The Department of Sociology and the School of Data Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invite applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.
For full details and to apply, please visit the ASA Job Bank posting.
Congratulations to the 2025 award recipients for their achievements!
Dr. Heather A. Haveman (middle) received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award for 2025
Dr. Katherine Sobering won the 2025 Max Weber Book Award for her book The People’s Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina (Duke University Press, 2022).
Anna Fox (left) won the James Thompson Graduate Paper Award for her paper “Covalent Logics: Policing, Family Values, and the Reproduction of Inequality.”
Dr. Katherine Weisshaar (left), Dr. Koji Chavez (in the middle), and Dr. Tania Hutt (not in the picture) won the W. Richard Scott Article Award for their paper “Hiring Discrimination Under Pressures to Diversify: Gender, Race, and Diversity Commodification across Job Transitions in Software Engineering,” published in American Sociological Review.
Kim, Rachel Y. 2025. “The Internal Effects of Corporate ‘Tech Ethics’: How Technology Professionals Evaluate Their Employers’ Crises of Moral Legitimacy.” Socio-Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf043
Abstract: Big Tech firms use “tech ethics” to regain public trust and influence employees’ moral evaluations of their firms and their work. Unlike traditional professions, technology professionals lack institutionalized professional ethics. Consequently, corporate “tech ethics” serve as a primary source of formal ethical guidance. Analyzing thirty-two interviews with technology professionals employed at US-based Big Tech firms, this study demonstrates that respondents’ perceptions of the effectiveness of corporate “tech ethics” closely align with how they evaluate their firms’ crises and the ethicality of their own work. Those who trusted “tech ethics” tended to believe that their companies had adequately addressed their crises and defended their work as following rigorous ethical standards, while those who were doubtful or distrusting reported greater moral unease and professional disillusionment. By highlighting the effects of organizational legitimization strategies, this study contributes to research on the role of moral perceptions in professional employees’ work experiences and career trajectories.
Rachel Y. Kim is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research interests include economic sociology, cultural sociology, the sociology of work and professions, science and technology studies, and qualitative methods. She is particularly interested in how professionals in the tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley, navigate issues of expertise, innovation, and moral legitimacy in the context of corporate ethics.
Rachel holds a B.A. in Sociology with Honors from the University of Chicago (2019). Before graduate school, she worked as a project coordinator at Loevy & Loevy, a civil rights law firm in Chicago.
Nierobisz, Annette, and Dana Sawchuk. 2025. American Idle: Late-Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Description: In American Idle, sociologists Annette Nierobisz and Dana Sawchuk report their findings from interviews with sixty-two mostly white-collar workers who experienced late-career job loss in the wake of the Great Recession. Without the benefits of planned retirement or time horizons favorable to recouping their losses, these employees experience an array of outcomes, from hard falls to soft landings. Notably, the authors find that when reflecting on the effects of job loss, fruitless job searches, and the overall experience of unemployment, participants regularly called on the frameworks instilled by neoliberalism. Invoking neoliberal rhetoric, these older Americans deferred to businesses’ need to prioritize bottom lines, accepted the shift toward precarious employment, or highlighted the importance of taking initiative and maintaining a positive mindset in the face of structural obstacles. Even so, participants also recognized the incompatibility between neoliberalism’s “one-size-fits-all” solutions and their own situations; this disconnect led them to consider their experiences through competing frameworks and to voice resistance to aspects of neoliberal capitalism. Employing a life course sociology perspective to explore older workers’ precarity in an age of rising economic insecurity, Nierobisz and Sawchuk shed light on a new wrinkle in American aging.
Annette Nierobisz is a sociology professor and the Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Dr. Nierobisz’s publications have examined a broad range of topics, from fear of crime among women who encounter sexual harassment in public spaces to the role played by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in the 2005 legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada. In her recently published book, American Idle: Late-Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era (Rutgers University Press 2025), Dr. Nierobisz and co-author Dr. Sawchuk of Wilfrid Laurier University investigate how a select group of older workers interpret their experience of losing a job in the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession. This book extends Dr. Nierobisz’s longstanding research focus on the sociology of unemployment.
