Footnotes 1988

January 1988 (Volume 16, Number 1)

• Membership Survey Results Help Guide Future (Carla B. Howery)
• Clearinghouse Seeks News, Media Contacts
• ASA President Herbert Gans Honored by SUNY-Albany
• Sociology Major (Tim Brown) Wins Heisman Trophy
• A Newcomer’s View of NSF (about Phyllis Moen; by Carla B. Howery)
• Committee on World Sociology Liaison Coordinators
• Observing: Bits and Pieces (William D’Antonio)
• Teaching Column: Teaching Courses in Controversial and Value-Laden Areas (Kathleen McKinney)
• TSP Workshop on Local Research Centers
• The Presentation of Minorities in Sociology (Richard R. Verdugo and James E. Blackwell)
• Peter Rossi Presents First Jensen Lectures
• “Sociologist’s Song” Available from TRC
• The Resurgence of Sociology at California State University-Los Angeles (Ralph Thomlinson)
• Jonathan R. Cole Named Vice President, Arts and Sciences, at Columbia University
• Barbara Katz Rothman Named SWS Miller Lecturer
• Guidelines for Employment of Part-Time Faculty
• Congressions of a Part-Time Professor (Thomas K. Pinhey)
• Open Forum: ”For More Sociology/Society Interface” (Amitai Etzioni); “South Korean Sociologist Imprisoned” (Alvin L. Jacobson)
• ISA Group Urges Housing Reform
• Three Books Win SSSP Award
• Nominations Sought for ASA Awards
• The Treatment of Gender in Research
• A Varied Menu of Teaching Workshops
• Sociological Networking (Russell K. Schutt for the Electronic Sociological Network Committee)
• New TRC Product on Inclusive Curriculum
• Certification, Licensure, and Legitimacy (Lisa King)
• Deaths: Maurice Jackson, Jay Schulman, Louis Zurcher
• Obituaries: Stuart A. Queen, Fred R. Yoder

February 1988 (Volume 16, Number 2)

• Robin M. Williams, Jr., Receives Common Wealth Award
• MFP Makes Dissertation Awards for 1987-88
• Editors Sought for American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior
• TSP Workshop on Computers
• Observing: Honors and Achievements (William D’Antonio)
• Sociologists Receive NEH Awards
• Inside 1722: Edwards and Frensilli Guide Publications
• Methods and Statistics Requirement for the MA Degree (Bettina J. Huber; second in a series)
• Sociologists Receive NIDA Research Grants
• 1987-88 Fulbright Awards
• Nominations Sought for ASA Awards
• Open Forum: “And God Created Man . . .” (Raymond Eve); “On the Theory of Culture” (Robert Wuthnow); “Nicaragua: A Vibrant, Open Society” (Richard A. Dello Buono)
• Women & Minorities
• The Computer Network
• More ASA Contributors
• The Social World of Florida’s Mariel Cubans (Lionel Maldonado)
• ASA’s Cumulative Index: A Welcome Aid to Many
• TSP Workshop on “Teaching the Sociology of Family Violence”
• Sociology of the Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 (Olaf Larson)
• Fire at University of Dayton
• Letter to the Editor: “A Media Event Worth Viewing” (Thomas J. Scheff)
• Open Forum: “Bureaucracy at the Indo-U.S. Subcommission” (Helena Z. Lopata)
• Manhattan Study: A Classic
• Raising Your Hand Just Won’t Do (Gary T. Marx)
• Social/Behavioral Science Research Funding: 1988 Federal Budget
• Ask ASA
• Deaths: Wilbert E. Moore
• Obituaries: Graham Tomlinson
• Section Reports

March 1988 (Volume 16, Number 3)

• MFP Expands to Undergraduates, Postdocs
• David Armor: The Sociologist as Policy Maker
• Observing: 1988’s Balanced Budget: A Commentary (William D’Antonio)
• Inside 1722: Astner Conducts Annual Meetings
• ASA Council Approves Credit Card Proposal
• ASA Council Tackles a Full Agenda at Mid-Year Meeting (Council Briefs)
• Editors Sought for ASR, JHSB
• TSP Workshop on Participatory Research and Community-Based Education
• New TRC Product: Teaching Sociology on the Branch Campus
• Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees
• Obituaries: Jack London, William G. Mather, Jay Schulman
• Editors’ Reports
• Section Reports
• Committee Reports

April 1988 (Volume 16, Number 4)

