Annual Report for the Family Section

For membership year 2016-17

Prepared by Megan Sweeney, Past Chair of the Section.

October 10, 2017

Section Governance This first section of the report details your section’s governance activity during the last year.

Business Meeting This portion of the report should include an agenda, a count or list of members present and a copy of the meeting’s minutes. If no minutes are available, please provide a summary of decisions made at this meeting. ________________________________________________________________________________

AGENDA

Section on Family 2017 ASA Business Meeting

11:30am Tuesday August 15th, 2017

Location: Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517C

1. Chair’s Welcome

2. Review and approval of the minutes

3. Thank you to Reception Organizers

4. Acknowledgements of Council Members & Election Update

5. 2017 Award Winners & Award Committees

6. Request for Section volunteers

7. Communications & Social Media

8. Sessions for 2018 Meeting

9. 2018 Reception planning

10. Membership report

11. Budget report (Jenifer Bratter)

12. Announcements

a. RC06 Conference (Mark Hutter)

13. Proposed section bylaw revisions

14. SocArXiv initiative

15. Incoming Chair’s Welcome (Philip Cohen)

Section on Family 2017 ASA Business Meeting Minutes

11:30am Tuesday August 15th, 2017

Location: Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517C

Attendees: Approximately 40 section members.

1. Chair’s Welcome and Business Items. Megan Sweeney (Chair) welcomed members, acknowledged

the reception from the night before, and solicited volunteers for future section involvement.

2. Review and Approval of the Minutes. Jenifer (sec-treasurer) circulated the minutes from the past

business meeting. Kelly Raley moved to approve the minutes and Christine Percheski seconded. A

vocal vote was given to officially approve.

3. Thank you to Reception Organizers. Megan acknowledged the involvement of all who made last

night’s reception possible and thanked those present for attending. Megan acknowledged the population

section’s involvement via co-sponsorship and John Iceland as president for helping organize.

4. Acknowledgements of Council Members & Election Update. Megan also acknowledged the out-

going members Gwen Zugarek, Sarah Damaske, Kevin Roy, for their service and the following new

incoming members- Philip Cohen (Chair), Sharon Sassler (Chair-Elect), Robert Crosnoe, Kei

Nomaguchi, and Joanna Pepin, our new student representative

5. 2017 Award Winners and Award Committees. Megan acknowledged the award winners who were

announced at last night’s reception. She also acknowledged the following members for chairing

committees - Wendy Manning (Goode Book award), Judith Levine (Distinguished Career Award),

Megan Sweeney (Outstanding Student paper award), Kevin Roy (article of the year) and Sarah Damaske

(Nominations). Finally, she acknowledged the work of the committees themselves and the members

involved.

6. Request for Section Volunteers. Megan returned to the request for volunteers for involvement in the

section. A sheet was passed around for members to indicate their name/email address and their interest

in specific section activities. Megan made a special push for members who live in the Philadelphia area

who could help with identifying a venue for next year’s reception.

7. Communications and Social Media. Megan discussed the need for section volunteers to provide help

with our social media presence. Joanna Pepin is in charge of our webpage and is keeping it updated.

We are also seeking help with the Facebook page and Megan made a special call for volunteers for

involvement in social media. Sung Park also volunteered for help on this front. Those interested were

directed to contact the incoming chair Philip Cohen. Megan also opened up discussion on the listserv in

terms of frequency of messages (currently it arrives monthly) and content. Megan informed the group

that time-sensitive items could potentially be sent out more frequently if needed.

8. Sessions for 2018 Meeting. Megan informed the group that we expected to have 4 sessions in the 2018

meeting, plus a jointly sponsored session (with Population Section) and a roundtable session. Megan

also explained the complication of the rotation schedule used by ASA to assign section activities to

various days of the conference. In 2018, the Family Section will be on the first day of the meeting while

the Population Section’s day will be on the 4th day of the meeting.

9. 2018 Reception Planning. Megan discussed with the group that council was in favor of continuing the

tradition of co-sponsoring events with the Population Section in 2018, despite the difference in days.

The reception this year was a positive experience and so the council approved continuing with this

approach. The reception is tentatively scheduled for the second day of the meeting (as opposed to being

on the evening of the first day) and the reception will mark the end of the section’s activities.

10. Membership Report. Megan explained that our membership is down from last year where our

membership was 714 (in December 2016). Our current membership as of August 2017 (at the meeting)

is 660. Megan emphasized this is consistent with a longer term trend of modest decline for most

sections and is not unique. Megan encouraged the group to think about new ways to enhance

membership.

11. Budget Report. Jenifer (sec-treasurer) gave the report on the section’s budget. She emphasized that

overall, we were doing well. We had a solid financial cushion. As of the meeting, we have roughly

$8,500 in the bank. Although this is lower than last year this reflects the decline in membership that

impacts the section allocation. The section runs a small deficit (indicating our income is somewhat

smaller than our expenses) although we have a solid financial cushion. This deficit, which is common,

is actually smaller this year than it was in the past. Based on the assumption of membership increases,

we anticipate an even smaller deficit in the future. Jenifer then described the allocations for the

following year indicating that we would continue with the same allocations as last year.

