X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:52:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu =============================================================== The Section on Marxist Sociology of the ASA is having its annual membership drive. We are still a couple of dozen members short of 400. We need to reach 400 by September 30 in order to be able to have three sessions at the 1996 ASA convention in August, 1997, Toronto. There is NO TIME TO WASTE on this. DON'T put it off "another week or so", or we will lose a session. If you are a graduate student who has never been a member of the SMxS, this fee can be waived for the first year; please contact me as soon as possible (spector@calumet.purdue.edu) if you are eligible for that and would like to join. There are many readers of this list who are ASA members and plan to sign into the SMxS but haven't gotten around to it. Please do it now. In addition to sponsoring three sessions, which gives a dozen or so people the experience of presenting a paper at ASA, the SMxS is well known for its very informative, stimulating roundtable sessions. These sessions provide the opportunity for another several dozen people to share their ideas and gain experience at making an official presentation at an ASA convention. For sociologists and grad students working in the Marxist tradition this is especially important, because the availability of grant money and the ability to "latch onto" the work of a "famous" professor while in grad school or as a beginning faculty member is much more limited for us. Section membership gives you the opportunity to meet others, exchange ideas, develop possible collaborative projects, discuss strategies for teaching etc. Building the membership up is extremely important. In particular, grad students can overcome the isolation they sometimes feel; special efforts should be made to encourage grad students to sign up. Finally, the Section on Political Economy of World Systems (PEWS) has been something of a sibling section to SMxS, hosting important sessions analyzing international trends and occasionally co-sponsoring sessions with SMxS. They too are having a membership drive, and we have agreed to encourage our members to join both sections. So, if you are a member of either section and would like to join the other, please do so now. For as much as we pay to belong to ASA, it is certainly worth the slight incremental cost of supporting these sections, which make the ASA experience much more valuable for many people. But do it now.... Here's how..... Application follows: ******************************************************************************** [ ] I am an ASA member and wish to join the Section on Marxist Sociology. Enclosed is my check. [ ] I am an ASA member and wish to join the Section on Political Economy of World Systems. Enclosed is my check. [ ] I want to join the ASA and also one or both of the above sections. Please send me a 1996 membership application. Name __________________________________________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________________ City ___________________________ State/Province _________________ Zip/Postal Code ____________ Country __________________ Section on Marxist Sociology Section dues are $10 for regular members, $7 for student members, and $8 for low income members. Make checks payable to ASA and mail to American Sociological Association, Membership Services, 1722 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20035-2981. PEWS Section dues are $10 for regular members, $5 for student members, and $8 for low income members. Make checks payable to ASA and mail to American Sociological Association, Membership Services, 1722 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20035-2981. ASA Sections can be contacted via e-mail at: ASANW/ASA/SECTIONS%American_Sociological_Association@mcimail.com BUT PLEASE DON'T DELAY. The Sept. 30 deadline is INFLEXIBLE. ****************************************************************************