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An Ethnographer, a Teacher, and the inside 2014 ASA President Robin Leidner, University of the truth about the nuts and bolts linked culture to social structure, Pennsylvania of fieldwork, she has sometimes biography to history. been self-critical in print. The 2015 Theme Is nnette Lareau, the Early Influences 5 It’s time to right the “Sexualities in the Social A2014 president of the Annette’s own biography pro- World” American Sociological balance. Annette is an extraordinary sociologist vides some clues to her long-term The theme will explore the Association, has greatly fascination with education, family, expanded our under- and a person of integrity, importance of sexuality generosity, gracious- and social class. She grew up in in people’s live and its standing of how social Northern California, the daugh- inequality is reproduced ness, and understanding. relevance in sociology. Over the course of her ter of two teachers whose college while extending the educations were made possible by possibilities—and raising career, she has continu- Community Action Annette Lareau the GI Bill. Her mother’s stories 7 the bar—of qualitative ally deepened and refined Research Grants our understanding of about her impoverished childhood research. Through meticulous made a deep impression: the family Awarded fieldwork, theoretically informed inequality by focusing on the connections—or disconnections— experienced multiple evictions and CARI funds help sociologists analysis, and engaging writing, as a child Annette’s mother spent tackle real-world problems. Annette has had an impact on between families and other institu- tions, especially schools. Carefully many hours in the library—not only scholarship and public discussion because she loved books, but also about education, family life, and uncovering the everyday patterns The World Social Forum that confer advantage to some because it was too cold at home. 9 in Tunisia social class. A believer in telling children and not others, she has Continued on page 8 At the WSF, attendees debate religion in public and political life as well as gender relations. The Journal of Health and Social 2013 ASA Annual 11 Edit an ASA Journal Meeting Breaks Contemporary Sociology, Behavior Welcomes New Editor Contexts, Social Psychology Attendance Record Mark Wheeler, University of California, the subject of his talk, and today Quarterly, and Teaching Daniel Fowler, Los Angeles Gee, Professor of Community Sociology are now seeking ASA Public Information Office Health Sciences at the University editor applications. veryone’s career takes unexpected he 2013 American Sociological twists and turns, and Gilbert Gee’s of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) E Association Annual Meeting was is no exception. The new Fielding School of Public T the most successful ever in terms of editor of ASA’s Journal of Health, focuses his attendance. From the Executive Officer...... 2 Health and Social Behavior research on determin- A record-breaking total of 6,184 Science Policy...... 3 (JHSB) recalls a pivotal ing how racism and people attended International Perspectives...... 9 moment while he was other forms of structural the conference a graduate student. He disadvantage contribute ASA Forum...... 13 in New York admits he was floundering to health and health care Announcements...... 13 City, topping the in terms of what he wanted disparities. He also exam- previous best of Obituaries...... 17 to do as a career, when he Gilbert Gee ines local neighborhoods 6,025 established was asked by his advisor to and issues of environmen- six years ago, the give a speech before his peers on the tal justice using a multi-level and last time ASA question of race and health. It was life-course perspective. That is, how visited the Big an intimidating prospect for a young racism impacts a person throughout Apple. Attendance also increased man in his early 20s with a penchant the lifespan and the different ways it by 16 percent compared with 2012, for wearing ripped blue jeans and could change the course of a child’s when 5,330 convened in Denver, old T-shirts (“Not unlike how I dress life compared to that of an adult. Colorado, for the Annual Meeting. today,” he jokes), but it also served to “From crib to coffin,” he has writ- “New York City has histori- gel his thinking on what direction he ten, “race is invented, recorded, and cally been a popular destination wanted his research career to take. reported. The classification of peo- for our members, so we certainly The question that came to ple’s race on their birth certificates, anticipated a good turnout,” said fascinate him was, roughly, does college applications, medical charts, racism make you sick? That became Continued on page 12 Continued on page 4 footnotes • September/October 2013 To view the online version, visit
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Sally Hillsman was on vacation at the time of publication and was therefore unable to write a Vantage Point column for the September/October issue of Footnotes. In her absence we are running a column focusing on non academic careers from the November 2010 issue of Footnotes, which remains relevant today even though the sociology job market has recovered from the recent recession. (See www.asanet.org/documents/research/pdfs/2012_2013_ASA_Job_Bank_Survey.pdf.) Sociological Careers – Can Graduate Training Meet the Challenge?
ccording to a recent American own sake. He may be aware of, or Deep Roots in Sociological The ASA mission statement also ASociological Association (ASA) even concerned with, the practical Practice directs us to advance sociology as a Research Brief, there was a 35 applicability and consequences of As the national disciplinary “scientific discipline and profession percent decline in the number of his findings, but at that point he association, the ASA mission serving the public good.” When we jobs advertised in the leaves the sociological statement (www.asanet.org/about/ undervalue our discipline’s deep ASA Job Bank between frame of reference.” mission.cfm) explicitly states that roots and current engagement in 2008 and 2009, and a 32 This perspective the Association serves researchers sociological practice, we impede the percent decline in the reflected what most and practitioners (such as soci- growth of sociology as a profession number of academic students and faculty I ologists working in government, with careers that span many sectors departments posting those jobs, yet knew felt about graduate training industry, and non-profit sectors), where meaningful sociological work there was an increase in the number and it continues today (albeit in a as well as faculty working in col- is accomplished. When we overlook of applied jobs during the time more gender-neutral formulation). lege and university settings. The an array of immensely satisfying period (Spalter-Roth, Jacobs, Scelza Yet even back then there was an statement reflects a long-standing career opportunities for PhD gradu- 2010). While not the first time our unsettling undercurrent in this for- interest in what is sometimes called ates, we encourage a sense of alien- departments and doctoral students mulation of “the sociologist.” Is an sociological practice or applied ation among some accomplished have faced a serious academic job academic job devoted to theoretical sociology among PhD sociologists, sociologists who feel that without decline, these findings reflect not work the only professionally mean- as demonstrated by the establish- an academic affiliation they do not only the realities of the current ingful conclusion to PhD graduate ment of Columbia’s Bureau of have an acknowledged place or role Great Recession, but also the longer preparation? Are sociologists in Applied Social Research (1937) with in the discipline. trend of state and federal disinvest- the professoriate, as well as those Paul Lazersfeld as its first director Taking a Broader Disciplinary ment in higher education that is in other economic sectors, working and Robert K. Merton as his key View now contributing to fewer full-time outside “the sociological frame of intellectual partner. Former ASA Academic sociologists view tenure track opening in many U.S. reference” when their sociological presidents Peter Rossi (1980) and expanding sociological knowledge, colleges and universities. training and imagination is focused William Foote Whyte (1981) led a methods, and theory as their top The possibility that there may be on non-theoretical work? series of initiatives to promote soci- priority as scholars, along with fewer academic jobs in the coming These are not merely hypothetical ological practice within the ASA, teaching the next generation of soci- years is a serious problem that the concerns, especially as the decades and Michael Buroway (2004) made ologists to do the same. Sociologists discipline must vigorously con- have passed and sociology PhDs, the concept of “Public Sociologies” in practice take sociological knowl- front. The ASA is doing so through higher education leaders, and the focus of his presidency and edge, methods, and theory into the advocacy efforts of our Public society in general have faced new the 2004 Annual Meeting. Yet, the research, business, government, and Affairs and Public Information and growing challenges. Our society association itself still struggles with other settings where they test those staff in collaboration with COSSA needs professional sociologists meeting our full mission. theories and apply the methods (Consortium of Social Science practicing sociology in a variety For decades, sociologists working to a variety of complex challenges Associations) as well as through of settings, all of whom should be outside of academia have composed confronting social organizations the efforts of ASA’s Research and trained under the most rigorous about 20 percent of ASA member- or society at large. Programmatic Academic and Professional Affairs academic standards. ship. Outstanding sociologists application of research findings, Programs, and in collaboration with And yet, the typical perspective move across the academic world evaluation of social and individual several universities on a sociology in graduate education (in 1963 and and the world of practice with intervention programs, modeling post-doctoral program. However, beyond) tends to overlook the disci- considerable fluidity. Currently, social interactions, studying social on another level, these challenges plinary contributions of thousands the discipline is delighted to have networks, and conducting cost- also serve as an opportunity for dis- of professional sociologists across sociologists in a number of high benefit/comparative cost analyses ciplinary self-reflection and consid- the country and the world doing powered positions within the can and does contribute to building eration about how graduate training sociological work. This discrepancy federal government or private sector core disciplinary knowledge, theory, is preparing future sociologists for tends to push those sociologists research organizations, including and methods as well as inform- successful sociological careers. toward the disciplinary margin Robert Groves as the Director of US whether their workplace is an ing practice and policy. But this Successful Sociological Careers Census Bureau; Cora B. Marrett, academic setting or a government, Acting Deputy Director of the Continued on page 6 In 1963, the year I began graduate non-profit, or even commercial National Science Foundation; James training in Columbia University’s setting. This consequence constricts P. Lynch, Director of Bureau of Sociology Department, an eminent Sally T. Hillsman is the networks of “loose ties” among Justice Statistics; Georgette Bennett, sociologist concluded his descrip- the Executive Officer sociologists in academic and other President of Tanenbaum Center for tion of a sociologist by saying, of ASA. She can be sectors, ties which Granovetter’s Inter Religious Understanding; and “…the interest of the sociologist is reached by email at research has shown are central to Michael Jacobson, President of the primarily theoretical. That is, he is executive.office@ successful job searches. Vera Institute of Justice. interested in understanding for its asanet.org.
