Volume 38 • Number 1 • January 2010
Alice Rossi (1922-2009): Feminist Scholar and an Ardent Activist
by Jay Demerath, Naomi Gerstel, Harvard, the University of were other honors too: inside Michael Lewis, University of Chicago, and John Hopkins The Ernest W. Burgess Massachusetts - Amherst as a “research associate”—a Award for Distinguished position often used at the Research on the Family lice S. Rossi—the Harriet time for academic women (National Council of ASA’s 2010 Election Ballot Martineau Professor of Sociology 3 A married to someone in Family Relations, 1996); Find out the slate of officer and Emerita at the University of the same field. She did not the Commonwealth Award Massachusetts - Amherst, a found- committee candidates for the receive her first tenured for a Distinguished Career ing board member of the National 2010 election. appointment until 1969, in Sociology (American Organization for Women (NOW) Alice Rossi (1922-2009) when she joined the faculty Sociological Association, (1966-70), first president of at Goucher College, and her first 1989); elected American Academy of August 2009 Council Sociologists for Women in Society 5 appointment to a graduate depart- Arts and Sciences Fellow (1986); and Highlights (1971-72), and former president of the ment did not come until 1974, honorary degrees from six colleges Key decisions include no change American Sociological Association when she and her husband, Peter H. and universities. in membership dues, but (1982-83)—died of pneumonia on Rossi, moved to the University of As an original thinker, Alice man- subscription rates see a slight November 3, 2009, in Northampton, Massachusetts-Amherst as Professors aged to combine her successful activ- Massachusetts. Rossi was a towering increase. of Sociology. She remained on the ism with published work that always figure in American sociology as well UMass faculty until her retirement in illumined issues of consequence in as a nationally preeminent feminist 1991. the lives of contemporary women Stanford’s 50th Anniversary scholar and an ardent activist. 8 Alice Rossi became a leader in and men. Her major books include: of Its Renewal Born to German Lutheran parents a variety of venues. She served as Academic Women on the Move (1973); The Stanford University on September 24, 1922, in New York, Vice President of the American The Feminist Papers: From Adams Department of Sociology Alice Emma Schaerr was a true Association of University Professors to de Beauvoir (1973); Feminists in brought together current daughter of that city. A 1947 graduate (1974-76) and Chair of the Social Politics: A Panel Analysis of the First of Brooklyn College, she earned her and former faculty and Science Research Council (1976-78). National Women’s Conference (1982); PhD in sociology from Columbia students to celebrate its 1959 President Carter appointed her to Gender in the Life Course (1985); University 10 years later, primarily Reorganization and Renewal. the National Commission for the Of Human Bonding: Parent-Child under the tutelage of Robert Merton. Observance of International Women’s Relations Across the Life Course (with Due to prejudicial attitudes toward Year (1977-78), and she served on the Peter H. Rossi, 1990); Sexuality Across The Evolution of women seeking faculty positions, she 9 Advisory Council for the National Clickstream Mapping was employed at Cornell University, Institute on Aging (1985-89). There Continued on Page 6 Researchers use network analysis to visualize the social and scientific significance of ASA Recognizes 2009’s keystrokes in order to map 2010 Annual Meeting: Why Atlanta? scientific activity. t’s not too early to begin planning 76 MFP Leadership Iyour participation in the next ASA Campaign Contributors Annual Meeting, August 14-17, 2010, in Atlanta, GA. After a number of Science Policy...... 3 SA is pleased to announce that northeast and northwest meeting loca- in 2009, the Minority Fellowship From the Executive Officer...... 2 tions, ASA is pleased to return to the A Atlanta Skyline Program (MFP) Leadership ASA Forum...... 11 South for the next Annual Meeting. their guest rooms and meeting space. Campaign, led by immediate past Announcements...... 12 Prime Lodging and Meeting Meeting attendees will appreciate Vice-President Margaret L. Andersen Room Space the ease of getting between the two and Executive Officer Sally T. 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footnotes • January 2010 2 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Candidates for 2010 ASA Election
The American Sociological Association is pleased to announce the slate Vicki Smith, University of Charles Gallagher, La Salle of candidates for ASA Officers, Committee on Committees, Committee California-Davis University on Nominations, and Committee on Publications. Members will receive Sharon N. Barnartt, Gallaudet Non-Academic Institutions: an e-mail with a link to the 2010 ballot on ASA’s website in early May University Lisa M. Frehill, Commission on Frank Dobbin, Harvard Professionals in Science and 2010. Members who requested print ballots will receive them via postal University Technology mail. The candidates are: David John Frank, University of Laura Miller, RAND California-Irvine PhD-Granting Institutions: President-Elect: Joya Misra, University of Richard D. Lloyd, Vanderbilt Wendy Cadge, Brandeis Massachusetts-Amherst Karen S. Cook, Stanford University University Bruce G. Carruthers, University Deidre A. Oakley, Georgia State Alondra Nelson, Columbia Northwestern University Erik Olin Wright, University of University University Mitchell Stevens, Stanford Wisconsin-Madison William Velez, University of University Wisconsin-Milwaukee The elected members of the Vice President-Elect: Robin E. Wagner-Pacifici, Patricia E. White, National Committee on Nominations prepared Roberto M. Fernandez, Swarthmore College Science Foundation most of the slates of candidates Massachusetts Institute of Deborah Carr, Rutgers University Nazli Kibria, Boston University for the 2010 election; the slate of Technology Committee on Publications: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke candidates for the Committee on Edward E. Telles, Princeton University Nominations was prepared by University Dana M. Britton, Kansas State Members-at-Large of the ASA University Committee on Committees: Council Members-at-Large: Karen A. Cerulo, Rutgers Council. In order to be eligible to vote Members-at-Large: Mario Luis Small, University of University in the 2010 election, you must renew Margaret Hunter, Mills College Chicago Kieran Healy, Duke University your membership by March 31. If you Maria J. Kefalas, St. Joseph’s Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College have any questions about the slate of University Institute of Technology candidates or the petition process, Committee on Nominations: Michelle J. Budig, University of Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State e-mail [email protected] or call Massachusetts-Amherst University Edward Murguia, Texas A&M (202) 383-9005.
