Why do children raised without their fathers run serious risks? Sara McLanahan, Princeton University explores this issue in an article, "Life without Father: What Happens to the Children." Answering this question can help shape productive policies and perhaps quiet the culture war raging around single parenthood.
Welfare reform has been widely accepted as a success, with the media highlighting stories of employed ex-recipients. But the reality is more complex. Many women lose their jobs, many others are poor even while working--a booming economy might easily deserve the credit. What works and what does not?
On behalf of the American Sociological Association (ASA), the ASA Council expresses its profound grief at the shocking terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, and great sadness on the enormous loss of life in these incidents and the crash of the hijacked jet in Pennsylvania last week.
As a public service, the American Sociological Association is providing a list of social science experts on hate crime in light of concerns about such events resulting from the tragedy at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Over the years, the ASA has sought to disseminate knowledge on hate crime.
How does stress resulting from disasters such as the recent tragic events in New York City and Washington affect health? The Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley and a docent at the Institute for Housing Research at Uppsala University in Sweden, conducted a study focusing on the effects of communal bereavement in Sweden.
Many wives of professional male athletes have to consider the possibility of their husbands' infidelity, particularly during a long season with numerous road trips. How they handle their fear and stress varies and may depend on their motivation for marriage.
In a unanimous resolution, the Council of the American Sociological Association (ASA) called upon the U.S. government to strengthen its resolve to protect the safety and well-being of scholars engaged in scientific research in countries where basic freedoms do not exist.
On August 19, Director of the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Greg Koski, will discuss social science research involving human subjects and the ethics involved at the American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA.
At the beginning of the 1990s, black men working in the most highly paid private sector jobs earned 20 percent less than similar white workers, a racial disparity far greater than in lower paid jobs, according to a recent study by Eric Grodsky and Devah Pager, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Douglas S. Massey, President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), presented dramatic and thought-provoking ideas about directions of human societies in his Presidential address to the 2001 Annual Meeting of the ASA.
A widespread belief among the American public is that schools no longer "teach values" -- or that they only teach values concerned with contemporary interests in cultural diversity. A new study of primary school classrooms challenges this conventional wisdom by showing that values continue to permeate classroom and school life.
William T. Bielby, University of California, Santa Barbara, was elected the 94th President of the American Sociological Association, and Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University, was elected Vice President.
The American Sociological Association is pleased to announce the winners of the ASA Awards for 2001. The awards will be presented in a ceremony at the Association's Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA on Sunday, August 19th at 4:30 p.m. Awards are the highest honor that the Association confers.
The American Sociological Association's (ASA) 96th Annual Meeting will convene August 18-21st at the Hilton Anaheim and the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, CA. More than 550 sessions will be held on a wide range of topics including social inequality, race and racism, work/labor markets, immigration, education, popular culture, and more.
For more than 30 years, the General Social Survey has provided a wealth of data on contemporary American society by measuring social change through trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes of the adult population.
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a sociology professor at the American University in Cairo, and founder and director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, was sentenced on May 21, 2001 to seven years in prison by the High State Security Court in Egypt.
The April issue of the American Sociological Review features articles on themes related to well-being of families, parenting, and marital relationships. The topics covered include issues of wide public interest and debate.
The American Sociological Association is currently accepting paper submissions for its 96th Annual Meeting held in Anaheim, CA on August 18-21.
The importance of the neighborhood context will be featured in a Congressional briefing on "How Neighborhoods Matter: The Value of Investing at the Local Level" to be held on Monday, September 25th from 8:30-10:30 a.m. in Room B-340 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
Results of a new three year study are the first to reveal the social consequences of living in a highly-wired, broadband neighborhood. This research addresses recent interest in the effects of Internet use on relationships with friends, relatives and neighbors.
A panel of experts will discuss policies relating to the well-being of the aging population at a session on August 15th at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Washington DC.
Focusing on themes of globalization and inequality, ASA President Joe R. Feagin offered a strong critique of the cost and consequences of an ever-expanding system of capitalism as part of his Presidential Address, "Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the 21st Century."
The American Sociological Association is holding a media briefing on "Cyberspace and Everyday Life" at the Annual Meeting. This briefing will present new work on the consequences of living in a highly-wired, broadband society.
Affirmative action remains one of the most contentious issues of public policy. This media briefing seeks to add the "voice" of data and present the latest in research on affirmative action.
Barbara F. Reskin, Harvard University, was elected the 93rd President of the American Sociological Association, and Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania, was elected Vice President.
Five thousand participants will convene at the American Sociological Association's 2000 Annual Meeting, Aug. 12-16, in Washington, D.C.
The American Sociological Association is pleased to announce the winners of the ASA Awards for 2000 to be presented in a ceremony at the Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in August.
Articles by leading sociologists in this special issue of the American Sociological Review provide insightful discussion of broad social trends over the past century and reflect on the state of society at the beginning of a new century and millennium.
Leading American sociologists give practical prescriptions for a more perfect world based on solid social science research in the Jan. 2000 Contemporary Sociology.
The American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting August 21-25 in San Francisco will feature hundreds of presentations on topics including immigration, affirmative action, families and children, health care, violence, and criminology.
A science writers workshop on "Families, Youth, and Children's Well Being," will take place on Monday, June 30, from 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., in the National Press Club Washington, D.C. The American Sociological Association (ASA) and the National Institutes of Health's Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) are sponsoring the event.
92nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Toronto, August 9 - 13, 1997
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