Contact: Anne Boyle; 202-833-3410 x320; [email protected]
ASA Annual Meeting August 21-25 in San Francisco
Five thousand participants will convene at the American Sociological Association's 93rd Annual Meeting August 21-25 for hundreds of presentations on topics including immigration, affirmative action, families and children, health care, violence, and criminology.
The meeting's theme, Inequality and Social Policy: A Challenge for Sociology, draws on sociological research into the causes and consequences of inequality and their social policy implications.
Recent studies have revealed, for example, how the scarcity of jobs in inner city neighborhoods undermines policies designed to encourage the poor to work, and how the process of measuring inequality influences the public agenda.
Program highlights include the release of the American Sociological Association's new monograph, The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment by Barbara Reskin (Harvard University) (Embargoed until press conference 8/21); a session on the "Dismantling of Affirmative Action" with distinguished sociologists including Troy Duster and Jerome Karabel (UC-Berkeley); and William Gamson (Boston College); an issues briefing on the consequences of immigration and a welcoming address by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
The ASA welcomes members of the media. Press facilities will be located in the San Francisco Hilton and Towers. For more information, or to register, contact Anne Boyle at the ASA Media Office: (202) 833-3410 x320 or email [email protected] or visit the ASA website at www.asanet.org.
Founded in 1905, the ASA is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.
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