From lmiller@weber.ucsd.edu Wed Jul 3 13:06:30 1996 Received: from weber.ucsd.edu (weber.ucsd.edu [132.239.147.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id NAA18498; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:06:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from lmiller@localhost on ttyu3) by weber.ucsd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA21169; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 12:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 12:06:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Miller Message-Id: <199607031906.MAA21169@weber.ucsd.edu> To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: how to leave Socgrad Cc: schaper@csf.colorado.edu Too much email in your life? If you want to unsubscribe from Socgrad, send a message to: listproc@csf.colorado.edu and in the body of your message, type: unsub socgrad Remember to send the message to listproc, NOT to Socgrad itself. Any problems or questions can be directed to: lmiller@ucsd.edu or glenn@osiris.colorado.edu 7/3/96 From ffdog@earthlink.net Wed Jul 3 19:43:28 1996 Received: from cyprus.it.earthlink.net (cyprus-c.it.earthlink.net [206.85.92.65]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id TAA05835 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 19:43:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from LOCALNAME (max7-so-ca-26.earthlink.net [206.250.111.127]) by cyprus.it.earthlink.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA10175 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 18:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 18:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607040143.SAA10175@cyprus.it.earthlink.net> X-Sender: ffdog@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: Jerry Blaz Subject: Re: how to leave Socgrad I often wonder why folks cannot save the file they get so they can get on socgrad, so if for some reason they most unsubscribe they cannot do it without the good graces of people like the person who has posted this message below two weeks in succession. Is it some demonstration of "nongeekness" that someone who can go through the red tape of getting into a graduate school cannot figure out a way of filing the help message that was needed in the first place? If you are logging on from a machine at school, there still has to be a way for you to save your own files. In a subdirectory of that place, can't a set of help files from the various lists one might subscribe to be kept? Even if it is on a floppy disk, it is there, somewhere. I only bring this up because I am subscribing to at least a dozen lists, and this is one of the smaller ones, and there are more requests for information that goes to the entire list on socgrad than any of the others. No, none of them are for computer techies, and believe me when I say that I myself regard me as an eternal newbie. Jerry At 12:06 PM 7/3/96 -0700, you wrote: >Too much email in your life? > >If you want to unsubscribe from Socgrad, send a message to: > listproc@csf.colorado.edu > >and in the body of your message, type: > unsub socgrad > > >Remember to send the message to listproc, NOT to Socgrad itself. > > >Any problems or questions can be directed to: > > lmiller@ucsd.edu >or > glenn@osiris.colorado.edu > > >7/3/96 > > Jerry Blaz/The BOOKie Joint 7246 Reseda Blvd. Reseda, CA 91335 USA (818)345-2983/(818)343-1055 ffdog@earthlink.net Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a good book. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. G. Marx From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Sun Jul 7 08:01:52 1996 Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id IAA01508 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 08:01:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id IAA13407; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 08:46:20 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 08:46:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: Social Science Data List cc: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Sixth International Conf on Applied and Business Demography Info (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Jul 1996 11:40:47 -0400 From: Applied Demography Conference Information To: kvrao@bgnet.bgsu.edu Subject: Sixth International Conf on Applied and Business Demography Info We thank you for your interest in The Sixth International Conference on Applied and Business Demography to be held in Bowling Green, Oh from Sept 19 to Setp. 21, 1996. Preliminary Program will be mailed to a select list of PAA members and Canadian Population Society members besides those who are participating next week or so. Meanwhile, we have established a web site with conference information and updates for those of you who have access to internet. The Conference web page is located at: http://www.bgsu.edu/~kvrao/ Preliminary program and online registration form is available at that location. Please send your early registration by 1 August 96 if you wish to participate at the meetings. All participants must register for the conference and doing so early would help us prepare your folders etc. Sincerely yours, K.V. Rao Chair, Organizing Comm. From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Mon Jul 8 06:38:40 1996 Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id GAA29933 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 06:38:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id IAA15286; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 08:38:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 08:38:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Position Announcement (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Jul 1996 17:33:49 -0500 From: Jipson Art To: Academic Discussion of Popular Music , Anthony Orum , ASA , Carl Dassbach , Center for Research on RSC , Chad Litton , elizabeth tracy , Morten Ender , "Morton G. Wenger, Dept. of Sociology" , "North Central Sociological Association (NCSA) Bulletin Board" , "P.S.N." , "Pamela L. Gray" <3cvfv5k@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>, Patrick McGuire , PEPINSKY@ucs.indiana.edu, Peter Meiksins , Popular Culture & American Culture Associations/H-Net Discussion list , PURCELDA@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU, Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences , TEACHSOC@maple.lemoyne.edu, "Tom Calhoun (614) 593-1378" , Vicky Demos , Kimmel Stacey Subject: Position Announcement ***Please Distribute Widely*** Miami University. Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and Anthropology invites applications for a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor position in sociology for the 1996-1997 academic year. The successful candidate should be able to teach basic undergraduate sociology courses; with expertise in population/demography also prefered. The successful candidate should have strong teaching credentials; a completed Ph.D. is preferred. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, teaching evaluations, if available, and names of three references to: Dr. Robert Applebaum (RAPPLE@miamiu.muohio.edu), Chair, Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and Anthropology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056. For additional information, call 513-529-2628. We will fill the position as soon as possible. Miami University is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minority candidates. Please spread this announcement as widely as possible. This announcement is also available at: http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~ajjipson/position.html Thank you. -Art Art Jipson Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and Anthropology Upham Hall Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513-529-2637 (o) 513-529-2628 (d) 513-529-8525 (f) jipsonaj@muohio.edu Me: http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~ajjipson NCSA: http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~ajjipson/NCSA.htmlx From denali@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Mon Jul 8 07:25:10 1996 Received: from tiberium.circ.gwu.edu (tiberium.circ.gwu.edu [128.164.127.251]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id HAA01323 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 07:25:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (denali@gwis2 [128.164.127.252]) by tiberium.circ.gwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA06856 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:21:46 -0400 Received: (from denali@localhost) by gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) id JAA12634; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:25:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:25:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Jennifer R Popovic Subject: Qualitative listserv To: Socgrad listserv Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anybody know a qualitative research discussion group? I know I heard of one not long ago but can't seem to find the address. Thanks in advance! Jen Popovic MA candidate, Department of Sociology George Washington University denali@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Mon Jul 8 08:15:48 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id IAA02620 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 08:15:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0251; Mon, 08 Jul 96 10:15:11 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6311; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 10:15:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 08 Jul 96 10:12:18 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: Qualitative listserv To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU X-Mailer: MailBook 95.01.000 Message-Id: <960708.101509.