The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) at the University of Michigan is now accepting applications for a Visiting Fellow for the 2024-25 academic year.
The fellowship provides an early-career social scientist with funded time to pursue their research in an intellectual community with a culture of engagement and collaboration.
Applications are due by December 1, 2023. For more information, please visit: https://www.inequalitydynamics.umich.edu/opportunities/staff/visiting-fellowship
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to an edited book on Graduates’ work in the knowledge economy (with Palgrave). The volume aims to advance the understanding of graduate careers in the ‘knowledge economy.’ It uses sociological, economic, and political lenses to examine the structures of opportunities (and constraints) shaping graduates’ experiences of work in the knowledge economy. We are interested in personal, as well as the more structural implications of graduate work across a variegated occupational spectrum. The book asks whether (and for whom) the knowledge economy can bring decent, white-collar jobs and for whom/ where/ when it is over-selling the promise of upward careers. It examines the social and economic implications of the knowledge economy.
We invite contributions on the structural enablers, including skill formation systems, professional and company cultures, as well as critical analyses of the politics of the knowledge economy. Empirical or theoretical papers from different domains (including, but not limited to Sociology of Work and Employment, Youth studies, Political economy, and regional studies) are welcome.
Submission Guidelines
Please find information on submissions here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xyi3Ev7gBtzqtkKV0jMgQcWsQHrsZApI/view].
Abstract (300 words): January 15, 2024
Full chapter (6000-8000 words): July 30, 2024
Anticipated publication date: 2025
We have a preliminary publication agreement with Palgrave.
For any further queries, please contact Maria-Carmen Pantea at maria.pantea@ubbcluj.ro
Editors:
Maria-Carmen Pantea, Universitatea ‘Babeș-Bolyai’ (maria.pantea@ubbcluj.ro)
Ken Roberts, The University of Liverpool (bert@liverpool.ac.uk)
Dan-Cristian Dabija, Universitatea ‘Babeș-Bolyai’ (dan.dabija@ubbcluj.ro)
Bourmault, N., & Anteby, M. (2023). Rebooting One’s Professional Work: The Case of French Anesthesiologists Using Hypnosis. Administrative Science Quarterly
Individuals deeply socialized into professional cultures tend to strongly resist breaking from their professions’ core cultural tenets. When these individuals face external pressure (e.g., via new technology or regulation), they typically turn to peers for guidance in such involuntary reinventions of their work. But it is unclear how some professionals may voluntarily break from deeply ingrained views. Through our study of French anesthesiologists who practice hypnosis, we aim to better understand this little-explored phenomenon. Adopting hypnosis, a technique that many anesthesiologists consider subjective and even magical, contradicted a core tenet of their profession: the need to only use techniques validated by rigorous scientific-based research. Drawing on interviews and observations, we analyze how these anesthesiologists were able to change their views and reinvent their work. We find that turning inward to oneself (focusing on their own direct experiences of clients) and turning outward to clients (relying on relations with clients) played critical roles in anesthesiologists’ ability to shift their views and adopt hypnosis. Through this process, these anesthesiologists embarked on a voluntary internal transformation, or reboot, whereby they profoundly reassessed their work, onboarded people in adjacent professions to accept their own reinvention, and countered isolation from their peers. Overall, we show a pathway to such reinvention that entails turning inward and outward (rather than to peers), a result that diverges significantly from prior understandings of professionals’ transformations.
City & Community Presents: “How to Write (and Not Write) Journal Articles”A Virtual Professional Development EventThursday, October 19, 6:30-8 pm EST, on Zoom.
Aimed primarily at doctoral students and early career scholars, this virtual information session is meant to offer first-time authors some guidance in journal article writing from the perspective of an editor. Richard Ocejo, editor of City & Community, will offer some practical tips and common mistakes authors make in papers. Attendees will also get ample opportunity to ask questions about the process and to receive writing advice. While City & Community and urban sociology will serve as the main examples, scholars with interest in other subfields and journals are welcome to attend. Registration required: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOGvrT8tEtNjFBzmdbvcLTrlVQNkQONF
Please email cicojournal@gmail.com with any questions.
The ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is presented annually to an ASA member for the best single book published in the two calendar years preceding the year the book is nominated (books with copyright years of 2022 and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 award).
Nominations must include a cover letter with the name of the author, title of book, date of publication, publisher, and a brief statement of no more than 300 words as to why the book should be considered, along with a PDF copy or 10 physical copies of the book.
Nominations can be considered for two award cycles however, nominations are not carried over from one award cycle to the next. Nominations need to be submitted each year for consideration.
In addition to the nomination materials described above, complete and submit the required nomination form.
Self-nominations are encouraged. All awardees must be current ASA members at the time of the award ceremony at the Annual Meeting. One need not be a member to be nominated for an award. All nominators must be current members. Nominations sent from publishers will not be accepted. Please also be aware of ASA’s ethics disclosure and award revocation policies.
Submit the cover letter and nomination form to nominations@asanet.org. Please also send a copy of the nominated book either as a PDF to nominations@asanet.org or ship 10 physical copies of the publication to American Sociological Association, c/o Mark Fernando and Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, 1430 K ST, NW, Ste 600, Washington, DC 20005 (Please ship books as early as possible because of holiday-related shipping delays).
