Footnotes 1993 | American Sociological Association

January 1993 (Volume 21, Number 1)

1993 Annual Meeting: “Miami: Postmodern from Birth”
Spivack Program Sponsors Work-Family Linkages Briefing (Paula Trubisky)
Panel Releases Report on Future of the National Science Foundation
The Open Window: The Children Are Our Future (Felice J. Levine)
National Research Council Panel Looks at Understanding and Preventing Violence
Update on San Diego State Defense Fund
Students get the “MOST” Out of Summer at Michigan (Silvia Pedraza)
Teaching: How Sociologists Are Grappling with Outcome Assessment: “Figuring Out the Assessment Landscape” (Mike Otten); “A Tale of Assessment” (Ardyth Stimson); “Assessment From the Beginning: A Case Study” (James A. Reynolds, Ronald A. Stevens)
Sociologists Participate in Focus Group Training (Janet Mancini Billson)
Working Group Conference on Feminist Organizations
Jonathan Turner New Editor of Sociological Perspectives
Open Forum: “Revisiting History: Hughes and Lee” (Irwin Deutscher); “A Department Under Threat?” (Peter V. Marsden); “Sociology at Harvard: Toward a Paradigm Shift” (Jack Nusan Porter); “Looking Forward to Miami” (Barry Wellman)
Clusters (Robert R. Montgomery)
Alleviating Professional Immobility in Sociology: Faculty Exchange as a Remedy (Richard M. Coughlin)
Writing Tips: Noun Strings (Karen Feinberg)
International News and Notes: UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Inter-Governmental Social Science Program (Ali Kazancigil); An Open Letter from the Institute of Socio-political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences (Gennadi Osipov); Higher Education, Feminist Style (Janet Mancini Billson)
Deaths: Jacob G. Franz, James W. Longest
Obituaries: Charles M. Grigg, Gordon Shipman, Charles B. Spaulding

February 1993 (Volume 21, Number 2)

1993 Annual Meeting: The Long Shadow of Hurricane Andrew
Search for New Sociological Theory Editor Continues
March 15 Deadline: 1993 Congressional Fellowship
The Open Window: ASA Resolution on Gays in the Military (Felice J. Levine)
Florence Bonner Interim ASA Minority Affairs Program Director
Roberta Balstad Miller Leaves National Science Foundation for Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Applications Invited for National Science Foundation Social Science Director
ASA Seeks New Staff: Staff Sociologist/ Director of Minority Affairs
Focus on Departments: A Discipline in Trouble: Why More Sociology Departments May be Closing Shortly (David M. Lynch, J. Richard McFerron, Lee H. Bowker, Ian A.C. Beckford)
The “Lost Generation” of Sociologists (Thomas A. Lyson, Gregory D. Squires)
Conferences Held on Issues of Sexual Harassment: “Sociologists Against Sexual Harassment” (Kristen Dowling); “A Two for One Media Opportunity: Scientists’ Institute for Public Information and ASA” (Wendy Hanson); “Second International Conference on Campus Sexual Assault” (Kristen Dowling)
Open Forum: “Are There Floor Scores?” (Janet Saltzman Chafetz); “Graduate Record Examination Issues to Consider” (Ross M. Stolzenberg); “Throw Out the Graduate Record Examinations? Whoa!” (Sheldon G. Levy); “Use Graduate Record Examinations Appropriately” (Robert M. Hauser)
Input Sought for Code of Ethics Revision
International News and Notes: Parochial Content Reported in U.S. Undergraduate Sociology (J. Michael Armer)
Caroline Hodges Persell Named as First Williams Lecturer by Eastern Sociological Society
University of California-Berkeley Establishes Fellowship in Honor of Reinhard Bendix
Deaths: Selden D. Bacon, David Caplovitz
Obituaries: Frances Robbins Allen, James H. Barnett, William M. Phillips, Jr.
Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Annual Reports

March 1993 (Volume 21, Number 3)

