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Volume 43 • Number 5 • July/August 2015 Results of the 2015 Election inside ichèle Meeting program in Montréal, and the MLamont, Canada, August 12-15, 2017. As Program 3 ASA Congressional Harvard ASA President, Lamont will be a Committees in Fellow on Workplace University, has member of the ASA Council, which 2016-2019. Schedules and Policy been elected governs the association and its poli- Members Low-wage, hourly workers the 108th cies, and its chair in 2016-2017. She also elected are often subject to erratic President of will also be a voting member of the four new schedules, There are the American ASA Committee on the Executive Council proposed policies to address Sociological Michèle Lamont Office and Budget (2016-2018) and Members-at- David Takeuchi this. Association the 2017-2018 Large: Daniel (ASA). Kathleen Gerson, New York Publications Chambliss (Hamilton College), 4 Duane Alwin to University, has been elected Vice Committee. Cynthia Feliciano (University of Edit Sociological President and David Takeuchi, Takeuchi California-Irvine), Mignon Moore Methodology Boston College, was elected will serve as (Barnard College-Columbia An enthusiastic editor, Alwin Secretary-Elect. Secretary-Elect University), and Wendy Ng (San compares methodology to Lamont and Gerson will assume in 2015- Jose University). Also elected were “the Force” in Star Wars. their respective offices in August 2016 and as two members of the Committee 2016, following a year of service as Secretary in Kathleen Gerson on Publications: Claire M. Renzetti 5 In Our Son’s Name Is a President-elect and Vice President- 2016-2019. He (University of Kentucky) and Powerful Lesson in Grief, elect (2015-2016). Lamont will will chair the Committee on the Matthew O. Hunt (Northeastern Executive Office and Budget and be University) as well as six members Healing, and Forgiveness chair the 2017 Program Committee that will shape the ASA Annual a voting member of the Publications Continued on Page 6 The documentary follows Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez who chose reconciliation and nonviolence over vengeance Notre Dame Scholars to Take Over Musical Chicago following their son’s death. the Helm at ASR Deena Weinstein, DePaul University Climate Change and 7 Jeremy Freese, Northwestern University As your steward for this brief tour hicago’s claim to fame might Society of ASR’s transition, I have the honor Cbe its architecture, its savory hoy! The American Sociological This 11-chapter volume is of introducing ASR’s new captains, deep-dish pizza, or its unsavory Review (ASR) is sociology’s a culmination of the hard A and sharing with you some of plans politics, but one of its greatest flagship, having served at the head work of the ASA Task Force they have for directing the next leg attractions is music, its richest art of our Association’s journal fleet on Sociology and Global of the flagship’s voyage. form. The city is too cosmopolitan Climate Change. since 1936. For today to have one or even several the past six defining music scenes. The city has 9 Congratulations, Cohort years, ASR has always been a breeding ground of 42! been excel- creative musicians, homegrown or lently guided ASA and MFP are proud migrants to the area, including those by admirable to announce the newest who have attended the top music admirals at fellows of the Minority schools at DePaul and Northwestern the university Fellowship Program. universities. named for the The vast array of musical styles can most impor- be experienced in an extensive variety tant figure of venues -- old, new, and repurposed in American -- from the intimate to the ginor- From the Executive Officer .................2 shipbuilding: mous. Ticket prices are as varied as Vanderbilt. Announcements ................................. 17 the music, ranging from free to outra- Now, however, geously expensive and everything in Obituaries .............................................. 20 the helm is being passed to a new The New Editors between. (Yes, there are correlations team of editors. They are based at Of the three, Rory McVeigh between those three variables, as the school whose official name liter- grips the ship’s wheel with the most any good sociologist would already ally means “Our Lady of the Lake”: weathered hands: besides serving suspect.) Take, for example, two the University of Notre Dame (du as chair of his department and the offerings that coincide with the ASA Lac). Continued on Page 6 Continued on Page 14 footnotes • July/August 2015 To view the online version, visit <www.asanet.org/footnotes/julyaugust15/index.html> 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org from the executive officer ASA Journal Editorial Records 1991–2009: A New Digital Archive for Research on the Production of Scientific Knowledge in Sociology any ASA members are aware that political, and economic levels. proposal to the National Science the ASA to retain their documents Mthe leadership of the Association “Mainstream sociology” faced critics Foundation (NSF), and the project in the database; records lacking such received significant correspondence who proposed new pathways and was funded by the NSF Sociology permission will be de-identified and from ASA members and paradigms in the discipline Program in June 2015. As the suc- “dummy” records will be substituted. other scholars voicing the including feminists, ethno- cessful proposal articulated, Otherwise the research archive will view that it was important methodologists, Marxists, The cumulative body of scientific contain identified data. It will be to retain nearly 600 boxes and symbolic interaction- knowledge is a social product. held permanently by the ASA, and of historical records from the ASA ists. More women and members of Scientists create knowledge that access will be granted only to legiti- editorial offices that currently exist ethnic and racial minorities moved is transmitted by incorporating mate scholars for specific scholarly only as paper files. Many argued that into the professoriate and into it into the body of peer-reviewed projects after signing appropriate these documents are potentially a the broader research community, content, especially through confidentiality agreements that will rich trove of data on how the pro- influencing the growth of gender scientific journals. It is not not permit retention or transfer of duction of disciplinary knowledge research, race and ethnic studies, easy to empirically study either the data to a third party. published in our major journals takes and a focus on intersectionality. step in this process of scientific This is an exciting project upon place. Publishing decisions by preeminent knowledge production because which the Association is venturing. journals of the time, including those But please be patient; it will also be a Background we rarely have access to a body of the ASA, have the potential to be of data that includes what long effort that will take at least three As part of ASA’s normal record- of considerable interest to scholars scholarship is rejected as well as years. Curating almost 600 boxes of keeping/destruction processes and of the discipline and the history of what is accepted (for publica- paper to separate the administrative the evolution of technology, editorial social science. tion) and the reasons for these records from the reviewing records office records prior to 1991 were But these paper records are not key decisions. Moreover, we lack (and from the “trash” (copies of sta- exclusively paper and routinely only confidential, they are also such data over significant periods tionery from American Sociological destroyed by the Association three voluminous—almost 15 tons [sic!] of intellectual history which are Review in 1997, anyone? Sixteen years post-decision. From 2010 on, of paper. (It took a tractor trailer necessary to see the evolution iterations of the final copyediting however, they have been mostly to move them from Penn State to of knowledge, especially during of an article published in Journal preserved through the Scholar One DC.) Digitization alone would cost periods of major change in the of Health and Social Behavior for submission and review system. at least $125,000, and processing the composition of the scientific wallpaper? ) will take time. Modeling During the 20-year period in digital files to make them “research community. how the archive will be structured between, however, the paper records friendly” would be much more The ASA project will be a col- and populated will as well. were retained by ASA and stored costly. Then there was the problem But for those of you who were at Pennsylvania State University in laboration of the ASA and the Center of confidentiality; to make the digital for Social Science Research at George active in the profession during those the permanent ASA archive located materials available for scholarly marvelous decades, watch for the there, but they were not publicly Mason University. It will create a research, we would also need to seek new infrastructure for scholarly request from our project for your available, as are all the other archived permission from authors and review- permission to keep the peer review ASA records. Secure storage was research—a research archive that will ers to use the archived peer reviews be composed of a large-scale, digi- you did long ago or the article we necessary because these records and unpublished manuscripts for rejected a decade or two ago (and contain confidential peer reviews tized, and searchable database