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The article presents a call for papers for the meeting titled "Annual Allied Social Sciences Association Meetings" to be held on January 4-6, 2008 at New Orleans, Louisiana with a theme about inequality, democracy, and the economy. The Association for Social Economics members and nonmembers are encouraged to submit proposals for the New Orleans ASE program. The papers can be send by email of 300 words or less by May 1, 2007 to John Davis of University of Amsterdam and Marquette University. Guide questions are also included.

The article calls the attention of interested individuals to submit article that will be presented during conferences of Associations concerning economics. The organizers of the Seventh Annual Heilbronn Symposium in Economics and the Social Sciences Christian Freiherr von Wolff that will be held on June 22-25,1995 is inviting everyone to submit abstract and correspondence relevant to the theme. Likewise, the organizers of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society that will be held on June 2-5, 1995 in South Bend, Indiana is calling the same.

Recollections of past officers provide the basis for a history of the North Central Sociology cat Association (NCSA). Foci include the early environment, school participation, and forces behind its growth and current character. Contemporary issues of big school domination and image are examined through data on current numbers, school affiliations and convention participation. The latter part of the paper, based on a 1976 NCSA membership survey, compares criticisms of American Sociological Association national meetings with those of North Central, summarizing the asserts and deficits of each. Conclusions are drawn about the identifying characteristics and functions of a regional association given the image it assumes and its organizational goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents news notes and announcements involving the Rural Sociological Society. Highlights of the 1971 annual meeting of the Rural Sociology Section of Association of Southern Agricultural Workers; Call for papers for the 1971 annual meeting of the society to be held in Denver, Colorado on August 27 to 29, 1971; Programs and projects of the society.

Presents news notes and announcements involving the Rural Sociological Society. Call for papers for the 1969 annual meeting of the society; Tentative session topics; Best dissertations in rural sociology for the years 1967 and 1968.

The Consultant Committee was appointed by the Council to expedite program planning. Five sections of contributed papers were organized by the committee. The names of these sections are not presented here, because of the Council's policy of not singling out any section or paper as being contributed. The Committee believes it has served a useful function in the organization of the current program. A Consultation Committee might well be appointed another year, if the Council plans a program organized along the lines of this year's meeting.

Should blood be bought and sold is in crude terms the question asked and answered by Richard Titmuss in his recent book The Gift Relationship. Dr Raymond Plant, a lecturer in philosophy at Manchester University, analyses Titmuss' arguments in a paper which we are printing in two parts. Titmuss has taken the provision of blood as his example of the gift relationship--and by extension that of health care generally. Dr Plant considers in turn each of Titmuss' arguments that blood should not be a marketable commodity, the moral objections to which seem to be the erosion of freedom and of truth telling, the separation of society through the cash nexus, and its converse that the provision of health care is a means for the integration of society. Dr Plant also examines the views of other commentators on the Titmuss' theory of the value of a 'free' blood transfusion service and other medical care as a means of integration in society, and ends with his promise that in the second part of his paper he will examine Titmuss' principles not in terms of the market but rather as related to the principle of social justice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article presents information regarding academic representation and substantive concerns of five annual meetings of the North Central Sociological Association. The institutional affiliation of each participant was regarded as a unit frequency except when a paper was co-authored by two or more persons from the same institution. The initial analysis of the data involved separate rankings of all the academic departments by frequency of participation at each of the five meetings, then, a cumulative total, mean, and rank for each institution was determined. Information was also obtained regarding the degree granting status of each academic department in sociology. Several Guides to Graduate Departments of Sociology were utilized for this purpose but graduate schools are not always consistent in providing ins formation. Certain other data regarding the academic departments was also obtained, e.g., geographic location of school. Although the results of this initial analysis are too encompassing to present in tabular form, conclusions are summarized in the next section. The extent of Canadian Involvement at the meetings is also of interest as is the fact that a sizable number of American sociology departments, that do not offer a graduate degree, were always represented.

