Research in Sociology of Education: Call for Papers

apologies for cross-posting.  This will be of interest to those of you who
are engaged in scholarship on how family, neighborhood, or peer forces may
influence children's school achievement or related facets of development.
For more information, please use the contact information included below.
Thanks - elaine ikeda.

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>Research in Sociology of Education -- Annual Volumes
>Inviting brief paper proposals
>
>Bruce Fuller            Emily Hannum
>Berkeley                Harvard
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>
>This note is to let you know that we are inheriting, from
>Aaron Pallas, the editorship of the JAI Press Research in
>Sociology of Education.
>
>Under a new format, each annual volume will be published
>under a thematic title, with secondary reference to the
>"annual review" side of the series. JAI's new parent company,
>Elsevier Science, also is committing new resources and
>imagination to their marketing approaches in the U.S. and
>abroad.
>
>We are inviting two-page letters proposing important,
>empirically based, papers for the first volume under our
>editorship, to be published in the year 2000. This first
>volume will focus on how family, neighborhood, or peer forces
>may influence children's school achievement or related facets
>of development. We hope to select -- after a vigorous peer
>review process -- 6 to 8 top notch empirical papers. In
>addition, critical commentaries will be invited that place
>one or two papers in broader theoretical or applied policy
>debates.
>
>While sociologists, political scientists, institutional
>economists, and anthropologists have long been interested in
>family-community-school linkages, new directions and
>empirical debates have emerged over the past decade. For
>example, many are intrigued with construct of "social
>capital." But what is it? How do we measure it? How do
>children's and parents' social linkages translate into
>proximal determinants of school achievement or child
>development? Recent papers regarding social capital, family
>networks, the influence of neighborhood context -- with a few
>important exceptions -- have failed to look at variation
>across ethnic and cultural groups, or comparatively across
>societies. We will publish high quality work, employing
>quantitative or qualitative methods, which helps to open-up
>this general topic.
>
>If you are interested in submitting a paper, we request that
>you send us an email or letter ASAP that contains these
>elements:
>
>
>1. Your core research question and why the empirical issue is
>important, 2. How your proposed paper would illuminate the
>volume's topic and contribute to theoretical and/or applied
>currents, 3. The nature of the data that you will analyze, 4.
>Methods of data analysis and argumentation, 5. Major results
>and implications for the field.
>
>
>If you want to talk a bit prior to submitting a letter feel
>free to email us. Informal queries or your two-page letter
>can be sent to RSE@gse.harvard.edu, or Gutman Library, 4th
>Floor, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138-3704, Attention:
>E.Hannum and P.Tung.
>
>Many thanks. We look forward to building an exciting,
>important new annual series with
>you.
>
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Elaine K. Ikeda, Ph.D.
Project Director
Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project
UCLA Higher Education Research Institute
2005 C Moore Hall/Mailbox 951521
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
esaito@ucla.edu
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310-794-5004 fax

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