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A S R F 2007 ASA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Frances Fox Piven Can
3285 ASR 1/7/08 10:32 AM Page 1 A Washington, DC 20005-4701 Washington, Suite 700 NW, Avenue York 1307 New (ISSN 0003-1224) American Sociological Review MERICAN S Sociology of Education OCIOLOGICAL A Journal of the American Sociological Association Edited by Barbara Schneider Michigan State University Quarterly, ISSN 0038-0407 R EVIEW SociologyofEducationpublishes papers advancing sociological knowledge about education in its various forms. Among the many issues considered in the journal are the nature and determinants of educational expansion; the relationship VOLUME 73 • NUMBER 1 • FEBRUARY 2008 between education and social mobility in contemporary OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION society; and the implications of diverse ways of organizing schools and schooling for teaching, learning, and human 2007 ASA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS development. The journal invites papers that draw on a wide range of methodological approaches that can contribute to a Frances Fox Piven F EBRUARY Can Power from Below Change the World? sociological understanding of these and other educational phenomena. Print subscriptions to ASA journals include online access to the current year’s issues MARGINALIZATION IN GLOBAL CONTEXT at no additional charge through Ingenta,the leading provider of online publishing 2008 V Eileen M. Otis services to academic and professional publishers. Labor and Gender Organization in China Christopher A. Bail 2008 Subscription Rates Symbolic Boundaries in 21 European Countries ASA Members $40 • Student Members $25 • Institutions (print/online) $185, (online only) $170 (Add $20 for subscriptions outside the U.S. or Canada) RELIGION IN SOCIAL LIFE Individual subscribers are required to be ASA members. To join ASA and subscribe at discounted member rates, see www.asanet.org D. -
Social Theory's Essential Texts
Conference Information Features • Znaniecki Conference in Poland • The Essential Readings in Theory • Miniconference in San Francisco • Where Can a Student Find Theory? THE ASA July 1998 THEORY SECTION NEWSLETTER Perspectives VOLUME 20, NUMBER 3 From the Chair’s Desk Section Officers How Do We Create Theory? CHAIR By Guillermina Jasso Guillermina Jasso s the spring semester draws to a close, and new scholarly energies are every- where visible, I want to briefly take stock of sociological theory and the CHAIR-ELECT Theory Section. It has been a splendid privilege to watch the selflessness Janet Saltzman Chafetz A and devotion with which section members nurture the growth of sociological theory and its chief institutional steward, the Theory Section. I called on many of you to PAST CHAIR help with section matters, and you kindly took on extra burdens, many of them Donald Levine thankless except, sub specie aeternitatis, insofar as they play a part in advancing socio- logical theory. The Theory Prize Committee, the Shils-Coleman Prize Committee, SECRETARY-TREASURER the Nominations Committee, and the Membership Committee have been active; the Peter Kivisto newsletter editor has kept us informed; the session organizers have assembled an impressive array of speakers and topics. And thus, we can look forward to our COUNCIL meeting in August as a time for intellectual consolidation and intellectual progress. Keith Doubt Gary Alan Fine The section program for the August meetings includes one regular open session, one Stephen Kalberg roundtables session, and the three-session miniconference, entitled “The Methods Michele Lamont of Theoretical Sociology.” Because the papers from the miniconference are likely to Emanuel Schegloff become the heart of a book, I will be especially on the lookout for discussion at the miniconference sessions that could form the basis for additional papers or discus- Steven Seidman sion in the volume. -
WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 1 Our Society Is Therefore Manifested in Our Taboos (Callois 1959)
stigmatization or punishment for transgression. What is sacred in WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 1 our society is therefore manifested in our taboos (Callois 1959). 001. Registration and Information The sacred and taboo are symbiotic: the existence of one helps Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting identify and define the other. Marshall (2010) regards the sacred Event as “absolute in obliging those observer(s) to engage in or avoid 7:30 to 7:00 pm certain behaviors toward it” (66). Its “absolute” nature can produce behavior that is largely void of conscious reasoning Hyatt Regency: Floor 4th - Regency Foyer (Haidt 2001; Vaisey 2009). Hitherto, economic sociologists have Session Organizer: not paid due attention to the relationship between money, Lora J Bristow, Humboldt State University sanctity, and taboo. Though it is easy to identify areas of 002. Alpha Kappa Delta Teaching and Learning Pre-Conference financial taboo (e.g. that Americans generally don’t like to talk about money), there has been insufficient analysis of the sacred Teaching Sociology elements these taboos indicate or why we comply. With data Workshop or demonstration session from thirty interviews, this paper attempts to answer Wuthnow’s 8:00 to 12:00 pm (1996) call to “pry into some of our most commonsensical, Hyatt Regency: Floor 4th - Beacon Ballroom A widely taken-for-granted assumptions about money” in order to Session Organizer: understand what financial taboo does and how individuals Lora J Bristow, Humboldt State University explain their lack of or adherence to the taboos deeply embedded in our culture. I argue that financial taboos indicate intimate Participant: connections between money and sacred values, experiences, and Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Pre-Conference on Teaching and beliefs, and that our inability to talk openly about money can Learning Jeffrey Chin, LeMoyne College exacerbate and perpetuate social and economic inequalities. -
