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The 2013 Annual Meeting: A New Contributions to Sociology Winner, Student Paper Awards, Election Results and
Our New Tax Exempt Status

The NCSA annual meeting was held on February 22, 2013 in Wilmington, NC, as scheduled. 

Ken Wilson of ECU as awarded the 2013 Contributions to Sociology  award.  The text and photo for the award appears in The Bulletin.

The winners of the election were Cameron Lippard for President-Elect and board members for the Class of 2016 are Ken Muir (Appalachian State), Hideki Morooka (Fayetteville State), and Cecile N. Yancu, Winston-Salem State).

Student papers winning awards under the Himes competition were

  • Abbey Keener, Wake Forest University (undergraduate division).
  • Hannah Scott, Duke University (undergraduate division).
  • E. Paige Borelli, Duke University (graduate division).

Our treasurer Cathy Zimmer announced that NCSA is now a charitable organization.  "The North Carolina Sociological Association is recognized as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization by the Internal Revenue Service.  Donations (Himes Fund or Other) may be tax deductible.  Check with your tax preparer for details."

The 2013 membership form to send in to join the society is available. Click here for the form, a .pdf file.

Please note below that NCSA now has a Facebook page thanks to member Seth Allen and others. Just click on one of the Facebook icons. 


The Fall/Winter 2012 issue of Sociation Today is now available. It can viewed by going to www.sociationtoday.org.

The Spring/Summer issue of Sociation Today is due out in June 2013. 

Other News of Interest to Sociologists

It is commonly thought that more poor people live in cities than in the suburbs, which are said to be relatively rich. By 1999, however, poverty was about equally balanced between the city and the suburbs. Since then the trend has continued and there are now more poor in the suburbs than in the cities of the United States. By 2010 the gap is even wider.
 
  • The link to the full report by the Brookings researchers can be found at: http://www.npr.org/documents/2006/dec/suburban_poverty.pdf link. 

Suburbanization is sometimes accused to forcing people into isolation and loneliness.  But using national data, Economist Jan Brueckner has found the opposite. 

  • The link to the Brueckner video is: http://www.uci.edu/experts/video_news.php?src=brueckner&format=mov&res=high link 

Our video on Max Weber is once again available, thanks to Seth Allen who uploaded it for us.


 


 

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