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congressional fellow Why the President’s 2014 Budget Should Restore Funding for ESOPs
Heather Gautney, ASA Congressional actually do “build that.” the largest company in the Basque profit from workers’ collective know- Fellow ESOPs, as well as co-ops and region, and fourth largest employer how and imagination, as well as the uring the 2013 election cycle, worker-run enterprises in Europe, in all of Spain. With its own bank group buy-in and internal cohesive- DPresident Obama made an impor- Latin America, and here in the and university, Mondragon operates ness they foster. This cohesion is rein- tant observation when he said “You United States, show an appreciation as a single corporation, yet is com- forced by an equitable wage structure Didn’t Build That.” He was talking of this value. Aside from the obvious prised of some 120 cooperatives. in which Mondragon’s lowest paid about the fact that American prosper- benefit when the actual doers of work Inter-cooperation among co-ops workers make only six times less than ity is not built by powerful corporate help guide the production process, has enabled Mondragon to survive the CEO. American CEOs make at executives, but also by the the mil- worker-run enterprises have played major economic upheaval with least 380 times more than the average lions of Americans who contribute to an important role in the recovery shared liquidity and a flexible worker. of nations hurt by economic shock, workforce. Since its founding in the wealth of our country, and may Examples in the United States not get the credit they deserve. including failed businesses of all sizes 1956, Mondragon has not laid off and masses of unemployed. They a single employee. When demand Despite such glaring inequality, But if Obama really wants to the United States does have a rich help working Americans, he should are oftentimes more wage-equitable for domestic products diminished than traditional, top-down corporate with the dearth of new construction history of cooperative enterprise, begin by restoring funding for from credit unions and food co- Employee Stock Ownership Plans structures. And, in some cases, are following the 2008 financial crisis, more productive, innovative, and workers in the domestic products ops, to land trusts and community (ESOPs), one of the closest things development corporations. The to economic democracy we have in profitable. co-op were simply moved to another Following the 2001 collapse of co-op to instead manufacture car Evergreen Cooperatives in Ohio, this country. for example, were founded as a An ESOP is a kind of employee the banking system in Argentina, parts, which were in high demand. for example, workers reclaimed and In addition to extraordinary job development partnership between retirement or savings plan, similar the Cleveland Foundation and to stock bonuses except it can bor- recuperated factories after a mass stability, Mondragon workers are of owners declared bankruptcy and integrated in a profit-sharing struc- local hospitals and universities in row money. ESOPs are typically an area of the city plagued by 20 created to buy out an owner’s inter- moved their money offshore (capital ture that includes a giveback to the flight hit nearly $19 billion in 2001 community. They are also involved to 25 percent unemployment and est in a company, or reward workers 30 percent poverty. Inspired by with the bonus of stock ownership. alone). With 25 percent unemploy- in key decision-making through ment and 60 percent living in poverty General Assembly structures, which The stock is held in a trust fund, and Continued on page 10 employees can cash in their shares by 2002, the recuperated factories when they leave or retire. saved the livelihoods of tens of ESOPs encourage and expand thousands of workers, and helped 2013 CNSF Exhibition & retirement savings by offering work- kick-start a vibrant co-op movement, ers equity in the companies where which by 2009 had involved some Reception they work. They can be a handy fix 10,000 businesses nationwide. when a business needs a bailout. And International Definition he 19th Annual Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) Exhibition & Reception on Capitol Hill, titled Investments in STEM studies show, they tend to increase In other parts of Latin America T Research and Education: Fueling American Innovation, was held May productivity, and reduce absenteeism and the Caribbean, the concept of 7, 2013. Sociologist Stephen Zehr, University of Southern Indiana, and turnover, especially when work- worker-ownership and management presented his research on infrastructure and interdisciplinary identity. ers are included in decision-making. was applied to form the Bolivarian In addition to Zehr’s research, the exhibition highlighted 34 research Alliance for the Peoples as part of Where’s the Incentive? and education projects made possible through funding by the National the Our America Peoples’ Trade President Obama’s 2014 Budget Science Foundation. This year’s exhibit was attended by more than 285 Agreement, which was driven by proposes a cut in tax incentives for Congressional staff, representatives from the scientific community, and ethics of community well-being and ESOPs, arguing that larger plans may several Members of Congress. carry significant financial risks, and cooperation. The region was ripe for diminish returns in terms of the “pro- it, as profit-driven “free trade” had ductivity incentives” they create for been wreaking havoc on the region workers. In essence, the proposal says since the late 1970s. Peoples’ Trade that employee ownership is fine for accounted not only for the needs of small companies, but the federal gov- workers, but also their communi- ernment will not incentivize work- ties. Buoyed by oil-rich Venezuela ers to take ownership of the means of and gas-rich Bolivia, even strug- production on a large scale. gling worker-run factories with less The President’s move denies the competitively priced goods could relation of value implicit in his own find markets for their products. catchphrase—the value of human Across the Atlantic, the labor, knowledge, and vitality Mondragon Corporation in Spain is embedded in every commodity or perhaps the most notable manifesta- tion of the worker-ownership phe- service produced by the people who Stephen Zehr with ASF Acting Director Cora Marrett nomenon. Mondragon has become
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Annual Meeting family, work, health and health in attendance from Page 1 care, relationships, education, bul- could almost lying, technology, religion, race, feel like they Kareem D. Jenkins, ASA’s Director socioeconomics, children, politics, were also of Meeting Services. “But, it’s safe disability, substance abuse, animals, listening to Ira to say that attendance far exceeded gender, and many others. The 2012 Glass speak our expectations.” meeting, by comparison, featured or feel the So why was 2013 a banner year? 569 sessions and 3,235 papers. excitement “The record-breaking num- For the second year in a row, at a teaching bers speak to the location of any individual with Internet access and learning the meeting—people love New was able to watch a live webcast session. York City, but also to the excit- with captions of the meeting’s This year, ing program 2013 ASA President three plenary sessions—Inequality ASA also 2013 ASA Major Award Winners Cecilia Ridgeway and the Program and Contemporary Social Protest, began provid- Committee designed,” Jenkins Micro Processes as Mechanisms of ing the full was covered in dozens of media explained. Inequality, and How Is Equality in complement of AV equipment in outlets, including Slate, TIME.com, Jenkins also saw this year’s the United States Changing?—as paper session rooms. This equip- Cosmopolitan, the New York Daily theme, “Interrogating Inequality: well as the ASA Awards Ceremony ment included an LCD projector, News, Brazil’s Veja, and Canada’s Linking Micro and Macro,” as and Presidential Address. Live a laptop, and a projection screen. Toronto Star, according to a Google perfect for New York City because transcripts accompanied the Presenters at the 2013 meeting only news search. Even Conan O’Brien inequality manifests itself in webcasts, which were accessible needed to bring their presentations mentioned the study in the open- finance, government, culture, and on mobile devices, tablets, and on a flash drive. ing monologue of his show on Aug. the arts, all of which are synony- computers. The webcasts and Of course it wasn’t all business 14. mous with the city. transcripts are still available at in New York City. The Welcoming “My co-authors and I were very Social Order and Inequality
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2015 Annual Meeting Theme Sexualities in the Social World 110th ASA Annual Meeting • August the ASA. Let us gather to discuss a • To what extent is bias against gay tion outcome? 22-25, 2015 • Chicago, IL broad set of questions, including the men and lesbians really a bias • How do patterns of the transmis- ex usually occurs in private and following: against gender nonconformity? sion of HIV illuminate network Sis seen as deeply personal, yet it • Why has there been more • Why has public opinion on gay principles? is also profoundly social. Cultural progress toward gender equality marriage shifted so quickly? • How do gene/environment inter- norms and social institutions such in education and jobs than in het- • Why do typical parents believe actions affect sexual behavior? as religion, education, mass media, erosexual relations, where men that their own children are sexu- • What new data collection do we law, and the military all affect what still typically propose marriage, ally naïve but that other children need for research on sexualities? we do sexually with whom. These and women are more stigmatized are hypersexual? • What theoretical perspectives are social forces also affect what is seen than men for casual sex? • How are notions of sexual most useful in making sense of as beyond the bounds of legitimacy. • How are race and class inequali- propriety marshaled in social sexuality? Indeed, contemporary politics are ties affected by marriage markets movements, anti-colonial revolu- • Can studying sexuality inform full of contentious debates about in which preferences and segrega- tions, state formation, and ethnic general social theories? abortion, sex education, same-sex tion steer us toward intimate cleansing? Please join me at our annual marriage, pornography, sex work, relationships and thus economic • How are cultural schema about meeting in Chicago in August 2015 sexual harassment, systematic rape sharing, with partners similar to sexuality reflected in the design where our sessions will feature a as a weapon in wars, and female ourselves? of consumer goods such as mov- full range of sociological topics in genital cutting. Given the impor- • Why have nonmarital births ies, music, clothing, and drugs for addition to showcasing exciting new tance of sexuality in people’s lives, increased for 50 years, as much as sexual performance? research on sexualities across many and its relevance to many areas of in good economic times as in the • Has concern about the dangers of subfields. sociology, I selected it as the theme hard times that make men less sex kept researchers from study- Paula England, 2015 ASA President and for the 2015 annual meeting of marriageable? ing sexual pleasure as a stratifica- Program Chair
Think Ahead to 2015! Invited Session Proposals Are Solicited for the 110th Annual Meeting! Deadlines are November 13 and February 5. he substantive program for the many more session proposals than Sessions are due by November 13, contributions to the discipline T2015 Annual Meeting is now can be accepted, but we truly appre- 2013. The ASA Program Committee together with discussants chosen to taking shape under the leadership of ciate hearing from members. We works actively on these sessions, provide different viewpoints. Books President-Elect Paula England and recommend submitters confer with but proposals from members are published during 2011-2014 are the 2015 Program Committee. The the members of the proposed ses- welcome. eligible for nomination. Only ASA theme of “Sexualities in the Social sion to ensure that they are available Special Sessions focus on new members may submit nominations; World” invites participation across and ask them to submit a tentative areas of sociological work or other self-nominations are not acceptable. the discipline and provides many paper or “talk” title. Those who wish timely topics which may or may not Workshops provide practical opportunities to bring together to volunteer to serve as organizers relate to the theme. They gener- advice or instruction to sociologists a variety of sociological areas in for Regular Session topics, which are ally address sociological issues, at every professional level. Topics diverse formats. open to paper submissions, should whether in research or its applica- focus on careers and professional The spectrum of sessions on the watch for an announcement in mid- tion, of importance to the discipline growth, academic department Annual Meeting program reflects December 2013. or of interest beyond. Proposals strategies, research skills and use of the ASA’s commitment to facilitate The ASA meeting is a program for sessions co-sponsored with major datasets, teaching challenges, intellectual communication and of the members, by the members, sister sociological associations are publishing advice and tips, grant the transmission of knowledge, for the members. But a meeting of usually accommodated under this opportunities and grant writ- information, and skills relevant to this size and scope requires advance component. ing skills, enhanced teaching of the field of sociology and aligned planning. Think ahead and propose Regional Spotlight Sessions standard courses, ethical issues, and social sciences. session topics and organizers now. provide opportunities to look at more. If you have tried a pedagogi- Members are now encouraged With the collective input of ASA issues pertinent to the host site for cal approach that has been effective, to submit session proposals for the members, the 2015 Annual Meeting the Annual Meeting. With Chicago, developed insightful career advice, components of the program where program will achieve another high Illinois, as the site of the 2015 or have wisdom to share about participation is by invitation only. mark of excellence. Annual Meeting, there are many using sociology in applied and That is, proposals should include opportunities to develop interesting research settings, please volunteer There are six different types of both the topic for a session and the session topics with invited panelists, to organize and lead a workshop. invited sessions: name of individuals who will be as well as ideas for local tours and Workshops are open to all attend- invited to speak at the session. Please Thematic Sessions examine site visits. ees; no fees are involved. keep in mind that the process of the meeting theme. These sessions Author Meets Critic Sessions are Courses are designed to keep submitting proposals is competitive. are broad in scope and endeavor designed to bring authors of recent sociologists abreast of recent schol- The Program Committee often has to make the theme of the meet- books deemed to be important ing come alive. Ideas for Thematic Continued on page 6 footnotes • September/October 2013 5 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
