From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 2 04:23:09 1995 Thu, 2 Mar 1995 04:20:19 -0800 for Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 07:20:17 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: (FWD) Job Announcement (Auburn U. Survey Research Lab) 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: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 16:42:49 -0500 From: karen khodadadi Subject: Job Announcement I'd appreciate if you could pass along the job announcement below to anyone who may be interested. Thanks. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT SURVEY RESEARCH LAB CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES The Survey Research Lab at Auburn University is seeking to fill the position of Research Associate as project manager/field manager. The Survey Research Lab, Center for Governmental Services was established in January 1994. The SRL operates a 10 station CATI (computer assisted telephone interviewing) system using CASES software. The SRL conducts mail, telephone, and in-person surveys for state and local government, Auburn University faculty and administration, and the private sector. The project manager/field manager is responsible for all aspects of survey research including: problem definition, research design and methodology, proposal development, questionnaire design, supervision of data collection, data analysis, report writing and presentation. In addition, the project manager will be responsible for programming surveys using CASES software and assisting in the management of the CATI system. A master's degree in social science or related field is required and preference will be given to candidates with experience working in the survey research field, managing computer assisted telephone interview (CATI) surveys and knowledge of CASES software for developing CATI interviews. Minimum salary $25,000.00 The position is available March 1, 1995. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Please submit a letter of interest, current resume/vita and the names of three references to: Karen Khodadadi, SRL Manager Center for Governmental Services 2236 Haley Center Auburn University, Al 36849-5225 Telephone: (334)844-4781 email: Karenk@cgs.auburn.edu Auburn University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 2 13:58:45 1995 Thu, 2 Mar 1995 13:55:08 -0800 for Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 16:55:03 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Sociology (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Haven't had a chance to check this out, but it looks interesting. 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 ---------- From: samuelrb@aol.com (SamuelrB) Subject: World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Sociology Date: 26 Feb 1995 15:15:26 -0500 The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Sociology was started about a month ago. It's Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/ Sociology/Overview.html Please send me the URL of any resource that you think should be included. What follows is the list as it currently stands: WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Information categorised by subject. See also listing of other subjects and listing by Library of Congress classification. Please send mail to brown@murray.fordham.edu if you would like to register a new on-line service or know of on-line information not in these lists. This list is maintained by Dr. Samuel R. Brown. [Established: January 15, 1995. Last updated: February 24, 1995. This month's additions are marked ***]. WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY RELATED FIELDS * Anthropology * Demography & Population Studies * Social Sciences INSTITUTIONS * Department of Sociology, Princeton University * Department of Sociology, Queens College, CUNY * Department of Sociology, University of Missouri-St. Louis * Department of Sociology, University of Surrey SPECIALIZED RESOURCES * Progressive Sociologists Network (PSN) Archive * Marx and Engles Online LIbrary * Marxism * Journal of World-Systems Research * World-Systems Archive * Racial-Religious-Ethno-Nationalist Violence Studies (REVS) Archive * Small Group Sociometric Research Project * CLNET (a WWW site for Latino Research) * ANU Demography Archive (ANU, Australia) * ANU-Multilevel-Analysis-L dbase (ANU, Australia) GENERAL RESOURCES * ANU-Sociology-ANU-RSSS-L dbase (ANU, Australia) * Sociology Electronic Archive (ANU, Australia) * Electronic Journal of Sociology Archive * ANSS-L (Discussion forum for Information Specialists in Anthropology, Sociology and Related Fields) * National Social Science Survey Electronic Archive (ANU, Australia) brown@murray.fordham.edu Dr. Samuel R. Brown Department of Sociology and Anthropology Fordham University Bronx, New York 10458 (718) 817-3869 e-mail: brown@murray.fordham.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 2 20:38:57 1995 Thu, 2 Mar 1995 20:31:47 -0800 for From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: Hierarchy info To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Thu, 2 Mar 95 22:31:12 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 2 21:03:06 1995 Thu, 2 Mar 1995 21:00:52 -0800 for From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: Hierarchy info To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Thu, 2 Mar 95 23:00:17 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Bob Irwin had asked for some hierarchy info. I've got some references that are interesting and somewhat related to hierarchy. My brief descriptions follow. I assume some "standard" background and so present some alternative articles. Burrage, Michael C, and David Corry. 1981. "At Sixes and Sevens: Occupational Status in the City of London from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century." ASR 46: 375-393. -- Challenges the standard claims of fixed occupational status hierarchies with data from London guilds and by explaining how correlation can be misleading if the extremes alone are fixed. Burrage & Corry argue that political battles play a large role in determining relative rank. Szreter, S. R. S. 1993. "The Official Representation of Social Classes in Britain, the United States and France: The Professional Model and 'Les Cadres.'" Comparative Study of Society and History 35: 285-317. -- Discusses the history of how the UK and US came to represent class vs. how the French think of it. One conclusion is Anglo-Americans think along lines of the manual / non-manual divide while the French think more along lines of proprietor / non-proprietor. Curtis, Richard F. 1986. "Household and Family in Theory on Inequality." ASR 51: 168-183. -- As he says, "No matter how rewards are distributed in a society (or according to what principle), people can organize themselves (e.g. in families) to redistribute them, often according to a different set of principles." I think Curtis' idea could be applied more broadly than he does, e.g. to black markets in the old "really existing communist" societies. Bertaux, Daniel, and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame. 1981. "Artisinal bakers in France: how it lives and why it survives." In Bechhofer & Elliott, The Petite Bourgeoisie. NY: St. Martin's Press. -- Title makes topic obvious. Like Burrage & Corry's article, argues that political action is crucial. Also lots of important methodological points, and a joy to read. Have fun! Jean (jczer@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 3 06:53:33 1995 Fri, 3 Mar 1995 06:50:05 -0800 for Date: Fri, 03 Mar 95 08:36:00 CST From: Tony Martin Subject: Mortality To: Socgrad I am in need of mortality data that includes occupational information on the deceased other than the occupation reported on the death certificate. If anyone has any ideas, please give me some help. Thanks. Tony Martin Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana AMARTIN@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 3 12:37:52 1995 Fri, 3 Mar 1995 12:33:33 -0800 for From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: Glossary (fwd) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Fri, 3 Mar 95 14:32:48 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] ----forwarded message---- I was talking to a friend the other day and we decided that one of the most alienating things about starting grad school is sitting in classes and workshops listening to people spout off authoritatively about stuff using lots of words that you don't understand. I therefore thought it might be worth compiling a glossary of "technical terms" which entering first years could consult when they feel out-jargoned. My first contribution to this glossary, coming from a theory-head type person, is as follows; CULTURE - anything that isn't STRUCTURE (qv). More specifically, its often used to refer either to, you know, "cultured stuff" like literature, art, the symphony and theater (with their PC "popular" culture counterparts, i.e. tabloid newspapers, comic books, MTV and Chuck Norris movies), or to beliefs, thoughts, values, and ways of seeing the world in general. This rather vague latter usage means that people who talk about culture are often criticized by people who like STRUCTURE, who complain that culture is "ill-defined" (never ask anyone what culture is; they'll either get cross or give an answer you won't understand) and that its a kind of garbage can category for almost anything you want. Of course STRUCTURE doesn't have this problem. Oh no. absolutely not. Honest. DIALECTICAL - Interacting and mutually affecting, as in a dialogue. Actually this isn't what dialectical means at all, but since what it really means is rather mind-bending and Zen-like (to do with being unable to think about something without thinking about how it relates to other things), hardly anyone uses it properly. Used as a tool of intellectual terrorism by people who think they know what the hell Marx was talking about (eg. "you'll never be able to understand, you running dog of capitalism, because you just can't think dialectically.") NOTE: dialectics (thinking dialectically) should not be confused with dianetics. THE MICRO-MACRO PROBLEM - Just how DO you theorize the way that small-scale things (like wanting to wear a baseball cap back to front) are related to enormous great big things (like the nature of Global culture in the late Twentieth Century). This problem is similar to the STRUCTURE ACTION PROBLEM (qv) in that when you try to give a general answer it appears mystical and unattainable to a grail-like degree, yet when you consider a particular case it can be startlingly obvious. PARSIMONIOUS - Unrealistic. This is used as a term of praise by people who prefer arguments they can reduce to first-order linear calaculus rather than ones which in some way reflect the complexity of the real world. STRUCTURE - anything that isn't CULTURE (qv). Usually people mean stuff that's interrelated in a fairly stable way, and which is somehow beyond individual control. The definition of what this "stuff" is tends to vary. Patterns of who you hang out with or have to work with are called structure (this is to do with the social network approach), but larger things like the particular set of interrelated firms in an economy can also be called structure (some varieties of neoclassical economics). Laws, rules, and norms can be called structure (especially if you're a rational choice theorist), as can entire stably-reproducing ways of life that include almost any kind of thing you care to think of (Marxism). Furthermore, patterns of grammar, argument and expression are a kind of structure (this, rather confusingly, is what both structuralism and post-structuralism are about), as are any sets of things that somehow effect each other in a way that's useful for society as a whole (structural functionalism). So now you know precisely what someone means when they talk about structure. Simple really. THE STRUCTURE-AGENCY (OR STRUCTURE-ACTION) PROBLEM - The complete and utter impossibility of coming up with a humanly comprehensible formalization of the fact that people act according to the lives they lead, yet the lives they lead depend on the actions they take. The difficulty is that once you understand the basic point you have to apply it to some particular substantive problem, otherwise you end up writing pages and pages (and in some cases entire books; see Anthony Giddens) which use lots of jargon to say that, in general....... people act according to the lives they lead, yet the lives they lead depend on the actions they take. See also the MICRO-MACRO PROBLEM. Any other contributions? Mike (reay@midway.uchicago.edu) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 3 15:10:38 1995 Fri, 3 Mar 1995 15:06:20 -0800 for From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: conference announcement To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Fri, 3 Mar 95 17:05:44 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] =20 > >>=20 >>=20 >> PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO ANY INTERESTED PARTIES >>=20 >>=20 >> ***************FINAL NOTICE**************** >>=20 >>=20 >> The University of Chicago's >> Minority Graduate Students Association >> and >> Coordinating Council for Minority Issues >> Announce >>=20 >>=20 >> A CALL FOR PAPERS >> for >> Its Third Annual Student Conference >>=20 >>=20 >> EYES ON THE MOSAIC: >> Inquiries and Explorations in Race >> and Ethnic Studies >>=20 >>=20 >> April 1, 1995 >> at The University of Chicago's >> Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street >> =09 >>=20 >> The Student Conference Planning Committee seeks submissions for=20 >> its third annual graduate/undergraduate student conference. >> Papers are especially encouraged for (but not limited to) >> the following thematic areas: 1) race, ethnicity, political >> culture, and political mobilization; 2) the vocabulary of=20 >> social difference; 3) multiculturalism, urban education,=20 >> and the politics of instruction and curriculum design;=20 >> 4) race and ethnicity in arts and culture; 5) racial and=20 >> ethnic concerns in the formation of public policy; and=20 >> 6) global perspectives on race and ethnicity. >>=20 >>=20 >> The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 15 , 1995. >> Please send submissions to Alford Young, Jr., Minority Graduate >> Students Association, Box 24, 1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, >> IL 60637. Submissions can be FAXED to (312) 702-1194 to=20 >> Alford Young, Jr.'s attention c/o Kathy Stell, CCMI. >>=20 >> Absracts should be no longer than two (2) double-spaced pages >> in length. Complete papers are also due on March 15, 1995.=20 >>=20 >> For further information or conference registration forms, >> please contact Fausto Ramos-Gomez=20 >> via the internet: fir2@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu >>=20 >>=20 >> =20 >>=20 >> *****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES*** >>=20 >> The University of Chicago >> Minority Graduate Students Association >> and the >> Coordinating Council for Minority Issues >>=20 >>=20 >> Presents Its Third Annual Conference >>=20 >>=20 >> EYES ON THE MOSAIC: >> Inquiries and Explorations in Race >> and Ethnic Studies >>=20 >> Saturday April 1, 1995 >>=20 >> The University of Chicago >> Ida Noyes Hall >> 1212 East 59th Street >> Chicago, IL 60637 >>=20 >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>=20 >> FOCUS: A forum for graduate students and >> exemplary undergraduate researchers to present >> research-in-progress on racial and ethnic issues. >>=20 >> OBJECTIVES: The provision of a forum for students >> in the Humanities and Social Sciences to present >> research in a setting that will provide the=20 >> opportunity to receive critical commentary on their >> work from leading scholars in the Chicago area. The >> formation of an arena through which students can=20 >> expose their colleagues to particular themes, ideas, >> and empirical investigations to broaden the Chicago >> academic community's focus on issues of race and=20 >> ethnicity. >>=20 >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>=20 >> TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: >>=20 >> Saturday, April 1, 1995 >>=20 >> 8:30am- 10:00am Registration >> 8:30am Continental Breakfast >> 9:15am Welcome >> 9:45am- 11:15am Morning Sessions I >> 11:30am-12:45pm Morning Sessions II >> 1:00pm- 2:30pm Luncheon and Keynote Speech >> 2:45pm- 3:45pm Afternoon Sessions >> 4:00pm- 5:00pm Closing Reception >>=20 >> Sessions will be moderated by nationally known scholars. >> Topics to be discussed include: >>=20 >> -Race, Ethnicity, Political Mobilization, and >> Political Culture >> -Inquiries into Issues of Social Differences >> -Multiculturalism, Urban Education, and the >> Politics of Instruction and Curriculum Design >> -Race and Ethnic Concerns in Public Policy >> -Global Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity >>=20 >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>=20 >> REGISTRATION FORM: >>=20 >> Name _____________________________________________ >>=20 >> Address___________________________________________ >>=20 >> __________________________________________ >> city state zip code >>=20 >> Day Phone ( )______________________ >>=20 >>=20 >> Institution and Department:________________________ >>=20 >> ___________________________________________ >>=20 >> ____ Undergraduate _____ Graduate Student >>=20 >> ____ Faculty _____ Administrator >>=20 >> ____ Other (Please Specify)________________________ >>=20 >>=20 >> Refreshments and lunch are included: >>=20 >> COST: $ 10.00 before 3/24/95 >>=20 >> On-site registration $ 15.00 >>=20 >> Please make check payable to: >> Minority Graduate Students Association >>=20 >> Mail this registration form to: >> Minority Graduate Students Association >> The University of Chicago >> 1212 East 59th Street, Box 24 >> Chicago, IL 60637 >>=20 >> For more information, call Kathy Stell, Director CCMI >> at (312) 702-0161 >>=20 >> OR via the Internet: Fausto Ramos Gomez=20 >> fir2@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu >>=20 >> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 > > > From list-relay@blackhole2.ucsd.edu Fri Mar 3 22:20:23 1995 Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 00:18:40 -0600 (CST) From: Roger Frederick Ohr To: socgrad Subject: Jean C. definition of terms I don't have any clear definition but I do have a word. "Reification" does anyone have a good, clear, understandable definition or explanation for this word? Thanks, Roger From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 4 07:36:08 1995 Sat, 4 Mar 1995 07:33:43 -0800 for by almaak.usc.edu (8.6.10/8.6.7+ucs) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 07:33:39 -0800 (PST) From: James Beniger To: Roger Frederick Ohr Subject: Re: Jean C. definition of terms REIFICATION, n. (1846): the process or result of regarding something abstract as if it were a material or concrete thing -- MERRIAM WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY, 10th ed. In the Age of the Internet, is the dictionary dead? ******* On Sat, 4 Mar 1995, Roger Frederick Ohr wrote: > I don't have any clear definition but I do have a word. > > "Reification" > > does anyone have a good, clear, understandable definition or explanation > for this word? > > Thanks, > > Roger > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 4 07:55:51 1995 Sat, 4 Mar 1995 07:53:52 -0800 for Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 11:03:20 -0500 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: danryan@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Dan Ryan) Subject: reification "Reification" Treating something as if it were thing-like when it is not, or, more dictionarily: to regard something abstract as a material thing. A simple example, you reify "society" when you talk about society doing something (as in "society forces people to X." -- strictly speaking, there is no such THING as society*). Another example is treating psychatric diagnoses as if they were indicative of specific underlying entities (as when we imply that someone "has" schizophrenia or depression in the same way that one "has" a broken leg or cancer of the liver.) Other commonly reified entities are "culture," "values," "attitudes," "trends," "generations," "selection" (in evolutionary terms). Often used dismissively, as in "his essay is marred by a tendency to reify such and such..." or "that's a mere reification," as if it were an inherently morally weak rhetorical practice (see also: "functionalism," "evolutionary model," "qualitative," "liberal"), by people who couldn't define it, but who've learned it's a marketable criticism (see "ritual denigration in intellectual work"). Reification is relevant at two levels for sociologists. First, as an observed phenomenon: e.g., "Over and over again, respondents spoke of "the drug menace" as if it were an organized force threatening the community, and they designed their programs around this understanding of the problem. Second, as an element of sociological theorizing: we need to pay attention to the types of "things" -- objects and forces -- that our ideas imply and whether we're really ready to stand by such claims (see "commitment to social cosmology"). "Reification" is so often mis-used that it has been placed on a list of those words and phrases that are best avoided in favor of trying to say what one really means (see "intellectual Brady bill" and "waiting period for fancy word usage"). *This is not at all a contradiction of the Durkheimian idea that society exists as a reality sui generis (q.v.). Reification is not about misplaced "real-ness" but misplaced concreteness. