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This article is a report on the status of minorities and women in sociology. In 1971, at the request of the American Sociological Council, participation by women and blacks in sociology was first assessed. That report affords a base for adding more data to assess the changes, if any, in the degree of participation by minority and women sociologists in the opportunity structure of the discipline. The concern with minorities in enlarged this year to include data on Asian Americans, Chicanos, American Indians, and Puerto Ricans, as well as with black sociologists. Along with women, these groups represent the focus of attention of two active committees formed by the ASA Council: the Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession, and the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession. The level of response, along with problems of definition, involving comparability of categories, indicates that this report may best serve as a working paper suggesting questions for more refined research. Hopefully, also, it will stimulate cooperation between the ASA and all departments of sociology to develop more reliable and valid accounting procedures so that better data on minorities and women may be routinely collected in the future. This hope is based on the assumption that facts about the number of minorities and women in sociology will promote their participation and enhance the quality of the entire sociological enterprise.

The present article is by way of a report of a grant by the Russel Sage Foundation-not exactly an evaluation report, since the authors involvement in the event would make them suspect as judges, but rather a personal report of what occurred and the meaning that can, or should, be attached thereto. The Public Relations Committee appealed for cooperation from paper-readers, asking them in advance whether they would want a press interview in Miami. The paper by Robert Parke, Jr. and Paul Click, discussing the "marriage squeeze" resulting from the post-war baby boom, led all others in amount of space given to it. The American Sociological Association (ASA) therefore, both in its administration and in its membership, should have little concern for improving the "image" of sociology in the public eye, but it should have great concern for increasing the level of sociological information among persons outside, as well as within, colleges and universities. The fact is, however, the ASA structure has no device for handling communication with the public in more than fortuitous ways. As long as "press coverage" at conventions begins only a few weeks before the event and ends promptly at the last session, it is doubtful that success in this realm can ever be more than smooth public relations.

This article presents information about the 1971 annual meeting program, organized by American Sociological Association (ASA). ASA is 65 years old this year, but hardly ready for retirement and very much in the pink of condition at least as far as its internal affairs go. As of June, 1970 it had nearly 13,000 members distributed as follows in the various membership categories. The growth of ASA membership over the past decade has been spectacular: in 1960, it had less than 7,000 members: in 1965 there were approximately 9,000; today, the number is 13,000. It has almost doubled in the past decade and added two thirds of that growth in the past five years.

This article presents news briefs concerning the American Sociological Association (ASA), as of August 1972. The recent election has resulted in the following officers for 1973, Andrew Billingsley as chairman, Clark E. Vincent as chairman-elect; Alice S. Rossi as secretary, and Jesse Bernard, William F. Fenkel, Rose Somerville, Jacqueline Wiseman, Paul C. Glick and Constantina Safilios-Rothschild as members of the association's council. In its current revitalization, the Section has three efforts underway. First, under the chairmanship of Nancy St. John, a nominating committee has prepared election slates composed of persons in the field who can offer effective leadership for the Section during the next few years. Second, a three-part program has been prepared for Section Day on August 28, 1972, at the New Orleans, Louisiana meetings that includes a panel discussion of the sociology of classroom reform, organized by Sarane Boocock; a panel discussion of the sociology to the proposed National Institute of Education, organized by John Meyer. This program involves the Section in pressing matters of reform, where sociological perspectives have often been underutilized, as well as in expanding research of comparative analysis. Third, the chairman of the Section has concentrated his own efforts on the possibility of developing a special role for the Section as a bridge between the field of sociology and the National Institute of Education.

