Footnotes 1987

January 1987 (Volume 15, Number 1)

• Andrew Greeley Makes $50,000 Challenge Grant to ASF
• New Sections Established: Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Culture
• Joseph Gittler Bequest Funds Two Sociology Chairs at George Mason University
• Robert Merton Receives Honorary Degree from Oxford
• Increasing the Effectiveness of the ASA Public Information Program
• Nominations Sought for ASA Awards
• Council Acts on Paul Cameron Case
• Industrial Sociology: The Competitive Edge (Robert H. Guest)
• Teaching Column: Problems Foreign Students Face as Teaching Assistants (Akbar Mahdi)
• Teaching Services Program to Hold Workshop on Changing the Sociology Curriculum
• National Science Foundation FY1986 Awards
• Teaching Column: Grading Electronically (Nicholas Mullins)
• Homelessness in Three Dimensions: Professors, Practitioners, and Politicians (Russell K. Schutt and Gerald R. Garrett)
• Carnegie Corporation Appoints 24 Members to Council on Adolescent Development
• Minority Representation in U.S. Departments of Sociology (Stephen Kulis, Karen A. Miller, Morris Axelrod, and Leonard Gordon)
• Sociological Practitioners Get More Respect (George C. Zeller)
• Open Forum: “Look to Literature” (Thomas J. Scheff)
• Council on International Educational Exchange Honors John Useem and Ruth Hill Useem
• Reflections on the ISA Meeting in New Delhi (Larry Suter)
• Electronic Network Committee Plans New Service
• Good Ideas
• Obituaries: Nels Anderson, Joel Van Meter Berreman, Carol A. Fromme, Ronald Lippitt, Charles S. Perry
• Minutes of September 2, 1986, meeting of 1985-86 ASA Council

February 1987 (Volume 15, Number 2)

• ASA Professional Development Program Shapes Up (Stephen A. Buff)
• New Section on Sociology of Culture (Ellen Berg)
• Observing: “Bits ‘n Pieces” (William V. D’Antonio)
• Teaching Services Program Sponsors Practice Workshop
• Donald Pierson Honored by University of Bahia (Brazil)
• Get Yourself Some Press Coverage (Carla B. Howery)
• ASA Committees and Representatives
• Open Forum: “A Response to Miller’s ‘Great Books’” (Ellen Ziskind Berg); “Professional Dignity” (Michael A. Faia); “ASA and Politics” (Seymour Yellin)
• Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop
• ASF Contributors
• Sociologists and Big Science: Applied Sociology in Multidisciplinary Research (David Gottlieb)
• Sociologists Receive 1986-87 Fulbright Grants
• Robert M. Hauser Receives Lazarsfeld Award
• ASA Award Nomination Reminders
• NSF Seeks Applicants for Sociology Program Director
• Teaching Column: Measuring Up to Writing Good Multiple Choice Tests (Carla B. Howery)
• Deaths: Dick Haas, Robert T. LaPiere
• Minutes from September 6, 1986, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council
• Section Reports

March 1987 (Volume 15, Number 3)

• ASA Establishes Practice Journal (Sociological Practice Review); First Editor South
• ASF Pursues Second Hundred Thousand (Jay Demerath)
• University of California Agrees to Settlement with Nancy Shaw
• 1987 Annual Meeting: Ethnic Diversity Enlivens Chicago (William T. Liu)
• Observing: Council Struggles to Balance 1987 Budget (William D’Antonio)
• Council Briefs
• Teaching Services Program to Hold Workshop on Integrating Computers into the Curriculum
• Feminist Theory: Moving Sociology from the “Malestream” (Ellen Berg)
• Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees
• MFP Task Force Changes Direction, Marches On
• Gary Becker Receives NIH MERIT Award
• Teaching Sociology Holds Lottery for Student Subscriptions
• Sociologists’ AIDS Network Formed
• ASA Contributors
• AKD Elects New Officers
• Deaths: Charles Flynn, Mrs. Paul Takagi
• Obituaries: Richard T. LaPiere
• Section Reports

April 1987 (Volume 15, Number 4)

