From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 1 18:19:26 1994 Thu, 1 Sep 1994 18:14:45 -0700 for Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 21:09 EDT From: SCOTT BLAKE Subject: Political Action (fwd) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Wiretap Bill Alert Voter's Telecommunications Watch (VTW) has issued the attached alert on the pending FBI Wiretap Bill. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is working in conjunction with VTW and other organiza- tions to educate the public on this legislation. Your involvement is crucial -- please contact Rep. Jack Brooks IMMEDIATELY. EPIC is a project of the Fund for Constitutional Government and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. =================================================================== Subject: INFO: Status of the Digital Telephony bills (SB 2375 & HR 4922) From: shabbir@panix.com (Shabbir J. Safdar) Date: 29 Aug 1994 23:28:26 -0400 [updated August 29, 1994 shabbir] ********************************************************************* DISTRIBUTE WIDELY ********************************************************************* Table of contents: Status of the bills Five things you can do RIGHT now to stop Digital Telephony Digital Telephony bill FAQ The VTW Press Release Sample Letter To The Editor Who are we and how can you contact us? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS OF THE BILLS (updated 8/10/94) Aug 18, 94 HR 4922 reported back to committee (write to Rep. Jack Brooks!) Aug 11, 94 Sen. Leahy & Rep. Edwards hold a joint hearing on the bills in Wash. DC at 1pm in Rayburn 2237. Aug 10, 94 HR 4922 referred to Subcomm. on Civil and Constitutional Rights Aug 10, 94 SB 2375 referred to Subcomm. on Technology and the Law Aug 9, 94 Rep. Hyde officially cosponsors HR 4922 Aug 9, 94 HR 4922 referred to House Judiciary Committee Aug 9, 94 SB 2375 referred to Senate Judiciary Committee Aug 9, 94 Identical House and Senate bills are announced by their respective sponsors, Rep. Don Edwards (D-CA) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) EFF states the legislation is "not necessary". VTW will be monitoring this legislation in the same way that we monitored the Cantwell bill, with the blow by blow, day to day updates that cost us significant long distance bills. :-) We're not asking for money though. Don't send us money; we don't want it and it causes us bookkeeping work. Call/write your legislator instead and relay to them the sample communiques below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIVE THINGS YOU CAN DO *RIGHT* NOW (in their order of importance) 1. Write to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Jack Brooks (D-TX) and ask him to oppose the Digital Telephony bill. (HR 4922) 2. Fax/mail a copy of the VTW press release to your local newspaper, tv station, call-in show (everything from NPR to Rush Limbaugh), etc. 3. Write to your legislator (especially if s/he is on the Judiciary Committee (House or Senate) and ask that they oppose the Digital Telephony bills. (SB 2375/HR 4922) 4. Forward a copy of this FAQ to three friends who don't know about it. Or, print it out and place it on a bulletin board at work, at school, hand it out, etc. 5. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, opposing the Digital Telephony bill. 1. CALL/WRITE TO REP. JACK BROOKS, HOUSE JUDICIARY COMM. CHAIRMAN Sample phone Communique: Rep. Jack Brooks Phone: (202) 225-6565 Dear Mr. Brooks, The recent Digital Telephony bills (HR 4922 & SB 2375) disturb me greatly. The FBI has not yet made their case that justifies building wiretap functionality into the telephones of 250 million people to justify the privacy intrusion. Please oppose HR 4922 and SB 2375. Sincerely, _______________________ Sample fax/letter Communique: Rep. Jack Brooks 2449 RHOB Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-6565 Fax: (202) 225-1584 The Honorable Jack Brooks, Please oppose Senator Leahy's and Representative Edwards' Digital Telephony bills (HR 4922 & SB 2375). This legislation asks us, the American public, to trade our privacy to ensure law enforcement's future ability to continue to perform wiretaps. Unfortunately, the FBI has yet to make its case to the public to prove that it is unable to administer significant numbers of wiretaps. Telecommunications technology is very new and the change of pace in it is very rapid. The Digital Telephony bills are premature and should not be considered until: -the standards bodies are appointed and include privacy rights groups (not just the Electronic Frontier Foundation) at both the technical and policy levels -the standards are defined and accepted by the three stakeholders (law enforcement, common carriers, and privacy rights groups) -an adequate oversight agency has been given the authority previously allocated to the FCC -the technology has advanced to a point where the effect of such a broad ruling on the undustry can be ascertained. Please oppose HR 4922 & SB 2375. Sincerely, _______________________ If you want to help make legislators responsible for their actions, report this information back to vtw@vtw.org. We'll add their position to our database. 2. Take the press release attached and fax/mail/email it to local tv stations, radio stations, callin shows, newspapers, etc. Drop a note to vtw@vtw.org, where we'll track the coverage. 3. Forward this file to your friends and coworkers. Use it when you phone call-in shows; educate everyone you know. This is literally a "net" effort. Few people outside of the Internet know about this legislation; they would be horrified to discover its existence. Help educate them. 4. Call/write your legislator and ask them to oppose the Digital Telephony bill. Use the sample communiques above. To find your own legislator, contact the League of Women Voters in your area. 5. Write a letter to your local newspaper's editorial page about the Digital Telephony bill. We have attached a sample editorial page letter that you might base your letter upon. Feel free to use significant license. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIST OF LEGISLATORS SUPPORTING/OPPOSING/WAVERING ON DIGITAL TELEPHONY -REPRESENTATIVES All addresses are Washington, D.C. 20515 Dist ST Name, Address, and Party Phone Fax ==== == ======================== ============== ============== 16 CA Edwards, Donald (D) 1-202-225-3072 1-202-225-9460 2307 RHOB House sponsor of the 1994 Digital Telephony bill 6 IL Hyde, Henry J. (R) 1-202-225-4561 1-202-226-1240 2110 RHOB Cosponsor of the 1994 Digital Telephony bill -SENATORS P ST Name and Address Phone Fax = == ======================== ============== ============== D VT Leahy, Patrick J. 1-202-224-4242 na 433 RSOB Washington, D.C. 20510 Senate sponsor of the 1994 Digital Telephony bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIGITAL TELEPHONY BILL FAQ What are the (DT) Digital Telephony bills and where did they come from? The DT bills were initially introduced by the Bush administration presumably at the request of the FBI. The initial proposals were very unpopular and met with great opposition, preventing them from moving through Congress. The current incarnations of the legislation (SB 2375 & HR 4922) have several features, but basically require the same thing: common carriers must be able to provide law enforcement officers with court orders access to personal communications. (eg, if the FBI presents a court order for a wiretap on your phone calls to NYNEX, NYNEX should be able to provide the FBI with the ability to intercept your communications under the terms of the court order.) To do this will require changes in the telephone equipment we use today. Since this will obviously cost money, the bill appropriates $500 million in Federal money to these carriers to compensate them for the changes. Does this include bulletin boards and Internet sites like Netcom, America OnLine? No, the legislation specifically identifies common carriers. Information Services, such as these above, are not common carriers. How will this affect me? Imagine there's a giant socket on the side of the phone company's equipment that says "FOR FBI USE ONLY" in giant red letters. Imagine if the fine for not implementing that socket was $10,000 per day for the phone company. How many communications carriers do you think will make any noise about the privacy of their customers' communications? Now imagine that you were asked to pay the bill for this. The proposed budget for implementing this functionality is $500 million dollars for 1995-1998. Just how many wiretaps per year are there? In 1992 there were less than 1,000 wiretaps performed. It is important to note that the legislation is targeted towards wiretaps that the government says they cannot implement. Since there is thus far no published evidence of unimplementable wiretaps, turning the nation's phone system into a giant eavesdropping device to prevent a problem which has not yet been documented or become widespread, sacrifies too much privacy for too little gain. Is there ever a legitimate need for law enforcement to conduct wiretaps? Yes, according to the 1992 Government Accounting Office's "Report on Applications for Orders Authorizing or Approving the Interception of Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communications (Wiretap Report)", there were 919 wiretaps authorized in 1992 (there were no requests denied). There were 607 individuals convicted as a result of these wiretaps. Although this is not an excessive amount, it is not ignorable either. However 607 convictions is infinitesmally small when one considers the number of people convicted yearly in the US. Furthermore, the report does not specify if any wiretaps were unimplementable because of advancing technology. The FBI maintains that advancing technology will prevent this, though this has not yet been documented. VTW feels that until the the FBI makes their case to the public, this bill should not be considered as legislation. Why should I be worried about this bill? THE BILL IS VAGUE REGARDING STANDARDS SETTING The bill requires industry standards groups to be formed to work with law enforcement to create technical standards for this functionality. There are a number of problems with this. First is that these standards bodies may not have even been appointed yet, giving incredible power to a presently unnamed group that will be responsible for appointing those bodies. Secondly, these standards bodies do not currently include any public input. There is a delicate balance involved in wiretapping vs. a citizen's privacy. The standards bodies that are proposed do not have any provisions for public input. Public-interest and/or privacy groups should be included at every level (including the technical level) in order to ensure that this balance is found. Without such input, the standards are likely to sacrifice privacy while giving more functionality than is needed by law enforcement to do its job. THE STANDARDS SHOULD BE ACCEPTED BEFORE THE LEGISLATION IS PROPOSED The DT legislation is vague regarding the standards for wiretapping functionality. Many of the questions and problems we have with this legislation stem from the vagueness of the details regarding the standards. The standards body should be appointed (with representatives from law enforcement, industry, and the public at both the technical and high level) and the standards accepted before the legislation is proposed. THE BILL PUTS GREAT POWER INTO STANDARDS AND COMMITTEES THAT DO NOT EXIST YET By empowering standards bodies that do not exist, and mandating standards that do not yet exist, great power is given to those individuals who can appoint the members of the standards bodies. Furthermore, no process is mandated for the appointment of the members of these standards bodies. THE BILL DOES NOT APPOINT AN ADEQUATE OVERSIGHT AUTHORITY In many situations the (FCC) Federal Communications Commission is appointed to be the final arbiter if industry standard bodies cannot agree on technical standards. The FCC currently serves the interest of industry in regulating the communication carriers. Because the Commission serves the interest of both groups, there is a conflict of interest. A different ageny should be appointed and given the FCC's oversight authority. TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY IS NOT MATURE Telecommunications is a very new technology. Within the last twenty years, we have seen amazing advances in the technology. Ordering the implementation of such a broad privacy- sensitive function will have far-reaching effects on the future of the technology. This legislation should wait until the technology is more stable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE [Please fax this to your local newspaper] Voter's Telecommunications Watch invites fellow citizens to join its media awareness campaign by emailing or faxing this press release to one of two media institutions. East of the Mississippi: Burlington Times email: _________ fax: ___________ West of the Mississippi: San Jose Mercury-News email: _________ fax: ___________ VTW is also experimenting with a fax/email chain letter. The document "An Open Letter on Digital Telephony" is currently circulating the Internet. VTW has also prepared an FAQ for Digital