[Cbrnet] Getting ready for ASA in Philadelphia

Mon Nov 22 16:35:16 CST 2004

Hi All

I second (or third?) Lynet's and Lorraine's suggestion.  I've been intending
to attend the SRCA conferences but I get to feeling so booked up (and broke)
that I haven't made it yet, but just given what I 've heard from folks who
do attend this would definitely be a great link for us CBR folks. It seems
like the best home for us in the big APA ocean. Somehow or other I'd figure
out a way to get there!

Mary
-----Original Message-----
From: lorraine gutierrez
To: CBR network
Sent: 11/22/2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Cbrnet] Getting ready for ASA in Philadelphia

Randy and others,
As another member of SCRA I would second what Lynet is suggesting. I am 
also a member of a task force of SCRA that is working on developing our 
interdisciplinary linkages and making our organization more 
interdisciplinary (or multidisciplinary or perhaps even
transdisciplinary).

The Society for Community Research and Action is primarily made up of 
Community Psychologists, but we are open to anyone whose work is focused
on 
community research and action. We involve people who are primarily 
practitioners or scholars and try to make our organization "affordable."
We 
currently have community organizers, anthropologists, urban planners, 
sociologists, psychologists, social workers, and health educators in our

midst.

Lorraine

--On Friday, November 19, 2004 8:53 PM -0600 Lynet Uttal
<luttal at wisc.edu> 
wrote:

> Hi, Randy and others:
>
> Is there any interest that CBR sociologists would be willing to have
> their meeting a few days before the Society for Community Research and
> Action (SCRA) group (which is connected to American Psychological
> Association, but operate independently) and holds their meeting every
two
> years in June (CBR network could even possibly meet in June on the off
> year).  The model would be similar to SSSP or SWS happening a few days
> before ASA.
>
> The reason that I propose this is that in the long run it would create
a
> more interdisciplinary group of community based researchers.   (I am a
> sociologist in a human development and family studies
department--which
> has historically affiliated more with developmental psychology-- and
> strongly feel the need to build a bridge between the sociological
version
> of CBR and psychological versions of CBR.
>
> Also, as a member of the Carework Network that is not affiliated with
ASA
> (although many of the members are mostly sociologists and our annual
> meetings meets the day before ASA), we are finding alot of good
reasons
> to not become an ASA subsection, as well as difficulties with
competing
> interests when we hold our conference at the same time as the ASA
> pre-conference meetings.
>
> Another good reason to connect with SCRA is that SCRA usually seems to
> choose to have their meeting in beautiful places and outside of those
> glitzy, expensive hotels.
>
> I think that this would be something I would possibly be willing to
> provide some organizational energy for if others were interested!
>
> Lynet Uttal
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
>
>
> On Nov 19, 2004, at 6:34 PM, Randy Stoecker wrote:
>
> > Hi CBRNet,
> >
> > For those or you who subscribed to the list following the 2004
> > American Sociological Association meetings, you may remember our
> > meeting was focused on developing plans for the next ASA meetings in
> > Philly to support CBR.  Some people volunteered to try and organize
> > workshops, or discussions, or other things for those meetings.
> >
> > We haven't heard much from anyone, however, and it is getting toward
> > that time when we have to decide what we will do in Philadelphia.
> >
> > At this point Mary, Adam, Sam and Randy, who organized the last
> > meeting, are willing to organize another informal gathering.  But we
> > don't have the capacity to do any more than that.  If anyone wants
to
> > do anything else, we need to hear from you as soon as possible, and
> > you need to have a fully-formed activity with all the participants
> > lined up by the end of the year.  So if you are still planning on
> > doing something, please let one of us know.  You can contact us at:
> >
> > Randy:  randy.stoecker at utoledo.edu
> > Mary:  tuominen at denison.edu
> > Adam:  flint at igc.org
> >
> > --
> > Randy Stoecker
> > Professor of Sociology
> > Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> > University of Toledo
> > Toledo, OH  43606
> > USA
> > phone: 419-530-4975
> > fax: 419-530-8406
> >
> > e-mail: randy.stoecker at utoledo.edu
> >
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Lorraine Gutierrez
Professor and Faculty Director
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Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
University of Michigan
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