Call for Abstracts : ISA 2025

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ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 – Call for Abstracts

Vth ISA Forum of Sociology

Rabat, Morocco

July 6 – 11, 2025

Deadline for submissions (max 300 words): October 15, 2024

We are delighted to invite you to submit your abstracts for Vth ISA Forum of Sociology. The ISA Forum of Sociology of the International Sociological Association offers a unique opportunity to discuss current research with a global scholarship.

The Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations (RC17) calls for submissions. All streams accept submissions in English, many also in French and Spanish (live translation into English subtitles will be provided!).

Link: https://organizational-sociology.com/isa-forum-of-sociology-2025-call-for-abstracts 

New Books

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  1. Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal

by Celeste Vaughan Curington

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste Vaughan Curington focuses on Portugal—a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, has shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries. Many researchers focus on informal work settings, where immigrant rights are restricted and many workers are undocumented or without permanent residence status. Curington instead examines workers who have accessed citizenship or permanent residence status and also explores African women’s experiences laboring in care and service industries in the formal market, revealing how deeply colonial and intersectional logics of a racialized and international division of reproductive labor in Portugal render these women “hyper-invisible” and “hyper-visible” as “appropriate” workers in Lisbon.

  1. Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer

by Eli Revelle Yano Wilson

As workers attempt new modes of employment in the era of the Great Resignation, they face a labor landscape that is increasingly uncertain and stubbornly unequal. With Handcrafted Careers, sociologist Eli Revelle Yano Wilson dives headfirst into the everyday lives of workers in the craft beer industry to address key questions facing American workers today: about what makes a good career, who gets to have one, and how careers progress without established models.

Wilson argues that what ends up contributing to divergent career paths in craft beer is a complex interplay of social connections, personal tastes, and cultural ideas, as well as exclusionary industry structures. The culture of work in craft beer is based around “bearded white guy” ideals that are gendered and racialized in ways that limit the advancement of women and people of color. A fresh perspective on niche industries, Handcrafted Careers offers sharp insights into how people navigate worlds of work that promote ideas of authenticity and passion-filled careers even amid instability.

More information on the book via a Q&A with the Author:  https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/65971-qa-with-eli-revelle-yano-wilson-author-of-handcrafted-careers

Job Postings

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  1. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Colby College

The Department of Sociology at Colby College is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting September 1, 2025. Colby is a highly selective liberal arts college in a spectacular setting with a rich sociological history: it was here that Albion Small taught some of the first sociology courses in the country. We are searching for an early career scholar who aims to make an impact through high-profile research, excellence in teaching, and meaningful student engagement. Areas of specialization are open, although we particularly welcome applications from candidates able to offer courses in the sociology of race and ethnicity. The ideal candidate will have a publication track record, ample experience with teaching—including course design—and a record of success advising and mentoring individuals from groups under-represented in higher education. 

Materials must be submitted electronically to: http://apply.interfolio.com/149849. Candidates may be A.B.D., but Ph.D.s must be in hand prior to September 1, 2025. Questions about this search should be directed to: sociologysearch@colby.edu.

  1. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke University

The Department of Sociology at Duke University in Durham, NC invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2025. We seek scholars who have an outstanding research program and the ability to teach in our undergraduate and graduate programs. Candidates should apply online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28065 by October 1, 2024 to receive full consideration.

  1. Associate or Full Professor of the Practice, Duke University

The Department of Sociology at Duke University in Durham, NC invites applications for a non-tenure track faculty position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor of the Practice beginning July 1, 2025. The successful applicant will have a track record of excellence in undergraduate teaching and will contribute to the Department of Sociology’s Markets and Management Studies (MMS) program. Candidates should apply online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28071 by October 1, 2024 to receive full consideration.

  1. Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Methodist University

Position No. 6330. The Department of Sociology at Southern Methodist University invites applications for an assistant professor with specializations in economic, urban, global or transnational sociology, to begin August 1, 2025. The teaching load is typically 2 courses per semester.

As one of ten tenure-line positions associated with Southern Methodist University’s faculty cluster in urban research, this position also offers opportunities for rich interdisciplinary connections among new and existing SMU faculty [https://www.smu.edu/dedman/research/clusters].

Please address inquiries to Search Committee Chair Matthew Keller (mkeller@smu.edu). Applications must be submitted via Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/150739.

  1. Assistant Professor of Sociology at William & Mary

The Department of Sociology at William & Mary, a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia, seeks applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Appointment will begin August 10, 2025. We are interested in individuals with research and teaching expertise in the sociology of race and ethnicity, including the way racial inequalities intersect with health, educational, economic, criminal justice, or other disparities. Duties include research, teaching, and service to the University.

Applicants must apply online at https://jobs.wm.edu.For full consideration, submit application materials by the initial review date of October 1, 2024. Applications received after the initial review date will be considered if needed. Information on the degree programs in the Department of Sociology may be found at https://www.wm.edu/as/sociology/. For more information about the position see https://jobs.wm.edu/postings/61460.