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> The only active listserv for qualitative methods in general (there are more specific ones for narrative, content analysis, action research, and the like) is qualrs-l, and it is located at uga.cc.uga.edu. This is a very general list, and has a lot of qualitative types from both soc. and other disciplines who think they are getting truth -- in other words, not for the more critical soc./poststructuralist, or even Cultural Studies folks among us. From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Mon Jul 8 18:51:53 1996 Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id SAA22086 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:51:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id UAA20185; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:51:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:51:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: FW: chief, reproductive statistics branch (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 08 Jul 96 13:02:00 edt From: Li, Rose Maria To: "'demographic-list@coombs.anu.edu.au'" Subject: FW: chief, reproductive statistics branch Dear Colleague: Attached is the position announcement for a Supervisory Statistician (health), (demography), or (survey), GS-1530-14. This position will be vacant as of July 29 and is located in the Division of Vital Statistics. As Chief of the Reproductive Statistics Branch, the incumbent will be responsible for all areas of natality statistics, maternal and child health statistics, reproductive-related followback survey activities, and the National Survey of Family Growth. Perhaps you know of someone who would be interested in this position. If so, would you please pass this announcement along to them or distribute it in your area. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Mary Anne Freedman Director Division of Vital Statistics **************************************************************************** **** In responding, please refer to VACANCY NUMBER: PSA5NW96020X OPENING DATE: June 26, 1996 CLOSING DATE: July 31, 1996 POSITION: Supervisory Statistician (Health), (Demography), or (Survey), GS-1530-14 SALARY: $62,473.00 - $81,217.00 LOCATION: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Vital Statistics, Reproductive Statistics Branch , Hyattsville, Maryland NOTE: Moving/travel expenses are not authorized. TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Career or Career-Conditional/Full-Time DUTIES: The incumbent serves as Chief of the Reproductive Statistics Branch, and is responsible for directing the planning and development of the full range of programs and activities relating to reproductive health statistics. This includes data collection and analysis, methodological research and evaluation of program activity in all areas of reproduction, maternal and child health, family formation, growth, and dissolution. Incumbent provides oversight in the planning, collection, processing and tabulation of data on several major national-level projects; directs a nationwide computer-assisted survey of the reproductive age population; directs the overall planning, development and execution of the national reproductive related followback survey activities; participates in the development of national and international standards and definitions relating to reproductive statistics; provides advice and guidance in policy and program planning and development; carries out the full range of supervisory and managerial responsibilities involved for the programs; and represents the Center in various committees, professional meetings and conferences. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must meet the basic qualification requirements outlined in OPM Qualification Standards Handbook. Specifically, applicants must have successfully completed one of the following: (A) a full 4-year course leading to a bachelor's degree in an accredited college or university which has included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc. or (B) A combination of education and experience which includes courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate or additional education. The experience should include a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance. In addition, candidates must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is that which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to successfully perform the duties of the position, such as planning, development, and coordination of health data collection methods and management of the implementation of various survey integration activities, providing expertise on vital statistics systems and developing standards and definitions relative to reproductive statistics. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (KSA's): KSA's are the specific characteristics that applicants should posses in order to perform the major duties of the position. Applicants should address the specific KSAs on a separate sheet of paper as an attachment to your application. 1. Knowledge of the national vital statistics system, and reproductive and related statistical health data. 2. Ability to plan, evaluate and direct large scale, nation-wide surveys. 3. Skill in oral communications. 4. Skill in writing scientific communications. NOTE: Since this is a supervisory position, candidates must have also demonstrated or shown the potential to develop the necessary supervisory knowledge, skills, and abilities. A supervisory probationary period may be required. Applicants should describe any previous experience or responsibility which could be used in relation to these requirements. WHO MAY APPLY: All citizens of the United States. No previous Federal experience is required. FILING DEADLINE: Applications must be postmarked or received no later than the closing date. BASIS OF RATING: All applicants will be rated on the basis of education, experience, and KSAs responses appropriate to this position. Only education and experience acquired by the filing deadline will be considered. Unpaid or voluntary experience related to the position will be considered in determining qualifications. NOTE: ICTAP candidates must provide the Notice' of their status to participate in the program. LENGTH OF ELIGIBILITY: Applications accepted under the announcement listing will be considered only for the specific announcement number identified on your application. FORMS REQUIRED: Applicants may submit one of the following forms: SF-171, OF-612, Curriculum Vitae, a Resume, or any other application (call 301-436-6052 for special filing instructions pertaining to a Resume or Curriculum Vitae). An SF-15 (Application for 10-point Veterans Preference) and written verification must accompany application in order to receive 10 pts. preference. A copy of college transcripts. (If selected, official college transcripts must be provided.) MAIL FORMS TO: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 1175, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, Attention: Leyla Desmond, or call Ms. Desmond at (301) 436-6052 and request for application forms and additional filing instructions to be mailed. From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Thu Jul 11 19:11:51 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id TAA15821 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 19:11:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5127; Thu, 11 Jul 96 21:11:18 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5929; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:11:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 21:09:09 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: THE NEW SOCIOLOGY (fwd) To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-Id: <960711.210955.