The ASA Committee on Publications encourages applications for the editorships of Contemporary Sociology, Contexts, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Teaching Sociology. The official term for the new editors (or co-editors) will begin in January 2015 (the editorial transition will start in August 2014) and is for a minimum of three years (until December 2017), with a possible reappointment of up to an additional three years. See http://www.asanet.org/journals/editorships.cfm for application information and examples of previous successful proposals or send questions to publications@asanet.org. The deadline for applications is Nov. 1.
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Sociologist. Socialist. Bike poloist.
Gender, Work & Organization 8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
Call for Abstracts for the Gender, Work & Organization 8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at Keele University, Staffordshire, England, 24th-26th June 2014. Abstracts due Nov. 1. Full info is here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/%28ISSN%291468-0432/asset/homepages/GWO2014_Call_for_abstracts_-_all_streams.pdf?v=1&s=15f8552cc295bb8f8712bfb73de55e97c15b966e
Stream on Sustaining Inequality? – EGOS 2014, Rotterdam, Call for papers
Isabel Fernandez-Mateo and Emilio Castilla are convening a colloquium on “Sustaining Inequality? The Impact of Organizational Practices on Individual Employment Outcomes” as part of the European Group of Organization Studies’ (EGOS) 30th annual conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The conference takes place on July 3-5, 2014.
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Membership above 1,000!
BIGGER is better. Thanks to all who contributed to the hat during the 2013 OOW Business Meeting. Those donations allowed us to fund new student members. That effort, coupled with a membership drive led by Victoria Johnson and Erin Kelly, pushed our section past the 1,000 member mark to 1,022 (a 2.5% increase over last year). This increase has earned us a sixth OOW session PLUS one session co-organized with the Economic Sociology Section at the ASA 2014 meetings in San Francisco!
Stream on Marxist Organization Studies, EGOS 2014, Rotterdam, Call for papers
“Marxism and Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times”:
Sub-theme 24 at the 2014 EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, July 2-5 2014:
(a) Sub-Theme Call for Papers, and (b) invitation to a pre-conference Workshop
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International Labour Process Conference CfP – King’s College London, 7-9 April 2014
The 2014 International Labour Process Conference will return to Europe after another remarkable success at Rutgers University this year. The event will take place between 7-9th April 2014, hosted by the Department of Management at King’s College London.
The deadline for submissions of abstracts and proposals for symposia is three weeks from today (31st October 2013).
Two job posts in sociology at University of Texas at Austin
The Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level to begin Fall 2014. Area of specialization is open. Duties include undergraduate and graduate teaching, research, publication, and service to the department, college, and university. Applicants should at a minimum have a PhD in hand or expected by August 2014, demonstrate a commitment to teaching excellence, and have a clearly defined research agenda.
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter that includes a description of current and planned research, current Curriculum Vitae, writing sample, and three letters of reference to: Jennifer Glass, Search Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, via SOCfac@austin.utexas.edu. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2013. The University of Texas is an AA/EEO employer. A background check will be conducted on the successful candidates. Position funding is pending budgetary approval.
Seven new job posts
Allison Pugh states that there are three jobs open at UVA. For more info, contact apugh@virginia.edu
Ø Open-rank Women, Gender and Sexualities position focusing on women’s health
Ø An Ethnographer’s position with a half-time appointment in American Studies
New announcements
Thomas Crosbie (Yale) and many others have launched a Work/Culture Network of scholars who use cultural approaches to the study of work, occupations, employment, and professions and who use working life as a lens to explore culture. They are organizing a mini-conference at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meetings. For the ESS event, send abstracts to workslashculture@gmail.com by October 15, 2013 and learn more about the group at http://workculturesociology.blogspot.com
Lisa Keister (Duke) has just launched a new website. It is called http://wealthinequality.org/. It contains lots of details about wealth ownership, concentration, and related issues. There will frequently be new estimates and updates available.
Erin Leahey (Arizona) announces that the 4th annual Arizona Methods Workshops will take place January 9-11, 2014. All are welcome, and students get 50% off. http://sociology.arizona.edu/sites/sociology.arizona.edu/files/methods2014.pdfhttp://sociology.arizona.edu/methods
The Southern Sociological Society’s 2014 annual meeting will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina April 2-5. President Leslie Hossfeld has organized the conference around the theme of “Poverty, Social Policy, and the Role of the Sociologist,” which she explains in The Southern Sociologist (volume 45, issue 1). Jeremy Reynolds has organized an invited paper session featuring Arne Kalleberg, Beth Rubin, Sabrina Lenee Speights, Samuel Grubbs, Jeff Will, and Caroline Hanley. Additionally, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Don Tomaskovic-Devey, and Alford Young will serve as panelists for an Author Meets Critics session for Adia Harvey Wingfield’s new book “No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men’s Work.” For details on the conference and submissions, to go the SSS website and the official CFP.
A New Outlet for OOW Members!!!
(An announcement from Vincent J. Roscigno)
On July 1, the Southern Sociological Society along with Sage launched a bold new venture and journal, Social Currents, which will publish its first issue in January/February 2014!!! Feel free to visit the Sage booth or catch one of the editors or editorial board members (listed below) in person at the upcoming ASA meetings in New York if you have ideas!!!
The official journal of the Southern Sociological Society, Social Currents is a broad ranging social science journal that focuses on cutting-edge research from all methodological and theoretical orientations with implications for national and international sociological communities.
The uniqueness of Social Currents lies in its format: the front end of every issue is devoted to short, theoretical agenda-setting contributions and short empirical and policy-related pieces, ranging anywhere from 1,500 to 4,000 words. The back end of every issue includes normal journal length articles (7,500-12,000 words) that branch across subfields, including the many specialties of sociology and the social sciences in general.
Organizations, Occupations and Work 