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TENTATIVE/PRELIMINARY
| Sat, 8/11 8:30 -- 9:30 AM |
Paper Session: New Directions in
the History of Sociology Organizer and Presider: Isaac A. Reed, University of Colorado-Boulder Stephen Harold (Riggins) "Anecdotal Evidence in Clifford Shaw's The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story Bruno Fr? (University of Li?) "Social States of Mind and Action Regimes in French Sociology" Paul A. Gilbert (Brown University) "A Century Apart: W.E.B. DuBois and Robert Sampson on Race and Crime" Nadav Gabay (University of California San Diego) "'With the Practiced Eye of a Deaf Person:' Harriet Martineau, Deafness, and the Scientificity of Social Knowledge" |
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| Sat, 8/11 9:30 -- 10:10 AM |
Section on the History of Sociology
Business Meeting Bring your breakfast and let us know your views on the future of the section. |
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| Sat, 8/11 10:30 AM -- 12:10 PM |
Regional Spotlight Session: New York's
Unique Sociological Archives Session Organizer: Lorraine C. Minnette, Barnard College New York City is a treasure trove for the historically-minded sociologist. This panel features a seminar with archivists and librarians from several of the city's unique historical and research institutions who will discuss their collections and what sociologists can learn from them. |
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| Sat, 8/11 2:30 -- 4:10 PM |
Regular Session: The History of Sociology II Session Organizer and Presider: Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University Heinz-Dieter Mayer (SUNY Albany) "Contorted Culture: The Price of Durkheim's Intellectual Imperialism" Robert G. White (University of Wisconsin Madison) "Economics as Science in Joseph A. Schumpter's Theory of Economic Development" Jefferson Pooley (Muhlenberg College) "Edward Shills' Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection" Filipe Carreira da Silva (University of Lisbon) "G.H. Mead: War, Democracy, and Modernity" Robert C. Prus (University of Waterloo) "In Defense of Secular Education, History, and the Human Group: Emiled Durkheim Addresses..." |
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| Sat, 8/11 4:30 -- 6:10 PM |
Invited Session: The History of
Sociology, Media, and Communications Organizer: Eleanor Townsley (Mount Holyoke College) Presider and Discussant: Ronald N. Jacobs (University at Albany) Elihu Katz (Israel) "Why Sociology Abandoned Mass Communications?" Rodney D. Benson (New York University) "After Habermas: The Revival of a Macro-Sociology of Media" Peter Beilharz "From Sociology to Culture, via Media -- Thoughts from the Antipodes" Michael Schudson (University of California San Diego) "Mass Media and the Chicago School Tradition" Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania) "How the Disciplines see Journalism, and What they Miss" |
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| Sat, 8/11 6:30 -- 8:00 PM |
Section on the History of Sociology
Reception Section awards will be presented. |
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| Sun, 8/12 8:30 -- 10:10 AM |
Regular Session: The History of
Sociology Organizer and Presider: Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University Discussant: Jonathan D. VanAntwerpen, University of California Berkeley Stephan K. Sanderson (University of Colorado Boulder) "Edward Westermark: The Invisible Master" Jesus M. De Miguel (University of Barcelona, Spain), Pau Mari-Klose (University of Chicago), and Albert F. Arcarons (University of Barcelona, Spain) "Sociologies in Context: The Case of Spain" Mathieu Deflem (University of South Carolina) "The Escape from Jurisprudence: Talcott Parsons and the Foundations of the Sociology of Law" Jennifer Platt (University of Sussex) "Journals and their Editorial Boards" |
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| Tue, 8/14 2:30 -- 4:10 PM |
Teaching Workshop: Teaching the History of
Sociology within the Sociology Major Session Organizer: Patricia Madoo Lengermann, George Washington University |
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