2022

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Dear RC28 Members
This is the last newsletter of the year 2022. The next newsletter will not be delivered until mid January, 2023.

RC28 Significant Scholarship in Social Stratification

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 2023 award articles appearing in journal issues from 2020-2022 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 award will be announced and the award will be delivered at the RC28 Summer meeting. The 2022 award was presented to Fabian Pfeffer and Nora Waitkus at our meeting at Notre Dame.

The Board will consider all nominations received by March 1 2023. 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 2023 award by 1 March 2023 to
RC28 President (Ineke Maas) at rc28.emails@gmail.com with a cc to i.maas@uu.nl.

Ineke Maas
RC28 President

From Marita Jacob (marita.jacob@uni-koeln.de), December 13, 2022
Doctoral Scholarship "Demography & Social Inequality", Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences (CGS) (three years, starting October 01, 2023)
The Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences (CGS) at the University of Cologne (UoC) offers a 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 into one of the highly vibrant and international research networks at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences.
For details see:
https://cgs.uni-koeln.de/sites/cgs/pdf/application/callsforapplication/Announcement_CGS_Demography_Social_Inequality_2023.pdf
https://wiso.uni-koeln.de/en/research/key-research-initiatives/demography-and-social-inequality

From Seong Won Han (seongwon@buffalo.edu), December 13, 2022
Tenure-eligible Associate/Full Professor
The Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo (UB), SUNY, invites applications for a tenure-eligible Associate or Full Professor position in Educational, Culture, Policy and Society (ECPS) in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP), with specific attention to research on the production, reproduction and/or amelioration of educational, social and economic inequalities via higher education institutions.
Details: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/39224

From Anastasia Gorodzeisky (anastasiag@tauex.tau.ac.il), December 15, 2022
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, as part of the School of Social and Policy Studies at Tel Aviv University, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position to commence on October 1, 2023, contingent on budgetary approval. Applications are open in all fields of Sociology and Anthropology. The position includes teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level (both existing and self developed courses), supervision of graduate students, and pursuing high quality research based on grants received from competitive local and international foundations. Teaching at Tel Aviv University is primarily in Hebrew, and candidates must be able to teach courses in Hebrew within two years of their appointment.
Details:
https://social-sciences.tau.ac.il/sites/socsci.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/social/soc-ant/PDF/Tenure-Track%20Faculty%20Position%202023.pdf

From Robin Samuel (robin.samuel@uni.lu), December 15, 2022
Fully funded four-year Ph.D. position available in the area of digital change, inequality, and youth research with a focus on quantitative research methods at the University of Luxembourg, Department of Social Sciences.
Deadline: none, but applications before December 31, 2022 are strongly encouraged.
Details: http://emea3.mrted.ly/39sp2

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

RC28 SPRING MEETING 2023: CALL FOR PAPERS
The Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) invites all scholars working in the field of social stratification and social mobility to contribute to its next annual Spring Meeting. The 2023 meeting will take place on May 24-26th, 2023, and is hosted by the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris. The meeting is organized in partnership with the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), the Groupe d’Etude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne (GEMASS), and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED).
For details, please see the attached Call for Abstracts .

RC28 Significant Scholarship in Social Stratification
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 2023 award articles appearing in journal issues from 2020-2022 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 award will be announced and the award will be delivered at the RC28 Summer meeting. The 2022 award was presented to Fabian Pfeffer and Nora Waitkus at our meeting at Notre Dame.
The Board will consider all nominations received by March 1 2023. 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 2023 award by 1 March 2023 to
RC28 President (Ineke Maas) at rc28.emails@gmail.com with a cc to i.maas@uu.nl.
Ineke Maas
RC28 President

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

Deadline: December 6, 2022

From David Glauser (david.glauser@unibe.ch), November 22, 2022
2 PhD positions (80-100%) within the National Research Program 80 (NRP80) project "Short- and long-term impacts of Covid-19 on VET: Strengthening VET in times of crises" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
The project is conducted by the University of Bern (Department of Sociology of Education) in collaboration with the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET).
Application deadline: December 14, 2022.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis after that deadline until the positions are filled. Details: https://bit.ly/COVET-PhD_EN

From Leen Vandecasteele (leen.vandecasteele@unil.ch), November 23, 2022
3 year Post-Doctoral Position, FORS & LIVES Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland
The LIVES Centre and FORS offer a 3-year position as postdoctoral researcher in the project “The COVID generation: Identifying risks and protective factors for young people's pathways through the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland”.
The research project is led by Dr. Marieke Voorpostel at FORS, Lausanne, Prof. Stephanie Steinmetz (University Lausanne), Prof. Leen Vandecasteele (University Lausanne) Prof. Núria Sánchez-Mira (University Neuchatel).
For more information on how to apply, see: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Quantitative Social Research

From Carlo Barone (carlo.barone@sciencespo.fr), November 24, 2022
6th annual workshop: "Experimental research on social inequalities"

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022]

Dear RC28 Members

It is time to begin the process of nominating candidates for the election of a new set of board members for RC28. Elections are held every four years, prior to each ISA World Congress. Newly elected board members serve a four-year term that begins at the end of the World Congress. The RC28 Board, which consists of a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 15 members, represents the RC28 in the ISA and elsewhere, manages RC28 FUNDS, and organizes various RC28.