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> Here is an interesting post to the Progressive Sociology network, I forward my response in a second. ¦----------------------------------------------------------------------¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ALAN DAVIDSON, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ CHECK OUT THE GSS HOMEPAGE AT HTTP://GOPHER.UCONN.EDU/~HCA94001/ ¦ ¦ GSSHOME.HTML ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ There exist two types of sociologists. Those who live FOR ¦ ¦ Sociology, and those who live OFF of Sociology. ¦ ¦ | | ¦ A graduate Program exists for its students, and is only as good ¦ ¦ as the students in it. A program ought not exist for the sake ¦ ¦ of faculty reputation and self-concepts alone. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ It should not surprise one if the sole purpose for one's stay on ¦ ¦ earth is to do another person a favor. ¦ -----------------------------------------------------------------------¦ ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:53:24 -0600 (MDT) Reply-To: cuzzort@spot.Colorado.EDU Sender: owner-psn-cafe@csf.colorado.edu Precedence: bulk From: Cuzzort Ray To: PSN-CAFE Subject: THE NEW SOCIOLOGY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-To: socgroup X-Listprocessor-Version: 7.1 -- ListProcessor by CREN Preamble: A young friend, a former graduate student and now a professor, wrote to me recently expressing dismay over the current state of sociology. He wondered if there was any hope. I replied with the following brief comment. It is not intended as definitive. Instead, I thought others might be interested in this issue in a general way. Is sociology viable? What is to be the fate of sociology in the coming century? *** The major error made by earlier sociology was the idea that you could "prove" social events as if they were some kind of logical or experimental matter--a kind of physical issue. (I still recall F. Stuart Chapin, in the early 50's standing at the blackboard in a graduate seminar room at the University of Minnsota. After drawing a large "S" on the board he would say, in all seriousness, "Let S = Society.") I have colleagues who are still convinced that their main task is to come up with the "true" social order. There is, of course, no such thing. The old sociology is flawed by a variety of inherent contradictions. One of the most glaring is the contradiction between notions of "objectivity" and, at the same time, an involvement with social forces that are evaluated by nonobjective moral standards. If you are perfectly objective you can, like Margie Schott, make a case for Nazism, at least when it was humming at its finest. So what that millions died? Maybe, as Goering said, you have to break a few eggs here and there--how else are you going to make a fancy omelet? Purely objectively considered, Nazism, at least for a while, was an astonishing social accomplishment. However, Nazism is morally repugnant. One rejects Nazism not on scientific but on humane moralistic grounds. The whole empirical, methodological business in modern social science has proved, in these, the final days of its dominance, to be little more than an elaborate pretense. We who started out, half a century ago in pursuit of this positivistic dream were concerned, even then, about the possibility that it might be little more than a pretense, a dismal version of natural science, but we had to give it a try. We did, and the the results are now more than obvious. The harder we worked at trying to produce scalar concepts in the social realm, the weaker our findings became. (This is nicely substantiated by Paul Meehl in a 1967 article in THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. More recently the writing of people of the stature of Lieberson has suggested that such hallowed procedures as quasi-experimentation are relatively worthless.) This is a harsh conclusion. It suggests that a dreadful amount of effort has been dedicated to a false vision. This, however, is too quick a judgement. What happened in sociology this century has been enlightening and we must learn from it rather than continue blindly adhering to the older rituals. (How many sociologu departments around the country at this point in time are still dominated by methods courses? If we just get hold of the right methods, the truth will be revealed.) If nothing else, the failures of positivist research allow us to begin to see why social language, in its ordinary usage, remains within the limits defined by relatively vague nominal and ordinal concepts. There are good reasons for this. Moreover, what one begins to see, if there is an attempt to move beyond methods as ritual, is that the prissy methods of the sociologists and social psychologists have never attained anything better than ordinary language has managed to achieve. We hoped we could create better concepts--scalars. We tried. We did not succeed. (This assertion makes a lot of people mad, but it is, by my best consideration, perfectly true. For example, nominal assessments of intelligence, let us say, are as good as any that psychologists have come up with using any scalar technique known.) So, what's left? Two major things. In considering these things we must take a couple of extraneous factors into account. One of these is the mass media. The old sociology--the nuts and sluts courses (a term used by Ivy League students to refer to social problems classes) that shocked and informed students fifty years ago--have been completely overwhelmed by television. So have a variety of other concerns that were once a part of sociology. The new sociology must offer information that is better than any coming off the tube. (This is not so easily done--as perhaps a few arrogant academics might like to think it is.) Another extraneous factor is serious and recognizable scholarship and intellectual input. So long as sociologists keep mocking physicists (the current fad is, of course, chaos theory), they are going to continue having identity crises. Who and what are they? Physicists with a social hangup? Or social philosophers who would rather be physicists? Sociology must somehow find its own identity and quit sucking up to every intellectual fad that comes down the pike.. It must finally become sociology. With this as a background, let me make two suggestions. The first is to suggest that sociology be used as a serious discipline to provide people with a diversity of ideas--ideas that have been grounded in a serious scholarly examination and then passed on to later generations. This approach does not offer truth but offers, instead, imaginative ways of dealing with any kind of social issue that might arise. One can look at the American fast food industry, let us say, as Durkheim or Goffman or Marx or Garfinkle or Mead or Burke or any of a dozen or so academically established thinkers have looked at it. No other discipline offers this kind of intellectual opportunity. This use of sociology does not offer the hope of some final, definitive, "true" interpretation. This is variety not for the sake of variety but as a way of giving young people a critical foundation for "seeing" social reality in new ways--providing them with intellectual options to draw on and "play" with in nearly any social context. I like to think of this as the "metamucil" function. Sociology can serve a fine purpose by acting as a kind of intellectual metamucil. It's function in this case would be to keep the crap in the academic colon, and in the heads of people more generally, from getting too hard--a natural tendency, by the way. (Incidentally, most empirical research can help in this effort as well. However, I cannot develop this notion here.) The other function, one I now lean toward with more and more seriousness is the comparative social policies function. No academic discipline nor any of the media at present in the United States is giving the public a good sense of how other nations deal with drugs, domestic abuse, crime, the environment, education, health issues, delinquency, teen age pregnancy (it is close to zero in Holland), and so on. This is a major need. It is one that calls for a scholarly review of a helluva lot of information. It does not require pettifogging methods. The methods would be much the same as those used by a good historian. Nor does it require, in general, elaborated forays into the thickets of Brahministic intellectual pretense--that semantic quagmire where so much sociological theory often winds up. In sum, my worried young friend, there is still a place for sociology. But we must give up the old dreams. Your friend, RPC From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Thu Jul 11 19:15:05 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id TAA15880 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 19:15:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5130; Thu, 11 Jul 96 21:14:34 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6049; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:14:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 21:14:19 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: THE NEW SOCIOLOGY To: Message-Id: <960711.211434.