ASA Sponsors Media Briefing on Family/ Medical Leave Act
1993 Annual Meeting: “Cuban Miami: No Passport Required”
Petition Candidates Added to Ballot for ASA Elections
The Open Window: ASA Meets With California State University Sysytem Sociology Department Chairs (Felice J. Levine)
Council Briefs (Carla B. Howery)
SSAs (State Sociological Association): A Strategic Link in Sociology’s Future (Marlynn L. May)
State Societies Are Important Partners (Carla B. Howery)
Focus on Departments: How Our Department’s Enrollment Grew by Over 400% in Three Years! (Henry W. Fischer III)
Award Named for Professor Rozanne Brooks
Candidates for ASA President, Vice President: Amitai Etzioni, Neil Joseph Smelser, Mayer N. Zald (President-Elect); Karen S. Cook, Richard (Dick) Scott (Vice President-Elect)
San Diego State University Update: Contracts and Tenure (Charles F. Hohm)
Professional Socialization and ASA Membership (Roberta Lessor)
Steamship Quanza (Kristen Dowling)
Can We Do Research Differently? A New Institute Says Yes
Unconventional Medicine at the National Institute of Health
Deaths: Rebecca A. Donovan, Leonard H. Jordan, Jr., Roberta Simmons
Obituaries: Selden D. Bacon, Howard Freeman, M. Patricia Golden, J.W. Longest, Arthur Raymond Mangus, Helen Tibbitts

April 1993 (Volume 21, Number 4)

1993 Annual Meeting: “Miami: More Than Just a Pretty Face”
Social Impact Assessment Workshop to Precede Annual Meeting (Janet Mancini Billson)
ASA Congressional Fellowship Update (Catherine White Berheide)
The Open Window: MOST: A Pipeline to Diversity in Sociology (Felice J. Levine)
ASA Plans Briefing on AIDS
Seven ASA/NSF (National Science Foundation) Grants Awarded
International News and Notes: Uzbek Center for Sociological Research: Student Opportunties (Janet Mancini Billson)
Walter L. Goldfrank Receives Grant to Study Chile’s Fruit Export Region
Submissions Sought: ASA/NSF Small Grant Program
Award-Winning Sociologists: Microcomputing Section Award (Robert Leik); Jean A. Dowdall President Elect of Simmons College
Open Forum: “Are Our Troubles Unavoidable or Have We Brought Them on Ourselves” (Gerhard Lenski); “More on the Harvard Debate” (Bradley J. Buchner); “Parson’s Real Moral?” (Gaye Tuchman); The Census and Apportionment: An Update” (Pat Feeney)
Teaching: Sociologists Become More Involved with Outcome Assessment (Carla B. Howery)
Students Satisfied with Sociology BA as a Liberal Arts Degree (Steven E. Barkan)
Mammoth Discovery Becomes Innovative Teaching Tool
ASA Officers, Council, and Committee Members
Deaths: Ralph G. Hurlin, Leo Lowenthal, Sophia Fagin McDowell
Obituaries: Ely Chertok, Fred Davis
Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the second meeting of the 1992-93 Council (January 22, 1993)

May 1993 (Volume 21, Number 5)

