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.
Category: Announcements
Marxist Section Member Drive
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.
Help the OOW Section reach 1000 members in September!
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.
Work, employment and society is currently inviting applications to join its Associate Board.
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:
- Quantitative Methods
- Political Economy
- Comparative Employment Relations
- Theory (especially Social Theory)
- Sociology of Health
- Body Work/Sex Work
- Sociology of the Professions
- Self-employment
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
OOW Student Gift Memberships
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!
New Book: Berrey on the Language and Limits of Diversity
The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice by Ellen Berrey. University of Chicago Press (May 2015)
Diversity today is a widely honored American value. But does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? Drawing on six years of fieldwork and historical sources dating back to the 1950s, Ellen Berrey examines three case studies from widely varying arenas: affirmative action in the University of Michigan’s admissions program, housing redevelopment in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, and a human resources department at a Fortune 500 company. The book explores the complicated meanings, uses, and effects of diversity as it is invoked by different organizational actors for different, often symbolic ends. In each case, diversity affirms inclusiveness, especially in the most coveted jobs and colleges, yet it resists fundamental change in practices and cultures that are the foundation of social inequality. The Enigma of Diversity identifies the true cost of the popular embrace of diversity: the taming of demands for racial justice.
Learn more: ellenberrey.com
Forthcoming Publication from OOW Section Member Elizabeth Hoffmann
OOW Section member, Elizabeth A. Hoffmann, will have an article exploring emotional labor worker co-operatives in Winter 2016 issue of The Sociological Quarterly.
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Memorial Gathering in Honor of Randy Hodson in at this year’s ASA in Chicago.
Dear Section Members,
As you have perhaps know by now, Randy Hodson, a member of the section and prior recipient of the OOW section’s Max Weber (1999) and W. Richard Scott Awards (2005) and the IPM section’s Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar Award (2014), passed away this Spring at young age of 62. Friend’s and admirers of Randy and his work will be gathering for a remembrance, to share thoughts regarding Randy as a friend and colleague, at this year’s ASA in Chicago. We hope anyone who knew of or appreciated Randy as a person and/or scholar in the field will join us for this event. Time, date and location will be on the ASA program, but are listed here, below, for your convenience.
Event Name: Memorial Gathering in Honor of Randy Hodson
Room Assignment: Hilton Chicago, Astoria Room, Third Floor
Event Date and Time: Sunday, 8/23/2015; 8:00-10:00pm
Best Wishes,
Vinnie Roscigno
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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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!
Organizations, Occupations and Work 