Author: Neha Jangeti

Hello! I am Neha Jangeti (pronounced nay-ha jan-geti). I am a Sociology PhD Student at the University of North Texas. My research areas include organizations, occupations, and work (OOW), reproductive health, and medical sociology.

Announcement: Co-editors Needed for the Journal Regulation & Governance; Apply by Nov 15, 2024

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Co-editors Needed for Regulation & Governance

Deadline for applications: November 15, 2024

At the end of 2024, David Levi-Faur will be stepping down as co-editor of Regulation & Governance, after nearly two decades of dedicated service to the academic community. We are looking for two new co-editors to work together with the remaining editorial team members, Alketa Peci (Fundação Getulio Vargas) and Yves Steinebach (University of Oslo).

Candidates should be renowned researchers in any of the journal’s main areas of interest (political science, socio-legal studies, psychology, criminology, sociology, organization and public management, management, economics, or other parts of the social sciences), who have the passion to continue to drive the journal forward.   To complement the strengths of the existing editorial team members, we particularly look for applicants with an interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretically-driven lens who have backgrounds in sociology,  criminology, management, economics, psychology, or law and who have significant experience with interdisciplinary research on regulation.  

We strongly encourage applications from women and members of other historically marginalized groups or categories.  The current co-editors are based in Europe and Latin America, and we would welcome applications that further internationalize the journal.   Previous experience as an editor or in comparable activities is an important asset.  

All co-editors will jointly hold responsibility for editorial governance and oversight on submissions for papers assigned to them, including managing peer review processes and making decisions on acceptance/rejection of manuscripts.   Together, the editorial team will collaborate on matters of editorial strategy and establish a governance framework and division of labor.

Becoming a co-editor is a rewarding and fulfilling experience in which you can contribute to the vibrancy of the journal, help shape an interdisciplinary field of research, and gain recognition for your contributions.  

The post will initially be for a period of three years (renewable). We hope to have new co-editors in place by January 2025, though somewhat later starting dates will be considered if necessary.

About the Journal
Regulation & Governance is the leading journal dedicated to the study of regulatory governance. The journal publishes interdisciplinary research on regulation, governance, and emerging associated challenges worldwide, with broad implications beyond geographic and intellectual boundaries.

Key Skills and Attributes

·      A record of scholarly excellence in any of the fields covered by Regulation & Governance.

·      Strong knowledge of the relevant scholarly communities, in order to facilitate effective and timely peer review

·      Confidence in engaging with authors and researchers.

·      Commitment to ensure manuscripts are considered in a prompt, consistent and professional manner.

·      Passion to promote and continuously develop the journal.

Application Instructions
If you wish to apply for the position of co-editor for Regulation & Governance, please submit your academic CV and a very brief letter of interest (1-2 pages) via email to alketapecirg@gmail.com

Deadline for applications: November 15, 2024

We are planning to hold interviews online during the last week of November. 

If you have any questions about the role of co-editor, please feel free to contact the journal’s co-editors, Yves Steinebach (yves.steinebach@stv.uio.no), Alketa Peci (Alketa.Peci@fgv.br) and David Levi-Faur (levifaur@mail.huji.ac.il). The final selection will be conducted by a selection committee, which includes the three current editors, as well as Benjamin van Rooij (University of Amsterdam) and Tim Bartley (Georgetown University).

Call for Papers: Workshop “Bringing Politics Back to Work”; ECPR Joint Sessions, May 20-23, 2025, at Charles University, Prague

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Call for Papers: Workshop “Bringing Politics Back to Work”
ECPR Joint Sessions, May 20-23, 2025, at Charles University, Prague

Workshop details and paper submission
Deadline for abstracts: November 21, 2024

The organization of work has undergone tremendous change in recent decades, yet we know little about how this has impacted the political outlook of the employed. We ask: How does the changing organization of work, how do well-being and social relations at the workplace, and how do job quality and job satisfaction impact political conflict in advanced democracies? Linking established literature in political economy and political science with that in the sociology of work and organization, this workshop aims to set an agenda for studying the political implications of what happens at the heart of the economy: at work.

An extensive literature in political economy shows that globalization, automatization and sectoral change have impacted labor markets and occupational class structure, what in return has reshaped political conflict in advanced democracies. This literature has left surprisingly untouched, however, the blackbox of what happens at work, i.e., inside enterprises or public organizations. Work organization, management practices, job quality, and well-being at work are, in return, subject to an extensive literature in sociology, psychology, and economics – which, however, rarely establishes connections with outcomes at the political level.

This missing link is surprising, as work is a site where people spend much of their awake time, experience intergroup contact and collaboration, authority, and conflict about entitlements. It is a site where we gain a sense of social status and recognition, of efficacy, security, and fairness –or, on the contrary, experience powerlessness, insecurity, and injustice. This has a formative impact on political outlooks, including on major phenomena of our time such as preferences for redistribution, political populism, or affective polarization.