12. Announcements. Mark Hutter spoke on behalf of the International Sociology Association (ISA)’s

Section on the Family (RC06) to promote submissions to their upcoming conference. The family

section is the 6th largest in all of ISA. Megan passed out the list of session topics. Mark informed the

group that the deadline was Sept 30th. The upcoming conference in is Toronto, but he also listed other

locations for other meetings. Mark emphasized the growing importance of international and global

scholarship and that every two years there is a forum. He encouraged interested Section members to get

in touch with him via email (Hutter@rowan.edu).

13. Proposed Section Bylaw Revision. Megan discussed the proposal to the revision to the bylaws which

encompassed both the (a) removal of references to the Section’s newsletter (discontinued after 2014)

and the Goode Book Award’s requirement that Council members on the committee be in their 2nd or 3rd

year of term. Christine Percheski motioned to approve. A member seconded. The formal vote will occur

electronically when ASA disseminates the election ballots.

14. SocArXiv initiative. Megan updated the section members on the council’s discussion of the SocArXiv

proposal by Philip Cohen. The original proposal required submissions to the family section graduate

student paper award to be made exclusively through SocArXiv. Megan expressed the concerns voiced

by council and section members on the potential implications of posting unpublished and un-vetted

papers publicly for the careers of junior scholars. Megan discussed the council’s three-pronged

recommendation: (1) Offer three options for submitting papers for consideration for the section’s grad

student paper award: (i) traditional route of e-mailing paper directly to the chair of the committee, (ii)

submitting via SocArXiv, (iii) submitting through another publically-accessible web platform (e.g.,

another archive, personal website) and sending the link to the chair of the committee. (2) Clearly state

that the pathway of submission has no bearing on the likelihood of winning the award, and (3) using this

year as a pilot and revisit submission guidelines at the next year’s meeting. Megan aimed to assess the

section’s comfort with the approach. No objections were raised.

15. Incoming Chair’s Welcome. Megan shared heartfelt gratitude to the section for a great year and

thanked all who were helpful to her as chair.

a. She reminded section members of future section activities and the need for volunteers and then

welcomed Philip Cohen, incoming Chair of the section, to the podium.

b. Philip also expressed gratitude to Megan for her leadership and expressed that he had no plans of

radical changes, and looked forward to working with everyone on the council and in the section.

He reminded members to provide ideas for section sections for next year’s metering. To increase

volunteering, he emphasized that it’s always important to widen the circle to include as much of

the membership as possible.

c. Philip also discussed the new initiative by ASA to centralize requests from media outlets for

experts. ASA would like each section to have a Public Engagement Liaison (PEL). Philip as

Chair will take this on for this year and report back on the volume of work it entails. This

position will be in charge of sending out media requests to the section.

d. Philip, as representative of SocArXiv, thanked the council for their decision. In this role, he

emphasized the need for SocArXiv to promote a vision aligned with the National Science

Foundation’s call for more transparency in the research process. His hope that that platforms like

SocArXiv can open the conversation.

e. Lastly, he emphasized regular communication with occur via e-mail with the section and invited

members to contact him if they had questions.

f. Philip thanked all those in attendance. Meeting adjourned at 12:10pm

Section Council Meeting In this portion of the report, please discuss your section’s deliberations at its Council Meeting. This portion of the report should include an agenda, a count or list of members present and a copy of the meeting’s minutes. If no minutes are available, please provide a summary of decisions made by the Section Council. Please include information on all other Council Meetings conducted during the previous year. ________________________________________________________________________________

AGENDA ASA Family Section Council Meeting, 2017

7:00-8:15 on Tuesday August 15th, 2017.

Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 520C.

1. Introductions and Welcome

2. Review and Approval of the Minutes (Jenifer Bratter)

3. Reports from Committee Chairs a. Nominations (Sarah Damaske / Megan Sweeney) b. Graduate Student Paper (Megan Sweeney) c. Goode Book Award (Wendy Manning / Jenifer Bratter) d. Distinguished Scholar Award (Judith Levine) e. Best Article Award (Kevin Roy) f. Communications Director (Gwen Zugarek / Megan Sweeney)

i. Facebook, Twitter, Webpage

4. 2018 Committees a. Nominations

i. Bylaws: 5 section members. b. Graduate Student Paper (Philip Cohen - Chair)

i. Bylaws: Chaired by the Section Chair. Two additional members. c. Goode Book Award (Megan Sweeney – Chair + 2 Council Members)

i. Bylaws: 6 members. Chaired by immediately preceding Section Chair as non-voting member. The other 5 members of the committee include 2 council

members in the second or third year of term and 3 other Section members who are not on Council. If possible, should include preceding year’s book award winner [Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin].

d. Distinguished Scholar award (2 Council members) i. Bylaws: Five members. Two members of council, two section members, one

graduate student. If possible, includes preceding career award winner [Kathleen Gerson]

e. Best Article Award (Claudia Geist, Dawn Dow, + three new members - recommend including 1 additional Council member)

i. Bylaws: Five members. Members serve a two-year term, with three members rotating off (on) one year and two members rotating off (on).

