing Resource Center handbook will in- trian Universities, Social Ecology, clude syllabi for Sociology of Children (or Seidengasse 13, A-1070 Vienna, Austria; Childhood) courses and syllabi for +43-1-526-75010; fax +43-1-523-5843; e- courses that have a significant section on mail [email protected]. Or the sociology of children theme. It will contact the U.S. member of the scientific also include projects and assignments for committee: Eugene A. Rosa, Professor and such courses, as well as teaching resources Chair, Department of Sociology, Washing- (references, audio-visuals, etc.). If you ton State University, Pullman, WA 99164- teach a course involving sociology of chil- 4020; (509) 335-4163; fax (509) 335-6419; dren, you are invited to submit your syl- e-mail [email protected]; . Send submissions by March 1, 1999 to: Sue International Institute of Sociology 34th Wright, Department of Sociology, MS-38, World Congress, July 11-15, 1999, Tel Aviv, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Israel. Theme: “Multiple Modernities in WA 99204; fax (309) 359-6732; e-mail: an Era of Globalization.” Send abstracts [email protected]. by March 1, 1999 to: (1) Congress Secre- Syllabi and Instructional Materials for tariat, Otra Ltd., 1 Nirim St., P.O.B. 9352, the Sociology of Science, Knowledge, and Tel Aviv, 91062, Israel; and to: (2) Kenneth Technology. Materials are currently A. Gould, Department of Sociology, St. sought for the third edition. These might Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617. include but are not limited to: course syl- National Black Graduate Student Asso- labi, topical reading lists, reviews of texts ciation, Inc. 11th Annual Conference, May or films, web sites, term paper projects, 26-30, 1999, Louisiana State University, descriptions of successful pedagogical Baton Rouge, LA. Theme: “Expanding practices, lecture ideas and outlines, and Our Ranks: Black Scholars in the New brief essays on particular topics. Basically, Millenium.” Although papers and post- anything that might assist others teach- ers (submitted for either presentation or ing in this area is welcome. Along with a competition) do not have to directly ad- letter of thanks, contributors will receive dress the conference theme, it is the a coupon toward a discounted purchase Association’s continuing goal to provide of the collection. Preferably, send your the most dynamic and substantive work materials on disk (any WordPerfect ver- produced by students of African descent. Continued on next page FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES 11

continued Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; e-mail [email protected]; (South America) Marieta parents came from Colombia, Ecuador, or These fellowships provide no financial Call for Papers, [email protected]. de Moraes Ferreira, [email protected]; (Aus- Peru, and Russian Jews. Fellows will par- support. Applications should include (1) tralia/Asia), [email protected]. ticipate in a weekly seminar and produce a summary (no more than two typed sion or Microsoft Word 97 or earlier) along July 19-24, 1999, International Rorschach with a hard copy. E-mail or hard copy Society, XVI International Congress of Ror- a chapter for an edited volume before the pages) of the research; (2) a current cur- end of the fellowship. Appointment will riculum vitae; (3) three referees to send versions are also acceptable. Please send schach and Projective Methods, be from September 1, 1999 to August 31, their references directly to the Institute. materials by April 15, 1999 to: Stephen Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact: Funding Zehr, Department of Sociology, Univer- VU Conference Service, De Boelelaan 2000. Applicants should be new or recent Applications should be submitted by May PhDs in the social sciences with a strong 1, 1999. Contact: Gary L. McDowell, Di- sity of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Nether- interest in immigration research. The sti- rector; or the Programme Officer, Institute 47712; e-mail [email protected]. lands; +31 0 20 4445790; fax +31 0 20 The Association of State Floodplain 4445825; e-mail vu_conference@dienst. Managers offers up to $25,000 through a pend will be up to $36,000 with $4,000 in of United States Studies, University of Wrongly Convicted: When Justice Fails, research expenses. Applications are due London, Senate House, Malet Street, Lon- vu.nl. Floodplain Management Graduate Fel- an edited volume on wrongful conviction, lowship for a full-time post-baccalaure- March 1, 1999 and awards will be an- don, England, WC1E 7HU; +44 (0171) is soliciting quality article submissions. September 6-8, 1999, 7th Improving Student ate student for one academic year (12 suc- nounced in early April. Required materi- 862-8693; fax +44 (0171) 862-8696; e-mail This volume will provide the first compi- Learning Symposium, University of York, cessive months). The fellowship presents als: (1) a curriculum vitae, (2) a brief state- [email protected] or [email protected]. lation of the most recent research on the England. Theme: “Improving Student ment of research interests and relevant a broadly based research opportunity di- The U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy problem of wrongful conviction, serving Learning Through the Disciplines.” Con- rected toward addressing any of the range experience (not a full proposal), (3) a de- and Research (AHCPR) with the David as a guide both for policy initiatives and tact: Felix Lam, The Oxford Centre for scription of the research site you wish to of floodplain management or mitigation and Lucile Packard Foundation will fund future research. Manuscripts (two copies) Staff Development, Oxford Brookes Uni- investigate, (4) a writing sample, and (5) issues contributing to flood damage re- studies that will help purchasers and de- should be 15-25 pages in length, comply versity, Helena Kennedy Campus, duction. Applicants must hold U.S. citi- a list of three references with telephone signers of health insurance and delivery with ASA style, and include a brief vitae. Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP, England; numbers and/or email addresses. To ap- zenship or permanent resident status. The systems improve health care for low-in- Deadline for submissions is March 15, +44 (0) 1865 484620 or fax +44 (0) 1865 ply, send the following materials to: Jen- Fellowship covers tuition, fees, research come children. Applications must be re- 1999. For more information or to submit 484622; e-mail [email protected]; expenses, travel costs, and stipend. Ap- nifer Holdaway, Center for Urban Re- ceived by April 22, 1999. This solicitation articles contact: Saundra D. Westervelt, . March 1, 1999. Application forms may be 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. More North Carolina-Greensboro, P.O. Box managed care and other recent changes October 14-17, 1999, Conference on Gender obtained from: Floodplain Management information on the study and the Center in the financing and delivery of health 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170; e-mail for Urban Research may be found at and Rural Transformations in Europe, Graduate Fellowship, Attn: Graduate Fel- care affect minority children and those [email protected]. . Wageningen, The Netherlands. Theme: lowship Advisory Committee, Associa- with special health care needs. AHCPR “Gender and Rural Transformations in tion of State Floodplain Managers, 4233 Institute of United States Studies, Uni- and the Packard Foundation