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Home : About ASA : Centennial : Centennial Homepage

ASA Centennial: 1905-2005

ASA Centennial News . . .

As ASA celebrates its centennial year, watch this space for developments regarding centennial activities, events, products, and news. In the meantime, following are some current or upcoming links of relevance to the centenary.

Centennial Events
[bar chart image] ASA's October 25 Capitol Hill Centennial Reception & Research Exhibit was an overwhelming success, with some 200 attendees hearing speeches by House Science Committee Chair Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (NY), North Carolina Rep. David Price, and Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy. More...
[image linking to 2004 Coupon Listing] Annual Meeting
ASA Annual meeting themes
• 1999–2004 online program archives
2005 Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting sites for 1906-2007

History/Archives
A History of the ASA: 1905-1980
A History of the ASA: 1981-2004 now online, or purchase through the Bookstore.
ASA "History in a Nutshell"
History of the Association Archives
• Accessing ASA archives at Pennsylvania State University (forthcoming)
Bibliographies of articles about the founding & history of ASA, compiled by ASA History of Sociology Section 
Representative Bibliography of American Sociology (860KB PDF) [8/9/05]
ASA chronology of events (ASA Timeline)

Publications
A History of American Sociology, Craig Calhoun (editor) (forthcoming by University of California Press)

Special issues of ASA journals (see "Special Issues" under "Journals" on the Members Only webpage)
Teaching Sociology special issue (2005)

First 13 volumes of Rose Monograph series
Centennial-themed 2005 Footnotes articles
Chronicle of Higher Education special issue

ASA Centennial Store
Purchase ASA Centennial postage stamps.
The Sociologist's Book of Cartoons
Other ASA Centennial merchandise

Research & Scholarship
Data Briefs, Research Briefs on historical trends in the discipline
Citations of most-cited articles
Labor Market Chapter (225KB PDF) from five-chapter Spivack centennial series, How Race & Ethnicity Matter
Health Chapter (237KB PDF) from five-chapter Spivack centennial series, How Race & Ethnicity Matter.

Education
Famous sociology majors over the past 100 years
The Way We Live, Intelecom's distance-learning video, produced with acknowledgement of ASA members' expertise
• Early American sociology professors. Open or save a Microsoft Access database (884KB file) or, if you don't have Access on your PC, run (or save) an executable file (248KB) online. The database contains information on teaching professors who earned their degrees prior to 1960 and who taught at institutions founded before 1950.

Leadership & Awards
Past ASA Presidents and their bios
Past ASA Vice Presidents
Past ASA Secretaries
Past ASA Executive Officers
Video on ASA Past-Presidents and video on first ASA President, Lester Ward
Past ASA major awardees

Membership
A look at our membership from 1906-2003
A graph of section membership counts from 1970-2004
ASA's 115 Charter Members in 1906

Sections & Aligned Associations
A history of ASA sections including growth data
History of Sociologists for Women in Society's activism
Mission statements, histories, and other aligned association information, including that of international and foreign national associations.

ASA Council Actions
• New statement on human rights on the occasion of ASA's centennial year