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NIH basic Behavioral and Social Reinvestment Act funds will support And speaking of the U.S. Criminologist is sworn in as U.S. Sciences Research (b-BSSR) to the first year of OppNet, which will Census… Assistant Attorney General expand focus on short-term activities to Young children are surprisingly Laurie O. In November 2009, the National develop existing programs’ capacities the age group that is most often Robinson was sworn Institutes of Health (NIH) Director for b-BSSR, and by 2011 OppNet will missed in the census, according in as Assistant Francis Collins announced the be supported through NIH’s pool to the Annie E. Casey Foundation Attorney General on launch of the Basic Behavioral and of common funds shared among report, Why Are Young Children November 9, 2009. Social Science Opportunity Network the ICs. For more information, visit Missed So Often in the Census?, Robinson served (OppNet), a trans-NIH initiative
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footnotes • January 2010 4 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Council Highlights MFP
from page 1 t its August 11-12,2009, meet- bers who contributed so generously to Aings in San Francisco, Council the MFP Leadership 100 Campaign in announced by immediate welcomed incoming officers 2009 by pledging significant support past President Patricia Hill President-Elect Randall Collins, to the MFP for the next five years. Collins at the Annual Meeting Vice President-Elect David Snow, Reports of Standing Committees: in San Francisco and in the Secretary-Elect Kate Berheide, and • Status of Women in Sociology: September/October 2009 issue The lapel pin worn by campaign leaders four new Council Members-at- Accepted the report, thanked the of Footnotes. at the ASA Annual Meeting Large: Sarah Fenstermaker, Jennifer committee for its diligence and There is still time to par- Lee, Sandra Smith, and Sarah Soule. stamina, scheduled consideration ticipate in the MFP Leadership Judith Howard Pending Council approval and online of the recommendations during Campaign! For more infor- Arne L. Kalleberg posting of the minutes, the following the coming year, and directed is a brief preview of key decisions and ASA Executive Office staff to mation, contact Margaret L. Felice Levine Andersen, Sally T. Hillsman, or information. post the committee’s report on Jean H. Shin through the ASA Amanda Lewis & Tyrone 2011 Program Committee. the ASA website and prepare a Minority Affairs Program at Forman Approved President-elect Randall progress report for the February [email protected]. Cora B. Marrett Collin’s selection of the following meeting. Ramiro Martinez members: Elijah Anderson, Elizabeth • Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Joan Acker A. Armstrong, Elizabeth Bernstein, and Transgendered Persons in Douglas S. Massey Richard Alba Daniel F. Chambliss, Myra Marx Ferree, Sociology: Accepted the final report Doug McAdam Margaret L. Andersen Jerry A. Jacobs, Mercedes Rubio, and expressed gratitude to the com- Omar McRoberts Ronald & Jacqueline Angel Erika M. Summers-Effler, David Snow mittee for bringing forth concerns Ruth Milkman (ASA Vice President-Elect), Donald of GLBT scholars about the status Anonymous Joya Misra Tomaskovic-Devey (Secretary), Kate of GLBT research and research- Janet L. Astner Aldon & Kim Morris Berheide (Secretary-Elect), Sally T. ers in the discipline, profession, Maxine Baca Zinn Hillsman (Executive Officer). and academia at large. Scheduled Lisa Park & David Pellow William Bielby 2010 Dues. Affirmed no change consideration of the recommenda- Mary Pattillo Edna & Phil Bonacich in membership and section dues for tions during the coming year and Willie Pearson, Jr. Andrew Beveridge 2010. directed ASA Executive Office staff Bernice A. Pescosolido 2010 Subscription Rates. Raised to post the committee’s report on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Gerald Platt Member rates by $5, and increased the ASA website and prepare a Florence B. Bonner Institutional rates by 15%. progress report for the February Barbara Reskin Christine Bose 2010 Annual Meeting meeting. Pamela Roby Clifford Broman Registration. Approved increases of • Status of Racial and Ethnic Orlando Rodriguez Tony N. Brown general registration fees for 2010 for Minorities on Sociology: Received Havidán Rodríguez full member/non-member categories update that committee’s final report Michael Burawoy Judith Rollins by $15, for student and related catego- would be submitted by August Linda Burton ries (retired/emeritus, unemployed, 2010. Mary Romero & Eric Margolis José Z. Calderón secondary school teacher) by $5, for Task Force on Sociology and William Roy Craig Calhoun guests by $10. Fees for Seminars, Criminology Programs. Received Rogelio Saenz Obie Clayton Courses, and Employment Service progress report that task force con- Gary Sandefur increased by $5. ducted a quantitative and qualitative Dan & Mary Ann Clawson C. Matthew Snipp Contexts. Approved continuation survey of joint department chairs and Patricia Hill Collins of Contexts for an additional three anticipates delivering a final report in Gregory Squires Randall Collins years (through 2013) and directed the February 2010. Teresa Sullivan William D’Antonio Executive Office to begin a competi- Literacy Standards. Endorsed the David T. Takeuchi N.J. Demerath tive search for a publishing partner, ACRL Information Literacy Standards Howard Taylor with the goal of eliminating Contexts’ for Anthropology and Sociology Marjorie DeVault Edward Telles financial deficit as soon as possible. Students and recommended that Bonnie Thornton Dill Kathleen Tierney Also determined that current and departments of sociology work with Marlese Durr future Contexts-generated deficits be their library staff to consider appropri- Don & Barbara Russell Dynes covered from the Spivack Fund. ate implementation. Tomaskovic-Devey D. Stanley Eitzen Sections. Member Resolutions: William Velez Myra Marx Ferree & • Approved a section name change • Affirmed and expanded ASA’s com- David R. Williams from “Evolution and Sociology” to mitment to human rights. G. Donald Ferree, Jr. Charles Willie “Evolution, Biology, and Society.” • Urged Congress to pass the Gary Alan Fine • Approved Global and Transnational Employee Free Choice Act See William Julius Wilson Charles Gallagher Sociology as a section-in-
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Alice Rossi not always easy to get along with, she from Page 1 was little different from many other Reflections on Alice Rossi influential academics in this regard. e can all look back and reflect sociology profession as a founder of the Life Course (1994); and Caring and An unstinting correspondent, she Won those who inspired and sup- Sociologists for Women in Society Doing for Others: Social Responsibility quickly accommodated requests by ported our careers. There are many (SWS) and became its first president. in the Domains of Family, Work and colleagues and students to review such people in my life, but without Alice’s seminal essay, “Equality Community (2001). their written work. Because her a doubt, an early essay by Alice Between the Sexes: An Immodest To know Alice was to know a detailed responses were always hon- Rossi was one of the main reasons I Proposal,” was one of the very few scholar who believed that science est and often severe, those seeking became a sociologist. In 1968 I was analytic works about women’s poor could and should trump ideology even uncritical praise quickly learned to a junior in college, taking introduc- representation in the professions in in the cause of social justice. She was turn elsewhere while those will- tory sociology to fulfill a general the 1960s. It was followed by Women fearless in the face of the controversy ing to learn hard lessons invariably education requirement. I was writing in Science: Why So Few? (1965). Both that this belief sometimes provoked. concluded their work had been a term paper on abortion, something were important as I turned to my Publishing her 1964 path-breaking improved. I felt passionate about; like many study of women in the law. article in Daedalus, “Equality Between Even toward the end, Alice’s 87 of my generation, during the time Alice Rossi’s scholarly work was the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal,” years were marked by considerable before Roe v. Wade. At the time, often informed by her political she complained of the waning of achievement and considerable recog- I was more interested in comput- activities. Serving on President Jimmy feminism