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 4 10:09:57 1995 Sat, 4 Mar 1995 10:07:47 -0800 for Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 10:07:49 -0800 (PST) From: Berch Berberoglu To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: reification Another good example of "reification" is the elevation of characteristics of human behavior under capitalism to the level of a universal. When people say "oh, that's human nature" for something that occurs specifically under capitalism (but not under another system) e.g., selfish, individualistic behavior based on a competitive model in line with belief in the profit motive. When one confuses such behavior and ideological orientation that is historically specific to capitalism with a universal human condition as though it is part of the nature of humans regardless of which class one belongs to or which system one lives under and calls it "human nature", it means that she or he has "reified" such behavior which is part of the nature of capitalism and capitalist society to the level of humanity in general. Such reasoning is invariably based on either biological explanations of human behavior (i.e., "it's in our genes to be "greedy" or selfish, or competitive, or racist, or sexist, or wanting to exploit other people, etc versus all these being a product of the society we live under and is based on social conditioning, ideological hegemony, etc) or religious dogma (i.e., a product of "original sin" etc). When one adopts the Marxist theory/method of dialectical and historical materialism, one clearly begins to understand that human behavior is the result of material conditions prevalent in a given historically specific society and social system based on specific production (i.e., class) relations, e.g., primitive communal, slave, feudal, capitalist, communist, etc as the main types. Thus, "reification" is not only seeing something as real when in reality it does not exist as a thing, e.g., "society", but it is also a mode of conceptualization of a thing out of its historically specific roots and assignment to it universal properties. Beyond the conceptual level, this has enormous political implications: on the one hand a "reified" understanding of the world may indicate a lack of class consciousness; on the other hand, a "reified" world view propagated by the ruling classes may be successful in diverting the attention of the working class and oppressed people away from an understanding of the real causes of exploitation and oppression--accumulation of capital through private profit. The ruling classes achieve (or try to achieve) this through nationalism, patriotism, religion, the public school system, the mass media, etc. Fortunately the world works in a dialectical way and although political organizations can expedite the development of class consciousness and speed up the overthrow of an exploitative system to take state power, the masses sooner or later arrive at the correct understanding of how the world works by learning from thir own material condition and experiences (notwithstanding the fact that others will do their best to lead the masses in the wrong direction such as fascism etc). Thus, ultimately, experience in real material life becomes the best teacher for the masses to understand their condition and rise up to take charge of their destiny and correct the ills of society (though they can do this faster and in a more organized, systematic way if they put their heads together and do it through the instrumentality of a political organization that becomes their class expression in the class struggle for political power). From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 4 12:37:48 1995 Sat, 4 Mar 1995 12:35:33 -0800 for From: AULT@vx.cis.umn.edu Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 14:37:20 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Reification To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Professor Berberoglu, Is "class" another example of reification? Brian Ault University of Minnesota From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 4 18:19:52 1995 Sat, 4 Mar 1995 18:17:19 -0800 for Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 18:17:12 -0800 (PST) From: Berch Berberoglu To: AULT@vx.cis.umn.edu Subject: Re: Reification On Sat, 4 Mar 1995 AULT@vx.cis.umn.edu wrote: > Professor Berberoglu, > Is "class" another example of reification? > > Brian Ault > University of Minnesota > No, not at all. It is real and concrete. It is on the basis of class (and class organization and class consciousness translated into political action) that revolutions are made and revolutions have REAL consequences. The same goes for ideology. Ideology becomes an REAL material force when it is grasped and put into effect by the masses. In both of these instances we have real, concrete phenomena with real (material) effects. This is completely different than attributing human behavior under capitalism to human nature. Two different things. Berch Berberoglu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 4 19:03:55 1995 Sat, 4 Mar 1995 19:03:14 -0800 for Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 19:03:15 -0800 (PST) From: Berch Berberoglu To: AULT@vx.cis.umn.edu, socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: Reification Further to my previous post, by "class" I meant of course class in the Marxist sense (i.e., as relations of production). In this context, let me also state that defined another way, class can be seen as reified (e.g., class defined on the basis of income or some other criterion). The real test of it is in its relationship to reality. That is, do people perceive it as real--they will if it expresses their interests. While one may categorize a group of people as belonging to a particular class (say the wage earning class--the working class) but such categorization on the basis of one's location vis-a-vis the production process is not enough. It must have some concrete meaning to real people in real material circumstances. Thus, once workers realize that their problems are the result of their position in society (in social-economic terms, but also political terms as to who holds power) and once they identify their bosses as a distinct class of people who exploit them, control them, decide their wages, working conditions, etc. then the workers can see themselves as part of a distinct group and act as such (as workers, as part of a working class--yes, class). Reaching this point implies that through the test of life/experience they (the workers) have developed class consciousness, are organized politically, identify their enemies concretely as belonging to another class (or group) and take political action to advance their own interests. It is here that political organization comes to play (trade unions, political parties, grass-roots organizations, etc). Now, if the definition of class does not correspond to thir own life situation, there will be no response from that group in class terms--in such cases one may say such definition of class has rendered the concept to be "reified". That is why, for example, class defined on the basis of income makes no sense. It may indicate the location of a certain group of people at the $30,000 level but when was the last time you saw a revolution or any kind of political action taken exclusively by those who make say between $25K and $30K but not $15K or $40K ? That's why the income dimension is only helpful as an academic tool to group people but it is not a determinant of social relations and political action--it is a manifestation of one's location in the production sphere, just as is wealth. A manifestation--pure and simple. Not a root cause of human social relations. On the other hand, production relations IS. It is for this reason that the Marxist approach is superior to all others and it is for this reason that it has stood the test of time. Rather than remaining at the level of the manifestations of human social behavior, Marxist sociology attempts to go beyond, dig into the surface phenomena and explain the class nature of ethnic conflict, racism, sexism, religious fundamentalist uprisings, ideological pronouncements of this or that ruling class, etc. The more you dig into the root causes of these phenomena, the more you discover CLASS at their base. Hope this clarifies the issue and provides a basis for an understanding of the importance of CLASS as a matereal force. No, it is not an example of "reification", not at all. Berch Berberoglu University of Nevada, Reno From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 4 20:40:27 1995 Sat, 4 Mar 1995 20:39:20 -0800 for Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 22:38:05 -0600 (CST) From: Brent Myer To: Berch Berberoglu Subject: Re: Reification [snip] > > No, not at all. It is real and concrete. It is on the basis of class > (and class organization and class consciousness translated into political > action) that revolutions are made and revolutions have REAL > consequences. The same goes for ideology. Ideology becomes an REAL > material force when it is grasped and put into effect by the masses. In > both of these instances we have real, concrete phenomena with real > (material) effects. This is completely different than attributing human > behavior under capitalism to human nature. Two different things. This is interesting. So when we take a concept of human nature and develop institutions around such a definition, this is not REAL? The conception of human nature here discussed is a direct reflection of the Enlightenment period in philosohy. The masses have adopted this conception of human nature, and have constructed a society based on such a conception. Individualism, greed, and the like have been institutionalized and taken for granted by the masses. Constructing an alternative conception of human nature, say, based on the ideals of community, would be just as real in material manifestations as the old, and present conception of human nature. Perhaps reification can be seen as the loss of subjectivity, not reality. What would this look like? Perhaps we say that capitalism is a natural state of affairs. Being seen as natural then constitutes its reified status. We all know that capitalism is a social construction, and in other terms, a subjective construction; but it is real. The same could be said about the concept of a natural pecking order to justify social stratification. The concept is a socially constructed ideology, accepted by the masses, and translated into practice, via social policy. It has a material reality, yet its conceptual essence is reified. With profound respect, Brent Myer From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 5 16:11:25 1995 Sun, 5 Mar 1995 16:08:38 -0800 for id <01HNSD3E3CLY01C1C0@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU>; Sun, 05 Mar 1995 19:06:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 1995 19:06:28 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Purcell Subject: heard from these schools? To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hello all... I hate to take up bandwidth for such an insignificant question (in the general scheme of things, that is), but is anyone out here applying to the grad programs at: UC-Davis, UC-Santa Cruz, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, Arizona, Loyola-Chicago? If so, have you heard from them regarding your acceptance/denial? Thanks, Dave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dave Purcell/Graduate Student, Sociology Dept/University of Cincinnati internet: purcelda@ucbeh.san.uc.edu Random list of things that matter: human rights/Jason & The Scorchers/ Rick 360's/Australian Shepherds/Allen Ginsberg/white chocolate "The sights you remember scare you less then the sights left unseen"-Jason ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 6 05:11:24 1995 Mon, 6 Mar 1995 05:07:31 -0800 for Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:07:30 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: (Fwd) Faculty Positions at Joint Program in Survey Methodology (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion FYI; I imagine they really do want a PhD statistician for the 1st job, but a sociologist with a strong background in survey methods might have a shot at the second job. 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: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 07:57:42 -0500 From: Bob Groves Subject: (Fwd) Faculty Positions at Joint Program in Survey Methodology The NSF-sponsored Joint Program in Survey Methodology located at the University of Maryland announces two open faculty positions: 1. SURVEY STATISTICIAN The Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) seeks applications for an open rank (tenured or tenure-track) faculty appointment from persons with research interests in survey statistics. Responsibilities include graduate teaching and research. Research interest should include areas such as sample design, variance estimation with complex sample designs, weighting and imputation, model-based vs. design-based inference, measurement error models, and small area estimation. Doctorate in statistics, biostatistics or a related field is required. Applicants for a tenured appointment should have a strong publication record in sampling or survey statistics. A strong record in funded research is also desirable. Send CV and names of three references to Dr. Graham Kalton, Search Committee Chair, JPSM, 2181 Lefrak Hall, College Park, Maryland 20742. Reviews begin May 1, 1995, and will continue until the position is filled. For more information call Dr. Graham Kalton at 301 251-8253 or e-mail to GKalton@survey.umd.edu. The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. 2. SURVEY METHODOLOGIST The Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) seeks applications for an open rank (tenured or tenure-track) faculty appointment from persons with research interests in survey methodology. Responsibilities include graduate teaching and research. Research interest should include areas such as questionnaire design, computer-assisted data collection, cognition and survey measurement, interviewer effects, survey management, and the measurement and reduction of nonsampling errors. Doctorate in a relevant field is required. Applicants for a tenured appointment should have a strong publication record in survey methodology. A strong record in funded research is desirable. Send CV and names of three references to Dr. G. Kalton, Search Committee Chair, JPSM, 2181 Lefrak Hall, College Park, Maryland 20742. Reviews begin May 1, 1995, and will continue until the position is filled. For more information call Dr. Kalton at 301 251- 8253 or e-mail to GKalton@survey.umd.edu. The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. From list-relay@blackhole1.ucsd.edu Mon Mar 6 14:20:14 1995 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 95 15:56:03 CST From: Mike Maume Subject: definition of terms To: Recipients of list SOCGRAD I found myself agreeing with most of Jean's definitions for prospective sociology grad students. However, I don't agree with the negative depiction of parsimony: "...a term of praise used by people who prefer arguments they can reduce to first-order linear calculus rather than ones which in some way reflect the complexity of the real world." Isn't the purpose of these def- initions to achieve parsimonious explanation of complex social concepts/issues? In that case, parsimony would seem to me to be worthy of pursuit. Mike Maume Louisiana State U. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 6 21:40:58 1995 Mon, 6 Mar 1995 21:38:40 -0800 for From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: for the record To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 23:38:03 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Just to set the record straight: although I posted the "glossary", I cannot, sadly, claim authorship. They were written by a friend of mine here, Mike Reay. (His name does appear at the end of the message.) Jean From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 7 16:45:54 1995 Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:35:27 -0800 for Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 16:37:40 -0800 (PST) From: XGWALTERS Subject: ???? To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU To Socgradders, WHERE'S T.R. YOUNG???? Signed, greg From list-relay@blackhole1.ucsd.edu Tue Mar 7 18:30:38 1995 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 21:27:45 -0500 (EST) From: Dale Albers Subject: Re: ???? To: XGWALTERS I too ask where is T.R.? I, for one, miss his postings. I think they have added much to our list this past year and hope that T.R. hasn't given up on us. With thanks to T. R. D. Albers On Tue, 7 Mar 1995, XGWALTERS wrote: > To Socgradders, > > WHERE'S T.R. YOUNG???? > > Signed, > > greg > From list-relay@mailbox1.ucsd.edu Wed Mar 8 02:34:36 1995 From: JWL3697@UTARLG.UTA.EDU id <01HNVOWCHI6800B2MZ@UTARLG.UTA.EDU>; Wed, 08 Mar 1995 04:32:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 04:32:32 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re:T.R. Young To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU Return-path: id <01HNVOWCHI6800B2MZ@UTARLG.UTA.EDU>; Wed, 08 Mar 1995 04:27:39 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 04:22:59 -0600 (CST) From: JWL3697@UTARLG.UTA.EDU Subject: Re: ???? <01HNV0IQ51MQ002Q3I@FULLERTON.EDU> To: XGWALTERS In response to Greg's question: >To Socgradders, > WHERE'S T.R. YOUNG???? Young is currently at TWU at Denton, TX. His e-mail is: J_YOUNG@VENUS.TWU.EDU _________________________________________________________________ Julia Lam Department of Sociology University of Texas at Arlington P.O. Box 19599 Arlington, TX 76016 _________________________________________________________________ Julia Lam Department of Sociology University of Texas at Arlington P.O. Box 19599 Arlington, TX 76016 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 8 03:59:52 1995 Wed, 8 Mar 1995 03:58:56 -0800 for Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 11:58:54 +0000 To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU From: Jon Hindmarsh (Jon Hindmarsh) Subject: Foundation Fund Lectureship in Sociology >University of Surrey >Department of Sociology > >LECTURER IN SOCIOLOGY > > >The Department seeks to appoint as Foundation Fund Lecturer an outstanding >scholar who will concentrate upon developing his or her research,= with >minimal teaching and administrative commitments for the first three= years >of the appointment. We particularly welcome applications in the= fields of >economic sociology and the sociology of language and culture. > >Salary on the Lecturer salary scale, =A314,756 to =A325,735 pa.= For further >particulars and to discuss the post, contact Professor Nigel Gilbert, >Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey= GU2 5XH >(quoting ref HS10D) on 01483 259173, fax 01483 306290, e-mail: >research@soc.surrey.ac.uk. A copy of the full further particulars= may be >found on the University's World Wide Web Information service at >URLhttp://www.surrey.ac.uk/research.html >Applications, indicating present research achievements and plans= for the >next three years, should be submitted to him in the form of a curriculum >vitae together with the names and addresses of two referees . Closing= date: >31 March 1995. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 9 05:26:37 1995 From: TK0711@cub.uca.edu Thu, 9 Mar 95 7:24:10 +3600 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Organization: University of Central Arkansas Date: 9 Mar 95 07:23:47 CST Subject: Dear Sociology Graduate Students, I am wondering if anyone might know something on the topic of "HUMINT"-otherwise known as human intelligence gathering techniques. I have searched for sometime now, with not much to show for my efforts. HUMINT is employed by the military and other beauracracies. I originally tried to find more information by going the military route, since I spent ten years in the Army, but I have not had much luck. I also would be interested to hear from anyone who is interested in military sociology (not to exclude other people who wish to correspond with me). My undergraduate research dealt with this topic, and I am elaborating and expanding on some related topics at present. Thank you, Thomas Michael Kersen University of Central Arkansas From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 9 06:05:22 1995 Thu, 9 Mar 1995 06:02:06 -0800 for Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 09:02:04 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: Summer internship opportunity? (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion FYI; note deadline is March 15, 1995--NEXT WEDNESDAY 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: Wed, 08 Mar 95 11:05:00 est From: Li, Rose Maria To: demographic-list Subject: Summer internship opportunity? NICHD at NIH will probably have money for a limited number of summer intern positions. So, the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch may be able to hire a graduate student for the summer, as we have done several years in the past. The odds are not outstanding, or perhaps even excellent, but they are better than zero. The challenge is that the positions will be filled based on applications that the NIH Personnel Office has received on or before MARCH 15, a week from today. Applicants should expeditously obtain and complete either the well-known Form SF171, or the re-invented Form OF612, which we hear is much less complex. There is a box to check "summer intern" as the position being applied for. The application should be mailed or expressed to the NIH Office of Personnel, Building 31, room B3C15, Bethesda MD 20892. The phone number there is 301-496-5979. They will not accept faxed forms. It would be helpful for the applicant to send a copy of the application also to Dr. Susan Newcomer, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, NICHD/NIH, 6100 Executive Blvd., Room 8B13, Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: 301-496-1174. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 9 13:08:56 1995 Thu, 9 Mar 1995 12:49:58 -0800 for From: JWL3697@UTARLG.UTA.EDU id <01HNXNKVTQWW00BTWI@UTARLG.UTA.EDU>; Thu, 09 Mar 1995 14:45:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 14:37:11 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: <4D6B781581A@cub.uca.edu> To: TK0711@cub.uca.edu I do not know about HUMINT, but I do know that Robert Lynn did a lot of work on human intelligence. Some of the tests he uses are Progressive matrices, Cattell's Cult Fair Test, Weschler Intelligence Scale, Columbis a mental Maturity Scale, etc I hope this help :) _________________________________________________________________ Julia Lam - grad student Department of Sociology University of Texas at Arlington P.O. Box 19599 Arlington, TX 76016 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 9 13:22:59 1995 Thu, 9 Mar 1995 13:20:30 -0800 for From: D.W.Weatherston@newcastle.ac.uk Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 21:19:32 +0000 To: justice@scn.org Subject: help-evidence of turf wars Andrew Self criticises a sociological analysis of Australian terrorism (Jenny Hocking book review Conflict Quarterly, Fall 1994) on the grounds that he considers the theme of the book "[Australian] Government and in particular the agencies responsible for the country's internal security, have deliberately and secretly used the rubric of "counter terrorism" to create administrative structures and acquire powers which threaten the fundamental political freedoms of citizens." to be inconceivable. I assert that is the case, in the U..K animal rights activists have been targetted by a commander from the anti terrorist squad and following the peace process in N.Ireland, demise of USSR, there has infighting among the security agencies, each trying to poach work from the other.The same scenario has been replicated in Holland with the BVD. I would be grateful for refs/ press snippits of examples abroad. I just need brief details to support the one argument in a lenghy thesis. Thanks in advance. David Weatherston Dept. Politics University of Newcastle U.K From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 10 06:06:42 1995 Fri, 10 Mar 1995 06:03:46 -0800 for From: TK0711@cub.uca.edu Fri, 10 Mar 95 8:02:48 +3600 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Organization: University of Central Arkansas Date: 10 Mar 95 08:02:31 CST Subject: clarification Dear Sociology Graduate Students, Previously, I asked if anyone had any information on HUMINT. HUMINT or Human Information Gathering Techniques in sociological terms would deal with the transmittal of data via agents from one organization to another. The methods may vary-covert retrieval, etc. A related topic could be espionage. I have utilized the databases available here at UCA and I recieved little results. I would like to thank the people who offered their suggestions and I look forward to future messages. Thank You, Thomas M. Kersen Graduate Sociology Department University of Central Conway 201 Donaghey Avenue Conway, AR 72035 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 10 12:14:18 1995 Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:09:03 -0800 for Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:05:29 -0800 (PST) From: Jill Thomas To: Karla Cohen , Jodi Lemmer , Susan Prock , Diane Whaley , Julie Knoll , jeanine@ucs.orst.edu, Deltra Ferguson , Mary Christian , Jennifer Brelsford <74732.3305@compuserve.com>, Pres Bill Clinton , Chila Kraft , Vicky Mazzone , Bill Oye , Lani Roberts , SOCGRAD , Nancy Vanderpool , Janet Lee , Peer Educators , despaink@ucs.orst.edu, friedlea@ucs.orst.edu, herinckp@css.orst.edu, meitle@chert.CS.ORST.EDU, petschim@ucs.orst.edu, procks@ucs.orst.edu, selthonl@ucs.orst.edu, strohmeb@ccmail.orst.edu, thomasji@ucs.orst.edu Subject: This is unfortunately important... YOUR PARENTS WERE RIGHT ABOUT THIS ONE. And if they didn't tell you, I will. There are people in this world who will hurt you. Sometimes very consciously, and sometimes without realizing. So wake up. You've lived in the same dorm with these people since September. That nice boy, Eric wouldn't do anything to hurt you. He has animal posters on his wall, and a little sister he adores. Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong. Why take the chance? Imagine the following scenario... He knocks on the door. She doesn't really know him well, but her friends party with him often. So, she smiles and settles back onto her bed as he walks in. They chat. He is drunk and sometimes funny. Without thinking, she rubs her shoulders because they're tense and sore from the hours spent writing that paper last night. He notices and offers to give her a massage. " How sweet of him," she thinks as he stammers on about his high school. "He's a little drunk but entertaining. " Her shoulders feel better, so she pulls away. He politely gets up and moves back to the desk chair as she leans against her pillows, knees pulled against her chest. All so innocent. Such normal behavior in a dorm on this small campus. So what is it that made him get off the chair? Sit on the edge of her bed? Lean over and kiss her? Perhaps she kissed him back. " He was a nice guy, so why not?" And it was fine. Then she tried to get up. Then she tried to get him off. Maybe she screamed. Maybe she kicked. And punched and cried. Maybe she didn't. But he never got off. And quietly he whispered into her ear. Pressure. She stops struggling, and lies still. Head, empty. He moves with confidence, control. " There's a crack in my ceiling," she thinks. With a groan he rolls off her. Smiles. His eyes say, "There now. That wasn't so bad, was it?" Like a doctor after an injection. He leaves. She picks up her book, and watches the words as they float in her tears. And she is scared. And I was scared as I listened. And a week later, it happens again. Same guy. Same girl. Just another quiet night in the dorm. She never SAID no. But he never asked. Because he didn't care. This happens every day and every night, to people you know, by people you know. The guy may be sober, the girl may be drunk. But we all learned in kindergarten--ask before taking, and don't touch what isn't yours. And women --Yes is Yes, and No is NO. Please don't continue the legacy of mixed signals. This is a chain letter. Send one to the people you care about, or are afraid of. In any school, in any country. Please write the name of your school at the bottom, and place an X beside it if someone you know has been a victim of assault or rape. And please, don't be afraid to say no, regardless of your gender. Just saying " No " won't always work, but it's a start. X Tufts University WPI X Cornell University X Princeton University X University of Delaware X University of Delaware X Rutgers University Bryn Mawr College Massachusetts Institute of Technology X Alfred University X Alfred University X Alfred University X Alfred University new york university Kenyon College X Kenyon College X Kenyon College X Kenyon College X Kenyon College X Kenyon College X Kenyon College X Harvey Mudd College X Harvey Mudd College X Harvey Mudd College X Harvey Mudd College Bowdoin College University of Oregon X University of Oregon X University of Oregon X University of Oregon X University of Oregon X University of Oregon X Western Oregon State College X Oregon State University From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 10 16:12:01 1995 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 19:02:34 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Miller Subject: Re: This is unfortunately important... To: Jill Thomas On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, Jill Thomas wrote: ----------------RIVETING STORY DELETED---------------------------------- > women --Yes is Yes, and No is NO. Please don't continue the legacy of > mixed signals. > > This is a chain letter. Send one to the people you care about, or I'm sorry.... but life is just WAY too short... If "yes" is, in fact, "YES" and "no" is, in fact, "NO" then why would you send a chain letter? After all, almost every server on the net says "NO CHAIN LETTERS!" Best, Andrew _______________________________________________________________________________ ._ ._ .__ ._ ._ <> dread@acs.bu.edu <> | \ |_) |_ |_| | \ <> Andrew P. Miller <> |_/ | \ |__ | | |_/ <> BU Sociology dept <> From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 10 19:15:01 1995 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 20:50:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Jaimie A. Carboy" Subject: Re: This is unfortunately important... To: Andrew Miller Wow Andrew...what *phenomenal* logic! Rarely am I exposed to such brilliant and insightful sentiments... As you so very aptly put it: 'life is just WAY too short'...SO--that being the case, maybe we should all attempt to both recognize and accelerate the processes involved with *consciousness raising* rather than WHINING about the triviality of 'netiquette'... Regards, Jaimie ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Jaimie Ann Carboy Department of Sociology Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia USA socjacx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, Andrew Miller wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, Jill Thomas wrote: > > ----------------RIVETING STORY DELETED---------------------------------- > > > women --Yes is Yes, and No is NO. Please don't continue the legacy of > > mixed signals. > > > > This is a chain letter. Send one to the people you care about, or > > > I'm sorry.... but life is just WAY too short... If "yes" is, in fact, > "YES" and "no" is, in fact, "NO" then why would you send a chain letter? > After all, almost every server on the net says "NO CHAIN LETTERS!" > Best, > Andrew > _______________________________________________________________________________ > ._ ._ .__ ._ ._ <> dread@acs.bu.edu <> > | \ |_) |_ |_| | \ <> Andrew P. Miller <> > |_/ | \ |__ | | |_/ <> BU Sociology dept <> > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 12 07:07:09 1995 Sun, 12 Mar 1995 07:06:02 -0800 for Date: Sun, 12 Mar 95 10:04:05 EST From: Alan Davidson To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU For secure employment with decent wages, it helps to have a completed Ph.D., although non Ph.D.'s with applied backgrounds (statistical knowledge, public policy, etc.) might have a leg up over non Ph..D.'s in more traditional specialties. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 12 13:40:32 1995 Sun, 12 Mar 1995 13:38:25 -0800 for by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (PMDF V4.3-11 #9008) id <01HO1XWDRK9S8X4MYO@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 15:38:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 15:38:04 -0600 (CST) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU From: 1k1mgm@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Christopher Gunn) Subject: T. Parsons quote re: Hobbes? To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Does someone out there know off the top of his/her head the name of the work in which Talcott Parsons said that the focus of his research was solving "the Hobbesian problem of order"? I know I'm being sort of lazy but gee whiz, thumbing through a whole lot of Parsons doesn't sound like much fun, especially if someone has a quick & easy solution to this.... I have a vague and ill-formed plan to use this as an allusion in a potential paper title, and would like to verify the sense in which it was originally used as a hedge against seeming like an idiot. A couple of caveats.... a) I have a sense of _deja vu_ about this, like it was discussed in some net.forum or another maybe last spring.... I did some file searching and couldn't come up with anything, so if this has gone by fairly recently, I neglected to save it. b) I'm pleading via both psn and socgrad mail lists. Maybe that's a sort of nano-spam, but it doesn't seem that wrong to me; I subscribe to both and don't get upset about the occasional duplicate transmission. But I apologise to anyone for whom this is a problem. Thanks for any help that is offered.... 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 Mar 12 16:26:29 1995 Sun, 12 Mar 1995 16:25:18 -0800 for Date: Sun, 12 Mar 95 19:23:40 EST From: Alan Davidson Subject: Parson's quote To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU While I don't know exact page number (the way I know Durkheim), the Parsons quote about the Hobbesian problem of order comes from the introduction to The Structure of Social Action. Merton also refers to it in his article in the Robert Nisbet anthology on Durkheim. I'll let someone else respond on PSN, of which I am also a member. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 12 18:49:06 1995 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 18:47:24 -0800 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: Michael Lichter Subject: NEWS>Now We're On The Web! >Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 16:39:50 -0800 >From: owner-doc-talk@netcom.com >Subject: NEWS>Now We're On The Web! >To: doc-talk@netcom.com >Sender: owner-doc-talk@netcom.com >Precedence: list >Reply-To: asgs@netcom.com >Status: > >=============================================================================== > NEWS >=============================================================================== > > As a matter of general interest, ASGS is going online over the > World Wide Web (WWW) starting immediately. Our home page is still > undergoing a little engineering, but it's about 90% there, and will > be completely finished soon. > It gives you the complete story on ASGS--not only Doc-Talk, but > all the other services we provide for graduate students and their > graduate organizations as well. > Tune in and check it out, and get back to us to tell us what > you think. Point your WWW browser to this URL: > > http://www.vpm.com/asgs/ > >=============================================================================== >Doc-Talk is produced by the Association for Support of Graduate Students (ASGS) > publishers of Dissertation News and Thesis News, > reference bulletins for graduate students working on their theses. > Email to: asgs@netcom.com, or Phone to: (415) 591-3023 > =========================================================================== > -- Michael Lichter UCLA Department of Sociology From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 13 12:37:15 1995 by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (PMDF V4.3-11 #9008) id <01HO39YELMHS8X3GBH@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:33:56 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:33:56 -0600 (CST) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU From: 1k1mgm@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Christopher Gunn) Subject: Re: T. Parsons quote re: Hobbes? To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Jack Hammond wrote: >I am morally certain that it is the Structureof Social Action. But I know >you can find out by reading an article by Dennis Wrong called the Overso- >cializied concept of man in sociology,ASR? c. 1960 Turns out it is _Structure of Social Action_, pp. 89-102 in the 1968 Free Press paperback (and probably other editions as well, since it doesn't seem to have been re-typeset). I suppose I really ought to read Wrong, too; right? :-) Anyway, thanks for the assistance. 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 Mon Mar 13 17:48:12 1995 13 Mar 95 20:47:19 +1100 From: "MORTEN G. ENDER" Organization: University of Maryland,College Park To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 20:46:43 EDT Subject: best documentary '92 i got this message from a friend who has graduated from socgrad but suggested i pass it on...has anyone seen it? morten ^ p.s. hey, i saw a great film you may wanna consider for your courses. its called CHANGING OUR MINDS. it is 80 minutes long, was nominated for a 1992 academy award (best independent documentary????) and deals with evelyn hooker's research that led to the 1973 change in the apa's standard diagnostic manual regarding homosexuality. it is a great film. i'm using it in my intro classes, but i think it would also be relevant in social problems courses, deviance, socy of science/knowledge, socy of sexuality, etc. etc. etc. its just out on vhs--md should have a copy (or should get one if they don't). if you have time, e-mail socgrad about it. it is very important that, in this time of massive research monies being spent in the search for the "gay gene," people realize the connection between science and power! From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 14 04:49:13 1995 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 07:48:04 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: Effects of net on social communications? (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion I dimly remember some discussion of this on socgrad in the past. Might be worth checking out the web site described below. 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rspear@primenet.com (Richard Spear) Subject: Re: Effects of net on social communications? Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 18:38:48 PST In article <3jt2vm$1mqh@tequesta.gate.net> savage@gate.net (Sean Savage) writes: >From: savage@gate.net (Sean Savage) >Subject: Effects of net on social communications? >Date: 11 Mar 1995 20:59:34 GMT >Has anyone made any formal studies about the effects of the Internet and >other aspects of the online revolution on face-to-face social >interaction? Any informal studies? Informed opinions? >A colleague is writing an article on the subject, and she'd appreciate >any responses. >Thanks, >Sean Savage Email: >The Bradenton Herald Voice: 813-745-7080 extension 2035 >Bradenton, Florida, USA Fax: 813-745-7097 For those of you interested in cyberculture *of any sort*, check this URL out: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/anthro/Seeker1_s_CyberAnthro_Page.html It seems to cover just about any point of view you might be interested in and offers a wide range of resources for net social analysis. Regards, Richard rspear@primenet.com From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 14 20:04:14 1995 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 17:11:52 EST From: CMSJOYA@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU Subject: paging barbara blovitt(s?) To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU Sorry guys... Barbara, I wanted to pass along something I received on the net, but found I couldn't recall your email address. If you're around, please contact me at CMSJOYA@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU Best, Joya From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 15 13:53:58 1995 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:51:39 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: Fw: Conference on International Change (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: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 14:37:41 -0700 From: chris chase-dunn Subject: Fw: Conference on International Change ------------------------------ From: William S Strauss Subject: Conference on International Change CALL FOR PAPERS The International Symposium on World Change to be held in New Hampshire on October 2, 3, 1995 is looking for participants. Please use the WWW at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~wss/call4.html to see all about the conference and submit an abstract by electronic form. Or, e-mail me: William Strauss wss@christa.unh.edu for info to be sent by regular mail or electronically (FAX or e-mail). So far we have some very interesting submittals. Also, we have received some positive response from several major presidential candidates who will be campaigning in NH with regards to speaking or debating on the Saturday and Sunday prior to the conference. Please submit abstract by April 1, 1995. If you wish to attend but not participate, please contact me and I will send you an agenda by early May. Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 17 10:12:04 1995 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 13:09:58 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: New mailing list on the history of ideas (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: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 17:37:47 GMT From: Simon Hopper To: psych-postgrads@mailbase.ac.uk, social-theory@mailbase.ac.uk, socbb@soc.surrey.ac.uk, humgrad@mailbase.ac.uk Subject: Re: New mailing list on the history of ideas (Apologies for any multiple copies people may receive) HISTORY-IDEAS History-ideas is a new electronic mailing list for the discussion of intellectual history, the history of ideas and the sociology of knowledge. 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Please enclose a copy of any error messages which you have received for Mailbase; they will help us to help you. The Mailbase Team. --------------------------------------------------------------- Simon Hopper (sensh1@cardiff.ac.uk) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 17 14:55:04 1995 From: Melissa R Herman Subject: Mouse Balls To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU (socgrad network) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:52:40 -0800 (PST) This is an actual alert to IBM Field Enginers that went out to all IBM Branch offices. The person who wrote it was very serious. I'm not sure it was received with the same sobriety in the field offices: *************************** > Abstract: Mouse Balls Available as FRU (Field Repacement Unit) > > Mouse balls are now available as FRU. Therefore, if a mouse fails to > operate or should it perform erratically, it may need a ball > replacement. Because of the deliciate nature of this procedure, > replacement of mouse balls should only be attempted by properly trained > personnel. > > Before proceeding, determine the type of mouse balls by examining the > underside of the mouse. Domestic balls will be larger and harder than > foreign balls. Ball removal procedures differ depending upon > manufacturer of the mouse. Foreign balls can be replaced using the > pop-off method. Mouse balls are not usually static sensitive. However, > excessive handling can result in sudden dischare. Upon completion of > ball replacement, the mouse may be used immediately. > > It is recommended that each replaced have a pair of spare balls for > maintaining optimum customer satisfaction, and that any customer missing > his balls should suspect local personnel of removing these necessary items. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 17 22:51:27 1995 From: XCHUFF@CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 22:51:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Budget cuts To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU Fellow SOCGRADers, It appears that the House approved a $17-billion spen spending cut package. Included were cuts in funding for such programs as assisted housing, home heating aid, summer youth job training and major cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Republicans were qouted as saying tha "We're asking people to struggle a little more" and that the eventual benefit of deficit reduction will more than outweigh the cut's impact. I must admit to not being the most educated person on government economics, so I am having a hard time understanding how a balanced federal budget will actually make things better for the average American or how the balanced budget will help the people that these cuts will hurt the most (it seems that quite a few were helping those in the lower income levels). Does anyone out there have some sort of explanation? TODD-California State University, Fullerton From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 17 23:31:46 1995 From: perrella@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Perrella Andre) Subject: RE: Budget cuts To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 02:27:23 -0500 (EST) I suppose deficits require the government to print more money to meet the shortfall. An increase in the amount of money in circulation leads to inflation, and that is bad. A balanced budget does not require the government to either borrow or print more greens, and that is good. Well.. i'm not an economist, nor even pretend to be, so take my comments with caution. Feel free to tear this apart if you know the reason why a balanced budget would make the world a kinder, gentler place. Looking forward to some discussion on this. -andre From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 18 11:51:05 1995 18 Mar 95 14:47:05 +1100 From: "MORTEN G. ENDER" Organization: University of Maryland,College Park To: SOCgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 14:46:42 EDT Subject: usc-columbia hey socgradders! anyone attending or ever attend usc-columbia? you can respond off the list... morten ender ^ department of sociology university of maryland college park, md 20742 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 18 15:40:03 1995 From: BREKHUS@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 18:37:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: sources for teaching deviant behavior..? To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU I'm scheduled to teach a course in the Sociology of Deviant Behavior this summerand am interested to hear what readers, books, and articles people would recommend for the class. I probably won't use a textbook so I'm looking for a good edited reader and other interesting and useful sources. I'd also like to include stuff on deviance committed by the "powerful." Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Wayne Brekhus--Rutgers Brekhus@zodiac.rutgers.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 19 07:54:09 1995 From: j_young@VENUS.TWU.EDU Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:52:37 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: We're off to see the Wizard Some weeks ago I promised to give my lecture on the Wizard of Oz in which I deconstruct the geneology of the movie/book and make visible the political/economic meaning of this wonderful story. Each year in March, for over 25 years, CBS has run the movie; it is a perennial favorite with adults and childern, too. I'll bet most of you have seen it five times; some as many as 15...as have I. As you follow along the story with me, your assignment is to sing the songs from the movie...written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen...by the way, Harburg was the only popular socialist composer [other than Kurt Weill] from Hollywood I know about. He wrote the music for Fenian's Rainbow and also the popular radical song of the '30's, 'Brother, Can you spare a Dime' Lots of radical/populist politics buried in both the writing and the production of the '39 version. Now, as you hum along, let's revisit this wondrous tale about Dorothy and her three friends as they embark on a quest for brains, heart, courage and human community...not a bad journey for any of us to make. Later on, I'll give a postmodern twist to the tale. 1. Dorothy: Dorothy embodies anyone who has not given up on life. She lived with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. It was not a coincidence that a young woman was the heroine of the story...the author married the daughter of Maud Humphries. The only bright spot in Dorothy's life was 2. Toto: who represents the fool and clown in history who makes mock of kings and wizards and shows them to be the fraud that, inevitably, they are. 3. Hard times had taken the sparkle from their eyes and the color from their lives so Aunt Em and Uncle Henry became sober grey. They lived in a grey house in a grey land and did not smile. They represent parents and farmers beaten down by the forces of nature and the wicked witches which surrounded them. 4. Kansas and the farm represented the economic conditions after the Civil War; the story line in the book contains two great ditches; the depression of 1873 and that of 1893. The author, L. Frank Baum lived through both and had been put into bankruptcy in South Dakota where he published a small newspaper. 5. The cyclone represents, of course, the power of the people to overthrow the structures of domination which embrace them...but to do that they need good theory [brains], good organization [a sense of community], a bit of courage and love enough for their friends and children to do what needs to be done. In the book, the four winds from East, West, North and South came together to make the cyclone...think about it. 6. Oz is Utopia; With bright colors, happy people and a stream nearby, it contains the American dream of a good and decent society with peace, prosperity, dignity and labor which ennobles the human spirit. 7. There are four lands in Oz; each has a Witch which runs it. There are two good witches: Glinda and Jocasta. They represented abstact goodness; Jocasta gave Dorothy the kiss of goodnes which protected her in her adventure. 8. The Wicked Witch from the East stood as icon for Finance Capital; when she was crushed by the house [society generally], the Munchins cheered and sang a song, 'Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead.' [The rich of witch, the wicked Witch is dead...raise up your sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed, Wake up, the wicked witch is dead.' Think about it. 9. The Wicked witch wore the silver slippers [not ruby!]. They stood for the silver standard, cheap money and low interest rates and against the 10. Gold Standard better know as the Yellow Brick Road. As long as one could walk on the Yellow Brick Road, one was safe from all the dangers of life but only the rich could walk on the YBR...or those with silver slippers. 11. The Munckins were once as big as you or I but conditions of life and labor had made them small. Freed from the grasp of the evil Witch, they wanted Dorothy to stay and be their Queen but she wanted to go home...all life is a going home isn't it? I am home when I am teaching...when are you home? So we will follow the Yellow Brick Road until we find the Wizard of Oz who will tell us how to get home again...The Munchins give Dorothy the silver slippers and she goes off to see the Wonderful Wizard of Oz because, he is a wiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there was...because of the wonderful things he does. 12. The first adventure she and Toto have is a meeting with the Strawman...he is unhappy because he doesn't have any brains...he was propped up in a field and watched while 40 crows picked up the corn he had grown...The Strawman embodies the farmers who, in 1880, didn't have enough brains to vote for Wm. Jennings Bryan and the Populist ticket...they voted for plutocrats and all those rich Eastern Banker [Vachel Lindsay has a poem about the election you should read]. 13. The Strawman understands that if he only had a brain, '...he would not be just a nuffin' his head all full of stuffin;' he would dance and be merry; life would be a ding a derry, if he only had a brain. How does one go about getting a brain in American Sociology? I wrote about that in 1977; it is in Sociological Inquiry, 47:1 if you want to learn how. It is called 'Research in the Land of Oz: Graduate Work in American Sociology. 14. The Tinman represents workers alienated by the conditions of their labor. Baum was in Chicago during the Haymarket Massacre and reported on labor struggles of the time. The Communist Manifesto was printed in English in 1888 in Chicago and informed some of the labor unrest...read Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle if you want another version of how workers lose the capacity to love. 'Tenny rate, the Tinman had once been young and in love but the wicked Witch from the East put a spell on him and made him work faster and faster. In one industrial accident after another, he lost an arm, a leg, another arm, the other leg and finally was rebuilt by a tinsmith [an industrial sociologist?] but the tinsmith left out his heart. He was in love with a young girl but without a heart, could not make her happy. 15. The cowardly Lion was a put-down of Wm. Jennings Bryan who refused to run for president again since he had been beaten badly by Eastern Money. He needed courage...we all need courage...I remember the first time I had courage in grad school...I had a friend who had been kicked out of grad school and I complained to the faculty about it...Jud Pearson, Blaine Mercer and the wonderful Howard Higman...they did nothing...just as well, Felipe went to law school and became a radical lawyer. 16. The Wizard of Oz is, of course, any humbug of a politician who promised the people to give them what was theirs in the first place. People assign their own power to create a good and decent society to politicians who then use that power to help the rich and powerful stay rich and powerful...that's the lesson we're supposed to take from his character. 17. The Emerald City is, to be sure, Washington, D.C.; it is green because green is the color of money and you need money to get anywhere in Washington. It represents false solutions to social problems...in Baum's world, one doesn't go to Washington for help...one uses brains, courage, heart and collective action to deal with problems right here in Kansas...or Oklahoma...or Michigan. Even Ohio. 18. The Winged Monkeys represented the Slaves who had just been freed; Baum was 4 years old when the Civil War started and 9 when it ended. He was born in upstate New York, a hot bed of emancipation. Hollywood turned them into Russian Cossacks [MGM was having labor troubles in the 1930's and wanted to destroy the labor unions since they were 'infected' with socialists. The head of the Studio wanted the Song, 'Somewhere, Over the Rainbow' eliminated from the movie because it said that, somewhere, over the rainbow there's a land that we've heard of where dreams that you dare dream really do come true.' Radical stuff for Metro, Goldwyn and Mayer who were funding the republican party in California in the '30's. 19. The Golden Cap...who ever had the Golden Cap could command the Winged Monkeys...now you and I know that education and knowledge is embodied in the golden cap...is that the role of the expert??? ...to control workers, students, patients, voters and customers? Think about it. 20. The Poppy field represents any narcotic which lulls people into a deep sleep; could be Monday Night Football...could be Coor's Beer...could be crack cocaine...could be anything you sniff, quiff or riff. Could be mindless patriotism; soulless religion or demonizing poor women with children and unmarried mothers. There is a lot more to the story left out by MGM...the hammer heads who butted down anyone who came their way...the china men stepped on and broken by tourists...the Octospider who devoured everything that came its way...the Mouse Queen who brought thousands of mice to drag the Cowardly Lion off the poppy field and back toward the Emerald City...the two great Kalidahs who chased the small party across the first deep ravine. All this and a lot more in the book. The short version is that, long before they got to the Wizard, the Straw man used his brain to save the four of them...the Tinman wept as the harm he did the ants and bugs upon which he had stepped and the Cowardly Lion had enough courage to fight off the kalidahs who were VERY BIG until the Tinman could chop down a tree so the four could get across the chasm. Lots of wonderful stories about this four-cornered morality working for the four of them. Well, they did get to the Emerald City; the Wizard wouldn't speak to them at first but Dorothy, bless her heart, insisted. He told them he would help them but they had to kill the WWW...Dorothy didn't want to kill anyone but she said, 'Well, if I must...' and then they head off for more adventures. They return and go into to see the Wizard one by one. First the Wizard stuffs the head of the Strawman with bran [so he could have a bran-new brain, see!]. Then he puts pins and needles in it so the Strawman could be sharp and come to the point...don't blame me, I'm just telling the story]. The Tinman comes in next...the Wizard opens up his chest and puts in a clock that just keeps ticking. The Tinman is delighted; he wants to find his girl friend right away...not sure just what for. Then the Cowardly Lion comes in; the Wizard takes a bottle of green liquid out of the cupboard and gives it to the Lion...the Lion becomes very brave....lots of people get courage out of a bottle, we are told. But the Wizard confesses that he can do nothing for Dorothy since he really is a fraud. He advises her to see Glinda the good witch from the South...I advise you to do the same...the only question is, who, in American Sociology would be a good witch for grad students to talk to in order to find their way home...could be my good friend, Laurie Walem at Ohio State or the wise and wonderful Mary Jo Deegan at U/Neb; Cornelia Flora at Iowa State would do well to serve in that capacity but I bet you know three or four good witches who are very wise and very bright and could help you make your way down the Yellow Brick Road to success in American Sociology. As for me, well, I'll be the Wizard and help you find your own brains, your own courage and your own heart...but remember, I can't give you anything that's not already there. A Postmodern Note: There are any number of ways to 'read' the movie and the book; one could do a freudian analysis in which Dorothy embodies the Electra Complex and wishes for the death of the mother figure and the love of the father figure...I don't like that reading...it trivializes Dorothy's great courage and sensible nature. Then too, one could use Durkheim and 'read' the Wizard as the embodiment of 'society assembled' and worshipped as god in sort of a categorical error. Then too, if you wanted Weber, you could think about charismatic power and the projection of that power on the Wizard...what you might do is to use the characters and events to entertain, astonish and scandalize friends and family but never, never confuse between such stories and that which 'really happened;' that which was 'really meant,' or that which is the 'truth' of the matter. Remember the song of the Tinsmith: When a man's an empty kettle he should be on his mettle and not be torn apart. Just because he is presumin' to be a kind of human and want to have a heart. You'd be tender, you'd be gentle, and kind of sentimental, regarding love and art, if you only had a heart. So, be brave as any blizzard and be gentle as a lizard or as clever as a wizard or there's no denyin' you're just a dandy lion a fate you don't deserve So show off all your prowess don't be just a mow-wess, and just have the nerve to be tender; to be gentle to be awfully sentimental and let us see your heart. T.R. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 19 12:58:59 1995 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 12:58:37 -0800 (PST) From: G-MAN Subject: comments to californians. To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU To socgradders, In california mainly, but relevant in a sense to all. There is a bill in legislation Bill #554 in the California Senate, being introduced by Republican Senator Tom Campbell, using tax dollars, to introduce a pilot program that: sets up check points, (similar to Sobriety check points), to search cars for weapons, and I guess drugs or any other paraphenalia the police might find. Putting it mildly, this is rather rediculous. This congressman is living in a state of fear. That this is very much an invasion of privacy. Why do tax dollars, go into B.S like this? Whatever people in california can do, this can't be passed. I gave the bill number and the senator, this is all the information I have. anybody else know something about this? comments? greg From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 19 15:41:00 1995 From: XCHUFF@CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 15:39:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: comments to californians. To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Greg, Although I have only heard second hand about the weapon check points, it seems to be going with the entire Republican take over mentality. I understand that there are problems in society that need to be looked at and that there are probably even some workable solutions to many of these. I do not feel that the Republicans will be as successful as they feel that they are going to be in addressing andsolving all of these problems all at once, as they appear to be attempting to do. The weapon check point idea sounds a bit too much like Big Brother is taking over. Once again it seems like another idea targeted at the lower classes in society. This is not to to say that all gun owners are lower class, but when I thinknk of "gun problems" I think of gang-banging, drive-by shootings, etc and these seem to be seen mostly in lower income areas. This proposal, along with the recent multi-billion dollar cuts, seem to be the Republicans' way of bettering the country through hurting the lower classes. The only good that I can see coming from all of this nonsense is that perhapes these groups that are being penalized will take this as a wake up call to start getting involved in politics. Is anyone out there as upset about these new proposals as I am??? I had expected a bit more discussion on such a topic... TODD Cal. State University, Fullerton From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 19 19:17:49 1995 From: JGGSO@jazz.ucc.uno.edu Date: 19 Mar 1995 21:14:57 -0600 (CST) Subject: Grant writing To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU I am new to the list. I am very much interested in info on grant writing. Please fill me in on as much as possible. Thanks Justine Jggso@uno.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 19 19:54:39 1995 From: SHAFER@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #7331) id <01HOC46Q5Y0094Q0ED@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 22:48:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 22:48:21 -0500 (EST) Subject: radical data To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU did any of you out there in socgrad land catch ted koppel's nighline on friday night? sociology emeritus prof. morrie schwartz was the guest. he is dying of ALS. he has turned his process of dying into an opportunity to collect data on the death process. he is trying to construct an active and meaningfull death by using his analytical abilities and accumulated wisdom to share his death process with others. fairly radical use of social/psychological data i think. if any of you saw it i wonder if you could comment on it. Also, i am currently constucting my dissertation purposal in the field of health and illness, more specifically on how individuals live and die in hospital ICU's. I would be delighted to correspond with others who have similar interests and/or research. there is not any other grad students here at brandeis that is involved in similar research, so hearing from others involved in similar work would be a relief! dave shafer brandeis univ. shafer@binah.cc.brandeis.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 19 21:40:17 1995 From: LEVINSON@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 00:36:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: request for course materials To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hi there, I recently found out that I am scheduled to teach a class in marriage and the family this summer. Since this is not one of my substantive fields, I know little about what is currently out there in terms of good contemporary readings for undergraduates. Any suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated. I am looking in particular for accessible readings which provide alternatives to the "traditional" nuclear family. I am not fond of the idea of using textbooks, but since I know little about the field, I am not sure I have much of a choice. If anyone knows of a decent text, or reader, please send the information along. Thank you greatly. Justin Levinson Levinson@zodiac.rutgers.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 05:47:04 1995 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 08:45:41 -0500 (EST) From: Carla M Eastis To: JGGSO@jazz.ucc.uno.edu Subject: Re: Grant writing On 19 Mar 1995 JGGSO@jazz.ucc.uno.edu wrote: > I am new to the list. I am very much interested in info on grant writing. Please fill me in on as much as possible. What sort of grant writing? For funding for yourself, or how to write grant proposals for nonprofits/schools/whatever (which I have done sometimes for a little pocket $)? Carla Eastis From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 06:09:32 1995 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 09:08:38 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: New mailing list on the history of ideas (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Thought some of you might be interested in this new list. BTW, mailbase software is a little different from what most of us are used to, so make sure you hang onto the initial info "sheet" you get from the list. 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 17:37:47 GMT From: Simon Hopper To: psych-postgrads@mailbase.ac.uk, social-theory@mailbase.ac.uk, socbb@soc.surrey.ac.uk, humgrad@mailbase.ac.uk Subject: Re: New mailing list on the history of ideas (Apologies for any multiple copies people may receive) HISTORY-IDEAS History-ideas is a new electronic mailing list for the discussion of intellectual history, the history of ideas and the sociology of knowledge. Particular emphasis will be placed upon theoretical and methodological issues within these disciplines. 