Footnotes 1989 | American Sociological Association

January 1989 (Volume 17, Number 1)

Sorokin Lives! Centennial Observations (Barry V. Johnston)
NSF Seeks New Director of Division of Social and Economic Science
Departmental Services Program in Second Year
Observing: From Page Costs to Soviet Guests (William D’Antonio)
Inside 1722: ASA’s Meetings and Marketing Manager—Jen Suter
Sex and Gender Section Honors Karen Hossfeld
Public Opinion and Reform in China (David S. Mason and Ken Colburn)
American Nurses’ Association Conducts Leadership Seminars for Women of Color
Update on Alpha Kappa Delta
Ohio State and Pennsylvania State Host Student Receptions in Atlanta
Open Forum: “More on Sociological Practice” (Christine Wright-Isak); “Response to SOE Section Award” (James Coleman)
Will and Dorothy Lissner Retire from American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Ask ASA
Teaching: A Proposal for Enhancing Anticipatory Socialization to Graduate School (Robert L. Hummel and Gary S. Foster)
Issues Debated at World-System Conference on “War and Revolution” (Terry Boswell and Frank Lechner)
Honors Program Continues to Shine
Facilitating Data Sharing (Josefina J. Card)
Deaths: Joel Cantor
Obituaries: Robert E. Corley, David L. Dodge, Milton Rokeach, Muzafer Sherif
Section Reports

February 1989 (Volume 17, Number 2)

1989 Annual Meeting: What Ever Happened to the Haight-Asbury? (Sherri Cavan)
Sociology and the Humanities Closing the Gap (Joseph R. Gusfield)
No Petition Candidates for ASA Election
1989 Annual Meeting: Plenaries and Thematics
Increasing the Pool of Reviewers for ASA Journals
Thanks to ASA Members Responding to Survey
Long-Term Care Group Insurance Available
Plagiarism Case Documented (Foon plagiarized Wilson)
Association for the Sociology of Religion Turns 50
ASA Panel on Federal Employment
Mary Fennell New JHSB Editor
Chairs of Graduate Departments: Where Do They Come From? (Thomas Van Valey and Kathleen A. Tiemann)
ISA Competition for Young Sociologists
Stephen J. Morewitz Founds Litigation Firm
NIAAA Funds Sociologists, Seeks Proposals on Alcohol and AIDS
ASA Holds Workshop on Teaching About the Sociology of Family Crises
What Do Our Introductory Sociology Students Know? (Richard F. Tomasson)
Teaching: Teaching, Internships, and Employment: An Opportunity for Humane Social Change (Richard Salem and Charles S. Green III)
ASA Holds Writing Skills Workshop
Rich Survey Data Available from ICPSR
Open Forum: “A Request for Clarification” (on the Levi Kamel story; Thomas Ford Hoult); “The High Cost of Meeting” (Julie M. Gricar and Erich Hirsch); “Activity in the Park Service” (William H. Key)
Jonathan R. Cole Named New Provost at Columbia University
Section Reports
Deaths: Ozzie G. Simmons, Donald Campion, Ann Davis
Obituaries: David B. Carpenter, Morriz Janowitz, Walter Cade Reckless

March 1989 (Volume 17, Number 3)

1989 Annual Meeting: Tenderloin Mosaic (Sherri Cavan)
Examination for ASA Certification at the MA Level Available at 1989 Annual Meeting (Herbert L. Costner)
Observing: Reviewing the ASA Budget (William D’Antonio)
ASA Council Adopts Revised Code of Ethics (Barbara Walters Altizer)
SWS Names Maxine Baca Zinn 1989 Miller Lecturer
Candidates for ASA President, Vice President
Online Searches as a Data Source (Michael A. Faia)
NSF Sociology Program: New Initiatives, Cautious Optimism (about Robert Althauser and Phyllis Moen; by Carla B. Howery)
Section on Sociology of Education Needs Teaching Ideas for Curriculum Guide
Open Forum: “A Call to Read the Original Sorokin and Sumner” (Alfred McClung Lee; “On the Confusion of Social Justice and Social Reality” (Reece McGee); “The Possibility of a Rational Discourse in Sociology?” (Pierre L. van den Berghe); “Overcoming Gender Bias” (Graves E. Enck and James D. Preston); “Investigating Equality of Opportunity in Ulster” (Robert L. Miller); “Asking the Right Questions” (Monica B. Morris); “Complexity of an American’s Experience in South Africa” (Michael J. Pravetz); “Response to Pravetz” (David O. Friedrichs)
AIDS, Gay Men, and Their (Invisible) Sociology (Stephen O. Murray)
More ASA Contributors
ASA/NSF Small Grant Awards
NSF Seeks Information on How NSF Grants Contributed to Non-Academic Activities (Roberta Balstad Miller)
Obituaries: Jess M. Carrillo, Anne E. Davis, Ozzie G. Simmons
Committee Reports