and argued that women’s nition. At a recent national conven- ers than society and was writing a Carter’s Commission on International primary responsibility for child tion of NOW she was honored as one Fortran program to analyze attitudes Women’s Year in 1977 led to a study rearing—indeed the making of moth- of that organization’s two surviving toward abortion. As part of my proj- of women’s political aspirations and erhood into a full-time occupation founders. Delegates to the meeting ect, I found a short article by Alice her political concern for abortion for the first time in history—made it went out of their way to thank her for Rossi in Trans-action—a six-page law reform. This interest led to major impossible for women “to participate past contributions but soon found out report on public attitudes toward surveys about public attitudes. on an equal basis with men in politics, that the older Alice was not finished. abortion (“Abortion Laws and Their All the while, Alice’s personal life occupations and families.” This article When asked to comment on presenta- Victims”). I remember thinking, was enhanced by the intellectual and brought vituperative attacks in which tions, she displayed the same fire that “Wow! People can study subjects like personal companionship of Peter she was called an unnatural woman years earlier had moved her to best this and actually get paid to do it!” I Rossi. The mother of three children, and unfit mother, but it served as a Betty Friedan in a dispute over the was hooked. I dropped my then- she also was an accomplished cook, virtual blueprint for the political and meaning of NOW’s identifying acro- computer/business major, switched a fanatic gardener; and an amazing academic project called “second wave nym. While Friedan wanted it to be to sociology, and continued on to seamstress. I still have the embroi- feminism.” Her several articles begin- the National Organization of Women, graduate school two years later. dered placemats that she made for ning in 1966 urging abortion rights Rossi argued successfully that it Rossi’s work—this piece and her me. I have a rich file of the letters had similar reverberations. Later, should be the National Organization many subsequent works—inspired Alice wrote over the years, showing Alice immersed herself in the study of for Women to indicate that men were me throughout my early career. Her the personal insights and feelings of endocrinology and primatology. She welcome as long as they put their publication The Feminist Papers, a this amazing woman who was also a concluded that to understand sex roles shoulders to the feminist wheel. collection of the then-largely over- wonderful friend. (a term she preferred to “gender”), Alice held dear not only her work looked papers of feminist thinkers; In my “to-do” file there is a letter scholars and proponents of equality but also the love and life she shared her edited volume, Essays on Sex from Alice Rossi instructing me that needed to move from models of par- with her husband, Peter H. (also Equality, about Harriet Taylor Mill she preferred real letters to e-mail, enting based only on social causation a past president of the American and John Stuart Mill; and, of course, but sadly I didn’t get to answer it on to models recognizing the combined Sociological Association, who died in her well-known Daedulus essay, time. Years ago, we had struck up an contributions of biology and social 2006), her children, Peter E., Kristin, provided the foundation for feminist epistolary friendship based on some practices. She maintained this posi- and Nina, and her six grandchildren. theory and feminist politics. Inspiring, common experiences and interests. At tion despite vigorous opposition and At the same time, she clearly belongs sometimes controversial, but always different times we had been students critique from many of those who had in the pantheon of such pioneering a serious and demanding scholar, in the Columbia University Graduate praised her earlier work. 20th-century feminists as Simone de Alice Rossi influenced a generation of Sociology Department and we shared Anyone who had the good fortune Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist scholars. I never worked with a passion for women’s rights. Both of (and courage) to work with Alice and Margaret Mead, who also inter- her directly, but, as I reflect on her us integrated our interests with our soon learned that she worked inten- twined scholarship and activism to passing, I am only glad that I had the scholarship and we worked with some sively to realize high standards and achieve profound influence. Alice chance—publicly and privately—to of the same players in the scholarly expected others to do the same. She Rossi helped to provide an important thank her for having charted a course and activist worlds. I will miss this was an accomplished tailor, expert bridge from the 20th to the 21st cen- for me to follow. correspondence. gardener, and superb chef (pity the tury. As an exemplar, colleague, and waiter who asked perfunctorily how friend, her passing leaves a deep loss Margaret L. Andersen, University of Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Graduate Center, she liked a sub-par meal). Although but a far-reaching legacy. Delaware CUNY
Alice combined her interest in the Alice Rossi was one of the most Renew Today! Life Course as a focus of scholarship significant sociologists in the early with a sense of purpose in changing phases of feminist remobilization In order to vote in the 2010 ASA election and women’s predicted life course. She was in the 1960s, both intellectually and at the conference table when Betty organizationally. Her classic article continue to receive your journals, ASA correspon- Friedan convened the 1966 organizing “Equality Between the Sexes” in dence, and other member benefits, renew today meeting that founded the National Daedalus (1964) was a clarion call to online at
Reflections on Alice Rossi consume them, and return them to S. Rossi in 1969 at the Sociology voting members endorsed the spirit from Page 6 me the next day with another stack Women’s Caucus held, not at the ASA of the resolutions. Soon after, the of index cards. I was amazed at the hotel—the ASA wouldn’t let us meet ASA Council did the same. It also feminist activism included her 1973 amount of knowledge and informa- there—but in the basement of Glide urged all sociology departments to women’s studies “textbook,” The tion she could process in a short Memorial Church nearby. Being in my study the resolutions, which it voted Feminist Papers, which combined period of time. Graduate students last year of graduate school, I listened to publish along with the “Women’s erudite selections of historical writings often joked that she was able to keep closely with ever increasing respect as Caucus Statement” as part of the with brilliant sociological biographies. up this pace because she only slept our senior colleagues, Alice Rossi and convention proceedings in The As an organizer, Alice was among four hours per night and worked the Gertrude Jaeger Selznick, told us per- American Sociologist. Alice later the group of activists who founded other 20. Alice also was known to be a sonal stories about their experiences observed: “It seemed to me prefer- NOW, among the sociological activists master gardener, a gourmet cook, and as women and wives in the profession. able to have the ‘facts’ in advance of who founded SWS, and was its first an accomplished seamstress. If she did Alice next reported on her recent any political action for two reasons: president in (1971-72). Both groups anything, she did it well. study of the representation or rather For one, it would help forestall set- explicitly embraced the identity of My main project while working as the lack of representation of women ting up an ASA committee to do this being for women, not of women. her research assistant was to review within graduate sociology faculties fact-gathering, a step sure to dull When it came to academic dis- the literature on gender measure- (1970). As planned, building on Alice’s the edge and postpone the bite of crimination, Alice knew whereof she ment from 1960 to 1989. Most of this survey, we in the room finalized ‘doing’ something instead of merely spoke. For many years when Peter research was in psychology, and I and approved a “Women’s Caucus ‘studying’ something. Second, I was was on the Johns Hopkins faculty, remember studying all the different Statement and Resolutions,” which convinced that a survey would get the university’s “anti-nepotism” rules theories about gender development we presented