The link to the job ad (#1310082) on the ASA career center website is: https://careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310082/assistant-professor-of-sociology-race-and-ethnicity-/?LinkSource=HomePage

New Publications & Website

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Protasiuk, E. (2024). “Unsettled Times: The Contestation and Reproduction of Flexible Scheduling in Pandemic-Era Restaurant Work.” Work and Occupations. https://doi.org/10.1177/07308884241265477

Chow, T.Y. (2024). “Doing Gender, Undoing Race: Token Processes for Women with Multiple Subordinate Identities.” Gender & Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/RQQPTQY9XDRJVGMVVCN2/full

New Website hosting Songs about Work: Interested in songs about work and employment? Stephen Barley and Matt Beane at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a website where you search for over 500 songs about work by title, artist, occupation and genre. For most songs, the site provides a link to an artist performing the song (when available the original recording) as well as a link to the song’s lyrics. Through the website you can also submit songs for Steve and Matt to add to the website’s database: www.work-songs.org

New Publications

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Ghaziani, Amin and Seth Abrutyn. 2024. “Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim’s theory of disruptions via queer nightlife.” British Journal of Sociology. Open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.13134

Ghaziani, Amin. 2024. “Emplaced bars and episodic events: Reflections on nightlife forms.” Mediapolis 9(2). Online and open access: https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/06/emplaced-bars-and-episodic-events/

Joseph C. Hermanowicz.  2024.   “The Therapeutic University.”  Minerva.  https://rdcu.be/dNhvi

Joseph C. Hermanowicz.  2024.   “Interrogating the Meaning of ‘Quality’ in Utterances and Activities Protected by Academic Freedom.”   Journal of Academic Ethics.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-024-09512-z

Call for Papers: Journal of Professions and Organizations Special Issue- “Money professionals: How professionals in economics, finance, tax, and law gain and practice expertise and authority.”

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Economic power continues to transform our societies in new ways, and professional groups seek authority in the competition for control over ‘money’ in the form of credit, finance, investment, tax, and legal-economic relations. Economists, business lawyers, tax consultants, fund managers and finance managers may all be considered money professionals mobilising expertise and organisational resources to gain authority and influence distribution of resources. Their relationships underpin who is permitted access to money in the form of credit and debt (Simmel, 1978; Muldrew, 1998; Ingham, 2004). There are a range of researchers interested in these money professionals although they work in research streams and are often not aware of each other. There are researchers within economic sociology, the sociology of professions, sociology of expertise, sociology of law, sociology of money, sociology of the state—as well as researchers in political economy or public administration—that study professional groups working with ‘money’. These scholars may use quantitative or qualitative approaches of various sorts, different theoretical approaches, but have in common an interest in understanding how such money professionals operate, how they interact with or distinguish from other professional groups, what kind of authority they mobilise, or the ways in which they exert power in society.

With this JPO special issue, we wish to foster a dialogue across sub-fields, as well as across methodological and theoretical approaches, to get betters insight into the role and power of professionals or experts working with ‘money’, broadly conceived. We consider a variety of approaches to money professionals as a fruitful ground for questioning and developing theories of professions and organizations, especially given challenges like rising global and workplace inequalities (Ashley et al., 2023). By calling for contributions from researchers from such a diversity of backgrounds, we seek a better understanding of questions such as:

  • What are the sources of authority that allows money professionals to exert influence and control?
  • How do jurisdictional struggles play out among those working with money?
  • How do professional logics play out in internationalised or transnationalized areas such as finance, business law, wealth management or tax counselling? 
  • To what extent do we need to develop theories of professions to grasp the struggles over influence and privilege in these areas?
  • What is the role of national professional institutions and organizations in a globalised economy?
  • What can studies of professionals working with money teach us about the relationship between public and private sector, or between political and economic power?

Timeline

August 15 2024 – deadline for 250 word abstracts to be sent to Marte Mangset (marte.mangset@sosgeo.uio.no) and Len Seabrooke (lse.ioa@cbs.dk).

September 15 2024 —Mangset and Seabrooke will notify the authors who will be invited to submit full submissions.

March 15 2025 — deadline submission of full manuscripts.

See more information here.

Announcements

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Cassandra Engeman’s 2023 publication in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society was a finalist for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. The paper, “Making Parenting Leave Accessible to Fathers: Political Actors and New Social Rights, 1965-2016,” can be read here.

New Publication: Kim, Hyun Ju, Erica Jablonski, Debra L. Brucker, Ada Chen, John O’Neill, and Andrew J. Houtenville. Forthcoming. “What Structural and Cultural Organizational Characteristics Affect Flexible Work Environments? Evidence from the 2017 and 2022 Kessler Foundation National Employment & Disability Survey: Supervisor Perspectives.” Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.