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The Mailbase Team. --------------------------------------------------------------- Simon Hopper (sensh1@cardiff.ac.uk) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 07:04:58 1995 20 Mar 95 10:04:09 +1100 From: "morten g. ender" Organization: University of Maryland,College Park To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU, LEVINSON@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:03:48 EDT Subject: Re: request for course materials Hi there, I recently found out that I am scheduled to teach a class in marriage and the family this summer. Since this is not one of my substantive fields, I know little about what is currently out there in terms of good contemporary readings for undergraduates. Any suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated. I am looking in particular for accessible readings which provide alternatives to the "traditional" nuclear family. I am not fond of the idea of using textbooks, but since I know little about the field, I am not sure I have much of a choice. If anyone knows of a decent text, or reader, please send the information along. Thank you greatly. Justin Levinson Levinson@zodiac.rutgers.edu justin, i strongly recommend judity stacey's _brave new families: stories of domestic upheaval in late twentieth century america_ (1991). basic books (isbn: 0-6500752-x)... its an ethnography of two families in california...it is essentially a post-modern/feminist attempt to describe in depth the fluid, complex, ever-changing nature of american households, with a bit of sociology of religion thrown in...undergrads should respond well to it but you might want to read the reviews for using in an undergrad course... i'd recommend "kammeyer's" text on marriage and the family... morten ^ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 13:27:27 1995 From: estrayer@cats.ucsc.edu Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 13:24:08 -0800 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: thesis or samples? I'm applying to some grad schools. Have completed course requirements to get BA. I will take the last quarter just because it's there! Hey, I'll take all I can get! Question is: Should I bother with a Sr. thesis? I'm under the impression that grad schools just want writing samples of around 10 to 20 pgs each. If this is true maybe I shouldn't bother writing a thesis at all! I've only applied to two schools so] far, but may apply to more in the near future. Thanks, Eric ======================================================================== Eric Strayer |"All that is solid melts into air" | estrayer@cats.ucsc.edu | *** Marx | | "Please accpet my resignation, I don't | student * beggar * dilettante| I don't want to belong to a club that | DoD#1120 Honda GB500| would accept me as a member" Marx | ======================================================================== From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 13:36:48 1995 From: MmeKeene@aol.com Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 16:19:50 -0500 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Family and Marriage Suggestions Levinson-- I got sloppy and wrote down the wrong address. Send me your e-mail address and I'll try to send you some text suggestions. MmeKeene@aol.com From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 16:06:29 1995 From: KINRABE@UWYO.EDU id <01HOD79ZUHLS0053MI@ROPER.UWYO.EDU>; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 17:04:52 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 17:04:47 -0700 (MST) Subject: UU To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU I'm thinking about going to University of Utah for my Ph.D. Does anyone out there go there or know anything about the school? If so, I'd appreciate any info you could email me personally at kinrabe@uwyo.edu I'm looking for the inside scoop from the grad students. How's housing there, and employment generally? My wife might want to work there in Salt Lake, and she has a masters in soc. Can you give me any info on professors? Do you like many of them, what are they into, etc.? How's the weather? What's the city like? On a related note, does anyone know where I can get a ranking of schools in terms of how good their soc phd programs are? Thanks, Brian From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 16:45:52 1995 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 19:42:15 EST From: "Alan G. Davidson" Subject: Senior thesis? To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Given the increasingly credentialist character of even Sociology dept.'s which have reasons to be critical of such notions, a senior thesis does help out. Even beyond admission it helps in terms of the kind of criteria departmen ts draw upon in deciding whether to fund you. BTW, is there any reason why recent posts from this list come from the name of the poster versus the name of the list in my readerlist? From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 17:19:10 1995 From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: Senior thesis? To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 19:17:03 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Besides any possible admissions advantages, I think a senior thesis does help prepare one for writing longer works such as the master's thesis and PhD dissertation. It can also help one decide whether one *wants* to go to grad school and spend a lot of time writing such longer works. Jean (jczer@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu) (I'm being brief for once!) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 18:33:41 1995 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:27:29 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: UU To: KINRABE@uwyo.edu On Mon, 20 Mar 1995 KINRABE@UWYO.EDU wrote: > On a related note, does anyone know where I can get a ranking of schools in > terms of how good their soc phd programs are? > > Thanks, > Brian > Check out the recent issue of US News and World Report (may have been last week's.) They have rankings for graduate programs, including sociology. 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 Mon Mar 20 19:50:31 1995 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:29:31 -0600 (CST) From: Lauren To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: Sociologist e-mail directory APPENDED Please Note (fwd) It was suggested that I forward this on to you as well as the alt.sci.sociology group. Please forward to others who may be interested. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- On Sun, 19 Mar 1995, Lauren wrote: > > I am interested in compiling an online e-mail directory of Sociologists > world-wide. The field of Anthropology has something similar. After > visiting with several Anthropologists on the subject I find that they > enjoyed greater networking and discourse with colleagues due to the > directory availability. > > These are the fields for the datatbase so far. If you come up with > others pleas let me know. I am also interested in a similar directory > for Sociology Students. > > (If you are not involved in a "traditional" Sociology (Academia, > Research, Applied . . .) that is all the more reason to respond. > sociology is such a reich and varied field. It is good to remind > ourselves of that and illustrate it to students.) > > Name: > Email address: > Web or Gopher Site:(if any) > Position or Title: Professor, Associate Professor, Director . . . > or > Student Designation: (yr) Undergraduate or (yr) Graduate Student > Professional Address: (University, business or organization) > Voice Number (of above): > Fax Number: > Mailing address: (Only if you wish to provide it) > Voice Number - home:(Only if you wish to provide it * Areas of Research/Study (professional Focus): > Other Interests: > Most Recent/Prominent Publications:(Please limit to 5) > Professional Affiliations:(optional) > (Please include Email Address or Web/Gopher Site of those organizations.) * Internet sites that most benefit you in your research or are most related to your fields of focus: Sorry for the ambiguity regarding areas of professional focus. L > I will make this Directory available as an HTML document (as well as plain > text) on Oklahoma Stae University's servers. > > > lauren > http:www.okstate.edu/gopher-data/Academic_Services/sociology/.html/myplace.html > > OSU Sociology World View (Under Construction) > http:www.okstate.edu/gopher-data/Academic_Services/sociology/.html/index.html > > > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 20:04:25 1995 From: BREKHUS@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:02:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: sources for teaching deviance (and thanks) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Thanks to all who have offered (or will offer) suggestions for sources to use in a Sociology of Deviant Behavior class. Since several have expressed interest, I plan to post a compilation of the suggestions when I get a chance. Thanks again to everyone offering suggestions. Wayne Brekhus--Rutgers From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 20 20:56:40 1995 From: LEVINSON@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:53:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: literature information To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Thanks to all of you who replied to my requests for information. I usually only read the posts, so many of you don't know who I am. I really appreciate the willingness to respond to generally anonymous individuals. Once again, my thanks and appreciation. Justin Levinson From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 21 02:31:57 1995 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 05:29 EST From: "Frank D. Beck" Subject: Re: thesis or samples? To: estrayer@cats.ucsc.edu In line with previous posts, it would be a good idea to write a senior thesis. I know the grad program here (Penn State) has become more selective in recent years. We've only been seriously looking at applicants with such a thesis or some research experience beyond undergrad. Good luck with a somewhat stressful process. Peace, Frank From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 21 11:52:12 1995 From: CBROWN@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 13:44:37 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: School Rankings Brian: The recent issue of US news & World Report does have rankings of Soc. programs, but only the top 25 or so. For a more extensive list, check out the November/December 1992 issue of Change Magazine, it has over 125 schools. (FYI Utah was ranked 82nd). Chuck- From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 21 12:14:47 1995 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 14:10:33 -0600 From: donnelly%eagle.DecNet@eunice.ssc.wisc.edu (It's a nike thing) To: "socgrad@ucsd.edu"@ssc.wisc.edu Subject: Re: School Rankings. I really like these ratings. It's just like baseball. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 21 12:25:14 1995 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:21:40 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: School Rankings To: CBROWN@siucvmb.siu.edu On Tue, 21 Mar 1995 CBROWN@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU wrote: > Brian: > > The recent issue of US news & World Report does have rankings of Soc. > programs, but only the top 25 or so. For a more extensive list, check > out the November/December 1992 issue of Change Magazine, it has over > 125 schools. (FYI Utah was ranked 82nd). > > Chuck- > I _think_ US News & World Report puts out a more complete set of rankings as a seperate publication. (At least I dimly remember something about this in the story ran by UNC's student paper.) 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 Tue Mar 21 14:05:28 1995 From: MmeKeene@aol.com Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 16:58:15 -0500 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Fwd: Text suggestions This is for Justin Levinson. Sorry for the public mailing. I can't seem to get it sent. --------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: Fwd: Text suggestions Date: 95-03-21 16:55:07 EST From: Mme Keene To: levinson@zodiac.edu Drop me a quick note so that I know that you got this. Good luck! Rachel Keene --------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: Text suggestions Date: 95-03-20 13:31:15 EST From: Mme Keene To: Levinson@zodia.rutgers.edu I took a very interesting class at Cal State Univ., Bakersfield which might have some helpful suggestions. The class was called "FAMILY AND KIN: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES" and is taught by Dr. Jane Granskog. Hope you find this helpful: Gurian, J. and J. Gurian, 1983. THE DEPENDENCY TENDENCY: RETURNING TO EACH OTHER IN MODERN AMERICA. New York: University Press of America. (0-8191-2782-5) * This text dealt with re-evaluating the push to be independent and showed how there could and should be a push for positive, balanced dependency. The book isn't "flashy" looking. It looks like a typed paper which was bound (someone's thesis?). However, it's VERY CLEAR and it's easy to locate information in this text. About 161pp. Mindel, C., R. Habenstein and R. Wright, 1988. ETHNIC FAMILIES IN AMERICA: PATTERNS AND VARIATIONS. New York: Elsevier. (Third Edition). (0-444-01319-9) * This book clearly describes the typical Irish Catholic, Black, Puerto Rican, Chinese American, etc. families in America. Who they are, when and why the came to the US, how they changed or kept their traditions, and the sterotypes which people have about some of these groups. VERY SIMPLE/INTERESTING reading. I really enjoyed this "quick guide to different religious and ethnic groups." About 17 different groups described in aprox. 490pp.. Tan, Amy. 1989. THE JOY LUCK CLUB. New York: Ballentine Books. *You are probably familiar with this as it is now a movie. TJLC was used as a way to examine some different examples of Chinese families, the types of relationships in the family (specifically Mother/Daughter), etc.. Fox, R., 1967. KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE. Penguin Books. Graburn, N. (Ed.), 1971. READINGS IN KINSHIP AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE. Harper and Row. Keesing, R., 1976. KIN GROUPS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Lindsey, K., 1981. FRIENDS AS FAMILY. Beacon Press. Selby, H., 1974. ZAPOTEC DEVIANCE. University of Texas Press. Skolnick, A. and J. Skolnick (Eds.), 1982. FAMILY IN TRANSITION. Little, Brown, and Co. Some other authors (I don't have the titles handy, sorry): Yanagisako and Collier Cohen Rynkiewich Wolf Wagner and Schaffer Tanner Geile Barnett and Barnett Good Luck! Rachel Keene MmeKeene@aol.com From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 21 17:12:37 1995 From: Melissa R Herman Subject: Dissertation Advisor Humor To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU (socgrad network) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 12:27:54 -0800 (PST) > This was sent out unattributed on another list. > > THE RABBIT, THE FOX AND THE WOLF -- A FABLE > > One sunny day a rabbit came out of her hole in the ground to enjoy the > weather. The day was so nice that the rabbit became careless, so a fox > sneaked up to her, and caught her. > > "I am going to eat you for lunch!," said the fox. > > "Wait!" replied the rabbit, "You should at least wait a few days" > > "Oh yeah? Why should I wait?" > > "Well, I am just finishing writing my Ph.D. thesis." > > "Hah! That's a stupid excuse. What is the title of your thesis anyway?" > > "I am writing my thesis on 'The Superiority of Rabbits over Foxes and > Wolves.'" > > "Are you crazy? I should eat you up right now! Everybody knows that a > fox will always win over a rabbit." > > "Not really, not according to my research. If you like, you can come to > my hole and read it for yourself. If you are not convinced you can go > ahead and have me for lunch." > > "You are really crazy!" But since the fox was curious and had nothing to > lose, it went with the rabbit into its hole. The fox never came back > out. > > A few days latter the rabbit was again taking a break from writing and, > sure enough, a wolf came out of the bushes and was ready to eat her. > > "Wait!", yelled the rabbit, "you cannot eat me right now." > > "And why might that be, you fuzzy appetizer?" > > "I am almost finished writing my Ph.D. thesis on 'The Superiority of > Rabbits over Foxes and Wolves'." > > The wolf laughed so hard that it almost lost its hold on the rabbit. > "Maybe I shouldn't eat you, you are really sick in your head, you might > have something contagious," the wolf opined. > > "Come read for yourself, you can eat me after that if you disagree with > my conclusions." So the wolf went to the rabbit's hole and never came > out. > > The rabbit finished writing her thesis and was out celebrating in the > lettuce fields. Another rabbit came by and asked, "What's up? You seem > to be very happy." > > "Yup, I just finished writing up my dissertation." > > "Congratulations! What is it about?" > > "It is titled 'The superiority of Rabbits over Foxes and Wolves.'" > > "Are you sure? That doesn't sound right." > > "Oh yes, you should come over and read for yourself." > > So they went together to the rabbit's hole. > > As they went in, the friend saw the typical graduate student abode, > albeit a rather messy one after writing a thesis. The computer with the > controversial dissertation was in one corner, on the right there was a > pile of fox bones, on the left was a pile of wolf bones, and in the > middle was a lion. > > The moral of the story is: > The title of your dissertation doesn't matter, > all that matters is who your dissertation advisor is. > > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 21 18:05:56 1995 by Isis.MsState.Edu (8.6.10/6.0c-FWP); Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 19:57:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Neil R. White" To: Socgrad Subject: Low level undergrad S.I. course? Hey Socgraders, I just found out that I will be teaching a course entitled "Society and the Individual" this summer. Apparently the University, in all of its wisdom, won't let the Sociology department have an upper level undergraduate course in Social Psychology because the psychology department already has such a course. Therefore, the sociology department offers the previously mentioned society and the individual course at the 2000 level (same level as Marriage and the Family and Social problems here). I am curious if anyone else has taught such a course, or if their departments offer such a course. I don't know whether to go ahead and use a social psychology textbook (from the sociological perspective of course), or try something else. I am not aware of any textbooks specificly written for a 2000 level society and the individual course but if any of you know of one, send word my way. I would also appreciate any other sources for reference material that anyone might have. I had originally thought of assinging Goffman's "Presentation of Self in Everyday Life," but I'm not sure if Freshman and Sophomore students would be overwhelmed by it. Any feedback would be appreciated. "still in Mississippi," Neil From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 06:15:39 1995 22 Mar 95 09:14:30 +1100 From: "morten g. ender" Organization: University of Maryland,College Park To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 09:14:06 EDT Subject: ess meetings hey socgradders! ...folks have suggested getting together at the ess meetings...i'm a big brew pub patron and try to support local brew pubs in every city across the u.s. and europe that i visit...does anyone know if the dock street brewing restaurant and/or the samuel adams brewhouse are still operationg in philadelphia? might be a good meeting place.... morten ^ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 06:47:31 1995 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 09:43:02 EST From: "Alan G. Davidson" Subject: Places in Philly To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Being at the University of Connecticut where the Executive offices of Ess are (and having the catalog), I'll look it up tonight. I myself will only be around Thursday afternoon, Friday, and Sunday morning. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 07:37:22 1995 From: blovitts@nsf.gov Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 09:11:32 EST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: NUDIST Redux Deja vu all over again. Could someone on the net provide me with information about ordering NUDIST, e.g., address, phone number ... Thanks. Barbara From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 08:51:19 1995 From: dshul@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Subject: Conference Announcement To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 10:46:51 -0600 (CST) I am forwarding this conference announcement for any interested graduate students. If you have any questions about the conference, please email Christopher Wellin at chrobwel@merle.acns.nwu.edu Dave Shulman Dept. of Sociology Northwestern University CALL FOR PAPERS: GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: OCTOBER 13-15, 1995 SPONSORED BY CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES PROGRAM OF AFRICAN STUDIES AND THE FORD FOUNDATION Representing Culture: Methodology and Politics While scholars would like to think that their techniques for collecting evidence and for fashioning evidence into representations are neutral, they are not. Inherent in methodological practices are representational approaches that have important political implications. The political significance of scholarly representations extends in two directions, backwards to the disciplines and fields that conventionalize specific ways of representing, and forward to the impact of scholarly representations on academic and nonacademic audiences, including the "subjects." The goal of this conference is to spotlight these implications and their consequences for understanding academic work on culture. Preliminary questions include: How do innovations in ways of collecting evidence and constructing representations alter the impact of scholarly representations? How can scholarship reflect the researcher's conscious exploration of the appropriateness, biases, and limitations of method? How does a researcher's positionality with respect to subjects affect his or her methodology? Is it possible to map the relations between specific research objectives or goals and appropriate methods for collecting and representing evidence? How do we assess the "appropriateness"? The conference will be held at Northwestern University in October 13-15, 1995. There will be four to six panels featuring presentations by graduate students along with comments and discussion by distinguished visitors. Initial plans call for five major foci: Representing Field Experience: New questions have emerged about how ethnographers can incorporate critical insights into their work. These insights have implications both for how culture is formulated as an empirical phenomenon and for innovations in the analysis and representation of ethnographic evidence. How is culture constructed and conveyed in the course of field research? What aspects of culture do ethnographers find more or less amenable to conventionalized methods? Representing Social Movements: Social movements are central to understanding culture and politics. Perspectives and methodologies that examine the intersectionality of social locations, the mutability of oppressor and oppressed, and the problematics of a unified "subordinate" group reveal the complexities of cultural representations and politics in social movements. How do we define/identify oppression? What are the implications of these issues for methodology and the relation between researchers and their "subjects"? Representing Local Culture: The term "local culture" reifies culture into something that is both geographically and psychologically stagnant. Locating local culture demands an identification of how and with what knowledges and aspirations these spaces are continually constructed, sustained, deterritorialized and reterritorialized. How do inhabitants invest in and identify with local culture? How do borders open up or stretch in the definition and redefinition of locale? Representing Popular Culture: Analysis of the multiple social levels from which popular culture is derived is integral to investigating aspects of popular culture and its social impact. What are the artifacts of popular culture? How do ideologies and cultural objects become part of popular culture? How do we investigate and represent popular culture practices and consumptions? Do some methods engender misrepresentations of popular culture? Representing Dominant Culture: Dominant cultures are often viewed in a unitary manner, which tends to both reinforce their hegemony and shroud them. The ubiquity and invisibility of "white culture" in the U.S., for example, points to the difficulty of defining and analyzing dominant cultures. How does the term "dominant culture" assume uniformity within dominant groups? How can we revise cultural frameworks to make them better tools for the critical examination of dominant cultures? Other possible topics include: improvisation and the problems it poses for representation, scholarly representations of culture and public policy, and the impact of representations on understandings of human rights. Interested students should send abstracts (1,000 words) to: Culture Conference c/o Judith Gibson, Assistant Director Center for International & Comparative Studies 618 Garrett Place Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 FAX: 708-467-1996 The deadline for receipt of abstracts is April 15, 1995. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 09:07:40 1995 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 09:05:19 -0800 (PST) From: JAMES BALLARD To: "Neil R. White" Subject: Re: Low level undergrad S.I. course? Goffman is not too much for a 200 level class. I would use it! From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 09:44:44 1995 From: g_sethuraju@VENUS.TWU.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 11:42:21 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Departmental Support for dissertaion res. and Job hunt Hi! I have been a passive subscriber until today--I have enjoyed all the discussions thus far and do appreciate all your insightful discourse--Well I do have a few questions concerning the nature of support that you guys are getting in terms of your dissertation and thesis research--if you are getting any form of support in terms of postage,photocopying,return envelopes with university postage, etc. --we have been told to take care of it on our own-- it's a defined drain on the " huge salary" we are making as graduate students--so if any of you are aware of supports that students are getting please send me an E-mail. My second question is about the nature of support you are getting in terms of job hunt--do your department supply you postage,allow you to make copies,make phone calls, etc.,etc. I would like to thank every one of you in advance for your time and information.Take care my friends From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 10:07:24 1995 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 13:03:59 -0500 To: Socgrad From: danryan@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Dan Ryan) Subject: Response to: Low level undergrad S.I. course? At 7:57 PM 3/21/95, Neil R. White wrote: >"Society and the Individual" this summer. >... >I don't know whether to go ahead and use >a social psychology textbook (from the sociological perspective of >course), or try something else. Try something else! Why use (an often poorly written) watered down version of good stuff when you can use the (usually well written) good stuff itself? I think it makes a lot more sense to give them good solid stuff to read and take it as your task to help them understand it. Think of the choice this way: a book written by, say, Goffman vs. a book written by, say, nobody, who tries to give a boiled down version of Goffman, whom s/he may or may not understand to begin with (and hence is out there writing text books). As far as Goffman goes, I've had more success with "Interaction Ritual" than with "Presentation of Self...." It's a more mature Goffman, has a variety of shorter articles, etc. I've had first years read it quite profitably. "Stigma" works well in this context too. >I am not aware of any textbooks >specificly written for a 2000 level society and the individual course but I'd be suspicious of the idea of something written specifically for a given level. Probably means the author's main selling point was that rather than what s/he had to say. Let me think if any other items come to mind. Rosenhan's "On being sane in insane places," several items in Coser's "The Pleasures of Sociology" including W.I.Thomas "The Definition of the Situation," Simmel's "The Stranger," Veblen's "Pecuniary Emulation," and Hughes "Good People, Dirty Work." Also, great book in the slightly more phenomenological direction (but still mostly SIesque) is Lyman and Scott's "The Sociology of the Absurd." Chambliss' "Mundanity of Excellence" is also a personal favorite that students tend to really get off on. If more come to mind, I'll drop a line. Cheers, Dan From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 12:41:08 1995 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 14:39:25 CST From: alina oh To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: unsubscribing sorry to have to post to the list, but I've lost the address I'm supposed to be From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 12:42:16 1995 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 14:40:45 CST From: alina oh To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: unsubscribing hi. sorry to have to post to the list, but I've lost the address of the person I actually should be posting to. assuming that the person who maintains this list reads socigrad reugularly, ia From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 12:47:55 1995 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 14:42:13 CST From: alina oh To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: unsubscribing another apology. simply wanted to ask if I could be removed from the lsit - too much email in my life and not enough time... thanks, Alina From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 15:56:56 1995 From: BREKHUS@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 18:33:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: a compilation of sources for teaching Sociology of Deviant behavior To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hi everyone, Thank you to everyone who provided me with sources. The following is a compilation of the suggestions I received. I've arbitrarily organized them into categories to simplify the list (many could fit several categories). I've also provided some comments on some of them from either my perspective or taht of people recommending the source. READERS/TEXTS Adler and Adler, CONSTRUCTIONS OF DEVIANCE: SOCIAL POWER, CONTEXT, AND INTERACTION (1994 edited volume)--person recommending it says "all ethnographies includes coffee drinking as a social problem to identity construction among gay men with AIDS to lying among police officers. An awesome collection of articles" mostly social constructivist or labelling in perspective. Delos Kelly, ed. (1994) DEVIANT BEHAVIOR: A TEXT-READER IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE---this one was highly recommended by several people! Most of whom have used the book with great success. I have used the book once and found students were at best ambivalent. But on paper the book certainly has a nice collection, so my experience may have been an anomaly. Pontell, ed. SOCIAL DEVIANCE--this has similar arguments and format to the Kelly book in my opinion (some overlap in articles too, but Kelly has more articles to choose from overall). Traub and Little THEORIES OF DEVIANCE--an anthology of key essays. Colin Sumner SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE: AN OBITUARY Rubington & Weinberg, DEVIANCE: THE INTERACTIONSIT PERSPECTIVE Stephen Pfohl, IMAGES OF DEVIANCE & SOCIAL CONTROL--from a crtical, radical analysis. THE CLASSICS Goffman STIGMA (recommended by many!) Durkheim SUICIDE Becker OUTSIDERS Kai Erikson WAYWARD PURITANS: A STUDY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE PROVOCATIVE ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDIES OF "DEVIANCE" Shakur, MONSTER: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN L.A. GANG MEMBER (1993) ---I will definitely use it. The person recommending it pointed out that some of his students are now writing to Monster in prison. The book was apparently extremely well received! Donna Gaines, TEENAGE WASTELAND: SUBURBIA'S DEAD END KIDS ---I've used this book for several classes and students loved it! Have recommended to peers many have also had great success with it, a few have found that students didn't like it that much. I found that the book was excellent for subverting blaming the victim ideology (can provide much more info on request--I recommend this book. Will not use it this summer because has been used in Intro, Social Problems, and Individual & Society classes at Rutgers this summer) Terry williams, COCAINE KIDS: THE INSIDE STORY OF A TEENAGE DRUG RING also Adler & Adler have an ethnography of high-level drug dealers that may be worth looking at. For articles "Code of the Streets" in Atlantic Monthly by Elijah Andersen is interesting for explaining inner-city violence. And a SPIN magazine on White and Mixed Gangs in suburban Iowa is also provocative OTHER SOURCES ON DEVIANCE Herek and Berrell, HATE CRIMES: CONFRONTING VIOLENCE AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAY MEN Children's Express, (1994) VOICES FROM THE FUTURE: OUR CHILDREN TELL US ABOUT VIOLENCE IN AMERICA--intro by Kozol..written by children interviewing children. Proceeds go to a non-profit org. Mike Davis, "L.A. Was Just the Beginning: Urban Revolt in America...A Thousand Points of Light"---great for radical-conflict perspective. Goes into aspects of the LA Riots that weren't covered in the media. Mike Davis, "Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control, The Ecology of Fear"-- excellent for looking at responses to crime, incresead surveillance, technological control, de facto warfare on the poor and minorities etc. grim almost surreal picture of the future. provocative reading. CRIMES OF OBEDIENCE Sanders & Hamilton, CRIMES OF OBEDIENCE--deals w/ among other things Watergate and the My Lai massacre GOVERNMENT DEVIANCE One person recommended several Chomsky books. Including: Noam Chomsky, WHAT UNCLE SAM REALLY WANTS (1992--Odonian Press) --explains why and how behavior that greatly deviates from most people's moral values happens (referring to gov't beh). The person who recommended this book pointed out that students found it eye-opening, shocking, and provocative. Also it's only 95 pages and 5 or 6 dollars. Noam Chomsky, 1994 WORLD ORDERS, OLD & NEW CORPORATE & ORG DEVIANCE Simon and Eitzen ELITE DEVIANCE (1993)--also Simon has a book on gov't crimes/deviance but don't know the title Russel Mokhiber, ed. CORPORATE CRIME AND VIOLENCE--many case studies in this edited collection. THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET PRISON (don't remember the author-- this is also available in article form in a kelly 2nd ed. reader on Criminology). Mary Zey BANKING ON FRAUD Diane Vaughan, CONTROLLING UNLAWFUL BEHAVIOR Erman & Ludman, "Deviant Acts by Complex Orgs: Deviance and Social Control at the Organizational level of analysis" in Sociological Quarterly-- sorry, I forgot to copy down the year. If anyone needs it e-mail me and I can provide it. The last three were from a person who had a course specifically in Organizational deviance. Hope people find this compilation useful. I'm still deciding on sources but am using the Monster book, leaning towards the Adler & Adler reader, the short Chomsky on gov't crime and a coursepack including several articles on corporate crime, crimes of obedience, samples of Goffman, and the Davis & Andersen articles. Feel free to e-mail additional suggestions or comments about why to use or not use any of these sources etc. Cheers, Wayne Brekhus--Rutgers brekhus@zodiac.rutgers.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 16:28:45 1995 From: Paul.Reser@jcu.edu.au (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 23 Mar 1995 10:27:18 +1000 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 10:27:18 +1000 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: Departmental Support for dissertaion res. and Job hunt g_sethuraju@VENUS.TWU.EDU wrote on 22 March (in part) >Hi! I have been a passive subscriber until today--I have enjoyed all the >discussions thus far and do appreciate all your insightful discourse--Well I do >have a few questions concerning the nature of support that you guys are getting >in terms of your dissertation and thesis research--if you are getting any form >of support in terms of postage,photocopying,return envelopes with university >postage, etc. As postgrads we are given access to the departmental photocopiers, given about 250 copies per month though this acan be negotiated if a greater need exists. Postgrads are also encouraged to apply for what is termed a University Research Grant - this is money the department head has under his discretion as to distribution. As staff also apply for these funds there is a lot of competition, but the postgrads I have talked to have usually manged to get from $500-$1000 per annum (Australian). These funds are used for postage, interlibrary loans, additional photocopying, phone calls - whatever expenses the postgrad deems are appropriate (with the expenditure overseen by our financial officer - no beer!). This money is viewed as seed money, with postgrads expected to apply for further funding from other internal or external sources either by themselves or with their supervisors. The department also pays for thesis printing and binding. At least I think it is the department - I am not that close to finishing so I haven't checked out exactly who pays yet! The head of department also trys to fund all postgrads one trip to a conference during the course of their degree work, usually towards the end as long as they present a paper. This is helpful for some feedback on the subject of the thesis as well as for employment contacts. Since the university is small and geographically isolated this is potentially quite useful. I'm fortunate (as are a number of other postgrads) in also being employed by the department, which in effect gives access to further resources as staff. I am at the moment trying to obtain a grant as well as negotiating a minefield of ethical considerations. Both are proving a real headache! Cheers, Paul A. Reser (Paul.Reser@jcu.edu.au) Department of Psychology and Sociology James Cook University Townsville, QLD 4811 AUSTRALIA "A wit has said that one might divide [people] into officers, serving maids and chimney sweeps. To my mind this remark is not only witty but profound, and it would require a great speculative talent to devise a better classifcation. When a classification does not ideally exhaust its object, a haphazard classification is altogether preferable, because it sets imagination in motion." Kierkegaard From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 16:58:31 1995 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 19:49:23 EST From: "Alan G. Davidson" To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU For those interested, the Dock St. Brewing company is listed in the preliminary program for the Easterns. There is also a cajun place that might be interesting. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 22 22:47:15 1995 From: CBROWN@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 00:42:33 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: School rankings Morten & Andre: I somehow "lost" your e-mail adresses. Please send them again so I can send you the info you requested.... Chuck- From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 23 04:26:30 1995 From: JWL3697@UTARLG.UTA.EDU id <01HOGQ1KBIKW00HUJK@UTARLG.UTA.EDU>; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 06:25:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 06:22:49 -0600 (CST) Subject: Thanks To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hi: About 10 days ago, I had posted for some info about a Phd program in Political Economy, and had received quite a bit replies. I like to thank those who responded and hope one day I may be able to reciprocate. Once again, thank you. _________________________________________________________________ Julia Lam - grad student Department of Sociology University of Texas at Arlington P.O. Box 19599 Arlington, TX 76016 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 23 05:34:04 1995 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 08:33:12 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT PLEASE POST (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: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 17:50:52 CST From: LARRY SALINGER Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT PLEASE POST Arkansas State University-Jonesboro. Department of Criminology, Sociology, Social Work, and Geography invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor position to begin August 15, 1995. The department offers a B.A. in Criminology, an A.A. in Law Enforcement, and an M.A. in Sociology. We are seeking a generalist, who can teach in both the Criminology and Sociology programs. Criminal Justice agency experience will strengthen an application. Ph.D. in Criminology, Criminal Justice, or Sociology preferred. ABDs will be considered. Successful candidates must exhibit a strong commitment to effective teaching and research. Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, graduate transcript (copies acceptable), at least three letters of reference, teaching evaluations, and a sample of scholarly work to: Dr. Jack Dison, Chair, Criminology Search Committee, Arkansas State University, P.O. Box 2410 State University, AR 72467-2410. 501-972-3705 (phone), 501-972-3827 (Fax). Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Arkansas State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Larry Salinger, Ph.D. Arkansas State University LARS@TOLTEC.ASTATE.EDU Department of Criminology 501-972-3705 P.O. Box 2410 107 International Ed. Ctr. State University, AR 72467 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 23 09:58:51 1995 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:52:54 -0500 (EST) From: thomas conroy Subject: Re: Low level undergrad S.I. course? To: "Neil R. White" I have taught such a course, also in the summer. I used: -Berger and Luckmann - The Social Construction of Reality -John Hewitt - (I can remember the exact title, I think it's Symbolic Interaction - which is an overview of social psychological topics from a sociological/interactionist perspective) -Clark and Robboy - Social Interaction (a reader on a range of concepts, from a broadly interpretive/interactionist viewpoint) I also think Goffman should work well for you. If you are enthusiatic about his work, particularly Presentation, then by all means, I'd say go for it. It's vividifying (as well as witty) and you could have your students bring in examples and obervations of their own; could make for some lively discussions Tom Conroy Sociology - Boston University conroyt@bu.edu On Tue, 21 Mar 1995, Neil R. White wrote: > > Hey Socgraders, > > I just found out that I will be teaching a course entitled > "Society and the Individual" this summer. Apparently the University, in > all of its wisdom, won't let the Sociology department have an upper level > undergraduate course in Social Psychology because the psychology > department already has such a course. Therefore, the sociology department > offers the previously mentioned society and the individual course at the > 2000 level (same level as Marriage and the Family and Social problems > here). I am curious if anyone else has taught such a course, or if their > departments offer such a course. I don't know whether to go ahead and use > a social psychology textbook (from the sociological perspective of > course), or try something else. I am not aware of any textbooks > specificly written for a 2000 level society and the individual course but > if any of you know of one, send word my way. I would also appreciate any > other sources for reference material that anyone might have. I had > originally thought of assinging Goffman's "Presentation of Self in > Everyday Life," but I'm not sure if Freshman and Sophomore students would > be overwhelmed by it. Any feedback would be appreciated. > > > "still in Mississippi," Neil > > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 23 11:55:59 1995 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 14:53:14 EST From: "Alan G. Davidson" Subject: Rutgers fax? To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Considering I know that there are some Rutgers people on this list, does the Rutgers Soc. department have a fax number. I'm finishing up the first draft of my ESS paper, and Chaim Waxman is my discussant. Failing that, does he have an e-mail address. Thank you. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 23 13:33:28 1995 From: "Julian B. Dierkes" Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 16:09:55 EST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: internet sociology resources as promised a couple of weeks ago, what follows is the list of resources for sociologists that i have found on the 'net recently. sorry about the ugly format, i just took the list from our web-page (http://www.princeton.edu:80/~sociolog) and deleted all the html-tags. if you know about other resources, please let me know! julian b. dierkes dept of sociology princeton university Sociology Links Some 'Netlinks sociologists may find useful: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Sociology/Overview.html: WWW Virtual Library of Sociology INSTITUTIONS http://www.whitehouse.gov: The White House http://www.house.gov: The House of Representatives http://opr.princeton.edu: Princeton's very own Office of Population Research http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-SocSci.html: The Australian National University's Social Science Reference http://www.census.gov/: The U.S. Census Bureau http://www.ssa.gov: The Social Security Administration The Science & Technology Information System (STIS) of the gopher://stis.nsf.gov: National Science Foundation http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html: The Library of Congress http://www.wz-berlin.de: Science Center Berlin http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ccsi/ccsihome.html: Center for Civil Society International (CCSI) gopher://cios.llc.rpi.edu: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) http://www.qub.ac.uk/socsci/miller/esaintro.html: The European Sociological Association The American Sociological Association can be reached by e-mail at asa_executive_office@mcimail.com. DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIOLOGY _United States_ http://www.swt.edu/Sociology-Dept/sociology-dept.html: Soutwest Texas State University http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/socio/socio.html: University of Hawaii http://pixie.soc.qc.edu: CUNY (Queens) http://www.soc.duke.edu/soc.home.html: Duke University http://socrk.umsl.edu: University of Missouri-St. Louis http://www.ksu.edu:80/sasw: Kansas State University http://www.socsci.uci.edu/sociol/sociol.html: UC Irvine http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/Overview.html: U Penn http://osiris.colorado.edu/socpage.html: University of Colorado http://www.okstate.edu/gopher-data/Academic_Services/sociology/.html/index.html: Oklahoma State University _Asia_ http://www.nus.sg/NUSinfo/FASS/socio.html":National University of Singapore _Europe_ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/":Lancaster University (UK) gopher://boris.soc.surrey.ac.uk":Surrey University (UK) http://www.york.ac.uk/aux/init/depts/soci-w.htm":York University (UK) http://andante.iss.uw.edu.pl/soc/sochome.html":University of Warsaw (Poland) http://www.uni-lj.si/www/fdv/dsoce.html":University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) AILING LISTS AND JOURNALS http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca:8010/home1.htm":The Electronic Journal of Sociology The Journal of World-Systems Research: send a message to listproc@csf.colorado.edu: "subscribe wsn ". The Progressive Sociologists Network: send a message to listproc@colorado.edu "subscribe psn ". gopher://csf.colorado.edu:70/11/psn:The PSN Archive The Communication Research and Theory Network: send a message to listserv@psuvm.psu.edu: "subscribe CRTnet ". Use listserv commands for their archive! SOCBB- information for sociologists in the UK: send e-mail to socbb-request@soc.surrey.ac.uk. Social Theory: send a message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk: "join social-theory ". http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/ctheory/ctheory.html:CTheory: send a message to listserv@vm1.mcgill.ca: "subscribe ctheory ". Rural Sociology: send a message to listserv@ukcc.uky.edu: "subscribe rursoc-l ". SOS-DATA: NewsNet: news:bit.listserv.sos-data or send a message to listserv@unc.edu: "subscribe sos-data ". Public Opinion Research (POR): send a message to listserv@unc.edu: "subscribe por ". Socgrads: send a message to listserv@ucsd.edu "sub socgrad". http://www.qub.ac.uk/socsci/miller/newslpro.html: Newsletter of the European Sociological Association: send a message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk "join european-sociologist ". http://haas.berkeley.edu/~seidel/ad.html: OIC - the Organizational Issues Clearinghouse: send a message to listproc@ursus.jun.alaska.edu "subscribe oic ". From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 23 14:46:39 1995 From: "Julian B. Dierkes" Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 17:33:47 EST To: jdierkes@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: internet sociology resources oops, i forgot to include a plug for our own web-site with my earlier list: www.princeton.edu:80/~sociolog cheers, julian ** ** * **** ***** ******* ********* *********** ************** ***************** ********************** *************************** *********************************** ******************************************************* **********jdierkes@princeton.edu**************jdierkes@eworld.com******** ******************http://www.princeton.edu:80/~jdierkes****************** ****graduate student****dept. of sociology****princeton university******* From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 23 16:22:02 1995 From: CBROWN@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 17:47:02 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: School rankings Socgraders: I have received quite a few requests for "rankings," so I thought it would be beneficial to go ahead and list them. The following are the U.S. News Rankings as reported in November/December 1992 issue of "Change." Rank Instituition 1 Wisconsin/Madison 2 Chicago 3 California/Berkeley 3 Michigan/Ann Arbor 5 North Carolina/Chapel Hill 6 Harvard 6 Stanford 6 UCLA 9 Indiana/Bloomington 10 Northwestern 11 Columbia 11 Washington, University of (Seattle) 13 Arizona 13 Pennsylvania 15 Texas/Austin 16 Cornell 16 Johns Hopkins 16 Princeton 19 Duke 19 Illinois/Urbana-Champaign 19 Minnesota/Twin Cities 19 Stony Brook, SUNY at 23 Ohio State 24 Albany, SUNY at 24 California/Santa Barbara 24 Penn State/University Park 24 Vanderbilt 24 Yale 29 Iowa 29 Maryland/College Park 29 Massachusetts/Amherst 32 Brown 32 California/Davis 32 New School for Social Research 36 California/San Diego 36 CUNY Graduate School 36 Florida State 36 New York University 36 Virginia 36 Washington State 42 California/Riverside 42 Illinois/Chicago 42 Southern California 45 Binghamton, SUNY at 45 Brandeis 45 Emory 45 Florida 45 Michigan State 45 Notre Dame 45 Pittsburgh 52 California/Irvine 52 Georgia 52 Kansas 52 Purdue/West Lafayette 56 Boston College 56 Boston University 56 California/Santa Cruz 56 Oregon 60 Arizona State 60 Buffalo, Suny at 60 Connecticut 60 Iowa State 60 Missouri/Columbia 60 Syarcuse 60 Texas A&M/College Station 68 Delaware 68 Nebraska/Lincoln 68 North Carolina State 68 Temple 72 California/San Francisco 72 Kentucky 72 Louisiana State 72 Virginia Tech 76 New Hampshire 77 Fordham 77 New Mexico 77 Northeastern 77 Oklahoma 77 Tennessee/Knoxville 82 George Washington 82 Hawaii/Manoa 82 Loyola (Chicago) 82 Utah 82 Wayne State 87 American 87 Bowling Green State 87 Brigham Young 87 Cincinnati 87 Kent State 87 Southern Illinois/Carbondale 93 Akron 93 Catholic 93 Howard 93 Kansas State 97 Colorado/Denver 97 Colorado State 97 Oklahoma State 97 Utah State 97 Western Michigan 102 St. Johns (New York) 103 Mississippi State 103 North Texas 105 Washington University (St. Louis) 106 South Dakota State This was all the schools ranked. Have fun...... Chuck- From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 24 19:33:09 1995 Fri, 24 Mar 1995 19:26:43 -0800 for Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 19:26:42 -0800 From: Laura Miller To: socgrad@mail.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 Sat Mar 25 05:15:51 1995 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 95 7:13:36 CST From: alina oh To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: a thank you a thank you to the fellow sociologists who sent helpful suggestions and kind gestures. I realize now that I should have taeken a moment to ask one of my colleagues here rather than post to the list. best regards to all, Alina From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 25 06:36:14 1995 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 09:34:23 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Social Science Computing Manager (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:54:13 +0000 From: Barry Lewis Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Social Science Computing Manager The position described below is an excellent opportunity for a social scientist with good technical and management skills. I hope we see from applications from some of the subscribers to this list. Barry Lewis **************************************************************************** ********* > >>Date: 24 Mar 1995 15:34:46 CST >>X-Ph: V4.4@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu >>From: "Joan Alster" >>To: "OCCSS Oversite Committee" >>Subject: Position Announcement for Mgr. of Services for OCCSS >>Sender: occss-ov-owner@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu >>Precedence: bulk >> >> >> Manager of Services >> Office of Computing and Communications for the Social Sciences >> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >> >>The Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO) at the >>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in conjunction with the >>College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, seeks to hire a Manager of >>Services for the Office of Computing and Communications for the >>Social Sciences (OCCSS). >> >>OCCSS provides computing facilities and services that emphasize >>support of teaching and research in the social sciences. These facilities >>and services are also heavily used by the entire University community. >>Employing a mix of full-time staff and graduate assistants, OCCSS >>provides general statistical and computing consulting, consulting on >>mapping and graphics applications, instructional support for a number >>of social science courses, data archival services, and a specialized >>consulting service for the humanistic disciplines. >> >>CCSO seeks a mature, innovative, highly-motivated individual who can >>lead the group and also forge supportive relationships with University >>faculty and staff. The Manager of Services for OCCSS will: >> >> 1. Supervise overall operations and services for OCCSS, including >> consulting, data archival services, and laboratory/classroom >> operations. >> >> 2. Serve as primary CCSO liaison to the OCCSS Oversight Committee, >> to the primary departments served by OCCSS, and to other campus >> units. In addition, serve as coordinator of campus-wide services >> based in OCCSS, as well as develop appropriate new services as >> need or opportunities arise. >> >> 3. Manage a staff of full-time employees, graduate assistants, and >> clerical staff. >> >>The successful candidate for this position must have a Bachelor's degree >>and at least two years' relevant experience. A Master's degree and at >>least five years' experience is strongly preferred. The person should >>have a strong educational background in statistics with related work >>experience in data analysis and management, statistical consulting, >>etc. Experience working with social science data and applications is >>preferred. Knowledge of SPSS and SAS and their operations on multiple >>platforms is essential. Familiarity with graphics, mapping, and other >>computer applications is desirable. Experience with hardware and >>software installations in a multi-platform networked environment >>will be an important asset for this position. The successful candidate >>will possess excellent communication and organizational skills and a >>demonstrated ability to coordinate and collaborate effectively with >>people in varying types of positions such as faculty, students, and >>clerical support staff. The person must have demonstrated leadership >>skills and a proven ability to coordinate and collaborate effectively >>with technical support staff in specifying and implementing services >>infrastructure. >> >>Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Starting >>date is as soon as possible after close of the search. >> >>In order to ensure full consideration, applications must be received by >>April 24, 1995. Send applications to Joyce McCabe, University of >>Illinois, 1120 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 West Springfield >>Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Phone: (217) 333-8794. >> >>The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity >>Employer. >> >> >> > *********************************************************************** R. Barry Lewis office: 217-244-3501 Associate Professor fax: 217-244-3490 Dept of Anthropology University of Illinois 109 Davenport Hall 607 S. Mathews St., MC-148 Urbana, IL 61801 e-mail: blewis@uiuc.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 25 09:10:17 1995 From: aml_per@PAVO.Concordia.CA by VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA (PMDF V4.3-13 #6917) id <01HOJWFZYYOW00XMIZ@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA>; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 12:09:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 12:10:29 -0500 Subject: unsub To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU unsub socgrad From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 25 11:57:34 1995 From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: wiggle room To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Sat, 25 Mar 95 13:55:03 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Does anyone remember who wrote about "wiggle room"? Thanks! Jean (jczer@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 25 12:16:52 1995 From: JGGSO@jazz.ucc.uno.edu Date: 25 Mar 1995 14:15:03 -0600 (CST) Subject: Status Inconsistency To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Anyone out there no of any recent literature dealing with Status Inconsistency. I am writing my MA thesis on this and Hypertension. Please give any suggestions that may be interesting or relevant. Thanks Justine Gueno Jggso@uno.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 25 16:36:38 1995 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 95 00:40:36 +0100 From: panther!jaguar!ingua@relay.iunet.it (Fr. Joe Inguanez) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: MA & PHD IS ANY ONE INTERESTED IN READING FOR AN MA OR PHD IN SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MALTA: IF YES MAIL A SHORT TO TO DR JOE INGUANEZ ON E-MAIL ingua@unimt.mt together with your postal address and you will receive all necessary information. NB OUR MA & PhD ARE RESEARCH DEGREES Dr Joe Inguanez Head, Dept of Sociology From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sat Mar 25 19:19:58 1995 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 22:05:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Jaimie A. Carboy" To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU unsub socgrad From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 26 16:29:33 1995 From: KINRABE@UWYO.EDU id <01HOLLUH23R4008N4Q@ROPER.UWYO.EDU>; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 17:28:34 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 17:28:42 -0700 (MST) Subject: Thanks for UU info To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Much thanks to all who responded to my request for info about U of Utah and school rankings generally. It was very helpful. I do have another curious question. I heard a rumor that Salt Lake City itself may carry a prejudice against non-whites or mixed couples. My wife is a native to do with it? Officially, that religion has no racist doctrine. What does e also wondering if there is any demand there for instructors of the Japanese language (maybe even demand from Mormon missionaries going to Japan?). I also heard there's Japanese companies in Salt Lake. Anybody know anything about the job market in SLC for any of these areas? Anyway, if you're interested in giving me your wisdom on any of these questions, please send me a message on here or to kinrabe@uwyo.edu Thanks again! Brian From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 27 06:09:47 1995 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 08:42:39 EST From: "C.A. Overdevest" Subject: School rankings To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Does the school ranking list sent out reflect a ranking by sociology departments? Does anyone know what criteria were used to rank schools? From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 27 06:59:12 1995 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 08:52:01 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Gibbons Subject: skool rankings To: socgrad are school rankings really worthwhile, or do they simply illustrate (rather well) that we haven't learned anything in all these soc classes we're taking? we ought to know, with all this training in social systems that the snootiest schools will give us the best education, or at least the best job prospects and that there is little to be learned from the "underclass" of schools. reminds of the time a med school prospective told me that i ought to know from sociology that you pay the most important people in society best, and that doctors therefore deserve the best salaries. i laughed. but when i look at our own discipline and look at the hiring, firing, and admissions criteria we use, i have to laugh at our hidden functionalism, especially considering that if anyone should be able to see through such transparent games, we would. aparently not. michael From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 27 13:29:24 1995 From: KINRABE@UWYO.EDU id <01HOMTRSZR6O000AYH@ROPER.UWYO.EDU>; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:26:17 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:26:18 -0700 (MST) Subject: correction of last message To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Sorry folks, I inadvertantly erased a few lines making my last message quite hard to follow. I was asking if anyone knows of any racial prejudice in Salt Lake City, and if this has anything to do with the religious tendency of the place (mormonism). I don't know myself, and have just heard rumors. Since I may be living there with my wife (a native of Japan), I'm naturally concerned. I was also asking if there is any demand in Salt Lake for teachers of Japanese language, or if there are any Japanese companies there that might employ Japanese people. Sorry the last message was confusing -- that'll teach me to always use the mail editor. Thanks again! Brian kinrabe@uwyo.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 27 17:46:21 1995 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 20:43:56 EST From: "Alan G. Davidson" Subject: Utah To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU I do know that a comparatively Conservative colleague (at least Conservative as Sociologists go) did have problems teaching "liberal" issues at a state University in Utah, and actually found church-affiliated schools in the Midwest more to his liking. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 29 08:31:50 1995 Wed, 29 Mar 1995 07:16:03 -0800 for Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:10:41 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: 1996 PSA meeting call for roundtable session organizers (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion FYI from alt.sci.sociology 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 ---------- From: kaufman@cwu.edu (DAVID KAUFMAN/SOCIOLOGY) Subject: 1996 PSA meeting call for roundtable session organizers Date: 28 Mar 1995 01:49:07 GMT This is a call for roundtable session organizers for the 1996 Pacific Sociological Association meetings in Seattle, WA. Please submit your suggestion(s) for roundtable sessions to Professor David E. Kaufman at Kaufman@CWU.EDU by April 12, 1996. Include your name, telephone number and e-mail address with your submission. Please forward this announcement to others. Thank you. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 29 08:32:01 1995 Wed, 29 Mar 1995 07:34:56 -0800 for Date: 29 Mar 1995 09:24:07 CST From: To: Subject: Job Announcement I thought I would post and offer my assistance to any applying for this position. I work as a graduate assistant consultant in this office, OCCSS, but I am not applying for the position. If anyone has any questions, feel free to email me and I'll get back to you. Dave Hunt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign davehunt@uiuc.edu From: James Cassell Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Social Science Computing Manager (fwd) From: Barry Lewis Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Social Science Computing Manager The position described below is an excellent opportunity for a social scientist with good technical and management skills. I hope we see from applications from some of the subscribers to this list. Barry Lewis **************************************************************************** ********* > >>Date: 24 Mar 1995 15:34:46 CST >>X-Ph: V4.4@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu >>From: "Joan Alster" >>To: "OCCSS Oversite Committee" >>Subject: Position Announcement for Mgr. of Services for OCCSS >>Sender: occss-ov-owner@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu >>Precedence: bulk >> >> >> Manager of Services >> Office of Computing and Communications for the Social Sciences >> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >> >>The Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO) at the >>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in conjunction with the >>College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, seeks to hire a Manager of >>Services for the Office of Computing and Communications for the >>Social Sciences (OCCSS). >> >>OCCSS provides computing facilities and services that emphasize >>support of teaching and research in the social sciences. These facilities >>and services are also heavily used by the entire University community. >>Employing a mix of full-time staff and graduate assistants, OCCSS >>provides general statistical and computing consulting, consulting on >>mapping and graphics applications, instructional support for a number >>of social science courses, data archival services, and a specialized >>consulting service for the humanistic disciplines. >> >>CCSO seeks a mature, innovative, highly-motivated individual who can >>lead the group and also forge supportive relationships with University >>faculty and staff. The Manager of Services for OCCSS will: >> >> 1. Supervise overall operations and services for OCCSS, including >> consulting, data archival services, and laboratory/classroom >> operations. >> >> 2. Serve as primary CCSO liaison to the OCCSS Oversight Committee, >> to the primary departments served by OCCSS, and to other campus >> units. In addition, serve as coordinator of campus-wide services >> based in OCCSS, as well as develop appropriate new services as >> need or opportunities arise. >> >> 3. Manage a staff of full-time employees, graduate assistants, and >> clerical staff. >> >>The successful candidate for this position must have a Bachelor's degree >>and at least two years' relevant experience. A Master's degree and at >>least five years' experience is strongly preferred. The person should >>have a strong educational background in statistics with related work >>experience in data analysis and management, statistical consulting, >>etc. Experience working with social science data and applications is >>preferred. Knowledge of SPSS and SAS and their operations on multiple >>platforms is essential. Familiarity with graphics, mapping, and other >>computer applications is desirable. Experience with hardware and >>software installations in a multi-platform networked environment >>will be an important asset for this position. The successful candidate >>will possess excellent communication and organizational skills and a >>demonstrated ability to coordinate and collaborate effectively with >>people in varying types of positions such as faculty, students, and >>clerical support staff. The person must have demonstrated leadership >>skills and a proven ability to coordinate and collaborate effectively >>with technical support staff in specifying and implementing services >>infrastructure. >> >>Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Starting >>date is as soon as possible after close of the search. >> >>In order to ensure full consideration, applications must be received by >>April 24, 1995. Send applications to Joyce McCabe, University of >>Illinois, 1120 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 West Springfield >>Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Phone: (217) 333-8794. >> >>The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity >>Employer. >> >> >> > *********************************************************************** R. Barry Lewis office: 217-244-3501 Associate Professor fax: 217-244-3490 Dept of Anthropology University of Illinois 109 Davenport Hall 607 S. Mathews St., MC-148 Urbana, IL 61801 e-mail: blewis@uiuc.