Volume 34 September/October 2006 Number 7
Gary Alan Fine to Edit Social Psychology Quarterly
by Ruth Horowitz and Guillermina (Willie) of Restaurant Work (California 2000) and work. The second is Gary as an academic found them exacting and to the point. Jasso, New York University Moral Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming and his enormous integrity and collegial- Born in New York City, Gary has trav- (Harvard 1998). ity and his strong com- eled across the country in the unfolding Gary Alan Fine, the John Evans Looking over his mitment to the values of of his scholarly life. After Cambridge Professor of Sociology at Northwestern extraordinary 55-page university life. The third, he took his first job at the University University, is an inspired choice for the vita, we were once again as we alluded to above, of Minnesota, then became chair at editorship of Social Psychology Quarterly. suffused with admira- is Gary as connoisseur Georgia before moving to Northwestern Though his appointment is not a sur- tion and delight, as in par excellence of food and University. In between he has visited in prise, some readers may be surprised by all the years we have wine, and especially his Europe, South Africa, and different loca- the varied interests and activities of this known him. One of us youthful annual vigil for tions across this country. This past year creative and prolific sociologist. As the was Gary’s colleague Beaujolais Nouveau. he returned home to New York City as writer of a restaurant blog, Veal Cheeks, he for five years at the Gary took many a Russell Sage Fellow, an appointment describes the birth of his interest in food, University of Minnesota graduate sociology which provided him with ample oppor- “Once long ago in College, I worked where his office was next classes as an undergrad- tunity to research and write his blog. We as a restaurant critic for an entertain- door to Willie’s on the uate at the University of See Fine, page 12 ment weekly in the years before the 11th floor of the Social Pennsylvania, includ- Philadelphia restaurant renaissance….” If Science Tower. The other ing classes with Erving you join him for a meal, you will discover met him as a new PhD at Goffman. In the short all the ingredients in the food, have a the Society for the Study time since receiving his discussion with the wait staff about the of Symbolic Interaction PhD from Harvard in chef and other restaurants, sometimes meetings. Three images 1976, he has published 14,000 and Growing! meet the chef, and have a wide-ranging remain vivid and, indeed, encapsulate too many articles to count and 23 books, conversation about much of social life. much of Gary Fine for both of us. The including several edited volumes. Why As of September 15, ASA member- Now we know the origin of several of first is Gary as scholar and the lucidity mention edited volumes? Gary has ship stands at more than 14,000. his books including Kitchens: The Culture and passion with which he describes his served as an editor of many books and journals and on the editorial boards This is the first time membership of other journals. He reviews for an extensive variety of journals and having has broken that mark since 1974! 101st Annual Meeting Was an Overwhelming Success . . . received his comments on occasion, we Sociologists Draw Significant Attention in Montréal Robin M. Williams, Jr. (1914–2006): A Sociologist for All Seasons A few years ago Montréal sent its baseball team (The Montréal Expos, for you non-baseball fans) to Washington, DC (to become the now two-year- by Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota University; and his PhD in 1943 from old Nationals team), and, in return, the DC-based American Sociological Harvard University. He died on June Association, feeling sorry for the baseball-less Montréal, held its 101st 3, 2006, at Irvine Regional Hospital in Annual Meeting in the welcoming city of Montréal, Quebec, Canada, this isdom, defined by the dictionary W Irvine, California; the cause of death was past August. Well, maybe that’s not the real reason the ASA Annual Meeting as the knowledge and experience needed complications from emergency surgery. was held in Montréal sooner than the official Annual Meeting site line-up to make sensible decisions and judg- He was 91. His son, Robin M. III, was had originally scheduled, but it ments, or as the “good sense” shown by born in 1942 and died in 1984. Williams was a most enjoyable and reward- the decisions and judgments made, is no is survived by his beloved wife and life ing meeting, according to the many longer a commonly used word. Perhaps partner, Marguerite; his daughters Nancy participants who complimented the this is because it has so few contem- Elizabeth O’Connor of Santa Fe, NM, ASA leadership, staff, and program porary exemplars. Robin M. Williams, and Susan York Williams of Binghamton, committee. Jr., was the most intelligent, informed, NY; his sister Helen Coble of Despite having their mouth- and wise person I have had Mebane, NC; and grandchil- wash and water bottles confiscated the good fortune to know dren Julia, Tara, Tyler, and by the Transportation Security as a friend and a colleague. Robin O’Connor, as well as Administration before boarding His research fostered under- nieces and nephews. their planes, the Annual Meeting standing of some of the most For much of his long and attendees, for the most part, enjoyed difficult problems of American distinguished career, Robin M. a very smoothly run meeting with society. He devoted much of Williams, Jr., was a member It all began with a bustling registration hall. fascinating panels and several his career and writing to stud- of the Sociology Department big-name speakers. Of course, also ies of intergroup tensions, race at Cornell University (from enjoyable to attendees, most of whom came from areas that had recently relations, war and peace, eth- 1946-85, then emeritus experienced summer heat waves, was the lack of humidity in Montréal. nic conflict, and altruism and 1985-2003). He served as cooperation. Robin’s ability to Robin M. Williams, Jr. Fourth-Highest Registration reason about and understand chair of that Department the complexities of the human from 1956 through 196l, and With 4,974 registered attendees, the 2006 annual meeting had the fourth- condition was rivaled only by his talent was appointed the Henry Scarborough highest registration of any ASA meeting in our 101-year history. The excit- for conveying these intricacies with such Professor of Social Science in 1967. Robin ing plenary sessions drew record crowds, and the fifth floor of the Palais straight-forward clarity that those of us continued full force at Cornell until 2003, des congrès de Montréal the primary meeting hall) bustled with energy less gifted could comprehend. His family, belying his “Professor Emeritus” status, as attendees moved between sessions each day. For the second year in a friends, colleagues, and students would and continued full force at the University row, the very busy meeting offered more than 600 sessions. Yet, for all of all testify to his extraordinary good of California-Irvine (UCI) until his death. the excitement and activity, and relatively late determination that Montréal humor and good sense. By “full force” I mean an active program would host the meeting (see Vantage Point on page 2 of this Footnotes issue Robin Murphy Williams was born on of teaching, research, and publishing. At for background), it ran flawlessly. October 11, 1914, in Hillsborough, NC, his death, Williams was a distinguished Much of the success of this year’s meeting is due to President Cynthia son of Robin M., Sr. (a farmer) and Mabel visiting professor at UCI where he had Fuchs Epstein and the members of the 2006 Program Committee for their (a homemaker). He received his BS in spent much of the last 16 years of his work on building an interesting and diverse program. Credit is also due to 1933 from North Carolina State College; academic career; during the 2006 spring the 2006 ASA Council, session organizers, and participants. his MS in 1935 from North Carolina quarter and just prior to his surgery, he See Annual Meeting, page 9 State and the University of North Carolina; his MA in 1939 from Harvard See Williams, page 10
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The Executive Officer’s Column In This Issue . . . Annual Meeting Venues Past, Present, and Future
By all accounts, the Montréal Annual Meeting was a great Social Science success, thanks to the hard work of Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and the 2006 Program Committee, and the splendid venues and Celebrated on Capitol hospitality provided by the Montréal convention bureau, the Hill and at NIH hotels and their staff. Preparation for this meeting had its dif- 3 ficult moments, however, as the ASA membership knows. It took OBSSR The ASA is busy on the Hill, over a year for Council, the Executive Office, and the Program from advocating for science Committee to ensure an appropriate location, and our 2006 plan- ning process took us from New York City to San Francisco and funding to celebrating a key Sally T. Hillsman finally to Montréal. NIH anniversary. Playing “musical meeting places” is not typical for the ASA. Meetings of our size require much forward planning and advantageous long-term contracts for space to ensure their success, and ASA has been exceptionally well served in this regard by the strong working relationships we have developed with our long- The Sociology of standing hotel partners. In the past, these collaborative relationships have also been essential to ASA’s ability on rare but important occasions to make swift and successful Technology changes in meeting location, for example, as a result of an electrical fire (DC 1995) and ASA’s Communication and civil rights decisions by Council (Atlanta 1980). And these relationships remain essential 4 today as the Association seeks to respond to a new, positive environment in the hospi- Information Technologies tality industry, one in which labor unions have become greatly invigorated and collec- Section on the shifting tive bargaining has become increasingly national in scope.
relationship of sociology and New Challenges in the Hospitality Industry technology. In recent months there has been an on-going discussion within Council about how the Association might best relate to labor unions whose members provide us with important services that help make Three New Task our meetings successful and whose conditions of employment matter on Forces Are Established general principle to all ASA members. As a result, ASA elected leaders, the 4 The ASA is in need of motivated Executive Officer, and the Director of Vantage members to serve on these new Operations and Meetings have met task forces. and talked with union leaders from UniteHere, the major hotel workers union, as the hospitality Point industry has been undergoing change, and we have developed a good working relation- ship with them. Early in its discussions, Council also agreed that, in principle, the ASA 2008 Annual Meeting should seek to participate in collaborative efforts by organizations such as ours that are major consumers of the hotel and convention industry’s services to develop quality Theme Statement information and standards to guide our individual decision processes over the long run. During this time, the union and individual members of nonprofit organizations that The “Worlds of Work” theme use substantial hotel space and services for meetings, including members of ASA and 5 will be explored in Boston in sister social science associations, have been working to establish an independent organi- 2008. zation designed to provide and share information relevant to organizational consumers. The Informed Meeting Exchange (INMEX) was established in June 2006 as a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation [a (501(c)(6) organization under IRS classification], chaired by John Stephens, Executive Director of the American Studies Association. It is based Why Did They Win? upon the recognition that nonprofit organizations in many fields are key stakeholders in the meetings industry; that they want to conduct successful meetings in environ- Find out what makes the ments free from the threat of labor disputes; that transparency in this industry is a major 2006 ASA award winners component in holding successful meetings and conventions; and that access to informa- (their books, teaching, or tion about destination cities, hotels, and union activities is essential to better planning. 6 INMEX is also based upon the principles that hotel workers deserve fair pay for their dissertations) so special. work, and that they have a right to work in environments free from discrimination, intimidation and harassment, and to bargain collectively. Friends Remember ASA Joins the Informed Meeting Exchange After considerable discussion and fact finding, the ASA Council voted unanimously Robin Williams, Jr. in June 2006 to become a subscribing member of the new INMEX. INMEX will aim to help associations organize annual meetings to avoid situations of labor-management Colleagues mourn and conflict that have caused several of our sister associations to face significant financial 10 celebrate a man who did not losses because of decisions to change meeting venues at a late date. It intends to collect information and data about subscriber experience and relationships with various hotel know how to accept retirement. chains, cities, etc., so that subscribers can have the benefit of wider experience and be familiar with best practices in the marketplace. Council felt such information could be a valuable resource for the Executive Office and Council as we work together to ensure Editors Are Needed successful future meetings. As ASA President Frances Fox Piven said, “This initiative is based on the idea that If you have the right stuff to in the hotel industry, as in other industries, employers currently face a choice between be a Contexts or JHSB editor, a low-road strategy and a high-road strategy. The first—often driven by short-term financial considerations—rests on weakening unions and driving wages down, while 12 let ASA know. the latter involves cooperative relations with unions and upgrading of employee skill levels and compensation. The purpose of INMEX is to exert consumer pressure on this industry to follow the high road. Since some key players in this industry have already opted for the high road, it is clearly a viable option. It is consistent with the interests of ASA as an organization and the preferences of our members to do what we can to prevent yet another industry from following a low-road strategy. We suspect that many Our Regular Features of the staffers at the hotel chains that we work with also hope that the industry chooses more cooperative labor relations.” Departments...... 13 As the ASA moves forward to complete its planning for the 2007 Annual Meeting in New York City, this expectation is being fulfilled. The city’s hotels and hotel work- Obituaries...... 18 ers union have reached contract agreements. This is a fitting beginning for President Piven’s 2007 theme: “Is Another World Possible? Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Politics.” —Sally T. Hillsman September/October 2006 Footnotes
Sociology Exhibited on Capitol Hill PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE ASA sponsored another successful and popular science poster this summer on Capitol Hill at the 12th Annual Exhibition and Reception sponsored by the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF), an organization of approximately 100 science societ- ✔ Changing of the “sociological guard” at NSF. . . . ies. Johns Hopkins University sociologist Karl Alexander displayed his National Science Sociologist Edward J. Hackett, Arizona State University Foundation (NSF)-funded research on “The Beginning School Study: Life Course Patterns (ASU), will be in a position to influence the direction of of Urban Youth through the 3rd Decade.” social sciences on a national scale as the newly appointed Alexander’s research is on the Beginning director of the Division of Social and Economic Sciences School Study (BSS), which since 1982 has been (SES) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). His term monitoring the personal and academic devel- began in mid-July. He will replace another sociologist, opment of a large, representative sample of Richard Lempert, the Eric Stein Distinguished Univer- youth in 20 Baltimore City Public Schools. An sity Professor of Law and Sociology at the University on-going study, the BSS now is in its 18th year, of Michigan. Hackett, a professor in the School of Hu- and in 1999, 80% of the original group (now age man Evolution and Social Change at ASU, previously 23–24) was successfully re-interviewed. Among served as an NSF program officer, panelist, and principal Edward J. Hackett his research on display was his present work on investigator of several research and training grants. As high school dropouts. director of the SES division, Hackett will oversee the NSF unit that supports Alexander’s CNSF poster was one of 34 research in a range of social sciences, including economics, political science, research exhibits—ranging from nanotechnology sociology, law and social science, methods and statistics, and studies of science to racial bias—at the popular summer recep- and technology. SES has an annual budget of approximately $100 million to tion in the Rayburn House Office Building at fund basic research in these areas. Hackett’s own research and publications have which members of Congress and their staff get been concerned with the social organization of science, research collaboration, a rare opportunity to learn from the researchers peer review, academic organizations and careers, and environmental justice themselves about some of the fruits of NSF basic and stewardship. research. This year’s reception drew about 350 ✔ University of Michigan to continue major survey on older adults’ health, attendees. retirement . . . . The National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of 27 research The CNSF Exhibition/Reception is held Sociologist Karl Alexander explains his institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has recently renewed its each year on Capitol Hill and this year’s event K–12 educational research to an attentive cooperative agreement with the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social also attracted several congressional personal Rep. Bob Inglis (D-SC), Chair of the Research (ISR) to continue the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a major staff, congressional science committee staff, Research Subcommittee of the House data resource on the combined health and economic conditions of Americans and senior-level federal science agency offi- Science Committee. over age 50. The HRS, now in its 14th year, follows more than 20,000 people cials, including Arden Bement, Director of the at two-year intervals, providing data from pre-retirement to advanced age. A National Science Foundation, who learned about the researchers’ projects. The Coalition major goal of the study is to help address the scientific and policy challenges for National Science Funding advocates for the future vitality of the national science, posed by the nation’s aging population. The renewal will provide approxi- technology, mathematics, and engineering enterprises. For the complete listing of posters, mately $70 million in funding over the next six years to continue the study. see the CNSF website
