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| Date and Time |
Session |
| Fri. 8/12 7:00 PM |
Centennial Opening Presider: ASA President Troy Duster Centennial Film Presentation: A Century of Progress: Presidential Reflections, produced by Gale Largey, Mansfield University. This 20 minute film gives a brief overview of the founding of the American Sociological Society and continues with a review of each of the successive presidents of the society/association from 1905-2005. |
| Sat. 8/13 8:30-10:10 AM |
The ASA Centennial as a Teaching
Resource (ASA-HOS co-sponsorship; Teaching Workshop) Organizers and Co-Leaders: Patricia Madoo Lengermann, George Washington University Gillian Niebrugge, American University Philadelphia Marriott |
| Sat. 8/13 8:30-10:10 AM |
History of American Sociology (regular
paper session) Organizer and Presider: Stephen Turner, University of South Florida "Beginnings of U.S. Pragmatism, Sociology, and Empire: Dewey, Mead, and the Philippine Problem, 1900-1930s." Peter Chua, San José State University "The Rise of Homans at Harvard: Pareto and the English Villagers." Lawrence T. Nichols, West Virginia University "Merton's Intellectual Legacy: Influences from Merton." Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology "Towards a Theory of the Talking Class." Christian Fleck, University of Graz. Philadelphia Marriott |
| Sat. 8/13 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM |
History of European Sociology (regular
paper session) Organizer: Stephen Turner, University of South Florida Presider: Gianfranco Poggi, European University Institute "Changing Readings of Legitimacy in Max Weber's Sociology of Domination." Nicholas Eilbaum, Cornell University "Emile Durkheim Engages the Pragmatist Divide." Robert C. Prus, University of Waterloo "Marcel Mauss in America." Marcel Fournier, University of Montreal, Canada "Robert Merton and British Sociology." Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex, England Philadelphia Marriott |
| Sat. 8/13 2:10-4:30 PM |
Sociology in America: The ASA
Centennial History (ASA Centennial Session) Organizer and Presider: Craig Calhoun "Defining Disciplinary Identity: The Historiography of U.S. Sociology." Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University "A Life in the First Half-Century of Sociology: Charles Ellwood and the Division of Sociology." Stephan Turner, University of South Florida "Thrice Told: Narratives of Sociology's Relation to Social Work." Patricia Lengermann, American University, and Gillian Niebrugge, George Washington University "Profession in Peril: Sociology During the Depression and the New Deal." Charles Camic, Northwestern University "Assessing the Feminist Revolution: The Presence and Absence of Gender in Theory and Practice." Myra Max Ferree, Shamus Khan, and Shauna A. Morimoto, University of Wisconsin Philadelphia Loews Hotel |
| Sat. 8/13 4:30-6:10 PM |
Centennial Session: The Formation
of American Sociology in International Context (ASA-HOS
co-sponsorship; invited panel) Organizer and Presider: Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, University of Iowa "Modes of Exchange between British and U.S. Sociology." Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex, England "French Sociology in North America." Marcel Fournier, University of Montreal, Canada "An Anglo-Canadian Perspective on American Sociology." Neil G. McLaughlin, McMaster University, Canada "The Impact of German Social Theory on American Sociology: A Two-Way Passage." Una Gerhardt, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany "Cultural Traffic between American and Australian Sociology." Peter Beilharz, Latrobe University, Australia Philadelphia Loews Hotel |
| Sat. 8/13 7:30-9:30 PM |
Special Film Premiere: Lester
F. Ward: A Life's Journey Organizer and Producer: Gale Largey, Mansfield University This new documentary about Lester Ward, first president of the American Sociological Society, chronicles the life and ideas of Ward--his staunch egalitarianism, advocacy for women, fierce resistance to the racism of the eugenics movement, and recognition of the need for public sociology. All meeting attendees are invited to this special centennial event. Philadelphia Marriott [back to top]
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| Sun. 8/14 12:30-4:10 PM |
Centennial Session: Diverse
Histories of American Sociology (ASA-HOS co-sponsorship; invited
panel) Organizer: Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University Presider: Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati "Archiving in the Margins: Early Sociology at Historically Black and Women's Colleges." Joyce E. Williams, Texas Women's University (emeritus); Vicky M. MacLean, Middle Tennessee State University "Digging for Southern Sociologists: Uncovering Foremothers and Forefathers in Unrecognized Regions." Kay Richards Broschart, Hollins University "Investigating the History of Sociology at Berkeley." Jonathan D. VanAntwerpen, University of California, Berkeley "Why American Sociologists Should Know abbot Maurice Halbwachs." Suzanne Vromen, Bard College "Looking Back on Methodological Traditions in the Work of W.E.B. DuBois." Robert Wortham, North Carolina Central University Philadelphia Marriott |
