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This booklet is designed to help undergraduates understand the skills that today’s employers are seeking, and the ways a sociology major helps build those skills. The 2nd Edition includes photos and profiles of more than a dozen individuals with a BA in sociology – including a marketing consultant, a high school teacher, a probation officer, a research associate, a public health consultant, and a college president. Each profiled individual describes their professional position, how they use sociology in their daily work, and their advice to current students in sociology classes. Action Boxes, excerpts from actual entry-level job postings, and tips on searching for a job on the internet are also featured. The overarching theme is that students must take an active role in composing their own 21st century career. 42 pages, 2014.

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This booklet is designed to help undergraduates understand the skills that today’s employers are seeking, and the ways a sociology major helps build those skills. The 2nd Edition includes photos and profiles of more than a dozen individuals with a BA in sociology – including a marketing consultant, a high school teacher, a probation officer, a research associate, a public health consultant, and a college president. Each profiled individual describes their professional position, how they use sociology in their daily work, and their advice to current students in sociology classes. Action Boxes, excerpts from actual entry-level job postings, and tips on searching for a job on the internet are also featured. The overarching theme is that students must take an active role in composing their own 21st century career. 42 pages, 2014.

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This booklet is designed to help undergraduates understand the skills that today’s employers are seeking, and the ways a sociology major helps build those skills. The 2nd Edition includes photos and profiles of more than a dozen individuals with a BA in sociology – including a marketing consultant, a high school teacher, a probation officer, a research associate, a public health consultant, and a college president. Each profiled individual describes their professional position, how they use sociology in their daily work, and their advice to current students in sociology classes. Action Boxes, excerpts from actual entry-level job postings, and tips on searching for a job on the internet are also featured. The overarching theme is that students must take an active role in composing their own 21st century career. 42 pages, 2014.

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This booklet is designed to help undergraduates understand the skills that today’s employers are seeking, and the ways a sociology major helps build those skills. The 2nd Edition includes photos and profiles of more than a dozen individuals with a BA in sociology – including a marketing consultant, a high school teacher, a probation officer, a research associate, a public health consultant, and a college president. Each profiled individual describes their professional position, how they use sociology in their daily work, and their advice to current students in sociology classes. Action Boxes, excerpts from actual entry-level job postings, and tips on searching for a job on the internet are also featured. The overarching theme is that students must take an active role in composing their own 21st century career. 42 pages, 2014.

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Edited by Daniel G. Renfrow, this volume outlines the “how to” of teaching portfolio construction for individuals at all career stages. It also discusses the benefits of teaching portfolios for individuals, departments, and the discipline as a whole. Rounded out with seven examples of professors’ statements of their teaching philosophy, and six actual teaching portfolios, the book provides useful insights for academics seeking to document their teaching credentials. E-book, 233 pages. 2009.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

A special electronic collection of articles from the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 issues of Contexts on the topic of aging. Featuring Vincent J. Roscigno, Phyllis Moen, Eric Utne, Deborah Carr, Stacy Torres and the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society.

28 pages, March 2010.

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Contexts
Winter 2021 Vol. 20 No. 1

New Ethnographies of the Global South
Features include: "Decolonization and Fanon," "Arab Spring,"Nightly Global Work," and "Cria Pride"

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Contexts
Fall 2020 Vol. 19 No. 4

Pandemics
Features include "Public Health," Science in Action," "Geography of Illness," and "Free Speech."

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Contexts
Summer 2019 Vol. 18 No. 3

Freedom? Features Include "Freedom and the Iranian Women's Movement," "Legally a Lady," "Stability and Change in Americans' Perceptions of Freedom," "Detention, Disappearance, and the Politics of Family," and "Freedom and Frustration: Rachel Dolezal and the Meaning of Race."

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Contexts
Spring 2019 Vol. 18 No. 2

Migration. Features Include "The Economics of Migration," "What Happens When the United States Stops Taking in Refugees?," "Trouble in Tech Paradise," "Life After Deportation," "Examining Americans' Stereotypes about Immigrant Illegality," and "Raising Global Children across the Pacific."