There is a lack of agreement about the precise responsibilities of journal editors and referees. As a result, the moral responsibility of providing authors with prompt evaluations of manuscripts has not been sufficiently recognized. Other norms and expectations-for example, not to pressure referees for prompt reviews because of their unpaid contribution to the profession-frequently outweigh the responsibility to report promptly to authors, and scientists and scholars justly complain of the inordinate amount of time taken for editorial decisions on journal manuscripts. Ways must be found to emphasize the responsibility of the editorial staff and eliminate those who do not maintain their responsibilities. To this end, a specific proposal has been made to encourage prompt reviews. This proposal is calculated to offset some of the conditions that encourage delays by referees in evaluating manuscripts. By promising not to send more than a specified number of manuscripts f or review, the editor discourages referees from holding back reviews in order to avoid receiving additional manuscripts too soon. By getting referees to sign an agreement to return manuscripts to the editorial office within a stated time, the review process is shortened and scientific and scholarly articles are published sooner. Contributors are encouraged to notify editors when they have not received decisions within a reasonable time. Not only scientists and scholars but science and scholarship suffer from too-long-delayed editorial decisions. Contributors, professional associations, editors, and referees must unite to break the pattern of delay and find ways to emphasize the moral responsibility for prompt decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 1973 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), the author attended a roundtable discussion chaired by Professor Robert Friedrichs. The whole meeting was devoted to discussing the possibility of sociologist B.F. Skinner's influence emerging in the U.S. sociology, a topic that Friedrichs had explored in a paper he delivered earlier at one of the ASA sessions. In reference to the Skinnerian influence on sociology, the author criticizes sociologist Donald Tarter's article published in the November 1973 issue of the periodical "The American Sociologist," which stated that Friedrichs' eminence in the discipline of sociology and the Skinnerian influence is justified. The author's intention is to point out that Tarter's article is at best naive as regards his misunderstanding of sociology and that the presuppositions underlying his argument suggest an ideological position that can only be repugnant to anyone committed to a society that is as free and open as possible. The author substantiates his indictments by first commenting on what he believes to be Tarter's sociological naivety on the basis of a passage in which Tarter writes "Behavioral complexities never before thought possible have emerged in the form of pigeons playing ping-pong or chimps breaking through the communication barrier to man."

This article presents an update on organizations related to sociology as of November 1972. The Institute for Community Development and the Center on Human Policy call for papers for the Third Annual Symposium on Current Issues in Community Psychology from April 12-14, 1973. Papers should relate to alternatives to total institutional structures for people of all ages having special needs, including the emotionally disturbed, retarded, delinquent and criminal. The Southern Anthropological Society announced the annual James Mooney Award of $1,000 for the book-length manuscript that best describes and interprets the people or culture of a distinctive New World population. The Institute for European Health Services Research was created at Leuven University in Belgium to contribute to the improvement of European health and other social welfare services through research and to organization financing and administration, and through the professional growth of those who develop and implement public welfare at all levels.

This section presents an overview of the 1972 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association which will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from August 28-31, 1972. The Preliminary Program consists of 180 sessions, including six didactic seminars, requiring pre-registration, 42 regular seminars and 13 contributed paper sessions. The last two will be discussions only, papers should be read beforehand. In addition, 97 luncheon roundtable discussions have been scheduled. Forms for ordering papers, reserving tickets for luncheons, registering for the didactic seminars, making hotel reservations and pre-registering for the Meeting will be enclosed in the Preliminary Program. Section Programs will be interspersed with regular sessions throughout the four days of the Meeting. The Program will give full details on Section activities. A Dutch Treat Party will follow the Presidential Address. An additional social event is still in the planning stage, a jazz evening, when members of the Society of Musical Sociologists will join with some of the great local talent.

The article presents announcements related to the field of sociology. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) offers an annual prize, Socio-Psychological Prize, of $1,000 for a theoretical and experimental essay that furthers understanding of the psychological-social-cultural behavior of human beings. Entries should present a completed analysis of a problem, the relevant data, and an interpretation of the data in terms of the postulates with which the study began. The National Institute of Social and Behavioral Science will hold its regular sessions for contributed papers at the 137th annual meeting of the AAAS, December 26-31, 1970, in Chicago. The National Institute of Mental Health is accepting applications for a new one-year interdisciplinary graduate training program in sociology. The British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled announces that the Fourth International Study Course Seminar will take place in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 28 to July 3, 1971. Peace Research Abstracts Journal is soliciting volunteers to replenish its pool of abstractors.

This article presents news briefs about U.S. minorities and women related to sociology as of November 1972. Fellowships (preferably in sociology) are available for 1973-1974 to Puerto Rican graduate students for research on social problems. Fellows are required to write a paper on research dealing with Puerto Ricans in the U.S. The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities announces fellowships for historical social or cultural studies of U.S. ethnic minorities to young scholars and teachers who have just completed graduate work or professional training or expect to complete it before September 1973. The Council of the American Sociological Association has approved a recommendation of the Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession instructing the executive Specialist to collect vitae of sociologists from minority groups who wish their vitae to be on file for professional and employment reference. Current records of various national and regional sociological organizations indicate that the following women sociologists have been elected to positions of top leadership: Mirra Komarovsky as president of the American Sociological Association; Dorothy K. Newman as president of the D.C. Sociological Society; and Gertrude J. Selznick as president of the Pacific Sociological Association.

