2014 New Year and Renewed Memberships: Please renew your membership in the ASA and the OOW Section: http://www.asanet.org/members/joinasa.cfm
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Sociologist. Socialist. Bike poloist.
Vicki Smith’s *Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia* named “Outstanding Academic Title” of 2013
Vicki Smith’s Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, (Sage 2013) has been named one of Choice magazine’s “Outstanding Academic Titles” of 2013.
Congratulations, Vicki!
Submissions for 2014 Annual Meeting now open, including 7 OOW sessions
The submission site for the 2014 Annual Meeting has opened; the deadline is January 8, 2014: http://www.asanet.org/am2014/am2014.cfm The Call for Papers includes seven submission-based sessions from the OOW Section:
| · Getting a Job – 40 Years Later: Advances in Labor Markets and Networks Research (co-sponsored with Section on Economic Sociology).
· Changes in Employment Relations and Their Consequences · Organizations and Social Inequality · Work and Family: New Challenges, New Directions · Work and Occupations Inside Organizations · Work, Careers, Organizations, and Labor Markets in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Fields · Roundtables |
CfP: Visualizing Institutions at EGOS, Rotterdam July 3-5, 2014
STANDING WORKING GROUP (SWG) 7
VISUALIZING INSTITUTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE
SUB-THEME FOR THE 30TH EGOS COLLOQUIUM IN ROTTERDAM, JULY 3-5, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS
Markus A. Höllerer, University of New South Wales, Australia
markus.hoellerer@unsw.edu.au
Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, USA
woodyp@stanford.edu
Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
tammar.zilber@mail.huji.ac.il
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Special Issue on Artistic Careers, Work and Occupations
See the Special Issue in Work and Occupations on “Artistic Careers” in Work and Occupations, Nov. 2013. http://wox.sagepub.com/content/40/4.toc and the podcast interview of special-issue contributor Kristin Thomson, Co-Director of the Future of Music Coalition’s “Artist Revenue Streams project”: http://wox.sagepub.com/site/misc/Index/Podcasts.xhtml
Other Call for Papers and Conferences
Three conferences:
1. Call for Papers: 16th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference
2. INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGISTS (INAS) CONFERENCE, June 6 and 7, 2014 in Mannheim.
3. 2014 Junior Theorists Symposium, Berkeley, CA 15 August 2014. Submission Deadline: 15 February 2014
More details below.
ASA 2014 OOW Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS: Section on Organizations, Occupation, and Work at ASA, San Francisco 2014. http://www.asanet.org/meetings/Call_for_Papers.cfm Online Paper Submission System will open on December 6, 2013. The deadline for submission is January 8, 2014 at 3:00pm EST
OOW membership now exceeds 1,000 – we earned additional session at ASA 2014!
Presidential Doctoral Research Fellowship, Utah State University
Presidential Doctoral Research Fellowship in Sociology
State Policy, Migration & Gender
Utah State University
The Sociology graduate program at Utah State University seeks applicants for a Presidential Doctoral Research Fellowship who have research interests in state policy, migration and gender. The Presidential Fellow will receive an annual stipend of $20,000 for four years. We are soliciting applications from those with a master’s in sociology or a related field or those with a bachelor’s degree who are committed to pursuit of a PhD. Additional qualifications include GRE scores above the 70th percentile and a cumulative GPA above 3.5. The Presidential Fellow will work closely with sociology faculty on one of several on-going research projects related to policy, migration and gender. To learn more about these projects, go to http://sociology.usu.edu/presidentialfellow.aspx. Information about the Sociology graduate program is available at http://sociology.usu.edu/socgrad.aspx.
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Two job posts — The Clayman Institute and Towson University
The Clayman Institute offers a two-year postdoctoral fellowship that focus on the Institute’s theme, “Beyond the Stalled Revolution: Reinvigorating Gender Equality in the Twenty-first Century.” Recent Ph.D.’s in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences whose research focuses on gender are eligible. We encourage scholars with a strong interest in interdisciplinary methods to apply. While in residence at the Institute, Postdoctoral Scholars are expected to participate in Clayman Institute activities throughout the academic year in addition to pursuing their own research. Application Deadline – January 6, 2014 Apply Here http://gender.stanford.edu/postdoctoral-research-fellowships
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ASA call for Invited Sessions for 2015
Invited Sessions for 2015: Proposals Are Solicited for the 110th Annual Meeting. Deadlines are November 13 and February 5. http://www.asanet.org/meetings/member_suggestions.cfm.
Organizations, Occupations and Work 