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NEWSLETTER: PERSPECTIVES ONLINE

The ASA Theory Section newsletter, Perspectives, provides items of interest to the section in professional and scholarly respects. The continuously high quality of Perspectives has made it one of the ASA's very best newsletters. Here we offer online editions of the newsletter, going back more than two decades, each in PDF format for viewing or printing.

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Issue sumaries, by Volume/Editor(s):

1986-1987	1987-1988	1988-1989	1989-1990	1990-1991	1991-1992	1992-1993
1993-1994	1994-1995	1995-1996	1996-1997	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000
2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007
			2007-2008

"There is at least some evidence that we tend to produce young sociologists with superior research skills but with a trained incapacity to think in theoretically innovative ways."

-Lewis Coser

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2007-2008 / Edited by Dustin Kidd, Omar Lizardo, & Erika Summers-Effler

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Spring 2008 30(2) - Longest on identity, Reed on language, Ignatow on body, and details of Section activities at the 2008 ASA meetings

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2006-2007 / Edited by Dustin Kidd, Omar Lizardo, & Erika Summers-Effler

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October 2007 29(3) - Griffin, Kivisto, Hall, and Alexander comment on Jeffrey Alexander's The Civil Sphere; Chair's Corner on Theoretical Pragmatics and Cubist Art

July 2007 29(2)- Bryson on Writing; Rojas on Black Studies; Pagis on Silence; Theory listings in the ASA program; Chair's Corner; Message from the Editors; New Book Spotlight.

December 2006 29(1) - Dennis, Browser, and Monteiro on Du Bois; Chair's Corner; Message from the New Editors; Section awards; Website Editor Sought.

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2005-2006 / Edited by Neil Gross s

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August 2006 28(4) - Stryker on theory growth; Theory at the ASA meeting; Elias on DuBois; Go on the disobedient generation.

February 2006 28(3) - Replies to Sanderson by Adams, Perrin, Kidd, and Wilkes. Sanderson responds to his critics. Saioud and Blute on empirical trends in theory. NOTE: A lengthier version of the debate on Theoretical Work, Pluralism, and Sociological Theory is available as a pdf file.

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2004-2005 / Edited by Neil Gross

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August 2005 28(2) - Reforming Theoretical Work; Deciphering Goffman; Chomsky v. Mead.

March 2005 28(1) - Theory Surrounds Us; Europeans on US Theory; Mead v. Chomsky; Junior Theorists Symposium, with participants and abstracts of papers.

October 2004 27(4) - Unified Sociological Theory; Theory and Cognitive Science; The ASA and the Professional Group; Theory and International Relations; Section Awards.

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2003-2004 / Edited by Neil Gross

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July 2004 27(3) - Theoretical Growth; Feminisms; Grand Theory.

April 2004 27(2) - Theoretical Cultures; Grand Theory; Teaching Classical Theory; A French-Born Sociologist; Theory and Law and Society.

January 2004 27(1) - The Theory Section and Satelites; Cultural Studies; Theory and Ethnography; Hero Worship; Reflection on Lewis Coser.

October 2003 26(4) - Message from the Chair; The End of an Era: Becoming a Theorist.

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2002-2003 / Edited by J. David Knottnerus & Jean Van Delinder

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July 2003 26(3) - Critical Discourse; Post-Structuralism; Theory Development.

April 2003 26(2) - Unbounded Rationality; Postmodernism.

January 2003 26(1) - Empire of the Senses; Honor in Sociology; Postmodernism.

October 2002 25(4) - Value of Theory; Causal and Descriptive Theory; Weber.

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2001- 2002 / Edited by J. David Knottnerus & Jean Van Delinder

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July 2002 25(3) - Ideal Types; Scientific Sociology.

April 2002 25(2) - Space; Scientific Sociology; Marx on Globalization.

January 2002 25(1) - Scientific Sociology; Theory of Global Society.

October 2001 24(4) - Theory & Empirical Research & Philosophy; Theory Training.

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2000-2001 / Edited by J. David Knottnerus & Jean Van Delinder

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July 2001 23(3) - Theory and the 1848 Revolutions; Theory and the Internet.

April 2001 23(2) - Human Nature; The Masters; Theory Training.

January 2001 23(1) - Protestant Ethic; Emotions; Sociological Imagination.

October 2000 22(4) - Neighboring Disciplines; Critical Realism; Economics.

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1999-2000 / Edited by Joseph Hopper

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July 2000 22(3) - Theoretical Integration; Theory & Psychology.

April 2000 22(2) - Theory Textbooks; Evaluating Theory.

January 2000 22(1) - Textbooks; Dubois Ascendant.

October 1999 21(4) - Theory Growth in Sociology; Top Ten Debate.

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1998-1999 / Edited by Joseph Hopper

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July 1999 21(3) - Activist Editing; Theorists' View of Theory.

April 1999 21(2) - Teaching Theory; Aphorisms.

January 1999 21(1) - Reading Theory; Theory Sans Frontieres.

October 1998 20(4) - Teaching to Non-Theorists; Graduate Theory Training.

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1997-1998 / Edited by Joseph Hopper

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July 1998 20(3) - Creating Theory; Essential Theory Texts.

April 1998 20(2) - Theory in the Curriculum; Theory as a Vocation.

Winter 1998 19(3) - The Media and Social Theory.

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1996-1997 / Edited by Chris Ingraham & Steven Seidman

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Summer 1997 19(2) - Social Theory as a Vocation.

Summer 1996 18(3) - The Missing Feminist Revolution.

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1994-1995 & 1995-1996 ?

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1993-1994 / Edited by Keith Doubt and Richard Moodey

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May 1994 17(3) - ASA Meeting in Los Angeles.

April 1994 17(2) - Practicing Theory; News.

February 1994 17(1) - Theory in Australia; Theory Section News.

October 1993 16(4) - The Editors Talk; Theory Section News.

June 1993 16(3) - Creative Disorder.

March 1993 16(2) - Talmudic Exegesis.

January 1993 16(1) - A Case of Multiple Personality Disorder.

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1989-1990, 1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1992-1993 ?

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1988-1989 / Edited by Charles Powers

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July 1989 12(3) - Fundamental Theorizing; A Little Journal; Conference or Caucus.

April 1989 12(2) - Chaos; British Theory; Canadian Sociology; Simmel Studies.

January 1989 12(1) - Sociobiology; British Theory; Work in Progress.

October 1988 11(3) - Chair's Message; Feminism; Meetings.
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1987-1988 / Edited by Charles Powers

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June 1988 11(2) - Looking Forward; Conferences.

March 1988 11(1) - Sociological Theorizing; Theory in Switzerland; Simmel Studies.

December 1987 10(4) - Seven Theses; Structuralist Theories; Work in Progress.
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1986-1987 / Edited by Charles Powers

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September 1987 10(3) - Chair's Message; Practical Relevance of Theory.

June 1987 10(2) - Metatheory; Teaching Theory; Sociology in Poland.

March 1987 10(1) - Leading Edges; World-Systems Analysis; Current Perspectives.

Fall 1986 9(2) - Chair's Message; The State of Theory; Mini-Conference; German Theory

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Earlier Newsletters?

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