From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 1 06:39:40 1995 Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:30:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Carla M Eastis To: D.W.Weatherston@newcastle.ac.uk Subject: Re: wanted info. militias I would also suggest a run through social movements/collective action sources, since most of the media coverage seems to be using academics who are involved in this area. Reporters have been quick, and in my opinion not at all wrong, to discuss the militias as of a piece with white supremacist organizations, millenial cults, and similar phenomenon. I don't know how much has been done academically, but there is a long trail of articles in *Time*, *Newsweek*, etc. Carla Eastis From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 1 07:15:32 1995 Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:12:35 -0500 From: "stefan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu" To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Washington people Hello everyone, I am looking for a summer sublet in Washington, D.C. From the last week of May until the end of August. Thanks, Stefan Timmermans Stefan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 1 08:34:17 1995 From: "Vincent J. Roscigno" To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 11:30:55 EST Subject: AHS meeting X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Vincent J. Roscigno" Below is a call for participation for a meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology this fall. Last year I attended these meetings and found them to be fun and exciting --- quite honestly, characteristics I sometimes find lacking at national and regional meetings. Grad students I went with, including myself, were very much welcomed and included in activities and discussions --- thus, I'd encourage participation, especially if you live close by. I know they are also looking for some grad students to help out with local arrangements. If you want more info on any of this, you can ask me. Alternatively, you can contact the AHS president, Tom Arcaro, or the Program Chair, Steve McGuire, at there addresses list below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- annual conference of the ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANIST SOCIOLOGY October 26-29, 1995 Great Southern Hotel, Columbus, Ohio ******************************************************************* Reinventing Humanism: What is Humansit Sociology Anyway? A New Vision in the Nineties ******************************************************************* Imagine a recurring meeting of a group of progressives in a scholarly, communal atmoshere. Faces become familiar rather quickly. Newcomers who chose to meet new colleagues or continue discussions after a session find themselves doing so readily. Presentations appear less dictated by career needs and more animated by involvement with the material. Speaker/Listener distance is minimal and the audience takes on the role of discussant. Alternative forms of presentation are welcome as are topics not on the theme. Presenters are asked not to read their reports. Participants? Some teach in liberal arts colleges, some work at research universities or two-year institutions, and some have left the academy for more applied settings. A sample of disciplines represented include criminal justice, social work, gerontology, and women's studies. Common thread? "We view people not as mere products of social forces, but also as shapers of social life, capable of creating social orders in which everyone's potential can unfold" may be the only characterization endorsed by all members. While most members prefer a certain latitude regarding generalizations, commonalities emerge. The politics are usually left of center, often activist. The disengaged scientist may be rare, but one continually encounters the serious, value-commited thinker. The conceptually sophisticated scholar is appreciated, but the pedantically inclined "theorist" finds her/his audience elsewhere. Send a proposal/abstract, plus your address and (if any) institutional affiliation to: Steve McGuire, Program Chair 1995 Sociology/Muskingum College New Concord, Ohio 43762 Phone: 614-826-8288; Fax: 614-826-8404 E-Mail: smcguire@muskingum.edu For more information contact: Tom Arcaro, President 1995 2182 Campus Box/Elon College Elon College, NC 27244 Phone: 910-584-2226; Fax: 910-538-2609 e-mail: arcaro@vax1.elon.edu ********************************************************************** Vinnie Roscigno Box 8107, Department of Sociology North Carolina State University Raleigh, N.C. 27695-8107 Vincent@server.sasw.ncsu.edu (919) 515-3143 ext. 65 ********************************************************************** From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 1 18:07:22 1995 From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: militias To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Mon, 1 May 95 20:03:21 CDT Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] ABC News' TV program *Nightline* has had some good coverage of militias, including of course lots of interviews. As you probably don't have access to this, you might try the April 29 issue of *The Economist*, which had decent, albeit too brief, coverage of militias. The militia are primarily made up of white, middle-class males living in a country with one of the lowest taxation rates of developed countries (sorry, don't have the stats on this one handy) and some of the greatest degree of official rights (e.g. the U.S. gov't cannot prevent someone from being broadcast, as the Brits prevented Gerry Adams so actors had to say his words [as I saw, to my surprise, when I was visiting England]). So why do they do it? A backlash against affirmative action programs, which are being re-examined and curtailed these days, anyway? According to *The Economist*, these groups really became popular only two years ago. Thus, I don't expect there's much academic literature on militia per se. The Economist also declares that while "Europe's wild right is xenophobic and eager to make mayhem," these militia groups feel "they have a duty to perform: to safeguard America from every conceivable threat to its liberty, especially the tyranny inherent in its own gov't." Most militia groups obviously (for public relations reasons) condemn the OK bombing. However, according to interviews with militia leaders on Nightline, their membership (at least membership inquiries) is increasing with all the publicity, even against their own expectations they'd lose lots of members and have to work to win them back. Funny-- I have the soundtrack to *Natural Born Killers* on as I type this. Pretty scary stuff. Then there was *Pulp Fiction*. But isn't that just random violence, unlike the directed violence of the militia, or is there some connection-- signs of a general dissatisfaction? Maybe it's just that different people find different scapegoats and different forms of catharsis. Some join militia, some vote in Republicans, some hold anti-Contract-With-America rallies, where police get to have some fun of their own, some just do random violence? Obviously I've descended to random rambling stage, so let me quit before it gets worse and maybe get some rest! Jean (jczer@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 1 20:06:19 1995 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 23:02 EDT From: "Jetaway Dave" Subject: Re: militias To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU >The militia are primarily made up of white, middle-class males living in a >country with one of the lowest taxation rates of developed countries (sorry, >don't have the stats on this one handy) and some of the greatest degree of >official rights (e.g. the U.S. gov't cannot prevent someone from being Since the query was about U.S. milita groups, the inclusion of 'lowest taxatio n ...' doesn't really add much to our store of knowledge. Yeah, they are white. Middle-class, mostly not. Working class, ex-working class, raised to be working class and unable to find work, is what most are. Males? Behind these males stand 'a good woman.' Just being inclusive. >So why do they do it? A backlash against affirmative action programs, which >are being re-examined and curtailed these days, anyway? According to *The Same old - xenophobic, racist, anti-semitic, groups have appeared many times in the American past. The Great Depression was the last big wave, led by nativist groups who agitated for the expulsion of mexicans from the west and blacks from northern urban cities. The KKK in the rural south concurrent with the last hiccups of planatation mentality. The Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1860s, prompted by Western U.S. agitation during a depression. Backlash against affirmative action? No, no, there was no affirmative action in the 1930s, 1910's, 1880s, 1860s, etc. Germany in the 1920s? Economic desperation. Restructuring. Transformations. Accumulation regime shifts. Whatever. [According to the: >Economist*, these groups really became popular only two years ago. The Economist is clueless. >Thus, I don't expect there's much academic literature on militia per se. The >Economist also declares that while "Europe's wild right is xenophobic and >eager to make mayhem," these militia groups feel "they have a duty to perform: >to safeguard America from every conceivable threat to its liberty, especially >the tyranny inherent in its own gov't." That's a very nice way of putting it. Jetaway Dave From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 1 21:46:49 1995 Date: Tue, 02 May 95 00:21:17 EDT From: Marni Hancock Organization: Emory University - Atlanta, Georgia, USA Subject: MILITIAS To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU Hi y'all. I am surprised at some of the comments posted in regard to the overseas (?British?) request for information on the militias. They've been around for years--certainly for all of the Cold War years. A good many folks banded together during the mid-50s and throught the 60s to practice survivalist skills in preparation for the coming of Armageddon. Many of these folks prepared fortresses in isolated areas of the country where food a potable water could be stored in large quantities without fear of discovery. Then after the final nuclear war these folks would still be around to create a new and better society where they would be in charge. All of their supplies had to be accumulated and held in secret so their current acquaintances would not storm the gates to get what they had so carefully stored up after the war when the food shortages began. Some of the stuff those folks did looked like enough fun so that others have begun groups to do just those things. Thus, you have reserve military folks and former soldiers, marines, etc. who get together to have mock wars where all are armed with paint guns and if you get "shot" with the paint you are charged with an equivalent injury or with death. The side with the most fighters still alive at the end of the game wins. Basically the militia groups are full of people who have to have some place where they can feel smarter and stronger (and "righter"?) than everybody else. With those needs you generally also find moderate to large degrees of race and ethnic intolerance. These folks usually have a right wing political stance and extremely conservative religions if they are religious. They generally are not very gregarious and all of their close contacts could be considered armed and dangerous. Some of them try to make careers in the military or in law enforcement--but they seldom last long because they want to focus on their "right" to reform the world rather than the rights of others to live as they choose as long as they don't choose to harm others. There's a fair amount of literature available about them and for them if you get on the right mailing lists. Popular journals such as _Soldier of Fortune_ (I think) have "interesting" want ads if you want to know how these folk think (I don't). The fact that there hasn't been a lot of interest in academia about these groups doesn't mean they haven't been around and growing. Mostly it means they don't want "left wing commies" to know who or where they are when the big bang comes. If you'd like to talk some more about these groups, I'll collect some specific magazine names and locate the names of some groups (if I can) Marni Hancock socaw059@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 2 04:42:09 1995 Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 07:41:10 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell Subject: Special Issue of ASQ (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion FYI; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 16:29:35 EDT From: Mitchell Langbert Subject: Special Issue of ASQ A CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF ASQ: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL The Administrative Science Quarterly announces a special issue focused on emerging themes in the study of organizational control. It will be edited by John M. Jermier and Stephen R. Barley. Control has long been a central concept in organizational and administrative theory. Theorists and researchers have focused much attention on the efficacy of such conventional mechanisms for controlling the labor process as personal supervision and formal authority, automation and task simplification, and bureaucratic regulations. These mechanisms have also been the subject of most critical treatises written by humanists, ecologists, political economists, feminists, postmodernists, and others who would reform or radically transform organizations and societies. Although most organizations continue to take a conventional approach to control, the numerous technological changes, managerial innovations, and organizational experiments that are appearing raise interesting questions about possible new forms of organizational control. For instance, some analysts contend that many apparent transformations, hailed as paradigm- breaking or revolutionary, are merely managerial fads that have become popular largely because they promise more effective control. This category includes: charismatic corporate cultures; quality circles and other techniques for encouraging self-monitoring and self-disciplining work teams; the division of the labor force along the lines of gender, race and age in the name of diversity; flexible specialization; and other trendy practices that reverberate with issues of control. As another example, attention is being focused on the use of advanced technology for monitoring work (e.g., computers, video and audio devices),chemical testing, and conscious manipulations of architecture and sensory stimuli. Organizational and administrative theorists and their critics have only begun to examine these emerging phenomena. ASQ seeks theoretical and empirical papers that extend the frontiers of research on control in a variety of directions. As suggested above, we are especially interested in papers that critically examine conventional as well as more experimental systems for controlling the labor process. However, we encourage submissions from a broad range of traditions and substantive domains. To illustrate, we are open to papers: (1) that provide insight into struggles for control among various organizational stakeholders; (2) that address changes in patterns of corporate ownership, shareholder rights, and systems of control; (3) that examine links between organizational systems of control and the family, formal education, television and leisure, religion, or criminal justice; (4) that focus on forms of dissent and resistance to changing strategies of control as well as proactive initiatives aimed at asserting the rights of the less powerful; (5) that feature forms of organizing that radically redistribute control throughout the organization; and (6) that highlight the ecological and environmental implications of organizational control. ASQ considers qualitative and quantitative research equally desirable. Authors of any empirical paper should take care to show that they have adhered to appropriate standards of rigor and that their claims are consistent with their data. Empirical papers should be guided by theory or lead to theory. Theoretical papers should present a coherent and well-developed argument accessible to a broad audience and should indicate how empirical methods could be used to develop the thesis. Authors should be explicit about the critical tenets and frameworks they have used. Articles focusing primarily on the practical aspects of organizational control or that serve as a desideratum for a perspective are not appropriate for this issue. Authors should write papers with the "Notice to Contributors" that appears in each issue of ASQ in mind. Please send 6 copies of the manuscript along with a cover letter stating that you want your paper considered for this special issue to: Special Issue Editors, ASQ, 20 Thornwood Drive, Suite 100, Ithaca, New York, 14850. All papers will be evaluated by reviewers recruited for this issue using ASQ's standard blind-review process. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is March 1, 1996. Address questions to either: John M. Jermier, College of Business, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33620 (Email: Jermier@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu) or Stephen R. Barley, Stanford University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford, California, 94305 (Email: Sbarley@leland.stanford.edu) Stephen R. Barley Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management School of Engineering Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-4024 (415)-723-9477 Sbarley@leland.stanford.edu Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Business Dowling College Oakdale, New York 11769-1999 E-mail: Langberm@Admin1.Dowling.Edu Telephone: 516-244-3416 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 2 04:43:52 1995 Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 07:43:30 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell Subject: Re: Recruiting Economic-Demographic Modeler (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Here's a little more info about the job announcement I forwarded last week. The contact person is Shea Rutstein (rutstein@macroint.com). 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: Tue, 02 May 1995 10:36:30 +1000 From: Diana Crow To: demographic-list@postbox.anu.edu.au Subject: Re: Recruiting Economic-Demographic Modeler Dear Everyone, For those of you interested in the Economic-Demographic Modeler position posted to the list last week, I pass on the information sent by Shea. If you have any further questions please contact Shea directly at the contact given below. Diana Crow ________________________________________________________________________________ To all, The position will be headquartered in the Washington, DC area with short-term assignments in various LDCs. > > Recruiting Economic-Demographic Modeler > > International firm is seeking the services of an economist, > econometrician, or demographer to develop, maintain and application of > economic-demographic simulation models. Duties involve model > conceptualization, specification, participation in software > implementation in Windows-based operating system, adaptation to > specific country situations and application in less developed > countries. Please indicate interest or send resume to Shea Rutstein. > Shea Rutstein Phone: 301-572-0950 Fax: 301-572-0993 E-mail: rutstein@macroint.com ____________________________________________________________________________ _______ __________________________________ | | | Diana Crow | | Programmer, Demography RSSS, | | ANU | | | | Email: diana.crow@anu.edu.au | | Tel: (06) 2492313 | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | __________________________________ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 2 18:25:45 1995 From: BREKHUS@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 21:19:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Dave Barry on College and Sociology (fwd) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: IN%"WEBBJ6282@uni.edu" 2-MAY-1995 11:59:17.95 CC: Subj: Dave Barry on College Return-path: Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 09:55:07 -0600 From: WEBBJ6282@uni.edu Subject: Dave Barry on College Originator: psn@csf.colorado.edu X-Comment: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK At the end of this post is a brief commentary on SOCIOLOGY... "College" by DAVE BARRY Many of you young persons out there are seriously thinking about going to college. (That is, of course, a lie. The only things you young persons think seriously about are loud music and sex. Trust me: these are closely related to college.) College is basically a bunch of rooms where you sit for roughly two thousand hours and try to memorize things. The two thousand hours are spread out over four years; you spend the rest of the time sleeping and trying to get dates. Basically, you learn two kinds of things in college: * Things you will need to know in later life (two hours). These include how to make collect telephone calls and get beer and crepe-paper stains out of your pajamas. * Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours). These are the things you learn in classes whose names end in -ology, - - -osophy, -istry, -ics, and so on. The idea is, you memorize these things, then write them down in little exam books, then forget them. If you fail to forget them, you become a professor and have to stay in college for the rest of your life. It's very difficult to forget everything. For example, when I was in college, I had to memorize -- don't ask me why -- the names of three metaphysical poets other than John Donne. I have managed to forget one of them, but I still remember that the other two were named Vaughan and Crashaw. Sometimes, when I'm trying to remember=20 something important like whether my wife told me to get tuna packed in oil or tuna packed in water, Vaughan and Crashaw just pop up in my mind, right there in the supermarket. It's a terrible waste of brain cells After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed to choose a major, which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most things about. Here is a very important piece of advice: Be sure to choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers. This means you must *not* major in mathematics, physics, biology, or chemistry, because these subjects involve actual facts. If, for example, you major in mathematics, you're going to wander into class one day and the professor will say: "Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of a rhomboid binary axis, and extrapolate your result to five significant vertices." If you don't come up with *exactly* the answer the professor has in mind, you fail. The same is true of chemistry: if you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this. So you should major in subjects like English, philosophy, psychology, and sociology -- subjects in which nobody really understands what anybody else is talking about, and which involve virtually no actual facts. I attended classes in all these subjects, so I'll give you a quick overview of each: ENGLISH: This involves writing papers about long books you have read little snippets of just before class. Here is a tip on how to get good grades on your English papers: Never say anything about a book that anybody with any common sense would say. For example, suppose you are studying Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say that Moby-Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in *your* paper, *you* say Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby-Dick anyway, will think you are enormously creative. If you can regularly come up with lunatic interpretations of simple stories, you should major in English. PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding there is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch. You should major in philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs. PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists are *obsessed* with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then training my roommate to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. My roommate is now a doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all if you dream about rats, you should major in psychology. SOCIOLOGY: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of=20 sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you'll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a casual relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or 'crying,' behavior forms." If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get a large government grants. the end Return-path: Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:43:29 -0500 (CDT) From: "S. Grother" Subject: Summary of College Life (fwd) To: b grother From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 2 23:13:07 1995 From: KINRABE@UWYO.EDU id <01HQ1OP26XAO001N4U@ROPER.UWYO.EDU>; Wed, 03 May 1995 00:10:54 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 00:11:03 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Dave Barry on College and Sociology To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Oh, Dave Barry you are SO funny. HA! Ha! Ha. Forgive me, gentle readers. 50 million lemmings can't be wrong. Brian From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu May 4 18:51:29 1995 Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 17:31:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Amy Atkisson Subject: Re: Police Brutality and Racism in Cincinnati To: PATRICE DONNELLY In response to some comments that have been made regarding the use of excessive force in particular to the latest media viewing of the Cincinati incident, I must add some important information. First, let me start by saying that I, nor should this country, condone unlawful force exerted by police officers or anyone else, especially out of prejudice. However, let us not forget what police officers do for citizens everyday. Without being a police officer and dealing with situations everyday that can endanger one's life, it is difficult for many civilians to understand what is the proper procedure for detaining a suspect. Also, I too saw the videos from Cincinati, and while I would first agree that the force was certainly excessive, I am reluctant because I know the power the media has and how persuasive visual material can be. My example being that the claim earlier that this person arrested was being harrassed by the police officer is completely opposite from the story that I received about this man being arrested for a separate felony charge. This is not to say that the information the gentleman submitted earlier is not true, but that we must be weary of unconfirmed information. As far as the gentleman with the mental condition goes, that story is ludicrous. If a man is touring my neighborhood with a knife and doesn't understand when police officers tell him to put the weapon down three times, can we really expect officers not to defend themselves? Or what about the public? In fact, if YOU were faced with a man with a knife, would you call social services or the police first? I can tell you who I'd call. In any event, I would like to add some statistical FYI for those who do not deal with crime everyday like I do. Maybe after reading these statistics, you'll understand where I'm coming from.In 1993 alone, 66,975 officers were assaulted while on duty. Accounting for 1 out of every 3 assaults, more officers were assaulted while responding to disturbance calls (family quarrels, man with a gun, bar fights, etc). 24% of the assault victims were attempting arrests when assaulted. In addition to assaults, 70 law enforcement officers lost their lives last year. 29 lost their lives during actual arrest situations. My uncle was one of those officers in 1976. He was in pursuit of a suspect when he was killed. So while you sit at your computer terminal in your not so cozy office, please remember that there are many police officers out there right now protecting you and we owe them much more respect than for which we give them credit. Amy Atkisson Criminal Justice Information Specialist From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri May 5 08:50:03 1995 Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 10:47:06 -0500 From: MeeiShenn Tzeng To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: unsub From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun May 7 21:15:58 1995 From: j_young@VENUS.TWU.EDU Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 09:58:48 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Violence and the Sociology of Law From: TWU::J_YOUNG 3-MAY-1995 12:26:07.54 To: MX%"psn@csf.colorado.edu" CC: J_YOUNG Subj: Natural Law, Social Law and State Law NOTE: This is an analysis I posted on the Progressive Scholars Network last week. While most of the media and the politicians see the violence in Oklahoma City as psycho-pathology, I think it useful to see it as a renewal of the conflict between Natural Law, Social Scientific 'Laws' and State Law. The short version, embedded in the text below, is that those marginalized by changing economic realities, by changing gender relations and by the regressive taxation of the state turn to N-atural Law [read Deuteronomy]. White males who live on the margins of an very affluent society and who see state law as an enemy to status honor and social power in gender relations, find a lot to redeem status in racism and in patriarchy. It is very important to note that most people who set Natural Law as the standard and guide for themselves live peaceful and productive lives. The Amish, Hutterites, Hasidic Jews, Jehovah Witnesses and most Charismatic Catholics and evangelical Christians are very, very decent people. When I post the mini-lecture on nonlinear social dynamics and postmodern phil/sci, I will try to sort out why some few persons, mostly lower working class males, get involved in the few militant Right wing groups within the Christian Right. T.R.Young The analysis starts here: There is a lot going on in the social unrest that weaves and warps through the USA and, indeed in all countries around the globe...much of the ideology of the Right is dismissed as the ravings of 'madness' and as 'paranoia.' Such evaluations don't help much to respond to such events as the bombings in Oklahoma City and the other, less visible confrontations of the Right around this troubled land. Some of these claims are of great interest to the future of political life here and elsewhere. A. Natural Law...if one listens carefully, one can hear those on the right appeal to Natural Law in their rejection of State law [lower case 'l']. The claim is important to resistence and rebellion against state repression, the arrogation of the state of social policy as to the direction which politics takes. In brief, reference to Natural Law usually means divine law. Clarence Thomas spoke of Natural Law in his confirmation hearings...in that law, the poor and the oppressed are the children of God; a narrow reading of it means patriarchy and theocracy...a larger reading of it leads to liberation theology and social justice...as one can guess, those in the conservative sector of the religious revival tend to take the narrow reading; anti-gay, anti-abortion, family values, prayer in school, and other old testament/koran/torah laws found in Deuternomy. Those into Christian socialism, feminist theology and/or liberation theology take a view which enlarges rather than freezes 'Univeral Being.' B. Social law...part of the heritage of neo-fascism can be lain at the door of social science...in the enthusiasm of the successes of modern science after Newton, sociologists, economists, psychologists and political scientists claim that they can discover social laws with which to inform social policy. Comte was the architect of this claim in modern sociology [read sociology after Vico and before Foucault/Lyotard/Hasssan et.al]. Part of the Right-wing animus of the state stems from that fact that most social philosophers since Hegel invest the state with what little rationality and linearity possible in human affairs. In a silly and mindless reading of the precise truth claims of astro-physicists, modern social science presumes to be able to predict while modern states, on behalf of ruling elites, presume to control...the quest for order presumes the desireability of order and the facticity of order hidden in social data...the new sciences of chaos and complexity put an end to that nonsense but still the modernist knowledge process which presumes order installs layer after layer of control mechanisms in more and more domains of life... Right wing radicals want their order to be based on Natural Law and vested in communities of believers rather than in the state. Devolution of the state, of course is most helpful to corporations as the capitalist state, in its quest for legitimacy in the turmoil of the new global economy, is delighted to fund anyone who will discredit the state and state law...divine law, since the Protestant reading of it, permits great wealth and domination of the fields and flocks and earth. I think it remarkable that so many millions of Right wing populists understand and use these arguments...they must be paying a lot of attention to the 1500 televangelists on radio and t.v. C. State Law and the Citizen. Since the American and French revolution, we have been taught to be loyal citizens...if one listens carefully to the truth claims of those who are defined as 'mad' in the media...one can hear them saying that they are not subject to the law of the state since they reject the claim of the state that being a citizen takes precedence over being a 'natural human being..i.e., a child of God and an obedient servant of His law. Those of us on the Left have had no problem with a marxist/postmodern criminology which says that laws of the state are ambushes behind which lurk the interests of the ruling classes. When those on the Right make a parallel claim, we have trouble hearing it...the difference is, of course, that their definition of crime tends to privilege gender relations which the Left find hostile to the human project as we would like to see it go ...as well as some elements of racist/ethnic superiority readily found in Deuternomy. D. A few postings on PSN have noted that the social base of the militia and the the religious Right come mostly from those living at the margins of the lower working class...and some elements of the petite bourgeois made redundant by Walmart and other corporations which buy the labor power in the 3rd world and sell to the workers in the first world...and thereby extract great wealth from the third world while dis-employing and destroying small towns and the labor market. There is also comment, well made, that these movements are funded by wealthy capitalists, themselves most ambivalent about state laws and immersed in pre-modern religious sensibility. E. State Control, Social Control and Social Unrest. I have mentioned that the capitalist state, in disarray with the globalization of the economy, and in the presumption that pre-theoretical resistence and rebellion tries, everyday, to 'improve' the Criminal Justice System. There are about 5 million laws to be enforced and about 800,000 police to enforce them...on 250 million bright and clever folk who don't like a lot of the laws. In addition, the capitalist class hires about 1.2 million 'private' security police to police their workers, customers and competitors. In addition, some 300,000 social workers police the private life of some 15 million women and children on state welfare. Then too, there are lots of psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, clinical social workers, counsellors and pharmacists making a living on the psycho-chemical control of those who live irregular lives. There are hundreds of federal and state agencies which try, haphazardly, to control state crime and there are 'peer group reviews' which try, not at all well, to control the crimes of free-floating professionals. Given all this social control in the 'land of the free,' control which bends most often on those at the margins of the political economy; marginally employed white males, disemployed black males, disconnected minority women and their children, one can understand the inchoate hostility at State law. Given the gun culture and the celebration of violence in the media, one can understand why some few hundred thousand of these marginalized people tend to turn to violence as a solution to their alienation from economic power, social power, and legal power...all they have left is the vestiges of moral power from fundamentalist religion and a lot of physical power in the form of guns, fists, bombs and assualt weaponry...there are a lot! of guns in the USA. F. Solutions: those marginalized in the global economy have four generic solutions. 