Dana Sawchuk is a professor of sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. She is the author of The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979–1996. Dr. Sawchuk is currently working on three research studies. First, focuses on the Climate Action and Knowledge Survey of first-year students at Laurier (with Dr. Debora VanNijnatten, Department of Political Science/North American Studies). The second involves researching older adults who lost their jobs in the U.S. Great Recession (with Dr. Annette Nierobisz, Carleton College). The third involves an analysis of advocacy and mobilization efforts by and on behalf of unpaid/family caregivers of older adults (with a research team led by Dr. Laura Funk, University of Manitoba). Alongside these research pursuits, Dr. Sawchuk is interested in the scholarship focusing on teaching, learning, and experimenting with innovative ways to engage students in the undergraduate classroom.
Co-editors Needed for Regulation & Governance
Deadline for applications: November 15, 2024
At the end of 2024, David Levi-Faur will be stepping down as co-editor of Regulation & Governance, after nearly two decades of dedicated service to the academic community. We are looking for two new co-editors to work together with the remaining editorial team members, Alketa Peci (Fundação Getulio Vargas) and Yves Steinebach (University of Oslo).
Candidates should be renowned researchers in any of the journal’s main areas of interest (political science, socio-legal studies, psychology, criminology, sociology, organization and public management, management, economics, or other parts of the social sciences), who have the passion to continue to drive the journal forward. To complement the strengths of the existing editorial team members, we particularly look for applicants with an interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretically-driven lens who have backgrounds in sociology, criminology, management, economics, psychology, or law and who have significant experience with interdisciplinary research on regulation.
We strongly encourage applications from women and members of other historically marginalized groups or categories. The current co-editors are based in Europe and Latin America, and we would welcome applications that further internationalize the journal. Previous experience as an editor or in comparable activities is an important asset.
All co-editors will jointly hold responsibility for editorial governance and oversight on submissions for papers assigned to them, including managing peer review processes and making decisions on acceptance/rejection of manuscripts. Together, the editorial team will collaborate on matters of editorial strategy and establish a governance framework and division of labor.
Becoming a co-editor is a rewarding and fulfilling experience in which you can contribute to the vibrancy of the journal, help shape an interdisciplinary field of research, and gain recognition for your contributions.
The post will initially be for a period of three years (renewable). We hope to have new co-editors in place by January 2025, though somewhat later starting dates will be considered if necessary.
About the Journal
Regulation & Governance is the leading journal dedicated to the study of regulatory governance. The journal publishes interdisciplinary research on regulation, governance, and emerging associated challenges worldwide, with broad implications beyond geographic and intellectual boundaries.
Key Skills and Attributes
· A record of scholarly excellence in any of the fields covered by Regulation & Governance.
· Strong knowledge of the relevant scholarly communities, in order to facilitate effective and timely peer review
· Confidence in engaging with authors and researchers.
· Commitment to ensure manuscripts are considered in a prompt, consistent and professional manner.
· Passion to promote and continuously develop the journal.
Application Instructions
If you wish to apply for the position of co-editor for Regulation & Governance, please submit your academic CV and a very brief letter of interest (1-2 pages) via email to alketapecirg@gmail.com
Deadline for applications: November 15, 2024
We are planning to hold interviews online during the last week of November.
If you have any questions about the role of co-editor, please feel free to contact the journal’s co-editors, Yves Steinebach (yves.steinebach@stv.uio.no), Alketa Peci (Alketa.Peci@fgv.br) and David Levi-Faur (levifaur@mail.huji.ac.il). The final selection will be conducted by a selection committee, which includes the three current editors, as well as Benjamin van Rooij (University of Amsterdam) and Tim Bartley (Georgetown University).
Please consider submitting by October 15 to a “New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance” session at the International Sociological Association Forum on Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025.
Please see the link below for a detailed description:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session19472.html
If you are interested in submitting an abstract for this session, the Call for Abstracts is at https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts.
The call closes on October 15th (note that the ISA observes Central Europe Time).
“If you have not attended ISA before, it is truly an international sociology conference with distinct inflections in each location where it meets—I have found every ISA conference I have attended to be fascinating, and of course, Rabat itself is a very interesting place in a very interesting region. In addition to this session, I encourage you to scan other possible sessions (Research Council 44 is the ISA’s Labor Movements section; RC 30 is the Sociology of Work).”
