Clik here to view.
navigating graduate school as a (single) parent.
I’m a tremendously disorganized electronic file-keeper. While this has proven disastrous at times, it makes it fun when I stumble across gems as I’m searching for particular items. Today, while on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
what happens at the blog party…
Excited for the ASA in Las Vegas? Not so much? Perhaps planning the bloggerly get-together will get us in the mood. Let’s check the possible bars for a meet-up: a poolside lounge? too hot for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
tea party research and the public sphere
Warning at the outset: this is going to be a LONG post! Early last year, my friend Steven Tepper and I were talking about the Tea Party Movement (TPM) and how best to understand its rise and appeal. We...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ask a scatterbrain: too few papers for my asa session
A reader writes: I agreed to organize a Regular Session for Denver. Disappointingly, there are only three papers submitted, and one of those was transferred in from a Section. Is there a norm of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
become a groups groupie.
This year I’m co-organizing the 24th Annual Group Processes Conference – a mini-conference that takes place the day before the ASA meetings in Denver. I know there are lots of options for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
asa baseball is back
You might think that we have abandoned the scatterplot tradition of organizing a trip to a baseball game during the ASA, but no! The ASA’s move to Las Vegas foiled our plans last year, but we are back...
View ArticleClik here to view.
asa baseball 2nd chance
Did you miss your chance to order tickets for the ASA baseball game? Maybe you didn’t know about your trip schedule, or you didn’t want to take a chance on missing Just Desserts. Perhaps you were so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
the 2012 asa blog party: covered in awesomesauce
Please join us at the annual ASA blog party: Saturday, August 18, 2012 8-10pm Harry’s Bar in the lobby of the Magnolia hotel 818 17th street between Stout and Champa Streets (just 2.5 blocks from the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ASA Calendar with locations!
I got this link from Eszter Hargittai via FB. Directions for how to download schedule information WITH LOCATIONS from the ASA my schedule link into Outlook. It turns out this also works for Google...
View ArticleClik here to view.
from paper to article
Now that you’ve submitted your paper to the ASAs, how can you turn it into a publication? Two ideas. First, if it is nifty and about social movements, please consider submitting it a special issue of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
bloggerly beverage at asa nyc ftw
The ASA is catching up with the times. There is WiFi in all the meeting rooms. They are webcasting the plenaries. The organization even announced the twitter hashtag for the meetings (#asa13 – four...
View ArticleClik here to view.
feeling like a fraud? you’re not alone.
There’s nothing quite like having someone else write about my research in a public forum to rouse my generally dormant sense of impostorism. So, why not use that publicity–about fraudulence, no less–to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
junior theorists’ symposium
The Junior Theorists’ Symposium has been a really successful, exciting place to be for a good number of years now. Tell everyone you know to submit and attend! CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 2014 Junior Theorists...
View ArticleClik here to view.
check out rodney benson’s challenge to ‘new descriptivism’
In case you missed it, Rodney Benson has an excellent piece here, delivered as a response on a panel at the Qualitative Political Communication preconference. It’s well worth the read, in part because...
View ArticleClik here to view.
download ASA schedule to calendar?
The room assignments have just appeared in the ASA’s calendar and show up in your personal schedule now. However, I don’t see any option as there were in past years to download this as a calendar file...
View ArticleClik here to view.
junior theorists symposium 2014
The final schedule for the 2014 Junior Theorists Symposium has just been released. If you’re going to be in the Bay Area the day before ASA (Friday, August 15), and have not already committed to one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
your chance to sound off about asa tech
Some of us have had our share of fun ribbing the ASA for being slightly behind the times in its approach to technology and social media. We have whined about wifi. We have had a laugh or two about The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
productivity, sexism, or a less sexy explanation.
I apparently attended the same session at the ASA conference as Scott Jaschik yesterday, one on Gender and Work in the Academy. He must have been the guy with press badge who couldn’t wait to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
asa council decides on gender categories
Remember how the ASA was trying to decide how to expand its gender categories? Since then, the ASA Committee on the Status of LGBT Persons in Sociology has been holding conversations, doing research on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015 junior theorists symposium (jts) schedule
As a follow-up to Dan’s posting of the Junior Theorists Symposium’s call for papers last year, here is the recently released schedule. By the looks of it, 2015’s event promises to live up to the JTS’s...
View Article
