American Sociological Association section memberships, 2002-2022

Inequality is increasingly at the core of the ASA.

Why I’m leaving the American Sociological Association

Maybe people declining to fund ASA's dysfunction with their membership dues -- while taking our efforts to develop and promote sociology outside the association -- is the best we can do.

The American Sociological Association is collapsing and its organization is a perpetual stagnation machine

I was elected to improve ASA and I failed.

Sociologist, scientist? Toward transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture

Whether or not sociology is science, we should have transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture in our work. This makes our work better, and also maybe increases our legitimacy in public.

Sci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads, and that’s OK

UPDATED to include Sci-Hub data from six months: September 2015--February 2016, and correcting a coding error that inflated download counts. Well, they might not have lost the downloads, but they didn't get them. Sci-Hub is a pirate operation that uses stolen university login credentials to harvest, store, and distribute for free virtually every academic article…

ASA’s letter against the public interest and our values

ASA speaks out against open access again.

Two talks on public sociology (with audio)

I gave two talks at the American Sociological Meetings in New York City this week. I recorded them and removed some of the ums for you here. They're each less than 11 minutes. The first was in a session titled, "Tools for Communicating Sociology Outside the Discipline: What Works, What Doesn't Work, and What's Promising,"…

Proposal for ASA to adopt TOP Guidelines and Open Science Badges

Draft of the proposal now open for review and comment.

Amend your ASA/Sage author agreement!

This is a followup to a previous post, and contains some duplication. I have spoken well of the policy that permits authors to post preprint versions of their papers before submitting them to journals of the American Sociological Association. That means you can get your work out more broadly while it's going through the review process.…

Michael Kimmel’s American Sociological Association Award

UPDATE: I am disappointed to report that the American Sociological Association did not follow this advice, and announced Kimmel as the winner of this award at their annual meeting award ceremony -- while falsely claiming that he was "unable" to be there. How the American Sociological Association can stop Michael Kimmel from winning the Jessie…