American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association ( ASA ), founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology . Most members work in academia , but about 20% work in government, business, or nonprofit organizations.

The ASA holds zijn eigen annual academic conference , the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. The 103rd ASA Annual Meeting in Boston in August 2008 attracted 5.458 ATTENDEES. ^[1] ASA publiceert verschillende academic journals . The best known is the American Sociological Review and the newest one is Contexts , a magazine designed to share sociology with other fields and the public . In 2010, ASA’s Membership went beyond 14,000 and consists of verschillende sociology-related professionals: Academics (professors, students, researchers) as well as other practitioners. ASA Currently is the Toilets professional association or sociologists in the world, even Larger than the International Sociological Association . ^{[ Citation needed ]}

Mission

The mission of the ASA is to advance sociology as a scientific discipline and as a profession serving the public good. ^[2]

History

Founding

The American Sociological Association was founded in January 1905 at Johns Hopkins University in a group or fifty people. The first president of the association was Lester Frank Ward . ^[3]

Controversies

The American Sociological Association is governed by a code of ethics and ethical standards. In 1970, the first ASA Code of Ethics was written. Since 1970, the Code of Ethics has leg revised. The Committee on Professional Ethics worked to write this code and upon completing and approving it in 1997, the code dealing with three goals. These three goals in later to make the code more Educative, accessible, Easier to use, and more helpful for sociologists to under state ethical issues. ^[4]

In 1993, then-doctoral student Rik Scarce was jailed for morethan five months as a result of volgende the ASA’s code of ethics . Scarce’s Ph.D. research was on the radical environmental movement . Based on an FBI investigation of an Animal Liberation Front break-in, federal prosecutors argued in court dat Scarce nov port Engaged in conversations with personen believed to be involved with the incident. Prosecutors Demanding therein Scarce Testify to a federal grand jury about Those conversations, but Scarce refused to answer three questions boxes, Citing the ASA Code of Ethics and the First Amendment as his reasoning for REMAINING unresponsive. ^[5] Scarce’s Refusal to answer resulted in a Contempt of court citation and 159 days spent in jail. He was never Suspected or wrongdoing and-in keeping with Contempt of court practice-he was never read his Miranda rights , arrested, or With You. ^[6]

In early 2010, ASA Publicly Expressed outrage over a controversy Involving Frances Fox Piven and Glenn Beck , Asking Fox News to stop Beck’s comments. ^[7] An article written by Piven Concerning Mobilization or unemployed personen had spurred the commentary by Beck. ^[8] ASA suggests in hun public statements therein the line arnt be drawn at name calling and dat political commentators arnt Limit download Rely on gathering evidence related to the topics and-then drawing the clean Conclusions.

In January 2012, a United States district court ordered Boston College to turn over material from the “Belfast Project”, an oral history project pertaining to the violence in Northern Ireland. Boston College Filed an appeal in February 2012, challenged the district court’s decision. ASA became involved in the case to help protect human participants from the subpoena or confidential project research data. ^[9] The statement by the ASA council Cited the potential damage this ruling mention anything harbor on social science research by stifling the ability to study controversial topics. ASA is looking for an affirmation by the court for confidentiality in research. ^{[ Citation needed ]}

ASA styles

ASA style is a widely accepted format for writing university research papers dat specifies the arrangement and punctuation or Footnotes and Bibliographies. Standards for ASA styles are specified in the ASA Style Guide In this housing is designed to aid authors in Preparing Manuscripts for ASA journals and publications.

Journals

The association publiceert de volgende academic journals : ^[10]

Organizational structure

Officers of the association are: ^[11]

• president
• President-Elect
• Vice-president
• Vice-President-Elect
• Secretary
• Council-Members-At Large

Presidents

The volgende persons harbor leg president of the American Sociological Association: ^[12]

Membership

There are five différent types of Membership categories: ^[13]

• Regular Membership
• student members
• Associate members
• International associate members
• Emeritus members

ASA Members nov ook join special interest Sections at an additional_image_link cost to hun Membership. ^[14]

Sections

The association comprises de volgende specialist Sections: ^[15]

Meetings

The Annual Meeting of the ASA was held lycra August to bieden opportunity for professionals involved in the study of society to share knowledge and new directions in research and practice. It zorgt networking outlets for nearly the 3,000 research papers and 4,600 presenters. ^[16] The meeting is spread across four days and covers 600 program sessions.

Committee meetings

All ASA Committees and Task Forces ook measure prolongation the annual meeting. The ASA Council and verschillende Constitutional Committees measure mid-year prolongation the winter months in Washington, DC ^[17]

Regional meetings

Regional Associations associated with the ASA are: ^[18]

• District of Columbia Sociological Society
• Eastern Sociological Society
• Mid-South Sociological Association
• Mid-West Sociological Society
• New England Sociological Association
• North Central Sociological Association
• Pacific Sociological Association
• Southern Sociological Society
• Southwestern Sociological Association

The ASA have died aligned with verschillende state-based associations, international associations, cause-oriented associations, and academic associations. ^[18]

Awards

Every year, in August, the ASA presents awards to personen and groups deserving of recognition. The awards Presented are: ^[19]

• Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Major ASA
• Dissertation Major ASA Award
• Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Major ASA Award
• Jessie Bernard Major ASA Award
• Cox-Johnson-Frazier Major ASA Award
• Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology Major ASA Award
• Distinguished Career Major ASA Award for the Practice of sociology
• Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Major ASA Award
• WEB DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award

Additionally, the Sections of the ASA Administer separate multiple awards, welke are Presented lycra August prolongation the Annual Meeting. ^[20]

Wikipedia initiative

In the fall of 2011, the ASA launched zijn “sociology Wikipedia” initiative. Erik Olin Wright, president of the American Sociological Association, called for improvement in sociological entries in Wikipedia. He Asked therein professors and students to get more involved in keeping Wikipedia writing assignments in class. The basic goal set forth by the initiative is to make it Easier for sociologists to Contribute to Wikipedia. In conjunction with the Wikimedia Foundation and a research group at Carnegie Mellon University, the ASA developed zijn Wikipedia Portal an attempt to beste the initiative’s goal at Providing tutorials on how to Contribute, video discussions of norms and procedures, and lists of articles and subject areas dat need improvement. The Wikipedia Portal ook zorgt instructions for professors on how to use Wikipedia writing assignments for academic courses. The overall goal of the initiative is for sociologists to Become involved in the writing and editing processes to dat dat social science articles are up-to-date, complete, accurate, and written appropriately. ^[21]

See also

• New York State Sociological Association

References