2021

[RC28 message 2021_029]

Dear RC28 Members

1. Call for Editor-in-Chief, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM)
2. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
3. Free access to a new publication
4. Announcement

Call for Editor-in-Chief
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Application due to February 15, 2022
RC28/RSSM are looking for an Editor-in-Chief to work in leading the team of Associate Editors and the Editorial Board, and in developing the journal. This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding scholar of stratification to take this successful journal to the next stage in its development.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM) is the official journal of Research Committee 28 on (RC28), though it is owned and published by Elsevier publishing. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is an international, peer-reviewed hybrid journal that accepts both subscription and open access papers. The journal’s mission is to publish the highest quality, most innovative research on issues of social inequality from a broad diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives. The journal also provides a forum for scholarly exchange on issues of interest to researchers in the field.
The search committee is seeking applications from qualified individuals who would edit the journal for three years, starting 1st July 2022. This term is renewable up to a period of no longer than 10 years in total.
We are seeking someone:

Who is active in RC28 and the stratification community at large

With strong professional networks

Who is tenured faculty

With confidence to engage with authors and researchers to solicit the highest quality submissions

With strong organizational skills

With the ability to foster positive working relationships with the Associate Editors, the Editorial Board, and the Publisher

Responsibilities will include:

Executing an overall strategy for Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Assessing submitted research papers and deciding on those suitable for review

Overseeing the peer review process

Making decisions on manuscripts in collaboration with the editorial team

Developing a strong working relationship with the external advisory editorial board

Developing deep networks within the communities served by the journal

Maintaining regular contact with RC28

Commissioning special issues

Acting as an ambassador for the Journal

Working with the Publisher to appoint new Associate Editors as needed

If you would like to apply for the position of Editor-in-Chief of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, please forward your CV and your vision statement (in a cover letter format) to the search committee at rssm@soc.haifa.ac.il. Your vision statement should be 1-2 pages and cover:

Where you see the field is going, and the journal’s place within it

How you would work in partnership with the Associate Editors and the editorial board

How you would maintain and increase the quality of submissions

How you would work with authors

The Selection Committee includes:

Meir Yaish (Editor-in-chief, RSSM)
Xi Song (Associate Editor, RSSM)
Mike Hout (RSSM board member)

Hyunjoon Park (RC28 secretary)
Jennie Brand (RC28 board member)
Louis-André Vallet (RC28 board member)

The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
Dear RC28 members,
The RC28 board makes one award annually to recognize an article of Significant Scholarship in Social Stratification that has been published in the three years prior to the year when the award is made. For the 2022 award articles appearing in journal issues from 2019-2021 are eligible. The criteria for the award are the significance, rigor, and novelty of the article's contribution to scholarship in social stratification. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award comes with a sum of 1,000 US dollars. If there are multiple authors, the sum is divided equally among them.
In order to be eligible, the article must have been presented prior to publication at one of the RC28 meetings or the RC28 sessions of the World Congress or World Forum, and the fact of its presentation must be acknowledged in the published version of the article or the author should provide other forms of proof (such as a copy of the program).
The award shall be made by the RC28 Board, which will decide upon the recipient at the Spring RC28 meeting. The recipient of the 2021 award will be announced and the award will be delivered at the RC28 Summer meeting. The last award was presented to Xiang Zhou at our 2021 online meeting organized by Turku University.
The Board will consider all nominations received by March 1 2022. Nominations should include a full citation of the article and a brief statement as to why the nominating individual considers the article to merit the award. Nominations will be submitted to the RC28 president, who will compile the nominations and deliver them to the subcommittee appointed by the Board for consideration. Nominations are accepted only from RC28 members. Self-nominations are permitted. The same person cannot receive the award in two consecutive years (also not as a coauthor).
Please submit your nomination for the 2022 award by 1 March 2022 to
RC28 President (Ineke Maas) at rc28.emails@gmail.com.
Ineke Maas
RC28 President

From Ineke Maas, Yossi Shavit, and Hyunjoon Park
Dear RC28 members,
Although we increasingly publish open access, it still regularly happens that we receive a link from a publisher giving temporary free access to a new publication. From now on, we offer a possibility to share these links with all RC28 members. If you receive such a link, please mail it to yossi.shavit.2@gmail.com in the following format:
Author(s) (year). Title. Journal, vol, pages (or article number). Link (free access until date).
This information will be made available in:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ilg_QNlWYMmOWF6FFiY0a6oJ9gM5ALoj1yZiq1Y2Oag/edit?usp=sharing
It will be removed after free access has ended. We hope many of you will cooperate and in this way enable other RC28 members to read papers to which they would otherwise only have limited access.

From Christian Deindl (christian.deindl@tu-dortmund.de), December 9, 2021
The Institute of Medical Sociology (Working Group: Work and Health), University Hospital Düsseldorf - Centre for Health and Society (chs) offers the following position (available as soon as possible): Research Associate
The position is part of the project "Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic (INHECOV): Empirical Analyses and Implications for Pandemic Planning" funded by the German Research Foundation and the international research project "EUROCARE - Inequalities in Informal Care in Adulthood in Europe: Social Participation, Health and the Impact of COVID-19". The tasks include in particular statistical data analyses of national and international data sets (incl. COVID-19 notification data, SOEP, ELSA, SHARE), national and international cooperation and conceptual development within the projects, as well as the scientific publication of project results.
More information can be found here:
https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/patienten-besucher/klinikeninstitutezentren/institut-fuer-medizinische-soziologie/stellenausschreibung

From Håvard Helland (havhel@oslomet.no), December 15, 2021
There is a vacant permanent position as associate professor in quantitative social science at the Centre for the Study of Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University (in Oslo, Norway).
https://www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-openings/associate-professor-in-quantitative-social-science
The professor will have a particular responsibility for the Centre’s competence building and teaching (of PhD-students) in quantitative methods, and will be part of a research group focused on professionals’ careers through the educational system and in the labour market.

From Philipp M. Lersch (p.m.lersch@hu-berlin.de), December 15, 2021
The call for papers on our SOEP2022 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. Conference date: June 30-July 1, 2022, in Berlin!
Please submit electronic versions of abstracts (up to 300 words) no later than JAN 31, 2022 to: soep2022@diw.de
Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "The Opportunities and Challenges of Technological Change and Digitalization".
More information on our conference website.
Call for Papers SOEP2022

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_028]

Dear RC28 Members

1. Call for Editor-in-Chief, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM)
2. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
3. RC28 Spring 2022 Conference
4. Free access to a new publication
5. Announcement

Call for Editor-in-Chief
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
RC28/RSSM are looking for an Editor-in-Chief to work in leading the team of Associate Editors and the Editorial Board, and in developing the journal. This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding scholar of stratification to take this successful journal to the next stage in its development.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM) is the official journal of Research Committee 28 on (RC28), though it is owned and published by Elsevier publishing. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is an international, peer-reviewed hybrid journal that accepts both subscription and open access papers. The journal’s mission is to publish the highest quality, most innovative research on issues of social inequality from a broad diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives. The journal also provides a forum for scholarly exchange on issues of interest to researchers in the field.
The search committee is seeking applications from qualified individuals who would edit the journal for three years, starting 1st July 2022. This term is renewable up to a period of no longer than 10 years in total.
We are seeking someone:

Who is active in RC28 and the stratification community at large

With strong professional networks

Who is tenured faculty

With confidence to engage with authors and researchers to solicit the highest quality submissions

With strong organizational skills

With the ability to foster positive working relationships with the Associate Editors, the Editorial Board, and the Publisher

Responsibilities will include:

Executing an overall strategy for Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Assessing submitted research papers and deciding on those suitable for review

Overseeing the peer review process

Making decisions on manuscripts in collaboration with the editorial team

Developing a strong working relationship with the external advisory editorial board

Developing deep networks within the communities served by the journal

Maintaining regular contact with RC28

Commissioning special issues

Acting as an ambassador for the Journal

Working with the Publisher to appoint new Associate Editors as needed

Where you see the field is going, and the journal’s place within it

How you would work in partnership with the Associate Editors and the editorial board

How you would maintain and increase the quality of submissions

How you would work with authors

The Selection Committee includes:

Meir Yaish (Editor-in-chief, RSSM)
Xi Song (Associate Editor, RSSM)
Mike Hout (RSSM board member)

Hyunjoon Park (RC28 secretary)
Jennie Brand (RC28 board member)
Louis-André Vallet (RC28 board member)

The Spring 2022 meeting will take place at the London School of Economics, UK, from April 21-23, 2022, and is hosted by the Department of Social Policy.

[RC28 message 2021_027]

Dear RC28 Members

1. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
2. RC28 Spring 2022 Conference
3. Free access to a new publication
4. Announcement

The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
Dear RC28 members,
The RC28 board makes one award annually to recognize an article of Significant Scholarship in Social Stratification that has been published in the three years prior to the year when the award is made. For the 2022 award articles appearing in journal issues from 2019-2021 are eligible. The criteria for the award are the significance, rigor, and novelty of the article's contribution to scholarship in social stratification. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award comes with a sum of 1,000 US dollars. If there are multiple authors, the sum is divided equally among them.
In order to be eligible, the article must have been presented prior to publication at one of the RC28 meetings or the RC28 sessions of the World Congress or World Forum, and the fact of its presentation must be acknowledged in the published version of the article or the author should provide other forms of proof (such as a copy of the program).
The award shall be made by the RC28 Board, which will decide upon the recipient at the Spring RC28 meeting. The recipient of the 2021 award will be announced and the award will be delivered at the RC28 Summer meeting. The last award was presented to Xiang Zhou at our 2021 online meeting organized by Turku University.
The Board will consider all nominations received by March 1 2022. Nominations should include a full citation of the article and a brief statement as to why the nominating individual considers the article to merit the award. Nominations will be submitted to the RC28 president, who will compile the nominations and deliver them to the subcommittee appointed by the Board for consideration. Nominations are accepted only from RC28 members. Self-nominations are permitted. The same person cannot receive the award in two consecutive years (also not as a coauthor).
Please submit your nomination for the 2022 award by 1 March 2022 to
RC28 President (Ineke Maas) at rc28.emails@gmail.com.
Ineke Maas
RC28 President

RC28 Spring 2022 Conference, April 21-23, 2022

The Spring 2022 meeting will take place at the London School of Economics, UK, from April 21-23, 2022, and is hosted by the Department of Social Policy.

