Footnotes 1990

January 1990 (Volume 18, Number 1)

• Observing: In Memorium (on the sociologists murdered in El Salvador; William D’Antonio)
• Nominations Requested for 1991 ASA Awards
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter Appointed Editor of Harvard Business Review
• Minority Roster Project Begins
• Open Forum: “We Should be Able to Move Easily Between Teaching and Practice” (Henry H. Brownstein); “Focusing Again on Open Scholarly Exchange” (Paolo Ammassari)
• Inside the ASA Budget: Publications (Karen Gray Edwards)
• Support for Independent Scholars
• Independent Scholars Needed for Research Project
• Center for Research on Women is a Goldmine (Carla B. Howery)
• Emeritus Member Criteria Changed
• Clyda Rent is New President of Mississippi University for Women (Carla B. Howery)
• Southern Sociological Society Clearinghouse for Hate Crimes
• Scholarly Exchanges Between Hungary and the U.S. (Anthony Obershall)
• Agenda Proposed for Arctic Social Sciences
• Eastern European Cities in Comparative Perspective
• The Development of Sociology in New Zealand (Paul Spooney)
• Sociologists Study Food and Society
• Good Ideas
• Open Forum: “How Was Plagiarism Overlooked?” (Ben Agger); “Rejoinder on Foon Plagiarism Case”; “Is ASA Committed to Sociological Practice?” (David J. Kallen); “The Voting Rights of Student Members” (Donald Davis, Melvin F. Hall, Kari Lerum, Mark Meyerson and 36 other students); “Technology Is Too Important to be Left to the Engineers” (Ruth Love); “Steve Buff Replies” (Stephen A. Buff); “Unethical Publishers: Why Not Do Something About Them?” (Anne-Marie Ambert)
• Pre-Publication Discount on 1990 Biographical Directory of Members
• China’s Long Hot Summer (Peter M. Nardi)
• Nancy Tuma Returns from China
• Fiske on Departments of Sociology (Richard A. Wright)
• Authors and Networks: Gender in Sociological Journal Articles (Maren Lockwood Carden)
• Review Copies of College Texts Can be Returned Painlessly
• Short Takes
• AAP’s Education Division Statement on Principles for College Publishing
• Teaching: Merit Pay and Assessment of Teaching: A Procedure for Peer Evaluation in Multidisplinary Unites (Keith A. Roberts)
• Small World: Fulbright Scholars Visit U.S.
• Joseph L. Tropea Runs Capital Market Workshops for Poles
• New in 1990: Sociological Practice Review
• Travel Awards for 1990 ISA Meetings
• New TRC Resource: Training Teaching Assistants
• Funding Opportunities and Awards for Sociologists: NSF, NICHD, NIMH
• Obituaries: C. Norman Alexander
• Section on Sociology of Aging Introduces Series of Research Committees

February 1990 (Volume 18, Number 2)

• Mirra Komarovsky Receives Common Wealth Award
• 1991 Annual Meeting Theme: “The World of Ethnic Relations” (Stanley Lieberson)
• 1990 Petition Candidates Announced
• Observing: Monitoring Ourselves: The ASA Election Process; Considering Accreditation (William D’Antonio)
• Inside 1722: Maru Corrado—“Here’s what I’m doing with a BA a Sociology”
• John Hagan Wins Criminology Award
• A Peace Movement Has Emerged Against the War on Drugs (Craig Reinarman, Harry Gene Levine)
• The the Editor: Peter Rossi Apologizes (Peter H. Rossi)
• Teaching: Making the Evaluation Process More Credible (Carla B. Howery)
• New Research Institute Named to Honor Sociology (on Julian Samora; by Susan Frensilli)
• Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: J. Richard Udry Receives MERIT Award; Arlene Kaplan Daniels Named Miller Lecturer; Pastore Honored by University of Wisconsin
• Open Forum: “Publishing Vote Totals: A Loss for Democracy” (Bernardt Lieberman)
• AAAS Program Takes Journals to African Researchers
• ASF Receives First Will Bequest from Hanan C. Selvin’s Estate
• ASA Committees and Representatives
• IIS 29th International Congress in Rome
• Increasing Committee Participation by Members Employed at Two- and Four-Year Institutions and Practitioners
• Transaction to Reissue Social Psychology Volume
• The Trouble with Feminist Theory (Michael A. Faia)
• New UCLA Training Program on AIDS
• Good Ideas
• Departmental Services Program in Third Year
• ASA Contributors
• Deaths: Mary Moynihan Dolan
• Obituaries: Michael Eugene Choukas, Dwight Dean, Richard J. Hill
• Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports

March 1990 (Volume 18, Number 3)

• Population Association of American Moves to ASA Office
• Council Briefs
• Attention: Overseas Members
• Friends of Sociology at Washington University
• Observing: An Action Packed Council Meeting
• Candidates for ASA President, Vice President
• A Briefing on the Census (Harvey M. Choldin)
• David Bills to Lead ASA Honors Program
• Subcommittee Reviews Sociology of Education (Susan Frensilli)
• Open Forum: “Keeping the Focus on Apartheid” (Else Oyen)
• Zelda Gamson Directs New Resource Center for Educators
• MFP Receives Grant from Leo Chall
• Charles Chakerian Establishes Research Fund at Yale
• Medical Sociology Section Honors Samuel Bloom
• Call for Examples of Research with Grass Roots Groups
• Short Takes
• Deaths: Richard J. Hill
• Obituaries: Robert L. David, Segundo Montes
• Section Reports
• Committee Reports
• Representative Reports

April 1990 (Volume 18, Number 4)

• Washington University Update—A Close Vote: Faculty Almost Overturns Dean’s Decision
• Sociological Practice Review Soon to Make Its Debut!
• Contribute to Child Care! Remember the Voluntary Contribution on the Annual Meeting Registration Form
• Capitol Steps to Perform at Annual Meeting
• Please Contact the ASA: On Insurance, On Teaching
• Observing: The ASA Budget: Direct and Indirect Costs (William D’Antonio)
• Marie Haug Honored at Case Western Reserve University
• New Teaching Resource: The Internship Handbook
• SSSI Holds Symposium on Subjectivity (Carolyn Ellis and Michael Flaherty)
• Open Forum: “Tenure Decisions and Equal Employment: An Opportunity for Research” (Paul Burstein)
• The Multifaceted Career of a “Retired” Sociologist (Donald P. Irish)
• Visiting Germany: Impressions of a German Expatriot (Joachim Savelsburg)
• IPFW Makes Links with Poland
• Practice Beat: On the Transition from the Academy to a Career in Business (Kenneth R. Donow)
• Minutes from January 19, 1990, meeting of the 1989-90 ASA Council
• Editors’ Reports

May 1990 (Volume 18, Number 5)

• 1990 Annual Meeting: Beyond Your High School Class Trip to Washington
• Major ASA Award Winners Announced
• Minority Opportunity Summer Training Launched
• STEP Awards Cancelled
• Set Sail for the Teaching Endowment Fund
• Observing: More Bits and Pieces (William D’Antonio)
• Inside the ASA Budget: The Teaching Services Program (Carla B. Howery)
• Inside 1722: The Busy Business Office—Cassandra Twardowsky and Barbara Bouquet
• Teaching: Teaching the Lessons of the Vietnam War (Carla B. Howery)
• ASF/NSF Grants; New Deadline Nears
• Update on ASA Insurance Programs
• The Student Sociologist Reaches Undergraduates
• Help Cover ASA’s Printing Costs (Voluntary Page Charges)
• Honors Program Wants a Few Good Students
• ASA in Washington, DC: All About the 1990 Annual Meeting
• Open Forum: “Are We Part of the Problem?” (Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.); “To ASA Members” (Nikolay A. Smodlev); “A Structuralist’s View” (George A. Hillary; a poem written for his introductory sociology students)
• Richard Irish to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic
• East Carolina University Honors D.D. Garrett
• Deaths: Bruno Bettleheim, John H. Staggers
• Obituaries: Stanley E. Grupp, Robert William Janes, Patricia L. Kendall, Belle Milton Sicurella, Hans Speier
• TSP Seeks Field Coordinator