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Contexts
Winter 2019 Vol. 18 No. 1

Wealth Inequality. Features Include "Disrupting the Racial Wealth Gap," "Basic Income and the Pitfalls of Randomization," "Black Debt, White Debt," ""Keeping Us in Our Place": Low-income Moms Barred from College Success," "Accuracy in Ethnography: Narratives, Documents, and Circumstances," and "Empiricism and Its Fallacies."

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Contexts
Fall 2018 Vol. 17 No. 4

Asian America/ns. Featured articles include "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on TV," "Asian Americans in Small-Town America," "Chinese American "Satellite Babies," Raised Between Two Cultures," "Being a Transnational Korean Adoptee Becoming Asian American," "A Haunted Generation Remembers," "Insurgent Political Networks and Electoral Mobilization," and "Asian American Men in Romantic Dating Markets."

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Contexts
Summer 2016 Vol. 15 No. 3

In this multifaceted issue, we bring you a conversation between The Nation’s sports editor Dave Zirin and sociologist Ben Carrington and six Viewpoints on diversity in sport. Felicia Song tells us about the burgeoning and bourgeois-ifying business of mommy bloggers, and Jooyoung Lee dances his way into ethnographic understanding in Compton, CA. And we have three pieces on the entertainment world: Philip Kasinitz and Cory Albertson give us sociological reviews of the stage play “Hamilton” and the new Wonder Woman, while Rachel King tells us about why more diversity in the Oscars won’t solve Hollywood’s Whiteness problem.

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Contexts
Fall 2015 Vol. 14 No. 4

The social and political entanglements of science, from climate change and medical marijuana to the origins of modern American sociology.

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Contexts
Summer 2015 Vol. 14 No. 3

Sociology is all about putting people—their identities and their interactions—in social contexts. And those contexts are nested in the inescapable intersections of time and space.

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Contexts
Spring 2015 Vol. 14 No. 2

Examining boundaries and unstable states, from the liminal lives of the undiagnosed to those of Palestinians living in Israeli settlements, this issue considers lines drawn on maps and within hearts.

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Contexts
Winter 2015 Vol. 14 No. 1

Editors Syed Ali and Philip Cohen start their tenure with a bang, including articles on carrying (and concealing) weapons, on the lessons of Ferguson, and what uprisings in France can teach us about protests in the U.S. Also: lesbian geographies, Piketty in perspective, recollections of genocide, and “velvet rope racism” at urban nightclubs.

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Edited by Richard Salem. Ten chapters review research and thought on:

• Liberal Learning and Internships in Sociology
• Developing and Gaining Acceptance on Campus for an Internship Program
• Finding and Developing Applied Research Internships in Communities
• Student Performance and Learning in the Context of the Placement Organization
• Monitoring and Evaluating Student Interns
• Developing & Teaching a Prerequisite Course to Prepare Students for the Internship and Job Market
• Graduate Internships in Applied Sociology: Program Development and Management, Issues and Problems
• A Review of Alternatives in Administration of Internship Programs
• New Directions for Internship Programs: Some Ideas and Suggestions    184 pages, 2005.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

The American Sociological Association’s (ASA) National Standards for High School Sociology provide guidance to teachers and administrators seeking to develop high quality, developmentally appropriate one-semester introductory sociology courses for students in the 9th-12th grades.

A free PDF of this publication is available here.

20 pages,  2015.

Edited by Marilyn C. Krogh. This publication contains 11 syllabi from Graduate Courses including courses based on: "The Social Worlds of Higher Education", courses concurrent with teaching or assisting, courses preceding teaching, an interdisciplinary course for beginning and experienced instructors, courses in a PFF Program, and 14 essays, exercises, and resources. 184 pp., 2006. 

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

Reviewing department curriculum? Thinking about how to improve employment outcomes for majors? Looking for advice about the department’s online offerings?

