From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Jan 2 07:23:55 1998 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 09:22:30 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: GSS Student Paper competion (Deadline Feb 15) FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 98 08:03 CST From: NNRTWS1@uchimvs1-3172.uchicago.edu To: methods@UNM.EDU Subject: (Copy) Re: Request for information FINAL NOTICE!! FINAL NOTICE!! General Social Survey Student Paper Competition The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago announces the fourth annual General Social Survey (GSS) Student Paper Competition. To be eligible papers must: 1) be based on data from the 1972-1996 GSSs or from the GSS's cross-national component, the International Social Survey Program (any year or combination of years may be used), 2) represent original and unpublished work, and 3) be written by a student or students at an accredited college or university. Both undergraduates and graduate students may enter and college graduates are eligible for one year after receiving their degree. The papers will be judged on the basis of their: a) contribution to expanding understanding of contemporary American society, b) development and testing of social science models and theories, c) statistical and methodological sophistication, and d) clarity of writing and organization. Papers should be less than 40 pages in length (including tables, references, appendices, etc.)and should be double spaced. Paper will be judged by the principal investigators of the GSS (James A. Davis and Tom W. Smith) with assistance from a group of leading scholars. Separate prizes will be awarded to the best undergraduate and best graduate-level entries. The winners will receive a cash prize of $250, a commemorative plaque, and the MicroCase Analysis System, including data from the 1972-1996 GSSs (a $1,395 value). The MicroCase software is donated by the MicroCase Corporation of Bellevue, Washington. Honorable mentions may also be awarded by the judges. Two copies of each paper must be received by February 15, 1998. The winner will be announced in late April, 1998. Send entries to: Tom W. Smith General Social Survey National Opinion Research Center 1155 East 60th St. Chicago, Il 60637 For further information: Phone: 773-256-6288 Fax: 773-753-7886 Email: smitht@norcmail.uchicago.edu  --simple boundary-- From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Fri Jan 2 09:19:06 1998 Date: Fri, 02 Jan 98 11:18:49 EST From: Alan Davidson Subject: Immediate Opening--Sociology (fwd) (fwd) To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 09:48:58 -0400 (EDT) From: hopec@cofc.edu Reply-To: TEACHSOC@poplar.lemoyne.edu Subject: Immediate Opening--Sociology (fwd) To: TEACHSOC@maple.lemoyne.edu Here's a job opening that came to my attention via a Dean's network. I haven't seen it on this listserv yet. Happy New Year, everyone! Chris Hope, Chair Dept. of Socy/Anth College of Charleston hopec@cofc.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 09:42:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Sam Hines To: hopec@cofc.edu Subject: Immediate Opening--Sociology CHRIS- - FYI. Sam >Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 15:19:26 -0500 >From: lively@maine.maine.edu (Rob Lively) >Subject: Immediate Opening--Sociology >Sender: acad@gettysburg.edu >To: hiness@cofc.edu >Reply-to: acad@gettysburg.edu >Precedence: bulk >Originator: acad@gettysburg.edu >X-Comment: ACAD Dean's Discussion Group > > UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON > >Dear Colleagues, > > I am writing to ask your help regarding a very unfortunate >situation. Due to the recent unexpected death of a sociologist at our >school, we are seeking a person to teach sociology for the Spring 1998 >semester and the 1998-99 academic year. We prefer to fill the position for >the entire three semesters (this fixed-length position includes university >benefits), but we will consider various options, including a one-semester, >full-time temporary replacement for the Spring 1998 semester only (no >benefits). > > RESPONSIBILITIES include teaching four courses (12 credits) in >sociology each semester (minimum of two sections of Introduction to >Sociology each semester) and other departmental responsibilities. The >Spring 1998 semester schedule includes two sections of Intro, Collective >Behavior, and Sport and Society. The Sport and Society course is >negotiable. Spring semester classes begin January 20, 1998 > > REQUIRED: Master's degree in Sociology minimum; Ph.D. in Sociology >preferred. > > APPLICATION: Send cover letter, resume and three letters of >reference to: Rob Lively, Dean of Arts & Sciences, University of Maine at >Farmington, 37 High Street, Farmington, ME 04938. 207-778-7431 (office); >207-778-7278 (fax); lively@maine.maine.edu (e-mail). UMF is an EEO/AA >employer committed to diversity, equality, and reasonable accommodation. >Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the >position is filled. UMF Homepage: http//www.umf.maine.edu/ > > ------------------------- > >Thank you very much for your help, and best wishes for the holiday season. >Snow is currently falling on the pine tree outside my window, thus >guaranteeing a traditional Maine holiday. Perhaps you have a >friend/student/colleague who would like to enjoy it with us. > >Rob Lively, Dean >College of Arts & Sciences > From tr@tryoung.com Sat Jan 3 05:06:53 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Barbara Chasin: A Review of her Work FROM THE LEFT Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 07:09:57 -0500 Those of you who teach or research in violence and/or inequality will find Chasin's new book: Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism, HUMANITIES PRESS, 191 pp. a most valuable resource. In Chapter 1, Chasin provides both anecdotal and systematic evidence of the growing violence in America. Table 1.2 compares interpersonal violence in Advanced Capitalist nations.. As you might expect, the USA is No. 1! 3 times as much homicide as Finland 4 times as much as Canada 6 times as much as Sweden 12 times as much as Switzerland, Japan, Denmark Germany or France Table 1.3 is most valuable; it compares STRUCTURAL violence between the same countries: The USA is No. 1 in INFANT MORTALITY RATES These rates are better than the Dow-Jones Stock market average as index to quality of life in the USA The USA is No. 1 in AIDs Rate The USA is No. 1 in use of pesticides The USA is No. 1 in Road Accident rates The USA is No. 1 in Sulfur/Nitrogen Emissions.. Alas Canada has beaten us out...poor Canada. The USA regains No. 1 position in Hazardous Waste Production. Chapter 2. Surveys rates and trends of Class inequality: Bad News... 10% of the population own 80%+ of the wealth Table 2.3 reports on trends: inequality increases from 1973 to 1993 A special section on BUREAUCRACY AND VIOLENCE is of special interest Chapter 3. Looks at Street Crime from gangs and drugs to speeding cars that run down kids. Chasin makes the most important point that it is not Blackness and Violence which go together in street crime; it is blackness, violence in a racist society with segregated job markets, segregated schools and segregated communities which account for difference in arrest and imprisonment rates... Chasin makes the point that joblessness and street crime go together; not race and street crime. [Note: if we count corporate, white collar and political crime in our analysis of crime rates, the connection between race and crime reverses...corporate crime is committed mostly by whites as is white collar crime and political crime... Again, it is class inequality which accounts for the tight correlation between whiteness and crime...if Blacks were at the top of the class structure, they too would be No. 1...TRYoung] Chapter 4. Looks at Racial and Gender Violence. Table 4.1 tells us that class inequality drives up domestic violence; if we want a lot of domestic violence, we can increase the number of poor families...the rate is 6 times that of lower middle class families. Table 4.2 tells us that we can increase rates of rape by increasing poverty among women... Barbara counts the violence done by Hate Groups and by Police as street violence... ...most crim books do not. Chapter 5. Developes the concept of Structural Violence done to workers and the Unemployed. [I use the concept of the 'Disemployed' rather than 'Unemployed.' TRY] Chapter 6. Examines Structural Violence in the Health Care [sic] System. Chapter 7. Connects the Circle between Interpersonal and Structural Violence with Militarism a central catalyst. [Others supplement her analysis with comment on modelling violence on TV, in sports and in News Reportage.] Chapter 8. Offers some ideas on Reducing the Casualties. Chasin calls for class struggle, affirmative action in race and gender. This is a great starting point for Marxist, Feminist, Progressive, Humanist and/or Postmodern Criminologists... And...for development of Chasin's Call, see: Beyond Crime and Punishment on-line: http://www.tryoung.com/beyond.html Well done, Barbara!! TR Young, Editor FROM THE LEFT TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From kbump@northlink.com Sat Jan 3 19:00:54 1998 Reply-To: From: "kbump.ppp" To: Subject: Re: GSS - How does one get a copy of this? Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:06:54 -0700 Hi: Can anyone tellme how to get a copy of the General Social Survey? thanks. KC Bump ---------- > From: James Cassell > To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International > Subject: GSS Student Paper competion (Deadline Feb 15) > Date: Friday, January 02, 1998 7:22 AM > > FYI - Jim > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ > James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu > Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 02 Jan 98 08:03 CST > From: NNRTWS1@uchimvs1-3172.uchicago.edu > To: methods@UNM.EDU > Cc: aapornet@USC.EDU > Subject: (Copy) Re: Request for information > > FINAL NOTICE!! FINAL NOTICE!! > > General Social Survey Student Paper Competition > > The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the > University of Chicago announces the fourth annual General Social > Survey (GSS) Student Paper Competition. To be eligible papers must: > 1) be based on data from the 1972-1996 GSSs or from the GSS's > cross-national component, the International Social Survey Program > (any year or combination of years may be used), 2) represent > original and unpublished work, and 3) be written by a student or > students at an accredited college or university. Both > undergraduates and graduate students may enter and college > graduates are eligible for one year after receiving their degree. > The papers will be judged on the basis of their: a) > contribution to expanding understanding of contemporary American > society, b) development and testing of social science models and > theories, c) statistical and methodological sophistication, and d) > clarity of writing and organization. Papers should be less than 40 > pages in length (including tables, references, appendices, etc.)and > should be double spaced. > Paper will be judged by the principal investigators of the > GSS (James A. Davis and Tom W. Smith) with assistance from a group > of leading scholars. Separate prizes will be awarded to the best > undergraduate and best graduate-level entries. The winners will > receive a cash prize of $250, a commemorative plaque, and the > MicroCase Analysis System, including data from the 1972-1996 GSSs > (a $1,395 value). The MicroCase software is donated by the > MicroCase Corporation of Bellevue, Washington. Honorable mentions > may also be awarded by the judges. > Two copies of each paper must be received by February 15, > 1998. The winner will be announced in late April, 1998. Send > entries to: > > Tom W. Smith > General Social Survey > National Opinion Research Center > 1155 East 60th St. > Chicago, Il 60637 > > For further information: > > Phone: 773-256-6288 > Fax: 773-753-7886 > Email: smitht@norcmail.uchicago.edu >  > > --simple boundary-- > From tr@tryoung.com Sun Jan 4 05:11:26 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: MARXIST Newsletter on-line: latest issues socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 07:14:32 -0500 David Langer, Webmaster for the Red Feather Institute, has posted the two latest issues of FROM THE LEFT to the Red Feather Home Page. They are at: http://www.tryoung.com/fromleft/index.htm They are: Winter '97...which features a guest editorial by Steve Rosenthal: Race and Gender in the Armed Forces: A Marxian Analysis, Fall '97...which features a guest editorial by Alan Spector, Chair of the Marxist Section, ASA...who argues that: Marxists should oppose: democracy, binding elections, academic freedom and free speech in general, feminism, multiculturalism, self­determination and all nationalisms, and, of course, peace. Before you get furious, take a careful look at the editorial, as one might expect, Alan has a special point to make...a good point. TR Note: Do make a link to FROM THE LEFT to any other sites you think might find the newsletter of interest. TR TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tombrown@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Sun Jan 4 07:10:02 1998 by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 09:11:51 -0500 From: tombrown@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Thomas F Brown) Subject: Re: GSS - How does one get a copy of this? To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu You can download all GSS sets up to 1993 from this link: Linkname: GSS Resources Developed at Queens College. Filename: http://www.soc.qc.edu/QC_Software/GSS.html I have done this and it works beautifully. For more recent surveys, you have to order them through your school's ICPSR office. Here's the GSS home page URL: Linkname: GSS Home Filename: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/home.htm They have a student paper competition every year. From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Sun Jan 4 08:07:00 1998 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:05:35 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Re: GSS - How does one get a copy of this? In-Reply-To: <199801041411.JAA07680@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Thomas F Brown wrote: > You can download all GSS sets up to 1993 from this link: > > Linkname: GSS Resources Developed at Queens College. > Filename: http://www.soc.qc.edu/QC_Software/GSS.html > > I have done this and it works beautifully. For more recent > surveys, you have to order them through your school's ICPSR > office. Here's the GSS home page URL: > > Linkname: GSS Home > Filename: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/home.htm > > They have a student paper competition every year. > > You can also order the GSS from the Roper Center at the U. of Conneticut, should you not be affiliated with an ICPSR member institution. Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From tr@tryoung.com Mon Jan 5 06:16:42 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Transforming Sociology Series Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 08:19:44 -0500 David Langer, webmaster for the RF Institute, has been adding articles from the past to the Transforming Sociology Series of the Red Feather Institute. These articles were distributed at ASA, PSA, MSS and other association meetings since 1971...there are now 180 in the Transforming Sociology Series. At the time, RF Articles cost 25 cents and were free to grad students. Now they are free to everyone. ******** The the 'new' articles in the RF Archives are: •#155 Structurally Stupid Societies: Explorations in Artificial Stupidity by TR Young •#174 Chaos and Causality in Complex Social Dynamics by TR Young •#175 A Brief History of the Critical School: Goals and Contributions to Date by Richard Weiner •#176 Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociological Positivism by R. George Kirkpatrick George Katisficus, Mary Lou Emery The www address is: http://www.tryoung.com/Archives And...check out what else is NEW at: http://www.tryoung.com/new.htm TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Mon Jan 5 11:25:05 1998 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 13:23:39 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , Economic Sociology List Subject: Studying Southern Industrialization: A Call for Papers (fwd) FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 10:51:38 -0500 From: Steve Vallas To: SSSNET@frosty.irss.unc.edu Subject: Studying Southern Industrialization: A Call for Papers Call for Papers - The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization, 1940-1970 A conference at the Georgia Institute of Technology, June 5-6, 1998 Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society invites paper proposals for a conference focused on the second wave of southern industrialization, spurred by World War Two era spending and developing broadly in the postwar decades through federal and private sector regional investments. Key "New South" manufacturing sectors (textiles, steel, tobacco) had experienced slowed growth or stagnation in the interwar decades. Then, war demands and peacetime opportunities triggered a fresh round of infrastructure, military, and industrial investments which gradually reshaped the landscape of production from the Carolinas to Texas, while transforming the construction, finance and service segments of the southern economy. We welcome proposals from historians, sociologists, geographers, urban or rural studies researchers, and public policy analysts which examine this broad regional dynamic - at the level of the firm, the sector, the urban/rural district, or in statewide or regional terms. Travel and local expenses for presenters will be reimbursed, thanks to a University System of Georgia grant. Proposals should be limited to one page, accompanied by a short vita (two page maximum). As we will seek university press publication for a set of the conference papers, essays already published or in press should not be submitted for consideration. Due date for receipt of proposals - March 1, 1998 Notification date - March 16, 1998 Mail, email or fax submissions will be accepted. Mail address: Prof. Philip Scranton, HTS--Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 Fax: 404-894-0535 Office phone - 404-894-7765 Email: philip.scranton@hts.gatech.edu (no attached files, please) Due date for receipt of completed papers (for commentators and website posting) - May 10, 1998 From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Mon Jan 5 12:54:22 1998 Date: Mon, 05 Jan 98 14:27:10 EST From: Alan Davidson Subject: Universities To: uforum-l@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU, grdisu-l@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU, socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU I thought some folks might be interested in this, sorry for the length. The intent of this is discussion, not commercial. Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 14:20:18 -0500 From: Alan Davidson To: davidson@uconnvm.uconn.edu Subject: Beyond the Culture Wars http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/04/reviews/980104.04shapirot.html Three books look at the crises American colleges face in the age of superprofs and research grants. By JAMES SHAPIRO ACADEMIC DUTY By Donald Kennedy. 310 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $29.95. ALL THE ESSENTIAL HALF-TRUTHS ABOUT HIGHER EDUCATION By George Dennis O'Brien. 243 pp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. $19.95. CULTIVATING HUMANITY: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education. By Martha C. Nussbaum. 328 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $26. College is not what it used to be. Fewer than one in five students now fits the traditional profile of an 18-to-22-year-old living on campus and going to school full time. The faculty, with mandatory retirement eliminated, is graying. Tenure has been steadily eroded as new teaching slots are being filled with poorly paid adjuncts. The flow of government dollars that once nourished research universities has slowed to a trickle. And with the rise of new technologies, universities are now facing competition from the private sector -- for money as well as for students. For anyone interested in the future of higher education in this country, Donald Kennedy's important new book, ''Academic Duty,'' is the place to start. Kennedy was president of Stanford University from 1980 to 1992, years in which his campus was embroiled in two controversies that became national news: the fight over changes in a required course in ''Western Culture'' and the scandal that broke out over Stanford's sloppy accounting of public research grants and led to Kennedy's stepping down. Chastened by these experiences, Kennedy acknowledges that those involved in higher education have done a poor job of explaining to the public what they do and why they deserve its trust and support. Much has been written about academic freedom, little about academic responsibility. Kennedy's account of the multiple demands on scholars to publish, to teach well, to mentor, to serve the university, to reach beyond the walls of academe and to risk change captures both the pleasures and pitfalls awaiting those entering the profession. His analysis also dispels many of the myths about what professors do that have undermined popular confidence in the academic world. Kennedy explains that ''Academic Duty'' grew out of a series of seminars he taught to doctoral candidates. Yet he is strangely reticent about the fact that many of these students will never become professors, their career paths blocked in part by scholars like him who choose to continue teaching after the age of 65, the point where their own mentors had stepped aside for them. Without a nationwide commitment to voluntary retirement -- with the proviso that all retirees be replaced by tenurable younger scholars -- administrators will continue to terminate positions or replace faculty members with part-time instructors who have limited responsibility (and little incentive) to mentor, advise, conduct research and participate fully in the life of the university. Kennedy takes us beyond the culture wars and reveals, through a series of well-chosen case studies, how intractable many current issues are. How, for example, can a research university reward good teaching when its prestige and ranking still depend on its faculty's research? And at what point should a university claim conflict of interest when members of this same faculty engage in private, profit-making ventures, especially in the world of biotechnology? What if the university itself stands to profit handsomely from such ventures? As Kennedy makes clear, the future of research universities is bound up in their tangled partnership with both government and industry; how universities will define their role in this partnership remains to be seen. Faced with these difficult choices, George Dennis O'Brien, another former university president, prefers to turn back the clock and call for a return to the educational system that prevailed a century ago before the denominational college was replaced by the science-driven research university. The older system that O'Brien would re-create was led by all-powerful, often demagogic presidents who could fire professors at will, at schools with a fixed curriculum that placed tradition and moral indoctrination ahead of discovery and diversity. O'Brien never pauses to consider that many Americans choose to study at institutions that stress technology and research, even if that means large classes and less emphasis on humanistic learning: of the 3,600 institutions of higher learning in the country, only 600 are liberal arts colleges. When ''All the Essential Half-Truths About Higher Education'' remains at the level of abstraction, its nostalgia can be appealing. When it turns to particulars, it becomes quite chilling. O'Brien would like to see the current ''century of the faculty'' replaced by ''the century of management.'' He wants to dismantle a tenure system that he regards as unresponsive to ''market'' forces. He argues against low tuition at state schools. He'd like to see the end of ''deconstructive multiculturalism'' -- a bogeyman that has a lot to answer for in this book. Although O'Brien is careful to hide his conservative cards, he displays them at the end when he calls for diversity between, rather than within, institutions, a language invoked not too long ago to limit equal educational opportunity. The best answer to attacks on multiculturalism can be found in Martha C. Nussbaum's ''Cultivating Humanity.'' The book is a passionate, closely argued and classical defense of multiculturalism: drawing on the ideas of Socrates, the Stoics and Seneca (from whom she derives her title), she steers a narrow course between cranky traditionalists and anti-Western radicals who would reject her Socratic method out of hand. Nussbaum is less interested in platitudes than in practice, and her book is based on her visits to campuses around the country. Her depressing chapter on the lack of diversity at Brigham Young University shows the human cost of constraining dissent and intellectual freedom at a school intent on preserving its distinctive mission. A philosopher and classicist by training, Nussbaum points to the goal of liberal education, which is partly to prepare students to be citizens of the world, and argues that American students cannot achieve this without learning something about ''non-Western cultures, of minorities . . . of differences of gender and sexuality.'' To this end, she would like to see mandated courses in philosophy and comparative religion as well as strengthened programs in gender and ethnic studies. NUSSBAUM, however, has little patience for the currently fashionable identity politics: its insistence on self-confirmation is the very opposite of the worldliness she espouses. Her book is a formidable, perhaps definitive defense of diversity on American campuses. But while her arguments may be right, they're no longer enough when applied to an institutional framework. Here is where we encounter the more intractable problems that Kennedy outlined: Where, at a time of fiscal constraint, will the money for new courses and professors come from? Why offer African-American and women's studies and not Asian-American or Native American programs? Should classics or sociology departments be closed to make way for newer fields? On what grounds should such choices be made -- and who should make them? The danger today is that the administrations that now set policy at most universities are increasingly tempted to act as if they are running a business -- letting profit motives drive educational policy. In such a climate, revenue-generating programs and inexpensive part-time professors are winning out over a committed faculty, good libraries and small classes. American universities have achieved their international prominence precisely because they have, until now, recognized the value of free inquiry, open expression and discovery that is driven not by financial gain but by broader social ends. The crisis on today's campus is not, as the news media would have it, about the culture wars but about the almost impossible choices that will have to be made if universities are to lead, not merely imitate, a rapidly changing society. James Shapiro is a professor of English at Columbia University and a columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education. From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Tue Jan 6 06:54:39 1998 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:53:14 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Universities In-Reply-To: <980105.145419.EST.DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> Doonesbury has run some strips on temp faculty for the past couple of days. Nice "office door" material Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From khampton@chass.utoronto.ca Thu Jan 8 23:01:06 1998 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 01:00:27 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Hampton To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Faculty/student research contracts Hi all, Welcome back from your holidays. Does anyone have an example of a research agreement between a student and their supervisor? I am doing research for my dissertation based on a grant that my supervisor holds. We both have concerns about future data sharing and reporting. My supervisors role, for the most part, has been limited to administration and I have been doing the majority of the work on designing measurement instruments and data collection. I am sure this is a common concern and any ideas about what I should include in our agreement would be appreciated. Thanks, -Keith From Howery@asanet.org Fri Jan 9 08:35:58 1998 From: Carla Howery To: "socgrad@csf.colorado.edu" Subject: RE: Faculty/student research contracts Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:34:47 -0500 Be sure to consult the ASA Code of Ethics -- it has many guidelines about authorship and data sharing that are pertinent to any agreement you'd want to draft. >-----Original Message----- >Sent: Friday, January 09, 1998 1:00 AM >To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International >Subject: Faculty/student research contracts > >Hi all, > >Welcome back from your holidays. > >Does anyone have an example of a research agreement between a student >and >their supervisor? I am doing research for my dissertation based on a >grant >that my supervisor holds. We both have concerns about future data >sharing >and reporting. My supervisors role, for the most part, has been limited >to administration and I have been doing the majority of the work on >designing measurement instruments and data collection. I am sure this >is a >common concern and any ideas about what I should include in our >agreement >would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >-Keith > > From cdh3@Ra.MsState.Edu Fri Jan 9 08:49:28 1998 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:49:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Clark D. Hudspeth" To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu How does one unsubscribe to socgrad? Thank you, Clark cdh3@ra.msstate.edu From ddegraw@dsu.deltast.edu Fri Jan 9 10:16:45 1998 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:15:38 -0600 (CST) From: Darrel G Degraw To: teachsoc@popular.lemoyne.edu Subject: Greek Tour Dear Members: Delta State University is offering a trip to Greece, 9-19 May 1998 to include a 4-day land tour, a 3-day Agean Sea Cruise and a short visit to Turkey. Cost is $2200, which includes tuition-choice of 6 hours of undergrad or grad in Sociology, Criminal Justice, or Geography. Suggest reply ASAP. Contact person is: Dr. Darrel DeGraw DSU, Cleveland, MS 38733 (601) 846-4093 or home (601) 227-9357 email:ddegraw@dsu.deltast.edu From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Jan 9 10:57:24 1998 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:56:01 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Forwarded mail.... Some of you may remember the exchange Howery mentions in the note below. Thought it might be interesting, if not amusing, to some. Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 11:06:26 -0500 From: Carla Howery To: "'TEACHSOC@MAPLE.LEMOYNE.EDU'" RE; query about teaching marriage and the family on short notice and which text to use. I am pleased that a colleague turned to TEACHSOC for help in getting a "first time" course off the ground on short notice. However, I always am concerned when anyone is asked to teach a course on short notice for the first time. Obviously we all have a "first time" for teaching a course (and we often reinvent courses many times in our career), but it is important to have TIME, reflection, mentoring in preparing a course, esp. the first time. I ASSUME the writer has a background in family. That cannot always be assumed, as chairs ask graduate students or other adjuncts to teach courses for which they have limited or no background. The ASA Code of Ethics emphasizes the fundamental principle that sociologists should be competent to do the work they do. Sounds simple, but it is a principle tested in these situations all the time (I am not speaking about the person writing the query, but generally). Maybe there isn't a magic metric of the number of course hours in a field before teaching it, or the number of hours and days to prepare before teaching. But having next to none of these is indefensible, at least to me. When I raised this concern in a similar context on the soc grad students list I was trounced as naive and advocating a double standard (that is, experienced teachers often do a lousy job). I am not naive about the situation adjuncts are put in, to teach on short notice. I do know that it probably is counterindicated in the Code and to the extent one can, one should resist. Of course the "asker" (the chair, dean, etc.) is also responsible for making sure no sociologist engages in work for which s/he is not competent. My second concern is the selection of a textbook. There are many good guides to doing so, incl. Reed Geertsen's classic article in TS. The ASA syllabi sets show many approaches to courses and give citations for many possible texts and other resources. A faculty member can and should review these according to her own criteria, but certainly should make a selection AFTER reading the book, not before. Even a book as good as Aulette's may not fit all course contexts and objectives. Carla B. Howery Deputy Executive Officer American Sociological Association 1722 N Street NW Washington, DC 20036 202-833-3410 x323 FAX 202-785-0146 howery@asanet.org From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Jan 9 11:05:19 1998 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:03:48 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: TEACHSOC@poplar.lemoyne.edu Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Carla Howery wrote: > When I raised this concern in a similar context on the soc grad students > list I was trounced as naive and advocating a double standard (that is, > experienced teachers often do a lousy job). I am not naive about the > situation adjuncts are put in, to teach on short notice. I do know that > it probably is counterindicated in the Code and to the extent one can, > one should resist. Of course the "asker" (the chair, dean, etc.) is > also responsible for making sure no sociologist engages in work for > which s/he is not competent. > No, you were flamed for blaming the victim, since grads are often put in a "take it or get no funding" situation. It's nice to see that your thinking has evolved to include the person MAKING the unethical offer, something to which you seemed oblivious back then. Interested parties can check the socgrad archives at http://csf.colorado.edu/sep97/ look for the "marriage and family" thread. Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From lmiller@weber.ucsd.edu Fri Jan 9 11:15:39 1998 for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:15:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:15:33 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Miller To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: how to leave socgrad Please keep the following information in your files for future reference. 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@sobek.colorado.edu or bobwold@mail.utexas.edu From kcwalker@syr.edu Fri Jan 9 11:24:37 1998 From: "Kelley Crouse" To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:23:51 +0000 Subject: Re: your mail In-reply-to: > Interested parties can check the socgrad archives at > > http://csf.colorado.edu/sep97/ > > look for the "marriage and family" thread. > I think it interesting that in both instances the course in question was a soc of family course. (yeah, yeah, small n I know) Kelley From lmiller@weber.ucsd.edu Fri Jan 9 11:24:52 1998 for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:24:48 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Miller Subject: MLA Report To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:24:47 -0800 (PST) People may be interested in this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. There is an MLA graduate student caucus that has been extremely active in raising the kinds of issues mentioned here with the MLA governing board and general membership. Perhaps this is something sociology grads should be thinking about doing vis a vis the ASA. Laura Miller > > THE FACULTY > > January 9, 1998 > > > Citing 'Crisis' in Job Market, MLA Urges Changes in Graduate Education > > By ROBIN WILSON > > TORONTO > > The "best of times" for the U.S. economy has "contrasted eerily with > the worst of times" for the academic job market, said a report released > here last week, during the annual meeting of the Modern Language > Association. > > The report attracted a lot of attention among the 9,000 language and > literature professors in attendance, and delegates at the meeting > overwhelmingly approved its recommendations for improving the job > situation. But some professors and graduate students criticized the > effort as too little, too late. > > The report said overproduction of Ph.D.'s in English and foreign > languages had combined with an increasing reliance on part-time > instructors to keep many new Ph.D.'s out of the academic job market. > Fewer than half of the 8,000 graduate students who are expected to earn > doctorates in those disciplines between 1996 and 2000 can expect to find > full-time, tenure-track positions within a year of finishing their > degrees, it said. The job situation is a "crisis that has been building > for a long time," it said, urging academic departments to take steps to > reverse the trend. > > At the meeting, the association's delegates voted to endorse the > paper, titled simply "The Final Report of the M.L.A. Committee on > Professional Employment," and voted to recommend that departments that > have failed to place many of their new Ph.D.'s in tenure-track jobs > reduce the number of graduate students they admit. The delegates also > voted to encourage departments to change the way they train graduate > students. Training should focus more on teaching and less on research, > the report suggested, so that Ph.D.'s will seek jobs at community > colleges and even high schools with the same zeal they have for pursuing > positions at research universities. > > Scholarly associations, until recently, have been reluctant to make > such specific recommendations to graduate programs. The M.L.A. took a > bold step in doing so, but plenty of scholars who have publicly called > for changes in graduate training still believe that the association is > behind the curve. > > Cary Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois at > Urbana-Champaign, mocks the report in a new electronic journal, > W~O~R~K~P~L~A~C~E, produced by the M.L.A.'s Graduate Student Caucus. In > an article that is to appear February 1, Mr. Nelson writes that the > M.L.A. report has a "stunned, startled gaze fixed on the past." In an > interview, he said the M.L.A.'s analysis "was already dated" and added: > "The situation is a great deal more serious and threatens the basic > structure of higher education." He said the association was "not willing > to take any specific actions other than expressing its regret." > > But Phyllis Franklin, the M.L.A.'s executive director, defended the > report, arguing that "it is always easier for an individual to decide > what the problem is and how to fix it than it is for an organization of > thousands of people." > > The report urges professors to encourage students who don't land > academic jobs to seek non-academic posts as an attractive alternative. > "If this effort is to succeed," it said, "faculty members -- especially > those in doctoral programs -- will have to change the way they view and > discuss non-academic career options, as well as the way they treat > graduates who establish careers outside the academy." > > Professors also must play a role in reducing the current reliance on > part-time and graduate-student teachers, the report said. > > In doctorate-granting departments during academic 1996-97, tenured > and tenure-track professors taught an average of only 4 per cent of > first-year writing courses, according to an M.L.A. study. Graduate > students taught 63 per cent of those courses, part-timers 19 per cent, > and full-time, non-tenure-track professors 14 per cent. The report > called for more teaching by tenure-track faculty members and said > graduate students should teach only one course per semester. > > In a related action, the M.L.A. members voted to endorse a recent > statement on part-timers produced by leaders of 10 faculty groups and > learned societies. The statement called on academics to counter the > pervasive use of adjunct professors in college classrooms (The > Chronicle, December 5). > > The M.L.A.'s own report dominated debate at a gathering of the > association's Delegate Assembly here, in which participants > overwhelmingly approved its recommendations. Leaders of the Graduate > Student Caucus, however, criticized some aspects of the report. They > argued that instead of reducing the number of doctoral students and > encouraging those who don't find academic jobs to take up alternative > careers, the M.L.A. should push universities and legislatures to stop > the employment of part-time instructors. Many of those instructors lack > Ph.D.'s and are taking posts that previously were tenure track and > reserved for Ph.D.'s, the graduate students contended. > > "In language and literature more than any other academic field, the > teaching machine runs on non-degreed labor," said Marc Bousquet, > outgoing president of the caucus. > > "The actual teaching on the college campus is done by persons > without significant experience, with little or no training, no > certification, and in most cases a teaching future of fewer than four > years." > > Mr. Bousquet, who is to earn his Ph.D. from the City University of > New York's Graduate School and University Center this year, is a > visiting assistant professor at Indiana University. > > He said the M.L.A. "continues to duck the difficult questions" by > suggesting that the job-market problem is the result of an oversupply of > Ph.D.'s. "In fact," he said, "if degree holders were the ones doing the > teaching, there would be far too few of them." > > > Copyright (c) 1998 by The Chronicle of Higher Education > http://chronicle.com > Date: 01/09/98 > Section: The Faculty > Page: A15 > From tombrown@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Jan 9 17:20:44 1998 by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 19:22:38 -0500 From: tombrown@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Thomas F Brown) Subject: teaching competency To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu >The ASA Code of Ethics emphasizes the fundamental principle that >sociologists should be competent to do the work they do. Sounds simple, Doesn't sound simple, it sounds vague. What does "competent" mean, and how do you test for it? On any given stroll through the library, I come across all sorts of nonsense published by sociologists. It seems to me that there is no standard for sociological competence. From tr@tryoung.com Sun Jan 11 09:17:48 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: New Article in Red Feather Archives SOCIAL-CLASS@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:20:54 -0500 Tom Keil's article, written in 1984, has been added to the Red Feather Archives: #114 Sport in Advanced Capitalism by Thomas Keil those who teach sociology of sports might want to take a look at: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/114kiel.html TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Tue Jan 13 07:50:05 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: New Articles in the RF Archives Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 09:53:05 -0500 David Langer, WebMaster for the Red Feather Institute Home Page, has added four articles from earlier years to the Archives. They are: •#175 A Brief History of the Critical School: Goals and Contributions to Date. 1979 by Richard Weiner •#176 Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociological Positivism. 