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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AOM members interested in network analysis have benefited from various PDWs that cater to their need to keep up to date with the methods and theories in this area, but there is only one forum for learning how to bring their research interests into the classroom: the Teaching Social Networks PDW. Now in its fourth year, this ongoing forum for AOM members interested in teaching social networks to different audiences offers an opportunity to share and learn practical insights on how to prepare and deliver impactful sessions or entire courses on the topic.
OOW members,
We have a relatively recent tradition of organizing dinners at ASA that we have called networking dinners. The purpose has been to provide opportunities for members of various ranks to meet outside the normal meeting.
I am having trouble gauging interest in continuing these.
Would we like to continue this tradition? If so, are you willing to do the organizing?
Organizing them is a great way to contribute to the section, and I understand that it is not overly-onerous. Of course, there is no requirement that we continue doing this. If I do not have a volunteer, we can take a year off and reconsider the idea for the Montreal meeting.
Please send your thoughts to me at lkeister@soc.duke.edu.
Cheers,
Lisa A. Keister
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Join Researchers from Across the Country and Around the World in Educating Congress About Work and Family Issues!
You are invited to a special Work Family Congressional Education and Policy Day to be held June 22, the day before the Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) 2016 Conference opens in Washington, D.C. This special day will be co-hosted by the National Partnership for Women & Families and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Work and family researchers from across the country and around the globe will have the opportunity to meet with members of Congress to educate them about issues such as paid family and medical leave, paid sick days, and fair scheduling. Join WFRN for an interactive training session, including pointers on how to make your research most relevant to legislators and their staff, and then meet individually or in small groups with members of Congress to share your perspective and research. The National Partnership and Equitable Growth will provide training, schedule your meetings, and pair you up with policy practitioners. There is no charge to participate. All you have to do is sign up here and bring your expertise!
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The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment, edited by Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried, and Edward Granter. Sage. 2015.
The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world.
The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is structured around six core themes:
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OOW member, Andreas Pekarek, recently published (with Peter Gahan) a piece on The Conversation website. The piece features informed analysis and commentary on Strategic Innovation in Australian Unions.
The details and a link to the article can be found below:
Andreas Pekarek and Peter Gahan. 2016. “How unions are changing in a bid for relevance – and survival”. The Conversation. URL: https://theconversation.com/how-unions-are-changing-in-a-bid-for-relevance-and-survival-56360
Applications are being accepted now for the 22th Annual Summer Institute in Political Psychology, to be held at Stanford University August 1-19, 2016.
The Summer Institute offers 3 weeks of intensive training in political psychology. Political psychology is an exciting and thriving field that explores the origins of political behavior and the causes of political events, with a special focus on the psychological mechanisms at work. Research findings in political psychology advance basic theories of politics and are an important basis for political decision-making in practice.
SIPP was founded in 1991 at Ohio State University, and Stanford has hosted SIPP since 2005, with support from Stanford University and from the National Science Foundation. Hundreds of participants have attended SIPP during these years.
The 2016 SIPP curriculum is designed to (1) provide broad exposure to theories, empirical findings, and research traditions; (2) illustrate successful cross-disciplinary research and integration; (3) enhance methodological pluralism; and (4) strengthen networks among scholars from around the world.
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The Work in Progress editorial team is delighted to announce that it has expanded into a joint project co-sponsored by the following four kindred ASA sections:
Work in Progress is a public sociology blog intended to disseminate sociological research and findings to the general public, with a particular emphasis on contributing to policy debates. After considering a number of names intended to strike a balance between covering the breadth of focus of the four sections while not overloading on specific terms, the editorial team decided on the following:
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We are delighted to announce the 6th Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. The summer school aims at promoting young researchers by strengthening their methodological understanding in linking theory and empirical research. The two weeks’ program creates an excellent basis for the advancement of their current research designs.
Dear colleagues,
As part of an ongoing meta-analysis, I am writing to request any unpublished and in-press studies of social class. Because there are competing operationalizatons of this construct, this request may be a bit cumbersome. However, I am most interested in work that has used multiple measures from the following list:
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Organizations, Occupations and Work 