CurRent Newsletter (PDF) - Fall 2022
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
2020-2023 / Edited by Abigail Moore, Anne Taylor & Vasfiye Toprak
Summer 2022
Fall 2021
Summer 2021
Fall 2020
2017-2020 / Edited by Luis Flores, Dylan Nelson & Pinar Ustel
Spring/Summer 42(1) - White on COVID and Theory, Virtual ASA and JTS Sessions, Previews of JTS Symposium
Fall/Winter 2019 41(2) - Knight and Reed on mechanistic explanation; Soc-Fi; Berman, Mudge, Epstein, & Baiocchi on Eyal
Spring/Summer 2019 41(1) - Magubane on Decolonizing the canon; Buccholz on Neoliberal Apartheid; Clarno reply
Fall 2018 40(2) - Miller-Idriss on area studies and sociology; Kim on the transnational turn; Shiff on asylum adjudication
Spring 2018 40(1) - Chen, Pacewicz, and Sobering on Organizations and Democracy; Shestakofsky on Ethnography and Theory; Award Winners and Dissertation Spotlight
Fall 2017 39 (2) - Lichterman and Spillman on Social Theory Now; Abrutyn, Choo, and Decoteau on the Good Society; Award Winners Tavory and Sweet; Swedberg on Theoretical Contributions
2014 - 2017 / Edited by Damon Mayrl & Erin Metz McDonnell
Spring 2017 39 (1) - Lizardo on Pubishing Theory in ASR; Abrutyn on Durkheim; Lena & Wohl on Aesthetics & Community; Postcolonialism
Dec 2016 38 (2) - Archer et. al on Critical Realism; Benzecry on Global Standards
Spring 2016 38(1) - Mohr on Big Theory Part 2; McDonnell & Brundage on Theory and Public Sociology; Quantum Minds
Dec 2015 37(2) - Mohr on Big Theory Part 1; Decoteau on Gut Bugs; Teaching Theory with Klett, Colom & McDonnell; Pragmatism
Spring 2015 37(1) - Perrin on Disciplinary Diff in Theorizing; Borch & Christin on recovering classics; Swedberg on Pragmatism; Moodie on Folk Theory; Rose-Greenland on ISIS; Bakker on Weber's Prebendalism
Dec 2014 36(2) - Perrin on Theory -of -for and -from; Benzecry, Go, Frye, and Bargheer on Boundaries of Theory
2011 - 2014 / Edited by Claire DeCoteau
May 2014 36(1) - Theorizing & Cognitive Science, Systemic Edges, Teaching Theorizing
Nov 2013 35(2) - Wagner-Pacific on forms, Ford on collective memory, and a dialogue between award winners.
May 2013 35(1) - Julian Go on postcoloial theory, interview with Robert Bellah, and review of a Mead conference.
Dec 2012 34(2) - Espleland on Theorizing, Martin/Frye Dialogue, Jr. Theorists Symposium
May 2012 34(1) - Replies to Gorski, Questions about Race and Reflexivity, and essays by Bakker and Smikun
Nov 2011 33(2) - essays by Gorski and Alexander, a retrospective by Hogan, reviews of a new theory publication, and two theory conferences
2010 - 2011 / Edited by Omar Lizardo & Erika Summers-Effler
May 2011 33(1) - Conferences, reviews, and events
Nov 2010 32(2) - Swedberg on Theorizing, Ford on Order, Sonnett reviews Turner
May 2010 32(1) - Zuckerman on Social Network Analysis, Roumbanis on Kierkegaard, and Bertilsson on Pierce
2006-2009 / Edited by Dustin Kidd, Omar Lizardo, & Erika Summers-Effler
Nov 2009 31(2) - Swedberg on Theorizing, Widick on Imaginaries, Strand on Martin, and a preview of the 2010 meetings
May 2009 31(1) - Bergesen on Terrorism, McDonnell on Bureacracy, Bentel & Yoshida on Individualism, and details of Section activities at the 2009 ASA meetings
Fall 2008 30(3) - Abrutyn on instutions, Mahler on social action, and Coller on Bourdieu and Simon.
Spring 2008 30(2) - Longest on identity, Reed on language, Ignatow on body, and details of Section activities at the 2008 ASA meetings
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.
2003-2006 / Edited by Neil Gross.
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.
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.
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.
2000-2003 / Edited by J. David Knottnerus & Jean Van Delinder .
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.
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.
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.
1997?-2000 / Edited by Joseph Hopper
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.
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.
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.
1996?-1997 / Edited by Chris Ingraham & Steven Seidman
Summer 1997 19(2) - Social Theory as a Vocation.
Summer 1996 18(3) - The Missing Feminist Revolution.
1992-1994 / Edited by Keith Doubt and Richard Moodey
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.
1989?-1992 / Edited by Chris Prendergast
April 1992 15(2) - Berger, Luckhman, McCarthy, Rogers, Eberle, Soeffner, Lemert, and Meyer on Social Construction of Reality...
1986-1989 / Edited by Charles Powers
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.
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.
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