• Explore Atlanta on Sociology Tours
• New Think Tank Links Research and Policy on Women: Heidi Hartmann (Carla Howery)
• Publications Committee Evaluates JHSB
• Observing: Is It Morning Again in Sociology (William D’Antonio)
• Inside 1722: “Good Morning . . . . ASA; May I Help You”—Nancy Sylvester
• STEP Grants for Meeting Travel
• Representation of Women in U.S. Sociology Departments (Karen A. Miller, Stephen Kulis, Leonard Gordon, and Morris Axelrod)
• Reach Out and Touch Someone: A Report on AIDS (Ellen Berg)
• Ask ASA
• Professional Ethics and the ASA (Barbara Altizer and Benigno Aguirre)
• Open Forum: “And Sociologists Created Man” (Pierre van den Berghe)
• Ronald Kessler Wins MERIT Award
• 1988 Annual Meeting: Sociology by Subway in Atlanta (Brian Sherman)
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter Writes on “Massachusetts Miracle” with Dukakis
• Richard Irish to Lead 1988 Annual Meeting Job Clinic
• Improving Sociology’s Relations with Journals (Herbert Gans)
• Funding and Activities of the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development
• Sociologists Think Science (magazine)
• ASA Honors Program in Atlanta
• University of Southern California Prepares Sociologists to Do Family Therapy (Carla Howery)
• NSF Seeks Applicants for Sociology Position
• POD Grants and Deadline Announced
• New Section on Microcomputing
• New Footnotes Columns Need Input (New Books, Commentary and Ideas)
• Deaths: Beverly Duncan, Irving Goldaber, Wayne C. Rohrer, Barbara Rosenblum
• Obituaries: Joseph Bensman, Wilbert Ellis Moore
• Section Reports
• Committee Reports
• Representative Reports

May 1988 (Volume 16, Number 5)

• Robin M. Williams, Jr., Honored in Common Wealth Ceremony
• How to Improve Your Teaching in Atlanta
• ASA Award Winners Announced
• Observing: The ASA Dues Structure (William D’Antonio)
• Inside 1722: Good Luck and Thank You, Bettina (Huber)
• Lois K. Cohen Named Phillips Visiting Professor at Columbia University
• Encouraging NSF Funding of Qualitative Research (Herbert J. Gans, ASA President)
• Second Biennial Update: The Status of Minorities and Women Within ASA (Bettina J. Huber)
• Conference Looks at Race/Ethnic Relations in 1990s (Lionel A. Maldonado)
• Charles U. Smith Receives Florida A&M Award
• SSSP to Meet in Conjunction with ASA
• ASA in Atlanta: All About the 1988 Annual Meeting
• “Born Again” Documentary to Screen at 1988 Annual Meeting in Atlanta
• Deaths: Harry Abravanel, J. Don Harris, Joan Holley
• Obituaries: Theodore Abel, Beverly Duncan, Bruce H. Mayhew, Wayne C. Rohrer, Barbara Rosenblum
• Committee Reports
• Section Reports
• Minutes of January 28, 1988, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council

August 1988 (Volume 16, Number 6)

• William Julius Wilson Elected ASA President; Edna Bonacich Vice President; Beth B. Hess Secretary
• Atlanta: Old South, New South (Charles Karcher and Barbara Karcher)
• Executive Officer’s Report: A Year of Progress and Problems (William D’Antonio)
• Inside 1722: A Front Office Dynamic Duo—Frances M. Foster and Angela Foster Grisby
• Michael Aiken Appointed Provost at University of Pennsylvania
• Observing: 1987 Audit: ASA Budget in Balance (William D’Antonio)
• 1987 Audit
• Two Special Events at 1988 Annual Meeting: Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities 10th Anniversary; Filmmaker Fred Wiseman to Show New Film, “Missile”
• 1989 Annual Meeting Call for Papers
• Deaths: Harold Feldman, Nicholas Mullins, Wai-Ying
• Obituaries:  Irving Goldaber, John W. Hudson, Maurice Jackson, John E. Mayer, Louis Anthony Zurcher

October 1988 (Volume 16, Number 7)

• Major ASA Awards Given at 1988 Annual Meeting: George Homans, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Paul Glick, Career of Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Sociology; Sharon McPherron and Charles A. Goldsmid, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Michael Mann, Distinguished Scholarly Publication; Doris Y. Wilkinson, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award
• ASF Trustees Make First Grant, to MFP
• Editors Sough for TS, ST, SPR
• Dues Renewal Underway
• President’s Report: The 1988 ASA Presidency: A Personal Account (Herbert J. Gans)
• Observing: Bits ‘n Pieces from the 1988 Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio)
• Profile of the President: Joan Huber: Sociological Theory and Common Sense (Mary Ann Lamanna)
• 1989 Annual Meeting Theme: Macro/Micro Sociology
• J. Michael Brooks Leads ASA Teaching Services Program
• Sections Bestow Awards at ASA Annual Meeting
• Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals Available on Disk
• Winners of Raffle for Airline Tickets
• Upcoming in Teaching Sociology: An Article by George Ritzer on “Textbookgate” (Ellen Berg)
• Council Establishes Standing Committee on Employment (Stephen A. Buff)
• POD Grant Deadlines, Winners Announced
• ASA and Duke University Invite Nominations for Jensen Lectureship
• Deaths: Ruth Bleier
• Obituaries: Albert B. Blumenthal, Robert Galen Burnight, Hugh Carter, Manuel Elmer, Harold Feldman, Nicholas C. Mullins

November 1988 (Volume 16, Number 8)

