Volume 41 • Number 2 • February 2013 Looking Forward to the 2013 ASA Annual Meeting inside The Two Cities of New York: Wealth, Poverty, and Diversity in the Big Apple 3 Russell Sage Andrew A. Beveridge, Queens College development harkens back to 122nd Street on the West Side, and Foundation’s New and Graduate Center CUNY Disraeli’s famous comment about above 110th north of Central Park President he many poor immigrants and England in his book Sybil or really exists in the non-Manhattan The Foundation names Tminorities as well as some afflu- the Two Nations, “Two nations realm. Danziger, an expert on ent members of these groups, the between whom there is no inter- Around the country and around economic inequality, its new super wealthy financial traders course and no sympathy; who are the world, Manhattan took center president. and executives, the mostly white as ignorant of each other’s habits, stage due to the Occupy Wall high-powered and high-priced thoughts, and feelings, as if they Street movement, which took were dwellers in different zones, or root September 2011 in Zucotti Ten Reasons to Check lawyers, a large community 4 inhabitants of different planets.... Park in downtown Manhattan Out TRAILS devoted to creating the arts, and a city government that has fostered The rich and the poor.” near the New York City Federal Check out the 10 most Reserve Bank, the New York Stock and subsidized the wealthy have Defining Manhattan downloaded resources of created a united and divided city Exchange, and not far from the 2012. Much of Manhattan, which many like no other in the United States. Goldman Sachs headquarters. tourists and some social scientists While forcibly removed from the At the same time, as these groups mistake for the entire city, is in its Not Your Average park in November, and though it 7 came together in New York, they own realm. The Manhattan north of Sociology Students remained stratified. New York’s 96th Street on the East Side, north of Continued on page 8 Veterans and engineering students make this professor do the happy dance. Sociologists Help 9 The Growing Presence of Recipients of the 2013 ASA Awards Social Science in Qatar he American Sociological W.E.B. DuBois Career of Establish Network to Qatar is increasing its higher TAssociation proudly announces Distinguished Scholarship Promote Community education offerings due, in the recipients of the major awards Award part, to a move to become a for 2013. These outstanding Engaged Scholarship knowledge-based economy. Joe R. Feagin (Texas A&M scholars will be recognized at the University) Jose Calderon, Pitzer College, and 2013 Annual Meeting Awards The W.E.B. DuBois Career of Mark R. Warren, University of Ceremony on Sunday, August 11, Distinguished Scholarship Award Massachusetts-Boston at 4:30 pm. The Awards Ceremony honors scholars who have shown number of sociologists are join- will immediately precede the for- From the Executive Officer .................2 outstanding commitment to the ing forces to establish an emerg- mal address of the ASA President A Science Policy .........................................3 profession of sociology and whose ing multidisciplinary network called Cecilia Ridgeway. All registrants cumulative work has contributed the Urban Research-based Action International Perspectives .................9 are invited to attend an Honorary in important ways to the advance- Network (URBAN) to promote ASA Forum ............................................ 11 Reception immediately follow- ment of the discipline. The body community-based and collabora- ing the address to congratulate Announcements ................................. 11 of lifetime work may include tive forms of research. While many President Ridgeway and the award Obituaries .............................................. 15 theoretical and/or methodological sociologists have long conducted recipients. contributions. The award selection research in collaboration with com- The ASA awards are conferred committee looked for work that munity-based organizations, most on sociologists for outstanding substantially reorients the field in of these scholars work in silos and publications and achievements in general or in a particular subfield. their work is typically not rewarded the scholarship, teaching, and the or credited within the academy. practice of sociology. Award recipi- Distinguished Career Award for URBAN is an emerging network ents are selected by committees the Practice of Sociology of researchers and community appointed by the ASA Committee Donald Light (University of members who have come together on Committees and the ASA Medicine & Dentistry of New in order to identify opportunities Council. Jersey) for collaborative research and think- The officers of the Association This annual award honors out- ing that addresses critical needs extend heartfelt congratulations to standing contributions to sociological the following honorees: Continued on page 6 Continued on page 6 footnotes • February 2013 To view the online version, visit <www.asanet.org/footnotes/feb13/index.html> 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org from the executive officer Sociology Is a STEM Discipline ast week ASA received a call that sociology is a scientific itants of the planet, are going Moment: What Do We Forget Lfrom a sociology department discipline offering vital insights to achieve or fail at the end of When We Talk to Machines?” was chair who was deeply concerned to the 21st century global com- the century. It is crucial that given by sociologist Sherry Turkle, about a proposed change to her munity. Sociologists know this to 21st century scientists and the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé institution’s General be true, but we may be engineers understand the life Professor of the Social Studies of Education curriculum. less adept at explaining it of the average citizen of the Science and Technology in the Under the existing to others. To do so does world. This invariably calls Program in Science, Technology, curriculum, students not need to undermine for a seamless integration of and Society at the Massachusetts are required to take the humanistic side of discoveries and approaches Institute of Technology. two courses within the area of sociology as we also defend the between the natural sciences Sociology is a core part of “Scientific Investigations”—one liberal arts. (ASA is an active and social sciences. (empha- applied science. Evidence of the in the natural sciences and one member of both the Consortium sis added) growing importance of sociology in the social sciences. Under the of Social Science Associations and An and the social revised Gen Ed curriculum, the the National Humanities Alliance, example of sciences, social science requirement would which are long-standing and effec- such “seam- Make sure the curriculum generally, be eliminated. tive advocacy organizations that to applied less integra- committee members and This illustrates a larger and address scholarly, educational, tion” is a science is disturbing effort by some sig- and science policy issues in our 2012 article administrators at your illustrated nificant forces to marginalize and nation’s capital.) by Cornell institution are familiar with the in the new delegitimize the social sciences MCAT exam. Educate and Advocate and Waite in facts that reflect sociology’s and sometimes the liberal arts ASA’s Journal Starting in Sociology is part of the national as a whole. Earlier this month in of Health recognition as a discipline January of science community. Make sure the an Inside Higher Ed article, Carol and Social within the national sci ence 2015, all curriculum committee members Geary Schneider, President of the Behavior community. aspiring and administrators at your institu- American Association of Colleges “Social medical tion are familiar with the facts that and Universities, described it Network doctors will reflect sociology’s recognition as a as “a dangerous assault,” cit- Resources take a revised discipline within the national sci- ing House Majority Leader Eric and Management of MCAT that includes sections on ence community. Two key pieces Cantor’s (R-VA) recent proposal Hypertension.” (see hsb.sagepub. the social and behavioral sciences, of evidence are the prominence to eliminate all federal funding com/content/53/2.toc). Research with specific question on basic of the Sociology Program at the for research in the social sciences. conducted by scientists at the sociology. (For more on MCAT National Science Foundation, and In the article, Schneider discusses National Institutes of Health changes and implications for the fact that the number two per- a current proposal in Florida to (NIH) and under its extramural departments see Footnotes July/ son at NSF, Cora Bagley Marrett, establish lower tuition rates for grant programs encompasses August and December 2012.) is a sociologist. She has also “STEM” majors (narrowly defined significant sociological studies. served as Acting Director of NSF, Sociology in the Classroom as the physical sciences, engi- This is reflected in the existence of a $7-billion independent federal Sociology is a gateway to science neering, and mathematics) and a the Office of Behavioral and Social agency that is the only govern- for undergraduates. To further higher tuition for all other majors Sciences Research within the ment science agency charged with advance sociology as a scientific (February 8, 2012). Office of the Director of the NIH, advancing all fields of funda- discipline