VOLUME 31 APRIL 2003 NUMBER 4

Contexts Magazine Feature Egyptian Sociologist Ibrahim Is Acquitted A special article, titled “A Letter from Cairo,” by Ibrahim, will appear in the Contexts fter almost three years of legal brings an end to a legal saga that many involved in fraud, in publishing false spring issue of ASA’s magazine A battles and time in jail, a final ruling by scholars and human-rights leaders say information to tarnish Egypt’s reputa- (www.contextsmagazine.org). In the Egypt’s highest appeals court acquitted exposed the fragility of academic tion, or had received foreign donations article, Ibrahim discusses his experience renowned social activist and sociologist freedom in the Arab world’s most without permission. The prosecution in jail and his feelings on the need for Saad Eddin Ibrahim and two of his co- intellectually prominent country. offered few arguments to support its greater democracy within Egypt. This defendants of “undermining the dignity At a court hearing on February 4, case, leaving the defense hopeful that issue is particularly pertinent to aca- of the state and tarnishing its reputa- 2003, Ibrahim’s lawyers had refuted the the court would rule in its favor. demic freedom. There are key lessons in tion.” On March 18, Egypt’s Court of prosecution’s charges that Ibrahim and Nevertheless, the acquittal of all the Ibn his essay for any scholar doing politi- Cassation ordered the 64-year-old his colleagues from the advocacy center Khaldun staff members comes as a great cally sensitive research. American University-Cairo professor that he directed, the Ibn Khaldun Center relief. Ibrahim was recently honored at the freed. There can be no retrial, which for Development Studies, had been human rights reception co-sponsored by ASA at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Sociolo- Social Science Is Focus of Cairo Conference: gist Harriet Presser, University of Maryland-College Park, formally Surveying Worldviews of Islamic Publics represented ASA at the event, which attracted some 100 AAAS attendees. by Joane Nagel & Patricia White, reporting and Presser was joined on stage by Ibrahim’s National Science Foundation reflecting on what son Amir and daughter Randa, who we know and what attended the reception to speak on their For some time now social scientists we need to know father’s behalf. Several other family have pondered the problem of decipher- about the members who live in the United States ing the contents of the black boxes worldviews of also attended. Ibrahim himself was known as Orientalism and Occidentalism. members of Islamic unable to leave Egypt to attend the How do we understand, for example, societies and how AAAS reception, as he awaited the views held by individuals and communi- those compare to verdict from his latest appeal. Randa, an ties in the East and the West as we gaze Western attorney, has been representing her at one another through politically, worldviews. The father in the Egyptian court system. culturally, and economically mediated purpose of the For Presser, the AAAS meeting lenses? Questions about beliefs and conference, titled assumptions embraced by intellectuals Explaining the represented a memorable life event, and laypeople alike on both sides of this Worldviews of the since she had the double pleasure of historical divide now have attained Islamic Publics: being inducted as a AAAS Fellow at the special importance and pertinence to Methodological and Denver meeting and presenting remarks world affairs. The events of September Theoretical Issues, at the Ibrahim reception. “The whole Left to right, Front Row: Ahmed Houiti (Algiers University), Abdellah Bedaida 11, 2001, the escalating Palestinian and not only was (Algiers University), Mansoor Moaddel (Eastern Michigan University), Marjan event was very special for me person- Israeli discord, and the war in Iraq all designed to Moaddel, Ronald F. Inglehart (U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Mohamed Mahmoud ally,” she said. “I have now met all the amplify the urgency of engaging these promote under- Mohieddin (U. of Qatar), El Aswad Al Saayd (Wayne State University); Second members of Ibrahim’s immediate Row: Fayiz Suyyagh (U. of Jordan), Fares al-Braizat (U. of Kent-Canterbury), fundamentally sociological issues. standing of the Joane Nagel (NSF), Richard Lempert (NSF); Third Row: Mohammed M. family.” Presser had met Ibrahim’s wife In February, more than 30 social most important Aboelenein (Tanta University), James Griffin (Office of Science and Technology Barbara in Argentina a few years ago scientists from eight Islamic countries organizing prin- Policy), Osman A. Shinaishin (NSF), Mohamed Abidi (Algiers University), when Presser served as a discussant of a (Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, ciples of Islamic Hannes Voolma (Soros Foundation), Jan Hjarpe (Lund University); Fourth Row: unidentified, Abdel-Hamid Adel-Latif (Ain Shams University), Patricia White paper Barbara presented. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, societies but also to (NSF), Ms. Karlsson, Ingmar Karlsson (Swedish Embassy in Turkey), Temirlan Presser’s remarks, which include a and Turkey), the United States, and three provide an oppor- Tilekovich Moldogaziev (American University-Central Asia) summary of Ibrahim’s recent experience European states (France, Sweden, and tunity for collabora- Spain) spent three days in Cairo, Egypt, withASA the Egyptian members justice to system, vote appearon See Cairo, page 6 on the AAAS website at shr.aaas.org/ reception/2003_3.htm.a resolution on ❑ the war in Iraq. . . pages 2 and 3 2003 Annual Meeting . . . The Question of Culture The Double-edged Sword of Gentrification in Atlanta Fourth in a series of articles highlighting the sociological context of ASA’s next Annual Meeting location . . . Atlanta

by Lesley Williams Reid and Robert M. where have fueled this expansion. But Property Values hoods represent a case study of regardless of their origin, these new gentrification in Atlanta and across the Adelman, Georgia State University The white folk moved out and are now paying residents possess moderate to upper United States. Each has characteristics that anything to move back. – Frank Edwards, incomes and they are moving into older, make a neighborhood ripe for Atlanta Resident hicago has Lake Michigan, Mexico poorer neighborhoods. gentrification: They are close to down- C These neighborhoods are changing town; they have an ample stock of historic City is surrounded by mountains; but In the January 2003 Footnotes article dramatically. In recent years, in-town housing; their populations are aging, Atlanta has no geographic boundaries to about Atlanta, Charles Gallagher and Atlanta neighborhoods have experienced opening opportunities for new buyers; slow its sprawl. Consequently, Atlanta’s 20 Karyn Lacy asked to what extent lower- transformations associated with and, of increasing relevance in Atlanta, counties and four million people are income black residents have been dis- gentrification such as increased property they have small tracts of undeveloped land spread across 6,000 square miles. With this placed by middle- and upper-income taxes, displacement of the poor, and for new, in-fill construction. size has come staggering commutes. white residents. Without question, rising heightened racial tensions. As a conse- Property values have skyrocketed, Atlantans, on average, spend more time property values have displaced older, quence, Atlanta is discovering that increasing by almost 25% in these three traveling to and from work than almost all long-term black residents as middle- and gentrification is a double-edged sword. On east side neighborhoods over the last year. other metropolitan residents in the United upper-income whites bid up property the one hand, city boosters, including This one-year increase is a snapshot of a States, surpassed only by residents in New values. While statistics are difficult to politicians, often clamor for more broader trend in these neighborhoods. In York City and Washington, DC. obtain, anecdotal evidence indicates that gentrification because it raises tax rev- While sprawl is by definition the annual increases in property assessments enues by replacing low-income residents See Atlanta, page 8 growth of the suburbs, in Atlanta subur- have displaced many residents on fixed with middle- and upper-income residents. ban sprawl also drives central city growth. incomes as their property taxes doubled or On the other hand, this displacement can The 2000 census shows that the city of even tripled. In few areas have these create havoc for poorer, often minority Atlanta’s population increased between increases been as dramatic as in the See tributes to New York residents. Indeed, while gentrification may 1990 and 2000, the first recorded increase enclave of neighborhoods on the east side be good for the city coffers, it is bad for Senator Daniel Patrick since the 1960 census. Newcomers from of Atlanta, including Kirkwood, East Lake, many residents. Moynihan on page 6 the suburbs and transplants from else- and East Atlanta. Together, these neighbor-

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Mercedes Rubio to Lead Minority Proposed ASA Statement Against Affairs Program the War on Iraq by Torrey Androski, Executive Office Rubio’s research Preamble interests focus on Mercedes Rubio, Kellogg Scholar the relationships According to the bylaws of the ASA, members may circulate a resolution and if it in Health Disparities at the University of among socioeco- secures the signatures of 3% of the membership eligible to vote, it comes to Council. Michigan’s Institute for Social Research nomic status, Council can then either endorse the resolution as is (with a vote of a majority of a and the School of Nursing, will join the immigration, and quorum) on behalf of the membership or refer the resolution to the membership for a ASA Executive Office staff on August 1, health outcomes. vote. In the latter case, the decision of the majority of voting members is binding on the 2003, as staff sociologist and incoming Rubio’s research ASA. [See also Vantage Point on page 2 of this issue.] Director of the Minority Affairs Program on health dispari- (MAP). The Minority Affairs Program’s ties involves Member Resolution fundamental charge is to promote primary data Mercedes Rubio The member resolution against the war in Iraq satisfied the 3% requirement. The diversity within the discipline of collection on an resolution was initiated by members of Sociologists and Political Scientists Without Borders: sociology. The program has been intervention Judith Blau, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill particularly effective through the project that aims to reduce HIV risk Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Stanford University administration of its Minority Fellow- behaviors among Mexican youth ages 13 Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University and Project South ship Program (MFP), which provides to 18 in Monterrey, Mexico. The interven- Tanya Golash-Boza, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill pre-doctoral fellowships to minority tion includes examining the association Natalia Deeb-Sossa, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill graduate students. The program has between social class, neighborhood been funded by the National Institute of context, and health behaviors. Rubio Resolution Mental Health (NIMH) for 30 years, hopes that her research will contribute to The American Sociological Association comprises sociologists and kindred profes- making it possible for 228 MFP fellows understanding the health status of sionals who study, among other things, war and peace, democracy and totalitarianism, to receive their PhDs in sociology to Mexican Americans in the United States conflict resolution and violence, systems of inequality and their effects, states and legal date. as well. orders, nationalism, and nation-building. “The ASA is very fortunate to have In addition to her solid research • We believe that foreign interventions that do not have the support of the world Dr. Rubio in this significant leadership background, Rubio has considerable community create more problems than solutions. President Bush’s and Prime role at ASA,” said ASA Executive Officer administrative and mentoring experience Minister Blair’s decision to invade Iraq against the wishes of most of the nations of that is relevant to her new position at Sally T. Hillsman upon announcing the world will undermine the already weakened UN, the League of Arab States, Rubio’s appointment to the position. ASA. She was a Coordinator for Recruit- and the rule of international law, and will bring more harm than good to the Iraqi “She brings a strong research back- ment Services at The Horace H. Rackham people. ground in the sociology of health and School of Graduate Studies at the mental health, which will strengthen University of Michigan, where she • We also believe that the threat of terrorism is not ameliorated by this intervention in our funded minority fellowship pro- assisted with the administration of two Iraq. Instead of lessening the risk of terrorist attacks, this invasion could serve as the gram, as will her commitment to major summer programs (The Summer spark for multiple attacks in years to come. training and advancement of sociolo- Research Opportunities Program and the • This statement is not issued, and should not be construed in any way, as supporting gists of color. The Association will Summer Institute for Newly Admitted the dictatorship of President Hussein or his regime. Our major concern with Bush benefit greatly from having such an Students). In this role, she selected and Blair’s policy is not the stated end but with the means. outstanding MAP director.” program participants; matched students • Hence, the American Sociological Association calls for an immediate end to the war with faculty members; maintained against Iraq. First-hand Knowledge program files; planned, initiated, and ran Rubio received her MA and PhD in seminars; and organized a symposium. Council Deliberations According to Jean H. Shin, Interim sociology from the University of On March 31, 2003, ASA Council conducted a meeting by teleconference at which 13 Michigan. She was awarded a pre- Director of MAP, “Dr. Rubio has a tremendous commitment to both out of 19 members were present. Because of the gravity of the issues at stake and in the doctoral fellowship and traineeship interests of broader involvement and discussion among ASA members, Council decided from NIMH to work on psychosocial students and faculty of color in the discipline, and I am excited that she will to put the member resolution to a vote of the membership that would determine factors in mental health and illness. She whether the statement should be adopted by the ASA. completed her BA in sociology from continue to support mentoring and research that further minority affairs While Council recognizes the serious consequences of the war not only for the Iraqi California State University-Bakersfield. people and American combatants but also for the world at large, it also urges the issues. Her experience in research, As an immigrant and the oldest child of membership to consider a broad range of issues when voting on the Resolution. Mexican immigrant parents, her planning, development, mentoring and (a) To what extent should ASA restrict its official public statements to questions interests in health disparities stem partly management of programs, combined around which there exist unambiguous and consensual scientific evidence? In the from her childhood experiences in with her passion for supporting initia- case of the Amicus Brief on Affirmative Action there is a general consensus in the seeing how the health system and tives that encourage the development of discipline on the relevant data and conclusions, but in the case of the consequences of medical professionals treat those who communities of color, will make her a valuable addition to the Executive Office the Iraq War there would be no consensus about the relevant data or their interpreta- are poor, uninsured, and not English tion. speakers. As a medical sociologist, staff. She brings a great deal of dedica- tion, energy and enthusiasm to her new (b) To what extent should the ASA attempt to form and express a common moral post, and she is certain to provide strong stance about public issues? Some Council members regard the Association as an leadership to a vital ASA program.” ❑ organization within civil society, with a responsibility to the wider democratic ASA Is Pleased to New on the ASA Home Page process, while others think that the Association should be careful about adopting a Announce . . . public position that is based on opinion (as opposed to sociological research and New resources for Academic analysis). Many other professional associations believe that they should confine The Robert Wood Johnson Chairs & Departments are available public statements to matters that are of direct and immediate concern to the profes- Foundation this year awarded at www.asanet.org/apap/. This sion. ASA a $25,000-grant to support an new section, produced by ASA’s extra issue of ASA’s Journal of Academic and Professional Affairs (c) To what extent should the ASA be concerned about possible adverse effects on the Health and Social Behavior Program, consolidates both new discipline of sociology when it takes public positions? Such repercussions might devoted to reviewing the contribu- information and pre-existing web range from something as concrete as the withdrawal of funding to sociologists to tions of the field of medical links to a wide range of something as amorphous as the reduction of the credibility of sociologists. On the topics…from teaching resources to sociology. To be titled “Health and other hand, among some publics the Association’s reputation might be enhanced. Health Care in the U.S.: Origins careers. The section includes links to and Dynamics,” the issue will be ASA’s Department Affiliate Pro- comprised of invited articles that gram, High School Affiliate Pro- Website gram, Departmental Resources examine current theoretical and In order to facilitate open debate within the ASA, Council has established an elec- empirical knowledge on the social Group, Teaching Enhancement organization of health care in the Fund, resources for hiring diverse tronic discussion accessible via the ASA homepage (www.asanet.org) or directly at United States. The primary goal of faculty, resources for attending to www.asanet.org/memarea/secure/forum/. Council encourages members to make their this issue is to provide theoretical diversity issues in the major, own contribution to the discussion of these issues and read the comments of others. and conceptual focus and direc- International Book Donation, tion to research on the social Preparing Future Faculty initiative, The Ballot organization of health care. The Academic and Professional Affairs journal is edited by Michael Program, Teaching Resources The ballot, mailed this month, contains the resolution and an opinion poll. The first Hughes in the Department of Center, Student Sociologist newslet- asks you to vote on the member resolution described above, which, if passed, places the Sociology at the Virginia Polytech- ter, Chair & Directors of Graduate ASA on record as an organization against the war in Iraq. The second allows you to nic Institute and State University. Study Conference, and undergradu- personally register your opposition to the war, which would allow the ASA to state the Contact Hughes (540-231-8967; ate Honors Program. The site percentage of its voting members who oppose the war in Iraq. We ask that members [email protected]) for additional includes other helpful resources for vote on these separately. You can vote for both, against both, or for one but not the high school teachers, community information, or visit the JHSB other. Below is the text of this specific ballot item that soon will arrive in your mailbox: website at www.cddc.vt. college instructors, early career edu/jhsb/index.htm. sociologists, graduate study directors, and department chairs. MEMBER RESOLUTION: Do you endorse the membership resolution on the ASA calling for an immediate end to the war against Iraq? (Yes/No)

OPINION POLL: Do you call for an immediate end to the war against Iraq? (Yes/ No) 4 APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES

