Footnotes 1986

January 1986 (Volume 14, Number 1)

• Four New (Petition) Candidates File for ASA Presidency–Edgar Borgatta, Amitai Etzioni, Albert J. Reiss, Jr., and Neil J. Smelser
• Enjoy New York on Fewer Dollars a Day (William Silverman)
• 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Further Highlights of the Emerging Program (Matilda White Riley)
• Observing: COSSA Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio)
• ASA Launches New Effort in Professional Development (Carla Howery)
• ASA Members Respond to ACLS Survey
• Nominations Sought for ASA Awards
• Salary Update: 1984-85 Figures for Academics
• Materials Sought for ASA Liberal Arts Monograph
• Two Conferences at Windspread Focus on Teaching: The Wingspread Conference on Teaching (Catherine White Berheide) and the National Conference on Higher Education (Theodore Wagenaar)
• Open Forum: “Why Neofunctionalism: Two Responses to Page” (Jeffrey C. Alexander and David Scuilli); “Looking Backward and Forward” (Claude C. Bowman)
• 1986 Directory of Members Begins Production
• Annual Meeting Space Available for Other Groups
• Leo Goodman, Teresa Sullivan, Robert Gutman Win Major Awards
• Teaching: “Professional Socialization Among Undergraduate Sociology Students” (Barbara R. Keating); “Taking Action for Undergraduate Student Participation” (Carla Howery)
• Resources for Under- and Unemployed Sociologists
• TRC Seeks Sociology of Religion Materials
• Soviet-U.S. Exchanges Begin at 1985 ASA Annual Meeting
• More Contributors
• Five Teaching Services Program Workshops Coming in Spring
• Minutes of August 31, 1985, meeting of ASA Council

February 1986 (Volume 14, Number 2)

• ASA Seeks New Professional Staff: Assistant Executive Officer for New Professional Development Program
• No Petition Candidates for Council, Committees
• 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Seminars, Courses, Workshops (Matilda White Riley)
• ASF Launches Three-Year Endowment Campaign
• Observing: Facing the Challenges (William D’Antonio)
• Letter to the Editor: Vote for the Nominated ASA President Candidates (William J. Chambliss)
• ASA Awards Near Deadlines
• Tour Information for ISA Meetings in India
• The New Budget Game: Welcome to Gramm-Rudman-Hollings (prepared by COSSA)
• Members Respond to New Journals (ST and TS); More Libraries Needed
• Sociologists Active in HHS Task Force on Minority Health (Lionel Maldonado)
• Katrina Johnson Serves as Task Force Director
• NIA Awards Grants for Research
• Members Invited to Apply for Annual Meeting Table Space
• Ask ASA! (new column)
• ASA, Other Sociology Organizations Work Together
• Materials Sought for Teaching Social Ecology
• Thanks to Contributors
• Teaching: Microcomputers Aid Teaching Research Methods (Russell K. Schutt)
• ASA Committees and Representatives
• Three Computer Workshops Offered in June
• New Capstone Course at GWU
• Teaching: A Computer Assisted Introductory Sociology Course (David Ellison)
• New Teaching Resources Available
• Special Issue of Quarterly Journal of Ideology on Controversy in the Classroom
• NSF Minority Research Initiative
• Howard F. Taylor to Lead Study of Minority Students
• Deaths: Minerva Etzioni (wife of Amitai Etzioni)
• Obituaries: Leonard Clayton Kercher
• Committee Reports

March 1986 (Volume 14, Number 3)

• Special Election Issue
• New York: Public Spaces are Resting Places
• The ASF Endowment Campaign: The Price of Commitment (William D’Antonio)
• The Minority Fellowship Program: A Successful Program at the Crossroads (Lionel Maldonado)
• Observing: Council Adopts Balanced Budget for 1986 (William D’Antonio)
• 1985 Audit
• Eight Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded
• 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Thematic and Plenary Sessions Take Shape (Matilda White Riley)
• Council Creates Editor-Designate Position; Rose, SPQ Editors Sought
• Feedback Sought on Guidelines for Parttime Faculty
• Council Acts on Business Meeting Resolutions: Affirms Policy to South Africa
• Publications Committee Evaluates SOE; Finds Scope Could be Broadened Still Further (Bettina Huber)
• Methodology Section Establishes Lazarsfeld Award
• Sociology of Religion Submissions Sought
• Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees
• Deaths: Joseph Ben-David, Alva Myrdal, Elliott M. Rudwick
• Obituaries: Herbert H. Hyman
• Committee Reports
• Section Reports