1. They can go to college, learn those skills and techniques which make them employable in the state, competitive or monopoly sector and led, for the most part, quite a nice life. 2. They can turn to socialism and the quest for social justice. A lot of people in the 3rd world still do; those in Europe have social democracy to see them through; those in Central Europe were betrayed by a statist, bureaucratic socialism...it remains to be seen what comes out of Central Europe as solution. My good friend and colleague, Garth Massey, has been watching for progressive solutions closely there and in East Africa. He has a lot of stuff coming out now that he is back at U/Wyoming. 3. They can turn to religion. There are three tendencies which draw ever more people away from established churches. There is fundamentalist religion of the sort which inspires much on the Right which is preferable to state welfare. There is New Age Religion, some varieties of which are solipsic and some of which, mostly feminist, which expand the sanctification process rather than narrow it..then there is liberation theology...most important to the revolutions in Nicargua, the Phillipines and now, in Chiapis. G. Given the failures of those of us on the Left in the past 40 years...and the sucesses of Nixon/Reagan/Bush administrations along with a lot of right wing talk shows to discredit the labor movement...along with the corruption of that movement to semi-privated labor struggles, there are not many options before those workers who are disenchanted with the American Dream and who blame the state for it. The challenge of the Right wing to us is to find some forms of politics and economics which we can put into the public sphere...to do that, we have to give up some of our dogmas of the past...we will have to look the kind of work that John Roemer and Lane Kenworthy are doing in market socialism...and help improve rather than pile scorn upon it. We will have to allay ourselves with those religious tendencies which expand the dramas of the Holy rather than shrink and turn them into vicious parodies of religion...I've been doing a bit of work on post- modern religion which might help a little. We will have change our philosophy of science and our quest for general law; instead we will have to accept other, more limited missions of the knowledge process. We will have to support a postmodern criminology of the sort that Martin Schwartz, David Friedrichs, Dragan Milovanovic, Peter Manning, Hal Pepinsky, and many others are building. All this and less invective; less psychological reductionism; less contempt for those on the Right who are our natural audience; less hostility aimed at those on the Left who are our natural allies. T. R. Young From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 8 04:30:50 1995 Newsgroups: alt.sci.sociology Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 07:28:00 -0400 From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: SUNY Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop Update (fwd) Thought some of you might be interested in this. - 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: Sun, 7 May 1995 11:28:25 -0400 From: RMAIETTA@CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU Subject: SUNY Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop Update State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-4433 Raymond Maietta TA Training Coordinator Graduate School 516 632-9686 FROM: RMAIETTA TO: Remote Addressee ( _methods@unmvma.unm.edu ) Subject: SUNY Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop Update UPDATE ON QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS WORKSHOP AND REQUEST FOR PUBLICITY ASSISTANCE Please forward the following information to any colleagues at your university or organization who may be interested. Thank you in advance for your time... Dr. Lyn Richards, co-creator of Nud.ist qualitative data analysis software, will conduct two separate one day worshops, Friday, June 9th and Thursday, June 8th (the eigth will only be open if the 9th fills), at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Nud.ist is a flexible data managemet and anylsis system for text that is saved in a wordprocessing format or hardcopy text (books, articles, historical documents, etc). The workshop presents a unique opportunity to receive training from the creator of the program, in fact this is her first vist to the east coast and only visit of 1995. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data on 3.5 inch floppy disks in text (ASCII) format. Time permitting, we will have a question and answer period where participants can give and receive feedback on projects they are currently working on. The cost of the workshop is $100 for students and $125 for all others. Breakfast and lunch are included in the price of the workshop. All particpants will receive a certificate of specialized training and a 10% discount toward the purchase of the software. Checks should be made out to FSA NUD*IST Account and sent to: Ray Maietta Dept of Sociology SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356 Registration deadline is Thursday, May 25, 1995. Please include your name, phone number, email and paper mail addresses on all correspondence. If you would prefer to attend on Thursday the 8th, please indicate this as well-- you will be moved to this date after the attendance requirement for the 9th is met. Before the workhsop you will be sent confirmation of payment, directions and a schedule of the day's events. If you have any other questions or would like more information about the workshop please feel free to call or Eamil me at the number or address on this message. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 8 04:51:57 1995 Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 07:48:47 -0400 From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT> Purdue University: Social Foundations (fwd) 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: Sat, 6 MAY 1995 20:41:23 MST From: Gene Glass Newgroups: bit.listserv.aera Subject: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT> Purdue University: Social Foundations Visiting Assistant Professor Position August 1995 - May 1996 Social Foundations of Education Purdue University Instruct undergraduate course in Social Foundations of Education and graduate courses in Philosophy of Education, History of Education, and Ethics in Educational Administration Salary in mid-thirties range Women and minority applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. Purdue University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Send letter of application, statement of scholarly/teaching interests, vita, three letters of reference and samples of writing/publications by June 15, 1995 to Search Committee Educational Foundations and Administration Department of Educational Studies 1446 LAEB School of Education Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 Additional information may be obtained by contacting Dr. Charles Kline: 317/494-7299, or 317/496-1228 (fax) Bill McInerney BMCINERN@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (317) 494-7299 (317) 496-1228 FAX [%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%] Posted by Gene V Glass, Editor of AERA LISTSERV. gene@asu.edu To post messages, mail them to AERA@asu.edu or reply to this post. This LIST is for announcements to the educational research community (jobs, conferences, publications, relocation of AERA members, etc.). 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Young, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Sociology, Texas Woman's University. A. Postmodern Criminology. There are four sources for a postmodern criminology for those graduate students who would like to explore it. 1. First there is feminist theory which has long critiqued the law of gender relations, family dynamics and the policing of spousal battering. Then too, feminists have been central to the process by which the laws and policing of rape have been relocated from genetics, human nature and psychopathy toward the political economy/patriarchy in which rape is practiced, condoned, made mock of, and directed at those who are defined as outside the ethnic/racist group at hand. Nanette Davis at Portland State and Karlen Faith, Simon Fraser University have a first rate survey of the differening tactics used to control women when women do not organize their behavior in ways conformable to the political economy at hand: [I have added a bit to their foundational work] a. Patriarchy: The control agent is the patriarch: father, husband brother, son. The place of control is the home. The kind of threat posed by women center around role violations and the norms of virginity, chastity and fidelity to the patriarch. Offenses include witchcraft, heresy, infanticide and sexual activity which obscures, conflates the practice of transferring property to the eldest 'legitimate' male heir. Control tactics used by the patriarch range from verbal abuse to beating to murder. Women are still murdered in India by the family of the male for a number of reasons, chief among which is 'failure to deliver' a son. The wife is killed that the dowry may be retained while another bride is sought. The grounds for this subjugation and coercion is Natural Law [with a capital N]...the presumption is that 1) there is a god, 2) God has set forth a divine plan for gender relations, 3) females are inferior to males in that plan and 4) one is doing God's Will when one restricts women [and men] to that plan. It is very important to note that a great many of those in fundamentalist/evangelical religion in the USA today refer to Natural Law when they discuss abortion, homosexuality, crime, and resistence to State Law. The social philosophy of the Far Right sets Natural Law over State Law. The political agenda of the various Christian Coalitions is to take political power and to bring state law into harmony with Natural Law. Some on the Far Right want a separate nation/state; most do not subscribe to the kind of violence seen in Oklahoma City...the good and gentle Amish and the Hutterites as well as Hasidic Jews try to avoid the 'corruptions of modern society.' b. All these forms of social control change/expand with the advent of Industrial capitalism sometime in the 1750s. The place control expands to include the factory, shop and office. In England, with the Elizabethan Poor Laws, the Poor Farm and the Asylum assume authority over women. The agent of control is expanded to include the boss, the doctor, and the director of the welfare system. Violation of sexual norms, abortion and failure to meet production quotas are added to the reasons for the use of force on women. The primary threat which women pose becomes competition for jobs and wages as the money economy expands to commodity more and more goods and services. Control tactics, in addition to those used by the patriarch, include labor laws which forbid women some jobs; threat of firing; and referral to the medical system for 'therapy' so she can adjust herself to these two systems of domination. While the rationale for such domination in patriarchy centers around the presumptions of Natural Law, since the advent of modern science [[Bacon published de Novum Organum in 1610; Newton published Principia Mathematica [Mathematical Principles of Natural Science] in 1687,]] thre rational is that both natural law [small 'n'] and social law require the stratifi- cation by gender, race, power and wealth. Modern criminol- ogists tend to give preference to natural/social law. c. Another dramatic change occurs in the law and policing of women in Advanced Monopoly Capitalism. As more and more people are made surplus to the labor needs of 'advanced' capitalism, Patriarchy continues, along with racism, to alter the laws, theories and policing of women. More places and more policing is added: in addition to the home, the shop, and the doctor's office, women are controlled by an ever-growing state welfare system. The system grows since, in democratic capitalist systems, welfare is seen as one solution to the problem of political legitimacy. The development of new drugs greatly expand the role of the med/sys in controlling women...of the top ten drugs prescribed, five are tranquilizers; some 75% of those prescriptions are written for women who turn anger and rage in toward their own bodies and minds. Class, race and gender combine to produce the feminization of poverty...social workers are turned into cultural police to make sure that the norms of housekeeping, sexuality and child rearing are acceptable to the writers/directors of law. Women are now everywhere policed; on the job, in the home, in the market place [there are more police and more technology used in shopping malls than on the city streets]. The crimes women commit include theft, commodity sex [although the fastest growing sector of commodity sex is male prostitution and child pornography], and of course, those role violations of patriarchy. In this epoch, women are said to be mad, bad, or dis-advantaged [by the failure to go to college, master the skills demanded by the labor market and compete aggressively with males for wealth, status and power [thank you, Max Weber]. In 'advanced societies' women are controlled more by 'therapy' than by violence; more by ideology than by beating; more by chemistry than by ministry. Divorce becomes a popular option for women as a means to escape the more onerous forms of patriarchy but, as divorce law is written by males and adjud icated by males, women are plunged into poverty if they take this out...[the income of the husband declines for a while and then returns to pre-divorce levels...that of the wife falls about 30% and recovers very slowly...then too, she has the children as the judge, in his wisdom, awards them to her but not the resources with which to care for them. In these times, many women are in full rebellion to patriarchy. Those on the Right want to put down the rebellion using state law. Liberals want to end the rebellion by giving women the same rights as men...liberal law, in all it's majesty, makes it possible for both men and women to rise and fall on the tides of the free market. B. A second source of Postmodern Criminology is, of course, Marxian Theory especially cultural marxism which assigns a much larger role for law religion and 'morality' than does structural marxism. Marxian crim has been around for a long time; Marx took his doctorate in legal philosophy. He wrote an article in, I believe, the Rheinische Zeitung about the law of the commons and how capitalism changed the ancient rights to collect wood, game and pasture. Those of you who have read the 'Milagro Bean Field War' will find the same legal question: what is covered by property law and who has the right of 'usufruct.' There is so much to marxian criminology that one should a year or two to get the basics. Jock Young, my good friend, Richard Quinney, Hugh Collins, Ray Michalowski, Tony Platt, Ron Kramer, Hal Pepinsky, and others do good work in the area. Julia and Hy Schwendinger were God-mother and God-father to radical crim at UCLA before the nerds took it back in 70's...a lot of good people came out of that place. A lot of good people continue to come out of that place. The most fundamental ideas include: 1) Law, Religion and morality are ambushes behind which lurk the interests of the ruling class. Those who benefit from systems of inequality desire to reproduce those social relations and use wealth, status and power to do so. The very definition of crime is controlled by those who write and/or enforce the law. 2) The Ruling ideas of an epoch are the ideas of the ruling class. This precept in radical crim says that those who are the architects of knowledge, theory, ideas and philosophy produce those ideas which legitimate inequality; those who produce contrary ideas are simply excluded from the knowledge process. The basic institutions which produce knowledge are; the University, the Church, the State and the mass media. In any society in which there are owners and workers, the owners will select, promote, acclaim and reward those ideological workers [professors, scientists, clerics, politicians, artists and novelists which legimate inequality, privilege, hierarchy and domination. 