“Bringing politics back to work”, we aim to shed light on mechanisms that link work and politics. We are looking forward to receiving paper proposals that contribute to the following questions by the deadline of 21st November 2024:

▪ 1: How do the organization of work, wellbeing at work, job quality, or contact/ conflict at the workplace inform individual political preferences in advanced democracies?

▪ 2: How does this relationship between work and politics vary by groups and context (countries, sectors, occupations, gender, age)?

▪ 3: How do political actors such as parties or unions address and politicize contemporary experiences at work?

▪ 4: How do social policies and welfare state arrangements influence these dynamics?

Organizers:
Paulus Wagner, European University Institute, paulus.wagner@eui.eu
Bruno Palier, Sciences Po Paris, bruno.palier@sciencespo.fr

Endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Political Economy and Welfare State Politics

Call for Abstracts: The Organization of Illegal Marketplaces; Institute of Sociology, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland; Due Dec 1, 2024

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PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (PDW)

THE ORGANIZATION OF ILLEGAL MARKETPLACES

April 3 & 4, 2025, Institute of Sociology, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Abstract Submission:
Please send an abstract of 500 words and a short biographical note to gdumont@emlyon.com and loic.pignolo@unisg.ch by December 1, 2024. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 1, 2025.

Papers must be submitted by March 6, 2025. There is no registration fee. They will cover lunch on both days and the dinner on the first day. Partial grants for travel and accommodation can be provided to a small number of participants with limited resources. Please indicate if you require financial support. Participation in the workshop is open to all upon registration.

Please click on the link for more details: https://oowsection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cfp-pdw-the-organization-of-illegal-marketplaces.pdf

Organizing Committee:
Loïc Pignolo, Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland
Guillaume Dumont, Emlyon Business School, France

Illegal marketplaces are “organized places, whether physical (e.g., a weekly trading event in the town square) or virtual (e.g., an electronic platform, such as Etsy) for ztrade” (Aspers and Darr, 2022; p.824). They operate based on shared norms, roles, meanings, and routines implemented by marketplace organizers or derived from mutual adjustment among actors, thereby shaping trade in important ways (e.g., Aspers and Darr, 2022; Dewey and Buzzetti, 2024; Tzanetakis, 2018; Tzanetakis et al., 2016). They offer the means to facilitate illegal transactions and provide opportunities and sources of power for marketplace organizers through place-based cooperation, gathering of people, infrastructure, digital technologies, and/or pooling of resources. No less importantly, they are a focus of attention for policymaking and law enforcement, with most state institutions striving to eradicate them (e.g., Beckert and Dewey, 2017; Coomber et al., 2019; Gottschalk, 2010; Paoli, 2014).

Whether online or offline, illegal marketplaces are places where the dynamics of markets, illegality, state institutions, vulnerability, and power intersect, raising important questions that have yet to be addressed by the emerging stream of scholarship in this field: What social, spatial, and technological conditions allow for the emergence of illegal marketplaces? How are they organized to face the coordination problems associated with illegality? Who are the organizers, how do they make decisions, and what resources do they use? How do they help to set prices, facilitate product supply, and protect traders? Who are the market participants, and how is power distributed among them? What are the differences between online illegal marketplaces and physical ones?

This third edition of the “Ethnographies of Illegality” Paper Development Workshop (PDW) will focus on selected organizational and managerial aspects of illegal marketplaces. We welcome proposals that investigate illegal marketplaces using ethnographic and, more broadly, qualitative approaches and address one or more of the following four themes.

Regulation: Illegal marketplaces are legally embedded, making the study of regulations and legal frameworks crucial for understanding them. The fourth theme explores the relation between illegal marketplaces and their local regulatory contexts. We encourage authors to uncover the complexity of the relation between state institutions and law enforcement agencies, their role in shaping markets, and marketplaces’ organizational, spatial, and working characteristics.

By exploring these themes across contexts and activities, the workshop aims to produce new knowledge in three areas: the infrastructure(s) and organizations that enable illegal marketplaces to emerge, grow, and transform; the contemporary cultural forms of illegal exchange in different geographical locations; and the differences and similarities between illegal marketplaces and their legal counterparts.

Organization: The operation of illegal marketplaces requires organizational structures, governance, and cultures, as well as conventions, maintenance, and development strategies. This theme focuses on the organizational aspects, particularly the organizational forms, rules, monitoring mechanisms, and sanctions enabling the operation of illegal marketplaces, as well as the socialization of market participants, their coordination problems, and power distribution.

Space: Illegal marketplaces are often located at the intersection of online and offline spaces. This theme focuses on rethinking the notion of space in relation to illegal marketplaces. We encourage authors to consider how market participants appropriate specific spaces and places to develop their activities and how multiple spaces are intimately connected in the design and operation of marketplaces.

