Please join us on Friday, August 7 from 8:00am to 10:00am at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC for a Professional Development Workshop: Being There/Being Them: The Intersection of Organizational and Occupational Ethnography. Our panelists include: Steve Barley (Stanford University); Lisa Cohen (McGill University); Emily Heaphy (Boston University); and Gerardo Okhuysen (UC Irvine).
Author: Sarah Mosseri
Call for Applications: Early Career Work and Family Fellowships
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for 2016 Early Career Work and Family Fellowships. The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes, as well as connect them to the WFRN community. Fifteen scholars will be selected for the program. Fellows receive a one year membership in the WFRN, conference registration, and $500 to help defer expenses to attend the 2016 WFRN Conference (to be held June 23-25 in Washington DC). At the conference, special events will be targeted to serve interests of fellows, including networking opportunities with senior scholars and teaching/research workshops. In addition, fellows will be connected with one another in periodic encounters beyond the conference, intended to facilitate collaboration and peer-mentorship. To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorate in 2013 or later and have yet to progress into tenured or secure senior level positions. Eligibility is not restricted on the basis of national location. Information about the program and application materials can be found at https://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/content/early-career-fellowship-program. The deadline for receipt of applications is September 15, 2015. Questions about the program can be addressed to the program director, Stephen Sweet at SSWEET@ITHACA.EDU.
Mini-symposium on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A mini-symposium was on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was recently published in Historical Materialism (Volume 23, Issue 1). The mini-symposium consisted of the following:
- Capital (It Fails Us Now): Introduction to a Mini-symposium on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Alberto Toscano
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty: ‘Wealth of Data, Poverty of Theory’ by Michel Husson
- Thomas Piketty and the Search for r by Michael Roberts
- A General Theory for Our Times: On Piketty by Geoff Mann
New Edited Volume: Advancing Women in Science
A new edited volume entitled Advancing Women in Science: An International Perspective has recently been released. The volume is edited by Willie Pearson, Jr., Lisa M. Frehill, and Connie L. McNeely
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OOW Section award recipients announced
Below are the OOW Section’s 2015 award recipients for outstanding scholarship in the areas of organizations, occupations, and/or work:
- Max Weber Award (for best book): Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel (both of University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules (Russell Sage Foundation).
- An honorable mention was awarded to Nancy DiTomaso (Rutgers University), for The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism(also Russell Sage Foundation).
- W. Richard Scott Award (for best article): Andras Tilcsik (University of Toronto), “Imprint-Environment Fit and Performance: How Organizational Munificence at Time-of-Hire Affects Subsequent Job Performance,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 2014, 59: 639-668.
- An honorable mention was awarded to Christina Mora (University of California, Berkeley), for “Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990,” American Sociological Review, 2014, 79: 183-210.
- James D. Thompson Award (for best paper by a graduate student): Brad R. Fulton (Duke University), “Bridging and Bonding: How Social Diversity Influences Organizational Performance.”
Announcement: OOW member, Nicole Marwell, accepts a new position
OOW member, Nicole Marwell, will join the University of Chicago as Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration beginning July 1st. Congratulations!
Funding Opportunity: National Service and Civic Engagement Research Competition (due July 16)
The Corporation for National and Community Service today released a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) of up to $800,000 for the 2015 National Service and Civic Engagement Research Competition.
The broad objectives of the competition are to:
- Promote research on national service, civic engagement, and volunteering among researchers and practitioners
- Broaden the evidence base for programs using national service and volunteering
- Increase the availability of innovative research methods used to study to national service and volunteering
The deadline for applications is July 16, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Successful applicants will receive awards of between $30,000 and $300,000 per year for 3 years. During the 2015 fiscal year, CNCS plans to award approximately $800,000 in awards to institutions of higher education.
Job Posting: TT Assistant Professor Position at the University of Toledo
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The University of Toledo invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Sociology at the assistant professor level to begin August 2015. We seek a candidate with expertise in urban sociology. The successful applicant will have an interdisciplinary vision in order to contribute to programs on campus, such as Urban Studies and the Urban Affairs Center. Applicants should demonstrate strong commitment to research, as well as teaching and service. The department offers a BA and MA in Sociology.
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Dissertation Abstract: Bryce Hannibal on Jazz Collaboration Networks
Bryce Hannibal defended his dissertation at Texas A&M University earlier this year and will be on the market this fall.
Abstract:
In this project I explore how career success, historical importance, and innovation are outcomes of social network characteristics. Specifically, I look at jazz collaboration networks at the height of small-group jazz popularity (1945-1958) to determine if one’s structural location within the larger network influences career success. Using a network dataset collected from the Tom Lord Discography, I use social network analysis techniques and longitudinal logistic regression to examine a statistical relationship between network characteristics and success. I test several existing hypotheses in network literature, e.g., centrality, brokerage, and closure, as well as newer assertions that are gaining widespread use.
Because jazz is based on improvisation there are incentives to creating a well-functioning closed group that remains cohesive so that musicians become familiar with and attuned to one another’s musical styles. However, while this logic is sound the results of this project do not follow the closure tradition and are instead consistent with the sparse networks or brokerage hypotheses. Empirically, individuals within jazz networks who form a closed group are less likely to have a successful career. More broadly, conclusions from this project suggest that individual innovators who work in a group setting should maintain open networks with connections to diverse areas of the global network.
Letter from Paula England
NEED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION BY SOCIOLOGISTS
To my fellow members of the American Sociological Association:
National Science Foundation (NSF) research funding for the social sciences is threatened with a 45% cut in a bill that will be debated on the House floor during the week of May 18. I urge you to write to your member of Congress before that debate.
You can do this easily right now. Go to the COSSA Action Center to sign up and take action by asking your representative to oppose the America COMPETES Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806).
Organizations, Occupations and Work 