Footnotes 1973 | American Sociological Association

January 1973 (Volume 1, Number 1)

Fog Lifts as Council Moves at Golden Gate
A Note on Footnotes
456 New PhDs Seek Employment
Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching (COFRAT) Gets Guidelines for Go at Grievances
Free Sociological Inquiry
Sex and Publication Credit
Economizing Be Hanged; We Need to Add Some New Functionalities on Our Campuses
East Europe Turning to Sociologists for Some Answers (Robert G. Kaiser and Dan Morgan)
1973 ASA Committees and Representatives
International Sociological Association (ISA) Announces the Eighth World Congress of Sociology
Short Skis to Cast Editor
Obituaries: Thomas Jackson Woofter, Morris Gilmore Caldwell

February 1973 (Volume 1, Number 2)

Discussion Group Summary: Carmel Conference Ponders Graduate Training Options
Last Chance: March 1 Deadline for Directory of Members Entry
Annual Meeting Update: Ten Roads to Refreshment in 1973
Change in Nominees: Smith for Eckland vs. Thompson
ASA on SAS Award: Methodology Selection Committee Announced
Five Areas to be Probed: What Have We Learned
Open Forum: Howard Schuman , “Introduction to Alien Research”; Lois B. DeFleur, “Squeeze on Discipline”; Herb Costner, “Stratch a Sociologist”; Water R. Gove, “Hardnosed Journal”; Joan Aldous, “Is Anyone Listening”; Charles E. Bidwell, “Skills, Commitments, Capacities”; Kurt W. Back, “Social Value of Science”; Richard L. Simpson, “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom” Burkart Holzner, “More Time for Doctoral Study”; W. Richard Scott, “New Organizational Forms”; Robert L. Hall, “Create C.A.S.S.”; Robert F. Winch, “A Plurality of Themes”
On to Montreal: 1974 Program Committee Meets
Interpersonal Rating Scale
Clarification: ASA Reprint Policies and Permission Fees
Socio-Crostic No. 2 (crossword puzzle)
Sociologists on Board: TV Political Advertising to be Collected and Catalogued for Research
Guide to Help Community Leaders Use 1970 Census Data
Presidential Box: Famous Last Words (from Lester F. Ward’s 1906 ASA Presidential Address)
Letter to the Editor: “Change-Agent Delighted” (Robert W. Friedrichs)

March 1973 (Volume 1, Number 3)

Coleman Prods Government and Probes: Ten Principles Governing Research
Facts Confirm Rumors: Training Grants to Terminate
Focus and Locus of: Center for Coordination of Research on Social Indicators
Open Forum: H.M. Blalock, Jr., “Thoughts on the Development of Sociology”; Gertrude MacFarlane, “On Canadianism”; Joan Huber, “On Criteria for Hiring, Promotion, Tenure”
Letter to the Editor: “Whop Drop Boomerang (Paul M. Roman); “Edgar Eats On” (Edgar F. Borgatta)
Presidential Box: Famous Last Words (from Albion Small’s 1912 ASA Presidential Address)
What’s the Message: Communications to the Executive Office
Deaths: Kimball Young, Thomas D. Eliot
Obituaries: Samuel Koenig
Prometheus Bound? New Archives Invites Participation by Students of Change and Social Policy
Notes on Votes: Youth Timid in Turnout in 1972 Presidential Election
Anonymous Contribution: Sociological Theorists Comment on 1972 Election
Minutes from December 2, 1972 meeting of 1973 Council

April 1973 (Volume 1, Number 4)