The outgoing board designates an Election Committee, which receives nominations of candidates and oversees the election. The Election Committee members for the upcoming election are Ineke Maas (current President), Yossi Shavit (current Vice-President), Hyunjoon Park (current Secretary/Treasurer), Yu Xie (previous President), and two RC28 members nominated by the RC28 board- Claudia Buchmann and Thijs Bol.
All RC28 members are encouraged to nominate candidates for Election to the Board by sending their name(s) to the following email address by 15 January, 2023: rc28.emails@gmail.com

You can nominate multiple RC28 members. Self-nominations are also welcome. The list of current RC28 members is attached to this email. The nominated candidates need to be ISA members with current membership fees paid if elected.

From the pool of nominated candidates, the election committee will select names of candidates to put forward on the ballot. Members will cast their votes from April 21 to June 5, 2023. Newly elected
board members will assume their posts at the 2023 ISA World Congress (June 25 - July 1, 2023).

Hyunjoon Park

RC28 Secretary/Treasurer (2018-2022)

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Dear RC28 Members

Postdoctoral Researcher (24 months, full-time)

We are seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher on undergraduate measurement at the University of California Irvine. The individual will use data from the Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project to work on evaluation of an intellectual virtues curriculum funded by the Templeton Foundation.

Details: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07988

Deadline for full consideration: November 30, 2022

From Yu Xie (yuxie@princeton.edu)
The journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility invites contributions to a special issue on “Social Inequality in East Asia”. The increasing policy importance of social and economic inequality in mainland China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan underscores the need for rigorous empirical examination of causes and consequences of changing patterns of social stratification. We invite submissions on social stratification broadly defined, with some preference to research on the intersection of demographic change and social stratification. We welcome papers on single societies or comparative studies.
The deadline to submit an extended abstract is December 15, 2022.
More information can be found here.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

From Daniel Oesch (daniel.oesch@unil.ch), November 11, 2022

The LIVES Centre is delighted to offer visitors grants for scholars who wish to visit in 2023 and engage in joint research on the life course at the Universities of Lausanne or Geneva, Switzerland. These competitive grants are open to PhD students, post-docs, lecturers and professors. They cover travel and accommodation costs of up to 3000 CHF (~3000€). For more information, please refer to the call.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

Nuffield College is delighted to relaunch the Jemolo Fellowship scheme for academic visitors to Nuffield College.

Open to Italian researchers and non-Italian scholars who work on Italy, in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Modern History and Public Law. Visitorships normally last between one and six months.

Application deadline: 14 November 2022. More information and how to apply at: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/jemolo-fellowships/ Enquiries should be directed to Justine Crump (academic.admin@nuffield.ox.ac.uk).

From Eric Fong (ewcfong@hku.hk), October 28, 2022
The Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong is looking for a full professor and two assistant professors.

the link for the full professor job: https://jobs.hku.hk/en/job/516776/tenuretrack-professor-in-the-department-of-sociology

the link for the two assistant professor jobs: https://jobs.hku.hk/en/job/516775/tenuretrack-assistant-professor-2-posts

From Kriesi Irene (Irene.Kriesi@ehb.swiss), October 28, 2022
Call for Papers: New Work – New Problems? Gender Perspectives on the Transformation of Work
The conference will be held at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne, 7-8 September 2023. It is organized by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Committee Gender Studies of the Swiss Sociological Association.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 January 2023.
For more details and the CfP please visit the conference website: New Work – New Problems? Gender Perspectives on the Transformation of Work | Hochschule Luzern (hslu.ch)

From Sebastian E. Wenz (sebastian.wenz@gesis.org), November 04, 2022:
GESIS Spring Seminar 2023: "Modeling Group Differences"
Date: 27 Feb - 17 Mar 2023
Place: Cologne, Germany
Registration deadline: None (first come, first served).
Week 1: “Comparative Social Research with Multi-Group SEM”
Week 2: “Decomposition Methods in the Social Sciences”
Week 3: “Latent Class Analysis”
Courses can and must be booked separately. Lectures in each course are complemented by extensive hands-on exercises and tutorials. For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit www.gesis.org/springseminar.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

NAS Economic and Social Mobility Workshop
Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had – that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic mobility in terms of occupational status and income. This trend in downward mobility is occurring amidst high and rising levels of inequality in income, wealth, health, and life expectancy.

