past meetings

Past Meetings: Presidents, Presidential Addresses, Meeting City, and Programs

Please note that for a few years the program is only the preliminary program and not the final program. Also note that not everyone listed actually arrived at the annual meeting and made the presentation. There are always a few, usually very few, last minute cancelations.

• 1929 Organizational Meeting, USC, n/a, Los Angeles
• 1930 Emory S. Bogardus, USC, Tools in Sociology, Los Angeles
• 1931 Emory S. Bogardus, USC, Balance in Leadership, Los Angeles
• 1932 William Kirk, Pomona College, An Approach to Sociological Research, Pomona
• 1933 Clarence M. Case, USC, Technocracy and Social Engineering, Whittier
• 1934a George M. Day, Occidental, Races and Cultural Oases, Los Angeles
• 1934b Constantine Panunzio, UCLA, Social Science and Societal Planning, Los Angeles
• 1935 Howard B. Woolston, Washington, American Intellectuals and Social Reform, Oakland
• 1936 Charles N. Reynolds, Stanford, Sociology and Social Reform, Eugene
• 1937 George B. Mangold, USC, The Sociologist and the Public, Pomona
• 1938 Samuel H. Jameson, Oregon, Status of Status, Berkeley
• 1939 Glenn E. Hoover, Mills College, The Role of Intelligence in Human Affairs, Pullman
• 1940 Martin H. Neumeyer, USC, Leisure: A Field for Social Research, Stanford
• 1941 Jesse F. Steiner, Washington, A Sociologist Looks at War, Los Angeles
• 1942* Elon H. Moore, Oregon, The Social Functions of War, None (WWII)
• 1943* Olen E. Carlson, Redlands, Human Relations in Forestry, None (WWII)
• 1944* William C. Smith, Linfield, Sociologists, What Now?, None (WWII)
• 1945* Ray E. Baber, Pomona, None*
• 1946 Ray E. Baber, Pomona, Race Relations on the Pacific Coast, San Jose
• 1947 Calvin F. Schmid, Washington, Some Remarks on Sociological Theory and Research, Agate Beach
• 1948 Richard T. LaPiere, Stanford, Sociology on the Perspective of a Quarter-Century, Santa Barbara
• 1949 Harvey J. Locke, USC, Empirically Tested Principles of Social Behavior, San Jose
• 1950 George A. Lundberg, Washington, Human Values: A Research Program, Seattle
• 1951 Leonard Broom, UCLA, Toward a Cumulative Social Science, Berkeley
• 1952 Paul Wallin, Stanford, Two Conceptions of the Relations Between Love and Idealization, Los Angeles
• 1953 Stuart C. Dodd, Washington, Can the Social Sciences Serve Two Masters? An Answer Through Experimental Sociology, Berkeley
• 1954 Robert E. L. Faris, Washington, The Alleged Social Class System in the United States, Los Angeles
• 1955 Charles B. Spaulding, UC Santa Barbara, Sociologists, Specialists, and Students, Santa Barbara
• 1956 Joel V. Berreman, Oregon, Filipino Identification with American Minorities, Stockton
• 1957 Ralph H. Turner, UCLA, The Normative Coherence of Folk Concepts, Eugene
• 1958 John F. Foskett, Oregon, The Westward Movement of Sociology, San Diego
• 1959 S. Frank Miyamoto, Washington, The Social Act: Re-Examination of a Concept, San Francisco
• 1960 Donald A. Cressey, UCLA, Epidemiology of Individual Conduct: A Case from Criminology, Spokane
• 1961 Clarence C. Schrag, Washington, Some Demerits of Contemporary Sociology, Tucson
• 1962 Robert A. Nisbet, UC Riverside, Sociology as an Art Form, Sacramento
• 1963 Harry Alpert, Oregon, Some Observations on the State of Sociology, Portland
• 1964 Sanford M. Dornbusch, Stanford, Exploring the Self, San Diego
• 1965 Walter T. Martin, Oregon, Sources of Social Stress: Some Converging Theories, Salt Lake City
• 1966 Melvin Seeman, UCLA, Sociology as a Profession: The National Scene, Vancouver, bc
• 1967 James F. Short, Jr., Washington State, Action-Research Collaboration and Sociological Evaluation, Long Beach
• 1968 Jack P. Gibbs, Texas, The Issue in Sociology, San Francisco
• 1969 Otto N. Larsen, Washington, Sociological Gamesmanship in the Professional Role-Set of the Ultramultiversity, Seattle
• 1970 Carl W. Backman, Nevada, Reno, Some Current Blueprints for Relevance, Anaheim
• 1971 Edward Gross, Washington, Universities and the Shape of Sociological Ideas, Honolulu
• 1972 Herbert Blumer, UC Berkeley, The Nature and Significance of ‘The Social Situation, Portland
• 1973 Gertrude J. Selznick, UC Berkeley, The Concept of the Social Self in Mead and Freud, Scottsdale
• 1974 Edwin M. Lemert, UC Davis, Rules, Values, and the Negotiation of Deviance, San Jose