NSF Sponsors Six Summer Institutes for Secondary School Teachers in Sociology
New Mandate for CSWS
Institute International de Sociologie
Structure Functions as Council and Committees Convene in Quarterly Confab
Open Forum: Philo Wasburn, “On Letters of Recommendation”; David R. Fendrick, “On the Modern-Day Tower of Babel”
Call for Limericks
Afrikaans to Zulu: The Many Tongues of Higher Education
Questions and Answers: The NORC National Data Program for the Social Sciences
“The Limits of Growth” Explored
Note to Sociology Departments: How to Start a Chapter of AKD
Sex Semantics from The Vermont Sociologist
Scholars Examine Value of Social Scientists in Public Policy (William Chapman, Washington Post Staff Writer, with introduction by Harold J. Laski)
A Tribute to Conrad Taeuber
Active Amitai: The Many Roles of a Sociologist
Letters to the Editor: “Challenge to Council” (Dudley Duncan); Corrections on Soviet Sociology (Wesley A. Fisher)
Obituaries: Benjamin Kaplan

May 1973 (Volume 1, Number 5)

New ASA Publication: The Status of Women in Sociology, 1968-1972
How Far from Providence? Participation in the Annual Program: Preliminary Report
Ida Harper Simpson to Edit Rose Monograph Series
Undergraduate Education Asserts that “The Best is Last”–On ASA New York Program
Letters to the Editor: “Graduate Training Options” (Ludwig L. Geismar); “Response to Geismar” (Herbert L. Costner); “Michigan Program” (John E. Tropman); “Scale Trail” (Carl L. Harter); “A Response to Coleman’s ‘Ten Principles Governing Policy Research [March 1973]” (Ivan Chapman); “Brockinvwestrange” (Don Brockway III); “Letters of Recommendation” (Richard J. Hill); “Support Robert Bellah” (Jessie Bernard); “Undergraduate Section Newsletter” (Melvin J. Williams); “Response to Blalock” (Jiri Kolaja); “Imaginative Fee Structure” (David R. Carlin); “Purge of Radical Sociologists” (Jack Nusan Porter); “Personal Tribute to Warner E. Gettys” (Reece McGee)
Methodology Section Sponsors Training Institute
Grantsmanship and Other Matters
Federal Service Entrance Examinations
Backlash Mounts for Women and Minorities: Reverse Bias Alleged in College Hiring (Bart Barnes)
A Strategy for Science Education in the 1970s
Impressions from a Romanian Sociologist: Among Social Scientists in America (Erno Gall)
Pittsburgh Launches an Applied Sociology Program
Where Do You Publish? Sociologists to Compile Directory of Journals
“The American Soldier” Revisited
Lloyd Rogler Appointed to National Advisory Mental Health Council
Obituaries: Kimball Young, John J. Kane
Call for Syllabi and Reading Lists on World Conflicts
Minutes of March 3-4, 1973 meeting of the 1973 Council

August 1973 (Volume 1, Number 6)

President-Elect Peter Blau Posts Plans for 1975 Montreal Meeting
Presidential Perspective from New York: The Year in Review (Mirra Komarovsky)
Our New President Peter Blau (Peter H. Rossi)
Panels to Probe Publishing and Federal Research Funding
Election Results: Coser President, Smelser Vice President, Form Secretary
Change in By-Laws Proposed: Vote on Nominations Procedures Scheduled
Special Fund Created and Study Groups on Theoretical and Methodological Issues Authorized
Faulty Engineers or Neglected Experts?
A Mentor of Sociologists [Talcott Parsons] Retires After 42 Years at Harvard Post (Robert Reinhold)
Open Forum: “Reactions to Coleman on Policy Research” (LaMar T. Empey); “The Problem of ‘Policy’” (Edmund Volkart); “On Obstacles to the Development of New Fields in Sociology” (Robert C. Atchley); “Editor of ASR Responds” (James F. Short, Jr.); “Editor of Sociometry Responds” (Richard J. Hill)
Letters to the Editor: “Grievances” (Peter H. Rossi); “Response to Blalock” (Morton King); “Utopias, Power, Love” (Don Brockway III); “No Purge” (Nicholas J. Demerath); “GRE Scores Again” (James W. Loewen); “Urge Affirmative Action” (Marjorie G. Kelley); “Need for Data” (Joan Huber); “Letter to Skewed Association” (Marshall I. Farkas); “CSWS Protest” (Cora Bagley Marrett, Rose Laub Coser, Karen O. Mason, Shirley Nuss, Murray A. Straus, James Sweet, Lenore J. Weitzman); “Letters of Recommendation Revisited” (Philo Wasburn); “Letters Controversy” (James Boudoris)
The Academic Woman . . . Male vs. Female: A Bread-and-Butter Issue
Support and Promote Affirmative Action Programs
Capitol Gains
Obituaries: Henry Allen Bullock, Serwood Dean Fox
Report of the Secretary (J. Milton Yinger)
Report of the Executive Officer (Otto N. Larsen)
Report of the Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women (Maurice Jackson)
Editors’ Reports
Committee Reports
Minutes from the June 2-3, 1974 meeting of the 1973 Council