✔ Report connects problems inside prison facilities to public health and safety . . . . Violence, poor health care, and inappropriate segregation inside correctional facilities can endanger corrections officers and the public, asserts The opening plenary panel of OBSSR’s 10th Anniversary commemoration included NIH a report from the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, director Elias Zerhouni and the current OBSSR director and both of the previous two release this summer. Weak oversight, lack of political support for labor and directors. “Celebrating a Decade of Progress and Promise” was the theme of NIH’s official management, and flawed data about intracorrectional violence and abuse recognition of OBSSR’s formation 10 years ago. were cited in Confronting Confinement. However, the 20-member commis- sion concluded that there are promising practices and strong leadership ASA, along with the Consortium of Social Science Associations, the American that contradict the notion that violence and abuse are inevitable behind Psychological Association, and other science societies, further capitalized on the bars. Among the 30 recommendations are: changing federal law to extend event by bringing the event’s research posters to the “front-door” of Congress, Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement to correctional facilities and ending hosting a well-attended congressional reception and exhibition in the ornate prisoner co-pays; reducing the use of high-security segregation; developing Cannon Caucus Room on Capitol Hill to showcase achievements of social standardized reporting nationwide on violence and abuse behind bars; and and behavioral research presented at the NIH event. Abrams had initiated the creating an independent agency in every state to oversee prisons and jails. plenary session by saying that the behavioral and social sciences lay at the The bipartisan commission visited jails and prisons, consulted with current “crossroads between biology and behavior” and that every health-related and and former corrections officials and a wide range of experts working outside prevention innovation that improves society and well-being requires behavior the profession, and reviewed available research and data. For more informa- change, “a daunting challenge and great responsibility” for our disciplines. tion, visit
From “Technology for Sociology” to “The Sociology of Technology”: A Short History of CITASA Contemporary Years: The Section’s new leaders knew Expanding Scope, Membership enthusiastic scholarship was abundantly present. It just needed to be tapped. The ASA’s computer-focused technology section evolves with the times In 2002, the Section was in crisis because Section added the sociology of computing of its low membership, even as interest in (and other communication and informa- by Barry Wellman, University of Toronto Middle Years: Skilling/Deskilling computers was at an all-time high with tion technologies) to the Section’s man- governments, corporations, and the public Grant Blank of American University, the date to take into account all forms of new he history of the Communication clamoring to know about the sociology of T author of the “middle years” article in the media such as smart webphones, PDAs and Information Technologies Section of the Internet and other communication and SSCR symposium, argues that the Section’s [personal digital assistants], GPS [global the American Sociological Association information media. In the relative absence emphasis on developing software and positioning system], and so on. (CITASA) provides insight into the shift- of sociologists in this field, this demand hardware skills was probably the cause of Section leaders agreed that the basic ing ways sociologists have engaged with was being filled by pundits making things the 27 percent membership decline (331 in need was to expand Section member- computing and associated technologies— up deductively; social psychologists its second year (1990) to 243 in 1994 and ship. So its leaders set out to make as creators, users, teachers, and scholars. doing laboratory experiments isolated an all-time low of 147 in 2002). The Section sociologists (and fellow travelers) aware It is rare that a journal publishes a history from real-world conditions; and computer had become the domain of specialists, and of the Section’s existence and reorienta- of an ASA section, but the May issue of scientists building “groupware” with little not that many at that. tion, aided by donations from Microsoft. Social Science Computing Review (SSCR) has awareness of its social context. Standard Yet, the CITASA was able to double its mem- done just that—with articles by Ronald sociological concerns, expanding use of bership rapidly, with 305 members by Anderson, Grant Blank, George Dowdall such as power and personal com- In the relative absence of sociologists September 2005, expanding its conference and David Elesh, and me. gender, were ignored. puters and the papers and holding a pre-conference at At the start of ASA’s Microcomputers in this field, this demand was being Manuel Castells Internet meant ASA’s Annual Meeting. There has been Section in 1988, its pioneers were the soci- and the authors in that more people filled by pundits making things up much collaborative activity, an active ological equivalent of the homebrew com- Peter Kollock and than ever were deductively; social psychologists doing online discussion group, an informative puting club, mainly interested in building Marc Smith’s 1998 playing with com- website, and a vibrant newsletter, with software for research and teaching. They laboratory experiments isolated from book, Communities puter hardware. young recent graduates (and graduate stu- saw the Section as a place to find com- real-world conditions; and computer in Cyberspace, were Blank details dents) playing key roles, including Keith munity, professional legitimation, and among the few bring- the proliferation scientists building “groupware” with Hampton, Gina Neff, Eszter Hargittai, and good ideas. Early members were not very ing a sociological of commercial little awareness of its social context. Nalini Kotamraju. Moreover, the overall interested in using the big mainframes of orientation into the software in this quality of papers presented has increased. the time as analytic engines. As Ronald virtual realm. era and believes this led most microcom- The Section’s focus on applications has Anderson, University of Minnesota, With the traditional market in decline puting sociologists to turn away from expanded to include the study of commu- recalls, they were more interested in and an eager, expanding new market doing their own programming, which was nity and work, online and off. However, building “technology for sociology” than for understanding the sociology of the the original force behind the founding of there is still much more to do. There are in studying “the sociology of technology.” Internet, it is not surprising that the Section the “Microcomputer Users Group,” the still very few studies of other technologies, The early Section’s focus on software changed its orientation. Recent Section Section’s predecessor. More user-friendly such as mobile phones. Where is the ethno- creators discouraged three large sets chairs David Elesh, Temple University, and and more reliable software was in demand. methodology of the Internet? Where is the of potential members from becoming George Dowdall, St. Joseph’s University, Moreover, the growing market for hard- grappling with macrosociological issues, actively involved. One group was the were active leaders in this transformation, ware and software led to an increase in the such as the nature of the labor force or the “newbies,” who were interested in learn- on which they elaborate in their article. number of programmers. “The relationship rise of the networked society? Huge areas ing about computing. The second was the The key changes were the appointment of computing to sociology as a whole had await study. significant number of sociologists using of a committee at the ASA 2001 annual changed to become more diversified and statistical packages (i.e., SPSS) to analyze section meeting to explore means to revive Barry Wellman was 2004-05 Section Chair. more accessible,” says Blank in his SSCR survey data. And the last were those the Section, and the acceptance of this He is co-editor of Blackwell Publishers’ 2002 article. In response, the Section changed interested in the soon-to-be-burgeoning committee’s report a short time later in its name to “Sociology and Computing” in book The Internet in Everyday Life. He can culture of cyberspace. October 2001. ❑ 1994 but essentially continued in its ways. be reached at [email protected].
Sociologists Named American Council Approves Establishment Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows of Three New Task Forces develop case materials (some of which The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its 2006 Class of In August, the ASA Council estab- exist from earlier COPE work but need Fellows in the spring, honoring 195 scholars, scientists, and artists along with lished three new task forces and renewed updating) and course modules that fac- civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders from across the U.S. and abroad. an existing task force to give it more time ulty could include in a variety of courses. ASA is pleased that two sociologists—Lawrence Bobo of Stanford University to complete its assigned task. Council now The resulting set of materials will be and Mary Waters of Harvard University—were among those honored with the wants to hear from members interested in available on the ASA website so they can fellowship. They are in a class with former Presidents George H.W. Bush and serving on one of these components. be downloaded quickly and easily and William Jefferson Clinton; Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts; Nobel can be updated. The Task Force will also Prize-winning biochemist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse; Task Force on Sociology and offer a series of workshops at the ASA and actor and director Martin Scorsese. Criminology Programs and regional sociology meetings to illus- Lawrence D. Bobo is the Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor at Working with members of the trate how these materials can be used. Stanford University as well as Director of the Center for Comparative Study American Society of Criminology (ASC), in Race and Ethnicity and the Director of the Program in African and African this Task Force is charged with develop- Task Force on Academic Freedom American Studies. His research examines issues of race, ethnicity, and social ing model curricula and sample course and Scientific Integrity inequality, with a special emphasis on the social psychology and politics of race content for courses in criminology taught Issues of academic independence and in the United States. He is co-author of the award-winning book Racial Attitudes in sociology departments; the curricula scientific integrity arise regularly and the in America: Trends and Interpretations (with Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, and courses will cover the BA, MA, and Association has always taken a strong Maria Krysan) and a founding co-editor of the Du Bois Review: Social Science PhD levels. The resulting report will pro- stand to protect these values. In recent Research on Race. Also, he is an elected member of the National Academy vide guiding principles and recommenda- years, Council has been made aware of Sciences, and formerly a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the tions, as well as illustrations (“promising of a number of sociologists and sociol- Behavioral Sciences, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. practices”) for how departments of ogy departments that have come under Mary C. Waters specializes in the study of immigration, inter-group relations, various types offer strong criminology attack in ways that challenge their aca- the formation of racial and ethnic identity among the children of immigrants, and programs within sociology departments. demic freedom in teaching or research the challenges of measuring race and ethnicity. She is the author of two forthcom- The report will include, as well, informa- either directly or indirectly through the ing books, Inheriting the City: The Second Generation Comes of Age (with Jennifer tion on the optimal relationships between chilling effect of such attacks. There have Holdaway, Philip Kasinitz, and John Mollenkopf) and The New Americans: A sociology and criminology programs that also been a number of reported inci- Guide to Immigration Since 1965 (with Reed Ueda and Helen Marrow). She is also are separate departments. dents about federal agencies engaging author of Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities in behaviors that limit scientists’ access (1999), which received numerous awards including the Mira Komarovsky Award Task Force on Teaching Ethics to information, limit the public avail- of the Eastern Sociological Society, the Otis Dudley Duncan Award of ASA’s throughout the Sociology Curriculum ability of research findings, or otherwise Population Section, and the Thomas and Znaniecki Award of ASA’s International Working with members of the ASA undermine the integrity of scientific Migration Section. In addition to her numerous books, she is the author of over Committee on Professional Ethics research. This task force will be charged 40 articles and chapters on racial and ethnic identity and immigrant assimilation. (COPE), this Task Force would develop with developing a fact-finding strategy The Academy will welcome this year’s new class at its annual Induction curriculum materials to teach students to compile information on examples of Ceremony on October 7, 2006, at its headquarters in Cambridge, MA. For more about professional ethics from early in these situations and to suggest ways the information, visit
2008 ASA Annual Meeting Program Theme Announced Small Grants Session Suggestions Are Invited Theme Statement racial, ethnic, age, and gender inequal- Program: ity; immigration; migration; geographic The 2008 ASA program will focus on ASA Teaching mobility; crime; and the cultural ASA President-Elect Arne Kalleberg the interconnections between work— meanings of work. We will assess the (University of North Carolina at Chapel broadly conceived—and society. Work is Enhancement Fund ramifications of these changes in work Hill) and the 2008 Program Committee are one of the most basic of social activities for diverse institutions such as families, Deadline: February 1, 2007 pleased to announce the theme for the 2008 and institutions and has far-reaching Annual Meeting and invite ASA members schools, state policy, and communities. correlates and consequences. The title, pplications are now being accepted to submit proposals for complete invited We will also con- A “Worlds of Work,” for the ASA Teaching Enhancement Fund sessions/panels for consideration. sider how changes points to two main Small Grants Program (TEF). These grants Thematic Sessions proposals are due We hope to learn how worlds of work in work influence sub-themes. First, are intended to support scholarship on outcomes for by November 30, 2006. Proposals for other it underscores affect and are affected by social teaching and learning. A TEF grant may individuals (e.g., sessions should be submitted by February the increasing stratification and racial, ethnic, age, be given to an individual, a department, mental health, 1, 2007. For instructions on submitting a diversity by which and gender inequality; immigration; a program, or a committee of a state/ identity, problems session proposal for 2008, please visit the work is organized regional association. Two or three grants migration; geographic mobility; crime; of caring, experi- Future Meetings page on the ASA website. and experienced will be awarded in 2006, for up to $1,000. and the cultural meanings of work. ence in low-wage in societies. Work The principal criteria for the award are and often “dead 103rd ASA Annual Meeting activities can: take that the project is likely to enhance the end” jobs, and coping with job insecu- place formally in organizations or infor- teaching of sociology, serve as a seed- August 1–4, 2008 rity and unemployment). mally between individuals; be labeled project that will continue to have an Sheraton Boston This wide-ranging focus on work impact in months and years to come, and as illegal or legal; be unpaid, well-paid, and society is grounded in both clas- be systemic in its impact. The criteria are and Boston Marriott Copley Plaza or poorly paid; and involve consider- sical and contemporary sociological intentionally flexible in order to accommo- Boston, Massachusetts able security for some or be unstable concerns and draws upon many of our date innovative proposals. for others. People may also regard their “Worlds of Work” discipline’s theories and research tradi- Proposals limited to a maximum of five work activities as more or less impor- tions. Accordingly, the 2008 program pages should: (a) describe the project and tant to them at various stages of their 2008 Program Committee theme embraces diverse sociological the intended audience or beneficiaries, lives. Second, the program title empha- approaches, including political economy (b) locate the project in the literature on Arne L. Kalleberg, President-Elect, sizes the cross-national and historical teaching and learning, (c) explain how perspectives, organizational and occu- University of North Carolina at Chapel diversity in work activities, work- the financial support would be used, and pational sociology, social psychology, Hill related institutions, and the experience (d) describe the expected benefits of the and cultural and ethnographic studies. It Lotte Bailyn, Massachusetts Institute of of work. Outsourcing of production, project, including systemic impacts. also draws upon relevant insights from Technology global human rights, immigration, and While ASA membership is not a crite- disciplines such as economics, psychol- George W. Bohrnstedt, American Institutes cultural differences all provide fertile rion for applying or being selected for this ogy, history, and geography. The 2008 for Research ground for a comparative understand- grant, if and when a grant award is made, program especially seeks to demonstrate Sharon Collins, University of ing of the many varieties of work. the recipient must be a current ASA mem- the relevance of social science research Illinois-Chicago The 2008 program will emphasize ber. ASA membership involves acceptance for public policy and for efforts to Dan Cornfield,Vanderbilt University social change and the dynamic con- of and adherence to the ASA Code of address social inequities and inequalities Susan Eckstein, Boston University nections between changing patterns of Ethics, which is critical to the implementa- through activism around work-related tion of the grant project. Grantees must Rick Fantasia, Smith College work and social life. We will highlight issues—such as transnational labor also provide documentation of pertinent Sally T. 