To better understand the factors that influence social and economic mobility, the Committee on Population and the Committee on National Statistics hosted a workshop on February 14-15, 2022. The proceedings from this workshop identify key priorities for future research and data collection to improve social and economic mobility.

From Suzanne Nichols (suzanne@rsage.org), October 5, 2022
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences has a call for articles for an issue on “U.S. Census 2020: Continuity and Change,” edited by Zhenchao Qian, Department of Sociology, Brown University, and Trevon Logan, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University

From Sin Yi Cheung (cheungsy@cardiff.ac.uk) 6 October 2022
Research Associate (FT 2 years fixed term)
Cardiff University School of Social Sciences is seeking to recruit a data analyst with social science training to join the Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) and the Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Diversity (MEAD) Research Group, to start on 1 December 2022 (or soon after). You will be analysing linked administrative data on children receiving social services support. These linked data will allow us to map the patterns of ethnic and religious inequalities in children social services, their education outcomes and health services usage.
Closing date: 1 November 2022. Further details:
https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=30011&siteid=5460&PageType=JobDetails&jobid=1994427

From Sebastian Bähr (sebastian.baehr@iab.de), October 7, 2022
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Spatial Mobility Working Group of the German Sociological Association (DGS) jointly organize the workshop “Current Perspectives on Spatial Mobilities”. We invite presentations on spatial mobilities in general and especially on research relating mobility to the digital transformation, COVID-19 and refugee migration, as well as innovations in data and methods for studying spatial mobilities.
The hybrid event will take place in Nuremberg, Germany, on March 30 and 31, 2023. Submissions Deadline: November 15, 2022
For more details, please see the workshop website: https://iab.de/en/iab-veranstaltungen/current-perspectives-on-spatial-mobilities/

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

RC28 SPRING MEETING 2023: CALL FOR PAPERS
The Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) invites all scholars working in the field of social stratification and social mobility to contribute to its next annual Spring Meeting. The 2023 meeting will take place on May 24-26th, 2023, and is hosted by the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris. The meeting is organized in partnership with the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), the Groupe d’Etude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne (GEMASS), and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED).
For details, please see the attached Call for Abstracts .

Please submit your abstract for RC28 sessions at the ISA World Congress of Sociology to be held June 25 - July 1, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia
RC28 sessions can be found here:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2023/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium751.html
Submission Period: July 1 - September 30, 2022 24:00 GMT

Vote for RC28 Statutes Changes
An email to vote for RC28 Statutes Changes has been sent out with the sender: Hyunjoon Park <noreply@qemailserver.com>. Please vote whether you approve or do not approve the changes by October 11, 2022.
If you haven't received the email, please check your spam folder. Please note that this email has been sent out only to RC28 members whose membership is currently active.

From Basha Vicari (basha.vicari@iab.de), September 16, 2022
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, Germany, welcomes applicants for a doctoral position in the project "German National Education Panel Study: Stage 8 – Adult Education and Lifelong Learning" starting on 1st of January 2023 for a fixed term of 4 years. The project addresses further development of survey topics on further education and lifelong learning in a changing world of work. The cross-institutional project team offers a close integration and support for the doctoral student during his/her entire doctoral studies.
Deadline for application: September 30, 2022.
Job offer: https://recruiting.arbeitsagentur.de/ba-karriere/stellensuche/index.html#/posting/53664383

From Louis Chauvel (louis.chauvel@uni.lu), September 21, 2022

LIS is seeking applications for a Microdata Expert (2-year contract) – REF: LIS-2022-1
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-is-now-hiring/
The Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg https://www.lisdatacenter.org is a non-profit organization specialized in the study of inequality. LIS acquires high quality microdatasets with income, wealth, etc. and harmonizes them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available.
Main Responsibilities
The position involves joining a dynamic team of 10 people to produce harmonized datasets. This includes evaluating the original datasets structure and quality (possibly working with data providers), harmonizing original variables, documenting harmonization methods and dataset specificities, assisting and instructing users.

