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Call for Submissions: ASA Rose Series in Sociology

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The ASA Rose Series in Sociology, a book series published by the Russell Sage Foundation, is seeking book proposals. The Rose Series publishes cutting-edge, highly visible, and accessible books that offer synthetic analyses of existing fields, challenge prevailing paradigms, and/or offer fresh views on enduring controversies. Books published in the Series reach a broad audience of sociologists, other social scientists, and policymakers.

Please submit a 1-page summary & CV to: Lee Clarke, rose.series@sociology.rutgers.edu.

For more information, visit http://www.asanet.org/research-publications/rose-series-sociology.

 

Reframing Immigration and Immigration Reform: A Workshop on Strategic Communications

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Presented by The Frameworks Institute

The Frameworks Institute is giving a course on Friday, August 19 in Seattle. Below is the information on the course. It will be offered twice; 10:00am and 2:00pm. You can register for it here https://asa.enoah.com/Home/My-ASA/Login?returnurl=%2fdefault.aspx. If you are having trouble registering for the course, please contact customer@asanet.org. Please be sure to pass this along to the members of your section so that they are aware of this opportunity. 

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OOW Award Winners

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Congratulations to this year’s OOW Award Winners!

Max Weber Award: The Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship is granted for an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work in a book published within the last three years (2013-2015).

Winner: Lauren Rivera (Northwestern) for her book Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs

Committee: Kate Kellogg (Chair), Mike Lounsbury, Martin Ruef, Vicki Smith 

Thompson Award: The James D. Thompson Award is given for an outstanding graduate student paper on organizations, occupations, and work written in the three years prior to the award (January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015).

Winner: Benjamin Shestakofsky (UC, Berkeley) “High-Tech and High-Touch: The Labor Behind the Screens of an Online Market.”
Honorable mention: Patrick Reilly (UCLA) “The Layers of a Clown: Career Development in Cultural Production Industries.”

Committee: Michel Anteby (chair), David Pedulla, Pam Tolbert

Scott Award: The W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship is granted for an outstanding contribution to the discipline in an article on organizations, occupations and work published within the last three years (January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015).

Winner: DiBenigno, J., and Kellogg, Katherine C. (MIT) “Beyond occupational differences the importance of cross-cutting demographics and dyadic toolkits for collaboration in a US hospital.” Administrative Science Quarterly.
Honorable mention: Mears, Ashley (Boston University) “Working for Free in the VIP Relational Work and the Production of Consent.” American Sociological Review.

Committee: Lisa Cohen (Chair), Emily Erikson, Andras Tilcsik 

Job Posting: TT Faculty Position in Public Management

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The John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University welcomes applications and nominations for a faculty position in public management. The position is at the assistant level and tenure track. We especially encourage applications from scholars who study management issues related to diverse populations. Topical areas of interest include, but are not limited to, studies of leadership, organizational behavior, managerial decision making, human resource management, strategic management, and inter-organizational and cross-sector collaboration. We welcome scholars employing a variety of methodological approaches, so long as the research is analytically rigorous and has implications for management practice. The successful candidate will be expected to publish research in leading public affairs journals.

Salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience and qualifications. Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. degree requirements by August, 2017. Successful candidates will likely have doctorates in public affairs, public administration/management, public policy, business, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, or a related field. Highly desirable candidates will have experience working with public or nonprofit organizations, university teaching experience, or experience mentoring members of underrepresented groups.

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New Member Publications

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OOW Section member, Carolyn Perrucci, has several new publications that may be of interest to Section members:

  1. Richard Hogan and Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, “Who Gets the Daddy Bonus and Who Pays the Cost?” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 51, 2 (October 2014): 117-143.
  2. Robert Perrucci and Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, “The Triple Revolution, 1965-2015: Revisiting Institutional Social Problems,” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 52, 2 (October 2015): 213-230.
  3. Carolyn Cummings Perrucci and Robert Perrucci, “Economic Crisis and Its Effects on Hope, Trust, and Caring,” pages 11-25 in C. M. Renzetti and R. K. Bergen, (eds.), Understanding Diversity: Celebrating Difference, Challenging Inequality. Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2015.

Call for Submissions: 2016 AOM Professional Development Workshop on Trust

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Please find a call for submissions for the 4th AOM Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on “Trust between Individuals and Organizations”.  Details are below or at http://pd.aom.org/2016/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=10571.

Scheduled:
Saturday, Aug 6 2016 10:15AM – 1:15PM
Anaheim Marriott in Platinum Ballroom 7

Description: 
Trust is a fundamental characteristic of work relationships and one of the most frequently studied concepts in organizational research today. This PDW is aimed at advancing research on trust by serving as a platform for scholars to discuss fundamental issues, engage in dialogue, and help further research-in-progress.

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Call for Papers: Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing

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The journal Human Relations has issued a call for papers on “Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing: The nature, antecedents, and consequences of professional misconduct.”

Submission deadline: 30 April 2017; papers should not be submitted before 1 April 2017. The special issue is intended for publication in 2019.

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PIAAC Training Event for Sociology Researchers Attending the ASA Conference

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When:  Friday August 19, 2016; 8:30 – 5pm

Where:  Seattle, WA (specific location TBA)

We invite you to apply to a free 1-day PIAAC Research Training event funded by the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) and organized by Portland State University, the American Institutes for Research (AIR), and Educational Testing Service (ETS). Visit PIAAC Research Training Events for more information.

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