OOW Section Member, Phaedra Daipha announces the publication of her new book, Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth (University of Chicago Press).
Continue reading “New Book: Daipha on Decision Making among Weather Forecasters”
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality seeks to support research that expands our knowledge of key trends in poverty and inequality. Awards will be made to “New Scholars” who will then join one of the CPI’s ten research groups. The proposal deadline is November 1, 2015. Read the RFP here: http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/prog_new_scholars.html.
Directors
Robert Gibbons, Economics and Management, MIT
Woody Powell, Education and Sociology, Stanford University
ABOUT CASBS SUMMER INSTITUTE AND FELLOWSHIP
The CASBS 2016 summer institute, Organizations and Their Effectiveness, will take place from June 27 through July 8, 2016 at the Center on the Stanford University campus. Ten fellowships will be awarded to cover tuition, room and board, and travel. The deadline for applications will be in early January; decisions will be sent mid-February 2016.
Continue reading “Fellowship Opportunity: Summer Institute for Behavioral and Social Scientists”
Please join us for the 6th annual Arizona Methods Workshops
January 7-9, 2016
These 3-day workshops are open to everyone and are hosted by the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where all workshops are held.
This year we are offering 6 workshops:
~ Qualitative Data Analysis in ATLAS.ti with Corey Abramson
~ Programming in Stata with Jennifer Earl
~ Introduction to Social Network Analysis with Joe Galaskiewicz
~ Qualitative Comparative Analysis with Claude Rubinson
~ Introduction to R with Katerina Sinclair
~ Introduction to Machine Learning with Jacob Foster
Cost is $400 for one workshop and $650 for two. Students receive a 50% discount. Graduate students can apply for the Scott R. Eliason Scholarship, which offers free tuition.
For details, registration, and information about lodging and scholarships:
http://sociology.arizona.edu/methods
Downloadable and printable flyer:
http://tinyurl.com/AMWflyer
Please direct questions to:
Erin Leahey, Organizer
methods@arizona.edu
520.621.9351
The OOW Council is happy to announce that the Section has exceeded its goal of 1,000 memberships. As a result, OOW will have an additional session at next year’s ASA meetings in Seattle.
We warmly welcome new and returning members and look forward to a year of academic fellowship and productivity!
The ASA Committee on Publications encourages applications for the editorships of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Sociology of Education. The official term for the new editors (or co-editors) will begin in January 2017 (the editorial transition will start in summer 2016) and is for a minimum of three years (until December 2019), with a possible reappointment of up to an additional two years. See complete application procedures and samples of previous successful proposals.
Are you interested in joining the Marxist Sociology Section?
Current membership for the Marxist Sociology Section is 284. We need 16 more members to hit 300 and to receive an additional session.
If you are a current member of the ASA and are not a member of the Marxist Sociology Section, please consider joining this section.
It is $12 for professors and $7 for students.
For the next 20 people who renew their membership by the end of the month, they will receive a free six-month subscription to Monthly Review.
After renewing, send Brett Clark (brettclark@comcast.net) your invoice and address. Brett will pass this information along to Monthly Review.
Our community has grown to 942 members! This is great news, but also means we are 58 members short of reaching a thousand. If we hit that magic number by Sept. 30th 2015, we will be allotted another session for our annual meeting.
So what can you do?
Please encourage your friends to enroll in OOW and send the names of any current ASA student member interested in our section but not yet an OOW member. (A brief email to manteby@bu.edu with his/her first and last name is enough). Thanks to the generosity of our members, we are able to offer them a gift membership to our section.
WES is seeking new Associate Board members this year. Successful candidates will become members of the Board from January 2016, for a period of three years. The WES Associate Board is made up of 30 scholars, both junior and senior academics, who commit themselves to reviewing 4-6 papers a year for the journal. The Associate Board is a ‘virtual entity’ and, after an initial training session, there will be no face-to-face meetings of the Board.
The Associate Board is open to both junior and senior academics with a PhD, or equivalent, in any area covered by the journal or in a relevant subject. International and UK applications will be considered. You do not need to be a member of the BSA to apply for a position on the Associate Board; however successful candidates are expected to join the Association for the duration of their term.
The Associate Board requires members with a broad range of expertise, although preference will be given to those whose expertise is in demand by the journal. Candidates with knowledge of the following areas are particularly needed:
To read the full Call for Applications or download the application form please see visit the BSA website: www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/publications-vacancies.aspx
If you are a student member of ASA or know of a student member who is interested in the sociology of organizations, occupations, and work, please consider joining or encouraging him/her to join the ASA Organization, Occupations, and Work (OOW) section. Thanks to the generous support of our members, OOW is covering the section membership fees ($5) for the first 50 students whose full names are emailed to Michel Anteby, treasurer of the section, at manteby@bu.edu
Please note that students must already be members of the ASA to be eligible for this offer. They will be signed up on a first come, first served basis. Any sponsors who sends more than 10 eligible names will be recognized in our next newsletter. Please send names at your earliest convenience and no later than September 30, 2015. Thanks!
Organizations, Occupations and Work 