The Sociology Major in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education: Curriculum, Careers, and Online Learning outlines recommended practices for sustaining comprehensive, high-quality sociology programs for undergraduates.  These recommendations were developed over a two year period by the members of the ASA Task Force on Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major.  

Available as a free download here. 

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A best seller for many years, this invaluable reference has been published by the ASA since 1965 and provides comprehensive information for academic administrators, advisers, faculty, students, and a host of others seeking information on social science departments in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.

The 2022 edition includes listings for 145 graduate departments of sociology. In addition to name and rank, faculty are identified by highest degree held, institution and date of degree, and areas of specialty interest. Special programs, tuition costs, types of financial aid, and student enrollment statistics are given for each department, along with a listing of recent PhDs with dissertation titles. Indexes of faculty, specialty programs, and PhDs awarded are provided. Departments were asked to provide the racial and ethnic composition of faculty and graduate students. This information is included in each listing.

332 pages; March 2023.

Print version is available for purchase here.

PDF e-book version. For personal use only. Do not copy, forward or otherwise transmit it.

The 2023 edition of the Guide to Graduate Departments is now available here.

A best seller for many years, this invaluable reference has been published by the ASA since 1965 and provides comprehensive information for academic administrators, advisers, faculty, students, and a host of others seeking information on social science departments in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.

The 2022 edition includes listings for 169 graduate departments of sociology. In addition to name and rank, faculty are identified by highest degree held, institution and date of degree, and areas of specialty interest. Special programs, tuition costs, types of financial aid, and student enrollment statistics are given for each department, along with a listing of recent PhDs with dissertation titles. Indexes of faculty, specialty programs, and PhDs awarded are provided. Departments were asked to provide the racial and ethnic composition of faculty and graduate students. This information is included in each listing.

383 pages; April 2022.

Print version is available for purchase here.

A special electronic collection of articles from the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 issues of Contexts on the topic of aging. Featuring Vincent J. Roscigno, Phyllis Moen, Eric Utne, Deborah Carr, Stacy Torres and the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society.

28 pages, March 2010.

This item is available for free to ASA members. Log in to the member portal for access.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

New E-book Format!

This booklet is designed to help undergraduates understand the skills that today’s employers are seeking, and the ways a sociology major helps build those skills. The 2nd Edition includes photos and profiles of more than a dozen individuals with a BA in sociology – including a marketing consultant, a high school teacher, a probation officer, a research associate, a public health consultant, and a college president. Each profiled individual describes their professional position, how they use sociology in their daily work, and their advice to current students in sociology classes. Action Boxes, excerpts from actual entry-level job postings, and tips on searching for a job on the internet are also featured. The overarching theme is that students must take an active role in composing their own 21st century career. 42 pages, 2014.

This e-book is licensed for a single user and may not be shared. We ask each reader to purchase their own copy of the e-book. Click here to purchase a multi-user e-book license.

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E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

New E-book Format!

This booklet is designed to help undergraduates understand the skills that today’s employers are seeking, and the ways a sociology major helps build those skills. The 2nd Edition includes photos and profiles of more than a dozen individuals with a BA in sociology – including a marketing consultant, a high school teacher, a probation officer, a research associate, a public health consultant, and a college president. Each profiled individual describes their professional position, how they use sociology in their daily work, and their advice to current students in sociology classes. Action Boxes, excerpts from actual entry-level job postings, and tips on searching for a job on the internet are also featured. The overarching theme is that students must take an active role in composing their own 21st century career. 42 pages, 2014.

This e-book is licensed for the number of copies ordered and may not be shared beyond that number. Click here to purchase a single-user e-book license.

