[Cbrnet] Getting ready for ASA in Philadelphia

Sun Nov 28 16:34:12 CST 2004

Hi, again,
Actually, SCRA doesn't happen at the same time as APA so it's not 
moving us into the APA ocean.    I realize it's hard to go to two 
conferences per year (personally I am not going to ASA again if I can 
avoid it and would prefer a CBR conference as my main home).   I think 
SCRA would benefit having a sociological influence moving them away 
from being too psych defined.  And sociologically defined CBR  would 
benefit from knowing more about the type of CBR that is motivated by 
land grant university extension practices, and community psychology.

But I  would not like to suggest that we get lost in the APA ocean--it 
also has it's own blinders that need to be removed (e.g. renewed 
emphasis on experimental designs and scientifically-based programming 
to exclusion of more indigeneous, emergent forms of CBR.)

By the way, qualitative oriented CBR'ers may be very interested in this 
other  upcoming conference which seems to be taking on the concern 
about "scientifically-based programming).   Please check out this 
website carefully (especially the bottom half).

http://www.qi2005.org/

For those of you who are thinking of pursuing careers as critical 
qualitative researchers (which often overlaps with action research), 
this conference may be a historic moment.

Lynet

PS Also I'm not sure that generally Urbana Champaign qualifies as a 
"beautiful place" (Last time SCRA was in Albaqueque, New Mexico.

On Nov 22, 2004, at 4:35 PM, Brydon miller, Mary (brydonml) wrote:

>
> 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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