to the ASA General a higher response rate if it preceded sidelined her to Goucher College. and the masculinity/femininity and Business meeting September 3. The rather than followed political action” UMass bravely—and opportunisti- androgyny scales. I also remember statement read in part: (1985). In fact, Alice’s survey had a cally—broke a longstanding barrier feeling relieved when she compli- What we seek is effective and 78 percent response rate. by remarkably offering the Rossis two mented me on my work after I turned dramatic action: an unbiased At the time, after working for 15 senior professorships, probably one of in the final 100-plus-page document. policy in the selection of stipend years in various research positions and the first “partner hires” in a research Alice had very high expectations, and support of students; a concerted while still raising three children, Alice, institution in any discipline. Alice I did not want to disappoint her. I also commitment to the hiring and then 47, was about to assume her and Peter contributed their comple- worked with her as a teaching assis- promotion of women sociolo- first academic faculty position as an mentary strengths to that program for tant in her Sociology of Parenthood gists to right the imbalance that associate professor at Goucher College many years. class, where I learned a great deal. is represented by the current (1988). She was already an active Alice’s commitment to transform- I am saddened to hear the news of situation in which 67 percent of feminist scholar. In the early sixties, as ing the academy (the continuing Alice’s passing. She was a powerful life the women graduate students in Alice later wrote, she had had her “first goal of SWS) led to research on both force who mentored me and genera- this country do not have a single consciously defined experience with discrimination and activism (includ- tions of women graduate students. woman sociology professor of sex discrimination” when a University ing her edited volumes, Academic Thank you, Alice, for everything. senior rank during the course of Chicago Professor of Anthropology Women on the Move, and Feminists Susan Ferguson, Grinnell College of their graduate training, and seeing “a good thing in a study” she in Politics, her study of the U.S. when we participate in an asso- had designed, supervised the field national conference on women held in ciation of sociologists in which work for and begun to analyze, fired Houston preparatory to the first UN Alice Rossi was truly a pioneer. NO woman will sit on the 1970 her as a research associate days after conference in Mexico City). Although Among us humans, pioneers are those council, NO woman is included the National Science Foundation much feminist sociology today has not who, even in the absence of social among the associate editors funded the proposal she had drafted chosen to follow her biosocial path to support, do what they think is right. of the American Sociological (1990, 1988). Alice’s resulting burn understanding gender, her contribu- Most of us are lemmings. We stand Review, or the advisory board inspired her “first sociological study tions to feminist struggles have left up for what we believe when we see of the American Journal of of gender and first feminist publica- a legacy of which all concerned with others around us more or less approve Sociology, and NO woman sits tion,” the 1964 Daedalus article, social justice should be proud. of what we do. Alice began to fight for on the committees on publica- “Equality Between the Sexes” (1990). Myra Marx Feree, University of women’s equality in the early 1960s, tions and nominations. Withstanding collegial warnings against her doing so, she also plunged Wisconsin-Madison the only sociologist who was doing We urge every sociology depart- into abortion law reform in Illinois in so then. Her modest proposal for ment to give priority to the 1960 and the founding of NOW with equality and, a little later, for the right hiring and promotion of women 20 other women in 1966. I remember reading Alice’s to legal abortion, represented a new faculty until the proportion and A year after the 1969 Women’s feminist essays as an undergradu- conception of women’s place: Women rank distribution of women fac- Caucus, many of us who were at ate in women’s studies, and, later, I would share the costs and benefits of ulty at least equals the sex ratio the Caucus again met, this time was Alice’s research assistant for a earning wages and salaries and men among graduate students with in Washington, DC, where others time during my doctoral program at would share the costs and benefits a long-range goal of increasing joined us. We debated what to call University of Massachusetts-Amherst. of housework and childcare. These the proportion of women among our group and very deliberately, I learned so much from her about the ideas set many teeth on edge. In 1969, graduate students. In working and at long length, decided to call discipline and the work involved in for example, a sociologist who was toward such a goal, this must ourselves Sociologists for Women doing research. Every day she would attending the ASA Annual Meeting supplement rather than detract in Society so that our organization give me a stack of index cards typed walked right up to Alice and spat in from department efforts to could include all feminist sociolo- with the citation of a book or journal her face. There was more. It was hard train, hire, and promote black gists and so that our goals would article she wanted me to find in the to take. And it is worth remembering. and Third World personnel and library. After I found all of the materi- not be limited to the liberation of Joan Huber, Ohio State University students. als, I would haul the 20 books and women in sociology but extend A day later, at the ASA busi- numerous journals back to her office. to the liberation of all women. In ness meeting, all of the nonvoting She would take them home that night, I remember first meeting Alice members and all but two of the Continued on Page 8 footnotes • January 2010 7 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Stanford Sociology Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Its Renewal by W. Richard Scott, Stanford University founder of the university. Joseph Berger, Then-university president, David Santo F (Frank) n August 8, 2009, the Department Starr Jordan, attempted for several Camilleri, of Sociology at Stanford University O years to defend the rights of faculty Bernard P. held a reception for current and to pursue their scholarly interests, Cohen, and W. former faculty and doctoral students but by 1900, Jordan concluded that Richard (Dick) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of he would have to choose between Scott. Morris the Reorganization and Renewal Ross and Stanford University. He (Buzz) Zelditch of the Department in 1959. Chair elected the latter, and Ross was fired. arrived the fol- Karen Cook welcomed more than George Howard, along with several lowing year. This 150 attendees to the event, held in other faculty members, resigned in was the event—a conjunction with the ASA Annual protest. Ross went on to become the moment of reor- Stanford University’s six “founding fathers”: Joe Berger, Frank Camilleri, Meeting of the ASA in San Francisco. founding member of the Department ganization and Buzz Zelditch, Dick Scott, Sandy Dornbusch, and Bernie Cohen The history of Stanford’s depart- of Sociology at the University of renewal which and Paul Wallin. In addition to the ment is both complex and contested. Wisconsin and both Ross and Howard launched the modern era of sociology faculty joining the department in Following the founding of the subsequently served as president at Stanford—that was celebrated 50 1959-61, John Meyer and Dudley university in 1891, sociologists were of the ASA. More important, with years later in San Francisco. All of the Kirk arrived during the decade of quickly included among its faculty. Its Roscoe Pound and John Dewey, members of the founding cohort were the 1960s. They were soon joined, first faculty member was E.A. Ross, Ross was instrumental in creating present at the celebration and each during the 1970s, by Patricia Barchas, appointed in 1892, followed by Mary in 1915 the American Association spoke briefly about their recollections. Elizabeth Cohen, St. Clare Drake, Robert Smith in 1893 and, sometime of University Professors (AAUP) to The newly appointed faculty cre- William Goode, Michael Hannan, later, George Elliott Howard. However, protect academic freedom. ated a relatively distinctive curricu- Alex