Purchase single print copies here.
Purchase bulk print copies here.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

Edited by Richard Salem. Ten chapters review research and thought on:

• Liberal Learning and Internships in Sociology
• Developing and Gaining Acceptance on Campus for an Internship Program
• Finding and Developing Applied Research Internships in Communities
• Student Performance and Learning in the Context of the Placement Organization
• Monitoring and Evaluating Student Interns
• Developing & Teaching a Prerequisite Course to Prepare Students for the Internship and Job Market
• Graduate Internships in Applied Sociology: Program Development and Management, Issues and Problems
• A Review of Alternatives in Administration of Internship Programs
• New Directions for Internship Programs: Some Ideas and Suggestions    184 pages, 2005.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

Edited by Marilyn C. Krogh. This publication contains 11 syllabi from Graduate Courses including courses based on: "The Social Worlds of Higher Education", courses concurrent with teaching or assisting, courses preceding teaching, an interdisciplinary course for beginning and experienced instructors, courses in a PFF Program, and 14 essays, exercises, and resources. 184 pp., 2006. 

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

Edited by Bernadette E. Dietz and Lynn Harper Ritchey. This publication contains sections on foundational ideas for undergraduate learning, active learning strategies, collaborative learning, and the use of instructional technologies. From teaching with case studies to incorporating service learning in sociology courses, this resource provides an introduction to cutting-edge techniques for engaging undergraduate sociology students. 220 pages, 2008.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

Edited by Daniel G. Renfrow, this volume outlines the “how to” of teaching portfolio construction for individuals at all career stages. It also discusses the benefits of teaching portfolios for individuals, departments, and the discipline as a whole. Rounded out with seven examples of professors’ statements of their teaching philosophy, and six actual teaching portfolios, the book provides useful insights for academics seeking to document their teaching credentials. E-book, 233 pages. 2009.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

A special electronic collection of articles from the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 issues of Contexts on the topic of aging. Featuring Vincent J. Roscigno, Phyllis Moen, Eric Utne, Deborah Carr, Stacy Torres and the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society.

28 pages, March 2010.

This item is available for free to ASA members. Log in to the member portal for access.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

February 2000. Vol. 65, Number 1. (Reprint)

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January 2000. Vol. 29, Number 1. (Reprint)

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Extra Issue. 1995.

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Extra Issue: 2004

Guest editors, Donald W. Light and Ivy Bourgeault. Funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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This Special Issue emphasizes the impact of social factors and disparities on health and health care in the United States

Guest editors: Janet R. Hankin and Eric R. Wright

Prominent in the health reform debate that swirled for much of 2009 and early 2010 was an acknowledgment of the unequal distribution of health care access among Americans and the evidence that these disparities cost billions of dollars in medical care and lost productivity.

This acknowledgement follows a half-century of contributions by social and behavioral scientists to the study of health and health care in this country, which is the focus of a new, supplemental issue of the American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

As policymakers, public health professionals, and members of the public seek to identify strategies to improve the health of all Americans, they must focus on addressing health where it starts in our homes, schools, jobs, and communities. Articles in this special issue, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, highlight the persistent inequalities in health and health care in the United States by social status (i.e., education, income, and occupation) as well as by race and ethnicity, and demonstrate how these disparities influence how Americans use the health care system.

From a range of vantage points, the authors illustrate the impact of sociological factors on health and health care and reinforce how much remains to be done to eliminate inequalities, improve access, and contain costs.

160 pages; October 2010.

The full issue is also available online here.

Vol. 74, Extra Issue (2001)

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Vol. 69, Extra Issue (1996)

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Vol 21, No 3 (1993)

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Vol. 19, No. 2 (April 1991)

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Vol. 16, No. 4 (October 1988).

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100% Cotton canvas tote bag with ASA logo embroidered on one side. The bag is 20" wide and 12.5" deep. The 5” flat bottom and 29” straps (13.5” drop) make this bag ideal for carrying books, groceries, or dissertation materials. A snap closure makes this tote perfect as a travel carry-on. Look stylish and professional while you attend the ASA Annual Meeting.