• 1975 Richard J. Hill, Oregon, Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Re-Gained with Apologies to John Milton, Victoria, bc
• 1976 Herbert L. Costner, Washington, de Tocqueville on Equality: A Skeptical View, San Diego
• 1977 David Gold, UC Santa Barbara, Social Research and Social Problems: Toward a Structural Explanation of Fuzzy Association, Sacramento
• 1978 Joseph S. Gusfield, uc San Diego, Buddy Can You Paradigm? The Crisis Theory in the Welfare State, Spokane
• 1979 Robert Dubin, UC Irvine, Central Life Interests: Self Integrity in a Complex World, Anaheim
• 1980 Leonard Gordon, Arizona State, Where Do We Go From Here: Sociological Community or Sociological Chaos?, San Francisco
• 1981 John Lofland, UC Davis, Sociologists As an Interest Group: Prospects and Propriety, Portland
• 1982 Lois B. DeFleur, Washington State, Technology, Social Change, and the Future of Sociology, San Diego
• 1983 Don C. Gibbons, Portland State, Deviance, Crime, and the Graying of America, San Jose
• 1984 Lamar T. Empey, USC, How is Social Order Possible?, Seattle
• 1985 William R. Catton Jr., Washington State, Emile Who and the Division of What?, Albuquerque
• 1986 Edgar F. Borgatta, Washington, The Future of Sociology: The Basis for Optimism, Denver
• 1987 Bernard Farber, Arizona State, Publications Perish-Sociology Endures, Eugene
• 1988 Stanley Lieberson, UC Berkeley, Asking Too Much, Expecting Too Little, Las Vegas
• 1989 Jonathan Turner, UC Riverside, The Disintegration of American Sociology, Reno/Sparks
• 1990 Lyn Lofland, UC Davis, Is Peace Possible? An Analysis of Sociology, Spokane
• 1991 Karen Cook, Washington, The Power of Sociological Ideas, Irvine
• 1992 Morris Zelditch, Jr., Stanford, Problems and Progress in Sociological Theory, Oakland
• 1993 Randall Collins, UC Riverside, What Does Conflict Theory Predict about America’s Future?, Portland
• 1994 Francesca Cancian, UC Irvine, Truth and Goodness: Do Research and Teaching on Inequality Promote Social Betterment?, San Diego
• 1995 Jane Prather, CSU Northridge, What Sociologists Are Learning about the Next Generation of Students: Are We Prepared to Teach in the 21st Century?, San Francisco
• 1996 Thomas Scheff, UC Santa Barbara, A Vision of Sociology, Seattle
• 1997 Rodolfo Alvarez, UCLA, Knowing and Doing: Sociology and Society, Sociological Practice and Social Problems, San Diego
• 1998 David A. Snow, Arizona, The Value of Sociology, San Francisco
• 1999 Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford, Thinking about Social Differences and Social Ties, Portland
• 2000 Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State, Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Sociology for the 21st Century, San Diego
• 2001 Scott Coltrane, UC Riverside, Marketing the ‘Marriage Solution’: Misplaced Simplicity in the Politics of Fatherhood, San Francisco
• 2002 Judith Howard, Washington, Tensions of Social Justice, Vancouver bc
• 2003 Jean Stockard, Oregon, Social Science & Social Policy, Pasadena
• 2004 Earl Babbie, Chapman, Sociology: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, San Francisco
• 2005 Pepper Schwartz, Washington, How to Talk to (and Through) the Media, Portland
• 2006 Peter Nardi, Pitzer College, Playing with Sociology: Truth in the Pleasant Disguise of Illusion, Hollywood, Los Angeles
• 2007 Charles F. Hohm, CSU Dominguez Hills, Sociology in the Academy: Its Current and Prospective Position, Oakland
• 2008 Jodi O’Brien, Seattle University, Sociology as an Epistomology of Contradiction, Portland
• 2009 Judith Treas, UC Irvine, n.a. San Diego
• 2010 Michael Messner, University of Southern California, n/a, n/a

*Note: Two annual meetings were held in 1934, one in January and the other in December. Meetings were not held during WWII; however, the Presidential Addresses were written and published in the Annual Proceedings. The PSA membership voted in 1944 to move the Annual Meeting from December to spring; consequently, there was no meeting held in 1945. The officers from 1945 were carried over to 1946. There was no Presidential Address given in this year. In 1953, in lieu of its regular meeting, the PSA co-sponsored the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society in Berkeley, which was the first time the ASA met in the Pacific region.