 Sun. 8/14 2:30-4:10 PM |
Centennial
Session: The Significance of Sociology for the American Public:
1880-2005 (ASA-HOS co-sponsorhsip) Organizers and Presiders: Patricia Madoo Lengermann, George Washington University Gillian Niebrugge, American University "First Embrace: The Citizen Sociologists, 1880-1905." Patricia Madoo Lengermann, George Washington University; Gillian Niebrugge, American University "Continuing the Social Critic Tradition in Sociology: African American Sociological Contributions to the Brown Decision and the Civil Rights Movement." Donald Cunnigen, University of Rhode Island "The Ivory Tower versis the Public Square in the Long Decade: Sociologists and Social Movements in the 1960s." John P. Drysdale, University of Iowa "ASA's Response to the Building Public Mood: Second Wave Feminism, the Women's Caucus, and SWS." Kathleen O. Slobin, North Dakota State University Philadelphia Loews Hotel [back to top]
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| Mon. 8/15 10:30 AM -- 12:10 PM |
The
History of American Sociology: Disciplinary Currents and Crosscurrents,
I (section paper session) Organizers and Presiders: Betsy Lucal, Indiana University South Bend Lawrence T. Nichols, West Virginia University "95 Years of Teaching High School Sociology." Michael DeCesare, California State University, Northridge "SSA: Beginning or End of the Differentiation Process between Chicago Sociology and Social Work?" Cathy Coughlan, Texas Christian University "With Friends Like These...: Jane Addams, Liberal Pragmatists, and the Wartime Social Context." Madeleine R. Cousineau, Mount Ida College "The Long-Lost Mother of Contemporary Ethnography: Annie Marion MacLean and the Legacy of a Method." Tim Hallett; Gregory Thomas Jeffers, Indiana University Philadelphia Loews Hotel |
| Mon. 8/15 10:30-11:30 AM |
The History of American
Sociology: Disciplinary Currents and Crosscurrents, II (section
paper session) Organizers: Betsy Lucal, Indiana University South Bend Lawrence T. Nichols, West Virginia University Presider: Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati "A Century of Sociological Computing: Some Highlights." David D. McFarland, University of California, Los Angeles "Sociology Fizzling out at the Edges? Structural Weakness, State Action, and the Crime Research Case." Joachim J. Savelsberg, Lara L. Cleveland, and Sarah M. Flood; University of Minnesota "Caught in Ethical and Scientific Crosscurrents: Competing Explanations of the Wichita Jury Study." Harry Perlstadt, Michigan State University Philadelphia Loews Hotel |
| Mon. 8/15 11:30 AM -- 12:10 PM |
Section Business Meeting Chair, Susan Hoeker-Drysdale Philadelphia Loews Hotel |
| Mon. 8/15 6:30-8:00 PM |
Reception and Award Ceremony Philadelphia Marriott [back to top]
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| Tues. 8/16 8:30-10:10 AM |
Centennial Session: Landmarks in
Sociology (ASA-HOS co-sponsorship) Organizer and Presider: Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University "The Other Weber Classic." Gillian Niebrugge, American University; Patricia Madoo Lengermann, George Washington University "Parsons at Pennsylvania." Renee C. Fox, Harold J. Bershady; University of Pennsylvania "Why Read Schumepete?" Richard Swedberg, Cornell University "Sorokin and Mills: Marginals at Elite Universities." Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University Discussant: Victor Meyer Lidz, Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia Marriott |
| Tues. 8/16 10:30 AM -- 12:10 PM |
Centennial Session: W. E. B.
DuBois and Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Negro and Beyond
(ASA-HOS co-sponsorship) Organizer: Donald Cunnigen, University of Rhode Island "The Subversive Text of DuBois: Sociological Writings." Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College "Africa Matters: DuBois' Contributions to the Sociological Imagination." Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania "The Philadelphia Negro Revisited: Problems and Prospects." Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania "The Philadelphia Negro, the Early Works, and the Question of Method." Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University Discussant: Alford A. Young, University of Michigan The session will examine the contribution of W. E. B. DuBois to the discipline of sociology. It will highlight his work The Philadelphia Negro as well as other areas of scholarship which explored critical issues of rae and modernity. |
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