Constructing Citizenship: Exclusion, Subordination, and Resistance
2010 Presidential Address American Sociological Review 76(1) 1–24 Constructing Citizenship: Ó American Sociological Association 2011 DOI: 10.1177/0003122411398443 Exclusion, Subordination, http://asr.sagepub.com and Resistance Evelyn Nakano Glenna Abstract This Presidential Address develops a sociological concept of citizenship, particularly substan- tive citizenship, as fundamentally a matter of belonging, including recognition by other members of the community. In this conception, citizenship is not simply a fixed legal status, but a fluid status that is produced through everyday practices and struggles. Historical examples illustrate the way in which boundaries of membership are enforced and challenged in everyday interac- tions. The experience of undocumented immigrant college students is particularly illuminating. These students occupy a position of liminal legality, which transcends fixed categories such as legal and illegal. As they go about their daily lives, their standing is affirmed in some settings and denied in others. Furthermore, the undocumented student movement, which asserts that education is a human and social right, represents a form of insurgent citizenship, one that chal- lenges dominant formulations and offers an alternative and more inclusive conception. Keywords citizenship, education, social rights, undocumented immigrants aUniversity of California-Berkeley Corresponding Author: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Department of Ethnic Studies, 506 Barrows Hall, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 E-mail: [email protected] 2 American Sociological Review 76(1) When I selected citizenship as the theme for through face-to-face interactions and through the 2010 American Sociological Association place-specific practices that occur within (ASA) Annual Meetings, I was cautiously larger structural contexts. hopeful that all of the many ASA sections With regard to the question of what the and subfields would find topics relating to their study of citizenship offers to sociology and particular concerns and interests. -
University Press of Kansas
CultureAmerica Reinventing Richard Nixon A Cultural History of an American Obsession Daniel Frick “Senator Bob Dole argued that the last half of the twentieth century was ‘the age of Nixon’ and Daniel Frick shows us why. The Nixon limned here is a mutable public figure constantly reinterpreted by his enemies and his admirers. They all find him an irresistible figure for thinking about who we are, who we want to be, and what we’re willing to do to get there. It is a brilliant and scary read.” —David Farber, author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s “All the cultural renderings of Nixon you might ever wish to explore are provocatively analyzed here.”—David Greenberg, author of Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image 336 pages, 45 illustrations, Cloth $34.95 Weather Matters An American Cultural History since 1900 Bernard Mergen “The definitive weather book for decades to come. From weather humor to the politics of weather disaster with Katrina, from weather lore to weather prediction, from weather watchers to weather consumers, this book offers a truly comprehensive and invaluable history of weather’s enormous social and cultural impact.”—Marita Sturken, author of Desiring the Weather and Tourists of History “Mergen may know more about the cultural history of weather than anyone around and his latest book overflows with fascinating discussions.”—Gary Alan Fine, author of Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction 448 pages, 22 illustrations, Cloth $34.95 University Press of Kansas Phone (785) 864-4155 • Fax (785) 864-4586 www.kansaspress.ku.edu American Angels Useful Spirits in the Material World Peter Gardella “Written in a sprightly style, with an eye to pop culture, this is the first study to describe the profoundly important role that angels play in the religious imagination. -
