Appendix 17

ASA Section Formation History

** Year section began functioning, particularly election of its officers.

*Name changes:

Section 1: Undergraduate Education became Teaching and Learning (2001).

Section 4: Criminology became Crime, Law, and Deviance (1988).

Section 7: Organizations and Occupations became Organizations, Occupations, and Work (1996).

Section 8: Theoretical Sociology became Theory (1994).

Section 10: Community became Community and Urban Sociology (1988).

Section 12: World Conflicts became Sociology of World Conflicts (1983), became Sociology of Peace and War (1985), became Peace, War, and Social Conflicts (1998).

Section 13: Sociology of Environment became Environment and Technology (1987).

Section 18: Aging became Sociology of Aging (1982); became Aging and the Life Course (1998).

Section 21: Racial and Cultural Minorities became Racial and Ethnic Minorities (1981).

Section 28: Sociology of Microcomputing (1988) became Sociology and Computers (1995); became Communication and Information Technologies (2002).

Section 30: Alcohol and Drugs became Sociology of Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco (2003).

Section 31: Sociology of Children became Sociology of Children and Youth (2000).

Section 33: Rational Choice became Rationality and Society (2001).

Note on Section 19: Visual Sociology attempted to form as a Section in approximately 1980. They were assigned Section number 19. They failed to reach the required 200-minimal and thus disbanded. After Visual Sociology disbanded, the number 19 was reassigned to the Section on Mental Health.