1974 by R. George Kirkpatrick, George N. Katsiaficas and Mary Lou Emery •#155 Structurally Stupid Societies: Explorations in Artificial Stupidity. 1994 by TR Young •#174 Chaos and Causality in Complex Social Dynamics, 1995 by TR Young TR Young, Editor TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Tue Jan 13 07:58:33 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: Teach@csf.Colorado.EDU From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: The Wizard of Oz: A Populist Cautionary Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:01:41 -0500 The Wizard of Oz was published in 1900 just in time for the Christmas season. It has been made into movies some 8 or ten times. The definitive version for North Americans is the 1939 version by MGM. It left out both the politics as well as many of the episodes which make the book much more radical in both political and economic terms. You can find several related materials at: http://www.tryoung.com/TRsPage/TRsPage.html Included are: A Guide to the Events and Characters A Songbook with words of all the songs A test to infuse students with curiousity and maybe progressive understandings of the story and of the society which calls such tales forth. A bit about L. Frank Baum, the Author A CERTIFICATE for those who a) pass the test or b) have seen the movie 5 times A tutorial will be added soon. Graphics and music from the story are embedded as needed. Enjoy, TR TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Tue Jan 13 20:03:01 1998 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 98 22:01:02 EST From: Alan Davidson Subject: Jobs which might be of interest To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU These jobs come from the h-net jobguide. To obtain, send the message get h-net jobguide to listserv@h-net.msu.edu. 51. Privatization of Culture Project Fellowships, New York University (NY) The Privatization of Culture Project offers fellowship residencies for research on cultural policy. The Project encourages transdisciplinary work that takes into account both formal and informal markets, institutional participation, and dominant and alternative cultural practices. Rockefeller residencies will bring together scholars, foundation officers, corporate funding specialists, curators and educators, artists, and community cultural advocacy professionals to assess existing arrangements and to propose new ways to democratize cultural participation in local, national, and transnational settings. The past decade has witnessed an acceleration in policies to privatize support for culture throughout North and Latin America, East and West Europe. In some countries, government has abdicated what traditionally was its responsibility to the citizenry. In others, new intermediary institutions are attempting to pick up the slack. In still others, governments are entering partnerships with the corporate sector. The result is that it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between public and private, and that diverse groups are affected unequally by the emerging arrangements. What are the guarantees for democratic access to culture? Who determines participation and by what criteria? These and related questions are the focus of research in the Privatization of Culture Project. Based in New York University's American Studies Program, it is a collaborative project with the Sociology Program at the New School for Social Research and the Center for Cultural Studies at the Graduate Center for the City University of New York. 1998-1999: The history of sponsorship. This year focuses on the struggles within government, nonprofit, and corporate support for the arts and humanities in the Twentieth Century. 1999-2000: Current changes in systems of support in the arts and humanities. This year focuses on the political and economic reasons for these changes and the ways in which cultural practices work with, against or independently of these systems. 2000-2001: Minority participation. This year focuses on the forms of exclusion, inclusion and marginalization of certain groups, as well as creative strategies to transform public spheres and to foster multicultural collaborations. Each year, the Privatization of Culture Project will offer one two-semester residency , and two one-semester residencies. A one-semester residency carries a stipend of $17,500; a two-semester residency carries a stipend of $35,000. These stipends can be combined with sabbatical pay. There will also be an allowance for health insurance. In 1998-99, the Project expects to offer the two-semester residency at New York University, and each of the one-semester residencies at, respectively, The New School and the CUNY Graduate Center. Candidates should indicate their preferences for either a one or a two-semester residency. Fellows will be expected to (1) conduct research on a project, as per their proposals; (2) participate in a bi-weekly seminar; (3) participate in a major conference sponsored by the Project; (4) meet with other faculty and students who are interested in their work. APPLICATION People interested in a one- or two-semester residency fellowship should send: (1) a cover letter; (2) a five-page project proposal; (3) a curriculum vitae; (4) sample work; (5) three letters of recommendation. Send applications to: George Yudice, Director Privatization of Culture Project American Studies Program New York University 285 Mercer St, 8 New York, NY 10003 Telephone: 212-998-3725 FAX: 212-995-4371 Electronic mail: priv.culture@nyu.edu" website: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/privculture/privcul.htm STEERING COMMITTEE Barbara Abrash , Center for Media, Culture, & History, NYU Stanley Aronowitz, Co-Director, Center for Cultural Studies, CUNY Graduate Center Judith Balfe, Sociology, Staten Island College & CUNY Graduate Center Faye Ginsburg, Center for Media, Culture, & History, NYU Toby Miller, Cinema Studies, NYU Andrew Ross, American Studies Program, NYU Mary Schmidt-Campbell, Dean Tisch School of the Arts, NYU George Yzdice, Director, American Studies Program, NYU Vera Zolberg, Co-Director, Sociology, The New School for Social Research ADVISORY NETWORK John Brademas, President Emeritus, NYU Craig Calhoun, Sociology, NYU Vincent Crapanzano, Comp Lit, CUNY Manthia Diawara, Africana, NYU Sondra Farganis, Director, Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New School Judith Friedlander, Dean of the Graduate Faculty, New School Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sociology, New School Flora Kaplan, Museum Studies, NYU Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Performance Studies, NYU Joel Lester, Dean of the Mannes College of Music, New School James Lipton, Dean of the School of Dramatic Arts, New School Randy Martin, Social Science & Management, Pratt Institute Kathleen McCarthy, Center for the Study of Philanthropy, CUNY Dorothy Nelkin, Sociology, NYU Pier C. Rogers, Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School Bob Stam, Cinema Studies, NYU Catherine Stimpson, Dean, Arts & Humanities, NYU John Kuo Wei Tchen, Director, Asian-Pacific-American Studies, NYU Sharon Zukin, Sociology, CUNY 109. Social Sciences Field Researchers, Santa Clara University (CA) Immediate Opening. National Study Seeks Field Researchers. December 1997. A nationwide study of new immigration procedures seeks researchers to conduct field work in the New York/New Jersey and Miami areas. Social science graduate students and law graduates are encouraged to apply. Researchers will have diverse responsibilities. including observing immigration court proceedings at detention centers, collecting data from attorneys, and data entry. Candidates must have own means of transportation. Candidates should have excellent observation and analytic skills, be self-motivated and well-organized, and be capable of relating to a broad range of individuals. Bilingual applicants (especially speakers of Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Haitian Creole) with some knowledge of immigration and refugee law and procedure, as well as experience working a cross-cultural context, are preferred. The position is available immediately, and interviewing will begin upon receipt of applications. The position is full-time (40 hours per week) for an initial three-month period at an hourly rate of $15. To apply, send a current resume, the names and phone numbers of three references, and one substantial writing sample (preferably one related to field research or immigration issues) to: Ms. Nipa Rahim, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California 95053-0633. Resumes may be faxed to 408-554-2373. 110. Research Position/Program on Population, East-West Center (HI) The East-West Center is a nonprofit education and research institution with an international board of governors. Scholars, graduate students, educators and professionals in business and government, work with the Center's staff on current Asia-Pacific issues. The center was established in Hawaii in 1960 by the U.S. Congress, which provides funding. Support also comes from more than 20 Asian and Pacific governments, private agencies and corporations and through the East-West Center Foundation. Applications are being accepted for a full-time, three-year limited term research fellow position in the program on Population. The individual selected is expected to fund 50% of his/her salary through existing or new projects or a joint appointment with another institution. The position may be renewed, subject to availability of funds. Also, expected to participate in planning, and design and conduct cooperative research, educational and dissemination activities that focus on the social, economic, health, or environmental causes or consequences of population change in Asia and the Pacific; write scholarly material for publication and prepare materials to disseminate research findings to policy makers, program managers, and the general public; plan, organize, conduct, and participate in seminars, workshops and conferences for intercultural exchange of knowledge, experience and research results; develop proposals for external funding of project activities; work closely with Asian and U.S. collaborators; carry-out activities designed to increase substantive interaction of communicators, policy makers, and researchers concerned with population, health and related issues; may hold affiliate appointment with other educational institutions as mutually agreed upon with the Director. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in sociology, economics, demography, public health, or other population-related field with demonstrated ability to conduct high-quality research in one or more of the following areas: population and the economy, health and AIDS policy, population change and policy, and gender and family change. Good English written and oral communication skills; ability to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural environment; and knowledge of the Asia/Pacific region. For appointment beyond entry level, must have demonstrated: ability to raise funds for research activity; ability to conceptualize and create policy-relevant projects; a record of publication for academic as well as policy audiences; success in collaborative, interdisciplinary, and international research teams. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Expertise in advanced statistical techniques and formal demographic methods; knowledge of and experience with survey design and execution and qualitative research methods. Demonstrated skills as a classroom instructor. Research experience in Asia/Pacific; fluency in an Asian language. SALARY: The salary range is from $43,838 to $81,213 per year, depending on qualifications, plus a cost-of-living allowance currently at 22.5% (subject to change). Submit cover letter and a statement addressing how you meet the qualifications, a resume, and names and addresses of three professional references. Submit a recent singly authored research publication/report as a sample of your work. Send to: Rebecca Dixon, Personnel Office, East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848-1601 or FAX to: (808) 944-7970. Applications must be post-marked/FAXed by January 31, 1998. An Equal Opportunity Employer O. Women/Gender 112. Women's Studies, California State University Fullerton (CA) The School of Humanities & Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, is seeking applicants for the following positions to start the Fall 1998 semester. All tenure track positions require a doctorate. An asterisk indicates lecturer positions. Review of applicants has begun for some of the positions and will continue until positions are filled. For information about specific qualifications, and application procedures, please contact the respective Departmental Search Committee in care of H&SS Dean's Office, California State University, Fullerton, P.O. Box 6850, Fullerton, CA 92834-6850 or call (714) 278-3528. - Women's Studies From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Thu Jan 15 11:41:43 1998 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:39:58 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , UNC Sociology Graduate Students , UNC Sociology Faculty Subject: Petition to nominate Earl Babbie for ASA president--Deadline Jan 31, 1988 There's a move afoot to nominate Earl Babbie as a candidate for president in the upcoming ASA elections. To be on the ballot, Earl must be nominated by 100 ASA members by January 31. If you would like to nominate Earl, send the message: As a current member of the American Sociological Association, I nominate Earl Babbie, for ASA President. [followed by full name and address] as an email message adressed to governance@asanet.org Note that you MUST currently be a member of ASA to nominate candidates for office. Best, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From morleans@fullerton.edu Thu Jan 15 18:04:39 1998 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:57:37 -0800 From: Myron Orleans To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Petition to nominate Earl Babbie for ASA president--Deadline Jan 31, 1988 James Cassell wrote: > There's a move afoot to nominate Earl Babbie as a candidate for president > in the upcoming ASA elections. To be on the ballot, Earl must be > nominated by 100 ASA members by January 31. If you would like to nominate > Earl, send the message: > > As a current member of the American Sociological Association, > I nominate Earl Babbie, for ASA President. > > [followed by full name and address] > > as an email message adressed to governance@asanet.org > > Note that you MUST currently be a member of ASA