Jerry A. Jacobs Is Appointed Incoming Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline American Sociological Review Editor Proposals Are Sought - June 15 Deadline

by Kathleen Gerson, New York University humor are Program Announcement selection committee consists of four probably a legacy members of the ASA Council, ASA’s It is an honor to introduce Jerry Jacobs of these Catskills The American Sociological Associa- Vice-President, and the ASA Executive as the incoming editor of the American days. tion (ASA) invites submissions for the Officer. Sociological Review (ASR). Anyone familiar Jerry was also a Fund for the Advancement of the nationally with Jerry’s contributions to the discipline Discipline (FAD) awards. Supported by Funding prominent debater will understand why several brief para- ASA through a matching grant from the throughout his The amount of each award shall not graphs cannot begin to do justice to the National Science Foundation, the goal of wisdom of this choice. student years, exceed $7,000. Payment goes directly to this award is to nurture the development Since earning his PhD from Harvard in becoming presi- the principal investigator (PI). Grant of scientific knowledge by funding small, 1983, Jerry has taught at the University of dent of the money may not be used for convention Harvard Debate Jerry Jacobs groundbreaking research initiatives and Pennsylvania, where he chaired the expenses, honoraria, or PI’s salary. No Council in college. other important scientific research graduate program in sociology for much of overhead expenses are provided to Debating undoubt- activities. FAD awards provide scholars the 1990s and currently holds the title of institutions for administering the award. Merriam Term Professor of Sociology. Over edly helped Jerry hone his intellectual with “seed money” for innovative Awardees are encouraged to continue the the last two decades, Jerry has published skills, sharpen his ability to think clearly research that has the potential for and logically, and deepen his gift for tradition of donating to FAD any royalty more than 60 articles and two important challenging the discipline, stimulating speaking persuasively about important income derived from projects supported books, Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and new lines of research, and creating new issues. This may also be where he learned by the grant. Women’s Careers and Gender Inequality at networks of scientific collaboration. The Work. Harvard University Press will soon to collaborate so effectively with others, award is intended to provide opportuni- publish a third book, which we have co- which can be seen in his work on so many Application Process authored, titled The Time Divide: Work, successful, co-authored projects and his ties for substantive and methodological Applications must be received in the Family and Policy in the 21st Century. careful mentoring of countless graduate breakthroughs, broaden the dissemina- Remarkably influential as well as prolific, students. tion of scientific knowledge, and provide ASA Executive office by June 15. Appli- Jerry has made path-breaking contributions While Jerry’s forbears were Jewish leverage for acquisition of additional cations should include eight (8) copies of to scientific understanding of gender immigrants, his family’s religious convic- research funds. the following: inequality and its links to economic and tions could be best described as “Demo- • A cover sheet with the title, name of social life. His research has addressed cratic.” From these roots, Jerry acquired his Selection Criteria lead author, additional name(s) of central aspects of women’s employment, passion for politics, justice, and social author(s) such as authority, earnings, working equality. Indeed, Jerry’s work and his life Proposals are reviewed for scientific • A 100- to 200-word abstract of the conditions, part-time work, and entry into show an abiding concern for these prin- merit and the importance of the proposed research/conference topic male-dominated occupations. By revealing ciples. His commitment to women’s research project or a conference for • A maximum of 5 single-spaced pages how social and economic forces shape the equality is legendary. It can be found in his sociology as a discipline. Specific describing the project (excluding academic work, where he has helped us options and constraints of women and men, evaluation criteria include the following: appendices) understand the roots of gender inequality this work has changed the way we under- • Innovativeness and promise of the • A detailed budget and time schedule stand the social structuring of gender. and the policies that might overcome it, and in his relationships with colleagues, research idea • A bibliography Among Jerry’s many honors are grants • Originality and significance of • A statement of other pending support from a dizzying array of sources, including students, and friends. Jerry works not just for women but with women, actively research goals • A vita the National Science Foundation, the • The potential of the study as a Spencer Foundation, the Russell Sage contributing to organizations such as building block in the development of Contact Information Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Sociologists for Women in Society and future research Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the steadfastly promoting the careers of women Send complete application packets to: scholars. • Appropriateness and significance of Mellon Foundation, and the Macy Founda- FAD awards, ASA/NSF Small Grant tion. He received the Max Weber Award for Jerry is also the proud father of two the research hypothesis daughters, Elizabeth and Madeleine, and • Feasibility and adequacy of project Program, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, Best Paper from the ASA Section on Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005-4107. Organizations and Occupations in 1993 for his wife, Sharon, can attest that he is an design Prior to submitting proposals, feel free to an article with Ronnie Stein- involved and egalitarian partner. Once, • Plans for dissemination of results berg that convincingly and elegantly while participating in one of the many • Appropriateness of requested budget phone or e-mail project director Roberta refuted economic explanations for the “feminist oriented” conferences at which Spalter-Roth (202) 383-9005, ext. 317; e- persisting wage gap between women and Jerry often finds himself, he watched Awards are limited to individuals mail [email protected]. Applicants men. More recently, he received the Elizabeth and Madeleine play beneath a with a PhD or equivalent. Preference is are required to notify ASA if other Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excel- glass coffee table in the hotel lobby. He given to applicants who have not funding is received for the project. lence in Work-Family Research for an joked that he did not want them hitting any previously received a FAD award. The Consult www.asanet.org/members/ “glass ceilings.” There’s that Catskills view article we wrote on the link between family fad.html for more information. ❑ transformation and the rise of time of life again! Yet the joke also conveys squeezes. Jerry’s seriousness of purpose. If Jerry has his way, Elizabeth, Madeleine, and their Ask ASA . . . Anyone who has worked with Jerry My university will provide technical support only for SAS, but we use SPSS. Is knows that he is a masterful organizer as peers will inherit a world of opportunity for well as a gifted sociologist, with uncanny all. our department typical? For which statistical software packages do other administrative vision and energy. Jerry is It is thus no mystery why Jerry is the sociology departments provide technical support? always working on several ambitious right choice to assume the stewardship of research projects, but he still finds time to the ASR. For Jerry, our flagship journal This question provided a nice opportunity to “test drive” a new online survey nurture others through exciting confer- should be the place where new ideas are presented and developed in addition to tool that allows for quick and focused data collection on issues of interest to the ences, programs, editorial stints, collabora- sociological community. Depending on the utility of this tool, ASA’s research tion, and mentoring. He has served on the being tested. He is committed to publishing department may use online survey technology for larger projects such as the editorial board of some of our discipline’s the highest quality work, while embracing most important journals, including the diverse range of methodological and recent departmental survey. Sociology of Education, Work and Occupations, theoretical styles that make our discipline After posting our brief, four-item questionnaire about statistical packages, 100 Social Forces, and the ASR. He is the Chair so exciting and, arguably, unique among of about 350 department chairs participating in ASA’s Chairlink program re- of the Organizations, Occupations and the social sciences. To this task, Jerry brings sponded within four hours. (The trial version of our data collection software is an inspiring sociological imagination, a Work Section of the ASA and just com- limited to 100 respondents.) The results indicate that SPSS remains the most pleted a stint as President of the Eastern keen sense for recognizing important ideas, and a feel for offering incisive yet construc- frequently used software at almost all of 100 departments, followed by SAS (37%) Sociological Society (ESS), where he and STATA (23%). Typically, SPSS is supported by university/college computing oversaw an exceptionally invigorating tive critique. meeting and introduced innovations, such Perhaps the best way to convey Jerry’s centers, but one-third of department chairs reported that their department also as viewing ESS as the hub for a series of outlook on the sociological enterprise is to provides support (Figure 1). However, given the limited number of responses, smaller meetings, that will likely revitalize share a quote he once sent me from a book these results are not necessarily representative of all sociology departments. ESS and potentially other regionals as well. review on the memoirs of a not-quite- According to some comments, STATA is becoming increasingly popular for use th These are just a sampling of the “facts” famous 20 century biologist, John Bonner. in the 100 departments, perhaps because of its lower price, reputation for ease of The reviewer, John Turner, implores that make Jerry’s career so impressive, but use, graphics, and algo- they cannot do justice to the personal scientists to “love your subject more than your career, and your fellow humans more rithms. Formal support for Figure 1. Support of Leading Statistical Software Packages in 100 qualities that also make him a treasured Sociology Departments colleague, mentor, and friend. Since than either.” This is sage advice for all of us, STATA, as might be 70 sociologists are made, and not born, a few and it describes the path that Jerry has expected, is less common 60 snippets from Jerry’s personal biography followed. Let us, then, welcome Jerry and by either departments or 60 may be illuminating. For example, Jerry thank him for taking on this demanding institutions, and is appar- 50 and important job. We can be confident that grew up in the Catskills (not far from ently more likely to be 40 the ASR will flourish under his leadership. 31 31 Grossinger’s and just 15 miles from informally provided. 29 As several people have remarked upon 30 Woodstock), where his parents and ASA’s Research on the hearing the news of Jerry’s appointment, 20 grandparents ran a small hotel that catered 14 14 12 ❑ Discipline & Profession is 11 9 to summer tourists in the heyday of “Congratulations to all of us!” 6 6 8 interested in continuing 10

“Catskills culture.” Here, Jerry learned Percentage of Departments Editor’s note: To assist readers who anticipate brief survey projects. 0 many useful skills, such as hanging SPSS SAS STATA wallpaper, waiting on tables, and running a submitting manuscripts to ASR, we will Forward your “hot topics” candy store. He also learned how to be the announce in a forthcoming issue of Footnotes for brief online survey the transition date and new editorial office University Provided Support Department Provides Support perfect host and how to laugh at—and projects to No Formal Support Ad hoc/Informal Support address. tell—more than a few good jokes. Jerry’s [email protected]. warmth, generosity, and wonderful sense of APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES 5

How Would Sociologists Design a Homeland Security Alert System? Sociology has a science base for effective communication of risk & crisis

by Lee Herring, Public Affairs and the expected No Fear of Crying Wolf was straightforward about what actions the protective re- city was taking and about what he did and The literature on risk communication sponse,” according did not know. He often said “I don’t know,” he new U.S. Department of Home- also provides guidance on what those T to sociologists Lee and the error he avoided was to tell people charged with communicating hazard land Security (DHS), which formally Clarke (Rutgers that everything was “under control.” He opened for business on January 24, consoli- advisories and warnings should do, and University-New also did not tell people not to panic. Rather, dating some 170,000 government personnel what they should avoid. Research suggests, Brunswick), author he correctly assumed that they would for example, that concerns about the “cry from 22 agencies, is the largest modification of the forthcoming respond appropriately. Communicators are of the federal bureaucracy since the wolf” effect in issuing warnings are Worst Cases credible when they speak in a straightfor- founding of the Pentagon more than 50 misplaced. People do not become inured to (University of ward and confident manner—even if what warnings. When the sirens blew in Britain years ago. Chicago Press), and they say is that they do not know or are But DHS and its predecessor, the White during World War II, people consistently Kathleen Tierney, uncertain about particular aspects of the House Office of Homeland Security, have sought shelter, even if bombs did not fall Director of the Lee Clarke spoke on situation. struggled with developing an effective and Disaster Research after previous warnings. When residents of credible national alert system to keep panic at a February the Southeast United States are asked to Center at the summit on bio- First Responders Americans informed of the likelihood of University of evacuate because of hurricane dangers, and terrorist attacks against Americans. The terrorism in DC . when those dangers do not materialize, they Authorities should recognize that U.S. Delaware, senior Kathleen Tierney (not resulting Homeland Security Alert System author of Facing the are no less willing to evacuate when warned communities are perhaps the most impor- pictured) chaired a of other storms. In fact, there is some (HSAS) serves “to disseminate information Unexpected: Disaster panel at the summit. tant source of crisis response and resilience. regarding the risk of terrorist acts to federal, Preparedness and evidence that people learn and benefit even Rather than being viewed as a management state, and local authorities and to the Response in the United States (Joseph Henry from warnings that aren’t followed by problem, as is frequently the case in American people.” Press, 2001). actual events, because they have an planning defined by command-and-control DHS also aspires to provide information Tierney and Clarke distilled findings on opportunity to “rehearse” emergency approaches, the public should be seen as a to help Americans prepare for attacks. (See warnings and warning response from the procedures. key resource in emergencies. Decades of www.ready.gov/.) A substantial body of social science literature (see accompanying social science research documents that social science findings can be tapped to sidebar) and summarized them in a concise Effective Messages community residents are in fact the true increase the efficacy of HSAS advisories “first responders.” Basic units of social set of recommendations that can help The risk communication literature also especially as they are targeted to different organization—families, work groups, improve DHS warning communications. advises against the homily that people need audiences in the public and private sectors. neighborhood associations, community- ASA is working with DHS staff and other to hear the same risk message from the based organizations, schools, church social science organizations to ensure that same source at all times. While messages Color Coding groups, and other civil-society institu- relevant social research finds its way to key should be consistent, mutually reinforcing, tions—are the building blocks of meaning- Presently, the DHS uses a simple, five- policymakers within DHS. and non-contradictory, effective messages ful homeland security. For example, given Tierney and Clarke note that there is a (1) are well-designed, containing all level, color-coded scale as its primary that 20 percent of the nation’s population is vehicle for communicating threat probabil- large body of research on risk perception elements needed to enable people to in grades K-12 most of the day, school ity to the public. The threat level is deter- and risk communication that can provide understand, personalize, and act on the personnel are “first responders” for a very guidance as the nation attempts to better information; (2) rely on multiple channels mined by a White House analysis of a large and important part of our population. matrix of reports from security agencies prepare the public for impending threats. for dissemination; and (3) recognize that Similarly, because working adults spend the such as the Central Intelligence Agency, The literature addresses many important different audiences vary in terms of majority of their days in workplaces, topics, such as the need to design communi- spokesperson credibility. Risk communica- Federal Bureau of Investigation, and workplace-based programs should be a National Security Agency. Following daily cations strategies that address issues tion and source credibility studies suggest cornerstone of homeland security. This security intelligence briefings, the president associated with message sources, the that people believe and trust spokespersons community-oriented, bottom-up approach content of emergency guidance and who are similar to themselves along social ultimately decides where to position the to hazard management is in contrast with threat level indicator. warnings, the channels through which dimensions. information is disseminated, and the social top-down perspectives that discount the A low threat level is labeled with the ❑ color green and a “guarded” threat level is characteristics of audiences and receivers of Cultivating Trust role of the public in safety. labeled blue. Moving up the scale through warnings. With respect to message content, Leaders achieve credibility and trust the three other threat levels, the associated for example, the simple “colored” home- through their public demeanor—including colors are yellow (“elevated” threat), orange land security warnings that are being issued being honest and forthcoming about what (“high” threat), and red (“severe” threat). to the entire nation contain no guidance on they do and do not know. New York Mayor (See White House Office of Homeland risk levels or what warning recipients Rudy Guiliani is a case in point. After the Security information at should do differently. terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, he www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/.) Criticisms of HSAS Preparation, Communication, and Action Critics of the HSAS say that, among other deficiencies, the system does not offer Among Tierney’s and Clarke’s recommendations are the following. The implications for policy appear in bold face italic type. sufficient specificity to be of use and that • Multiple messages are necessary for effective risk communication. the color coding is confusing. DHS counters that the warning system is intended as a Providing pre-crisis preparedness information and emergency warnings to the public, is a complex process, partly because we national alerting service, and that changes are racially, ethnically, socio-economically, and linguistically diverse. These and other realities affect access to, comprehension of, in threat status are not predicated on highly and capacity to act on the information. Providing accurate, understandable, and timely information to a diverse society is among specific data but rather tap an aggregate the major challenges our nation faces in this era of emerging threats. index of threat deriving from numerous • Rather than the “one size fits all” approach currently in use, diverse communication strategies are needed in our increasingly intelligence sources. Knowledgeable sources diverse society. point out that the color scheme was developed on an ad hoc basis and under Related to this is that different population segments—differing in age, ethnicity, income, and primary language—differ in severe time constraints following the events terms of how they access information (e.g., Internet, TV). A very small amount of emergency preparedness information and guidance is available in multiple languages. Hispanics are now the largest single minority in the country. This points to the need of September 11, 2001. for both diverse and specially targeted information-dissemination strategies. In developing the warning scheme, DHS relied in part on a document developed by • Warnings and preparation should address the needs of the most vulnerable groups in our society. President Clinton’s National Science and Population diversity also affects vulnerability to disasters and other crisis events. Poor inner city residents—the very people Technology Council, which identified “the who are probably least likely to have access to preparedness information and least likely to be able to take advantage of guid- public and private sector R&D capability to ance—may well be at high risk for terrorist and bioterrorist attacks. Warning information directed to “mainstream” America provide early warning of natural or through English-language channels may not reach large segments of the public when they need it. technological hazards that threaten the safety and well-being of our citizens.” This • People need to play a part in planning and recovery. Effective preparation and response cannot simply be dictated in a November 2000 report, Effective Disaster command-and-control fashion. Warnings, was written by the Working Individual and group responses to warnings are never simple or problem-free. Emergency warnings are not “stimuli” to Group on Natural Disaster Information which people automatically respond. Studies repeatedly show that the first tendency upon receiving information on impending Systems’ Subcommittee on Natural Disaster threats is to “normalize” (e.g., “This message isn’t really directed at me; I don’t need to act right now.”). The second tendency is Reduction under the Committee on to seek confirmation of the warning within familiar social networks. Protective action is delayed while seeking consensus. Even Environment and Natural Resources. It was in serious, acute threat (e.g., fires), the decision to evacuate is never instantaneous; in fact, delays in evacuating are a major “designed to assist scientists, engineers and contributor to deaths in fire emergencies. emergency mangers in developing more Warnings should be specific with respect to both the threat and recommended protective measures. accurate and more numerous warnings….” • Neal Lane, Clinton’s Science Advisor, Warnings involve a series of steps: perceiving the warning, understanding the message, forming a belief that the warning is intended it as a “reference on the policy credible and accurate, personalizing the warning (“I really am personally at risk”), confirming its validity, and taking protective issues of implementing advanced technolo- action. Interfering with the ability to complete this sequence—for example, any ambiguity about the meaning, validity, urgency, gies for delivering warnings….” However, and specificity of a warning or about needed self-protective actions—will result in delays and other potentially problematic missing from this mission was a focus on individual and collective behaviors (e.g., rumoring, confusion about proper action to take). key social issues. • Openness rather than secrecy is more likely to produce institutional trust. Guidance to Authorities Leaders often believe they should withhold information out of concern the public may panic. The notion that people panic (i.e., engage in mindless flight and other maladaptive behaviors under conditions of threat and danger) is a myth promoted Critics of HSAS note that the system primarily through entertainment industry depictions. True panic is rare, in part because social bonds are strong. Despite extreme lacks clear advice on what specific actions fear, the vast majority of people in emergencies respond altruistically and adaptively. Authorities who withhold information may people can/should take in response to well help produce the very problems they seek to avoid, as rumors spread and heightened stress cause people to engage in changes in alert status. A primary impera- counterproductive behaviors, such as resource hoarding. Failing to deal honestly with public concerns and share what is known tive, according to research, is that “warnings about threats also undermines leaders’ credibility. should be specific with respect to the threat 6 APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES

Sociologists’ Tributes to Daniel Patrick Moynihan . . . Four-term Senator Daniel Patrick your “line,” you not publish them but struggle for decency, for morality, for poverty. In his classic 1968 critique, Moynihan died on March 26, 2003, at age ask others to redo the study. He thought equality of opportunity and respect. Andrew Billingsley argued that one 76. Because he is known for his attention to it safe to publish only findings that Seymour Martin Lipset, could not adequately understand black important social issues, Footnotes in this challenge one’s prejudices. George Mason University family functioning without carefully issue is featuring tributes to Moynihan. Few, if any, follow his advice, but Pat assessing the impact of social forces and ASA members Seymour Martin Lipset and did. The Moynihan approach to policy Editor’s note: Adapted from “The institutions in white society as well as in Robert B. Hill pay homage to Moynihan in research sought to de-ideologize it and, Prescient Politician,” by Seymour the black community. Moreover, the the following essays. in line with Weber’s dictum, involved Martin Lipset, in Daniel Patrick 1972 National Urban League study, The —The Editor him over the years in serious contro- Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life, Strengths of Black Families, contended versy, particularly with liberal academ- Robert A. Katzman, Editor, published by that most black families headed by What Were Pat ics, intellectuals, and activist students. The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and women were not characterized by a Moynihan’s Values? Such confrontations had a profound The Johns Hopkins University Press, weak work ethic and moral defects but effect on those liberals who took the goal 1998. by strong kinship networks and other In his early days in politics, he would of objectivity seriously: they joined the assets. have been classified as a New Deal ranks of identified conservatives. Why Moynihan’s Legacy Interestingly, black scholars and liberal, seeking to bring about a more did Pat not go along with them? Some leaders have been repeatedly accused of Most Americans will remember the productive and egalitarian society. Like have suggested that it was because his not focusing on female-headed families late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Henry views on social welfare were strongly and out-of-wedlock births. Yet, contrary unflappable former Senator from New Jackson, and Hubert Humphrey, he was influenced by Catholic welfare philoso- to this conventional wisdom, almost all York, for his contributions on a wide a strong anti-Communist. His back- phy, which emphasizes the centrality of of the prior family studies by black range of issues. First, as a scholar, he ground made him distrust those who family interests. Yet many good Catho- scholars underscored the disproportion- was ahead of his time. As Harvard were “soft” on the Soviets and their lics, well versed in Catholic philosophy, ate levels of female-headed black professor, he authored many books and domestic flunkies, many of whom were have sharply different views from his. families. Moreover, at the 1930 White articles on a variety of engrossing topics. active in the Democratic Party. His More relevant to understanding Pat, I House Conference on Children, the Although he was a Democrat, he was foreign policy positions led to his believe, was his family background. His noted black sociologist, Ira De A. Reid, avidly bipartisan and served in the involvement in the centrist Coalition for father left home when he was ten years Director of Research for the National administration of four presidents—two a Democratic Majority (CDM), in which old; his mother remarried, but that Urban League, presented a “pre- Democrats and two Republicans. He he and Henry Jackson played leading marriage broke up when he was 14. Moynihan” report that highlighted the played a major role in international roles. Many of the anti-Communist When Pat spoke about the need for alarming rates of single-parent families, affairs, first as Ambassador to India and intellectuals in CDM became the core of family stability, he spoke from experi- out-of-wedlock births, infant mortality, later as the fiery U.S. Ambassador to the those known in the early 1970s as ence, aware of the devastating effects of poverty, overcrowding, and ill health United Nations. “neoconservatives.” Almost all of them poverty and unemployment on the among blacks across the nation. Reid Most African Americans, however, were Democrats; some, like Daniel Bell family and on the morale and psyche of concluded that the black community have a less favorable view of Senator and Norman Podhoretz, were social the young. Unemployment and poverty would be willing to address these issues Moynihan. They remember his 1965 democrats. were not for him mere statistics or the itself, if it were provided adequate report that identified the female-headed From the debates over the 1965 necessary consequences of economic resources. But his plea went unheeded family structure as a “self-perpetuating Moynihan Report, Pat learned that adjustments. for generations. tangle of pathology,” which was when research findings conflict with Why was Pat so prescient? Because What has been the legacy of Daniel primarily responsible for most black ills. ideology, the latter often wins. One of he understood that there is no first Moynihan regarding issues affecting Many critics accused this study of the founding fathers of sociology, Max cause, in politics or in social science. minorities and the poor? As Senator, he “blaming the victim,” since it appeared Weber, noted that all scholars have a Wait, I’m wrong. As I told Pat more than played a major role in ensuring that the to minimize the role of contemporary “party line” (his term) and are predis- 35 years ago, “[James] Coleman finds Supplemental Security Income (SSI) external forces, such as racism, economic posed to report data that coincide with that it’s all the family.” And Pat knew program provided more adequate oppression, and ineffectual government the line and to ignore, or subject to about the family, as he knew that those income to elderly persons who had policies. We also recall the “benign severe methodological critiques, those who don’t know about the family are worked as domestics or farmers when neglect” memorandum he prepared as that do not. Weber recommended that, if wrong. He taught that there are no the 1935 Social Security Act did not an advisor to President Nixon in 1969. research produces results agreeable to utopias, no solutions. There are only cover them. He spearheaded the This memo was widely construed as approximations, and the continuing expansion of the progressive Earned urging this nation to shift its attention Income Tax Credit (EITC) in 1986 to from page 1 from racial concerns. Thus, many Cairo, reduce the disparate tax burden on low- African Americans still consider him to income working families. Both of these second meeting possible (at the Univer- be “anti-black” and “anti-poor.” Yet, a measures disproportionately help poor tion across East-West borders and to sity of Tehran, Iran, in 2000) to revise the careful assessment of Mr. Moynihan’s blacks. support social science activities and sampling frame and the questionnaire in accomplishments over the past four Furthermore, he was mainly respon- infrastructures of participating countries. light of the pilot survey data. decades reveals that such characteriza- sible for garnering bipartisan support to The conference was organized by Another impetus for the 2003 Cairo tions are far from the truth. win passage of the innovative Family American Sociological Association conference was to take stock of the Let us review this controversial Support Act in 1988. He also vigorously member Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern accumulating and significant social report: The Negro Family: A Case for criticized President Clinton—a fellow Michigan University, and his Egyptian science data and analyses following the National Action. As Assistant Secretary of Democrat—for supporting and signing colleague, Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Latif, completion of comprehensive compara- Labor, Moynihan prepared this study for the so-called “welfare reform” act of Ain Shams University, and was sup- tive national values surveys in more than President Johnson to incorporate in his 1996. He predicted that this “anti- ported by grants from the National ten Islamic countries in the past two speech at the 1965 commencement family” legislation would have harmful Science Foundation (NSF), the Ford years. This data set allowed comparison exercises of Howard University. It was consequences for many poor families. Foundation, and the World Value Survey among Islamic countries on issues designed to motivate policymakers to Subsequent research has vindicated his Association. Representatives from NSF, specific to those countries and between launch a major legislative initiative to the White House science advisor’s office forecasts. While this measure (aided by a Islamic countries and representative strengthen black families. However, (Office of Science and Technology flourishing economy) succeeded in national surveys of the publics of 80 despite its laudable intentions, many Policy), and other government agencies reducing the welfare rolls, it failed to lift societies—comprising more than 85 blacks and liberal whites roundly attended the meeting. most former recipients out of poverty. percent of the world’s population— condemned the report. Numerous studies have revealed that: Increasing Sophistication, Data covered by the WVS. The February But much of this report had strong (a) most welfare leavers are in poverty- conference in Cairo featured presenta- empirical support. It made a convincing Fortunately, for social science and level jobs with no fringe benefits; and (b) tions on varied topics such as Islam in a case for assessing the lasting effects of social understanding, this was not the many of them experience economic global context; modernization of Islamic slavery, historic discrimination, unem- first time these researchers, individually hardships since they no longer receive countries; Islam and liberal democracy; ployment, and poverty on black family or as teams, had met. This was the third food stamps and Medicaid, even though the relationship among religion, class, instability. It referenced studies that meeting of researchers interested in the they are still eligible for those benefits. and party politics; ideology, text, and found strong correlations between study of values and value change in the Moynihan can also be credited with power within the Islamic context; family; single-parent families and low educa- Islamic world. The first such meeting, another legacy rarely mentioned. self-rated health; migration; and culture tional achievement and high rates of funded by NSF, was a pilot project Although it is continually asserted that and identity, as well as methodological delinquency and crime. It also predicted organized at the Center for Strategic the controversy over his 1965 report issues related to the study of values in that the declining ratio of males to Studies at the University of Jordan in stifled research on this issue, it was the Islamic countries. A recurring finding females in the black population gener- Amman, in 1999. In that workshop, catalyst for hundreds of studies on black reported at the conference was that most ally would have detrimental conse- participants designed a questionnaire to Islamic publics combine a deep religios- families by both black and white quences for black families. explore the similarities and differences in ity with favorable attitudes toward scholars. A comprehensive review of But the most troubling aspect of this value orientations of the publics in democracy. black family research identified more analysis was the causal role attributed to Egypt, Iran, and Jordan. (See January “We expect to continue with further than 1,000 works between 1965 and the female-headed family structure. 2003 Footnotes, pg. 1.) In addition to conferences,” said Moaddel in an 1984. Moynihan should be recognized Although Moynihan widely cited E. items specifically designed for Islamic interview following the conference, “as for stimulating a plethora of research Franklin Frazier in this report, Frazier countries, the questionnaire replicated the importance of the issues raised is and evaluation studies that has mark- did not view single-parent black key items from the World Values Survey only increasing. Social science has an edly increased this nation’s understand- families in urban areas as a causal factor, (WVS) in order to permit comparisons awesome obligation to further under- ing of family life among blacks and but as a consequence of societal forces, with WVS data collected from dozens of standing to help bridge the differences, other economically disadvantaged such as urbanization, recessions, countries around the world. A grant real and not-so-real, among cultures.” ❑ groups. Although it is belated, it is time discrimination, unemployment, and from the Rockefeller Foundation made a for the black community to acknowl- edge Senator Moynihan’s unstinting “pro-family” efforts over the years to improve the social and economic well being of families of all races. This nation has truly lost a visionary scholar and a statesman with integrity. ❑ Robert B. Hill, a former Director of Research at the National Urban League, is Senior Researcher at Westat, Inc., a research firm in Rockville, Maryland. APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES 7

A Double Life Stitched: that article. I believe one possible reason for this is a fundamental problem that lies On the Merits of Being an behind the recent discussions of public Public Forum sociologies by Herbert Gans, Murray Academic and Activist* Hausknecht, and Michael Burawoy, and It was like being called to the Society—not merely scholarship—is Socrates as a role model?) But, as Herbert also behind Kristin Luker’s failure to gain principal’s office. I was a young assistant served when academics can follow their Gans’ comment implies [January 2003 broad support for her data contradicting professor at Columbia University in the own lead, even if it means that some Footnotes, page 8], there is a difference the powerful messages of conservative early 1960s, a recent graduate of the spend their lives contemplating and between “engagement” in the classroom think tanks and the Christian Right [see University of California-Berkeley. I had comparing their navels. But, I am and engagement in the actual public December 2002 and January 2003 Foot- $300 to my name, a newborn baby, and a confident that if more academics volun- arenas of contested issues. notes]. Although the discipline of sociol- used pram that doubled up as his bed. I tarily took into account social relevance Burawoy’s citation of Kristin Luker’s ogy is home to a wide range of knowl- was told to see the chair, who warned me when choosing the subjects of their study, experience neatly illustrates the point. edge that can add breadth and depth to that if I wanted to be a sociologist I had to both academia and society would be Although she appeared on the radio almost any public debate, as claimed by stop all this social work, that the disci- better for it. shows and gave many talks about her Burawoy and Gans, individual sociolo- pline was laboring to be recognized as a Also, public involvement by scholars research, she changed no one’s mind. Her gists only rarely can put forward such science, and my activism was undermin- provides a reality testing for ideas, a test confession of ineffectuality means that breadth and depth. The result has been ing it. The last thing we need is another that does not come naturally. Thus, my she entered this arena as an advocate of a that journalists, governmental officials, C. Wright Mills. I was active in the peace theoretical notions of how government particular point of view, one that allied other social scientists, and the general movement and had just published a works were greatly revised after my year her with a liberal political position public do not view the discipline as a movie review. in the White House. And hours of Q & A against powerful conservative politics. whole as credible. After long deliberations I concluded sessions after public lectures and partici- The issues a public sociologist addresses This is not to suggest that sociologists that I really had no choice. I could not pation in call-in shows greatly enhanced are almost always one way or another should not at this time follow the advice silence my public voice and yearned to be my understanding of how the public political ones, and, like Luker, the of Burawoy and Gans to support the an academic sociologist (and badly thinks. sociologist becomes partisan, to a greater importance of public sociology and even needed to make a living). I decided to try Most important, the cross-pollination or lesser extent, in the political fray. This consider entering the public arena to get away with doing both. between public and academic lives should not discourage anyone from themselves. So long as they follow Looking back on the decades that affected my values. Social scientists often joining the battlefield, but Burawoy’s Burawoy’s and Gans’ suggestions, they followed, I have wondered if I would claim that their work is value-free, that conception of “sociology as the con- will not presume to speak for sociology as have delivered more if I had spent all of their findings are neither liberal nor science of society” makes it difficult to a whole, thus avoiding any further loss of my time either sticking to my sociological conservative, but evidence-driven. avoid a major pitfall. credibility for the discipline. As knitting or to public work. In retrospect, I However, working in the public square Conscience is a rarely still and quiet Hausknecht argues, credibility is indeed say to those who are inclined to follow a serves as a constant reminder that voice that tells us the right or moral way very important, but the fact is that we similar course that the price one pays for academic findings and concepts have to behave, and when we disregard its presently have very little of it, and the a double life is worth paying and that it social consequences. Thus, the publica- directions it nags us and visits guilt upon continuation of the present state of affairs brings some handsome dividends, albeit tion of a study that claims to have found us. When Burawoy defines conscience will do nothing to change that situation. not necessarily the kind you can cash in that blacks are inherently inferior to simply as “sociology’s interrogation of What we sociologists require most at the bank. whites, however tortured the evidence society’s values that stimulates discussion urgently at this time in history, with its Did the long hours and days I spent in and rampant the speculation (e.g., The Bell about their meaning,” he highlights massive and escalating social problems, is the public square undermine my aca- Curve), strengthens the hand of racists. conscience as nag and overlooks con- both a broad approach to the scientific demic work? At first, the answer seems Public intellectuals are more likely than science as that which knows the correct method that follows scientific ideals—as obvious. There are only so many hours in pure academics to be aware of the social way to think and act. Public sociologists suggested metaphorically by C. Wright the day. If you spend them on op-eds and and moral consequences of such works. who see themselves as being one of the Mills’ idea of “the sociological imagina- radio call-in shows, you cannot dedicate Hence, most will be more circumspect in voices of society’s conscience by virtue of tion”—as well as efforts to integrate the them to digging in the stacks. If your day reporting their findings. And, those who being sociologists are more likely to enter vast knowledge within our 42 sections by is consumed by dashing from one airport disregard the public consequences of the political arena as crusaders convinced using that methodology. This would not to another on the way to meeting this or their publications will do so with the of their own rectitude. They more easily be a quick fix to limited credibility, but at that public leader, you do not invest it in malice of forethought rather than become ideologues “privileging certain least we would be following a direction trying to make sense out of regression stumbling innocently into these thickets, values” with their “interrogation” that could yield greater credibility. With analysis. Worse yet, public life is said to as a pure academic might. While an resembling more that of an Ashcroft-like such integrated knowledge we could corrupt one’s academic habits of thinking academic presumes to be free to publish prosecutor seeking the death penalty learn to overshadow the arguments of and leads one to yield to the twin whatever is discovered, there is no rule rather than “dialogical teaching.” talking heads and journalistic experts temptation of over-generalizing and that prohibits study of potentially The core of my objection to Burawoy, with the relatively limited knowledge at under-documenting. harmful topics. Rather, public sensibilities then, is his yoking the notion of conscience their command. And more sociologists To some extent, all this is true. and moral values legitimately influence to the definition of public sociology; it is would feel comfortable about entering However, there is no denying that many not the findings but the topic of one’s not only unnecessary but potentially public debates, given much wider and public intellectuals have learned to speak academic work. Such sensitivities often subversive of the ambitious tasks deeper knowledge at their disposal. in two distinct voices. Just as a person can affected my research selections. Should Burawoy assigns it. Instead of losing credibility, as this admission be held against me when I Hausknecht fears, they would gain write, say, in French and in English, so a Murray Hausknecht, City University of New arrive at the gates of heaven, and I am not credibility. person can address his academic col- York-Lehman College; [email protected] leagues in one form and the public at allowed into the chambers in which pure At the risk of appearing self-serving, I large in another. The fact that one avoids scientists rest, so be it. mention some methodological and footnotes and statistics, significance tests Public Sociologies: theoretical efforts to support my argu- Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington ment. My Beyond Sociology’s Tower of Babel: and technical vocabulary in one realm University does not mean that one is a stranger to Sociology’s Lack of Reconstructing the Scientific Method (see *Adapted from My Brother’s Keeper (in November 2002 Contemporary Sociology) them in the other. True, those who speak press, Rowman and Littlefield, May of 2003). Credibility only in one tongue may marshal it more and Toward a Sociological Imagination: perfectly than those who speak in two, I just wrote to the editor of The Atlantic Bridging Specialized Fields (Eds. Bernard but it is also true that the two realms Rejoinder to Burawoy, Monthly, praising a set of critical essays, Phillips, Harold Kincaid, and Thomas often enrich one another. It is this point “The REAL State of the Union,” in its Scheff, with contributions by Howard that the critics of public intellectuals too Gans January/February 2003 issue. At the same Becker, David Britt, Chanoch Jacobsen, James Kimberly, Richard Lachmann, often overlook. I have no difficulty with Michael time, I proposed writing an article for the I did benefit from my social science magazine that goes further, both in David Maines, and Suzanne Retzinger) Burawoy’s excellent description [January were efforts to develop a very broad training and lessons in social philosophy 2003 Footnotes, page 8] of “dialogical examining the largely hidden forces in my public endeavors. For instance, a behind those problems and in proposing methodological approach for social teaching,” since I would have thought science. strategy for psychological disarmament this is what we all have in mind—a given, directions for solutions. While the article (tension reduction) that Charles Osgood series was useful in confronting current And the Sociological Imagination in fact—when we talk of teaching. (I think Group (SIG) has sponsored conferences and I developed) is based on concepts of it as “making the world problematic.”) issues, unless we also unearth and and findings drawn from social psychol- confront the long-term and profound on this topic at ASA meetings in DC, This kind of approach will always be an Anaheim, and Chicago. I encourage ogy. And my recommendations to integral part of public sociology because forces behind those issues, we will find President Carter drew on studies in socio- that our problems continue to escalate. readers to attend SIG conferences in one can hardly participate in discussions Atlanta, San Francisco, and Philadelphia, economics. At the same time, my aca- of public issues without at the same time, For example, our current income and demic work (like that of many other wealth gaps derive, in my view, from all on “Toward a Sociological Imagina- “insisting on an explicit examination of tion,” which will focus on the “web public intellectuals) gained from my society’s values” or noting that centuries of a “revolution of rising public involvement. My public role expectations” coupled with patterns of approach” to theory, terrorism, and “[s]ociety’s values are multiple and multi- education, respectively. To date, Atlanta reminded the scholar in me what was of valent” or “expos[ing] the gap between social stratification and bureaucracy significance and what was esoteric. limiting their fulfillment. And that same SIG participants include Maria society’s professed values and its Antonopoulou, Hans Bakker, Martha Precisely because professors are basically practices.” gap between aspirations and fulfillment not accountable to anyone once they gain in turn is yielding widespread and DeWitt, G. Willie Jasso, D. Paul Johnson, When I favored a more modest model James Kimberly, Harold Kincaid, Louis tenure, and because there is a strongly of public sociology—”modest” merely increasing alienation that limits political held belief that one cannot foretell what is participation. I believe that a direction for Kontos, Lauren Langman, myself, relative to an “activist model”—I was Thomas Scheff, Sandro Segre, Leo productive, professors can get lost in neither condemning “dialogical teaching” solutions involves uniting journalism prolonged bouts of trivial pursuit. Very with the wealth of knowledge from the Semashko, Robert Stebbins, and Jonathan nor approving a passive transmission of Turner. trivial. knowledge. (After all, who among social sciences. I am not saying that public needs Footnotes readers has not looked to I believe there is little chance that The Bernard Phillips, Longboat Key, FL; should determine what academics study. Atlantic Monthly will invite me to write Continued on next page 8 APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES

