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PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY AND THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY: RE-ESTABLISHING OUR CONNECTIONS TO THE PUBLIC INTERIM REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS submitted by the American Sociological Association Task Force on Institutionalizing Public Sociologies to the ASA Council July 2005 TASK FORCE MEMBERS Susan H. Ambler Maryville College Andrew Barlow University of California, Berkeley Kevin J. Delaney Temple University Peter Dreier Occidental College (M-1) Rebecca Gasior Altman Brown University Ann Goetting Western Kentucky University Leslie H. Hossfeld University of North Carolina at Wilmington Carla B. Howery ASA Staff Liaison Paul Lachelier University of Wisconsin-Madison Donald W. Light Princeton University April Linton University of California, San Diego Sam Marullo Georgetown University Cynthia Negrey University of Louisville Philip Nyden, Task Force Chair Loyola University Chicago Carmen Sirianni Brandeis University Roberta M. Spalter-Roth ASA Staff Liaison Gregory D. Squires George Washington University Randy Stoecker University of Wisconsin-Madison Diane Vaughan Columbia University , ASA Council Liaison William Velez University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY American sociologists have long been deeply engaged in the public issues of the day and with the policy makers and activists of their times. Lester Ward, the first president of the then American Sociological Society, W.E ...