(1983). Research Round-Up. Connections, 6 (2) - INSNA

- 4 -returned to Wuppertal, West Germany . . . PETER D'ABBS moved to Darwin Community College, Northern Territories,Australia . . . LEA HAGOEL now at the Dept . of Family and Community Health, Medical School, the Technion,Haifa, Israel . . . JOANNE MANTELL now at 59 Maiden Lane, New York, New York 10038 . . . PETER MARIOLIS nowat 800 E . Morningside Dr ., Atlanta, GA 30324 . . . DAN PERLMAN appointed Professor of Family Science, Univof British Columbia . . . CHARLES TILLY and LOUISE TILLY moving to the New School for Social Research as of1984-85 academic year . . . BONNIE ERICKSON on sabbatical, Survey Research Center, Cal-Berkeley, 9/83-8/84 . . .BARRY WELLMAN and BEV WELLMAN on sabbatical, Institute for Urban and Regional Development, Cal-Berkeley1/84-8/84 . . . Former INSNA Associate Editor, R .J . (Jack) Richardson now Assistant Prof . of AdministrativeScience, Western Ontario .Richard Emerson, 1925-1982Richard Emerson (Sociology, Univ of Washington) died recently and unexpectedly . His colleague,collaborator and former student, Karen Cook, writes :"He is one of the major architects of social exchange theory . And his articles on power anddependence published in the early 1960s in SOCIOMETRY and the AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW remain amongthe most frequently cited pieces in the social science literature . . . His own work over the pastdecade is evidence of the ease with which he could move from micro to macro levels, from the lab tothe field . Both the collaborative experimental research on exchange networks he was engaged in andhis field historical research on power in the remote villages of the Himalayan Rim were informed byexchange concepts ."(from ASA FOOTNOTES, 5/83) .Although Emerson never hung around with the North American network crowd, his work on power-dependenceremained central in my thinking . Indeed, in writing my "Network Analysis" piece for SOC THEORY 83 I oftenfelt that I was essentially trying to get him to see the power of juxtaposing network analysis and exchangetheory . We've all lost a worthy collaborator .Calls for Papers ---- The new JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS comes from a highly active "personal relationships"/"interpersonal attraction" crowd of social psychologists . Although originally interested only in the dyad,they are gradually coming to treat networks as more than context . First issue due out 1/84 .The Journal will have a deliberate multidisciplinary editorial structure . Papers are invited from anyworkers who concern themselves with social and personal relationships, whether as independent or dependentvariables . Examples of suitable areas are : processes of relationship development and dissolution, relationshipsacross the life cycle, characteristics of stable and unstable relationships, methods of studyingrelationships, techniques for repairing relationships, all aspects of relationships and health . Specifictopics might include family, children's peer relations, behavioural studies of relationships, strong andweak ties, patron-client ties . Send manuscripts to Steve Duck, Psychology Department, Fylde College, Univof Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YF, England .-- The CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY will devote a 1985 issue to "The Politics of Social Research ."Papers should focus on the aftermath of social research, especially negative reactions to research fromsubjects, their representatives, or other interested parties . Some matters for consideration are thenature of research bargains, access to data, attempts to alter research reports or block publication, andattempts to discredit research after publication . Manuscripts (by 31 August, 1984) to Anthony Doob, Centreof Criminology, Univ of Toronto, 130 St . George Street, Toronto, M5S lAl . Canada .-- The Survey Research Section of the American Statistical Association invites papers on survey methodologyfor a special section of the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION . The central theme will bemethodological issues of nonsampling errors of surveys . Manuscripts (by 31 March, 1984) to Joseph Sedransk,Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY-Albany, 1400 Washington Ave ., Albany, NY 12222, U .S .A .Another Good StartAnother valuable addition to our brief list of entry-points into network analysis (in last issue)is Everett Rogers and D . Lawrence Kincaid's COMMUNICATION NETWORKS . It's clearly written, pretty comprehensive(386 pp .) and introduces methods in a non-intimidating way . However, it's only available in an expensivehard cover edition (from Free Press) . See this issue's New Books for more information .Networking-- CAROL BALDWIN (Baldwin Associates, Washington, D .C .) is offering a series of 2-day networking skillsdevelopment seminars across the U .S ., sponsored by the Control Data Corp .