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Announcement: Summer 2025 Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at ASA Annual Meeting

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Summer 2025 Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at ASA Annual Meeting

Register for the semi-annual Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at the ASA Annual Meeting on Friday, August 8. Spots are limited; sign up here.

The semi-annual Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop is back this summer from 9 am to 5 pm on Friday, August 8, 2025 – the day of pre-conference activities for the ASA annual meeting in Chicago. 

The Summer 2025 GPO organizing team welcomes anyone working on gender, professions, and organizations (broadly defined; if you’re unsure if your work applies, it likely does). Our goals are to foster connection and collaboration, build community across career stages, and dedicate time for writing. We encourage new and returning participants! 

The full-day workshop is organized into two standalone sessions, each with time for connecting and writing, and a lunch break in between. Participants are welcome to join for the morning, afternoon, or both. 

Anyone registered for ASA is welcome to join the workshop at no additional cost; however, space is limited. Participants should bring their own charged laptop computers (and possibly an extension cord) and snacks to share, as additional funding is not available. 

Please contact one of the current organizers with any questions. Register by July 27, using this form. 

Kristen McNeill (kristen.mcneill@graduateinstitute.ch, Assistant Professor, Geneva Graduate Institute)

Former organizers: Sharla Alegria, Melissa Abad, Ethel Mickey, Elizabeta Shifrin, Rodica Lisnic, Kathrin Zippel, Laura Kramer, Christina Falci, Laura Hirshfield, Julia McQuillan, Enobong Hannah (Anna) Branch, Shauna Morimoto, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

New Publication: “Mapping Organizational Theory With SCRIPTS” by Jose Eos Trinidad

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Trinidad, Jose Eos. 2025. “Mapping Organizational Theory with SCRIPTS.” Sociology Compass, OnlineFirst: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.70059.

Abstract: Organizational theory has developed in numerous directions that have been difficult to integrate. This review synthesizes them into seven perspectives, with theories focused within and beyond the organization (i.e., intra- and extra-organizational dynamics). It proposes the acronym SCRIPTS: structure, culture, relations, institutions, professions, transformation, and social conflict. Within organizations, structure focuses on theories of bureaucracy, management, routines, and decision-making, while culture focuses on shared values, identity, climate, and sensemaking. Relations involve studies of interpersonal and interorganizational networks. Institutions focus on the macro-dynamics of fields and isomorphism, and micro-dynamics of entrepreneurship and inhabited institutions. Professions refer to psychological factors shaping individual performance and sociological factors shaping work and occupations. Transformation involves episodic and gradual changes within organizations and across society. Social conflict involves power and competition, with key theories focused on gendered, racialized, and global inequalities. This paper introduces theories and concepts in the study of organizations by grouping similar perspectives, highlighting their domains within or beyond the organization, and underscoring their utility for researchers and leaders.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Sociology of Development

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Special Issue of the Sociology of Development on Professionals and the Professions in the Developing World

Nitsan Chorev and Andrew Schrank, Brown University, Editors

Professionals and the professions loom large in developing societies and are indispensable to the development process. Schools need teachers, hospitals need doctors, industrialization involves engineers, democracies depend on journalists, and the rule of law presupposes lawyers, to cite but a few of the most obvious examples. But the sociological literature on the professions is at best parochial, and developing country professionals therefore enter contemporary sociology less as members of coherent professions than as peripheral actors in larger processes (e.g., education, mortality decline, industrialization, democratization, etc.).

To address this gap, we are soliciting contributions to a special issue of the Sociology of Development (http://socdev.ucpress.edu/) on “professionals and the professions in the developing world.” Papers that explore the origins, organization, and/or impacts of professionals and the professions in the contemporary Global South or historical developing societies are particularly welcome.

Please submit a 1-page abstract no later than December 1, 2015.

We hope to have a two-day conference at Brown University in the fall of 2016 (pending funding), in which authors of selected submissions will
present drafts of their papers before the initiation of the formal peer review process.

Please send abstracts (or any questions you might have) to:
Nitsan Chorev (nitsan_chorev@brown.edu) and
Andrew Schrank (andrew_schrank@brown.edu)