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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 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 that is future research. accessible for research by sociologists which you might have published and unpublished manuscripts, which Who would provide the necessary elsewhere) in the archive for future are not the intellectual property of and other scholars who are interested funds? Members of the ASA com- in the development of sociological research! the Association. Recently, it became munity who were committed to the The ASA Publications Committee necessary to move the records from knowledge. 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2 footnotes • July/August 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association Tough Months for SBE Sciences in the U.S. House

Brad Smith, ASA Public Affairs and level. In addition, the bill calls for tion, during the debate over the CJS tion. Multiple meetings were held Public Information Office the National Center for Science and bill, Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), on Capitol Hill between members ay and June of this year (2015) Engineering Statistics (NCSES), the bill’s main author, agreed to of Congress and scientists regard- Mwere difficult months for the housed within the SBE, to receive work with supporters of SBE to fix ing the importance of the social and social and behavioral sciences in no cuts—which means all the the language in the bill that priori- behavioral sciences, including ASA the U.S. House of Representatives. proposed cuts will come from SBE’s tizes soem areas of NSF over others. member Laurel Smith-Doerr’s Hill In fact, some would argue that research programs. The Senate has not (as of June activities (see May/June Footnotes) they were horrible. First the House On June 4, the House passed the 9) considered its versions of the and ASA members’ participation in approved the America COMPETES CJS spending bill by margin of 242- COMPETES bill and the CJS bill, the COSSA-sponsored Capitol Hill Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 183. The annual spending bill funds which can be substantially different visits day (see March/April 2015 1806) and then it approved the NSF at $7.39 billion, which is 0.7 than the House’s versions. Finally, Footnotes). Finally, the ASA and Fiscal year 2016 Commerce, Justice, percent (or $50 million) above last the White House has publically almost every other science society Science and Related Agencies year’s spending bill, but is 4.3 per- stated that it will veto the House joined together in opposition to (CJS) spending bill. Both seek to cent below the President’s requested COMPETES and CJS bills—so these this bill and House Republicans drastically undermine funding for level. Unlike the COMPETES bill bills will have to be significantly knew prior to their vote of the the social and behavioral sciences the spending bill does not fund changed before they will be signed COMPETES that they would be within National Science Foundation NSF according to specific science into law. voting for a “science” bill that directorates. However the bill was rejected by the entire science (NSF). Thank you, Members! includes language that prioritizes community. On May 20, the House passed The willingness of some the COMPETES bill by a nar- the some areas of NSF over others Moving forward, the science and would mean significant cuts to Republicans to vote no on the community, particularly the social row margin of 217-205. The bill COMPETES bill and agree to fix authorizes funding for NSF for the SBE directorate and the research science community, has vowed to it supports. the CJS bill was largely due to the continue to educate members of fiscal year 2016-2017 and includes pressure put on them by their specific directorate-level approvals. There is some good news for Congress on the importance of the social science community. The constituents. ASA members sent the NSF’s SBE Directorate to our Under the bill the Social, Behavioral close to 2,000 letters to the House and Economic Sciences Directorate vote for COMPETES bill was not nation’s scientific enterprise. ASA’s a complete party line vote—some of Representatives in opposition to and its members’ activities in this (SBE) is authorized at $150 million this bill. In addition to ASA’s efforts, for both FY 2016 and FY 2017, a cut Republicans resisted their leader- effort will continue to be high- ship and opposed the bill. In addi- other science societies urged their lighted in Footnotes. of 45 percent from the 2015 enacted members to write letters in opposi-

Schedules that Work Lindsay Owens, employees who avail themselves tation arrangements and introduces result in economic instability, work- 2015 ASA Congressional Fellow of flextime and telecommuting considerable economic insecurity family conflict, and mental health he traditional 9 to 5 workday arrangements are happier, more and income volatility into workers’ problems. Thas given way to two divergent productive, and less likely to leave lives. Budgeting for the month’s Lambert has found among early- and spectacularly unequal forms of for a different job—all good things expenses is hard enough when you career adults, ages 26 to 32, fluctua- workplace scheduling. Professional for corporate profits. Just-in-time know exactly how much income tions in work hours, lack of control and managerial workers now fre- scheduling practices are a boon will be coming in—it’s pretty much over schedules, and lack of advance quently have access to flexible work for employers too: they keep costs impossible when your hours vary by notice of scheduling changes are hours (“flextime”) and telecommut- to a minimum and—thanks to the an order of magnitude from week incredibly widespread. She also ing (working remotely). Low-wage, latest software innovations—allow to week. finds that these forms of scheduling businesses to nimbly adapt to disproportionately affect work- hourly, and part-time service and Looking at the Data hourly and even up-to-the-minute ers of color, working parents, and retail workers, on the other hand, Although the data on worker are increasingly subject to erratic changes in consumer demand (and low-wage hourly employees in food weather patterns) by bringing in schedules and the consequences service, retail, and cleaning occupa- and unstable on-call, call-in, just- of these practices is relatively thin, in-time, and split-shift schedules. an employee who is on-call when tions. Golden finds that about 17 demand increases or by sending a social scientists like Susan Lambert percent of the workforce is subject Employees who labor under these at the Harris School and Lonnie latter arrangements can be called scheduled employee home when to unpredictable schedules, with demand flags. Golden at Penn State have cobbled low-wage workers most affected, into work at a moment’s notice, together data from a handful of arrive at work only to find that But while flextime and tele- and finds that these workers have commuting can help salaried and survey questions in the National higher reported levels of work- they’ll be sent home two hours into Survey of Longitudinal Youth, the their shift, and are even scheduled professional workers accommodate family conflict and workplace stress childcare needs, geographic prefer- General Social Survey, and the than workers with more predictable for only a few hours, separated by a Current Population Survey to paint many-hours long break in between. ences, and other lifestyle consider- schedules. ations, just-in-time scheduling can a detailed, albeit grim, portrait of Both forms of scheduling—flex- the workers who are most affected Fighting Back time and just-in-time—are good for wreak havoc in the lives of low-wage workers. Scheduling uncertainty by scheduling instability and of how Fortunately, there is a growing employers and good for corporate these scheduling practices inevitably shareholders. Research suggests that complicates childcare and transpor- Continued on Page 8 footnotes • July/August 2015 3 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org A Dream Come True: Duane Alwin to Edit Sociological Methodology

Jennifer Barber, Population Studies Center surprise then—given the focus on nal contributions to our knowledge odological breadth at Sociological social psychological aspects of sta- of cognition, health, aging, family, Methodology, Duane told me, “I uane Alwin is the inaugural tus attainment at Wisconsin at the children, social change, inequality, will work to maintain the high holder of the distinguished D time—that Duane education, status attainment, and visibility and impact of the journal, Tracy Winfree and became a social social psychology. Attesting to the fulfilling the journal’s mission to Ted. H. McCourtney psychologist. But, importance of his substantive con- reflect the research methods and Professorship in even more, the atten- tributions, in 2012 he received the epistemological choices made by Sociology and tion to measurement Matilda White Riley Distinguished all members of the discipline.” Demography at the and modeling set Scholar Award, presented to him for My own interactions with Duane Pennsylvania State him on a path to exceptional achievement in research have spanned my entire career, University. He is become one of our by the ASA Section on Aging and from the time I arrived as a post- also an Emeritus field’s most revered Life Course. doc at Michigan. Unfortunately Research Professor at methodologists. for me, we “swapped” – shortly the Survey Research Seeking Diversity When discussing his after I came to Michigan following Center, and an studies at Wisconsin, Lest you the comple- Emeritus Professor he warmly recalled worry that tion of my of Sociology at Duane Alwin the mentoring he Duane’s Lest you worry that Duane’s PhD at Penn the University of received from the exceptional State, Duane Michigan. He has exceptional credentials as a likes of George Bohrnstedt and credentials as completed abundant leadership experience— David Heise (both former editors of a statistical statistical methodologist render his career highlights include being the current Sociological Methodology), as well as methodologist at Michigan director of the Center for Life him less enthusiastic about Robert Hauser, Don Treiman, and render him less and went to Course and Longitudinal Studies, others. enthusiastic other approaches to sociological Penn State. I former chair of the department Duane’s qualifications to edit about other later had the of sociology at the University of analysis, rest easy. Duane actually the journal are, of course, impec- approaches to opportunity Michigan, 15-year editorial board cable—considering only his sociological began his career as a qualitative to be schooled member of Sociological Methods publications on research meth- analysis, rest researcher. by Duane at a and Research, 10-year edito- odology, there are two books easy. Duane symposium at rial board member of the Public and more than 50 articles and actually began Penn State in Opinion Quarterly, and former chapters, including five articles in his career 2005, when I chair of two ASA sections: Social Sociological Methodology. An early as a qualitative researcher. And, was a presenter and Duane was my Psychology and Aging and the Life methodological article by Duane although his highest priority for discussant. I must admit that it felt Course. and Robert Hauser, published in the journal is clearly to maintain scathing when he told the author Duane’s application for the edi- the American Sociological Review its overall scholarly excellence, this (me) of a paper, titled “How Do torship of Sociological Methodology (1974), has been cited more than priority includes a specific focus Attitudes Shape Childbearing in began with this sentence: “It has 700 times! Duane was also the on methodological diversity. In the United States?,” what the term been my career-long dream to be first director of the University of his application, he wrote, “I think “attitudes” means, but it guided considered for the editorship of Michigan Survey Research Center’s most people would like to see more and clarified my subsequent Sociological Methodology.” When Summer Institute in Survey methodological diversity in the research (and that of many papers I spoke with Duane about it, the Research Techniques, developing journal…” He plans to initiate “con- I have reviewed). Conceptual enthusiasm in his voice was audible. (with his colleagues) the Institute versations” on important method- clarity is a hallmark of Duane’s Few sociologists would compare into the large-scale summer ological trends by inviting symposia research. methodology to “the Force” (yes, program that continues to draw within the issues. (Unfortunately, Editing the journals of the as in the Force in Star Wars), but students from all over the world. given Sociological Methodology’s American Sociological Association Duane did just that in a short Sure, his methodological cre- annual publication, it is nearly is no easy task, but these jobs are piece he wrote for the Bulletin of dentials are stellar, but what about impossible to devote entire issues to some of the most important in our Sociological Methodology in 2013. his substantive research? Duane specialized topics.) field. The editors shape the field Paraphrasing Obi-Wan Kenobi, he believes passionately that meth- A little-known fact about Duane through the editorial directions wrote that “methodology ‘surrounds odologists must “give their work is that he developed a course for they choose for their journalsa. and penetrates’ us and is one of the meaning by focusing on substantive Michigan’s sociology curriculum They shape the field through their things that binds us together.” This problems.” Somewhat unusual for that is still required of, and highly selection of the editorial boards guy is wild about methodology! a methodologist, Duane has also appreciated by, our graduate and the articles in the journals. The Influence of Mentors been the Principal Investigator on students. Duane co-taught this Many editors have a particularly course, The Logics of Research Duane told me that he is hon- 18 large federal grants from the strong influence on the young Design, with Karin Martin, a qual- ored to be editing a journal that National Science Foundation (NSF) scholars in their fields, and thus itative researcher at Michigan. It was started by his first sociology and National Institutes of Health. the future of our discipline, as they was designed to stress the plurality mentor at Wisconsin, Ed Borgatta, He currently has funding from NSF guide them through the editorial of research methods in sociology. whom he clearly admires. When for a project to develop a public process. We are fortunate to have I’m happy to report that Duane’s Duane began at Wisconsin in 1966, data archive on the quality of survey attracted someone with Duane’s influence continues to stress such it was the heyday for the Wisconsin questions. In addition to his meth- stature, talent, and devotion to edit plurality today. Regarding meth- model of status attainment. It’s no odological work, he has made semi- Sociological Methodology.

4 footnotes • July/August 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association In Our Son’s Name: A Documentary on the Transformation of Tragedy

Matthew T. Lee, University of Akron criminologist—I had to confront like their son, simply the empirical reality that there were in the wrong place t this year’s Annual Meeting, the so many more helpers than murder- at the wrong time. Section on Altruism, Morality, A ers on that fateful day. Watching They were not alone and Social Solidarity will sponsor a the courage and compassion of the in their efforts, as special screening of the documen- helpers gave me a new lens that now demonstrated by the tary In Our Son’s Name. This power- allows me to see the good in the book September 11th ful film follows Phyllis and Orlando most desolate of situations. Families for Peaceful Rodríguez for more than a decade, In Our Son’s Name affirms the Tomorrows: Turning exploring grief, the possibility of utility of this lens. This does not Tragedy into Hope for healing, and the search for meaning mean that we should overlook a Better World. In a in the aftermath of their son Greg’s legitimate suffering in the rush to public talk, Phyllis heartbreaking death in the World find a silver lining. But philosophi- described how she Trade Center attack on September cal, spiritual, and psychological became “numb” after 11, 2001. Their courageous response disciplines have developed robust Greg’s death. But in challenges our culture’s emphasis on traditions for transmuting the time, she says, this loss retribution and punishment, while negative. Sociologists could prob- became the catalyst to illustrating the power of the human ably benefit from more attention to a “new life” focused spirit to transform tragedy into this process. What did Phyllis and on working to uproot inspiring acts of peacemaking, soli- Orlando do with their grief? They the violence inher- darity, and ultimately, hope. The ses- reached out to Aicha el-Wafi. Aicha ent in our culture. sion will occur Monday, August 24, is the mother Eventually, Phyllis and 10:30 a.m. to of Zacarias Orlando found some 12:10 p.m., and Moussaoui, healing by participat- will include If crime victims and offenders the man who ing in a restorative time for dialog trained to be justice process with with Orlando can help each other heal within Orlando and Phyllis Rodriguez one of the 9/11 murderers in prison. (a sociologist prisons through I-Thou encounters, pilots and pled How and why does film. And indeed, it is not an option at Fordham perhaps there is hope for schools, guilty to con- this process of resilience and rebirth for taking refuge for the growing University) workplaces, and even sociology spiracy to com- in the wake of tragedy actually demographic category labeled as the and Producer- mit murder. work? non-religious. Director Gayla departments! They found Pathways associated with “secular Jamison. It Structured Opportunities for solidarity with spirituality” (Kurtz and White will be of great Taking Refuge and I-Thou another parent 2015:64) or “cognitively oriented interest to sociologists concerned Relationships who was grieving for the loss of spirituality” (Zajonc 2010:119) with social problems, public policy, her son to a life sentence in prison. In the film, Orlando notes that might be an option for those who peace, altruism, morality, criminol- Phyllis and Aicha spoke together his training as a sociologist did not lack strong ties to religion. This ogy, restorative justice, and related in many public dialogs, including a prepare him to deal with the bewil- involves the “secular redefinition of topics. TED talk that has been viewed more dering events of 9/11 and the loss of tools mainly belonging to the wis- The 9/11 attacks have left an than half a million times. In their his son. He was trained to “abstract dom traditions” so that they become indelible mark on all of us, as we public appearances, they often held and generalize,” which he found to accessible to people of all faiths continue to grapple with the causes hands in a powerful gesture of their be of little value. What we all need and the non-religious (Giorgino, and consequences of the human unconventional friendship and the during such times is an opportunity 2014, see also Batchelor 1998). capacity to do harm. Paradoxically, possibility of deep empathy despite to “take refuge” (Jacobs-Stewart Secular mindfulness practices are the attacks also offer an inspiring cultural differences. 2010:29): to lean on a caring com- one increasingly popular example affirmation of the essential goodness Aicha, Phyllis, and Orlando munity and engage in a set of spiri- (Lee 2015). The 12 Steps pioneered of humanity—if understood from spoke against war and in favor of tual/existential practices that help by Alcoholics Anonymous offer the appropriate point of view. In the peace and understanding across us work through incomprehensible another pathway (Lee and Pagano wake of the devastating violence, cultural divides. At a time when suffering so that we come to appre- 2014). In AA, secular members refer someone asked Fred Rogers (of the polls showed that 90 percent of ciate the deeper lessons that are to their “higher power” as G.O.D.: Mr. Rogers Neighborhood children’s Americans were in favor of some always present. As my co-authored the local home group (“Group of show) what we could possibly say kind of military response, the book The Heart of Religion dem- Drunks”) and the “Good Orderly to the children. His thoughtful film shows how an anti-war letter onstrates, prayer has historically Direction” of AA’s principles and response was, “tell them to keep written by Orlando, titled “Not in played an important role for many practices (Laura S. 2006:16-17). their eyes on the helpers.” Those Our Son’s Name,” circulated on the people who seek understanding as When they work the Steps and lean words made all the difference for Internet and led to national media they drink from life’s cup of suffer- on the home group, they receive me and shifted my perspective from appearances. The couple repeatedly ing and joy. This involves “seeing a daily reprieve from their addic- hopelessness to optimism about expressed empathy for those civil- beyond circumstances” in a way that tion. There is no permanent cure, human nature. Despite my profes- ians who were certain to die in the can “transform the pain of suffering the reprieve must be constantly sional tendency to concentrate on subsequent war as collateral dam- into peace and joy” (pages 128-133). renewed through altruistic acts. the dark side—I was trained as a But prayer is not mentioned in the age, noting that such people were, Continued on Page 8 footnotes • July/August 2015 5 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