With grace, humor, and life-affirming reflections, we are given a glimpse into a remarkable woman’s life. Carla Beth Howery received an initial breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 44, and seven years later, learned her cancer metastasized. These are her personal observations and musings sent via email to family and friends--a chronicle spanning eight years of living with cancer according to her own terms. Carla refused to be defined by her disease: she was not a hero, she was not a victim. She was a woman who loved her life. Cancer was an obstacle; in Carla’s words "a growth, not a growth experience." As she faced her disease, she shared her thoughts, witty comments, and hilarious stories that leave devoted readers laughing through their tears. When the reader's laughter fades, we are left with a deeper understanding of the cancer experience and the oft-ignored sensitivities of those afflicted.

50% of all sales will be donated to the ASA Teaching Enhancement Fund in Carla's memory. Read Carla's obituary from ASA Footnotes.

High quality, reinforced canvas carryall (made by Leeds), embroidered with ASA's updated two-color logo. This bag features a business card holder, side pockets for cell phone or water bottle, sturdy shoulder strap, and zippered compartments. Water bottle not included.

Show pride for your degree with our decals! Our 4” x 6” vinyl PHD decals are the perfect gift for graduates and colleagues. They can be displayed anywhere to show your accomplishment. The decals are removable and stick to most surfaces.

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Protect yourself from unexpected storms by keeping this folding travel umbrella handy at all times. This manual umbrella has a 37” arc and folds to 6”. The umbrella is blue with a soft black case imprinted with the ASA logo in white.

A best seller for many years, this invaluable reference has been published by the ASA since 1965 and provides comprehensive information for academic administrators, advisers, faculty, students, and a host of others seeking information on social science departments in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.

The 2023 edition includes listings for graduate departments of sociology. In addition to name and rank, faculty are identified by highest degree held, institution and date of degree, and areas of specialty interest. Special programs, tuition costs, types of financial aid, and student enrollment statistics are given for each department, along with a listing of recent PhDs with dissertation titles. Indexes of faculty, specialty programs, and PhDs awarded are provided. 

Departments were asked to provide the racial and ethnic composition of faculty and graduate students. This information is included in each listing.

332 pages; March 2023.

Due to recent changes in postal regulations outside the U.S., we are unable to ship printed copies of the Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology outside of the U.S. An e-book is available for purchase here.

PDF e-book version. For personal use only. Do not copy, forward or otherwise transmit it.

A best seller for many years, this invaluable reference has been published by the ASA since 1965 and provides comprehensive information for academic administrators, advisers, faculty, students, and a host of others seeking information on social science departments in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.

The 2022 edition includes listings for 145 graduate departments of sociology. In addition to name and rank, faculty are identified by highest degree held, institution and date of degree, and areas of specialty interest. Special programs, tuition costs, types of financial aid, and student enrollment statistics are given for each department, along with a listing of recent PhDs with dissertation titles. Indexes of faculty, specialty programs, and PhDs awarded are provided. Departments were asked to provide the racial and ethnic composition of faculty and graduate students. This information is included in each listing.

332 pages; March 2023.

Print version is available for purchase here.

The 2023 edition of the Guide to Graduate Departments is now available here.

A best seller for many years, this invaluable reference has been published by the ASA since 1965 and provides comprehensive information for academic administrators, advisers, faculty, students, and a host of others seeking information on social science departments in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.

The 2022 edition includes listings for 169 graduate departments of sociology. In addition to name and rank, faculty are identified by highest degree held, institution and date of degree, and areas of specialty interest. Special programs, tuition costs, types of financial aid, and student enrollment statistics are given for each department, along with a listing of recent PhDs with dissertation titles. Indexes of faculty, specialty programs, and PhDs awarded are provided. 

Departments were asked to provide the racial and ethnic composition of faculty and graduate students. This information is included in each listing.

383 pages; April 2022.

Due to recent changes in postal regulations outside the U.S., we are unable to ship printed copies of the Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology outside of the U.S. An e-book is available for purchase here.

PDF e-book version. For personal use only. Do not copy, forward or otherwise transmit it.

The 2023 edition of the Guide to Graduate Departments is now available here.