August 1990 (Volume 18, Number 6)

• James Coleman Elected President; Doris Wilkinson is Vice President
• ASA’s New Executive Officer: Felice J. Levine
• 1990 Annual Meeting: Adams-Morgan: A DC Neighborhood to Explore
• New ASA Phone System to Begin
• Executive Officer’s Report: Routine and Non-Routine Events Make a Busy Year (William D’Antonio)
• 1991 Annual Meeting: Late Breaking News
• Inside the ASA Budget: Sections (Carla B. Howery)
• Sociology at the National Science Foundation: A Bright Future (an interview with Murray A. Webster, Jr., and Gwendolyn L. Lewis; by Carla B. Howery)
• 1989 Audit: Surplus Strengthens Reserve
• Charles U. Smith Receives Washington State University Centennial Award
• Sociology Award to Honor Elbridge Sibley
• NSF Programs of Interest to Sociologists
• Celestino Fernandez is New Vice President at University of Arizona
• Deaths: Ralph David Abernathy, Donald J. Newman
• Obituaries: Howard D. Abramowitz, Marian MacNeil Deininger, Ras Mohun Halder, Elizabeth L. Mullins, Edward Strong, Harold Wildstein, Michelle Wimbley

September 1990 (Volume 18, Number 7)

• Mirra Komarovsky on Family and Work (Common Wealth Award)
• AAC Report on the Undergraduate Major
• MFP Director Lionel Maldonado Leaves ASA
• ASA Begins New Phone System
• Minority Roster Ready for Use
• Profile of the President: Stanley Lieberson: No Shortage of Interesting Questions (Mary C. Waters)
• Soviet Sociologists and Students Speak on Capitol Hill (Stephen A. Buff)
• Universities Bestow Honors on Tatiana Zaslavskaya
• American Chemical Society Releases Data
• Daniel Monti: Working for Civil Rights by Linking Research to Politics (Carla B. Howery)
• Inside 1722: Everything You Ordered Is in the Mail—Don Stanley and David Matthews
• Center for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities
• Open Forum: “The Ethics of an Internship” (David C. Barrows); “On ‘Homophobia’” (Panos Bardis); “Czech Sociology Rebuilds” (Bohumil Geist); “Another View on Society in Israel” (Aaron Antonovsky); “Teaching Evaluated by Students” (Panos Bardis); “Rejoinder on Feminist Theory” (Roslyn Wallach Bologh); “Education and Evaluation” (Panos Bardis)
• Most Grad Students are Women
• Writing the Social Text: Anthropological, Literary Perspectives (Richard Brown)
• Gary Marx Presents Jensen Lectures
• Good Ideas
• 1991 Annual Meeting Call for Papers: Topics and Organizers Announced: Focus on Change in Regular Sessions
• Sex and Gender Directory Ready
• Special Issue of Teaching Sociology on Medical Sociology
• Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: Albert J. Reiss, Jr., New ICS President; Morris Rosenberg Honored by ESS; David L. Altheide Honored by Arizona State University
• Deaths: Lee C. Binhammer, Robert Bower
• Obituaries: Helen M. Feeney, Marianne A. (Tracey) Paget, Hubert O’Gorman
• Directory of Sociological Practitioners

October 1990 (Volume 18, Number 8)

• Major ASA Awards Presented at Annual Meeting: Robin M. Williams, Jr., Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee, Award for a Distinguished Career in the Practice of Sociology; Southwest Texas State University Sociology Program, Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch for Urban Fortunes, with special recognition to Kim Scheppele for Legal Secrets, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award; Vedat Milor, Dissertation Award; William Julius Wilson, Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award
• Observing: On Past and Future Annual Meetings (William D’Antonio)
• MFP Announces Fellows for 1990-91, Seeks Applications for 1991-92
• ASA/NSF Grants Awarded; New Deadline Nears
• ASA Contributors
• Open Forum: “What is Feminist Theory?” (Francesca M. Cancian)
• Section Award Winners Honored at Annual Meeting
• Deaths: John C. Belcher, Jr., St. Clair Drake
• Obituaries: Esther Lucile Brown