From Stephanie Steinmetz (stephanie.steinmetz@unil.ch), September 28, 2022
The ISSP is very pleased to announce its first ISSP User Conference on Social Inequality, which will be held online on December 12, 2022. The Call for Abstracts is now open. Find out more here: https://t.co/2fy4X5zGjG or visit our homepage https://issp.org/news/1st-issp-user-conference-on-social-inequality/

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

Death Notice
By Michael Hout (mikehout@nyu.edu)
I write with the sad news that Chris Whelan of University College, Dublin, emeritus, died Tuesday, 6 Sept 2022. Chris was an active RC28 participant in the 1990s and 2000s, less so since he retired in 2009. He led two important mobility studies in Ireland and wrote extensively on poverty and food insecurity, first in Ireland then, increasingly, about all of Europe. He was a man of good humour (as they spell it in Ireland) and serious scholarship. He was very generous with his time, and many of us relied on Chris for critical comments on our papers. He had a unique commenting style, at once pointed and respectful, usually in the form of a question (as in, “are you sure you want to phrase it that way?” Or “wouldn’t it be more convincing to compare classes I and VII?”). Along with many others, I admired and loved this uniquely wonderful colleague.

RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2022
By Ineke Maas (i.maas@uu.nl)
RC28 awards a price each year to an article of Significant Scholarship in Social Stratification that has been published in the previous three years. The criterion for the award are the significance, rigor, and novelty of the article’s contribution to scholarship in social stratification. The award comes with a sum of 1,000 US dollars and a plaque. The award ceremony took place at RC28s summer conference at Notre Dame.
This year we received 15 nominations. A subcommittee consisting of Hanna Ayalon, Yao Lu and last-year winner Xiang Zhou selected the 3 best articles. From these three the board of RC28 decided on the winners: Fabian Pfeffer and Nora Waitkus for their article The wealth inequality of nations, that appeared in ASR 2021.
Wealth inequality is an important topic. The board and subcommittee especially liked the author’s novel approach which knits together broad research areas on housing, financialization, and wealth; the article’s comparative character that takes advantage of the Luxembourg Wealth Study data for fifteen countries; its sophisticated analytical methodology; as well as the clear substantive results the paper provides. One of the central findings, that housing wealth accounts for much of the cross-national variation in wealth inequality and concentration is truly new and important.

RC28 Travel Awards at the Summer 2022 Meeting (University of Notre Dame)
The following 5 students received travel awards at the Summer 2022 Meeting held at the University of Notre Dame, August 12-14, 2022. Congratulations!
Alan C. Kerckhoff Award: Jiaxin Shi (University of Oxford)
Aage B. Sorensen Award: Wenhao Jiang (New York University)
Jaap Dronkers Award: Meiying Li (University of Southern California)
RC28 Travel Award: Aguru Ishibashi (Senshu University)
RC28 Travel Award: Jason Robery (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Please submit your abstract for RC28 sessions at the ISA World Congress of Sociology to be held June 25 - July 1, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia
RC28 sessions can be found here:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2023/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium751.html
Submission Period: July 1 - September 30, 2022 24:00 GMT

Vote for RC28 Statutes Changes
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From Barbara Okun (barbara.okun@mail.huji.ac.il), Gracia (graciap@tcd.ie), September 14, 2022
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology seeks to fill
A Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in either Sociology or Anthropology (Open Specialization) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, beginning October 2023

From Andreas Hadjar (andreas.hadjar@unifr.ch), July 27, 2022
Tenure position at VU Amsterdam
The department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is looking for a (somehow advanced) assistant professor with good knowledge of quantitative methodology. https://werkenbij.vu.nl/ad/assistant-professor-sociology/sx3bcw/en The position has an initial duration of 1.5 years and can become tenured afterwards. Dutch is not required (only the willingness to learn within the first years). Candidates are invited to submit a cv and a cover letter by 15/10/2022.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

The department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento is happy to announce that this year's Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research will take place from November 30th to December 2, 2022.

The topics of this year's edition include the role of technology, institutions and demographic change in shaping income inequality; the impact of robotization, AI, and algorithmic management on jobs availability, job quality and employment structure; as well as the dynamics and mechanisms of intergenerational mobility.

The methods sessions provide a specific focus on (1) data, research design and analytical tools applied to the analysis of technologically induced structural change; (2) decomposition techniques and measurement of inequality using survey data; and (3) the use of machine learning for the study of intergenerational mobility.
The website (https://event.unitn.it/tn-square/) is now up and running and the applications will open on September 15th and close October 16, 2022.

From Emanuela Struffolino (emanuela.struffolino@unimi.it), September 1, 2022

The department of social sciences, chair for microsociology, Prof. Anette Fasang, at Humboldt-University of Berlin invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral research position in the DFG-German Research Foundation funded comparative research project “Households' labor supply arrangement and in-work poverty: longitudinal dynamics in a cross-country comparison”, in collaboration with Emanuela Struffolino (University of Milan) and Asaf Levanon (University of Haifa). The project will address two issues: 1) which household-level decision-making processes and behaviors about working hours drive differential risks of in-work poverty, and 2) how household-level labor supply decisions shape longitudinal dynamics of in-work poverty over the life course in different welfare contexts. Country-cases are Germany, Italy, and Israel.

