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Working Group: Ethnography/Critical Realism

Call for Applications Professor Claire Decoteau of Chicago Department of Sociology invites applications for Working Group on Ethnography and Critical Realism in January, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. The Working Group will explore the following questions. Is critical realism a useful approach to ethnographic discovery and explanation? What might critical realism lend in terms causal explanations in ethnography? Does it help us to link the macro and the micro? … Continue reading Working Group: Ethnography/Critical Realism

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Two PT publishing/editorial assistant positions for students

Section CULTURE, newsletter and website of the ASA Culture Section seeks Editorial Assistant The editors of the Culture Section Newsletter are looking for a web-literate publishing graduate student assistant for the 2015-16 academic year. Duties include assistance with website maintenance, newsletter layout, copyediting and possibly other small administrative tasks. Experience with WordPress platforms is a plus. More substantive responsibilities are possible depending on student assistant’s … Continue reading Two PT publishing/editorial assistant positions for students

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Cars and Guns: Is There a Meaningful Connection?–By Mabel Berezin (Cornell University)

Following the recent Viriginia television team murders we’re reposting Mabel Berezin’s “Chair’s Message” (excerpt) in the Spring 2014 issue of the Culture Section’s Newsletter. It suggests why it is so difficult to get gun control in America from a cultural perspective.     Sociologists of various stripes structure their research around the general question: how do we know that we know it? In contrast, cultural sociologists … Continue reading Cars and Guns: Is There a Meaningful Connection?–By Mabel Berezin (Cornell University)

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Identities and the Cities: Urban Transformations, Transition and Change in Urban Image Construction

Photo Peter Statmatov Fourth Euroacademia Forum of Critical Studies to be held in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy,23 – 24 October 2015 Deadline: 20 September 2015 Panel Description: Elasticity of the label identity accommodates everything that does and does not surround us, thus finding its place in every discourse on making and re-making, invention and re-invention, destruction and construction. Every transition is synonymous with said processes, be … Continue reading Identities and the Cities: Urban Transformations, Transition and Change in Urban Image Construction

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Call for Proposals: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment

About the series:  This cutting-edge series will address how global forces impact human bodies and the individual and collective practices associated with them. Books in this series will explore the globalization of bodily practices as well as how the interaction of local and global ideas about bodies produces particular forms of embodiment. We are particularly interested in research covering the ways that globalization engenders inbetween … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment

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Call for Papers: Cultural Sociology Working Papers Series

 Photo Peter Stamatov Greetings! In anticipation of this year’s ASA meeting, we at the Cultural Sociology Working Papers Series would like to reissue our call for papers. Conference papers are especially welcome. Cultural sociology has seen a remarkable efflorescence in the last decade. Scholars in the field have reinvigorated meaning-centered analysis in the discipline, studying topics as diverse as economic behavior, political processes, social movements, … Continue reading Call for Papers: Cultural Sociology Working Papers Series

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