Re: ASA Publications' Committee

basically its a power struggle over control of the ASR. to simplify
greatly its the old guard of quantitative sociologists who study the US
vs. the rainbow coalition of qualitative, critical, multicultural, etc.
folks who have been more or less excluded from publishing in the ASR.
this would not be so much a problem if ASR publication was not so
important for getting jobs, promotion and tenure.  some folks on both
sides have been trying to address this problem for years, but the slow
approach seems to have come to little and now we have a confrontation
brewing.
    for world-systemites it would be a good idea to support a broadening
of the kind of artricles that can appear in the ASR. so keep watching. i
expect there will be a petition to clarify the relationship between the
Publications Com and the Council. and that this will come to a head at
the ASA meeting in Chicago.

chriscd