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> ======================================================================== 19 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 20:54:22 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: THE NEW SOCIOLOGY To: psn-cafe@csf.colorado.edu Message-Id: <960711.210834.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> I applaud Ray Cuzzort's proposal for what sociology needs to do. What I am most amazed with (perhaps being one of the few graduate students still left -- definitely in my department who read Parsons, etc.) is that in our attempts to be scientific, especially after the "demise" of functionalism, is we rejected all that was probably worth saving, and saved what was worth trashing. Instead of grand theory which, although pretentious held the promise of linking micro and middle range social phenomena to broader structures, thereby telling us a thing or two about society and the place of institutions in it, we, in our research factory mentality, adopted paradigm- based toolbook sociology which offered very little critical potential at all. At least if you root particular phenomena within a broader notion of society, we can attempt to transform society. The other issue which needs to be dealt with is sociology's public image, and utility. Not only is this an issue, as Ray suggests, of ways we can be useful, although that is important (one of my undergraduate theory profs used to warn us about the discussions over Durkheim and Weber taking place in the unemployment line), but 35 years ago, your "average" college educated person likely knew who Dave Riesman or C. Wright Mills were, and they might have known who Lew Coser was. How many sociologists might be placed into this category now -- at most, Herb Gans, and perhaps Stanley Aronowitz and Todd Gitlin. It is instructive to examine why this was the case, and what immediately comes to mind is folks like Riesman, Mills, and Gans wrote and write books that non-sociologists might find interestingly and useful. Furthermore, while they do make reference to empirical findings, they don't let their arguments rise and fall solely on the basis of whatever truth pops out in a regression source table or whatever hits them in the eye in a field setting. Their task was to understand society in order to change it, and not to regularly publish in ASR or AJS. ======================================================================== 134 From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Thu Jul 11 19:29:35 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id TAA16319 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 19:29:34 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5220; Thu, 11 Jul 96 21:29:04 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6434; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:29:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 21:28:35 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: oops To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-Id: <960711.212904.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> I apologize that my signature file got in the way of my forward of the New Sociology piece by Ray Cuzzort. From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Sat Jul 13 08:47:57 1996 Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id IAA22117 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 08:47:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id KAA17283; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 10:47:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 10:47:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: 2nd Position (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII FYI - Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 17:53:58 EDT From: Judith Rowe To: IASSIST , SOS-DATA@ripken.oit.unc.edu, orl@MAJORDOMO.SRV.UALBERTA.CA Subject: 2nd Position Please forgive duplication. We are eager to see this distributed as widely as possible. Judith Rowe Senior Data Services Specialist PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY DATA SERVICES SPECIALIST, PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL STAFF. Position subject to annual renewal. Available: Immediately. Description: Provides consulting services for faculty and students in the social sciences who use machine-readable data and various forms of related statistical analysis for teaching, learning, and, independent research in the social sciences and related fields. Retrieves and manipulates complex data from a variety of physical sources, including multivolume datasets, CD-ROMS, and Internet archives; transfers data between platforms for use in multiple computing environments, including UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS; provides extracts and tables based on electronic data, including government census and survey data, public opinion polls, and various academic research data. 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From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Sun Jul 14 08:50:07 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id IAA28480 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 08:50:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6985; Sun, 14 Jul 96 10:49:31 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0826; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:49:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 10:48:00 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: Faculty Position Open (fwd) To: Sociology grads , socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-Id: <960714.104929.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: Ginna Babcock To: PSN-CAFE Subject: Faculty Position Open The Department of Sociology/Anthropology at the University of Idaho is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology to begin August 15, 1997. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in sociology with emphases in stratification and race/ethnicity by the time of the appointment. Responsibilities include teaching six courses per year, including social stratification, race and ethnic relations, social psychology, and introduction to sociology. Other courses may include organizations, work and occupations, political sociology, and areas of the applicant's specialization. Successful teaching experience at a four-year institution of higher education is preferred. Please send a letter of application describing research and teaching interests, a curriculum vita, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of recommendation to Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844-1110. Deadline for receipt of applications is October 15, 1996 (may be extended until position is filled). AA/EOE. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Ginna Babcock, PhD Department of Sociology "How ridiculous and how strange University of Idaho to be surprised at anything Moscow, Idaho 83844-1110 that happens in life" voice: 208-885-6735 --Marcus Aurelius email: gbabcock@uidaho.edu fax: (208) 885-2034 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Sun Jul 14 08:51:50 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id IAA28518 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 08:51:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6980; Sun, 14 Jul 96 10:51:18 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0895; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:51:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 10:50:58 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: Youngstown Conference (fwd) (fwd) To: Sociology grads , socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-Id: <960714.105118.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from UCONNVM (NJE origin SMTPT@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2619; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:51:28 -0400 Received: from csf.Colorado.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Fri, 12 Jul 96 18:51:27 EDT Received: from host ([127.0.0.