This article announces the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 28-31, 1972. The Preliminary Program includes 176 sessions plus 97 luncheon round-tables. There are 949 listed participants laboring to produce some 515 papers. The most noteworthy among these papers is the Presidential Address of William J. Goode on the topic Force and Force-Threat in Human Society. Despite many requests, including those from Goode, the address will be delivered in the main ballroom of the Marriott Hotel and not in a back room of Galatoire's Restaurant.

The article presents information on various associations, agencies and institutions in the field of sociology. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History will hold its 53rd annual meeting on October 3-6, 1968 at the New York Hilton Hotel. The Danish Institute will hold a seminar, "Social Denmark," on social welfare in Copenhagen, August 25-30, 1968. The seminar is intended for persons working in the administrative and practical field of social welfare and will be conducted in English. The Indian Sociological Society held its first conference since 1961 at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, on October 14, 15, and 16, 1967. The Massachusetts Sociological Association was founded by 100 sociologists at Boston College on November 4, 1967 and will serve as a locus for the teaching and research concerns of sociologists throughout the commonwealth and for others seeking advice on community or state-wide problems. The National Institute of Social and Behavioral Science will hold its regular sessions for contributed papers at the 135th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-31, 1968 in Dallas, Texas.

The article reports that the Committee on nominations wishes to present set its slate of nominees for the American Sociological Association, 1968-69. In an age of domestic and foreign tensions and crisis, successful social change is a crucial challenge and a welcome opportunity. The 1967 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will be held between December 26-30, 1967, in the New York Hilton and Americana Hotels, New York. Four papers will address the question of what impact social science research has on policy. They will look not only at the deliberate and intended application of social science findings in reaching policy decisions, but at the unintended consequences of social science analysis and the dissemination of results on the data themselves and on the formulation and implementation of public policy. Participants will discuss the uses of social science in societal self-analysis and decision-making, some social consequences of research on education and on racial relations and the reconstruction of social realities in developing areas.

Sociological associations in the U.S. are generally viewed as existing on two levels: national and regional. A third level, however, does exist: the intra-regional. Even though sociologists know very little about organizing at this level, intra-regional associations may become increasingly important to the discipline because of labor market pressures, broader participation in the profession by teaching sociologists, the influence of revenue sharing on research funding and the energy crisis. Intra-regional associations are frequently referred to as state associations; however, the data indicate the former classification is more valid. The purpose of this article is to describe the organization of sociology on the intra-regional level. How little sociologists know about this level was demonstrated early in the research. A roster of intra-regional associations was not available from the national or the regional levels. Consequently, a letter was sent to the sociology department chairman at a university in each state. A questionnaire was sent to each association and it was filled out by one or more current and/or recent officers. Attitudes expressed by the respondents should be considered their own and not representative of the total membership.

This article presents updates on the American Sociological Association (ASA) in the U.S. as of December 1972. Sociology of Education will sponsor a special session of contributed student papers at the 68th Annual Meeting of the ASA in New York City on August 27 to 30, 1973. Peter Blau, Ralph Turner, Roscoe Hinkle, Erving Goffman and Gerhard Lenski were elected as officers of the Theoretical Sociology Section of the ASA for the 1973 year.

This article presents the 1972 report of the membership committee of the American Sociological Association (ASA). As of May 1972, there are 14,934 members of the ASA, an increase of 349 over 1971. The following tables reflect various aspects of the membership growth during the past six years. The most noteworthy of these changes was that the Member category showed the largest increase, larger than any previous year, while all other membership categories showed a decrease. The recent changes in the classification of members has required that collapse of all categories Fellow and Active members into the present member category in order that the past membership figures will be comparable. The membership class of Foreign Associate was changed to International Associates, and certain students who became eligible for the Member classification remained in the student class if they continued as students but have rights of the Member class. The growth of the Association has certainly not been up to expectations. It has become increasingly apparent that an effective membership campaign must be at the grassroots level, i.e., regional and local contact with non-members, particularly to make membership information available to students.