A best seller for many years, this invaluable reference has been published by the ASA since 1965 and provides comprehensive information for academic administrators, advisers, faculty, students, and a host of others seeking information on social science departments in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.

The 2022 edition includes listings for 169 graduate departments of sociology. In addition to name and rank, faculty are identified by highest degree held, institution and date of degree, and areas of specialty interest. Special programs, tuition costs, types of financial aid, and student enrollment statistics are given for each department, along with a listing of recent PhDs with dissertation titles. Indexes of faculty, specialty programs, and PhDs awarded are provided. Departments were asked to provide the racial and ethnic composition of faculty and graduate students. This information is included in each listing.

383 pages; April 2022.

Print version is available for purchase here.

The 2022 edition of the ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology is now available. 

Get your copy of the 2021 edition of the ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology today! A best seller for many years, this invaluable reference has been published by the ASA since 1965 and provides comprehensive information for academic administrators, advisers, faculty, students, and a host of others seeking information on social science departments in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.

The 2021 edition includes listings for 166 graduate departments of sociology. In addition to name and rank, faculty are identified by highest degree held, institution and date of degree, and areas of specialty interest. Special programs, tuition costs, types of financial aid, and student enrollment statistics are given for each department, along with a listing of recent PhDs with dissertation titles. Indexes of faculty, specialty programs, and PhDs awarded are provided.

New this year, departments were asked to provide the racial and ethnic composition of faculty and graduate students. This information is included in each listing.

368 pages; April 2021.

Due to recent changes in delivery costs, we are unable to ship the Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology outside the US and Canada. A fee of $25.00 will be added to each Guide shipped to Canada.

Previous versions of the ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology are available in very limited quantities. Please contact publications@asanet.org for more information.

New!

The seventh edition of the ASA Style Guide features guidelines for the most common situations encountered by authors and editors in the ASA journal publication process. It is designed to serve as the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for journals and other materials using or requiring ASA style.

While the structure of this edition is consistent with past editions, some changes have been made to the content. All links and reference sources have been updated or veried for accuracy. This edition also updates ASA policy on the use of the singular "they" as a generic pronoun, and includes new preferred terminology and capitalization for race/ethnicity.

Coil binding. 163 pages, June 2022.

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Findings from the ASA Task Force on Social Media

Hesitant to use social media professionally? Read about engaged public sociologists, best practices and practical advice for using social media, and dealing with public attacks.

Order your printed copy here in the ASA online store or download for free here.

115 pages; 2016.

Patricia White, PhD; Roberta Spalter-Roth, PhD; Amy Best, PhD; and Kelly Joyce, PhD

This volume features the findings of participants in the workshop "A Relational Model for Understanding the Use of Research in the Policy Process," sponsored by the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). These texts offer an in-depth consideration of efforts to bring social science research into the policy process and to provide guidance for the strategies and relational process that can lead to success.

The two-day workshop convened a group of social and behavioral scientists involved with public policy-making, representing the academy, government agencies, and non-profit research organizations to focus on conditions that enable and constrain the use of social science research, the types of usage of social science research, the networks that aid in the policy use, and the dissemination strategies that are necessary. Rather than focusing on policy outcomes or impacts, workshop participants were asked to consider the relationships, strategies, activities, networks, and processes that encouraged the use of research for policy-making.

144 pages; 2016

This collection of essays summarizes existing approaches to understanding the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of climate change. From the factors that drive carbon emissions to those which influence societal responses to climate change, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of the social dimensions of climate change. An improved understanding of the complex relationship between climate change and society is essential for modifying ecologically harmful human behaviors and institutional practices, creating just and effective environmental policies, and developing a more sustainable future. Climate Change and Society provides a useful tool in efforts to integrate social science research, natural science research, and policy making regarding climate change and sustainability.

Produced by the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change, this book presents a challenging shift from the standard climate change discourse, and offers a valuable resource for students, scholars, and professionals involved in climate change research and policy.

This product is available to ASA members only. Non-members may purchase a copy from Oxford University Press.

