Welcome to the Midwest Sociological Society Website
Who We Are
Founded in 1936, MSS is a membership organization of academic and applied sociologists as well as students of the discipline. About 2/3 of the 1200 members live in the Midwest, but membership is open to all; and about 1/3 of the members are from other parts of the nation and the world.
Organized in 1936, MSS held its first annual meeting in 1937. In 2011-12, MSS celebrated 75 years of scholarship and collegiality at its annual meeting in Minneapolis.
MSS
-publishes The Sociological Quarterly;
-holds a four-day annual meeting each spring;
-provides opportunities for leadership and committee work;
-supports a minority fellowship, several grant and award programs, and research by MSS members.
With the adoption in 2010 of a long-range strategic plan, MSS is moving forward intentionally, to meet the challenges of the future.
We invite you to join us!
MSS Celebrated 75 Years of Service
in 2011-12
75th
5/14/13 Special invitation to MSS members only: Would you like to organize a session for the 2014 annual meeting? Deadline for session proposals is Aug. 31st. Learn more here.
5/12/13 2014 Annual Meeting theme is:
“Left Behind Sociology”: Re-visiting Old Ideas, Old Theories, and Understudied People. Explore the theme, below.
5/10/13 The Midwest Sociologist is ready! TMS will be mailed to all MSS members by May 15th. Can't wait? Read TMS online.
5/6/13 Amended program book shows cancellations and additions to the annual meeting program. See it here.
4/2/13 MSS Annual Meeting in Chicago attracted 1075 participants! If you were one of them - please watch your inbox for the post-meeting evaluation. Your opinion counts!
Please make plans to join us next year April 3-6 at the Omaha Hilton for the 77th MSS Annual Meeting.
What's new from MSS?
MSS
429 24th St North
La Crosse, WI 54601
MIDWEST SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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2014 Annual Meeting LINKS
If you are a current MSS member, you should be receiving occasional emails from MSS. If you aren't receiving them - please check your spam folder. And be sure to add MSS's email address to your 'safe sender' list!
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THEME & CALL FOR SESSIONS:
“Left Behind Sociology”: Re-visiting Old Ideas, Old Theories, and Understudied People
Join us April 3rd – 6th, 2014, in Omaha to celebrate our discipline and our ideas! Organize a session. Share your expertise in a professional workshop. Exercise your intellectual curiosity. Split the social atom. Improve your teaching. Socialize and have fun!
The theme for the 2014 meeting is “Left-Behind Sociology.” The Left Behind series of books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins has become wildly popular nationally, especially among evangelical Christians. The books describe a post-apocalyptic world where God has immediately removed her followers to heaven in the end-of-times Rapture, leaving the “left-behind” population to deal with the horrors that follow. The books have sold millions of copies, in part by promising an escape to a utopian future for a select set of believers while the remaining population suffers during the Biblical end times.
The “Left-Behind Sociology” theme is an attempt to get us to focus on people and ideas that are “left behind” in current research, scholarship, and teaching. In our zeal to reach conclusions, affect students, and change communities, what types of people, ideas, and theories have been left behind? What are the implications of doing this for sociology as a discipline?? Do these omissions harm our credibility with publics we attempt to influence and those whose causes we champion?? Who has been run over by our cars as we’ve rushed down the highway to the latest born-again revival?
Most importantly, the 2014 meetings in Omaha are an opportunity to exercise our sociological imaginations. Omaha is my home town and there will be all the scholarship, fellowship, and fun that we can jam into three days. See you in Omaha!
Kevin T. Leicht, President-Elect / Program Chair
Kimberly Maas, Student Director / Program Assistant
THINKING OF PROPOSING A SESSON?
MSS members who are professionals or graduate students are invited to propose, organize and preside over a session at the 2014 Annual Meeting. Deadline for session proposals is Aug. 31st.
