The sociology of work emerged as a specialty area in the 1980s, when the American Sociological Association prepared a compendium of course syllabi for the area and a number of textbooks appeared. The name of this sociological subfield is new, but the...

The American Sociological Association (ASA) will celebrate its centennial year in 2005; since its inception, it has grown in size, diversity, programs, and purpose. Current ASA goals are as follows: Serving sociologists in their work, Advancing...

Founded by Rene Worms in Paris in 1893, the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) is the oldest continuous sociological association of any kind in the world. The IIS also happens to be the oldest continuous international association in the social...

The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society (ASS), is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting...

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION DISCUSSES MUSLIM WOMEN In a special session at its annual meeting on Aug. 12, the American Sociological Association held a panel discussion on various aspects of being Muslim women in American society. Organized and presided over by Jen'nan Ghazal Read,...

Patricia Hill Collins, distinguished university professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland, made history at the American Sociological Association's (ASA) recent annual meeting in New York City, becoming the first Black woman elected president of the organization. [ILLUSTRATION...

A well-known South African scholar and political commentator is being kept out of the United States because he has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit...

Hillary Clinton's campaign just released a Spanish-language appeal to Latinos arguing that they would most benefit from her health care plan. My Spanish is rusty, but she basically is saying that, of all racial and ethnic groups, Latinos have the highest number of uninsured, and...