3) One's relationship to the means of production 'determines' the kind and frequency of crime in which one engages. The social location of crime varies with class position. a. Those marginalized by capitalism will commit several kinds of crime. Property crime [robbery, theft, mugging] is the 'forceable re-unification of production and distribution [capitalism is the only economic system which separates p & d...think about slavery, feudalism primitive communalism and socialism in that respect]. They also commit status crimes as they recenter ideas of self worth from occupation to social status. Racism, ethnic cleansing, and family violence are designed to give white marginalized males more status even as jobs disappear and patriarchy fades. Then too, as many have only their bodies to sell, they turn to forms of prostitution in order to gain econ omic power in a market driven economy. There is also vandalism: a pre-theoretic form of resis- tance...at work, at school and in public places, some rage and anger is turned into revenge and retaliation. b. Organized crime. Marx said that capitalism 'profanes all that is holy.' In most of human history sex, drugs, gambling, and often violence, is used as a pathway to the holy or as a solidarity supply...mechanical...if you read Durkheim. In patriarchy, sexuality is con- fined to the marriage form...in some societies, there is a full and rich sexuality with a dozen or more approved ways to act on one's sexuality. In such alienated forms of sexuality, sex crime abounds. Organized crime, as the underground market, simply produces and distributes any thing the market wants. For most of history, the fall of sticks, bones, cards or coins is viewed as proof presumptive that the gods make their will known by that fall. Gamblers when successful, feel that the gods are with them. Those of you who have seen 'Guys and Dolls' will recall the song sung by Marlon Brando...Luck, be a Lady Tonight. Those of you who do tarot cards know the interpretations forthcoming there. Drugs, alcohol, peyote, hashish, marijuana have been used for millenia as a psychogen with which to come into communion with the Gods and to know the Will of God...when fundamentalists control the law making system, they define the privatized use of such supplies as sinful, corrupt, evil, and the work of the devil. They also define those psychogens used by other people to contact other gods as evil. c. Capitalism tends to promote white collar crime for a number of reasons. First there are life style needs. It takes a lot of resources to live in, say, North Dallas. Doctors, Lawyers, professors and brokers can take great advantage of the trust given them by clients patients, customers and governing Boards. Top managers steal more than do clerks or customers at Wards, Sears, G.M., Chrysler or A.T.&T. Divorce is a great stimulus for the betrayal of trust. Revenge for some slight in promotion, tenure and salary considerations sometimes works. But a big incentive to commit white collar crime is retirement. It takes about a three million dollar portfolio to guarantee a upper middle class life style. At about age forty, Doctors, lawyers, professors and managers see enough of the future to begin to think kindly about crime. Who wants to live on welfare [$800 max] or pensions [20, 30, 40K dollars]. d. Corporate crime is stimulated by the quest for profit. Corporations steal more and kill more by orders of magni- tude than do street thugs or we white collar criminals [doctors aside]. Crimes against employees, against cust- omers, against competitors and against the environment help increase the profit margin. e. Political crime by the state and against the state is endemic in capitalism. Wars to control markets and raw materials kill millions and damage billions. The Gulf war killed over 700,000 and did a lot of damage. Political crime in Central America continues to provide favorable climate for capital growth. Warfare is economics by other means. The crimes against the capitalist state continue with many innocent and not so innocent folks being killed...a fraction of those killed by the state to be sure but in the matter of murder, numbers fail. Some of the folks who plot against the state want to institute Natural Law; some want to institute a praxis society. Those in Liberation Theology want to do both. 4) Capitalism requires ever more systems of social control to protect its quest for growth, profit and market share. There are some eight control systems in place in the USA; all working to reproduce patriarchy and/or capitalism. In brief, a. The Criminal Justice System [800,000 police, ever more prisons. It focusses on street and organized crime. b. The Administrative Justice System. It tries to control corporate crime. c. The Peer Review System: it offers a very nice form of justice for we white collar criminals. d. The State Welfare System: it controls mostly poor women and their children...as mentioned. e. The Confessional System in Religion. Some 25 millions confess their sins, beg forgiveness and gain rebirth. ...for a while at least. f. The Private Security System: biggest and getting bigger. Tries to control workers, shoppers, wealthy enclaves and protects upper management. g. The Health Care System: controls mostly women and those who commit cultural crimes: alcohol, drugs, gambling. h. The Underground Control Systems: lots and lots of informal and loose groups to ban, boycott, beat, conspire, or reward those who oppose racism, sexism or class privilege. Not many Left Wing underground structures around as far as I know...some environmental 'terrorists' in Oregon/Washington, I hear. The Baseball owners got together to control bb players. Woody Allen did a flick on the Blacklist in Hollywood some years ago. There is a movie, Betrayed, about Right Wing Militias with Debra Winger and someone else. C. The French Post-structuralists are a valuable source of Postmodern critique of crime and 'justice.' Foucault's work on Punish and Discipline is must reading...in that he makes the case that before modern criminology, torture and maiming were done for revenge and retaliation. With modern science and its belief system about rationality and linearity, torture and pain were put to use to 'inscribe' a close connection between crime and punishment. You will recall that Jeremy Bentham transposed natural law [Newton not Newt!] into Utilitarianism which says that a) normal people are rational, b) normal people weigh carefully the costs and benefits of crime, c) one can prevent crime by 1) increasing costs [read pain] or 2) decreasing benefits [read pleasure]. Martin Schwartz and David Friedrichs has a fine, fine article on Postmodern Criminology in V. 32, No. 2, 1994 of Criminology. Do read it if you want a good statement and leads to the best work in pomo crim. D. I'm getting tired so I will close with some work that Dragan Milo- vanovic and others, including myself, are doing on Chaos, Complexity and Postmodern Criminology. In brief, we are saying that: 1. Small changes in key parameters produce large increases in each form of crime. It is not biology, socialization differential association or the advent of new variables which one uses to explain sudden waves of crime [if waves there are...the Brits critique this idea sharply], it is a small linear change in an existing key variable which produces nonlinear transformations in crime. 2. The modernist fix on order works for simple systems but not complex systems...disorder is not only the rule but is greatly to be encouraged...if by disorder, one means new ways to do politics, economics, family, education or religion in ways congenial to the human project. 3. There are five dynamical regimes each of which has a different mix of order/disorder. As disorder exceeds the third change point, social control becomes impossible. There is simply too much uncertainty; plans and all the punishment in the world will not help stabilized the system... 4. The solution is social justice rather than criminal justice. There is a lot more but, as I say, I'm getting tired...time for my 10 o'clock coffee. I'll give you a separate lecture on Chaos and Crime when I get back to my home base in Michigan. Next week, I'll give you some pomo phil of science which greatly affects the missions and methods of the knowledge process. Until then, read a lot, think a lot, learn a lot and then teach a lot. T.R. Young From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 8 20:24:52 1995 From: j_young@VENUS.TWU.EDU Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 10:36:16 CST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Mea Culpa; mea estupido I've read the posting on postmodern criminology sent yesterday to grad students around the country...I find that I must apologize for the use of the term 'nerd.' Some people might read that useage as a put-down of quantification, careful and systematic, comparative research. I have a profound and continuing respect for quantification and the careful use of such findings. I agree with Jurgen Habermas and Herbert Marcuse that a multi-dimensional discipline must seek three kinds of information: positive knowledge about what actually exists at the moment; hermeneutic knowledge about meanings, interpretations and ideology...as well as emancipatory knowledge about what might exist should social relations be altered. More than that, the use of such language is unprofessional and unkind. I do apologize most humbly. T. R. Young From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 9 04:47:04 1995 Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 07:44:35 -0400 From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Call for Papers: Journal of Management Studies (fwd) 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: 7 MAY 1995 18:44:20 GMT From: LINDEN SELBY Newgroups: comp.infosystems.www.announce Subject: Call for Papers: Journal of Management Studies This is to announce a call for papers in the special issue of the Journal of Management studies. The deadline is August 15th 1995. The journal issue is dedicated to exploring the sustainability of new organisational forms, focussing on the characteristics and behaviours which sustain the evolution and growth of new organisational forms (ad hoc, networked, quasi-organisational forms etc.) Those of you who wish to can see these details posted on the WWW url: - just look through Announcements If you cannot access this, and are interested in contribution to this issue, please email me and I will send you back the details. Sincerely, LSelby@lbs.lon.ac.uk -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How this group works: . From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 9 17:23:27 1995 Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 20:20:12 -0400 From: Elizabeth A Larsen To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Pittsburgh Colleges Can anyone give me any feedback about the quality of the Phd. programs in sociology at Duquesne, Carnegie Mellon, and/or University of Pittsburgh. I will be relocating to the Pittsburgh area in a couple years. Personal replies are fine. Thanks! Elizabeth Larsen George Mason University Fairfax, VA elarsen1@osf1.gmu.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun May 14 09:03:53 1995 by almaak.usc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.7+ucs) Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 09:02:58 -0700 (PDT) From: James Beniger To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: AAPOR Meets In Florida AAPOR'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE TO BRING POLLSTERS, CAMPAIGN CONSULTANTS, MEDIA EXPERTS TO FORT LAUDERDALE MAY 18-21 The 50th annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research will be held May 18-21 at the Bonaventure Resort and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Nearly 600 registered will hear academic, commercial, and government experts present papers and discuss issues ranging from the validity of pre-election and exit polls to media coverage of Presidential campaigns to the growing cynicism about politics in American life. Of particular interest to general audiences will be sessions with the following titles: American Politics * The 1994 Elections: What Have We Learned? * Panel on the 1994 Elections: The View From Directors of Four State Polls * Exit Polling: Four Critiques * Panel On the Growing Cynicism About Politics in American Life * Media Reporting and Public Consumption of Polls * Public Attitudes Toward Government and the State of the Nation * Pre-Election Polls Other Topics * Surveys and Sex: Science, Politics, and Response to the National Health and Social Life Survey * Panel On Public Journalism and the Polls: Rethinking Our Roles * Television's Role in Public Opinion Formation and Change * Reporting Race and Ethnicity, Understanding Prejudice and Segregation * Gender Differences * Understanding Violence, Crime and Punishment, Macro to Micro * Research On Health: Opinion and Policy * Public Opinion Research: The Changing Shape of an Industry * Evaluating New Technologies: On-Ramps to the Coming Information Superhighway? * Survey and Market Research Meet the Internet The AAPOR conference program includes 50 such sessions, each with three to five presentations, held concurrently in one of ten separate time periods over the four days. Most of the presentations are available as formal papers or other handouts; almost all are abstracted in the published conference program. Presenters and discussants come from most of the major survey research and polling organizations, both university and commercial (like NORC, SRC-Michigan, Gallup and Roper), other academic and research positions, the major television networks, newspapers and other media, and federal agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census. Organized beginning in Fall 1945, AAPOR held the first of its annual conferences in July 1946 in Central City, Colorado. AAPOR currently has more than 1,400 paid members in 46 states, the District of Columbia, and 25 other countries (8 percent of the total membership). Of all members, 41.5 percent come from academia and 41.5 percent from the commercial sector; the remaining 17 percent represent government or other nonprofit organizations. In addition to the annual conferences, many AAPOR members meet regularly throughout the year in one of seven regional chapters: the Midwest, New England, New Jersey, New York, Pacific, Southern, and Washington/Baltimore chapters. ___________________________________________________________________ For details, contact: James Beniger , (310) 546-3040; or Karen Goldenberg , (202) 606-6358, fax (202) 606-6425. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 15 17:05:49 1995 Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 20:04:03 -0400 From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: 1996 SSS Program Procedures (fwd) 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: Mon, 15 May 1995 19:52:21 -0400 From: Don Bogie Subject: 1996 SSS Program Procedures The 1996 annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society will be held in Richmond, Virginia on April 11-14. The theme for the meeting is: Social Change, Social Inequality, and Social Action. There are a number of avenues through which members can participate in the meeting, including: (1) individual submissions (papers and roundtable presentations); (2) complete sessions (complete paper sessions, roundtable sessions, paper-in-process sessions, panels, workshops, and author-meets-critics sessions); (3) co-sponsored sessions (arranged by various interest groups through the Program Committee); (4) special panels (e.g., those that honor a colleague); and (5) suggestions for thematic panels and plenary addresses (arranged by the President and the Program Committee). For information regarding individual sessions and complete sessions, contact: Donald W. Bogie, Program Co-Chair, Center for Demographic and Cultural Research, Room 800 Library Tower, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama 36117-3596; Phone, 334-244-3388; Fax, 334-244-3762; E-mail, bogie@tango.aum.edu. For information concerning all other sessions, contact, William D. Lawson, Program Co-Chair, College of Arts and Sciences, Post Office Box 271, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama 36101-0271; Phone, 334-293-4316; Fax, 334-293-4972; E-mail, wlaw@asu.alasu.edu. Please observe the following deadlines: suggestions for thematic panels and plenary addresses, July 1; special panels, August 1; all others, October 1. The Program Committee welcomes and encourages your participation at the 1996 meeting in Richmond. Please let us hear from you as soon as feasible. Sessions that relate to the theme--Social Change, Social Inequality, and Social Action--are especially encouraged. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 15 17:45:56 1995 From: V223ELPR@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu id <01HQJNA6V02K9NMYWF@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>; Mon, 15 May 1995 20:44:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 20:44:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: how to subscribe To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU can anyone tell me how to subscribe this net? sincerely, rara in buffalo From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 15 17:54:09 1995 From: V223ELPR@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu id <01HQJNJN4E289NMYWF@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>; Mon, 15 May 1995 20:53:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 20:53:33 -0400 (EDT) Subject: how to subscribe To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Organization: University at Buffalo can anyone tell me how to subscribe this sociology graduate internet? sincerely, rara in buffalo From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 16 04:07:06 1995 From: "Julian B. Dierkes" Date: Tue, 16 May 95 07:06:14 EDT To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: pre-ASA mini conference friends- this came through the grapevine from ann swidler. julian _________________________________________________________ MEANING AND MEASUREMENT ONE-DAY MINI-CONFERENCE, AUGUST 18 On the day before the ASA meeting, George Mason University's Cultural Studies Program will host a one-day mini-conference. The SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES WORKING GROUP (which met already at the ESS meetings) and others interested meaning and measurement (many of whom met at the ASA last August) will meet the evening of August 17 and all day on August 18. We will then be driven by van from George Mason to the Washington, D.C. Hilton (and other convention hotels) on the evening of August 18, ready for the Culture Section day at the ASA which, this year, will be the first day, August 19. We will work out details of the one-day conference once we have a better idea who is coming. A suggestion is: Thursday evening, August 17: A dinner for all conference participants, with reports from the Boundaries group on their progress and by the other group (the SYSTEMATIC MEASUREMENT GROUP?) for the next day's activities. Friday, August 18. Morning and afternoon working sessions. The SYSTEMATIC MEASUREMENT GROUP would start developing pilot research instruments, based on the ideas that came out of our discussions at last year's ASA. (During the summer, those planning to attend can use our email network to begin developing ideas, and perhaps setting up some preliminary subgroups, task forces etc.). The SYMBOLIC BROUNDARIES WORKING GROUP would continue the discussions, sharing of papers, and comparison along common theoretical lines that they have already begun. During a long lunch session, the two groups could share results of their morning's activities, trade suggestions, and seek advice. Those who wished to work for a period with the other group could move around. In the evening, perhaps after an early dinner and wrap-up session, we would head back to Washington by van. PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS: Through the kind offices of Mark Jacobs at George Mason, 26 dorm-style beds have been reserved, $18 for a shared room and $26 for a single (there are only two). If there are more than 26 particpants, those with more money can be housed in a nearby historic inn for $95 per night. Inexpensive meals are available on campus. George Mason is located in Fairfax, Virginia, a $25.00 cab ride from either Washington-National or Dulles Airports (we can arrange shared rides if we know when people are arriving). Right now, would those interested in attending contact either Ann Swidler (swidler@uclink2.berkeley.edu) or Michele Lamont (mlamont@pucc.princeton.edu), letting us know that you are interested in attending. Later, when we know who is interested, whether there is a room shortage, etc. we will ask for a samll deposit to hold rooms. **NOTE** When you make TRANSPORTATION ARRANGEMENTS for ASA, arrange to arrive by late afternoon on August 17th. The mini-conference should be a very interesting (fun) get-together at a very reasonable price. (Apparently there are very good Indian and Chinese restaurants nearby). The hope is that with a whole day of concentrated work we may make substantial progress on shared problems. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 16 04:52:01 1995 Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 07:50:52 -0400 From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , Social Politics List , Discussion of Socio-Economic theory and practice Subject: (FWD) House Budget Committee elminates NSF social science funding Details and recommended actions are given below. Please pass this information along to your colleagues. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Tue, 16 May 1995 07:23:13 -0400 From: Andrew Beveridge Subject: Forwarded mail.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 21:14:41 -0400 From: MLV.APA@email.apa.org Message from senate-l: Subjecnologergency Action Alert Date: Mon, 15 May 95 20:45 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT From the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences The House Budget Committee has recommended the complete elimination of NSF research funding for Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics, Political Science, Economics, Geography, Cognitive Science, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences, History of Science, and Statistical Research for the Behavioral and Social Sciences-- as NSF's contribution to balancing the Federal budget. There is no doubt that NSF funding will be cut in the effort to balance the budget. But to selectively wipe out the behavioral and social sciences goes far beyond simply saving money. This is the most important crisis these sciences have faced since Ronald Reagan attempted to eliminate the same sciences in the early 1980s. Action on this will happen very quickly. The Budget Committee approved the budget package on May 11. The vote on the package by the full House will happen sometime between the 15th and 18th of May. In all likelihood, the budget resolution will pass the House unaltered. The Appropriations Committee will be bound by the spending limits imposed by the Budget Committee. But it need not be bound by the particular cuts recommended by the Budget Committee! Unfortunately, the House leadership has also made it known that no program that lacks a current authorization will be funded. The National Science Foundation is not currently authorized. Efforts to pass its authorization failed last year in the Senate. The House Science Committee Chair, Robert Walker (R-PA) has said that as soon as the budget is passed, the Science Committee will proceed to report its authorizations which include, among other things, NSF, NASA, and the research programs of the Department of Energy. Robert Walker is also the Vice-Chair of the Budget Committee, and he played a key role in determining the selective cuts at NSF. In a news conference on May 12, Walker said that the Directorate containing the research programs mentioned above was created simply because it was "politically correct" and that it is now time to make a correction. This means that there is little chance the NSF authorization from his Committee will contain an authorization for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. If the Committee does not authorize the Directorate, the Appropriations Committee cannot fund the research programs it contains. So scientists must pay close attention to actions of the Budget, Appropriations, and the authorizing committee. The only way the course of events can be changed is for concerned citizens to let their elected representatives know that they as voters do not approve of these ideological cuts masquerading as budget balancing measures. You must take it on yourself immediately to 1) write or call your own representative and senator's office to express your disapproval 2) send a copy of your letter to: Robert Walker, George Brown (ranking minority member of the Science Committee and a likely ally of behavioral and social scientists), Jerry Lewis (Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that appropriates money for the National Science Foundation). And this next thing is equally important: SEND, FAX OR EMAIL A COPY OF YOUR CORRESPONDENCE TO THE FEDERATION OF BEHAVIORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES. We have to be able to monitor how great an impact behavioral and social scientists are having, and the only way we can do that is by keeping track of how many contacts from scientists congressional offices have received. Any letter to Congress may be addressed as follows: Representative's name, U.S. House of Representatives (or U.S. Senate) Washington, D.C. 20515 (House) or 20510 (Senate). The Federation email is federation@apa.org. Federation fax is (202) 336-6158. If you need more information, our telephone number is (202) 336-5920. 3) Help us get the word out. Please see that the anthropology, sociology, linguistics, economics, political science, cognitive science, and geography departments on your campus receive this action alert as well. 4) It is very important that elected representatives do not hear only from the scientists affected. If you have acquaintances in the physical or biological sciences or the university administration who would write a letter or make a phone call to an elected representative, do everything you can to get such a communication sent. __________________________________________________________________________ For help with senate-l, mail a message to majordomo@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu with the word "help" in the body of your message. __________________________________________________________________________ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 16 09:54:44 1995 16 May 95 12:53:32 +1100 From: "morten g. ender" Organization: University of Maryland,College Park To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:53:22 EDT Subject: call for submissions **** CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS **** We are soliciting materials for an ASA Teaching Resourse Guide to be entitled: Community Service-Learning and Sociology: Syllabi and Instructional Materials We are interested in obtaining syllabi, instructional materials, and brief articles from sociologists using community service-learning in teaching. These materials may include, but are not limited to: complete syllabi, course outlines, handouts, assignment sheets, or any other written materials relevant to using community service in teaching sociology. Deadline for submissions is August 1, 1995. *Submission Format* Submissions for initial review should be in *both* 1) hardcopy and 2) 3.5 inch diskette or via e-mail. Submissions on disk or sent electronically should be in WordPerfect 5.1 or in ASCII format. Left and right margins should be set at 1 1/4 inches. Accepted materials may require editorial modifications. Send materials to: Morten G. Ender OR Brenda Kowalewski 2112 Art-Sociology Bldg. 2112 Art-Sociology Bldg. Department of Sociology Department of Sociology University of Maryland University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742 College Park, Maryland 20742 (301) 405-7707 (301) 405-6392 s-ender@bss1.umd.edu s-brenda@bss1.umd.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 16 11:01:09 1995 Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 11:01:18 -0800 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: lichter@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu (Michael I. Lichter) Subject: Re: pre-ASA mini conference At 7:06 AM 5/16/95, Julian B. Dierkes wrote: >MEANING AND MEASUREMENT ONE-DAY MINI-CONFERENCE, AUGUST 18 > >On the day before the ASA meeting, George Mason University's Cultural >Studies Program will host a one-day mini-conference. The SYMBOLIC >BOUNDARIES WORKING GROUP (which met already at the ESS meetings) and >others interested meaning and measurement (many of whom met at the ASA >last August) will meet the evening of August 17 and all day on August 18. Is this one of those things where if you can't figure out what it is, you're not interested? Michael -- Michael Lichter UCLA Department of Sociology From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 16 11:03:01 1995 From: Benjamin Alexander Cohen Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:02:20 -0400 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: unsubscribe unsubscribe From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 16 14:22:12 1995 Tue, 16 May 1995 14:17:53 -0700 for Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:17:45 -0700 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 Tue May 16 22:16:26 1995 Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:08:37 -0500 (CDT) From: "Laura F. LaMarr" Subject: NSF under ideological attack (fwd) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hi all, It's been forever since I've posted to socgrad (all year, I think) so I thought I'd send this lovely bit of good news (choke) along with my wishes for a great summer. Ciao, Laura ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 09:58:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Deborah Gerner To: misty-net , arn@acs.bu.edu, as2941r@acad.drake.edu, astanton@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu, cfherman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, debby@ksgbbs.harvard.edu, dsylvan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, garmama@earlham.edu, hudsonv@yvax.byu.edu, jenn@csn.org, lcr@csn.org, leden@ccs.carleton.ca, lou@isa.byu.edu, lourdes@cwis.unomaha.edu, mtetreau@iastate.edu, nagel@falcon.cc.ukans.edu, okruhlik@stolaf.edu, ranchod@iastate.edu, reitzindy@aol.com, rmarlin@american.edu, schrodtuv@aol.com, siwp01.ic.lph@ic.si.edu, spikep@ccit.arizona.edu, ssharon@american.edu, tbullata@hhh.umn.edu, weidnert@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Subject: NSF under ideological attack (fwd) I realize this may not be relevant for all of you, but ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 09:00:39 EDT From: milburn@umbsky.cc.umb.edu To: pol-psych@umbsky.cc.umb.edu Subject: NSF under ideological attack EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT From the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences The House Budget Committee has recommended the complete elimination of NSF research funding for Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics, Political Science, Economics, Geography, Cognitive Science, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences, History of Science, and Statistical Research for the Behavioral and Social Sciences-- as NSF's contribution to balancing the Federal budget. There is no doubt that NSF funding will be cut in the effort to balance the budget. But to selectively wipe out the behavioral and social sciences goes far beyond simply saving money. This is the most important crisis these sciences have faced since Ronald Reagan attempted to eliminate the same sciences in the early 1980s. Action on this will happen very quickly. The Budget Committee approved the budget package on May 11. The vote on the package by the full House will happen sometime between the 15th and 18th of May. In all likelihood, the budget resolution will pass the House unaltered. The Appropriations Committee will be bound by the spending limits imposed by the Budget Committee. But it need not be bound by the particular cuts recommended by the Budget Committee! Unfortunately, the House leadership has also made it known that no program that lacks a current authorization will be funded. The National Science Foundation is not currently authorized. Efforts to pass its authorization failed last year in the Senate. The House Science Committee Chair, Robert Walker (R-PA) has said that as soon as the budget is passed, the Science Committee will proceed to report its authorizations which include, among other things, NSF, NASA, and the research programs of the Department of Energy. Robert Walker is also the Vice-Chair of the Budget Committee, and he played a key role in determining the selective cuts at NSF. In a news conference on May 12, Walker said that the Directorate containing the research programs mentioned above was created simply because it was "politically correct" and that it is now time to make a correction. This means that there is little chance the NSF authorization from his Committee will contain an authorization for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. If the Committee does not authorize the Directorate, the Appropriations Committee cannot fund the research programs it contains. So scientists must pay close attention to actions of the Budget, Appropriations, and the authorizing committee. The only way the course of events can be changed is for concerned citizens to let their elected representatives know that they as voters do not approve of these ideological cuts masquerading as budget balancing measures. You must take it on yourself immediately to 1) write or call your own representative and senator's office to express your disapproval 2) send a copy of your letter to: Robert Walker, George Brown (ranking minority member of the Science Committee and a likely ally of behavioral and social scientists), Jerry Lewis (Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that appropriates money for the National Science Foundation). And this next thing is equally important: SEND, FAX OR EMAIL A COPY OF YOUR CORRESPONDENCE TO THE FEDERATION OF BEHAVIORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES. We have to be able to monitor how great an impact behavioral and social scientists are having, and the only way we can do that is by keeping track of how many contacts from scientists congressional offices have received. Any letter to Congress may be addressed as follows: Representative's name, U.S. House of Representatives (or U.S. Senate) Washington, D.C. 20515 (House) or 20510 (Senate). The Federation email is federation@apa.org. Federation fax is (202) 336-6158. If you need more information, our telephone number is (202) 336-5920. 