Atlanta, from page 1 Kirkwood, for example, median sales 2000. This area had not experienced such a prices soared 275% over the past 10 years. shift since the 1960s. Between 1960 and 2004 Annual Meeting . . . These changes coincide directly with 1970, these neighborhoods changed from property tax increases. In Kirkwood, being almost 100% white to almost 100% Book Nominations Invited for “Author Meets property appraisals have jumped 40% black. In Kirkwood, for example, 91% of Critic” Sessions annually for the past three years. For some residents were white in 1960; by 1970, 97% Atlantans, of course, property value of the population was black. The 2004 Program Committee invites ASA members to submit nomina- increases are welcome financial windfalls This earlier transition in Kirkwood, East tions of books to be considered for inclusion in Author Meets Critics presenting opportunity. But, for others, the Lake, and East Atlanta was not peaceful. sessions on the 2004 Annual Meeting Program. Books published during high values mean unaffordable taxes that Between 1960 and 1970, these neighbor- 2001-2003 are eligible for nomination. Only ASA members may submit force them from their homes. While hoods experienced raw, neighbor-to- nominations; self-nominations are acceptable. displacement may be traumatic for neighbor racial hostility. Real-estate agents • Book nominations should provide the following information: homeowners, it is even more troublesome used white anxieties about having black for renters who are forced from neighbor- neighbors to blockbust, convincing white • Name and affiliation of book author(s) hoods as the rental housing stock is families to sell their homes at below- • Complete title of the book decimated. market prices and then reselling these • Publication date and name of publisher same homes to black families at prime • Brief statement about the book’s importance to the discipline of sociology Changes in Racial Composition market prices, pocketing the profits. In • Rationale for inclusion on the 2004 program 1969, a white Kirkwood resident told the Regentrification, that’s just a nice word for • Optional: Suggestions for critics and session organizer Atlanta Journal Constitution that he sold his taking black folks’ property. – Billy McKinney, Nominations may be submitted by e-mail, mail, or fax, and must be typed home to a realtor at well below market Former State Representative or printed; handwritten material is unacceptable. All book nominations value only to have a black family buy that same house for the highest price ever should be submitted by June 1, 2003, to the chair of the 2004 Program Issues of race further complicate the recorded. Paired with racial prejudice, this Committee: Dr. Michael Burawoy, Russell Sage Foundation, 112 East 64th economic consequences of gentrification in economic exploitation created enmity Street, New York, NY 10021; (212) 371-4761 fax; Atlanta. Racial strife has characterized between long-standing white residents and [email protected]. these eastern neighborhoods for decades, black newcomers. The manifestations of from white flight and blockbusting in the this antagonism ran the gamut from the that undergird gentrification in Atlanta Natalyn Archibong, ran on a campaign to 1960s to gentrification today. Although arson of a black family’s home, to the today. more broadly represent the growing Kirkwood, East Lake, and East Atlanta are incorporation of Eastern Atlanta, Inc., an Race and social class are not the only diversity of her constituents. The challenge predominantly black neighborhoods, organization created for the sole purpose cleavages dividing these neighborhoods. for her is to balance the demands of new, whites drive gentrification. Between 1990 of buying property that might fall into the As with much gentrification, the first wave white residents with the needs of long- and 2000 the white population in these hands of blacks. But the endgame of this of whites moving back into Kirkwood, term, black residents. neighborhoods doubled. The most hostility was the creation of “vanilla East Lake, and East Atlanta were gay men dramatic racial change was in Kirkwood, suburbs” as whites moved out of the city and lesbians. In 1998, racial hostility, class Solutions? where white residents increased from 1% en masse. This racial tension from the antagonism, and homophobia collided in to 14% of the population between 1990 and Our job was to…mitigate the negative effects 1960s set the stage for the racial tensions Kirkwood. A gay couple new to Kirkwood filed a civil suit against their black next- without damaging the positive effects. door neighbor for creating a nuisance by –Larry Keating, Gentrification Task Force from page 7 allegedly selling drugs out of her home. Public Forum, When the neighbor failed to respond to the In response to events in recent years, complaint, the couple was awarded over the Atlanta city government created a task force to deal with the negative aspects of [email protected] between poetic traditions here. But $35,000 in damages. Soon thereafter, a local gentrification. The task force suggested perhaps there should be a digression on African-American minister distributed that the city institute aggressive affordable Alexander F. Shand, the early 20th century flyers in the neighborhood calling a housing policies, especially for low-income On the Right Giant’s British psychologist who pioneered work meeting of black residents to discuss residents; provide incentives for builders Shoulders on association and on grief…. saving Kirkwood from a “white… homosexual and lesbian take-over.” Not to include affordable housing in new Craig Calhoun ([email protected]), Social developments; use land seized by the city The lead tribute to the late Robert surprisingly, the flyer and subsequent Science Research Council meeting incited controversy in the through tax foreclosures for affordable Merton by Craig Calhoun (March 2003 housing; prevent property tax liens from Footnotes) was moving as an intellectual neighborhood and across Atlanta. Perhaps as never before, this incident and its being sold to private collection agencies; biography in miniature. It does, however, Merton Remembered, and educate longtime residents on commit a faux pas of its own, surely an backlash served to open discussion on the Correctly negative aspects of gentrification and predatory lending and below-market price unanticipated consequence of Calhoun’s sales scams. But, as sprawl and long argument for Merton’s breadth of provided a voice for the fears of long-term It was rewarding to read the apprecia- residents. commutes continue to plague Atlanta, the knowledge. Even if Merton may have tions of Robert Merton in the March 2003 demand for in-town housing will increase. been influenced by his youthful reading issue of Footnotes. One small correction is Political Implications Developers and renovators will be more of Tristram Shandy in writing On the in order: he does not really deserve to be than happy to meet that demand. Indeed Shoulders of Giants, that influence would credited (or discredited, as the case may I don’t represent you because you didn’t vote the biggest challenge facing Atlanta is to not have taken “the form of an epistolary be) with the development of what are for me. – Sherry Dorsey, Former City prevent those who control the market from novel,” because that isn’t what Tristram now called “focus groups,” mentioned by Council Person defining the terms of gentrification. This is Shandy’s author Laurence Sterne wrote. at least two of the tribute authors. a task few cities have done well, and in a What Merton might have learned instead Merton tells the story himself in the The controversy in Kirkwood opened city built on a mantra of pro-growth, pro- was how to turn out the entertaining Introduction to the 1990 edition of The up dialog on gentrification, but it also development, no-holds-barred boosterism, digressions that Calhoun speaks of Focused Interview. He wrote: “There can’t precipitated the overthrow of a political it is a particularly daunting task. earlier, because that is what Tristram be many people in the field of social machine. Sherry Dorsey, the Atlanta city Shandy consists of. Sterne invented the science…who know less about focus council member representing Kirkwood, If you find Atlanta’s experience with antinovel, and was recognized for doing groups than I.” Later he quoted Leo East Lake, and East Atlanta, did little to gentrification interesting, plan to attend the so by the Russian formalists, among Bogart as having written: “The term focus stymie the 1998 controversy. In fact, she ASA’s annual meeting session, Gentrification others. group is a barbarism that confused incited more racial tension by repeatedly in the South, being planned by the Regional The eighteenth century abounded in sociologist Robert K. Merton’s technique telling new white residents that she was Spotlight Committee. This session will not their representative because they had examine how Atlanta and other southern cities epistolary novels, by novelists such as of an unstructured but ‘focused’ inter- not voted for her. In the end, she lost her ❑ Richardson and Laclos. It takes the view—in which a skillful interrogator are gentrifying. city council seat in 2001, changing the protagonist of Sterne’s novel nearly half keeps the respondent’s attention from political landscape that had dominated the of the book’s pages to be born. And wandering off the subject at hand—and neighborhoods for years. Her successor, indeed, the art of Tristram Shandy points the traditional sociological technique of to a radically distinct tradition, that took talking to homogeneous or related groups at least a century longer to be born. of people who stimulate each other under The moral, of course, it to be sure one the interviewer’s guidance.” is standing on the shoulders of the right It is true that Merton, et al. do give Call for New Films & Videos to be shown giant. some examples of their approach with at Annual Meeting Richard Koffler (rkoffler@degruyterny. groups (as well as many from individual Based on the interest shown in previous years, there will again be a new com), Walter de Gruyter Publishers interviews), but that is not the focus of film/video screening series held during the upcoming Annual Meeting in their focused interview. They reference a Atlanta in August. Those who wish to propose a new film for inclusion in the 1926 article by Bogardus as one source for OTSOG: Reply to Koffler the study of group interviewing. 2003 screening series may send a copy of the film/video and a brief descrip- tion of the work and its relevance to sociological instruction and research to: Richard Koffler rightly notes that “Focus groups” have become as much Jean Beaman Tristram Shandy is not an epistolary novel a sales pitch today as they are a serious (and I am sorry if I implied the contrary: approach to research, so disconnecting Academic and Professional Affairs Program too much editing for length rather than Merton’s name from the present practice American Sociological Association content). It is, however, the novel that is no loss to his reputation. The connec- 1307 New York Avenue, Suite 700 most influenced Merton’s On the tion is probably there to begin with as a Washington, DC 20005 Shoulder’s of Giants. OTSOG is written in misapplication of something Merton did (202) 383-9005 x318 epistolary form, but is also replete with conceptualize: the Matthew Effect. [email protected] Shandean associations and consequent Howard Schuman, University of Michigan & To be considered for this year’s film series, nominations must be received digressions—hence Merton’s subtitle: “A Phippsburg, ME; [email protected] ❑ by June 15, 2003. Films will be reviewed for submission in the coming months Shandean Postscript.” No forced choice and returned after the Annual Meeting. APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES 9

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Theme: “Building Euro- Institute on Aging (NIA), and the Na- . Research, Queen’s University-Belfast, mit.edu>. tion, EURESCO Unit, 1 quai Lezay- research grant applications on the de- Belfast BT7 1NN, Ireland; fax +44 2890 Marnesia, 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, Ibis Reproductive Health has received mography and social science of race and 272 551; e-mail A.Warleigh@ Sociological Studies of Children and France; (33-388) 76 71 35; fax (33-388) 36 support for a postdoctoral fellowship ethnicity in the United States. The goal qub.ac.uk; . Youth invites submissions for volume 11 69 87; e-mail [email protected]; program on abortion and reproductive of this program is to encourage research to be published in 2004. This volume will . health for social scientists. The objective that will improve understanding of race University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Turn- examine children and youth from an in- of the fellowship is to cultivate new gen- and ethnicity in social science and de- ing Science to the Service of Native Com- ternational perspective and will include August 13-16, 2003, Association of Black erations of promising social science re- mographic research. Details at: munities Conference, July 13-15, 2003. research on children from all regions of Sociologists (ABS) 33rd Annual Conference, searchers who can link the study of abor- . integrating behavioral and hard/envi- pecially encouraged to submit their re- lanta. Theme: “Front-Loading Social Re- tellectual trajectory of their own disci- ronmental science with the goals, needs, search findings. Authors should direct ality: Critical Demography and Black plines and who can bridge the divide cultures, and perspectives of Native inquiries or submit a draft chapter by Superiority in Wealth, Status, and between research and policy and pro- communities. Deadline: May 30, 2003. June 15, 2003, to: Loretta Bass, Guest Power.” Contact: Frank Harold Wilson, grams. The fellowship is for two years, Competitions Contact: Sonya J. Le Febre, Department Editor, Sociological Studies of Children and ABS Program Chairperson, Department renewable for a third, and support for of Rangeland Ecosystem Science, Col- Youth, Department of Sociology, Univer- of Sociology, University of Wisconsin- Fellows’ research and travel is available. Association for Anthropology and Ger- lege of Natural Resources, Colorado sity of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019; Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI The deadline for individual fellowship ontology Margaret Clark Award ($500 State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523- (405) 325-3262; fax (405) 325-7825; e-mail 53201; fax (414) 229-4266; e-mail applications is May 1, 2003. Contact: Sa- graduate, $250 undergraduate), honors 1478; (970) 491-3908; fax (970) 491-2339; [email protected]. [email protected]. e-mail [email protected]; rah Jane Holcombe, Ibis Reproductive Dr. Clark’s pioneering work in gerontol- . Syllabi and Curriculum for Distance September 13-15, 2003, Young Scientists’ Health, c/o the Center for Reproductive ogy and medical anthropology. Unpub- Education and Cross-Campus Exer- Conference, Warsaw, Poland. Theme: Health Research and Policy, University lished student papers in all fields are University of Wisconsin-Madison, cises. A new syllabi set volume is cur- “Open Minds: Europe in Global World— of California-San Francisco, 3333 Califor- welcome. The relation to lifespan and along with the Environment and Soci- rently being prepared concentrating on Blending Differences.” Details at nia Street, Suite 335, San Francisco, CA aging issues must be discussed. Send ety Research Committee of the Interna- distance learning and cross-campus . 94143-0744; (415) 502-4076; fax (415) 502- three double-spaced copies, abstract, tional Sociological Association, will shared research exercises at the under- 8479; e-mail address, affiliation, phone, and verifica- September 18-22, 2003, ECPR 2003 Gen- present a symposium on the “treadmill graduate level. Both introductory and sholcombe@ibisreproductive tion of student status. Deadline: May 30. eral Conference, Marburg, Germany. of production” from October 31 to No- advanced level course materials are re- health.org. Contact: Mark Luborsky, Clark Award Theme: “Organised Crime, Politics and vember 1, 2003. Deadline for abstracts is quested. Distance learning syllabi and Chair, Civil Society.” Contact: Felia Allum, Eu- National Science Foundation. Human May 1, 2003. Notification of acceptance curriculum may include: Site-to-site Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State ropean Studies and Modern Languages, and Social Dynamics: Special Competi- of abstracts and the preliminary program cable transmission; local access cable University, 87 East Ferry, 252 Knapp University of Bath, Bath, United King- tion for FY 2003. This special competi- will be available by May 15, 2003. Con- transmission; WebCT or other Internet Bldg., Detroit, MI 48202; (313) 577-6790; dom; e-mail f.s.allum tion inaugurates the Human and Social tact: Fred Buttel, Department of Rural course offerings. Cross-campus exercises e-mail [email protected]. @bath.ac.uk. Dynamics (HSD) priority area. This pri- Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 1450 may include any form of shared commu- . October 15-19, 2003, Second International multi-scaled, multi-disciplinary ap- 262-7156; e-mail [email protected]. tween equivalent classes at two differ- Conference on Urban Health, New York proaches to better understand the causes Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) ent universities. Please send all submis- PUBLICATIONS City, New York. Contact: Sarah Sisco, and ramifications of change and to in- invites submissions for the ABS Under- sions electronically to: Meredith M. Program Manager, Center for Urban crease collective capabilities to anticipate graduate and Graduate Paper Competi- Redlin; e-mail meredith_redlin ASA Teaching Resources Guide. Sub- Epidemiologic Studies, New York Acad- its complex consequences. In this initial tion. Cash awards will be presented to @sdstate.edu. Syllabi and exercises missions are currently being accepted on emy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, year of a multi-year effort, the following the top three papers submitted to each should be either in Word or Word community-based research as a peda- Room 556, New York, NY 10029; (212) topical areas will be emphasized (2003 of the graduate and undergraduate com- Perfect format. Submission deadline is gogical strategy in sociology. Commu- 419-3590; fax (212) 876-6220; e-mail application deadlines are in parenthe- petitions. Student winners will present May 15, 2003. nity-based Research (CBR) is a form of [email protected]. . ses): Decision Making Under Uncer- their papers at the ABS Annual Meeting, service-learning that involves students Women’s Studies Quarterly seeks sub- tainty (part of the President’s Climate to be held August 13-16, 2003, in Atlanta. collaborating with community partners October 17-19, 2003, Midwest Popular missions for a special Winter 2004 issue Change Research Initiative) (July 15 for Papers are due April 21, 2003. Under- on research projects that address a com- Culture Association Conference, Minne- on Women, Crime and the Criminal Jus- both center grants and developmental graduate papers must be no more than munity-identified need. The authors seek apolis, MN. Contact: Gary Burns at tice System. This issue will focus on proposals); Enhancing Human Perfor- syllabi of CBR-centered courses, assign- [email protected]. women as offenders, victims, and crimi- mance (June 11); and Empirical Implica- Continued on next page 10 APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES

