The web page, including the call for abstracts and agenda info, is at http://www.irle.ucla.edu/events/PrecariousWork.php . Full call can also be found below.
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Mijs, Jonathan J.B. 2016. The Missing Organizational Dimension of Prisoner Reentry: An Ethnography of the Road to Reentry at a Nonprofit Service Provider. Sociological Forum 31(2): forthcoming.Abstract: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2701506
On December 18th, the existing GSS website will be replaced by a new site at http://gss.norc.org/
Past users of the GSS website should find essentially the same information and content that existed on the old site. Among the major changes are the following:
At the beginning of my doctoral workshops on academic writing, I start with a simple question: “when you sit down to compose your draft paper, what does the space look like around you? Is it covered with books and journals? Photocopies of papers and articles?” Most students confirm this description, but others say no, it’s just them and their computer. However, when I push them, it turns out that they have multiple files open on their computer, with digital copies of papers and articles ready to be consulted. My response is always the same. I tell them they’ve begun to write too soon. They have skipped the stage where they impose their own interpretations on what they’ve read. They have failed to make the material useful for the narrative structure of their own story.
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Please see below for a call for papers for the ASA Economic Sociology Section’s pre-conference on “The New Economy.”
The Economic Sociology Section of the ASA is pleased to announce a one-day conference on The New Economy to be held on August 19, 2016 at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make up the five sections of this book, show consensus on strategic “next steps” in life course studies. These next steps are explored in detail in each section: Section I, on life course theory, provides fresh perspectives on well-established topics, including cohorts, life stages, and legal and regulatory contexts. It challenges life course scholars to move beyond common individualistic paradigms. Section II highlights changes in major institutional and organizational contexts of the life course. It draws on conceptual advances and recent empirical findings to identify promising avenues for research that illuminate the interplay between structure and agency. It examines trends in family, school, and workplace, as well as contexts that deserve heightened attention, including the military, the criminal justice system, and natural and man-made disaster. The remaining three sections consider advances and suggest strategic opportunities in the study of health and development throughout the life course. They explore methodological innovations, including qualitative and three-generational longitudinal research designs, causal analysis, growth curves, and the study of place. Finally, they show ways to build bridges between life course research and public policy.
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The 11th semi-annual Gender, Science, and Organizations Writing Workshop will take place from 8:30 am to 5 pm on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016 at the Sociologist for Women in Society winter meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.
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We would like to invite section members whose research is connected to health professions or medical education (training, socialization, or professionalization, broadly defined) to join a new interest group for the Sociology of Medical Education. Our hope is that by bringing this community together, we may forge some possible collaborations and create a space within which we may workshop our scholarship. Please contact Laura Hirshfield (UIC), Barret Michalec (Univ of Delaware), Kelly Underman (UIC) or Alexandra Vinson (Northwestern) for more information. If you would like to be added to the Google group, please contact Kelly Underman at kunder2@uic.edu.
Abstracts due January 31, 2016
http://irle.ucla.edu/events/PrecariousWork.php
Today precarious work presents perhaps the greatest global challenge to worker well-being, and has become a major rallying point for worker mobilization around the world. This conference focuses on analyzing the growth of precarious employment and informal labor, its consequences for workers and their families, the challenges it poses to worker organizing and collective mobilization, and how workers and other social actors are responding to precariousness. We seek to understand the patterns of social and economic domination of labor shaped by the state, capital, gender, class, age, ethnicity, skills, and citizenship, and examine the manifestations of labor resistance and acquiescence in their specific contexts.
The conference is initiated by the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s Labor and Labor Movements Section, the International Sociological Association (ISA)’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (RC44), and the Chinese Sociological Association’s China Association of Work and Labor (CAWL). It builds in part on an ongoing scholarly exchange between the ASA Labor Section and the CAWL. The conference program will focus on the United States and China, but will include a range of global cases and perspectives. Interdisciplinary approaches and innovative research methods are welcomed.
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The Department of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University invites applications for an appointment at the rank of assistant professor (beginning or advanced) or associate professor. The successful candidate will have a strong research agenda that complements our department’s commitment to critical sociology and broad sociological thinking. We will consider applicants whose current research is in any field(s) but will prioritize those whose research and/or teaching is connected to the sociology of the environment, technology, aging, life course, health (physical, mental) and/or healthcare. We encourage applications from those who have the ability to successfully seek external grant support, whether as an individual or collaboratively.
Organizations, Occupations and Work 