Work: Illegal marketplaces involve the work and labor of different actors. This third theme will approach the activities and tasks performed in markets and marketplaces through the conceptual lens of work, allowing for the exploration of essential aspects of their functioning, such as the division of labor, labor relations among actors, consequences of organizational elements for their working conditions and careers, and meaning of their work.

Conference Call: Organizing Plurality – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS), March 2025 in Hamburg, Germany

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Organizing Plurality

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS)

March 27 & 28, 2025  Hamburg, Germany

Call for Abstracts is now open!

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024

The German Section of Organizational Sociology and its European peers are organizing the International Conference on  Organizational Sociology ICOS 2025 at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany, in March 2025.

The main topic is “Organizing Plurality,” which will be discussed in relation to several societal trends:
1) Organizations and  Valuation
2) Organizations and Sustainability
3) Organizations and Digitalization
4) Organizations and Governance

Additional details can also be found on the pdf: icos2025_organizing-plurality.pdf

You can find the full Call for Papers and more information on their homepage, icos2025.com.

Announcement: Submit to the ISA Session on “New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance” by October 15

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Please consider submitting by October 15 to a  “New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance” session at the International Sociological Association Forum on Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025. 

Please see the link below for a detailed description:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session19472.html

If you are interested in submitting an abstract for this session, the Call for Abstracts is at https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts.

The call closes on October 15th (note that the ISA observes Central Europe Time).

“If you have not attended ISA before, it is truly an international sociology conference with distinct inflections in each location where it meets—I have found every ISA conference I have attended to be fascinating, and of course, Rabat itself is a very interesting place in a very interesting region. In addition to this session, I encourage you to scan other possible sessions (Research Council 44 is the ISA’s Labor Movements section; RC 30 is the Sociology of Work).”
– Dr. Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Announcement: “Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship” The New Volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations is Out! Available via OPEN ACCESS

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“Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship”
Edited by Stewart Clegg, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Kathia Serrano Velarde.

This New Volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations is Now Out! Available via OPEN ACCESS.

The Volume explores the new boundaries of organizational sociology. It sets out to map a community of scholars that transcends disciplinary limitations by following one simple epistemic logic: society happens in, between, across, and around organizations.

“We are deeply grateful for the fantastic contributions we received, and we are especially honored that our volume includes an inspiring piece by the greatly missed Barbara Czarniawska.
We hope you’ll enjoy reading our Volume!”
-Stewart, Michael, and Kathia

Here is the link to the full open access volume:
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X202490

CONTENTS:

Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship
by Stewart Clegg, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Kathia Serrano Velarde 

PART 1. THE PLACE OF SOCIOLOGY IN ORGANIZATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP

Revitalizing Organizational Theory Through a Problem-oriented Sociology
by Brayden King 

Organizational Sociology and Organization Studies: Past, Present, and Future
by Leopold Ringel 

Facing Up to the Present? Cultivating Political Judgment  and a Sense of Reality in Contemporary Organizational Life 
by Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth and Paul du Gay 

PART 2. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN AND THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS:
Organizations within Society: Organizational Perspectives on Status and Distinction

Status in Socio-environmental Fields: Relationships, Evaluations, and Otherhood 
by Nadine Arnold and Fabien Foureault 

Organizations as Carriers of Status and Class Dynamics: A Historical Ethnography of the
Emergence of Bordeaux’s Cork Aristocracy
by Grégoire Croidieu and Walter W. Powell 

Organizations as Drivers of Social and Systemic Integration: Contradiction and Reconciliation
Through Loose Demographic Coupling and Community Anchoring 
by Krystal Laryea and Christof Brandtner 

Why Organization Studies Should Care More about Gender Exclusion and Inclusion in Sport
Organizations
by Lucy Piggott, Jorid Hovden and Annelies Knoppers

PART 3. REDISCOVERING SOCIOLOGICAL CLASSICS FOR ORGANIZATION STUDIES:
Reflexivity and Control

Narrating the Disjunctions Produced by the Sociological Concept of Emotional Reflexivity in
Organization Studies by Bruno Américo, Stewart Clegg and Fagner Carniel 

The Promise of Total Institutions in the Sociology of Organizations: Implications of Regimental
and Monastic Obedience for Underlife
by Mikaela Sundberg 

PART 3. REDISCOVERING SOCIOLOGICAL CLASSICS FOR ORGANIZATION STUDIES:
Organizing and Organization

Why Organization Sociologists Should Refer to Tarde and Simmel More Often 
by Barbara Czarniawska 

Organization Systems and Their Social Environments: The Role of Functionally Differentiated
Society and Face-to-Face Interaction Rituals
by Werner Schirmer

