565 - Section on History of Sociology Invited Session. American Sociology Since 1980

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Panel on work on the recent history of American Sociology, including the issues of feminization, the rise of public sociology, activism, the role of ideology, and the evolution of the journal system as the determinant prestige.

Sub Unit

• Section Invited

Session Organizer

• Stephen Turner, University of South Florida

Presider

• Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago

Presenters

• Stephen Turner, University of South Florida

• Neil L. Gross, University of British Columbia

• Eleanor Townsley, Mount Holyoke College

• Katelin Elizabeth Albert, University of Toronto

Discussant

• Peter Baehr, Lingnan University