Competitions, continued Charles Bosk, University of Pennsylva- Sports Factor, for the segment, “Married Gwen Moore, SUNY-Albany, was (Butterworths, 2003). 20 pages in length. Graduate papers nia, was quoted in a February 10 Wash- to the Game,” October 25, 2002. He also named a finalist for the European must not exceed 35 pages. Submit six ington Post article on communications did a live interview on the topic of sport Union’s Descartes Prize, the premier sci- Michael S. Kimmel, SUNY-Stony Brook, copies of submissions (indicating gradu- problems within NASA that might have marriages on the Red Symons Breakfast ence prize in Europe for her study of and Abby L. Ferber, University of Colo- ate or undergraduate status), plus an ab- contributed to the recent Columbia space Program in Melbourne, Australia, No- women and men in top economic and rado-Colorado Springs, Privilege: A stract of no more than 200 words, to: John shuttle disaster. vember 6, 2002. political positions in 27 industrialized Reader (Westview, 2003). B. Diamond, School of Education and nations. James R. Lincoln, University of Califor- Social Policy, Northwestern University, Lee Clarke, Rutgers University, was Melissa Partin was quoted in the Feb- nia-Berkeley, and Arne L. Kalleberg, 2115 North Campus Drive, Room 217, quoted in news outlets both in the ruary 18 New York Times, in the Jane Thomas F. Pettigrew, University of Cali- University of North Carolina-Chapel Evanston, IL 60208-2610; e-mail United States and internationally on Brody “Health” section, on current con- fornia-Santa Cruz, is one of ten Ameri- Hill, Culture, Control and Commitment: A [email protected]. catastrophic disasters, bioterror attacks, troversies surrounding use of PSA in cans recently named a New Century and public response to disasters. He was prostate cancer screening. Scholar by the U.S. Fulbright Foreign Study of Work Organization and Work At- Association for the Study of the Cuban quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Scholarship Board. titudes in the United States and Japan Economy (ASCE) Student Prize Com- (February 14), United Press International Barbara Risman, North Carolina State (Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publica- mittee solicits nominations for the 2002 (February 13), Reuters (February 13), University, was quoted on the topic of Sally Ward, University of New Hamp- tions, 2003). Best Student Paper competition. Anyone Newhouse News Service (February 13), parents staying home to take care of chil- shire, has been awarded the 2003 James Mahoney and Dietrich can nominate papers authored by uni- BBC News (February 14), The Globe and dren for a temporary span of time in the Lindberg Award for Outstanding Rueschemeyer, editors, Comparative His- versity undergraduate and graduate stu- Mail (February 15), The Daily Telegraph March 10 Baltimore Sun. Teacher-Scholar in the College of Liberal torical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cam- dents. The papers should address any (February 15), Space Daily (February 17), Arts. Joseph A. Soares, Yale University, was bridge University Press, 2003). topic related to Cuba’s domestic issues, ABCNews.com (February 27), and the quoted in a February 5 Boston Herald ar- its foreign relations, or Cuba in compara- Chronicle of Higher Education (March 14). ticle on why Boston’s Government Cen- Alan S. Miller, Hokkaido University, tive perspectives. The Best Student Pa- He also wrote an op-ed in the February ter is a failure as public space. and Yoshinori Kamo, Louisiana State per Prize carries a $500-award, an invi- 20 New York Daily News on the same People University, Nihon: Yoi Shigarami, Warui tation to present the paper at the ASCE topic. Karen Sternheimer, University of South- Shigarami (Japan: Good Bondage, Bad Bond- Annual Conference, and subsequent ern California, was quoted in a San Jose Margaret Andersen, University of Dela- age) (Nihon Keizai Shimbun Press, 2002). David Croteau, Virginia Common- publication in the ASCE Proceedings with Mercury News article on February 26 ware, was named chair of the National wealth University, was interviewed and the appropriate notation. Papers re- about the tendency of the press to draw Advisory Board of the Center for Com- Jeylan T. Mortimer, University of Min- quoted in an Associated Press article, ceived or postdated by June 7, 2003, will copycat connections between the media parative Studies of Race and Ethnicity nesota, Working and Growing Up in published in the February 28 issue of be considered. The winner of the com- and young people when accused of a at Stanford University. America (Harvard University Press, Wired News, and in the Boston Globe, Se- petition will be announced by July 9. For violent crime. 2003). further information contact: Enrique S. attle Times Intelligencer, USA Today, Wash- Wendy Baldwin, University of Kentucky, Pumar, Chair Student Prize Committee, ington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Christoper Uggen, University of Minne- has been elected to the American Asso- Lena Wright Myers, Ohio University, A e-mail [email protected]. Newsday, Salon.com, CNN, and ABC sota, was cited in a New York Times ar- ciation for the Advancement of Science Broken Silence: Voices of African American News. ticle on December 29, 2002, on the num- (AAAS) Committee on Nominations. Women in the Academy (Greenwood Pub- Sociologists for Women in Society pre- ber of U.S. citizens in prison or who have lishing Group, 2003). Gili S. Drori, Stanford University, was James M. Jasper made his New York de- sents an annual award for graduate stu- done time in prison. dents and recent PhDs working in the interviewed by Moira Gunn on National but as a standup comedian in Novem- Joan Roelofs, Keene State College, Foun- area of women and paid work-employ- Public Radio’s TechNation (broadcast on Diane Vaughan, Boston College, was in- ber. Since then, he has been performing dations and Public Policy: The Mask of Plu- ment and self-employment, informal February 4) about her newly published terviewed and quoted for a February 16 monthly at the Gotham Comedy Club ralism (SUNY Press, 2003). market work, or illegal work. The award book is co-authored with John W. Meyer Miami Herald article on the insulating and the Boston Comedy Club in Man- Victor N. Shaw, California State Univer- is supported by a bequest from the fam- (Stanford University), Francisco O. foam issue in regards to the Columbia hattan. sity-Northridge, Substance Use and Abuse: ily of the late Cheryl Allyn Miller. The Ramirez (Stanford University), and space shuttle disaster. Michael Macy, Cornell University, spoke Sociological Perspectives (Greenwood purpose of the award is to recognize a Evan Schofer (University of Minnesota). on February 14 at the Annual Meeting Publishing Group, 2002). sociology graduate student or recent John B. Williamson, Boston College, Samantha Friedman, George Washing- of the American Association for the Ad- doctorate whose research or activism was interviewed and quoted for an As- ton University, was quoted in the Feb- vancement of Science in Denver in a constitutes an outstanding contribution sociated Press story on older activists ruary 28 Washington Post in an article symposium. He was also awarded a to the field of women and work. The speaking out on issues concerning the titled “A Turkish Voice Explains the Is- grant from the National Science Foun- award is $500, and will be presented at elderly. The story was picked up by the Caught in the Web lamic Movement.” dation to conduct research on peer-en- the banquet at the August SWS meeting. Fort Worth Star Telegram (February 18), Baltimore Sun (February 18), Newsday forced norms. Child Trends DataBank the Guardian-UK (Febru- trendsdatabank.org>. The DataBank is at the meeting. Fare to the meeting will was quoted in the March 7 New York Herm Smith was conferred the rank of ary 19), Kansas City Star (February 19), a one-stop-shop for the latest national be paid by SWS. Applicants must be Times about the fame surrounding the Professor Emeritus by the University of and Macon Telegraph (February 19). trends and research on over 70 key indi- graduate students or have received their man arrested in a mall for wearing a Missouri-St. Louis for his distinguished PhD in 2002 or 2003 and must belong to cators of child and youth well being, “give peace a chance” T-shirt. David Yamane, University of Notre service since 1970. SWS. Applications must be postmarked with new indicators added each month. Dame, was quoted in articles on the by May 15, 2003. Contact: Dana M. Barry Glassner, University of Southern David Sonnenfeld, Washington State Child Trends is a non-partisan, non- Catholic priesthood in the Allentown (PA) Britton, Department of Sociology, An- California, was quoted in a February 19 University, has been selected as a Dis- profit research firm in Washington, DC. Morning Call on October 21, 2002, and on thropology and Social Work, Waters Hall Baltimore Sun article on the warnings from tinguished Southeast Asian Science and faith-based political advocacy in the Aus- A new issue of the online journal IT and 204, Kansas State University, Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security to Policy Fellow at the College of William tin American Statesman on February 3. 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Maurice Punch, London School of Eco- nomics, Rethinking Corporate Crime, Continued on next page APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES 11

11, 2003). Join the nation’s foremost tice” and the capstone course is “Project foolishly thought that this was how aca- Dafna Nundi Izraeli, feminist sociolo- sor to many government committees on scholars, researchers, community mem- D.C.”demic life was lived everywhere. Teach- gist and women’s rights and peace ac- the status of women in Israel. In 1976- bers, and health care providers who are More information is at . “unpacking,” you just wanted to go cancer for the past year. She leaves a Women. At the time of her death, she on sexuality, society, and health in the home and get in bed for the indefinite legacy of warmth and generosity, politi- was consultant to the subcommittees on United States. For further information future. But you knew he knew you could cal activism, and engaged feminist schol- the Advancement of Women and Work call the Summer Institute Office at (415) go farther. And you did. His students arship. and on the Economy in the Knesset 405-3572 or visit . In 1997, he was given the ASA’s Distin- former Chair of the Department of Soci- Women. She was also a founder and Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Vir- guished Contribution to Teaching ology and Anthropology at Bar Ilan Uni- board member of Legal Equity Action for ginia, died on January 26. Award. versity, Tel Aviv. At the time of her death, Women in the Workplace. Bob left Wisconsin to return home to she was Chair of the Graduate Program Izraeli, then Gewurz, married Dove Other Stanford Morris Lyman, Florida Atlan- California in 1974, taking on the direc- in Gender Studies and Head of the Izraeli in 1960 and emigrated to Israel. tic University, died on March 8. tion of the sociology program at the UC- Rachel and J.L. Gewurz Center for Re- Dove Izraeli was professor of manage- Organizations Santa Cruz. In 1975, he published Health search on Gender at Bar Ilan University, ment studies at Tel Aviv University, Alan S. Miller, Hokkaido University, Ja- Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group which she endowed in the name of her where he specialized in marketing and pan, died on January 17. Central Archive for Empirical Social Barriers to Reform. In that work he parents. The Bar Ilan Program, which she business ethics. He died of a long-term Research, Cologne, Germany, and the showed the ways in which displays of organized, is the only MA/PhD Gender illness on January 31, 2003. Izraeli is sur- Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn rationality and rituals of rationalization and Women’s Studies program in Israel. vived by three children, Leora Sharon, will be offering an International Semi- were forms of symbolic politics, part of Born in France on September 9, 1937, Sharona Wattemberg, and Haim Izraeli; nar on September 1-12, 2003. For regis- Obituaries a political process by which interest Izraeli grew up in Montreal, Canada, a sister, Gisela Garmaise; two brothers, tration and further information contact groups, organizations and the very struc- where she completed her BA in political Werner and Samuel, 18 grandchildren, . (1928-2003) reform. The volume won the C. Wright in social work, both at McGill Univer- Judith Lorber, Professor Emerita, Brooklyn Mills Award. sity. She continued her graduate studies Robert Alford died of pancreatic can- College and Graduate School, City Univer- International Journal of Comparative This work on politics as aesthetics, in political science and Hebrew history cer on February 14, 2003, just months be- sity of New York Sociology is seeking an Editor for a term beautiful form as substitute for inter- at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem fore his 75th birthday. There was to be a of at least four years. The Editor’s re- ested transformation, was later followed and then in sociology and anthropology celebration at his parents’ ranch in Avery, Helena Lopata sponsibility is to oversee the selection of by work on the politics of aesthetic pro- at Manchester University in England, California, in the Sierras. Bob grew up (1925-2003) Guest Editors and topics and to estab- duction. Music was Bob’s first passion where she received her PhD degree in near here at Angel’s Camp, the site of lish a steering committee to help select and the piano a life-long gift, one whose 1972. She spent a post-doctoral year at Helena Lopata, Professor Emeritus of the Calaveras jumping frog contests topics, if desired. The Editor can invite pleasure was later denied him by a con- the University of California-Berkeley, Sociology at Loyola University Chicago, fabled by Mark Twain. Bob loved to walk scholars and disseminate a “call for spe- genital ear defect that steadily rendered and was a visiting professor at New York died in Wisconsin at the age of 77 on Feb- the forest paths that radiate out across cial issues.” Special issues are about eight him deaf. I think music was, in fact, the University, Northeastern University, ruary 12, 2003. She was a faculty mem- the property, past the pond dense with to ten articles (including an introduc- template by which he understood the Harvard University, and the University ber at Loyola University from 1969 until water lilies and an apple orchard with tion). Depending on the length of the practice of sociology, the imagination of California-Berkeley. her retirement in May 1997. Her hus- forgotten species of fruit. The lupine and special issue, each of the remaining four and construction of a beautiful structure, Izraeli published eight books (with col- band, Richard Lopata, died in 1994. Her the Indian paintbrush would have been regular issues contain about three to five a disciplined passion, an enchanted re- leagues); among them were The Double children, Theodora Menasco and Stefan in bloom. Bob was a huge man who articles that may include research com- construction of the world. And it was Bind: Women in Israel (Kibbutz Lopata and three grandchildren survive loped gracefully and could walk for munications (i.e., short articles about from music that he learned the problem- Hameuchad, 1982, in Hebrew); Women’s her. Until her death she remained an ac- miles. He thought best walking, which ongoing research, new studies, and pre- atic of technique. A gifted teenage pia- Worlds: From the New Scholarship tive member of the department and the was how we worked out the structure liminary results), and book reviews. Sti- nist, he had hitchhiked from Angels (Praeger, 1985); Dual-Earner Families: In- profession, teaching, participating in of the Powers of Theory (1985), through pend will be offered, the amount yet to Camp to San Francisco just to hear ternational Perspectives (Sage, 1992); national and international conferences, hours and hours of movement. be determined. We will also supply a Arthur Rubinstein play. If you asked Women in Israel (Transaction, 1993); Com- and writing. Bob was the socialist child of Republi- computer and travel grants. Editorial him, 40 years later, he would still talk petitive Frontiers: Women Managers in a Helena was born in Poznan, Poland, can parents who had raised their chil- Board can be revised to help support about Rubinstein’s piano-playing tech- Global Economy, (Blackwell, 1994) and Sex on October 1, 1925, and lived there until dren to suspect authority. There was also your efforts. Deadline for submissions is nique. Bob discovered that concert pia- Gender Politics: Women in Israel (Kibbutz the age of 15. Her father, Polish sociolo- a leftist heritage. His maternal grandfa- April 31, 2003. More information about nists, as well as other types of musician, Hameuchad, 1999, in Hebrew). She was gist Florian Znaniecki, was in the United ther had been a Wobbly, as well as a the journal can be found at . Contact: Shivu times quite extreme, indeed even lead- fessional journals and encyclopedias on on September 1, 1939, and, as part of Bob dropped out of UC-Berkeley, op- Ishwaran, Editor, de Sitter Publications, ing to permanent injury. This pain, how- issues related to gender in unions, work, their campaign to weaken the resistant posed to the McCarthy loyalty oaths, and 374 Woodsworth Rd., Willowdale, ever, was not a necessity, but a taken- family, social policy, and the Israeli mili- Polish intelligentsia, sent the teenage went to work and to organize as a mem- Ontario M2L 2T6, Canada; e-mail for-granted cost of an institutionalized tary. Helena and her mother, Eileen Markley, ber of the Labor Youth League in an In- [email protected]. technique. Bob wrote about it with At the time of her death, she was on to a concentration camp. In her column ternational Harvester truck factory. Rob- Andras Szanto in “Orpheus Wounded: the Advisory Board of Jewish and Chris- for “My Turn” (SWS Network News, Oc- ert Blauner was a fellow worker and cell- Journal of Social and Political Thought The Experience of Pain in the Profes- tian Perspectives Series, and on the edito- tober 2001) she wrote a compelling story member there. After Khrushchev’s “se- (j_spot) Call for Associate Editors. j_spot sional Worlds of the Piano” (1996, Theory rial boards of Jewish Women: A Compre- of this time: cret” 1956 speech to the 20th Party Con- seeks volunteers to assist for one-year and Society). He had wanted to write hensive Historical Encyclopedia, Gender & “Upon seeing the cattle cars, mother gress leaked out, a speech detailing terms, pro bono, with a specified range much more, but his own pain at not any Society, Israeli Sociology: Journal for the decided to act. Having been trained as Stalin’s “crimes,” his incarceration and of editorial duties. j_spot is an interdisci- longer being able to hear the music Study of Israeli Society (in Hebrew), Com- an American lawyer, she marched to the execution of spies and enemies who plinary, peer-reviewed electronic journal ended that research. munity Work and Family, and International camp commander demanding to be re- were, in fact, loyal Communists, Alford, focusing on a wide range of intersections Bob used to take out his dog-eared Review of Women and Leadership. leased. like many others, including Blauner, re- between theory, politics, culture, and so- copy of The Sociological Imagination and Izraeli was a long-time member of the She claimed American citizenship, turned to the university. The state’s pro- cial justice. . read passages out loud to me like a cat- American Sociological Association, So- which she did not have because she had mulgation of information that was, in echist. C. Wright Mills had felt that he ciety for the Study of Social Probems, So- married a foreigner before the 1924 act fact, disinformation, or outright lies, arrived when he finally made it to Man- ciety for the Psychological Study of So- that allowed American women to retain would later become a theme in his work. hattan. Bob had fallen in love with New cial Issues, Academy of Management, their citizenship after marrying a na- A graduate student of Seymour Mar- New Academic York City as a result of doing research and Sociologists for Women in Society. tional of another country. Speaking En- tin Lipset, his 1961 doctoral dissertation there for his health care politics book. She was on the Executive Board of the glish, she claimed that she had come to on class voting was subsequently pub- Programs Like Mills, in 1988 Alford, too, finally Research Committee on Women in Soci- Poland to visit her sister and family. She lished as Party and Politics, distinguish- made it to Manhattan. A boy who had ety of the International Sociological As- explained that her sister and her sister’s ing between determinants of the class University of California-Irvine is now grown up in a small town where the sociation and on the Executive Commit- husband had been killed by the bombs distinctiveness of parties and the parti- offering an online master’s degree pro- cattle ranchers were at the apex of the tee of the Israel Sociological Association, and that I, the niece, was with her now. san distinctiveness of a class in Anglo- gram in Criminology, Law, and Society. social structure of Angels Camp was where she was founder and chair of the She said that she did not understand American democracies. The young The first online master’s program in the now a Distinguished Professor of Soci- Section for Research and Training of Sex what was going on but that she had im- quantitative political sociologist left for University of California system, this ology at the CUNY Graduate Center. At Roles. She was a founding member of portant friends in America who could the University of Wisconsin, where, to- fully accredited program is designed for CUNY, he spent most of his time work- the Israel Association for Feminist and cause trouble. This was before the United gether with Michael Aiken, he led the professionals seeking a graduate degree ing with students crafting their disser- Gender Studies, a member of the Israel States entered the War. The Commander Social Organization program until 1974. for career advancement in the areas of tations. Sociologically speaking, Bob was Industrial Relations Association, and the became frightened and let us go. The In this multivariate citadel, a generation law enforcement, probation, corrections, a committed Trinitarian. Everything Academic Council of Emek Yezrael Col- Poles standing outside the fence threw of young students fired by the New Left secret service, investigation, and many came to him in threes—home domains, lege. She was Co-Chair of the First In- stones as we left, thinking that we had enabled Bob to return intellectually to other fields. More information is at theories, levels of analysis, modes of in- ternational Interdisciplinary Conference claimed to be “Volksdeutsch” or Ger- the home terrain of his politics, and in- learn.uci.edu/mas-cls. Contact Lise quiry, classical theorists, and as it turned on Women, held in Haifa in 1981. mans, so Mother yelled in Polish (which deed to leave behind the econometric White, Educational Consultant, Univer- out, academic homes. His last major A tireless worker for peace, democracy, she was not supposed to know) that we rewriting of the social. In his turn, Alford sity of California-Irvine, Criminology, book, The Craft of Inquiry: Theories, Meth- and women’s rights in Israel, Izraeli was were Americans. With that, the crowd took his students through a critical re- Law and Society; (949) 824-9055; ods, Evidence (1998), an exploration of his- a Vice-President of the New Israel Fund, carried us on their backs to the streetcar, engagement with the classic debates elwhite@ torical, quantitative and interpretative a progressive U.S.-Israeli organization and we returned safely to Poznan.” with Marxism as the way forward. It was uci.edu. modalities, developed out of decades of working for peace and democracy in Is- From Poznan, Helena and her mother at the seminar table, through a combi- doing what he did best—working rael. Through many projects and per- made their way, with difficulty, through nation of withering critique and an over- Georgetown University’s Department through the design, the genre, the tech- sonal contacts, Izraeli was personally Austria and Italy to the United States, whelming sense of care, that Bob shaped of Sociology and Anthropology is start- nique by which one sought to apprehend and professionally involved in bringing joining Znaniecki who had accepted a generations of sociologists who learned ing a new concentration in Social Justice the social. Bob was the master of the mas- Palestinian and Jewish women together teaching position at the University of Il- from him that a statement of a problem, Analysis. This optional track focuses on ter class. There are hundreds of scholars and in efforts to bring about a just peace linois. the choice of an indicator, the settling on the theories and analysis of structural in- out there whose craft was learned at his in Israel. She was a founding member of Helena finished high school in a particular level of observation, could equalities through community-based table. And for this we give thanks. the Israeli Women’s Network, an activ- Champaign, Illinois, and received have fateful consequences. His objective, learning. This concentration is designed ist organization that has been fighting bachelor’s and master’s degrees from as he put it, was “to unpack” a student’s Roger Friedland, Departments of Religious to incorporate a student developmental for women’s equality in Israel since 1985. the University of Illinois. She received approach to a problem. Doctoral pro- Studies and Sociology, University of Cali- approach to learning and provide stu- She was also an active member of U.S./ her PhD in 1954 from the University of spectuses, chapters, seminar papers all fornia-Santa Barbara dents with academic skills necessary to Israel Women-to-Women, an organiza- Chicago, where she studied with merited copious, typewritten comments. effect positive social change. The gate- tion that supports women’s projects in Herbert Blumer, Everett Hughes, and His seminars were always charged, over- Dafna Nundi Izraeli way course to the concentration is “So- Israel. Louis Wirth. From 1965 to 1969 she crowded zones of engagement. We all (1937-2003) cial Justice Analysis: Theory and Prac- In the last 27 years, Izraeli was advi- Continued on next page 12 APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES

