Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 11:56:29 -0700
From: mcasper@itsa.ucsf.EDU (Monica J. Casper)
To: sci-tech-studies@UCSD.EDU, socgrad@UCSD.EDU
Subject: SKAT @ ASA

Okay, so I'm an idiot.  As an addendum to my message of the other day regarding
the SKAT reception at ASA, perhaps a word of explanation about what each of
these things are.  Swimming in my own sector of the alphabet soup of academia,
I mistakenly assumed you all would know what I meant by these acronyms.  Thanks
to the many who wrote to ask for clarification.

SKAT stands for the section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology within the
ASA, which stands for American Sociological Association. SKAT (the section,
not the droppings on the forest floor) is the major "science studies" arm 
within sociology; it is where those of us who also have memberships in, say,
the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), History of Science Society (HSS),
and so on.  SKAT sessions at the annual meetings focus on social dimensions of
science, knowledge, and technology, and are fabulously interesting.  If you 
would like further information about SKAT or ASA, please send me your name
and address and I will forward to you a SKAT flyer and the ASA address in 
Washington, DC.

Now that you all know what this group is, let me reiterate my invitation to
graduate students to attend our SKAT Graduate Student Reception at ASA on
Saturday, August 6, at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles.

Best,
(and humbly),
Monica Casper