3) Help us get the word out. Please see that the anthropology, sociology, linguistics, economics, political science, cognitive science, and geography departments on your campus receive this action alert as well. 4) It is very important that elected representatives do not hear only from the scientists affected. If you have acquaintances in the physical or biological sciences or the university administration who would write a letter or make a phone call to an elected representative, do everything you can to get such a communication sent. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 17 04:31:53 1995 Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 07:29:29 -0400 From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Job Posting (fwd) 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: Tue, 16 May 1995 19:17:29 -0400 From: Rich Morin Subject: Job Posting Vacancy: Polling Analyst/Assistant to the Director of Polling The newsroom of The Washington Post is looking for a polling analyst. The person would assist the director of polling in survey questionnaire design and data analysis, work with reporters and editors on poll stories, oversee the preparation of survey graphics as well as handle a number of administrative and clerical tasks related to Post polling projects. High energy and creativity are a must; actual polling experience or formal training in survey methodology is highly desirable but not a requirement. The successful applicant should be comfortable working with numbers and working with people. A background in the social sciences (particularly political science, sociology and/or psychology) would be useful; an active interest in these and related areas is essential. Applicants should be computer literate and familiar with one or more of the commonly used statistical software packages such as SPSS, SAS or Minitab and have a working knowledge of at least one spreadsheet and word processing program. This is not a reporting position. But the person who fills this job should be a good writer and will be encouraged to write for the paper on an occasional basis. This job had been split between the newsroom and the business side but has been made a newsroom position. Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. Interested persons should contact: Richard Morin Director of Polling The Washington Post 1150 15th St. NW Washington D.C. 20071 (202) 334-7331 * * * For those of you attending the AAPOR convention, I will be staying at the Sheraton Suites (not the Bonaventure) and will be available to discuss this position. I'm scheduled to arrive late Thursday afternoon. The number at the Sheraton is 305 424-3300--call and leave a message and I'll get back to you. I also will be checking my e-mail daily; my 'net address is morinr@twp.com. --Rich From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 17 07:22:41 1995 Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 09:00:21 -0600 (CDT) From: Talmadge Wright To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Subject: projectsouth gathering (fwd) Forwarded message: > From daemon Wed May 17 13:51:03 1995 > Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 06:08:34 -0700 > From: Walda Katz-Fishman > To: berchb@scs.unr.edu > Subject: projectsouth gathering > Cc: twright@orion.it.luc.edu > > [Please post this electronic brochure to your nets. Thanks. Walda > For more information call: 404-584-7141 Jerome Scott or Abbie > Illenberger, email: projectsouth@igc.apc.org > or call: 301-320-4034 -- Walda Katz-Fishman > email: wkatzfishman@igc.apc.org] > > > Clinton's Midterm Report Card: Voices From the Trenches > A Gathering of Grassroots & Scholar Activists: > Developing Education and Research for Liberation > > Join Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty > & Genocide on June 22-23, 1995 at the > Conference Center - University of Tennessee, Knoxville > > > WHO WE ARE: > Project South Mission Statement > > Project South : Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide > is an education and research organization of scholars and > activists. It seeks to develop and deepen the understanding of the > historical and current role of social change in the South. This is > done in relation to the social struggles in the rest of the United > State and the world. > > Our Model > > Project South brings scholar and grassroots activists together as > equals to conduct its education and research program. Each Working > Group is co-facilitated by a grassroots activist and a scholar or > cultural activist. Joint or collective initiation, planning, and > implementation of all projects and publications is a necessity. We > unite out of a common understanding and a concrete strategy to > resolve the real problems of those at the bottom -- the homeless, > the unemployed, the underemployed, those living in poverty, etc. > Our education and research program points to a vision for human > liberation. > > > A Call to the Gathering > > Today's global economy and the high technology revolution are > transforming every aspect of society and our lives. A deeper and > more pervasive poverty and a more intense oppression are the new > realities of the 1990s. Good jobs are being eliminated, wages are > falling, jobs that are being created are minimum wage or close to > it. The poor are being criminalized -- especially youth, welfare > recipients, and the homeless. At the same time, the productivity > of high technology means that there are enough goods and services > to satisfy all human needs for the first time in history. The > challenge is: How do we insure that all people have equal access to > this abundance? > > Organizing and educating -- including research -- go hand-in-hand. > Our organizing should reflect the impact of the high tech > revolution and postindustrial society in the global economy. Our > education and research should provide the clarity necessary to > grasp what this impact is. > > We invite you to joins us at a gathering of grassroots activists > and scholar activists. We will organize Working Groups around > critical policy issues - "Poverty & the Global Economy," "The > Political Economy of the Southeast," "Criminal Injustice & the > Police State," "Health Care," and "Environmental Justice." - to > analyze and critique current policy, to propose policy initiatives > to solve the problems of our communities, and to develop winning > strategies. > > In case you're wondering about our title -- "Clinton's Midterm > Report Card" -- consider: the political program of reaction and > repression that was viewed as "lunatic right wing fringe" in the > late 1960s and 70s is today the mainstream political agenda of the > 104th Congress, with little or no serious opposition from the > Clinton administration. > > Despite the Republican hegemony in Congress, the buck still stops > with Clinton. And it is increasingly clear that the Democrats and > Republicans are putting forth a unified strategy to govern -- > disagreement over details notwithstanding. Their strategy is to > irreparably shred the social contract of the reform era. This > political reality is the context of all our work. > > The mission of Project South and the task of our Working Groups to > do education and research is more relevant now than ever. These new > political realities must be understood, and new strategies for > organizing -- IN OUR COMMUNITIES, AT OUR WORKPLACES, IN OUR SCHOOLS > AND COLLEGES, AT THE BALLOT BOX AND IN THE STREETS -- must be > developed from the bottom up. > > Our education and research agenda does not call for a return to the > way things were before the November 1994 elections or even before > the Reagan-Bush years. It calls for a vision and a strategy for > tomorrow and our future. Be part of making it happen! > > > Working Groups > > Made up of scholar and grassroots activists, Project South Working > Groups are organized around our five priority areas - "Poverty & > the Global Economy," "Political Economy of the Southeast," " > Criminal Injustice & the Police State," "HealthCare," and > "Environmental Justice.". A major objective for the Gathering is > for each Working Group to develop a program of research and > education around their focus area and an implementation plan for > that program. These plans will include conducting research and > developing educational materials. > > Gathering Information > > Where: Conference Center, U of Tennessee, Knoxville > at 600 Henley St. > Registration: $10.00 (before 5/15), > $20.00 (after 5/15) > Food: $25.00 - includes 2 meals on Thursday, > 3 on Friday and beverage service > Housing: UT dorms: > single room- $14.50 per day > double room - $11.50/person per day; > Hotel rooms available at Holiday Inn across from the > Conf Center. Call for reservation: 1(800) 465-4329 > Transportation: Shuttle available at Gathering > Cosponsorship : Cosponsors may be individuals or organizations. > Cosponsorship means distributing Gathering materials to your > network, participating in the Gathering planning process, and > making a financial contribution of $100 or more (which is tax > deductible). Cosponsors will be listed in the program. Table > space will be provided to cosponsors during the Gathering. > > > Gathering Schedule (tentative) > > Thursday, June 22, 1995 > 9:00 am - 11:30 am Registration at UT Dorms & Shuttle to > Conference Center > ** Participants should eat before noon ** > > 12 noon - 2:30 pm Opening Plenary > "Liberation Education and Research" > > 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm Working Group Session #1 > > 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner > Shuttle to Dorms & Cafeteria > > 7:30 pm - until (To be Confirmed) > Computer Training, Cultural Activities, > Optional Working Group Meetings > > > Friday, June 23, 1995 > 7:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast at Dorms & Shuttle to > Conference Center > > 9:30 am - 12 noon Working Group Session #2 > > 12 noon - 1:00 pm Lunch at Conference Center > Keynote Speech > > 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Working Group Session #3 > > 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Closing Plenary > Reports from Working Groups > > 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner at Dorms > > > > Registration Form > Name ______________________________________ > Organization________________________________ > Address_____________________________________ > City _________________ State ____ Zip_________ > phone _________________ fax _________________ > e-mail _____________________________ > > Enclosed is: > Registration Fee: $10 before 5/15 $________ > $20 after 5/15 > Food Fee: $25 $________ > Housing Fee: $________ > single at $14.50/day for ____ days > double at $11.50/person/day for _____ days > __ Wednesday ___ Thursday ___ Friday > > TOTAL: $________ > Cosponorship: > Yes, I/we want to be a cosponsor. > Enclosed is my/our fee $________ > > ____ I need information about child care; > Age(s) of child(ren): > ____ I have special needs. > > ____ Please send information about the Southern region Up & Out of > Poverty NOW! Survival Summit Planning Meeting, June 24 at the > U of Tennessee, Knoxville > > * Make checks or money orders payable to "Project South" > For more information call: 404-584-7141 Jerome Scott or Abbie > Illenberger, email: projectsouth@igc.apc.org > or call: 301-320-4034 -- Walda Katz-Fishman > email: wkatzfishman@igc.apc.org > > Please indicate which working group(s) you are interested in: > Poverty & the Global Economy ___ > Political Economy of the Southeast ___ > Criminal Injustice & the Police State ___ > Health Care For All ___ > Environmental Justice ___ > > -- ********************************************************************** Talmadge Wright (312)508-3451 * Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology FAX:(312)508-3646 * Loyola University Chicago twright@orion.it.luc.edu * 6525 N. Sheridan Rd. * Chicago, Illinois 60626 * ********************************************************************** From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 17 09:05:24 1995 Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 12:04:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert S Gossweiler To: SOCGRAD Subject: Destruction of NSF Funding Please excuse any multiple postings of this, but I think its important. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 07:23:36 -0400 From: Andrew Beveridge Subject: Forwarded mail.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 21:14:41 -0400 From: MLV.APA@email.apa.org Message from senate-l: Subjecnologergency Action Alert Date: Mon, 15 May 95 20:45 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT From the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences The House Budget Committee has recommended the complete elimination of NSF research funding for Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics, Political Science, Economics, Geography, Cognitive Science, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences, History of Science, and Statistical Research for the Behavioral and Social Sciences-- as NSF's contribution to balancing the Federal budget. There is no doubt that NSF funding will be cut in the effort to balance the budget. But to selectively wipe out the behavioral and social sciences goes far beyond simply saving money. This is the most important crisis these sciences have faced since Ronald Reagan attempted to eliminate the same sciences in the early 1980s. Action on this will happen very quickly. The Budget Committee approved the budget package on May 11. The vote on the package by the full House will happen sometime between the 15th and 18th of May. In all likelihood, the budget resolution will pass the House unaltered. The Appropriations Committee will be bound by the spending limits imposed by the Budget Committee. But it need not be bound by the particular cuts recommended by the Budget Committee! Unfortunately, the House leadership has also made it known that no program that lacks a current authorization will be funded. The National Science Foundation is not currently authorized. Efforts to pass its authorization failed last year in the Senate. The House Science Committee Chair, Robert Walker (R-PA) has said that as soon as the budget is passed, the Science Committee will proceed to report its authorizations which include, among other things, NSF, NASA, and the research programs of the Department of Energy. Robert Walker is also the Vice-Chair of the Budget Committee, and he played a key role in determining the selective cuts at NSF. In a news conference on May 12, Walker said that the Directorate containing the research programs mentioned above was created simply because it was "politically correct" and that it is now time to make a correction. This means that there is little chance the NSF authorization from his Committee will contain an authorization for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. If the Committee does not authorize the Directorate, the Appropriations Committee cannot fund the research programs it contains. So scientists must pay close attention to actions of the Budget, Appropriations, and the authorizing committee. The only way the course of events can be changed is for concerned citizens to let their elected representatives know that they as voters do not approve of these ideological cuts masquerading as budget balancing measures. You must take it on yourself immediately to 1) write or call your own representative and senator's office to express your disapproval 2) send a copy of your letter to: Robert Walker, George Brown (ranking minority member of the Science Committee and a likely ally of behavioral and social scientists), Jerry Lewis (Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that appropriates money for the National Science Foundation). And this next thing is equally important: SEND, FAX OR EMAIL A COPY OF YOUR CORRESPONDENCE TO THE FEDERATION OF BEHAVIORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES. We have to be able to monitor how great an impact behavioral and social scientists are having, and the only way we can do that is by keeping track of how many contacts from scientists congressional offices have received. Any letter to Congress may be addressed as follows: Representative's name, U.S. House of Representatives (or U.S. Senate) Washington, D.C. 20515 (House) or 20510 (Senate). The Federation email is federation@apa.org. Federation fax is (202) 336-6158. If you need more information, our telephone number is (202) 336-5920. 