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Information on History of Sociology activities at the ASA 2009 Meetings, San Francisco, CA

Sunday,
August 9, 12:30-2:10 pm
Regular Session. Social Thought: New Perspectives

This session features new perspectives on classical and contemporary schools and sociologists.

Session Organizer and Presider: Marcel Fournier (Université de Montréal)

Papers

"Geroge Simmel's Aphorisms," Richard Swedberg (Cornell University) and Wendelin Rich (Uppsala University, Sweden)

"Durkheimian Sociology as a Response to French Anti-Semitism," Chad Alan Goldberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"The Russianness of Sorokin's 'Deviance': Historical and Cultural Context," Lawrence T. Nichols (West Virginia University)

"U.S. Settlement Sociology in the Progressive Era: Neighborhood Guilds, Feminist Pragmatism, and the Social Gospel," Vicky M. MacLean (Middle Tennessee State University) and Joyce E. Williams (Professor Emeritus Texas Women's University)

"The Impact of Wrong's 'Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology': A Citation Analysis," Wendy J. Harrod (Iowa State University)


Monday,
August 10, 8:30-10:10 am
Section on the History of Sociology Council and Business Meetings

Monday,
August 10,
10:10 am-
12:30 pm
Section on the History of Sociology Invited Session. Historicizing Historical Sociology. (Co-Sponsored by the Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology)

Session Organizer and Presider: Charles Camic (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Alan Sica (Pennsylvania State University)

In this session, historians of sociology focus on the subfeild of historical sociology, examing defining moments in the subfeild's development, how the subfeild changed over time, and possible future lines of development.

Papers

"Historical Sociology Before It Became a Subfield," Craig Calhoun (Social Science Research Council)

"Nazi Germany and the Transformation of German and American Sociology," George Steinmetz (University of Michigan) and Daniel Aaron Sherwood (Graduate Faculty of New School University)

"The Three Waves of Historical Sociology," Ann Shola Orloff (Northwestern University)

"James Coleman, Historical Sociologist," Julia Adams (Yale University)


Monday,
August 10, 4:30-6:30 pm
Regular Session. History of Sociology

Session Organizer and Presider: Marcel Fournier (Université de Montréal)

Papers

"Miss Craig Goes to Chicago," Peter Beilharz

"The 'Bellah Affair' at Princeton: Scholarly Reputation, Disciplinary Differentiation, and Controlled Oblivion," Matteo Bortoloni (University of Padua)

"Out of Dystopia: American Mass Society and the Study of Suburbanization in the 1950s," David Paul Harvey (University of Texas Austin)

"What do ISA Presidential Addresses Represent?" Jennifer Platt (University of Sussex

Monday,
August 10, 6:30-8:30 pm
Section Reception: Section on History of Sociology, Section on Political Sociology, and Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology


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