5. Mentorship plan and activities (Megan Sweeney)

a. Professional Socialization Roundtables – Publishing and Navigating Job Market b. Ideas for future: Mentorship liaison?

6. Reception (Megan Sweeney)

a. Co-sponsor for 2018 reception, section rotation schedule b. Support for reception

7. Sessions for 2018 Meeting (Megan Sweeney)

8. Proposed bylaws revision (Megan Sweeney)

9. Membership (Megan Sweeney)

10. Budget report (Jenifer Bratter)

11. Proposal from Philip Cohen on SocArXiv initiative

Section on Family 2017 ASA Council Meeting Minutes 7:00-8:15 on Monday August 15th, 2017.

Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 520C.

Attendees: Present: Megan Sweeney (Chair), Kei Nomaguchi, Joana Pepin, Sharron Sassler, Christina Cross,

Judith Levine, Claudia Geist, Jenifer Bratter (Sec-Treas), Philip Cohen (Chair-Elect)

15. Introductions and Welcomes. Megan called the meeting to order, welcomed all present and thanked

them for coming. Megan and Jenifer passed out the minutes for review. Megan began with

introductions of the newest members to council.

16. Review and Approval of the Minutes (Jenifer Bratter). The council reviewed the minutes from the

2016 meeting. Jenifer moved to approve them and Claudia seconded. All voted and the minutes were

approved.

17. Reports from Committee Chairs

a. Nominations Committee (Chair: Sarah Damaske, absent – report provided by Megan).

The committee was composed of Jennifer Barber, Margaret Gough, Bart Sykes, Cecilia

Menjivar. The process of securing nominations went smoothly. Sarah recruited primarily from

the list of volunteers that the committee had received at the meeting. These were communicated

via e-mail and a shared box folder. The committee also used the excel spreadsheets that the

section has kept to get an idea of names of people who had volunteered for the section in recent

years. The committee members also offered a few names for nomination. From that, the chair put

together an excel spreadsheet and then we had a one hour phone meeting with committee

members to decide who to ask. The committee was sensitive to increasing diversity (e.g., by

race, gender, university type). The list of names was sent to the chair (Megan) for use in future

nominations. This includes a list for secretary treasurer, but ASA realized that they had made a

mistake and the election for treasurer was not meant to happen this year. These may be a good

resource for coming years.

b. Graduate Student paper award Committee (chaired by Megan Sweeney). The committee

was composed of three members: Megan Sweeney (chair), Keera Allendorf, and Paula Fomby.

Megan gave a report. The papers were of high quality and very competitive. Ultimately, the

process went well. The chair assigned two reviewers each round. Philip asked if any were of

such poor quality that they should not have been submitted and Sharon asked if they had done

away with the nomination letter. Megan’s response on paper quality was overall the quality of

papers submitted was exceptionally high, but there were outliers. If the committee size changes

in the future, Megan recommended maintaining an odd number of members to facilitate clear

vote outcomes.

c. Goode Book Award Committee (chaired by Wendy Manning and discussed by Jenifer at

the meeting). Wendy Manning chaired the 2017 Goode Book award. The committee included

Andrew Cherlin (Johns Hopkins U and former Goode book winner), Julia McQuillan (U of

Nebraska), Sangyoub Park (Washburn U), Susan Stewart (Iowa State U), and Kristin Turney (U

of California Irvine). Wendy did not vote or weigh in on the decision (in adherence to the

bylaws). The committee received 27 nominations (some nominations arrived without a

corresponding book but the chair responded to all nominations. The committee chair generated a

spreadsheet with relevant information and ensured all books were eligible (excluding those that

have been considered for more than two years.) There was a query from one publisher about

using publication vs. copyright dates as a basis for submission. Ultimately, the committee chair

decided to consider the copyright date in this individual case. The committee chair suggested that

it may be worth developing a formal policy about this issue in the future, but also noted that the

copyright year and the publication year will be the same in the vast majority of cases.

Committee was contacted in the end of February with the nominated books. Although books

reviewed in hard-copy format, future committees may want to explore the possibility of

circulating nominated books in PDF or other electronic format. The committee had until 5/25 to

review books. While not all members read every book, every book was reviewed by three

committee members. Committee members ranked their top 5 books (chairs should be cognizant

of potential conflicts of interest when assigning books).

The process was time intensive, as not all members had originally been assigned to read the

finalist books, so extra time was needed to assure that all “top books” had been read by each

committee member. This was done during late spring/early summer which conflicted with

traveling/vacation schedules, incurring some delays. Committee members were given 6/5 to

select their top choices and consensus was reached on 6/13. In the future, the committee chair

recommended more time for the final review. No consensus was reached regarding any single

book which might receive an honorable mention.

The committee chair notified everyone who submitted books of the outcome of their submission.

A few authors emailed back asking who won and many appreciated the notification. The winning

book for 2017 was, Coming of Age in the Other America, written by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan

Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin.