April 1986 (Volume 14, Number 4)

• Profiles of New ASA Editors: William Form (ASR), Ida Harper Simpson (CS), Philip Wexler (SOE)
• ASF Endowment Campaign Mounts Spring Telethon
• PhD Certification Program to Begin (Bettina Huber)
• 1987 Program Update: Theme is “Cross-National Research in Sociology”
• Observing: Social Science and the Federal Budget, FY87 (William D’Antonio)
• 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Regular Sessions, Roundtables, Tours, and More (Matilda White Riley)
• Exploring Greenwich Village (Caroline Hodges Persell)
• Hispanic Diversity in New York (Lloyd H. Rogler)
• New Presidential Series Volume Available: James F. Short, Jr.’s The Social Fabric
• NEH Acting Director John Agresto Advises Sociologists Seeking NEH Support (an interview by Carla Howery)
• E. Pluribus Unum (Asoke Basu)
• Polish, Czech, German Cooperation in Urban/Regional Sociology
• FY87 Budget Report Available from COSSA
• Open Forum: “Neofunctionalism: Long on Rhetoric, Short (As Yet) on Substance” (George Ritzer); “More on the Neofunctionalism Debate” (R. Stephen Warner); “On Chambliss and Alternative Candidates” (Kendrick S. Thompson)
• Submissions Sought on Historical Sociology
• A Place in Science: ASA Involvement in the AAAS
• Job Clinic Again Annual Meeting Feature
• ISA Update
• Annual Meeting Travel Grants for Foreign Students
• Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (Ross Koppel, George Dowdall, Arthur Shostak)
• Develop Greater Computer/Teaching Skills this Summer at ASA Workshops
• Teaching: High School Sociology: A View from California (Dean Dorn)
• Ethical Guidelines Covering the Publication Process (Barbara Reskin)
• On the Difference Between Reviewing and Being Reviewed (Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., reprinted from Science)
• Sociological Perspectives on Drunk Driving (Ellen Berg)
• The ASA Journal Calendar
• Good Ideas
• Council Reaffirms Constraints on Self, Committees
• Paulo Freire and William F. Whyte Discuss Practice and Teaching
• Update on Alpha Kappa Delta (Jerry Michel)
• Ask ASA
• Students: Attend the Annual Meeting
• Information on Competency Tests Sought
• Computer Network Exchange
• NIMH Reorganizes; New Division Created
• Congressman George Willer Receives Award
• Catastrophe Insurance Plan
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter Joins Harvard Business School Faculty
• Daniel Monti Receives Curators Publication Award
• Philip McMichael Receives Allan Sharlin Memorial Award
• William Chambliss Receives Criminal Justice Award
• 1986 ASA Reference Materials Available at a Discount
• Deaths: Waldo Wadsworth Burchard, H. Warren Dunham, Frank E. Hartung, Donald Marsh, Mary B. Treudley
• Obituaries: Gladys Meyer, Elliott Rudwick, Arthur F. Wileden
• Committee Reports, Section Reports, Representative Reports

May 1986 (Volume 14, Number 5)