This article presents the 1972 report of the Committee on Publications of the American Sociological Association. The committee met twice during the past year, the Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado on August 30, 1971 and in Washington D.C. on February 25, 1972. The following was accomplished. First, recommendations to the council were made for the appointment of new editors of the Journal of Health and Behavior, Sociology of Education, Sociometry, and the American Sociologist. Second, a considerable amount of time was devoted to the proposed merger of Socio-Log with the American Sociologist. The primary motive for this merger was the severe financial problems faced by the Association. Proposals were developed in Denver for an interim arrangement for one year. The committee will examine this arrangement after one year and make suggestions for a permanent policy. The committee also initiated a survey of the membership to determine their journal reading practices and preferences. Results of this survey will provide the committee with greater information as it examines the journal publication policies of the American Sociological Association.

This article presents a report of the editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, a scholarly journal published by the American Sociological Association, as of August 1972. It gives me great personal pleasure to turn over the journal to Jackie Jackson. Now that she has accepted the appointment as editor, I think I can admit publicly that I am delighted to give up the responsibility. I should note that the job is not as miserable as journal editors make it out to be when commiserating with each other at Publications Committee meetings. Much of the work really is done by other people, the associate editors and the editorial office staff. The job does have its distressing moments. In addition to fighting deadlines, careful copyediting and compulsive proofreading do not eliminate all typographical problems. Moreover, neither the associate editors, nor other who act as referees, nor the editor are infallible. Consequently, data analyzed by less than adequate procedures sometimes find their way into the journal. Even some articles with discrepancies between the findings reported and the inferences and conclusions that authors draw from their data creep into our pages. Finally, there are articles about which the assigned referees disagree, usually with apparently irreconcilable views about their worth. Sometimes such cases can be resolved by additional readers; sometimes it is simply necessary to make executive decisions.

This article reports on the four topics added to the 1972 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Marshall Sklare of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University will organize a session on the Sociological Study of Religion, co-sponsored by the association of the same name. J. H. Duthie of the University of Windsor will be responsible for a session on Sociology of Sport. T. R. Young and Timothy Lehmann of the University of Colorado are calling for papers on Conflict Methodology. The newly-formed section on Community is planning a session on this topic to be organized by Charles M. Bonjean of the University of Texas. Although the deadlines necessitate most of these sessions being comprised of solicited papers, you should feel free to contact any of the above named individuals if you are interested in participating.

In August 1974, the International Sociological Association (ISA) will hold its Eighth World Congress of Sociology in Toronto in Ontario, Canada, and thereby afford an accessible opportunity for many North American sociologists to participate. The reorganization of the International Sociological Association by its Council in 1970 at Varna, Bulgaria, during sessions of the Seventh World Congress of Sociology was desired to strengthen the autonomy and effectiveness of its thirty research committees. This should provide opportunity for greater involvement for individual sociologists, both in the periodic international meetings and in the ongoing work of the ISA. These organizational changes come at an appropriate period in that North American sociologists are now demonstrating a stronger interest in cross-national sociology. This article is designed to describe to the membership of the American Sociological Association the implications of the new format of the International Sociological Association for international intellectual cooperation.

The article presents news and announcements related to the field of sociology. The role of sections within the American Sociologist Association (ASA) have been under review by the Committee on Sections since its establishment in 1968. The Committee has recommended and the Council of the Association has approved a number of administrative and operational procedures related to the establishment and conduct of Sections. The purpose of Sections is to promote the common interests of Association members in specified areas of sociology. It is regarded as highly unlikely that Sections of small size could sustain active programs over a long period. Sections are constituent parts of the Association. While the Association is interested in encouraging them to develop their functions and activities as they wish, there are a number of areas in which sections are limited because they lack corporate status. The ASA Council has adopted a policy against Association sponsorship or administration of research or training projects unless major and direct interests of the discipline are involved.

The article presents various news and announcements, dealing with several educational programs, awards, fellowships et al, by different associations, institutions etc. of the U.S. The American Psychiatric Association has awarded Benjamin Pasamanick, Associate Commissioner of Research, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, Professor Frank Scarpitti, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, and Professor Simon Dinitz, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, the $1500 Hofheimer Prize for Research for 1967, awarded in recognition of outstanding research related to psychiatry. The three investigators conducted a three-year experimental study in Louisville, Kentuky. The National Institute of Mental Health has established a new Center for Studies of Mental Health and Social Problems. The International Scientific Commission of the Family has founded in 1965 by the International Union of Family Organizations, is a new non-governmental association with U.N. consultative status.

