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ASA Style Guide
American Sociological Association Style Guide, 6th ed.
The ASA Style Guide highlights and features guidelines for the most common situations experienced by authors and editors in the ASA journal publication process. It is designed to serve as the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for ASA journals.
American Sociological Association Style Guide, 7th ed.
he seventh edition of the ASA Style Guide features guidelines for the most common situations encountered by authors and editors in the ASA journal publication process. It is designed to serve as the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for journals and other materials using or requiring ASA style.
While the structure of this edition is consistent with past editions, some changes have been made to the content. All links and reference sources have been updated or veri ed for accuracy. This edition also updates ASA policy on the use of the singular "they" as a generic pronoun, and includes new preferred terminology and capitalization for race/ethnicity.
Background Sources
Street Corner Society: the Social Structure of an Italian Slum, in eHRAF World Cultures
"Street Corner Society" is considered by many social scientists as a classic in the sociological literature. The original monograph, based on field work in 1936-1940, and published in 1943, has been updated with new material in subsequent new editions of the book in 1955, 1981, and the fourth, or fiftieth anniversary, edition in 1993. This is a study of the social structure of what Whyte refers to as "street corner society" (young male gangs, cliques and clubs) living in the inner city area of Boston's north end; an area inhabited almost exclusively by Italian immigrants and their children -- the area referred to in the text as "Cornerville"
"The Struggle Over Parcel C: How Boston's Chinatown Won a Victory in the Fight Against Institutional Expansionism and Environmental Racism," IN Asian American Studies Now
For the last fifty years, Boston’s Chinatown has been a shrinking community. Squeezed in by highways on two sides, its land is being gradually consumed by two medical institutions, Tufts University Medical School and New England Medical Center.
"Immigrants and Ethnics: Post–World War II Italian Immigration and Boston’s North End (1945–2016)," in New Italian Migrations to the United States, v.1
James S. Pasto's chapter "delves into the sociocultural dynamics of new Italian immigrants in the North End, the very neighborhood featured in the popular Prince Spaghetti commercial."