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Volume 22, No. 1, Art. 8 January 2021 Tiny Publics and Social Worlds—Toward a Sociology of the Local Gary Alan Fine in Conversation With Reiner Keller Key words: Abstract: Gary Alan FINE is among the most prominent figures in contemporary sociological collective ethnography worldwide. In this conversation, he talks about influences in his academic career and memories; culture; key intellectual choices. Considered to be a "serial ethnographer" who has worked in multiple ethnography; settings, his work focuses on small groups and peopled ethnography, as well as on rumors, gossip, group; interaction; and moral story telling in tiny and larger publics. FINE describes his core theoretical interest as narrative; rumor; residing in the interplay of structure, interaction, and culture and discusses the multiple local ways social theory; society is realized by people in formal and informal social settings: ranging from baseball teams, social worlds; restaurant kitchens, weather reporting to chess players—to name but a few research sites. structure Influenced by symbolic interactionist thinking and other important approaches to social worlds, he argues for a confident voice of ethnographic research and writing as well as the importance of conceptual work in a theory-informed empirical sociology of what people do together. Table of Contents 1. Starting Out With a Blend of Inspirations 2. A Sociological Trinity: Structure, Interaction, Culture 3. Morel Tales: About Peopled Ethnography 4. The Case for a Grounded Sociology 5. Too Much Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing (for a Serial Ethnographer) 6. Moral Tales: The Worst President in American History 7. The Authority of an Ethnographer 8. -
WHITNEY JOHNSON University of Chicago Department of Sociology 1126 East 59Th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 219-628-3103 [email protected]
WHITNEY JOHNSON University of Chicago Department of Sociology 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 219-628-3103 [email protected] EDUCATION University of Chicago, PhD in Sociology, 2018 Concentrations: Culture, Economy, Theory, Gender, Qualitative Methods Dissertation Title: “Learning to Listen: Knowledge of Value in Auditory Culture” Committee: Karin Knorr Cetina (chair), Andrew Abbott, and Gary Alan Fine University of Chicago, MA in Sociology, 2012 Concentrations: Theory, Culture, Economic, Globalization, Gender Qualifying Paper: “Weird Music and Suggested Donations: Taste Tensions in the Field of Cultural Production” Advisors: Karin Knorr Cetina and John Levi Martin University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, Master of Public Policy, 2009 Concentrations: International Policy, Cultural Policy, Quantitative Methods Honors Paper: “Cultural Policy in Immigrant Communities: A Developmental Dialectic” Readers: Terry Nichols Clark and Alicia Menendez Cedarville University, BA in Theology, 2003 Minors: Psychology, Music, Literature PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed “Weird Music: Tension and Reconciliation in Cultural-Economic Knowledge” Cultural Sociology, March 2017, Volume 11(1): 44-59 Other Publications Book Review for The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers by Alison Gerber American Sociological Association Sociology of Culture Section Newsletter “Cultural Intermediation: Connecting Communities in the Creative Urban Economy” International Scoping Study, Arts & Humanities Research Council, University of Birmingham, 2013 Principal Investigator: Phil Jones “Cassette Tape Materiality” Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, October 2011, Issue 4 “Cultural Policy in Immigrant Communities” Chicago Policy Review, Summer 2010, Volume 14 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Chicago Lecturer Self, Culture, and Society, Fall 2017 and Fall 2015 Sociology of the Arts, Spring 2017 (Robert E. -
Gathering of Card Players and Subcultural Expression
THE MAGIC OF COMMUNITY: GATHERING OF CARD PLAYERS AND SUBCULTURAL EXPRESSION Travis J. Limbert A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS August 2012 Committee: Dr. Marilyn Motz, Advisor Dr. Esther Clinton © 2012 Travis Limbert All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Marilyn Motz, Advisor When Magic: the Gathering was released in 1993, it was the first trading card game. It paved the way for the trading card game subculture and market that exists today. This thesis explores the implications of this subculture and the ways it can be thought of as an urban leisure subculture. This thesis also discusses Magic’s unique community, which has been instrumental in the game’s success over the last two decades. Magic’s community is created symbiotically, through official support by Wizards of the Coast, and the parent company Hasbro, as well as the usage and interaction by the fans and players. It is this interaction that creates a unique community for Magic, which leads to the game’s global popularity, including its tremendous growth since 2010. This thesis looks at trade publications, articles written about Magic, player responses collected through online surveys, and other works to create an extensive work on Magic and its community. This thesis focuses on how the community is important to the consumption of copyrighted cultural texts and how this creates of meaning in players’ lives. iv To my parents, James and Jona, who always encouraged me. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my thesis committee, Dr. -
The Insurgent Legacy of Evelyn Nakano Glenn
