Program American Sociological Society Race and Culture Contacts in the CURRENT PROBLEMS Modern World and by E. Franklin Frazier Howard University PROSPECTS IN SOCIOLOGY "Frazier has admirably succeeded in providing a dynamic account of race relations, combining an attractively iimple and readable ·brevity with an enlightened cosmopolitan scope that should dispel any vestiges of cultural or academic parochialism."-RoscoE C. HINKLE, JR., The Ohio State University "Excellent volume. Has two great advantages over books I have seen in this area to date: 1) There is an attempt at a conceptual scheme for race and culture contacts which is sufliciently broad to include the many specific problems involved, and 2) It utilizes materials from many areas of the world and does not confine itself to one American minority group such as the American Negro--a fault which is to be found in many texts in this field."-H. D. RAWLs, North Carolina State College "Professor Frazier's Race and Culture Contacts in the Modem World is a useful piece of work, for it leads the reader away from Fifty-Second Annual Meeting an overly provincial view of racial and ethnic contacts. We see readily enough the nexus between domestic racialism and overseas 'white' colonialism, between color bar in America and in Asia. As the underdeveloped non-white peoples emerge into nationalism they are altering this traditional association of racialism with Western THE SHOREHAM HOTEL, WASIDNGTON, D. C. power domination. American students need to be aware of this broader 'cosmopolitanism' context."-RrcHARD H. RoBBINs, Wellesley College · August 27, 28, 29, 1957 5% X 8Yz, 359 pp. $4.50 text ALFRED A. KNOPF, Publisher Also meeting in W ashingtou, D. C.: 501 Madison Avenue College Department New York 22 Rural Sociological Society Society for the Study of Social Problems AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1957 President, ROBERT K. MERTON, Columbia University President-Elect, RoBIN M. WILLIAMS, JR., Cornell University First Vice-President, KINGSLEY DAVIS, University of California, Berkeley Second Vice-President, AuGUST B. HoLLINGSHEAD, Yale University Secretary, WELLMAN J. WARNER, New York University Editor, American Sociological Review, LEONARD BROOM, University of California, Los Angeles Editor, Sociometry, LEONARD S. CoTTRELL, JR., Russell Sage Foundation Executive Officer, MATIWA WHITE RILEY, Rutgers, The State University COUNCIL RoBERT K. MERTON AuGusT B. HoLLINGSHEAD RoBIN M. WILLIAMs, JR. WELLMAN J. WARNER KINGSLEY DAVIS LEONARD BROOM Former Presidents FLORIAN ZNANIECKI, University of Illinois DoNALD YouNG, Russell Sage Foundation HERBERT BLUMER, University of California, Berkeley Elected at Large KINGSLEY DAVIS, University of California, AMos H. HAWLEY, University of Michigan Berkeley DAVID RmsMAN, University of Chicago MABEL A. ELLIOTT, Chatham College HARRY ALPERT, National Science Founda- CLIFFORD Kn!KPATRICK, Indiana University tion LoWRY NELSON, University of Minnesota W. F. CoTTRELl., Miami University REINHARD BENDIX, University of California, RoBERT E. L. FARIS, University of Wash· Berkeley ington RoBERT BIERSTEDT, City College of New REUBEN HILI., University of North Carolina York Elected from Affiliated Societies HuGH CARTER, District of Columbia ALrnEo McCLUNG LEE, Eastern WILLIAM E. CoLE, Southern STUART A. QUEEN, Midwest I THOMAS D. ELIOT, Society for the Study of CALVIN F. SCHMID, Pacific ~I Social Problems WILLIAM H. SEWELL, Rural WILLIAM L. KoLB, Southwestern RAYMOND F. SLETTO, Ohio 1 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ROBERT K. MERTON, Columbia University BERNARD BARBER, Barnard College 1 WELLMAN J. WARNER, New York University WALTER FIREY, University of Texas C. ARNOLD ANDERSON, University of Kentucky LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Chairman, PAUL F. MYERS, Bureau of the Census JoHN A. CLAUSEN, National Institute of PETER P. LEJINS, University of Maryland Mental Health C. JosEPH NUESSE, Catholic University PAUL C. GLICK, Bureau of the Census MRs. H. S. SHRYOCK, JR. EARL E. HUYCK, U. S. Government AusTIN VAN DER SLICE, American Uni- CARR B. LAVELL, George Washington versity University HARRY WALKER, Howard University AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY PROGRAM OUTLINE TUESDAY, August 27 WEDNESDAY, August 28 THURSDAY, August 29 PAGE PAGE PAGE 8:30-10:00 A.M. 8:45A.M. 8:45A.M. istration . • 6 Organized Tour . 13 Organized Tour . 19 9:00-11:00 A.M. :00 A.M.-12 :00 M. 9:00-11 :00 A.M. Criminology . .. .. 13 Criminology • . • 6 * Criminology . 19 The Family . .. 13 Rural Sociology . 20 * Social Psychology . 6 * Methodology . .. 13 Sociology of Art: Papers Social Stratification 6 Migration and American and Panel . 20 Studies of Higher Edu- Civilization .. .. 14 Sociology of Occupation .. 20 cation . 7 Race and Ethnic Rela- Sociology of Complex Or­ * * Sociological Theory . 21 tions ................. 