The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Richmond invites applications from sociologists with a focus on critical race theory and expressive culture (ideally music). Please visit the following page for more information: https://richmond.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=1814
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Member Publication
Please check out a recent publication from OOW member Christopher Andrews: The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy.
Member Publication
Please check out the following recent publication from OOW members, Valery Yakubovich and Ryan Burg: “Friendship by assignment? From formal interdependence to informal relations in organizations” (published in Volume 72, Issue 6 of Human Relations).
Memorial for Art Stinchcombe (1933-2018)
The Northwestern University Department of Sociology invites the colleagues, students, and friends of Art Stinchcombe, and all those influenced by his work—as well as the colleagues, students, and friends of his wife, Carol Heimer—to join us as we remember Art and pay tribute to the accomplishments of one of the leading sociologists of his day. (Art’s obituary appeared in ASA Foonotes, Volume 46, no. 4, http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/attach/footnotes/footnotes_sept-oct-18_0.pdf.)
Saturday, August 10, 7:30 pm, in the Gramercy Room at the Sheraton-New York.
Message from the ASA LGBTQ Caucus
Hello! As we gear up for another ASA Annual Meeting, we would like to encourage you to become involved with the LGBTQ Caucus. The Caucus aims to support and empower all LGBTQ sociologists, regardless of what areas they work in. Our full mission statement is on our website: https://www.lgbtqcaucus.com/about-us. At the upcoming ASA meetings, we will have paper awards and graduate travel awards, a coffee hour, a business meeting, and a reception joint with Sociologists for Trans Justice. Outside of the Annual Meeting, you can get involved via our listserv or facebook page, or by reading or contributing to our new quarterly newsletter.* You can also help us build community by telling your colleagues about the Caucus.
* The next LGBTQ Caucus Newsletter is open for submissions! Did you publish something this year that we can signal-boost for you? Do you have questions about being queer at ASA or on the job market? Do you have an announcement? Are you on the job market? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we’d love to hear from you. Please email us at soclgbtqcaucus@gmail.com.
Announcement: 2020 WFRN Conference
The 2020 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference will be held June 25-27, 2020 at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. The conference theme is Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Strengthening Science and Collaboration. Submissions will open in July and close November 1, 2019.
Call For Papers: Inequality and Organizations: Paper Development Masterclass for Early Career Academics and Doctoral Students
September 20th, 2019, The York Management School, University of York, UK
Inequality and social justice are long standing concerns in academic research and public policy, affecting individual and collective wellbeing, diminishing growth and productivity and undermining trust in key societal institutions. Organizations, their structures, practices and strategies act both as potential barriers and solutions to this.
This master class, supported by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies in association with The York Management School’s Justice, Ethics and Inequality theme, invites papers of 7,000-10,000 words by 21st June 2019 looking at the relationship between inequality and organizations, their structures, practices and strategies. Themes include but are not limited to: poverty, social mobility, diversity management, precarity, international inequality, corporate social responsibility, employee participation, and industrial democracy.
OOW Mentoring Meet-Up
The Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section will be organizing a mentoring meet-up at this year’s ASA meeting where graduate students, post-docs, and faculty can enjoy a discussion about shared research interests outside of the scheduling of the regular conference. If you are interested in participating, please complete the form at the following link by May 17th.
The OOW Mentoring Committee (Sharla Alegria, Nina Bandelj, Emily Barman, Tim Bartley, and Jennifer Bouek) will match up junior and senior scholars based on shared research interests. Matched mentors and mentees should then reach out to each other to find a mutually convenient time to meet during the ASA.
If you have questions or concerns, please be in touch with Emily Barman (eabarman@bu.edu). Thank you.
New Organizational Sociology Papers at Sociology Compass
As a section editor at Sociology Compass, I have been motivated by concerns expressed by some sociologists about the future of organizational sociology, as discussed on the Work in Progress blog in 2015. Accordingly, I have been commissioning a series of pieces that articulate the contribution of organizational sociology and its relevance to the study of core sociology sociological topics like as race, gender, and inequality, among others. A few of these pieces have been published so far. First, Heather Haveman and Rachel Wetts have published articles here and here that address the question “What is organizational sociology?” Elizabeth Gorman and Sarah Mosseri have published an article here that answers the question “Why should students and scholars who are interested in gender difference and inequality study organizations?”
-Eric Dahlin
Call for Applications: Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences 2019
Linking Theory and Empirical Research
Berlin, July 15 – 25, 2019
We are delighted to announce the 9th Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. The summer school aims at supporting young researchers by strengthening their ability in linking theory and empirical research. The two-week program creates an excellent basis for the development of their current research designs.
In the first week, we address the key methodological challenges of concept-building, causation/explanation, and micro-macro linkage that occur in almost all research efforts. We strive for a clarification of the epistemological foundations underlying methodological paradigms. In the second week, these methodological considerations are applied to central empirical fields of research in political science, sociology, and other related disciplines. In this second part of the program, participants are assigned to four thematic groups according to their own research topic. The thematic areas covered are: “External Governance, Interregionalism, and Domestic Change”, “Citizenship, Migration, and Identities”, “Social Struggle and Globalization”, and “Democracy at the Crossroads”.
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