together Europe: Past, Present, and Future Pros- W. Beltline Hwy., Madison, WI 53711; versity of London, John Adams Fellow- plan to award up to $2 million in fiscal Meetings pects.” Contact: Margreet van der Burg, (608) 274-0123; fax (608) 274-0696; e-mail ships, 1999-2000. Applications are invited year 1999 to support the first year of ap- Conference Coordinator, Wageningen [email protected]. from scholars of established reputation, proximately five to eight projects under Agricultural University, Gender Studies April 8-10, 1999, The Center for Advanced City University of New York Graduate although less senior scholars are eligible this Request for Applications (RFA). in Agriculture, Hollandseweg 1, NL-6706 Study of International Development Center, Center for Urban Research. The if they will have held a doctorate or AHCPR and the Packard Foundation ex- KN Wageningen, The Netherlands; +31 equivalent qualification at least two years pect to spend $6 million on the projects (CASID) at Michigan State University, Project on the Second Generation in Met- 317 483374; fax +31 317 485477; e-mail East Lansing, Michigan, Interdisciplinary ropolitan New York expects to award six prior to the beginning of the fellowship. over the course of three years. Applicants [email protected]; . tended for scholars on sabbatical or re- of insurance programs (such as the scope Rich and Poor Countries, Kellogg Center graphic research on young adults age 18- on the MSU campus. Theme: “Facing the June 15-19, 2000, International Oral His- 32 whose parents migrated to the United lease-time leaves to provide the opportu- of benefits packages and premium and 21st Century.” For further information, tory Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. Theme: States from six designated origin groups. nity for a research visit to the Institute. cost-sharing requirements) and the orga- Research focus: any scholarly work in the nization of health care delivery systems please contact Gail Campana, CASID, 306 “Crossroads of History: Experience, In collaboration with the study directors, Berkey Hall, Michigan State University, Memory, Orality.” Contact: Organizing fellows will choose a research site where traditional humanities or social science associated with these programs (such as East Lansing, MI 49924-1111. (517) 353- Committee, c/o Arzu Öztürkmen, XIth second generation groups impinge on and disciplines with a focus on American the network of providers, the procedures Studies. Tenable at the University of Lon- to access pediatric subspecialists or the 5925; fax (517) 353-4840; e-mail International Oral History Conference, interact with each other and/or native [email protected]. Bogazici Üniversitesi, Tarih Bölümü whites, blacks, and Puerto Ricans. Pos- don for a minimum of three months to mechanisms to link to social services) af- Bebek, 80815, Istanbul, Turkey; +90-212- sible sites might include schools, work- one year; the fellowship is not renewable. fect access to services and the quality of May 29-June 1, 1999, Pennsylvania State 2631540 (1544); fax +90-212-2575017; e- places, religious organizations, political The John Adams Fellowships provide in- care received by low-income children. University Conference, Nittany Lion Inn, mail [email protected]. Additional organizations, and neighborhood organi- kind support including an office, word- AHCPR expects awardees to work with State College, PA. Theme: “Gendered contacts: (Europe) Albert Lichtblau, zations. The groups include Chinese (both processing equipment, library privileges, other awardees and Agency and Founda- Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Explo- [email protected]; (North with origins in the PRC and elsewhere), local telephone, and a modest photocopy tion staff for the purpose of strengthen- ration of Past Place and Space.” For more America) Anne Ritchie, a- Dominicans, West Indians, people whose budget. There is no secretarial support. ing individual studies and generating information call (1-800) PSU-TODAY generalizable results across projects, lo- (778-8632) or visit the conference website cations, populations, and insurance de- at: . features. The RFA, and application forms, June 6-9, 1999, Keep America Growing: Bal- are available from AHCPR’s contractor: ancing Working Lands and Development Equals Three Communications, Inc., 7910 Conference, Adam’s Mark Hotel, Philadel- Woodmont Avenue, Suite 200, Bethesda, phia, PA. Contact: Karl Otte at (703) 440- MD 20814-3015; (301) 656-3100; Web site 8611 or e-mail [email protected]. For at ; general conference information, contact ; . June 28-29, 1999, Gypsy Lore Society An- Yale University. An interdisciplinary Pro- nual Meeting, University of Florence, Italy. gram in Agrarian Studies will be offering Contact: Leonardo Piasere, Program four to six Postdoctoral Fellowships Chair, Dipartimento di Studi Sociali, tenurable from September 2000-May Universitá di Firenze, via Cavour, 82, 2001. The Program is designed to maxi- 50129 Firenze, Italy; fax +39 055 2757750; mize the intellectual links between West- e-mail [email protected]. ern and non-Western studies, contempo- rary work and historical work, the social June 29-July 2, 1999, Centre sciences and the humanities in the con- th Pluridisciplinaire De Gérontologie, 7 Inter- text of research on rural life and society. national Conference on Systems Sciences Fellowships include a stipend of $30,000 in Health-Social Services for the Elderly per academic year. Fellows must have fin- and the Disabled (SYSTED), Grenoble, ished the dissertation and have a full-time France. Theme: “Old and Disabled paid position to which they can return. People: Integration—Coordination of We also encourage applications from Medical and Social Systems in a Pluralis- knowledgeable activists and public intel- tic Society.” Contact: CPDG, SYSTED99, lectuals whose work on rural life tran- 5 Rue de la Liberté, 38000 Grenoble, scends the academy. They are expected to France; fax +33 (0) 4 76 51 37 22; e-mail reside in New Haven, pursue their own [email protected]. research, and participate in a colloquium July 22-24, 1999, International Association series on the broad theme: “Hinterlands, for Studies in Sexuality Culture and Society Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions (IASSCS) Conference on Sexual Diversity and Identities.” The deadline for receipt and Human Rights, Manchester Metro- of the first stage of applications for 2000- politan University, Manchester, England. 2001 is January 1, 2000. For more complete Contact: Gail Hawkes, Department of So- information, contact: James C. Scott, Pro- ciology, Manchester Metropolitan Univer- gram in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, sity, Geoffrey Manton Building, Box 208300, New Haven, CT 06520-8300; Rosamond Street West, Off Oxford Road, fax (203) 432-5036; . 3464; fax +44 (0) 161 247 6321; e-mail [email protected]. July 5-8, 1999, International Conference on Summer Programs Migration, Culture and Crime, Kibbutz Maalé Hamisha, Jerusalem, Israel. Spon- Columbia University Teachers College, sored by the International Society of The Center for Young Children and Fami- Criminology, the World Society of lies, is pleased to announce the sixth year Victimology, the Israeli Ministry of Sci- of the summer fellowship program for ence, the United Nations Office for Drug doctoral students. Putting Children First is Control and Crime Prevention and the a Fellowship Training Program in Child Department of Criminology at the West- and Family Policy with a developmental ern Galillee College. For details contact: Shlomo G. Shoham, Tel Aviv University, Continued on next page 12 FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES

continued Michigan, 500 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, article in the New York Times on militant vember 24, 1998 for India Post in the ar- Robert Cameron Mitchell, Clark Univer- Summer, MI 48109-1382; (734) 763-1220; e-mail anti-abortion activists joining forces with ticle “The Rising of Women Means the sity, and Richard Carson, University of perspective, which provides the opportu- [email protected]. Acceptance letters right-wing militia groups. Rising of All.” California-San Diego, were awarded the nity to link academic learning across dis- will be sent out by April 1, 1999. Infor- Kim Pettigrew Brackett, Auburn Univer- N. Prabha Unnithan, Colorado State Uni- Association of Environmental and Re- mation on the workshop and on the source Economists’ 1999 award for “Pub- ciplines with interests in social policy. In sity-Montgomery, was quoted in recent versity, was quoted in an April 28, 1998 MIDMAC Network can be found at the lication of Enduring Quality” for their cooperation with the Society for Research articles in the Montgomery Advertiser about news story in the Detroit Free Press on child on Adolescence (SRA) and the Society for website . Research in Child Development (SRCD), office potluck parties, and housework al- December 19, 1998 news report in the Robert Perinbanayagam, City University Putting Children First offers full-time sum- The University of Prince Edward Island location. Rocky Mountain News on careers in crimi- of New York, received the 1998 George mer placements for eight weeks in a vari- Faculty Development Summer Institute nal justice. Herbert Mead Award from the Society for Edwin D. Driver, ety of policy settings in New York City Emeritus, University of on Active Learning and Teaching is be- Massachusetts-Amherst, was interviewed Lisa Waldner, University of Houston- the Study of Symbolic Interaction for out- government and non-profit agencies. Fel- ing presented for the 16th consecutive standing career contributions to the study for and quoted in a front-page article, Downtown, in an article in the December lows also attend weekly seminars at Co- year on August 2-6, 1999. It is the only of symbolic interaction. lumbia University at the Center for Young “Witness to Many Changes at U Mass,” in 5, 1998 New York Times, asserted that the one of its kind in Canada and has been in the Hampshire Gazette, November 6, 1998. Family Research Council used a study of Laurel Richardson, Ohio State University, Children and Families, with leading policy existence longer than any similar institute It focused on Driver’s observations of lesbian couples she co-wrote as a student received the Charles H. Cooley Award scientists and practitioners. Fellowships in North America. The overall goal of the will begin June 7 and end on July 30. Fel- some social and academic changes which to assert, misleadingly, that the majority from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Institute is to improve teaching and learn- occurred at the University over the 50 of lesbian relationships involve some form Interaction for her book Fields Of Play: Con- lows receive a $2800 stipend and a $250 ing by enhancing the knowledge and years since his appointment there in 1948. of domestic abuse. structing An Academic Life (Rutgers, 1997). travel grant. Financial assistance is avail- skills of professors. For further informa- able for University housing. To apply, send tion on the program, registration, accom- Kenneth Ferraro, Purdue University, was Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, The following sociologists have been selected a three-page statement describing your modations and how to get here, please mentioned in a November 10, 1998 New was interviewed on “The Future of the 1998 Fulbright winners. Their names, affilia- interests in policy and research, a current check our website at . searchers who concluded that religious National Public Radio show, November are listed below. and a self-addresses, stamped postcard. people in the U.S. are more likely to be 13, 1998; was quoted in the article, Richard E. Ball, Ferris State University; Application deadline is April 2, 1999. Con- overweight than nonreligious people. “Caught in the Web of Romance,” Toronto South Korea. tact: Lisa O’Connor, Center for Young George Gonos, SUNY-Potsdam, was in- Globe and Mail, on December 17, 1998; was Children and Families, Teachers College, quoted in the article, “Love Affair Brews Ellen J. Benjamin, DePaul University; Competitions terviewed and quoted on KUOW Seattle Columbia University, Box 39, 525 W. 120th on Beer Web Site,” Toronto Star, December Turkey. Public Radio in a story on the temporary Street, New York, NY 10027; (212) 678- Law and Social Inquiry Graduate Stu- workers’ suit against Microsoft for benefits 28, 1998. Emmett P. Fiske, Washington State Uni- 3591. All phone messages must include dent Paper Competition. The editors of eligibility. versity; Chile. your full mailing and e-mail addresses. Law and Social Inquiry are pleased to an- Brooke Harrington, a PhD candidate at David V. Gibson, University of Texas- University of Michigan, Institute of So- nounce a competition for the best journal- Harvard University, was quoted in the Awards Austin; Portugal. cial Research. May 31-June 4, 1999. The length paper in the field of sociolegal Wall Street Journal on November 4, 1998 Midlife in the United States Summer 1999 studies written by a graduate student. The Duane A. Gill, Anthropology and Social regarding her research on investment Workshop will be a five-day workshop winning paper will be published in Law Joyce N. Chinen, University of Hawai‘i- Work, Mississippi State University; clubs. This research also landed her on which brings together renowned re- and Social Inquiry and the author will re- West O‘ahu and Robert J. LeClair, Bahrain. several TV programs in October and No- searchers in the area of aging and adult ceive a cash prize of $500. Submissions Kapi‘olani Community College, were re- vember, including CNN Financial News, Ronald T. Kelley, University of Califor- development, with graduate students, will be judged by the editorial board, and cipients of the Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau the Lifetime Network, and the Channel 5 nia-Los Angeles; Poland. post-doctoral fellows, and assistant pro- the winning submission will be internally Ching Foundation’s 1998 University of News in Boston. fessors who are hoping to expand their reviewed for publication. The author Hawai‘i Award for Faculty Service to the Russell L. Kleinbach, Philadelphia Col- research in related areas. Participants will must be a graduate student or law stu- Guillermina Jasso, New York University, Community. The award is given to one lege of Textiles and Science; Kyrgyzstan. be introduced to the newly released dent at the time of submission. Entries had her research on the job skills of legal female and one male faculty in the Uni- Dennis L. McNamara, Georgetown Uni- MIDUS (Midlife in the United States) sur- should be received by March 1, 1999. The immigrants noted in “Economic Trends,” versity of Hawai‘i system whose work fos- versity; Japan. vey data set, and will be able to discuss winner will be selected by May 1 and the an article in the January 11, 1999 issue of ters closer relationship between the uni- Clark McPhail, University of