Telephony. Point your gopher to panix.com (port 70) and check under the VTW main menu entry, or use the URL: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, NY -- 08/22/94 -- Contrary to popular belief, not all online civil libertarians support the Government's attempts to ensure the FBI can wiretap every citizen. Voter's Telecommunications Watch (VTW), a New York-based online activism group, working in conjunction with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and other privacy advocates, is working to energize and focus the grassroots opposition to the recently introduced Leahy-Edwards Digital Telephony Bill (H.R. 4922, S. 2375). The Digital Telephony Bill would require telecommunications service providers to design all their equipment to allow FBI agents and other government officials to wiretap any telephone conversation -- only if there is a court order permitting it, of course, the FBI promises. Adding this feature to the telecommunications system is costly -- so costly that the bill appropriates $500 million taxpayer dollars to reimburse phone companies for their "reasonable" expenses. "It's objectionable for the FBI to try to make us pay for invading our own privacy," says Alexis Rosen, co-founder of Public Access Networks Corporation, a regional public Internet provider. According to FBI Director Louis Freeh, there were 183 wiretaps in 1993 that would have been facilitated by the digital telephony mandates. "Should we really spend half a billion dollars for a couple of hundred wiretaps that compromise the privacy of two hundred million Americans?" asks Simona Nass, President of the Society for Electronic Access, a New York-based organization devoted to issues of civil liberties and public access. VTW is spearheading a drive to defeat the bill. Using the Internet to keep millions of electronically-connected citizens informed, VTW workers have put together summaries and analyses of the legislation and are tracking the bill's movements through the byzantine halls of Congress. Using this informations, citizens can inundate their representatives at optimum moments. VTW is tracking each influential legislators' position on the Digital Telephony initiative, and periodically publishes a scorecard summary of their positions, party, districts and contact information. To access VTW's anti-Digital Telephony effort, join the VTW electronic mailing list by sending Internet e-mail to vtw-list-request@panix.com. Information is also available via Internet Gopher in the VTW area of gopher.panix.com (port 70). For further information, contact Steven Cherry at 718-596-2851. PRESS CONTACT: Steven Cherry (718) 596-2851(voice mail) stc@acm.org (electronic mail) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAMPLE LETTER TO THE EDITOR [Note, this is Steven Cherry's "Open Letter" on Digital Telephony. Please do not submit it to the New York Times. -Shabbir] An Open Letter Regarding Digital Telephony Digital Telephony, embodied in bills entered into Congress by Sen. Leahy (S.B. 2375) and Rep. Edwards (HR. 4922), would require that telecommunications carriers alter their equipment so as to allow wiretaps and similar surveillance to be performed at the companies' offices, or the offices of law enforcement. In a word, to make telecommunications equipment, "wiretap friendly"; to make a wiretap order executable "at the press of a button." With the help of some civil liberties activists, the bill admirably distinguishes between common carriers and information services. Only the former are subject to its provisions. But the distinction, while clear in the abstract, is hard to make in practice. The mom-and-pop neighborhood bulletin board service or Internet provider is excluded, but even if it is providing store-and-forward message-passing for an individual or other small provider? Indeed, the very definition of common carrier in the proposed legislation is problematic, as the definition relies on that used in the Communications Act of 1934, when just now that Act is being overhauled finally, after sixty years. The bill's authors have sensibly and cleverly left out of the legislation all the details of implementation. It is impossible to object to the bill on the grounds of being unworkable. It is also difficult to object on grounds of the risks to individual privacy, insofar as the risks are largely unquantifiable by virtue of being largely unknown. The very clever lack of any practical detail, however, leads the prudent citizen to question the public expenditure of $500,000,000 -- the figure is likely far too high, or far too low. Indeed, all we know is it is unlikely to be correct, and we therefore object to it as being unrealistic to the needs of the enterprise. In point of fact, one other thing is known about this figure -- it is but a fraction of the total expenditures resulting from the mandates of the bill. The balance will be borne by the common carriers, who, in turn, will either have to raise rates, reduce services, or restrict investment and expansion of their business at the very moment in the history of telecommunications that calls for them to do just the opposite. Indeed, the very forces of technological change that caused law enforcement to request this bill demand that it be defeated. We would like to return to the issue of increased risks for a moment. While unquantifiable, they are equally undeniable. The more facile the system, the more it will be overused and error-ridden. We must of course balance risk with reward. Who would refuse an extra paycheck for fear of getting a papercut? We must ask, what are the rewards of digital telephony? The FBI Director has variously stated the number of cases where a wiretapping was subverted by a digital switch or signal, offering contradictory figures from a low of 80 to a high of 183. The Director has not said all of them, or even any of them, were cases where a conviction was not obtained, or where a conviction could have been obtained with the wiretap, or could only have been attained with a wiretap. Of course, only these last possible instances really lend any justification to digital telephony. It is quite clear that digital technology offers more challenges to law enforcement than digital switches and signals. The object of a wiretap can easily use unbreakable encryption to protect the privacy of his or her communications. While the transmission of a message would be intercepted, the content would still evade the eyes and ears of law enforcement. Indeed, any, or all, of these 80 or 183 cases could have been subsequently frustrated by encryption even had digital telephony solved the initial digital barrier. Let us state the potential rewards as generously as possible -- or even more generously than possible. There were approximately 1000 wiretaps in 1993. Let us imagine, contrary to actual fact, all of these to be subverted by digital technology. Let us imagine the number to double in coming years. (Any or all of which could remain private through encryption.) 2000 cases. Weighed against these are the 200 million Americans whose security and privacy are compromised by digital telephony. Well, what if the number of wiretaps doubles again, and again and again? Don't 20,000 or 30,000 wiretaps, hypothetically, justify? Perhaps. But what kind of society needs so many police listening in on the private lives of so many people? At what point do we regret the lack of a public policy debate on mass wiretapping of the American citizenry? We do not live in a police state nor will we. And so we are back to supposing a massive technological effort at great expense to achieve a modest wiretapping program of small, perhaps almost nonexistent, benefit. To sum up, it is as if the entire city of population 25,000, were to have its telephone system restructured, its citizen's phone privacy compromised, all to make effective a wiretap on a single alleged drug peddler or gangster, which wiretap may or may not help in convicting the offender, if indeed he or she is guilty. All at a cost of $62,500 to the taxpayers, and more to the local telephone companies and their ratepayers. For all these reasons, the unclarity, the expense, the risks to privacy, and the lack of substantive benefits, separately and together, we oppose this bill. Steven Cherry stc@acm.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT INFORMATION The Voters Telecomm Watch is a volunteer organization dedicated to monitoring federal legislation that affects telecommunications and civil liberties. We are based primarily out of New York, though we have volunteers throughout the US. Voters Telecomm Watch keeps scorecards on legislators' positions on legislation that affects telecommunications and civil liberties. If you have updates to a legislator's positions, from either: -public testimony, -reply letters from the legislator, -stated positions from their office, please contact vtw@vtw.org so they can be added to this list. Voice mail: (718) 596-2851 General questions: vtw@vtw.org Mailing List Requests: vtw-list-request@vtw.org Press Contact: stc@vtw.org Gopher URL: gopher://gopher.panix.com:70/11/vtw WWW URL: We're working on it. :-) --- CPSR ANNOUNCE LIST END --- To alter or end your subscription to this mailing list, write to listserv@cpsr.org. For general information send the message: HELP To unsubscribe, send the message: UNSUBSCRIBE CPSR-ANNOUNCE You need to do this from the same machine you subscribed from. In both cases, leave the subject blank, or at least not resembling an error message. ____ / .sig \ ____\ / Catya Erin Belfer { construction } \ / \/ Tnebri on irc \ zone.. / \/ catya@bwh.harvard.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Sep 2 12:46:18 1994 Fri, 2 Sep 1994 12:42:26 -0700 for Date: Fri, 02 Sep 94 15:39 EDT From: "Pamela Paxton" To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: tv nation socgradders, A few weeks ago, we were all discussing how much we liked TV nation. I heard on the radio last week, however, that it was the least-watched show in the country. This might have had something to do with the fact that it was only a temporary show. Regardless, at this point, I don't think NBC has decided whether to renew it. I want to write to NBC and tell them how much I like the program. Being lazy, however, I want to email them instead of actually writing a letter. Being even lazier (and not familiar with the internet) I'm asking you for help. Has anyone come across (in thier internet travels) an email address for NBC (or a place to look for it)? I'm asking on this net since we were discussing it earlier. Perhaps some of you are as sad as I am to hear of TV nation's low rating. If so (enough that you want to write NBC too) just let me know and if I ever get ahold of the email address, I'll let you know as well. Pam Paxton From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Sep 2 13:40:13 1994 Fri, 2 Sep 1994 13:34:59 -0700 for From: christine torgerson Subject: Advisor Humour (Cdn) Humor (US) (fwd) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 15:34:52 -0500 (EST) Hiya out there! I know this is nothing serious, but I figured with everyone getting back into school and the swing of things, you might enjoy a bit of humor...so keep this in mind as you make your appointments for your defenses! Good luck in the year! Christine Forwarded message: > > Subject: HUMOR: What Your Advisor/Mentor is REALLY Saying > > > TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ADVISOR > > How to interpret what your advisor says: > > 1) Advisor: Look on this as a learning experience. > > Translation: You're going to suffer. > > 2) A: Let me explain the format of the defense. > > T: Let me make you more nervous. > > 3) A: I'm here to lend you support. > > T: I'm here to make sure that you don't look smarter than me. > > 4) A: I found the overall concept interesting. > > T: This is my token compliment before I rip your ideas to shreds. > > 5) A: I would have liked more time to study this (your work). > > T: I didn't read it. > > 6) A: There are some aspects of the study I want to hear more about. > > T: I read it, but I just don't remember anything about it. > > 7) A: I have concerns about the theory on which you based your study. > > T: I hate the theory, but I can't insult the author so I'll insult > your work instead. > > 8) A: Your hypotheses are not strongly enough linked to the existing > literature. > > T: You came up with an innovative idea and I want to make sure you > never do it again. > > 9) A: Your research is an interesting extension of my own work. > > T: Why didn't I think of this before you did? > > 10) A: You have failed to take into account some of the more relevant > literature. > > T: You have failed to cite me. > > 11) A: I would like you to explain this in more detail. > > T: I don't know anything about this stuff, so you'll have to > explain it to me. > > 12) A: Your statistical results don't seem to support your hypotheses. > > T: I don't understand statistics. > > 13) A: You selection of statistical tests is rather simplistic. > > T: I'm the only one here that understands statistics and I wanted > to rub it in. > > 14) A: How did you ensure that you had drawn a random sample. > > T: I had to come up with at least one intelligent question and > this one always works. > > 