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Washington, DC—The National her latest, Women and Men at in the Behavioral Sciences. Task Force on Institutionalizing Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced Work. She has served on the Sampson has published Public Sociology the election this year of sociolo- Board of Overseers of the extensively on crime, the life In 2004 this task force was established gists Barbara F. Reskin, University of General Social Survey and on course, neighborhood pro- and charged with developing propos- Washington, and Robert J. Sampson, several National Academy of cesses, and the social struc- als for the recognition and validation of Harvard University, among its 72 new Sciences/National Research ture of the city. Two of his public sociology, incentive and rewards members. These newly elected NAS Council Committees, and books, Crime in the Making: for doing public sociology, and evaluat- members were recognized for their dis- also as past ASA President. Pathways and Turning Points ing public sociology. All task forces are tinguished and continuing achievements She has received the Cheryl through Life (Harvard, 1993) established with a two-year time limit. in original research. This brings the total Miller-Sociologists for and Shared Beginnings, At the request of the task force and given number of sociologists as active mem- Women in Society (SWS) Divergent Lives: Delinquent the magnitude of the charge, Council has bers to more than 20. Membership in the Lecturership, the SWS Boys to Age 70 (Harvard, renewed the original two-year term of this academy is considered one of the highest Mentorship Award, and the 2003), written with John task force. Some of the members originally honors in American science. Members Distinguished Scholar Award Laub, received the distin- appointed are no longer able to continue help write reports on key scientific issues of the ASA Section on Sex guished book award from their service as members of this task force to help inform policymakers’ decisions. and Gender. Robert J. Sampson the ASA Section on Crime, so there are several opportunities for new Barbara F. Reskin received her PhD Robert J. Sampson is Law, and Deviance. members to join this ongoing effort. in 1973 from the University Chair of the Department of The 2006 election was held during the ASA members interested in serving on of Washington. After spend- Sociology and Henry Ford II 143rd annual meeting of the Academy. one of the three new task forces or join- ing two decades in Big-Ten Professor of the Social Sciences NAS is a private organization of sci- ing the ongoing work of the Task Force Universities—from Indiana at Harvard University, where entists and engineers dedicated to the on Institutionalizing Public Sociology University to Ohio State he was appointed in 2003. furtherance of science and its use for the should provide the ASA with a state- University—she moved Before that, he taught for general welfare. The Academy, estab- ment of interest and a CV no later than to Harvard University 12 years at the University lished in 1863 by a congressional act of November 15 by either email to gover- and then returned to the of Chicago and seven years incorporation, acts as an official adviser [email protected] or by regular mail to: University of Washington. at the University of Illinois. to the federal government, upon request, American Sociological Association, ATTN: She has written six books Sampson was also a Senior in any matter of science or technology. Governance, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, and several dozen articles Research Fellow at the Additional information about the institu- Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005. and chapters about gender American Bar Foundation tion is available at
September/October 2006 Footnotes Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Montréal Award for its insight- in class development. Using the cases The American Sociological Association proudly announced the recipients of ful comparative of India and Korea, the book shows the analysis of race rela- significant role of industrialists in resist- the 2006 major awards at this year’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, August 13, tions in Brazil and ing or facilitating state development. The in Montréal. The Awards Ceremony, which was followed by the Presidential the United States. argument, based on detailed compara- Address, was well attended by sciologists. These awards are given to sociologists Breaking a number tive histories, shows the central role of of social myths about capital in state formation while also for their outstanding publications, achievements in the scholarship, teaching, race in Brazil, he revealing the structural forces that shape and practice of sociology, as well as for their overall advancement of the disci- provides a detailed the class and state relations. analysis of how ideas Chibber (PhD, MA, University of pline. Award recipients are selected by committees appointed by the Committee about race emerged Wisconsin, BA Northwestern University) on Committees and the ASA Council. in Brazil and the resulting racial classifi- is Associate Professor Sociology at New cation systems. In a detailed accounting York University. His research interests of racial stratification in Brazil, Telles are in economic sociology, development, Herbert Gans subtext of The Urban Villagers). His spe- also shows how race matters in Brazil in Marxian theory, political sociology, Winner, Career of Distinguished cific contributions to the study of poverty several dimensions of life, ranging from and comparative-historical sociology. Scholarship Award and inequality have been numerous (e.g., intermarriage to housing and income His prior work focused on the role of In an age of spe- More Equality, The War Against the Poor) inequality. He concludes with a chapter the state in economic development. cialization, Herbert and benefit from his graduate work in examining and suggesting social policies Specifically, he has examined the condi- Gans stands apart planning, which trained and accustomed to support anti-racism in democratic tions under which state-building can be because his name him to undertake sociological analyses societies. The book was selected for the successful in late-developing countries. and contributions are and critiques of public policy. His writ- importance of its contribution, not only He has published on the dynamics of known throughout ing on poverty has been important as to comparative studies in the sociology long-term historical change in South Asia sociology. This is an antidote to the neo-conservatives’ of race, but also for the study of social and on the plausibility of the Marxian not because, like a emphasis on the undeserving underclass; stratification, comparative and historical theory of history. previous generation and indeed, he has debunked not only sociology, and demographic research. His current of sociologists who worked in a gener- their arguments, but also critiqued the Telles (PhD, University of Texas, research continues alist mode, he sought directly to influ- underclass concept and its users. He ven- Austin; BA,, Stanford University) is some of the above ence sociology in its totality, but rather tured into grand theorizing, proposing a Professor of Sociology at the University themes while taking because he has made seminal contribu- radical version of structural functional- of California-Los Angeles where he on some new ones. tions—and written classic works—in a ism, in his often reprinted 1972 American teaches courses on race and ethnicity, He is engaged in a remarkable number of different fields. Journal of Sociology article “The Positive social demography, development, and project that compares His influence on the discipline as a whole Functions of Poverty.” urban sociology. Race in Another America the political economy has come from his distinct sensibility, A half century after his career began, was also awarded the best book prize of late development which combines scholarship satisfying to Gans not only keeps abreast of sociologi- from the Brazil section of the Latin in the 20th century the most professional of sociologists with cal currents but continues to influence American Studies Association and the with late develop- writing that speaks to much broader pub- them, especially in the fields of race, eth- Hubert Herring Award from the Pacific ment in the 19th cen- lics, rigorous application of ethnographic nicity, and immigration. His concept of Council of Latin American Studies. In tury. It is widely recognized that in both and other methodologies with a catholic “symbolic ethnicity” informed research 2005, he also received the Otis Dudley periods, the state played a central role appreciation for good evidence whatever about third- and fourth-generation Duncan Award from the American in fostering development. But the kinds the source. He has deeply felt demo- descendants of European immigrants. Sociological Association. of class alliances that supported state cratic egalitarianism with tough-minded, With the concept of “second-generation Telles was a visiting scholar at the intervention did not remain the same, social-scientific analysis of explanations decline,” forged by his reflection on the Russell Sage Foundation (2004-05), where nor did the kinds of tasks that states took for, and policies proposed to remedy, situations of the second generation to he began analyzing intergenerational upon themselves. This difference in the poverty and inequality. emerge from the newest wave of immi- change in ethnic identity, language political underpinnings of late develop- Gans early on made enormously influ- grants, he anticipated the theory of “seg- use, education and other issues among ment created a strikingly different set ential contributions to urban sociology, mented assimilation.” Most recently, he Mexican Americans, based on random of constraints on state action across the through his studies of urban ethnic com- has theorized about a new racial hierar- sample surveys of Los Angeles and San two centuries, as well as opening up munities in The Urban Villagers and of new chy emerging as a result of contemporary Antonio in 1965 and 2000. With Vilma new possibilities. Through investigating suburban ones in The Levittowners, books immigration. As always, his thinking on Ortiz, he is completing a manuscript of how these dynamics have changed over that are still widely read four decades these and other topics is fresh and there- that book, tentatively titled: Racialized time, Chibber proposes to historicize our after their publication. The Urban Villagers fore widely read. Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the understanding of state-led development. was among the first sociological works to His sociological output has been Persistence of Ethnic Boundaries. He served In a second project, related to the first, recognize the importance of second-gen- prodigious: he has written 17 books as a member of the National Academy of Chibber is doing research on the emer- eration communities descended from an and monographs and published nearly Sciences panel on the status of Hispanics gence of neo-liberalism as a global proj- immigration that had then been over for 200 articles and book chapters. Many from 2002-05, and was Program Officer in ect in the 1970s and 1980s. While there decades, and it thereby helped to found of his writings are intended for both Human Rights for the Ford Foundation is an emerging body of work tracing the the study of ethnicity; its analysis of the sociologists and general audiences. Not in Rio de Janeiro from 1997-2000. rise of a conservative and free-market linkage between urban ethnicity and coincidentally, therefore, Gans has also Telles has published widely in the area economic agenda in U.S. domestic policy, social class retains the status of a classic been a trailblazer for the cause of “public of immigration, race and ethnic relations, the process through which it was settled statement. sociology.” This was the subject of his social demography, and urban sociology. upon as an arm of foreign policy in the Gans has also profoundly shaped the presidential address to the ASA, where Some of his work focuses on the economic same period has not received very much fields of mass media and culture. His rich he was the first to call for “public sociol- impacts of immigration in the United attention. He plans to examine how observational study of newsrooms, which ogy.” Subsequently, he received the ASA States, the effect of skin color on educa- the policies known as the Washington appeared as Deciding What’s News (now Award for Contributions to the Public tion and income for Mexican Americans, Consensus became central to U.S. reissued in a 25th anniversary edition), Understanding of Sociology. and the demographic foundations of the economic diplomacy and the process went well beyond the then dominant In sum, Gans is deserving of the ASA Hispanic population. He has received through which it was implanted in key research tradition by demonstrating the Award for a Career of Distinguished grant awards from the National Institute developing countries. structuring roles of media organizations Scholarship because of his profound of Child and Human Development, the and of the institutionalized processes of and extensive impacts on our discipline. National Science Foundation, and the Kathleen McKinney news production; it remains unsurpassed These are indicated, above all, by the Fulbright Commission. Prior to enter- Winner, Distinguished Contributions as a model for studying the media and remarkable number of subfields where ing graduate school and becoming an to Teaching Award as a source of insights. He gave powerful his work remains seminal and by his academic, he was a community orga- path-breaking efforts to communicate Kathleen new impetus to the sociology of culture nizer and English as a Second Language McKinney, Cross with his book, Popular Culture and High effectively with both sociologists and Instructor in Los Angeles. outsiders. Endowed Chair Culture, which critiqued the superior- in the Scholarship Vivek Chibber ity that the affluent and well educated of Teaching and Edward Telles Honorable Mention, attribute to their cultural preferences and Learning at Illinois Winner, Distinguished Book Award Distinguished Book Award argued for the right of every person to the State University and culture he or she prefers. He has brought Edward E. Honorable men- former Carnegie to these fields a sociological concern for Telles’s book, Race tion is given to Vivek Scholar on the democracy, the subject of his MA thesis, in Another America: Chibber’s book, Scholarship of to which he returned later in his career The Significance of Locked in Place: State Teaching, is the 2006 recipient of the with the publication of Middle American Skin Color in Brazil Building and Late ASA’s Distinguished Contributions Individualism and Democracy and the News. (Princeton University Industrialization in to Teaching Award. Her career aptly A thematic thread throughout his Press, 2004), was India. Locked in Place illustrates her dedication to all aspects of writings is spun from the manifestations selected for the 2006 examines the role of teaching. She has enhanced teaching at of class inequalities (this is, famously, the Distinguished Book elite entrepreneurs all levels through her teaching, research, September/October 2006 Footnotes Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Montréal publications, and mentoring. engage not only the students in the front Sociologist with the National Labor Award. Vaughan’s thesis—that NASA’s McKinney’s teaching record ranges row, but also those who sat furthest from College degree program at the AFL-CIO culture had normalized risk in ways that from the “Teaching Seminar” at Illinois her. Her lecture style was engaging and George Meany Center for Labor Studies. created a catastrophe—received con- State University to the many work- warm and she used a diverse array of He has consistently connected his stud- siderable attention and revised history. shops she has offered at ASA meetings imaginative pedagogical techniques, ies to projects of collaboration with the Ultimately, in order to get the press to and various colleges other than her which incorporated various styles of American Federation of Government understand the tragedy, she had to teach own. These workshops include “The learning. Whether it was the use of col- Employees, the American Federation the sociological perspective. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning” laborative learning groups, dyadic tech- of Teachers, the IBEW, the Painters As a result of her Challenger research (2004 ASA meeting) to “Teaching Large niques, or individual and subsequent Union, the Postal Workers Union, the and expertise in the field, Vaughan Classes: Encouraging Responsibility, small group activities, Dr. McKinney Steelworkers Union, and many others. received great visibility in 2003 when Involvement, and Community” (2001 strove to accommodate students at mul- Further, Shostak has promoted reforms the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated Midwest Sociological Society) to tiple comprehension levels.” in the ways in which waiting room males during reentry. In addition to respond- “Collaborative Learning Groups” (1993 Her colleagues highlight McKinney’s are treated in abortion clinics. He is the ing to hundreds of media requests, she Illinois Sociological Society). McKinney’s enthusiasm for improving the teaching principal author of the only book on this testified before theColumbia Accident focus on teaching extends from the class- of sociology at all levels: “I have been subject and has self-financed three field Investigation Board, and then became room level to the national level. continually impressed with the quality studies now involving nearly 3,000 such a member of the Board’s research staff, She won numerous teaching awards of Kathleen’s work, and her enthusias- men located in over 50 clinics. Presently, working to analyze and write the sec- throughout her career. She was first tic willingness to volunteer to work on he is busy working with educators across tion identifying the social causes of the recognized at Oklahoma State University projects that improve the teaching of the country in improving a blueprint Columbia accident. She helped to show as a “Teacher of the Year” for the College sociology, and research on teaching and he prepared for the nation’s first high how the accident resulted from a failure of Arts and Sciences (1984) and the learning.” Another writes that, “Kathleen school focused on long-range forecast- of NASA’s organizational system, and University-wide AMOCO Outstanding uses her classes as laboratories to study ing. Shostak is the author, co-author, or how the social causes of Challenger had Teacher Award (1985). Recognition of her how to enhance student learning. She editor of 31 books and 146 articles which not been fixed. Because of Vaughan the skill and talent as a teacher was similarly reads widely and is exceedingly knowl- are all, in one form or another, concerned social causes were given equal primacy recognized at Illinois State University edgeable of the most recent theories with demonstrating the value of using with the technical causes of Columbia’s with the College of Arts and Sciences and methods used to enhance student sociology. tragic demise. The report’s important Junior