to nominate candidates > for office. > > Best, > Jim > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu > Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jim, Earl sure has my support. Sent message to ASA. Thanks for letting us know about this and so many other great pieces of information Myron Orleans Sociology CSUF Fullerton, CA From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Jan 16 04:46:37 1998 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:45:11 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Southern Sociological Society 1998 Program online (fwd) FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:40:43 -0500 (EST) From: Rhonda Zingraff To: sssann@frosty.irss.unc.edu Subject: SSS 1998 Program The preliminary program for the 1998 SSS meeting has been posted on the web site, which is www.MsState.edu/org/sss/sss.html. It will appear in the next issue of TSS as well. As corrections or revisions are made, the version on the web will be adjusted. Rhonda Zingraff, Program Chair From tr@tryoung.com Mon Jan 19 04:24:53 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: A Dream to Build Upon SOCIAL-CLASS@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU, socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:27:56 -0500 Today is Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. or Rather it is a day in which we stop to think of how best to continue the struggle toward a good and decent society. As we no longer have his passion and wisdom to guide and lead this most central effort in both US and world history, Martin Luther King Day remains one of the more precious icons and inspirations of the struggle toward human dignity in our national repository. There are a great many other others who might well have entered American sensibilities as admirable and emulate-able embodiements of the effort to transcend racism, ethnicity and class status. I rather like Paul Robson but we chose MLK... ....Many of us so chose. I did. The day after the assassination, I founded the Martin Luther King Fellowship Fund at Colorado State University. The Administration institutionalized it; faculty supported it with monthly deductions; dozens of minority grad students have benefitted from the fund and I am content with the effort. Today, I want to commemorate the Day another way. One of my favorite poems is that by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaunessy, 1844-1881 King was, par excellence, a maker of dreams and a builder of new worlds. Let us now remember and rededicate ourselves to that dream and to the blueprint for a good and decent society. The Music Makers We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, wandering by lone sea-breakers, and sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, on whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world forever, it seems. We, in the ages lying in the buried past of the earth, built Nineveh with our sighing, and Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying to the old of the new world's worth; for each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. . TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Tue Jan 20 06:49:37 1998 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:48:11 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: (Fwd) Work, Employment & Society Conference 1998: Call for Pap (fwd) FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:27:03 CST6CDT From: Martin L. Levin To: SSSNet@frosty.irss.unc.edu Subject: (Fwd) Work, Employment & Society Conference 1998: Call for Pap FYI--Marty ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:10:47 +0000 (GMT) From: "W.Bottero" To: Levin@Soc.MsState.Edu Subject: Work, Employment & Society Conference 1998: Call for Papers Dear Colleague I am emailing you as a representative of the Southern Sociological Society to ask for help in publicising a call for papers for the Work Employment and Society Conference, which will be held in Cambridge, England in September 1998. I enclose further details on the conference below. If you could post details of this conference to your members, on a web page or electronic mailing group I would be most grateful. Alternatively, if you know of any electronic news groups that might be interested in the conference you might let me know of the mailing address. Thank you for your time Wendy Bottero (University of Cambridge) ---------------------------------------------- WORK EMPLOYMENT & SOCIETY CONFERENCE 1998 Cambridge University, United Kingdom 14-16th September 1998 ---------------------------------------------- *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** The journal Work Employment & Society holds its 1998 conference at Cambridge University, on 14-16th September 1998. Papers are requested in the following areas: * globalisation, flexibility & post-fordism * access to employment, exclusion & unemployment * alternative conceptions of work * the new unionism * transitions in work: life history, age and the family * gender, sexuality and work * work and the millennium: the future of work These streams are not exclusive; papers are invited on themes that fall within the general area of interest of the journal. Send abstracts (under 1200 words) to: Dr Wendy Bottero Sociological Research Group SPS Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RQ (email: wb201@cam.ac.uk) fax +44 1223 334550 Closing date for abstracts: 1st March 1998. Early applications are encouraged. Martin L. Levin Voice Direct:601-325-7890 Professor and Head Voice Reception:601-325-2495 Department of Sociology, Anthropology FAX:601-325-4564 and Social Work Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39762 From jfczerli@midway.uchicago.edu Wed Jan 21 09:13:47 1998 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:08:44 -0600 (CST) To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: jfczerli@midway.uchicago.edu (Jean Czerlinski) Subject: CMOT call for papers (fwd) From: Kathleen.Carley@CENTRO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU Date: Tue, 20 Jan 98 16:55:44 EST To: BAD305@UKCC.uky.edu, BRNAULT@UCI.EDU, Eric_Beinhocker@mckinsey.com, H.T.Hangyi@ppsw.rug.nl, James_Hayton@msn.com, RedfireGRP@aol.com, SNADKARNI@bschool.wpo.ukans.edu, alevis@osf1.gmu.edu, alx@economia.unibo.it, anjali_sastry@ccmail.bus.umich.edu, aojha@nickel.laurentian.ca, beroggi@sepa.tudelft.nl, caldwell@engr.wisc.edu, cphelps@stern.nyu.edu, ctb+@andrew.cmu.edu, czerlinski@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de, deshmukh@wombat.eng.fsu.edu, dsharp@wspc.com.sg, germain@CNS.CNET.FR, ichase@ccvm.sunysb.edu, ilgen@pilot.msu.edu, jusung+@andrew.cmu.edu, kd@cyber.reading.ac.uk, kenfrank@msu.edu, kroth@wombat.eng.fsu.edu, marshall@mit.edu, melee@concentric.net, minusone@esg.colybrand.com, moeh@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE, mwm14@cornell.edu, nminkova@ftf.tsu.tomsk.su, p.abell@lse.ac.uk, pheck@ASU.EDU, pkiousis@ucla.edu, rluechtef@top.monad.net, robsmith@aol.com, roldan@HAAS.BERKELEY.EDU, rouse@searchtech.com, rradner@stern.nyu.edu, rva20@cam.ac.uk, s.moss@mmu.ac.uk, sesa+@cs.cmu.edu, sgabbay@midway.uchicago.edu, t.b.klos@bdk.rug.nl, tvz@princeton.edu, vadlamani@UMBSKY.CC.UMB.EDU, vibha@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU, willhill@RESEARCH.ATT.COM Subject: CMOT WORKSHOP _ CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY Announcing the 8th Annual Workshop on Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. The workshop will be held on April 25-26, 1998, in Montreal, Canada. The purpose of this workshop is to explore advances in formal theories of organizations, new computational or network based analysis tools for studying organizations, and empirical tests of computational, mathematical, or logical models. Presentations will be from a combination of invited and submitted papers. Participants need not present a paper. A special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory will be published based on the best papers in this workshop. Rationale Organizations can be usefully characterized as constraint-based adaptive systems composed of intelligent adaptive agents and technology, whose ability to act and be acted upon are structurally, culturally, and cognitively constrained. Recent advances in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, complexity theory, and social networks have provided us with richer and more precise models of intelligent agents, the processes they engage in, and the structures in which they are embedded. Organizational theorists, managers, engineers and social scientists interested in organizations and their performance now have the opportunity to combine these models with more traditional approaches to organizations. This combination allows the researcher to address issues where structural, adaptive, and evolutionary issues are paramount; e.g., coordination, negotiation, organizational design, re-engineering, organizational communication, organizational evolution, market restructuring, and organizational learning. These opportunities are explored in this workshop, largely through the presentation and discussion of formal models and theories. Topic areas for 1998 include: Organizational adaptation and learning, task analysis, organizations as multi-agent systems, models of trust and cooperation in organizations, the evolution of organizational form, formal application of complexity theory to organizations, dynamic systems, evolution of inter- organizational networks, formal models of technology in organizations, information diffusion within and among organizations, docking of computational models, validation techniques for computational models. Abstracts and papers. If you are interested in presenting a paper you should send a title and an extended abstract of 2-3 pages, by March 1 to Kathleen Carley - carley+@andrew.cmu.edu. Abstracts must be sent as either an ascii only file or as a msword for Macintosh file saved in rtf format. Do not send as an enclosure. Simply sent the rtf file as an ascii text file. All presenters are to register for the workshop through INFORMS. All presenters are to send full papers for consideration in the CMOT journal to Kathleen Carley by May 19, 1998. Detailed instructions will be sent to presenters. Regsitration Fee: Early Registration Regular Attendees $95.00 (US) / $125.00 (Canadian) Student Attendees $65.00 (US) / $85.00 (Canadian) Late Registration (After April 1) Regular Attendees $115.00 (US) / $155.00 (Canadian) Student Attendees $85.00 (US) / $110.00 (Canadian) Other Details: Registration covers a continental breakfast each day. If you are onlu attending the workshop you do not need to register for the full INFORMS meeting. You do, however, need to register for the workshop. There are 2 meeting hotels: The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, and the Montreal Bonaventure Hilton. We do not yet know which hotel the workshop will be in. The registration form will be available on INFORMS Online, http://www.informs.org probably by the end of January/early February. From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Thu Jan 22 10:05:08 1998 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:06:36 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: CFP for urban roundtable session at ASAs FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:00:25 -0500 From: Judith J. Friedman To: comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu The section on Community and Urban Sociology is making a final call for papers for roundtable session at this years ASA in San Francisco. Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers. The deadline has been extended to Feb 7, 1998. Please submit papers to Bruce D. Haynes, Yale University Department of Sociology, P.O. Box 208265, New Haven CT 06520. Include the ASA coversheet with your submission. Judith J. Friedman, Dept. of Sociology, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 5072, New Brunswick, NJ 08904 judithjf@rci.rutgers.edu 732.247.9791 FAX 732.445.0974 From rmoore@earth.sunlink.net Thu Jan 22 21:08:48 1998 From: rmoore@earth.sunlink.net Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:08:44 -0500 (EST) To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Hello, I have a student, senior, interested in deviance and criminology (especially prison cultures). Can anyone recommend particular graduate schools he might want to take a look at? Bob From tr@tryoung.com Fri Jan 23 05:30:01 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Three Documents SOCIAL-CLASS@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 07:32:56 -0500 There are three documents which have affected billions of people and continue to inform social life in important ways. They are: A. The Christian Bible...and more importantly, the five books of the Pentateuch upon which it is founded. B. The American Constitution C. The Communist Manifesto The first two are celebrated regularly; the Bible and its teachings are celebrated at Christmas-time and Easter as well as weekly if not daily for some. The American Constitution continues to inform the nations around the world. It is celebrated on the 4th of July and with daily pledges in classrooms around the country. The Manifesto, more explicitely critical of political economy and social inequality, is seldom celebrated since it promises to over-throw those structures of privilege not clearly challenged by the other two. It is therefore, fitting and proper that we take time in the media to think about its content, to reflect upon its impact and to gauge its continuing value to the human project. As Editor of FROM THE LEFT, the official Newsletter of the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association, I would like to join in sponsor ship of the 150th anniversary of its publication. I am sure the members of the Marxist Section, per se, would be more than willing to sponsor as well. By copy of this post to its current Chair, Alan Spector, I will recommend it. As Director of the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology, I would like to offer RF sponsorship as well. ` ********* I would not like to be understood as endorsing either the Bible or the Constitution in their entirity...however, in my considered opinion, both contain lessons and urgings most helpful to the human project. Nor would I suggest that the Manifesto is adequate to the task at hand; either in terms of the political economy of the times or in terms of the spiritual values which are beyond its scope. Other teachings in other traditions are not to be lightly set aside; the teachings of the Buddha offer much wisdom and many guidelines to a good and decent life. The Koran is greatly under-prized in Western Society; we tend to focus upon its dogmatic elements and ignore the many ways it speaks to social justice and to social