Relevant information for the application can be found at https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/en/lehrbereiche-en/mikrosoziologie-en/job-vacancies-1

For questions, please send an email to emanuela.struffolino@unimi.it and anette.fasang@hu-berlin.de

Deadline for submission: 21.09.2022

From Xiaogang Wu (xw29@nyu.edu), September 1, 2022
NYU Shanghai is currently inviting applications for two open rank positions in Sociology to start in Fall 2023. We seek candidates who have completed or will complete a Ph.D. in Sociology or a closely related discipline by September 2023. We invite applications from candidates in any field, including those with expertise in child development and life course, computational social science inequality and poverty, family and gender, migration/immigration. Successful candidates will also be able to leverage the resources at the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER). Application requirements, contact details, and further information can be found at https://apply.interfolio.com/111935.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

RC28 just had a Summer 2022 conference at the University of Notre Dame (August 12-14). We had a lot of interesting and important papers presented at the conference in a very collegial environment. The dinner and social events were excellent. Thanks so much to the conference organizers, William Cabornaro and Tracy Wickham who did a wonderful job to make the conference so successful.
The next RC28 meeting will be held May 25-27, 2023 in Paris, France organized by Carlo Barone, Philippe Coulangeon, Bastian Betthauser and Ettore Recchi.
We look forward to seeing you in Paris next year!
Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The University of Tübingen welcomes applications for 12 doctoral positions in the DFG International Research Training Group „Women’s Mental Health Across the Reproductive Years“ starting on 1st of January 2023 for a fixed term of 3 years.

The Research Training Group aims to better understand the associations between hormonal transition phases (puberty, pregnancy and menopause) and women’s mental health. It combines the disciplinary perspectives of medical sciences, neurosciences, psychology and sociology. We offer a structured PhD program (taught in English) within an international research environment and close collaboration with our Swedish partners at Uppsala University. One subproject (P11) will focus on gender norms and therefore we seek to recruit a sociologist interested in interdisciplinary research.

Deadline for applications: October 1, 2022
Job ad: https://irtg2804.de/application/

From Kimberlee Shauman (kashauman@ucdavis.edu), August 15, 2022
The Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, invites applicants for a tenure-track position for scholars conducting theoretically-driven, empirical research related to poverty and/or inequality. We are especially interested in candidates with the ability to teach methods courses, and whose research interests align with University and College strategic priorities, including a new data science initiative and ongoing efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in the academy. For full consideration, all application materials, including letters of reference, must be submitted by September 25, 2022.

Go to https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05110 for complete details about the position and application requirements.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

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Dear RC28 Members

Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

Please submit your abstract for RC28 sessions at the ISA World Congress of Sociology to be held June 25 - July 1, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia
RC28 sessions can be found here:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2023/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium751.html
Submission Period: July 1 - September 30, 2022 24:00 GMT

From Margot Jackson (margot_jackson@brown.edu)
As part of our ongoing efforts to engage with the RC28 community and expand our pool of reviewers, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility invites interested scholars at all levels, including advanced graduate students, to express an interest in reviewing manuscripts. For more information about the journal, please visit the website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-social-stratification-and-mobility
If you are interested in being considered as a reviewer, please complete this form: https://forms.gle/KJc3ZuxnTEHf48SWA

From Pablo Gracia (graciap@tcd.ie), July 27, 2022
I am looking for a Postdoctoral researcher
Deadline: September 5, 2022
Submission details: https://www.tcd.ie/sociology/vacancies/researchassistant

From Andreas Hadjar (andreas.hadjar@unifr.ch), July 27, 2022
Call for Papers for a thematic issue of the free open access journal “sozialpolitik.ch”/"socialpolicy.ch" in English and German.
Migration – How social policies shape life chances of migrants
https://www.sozialpolitik.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/user_upload/220725_Cfp_2024_1.pdf
− Conceptual or methodological papers
− Empirical articles on the life chances of migrants
− Empirical studies on how social policies (e.g. migration policies, language policies, educational policies, labour market policies) shape individual life chances
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 October 2022

From Marlis Buchmann (buchmann@soziologie.uzh.ch), July 29, 2022
Postdoc Position Department of Sociology (Swiss Job Market Monitor, SJMM), University of Zurich
3-year postdoc position 80-90% (with the prospect of extension), starting November 1, 2022 (or by arrangement). The advertised position offers the opportunity to conduct innovative research on shifts in the labor market, education, and social inequality. Enabled by the unique time-series on job ads data of the Swiss Job Market Monitor (SJMM), you address pressing questions about how the digitalization of work altered occupations and skill profiles, thereby affecting worker outcomes.
The full call for application is available at:
https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-for-research-on-education-labor-markets-and-social-inequality/79f71b86-8c30-400b-9615-b9a7ef9ccd7b
Deadline for applications is August 31, 2022 (or until the position is filled)