PhD Position in Sociology, 4 years, University of Bern, Switzerland

We are looking for a PhD student to develop their own research agenda within the SNFS-funded Ambizione Project "The neighborhood in the cloud". In this project, we investigate neighborhood effects and how location-based on- and offline networks shape individual life chances in education, the labor market as well as political and social participation. To this end, the project collects unique geocoded longitudinal data that allow for the construction of bespoke neighborhoods. Moreover, the survey data are combined with web scraped data from participants and online communities. In the project, we apply cutting-edge methodologies and designs, such as survey experiments, spatial econometrics, and big data approaches, to substantial research questions on social, economic, and spatial inequalities. The starting date of this full-time, 4 year position is 01.02.2022 or no later than 01.08.2022.

Additional information on the position and the application procedure can be found here: https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/3e4eb96d-7020-4c75-b9cc-0b4a2d16fc24

Application deadline: 09.01.2022

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_026]

Dear RC28 Members

1. RC28 Spring 2022 Conference
2. Free access to a new publication
3. Announcements

RC28 Spring 2022 Conference, April 21-23, 2022

The Spring 2022 meeting will take place at the London School of Economics, UK, from April 21-23, 2022, and is hosted by the Department of Social Policy.

Link to main conference webpage: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/rc28
Link to Call for Papers webpage: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/rc28/call-for-papers
Link to PDF of Call for Papers: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/Assets/Documents/RC28/call-for-papers.pdf

From Ineke Maas, Yossi Shavit, and Hyunjoon Park
Dear RC28 members,
Although we increasingly publish open access, it still regularly happens that we receive a link from a publisher giving temporary free access to a new publication. From now on, we offer a possibility to share these links with all RC28 members. If you receive such a link, please mail it to yossi.shavit.2@gmail.com in the following format:
Author(s) (year). Title. Journal, vol, pages (or article number). Link (free access until date).
This information will be made available in:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ilg_QNlWYMmOWF6FFiY0a6oJ9gM5ALoj1yZiq1Y2Oag/edit?usp=sharing
It will be removed after free access has ended. We hope many of you will cooperate and in this way enable other RC28 members to read papers to which they would otherwise only have limited access.

From Birgit Becker (Bi.Becker@em.uni-frankfurt.de), November 4, 2021
Pre-doctoral researcher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
For detailed information see
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB03___Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Application deadline: 21.11.2021

From Richard Arum (richard.arum@uci.edu), November 14, 2021
One full-time postdoctoral scholar is needed at the University of California, Irvine to support research on undergraduate education designed to inform institutional improvement efforts and advance educational equity. Applied research will draw on data from a state-of-the-art measurement system designed originally as the UCI Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project. This project is being institutionalized at UCI into ongoing campus operations. Research will involve working under the direction of Professor Richard Arum and Associate Dean of the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Brian Sato to generate targeted reports to drive institutional improvement efforts. The postdoctoral scholar will join a larger interdisciplinary team of faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, project scientists and undergraduate researchers analyzing a broad range of data including administrative data, clickstream data, survey responses, performance assessments and experience sampling logs.

Position will begin January 2022 (exact date negotiable) for one year. Renewal for second year is possible pending availability of funding and performance.

Additional information on the position and the application portal can be found here: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07240

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_025]

Dear RC28 Members

1. RC28 Spring 2022 Conference
2. Free access to a new publication

RC28 Spring 2022 Conference, April 21-23, 2022

The Spring 2022 meeting will take place at the London School of Economics, UK, from April 21-23, 2022, and is hosted by the Department of Social Policy.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_024]

Dear RC28 Members

We have 3 announcements this week.

1. Sharing a link for free access to a new publication
Dear RC28 members,
Although we increasingly publish open access, it still regularly happens that we receive a link from a publisher giving temporary free access to a new publication. From now on, we offer a possibility to share these links with all RC28 members. If you receive such a link, please mail it to yossi.shavit.2@gmail.com in the following format:
Author(s) (year). Title. Journal, vol, pages (or article number). Link (free access until date).
This information will be made available in:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ilg_QNlWYMmOWF6FFiY0a6oJ9gM5ALoj1yZiq1Y2Oag/edit?usp=sharing
It will be removed after free access has ended.
We hope many of you will cooperate and in this way enable other RC28 members to read papers to which they would otherwise only have limited access.
Ineke Maas, Yossi Shavit and Hyunjoon Park

2. Save the date!!
The Spring 2022 RC28 conference will be held April 21-23, 2022 in London School of Economics. The organizers are working hard to launch the conference website by the end of this month where you can find all the information on the conference. Stay Tuned! We will announce the website as soon as it is open.

3. From Gordey Yastrebov (gyastreb@uni-koeln.de), October 6, 2021
2 positions for postdoctoral researchers (100%, 24 months) are available on the DFG project “Demographic and Social Pathways of Educational Reproduction: A Cross-National Study” at the University of Cologne, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology.
Earliest starting date: 01.01.2022 (a later start is possible)
Deadline for applications: 01.11.2021

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_023]

Dear RC28 Members

1. RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference: Today (September 24)!!
2. Announcement

RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference
Program link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmprogram
Zoom link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmregister
(flyer and announcement help from Yun Cha)

From Suzanne Nichols (suzanne@rsage.org), September 17, 2021
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences has a new call for articles for an issue on
“Building an Open Qualitative Science,” edited by Kathryn J. Edin, Princeton University, Corey D. Fields, Georgetown University, Jonathan Fisher, Stanford University, David B. Grusky, Stanford University, Jure Leskovec, Stanford University,
Hazel R. Markus, Stanford University, Marybeth Mattingly, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Kristen Olson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Charles Varner, Stanford University

From Dominique Souliac (souliac@soz.uni-frankfurt.de), September 22, 2021
We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher (m/f/d), 100 %, for a project founded by the DFG. Applications are accepted until October 8, 2021.
You can also download the advertisement from our website: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/105440108/Ausschreibung_RISS_Grunow_Becker_WiMi_100__EN.pdf
More information on the project: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/105581830/RISS_Ausschreibungen_Rahmentext_final_2021_09_17.pdf

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_022]

Dear RC28 Members

1. Memorial for David Bills: Today (September 17)
2. RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference: Next week (September 24)
3. Announcement

Memorial for David Bills
You are invited to the virtual memorial for David Bills who passed away on July 15, 2021. David Bills was a Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Iowa. Family members, friends, colleagues, and students will share their memories of David Bills who was a man of generosity and dedication as well as an intellectual leader. Please join us to share your own memory of David Bills.
Brian An, Sam Bills, Katharine Broton, Sanga Kim, Yuliya Kosyakova, Hyunjoon Park, and Yossi Shavit, SuYeong Shin
If you want to attend the virtual memorial, please register here.
September 17 (Friday), 2021, 11:00 am Eastern Time (US)
11:00 am: Introduction by Yossi Shavit
11:05 am: Remembering David Bills in Iowa (9 speakers)
- Sam Bills, Scott Bills, Kevin Leicht, Bruce Fehn, Brian An, Katharine Broton,
Judy Brewer, Dong Hoon Shin, & Ryan Wells
11:50 am: Break
12:00 pm: Remembering David Bills as a Friend, Colleague, and Mentor (8 speakers)
- Mike Olneck, Adam Gamoran, Hyunjoon Park, Herman van de Werfhorst,
Yuliya Kosyakova, Felix Weiss, Sanga Kim, & Valentina Di Stasio
12:40 pm: Anyone who Wants to Speak

RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference
Program link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmprogram
Zoom link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmregister
(flyer and announcement help from Yun Cha)

From Martin Diewald (martin.diewald@uni-bielefeld.de), September 14, 2021
Two new satellite projects of the German TwinLife study are each hiring a doctoral researcher for 3 years in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Both projects are collaborations with scholars in epigentics, molecular genetics, and psychology. Both use survey data in a twin family design, epigenetic information, and molecular genetic information to investigate gene-environment interplay focusing on Covid19 experiences or accelerated ageing, respectively:
https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/811
https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/813

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_021]

Dear RC28 Members

1. Memorial for David Bills
2. RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference
3. Announcement

Memorial for David Bills
You are invited to the virtual memorial for David Bills who passed away on July 15, 2021. David Bills was a Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Iowa. Family members, friends, colleagues, and students will share their memories of David Bills who was a man of generosity and dedication as well as an intellectual leader. Please join us to share your own memory of David Bills.
Brian An, Sam Bills, Katharine Broton, Sanga Kim, Yuliya Kosyakova, Hyunjoon Park, and Yossi Shavit, SuYeong Shin
If you want to attend the virtual memorial, please register here.
September 17 (Friday), 2021, 11:00 am Eastern Time (US)
11:00 am: Introduction by Yossi Shavit
11:05 am: Remembering David Bills in Iowa (9 speakers)
- Sam Bills, Scott Bills, Kevin Leicht, Bruce Fehn, Brian An, Katharine Broton,
Judy Brewer, Dong Hoon Shin, & Ryan Wells
11:50 am: Break
12:00 pm: Remembering David Bills as a Friend, Colleague, and Mentor (8 speakers)
- Mike Olneck, Adam Gamoran, Hyunjoon Park, Herman van de Werfhorst,
Yuliya Kosyakova, Felix Weiss, Sanga Kim, & Valentina Di Stasio
12:40 pm: Anyone who Wants to Speak

RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference
Program link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmprogram
Zoom link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmregister
(flyer and announcement help from Yun Cha)