Election members eligible to vote in the 2015 tee is in place. Committee on Nominations From Page 1 election there was a 48 percent par- The full slate of the newly elected Jessie Daniels, City University of ticipation rate, compared to 45 per- ASA-wide officers and committee New York (CUNY) of the Committee on Nominations, cent in 2014. In the 52 ASA Sections members follows: David G. Embrick, Loyola and four members of the elections, 56 percent participated in President-Elect University-Chicago Committee on Committees. 2015, an increase of three percent Maria Krysan, University of In announcing the results of the compared to the previous year. Of Michèle Lamont, Harvard Illinois-Chicago election, Secretary Mary Romero the total votes cast, 100 percent were University Nancy López, University of Mexico and Executive Officer Sally T. cast online. Vice President-Elect Becky Pettit, University of Texas Hillsman extended their heartiest ASA Bylaws Amendments Kathleen Gerson, New York Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University congratulations to the newly elected of Southern California officers and committee members The membership approved one University and their appreciation to all ASA amendment to the bylaws by a wide Secretary-Elect Committee on Publications members who have served the margin. The change increases the David Takeuchi, Boston College Matthew O. Hunt, Northeastern Association by running for office membership of the Committee University and by voting in this election. on Publications from six to nine. Council Members-at-Large Claire M. Renzetti, University of Nearly half of the voting mem- Therefore, the 2016 election ballot Daniel Chambliss, Hamilton Kentucky bers of the ASA community took will include an increased number College Committee on Committees part in the 2015 election, which is of candidates for service beginning Cynthia Feliciano, University of the traditional level of ASA member in September 2016. The commit- California-Irvine Charles Gallagher, LaSalle University participation. ASA is one of the tee will gradually increase by one Mignon Moore, Barnard College- A. James McKeever, Pierce few scholarly associations with member per year for three years Columbia University Community College participation this high. Of the 8,449 until the full nine-member commit- Wendy Ng, San Jose University Ann Morning, New York University Ruth N. Lopez Turley, Rice University

ASR change in cultural tastes in 2013. He The great success and heroic labors in sociology. To accomplish this, From Page 1 received his PhD from Arizona in of editors past are what provide the they plan to make extensive use of 2006 and has called Notre Dame his new editors with a sturdy enterprise the crew of eight deputy editors they director of Notre Dame’s Center for home port ever since. from which they can explore some selected as well as the many hands the Study of Social Movements, he Swashbuckling Sarah Mustillo less-chartered waters. provided by ASR’s large and diverse has also served seven years as the steps intrepidly onto the bridge after One of the major goals is to make editorial board. editor of the journal Mobilization. her first year at Notre Dame. She headway into the bedeviling bay of Perhaps most notably, the editors McVeigh’s many publications was previously at Purdue, where increasing the diversity of work that plan an especially austere approach include successfully navigating the she moved to in 2007 after being appears in ASR, especially theoreti- to the favorite editorial decision perilous waters into ASR harbor an Assistant Professor in Medical cal and qualitative work. They plan of pirates everywhere: the Revise twice in the last year, as the lead Psychology at Duke, which is also to use a directed review process that and Resubmit (also known as the author on papers on 1960s Klan where she received her PhD in 2001. involves attending closely to such Arrr! & Arrr!). Like Ulysses with the activism and the Tea Party. McVeigh Mustillo is well-known across soci- submissions early in the process and sirens, the new editors have bound is also the author the 2009 book The ology’s quantitative quays for being providing reviewers with specific themselves to the mast with a firm Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right- one of the discipline’s best method- guidelines for different types of work. policy of no more than two rounds Wing Movements and National ologists. Her methodological work They also plan to use proactive of Revise and Resubmit; indeed, Politics. Before declaring Notre includes contributions on longitudi- identification and a more directed they plan only to use the second in Dame his home port in 2007, he was nal data, discrete outcomes, model review process for work that has the rare circumstances. They also intend on the faculty at Skidmore College, specification, and missing data. She potential to contribute particularly to minimize use of new reviewers to and before that, in 1996, he received has used her methods expertise to “timely” input to ongoing debates. evaluate resubmissions. his PhD from North Carolina. serve an expansive research agenda They do not want the authors of Together, these ventures promise Omar Lizardo comes on board fes- upon the oceans of health research. such work to seek other vessels out exciting travels ahead for sociol- tooned with many recent accolades, While Mustillo is firstly notable for of fear of being becalmed by a pro- ogy’s flagship. As we set sail for the including the Theory Section’s Lewis the sheer diversity of projects she tracted review process at ASR. horizon, we can be confident in the Coser Award for agenda-setting and has navigated, the locus of many In all, they want a more diverse skill, dedication, and boldness of the the Comparative Historical section’s of her projects have been mental review process that reflects the won- new team we have entrusted with its award for best article. Lizardo is best health outcomes and research on derful diversity of work being done command. known for his contributions to how children, adolescents, and families. sociologists think about culture, and he recently co-edited a special issue Their Plans of another Association vessel, Social The new editors emphasize the Follow ASA (@ASAnews) on Twitter Psychology Quarterly, on connections debt they owe to the great work between that field and the study of of their predecessors in keeping During the ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago, ASA will be live culture. Likewise, he braved the seas ASR as the pride of the discipline tweeting about activities and research presented using the alone with a sole-authored paper with its high-quality articles and hashtag #asa15. Meeting attendees are encouraged to do the on culture and networks published orderly operations on all decks. Its same in order to highlight noteworthy presentations or to share in ASR in 2006, and co-authored longstanding reputation for being and discuss ideas. another ASR paper on historical run as a tight ship is well-deserved.

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Riley E. Dunlap, Chair, ASA Task Force wonderful team of contributors, creation of the task force, to serve as Thanks are due to all contributors on Sociology and Global Climate Change the Task Force produced Climate Associate Chair. This proved a wise and numerous draft chapter review- and Dresser Professor and Regents Change and Society: Sociological decision, as Bob was tremendously ers for their great work, and our Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State Perspectives, coming out in August helpful, especially in co-editing our three liaisons with ASA Council— University from Oxford University Press as an volume. John Logan, esearch on climate change has official ASA publication (see the For the first Sarah Soule Rhistorically been dominated by advertisement in this issue). Our year the steer- and Monica natural scientists. By the 1990s “cli- hope is that this volume will not ing commit- Prasad—for mate science” had become a well- only provide a strong indication of tee grappled their support. established field, producing strong the value of sociological analyses of with what Last but not evidence that the world was warm- climate change to diverse audi- we wanted to least, Margaret ing, due in part to human activities, ences, but also stimulate increased accomplish. Weigers Vitullo and such warming was likely to have interest in climate change among We started by (our long-term negative impacts on both natural sociologists. taking into liaison with the account sug- ASA) provided and social systems—as documented And a Task Force Was Formed by the Intergovernmental Panel on gestions from invaluable Climate Change. Stimulated by the Before providing more informa- ASA members advice, sup- general lack of societal efforts to tion on the volume, a description responding to port, and reduce carbon emissions, the key of the long process in bringing it a solicitation encouragement. to fruition is in order. In an effort I issued to all contributor to warming, natural A Climate to maximize inclusiveness and ASA Sections. scientists have gradually realized Change diversity, ASA Council tried a new We gradually that global warming (and resulting Volume climate change) is fundamentally a procedure when establishing the agreed to aim “people problem.” A consequence climate change task force. I was for a large, Returning has been increasing calls for greater appointed Chair, and a call for edited volume, ideally published to the Oxford volume, Climate involvement of social science in volunteers was issued. Eventually by a leading press. With an eye to Change and Society, besides intro- climate change research. more than 50 individuals expressed the key aspects of what are typically ductory and concluding chapters Against this backdrop the Task interest in becoming involved with called the “human dimensions” of by Brulle and myself, consists Force on Sociology and Global the task force, creating an organiza- climate change and the areas where of 11 chapters dealing with the Climate tional dilemma. sociologists were already doing following major components of Change was It was obvi- important research on climate the human dimensions of climate ous we needed change, the steering commit- change: driving forces, social established by Though more work always a leadership tee eventually settled on 11 core impacts, and societal responses, ASA Council, remains, the physical sciences have in response team. A group topics (discussed below). We then along with a fourth on theory and accomplished their core task when to a proposal consisting of appointed two lead authors, with a methodology. from the it comes to climate change. We myself, John history of relevant scholarship and The first set of chapters deal Section on know what we need to know about Logan (our ini- complementary perspectives, for with the “driving forces” or causes Environment the causes and consequences tial liaison with each chapter, and encouraged them of climate change, beginning with and of our actions. What we don’t know ASA Council), to involve as many others from an overall assessment of what is Technology is how to stop ourselves, which is Lee Herring among the Task Force volunteers known about the drivers of climate (our temporary change, noting where sociologists (ETS). The why this book—and the social as feasible. We then submitted a Task Force was liaison with the prospectus to Oxford. have made major contributions. sciences—are so important from ASA Executive The second chapter focuses on charged with here on out. Although ultimately 37 indi- producing a Office), and the viduals contributed to the volume, the role of “market organizations,” past, current, emphasizing the key roles played by report that — Bill McKibben, Middlebury College and ranging from senior scholars to a applied socio- author of The End of Nature and incoming few graduate students, it proved corporations in producing carbon logical analyses chairs of ETS impossible to involve everyone who emissions and hindering efforts to to the issue of was formed initially expressed an interest. I am control such emissions. The third climate change. to select a pleased that ASA Council is no assesses the role of “consump- Early on the Task Force leadership steering committee. Paying careful longer following the “experimental” tion” in producing emissions and agreed that we should do more than attention to both relevant expertise procedure used to establish our reducing them, stressing the social write a report for ASA, as we had and diversity (including career task force, as organizationally it and contextual factors influencing an opportunity to demonstrate the stage), 10 scholars were appointed was unwieldy. Our difficulties were consumer behaviors. value of sociological perspectives on to assist me in leading the task force: exacerbated by the untimely deaths The second set deal broadly with climate change not only to natural Robert Antonio, Robert Brulle, Beth of two steering committee members the social impacts of climate change scientists, but to fellow social sci- Shaefer Caniglia, JoAnn Carmin, and the spouse of a third. That and efforts to mitigate it. The first entists, policymakers, and citizens Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, Kari the affected chapter writing teams chapter examines “climate justice interested in climate change. Marie Norgaard, David Pellow, persevered in the face of these and inequality,” highlighting the dis- After a long preparatory pro- Timmons Roberts, Eugene Rosa, tragedies has earned my deepest parities between those that produce cess and considerable work by a and Kathleen Tierney. I asked Bob gratitude. the greatest carbon emissions and Brulle, who as ETS Chair pushed for Continued on Page 12 footnotes • July/August 2015 7 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

Documentary with convicted murderers. Their without exception, in ways that heal Sciences: Back to Human Experience as It Is.” Journal for the Theory of Social From Page 5 daily reprieve included meeting with us in the process. Sociologists can Behaviour. doi: 10.1111/jtsb.12078 murderers in a circle dialog, which play a vital role in helping groups, If we’re honest, we can admit that illustrates Martin Buber’s classic organizations, and communities Jacobs-Stewart, Therese. 2010. Mindfulness we all “take refuge” in one form or and the 12 Steps. Center City, MN: distinction between I-Thou and I-It enhance this capacity to transform Hazelden. another when life becomes over- relations. When we treat others as tragedy. The healing and transfor- whelming and our well-worn habits Kurtz, Ernest and William L. White. 2015. an It (an object) we fail to appreci- mation associated with restorative “Recovery Spirituality.” Religions 6:58-81. of sense-making no longer make ate them as fully realized human justice, as documented by these sense. Examples include mood-eat- Lee, Matthew T. 2015. “The Mindful beings. Phyllis and Orlando had an films, provides an example within Society: Contemplative Sociology, Meta- ing, working too much, lashing out I-Thou encounter in the prison, in the criminal justice system. If crime Mindfulness, and Human Flourishing,” in anger, becoming mired in grief, which understanding was deep and victims and offenders can help each Presidential Address at the North Central and various other ways of closing off bi-directional. Poet and peace activ- other heal within prisons through Sociological Association conference in to life as it is. Instead of responding ist Thich Nhat Hanh expressed the I-Thou encounters, perhaps there is Cleveland (April). to stress in unhealthy ways, we can timeless wisdom they experienced: hope for schools, workplaces, and Lee, Matthew T. and Maria E. Pagano. engage the tend-and-befriend path- “When you understand, you cannot even sociology departments! We 2014. “Spirituality in Teens: Promoting way that was modeled so brilliantly Sobriety and Improving Mental Health.” help but love.” would serve our students and our Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction by the public speaking engagements How might our social systems society better if we directed more and Behavioral Health Professionals, of Phyllis and Aicha. more routinely cultivate such of our collective energy towards the 15(April): 52-59. In these overwhelming moments experiences? “In Our Son’s Name” development of sociological insight S., Laura. 2006. 12 Steps on the Buddha’s we will take refuge in something and joins a growing list of emotionally into such transformative dynam- Path: Bill, Buddha, and We, a Spiritual the question becomes whether this gripping documentaries that offer ics. Journey of Recovery. Boston: Wisdom. act is constructive or destructive. A answers rooted in restorative justice References Zajonc, Arthur. 2010. “Experience, restorative justice process offered an and I-Thou relationships (see also Contemplation, and Transformation.” Pp. opportunity for Phyllis and Orlando Batchelor, Stephen. 1998. Buddhism 101-123 in Parker J. Palmer and Arthur The Dhamma Brothers, Beyond Zajonc, with Megan Scribner, The Heart to grow, as they opened to a seem- without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Conviction, and Serving Life). As Awakening. NY: Riverhead. of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal ingly unbearable reality by develop- these films demonstrate, we can – Transforming the Academy through Giorgino, Vincenzo M. B. 2014. ing empathy and understanding express compassion for all others, Collegial Conversations. San Francisco, “Contemplative Methods Meet Social CA: Jossey-Bass.