This section presents news of sociology organizations in the U.S., as of May 1971. AAAS Socio-Psychological Prize announced the Arthur F. Bentley annual prize of $1,000 for a theoretical and experimental essay that furthers understanding of the psychological socio-cultural behavior of human beings. The prize is intended to encourage studies and analyses of social behavior based on explicitly stated assumptions or postulates leading to conclusions or deductions that were tested by systematic empirical research or to encourage in social inquiry the development and application of the kind of dependable methodology that has proved fruitful in natural sciences. On the other hand, the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association extended an invitation for membership to all sociologists, undergraduate and graduate students, and persons in allied fields in the two states. Meanwhile, Asian Forum is a quarterly journal providing a multi-disciplinary forum on development and interaction within and among Asian countries. Contributions dealing with Asian society and culture include articles, reviews, summaries of relevant dissertations, bibliographic essays, annotated bibliographies, and reports on projects and conferences.

The article presents news events of organizations related to the field of sociology. The Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists is open for membership to individuals and institution. The Caucus of Black Sociologists has elected several officers in the month of November 1970. The United Chapters of Alpha Kappa Delta, national sociology honor society, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their founding on September 2, 1970, at the Society's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Boston University, Department of Sociology has offered a Health Services Research Training Program to qualified PhD candidates. The Committee on International Exchange of Persons has announced that applications for Senior Fulbright-Hays awards for lecturing and research during 1972-73 in over 75 foreign countries will be accepted in the Spring of 1971. The Ford Foundation has announced a new program of fellowships to encourage scholarship in the field of ethnic studies. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies of Developing Areas, is providing an opportunity for a small number of especially qualified persons to spend a year at M.I.T.

This article features the 1972 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to be held in the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., from December 26-31, 1972. Several sociologists will also participate in a session on "The Future of Collective Violence: Societal and International Perspectives," organized by Joseph Ben-Dak for the Section on Social and Economic Sciences. This Annual Meeting will also mark the point where James Coleman of Johns Hopkins University will succeed Daniel Moynihan as the elected chairman of Section K and Vice-President of AAAS.

This article presents a calendar of forthcoming meetings related to sociology between November 1972 and April 1973, including the International Meeting of the American Society of Criminology in Caracas, Venezuela, from November 19-25, 1972.

This article discusses the extension of the appointment of University of North Carolina Professor David R. Heise as the Editor of "Sociological Methodology" for three years starting with the 1974 volume. "Sociological Methodology," an official publication of the American Sociological Association, published by Jossey-Bass Inc., is an annual volume that offers original chapters exploring new ventures to advance the knowledge of research methodology in various realms of sociological inquiry. In a statement of policy, Professor Heise offered the following challenge and invitation to potential contributors: "Sociological Methodology will continue to publish important papers in the established areas of quantitative analysis..." Currently, at North Carolina, David Heise is Director of the Quantitative Sociology and Theory Building Training Program. Before receiving both his MA and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Chicago, he earned Bachelor's degrees in Journalism and in Mathematics at the University of Missouri. Professor Heise is a productive scholar with both substantive and methodological interests. Among his publications are numerous articles, three of which appeared in past volumes of "Sociological Methodology," and two monographs.

This article provides information on the report of the Section on Organizations and Occupations of the American Sociological Association (ASA) as of August 1, 1972. The Section sought to fill the void between Annual Meetings of the ASA in two ways. First, the Section Newsletter was expanded through the enthusiastic activities of secretary Marie Haug. Second, the Section activities were tied up with various regional sociological societies which meet in the spring. The most viable activity remains Section Day at the ASA meeting and the program committee gave momentum to the established idea of using Section Day to focus on research needs or opportunities rather than the reading of research papers. Finally, the membership continues to request that the Section sponsor regional workshops or dissertation prizes or other activities. In recognition of the fact that these cost money and that the Section dues go entirely to ASA for services provided. A referendum is being conducted about the possibility of an increase in Section dues. Final results of that referendum will be reported at the New Orleans, Louisiana meeting.

This section lists schedules of meetings of various sociological associations in the U.S. from June 1972 to April 1973.

This section provides information on the list of Censured Administration by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Censure is the Association's warning to the academic community that conditions which led to a major violation of academic freedom and tenure at an institution have not been corrected. Members of the Association frequently do not accept appointments at an institution as long as it remains on the list of Censured Administrations. In 1972, censure was voted on the administrations of Onondaga Community College, New York, Columbia College in Missouri, and Armstrong State College, Georgia. Censure was directed against the University of California Board of Regents as a result of the Angela Davis case at University of California at Los Angeles. Administrations continuing on censure include Alabama State University since 1962, South Dakota State University since 1962, Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in Mississippi since 1963 and Grove City College in Pennsylvania since 1963. The AAUP is the largest organization of college and university teachers and researchers in U.S. higher education. The association has over 91,000 members and 1,300 chapters at colleges and universities throughout the country.

