Please join us at the American Sociological Association's 102nd Annual Meeting, to be held August 11-14, in New York City.

2007 ANNUAL MEETING THEME: Intellectuals in the West have long believed that progress was inevitable, while having vastly different ideas about how and why progress would occur. Whether their confidence was in revolution or parliaments or technology, it was generally assumed that societies would become more just and more prosperous, and that this prosperity would be more widely shared. No more. Alarming trends are unfolding in the 21st century that threaten confidence in a better future, or even in any future at all...Read the entire theme statement

The convention theme, "Is Another World Possible? Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Politics," explores how sociologists, whose intellectual mission it is to understand the connections between everyday life and large social forces, and to communicate that understanding to wider publics, contribute to the strengthening of democratic forces on which the prospects for a better future depend.

- Frances Fox Piven, ASA President and 2007 Program Committee Chair, City University of New York Graduate Center