15) A: Could you step out of the room while the committee comes to > a decision. > > T: We decided beforehand to give you your degree, but we still > wanted to make you sweat. > > 16) A: You don't need to worry about your preliminary exam. > > T: With a 75% fail rate, the outcome is not hard to guess. > > 17) A: You need to include two other faculty members on your committee. > > T: Let my hatchet men in or else. > > 18) A: This looks like publishable work. > > T: Now I can get two more papers out in my own name. > > 19) A: I have a meeting in 10 minutes, so make it quick. > > T: I'm hungry and want to go to lunch. > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Sep 2 18:32:59 1994 Fri, 2 Sep 1994 18:30:00 -0700 for Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 19:30:58 -0600 (MDT) From: rebel palm aitchison Subject: Re: tv nation To: Pamela Paxton This will get you to NBC, and if it's not the right dept, they'll probably let you know. nightly@news.nbc.com On Fri, 2 Sep 1994, Pamela Paxton wrote: > socgradders, > A few weeks ago, we were all discussing how much we liked TV nation. > I heard on the radio last week, however, that it was the least-watched > show in the country. This might have had something to do with the > fact that it was only a temporary show. Regardless, at this point, > I don't think NBC has decided whether to renew it. > > I want to write to NBC and tell them how much I like the program. > Being lazy, however, I want to email them instead of actually writing > a letter. Being even lazier (and not familiar with the internet) I'm > asking you for help. Has anyone come across (in thier internet travels) > an email address for NBC (or a place to look for it)? > > I'm asking on this net since we were discussing it earlier. Perhaps > some of you are as sad as I am to hear of TV nation's low rating. > If so (enough that you want to write NBC too) just let me know and if > I ever get ahold of the email address, I'll let you know as well. > > Pam Paxton > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Sep 2 19:26:20 1994 Fri, 2 Sep 1994 19:23:01 -0700 for Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 21:26 EDT From: "I don't think this will reduce confusion" Subject: Re: tv nation To: UPAM00@UNCMVS.OIT.UNC.EDU The e-mail address is TVNatn@AOL.COM It's a good show, if you watched it and liked it, e-mail them. It may help with the renewal. We have really good demographics -blush-. Jetaway Dave From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Sep 3 14:44:48 1994 Sat, 3 Sep 1994 14:34:49 -0700 for Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 16:32:33 -0500 (CDT) From: "Laura L. Fertwagner" Subject: SUPPORT TV NATION!!! (fwd) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hello All! I just read Pamela's message and when I went back into my e-mail--Lo and behold...there was this bit of info!!! I hope it helps. Laura ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 17:24:06 CDT From: AAsch@aol.com Subject: SUPPORT TV NATION!!! Many of you have probably seen the summer run of an interesting new series, TV Nation, on NBC. TV Nation is a satirical newsmagazine with a decidedly left-wing slant. The show is the creation of Michael Moore, noted for his exposure of General Motor's corporate greed in the movie "Roger & Me." Unfortunately, NBC has not yet renewed this refreshing, innovative program which aired its final episode on Tuesday, August 30. You can voice your support for TV Nation and you can do it by E-mail. Send your supportive sentiments to TVNATN@AOL.COM. Your voice could make the difference. Allen Asch Liberal TV viewer From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Sep 3 17:18:41 1994 Sat, 3 Sep 1994 17:16:38 -0700 for From: stryker@garnet.berkeley.edu Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 17:16:37 -0700 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU, UPAM00@UNCMVS.OIT.UNC.EDU Subject: Re: tv nation Great idea. This show is really funny. I don't think it'll last too long on NBC, though, due to political content. E-mail might help, but (cynical me) not a lot. Send me the address (or snail mail address) if you find it thought, and I'll drop them a line. Sean Stryker. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Sep 6 20:51:22 1994 Tue, 6 Sep 1994 20:48:36 -0700 for Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 23:43 EDT From: SCOTT BLAKE Subject: Action (fwd) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: IN%"millar@iac.net" 6-SEP-1994 21:06:46.03 To: IN%"suspects@asylum.sf.ca.us" CC: IN%"millar@iac.net" Subj: kidnapped Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 20:38:18 -0400 From: Devon Sean McCullough Subject: kidnapped To: suspects@asylum.sf.ca.us I'm sure suspects is not quite the right audience for this, but I have few contacts in Arizona other than the family of the victim. Those of you who do, please forward as appropriate and please let me know where the best venue for such a posting would be. I am placing an EPS photo in ftp://iac.net/kimphoto.eps Missing: Kimberly Nilson Age: 24 Height: 5' 5" Hair: blond Eyes: blue thin/athletic/tanned/hair usually pulled back Disappeared on Sunday night or Monday morning 22 August 1994. Her car was found abandoned 20 miles from home with the keys in the ignition and her checkbook and drivers license on the seat. She lives in the Meridien Corners apartments in Tempe Arizona, located near Broadway and Mclintock. Tempe is a suburb of Phoenix. Her car, a black 1982 Volkswagen Rabbit, was found abandoned in a remote subdivision of Scottsdale, another Phoenix suburb. Kimberly was to have started her last semester of Pre-Med school at Arizona State University the morning she disappeared. She was a straight-A student, an amateur triathlete, and a great person with lots of friends. She had no money or other problems and really had no reason to disapppear. She was very close to her roommate/friend, and to her family. 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From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 8 04:34:11 1994 Thu, 8 Sep 1994 04:25:15 -0700 for Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 07:25:14 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell Subject: (FWD) General Social Survey Student Paper Competition To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion FYI--Deadline is Feb. 15. For more info, contact NNRTWS1@UCHIMVS1.UCHICAGO.EDU. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 15:54:19 -0400 From:NNRTWS1@UCHIMVS1.UCHICAGO.EDU Subject: Forwarded Mail from NNRTWS1 General Social Survey Student Paper Competition The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago announces the first annual General Social Survey (GSS) Student Paper Competition. To be eligible papers must: 1) be based on data from the 1972-1993 GSSs or from the GSS's cross-national component, the International Social Survey Program (any year or combination of years may be used), 2) represent original and unpublished work, and 3) be written by a student or students at an accredited college or university. Both undergraduates and graduate students may enter and college graduates are eligible for one year after receiving their degree. The papers will be judged on the basis of their: a) con- tribution to expanding understanding of contemporary American society, b) development and testing of social science models and theories, c) statistical and methodological sophistication, and d) clarity of writing and organization. Papers should be less than 40 pages in length (including tables, references, appendices, etc.) and should be double spaced. Paper will be judged by the principal investigators of the GSS (James A. Davis and Tom W. Smith) with assistance from a group of leading scholars. The winner will receive a cash prize of $250 and a commemorative plaque. In addition, winning papers will be eligible for publication in the GSS Student Report Series. Honorable mentions may also be awarded by the judges. Two copies of each paper must be received by February 15, 1995. The winner will be announced in April, 1995. Send entries to: Tom W. Smith General Social Survey National Opinion Research Center 1155 East 60th St. Chicago, Il 60637 For further information: Phone: 312-753-7877 Fax: 312-753-7886 Email: NNRTWS1@UCHIMVS1 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 11 06:10:47 1994 Sun, 11 Sep 1994 06:08:31 -0700 for Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 08:48:45 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Symbolic Interactional Theory: True or False To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY The mini-lecture for this week concerns Symbolic Interactional Theory [SIT]. SIT is the deep, rich core of all forms of authentically social reality...it is very important to the sociologist to know when and to what degree interaction is rich enough and equitable enough to affirm the basic ideas of SIT. I'll discuss ten basic ideas and you can decide whether and to what degree they are valid in the runs of behavior you see/ live/observe in everyday life. In 3 parts...Part I: A. Human beings use symbols to construct all forms of social reality; friendships, marriage forms, churches, teams, and whole societies are equally the product of symbolic interaction. Ask yourself if there are any social structures which pre-date and pre-shape human behavior...don't forget to consider both built-in genetic imperatives nor macro-societal structures such as the World Bank, the United Nations or Gaia herself. B. There are five sets of symbols which each human being uses to contribute to the construction of situated social occasions: 1. Voiced sounds; the English language has some 300k words which can be used to construct an infinity of social realities. 2. Body talk: hands, face, legs, posture and muscle tone can be used to convey information. The face alone has 100k information bits. 3. Body costume; clothes, cosmetics, tattoos, scars, and other body decorations can signal social occasions, social status and intent. 4. Behavioral runs...both short and long runs of behavior can be read for their social meaning. Psychiatrist become adept at reading such runs for their repeated [and neurotic meanings]. Most people focus upon the situational meaning and overlook the larger runs. 5. Material items; tools, toys, furnishings, architecture and whole city layouts as well as transnational routes can be read by the adept social reader. C. Each Symbol arouses the same feelings, thoughts, and actions in the speaker as it does in the listener. Think about the truth value of this most basic assumption when you go on a date; when you listen to an ad; when you hear Bill Clinton or Rush Limbaugh speak or when you read your local newspaper. Part II to follow. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 11 06:33:39 1994 Sun, 11 Sep 1994 06:31:47 -0700 for Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 09:09:07 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Symbolic Interactional Theory: Fact and Facticity thereof To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY Part II. Of a mini-lecture by T. R. Young for sociology grad students sponsored in part by the Red Feather Institute and supported in part by Central Michigan University. D. Symbols are used to define social occasions; occasions defined as real become real in the consequence. This proposition tells you that there are no social occasions before people come together, interact symbolically and thus construct social reality. All people are thus engineers of social facts; the facticity of which depends upon several interconnected processes: 1. The defining of the occasion; class meeting, church service, football game or whatever. Again, words, costumes, tools and body talk is used. Usually each different situation has different architecture, different uses of time/space. 2. The Reification process; in which that which is defined as real is taken seriously as a legitimate instance of the reality prophesied. Your students can have a lot of fun with this one by innocently asking a professor for his credentials during the first class meeting; by asking, during the middle of a game if people are ready to keep score or by taking notes during a date and telling the other person that this is not 'really' a date but an experiment. It is here that belief, trust, faith, hope and charity become important to the reality process. 3. The Performance process; in this phase, each and every work, body motion, behavioral act and furnishing must be deployed in such a way as to embody the occasion as defined. Students can have fun with this idea by dressing off, by using words appropriate to another occasion, by bringing tools from other social realms or by just doing nothing when they are supposed to be engaged in the sociology of it all. 3b. A subroutine of this is to define that which is inappropriate as 'not really there.' Farts, grunts, belches, sneezes, coughs are treated as non-game events. Most inappropriate behavior is overlooked [think about that the next time you go to a class in deviant behavior. The same is true for people...people who do not have the 'proper' social status are defined as nonpersons; waiters, repair persons, bums, clerks, and those with spoiled presenting identities; women, blacks poor people and gays [remember Eddie Murphy going into the elite men's club to find the murdered of his friend...Beverley Hills Cops? 4. The Disengagment process; in which specific forms of reality are unambiguously terminated. Church services, class meetings, weddings, sports events and such...one can have fun with this by refusing to accept the end of, say, a class...try holding it over for even five minutes. Thus is the 'self-fulfilling prophecy' fulfilled. Providing of course, that the sociology of fraud does not obtain but that is another lecture. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 11 06:59:16 1994 Sun, 11 Sep 1994 06:56:52 -0700 for Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 09:34:26 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Symbolic Interaction Theory: Mindless in Seattle To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY Part III of a mini-lecture in S.I.T. A most engaging assumption of SIT is that mind, self and society are twin born [trine borne?]. There are several interesting questions to consider about this assumption. 1. How is it possible for mind, self and society to 'be' twinborn? Think about mind: define it as ways of thinking, ways of feeling, and intentions to take action. Symbols are supposed to elicit these same/shared feelings, thoughts, actions in all who hear them. The question, of course, concerns the truth value of such claims. I think, that for the most part the assumption is true...with friends, family, clerks, teachers, cops, and priests, what you hear is what you can believe, trust, and share. Sometimes parents, priests, professors and police lie, cheat, decieve, stage fraudulent forms of social engagment but, by and large the truth value of statements about the collective nature of mind is, variously, valid. However, in mass, class, and racist societies, such assumptions cannot be taken for granted...think about trust, faith, belief and such in conflict settings...Marx may be right; they are ambushes behind which lurk interest hostile to the hearer. 2. How is it possible for self to be shared? Easy...one can't be a professor without students. I once asked Larry Cross to give a lecture on marriage and the family to an empty auditorium...He was a bit puzzled by the request but, trusting me, believing in me, hoping I would not make him the fool, he gave the lecture. I use that event to make the point above. When and only when students learn does a teacher exist sociologically. Same is true for parents [tell your parents you are tired of them; that you are going to look for new parents...see what they say]...for priests, and for cops. [I once told a police officer that he couldn't ticket me for running a stop sign on Christmas Eve since, without people on campus, there was no sociology, hence no social norms, hence no offense. 3. How is it possible for mind, self and society to be twin born? Well that takes a lot of time and a lot of work by parents, teachers, ministers, and a great many others but the short version is that: a) you take a mewling, squalling, leaking blob of protoplasm...hug 'em, kiss 'em, talk to 'em...teach them the emotional, referential, and behavioral content of a lot of words and deed and emotions for about five years...then turn 'em over to others to help socialize the little critters for another ten years or so...put 'em through rites of passage in which they are existentially convinced that they are one of those things we call boys, girls, students, workers, wives and such...then you allocate a statue-role to them and leave them alone to be as human as they can possibly be...considering the larger social matrix into which we toss 'em. That, dear friends is how mind, self and society come to be twin born. Lots can go wrong and we might have to re-cycle the beggars but that is another lecture...have a very good semester...do as did the chap in The Clerk's Tale by Chaucer...who said that, Gladly wold he lern; and gladly teche. T. R. Young From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Sep 13 05:41:24 1994 Tue, 13 Sep 1994 05:38:36 -0700 for Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 07:30:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Roger Frederick Ohr Subject: Re: study of Korean-Americans To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hello- My name is Roger Ohr and I am a third generation Korean-American working on my Masters at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. My general interest is the Asian-American Movement. My thesis is a study of the Korean-American community here in Milwaukee. I am finding that there is not a lot of literature available. Does anyone have suggestions, thoughts, words of encouragement or ideas about resources. My fe-mail address is: rogero@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu. Any help will be appreciated. roger ohr From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Sep 13 15:35:04 1994 Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:31:55 -0700 for Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:33:34 -0500 To: Roger Frederick Ohr , socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: ghougham@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu (Gavin Hougham) Subject: Re: study of Korean-Americans At 07:30 AM 9/13/94 -0500, Roger Frederick Ohr wrote: >Hello- >My name is Roger Ohr and I am a third generation Korean-American working >on my Masters at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. My general >interest is the Asian-American Movement. What exactly do you mean by "Asian-American Movement." You will find plenty in the demography and immigration literatutres on Asians in America... but you'll have to specify a bit more what you are looking for. As part of the UW system, you should have access to the resources of UW/Madison. Get over to Madison and talk to the folks there. Gavin Hougham --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gavin Hougham University of Chicago Department of Sociology 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 E-mail: ghougham@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu gwh2@midway.uchicago.edu Office: Department of General Internal Medicine (312) 702-6735 --------------------------------------------------------------------- From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Sep 13 16:04:37 1994 Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:01:48 -0700 for Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:47:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jiannbin Lee Shiao Subject: Re: study of Korean-Americans To: Sociology Graduate Student List On Tue, 13 Sep 1994, Gavin Hougham wrote: > At 07:30 AM 9/13/94 -0500, Roger Frederick Ohr wrote: > >My name is Roger Ohr and I am a third generation Korean-American working > >on my Masters at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. My general > >interest is the Asian-American Movement. > What exactly do you mean by "Asian-American Movement." You will find > plenty in the demography and immigration literatutres on Asians in > America... but you'll have to specify a bit more what you are looking for. Er, no, I think Roger's talking about the panethnic social movement dating back to the late 60s and stretching through anywhere from the late 70s to now (depending on how you define it), not the physical movement of Asians to or within the US per se. Just a friendly post to head off any other wrong turns. :) tha j'ster From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Sep 14 04:57:17 1994 Wed, 14 Sep 1994 04:56:11 -0700 for Wed, 14 Sep 94 7:56:09 +1100 From: "MORTON ENDER" Organization: University of Maryland,College Park To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 07:55:54 EDT Subject: cool hand luke on email? was' up? does anyone know if prison inmates have access to email? or, should prison inmates have access to email? morten `no, i'm not going to jail' ender From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Sep 14 08:18:01 1994 Wed, 14 Sep 1994 08:14:55 -0700 for To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: E-address for Progressive Sociologists Net Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 08:14:55 -0700 From: DENISE M DALAIMO Hi Gang- Does anyone know the e-mail address to sign onto the Progressive Sociologists E-list? If so, could you please share the knowledge? I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Denise From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Sep 14 08:34:17 1994 Wed, 14 Sep 1994 08:33:11 -0700 for Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 11:33:04 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: E-address for Progressive Sociologists Net To: DENISE M DALAIMO On Wed, 14 Sep 1994, DENISE M DALAIMO wrote: > Hi Gang- > > Does anyone know the e-mail address to sign onto the Progressive > Sociologists E-list? If so, could you please share the knowledge? > I'd greatly appreciate it. > > Thanks, Denise > > Send the command subscribe psn in the body of an email message addressed to listserv@csf.colorado.edu If you have a gopher, point it towards csf.colorado.edu to view the psn archives and other stuff. Best, Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 15 13:26:12 1994 Thu, 15 Sep 1994 13:19:53 -0700 for Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 15:17:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Gibbons To: socgrad just a question to my fellow e-intelligencia, are there any similar discussion groups (maybe even a little more active) that deal with philosophy? if so, my wife would love to know. thanks michael ps just what is the sociological implication in a request like this one? From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 15 23:42:11 1994 Thu, 15 Sep 1994 23:34:25 -0700 for Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 00:32:27 +0000 From: Gregory Yelland Subject: subscription help To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU subscribe socgrad Gregory S. Yelland From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Sep 16 19:52:30 1994 Fri, 16 Sep 1994 19:50:07 -0700 for Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 21:40:17 CDT From: vijay Subject: women's conference To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hi all: I am wondering if any one you could help me out with a bit of information i need . There is an international conference scheduled to be held in Beijing , China next year. The conference is on the status of women and focuses on the social, economic, and political issues relevant to women. I want to present a paper at this conference. I don't have any information on who to write for getting more info about this conference. Does any one have any useful suggestion. Thanks. -- Vijay. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 18 05:37:13 1994 Sun, 18 Sep 1994 05:35:45 -0700 for Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 09:19:50 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: War and Rumors of War To: ALL RECIPIENTS OF PSN Below is a mini-lecture on the sociology of war. It comes in four parts. Most of it comes from an article on War and International Crime. If you would like the entire piece, give me a snailmail address. Again, this series is sponsored by the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology. Grad students in sociology are the natural audience for Red Feather Publications since they deal with that which is new; that which is excluded, that which uses non-quantitative methods to understand society. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- It looks as if the US Military will invade Haiti sometime early Monday morning...in order to put such 'police actions' in perspectives, I dug into my file to find an essay on Warfare and Political Crime which may be helpful to progressive scholars. This posting is in three sections; 1) there is an historical overview of the forms of war in history, 2) there is an look at the major reasons why capitalist states go to war in these times and 3), there is a look at the political tools the USA uses to enforce a false peace on a globalized economy. Think about Haiti as one reviews the uses of war in history. Part A: There have been 6 or 7 qualitatively different forms of warfare in human history: 1. Tribal wars of Predation: in which one tribe raids another in order to obtain scarce goods: cattle, tools, utinsels, food stuffs, slaves and other kinds of loot. These still occur today; some forms of banditry and street crime are the younger cousins of such wars of tribal predation. 2. Wars of Empire and Empire building. Some 4000 years ago, wars of tribal predation converted into wars in which empires were built. Some part of a conquering tribe would remain behind to collect tribute on a continuing basis. Such warfare transposed into 3. Wars of feudal conquest in which one tribe consolidated hegemony in a region and set up a hierarchy which funneled tribute to emperor. 4. Wars of bourgeois liberation. As sectors of commodity capital gained economic power, it challenge feudal overlords. From 1640 to 1779, a whole set of bourgeois revolutions displaced most of the feudal system. 