From Stephanie Steinmetz (stephanie.steinmetz@unil.ch), September 2, 2021
The University of Lausanne, in collaboration with FORS, offers a postdoctoral researcher position in the area of sociology with a strong focus on quantitative methods and survey methodology. The post-doc will be strongly involved in the International Social Survey programme (ISSP) which collects annually data across 42 countries worldwide on several topics.
Earliest starting date: 01.10.2021 (a later start is possible)
Deadline for applications is 17 September 2021

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_020]

Dear RC28 Members

1. Memorial for David Bills
2. RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference

Memorial for David Bills
You are invited to the virtual memorial for David Bills who passed away on July 15, 2021. David Bills was a Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Iowa. Family members, friends, colleagues, and students will share their memories of David Bills who was a man of generosity and dedication as well as an intellectual leader. Please join us to share your own memory of David Bills.
Brian An, Sam Bills, Katharine Broton, Sanga Kim, Yuliya Kosyakova, Hyunjoon Park, and Yossi Shavit, SuYeong Shin
If you want to attend the virtual memorial, please register here.
September 17 (Friday), 2021, 11:00 am Eastern Time (US)
11:00 am: Introduction by Yossi Shavit
11:05 am: Remembering David Bills in Iowa (9 speakers)
- Sam Bills, Scott Bills, Kevin Leicht, Bruce Fehn, Brian An, Katharine Broton,
Judy Brewer, Dong Hoon Shin, & Ryan Wells
11:50 am: Break
12:00 pm: Remembering David Bills as a Friend, Colleague, and Mentor (8 speakers)
- Mike Olneck, Adam Gamoran, Hyunjoon Park, Herman van de Werfhorst,
Yuliya Kosyakova, Felix Weiss, Sanga Kim, & Valentina Di Stasio
12:40 pm: Anyone who Wants to Speak

RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference
Program link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmprogram
Zoom link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmregister
(flyer and announcement help from Yun Cha)

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_019]

Dear RC28 Members

1. Memorial for David Bills
2. RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference
3. Announcements

Memorial for David Bills
You are invited to the virtual memorial for David Bills who passed away on July 15, 2021. David Bills was a Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Iowa. Family members, friends, colleagues, and students will share their memories of David Bills who was a man of generosity and dedication as well as an intellectual leader. Please join us to share your own memory of David Bills.
Brian An, Sam Bills, Katharine Broton, Sanga Kim, Yuliya Kosyakova, Hyunjoon Park, and Yossi Shavit, SuYeong Shin
If you want to attend the virtual memorial, please register here.
September 17 (Friday), 2021, 11:00 am Eastern Time (US)
11:00 am: Introduction by Yossi Shavit
11:05 am: Remembering David Bills in Iowa (9 speakers)
- Sam Bills, Scott Bills, Kevin Leicht, Bruce Fehn, Brian An, Katharine Broton,
Judy Brewer, Dong Hoon Shin, & Ryan Wells
11:50 am: Break
12:00 pm: Remembering David Bills as a Friend, Colleague, and Mentor (8 speakers)
- Mike Olneck, Adam Gamoran, Hyunjoon Park, Herman van de Werfhorst,
Yuliya Kosyakova, Felix Weiss, Sanga Kim, & Valentina Di Stasio
12:40 pm: Anyone who Wants to Speak

RC28 - ASA IPM Joint Conference
Program link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmprogram
Zoom link: tinyurl.com/rc28ipmregister
(flyer and announcement help from Yun Cha)

1. From Judith Offerhaus (Judith.Offerhaus@bibb.de), August 17, 2021
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB, Bonn) is looking for two doctoral researchers in a new junior research group (headed by Alexandra Wicht) on “Vocational orientations and their realization: young people’s transitions to vocational training in a spatial context” (initial duration 3 years). Application deadline is September 30, 2021.

2. From Stefani Scherer (stefani.scherer@unitn.it), August 19, 2021.
Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research "TNsquare" 2021 (November 24-26, 2021).
The "Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research" provides advanced methodological training on key themes of the Social Sciences and offers a systematic integration of theoretical, methodological and technical ‘front edge’ aspects of applied quantitative research.
The second edition focuses on “Health inequalities, family and labour market dynamics” (Speakers: Anna Baranowska-Rataj & Mattias Strandh (tbc), Alice Goisis & Wendy Sigle; Michael Gebel & Jonas Voßemer) and is addressed to PhD students and early career researchers.Details: https://event.unitn.it/tn-square/
Deadline: September 26, 2021

3. From Xiaogang Wu (xw29@nyu.edu), August 19, 2021
NYU Shanghai is currently recruiting two tenured/tenure-track sociologists (open-rank). We invite applications from candidates in any field, and those with expertise in education, child development, inequality and poverty, family and gender in China and/or East Asian contexts are particularly welcome.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_018]

Dear RC28 Members

Memorial for David Bills
You are invited to the virtual memorial for David Bills who passed away on July 15, 2021. David Bills was a Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Iowa. Family members, friends, colleagues, and students will share their memories of David Bills who was a man of generosity and dedication as well as an intellectual leader. Please join us to share your own memory of David Bills.
Brian An, Sam Bills, Katharine Broton, Sanga Kim, Yuliya Kosyakova, Hyunjoon Park, and Yossi Shavit, SuYeong Shin
If you want to attend the virtual memorial, please register here.
September 17 (Friday), 2021, 11:00 am Eastern Time (US)
11:00 am: Introduction by Yossi Shavit
11:05 am: Remembering David Bills in Iowa (9 speakers)
- Sam Bills, Scott Bills, Kevin Leicht, Bruce Fehn, Brian An, Katharine Broton,
Judy Brewer, Dong Hoon Shin, & Ryan Wells
11:50 am: Break
12:00 pm: Remembering David Bills as a Friend, Colleague, and Mentor (8 speakers)
- Mike Olneck, Adam Gamoran, Hyunjoon Park, Herman van de Werfhorst,
Yuliya Kosyakova, Felix Weiss, Sanga Kim, & Valentina Di Stasio
12:40 pm: Anyone who Wants to Speak

1. From Helen Buchs (buchs@soziologie.uzh.ch), August 2, 2021

The Swiss Job Monitor Market (SJMM) is looking to hire a researcher with an MA degree or a postdoctoral researcher (50-70%) to join the interdisciplinary SJMM team to engage in the further development and computation of labor market indices based on SJMM data and in methodological issues regarding labor market monitoring.
Link to the call: https://www.suz.uzh.ch/de/institut/stellen/wma_smm_2021.html
Earliest starting date: 01.12.2021 (a later start is possible)
Deadline for applications: 15.09.2021

2. From Birgit Becker (Bi.Becker@em.uni-frankfurt.de), August 4, 2021.
Within the framework of the research group "Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure (RISS)" at the department of Social Science at Goethe University Frankfurt, we are looking for a research assistant (PostDoc, E13, 100%) for the project "Internalised Gender and Parenting Norms: Assessing Reconfigurations between Gender, Socio-Economic Status and Immigrant Background".

3. From Martin Diewald (martin.diewald@uni-bielefeld.de), August 9, 2021
Two new satellite projects of the German TwinLife study are each hiring a doctoral researcher for 3 years in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Both projects are collaborations with scholars in epigentics, molecular genetics, and psychology. Both use epigenetic information, molecular genetic information, and a twin family design to investigate gene-environment interplay focusing on Covid19 experiences or accelerated ageing, respectively:
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere/stellen-wiss/wiss21120_englisch.pdf
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere/stellen-wiss/wiss21121_englisch.pdf

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_017]

Dear RC28 Members

Professor David Bills
RC28 community is deeply saddened by the passing of our colleague David Bills, Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Iowa. He was long term RC28 member and hosted the 2011 Summer RC28 conference at Iowa City (with Kevin Leicht). Professor Bills made important contributions to the fields of sociology of education, education and labor markets, technological and organizational change, and social stratification. You can view his obituary here.
RC28 Board is planning a virtual memorial for David Bills. More information on the memorial will be announced soon.

From International Sociological Association (ISA)
I hope this note finds you well in the midst of this tumultuous summer. I am writing today in my capacity as Chair of the ad-hoc ISA committee on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, newly formed since our last Research Council meeting in April of this year. We now have a committee of 12 volunteers who are committed to developing a set of proposed principles and practices in support of EDI in the ISA.
A first priority upon which we all readily agreed was the establishment of open communications with all of our RCs, WGs, and TGs, so we may have the benefit of feedback and advice from across our ISA membership, including everyone from graduate students to emeriti faculty. To that end, we would like to create an association-wide group of interested ISA members, with whom we will regularly share updates and seek advice as our work progresses. This might involve, for example, reviewing a draft set of EDI principles, or offering ideas for constructive, EDI-supporting activities during our conferences. Participation in this EDI advisory group is not expected to be onerous, and is of course voluntary.
I am hoping that each of you, as RC, WG and TG Secretaries, can assist us in this regard, by extending this invitation to your members, and inviting them to express their interest directly to me, at debra.davidson@ualberta.ca.
Warmly,
Debra Davidson, RC24 President

1. From Richard Arum (richard.arum@uci.edu), July 13, 2021
The Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project is looking to hire two postdoctoral fellows to join an interdisciplinary team of scholars to engage in ongoing data collection, analysis and scholarly publication on undergraduate experiences, trajectories and outcomes. The project has received national recognition for its work tracking three cohorts of 1,200 Freshmen and Juniors from Fall 2019, Fall 2020 and (planned) Fall 2021 as well as for articulating a measurement framework to identify postsecondary value. The project is integrating data from administrative records, learning management system clickstream data, longitudinal surveys, performance assessments and experiential sampling methods. Deidentified data will be deposited at the University of Michigan ICPSR archive. The application portal for the position can be found here: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06983

2. From Philipp M. Lersch (p.m.lersch@hu-berlin.de), July 19, 2021

Sociology/Demography/Economics, "The intergenerational reproduction of wealth inequality and its socio-demographic conditions in Germany", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/de/stellenausschreibungen/research-fellow-m-f-d-with-full-time-employment-e-13-tv-l-third-party-funding-limited-for-2-years. Deadline for applications is 25 August 2021.