Wendy Manning (committee chair) suggested that future committees may want to add one or two

additional committee members to spread the workload and recommended providing additional

time for the review process.

The council was supportive of offering honorable mentions at the discretion of future book

award committees, but to keep expenses down recommended that no plaque be provided. They

council also decided that adjusting the timeline of review was necessary. First round cuts should

occur in February or March to give committee more time to review. Others asked if presses

should be able to nominate books. Megan said she would keep an eye out to see if that was a

convention for other competitions.

d. Distinguished Scholar Award. Report provided by chair, Judith Levine. Committee members

were Elizabeth Armstrong, Philip Cohen, Christina Cross, and Brian Powell. The Winner:

Kathleen Gerson of New York University. The committee had a total of 7 nominations. The

committee only received one nomination by the time of the original deadline and the Section

Chair and Committee Chair thus decided to extend the deadline. An additional two nominations

were submitted by this extended deadline. The committee thus had three nominations to

consider. Given the small number, with the Section Chair’s approval the Committee Chair

invited committee members to make nominations. This resulted in an additional five

nominations.

To decide on a winner, after reviewing all of the nomination letters and nominee CVs, each

committee member gave a ranked list of his/her top three choices to the chair. Although more

difference of opinion was expected, a clear consensus did emerge from the initial rankings and

the committee decided that further discussion was not necessary.

Committee composition worked well. The committee was composed of four tenured faculty

members and one graduate student specializing in a nice range of areas. Members responded

quickly to requests by email and the process was highly efficient.

The one area for improvement is the number of nominations. The call for nominations alone

does not seem adequate for getting a robust pool. Direct tapping of the committee’s networks

might be more effective. Perhaps each committee member could email five colleagues asking

for nominations and asking those colleagues to each email five colleagues. The Chair also

suggests dropping the nomination letter, under the assumption that removing this barrier would

increase the number of nominations. Council saw costs and benefits to this approach, as the

willingness to write a letter is an indication of how strongly the nominator is advocating for a

nominee.

Despite the fact that the committee only received three outside nominations, once the committee

members added nominations, the committee had a list of seven excellent candidates, all of whom

were suitable for the award. Given that, perhaps the small number of nominations is not really a

problem.

In discussion, Megan confirmed that only one nomination was secured last year. Sharon Sassler

suggested that the additional nominees be passed on to future committees. Judith emphasized the

need for committee members to tap networks.

e. Best Article award. Report provided by chair, Kevin Roy. This committee received 20

nominations, down from 24 in 2016. Half of the submissions were self-nominations. 14 of the

nominated articles were published in the most recent year (2016), with another 3 from 2015 and

2 from 2014. One article was nominated twice, by different nominators – and this article

eventually was selected as the award winner. The selection occurred over three rounds. Round 1:

Submit a ranked list (1-5, 1 being highest) of the top 5 papers, based on creativity/ originality of

research; strength of argument; potential impact on field of family sociology; quality of sources

and data; and clarity and coherence of writing. Due Monday, May 8. Round 2: The committee

chair combined rankings, identifying top 5 papers across all five reviewers, and provide the

committee with an Excel ranking sheet. The committee then read these five papers closely, as a

group, and scored each from 0-10 on the above criteria. Also added written comments on top

three choices. Due Monday, May 22. Round 3: The committee chair combined rankings and

identified paper with highest overall score.

The Chair recommends more promotion of the award throughout ASA’s other sections – not just

the Family section. We need more third-party nominations, with sociologists who read widely

with an eye toward excellent family research, and knowing that they should nominate articles for

the award. Additionally, Kevin notes that over a third of all nominations came from Journal of

Marriage and Family (JMF), which is the top-tier journal for sociology of family research.

However, only 2 nominations came from mainstream sociology journals. Raising an interesting

question- are all of the best family sociology articles segregated into JMF and a few other

journals – or should we encourage and perhaps committee-nominate reviews of other journals,

searching for best article nominations? Finally, the committee should be composed of reviewers

with not only appreciation of but expertise in multiple methodological approaches: quantitative,

qualitative, and mixed methods

f. Communications Director (Gwen Zugarek, Megan provided the update). Megan thanked

Gwen for going above and beyond the call of duty in communicating with members during the

year, and especially at the annual meeting, when ASA’s Family Section listserve failed due to a

technical glitch at the ASA offices. Section has been posting on Facebook – we have two

volunteers to do this work. Megan suggested that we can do even more on this front as a section.

In terms of the listserv, most felt the frequency of communication was working well. For busy

times (when job announcements or calls for papers are coming out) we can add an announcement

or post to Facebook. Gwen is cycling off and Joanna Pepin may be stepping in. Megan

encouraged the section to post and like the section’s Facebook page.