The selection committee is composed of nine members, each serving a staggered three-year term. Members are appointed from among the Association membership by the Council based on the recommendation of the Committee on Committees.
Richard E. Ocejo, Chair
Rick A. Baldoz
Kristen Barber
Caitlyn Collins
Emmanuel David
Yến Lê Espiritu
Jeff Hass
Two additional members TBD
Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to advancement and mobility—ignored and failed Black people. While explicit discrimination no longer occurs, and organizations make internal and public pledges to honor and achieve “diversity,” inequities persist through what Adia Harvey Wingfield calls the “gray areas:” the relationships, networks, and cultural dynamics integral to companies that are now more important than ever. The reality is that Black employees are less likely to be hired, stall out at middle levels, and rarely progress to senior leadership positions.
Wingfield has spent a decade examining inequality in the workplace, interviewing over two hundred Black subjects across professions about their work lives. In Gray Areas, she introduces seven of them: Alex, a worker in the gig economy Max, an emergency medicine doctor; Constance, a chemical engineer; Brian, a filmmaker; Amalia, a journalist; Darren, a corporate vice president; and Kevin, who works for a nonprofit.
In this accessible and important antiracist work, Wingfield chronicles their experiences and blends them with history and surprising data that starkly show how old models of work are outdated and detrimental. She demonstrates the scope and breadth of gray areas and offers key insights and suggestions for how they can be fixed, including shifting hiring practices to include Black workers; rethinking organizational cultures to centralize Black employees’ experience; and establishing pathways that move capable Black candidates into leadership roles. These reforms would create workplaces that reflect America’s increasingly diverse population—professionals whose needs organizations today are ill-prepared to meet.
It’s time to prepare for a truly equitable, multiracial future and move our culture forward. To do so, we must address the gray areas in our workspaces today. This definitive work shows us how.
Here are photos of our 2023 award winners at the Section business meeting in Philadelphia (taken by Past Chair Tim Bartley). Congratulations to all!
Erin Cech presents the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award to Don Tomaskovic-Devey.
Laura Lopez-Sanders presents the James Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award to co-winner Eldad Levy Guerrero for his paper, “Looking Right and Looking Busy: Producing Vigilance in Private Security.”
Laura Lopez-Sanders presents the James Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award to co-winner Wendy Li for her paper, “Regulatory Capture’s Third Face of Power” (forthcoming in Socio-Economic Review).
Adilia James presents the W. Richard Scott Article Award to Jayanti Owens for her article, “Double Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline,” published in American Sociological Review.
Amy Binder presents the Max Weber Book Award to Josh Seim for his book, Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering, published by University of California Press.
Judith Stepan-Norris and Jasmine Kerrissey have a new book analyzing industry-level union density from 1900-2015, Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement (Oxford University Press, June 2023). Everyone is invited to make use of the book’s publicly available data repository, including information on union membership and density, strikes, elections, unfair labor practices, employment size, race, gender, and occupation of workers.
The Management Division of Columbia Business School is currently searching for qualified applicants for a tenure-track position in Entrepreneurship at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank. Applications that are received by October 15 will receive full consideration. However, we encourage applicants to submit their materials as soon as possible as we are evaluating applications on a rolling basis.
Applicants for an Assistant Professor level appointment should have, or be close to completing, a PhD from an accredited institution, demonstrate promise of becoming an outstanding scholar in every respect, including research and teaching, and should combine exceptional disciplinary training in Management with a strong interest in the professional mission of the school.
Applicants for an Associate Professor level appointment (non-tenured, tenured) should have a PhD from an accredited institution, a record of being an excellent scholar in every respect, including research and teaching, and should combine exceptional disciplinary training with a strong interest in the professional mission of the school and show great promise of attaining distinction in the field of Management.
Columbia Business School is particularly interested in candidates who, through their research, teaching and/or service will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. We will have a particular interest in Entrepreneurship, and other related areas of Management. Applicants from a range of disciplines are encouraged to apply, including those with PhDs from business schools, sociology, social psychology, economics, and political science departments.
More information can be found at this link:
City & Community Presents: “Reaching a Broader Audience: How to Publish Crossover Books”
A Virtual Panel Event
Thursday, September 21, 2023; 3:30-5:00 p.m. EST
Wanting to write a “crossover” book for a “broader” audience is becoming more and more common in sociology. But how is it different to write a book for readers outside of academia compared to writing one for scholars? How does an author identify and write to a specific non-academic audience? What are the potential pros and cons of writing a crossover book? What are editors looking for from scholars who propose crossover books? And what challenges have authors who have written books for broader audiences faced in the research, writing, and promotion of their work?
Hosted by City & Community, this virtual panel event brings together authors and a book editor who will share their experiences with crossover books. We welcome sociologists at any level who are interested in writing a book to a broader audience now or in the future to attend.
Host and Moderator: Richard Ocejo, Editor, City & Community
Panelists:
Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College, author of Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping throughAmerican’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside, author of Academic Outsider: Stories ofExclusion and Hope
Meagan Levinson, Editorial Director, Three Hills Press
Registration is required for this event.
Please send any questions to cicojournal@gmail.com.
Organizations, Occupations and Work 