* NESA, the National Eagle Scout Association

The National Eagle Scout Association ( NESA, pronounced nee sah ) is an organization of men who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

If there's no suitable academy in your own neighborhood, there's always New England.

New England academies welcome fugitives from the provinces, South as well as West.

It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.

Well, after everybody has followed the New England pattern of segregating one's children into private schools, only the poor folks are left.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

The New England conscience became desensitized.

New England, as everyone knows, has long been schoolmaster to the Nation.

It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.

How did it happen, for example, that the state university, that great symbol of American democracy, failed to flourish in New England as it did in other parts of the country??

Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

Baptists and Congregationalists in New England were on friendly terms.

A biographer called him `` the premature John the Baptist of New England Transcendentalism ''.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

The doctor was wearing a long New England greatcoat, hardly necessary in the June weather but a garment which proved well adapted to the sequestration of hens.

and on a regional basis between the six New England states.

Joseph R. Brown grew up in the bustle and enterprise of New England between 1810 and 1830.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 11, 2007 ( available online ).

* Manza, Jeff ; " Political Sociological Models of the U. S. New Deal " Annual Review of Sociology, ( 2000 ) pp. 297 +

* Heiss, Jerold, 1981, " Social Roles ," In Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Morris Rosenburg and Ralph H. Turner, New York: Basic Books.

Debates around the practice of ethical accountability on the part of researchers in the social field-whether professional or others-have been thoroughly explored by Norma CD Romm in her work on Accountability in Social Research, including her book on New Racism: Revisiting Researcher Accountabilities, reviewed by Carole Truman in the journal Sociological Research Online.

* Ritzer, G., ( 1983 ) Sociological Theory, Knopf Inc, New York

His major publications of that era include Capitalism and Modern Social Theory ( 1971 ) and New Rules of Sociological Method ( 1976 ).

In New Rules of Sociological Method ( 1976 ) ( the title of which alludes to Durkheim's Rules of the Sociological Method of 1895 ), Giddens attempted to explain ' how sociology should be done ' and addressed a long-standing divide between those theorists who prioritise ' macro level ' studies of social life-looking at the ' big picture ' of society-and those who emphasise the ' micro level ' - what everyday life means to individuals.

* Giddens, Anthony ( 1976 ) New Rules of Sociological Method: a Positive Critique of interpretative Sociologies.

Past President of the American Sociological Association, Wilson has received 41 honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Bard College, Dartmouth College, and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He is the author of numerous publications including The Declining Significance of Race, winner of the American Sociological Association's Sydney Spivack Award ; The Truly Disadvantaged, which was selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the 16 best books of 1987, and received The Washington Monthly Annual Book Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problems ' C. Wright Mills Award ; When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which was selected as one of the notable books of 1996 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review and received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award ; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics.

* New York State Sociological Association ( NYSSA ), an organization of sociologists and community activists studying and or working in New York State

In the 1970s, The New Ecological Paradigm ( NEP ) conception critiqued the claimed lack of human-environmental focus in the classical sociologists and the Sociological priorities their followers created.

* Buechler, S, M. ( 1995 ) ‘ New Social Movement Theories ’ in The Sociological Quarterly, 36 ( 3 ): 441-64

* Steven M. Buechler, New Social Movement Theories, Sociological Quarterly, Volume 36 Issue 3, Pages 441-464, 1995.

( 1976 ), New Rules of Sociological Method.

* Mouzelis, N. ( 1995 ), Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong ?, Routledge: London and New York.

* Newell, Keith ( 1997 ) " Charismatic Communitarianism and the Jesus Fellowship ", in S. Hunt, M. Hamilton & T. Walter ( eds ), Charismatic Christianity, Sociological Perspectives ( Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press ), 236pp.

* Wright, Nigel ( 1997 ) " The Nature and Variety of Restorationism and the ' House Church ' Movement ", in S. Hunt, M. Hamilton & T. Walter ( eds ), Charismatic Christianity, Sociological Perspectives ( Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press ), 236pp.

* Paul Facey: The Legion of Decency: A Sociological Analysis of the Emergence and Development of a Pressure Group: New York: Arno Press: 1974: ISBN 0-405-04871-8

* Jogan Shankar, Devadasi Cult – A Sociological Analysis ( Second Revised Edition ), New Delhi: Ashish Publishing House, 1994.