Distinguished Teacher Award learning. She continuously applies what conclusions were shaped by her tireless (1991), Senior Distinguished Teacher she learns from the scholarship in her Diane Vaughan involvement in the project, her insistence Award (1994), and the Distinguished classrooms and simultaneously collects Winner, Public Understanding on a sociological frame for, and her com- University Teacher Award (1995- data in her classes that become the basis of Sociology Award mitment to bring her research findings 96). She was formerly recognized by for book chapters, articles, and presenta- Diane Vaughan and intellectual insight to the policy the ASA Section on Undergraduate tions. Her commitment to the dialectical is the 2006 win- table. Education with the Hans Mauksch relationship between scholarship and ner of the Public In the Columbia aftermath, Vaughan’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to teaching demonstrates Kathleen’s dedi- Understanding of respected expertise about what had Undergraduate Education (1996), which cation to teaching and learning.” Finally, Sociology Award happened enabled her to get a Board provided further recognition of her McKinney’s time as editor and on the because she has had composed of engineers, scientists, mili- excellence in teaching. editorial board of Teaching Sociology as exceptional influ- tary officers, and officials to recognize Importantly, McKinney’s teaching is well as her active participation with the ence as a public that there were organizational—that is, highly informed by her own research teach-soc listserv further exemplify her intellectual for the sociological— processes that had shaped and publications. Her research focuses contributions as a mentor to us all. past several decades. these events. Her theories and concepts, on gender, characteristics of faculty and Indeed, she makes precisely the sort of such as the normalization of deviance, students, and learning outcomes. An Arthur Shostak contributions that the ASA had in mind institutional failure, organizational important aspect of this research is how Winner, Distinguished Career for the when it established this award. culture, structure, and missed signals, she defines learning and the factors that Practice of Sociology Award Vaughan, who has published three became alive in public discourse and impact it. From “How Sociology Majors The Distinguished important books and more than 40 appeared in press accounts, even if she Learn Sociology: Successful Learners Tell Career Award for the articles, chapters, and book reviews, has was not quoted. Their Story” to “Contrapower Sexual Practice of Sociology had an impressive role as a public intel- Her work on the Columbia case is a Harassment: The Effects of Student is presented each lectual. She has stated that she is a “pub- remarkable instance of visible public Sex and Type of Behavior on Faculty year in recogni- lic sociologist by accident” and that she service by a sociologist. Her current Perceptions.” She uses a variety of tion of outstanding started her practice of public sociology in research is on air traffic controllers and methods and data to explore the myriad contributions to a “low-profile way” because she knew of the interface between human cognitive ways that perceptions and interactions sociological practice. some professional sociologists’ disdain abilities and technology in a highly stan- affect learning. This active research The award recog- for it. As her career unfolded, however, dardized system in which risk and safety agenda concerning teaching and learning nizes work that has it is clear that her public intellectual role are their responsibility. It seems clear that is highlighted by two key points. First, facilitated or served as a model for the is marked by unwavering intention and this work, like her previous projects, will her research has been published in a work of others, work that has sig- commitment. lead to a greater public understanding of wide variety of academic, peer-reviewed nificantly advanced the utility of one or One of Vaughan’s earlier works, a sociological phenomenon. journals, such as Teaching Sociology, Sex more specialty areas in sociology and, by Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Vaughan has been an important public Roles, Journal of Sex Research, and Journal so doing, has elevated the professional Relationships (Oxford University Press, intellectual for 20 years. She is acknowl- of Marriage and Family. Additionally, status or public image of the field as a 1986; translated into at least six lan- edged as an expert on both the demise she is author, editor, or co-editor of four whole, work that has been honored or guages), made important intellectual of intimate relationships and on the published books, three ASA teaching widely recognized outside the discipline contributions to the field of sociology failures of organizations to manage their resource books, and six monographs or for its significant impacts, particularly in and was of widespread popular inter- behavior. In particular, she has helped to manuals on teaching. The second key advancing human welfare. The selection est. This book received extensive media steer public debates toward the recogni- point is the local and national recogni- committee selected Arthur B. Shostak coverage, including appearances on Phil tion that accidents in the space program tion she received as a Carnegie Scholar as the 2006 recipient of the Practice of Donahue’s television program, two of are, in fact, social problems. Vaughan’s on the Scholarship of Teaching and as Sociology Award. the three major network morning shows, career has been a model of how thor- the first Cross Endowed Chair in the Arthur Shostak taught at Drexel and a full-page story in the Washington ough research, intellectual efforts, and Scholarship of Teaching and learning at University from 1967 to 2003. Before Post. Uncoupling continues to sell after personal dedication can lead to a greater Illinois State University. retiring in the fall of 2003, he introduced 20 years in print and it now has reached public understanding and appreciation of The final aspect of McKinney’s courses at Drexel in applied sociology, such an extensive audience that it ranks sociology. distinguished contributions to teaching futurism, race and ethnic relations, social among sociology’s best sellers. Rutledge M. Dennis concerns her mentorship of an entire implications of 20th century technol- Vaughan’s widely acclaimed book, Winner, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award generation of talented and dedicated ogy, and urban sociology. Previously, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky teachers/scholars. The letters supporting he was on the faculty of the Wharton Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA Professor Rutledge her nomination, from former students School of Finance and Commerce at the (University of Chicago Press 1996), was Dennis is the 2006 to university administrators and current University of Pennsylvania (1961-67). a complex, detailed analysis of the pro- recipient of the colleagues, provide eloquent evidence As an applied sociologist, Shostak has cesses that led to America’s first space DuBois-Johnson- of her impact on teaching. All the letters been a futurist consultant for various shuttle disaster. It was one of the rare Frazier Award. His attest to her enthusiasm, professional- levels of government, labor unions, and sociological works to receive a front- contributions in ism, support and encouragement, and companies. As well, he has regularly page review in the New York Times Book scholarship, teaching most importantly, to her foresight, skills, assisted k-12 school systems and colleges Review, as well as extensive commen- and service exemplify and talent as a teacher and researcher. and universities. In this context, Shostak tary in one of Malcolm Gladwell’s New the best of the DuBois- Students attest to Dr. McKinney’s has pioneered the study of Labor’s use Yorker articles. It won three book awards, Johnson-Frazier tradition. He is an talent, skills, and passion as a teacher, of computer power, coined the term including the Rachel Carson Prize and exceptional teacher who has engaged in including her ability to teach large “CyberUnion,” and written the major the Robert K. Merton Award, and was rigorous social research that culminated classes: “I recall my amazement with book to date on the subject. From 1975 nominated for several others, including in prodigious purposeful scholarship that Kathy’s energy level and ability to to 2000, Shostak served as an Adjunct the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book See Awards, page 8 September/October 2006 Footnotes
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framed the nature and scope of his com- President of the Black Education Knowledge” (1993); and “The Fiction as NAFTA or the European Union (a munity activism. For more than 30 years, Association, Chair of the Election of Diversity without Oppression: Race, phenomenon that is often conflated with Dennis’s provocative and stimulating Committee of the Society for the Study Ethnicity, Identity, and Power” (1999) “globalization”). In doing so, he addresses pedagogy has engaged students in criti- of Social Problems, and Chair of the Race illustrate her longstanding commitment a set of issues across the fields of sociol- cal thinking on the Black Family, Black and Ethnic Minority Committee of the to what is now known as the field of race, ogy, political science, and economics and Intellectuals, Black Political Thought, the Eastern Sociological Society. Most recently, class, and gender studies. strike at the heart of many current debates. dynamics of racial and ethnic relations, Dennis was awarded the Joseph S. Himes Andersen’s productivity in race, class, The deliberate construction of an inte- society and the urban community, and Distinguished scholarship Award from and gender studies goes beyond a com- grated European regional economy and the intricacies of sociological theory and the Association of Black Sociologists, mitment to scholarship as she has also polity—the European Union (EU)—is one methodology. He has consistently devel- which honors scholars whose works have worked to change social institutions. This of the most remarkable developments of oped educational programs that have made a significant contribution to the dedication to gender equity is most evi- the postwar period. While of a type with enriched college curricula and created understanding of black life and culture. dent both in her long and distinguished other efforts at regionalization, the EU has spaces for the perspectives of tradition- Rutledge Dennis has been among the teaching career and the range of activities moved faster and further towards integra- ally under-represented groups. His com- leading scholars of the third generation of in which she has been involved concern- tion than other such experiments. As such, mitment to the success of faculty of color black sociologists, helping set the tone for ing the advancement of teaching. Much study of the EU provides a unique oppor- is evident in his mentoring of countless research and activism in the black com- of her early work in gender reflects this tunity to explore the effects of changes in young students and scholars. munity and carrying on the tradition of commitment to teaching. For example, her the scale of social action and the devel- Dennis is recognized as one of the W.E.B. DuBois, Charles S. Johnson, and E. 1987 “Changing the Curriculum: Women’s opment of new social forms beyond the leading scholars on DuBois. Along Franklin Frazier. Studies and Higher Education,” published national state. It also provides a point of with W.E.B. DuBois: The Scholar Activist, in Signs, investigates issues of gender and purchase on a number of classic sociologi- his significant works on DuBois Margaret Andersen curriculum transformation. Her innova- cal questions and concerns. include: “Intellectuals and Double Winner, Jessie Bernard Award tive gender scholarship and commitment To date, sociologists have had little to Consciousness,” “W.E. B. DuBois and Margaret to social change through teaching are say about many of the “big questions” the Tradition of Black Intellectual Andersen, Professor apparent in several projects including surrounding regional integration (and Thought,” and “DuBois and the Role of Sociology and “Integrating Race, Class and Gender to much of what they have had to say has of the Educated Elite,” “Continuities Women’s Studies the Curriculum in Sociology,” published been speculative). Beckfield takes on the and Discontinuities in the Social and at University of by ASA’s Teaching Resources Center extraordinarily ambitious task of provid- Political Thought of W.E.B. DuBois,” Delaware, is the 2006 and Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology ing rigorous, scientifically-defensible “W.E.B. DuBois and the Objectivity of recipient of ASA’s (1992), currently in its fifth edition (in col- answers to four key questions surround- the Social Sciences,” and “W.E.B. DuBois Jessie Bernard Career laboration with Patricia Hill Collins). ing regional integration and the EU. First, and the Tradition of Radical Intellectual Award. As a major Finally, an important area of consider- has regionalization produced economic Thought.” figure in the sociology ation for the Jessie Bernard Career Award convergence? In support of the goal of The DuBois-Johnson-Frazier tradition of gender, her commitment to excellence is the nominee’s promotion of feminism “ever closer union,” the reduction of is evident in his outstanding publica- in scholarship, teaching, and professional in the ASA and other learned societies. economic disparities between member tion record that includes nine books, 25 service has touched countless scholars, Throughout her long career, Margaret nations of the EU has been an explicit peer reviewed journal articles, and 13 students, and administrators. Andersen has been a strong promoter policy goal of the EU and its anteced- book chapters. In this work, Dennis has Andersen is clearly a penultimate of women’s interests. She was editor of ents. Has this goal been accomplished advanced the cause of African-American gender scholar. She has consistently Gender & Society from 1990-95, where she and how? Second, how has regionaliza- scholarship, and the demarginalization pushed the frontiers of gender scholar- did a superb job of bringing more work tion affected inequality within countries? of Black intellectuals in institutions of ship throughout her career. Her early on race and class into gender scholar- While many observers of the European higher education in particular, and in work illustrates this commitment to ship. In 1984, she was the first person to scene conflate regionalization with glo- American society in general. His series gender with publications including teach Women’s Studies at MIT. Twenty balization and expect “Europeanization” on race and ethnic relations provides “Affluence, Contentment and Resistance years later, in 2004, she was honored as to widen gaps in income in EU nations, evidence of a sustained effort to engage to Feminism: The Case of the Corporate the SWS Feminist Lecturer. She has held others suggest that European integra- others in dialogue on the most challeng- Gypsies” in Social Problems and Social a remarkable range of service and leader- tion may insulate EU countries from the ing and persistent questions affecting our Policy (1979); “Rape Crisis Counseling and ship positions—from serving as one of the assumed polarizing effects of globaliza- society. The edited series, published by the Culture of Individualism” with Claire founders of ASA’s MOST program and co- tion. What is happening and why? Third, JAI Press Inc., include Black Intellectuals, Renzetti in Contemporary Crisis (1980); and directing that program at the University of has regional integration made European W.E.B. DuBois: The Scholar Activist, The “Corporate Wives: Longing for Liberation Delaware for two years to serving on the welfare states more similar? Has the Black Middle Class and Racial and Ethnic or Satisfied with the Status Quo?” in ASA Council. She has served as President European polity produced convergence Politics. Urban Life (1981). This work preceded of the Eastern Sociological Society. In each on a “European” welfare state model? Or His use of scholarship to frame com- her immensely influentialThinking About of these positions, she was active in facili- have the distinctions, between “conserva- munity activism is most evident in the Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and tating feminist work. tive,” “liberal,” and “social democratic” study of annexation efforts of a powerful Gender, (1983). Used consistently in col- Not only does Dr. Andersen have welfare states, been preserved? Finally, has southern elite published in The Politics of lege classrooms for over 20 years and now tremendous feminist vitality, she also has regional integration contributed to welfare Annexation: Oligarchic Power in a Southern in its seventh edition (2006), this book has enormous integrity and a commitment to state retrenchment in Europe? Given strict City (with John Moeser). One colleague had a significant impact on gender teach- supporting other women at faculty and convergence and accession criteria, the described Dennis as a scholar who “never ing and scholarship. student levels. She is a model for current possibility of tax-competition resulting cloistered himself behind the walls of the Andersen has not only been involved and future gender scholars. from an integrated market, etc., many academy but was fully engaged in the life in gender scholarship, she has also been at have linked regionalization to welfare Jason Beckfield of the community and used his skills as the forefront of cutting edge ideas within state regress in Europe. Exactly what role Co-winner, Dissertation Award a scholar to address concerns and issues it. In particular, she was one of the early has regional integration played in welfare important to citizens.” His scholarly and gender scholars to recognize that gender Jason Beckfield, state retrenchment? activist engagement is further demon- did not constitute a stand-alone concept, Assistant Professor Using data on 17 European countries strated in his work as a Commissioner but rather intersected with race, class, at the University of from 1950-2000 and state of the art theory of the Richmond Redevelopment and sexuality and ethnicity. She writes about Chicago, is the other and method, Beckfield finds that regional Housing Authority, Advisory Boards of this path and how it framed her distinc- 2006 awardee for his integration is associated with 1) economic the Richmond Human Relations Council, tive approach to gender scholarship in work The Consequences convergence among EU member states, and the Quality Education Task Force her 2005 Gender & Society essay, “Thinking of Regional Political and 2) increased income inequality within of the Richmond School system. In about Women: A Quarter Century View.” Economic Integration nations, 3) growing isomorphism among memory of his parents, he established Here Andersen spells out a retrospective for Inequality and the welfare states of EU members, and 4) the Dennis-Weathers Award in support of her work in gender, noting how per- the Welfare State welfare-state retrenchment. These find- of African American Studies at George sonal experience informs critical analysis. in Western Europe. Beckfield received ings are, in and of themselves, extremely Mason University (GMU). This award In this retrospective, one sees how her his degree at Indiana University- important and sure to be of great interest honors the “work and spirit” of W.E.B. early commitment to viewing gender Bloomington, where he completed his to a wide audience of scholars and policy- DuBois by faculty, staff and students through the prism of race and class has dissertation under the direction of Art makers, but their “blockbuster” status lies who foster awareness, sensitivity, and greatly contributed to the innovation in Alderson. This paper is an exceptional and in how Beckfield treats the phenomenon cross-cultural understanding at GMU and her work. ambitious work that is fully deserving of of regionalization. Where most research the surrounding community. The award Andersen’s sociological publications the ASA Dissertation Award. It is careful, in this area conceptualizes regionalization recognizes faculty and students who can thus be read as a systematic engage- wide-ranging, and thoughtful research as an economic phenomenon, Beckfield demonstrate a “commitment to increas- ment of gender with ideas about race and that is sure to have an impact within our argues that it also has important political, ing awareness of intercultural/cross- class. Publications such as “Women’s discipline and beyond. Indeed, it is one social, and cultural dimensions. Beckfield cultural understanding at Mason and in Studies/Black Studies: Learning From of those works of sociology that will win develops a “political-institutionalist” the broader community.” He organized Our Common Pasts” (1985); “Moving praise among scholarly specialists while approach to regional integration, which a successful book drive collecting over Our Minds: Studying Women of Color also affecting central policy debates. combines institutionalist thinking with 400 textbooks for the Royal College in and Reconstructing Sociology” (1988); Beckfield’s dissertation asks how we an acute attention to power and interests Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His service to “Studying Across Difference: Race, Class, should go about making sense of regional to highlight how institutions make and the profession includes: President of Gender & the Social Construction of integration—the construction of regional structure markets. He develops multiple the Association of Black Sociologists, supranational markets and polities such indicators of the economic and political September/October 2006 Footnotes