Think Ahead Sessions proposals must include: importance to the discipline of • Rationale for inclusion of the from Page 5 • Designation of the session sociology; topic on the 2015 program; and type: Thematic Session; Special • Rationale for inclusion on the • Recommendation for seminar arly trends and developments. These Session; Regional Spotlight 2015 program; and instructor, including address, intensive sessions are led by expert Session • Suggestions for critics and session phone, and email. instructors who are considered • Working title for the session; organizer. Organizer Eligibility. All session to be at the forefront of a given • Brief description of the substan- Workshop proposals must organizers must be members of field. Course instructors are urged tive focus; include: ASA. Students are not eligible to to prepare reading lists, teaching • Rationale for inclusion of the • Working title for the session; serve as sole organizers of invited materials (e.g., handouts), and to topic on the 2015 program; • Brief description of the focus, sessions. use the same techniques they would • Recommendation(s) for session goals, and intended audience for Deadlines. Proposals for use in advanced graduate courses. If organizer, including address, the workshop; Thematic Sessions are due by you have cutting-edge methodologi- telephone, and email; and • Rationale for inclusion of the November 13, 2013. Proposals for all cal or theoretical knowledge in an • A list of potential participants topic on the 2015 program; other sessions are due by February important area or know a colleague including address, phone, and • Recommendation for workshop 5, 2014. who has such expertise, please email. organizer/leader, including Submission. Proposals should submit a proposal for a course. Author Meets Critics session address, phone, and email; and be submitted through the online Participants in courses register in proposals must include: • A list of potential co-leaders or module located on the 2015 Annual advance and pay a small fee to cover • Name and affiliation of book panelists, if desired. Meeting website. The module cost of materials. author(s); Course proposals must will ensure the proper transmis- Guidelines for Session • Complete title of the book; include: sion of proposals to the Program Proposals • Publication date and name of • Working title for the Course; Committee; do not mail or email publisher; • Brief description of the focus and proposals directly to Program Thematic Sessions, Special • Brief statement about the book’s content; Committee members. Sessions, and Regional Spotlight
Vantage Point professors don’t have the “loose my career have I felt my intellectual References ties” with sociologists in other work was outside the sociologi- from Page 2 Spalter-Roth, Roberta, Jerry A. Jacobs, and sectors. cal frame of reference. There are Janene Scelza. 2010. “Still a Down Market: broader perspective of sociological It is not hard for graduate pro- many similar to me in the disci- Findings from the 2009/2010 Job Bank work, even when done by academic grams to figure out what to do; it pline, and there are many graduate Survey.” American Sociological Association. sociologists, does not often impact is hard to figure out how to make students who might choose to join Spalter-Roth, Roberta. 2007. Beyond the graduate sociology programs as the the graduate school climate more us. Embracing a broader view of Ivory Tower: Professionalism, Skills training ground for the profession. flexible without feeling as though scientific careers in sociology is a Match, and Satisfaction in Sociology. American Sociological Association. In graduate programs, training training is “leav[ing] the sociologi- challenge to the discipline beyond for careers as scholars in profes- cal frame of reference.” When they a tight academic labor market and Granovetter, Mark S. 1973. “The Strength soriate and training for practice- of Weak Ties.” American Journal of engage in reflection about gradu- will remain so. Sociology 78(6):1360-1380. centered sociological careers ate programmatic enhancements, should include rigorous train- sociology departments often find ing on the sociological theory, that, regardless of career orienta- content, and methods. As in most tion, many doctoral students need academic disciplines, becoming more grant-writing skills (Spalter- a sociologist requires extensive Roth 2007) and more training in training in disciplinary scholar- how to manage research teams, ship; it does not require becoming especially with interdisciplinary a career scholar. memberships, if they are going to Many sociology graduate stu- compete successfully for national dents “confess” that they feel they grants. As a grant maker in the must hide any interest in practice or federal government, I read far too applied work and especially a goal many applications from highly of a sociological practice career. The successful academics who displayed scramble for tenure-track academic an embarrassing lack of skill in jobs in a tight market often includes research management. These are those who might be interested in not “practice specific” skills. sociological practice, but who don’t My graduate training in sociol- want to be viewed as second-class ogy began with training in the citizens in their home university. If Columbia Sociology Department they do broaden their search, they and simultaneously at Columbia’s may not get much help because Bureau of Applied Sociology. I was applied positions are viewed as lucky. I have done scholarship and I second rate simply because their have done practice, but at no time in
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he ASA Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy announces the recipients of the 2013 Community Action Research Initiative (CARI) Tawards. This small grants program encourages and supports sociologists in bringing social science knowledge, methods, and expertise to address community- identified issues and concerns. Each applicant proposed a pro bono work with a community organization or local public interest group, the group’s request collaboration, and the intended outcomes. CARI provides up to $3,000 for each project to cover direct costs associated with the community action research. The principle investigators are listed below along with a description of their funded proposals.
Claudia Chaufan, University of The Animal Alliance, which consists adults in California. The DACA’s will further examine how the work California-San Francisco, will evaluate of 30 Southern Californian shelters, goal is to provide programs for is poorly paid and often unsafe. an on-site food-garden in an early seeks to connect ordinary people and eligible, undocumented immigrant Sherry raises address whether there childhood education program, North local shelters as well as facilitate high- youth and provides a two-year is worker exploitation occurring and Bay Children’s Center, which caters quality opportunities for people to reprieve from deportation that if workplace safety regulations are to underserved families in Northern adopt, volunteer, and donate to their includes work authorization, but being violated. The grant will support California. Poor nutrition is one of local shelter. no path to citizenship. Patler and five undergraduate and a gradu- our country’s largest problems, and Carl Milofsky, Bucknell the DTLA will evaluate whether the ate internship with the Farm Labor is responsible for disease and health University, will evaluate an athletic lives of undocumented immigrant Organizing Committee (FLOC). inequalities. Unhealthy eating habits field renovation project at the Central young adults are benefited through Sherry’s research has four goals: (1) develop at a younger age and are Columbia School District in central undocumented young adults access To allow the students to explore the highly influenced by family eating Pennsylvania. The athletic field will to education, employment, health- abuses and indignities farm work- practices. Communities across the give residents access to promote care, and community involvement. ers experience. (2) To explore the country have responded by sup- community health. With information Respondents will answer questions social movement strategies adopted porting smaller, farmer-owned and being gathered through a commu- about the families who receive work by farm workers in response to run farms. These urban farms have nity-wide health assessment that permits, who applied for DACA, and these conditions. (3) To examine provided healthier food programs will help compare changes in com- the interpersonal and psychological the responses of major manufactur- in schools and encourage a healthier munity health over time, Milofsky impacts of their legal status. With ers such as Reynolds Tobacco to the lifestyle. Chaufan’s study will examine will address the significance of the nearly 5 million undocumented campaigns of the workers. (4) To give how participation in the program remolded and opened athletic fields. children and young adults in the the students (both undergraduate impacts families’ eating practices and He will conduct his evaluation with United States, the study will answer and graduate) a chance to do detailed overall quality of life as well as address the help of the Central Susquehanna many crucial questions surrounding ethnographic fieldwork, with the pos- how incorporating food gardening Community Foundation. The Central the uncertainty of a large segment of sibility for publications. impacts curriculum development Columbia School District serves America’s immigrant population. Dale Willits, California State in early childhood education. The students from K-12th grade in three Frank Ridzi and Matthew University-Bakersfield, will evaluate project seeks to identify interventions small towns. Central Pennsylvania Loveland, Le Moyne College, believe the Community Action Partnership and strategies that improve parent has been plagued with obesity, and that kindergarten readiness is a top of Kern (CAPK), a county in and community engagement with the supporting exercise is crucial for priority in Syracuse, NY. The County California’s Central-Valley. Willits’ program and food security in partici- adolescents of the Central Columbia spends $19 million annually to subsi- plan is to develop an evaluation pating communities and to develop School District. The study will dize childcare for low-income fami- survey that can be used to measure recommendations that enhance the include students taking surveys and lies, but currently only about half of the effectiveness of their resource fair overreaching goal of the organization. interviewing community members. children are assessed as “ready” upon program. The second aspect of the Shane Lachtman, University of The students will ask questions entering kindergarten. Loveland study is to provide a pilot evaluation California-Los Angeles, received about the health issues, problems the and Ridzi are working with a broad of the program, which will “consist funding to examine how to increase community has faces and the general coalition of partners (The Literacy of administering surveys to CAPK adoption of shelter animals that might quality of life. Milofsky’s research Coalition of Onondaga County) that clients attending the resource fair ses- otherwise be euthanized. His project, is critical in helping small commu- includes the county government and sions,” Willits explained. The respon- “In Search of Answers and Solutions: nities—long overshadowed by the city school district. The goal of their dents will be interviewed before Why Do Americans Love Animals problems of larger towns and cities— project is to build on the social capital and after attending the resource fair, and Stay Away from Shelters.” The overcome unhealthy lifestyles. that this group has been accumulat- which is designed to connect those organization he will work with, the Caitlin Patler, University of ing in order to move the community who are disadvantaged with resources Los Angeles Animal Alliance, aims California-Los Angles, will assess toward greater data sharing in a man- available within their community. to examine the capacity, experiences, the impacts of the Department of ner that both respects privacy and The CAPK is also a valuable means successes, and pathways local shelters Homeland Security’s Deferred Action enables more effective and efficient of providing health information, have when engaging the public. for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) use of resources. This project would job training services, and assistance Lachtman will research how animal immigration program, which was be a first step for the community in accessing state and federal assistance shelters encourage the public to adopt, implemented by President Obama in the direction of data sharing by col- programs. With Willits’ research, the volunteer, and donate and the impact 2012. Patler, along with Dream Team laboratively working to explore what effectiveness of the CAPK’s methods of their various methods. To examine Los Angeles (DTLA), will examine types of childcare in the community can be reviewed and examined and community involvement, he will the DACA’s impact on the educa- best prepare children for school. reformed if necessary. investigate the roles and relationships tional and employment trajectories, Mark Sherry, The University of The next application deadline is February of shelter staff, programs, communi- community involvement, healthcare Toledo, will explore the conditions of 2, 2014. For more information and to ties, promotions, recruiting, volun- access, and psychological well-being labor camps and conduct interviews apply for the next funding cycle, visit teering, and fundraising practices. of undocumented immigrant young with farm workers. The research
