The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society (ASS), is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.
The ASA holds its own annual academic conference, the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. The 103rd ASA Annual Meeting in Boston in August 2008 attracted 5,415 attendees.[1] ASA publishes several academic journals. The best known is the American Sociological Review and the newest one is Contexts, a magazine designed to share sociology with other fields and the public. In 2010 ASA's membership went beyond 14,000 and consists of various sociology-related professionals: academics (professors, students, researchers) as well as other practitioners. This membership makes ASA currently the largest professional association of sociologists in the world, even larger than the International Sociological Association.[2]
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| # | Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lester F. Ward | 1906–1907 |
| 2 | William G. Sumner | 1908–1909 |
| 3 | Franklin H. Giddings | 1910–1911 |
| 4 | Albion W. Small | 1912–1913 |
| 5 | Edward A. Ross | 1914–1915 |
| 6 | George E. Vincent | 1916 |
| 7 | George E. Howard | 1917 |
| 8 | Charles H. Cooley | 1918 |
| 9 | Frank W. Blackmar | 1919 |
| 10 | James Q. Dealey | 1920 |
| 11 | Edward C. Hayes | 1921 |
| 12 | James P. Lichtenberger | 1922 |
| 13 | Ulysses G. Weatherly | 1923 |
| 14 | Charles A. Ellwood | 1924 |
| 15 | Robert E. Park | 1925 |
| 16 | John L. Gillin | 1926 |
| 17 | W. I. Thomas | 1927 |
| 18 | John M. Gillette | 1928 |
| 19 | William F. Ogburn | 1929 |
| 20 | Howard W. Odum | 1930 |
| 21 | Emory S. Bogardus | 1931 |
| 22 | Luther L. Bernard | 1932 |
| 23 | Edward B. Reuter | 1933 |
| 24 | Ernest W. Burgess | 1934 |
| 25 | F. Stuart Chapin | 1935 |
| 26 | Henry P. Fairchild | 1936 |
| 27 | Ellsworth Faris | 1937 |
| 28 | Frank H. Hankins | 1938 |
| 29 | Edwin Sutherland | 1939 |
| 30 | Robert M. MacIver | 1940 |
| 31 | Stuart A. Queen | 1941 |
| 32 | Dwight Sanderson | 1942 |
| 33 | George A. Lundberg | 1943 |
| 34 | Rupert B. Vance | 1944 |
| 35 | Kimball Young | 1945 |
| 36 | Carl C. Taylor | 1946 |
| 37 | Louis Wirth | 1947 |
| 38 | E. Franklin Frazier | 1948 |
| 39 | Talcott Parsons | 1949 |
| 40 | Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. | 1950 |
| 41 | Robert C. Angell | 1951 |
| 42 | Dorothy Swaine Thomas | 1952 |
| 43 | Samuel A. Stouffer | 1953 |
| 44 | Florian Znaniecki | 1954 |
| 45 | Donald Young | 1955 |
| 46 | Herbert Blumer | 1956 |
| 47 | Robert K. Merton | 1957 |
| 48 | Robin M. Williams, Jr. | 1958 |
| 49 | Kingsley Davis | 1959 |
| 50 | Howard P. Becker | 1960 (died in office) |
| 51 | Robert E.L. Faris | 1961 |
| 52 | Paul F. Lazarsfeld | 1962 |
| 53 | Everett C. Hughes | 1963 |
| 54 | George C. Homans | 1964 |
| 55 | Pitirim A. Sorokin | 1965 |
| 56 | Wilbert E. Moore | 1966 |
| 57 | Charles P. Loomis | 1967 |
| 58 | Philip M. Hauser | 1968 |
| 59 | Arnold M. Rose | 1969 (died in office) |
| 60 | Ralph Turner | 1969 |
| 61 | Reinhard Bendix | 1970 |
| 62 | William H. Sewell | 1971 |
| 63 | William J. Goode | 1972 |
| 64 | Mirra Komarovsky | 1973 |
| 65 | Peter M. Blau | 1974 |
| 66 | Lewis A. Coser | 1975 |
| 67 | Alfred McClung Lee | 1976 |
| 68 | John Milton Yinger | 1977 |
| 69 | Amos H. Hawley | 1978 |
| 70 | Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. | 1979 |
| 71 | Peter H. Rossi | 1980 |
| 72 | William Foote Whyte | 1981 |
| 73 | Erving Goffman | 1982 |
| 74 | Alice S. Rossi | 1983 |
| 75 | James F. Short, Jr. | 1984 |
| 76 | Kai T. Erikson | 1985 |
| 77 | Matilda White Riley | 1986 |
| 78 | Melvin L. Kohn | 1987 |
| 79 | Herbert J. Gans | 1988 |
| 80 | Joan Huber | 1989 |
| 81 | William Julius Wilson | 1990 |
| 82 | Stanley Lieberson | 1991 |
| 83 | James S. Coleman | 1992 |
| 84 | Seymour Martin Lipset | 1993 |
| 85 | William A. Gamson | 1994 |
| 86 | Amitai Etzioni | 1995 |
| 87 | Maureen T. Hallinan | 1996 |
| 88 | Neil Smelser | 1997 |
| 89 | Jill Quadagno | 1998 |
| 90 | Alejandro Portes | 1999 |
| 91 | Joe R. Feagin | 2000 |
| 92 | Douglas S. Massey | 2001 |
| 93 | Barbara F. Reskin | 2002 |
| 94 | William T. Bielby | 2003 |
| 95 | Michael Burawoy | 2004 |
| 96 | Troy Duster | 2005 |
| 97 | Cynthia Fuchs Epstein | 2006 |
| 98 | Frances Fox Piven | 2007 |
| 99 | Arne L. Kalleberg | 2008 |
| 100 | Patricia Hill Collins | 2009 |
| 101 | Evelyn Nakano Glenn | 2010 |
| 102 | Randall Collins | 2011 |
| 103 | Cecilia L. Ridgeway | 2012 |
The documentary A Century of Progress:Presidential Reflections, 1905-2005(20 minutes). It is a concise overview of the core ideas of the respective presidents of the American Sociological Association. It was produced in conjunction with the centennial of the ASA by sociologist- filmmaker Gale Largey(www.galelargey.com).