• Career Expert (Richard Irish) to Conduct 1987 Annual Meeting Job Clinic
• Seven Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded
• Nancy Shaw Awarded Tenure by University of California-Santa Cruz
• Editor Sought for Sociological Practice Review
• Observing: Meeting the Challenges (William D’Antonio)
• Soviet Sociologist (Tatyana Zaslavskaya) Calls for Attention to Her Science
• The Sixth Circle or “Dis Must be the Place” (Albert Hunter)
• Richard Ofshe Wins Case Against Synanon (Lionel Maldonado)
• Marge Clark and Ember Reichgott Bring Sociology to State Houses (Carla B. Howery)
• June Competition for Problems of the Discipline Grants
• Medical Sociology Section Graduate Internship Program in Applied Medical Sociology
• Honors Program Accepting Applications for Annual Meeting
• Available June 1987: Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals
• COPAFS: Meeting the Challenges of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
• TSP Field Coordinator Sought
• Letters to the Editor: “Business as Usual” (Ralph L. Spencer); “A Letter from Another Publisher” (Franklin C. Graham; responding to Ted Peacock)
• TSP Workshop on Critical Thinking
• Wolhlers Insurance Offers Daily Cash Benefits
• Ellen Black Winston Honored by American Association of University Women
• Open Forum: “More Greatest Books” (Claude C. Bowman); “Take Care in Labeling” (Robert M. Marsh; response to Kulis et al.)
• Black-on-Black Crime: Old Wine, New Bottle (Bernard D. Headley)
• TSP Workshop on Community-Based Learning
• Norman Goodman Recognized for Teaching Excellence
• Deaths: Alvin C. Dorse, Anne K. Peters, Peter New
• Obituaries: Harry Jennings Crockett, Jr., Philip M. Marcus
• Section Reports
• Committee Reports

May 1987 (Volume 15, Number 5)

• Lois Lee Takes Back Children from the Night
• ASF Endowment Campaign: A Rationale (Jay Demerath)
• ASA Awards Announced: Wilbert E. Moore, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; William A. Gamson, Distinguished Contribution to Teaching; John W. Riley, Distinguished Career for the Practice of Sociology
• Observing: Meeting the Challenge? (William D’Antonio)
• Carla Howery and James Fremming Are Proud Parents of Kevin Carl Fremming, Born March 16
• Committee Appointed to Review ASA Dues Structure
• Panel Urges More Large NSF Awards
• 1987 Annual Meeting: Chicago: Your Kind of Town (Robert F. Lovely)
• Travel Grants for Students
• Methods and Statistics Requirements for the MA Degree: Some Data from Sociology Departments (Bettina J. Huber; first in a series)
• Black Sociologists at Washington State University: A Homecoming (Robert F. Meier)
• SWS Presents Miller Lectureship to Barbara Reskin
• James F. Short, Jr., Receives Washington State Excellence Award
• William Darrow Reports on AIDS Among Prostitutes
• Letter-Writing Campaign Helps Keep Yugoslav Sociologist Milan Nikolic Out of Jail
• TSP Field Coordinator Sough
• 1987 Annual Meeting Information
• Open Forum: “On Paul Cameron” (Chester L. Hunt)
• Obituaries: George Benello, Charles P. Flynn, Paul H. Jacobsen, Herbert Menzel
• Committee Reports
• Representative Reports
• Editors’ Reports

August 1987 (Volume 15, Number 6)

• Joan Huber Elected ASA President; Glen H. Elder, Jr., is Vice President
• Savoring the “Second City” (Chicago; Phil Nyden)
• Teresa Sullivan New Editor of the Rose Monograph Series
• Karen S. Cook New Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly
• Executive Officer’s Report: A Five-Year Review (William D’Antonio)
• Observing: 1986 Audit: A Precarious Balance (William D’Antonio)
• NSF Organizations Data Base Awards
• Milton Yinger Honored at Oberlin
• Sociologists Win Guggenheim Fellowships
• James S. Coleman Receives Honorary Degree from University of Southern California
• Gerontological Society of America Fellows Announced
• Regional Societies Bestow Awards (SSS, NCSA, MSS)
• William Julius Wilson Receives MacArthur Award
• 1988 Call for Papers: ASA in Atlanta
• Annual Review of Sociology: Stability and Change (W. Richard Scott)
• Matida White Riley and Harold Wilensky Elected to AAAS
• Frances Mullaney and Davida Weinberg Are Newcombe Fellows
• NIMH Develops Guidelines for Research on Women’s Mental Health
• Ed Chasteen: Sociologist’s Biking Odyssey
• Update on ASA Press Activities
• Students Win Teaching Sociology Subscription Lottery
• Sociological Practice Association Annual Meeting
• David Goslin to Leave National Research Council
• The Social Sciences in the National Academy of Sciences
• Clinton Jesser Runs in Peace Maraton
• Dutch Sociologists to Attend ASA Annual Meeting
• Deaths: Emory Kimbrough, Jr., Herman R. Lantz
• Obituaries: Donald N. Barrett, Herbert Blumer, Ira H. Cisin, Alvin C. Dorse, Fredric Lee DuBow, Harry Fishman, John T. Gullahorn, Gunnar Myrdal, Anne K. Peters, Konstantin Symmons
• Minutes from January 23, 1987, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council