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Lareau able or entitled to make demands Unequal Childhoods argues that to the book itself, reactions that from Page 1 on teachers. Middle-class parents, in the child-rearing ideas and practices range from pleased satisfaction to contrast, had no compunction about of the poor and working-class fami- deep hurt, anger, and disappoint- While Annette was working her insisting that their children’s indi- lies and of the middle-class families ment. Annette believes that frank- way through college at UC-Santa vidual needs be met, a difference can be understood as cohering into ness about the details of producing Cruz, she participated in a com- Annette attributed to their different distinct logics. Using a gardening research is important to give read- munity action program in a small cultural capital. Julia Wrigley, in her metaphor, Annette demonstrates ers a basis for gauging the persua- town in California’s Central Valley, introduction to the second print- that the poor and working-class siveness of the evidence and also to volunteering in the working-class ing of Home Advantage, describes families sought the “accomplish- help students and fellow researchers African American community’s Annette as “Americanizing” the ment of natural growth” while the by providing an accurate picture of school and neighborhood. She was concept of cultural capital, enlarging middle-class families practiced the research process and advice on struck by the contrast between the Bourdieu’s concept so that it does “concerted cultivation.” She empha- avoiding some of the pitfalls. She is parents’ eagerness for their children not refer only to high culture. In this sizes that there are benefits and at work on a book on ethnography to do well in school and the “scath- and subsequent work, Annette has drawbacks to both approaches—for that she intends as both a practical ing comments” of the teachers about extended Bourdieu’s analysis of class the children and their families— guide and a statement of standards. how supposedly little the parents reproduction in several important and she stresses the investments Annette credits a post-doc valued education. All these influ- respects (i.e., demonstrating the of love, labor, and worry of all of at Stanford with deepening her ences and experiences sharpened effort required to activate cultural the study families. However, she understanding of the differ- Annette’s sensitivity to the conse- resources, effort which may or may argues that the middle-class parents’ ent strengths and dilemmas of quences of economic inequality and not succeed in any given case). strategies are much more readily quantitative analysis, and she has the importance of both families and recognized and highly valued by become increasingly interested in Intensive Fieldwork education in its reproduction. educators and other profession- such methods. In an ongoing col- Had the employment prospects While teaching at Southern als, and that middle-class children laboration, she and Eliot Weininger for teachers been better when she Illinois University, Annette began develop attitudes and skills that will have brought quantitative as well finished college, Annette might the ambitious project that culmi- be advantageous in their dealings as qualitative data to bear on the have become a kindergarten teacher nated in the publication of Unequal with adult institutional representa- relations among class, family, and herself. Instead, she spent two years Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family tives. Middle-class children develop education. They are currently work- working as a full-time interviewer Life (2001), a work that reveals her an emerging sense of entitlement, ing on a project called “Choosing in San Francisco’s city jail, gathering remarkable talent as a fieldworker, while poor and working-class Homes, Choosing Schools,” and information on whether prison- one who has extended the scope children come to feel constrained Annette and Kimberly Goyette have ers qualified for release without of ethnographic work. As in Home in their dealings with adults outside co-edited a forthcoming volume bail. Her skill as a fieldworker can Advantage, she took a comparative the family. Unequal Childhoods won with that title. Two other current no doubt be traced in part to her approach, gathering data from mul- awards from three ASA sections projects extend Annette’s investiga- experience conducting interviews tiple sources, including classroom (Culture, Family, and Children tion of the American class system: with people who were often furious observations as well as interviews and Youth) and the American an interview study of very wealthy or drunk or bloody. She learned, with parents and teachers; this time Educational Studies Association. people and one on the experience of too, that bureaucratic procedures she attended to variation in the The expanded second edition, upward mobility (with Heather Curl led to differential outcomes by class experiences of families of different which includes a 10-year follow-up, and Tina Wu). even when they were applied even- races as well as different classes. provides even more evidence of the A Teacher and Mentor handedly. But the fieldwork forUnequal power of class cultures. The children Encouraged by a college professor Childhoods goes much further. At Annette studied had become young Despite her prodigious research to pursue graduate work in sociol- first Annette planned to make this adults, and interviews with them schedule, Annette is a dedicated ogy, Annette chose Berkeley. As a an interview study, but she was dis- and their parents revealed that they teacher and colleague, and she finds graduate student, she found that satisfied with the data she was get- had followed markedly different time for some non-sociological pur- much of the academic literature ting, which did not seem sufficiently paths to young adulthood. suits as well. Grateful for the guid- was as critical of working-class rich. “With great trepidation,” she ance she received from such mentors parents as the teachers she’d heard asked one mother if she could fol- Strengths and Weaknesses of as Troy Duster, Arlie Hochschild, in the Central Valley. The mismatch low her around, the mother agreed, Fieldwork Michael Burawoy, Aaron Cicourel, she’d noted there between teach- and Annette’s first experience shad- This 2011 edition also built on and Hugh Mehan, she devotes ers’ expectations and the ability of owing a parent persuaded her that Annette’s practice of providing much time and attention to working working-class parents to commu- more intensive fieldwork on family a detailed look at the difficulties with graduate students and young nicate comfortably with the school life would be possible. After joining and dramas of fieldwork. In both sociologists newly embarked on was an important focus of her dis- Temple University, she and a team Home Advantage and Unequal their careers and takes great pleasure sertation, which became the award- of research assistants eventually Childhoods, Annette included in seeing them flourish. Both while winning Home Advantage: Social used this method with the families candid appendices that describe at the University of Maryland and Class and Parental Intervention in of 12 third graders, making multiple not only her methods but also the now as Stanley I. Sheerr Professor Elementary Education. Based on visits and observing them hanging dilemmas, confusions, and missteps at the University of Pennsylvania, both interviews with teachers and out at home, visiting doctors, get- that inevitably arise in qualitative she regularly teaches large classes parents and observations in two ting food stamps, and shuttling to research. In the second edition of introductory sociology, eager to elementary schools, she showed and from numerous activities. One of Unequal Childhoods, Annette draw undergraduates to the field. that while working-class parents of the great strengths of Unequal addresses head-on the reality of the Because building community is cared deeply about their children’s Childhoods is that it vividly conveys power differential between research important to Annette, she works success in school they did not feel the distinctive textures of life in subjects and researcher. She docu- to create occasions for informal these families. ments the reactions of the families Continued on page 10
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international perspectives
The University as an Open Space: the World Social Forum
Val Moghadam, Northeastern University and several human rights and many Tunisian student groups. For five days, the scholars, he Arab Spring of 2011 began in University was an open space for feminists, and Tunisia, following the self-immo- T deliberative democracy as numer- left-wing activ- lation of a young street vendor ous workshops addressed questions ists. During the whose frustration at his inability to ranging from the future of the WSF, however, ply his trade in the face of bureau- World Social Forum to more imme- I was struck by cratic obduracy seemed to symbol- diate questions of women’s rights, the unprec- ize the loss of dignity of an entire economic rights, and environmental edented open population. The Dignity Revolution, protection. atmosphere as Tunisians call it, was a call for The WSF opened with a Women’s that prevailed economic, political, and civil rights. Assembly at the Amphitheatre of throughout Citizens demanded jobs, a stron- the Law Faculty, which was filled to Tunis. The ger welfare system, and an end to Young anarchists protesting in Tunisia. capacity with perhaps one-third of Women’s cronyism, police surveillance, and the audience being men. As I looked March excessive presidential powers. After around, I could see feminists from proceeded fought, without international solidar- President Ben Ali’s departure, a rela- Algeria as well as Tunisia, Marche through the city center and ended ity. We then demanded our rights as tively smooth transition period of Mondiale des Femmes (with purple at the Olympic Stadium. At the women, and achieved some progress. elections and constitution-building flags), Mexican activists protesting University, I saw groups of young Law professor Hafidha Chékir of followed. The new president formed femicide/disappearances of women, Tunisian anarchists and others wav- Femmes Démocrates described how a coalition government, and 28 and representatives of ATTAC (an ing communist flags; I met women Tunisian feminists were working percent of the constituent assembly international group calling for a tax members of the main trade union for parité and for consistency with is female. on financial speculation). and members of the constituent all international conventions. The Still, Tunisian society appears to Ahlem Belhaj, president of assembly; I attended a workshop Islamists in the constituent assembly be polarized and divided between Femmes Démocrates, speaking in on secularism in the Maghreb that may have agreed to withdraw their Islamists and secularists, with both Arabic and French, cited the openly discussed the right of people insistence on a reference to Sharia divergent political, economic, and feminization of poverty, violence to change or discard religion as well as a source of legislation and settle cultural goals. At the center of the against women, and “an economic as practice it. There, one speaker said for “the fundamentals of Islam”, she debates lie issues of the place of system that exploits women and that “we need to be mindful of what said. But the problem was that in religion in public and political life men” as the main challenges facing kind of secular state we want. What the fundamentals of Islam, a family as well as gender relations. After the world’s women. She called for we should strive for is a state of its may be polygamous and there is no a lengthy trial that gripped the international solidarity to end these citizens that guarantees the universal equality in divorce. Interestingly, nation, a Dean at the University of realities. Turning to the “complex and fundamental rights of citizens she said that “the Islamists want Manouba, was acquitted of charges situation” in Tunisia, she referred to to life, health, schooling, expression, a reference to egalité des chances that he slapped an Islamist woman “a war against women in the form of equality.” [equal opportunity], but this is not in niqab (veil) when she and a friend violence in the public space and in Everywhere, Tunisian feminism the same as real equality.” entered his officer, “ransacked” it, political space.” Belhaj reminded the was vocal and visible. At one informal The WSF was an eye-opener for and demanded the right to attend audience that the Islamists in the group discussion, one woman said international participants previ- class fully covered, which he constituent assembly had tried to “I cannot understand the Western ously unaware of Tunisian—and the considered inappropriate. Also, the replace the constitution’s language fascination with Islamist parties or Maghrebian region—social move- assassination of the noted lawyer of equality between the sexes with moderate Islam; the agenda is the ments and coalitions. Sociologist and secular political figure Chokri “complementarity,” but “we insisted monopolization of political power Rose Brewer: “I was moved by the Belaid—attributed to radical salafists on equality, and we won.” Women and the fusion of religion and spirit of young radical Tunisian who emerged seemingly from were determined to struggle for politics.” At a Femmes Démocrates women. They are incredibly com- nowhere—was a shocking display of equality and constitutionalism, she workshop on violence against mitted to gender justice and social violence. said, adding that they were “well women, speakers demanded an end transformation. To share space and An Open Space for Democracy mobilized to confront the counter- to polygamy and unequal inheritance time with them was powerful.” For It was in this context of politi- revolution.” She ended saying that as well as constitutional guarantees of the Tunisians intent on building a cal and cultural contestation that the presence of so many people at equality and freedom from domes- new state based on economic, civil, the World Social Forum (WSF) the WSF from across the globe “is tic violence. A woman from the and political rights, the WSF was an took place in Tunis, convening at an enormous resource for us” but Association Démocratique des Femmes important demonstration of inter- the University of Tunis, el-Manal emphasized that “la lutte [struggle] du Maroc spoke of the Springtime national support. To this observer, campus. The local organizing com- continue.” of Dignity campaign to reform the Tunisia is an incubator for the redef- penal code in favor of women’s bodily inition of democracy and equality, mittee included the longstanding Feminists and Activists feminist groups Femmes Démocrates integrity. An Algerian feminist lawyer accompanied by issues of the role of I have been to Tunisia on research and AFTURD along with several explained how “during the years of the university, free speech, religious trips or to attend policy confer- newer groups formed after January terrorism, women were always the freedom, academic freedom, and ences many times, and I know 2011, the large trade union UGTT, defenders of the Republic, and we the rights of women.