• ASA Award Winners: Edward Shils, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Sister Marie Augusta Neal, Distinguished Contribution to Teaching; Conrad Taeuber, Career Award for the Practice of Sociology
• 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: In Anticipation of the Annual Meeting (Matilda White Riley)
• Annual SM to be Published by ASA (Bettina Huber)
• Observing: Questions and Answers (William D’Antonio)
• Jessie Bernard Award Open for Nominations
• Barrie Thorne, 1986 Miller Lecturer, Available for Campus Visits
• Minority Representation in U.S. Departments (Stephen Kulis, Karen A. Miller, Morris Axelrod, Leonard Gordon; first in a series)
• Looking for Something To Do? Attend the 1986 Annual Meeting!
• New York Offers Convention Attendees Fashion in Action (Ruth P. Rubinstein)
• ASA Hosts Congressional Seminar on Work and Family Policies
• ASF Plans Fund-Raising Auction for Annual Meeting
• Sociological Tours of the World
• IIS Changes Schedule for Future Congresses
• Topical Supplements Planned to the General Social Survey
• New Culture, Emotions Sections
• Faculty Exchange Center
• TSP Sponsoring Workshop on Computers
• Ad for Nancy Shaw Legal Defense Fund
• Deaths: William H. Exum, Sarah Alice Mayfield Rice, Leila Rosen Young
• Obituaries: H. Warren Dunham, Frank E. Hartung, Donald C. Marsh
• Section Reports
• Editors’ reports
• Special Pre-Publication Offer on SM86

August 1986 (Volume 14, Number 6)

• Election Results: Herbert J. Gans is ASA President Elect; Richard J. Hill Vice President Elect
• Stephen A. Buff Joins ASA Staff
• Members Respond to ASF Campaign
• 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Program Highlights: Join Us in New York (Matilda White Riley)
• A Snapshot Tour of New York
• Sociologists in Business Organize Network
• Media Plans Press Forward (Ruth Thaler and Carla Howery)
• ASF to Hold Auction at Annual Meeting (Jay Demerath)
• Secretary’s Report: Today’s ASA: Redefining Our Goals (Theodore Caplow)
• Executive Officer’s Report: A Year of New Activities (William D’Antonio)
• Observing: ASA’s 1985 Budget Audit: A Smaller than Expected Deficit (William D’Antonio)
• 1985 Audit
• Textook Donations Sought
• Thank You ASA Contributors
• Sociology Around the World (Carla Howery)
• SWS/DCSS Make Donations
• Open Forum: “Media Interest in a Sociology Course” (Jerry M. Lewis); “Sociological Forces” (Donald L. Metz); “Poem” (Bob LaFleur)
• NSF Graduate Fellowship Awards
• Stanford Fellows
• Letter to the Editor: Blind Voting (Harry Perlstadt)
• Flourishing Exchanges Between Chinese and American Sociologists (Nan Lin)
• The Prosperity of China: Celebrating the Seventh Anniversary of the Reestablishment of Chinese Sociology (Wang Kang)
• The American Sociologist (TAS) Resumes Publication
• Media and Sociology: Positive Press (Carla Howery)
• NRC Funds Projects by Three Sociologists
• 1987 Call for Papers: Sessions, Organizers Announced
• Pre-Publication Offer on Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals
• Culture Section Now Organizing
• ASF T-Shirts
• International Society of Political Psychology
• New Section on Emotions
• Deaths: Charles R. Lawrence, Edward Sagarin
• Obituaries: William Henry Exum, Leila Rosen Young
• Minutes of January 31, 1986, meeting of ASA Council

October 1986 (Volume 14, Number 7)

• ASA Major Award Recipients: Edward A. Shils, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Sister Marie Augusta Neal, Career of Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Conrad Taeuber, Career of Distinguished Contributions to Practice of Sociology; Aldon Morris and Lenore Weitzman, Distinguished Scholarly Publications; James Blackwell, Dubois-Johnson-Franzier Award; John Clausen, Common Wealth Award
• Major Addresses Focus on Aging, Sociological Lives (Ellen Berg)
• Clausen Donates Half of Common Wealth Award Stipend to ASF
• New Sections on Culture, Emotions Off to Good Start
• Council Briefs
• 1986 Annual Meeting: The Greatest Show on Earth (Ellen Berg)
• Nominations Invited for Innovative Jensen Scholarship
• Applications Invited for Problems of the Discipline Grants
• Scenes from New York
• A Celebration of Practice
• 1987 Guide Listing Forms Mailed
• MFP Announces New Fellows for 1986-87
• MFP Fundraising Efforts and Contributions
• Profile of the President: Melvin L. Kohn: Linking Social Structure and Personality (Glen H. Elder, Jr.)
• Observing: Postlude to the 1986 Election (William D’Antonio)
• TRC Seeks Submissions for Monograph on Branch Campuses
• Teaching: Zero Base and Safety Valve: Procedures for Curriculum Revision (Charlotte Vaughan, Reece McGee)
• New Venture at NSF: An Organizations Database
• Theory Is the Key in Introductory Sociology at Vassar (Ellen Burg)
• Open Forum: “The Black Family: Under Attack Again” (Joyce E. Williams); “Still More on Neofunctionalism” (Seth Knoepler); “Lest We Hope in Vain: On the First Anniversary of the U.S. Institute of Peace” (Peter Nishiyama)
• Peace Institute Announces Grant Procedures
• Deaths: Kenneth Olsen, Robert Verbeck
• Obituaries: Edward Sagarin, Mary Lees, Roger L. Riffer
• Frederic Wakeman New SSRC President
• Update on ST

