HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY SECTION, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION JULY 2014, NO. 23 TIMELINES Newsletter of the ASA History of Sociology Section July 2014, No. 23 Mission Statement: The purpose of the Section on the History of INSIDE Sociology is to provide a forum for sociologists and other scholars inter- ested in the study of the historically specific processes shaping the devel- MISSION opment of sociology as a profession, an academic discipline, an organiza- STATEMENT 1 tion, a community, and an intellectual endeavor. The Section serves its members as a structure (1) to disseminate information of professional in- ACTIVITIES terest, (2) to assist in the exchange of ideas and the search for research AT ASA collaborators, (3) to obtain information about the location of archival ma- terials, (4) to support efforts to expand such research resources and to pre- HoS Events at ASA 1-4 serve documents important to the history of sociology, and (5) to ensure that the scholarship of this group can be shared with the profession both SECTION through programming at regional and national meetings. OFFICERS 2 History of Sociology Activities at ASA—San Francisco SECTION 385 - Regular Session. Sociology of Knowledge and Ideas AWARDS 3 Mon, August 18, 10:30am to 12:10pm, Location: Parc 55 Wyndham, Level Four, Fillmore; Session Submission Type: Paper Session Sub Unit: History of Sociology/Social Thought NEWS Session Organizer: Erin Leahey, University of Arizona Recent publications 4 Presider: Erin Leahey, University of Arizona Paper Spotlight 4 Book Spotlights 5-8 Individual Submissions: HoS Election Results 8 Engaging French Sociology - Josh Booth, University of Cambridge Announcements 9 From Champs to Fields: The Transnational Circulation of a Sociological Concept - Angele Christin, Princeton University; Newsletter Editors Marianne Blanchard, Centre Maurice Halbwachs Networks over Culture in the New Economic Sociology: Academic Erik Schneiderhan Familism, Borrowed Prestige and Status Hierarchies - Nina Bandelj, [email protected] University of California-Irvine Katelin Albert The Sociology of Knowledge as Disciplinary Compass - Anne Groggel, [email protected] Indiana University Discussant: Sharon Koppman, University of Arizona PAGE 1 HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY SECTION, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION JULY 2014, NO. 23 Section Officers History of Sociology Activities at Chair ASA—San Francisco Alan Sica Pennsylvania State University Chair-Elect Section Business Meeting 10:30am to 12:10pm Neil L. Gross Tuesday, August 19, 2014 University of British Columbia Location: Parc 55 Wyndham, Level Four, Hearst Past Chair NB: There will be a discussion of the ASA journal archives at the Richard Swedberg HoS business meeting. Cornell University To support the archival preservation effort, please visit http://saveourarchivalrecords.org Secretary Treasurer If you are able to make a contribution to this cause, please do so. Erik Schneiderhan Donations accepted through the website. University of Toronto (‘14) Council Marcel Fournier Universite de Montreal ('14) 565 - Section on History of Sociology Invited Session. American Sociology Since 1980 Jeffery Olick Tue, August 19, 12:30 to 2:10pm, University of Virginia ('14) Location: Parc 55 Wyndham, Level Four, Cyril Magnin III Session Submission Type: Paper Session Norbert Wiley Sub Unit: Section Invited University of Illinois-Urbana ('15) Abstract: Panel on work on the recent history of American Sociology, Mustafa Emirbayer including the issues of feminization, the rise of public sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison activism, the role of ideology, and the evolution of the journal system ('16) as the determinant prestige. Peter Kivisto Session Organizer: Stephen Turner, University of South Florida Augustana College ('16) Presider: Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago Presenters: Student Representatives Laura Ford Stephen Turner, University of South Florida Cornell University ('14) Neil L. Gross, University of British Columbia Amanda E. Maull Eleanor Townsley, Mount Holyoke College Pennsylvania State University (‘15) Katelin E. Albert, University of Toronto Discussant: Peter Baehr, Lingnan University PAGE 2 HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY SECTION, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION JULY 2014, NO. 23 History of Sociology Activities at ASA—San Francisco 592 - Section on History of Sociology Paper Session. Using Sociological Archives Tue, August 19, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Location: Parc 55 Wyndham, Level Four, Cyril Magnin III Session Submission Type: Paper Session Sub Unit: Section on History of Sociology / Using Sociological Archives Session Organizer: Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University Presider: Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University