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Information on History of Sociology activities at the ASA 2008 Meetings, Boston, MA

Friday, August 1st 2:30-4:10 PM	Regional Spotlight Session: Adventures in the Archives: Boston Area Resources for the History of Sociology Boston Marriot Copley Place Each speaker has done important work drawing on archives available in the Boston area - on a rich Chicago lady who played an important role in interwar sociology, on Talcott Parsons and the misconceptions current about him, and on work in industrial sociology at Harvard Business School. They will present their work, showing how archival materials have been used in it, and drawing attention to the further possibilities those offer. Session Organizer: Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex Presider: Larry Nichols,, University of West Virginia Papers "Maternal Intellectualism: The Varied Worlds of Ethel Sturges Dummer," Andrew Abbot, University of Chicago "Retrieving Parsons from the Harvard Archives," Uta Gerhardt, Heidelberg University "Boston Brahmins and the New Men: Harvard University and the Professionalization Project in American Business Education," Rakesh Khurana, Harvard University Business School
Friday, August 1st 6:30-8:10 PM	Section Reception Jointly Sponsored by the Section on the History of Sociology and the Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Boston Marriott Copley Place
Saturday, August 2nd 8:30-10:10 AM	Section on the History of Sociology Invited Session: Theorizing the History of Sociology This session raises the question of how the history of sociology is, might or should be theorized, in any of the senses of ‘theory’, through the presentation and analysis of different approaches to it and styles of work in it. Session Organizer and Presider: Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex Discussant: Jonathan D. VanAntwerpen, University of California Berkeley Papers "Imperial and Anti-Imperial Sociology in the US, France, and Germany," George Steinmetz, University of Michigan "Network Processes of Sociological Production," James Moody, Duke University "Modes of Narration in the History of Sociology," Neil L. Gross,, Harvard University
Saturday, August 2nd 10:30 AM-12:10 PM	From Kansas's "Elements of Sociology" to ASA's Teaching Resource Center: The History of Teaching and Learning in Sociology Sheraton Boston Session Organizers: Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Rhode Island College, and Eleanor Townsley, Mount Holyoke College Papers "Agents of Change: Carla Howery and the ASA Teaching Resource Manuals," Jill M. Niebrugge-Brantley, American University, and Patricia Madoo Lengermann, The George Washington University "Sociology in U.S. High Schools," Michael DeCesare, Merrimack College "Teaching Theory and Teaching History of Sociology Over Time," Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University "The History of Teaching Sociology," George Ritzer, University of Maryland
Saturday, August 2nd 10:30 AM-12:10 PM	Regular Session, History of Sociology/Social Thought. Hilton Boston Back Bay Session Organizer and Presider: Mary Jo Deegan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Papers "Merton as Harvard Sociologist: The Formative Years, 1931-1939," Larry Nichols, West Virginia University "Adorno, Lazarsfeld, & the Priceton Radio Project, 1938-1941," Susan E. Cavin, New York University "Franklin H. Giddings A Century Ago," David D. McFarland, University of California Los Angeles
Saturday, August 2nd 12:30-2:10 PM	Section on the History of Sociology Council and Business Meetings Hilton Boston Back Bay
Sunday, August 3rd 2:30-4:10 PM	Presedential Panel: From "Industrial Sociology" to "Sociology of Work?" Sheraton Boston The session will focus on the history of the sociology of work, mainly in the USA. In reviewing different aspects of that history, the papers will raise issues such as the field’s relation to general sociology, how far its changes over time have responded to changes in the wider society or to changes internal to sociology, which areas have been favored and which neglected, and the reasons for these outcomes. Session Organizer: Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex Presider: Michael Burawoy, University of California Berkeley Papers "Neglected Classics in the Sociology of Work," Michael Rose, University of Bath "Feminist Questions and the Sociology of Work," Jennifer L. Pierce, University of Minnesota "Ethnography of Work and the Work of Ethnography: Hodson's Sample and the Discipline," Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex, Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology, and Mervyn Patrick Horgan, York University

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