The Insurgent Studying issues of race, gender Founding director begins work to bring new center to reality By Cathy Cockrell, Public Affairs Legacy of 28 February 2001 | Berkeley, home of the country’s first ethnic studies program, will soon have the nation’s first academic institute dedicated to the study of both race and gender. Evelyn The Center for Race and Gender is scheduled to open this fall under the leadership of Evelyn Nakano Glenn, professor of ethnic studies and women’s Evelyn Nakano Glenn will direct studies. Glenn, who became founding director last month, is currently laying the campus’s new Center for Race and Gender. the groundwork needed to “bring this center into reality,” including staffing, Peg Skorpinski photo budget, an advisory board and space. Nakano Glenn “It’s time to do this,” Glenn said. “It fits in with a number of real issues (facing) the university” – among them “what our faculty is going to look SYMPOSIUM like in 20 years.” Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 “The university is committed to leading the discussion on how issues of race and gender impact our campus and society at large,” Chancellor 12:00 pm - 5:30 pm Berdahl said. “I am delighted that Professor Glenn has agreed to head up the center and look forward to its presence here on our campus.” Multicultural Community Center Berdahl has committed $100,000 per year for five years in funding for MLK, Jr. Student Union the faculty-directed center, which will serve as a campuswide resource UC Berkeley for faculty, students and visiting scholars from a broad array of fields. -
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Fighting for Hope Jefferson, Robert F. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press Jefferson, Robert F. Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Project MUSE. doi:10.1353/book.3504. https://muse.jhu.edu/. For additional information about this book https://muse.jhu.edu/book/3504 [ Access provided at 26 Sep 2021 09:46 GMT with no institutional affiliation ] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Fighting for Hope war/society/culture Michael Fellman, Series Editor Fighting for Hope *** African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America robert f. jefferson The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore © 2008 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2008 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 246897531 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jeªerson, Robert F., 1963– Fighting for hope : African American troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and postwar America / Robert F. Jeªerson. p. cm.—(War/society/culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-8018-8828-1 (hbk. : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8018-8828-x (hbk. : alk. paper) 1. World War, 1939–1945—Participation, African American. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Oceania. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Veterans— United States—Social conditions. 4. United States. Army. Division, 93rd. 5. United States. Army—African American troops. -
Gary Alan Fine Northwestern University, USA the Meso-World
Gary Alan Fine Northwestern University, U.S.A. The Meso-World: Tiny Publics and Political Action DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.2.02 Abstract In recent decades, sociologists have too often ignored the group level—the meso-level of analysis—in their emphasis on either the individual or the institution. This unfortunate absence misses much of what is central to a sociological analysis of community based on “action.” I draw upon Erving Goff- man’s (1983) concept of the interaction order as I argue that a rigorous political sociology requires a focus on group cultures and tiny publics. Group dynamics, idiocultures, and interaction routines are central in creating social order. This approach to civic life draws from the pragmatism of John Dewey, as well as the broad tradition of symbolic interactionist theorists. Ultimately, I argue that a commitment to local action constitutes a commitment to a more extended social system. Keywords Meso-Level of Analysis; Interaction Order; Tiny Publics; Political Order To love the little platoon we belong to in Small Groups and the Political Order society is the first principle…of public affections. It is the first link in the series by How can we explain a revolution, a democratic which we proceed towards a love to our transition, or a conspiracy by shadowy elites? If country, and to mankind. we examine the genesis of the First World War, the Reflections on the French Revolution(1790) French Revolution, the Civil Rights movement, or Edmund Burke the stable governance of a Midwestern farming town in the United States, we find a set of tiny publics (Fine 2012), either working together or Gary Alan Fine is James E. -
Gender, Migration and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana
GENDER, MIGRATION AND RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN GHANA: A CASE OF THE HO DISTRICT By JUSTINA EYRAM DUGBAZAH A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Centre of West African Studies School of Historical Studies Faculty of Arts The University of Birmingham August 2007 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. 2 ABSTRACT This thesis seeks to examine the interrelationships between gender, migration and rural livelihoods in Ghana. The central argument of the study is that policy making on migration and livelihood, tends to ignore gender as a critical issue in development planning. The study suggests that effective development policy interventions should take into consideration the dynamics of gender relations because men and women experience migration differently. Employing primary and secondary data, the study demonstrates that when men and/or women migrate, there are consequences for households. For those migrating, this can result in either empowerment or increased vulnerability. And for the agricultural households in the sending areas, the departure of men and/or women affects their livelihood and division of labour.