1993 Annual Meeting: “Black Miami: Searching for a Voice”
Paula England to Edit American Sociological Review
Peter Cookson is Selected ASA’s New Congressional Fellow
Winners of Major ASA Awards: Joan R. Acker, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Jack Goldstone for Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Distinguished Publication Award; Grace M. Barnes, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, and Lynn Weber, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Patricia Hill Collins, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber, and Dorothy E. Smith, Jessie Bernard Award
The Open Window: ASA Files Amicus Brief Protecting Confidential Research Information (Felice J. Levine)
ASA Addresses Miami Boycott: Special Plenary on African American Employment in Miami
Join in the 1993 Annual Meeting in Miami Beach
Regional Campuses and Regional Scholars
Partnering Departments: Building Identity Among Graduate Students (Janet Mancini Billson)
Sociology and Real Estate: A Rewarding Combination (Rachelle Cummins)
Michael T. Aiken New Univesity of Illinois Chancellor
Open Forum: Responses to the “Lost Generation” and “A Discipline in Trouble”: “Looking for the ‘Lost Generation’ in All the Worng Places” (Ross Koppel); “Just How Lost Are We?” (Felica B. Le Clare); “Call for Rigor” (Pauline E. Council); “Introductory Sociology and a Revitalized Discipline” (Ted G. Goertzel); “Publishers Assault Quality Education in Campaign to Control Photocopy Coursepacks” (John Lofland); “The State Level Picture” (Alan Hill); “GRE Scores and Graduate School Success: A Response to the Commentaries” (James L. Wood, Amy C. Wong)
International News and Notes: The Road to Bucharest: Science in Transition in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe (Henry Etzkowitz); Sociologists Teaching in Eastern Europe: “Frustration and Inspiration” (Dennis Layton)
Inside 1722: Win-Win: When Interns Become Employees
Three Centers Focus on Family and Gender Issues: A New and Distinguished Life Course Institute; Brandeis’ Family and Children’s Policy Center; Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality (Rachelle L. Cummins)
State Licensing Program Welcomes New Monitors (Wendy Hanson)
ASA Small Grants Program: Conference on the Meaning and Measurement of Gender
Writing Tips: Active and Passive Verbs (Karen Feinberg)
Interdisciplinary Working Group on Homicide Research
Latest News from the Federal Network (Wendy Hanson)
Bum Raps: Daydreams of a Weary Conferencer (Barry Wellman)
Deaths: Brewton Berry, Kenneth Boulding, Joseph R. DeMartini, Martin P. Levine
Obituaries: Sidney H. Aronson, Jann Adel Ackert Azumi, August F. Beatke, Blanche Greer, Ralph G. Hurlin, Olga Scarpetta
Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports, Committee Reports, Representative Reports

August 1993 (Volume 21, Number 6)

Amitai Etzioni Elected ASA President; Karen S. Cook is Vice President
Ramom Torrecilha to Lead ASA Minority Affairs Program
The Open Window: Sociology Graduate Student Jailed; Scholars’ Privilege Under Attack (Felice J. Levine)
Spivack Program Sponsors AIDS Briefing, Violence Workshop

Inside 1722: Mitch Edelstein Directs ASA Administration and Finance
Funding Opportunities Day is August 14
Boycott of Miami Settled with Gains for African-American Community (Carla B. Howery)
National Science Foundation’s Sociology Program Encourages Submission of Grant Proposals (William Sims Bainbridge, Martin K. Whyte)
Ronald J. Angel to Edit Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Norval D. Glenn)
ASA Congressional Fellows: Peter Cookson Begins Congressional Fellowship on Education Issues; Catherine White Berheide on the ASA Congressional Fellowship (Catherine White Berheide)
Sociologists Testify in Congress: William Julius Wilson Lobbies for National Science Foundation Funding for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE); Felice J. Levine Argues for Research Resources at Office of Justice Programs (OJP) of the Department of Justice
Deaths: Judith Blake
Obituaries: Brewton Berry, Tom Bottomore, David Caplovitz, Joe DeMartini, Roberta G. Simmons, Orry C. Walz

October 1993 (Volume 21, Number 7)

ASA Award Winners Reflect Broad Spectrum of Sociology
Richard Scarce Remains Jailed; ASA Council Advocates for Researcher’s Privilege
Suggestions Solicited for 1995 Annual Meeting Program: Theme: “Community of Communities: Shaping Our Future”
The Open Window: ASA Works in Coalition to Advance Social and Behavioral Sciences at the National Institute of Health (Felice J. Levine)
1993 Annual Meeting: We Made It to Miami! A Great Meeting and a Beach Too!
Profile of the President: William A. Gamson: The Benefits of Serious Play (Meyer N. Zald)
1994 Annual Meeting: Theme: The Challenge of Democratic Participation
ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Program – Apply by December 10
ASA Section Awards Presented in Miami
Open Forum: A Discipline in Trouble? Three Responses to Lynch et al.: “Midwest Sociologists Critique Deans’ Study” (Barbara Ryan); “A Response to Ryan et al.” (David M. Lynch, J. Richard McFerron, Lee H. Bowker, Ian A.C. Beckford); “Less Handwringing and More New Analysis” (Nathan Keyfitz)
Deaths: Ruth Shonle Cavan, James C. Laue, John C. Osolnach
Obituaries: Walter L. Baeumler, Leonard G. Benson, Patricia Ann Brewster Begin, Judith Blake, Alfred Hunter, Martin P. Levine, Mark Van de Vall

