Periodically ASA issues or signs on to statements or letters on particular issues.
- ASA joined several other scientific societies in a letter to President Trump encouraging his Administration to engage with a broad array of stakeholders to collaboratively ensure openness and reliability in research and development (December 18, 2019)
- A sign-on letter of 62 groups sent to the Committee on Science, Space and Technology regarding the U.S. EPA’s “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” proposed rule (November 13, 2019)
- ASA Comments on a Proposed Rule by the National Labor Relations Board on Student Employment (October 28, 2019)
- The ASA sign-on letter from the Middle East Studies Association regarding Title VI funding for the Duke/UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies (September 25, 2019)
- ASA Statement on Student Evaluations of Teaching (September 9. 2019)
- Letter encouraging China to drop charges against leaders of Occupy Central and Umbrella Movement (December 4, 2018)
- Statement on the Importance of Free Movement of Scholars Across Borders (September 14, 2018)
- ASA Letter Regarding Gender Studies in Hungary (August 17,2018)
- ASA Statement on Fair Labor Practices (August 16, 2018)
- ASA Fights Against Adding Citizenship Question to Census (March 28, 2018)
- ASA Responds to Ongoing Crisis in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands (October 17, 2017)
- ASA Statement on Trump’s Decision to End the DACA Program (September 5, 2017)
- ASA Responds to the Justice Department Action Regarding Affirmative Action (August 30, 2017)
- Communicating Across Difference: Free and Responsible Speech (August 22, 2017)
- ASA Letter Regarding Central European University in Hungary (April 3, 2017)
- ASA Writes Letter to President Trump in Protest of Executive Order on Transgender Access (March 9, 2017)
- ASA Signs Multisociety Letter on Immigration Executive Order (January 31, 2017)
- ASA President Writes Letter in Defense of Jan Tomasz Gross (December 5, 2016)
- ASA presidential succession urges Turkish government to drop all legal action against signatories to the Academics for Peace statement (January 29, 2016)
- ASA Joins AERA et al. in Fisher v. UT-Austin Amicus (December 2015)
- ASA Files Amicus Brief with Supreme Court in Support of Marriage Equality (March 6, 2015)
- Statement by the Council of the American Sociological Association on the Reauthorization of the Institute of Education Sciences (March 1, 2012)
- Statement by the Council of the American Sociological Association on Teaching Foreign Languages (February 23, 2012)
- ASA Opposes Subpoena of ‘Belfast Project’ Data (February 21, 2012)
- The Freedom to Conduct Research, Write, and Share Ideas Without Fear of Violence is Fundamental to American Democracy (February 15, 2011)
- ASA Officers Respond to Attacks on Frances Fox Piven (January 24, 2011)
- Council Statement on Endangered Sociologists (September 21, 2010) (PDF)
- Council Statement on Arizona Anti-Ethnic Studies Law (June 1, 2010)
- Statement on Arizona Immigration Papers Law (June 1, 2010) (PDF)
- Statement on the Employee Free Choice Act (August 12, 2009) (PDF)
- Statement on Human Rights (August 12, 2009) (PDF)
- Statement on Federal Statistical and Research Agencies (February 17, 2009)
- Free Movement of Scholars and Scholarship Across National Borders (August 15, 2007) (PDF)
- Uses of Social Science Research (August 15, 2007) (PDF)
- Discontinuing the Use of Native American Nicknames, Logos and Mascots in Sport (March 6, 2007, with updated bibliography as of August 17, 2017)
- Academic Freedom and Cuba (February 4, 2007) (PDF)
- Creationism and Related Religious Doctrines in US Science Education (October 18, 2006) (PDF)
- Academic Independence and Scientific Integrity (September 19, 2006)
- ASA Statement on Human Rights on the Occasion of ASA's Centenary (August 17, 2005)
- Council Response to Statement by Harvard President (February 28, 2005)
- U.S. Government Vetting of Scientists to Serve on International Advisory Bodies (August 18, 2004)
- Maintaining the Integrity of U.S. Presidential Appointments of Scientists (August 18, 2004)
- ASA Statement Against the Proposed Constitutional Amendment Prohibiting Same-Sex Marriage (June 2004)
- The Importance of Collecting Data and Doing Social Scientific Research on Race (August 9, 2002) (PDF)