• Breakthrough: New Federal Job Description for Sociology (Stephen A. Buff)
• 1990 Program Committee Invites Suggestions for Sessions
• 1989 Candidates Announced
• NIMH Program for Hispanics Celebrates 11th Anniversary
• Observing: David Kingsbury Resigns NSF Post (William D’Antonio)
• MFP Fellows Announced for 1988-89
• Benefits of the ASA Credit Card
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matilda White Riley Included in Ladies Home Journal’s “100 Most Important Women in 1988”
• Minority Scholars Awarded NRC Fellowships
• CIES Invites Applications for Awards
• More Section Awards Presented In Atlanta
• Ideas and Commentary: How Can the ASA Increase the Representation of Practitioners in the Membership, Program, and Elected Leadership? With: “Make Membership Worthwhile” (Meredith Gould); “Helping Practitioners Reclaim Their Sociological Identities” (Elizabeth J. Clark); “Making Membership Worth More to Us” (Theodore A. Lamb); “A Useful List of Ideas” (David J. Kallen); “Outreach to Practicing Sociologists” (Mitchell A. Pravatiner)
• Open Forum: Differing Views on the ASA’s Annual Meeting Child Care Service—“A Commendation . . .” (Carolyn Howe and Jerry Lembke); “ . . . And a Complaint” (Art Stinchcombe); “A Note from the Executive Office” (Carla Howery)
• Two Sociologists (David Grusky and Mark Mizruchi) Receive NSF Awards
• ASA in San Francisco: Update on 1989 Program Sessions
• Women’s Representation Among Graduate Students in Sociology (Karen A. Miller, Stephen Kulis, Leonard Gordon, and Morris Axelrod)
• The Whys of ASA Membership: “Why I Belong to the ASA” (Earl Babbie); “Graduate Students and the ASA” (Lorna Lueker)
• Area Representatives Provide Local Linkages
• New ASA Dissertation Award; Nominations Invited
• Anthony Giddens Joins University of California-Santa Barbara Sociology Department
• Group Disability Income Insurance
• Honors Program Honor Hans Mauksch
• Philip Converse Named Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
• Deaths: Paul Riesman
• Obituaries: Shelley Coverman, Laud Humphreys, Andrew William Lind, Herbert Scott, Jr.

December 1988 (Volume 16, Number 9)

• Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees
• Last Chance for a 1988 Tax Deduction: ASF Endowment Campaign Sprints to the Finish Line
• 1990 Annual Meeting Theme: Sociology and the Public Agenda (William Julius Wilson)
• Observing: Forming Partnerships with Soviets and Our High Schools (William D’Antonio)
• New Coalition to Promote International Education: Coalition for the Advancement of Foreign Languages and International Studies (Stephen A. Buff)
• The AIDS Experience (about Levi Kamel; by Ellen Berg)
• The Prison as Classroom (Carla B. Howery)
• Experiment Station Directors Support New Social Science Research Initiatives (ESCOP)
• Share Your Teaching Materials with TRC
• New Materials from the ASA Teaching Resources Center
• Teaching Resources Group Continues Visitation Program
• ASA Emeritus Membership
• The Hispanic Center at Arizona State University
• ASA Contributors
• Media Beat: Promoting Yourself or Your Research to a Wider Audience (Jan Yager)
• Natalie Allon’s Books Donated to University of Pittsburgh
• Sociological Practice Association Establishes Charles Good Gomillion Collection at Paine College
• TSP Workshop on Outcomes Assessment
• ASA Council Considers Redistricting
• Sociologists Garner Awards and Grants: NICHHD, NSF, NIA
• Space Available for Other Activities at 1989 Annual Meeting
• 1989 Regional Meeting Schedule
• Open Forum: “Calling Names” (Judith Lorber); “On the Resectioning of Culture” (Eugene Rochberg-Halton); “Part-Time Professional Work” (Susan B. Prager); “Candidate Qualifications” (name withheld); “Gender Bias Paranoia” (Richard Zeller); “To the Editor” (Sharon Georgianna); “Image and Conviction in Sociology” (Richard C.J. Kilminster)
• Humanist Sociology in South Africa (David O. Friedrichs)
• Ideas and Commentary: “Should the ASA Offer Commercial Benefits?” (Jeanne Ballantine); “The ASA Master Card” (Marie R. Haug)
• Nominations Invited for 1990 ASA Awards
• Mental Health Services Research Conference Held at ASA
• New Concerns Surface Over Imprisoned South Korean Sociologist (Carla Howery)
• Media Beat: Sociologist as Television Commentor (Brian S. Vargus)
• Malaysian Sociologists Arrested; Letters of Protest Requested
• Sociology Department at University of Dayton Damaged by Fire (Patrick G. Donnelly)
• IIS International Congress to be Held in Rome, June 1989
• “On Retirement” (a poem by J. Saltman)
• Deaths: David Dodge, H. Kent Geiger, Morris Janowitz, Milton Rokeach, Muzafer Sherif
• Obituaries: (William) Douglas Martin Chittick, Burton R. Fisher, Barbara Hargrove
• Minutes from August 27, 1988, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council
• Minutes from August 28, 1988, meeting of 1988-89 ASA Council

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