3) Help us get the word out. Please see that the anthropology, sociology, linguistics, economics, political science, cognitive science, and geography departments on your campus receive this action alert as well. 4) It is very important that elected representatives do not hear only from the scientists affected. If you have acquaintances in the physical or biological sciences or the university administration who would write a letter or make a phone call to an elected representative, do everything you can to get such a communication sent. __________________________________________________________________________ For help with senate-l, mail a message to majordomo@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu with the word "help" in the body of your message. __________________________________________________________________________ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 17 10:50:15 1995 Wed, 17 May 95 13:49:05 +1100 From: "SRC SAMPLING" Organization: Survey Research Center, UMCP To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 13:48:42 EDT Subject: re: sampling Sample Design for Household Telephone Surveys A Bibliography 1949-1995 Compiled by: Johnny Blair Shanyang Zhao Barbara Bickart Ralph Kuhn Maintained by: Survey Research Center University of Maryland at College Park draft 03/10/95 Alexander, C.H. 1988. 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American Statistical Association: Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods. Pp. 648-53. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 17 12:59:31 1995 Wed, 17 May 95 15:56:12 +1100 From: "SRC SAMPLING" Organization: Survey Research Center, UMCP To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 15:55:57 EDT Subject: re: sampling Apologies to everybody on the list! We accidentally mailed the complete bibliography instead of an announcement. Please feel free to distribute. But please do not cite. Thanks Ralph From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu May 18 07:11:32 1995 Date: Thu, 18 May 95 10:14:09 EST From: LBurns@edc.org Encoding: 56 Text To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Help future soc grad Hi, I am very seriously considering pursuing an advanced degree in Sociology and could really benefit from any advice anyone could give me. I've read a few catalogues and talked to a few people, but I still have a lot of unanswered questions. Any help I could get would be really appreciated. 1. Ph.D or MA? I was told by someone in the field that I really should go for a Ph.D so I was surprised to see how many programs offered an MA. I have the perception that Ph.D's usually become professors at universities where they carry on their research. I am not interested in teaching. I see myself doing research for a public or private organization. In this case, what are the pros and cons of a MA or Ph.D? What obstacles would I face in my career if I only receive a Masters? I also hear stories of people getting Ph.D's and ending up jobless or in some unrelated field. Is this often true in sociology? I admit I have some trepidation about committing to a Ph.D. program. Are terminal masters awarded only if the student is asked to leave the program? 2. Admissions I really have very little sense of what my chances are for admission at this point. I am hoping to apply this year for fall 96 admission. I graduated cum laude from Wellesley College in 1991 with a major in architecture and a strong minor in mathematics. I also took several courses in Psychology and one in Sociology. I worked for several years in an architecture firm as an office manager while I tried to figure out what field of study I wanted to pursue. Six months ago I began a Senior Administrative Assistant position on a math education research project. What are the criteria for admission? How much coursework in Sociology or other social sciences is necessary? How much weight is given to a math background? How important is work experience? What can I do to improve my application? I would like to get a research assistant position, but I am finding it difficult without a background in social science. Any suggestions? Should I plan on taking Sociology courses? If so, what kind of courses would be most beneficial? 3. Application Essay How narrow a focus do I need to have for a successful application? Do I need to choose my advisor at this point? If so, am I bound to this? 4. Programs The programs I am most interested in so far are: Johns Hopkins, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke and Harvard. Any information about the pros and cons of these programs would be great. I'd like to hear about courses, professors, social life, location, financial aid, research assistantships etc. I would love to hear about other programs as well. If you have some information that would help you can email me directly, unless of course you feel it would be beneficial for the whole group. Thanks. lburns@edc.org From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu May 18 14:52:27 1995 From: mzh@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 17:49:34 EST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: unsubscribe unsubscribe From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu May 18 17:49:16 1995 From: Jean Czerlinski Subject: re: Help future soc grad To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Thu, 18 May 95 19:49:48 CDT Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] > > Hi, I am very seriously considering pursuing an advanced degree in Sociology a nd > could really benefit from any advice anyone could give me. I've read a few > To anyone considering going on for a Master's or Ph.D., and even for those already in graduate programs, I'd highly recommend: Peters, Robert L. 1992. *Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D.* New York: Noonday Press. Among other things, the book suggests first finding potential advisors. The chapters titles include: What is graduate school like? Do you need to go? Should you work first? Choosing a school: the thesis advisor Choosing a school: secondary aspects [incl. prestige, topical emphasis, attrition policy, time to complete, placement success, emotional quality, resources, teaching requirements] Applications and admissions Improving your credentials for admission Financial aid *** and then, after you get there...*** Managing yourself Playing politics: building a reputation Master's comprehensive and Ph.D. qualifying exams Choosing and managing your thesis committee The thesis topic: finding it Th thesis proposal The thesis: writing it The thesis defense Oral presentations: the key to being a star Dealing with stress and depression Swimming with the mainstream: returning students, women, minorities and foreign students Bringing it all together: the job In fact, going over this makes me want to review some of those sections! Peters also has a lively writing style, so it's fun to read. Good luck!! Jean (jczer@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu May 18 19:19:03 1995 From: XMGARRETT@CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 19:18:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: unsubscribe To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU unsubscribe From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun May 21 21:08:40 1995 Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 23:05:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Myer To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Info request Hello! I'm in the need for a little info, well it's not really a pressing need, but i have a curiosity that needs to be met. I am wondering about others schools enrollment. More specifically I am curious how many students are in each school, how many and soc majors and how many grad students are in the dept. (soc) If any of you happen to know what these numbers are for your school, it would be cool of you to send them to me. I guess i'm not really looking for exact numbers, close enuff is good enough for me. I'm interested because i fear that here at U missouri-columbia, we have too few u-grad soc majors. we have about 27,000 student, 50 students in the grad dept. , but only a little less that 100 soc majors. This is fairly important for the money the dept. gets is partly based on the number of majors. I think you all know where i'm going from there... more dept. $$$ means more grad-student funding, a plus in my book! I would guess that everyone would not be all that interested in the numbers, but if you think they would be, post it globaly, if not, just slip it into my mail box, if you feel the urge. :) Thanks! Brent From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun May 21 23:27:47 1995 From: LEVINSON@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 02:24:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: along the lines of brent's questions To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU I was reading brent's post, and decided to do a bit of grunt legwork. I went through the latest edition of the ASA guide to grad. depts (in this case the 94 edition, meaning 93 data) and looked up the 5 depts. with the most undergrad majors. In case anyone is curious the list goes as follows. 1. Cal State Northridge 665 majors 2. Univ. New Mexico 661 majors 3. Rutgers 655 majors (my school) 4. Ohio State 651 majors 5. U Cal Santa Barbara 612 majors No other school had over 600, the next highest (I believe) is UCLA with about 570, although there could be 1 or 2 others in between. Some of these struck me as so counterintuitive (esp. New Mexico, which I don't think is a particularly large school) that I am sort of wondering what is going on. Some of the bigger schools have only moderate sized numbers of undergrad majors, and many of the grad depts ranked highest do not have as many majors as one would think. Another question I was thinking of, about the association between amount of majors and funding available for grad. students to teach. Rutgers has the 3rd largest numbers of undergrad majors, but not the amount of teaching money that you might expect given the teaching load. This is due to amongst other things, the economy of the state, and the relative position of the dept in the eyes of university administrators relative to other depts (these people after all, decide how much money depts get). At least here, they don't seem to care much about the number of majors. New Mexico for instance (and most of what I know here is from the ASA guide, not my own experience, so take it with a grain of salt. If anyone knows otherwise, tell me). Has a comparable large number of undergrad majors, in a much smaller school. They however, seem to have a fairly large degree of funding (at least judging from the numbers I saw, it looked that way).\ My question is mostly this. What is/is there relationship between perceived relative prestige of depts, number of under grad majors, and relative amount of funding available for grad students (specifically for teaching). Based strictly on initial observations, what I saw looked surprising enough to me to merit further investigation. Does anyone else think this is potentially worthwhile?? Any ideas for how to go about looking for data, and what I might do with it if I found it. Justin Levinson up late at night, and avoiding doing "real" work Rutgers University From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 22 06:38:17 1995 Date: Mon, 22 May 95 09:35 EDT From: "Frank D. Beck" Subject: Re: Info request To: c646827@showme.missouri.edu -- Sun, 21 May 1995 23:05:49 -0500 (CDT) Brent, Justin, and others, Penn State has 40 grad students, 200 majors, and 200 minors. I know that right now we are making no effort to recruit more majors. If they knock on my door for advising, great. Otherwise, we're not pursuing them. We definitley do not want any more minors. At this point the college does not recognize them (i.e. no money for minors). Again we'll take them if they search us out. Hope the information is useful in your search for a pattern. Peace, Frank From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 22 07:33:10 1995 Date: Mon, 22 May 95 10:30:11 EDT From: "Emilio L. Lombardi" Subject: Listserv mailing lists To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hi all. I'm looking for information on how to set up a mailing list like socgrad. I'm part of an organization that is looking for new ways to reach people and I thought that this might be a good idea. So I'm hoping that someone can give me an idea about how I should set something like this up and what steps I should take. Thanks in advance. EMILIO L. LOMBARDI THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON EMILIOLOMBARDI@UAKRON.EDU Department of Sociology OLIN HALL #263 (216) 972-5358 OFFICE AKRON, OHIO 44325 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 22 08:41:41 1995 by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (PMDF V4.3-11 #9008) id <01HQSU7XEWHC95A3RZ@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>; Mon, 22 May 1995 10:40:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 10:40:18 -0500 (CDT) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU From: 1k1mgm@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Christopher Gunn) Subject: Re: along the lines of brent's questions To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU LEVINSON@zodiac.rutgers.edu (Justin Levinson) writes: >I was reading brent's post, and decided to do a bit of grunt legwork. >I went through the latest edition of the ASA guide to grad. depts >(in this case the 94 edition, meaning 93 data) and looked up the >5 depts. with the most undergrad majors. > [....] >Some of these struck me as so counterintuitive (esp. New Mexico, >which I don't think is a particularly large school) that I am sort >of wondering what is going on. Some of the bigger schools have >only moderate sized numbers of undergrad majors, and many of >the grad depts ranked highest do not have as many majors as >one would think. Some of these counterintuitive sizes may be administrative artifacts: elements of things like criminal justice, social work, health care administration, gerontology, etc., getting lumped in with academic sociology. Here (Univ. of Kansas) there was for quite a few years a non-departmental, interdisciplinary major called 'personnel adminstration' or something like that. Political science supplied the secretarial support. Then the business school here instituted strict admissions criteria, 'personnel administration' became B-School Lite for people who couldn't get into the real program and swelled to more than 1,000 majors! Political science rebelled at supporting it, no one else wanted to do it, and the degree eventually was abolished. One wonders, though, if in some surveys, for a while, KU's political science department showed up with 1,000 more majors than it really had. 