Inkeles, Seymour Lipset, James at this time (and for a very long time lum and graduate training program. March, and Nancy Tuma. During the thereafter), a separate academic unit The Turnaround of 1959 Students received rigorous training 1980s, new tenured members included devoted to sociology did not exist. At Stanford, for several decades in research design, methods, theory, David Grusky and Henry Walker. In Ross and his colleagues were mem- thereafter a handful of sociologists, and theory construction. Substantive the 1990s, new faculty included James bers of the Stanford Department of including Charles Nathan Reynolds courses were concentrated in four Baron, Karen Cook, Mark Granovetter, Economics and, later, the Department and Richard T. LaPiere, continued to broad areas: Social psychology and Doug McAdam, Susan Olzak, Cecilia of Economics and the Social Sciences. offer courses in sociology. However, it interpersonal processes; organiza- Ridgeway, Matt Snipp, and Andrew The appointment of E.A. Ross was was not until 1948 that an academic tions and, later, social movements and Walder. And, during the first decade fateful to the subsequent develop- unit carried the word “sociology.” economic sociology; stratification, of the new century, tenured faculty ment of sociology at Stanford. Ross, In that year, the Department of inequality, and gender; and compara- included Larry Bobo, Shelly Correll, an imaginative and engaged “conflict’ Anthropology and Sociology was tive and historical sociology. A series Paula England, Michael Rosenfeld, theorist, decided to conduct research on founded. This entity remained in place of seminars and “workshops” tied to Gi-Wook Shin, and Xueguang Zhou. the conditions of migrant Chinese labor until 1957 when the Department of ongoing research programs provided During the five decades since the in California, including their role in the Sociology was granted autonomy, and, important vehicles for training. The reorganization of the department, more building of railroads. This interest did in 1959, the university was deter- “Stanford model” of graduate training than 340 graduate students received not escape the attention of Jane Lathrop mined to make a serious investment in sociology gradually became widely their doctoral degrees. As it celebrates Stanford, who took great umbrage at in its future. That year, Sanford M. recognized in the discipline. 50 years and counting, the Stanford the temerity of her “employee” in inves- Dornbusch was invited to join the Tenured faculty at Stanford before Department of Sociology appears well tigating the details of labor practices of faculty as chair and allowed to bring 1959 included William McCord, positioned for continued leadership as the Southern Pacific Railroad, owned with him four new faculty members: Richard LaPiere, Edmund Volkart, we enter a new century. by her husband, Leland Stanford,
Reflections on Alice Rossi References Apply for the Sorokin Lecture Series from Page 7 Alice S. Rossi. 1964. “Equality Between the he Sorokin Lecture is a longstanding opportunity for a distinguished ASA Sexes: An Immodest Proposal,” Daedalus, member to deliver a lecture at a regional sociological society meeting. A that one meeting, thanks largely to T 93:607-652. restricted fund, named for past ASA President Pitirim Sorokin, underwrites the Alice’s circulating model by-laws in ______, 1970. “Status of Women in costs for the visiting lecturer. advance, 20 SWS members finalized Graduate Departments of Sociology, by-laws and selected acting officers 1968-1969,” The American Sociologist, Applications Process 5:1-12. in an effort to solidify the new orga- Any of the winners of major ASA awards in the past two calendar years may be ______, 1985. “The Formation of SWS: nization into one that might have available to deliver a lecture at a state, regional, or aligned sociological association An Historical Account by a Founding ongoing effectiveness. The group meeting, or on a campus. ASA would cover the costs of travel and up to two days of enthusiastically chose and Alice Mother,” SWS Network News, November, pp. 2-4. hotel costs. The host would cover registration and meals. Contingent upon available agreed to serve as SWS’s first Acting ______, 1988. “Growing Up and Older in funding, the ASA can support up to four such lectures each calendar year. President. Sociology,” pp. 43-64 in Sociological Lives, To apply, send a letter of inquiry with specific information about the event and I am thankful that Alice Rossi edited by Matilda White Riley, Newbury the audience as well as the lecturer preferred. Executive officers or presidents of has been part of my life in these and Park, CA: SAGE Publications. associations, or faculty (with chair’s support) in departments may apply to host a other ways. I will forever be inspired ______, 1990 “Chapter 13: Seasons lecturer. Submit these materials and any questions to: Governance and Sections, by her feminist leadership and sharp of a Woman’s Life,” pp. 301-322 in American Sociological Association, 1430 K St. NW #600, Washington, DC mind. Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American 20005; [email protected] Pamela Ann Roby, University of Sociologists, edited by Bennett M. Berger, Preference will be given to groups who have not previously hosted a lec- California, Santa Cruz Berkeley: University of California Press. turer. For more information, see the Funding page at
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NSF Data Finds an Increase in Sociology PhDs Emeritus Profile: Archibald Haller by the ASA Research and Development following the 2000 high for earned doc- by Craig Shaar, ASA Membership the field of stratification and the work Department torates, the number of new first-time of William H. Sewell, Otis Dudley rchibald Haller’s first intellectual n 2008, for the first time since 2000, graduate students increased to 1,431, Duncan, and Hans Gerth, all of whom love was the physical sciences, an Ithe number of new sociology PhDs after lows for the two previous years. A were at Wisconsin. early interest that was furthered by his awarded in 2008 was greater than 600 These increases may have occurred Sewell (ASA President in 1971) experience in the U.S. Navy during (see Table below). After the high of either in spite of or because of the served as Haller’s mentor and doctoral World War II as an aviation electron- 617 new PhDs in 2000, the number recession. In the remaining years the adviser during his graduate studies ics technician where he repaired radar hovered around the mid- to high-500s number of first-time graduate students at Wisconsin. The two collaborated and other electronics equipment. After until 2008. The two years with more never returned to its 1999 and 2000 on several journal articles together, the war, he found a position working than 600 hundred new PhDs were prior year lows. using data Sewell had collected earlier. with chemical products research in to the start of a recession (2001 and The number of new PhDs in all fields Sewell and Haller were close friends the 3M research laboratories. This 2009), suggesting that these new PhDs for 2008 is available on the National until the former’s passing in 2001. shaped his approach to sociology. faced tight job markets (we know this Science Foundation website at www.nsf. Haller has been a leading authority Haller had a budding interest in is the case for the 2008 PhDs). In 2001, gov/statistics/. on the structures of social stratifica- worldly intellectual matters. He was tion and the variations they exhibited. Number of New PhDs and Percentage Change,1999-2008 also interested in reading epistemol- He worked with Sewell and Alejandro Year Number of New PhDs Percentage Change ogy and history. Sociology gave Haller Portes (ASA president in 1999) to an interesting way to observe the 1999 544 NA develop a new theory, called “Status world and apply quantitative meth- 2000 617 +13.4 Attainment Processes,” measuring ods. Haller joined the ASA in 1950 2001 566 -8.2 sociological influences on social mobil- when he was a student at Hamline 2002 547 -3.3 ity The theory focused on educational University in St. Paul, Minnesota. 2003 597 +9.1 and occupational backgrounds of Taking the fast track through aca- 2004 580 -2.8 individuals. Sewell, Haller, and Portes demia, Haller earned a Master’s degree 2005 536 -7.5 published an influential article from from the University of Minnesota 2006 578 +7.8 this research in 1969, after which the in 1951 and his doctorate at the 2007 576 -0.3 article took on a life of its own, having University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008 601 +4.3 been republished continually through 1954. At Minnesota, he learned about Source: National Science Foundation, Statistics Division Continued on Page 11 footnotes • January 2010 10 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