November 1986 (Volume 14, Number 8)

• 1988 Annual Meeting Theme: Sociology in America (Herbert J. Gans)
• 1988 Candidates for ASA President, Vice President
• Sections Bestow Awards in New York
• ASA/MFP Doctoral Fellowship Applications
• Observing: Rethinking the Dues Structure (William D’Antonio)
• Emotions Section Gets Off the Ground
• Letter From the Editor: Apology for “ad hominem” statements about Talcott Parsons and Jeffrey Alexander (William D’Antonio)
• Registry of Retired Sociologists Available
• 1987 Program Update: More Sessions, Organizers
• Order the Cumulative Index Now
• Report of the IIS Congress
• New TRC Products Debut at Annual Meeting
• Louis Goodman Appointed Dean at American University
• SM86 Now Available
• ASA/Duke University Sponsor Jensen Award
• Daniel Sullivan New President of Allegheny College
• Life on the Applied/Clinical Side (Thomas J. Rice)
• Update on Human Rights Cases (Carla Howery)
• Rose and Lewis Coser Retire
• Submissions Solicited for 1987 Teaching Resources
• ASA Sponsors Seminars for Federal Employers (Bettina Huber)
• Interactive Videodisc Technology as Revolution
• 1986 Gerontology Fellows
• Lois DeFleur Named Provost at University of Missouri-Columbia
• Obituaries: Cesar Grana

December 1986 (Volume 14, Number 9)

• 1987 Annual Meeting Theme: “Cross National Research in Sociology” (Melvin L. Kohn)
• ASA Reaffirms Atlanta in 1988
• Candidates Announced for 1987 Election (Council/Committees)
• Observing: The Undergraduate Program in Sociology (William D’Antonio)
• Stalking the Undergraduate Credit Hour: Some Ideas and Tactics (Gerald Marwell)
• TSP Field Coordinator: Report on the First Year (William Ewens)
• Call for Rural Sociology Materials
• From the Past President: Report on 1986: Integrative Impuses in the Discipline (Matilda White Riley)
• “Lost” Authors: ASA Owes You Reprint Fees!
• NAE/NRC Fellows
• COSSA Acts as Catalyst for OMB Investigation
• Sociologist Donald W. Light Writes for Scientific American
• Subscribe to COSSA Washington Update
• Update on Certification (Lionel Maldonado)
• 1987 Regional Meeting Schedule
• TRC Seeks Religion Submissions
• ASA Contributors
• Annual Meeting Media Papers Published
• Researching the Church from Within (Carla Howery)
• Sociological Perspectives on AIDS (Ellen Berg)
• ASA/NSF/Census Research Program (Arnold Reznek)
• Lewis Coser Appointed PBK Scholar
• Teaching: Problems Foreign Students Face as Teaching Assistants (Akbar Mahdi, John Useem, William Ewens)
• Attend Teaching Workshop on Establishing Research Centers
• Open Forum: “An Unanticipated Retirement Obstacle” (George K. Floro); “The Practice and the Discipline: Why We Must Choose” (Henry H. Brownstein)
• NIMH Research Grants
• Sociologists Win Guggenheim, NSF, ACLS Fellowships and Grants
• New Beneficiary Survey from Social Security
• The Greatest Books of Sociology (Delbert C. Miller)
• Deaths: Marston McCluggage
• Obituaries: Kenneth Marvin Olson, James A. Sartain

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