November 1993 (Volume 21, Number 8)

Minority Opportunities through School Transformation (MOST II) Receives Funding form Ford Foundation (Ramon S. Torrecilha)
February 1 Deadline: 1994 Congressional Fellowship
Richard A. Scarce Released from Jail
The Open Window: ASA Testifies to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on Social Dimensions of AIDS (Felice J. Levine)
Section on Sociology of Religion in Formation
Kathleen McKinney to Edit Teaching Sociology (Kathleen Tiemann)
ASA/National Science Foundation Awards; Next Deadline December 10
Good Ideas
Minority Fellowship Program Dissertation Awards
Teaching: How an Inexpensive Computer and Fax/Modem Can Improve or Facilitate Your Teaching and/or Research (William R. Aho)
Mathematical Sociology Section to be Formed
International News and Notes: Record Attendance at the 31st Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (David Sciulli); Appeal to Libraries and Individuals; Italian-American Sociologists Participate in Pisa-Fenova Conference; Wanted: Books and Journals for Asia, China, Indochina, the Philippines, Mongolia and Other Countries; A World-Systems Electronic Conferencing Network: wsn
New Caucus of South Asian Sociologists Forming
Inside 1722: Valerie is Valuable
Jeremiah Kaplan, The Free Press, and Post-War Sociology (Seymour Martin Lipset)
ASA Congressional Fellow Update (Peter W. Cookson, Jr.)
Pine Forge Press Forges a New Trend in Publishing (Carla B. Howery)
Persian Gulf War Effects on Psychiatric Inpatients
Deaths: Julien Freund
Obituaries: Norman W. Bell, James Bennett, Paul J. Jehlik, James H. Laue, David Trevor Lewis

December 1993 (Volume 21, Number 9)

ASA Promotes Social Research at the National Institute of Health (Paula Trubisky)
Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, and Committees
Sociology Departments Sought for New Minority Opportunties through School Transformation (MOST) Program – February 4 deadline
The Open Window: ASA Focuses on the Academy (Felice J. Levine)
Social Scientists Gather to Discuss Genocide (Paula Trubisky)
Award-Winning Sociologists: Matilda White Riley Presents Pepper Lecture; Andrew Cherlin Receives $1.5 Million National Institute for Health Award; Doris Y. Wilkinson Receives Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) Distinguished Scholar Award; Arlie Hochschild Receives Sloan Foundation Grant; ASA Nominee Joyce Ladner Selected for Jessie Bernard Wise Woman Award
Sociology of Gambling? You Bet! (Carla B. Howery)
Nominations Invited for 1995 Major ASA Awards
International News and Notes: North American Chinese Sociologists Association (NACSA) Holds Conference on “Gender Issues In Chinese Societies”; International Sociological Association (ISA) Looks to Bielefeld
Can We Talk? Bertice Berry Begins National TV Talk Show (Nina Alesci)
1994 Annual Meeting: Looking Ahead to Los Angeles ’94: Space for Other Activities at the 1994 Annual Meeting; Think Posters! (Beth Hess)
1993 Annual Meeting: More ASA Section Award Winners in Miami: Christian Suter Wins Political Economy of the World Sysytem (PEWS) Award (Philip McMichael); Gerald Suttles Wind Lynd Award (Ruth Horowitz)
ASA Sections Invite Nominations for 1994 Awards
Building an Applied Information Network (Janet M. Ruane)
Faculty Writing Groups and Professional Development (Kathleen A. Tiemann)
Minority Affairs Program News: Last Call for 1994 Minority Fellowship Program Competition; Minority Fellowship Program Dissertation Awards; Minority Fellowship Program Awardees
Winner of Raffle Ticket Announced
Writing Tips: Fad Words and Fuzzy Phrases (Karen Feinberg)
Open Forum: “A Response to Lofland” (Harold Orlans); “Where Do Sociologists Come From?” (Robert J. Stevenson); “Recognition of Sociology: A Tale of Two Cities” (Dean Conley)
Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students
1993 Honors Program Students Announced
Deaths: Hans O. Mauksch

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