the United States (even as the Iranian students were barred for having taken life case describes how a psychiatrist authorities engage in negotiations part in the summer protests. More who does not prescribe drugs normal- with the U.S. government over nuclear than 40 journalists have escaped Iran izes the symptoms of a young man who energy) are trying to foment a velvet and many are in hiding. And now, a is restless and in constant movement. revolution in Iran. long prison sentence for our fellow The film isLars and the Real Girl But the opposition to the sociologist, Kian Tadjbakhsh whose (2007). Independently of labeling Ahmadinejad government is real. The appeals and recently his bail have been theory, it describes a complete visual A Lack of Academic Freedom in official announcement of the results of rejected by the Iranian judicial power. experience of the social model of Iran the 10th Iranian Presidential election managing residual rule-breaking, Elham Gheytanchi, Santa Monica College While we are busy grading papers on June 12, 2009, sent a shock wave to the point that it doesn’t become and educating our students in the throughout the society. While in the Editor’s Note: As of an October 21, 2009, residual deviance (“mental illness”). United States, sociologists, students, past, fraud was common among the letter to Ayatollah Sayyid ‘Ali Khamenei, The protagonist, Lars, is isolated and intellectuals, writers and journal- authorities in city council elections in ASA urged the Iranian leadership to free delusional, but his rule-breaking is ists are imprisoned in Iran. Kian the provinces or officials had moved imprisoned sociologist Kian Tadjbakhsh. successfully managed by his commu- Tajbakhsh, a prominent Iranian- numbers by 2 to even 3 million, most Non-labeling: Using a Case and a nity (It takes a village…). My lecture American sociologist who has taught analysts of Iranian politics agreed that Film to Visualize a Social Model uses excerpts from this film to show at universities as well as worked fraud exceeding 3 million was not second-by-second dialogue in a social, for international organizations, manageable and therefore would not The labeling theory of “mental rather than medical framework. was recently given a 12-year prison happen. Yet, on the eve of the election illness,” although it has the approval of There is also a psychological side to sentence for allegedly “threaten- fraud did in fact occur. The reformist sociologists, has little impact on views the film, the informal psychotherapy ing national security.” This charge candidate, Mir Hossein Moussavi who and practices in other disciplines, such provided to Lars by the family doctor. is brought against journalists and had enjoyed popular support among as psychology and psychiatry, much This part is quite intelligent, like the scholars as the government continues Iranian youth—the majority of the less in the larger society. The medical rest of the film, but I don’t have time its containment of dissidents. population in Iran—was reported model retains its firm grip on percep- in my talks to do it justice, nor do The long prison sentence for to have lost the elections by a wide tion of the problem. Currently, there I want to divert attention from the Tajbakhsh is especially alarming margin. Opposition to the election is some evidence supporting labeling labeling approach. because it signals the harsh treatment results and to what some identified theory, but the main difficulty may be The effect of this talk on small of dual citizens by the current political as a coup by the right-wing Sepah-e metaphoric. People can easily visual- groups of students has been elec- apparatus in Iran. In a complete state Pasdaran (the revolutionary guards) ize the medical model, normality trifying. After a 30-minute lecture, of denial of popular opposition to the supporting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and abnormality, but labeling theory the 20-minute discussion session election results, the Iranian authori- engulfed Iran. did not provide sufficient concrete clearly shows that the great major- ties have tried to convince the Iranian The right to peacefully protest instances to envision a social model. ity understand how labeling theory people that the opposition movement, is a fundamental right of Iranian The original theory particularly might provide a better approach than now known as the green movement, is citizens granted to them by their own provided few concrete examples of the the medical model. Since most of the directed by the foreign enemies of the constitution, and yet this right has non-labeling of residual rule-breaking. viewers have been either freshmen or state that have penetrated the ranks of been violated by the authorities, who This may be the main reason that non-sociology majors, the talk also the intellectuals, students, journalists, have violently broken up protests and labeling theory has not attracted the serves as an introduction to sociologi- etc. The trial, which was broadcast by harassed, arrested, and imprisoned attention of the public at large. cal thinking. the state TV, was produced to show In recent lectures, I have used epi- protestors and dissidents following Thomas J. Scheff, University of that there is a conspiracy at work; sodes in a film and from real life to the election. When the universities California-Santa Barbara these “satanic forces,” which include re-opened this fall many returning illustrate the basic metaphor. The real-
Archibald Haller of stratification, suggesting that this of Merit of Labor, Rank of Grand Haller is a Fellow of the American from Page 10 might be happening everywhere. If Officer. In pondering how he earned Association for the Advancement of so, the theory of Status Attainment so many Fulbright grants, Haller said Science and a past president of the 2007. In 1968 Haller and Portes pub- Processes would have to be modified. he believes the U.S. State Department Rural Sociological Society. In 2007, he lished another influential article with O. Thus, Haller went to Brazil to see if he found his research helpful in under- was awarded the honorary degree of D. Duncan. It offered improvements in could learn how that nation’s society standing social issues. Doctor of Social Science from Ohio statistical analysis. has evolved, and to revise the status Haller retired from teaching at the State University. In 1962, Haller was granted a attainment theory accordingly. University of Wisconsin-Madison in During his retirement, Haller still Fulbright teaching award for a faculty There would be several other 1994 after serving as a faculty member attends lectures at the University of position at the Rural University of Fulbright faculty awards for his at the university since 1965. However, Arizona campus in Tucson. “Sociology Brazil. During his time in Brazil, research in Brazil. During his visits, he remained active as a consultant and is more sophisticated analytically now he analyzed stratification trends he continued to study how stratifica- teaching volunteer in Brazil from 1998 than it was years ago,” observed Haller. in Brazilian society. “There was no tion systems shape Brazilian society. to 2002. However, he is still contributing his allowance in the theories of sociol- Among other things, he discovered Haller’s involvement with ASA knowledge of social stratification; he ogy for an idea of evolutionary that there were five distinct socioeco- included co-authoring one of the first is currently publishing several articles changes in stratification. Sociologists nomically developed regions in that Rose Series volumes, Attitudes and on stratification inPopulation Review. thought about Marx and revolution- nation. The Brazilian federal govern- Facilitation in the Attainment of Status One of these reviews the history of ary changes at the time, but were ment used Haller’s research to spear- with Ruth Gasson and William Sewell empirical research on stratification, unaware of less spectacular ones,” said head development projects in poorer (1972). In 1993, he was appointed to from Ibn Khaldun in 1377 through Haller. Brazil was undergoing rapid regions. In 1981, he was decorated by the ASA Committee on International Max Weber, Pitirim Sorokin, Kaare evolutionary change in the structure the President of Brazil with the Order Sociology. Svalastoga, and O.D. Duncan.