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 29 09:28:29 1995 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 12:13 EST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: UHOBBIT@irishmvs.cc.nd.edu Subject: North Central Soc. Ass. and Graduate Student Needs My name is Dave Brunsma, I have just been appointed to serve one year as graduate mstudent representative for the North Central Socilogical Association. I am very interested in graduate student concerns all throughout the grad. student "life" and am asking any of you out there is e-land to give me some feedback about what grad. student concerns are, specifically related to how conference experiences have been for you all. I want to target graduate student concerns in the hopes that the 1996 NCSA meetings can be more beneficial to those of you whom this region serves. Therefore, I urge you to respond to me about session ideas of interest to grad students, session ideas which the NCSA has lacked in the past which might be of interest, special roundtables, speakers, topics of concern to graduate students - possibly even small workshop-like portions of the meetings which are directed towards graduate student needs (i.e., preparing a CV, proposals, grant writing, dissertation/masters issues ) really anything that may help make the NCSA (1996) meetings better for all who attend as well as the possibility that conferences in genral might be made more conducive for the graduate student. Thanks. Oh yeah, Dave Brunsma IS a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 29 09:32:51 1995 From: j_young@VENUS.TWU.EDU Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:16:52 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Dramaturgical Analysis This is No. 21 in a Series of Mini-Lectures sponsored in part by The Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology and by Texas Woman's University. This lecture is dedicated to Mindy Ephraim, graduate student at University of North Texas, Denton, who missed the lecture last Monday night to respond to an illness in her family. THE DRAMATURGICAL SOCIETY: THE WORK OF ERVING GOFFMAN A. While post-structural critique was developing in France, there was an American sociologist who developed his own line of analysis about the ways in which images, stagings, performances, impressions, frauds, cons, and 'betrayals' were involved in the production of everyday life. Erving Goffman, in a wide ranging series of books laid out the techniques and tactics by which the people he observed used the accouterments from the world of theatre in order to construct the dramaturgical impressions they wanted 'to give off' and to have other persons take. When Goffman's works first came out, the reviews were decidely unfriendly. There were two major lines of criticism which were leveled at the work in the reviews and in books about sociology itself. First there were criticisms from the more established sociologists who complained that the world Goffman described was far too cynical, far too conniving, and far too much a function of personal will and intent. People do not 'stage' their social life world, rather they live it in innocence and naivete according to those who liked structural analysis which reduce people to the mere embodiment of the social forms into which they had been born and socialized. Then too, on the left, there was the criticism that Goffman had depoliticized social interaction by ignoring the structures of power, status and class inequality which greatly affected the ability of people to stage- manage the sociology of it all. In 1970, Gouldner wrote at length, in 'The Coming Crisis of American Sociology' that Goffman had trivialized the sociological project by his concentration on tactics while ignoring the reasons why people were reduced to such inauthentic presentations. A year or two later, I wrote an article for The American Sociologist in which I said that Goffman, Gouldner and Garfinkel constituted, together, a rich underlife in American sociology which should be sustained and carefully considered...that, in my opinion, Goffman was talking about a social process coming to birth while Durkheim, Mead, Cooley were talking about the kinds of social forms in the past or found only in the safe and responsive world of the middle class academic. We now see these sociologists as pre-cursors and collateral embodiments of postmodern sensibility. B. The work and world of Goffman. There are five books by Goffman which are worth the time of the grad student. They are: 1. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [Anchor Books] in which Goffman discusses the arts of impression management. His is a world in which theatre is not so much a metaphor for the analysis of social life but, rather, a model for how to do social life. All of the elements of theatre are found, variously, in his works: scripts, actors, directors, performances, audiences, editors, enactments, rehearsals, front and back stage regions as well as re- writes and critical comment. 2. His book on Encounters [Bobbs-Merrill] uses a game model to discuss everyday social activity. He also spends some time on the sociology of 'role distance' and role distancing activity...there is an implicit critique built into this work which is easy to miss...why should people make an effort to give off the impression of distance from any role if they have been well socialized to it and have had an associated social identity built deeply into the self system via socialization and rites of passage? The answer is that Goffman was describing a world coming to birth in which the sociology of it all was too frail and flimsey a base for the self system. Mass sports, mass entertainment, mass education, mass marketing, mass medicine and mass politics organized in bureucratic format were and are too thin and temporary an involvement for a whole person to use as anchor for the social self. Small wonder traditional symbolic interactionists viewed G. with suspicion...mind, self and society are not twin-born in his books...yet Mead had told us that they were and Mead was 'the' authority on social psychology. 3. I used his book on Behavior in Public Places [Free Press] for years in my courses on social psychology. It has a rich inventory of concepts to which student relate readily in doing field research and in development of their sociological imagination. A veritable treasure-trove of concepts with which to explicate the ways in which unknown others can approach another person and engage the symbolization process for weal or for woe. Most social psych deals with interaction between known and significant others...it is Goffman's particular genius that he greatly expands social psych to embrace a new realm of social behavior...one that did not exist in small towns, villages, and shops of a more innocent era. 4. Asylums is, arguably, Goffman's most consciously political work. Twice in its pages, he notes that he is not taking the point of view of the officially given social life world as normative...indeed, he speaks from the point of view of the prisoner, the inmate, the patient and the soldier. His sociology of total institutions is not as historical nor as pointedly prop- ositional as the really excellent parallel work of Foucault. There is a theory of the underlife of institutions buried in this book which I extracted in a paper entitled, Underground Structures in the Democratic State. 5. Stigma is again a book which gives a marginal group a voice. G. looks at the process by which stigmatization occurs and how it 'spoils' the presentation of self in everyday life. After reading that one, I wrote a paper entitled, 'The Black Muslims: A strategy for the Management of a Spoiled Identity.' The identities available for Afro-American people to present in public places had been spoiled by racism...nigger, coon, jungle bunny, and such. In order to ground the social self on a much firmer, much more dignified social base, many Black Americans turned to Islam. B. The Social Uses of Dramaturgy Goffman's work stimulated me to think about the uses of dramaturgy in history...some place I have made the point that, for most of human history, dramaturgy was used either in the dramas of the Holy in order to sanctify social relationships and social groups or in politics to celebrate kings, princes, nations and states. There have been two major turning points in the social use of theatre...before Shakespeare, most plays were morality plays in which good and evil were made visible and in which good triumphed. Shakespeare uses theatre in quite a different way...his plays show royalty as frail, vulnerable, indecisive, conniving, conspiring, murderous and venal. Hamlet knows his uncle murdered his father and does nothing about it...he dithers and whines the whole play through. In the Tempest, Shakespeare mocks both God and the believer...while he venerates Science and the man of Resaon. In the Merchant of Venice and in Lear, women are given a voice which speaks loudly and clearly. Here is no celebration of feudalism or even capitalism but rather a critique of both. In Timon of Athens, Shakespeare has a wonderful poem about gold...yellow precious, glittering gold...which gives title, knee and honor to the scroundrel...which makes the wappened widow wed again...which plucks the pillow from beneath the head of stout fellows... which refreshes the hoar leper to the April Day...such an indictment of pecuniary values is matched only by, perhaps, Thorstein Veblen. Marx quoted S. often and read him assiduously [while Lenin read Balzac to get a fix on the middle classes]. Berthold Brecht offers another turning point in theatre; he tries to erase the midline between make-believe and just pretend, on the one side, and seriously intented social performances on the other...B.B. wants the audience to take outrage at the dynamics unfolding in the play and to take that rage into the street and do battle with it against oppression. In 'The Resistible Rise of Auturo Ui, Brecht has people seated in the audience in order to re-unite theatre and social life...the play itself is a thinly disguised attack on Hitler and the thugs in Nazi Germany. Three Penny Opera offers no character into whose persona the viewing audience can be innocently inserted. It is Woody Allen's peculiar genius that he doesn't give the audience a hero from whose point of view action can be validated. One can identify with John Wayne, Jimmy Steward, Clark Gable or John Garfield...one cannot identify with the weak, frail, sneaky and cowardly characters found in Woody Allen's movies...indeed, the wise and wonderful Norm Denzin, U/Illinois, has called Woody Allen, a Prophet of Postmodern Cinema. After hearing Norm's lecture at TCU three years ago, I rented every Allen flick I could find and assured myself that Denzin knew whatof he spoke. C. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DRAMATURGY It has been my central job to locate Goffman and Dramaturgical Analysis within the larger social and historical context in which they make sense. I made several points last Monday night in our seminar: 1. For most of human history swindles, cons, frauds, poseurs and dramaturgical impresssions of honest agency, of sincerity and of belief was a cottage industry in which one person or a small team of persons artfully connived the dramaturgical impression with which to fool and fleece the innocent. Now, the technology of artful impressions is a multi-billion dollar industry in which whole teams of skilled technicians are hired to create the dramaturgical impression of greatness, of agency, of sincerity, of authenticity. 2. I pointed to the development of five technologies with which such an industry produces dramaturgy as a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder. a. Sociology and social research provides data on that which people think, want, desire, and despise. b. Psychology offers information about those neuroses, values, beliefs, needs and anxieties which can serve as an envelope with which to create desire for commodities candidates alike. c. Hollywood and cinematography offer the technical means for insertion of masses of people into a belief system, a value system, a hate system or a 'knowledge' system. d. Electronics and the technology of radio and television offer the speed of electronic and the range of electro- magnetic transmissions of such dramaturgies. e. Madison Avenue and the modern university provide the skill, knowledge, art, and craft with which to commodify drama. 3. Then I said that advanced monopoly capitalism has two serious problems both of which can be resolved, at least temporarily, by recourse to dramaturgy. a. 'Surplus production and the realization problem' In order to get labor costs down and production up, there is a built in drive in capitalism to improve the means of production: machinery, automation, mass production all drive down labor costs per unit item. Since workers do not earn 100% of the value of the wealth they produce, they cannot buy 100% back...hence surplus production. In order to realize profit, the capitalist must create desire among those who do have discretionary income. Advertizing and the commodification of drama can solve this problem by creating 'demand'...that it, by treating desire as something that must be satisfied and can be satisfied by owning/using a product. [Actually, there are several solutions to the problem of demand War destroys and renews demand; property crime renews demand; Welfare redistributes and renews demand for some kinds of goods new inventions stimulate demand but it is the convincing image of utility in magazines, on radio, in television and bill boards which create mass demand. b. The Legitimacy Problem. In mass democracies in which candidates are sponsored by those who have wealth, and in which the promises of democracy are yet to be realized, political leaders can hire skilled dramatists from Madison Avenue to coach them on how to dramatize authentic agency. In universities which are oriented to pecuniary values [Theresa Morris, a grad student, gave a fine paper last week on this point which I used in the lecture...don't know where she is], several things happen which undermine the knowledge process. Administrators uses sports and nobel laureates as a way to create the dramaturgical semblence of greatness. When huge corporations commit huge crimes, they can use drama turgy to create an entirely respectable image. When the sociology of it all becomes too fragile to bear the weight of an estimable self system, one can turn to profession als and purchase a new self...there are thousands of new firms which offer exercize machinery, cosmetics, clothing, slimming voice lessons and such with which to create one's own self. It is in this socio-political context that both Goffman and postmodern society emerge...I want to conclude the lecture by making two points: 1. Most of the time in most societies, innocent and honest presentations are still the norm...it is a small layer in a few societies in which such cynical use of dramaturgy is appropriate...but as Stanford Lyman said in his keynote address to SSSA last week, it is another rough beast, it's time come round at last, marching toward Bethlehem to be born...so take care. 2. It is my firm and considered view that the human project can benefit greatly from all three knowledge processes: a. Pre-modern thought with its emphasis upon belief, faith, trust, hope and prophecies remain the deep rich core of all social interactions; all distinctly social relationships; all the really rewarding forms of social life in which we are engaged...including education. b. Modern thought and rational thinking has given us great treasures in agriculture, transportation, communication, health and the knowledge process itself...it is precious to the human condition c. Postmodernity is the beginning of the end of innocence and also the beginning of responsibility for the good and evil we do...no longer can we blame God and/or Nature for the many forms of social life we erect and in which we must perforce live out our lives...most of the division of labor is a social division: race, gender, class and ethnicity...the technical division of labor is all too much praised...there are better ways to produce and better ways to consume all goods and services including dramaturgy...postmodernity insists we are responsible for the theories and the technologies we create. So be it. T.R. Young From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 29 17:28:05 1995 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 17:26:27 -0800 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: lichter@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu (Michael I. Lichter) Subject: Symposium: Sociology of Science, 4/19 For those in the L.A. area ... others please excuse ... P.S. "EPOS" stands for "Ethnomethodology, Phenomenology, and Observational Sociology" if I remember correctly. --- begin forwarded text From: "Pollner, Melvin SOCIO" Subject: Symposium: Sociology of Science, 4/19 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 16:33:00 PST Department of Sociology (EPOS) presents a symposium Social Studies of Science: Problems and Prospects Wednesday, April 19th 10:00-12:00 (Haines 252) Issues in the Social Studies of Science Presentations by: Michael Lynch (Brunel University) Art and Artifact in Laboratory Sc ience Routledge, 1985; Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action Cambridge 1993. Andrew Pickering (Illinois) Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics Chicago, 1986; (editor) Science as Practice and Culture, Chicago, 1992. --------*-------- 1:30 -3:30 (Room TBA) Whither Social Studies of Science? Panelist's comments followed by open discussion. Martin Krieger (USC) Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World, Indiana, 1988. Michael Lynch (Brunel University) Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science, Routledge, 1985; Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action, Cambridge, 1993. Andrew Pickering (Illinois) Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of P article Physics, Chicago, 1986; (editor) Science as Practice and Culture, Chicago, 1992. Steven Shapin (UCSD) A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth Century England, Chicago, 1994. Sharon Traweek (UCLA) Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physics, Harvard, 1988. (310) 825-1517 for additional information ------- --- end forwarded text -- Michael Lichter UCLA Department of Sociology From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 30 12:22:17 1995 From: christine torgerson Subject: Forwarded mail... To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 15:14:53 -0500 (EST) This should give y'all a bit of lead in time..feel free to post this somewhere else. Christine Forwarded message: > > Politics and Family Policy > > Results from the 1994 mid-term election suggested that new family > policy initiatives and modifications of past legislation would be different > than if the Democrats had remained in control of Congress. Persons are > invited to submit articles for a special number of the Journal of Family > Issues. It will be devoted to a consideration of how party politics affect > the formation of family policy both at the initiation and the > implementation levels. Historical as well as contemporary studies of this > topic from a variety of perspectives are invited. Topics of interest > include a consideration of the process whereby bills incorporating family > policy are developed, come to the floor of legislative bodies and are > finally passed as affected by election results, electoral coalitions, party > platforms and interest groups. The way laws are modified due to political > considerations in their administration within governmental bureaus at > various levels is another relevant area. Papers should be sent to Joan > Aldous, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN > 46556 by March 1, 1996. > > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 30 13:22:08 1995 (PMDF V4.3-10 #7331) id <01HOR3NHFGNK9X49JF@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:12:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:12:24 -0500 (EST) From: SCOTT BLAKE Subject: Politics (Don't read if not interested) To: rockers@medisg.stanford.edu, socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hi folks. I attended an anti-"contract with America" rally yesterday and was struck by the discourse of the thing. Are we (the left) really trying to convince people that throwing good money after bad is the right thing to do? The rhetoric at the rally focused on maintaining the "gains" we have made. And on not casting people loose. In principle, I agree; however, the argument seems to be predicated on the notion that people are being hornswoggled by Newt &Co. (tm). Somehow, the people who voted for them were not thinking clearly, were not aware of what they were doing. Huh? It seems to me that of the people who voted, the majority voted to keep their money where they think it belongs -- in their wallets. Rather than putting the blame on declining real wages, people choose to blame the government As I see it, there are basically two options for the left(s) in this country: 1) Get mean. This seems to be the tack most are taking. Opposing anything and everything the reps propose without really admitting that there is a problem nor offering any solutions. If we don't want them to cut off the redistribution of wealth, we better come up with something that either addresses the classical economics argument that free markets are good, unconditionally. 2) Forget about the next two years and focus on 1996. The Reps won because they got their vote out. We may or may not have a vote to get out, bnut we certainly won't know unless we try. With turnouts so low in the US, a reletively small number of voters can make a big difference to the election. The republicans have the white man vote (excluding this white man, but whose counting?). The question becomes: Is there an emotional issue(s) that we can rally people around and get excited about. Somehow, saving welfare doesn't seem to be it. Thoughts? Criticisms? Flame me privately, please. Scott Blake From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 30 17:38:00 1995 From: CBROWN@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 19:29:34 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Berger & Kuhn Socgradders: Does anyone know of some good sources that would provide a synopsis and critique of (1) Berger and Luckmann's "The Social Construction of Reality," and (2) Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" If so, I would be interested in hearing from you.... Chuck- (cbrown@siucvmb.siu.edu) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 31 06:24:26 1995 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 09:23 EST From: "Frank D. Beck" Subject: Grad programs To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hi folks, A fellow grad student is looking to move on to another Ph.D. program this fall. He wants a program more focused on social movements and social psychology. Corwin has been accepted at Arizona, Minnesota, and Ohio State. His masters thesis deals with the animal rights movement--something similar for the dissertation I'm sure. So, what do you folks think? Which of these programs is more social psych and which is more social movements? Are their some pluses and minuses that Corwin should know about. Send responses to my address (FDB1@psuvm.psu.edu) or to the list itself. I'll pass them on. Peace, Frank