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THE BULLETIN |
| of the North Carolina Sociological Association Volume 29, Number 3 October 2003 |
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"Himes Award" for Outstanding Student Sociology Papers Call for Papers: The NCSA seeks papers that represent excellence in sociological analysis from both undergraduate and graduate students. This competition comes with a monetary award ($150 for the winning undergraduate papers, $250 for the top graduate paper), and a certificate of recognition from the association. Three awards are available: one for graduate students, and one each for undergraduates at four-year institutions, and two-year institutions. Award winners are recognized at the NCSA annual meeting and their papers are published on the official NCSA website. Faculty mentors are also recognized at the annual meeting, and department chairs and college deans are forwarded award information for contract and promotion purposes. Eligibility requirements are simple: Any current student enrolled in a community college or university in North Carolina may submit a paper for consideration. Also, students who graduated in the previous Spring or Summer Sessions are eligible to submit a paper for consideration of awards that will be conferred in the following academic year.
Judgment criteria include: Please send four (4) blind copies of papers with a cover letter describing the students year in school, institutional affiliation, & faculty mentor information to: Graham Spann, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Division of Business & Social Sciences, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC 28604-0128 The deadline for submission is January 23, 2003. |
2004 NCSA Meeting in Chapel Hill Make plans now to attend the 2004 annual meeting of the North Carolina Sociological Association to be held on March 4 and 5 at the Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel. The theme for the meeting will be "Teaching, Research and Service: Blurring of the Boundaries." Sessions will be organized around how these primary aspects of our jobs seem to be intersecting more and more, enriching each aspect, while at the same time making each harder to distinguish from the others. The meetings will have a familiar format. We will get together on Thursday evening, March 4, at the hotel for a reception from 7 pm to 9pm. The next day we move to sessions and the business meeting. The capstone of our annual meeting will be a keynote address by Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the President of the American Sociological Association. Michael is an engaging speaker who has much to say about bringing sociology to the general public. I encourage you to send me your ideas for sessions related to the theme and to volunteer to organize sessions or present papers for the meeting. Your participation will make this a valuable experience for all of us. The Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel (sheratonchapelhill.com) has lovely meeting space and we have reserved rooms for you at a rate of $80 per night (plus tax). The deadline for making reservations in our room block is February 5, 2004. Make sure you specify that you are attending the NCSA meeting when you make your reservation to get this low rate. I hope to see you all in Chapel Hill in March! For further information about the meeting, please contact Cathy Zimmer, President-Elect of NCSA at UNC-Chapel Hill, 919-962-0516 or cathy_zimmer@unc.edu -- I look forward to hearing from you! Ken Land Receives the Contributions to Sociology Award 2003 At its annual meeting in Boone, the members of the NCSA honored Ken Land with the Contributions to Sociology Award. Here is the text of the presentation by his colleague, Rebecca Bach. It is with great pleasure that I announce the 2003 winner of the Contributions to Sociology Award, Ken Land. Ken Land is a highly accomplished scholar, teacher and contributor to our profession. A quick summary of his professional accomplishments and contributions is a daunting task.Ken began his advanced educational career with a BA in 1964 from Texas Lutheran College. He took his Masters in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Texas at Austin. This was followed by a year as a Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University in 1969-70, studying mathematical statistics. He then spent three years, as a mathematical sociologist at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, and also during this time as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Columbia. His first regular academic appointment was as an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His time at Illinois features a directorship of the Social Science Quantitative Laboratory there, promotion to full professor in 1976, and a stint at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. In 1981 he returned to the University of Texas at Austin as Professor of Sociology. He entered the department of Sociology at Duke University in January 1986 as Professor and Chair of the Department. During his 11 years as chair, our faculty grew by almost fifty percent, our undergraduate program was reinvigorated under his leadership and is now one of the better ones at Duke, and our graduate program prospered in a multiplicity of ways. He is currently John Franklin Crowell Professor of Sociology at Duke. He is also Director of the Center for Demographic Studies, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. Ken’s scholarly contributions—there are many—concentrate in several areas, including mathematical sociology; social statistics; demography; criminology; organizations and markets; and social trends and forecasts. Consider the accomplishments in terms of output; (1) 30 major research grants over his career, including 17 from the National Science Foundation; (2) four co-authored books including Social Indicator Models (1975), Social Accounting Systems (1981), Multidimensional Mathematical Demography (1982), and Forecasting in the Social and Natural Sciences; (3) 150 articles or essays in refereed journals; (4) 45 book reviews and review essays. But you get the picture, this is a world class scholar in quantity and quality. His scholarship has made a mark for every institution and department with which he has been affiliated. Every bit as impressive as his scholarly contributions, Ken Land cares about his profession. Whether it be the committees of ASA, SSS or the North Carolina Sociological Association he has served on over 30 different committees and held 16 different elected offices in state, regional or national associations. He is a former member of the NCSA executive council and is currently working on the editorial board of the forthcoming Web Journal of the NCSA. In his spare time he serves on 15 editorial boards (including two for which he is the editor). You would think that someone this busy and with this level of accomplishment would not teach undergraduates. Not so. Since day one at Duke, Ken Land is there in his undergraduate social problems course, every year if not every semester. It is nearly always full and sometimes oversubscribed. Ken also regularly sponsors undergraduate independent research projects. As a mentor to graduate students, Ken he is among the best, whether gauged in terms of number of students, or time to degree, or placement in the labor market. His professional honors reflect these accomplishments: recipient of the 1997 Paul F. Lazersfeld Award of the Methodology Section of the ASA, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Member of the Sociological Research Association, and Fellow of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies. And, now it is my privilege to add the 2003 North Carolina Sociological Association’s Contributions to Sociology Award to Ken Land’s impressive list of professional honors.
