Footnotes 1989

January 1989 (Volume 17, Number 1)

• Sorokin Lives! Centennial Observations (Barry V. Johnston)
• NSF Seeks New Director of Division of Social and Economic Science
• Departmental Services Program in Second Year
• Observing: From Page Costs to Soviet Guests (William D’Antonio)
• Inside 1722: ASA’s Meetings and Marketing Manager—Jen Suter
• Sex and Gender Section Honors Karen Hossfeld
• Public Opinion and Reform in China (David S. Mason and Ken Colburn)
• American Nurses’ Association Conducts Leadership Seminars for Women of Color
• Update on Alpha Kappa Delta
• Ohio State and Pennsylvania State Host Student Receptions in Atlanta
• Open Forum: “More on Sociological Practice” (Christine Wright-Isak); “Response to SOE Section Award”  (James Coleman)
• Will and Dorothy Lissner Retire from American Journal of Economics and Sociology
• Ask ASA
• Teaching: A Proposal for Enhancing Anticipatory Socialization to Graduate School (Robert L. Hummel and Gary S. Foster)
• Issues Debated at World-System Conference on “War and Revolution” (Terry Boswell and Frank Lechner)
• Honors Program Continues to Shine
• Facilitating Data Sharing (Josefina J. Card)
• Deaths: Joel Cantor
• Obituaries: Robert E. Corley, David L. Dodge, Milton Rokeach, Muzafer Sherif
• Section Reports

February 1989 (Volume 17, Number 2)

• 1989 Annual Meeting: What Ever Happened to the Haight-Asbury? (Sherri Cavan)
• Sociology and the Humanities Closing the Gap (Joseph R. Gusfield)
• No Petition Candidates for ASA Election
• 1989 Annual Meeting: Plenaries and Thematics
• Increasing the Pool of Reviewers for ASA Journals
• Thanks to ASA Members Responding to Survey
• Long-Term Care Group Insurance Available
• Plagiarism Case Documented (Foon plagiarized Wilson)
• Association for the Sociology of Religion Turns 50
• ASA Panel on Federal Employment
• Mary Fennell New JHSB Editor
• Chairs of Graduate Departments: Where Do They Come From? (Thomas Van Valey and Kathleen A. Tiemann)
• ISA Competition for Young Sociologists
• Stephen J. Morewitz Founds Litigation Firm
• NIAAA Funds Sociologists, Seeks Proposals on Alcohol and AIDS
• ASA Holds Workshop on Teaching About the Sociology of Family Crises
• What Do Our Introductory Sociology Students Know? (Richard F. Tomasson)
• Teaching: Teaching, Internships, and Employment: An Opportunity for Humane Social Change (Richard Salem and Charles S. Green III)
• ASA Holds Writing Skills Workshop
• Rich Survey Data Available from ICPSR
• Open Forum: “A Request for Clarification” (on the Levi Kamel story; Thomas Ford Hoult); “The High Cost of Meeting” (Julie M. Gricar and Erich Hirsch); “Activity in the Park Service” (William H. Key)
• Jonathan R. Cole Named New Provost at Columbia University
• Section Reports
• Deaths: Ozzie G. Simmons, Donald Campion, Ann Davis
• Obituaries: David B. Carpenter, Morriz Janowitz, Walter Cade Reckless

March 1989 (Volume 17, Number 3)

• 1989 Annual Meeting: Tenderloin Mosaic (Sherri Cavan)
• Examination for ASA Certification at the MA Level Available at 1989 Annual Meeting (Herbert L. Costner)
• Observing: Reviewing the ASA Budget (William D’Antonio)
• ASA Council Adopts Revised Code of Ethics (Barbara Walters Altizer)
• SWS Names Maxine Baca Zinn 1989 Miller Lecturer
• Candidates for ASA President, Vice President
• Online Searches as a Data Source (Michael A. Faia)
• NSF Sociology Program: New Initiatives, Cautious Optimism (about Robert Althauser and Phyllis Moen; by Carla B. Howery)
• Section on Sociology of Education Needs Teaching Ideas for Curriculum Guide
• Open Forum: “A Call to Read the Original Sorokin and Sumner” (Alfred McClung Lee; “On the Confusion of Social Justice and Social Reality” (Reece McGee); “The Possibility of a Rational Discourse in Sociology?” (Pierre L. van den Berghe); “Overcoming Gender Bias” (Graves E. Enck and James D. Preston); “Investigating Equality of Opportunity in Ulster” (Robert L. Miller); “Asking the Right Questions” (Monica B. Morris); “Complexity of an American’s Experience in South Africa” (Michael J. Pravetz); “Response to Pravetz” (David O. Friedrichs)
• AIDS, Gay Men, and Their (Invisible) Sociology (Stephen O. Murray)
• More ASA Contributors
• ASA/NSF Small Grant Awards
• NSF Seeks Information on How NSF Grants Contributed to Non-Academic Activities (Roberta Balstad Miller)
• Obituaries: Jess M. Carrillo, Anne E. Davis, Ozzie G. Simmons
• Committee Reports

