The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality seeks to support research that expands our knowledge of key trends in poverty and inequality. Awards will be made to “New Scholars” who will then join one of the CPI’s ten research groups. The proposal deadline is November 1, 2015. Read the RFP here: http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/prog_new_scholars.html.
Call for Papers: Can Comparative Historical Sociology Save the World?
Mini-Conference of the Comparative Historical Sociology Section
Friday, August 19, 2016
Seattle, Washington
The Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association and the Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) program at Northwestern University are pleased to announce a mini-conference entitled “Can Comparative Historical Sociology Save the World?” The conference will take place August 19th, 2016 at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
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Fellowship Opportunity: Summer Institute for Behavioral and Social Scientists
SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
Organizations and Their Effectiveness
June 27 through July 8, 2016
Directors
Robert Gibbons, Economics and Management, MIT
Woody Powell, Education and Sociology, Stanford University
ABOUT CASBS SUMMER INSTITUTE AND FELLOWSHIP
The CASBS 2016 summer institute, Organizations and Their Effectiveness, will take place from June 27 through July 8, 2016 at the Center on the Stanford University campus. Ten fellowships will be awarded to cover tuition, room and board, and travel. The deadline for applications will be in early January; decisions will be sent mid-February 2016.
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LERA 2016 Conference information
Employment Relations in the Age of Uber and the Gig Economy:
Assessing our Past, Present, and Future
Bonnie Castrey, LERA President and Program Chair
Submission Deadlines
November 15: Symposia & Workshop Proposals
December 15: Full Individual Papers
Arizona Methods Workshops
Please join us for the 6th annual Arizona Methods Workshops
January 7-9, 2016
These 3-day workshops are open to everyone and are hosted by the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where all workshops are held.
This year we are offering 6 workshops:
~ Qualitative Data Analysis in ATLAS.ti with Corey Abramson
~ Programming in Stata with Jennifer Earl
~ Introduction to Social Network Analysis with Joe Galaskiewicz
~ Qualitative Comparative Analysis with Claude Rubinson
~ Introduction to R with Katerina Sinclair
~ Introduction to Machine Learning with Jacob Foster
Cost is $400 for one workshop and $650 for two. Students receive a 50% discount. Graduate students can apply for the Scott R. Eliason Scholarship, which offers free tuition.
For details, registration, and information about lodging and scholarships:
http://sociology.arizona.edu/methods
Downloadable and printable flyer:
http://tinyurl.com/AMWflyer
Please direct questions to:
Erin Leahey, Organizer
methods@arizona.edu
520.621.9351
For scholars interested in historical research on organizations
An interdisciplinary team of three scholars — Stephanie Decker, Christina Lubinski, & Dan Wadhwani — have partnered to create a new webpage for scholars interested in historical approaches to studying organizations. It stems from conversations among a number of scholars from around world who have hosted seminars, events at conferences, published articles and books and run research projects and networks in this field. The website and blog aims to be a hub on which scholars interested in history & organizations can publish ongoing activities and publications, and exchange ideas and comments, for those involved in the network or for those just curious about this line of research.
If you are interested in contributing, please let Stephanie, Christina, or Dan know.
Organizational History Network
(Via Howard Aldrich.)
OOW Section Surpasses 1,000 members!
The OOW Council is happy to announce that the Section has exceeded its goal of 1,000 memberships. As a result, OOW will have an additional session at next year’s ASA meetings in Seattle.
We warmly welcome new and returning members and look forward to a year of academic fellowship and productivity!
Proposals Invited for Editorships of JHSB and SOE
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.
Call for Papers (Reminder): Work and Families Researchers Network (WFRN) Conference
2016 WFRN CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS REMINDER
Careers, Care, and Life-Course “Fit:” Implications for Health, Equality, and Policy
June 23-25, 2016 (June 22, 2016 Pre-Conference Policy Day)
Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington D.C., USA
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) invites submissions for the 2016 Conference, Careers, Care, and Life-Course “Fit:” Implications for Health, Equality, and Policy, to be held June 23-25, 2016 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. The Work and Family Researchers Network is an international membership organization of interdisciplinary work and family researchers. We seek fresh and innovative scientific contributions on work and family issues from investigators in diverse disciplines, and we value all disciplinary perspectives on the issues. The voices of all stakeholders are needed to understand and address work and family issues to advance knowledge and practice. We also encourage policy advocates, policy makers, and work-life practitioners to submit evidence-based contributions. Continuing at the 2016 conference will be a practitioner “track” in an effort to encourage practitioner and policy-oriented submissions and promotion of researcher and practitioner/policy maker collaboration. There will also be a preconference Congressional briefing (“Policy Day”) on June 22.
Read more about the Call for Papers here .
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Conceptualizing Flexible Careers Across the Life Course
Human Relations
Special Issue Call for Papers: Conceptualising flexible careers across the life course
Guest Editors: Jennifer Tomlinson (University of Leeds, UK; Marian Baird (University of Sydney, Australia); Peter Berg (Michigan State University, USA); Rae Cooper (University of Sydney, Australia)
Read the full call for papers here: http://www.tavinstitute.org/ humanrelations/special_issues/ Flexible%20careers.html
Submission deadline: 1st March 2016; please do not submit papers before 1st February 2016
In recent years, much literature and research on the quality of working lives focuses on jobs as the unit of analysis, emphasizing job quality and flexibility. Through this call, we seek to shift the focus to careers and, in particular, develop the construct of a ‘flexible career’ drawing attention to the fact that work occurs over time in sequence and trajectory. We are interested in the conditions under which flexible and sustainable careers can develop and flourish. Given this perspective, the overarching objective of this special issue is to encourage new analytical approaches to studying the concepts and intersection of flexibility and careers. More specifically, it is to provide a space to examine the meaning of flexible careers from different disciplinary perspectives and to question the extent to which careers can be forged and maintained at different points across the life course in the current social and economic context. In doing so, we focus on what is perhaps the one of the greatest tensions in contemporary labour markets and societies: how to combine the social and economic need for individual life-long work opportunity, accomplishment and development (careers) with the need for a workforce able to continuously adjustment to the supply and demand for labour in space, time and function (flexibility).
Organizations, Occupations and Work 