Predoctoral Researcher https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/de/stellenausschreibungen/research-fellow-m-f-d-with-part-time-employment-65-e-13-tv-l-hu-third-party-funding-limited-for-3-years

Deadline for applications is 25 August 2021.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_016]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 3 announcements.

1. From Moris Triventi (moris.triventi@unitn.it), July 1, 2021
1 open position for post-doc researcher (2 years, renewable) in the project “INEQUALITREES - A Novel Look at Socio-Economic Inequalities using Machine Learning Techniques and Integrated Data Sources” coordinated by Moris Triventi, at the University of Trento (Italy). Deadline: 13 July (probably it will be postponed).
Link to the call:
https://www.unitn.it/ateneo/bando/68677/dipartimento-di-sociologia-e-ricerca-sociale-avviso-di-selezione-per-il-conferimento-di-n-1-assegno
For more information write to: inequalitrees@unitn.it

2. From Gordey Yastrebov (gyastreb@uni-koeln.de), July 5, 2021
2 positions for postdoctoral researchers (100%, 24 months) are available on the DFG project “Demographic and Social Pathways of Educational Reproduction: A Cross-National Study” at the University of Cologne, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology.
Earliest starting date: 01.10.2021 (a later start is possible)
Deadline for applications: 16.08.2021

3. From Maria Vaalavuo (maria.vaalavuo@thl.fi), July 7, 2021

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) is recruiting a senior researcher (post-doc) for the project “Mental health and disadvantage over the life course: investigation into genes, family and living conditions” funded by the Academy of Finland and led by Maria Vaalavuo. THL is a governmental research institute located in Helsinki, Finland. This is a temporary vacancy as of 1st October 2021 until 30th April 2025. Starting date can be negotiated. Please read more and apply through this link by 6 August 2021. More information: maria.vaalavuo@thl.fi

4.From Robin Samuel (robin.samuel@uni.lu), July 7, 2021
Associate Professor position available at the University of Luxembourg
UL is looking for an Associate Professor in Social Interventions and
Policies in a Transnational Perspective. The full job ad can be found here:
http://emea3.mrted.ly/2r2mi
Application deadline: September 8, 2021

5. From Kleinert, Corinna )corinna.kleinert@lifbi.de), July 9, 2021
A job offer for a full-time postdoc position for 5 years at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_015]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 3 announcements.

1. From Suzanne Nichols (suzanne@rsage.org), June 14, 2021
RSF call for papers on “DISPARATE EFFECTS OF DISRUPTIVE EVENTS ON CHILDREN,” edited by Jennie Brand, UCLA, Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florencia Torche, Stanford University

2. From Lynn Prince Cooke <(pc26@bath.ac.uk), June 17, 2021
The University of Bath Social and Policy Sciences Department is seeking two outstanding Assistant Professors in Sociology and/or Social Policy to join our growing department that was ranked joint fifth in the last UK research assessment. For further details and the application process, see: https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=JB8365 DEADLINE 8th JULY.

3. From Nora Müller (nora.mueller@gesis.org), June 23, 2021

“Causality in the Social Sciences III – Heterogeneous Causal Effects”, 14-15 October 2021, Mannheim and online
The workshop picks up on recent approaches and debates from three different angles: Interpretation of heterogeneous effects, estimating heterogeneous effects with observational and experimental data, and machine learning techniques for specification search. Confirmed keynote speakers are Jennie E. Brand (UCLA), and Richard Breen (Oxford University).
We accept a maximum of 15 presentations. Workshop participation is free of charge. For further information see: www.gesis.org/causality-workshop. Application deadline: 30 June 2021

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_014]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 5 announcements.

1. RC28 Spring 2021 Conference at the University of Turku
On behalf of RC28 members, we would like to thank Jani Erola, Mari Leino, Laura Heiskala, and all others at the University of Turku who made the Spring 2021 Conference so productive and successful!
We hope to see you all in person at the Spring 2022 meeting that will take place at the LSE, London, UK, April 21-23, 2022. More information about the conference will be announced later.

2. From Norbert Sendzik (norbert.sendzik@wzb.eu), May 28, 2021
PhD workshop on causal analysis of school reforms The workshop with keynote speakers
Pia Pinger and Herman van de Werfhorst as well as other renowned experts is scheduled for September 30 and October 1, 2021. Depending on the pandemic situation, the workshop will take place either at the WZB in Berlin or in a digital format. The deadline for submission of own contributions, which will allow 12 PhD students to participate, is July 31, 2021.
For more information on the CfP, please see the following link:
https://wzb.eu/en/news/workshop-on-causal-analyses-of-school-reforms

3. From Eva Jaspers (E.Jaspers@uu.nl), June 1, 2021
Vacancy for fully-funded 4 year PhD position at Utrecht University Dept of Sociology
We are looking for a strongly quantitative social scientist who, together two other new appointees, will form a research cluster on diversity and organizations within the larger context of a transdisciplinary, interuniversity graduate school. The project is called Diversity and multiplexity on the job: drawing on colleagues for career success. This position focuses on understanding how informal and formal networks in diverse organizations exacerbate or soothe unequal access to resources such as support, advice and opportunities at work for diverse employees. Background in advanced social networks analysis is a clear advantage.
For more information, please see https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/two-phd-candidates-for-scoop-project-cluster-solutions-for-work-10-fte or get in touch with Eva Jaspers (e.jaspers@uu.nl)

4. From Gabriele Ballarino (gabriele.ballarino@unimi.it), June 4, 2021
The Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies (NASP, https://www.nasp.eu/) at the University of Milan is pleased to announce the Call for Application for:
6 Scholarships in the 3-years Ph.D. Programme in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies https://www.nasp.eu/training/phd-programmes/esls.html
Scholarship amount: 16.350 euros/year, for 3 years.
The application deadline is June 28, 2021. Full information on how to apply is included in the Call for Application. http://www.nasp.eu/training/how-to-apply/calls-for-application.html
The Ph.D. programme in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies is based at the University of Milan and jointly promoted by the following institutions, members of NASP: Collegio Carlo Alberto (University of Turin), Department of Social and Political Sciences – SPS (University of Milan)
Contacts: for more information on ESLS Ph.D. Programme please visit
https://www.nasp.eu/training/phd-programmes/esls.html or contact graduate.school@unimi.it

5. From Philipp M. Lersch (p.m.lersch@hu-berlin.de), June 4, 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology/Demography/Economics (MyWealth project), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Further details about the position and the application procedure are available at https://box.hu-berlin.de/f/571690df59a74164a61b/

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_013]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 8 announcements.

1. From Didier Ruedin (didier.ruedin@unine.ch), May 9, 2021
Postdoctoral researcher job announcement <https://druedin.com/vacancies/>
Seeking a postdoctoral research for a research project on the long-term impact of refugee shocks on the labour market, health, reproductive behaviour, well-being, and attitudinal outcomes of the resident population. Open until filled; for full consideration, apply by 15 June
2021.

2. From Sebastian Wenz (Sebastian.Wenz@gesis.org), May 10, 2021
We are excited to announce the program of the GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2021, held virtually from 13 September to 01 October 2021. The GESIS Fall Seminar targets social scientists, data scientists, and researchers in the digital humanities that want to collect and analyze data from the web, social media, or digital text archives. Organized along two parallel tracks, it offers six one-week courses on computational social science methods and techniques using either R or Python.
For all relevant information including course descriptions and registration, please visit www.gesis.org/fallseminar

3. From Marie Evertsson (marie.evertsson@sofi.su.se), May 10, 2021
Call for 1 year Researcher position in the project GENPARENT, Revealing Sources of Gendered Parenthood: A multi-method comparative study of the transition to parenthood in same-sex and different-sex couples. The project is an ERC Consolidator Grant headed by Marie Evertsson, SOFI, Stockholm University.
For more information, see: Available jobs - Stockholm University (su.se)
Deadline for application is May 31.

4. From Nora Müller (nora.mueller@gesis.org), May 11, 2021
CfP: Special Issue on “Wealth Stratification and the Insurance Function of Wealth” to appear in Social Inclusion (Open Access Journal)
Our thematic issue seeks quantitative-empirical research testing the insurance function of wealth. Research questions include, but are not limited to:
1) Are wealthy individuals more likely to make risky life course decisions?
2) Do individuals expecting to receive a wealth transfer make riskier decisions?
3) Is there heterogeneity in consequences of negative life events or economic crises (e.g., COVID-19) concerning wealth?
4) Under which circumstances do families or relatives compensate for negative life events with wealth transfers?
Further information: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/pages/view/nextissues#WealthStratification
Submission of Abstracts: 15 December 2021

5. From Epikhina Yulia (epikhina@gmail.com), May 12, 2021:
The conference “Factors of social well-being in Russia and in the world: a comparative analysis” will be held on ZOOM on 6-7 October 2021.
Application deadline: 1st July, 2021.
The link to the full call for papers: https://www.isras.org/files/File/conf_info_1.02.21_ENG.pdf
The website link with the announcement of the conference (NEWS): https://www.isras.org/

6. From Robin Samuel (robin.samuel@uni.lu), May 17, 2021
Postdoctoral scholar position available at the University of Luxembourg
We offer an attractive postdoctoral position in the area of social, economic, and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic among young people:
http://emea3.mrted.ly/2pj8r
Application deadline: June 11, 2021

7. From Ivana Fellini (ivana.fellini@unimib.it), May 19, 2021.
Five fully funded PhD positions in Analysis of Social and Economic Processes (ASEP), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Detailed information available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GF8_C91DMt3OhBDiP9lbo4NgbFcg6KB4/view
https://en.unimib.it/education/doctoral-research-phd-programmes/phd-programmes/analysis-social-and-economic-processes-asep
https://en.unimib.it/education/doctoral-research-phd-programmes/how-apply-phd-programme
The deadline for applications is 16 June 2021, 12:00 pm (midday) Italian time.