14 Studies in Population. 21 ganization . • . • . 7 * Sociology of Art: Music .. 14 * Teaching of Sociology. • . 21 * Sociology o f M e n t a I U r b a n Sociology a n d Health . • . 7 Ecology .............. 14 11 :00 A.M.-12 :00 M. * Sociology of Religion. 8 11:00 A.M.-12:00 M. Business Meeting . 21 1 :30-3 :30 P.M. Business Meeting . 15 1:20P.M. Aging and Retirement. 8 1:20P.M. Organized Tour ......... 22 Roles in Operations Re- search . 8 Organized Tours . 15 1 :30-3:30 P.M. Social Disorganization. 9 1 :30-3:30 P.M. Sociology of Occupations. 22 * Sociology of Cornrnunica· Personality a n d Social * Disorganization and De­ tions . 9 Structure . 15 viant Behavior . 22 * Sociology of Science . 9 * Political Sociology 15 * Sociology of Law 22 * Urban Sociology . 10 Sociology of Art: Litera- * Social Stratification . 23 l Economic Development 10 ture ................. 16 Communication and Mod- ! Sociology of Menta I ern Community •...... 23 I Health ............... 16 Sociology of Small Groups 23 * Sociology 10 * Sociology of Occupations 16 Medicine and Sociology. 23 Medicine and Sociology. 10 Sociology of Science. 16 Empirical Research and * Personality and Social Sociology of Small Groups 17 Social Theory . 24 Structure . 11 * Political Sociology . 11 3:30-5:30 P.M. 2:00P.M. Progress in Measurement 11 * Medicine and Sociology. 17 Organized Tour ......... 22 * Science of Population . 12 Social Psychology . 17 Sociology of M e n t a I Sociological Theory 18 3:30-5:30 P.M. Health .............. 12 * Sociology of Complex Or­ * Rural Sociology . 24 ganization . 18 * The Family . .. 25 8:00P.M. * Sociology of Education. 18 Industrial Sociology . 25 General Session . 12 Sociology of Law 18 Panel on Medical So- Sociology of Religion. 19 ciology .............. 25 Military Sociology . 25 8:00P.M. Political Sociology 25 Presidential Session and Race and Ethnic Rela- Informal Gathering . • 19 tions ................. 26 *The Chairman of each section was asked to prepare a major paper on CURRENT PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS in his field. Together, these papers should provide an overview of frontier problems as these can presently be identified in the major divisions of sociology. Throughout the Program these papers, or the sessions containing them, are marked with asterisks. See page 27 of this Program for Council and Committee meetings. See the back pages of this Program for Index of Program Participants. The facilities of the United States Employment Service will be used at the Meetings. Their headquarters will be the South Room. 6 TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1957-(ContinuedJ 7 TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 BENJAMIN B. TREGOE, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California "The Relationship between Ethnic and Social Class Differences in Child-Rearing Practices" 8:30-10:00 A.M. REGISTRATION-West Lobby FRANK RIESSMAN, Bard College, and S. M. MILLER, Brooklyn College 10:00 A.M.-12:00 M.-Park Room "Social Class and Authoritarianism" CRIMINOLOGY: Juvenile Delinquency and the Young Adult Offender (joint RICHARDT. MoRRIS, University of California, Los Angeles session with Society for Study of Social Problems) "Social Control and Stratification" Chairman, MARTIN H. NEUMEYER, University of Southern California SOCIOWGICAL STUDIES OF IDGHER EDUCATION-West Ballroom F. IvAN NYE, JAMES F. SHORT, JR. and VmGIL J. OLSoN, Washington State College Chairman, NEAL GRoss, Harvard University "Socio-Economic Status and Delinquent Behavior" HowARD S. BECKER and BLANCHE GEER, Community Studies, Inc., Kansas City, HERBERT A. BLOCH, Brooklyn College, and ARTHUR NIEDERHOFFER, New York Mo. City Police Academy "Student Culture in Medical School" "Adolescent Behavior and the Gang: A Cross-Cultural Analysis" THEODORE CAPLOW, University of Minnesota "A Study of Faculty Mobility among Major Universities" JACOB L HURWITZ, B. R. HUTCHESON, M.D., and S. CooPER, South Shore Courts Clinic, Quincy, Mass. RosE K. GoLDsEN, MoRRIS RosENBERG and EDWARD A. SuCHMAN, Cornell Uni- "Toward a Clinically Meaningful and Dispositionally Relevant Classi· versity fication of Delinquency" ''The College Campus as a Functioning Society" WALTER C. RECKLESS, SIMON DINITZ and BARBARA KAY, Ohio State University DANIEL 0. PRICE, University of North Carolina ''The Self Component in Potential Delinquency and Potential Non· "A Study of Faculty Response to Student Evaluation" Delinquency" PAUL F. LAZAasFELD, Columbia University MoRRis G. CALDWELL, University of Alabama "An Adventure in Measuring the Educational Philosophy of Social "Personality Trends in the Youthful Male Offender" Scientists" SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: Psychological Aspects of Group Membership-­ SOCIOLOGY OF COMPLEX ORGANIZATION-Club Room Main Ballroom Chairman, ALVIN W. GoULDNER, University of Illinois Chairman, HENRY