Illinois at their research with senior scholars. The prize will be awarded at the annual meet- Business Week. versity and the community. ing of the Law and Society Association. Urbana-Champaign; Japan. program will accept 10-15 young schol- Ronald C. Kessler, Harvard Medical Mary Patrice Erdmans, University of Please send your best work to: The Edi- ars who have earned their PhDs in the last School, concluded in a December 1, 1998 North Carolina-Greensboro, received the Jody A. Miller, University of Missouri-St. tors, Law and Social Inquiry, American Bar five years for the five-day workshop. We New York Times article that married women Oskar Halecki Prize for her book Opposite Louis; Sri Lanka. Foundation, 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, encourage applications from a broad ar- are more likely to complain of being in a Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chi- Joycelyn M. Pollock, Southwest Texas Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 988-6517; e-mail ray of disciplines, including sociology, bad mood than their husbands. cago, 1976-1990, from The Polish Ameri- State University; Finland. psychology, and public health. All travel [email protected]. can Historical Association at their annual expenses, including airfare, meals, and Aliza Kolker, George Mason University, meeting in Washington, DC, January 1999. Dennis M. Rome, Indiana University- lodging will be paid by the MIDMAC was interviewed for an article about se- Bloomington; Russia. Katherine Giuffre, Colorado College, re- Network of the John D. and Catherine T. lecting the sex of babies through prenatal ceived the John D. and Catherine T. Barbara E. Ryan, Widener University; In- MacArthur Foundation. Applications In the News testing in the on-line journal, Healthy MacArthur Professorship for the years dia. should be sent no later than February 15, Woman/Healthy Man. The article, “Pick a 1999-2001. 1999 to: Deborah Carr, University of Dallas Blanchard, University of West Gender, Any Gender,” was published on Florida, was quoted in a December 6, 1998 December 14, 1998. (continued on next page) Nettie Legters, Johns Hopkins University, wrote an opinion piece for The Sun (Balti- more) on December 7, 1998 proposing sev- eral reform initiatives for the Baltimore high school educational system. Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State Univer- sity, was quoted in the December 16, 1998 Chandler Independent in an article on the border patrol and undocumented immi- gration to Chandler, Arizona. She was also cited in the December 21, 1998 issue of The Argus, a Bay Area newspaper, for her re- search on Salvadorans in San Francisco. James M. O’Kane, Drew University, was quoted in the December 10, 1998 Milwau- kee Journal Sentinel on U.S. homicide de- cline; the November 8, 1998 Sarasota Her- ald Tribune on parents killing their chil- dren; in the December 20, 1998 New York Times on homicide declines in New Jersey and the U.S.; and in the December 27, 1998 New York Times on police effects in solving high profile murders. Harold L. Orbach, Kansas State Univer- sity, wrote a letter to the editor in the New York Times on December 2, 1998 about methods to be used for the next U.S. Cen- sus. Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York-Baruch College, was quoted in the Washington Post in November 22, 1998 about the case of a man suing a former girlfriend for getting pregnant, and appeared in National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” to discuss it. She made an- other appeared in NPR to discuss her book Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations. Gregory D. Squires, University of Wis- consin-Milwaukee, was cited for his work in the December 3, 1998 Miwaukee Journal- Sentinel as the leader of a team of research- ers who reported on housing affordability in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Diana Tumminia, California State Univer- sity-Sacramento, was interviewed on No- FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES 13

in Sociology Karen Seccombe, continued (Mayfield Publishing Com- Portland State Univer- replicated and/or adapted by other in- identity, mobility, organizational affilia- People, pany, 1998). sity, “So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?” Wel- structors and in other contexts. We will tions, ritual behaviors, Jewish education, fare Recipients Perspectives on the System be looking for exercises that contain de- philanthropy, fertility, attachment to Is- Inger J. Sagatun-Edwards, San Jose State Sheigla Murphy, National Institute on and its Reform (Allyn and Bacon, 1999). tailed instructions to students and specific rael, intermarriage and many other socio- University; Norway. Drug Abuse and Marsha Rosenbaum, grading criteria or rubrics. In addition, we demographic variables. The organizing Lindesmith Center, Pregnant Women on Barry Wellman, University of Toronto Steven P. Segal, University of California- will need a brief description of the con- committee envisions sponsoring and pub- Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma (editor), Networks in the Global Village Berkeley; Australia. (Rutgers University Press, 1998). (Westview Press, 1999). text for the assignment, the learning ob- lishing a series of monographs and Patricia G. Steinhoff, University of Ha- jectives, and any assessment outcomes shorter publications on topics to be pro- Proshanta K. Nandi, University of Illi- Saundra Davis Westervelt, University of waii-Manoa; Japan. (formal or informal). We are looking for posed by academics and planners. To en- nois-Springfield and Shahid M. North Carolina-Greensboro, Shifting the assignments that have been used in a va- courage scholars to prepare such publi- Shahidullah, Virginia State University Blame: How Victimization Became a Crimi- riety of sociology courses, including In- cations, it is the intent of the sponsor to (editors), Globalization and the Evolving nal Defense (Rutgers University Press, troduction to Sociology, Social Problems, provide grant support, contingent on People World Society (Brill Academic Publishers 1998). and Social Stratification. Send two hard funding. Grant size will be a function of 1998). copies of the exercise by March 15, 1999. publication length, importance of the Contact: Barb Heyl and Kathleen topic to the study sponsor and organiz- William Brustein, University of Minne- Arthur G. Neal, Bowling Green State Uni- McKinney, Department of Sociology, Box ing committee, costs of the project and sota, was inducted into the Academy of versity, National Trauma and Collective Contact 4660, Illinois State University, Normal, IL other factors. Proposals outlining such Distinguished Teachers in January. Memory (M.E. Sharpe, 1998). 