8. FromDominique Souliac (souliac@soz.uni-frankfurt.de), May 19, 2021
The Research Cluster "ConTrust: Trust in Conflict – Political Life under Conditions of Uncertainty " based at Goethe University Frankfurt is looking for eight post-doctoral researchers (E 13 TV-G-U) for a period of three years. The application deadline is 8 June 2021.

The call for applications can also be found at: https://contrust.uni-frankfurt.de/stellenausschreibungen/ .

Supplementary explanations, especially about the working groups, can be found on the homepage: https://contrust.uni-frankfurt.de/ .

Also on Academics.de here

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_012]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 7 announcements.

1. From Hans Dietrich (Hans.Dietrich@iab.de), April 28, 2021
The TIY conference 2021 “School-to-work transitions in times of uncertainty” will be held on ZOOM on 2-3 September 2021, the full call is attached. Application deadline: May 15th, 2021

2. From Katarina Wessling (k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl), April 29, 2021
CfP: Special Issue on ‘European Higher Education Graduates – Formation, Acquisition, and Suitability of Skills
Research in Comparative and International Education is calling for papers on a special issue on ‘European Higher Education Graduates – Formation, Acquisition, and Suitability of Skills’, guest-edited by Katarina Wessling.
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2021
Deadline for Article submission: 30 December 2021
For further information: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/RCI/CfP%20Special%20Issue%20HE%20Skills_RCIE-1619691105.pdf

3. From Lietzmann Torsten (Torsten.Lietzmann@iab.de), April 29, 2021
Interdisciplinary Lunch Time Seminar Series on “Corona – Leveller or Amplifier of Social and Economic Inequality?” (Virtual Seminar)
hosted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
This seminar series aims to bring together empirically rigorous contributions from the fields of sociology, economics and related fields on issues of social policy, social and economic inequality following the Corona crisis.
The seminar’s final programme is now available online. The series will start on Monday 10 May at 11.30am via ZOOM. Please find the programme, further information and registration here .

4. From Judith Offerhaus (Judith.Offerhaus@bibb.de), April 30, 2021
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB, Bonn) is seeking to appoint a Junior Research Group Leader with an expertise in “Further Vocational Education and Training in the Context of Developing Professional Qualifications and Competences” (duration 3.5 year with a possible extension of 1 year). The selection process is three-staged, deadline for first stage is July 15, 2021.

5. From Susanne Strauss (susanne.strauss@uni-konstanz.de), May 4, 2021:
The COVID-19 Policies for Gender Equality (CoPE) research project at the Excellence Cluster 'The Politics of Inequality' at the University of Konstanz in Germany is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for 2.5 years from October 2021. We are looking for a postdoc with very good quantitative skills to analyze national panel datasets in the four countries under study (Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy).
For further information, see:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/cb6df925e25b6f1ac3761deb440949a16cb9bfdb0

6. From Ariane Bertogg (ariane.bertogg@uni-konstanzde.de), May 5, 2021
The European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce organizes this year's annual conference online via Zoom. We invite contributions on:
Causes, Consequences and Contexts of Union Dissolutions, Micro-level Dynamics of Separation Processes, and Changes in Partnerships and Family Lives during the COVID-19 pandemic
Confirmed keynote speakers are: Andrew Cherlin, Elizabeth Thomson, and Daniele Vignoli.
Submit your abstract via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=ho4Oh1qLQPDki3YR97emkJ#
For more information, see: https://www.divorceconference2021.eu/
Application deadline (extended): May 20th, 2021.

7. From Alexander Birke (alexander@birkeonline.de), May 5, 2021.
The research center "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz presents In_equality: a research magazine for a wide and varied audience, freely available at: www.inequality.uni.kn/magazine.

In times of crisis, people increasingly long for explanations and exchange to cope with ever more complicated situations. Our new magazine offers to deliver, with contributions by sociologists, economists, political scientists, linguists and education researchers inviting readers to discuss social inequality. The first issue of In_equality, available now, tackles COVID-19 and inequality.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_011]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 5 announcements.

1. Welcome to the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting!
The ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2021 will be organised online 2 – 4 June, 2021. The conference theme is Accumulation and compensation of inequalities.
We have more than 200 high-quality papers to be presented, and we will focus on making a memorable digital conference experience. Almost as if you would be in Turku! The conference will include a digital platform, where you can meet other participants.
We are excited to present our keynote presenters:
Ariel Kalil, the University of Chicago
Michelle V. Jackson, Stanford University
Thomas A. DiPrete, Columbia University
Fabrizio Bernardi, European University Institute
Olli Kangas, University of Turku and
Anu Partanen, a Journalist and the Author of “The Nordic Theory of Everything”.
The conference fee is only 140 € for a regular participant and 60 € for students.
If you are one of the presenters of the accepted papers: please register latest on 30 April 2021! Everyone else can register until end of May 2021.
Read more about the Spring Meeting, our keynote speakers and register at https://rc28turku.utu.fi/
If you have any questions, you can reach the local organising team at rc28@utu.fi.
We hope to see you online in June!
On behalf of the local organising team,
Mari Leino
Tutkimuskoordinaattori | Research coordinator
INVEST Lippulaiva | Invest Research Flagship Center
Turun yliopisto | University of Turku
invest@utu.fi

2. From Reinhard Schunck (schunck@uni-wuppertal.de), April 17, 2021
The "Pretty Integrated" project, coordinated by Johanna Gereke (MZES Mannheim, Germany) and Reinhard Schunck (University of Wuppertal, Germany), is hiring a doctoral researcher for 3 years. The project investigates how ethnic boundaries affect perceptions of physical attractiveness and how attractiveness contributes to (ethnic) inequalities.
To learn more and apply, see: https://t1p.de/dfg-pretty (some German language skills are required)
Application deadline: May 10th, 2021.

3. From Yuliya Kosyakova (Yuliya.kosyakova@iab.de), April 20, 2021
The 2021 IAB-ECSR conference ” Refugee Migration and Integration Revisited: Lessons from the Recent Past” will be held on ZOOM on May 27 and 28, 2021, and you can find the programme here:
https://de.xing-events.com/RIXVNJS.html?page=1876915
Those of you that are interested in attending should register here (https://de.xing-events.com/RIXVNJS.html?page=1876917).
Notice that there is a capacity constraint on Zoom, so the organizers might be unable to accept all the requests.

4. From Nora Müller (nora.mueller@gesis.org), April 22, 2021
CfA: “Causality in the Social Sciences III – Heterogeneous Causal Effects”, 14-15 October 2021, Mannheim and online
The workshop picks up on recent approaches and debates from three different angles: Interpretation of heterogeneous effects, estimating heterogeneous effects with observational and experimental data, and machine learning techniques for specification search. Confirmed keynote speakers are Jennie E. Brand (UCLA), and Richard Breen (Oxford University).
We accept a maximum of 15 presentations. Workshop participation is free of charge. For further information see: www.gesis.org/causality-workshop
Application deadline: 30 June 2021

5. From Irene Kriesi (irene.kriesi@sfivet.swiss), 22 April 2021
Call for Papers: 7th International Congress on Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2-4 February 2022 in Bern, Switzerland
The 7th International VET Congress is devoted to the theme “The future potential of vocational education and training: Strengthening VET for the next generation”. The theme alludes to the divergent developments that vocational education and training has been facing in recent years. We invite researchers to submit contributions related to the leading topic of the congress. We also welcome all other areas and topics of VET research. For further information see https://www.ehb.swiss/vet-congress-2022

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_010]

Dear RC28 Members

I want to remind you that any announcement, which you want me to include in the newsletter, should meet the following format:
From XXX (your full name) (email address), date
[The content can't have more than 100 words except for the website links which are not counted toward the word limit. Although you can also send me the attachment, preferred is the website link where people can directly read the announcement.]
This week I have 3 announcements.

1. From Mathieu Ichou (mathieu.ichou@ined.fr), April 4, 2021
The 3GEN project (3gen.site.ined.fr/en), coordinated by Mathieu Ichou at INED (Paris, France), is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for 3 years (newable for another 6 months) to contribute to the quantitative analyses and publications of the project that deals with social mobility across three generations within immigrant and native families.
To learn more and apply, see the position profile: https://3gen.site.ined.fr/fichier/s_rubrique/31023/20210401.postdoc.3gen.en.en.pdf .
Application deadline: May 3rd, 2021.

2. From Per Engzell (per.engzell@nuffield.ox.ac.uk), April 9, 2021
Expert survey – Learning Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We (Per Engzell, Arun Frey, Mark Verhagen) recently published a paper on learning loss in the wake of COVID-19 school closures in the Netherlands (https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2022376118).
As part of a follow-up study, we are running a short survey to elicit expectations about where students stand in spring 2021, one year into the pandemic: https://bit.ly/3s3qRwj
We primarily target experts in education and social inequality. We are grateful if you take the time to respond and forward this to any other researchers with an interest in the field.

3. From Sebastian E. Wenz (sebastian.wenz@gesis.org), 14 April 2021
2nd Virtual GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology
The 10th GESIS Summer School – Europe’s leading summer school in survey methodology, research design, and data collection – will take place online as a virtual summer school from 28 July to 20 August 2021. Scheduled are four short courses and ten one-week courses. Scholarships (fee waivers) sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) are available.
For all relevant information including the full program and detailed course descriptions visit www.gesis.org/summerschool

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_009]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 3 announcements.

