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Communications of the Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology

These publications are best with member participation....share your ideas and endeavors with your colleagues! Consider writing an article for our newsletter. Show up at the business meeting at the ASA meeting.

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Section Newsletters

Starting 2009, newsletters will be available only electronically, downloadable from this page (and printable) or by email

Seeking Newsletter Submissions

We invite you to send articles and announcements for the Winter 2010 issue of the Newsletter of the Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology of the ASA. We welcome all items that are appropriate, including short thought pieces, human interest stories, items that help us get a picture of new developments in the field, as well as our more traditional conference announcements, calls for papers, and announcements of changes in members' jobs and members' publications or other announcements. Thought pieces should be unpublished items of 400 - 1000 words. Students are also encouraged to submit articles.

Please send them to Editor, Leora Lawton, lawton at techsociety dot com.
Stay tuned for official call for submissions notices to the section's announce list.

Please forward this to colleagues who might wish to submit materials.

As always, section members are encourage to write to articles or submit other news, such as book publications, grants received, position changes, etc.

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Minutes of Business and Council Meetings

Each year at the ASA the Sociological Practice & Public Sociology section holds a combined business and council meeting. It's opportunity for all members, including student members, to voice whatever they want to about how this section could better serve the members, all sociologists, and even society.

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Listserv Information

There are two listservs provided by the ASA for each section. The first is an Announce list, where only selected section Officers are approved as list managers, and only list managers can post. With our section, the Chair, Chair-Elect, and webmaster are the authorized list managers.

Section Discussion List
The discussion list, unlike the section announcement list used by section officers, is not an opt-out list (prepopulated), rather each member needs to opt-in, or join.

    To subscribe

  • In the address field, type in: listserv@listserv.asanet.org
    Leave the subject field blank.
  • In the text area or body of the message, type in subscribe soc_practice. Do not type anything else. If your mail software automatically inserts a signature, then type two hyphens -- on the next line after the subscribe command to have the listserver ignore other text.
  • Send the subscription message.
  • You will receive an email message confirmation with further instructions (keep that email).

    To unsubscribe

  • Send a message to listserv@listserv.asanet.org
  • Leave the subject field blank
  • In the subject of the message type unsubscribe soc_practice
  • Send the message
  • You will receive an e-mail confirmation
To post to the list, send email to soc_practice@listserv.asanet.org.

You can get a list of available majordomo commands by sending an email to listserv@listserv.asanet.org with the text ' help ' in the body of the email. If you you need to, contact me for instructions.


Useful Hints
Write to infoservice@asanet.org to update an email address or be removed from the list.
Guidelines to Discussion List Behavior
The ASA advises section discussion lists to have established guidelines of behavior. The following guidelines are common sense and courtesy. You all know them, I'm sure. People who are perceived as not following these rules will be privately reminded.
  • Always use courteous and respectful language.
  • Content must be related to the research and work of being a sociologist. There are many other more venues for discussing political opinions.
  • Do not repeat content in listserv posts elsewhere without permission.
  • Respect copyright laws and provide links to other material rather than reproducing them here.
  • Shorter emails are often more effective than longer ones. Provide a link to larger documents rather than attaching them, if possible (very large files will bounce).

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