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ESOPS facilitate ownership transfer. from Page 3 Vermonters may do co-ops bet- 2013-2014 Regional and Aligned ter than anyone else in the United Mondragon, Evergreen started up States—from community supported Sociology Meetings employee-owned, “green” co-ops to agriculture farms to credit unions Fall 2013 Pacific Sociological Association supply larger, “anchor” institutions, to energy, food, and worker coops, March 27-30, 2014 and help them reduce their carbon Association for Applied and Clinical community land trusts, and the Portland, OR footprint, while enabling wealth to Sociology nation’s first single-payer health care President: Valerie Jenness accumulate in the community. October 3-5, 2013 system. The Champlain Housing www.pacificsoc.org Evergreen employees are Trust, for example, is the largest Portland, OR recruited from surrounding community-land trust in the coun- President: Tina Quartaroli Southern Sociological Society neighborhoods, and many of them try, winning the prestigious United www.aacsnet.net April 2-5, 2014 receive technical training. After a Charlotte, NC Nations World Habitat Award in Mid-South Sociological brief period, they are offered shares President: Leslie Hossfeld 2008 for its innovative, sustainable Association in the business. Since many cannot www.southernsociologicalsociety.org programs. October 23-26, 2013 afford the initial fee, they’re given It has become common knowledge Atlanta, GA Midwest Sociological Society raises to a living wage, and a small that capital is the ultimate conduit of President: Earl Wright II April 3-6, 2014 deduction is taken from their pay power. With 1 percent owning almost President-Elect: Timothy B. Omaha, NE until they reach the buy-in amount. 40 percent of our wealth (and steep Gongaware President: Barbara Keating All that, plus they are invited to declines in trade unionism), worker www.midsouthsoc.org www.themss.org participate on committees that steer ownership in productive enterprises the course of the company. marks an important step in revers- Spring 2014 North Central Sociological The state of Vermont too has ing the tide of social inequality in Association made excellent strides in advanc- our nation. More importantly, they Sociologists for Women in Society April 10-13, 2014 ing worker-run enterprise. A are a crucial means for empowering February 6-9, 2014 Cincinnati, OH non-profit organization called the everyday people and their communi- Nashville, TN President: Lissa Yogan Vermont Employee Ownership ties to take stock in the worlds they President: Bandana Purkayastha www.ncsanet.org Center facilitates companies’ moves are building. If they are the ones who www.socwomen.org Southwestern Social Science to ownership, and Senator Bernie are building that, shouldn’t they own Eastern Sociological Society Association Sanders has introduced bills in at least some of it too? February 20-23, 2014 Congress to create a parallel office at April 17-19, 2014 Heather Gautney, the 2012-13 ASA Baltimore, MD the Department of Labor. He’s also San Antonio, TX Congressional Fellow, is working in the President: Marjorie DeVault President: Tahany Naggar introduced legislation to establish a office of Sen. Bernard Sanders (D-VT). www.essnet.org U.S. Employee Ownership Bank to www.sssaonline.org.
Annual Meeting National Journal, Inside Higher Ed, are in the process of developing a post the call for papers on its web- from Page 4 The Chronicle of Higher Education, dynamic program centered around site (www.asanet.org) on October LiveScience.com, and many others. the theme, “Hard Times: The 30 and will launch the online paper Affairs and Public Information Other examples of international Impact of Economic Inequality on submission tool on December 6. Department oversaw the produc- media outlets that reported on Families and Individuals.” ASA will See you in San Francisco! tion and distribution of 22 press research from the Annual Meeting releases—up from 14 in 2012— included England’s Daily Mail, The aimed at strengthening sociologists’ about a wide range of research that Guardian, Daily Express, and The Lareau facility at sharing their research with sociologists presented at the Annual Independent; India’s The Indian from Page 8 the public, and she is planning to Meeting. During the meeting, the Express, Hindustan Times, and The conversation among colleagues and make relevant tools and guidelines Department also responded to Times of India; Canada’s The Globe grad students. She loves to entertain available on the ASA website. These dozens of media inquiries. and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, and CTV and also likes to garden, read novels, efforts reflect her aspiration to give Additional U.S. media outlets News; Australia’s The Australian and attend baseball games, theater, Americans “an awareness of social that reported on Annual Meeting and The Sydney Morning Herald, and—influenced by her husband, class in daily life” and a language for research included: the Wall Street France’s Agence France-Presse; and the political philosopher Samuel R. discussing it. “We have an aware- Journal, the Washington Post, many more. Freeman—the opera. USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, As is evident from her highly ness of race, we have an awareness Looking Ahead NBCNews.com, NPR’s All Things readable books, Annette is com- of gender,” she says, but Americans Considered, The New Republic, While the 2013 Annual Meeting mitted to making the insights of find it hard to recognize what the the New York Post, Politico, The wrapped up only a few weeks ago, the discipline accessible to a broad empirical research shows: that in Atlantic, Huffington Post, Scientific planning for the 2014 meeting, audience. She wants to make sure many ways social class is more American, Men’s Health, the Atlanta August 16-19 in San Francisco, is that ASA stays current with new powerful. It is hardly surprising Journal-Constitution, The Week, already well under way. Annette forms of media and also hopes to that she has chosen “Hard Times: the San Jose Mercury News, the Lareau, who officially succeeded increase ASA members’ skills and The Impact of Economic Inequality on Families and Individuals” as the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, U.S. Cecilia Ridgeway as ASA President confidence for participation in News and World Report, Newsday, at the end of the 2013 meeting, public debate. The 2014 conference theme for the San Francisco confer- Education Week, Science News, and the 2014 Program Committee will include a series of workshops ence.
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pplications are invited for the helpful to the discipline’s teachers. to clarify any issues raised in the that you would like/plan to include Aeditorships of Contemporary Articles range from experimental deliberations. A list (which may be on the larger editorial board. Sociology, Contexts, Social Psychology studies of teaching and learning to ranked or unranked) will be for- Contacting potential editorial Quarterly, and Teaching Sociology. broad, synthetic essays on peda- warded to ASA Council for review board members can be a time-con- The official terms for the new -edi gogically important issues. Notes in early 2014. Council appoints the suming task that should be done tors (or co-editors) will commence in focus on specific teaching issues or editors. The chosen editors are con- only after an editor is selected. January 2015 (the editorial transi- techniques. The general intent is tacted by the ASA Secretary. 4. 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JHSB the Department of Community ies, which have been conducted would hopefully make the journal’s from Page 1 Health Sciences in the Fielding in the United States, Japan, and findings more accessible to young School of Public Health. Along with the Philippines, have earned persons, including high school and and death certificates highlights the others, Reeder was a founding mem- him a Merit Award from the undergraduate students. central role of racial stratification in ber of the American Sociological National Institutes of Health Gee also hopes to follow up on U.S. society. This variation in time Association’s Medical Sociology and two Scientific and Technical the work of prior editors by pro- and exposure can contribute to Section, and a key contributor to the Achievement awards from the U.S. moting the journal at conferences, racial inequities in life expectancy development of JHSB. Environmental Protection Agency. in newsletters, and email lists to and other health outcomes across Gee’s intellectual connections encourage researchers from other The Move to UCLA the life course and over generations.” to these leaders began at Oberlin disciplines to submit to the journal. It is this research focus, heavily College, his alma mater, where he Now, with Gee at the helm, JHSB, This promotion of the journal would drawing from medical sociology learned to merge social activism which was most recently housed be enhanced at UCLA via the large that has naturally led him to the with science. “I didn’t realize it at at the University of Texas-Austin, networks of medical sociologists on JHSB, first as contributor, then as a the time,” mused Gee, “but Oberlin moves to UCLA. Gee hopes to build campus as well as the large numbers deputy editor, and now editor. really helped me understand that on the legacy of the journal’s prior of behavioral scientists within the editors and further strengthen an An Intellectual Foundation we can learn about social inequality Fielding School of Public Health. through the ink of poets, the voices already excellent journal that has In addition, Gee hopes to Gee comes to the role of JHSB of our families, as well as through served as the focal point for medical enhance the journal’s website to Editor with a series of intellectual numbers on a table.” He received sociology research for over 50 years. include all articles, or at least cita- and institutional affiliations that link his doctorate in the Department of For one, he hopes to build on the tions, from the journal’s illustrious him to some of the central scholars Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins social media successes prior editor history over more than half a cen- in medical sociology. Among those University, and then completed Debra Umberson established— tury. This may include periodically are Sol Levine, founding chairman a postdoctoral fellowship in the Facebook, Twitter, and podcasts—by featuring a classic study that had a of the Department of Behavioral Department of Sociology at Indiana adding a moderated blog to promote major impact on the field. Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where the faculty included a dialogue about JHSB content. In “I am coming aboard at a time University who wrote or edited “not only some of the smartest, but addition to showcasing outstanding when the journal is in great shape more than 10 books and 100 articles also genuinely nicest people around.” articles, the blog would pose a “ques- and enormously influential,” examining the relationship between Having been trained in the depart- tion for the field,” asking readers for says Gee, “and just generally in a health and social behavior. Another ment Levine Chaired, he now works topics they would like to see covered very good place. It’s a humbling example is Leo Reeder, who was a in the one Reeder founded. in the journal, and promoting experience to take this on, and I UCLA Professor of Sociology and Gee is also a faculty associate debate to extend the field beyond intend to do everything possible to Public Health, and helped establish in the UCLA Center for Health the limited means of letters and strengthen and continue its storied the Behavioral Sciences Unit, now Policy Research, and his stud- rejoinders. The use of social media tradition.”