This article presents information on the activities of various sociological organizations and departments of sociology in universities in the U.S. "Rural Sociology," a new journal to be published quarterly, is being established this year by the Section on Rural Sociology of the American Sociological Society. The managing editor of this journal, which is to be published by The Louisiana State University Press, is T. Lynn Smith of Louisiana State University. The annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Conference will be held on April 18 and 19 in New Haven, Connecticut. The central topic of the Conference will be Social Theory and the Social Order. The annual Spring meeting of the Ohio Sociological Society will be held in Columbus, Ohio, April 24 and 25, 1936. The Pacific Sociological Society held its Seventh Conference, together with Coast Economists, at Mills College in Oakland, California, December 27-28. In September 1935, E. D. Tetreau, formerly analyst with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at Ohio State University, accepted a position at the University of Arizona as rural sociologist on The Experiment Station staff.

The section presents a paper on U.S. approximations to the Industry Council idea, delivered at the Sixteenth Annual American Catholic Sociological Society Convention, held from December 28 to 30, 1954 at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. The National Bureau for Lathing and Plastering, faced with competition of dry wall construction, was founded in 1954 to promote the use of plaster and laths. Similar relations exist between the Wallpaper Institute and the United Wallpaper Craftsmen to curb imports and to promote the sale of wall paper. The National Coordinating Committee of the Beverage Industry was founded in 1950. The Nationwide Committee of Industry, Agriculture and Labor on Import-Export Policy, launched in 1953, claims to represent 125 national organizations, including manufacturers, trade associations, and unions. The Foreign Oil Policy Committee was set up to halt the importation of crude oil. The Independent Advisory Committee to the Trucking Industry, established in 1953, is made up of representatives from all branches of the trucking industry, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Formed in 1949, the Motion Picture Industry Council represents guilds, unions and management groups in the film industry. Two other organizations which represent branches of their respective industry have only limited or indirect participation by unions: the Council of Motion Picture Organizations; and the Federation for Railway Progress, founded in 1947 by Robert R. Young. The Millinery Stabilization Commission and the National Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Board, were inspired by the National Recovery Act.

Using pooled cross-sectional time series data collected at the level of 13 geographical regions, this paper investigates the effects of location dependence and unobserved heterogeneity on founding rates of rural cooperative banks in Italy from 1964 to 1988. Parametric and semiparametric models of organizational founding reveal that the organizational population is internally differentiated and that different segments of the population respond heterogeneously to general processes of legitimation and competition. This study emphasizes the importance of identifying the correct level of analysis at which population-level processes operate and of accounting for unobservable factors related to the cross-sectional structure of organizational populations. The findings demonstrate how an ecological approach that incorporates information on the spatial structure of the population can provide a more detailed understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociologists have given insufficient attention to the influence of structural properties on the process of socialization. This paper sets forth a set of typologies which is expected to place limits on, but not necessarily determine, the behavioral alternatives within socialization systems. The outline can be used as a heuristic device for comparative analysis of socialization research and for the design and evaluation of socialization programs. Three aspects of the structure of socialization systems are discussed--the novice-agent relationship, the setting, and the target roles. Novice-agent relationships are characterized by four dimensions: 1) specification, 2) relative anomie, 3) incumbency of the target role, and 4) role repetition. Variations in types of setting are: 1) formality of setting, 2) individual or group socialization, 3) serial and disjunctive socialization. Target roles may vary along six dimensions: 1) voluntary, involuntary or semi-voluntary entrance, 2) time boundaries of roles, 3) valuation of roles, 4) socialization into social group or social category, 5) degree of institutionalization of roles, and 6) relation of role to novice's identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The annual meeting of the American Sociological Society will be held in Denver, Colorado, from September 7-9, 1950. The program will be planned with an emphasis on the applications of social-psychological history and method to a variety of substantive fields in sociology. This means that a considerable number of traditional sections will be recognized in the program and the chairmen asked to assemble papers with the emphasis indicated. Sections to be included in the program are: Theory, Methods, The Family, Criminology, Population. Rural Sociology, Industrial Sociology. Community, Sociology and Psychiatry, Race and Culture. Educational Sociology, Communication and Public Opinion, Sociology and Social Work, and two section meetings of contributed papers.