61790-4660; e-mail [email protected]; publications and indicating the resources Patrick Coy, Kent State University, has Masamichi Sasaki, Hyogo Kyoiku Uni- In response to the increasing interest of [email protected]. needed to complete them are invited from been appointed series co-editor and vol- versity, Japan (editor), Values and Attitudes instructors to use active learning, we are interested scholars. To facilitate prepara- National Jewish Population Survey ume editor for the research annual Re- Across Nations and Time (Brill Academic planning to edit a volume of exercises and tion of such proposals, the draft question- 2000. The UJA Federations of North search in Social Movements, Conflicts and Publishers, 1998). assignments that could be used in a vari- America have decided to sponsor a new naire is expected to be available for re- Change, published by JAI Press. ety of Sociology courses. At this time, we view on request. Monograph authors will Laurie Schaffner, University of Califor- NJPS in 2000. The topics to be covered in are soliciting exercises or assignments that have the opportunity to suggest a limited Diane E. Davis, Harvard University, won nia-Berkeley, Teenage Runaways: Broken the 30+ minute interview with a greatly involve group work including coopera- a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Hearts and Bad Attitudes (Haworth Press, enlarged sample of 5,000 randomly se- number of additional questions which tive or collaborative learning. The exer- Foundation Grant for study of “State Re- 1998). lected respondents will include Jewish form, Public Insecurity, and Deteriorating cises should have sufficient detail to be Continued on next page Rule of Law in Mexico.” The 18-month project, dispersed under MacArthur’s Program on Global Security and Sustainability, will be conducted jointly with sociologist Arturo Alvarado from El Colegio de Mexico. Kathy Feltey, University of Akron, was elected Vice-President of the Sociologists for Women in Society. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Arizona State University, was elected President-Elect of the Sociologists for Women in Society. Allen Liska (deceased), State University of New York-Albany, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Crimi- nology. Karen Oppenheim Mason has left the East-West Center to become Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Jan E. Mutchler and Jeffrey A. Burr re- cently joined the faculty at the Gerontol- ogy Institute, University of Massachusetts at Boston. Gary Spencer, Syracuse University re- ceived a Vision Fund Grant from the Vice Chancellor of the University to help in establishing an ongoing research program to provide research experience to the department’s majors. Cathy Zimmer, North Carolina State Uni- versity, was elected Deputy Treasurer of the Sociologists for Women in Society.

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Peter Beilharz, La Trobe University (Aus- tralia), Chris Nyland, Monash University (Australia), The Webbs, Fabianism and Femi- nism: Fabianism and the Political Economy of Everyday Life (Ashgate, 1998). Donatella Della Porta, University of Flo- rence (Italy), and Mario Diani, Univer- sity of Strathclyde (Scotland), Social Move- ments: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1999). Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos, University of Pittsburgh and Victor Roudometof, American College of Thessaloniki, Greece (editors), American Culture in Europe: In- terdisciplinary Perspectives (Praeger, 1998). Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, New School for So- cial Research, Civility and Subversion: The Intellectual in Democratic Society (Cam- bridge University Press, 1998). Laurel Graham, University of South Florida, Managing On Her Own: Dr. Lillian Gilbreth and Women’s Work in the Interwar Era (Engineering and Management Press, 1998). Donald J. Hernandez, State University of New York-Albany, and Evan Charney, University of Massachusetts Medical Cen- ter-Worcester (editors), From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families (National Academy Press, 1998). Katherine L. Hughes, Columbia Univer- sity, The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse (Aletheia 1998). Lisa J. McIntyre, Washington State Uni- versity, The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts 14 FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES

Contact, continued hi.rutgers.edu/szelenyi60>. The web site, at the Graduate Library School while tains the pain of the quest and his own forego a funeral for him and requested located on the server of the Rutgers Insti- directing studies at the National Opin- intense warmth: that those wishing to remember him tute for Hungarian Studies, includes new will enrich the proposed analysis for pos- ion Research Center. I long to know it all, send contributions to the Los Angeles and published articles by Ivan’s students sible inclusion in the questionnaire. The Having grown up in a Russian Jew- Suicide Prevention Bureau. and colleagues from four continents as The deeper the better. data set will be provided to all scholars ish family in Baltimore, Philip was in- well as greetings from Hungarian writer Indifference is but a chill. Joseph B. Ford, California State University- whose proposals are accepted. Requests terested in boundaries, cultural, his- and friend, George Konrad. Many of the My arms around you. Northridge for copies of the questionnaire draft and torical and geographical; his work ex- contributions address issues concerning guidelines to prepare proposals should be plored the dialectic of cultural change. Philip leaves his wife Reita, son social change in eastern Europe, while Allen E. Liska sent in writing to: Jim Schwartz, Research Himself an artist as well as a sociolo- Michael, daughter Sarah, two stepchil- others explore some key concepts in (1940-1998) Director, UJA Federations of North gist, he was interested in the most rap- dren, three grandchildren and many Szelenyi’s writings, such as the role of America, 111 Eighth Avenue, Suite 11E, devoted friends. Al Liska, Professor of Sociology at the intellectuals, changes in the class struc- idly changing art forms, which he New York, NY 10011-5201; fax (212) 284- University at Albany-State University ture, labor markets, civil society and de- found in popular culture. These inter- Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University 6805; e-mail [email protected]. ests merge in his book on rock’n’roll, of New York, died on December 17, mocracy in other contexts. Mamoru Iga The Seventh Stream, published by 1998, after waging a long and coura- Sociological Inquiry, the journal of Alpha (1916-1998) Kappa Delta, the international honor so- Wesleyan University Press in 1992, geous battle against renal cell carci- ciety for sociology, is designed to imple- which examines the shifting bound- Distinguished scholar of Japanese noma. ment the scientific aims of AKD by com- Policy and Practice aries of a form that tells so much about culture and suicidology, Mamoru died Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on municating and reviewing developments social history. on July 25, 1998 in Northridge, CA. A May 15, 1940, Al earned his BS from of sociological interest in the service of George Farkas, University of Texas-Dal- Philip had a metaphorical, elliptical native of Japan, Iga migrated to the the University of Wisconsin-Milwau- faculty, investigators, and students alike. las, has been working with the Corpora- and whimsical verbal style. With his United States after World War II and kee, his MA from Marquette Univer- Correspondence, book reviews and tion for National Service to train tutors beloved colleague Vernon Dibble, completed his PhD at the University sity, and his PhD from the University manuscripts should be addressed to: for the DC Reads program. His program Philip developed the four essential of Utah, then did post-doctoral re- of Wisconsin-Madison. He began his Sampson Lee Blair and Bernard Farbers, at UTD (Reading One-to-One) also trains laws of sociology: search and study at Harvard Univer- academic career at Central Michigan Editors, Sociological Inquiry, Department and manages tutors in other locations na- (1) Some do and some don’t. sity before joining the faculty