November 1990 (Volume 18, Number 9)

• Walter E. Massey Named New NSF Director
• Neil Smelser is Elected ISA Vice President
• Suggestions Solicited for 1992 Annual Meeting Program
• ASA Publications: Order through Boyd
• Observing: Should the Social Sciences Go On Their Own at NSF? (William D’Antonio)
• Inside the ASA Budget: The Professional Development Program (Stephen A. Buff)
• Minority Opportunity Summer Training (MOST) Has a Great First Program
• Secretary’s Report: The Work of the Executive Office and Budget Committee (Beth B. Hess)
• The “Quality” of Journals in Sociology Reconsidered: Objective Measurers of Journal Influence (Michael Patrick Allen)
• Jeffrey Alexander Receives Gold Shield Prize
• TRC Seeks Submissions, Announces New Products
• Harvard Business Review Wants You!
• Community Forum Discussion: What’s Next (Edna Bonacich)
• International Institute of Sociology Meeting to be Held in Kobe, Japan
• Sociologists Visit the World Bank
• James Blackwell Prize and Fellowship Established
• Lenore Weitzman Wins Harvard Teaching Award
• Lois DeFleur Appointed President of SUNY-Binghamton
• An Appeal to Sociologists All Over the World (about human rights in Eastern-Central Europe; by The Hungarian Sociological Association)
• NSF Seeks New Sociology Program Directors
• More Section Awards from the 1990 Annual Meeting
• Update on 1991 Annual Meeting Program Sessions
• Teaching: How Am I Teaching? (reprinted from Center for Teaching and Professional Development Newsletter, Sonoma State University, December 1989)
• Sociologists in Higher Administration: A Symposium Introduction (Riley E. Dunlap)
• Where the Jobs Are: Openings in Sociology Departments, 1984 to 1989
• Robert Groves New Census Associate Director
• Norman Goodman Honored by SUNY-Stony Brook
• Two Issues of Sociological Practice Review Now Available (Stephen A. Buff)
• Open Forum: “A View from the Left” (T.R. Young with rejoinder by ASA); “What Do We Mean by ‘Paradigm’?” (Wendell Bell); “On Undergraduate Program Accreditation” (Anthony J. Blasi); “Social Science for the 1990s: A New Synthesis of Qualitative Methods and Environmental Ethics” (Maurice A. Renard and Paul M. Baker); “More on ‘Homophobia’” (Joel I. Brodksy)
• Good Ideas
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Opens Moscow Office
• Deaths: Myra Elizabeth Mack Chang (assassinated in Guatemala City), Joanne R. Frankel
• Obituaries: C. Arnold Anderson, Robert T. Bower, Jack E. Dodson, Norbert Elias

December 1990 (Volume 18, Number 10)

• Candidates Announced for 1991 ASA Election
• A Challenge and an Opportunity: ASF Fellowships (Matilda White Riley and James F. Short, Jr.)
• Observing: Cincinnati: More than the Reds and Mapplethorpe (William D’Antonio)
• Nominations Invited for Third Jensen Lectureship
• 1991 Regional Meeting Schedule
• ASA Departmental Services Program
• Status of Women Faculty in Graduate Departments: 1973 and 1988 (Leonard Beeghley and Debra Van Ausdale)
• Unique Barriers Women of Color Faculty Encounter (Denise Segura and K. Sue Jewell)
• The Graduate Commencement Address at Tulane University: Sociology’s Pomposity and Utility (James D. Wright)
• Sociology in the New York Times (William Silverman)
• California Sociological Association Holds First General Meeting
• Funding Opportunities and Awards for Sociologists: NSF, NICHD
• A Decade of the New Chinese Sociology (Ming Yan)
• Good Ideas
• ASA Campus Representatives
• AAAS Minority Scholars Workshop
• Obituaries: Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang, George Caspar Homans, Constant Jacquet, Gary M. Maranell, George D. McCune, Basil George Zimmer
• Minutes from August 14, 1990, meeting of 1989-90 ASA Council

Return to Footnotes archive.