The 2014 International Labour Process Conference will return to Europe after another remarkable success at Rutgers University this year. The event will take place between 7-9th April 2014, hosted by the Department of Management at King’s College London.
The deadline for submissions of abstracts and proposals for symposia is three weeks from today (31st October 2013).
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.
Allison Pugh states that there are three jobs open at UVA. For more info, contact apugh@virginia.edu
Ø Open-rank Women, Gender and Sexualities position focusing on women’s health
Ø An Ethnographer’s position with a half-time appointment in American Studies
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.
Thanks to Kate Kellogg, Emily Barman, Kieran Healy, and Joseph Hermanowicz for serving on the Weber Award committee.
The committee also wishes to recognize Cheris Sung-ching Chan for her article “Culture, State, and Varieties of Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Life Insurance Markets in Hong Kong and Taiwain,” published in the British Journal of Sociology, 2012. (Honorable Mention – Scott Award)
Thanks to Ruthanne Huising, Debra Osnowitz, Lindsay Owens, and Ezra Zuckerman for their work on the Scott Award committee.
Honorable mention designations were also noted for two other papers:
Thanks to Sandy Welsh, Christopher Andrews, Daniel Schneider, and Gretchen Webber for their work on the Thompson committee as well.
I am proposing an optional, experimental event this year: small networking dinners at restaurants fairly near the conference hotel on Sunday, August 11, 2013. The idea is just to meet new people, chat more extensively than one might between sessions at the conference, and get warmed up for the section sessions, reception, and business meeting. Each person would pay his or her own costs and you can volunteer as a host – with minimal obligations – when you sign up. Several members of Council have already volunteered and we will assign people, basically at random, to groups with the goal of ending up with tables of 4-8 participants. Hosts agree to make a reservation (with some restaurant options provided) and to email those at their table in advance, with the time and place.
Sign up here if you are interested: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1okGmW5CBXDHFvDvrwHgdHzC4AIWDaxSfTbzowxX9eG0/viewform
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.
A draft list of the Organizations, Occupations and Work Roundtables is available after the jump. Note that the roundtables may have been updated since this list was produced, so please check the ASA program as well. The OOW Roundtables are being organized by Kim Fox and Eric Dahlin.
The 2013 ASA Program has been released!
[the program is available after the jump]
Organizations, Occupations and Work 