A message from
PA Sociological Society President
Barbara Jones Denison
Dear Pennsylvania Sociological Society Member:
Welcome to the home page of the PSS! It is my pleasure, as well as a great privilege, to be your President for the 2010 year. PSS has a long and distinctive history serving Pennsylvania’s students, faculty, researchers and other professionals in sociology over the past 60 years. Many of our colleagues got their start down the road of professional socialization by participating on the program of a PSS meeting. One of my first activities as a full-time faculty member in Pennsylvania years ago was to serve on a panel at PSS and I have been a member and participated regularly in the subsequent years. Indeed, it seems hard believe how many connections within the discipline I owe to my involvement with PSS. The PSS meetings are the perfect place to engage in discussion of important and fascinating work being done in sociology across the state. It remains a “gemeinschaft” type experience to be on the PSS program within a community of “family and friends” to support and encourage one another.
Please mark your calendar now and plan to join us for the 60th anniversary meetings October 22-23, 2010 at Mansfield University. Our theme, “Change and Transformation: Looking at Movements that Impact Who We Are and the Way We Sustain Society and Social Structure,” invites you to share research papers but also service learning projects, action and evaluation research findings, and community collaborations where sociology informs and participants transform lives and each other. I urge you especially to encourage students (graduate and undergraduate both) to save their best work this spring to submit next fall. Undergraduate students can take advantage of the poster and paper competitions. The date for papers, panels and other proposals is September 17th but plan to send us your contribution early.
On behalf of all the officers and committee chairs of PSS thank you for your continuing support of this important opportunity to promote high quality sociology in Pennsylvania.
Barbara Jones Denison