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ecently, I served on a com- be violating pertaining to sexual to attend class due to childbirth syllabi. Yet this does not tackle Rmittee where staff members harassment, sexual violence, and or complications of labor and the Title IX concerns found in of the committee wanted to pregnant and parenting students. delivery (www2.ed.gov/about/ some of the Dear Colleague let- ask admin- The 2011 U.S. offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague- ters. Our educational institutions istrator Department of 201306-title-ix.pdf). In one recent should be more proactive in mak- candidates Education Office case, a pregnant student was ing sure we are all doing the right if they had of Civil Rights advised by her doctor to have an thing by sharing these documents heard about Dear Colleague emergency caesarean section. The with us on a regular basis. For the “Dear letter addresses student notified her professors of instance, our attendance poli- Colleague” broadly sexual this situation, yet they were reluc- cies should not be in violation letter. I was harassment and tant to provide her with proper of federal laws. As important, confused. sexual violence on accommodations and instructed faculty must be included in the What was this important letter college and university campuses her to return to classes, withdraw, conversations that take place on that seemed to be of critical as well as in high schools and or suffer a penalty (Ingeno 2013). these issues with their campus importance? When I mentioned outlines the Title IX protections In an email exchange between the administrators. After all, we all this document to workshop that are found in programs and student and one of her professors, share an interest in the health and attendees and co-presenters at activities in these institutions. This the student was told to review the wellbeing of our students. the ASA annual meeting, I was document is available at
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Conferences topics: Gender Roles; Inequality in a Richard Arum, New York Univer- Global Community, and Leadership; Funding sity, and Josipa Roksa, University of The Center for Human Rights and American Philosophical Society Global Justice (CHR&GJ) Confer- Morality, Power Relations; Relative De- Virginia, were mentioned in a June 12 privation, Entitlement, and Perceptions offers Society Grants and Fellowships. Forbes article, “Don’t Buy The Hype, Col- ence, November 1-2, 2013, New York This includes the APS/British Academy City, Theme:” International Human of Fairness; Sexism, Racism and Age- lege Education Is not an Investment.” ism; Social Exchange and Trust; Social Fellowship for Research in London, Rights Fact-Finding in the Twenty-First Institute for Advanced Studies in the Robert Bellah, University of California- Century.” CHR&GJ is accepting paper Identities; Social Interaction; Social Berkeley, was mentioned in a July 5 Justice; Social Psychology and Culture; Humanities (IASH), and new programs. proposals for original scholarship to be Applicants not selected for either Washington Post article, “Pope Francis’ presented at the conference For more Well-Being and Life Satisfaction; Work Saintly Politics.” Values, Norms and Perceptions. Dead- program will be considered for the information visit,
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Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers University, Penn State, were mentioned in a May to maintain contact and visit their Huffington Post article, “Rachel Jentel, wrote a May 5 New York Times article, 10 article in the New York Times. The ar- parents. Trayvon Martin’s Friend, May Have “How Social Networks Drive Black ticle, “Too Much Helicopter Parenting,” James Loewen, University of Vermont, Helped and Hurt.” Unemployment.” discusses American over-parenting. was mentioned in a July 20 Salon Helen Rizzo, American University in Yanyi Djamba, Auburn University at Laura Hamilton, University of Califor- article, “Snob Zones: Fear, Money and Cairo, was quoted in a June 23 USA Montgomery, and Pepper Schwartz, nia-Merced, was interviewed in June 28 Real Estate.” Today article, “Egypt Women Rising Up University of Washington, were quoted Forbes article, “Could Covering College Jamie Longazel, University of Dayton, Against Sexual Harassment.” in a July 3 New York Daily News article, for Your Kids Be a Bad Thing?” wrote a July 18 CNBC article, “The Im- John Robinson, University of “Cheating Wives Narrowing the Infidel- Kevan Harris, Princeton University, morality of US Immigration.” Maryland-College Park, was quoted in ity Gap.” was quoted in a July 23 Inter Press Judy Lubin, Howard University, wrote a July 12 Pittsburgh Post Gazette article, Kathryn Edin, Harvard University, and Service article, “Rouhani Faces Tests at a July 23 Huffington Post article, “Presi- “Even Decades Later, Americans are Luke Shaefer, University of Michigan, Home and Abroad.” dent Obama, Trayvon Martin and the Still Sedentary.” were quoted in a May 13 Washington Douglas Hartmann, University of Min- Souls of Black Folk.” Rubén Rumbaut, University of Califor- Post article, “Millions of Americans nesota, was quoted in a July 18 Kansas nia-Irvine, wrote a letter featured in a Live in Extreme Poverty. Here’s How Helen B. Marrow, Tufts University, and City Star article, “Yes, Virginia, There Tomás R. Jiménez, Stanford University, July 20 New York Times article, “Sunday They Get By,” in which they discussed Really is a Lake Wobegon.” Dialogue-The Meaning of Race.” poverty in the United States. wrote and Frank Bean, University of Matthew Hayes, St. Thomas University, California-Irvine, was mentioned in a Lauren Sardi, Quinnipiac University, Kathryn Edin, Harvard University, was mentioned in a July 29 Huffington July 2 Los Angeles Times article, “Mexi- was quoted in a July 27 New Haven was mentioned in a June 15 Houston Post Canada article, “Are We Paying can American Mobility.” Register article, “Hate Groups Try Chronicle article, “Wanted: Strong Enough Attention to Municipal Politics.” Newer Tactics in Bid for Connecticut Families.” Douglas Massey, Princeton University, Kieran Healy, Duke University, was was quoted in a July 22 Denver Post Members.” Anita Engels, University of Hamburg, quoted in a July 28 News & Observer article, “Auto Troubles, Race at Root of Matt Salganik, Princeton University, was quoted in a July 23 Deutsche Welle article, “Triangle Researchers Work to Detroit’s Collapse.” was mentioned in a June 17 Atlantic article, “Protecting the Climate Across Make Science, Other Data Accessible.” article, “The Tyranny of Most-Popular Generations.” Ruth Milkman, CUNY Graduate Center, Tom Hochschild, Valdosta State Uni- was quoted in a July 20 New York Lists.” Paula England, New York University, versity, was quoted in a May 23 article Times article, “Being Legal Doesn’t End Matthew Sanderson, Kansas State Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University in Melbourne, Australia’s Herald Sun Pover ty.” University, was quoted in a July 7 of Michigan-Ann Arbor, were quoted, on the social benefits associated with Beth Montemurro, Pennsylvania State Merced Sun-Star article, “Immigration: and Laura Hamilton, University of living on cul-de-sac streets. Great Divider?” California-Merced, was mentioned in a University-Abington, was quoted in a July 14 New York Times article, “Sex on Kathleen Hull, University of Minneso- July 20 BBC News article, “Where Did Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, Campus-She Can Play That Game, Too.” ta, was quoted in a June 26 USA Today the Hen Party Explosion Come From.” was quoted in a June 23 New Zealand article, “How Will Same-Sex Marriage Herald article, “How Mass Protests Nancy Foner, Hunter College, was David Nibert, Wittenberg University, Rulings Affect Children?” wrote a June 25 New York Times opin- Around the Globe Have Become the mentioned in a June 29 New York Times ‘New Social Network.’” Bookshelf review. Ellen Idler, Emory University, and Julie ion, “A Sustainable Diet.” Phillips, Rutgers University, were men- Aaron Pallas, Columbia Univer- Barbara Schneider, Michigan State Adrianne Frech, University of Akron, tioned in a May 4 Washington Times University, and Richard Settersten, Kristi Williams, The Ohio State Uni- sity, was quoted in a July 20 Daytona article, “Suicide-Remarkable Rising Beach News-Journal article, “What’s Oregon State University, wrote a July versity, Sheela Kennedy, University Trends in Baby Boomers.” 16 Inside Higher Education, “Now What?” of Minnesota, Frank Furstenberg, in a Grade? Plenty for Volusia, Flagler University of Pennsylvania, and Sharon Lane Kenworthy, University of Schools” Christopher Schneider, University of Sassler, Cornell University, were men- Arizona, was quoted in a July 21 Fort Andrew Papachristos, Yale University, British Columbia, was quoted in a July tioned in a May 25 article in the New Wayne Journal Gazette, “Views Across was mentioned in a July 20 Chicago 15 Edmonton Journal article, “Glee Star’s York Times, “When Numbers Mislead.” Generations.” Tribune article, “West Side Police Com- Death a ‘Teaching’ Opportunity.” Roger Friedland, University of Jeffrey Kidder, Northern Illinois Uni- mander to go Door to Door Warning David R. Segal, University of Maryland, California-Santa Barbara, co-wrote versity, was quoted in a July 20 Chicago Gangbangers.” was quoted in a July 28 Associated a Room for Debate New York Times Sun-Times article, “Bike Messenger Lori Peek, Colorado State University, Press article, “Air Force Asks Students to article, “Democratic Yearnings Unmet” Embraces a Race-Y Way of Life.” was mentioned in a July 22 Huffington Solve Real-World Problems.” The article on young Iranians preference for Michael Kimmel, Stony Brook Uni- Post article, “Where Is Islamophobia was also published in the Philadelphia Democracy. versity, wrote a July 16 New York Times Heading in the U.S.” Inquirer and Newsday. Ana Maria Garcia, Arcadia University, article, “Fired for Being Beautiful.” Michael Pollard and Kathleen Mullan Saher Selod, Simmons College, was was mentioned and quoted in a June Peter Klein, Brown University, was Harris, both of the RAND Corporation, quoted and Lori Peek, Colorado State 24 Philadelphia Inquirer article, “At quoted in a July 20 Christian Science were mentioned in a July 8 Atlantic University, and Charles Kurzman, Abington Meeting, Lesbian Couple to Monitor article, “In Building the World’s article, “Men and Women Often Expect University of North Carolina, were Marr y.” Third-Largest Dam, Brazil Aims to Build Different Things When They Move mentioned in a July 19 Financial Good Social Practices.” in Together.” The research was also Times article, “Growing Up Muslim in Rebecca Glauber, University of New America.” Hampshire, was quoted in a July 24 Eric Klinenberg, New York University, covered by the Wall Street Journal and Business News Daily article, “Part-time was the subject of a July 22 article Huffington Post. Gwen Sharp, Nevada State College, Worker Lament: What Recovery?” by ABC News Sacramento titled, “NY Brian Powell, Indiana University, was wrote a June 17 Huffington Post article, Professor Suggests Regulating Air Con- quoted and Hui Liu, Michigan State Uni- “Victorian Breastfeeding Photo Fad: George Gonos, State University New Shifting Discourses of Motherhood.” York-Potsdam, was mentioned in a July dition to Cool Global Warming.” versity, was mentioned in a June 26 Live 5 Financial Post article, “How the Temp Rahim Kurwa, University of California- Science article, “The American Family: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke Univer- Workers Who power America’s Corpo- Los Angeles, co-wrote a July 19 San How Gay Marriage Ruling Will Change sity, was quoted in a July 4 Salon article, rate Giants are Getting Crushed.” Jose Mercury News article, “Muslim UC Our Views.” The article was later featured “Don’t Call it ‘Independence Day.’” by Yahoo! News and NBC News. Justin Goodman, Marymount Univer- Regent: Sadia Saifuddin’s Confirmation Stephanie Slates, Johns Hopkins sity, was quoted in a July 23 Calgary is Heartening.” Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University, University, was mentioned in a July 1 Herald article, “Military Uses Thousands Zai Liang, University at Albany-SUNY, wrote a July 10 Politico article, “Political Time magazine article, “Reading Books of Live Animals Every Year for Training, was quoted in a July 21 issue of World Science Research Offers Better Democ- Can Reverse Summer Slide in Children’s Testing.” Journal Magazine that highlighted rac y.” Literacy Skills.” Laura T. Hamilton, University of Cali- a new law in China that legalized Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland- Sarah Sobieraj, Tufts University, was fornia-Merced, and Michael J. Parks, children’s responsibilities/obligations College Park, was quoted in a June 30 quoted in a June 24 Christian Science
