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- Title
Reflections on the Role of Professional Association in Promoting Diversity: The Case of ASA and PSA Reconsidered.
- Authors
Torrecilha, Ramon
- Abstract
This essay reflects on the efforts of professional associations to achieve a more inclusive profession and academy. It examines the adequacy of programs designed to increase the number of sociologists of color, and the challenges experienced by the American Sociological Association and the Pacific Sociological Association in supporting programs aimed at systemic barriers to diversity.
- Subjects
PROFESSIONAL associations; DIVERSITY in organizations; SOCIOLOGISTS; AMERICAN Sociological Association; MINORITY scholarships; MENTORING; ORGANIZATIONAL change
- Publication
American Sociologist, 2014, Vol 45, Issue 2/3, p323
- ISSN
0003-1232
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1007/s12108-014-9236-7