of Cali- University, where he taught from 1968 of Sociology, Arizona State University, tionwide. (2) It’s always different in the South. fornia State University in 1959. His first through 1976. In 1977, Al joined the De- Tempe, AZ 85287-2101; (602) 965-1609; fax (3) The hill people are difficult. partment of Sociology at the Univer- (602) 965-0064; e-mail socinq@asuvm. book Jonathan Edwards (in Japanese) (4) Nothing works in India. symbolized his early and lasting admi- sity at Albany where he was promoted inre.asu.edu; . Deaths Philip taught his students the “basic ration of Western and especially molecule of artistic systems”: American values. Henry Thoreau was as department chair from 1985 to 1988. United States Institute of Peace pub- artist+distributor+critic+audience. He an even greater lifelong intellectual He was a visiting professor at the Uni- E. Colvin Baird, Cordova, TN, died re- lishes an annual Guide to Specialists list- had them create and assess three gen- hero to him. He became a citizen of his versity of Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1983 ing each of their policy experts. Detailed cently. erations of commercials on the basis of adopted country in 1962. He is sur- and at Nankai University (China) in biographies and areas of policy expertise Peter Becker, Concordia University, died a canon of commercials taped ran- vived by his wife Marye (a “Kibei” or 1988. are listed for each specialist, as well as rel- on December 8, 1998. domly from television. Together with one born in America of immigrant Throughout his career, Al made sig- evant publications. Contact: USIP, 1200 nificant contributions to two sociologi- th William H. Whyte, CUNY-Hunter Col- the composer Alvin Lucier, Philip and Japanese parents and educated in Ja- 17 Street NW, Washington, DC 20036- cal specialty areas—crime/deviance 3011; (202) 457-1700; fax (202) 429-6063; lege, died on January 12, 1999, in New I taught an interdisciplinary course pan) and his daughter Charlotte. York. entitled What is Art? The subtitle was Known widely for his contributions and social psychology. In the sociology TDD (202) 457-1719; . Philip’s: “From Rembrandt to Wallpa- to the study of suicide, he wrote also per.” In it we explored the interrelation- extensively on various aspects of Japa- ential research on social control, the Writing Sociology back issues free to ship of high and low culture, using nese society and culture, as reflected fear of crime, and the functions of crime good home. Nearly complete sets still Obituaries materials ranging from Nabokov’s in his major volume in English, The in society. In social psychology, he available. Contact: Cliff Staples, Depart- Lolita to post cards whose latent con- Thorn in the Chrysanthemum (1986). He made significant contributions to the ment of Sociology, University of North Philip Ennis tent Philip was expert at revealing to literature on the interrelationships be- Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 58202; e-mail also was principal author of Japanese (1925 -1998) tween attitudes and behaviors. Work- [email protected]. astonished students by interpreting the Egoism (1994) and contributed more imagery on the back of the card with- than 60 articles and chapters in vol- ing within these two areas Al compiled Philip Ennis, Emeritus Professor of a distinguished record of scholarship. Sociology at Wesleyan University, died out reading its verbal content. umes. Philip was fascinated with the way Iga contributed much time and ex- He published over 50 articles, com- in Brookline, Massachusetts on No- ments, and reviews in the professional Caught in the Web vember 13, 1998. He taught at art both conceals and reveals. His pertise to the Los Angeles Suicide Pre- house overflowed with his art works— vention Center and served for years as journals. As testimony to the high qual- Wesleyan from 1968 to 1986. He earned ity of his work, many of Al’s articles Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies: An paintings, metal sculptures and con- a volunteer Deputy Coroner as a spe- his BA from Johns Hopkins, a masters appeared in the very best journals in International Journal of Interdisciplinary in psychology from Harvard, and a structions. He had an ever-changing cialist in “psychological autopsies” of and Interfaith Dialogue is now on the exhibit on the kitchen walls, where he Asian suicides. Headlines throughout the field (e.g., American Journal of Soci- PhD in sociology from Columbia. ology, American Sociological Review, and Web! . Philip had worked at the University of would arrange advertising images to the U.S. featured several sensational bring out unsuspected patterns, punc- cases that Iga analyzed brilliantly in the Social Forces) and in his specialty areas A Festschrift in honor of Ivan Szelenyi’s Chicago Law School where he did re- (e.g., Criminology and Social Psychology 60th birthday is accessible at

Obituaries, continued Stuart Chapin at Minnesota, he felt that in books and articles. Religious move- will recognize outstanding demo- of Wilbur Watson has been Irving Louis it was fruitless to study human inter- ments were a major interest, but he al- graphic accomplishments by future Horowitz, Editor of Transaction Pub- ing elected to the Councils of both the action without attempting to measure ways came back with photographs— Washington State University students lishers. Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance it. Outside the academy, his boy scout often of professional quality—and in- who study demographic issues. Con- In our profession, Wilbur should be and the Social Psychology Section. He experiences sparked a life-long inter- formation on musical cultures, often re- tributions to this fund are welcomed remembered as a probing analyst dedi- was also elected and served on the est in nature and the environment, and corded. His studies of religions were and appreciated. Inquiries or contribu- cated to reframing sociology. He often American Society of Criminology’s Ex- all his life he brought joy to others with brought together in the excellent Black tions can be sent to either Annabelle telephoned me and talked at length ecutive Council from 1992 through his magic shows. Religions in the New World (1978). Cook, Chair of Rural Sociology, or Eu- about his book plans and creative 1995. His illness forced him to decline I came to know Del in 1947 at Kent George Simpson received numerous gene Rosa, Chair of Sociology at Wash- projects. I remember that not long after the nomination for the presidency of State University, where we began a col- honors and awards for his work. ington State University. he published Black Folk Medicine, he dis- the American Society of Criminology. laboration that lasted for years. His ex- Among these are the Wellcome Medal Wardwell is survived by his wife of cussed with me his interest in a south- At the most recent annual meeting periences at Sperry Gyroscope Corpo- for Anthropological Research, the 34 years, Jean, a son, Joseph, and fos- ern custom that gained media attention of the American Society of Criminol- ration during World War II and the Na- Anisfield-Wolf Award in Race Rela- ter son, Michael. - “porch sitting” and the hierarchical ogy (ASC), Al was honored by being tional War Labor Board inspired him tions (with J. Milton Yinger), and hon- Don A. Dillman, Washington State Uni- nature of seating arrangements in the named a Fellow. According to the ASC to develop a new field, industrial soci- orary degrees from Coe College and