Schedules days’ notice pay the employee an child care, elder care, a second job, halfway across town to show up at From Page 3 extra hour of pay (or four addi- a health condition, or for educa- work.” tional hours of pay if they post the tion or job training. It also requires As the 2014-15 ASA Congressional movement to improve workplace- schedule with less than 24 hours’ that employers provide at least four Fellow Lindsay A. Owens is working scheduling practices and to call notice). The legislation also requires hours of wages for employees in as an Economic Policy Fellow for U.S. attention to the consequences of that retail employers pay employees designated occupations who are Senator Elizabeth Warren advising these business practices for workers. for four hours of work for each shift scheduled for shifts of at least four on labor, retirement, and economic In the last month alone, a number in which they are on-call or for any hours but are sent home before insecurity issues. She completed her PhD of news outlets, including Salon, The shift in which they are sent home four hours of work and requires in 2014 at Stanford University, where Nation, the Los Angeles Times, CNN. before working a full four hours. that employers provide at least one she was a National Poverty Fellow at com, and the Wall Street Journal Finally, the bill has a number of hour’s wages when an employee the Center on Poverty and Inequality and National Science Foundation have reported on the toll unpre- provisions to encourage employers has to work a split shift or when Graduate Research Fellow. Her research dictable work schedules can take to promote part-time workers to an employee is required to call in has appeared in some of the leading on families. And in April, workers full-time and to limit discrimination to work less than 24 hours before a social science journals including Social at Walmart took to the streets to against part-time workers. shift. This bill will be reintroduced Forces, Public Opinion Quarterly, and protest just-in-time scheduling in the 114th Congress. On Capitol Hill The Annals of the American Academy of practices and employees of the As income inequality deepens, Political and Social Science. State lawmakers in California, upscale retailer Juicy Couture began workers in contract, temporary, Resources organizing against cuts to worker Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, part-time, and other forms of hours. Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, contingent and precarious arrange- Lambert, Susan J., Peter J. Fugiel, and Julia R. Henly . 2014. Precarious Work The biggest victory yet came at Minnesota, New York, and Oregon ments are increasingly left behind. have recently introduced fair sched- Schedules among Early-Career Employees the end of last year, when the San But the political winds are shift- in the US: A National Snapshot. University Francisco Board of Supervisors uling legislation as well. In the U.S. ing. Living wage initiatives passed of Chicago. (ssascholars.uchicago.edu/ passed the San Francisco Retail Congress, Sen. Elizabeth Warren easily in all five states, including work-scheduling-study/files/lambert. Workers Bill of Rights on December (MA) is a sponsor of a bill, the four deep red states, where they fugiel.henly_.precarious_work_schedules. august2014.pdf ). 5, 2014. Enacted in 2015, this Schedules that Work Act, which has were on the ballot in 2014. Now it’s groundbreaking, progressive legisla- served as a model for many of the time to ensure some basic fairness Economic Policy Institute. 2015. “Irregular state initiatives. The Schedules That Work Scheduling and Its Consequences” tion requires that employers post in work scheduling so that, as Sen. (www.epi.org/publication/irregular-work- schedules of hourly retail workers Work Act gives workers the right Warren has said, “A single mom scheduling-and-its-consequences/) to request predictable schedules in at least two weeks in advance and working two jobs should know if National Women’s Law Center. “Fair mandates that employers who post advance and requires that employ- her hours are being canceled before Work Schedules.” http://www. schedules with less than seven ers grant scheduling requests, where she arranges for daycare and drives nwlc.org/our-issues/employment/ possible, for priority reasons such as fair-work-schedules

8 footnotes • July/August 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association ASA Welcomes MFP Cohort 42

Beth Floyd, ASA Minority Affairs begin their participation in MFP on of MFP Cohort 41. They will have (MSS), the Association of Black Program August 1, 2015. the opportunity to network with Sociologists (ABS), the Southwestern SA and the Minority Fellowship The Fellows will attend the 2015 sociologists who share similar Sociological Association (SSA), and AProgram (MFP) are pleased to ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago, interests. MFP Cohort 42 will be ASA Council, with more recent introduce the six new Fellows who where they will take part in a introduced individually and as support coming from the Pacific comprise MFP Cohort 42. The MFP day-long orientation, including a a group during the MFP Benefit Sociological Association (PSA) and Advisory Panel met this spring in brief history of ASA and a series Reception on Sunday, August 23. the Southern Sociological Society Washington, DC, to review the of research- and professional You can purchase tickets to this (SSS). Support for MFP has also large and highly competitive pool of development-themed presentations event when you register for the come from significant gifts made applications. Keeping with tradition, by sociologists (all former Fellows Annual Meeting. by individual ASA members and MFP Cohort 42 consists of talented themselves). The new Fellows Since 2010, MFP has been organizations through the MFP PhD candidates with strong and will also participate in a number generously supported in full by Leadership Campaign in which diverse sociological research inter- of required sessions, events, and Sociologists for Women in Society SWS and the Eastern Sociological ests. The new Fellows will officially workshops, including a breakfast (SWS), Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD), Society (ESS) participated as donor meeting with the seven members the Midwest Sociological Society organizations.

Zinobia Bennefield (SWS MFP ment of sociology at Texas A&M Group of the American Evaluation in the United States. Her current #1) University. Her dissertation research Association. Campbell’s disserta- research evaluates the anxiety and Undergraduate Institution: Salem explores the complexities of ado- tion research involves a long-term, trauma faced by these underserved College. lescent mental health and extends qualitative examination of the disas- communities prior to and after state Graduate Institution: Texas A&M the theoretical and methodological ter recovery process among older violence. Shaneda’s work can be University. literature concerning the relation- adults; it uses the 2013 Colorado found in two forthcoming publica- Zinobia ship between socioeconomic status, floods as a case study. tions. First, an auto-ethnography race, social integration and mental in an anthology titled Outside the Bennefield Shaneda Destine (SWS MFP #2) is a doctoral disorder. XY: Queer, Brown Masculinity, and Undergraduate Institute: SUNY-Old candidate at second, a review of “Young and Gay: Nnenia Campbell (AKD MFP) Westbury. Texas A&M Jamaica’s Gully Queens” in Societies Undergraduate Institution: Graduate Institution: CUNY-Queens University. She Without Borders: Human Rights and University of Central Florida. College and Howard University. earned her the Social Sciences. Graduate Institution: University of Shaneda BA in sociol- Central Florida and University of Destine is a B. Brian Foster (ABS MFP) ogy at Salem Zinobia Bennefield Colorado-Boulder. scholar-activist Undergraduate Institution: College. Her Nnenia and a third- University of Mississippi. research interests include medical Campbell is year doctoral Graduate Institution: University of sociology, health disparities, race a doctoral student in the North Carolina-Chapel Hill. and ethnic relations, and intersec- candidate at Department of Brian Foster tionality. Zinobia’s research involves the University Sociology and is a doctoral the study of the sociology of health of Colorado- Anthropology Shaneda Destine candidate at the and illness, using a critical race Boulder. (with a dual University of perspective in health research and She holds concentration in social inequality North Carolina- a mixed-methods approach to cre- BA and MA and medical sociology) at Howard Chapel Hill ate pragmatic suggestions for the Nnenia Campbell degrees in University. Shaneda received her (UNC) where eradication of health disparities. In sociology from the University BA in sociology with a minor in he takes a a 2014 Social Science and Medicine of Central Florida. Her research public policy from SUNY-Old mixed-methods B. Brian Foster article, she used a historical com- interests include older adults and Westbury and earned an MA and interdis- parative methodological approach disasters, social responses to tech- in applied social research from ciplinary approach to the study of to analyze the persistence of institu- nological disasters, risk perception, CUNY-Queens College. As a public race, culture, and inequality, with tional racism within the health care and social capital. Campbell is a sociologist, Shaneda is interested in an emphasis on the rural American system. In a 2015 American Journal research assistant at the University evaluating race, gender, class, and South. His work considers how pub- of Health Education article, she chal- of Colorado Natural Hazards Center sexuality, while uniting pedagogy lic discourse, disseminated through lenged the notion that health educa- and managing editor of Natural with popular education. She has social and popular media, shapes tion has the same impact on women Hazards Review, a cross-disciplinary presented research and published local culture and lived experience, of different races and argued that journal that bridges engineering work on the health, human rights, both socially and materially. Brian’s specialized health campaigns geared and social science research in sup- and lived experiences of black dissertation research examines the specifically to the cultural realities port of partnered approaches to LGBTQ persons in the United rhetorical, textual, and visual tropes of women of color, independent of disaster loss reduction. Additionally, States and abroad. Additionally, that comprise public discourse about educational level, are essential in she currently serves as co-chair she has added to the discourse on the rural South and juxtaposes closing health awareness gaps. The for the Disaster and Emergency current state violence against black these tropes with the experiences article won the Ruth Schaffer Best Management Topical Interest and brown working-class people Paper Award from the depart- Continued on Page 10 footnotes • July/August 2015 9 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

MFP candidate at Latino, white, and black extended earned her MA From Page 9 the University householders, she examines the in sociology of California- mechanisms that lead to household with a minor in and perspectives of present-day Davis. She extension, the meanings that house- Latina/Latino communities in this context. The received a BA holders have of their family relative studies from the study relies on content and discourse with honors in to other forms, and the employment University of analysis as well as critical ethnog- sociology and of adult extended householders rela- Illinois-Urbana/ raphy in a Mississippi Delta town. communica- tive to non-extended householders. Champaign, Brian has also published research tion from the Emerald T. Nguyen Emerald’s other research focuses on where she is Joanna Perez on the determinants and implica- University second-generation immigrant youth currently a tions of student aspirations, and is of California-Davis where she mental health. She is currently doctoral candidate. Her research co-founder and contributor for Still researched gender differences in collaborating on projects related focuses on how systems of power Furious and Brave, a pop culture and congressional leaders’ support for to immigrant healthcare work- and inequality as well as the inter- social-justice focused weblog that social assistance programs. Prior ers, immigrants’ interactions with sectionality between race, class, covers a variety of topics and issues to beginning her graduate studies, community-based organizations, gender, sexuality, and immigration centered on marginalized commu- Emerald worked for the federal and U.S.-Mexico migration. status impact marginalized com- nities. Brian has received support government in Washington, DC, in munities. In her dissertation, Joanna Joanna Perez (MSS MFP) from the National Institute for Child the area of health care. Her research uses in-depth interviews, physi- Health and Human Development, and teaching interests include Undergraduate Institution: cal and virtual fieldwork, archival the National Science Foundation, immigrant incorporation, race/ University of California-Los research, and social media to under- the Graduate School at UNC, and ethnicity, marriage and family, ado- Angeles. stand the experiences of Latino the Alliance for Graduate Education lescent development and wellbeing Graduate Institution: University of undocumented immigrant young and the Professoriate. and health outcomes and behav- Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. adult activists in the United States. iors. Her dissertation uses mixed Joanna Perez, the daughter of She has received numerous univer- Emerald T. Nguyen (ASA Guatemalan immigrants grew up in Council MFP) methods to study the extended sity awards and recognitions for her household—those with non-nuclear a predominantly Latino immigrant work, including being listed as an Undergraduate Institution: members—to understand how this community in Los Angeles. In 2009, “Excellent Teacher” for the past six University of California-Davis. family dynamic functions for immi- Joanna earned a BA in sociology years, awarded the Beslow-Geisert Graduate Institution: University of grants across generations. Using from UCLA, with a double minor Summer Dissertation Completion California-Davis. Current Population Survey data in labor and workplace studies and Fellowship, and receiving the Latino Emerald T. Nguyen is a doctoral along with interviews with Asian, civic engagement. In 2011, Joanna Graduate Student Leader award.

ABS Celebrates Its 45th Annual Conference in Chicago

Jean H. Shin, It explores the consequences of gists and other scholars to nuance At the ABS awards banquet and ASA Minority Affairs Program the level and direction of wealth our discussions, treatments and also in the final program, the life he Association of Black inequality across a multidisciplinary scholarship on these issues, and and scholarly career of Charles TSociologists (ABS) celebrates an spectrum of research inquiry.” what it means to put black lives at U. Smith, Professor Emeritus at important milestone on August Highlights of the 2015 ABS the center of our research. In the Florida A&M University, will be 20-22 in Chicago, holding its Annual Conference include plenary best tradition of ABS, we will be recognized. Smith, who died on 45th Annual Conference at the speakers Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and about the business of charting a April 21, 2015, was an influential Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel. Kimberle Crenshaw, a session with course of scholarship and activism figure throughout ABS’ history as Taking place prior to (and with young activists in the Black Lives that will both shape and be shaped well as founder of the ASA Section one-day overlap) the 2015 ASA Matter movement and social sci- by current and future works in these on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Annual Meeting, the 2015 ABS ence scholars participating in ABS areas. We are particularly excited ABS will also continue to celebrate Annual Conference theme is “Race Annual Meeting, and the inclusion that our 45th anniversary confer- the recent launch of Issues in Race and Inequality in the Obama Era of several scholars from the United ence will explore, with a systematic & Society: An Interdisciplinary and Beyond.” The description of Kingdom who are addressing the and rigorous black sociological Global Journal. As the official the theme, put together by ABS development of black studies in the lens, the ironies and paradoxes of journal of ABS, it is an academic President-Elect William “Sandy” UK as part of university curricula. rising wealth and income equal- resource published through a Darity (Duke University), states According to Barbara M. ity in and beyond the Obama era partnership between ABS and the “over the past 30 years, income and Scott, ABS Executive Officer and while convening in the President’s Peabody College of Education wealth inequality rose significantly Publications Committee Chair, “The home town of Chicago. In addition, and Human Development at in the U.S. African Americans have professional and social importance it will also bring together young Vanderbilt University. Produced been disproportionately affected of ABS has not diminished over its Black Lives Matter activists and bi-annually (spring and fall), the by this widening gap, even as the 45-year history. With the growing British scholars who will share their journal emphasizes sociological nation elected its first African income and wealth disparities and ideological perspectives on Afro- interpretations of race as one of the American president. The conference inequalities in black communities Latino studies and black studies and fundamentals of societal universal explores the ironies and paradoxes nationwide as well as the increasing black scholarship in the UK as well processes. of rising wealth and income equal- targeted attacks on black lives, ABS as their activism on behalf of people For more information, see associationof- ity in and beyond the Obama era. has strategically brought together collectively confronted with racism blacksociologists.org/. a diverse group of black sociolo- domestically and globally.”

10 footnotes • July/August 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association The U.S. Supreme Court Recognizes Marriage Equality

n March 2015, ASA filed an as children raised by different-sex sufficient parental socioeconomic with a central premise of the Iamicus brief in support of the parents. resources,” the brief explains. “The right to marry. Without the legalization of gay marriage in “Decades of methodologically wellbeing of children does not recognition, stability, and Obergefell v. Hodges. The amicus sound social science research, depend on the sex or sexual orienta- predictability marriage offers, highlighted the social science including multiple nationally rep- tion of their parents.” their children suffer the stigma consensus that children raised by resentative studies and expert evi- On June 26, in a historic 5-4 of knowing their families are same-sex parents fare just as well dence introduced in courts around ruling, the Supreme Court struck somehow lesser. They also suffer the country, down same-sex marriage bans the significant material costs confirm that across the country. One of the of being raised by unmarried positive child highlights from the Court’s parents, relegated through no wellbeing is majority opinion, read by Justice fault of their own to a more dif- the product of Kennedy, directly relates to the ficult and uncertain family life. stability in the wellbeing of children: The marriage laws at issue here relationship “A third basis for protecting thus harm and humiliate the between the the right to marry is that it children of same-sex couples.” two parents, safeguards children and families For more on the filed amicus, see the stability in the and thus draws meaning from March/April 2015 issue of Footnotes, or relationship related rights of childrearing, read the amicus brief at www.asanet. between the procreation, and education. . org/documents/ASA/pdfs/12-144_307_ parents and . . Excluding same-sex couples Amicus_%20%28C_%20Gottlieb%29_ The United States Supreme Court the child, and from marriage thus conflicts ASA_Same-Sex_Marriage.pdf.

Reimagining Medicine: Sociology and the MCAT

Natalie A. Jansen, (CARS). With April 17 as the first cal for the futures of both medicine when free course time is a rare The University of Kansas administration, I was among the and sociology. Future doctors are commodity. While there is no easy finished my MA in sociology initial group for the new exam. expected to think both critically and solution to the disparity between sociologically about their patients, what can reasonably be taught and from the University of Kansas this Preparing for the MCAT I and sociologists have new oppor- what students are expected to know, spring, and one of the first questions To prepare for the MCAT, I I get when people discover my plans tunities to directly mold future a starting point may be for intro clocked more than 600 hours of medical professionals. Further, instructors to compare their course to attend medical school is, “Why studying across seven months. are you in graduate school studying sociology departments are being material to the MCAT’s content list. Finding 600 additional hours to re-legitimized. Sociology programs sociology?” My answer: “Studying study in a jam-packed schedule Beyond the MCAT sociology is like seeing the world may be rightfully seen as indispens- required serious planning and dis- able to universities. It is important to realize that through a new pair of glasses, and cipline (plus, countless late nights the utility of sociology courses for I don’t think I could be an effective and early mornings!). Striking a Learning to Think the MCAT extends beyond course health care provider without having balance between MCAT study- Sociologically content. Sociology content may only studied it, especially considering my ing and being a full-time gradu- MCAT materials suggest that accounts for 7.5 percent of the total interests in global health.” While I ate student, a graduate teaching the best preparatory class is an exam, yet critical thinking skills are personally have found that studying assistant, a hospital volunteer, and introduction to sociology course. necessary throughout, especially on sociology is indispensable to my a member of university organiza- However, pre-meds are expected to the CARS section. Half of this sec- future as a physician, social science tions was a significant hurdle. And I know detailed information about tion is comprised of social science is an aspect of medicine that has represent only one of approximately more than 150 different sociological passages, meaning one-fifth of the historically been excluded from pre- 80,000 pre-med students juggling concepts ranging from the specific exam has content teachable through med curriculum. numerous balls while studying for (the sick role, dramaturgy) to the sociology courses. In this section, However, a renewed interest in the MCAT. Now that the MCAT general (globalization, inequality), though, test-takers glean all infor- social science by the medical profes- encompasses information from 13 as well as a breadth of knowledge mation from the provided passages. sion is evidenced by the revamped different college courses, students about research design and statistical Formerly called Verbal Reasoning, Medical College Admissions Test are spread thinner than ever before methods. In other words, it would this section is notorious for being (MCAT). The new MCAT lasts over as they deal with the pressure to take several courses to check every the hardest—the section pre-meds 7.5 hours and covers three new learn and recall vast amounts of topic off the list. Further, sociol- toil over and score the lowest on. I subjects: biochemistry, psychology, information. ogy only accounts for 30 percent of hear frequent complaints that the and sociology. Now, the four-sec- The newfound emphasis on the behavioral science section; the MCAT is asking questions that are tion exam boasts an entire section behavioral science on the MCAT rest covers psychology and biology. too hard, too confusing, or plain dedicated to behavioral science, as might provide an added source of Hence, students are unlikely to take nonsense. What students don’t well as an entire section dedicated stress for unfamiliar pre-med stu- multiple sociology courses in order realize is that many of their biol- to critical analysis and reasoning dents, but its implications are criti- to cover the material, especially Continued on Page 15 footnotes • July/August 2015 11 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