Obituaries, continued Fund, and wrote extensively on women society, demography, social movements, vise and resubmit” figure. Despite minor Items Published taught at Roosevelt University in Chi- in the courts. She continued speaking, or- sex and gender, and sociology of culture. fluctuations, the figures for 2002 thus dif- In Volume 31, 11 review essays and 13 cago. In 1969 she moved to Loyola Uni- ganizing conferences, and consulting This range of topics portends well for fer little from those in 2001. contributions to symposia were pub- versity, where she chaired the depart- with state task forces after moving to breadth of content in future issues of the lished. A total of 465 book reviews were ment from 1970 to 1972 and was Direc- Costa Rica in 1992 to grow organic pine- journal. Charles Camic and Franklin D. Wilson, Edi- published. tor of the Center for the Comparative apples. In evaluating manuscripts submitted to tors Study of Social Roles from 1972 until her Norma was an intense, vital, funny per- ASR, we have been enormously helped, Editorial Board Members and Reviewers retirement. She was also Visiting Pro- Contemporary Sociology son and a brilliant organizer. She never again this year, by our indefatigable The current editorial board includes 18 fessor of Sociology at the Universities flagged in her commitment to the “class Deputy Editors: Denise D. Bielby (Santa men and 18 women. The editorial board of Southern California, Minnesota, Books Considered struggle.” In 2001 she moved to New Barbara), Evelyn Nakano Glenn (Califor- Guelph, Victoria, and Boston College. The editorial office of Contemporary members are diverse in terms of race, York to search for a place for herself in Helena published 20 books (often nia-Berkeley), Charles N. Halaby (Wis- Sociology received 1,520 new books to con- ethnicity, and intellectual interests. They the cause, but it wasn’t there. Refusing with colleagues and graduate students) consin-Madison), Judith A. Howard sider for review in Volume 31. All the new are especially helpful in their suggestions to compromise, she took her own life on and numerous articles. She edited the (Washington), Andrew G. Walder books were sent directly by the publish- for potential reviewers. May 27, 2002. A bench in Central Park is series, Current Research on Occupations (Stanford), and David L. Weakliem (Con- ers to the Purdue office, or indirectly dedicated to her memory. The plaque JoAnn Miller and Robert Perrucci, Editors and Professions (formerly Research on necticut). We also benefited from the ad- through the ASA office. A total of 95 books reads “Norma Juliet Wikler. Outraged the Interweave of Social Roles) for JAI vice of more than 750 external peer re- were carried over from the previous year. and Outrageous.” Contexts Press, which resulted in ten edited vol- viewers, including the hardworking The editors examined 1,615 books for con- umes. Her articles and book chapters Ruth Dixon-Mueller, University of Califor- members of our Editorial Board. (For a list sideration in 2002. Contexts is the ASA magazine devoted covered a variety of topics, including nia-Berkeley of all reviewers, see ASR, December 2002, Several goals guided the editorial pro- to bringing sociology to the widest pos- social roles, the life course, time, grief, Volume 67, pages 925-929.) cess for Volume 31: (1) increase the num- sible public. It appears to be doing well. loneliness, family support networks, With the close of 2002, the terms of 20 ber of new book reviewers and contribu- Subscriptions are, I understand, ahead of and women’s employment. At the time Board members came to an end, and we tors, (2) publish a continuities sympo- projections; the magazine has been picked of her death she was working on a se- Official Reports thank them for their three years of excel- sium, (3) publish a symposium on a ma- up by newsstand distributors as of issue ries of papers on “the cosmopolitan lent service to the profession: Richard jor collection of new books, and (4) pub- 1:4; several of our articles have gotten community of scholars,” an interest and Proceedings Biernacki (San Diego), York Bradshaw lish a symposium on transnational issues. media attention and/or have been re- originating in her own extensive inter- (Memphis), John S. Butler (Texas-Austin), (1) We cannot accurately count the printed; and informal word is that many national connections and experience. Editors’ Reports Stephen Chiu (Chinese University of number of first-time contributors to Con- instructors are using our articles in their Helena was active in a vast array of Hong Kong), Marjorie DeVault (Syra- temporary Sociology. Nonetheless, we esti- classes. In this report, I will review how professional organizations. During her American Sociological Review cuse), Frank Dobbin (Princeton), Lauren mate that at least one-quarter of the re- we work and a few matters that may be career she was elected to the presiden- Edelman, (Berkeley), Kathryn Edin views published in Volume 31 were writ- of interest to the committee. During 2002, ASR published 39 articles cies of several organizations, including (Northwestern), Patricia Fernandez-Kelly ten by scholars who had not previously As of issue 2:1, each issue of Contexts and 3 comment/reply exchanges. The ar- SWS and SSSP, and chaired numerous (Princeton), Kenneth Ferraro (Purdue), prepared materials for the journal. In ad- will have the following departments: Let- ticles reported significant new research in ASA committees and sections. An inter- Renata Forste (Brigham Young), Jan dition, in the January issue we featured ters to the Editor, feature articles, photo many of the areas of the discipline. These nationalist and world traveler, she was Hoem (Max Planck Institute), Pamela an essay that is co-authored by a senior essay, “From the Polls” (a summary re- included: economic and political sociol- a 30-year member of the International Jackson (Indiana), Elizabeth Jelin (Buenos sociologist and her graduate student. port on recent surveys concerning a spe- ogy, race and ethnicity, gender, criminol- Sociological Association, and partici- Aires), Kelly Moore (Barnard), Silvia (2) Most of the featured essays and sym- cific subject—the death penalty, for start- ogy, social movements, theory, culture, re- pated actively in its seminars in family Pedraza (Michigan), Arthur Sakamoto posia materials featured new books. We ers), “Field Note” (a simulated extract ligion, organizations, stratification, family, and in its sociology of work and sociol- (Texas-Austin), Gay Seidman (Wisconsin- published a continuities symposium on from field-workers’ first-hand experi- childhood, mental health, demography, ogy of aging research committees. Madison), Marilyn Whalen (Xerox Palo The Behavior of Law in the November is- ences), book reviews, “Revision” (a new and comparative-historical sociology. The Helena drew on and elaborated her Alto Research Center), and David R. Wil- sue. Eight contributors participated. The department—before and after images of methods used in these articles were highly father’s theoretical approach to social liams (Michigan). We also thank Jennifer symposium was organized by Allan social change), and a personal essay (a varied. Slightly more than one-fourth of roles as comprising “social persons” em- Glass (Iowa), whose election to Council Horwitz, an editorial board member. social scientist reflects on experiences in published articles in 2002 were based, for bedded in “social circles.” In her empiri- required her early departure from the (3) The September issue featured a sym- the public arena – in the Spring issue, a example, on non-quantitative methods cal work she applied her concept of roles Board. posium, organized by the editors, on The long essay by Saad Ibrahim). (ethnography, textual analysis, archival re- first to the study of housewives and later At this time, we welcome onto the Edi- Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. A For 2003, the magazine underwent a search), the same fraction at which non- to employed women and to widows, torial Board the following scholars, whose cluster of six books, discussing the find- minor design change: Design Site, the quantitative manuscripts were submitted. showing how expanding and contract- terms run from 2003 to 2005: Neuma ings from a major research initiative that subcontractor for the University of Cali- The most recent data available (January ing social circles shaped women’s op- Aguiar (Federal University of Minas was co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation fornia Press (which publishes Contexts on 2003) from the Institute for Scientific tions in the context of wider societal Gerias, Brazil), Olga Amsterdamska and the Russell Sage Foundation, was the ASA’s behalf), developed a style for the Information’s Journal Citation Report in- shifts. Her portraits of women buffeted (Amsterdam), Sharyn Roach Anleu basis for the symposium. two new departments and modified a few dicates that ASR retained its first place po- by a changing American landscape and, (Flinders), Richard Breen (Oxford), Rob- (4) The editors invited Myra Marx others to make their looks slightly more sition, among 93 sociology journals world- more recently, by global forces, also ert Crutchfield (Washington), Theodore Ferree to organize a symposium on Ger- distinct. wide, in terms of “impact.” (A journal’s show in detail how these women navi- Gerber (Arizona), Phillip Gorski (Wiscon- man feminist politics. Seven contributors impact is calculated by dividing the num- gated, improvised, and innovated stra- sin-Madison), Ching-Kwan Lee (Michi- prepared work that appeared in the Janu- General Operations ber of current [2001] journal citations to tegic responses to changing worlds. gan), Orville Lee (New School), Michael ary 2003 issue of Contemporary Sociology. Contexts ’ editorial office runs differ- articles published in the focal journal dur- Helena was an internationalist long Lovaglia (Iowa), Jeff Manza (Northwest- On July 17, 2002, The Report of the ently than do those of the other ASA jour- ing the two previous years by the total before studying globalization became ern), Cecilia Menjívar (Arizona State), Committee on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, nals. We do not accept unsolicited manu- number of articles published in the focal important to American sociologists. To Leslie McCall (Rutgers), Debra Minkoff Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons in scripts for our features section—five ar- journal in those two years.) By this mea- those of us who worked alongside her, (Washington), Eliza Pavalko (Indiana), Sociology was submitted to the ASA ticles of about 3000-3500 words, plus il- sure, ASR also outscored its “sister” jour- Helena was a wonderful colleague and Townsand Price-Spatlen (Ohio State), Council. The Report suggested that Con- lustrations. Instead, we accept and solicit nals in neighboring disciplines (viz., the mentor. For many years, faculty and Zhenchau Qian (Ohio State), Shulamit temporary Sociology feature an essay on the approximately one-page proposals for American Political Science Review and the graduate students made pilgrimages to Reinharz (Brandeis), Lala Carr Steelman state of LGBT studies. The editors have feature articles. The proposals are re- American Economic Review). the Lopata’ s beautiful home on the (South Carolina), Xiaohe Xu (Mississippi invited the Committee to suggest contri- viewed by a few consulting editors and, Also during 2002, five recent ASR ar- shore of Lake Delavan in Wisconsin, State), and Ezra Zuckerman (MIT). butions for near-future issues, including if approved, sent back with substantial ticles won Best Article Prizes from sections where we were treated to lavish Polish As a result of these changes, ASR’s 2003 a symposium; and have asked for recom- suggestions to direct the writing. First meals and good conversation. Always of the American Sociological Association. Editorial Board has 62 members: 52 per- mendations for editorial board members. drafts get the same intense treatment. Sec- ready for the next meeting, seminar, We congratulate the award winners: Judith cent (N = 32) are men, 48 percent (N = 30) ond drafts are heavily edited in house. dinner, or party, she lived as well as Stacey and Timothy Biblarz for “(How) are women, 29 percent (N = 18) are mi- Reviews Three other text sections of the maga- studied the sociability that enlarges our Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents nority scholars, and 23 percent (N = 14) The editors selected a total of 482 re- zine—book reviews, field notes, and per- lives. We will miss her. Matter?” (Sex and Gender Section); Susan reside outside the United States. Together, views to publish in Volume 31. This num- sonal essays—are reviewed and edited Eckstein for “Community as Gift-Giving: Judith Wittner, Loyola University these Board members bring expertise in ber, smaller than the corresponding num- only in house. Field notes and personal Collective Roots of Volunteerism” (Park a wide range of substantive areas and ber for Volume 30, is due to a larger num- essays usually appear only after consid- Award, Section of Community and Urban Norma Juliet Wikler methodological practices; 42 percent of ber of pages devoted to essays and sym- erable back-and-forth with authors; that Sociology); Vincent Roscignio and William (1942-2002) them (N = 26), for example, are scholars posium materials. is occasionally true of book reviews, also. Danaher for “Radio and the Mobilization closely familiar either with ethnographic, Norma Juliet Wikler graduated from The editors attempted to commission Two additional text sections—Discover- of Textile Workers in the South” (Sociol- the Department of Sociology at the Uni- historical, or textual-analytic methods. reviews for all new books received that ies and From the Polls—are written in ogy of Culture Section); Evan Schofer and versity of California-Berkeley in 1973. In thanking all these scholars, we also are authored or edited by sociologists. Re- house. Contributions to the two image Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas for “The Norma arrived in Berkeley in the mid- want to express appreciation for the ex- vised editions were not reviewed. In ad- sections—photo essays and Revisions— Structural Contexts of Civic Engagement: 1960s with an undergraduate degree cellent day-to-day work of Karen Bloom, dition, at least 30 books were summarized are received or solicited by the Image National Polities and Individual Associa- from the University of Michigan in nurs- our Managing Editor, and Jacolyn in the “Take Note” section of each issue. Editor, Jon Wagner. tion Membership” (Political Sociology Sec- ing, which she hated. Having never Hudson, our new Editorial Associate. The “Take Note” section is intended to Our office structure includes myself as tion); and Brian Uzzi for “Embeddedness taken a sociology course, she plunged bring to the reader’s attention new books executive editor, a half-time managing in the Making of Financial Capital” (Scott 2002 Totals into graduate school to study social in fields related to sociology and the work editor, Scott Savitt; a quarter-time gradu- Award, Section on Organizations, Occu- ASR considered a total of 574 manu- movements and social change, inspired of sociologists. The editorial assistants, ate assistant editor paid by UC-Berkeley; pations and Work). Peter Stamatov was scripts in 2002 (see Table 1). Of these especially by Herbert Blumer. Active in Lorrell Kilpatrick and Brian Ruby, are and several Berkeley graduate student also honored (with the Bendix Award from manuscripts, 86 were already in review the anti-war movement, Norma wrote PhD students in sociology at Purdue Uni- volunteer editors. The volunteers are ab- the Section on Comparative and Histori- when the year began, so, 488 new or re- her dissertation on “Vietnam and the versity. They prepared the “Take Note” solutely critical in reviewing and editing. cal Sociology) for his paper on the politi- vised manuscripts were submitted in Veterans’ Consciousness,” with William summaries for Volume 31. Our assistant editor, Jennifer Utrata, who cal uses of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas in the 2002. Of these, 387 were first submissions Kornhauser and Arlie Hochschild as has been remarkably energetic, creative, 1840s, a revision of which subsequently and 101 were resubmissions. The mean committee members. Editorial and Production Lags and responsible, will be leaving to do her appeared in ASR. This number of awards, number of weeks for an editorial decision Norma taught at the University of On average, a seven-week editorial lag dissertation research in March and Aliya we are pleased to say, is twice the number was 13.3. California-Santa Cruz from 1971 to 1990. applies to Volume 31 materials. This rep- Saperstein will take her place. (Jon of section prizes received by any other As to the disposition of manuscripts, Her co-authored book, Up Against the resents the time between receipt of mate- Wagner’s image operation is described journal. the breakdown for 2002 was as follows: Clock: Career Women Speak on the Choice rials and a publication schedule. The below.) The manuscripts submitted to ASR in We rejected 70.4 percent ([304 + 25]/467) to Have Children (1979), and her articles journal’s managing editor, Barbara Puetz, 2002 were as varied as those published. of submitted papers; we issued “revise Acquiring Articles on reproductive technology are still edits and formats all the work received In descending order, the top dozen areas and resubmit” invitations to 13.4 percent First, feature articles: In 2002, the num- timely. Combining her sociological skills (including the “Take Note” summaries) of submission (making up slightly more (63/467) of manuscripts; we accepted 10.7 ber of (plausible) unsolicited proposals and activist concerns, she became in preparation for publication. The pro- than half of the submission pool) were: percent (50/467) of submissions. These were few. This surprised me. I expected a founding director from 1980-82 of the duction lag, eight months, represents the race and ethnicity, stratification, political percentages are close to those we previ- reasonable flow after the first couple is- National Judicial Education Program on time between receipt of the materials and sociology, comparative-historical sociol- ously reported for 2001, with a slight in- Gender Bias in the Courts, a project of the publication date. NOW Legal Defense and Education ogy, family and marriage, economy and crease in the percentage of accepted manuscripts, and a slight fall in the “re- Continued on next page APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES 13