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id QAA25960; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 16:49:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.14]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id QAA24979 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 16:12:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from eswank@localhost) by bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05336; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:12:11 -0400 Message-Id: <199607122212.SAA05336@bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: eswank@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Sender: owner-psn-cafe@csf.colorado.edu Precedence: bulk From: Eric W Swank To: PSN-CAFE Subject: Youngstown Conference (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-To: femecon-l@bucknell.edu X-Cc: psn@csf.colorado.edu X-Listprocessor-Version: 7.1 -- ListProcessor by CREN Some folkd might like find this conference interesting. Eric Swank Ohio State University Forwarded message: > > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > WORKING CLASS STUDIES AND THE FUTURE OF WORK > > The Third Biennial Conference of the Center for Working Class Studies > at Youngstown State University > > June 11-14, 1997 > Youngstown, Ohio > > How do changes in work and technology affect ideas, representations, and > experiences of class? > > How does the debate over diversity and multiculturalism relate to work and > working class studies? > > How can workers and unions respond to changes in the work environment? > > How have current and historical political debates altered traditional > notions of class and class identity? > > How can schools best address the needs of working class students and a > changing workplace? > > What are the difficulties and opportunities for interaction between those > who study working class life and those who experience it? > > We invite proposals for presentations, panels, workshops, performances, > exhibits, and readings that address these questions as well as other > aspects of working class life and working class culture. Areas of > exploration include literature of and by the working class; social, labor > and oral history; material and popular culture; current workplace issues; > journalism; fine, graphic and performance art; multiculturalism; > ethnography, biography, autobiography; and personal narratives of work. > > Presenters should describe their project with a suggested presentation > format. Submissions should be between 250 to 300 words and must be > received by January 2, 1997. Address correspondence to Sherry Linkon, > American Studies Program, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH > 44555. For further information contact John Russo, (330) 742-1783. > E-mail inquiries to Sherry Linkon at sjlinkon@cc.ysu.edu. > > Center for Working Class Studies: Sherry Linkon, American Studies Program, > Bill Mullen, English Department, Linda Strom, Women's Studies Center, > Susan Russo, Art Department, and John Russo, Labor Studies Program. > > > From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Sun Jul 14 08:53:39 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id IAA28598 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 08:53:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6981; Sun, 14 Jul 96 10:53:08 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0970; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:53:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 10:52:17 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: 2nd Position (fwd) To: Sociology grads , socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-Id: <960714.105307.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: Judith Rowe To: IASSIST , SOS-DATA@ripken.oit.unc.edu, orl@MAJORDOMO.SRV.UALBERTA.CA Subject: 2nd Position X-Listprocessor-Version: 7.1 -- ListProcessor by CREN Please forgive duplication. We are eager to see this distributed as widely as possible. Judith Rowe Senior Data Services Specialist PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY DATA SERVICES SPECIALIST, PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL STAFF. Position subject to annual renewal. Available: Immediately. Description: Provides consulting services for faculty and students in the social sciences who use machine-readable data and various forms of related statistical analysis for teaching, learning, and, independent research in the social sciences and related fields. Retrieves and manipulates complex data from a variety of physical sources, including multivolume datasets, CD-ROMS, and Internet archives; transfers data between platforms for use in multiple computing environments, including UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS; provides extracts and tables based on electronic data, including government census and survey data, public opinion polls, and various academic research data. Provides assistance in choice, application and interpretation of quantitative techniques. Support includes individual consultation, group instruction, and documentation. Responsibilities include hiring, training, and supervising several graduate student assistants. May require some evening and weekend work. Reports to Head, Social Science Reference Center. Qualifications: Advanced degree in a quantitative social science is required. A strong background in computing and quantitative data analysis is required. Essential technical skills include: expertise with the major statistical packages, e.g., SAS, SPSS, and Stata; experience in using complex machine-readable data, especially government survey and census data; programming ability; and familiarity with UNIX, mainframe, and microcomputer environments. MLS from an ALA accredited library school useful. Experience providing ===== public and technical services in an academic setting strongly preferred. Benefits: Twenty-four (24) vacation days a year, plus eleven (11) paid holidays. Annuity program (TIAA/CREF), group life insurance, health coverage insurance, and disability insurance, all paid for by the University. Salary & Rank: Dependent upon qualifications and experience. To ensure full consideration, candidates should send application, including resume and the names, titles, addresses and phone numbers of three references to be contacted, postmarked by August 12, 1996 to: Data Services Specialist Search Committee c/o Maria G. Gopel, Human Resources Librarian, Princeton University Libraries, One Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER. From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Mon Jul 15 08:10:41 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id IAA27062; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 08:10:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7623; Mon, 15 Jul 96 10:10:03 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4553; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:10:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 10:09:33 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: CFP: Conference on the Need for a New Economics of Science (fwd) (fwd) To: psn-cafe@CSF.COLORADO.EDU, Dan , socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-Id: <960715.101002.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 02:12:58 CST From: system@CCTR.UMKC.EDU Reply-To: STS@CCTR.UMKC.EDU To: STS-LIST@CCTR.UMKC.EDU Subject: CFP: Conference on the Need for a New Economics of Science (fwd) ***************Please forward to other interested parties*************** Conference on the Need for a New Economics of Science Conference Announcement and Call for Papers University of Notre Dame March 13-16, 1997 Final deadline: September 30, 1996 Sponsored by: National Science Foundation, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, and Office of Graduate Research Many recent works in science studies have adopted economic or quasi-economic metaphors for understanding science. Inspired by trends toward the actual practice and culture of science, many sociologists of scientific knowledge have come up with stories about interests, action, and exchange that look like the product of economic analysis. However, these metaphors are generally not fully elaborated. Motivated by movements toward economic perspectives on traditionally non-economic issues, many economists have started applying the tools of economic analysis to the behavior of scientists. However, these studies are largely silent about the influence of these analyses on the content of science. In response to tendencies toward anti-foundationalism and naturalism, many philosophers of science have argued that scientific knowledge is constructed out of an economic process. However, these explanations typically sidestep problems associated with welfare economics and the assumption of instrumental rationality in economics. Concomitantly, historians have noted a recent shift in social support for scientific research and science policy experts have analyzed issues such as the