18. Committees for 2018.

a. Graduate Student paper – Philip will chair. Bylaws: Chaired by the Section Chair. Two

additional members needed.

b. Goode- Megan will chair, with two additional council members). According to the by-laws, the

other 5 members of the committee include 2 council members in the second or third year of term

and 3 other Section members who are not on Council. If possible, should include preceding

year’s book award winner which would be Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn

Edin.

c. Best Article. (Claudia Geist will chair, Dawn Dow will serve, + three new members -

recommend including 1 additional Council member. According to the by-laws, Five members.

Members serve a two-year term, with three members rotating off (on) one year and two members

rotating off (on).

d. Distinguished Scholar –Julia was suggested as chair. According to the by-laws- there are Five

members. Two members of council, two section members, one graduate student. If possible,

includes preceding career award winner [Kathleen Gerson]

e. Nominations- Sarah is rotating off the council. Other members will be identified.

19. Mentorship plan and activities (Megan Sweeney).

a. Round Tables dedicated to Mentorship/ Mentorship Plans. Megan discussed that two

professionalization tables were included amongst the roundtables. An email went out to

advertise. These tables are hosted by a senior and a mid-career person. Megan expressed

interested in doing more mentoring activities in section. Christina Cross volunteered to help and

be a mentoring liaison and leader. She mentioned that she had been doing similar activities at

University of Michigan and so she and Philip will brainstorm various activities. Various ideas

were discussed including matching on interests, conducting a lunch, and consulting graduate

students on their preferences.

20. Reception for 2018 in Philadelphia (Megan Sweeney)

a. Megan discussed co-sponsoring with the population section for our reception. The rotation

schedule will place us on different days with family on day 1 of the conference and population

on day 4. The population section agreed to hold the reception on day 2 and the council agreed

that this was also a great strategy. We will work with the chair of population section, Mark

Hayward, on identifying a site in Philadelphia.

21. Sessions for 2018 Meeting. The Family section has four sessions in addition to a joint section with

population, that will convene on the last day. Megan informed the council that we will work with ASA

to have any family –relevant regular sessions on different days to limit overlap.

22. Proposed By-Law Revisions. Megan circulated two revisions to the bylaws. One included a removal

the (now obsolete) newsletter from the bylaws and the second was removing the requirement that

Council members on the Goode book award be in their second or third year of their term on the council.

Sharon moved to vote and Claudia seconded. The vote was unanimous.

23. Membership Update (Megan). Megan informed the council that membership is down from last year

(at roughly same time point) by seven percent. The council discussed the influences of an international

conference (this meeting was the least attended as far as anyone knew) as well as the cut off for counting

members and the timeline for registration.

24. Budget Report. Jenifer (sec-treasurer) gave the report on the section’s budget. In all, we ended the

year with $700.00 less than last year. She emphasized that overall, we were doing well. We had a solid

financial cushion. As of the meeting, we have roughly $8,500 in the bank (once post-meeting expenses

are accounted for). Although this is lower than last year this reflects the decline in membership that

impacts the section allocation. The section runs a small deficit (indicating our income is somewhat

smaller than our expenses) although we have a solid financial cushion. This deficit, which is common,

is actually smaller this year than it was in the past. Based on the assumption of membership increases,

we anticipate an even smaller deficit in the future. Jenifer then described the allocations for the

following year indicating that we would continue with the same allocations as last year.

a. Overview of expenses in the past year. Most expenses are on-track from last year. We were

able to provide funds to offset costs for travel 3 grad student helpers ($300 / each). Additionally,

not doing a poster to recognize winners (and having a powerpoint instead) also reduced costs.

Finally, the non-breakfast approach with gift cards instead of a catered breakfast worked well

and kept costs down.

b. Draft Budget. Jenifer presented a draft budget that included slightly less money for our

reception, $600 for student ravel, and slightly more for plaques to cover expenses of shipping.

Jenifer moved to approve the draft budget. Philip seconded. The vote was unanimous. The

budget was approved by council.

25. Proposal from Philip Cohen on SocArXiv initiative. Philip introduced the proposal from SocArXiv

to require graduate students who submit papers to the paper competition to archive them on the site.

This proposal was sent to the council and some members gave feedback personally to Megan. Philip

reiterated that the archive will compensate the winner with travel funds. Philip discussed that it’s a

program he runs from University of Maryland with internal and external grant money. Its similar to

other archives in Math and Physics, and open science and open access journals. Philip also explained

that many disciplines are engaged with this approach and some journals require people post the paper

before it goes out for review. He emphasized that reliable reproduction of science is the future direction

many are moving towards.

Philip also offered a “weaker proposal” where less money is offered ($250 instead of $400) to not overly

encourage students to do this. The hope, according to Philip, is that people will get into the habit of

using the technology. Others agreed with this approach. Megan also suggested to avoid the appearance

of impropriety in light of Philips overlapping roles (as SocArXiv promoter, the chair of the section, and

chair of the awards committee where individuals have to submit their papers), that the call for papers

includes multiple links with various acceptable options for submitting papers. Claudia offered that it

should be clear that this pathway of submission does not include the changes of wining and this could be

a test year to see how it goes. Megan suggested that the call for papers have three options for submitting.

