Category: Announcements

WFRN: Work Family Congressional Education and Policy Day

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Register here

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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New Publication: The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment

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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:

  • Historical Context and Social Divisions
  • The Experience of Work
  • The Organization of Work
  • Nonstandard Work and Employment
  • Work and Life beyond Employment
  • Globalization and the Future of Work.

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New Member Publication: Pekarek and Gahan on Strategic Innovation in Australian Unions

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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

 

The 2016 Summer Institute In Political Psychology (SIPP)

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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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Work in Progress blog now co-sponsored by four Sections: OOW, Econ Soc, LLM & IPM

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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:

  • Organizations, Occupations and Work
  • Economic Sociology
  • Labor and Labor Movements
  • Inequality, Poverty and Mobility.

 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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Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences

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Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences
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Linking Theory and Empirical Research
Berlin, July 17 – 28, 2016

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.

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Member Request: Unpublished/In-press Studies of Social Class

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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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Student Gift Memberships

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If you are a student member of ASA or know of a student member who is interested in organizations, occupations, and work, please consider joining or encouraging him/her to join at no cost ASA’s Organization, Occupations, and Work (OOW) section.

Thanks to the generous support of its members, OOW is covering the section membership fees ($5) for the first 50 students whose full names are emailed to Michel Anteby at manteby@bu.edu Please note that students MUST already be ASA members to be eligible for this offer.

A Tribute to Randy Hodson: New Volume Of Research in the Sociology of Work

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We are excited to share news of a new volume of Research in the Sociology of Work, which gives tribute to Randy Hodson.

A Gedenkschrift to Randy Hodson: Working with Dignity, Volume 28
Edited by Lisa Keister (Duke University) and Vincent Roscigno (The Ohio State University)

ISBN: 9781785607271

Randy Hodson was one of contemporary sociology’s central figures in the study of work, occupations, and inequality. This volume pays tribute to his important scholarly contributions. Chapters by other important scholars in these fields reflect and build on his research in work conditions, worker resistance, and social stratification.

“This important volume extends a research tradition that finds its source in Randy Hodson’s remarkable scholarship, and particularly in his ability to put  the lifeworld of workers back at the center of the sociology of work. Neophytes and social scientists already familiar with Hodson’s  research program have much to learn from this first-class collection  of essays. Through the various chapters, sociologists will rediscover a first rate mind — and human being — at work. Kudos to the editor for making this uniquely creative Gedenkschrift!”

Michele Lamont, author of The Dignity of Working Men, Professor of Sociology and African and American Studies, Harvard University

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