5. Wars of colonial domination. In order to secure markets and access to raw materials, capitalist states sponsored a series of wars on behalf of the capitalist class...the shibbolith, 'national interests' subsumes such ventures. 6. Wars of Capitalist Competition. From the French-Indian wars in north America to WW II, most wars were between capitalist nations over access to markets...coalitions of capitalist nations waged war against other blocs. 7. Wars of Socialist Liberation. From the Paris Commune to the Russian revolution in 1917 and onto Cuba, Vietnam, Nicaragua and El Salvadore, a marxist critique of capitalism has inspired revolutionaries with varying success. 8. Now comes wars of humanitarian liberation sponsored by capitalist powers and engineered by the USA??? This is possible but doubtful. What we are seeing in Grenada, Kuwait and Haiti are 'police actions' by which a certain false peace is instituted in order to ensure the 'free' flow of goods, capital, labor and information in a globalizing political economy. Part II to follow. T. R. Young From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 18 05:39:20 1994 Sun, 18 Sep 1994 05:38:51 -0700 for Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 11:33:02 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Power and Capitalist Peace To: ALL RECIPIENTS OF PSN This is part II of a mini-series on the sociology of war with particular reference to the imminent invasion of Haiti. T.R. Young ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The USA and the bloc of Seven which orchestra the political economy of the emerging world order uses several power tools with which to enforce market relations in general and to guarantee the flow of wealth from the 3rd world to the richest nation-states. These have varying efficacy of which I will speak later. The USA is the chief engineer and major supplier of these various power tools. This material comes from an essay on War and International crime written in 1989...it is available via snailmail. POWER TOOLS AVAILABLE TO THE USA IN HAITI AND ELSEWHERE: A. The Military. The USA spends over $350 billion a year to maintain political hegemony. As of 1989, there were: 1. 1,300,000 military personnel on active duty 2. 1,580,000 in the Reserve 3. 979,300 civilian employees of the U.S. Military 4. 1266 US Military bases in the world 5. the payroll of those on active duty was $34 billion+ 6. the payroll of those on reserve duty was $5,500,000,000 7. pension costs of retired military amounted to $18 billions+ 8. military contractors received $266.7 Billions B. The C.I.A.; the C.I.A. owns some of the largest companies in the US. It has an unrecorded budget with which to subvert 'foreign enemies' Its activities has been recorded in a number of books available in libraries; these activities range from assassination to bribery of officials, elected or otherwise, in the 3rd world. C. The National Security Agency. It collects intelligence to use to support or to de-stabilized governments...its budget is said to be the largest of any civilian federal agency including the department of Health, Education and Welfare...the budget is secret even from Congress although there is a congressional oversight committee. D. Various International Financial Agencies including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Agency for International 'Devel- opment' and credit policies behind given US based multinationals of which there are some 1000, 300 of which are based in the USA. E. Embargoes and Blockades. A blockade involves the use of physical force around the target country...it is seldom used. Embargoes of goods and services are far more common. A new book on the use of such sanctions was reviewed on one of the news networks last evening...I tuned in after it began but did catch the part about the efficacy of embargoes. As I recall the data, there have been 109 embargoes since 1920; about 1/3 of them effective in forcing a government to comply. The factors involved included: 1. The rapidity with which it is put in place and the extensity of it. 2. Support from other, adjacent nation-states. In Haiti, the embargo is compromised by trade with the Dominican Republic 3. Strenght of the country embargoed; embargoes work better with weak countries; seldom with powerful countries. Haiti is weak and without powerful allies. 4. Embargoes are effective with allies and trading partners. There is too many interconnections in transport, finance, communications and investment for a weaker ally to hold out for long...the authors cited the British/French capture of the Suez canal. There were other points but memory fails...I didn't get the names of the authors but is sounds a valuable tool in political sociology and the soc/war. One final point an author made: the poor suffer most from embargoes. The rich and powerful have first call on scarce supplies. Those who are concerned about Cuba might want to consider the implications of this study. Much of the present distress in Cuba comes after the collapse of Soviet support. When I was there in '92, it looked as if several latin American countries might disrupt the American blockade...along with Canada and other European countries but things look bleak in 1994. End of this posting. I will do another containing anti-war poetry for those of you to whom facts and theories seem to remote and intellectual. Peace, T.R. Young From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 18 05:41:56 1994 Sun, 18 Sep 1994 05:41:19 -0700 for Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 09:45:17 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Wars and Police Actions in a Globalized Economy To: ALL RECIPIENTS OF PSN Part III in a mini-series on the Sociology of War and International Crime ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Part 3 of an analysis of Warfare in history: Policing the Global Economy. Since WWII, the USA has become the policing agent of a globalized economy. Until the collapse of bureaucratic and elitist state socialism, its role was, primarily, to prevent wars of socialist liberation in the 3rd world. Since 1989, the military activity of the USA has been confined to small gauge policing activities...it is important to note the support of key nations in such policing...the more support, the more vital to the interests of the global [izing] economy. There is very little support for the Haiti venture, most of it, I would guess, reluctant. Yet such policing is necessary to a globalizing economy whether it is capitalist or some other parallel economic form. Capitalism however, has special need for peace in the market place: 1. Raw materials. Most nations need to import raw materials. The USA has a list of some 86 'strategic' raw materials it must import in order to maintain production of consumer and military goods. 2. Cheap labor. With the re-entry of old capitalist competitors and the rise of new competitors in the 3rd world, American capital needs to drive down labor costs if it is to keep up profits...union breaking at home and cheap labor abroad are two very powerful economic tools to do that. This need is a chief 'national interest' in policing Central America. 3. Alternative sourcing. When labor goes on strike or other exigency requires, it is helpful to capital management to have other plants in more peaceable places...The C.I.A. and other federal units train and supply police and armies in the third world to install and protect such plants. 4. Markets...as wages fall and discretionary income of Americans erode, new markets are needed...most have to come from countries in this hemi- sphere since other leading capitalist states have a head start in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. There is little discretionary income in the former socialist bloc but still peace is important to investment as well as transport and communications around the entire world. 5. Capital flow. As markets are saturated and prices fall; as low profit lines are abandoned and high profit lines are threatened by pollution laws, taxation, and labor struggles, capital has to move where profits are higher and threats to it lower...this means a well policed 3rd world. The repatri- ation of profits to those 7 or 8 key capitalist countries which run the new world order is essential as well. These and more drive the USA and the Big Seven Nations to enforce an uncertain peace in the third world. Part III to follow: Tools for the Big Seven. T.R. Young From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 18 05:51:00 1994 Sun, 18 Sep 1994 05:50:07 -0700 for Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 12:11:22 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: The Poetry and Poetics of War To: ALL RECIPIENTS OF PSN Part IV: The Poetry and Poetics of War...for those for whom theory and fact are too remote, too intellectual and too frail to carry the anguish and outrage found in any and every war: T.R. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In 1991, I was so incensed by the Gulf War that I wrote a 26 page post- modern anti-war poem...I won't inflict it on anyone but it is available if any one should want it. It was called, America the Great [without irony or sarcasm]...in it I said that America was great enough without all that self glorifying, flag waving, mind sucking, name calling, hate mongering, pain filling, dog kicking, spit licking pride pulling patriotism were were getting, at the time, in the media. This time, I am much less certain about the wisdom of U.S. intervention...those who read the posting on the waves of warfare seen in history know that I am suspicious of any military venture that advertizes itself as humanitarian. And too, in such endeavor, there are so many piled up uncertainties that things can go very wrong [that's what the movie, Mindwalk, was all about]. Sometimes war and buckets of blood are necessary to the human project...I doubt it much in the case of Haiti...having said that, here's some poetry which says it better: On the idle hill of summer, sleepy with the flow of streams, Oh hear afar a deadly drummer, drumming steady in your dreams. East or West on fields forgotten bleach the bones of comrades slain, Lovely lads all dead and rotten; none that go return again. Still the calling bugles bellow; stille the screamin fife replies, Still the lad and lass in line will follow to the drum of endless lies. A.E.Housman Sweet it Is If I were fierce and fat and bald and short of breath I'd speed young lads and lasses to their death. You'd see my puffy face guzzling in the best hotel reading loud an honor roll; Poor young chap, you'd hear me sigh; I was there to see his father die. When the ware were done and youth stone dead, Then I'd totter safe to bed. Siegfried Sassoon...who died in WWI. Time to Think I sometime wonder if the soldiers lying under the soil wrapped in their coats like beggars sleeping under an arch their hands filled with leaves, would take vengence on them who send them. Coming back like beggars, seeing the homes and fields that obedience lost them, whether they would have anything to say to sons and brothers and friends; other than this, Obedience is death. ....author unknown After A.E.Housman lost his brother in war...his poetry took a different turn: Proud in Power The tongue that talks, the lungs that shout the thighs that carry them about, these today are proud in power and lord it in their little hour. Before the fire of sense decay the smoke of thought blown clean away, they leave to ancient night alone and o the world, their harmless bone. One more from Ezra Pound and then I'll quit. Pound uses irony in which he condemns war by celebrating it. Damn it all! All this our South stinks peace You whoreson dog, Papoils, come! Let's to music! I have no life save when swords clash. But ah! When I see the standards gold, vair, purple, opposing and the broad fields beneath them turn crimson, then howl I, my heart nigh mad with rejoicing. The man who fears war and squats opposing my words for stour, hath no blood of crimson but is fit only to rot in womanish peace far from where worth's won and the swords clash; for the death of such sluts I go rejoicing; Yea, I fill the air with my music. Hell grant we hear the swords clash and blot the thought, Peace. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 18 07:16:33 1994 Sun, 18 Sep 1994 07:15:22 -0700 for Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 10:12:37 -0400 From: RFC822 mailer (LMail release 1.2a/1.8a) Subject: Undelivered mail To: JEPSTEIN@KENTVM.KENT.EDU X-Report-Type: Nondelivery; boundary="> Error description:" Oops, sorry about that. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- An error was detected while processing the enclosed message. A list of the affected recipients follows. This list is in a special format that allows software like LISTSERV to automatically take action on incorrect addresses; you can safely ignore the numeric codes. --> Error description: Error-For: socgrad@UCSD.BITNET Error-Code: 1 Error-Text: Node UCSD is unknown as of VERS9409. See below for a list of suggested alternatives. Error-End: One error reported. ------------------ Suggested BITNET nodes (source: VERS9409) ------------------ Nodeid Ctry Site description ------ ---- ---------------- CSLA US California State University, Los Angeles - OASIS VM (IBM ES/9121-320) HUSC US Harvard HASCS (DECSYSTEM 5400) IUCF US Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (VAX 8600) IUIS US Indiana University University Computing Services MUSC US VAX-11/785, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston SC, USA (VAX 11/785) PUCC US Princeton University Computer Center (IBM 3090) UAMS US University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (VAX 8530) UCAR US National Center for Atmospheric Research SCD VM (IBM 4381) UCCC US University of Cincinnati (VAX 780) UFCC US University of Florida CIRCA cluster (VAX cluster) UKCC US University of Kentucky Computing Center (IBM 3090 600J) UMDD US University of Maryland College Park Computer Science Center (IBM 3081-GX3) UMDT US University of Maryland College Park Computer Science Center (IBM 4381-P02) UMES US University of Maryland Eastern Shore (IBM 4341-L1) UNCA US University of North Carolina at Asheville Computer Center (dec VAX 4000-300) UNCG US University of North Carolina at Greensboro Computing and Information Systems (DEC/MVax 3100) ------------------------- Rejected message (19 lines) ------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 94 10:07:30 EDT From: Jon Epstein Subject: Call for articles To: socgrad@ucsd I am currently editing a volume for Garland Publishings' New Directions in Sociology series on the intersection between symboliv interactionism and postmodernism. The book, which is now 3/4 complete, is titled Wilderness of Mirrors: Symbolic Interaction and the Postmodern Terrain. I am trying to find authors who have engaged these ideas within a feminist perspective, although I am willing to look at any manuscript that fa lls within the area of SI/PM. If you're interested in contributing to this text please contact me by email: JEPSTEIN@KENTVM.KENT.EDU and tell me about your article. I need around 4 more articles to complete the volume. Best, Jonathon S. Epstein Department of Sociology Kent State University From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 18 08:05:58 1994 Sun, 18 Sep 1994 08:04:56 -0700 for Date: Sun, 18 Sep 94 10:04:07 CDT From: alina oh To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU Subject: re:research on Asian American Movement and Korean Americans Here are a few biblio suggestions for the thesis [having recently lost some files, I can't recall the name of the person who had asked about this] on Asian American movements and on Korean Americans: _Asian American Panethnicity_ :bridging institutions and identities by Yen Le Espiritu 1993 _The New Asian Immigration in L.A. and Global Restructuring_ ed. by Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng 1994 [there are a few chapters in this anthology which might be of interest] there's also someone who wrote his dissertation here, a couple years ago, on the Korean Immigrant community here in Chicago - I can't remember whether he's at UC Irvine or San Diego [can anyone on the list help me out here] and I just recently remembered his name: In-Joon Yoon His work is more in the urban soc vein, wrote his dissertation with William Julius Wilson and so on - so I'm not sure if it would be directly related to your interests. BTW, the three editors of _the New Asian Immig. in LA_ can all be reached at UCLA, soc and urban planning, I believe. Alina From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 18 16:48:59 1994 Sun, 18 Sep 1994 16:47:50 -0700 for Date: 18 Sep 1994 18:41:25 CDT From: To: Subject: Miss America As I was watching the Miss America pageant last evening, I was jarred by the fact that none of the ten judges was a sociologist. All ten were entertainment types. I was struck by the realization of just what a travesty of the human spirit the pageant was to not include a sociologist on the panel of judges. What better judge than a person who understands the social structure and its many implications? I can only hope that ASA will mobilize its mighty resources and move to correct this gaping injustice. :^) Dave From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 18 18:35:59 1994 Sun, 18 Sep 1994 18:35:15 -0700 for Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 19:27:15 -0600 (MDT) From: "Dale A. Albers" Subject: Re: Miss America To: SSQLHUNT@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu On 18 Sep 1994 SSQLHUNT@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU wrote: > As I was watching the Miss America pageant last evening, I was jarred by the > fact that none of the ten judges was a sociologist. All ten were > entertainment types. I was struck by the realization of just what a travesty > of the human spirit the pageant was to not include a sociologist on the > panel of judges. What better judge than a person who understands the social > structure and its many implications? I can only hope that ASA will mobilize > its mighty resources and move to correct this gaping injustice. > > :^) Dave > I do too, Dave. And, if they do then hat ought to pretty well do it for american sociology. Dale Albers From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 19 06:32:49 1994 Mon, 19 Sep 1994 06:30:41 -0700 for From: Michael A Shader Subject: subscription jelp[D To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 09:30:38 -0400 (EDT) PLease sign me up to your group. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 19 08:25:57 1994 Mon, 19 Sep 1994 08:21:52 -0700 for From: XDTUSO@CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU Date: 18 Sep 1994 23:37:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: UNSUB To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU How do I unsubscribe from socgrad??? Please Help! XDTUSO @Fullertonedu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 19 09:33:15 1994 Mon, 19 Sep 1994 09:27:32 -0700 for Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 09:27:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Lincoln Subject: Re: Miss America To: SSQLHUNT@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu Boy, can you imagine what serving as a judge in the Miss America pageant could do for one's sociological credibility? I think I'll stick to refereed journals for now. Stephen Lincoln Dept. of Sociology U. C. San Diego On 18 Sep 1994 SSQLHUNT@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU wrote: > As I was watching the Miss America pageant last evening, I was jarred by the > fact that none of the ten judges was a sociologist. All ten were > entertainment types. I was struck by the realization of just what a travesty > of the human spirit the pageant was to not include a sociologist on the > panel of judges. What better judge than a person who understands the social > structure and its many implications? I can only hope that ASA will mobilize > its mighty resources and move to correct this gaping injustice. > > :^) Dave > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 19 13:28:50 1994 Mon, 19 Sep 1994 13:26:21 -0700 for From: JWL3697@UTARLG.UTA.EDU Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 15:12:49 -0500 (CDT) Subject: "high school and beyond" To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hello, socgradders: Is there anyone out there that is familiar with the study "high school and beyond"? If you are, do you know for sure how it measure the variable "race"? I had ordered the code book, but will at least take 4 weeks to get here, and I need the info ASAP. Please help. A million thanks. Julia Lam University of Texas at Arlington. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 19 14:30:25 1994 Mon, 19 Sep 1994 14:26:18 -0700 for From: Peper@SOC.FRG.eur.nl Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 23:22:19 MET Subject: Scientific database To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Dear socgrad's My dissertation-project on social problems is mainly literature-research, so I am in desperate need for a good database program. I'm now using NOTEBOOK (by Wordperfect) but it is a non-relational database and has only limited possibilities for storing and retrieving information. On the other hand it runs smoothly with Wordperfect, which is especially handy for creating bibliographic lists. I tried other programs like CARDBOX, ENDNOTE PLUS, DATAPERFECT, but they all fall short on some of my whishes. Before getting into programming in DBASE or FOXPRO, I wondered if anyone knows a scientific database-program, that meets the following requirements: * Operating under MS-DOS or Windows * It has to be a relational database * The possibility to not only store information of books, readers, articles and so on, but also biographical info on scholars and authors, definitions, abstracts (at least 10 or more pages), summaries, notes etc. * The possibility to export the stored info to several wordprocessors (like Wordperfect 5.1./6.0, Word 6.0, etc.), and vice versa the possibility to imort info. * The possibility to use extended ASCII. * The possibility of free-text searches (like ASKSAM) Actually I'm looking for a program that can be expanded and used as a sort of encyclopedia of information, references, ideas, notes etc. All information might be helpfull, so thanks in advance, Bram Peper Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Sep 20 05:09:47 1994 Tue, 20 Sep 1994 05:04:14 -0700 for Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 08:04:10 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: Scientific database To: Peper@soc.frg.eur.nl You might take a look at askSam, from askSam Systems, P.O. Box 1428, Perry, FL 32347, Sales: 800/800-1997, Fax 904-584-7481 It comes in DOS and Windoz versions. Ver. 2 of the Windoze version has just been released--it will directly read/write word perfect 6.0 files. (At least that's the claim--my update hasn't arrived yet.) The new windows version is much easier to use than the older DOS version. I've been using Win. ver.1 for several months now and am guite pleased with it. I'm not sure what the price might be in Europe, but I bought askSam for Windows vers. 1 for around $215.00 from a software mail-order outfit. (Check the ads in PC Magazine, Computer Shoper or other trade rags.) Disclaimer: I'm just a satisfied user of askSam, not a shill for them. A small nitpit: the term "scientific database" usually refers to software designed for high-precision numeric data (eg. stores stuff in many digits). "Textual" or " free-text" is more often used for the application you're describing. Good luck, Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Sep 20 07:08:23 1994 Tue, 20 Sep 1994 07:06:37 -0700 for Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 09:53:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Vincent Kang Fu To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: subscribe Please put me on your list. Thanks Vincent From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Sep 20 12:03:52 1994 Tue, 20 Sep 1994 12:02:14 -0700 for Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 12:02:13 -0700 From: Laura Miller To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: how to unsubscribe Too much email in your life? If you want to unsubscribe from Socgrad, send a message to: listserv@ucsd.edu and in the body of your message, type: unsub socgrad Remember to send the message to listserv, NOT to Socgrad itself. Any problems or questions can be directed to lmiller@ucsd.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Sep 21 21:06:16 1994 Wed, 21 Sep 1994 21:04:53 -0700 for Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 22:58 EST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: UHOBBIT@irishmvs.cc.nd.edu Subject: Evaluation Sociology I know, I know, I only "speak" when I need something... well ...I need something. I have been suggested by one of my mentors to look into evaluation sociology literature and I was wondering if anyone out there in cybersocspace has either taken an area exam in the area (and thus has a reading list of some kind), or knows of some must read books/articles/ journals in the area, or any central names in the area... Spefically my interests lie in evaluating study abroad programs in higher education, but I may have to start more general than that since the literature on my topic of interest leaves much to be desired (and much to be done...). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dave Brunsma University of Notre Dame From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 22 07:22:03 1994 Thu, 22 Sep 1994 07:20:50 -0700 for Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 10:20:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Lalumondier Subject: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH/Community Policing info? To: SOCGRAD I am a graduate student initiating research on the Neighborhood Watch and other organizations founded to provide community policing efforts directed at the reduction of `crime.' I am still in the infancy stages and would greatly appreciate comments regarding methodology and literature references!! Sincere Thanks, Lanny La Lumondier Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Sociology University of Pittsburgh From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 22 08:44:37 1994 Thu, 22 Sep 1994 08:41:56 -0700 for Thu, 22 Sep 94 11:41:52 +1100 From: "MORTON ENDER" Organization: University of Maryland,College Park To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:41:41 EDT Subject: program evaluation (References: LONG) dave et al, here's some p.e. references i collected during a p.e. course last fall...good luck morten ender sociology university of maryland ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: LEFRAK/S-ENDER To: s-ender Date sent: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 13:59:52 EDT Subject: program evaluation (References: LONG) attached are the references folks provided on qualitative methods and program evaluation...thanks for all the responses both on and off net... morten ender sociology u of maryland Berk, Richard A. and Rossi, Peter H. (1990) Thinking about program evaluation. Newbury Park: Sage. Chen, Huey-Tsyh and Rossi, Peter H., eds. (1992) Using theory to improve program and policy evaluations. New York: Greenwood Press. Cook, Thomas D. and Shadish, W.R. (1986) Program evaluation: the worldly science. Annual Review of Psychology, 37, 193-232. Cronbach, Lee J.; Ambron, Sueann R.; Dornbusch, Sanford M.; Hess, Robert D.; Hornik, Robert C.; Phillips, D.C.; Walker, Decker F.; and Weiner, Stephen S. (1980) Toward reform of program evaluation: aims, methods and institutional arrangements. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Finsterbusch, Kurt; Ingersoll, Jasper; and Llewellyn, Lynn G. (1990) Methods for social analysis in developing countries. Boulder, Co: Westview. Grinnell, Richard M. (1988) Social work research and evaluation (third edition), Itasca: Peacock. Guba, Egon G. and Lincoln, Yvonna S. (1989) Fourth generation evaluation. Newbury Park, Ca.: Sage Herman, Joan L.; Morris, Lynn Lyons; and Fitz-Gibbons, Carol Taylor (1987) Evaluator's handbook, 2nd edition. Newbury Park: Sage. King, J.A., Morris, L.L., and Fitz-gibbon, C.T. (1987) How to assess program implementation. Los Angeles: Sage. Love, Arnold J. (1991) Internal evaluation: building organisations from within. Newbury Park: Sage. Madaus, G.F., Scriven, M. and Stufflebeam, D.L. (Eds.) (1983) Evaluation models: viewpoints on educational and human service evaluation. Kluwer-Nijhoff, Boston. Patton, Michael Q. (1986) Utilisation-focussed evaluation, 2nd edition. Beverly Hills, Ca.: Sage. Patton, Michael Q. (1990) Qualitative evaluation and research methods, second edition. Newbury Park, Ca.: Sage. Porter, Colin F. (1985) Environmental impact assessment: a practical guide. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. Rossi, Peter Henry, and Freeman, Howard E. (1989) Evaluation: a systematic approach. Newbury Park, Ca.: Sage. Sandefur, Gary D., Rossi, Peter H., and Freeman, Howard E. (1989) Workbook for Evaluation: a systematic approach, 4th edition. Newbury Park: Sage. Scriven, Michael (1991) Evaluation thesaurus, fourth edition. Newbury Park: Sage. Sechrest, Lee and Figueredo, A.J. (1993) Program evaluation. In L.W. Porter and M.R. Rosenzweig, eds., Annual Review of Psychology, vol 44. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews Inc. [645-674] Shadish, William R., Jr., Cook, Thomas D., and Leviton, Laura C. (1991) Foundations of program evaluation: theories of practice. Newbury Park: Sage. Smith, M.L. and Glass, G.V. (1987). _Research and evaluation in education and the social sciences. Boston: Allyn & Bacon Stufflebeam, Daniel L. and Shinkfield, Anthony J. (1985) Systematic evaluation: a self-instructional guide to theory and practice. Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff. Wadsworth, Yoland (1991) Everyday evaluation on the run. Melbourne: Action Research Issues Assn. Inc. Williams, David D., ed. (1986) Naturalistic evaluation, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Worthen, Blain R., and Sanders, James R. (1987) Educational evaluation: alternative and practical guidelines. New York: Longman. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 22 11:47:40 1994 Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:45:13 -0700 for by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (PMDF V4.3-11 #5489) id <01HHEY4VZUU899M1LA@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>; Thu, 22 Sep 1994 13:44:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 13:44:43 -0500 (CDT) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU From: 1k1mgm@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Christopher Gunn) Subject: Re: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH/Community Policing info? To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU >I am a graduate student initiating research on the Neighborhood Watch and >other organizations founded to provide community policing efforts >directed at the reduction of `crime.' >[....] >Lanny La Lumondier I've felt there was a sort of continuium here between a vital, populated, Jane Jacobs-ian (_Life & Death of Great American Cities_) community in which 'crime' (as you aptly qualify it) doesn't happen because there's no room for it--on the one hand--and a vigilante-flavored, pseudo-cop patroling of desolate, basically empty streets, the sort of thing that shows up on _20-20_ from time to time--on the other. Do the people who try to organize neighborhood policing understand Jacobs' model? Are they trying to move their neighborhoods in that direction? Or are they trying to solve a kind of staffing problem in what they'd like to be a garrison-state environment? I.e., is the goal community solidarity out in the streets, or is it *sterilized* streets so hostile to humans that even the 'criminals' don't want to be there? My experience with 'Neighborhood Watch' per se is limited, but it strikes me as being a middle-class, suburban kind of thing that doesn't fit very well between the poles I've proposed above. But I could be mistaken. Kit Gunn, Univ. of Kansas Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Laboratory 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu University of Kansas Phone: 913-864-4428 or -4495 Malott Hall Lawrence, KS 66045 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 25 10:04:48 1994 Sun, 25 Sep 1994 10:02:28 -0700 for Date: Sun, 25 Sep 94 11:57:59 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Postmodern Sociology To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY Nothing is quite so strange to the ear of those whose knowledge processes key off of either modern or pre-modern assumptions and processes. For many postmodernity is a pejorative label referring to that writing which denies the possibility of objective knowledge, formal axiomatic theory, replication, falsifiability, prediction, order and stability of truth values in the knowledge process. Those who work out of postmodern modalities find themselves the target of much invective and the agent of much distress in art, science, religion and gender relations. So what is postmodernity all about??? That is the topic for today's mini-lecture brought to you by the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology. This lecture was published in the Michigan Sociological Review, Fall, 1994:4....but you can copy and use this outline. A. Premodern, Modern and postmodern approaches to the knowledge process are complementary rather than antagonistic/exclusive. Each contributes much to the knowledge process and, together, they can help fashion a good and decent society; one in which the processes by which social reality are constituted are open to public discourse and democratic human agency. B. Missions of the Knowledge process in each Epoch/Modality: 1. Pre-modern: revelation of divine plans for social life; answers to fundamental questions of being and doing. 2. Modern: Discovery of Universal Laws of nature and society; building formal, coherent and stable models which can be used to predict and to control nature and society. 3. Postmodern: location of the knowledge process in its larger social context; reaffirmation of the role of the subjective 'author' in the writing of any 'text' about nature and society. Critique of all claims of 'universal truth,' objective standards of social behavior, or claims of neutrality, impartiality or objectivity in science, art, poetry, music, drama, or religion. C. Origins of each Epoch/Sensibility: 1. In the effort to deal with the forces of nature; the facts of personal experience and that which is not directly visible; dreams, cycles of the seasons, discontinuity in nature and social life, long term change, social problems and social rewards. In the effort to live together in peace and collective endeavor. Faith, hope, trust, compassion, affil- ation and innocent belief are among the more important contributions to social psychology of pre-modern sensibility. 2. In the many successes of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton in describing and predicting the behavior of bodies in motion; in the great successes of empirical observation and systematic study in physics, chemistry, genetics, biology and physiology in unraveling the secrets of nature. In the effort to place human beings on equal footing with the gods as a knowing and acting agent. Humanism, democracy, the Enlightenment together with modern transport, communications, agriculture, medicine engineering and all the tools of modern epistemology are the permanent legacy of modern science. 3. Postmodernity, as a concept, arose in the field of architecture in the 1950's as a critique of modern architecture with its circles, squares, flat planes and faceless forms. It soon spread to art, music, drama, and later, social science. It comes out of resistence to efforts to standardize social life, to institute uniform norms and values on all societies by the architects of 'modern society.' It arises when people decline to take either God or Science as the final arbitrator of social truth. It's legacy is very mixed. Pauline Vaillancourt-Rosenau has a very readable book which surveys the postmodern for beginners. It is called, Post-modernism and the Social Sciences...published by Princeton In brief, there are both nihilistic and affirmative dimensions in this literature. D. Pathways to Knowledge in each Epoch/modality: 1. Entrance into the Dream world; discarding worldly attachments, puri- fication and removing the 'shells' of being and desire. Meditation, quietism and selflishness are pre-conditions for inspiration and revelation. 2. Firm and close study of this world; use of all the senses and all the devices one can invent to enhance the senses. 3. Active participation in the reality/knowing process; one knows social reality best when one is an active partner in its creation. Subjective decisions about which slice of incredibly complex, changing and deeply connected realities one wishes to study and control. Part II to follow. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Sep 25 16:56:21 1994 Sun, 25 Sep 1994 16:55:35 -0700 for From: XGWALTERS@CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 14:13:48 -0800 (PST) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subj: Call DC for Free- 1-800-768-2221 From: Nathan Newman to socgradders, received this message on my labor network thought some of you might be interested in taking the religious right to task by using their toll free number. (see the attached message). greg You can call Capitol Hill to tell your Congressperson or Senator what you think AND charge the religious right for your call. Far-right Traditional Values Coalition leader Rev. Lou Sheldon paid for a toll-free number so anti-gay supporters could call congressional members and express their political views. Well, progressives can use the same number and give the opposite views directly to DC. The 1-800-768-2221 phone number connects you directly to Capitol Hill. Spread this post and the phone number as far as possible. Let's make some calls and push up the phone bill for the religious right. ***** Nathan Newman: newman@garnet.berkeley.edu ******* From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 26 00:34:21 1994 Mon, 26 Sep 1994 00:33:08 -0700 for (PMDF V4.3-8 #4544) id <01HHJVTFIQKG08QT9A@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>; Mon, 26 Sep 1994 02:33:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 02:33:00 -0600 (CST) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by utxvms.cc.utexas.edu From: smithey@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Lee Smithey) Subject: Phone # to Capitol Hill To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU I would like to suggest that perhaps every American should call Capitol Hill in order to express their views and opinions. Calling just to run up the phone bill of the religious right is counterproductive and even childish. These sorts of empty battles may be one of the reasons that many citizens distance themselves from the political process. Lets try to lend some solid, constructive meaning to the process. Lee Smithey From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 26 08:46:27 1994 Mon, 26 Sep 1994 08:43:29 -0700 for Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 11:13:17 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Premodern, modern and postmodern knowledge processes To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY Part II of a mini-lecture on the Drama of Human Understanding brought to sociology grad students by the Red Feather Institute and supported, in part by Central Michigan University as network host. In Part I, I laid out for you, the different missions and methods of knowing in of three different sensibilities. I emphasized that, contrary to their own special self-knowledge, these three are not mutually exclusive and naturally enemy to the other but rather they complement the drama of human understanding, each in its own most valuable way. I gave you some of the lasting contributions each makes to the human project. In this part, I would like to focus in on the organization of the knowledge process a bit more. In each section, I take premodern, modern and pomo in that order: A. Agents of the Knowledge process: 1. Holy man/woman, shaman, guru, priestly intermediary. 