First, as a .pdf to the chair, second as a submission to SocArXiv, and third, as a submission to another

open-access database / website. There should be an explicit statement that this will not affect the

chances of winning. Philip expressed concerns of recommending other sites as he could not vouch for

their quality and he would not recommend that strategy. Ultimately, the council would have to vote on

the call for papers.

Jenifer moved to adjournment and Claudia second and the meeting was adjourned at 8:15am.

Meeting was adjourned by Megan at 8:15am

State of the Section Budget Did your section operate within its budget for this year? Please include a copy of last year’s projected budget and compare it with actual expenses. The section did operate within its budget. Our expenses did not exceed our projections from the previous year. Last year, we projected to spend $3,500 on our reception, $300 on our council breakfast, roughly $500 on plaques and associated expenses, and another $600 on supported travel (see Attachment A, column under Approved Budget 2017). In terms of actual expenditures, we spent less than we had projected, helping us to maintain our resources in the midst of on-going debt (spending more than our annual income). The final cost for the reception was less than $3000, due to cost sharing with the population section. Our expenses for plaques were $300 and our council breakfast cost less than $200 due to providing council members with gift cards at $11 each. Other expenses such as providing support for student travel for our student representatives and our website matched our expectations (Please see Attachment B, BUDGET REPORT, under Expenditures). ________________________________________________________________________________

An operating budget for the coming year approved by the Section Council. A separate spreadsheet is provided to calculate the planning budget and track expenses. Please work with your Section’s Secretary Treasurer on this point. The budget is of critical importance to the Committee on Sections and must be included with the section’s annual report. ________________________________________________________________________________

Statements, Notes, Observations Please feel free to use this space for anything that does not fit above. ________________________________________________________________________________

The Previous Year This section discusses your section’s activities during your term as Section Chair.

Overview Please provide an overview of your section’s programming for the last year. We also invite you to include information on the state of the section, sentiments of the members, important issues in the field. Key issues discussed by Council and our broader membership are descried above. Programming for the 2017 meeting is shown below and also linked to our Section’s web page (http://www.asafamilysection.com/asa-2017.html). Race, Ethnicity, Social Class, and Families Session Organizer: Jenifer L. Bratter, Rice University Mon, August 14, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 513F New Data and Research Approaches for Studying Families Session Organizer: Sheela Kennedy, University of Michigan Mon, August 14, 4:30 to 6:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 513E Family Relationships across the Life Course Session Organizer: Jenjira Yahirun, University of Hawai'iMānoa Tue, August 15, 8:30 to 10:10am, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 513A *Section on Sociology of the Family Refereed Roundtables Session Organizer: Jessica McCrory Calarco, Indiana University Tue, August 15, 10:30 to 11:30am, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517C Family, Work, and Gender Session Organizer: Liana C. Sayer, University of Maryland Tue, August 15, 12:30 to 2:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 513B Families, Health, and Well-Being Session Organizer: David Warner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Tue, August 15, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 513A

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Recruiting and Retention Efforts What efforts did your section make to retain last year’s members and reach out to new members? What were the results of the section’s retention efforts? We actively reached out to members via social media and our regular newsletter (see below). Our membership, however, has continued the modest downward trend observed in recent years. Although our Section is certainly not alone in experiencing some shrinkage, it is something to keep an eye on and to make efforts to stem in the future. ________________________________________________________________________________

Communications Strategy How does your section communicate with its members? Did it begin using any new technologies or techniques, if so were they effective? Please include links to your section’s website, newsletter and other electronic media used. In 2016-17, the Family Section continued to enhance our presence on social media, including maintaining an increasingly active Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ASASocFamily) and twitter account (https://twitter.com/ASA_Family). We also maintained and improved our section web page (http://www.asafamilysection.com/). We sent out a monthly email newsletter to all members (on or about the 15th of each month) and also posted more time-sensitive items to our Facebook page. ________________________________________________________________________________

Statements, Notes, Observations Please feel free to use this space for anything that does not fit above. Chair Sweeney worked with past section chairs and committee chairs to document and compile information about past section activities, committee compositions, and rotation rules. We hope that this information will be helpful to future section chairs and nominations chairs as a record of member involvement and programming in the section. The chair established a shared storage directory for this file, and all other files that will be useful sources of institutional memory for future section chairs and secretary-treasurers.

2017 ASA Family Section Awardees were as follows: Distinguished Career Award: Kathleen Gerson, New York University William J. Goode Book Award: "Coming of Age in the Other America" Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Saint Joseph's University Kathryn Edin, Johns Hopkins University Best Article of the Year Award:

"Parenthood and Happiness: Effects of Work-Family Reconciliation Policies in 22 OECD Countries" Jennifer Glass, University of Texas, Austin Matthew Andersson, Baylor University Robin Simon, Wake Forest University Best Graduate Student Paper Award: "Own Gender, Sibling's Gender, Parent's Gender: The Division of Elderly Parent Care among Adult Children" Angelina Grigoryeva, Princeton University _____________________________________________________________________

The Coming Year This portion of the report discusses your section’s plans for next year.