This paper arose from a larger study designed to explore what leaders in the field of sociology think are the most important goals and principles for students to understand after taking a college-level introductory course and how they teach those principles. A population of scholarly leaders in sociology was defined by various forms of peer recognition and included elected presidents of national and regional professional associations, recipients of national awards, and recipients of competitive research funding. In 2005 and 2006 we interviewed a sample of 44 leaders to gain an understanding of key principles and how they are taught. We report their teaching strategies and compare their strategies to those of other teachers and the recommendations in McKinney et al. (2004). Although similar in many respects, leaders are considerably more likely than other sociologists to engage students in research and somewhat more likely to use simulations or games. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the impact of managerial social status on the normative evaluation of managerial acts in organizational contexts. We test several propositions on the relationship between social status and normative evaluation derived from Donald Black's theoretical framework on social control. The research design consists of a factorial survey of 200 managers. Each respondent evaluated the seriousness of a normatively questionable managerial act. In each vignette, the perpetrator's social status was systematically manipulated in either a high or a low condition. The results generally support the argument that the higher a manager's social status the less vulnerable that individual is to unfavorable normative evaluations, holding constant the act. The paper closes with discussion of our findings in light of social structural and rational choice perspectives on informal social control in organizations. Additionally, we discuss methodological issues related to experimental research on informal social control in organizations, the consistency of our findings with those from previous studies of social control across diverse settings, potential theoretical applications and extensions of Black's framework in organizational contexts, and practical implications for the implementation of corporate codes of conduct and corporate dispute resolution systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents minutes of the Council Meeting on August 26, 1973. Attendees; Speakers; Balance sheet for the 1973-1974 proposed budget.

The goal and system resource approaches represent alternative conceptions of organizational effectiveness. The goal approach views effectiveness in terms of internal organizational objectives and performance. Organization-environment relations are the focus of the system resource approach, though previous applications of this perspective have been limited to profit-making organizations. This paper reconceptualizes the system resource approach for use in public agencies and examines the flow of organizational resources as an indicator of effectiveness. Goal approach indicators are matched with system resource measures in examining the convergence and consistency of the two approaches. The convergence of effectiveness measures is examined by observing the correlations between themselves and four organizational decision making variables that had previously been shown to be associated with effectiveness. An examination of the data collected through interviews with representatives of 110 public agencies reveals some consistency but no convergence between the two approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to confront two models of the French pattern of action: the well-known 'bureaucratic' model, depicted by Michel Crozier, and a model which emphasizes the persistence within modem French organizations of what Montesquieu called the honour principle. This model is tested successfully against the ethnographical material presented in The Bureaucratic Phenomenon. In addition, the paper explains, using a semiotic approach to culture, how a mode of functioning said to be archaic can persist in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

This paper is meant as a contribution to the revival and extension of evolutionary thinking in sociology. It begins with the conception that in the evolution of living systems generally, certain new developments have greatly increased the adaptive capacity of the system, so much that without them further major developmental steps would be blocked, though survival in a "niche" is possible and frequent. For organic evolution the conception is illustrated by the cases of vision and the human hands and brain. The body of the paper is devoted to six cases at the social level. The first two are differentiation on the basis of a scale of stratification and the development of patterns of cultural Tegitimation independent of the social structure, both of which are important in the transition from primitive social conditions to those of the "archaic" civilizations. The remaining four cases are-in order of treatment -bureaucratic organization, money and markets, a universalistic legal system, and the democratic association in both governmental and private forms. These four, taken together, are fundamental to the structure of the modern type of society, though each is highly complex and subject to a whole series of developmental stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Executive Committee of the American Sociological Society met with members Franklin Frazier, Kimball Young, Florian Znaniecki, Katharine Jocher, Robert Lynd, Robert LaPiere, Carl Taylor, Harold Kaufman, present, and president of the society, Louis Wirth presiding. The following actions were taken by the Executive Committee: James H.S. Bossard was re-elected a member of the Classification Committee and designated as the Chairman. The revised report of the Committee on Relationships with Sociologists in Other Countries was approved. The action of the President in appointing a Committee on Sociological Articles in the journal "Scientific Monthly" was ratified and the present committee continued. Approval was voted of a Resolutions Committee consisting of Franklin Frazier, Chairman. A motion was made and approved that the Executive Committee recommend that for the annual meeting of 1948 the Program Committee be instructed to formulate the program by calling upon the members of the American Sociological Society to submit in advance proposed papers or abstracts of same, from which papers, as far as possible, the final program be made up. To facilitate this selection, the Program Committee is further authorized to appoint a Committee on Contributed Papers.

Presents news notes and announcements involving the Rural Sociological Society. Professional opportunities abroad; Announcements of events; Career developments of sociology professionals; Theses and dissertations.