Climate Change importance of these interrelated climate change and the quest for ing them, a highly non-sociological From Page 7 phenomena in generating neces- a sustainable future. The second, perspective ignoring how carbon sary societal reforms to minimize “methodological approaches” for use is embedded in social structure those that experience the negative climate change. It is followed by sociological research on climate and how efforts to reduce carbon impacts of climate change. The next one on “public opinion” analyz- change, lays out the challenges in emissions are greatly constrained one focuses on “adaptation,” provid- ing the status and determinants conducting empirical analyses of the by social, economic, and political ing an assessment of the social (including experience with relationships between climatological dynamics. dynamics that influence efforts (and extreme weather events) of public conditions and societal phenomena We emphasize that the lack of same) to adapt to the grow- views of climate change. The last and then reviews various innovative Oxford volume (global.oup. ing impacts of climate change. The chapter deals with the long-term methodologies that are allowing com/academic/product/ third turns to and well-entrenched campaign to sociologists to respond effectively to climate-change-and-society- “mitigation,” derail govern- these challenges. 9780199356119?cc=us&lang=en&) ment efforts In the introduction and con- clearly responds to growing calls examining a We emphasize that the Oxford diverse array to recognize, clusion, Brulle and I review the for more social science contribu- of efforts rang- volume clearly responds to growing mitigate, and growing calls for social science tions to climate change research, ing from the calls for more social science even adapt contributions to climate change and it demonstrates the unique to climate research, emphasizing their typical value of sociological perspectives. household to contributions to climate change international change—the shortcomings. These include asking We also invoke “public sociology” research, and it demonstrates levels aimed “denial coun- social scientists (an undifferenti- in justifying our discipline’s role in at mitigating the unique value of sociological termovement.” ated pool) to contribute to research asking questions that can broaden climate change. The final agendas largely set by natural current research agendas and perspectives. The chapters section scientists and funders, often involv- stimulate societal debates (i.e., what in the third includes two ing helping “educate the public” as is society’s long-term capacity for set consider chapters with to the seriousness of climate change climate change without significant socio-political actors and pro- a more inward, disciplinary focus. with the naive hope that this will changes in the economic system). cesses crucial to societal recogni- The first, “social theory,” exam- not change perspectives but will Our goal is to create intellectual tion of climate change and efforts ines major divisions in theoriz- stimulate policy change. Embedded space for more critical perspectives to deal with it. These start with a ing about climate change and the in such expectations is an empha- on climate change, as current efforts chapter on “civil society and social contributions of social theory for sis on individuals as the primary have yielded little progress in deal- movements” dealing with the both structuring empirical inquiry agents producing carbon emissions ing with this urgent problem. and normative discussions about and therefore responsible for reduc-

12 footnotes • July/August 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association Working Group Reports on How the Annual Meeting Sites Are Selected

fter last year’s annual meeting • “City feel” including easy access 1983 at the request of members. At are large enough to accommodate Ain San Francisco, more than a to a variety of restaurants in that time, the school year typically all of our meeting space needs. thousand people signed a petition on multiple price ranges and walk- started in September. Increasingly, For example, Nashville is one city Change.org asking ASA to examine able access to shops and other however, elementary, secondary, and that is in the process of expanding the cost and timing of the annual amenities. undergraduate institutions are starting its downtown hotel offerings, and meetings. The petition made four Using these criteria, ASA Meeting in August—some as early as August Meeting Services is watching that requests, including asking for more Services visits prospective meeting sites 1. To try to minimize the conflict, city closely. Additionally, as new sites information about how meeting sites and prepares a list of venues that is pre- ASA attempts to rotate alternate years become available, ASA adds them are selected. The petition also asked sented to Council for its consideration. between early and later August start to the schedule, as they did in 2012 ASA to form a Working Group to Once Council selects a meeting site, dates. Because of the constraints of in Denver. The 2016 meeting will be collect data from members about Meeting Services works with the hotels scheduling and last-minute changes in Seattle. ASA also seeks to provide their concerns and to look into how to secure a suitable contract. (such as the strike-induced re-siting a good experience for attendees at the costs and scheduling of meetings Current ASA policies eliminate of the August 2011 meeting from the Annual Meeting in sessions and might disadvantage those “who have many potential meeting sites. For Chicago to Las Vegas), the rotation is in the city. San Francisco and New more carework responsibilities.” example, ASA cannot meet in Arizona sometimes altered. Occasionally—in York are expensive cities; however, In response to the petition, ASA while SB 1070 remains part of state recent years—the meetings have been they are also the Association’s most President Paula England appointed a law. And poor labor practices preclude unusually late in August. This is not attended meetings, suggesting that Working Group on the Timing and Dallas as a meeting site. Members have typical. Late dates on the horizon: many members prefer them. Cost of the ASA Annual Meeting to expressed strong preferences to not 2015 (Chicago: August 22-25); 2016 Why should I stay at the conference examine start dates and site selec- meet again in Anaheim or Las Vegas, (Seattle: August 20-23); and 2023 hotel when it’s so expensive? tion criteria and to draft a survey and some cities—like Charlotte—are (Philadelphia: August 18-21). of members about their barriers to not currently considered because they When hotels contract with an Why don’t we meet earlier in attendance. This article is one way lack sufficient hotel space to accom- organization for a meeting, they August? that the Working Group is respond- modate our meetings. require that a certain number of hotel ing to the petition, by providing Currently, the Working Group is ASA has previously considered rooms be booked in order to provide members more information about considering whether to recommend meeting in the first week of August. concessions such as free meeting how sites are selected. that Council modify its policies to Members did not like it, because space, reduced room rates, and com- expand the range of places and times many had not yet returned from plimentary or reduced-rate Wi-Fi. How Sites are Selected that ASA meets. In the near future, summer field work or family vaca- The trade-off for members, therefore, Site selection is a joint venture members will receive a survey about tions. Others had conflicts with ele- is the cost of a hotel room versus between the elected members of ASA meeting preferences and barriers to mentary and secondary school early the cost of registration. Registration Council and the Meeting Services attendance. This information will be start dates. However, the Working at some professional association’s Department of ASA, headed by used in the Group’s recommenda- Group will consider this possibility annual meetings can exceed $1,000. Kareem D. Jenkins. ASA’s elected tion. In the meantime, the Working as well as other months. Booking a room at the conference Council sets policy about the types hotel keeps your meeting registra- Group will answer members’ ques- Aren’t hotel rates higher in the of facilities and meeting sites that are tion costs lower, and the contracted tions about current site selection summer? eligible. Current ASA policies require practices. Some of those questions discount means that you can stay at Summer months don’t necessarily that Meeting Services prioritize the are answered below. a nice hotel for less than you would following: mean higher hotel rates for conven- typically pay for that same room. Why do we meet at expensive tion business. Major factors driving • Sites where members are hotels? the hotel guestroom rate for conven- If we made venue changes, how afforded legal protection from tion business include the size of the soon would they take place? discrimination; ASA is a large organization. group, what days of the week the Contracts for a large meeting must • Sites where meeting space is Many members attend the Annual Meeting, in part, to present their meeting will occur; and terms of the be executed years in advance. That flexible, accessible, and under contract. Hotels do not calculate the also helps us lock in a good room one roof (if possible); own work. In order to maximize the amount of new, quality research on revenue from convention business rate. ASA has contracts with hotels • Meeting dates in early or the program, the site must have at the same as tourist business. through 2024. If the Working Group mid-August; recommends substantial changes to least 60 meeting rooms and more Why doesn’t ASA prioritize • Sites that members prefer, as ASA Council, the earliest changes than 60,000 square feet of exhibit lower-cost cities? evidenced by attendance and hall space. Meeting at smaller would be implemented is 2025. The ASA policies outlined above reactions to prior meeting sites; hotels means that fewer papers will limit the number of cities that can Whom do I contact with ques- • Hotels that provide free meet- be on the program. In every city be potential sites. Conference hotels tions or concerns? ing space, discounted room where ASA meets, there are hotels must meet our space needs, have The members of the Working rates, and other concessions to with cheaper guest rooms than the affordable transportation access, Group on the Timing and Cost of members; conference hotel, but those other offer local amenities, and be in the ASA Annual meeting are eager locations don’t have the meeting • Hotels with good labor records, states and cities that meet ASA to hear from you. Contact Stephanie space to accommodate ASA. especially those with unionized Council’s social justice goals. ASA Bohon, Working Group Chair, workers; Why do we meet when school is Meeting Services is always looking at at [email protected], or the other • Cities that are easily accessible by just starting? potential meeting sites and keeping members: Mary Romero, Margaret air and sites that are accessible by ASA started meeting in August in an eye out for new hotels and hotel- Hunter, Charles Tolbert, Arielle public transportation; and convention center combinations that Kuperberg, Katherine Rowell.

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Musical Chicago over to the House of Blues (329 the Metro, From Page 1 N. Dearborn, 312-923-2000) for the House their Gospel Brunch—Sundays 10 of Blues, the conference and are nearby. Classical a.m.-12:30 p.m. There local talent Empty Bottle, music aficionados can hear a free per- presents gospel songs, and you can Reggies, formance of Elgar’s “The Kingdom” expand your waistline at their all- Bottom Oratorio at the Pritzker Pavillion in you-can-eat buffet, featuring south- Lounge, Grant Park on August 21 and 22. ern specialties, carving stations, and Schubas, and On the other hand, if boy bands are “mouth-watering desserts.” Double Door. your thing, One Direction will be Back in the 1960s, Chicago was There are also on stage at Soldier Field. They may one of the centers of the folk revival, a few new and not be the second coming of the Fab concentrated in the Old Town unique places Four from across the pond, but they neighborhood. Today the style is that look Outdoor Symphony in Chicago. Photo: © choosehicago are ridiculously popular. A seat for still active at the Old Town School and sound (306 N. Halsted, 312-265-3990) and their show can be yours for as little as of Folk Music, which has moved wonderful. Thalia Hall in the Pilsen Metro’s Smart Bar (3730 N. Clark, $100, more if you’d rather actually see from its now-gentrified original site neighborhood had been an opera 773-549-0203). the band on stage without resorting to 4544 N. Lincoln (773-728-6000). house in the late 19th century. During summer weekend after- to binoculars or merely watching the Lincoln Hall on Lincoln near And, of Course, Rock noons and evenings in neighbor- video screens. Fullerton had once been a well- hoods around the city, music can be Rock is the most dominant musi- known movie theater. Jazz cal form in Chicago today. If you heard at street festivals on blocked-off Chicago has long had a vibrant have a yen for some genre, subgenre, Broadway, Dance, and Street streets. Accompanied by booths for jazz scene. Al Capone once soaked genre-blend, or too-cool-to-be-a- Festivals food, alcohol, shopping, and other up gin and jazz at the Green Mill genre of rock, you can find it here. If your taste runs to Broadway amusements, you can hear local tal- (4802 N. Broadway, 773-878-5552), On many weeks, there are nearly 100 musicals, Chicago is your kind of ent, see a slice of the city’s life, and do and you can do the same. Other rock bands doing their thing at one town. The Apollo Theater in Lincoln some informal sociological observa- choices, nearer the hotel, are Andy’s of the innumerable venues. Park (2540 N. Lincoln, 773-935- tion. During the August 22 weekend, Jazz Club & Restaurant in the Rock remains Chicago’s most 6100) has been running the Million there are three such happenings: the River North neighborhood (11 E. vital style of music, thanks in part Dollar Quartet for years, with no end Albany Park World Fest (Lawrence Hubbard, 312-642-6805) and the to the impact of the D.I.Y. digital in sight. It’s a semi-fictional (or semi- and Kimball), the Taste of Greektown Jazz Showcase in the South Loop technology. Recording is very inex- truthful—think “truthiness”) excuse (400 S. Halsted at Van Buren), and (806 S. Plymouth, 312-360-0234). pensive, and the Internet has made to see performances of Carl Perkins, the West Loop Art Fest (Washington between Halsted and Morgan). Blues distribution and promotion costs Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and extremely low. But it is playing live Elvis impersonators. Its success Check out the listings and ads Chicago has been called “The that is the key to musicians’ pleasure has spawned other popular-music in the widely available free printed Home of the Blues” from the hey- and potential to earn money. The themed musicals. Then there are the magazines, the Reader (www.chicago- day of the electrified Delta blues, lack of interest in rock by the no- Broadway show-tune sing-alongs reader.com/chicagomusic), NewCity, which was, in the post-World War longer deep-pocketed major labels at Boystown’s Sidetrack (3349 N. and Illinois Entertainer. You can also II era, the city’s pride and joy. The has made their “gate-keeping func- Halsted, 773-477-9817) on Friday, go to the following online sites: www. style that became identified with tion” irrelevant, so anything goes. Sunday, and Monday evenings. timeout.com/chicago/music-night- the urban blues can still be heard Given the plethora of homegrown Dance music is popular, and life; chicago.metromix.com/music; in clubs scattered around the city. musical talent, rock is alive and well. definitely not only in Boystown. and chicagomusicguide.com/. If you Check out Buddy Guy’s Legends Live rock rules in any and all styles After all, post-disco house music can’t find music you would love to around the corner from the Hilton largely thanks to the omnivorous was developed here. Club goers can hear every day and night you are in (700 S. Wabash, 312-427-1190). On tastes of youth in this century, who find beat-driven electronic talent Chicago, you just aren’t looking and opposite sides of the street in Lincoln are getting turned on to new music at many places, including the Mid listening!!! Park you’ll find B.L.U.E.S. (2519 N. (and music new to Halsted, 773-528-1012) and The them) by their parents, Kingston Mines (2548 N. Halsted, their friends, and 773-477-4646). Paying the modest their digital “friends,” cover at one of those two venues Pandora, and the allows entrance into both clubs. popular rock radio Good blues with fewer tourists in format, “classic rock.” the audience can be found at Rosa’s The Internet allows Lounge in Logan Square (3420 W. them to hear, whether Armitage, 773-342-04520), which streaming or down- just won the Keeping The Blues Alive loading, just about Award from the Blues Foundation anything. The blues are in part a seculariza- Among the better tion of African American church venues for rock, with music, for which Chicago has long good to great sound been a center. Visit one of the black systems and thought- Baptist churches on Sunday morn- fully booked touring ing to hear gospel music, or head and local acts are