Reports, continued out the call to amateur, professional and tal Health edited by David Williams and scripts submitted to JHSB usually requires 2001 report), the figure for 2002 does not sues of Contexts, but it did not develop. sociologist photographers. Getting per- David Takeuchi. A call for papers for this the use of ad hoc reviewers. The editorial indicate improvement. In fact, the edito- (On the other hand, we are asking busy missions to use photographs is another issue was publicized in 2001. This will be staff faces a continuing problem of recruit- rial lag worsened somewhat. As noted in sociologists to write something additional hurdle, especially given that we must ask both a special issue and an expanded is- ing qualified and willing reviewers. To the opening paragraph above, the main to—and different from—their usual prose their owners to donate them gratis. (Re- sue that will be approximately double the ensure that the editor has input from re- reasons for these two problems are (1) the and for no pay.) Consequently, much of cently, the ASA has allowed us $500 per size of a usual issue. The extra pages are viewers who are fully representative of increased load of manuscripts, and (2) the my time is spent developing ideas, con- issue to pay for processing and shipping being paid for by two small grants from those who have the expertise and experi- complete turnover of staff during 2002. tacting plausible authors, discussing pos- images; that has made the work notably the National Institutes of Health. ence necessary to review papers that are We are continuing to work on restructur- sibilities with them, moving on to others easier.) As in other aspects of the maga- (3) In 2004, JHSB will publish an extra submitted to JHSB, the editorial staff ing editorial operations and on develop- if need be, repeated communication, get- zine, we—the designer, UC Press, the issue on “Health and Health Care in the makes a strong effort to take advantage ing procedures to solve these problems. ting, and then reshaping proposals. The printer, and us—had to learn by some trial U.S.: Origins and Dynamics,” and funded of the full range of racial, ethnic, and gen- proportion of initial ideas that have be- and error how to get the workflow set up by a grant of $25,000 from the Robert der diversity in medical sociology and the Michael D. Hughes, Editor come or are on their way to being real- and the quality raised. Early issues had Wood Johnson Foundation to the ASA. profession generally. Rose Series in Sociology ized is perhaps 65 percent; the proportion problems in matters such as captions, This extra issue will examine current Content. JHSB has a continuing interest of authors contacted who end up send- cropping, and inking, but it appears that, theoretical and empirical knowledge on in publishing articles that deal with (1) Since the beginning of 2002, we have ing us a proposal is perhaps 20 to 30 per- with issue 1:4, we have successfully the social organization of health care in causes and consequences of gender, ra- cent. It would be far better—for the received and reviewed 25 manuscripts settled those. the United States. The primary goal of this cial, ethnic, and class inequality in health, and proposals, and reviewed six other workflow, but even more for the diver- Wagner points out that a few uncertain- issue is to provide theoretical and concep- medical treatment, and the medical pro- sity of our topics—if more unsolicited manuscripts and proposals carried over ties remain. He’d like to get more of the tual focus and direction to research on the fessions and (2) global inequality in health from 2001. Of these, we have given three proposals came in. (Early indications sug- images onto our ASA web site, perhaps social organization of health care. The ar- and health care. We are particularly in- gest that this might be starting in 2003.) advance contracts (Frank Furstenberg, on a distinct page, and also mount a set ticles are being selected for their poten- terested in encouraging submissions of Julie Kmec, and Mary Fischer’s Setting As of November 25, 2002, we had: 9 fea- of guidelines for photo submission. The tial to guide future research and policy ef- papers that deal with the causes, conse- ture articles in press for the February and Out: Establishing Success in Early Adulthood question of redistribution of the images forts by building on, and furthering, the quences, and theoretical significance of Among Urban Youth; Arne Kalleberg’s May 2003, issues; 13-18 proposals for fea- for teaching use of our articles remains contributions that medical sociology has the transformations in the social organi- ture articles under development; 7 pro- Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Changing Work open. And Wagner has uncovered a set made both to the discipline of sociology zation of health care in the United States and Workers in America; Madonna posals under editorial review; 9 first of general copyright/fair use concerns and to the larger network of academic, and globally, and how these transforma- drafts awaited; 1 second draft awaited; 1 Harrington-Meyer and Pamela Herd’s that apply not just to Contexts but to any clinical, and governmental institutions tions are influencing inequalities in health Retrenching Welfare, Entrenching Inequality: translation awaited. scholarship that employs images. that serve the public’s health. and health care. Book reviews are, of course, solicited, Gender, Race and Old Age in the U.S.). In While there has been much empirical addition, we have requested five revise- as have been all the personal essays. The Transition Current Problems and Issues and policy research in these areas, a and-resubmits, we have rejected 16, and latter have also required a good deal of My term as editor ends on the last day As was the case in 2001, a continuing broader contemporary theoretical under- we are currently reviewing one more. We suasion. We have gotten about half of our of 2004. A new editor will be selected in problem in 2002 was finding competent standing of social and structural pro- currently anticipate another 20 submis- field notes unsolicited (but most also take early 2004. and willing reviewers. Usually we can cesses in health care is lacking. This extra sions (based on our discussions with po- considerable revision). fairly readily identify competent review- issue will be an opportunity for sociolo- tential authors), and are actively in dis- Claude S. Fischer, Editor ers with the relevant expertise and expe- gists to creatively synthesize ongoing de- cussion with more than 25 other poten- Editorial Work rience. More difficult is finding such per- velopments in health status and health tial authors. This hybrid format—presenting aca- Journal of Health and Social Behavior sons who are willing to review. Reviewer care, using both their own and others’ This year, Anthony S. Bryk, Barbara demic work in a popular magazine for- fatigue seems to be a serious problem. To Overall Operations and Manuscript empirical research, as well as analytic and Schneider, and Julie Reed Kochanek’s Re- mat—is a challenge. Few sociologists reduce the probability of sending manu- Flow interpretive approaches to these prob- lational Trust in the Chicago School System write with the structure, or the style, or scripts to people who will decline or fail The Journal of Health and Social Behav- lems. was published (in time for the ASA 2002 the vocabulary needed to reach a general to do a review, we send email requests to ior (JHSB) published 28 articles and 2 com- Planning for this extra issue has been meetings), and Frank D. Bean and Gillian audience and, therefore, substantial edit- potential reviewers before assigning re- ments in 2002. The number of new and ongoing for the past two years. Discus- Stevens’ The New American Immigrants is ing and rewriting are required. (Opti- views. This procedure has increased the revised submissions was nearly 27 per- sions have occurred with the ASA execu- now in process at the Russell Sage Foun- mally, we would have a professional so- rate of return of reviews by reviewers. cent higher in 2002 than in 2001. This in- tive office and among members of ASA dation. In addition to the books listed cial science journalist available to revise However, the procedure has not elimi- crease is slightly higher than the increase Publications Committee, the JHSB Edito- above, the current editors have signed articles rather than relying on a sociolo- nated the problem of reviewers commit- we experienced in 2001. Overall, we are rial Board, and at ASA Annual Meetings contracts for Suzanne Bianchi, John gist and sociology graduate students.) ting to do a review and failing to send one processing significantly more manu- among Council members and other mem- Robinson, and Melissa Milkie’s Changing Also, few sociologists are attuned to the in. scripts than was typical for JHSB in years bers of the ASA Medical Sociology Sec- Rhythms of American Family Life, Rebecca scheduling demands of magazine work There are two other problems in the op- past. At the same time, the Journal did not tion. After much discussion, Donald W. Emigh, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed’s and so much time is spent nudging. eration of the Journal. First, there have function as smoothly as it did in the pre- Light of the University of Medicine and The Production of Demographic Knowledge, The Discoveries section—short items on been delays in publication of the Septem- vious year. This was due primarily to the Dentistry of New Jersey agreed to orga- and Scott Feld and Katherine Brown recent research—is, we hear, quite popu- ber and December 2002 issues. Second, fact that we had a complete turnover of nize the extra issue and to serve as its edi- Rosier’s Regulating Morality by Choice. lar. We also think that Discoveries has our editorial lag is longer than it should office personnel in the spring of 2002. The tor. Light recruited a co-editor, Ivy Lynn This year, we had the first of our meet- served to publicize our sociology journals. be. Though we did begin focusing atten- combined problems of increased manu- Bourgeault from the University of West- ings with authors who are partway Only some sociology articles have find- tion on addressing this latter problem in ings that would be appreciated and un- script load and the restructuring of office ern Ontario. With the JHSB editor, Light developed a set of specific topics and a the final months of 2001 (as noted in our derstood by lay readers; finding those and operations resulted in an increase in the Continued on next page then “translating” the material is a major length of time papers have been in review list of leading researchers and theorists in task of the student editors and myself. and in delays in publication of the Sep- medical sociology to be invited to submit papers. In addition, Light and Bourgeault, All this notwithstanding, our opera- tember and December 2002 issues. tions have gotten smoother as we have with the help of the JHSB editorial office, learnt what works and what does not. A Audience developed a list of appropriate reviewers. better arrangement would probably be to The audience for JHSB is primarily Review procedures follow standard prac- medical sociologists, health psycholo- tice for ASA journals. The extra issue edi- have a separate editor handle book re- gists, public health researchers, health tors will make decisions on acceptance or views and yet a third to handle the non- feature articles. Ultimately, however, there policy researchers, gerontologists, family rejection of papers and will forward those researchers, social psychologists, and psy- decisions in the form of recommendations Qualitative Research Consultation Services can be only so much efficiency in an op- eration that depends as greatly as we do chiatric epidemiologists. Because JHSB to the JHSB editor, who will have final de- on volunteer contributors and in-house publishes research on topics that have to cision-making responsibility. editors. do with aspects of human well-being that Qualitative Research are of general interest, we have increased Editorial Board Production: From Editorial Office to End our efforts to get more publicity for JHSB Eight members of the JHSB Editorial Product articles. Policy makers and the educated Board rotated off the board in 2002: Chris- Summer Intensive public are audiences outside the social re- tine Himes (Syracuse), Donald W. Light The innovations and the learning re- Dates: June 16 – 30, 2003, Long Island, NY quired both on our side and on that of the search community that we are working (UMDNJ), Richard Rogers (Colorado), Sa- rah Rosenfield (Rutgers), David Takeuchi University of California Press and its sub- to reach. Two procedures that we have in (Washington), Peggy Thoits (Vanderbilt), contractor, Design Site, led to several place to deal with this are (1) to send ad- Learn from expert Qualitative Scholars in the field of: stumbles in the first year. We’ve had prob- vance copies of abstracts of articles to be Heather A. Turner (New Hampshire), and ¶Qualitative Research Traditions lems with late changes, scheduling, copy- published to the Center for the Advance- Mark VanLandingham (Texas – Medical editing, photograph arrangements, con- ment of Health, an organization that Branch). These retiring Editorial Board ¶Focus Groups sistency in style, printers’ procedures, sends out press releases on articles of gen- members deserve our gratitude for their ¶Qualitative Interviewing web site, publicity, and so on. It looks like eral interest, and (2) to send material on extraordinary service and commitment to ¶Ethnography we’ve gotten through the growth pangs upcoming articles of general interest to the Journal. Eight new board members ¶Auto-Ethnography were added. These new members, whose and now have a system that works pretty ASA for inclusion on the ASA website. ¶Mixed Qualitative-Quantitative Methods well. Our managing editor, Scott Savitt, terms began as of January 1, 2003, are Special Projects David M. Almeida (Arizona), Chloe Bird ¶Heuristic Qualitative Methods has been in the middle of this operation, • Codes: Friend or Foe? making sure that in the end it succeeded (1) The June 2002 issue of JHSB was a (Rand Corporation), Phil Brown (Brown), ¶Feminist Research Methods and that we have gotten better organized. special issue on measurement in mental Kenneth F. Ferraro (Purdue), Jo C. Phelan health research edited by Allan V. (Columbia), Elaine Wethington (Cornell), ¶Qualitative Methods Meet Technology: Images Horwitz on “Selecting Outcomes for the Helen Raskin White (Rutgers), and Kristi • ATLAS.ti The images in Contexts are critical to its Sociology of Mental Health: Issues of Williams (Ohio State). • Ethnograph success and are essentially a separate— Measurement and Dimensionality.” This • Diversity HyperResearch and largely a volunteer—operation, sub- special issue dealt with the question of what constitutes the appropriate outcome The diversity issue at JHSB has three ject only to the executive editor’s approval Contact us for more information about our Qualitative and editing. Jon Wagner, of UC-Davis, dimensions for sociologists who do re- dimensions: (1) the Editorial Board, (2) ad Research Summer Intensive and other services we aided by a work-study graduate student search in mental health. Papers included hoc reviewers, and (3) content. Editorial Board. The ethnic/racial com- offer. paid for by UC-Davis and a few under- in the issue focused on positive mental graduates, finds or creates the images to health, alternative measures of mental position of the 2003 JHSB Editorial Board RESEARCHTALK, INC. accompany Discoveries and the feature health, and the question of categorical vs. is: 25 whites, 5 African Americans, and 1 articles, as well as to produce the Photo continuous measures of negative mental Asian American and 1 Hispanic/Latino (631) 218 - 8875 Fax (631) 218 – 8873 Essay and the new image feature, Revi- health. American. In addition, 17 of the board 1650 Sycamore Ave. Suite 53, Bohemia, NY 11716 sion. Finding images to match text in- (2) The September 2003 issue of JHSB members are female, and 15 are male. Email: [email protected] volves searching databases and putting will be a special issue on Race and Men- Ad Hoc Reviewers. The review of manu- Web: www.researchtalk.com 14 APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES

Reports, continued struction, network analysis, and methods through their manuscripts. We brought Table 1: Summary of Editorial Activity, January 1-December 31, 2002 for combining qualitative and quantita- Feld and Rosier and Emigh, Riley, and tive research methods. I am pleased by the Ahmed to Amherst to meet with us. We 1 2 ASR CS CNT JHSB Rose SPQ SM ST SOE TS breadth of topics examined in the 2002 also have meetings scheduled during the issue, and I want to increase that breadth. spring with Bianchi, Robinson, and Milkie A. Manuscripts Considered 574 1615 40 306 31 223 38 94 178 228 I want to keep publishing first-rate papers and with Melissa Hardy and Lawrence Submitted in 2002 448 1520 40 223 25 180 23 86 150 199 on all of these topics, and more. Hazelrigg, whose manuscript Pension Carried over 86 95 0 83 6 43 15 8 28 29 Puzzles: Questions of Principle and Princi- B. Review Process Decisions pal was accepted by the previous editor. 1. Screened by editor/accepted for review 549 482 * 299 25 218 38 79 173 158 I am very much aware of and support- We feel that our meetings with authors ive of the idea that Sociological Methodol- have been quite successful in moving a. Rejected outright 304 * * 76 16 70 17 35 66 42 ogy belongs to the discipline, rather than manuscripts along in effective ways. b. Rejected—revise/resubmit 63 * * 68 5 41 9 11 47 63 to the editor. I seek advice and I take the We have undertaken a variety of efforts c. Conditional acceptance 25 * * 8 0 9 4 0 18 21 advice that I get, so long as that advice is to generate high quality manuscripts and d. Outright acceptance 50 * * 27 2 19 0 18 18 0 soundly argued on the basis of evidence proposals. To identify authors and topics and logic. And my own opinion is just one that might be suitable for the Rose Series, e. Withdrawn 1 * * 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 opinion too, and subject to the same stan- we have reviewed all the major journals f. Pending 106 * * 120 1 79 8 15 23 31 dards as any other opinion, as far as I am in sociology, consulted lists of major 2. Screened by editor/rejected 25 * * 7 0 5 0 4 5 8 concerned. Further, I am very much aware grants awarded, and worked with our C. Editorial Lag (weeks) 13.0 7.0 * 16.7 * 17.4 * 7.4 14.1 11.8 that editors come and go pretty fast; they editorial board. While these efforts have seem to last as long as a nice shirt, but not D. Production Lag (months) 3.0 8.0 * * * 8.0 * * 9.0 6.0 yielded a number of potentially promis- as long as a nice necktie. If the journal is ing submissions, maintaining a steady E. Items Published 42 495 52 30 * 24 14 24 18 77 to have an existence that transcends its flow of quality proposals and manu- Articles 39 0 20 28 * 24 12 24 17 36 editor of the moment, then each editor scripts remains a challenge. We are work- Book reviews 0 465 20 0 * 0 0 0 0 41 must consider what previous editors ing to publicize the ASA Rose Series would have done. As a result, I take some through such means as notices in Foot- Symposium reviews 0 13 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 papers that I don’t like, I don’t take some notes, and a poster and mailing to approxi- Review essays 0 11 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 papers that I do like, and I take the blame mately 500 departments around the coun- Comments 3 6 0 2 * 0 1 0 0 0 for everything that anybody else dislikes. try. We will, of course, continue to utilize 3 the many connections of our fine edito- Other 0 0 12 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 Challenges rial board. F. Reviewers Among the many challenges that every We also have reorganized our editorial Males * 277 * * 3 141 * 137 137 45 journal faces, I think that Sociological Meth-

board, with a goal of having 30 members Females * 188 * * 1 110 * 25 110 37 odology now faces three that are worthy all serving three-year terms, with 10 out- of note. First, the journal still lacks a pub- Minorities * * * * 0 22 * * 40 17 going and 10 incoming members each lication backlog. The absence of a back- year. This has meant adding a number of G. Editorial Board Members log is very nice for authors, because it puts new members this year. Overall, our edi- Males 33 14 15 16 13 16 11 13 15 15 their papers into print just a few months torial board has a highly representative Females 35 17 14 16 16 17 2 9 7 18 after they are accepted for publication. But gender, racial and ethnic composition, and backlog is the buffer that keeps editors Minorities 19 9 8 8 8 4 0 1 6 10 we will continue to ensure that it remains and publishers calm as publication dead- so. 1Figures for Contemporary Sociology refer to books received and book reviews. lines draw near. It is a more anxious edi-