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_016]

Dear RC28 Members

Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

From Pia Schober (pia.Schober@uni-tuebingen.de), July 4, 2022
Goethe University Frankfurt and University of Tübingen are inviting applications for 12 doctoral positions (TV-L E13, 65% part-time)
in the DFG Research Training Group „Doing Transitions“ starting on 1st of January 2023 for a fixed term of 3 years, located in Frankfurt and in Tübingen, respectively.
The Research Training Group„Doing Transitions“ investigates how transitions are constituted on different individual and societal levels across the life course. It combines the disciplinary perspectives of educational science, sociology, psychology and related social sciences. The research training group welcomes quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods approaches.
Deadline for applications: September 15, 2022
Job ad: https://doingtransitions.org/en/doing-transitions-is-inviting-applications-for-12-doctoral-student-positions
More detailed guidelines and information for applicants: https://doingtransitions.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Information-for-applicants-phd_en_2022.pdf

From Zoltán Lippényi (z.lippenyi@rug.nl), July 11, 2022
4-year, fully-funded Ph.D. project on diversity in organizational leadership and outcomes for employees, communities, and shareholders, focusing on times of social and economic crises. The Ph.D. candidate will conduct research supervised by Dr. Zoltán Lippényi, Prof. Rafael Wittek (University of Groningen), and Prof. Naomi Ellemers (Utrecht University) and participate in the interdisciplinary graduate training program (SCOOP) and the doctoral training program of the ICS.
Application deadline: 26 July.
For more detail, please visit:
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/314518/phd-position-in-the-scoop-program-at-the-department-of-sociology-08-10-fte/

From Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs (jonathan.mijs@gmail.com), July 12, 2022
The Boston University Department of Sociology invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor to begin July 1, 2023. We seek a colleague with an innovative research agenda and teaching interests in race/ethnicity. Subfields are open and we are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to departmental strengths in culture, economic sociology, gender/sexuality, global/comparative, health, law and crime, migration, race/ethnicity, and urban sociology.
To apply, please submit a 1) cover letter; 2) curriculum vitae; 3) diversity, equity, and inclusion statement; 4) three reference letters.
Submit to https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22014.
Review of applications will begin September 15, 2022.
Contact: Stephanie Polsky (spolsky@bu.edu)

From Alexander Dicks (alexander.dicks@wzb.eu), July 13, 2022
The NEPS group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center is looking to fill a PhD or postdoctoral researcher position for a duration of five years. The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) is a large-scale longitudinal panel study covering a wide range of topics in education. The offered position will focus on research and survey development in the transition from vocational education and training to the labor market.
Full details on the advertised position is available here (in German):
https://wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/137/wissenschaftliche-r-mitarbeiter-in-doktorand-in-oder-postdoc
Deadline for application is August 21, 2022.

From Kristian B. Karlson (kbk@soc.ku.dk), 14 July 2022:
I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project on the social class mobility of siblings. 2½-year fully funded position without teaching obligations. The postdoc will join a team consisting of two other postdocs and be part of academic life in the sociology department. The position is well paid and is located in a family-friendly work environment and, not least, in the wonderful and livable city of Copenhagen.
Deadline: October 26, 2022
Job ad and online application: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=157023

From Richard Breen (richard.breen@nuffield.ox.ac.uk), July 14, 2022
Sociology Group Visitorships, Nuffield College, Oxford
Nuffield College, University of Oxford, offers non-stipendiary visitorships to established academics and others who wish to pursue their research in Oxford in the field of Sociology, broadly defined to include Sociology, Social Policy, and Demography. Accommodation and meals are provided, along with library privileges and access to Nuffield IT facilities.
The deadline for applications to be considered for visits in academic year 2023-24 is 30 September 2022.
Further information can be found at https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/sociology/sociology-visitorships/

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_015]

Dear RC28 Members

For 2023 World Congress of Sociology to be held in Melbourne, Australia from June 25 to July 1, RC28 has organized a total of 25 sessions (including 1 joint session, 1 invited session, and 1 business meeting). Many thanks to our colleagues who have proposed RC28 sessions. You can find the list of RC28 sessions below. Please submit your abstract by September 30, 2022 (24:00 GMT). You can find more information about how to submit an abstract here: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023/deadlines-2023

Advancing Research on Gender Inequalities: A Life Course Perspective

Session Organizer(s):
Janeen BAXTER, j.baxter@uq.edu.au, University of Queensland, Australia
Alice CAMPBELL, alice.campbell@uq.edu.au, The University of Queensland, Australia
Rennie LEE, rennie.lee@uq.edu.au, The University of Queensland, Australia
Leah RUPPANNER, leah.ruppanner@unimelb.edu.au, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Session in English

Despite rapid progress from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s, gender inequalities in income, wealth, occupational status, political representation, and time spent in unpaid care and domestic labour, persist. Identifying effective ways to reform this social injustice has proven difficult. Gender stratification occurs at multiple levels of the social ecology, from the (trans)national through to the individual. Adding further complexity, gender stratification is a dynamic process that unfolds across the course of individual lives. For this session, we invite the submission of innovative, empirical papers that examine gender inequality and ways to reduce it. Studies that that leverage life course principles and incorporate data from multiple points in time or comparative analyses are strongly encouraged.