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Syed Ali, Long Island University, and came out. We average around 1100 is writing a sociology of robots. See? While we have a good number of Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland site visits a day. Those are pretty You’re already interested. We’re also articles with an international focus ontexts, as you probably know, modest numbers, but we’re hopeful looking to cover blind (as in previous years), Cis the ASA’s public outreach that the site is getting more atten- spots in sociology, our writers are nearly magazine. For the most part, it has tion. And it’s good news for our like the near-complete all US-based (with a published general interest sociology sociologist writers – you’re getting absence of any discus- small number in the by American/U.S.-based sociologists more eyes on your writing on our sion of Palestinians. UK and Canada). read by American/US-based soci- site than you may have ever gotten! So we went out and Almost three-quarters ologists. Not that there’s anything (That’s also kind of sorry news, but hounded/begged of the readers on our wrong with that. From the outset, let’s focus on the positives here.) Andy Clarno and website are in the US, Contexts has been an excellent The writers. While Contexts is still Silvia Pasquetti to with about eight per- sociology magazine. For American/ very much a sociology magazine, write for the spring cent more in Canada US-based sociologists. We want to we’re getting our sociology from a issue. And they did, and the UK. We need broaden our readership and pool of number of non-sociologist profes- excellently. (Not that to do a better job of writers beyond that. We’ve been the sional writers we’ve recruited, like you shouldn’t send getting readers and editors for a year now, have a few the Guardian’s Steven Thrasher, us a proposal for one writers from the other issues under our belts, and figured Marketplace’s Amy Scott, academic/ of the sections – we’d love to hear 190+ countries and territories (occu- it’s time to assess where Contexts is alt-ac career adviser Karen Kelsky, a about it!) pied or otherwise) in the world. and where it’s going. forthcoming piece from novelist Rae The features. We’re getting out- We also thought we’d be able to Meadows, among others. Good stuff! standing proposals for features, and get an occasional “Fighting Words” What’s New Not that sociologists can’t write well also, we’re doing a lot of soliciting. section, where two or three people The website. We’ve (well, our – the vast majority of our writers are Oddly, it doesn’t occur to many would engage in intellectual debate/ webmaster Jon Smajda and designer still sociologists. And if their writing sociologists that they should write duels. That seems to have failed mis- Todd Van Arsdale) rebooted is showing up in Contexts, it has to be for us. Sometimes they just need erably. We’re still hopeful though. good. But note that writing doesn’t a bit (or a lot) of prodding. So we Contexts.org. It’s beautiful. We’ve Where We’re Headed added a Contexts blog so we always trump; if the ideas and analysis aren’t prod. A lot. have material in the time between up to snuff, we don’t publish. Good news. We’ve put out the call So we’re a year in, and overall new issues, and timely articles that The sections. We’re also put- for sociologists to write about good we’re really excited and happy can’t wait for the print issue (like ting a lot of effort into recruiting news in their research, and we’re with what “Team Contexts™ has Miliann Kang’s essay, “Trouble in writers for the sections. In fact, getting great responses. This special accomplished so far. The articles are the Nail Salon,” May 11, 2015). And the vast majority of the articles in issue will be out sometime next year great and the website is doing well. we’re beginning to get the wider Trends, Culture, Books, Teaching and will be spectacular. At the least, Many if not most sociologists really readership Contexts has always and Learning, Q&A, Back Page, it’ll be a temporary break from the like Contexts, and the nonsociolo- strived for. For instance, posts by and In Pictures have been solicited. usual gloom and doom and critical- gists who come into contact with it Ivan Szelenyi and Megan Wilhelm (Viewpoints have been solicited ity that sociologists do. Look for it in do too. The “Good News” issue is have had over 10,000 reads each, from the very beginning when either the spring or summer of 2016. going to be sweet. Hopefully we can Arlene Stein and Jodi O’Brien take some steps to internationaliz- and been shared by thousands of Where We’ve Stumbled people on social media. One of our started it.) We figure if a particular ing Contexts, maybe get a “Fighting first posts by board member and writer or topic is very interesting One thing we made a big deal of Words” going, and we’ll of course Guardian journalist Steven Thrasher to us, hopefully it will be at least when we applied for the job was to bring you more sensational articles (“I Can Breathe”, December 20, as interesting to you. Like in the become more international, both from fantastic writers. 2014) got over 8000 hits the day it summer issue, where Janet Vertesi in terms of readership and writers.

MCAT recommend foregoing sociology or “It can’t be that hard…” or “I’ll I understand the anxiety many From Page 11 courses altogether and studying just figure it out from context clues.” pre-meds face when struggling independently instead. After all, One of the best things we can do for with sociology. We, as instructors, ogy and chemistry courses are not various resources exist such as test pre-meds is dispel these rumors and need to respond to these MCAT teaching reading comprehension prep books and AAMC-approved help students realize the continuing changes and think seriously about or critical thinking as a sociology YouTube videos by Khan Academy. importance of sociology classes. how to make sociology a pill that course would. Therefore sociology While these materials may, in fact, This means emphasizing open lines pre-meds can swallow. The stakes departments need to emphasize that help with content, they are intended of communication not only with are high on the MCAT, but teach- the value of their courses extends far to be a review, not course replace- pre-med students, but also with ing pre-meds how to think criti- beyond the content taught—sociol- ments. While a pre-med student the campus’ pre-med office and cally goes well beyond the scope ogy is also teaching students to be would never dream of sitting for advisors. of this exam. We have a respon- better consumers of knowledge. the MCAT without having taken As a student who struggled to sibility to our future doctors to Online pre-med forums are rife biology and chemistry, the usual teach myself content in the areas ensure that they understand the with students exchanging tips for rhetoric about sociology is already where I was inexperienced (i.e., role the social world plays in their success on the behavioral science emerging: “It’s just common sense!” magnetism and metabolism), patients’ lives. section. Often, I see pre-meds footnotes • July/August 2015 15 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org The Spivack Program Awards Nine CARI Grants

and community evaluations of the partnerships between community he ASA Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy pilot’s efficacy before scaling the residents of Lafayette’s Northside Tannounces the recipients of the 2015 Community Action Research model to all villages sampled by district and other local stakehold- Initiative (CARI) awards. This small grants program encourages and the Loess Health Study, a 15-year ers in this community. In addition, supports sociologists in bringing social science knowledge, methods, and (2013–2028) longitudinal study Peace for MLK has ties to other expertise to address community-identified issues and concerns. CARI examining the interplay between organizations and offices in greater provides up to $3,000 for each project to cover direct costs associated with economic development, environ- Lafayette. In this study, titled “African the community action research. The principle investigators are listed below mental conservation, and health American Attitudes on Policing in along with a description of their funded proposals. outcomes of 3,800 rural households Lafayette, LA,” Robertson will con- in northwestern China. duct 60-minute in-depth interviews Beth Frankel Merenstein, Central with 40 African American residents Connecticut State University, of Lafayette, LA, in order to gauge Ian Breckenridge-Jackson, tion in environmentally stressed areas. with Middlesex County Coalition their general attitudes toward police, University of California, Riverside, Shelley McDonough Kimelberg, on Housing and Homelessness, as the use of excessive force by police, with The Lower Ninth Ward Living University at Buffalo- SUNY, with part of the Middlesex-Meriden- and the implications of such force for Museum. Explore & More. Wallingford CAN (Coordinated future relations. Nearly a decade after Hurricane Kimelberg will work with Explore Access Network). Kathleen Sexsmith, Cornell Katrina, less than one in four & More, an established children’s Put into practice in November University, with Worker Justice residents have been able to return to museum in Western New York, on 2014, the Middlesex-Meriden- Center of New York (WJCNY). New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, a a project titled “Understanding the Wallingford CAN created a single Kathleen Sexsmith will partner neighborhood that continues to exist Barriers to Museum Access and Use point of entry (2-1-1) for people with WJCNY to assess farm labor between resilience and social death. for Disadvantaged Populations.” needing prevention, housing, or organizing efforts in the New York Using focus groups, the project will The museum is planning to move its other services to gain stable hous- dairy industry. WJCNY helps coordi- assess what residents of the Lower facility from a predominantly white, ing. Working together with the nate the “Comité Primero de Mayo,” Ninth Ward think is important about affluent suburb to a new location in community providers, the clients a statewide advocacy and solidar- the neighborhood and its history, downtown Buffalo, a racially diverse who accessed this network, and the ity network comprised of Mexican perceptions of threats 10 years after city with a high poverty rate, in 2016. directors of the various programs, and Central American-origin dairy Katrina, challenges to rebuilding the The study will make use of in-depth the project, “Front Door Policy: How farmworkers. She will conduct inter- neighborhood in a socially just way, interviews to explore how low- well does it work?,” will conduct an views and workshops with Comité and their hopes, desires, and dreams income residents, racial minorities, evaluation to determine whether the members to analyze and help design for the future of the neighborhood. and members of the refugee com- CAN is truly providing more efficient strategies for farmworker empower- The final products includes booklet in munity perceive Explore & More, in homelessness systems and assistance. ment and organizing. which focus group data will be inter- an effort to help the museum better Scott Patrick Murphy, University of Jennifer Sherman, Washington State woven with children’s art and poetry. reach and serve those families and South Florida, with Casa Chiapas University, with The Cove, Twisp, It will be distributed to local residents, children who stand to benefit most Tampa. Washington. political leaders, and policymakers. from its educational enrichment Casa Chiapas Tampa developed This qualitative and ethnographic A community mural inspired by the programming. the Indigenous Maya Immigration research, “Amenity Tourism and findings and produced by a local artist KuoRay Mao, Colorado State Conference Series (IMICS) inter- Inequality in Rural Washington,” will in collaboration with neighborhood University-Fort Collins, with vention in response to the Deferred investigate the impacts of amenity children will also be created for the Gansu “Green Camel Bell” Action for Childhood Arrivals policy tourism on a rural community Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum. Environment and Development in order to clarify changing immigra- whose economy has transitioned. Paul Draus, University of Michigan- Center, China. tion policies and procedures, share The location and landscape provided Dearborn, with Greening of Mao will work on a pilot proj- best practices to avoid scams, and the means for economic reinven- Detroit. ect tiled, “Empowering Women to provide nuanced, particularistic tion after natural resource-based Draus has partnered with the to Sustain Community-based one-on-one assistance to Latina/o industries declined, but not without Greening of Detroit to work on a Waste Management and Water immigrants in the greater Tampa Bay social costs. The research will explore project called “Green Infrastructure Conservation in Northwestern area. Drawing upon ethnographic the experiences of those struggling and Social Equity: Examining Rural China.” The dumping of fieldwork, focus group interviews, to make a living in low-paid, mostly Community Engagement and Risk hazardous wastes in rural China has and survey data, this case study will service-sector jobs as well as for Communication Strategies Related created severe watershed pollu- evaluate the efficacy of the IMICS less marginal residents for whom to Environmental Remediation in tion and caused significant envi- intervention. The work seeks to the community offers opportunities Southwest Detroit.” Using focus ronmental health issues. Working explain how IMICS participants that help offset financial struggles. groups and individual interviews, with the Gansu Green Camel Bell navigate immigration policy and The project seeks to better under- Draus will explore uses and defini- Environment and Development avoid scams in everyday life in order stand the barriers to social mobility tions of landscape employed by local Center, this project will study how to illuminate practical pathways to that arise or are exacerbated with residents in Detroit neighborhoods collaborations between local govern- citizenship. tourism-based rural development that have been targeted for green ments and community stakeholders Ray Von Robertson, University of and to identify which poverty allevia- infrastructure and remediation influence the implementation of Louisiana at Lafayette, with Peace tion strategies are effective within efforts. The findings will be used to environmental laws in an authoritar- for MLK. a deeply stratified, geographically inform future engagement efforts ian regime. The interdisciplinary The Peace for MLK organiza- isolated rural community. related to landscape-based remedia- research team will conduct external tion will incorporate collaborative

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conflict peacebuilding and transitional areas raised impacting incarcerated 2016. Contact: Christian Churchill at Call for Papers justice; and (2) general submissions women overtly and subtly in the show. [email protected]; or Jerry Levy at Publications appropriate to any of the three broad Submit 500-word drafts of chapters. (802) 254-8513. foci reflected in series title. Deadline: Deadline: October 1, 2015. Contact: International Journal of Comparative Nebraska Council of School Admin- September 15, 2015. Contact: lhan- Shirley A. Jackson at jacksons1@south- istrators (NCSA) Conference, April 13- and Applied Criminal Justice invites [email protected]. For more information, ernct.edu; and Laurie Gordy at laurie. submissions for a special issue on 16, 2016, Lincoln, NE. Theme: “The New visit www.emeraldinsight.com/series/ [email protected]. and the Novel in the 19th Century/New “Violence against Women in India.” Vio- rsmcc. lence against women (VAW) is a major Conferences Directions in 19th-Century Studies.” issue worldwide and has gained much Research in the Sociology of Health Invite submissions for papers and pan- attention in India in recent decades. Care, is seeking papers for its research Bahrain Authority for Culture and els that investigate the theme. Recent The special issue will contribute to this annual. Papers dealing with macro- Antiquities International Sympo- methods in 19th-century studies (digi- area of research and focus specifically level system issues and micro-level sium, November 24-26, 2016. Manama, tal humanist approaches and editing, on the criminological antecedents issues involving special groups, social Bahrain. Theme: “The Image of the “surface,” “suspicious,” and “deep” read- of, and criminal justice responses factors, and disparities linked to issues Other: Intersecting Views.” The “Knowl- ing) are invited, as are theorizations of to, the problem of violence against in health and health care are sought. edge Transfer Project”, headed by Pr. novelty itself or epistemologies of the women in India. Deadline: September This includes examination of health Tahar Labib (Former General Director new, and alternate, interdisciplinary 1, 2015. Contact: N. Prabha Unnithan and health care issues of patients or of the Arab Organization for Transla- and trans-Atlantic interpretations of at [email protected]. of providers of care, especially those tion, Beirut-Lebanon), combines two the theme. Deadline: September 30, For more information, visit www. related to social factors including ways of knowledge transfer: the trans- 2015. Contact: ncsanebraska@gmail. mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcac. education, family, income, govern- lation (from different languages into com. For more information, visit www. ment. Papers that focus on linkages to Arabic) of a set of important scientific ncsa.org. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation is policy, population concerns, and either books and the exchange of knowledge accepting submissions for its special and experiences through Euro-Arab School of Sociology University Col- patients or providers of care as ways to lege of Ireland Conference, January issue to be published sometime in meet health care needs of people both meetings between specialists in hu- 2016. It will be devoted to articles that man and social sciences. This is done 7-8, 2016, Dublin, Ireland. Theme: in the US and in other countries are “In honor of Stephen Mennell Social provide historical perspectives on pun- solicited. Deadline: November 15, 2015. in the context of a reflective dialogue ishment regimens (changes and conti- between cultures. Contact: Dijilali El character and historical processes.” Contact: Jennie Jacobs Kronenfield at This conference aims to recognize and nuities) for both adult and juvenile of- [email protected]. Mestari at knowledge.conference@ fenders in the United States during the culture.gov.bh. For more information, reflect on Mennell’s important work, last century and beyond. The focus will Societies, announces a special issue visit www.culture.gov.bh. which includes numerous books and be on the ways in which the traditional edited by Silvia Dominguez and Cid articles. In line with his prodigious justifications for punishment, such as Martinez. Theme: “Cross-racial and Conference to Commemorate a output, the conference, in addition retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, Cross-ethnic Personal and Group Rela- Legacy, Late Spring 2016, New York to sessions on all aspects of the work etc, are or are not reflected in past tionships.” In the face of an increasingly City, NY. Theme: “The Legacy of Arthur of Elias, will have panels on America and current punishment modalities complex society, people seek out and Vidich and Joseph Bensman.” While and on food and eating. It is hoped in the United States. Contact: Darnell form relations with those whom they Vidich and Bensman each made that there will be no conference fee. Hawkins at [email protected]. feel safe and comfortable and perceive significant individual contributions And while we will provide assistance, to be similar. As a result, racial and to sociology, their lifelong collabora- participants will be expected to cover Journal of Rural Mental Health, a ethnic groups form their own distinct tion resulted in two major books, their own travel and accommodation multidisciplinary journal devoted social networks that are separated several timely anthologies, and many costs. Contact: Steven Loyal at Steven. specifically to rural mental health re- and isolated from others, limiting articles. The purpose of the confer- [email protected]; or Tom Inglis at Tom. search, practice, and policy, is seeking information and awareness and the ence will be to explore their joint and [email protected]. For more information, submissions. A recent issue included ability to develop consensus to address individual legacies, their contribution visit www.ucd.ie. articles on technology and health care, community problems and promote to sociology, and the influences they mental health first aid, rural lesbians, had on their collaborators, colleagues, Society of Applied Anthropol- mobility. This special issue provides a ogy (SfAA) 76th Annual Meeting, and homeless veterans’ needs. All window into the social and students. Deadline: January 15, manuscripts submitted are initially mechanisms that screened by the editor and sent out foster cross-ethnic, for blind peer review, if he determines cross-racial, and ethnic they are appropriate for the journal. For networks. Contact: more information, visit www.apa.org/ Silvia Dominguez at pubs/journals/rmh. s.dominguez@neu. Research in Race and Ethnic Relations edu; or Cid Martinez at announces a special book-length [email protected]. sociological annual review, titled “Race, edu. For more informa- Crime, and Health among African tion, visit www.mdpi. American Males.” This issue aims to com/journal/societies/ explore the interface between public special_issues/race_ health, medicinal, and criminological ethnic_relations#info. takes on health and mortality dispari- Through the Prison ties across racial ethnic and class lines Gate: An Exploration that exist in the United States. Contact: of Issues from Orange Darnell Hawkins at [email protected]. is the New Black Research in Social Movements, announces a call for Conflicts and Change, a peer-reviewed submissions. Set in a volume published by Emerald Group female correctional fa- Publishing, encourages submissions cility, Jenji Kohan’s Net- for volume 40 of the series. The journal flix series, Orange is the is seeking submissions for its special New Black, provides a issue, “Narratives of Identity in Social diverse cast, a presen- Movements, Conflicts & Change.” This tation of some feminist volume will include research in two themes, and a critical areas: (1) submissions focused on reflection on the U.S. analytical analyses of identity and nar- prison system. The aim ratives of identity in conflict outbreaks, of the anthology is to dynamics, resolution and/or post- highlight the many footnotes • July/August 2015 17 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org announcements