recent changes in financial support of science. The different perspectives on (quasi-)economics of science and/or scientific knowledge can be organized in terms of old and new economics of science. Old economics of science consists of an institutional approach to science, an argument that science is a market, a unity-of science approach, and a clear definition of the organizational framework of scientific research. New economics of science consists of a contextual approach to science, an argument that science cannot be commodified, a disunity-of science approach, and a questioning of the units of organization in science. The purpose of this conference is to bring together science studies scholars, economists, philosophers of science, historians, science policy experts, and scientists in order to evaluate and clarify the increasing gulf between old and new economics of science, economics of science and economics of scientific knowledge, and quasi-economic metaphors and economic metaphors of science. The conference will start a constructive dialogue about the promises and problems of alternative economic theories of the behavior of scientists and comparisons of science to a market. Particular topics that will be covered are: the intellectual history of theories of an economics of science, evolving formats of university/government and university/industry relations, labor economics perspectives on scientific careers, feminist economics views on science, the economics of the dissemination and validation of findings, the conception that science is a public good, the economics of fraud in science, the causes and consequences of the division of labor in science, and the economics of intellectual property rights. Proposals for papers, accompanied by an abstract of roughly 500 words, or requests for further information, should be directed to either Philip Mirowski or Esther-Mirjam Sent, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, U.S.A. The final deadline for proposals is September 30, 1996. The conference has an e-mail address (econsci.1@nd.edu) and a Web-site (http://www.nd.edu:80/~econsci). _____________________________________________________ Conference on the Need for a New Economics of Science Philip E. Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent Department of Economics University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 U.S.A. phone: (219)631-7580/6979 fax: (219)631-8809 e-mail: econsci.1@nd.edu Web-site: http://www.nd.edu:80/~econsci From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Sun Jul 21 18:24:54 1996 Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id SAA07195 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 18:24:52 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id UAA24527; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 20:24:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 20:24:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Virginia Review of Sociology -- Call for Papers (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 18 Jul 1996 21:39:27 -0400 From: Ellis Godard To: TEACHSOC@maple.lemoyne.edu Subject: Virginia Review of Sociology -- Call for Papers Call for Papers SOCIOLOGIES OF CYBERSPACE The board of the Virginia Review of Sociology invites the submission of candidate chapters for a special volume titled "The Sociologies of Cyberspace." This volume will address whether and to what extent cyberspace represents, presents, or conduces social change of significance -- that is, the manners in which and the degrees to which cyberspace is different from other social arenas, and whether and how this is sociologically significant. For purposes of this volume, we conceive cyberspace to include all forms of computer-mediated and -enhanced communications and interactions. We will give preference to those submissions that advance methodological approaches to, explicitly account for empirical findings about, and develop theoretical understandings of cyberspace. We are particularly interested in papers that go beyond a psychological and individualistic analysis, and particularly encourage those submissions that make comparative use of several online services and/or social groups. We hope to include a variety of empirical, methodological, and theoretical approaches to cyberspace, and intend to emphasize the possible diversity of such approaches. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: patterns of social life online, including demographic distributions as well as patterns of social control, boundary enforcement, role enactment, community building, resource allocation, and collective behavior; political, economic, and other determinants of online social life; and political, economic, religious, and other social consequences and implications of cyberspace, particularly including interactions between online and offline social life. Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate, printed in double spacing on only one side of each page. Citations and references should conform to that system prescribed by and for the American Journal of Sociology. Submissions should have a target date of October 31, 1996. Any acceptance of submissions beyond that date is at the discretion of the volume editor. We would appreciate a brief notice of intent by September 30, 1996. Comments and queries are welcomed and encouraged. For further information, or to submit a paper, please contact the editor of the volume J. Ellington ("Ellis") Godard, Cabell Hall 539, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 (jeg5s@virginia.edu). The faculty advisor for this volume will be Thomas M. Guterbock, and the series editor is Donald Black. The Virginia Review of Sociology is a series of volumes published by JAI Press, and coordinated and edited by the graduate students and faculty of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Each volume explores and reflects current empirical and theoretical development within the field of sociology. Themes of previous volumes have included law and conflict management, and cultural conflict in modern America. (Please post or forward this notice elsewhere, as appropriate, for open distribution.) J. Ellington ("Ellis") Godard Jr. -- (804) 296-9692 -- lemuria@virginia.edu Doctoral Candidate, UVa Sociology -- http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~jeg5s Instructor, SOC 219 (Microcomp Apps) 520 Caroline Ave, Charlottesville 22902 From Czerlinski@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de Mon Jul 22 10:10:30 1996 Received: from canetoad.mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de (canetoad.mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de [192.129.1.30]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id KAA03530 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 10:10:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mac29.mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de by canetoad.mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/25Oct95-1145AM) id AA06722; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 18:10:08 +0200 X-Sender: rjean@canetoad.mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 18:10:10 +0200 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: Czerlinski@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de (Jean Czerlinski) Subject: getting involved w/ the labor movement Friends and colleagues: Here is a report on some of the connections between the labor movement and interested sociologists -- and information about how you can help to further build and strengthen those connections. We (finally) have a directory of sociologists committed to labor, the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute is sponsoring a reception on August 18 at the New York A.S.A. convention, and the Organizing Institute (OI) also wants to arrange dozens (hundreds?) of one-on-one or small group meetings to tell people about its work and to forge connections. SOCIOLOGY LABOR NETWORK DIRECTORY This letter is being sent (by both email and snail mail) to members of the Sociology Labor Network, and to others we hope will be interested/sympathetic. Members of the Sociology Labor Network (that is, anyone who returned a sheet) are also receiving a bound copy of the directory, with information about 75 other sociologists interested in working with the labor movement. If you aren't yet a member but want to join, or you know someone who should be a member and isn't listed here, get those forms filled out and returned. We'd like to double our listings by the end of August, but in order for that to happen each person reading this letter needs to work their networks. Copies of this directory have been requested by, and given to, a number of union staff, both research directors and organizers. It's also