Multi-Generational Perspective in Social Stratification Research

Session Organizer(s):
Hiroshi ISHIDA, ishida@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp, University of Tokyo, Japan

Session in English

This session focuses on inter-generational process across multiple generations. Sociological studies are often governed by a two-generation perspective, but family-based inequalities perpetuate across multiple generations. Reproduction of inequality work through demographic processes including differential fertility and marriage patterns. Papers addressing the relationship between inequality and demography are welcome.

Cutting-Edge Research in Social Stratification

Session Organizer(s):
Hiroshi ISHIDA, ishida@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp, University of Tokyo, Japan

Session in English

This session is reserved for presentation in the poster format. It provides an opportunity for RC28 scholars and those who work on the issue of social stratification to present their up-to-date research to the ISA audience. The session welcomes any contribution related to the issue of social inequality.

Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Early and Late Industrialized Countries

Session Organizer(s):
Sandra FACHELLI, sandra.fachelli@gmail.com, Pablo de Olavide Univ. / AUB, Spain
Pedro LÓPEZ-ROLDÁN, pedro.lopez.roldan@uab.es, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Session in English, Spanish

The objective of this session is to collect theoretical, methodological and empirical works that seeks to analyse social inequalities in a comparative perspective between early and late industrialized countries. These contributions will be addressed to deal with the following topics: social models, labour market, education, times of life and gender inequalities, migration, social stratification, social mobility, and social policies. Comparisons have to be made between at least two countries, early and late industrialized countries. Works that formulate proposals for integrating concepts that enable the comparison and harmonization of quantitative data sources or qualitative empirical material will be welcome.

Session on New Developments of Intra- and Intergenerational Social Mobility

Session Organizer(s):
Xi SONG, xisong@upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Session in English

Intergenerational mobility involves the extent to which key destinations of individuals differ from those of their parents, and intragenerational mobility concerns the movement of individuals up or down those destinations over a lifetime. Both types of mobility have potentially changed over the last few decades and vary across social settings. This session invites papers that address one or both of these mobility processes. With an explosion in the availability of individual-level public administrative data, digital historical archives, and other forms of “big data,” social scientists are now in an era of unprecedented opportunities to expand the scope traditional social mobility research. We are particularly interested in new theories, perspectives, methods, and data that allow us to better understand social mobility in a changing world. Questions may include, but are not limited to, how to better integrate different data sources through data harmonization and linkage, promote the accumulation of knowledge (e.g., the CASMIN project), bring together tools from statistics, mathematics, economics, and computer sciences, make use of theory, algorithms, mechanisms, and practices to advices RC28’s contributions to knowledge about social stratification reviewed in Michael Hout and Thomas DiPrete (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2006).

Integrated Data on People, Time, and Places in Research on Social Stratification and Mobility

Session Organizer(s):
Mark WESTERN, m.western@uq.edu.au, The University of Queensland, Australia
Tomasz ZAJAC, t.zajac@uq.edu.au, The University of Queensland, Australia
Wojtek TOMASZEWSKI, w.tomaszewski@uq.edu.au, The University of Queensland, Australia

Session in English

The amount of data available for social research is steadily increasing as governments as well as other public and private institutions gradually make their resources more accessible to the academic community. Large scale unit-level administrative data collected over time are particularly important as they allow for, among others, longitudinal studies of entire populations. However, as more data sources are made available to researchers, integrating person-centred or household-centred data, both survey and administrative, with other types of data becomes a pertinent issue. Bringing together different types of data helps overcome the limitations of individual datasets and expands research possibilities. In doing so, it enables new types of research and creates an opportunity for adding new perspectives to already established strands of research. Integrating data on people, time, and places is just one example of such an endeavour. This session invites papers that present novel research based on integrating different types of data, drawn from multiple sources, and demonstrate the potential of such integrated data for advancing scholarly knowledge on social stratification and mobility. Studies that explore the interactions between individual-level factors and geographical variables, their evolution over time, and their implications for studying social inequalities and social structures are particularly encouraged.