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Woehrle, Mount tional Association of Genocide Shirley Jackson, Southern ber 25 Washington Post article on was quoted in CQ Researcher on Mary College, and Gregory Scholars, received the Robin Connecticut State, was elected the health care debate. September 18 and interviewed M. Maney, Hofstra University, Williams Award for Distinguished Secretary of Sociologists for on KCBS Radio on June 18. He received the “Best Published Annette Lareau, University of Contributions to Scholarship, Women in Society. was quoted in the Kansas City Star Article of 2008 Award” from the Pennsylvania, had her within- Teaching, and Service from the on July 14 and in the National ASA’s Section on Peace, War and James M. Jasper, Graduate Cen- family interaction research cited ASA Section on Peace, War and Journal on September 19. He was Social Conflict for their article, ter-CUNY, recently became the on National Public Radio’s All Social Conflict for his pioneering interviewed on Japanese Public “Discursive Legacies: The U.S. sociology judge for the annual Things Considered on November work in the sociology of the Holo- Radio’s “Overseas Network” on Peace Movement and ‘Support PROSE awards of the American 2, 2009, in a story on school caust and comparative genocide September 13 and on their “To- the Troops’.” Association of Publishers. achievement differences across and in conflict theory and conflict day’s World” regarding American social classes. Georgiann Davis, University of resolution. Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College- military recruiting. He was inter- Illinois-Chicago, was awarded CUNY, and his students and C.N. Le, University of Massa- viewed on NPR’s Marketplace Kerry Ann Rockquemore, the 2009 Beth B. Hess Memorial colleagues were featured in a chusetts-Amherst, was quoted on October 14 about increasing University of Illinois-Chicago, Scholarship, jointly awarded by documentary, Hear Every Voice: in a USA Today article, “Cultural success in military recruiting. was awarded the A. Wade Smith Sociologist for Women in Society, NYC and the National Park Service, Factors Help Limit Recession’s Award for Teaching, Mentorship, Gregory D. Squires, George Society for the Study of Social by Stephen Ogumah. Krase’s Impact,” on November 16, 2009. and Service from the Association Washington University, was Problems, and ASA. visual sociology class provided Le was quoted by The Hill, on Sep- of Black Sociologists. quoted in Clarence Page’s column the students who became the tember 10, 2009, and by Marie Kai T. Erikson, Yale University, in the Chicago Tribune on October Alexandra P. Rosenberg, West interns for the project. These Claire magazine in August 2009. received the Lester Frank Ward 28 and he was interviewed on Point Academy, was one of only students received special train- Distinguished Contribution David L. Levinson, Norwalk ARD German Radio and Television 32 American recipients for this ing in researching community Award from the Association for Community College, authored an Network on the Henry Louis year’s prestigious Rhodes Scholar- demographics and interviewing Applied and Clinical Sociol- article, “Grand Solution or Grab Gates Jr. false arrest on July 24, ship. She is a senior and a sociol- techniques. Through their inter- ogy for his seminal research on Bag?” about community colleges 2009. He was interviewed for a ogy major; she is currently ranked views in Caribbean communities contaminated communities, his and student success as part of a CNNMONEY.com story on October first in her class academically. of Brooklyn and Queens, the representation of disaster victims special report “Inequality Goes 1, 2009, He was also interviewed students created a bridge to a in the courts, and his formative San Antonio Gender Associa- to College” that appeared in the for an AP story that appeared in population that has had limited paradigm concept of “collective tion received the Paul Wellstone November 2009 issue of The over 200 print or electronic media exposure to the park and have trauma.” Community Service Award from American Prospect. opened a dialog between the including the Washington Post, the Association for Applied and William W. “Bill” Falk, University park and the community. The Cameron Macdonald, University New Orleans Times Picayune, and Clinical Sociology for their years of Maryland, received the Robert documentary was featured on of Wisconsin, was the invited HuffingtonPost.com on October of service and support to mem- Ezra Park Award for Sociological the front page of the WNET expert about health care reform 12 or 13, 2009. Squires was bers of the trans-gender commu- Practice from the Association for (NYC public television) website, on At Issue with Ben Mehrens quoted in Cami Reister and Grand nities of South Central Texas. Applied and Clinical Sociology
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footnotes • January 2010 17 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org announcements ever, as a byproduct of his ardor wold III Professor of Public Policy “Part of the process of evaluat- his Cape Breton connection, visit- various subcommittees before for mentoring junior colleagues, at Johns Hopkins University. ing potential mates is figuring ing with his wife, Pat, whenever becoming chair. His strong he additionally edited a series of Having conducted postdoctoral out how compatible partners possible. leadership was a major factor collaborative books portraying research at the London School of will be in the future, which Op- Frank entered Boston Univer- in significant changes to the the desert experience: Desert Economics after earning a PhD in penheimer argued was at least in sity in 1952, on both a BU and a city’s waterfront. During his Regions (1999), Foreign Experts sociology from the University of part related to the kind of work Trevelli National Scholarship. He tenure, the commission dealt and Unsustainable Development California-Berkeley, Oppenheimer people do,” Sweeney said. “If a left after a year, deeply upset over with issues of health care, urban (2000), Israel as Center Stage first gained attention for her woman anticipates staying at the death of a highly esteemed design, a city master plan, public (2002), The Desert Experience research on women surging into home throughout much of her professor related to the McCa- housing, and inclusionary zon- in Israel (2009), and Transfer of the workplace in the 1960s. marriage, the nature of her future rthyism “witch hunt” of the early ing. As a Commissioner, Frank Technology (2009). work is fairly straightforward to always spoke strongly on behalf In a pathbreaking 1967 article, 1950s. Frank then had a brief stint anticipate, although the nature of the disadvantaged and the Hare was a lifelong member of Oppenheimer analyzed the in New York City writing plays and of men’s future work in the labor implication of any proposed the American Sociological As- interaction of labor supply and short stories and working as a market may be less certain. changes for their welfare. sociation, active in the Social Psy- demand to explain the rapidly newspaper reporter. In 1954, he chology Section, also a member increasing employment rates of “Oppenheimer was interested began a four-year hitch in the Air At the university, Frank was a of the Society for Experimental women in the post-World War II in how this process of finding Force at bases in Oklahoma and major force as a member and Social Psychology, and served as years, wrote University of North a spouse changed as women Texas, serving as an academic later chair of the newly estab- President of the Pennsylvania So- Carolina-Chapel Hill sociologist increasingly expected to remain navigation and flight instructor. lished Faculty Grievance Com- ciological Society (1966-67). He Philip Cohen in the blog “Family employed throughout their Later, as a Captain in the Air Force mittee. He was always watchful was editor of Sociological Inquiry Inequality.” adult lives and as young men’s Reserve, he worked in research for any violations of equality, and the founder and first editor future position in the labor force and development in Head- due process and fairness, a In a 1968 article, Oppenheimer of Israel Social Science Research, became less predictable,” she quarters, Office of Aerospace concern