The Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level to begin Fall 2014. Area of specialization is open. Duties include undergraduate and graduate teaching, research, publication, and service to the department, college, and university. Applicants should at a minimum have a PhD in hand or expected by August 2014, demonstrate a commitment to teaching excellence, and have a clearly defined research agenda.

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter that includes a description of current and planned research, current Curriculum Vitae, writing sample, and three letters of reference to: Jennifer Glass, Search Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, via SOCfac@austin.utexas.edu. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2013. The University of Texas is an AA/EEO employer. A background check will be conducted on the successful candidates. Position funding is pending budgetary approval.

Thomas Crosbie (Yale) and many others have launched a Work/Culture Network of scholars who use cultural approaches to the study of work, occupations, employment, and professions and who use working life as a lens to explore culture.  They are organizing a mini-conference at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meetings.  For the ESS event, send abstracts to workslashculture@gmail.com by October 15, 2013 and learn more about the group at  http://workculturesociology.blogspot.com

Lisa Keister (Duke) has just launched a new website. It is called http://wealthinequality.org/. It contains lots of details about wealth ownership, concentration, and related issues.  There will frequently be new estimates and updates available.

Erin Leahey (Arizona) announces that the 4th annual Arizona Methods Workshops will take place January 9-11, 2014.  All are welcome, and students get 50% off.  http://sociology.arizona.edu/sites/sociology.arizona.edu/files/methods2014.pdfhttp://sociology.arizona.edu/methods

The Southern Sociological Society’s 2014 annual meeting will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina April 2-5. President Leslie Hossfeld has organized the conference around the theme of “Poverty, Social Policy, and the Role of the Sociologist,” which she explains in The Southern Sociologist (volume 45, issue 1).  Jeremy Reynolds has organized an invited paper session featuring Arne Kalleberg, Beth Rubin, Sabrina Lenee Speights, Samuel Grubbs, Jeff Will, and Caroline Hanley.  Additionally, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Don Tomaskovic-Devey, and Alford Young will serve as panelists for an Author Meets Critics session for Adia Harvey Wingfield’s new book “No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men’s Work.”  For details on the conference and submissions, to go the SSS website and the official CFP.

(An announcement from Vincent J. Roscigno)

On July 1, the Southern Sociological Society along with Sage launched a bold new venture and journal, Social Currents, which will publish its first issue in January/February 2014!!! Feel free to visit the Sage booth or catch one of the editors or editorial board members (listed below) in person at the upcoming ASA meetings in New York if you have ideas!!!

The official journal of the Southern Sociological Society, Social Currents is a broad ranging social science journal that focuses on cutting-edge research from all methodological and theoretical orientations with implications for national and international sociological communities.

The uniqueness of Social Currents lies in its format: the front end of every issue is devoted to short, theoretical agenda-setting contributions and short empirical and policy-related pieces, ranging anywhere from 1,500 to 4,000 words.  The back end of every issue includes normal journal length articles (7,500-12,000 words) that branch across subfields, including the many specialties of sociology and the social sciences in general.

Continue reading “A New Outlet for OOW Members!!!” →

I am pleased to announce that Mark Mizruchi (Michigan) will be our chair-elect next year and serve as OOW chair in 2014-2015. We are also lucky to have Kate Kellogg (MIT) and Taekjin Shin (Illinois) joining the council for three-year terms. Thanks to all those who agreed to run; it was a terrific slate of candidates. Thanks as well to the nominating committee, Heather Haveman, Catherine Turco, and Vernon Woodley.

The bylaws amendment passed with overwhelming support, ratifying the shift to a publications committee that focuses on the section blog.

The Faculty for Social Sciences (FB03) at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Department of Sociology, in the Team of Prof. Heather Hofmeister, Ph.D., Professor for Sociology with the Specialty in the Sociology of Work, invites applications for a half-position (50%) as a doctoral candidate in Sociology for three years (German pay scale TV-H 13) working toward completing a dissertation within those three years (we allow ample time for  the dissertation project as well as co-authored publications with team members).  The successful candidate will also teach one class per semester on a topic within the sociology of work (except for the first and last semesters of the position, where the teaching responsibility is applied toward teaching training).  The position is located within the team of the Sociology of Work and includes working with the interdisciplinary Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO). The position is to begin as soon as convenient, but ideally no later than September 2013.

 

The topics we especially are interested in seeing handled in the dissertation of the successful candidate are the changing nature and/or meaning of work over historical time, across the life course, and/or in varying national contexts. We’re looking at changes in timing and expectations of work, how work competes with or complements responsibilities and wishes in other domains of life, hierarchies (leaders, followers, relations within teams, including gender dimensions), and trends in the future of work.  We’re especially interested in supporting our new candidate to do quantitative research on job changes over time.  An international comparative perspective is welcome.

 

What we offer:

·        Friendly, constructive, helpful, and experienced colleagues.

·        New state-of-the-art offices on the green, centrally located Frankfurt Westend Campus.

·        An interdisciplinary collegial setting in the immediate working environment and through cooperative projects and contacts (sociology, political science, psychology, economics).

·        A structured qualification process: regularly scheduled meetings with the dissertation supervisor (Hofmeister), with the team on research opportunities and issues, chances to present work locally, nationally, and internationally, chance to collect teaching experience through co-teaching and independent teaching, and general academic socialization. One specialty of the team is science communication (bringing research results to the public).

 

Requirements:

·       A completed Masters Degree or Diploma in Sociology by the start of the position.

·       An interest in and background experience in the Sociology of Work (coursework, research).

·       The ability and interest in conducting independent empirical sociological research.

·       Excellent methods skills, quantitative but also qualitative will be considered. Candidates with experience in multivariate statistics are preferred, including experience with SPSS, STATA, or similar programs.

·       Evidence of personal engagement, ability to be self-directed, and having a team-oriented and cooperative working style.

·       English language fluency or near-fluency.  Competency in German or willingness to gain competency.

·       Excellent writing and presentation skills, computer literacy.

Equal Opportunities policies apply, including the preferential hiring of persons with disabilities who possess the same qualifications as the other top candidates.

In your electronic application, please include:

(1)  a cover letter stating why you are a good fit for this position,

(2)  your full academic CV,

(3)  an example of your scientific writing (can be a final paper from a seminar or a masters thesis),

(4)  The names of references (with contact information; no letter of recommendation needed at this time, but if you already have these, you are welcome to send them), and

(5)  if you already have an idea for your dissertation, please send a one-page Exposé about your potential dissertation project.

Applications should be sent in electronic form (.pdf preferred) to: arbeitssoziologie@em.uni-frankfurt.de.  We will evaluate applications starting in mid-April 2013 and continue to accept applications until the position is filled with a qualified candidate.

Relevant links:

www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/soziologie

www.heather-hofmeister.de

http://www.clbo-frankfurt.org/

http://www.gesellschaftswissenschaften.uni-frankfurt.de/institut_1/hhofmeister/index.html

The Work in Progress blog team has decided to offer every member of the section the opportunity to write a short summary their newly published book for the Work in Progress blog. The blog is getting around 2,000 views per month.

If you would like to take advantage of this, please email an 800-1,200 word summary of your book to Matt Vidal (matt.vidal@kcl.ac.uk). Your summary should focus on key findings, written for a wide public audience with minimal jargon.