versity “Black” church. Using a Goffman-like Executive Board, which selects Fel- ology. Industrial Sociology, an early text Oberlin College. symbolic interactionist approach, he lows, “The honorary title of ‘Fellow’ in the field, dominated it for years. Del His wife, Eleanor Brown Simpson Wilbur Watson sought to explore the social construc- recognizes persons who have made a passionately and tenaciously clung to preceded him in death. I am certain (1938-1998) tion and significance of these ordinary the conviction that the application of that hundreds of former students, col- occurrences among African Americans scholarly contribution to the intellec- I have been asked by John Sibley But- tual life of the discipline, whether in sociological principles to solve human leagues, and friends join his children in the south. and social problems in the economy, and their spouses (Jon and Mary Lou ler (Austin, Texas) and Obie Clayton Moreover, Wilbur was an extraordi- the form of a singular, major piece of (Director, Morehouse Research Insti- scholarship or cumulative scholarly other institutions, and the community Simpson, Louise and Derek Hendry, narily prolific writer. In the 1970s, he and society should be a primary goal Nancy Alonzo, Curt and Susan tute) to write a tribute to Wilbur began to pursue an examination of the contributions.” Watson. It is with profound sadness Al also played a very important role of sociology. As a zealous missionary Simpson) in grateful memory of this aging process. This was an outgrowth of sociological theory and research, he great and good man. and a deep sense of personal loss that I of the research for his doctoral disser- in the training of new researchers in his do so. field. He directed more PhD students held joint appointments in Business Milton Yinger, Oberlin College tation that focused on “Body Idiom in and Administration. I have known Wilbur for over thirty Face to Face Interaction: A Field Study than any other member of our depart- years having first met him when I was While Del’s applied concerns were John Wardwell Geriatric Nursing.” His analysis of ment, and co-authored extensively a CWRU graduate student teaching at normally accepted in economics, psy- (1942-1998) “Touching Behavior: Geriatric Nurs- with his students. Kent and he was a bright senior in so- But, professional activities and ac- chology, and political science, they ing” appeared in the Journal of Commu- were suspect in sociology in the 1950s. John Wardwell, demographer and a ciology. From that initial meeting, he nication just four years after he com- complishments were only one dimen- professor of sociology and rural soci- remained a genuine friend. In the in- sion of Al Liska’s life. He played with Assisting business and labor union pleted his degree. And in 1977, his book, leaders to develop harmonious rela- ology at Washington State University side cover of his book The Village: An Human Aging and Dying: A Study in So- as much enthusiasm and enjoyment as died of lung cancer, September 20, Oral Historical and Ethnographic Study of he worked. During his leisure time, Al tions and productive work groups ciocultural Gerontology, was published struck many sociologists as improving 1998, in Pullman, Washington. He was a Black Community, published in 1989, by the St. Martins Press. By 1982, his loved to race with his wife, Jean, in 56. he wrote: their sailboat on Saratoga Lake, and to management’s ability to exploit the work in the area of gerontology culmi- working class, a poor substitute for A native of North Dakota, he earned “Dear Doris, . . . you were a signifi- nated in an excellent resource on Aging walk along the beaches of Maine or a Bachelor’s degree in 1964 from North cant force not the least of which oc- Florida. He especially liked to watch confrontational class politics. Although and Social Behavior: An Introduction to the ideological opponents to industrial Dakota State University, and in 1995 curred through your teaching at Kent Social Gerontology. Gradually, his intel- the sunsets from one of his favorite studied at Goethe Universitat in Frank- in encouraging me to pursue a career vacation spots, Fort Myers Beach, sociology were largely successful in lectual focus shifted to an exploration blunting the development of applica- furt under a Fulbright Fellowship. In in sociology. One of your assignments of the medical profession and especially Florida. Al also took full advantage of 1969 he was awarded a Masters degree when I studied with you was the un- the summer entertainment at the tion in the field, Del was never dis- the role of African Americans within it. suaded from his mission. He expanded from the University of Arizona, and in dertaking of a study of a small com- When he wrote Black Folk Medicine: The Saratoga Performing Arts Center, 1973, a PhD in demography and soci- munity. As you may recall, my choice where he enjoyed the ballet and sym- the applied sections of his first love, In- Therapeutic Significance of Faith he in- dustrial Sociology in each revision. He ology from the University of North was the Hough area of Cleveland. As I vited me to write the foreword. phony. Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then joined thought of this study on ‘the village,’ I Al is survived by his wife, Jean Liska; brought the techniques of studying In 1986, Wilbur wrote Field Notes and human relations and interaction in the the faculty at Washington State Univer- recalled and put to use much of what I Early Thoughts on Black Physicians and his daughters Nicole Liska and Stefanie sity. learned from you. Along the way, as La Page; a brother, Terrence Liska; and economy to his studies of community Separatism in the United States. Three influentials and decision-making in cit- Wardwell is recognized for his exten- you will see, I was fortunate to get years later, he completed The Village: An three grandchildren, Perry Marshal, sive work on understanding the dy- James Blackwell to review a draft of Chelsey Lynn, and Allen Michael La ies in the United States, England, Peru Oral Historical and Ethnographic Study of and Argentina. Finally, he investigated namics of rural vs. urban growth. An ‘The Village’ and write a foreword re- a Black Community (1989). When he be- Page. In addition, he will be sorely influential article he published in Ru- garding how it fits in the history of missed by his many friends and col- inter-city ties of influentials in the ma- gan his in-depth study of African jor cities that stretch from Boston to ral Sociology in 1976 was recognized as community studies.” Americans in medicine, he phoned of- leagues in our department, and from the first theoretical attempt to explain Wilbur Watson, an imaginative and around the country. Washington. ten and talked about his interest. His Those of us who knew Del outside the renewal of growth in rural United talented sociologist, was born in Cleve- extensive interviews with physicians in Richard B. Felson, Steven F. Messner, and the academy, where he displayed the States after many decades of steady land in the post-Depression era. Not the south resulted in the recent publi- Stewart E. Tolnay, University at Albany- reserve of earlier professional cohorts, decline. It set the pattern for his later long after completion of high school, cation of “Against the Odds: Blacks in State University of New York were inspired by his infectious and ir- work of specifying and elucidating he enrolled in Kent State University the Profession of Medicine in the United repressible