peace. Those of us working toward democratic socialism and toward more egalitarian social orders need all the help we can get. We need, in my view, to honor other teachings of other peoples in our own discussions and celebrations of the Manifesto. ********* And, this weekend, the Christian Pope celebrates Mass in Cuba. An historic event, the outcomes of which will surprize even the most astute of us; and disappoint the more dogmatic of us; Christians and Marxists alike. At the same time, the American Press, the part I monitor, greatly underestimates the ways in which Fidel Castro deals with religious sensibility; his antagonism remains directed at the elements of the Catholic church in partnership with class, race and gender elites...which is to say most of them in both Rome and the hinterland. In his lengthy interview with a Catholic monk, Castro was most congenial to liberation theology and to enlivening religious sensibility. But the Pope himself, John Paul, has made a sea change in his ministry to the Church...in his latest Encylical, John Paul sounded a lot more like Marx than he did like Pope Innocent. One not be a theist to value the teachings of theists; one need not be a marxist to value the teachings of Marx; one need not be an American to value the democratic impulse in the Constitution. One subverts one's own cause when one dis-values that which is good and decent in documents other than one's own grounding philosophy. I suppose what I want to say is that there are many ways to work toward fellowship, brother/sisterhood and social justice; that we might well take care that we fail to see our best allies and forge better alliances against power, privilege and concentration of wealth than have we in the past. TR Young TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From elarsen@erols.com Fri Jan 23 14:27:03 1998 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 16:38:40 -0500 (EST) To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: "Elizabeth A. Larsen" Subject: Re: At 11:08 PM 1/22/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, > > I have a student, senior, interested in deviance and criminology >(especially prison cultures). Can anyone recommend particular graduate >schools he might want to take a look at? > >Bob > > > I recommend George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Its masters program has a concentration in Criminology, Corrections, and Juvenile Delinquency. The professor who teaches these courses is Dr. Mark Colvin, who authored The Penitentiary in Crisis, as well as Penitentiaries, Reformatories and Chain Gangs. I'm sure he would be glad to talk to you. Call 703-993-1440 for the sociology department. Good luck! Libby Larsen From rmoore@earth.sunlink.net Sat Jan 24 06:13:38 1998 From: rmoore@earth.sunlink.net Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 08:13:32 -0500 (EST) To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Financial Aid Do most sociology departments offer financial aid and/or an opportunity to teach classes while a graduate student? Bob From DMC96005@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Sat Jan 24 07:06:03 1998 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 98 09:02:57 EST From: danielle Subject: Re: Financial Aid To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU In-Reply-To: Bob, about financial aid... Depends on where you are in the program. Also depends on what school you are attending. At University of Connecticut, anyone with a Master's has the chance to teach their own sections during the school year. In fact, they frown on teaching assistantships to post-MA people. There is a fair amount of funding for most people in the department, but not full by any means. Here, a teaching or research assistantship comes with healt insurance and tuition remission, so that makes the pittance of "stipend" worth it (I speak for myself here). Some places have guaranteed funding for everyone and some places have no funding for students at all. Do some serious research on the school you are interested in so you don't get misled!! Danielle at UConn From dcoon@ksu.edu Sat Jan 24 08:30:07 1998 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 09:30:01 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Alan Coon To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: Financial Aid In-Reply-To: It seems that many Sociology Students do offer "Assistantships" which usually are in teaching or research that do not have to be paid back, but most Depts only seem to let PhD students teach their own classes. A few allow Masters students to teach, but most do not. Sincerely, Dave Alan Coon http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~dcoon MA Student & Graduate Teaching Asst. Office: (785)532-4972 204 Waters Hall Office: 253 Waters Hall Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/ Kansas State University http://www.ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66506 USA ============================================================================== "The 20th Century has 3 things to offer history: WW-I, WW-II and WWW." ============================================================================== From G_GRACE@VENUS.TWU.EDU Sat Jan 24 10:33:24 1998 From: G_GRACE@VENUS.TWU.EDU Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:29:51 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Financial Aid In-reply-to: "Your message dated Sat, 24 Jan 1998 08:13:32 -0500 (EST)" To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu > Do most sociology departments offer financial aid and/or an opportunity to > teach classes while a graduate student? > Bob BTW, financial aid (alone) is separate from any dept. If you're interested in getting financial aid for 98-99, I'd start now. Good luck, and have fun! Marg...:) From brekhus@rci.rutgers.edu Sat Jan 24 12:42:52 1998 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:42:36 -0500 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: wayne brekhus Subject: Re: Financial Aid In-Reply-To: Most programs offer some form of financial aid in the form of fellowships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships. Some offer full funding to most or all students, others are only able to fund some. There's an ASA guide that tells you what kinds of funding different programs offer. How often you get to teach varies a lot from program to program. Here at Rutgers most graduate students end up teaching their own courses early on (sometimes even in their first or second year). This is more teaching experience than is the norm for graduate programs. It's a great thing in many ways, a bad thing in terms of it can slow down one's own work. If the ultimate goal is to go to a teaching college after one is done the experience is invaluable. Doesn't hurt with research universities, either, as long as one can balance their research and teaching. In the end teaching is a double-edged sword. Students here seem to do very well at conferences because they're used to being in front of an audience a few times a week. But teaching can also be seductive and greedy of one's time, and the institutional structure of graduate programs doesn't generally reward good teaching unless it comes with good research. Wayne Brekhus Rutgers At 08:13 AM 1/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >Do most sociology departments offer financial aid and/or an opportunity to >teach classes while a graduate student? > >Bob > > > > From chadk@yourinter.net Sat Jan 24 13:32:23 1998 (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:28:06 -0800 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: chadk@yourinter.net (Chad Kimmel) Subject: Re: Financial Aid Here at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, most students in the Masters program recieve a research assistantship. This entails working 20 hrs a week with a faculty member, full tuition waiver, and around 250.00 every other week in the form of a check paid directly to you. Our Ph.D program concentrates on the the administrative aspects of Human services, not academia. The Masters program is structured with two tracks, 1. General soc and 2. Human Services. I am enrolled in the General track and find it very rewarding. However, I have been quite fortunate in that my assistantship is with an inpressive research institute and my mentoring could not have been better. Like I said, we are only a masters program, therefore, if academia is where you are headed one will be filling out more app's in two years. Good luck. At 08:13 AM 1/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >Do most sociology departments offer financial aid and/or an opportunity to >teach classes while a graduate student? > >Bob > > > ***************************************************** Chad M. Kimmel Graduate Assistant/Data Manager Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute (MAATI) Indiana University of Pennsylvania 102 McElhaney Hall Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705-1087 ckimmel@yourinter.net http://www.yourinter.net/~ckimmel 412-463-7010 **************************************************** From chadk@yourinter.net Sat Jan 24 13:40:53 1998 (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:36:36 -0800 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: chadk@yourinter.net (Chad Kimmel) Subject: Re: Financial Aid Here at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, most students in the masters program recieve a research assistantship. This entails working 20 hrs a week with a faculty member, full tuition waiver, and around $250.00 every other week in the form of a check paid directly to you. Our Ph.D program is geared toward administrative aspects of Human Services, not academia. The masters program is structured with a general track and a human services track. I am in the general track and find it very rewarding. However, I have been quite fortunate with my assitantship. It is with an inpressive research institute and my mentoring could not have been better. (Persistance is key) like I said, we only have a masters program geared toward academia. So, if this is the root one might take applications are again present within two years. good luck. At 08:13 AM 1/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >Do most sociology departments offer financial aid and/or an opportunity to >teach classes while a graduate student? > >Bob > > > ***************************************************** Chad M. Kimmel Graduate Assistant/Data Manager Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute (MAATI) Indiana University of Pennsylvania 102 McElhaney Hall Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705-1087 ckimmel@yourinter.net http://www.yourinter.net/~ckimmel 412-463-7010 **************************************************** From tr@tryoung.com Sun Jan 25 02:49:13 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Poetry of Dance Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 04:52:13 -0500 For those of you who like poetry or who like to dance, I've uploaded some 40 of my favorites to: http://www.tryoung.com/tr'spage-2/dance/danceindex.html and...for those who love sociology, there are five cautionary poems at: http://www.tryoung.com/tr'spage-2/sociology/socindex.html enjoy, TR TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Sun Jan 25 07:08:59 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: TEACHSOC@maple.lemoyne.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Super-Bowl and the Drama of the Holy in a Secular Society Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:11:58 -0500 Since the 32nd Super bowl will be played later the day, I thought I would repeat a mini-lecture for the socgrad network. The mini-lecture comes from an article on the Sociology of Sports I wrote in 1984...the entire article appears in my 1991 book, The Drama of Social Life, Transaction Books. ******************* In every class organized society, Sport serves a political function. Capitalism supports a division of sports into 'us' and 'them. Progressive societies must use sports to bring people back from their lonely, tortured and shattered worlds to their rightful human dignity. .... from Arbeitsports by Fritz Wildung FIVE APPROACHES TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT ********* 1.Most people who write/think/work in professional sports today adopt a structural functional point of view. In this approach, one charts the various structures in professional and amateur sports, records attendence, salaries, win/lose patterns, auxilliary support institutions, financing, publishing, advertizing costs as well as trends and social problems of athletes in their careers from little league to major league play. For structural functionalists, sports helps build character, produce solidarity, generate profits, provide jobs, expand the economy, entertain the public and supplement the family as a source of self and social identity. Social solidarity, especially, is of interest, especially to those who follow the ways of Emile Durkheim. In brief, both amateur and professional sports offer a mechanical solidarity to supplement the thin and depersonalized organic solidarity of divisions of labor... ....more than that, sports offers a solidarity with which to transcend the social differentiations which produce conflict and anomie...it is a matter of pride that sports has lead the way in dismantling the legacies of racism which we inherited from slavery. It is a source of uncertain pride that Title IX has begun to dismantle the ancient structures of patriarchy in public games and sports. In Boston and in Green Bay, rich and poor alike will cheer, chant, despair and rejoice as the ball takes its unlikely bounces. Many primary groups will spend the better part of the day in those situated dramas of the Holy which reunite and repair the harm done to friendships by time and distance. Solidarity supplies will re-sanctify the social bonds; along with the drama of violence played out on the television screen, alchohol, special fatty foods, chants, dances and gaming will generate those extra-ordinary states which Durkheim noted as proof demonstrative of the Super-Organic; of the reality of society assembled. There is much merit to such work and it is done by sociologists of much merit. But there are other paradigms not well explored by structural functionalism. *********** 2.There is also a freudian approach to the analysis of sports. In a freudian approach football, basketball, base ball, golf and soccer are re-enactments of the primal scene in which father and son struggle for sexual access to earth mother. In this analysis, the goal line is the hymen of urmother, the bat is a phallic substitute, the ball is the receptacle of sperm and the home run is the symbolic murder of urfather. The golf club drive a smaller ball