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Monitor article, “Snowden Saga in American Political Science Association through Photographs (Temple Press Overdrive after Flight to Russia.” Awards (the Luebbert Award for Best Article University, 2013). Ryan Ceresola, Southern Illinois in Comparative Politics, Best Article Rodney Stark, Baylor University, wrote University-Carbondale, and Laura Mary Ellen Konieczny, University of a July 4 Wall Street Journal article, “The in Comparative Democratization, Notre Dame, The Spirit’s Tether: Family, Backstrom, Indiana University, shared and runner up for the Wallerstein Myth of Unreligious America.” second place in the Graduate Paper Work and Religion Among American Award for Best Published Article in Catholics (Oxford University Press, 2013). Teresa Swartz, University of Minneso- Competition from the Midwestern Political Economy) and one from the ta-Twin Cities, was quoted in a July 12 Sociological Society for “Doing Poor American Sociological Association Douglas S. Massey, Princeton Uni- Minneapolis Star Tribune article, “More in AmeriCorps: How National Service (Distinguished Article in the Sociology versity, Len Albright, Northeastern Parents are Keeping Their Kids on the Members Deal with Living below the of Religion). University, Rebecca Casciano, Eliza- Family Phone Plan.” Poverty Line” and “Resocialization beth Derickson, and David N. Kensey, at a Children’s Weight Loss Camp,” Lisa Martino-Taylor, St. Louis Commu- all of Princeton University, Climbing respectively. Transitions nity College, was quoted in a CBS St. Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Afford- Elaine Draper, California State able Housing and Social Mobility in an Louis article, “Poor St. Louis Minorities Arnold Dashefsky, University of University-Los Angeles, was promoted Targeted for Secret Cold War Chemical Connecticut, was the first academic American Suburb (Princeton University to Professor of Sociology at California Press, 2013). Testing.” to receive the Berman Service Award State University-Los Angeles. for 2012 from the Association for the Stefan Timmermans, University of Beverly Mizrachi, Ashkelon Academic Social Scientific Study of Jewry. Jennifer C. Lena, Barnard College, has College, Israel, Paths to Middle-Class California-Los Angeles, wrote a July accepted an offer from Teacher’s Col- 19 Los Angeles Times article, “Genetic Elaine Draper, California State Univer- Mobility among Second-Generation lege, Columbia University as Associate Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel Screening: Every Newborn Is a Patient.” sity-Los Angeles (CSULA), received the Professor of Arts Administration, with NSS Outstanding Faculty Achieve- (Wayne State University Press, 2013). Zeynap Tufecki, University of North an Affiliated Faculty position in the ment Award from CSULA’s Associated Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in a Department of Sociology. Damon J. Phillips, Columbia Univer- Students and College of Natural and June 17 NBC Bay Area article, “Users Do sity, Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and Social Sciences. Daniel Monroe Sullivan has been the Global Emergence of an Art Form a lot for Facebook Likes.” promoted to Full Professor at Portland Mark Granovetter, Stanford Univer- (Princeton University Press, 2013). France Winddance Twine, University State University. sity, is the recipient of the 2013 Everett of California-Santa Barbara, wrote a Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh, M. Rogers Award from the University of David T. Takeuchi, University of Wash- July 29 opinion in Aljazeera, “Killing the and Ernesto Verdeja, University of Southern California Annenberg School ington, will join Boston College Gradu- Black Male Body.” Notre Dame, Eds. Globalization, Social for Communication and Journalism. ate School of Social Work fall 2013 as Movements and Peacebuilding (Syra- Debra Umberson, University of Texas- Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Beverly Lindsay, Pennsylvania cuse University Press, 2013). Austin, and Susan Brown, Bowling and Dorothy Book Scholar. State University, has been awarded a Green State University, were quoted Helmut Staubmann, University of Fulbright Fellowship to Indonesia at in June 15 CBS News article, “Are two Innsbruck, Ed., The Rolling Stones: the University of Lampung-Lampung People dads better than one.” Sociological Perspectives (Lexington Province and the Ministry of Education- Penelope Canan, University of Central Books, 2013). Janet Vertesi, Princeton University, Jakarta for fall 2013. Her fellowship Florida (UCF), who taught Environ- Karen G. Weiss, West Virginia Univer- was quoted in a July 17 USA Today focuses on university research and mental Sociology at UCF, retired this sity, Party School: Crime, Campus and article, “Bands Ask Fans to Limit Cell policy development in education and past December. She was awarded the Community (Northeastern University Phone Use, Concertgoers Torn.” social sciences. Professor Emerita status. Press, 2013). Lisa Wade, Occidental College, and Robert Michael Kunovich, University Jane Joann Jones, Ursinus College, Isidor Wallimann Ed., Syracuse Univer- Gwen Sharp, Nevada State College, of Texas-Arlington, was elected to was named a 2013 ACLS Public Fellows sity, Environmental Policy Is Social Policy wrote an article about recent college membership in the Academy of Distin- and will be assigned to BronxWorks. - Social Policy Is Environmental Policy: graduates in a May 24 Huffington Post guished Teachers at the University of Toward Sustainability Policy (Springer blog, “Advice for College Grads From Texas-Arlington in April 2013. Two Sociologists.” New Books 2013). Sheri Kunovich, Southern Methodist William V. D’Antonio, Catholic Univer- Owen Whooley, University of New Bruce Western, Harvard University, University, was awarded the Altshuler sity, Steven A. Tuch, George Washing- Mexico, Knowledge in the Time of and Jake Rosenfeld, University of Distinguished Teaching Professor ton University, Josiah R. Baker, George Cholera: The Struggle over American Washington, were mentioned in a July Award from Southern Methodist Mason University, Religion, Politics, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century 24 article in The Atlantic, “Are Shrinking University Polarization: How Religiopolitical Con- Unions Making Workers Poorer?” (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, flict Is Changing Congress and American Adia Harvey Wingfield, Georgia State Bruce Western, Harvard Univer- received the 2013 Mirra Komarovsky Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield University, No More Invisible Man: Race sity, Christopher Wildeman, Yale Book Award from the Eastern Socio- Publishers, 2013). and Gender in Men’s Work (Temple University, Megan Comfort, RTI logical Society for her monograph Body Arnold Dashefsky, University of Con- University Press, 2013). International, Robert DeFina and and Soul: The Black Panther Party and necticut, and Ira Sheskin, University of Lance Hannon, both of Villanova the Fight against Medical Discrimination Miami, Eds., American Jewish Year Book, Robert Wuthnow, Princeton Univer- University, Raymond V. Liedka, (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Vol. 113 (Springer, 2013). sity, Small-Town America: Finding Com- Oakland University, and Becky Pet- munity, Shaping the Future (Princeton Peter Parilla, University of St. Thomas, tit, The University of Washington, Robert J. Durán, New Mexico State University Press, 2013). and Diane Pike, Augsburg College, were all quoted in a February 18 University, Gang Life in Two Cities: An received the Presidential Award from Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Hebrew article in the New York Times article. Insider’s Journey (Columbia University the Midwestern Sociological Society. Press, 2013). University, Atrocity, Deviance, and “Prison and the Poverty Trap,” which Submarine Warfare: Norms and Practices Jessi Streib, University of Michigan, highlighted issues of the U.S. penal Susan J. Ferguson, Grinnell College, during the World Wars (University of won first prize in the Graduate Paper system and the problems that follow Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Michigan Press, 2013). incarceration. Competition from the Midwest- Class: Dimensions of Inequality (Sage, ern Sociological Society for “How Janelle Wilson, University of Minneso- 2013). Appreciation Crosses Class Lines: Other ta, was mentioned in a July 22 Windsor Cultural Complements and the Case of Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal, Texas A&M Star article, “The Beatles Showed Us the Different-Origin Marriages.” University, Migration-Trust Networks: Organizations Way to Get Back Home.” Social Cohesion in Mexican U.S.-Bound The U.S. Department of Health and Robert D. Woodberry, National Kassia Wosock, University of New Emigration (Texas A&M University Human Services’ Office for Human University of Singapore, received four Mexico, was mentioned in a July 24 Press, 2013). Research Protections (OHRP) will outstanding article awards for “The CNBC article, “No Porn Please, We’re host an OHRP Research Community Missionary Roots of Liberal Democra- Elaine Bell Kaplan, University of British.” Forum (RCF) in Nashville, TN with Van- cy” published in the American Political Southern California, We Live in the derbilt University in partnership with Science Review. Three were from the Shadow: Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories
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Meharry Medical College and St. Jude Berkeley and winner of the National are firmly rooted in context, an Greeley viewed religion as starting out Children’s Research Hospital. The OHRP Humanities Medal in 2000, died July important concept in his sociological in pre-cognition with images, symbols, RCF will be a two-day event focused 30. approach. For this reason, the choices and stories. He formalized these ideas on the regulatory and ethical issues Fred H. Goldner, Professor Emeritus of a socially embedded actor are not in Religion as Poetry and Religion: A for protecting human subjects. The of Sociology at Queens College, CUNY, optimal, nor always satisfying. Secular Theory, but you get more of the theme for the conference is “Innova- died at the age of 86 on August 19 Boudon proposed interpretative pre-cognitive feel when reading his tive Strategies: Taking the Protection after a three-year battle with cancer. schemas for social phenomena, inventory of fleshed out instances in of Human Subjects to the Next Level.” such as social mobility and the The Catholic Imagination and God in the Contact: Wendy Lloyd at (615) 322- William Gray, former Congressman inequality of education, and he build Movies. Interestingly enough he turned 2918, [email protected]. For and United Negro College Fund Presi- indispensable models to explain out to be proof of his own pudding more information, visit
footnotes • September/October 2013 17 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org announcements and redemption (and concoct myster- questions and addressing them with as a captain in the Secretariat of the Will Shoot Them from My Loving Heart ies). But his fiction served sociology the best data. The person, the calling, General Staff until August of 1958. (McFarland, 2012). The book describes too. He subsidized religion questions the research, the fiction, and the col- Hurh was selected through a compet- his wartime experiences while explor- in the General Social Survey (GSS) , leagueship formed a seamless web. He itive exam to receive a scholarship for ing the psychological trauma and the some of which have migrated into even conducted marriage ceremonies study in the United States. He received absurdity of war. War taught him to the GSS core. He bankrolled Ireland’s for several sociologists—Catholic and a BA in economics from Monmouth respect life, and his scholarship reveals participation in the International Social not. College, IL, and a PhD in sociology and his commitment to peace and cross- Survey Programme (the global GSS) Andrew Greeley was religiously ethnology at the University of Heidel- cultural understanding. until conventional grant support was committed in a secular discipline, yet berg, Germany, in 1965. He started Hurh married his wife, Gloria secured. He endowed a chair in Catho- most famous for criticizing the church his professional career at Monmouth Goodwin, in 1963, at a time when lic studies at the University of Chicago. that ordained him. He was a perpetual College in Illinois in 1965, moved on mixed-race marriages were rare and In smaller increments, he supported outsider who many insiders envied. In to Trinity College in Texas, and then to often unsuccessful. Their love and several young scholars with mini grants the terms of his generation, he was a Western Illinois University, where he commitment to each other lasted and to help revise their dissertations for “personality.” To us he was a truly amaz- taught and conducted research for remained strong. He is survived by his publication. ing guy. How we miss him. 29 years, becoming one of America’s wife and three children. Greeley earned his PhD in sociology leading scholars of Korean-American Michael Hout, New York University, and Written by the family of Won Moo Hurh at the University of Chicago in 1962. immigration. He was the principal co- Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona in consultation with Pyong Gap Min He was a researcher with various titles investigator (along with Kwang Chung at NORC from then until his accident Kim) for two significant surveys on in November 2008. He was a faculty Won Moo Hurh Korean immigrants funded by the Na- Bernard Dov Lazerwitz member at the University of Chicago 1932-2013 tional Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1926-2012 from 1962-1973 and again from 1996 Won Moo Hurh, an early pioneer of and the recipient of many awards from Bernard Lazerwitz was the epitome until 2008, at the University of Illinois Korean-American studies and Professor Western Illinois University. Hurh was of a professional social scientist from Chicago in the mid-1970s, and at the Emeritus at Western Illinois University, fluent in reading, writing, and speaking the days of his undergraduate train- University of Arizona from 1977-2008. died April 12, 2013, at St. John’s Hospi- four languages: Korean, English, Ger- ing in the 1950s in the United States At Arizona and Chicago, he was tal in Springfield, IL, of complications man, and Japanese. to his passing in 2012 in Israel. His an immensely popular teacher. His from heart bypass surgery. In the course of his career, Hurh pub- undergraduate training at Washington favorite course was “God in the Mov- Hurh was best known for his research lished five single-authored books and University (St. Louis) was in sociology ies,” which he gave at the University on Korean-American immigration and two co-authored books (with Kwang and mathematics. He later took an of Chicago and cotaught with Albert was among the first sociologists to Chung Kim) and numerous articles. MA from the University of Chicago in Bergesen at Arizona. It went like this: study Korean-American cultural adap- Pyong Gap Min, Distinguished Profes- sociology (where he studied with Louis About 120 chatty, noisy undergradu- tation and mental health during the sor of Sociology at Queens College Wirth) and a PhD from the University of ates assemble. House lights go down, post-1965 wave of Asian immigration. and the Graduate Center at the City Michigan-Ann Arbor, where he was Phi screen brightens, and all become quiet. Hurh also formulated a uniquely socio- University of New York, noted these Beta Kappa. They watch ordinary movies hand- logical account of human personality books as especially important: The Bernie’s methodological expertise picked, of course, for their rainforest through the application of a cross- Korean Americans (1998), Personality in was in the design of