April 1989 (Volume 17, Number 4)

1989 Annual Meeting: The Castro in Transition (Kay Tiblier)
Alice S. Rossi Wins Common Wealth Award
Inside the ASA Budget: The Annual Meeting (Janet L. Astner)
Observing: Bits ‘n Pieces (William D’Antonio)
Sociologists Working in Israel: “Building Sociology and a New State: Sociologists at Work in Israel” (Shulamit Reinharz); “Inside the Peacekeeping Forces” (David R. Segal); “Organizational Consulting in Israel” (Bruce Alan Phillips)
Deaths: John F. Cuber
Obituaries: Marie Ann Bandl
Committee Reports
Representative Reports
Editors’ Reports
Minutes from the January 26, 1989, meeting of the 1988-89 ASA Council

May 1989 (Volume 17, Number 5)

1989 Annual Meeting: Berkeley: Updating the Image(s) (E. Barbara Phillips)
Robert Dentler New Editor of SPR
ASA Award Winners Announced
Clifford Clogg Editor of JASA
Observing: International Linkages and Jobs at Home (William D’Antonio)
David Featherman is New SSRC President
Linda Aiken Wins Sociological Practice Section Award
Participate in the POD Grant Program (Richard H. Hall)
Washington University Department of Sociology to Close
AAC project on the Sociology Major
Is There a Future for the ASA Child Care Program? (Jen L. Suter)
Richard Irish to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic
Good Ideas
Enjoy a Laugh with SWS
ASA in San Francisco: All About the 1989 Annual Meeting
Open Forum: “Humanities and Social Sciences Link to Inform Policy” (Robert P. Wolensky); “Which Came First?” (Richard F. Tomasson); “Cultural Literacy, Indeed?!” (Naomi Rosenthal); “A Response to Coleman” (John C. Leggett); “Coleman Was Right” (Chester L. Hunt); “More on Coleman” (Alfred McClung Lee)
Inside the ASA Budget: Minority Fellowship Program (Lionel Maldonado)
Deaths: Arthur Seeger, Robert Clay, Robert W. Hodge

August 1989 (Volume 17, Number 6)

Stanley Lieberson Elected ASA President; Barbara Reskin is Vice President
1989 Annual Meeting: Art, Food, and Politics in the City by the Bay (Sherri Cavan)
Common Wealth Award: Alice Rossi on Love and Work
Executive Officer’s Report: Sociology on the Move (William D’Antonio)
1989 Audit: ASA Budget Shows Small Surplus
Inside 1722: Sharon Gray—ASA’s Institutional Memory
Late Breaking News About the 1989 Annual Meeting, including “The Accessibility of ASA Meetings: A Progress Report to the Membership” (R. Greg Emerton, Chair, ASA Committee on Society and Persons with Disabilities)
Media Beat: David and Goliath in Media Relations (Carla B. Howery)
Federal Job Description Available
SWS Enbraces Unity and Diversity (Carla B. Howery)
Give an ASA Gift Membership
ASA Goes Electronic: ASA’s New Fax Number and Bitnet Address
Adeline Levine Receives Honorary Degree from Beaver College
Deaths: George C. Homans, G.W. Levi Kamel, Richard Troiden
Obituaries: John F. Cuber, Robert W. Hodge, Alfred W. Jones, Magdalena Sokolowska, Frederic W. Terrien, Helmut R. Wagner

September 1989 (Volume 17, Number 7)

Future Organizational Trends of the ASA (a report of the ASA Ad Hoc Committee on ASA Future Organizational Trends)
1990 Call for Papers: Regular Session Topics and Organizers for 1990 Annual Meeting
Washington University’s Sociology Department: An Update
NSF Fellowships Valuable to Scholars and Institutions (Edward Murguia)
Urgent Need for Sociology Departments to Encourage NSF Graduate and Minority Fellowship Applications
NSF Celebrates 25,000th Fellowship (Robert Althauser)
Teaching Workshop on Teaching About Substance Abuse and Prevention Efforts
Engineers Confer with Sociologists on Technological Change
Plagiarism Discovered; ASA Takes Action (by Stephen A. Buff; about Jerri Husch’s dissertation being plagiarized in Mellen Press’s book by Stephen H. Barnes)
COPAFS: Confronting the Challenges (Katherine Wallman)
NRC Committee Releases AIDS Report
Revised Code of Ethics Applies to All Sociologists’ Work Settings (Ruth L. Love)
American Sociological Foundation: Doing Well and Doing Good (James F. Short)
Durkheim Studies Moves to Illinois
Doris Wilkinson’s Odyssey Back In Time (Susan Frensilli)
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Receives 1988 Balzan Prize
Section Reports

October 1989 (Volume 17, Number 8)