1. From Jennie Brand (brand@Soc.ucla.edu)
Remembering Rob
Yu Xie, Jennie Brand, Mike Hout, Elizabeth Bruch, and others are organizing an event to remember Rob Mare. The event is open to everyone who would like to attend.
When: May 21, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) – 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
The event will be split into two sessions:
Session 1 11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. EST: Yu Xie, Bill Mason, Bob Hauser, Alberto Palloni, Chris Winship, Rob Sampson, Yossi Shavit, Megan Sweeney, and Jennie Brand will begin the discussion and then we will open the floor to anyone who would like to share memories of and reflections about Rob;
Session 2 12:40 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST: Mike Hout, Meir Yaish, Sam Lucas, Don Treiman, David Cort, Christine Schwartz, Vida Maralani, Xi Song, and Elizabeth Bruch will begin the discussion and then we will open the floor to anyone who would like to share memories of and reflections about Rob;
Feel free to attend any portion of the event that you can be there.
Registration is required in advance for this meeting: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-CqrzwoHtD4UBxdHmEFhqciaG3fPi4E
If you have questions about the event, email Jennie Brand brand@soc.ucla.edu. If you have questions about the event registration, email Phillip Rush philliprush@princeton.edu.

2. From Dimitris Pavlopoulos (d.pavlopoulos@vu.nl), March 26, 2021
The department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is hiring 2 PhD candidates for my ERC project DYNANSE: https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/2-phd-candidates-in-employment-careers-of-young-and-old-workers/u7g74s .
The candidates will study the employment careers of younger and older workers using quantitative research methods.Start date is September 1st.
The deadline for applications is April 25th.

3. From Kathrin Morosow (km937@bath.ac.uk), April 1, 2021
Call for abstracts, ESPAnet online conference, Stream 19 - Unintended consequences of family policies (31 August–3 September, 2021)
https://kuleuvencongres.be/espanet2021/call-for-abstracts
Deadline: 18.04.2021, https://www.conftool.pro/espanet2021
This stream invites theory-driven empirical papers that examine the unintended consequences of family policy on inequalities and demographic outcomes. Comparative papers and case studies are welcome. Examples include, but are not limited to:

Class: Are family polices equally accessible and do consequences differ across SES?

Gender: With fathers taking leave, how are they affected? Does this affect women’s double burden?

How transferable are policies across countries?

The role of selection in heterogeneous policy consequences.

Call for abstracts, BSPS virtual Annual Conference 2021, Families and households strand (14-15 September 2021)
https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/british-society-for-population-studies/annual-conference
Deadline: 23.04.2021
This stream invites theory-driven conceptual or empirical papers that investigate the diversity of family or household compositions and outcomes. Comparative papers and case studies are welcome, as are submissions that challenge conventional assumptions and/or contribute to new conceptual and methodological frameworks for household and/or family. For instance, papers that assess the role of selection in known relationships in more detail are invited.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_008]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 4 announcements.

1. From Elias Naumann (naumann@uni-mannheim.de), March 15, 2021
Workshop on Perceptions and Policy Preferences, University of Hamburg / University of Mannheim
We invite empirical contributions that examine how perceptions of socio-economic factors shape redistributive or other policy attitudes preferably relying on longitudinal and/or experimental studies. Topics may include - but are not limited to – (mis-)perceptions of inequality or migration, and their consequences for policy preferences.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Emanuele Ciani (OECD)
- Jonathan Mijs (Harvard University, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
SUBMISSION
Please send your submission until 28 March to Hequn Wang (hequn.wang@uni-hamburg.de) and Julian Jäger (julian.jaeger@uni-hamburg.de)
Further information:
https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sozoek/professuren/beblo/04-forschung/05-drittmittelprojekte/soecbias.html

2. From Sander Wagner (Sander.Wagner@ensae.fr), March 19, 2021
A post-doctoral position at ENSAE (CREST)
ENSAE/CREST in Paris is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for the project "LMCM - Labour Market Consequences of Motherhood". The aim of the project is to use French and German administrative data to comparatively study the effects of motherhood on labour market outcomes. Interested in the interplay of sociology, demography and economics and in doing comparative quantitative research on big registry data? Please take a look at the job opening
http://crest.science/opportunities/postdoctoral-position-in-sociology-demography-economics

3. From Hannes Kröger (hkroeger@diw.de), March 22, 2021

The DIW Berlin is looking for a PhD-candidate for our Leibniz-ScienceCampus in Germany (Berlin/Bielefeld). The main scientific work will be in English, a working knowledge of German is helpful.

The application (English or German) can be made online:

https://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.406832.de&refno=SOEP-5-21

The abstract for the specific sub-project can be found here.
Deadline: April 2, 2021

4. From Marita Jacob (marita.jacob@uni-koeln.de), March 26. 2021.
PostDoc-Postion at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS), University of Cologne (Germany).
We seek to hire a Post-Doctoral Researcher (100% position, 24 months) to start as soon as possible. We are looking for a candidate to support teaching our statistic courses for social science students, i.e. developing innovative teaching formats and using the software R. Candidate should have research interests in social inequality, demography, life course research, sociology of education or family sociology. In addition. Applications should be submitted no later than 09.04.2021.
Link to pdf: https://www.stellenwerk-koeln.de/sites/default/files/2021-03/Wiss2103-08_WMA%20Soziologie_Jacob_engl.%2Bde.pdf

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_007]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 3 announcements.

1. In memoriam of Hans Schadee, by Gabriele Ballarino and Fabrizio Bernardi
Hans Schadee, born in 1945, has passed away. He died on the 7th of March from an heart attack in Milan where he lived. While over the past months his health conditions had seriously deteriorated due to a chronic disease, he continued working and mentoring students up to few weeks before his untimely death.
Raised in the Hague, Schadee earned a degree in Anthropology at Leiden University and a PhD in Political Arithmetic in Liverpool. He became then professor in Liverpool, to move to Italy in the late 70s, where he taught at the universities of Bologna, Trento, Milan-Bicocca and Milan. Hans was a pioneer in log-linear and structural equation modelling, applied to electoral behavior, social mobility and many other substantive fields. Particularly during his 20 years in Trento, he trained many generations of Italian quantitative sociologists, many of whom are now active members of the RC28.
He was a passionate teacher, who would scatter his classes on log-linear models and structural equations with sudden philosophical reflections, acid jokes and a broad spectrum of literary references. He taught to his students the technicalities of data modelling but also transmitted how to appreciate the beauty one can find in the data and in their underlying structure and patterns. He was a wise, charismatic, generous and, in his own way, caring person. He will be widely missed by his former students, colleagues and friends.

2. From the RC28 Turku Meeting Organizers
The ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2021 will be organised online.
We aim to organise a memorable experience, and we will be able to organise both oral presentations and poster presentations online. We’re looking forward to meeting you virtually!
The RC28 Spring Meeting 2021 is open for all RC28 members. We have tried to keep the conference participation fee inexpensive, and we encourage all members to join the virtual conference.
We would also like to inform you, that you can now pay your RC28 membership fee through the registering system.
If you haven’t registered yet, you can register to the conference and pay your RC28 membership fee here: https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/ISA_RC28_2021registration.
Registration deadline is on 30 April 2021.
Read more about the RC28 Spring Meeting 2021 here: https://rc28turku.utu.fi/
If you have already registered, you should have received a separate message today from us. Your registration to the conference is valid. The email includes instructions and a personal link for paying the RC28 membership fee, if you do not have a valid membership yet.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organising team at rc28@utu.fi.
With best wishes,
RC28 Organising Committee
https://rc28turku.utu.fi/
rc28@utu.fi
We’re also on Twitter @RC28_Turku

3. From Lietzmann Torsten (Torsten.Lietzmann@iab.de), March 9, 2021
Interdisciplinary Lunch Time Seminar Series on “Corona – Leveller or Amplifier of Social and Economic Inequality?” (Virtual Seminar) hosted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
This seminar series aims to bring together empirically rigorous contributions from the fields of sociology, economics and related fields on issues of social policy, social and economic inequality following the Corona crisis.
Seminars will be organized via Zoom and will take place during May and December 2021 on Monday or Wednesday (12 - 1 pm CET) once or twice a month.
We invite researchers to submit extended abstracts or full papers by 31 March 2021.
Please submit and contact us at IAB.Inequality-Seminar-2021@iab.de.
For further information, please visit the IAB event homepage.
https://www.iab.de/en/veranstaltungen/konferenzen-und-workshops/coronainequalities.aspx

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_006]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 5 announcements.

1. ISA Forum of Sociology
RC28 members participated in the International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology that was held virtually (originally Porto Alegre, Brazil) February 23-27, 2021. RC28 hosted 28 sessions across a variety of topics on social stratification and mobility in the Forum.
You can watch the videos of many sessions here
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/594
Our program organizers, Sandra Fachelli and Pedro Roldán did a wonderful job to organize all the sessions. The Forum was cancelled last year and had to move to a virtual meeting. In the process, the organizers had to redo all the work again for the virtual meeting. RC28 is grateful to Sandra Fachelli and Pedro Roldán.
Special thanks to all the session organizers who created and managed great sessions. RC28 thanks all the presenters and participants.

2. From Kazimierz Slomczynski (slomczynski.1@osu.edu), February 19, 2021
WŁODZIMIERZ WESOŁOWSKI (1929-2020)
In 1970, during the International Sociological Congress in Varna, Bulgaria, Wesołowski was a signatory of the renewal of the Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28) of the International Sociological Association. Four years later, he organized a conference of the RC28 Committee in Warsaw. When, 25 years later, the RC28 Committee met again in Warsaw, many attendees praised Wesołowski for organizing the 1974 conference which had proved to be one of the most successful meetings of the RC28 Committee.
Wesolowski holds a renowned position in the international sociological community. Certainly, the publication of several of his works in English has been a crucial contributing factor. At the end of the 1970’s he, together with Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, presented a synthetic framework of social structure in Poland, reviewing also the main empirical results (Investigation on Class Structure and Social Stratification in Poland, 1945-1975, IFiS PAN). His book Classes, Strata, and Power (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976) became well-received contribution to the discussion on the changes in the social structure of contemporary societies. He co-authored, with Bogdan W. Mach, Social Mobility and Social Structure (Routledge, 1986), favorably reviewed in the main sociological journals. Two volumes were devoted to the Polish-Finish comparative studies: one co-edited with Erick Alardt Social Structure and Change: Finland and Poland. Comparative Perspective (PWN 1980), and the second, co-edited with Matti Alestalo, Erick Alardt, and Andrzej Rychard, The Transformation of Europe: Social Conditions and Consequences (IFiS Publishers, 1994). Together with John Higley and Jan Pakulski, Wesołowski co-edited Post-Communist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe (Macmillan, 1998), containing new and up-to-date studies, written by specialists from around the world. His papers appeared in American Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociology, International Journal Sociology, and other international journals.
Wesołowski was a member of Academia Europaea, and Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the title of Doctorus Honoris Causa of the University of Helsinki.