complex samples, of symbols and metaphors of God, cultural approach. Through his work Culture and Society (1997), and Korean interview schedule construction, the angels, and heaven. Greeley and on Korean immigration, cross-cultural Immigrants in America (1984). The last training and management of field Bergesen always told students they personality, and his often philosophi- book was co-authored with Kim and forces, and complex statistical analysis. were sociologists who took no position cal memoir, Hurh sought to promote was based on results of a major NIMH Substantively, he was involved in the on the existence of God; they just global cultural understanding through survey. Min indicated that the three analysis of urban social structures, showed what was in the movies. Never sociological study. most widely cited articles co-authored neighborhood organizations, and the has one course so raised the level of Hurh was born in South Korea. His by Hurh and Kim are “The Success factors leading to involvement in urban abstract thinking among undergrads senior year in high school was inter- Image of Asian Americans: Its Validity, public affairs. His ethnic and religious as seeing Audrey Hepburn, Will Smith, rupted by the Korean War in 1950. He Practical and Theoretical Implications,” studies focused on the components and Jessica Lange as God metaphors. became an artillery officer in the South Ethnic and Racial Studies (1989), “Ad- and consequences of religiosity, and he (Guess the movies.) Korean army and served as a forward aptation Stages and Mental Health of made a major contribution in designing Over the years Andy listened, advised, observer on the front lines. After the Korean Male Immigrants in the United the survey schedule and developing and collaborated with both of us and cease-fire, he continued in the army States,” International Migration Review statistical analysis plans for the first Na- many others. He insisted on asking big (1990), and “Religious Participation tional Jewish Population Survey (NJPS), of Korean Immigrants in the United 1969–1971. His analyses of these data save the date States,” Journal for the Scientific Study appeared in such eminent journals as of Religion (1990). His last sociologi- the American Sociological Review and cal writing was the chapter “Korean the American Journal of Sociology. Immigrants,” published in Multicultural His prominence as the foremost America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest contributor to the design of the first Americans (2011). National Jewish Population Survey of Hurh was very critical of racism, 1970-71 led him to be the co-convener which had a strong effect on the ways of a meeting in 1970 at the ASA Annual he analyzed research issues in race Meeting of the American Sociological relations and Asian American studies. Association in Washington, DC, which Throughout his life, Hurh had a strong led to the formation of the Association sense of social justice. To illustrate this, for the Sociological Study of Jewry he could not continue his academic or ASSJ (now the Association for the position at Seoul National University Social Scientific Study of Jewry). He in 1969 because of his critical attitude was the primary author of a book com- towards the military dictatorship going paring the data from NJPS 1971 with on at that time. Min and Kim related those gathered in the second NJPS in having great respect for him and for his 1990 (Jewish Choices: American Jewish critical attitudes toward racial issues in Denominationalism, 1998). In addition the United States. to more than 15 book chapters and 50 In retirement, Hurh completed a articles in refereed journals, he was also the co-author of three other books: th project that had been his goal for 109 ASA Annual Meeting | August 16-19, 2014 | San Francisco, CA many years: a memoir of his experi- Charitable Choices: Philanthropic Deci- ences during the Korean War, titled I sions of Donors in the American Jewish
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Community (2009); Americans Abroad: that ranged across the social sciences. students who worked as volunteers Wahrman, after graduating from A Comparative Study of Emigrants from He was one among a highly select for the 1965 voter registration drives New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High the United States (1992); and Pathways group of American scholars during this of the Southern Christian Leadership School, earned his bachelor of arts de- to Suicide: A Survey of Self-Destructive era to publish articles in the top profes- Conference. Using evidence from a gree in sociology from Queens College, Behaviors (1981). sional journals of sociology, economics, novel blend of interviews, question- New York. He earned his master’s and Bernie was born in 1926. Shortly after political science, and psychology. All naires, diaries, and other documen- PhD from Michigan State University, completing his service in the United told, Marwell published more than 60 tary sources, Marwell examined what the latter in 1967, and immediately States Navy (at the end of WW II), he articles and book chapters. He also happened when the high idealism that joined the faculty of Bowling Green visited Israel for the first time in 1951. coauthored five influential books. originally inspired the student activists State University (BGSU). He married in 1956 and moved to A creative theorist and researcher, collided with the cold realities of local In 1970 he became the founder and Israel with his family in 1974. His initial Marwell conducted studies on topics community power in the South. He director of the BGSU small groups appointment in Israel was as Professor as varied as conflict in the U.S. House of documented the ways in this collision laboratory, after receiving a grant from of Sociology at Bar Ilan University, and Representatives, adolescent delinquen- pushed activists to adopt more radical the National Science Foundation. The he remained there until his retirement cy, parental child-rearing practices, views about community organization lab occupied an extensively remodeled in 1991. In addition to his considerable geographical obstacles to women’s and American politics. house on the university’s main campus. teaching load and research responsi- academic careers, and processes of Marwell was born in Brooklyn on Under his direction, the location and bilities, he also served as department religious secularization. February 12, 1937, the only child of facilities encouraged the involvement chair (1975-1978) and as the director of He cemented his stature with an Henry Hilton Marwell, who ran a local of faculty colleagues and introduced the university’s Institute for Commu- audacious series of studies on different business, and Pearl Berman Marwell, both undergraduate and graduate stu- nity Studies for many years. facets of the “problem of collective a history teacher. He earned a BS in dents to experimental social research. His many research grants funded action.” These studies culminated in engineering and business from the Although Wahrman had several studies of fertility trends in Israel two landmark co-authored books, Massachusetts Institute of Technology research interests, the core of his re- (1969); development of a detailed Cooperation: An Experimental Analysis in 1957. In 1959 he received his MA search activity was in small group model of religio-ethnic identification (1975) and The Critical Mass in Collective and in 1964 his PhD in sociology from behavior. It was his interest in how (1973); absorption and ethnic group Action (1993). New York University. His first teaching social perceptions can be biased by processes of United States migrants Motivating these studies were some position was as an instructor at NYU, differences in gender, age, and social to Israel (1974); urban renewal activity of the central questions of contempo- followed by a year as an instructor at status, resulting in the inequitable dis- in Tel Aviv (1980-3); trends in Jewish rary social life: under what conditions Bard College. tribution of social rewards, sanctions, identification (1983); and the impact of will individuals in a social group forgo In 1962, Marwell joined the sociology and influence that unifies this body urbanization on the public and private self-interest in favor of cooperation faculty of the University of Wisconsin- of work. Ralph published numerous spheres of life in Israel (1994). and other potentially costly courses of Madison, where he remained until articles resulting from this research Many colleagues expressed their con- action that benefit other members of his retirement in 2000. During his in a range of journals including Small cern and condolences to Bernie’s family the group? When will individuals who Wisconsin years, he combined his path- Groups Behavior, Sociometry (now during the course of his illness and fol- could obtain publically available ben- breaking program of research with Social Psychology Quarterly), and the lowing his passing. Those sentiments efits at no personal expense abstain unstinting work as a teacher, mentor, American Journal of Sociology. were best expressed by one colleague from free-riding and act to increase the and citizen of his university and his In 1975 Wahrman published An Intro- who wrote: “Dov – or rather Bernie as I general supply of public goods? profession. duction to Sociology (Macmillan) with R. liked to call him – will be remembered In the 1970s when Marwell first be- A skillful and benevolent academic Serge Denisoff. This highly successful as a scholar of great independence gan tackling these questions, scholars administrator, Marwell served as textbook was revised and published and integrity, who never followed in social psychology assumed that Chairman of the Wisconsin Sociology again in 1979 and 1983. ‘fashion,’ went his way, and impres- individuals were fundamentally non- Department from 1982 to 1985 and In 1988 Wahrman became the editor sively contributed to the literature and cooperative, while economists insisted helped to spearhead its rise to the first- of Sociological Focus, the journal of the to the profession, generously sharing that individuals exhibited a natural ranked department of sociology in the North Central Sociological Association. his resources with those like me who tendency to free-ride when they are United States. In 1989, the American Many scholars will recall the gentle way were younger.” provided with public goods. Sociological Association chose Marwell in which he expressed editorial criticisms Bernard (Dov) Lazerwitz is survived Marwell effectively confuted these as Editor of its flagship journal, the and made useful suggestions. He was not only by his wife, Gertrude (Trudy), theories by means of elegantly de- American Sociological Review. known for his dry wit and wise words and their children Ellen and Elliot, and signed small-group experiments and In recognition of his career of out- of advice. In the department he was grandchildren Osnat, Yael, Oren, and computer simulations. His research standing scholarship, bold leadership, renowned for his encyclopedic memory Yoav. In addition, he is also followed showed that, because of their percep- and dedicated teaching, the University of sociological literature, and his ability by his seven doctoral students who tions of fairness, individuals were of Wisconsin awarded Marwell in 1991 to locate any document at issue from benefited from his warm and close significantly less likely to free ride than the prestigious Richard T. Ely endowed the towering stacks in his office. supervision, and who have followed his previous scholarship predicted. chair of sociology. After his retirement in 2001, Ralph path in their own intellectual pursuits, Still further, Marwell demonstrated Following his retirement from the remained an avid and eclectic reader. along with the many academic col- how the presence of a “critical mass” of University of Wisconsin, Marwell was He loved listening to and collecting leagues with whom he interacted on a individuals, able to devote substantial appointed Professor of Sociology at Big Band jazz music, cooking for his worldwide stage. resources to collective undertakings, New York University, where he taught family and friends, observing Jewish Ephraim Tabory, Bar Ilan University, deterred free-riding and induced other courses on the sociology of religion traditions, and savoring his New York and Arnold Dashefsky, University of individuals to join and contribute to and the sociology of sport and contin- Times. In addition to his loving wife of Connecticut those undertakings. These findings, ued his innovative research on Ameri- 48 years, Judith (Stober), Ralph is sur- as well as a range of complementary can religious practices. He is survived vived by their three children: Francine Adapted from ASSJ Newsletter results from additional experimental by his wife of 55 years, psychologist of Hilliard, OH; Eric (Emily) of Bowling (December 2012) with permission. work that he carried out, have had Barbara Marwell, their children Nicole Green, OH; and Anna of New York City; worldwide impact on altering the di- and Evan, and four grandchildren. five grandchildren; and brother Harvey (Stephanie) of East Windsor, NJ. Gerald Marwell rection of research on collective action. Charles Camic 1937-2013 Marwell’s concern with this subject Benny Goodman, Ralph’s favorite Gerald Marwell, a social scientist in- led him also to conduct one of the ear- Ralph Wahrman musician, made famous the words ternationally renowned for his pioneer- liest systematic studies of the American 1939-2011 “Here and there, everywhere/ scenes ing research on social cooperation and Civil Rights movement. Reported in his that we once knew/ and they all just Ralph Wahrman, Professor Emeritus social movements, died in New York seminal 1971 book, Dynamics of Ideal- recall/ memories of you.” Ralph’s family, of Sociology at Bowling Green State City on March 24, 2013. He was 76. ism: White Activists in a Black Movement friends, and colleagues will always University, died after a short illness on honor and cherish his memory. Marwell’s productive career spanned (co-authored with N.J. Demerath and Michael Aiken), the study analyzed September 30, 2011. He was 71 years the last half-century and was distin- old. M. D. Pugh, Bowling Green State guished by far-sighted contributions the experiences of Northern college University
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