October 1987 (Volume 15, Number 7)

• ASA Awards Presented in Chicago: Sandra Harding and Judith Rollins, Jessie Bernard Award; William A. Gamson, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; John W. Riley, Jr., Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Wilbert E. Moore, Career of Distinguished Scholarship
• MFP Invites Applications
• Observing: Reflections on the ASA Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio)
• Council Briefs
• Herb Gans: “How Do You Known That?” (Judith Blau)
• MFP Announces New 1987-88 Fellows
• Catastrophe Major Medical Plan
• TRC Seeks Teaching Materials
• Amitai Etzioni Awarded Professorship at Harvard Business School
• Graduate Students Receive Spencer Dissertation Fellowships
• Rural Sociological Society Presents Awards
• Menno Boldt Receives Haultain Prize
• David Garth Taylor Receives APSA Book Award
• ASA/NSF Grant Deadline
• Six Receive ASA/NSF Grants
• New TRC Products Available
• New Rose Monograph on Social Investment by Severyn Bruyn
• Deaths: Donald R. Cressey, Frederick Fliegel, Hans Haferkamp, Uriel Schoenbach
• Obituaries: Paul Duncan-Jones, Gilberto Freyre, Roger H. Jehenson, Emory Kimbrough, Jr., Herman R. Lantz

November 1987 (Volume 15, Number 8)

• Strengthening Sociology’s Position in the University (Joan Huber)
• 1989 Annual Meeting Program Topics, Organizers Invited
• MFP Invites Applications
• Candidates for 1989 President-Elect, Vice President-Elect
• Observing: Rethinking the Intellectual Challenge (William D’Antonio)
• Sociologist-Journalist Sought for Clearinghouse
• NIMH Increases Funding for Sociology
• 1988 Annual Meeting Program Update: ASA in Atlanta
• Sections Present 1987 Awards in Chicago
• SSSI Annual Spring Symposium Held in Urbana
• Soviet and U.S. Sociologists Work Together (Michael Swafford)
• AKD Holds Statewide Initiation
• Media Beat: Sociologist as Columnist (Gordon Clanton)
• GSS Survey: An Update (Duane F. Alwin)
• Obituaries: Margaret T. Cussler, Milla A. Alihan
• Minutes from August 20, 1987, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council
• Minutes from August 22, 1987, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council

December 1987 (Volume 15, Number 9)

• Candidates Announced for 1988 ASA Election
• Updated Figures on Faculty Salaries (Bettina J. Huber)
• MFP Invites Applications
• Membership Benefits Packages Sent Bulk Rate
• Two Vignettes of Academia in Latin America (Donald P. Irish)
• On Sabbatical in Nicaragua (Joel P. Lazinger)
• Aid Request from Nicaraguan Sociologists
• SSA Auction to Benefit MFP
• Books in Third World Countries
• New ASA Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology
• Open Forum: “ASA and Politics, Left and Right” (Mark Iutcovich); “More on Cameron” (Committee on Status of Homosexuals in Sociology); “Expansively ‘Doing’ Sociology: Thoughts on the Limits and Linkages of Sociological Practice” (Norman L. Friedman)
• ASA Department Services Program Begins
• Sociology in China: A New Approach (Richard H. Hall)
• Teaching Workshop Looks at Local Research Centers
• Good Ideas
• Study of “Natural Experiment in History” Completed
• Ask ASA
• National Institute on Aging Research Grants
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
• National Institute on Mental Health Research Grants
• National Research Council Minority Fellowships
• SSRC/ACLS Grant Foreign Area Awards
• 1987 National Science Foundation Awards
• ASA Section on Microcomputers Considered
• TSP Workshop on Integrating Computers into the Curriculum
• ASA Contributors
• 1988 Regional Meeting Schedule
• Sociology in the Field: A Variety of Work Roles at U.S.DA (Lambert N. Wenner)
• ASA/NSF/Census Research Program (Arnold Reznek)
• ASA Award Deadlines
• Deaths: Stuart Queen, Fred Roy Yoder
• Obituaries: Donald R. Cressey, Gerard DeGre, Frederick Fliegel, Eugene M. Kleban

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