3. From Nate Breznau (breznau.nate@gmail.com), February 21, 2021
Group Dynamics and Redistributive Policy Preferences in the Global South
Special Issue in Frontiers in Sociology, edited by Nate Breznau, Liza A. Steele and Juan Carlos Castillo.
We see preferences for redistribution as an important aspect of research on inequality and mobility and hope you will consider submitting something or circulating this call in your networks.
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/18298/group-dynamics-and-redistributive-policy-preferences-in-the-global-south

4. From Juho Harkonen (Juho.Harkonen@eui.eu), March 1, 2021
The European University Institute (Florence, Italy) is looking for a Professor of Sociology to join the EUI on 1 January 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Scholars with research and teaching interests in inequality and stratification and related fields are particularly welcome to apply by the 7 April 2021 deadline
https://www.eui.eu/About/JobOpportunities/Open-competitions-for-academic-posts

5. From. Ariane Bertogg (ariane.bertogg@uni-konstanz.de), March 3, 2021
19th Divorce Network Conference 2021 (Online via Zoom), 13.-15. October 2021
Keynote Speakers: Andrew Cherlin, Elizabeth Thomson, Daniele Vignoli
For about two decades, the members of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce have organized annual conferences. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s conference will be held in a digital format. We especially invite contributions on:
• Causes, Consequences, and Contexts of Union Dissolutions, as well as Remarriage
• Micro-level Dynamics of Separation Processes, Relationship Quality, and Couple Conflicts Given the timeliness of the topic, we also encourage submissions on:
• Tensions in Partnership and Family Lives during the COVID-19 pandemic
We welcome papers from a sociological, demographic, psychological, economic, social policy, or an interdisciplinary perspective. Deadline for Abstract submission: 30. April 2021, via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=divcon2021
For further information: divorceconference2021@uni-konstanz.de, or: www.divorceconference2021.eu

6. From Cristina Iannelli (C.Iannelli@ed.ac.uk), March 3, 2021

Two fully-funded PhD Opportunities at the University of Edinburgh. Full details are available at:
https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/disentangling-the-importance/
https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/inequalities-in-science-education/
Deadline for both applications: 31 March 2021

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_005]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 5 announcements.

1. RC28 Business Meeting in the ISA Forum of Sociology
If you plan to attend the ISA Forum of Sociology, please attend the RC28 business meeting, scheduled Thursday, 25 February 2021, 16:00 (BRT, Brazilian Time).
If you registered for the Forum, you must have received email from ISA with the login information.

2. From Mike Hout (mikehout@nyu.edu), February 17, 2021
The NY Times published an obituary for Leo Goodman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/obituaries/leo-a-goodman-dead-coronavirus.html

3. From Patrick Präg (praeg.patrick@gmail.com), February 17, 2021
Three-year PhD fellowships at CREST in Paris. Details here: https://ollion.cnrs.fr/2021/02/17/contrat-doctoral-phd-positions-2021/

4. From Dominique Souliac (souliac@soz.uni-frankfurt.de), February 17, 2021
We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher (m/f/d), 100 %, starting date is July 1st , 2021. Applications are accepted until March 31, 2021.
https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/97884330/Advertisement_WEZ_WiMi100__Postdoc_final.pdf

5. From Gërxhani, Klarita (Klarita.Gerxhani@eui.eu), February 18, 2021

2021 Robert K. Merton Award
https://analyticalsociology.com/index.php/8-news/48-inas-2021-robert-k-merton-award-call-for-papers.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021]

Robert Denis Mare, Distinguished Sociologist and Demographer, Dies at 69
Robert D. Mare, an eminent sociologist and demographer who recently retired from his position as Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA, died of leukemia in his home in Marina Del Rey, California, on Monday February 1, 2021.
Robert Mare was a world leader in the areas of social stratification, sociological methods, and demographic processes. He contributed definitive scholarship on social trends in schooling, employment, and assortative mating. His latest work considered dynamic analysis of residential mobility and multigenerational social mobility.
Mare’s first major contribution was published in a 1980 article in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, in which he convincingly argued that factors influencing educational attainment differed in importance by transition points, such as the transition from high school completion to college. In doing so, Mare found something that others had missed: family resources mattered most earlier, rather than later, in the educational process. As students move through the system, their own performance becomes more important and their parents’ resources matter less. The combination of an innovative approach and counter-intuitive finding came to be known as the “Mare Model.” To this day the Mare Model continues to be used, debated, challenged, and improved upon by sociologists and economists studying educational inequality.
Mare’s subsequent work in quantitative sociology and social demography addressed a broad range of areas – statistical methods, demography, social stratification – as he moved beyond standard questions of how individuals’ socioeconomic status is reproduced across generations to broader issues of how social hierarchies reproduce themselves. In a highly influential paper, Mare showed that marriages between people with different amounts of schooling were less likely for the highly educated. College goers were more likely to marry other college goers, and that tendency was increasing. A key implication of an increase in educational assortative mating is that it can increase inequality in family resources and children’s socioeconomic achievement. In the decade before his retirement, Mare focused on one of the oldest, most vexing sociological problems: how a combination of individual behaviors at the micro level leads to societal changes. Studying the connection between family structure and poverty, educational assortative mating, and residential mobility and segregation, Mare’s latest work applied advanced statistical techniques to micro-data to model the determinants of individual social and demographic outcomes and then used simulations to examine alternative scenarios and illustrate the implications of these scenarios for population changes. This work advanced our understanding of fundamental social processes, such as residential segregation by race. Until his death, he had been working with his collaborators to model the effects of demographic events such as marriages, having children, and death on multigenerational inequality.
At both UCLA and the University of Wisconsin, where he was Professor of Sociology prior to coming to UCLA, Mare was legendary in mentoring young scholars. In the words of Elizabeth Bruch, one of Mare’s recent doctoral students and now Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, “Rob offered a road map for the process of research: how to navigate, how to get unstuck, what to do with confusion and despair, and how to find joy and discovery. Most importantly, he made the otherwise isolating experience sociable, even fun.” Esther Freidman, another of Mare’s doctoral students and now Social and Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation, said: “Conversations with Rob were the highlight of graduate school – always intense and electrifying, whether focused on the lofty or the everyday. There was a strong feeling of shared mission. He managed to instill in his graduate students a sense that we are all part of something special and significant.”
Born in North Vancouver, Canada in 1951 to Helen and Arthur Mare, he completed his bachelor’s degree at Reed College in 1973 and his Ph.D. at the University Michigan in 1977. Between 1977 and 1997, he was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directed the Center for Demography and Ecology between 1989 and 1994. He joined the faculty at UCLA in sociology and was the founding director of the California Center for Population Research at UCLA beginning in 1998. He also held an appointment in statistics at UCLA.
Mare’s contributions were widely recognized by social and population scientists. He was elected President of the Population Association of America in 2009, President of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) in 2006, and fellow of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. For his lifetime contributions to sociological methodology, the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association awarded him the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for lifetime achievement in 1999. For his career of research on inequality he received the Robert M. Hauser Award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of the American Sociological Association in 2016. His published articles received multiple awards.
A highly respected and well-liked scholar, Mare will be dearly missed by a large international community of sociologists and demographers who admire him and his work. His scholarship and mentorship will continue to influence future generations of social scientists who study the intersection of demography, family, and social inequality. In the words of Robert Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, “Rob Mare was a brilliant scholar who made major contributions to demography, stratification, and methodology. His work on the multi-generational transmission of inequality, for example, was pathbreaking in my view. Rob’s keen insights were essential to the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey wave of data collection and our analysis of persistence and change in spatial inequality over two decades in greater Los Angeles.”
Mare is survived by Judith Seltzer, also recently retired Professor of Sociology at UCLA, his spouse and colleague since their graduate studies at the University of Michigan. Contributions in Robert Mare’s honor may be made to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank (https://www.lafoodbank.org/) or other local foodbanks.
Yu Xie, Princeton University
Jennie E. Brand, UCLA
Michael Hout, NYU
Robert Hauser, American Philosophical Society and UW-Madison

[RC28 message 2021_004]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 7 announcements. Please note that all the nominations for the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award should be received by March 1. See the #7 below.

1. From Patrick Präg (praeg.patrick@gmail.com), January 29, 2021

ENSAE Paris and CREST are currently inviting applications for a
position of Assistant (or Associate) Professor in Sociology.
See details here: http://crest.science/opportunities/faculty-position-in-sociology-at-ensae-paris-crest

2. From Anna Baranowska-Rataj (anna.baranowska@umu.se), February 2, 2021
Call for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC project “The effects of unemployment on health of family members (HEALFAM)”, Department of Sociology, Umea University, Sweden.
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoctoral-researcher-in-sociology_377358/
Application deadline is 28th February 2021.

3. From Thijs Bol (t.bol@uva.nl), February 2, 2021
Postdoctoral scholar (3 years) at the University of Amsterdam
I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar (3 years) for the CAREER project at, funded with an ERC Starting Grant. The postdoctoral scholar will map labor market change by analyzing millions of job vacancy texts with computational methods. By linking these data to panel data, you will then investigate how changing labor markets affect the careers of workers with different educational backgrounds.
For more information, see: https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/02/21-066-postdoctoral-researcher-career-project.html?origin=RrhWo%2FMXSgW7Uzvhwnl%2B%2Fg
Deadline for application is March 1.