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2004 NCSA Membership Application/Renewal Form The North Carolina Sociological Association is open to any person
engaged in teaching or research in sociology, or in a field of applied sociology, as well
as to any student whose major interest is sociology. Members receive THE BULLETIN of the
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are for one calendar year. Please take a moment to update your information. Be sure to include the most current information that you want to be included in our members database. Name:_________________________________________________ Institutional Affiliation:_______________________________________ Institutional Address:____________________________________________ Office Telephone (including area code):___________________ Permanent Home Address:_____________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Home phone: _______________________________________ I prefer to have SOCIATION TODAY mailed to me _____Please include me on the listserv. Type of membership: Voluntary Contribution to the Himes Award Fund: Total amount enclosed : __________ Please enclose a check for your 2004 dues in the amount indicated above. Make all checks payable to the North Carolina Sociological Association. Mail this form and your check to: Dr. Sue Pauley Questions about membership and dues should be directed to Dr. Pauley. If you have any difficulties concerning the receipt of SOCIATION TODAY (incomplete address, misspelled name, new apartment number, etc.), please contact its editor, Lee Dodson, Rockingham Community College, P.O. Box 38, Wentworth, NC 27375-0038 (336-342-4261, ext. 2155; e-mail: dodsonl@rockinghamcc.edu).
Check Out the Complete NCSA Website NCSA members and the general public can access the association’s web site at www.ncsociology.org. Information to be included in THE BULLETIN should be sent to its editor at dodsonl@rockinghamcc.edu or mailed to him at RCC, P.O. Box 38, Wentworth, NC 27375. General information for the NCSA web site should be sent to its webmaster, George Conklin (george@nccu.edu, 919-560-6222). Join Our Electronic Information Service To subscribe to the NCSA list, send a one-line message to listproc@listproc.appstate.edu containing the text: sub NCSA Firstname Lastname. To send a message to the list, send the message to ncsa@listproc.appstate.edu. To unsubscribe to the NCSA list, send a one-line message to listproc@appstate.edu containing the text: unsubscribe ncsa. You may also e-mail Beth Davison with your request (davisonb@appstate.edu). |
SOCIATION TODAY Solicits Your Ideas and
Contributions by George Conklin Editor, SOCIATION TODAY Our electric journal "Sociation Today" can now be referenced by the shortcut www.sociationtoday.org. The first issue is posted and has been well received. The second issue, Fall 2003, will be dedicated to the theme of poverty, and will include a book review of "Nickel and Dimed," the book which has received so much publicity in the press. The tentative release date will be November 15, 2003. "Sociation Today" continues to ask members to contribute to future issues on any topic of relevance both to the academic and applied world. Please remember that the public and students are two our main target audiences, so articles should clearly state what has been found and the evidence used to reach that conclusion. One or two tables should be sufficient, plus references and links to appropriate Web-based source materials or discussions. It has been suggested that "Sociation Today" consider having each issue devoted to a special topic. For Spring 2004 I would like to have contributions focused on the deindustrialization problems now facing North Carolina and the nation. If you have done any research in this area, please consider submitting your work to the editor at gconklin@wpo.nccu.edu. However, articles on any subject will always be welcome. Candidates Needed for NCSA Executive CouncilIf you, or someone you know of, is particularly interested in serving on the Executive Council of the North Carolina Sociological Association, please let us know. You can send your nominations to Angela Lewellyn Jones at ajones5@elon.edu. NCSA Committees 2003-2004
Applied Task Force Awards Membership Nominating Committee Web Journal Committee NCSA Award for Contributions to Sociology Each year the NCSA presents an Award for Contributions to Sociology. This award recognizes excellence in teaching, service, research, and/or other activity. It is open to members of the NCSA in academic, research, or applied positions. An individual other than the nominee, an academic department, government agency, or employer may make nominations. The nomination should include a summary of appropriate evidence, including information about items such as:
The winner is recognized at the annual meeting in February, and receives a plaque acknowledging the award as well as a lifetime membership to NCSA. Previous winners of this award include Joseph Himes, Isabelle Powell, Alfred Denton, Odell Uzzell, Ben Judkins, Ella Keller, Lee Dodson, George Conklin, Dick and Ida Simpson, David Pratto, John Shelton Reed, Pat Wyatt, Catherine Harris, Mike Wise, Virginia Foxx, and Ken Land. Nominations for the Contributions to Sociology Award should be sent with all supporting materials to: Dr. Angela Lewellyn Jones, Elon University, Campus Box 2243, Elon, NC 27244. The deadline for submission of these nominations is November 6, 2003. Contact Information: The editor of THE BULLETIN is Lee Dodson,
Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rockingham Community College, P.O. Box 38,
Wentworth, NC 27375-0038 The secretary/treasurer of the NCSA is Sue Pauley, Professor of Sociology at Wingate University, Campus Box 5007, Wingate, NC 28174. Questions about membership should be directed to Dr. Pauly. |