April 1989 (Volume 17, Number 4)

• 1989 Annual Meeting: The Castro in Transition (Kay Tiblier)
• Alice S. Rossi Wins Common Wealth Award
• Inside the ASA Budget: The Annual Meeting (Janet L. Astner)
• Observing: Bits ‘n Pieces (William D’Antonio)
• Sociologists Working in Israel: “Building Sociology and a New State: Sociologists at Work in Israel” (Shulamit Reinharz); “Inside the Peacekeeping Forces” (David R. Segal); “Organizational Consulting in Israel” (Bruce Alan Phillips)
• Deaths: John F. Cuber
• Obituaries: Marie Ann Bandl
• Committee Reports
• Representative Reports
• Editors’ Reports
• Minutes from the January 26, 1989, meeting of the 1988-89 ASA Council

May 1989 (Volume 17, Number 5)

• 1989 Annual Meeting: Berkeley: Updating the Image(s) (E. Barbara Phillips)
• Robert Dentler New Editor of SPR
• ASA Award Winners Announced
• Clifford Clogg Editor of JASA
• Observing: International Linkages and Jobs at Home (William D’Antonio)
• David Featherman is New SSRC President
• Linda Aiken Wins Sociological Practice Section Award
• Participate in the POD Grant Program (Richard H. Hall)
• Washington University Department of Sociology to Close
• AAC project on the Sociology Major
• Is There a Future for the ASA Child Care Program? (Jen L. Suter)
• Richard Irish to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic
• Good Ideas
• Enjoy a Laugh with SWS
• ASA in San Francisco: All About the 1989 Annual Meeting
• Open Forum: “Humanities and Social Sciences Link to Inform Policy” (Robert P. Wolensky); “Which Came First?” (Richard F. Tomasson); “Cultural Literacy, Indeed?!” (Naomi Rosenthal); “A Response to Coleman” (John C. Leggett); “Coleman Was Right” (Chester L. Hunt); “More on Coleman” (Alfred McClung Lee)
• Inside the ASA Budget: Minority Fellowship Program (Lionel Maldonado)
• Deaths: Arthur Seeger, Robert Clay, Robert W. Hodge

August 1989 (Volume 17, Number 6)

• Stanley Lieberson Elected ASA President; Barbara Reskin is Vice President
• 1989 Annual Meeting: Art, Food, and Politics in the City by the Bay (Sherri Cavan)
• Common Wealth Award: Alice Rossi on Love and Work
• Executive Officer’s Report: Sociology on the Move (William D’Antonio)
• 1989 Audit: ASA Budget Shows Small Surplus
• Inside 1722: Sharon Gray—ASA’s Institutional Memory
• Late Breaking News About the 1989 Annual Meeting, including “The Accessibility of ASA Meetings: A Progress Report to the Membership” (R. Greg Emerton, Chair, ASA Committee on Society and Persons with Disabilities)
• Media Beat: David and Goliath in Media Relations (Carla B. Howery)
• Federal Job Description Available
• SWS Enbraces Unity and Diversity (Carla B. Howery)
• Give an ASA Gift Membership
• ASA Goes Electronic: ASA’s New Fax Number and Bitnet Address
• Adeline Levine Receives Honorary Degree from Beaver College
• Deaths: George C. Homans, G.W. Levi Kamel, Richard Troiden
• Obituaries: John F. Cuber, Robert W. Hodge, Alfred W. Jones, Magdalena Sokolowska, Frederic W. Terrien, Helmut R. Wagner

September 1989 (Volume 17, Number 7)

• Future Organizational Trends of the ASA (a report of the ASA Ad Hoc Committee on ASA Future Organizational Trends)
• 1990 Call for Papers: Regular Session Topics and Organizers for 1990 Annual Meeting
• Washington University’s Sociology Department: An Update
• NSF Fellowships Valuable to Scholars and Institutions (Edward Murguia)
• Urgent Need for Sociology Departments to Encourage NSF Graduate and Minority Fellowship Applications
• NSF Celebrates 25,000th Fellowship (Robert Althauser)
• Teaching Workshop on Teaching About Substance Abuse and Prevention Efforts
• Engineers Confer with Sociologists on Technological Change
• Plagiarism Discovered; ASA Takes Action (by Stephen A. Buff; about Jerri Husch’s dissertation being plagiarized in Mellen Press’s book by Stephen H. Barnes)
• COPAFS: Confronting the Challenges (Katherine Wallman)
• NRC Committee Releases AIDS Report
• Revised Code of Ethics Applies to All Sociologists’ Work Settings (Ruth L. Love)
• American Sociological Foundation: Doing Well and Doing Good (James F. Short)
• Durkheim Studies Moves to Illinois
• Doris Wilkinson’s Odyssey Back In Time (Susan Frensilli)
• Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Receives 1988 Balzan Prize
• Section Reports

October 1989 (Volume 17, Number 8)