which led him to provided documentation for high and served on the editorial said. “She argued that uncertainty Research. resign as Chair of the Sociology levels of gender segregation in board of numerous professional about the future characteristics of Department to protest when the workplace at the time, finding While in the Air Force, Frank journals. potential mates complicates the the University Administration that 67 percent of clerical workers earned BA and MA degrees process of finding an appropriate overruled faculty recommenda- Colleagues, friends, and family were women and that women (sociology) from the University spouse and leads to a delay in tions for reappointment of a remember Paul Hare not only for made up 88 percent of the of Oklahoma and was elected to marriage.” highly qualified professor (MD his selflessness, but for his humor workforce in the communications Phi Beta Kappa. After leaving the and PhD), probably because of and expression: wit, punning, ten- industry. Oppenheimer’s studies have Air Force, he entered graduate dency to burst into song with a been cited in more than 1,000 school at Cornell University and his critical views of the medical “Her dispassionate and me- vast repertoire of lyrics suitable to other publications, Sweeney was granted a PhD in sociology profession. Some years later thodical, scientific tone in these most any occasion, and his raised said. Nearly a quarter of those in 1968. His seminal disserta- Frank again took the Chair at articles masks the cutting-edge- eyebrow. His brief memoir is aptly citations have occurred in the tion research on relationships the request of his colleagues. ness of a woman independently titled Funny Things (2009). past five years, meaning that within a monastery became As a teacher Frank was very doing theoretically ambitious, fellow sociologists are finding the well-known and provided an demanding, but fair and readily quantitative, demographic work Valerie Oppenheimer work increasingly relevant as time important empirical basis for the available to help his students. He in the United States at that time,” goes on. development of block modeling was kind but firm, enjoyed his 1923-2009 wrote Cohen. as a tool for examining social students, and nurtured several of Valerie Oppenheimer, a Uni- “We look at marriage complete- Oppenheimer’s 1970 book The networks. During his educa- them into PhD programs at major versity of California-Los Angeles ly differently, thanks to Valerie Female Labor Force in the United tional career he received several universities. His course syllabi sociologist known for pioneer- Oppenheimer,” Sweeney said. States was the first extended fellowships and awards, includ- were unusually long but carefully ing research on the effects of Valerie Constance Kincade was treatment of the rise of married ing a Woodrow Wilson National constructed. The same can be employment trends on marriage born October 25, 1932, in London women in the U.S. workforce, said Fellowship and National Science said for his exams. They required and the American family, died and raised in New York City. Cherlin. Foundation Fellowships. In careful construction and answers November 2 of a stroke and heart Oppenheimer also is credited Oppenheimer’s husband, the addition to teaching assistant- of many pages—usually longer attack at her home in Los Ange- with debunking the “specializa- pulmonologist Edward Anthony ships at Cornell, he taught for a than any secretary/typist had les. She was 77. tion and trading model,” a theory Oppenheimer, died in 2005. year at what is now Binghamton ever seen. The author of more than 25 that held that marriages are most “They were married for 40 University. While Frank’s major career studies on gender, employment, stable and that couples best years,” said Chris. “I never heard After Binghamton, Frank joined focus was teaching and applied marriage and the family, Op- maximize their fortunes when them yell at each other. If they the Department of Social Rela- sociology he made many and penheimer taught for 25 years at they combine wives’ unpaid work disagreed, they’d exchange three tions and Sociology at Harvard varied contributions to the UCLA, rising from a lecturer to a with husbands’ paid employment. or four words about it and then as Lecturer and Chairman of discipline. These included book full professor. Even after retiring “She did not predict or advocate go into separate rooms. Then the Board of Tutors and Advi- reviews, invited essays, papers in 1994, she remained active in for the end of marriage, but five minutes later, they’d come sors. He also served as Visiting at society meetings, discussant her field, publishing an influential rather for its reconfiguration as back together and everything Associate Professor of Urban on panel presentations, referee study in 2003 about the role a two-earner partnership, albeit was fine.” Studies and Planning at MIT plus of journal submissions, and NSF economic instability plays in one that would probably be less In addition to her son Chris, 39, a stint as Director of the Harvard advisory panels. He also served as men’s tendency to delay marriage common and less stable than the and his wife, Jackie, Oppenheim- Suburban Political Processes a consultant to organizations in to increasingly older ages. trading-based marriages were er is survived by four grandchil- study. While at Harvard, he ran the public sphere. Oppenheimer was the re- before,” Cohen wrote. dren, Brandon, 20, Marley, 15, unsuccessfully for State Repre- When asked to describe Frank cipient of two of her field’s most th Oppenheimer’s most famous Tiara, 9, and Teagan, 6, as well as a sentative in the 16 Middlesex briefly colleagues and others prominent prizes. In 1979, the piece was published in 1988 great-grandchild, Carlitos, 6. District. This disappointment would include such words as ASA honored her with the Jessie and dealt with an emerging was to repeat itself later in Bur- “erudite,” “disciplined,” “thorough,” Bernard Award and this year, she Meg Sullivan, University of demographic trend: Couples who lington, VT, when he lost a race “fair-minded,” and “principled.” became the inaugural recipient California-Los Angeles postponed marriage, said Megan for alderman. He was also a kind and generous of the Harriet B. Presser Award Sweeney, a UCLA associate profes- Frank left Harvard in 1972 to man, a man of high integrity. He from the Population Association Samuel Franklin Sampson sor of sociology who specializes take a position as Professor and was loyal to his many friends and of America, a biennial award 1934-2009 in family research. At a time when Chair in the Department. of had a big and joyful heart for honoring a record of sustained prevailing wisdom held that Samuel Franklin Sampson Sociology at the University of those he worked with. contribution in gender and women were putting off marriage (“Frank”), Professor of Sociology, Vermont. demography. Frank is survived by his wife, because new opportunities in the Emeritus, at the University of Ver- Frank was a strong and Pat—a wonderful kindred spirit “Valerie was the first demogra- workplace made the institution mont died in Burlington, VT, on passionate proponent of the and helpmeet and by two step- pher to document and explain less attractive to them, Oppen- October 7, 2009, after a lingering application of sociological daughters, some cousins (some the great increase in married heimer argued that the situation illness. He was born in 1934 in theories and perspectives to the in Cape Breton), and many nieces women working outside the was more complex. By applying Malden, MA, the son of Margaret solution of societal problems. It and nephews. home, which has been one of the job-search theory from economics Louise (Grimes) Sampson and was a major focus of his career, most important demographic His was a life well-lived. to the process of looking for a Samuel D. Sampson, formerly of exemplified by his 12 years on trends of the last half-century,” spouse, she introduced important Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Frank the Burlington Planning Com- Gordon F. Lewis, University of said Andrew Cherlin, a former new ideas about marriage timing. held a warm spot in his heart for mission. There he served on Vermont student and the Benjamin H. Gris-
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