March 29-April 2, 2016, Vancouver, September 14-16, 2015. The North available. Deadline: August 3, 2015. For The Rust Belt, The Maquilas, and a Tale of BC. Theme: “Intersections.” SfAA is a American Housing and HIV/AIDS more information, visit www.cies.org/ Two Cities, were featured on an April 15 multi-disciplinary association that Research Summit VIII, Washington, DC. program/core-fulbright-us-scholar- episode of “Shortwave with PJ Tobia,” focuses on problem definition and Theme: “Tackling the Social Drives of program. a PBS NewsHour podcast on world resolution. We welcome papers from HIV.” For more information, visit www. affairs. He was also quoted in a May 18 all disciplines. Deadline: October 15, hivhousingsummit.org/home.html. Fellowships New York Times article, “Town’s Decline 2015. Contact: [email protected], (405) October 4-6, 2015. The National Illustrates Peril of Trade Deals.” 843-5113; Fax: (405) 843-8553. For Taiwan Fellowship, established by Social Science Association Meeting, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Tony Brown, Vanderbilt University, more information, visit www.sfaa.net/ New Orleans, LA. Theme: National Fall wrote an April 30 Tennessean op-ed, annual-meeting. of The Republic of China (Taiwan_ to Professional Development Meeting. award foreign experts and scholars “Racism, White Privilege Still Exist, and For more information, visit: www.nssa. interested in researches related to Riots Prove It.” Meetings us/fall_conference.htm. Taiwan, cross-strait relations, mainland Jennifer Carlson, University of To- June 10-13, 2015. 6th Annual Expand- October 23-24, 2015. A Critical Mo- China, Asia-Pacific region and Chinese ronto, wrote a May 26 Los Angeles Times ing the Circle Summer Institute, San ment: Sex/Gender Research at the studies to conduct advanced research op-ed, “Why Men Feel the Need to Francisco, CA. Theme: “Advancing Intersection of Culture, Brain, & Behav- at universities or academic institutions Carry Guns.” The op-ed also appeared LGBTQ Initiatives in Higher Education, ior, 6th Interdisciplinary Conference in Taiwan. Recipients will conduct in The Dallas Morning News on May 28. from the Classroom to the Campus of The Foundation for Psychocultural their research between January to Quad.” Contact: expandingthecircle@ December 2016. Grant for professors is Philip Cohen, University of Maryland, Research, Los Angeles, CA. Theme: was quoted in a recent Reuters article, ciis.edu. For more information, visit “Issues at the Intersection of Sex/ $60,000, assistant professors is $50,000. www.ciis.edu/ExapndingTheCircle. Deadline: June 30, 2015. Contact: twfel- about how joint custody may not Gender, Culture, Brain, and Behavior.” add stress for children of divorce, that June 25-27, 2015. International Contact: Constance Cummings at [email protected] or [email protected]. tw. For information, please visit www. appeared in CBC News and the Bangor Conference on Identity and Nation- [email protected]. For more Daily News on May 6. hood. Dublin, Ireland. Theme: “Pulling information, visit www.thefpr.org/ taiwanfellowship.ncl.edu.tw. Together or Pulling Apart.” For more conference2015/registration.php. Peter Dreier, Occidental College, wrote a May 30 Huffington Post article, information, visit www.tcd.ie/Hispanic_ November 13-14, 2015. California So- Competitions Studies/PTPA-conference/. “If You Like Social Security and Mini- ciological Association Annual Meeting. 2015 National Service and Civic mum Wage, Thank Frances Perkins.” June 28- July 1, 2015. Clinical Sociol- Sacramento. Theme: “Social Realities, Engagement Research Competi- ogy division (RC46) of the International Social Change: The Importance of tion released by the Corporation for Ronnie Dunn, Cleveland State Sociological Association, Johannes- Global Context.” For more information, National and Community Service for a University, was quoted in a June 3 burg, South Africa. Theme: “Contours of visit www.cal-soc.org. Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) Contra Costa Times article, “Oakland Violence: Manifestations, Interventions of up to $800,000. The broad objectives and Cleveland: Two Cities with Much and Social Justice.” Contact: Mariam Funding of the competition are to: promote in Common, on Center Stage for NBA research on national service, civic Finals.” Seed at Khan at [email protected] Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program or Tina Uys at [email protected]. engagement, and volunteering among Matthew E. 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Contact: more information, visit www.JIS3.org/ for a period of two to 12 months, as Forbes, and TIME.com on April 14, the [email protected]. Toronto Sun on April 15, the New York symposium2015.htm. specified in the award description. For more information, visit: www.na- In addition, flexible options may be Daily News and The Times of India on tionalservice.gov/build-your-capacity/ April 16, and many other media outlets. grants/funding-opportunities/2015/ national-service-and-civic-engage- Morten Ender, West Point, wrote an ment-research. April 24 article, “Military Brats in Films” in the Stars & Stripes newspaper, Asia/ Japan Edition, commemorating April In the News as the Month of the Military Child. In Cawo Abdi, University of Minnesota, addition, Ender and Remi Hajjar, West Published monthly with combined issues in May/June, July/August, and September/ wrote an April 21 CNN.com op-ed, “La- Point, were quoted and their research October. Mailed to all ASA members. beling South Africa Turmoil ‘Xenopho- was referenced in a May 25 Los Angeles bia’ Scapegoats Poor Blacks.” Times article, “U.S. Military and Civilians Editor: Sally T. Hillsman Associate Editor: Margaret Weigers Vitullo Corey Abramson, University of Ari- Are Increasingly Divided.” Managing Editor: Johanna Olexy Secretary: Mary Romero zona, wrote an April 20 Atlantic article, Charles Gallagher, La Salle University, Article submissions are limited to 1,000 words and must have journalistic value (e.g., “Unequal Until the End,” which quotes was interviewed on May 4 on WCAU-TV timeliness, significant impact, general interest) rather than be research oriented or Jeremy Freese, Northwestern Univer- about the motivations behind the scholarly in nature. Submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board for pos- sity, and Karen Lutfey, University of religious shooting in Texas and was Colorado Denver, and mentions Eric sible publication. “ASA Forum” (including letters to the editor) contributions are quoted in a May 11 Orlando Sentinel Klinenberg, New York University. column, “Time to Bury ‘Thugs’ Under limited to 400–600 words; “Obituaries,” 500–700 words; and “Announcements,” 200 Baltimore’s Ashes.” words. All submissions should include a contact name and, if possible, an e-mail Mohammed Bamyeh, University of address. ASA reserves the right to edit all material published for style and length. Pittsburgh, was interviewed on Febru- Herbert Gans, Columbia University, ary 22 about the situation in Libya by The deadline for all material is the first of the month preceding publication (e.g., wrote an article, “Mike Nichols’s First the syndicated public radio program, Career,” which appeared in the March/ February 1 for March issue). “Background Briefing with Ian Masters.” April issue of The University of Chicago Send communications on material, subscriptions, and advertising to: American Mary Bernstein, University of Con- Magazine. Sociological Association, 1430 K Street, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; (202) 383- necticut, was quoted in an April 28 Sara Goldrick-Rab, University of 9005; fax (202) 638-0882; email [email protected]; . 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18 footnotes • July/August 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements quoted in a May 5 Al Jazeera America Tell Their Story Through Photographs. necticut, was quoted in a June 1 Wall Leila Rogers, Horry-Georgetown article, “Great Recession Foreclosures Lane Kenworthy, University of Califor- Street Journal article, “When a Man Technical College, was quoted in a Fueled Racial Segregation, Study Finds,” nia-San Diego, was mentioned in a May Depends on a Woman, He May Be May 27 Sun News article, “HGTC Installs about his recent American Sociological 27 Business Insider article, “9 Steps for More Likely to Cheat, “ about her recent Hand Sanitizer Stations After Survey Review study, “Neighborhood Foreclo- Solving Income Inequality — and Why American Sociological Review study, Shows Too Few Students, Staff Washing sures, Racial/Ethnic Transitions, and We Need to Be Talking About Them.” “Her Support, His Support: Money, Hands.” Residential Segregation.” A number of Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity.” Mary Rose, University of Texas-Austin, other media outlets, including Pacific Eric Klinenberg, New York University, Many other media outlets covered the was mentioned in an May 28 Enter- was quoted in a May 12 Associated Standard, The Washington Post, and study, including Today.com, the Chica- Press article, “Jurors’ Questions Aim the Chicago Sun Times on May 8, also tainment Weekly article, “Aziz Ansari go Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Describes His Upcoming Book Modern at Heart of Theater Shooting Trial.” covered study, which he co-authored the Daily Mail, The Guardian, CNN.com, The article appeared in a number of with Kyle Crowder, University of Romance in ‘Nice Huge Twitter Rant’” USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and and in a June 4 Slate article about Aziz media outlets, including FoxNews.com Washington, and Amy Spring, Georgia The Telegraph on June 1, Cosmopolitan and Yahoo!News on May 12 and the State University. Ansari’s and Klinenberg’s book, Modern and the Huffington Post on June 2, and Romance. Chicago Tribune on May 13. Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt, Western The Washington Post on June 4. Annette Lareau, University of Penn- Pepper Schwartz, University of Wash- Illinois University, was quoted in a Feb- Orlando Patterson, Harvard Univer- ington, was quoted in a June 2 Daily ruary 6 Inside Higher Ed article, “Follow sylvania, Pamela Smock, University sity, wrote a May 10 New York Times op- of Michigan, and Arlie Hochschild, Mail article about the A&E reality show, the Money.” ed, “The Real Problem with America’s “Married at First Sight,” on which she is University of California-Berkeley, were Inner Cities.” Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, The quoted in a May 10 New York Times the resident sociologist. University of South Florida, was men- op-ed, “Mom: The Designated Wor- Mary Pattillo, Northwestern Universi- David R. Segal, University of Maryland, tioned in an April 30 USA Today article, rier.” The op-ed also mentioned Elliot ty, was quoted in an April 27 Pittsburgh was featured on an April 27 PBS special “This Is Your Mama’s Brand, Dove Says.” Weininger, The College at Brockport, Post-Gazette article, “Levels of Housing on “The Draft.” Michael Hout, New York University, State University of New York. Segregation Have Changed Over Past 70 Years, Sociology Professor Says.” Neil Smelser, University of California- was quoted in May 12 New York Times Patricia Leavy, independent sociolo- Berkeley, was mentioned in a June and USA Today articles and was inter- gist (www.patricialeavy.com), was the Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan, 2 BloombergBusiness article, “You’re viewed May 12 on Chris Hayes’s “All in” subject of an April 13 Examiner.com was interviewed on May 7 by Ray Su- Ending Your E-mails Wrong.” on MSNBC and on WHYY Philadelphia’s Q&A article, “Career Reflections with arez, on his television program “Inside “Radio Times,” all about the new Pew Story” on the Al Jazeera America net- Jennifer Sykes, Michigan State Award-Winning Author, Patricia Leavy,” University, was quoted in an April 8 Research report on American religion. and co-authored a March 31 Huffington work, regarding Cuba’s ties to Russia as well as the United States. Pacific Standard article, “A Big Financial Matthew W. Hughey, University of Post article, “A Conversation About Hol- Boost for Low-Income Families,” about Connecticut, wrote a March 14 New lywood and Diversity: Why It Matters.” Andrew Perrin, University of North her recent American Sociological York Times op-ed, “The University of Jennifer Lee, University of California- Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in a Review study, “Dignity and Dreams: Oklahoma Video and the Problem Irvine, was the subject of a May 20 May 9 Herald Sun article, “UNC Faculty What the Earned Income Tax (EITC) Fraternities Can’t Fix Themselves,” and Chronicle of Higher Education Q&A Eyes Boosting Athlete Opportunities.” Means to Low-Income Families.” was interviewed about his research interview centered around her soon- Robert Putnam, Harvard University, A number of other media outlets, on racism and collegiate fraternalism to-be-released book, The Asian Ameri- was quoted in an April 30 Richmond including Michigan Radio on April 7 by Inside Higher Ed on April 15 for their can Achievement Paradox, which she Times-Dispatch editorial, “Sociologist and The Atlantic and Yahoo!Finance story, “Bad Apples or the Barrel?;” the co-authored with Min Zhou, University Discusses Consequences of Segregated on April 14, also covered the study, Orlando Sentinel on April 10 for their of California-Los Angeles and Nanyang Housing.” which she co-authored with Katrin story, “University Greek Houses Often Technological University. Sean Reardon, Stanford University, Križ, Emmanuel College, Kathryn Segregated;” the Associated Press on Edin, Johns Hopkins University, and March 15 for their story, “Oklahoma Jeff Manza, New York University, was was quoted in a May 5 CNN Money quoted in a June 2 USA Today article, article, “Where Poor Kids Stay Poor.” Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Isn’t Alone in Race-Related Fraternity Wisconsin-Madison. Incidents;” WDTV 5 News (Bridgeport, “Poll: What Should Candidates Talk Jo Reger, Oakland University, was WV) on March 13 for their story, “Does About to Iowans?” quoted in a May 11 Oakland Press Brian Thiede, Louisiana State Univer- Racism Exist in Greek Life?;” WFLD Fox Steven McKay, University of California- article, “Oakland University Students sity-Baton Rouge, and David Brady, 32 (Chicago, IL) on March 11 for their Santa Cruz, was quoted in a May 8 Already Showing Interest in New LGBT WZB Berlin Social Science Center, were story, “Racism in the American Fraterni- Santa Cruz Sentinel article, “Living on Studies Minor.” quoted and Daniel Lichter, Cornell ty System;” and The Huffington Post on $10 an Hour in Santa Cruz County.” March 10 for their story, “SAE’s Racist Chant Was Not an Isolated Incident.” In Richard Allen Miech, Michigan Univer- addition, he was interviewed by KCRW sity, was quoted in a May 28 U.S. News 89.9 FM (Santa Monica, CA) on March and World Report article, “Marriage Be- fore College Graduation Tied to More 10 for “To the Point, with Warren Olney: th Racism and Fraternities;” CNN on March Weight Gain,” about his recent Journal 110 ASA Annual 10 for their story “Fraternity Appears of Health and Social Behavior study, Meeting to have History of Racism;” CNN.com “The Sequencing of a College Degree on March 10 for their story, “Are Frats ‘A during the Transition to Adulthood: August 22-25, Form of American Apartheid’?;” Inside Implications for Obesity.” A number Higher Ed and on March 10, for their of other media outlets, including the 2015 story, “Deadliest and Most Racist?;” Al Daily Mail and Yahoo!Health on May 28 Hilton Chicago Jazeera America for their story, “Frater- and The Huffington Post UK on May 29, nity Race Scandal Rocks University of also covered the study, which he co- Hilton Palmer Oklahoma;” and the Christian Science authored with Michael J. Shanahan, Monitor on March 9 for their story, University of North Carolina-Chapel House “Oklahoma Racist Frat Chant: Glimpse Hill, Jason Boardman, University of Chicago, IL of What Goes on Behind Closed Doors,” Colorado-Boulder, and Shawn Bauld- and Al Jazeera America on March 11 ry, University of Alabama-Birmingham. for their story, “Reaction to Ferguson Ruth Milkman, Graduate Center-CU- Resignations.” NY, was quoted in a June 1 NBCNews. Elaine Bell Kaplan, University of com article, “As Minimum Wages Rise, Southern California, was interviewed Some Say Too Little, Too Late.” April 20 on C-SPAN about her book, Christin Munsch, University of Con- “We Live in the Shadow:” Inner-City Kids