On June 15-16, 2009, the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) convened a workshop on the science of morality. The two-day workshop was funded by an NSF grant to Dr. Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa, who co-chaired the workshop with Dr. Jan E. Stets, NSF Sociology Program Director. The workshop participants recommended ways to enhance and broaden the sociological study of morality, and to catalyze interdisciplinary examinations of this core human concern.

Justice, debates over right and wrong actions, values, propriety, and deviance are concepts at the core of organized social life, and social scientists study these phenomena from multiple perspectives. Workshop participants' findings represent a range of disciplines including religion, law, psychology, anthropology, economics, and sociology; this texts offers both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological perspectives to survey the topics under discussion.

Climate change is one the defining issues of the 21st century. Sociologists have much to contribute to the global effort to understand the social dimensions of this phenomenon and to design strategies that can mitigate its effects. This report, produced by the ASA and edited by Joane Nagel, Thomas Deitz, and Jeffrey Broadbent, is based upon papers and deliberations at a two-day workshop conducted under the auspices of the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation.

The volume contains four sections: (1) Sociological Analysis of the Causes of Global Climate Change; (2) Sociological Perspectives on the Impacts of Global Climate Change; (3) Sociological Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; and (4) Recommendations for Advancing Sociological Research on Global Climate Change. The text is particularly useful for courses designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

153 pp, with full-color pictures and graphics; the cost of the report is limited to postage and handling fees, significantly less than the cost of production.

This monograph by Rita J. Simon investigates communities of Israeli Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews who have remained outside the mainstream of Israeli society, although both groups have centuries-long roots in Israel. Simon's two surveys, conducted among members of each of these communities, assesses whether the adolescent children of parents in these groups have internalized the dominant values and themes of their cultures and lifestyles. The key question for both groups remains: What is the likelihood for intergenerational change and for more extensive contacts with the larger society on the part of the younger Israeli-born generation?

180 pp, 1978; paper.

This volume by Paul Ritterband is devoted to a discussion and analysis of contemporary student migration, with particular reference to Israelis in the United States in the 1960s. Ritterband explores what happens to students from Israel who travel to the United States to study and the author tracks whether, after completing their schooling, the students remain in the United States and work as immigrants, or if they return, while contemplating the potential personal and professional costs of each outcome.

144 pp, 1978; cloth.

This study by Charles Hirschman describes and explains the socioeconomic inequalities among the ethnic communities of Peninsular Malaysia, which contain significant socioeconomic and cultural differences even as they manifest striking similarities. Hirschman considers problems stemming from poverty and economic hardship as the overriding concern of the majority of Malaysians of all communities. 115 pp, 1975

This monograph by Herman Turk begins with systems theory to conceptualize interorganizational relationships. Turk inquires whether, and how much, any contiguous set of social actors constitutes a system, analyzing to what degree the actors appear linked to one another and how interrelated are the variables that describe their states in the aggregate.

Interorganizational Activation poses that organizations in urban communities can become linked and activated through either forced or voluntary interaction, with a focus on the issue of poverty programs. Turk proposes that, in modern urban life, an empirical association exists between the availability of linkage among an aggregate of organizations, and effects the demand for their collective effort and subsequent interorganizational supply.  67 pp, 1973

This study, by J. Milton Yinger, Kiyoshi Ikeda, Frank Laycock, and Stephen J. Cutler, asks if an imaginative program to help educate and stimulate thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds could eliminate or reduce educational deficits resulting from economic deprivation and the community. 

Interested in both the structure of opportunity and the processes of socialization, the authors designed a field experiment in which they recognize the need for varied forms of intervention and for controlled observation, and analyzed its impact over a seven-year period. 134 pp, 1977; cloth

This study, by J. Milton Yinger, Kiyoshi Ikeda, Frank Laycock, and Stephen J. Cutler, asks if an imaginative program to help educate and stimulate thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds could eliminate or reduce educational deficits resulting from economic deprivation and the community. 