Individual Submissions: Editors, Authors and Social Closure in Four Leading Sociology Journals, 1960-2010 - Robert Perrucci, Purdue University; Carolyn C. Perrucci, Purdue University Goffman, Gambling, and Fatefulness: What Can We Learn from the Erving Goffman Archives - Dmitri Shalin, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Rethinking Durkheim’s Lectures on the Family - Duygu Basaran Sahin, City University of New York-Graduate Center Too Thinly Spread? The Effects of the Rockefeller Foundation Funding on Czechoslovak Social Sciences, 1924-1948 - Marek Skovajsa, Charles University Prague W.I. Thomas's Forgotten Four Wishes - An Exploratory History - Corey J. Colyer, West Virginia University History of Sociology Awards Lifetime Achievement Award: Steven Lukes, New York University Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award Marcel Fournier (Montreal) for his book, Emile Durkheim: A Biography and David Swartz (Boston University, for Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Graduate Student Award: Ben Merriman (Chicago), “Three Conceptions of Spatial Locality in Chicago School Sociology (and Their Significance Today)”. Thank you to the members of the award committees: Charles Camic, Vera Zolberg, Kristen Luker (Lifetime Achievement), Silva Pedraza, Nico Stehr, Julia Zimmerman (Distinguished Scholarly Publication), Peter Baehr, Marcus Hunter, Mikaila Arthur, Robert Owens, Eleni Arzoglou (Graduate Student Award). PAGE 3 HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY SECTION, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION JULY 2014, NO. 23 (ed). Rural Sociologists at Work: Candid Accounts of The- ory, Methods and Practice. Paradigm Press. ———————— 2013. “A Rural Sociologist for Almost NEWS Eight Decades: Olaf F. Larson.” ASA Footnotes 41(7):5. ————————— 2013. “An Unexpected Legacy: Women, Early Rural Sociological Research, and the Lim- Recent Publications its of Linearity.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 28(3):32 -59. Albert, Katelin E. “Erasing the social from social science: The intellectual costs of boundary-work and the Canadi- an institute of Health Research. Forthcoming , The Cana- Paper Spotlight dian Journal of Sociology. Clark, Terry Nichols. “Paul Lazarsfeld's Politics: (Dis) Anderson, Kevin B. 2014. “The Althusserian Cul-de-Sac,” Engagement, Irony, and the Cigar.” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture 13:1-2 (4 Prepared for Symposium on Paul Felix Lazarsfeld – His pp.) http://logosjournal.com/2014/anderson-2/ Methodological Inspirations and Networking Activities in ———————— 2014. “Revisiting Lenin’s Hegel Note- the Field of Social Research, Prague, September 25-27, books, 100 Years Later,” Socialism and Democracy 28:1, 2011. Revised June 2014. pp. 143-52 [adapted from my introduction to the Chi- Abstract nese edition of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism] What were PF Lazarsfeld's politics? He has been classi- Eliaeson, Sven, Patricia Mindus and Stephen P Turner fied as a tool of capitalists and his work dismissed for (eds). 2014. Axel Hägerström and Modern Social this reason. We should confront the issues directly as Thought. Oxford: Bardwell. they are complex but essential to overcome barriers for Scaff, Lawrence. 2014. Weber and the Weberians. Pal- many who do not know the details. PFL was highly grave Macmillan. adaptable, ironic, and flexible. He joked about his mar- ginal man status, and played it masterfully. This paper Serge, Sandro. 2014. “A Note on Max Weber's Reception explores the complexities of the links between PFL and on the Part of Symbolic Interactionism, and its Theoreti- politics in general, and the multiple specific answers that cal Consequences”. American Sociologist 45(2): 1-9. he offered in many of his publications. Consider his anal- yses of engaging Austrian youths into socialism, to Amer- Turner, Stephen and George Mazur. 2014. Hägerström ican voters like women buying red shoes, to the elitist and the Project of De-Ideologization. In Sven Eliaeson, theory of democracy, to the lack of impact of McCarthy Patricia Mindus and Stephen P Turner (eds.) Axel Häger- on academe, to the policy implications of social science. ström and Modern Social Thought. Oxford: Bardwell, 93- The range and diversity of political analyses illustrate his 123. adaptability, his innovativeness, his effort to find a new Turner, Stephen. 2014. Mundane Theorizing, Bricolage perspective and challenge established views, and his lack and Bildung. In Theorizing in Social Science: The Context of total commitment to any single view, in his positive as of Discovery, edited by Richard Swedberg. Stanford: well as his normative work. With Habermas, some of Stanford University Press, pp. 131-157. these ideas even became part of the new Frankfort soci- ology. Zimmerman, Julie N. Expected 2014. “‘I could Tell Stories ‘til the Cows come Home:’ Personal Biography meets