This article presents the text of a paper about origins and perspectives of the international representative read at the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society at the Trinity College in Washington, D. C., on December 28-30, 1957. This paper is a discussion of a conceptual framework which has developed in connection with a study of the role of international representatives as a significant role in the American labor movement. The focus of the present discussion is on the role of international representatives as a non-professional role which is nevertheless capable of professionalization. This paper will further attempt to show that both short-run and long-run conditions affecting the trade union movement generally, and the role of international representatives in particular, require that this role become fully professionalized. The term "international representative" is employed in this discussion to signify the role of those officials who represent the international or national office at the local level. By an international office is meant the central office of a union having locals both in the U.S. and Canada.

A number of major considerations emerged fairly clearly from meetings held in 1928 of the section on Sociology and Social Work. The more important of them may perhaps be indicated in terms of the following questions, are the social research and social work attitudes compatible?, and more specifically, should social workers be expected to subject their own processes of work, such as come into play in the interview, for instance, to objective analysis and investigation?, can social workers so write their case records as to make them more available for sociological research without jeopardizing their value as social work documents? and what definite suggestions and contributions has sociology to make to the treatment of specific social work problems such as family discord. These are complex considerations which cannot be dismissed dogmatically with the formulation of a single point of view and this year's meetings seem to have been definitely planned with a view to throwing additional light op them. There were four meetings of the section this year, devoted respectively to the discussion of the following topics, "Some Contributions of Sociological Theory to Social Work," "A Sociological Analysis of the Contents of 2,000 Social Case Records With Special Reference to the Treatment of Family Discord," "A Study of Social Case Work Interviews," and "Is Prediction Feasible in Social Work? An Inquiry Based Upon a Sociological Study of Parole Records."

This article provides information on the biennial conference of the British Sociological Association at Queen Elizabeth College in London, England on March 22 to 24, 1957. The theme Sociology in Retrospect and Prospect was an appropriate one in view of the increasingly felt need to undertake a systematic re-assessment and clarification of the main issues involved in sociological theory and practice. A large theme of this nature could not be pursued in exhaustive detail, but the papers in both the plenary and the group sessions were such as to stimulate much thought, and the degree of interest shown in the conference was such as to suggest that this theme was one of central concern to all. The attendance was greater than had been anticipated. Although not central to the theme of the conference, perhaps one of the most significant facts about it was that it became the basis for a consciously contrived effort to begin and foster co-operative relations between the British Association and the American Sociological Society. Another encouraging feature was that 39 students were sufficiently interested to become student members of the association. The executive officers were very helpful throughout, and finally it proved possible to send over a small delegation.

The article presents minutes of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society's (OVSS) Annual Business Meeting to be held on May 1, 1970 in Akron, Ohio. The meeting was called to order by president Dwight G. Dean. The minutes of the last annual business meeting were unanimously approved as circulated. Researcher Don Olmsted reported for the Publications Committee. He reported on the functions of the Publications Committee: acting as an editorial board for the OVSS journal, "Sociological Focus," and conducting the OVSS student paper competition. Names of the winners of the student paper competition were withheld until the annual banquet. Sociologist Kenneth Eckhardt reported for the Membership Committee. He reported that the membership of the OVSS currently stands at 795. Frank Westie reported for the Development Committee. His report indicated that the Council had approved the appointment of student members to standing committees. In addition, he reported that the Development Committee would be circulating questionnaires to the membership of the OVSS concerning actions the Society should take concerning major issues in the larger society.

These papers illustrate the complications of historical research. Even though they cover events over only the last four decades and chiefly the last two, it has been difficult to obtain accurate accounts of such matters as "the Salisbury affair" and numerous other incidents. The memories of living respondents are defective; official records are incomplete and tend to report conclusions without the details that contributed to decisions. Personal, emotional, and "political" involvements of participants bias their reports, and subsequent events modify interpretations. As computers increasingly become the record keepers of the society, the problems of historians are becoming even more complex. For records on computer cards, tapes, and printouts tend to be destroyed sooner than those which are on ledgers of other kinds. Many of the problems within both associations have reflected the complications of operating with a volunteer staff. One of the major developments in both organizations has been the shift from a minimal role played by sociologists to dominance by them.