Interested in both the structure of opportunity and the processes of socialization, the authors designed a field experiment in which they recognize the need for varied forms of intervention and for controlled observation, and analyzed its impact over a seven-year period. 134 pp, 1977; paper

This theoretical treatise by Stephen P. Turner identifies certain philosophical and methodological problems popularized by Peter Winch. Turner then draws a connection between the claims of theoretical sociology that already exist, and deals with them not by characterizing them as yet unfulfilled theoretical forms, but by showing that sociological explanatory discourse has an intelligible character, a "rationality," distinct from the rationality of philosophical "theory" that other sociologists take as a model.

110 pp. 1980 paper

Edited by Bernadette E. Dietz and Lynn Harper Ritchey. This publication contains sections on foundational ideas for undergraduate learning, active learning strategies, collaborative learning, and the use of instructional technologies. From teaching with case studies to incorporating service learning in sociology courses, this resource provides an introduction to cutting-edge techniques for engaging undergraduate sociology students. 220 pages, 2008.

E-Book edition. Only available in the online bookstore. (No phone or mail orders accepted.) Purchasers will receive access immediately in their ASA Member Portal. The item will be available for download and/or print for 30 days. Access information will be provided on your receipt.

TRAILS is an online, peer-reviewed library of teaching resources, including syllabi, class activities, assignments, lectures, with new resources added regularly. Subscription to TRAILS provides access to the entire library for one year. We offer a 50% discount on TRAILS subscription for non-members who work or study in an ASA Department Affiliate; contact your department to find out if they are an affiliate.

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May 18th, 2023

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“Teaching with and Publishing in TRAILS”

TRAILS is ASA's online teaching resource library which spans hundreds of topics and hosts thousands of lectures, syllabi, assessments, and more. The ASA TRAILS team will discuss how to utilize TRAILS resources to improve your teaching efficacy and will discuss the benefits of publishing in TRAILS for evidence of teaching and strengthening your sociological pedagogy.  

June 15th, 2023

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“Designing an Inclusive Syllabus”

Syllabi are a tool that instructors can and should use to foster a safe and welcoming classroom that supports all students in their learning. This includes efforts to implement anti-racist and gender inclusive policies, procedures, expectations, resources, reading lists and more whenever possible. This proseminar is open to graduate students and early career scholars interested in tips on designing a an inclusive syllabus.   

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May 25th, 2023

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"The Intersectional Future of Qualitative Data Analysis”

Maricarmen Hernandez is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. She has a forthcoming article in Qualitative Sociology  entitled "How Do the Urban Poor Survive? A Comparative Ethnography of Subsistence Strategies in Argentina, Ecuador, and Mexico".
Venus Evans-Winters is a visiting professor of Education Policy and Qualitative Measurement at Ohio State University and a research scholar at AAPF. She is a co-author of Introduction to Intersectional Qualitative Research (2021) and author of Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter's Body (2019)
Jeongeun Rhee is a Professor of Education at Long Island University. She is the author of Decolonial Feminist Research: Haunting, Rememory, and Mothers (2020) and co-editor of Promiscuous Feminist Methodologies in Education: Engaging Research Beyond Gender (2014)

In this interdisciplinary panel, sociologists push our boundaries of how we conceptualize data analysis as we consider what we can integrate from methodologically aligned scholars.  This panel will delve into intersectional analysis as method with particular attention to black and decolonial feminisms. Free for members. Closed caption available.   

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Caroline Calogero, Brookdale Community College
Michel Estefan, University of California - San Diego
Jeffrey Guhin, Unviersity of California - Los Angeles
Aleksandra Przegalinska, Kozminski University

AI assisted writing burst onto the scene recently with the latest release of OpenAI's ChatGPT and we are all actively learning how it might be deployed in various contexts, including the classroom. What are some of the pedagogical difficulties this technology brings to the fore? And how might it enhance teaching and learning? Join this panel of sociologists for a discussion about this topic to collectively think through how best to harness and manage the power of AI in our teaching efforts. Free for members. Closed caption available.

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