a good way to learn about other sociologists with labor interests. AFL-CIO RECEPTION FOR SOCIOLOGISTS At the A.S.A. convention in New York, the Organizing Institute is sponsoring a wine and cheese reception for sociologists to discuss what's happening in the labor movement and how to get involved. Richard Bensinger, formerly head of the Organizing Institute, and currently the AFL-CIO's first ever Director of Organizing, will speak, along with brief remarks by recent graduates of the Organizing Institute, Union Summer activists, and by at least one sociologist. This will be an event -- Mark your calendars. AFL-CIO reception Sunday August 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Hilton Hotel, Rendezvous Trianon Room Featuring Richard Bensinger, AFL-CIO Director of Organizing recent graduate(s) of the Organizing Institute Union Summer activists a sociologist Wine and cheese MEET WITH ORGANIZING INSTITUTE STAFF The Organizing Institute (OI) trains future organizers for the AFL- CIO and its member unions. About half those trained are college students or recent graduates, many of them sociology majors. (See the article in the May/June Footnotes.) OI staff will be attending the A.S.A. convention in force, and want to hold dozens -- preferably hundreds -- of meetings with sociology faculty and students. We are helping to coordinate the sign up for these meetings, which will be on Sunday August 18 and Monday August 19. To sign up for a one-on-one (or small group) meeting email or call Dan Clawson (413-545-5974; clawson@sadri.umass.edu). Meetings will be held in hotel suites; while the OI can (probably) accommodate people who sign up at the meetings, it will greatly simplify their planning if as many people as possible sign up in advance. (Sign up in advance even if you do NOT yet know a specific time when you will be available to meet; give us contact information and we'll get back to you closer to the convention.) Several things will happen at those meetings. First, you'll learn about the OI in general -- the kind of students they are looking for, what's involved in OI training, what graduates do. Second, the OI staff will learn about you, so that when they are next in your area they will call on you, and perhaps you can facilitate their other contacts and activities. Third, depending on where you are located, you might learn about organizing drives and activity in your area, and how you could connect through research, student contacts, or by helping to build community support. Fourth, we hope these meetings will help energize both the sociologists and OI staff who participate. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO -- ORGANIZE!! This is not a closed group. Our aim is to help build the labor movement, and to build a network of sociologists committed to working with labor. It's also not a bureaucratically organized, top-down operation. Don't wait for someone else to do things, or assume that everything is under control: TAKE THE INITIATIVE. JUST DO IT. Here are six steps you can take: 1. Recruit at least three new members for the Sociology Labor Network; get them to fill out and return forms 2. Plan to attend the AFL-CIO reception August 18 6:30 p.m., AND organize at least three others to do so 3. Sign up in advance to meet OI staff at the New York A.S.A. convention AND recruit at least three others to join you or to arrange their own meetings. 4. Figure out other steps that should be taken to make the A.S.A convention, or the Sociology Labor Network more generally, a success. Write us or other members of the network about your ideas, and/or just get things started. For example, the OI would love to get a table for literature and contacts at the convention -- does some group already have a table, and could they share their space? 5. At the Sunday evening reception we will talk about next steps to take, but (with luck) that will be a large meeting not ideally suited to getting things done. If you would be interested in being more actively involved, and would like to attend a smaller planning meeting (perhaps in one of our hotel rooms, or in the OI suite), email and let us know that. 6. Make contact with the labor movement in your area and begin working together. The primary contact for forms, to send names, to sign up, for info, etc. is Dan Clawson (413-545-5974, clawson@sadri.umass.edu) but you can-should write or call any of us, or anyone else in the directory, with ideas, questions, or suggestions. Dan Clawson, clawson@sadri.umass.edu, 413-545-5974, Sociology, Univ of Mass. Amherst MA 01003 (SEND SIGN-UPS, REQUESTS FOR FORMS, ETC. TO DAN) Rick Fantasia, rfantasi@smith.edu, 413-585-3504, Sociology, Smith College, Northampton MA 01063 Tom Juravich, Labor Relations and Research Center, Univ. of Mass. Amherst MA 01003 Ingrid Semaan, semaan@soc.umass.edu, Sociology, Univ. of Mass. Amherst MA 01003 Judith Stepan-Norris, jstepann@uci.edu, Sociology, UC Irvine, Irvine CA 92717 Sudhir Venkatesh, savenkat@abby.amherst.edu Chapin Hall, 1313 E. 60th Street, Chicago IL 60637 PLEASE SHARE THIS MESSAGE WITH OTHERS. From conroyt@acs.bu.edu Mon Jul 22 11:26:17 1996 Received: from acs3.bu.edu (ACS3.BU.EDU [128.197.153.30]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id LAA05529 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:26:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: by acs3.bu.edu (8.6.13/BU_SmartClient-1.0) id NAA71980; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:22:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:22:27 -0400 (EDT) From: thomas conroy Subject: looking for newsgroups To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu cc: tom conroy Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello. I am looking for newsgroups related to the following: sociology of media/popular culture/cultural studies I'd appreciate any info. Thanks Tom Conroy Boston University From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Tue Jul 23 07:23:36 1996 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id HAA17803 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:23:34 -0600 (MDT) Received: from UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1482; Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:22:38 EDT Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (NJE origin DAVIDSON@UCONNVM) by UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6575; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:22:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:20:22 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: Meeting at ASA on Job Market (fwd) To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Message-Id: <960723.092235.EDT.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> I'm not sure I can make it, but when sociologists discover a social problem exists that they can't necessarily get a grant for, it is a positive sign. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: WARREN GOLDSTEIN <088520@newschool.edu> To: PSN-CAFE Subject: Meeting at ASA on Job Market Dear Colleagues, Below you will find an announcement for a meeting at the American Sociological Annual Meeting in New York. The idea came out of a discussion on the job market on the Progressive Sociologists Network (psn@csf.colorado.edu). Please forward this announcement to anyone you know who is interested and/or is attending the conference. Particularly useful would be placing it on other listserves and usenet new groups of sociologists. Some of the ideas on the table include the role the ASA should take, organizing part-time faculty, and further developing applied sociology. Representatives from labor unions have been invited to attend. This meeting has an open agenda. All individuals and ideas are welcome. I look forward to seeing you in New York! In Solidarity, Warren Goldstein ------------------------------------------------------------ Is the Job Market in Sociology getting Worse? What can we do about it? Meeting to discuss the possibilities. For all unemployed, underemployed, marginally employed, temporarily employed, badly located, overworked and underpaid sociologists (and those of you who are sympathetic). Open Agenda ASA Annual Meeting New York Hilton Sutton North Friday, August 16, 1996 6:30-8:15p.m. (please forward) ------------------------------------------------------------ From MMAUME@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU Wed Jul 24 11:58:44 1996 Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu [130.39.128.22]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id LAA10402 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:58:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8522; Wed, 24 Jul 96 12:58:21 CDT Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (NJE origin