into a smaller hole. In football, the scrimage line is the symbolic hymen and the fullback drives deep into the sacred territory of the father figure. Basketball slam-dunk are seen, in the freudian drama, as a triumph of the adolescent son over the unaccessible mother figure. In baseball, the catcher's mitt is genital organ of earth mother while the pitcher is the incestuous son trying to get pass the swinging bat of the guardian father. In this analytic schema, sports is seen as alienated sexuality...and a freudian would suggest that players grow up, find a suitable sexual partner and leave behind the incestuous dreams of a child. ....for some freudians, sports is a harmless outlet for endemic anxiety, hostility toward father/society/super-ego which, in Freud, are necessary constraints on the primitive urges of the psyche. ***************** 3.Many analysts see sports, cinema, television, play, poetry and other forms of culture are 'divertissment' from the problems, disappointments, failures, frustration and obstacles to success which is the common fate of all. Adults stay in social harness; they work, plan and adjust to the adversities of life...they do not run away into the world of make-believe and just-pretent...they work hard all the days of their life nor do they laugh, play and ignore the problems of the morrow. ****************** **************** 4.Marxism. There is a growing literature in cultural marxism which studies the ways in which human consciousness is colonized by the capitalist class and by which theoretically informed rebellion and resistence are deflected. Marcuse, Adorno, C.P. Thompson, Lukacs, Gramsci and a hundred other cultural marxists make the case that the grace, elegance, beauty and skill of athletes, musicians, dancers, poets, singers of song and writers of prose are bought by corporations and are used to solve endemic problems of capitalism. ******* The Realization Problem. Capitalism is a wonderful means of production but a terribly constrained means of distribution...workers are not paid 100% of the value of the goods/services they produce therefore they cannot buy back all that is produced. This un-distributed part of production piles up; factories close, workers are laid-off and economic crisis follows... The problem, for the capitalist, is how to dispose of the 'surplus' product. There are several solutions...all of which include generating markets above and beyond need. War, consumer debt, welfare state, theft, and gifts are all non-capitalist systems of re-distribution. They work to renew demand. In the last 80 years mass media, depth psychology, social demographics, advertizing and professional sports have become a vehicle for renewal of consumer demand. Both the goodness of a Michael Jordan and the badness of a Worm Rodman help generate mass audience to sports spectaculars and, from the audience, a market for high-profit, capital-intensive goods and services is created. Thus market share is increased, surplus production distributed, profits generated and capitalism renewed. ********** 5.A Postmodern Theological Analysis also helps the sociology student to understand the interest in, resources devoted, and attention given to such sports events as the Super-Bowl. In this analysis, sports events are myths which help answer the central problematics of social life. A myth grasps the basic concerns of a complex society and offers simple solutions to them. Every society needs use generate the awe, wonder, mystery, and magic of just-pretend and make-believe as carrier and legitimator of those simple answers. In sacred societies, the god concept and the dream world from which we came and to which we go offers basic plans for life as well as guides on how to deal with the four questions of life: 1. From where do human beings come? 2. How do we relate to others with whom we have conflict? 3. How do we survive the terrible tragedies of life and love? 4. What happens when we die? ************* As with pre-modern myths, games and sports events give answer: 1. The community is our source and our future; the team is icon for community and must be honored; its fate is our fate. 2. The sports event reproduces the conflict and competition of social divisions and cleavages. One must work on the team if one has a chance to survive in the stuggle for existence. 3. We survive the terrible and inevitable events of death, divorce and estrangement from our children by faith in our friends. We draw upon that solidarity in times of trouble and we give to that solidarity in ordinary times. 4. We never really die if we work on and for the team. We live on in the lives of our team-mates; in the lives of our children; and in the case of the teacher/preacher, in the lives of our students. ************** CONCLUSION: Sports events are powerful stories about how we should live. They are transcendent myths which give us inspriration in a impersonal massified and de-sanctified society. They tell a story to the hundreds of millions who no longer go to church...who no longer have a religious solidarity to which to turn and from which to draw courage and faith for the morrow. Sports, play, make-believe and just-pretend are too important to the human project to leave to commodity capitalism. As Fritz Wildung said in the opening of this mini-lecture, a good and decent society must possession of these most wondrous human products and keep them oriented to the human condition. TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From lmiller@weber.ucsd.edu Mon Jan 26 11:47:11 1998 by weber.ucsd.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) id KAA03419 for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:47:07 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Miller Subject: call for papers (fwd) To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:47:07 -0800 (PST) > >From LIKME@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Sun Jan 25 13:48:59 1998 > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 98 15:43:03 EST > From: Lloyd Klein > Subject: call for papers > To: owner-socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU > > > The SSSP Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division is seeking > submissions for our publicized 1998 annual meeting sessions. Please send > any papers on the topics of AIDS and Public Policy or Issues in Sexual Behavior > to Lloyd Klein, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Medgar Evers > College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Papers dealing with the > topic of Bisexual and Transgender Issues: Sex/Gender/Desire Identities and > Social Change should be sent to PJ McGann, Sociology Department, St. Lawrence > University, Canton, NY 13617. Her e-mail address is PMCG@music.stlawu.edu. > Abstracts are acceptable for all sessions. The deadline is January 31, but > submissions received within a few days after the deadline will be considered. > > Lloyd Klein > Chair, SSSP SBPC Division > ----- End of forwarded message from listproc@csf.colorado.edu ----- From tr@tryoung.com Tue Jan 27 01:22:18 1998 by ntserver3.sensible-net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Confessions of a Postmodern Marxist Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 03:25:10 -0500 Since the development of the Internet and the creation of networks of progressive sociologists, we have learned a lot more about some of our colleagues than otherwise we would. Alas, the same it true of my postings on psn...a great many good colleagues, otherwise innocent, find them distressing. Concern seem to be directed at: 1. posts on class and class struggle 2. posts on religion and religious sensibility 3. posts on sociology and the knowledge process. I want to respond, briefly to these concerns in three, interconnected Confessions: A. CONFESSIONS of a Soft Core Marxist. Marx is dead. He died in April, 1883. A lot has happened since. We have a far better research process than when he lived and we have the benefit of a much better communication system including storage and retrieval of his work. We have a far better understanding of the world and how it works. New understandings require new praxis: Those understandings come from fundamental changes: 1. a vast change in the nature of the capitalist system; it is no longer simply three classes and a surplus population; it is far more complex; firms, nations, regional economic blocs and whole sectors of the capitalist system now comprise the 'actors' in class struggle... Working for social justice in the USA without considering social justice in the third world is no longer possible...we have build social programs with profits and labor from the 3rd world for so many centuries, we can no longer pretend that class struggle in the USA and for US workers alone is adequate to the compleat marxist. 2. a vast change in labor struggles...social democracy and socialist organization have forever changed the nature of the political economy in the West and is changing it in third world nations. The positivities of capitalism cum free market cum private ownership have begun to be linked to larger social purpose. The negativities of capitalism in wages, hours, working conditions pensions and profit margins have been targetted by marxists and populists with telling effect in the West...and to some extent in the rest of the world. The task of the postmodern Marxist is, in my opinion, taming the market system while turning loose some but not all of the creative genius of entrepreneurs... ...more so than replacing market systems with state systems of control...the point is to use markets rather than destroy them. 3. a vast change in the politics of sociology and philosophy... women, minorities and gays have greatly challenged male hegemony...I respond to and respect much of that work. That means I view racism and gender privilege to be equally salient to class struggle... That means I no longer give pride of place to and only to class struggle. ...but see below. B. CONFESSIONS of a Soft Core Atheist. 1. I agree with Durkheim that the god concept is a reification of the large social order....hence all gods are first and finally mere human constructs. 2. I agree with my more conservative social psychologists that things defined as real may have and often do become real. 3. The god concept has real consequences...not all of them hostile to progressive sociologists nor yet to revolutionaries. 4. Part of the prophecies defined and situations constructed are dramas of the Holy...they have the same reality quotient as does Detroit or the Denver Broncos...or the SuperBowl Sanctification/profanation are social processes...not the work of gods but the work of men and women. Faith, hope, charity, belief, trust, and prayer are essential to all modern and postmodern social psychological processes...without them culture, society, sociology and marxist sociology itself are impossible. The foundations of pre-modern social philosophy are essential even if the theology is not. 5. I agree with Marx that capitalism destroys all that is holy; but by inference, socialism should respect some of that which is holy. I do...I respect a lot of the holy work of brothers and sisters in Nicaragua, Cuba, Manilla, Guatemala and even in the USA. 6. My views on the life and death of God are set forth in a parallel medium; one might like to glance over a poem, Maybe, a quintet of postmodern hymns at: http://www.tryoung.com/TRsPage/polpoetry/maybe.html C. CONFESSIONS of a soft core Scientist: 1. The logic of modern science and modern sociology do not permit one to do radical, transforming sociology...marxist's philosophy of science does. I shall never forgive the sociology faculty at U/Michigan for failing to give Marx and marxian sociology space in the graduate program. U/Colorado did a bit better; Alex Garber was there for one brief semester when I took the Ph.D. 'Twas the radical caucuses at ASA, MSS, and SWSSA along with AHS and SSSP later on which gave me a much larger vision of the knowledge process than contained in their poor philosophy...I take it seriously that the point is to change society and sociology rather than merely to study them. 2. The new sciences of Chaos and Complexity forever changed the missions and methods of the knowledge process...that includes sociology. 1. That means that causality is a very weak crutch to use as basis of a discipline... In non-deterministice chaotic regimes, causality fades and fails as systems become more complex...[critics call such systems 'chaotic' rather than complex...as a pejorative rejection of such in order to perserve faith, trust and belief in tight-fisted causality. In complex social systems, non-linear feedback mechanisms produce ever changing relations between parts of a society; class, racism and gendering have varying effect on each other and upon law, religion and morality... Sic transit economic determinism...sic transit gloria theoria. 2. New methods...not yet used in sociology research preserve the knowledge process and permit 'objective' knowledge but it is a far more modest claim to truth than found in either Marx or modern science. Prediction, replication, falsification and logical deduction are lost to the knowledge process in complex, chaotic social processes. 3. There is much to be said for uncertainty...neither God nor Nature permit uncertainty for true believers but we soft core atheists and scientists accept that uncertainty is the source of change, renewal, creativity, non-linear evolution in biology and in society... Three cheers for uncertainty!!! Marx is dead....I would that he were alive...although he could be dogmatic and emphatic; assertive and ascerbic, still I think he would have lept at the three sorts of changes above and would have, I would think, come out closer to my own response than that of those who have not read anything new in Marx since April, 1883. Finally, my own tribute to Marx for whom I have undying admiration if not unfailing faith: Early wise and brave in season, Marx could think and Marx could reason. Right he saw at rising morrow, one could come to worst than sorrow. As a scholar born and bred Marx saw the past and where it led. He scorned to buy the muck one must since one could come to worse than dust. Safe to rest, no dreams, no waking, Here's a poem dear friend for you. 'Tis not a gift much worth the taking, but with your help, a world we're making. ...variation on a poem by Housman Hail and farewell, Marx. TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893--ph: [517] 644 3089 Email: tr@tryoung.com From dcoon@ksu.edu Tue Jan 27 18:32:24 1998 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:32:00 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Alan Coon To: Sociology Graduate Students International Subject: RATIONALITY AND POWER BOOK Sorry if this message sounds like a plug or an ad, but I assure you I have no conenction to this guy, I just thought it might interest someone... Sincerely, Dave Alan Coon http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~dcoon MA Student & Graduate Teaching Asst. Office: (785)532-4972 204 Waters Hall Office: 253 Waters Hall Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/ Kansas State University http://www.ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66506 USA ============================================================================== "The 20th Century has 3 things to offer history: WW-I, WW-II and WWW." ============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:37:10 +0100 From: Bent Flyvbjerg AAU To: COMM-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: RATIONALITY AND POWER, COMM-LIST Dear Colleagues. I thought you might be interested to know that my book RATIONALITY AND POWER: DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE has been published by the University of Chicago Press this month. Below, please find information about the book, including its Table of Contents. If this mail is of no interest to you I am sorry and apologize for any inconvenience. Also apologies for any cross posting. Best wishes. Yours sincerely, Bent Flyvbjerg, Professor Aalborg University, Dept. of Development and Planning 9220 Aalborg, Denmark e-mail: flyvbjerg@i4.auc.dk FROM THE BACK COVER OF RATIONALITY AND POWER: If the new fin de siècle marks a recurrence of the real, Bent Flyvbjerg¹s Rationality and Power epitomizes this development . . . The Danish town of Aalborg is to Flyvbjerg what Florence was to Machiavelli: a laboratory for understanding the real workings of power and what they mean for our more general concerns of social and political organization. Politics, administration, and planning are examined in ways that allow a rare, in-depth understanding. The reader witnesses, firsthand, the classic and endless drama which defines what modernity and democracy are and can be. "Deeply original . . . This book presents the single most important challenge to the perspectives of conventional social science and conventional political philosophy." ALASDAIR MACINTYRE, DUKE UNIVERSITY "Impressive in its detail and comprehensiveness--rare for an issue of this kind." ROBERT A. DAHL, YALE UNIVERSITY "I have read and reread this book. It is superb, a real breakthrough, and will be a classic in its field." C. ROLAND CHRISTENSEN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY "[Flyvbjerg] has written a text which marries incisive and illuminating conceptual analysis with detailed empirical research into a particular case . . . I am highly impressed . . . Rationality and Power will make a real contribution to the Anglo-Saxon debate." STEVEN LUKES, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF SIENA "Rationality and Power is a seminal work and will have a wide audience. The book is unusual (and, hence, much needed) because it points both to the ubiquity and necessity of power." AARON WILDAVSKY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY "I have not encountered a better case study of urban planning. The case is rich in political, institutional, and interpersonal detail. It illuminates in many ways how models of rational choice and planning fail to capture the games of interests and powers that are inevitably draped over the rationalizing structures of bureaucratic regimes. Moreover, by locating this case study in a context of recent philosophical discourse about ideals of rational deliberation, Flyvbjerg also provides an object lesson in the shortcomings of such ideals." DONALD A. SCHÖN, MIT "Showing how power corrupts not only character but public discourse, how bluffing and deception displace sound argument, how rationalization displaces rationality, Flyvbjerg provides the best Habermasian example of systematically distorted communications that I know of." JOHN FORESTER, CORNELL UNIVERSITY TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. In Some Remote Corner of the Universe 2. The Aalborg Project 3. Bacon and Nietzsche Come to Northern Jutland 4. Power Defines Reality 5. Rationality as Frozen Politics 6. The Rationality of Resistance 7. The Weakness of the Better Argument 8. The Longue Durée of Power 9. Rationality in the Context of Power 10. Interpretation over Truth 11. Antagonistic Reactions at Play 12. Farewell to Reason 13. The Dream Plan 14. Knowledge Kills Action 15. Minutiae Matter 16. Myths Die Hard 17. Exit the Innovators 18. A Single Drama . . . with an Endless Play of Dominations 19. Reality Check 20. Power Has a Rationality That Rationality Does Not Know MORE INFORMATION: Including ordering information, at http://www.press.uchicago.edu and http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13393.ctl Or: Email: custserv@press.uchicago.edu postal: The University of Chicago Press, 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628, U.S.A. phone: 1-800-621-2736 or 1-773-568-1550 fax: 1-800-621-8471/8476 or 1-773-660-2235 If you are an editor or review editor, you may obtain a review copy of Rationality and Power from: Barbara C. 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From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Wed Jan 28 12:20:46 1998 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:19:20 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Position Announcement (fwd) FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:22:37 -0500 From: Steve Buechler To: TEACHSOC@poplar.lemoyne.edu Subject: Position Announcement Mankato State University - Assistant Professor, tenure track position in the Departments of Sociology and Corrections and Ethnic Studies. The successful applicant is expected to have a Ph.D in Sociology with broad sociological training in the analysis of social differentiation and inequality. Teaching areas include: race, culture, ethnicity, cultural pluralism, social differentiation, and inequality. The applicant must show evidence of a commitment to excellence in teaching, potential for research, contribution to student growth, university and community service, and continuing professional preparation. The successful applicant will have a tenure home in Sociology and will also serve as Ethnic Studies program faculty. Up to 50% of load will be taught for the Ethnic Studies Program. Applicants should submit a statement of interest, curriculum vitae (including names and telephone numbers of 3 references), graduate transcripts, and, if available, teaching evaluations and examples of research to Dr. Steven Buechler, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Sociology & Corrections, Campus Box 49, Mankato, MN 56002-8400. Review will begin March 1, 1998, and continue until the position is filled. ---------------------- Steve Buechler steve.buechler@Mankato.MSUS.EDU From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Thu Jan 29 12:26:24 1998 From: cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu (James Cassell) To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: A New on-Line Journal Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:25:45 GMT In-Reply-To: FYI - Jim On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:36:48 -0800, in alt.sci.sociology you wrote: >Dear Friends, >A Journal of Radical Social Critique called 'Pursuit of Happiness' has >been started. It will provide articles encompassing Neo-Marxist and/or >Postmodernist perspectives to the general cyberspace community. > >Rules and Submission Forms are available at the Journal's Home Page: > >http://www.missouri.edu/~c713883 > >Best Regards, >Filip Kovacevic, http://www.missouri.edu/~tapscifk >J. Todd Reed, http://www.missouri.edu/~591653 >Andrea Moraes >Editors > -- James Cassell From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Jan 30 05:08:52 1998 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 07:07:25 -0500 (EST) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Position Announcement (fwd) FYI - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/jwc/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 14:51:22 -0600 From: Steve Buechler To: TEACHSOC@poplar.lemoyne.edu Subject: Position Announcement Mankato State University - The Department of Sociology and Corrections probationary (tenure-track) assistant professor position in Corrections beginning August 1998. The successful applicant will teach courses in correctional treatment and supervise students in field placements. A Ph. D. or A.B.D. in sociology, criminal justice or social work (with a strong background in sociology). Experience in corrections is preferred. Applicants should submit a statement of interest, curriculum vitae (including names and telephone numbers of 3 references), graduate transcripts, and, if available, teaching evaluations and examples of research to Dr. William F. Wagner, Department of Sociology & Corrections, Campus Box 49, Mankato, MN 56002-8400. Review will begin March 1, 1998, and continue until position is filled. From mpomeran@acs.ryerson.ca Fri Jan 30 08:50:32 1998 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:51:38 -0500 (EST) From: Murray Pomerance To: "L:SOCGRAD" Subject: position announcement: some restrictions DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY RYERSON POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY TENURE-STREAM APPOINTMENT The Department of Sociology at Ryerson Polytechnic University invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the level of Assistant Professor, to commence August 1, 1998 (subject to budgetary approval). We seek a person with a primary specialization in media studies, capable of building a serious reputation for research and of teaching courses in media, culture and communication, and popular culture. The ideal candidate will also be able to teach in a second area of specialization in sociology. We would be very interested in persons who blend practical and theoretical knowledge. Our requirements include a Ph.D., a record of scholarship in the area of primary specialization, and demonstrated ability to teach effectively at the university undergraduate level. Duties will include a balance of teaching and research, and involvement in departmental work. Salary will be commensurate with academic rank. Applicants should send an up-to-date curriculum vitae detailing exact courses taught, a statement of academic specializations and research interests, and evidence of teaching excellence; and should arrange to have three referees forward letters to accompany the application. No faxes please. Closing date for applications is noon local time, Tuesday March 31, 1998. Mail to Ms. Anice Gibbons, Secretary, Department of Sociology, A-831, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto ON M5B 2K3. Consult our web page at http://www.ryerson.ca/soc/. This advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Ryerson Polytechnic University has an employment equity program and encourages applications from all qualified applicants, including women, visible minorities, aboriginal peoples and people with disabilities. In accordance with Section 14 of the Ontario Human Rights Code, special consideration will be given to female applicants. From brekhus@rci.rutgers.edu Fri Jan 30 16:08:50 1998 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:08:42 -0500 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: wayne brekhus Subject: ASA to survey new PhD's Hi all, Given past discussions of the academic job market on this list, I thought folks might be interested to see that in the new footnotes, ASA has announced that it will be surveying 600 new sociology PhD's on their job market experiences. The article mentions the socgrad thread on the topic and refers to Laura Miller's (they didn't mention her name, but I'll cite it here) post showing the number of applicants for different jobs that ranged from 83 to 400. Glad to see the ASA is finally collecting some data on this. Wayne Brekhus Rutgers From lmiller@weber.ucsd.edu Sat Jan 31 13:28:05 1998 Received: from weber.ucsd.edu (weber.ucsd.edu [132.239.206.10]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id NAA26430 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 13:28:04 -0700 (MST) Received: (from lmiller@localhost) by weber.ucsd.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) id MAA13440 for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:28:03 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Miller Message-Id: <199801312028.MAA13440@weber.ucsd.edu> Subject: call for papers (fwd) To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:28:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Forwarded message from listproc@csf.colorado.ed----- > >From davidredmon@hotmail.com Sat Jan 31 09:57:55 1998 > From: "David Redmon" > To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu > Subject: call for papers > Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 08:57:51 PST > > CALL FOR PAPERS!! > > A new journal, especially for and by grad students in sociology > has been created by the Red Feather Institute. > > The first issue is edited by David Redmon at Texas Woman's > University...There is no special theme for this issue. > > If you have a good paper helpful to grad students in the > US, Europe or Australia/New Zealand, send it along to > David at: > > DavidRedmon@hotmail.com > > David is special Editor of the Spring, 1998 Issue and > member of the Editorial Board. > > Grad Students wishing to act as Editor of other Issues > may send David a one page application stating: > > 1. Which issue you would like to edit: > Summer, 1998 > Fall, 1998 > Winter, 1998 > other, please specify > 2. Special Theme for your Issue, if any > > 3. List of authors and titles you plan to use > [as/when available] > > 4. GUIDELINES: > > length: 10-20 pages > word processor: WP51 or Word6.1 or .txt files > Limit: you may select up to 10 articles for the > Issue you edit. You should send the first 5 > in one set after you have chosen them and notified > the article. > Turn-around time: You can assure prospective > authors that their article will appear on- > line within 2 weeks of the time you send us > the first 5 articles [on disk or email]. > Publication Elsewhere. RF Journal articles may > be published elsewhere but RF retains rights to > electronic presentation. > RF Institute will link all articles published > elsewhere to any email address other publisher > may wish...for ordering hard journal issues or > simply acknowledging journal rights. > > > ********************** > > > The General Editor of Red Feather Journals is: > > TR Young. You can reach him at: > > tr@tryoung.com > > If you have any problems. > > David Redmon > Grad Student, > Sociology, TWU, > Denton, Tx, > > > > > > > > > > > ----- End of forwarded message from listproc@csf.colorado.edu -----