– Dr. Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
“Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship”
Edited by Stewart Clegg, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Kathia Serrano Velarde.
This New Volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations is Now Out! Available via OPEN ACCESS.
The Volume explores the new boundaries of organizational sociology. It sets out to map a community of scholars that transcends disciplinary limitations by following one simple epistemic logic: society happens in, between, across, and around organizations.
“We are deeply grateful for the fantastic contributions we received, and we are especially honored that our volume includes an inspiring piece by the greatly missed Barbara Czarniawska.
We hope you’ll enjoy reading our Volume!”
-Stewart, Michael, and Kathia
Here is the link to the full open access volume:
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X202490
CONTENTS:
Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship
by Stewart Clegg, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Kathia Serrano Velarde
PART 1. THE PLACE OF SOCIOLOGY IN ORGANIZATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
Revitalizing Organizational Theory Through a Problem-oriented Sociology
by Brayden King
Organizational Sociology and Organization Studies: Past, Present, and Future
by Leopold Ringel
Facing Up to the Present? Cultivating Political Judgment and a Sense of Reality in Contemporary Organizational Life
by Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth and Paul du Gay
PART 2. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN AND THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS:
Organizations within Society: Organizational Perspectives on Status and Distinction
Status in Socio-environmental Fields: Relationships, Evaluations, and Otherhood
by Nadine Arnold and Fabien Foureault
Organizations as Carriers of Status and Class Dynamics: A Historical Ethnography of the
Emergence of Bordeaux’s Cork Aristocracy
by Grégoire Croidieu and Walter W. Powell
Organizations as Drivers of Social and Systemic Integration: Contradiction and Reconciliation
Through Loose Demographic Coupling and Community Anchoring
by Krystal Laryea and Christof Brandtner
Why Organization Studies Should Care More about Gender Exclusion and Inclusion in Sport
Organizations
by Lucy Piggott, Jorid Hovden and Annelies Knoppers
PART 3. REDISCOVERING SOCIOLOGICAL CLASSICS FOR ORGANIZATION STUDIES:
Reflexivity and Control
Narrating the Disjunctions Produced by the Sociological Concept of Emotional Reflexivity in
Organization Studies by Bruno Américo, Stewart Clegg and Fagner Carniel
The Promise of Total Institutions in the Sociology of Organizations: Implications of Regimental
and Monastic Obedience for Underlife
by Mikaela Sundberg
PART 3. REDISCOVERING SOCIOLOGICAL CLASSICS FOR ORGANIZATION STUDIES:
Organizing and Organization
Why Organization Sociologists Should Refer to Tarde and Simmel More Often
by Barbara Czarniawska
Organization Systems and Their Social Environments: The Role of Functionally Differentiated
Society and Face-to-Face Interaction Rituals
by Werner Schirmer
Editor’s Note: The following ad is currently available online at the Chronicle of Higher Education and the ASA jobbank under id# 8931. It will also appear in the Nov. 30th print edition of the CHE.
Associate or Full Professor of Sociology
The Department of Sociology at The City College of New York (CCNY), City University of New York (CUNY) invites interested persons to apply for a full-time, tenured position for people currently at either the advanced Associate or Full Professor level to start at the beginning of the Fall 2013 semester. Substantive areas of interest are open, but preference will be given to candidates who specialize in areas that build upon the strengths of the department (see http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/socialsci/sociology/). The department has strong research and master’s and undergraduate programs. Successful candidates will be expected to exercise leadership in the department and programs, including a willingness to chair the department. Successful candidates, once hired, are also expected to fulfill the College’s requirements with regard to teaching, research, record of publications, and service to the institution.
Salaries are commensurate with experience.
Interested persons should send (mail) letters of application discussing their administrative experience, research and teaching interests, their Curriculum Vitae, names of three references with contact information, and two samples of written work to Prof. William Helmreich, Chair of the Search Committee, Dept. of Sociology, NAC 6/125, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10031. Inquiries should be sent to ccnysociologydept@gmail.com. The review of applications will begin Jan. 15, 2013 and continue until the position is filled.
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Organizations, Occupations and Work 