October 1973 (Volume 1, Number 7)

Million Dollar Minority Fellowship Program
Guidelines for Funding New Approaches to Problems of the Discipline
Joan R. Harris Named ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women
Membership Categories May Be Revised As Canadian Call for Constitutional Revision Heeded
Open Forum: “The Sociological Condition: A Response to Blalock” (Ann E. Davis
Section Resurrection: Social Psychology Lives Again
Everything High at 68^th Annual Meeting
$10,000 to ISA for 8^th World Congress
ASA Presidents Parley in New York
Questions and Answers from the New York Program
Letters: “Competition for What Ales Us” (Saul D. Feldman; “ASA Membership Trends: Correction” (Robert A. Rothman); “Annual Meeting Program” (Y. Michal Bodemann)
Academies Elect Sociologists to Membership
Awards of NATO Senior Fellowships in Science
NIE Research Policy Announced
Sociologists on NIE Review Panels
Deaths: Erwin O. Smigel, Emory S. Bogardus
Obituaries: Sigurd Johansen, Warner Ensign Gettys

November 1973 (Volume 1, Number 8)

Million Dollar Minority Fellowship Program
Guidelines for Funding New Approaches to Problems of the Discipline
Joan R. Harris Named ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women
Membership Categories May Be Revised As Canadian Call for Constitutional Revision Heeded
Open Forum: “The Sociological Condition: A Response to Blalock” (Ann E. Davis
Section Resurrection: Social Psychology Lives Again
Everything High at 68^th Annual Meeting
$10,000 to ISA for 8^th World Congress
ASA Presidents Parley in New York
Questions and Answers from the New York Program
Letters: “Competition for What Ales Us” (Saul D. Feldman; “ASA Membership Trends: Correction” (Robert A. Rothman); “Annual Meeting Program” (Y. Michal Bodemann)
Academies Elect Sociologists to Membership
Awards of NATO Senior Fellowships in Science
NIE Research Policy Announced
Sociologists on NIE Review Panels
Deaths: Erwin O. Smigel, Emory S. Bogardus
Obituaries: Sigurd Johansen, Warner Ensign Gettys

December 1973 (Volume 1, Number 9)

Bennett Berger to Edit Contemporary Sociology
New ASA Directory of Members and Guide to Graduate Departments Available
Dues Billing Delayed for 1974 Membership Renewal
1974 ASA Committees and Representatives
Open Forum: “Affirmative Action in Action” (Edgar Borgatta)
Affirmative Action–Affirmative Results? (Maurice Jackson)
Letters to the Editor: “A Very Small Fable for Our Times” (Midred Seltzer); “Correspondence on Conflict Methodology between Peter M. Blau, ASA President, and T.R. Young, Director, The Red Feature Institute” (Peter Blau, T.R. Young); “Committee Calls for Aid to Chile” (Maurice Zeitlin); “Perchilda from Pullerchild, Washington” (William R. Catton, Jr.); “Kudos for Karate” (Erwin Krohl)
Annual Membership Dues Rates
Minutes from August 30, 1973 meeting of the 1974 Council
Minutes from August 29, 1973 Business Meeting
Call for Nominations for ASA Sorokin and Stouffer Awards
Nominations Opened and Canadians Internationalized as Members Vote to Revise ASA By-Laws
Auditor’s Report, June 30, 1973

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