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University, and Scott Sanders, Brigham Award from the American Educational William T. Armaline, San Jose State regarded sociologist credited with Young University, were mentioned in a Research Association’s Sociology of University, Davita Silfen Glasberg helping to establish a connection May 12 Science article, “U.S. Politicians Education Special Interest Group. and Bandana Purkayastha, both of between his discipline and psychoanal- Say They Want to Help the Working Sandra Portocarrero, Columbia University of Connecticut, The Human ysis, died Thursday, May 7, 2015, at the Poor. But How Many Are There?” University, was one of 30 individuals to Rights Enterprise: The State, Resistance, Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst. and Human Rights (Polity, 2015). Ruth Thompson-Miller, University receive the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow- He was 82 years old. The cause of his of Dayton, was quoted in an April 28 ships for New Americans, the premier Javier Auyero, University of Texas- death was Alzheimer’s disease. WDTN.com article, “Why Riot? Local graduate school fellowship for immi- Austin, and Maria Fernanda Berti, a Psychologist, Sociologist Weigh In.” grants and children of immigrants. Buenos Aires Elementary School, In Obituaries Charles Tolbert, Baylor University, was Harm’s Way: The Dynamic of Urban Vio- lence (Princeton University Press, 2015). Walter Firey quoted in a May 6 Seattle Times article, Transitions 1916-2014 “Seattle Crowdfunding Firm, State to Salvatore J, Babones, University of Michael DeCesare was promoted to Walter Firey, Professor Emeritus at the Help Small Businesses Get Loans.” Professor in the Department of Sociol- Sydney, Sixteen for ‘16: A Progressive Agenda for a Better America (Policy, University of Texas-Austin, was born Zeynep Tufekci, University of North ogy at Merrimack College. August 13, 1916, in Roundup, MT, and Carolina-Chapel Hill, was mentioned 2015); and Ed., Latent Variables and Adia Havery Wingfield, Georgia State Factor Analysis (SAGE, 2015). died in Austin on December 20, 2014, in a June 1 Fortune article, “Why University, has accepted a position as at the age of 98. When he was quite Facebook’s Algorithm Matters: Because Professor of Sociology at Washington James Joseph Dean, Sonoma State young his family moved to Seattle 60% of Millennials Get News There.” University-St. Louis. University, Straights: Heterosexuality in where Walter attended public schools Karen G. Weiss, West Virginia Univer- Post-Closeted Culture (New York Univer- and the University of Washington, Alex Piquero, University of Texas- sity Press 2014). sity, was quoted in an April 21 New York Dallas, was appointed to the Scientific completing his BA and MA degrees. Times article, “Social Media Publicity Advisory Board of the Department of Michael DeCesare, Merrimack College, Then on to Harvard, where he received Turns Wild Parties into Trouble That Justice by former Attorney General, Death on Demand: Jack Kevorkian and his doctoral degree. Can’t Be Ignored.” Hon. Eric Holder. the Right-to-Die Movement (Rowman & Walter Firey was exposed to the William Julius Wilson, Harvard Littlefield, 2015). teachings of world-renowned scholars. William Alex Pridemore, will begin as At Washington he took a course from University, and Andrew Cherlin, Johns Dean of the School of Criminal Justice Patricia Leavy, independent sociolo- Hopkins University, were quoted in a gist (www.patricialeavy.com), Method Pitirim A. Sorokin and Talcott Parsons at the University at Albany-SUNY in fall (he knew his Sorokin, he knew his May 12 New York Times article, “Middle 2015. Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice, Class Is Disappearing, at Least From Vo- 2nd Edition (Guilford, 2015); Low-Fat Parsons) and audited a course from the cabulary of Possible 2016 Contenders.” Abigail C. Saguy, University of Cali- Love: Expanded Anniversary Edition economist Joseph Schumpeter. And fornia-Los Angeles (UCLA), has been (Sense Publishers, 2015); and The Ox- through his own scholarly pursuits Adia Harvey Wingfield, Georgia State promoted to Full Professor of Sociology he constructed an original sociologi- University, was quoted in a May 13 ford Handbook of Qualitative Research at UCLA, effective July 1 2015. (Oxford University Press, 2014). cal worldview, one worthy of serious Atlantic article, “The Weakening Defini- attention. tion of ‘Diversity.’” People James B. Pick and Avijit Sarkar, both When I arrived in Austin in 1949, Wal- of University of Redlands, The Global ter was an associate professor, having Marina Zaloznaya, University of Iowa, Michael Augustin Faia, College of Christopher Yenkey, The University of Digital Divides: Explaining Change come to the University of Texas from William & Mary, performed his poem (Springer, 2015). Michigan State, where he taught for a Chicago Booth School of Business, and “Promise and Proscription” with musi- Ifeoma Ajunwa, Columbia University, Lauren Rivera, Northwestern Univer- period of time. During those early years cal accompaniment, at Subprimal Po- Walter carried on an unusual dialogue were quoted in a May 29 LiveScience etry Art (subprimal.com), in the spring sity, Pedigree: How Elite Students Get article, “FIFA Scandal: The Complicated Elite Jobs (Princeton University Press, with Stanley Taylor, who left in 1952 of 2015. This poem juggles the rituals to complete his doctoral degree. They Science of Corruption.” The article also of birth, death, marriage, and divorce. 2015). appeared on Yahoo!News on May 30. debated the nature of reality. For Stan, Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Mis- as an Hegelian sociologist, the reality Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton Univer- souri, presented the keynote lecture Other is the concept and all action from the sity, was quoted in a June 2 Huffington “Stories in Action” at the first congress Organizations perspective of the actor is rational. Yet Post article, “Why Some People May Be of the North American Network in Walter strove to salvage some notion More Likely To Become Parents.” Aging Studies at Miami University on National Science Foundation an- of irrational action. They tolerated me May 20, 2015. nounces the availability of a new as they discussed the relations of insti- Awards interactive resource which will help tutions and organizations, etc. Walter Stephen J. Morewitz, California State NSF-funded principal investigators and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Uni- University-East Bay and Stephen J. was deeply committed to the world their institution public information of- of ideas, and the ongoing dialogue versity of South Florida, received a Morewitz, PhD, & Associates, was ficers better understand the process for Fulbright Grant (Brazil), a Ruth Landes awarded a California State University- served to clarify how to think and what creating communications tools, such as to think about. Memorial Fund Award, and an ASA FAD East Bay Certificate of Appreciation videos and feature stories, so that NSF grant for her research, “Second-Class in Recognition and Appreciation for more effectively communicates the sci- During those early years Walter was Daughters: Informal Adoptions as Contributions in Scholarly and Creative ence it funds. This user-friendly resource, expanding his scholarly horizons in Modern Slavery in Brazil.” Works for the first Handbook of Forensic which is essentially a decision tree that new directions. For example, in about Patricia Leavy, independent sociolo- Sociology and Psychology (Springer, shows examples of all of NSF’s Office 1951 Walter, my wife Andree, and I au- gist (www.patricialeavy.com), received 2014) on April 21, 2015. of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) dited a course in symbolic logic (taught the 2014 Special Achievement Award capabilities, is located with NSF’s com- by a member of the philosophy depart- from the American Creativity Associa- New Books munications resources along with a text- ment). He went on to study Talcott only version. The toolkit may at first look Parsons’ The Social System, which we tion for “special and extraordinary ad- Richard Alba, CUNY-Graduate Center, vancement of arts-based research and like a presentation, but it is actually an discussed at some length. He was also and Nancy Foner, Hunter College and application that users can explore and deeply engrossed in learning lattice the ground-breaking Social Fictions CUNY-Graduate Center, Strangers No series.” She also received the 2015 Egon interact with at their own pace to help theory (viz. Boolean algebra). Later More: Immigration and the Challenges them stretch how they communicate in the 50s, when he was beginning Guba Memorial Lecture Award from of Integration in North America and The American Educational Research As- about research and broader impacts. For to write Man, Mind and Land, he used Western Europe (Princeton University more information, visit www.nsf.gov/ me as a sounding board of sorts, as he sociation; and the 2015 Special Career Press, 2015). Award from the International Congress about/congress/toolkit.jsp. explored different ways of constructing of Qualitative Inquiry. Erin K. Anderson, Washington College, his argument. and Catherine Richards Solomon, Deaths Walter Firey’s four books highlight his Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, University of Quinnipiac University, Family Friendly unusual scholarly journey. Land Use in North Carolina-Charlotte, received the Policies and Practices in Academe (Lex- Gerald M. Platt, University of Central Boston (1947) was, relying on Elizabeth G. Cohen Distinguished Ca- ington, 2015). Sorokin and Parsons as a backdrop, a reer in Applied Sociology of Education Massachusetts-Amherst, a highly

20 footnotes • July/August 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements critique of the sub-social view of ecol- married for 56 years until her death in a professor) wrote in a commemora- ogy at Indiana University, unexpect- ogy of the early Chicago school. Once 2008, had two children, Michael and tion, “Perhaps more than anything, edly passed away on March 22, 2015. Walter asked me to join him as Talcott Diane. I will never forget the freedom Don He was 65 years of age. Parsons, on one of his few trips to Following the completion of his PhD, gave me to explore radical criminology Jack was a dedicated and influential Texas, was scheduled to visit him in his Don accepted a one-year position as and to write my dissertation about the sociologist, known especially for his ex- office. Parsons pointedly noted that he Assistant Professor of Sociology at the policing of labor radicalism—an area pertise in survey research methods and was pleased that his book on Central University of British Columbia, with a outside his expertise. By permitting his research on work, organizations, Boston had done so well. joint appointment as Director of the me to ‘color outside the lines’ during race, alcohol usage, and, most recently, In Man, Mind and Land (1960), was Staff Training School at Oakalla Prison my doctoral education at PSU, Don mental health stigma. His research on intent on constructing a theory of Farm. This latter appointment was instilled in me the self-confidence to stigma was in close collaboration with resource use. To achieve this goal he indicative of what was to come, in that develop my own unique identity as a his wife, Indiana University sociologist took land use practices of two societ- Don continued to use his criminologi- scholar.” His teaching expertise became Bernice Pescosolido. He held degrees ies in Africa, 13th century medieval cal knowledge to serve the commu- well known, and throughout his pro- from Ball State University and the England, and the groundwater/land nity. In the mid-1970s, Don and his fessional career, he was invited to serve University of Utah, from which he use problem in the southern reaches of colleague Gerald Blake were awarded as a visiting professor at an impressive received his PhD in 1980. After holding The Great Plains as empirical case stud- a grant to develop program models for array of universities, including Stanford appointments at Pennsylvania State ies for his theorizing about resource the federal juvenile diversion program. University, University of Oregon, San University, Michigan Technological use. He sought to formalize theory, Don continued to assist a variety of Diego State College, Arizona State Uni- University, the University of Georgia, using for instance, lattice theory. Some criminal justice efforts in the commu- versity and University of Melbourne. and Kent State University, Jack came to scholars have recognized that Walter nity, serving as a Research Consultant Yet, Don is perhaps best known for Indiana University in 2001 as Director Firey was the first resource sociologist, to the Oregon Corrections Division his research and prolific writing on of Research at the Institute of Social Re- the first environmental sociologist, car- and as a Consultant to the Multnomah criminology. During the course of search in the Department of Sociology, rying out his research and theorizing County Youth Commission. Don served his career, he authored five books later the Schuessler Institute, where he before the environmental section of his profession with similar enthusiasm and co-authored another three. His served as Director from 2007–2014. Af- the ASA was created. and commitment. He was the Northern classic text, Society, Crime and Criminal ter his retirement from the Schuessler His two other books—Law and Econ- Division Vice President of the Pacific Careers, now in its eighth edition, was Institute, he was Senior Research omy in Planning (1965) and The Study Sociological Association in 1976–77 first published in 1968 and is used in Scientist and Director of Research at of Possible Societies (1977)—push out and then the Association’s President in classrooms throughout the world. In the Institute for Research on Addic- the theoretical boundaries of sociology 1982–83. He was a long-time editor of Delinquent Behavior, first published in tive Behavior in the Indiana University in still other directions. In the former the journal Crime and Delinquency and 1976, he again expertly used his author School of Public Health. he introduces readers, for example, an Associate Editor of both the Pacific skills and considerable knowledge Jack was a prolific scholar through- to the views of the legal theorist Hans Sociological Review and the Western So- to offer students an overview of the out his career. A highly skilled survey Kelsen. In his book on Possible Societies ciological Review. The American Society study of juvenile delinquency. At Don’s methodologist and data analyst, Jack (self-published) Walter advances his of Criminology honored his outstand- invitation, Marvin D. Krohn became was adept at conveying the nuances version of phenomenology, building ing contributions to criminological a co-author of the fourth and fifth of quantitative research. His early post- for instance, on the early writings of scholarship and the advancement of editions of Delinquent Behavior. Don’s PhD research focused on the sociology Edmund Husseri. Reading that book is the discipline by making him an Hon- last book, Talking about Crime and of work and occupations, especially the a formidable undertaking. orary Fellow of the association. Criminals: Problems and Issues in Theory determinants and consequences of job Walter taught for short periods of In 1957 Don joined the sociology Development in Criminology, published satisfaction. He published extensively time at Harvard and Columbia. Also, faculty at San Francisco State College in 1993, reflects his long-term attention on how factors such as organizational he was a Fellow at the Center for (SFS), where he eventually (1966–1968) and commitment to the elaboration structure, job characteristics, spatial Advanced Study in the Behavioral served as the Department Chair. Then of criminological theory. His published mobility, economic sector, gender, age, Sciences at Stanford for a year. And he in 1969, he accepted a faculty appoint- journal articles comprise too many to and educational attainment shaped received the Pro Bene Metritis Award ment in the Department of Sociology list, but his topics were diverse and workplace satisfaction and organiza- from the College of Liberal Arts, the at Portland State University (PSU), always timely. tional commitment. University of Texas-Austin. where he remained until his retire- Any remembrance would be in- Jack also published influential articles Walter Firey was a wonderfully nice ment in 1991. As at SFS, faculty respect complete if it failed to mention Don’s that addressed racial attitudes and and kind person. Over and over his col- for Don in the PSU Department also fondness for running. Here as in his black-white differences in the sources leagues and ex-students have spoken resulted in his election as Department scholarly endeavors, he went to the of job satisfaction and in the valua- of him in just these terms. Although Chair (1971-1974). But it was not only top—he qualified for and finished one tion of job rewards. Jack also made Walter was deeply committed to the Department of Sociology at PSU of the six World Marathon Majors--the important contributions to the study sociology, his family was his first love. that benefitted from his expertise and Boston Marathon. His worn-out blue of alcohol usage. He documented the His wife of 62 years, Mary Lou, and his work ethic. Part of the broadening of and yellow Nikes became part of the complexity of employee drinking and two sons, Paul and John, made his long the University in the 1970s was the wall decoration in his office. There the role of job stress, networks, and life worthwhile. development of an Urban Studies unit was also an artistic side to Don. His social support. With a major Na- (now the hugely successful School woodcarvings included waterfowl tional Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Gideon Sjoberg, University of of Urban and Public Affairs) with its and masks, and his paintings often Alcoholism grant he studied problem Texas-Austin own PhD program. Don was invited depicted oceanfront scenes from his drinking among African American Don C. Gibbons to take on a second faculty position, beloved refuge on the Washington workers—a project that added to 1926-2015 developing and teaching in the Crimi- coast. It was not unusual to receive the corpus of knowledge regarding nal Justice arm of the PhD program. original watercolors as Christmas cards discrimination’s pervasive effects. Don Gibbons, a renowned sociol- With the awarding of a $500,000 Law from Don and Carmen. ogist-criminologist and important Jack served as the lead survey meth- Enforcement Administration Associa- Don is survived by his children, Diane odologist on recent mental health contributor to the criminological tion (LEAA) grant to the program, Don Irwin (Craig) and Michael Gibbons, literature, died on April 14 in Portland, modules of the General Social Survey. became the Director of the National three grandchildren, Katie Cooper, These modules included but were not OR. Don was born in Newport, WA, on Criminal Justice Educational Develop- Austin Gibbons, and Jonathan Irwin, June 6, 1926. He served in the U.S. Navy limited to understanding the levels ment Consortium, serving in this role and sister, Beverly Bergau. and roots of stigma, and the preju- from 1944 to 1946, and following his from 1974–76. Kathryn Farr and Annette Jolin, both of dice and potential for discrimination discharge, he attended the University Don taught a variety of classes in of Washington; there he completed Portland State University that people with mental illness, their Sociology, Criminology, and Urban families, and their providers, often face. both his undergraduate and graduate Studies and was highly thought of by Jack K Martin studies and was awarded a PhD in so- Always the intellectual skeptic, Jack’s his students. He encouraged students 1949-2015 approach was rigorous in empirically ciology in 1956. While at the University, to develop their own interests and he met his future wife, Carmen Baker Jack K. Martin, longtime Director of examining key assumptions about the then did what he could to assist their the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social current state of stigma. In the articles – in Don’s words, “the best thing that projects. As one former student (now ever happened to me!” He and Carmen, Research in the Department of Sociol- that followed, he played a pivotal footnotes • July/August 2015 21 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org announcements role in showing that stigma had not many times honored for his contribu- more relevant theoretical perspective Service Award in 1987. At MSU he was dissipated, that there had been no tions to scholarship, teaching and on race and ethnic relations that would repeatedly elected by his colleagues to change in stigma over a decade of public service. conform to the changed context of the represent the College of Social Science increased anti-stigma campaigns, and Jim’s world view and the sociologi- post-civil rights era in which American in the University Faculty Senate where that stigma was not lower in the Global cal problems he chose to investigate society had become more diverse, he acquired a reputation as a forceful South. In his ongoing work with actress reflected his experiences growing up ethnic pluralism was now ideologically public advocate on behalf of faculty Glenn Close’s Bring Change 2 Mind in an immigrant working class family in prevalent, and public policies were concerns. Jim was also known as an un- campaign, he designed and guided the the city of Detroit during the 1920s and designed to reduce racial and ethnic shakably devoted Spartan football fan, first national evaluations of Public Ser- 1930s. His parents immigrated to the inequalities. in the stands at every home game. vice Announcements for effectiveness. United States from Scotland; his father Early in his tenure at Michigan State, Jim was preceded in death by his In all of this work Jack displayed a first, followed by his mother some Jim became a founding member wife of 61 years, Alice McKee (in 2003), knack for posing theoretically interest- months later. Jim was born just a few of James Madison College, a public and his three sisters. Surviving are his ing questions and for answering them days after his mother arrived in Detroit. policy-oriented, residential college brother, three sons, six grandchildren, via clear, methodologically sound The family lived in a west side Detroit within MSU, where he taught for and many nieces and nephews. analysis. Jack was a person of great in- neighborhood in a rental house on a several years before returning to the Richard C. Hill, Michigan State University, tellect, one to whom many of us turned block that backed up to a factory yard. Sociology Department. Jim was also a and Martin N. Marger, Michigan State with questions both substantive and Jim’s father was an auto worker who, founder, along with his close colleague University methodological. Over the course of his when laid off for long stretches during and friend, John Useem, of the Conflict career he served as advisor, mentor, the Depression, did maintenance work & Change graduate program in the Robert K. Miller, Jr. and consultant to many students and for their landlord to sustain the family. MSU Sociology Department. Conflict 1948-2015 colleagues, and contributed greatly to Jim attended Wayne State in the & Change became a recruiting magnet We recently lost a true friend, loyal the success of their research. late 1930s, an exciting time of great for faculty and graduate students colleague, and skilled sociologist with Jack had a zest for life and a self- intellectual ferment in the university whose approach to sociology was the death of Robert K Miller, Jr., deprecating humor, both of which as Wayne had become a focal point for strongly influenced by the 1960s social professor emeritus of sociology at the endeared him. Despite his attempts union organizing, social activism and movements. University of North Carolina-Wilming- to come across as a curmudgeon, he political debate. After receiving his BA Jim was a gifted public speaker, a ton. Miller died on March 8, 2015, of invariably failed when an act of kind- at Wayne (1942), Jim was drafted into dynamic and engaging classroom lec- complications from a stroke. He was 66. ness or support was needed. He was a the army and served in an infantry turer, and a much sought after thesis Rob joined the Department of Sociol- generous and humane colleague and unit in Europe during World War II, adviser. For undergraduates he evinced ogy and Criminology at UNC-Wilm- friend. His passing leaves his many an experience he would occasion- an uncommon ability to translate ington in 1977, where he developed loved ones, friends, colleagues, and ally acknowledge but never cared to into sociological terms the explosive a reputation as a passionate, funny, students saddened and yearning, not discuss. After the War, Jim returned to events of the 1960s, particularly as and sometimes controversial professor just for his scholarly contributions and Wayne State for his MA (1948) and then they related to the black civil rights in the department and university. As wit, but also for his kindness. entered the PhD program in Sociology movement. As an advisor and mentor longtime friends, we remember him for In addition to his wife, Bernice Pesco- at the University of Wisconsin, receiv- to graduate students his approach was his generosity, wit, and as a perceptive solido, Jack is survived by his stepson, ing his doctoral degree in 1953. one of subtle guidance. He was never observer of human foibles. presumptuous, overbearing, or pedan- Joe Furniss; father, Robert K. Martin; At Wisconsin, Jim studied most close- Rob graduated from Cedar Cliff High sister, Jill Roser; his brother, Jim Martin; ly with the émigré Weberian scholar, tic, preferring to let students find their way while gently and unobtrusively School in Camp Hill, PA, received a their spouses and several nieces and Hans Gerth; Gerth inspired in him an Bachelor’s degree in sociology from nephews. enduring attraction to the sociology of pushing them in the right direction. Quiet, unassuming and congenial in Franklin & Marshal College and a Ph.D. Donations may be made to the Jack knowledge, critical theory, and com- in Sociology from Temple University in K. Martin Memorial Research Fund, munity studies, approaches Jim would personal conversation, Jim conveyed solidity and unflappability. Yet he was 1978. After graduate school, Rob spent Indiana University Foundation, P.O. Box take to investigating society through- his entire academic career at the Uni- 500, Bloomington, IN 47402 (phone: out his career. He took his first teaching never happier than when speaking at a lectern to a large undergraduate versity of North Carolina-Wilmington, 812-855-8311) or online at iufounda- job at Oberlin College (1950–1955), where he taught a variety of courses. tion.iu.edu. subsequently moving to the University class or when debating an issue with university colleagues in a public forum. For many years, he single-handily of Toledo (1955–1959), and then to taught our required undergraduate Richard Bauman (Indiana University), Michigan State University (MSU) where Students lined the hallways during his Paul Roman (University of Georgia), office hours and invariably approached research methods class. He also regu- he spent most of his career (Professor larly taught courses in stratification, Steven Tuch (George Washington 1959–1985; Emeritus 1985–2015). him as he crossed campus or as he sat University), and Brian Powell (Indiana race and ethnic group relations, urban Jim’s early research focused on com- eating lunch in the union cafeteria just University) to say “Hi, to Dr. McKee.” sociology, the sociology of educa- munity studies, as in his 1953 American tion, and the sociology of religion. He James B. McKee Journal of Sociology article, “Status and MSU honored Jim’s contributions earned a reputation as a strict but fair 1919 – 2015 Power in the Industrial Community.” His to teaching with a university-wide instructor who “professed” more than Excellence In Teaching Award. His de- Jim McKee, Emeritus Professor of 1969 textbook, Sociology: The Study of most and frequently weaved his own Society, went through three editions partment colleagues further honored life story into his teaching. His students Sociology, Michigan State University, him at his retirement with the creation died on February 9, 2015, at the age during the 1970s and 1980s. got to know him not just as a professor Jim’s best known scholarly work is of the annual “McKee Symposium on but as a person with a life outside the of 95 in Grand Rapids, MI. Jim was a Issues of Conflict & Change.” Jim was consummate sociologist: dedicated Sociology and the Race Problem: The classroom. Failure of a Perspective, for which he the keynote speaker at the first sym- to his profession, esteemed by his col- posium, which featured presentations His research was mainly in the areas leagues, revered by his students, and received the ASA distinguished publi- of stratification and immigration with cation award in 1995. Jim was part of a by some of his former students, now in academic and policymaking positions, occasional ventures in other areas. cohort of post-World War II sociolo- He was an avowed structuralist who gists who began to challenge the old on themes related to his research and writings. emphasized the importance social con- race relations models as well as the text, time and place, and social back- Do you have an social-psychological explanations of Jim rarely missed an annual meeting ground on individual life circumstances prejudice and discrimination that had of the American, North Central, or and the trajectory of life chances. Michigan Sociological Associations. announcement for dominated the field. He questioned Rob’s early research was on the the assimilationist assumptions that He was an active participant in those forums, serving on and heading up experiences of European immigrants to Footnotes? Send it to had prevailed in the study of American Philadelphia. He especially focused on ethnic relations and which were many committees over the course of his career. He served as President of the the structure of urban industrial labor footnotes@ thought to apply to African Americans markets that immigrants encountered in much the same way as they had to North Central Sociological Association (NCSA) (1966–67) and was awarded and how those conditions affected asanet.org. Euro-American groups. He called on their patterns of assimilation and pros- sociologists to construct a new and the NCSA Aida Tomeh Distinguished