MMAUME@LSUVM) by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2878; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:58:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 96 12:45:04 CDT From: "Michael O. Maume" Subject: assigning pals to new grads To: Recipients of list SOCGRAD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <960724.125820.CDT.MMAUME@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Hi, Some of the powers that be in my dept are considering assigning "older" grad students to new grad students (both MA's and PhD's) as contacts to make the transition to grad student status more personable and less daunting. This would coincide with a regular weekly proseminar for new grads. Is anyone in a dept where the former is used? I'd be interested in hearing any comments about how it has worked, or any descriptions on more inventive ways orientation is accomplished in other depts. Thanks in advance, Mike Maume ******************************************************** * Michael O. Maume Voice: 504-388-1645 * * Department of Sociology Fax: 504-388-5102 * * Louisiana State University * * Baton Rouge, LA 70803 * * Email: mmaume@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu * ******************************************************** From glenn@osiris.Colorado.EDU Wed Jul 24 12:22:49 1996 Received: from osiris.Colorado.EDU (osiris.Colorado.EDU [128.138.151.16]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id MAA10993 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:22:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by osiris.Colorado.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) id MAA28245; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:22:47 -0600 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:22:47 -0600 (MDT) From: "Glenn W. Muschert" To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: assigning pals to new grads In-Reply-To: <960724.125820.CDT.MMAUME@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Our department at the University of Colorado at Boulder does have this sort of system. We call it a "mentoring" system. Each in-coming grad student gets a 2nd year or above student who helps to answer their questions. Usually, we try to pair up students who seem to have similar interests. The effectiveness of this type of thing varies from case to case. Sometimes the pair builds a friendship, while other times they only meet together once or twice. I think it depends upon the individuals. In general, I think it's a good thing. We ask the "older" students to volunteer, and we usually have enough to accomadate the new students. This way only those experienced students who want to do it, will end up doing it. Glenn Muschert From kbrasier@ssc.wisc.edu Wed Jul 24 12:26:30 1996 Received: from audumla.students.wisc.edu (students.wisc.edu [144.92.104.66]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id MAA11029 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:26:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from kjb.wisc.edu by audumla.students.wisc.edu; id NAA75406; 8.6.9W/42; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:26:27 -0500 Message-Id: <199607241826.NAA75406@audumla.students.wisc.edu> X-Sender: kbrasier@students.wisc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:26:02 -0500 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: Kathryn Brasier Subject: Re: assigning pals to new grads I would also be interested to hear about any programs in place. We (a small group of students [only]) are trying to put something similar together in the rural soc portion of the department (trying to do so for the whole department would be formidable). Our plan is to match up 3rd and 4th year students with the new students based on interests, meeting once every couple weeks in a social setting following the bi-weekly departmental seminar. The most important thing is that each new student will have the info to contact his/her "resource person" outside of this setting. We're trying not to make it too formal, yet organized enough to continue beyond one year. We are still in the planning and organizing stages, so I would be greatly interested in what other schools are doing and in hearing comments/suggestions about our plan. Thanks in advance, Kathryn Brasier kbrasier@ssc.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin Madison From manoki@leland.Stanford.EDU Wed Jul 24 12:41:56 1996 Received: from wisdom.Stanford.EDU (wisdom.Stanford.EDU [36.83.0.96]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id MAA11727 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:41:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from manoki@localhost) by wisdom.Stanford.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA26436 for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:41:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Melissa R Herman Message-Id: <199607241841.LAA26436@wisdom.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Re: assigning pals to new grads To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:41:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199607241826.NAA75406@audumla.students.wisc.edu> from "Kathryn Brasier" at Jul 24, 96 01:26:02 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We also have such a mentoring program, coordinated by the grad student member of the admissions committee. In the summer, s/he invites upper year students (including current first years) to volunteer for next fall. I think it's especially nice to pair up people who have just experienced the trials of first year with new people. We also make an attempt to match people's interests. The program works well, but as someone mentioned before, some pairs get together and make use of the relationship a lot more than others. Some advice for mentors: 1) be available but not pushy. Sometimes people want to figure things out for themselves and you won't be able to prevent their mistakes. 2) give useful information but don't gossip or be indiscreet. -- Melissa Herman manoki@leland.stanford.edu Department of Sociology Stanford University From glenn@osiris.Colorado.EDU Wed Jul 24 21:27:34 1996 Received: from osiris.Colorado.EDU (osiris.Colorado.EDU [128.138.151.16]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id VAA24799; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:27:31 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by osiris.Colorado.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) id VAA36759; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:27:30 -0600 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:27:30 -0600 (MDT) From: "Glenn W. Muschert" To: psn@csf.colorado.edu, socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: ASA Marxist Section Home Page Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello All, I am in the process of developing a WWW home page for the ASA Marxist Section. I am soliciting input regarding what people might like put into the page(s). Please let me know the type of information you would like to see in the pages, and any interesting links that you think should be included. I will try to accomodate all requests. To avoid plugging up the discussion groups, please respond directly to me at "glenn@osiris.colorado.edu". Glenn Muschert University of Colorado at Boulder From MMAUME@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU Sun Jul 28 23:51:27 1996 Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu [130.39.128.22]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id XAA04115 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:51:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5964; Mon, 29 Jul 96 00:51:01 CDT Received: from LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (NJE origin MMAUME@LSUVM) by LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3520; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:51:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 96 00:37:02 CDT From: "Michael O. Maume" Subject: Thanks pals To: Recipients of list SOCGRAD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <960729.005100.CDT.MMAUME@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU> Thanks to all who responded to my request for info on assigning pals to new grad students! Overall, I think people are in favor of this type of setup, although actual results seem to have been mixed in some cases. I'll let everyone know what happens if we decide to implement the buddy system here. Cheers, ******************************************************** * Michael O. Maume Voice: 504-388-1645 * * Department of Sociology Fax: 504-388-5102 * * Louisiana State University * * Baton Rouge, LA 70803 * * Email: mmaume@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu * ********************************************************