Elections and Nominations This section details who is on the section’s Nominations Committee and how they were appointed. If your section does not have a standing Nominations Committee, please discuss your process for nominating candidates for next year’s elections. We do not have a standing nominations committee. The composition changes annually, with names suggested at the August Council meeting and volunteers solicited during the August Business Meeting. Philip Cohen, our 2017-18 Section Chair, will determine the composition of the Nominations Committee for the coming year. In 2016, the Nominations Committee was chaired by Sarah Damaske and included Jennifer Barber, Margaret Gough, Bart Sykes, Cecilia Menjivar. The Chair recruited members from the list of volunteers that the committee had received at the meeting. These were communicated via e-mail and a shared box folder. The committee also used the excel spreadsheets that the section has kept to get an idea of names of people who had volunteered for the section in recent years. The committee members also offered a few names for nomination. From that, the chair put together an excel spreadsheet and followed-up with a conference call with committee members to decide who to nominate. The committee was sensitive to increasing diversity (e.g., by race, gender, university type). ________________________________________________________________________________

Plans for the coming year. What sort of programming will your section conduct for next year’s Annual Meeting. Will the section begin any new projects before then? Various ideas to improving mentorship opportunities of students were considered at our August Council meeting. The possibility of involving one of our Student Council members as a Mentorship Programming Chair was discussed. Considerable enthusiasm was also expressed for continuing to develop our professional socialization themed topics at the annual Section roundtables. ________________________________________________________________________________

Statements, Notes, Observations Please feel free to use this space for anything that does not fit above. ________________________________________________________________________________

The Association and the Executive Office

This is your opportunity to put items onto the agenda of the Committee on Sections and ASA Staff.

What issues would you like raised or recommendations would you like to make to the ASA Council and Committee on Sections? This is your opportunity to make policy suggestions or discuss any difficulties that your section encountered during your tenure as Section Chair. We appreciate that the official section membership count was completed in fall, rather than in July as originally announced. A July count would have excluded folks who renew their memberships at or immediately before the annual meeting. ________________________________________________________________________________

What issues would you like raised or recommendations would you like to make to ASA Staff? Please feel free to suggest improvements to sections procedures or services provided to sections. We realize that ASA staff support was complicated by a transition in the ASA offices following the departure of Justin Lini, and appreciate efforts made by remaining staff to allow things to run as smoothly as possible under difficult circumstances. Just a few snafus that are worth mentioning here: We ran into a major problem at the annual meeting when our ASA Section listserv entirely stopped working. This greatly complicated sending reminders to our members about meeting sessions, reception location, etc. Our Section election results (along with all other sections) were posted online immediately by the ASA offices, and thus were tweeted out and widely shared by section members before we could personally notify nominees about the election outcome. I believe this was a departure from prior practice. It would be nice to allow at least a day or two for section leaders to reach out to, and thank, section election nominees before the results are distributed more widely by the ASA office. Many thanks for considering this! ________________________________________________________________________________

Statements, Notes, Observations Please feel free to use this space for anything that doesn’t fit above. ________________________________________________________________________________

Sociology of the Family Report for Current Year

For more information please contact the Section Coordinator,Mark Fernando (mfernando@asanet.org)

ExpendituresAnnual Meeting Amount Code

Reception $2,952.00 37300

Other Meeting Expenses $0.00 37310

Misc $200.00 37320

Other $300.00 37370

Total $3,452.00 n/a

Awards Amount Code

Student Awards $0.00 37360

Award Plaques $359.57 37360

Misc 37360

Other 37360

Total $359.57 n/a

Communications Amount Code

Website $36.00 37330

Misc $0.00 37370

Other 37370

Total $36.00 n/a

Miscellaneous Amount Code

Membership 37370

Misc 37370

Other 37370

Total $0.00 n/a

Summary

Total Expenditures

Current Year's Income

Carryover Balance

End of Year Balance

Note: All shaded areas are self calculating. This budget template only covers activity for your section's primary

account. Any restricted accounts and endowments must be monitored and reported on separately. Please use the

Notes field to provide information on miscellaneous or other expenditures.

Notes

co-sponsored with population section

plaques

Council breakfast

graduate student travel funding

Notes

Plaque

Notes

Subscription to weebly

Travel Funding

Notes

Gift Memberships may not be funded from

allocated funds. Funds must be raised for

this purpose.

