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1996年8月16—20日,美国社会学协会在美国纽约召开了第91届年会,来自世界各国的4000余名社会学家云集希尔顿饭店和谢瑞顿饭店,共同探讨“社会变迁:机会与约束”这一大会主题。笔者和南京大学的宋林飞教授也应缴参加了这次盛会。美国社会学协会是1905年从美国经济学协会独立出来的,最初称为美国社会学学会ASS(American Sociological Society),会员只有100多人。到第一次世界大战前会员已达700多,第二次世界大战后,美国社会学学会改为美国社会学协会ASA(American Socilogical Associa-tiom)。1960年协会会员总数超过6000人,而到1995年美国社会学协会的会员已有12 346名。目前美国社会学协会已不仅仅是美国社会学家的协会了,已经成为各国社会学家交流的场所。如1995年第90届年会的与会代表中,亚洲代表占7.5%,非洲代表占3.9%(美国社会学会要求参加年会的代表是它的会员)。当代美国社会学之父沃德(Lester Ward)担任第一任会长,耶鲁大学的萨姆纳(William Sumner)担任第二任会长,哥伦比亚大学社会学系的创始
On August 16-20, 1996, the American Association of Sociological Societies held its 91st Annual Meeting in New York, United States. More than 4,000 sociologists from all over the world gathered in Hilton Hotel and Xie Ruitun Hotel to discuss “Social Change: Opportunities and constraints ”the theme of this conference. The author and Professor Song Linfei from Nanjing University also paid their respects to the event. The American Society of Sociology, which was independent of the American Economic Association in 1905, was originally called the American Society of Sociological Society ASS, with a membership of just over 100. By the end of World War I, membership had reached more than 700. After World War II, the American Sociological Association was renamed the American Sociological Association (ASA). In 1960, there were more than 6,000 members in the association, and by 1995 there were 12,346 members in the American Society of Sociology. At present, the American Sociological Association has become more than an association of American sociologists. It has become a place for exchange among sociologists in various countries. For instance, representatives of Asia represented 7.5% of delegates attending the 90th annual meeting in 1995 and African delegates representing 3.9% (the American Society for Social Security requested to attend the annual meeting as its member). Contemporary American sociology father Ludwig (Lester Ward) served as the first president, Yale University, Sumner (William Sumner) as the second president, Columbia University Department of Sociology founding