This section presents an update on several sociological associations as of May 1, 1972. The Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand (SAANZ) has begun publication of SAANZ Newsletter. Maine Sociological Society's officers are President Frank Branceley, Nasson College, and Secretary Madeleine Giguere of University of Maine. The District of Columbia Sociological Society's slate of officers are President Dorothy K. Newman, President-elect Gillian Lindt, Secretary John Pease and Treasurer Paul Peachey. The recipient of the 1972 Stuart A. Rice Merit Award is Irene B. Tauber of the District of Columbia Sociological Society. The Society for Cross-Cultural Research is soliciting membership of sociologists. Applications may be requested from James M. Schaefer, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. The Clearinghouse and Laboratory for Census Data (CLCD) announces receipt of a grant from the National Science Foundation. CLCD is designed to assist researchers using census data.

The article presents information about various activities taking place in several organizations. According to a snippet, the American Society of Criminology is seeking broader membership and interaction with criminologists in Central and South America. Accordingly, its next annual meeting will be held in Caracas, Venezuela during the week beginning November 19, 1972. According to another snippet, the Medical Care section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) suggests that interested authors of papers for the next annual meeting of APHA may obtain standard abstract forms from Dr. D. Brian Heller, Research and Development, Blue Cross Association.

The article presents a report of the Section on Theoretical Sociology, a committee of the American Sociological Association of the U.S. The Section has confined its activities to the presentation of programs at the Annual Meeting. For the 1970 meetings John McKinney developed two sessions: one on "New Perspectives on Max Weber" was chaired by Talcott Parsons and involved the contributions of Benjamin Nelson, Vatro Murvar, Thomas Burger, and Vytautas Kavolis; the other on "Problems of the Interface Between Theory and Methodology" was chaired by John McKinney and consisted of presentations by Karl Schuessler, Edgar Borgatta, Norman Denzin, and Frank Young. For the 1971 meetings Peter Blau has organized two sessions. The first will be a panel discussion on "Contrasting Approaches to Social Theorizing." The other session comprises four invited papers on the general topic "Social Theory and Research." The contributors will be Richard Emerson, Hubert Blalock, Morris Zelditch, and Peter Park. The issue of what activities other than annual program sessions should be undertaken by the Section will in great likelihood rise again at the next Council Meeting and at the Business Meeting.

This article reports that at the recent 58th Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the organization endorsed vigorous pursuit of collective bargaining as a major additional way of realizing the Association's goal in higher education. The issue has been festering for some time within the AUUP. Although its central office had already began to act with the interim permission of its Council, formal endorsement will allow it to become more aggressive. Certainly this is imperative if it is to succeed in the competition with both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association for the status of negotiating representative on local campuses. However, the AAUP stresses that collective bargaining is not an end in itself and that there are some instances in which it will be eschewed as inappropriate. According to one recent informed estimate, more than 10% of the nation's college and university faculty members are already covered under a collective bargaining arrangement, and the slope of increase is steep. Many now look to the not-so-distant day when all but a handful of the most affluent private institutions will be unionized.

This article announces the election of officers in all seven regional sociological societies in the U.S. Also, the Ohio Sociological Society changed its name into the North Central Sociological Society. A reporter from the publication the American Sociologist who is present for the announcement detected neither malice towards Ohio nor imperialistic ambitions of a wider empire. Rather, the change was intended to provide a more accurate regional reference consistent with those of other societies. A list of the 1972-1973 officers is provided.

The article presents a report of the Section on Medical Sociology, a committee of the American Sociological Association of the U.S. The success of the Section this past year is due to many groups and individuals. Particularly important has been a grant from the Milbank Memorial Fund which continues to provide partial support for many of the Section's ongoing activities. The Section on Medical Sociology has continued to engage in a variety of activities and projects during 1970-71. Its members have participated in increasing numbers in national and regional meetings and in the activities of the Section's working committees. The Committee on Teaching of Behavioral Science in Medical Schools has been operating in an advisory capacity to the Section's project on the teaching of behavioral science in schools of medicine. The Committee on Health Data Systems, under the chairmanship of Joseph W. Eaton, is developing a proposal for a grant application on service delivery social data development.