Major ASA Awards Given in San Francisco: Jessie Bernard, Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship; David L. Sills, Award for a Distinguished Career in the Practice of Sociology; James A. Davis, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Charles Tilly, Award for a Distinguished Scholarly Publication; Samuel Cohn and Joan Robinson Acker, Jessie Bernard Award
Gerald Marwell to Edit ASR
Observing: Reflections on the 1989 Annual Meeting in San Francisco (William D’Antonio)
William D’Antonio to Retire; Search for New Executive Officer Begun
Eight Receive ASA/NSF Small Grant Awards; New Proposals Due
Annual Review Discount Increased
Profile of the President: William Julius Wilson: A Bold and Sober Intellect (Katherine O’Sullivan See)
Section Award Winners Honored at 1989 Annual Meeting
1990 Guide Listings Due
Dues Renewals in the Mail
President’s Report: Events of the Passing Year in Retrospect (Joan Huber)
Honors Program Joins ASA; Seeks Director for 1990
IIS-ISA and Oaths Opposing Apartheid: “On Promoting Open Exchange of Scholarly Work” (Edgar F. Borgatta); “Apartheid in Focus” (Else Oyen); “A View on ISA and World Politics” (Margaret Archer); “Rejoinder” (Edgar Borgatta)
Deaths: Stefann Nowak, Hugh Anderson Johnson, Priscilla Kiehnle Warner
Obituaries: Albert E. Chabot, Douglas Ensminger, Harold Finestone, Mark Lefton, John E. Owen, Edgar Tristam Thompson, Richard R. Troiden

November 1989 (Volume 17, Number 9)

MFP Initiates Undergraduate Component
Alan Sica to Edit Sociological Theory
Dean Dorn to Edit Teaching Sociology
Candidates for ASA President and Vice President
Observing: Positive News in Sociology (William D’Antonio)
Inside 1722: “Dr. D’Antonio’s Office”—Juanita Hampton
ASA Area Representatives and Coordinators
ASA Now has TDD Machine
The Rebuilding of Sociology in the Soviet Union: “Soviet Sociology Today: Possibilities for Cooperation” (Louise Shelley); “Lecturing in the U.S.SR” (Harvey Molotch); “The Face, and Pace, of Change in the Soviet Union” (Michael Swafford)
Travel Awards for 1990 ISA Meeting
More Section Award Winners from Annual Meeting
ASA Teaching Services Program: New Products, Workshops, Submissions Sought
ASA Contributors
Ask ASA
Sociologists Honored with Awards: Richard Tessler and Bernice Pescosolido Receive NIMH Awards; Vern Bengtson Receives MERIT Award; Jacqueline Wiseman Receives SSSI Award
1990 Annual Meeting: Update on Program Sessions; Space for Other Groups
Suggestions Solicited for 1991 Annual Meeting Program
Coming in 1990: Sociological Practice Review
Subcommission on Women in East Germany, U.S.
Deaths: Wolfram Eberhard, Stanley Grupp, Robert Laufer
Obituaries: Hanan C. Selvin
Minutes from the August 12, 1989, meeting of 1988-89 ASA Council

December 1989 (Volume 17, Number 10)

Candidates Announced for 1990 Elections
ASA Successful in Pursuing Plagiarism Case (on Husch/Mellen)
White House Science Advisor (D. Allan Bromley) “Speaks” to COSSA
Observing: Advocacy for a Diverse Clientele (William D’Antonio)
Inside 1722: “Sections Are Where It’s At”—Caroline Bugno
New Organization for Chairs of PhD Departments
Sociologists Receive Awards: Joseph Kasof Wins ASA Social Psychology Section Award; Thelma McCormack Receives Honorary Degree from Mount Saint Vincent University; H. Laurence Ross Wins Widmark Prize; Paul Dimaggio, Gary Hamilton, and Theda Skocpol Win Guggenheims; Gary Marx to Give Jensen Lecturer
ASA Staff Attend Other Meetings
Summer School and Sociological Theory: Dead Head Sociology and Canoeing Toward Utopia (Carla B. Howery)
Sociologists Keep Pressure on Washington University Administration
Short Takes
MFP Announces 1989-90 Fellows
Update on MFP Funding
The Evaluation of Sociology Journals by Political Scientists (David Jacobs); journal rankings
1990 Regional Meeting Schedule
Open Forum: “More on Sociology in Israel” (Stanley Cohen); “A View on Arab Palestine” (Hassan Elnajjar)
Who Are You Going to Call? TRG! (Teaching Resources Group)
Deaths: Robert David
Obituaries: Wayman J. (Bud) Crow, Wolfram Everhard, Robert S. Laufer, Forrest E. LaViolette, Stefan Nowak, George Simpson, Priscilla Kiehnle Warner
Minutes of August 13, 1989, meeting of 1989-90 ASA Council

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