Awards, from page 8 Annual Meeting, from page 1 dimensions of regional integration and shows that economic reforms in response From Ginsburg to Steinem ing and after the Annual Meeting. demonstrates empirically how conver- to consumer demands have transformed In relation to the theme, “Great Of special interest to the reporters gence and inequality in Europe in the last the selling staffs of state-owned depart- Divides: Transgressing Boundaries,” the were the prominent speakers such as half-century have been shaped as much ment stores from state functionaries to major plenary sessions addressed human Ginsburg, Steinem, and world-renowned by political integration as they have by clerks. Consequently, staff members have rights, sex segregation, and gender and sex therapist “Dr. Ruth” Westheimer. economic integration. had to adjust to a new customer base and race. Following the tradition of bringing But the well-known speakers were not The results are truly remarkable and redefine their relations to it. This, in turn, renowned scholars and leaders to speak the only reason the reporters covered are a showcase for what sociology contrib- impacted other retail forms and their at the Annual Meeting, this year ASA’s the meeting. Some came to make con- utes to the broader discussion of transna- clienteles and staff behavior. The resulting exciting sessions included UNESCO’s nections with experts or gain future tional processes and their consequences. ferment provides a fertile setting for her Pierre Sané, human rights advocate, who story ideas. Research by Phillip Cohen, They lend dramatic support to some of study. spoke about “Social Science and Human University of North Carolina-Chapel the fundamentals informing current eco- Hanser observed staff behavior and Rights” at the Welcoming Ceremony on Hill, and Matt Huffman, University of nomic and political sociology, and clearly customer relations as a salesclerk in two August 10. California-Irvine, on the gender wage demonstrate the centrality of sociological very different urban department stores— U.S. Supreme Court insights to the processes within the exclu- a large state-owned enterprise and a Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sive purview of economics or political privately-owned exclusive purveyor spoke at the plenary session, science. Jason Beckfield’s dissertation is of expensive cosmopolitan merchan- “Transgressing Sex Segregation: thus richly deserving of this honor. dise—and, then, as a jack-of-all-trades, The Law, Social Science, and participated in and observed transactions Social Policy,” on August 11 Amy Hanser in a privately-owned clothing stall located about changes in the legal profes- Co-winner, Dissertation Award in a large bazaar specializing in lower sion over the past 40 years. She This year’s ASA quality merchandise for poorer shoppers. was joined by law professors Dissertation Awards Her reports of the everyday activities Deborah Rhode of the Stanford Committee selected of clerks, supervisors, and customers Law School and Judith Resnik of two nominees. Amy capture vividly the way in which systemic Yale Law School, each of whom Elizabeth Hanser, processes play out and are experienced gave engaging presentations. Assistant Professor at the individual level. Hanser witnessed On August 14, Gloria Steinem, and documented a process that is contrib- in the Department women’s rights activist, founder Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells a captive audience, “I have been of Anthropology uting to new social inequalities emerging of Ms. magazine, and cofounder in urban China; service work organized all alone in my corner on the bench” as the only female and Sociology at of the National Women’s Political Supreme Court Justice since Justice O’Connor’s retirement. the University of British Columbia, is an around the construction and communica- Caucus, addressed a plenary awardee for her Counter Strategies: Service tion of cultural boundaries legitimates on “Transgressing Distinctions Work and the Production of Distinction in these inequalities. The distinctions of Gender and Race,” with sociologist gap and women in managerial positions Urban China. Hanser took her degree at among retailers are produced by the way Lawrence Bobo, Director of the Center was covered by the Washington Post and the University of California-Berkeley, employees solve everyday problems and for Comparative Studies in Race and picked up by a number of other papers. where she did her dissertation under routinize their activities, while providing Ethnicity. Their session focused on race Doctoral student Adrianne Frech, and the direction of Thomas B. Gold. The a newly selective clientele with the means and gender issues and the political sphere. professor Kristi Williams, both at Ohio committee members are pleased that to create and maintain distinctions among On August 12, following the ASA State University, also made headlines for both Hanser’s ethnographic study and consumers. These distinctions may not Awards Ceremony (see page 6), Epstein their research on the benefits of marriage Jason Beckfield’s analysis of primary and take the stereotypical form of class-based received a very warm reception for her for the clinically depressed. secondary data were in the same pool. hierarchies; rather, they are inequalities Presidential Address on “Great Divides: 2007 Quickly Approaches We could not and did not wish to choose expressed as exclusive claims to entitle- The Social, Cultural, and Cognitive Bases between two meritorious works that ments. The exercise of such claims is a of the Global Subordination of Women.” On the last day, at the business meet- testify to the breadth and catholicity of familiar phenomenon to students of strati- If you missed the address, you can read it ing, Epstein passed the presidential sociological scholarship and the vitality of fication and inequality. in the February 2007 American Sociological gavel on to Frances Fox Piven. Next the discipline.. Hanser’s shrewd perceptiveness is Review. (Supreme Court Justice Ruth year’s Annual Meeting will be held Participant observation has long been apparent throughout the dissertation. Ginsburg didn’t miss it, though, as she August 11-14, 2007, in New York City. central to the sociological research, and Early on, she notes that relational labor had a front-row seat at this event.) The Call for Papers will be posted very Hanser’s study is an exemplary illustra- processes and the distinctions they entail soon, and the online submission site tion of what it can accomplish. Her ability are as much the product of relations Sociology in the Media will open around Thanksgiving. The among organizations as of individuals to acquire and understand data through In addition to the sociologists, students, deadline for paper submissions will be insinuating herself into and standing acting out unconscious class distinctions. January 17, 2007. She later demonstrates the power of this and exhibitors in attendance, members of apart from the reality that concerns fol- the American and Canadian media also With the 2007 theme, “Is Another lows such classics as Whyte’s Street Corner conceptualization by showing how a World Possible? Sociological change from maintaining local inventories foraged for the numerous newsworthy Society. She employed excellent writing social science stories in the convention Perspectives on Contemporary Politics,” skills to produce a text that, like Street to direct provision of merchandise by dis- for next year’s Annual Meeting, it tant providers reshaped workers’ activi- center. Whether they were presenting Corner Society, can attract students to at a session on “Communicating Social promises to be another exciting, educa- sociology. Her text brings her colleagues ties and customer relations. As another tional, and newsworthy event. Find out example, in an appendix on method Science to Diverse Public Audiences,” and informants to life. With little editing, such as reporter Shankar Vedantam of the more about the 2007 Annual Meeting Hanser’s dissertation can become a book in which she discusses non-neutrality on the “Meetings” page of the ASA issues for participant observers, Hanser Washington Post and editor Barbara Jasny that would be required reading for begin- of Science magazine, or covering the meet- website
Hanser draws on the work of Bourdieu, submit nominations for the above Burawoy, Powell and DiMaggio, Fligstein, ASA awards. Award selection com- Lee, Swidler, Dorothy Smith, and oth- mittees, appointed by ASA Council, ers. The choice of retailing is particularly apt because, changing as rapidly as the are constituted to review nomina- economy and society, retail service reveals tions. These awards are presented emerging inequalities. It continues a line of at the ASA Annual Meeting each sociological inquiry as far back as Frances August. The deadline for submis- Donovan’s 1930 monograph, The Saleslady. sion of nominations is January 31st Hanser demonstrates that rapid of each year unless noted otherwise political, social, and economic change in the individual award criteria. For in contemporary China is reflected in more information, see the “Awards” In an engaging, and yet sobering, presidential address, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein spoke on the retail sector service and, thus, justifies her page at
Williams, from page 1 was teaching a course entitled “Altruism His long and distinguished scholarly semesters at Cornell and spring semesters the Eastern Sociological Association, and Cooperation.” career began in rural sociology, but took teaching at Irvine, driving between the Founding Editor of Sociological Forum, Robin’s exemplary record as a scholar, a different tack in World War II, when two through December snows, sleet, and and Co-chair of the Committee on teacher, and citizen of his times was Robin served in the Special Services fog, stopping on the way to visit daughter the Status of Black Americans. His enriched and facilitated by the compan- Division of the U.S. War Department Nancy and family in Santa Fe. many awards and honors include ionship, care, and common sense of his in Washington, DC, and the European Along with this bicoastal arrange- the Commonwealth Award for beloved Marguerite York, formerly of Theater of Operations (1942-46). As an ment, Robin simultaneously moved on to Distinguished Service, the ASA’s Career Cary, NC, whom he married in 1939. She Army researcher on the frontlines, he promote understanding of ethnic conflicts of Distinguished Scholarship Award, and closely collaborated in his early work as a was a contributor to the classic work, The within and across national borders. The the Robin M. Williams, Jr., Distinguished rural sociologist: a field work project for American Soldier. result was his Lectureship the University of Kentucky’s Agricultural Robin’s 1947 monograph on The 2003 masterpiece, Award estab- Experiment Station. Throughout Robin’s Reduction of Intergroup Tensions (reprinted The Wars Within: lished in his long career, Marguerite played important in a 1999 book honoring his work) is as Peoples and honor by roles as his advisor, sounding board, and relevant today as it was almost 60 years States in Conflict, the Eastern editorial critic as well as companion. ago. Next came his study (with Margaret aptly published Sociological What I have appreciated most about Ryan) of school desegregation published by Cornell Association. this charming and gracious southern in Schools in Transition in 1954 and then University Press. A wonderful gentleman is his blithe transgressing of What College Students Think in 1960. His Robin blend of the conventional academic divides: between famous study of racial and ethnic rela- Williams was professional “research” and “teaching”, for example, tions in Elmira, NY, as well as other cities generous with and personal or between “basic” and “applied” schol- culminated in a book (with John Dean his wisdom, his can be found in arship, and certainly between “active” and Edward Suchman) called Strangers “good sense,” Robin’s chapter and “emeritus” professorial ranks. He Next Door (1964). Another important book offering invari- for the 2006 refused to be categorized, or to play by on racial issues, Mutual Accommodation, ably sound Annual Review of the conventional rules of the academic was published in 1977. But, my personal advice. When I Sociology: “The game. Robin and Marguerite are certainly favorite is the one I have next to me now, became Director Long Twentieth role models for the new 21st century his great overview of our nation, American of the Sociology Robin M. Williams, Jr. Century in retirement; more of a moving on to new Society: A Sociological Interpretation (1951, Program at the American challenges than a passage to second edition in 1961, and a National Science Foundation, he encour- Sociology: A Semiautobiographical leisure. third in 1970). aged me “to keep your back to the wall Survey.” Anyone who spent time After this lifetime of and your hands in both pockets.” He was My favorite mental picture is of a with Robin would never productive engagement right. picnic my husband Dick Shore and I view teaching and scholar- came “retirement,” which Robin also led by example. I recall shared with Marguerite and Robin on ship as anything but two Robin apparently took to when he went to administrators across the their “farm” (land purchased for their sides of the same coin. mean “second wind.” He Cornell campus with, as he called it, his daughter Susan’s horses long ago). With Every conversation, lunch, took on the chair of the “tin cup,” seeking additional funds for the the impending permanent move to or dinner was an occasion National Research Council’s Sociological Forum (the journal he founded Irvine in 2003 came the need to deal with for learning by osmosis. Committee on the Status of for the Eastern Sociological Society). One loose ends in Ithaca. Right before this His lively blend of anec- Black Americans, publishing dean confronted him with his own words: piece of their past was sold, Marguerite, dotes (apocryphal and real), with Gerald David Jaynes “You said, Robin, that last time would be Dick, and I walked to a beautiful spot questions, observations in 1989 a major report on its the LAST time!” Robin simply responded, where she laid out a wonderful spread. and one-liners revealed a findings:A Common Destiny. “I lied.” His was always a vision tran- Emphysema had by then taken its toll, so man enamored with, but That same year came the scending departmental, college, and it was impossible for Robin to walk even not blinded by, a blend of first publication of a paper other administrative boundaries. It is no half the necessary distance. Undaunted, sociological imagination, a based on data he collected accident that when we held a symposium he drove up on his well-worn 1966 broad knowledge base, and good sense. I in the 1950s in Elmira on women’s roles, at Cornell in his honor in 1996, two deans Simplicity lawn tractor. This is Robin was never in his classes, but my daughter the only study he had left uncompleted, and the provost contributed generously and Marguerite’s gift to all of us touched Melanie Moen was, and she described as a result of a collaborator’s death. These and Cornell University Press published by their public and private lives: lessons them (and him) as engaging as well as wonderful data were revived by Donna the resulting papers. about making a contribution to knowl- enlightening. Dempster-McClain, then a student in his In addition to the American edge and understanding, but also about A member of the National Academy of class. Together Donna and I launched a Philosophical Society and the National how to “move on” and to “manage,” and Sciences and the American Philosophical “catch-up” study, finding and reinterview- Academy of Sciences, Robin M. Williams, to do so with grace, humor, and good Society, Robin was highly respected for ing these women and their daughters 30 Jr., was also a member of the National sense. his scientific scholarship. But he saw years later, collaborating with Robin in the Research Council, the Pacific Sociological Phyllis Moen is coeditor, with Donna Dempster-Mc- sociological analysis as socially as well as writing of the results. Association and the American Association Clain and Henry A. Walker, of A Nation Divided: scientifically useful. His was a scholarly As if his “retirement” was not busy for the Advancement of Science, Diversity, Inequalilty, and Community in Ameri- agenda tracking some of the most chal- enough, Robin and his plucky wife among others. He was a President of can Society, a book compiled and published in 1999 lenging social issues of the times. Marguerite took on a bicoastal life: fall the American Sociological Association, in honor of Robin M. Williams, Jr.
