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Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 15, Number 2 (SPRING, 1991): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Reich, Anthony J.Publication Women and Men from MARS: Editors of the Mid-American Review of Sociology(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Kelly, Mary E.; Barter, Laura Z.As we celebrate the centennial of the department of sociology at the University of Kansas, it seems appropriate to remember not only the faculty of the past, but the students as well. A graduate student run joumal (first entitled the Kansas Journal of Sociology and later the Mid-American Review of Sociology) has existed since 1964. As far as we know, it is the only current graduate-student run sociology joumal, other than the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, which makes the endeavor hereat the University ofKansas unique. This article relays the impressions offormer editors about theirexperiences with the joumal.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 15, Number 2 (SPRING, 1991): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Whorton, BradPublication A Road Worth Taking: Sociology as a Vocation and the Legacy of Caroll D. Clark(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Foulke, GaryThe meaning of sociology as a vocation, as seen through the career of Carroll D. Clark, is the focus of this paper. As the chairperson of the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas for over three decades, Clark had an extraordinary influence on the shape of the department at Kansas and the discipline in the Midwest. Through an examination of his career at Kansas, it is shown that sociology for Clark was indeed a calling, a calling to which he devoted passionate enthusiasm and unwavering commitment. Also explored is Clark's role as a public intellectual.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 15, Number 2 (SPRING, 1991): Front Matter(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01)Publication Falling into Marxist Sociology: Choosing to Stay(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Wright, Erik OlinPublication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 15, Number 2 (SPRING, 1991): Back Matter(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01)Publication A Parent's View of a Kid Growing Up in Lawrence(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Wright, Beatrice A.Alan Sica invited me to speak about Erik at this centennial celebration, stating that "your view of how this famous sociologist developed would only augment his own fascinating remarks." Of course I was delighted to do so. I was nonplussed, however, about what to say, and Erik was worried that I would embarrass him. I reassured him by pointing out that, after all, he was a product of the times, the town, his family, including his grandparents who lived in Lawrence at the time, and of course himself; any of his triumphs, therefore, would be triumphs extending to many others as well. In what I have to say, I hope to be able to show that.Publication The Tradition Continues: A Gendered Perspective(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Zale, Stephanne L.Concerns were voiced by the American Sociological Society in 1984 about the small numbers of tenured women in sociology departments throughout the United States. A guideline for remedying this deficit was established and in 1990 the situation was reevaluated to see if the proposed guidelines had been effective. The following article investigates the situation at the University of Kansas from its inception to the present day. Included in the article is a biographical sketch of the first female professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Kansas: Mabel A. Elliott.Publication Meta-Sociology: Doings and Reflections(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Scott, W. RichardI have called my remarks "Meta-Sociology: Doings and Reflections." Like many of you, I am not quite sure what "meta" means, but, knowing that George Ritzer was going to address a related theme, I was depending on him to give you the in-depth interpretation. I will settle for the shallow view. I think I got my first sense of this concept from watching the Gary Shandling Show. You recall how Gary often goes off the TV set and watches the other characters on the TV monitor to find out what they are saying and In the scenes in which he is not involved. To make a "meta"approach is to step out of doing the usual kinds of things we do--the teaching, the research, the advising--and instead to reflect on what we are doing: to attempt to make sense of what'we are up to when we teach, inquire, advise, and so on. So I am here not to talk about my research but about why I decided to do the research that I did; I am here not to present my work but to talk about what working means to me; I am here not to do sociology, but to talk about doing sociology.Publication Streetcorner Sociology(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Delinder, Jean VanSociology at the University of Kansas is steeped in the ethnographic tradition of tire "Chicago School." This is the result of a continuous exchange of promising graduate students and faculty between the two departments. Dr. E. Jackson Baur is a part of the "Chicago connection." He was awarded the Ph.D. by Chicago in 1942 and was hired as an Assistant Professor by the University of Kansas in 1947. He has been Professor Emeritus since 1983 and still maintains an active involvement in the department. The following is an informal history of Dr. Baur's experiences as a student at Chicago and as a professor at Kansas.Publication I Never Metatheory I Didn't Like(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1991-04-01) Ritzer, GeorgeThe invitation to write autobiographically for the Centennial Celebration of the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas arrived at an opportune moment for me. First, I was in the midst of book in which I was writing about the role of biography and autobiography in metatheoretical work in sociology (Ritzer 1991a). Second, I had just finished a review essay in which I analyzed three recent biographical and autobiographical works from (hat point of view (Ritzer 1991b). Third, I'd been reading a hot new autobiographical expose on drugs, booze, sex, and glitz in Hollywood, You'll NeverEat Lunch in ThisTownAgain byJulia Phillips (1991), that had startling similarities to my experiences at Kansas in the early 1970s. It is the fact that biographical work is of intellectual and personal concern that I am able to overcome the natural embarrassment about writing autobiographically and to deal with my "Kansas years."