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 May 22 11:46:21 1995 Date: Mon, 22 May 95 13:44 EST To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: MINLIU@irishmvs.cc.nd.edu Subject: RE: Info Requested Major choice/enrollment could be related to race/ethnicity. I read that minority, esp. Hispanics students are more likely to major in soc. Could it be part of the reason that New Mexico has the biggest (?) number of majors? Min Liu U. of Notre Dame From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 22 12:21:07 1995 Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 14:21:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Sandra Wald To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Why am I getting this email? Why am I getting this??? I have not requested to be on this list? PLease note how your address shows up at my end: IN@socgrad@UCSD.EDU. Is someone putting out a bad address? sincerely, Sandra Sandra J. Wald swald@ssc.wisc.edu (608) 265-4922 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 13:54:21 -0500 From: IN%MINLIU@irishmvs.cc.nd.edu@ssc.wisc.edu To: IN@socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: RE: Info Requested Return-path: <@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU,@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu:list-relay@UCSD.EDU> by ssc.wisc.edu (PMDF V4.3-7 #6454) id <01HQT10VLM8W94E9X1@ssc.wisc.edu>; Mon, Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 13:44 -0500 (EST) From: MINLIU@irishmvs.cc.nd.edu Subject: RE: Info Requested To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Major choice/enrollment could be related to race/ethnicity. I read that minority, esp. Hispanics students are more likely to major in soc. Could it be part of the reason that New Mexico has the biggest (?) number of majors? Min Liu U. of Notre Dame From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon May 22 21:47:10 1995 Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 23:45:45 -0500 From: lisa riley To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Does anyone out there have a phone number to the Families and Work Institute? It is a non-profit research and planning organization. Thanks, Lisa From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue May 23 19:56:57 1995 id <01HQUY45J7GW8ZLU4V@utkvx.utk.edu>; Tue, 23 May 1995 22:55:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 22:55:15 -0500 (EST) From: Walter Bower Subject: sociology graduate student list To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU sub socgrad Trey Bower From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 24 12:50:28 1995 Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 20:50:38 +0000 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: D.W.Weatherston@newcastle.ac.uk (David Weatherston) Subject: Oklahoma-POMO terrorism I would like to throw the following into the melting pot for discussion. It is widely accepted by 'researchers who study terrorism' that a model of terrorism consists of three components: the activist, the target and the audience. Essentially, the terrorist chooses a target designed to maximise influence on an audience be that government or a community in the hope that people will exert pressure on the government. The object is always political - a change in policy, dislodge an 'occupying force'. Terrorists themselves were classified into two main groupings- ideologues this label although equally relevant to the right,was predominantly applied to Left groups such as the Baader Meinhoff, Red Brigades and the Weathermen and anarchist seperatists-typified by ETA in Spain, Provisional IRA in the U.K. Somewhere in between, but mainly associated with the ideologues were the religious motivated, especially Islamic fundamentalists, in the guise of the suicide bomber, featured heavily in this group. Disregarding the merits or otherwise of these typical modernist representations of political violence, does the Oklahoma type incident represent a postmodern terrorism? >From the scantish coverage of the incident here in the u.k, as i understand it, neither Macveigh who is reported as keeping silent or the right orientated groups associated with him conform to anything like the stereotypical models and explanations offered in the literature. The position that i am coming from is that it flies in the face of the accepted concepts and on that basis alone is worthy of [my] attention in my continuous efforts to debunk the myths of terrorism. Any comments please. David Weatherston@ncl.ac.uk From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 24 13:38:08 1995 Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:38:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Sandra Wald To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: test I'm getting mail from this group although I never subscribed. Sandra Sandra J. Wald swald@ssc.wisc.edu (608) 265-4922 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 24 14:07:34 1995 Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 16:07:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Sandra Wald To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: how do I unsubscribe from this group? Instructions would help. thank you, Sandra Sandra J. Wald swald@ssc.wisc.edu (608) 265-4922 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 24 14:17:00 1995 Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 17:16:50 -0400 (EDT) From: blyden b potts To: David Weatherston Subject: Re: Oklahoma-POMO terrorism In what ways, specifically, do you believe that the Oklahoma bombing is not congruent with the modernist conception of terrorist activity? This is not an area of research that I am familiar with, but I saw nothing in your message which implied that the Oklahoma situation did not fit your sketch of what a modernist view is. Blyden B. Potts From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu May 25 06:53:14 1995 by almaak.usc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.7+ucs) Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 06:51:28 -0700 (PDT) From: James Beniger To: David Weatherston Subject: Re: Oklahoma-POMO terrorism I find David's observation interesting. Quite apart from his main points, however, I would like to know why he has used the terms "modernist" and "postmodern" to characterize the earlier and more recent approaches to terrorism. I ask because I am most interested in these two terms, and suspect that David might have something interesting in mind in using them here, although I'm afraid I have no idea what that might be. David? -- Jim ******* On Wed, 24 May 1995, David Weatherston wrote: > I would like to throw the following into the melting pot for discussion. > It is widely accepted by 'researchers who study terrorism' that a model of > terrorism consists of three components: the activist, the target and the > audience. Essentially, the terrorist chooses a target designed to maximise > influence on an audience be that government or a community in the hope that > people will exert pressure on the government. The object is always > political - a change in policy, dislodge an 'occupying force'. Terrorists > themselves were classified into two main groupings- ideologues this label > although equally relevant to the right,was predominantly applied to Left > groups such as the Baader Meinhoff, Red Brigades and the Weathermen and > anarchist seperatists-typified by ETA in Spain, Provisional IRA in the U.K. > Somewhere in between, but mainly associated with the ideologues were the > religious motivated, especially Islamic fundamentalists, in the guise of > the suicide bomber, featured heavily in this group. > Disregarding the merits or otherwise of these typical modernist > representations of political violence, does the Oklahoma type incident > represent a postmodern terrorism? > >From the scantish coverage of the incident here in the u.k, as i understand > it, neither Macveigh who is reported as keeping silent or the right > orientated groups associated with him conform to anything like the > stereotypical models and explanations offered in the literature. > The position that i am coming from is that it flies in the face of the > accepted concepts and on that basis alone is worthy of [my] attention in my > continuous efforts to debunk the myths of terrorism. > Any comments please. > David Weatherston@ncl.ac.uk > > > > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri May 26 04:28:42 1995 Newsgroups: alt.sci.sociology Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 07:27:32 -0400 From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS:MAPOR (fwd) FYI ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 16:12:00 CDT From: TI0EMD1@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS:MAPOR MAPOR 1995 CALL FOR PROPOSALS 20th Anniversary Meeting! Annual Conference: Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research November 17-18, 1995 The Radisson Hotel & Suites Chicago Chicago, Illinois The Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, a chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, invites proposals for papers or presentations related to public opinion processes or opinion research methods. Proposals on all topics in public opinion are welcome, but must be directly related to public opinion, such as theoretical issues, analysis of public opinion data, or survey methodologies. Proposals for Papers Submissions for papers must be abstracts no longer than two typed, double-spaced pages. No full-length papers will be reviewed. Please put the name(s) of the author(s) and affiliation on a separate page (for blind refereeing). Please include your full mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address if you have one. You will receive notification of the action on your proposal by August 15, 1995. Send three (3) copies of each submission to Ellen M. Dran, MAPOR Conference Chair, Center for Governmental Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. Fax is 815-753-2305, and e- mail is ti0emd1@wpo.cso.niu.edu. Submissions must be postmarked by June 30, 1995. Faxes or e-mail must be received by 4:30 (CDT) on June 30. NO EXCEPTIONS! Possible Topics Topics may include, but are not limited to: The 1996 Electoral Campaign. Methodological and substantive issues as they relate to election polls, the use of polling in the campaign, media coverage of polls. Methodological Issues in Public Opinion Research. Questionnaire design, refusals, sampling issues. Mass Media and Public Opinion. Public journalism and public opinion, the role of polls in agenda setting, influences of the mass media on public opinion, the use of polls by the media. Qualitative Studies. Qualitative approaches, including focus groups, to the study of public opinion, as an aid to questionnaire construction or interpretation. Public Opinion Processes and Effects. The variety of theoretical and analytical questions raised in public opinion studies. Measurement of Demographic Characteristics. Issues in the measurement of such characteristics as socioeconomic status, religion, ethnicity. Issues in Polling on Health Care. Sampling concerns, content of questionnaires, measurement of satisfaction. Panels Please submit proposals for panels by June 30, 1995. You may submit a written proposal (up to two typed double-spaced pages) or telephone the program chair, Ellen Dran, at 815-753-0918. Proposals should identify the topic, briefly explain its importance, and indicate the number of panelists and their areas of interest/expertise. Poster Sessions Please indicate on your paper proposal if you would like to participate in the poster session rather than a paper session. The poster session will take place only if there is a sufficient number of presenters. Moderators and Discussants Please indicate if you would like to act as a moderator or discussant and the type of session you prefer (e.g., methodological, campaigns, media, etc.). Or, contact the program chair after the preliminary program is released in September. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri May 26 04:55:31 1995 Newsgroups: alt.sci.sociology Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 07:54:06 -0400 From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Mid-South Opp: Global Sociology (fwd) FYI-- Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 May 95 16:51:34 CDT From: J. Timmons Roberts To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK Subject: Mid-South Opp: Global Sociology Dear WSN and ENVTECSOC people: I'm organizing a session for the Mid-South Sociological Association conference entitled "Global Issues in Sociology." The session title is very vague, and I'm willing to consider a range of topics dealing with international sociology/development/environment etc. I WELCOME YOUR SUBMISSIONS: even of an abstract or short description of the paper you intend to present. DEADLINE: June 15, 1995 The conference will be held at Ramada in Mobile, Alabama, OCTOBER 25-28, 1995 Note: the Mid-South meetings are unpretentious and relaxed, and have lately become one of the best meetings for environmental sociology. They are also affordable. You can submit paper/abstract by mail or email at address below: J. Timmons Roberts Assistant Professor Department of Sociology/Program in Latin American Studies Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 USA timmons@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Thanks. Timmons From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri May 26 13:17:21 1995 From: "Julian B. Dierkes" Date: Fri, 26 May 95 16:11:32 EDT To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: ajs has anyon eles had a look at the current ajs? it's literally bulging with qualitative research and theory! how refreshing. specifically, i was wondering what other people thought of the strikebreakers analysis. i harbor a fascination for boolean methods and thought this analysis was rather nice, although i wish the authors had been more specific in describing the data. but it seems to me that the truth tables they use are a good illustration of how boolean methods can be helpful in analyzing a problem. i remain less convinced that causality can be established in this manner, but it's an interesting approach anyway. comments? 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 Fri May 26 13:52:16 1995 From: SFULLER@ac.dal.ca Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 17:50:15 -0300 Subject: choosing grad program To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU Hi all, I have a query that is directed primarily to the Canadian members of the list. What is the relative salability of a PhD from Rutgers vs UBC at Canadian universities. I had decided to attend Rutgers, but have just heard that UBC is also able to offer me funding (gotta love how they wait so long to decide these things. I have good people to work with at either department, and if I go to Rutgers, am planning to try and maintain my Canadian networks by continuing to present at Canadian conferences. I presume that if I am forced to look for an academic job in the US, the Rutgers degree will be more advantageous, but I'm not really sure of how it would be perceived in Canada vs a degree from UBC. If anyone has any insight into this matter, please e-mail. Thanks Sylvia Fuller From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun May 28 13:05:29 1995 Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 21:04:06 +0000 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: D.W.Weatherston@newcastle.ac.uk (David Weatherston) Subject: Re: Oklahoma-POMO terrorism >In what ways, specifically, do you believe that the Oklahoma >bombing is not congruent with the modernist conception of >terrorist activity? This is not an area of research that I >am familiar with, but I saw nothing in your message which >implied that the Oklahoma situation did not fit your sketch >of what a modernist view is. > Blyden B. Potts I find David's observation interesting. Quite apart from his main points, however, I would like to know why he has used the terms "modernist" and "postmodern" to characterize the earlier and more recent approaches to terrorism. I ask because I am most interested in these two terms, and suspect that David might have something interesting in mind in using them here, although I'm afraid I have no idea what that might be. David? -- Jim The modernist conception of terrorism revolves around the notion of the clandestine group of activists aka the terrorist cell, issuing demands, statements and communique's. Research has not progressed very far since the seventies when there was a flurry of applications to conduct postmortem examination of the body of Ulrike Meinhof. In essence, research is strongly biased towards the 'modernist approach' of either isolating some pathology or is geared towards the discovery of life circumstances, socialisation patterns that would explain why some actors engage in terrorism. The modernist part of the argument is that the activist is in someway different, deviant and that the objective of enquiry is to scientifically uncover whatever it is. The left criticise terrorism research with arguments that researchers are biased towards maintaining hegemony, that terrorist is a negative ascription applied to 'deviant' political groups, activists, communities etc. It seems to me, that both revisionist and orthodox perspectives come from the same point in that the locus of debate centres upon the validity or otherwise of data and not 'knowledge bases'. This was apparent on the PSN list discussion concerning Oklahoma, that time, it wasn't the right/orthodox that went down the pathological road, but the left/revisionists. There has been scant coverage of Oklahoma here in the UK press, but as I understand it, the militia movement, right activism has more to do with social new movements (as do cults etc.) than the classical but persistent terrorist cell type model. I may be wide of the mark,in which case I'll shut up:-) rgds. David D.W.Weatherston@ncl.ac.uk From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 31 07:10:00 1995 31 May 95 10:05:54 +1100 From: "morten g. ender" Organization: University of Maryland,College Park To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 10:05:49 EDT Subject: book reviews on-line question! anybody know if one can access book reviews and/or citations of reviewed books electronically? i don't want to walk to the library... morten ^ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed May 31 07:37:29 1995 Date: Wed, 31 May 95 10:23:27 EDT From: Alan Subject: Book review on-line To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU I don't know how specialized the book reviews you are looking for are, but there are gopher sites which have book reviews from popular Journals such as New Republic, etc. on line. A good place to start is, if I remember, the Michigan State gopher and the University of California -- San Diego gopher, look for "the electronic newstand".