This article provides information on an invitation made by the Program Committees of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for members to submit their suggestions for the 1974 program in Montreal, Quebec. President-elect Peter Blau has scheduled a meeting of his program committee on February 3 and 4. The VIII World Congress of the International Sociological Association will be held in Ontario the week before 1974 ASA meeting in Montreal.

"The American Sociologist," (TAS) under the editorship of Leon Mayhew of the University of California, will once again appear as a quarterly publication in a journal format, starting with the February 1973 issue. In its December meeting in the U.S., the American Sociological Association (ASA) Council granted the separation of TAS from its partnership with a tabloid publication that included news items, the Employment Bulletin and other notes on the profession. The publication committee concurred in the decision to separate the two types of ASA publications. Members and subscribers will receive TAS and a quarterly journal devoted to scholarly concerns about the discipline and will also receive a tabloid from the executive office nine times per year and bringing news and notes on the profession. A call for separate publications was issued from many quarters in the association. The decision to separate was facilitated by new developments in printing technology that helped to reduce costs.

This article provides information on the meeting of the 1973 American Sociological Association Council in San Francisco, California on December 2 to 3, 1972. The site of the meeting was selected partly because of the economy afforded when some council and staff members were also scheduled to attend a conference in Carmel, California, a few days after the council meeting. Of the 12 at-large members of the council, 4 reside on the West Coast, 4 on the East Coast and 4 in the Mid-West. The timing of the meeting also signals an innovation in the governance of the association. This meeting was the first of a set of quarterly sessions planned by the 1973 council. With more frequent meetings, the council hopes to reduce the pressure of business at the annual meeting so the council can interact with the membership and participate in the general sessions.

This section presents a list of research grants for sociology from the National Science Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972.

The section provides updates on the meetings of the Section Council of the American Sociological Association in 1972. The Section Council convening during the meetings in Denver, Colorado heard a report from its Committee on Graduate Studies in Medical Sociology. Professor Eugene B. Gallagher, chairman of the committee, reported the findings of Herbert Bynder and Hans Mauksch on the medical sociology content of regional sociology meetings. In other meetings, the Committee on Public Policy of the Medical Sociology Section has submitted to the Section Council a proposed framework for the assessment of any program of National Health Insurance. Without supporting any specific proposal, the statement offers and discusses twelve criteria that are pertinent to all. The criteria derive from both professional sociological judgment and from consensual commitment to certain humanitarian, democratic principles.

The article presents official reports and proceedings of the American Sociologist Association (ASA), held from April 24-26, 1970, Hotel Sonesta, Washington, D.C. The proposed agenda of the meeting was approved. A welcome was extended to N.J. Demerath III, the new Executive Officer; Kurt Finsterbusch, the new Executive Associate; and Harold W. Pfautz, the Editor of The American Sociologist. Council was informed of the requests by various groups within ASA for meeting rooms and program participation at the 1970 Annual Meeting. Along with that, agendas that were placed under the motion as part of the meeting: that the ASA extend an invitation to the International Sociological Association to have a concurrent meeting in Montreal in 1974 contingent on the approval and collaboration of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association; and that the Secretary inform the Department of State, other officials, and international organizations of the need for continued. increased, and enlarged support to UNESCO for its social science programs; were approved.

The recent revision of the constitution of the American Sociological Association (ASA) was stimulated in part by the objections of sociologists in certain regions to what was believed to be a regional bias in the control of the association. During the several!year period of the gestation and birth of this new constitution, it is remarkable that the controversy was earned on without benefit of empirical data on this aspect of the need for constitutional revision. The investigation took as its starting point, and hypothesis the views of certain, of the authors, colleagues who asserted that control of the ASA was disproportionately in the hands of sociologists in the Northeastern states. If the determination of bias is based not on deviation from number of member but on deviation from the relative publication contribution and eminence of sociologists in each region, the situation changes.

The article reports on the proceedings of 62nd annual meeting of American Sociological Association, held at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, California in August 28-31, 1967. The key event of the Conference was the appearance and address by the President himself at the dinner on March 28, 1967. The two plenary panels were devoted to a discussion of "Planning for Change" and "Financing and Implementing Change." Another plenary session dealt with present and proposed federal legislation with addresses by Fred W. Vinson, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, and Lisle C. Carter, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The present Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, and his predecessor, Nicholas B. Katzenbach, now Under Secretary of State, also addressed the Conference. The panels met twice, on March 28 and 29 and in view of the length of the agenda, the moderators singled out a few of these topics, on which then an informational statement was made by an invited discussant, and then each panel continued tile discussion for a limited period of time.

