Wednesday, April 20, 2016

CFP SPQ

Social Psychology Quarterly


 
 



An Official Journal of the American Sociological Association  
 
April 20, 2016



Dear Section Members,

We are writing because we have learned that a significant number of members in this section also are members of the social psychology section. In an effort to expand the breadth of the journal, we are reaching out to you to encourage you to consider submitting your work to SPQ. We would like to attract more contributions to the journal from a broad base of researchers who use social psychological approaches. SPQ is publishing full length (10,000 words) theoretical and empirical Articles and Research Notes (5,000 words).  We think that for many in this section, this would include your work.

We want you to know that we are committed to making editorial decisions in a timely manner. Over the past year and half, we have average 35 days from submission to first decision. 

We hope that you will send your scholarship to Social Psychology Quarterly. Please contact us if you have any questions about a manuscript or the journal, more generally.

Kind Regards,



Richard T. Serpe, Professor                                                                       Jan E. Stets, Professor    
Kent State University                                                                                  University of California, Riverside 

Friday, April 8, 2016

Mel Pollner Award Michael Deland


The awards committee and section committee would like to congratulate Michael Deland on the award of the prize for his essay "Basketball in the Key of Law: The Significance of Disputing in Pick-Up Basketball." 2013 Law & Society Review. 47(3): 653-85

The Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology honors the intellectual spirit and memory of Melvin Pollner.  The $1000 award recognizes an article, chapter, or book published between 2010-2014, that develops original work drawing upon, or resonant with, Melvin Pollner's ethnomethodological interests in topics such as mundane reason, reality disjunctures, radical reflexivity, and the connections and contributions of ethnomethodology to other types of sociology. The Award Committee citation reads: 


After carefully reading and sharing our views of the four nominated articles, the committee unanimously agreed that this year the Pollner Prize should go to Michael DeLand for his essay "Basketball in the Key of Law: The Significance of Disputing in Pick-Up Basketball." 2013 Law & Society Review. 47(3): 653-85. In this essay DeLand masterfully shows how disputing rule violations in pick up basketball serves to frame the game as a serious competition in which players hold a genuine stake. As he notes, disputes over rule violations in the context pick up basketball present a number of fascinating analytic opportunities for those interested in the rule of law as a mundane practical achievement-a topic Mel Pollner made famous through his ethnographic investigations in traffic courts. Drawing on Pollner's  concept of "reality disjunctures," DeLand highlights how competing versions of what happened in the game (and whether what happened constitutes a rule violation) are adjudicated in the absence of unequivocal legal authorities. The essay makes a compelling contribution to the Pollnerian legacy.