[Air-l] Sociological Perspectives update (fwd)

[Barry Wellman]

possible journal opportunity for folks. see below.

 Barry
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:56:11 -0700
From: Peter Nardi <Peter_Nardi at PITZER.EDU>
To: "'edboard at pitzer.edu'" <edboard at PITZER.EDU>
Subject: Sociological Perspectives update


The annual Pacific Sociological Association meetings have just concluded,
and I will sending you our annual report of the journal in the next day or
so.

Meanwhile, please circulate the following notice to interested researchers
about our next special issue.

> Call for Papers for Special Issue of Sociological Perspectives on
> Media,Popular Culture, and the Arts
>
> Guest Editors:  Denise D. Bielby and William T. Bielby, University of
> California, Santa Barbara.
>
> We invite submissions of original empirical, theoretical, or
> methodological scholarship that advance sociological understanding
> ofmedia, popular culture, and the arts.  Among relevant topics are:
> relationships between audiences and those who create culture; aesthetics
> and criticism; social practices and new media; sociology of
> performance;culture industries and culture work; inequality and difference
> in media production and media texts.  Regardless of theoretical
> perspective or methodological approach, we are especially interested in
> papers that transcend the boundary between humanistic interpretation and
> scientific explanation.
>
> Deadline:  September 15, 2002.  Send 6 copies to Peter Nardi,
> Editor,Sociological Perspectives; Dept. of Sociology; Pitzer College; 1050
> N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, 91711.  Please check a current issue or
> the web page (www.ucpress.edu/journals/sop/) for  submission information.
> Please note that submissions will undergo the blind review process.
>