Robin Williams was a man for all agues Pay Tri anything better to do at your age than to seasons. Born and reared in the farm- Colle bute continue to teach undergraduates?” With ing country of the North Carolina his characteristic understatement piedmont, he graduated from a Man for All Season and sly smile, Robin replied, North Carolina State at age 19 in to s “Nope.” the depth of the Great Depression. In the Charles Hirschman, University of Wash- next quarter century, Williams earned a ington Harvard doctorate, attained eminence as a Cornell University professor, and was elected president of the American g g g Sociology Society (during his tenure, draw a regular professorial salary, Robin mentor of graduate students as well as the ASS became the ASA). Possessed of a Williams never really retired. Around an award winning teacher of under- There are two sides to the Robin brilliant mind that saw complexity more age 70, he became founding editor of graduate courses. On Homecoming Williams who has been my friend, men- than affirmation of theory or ideology, Sociological Forum, the official journal of Weekends at Cornell, there was always tor, and ego-ideal ever since I became his a work ethic that would continually the Eastern Sociological Society. As his a steady stream of alums that would teaching, and then his research, assistant astound his colleagues and students, and deputy editor, I was obligated to (try to) come by his office to tell him how much in 1948. I want to speak briefly about an ability to write clear and meaning- keep pace with his expectations for a his teaching had influenced their lives. both. ful prose, Williams was a sociological good editorial team. This meant read- For the last 15 years, he taught under- There is the Robin Murphy Williams, superstar for decades. He published his ing every submission, writing detailed graduate courses at the University of Jr., who as a young man in 1948 was first sociological classic,The Reduction of reviews (typically anonymous) to California-Irvine, including during the already the star of the Cornell sociol- Intergroup Tensions, in 1947 and his last, supplement those from external referees, winter 2006 term. Among the many ogy department after returning from The Wars Within: Peoples and States in and to edit every accepted manuscript stories Robin loved to tell was one of a his research on the American soldier Conflict, in 2003. There was much more in for redundancy, logic, and clarity of colloquy at the elevator with a colleague in World War II and as the author of between, and even at his death, he left us expression. Every once in a while, an who had not seen him in a few years. the acclaimed analytic synthesis, The with a forthcoming article in the Annual author would complement us for having The colleague was surprised to hear Reduction of Intergroup Tensions. This is Review of Sociology. such great copy-editing. that Robin was rushing off to teach class the Robin who any discerning observer Although at some point, he ceased to Robin Williams was a much beloved and asked, “Williams, don’t you have would have predicted would eventually September/October 2006 Footnotes 11
Colleagues Pay Tribute to a Man for All Seasons be president of the American Sociological family. Robin Williams was not only For his students, for me, and for many real world, its fads and foibles, maintain- Association and the Eastern Sociological a great sociologist, but an admirable others, Robin M.Williams, Jr., will always ing an open mind. Together these ideas Society, a member of the National human being. be an inspiration and someone I will try reflected the kind of humanist approach Academy of Science, a Fellow of the to emulate the rest of my life. to our field that infused every fiber of Graveside remarks given at the East American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Robin Williams’ being. Lawn Cemetery, Ithaca, New York, at the Calvin Morrill, University of California- a member of the American Philosophical Irvine Peter I. Rose, whose doctoral committee Society, a winner of the ASA Award for invitation of Marguerite Williams, on June Robin Williams chaired at Cornell in the a Career of Distinguished Scholarship, 12, 2006, by Mel Kohn, Johns Hopkins g g g even becoming an icon after whom the University 1950s, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology Eastern Sociological Society named a g g g and Anthropology, Smith College. prestigious lectureship. In short, he was “Mild-manner, courtly, jet-black hair a man who received nearly every honor For all of his extraordinary accom- with a fine mustache and a soft-southern g g g that could be given to an American plishments, humanity, and intelligence, voice…. While his teaching is informal, sociologist. what impressed me up close about and anecdotal, his presentations at meet- When Robin Williams was first crank- This is also the Robin Williams whose Robin M. Williams, Jr., was the passion ings are precise, even clipped.” ing up the engines of his new journal presidential address to ASA (in my he expressed for sociology as a sci- I said these very words (or some- Sociological Forum, he used a combination appraisal, as a close afficionado of the ence that could ultimately solve many thing quite like them) a long while ago of wit, guile, and country charm to draw genre) was equaled only by that of his of the world’s problems. During his in trying to describe the sociologist in contributors and supporters. When I friend, Bob Merton. Both used their pres- 16 years on the Irvine campus, Robin Robin M. Williams, Jr., to a European asked how he got Cornell University to idential addresses to do superbly what took every opportunity to underscore colleague at an ASA meeting on the renew the generous financial and mate- few sociologists even attempt—what the relevance and insights of sociology, way to hear Robin present a paper. As rial support it had provided to launch Merton termed “theories of the middle whether in meetings with deans and we approached the open door to the the journal after promising that it would range” and what Robin again and again provosts as he argued for the expansion hall, there was considerable commotion soon be self supporting, he explained did so masterfully. In this instance, it was of Irvine Sociology in the early 1990s or inside. Somebody had his ire up. It was that he had gone to his dean with his hat a distillation at a very high theoretical in cross-disciplinary conversations with a courtly looking fellow all right, but the in hand. When the dean asked him why level of what sociological research had economists, political scientists, philoso- gentleman at the podium was wound up he was back again after promising rapid taught us about social conflict, both the phers, and other members of the eclectic like a top, trembling a bit and steaming financial stability, Robin said, “I lie a lot,” intra-national ethnic conflicts he studied discussion groups that he formed and mad. He seemed ready to take on all and got the money. in the early years of his distinguished vigorously participated in. challengers. It was Robin. He also told the truth a lot. What a career and the international ethnic con- Like so many sociologists, I had the I immediately realized that I should friend! flicts that he so incisively analyzed in his great fortune of experiencing Robin’s have added a bit more to my word- Charles Tilly, Columbia University book, The Wars Within: Peoples and States passion for sociology as I was begin- portrait, something to the effect that ning my career, when he published my the subject of my friend’s curiosity had in Conflict, which was published when g g g he was nearly 90. first scholarly article in the journal he a very strong moral conscience and, This Robin, though, was a little co-founded at Cornell, Sociological Forum. though slow to burn, was quite capable remote, a little formal. One thinks of I experienced it in a more sustained fash- of expressing a high dudgeon about Generations of sociologists knew him more as a consummate writer and ion as I interacted with Robin over the sloppy thinking, perceived inanities, or Robin Williams in his prime. Some of lecturer, giving a highly polished perfor- past few years at Irvine while he finished social injustice. This, we discovered, was us were lucky enough to know him in mance, than as a participant in informal his last book, The Wars Within. In 2004, precisely what he was doing. And in his later years when life demanded his discussion. The other Robin Williams is Robin approached me in my capacity as regard to all three! wisdom and humor. the man for whom I TA’d when he was department chair to check in about his Like many other former students and Robin suffered the indignity of a first- writing American Society: A Sociological teaching assignment for the department. close acquaintances of Robin Williams, class mind trapped in a body that could Interpretation, the very model of socio- I recall, as he entered my office, he said I never found his tightly controlled no longer keep up with his sharp wit. logical analysis of an entire society. This he had an unusual request, but one that temperament and well articulated The problem with old age, he grumbled, is the man who was developing the he felt strongly about. He said he had assessments and analyses difficult to was that you spent all your time in ideas he expressed so well in his final, been teaching his popular course on the characterize—or to caricature. Moreover, doctor’s offices. Robin and Marguerite, polished book. Working for him while he sociology of war and conflict for so long I took pleasure in doing so and in enu- his wife of more than 60 years, soldiered was developing those ideas provided me that he reasoned he should, as he put it, merating his many contributions to soci- on with grace. Outliving most of their the most wonderful graduate appren- “flip it over,” and develop a course on ology and the study of American society. peers, they spent the last years in Irvine ticeship that I can imagine. It also gave the sociology of altruism and coopera- Now, after one of the most extraordinary amidst new friends and colleagues. me insight into something that many tion. In an era beset by warfare, greed, careers in the history of sociology, Robin Robin made grudging accommoda- generations of his students learned in and hostility, he believed sociology could Williams—scholar, teacher, longtime tions to old age. When emphysema different ways. Robin taught us the great yield important insights about how faculty member at Cornell and, later, UC stole his stamina, he acquiesced to an academic virtues: hard thinking; careful, people can peacefully coexist. He and Irvine, former president of this society, electric cart to chauffeur him to the lively detailed work; taking ideas seriously, I worked together on this last syllabus, loyal friend, and “role-model”—is gone. debates of his faculty lunch group. When selfless seriously; always searching for which he planned eventually to turn into His legacy lives on in his magnum opus, his physician told him not to drink, he what’s useful in other people’s research a book. (Imagine for a moment embark- American Society, and many important switched to non-alcoholic beer, and local and scholarship, not for what can be ing on a new area of study at the age of volumes on intergroup relations, begin- restaurants proudly added his favorite criticized; the value of editing and revi- 89, with serious plans to publish a book ning with his still useful 60 year old little brew to their menus. sion and expressing oneself precisely. He on that area in the future. I was in awe.) book, The Reduction of Intergroup Tension, Robin took delight in a pint-size taught us these lessons, not by preach- Robin taught the course at Irvine in 2005 and ending with his comprehensive and portable oxygen machine that liberated ing, but by exemplifying. It was some- and was in the midst of teaching it a sec- timely assessment of global pandemo- him from a bulky tank. Shuffling into times embarrassing when Robin did well ond time when he fell ill during the 2006 nium, The Wars Within. his first class of the term with oxygen what we had done poorly. spring quarter. I can tell you the course is A decade ago Robin published an device in hand, he knew a 91-year-old I am still embarrassed that I gave original and lays out a new way to think essay on “The Sociology of Ethnic cut a startling figure for wide-eyed Robin a draft chapter of my thesis in about the issues. It also bore a trademark Conflicts: Comparative International undergraduates. After a few lectures, which I had failed to assess whether the of much of Robin’s research and teaching Perspectives” in the Annual Review of they realized that they had the honor of findings I had presented were statisti- in that it set forth a rigorous sociological Sociology. His abstract for that piece ends joining six decades of Williams’ admir- cally significant. Rather than berating analysis of the issues, as well as outlin- with a characteristic Williamseque coda. ing students, several now serving on the me for this amateurish failing, Robin ing humane and practical institutional “Research in this field contends faculty at UCI. took out his slide rule and calculated solutions to seemingly intractable social with many difficulties, and one-sided As a scholar, Robin Williams the p-values of all my tables; he taught problems. theories do not fare well. Yet abundant remained old-school, eschewing comput- us craftsmanship by being the ultimate As department chair, I learn a descriptive materials are available, ers for yellow lined tablets. Avowing craftsman. He also effectively taught lot about how students regard their statistical techniques are improving, that “old age is not for sissies,” Robin us the appropriate goals of scholarship: instructors’ teaching. I have never conceptual clarification continues, and plunged on with research. He published not how many articles you can publish, heard students speak about an instruc- substantive knowledge does accumu- the timely and cogent The Wars Within: but how well your analyses illuminate tor with such an outpouring of respect late. Accordingly, there is hope for better Peoples and States in Conflict (Cornell, important theoretical and policy issues; and, quite frankly, love, as I heard from understanding of some of the most 2003). Although he said it was his last not how deftly you play the Talmudic students who took Robin’s courses. His destructive and tragic conflicts of our book, the Annual Review of Sociology game of classification and abstract specu- courses affected students to their core. times.” convinced him to write a personal essay lation, but how well your interpretations He inspired them with his sociologi- Here he restated what those who on the development of the discipline. help explain social reality; and how use- cal imagination and his insight, and he knew him well learned from him long Fittingly, this was Robin Williams’ last ful a citizen of the community, the pro- offered his students a wealth of sociolog- ago: the wariness of putting all eggs in chapter. fession, and the world you can be. Most ical tools they can use in their own lives. one theoretical basket, the belief that it Judith Treas, University of California- is important to use all available data, the of all, Robin cared: not only about the But more than that, he modeled for his Irvine social causes to which his research was students a humanity, a grace, and a wry admonition always to sharpen the focus addressed (non-discrimination; peace), sense of humor that, packaged together, of ever-changing conceptual lenses, and, but also about students, colleagues, and are all too uncommon in this or any era. above all, the necessity to think about the 12 September/October 2006 Footnotes
Applications Invited for Editorship in early 2007. The Council appoints the Fine, from page 1 of Contexts, JHSB editors. The editors are contacted by the rial team, including student assistants ASA Secretary. calculate that he visited about 100 restau- Applications are invited for the and interns, should be able to handle The application packet should rants, accompanied by Ruth on some and editorships of Contexts and the Journal of the work on a one- to two-days-a-week indicate the editorship to which you are Willie on others. But the blog is only the Health and Social Behavior. basis. applying and should include: topping. The enduring substance is his The official term for the new editor (or (1) Vision Statement: Set forth your every deeper reflections on all aspects of co-editor) will commence in January 2008 JHSB goals and plans for the content of the human behavior, including evil and repu- (the editorial transition actually will start journal. This may include an assessment The Journal of Health and Social tations, another of his continuing interests in summer 2007) and is for a minimum of the current strengths, weaknesses, or Behavior is a medical sociology journal of three years (until December 2010) with gaps that you plan to address and how that publishes empirical and theoretical a possible reappointment of up to an you will operationalize your plan. articles that apply sociological concepts additional three years. (2) Editor/Co-Editor Background and methods to the understanding of Information: The name, affiliation, and Contexts health and illness and the organization other important information about the of medicine and health care. Its edito- potential editor and, if applicable, co- Contexts, ASA’s award-winning maga- rial policy favors manuscripts that are editors is required. Describe the quali- zine (first published in 2002) is devoted grounded in important theoretical issues fications of each person that supports to bringing sociology in medical sociology their inclusion. Evidence of the ability to a wide audience by or the sociology of and experience of the editor and edito- presenting the findings mental health and that rial team to provide sound judgment and ideas of sociology advance our theo- and guidance to potential ASA authors in an engaging and retical understanding is central to the application. Provide a plain-speaking form. To of the processes by clear description of and justification for do so, it currently uses which social factors the structure of the editorial office and a variety of approaches, and human health responsibilities, as you envision them at including 3,500-word are interrelated. The this point. Name only those individuals Gary Alan Fine feature articles, short journal is published who will serve as editor/co-editor. Please research notes, photo quarterly in March, do not include names of individuals that essays, book reviews, (Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of June, September, and you would like/plan to include on the larger culture reviews, field the Evil, Inept and Controversial [University December. editorial board. Contacting potential editorial reports, and first-per- of Chicago Press 2001]). board members can be a time-consuming task son essays. To sustain Qualifications In addition to his research and aca- that should be done only after an editor is its success, the new demic leadership (he also is a member of Candidates must be selected. editor(s) should be the interdisciplinary committee on theatre members of the ASA (3) Institutional Support: It is impor- committed to address- at Northwestern and chaired it), he is a and hold a tenured tant for candidates to consider and ing the lay public member of numerous professional orga- position or equivalent address the feasibility of serving as through the magazine’s nizations. These include many sections of in an academic or editor in light of the resources ASA can choice of topics, style of the ASA and folklore organizations and non-academic setting. Applications from provide and those likely to be available presentation, and language, bringing to also the Society for the Study of Symbolic members of underrepresented groups to the candidate. The ASA does not pay non-academics the great topicality and Interaction, the focal perspective of the are encouraged. for office space or release time, but pro- scholarly diversity of sociology. majority of his work. In each organization In accordance with ASA’s mission vides basic financial support for office Directed to anyone interested in the he has played a major role—engaged in to publish high quality scholarship, the resources as necessary to latest sociological ideas and