• Major ASA Awards Given in San Francisco: Jessie Bernard, Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship; David L. Sills, Award for a Distinguished Career in the Practice of Sociology; James A. Davis, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Charles Tilly, Award for a Distinguished Scholarly Publication; Samuel Cohn and Joan Robinson Acker, Jessie Bernard Award
• Gerald Marwell to Edit ASR
• Observing: Reflections on the 1989 Annual Meeting in San Francisco (William D’Antonio)
• William D’Antonio to Retire; Search for New Executive Officer Begun
• Eight Receive ASA/NSF Small Grant Awards; New Proposals Due
• Annual Review Discount Increased
• Profile of the President: William Julius Wilson: A Bold and Sober Intellect (Katherine O’Sullivan See)
• Section Award Winners Honored at 1989 Annual Meeting
• 1990 Guide Listings Due
• Dues Renewals in the Mail
• President’s Report: Events of the Passing Year in Retrospect (Joan Huber)
• Honors Program Joins ASA; Seeks Director for 1990
• IIS-ISA and Oaths Opposing Apartheid: “On Promoting Open Exchange of Scholarly Work” (Edgar F. Borgatta); “Apartheid in Focus” (Else Oyen); “A View on ISA and World Politics” (Margaret Archer); “Rejoinder” (Edgar Borgatta)
• Deaths: Stefann Nowak, Hugh Anderson Johnson, Priscilla Kiehnle Warner
• Obituaries: Albert E. Chabot, Douglas Ensminger, Harold Finestone, Mark Lefton, John E. Owen, Edgar Tristam Thompson, Richard R. Troiden

November 1989 (Volume 17, Number 9)

• MFP Initiates Undergraduate Component
• Alan Sica to Edit Sociological Theory
• Dean Dorn to Edit Teaching Sociology
• Candidates for ASA President and Vice President
• Observing: Positive News in Sociology (William D’Antonio)
• Inside 1722: “Dr. D’Antonio’s Office”—Juanita Hampton
• ASA Area Representatives and Coordinators
• ASA Now has TDD Machine
• The Rebuilding of Sociology in the Soviet Union: “Soviet Sociology Today: Possibilities for Cooperation” (Louise Shelley); “Lecturing in the U.S.SR” (Harvey Molotch); “The Face, and Pace, of Change in the Soviet Union” (Michael Swafford)
• Travel Awards for 1990 ISA Meeting
• More Section Award Winners from Annual Meeting
• ASA Teaching Services Program: New Products, Workshops, Submissions Sought
• ASA Contributors
• Ask ASA
• Sociologists Honored with Awards: Richard Tessler and Bernice Pescosolido Receive NIMH Awards; Vern Bengtson Receives MERIT Award; Jacqueline Wiseman Receives SSSI Award
• 1990 Annual Meeting: Update on Program Sessions; Space for Other Groups
• Suggestions Solicited for 1991 Annual Meeting Program
• Coming in 1990: Sociological Practice Review
• Subcommission on Women in East Germany, U.S.
• Deaths: Wolfram Eberhard, Stanley Grupp, Robert Laufer
• Obituaries: Hanan C. Selvin
• Minutes from the August 12, 1989, meeting of 1988-89 ASA Council

December 1989 (Volume 17, Number 10)

• Candidates Announced for 1990 Elections
• ASA Successful in Pursuing Plagiarism Case (on Husch/Mellen)
• White House Science Advisor (D. Allan Bromley) “Speaks” to COSSA
• Observing: Advocacy for a Diverse Clientele (William D’Antonio)
• Inside 1722: “Sections Are Where It’s At”—Caroline Bugno
• New Organization for Chairs of PhD Departments
• Sociologists Receive Awards: Joseph Kasof Wins ASA Social Psychology Section Award; Thelma McCormack Receives Honorary Degree from Mount Saint Vincent University; H. Laurence Ross Wins Widmark Prize; Paul Dimaggio, Gary Hamilton, and Theda Skocpol Win Guggenheims; Gary Marx to Give Jensen Lecturer
• ASA Staff Attend Other Meetings
• Summer School and Sociological Theory: Dead Head Sociology and Canoeing Toward Utopia (Carla B. Howery)
• Sociologists Keep Pressure on Washington University Administration
• Short Takes
• MFP Announces 1989-90 Fellows
• Update on MFP Funding
• The Evaluation of Sociology Journals by Political Scientists (David Jacobs); journal rankings
• 1990 Regional Meeting Schedule
• Open Forum: “More on Sociology in Israel” (Stanley Cohen); “A View on Arab Palestine” (Hassan Elnajjar)
• Who Are You Going to Call? TRG! (Teaching Resources Group)
• Deaths: Robert David
• Obituaries: Wayman J. (Bud) Crow, Wolfram Everhard, Robert S. Laufer, Forrest E. LaViolette, Stefan Nowak, George Simpson, Priscilla Kiehnle Warner
• Minutes of August 13, 1989, meeting of 1989-90 ASA Council

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