Awards announcements

Two award announcements for the EMCA book award and lifetime achievement award.

The EMCA book award committee has completed its work - the next EMCA book award will go to Ken Liberman for his book ‘More Studies of Ethnomethodology,’ (SUNY Press).

And the lifetime achievement award goes to Jeff Coulter. 

some excerpts from letters of recommendation

(1)Coulter’s scholarly efforts are broad and interdisciplinary in nature,  applying “ethnomethodological and conversation analytic insights to a wide variety of mental and epistemic phenomena relevant to” a number of areas in sociology, psychology and cognitive science.  His publication record is substantial, including four influential books.

(2) Coulter is characterized as very knowledgeable, generous with his time and attention, with a strong commitment to teaching. With his colleagues

Psathas and Lynch he has trained a number of PhD students, many of them in the EM/CA area. The training of students in is of special importance for the vitality of the field and for Boston University as a notable site of

ethnomethodological training.

(3) Coulter’s professional service is significant, including his time as Associate Editor of Human Studies, and on the editorial boards o of Theory and Psychology and The Human Context.

(4) “…Jeff Coulter has distinguished himself on many fronts as a very serious and very productive scholar for over forty years, during which time he has contributed tremendously to the production and dissemination of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic scholarship… [He] was a central figure in the development of ethnomethodological and conversation-

analytic scholarship around Manchester and Boston for forty years or more, in developments which had great relevance for the entire international community of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic scholars. Both directly and indirectly, alone and with others, Jeff Coulter has made tremendous contributions to our scholarly community and our record of scholarship and is highly deserving of a lifetime achievement award from our section.”

We congratulate both award winners and hope you can join us in Chicago this year when we present them with their awards.

Edward Reynolds/ Robert Dingwall/ Mardi Kidwell

CALL FOR ACTION

National Science Foundation (NSF) research funding for the social sciences is threatened with a 45% cut in a bill that will be debated on the House floor during the week of May 18.  I urge you to write to your member of Congress before that debate.

You can do this easily right now. Go to the COSSA Action Center to sign up and take actionby asking your representative to oppose the America COMPETES Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806).

On April 15, House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith introduced the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806), the authorization bill for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Like last year’s version of this legislation (the FIRST Act), this bill sets arbitrary funding levels for NSF’s research directorates and would impose a massive 45% cut on the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE)--effectively eliminating grant funding for sociology and the other social sciences.

COSSA’s full analysis of the bill can be found here.

I hope that social scientists will not sit on the sidelines while issues as vital as sustaining the major source of federal funding for basic social science research are being debated. Unfortunately, many public officials do not feel that basic social science research is a critical public good.  But it can make a difference when they hear from their constituents!  That’s why I urge you to contact your representatives. 

 

In addition, I suggest that you contact your university officials to ensure they are focusing on this threat to basic social science research and are letting members of Congress know the potential harm the Representatives are doing to U.S. universities.

With thanks for your support,

Paula England

President, American Sociological Association

 

 

Justin Anthony Lini MA

Program Coordinator, Governance and Information Systems

American Sociological Association

(202) 383-9005 x 330 - Lini@ASAnet.org

http://www.facebook.com/ASASections

EMCA ASA SESSIONS Now available

Dear All 
The EM/CA sessions at ASA are listed below, shorthand for the session titles.

Saturday
10:30 - 11:30 Section session: Ethnomethodological Studies of Work
11:30 - 12:10 Business Meeting and Awards
14:30 - 16:10 Section session: Current Developments in CA
16:30 - 18:10 Regular session: Ethnomethodology
18:30 - 20:30 Section Reception

Sunday
08:30 - 10:10 Regular session: CA in medicine
10:30 - 12:10 Teaching Workshop
14:30 - 16:10 Regular session: CA

Monday
16:30 - 18:10 Thematic session on Garfinkel's Agnes study

Full information is at http://www.asanet.org/AM2015/preliminary_program-2.cfm

Spring 2015 newsletter

The 2015 ASA Spring Newsletter is available now (via the link). With news on the lifetime achievement award call and a new mentoring program it should be of interest to all EMCA scholars.

The Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award for 2015

The Association for Humanist Sociology is pleased to announce The Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award for 2015. Authors, publishers, and AHS members may nominate books for consideration. The winner will be recognized at our annual meeting October 21-25, 2015 in Portland, OR. Nominations should be for Sociology or interdisciplinary social science books that approach their subjects from a humanist perspective.