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 paper summarizes part of research undertaken to investigate the concept of "Catholic Sociology." It reports specifically on The American Catholic Sociological Review as compared and contrasted with The American Sociological Review with regard to the subject areas most frequently occurring in the ankles, whether they are basic or applied, and whether the articles are normative or non-nonnative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine power from a multi-theoretical perspective by comparing and analyzing different views and definitions of power in order to use the findings for further studying this construct as a key element for managerial purposes in the interorganizational context. Design/methodology/approach - An overview of the literature is conducted examining the power from sociological, psychological and managerial perspectives specifying views on power, its sources and consequences of its use offered by selected theories. Findings - This paper presents the opinion that the definitions of power by different theories resemble each other and the main differentiations in conceptualizations of power stem mostly from the differences in capturing sources and consequences of power. Power generally refers to the ability, capacity or potential to get others do something, to command, to influence, to determine or to control the behaviors, intentions, decisions or actions of others in the pursuit of one's own goals or interests despite resistance, as well as to induce changes. Originality/value - The fact that power can be used as an effective tool to coordinate and manage others appears to be largely ignored in the literature. In order to understand how to use it for these purposes, it is necessary to define power, which is an elusive concept that has a variety of meanings and definitions, and there seems to be much disagreement to the precise meaning of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a personal account of the attractions of the emerging movement and the distinctive feel of the Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS) conferences. The author relates that he was introduced to the AHS by the association's founders, Alfred McClung Lee and Elizabeth Bryant Lee. According to the author, Alfred's scholarly output, individually and with Betty, was prolific. It covered the areas of journalism, politics, and humanist sociology and was distinguished by the vigor and directness of its prose. The Fine Art of Propaganda, which they co-authored in the 1930s, presented a symbolic analysis of political messages that still contributes to media literacy. In the early days, there were three discernible subgroups within AHS. One group was focused on humanist theory, including marginal problem areas like sociology of emotions, death and dying, and the nature of meaning. Another group was Marxist. Over the years, participants also belonged to the ASA Marxist section and various socialist-oriented organizations. The third group consisted of people concerned with community organizing and applied sociology. Most were involved with local and national projects focused on social problems.

This paper describes the preconditions leading to the founding of the Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS) in 1976, with accounts and descriptions of its founding and early years. Existing records, interviews, and correspondence with key informants, including past-presidents, longtime members, and former members, were utilized in preparing this report on the origin and earliest days of the Association for Humanist Sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section discusses articles and issues which reflect the attempt to assess and evaluate important aspects of the publishing record in Canadian sociology during the last millennium as important reflections of the evolution of the discipline in Canada during the last century. In one of the classic documents of Canadian sociology, Everett Hughes suggested that sociology in this country should be framed by what he called the more-so principle, that is, what are the features of Canadian life from which we would learn more about as an aspect of society that we would not learn about as much elsewhere. He suggested that sociology in Canada had to be rooted in and must begin with its own societal context. Thus it can be concluded that as the societal context changes, Canadian sociology itself should reflect both the unique aspects of the society's character as well as the evolution of the society. The occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association provided a significant opportunity for sociologists in Canada to reflect on their organizational history and the practice of their craft in Canada. The results of this work is contained in an article by William K. Carroll, Linda Christensen-Ruffman, Raymond F. Currie, and Deborah Harrison.

This article reviews the role of third sector organizations in the field of “proximity services” from a francophone perspective. We analyze how the new wave of initiatives inside the third sector in France and francophone Belgium can be seen as providing institutional responses to state and market failures that arise from trust-dependent and quasi-collective attributes of these services. These initiatives are often called “solidarity based third sector organizations,” a concept defined in this paper. A central assumption of this analysis is that the political context in which these services are delivered is especially important, particularly as reflected in the changing regulatory role of the state. This analysis takes, therefore, an economic sociology perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews research on organizations to highlight prevailing and emerging conceptions for embeddedness. This paper reviews recent theory and empirical research that contributes to our understanding of the embeddedness of organizations. The word "embedded- ness" has taken on multiple meanings and uses, just as have other key words like structure, culture, learning, and trust. In part, this reflects the timeliness of the term and the varied theoretical traditions and empirical puzzles which ground the concept. This article develops provisional responses to these questions with a focus on current research dialogue and a view to new directions. Researchers treat embeddedness as concept and construct in dialogue with current research on organizations and institutions. Other recent works review in generous detail conceptual and empirical work that develop embeddedness arguments in economic sociology. The article has three main sections. It focuses on key aspects and traditions, but conceptualize embeddedness research in terms of promising dialogues and directions that span intellectual, professional, and substantive boundaries in the study of organizations in context.