2. Scientist, theorist, technician, renaissance 'man.' 3. Artist, poet, architect, author, 'reader,' viewer, active citizen; knowledge is a poetics, a politics, and a dialectic process. B. Institutional locus of the knowledge process: 1. Church, temple, mosque...holy space generally 2. University, institute, scientific profession 3. Multi-local; in the arts, sciences, cinema, politics/public sphere. No person or insitution is ceded hegemony over the knowledge process. C. Repository of accumulated knowledge/wisdom: 1. Prayer, bibles, poetry, song, chant and 'myth' 2. Lectures, journals, scholarly books, technical manuals 3. In novels, paintings, cinema, musical compositions, buildings, books magazines and other popular literature. D. Hierarchies of knowledge: 1. Divine word; priestly commentary take precedence over folk lore, common sense, personal opinion 2. Theory takes precedence over all other forms of knowledge; formal, axiomatic, comprehensive, eternally valid theory is valued greatly. 3. Knowledge is de-sanctified and de-legitimated to show its partisan parochial and political character. Folk knowledge/wisdom on equal standing with both theory and theogony E. Hierarchies of knowledge work: 1. Liturgy...doing 'good' i.e., godly work in the reproduction of sacred relationships, statuses, moral judgments. 2. Research: empirical and systematic study of all that is 3. Praxis; emancipatory research; deconstruction of 'truth' and 'fact' F. Social hierarchy: persons within the 'Universal We.' 1. Those who are faithful to the word of their god. Others are nonperson 2. High tech societies with 'scientific' principles of management/control 3. No hierarchy; shifting combinations of elitecontrol the knowledge process but are not accorded special monopoly on honor/esteem. G. Sources of distortion of knowledge process: 1. Weakness in faith, seduction by foreign gods/devils, 'pagan' beliefs modern science; postmodern writings 2. Poor theory, personal bias, poor instrumentation, chance, bad scaling inferior research design...and more. 3. the stratification of power; elitist control over the knowledge process unequal access to the means of producing meaning. Part III to follow: Alienation, sources and solutions in each epoch/modality From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 26 13:09:25 1994 Mon, 26 Sep 1994 13:07:34 -0700 for From: byrd575@obu.arknet.edu Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 15:07:18 EDT To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU subscribe cjust-l brandi byrd From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 26 13:20:54 1994 Mon, 26 Sep 1994 13:15:30 -0700 for Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 14:15:59 MDT From: SA001@NMSUVM1.NMSU.EDU To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU subscribe socgrad cookie stephan From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 26 14:06:41 1994 Mon, 26 Sep 1994 14:00:41 -0700 for Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 16:27:12 EDT From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Postmodernity and the question of alienation To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY Part III of a mini-lecture [that's getting a bit long] on the Drama of Human Knowledge brought to you by rebels, misfits and malefactors everywhere. In the last exciting installment, I made the case that in terms of both content and social organization, pre-modern sensibility, modern enquiry and postmodern deconstruction are complementary in the epistemological endeavors of human beings. Carrying on from there, I want to point you to some interesting differences in understanding alienation. Alienation has a long and venerable career in psychology and sociology. In psychology, one was alienated from the drives and traumas buried deep in the psyche; an alienist was one who helped the neurotic sort out such hidden compulsions which otherwise were beyond help. Setting that aside, the concept is even more interesting [to me] when it points at the larger sources of distorted knowledge, feelings and doings. A. Purposes of the enquiry and human knowledge in each epoch/mode of thought 1. Pre-modern: knowing of god/spirit world/ultimate reality 2. Modern: reduction of the gap between subjective understanding and putatively objective reality. 3. Postmodern: varies...for some it is the debunking of claims of truth; opposition to cultural hegemony [esp. Euro-American]. For some it is the construction of a macro-social psychology which shows the politics embedded in both pre-modern theodicy and modern enquiry. For me, it is an effort to help built a world in which praxis is spread widely in the population [lecture on Praxis another time]. B. Sources of Human Alienation [in addition to personal troubles] 1. Separation from God; entrapment in the sorrow, pain and misery which is [said to be] an inescapeable part of life in this world. 2.Discrcrepancy between subjective knowledge and objective reality; ignor- ance of the universal laws of nature and society. 3. loss of control of the knowledge process; exclusion from the building critique of the social institutions/roles in which one must live out one's life. C. Solutions to the problem of alienation: 1. Reunification with God...perfect communication with spirit world. Salvation by means of good work, meditation or worship; in christianity salvation is sometimes seen to be a gift of divine grace. 2. Absolute Truth. That's what grad school is all about: hypothecation, verification/falsification, model building and testing. The quest for a perfect description of how the world and all its creatures, great and small work. 3. Varies from critical self reflection to change and renewal in social life worlds. Sometimes it presumes the sociology of fraud every where in which case, a narrow, self serving solipcism will suffice. D. Views on Change: 1. Change is deviancy from God's plan...or from Nature [human or other- wise. 2. Change is neutral and the result of natural laws; competition, survival of the fittest society, progress toward 'modern' high tech division of labor. 3. Flucuation between order and less order; no natural end state toward which any given society is headed/no anchor points to judge progess. E. Sources of Change: 1. The unfolding of God's Plan; the slow accomplishment of perfect harmony with nature. 2. Struggle for existence; adaptation, the iron laws of market or society 3. Contradictions within the social order [Marx]; bifurcation points on key parameters [Chaos/Complexity theory]. F. Ethical Character of Change: 1. Variation from God's plan is evil, sin, folly or madness. 2. Change is neutral; it has no ethical content 3. Varies; one can judge but only if one specifics one's values/politics. End of Part III. More in another lecture on Reason and Rationality. T.R. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 26 17:40:38 1994 Mon, 26 Sep 1994 17:38:11 -0700 for Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 18:37:21 -0600 (MDT) From: "Dale A. Albers" Subject: Re: your mail To: byrd575@obu.arknet.edu I attempted to subscibe and the listserv rejected me, let me know if you get on. Thanks. D Albers From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Sep 26 19:38:20 1994 Mon, 26 Sep 1994 19:37:14 -0700 for Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 21:37:09 -0500 (CDT) From: nick mcree Subject: neighborhood watch To: socgrad Hey, it is great to hear someone else is working on neighborhood watch! I am writing my master's on the distribution of neighborhood watch programs in Austin. Those interested in some lit sources, and what I found may email me. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Sep 27 09:10:44 1994 Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:08:18 -0700 for (PMDF V4.3-9 #4544) id <01HHLRY5U1DC94DPYQ@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>; Tue, 27 Sep 1994 11:03:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 11:03:52 -0600 (CST) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by utxvms.cc.utexas.edu From: Smithey@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Lee Smithey) Subject: Phone # to Capitol Hill To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Apologies for sounding like a seething Boy Scout. I probably shouldn't be writing replies at 2:00 AM. : ) Lee From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 29 04:51:34 1994 Thu, 29 Sep 1994 04:50:14 -0700 for Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 07:50:13 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell Subject: job (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion FYI ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:11:48 -0400 From: Rhonda Levine Subject: job Please pass on this information to anyone that you think may be interested. I can answer additional questions by e-mail. Thanks Rhonda Levine rlevine@center.colgate.edu The department of Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Sociology at the level of Assistant Professor. The beginning date for this position is August 1995. The department invites applications from candidates who have a teaching interest in one or more of the following areas: urban, organizations, and work. The succesful candidate is expected to teach sections if an introductory course in sociology, classical social theory, and research methods. The departm ent has a historical and comparative orientation in its curriculum. Additional teaching responsibilities may include participation in all-university programs. Women and minority persons are especially encouraged to apply. The deadline is December 1, 1994. Send letters of application, a curriculum vita, and have three letters of recommendation sent to: Rhonda F. Levine Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346. Colgate University is an Affirmative Action/Equal opportunity Employer. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Sep 29 11:44:23 1994 Thu, 29 Sep 1994 11:39:22 -0700 for Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 12:28:36 MDT From: SA001@NMSUVM1.NMSU.EDU Subject: Re: Sociology jobs at NMSU To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at New Mexico State University invites applications for two tenure-track positions in Sociology at the Assistant Professor level. Applicants must possess a PhD in Sociology or other field appropriate to the specializations we seek by August 1995. For the first position we seek a specialist in race and ethnic relations who has US-Mexico border research interests and who can teach courses pertaining to the Latino community. For the second position we seek a specialist in deviance/criminology/delinquency; preference will be given to candidates with US-Mexico border interests. For both positions preference will be given to Spanish-speaking applicants and to applicants with expertise in quantitative methodology, social change, urban sociology, political sociology, sociology of religion, or applied sociology. Applicants for both positions must be able to teach undergraduate and M. A. level courses in their areas of specialization, as well as introductory sociology. Our goal is to support a program located on the US-Mexico border, with a student population of 33% Latinos. Please send vitae, letter of interest addressing our needs, and three letters of recommendation to Cookie White Stephan, Chair, Sociology Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Box 30001 Department 3BV, Las Cruces, NM 88003. NMSU is an EO/AA employer and specifically invites and encourages applications from women, minorities, and foreign nationals with work permits. Deadline for applications is December 15, 1994. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Sep 30 05:10:52 1994 Fri, 30 Sep 1994 05:03:24 -0700 for Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 08:03:22 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: job (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion FYI - Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 13:00:24 EDT From:SSTACK@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU To: James Cassell Subject: Re: job (fwd) The criminal justice program at wayne state university has two openings pending (expected) budgetary approval. Rank is open. One position must be filled by a specialist in corrections and the other must be filled by a person whose specialties include police and society. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Review of applications will commence November 1st. Send vita and 3 references to: Dr. Steven Stack Chair Dept. of Criminal Justice Wayne State University, 2305 FAB, DETROIT, MI 48202