enthusiasm for life and by linkages between sociology, demogra- where he received a BA in Sociology States” by Transaction Publishers Delbert C. Miller his abiding loyalty and generosity. I re- phy, human ecology and development. (1964) and the MA degree in Sociology (1998). I often wondered how he found (1913-1998) member how, at the age of 45, he en- From 1973 to the present he was in- and Rehabilitation Counseling. He the time and energy to engage in so Delbert Miller received his BA at Mi- tertained the children of his guests by fluential in the efforts of a USDA spon- earned a PhD from the University of many pursuits. In addition to his re- ami University of Ohio and his PhD at organizing and participating in a game sored Western Regional Research Com- Pennsylvania in 1972 in Medical Soci- markable scholarship, he also operated Minnesota in 1940. He subsequently of hide and seek and savoring every mittee in monitoring and understand- ology and studied Sociological Theory a bookstore. Wilbur worked and pro- taught at Kent State, the University of moment of it. Del’s love of sociology ing rural demographic changes in the at Princeton (1973). His highly produc- duced innovative ideas “against the Washington, Pennsylvania State, and and his love of life surely survive United States, serving several times as tive scholarship reflects these two ar- odds.” Indiana University where he taught for strongly in our memories. chair. The results of this committee’s eas of emphasis. On December 27th, 1998, Wilbur 14 years before he retired. Miller’s eight work, and John’s personal commit- Wilbur was a true scholar in the tra- William Form, Ohio State University Watson passed at his mother’s home books and 70 other publications made ment to understanding the factors in- ditional sense of the word. He loved in Cleveland. With his passing, a fam- fluencing change, are published in a ideas and history; and he applied so- him a durable leader in industrial so- George Eaton Simpson ily has lost a tremendous son and fa- series of three important volumes ciological principles to the study of the ciology, community power, and re- (1904-1999) ther and sociology has lost a gifted search methods. Industrial Sociology which he co-edited, New Directions in African American experience. Addi- scholar. Those with whom he worked (1951) with William Form, Handbook of After a long and distinguished ca- Urban-Rural Migration (1980, with tionally, he was insightful, thoughtful have lost a trusted and loyal friend. It Research Design and Social Measurement reer, George E. Simpson, resident of David Brown), Society, Community and and motivated by his sound observa- is my hope and that of his students and (1964), and International Community Friendship Village in Columbus, has Migration (1992, with Patrick Jobes and tions of the dynamics of social interac- colleagues at Atlanta University and Power Structures (1970) typify his ma- died. He received his BA degree from William Stinner), and Population Change tion. As recently as November 1997, the Morehouse Research Institute that jor legacies. Miller was also an inspir- Coe College in 1926, his MA from the in the Rural West 1975-1990 (1997 with and in spite of recovering from a stroke, this unique and rare intellect will be ing teacher, a selfless contributor to de- University of Missouri in 1927, and his James Copp). He has left us with an he organized and implemented a com- given special and permanent recogni- partmental and university governance, PhD from the University of Pennsyl- important legacy of demographic un- memorative program to celebrate Black tion in the discipline and in the com- and an active participant in ASA affairs. vania in 1934. derstanding. sociological scholarship and to honor munity of sociologists. He is most de- Miller’s early socialization deeply in- He taught for several years at Temple For 25 years Wardwell taught most W.E.B. DuBois. serving. fluenced his scholarship and person- University, then at Pennsylvania State of the undergraduate and graduate From 1980-1989, Wilbur served as Doris Wilkinson, University of Kentucky ality. The Miller family was deeply em- University before joining the faculty of demography courses offered at Wash- Chair of the Department of Sociology bedded in the social fabric of Findlay, Oberlin College in 1947. For most of his ington State University through the De- at Atlanta University and Editor of a small Ohio town. Although making 24 years there, he served as chairman partment of Sociology. He earned a Phylon, the Atlanta University Review a decent living was difficult (his of the Department of Sociology and well deserved reputation for filling the of Race and Culture. His last major po- Classified Ads father’s grocery business had failed), Anthropology with great skill and hu- margins of student papers with neatly sition was as Professor of Sociology and mor. But he will best be remembered scripted comments that pushed them a Research Associate in the Research In- Del’s mother, determined to provide I’ll bring out the best in your book or as a gifted and dedicated teacher and to do their best work. And, his efforts stitute at Morehouse College. Like her son all the opportunities of middle- paper. Expert editing for style, clarity, me- an excellent scholar. to mentor students went well beyond Oliver Cox (1901-1974) and W.E.B. class boys, saw that he got elocution chanics. Twenty years’ experience includ- lessons, money to support his many In the ASA Biographical Directory he the traditional classroom boundaries. DuBois (1868-1963), he sensed that a ing ASR, SPQ, Sociological Theory, Justice Boy Scout activities and his favorite listed Race, Ethnic, and Minority Rela- Even the challenges of white-water different kind of sociological imagina- Quarterly, Demography. Karen Feinberg, hobby, magic. As a college professor, tions, Religion, Cultural Sociology, and rafting and downhill skiing were tion characterized the African Ameri- 5300 Hamilton Avenue, #1704, Cincinnati, Del’s elocutionary style of delivery was Collective Behavior as his major inter- viewed as opportunities to teach and can scholar. OH 45224; (513) 542-8328; clearly evident in his lectures. In his ests. All of these are represented in his learn. Thus, he set about to delineate the pa- [email protected]. seven books and scores of articles, In recognition of his contributions to rameters of Black sociological thought research, he insisted that interpersonal Sociological issues, human interest. Re- many of them enriched by blending an- the education of a generation students, and founded The Black Sociologist. Fur- relations, so important in small town cent pubs. Small Criminals Among Us, business and community affairs, were thropological and sociological perspec- a memorial fund to support the “John ther, he recognized the legitimacy of ElderCare. Prefer prior pub. author, reg. the sub-structure of behavior and de- tives. His multicultural interests car- Wardwell Demography Award” has using “Black” as an identifier in a race royalties. Well-regarded small trade pub- cision-making of large economic orga- ried him to Trinidad, Haiti, Jamaica, been established by the Departments conscious culture. One of the strong lisher. New Horizon Press, P.O. Box 669, nizations and cities. An apostle of F. and Nigeria—each skillfully described of Sociology and Rural Sociology. It supporters and publishers of the works Far Hills, NJ 07931. 16 FEBRUARY 1999 FOOTNOTES

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