22 footnotes • July/August 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements pects for employment and mobility. His him to overcome and was followed by Valley Unitarian Universalistic Church, was his book On Theory and Verifica- later research with Stephen McNa- a series of strokes that eventually over- where he served as President of the tion in Sociology; and it was especially mee centered on barriers to mobility whelmed him. He faced all of these Congregation. the 2nd edition (1963) that was to especially the cumulative non-merit with a courageous realism and deter- Sam was an energetic man who fully have an important impact on U.S. advantages of familial privilege and mination that would have weakened a lived life with a pervasive attitude of and world sociology. Merton wrote in wealth inheritance. person of less character and strength. joy and gratitude. He had many adven- Social Theory and Social Structure that We both had the privilege of work- For those of us who knew him well, life tures, including living on skid row in On Theory and Verification contains an ing with Rob on various projects and is a little less full. Minneapolis; participating in civil rights extremely fine picture of the type of sociology that was produced at Co- learned to value his methodological Stephen McNamee and Cecil Willis, marches on Washington (including the lumbia University; and he especially expertise, creative insight, and assidu- University of North Carolina Wilmington one made famous by MLK); protesting ous attention to detail. He was highly the Vietnam War in New York City. praised its “thoroughgoing and de- Samuel E. Wallace sought after by colleagues to edit and He had a great appreciation for fine tailed analysis of the logical structure 1935 – 1915 provide feedback on manuscripts. He food; Mont Gay rum; well-written of middle-range theory.” Two of the was dubbed as “the hawk” who man- Sam Wallace was born in Grand literature; jazz and classical music; best-known parts in Hans’ book deal aged to “catch” every glitch. Rob was View, MO, and grew up in Kansas the company of friends, family, and with the nature of axiomatic theories the consummate sociologist who was City, MO. He attended William Jewell students; and the beauty of nature. and the need for empirical verifica- tion in sociology. always on the job as an acute social College for his undergraduate degree Sam’s family requests that memorial observer and who saw and experi- and earned his PhD from the University donations should be made to the “Sam While Hans’ place in the history of enced life through a sociological lens. of Minnesota in 1959 at age 24 under Wallace Fund” at Narrow Ridge Earth sociology will always be linked to This was especially evidenced in one Theodore Caplow. He was the first in Literary Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, On Theory and Verification, he also of his later publications with medical his family to attend college. He did his Washburn, TN, 37888, where trees will produced many other interesting sociologist Angela Wadsworth, “An post-doctoral education at a research be planted in Sam’s memory. books and articles. For a sample of the Involuntary Ethnography of a Stay in institute in Puerto Rico. He had a articles (including his famous analysis the Hospital: Being Sick in a Sick Place,” research position at the Harvard School James Black and Michael Betz, University of acedia), the reader is referred to about his own experience being hospi- of Medicine, taught at Columbia Uni- of Tennessee a collection that was produced in talized after a major stroke. versity, Brandeis, Queens College, and Hans Zetterberg connection with Hans’ 70th birthday, Rob was active in the UNC-Wilming- NYU before taking a faculty position 1927-2014 Sociological Endeavor (1997). Among ton community serving on a number of in the Department of Sociology at the his books, much enlightenment and committees and active in the founding University of Tennessee in 1974, from Hans Zetterberg was born on May many interesting ideas can be found in of the graduate program in sociology which he retired in 2007. 3, 1927, in Stockholm and died on Social Theory and Social Practice (1962) November 28, 2014, in Bromma parish, at the university. He was most proud He authored and edited many books, and in his last major work, The Many- of his role as an advisor and mentor Stockholm. He led a rich and varied life, Splendored Society. including Skid Row as a Way of Life parts of which were spent in his native of students. At the community level, (1964); Total Institutions (editor) (1971); Hans’ deep knowledge and love for he served on the Juvenile Research Sweden and parts in the United States. the classics in sociology took many After Suicide (1973); New Englanders: Hans received his first higher academic Fund (JDRF) Board of Directors for the Their Eyes, and Those Who Profess to expressions. One was his attempt to Carolina Coastal Branch. Having been degree in 1952 at Uppsala University, introduce translations of these works Care for Them (1974); The Urban Envi- in sociology; and he spent most of the diagnosed at age 30, he lived with Type ronment (1980); Suicide and Euthanasia into American academia through his 1 diabetes for more than 30 years. He years from the early 1950s to 1970 in press, The Bedminster Press (motto (1982); A Sociologist At Large in South the United States. After returning for loved being on the water in his boat at America (1988) (self-published); The “Books by scholars for scholars”). Wrightsville Beach with his family on good to Sweden in the early 1970s, During the years 1961–70 some 50 Ecology of Social Problems (1996); and he was the leader and owner of a board. An avid cat lover, his household Social Problems: An Ecological Prospec- important social science works were was always home to a number of major public opinion research institute published on The Bedminster Press, the tive (2002). (Sifo AB), the editor-in-chief of the stray cats he and his wife adopted. A Sam was a member of and participant most important of which was the first longtime season ticket holder of UNCW important daily newspaper Svenska full translation into English of Weber’s in several professional organizations, Dagbladet, founder of City University “Seahawk” basketball tickets, he was a including the American Sociological masterpiece, Economy and Society, as loyal, passionate, and verbal fan, often in Stockholm, and always a speaker edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Association and the Southern Socio- and writer in high demand. He was also criticizing in colorful language his per- logical Society. He served as President Wittich (1968). ceived ineptitude of the referees. first chief executive and organizer of of the Mid-South Sociological Associa- The Tri-Centennial Fund of the Bank of While Hans played an important role Along with his fondness for stray cats, tion. Sweden, an important foundation for in U.S. sociology as a young man, he Rob often befriended and was a cham- During his long tenure at the Univer- social science. At the time of his death also played an important, but some- pion of those among us who lived sity of Tennessee, Sam was an active Hans was working on volume four in a what different role, in Sweden during outside the mainstream of society. participant in the broad missions of major work, titled The Many-Splendored the rest of his life. Sweden is mainly A true indication of his own character research, service, and teaching. He Society (2009-). known abroad as a welfare state, but is reflected in how he dealt with was a staunch advocate for academic it also has a lesser known side, which From 1953 to 1964 Hans worked at has deeply influenced people such as his own adversity. Early during his freedom, a practitioner of participa- the Department of Sociology at Colum- academic career he went through a tory research, and a dedicated and Knut Wicksell, Ingmar Bergman and bia University and from 1967 to1970 Gunnar Ekelöf. The emphasis here is divorce and learned he had diabetes. tireless teacher. Sam’s self-depiction as at Ohio State University, where he was While these two episodes affected him a “cantankerous sociology professor” more on the individual, on the cultural Chair of the department. According dimensions of society, and on the need deeply, eventually he came to accept touched on how he viewed his role to his friend and colleague Seymour them and face them with courage as an academic. In his research and to preserve what is good rather than Martin Lipset, Columbia “was then the reform it. Hans drew much inspiration and conviction. He remained in an writings, in his teaching, and in his most intellectually interesting sociol- amicable and cordial relationship with professional affiliations, Sam sought from this part of the Swedish tradition ogy department in the world.” Hans and also helped to renew it, especially his former spouse. He became active in to bring fresh insight and vision, to also got to work closely with the two the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foun- entertain the possibility of a better way through his work on conservative leaders of Columbia-style sociology, thought. dation and contributed to this cause of seeing the world. He sought to keep Robert K. Merton and Paul Lazarsfeld. in many ways. The diabetes was only our minds baffled. His knowledge of European sociologi- Hans was much beloved by his the first of a series of health problems In his words, penned for his obituary cal theory made him into something of friends—for his generosity, for his he faced including prostate cancer, a as he prepared for the end of life, Sam an incarnation of what was best in this creativity, and for his wonderful number of surgeries, and a series of described himself as a “lifelong ecolo- type of sociology. personality. He is deeply missed by his strokes. Until the end, like the cats he gist who tried to live its principles in wife Karin Busch Zetterberg, his two adopted, he seemed to have nine lives, At Columbia Hans was active in children, five grandchildren, and other every aspect of his life…” He demon- many ways and, among other things, always bouncing back from adversity strated that conviction far beyond the family members. with a greater determination. supervised the dissertation of Barney confines of academia. He embraced Glaser. His most important work dur- Patrik Aspers, Uppsala University; More recently, the death of his wife, his Scottish heritage and his beloved ing the time at Columbia University Richard Swedberg, Cornell University Mary Susan, was the most difficult for kilt. Sam was active in the Tennessee footnotes • July/August 2015 23 American Sociological Association NON-PROFIT ORG. 1430 K Street NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20005 U.S. POSTAGE PAID ALBANY, NY PERMIT NO. 364

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