Founded in 1976, the Association sees its mission to strive as professionals, as scholars and as activists to uncover and address social issues. We view people not merely as products of social forces, but also as agents in their lives and the world. We are committed to a sociology that contributes to a more humane, equal, and just society.

Eligible books should have been published in the calendar year 2014 or the first half of 2015. If a book was submitted for last year's consideration, it cannot be nominated again.

To nominate a book, authors/publishers/nominators should e-mail a letter of nomination with the subject line “Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award Nomination” to Daina Cheyenne Harvey at dharvey@holycross.edu. Authors/publishers should send one copy of the book to each of the award committee members listed below. The deadline for nominations is May 15, 2015. Additional information about AHS is available at www.humanist-sociology.org

The Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award Committee (2015)

Daina Cheyenne Harvey – Committee Chair

College of the Holy Cross

1 College St.

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Worcester, MA 01610

dharvey@holycross.edu

Jill Bystydzienski

519 Evergreen Circle

Worthington, OH 43085

bystydzienski.1@osu.edu

W. Carson Byrd
University of Louisville
Department of Pan-African Studies
Strickler Hall, Room 438
Louisville, KY 40292

wcarson.byrd@louisville.edu  

Sarah Ovink

1209 Brook Circle

Blacksburg, VA 24060

sovink@vt.edu  

Deadline Extended to April 10: EMCA Lifetime Achievement Award

Deadline Extended to April 10:  EMCA Lifetime Achievement Award

This award recognizes those who have made distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. To nominate an individual for this award, please submit the following:

 1) A letter detailing the nominee’s contributions to EMCA;

 2) Relevant supporting materials, including a list of the nominee’s publications; and

 3) At least two additional external letters speaking to the person’s contributions and impact on the field(s)

Please send nominations to Don Zimmerman (chair), dzimmerman@soc.ucsb.edu by April 10.

CFP SPQ methods and methodology

Call for Papers

Special Issue of Social Psychology Quarterly

“Methodological Advances and Applications in Social Psychology”

As social psychologists work to advance theory, they often are limited by their methodological toolbox. In response, researchers search for or develop new methodological approaches. Importantly, social psychologists have addressed this issue from both quantitative and qualitative orientations. Many theoretical questions also have motivated the growing use of mixed-methods. There has not been a “focused” outlet for these methodological developments within social psychology.

This special issue provides an outlet for showcasing new methodological approaches, share how methodologies commonly used in other disciplines can be adapted to social psychological investigations, and provide empirical examples of the application of new methods for social psychologists. The special issue will primarily include manuscripts that focus on the link between social psychological theory and methodological developments. As the focus is on methodological issues, the manuscripts would not include a lengthy theoretical development, but rather outline the theoretical issues at stake and why the methodological approach advances our empirical understanding of the theory. The special issue will also provide an outlet for research notes that demonstrate the use of a methodological technique to address a social psychological research question and would be shorter.

The special issue calls for papers that advance our understanding and application of quantitative applications and formulations, qualitative strategies and developments, and the use of mixed approaches to address theoretically driven social psychological questions in new ways. We envision papers that:

·         Demonstrate the application of a method to a theoretical question in social psychology. The relationship between theory and method could focus on how the method advances our theoretical understanding, or how the theoretical question has pushed the methodological advancement.

·         New methodological approaches in social psychology.

·         Application of a method from another field to address a social psychological issue.

·         Advancement and refinements in methodological applications currently used in social psychology.

Examples of topics might include:

·         Use of media, including visual, electronic and social media to measure social phenomena

·         Reflexive narratives, advances in conversation analysis, grounded theory, ethnography, or discourse analysis

·         Network applications

·         Experimental advancements and extensions, including field experiments and online experiments

·         Online survey techniques

·         Neuroscience applications

·         Methodological problems/issues/debates as they relate to social psychological theory and empirical data, including their limitations

·         New statistical approaches, e.g. Bayesian models, Response Surface Analysis, etc.

·         Digital science applications

·         Big data

The deadline for submitting papers is December 15, 2015. The usual ASA requirements for submission apply (see “Notice for Contributors”). Papers may be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spq.  Please indicate in a cover letter that you would like your submission to be considered for the special issue. Prospective authors should feel free to communicate with the coeditors (rserpe@kent.edu or jan.stets@ucr.edu) or special issue qualitative and quantitative editors Kathy Charmaz (charmaz@sonoma.edu) and Jane Sell (j-sell@tamu.edu) about the appropriateness of their papers.