Fall 2005-06

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Message from the Chair
Family Section Award Winners
Family Section Awards Nominations, 2005
Montreal in 2006: Tips and Information
ASA Family Section Program Updates
Renaming Distinguished Scholarship to honor DuBois
KIDS COUNT 2005 data book released
Call for Papers: International Journal of Sociology of the Family
 
 
 
ICCD 2006: Call for papers
Sociological Practice Section
Funding Opportunities, William T. Grant Foundation
Section program for 2006
University of Hawaii Conference on Multiethnic Families
CFP: Child Poverty in America
 

 

Members enjoying the Family Section awards reception in Philadelphia.

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ASA Family Section Program
Convention Home | Call for Papers | Deadline for submission: January 18, 2006
 

By now, you have all received the Call for Papers for the 2006 annual conference. Please consider polishing those papers for submission to the Family division sessions or roundtables. The 2006 conference will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on August 11-14, 2006. Family Section day is currently scheduled for August 11.

NOTE: This year the entire submissions process is entirely online. Papers must be submitted through the online site at the ASA webpage at:  http://www.asanet.org. Papers submitted directly to session Organizers (by mail, fax, or other forms of transmission) outside of the online system are not considered viable submissions.


Session 1. Social Class, Ethnicity, and Family Life

Organizer: Annette Lareau, University of Maryland and Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsylvania

Annette Lareau
Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences
75 Alta Road
Stanford, CA 94305
email: alareau@socy.umd.edu
phone: 650 321 2052

Kathryn Edin
3718 Locust Walk
University of Pennsylvania, Sociology Department
Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6299
Telephone: 215-898-7800
Fax: 215-573-2081
phone: (home) 215-844-0579
Email: kedin@sas.upenn.edu
Fax is same as home; call first


Session 2. Cross National and Historical Perspectives on Family

Organizer: William G. Axinn, University of Michigan

William G. Axinn
Institute for Social Research
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48106-1248
FAX: 734-615-3557
Phone: 734-763-1500
Email:baxinn@umich.edu


Session 3. New Perspectives on Family Variation and Change 
(invited papers only, not an open submission session)

Organizers: Tom DiPrete, Columbia University and Phil Morgan, Duke University

Thomas A. DiPrete
Columbia University
Dept. of Sociology
415 Fayerweather Hall
Mail Code 2551
1180 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 854-5826
Secretary: (212) 854-3686
Fax: (212) 854-2963
email: tad61@columbia.edu

S. Philip Morgan
Sociology Department, Duke University
268 Soc-Psych Bldg.
Durham, NC 27708-0088
Phone: 919-660-5747
FAX:  919-660-5623
email: pmorgan@soc.duke.edu


Session 4. Work-Family and Work-Life Issues within Organizational, Institutional, or Cultural Contexts 
(co-sponsored with OOW, comes out of Family Section allotment)

Organizers: Mary Blair-Loy, UC-San Diego and Judith Hennessy, Central Washington Univ.

Mary Blair-Loy
Department of Sociology
475 Social Sciences Building
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr. - 0533
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
email: blair-loy@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-822-2109
Fax: 858-534-4753

Judith A. Hennessy
Department of Sociology
Central Washington University
Farrell Hall 409
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7545
Phone:(509) 963-1305
Fax:(509) 963-1308
email: jahennessy@verizon.net


Session 5. Marriage and Family Formation among Disadvantaged Populations
(co-sponsored with the Population section, comes out of Pop Section allotment)

Organizer: Marcia Carlson, Columbia University

Marcia J. Carlson
School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Ave
Columbia University
New York, NY  10027
phone: 212-851-2225
e-mail: mjc2001@columbia.edu


Session 6. One-hour Roundtables
(first hour of business/council meeting time)

Organizer: Jeni Loftus, Purdue University

Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Purdue University
700 W. State St.
West Lafayette, IN 47906
phone: (765)  496-7584
email:jml@purdue.edu

 

Family Forum is the official newsletter of the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of the Family
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