New Publication: “Beyond the ‘wow’ factor: the analytic importance of boredom in qualitative research” by Tair Karazi-Presler & Edna Lomsky-Feder

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Karazi-Presler, Tair and Edna Lomsky-Feder. 2024. “Beyond the ‘Wow’ Factor: The Analytic Importance of Boredom in Qualitative Research.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2400154

Abstract: In this paper, we perceive boredom as a potential resource for creativity in qualitative research. We present three main arguments. First, boredom is often an inevitable stage on the way to research excitement and can even serve as an important clue leading to analytic surprises. Second, there is a methodological need to reflect on boredom in order to understand the researcher’s perception of meaningfulness and meaninglessness. Particularly, we show how the ‘interview society’, characterized by the dominance of the therapeutic discourse, shapes researchers’ expectations regarding what is considered ‘interesting’ or ‘boring.’ Finally, the researcher’s experience of boredom may provide insights into the very phenomenon under investigation. We flesh out these arguments by showing how the researcher’s boredom during interviews reflects the interviewees’ emotional style, expected of (women) managers in the neoliberal culture: emotional restraint and a façade of rationality and objectivity.

New Publication: “Know Your Place: Fractured Epistemic Privilege among Women in State Organizations” by Tair Karazi-Presler

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Karazi‐Presler, Tair. 2024. “Know Your Place: Fractured Epistemic Privilege among Women in State Organizations.” Sociological Forum. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13021

Abstract: Based on 67 in-depth interviews, this article explores how women in positions of power in two major organizational fields in Israel—the military and government ministries—develop different types of gender knowledge. In the military, an extremely and publicly gendered organization, the interviewees demonstrate gender reflexivity and pragmatic literacy of power relations. In the government ministries, which tend to conceal and even repress gendered power, the interviewees demonstrate (neoliberal) feminist consciousness and a limited ability to conceptualize power relations. The contribution of this article is threefold. First, it challenges the common view that gender reflexivity and feminist consciousness are causally related by emphasizing fractured epistemic privilege among women in different organizational contexts. Second, it demonstrates that women’s survival practices produce gender knowledge, which in turn produces gender practices in organizational contexts. Third, it argues that different types of gender knowledge develop as a byproduct of the gendered power-relation characteristics of each specific organizational context. Accordingly, this article offers a framework for analyzing emerging forms of gender sociopolitical knowledge in organizations as an additional dimension of gender inequality and a possible basis for transforming it.

New Publication: “Profiles Among Women Without a Paid Job and Social Benefits: An Intersectional Perspective Using Dutch Population Register Data” by Lea Kröner, Deni Mazrekaj, Tanja van der Lippe, and Anne-Rigt Poortman

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Kröner, L., Mazrekaj, D., van der Lippe, T., & Poortman, A. R. (2024). Profiles Among Women Without a Paid Job and Social Benefits: An Intersectional Perspective Using Dutch Population Register Data. Social Policy & Administration. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13080

Abstract: Despite their potential vulnerability and untapped work potential, research on the group of women without a paid job and social benefits is limited. This study is the first to identify profiles among women in this group based on their intersecting economic, sociodemographic and contextual characteristics. A cluster analysis conducted on Dutch population register data from 2019 challenges previous research that lumped women without a paid job and social benefits into a single group. Rather, we reveal three distinct profiles: ‘Dutch empty nesters (i.e., mothers with adult children) in affluent households’, ‘Migrant women in urban living areas’ and ‘Dutch, educated mothers with affluent partners’. The identification of these three profiles can mark a significant step in developing tailored active labour market policies for women without a paid job and social benefits.


New Publication: “Doing Genders: Partner’s Gender and Labor Market Behavior” by Eva Jaspers, Deni Mazrekaj, and Weverthon Machado

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Jaspers, E., Mazrekaj, D., & Machado, W. (2024). Doing Genders: Partner’s Gender and Labor Market Behavior. American Sociological Review, 89(3), 518-541. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224241252079

Abstract: Partnered men and women show consistently gendered patterns of labor market behavior. We test whether not only a person’s own gender, but also their partner’s gender shapes hours worked. We use Dutch administrative population data on almost 5,000 persons who had both male and female partners, whose hours worked we observe monthly over 15 years. We argue that this provides a unique setting to assess the relevance of partner’s gender for labor market behavior. Using two-way fixed effects and fixed-effects individual slopes models, we find that both men and women tend to work more hours when partnered with a female partner compared to a male partner. These results align with our hypothesis that a partner’s gender influences labor market behavior. For women, we conclude that this finding may be (partly) explained by marital and motherhood status. Additionally, we discovered that women decrease their hours worked to a lesser extent when caring for a child if they have a female partner. Finally, we found that for men, the positive association between own and partner’s hours worked is weaker when one has a female partner, indicating a higher degree of specialization within these couples.