Perceived increases in the proportion of human capital in the production mix are matched by calls for the development of methods of accounting for human capital. The term "capital" is used in a range of academic and professional fields. Cultural capital is a term from sociology, closely related in meaning to human capital and human resources, but providing a unique perspective of its own. This paper suggests that, by reaching outside the traditional economic rationality of the discourse on human resources or human capital, cultural capital provides insights for accounting. In particular, it suggests that a form of human resource accounting based on cultural capital is needed to reflect the plural authority and accountability structures of organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper, the institutionalization of sociology is understood as a process of establishing social facts like sociological book series, periodicals, institutes, chairs, and associations. This process introduced the discipline into mainstream academic life, distinguishing and securing the stability, boundaries and identity of sociology amongst other social sciences. Terry Clark's model of the process of institutionalization of academic disciplines is applied. The paper is organized into several sections. The first discusses the emergence of sociology in Europe, and focuses on the publishing of books with "sociology" in their lilies. The second section analyses the beginnings of sociology in the United States of America, examining the emergence of sociological books, periodicals (American Journal of Sociology) and the first departments of sociology before World War I. The third section discusses the foundation of sociological institutions in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, outlining the emergence of periodicals, book series, national and international associations, university chairs. The fourth and fifth sections, based in the same time period, analyses the beginnings of sociological institutions in Germany, and in other selected European countries such as Italy, England and Austria. Sections six and seven discuss the institutionalization of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe during the inter-war period, and post-war developments in the same region. The last section examines sociology as a global discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is taken from Chapter 6 of the publication A Lucky Journey: The Sociological Enterprise, 1931-1980, which reflects on the progress of the American Sociological Review (ASR) as a publication from 1958 to 1960. The local editorial staff of the publication began with a contingent of ten scholars. These ten scholars included representatives of various sub-fields in sociology and of related discipline as well as specialists on Soviet Russia, Africa, India and Japan. Most of the day-to-day labor on the Review was done by editorial secretary Betty Vogel, Michael Olmsted, and their nominal boss. Michael Olmsted was more than a first-rate book review editor, he evaluated papers in his special fields with sagacity and designed an attractive cover to replace what had long been the dismal front of the publication. Solicitation of papers by prominent sociologists helped to upgrade ASR as a scholarly journal. Another change was the introduction of a division of the Review on the Profession which included not merely the obituaries or communications pertaining to the sociological guild, but both solicited submitted articles on the occupation itself. This innovation, according to the author, was consistent with his own growing interest in the sociology of sociology.

Economic development involves elemental processes of great complexity and scope and that those who would move from a traditional to a modern society must relate themselves differently to the environment, shifting from an organic to an inorganic energy base, they must alter their ontology, accepting a different cognitive base for their relief system, they must adopt new values, forsaking old ones or integrating them somehow with the new values, indeed, they must psychologically refashion traditional man and his energizing and motivational system. The encompassing task of development requires the involvement of all sectors of society and different types of social units. This paper examines the nature and position of voluntary associations in the historic process of modernization and development.