Amount Notes

$3,847.57

$3,663.00

$8,954.00 From Net Assets, Beginning Balance in Q1

$8,769.43

IncomeSource Amount

Section Allocation $2,442.00

Description

Levied Dues $721.00

Description

Contributions $0.00

Description

Royalties $0.00

Description

Outside Contributions $500.00

Description

Miscellaneous Income $0.00

Description

Miscellaneous Income $0.00

Description

Total $3,663.00

Calculated

Fill this in using the "Section Budget Allocation" from the "Year to Date" Column

Special

Fill this in using the "Dues Income" from the "Year to Date" Column. Your section may not collect

excess dues. Dues income accrues on a monthly basis, so this number will change over time.

n/a

These are funds raised from members.

n/a

Royalties donated by members or generated through other activities.

n/a

Funds donated from individuals/entities outside the section.

n/a

Anything not captured above. Please replace this text with a description

n/a

Anything not captured above. Please replace this text with a description

n/a

Sociology of the Family Budget for 2018

For more information please contact the Section Coordinator, Mark Fernando(mfernando@asanet.org)

Budgeted ExpendituresAnnual Meeting Amount Code

Reception $3,500.00 37300

Other Meeting Expenses $200.00 37310

Misc $0.00 37320

Other 37370

Total $3,700.00 n/a

Awards Amount Code

Student Awards 37360

Award Plaques $375.00 37360

Misc 37360

Other $0.00 37360

Total $375.00 n/a

Communications Amount Code

Website 37330

Misc $600.00 37370

Other 37370

Total $600.00 n/a

Miscellaneous Amount Code

Membership 37370

Misc 37370

Other 37370

Total $0.00 n/a

Summary

Budgeted Expenditures

Estimated Income

Carryover Balance

Est. End of Year Balance

Note: All green shaded areas are self calculating. This budget template only covers activity for your section's

primary account. Any restricted accounts and endowments must be monitored and reported on separately. Please

use the Notes field to provide information on miscellaneous or other expenditures.

Notes

Use this sheet to assist with planning for the next year. All operating budgets must be approved by the section

council.

Estimated cost for co-sponsored reception

based on prior year's allocation for council

Notes

Covers plaques for all awards + Shipping

Notes

For travel for webmaster

Notes

Amount Notes

$4,675.00

$3,711.00

$8,769.43 Brought over from current year's report

$7,805.43

Estimated IncomeSource Amount

Section Allocation $2,500.00 750

Description

Levied Dues $1,211.00 494 223 27

Description

Contributions

Description

Royalties

Description

Outside Contributions $0.00

Description

Miscellaneous Income $0.00

Description

Miscellaneous Income $0.00

Description

Total $3,711.00

Calculated

(Members*2)+A

"A" is determined by the overall membership size: Sections with fewer than 200 members receive a

base allocation of $500. Sections with less than 300 members but more than 200 members receive a

base allocation of: (# of section members minus 100) multiplied by $5. Sections with more than 300

members receive a base allocation of $1,000. In addition the section receives two dollars from dues

of each member. To calculate this amount enter your section's membership in the

shaded box on the left. See your monthly membership report update for these

numbers.

Special

Any dues raised by the sections in excess of the base rate go directly to the section's coffers. The base

rate is $10 for regular members, $5 for students and $10 for associate (low income) members.

Subscription Fees for Section Journals are not added here. To calculate this, add regular

members to the light shaded box, student members to the middle shaded box, and low

income members to the dark shaded box on the left hand side. See your monthly

membership report update for these numbers.

n/a

These are funds raised from members.

n/a

Royalties donated by members or generated through other activities.

n/a

n/a

Funds donated from individuals/entities outside the section.

n/a

Anything not captured above. Please replace this text with a description

n/a

Anything not captured above. Please replace this text with a description

Completed BudgetApproved Budget Draft Budget

2016 2017 2018

SECTION INCOMEDues Income $1,176.00 $1,200.00 $515.00 $1,045.93 $1,062.13Section Allocation $2,598.00 $2,500.00 $2,442.00 $2,288.00 $2,307.95Other Income: Reception Contributions $950.00 $0.00 $0.00 $500.00 $0.00TOTAL INCOME $4,724.00 $3,700.00 $2,957.00 $3,833.93 $3,370.09

Section ExpensesAM Reception $4,049.00 $3,500.00 $1,750.00 $3,500.00 $3,500.00Council Breakfast 195.00 $300.00 $0.00 200.00 $200.00Newsletter $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 0.00 $0.00Awards (*good Award Separate) $0.00 $500.00 $0.00 0.00 $0.00Other 0 $50.00 $0.00 0.00 $0.00Travel for Editor Webmaster $900.00 $600.00 $0.00 300.00 $600.00Other (Plaques) $246.26 $400.00 $0.00 359.57 $375.00Total $5,390.26 $5,350.00 $1,750.00 $4,359.57 $4,675.00

($666.26) ($1,650.00) $1,207.00 ($525.64) ($1,304.91)

Net Assets Beginning Balance/Prior Year Balance Forward $9,178.00 $8,744.00 * $8,511.74 $8,511.74 $7,986.10Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets -$666.26 -$1,650.00 $1,207.00 -$525.64 -$1,304.91Net Assets Ending Balance $8,511.74 $7,094.00 ** $9,718.74 $7,986.10 $6,681.19

*Reflects end of the year based on different information than the approved budget from prior year using 10,777 figure. This prior figure was incorrect on the draft budget 2017. **This figure reflects what we expected to end the year. This is corrected to reflect the end of year total, not what was expected based on - June figures-. Reflected corrected end of year balance.

Projected Budget

2017

Actual (YTD 6/30/17) Expected

ASA Family Section Budget Information, 2017 Meetings