2As a new magazine, most submissions to Contexts were proposals for articles, not actual manuscripts. Thus, many standard review processes do not torial life without a backlog. The editor Randall Stokes and Joya Misra (rotating Ex- apply. of Sociological Methodology want a less anx- ecutive Editors with Doug Anderton, Dan 3”Other” items published are books in the Rose Series. ious editorial life. Second, tardy reviews Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, Robert Zussman, are the scourge of all refereed journals, in- *Information not applicable, not known, or not supplied by the editor. Editors); Jeffrey Beemer, Rose Fellow cluding Sociological Methodology. The prob- lem is not reviewers who take extra time Social Psychology Quarterly 161 in 2001 and 181 in 2000. Of these, 175 who were inconvenienced by delayed Direction to do their reviews, nor is it those who The past year was a very busy one for were submitted in 2002 rather than car- decisions. With the special issues now Insofar as the editor of an official jour- promptly decline our requests to review SPQ. We had two special issues in prepa- ried over from a previous year and 77% largely complete, the editorial backlog has nal of the ASA should give that journal submitted papers. Rather, the problem is ration, one on Race, Racism, and Discrimi- of the 2002 submissions were new papers been eliminated and SPQ’s review process any direction at all, I think that the direc- the reviewer who neither declines the re- nation and one on Sociological and Social rather than revisions. This is considerably has returned to a more typical time length tion should be to demand quality and to quest to review, nor writes the review. Psychological Approaches to Social Identity above SPQ’s more typical rate of about 125 of about 10 weeks. Despite an unusual encourage diversity and creativity. Pay- Third, I am sorry to report an incident in Theory. Both special issues drew an excel- submissions in a year, about 65-70% of year in other respects, however, the time ing and pleading are the traditional which a person whose work was criti- lent response from scholars and we are which are typically first submissions (in from acceptance of a paper to publication means of getting researchers to do things. cized in a forthcoming paper in Sociologi- excited about the way their contents are 2001 and 2000 there were 125 and 127 sub- in 2002 remained at a typical duration of Poor Sociological Methodology’s penurious cal Methodology attempted by unusual shaping up. missions respectively). 8 months, which compares with 9 months position precludes the possibility of pay- means to delay or abort the publication The special issue on Race, Racism, and Special issues always attract a certain in 2001 and 6 months in 2000. ing, so pleading persists as the primary of that paper. Scholarship and science Discrimination is being edited by number of papers that would come to the Finally, I would like to thank a number procedure for prompting people to pro- advance by debate and criticism. My own Lawrence Bobo, with a goal of giving us journal anyway but are simply directed of people who made the production of duce publishable papers. I beg every so- personal view is that our claims to schol- a profile of the vital new social psycho- to a special issue once it is announced. SPQ possible in 2002. The efforts of Kathy ciologist who listens to me, and many arship and science cannot stand if we tol- logical scholarship on race. As a sign of One of the goals of special issues, how- Kuipers, our Managing Editor, have been who do not, to write papers about ways erate efforts to silence critics by tamper- the pent up demand for more focused at- ever, is to reach beyond the normal pool invaluable in such a busy year. I am grate- to improve the methods used to do the ing with the normal editorial processes of tention to work in this area, especially of submissions to attract papers from au- ful as well to SPQ’s former Graduate Edi- kind of research that they do. If the re- academic and scientific journals. under the direction of an expert like Larry thors who might not normally think to torial Assistant, Cynthia Brandt, who search that they do is published in socio- In closing, I want to stress that Socio- Bobo, the special issue drew a massive submit to SPQ. Considering the increase worked so ably on the journal from 2001 logical journals, then the methods that logical Methodology is the journal of all the response to its June 2002 deadline, receiv- in manuscripts attracted to the journal in until mid-2002. SPQ was very fortunate they use to do it are sociological methods, methodologies of sociology. Your editor ing a total of 40 manuscripts. The excep- 2002, the special issues seemed to have to have Justine Tinkler join us as Gradu- as far as I am concerned. Articles about seeks to publish excellent contributions tionally large number of submissions cre- served their purposes in this regard. ate Editorial Assistant after Brandt’s de- those methods belong in Sociological Meth- on each and every one of those diverse ated some coordination problems, both Broadening the pool of social psychologi- parture. I would also like to thank the odology. The 2002 issue of Sociological research techniques. for the SPQ office and for the special is- cal scholarship that SPQ considers can outgoing members of SPQ’s Editorial Methodology included articles on topics Ross M. Stolzenberg, Editor sue editor, and created more delays in pro- only strengthen its quality and value for board for their generous advice and ser- including legal issues in the protection of its readership. cessing the manuscripts than we like. We vice. These include Diane Felmlee, John human subjects, the measurement of seg- Sociological Theory all worked hard to resolve these problems, The official acceptance rate for SPQ, Heritage, Ross Matsueda, Elizabeth regation, logical methods for theory con- however, and the issue is now in the final which is acceptances as a percentage of Menaghan, Phyllis Moen, Gary Oates, Continued on next page stages of the editorial process. It will ap- all decisions, was 13% in 2002. This is a Robert Roberts, and Dawn Robinson. In pear in December 2003, and promises to little lower than is typical and may partly addition, I would like to welcome to the be an exceptionally interesting issue. reflect the wider range of papers that were Editorial Board Rebecca Erickson, Rich- The goal of the special issue on Social considered in 2002 due to the special is- ard Felson, Pamela Braboy Jackson, Mel- New teaching materials NOW AVAILABLE Identity Theory is to bring sociological so- sues. In recent years SPQ’s acceptance rate issa Milkie, Timothy Owens, Sarah from the American Sociological Association . . . cial psychology into a mutually fruitful has generally been in the 16-20% range Rosenfield, Michael Schwalbe, Shane dialog with the increasingly influential and is likely to return to that level in 2003. Thye, and David Williams. European tradition of social identity When calculated as a percentage of all fi- Chairing the Multidisciplinary Department theory. Social identity theory has had an nal decisions on papers (i.e., accepts / Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Editor impact on a number of sociological fields accepts+rejects), the acceptance rate in Edited by Beth Rushing. This much-awaited volume is Sociological Methodology such as social movements and organiza- 2002 was 19%. The comparable figure for designed for sociologist and non-sociologist chairs of 2001 was 33%, in 2000, 34% and in 1999 it tional behavior. Michael Hogg and I are This report addresses three questions: multidisciplinary departments that include sociology. It was 28%. co-editing the issue to combine sociologi- In what direction am I taking Sociological includes resources and articles sharing the experiences of The downside of SPQ’s increased cal and social identity perspectives. Hogg Methodology? How do I decide which pa- those working in multidisciplinary departments. This 2003 manuscript flow for 2002 is that it put an is a prominent, British trained social iden- pers to accept and which to reject? And, book is 118 pages in length. unusually heavy demand on the editorial tity theorist who is now at the University What challenges does Sociological Method- process and the SPQ office. The large of Queensland in Australia. A total of 23 ology now face? In addition, this report Stock #111.M03 number of papers submitted for the spe- manuscripts were submitted for the issue makes public my apology to the deputy $13 for members and $17 for nonmembers cial issues substantially increased coordi- in March 2002. The issue is now complete editors of Sociological Methodology for the nation tasks with editors and the time it and in production. It will appear in June production error that caused their names took to secure reviews from a broader To place an order, call (202) 383-9005 ext. 389 or send a check 2003. to be omitted from the 2002 volume of the than usual pool of reviewers. As a result, or money order to: American Sociological Association, As both a side effect of the special is- journal. These editors are Robert the median time lag between first submis- Customer Service Department, 1307 New York Ave, NW, sues and a sign of the journal’s vitality, Emerson, Larry Griffin, and Martina Mor- sion of a paper and an editorial decision Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005 SPQ handled a substantially increased ris. I am grateful to all of them for their was an unacceptable 17.4 weeks in 2002. volume of manuscripts in 2002. We con- contribution, and I am deeply embar- This compares with 9.5 weeks in 2001 and sidered 223 papers in 2002, compared to rassed by this error. 10.6 weeks in 2000. I apologize to authors APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES 15

Reports, continued processing of invited resubmissions re- 6 journal pages) solicited think pieces on scripts submitted each year. Dr. Laurie Colleges and Universities,” edited by This year has been highlighted by the ceived by September 15, thereby achiev- topics deemed timely and relevant Scheuble has sustained a high level of John Stanfield II, Professor of Sociology move to a quarterly format that will al- ing a consistent editorial perspective. A (though invited, they will be subject to book, film and video reviews that have at the University of Indiana and the re- low for the more rapid flow of manu- special mailing was sent out to that effect review). Usually there will be two com- benefitted our readership as well. This fall cent recipient of the career distinction scripts into press. This format will also and the numbers suggest that many au- mentaries, preferably articulating differ- the Publications Committee initiated the award from the Association of Black So- enable me to occasionally produce spe- thors availed themselves of the opportu- ent points of view. They will be written in process for recruiting and recommending ciologists. This issue is projected to be cial issues on a topic. Two such issues are nity. Most accepted manuscripts are parallel, not as point–counterpoint state- a new editor, who should be on board by published in October 2003. in the works. At present, I have a reason- drawn from resubmissions, and this is re- ments and not in reaction to a published July 2003 and whose first issue will ap- The series of working papers from the able queue of articles, but I am anxious to flected in the 2002 acceptance figures: 36 article. Grant and Pong, together with vol- pear in January 2004. We do not yet know July, 2000 national conference at James increase the rate of submissions. With resubmitted manuscripts either accepted unteers from the Editorial Board, are the new editor’s identity, but we were Madison University on Sociology and the more submissions, I can make the case to outright or accepted pending minor revi- heading up this initiative. The first Per- pleased with the quality of applications Scholarship of Teaching and Learning the Publications Committee for more sions. This compares with a 2001 total of spectives topic will deal with gender in that would be forwarded to Council. The continue to be published in this journal, pages. Without a substantial increase in 31. (Keep in mind that most conditional the schools; the second likely some aspect momentum behind the scholarship of three of these appearing in the current submissions, the journal will receive the accepts show up again as accepts when of immigration. The plan is to publish Per- teaching and learning in the ASA ensures volume year. I anticipate a total of five same number of total pages that it did the minor revisions are complete. We will spectives feature pieces in every other is- a bright future for the journal. papers from this series. when only three issues were published not be publishing 31 or 36 manuscripts in sue, but for this first year of the experi- In the summer, we received a concern Ms. Katherine Acosta completed the each year. a year)] That, combined with the Special ment they are targeted for the July and from an author regarding plagiarism from first year of her two-year assignment as Last year, we had 94 articles submitted, issue set aside, means there is an excep- October issues. We welcome your ideas the literature review of an article pub- Managing Editor and attended the ASA with an acceptance rate of 23%. Both of tionally large backlog of accepted manu- for Perspectives topics and authors. lished earlier in Teaching Sociology. The meetings this past August to meet the these figures are about the same as in scripts. These will carry over into 2003, author did not want to file a formal griev- Board and participate in discussion of the 2001. Thus, the number of submissions is and possibly 2004. Realizing this, the out- Acknowledgments ance with the ASA Committee on Profes- direction of the journal. Kathy is an ABD not increasing, a fact which signals that going and ingoing editors together re- As outgoing editor, Pallas is indebted sional Ethics, but sought guidance in re- sociology graduate student whose disser- there are opportunities to publish in So- quested from the Publications Commit- to his Deputy Editor Annette Lareau and sponding to the current author(s). After tation work focuses on minority women’s ciological Theory. I continue to get a wide tee a one-time increase in the journal’s editorial assistant Esther Hong. discussions with the Journal Board in health care alternatives in the wake of re- variety of articles, but most could be page allocation. We are pleased to report Alexander’s list is a bit longer, and at the August, we notified the current author(s) duced insurance coverage due to chang- grouped under the label of meta-theory— that ASA Council, upon the Publication very top are his immediate predecessors of those specific manuscript elements and ing family and work situations. Kathy that is, commentary on existing theories. Committee’s recommendation, has added Aaron Pallas and Annette Lareau. Well the ASA Professional Ethics code and was also a participant in the ASA Prepar- It would be nice if more explanatory ar- 30 pages to SOE’s 2003 allocation. before July 1, he was bombarding them asked for a statement acknowledging (1) ing Future Faculty initiative. ticles—broadly conceived—were submit- with questions and seemingly endless the authorship process, which resulted in ted, but it may be the case that the vast Diversity calls for help. They are passing along a the plagiarized materials, and (2) the steps Helen Moore, Editor majority of those who identify with theory The 2002 editorial board consisted of 22 journal in good health and they have gone that would be taken in classroom and pro- are engaged in meta-theorizing. members, of whom 9 were women, and 6 well beyond the call of duty in helping fessional development activities within Both the managing editor and the first members of racial/ethnic minority make the transition both seamless and the department to ensure against future group of members on the editorial board groups. The composition of the Board was painless. Both of us thank Karen Edwards, incidents in the professional writing pro- have moved on. I want to thank David more diverse this year than last, and the the ASA publications director, and Wendy cess. The current author(s) responded and Boyns who was the managing editor from five new Editorial Board appointments Almeleh, Pallas’ managing editor, who identified current and revised future prac- the moment that I took over the journal; made by the incoming editorial team for will be continuing her good work with the tices for ensuring that all sociologists and he did a wonderful job and is now in a 2003 will continue this pattern. They are journal. They’ve been absolutely terrific! in-training sociologist would have appro- tenure tract faculty position. The new Ann Ferguson, Bradley Levinson, Next, looking inward, Linda Grant and priate guidance and materials. The edi- managing editor, Christopher Schmidt, Meredith Phillips, Tony Tam, and Min Suet-ling Pong responded enthusiasti- torial comments in the upcoming issue of comes with considerable experience, hav- Zhou—we welcome their involvement cally to Alexander’s invitation to join him Teaching Sociology will emphasize the ing been the managing editor of Symbolic with the journal. The new Board members as the journal’s Deputy Editors. The three teaching and learning dimensions of these Interaction. My first editorial board has enhance diversity not just in demographic of them are scattered about, with Grant ethical issues. been very responsive; and I want to thank terms (Ferguson being Afro-Caribbean, at Georgia and Pong up the road from We are supporting “guest editorships” Robert Antonio Albert Bergesen, Janet Tam Asian, and Zhou Asian American), Hopkins at Penn State, but e-mail, con- of two issues (not budgeted as additional Chafez, Gary Alan Fine, Douglas but also in terms of research methodolo- ference calls and the like make it all quite issues of the journal) or sections of jour- Heckathorn, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Michele gies (Ferguson and Levinson do mainly manageable. They’ve helped time and nal issues. The first of these is “Teaching Lamont, Charles Lemert, Alexandra qualitative research) and in terms of the again when Alexander has been stymied Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Cur- Maryanski, Cecilia Rigeway, George journal’s geographic reach (Tam being for reviewers, given him counsel on par- riculum Design and Outcomes Assess- Ritzer, Bryan Turner, Walter Wallace, and based in Taiwan). Sociology of Education ticularly tough decisions, helped on out- ment,” edited by Bruce Keith, Assistant Morris Zelditch. In particular Robert An- needs to be welcoming of all styles of reach, and have taken the lead on the Dean for Academic Assessment at the tonio and Charles Lemert should be com- scholarship and open to diverse theoreti- “Perspectives” initiative. The three of United States Military Academy, West mended for staying on for a full second cal perspectives. Whether that has always them are working hard and well together, Point. This issue appeared in October term. Michele Dillon continues on the been the case is impossible to say, but and even managing to have a bit of fun in 2002. The second of these is “Case Stud- board, and the new members of the board clearly the journal was not always per- the process. ies and Pedagogies at Historically Black are Jeffrey Alexander, Paul Colomy, Neil ceived in that light. The outgoing edito- Alexander’s most immediate support Gross, Christine Williams, Jennifer Earl, rial team was committed to diversity in circle of course is located at his home base. and Guillermina Jasso. the journal’s operations and publications; Anna Stoll is doing the day-to-day work All in all, the journal is doing well. If so too is the new editorial leadership. It is of the journal as his Editorial Assistant. another 30 or so submissions come in, I reflected in who they are, in their own Stoll and Alexander have been working hope to increase the number of pages, research styles, in their new Board ap- together 16 years on Alexander’s research “One of the very best books ever written about how which in turn will allow for more special pointments, and they intend for it to be project, the Beginning School Study. to understand public opinion polls, by a master of issues, debate and commentary, and sym- apparent in all aspects of the journal’s Never one to shy away from a challenge, the art.”—AMITAI ETZIONI posia. functioning. Stoll welcomed the invitation to work on the journal. She manages the data base Jonathan Turner, Editor Special issue that tracks the flow of manuscripts, main- A special issue is in preparation on the Sociology of Education tains the journal’s physical files, oversees LEO BOGART sociology of school and classroom lan- its budget and expenses, does most of the 2002 was a year of transition for Sociol- guage, an initiative undertaken by outgo- correspondence and, perhaps most im- ogy of Education. The outgoing editorial ing Editor Pallas. His hope is that a spe- portantly, rides herd on Alexander to do Finding Out team of Aaron Pallas and Annette Lareau cial issue on the sociology of school and what he’s supposed to do—he would be continued to accept new submissions classroom language will demonstrate the lost without her. The distinguished social through July 1 and invited resubmissions value of close study of how children and Thanks also are due Alexander’s De- researcher displays not only his through mid-September. Submissions af- educators talk to one another in and out partment Chair, Andy Cherlin, for grant- analytical skills but the art of a ter those dates were directed to incoming of the formal institutional setting of the ing him course relief, making it possible editor Karl Alexander and his two Deputy school. Donna Eder of Indiana University for Alexander to entertain the editorship. raconteur in this memoir Editors, Linda Grant and Suet-ling Pong. is the guest editor for the special issue. There also are two graduate student help- punctuated with excerpts from The editorial office at Teachers College Manuscripts for the special issue were ers to be acknowledged. Angela Estacion some of his most fascinating solicited at the 2001 Annual Meeting, in remained active throughout the year pro- and YingYi Ma are volunteering their time reports on the clash of cultures cessing resubmissions, but most journal Footnotes, and in the journal. This issue is to help with two self-study type projects: activities followed the manuscript flow scheduled to appear as the July 2003 is- one is to compile a database as an aid in and the effects of mass south to Johns Hopkins. The transition, sue of the journal. identifying external reviewers; the other communications. from our perspective, has gone smoothly; will scrutinize the Journal’s winnowing Perspectives on Critical Issues we hope others have not been inconve- or gatekeeping process by monitoring the “Clear-headed, deep-seeing, Most of what is published in Sociology nienced by it. flow of manuscripts—how do published of Education is culled from unsolicited sub- and plain-spoken....As Finding Out testifies anew, Bogart articles compare with what comes in? missions. That is as it should be; that is as remains a Walter Lippmann in the commercial culture of media Manuscript flow They plan to examine, for example, manu- it always will be. But the journal also This report covers the combined activ- script content (e.g., topical focus, research and advertising.”—ROBERT K. MERTON should be forward-looking and proactive ity of the two offices. That is to say, it cov- approach, subject population, geographic in agenda setting. Often that happens ers the entire year. coverage) and author characteristics (de- “A wide-ranging, incisive, and beautifully written look at though special issues, such as the one on The total number of manuscripts sub- mographics, institutional affiliation, pro- culture and events in America and the rest of the world since classroom discourse scheduled to appear mitted during the 2002 calendar year is fessional rank). These projects are just ger- this year. Occasionally it happens through World War II, as seen by that rare creature, a real, live New 150. This total represents a 22% increase minating at the moment, but if all goes commentaries and think pieces. As ex- York intellectual.”—BARRY SUSSMAN over 2001, and exceeds the annual totals well next year they will be in full bloom amples, some of you will recall the ex- going back to 1997. Just under 80% of the and there will be more to report. 2002 submissions (N=119) were pro- changes on educational tracking and cessed under the outgoing editor. Sixty- school choice that have appeared in the Aaron M. Pallas, Editor, and Karl Alexander, four of the 119 were invited past in SOE. Starting in 2003, and with Editor-Elect Ivan R. Dee, Publisher the Publications Committee’s blessing, resubmissions. That is an unusually large www.ivanrdee.com number (e.g., the total for 2001 was 42), Alexander, Grant and Pong will be intro- Teaching Sociology Chicago • A Member of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group but it is likely the impending editorial ducing a regular feature of commentar- The journal continues to gradually in- At your bookseller, or order toll-free 1-800-462-6420 with a major credit card. transition played a role. As mentioned, the ies. Entitled “Perspectives on Critical Is- crease the number and quality of manu- outgoing editor agreed to complete the sues,” these will be brief (on the order of 16 APRIL 2003 FOOTNOTES

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