research, chairing, committee work, and editorial following criteria are journal editors. This sup- Contexts seeks to apply new knowledge, assistance. considered in selecting port may include funds stimulate fresh thinking, and dissemi- Gary is one of the most prolific and editors: for clerical assistance, nate important information produced by wide-ranging ethnographers in sociology. (1) An estab- office supplies, postage, the discipline. The publication’s articles His books range from food and rumor to lished record of and telephone beyond synthesize key findings, weave together art and high school debates, from little scholarship; what will be provided by diverse strands of work, draw out league baseball to fantasy games. Each (2) Evidence of under- the editor’s home institu- implications for policy, and debate issues one involves an enormous amount of data standing the mission tion. Since the support of controversy about which the public collection before he starts writing. As any of the journal/series offered by different insti- is concerned. The hallmarks of Contexts good ethnographer would do, he goes and its opera- tutions varies widely, are accessibility, broad appeal, and into the field (some travel) and gets to tion, indicated by you are encouraged to timeliness. By design, it is not a technical know the players. One of us tagged along experience with contact the Executive journal, but a magazine for diverse read- on a day of fieldwork at the New York the journal/series Office as necessary in ers who wish to be current about social Outsider art show for his book Everyday across any of a wide order to ensure the fea- science knowledge, emerging trends, and Genius: Self-taught Art and the Culture variety of activities sibility of your applica- their relevance. of Authenticity (University of Chicago (submission, review- tion. At this point in While potential candidates should Press 2004). He knew all the players, the ing, editorial board the submission process, feel free to submit a proposal based on a stories behind many of the paintings and experience); letters of support from sole editorship or co-editors, the experi- other works of art and did not mind a (3) Assessment of the deans or other appropri- ence in Contexts’ first years suggests that naïve observer asking additional strange present state of the ate institutional officials the best way to fulfill its missionmay questions of the dealers. He noted their journal/series, its are recommended but be to enlist a team of editors within a responses carefully. Underlying all his strengths and challenges, and a vision not required. Specific arrangements with single department or institution (or from ethnographies with the wide range of for the journal/series’ future; a potential new editor and with that nearby institutions). In addition a team of topics is Gary’s keen understanding of (4) Openness to the different methods, individual and his or her institution will editors, the larger editorial group could symbolic interaction and American prag- theories, and approaches to sociology; occur during the period after the ASA also include a deputy editors or edito- matism, whether he is studying authentic- and Council makes a selection and the ASA rial board members who focus on book ity and the creation of art worlds, rumors, (5) A record of responsible service to Secretary, with support from the ASA reviews, the Discovery research notes, the construction of small groups, the role scholarly publishing and evidence of Executive Officer, works out the final the other non-feature items, and other of negative reputations in culture and his- organizational skill and intellectual agreement with this candidate. innovations the new team might develop. tory, role-playing and fantasy games, and leadership. An image editor who would imagine, back stage and the creation and negoti- The time demands associated with solicit and select the images that make ated order of restaurant meals. these responsibilities vary from week to Contexts so distinctive is critical. Such a Application packets (as described A central theme to all his ethnog- week, but in general, require one full day team could also expand the topical range raphies and theoretical writings is the per week. above) should be no more than five of the magazine. relationship of expressive culture and ASA encourages applications for both The key elements of the editorial pages (excluding vitae) and should social systems: how each is shaped by the sole editorship and co-editorships. workload include receiving and solicit- be sent by November 1, 2006, to: other as we travel from group to group in ing contributions; distributing features our daily lives. This broad social psycho- Selection Process Karen Gray Edwards, Director of for scholarly review; working closely logical focus and his extensive range of with authors to refine their contributions; Applications will be reviewed by the Publications and Membership, ASA, substantive knowledge will provide Social intensive editing for the lay audience; Committee on Publications in December 1307 New York Avenue NW, Suite Psychology Quarterly with a superb editor. composing the “Discovery” notes; 2006. It is possible that prospective The discipline is indeed fortunate. Gary helping develop an attractive layout; editors may be contacted to clarify any 700, Washington, DC 20005-4701; Alan Fine brings three essential attributes and shepherding the magazine through issues raised in the deliberations. A list [email protected]. to the editorship of SPQ: deep knowledge production. With a quarterly schedule (which may be ranked or unranked) will of the field, excellent judgment, and scru- and 20 feature articles a year, an edito- be forwarded to ASA Council for review pulous fairness. ❑ September/October 2006 Footnotes 13
Corrections Program Announcement Annual Meeting Program Corrections Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Charles Willie was the co-winner of the Career of Distinguished Scholar- Please read this notification before applying—Deadline: December 15, 2006 ship Award in 2005. Funding The awards program incorrectly he American Sociological Association (ASA) invites submissions T The amount of each award shall not exceed $7,000. Payment goes stated that there was no DuBois- for the Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) awards. directly to the principal investigator (PI). Grant money may not be used Johnson-Frazier award given in Supported by ASA through a matching grant from the National Science for convention expenses, honoraria, or PI’s salary. No overhead expenses 2004. The award was given to the Foundation, the goal of this award is to nurture the development of are provided, if institutions assist in administering the award for appli- Sociology Department at Washing- scientific knowledge by funding small, groundbreaking research initia- ton State University. cants. Awardees are encouraged to continue the tradition of donating to tives and other important scientific research activities. FAD any royalty income derived from projects supported by the grant. In the In the News section of the July/ FAD awards provide scholars with “seed money” for innovative August 2006 Footnotes, John R. Taylor’s research that has the potential for challenging the discipline, stimu- Application Process research on boys and drug use was mis- lating new lines of research, and creating new networks of scientific Applications must be post marked by December 15. Applications takenly attributed to Patricia Y. Martin. It collaboration. The award is intended to provide opportunities for should include eight (8) copies of the following: should have read, John R. Taylor, Florida substantive and methodological breakthroughs, broaden the dissemi- • A cover sheet with the title, name of lead author, additional State University, had his research on feel- nation of scientific knowledge, and provide leverage for acquisition of name(s) of author(s), ings of self-derogation in boys at age 11, additional research funds. relative to drug dependence nine years • A 100- to 200-word abstract of the research/conference topic, later, cited in the April 25, 2006, edition Selection Criteria • A maximum of five (5) single-spaced pages describing the proj- ect (excluding appendices), of the London Times. It was cited also in a Proposals are reviewed for scientific merit and the importance of the number of health newsletters around the • A detailed budget and time schedule, proposed research project or a conference for sociology as a discipline. United States. • A bibliography, Specific evaluation criteria include the following: • A statement of other pending support, and • Innovativeness and promise of the research idea; • A vita of the PI. • Originality and significance of research goals; Call for Papers • The potential of the study as a building block in the develop- Contact Information ment of future research; Send complete application packets to: FAD awards, ASA/NSF Small • Appropriateness and significance of the research hypothesis; Grant Program, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, Meetings • Feasibility and adequacy of project design; DC 20005-4107. Prior to submitting proposals, call or email project 29th Annual North American Labor His- • Plans for dissemination of results; and director Roberta Spalter-Roth (202) 383-9005, ext. 317; spalter-roth@ tory Conference, October 18-20, 2007, • Appropriateness of requested budget. asanet.org. Applicants are required to notify ASA if other funding is Wayne State University. Theme: “Labor Awards are limited to individuals with a PhD or equivalent. received for the project. Consult
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June 7, 2006, invited article in Newsday Square and its political implications. He radio, Q102, Irish public radio, BBC World the Baltimore Sun on May 25 regarding a about Newsweek’s 20-year retrospective was also quoted in a July 6 AM New York Service, KAHL, The Ron Thulin Show, and dismissal from the U.S. Naval Academy Awards of its June 2, 1986, report on the odds of article about the tradition, culture, and de- in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It was dis- for failure on a physical fi tness test. His women getting married in relation to their cline of pigeon racing in New York City. cussed in the Boston Globe and on CBS on research with colleague Mady W. Segal Don A. Dillman, Washington State Uni- age and educational and career choices. June 30. The research was the subject of a on the demography of the American mili- versity, received the 2006 Helen Dinerman Catherine Kenney, University of Illinois- July 2 New York Times “Week in Review” tary was quoted in an article on minority Award for career contributions to survey Norval D. Glenn, University of Texas, Urbana-Champaign, was quoted in the article and a Chicago Tribune column. The recruitment in the New Jersey Courier-Post research methodology from the World As- was quoted in a June 27 Washington Post June 5 Newsweek article “Marriage by research was mentioned on the Wisconsin on May 28. sociation for Public Opinion Research. article on amicable divorces. the Numbers” on her 2001 research with Public Radio Bill Merens Show on July 3, Joshua Goldstein, Princeton University, Hong Kong radio on July 2, columns by Sandra Susan Smith, University of Pyong Gap Min, Queens College and the Mauro Guillén, University of Pennsylva- which found more education correlated Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page and the California-Berkeley, had her research Graduate Center-CUNY, has been selected nia, was quoted in the July 25 New York with a greater likelihood of marriage for New York Time’s Maureen Dowd on July on African Americans not using their as one of the Russell Sage Foundation Times and in The Economist concerning the women. 4, as well as WBAL-AM on July 4, WPRO social connections to help their friends Visiting Scholar Fellows for the 2006-2007 implications of political changes in Latin Rhode Island radio on July 5, KQED, San fi nd work from the Spring 2006 issue of year. His book, Encyclopedia of Racism in the America for the operations of Spanish R. John Kinkel wrote an op-ed piece for Francisco Public Radio on July 6, and Se- Contexts featured in a June 15 Washington United States (2005), 3 Volumes, has been companies, and in Les Echos regarding the July 3 Wisconsin State Journal on the attle Public Radio on July 7. Smith-Lovin Post article. selected by Booklist as one of the best (23) his research on the aesthetic dimensions pope’s fi rst year. wrote an op-ed on her research, which books published in 2005 in the reference of organizational theories. appeared in the Detroit Free Press, the San Laurel Smith-Doerr, Boston University, category. Eric Klinenberg, New York University, Diego Union Tribune, the Durham Herald- was interviewed on New England Cable Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern Univer- was interviewed on National Public Ra- Sun on July 7, and the Hartford Courant News on June 23 about interpersonal Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware, sity, was quoted or interviewed in several dio’s All Things Considered on July 31 about on July 9. On July 10, the research was relationships and the Internet. was recently awarded a grant from the media outlets for her research comparing his book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of discussed on The Conversation with Ross National Science Foundation, Law & Social women’s and men’s actual versus self-as- Disaster in Chicago and cities’ preparedness Reynolds WCPN, Cleveland Public Radio, Jeremy Straughn, Purdue University, was Sciences Division, for his project, School sessed online Internet skills, which was to assist vulnerable populations during and the McClatchy Group cited the study quoted in a June 25 editorial in the Chicago Discipline and Security: Maintaining co-authored with Steven Shafer and the extreme summer heat of 2006. in an article on race relations and friend- Tribune on the likely political impact of Safety and Legitimacy. LaDawn Haglund, published in the June 2006 Social Science ships on July 23. It was also mentioned recent threats to the Sears Tower. He was Arizona State University, was awarded a Quarterly. Other publications featuring Kathryn Kopinak, UC-San Diego’s Center on the AARP radio show on August 4. a principal source for a feature article subcontract from the same grant. her research include: July 10 Los Angeles for U.S.-Mexican Studies, was quoted in Two documentaries, “The Greener Side” on national identity in America that ap- Times, July 7 Chicago Tribune, July 5 Chicago a June 12 San Diego Union-Tribune article (at the Spring ‘07 Cannes Festival) and peared in the July 2 issue of the Lincoln, Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Florida International Sun Times, and the July 7 Future Tense on on toxic waste. “New Dark Age” (Cloud Nine Films, NE Journal Star. University, received a 2006 Faculty Award Minnesota Public Radio. January ‘07), and “Going Down Kicking” for Excellence in Research. Gary LaFree, University of Maryland, by Chris Billings featured the study. Also, Murray A. Straus, University of New William B. Helmreich, CUNY Graduate was quoted in a May 19 Science magazine magazines Glamour, Elle, Harper’s, and Hampshire, had his research on capital Valentine Moghadam, Social and Human Center, was quoted in a June 9 New York article on terrorism research. Time will have future articles. Overall, punishment and student assaults profi led Sciences, UNESCO, has won the American Times article on the ritual of the prom as more than 250 media sources covered in a June 30 Chronicle of Higher Education Political Science Association’s Victoria a rite of passage. Mark LaGory and Ferris J. Ritchey, the ASR research and almost 800 blogs article. Schuck Prize for the best book on women University of Alabama-Birmingham, dis- have mentioned the ASR study. and politics published in 2005, for her book Jonathan B. Imber, Wellesley College, cussed enumeration of the homeless, and E. Kay Trimberger, Sonoma State Univer- Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist was cited in an opinion piece in the July had their survey of the homeless quoted in Calvin Morrill, University of Califor- sity, was quoted in the June 5 Newsweek Networks. 19 InsideHigherEd.com about University the Birmingham News on July 21, 2006. nia-Irvine, was quoted in a June 25 New article, “Marriage by the Numbers,” on of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff York Times article on women as leaders the usefulness of the trends identifi ed in Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University, and his moralistic writings and specula- Shirley Laska, University of New Orleans, or bosses. the original June 2, 1986, Newsweek report received the 2006-07 Distinguished Faculty tion that a new character, that he called and Katherine Donato, Rice University, on the odds of women getting married, Award from Indiana University. “psychological man,” had arrived on the were quoted in a June 7 Houston Chronicle Charles Moskos, Northwestern Univer- such as an increase in cohabitation and scene in Western culture. article on the new demographics of New sity, was quoted in the June 25 New York single mothers. Orleans and parts of Texas. Times saying that this is the era of “pa- Colin Jerolmack, The Graduate Center- triotism lite” on Capitol Hill. He was also Christopher Uggen, University of Min- City University of New York, was quoted Zai Liang, State University of New York- quoted in a June 4 New York Times article nesota, was quoted in a May 31 USA Today Transitions in a June 20 article in the New York Times Albany, was quoted in the June 3 issue of about training values during war time. article about laws restricting ex-felons and the International Herald-Tribune. The the National Journal about undocumented from voting. Erika Laine Austin has joined the faculty of piece focused on the mayor of London’s immigrants from China. He was also Timothy J. Owens, Purdue University, the University of Alabama-Birmingham. recent ban on pigeon feeding in Trafalgar interviewed by National Geographic about was quoted in a July 28 Indianapolis Star Rose Weitz, Arizona State University, was recent internal migration in northeastern article about single young adults’ harried quoted in an April 2006 Health magazine Shelia Cotten joined the faculty of the China. work lives. article on the connection between hair University of Alabama-Birmingham and color and style and personality. is the Co-Director of the Center of Social John L. Martin’s, University of Wisconsin, Victoria Pitts, City University of New Medicine. recent American Journal of Sociology article York, was quoted in a June 15 New York W. Brad Wilcox, University of Virginia, on perceived sexiness of those in positions Times article on the pressure women feel was interviewed on NBC’s the Today Show Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsyl- of power was summarized in the June 9, to constantly perfect their looks and lose on July 7 for his work on male versus fe- vania, has been promoted to the rank of 2006, “Unconventional Wisdom” column weight. male breadwinners in a relationship. Professor. of the Washington Post. Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University, Steven Martin, University of Maryland, was mentioned in Ruth Marcus’ July 19 was quoted in the June 5 Newsweek article, Washington Post op-ed for his 2000 book “Marriage by the Numbers,” on the ap- Bowling Alone. peal of waiting to marry. Abigail C. Saguy, University of Califor- Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, nia-Los Angeles, had her research on pub- 100 Years of ASA wrote an article on the American border lic debates over the “obesity epidemic” policy in the June 30 Chronicle of Higher cited in a front page essay of the May 30 Education. New York Times entitled “Well-Intentioned Food Police May Create Havoc with Sara S. McLanahan, Princeton University, Children’s Diets.” was quoted in a July 20 New York Times article on a program aimed at fi ghting Theodore Sasson, Middlebury College, poverty through family building. and William Domhoff, University of California-Santa Cruz, were quoted in Selling Women Short is a powerful Miller McPherson, University of Ari- a June 5 Washington Post article about new indictment of how America’s zona and Duke University, Lynn Smith- conspiracy theories. financial capital has swept Lovin, Duke University, and Matthew enduring discriminatory practices Brashears, University of Arizona, had Greg Scott, DePaul University, was under the rug. Comparing the their June 2006 American Sociological quoted in a June 4 Washington Post article experiences of men and women Review (ASR) paper, “Social Isolation in about a deadly additive in heroin. who began their careers on Wall America,” covered in the June 23 Washing- Street in the late 1990s, Louise ton Post, USA Today, LA Times, Boston Globe, David R. Segal, University of Maryland- Roth finds not only that women the Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Chicago College Park, was quoted in a July 30 earn an average of 29% less— Tribune, and wire services including As- Washington Post article about possible sociated Press, Knight Ridder, Reuters, and but that they are shunted into causes of former U.S. Army Pfc. Steven referenced in a Jay Leno joke on NBC’s To- less lucrative career paths, are Green’s alleged criminal conduct in the night Show. It was discussed on All Things “Triangle of Death” area of Iraq and not promoted, and are denied the Considered, NPR, on June 24, the BBC and implications for the quality of recent best clients. Selling Women Short WNYC (NYC CBS affi liate) on June 25, military recruits. He was also quoted closes with Roth’s frank advice on CJOB, Winnepeg radio, Charles Adler Show, in the Christian Science Monitor on April how to tackle the problem. 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R. John Kinkel will be joining the sociol- at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) Laura Fingerson, University of Wiscon- University, Nancy Rodriguez, Arizona ogy faculty of Miami University (Oxford, in spring 2007. of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid sin-Milwaukee, Girls in Power: Gender, State University, Images of Color, Images OH) this fall. Services (CMS). She was also recently Body, and Menstruation in Adolescence of Crime (Roxbury Publishing Company, Judith Auerbach is now the Deputy appointed as a consultant to the Food (SUNY Press, 2006). 2006). William Lane has retired from the State Executive Director for Science and and Drug Administration (FDA) Drug University of New York-Cortland to be- Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Safety and Risk Management (DSaRM) David John Frank, University of Cali- Steve McKay, Satanic Mills or Silicon Is- come a managing partner in GoldenLane Foundation. Advisory Committee. fornia-Irvine, and Jay Gabler, Harvard lands? The Politics of High-Tech Production Assoc., Inc., a gerontological consulting University, Reconstructing the University: in the Philippines (Cornell University/ILR firm located in Albany, NY. John B. Diamond, Harvard University, Maureen Sperrazza, Southern Connecti- Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Press, 2006). has been named a 2006-2007 fellow of the cut State University, presented her paper, Century (Stanford University Press, Katrina Bell McDonald was awarded Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study “Realtors Define Success: A Symbolic 2006). Steven Pfaff, University of Washington, tenure at the Johns Hopkins University at Harvard. Interactionist Study” at the Symbolic In- Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of on May 10, 2006. McDonald is the second teractionism and Ethnographic Research Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Institute of East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and African-American woman to be awarded Wendy Espeland, Northwestern Univer- conference in May in Niagara Falls, Technology, Deborah G. Johnson, Uni- the Revolution of 1989 (Duke University tenure in history of that university’s arts sity, has been named a 2006-2007 fellow Canada. versity of Virginia, and Sue V. Rosser, Press, 2006). and sciences and engineering schools. at the Radcliffe Institute. Georgia Institute of Technology, Women, Gender, and Technology (University of Il- Harland Prechel, Texas A&M University, Valentine Moghadam, Social and Hu- Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Institute of linois Press, 2006). (ed.) Politics and the Corporation, Research man Sciences, UNESCO, will join Purdue Technology, was a plenary speaker on in Political Sociology, Volume 14 (Elsevier/ University in January 2007 as Professor “Advancing women in technical fields Members’ New Mauro Guillén, University of Pennsylva- JAI Press, 2005). of Sociology and Women’s Studies and within higher education,” at the national nia, The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: as Director of the Women’s Studies meetings of the Women in Engineering Books Scientific Management and the Rise of Mod- Claire M. Renzetti, University of Dayton, Program. Programs and Advocates Network (WE- ernist Architecture (Princeton University Lynne Goodstein, University of Con- PAN), June 2006. Ari Antikainen, Päivi Harinen, and Press, 2006). necticut, Susan L. Miller, University of Toby Parcel, North Carolina State Uni- Carlos Alberto Torres (eds.) In from the Delaware, Rethinking Gender, Crime, and versity, has been appointed as Dean of Larry Isaac, Vanderbilt University, has Margins: Adult Education, Work and Civil Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray, Justice: Feminist Readings (Roxbury Pub- the College of Humanities and Social been elected president of the Southern Society (Sense Publishers, 2006). Looking through Taiwan (University of lishing Company, 2006). Sciences. Sociological Society. He will serve this Nebraska Press, 2005). year, 2006-07, as President-Elect and 2007- Algernon Austin, Thora Institute LLC, Susan M. Ross, Lycoming College, Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois- 08 as President. Achieving Blackness: Race, Black National- Victoria Kaplan, Writing for Change, American Families Past and Present: Social Chicago, was promoted to Associate ism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Cen- Structural Inequality: Black Architects in Perspectives on Transformations (Rutgers Professor with tenure in August 2006. Gale Largey was invited to discuss his tury (New York University Press, 2006) the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, University Press, 2006). documentary film on the founder of and Getting It Wrong: How Black Public 2006). Vicki Smith, University of California- American sociology, Lester Ward: A Life’s Intellectuals Are Failing Black America Kent Sandstrom, University of Northern Davis, has been appointed to a three- Journey, at The Fourth International (iUniverse, Inc., 2006). Samantha King, Queen’s University, Pink Iowa, Dan Martin, University of Minne- year term as Chair of the Department of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference. A Ribbons Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics sota-Duluth, Gary Alan Fine, Northwest- Sociology. shortened 58-minute version of the docu- Suzanne Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and of Philanthropy (University of Minnesota ern University, Symbols, Selves, and Social mentary will be aired on several regional Melissa A. Milkie, University of Mary- Press, 2006). Reality: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach Susan L. Smith-Cunnien has been pro- Public Broadcasting Service stations in land and ASA Rose Series in Sociology, to Social Psychology and Sociology (Roxbury moted to Professor at the University of St. the fall of 2006. Changing Rhythms of American Family Life Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University, Publishing Company, 2006). Thomas-St. Paul. (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Martin Malone, Mount Saint Mary’s Resolution, 3rd edition (Rowman & Little- Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, Ter- Lisa K. Waldner has been promoted to University, delivered the annual Dis- Francine D. Blau, Cornell University, field, 2006). ritory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Professor at the University of St. Thomas- tinguished Faculty Lecture, “A world Mary C. Brinton, Harvard University, Global Assemblages (Princeton, 2006). St. Paul. without borders: The curse of living in David B. Grusky, Stanford University, Simon Langlois, Université Laval, interesting times,” at the university’s The Declining Significance of Gender? (Rus- Consumer en France (Editions de L’Aube, Tom Scheff, University of California- James Zuiches, formerly a dean at Wash- Honors Convocation in April. sell Sage Foundation, 2006). 2006). Santa Barbara, Goffman Unbound! Toward ington State University, has joined North a New Paradigm in Social Science (Paradigm Carolina State University this spring as Gordon Morgan, University of Arkansas, Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Se- Judith Lorber, Brooklyn College and the Publishers, 2006). the Vice Chancellor for Extension, En- has been named a Fulbright College dis- gal, Indiana University Southeast, Gender Graduate School, Mary Evans, and Kathy gagement, and Economic Development. tinguished alumni for 2006. and the Local-Global Nexus:Theory, Research, Davis, Handbook of Gender Studies and David A. 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International Journal for the Scholar- souri, with a BA in sociology, in 1944, he Hawai’i. Professional services to the com- the Age of Mercantilism” (with Joya Caught in the Web ship of Teaching & Learning. A new, completed an MA at Washington Univer- munity were numerous over his lifetime. Misra in Acta Politica). This work found international, peer-reviewed, open ac- sity in 1950 and a PhD at the University As Interim Director of the University of perhaps its fullest expression in The Spiral The 2006 General Social Survey (GSS) cess eJournal, titled International Journal of Minnesota in 1956. Hawai’i Juvenile Delinquency Preven- of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global has been completed and will be archived for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning During his 56 plus years of scholarship, tion and Control Center and participant Democracy (with Christopher Chase-Dunn in the fall. The topical modules are on (1) (IJ-SoTL) at
superb intuitive sense about causality that career, Betty was an active member and heroic commitment, in order to escape presaged a generation of research and Lynn Zimmer illuminated all of her work. She combined a national, state, and local officer of the the dialectic of hope and despair, illusion publications on development and nation- (1947–2006) this with a work ethic that simply could American Association of University Pro- and disillusion, to which human beings building. In the 1970s, Shannon’s research Queens College sociologist, Lynn Zim- not be surpassed. She produced a lot of fessors. Whether helping to organize a are prone. In practice, however, Freud’s interest turned to studies of delinquency mer, died at home in New York City on first-rate scholarship within a relatively second bargaining unit for NTT faculty or cautious, stoic ethic became popularized and early adult crime. He is best known July 2, 2006, of complications related to brief period. Her leaving us is a loss to supporting research about gender equity, into therapeutic doctrines of liberation for his research on three birth cohorts multiple sclerosis. She was 59. us all.” Betty enthusiastically worker to better the from normative constraints—sexual, from Racine, Wisconsin (1942, 1949, and Lynn taught at Queens from 1989 until In her last decade, she pursued a life- working conditions of all faculty. political, and otherwise—which Freud 1955) using official police and court data. she retired in 2004. Before that she taught long interest in immigration and together For many of her dearest friends, Betty’s never intended. A stream of publications by Shannon at SUNY Geneseo. She received her doc- with Helen Rose Ebaugh focused on greatest legacy is as a feminist sociolo- In The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Rieff and his associates established that many torate in sociology from Cornell. the role of religious institutions in the gist who was a powerful and articulate proceeded to clarify how “the analytic factors contribute to the development of Her book Women Guarding Men (Univer- adaptation of immigrants in the United defender of women’s rights in national attitude” of Freud was corrupted and adult criminal careers. sity of Chicago Press 1986) was the first States (Religion and the New Immigrants: organizations and at Kent State. As a abandoned by seminal cultural figures His last four books represent varied major study of women prison guards and Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant founding mother of Sociologists for directly influenced by Freud, such as interest. Two were based on the Racine an important contribution to our under- Congregations, 2000). In particular, she Women in Society (SWS), Betty served on C.G. Jung, Wilhelm Reich, and D.H. birth cohorts— Criminal Career Continuity: standing of the experience of integration applied gender theory to changes in the Steering Committee (1971-73), was an Lawrence, who were the predecessors of Its Social Context (1988) and Alcohol and in “men only” workplaces. the status of immigrant women as they SWS secretary (1972-74), and organized a full-blown therapeutic culture which Drugs, Delinquency and Crime (1998). His Several publications on policing and began to get involved with immigrant the first two annual conferences (Denver Rieff saw emerge in the 1960s. Although book, Developing Areas: A Book of Readings street-level drug enforcement brought congregations. 1971; New Orleans 1972). She was an Rieff wrote largely in defense of Freud’s and Research (1995) co-authored with Vi- Lynn to the attention of drug policy re- Janet had an enviable ability to produce active member of various committees of analytic attitude against those who jayan K. Pillai was a complete revision of searchers. She became a prominent and propositional inventories, formal theory, the Sex and Gender section of the ASA advocated some variety of therapeutic his 1957 volume. In 1995, Professor Shan- widely respected researcher in the areas and tightly conceptualized first-draft when it was the section on Sex Roles. At liberation, the ironic and irenic style of non published a ‘fun book’ filled with po- of drug use and drug control, and had nu- papers in an exceedingly short time. We Kent State, she was one of the first teach- The Triumph of the Therapeutic sometimes litical wisdom from two cats. In Socks and merous professional and popular publica- often joked that she could produce from ers of the Sociology of Women, and an leaves readers in doubt as to where the Cretin: Two Democrats Helping Bill with the tions on a broad range of issues including scratch a publishable article in a few early researcher about “The Invisibility author stands. In subsequent writings, Presidency, he created a dialogue of cor- the social analysis of pharmacology and hours. She willingly edited manuscripts of Women” in introductory textbooks Rieff left little doubt that he rejected not respondence between President Clinton’s addiction, the nature of social control and offered by colleagues and students, but (AJS 1973). She help to develop both only the triumphant therapeutic culture cat, Socks, and Lyle’s cat, Cretin. law, and drug testing. we had to be prepared to have our work the Women’s Studies program and the but also Freud’s analytic attitude which Although Lyle was officially retired, he She was also an expert on marijuana and thoroughly marked-up in red pen. Nev- Women’s Center at Kent State. She was he held at least partially responsible for continued to have a daily presence in the with John Morgan, MD, Emeritus Profes- ertheless, the manuscripts were so much an invaluable mentor to women students the therapeutic revolution. Department of Sociology at the University sor of Pharmacology at City College, the better. and faculty alike—willing to support Fellow Teachers (1973) and other central of Iowa. Lyle was busy writing a history of wrote Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts. The same tightness of her logical our individual struggles, to share her works of the 1970s, such as “The Impos- the Department. His memories of the “old Published in 1997, the book is the most arguments and sense of pragmatism knowledge and experiences, to gently sible Culture: Wilde as Modern Prophet” days” were always amusing—especially comprehensive review of international that permeated her theory construction, nudge us to stay true to the vision of an (1970; expanded 1982-83) and the 1978 as told through the eyes of someone who marijuana research to date and has been research, and teaching influenced the empowering feminist scholarship. Epilogue to the third edition of Freud: The remembered even the smallest of details. translated into seven languages. manner in which she helped prepare her Mind of the Moralist, exhibited much more He generously supported the Center Elaine J. Hall and Jerry M. Lewis, Department In 2000, Lynn received the Lester Grin- family and her colleagues for her com- explicit condemnations of therapeutic for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies of Sociology, Kent State University spoon Award for Achievement in the ing death. Five months before she died, culture and (especially in the latter work) through financial contributions and his Field of Marijuana Law Reform from the in the course of our 25 year old ritual of even Freud himself. A collection of his es- presence at brown bag colloquiums and National Organization for the Reform of celebrating one another’s birthdays (we says and reviews was published in 1990 the Center’s guest speaker series. Lyle is Philip Rieff Marijuana Laws. That year she also re- all were born in 1942), she announced under the title, The Feeling Intellect: Selected greatly missed by all the faculty and staff (1922–2006) ceived The Lindesmith Award for Scholar- that this would be the last birthday lunch Writings, published by the University of that had grown accustomed to his ever- ship from the Drug Policy Foundation. she would share with us. She said “thank Philip Rieff, Benjamin Franklin Profes- Chicago Press. During the final year of his present good humor and devotion to all She is survived by two sons, Joseph and you” for 33 years of close camaraderie sor of Sociology and University Professor, life, his magnum opus, Sacred Order/Social things sociology. Mark Zimmer. in the department and then proceeded Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, Order, appeared with the first volume, Lyle was born in Storm Lake, Iowa, in to give instructions regarding the type died at his home in Philadelphia on July My Life among the Deathworks: Illustration 1920. He is preceded in death by his his- John Levinson, Hunter College of the City of memorial she wanted. She had little 1, 2006, at the age of 83. Rieff received his of the Aesthetics of Authority, published in torian spouse, Magdeline. He is survived University of New York patience for people who belabored their BA and PhD at the University of Chicago February, 2006. Two further volumes are by his four children, artist Mary Shannon health problems and, despite her pain, we and began his teaching career there and expected, along with an earlier written Will of Calgary, Alberta, and Albuquer- seldom heard her complain. then at Brandeis University. From 1961 work on charisma. que, New Mexico, a Hollywood film Chafetz loved intellectual discussions, until his retirement in 1993, he taught At present, Rieff’s influence on social technician, Susan Michelle Shannon of heated arguments over issues, Russian sociological theory at the University of theory and the discipline of sociology Mission Hills, California, Robert William Classified Ad novels, the New York Times crossword Pennsylvania. He was a sometime Visit- is restricted to a relatively small group of Seattle, Washington, and John Thomas puzzles, writing scholarly articles, and ing Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, of scholars who are familiar with his of Missoula, Montana. Academic editing for social scientists by especially her husband, Hank, a profes- and also taught for one year at the Univer- work, within sociology probably most Donna Maurer, Ph.D. (sociology). Please Celesta A. Albonetti, University of Iowa sor of geosciences at the University of sity of California-Berkeley. In 1957-58 he significantly represented by James Da- see my website at
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