4. From Suzanne Nichols (suzanne@rsage.org), February 4, 2021
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Call for papers for an issue on:
Administrative Burdens as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation
Edited by
Pamela Herd, Georgetown University
Hilary Hoynes, University of California Berkeley
Jamila Michener, Cornell University
Donald Moynihan, Georgetown University

5. From Felix Weiss (fewe@edu.au.dk), February 7, 2021
PhD position in inequalities in higher education at Aarhus University
At our department, we have a project funded PhD position with focus on ethnic and social inequalities in higher education that could be interesting for sociologists with a strong interest into quantitative methods.
Link to more information about the position and about Aarhus University: https://phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/open-and-specific-calls/phd-call-2021-16/
Deadline for applications is already on March 15!
The position is within a project funded by the Carlsberg foundation. It is a fulltime employment and offers possibilities for analysis of high quality data and collaboration with international researchers. The PhD student will be supported with a travelling budget for conferences as well as funding for a visitorship at another institution outside of Denmark. The PhD-student will be free to draft its own project description within the overall framework of the project. For more information, feel free to contact Felix Weiss (fewe@edu.au.dk).

6. From Eva Jaspers (E.Jaspers@uu.nl), February 10, 2021
Vacancy fot Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years, full time) in ERC funded GENPARENT project at Utrecht University
We are looking for a strongly quantitative social scientist who wants to contribute to an international team (Stockholm-PI Marie Evertsson; Utrecht; New York) working on the transition to parenthood in different-sex and same-sex couples in four Nordic countries; Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland; the Netherlands and the US. The analyses draw on unique, population register data and surveys, as well as longitudinal, in-depth interviews with couples. The Postdoc will work in the Dutch team, coordinated by Dr. Eva Jaspers, investigating these issues through advanced quantitative analyses of (mainly Dutch) large-scale administrative data and, to some extent, surveys.
For more information, please see https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/postdoctoral-researcher-for-the-project-revealing-sources-of-gendered-parenthood-genparent-08-10-fte or get in touch with Eva Jaspers (e.jaspers@uu.nl)

7. RC28 Significant Scholarship Award

Dear RC28 members,
The RC28 board makes one award annually to recognize an article of Significant Scholarship in Social Stratification that has been published in the three years prior to the year when the award is made. For the 2021 award articles appearing in journal issues from 2018-2020 are eligible. The criteria for the award are the significance, rigor, and novelty of the article's contribution to scholarship in social stratification. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award comes with a sum of 1,000 US dollars. If there are multiple authors, the sum is divided equally among them.
In order to be eligible, the article must have been presented prior to publication at one of the RC28 meetings or the RC28 sessions of the World Congress, and the fact of its presentation must be acknowledged in the published version of the article or the author should provide other forms of proof (such as a copy of the program).
The award shall be made by the RC28 Board, which will decide upon the recipient at the Spring RC28 meeting. The recipient of the 2021 award will be announced and the award will be delivered at the RC28 Summer meeting. The last award was presented to Florian Hertel and Olaf Groh-Samberg at our online meeting in August, 2020.
The Board will consider all nominations received by March 1 2021. Nominations should include a full citation of the article and a brief statement as to why the nominating individual considers the article to merit the award. Nominations will be submitted to the RC28 president, who will compile the nominations and deliver them to the subcommittee appointed by the Board for consideration. Nominations are accepted only from RC28 members. Self-nominations are permitted.
Please submit your nomination for the 2021 award by 1 March 2021 to RC28 President (Ineke Maas) at rc28.emails@gmail.com.
Ineke Maas
RC28 President

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021]

Dear RC28 Members

The RC28 community is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Robert D. Mare, our long-time friend.
Rob Mare was the President of RC28 in 2006-2010 and a board member in 1998-2006. He organized the RC28 summer meeting of 2005 and actively participated in many meetings.
He was an intellectual leader who paved new theoretical and methodological directions in demography and the sociology of inequality, social mobility and education among others.
He was much loved by his colleagues and students. We will remember his wry sense of humor.
He is survived by his spouse of many decades, Judy Seltzer who cared for Rob with the utmost devotion and dedication in the years of his illness. Professor Judith Seltzer is also a long time RC28 member and friend. We embrace her and stand by her in friendship.
May He Rest in Peace.

Ineke Maas (President)
Yossi Shavit (Vice President)
Hyunjoon Park (Secretary/Treasurer)

[RC28 message 2021_003]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 3 announcements.

1. From Christiane Gross (christiane.gross@uni-wuerzburg.de), January 15, 2021

The University of Würzburg is hosting a one-week virtual and international summer course on social inequality. The course is aimed at international students (graduate or undergraduate) and takes place from July 19th to July 23rd, 2021. The summer course includes keynotes of Martina Brandt (TU Dortmund University, DE), Christiane Gross (University of Würzburg, DE), Andreas Hadjar (University of Luxembourg, LU), and Natascha Nisic (University of Mainz, DE).

Deadline for applications: February 15th, 2021

For further information, see:
http://socialinequality.de

2. From Oliver Winkler (oliver.winkler@soziologie.uni-halle.de), January 20, 2021
The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Institute of Sociology) offers a five-year position as a postdoctoral researcher (full time) in the junior research group EDIREG (Educational Integration of Refugee Children and Youth in Germany, funded by BMBF) starting on 1st April 2021. Application deadline is 15th February 2021.
http://www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Ausschr/21_4_382_21_D_deu_korr.pdf (GER)
http://www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Ausschr/21_4_382_21_D_eng_korr.pdf (EN)

3. From Gunnar Otte (gunnar.otte@uni-mainz.de), January 22, 2021
Five doctoral scholarships for the interdisciplinary graduate research group "Resilient Institutions" at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
Deadline: January 31st, 2021.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_002]

Dear RC28 Members

This week I have 3 announcements.

1. From Pablo Gracia (graciap@tcd.ie), January 9th, 2021
The Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin is looking for an outstanding and highly motivated PhD candidate with excellent qualifications and methodological skills to study how digital engagement impacts children’s daily routines and well-being across demographic and socioeconomic groups by analysing longitudinal data. Under the supervision of Dr Pablo Gracia, the successful applicant will join the DIGYMATEX project, a multi-disciplinary consortium of 12 international partners funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020).
Deadline: February 6th, 2021; Payment: 1670 net euros per month; Period: 48 months (2021-2025); Starting time: between March and August 2021.
PhD position link: call

2. From Suzanne Nichols (suzanne@rsage.org), January 11, 2021
CALL FOR ARTICLES

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

ISSUE ON: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Edited by
Steven Raphael
University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Schneider
Harvard Kennedy School

3. From Katarina Weßling (k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl), January 12, 2021
2 PhD/doctoral student positions at BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Bonn, Germany) in collaboration with ROA (Research Center for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Vacancy (in English)
Vacancy (in German)
The BIBB is looking for two doctoral students (75%, initially 3 years) in the field of (vocational) education and labour market research. The two doctoral students will be part of the junior research group ‘Regional (infra-)structure and processes of occupational segmentation in vocational education and training (RISA)’, which is located at BIBB and ROA.
Application deadline: February 5th, 2021
For further information, see:
https://www.bibb.de/de/133458.php
https://kwessling.net/research/
In case of questions about the project or the PhD positions, do not hesitate to contact: Katarina.wessling@bibb.de or k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2021_001]

Dear RC28 Members
Happy New Year!
This week I have 4 announcements.

1. From Marita Jacob (marita.jacob@uni-koeln.de), December 16, 2020.
Doctoral Scholarship "Demography & Social Inequality", Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences (CGS) (three years, starting October 01, 2021)
The Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences (CGS) at the University of Cologne (UoC) offers one three-year doctoral scholarship to outstanding students holding a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Social Sciences (Demography, Sociology, Political Sciences, or Psychology). By joining the Key Research Initiative “Demography & Social Inequality”, the doctoral scholarship holder will be integrated in one of the highly vibrant and international research networks at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences.
For further details see:
https://cgs.uni-koeln.de/sites/cgs/pdf/application/callsforapplication/Announcement_CGS-Demography_2021.pdf
https://wiso.uni-koeln.de/en/research/key-research-initiatives/demography-and-social-inequality

2. From Yuliya Kosyakova (Yuliya.Kosyakova@alumni.eui.eu), December 23, 2020
The research department "Migration, Integration and International Labour Market Research" at the IAB, Nuremberg, is looking for a postdoc (full time position) in the field of international migration, its labor market effects and the integration of migrants. The topics can be also focused on the integration of refugees.
1. Postdoc full time until 31.12.2023, in German: https://recruiting.arbeitsagentur.de/ba-karriere/stellensuche/index.html#/posting/52738388
in English: https://inomics.com/job/research-associate-department-migration-integration-and-international-labour-market-research
2. Postdoc full time until 31.12.2021, in German:

https://recruiting.arbeitsagentur.de/ba-karriere/stellensuche/index.html#/posting/52738031
Application deadline is 11 January 2021.

3. From Irene Kriesi (irene.kriesi@ehb.swiss), January 4, 2021.
Call for papers for a special issue of the journal "Education Sciences" on the topic
“Regional Disparities in National Education: Origins, Governance, and Consequences”
Guest editors: Regula Leemann, Irene Kriesi, Rita Nikolai
For more information see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/Regional_Disparities_National_Education

4. From Dominique Souliac (souliac@soz.uni-frankfurt.de), January 6, 2021
We are looking for a pre-doctoral researcher (m/f/d), 65%, starting date is April 1st , 2021.
Applications are accepted until February 1st, 2021.
You can also download the advertisement from our website: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/95934687/Advertisement_WEZ_WiMi65__Doktorand_final.pdf

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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