The document focuses on the Articles of incorporation of the American Sociological Association. Article 1 states that the Association shall be known as the American Sociological Association. The Article II states that the objectives of the Association shall be to stimulate and improve research instruction, and discussion, and to encourage cooperative relations among persons engaged in the scientific study of the society. Article III states that any person interested in the objectives of said association shall be eligible for membership. The forms and conditions of membership are set forth in the By-Laws. Article IV presents the general hierarchy of the association. The Association shall constitute a council from among its members. The Council shall be the governing body of the Association, except insofar as the Constitution and By-Laws delegate governmental functions to other officers or to committees. Article V reports that the Association shall maintain a journal entitled the American Sociological Review.

The article presents information on official reports and proceedings regarding the American Sociologist Association published in the November 1965 issue of the journal "The American Sociologist." It is possible to publish nominations for the 1966 ballot at this time by virtue of a procedural innovation within the Committee on Nominations and Elections. The Committee conducted its business in an all-day meeting whereas former committees transacted their business by mail over a period of several months. Reports of the secretary and of the chairmen of sections and various committees outline in detail the important activities, events and changes in the life of the association for 1964-65. The reports inform that the association has continued to grow in its membership, that its budget was balanced with a sizeable surplus for 1964 and 1965 and that a new journal "The American Sociologist," would be added to the publications of the association.

The Social Sciences have been almost continuously concerned with appropriately delineating subject matter among disciplinary fields. The role of one branch in relation to others often has been discussed with the general notion of staking a claim to a substantive area of study, to an intellectual function or to service to society. Interrelations among the Social Sciences may be analyzed in three contexts, substantively through study of the extent that the disciplines contribute concepts, hypotheses, evidence etc. to the explanation of behavior, organizationally through studying the interrelations among curricula, courses of study, degree requirements and among institutional subdivisions and individually by analyzing the extent that individuals have bridged gaps between fields through their varied experiences particularly educational experiences. The article examines one kind of evidence on the individual basis of integration among the Social Sciences, formal educational experiences represented by degrees in major subjects and by minors and majors of baccalaureates.

The article presents a report from the representative to the International Sociological Association (ISA) of the U.S. Some of the items mentioned in the report are as follows. U.S. representation to the ISA Council of National Delegates has been settled through agreement among the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), and the Rural Sociological Society (RSS); it has also been accepted by the ISA Executive Committee. Thus, the ASA will have the official voting delegate, while the SSSP and the RSS will each have an alternative delegate. The alternates will have the right to attend all Council meetings with every privilege but the vote. The alternates will have rotating priority in assuming the vote when the ASA delegate is absent. A new and sharply escalated national dues structure has now been approved by the ISA Executive Committee, though there will be negotiation with the constituent national associations over the amount at issue. The article also contains a report on measures taken for the constitutional reorganization of the ISA.

The article presents a report of the Executive Officer of the American Sociological Association (ASA), a U.S. based independent research organization, on the activities undertaken by the Association in 1972. The author informs that there have been a number of changes within the Executive Office, many of which followed recommendations of the Committee on Long-Range Planning for the Executive Office, chaired by sociologist John Clausen. The Executive office has now taken over the entire task of soliciting and monitoring advertising for ASA journals, thus eliminating a middleman. It has also switched to a computerized membership roster, which, according to the author, will greatly ease the burden of billing, keeping abreast of membership trends, producing the biannual Directory, and servicing legitimate requests for subscription lists. It is also informed that there have been several changes in the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association. The first of these changes originated in the Committee on Rights and Privileges of Membership.

The Council of the American Sociological Association, in its January 1967 meeting, had empowered Charles P. Loomis as President to appoint such a committee to consider those issues currently in the center of while interest the emphasis of the Committee should be on the sociologists role as scientist and researcher, not as practitioner. As a President, Loomis and the Council were trying to speed up the modernization of the Americans Sociological Association. After reviewing and considering various possible procedures, Loomis agreed to try to present the problem personally at the forthcoming meetings of each of the regional sociological organizations. Fortunately, they were able to do this, though there was but little time for preparation. Officers of the several groups were uniformly friendly and cooperative in helping and carrying out the plans of decentralized approach to the membership of the American Sociological Association, even though membership in a regional society is not at all perfectly correlated with membership in the national organization.