This paper discusses the importance of identifying the environmental context in which organizations function. The relationship between an organization and those other groups and individuals constituting its environment is specified in terms of linkages. Two key dimensions of linkage are identified: strength and breadth. The former refers to how intimately the organization is connected with any other group while the latter refers to how extensive is the support. These linkages' dimensions are viewed from a "resource mobilization" perspective, i.e., as the means by which resources are brought into an organization. A study of linkages sustained by the NAACP during 1961-69 illustrates how the dimensions of linkage strength and breadth can be operationalized and applied. New avenues of research then are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years the field of sociology and the subfield of complex organization have experienced a series of running debates between persons subscribing to structural approaches and those holding to interaction perspectives of scientific inquiry. Drawing upon Spinner's (1973) discussion of the types of intertheory relationships, this paper extends his analysis by drawing attention to the Polanyi-Hanson-Kuhn position on the fundamental nature of theory-laden observation. A methodological rule is proposed, using theoretic blockage as the basis for alternate shifting between diverse theories. In this manner, tenets of various theoretic perspectives can serve as heuristics to a more informed analysis. A theoretical discussion of power, deference, and social coordination is used to illustrate how the methodological rule of theoretic blockage can be employed to advance organization theory. I argue that the theoretical diversities in the subfield of complex organization can provide an excellent arena for exploring critical intertheory dialogues which can advance our knowledge of organizations. At the same time they can serve as a testing ground for general intertheory and interdisciplinary linkages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An alternative approach to organizational theory is outlined, based on Marxian categories and propositions. The concepts of "productive forces" and "social relations of production" are specified in terms of various organizational phenomena such as organizing activity vs. organization; historical contradictions between organizational control structures and new forms of organizing work activity (e.g., occupational and professional status groups vs. administrative rationalization and bureaucratization; bureaucratic and technocratic administration vs. selforganization of labor and workers' control); the contradictions between such organizational dimensions as labor-power and its manifestations in terms of skills and knowledge, the object of labor (complexity of task structure), the means of labor (technology), the division of labor, the control of labor (cost-accounting and hierarchical authority relations), and the organization of labor (e.g., either in terms of occupations and professions or unions, corporate management, state bureaucracies, or self-organization and workers' control). Organizational contradictions between functional as well as historical phases of the work process are described for work organizations, in general, and for public service bureaucracies and courts of law, in particular. For example, administrative and technical innovations designed to increase productivity tend to come into contradiction with strategies of established authority structures (e.g., of the professional judicial elite) designed to expand domain, thus impeding or nullifying various organizational reform efforts. The paper concludes with a more general discussion of Marxian method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a revision of the address given by Professor Becker in connection with his receipt of the Leo G. Reeder Award for distinguished service to medical sociology. The address was given August 22, 1992, to the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association during its annual meeting, held in Pittsburgh, PA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a revision of the address given by Professor Bloom in connection with his receipt of the Leo G. Reeder Award for distinguished scholarship in medical sociology. The address was given August 12, 1989 to the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association during its annual meeting, held in San Francis. co. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a revision of the address given upon receipt of the Leo G. Reeder Award for distinguished Scholarship in Medical Sociology. It was presented on August 19, 1987 to the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association during its annual meeting held in Chicago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses about the book "The post-development reader," edited by Majid Rahnema. This book presents thirty-seven essays, including extracts, previously published articles, and papers written for this volume, discuss the myths and realities of development, exploring the threats that development poses to its target populations. Part 1 describes a number of world societies in the pre-development era. Part 2 discusses different aspects of the development paradigm and the beliefs or the world-view it both prescribes and proscribes.

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 research was supported by a Dissertation Research Grant, a Summer Research Fellowship, and Grant GP-4825 from the National Science Foundation. Brown University Provided additional assistance through a University Fellowship.The authors indebted to these two Institutions and to Philip Sagi and Ralph B. Ginsberg for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses International Sociology. International gatherings have repeatedly played an important role in the social sciences. In London, England, in 1864, sociologist Karl Marx created the International Workingman's Association. The St. Louis, Missouri World's Fair in 1904 brought the world's leading sociologists together and one can easily trace the profound influence this American experience had on Sociologist Max Weber's subsequent writings. Today's vastly improved communications all year round make periodic face-to-face gatherings less momentous events. Still, they are important occasions and their impact can probably be increased further if one reflects on what functions they do or could perform. Recent observations suggest that a systematic study of such international events could be of real service to the profession of a sociologist. The origins of formal international organizations of sociologists can probably be traced back to the International Institute of Sociology which was created in 1893 with headquarters in Paris, France. It held yearly congresses until 1910, then changed to a triennial schedule. The congresses were interrupted by the first World War (1914-1918) and not resumed until 1927. The 1939 Congress was cancelled because of the second World War (1939-1945).

The article presents information on various meetings and activities of different organizations and periodicals, related to sociology, for the year 1939. American Catholic Sociological Society has issued the report of its first annual convention at Chicago, which contains the constitution, financial report, membership list, organizational material and digests of the 19 papers presented. The Professional Qualifications subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Organization held a meeting at Hotel Philadelphian in Philadelphia, September 17. The American Statistical Association is planning a Centenary celebration at the coming annual meeting. Cornell University and New York State College of Agriculture's department of rural social organization name has been changed to rural sociology. The conference of International Institute of Sociological Societies, which was originally scheduled for August, has been postponed to the Easter season of 1940. This postponement was made at the request of several participants due to the international situation. The second annual meeting of the Committee for Conceptual Integration would be held during the meeting of the American Sociological Society at Philadelphia in December.