Stratification in Early Childhood and Achievements in the Life Course

Session Organizer(s):
Yossi SHAVIT, ys@tauex.tau.ac.il, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Session in English

The organizers of RC28’s activities in the ISA’s 2023 Congress invite submissions of research papers concerning the association between the socio-economic family characteristics of children in the early childhood, and their achievements later in the life course. Disparities in cognitive and non-cognitive development, between children belonging to different socioeconomic strata appear in early childhood. Some researchers argue that these gaps expand from early childhood to early adolescence. Others argue that affluence in adolescence can compensate for deprivilege experienced earlier in life. Scholars working on research that addresses these and similar hypotheses are encouraged to submit their abstract to the session on Stratification in Early Childhood and Achievements in the Life Course.

Schools and Inequality

Session Organizer(s):
Markus KLEIN, markus.klein@strath.ac.uk, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Katherin BARG, Katherin.Barg@glasgow.ac.uk, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Session in English

This session aims to gather contributions on the relationship between schools and inequality. Since the 1966 Coleman report, scholars have yet to agree on whether schools reproduce or exacerbate achievement gaps. While discourse in the sociology of education has been traditionally dominated by the view that schools are engines of inequality, recent empirical research challenges this critical view suggesting that schools can compensate for inequality between different social groups at least when it comes to cognitive skills. We invite contributions that analyse how schools and teachers may shape inequalities along different dimensions (e.g., cognitive skills, grades, socioemotional development, wellbeing, track decisions).

Innovation in Sociological Research of Gender and Socio-Economic Policies

Session Organizer(s):
Sawako SHIRAHASE, sshiraha@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp, University of Tokyo, Japan

Session in English

In this session, we like to call papers on the intersectional arguments about gender inequalities focusing on policy-related analyses with a sociological perspective. In the 1970s and 80s, social stratification research was criticized for the lack of gender perspective and there were active debates on this issue. It was pointed out, for instance, that the different degrees of gender gaps, such as the wage gap and the labor force participation rate of mothers with small children, are closely associated with different welfare regimes. In this session, we particularly welcome studies in which gender inequalities related to socio-economic policies are examined intersectionally with empirical analyses of various data aiming to dig more into further arguments on the relationship between the degree of gender inequality and different sets of various policies. Any proposals for cutting-edge research are welcome.

Social Stratification Research in the Aging Population

Session Organizer(s):
Sawako SHIRAHASE, sshiraha@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp, University of Tokyo, Japan

Session in English

Population aging can be found almost commonly in advanced societies, and such a demographic transformation has taken place accompanying with various aspects of social inequalities. Demographic transformation has occurred with the change in the relationship with the labor market, the income package, the family structure, family relations, health conditions, etc. Any challenging research to examine the aging process and age structure from the perspective of social stratification are welcome.

Enrollment in Higher Education in the Covid 19 Era

Session Organizer(s):
Hanna AYALON, ayalon@post.tau.ac.il, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Session in English

In addition to its well-known effects on teaching and learning in higher education, The Covid 19 Pandemic may have implications on the rate and the pattern of enrollment. According to previous research, recession expands the enrollment in higher education. Labor markets crisis may provide a motivation for enrollment in higher education to high-school graduates who had no academic ambitions beforehand. It may also motivate a work to school transition of academic and non-academic workers. Kelcher and Ritter (2021) report, however, that in the US, the Pandemic reduced rather than expanded enrollment in higher education, particularly in community colleges and among first-time students. Obviously, the pattern may be different in other countries. For a further discussion of this topic, the session invites papers that explore the link between the Covid 19 pandemic and enrollment in higher education in different higher education systems. Possible topics include changes in the enrollment in higher education; gender and ethnic inequality in enrollment; work to school transition in the pandemic era; changing popularity of fields of study; Changes in the popularity of different higher education institution types; changes in the enrollment of international students.

References

Kelchen, R., Ritter, D., & Webber, D. (2021). The lingering fiscal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Studying Educational Inequality with Big Data and Computational Methods

Session Organizer(s):
Siqi HAN, siqihan@cuhk.edu.hk, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Session in English

A growing amount of educational data are available online, and those that are not yet online can be digitalized and analyzed at an unprecedented speed. During the pandemic, a lot of teaching and learning had gone remote, which makes the types of online data and their implications for educational inequality even more relevant to the study of social stratification. This session invites research on curricula, textbooks, course-taking trajectories, and other similar types of educational big data available today. The session highlights methods such as natural language processing, network analysis, machine learning, and other computational social science methods broadly defined when analyzing these data. With a growing number of researchers around the world actively working on the related data and methodologies, this session seeks to stimulate conversations among them and shed light on the future direction of this research area.

Child Development and Educational Inequalities

Session Organizer(s):
Carlo BARONE, carlo.barone@sciencespo.fr, Sciences Po, France

Session in English

Parental social class and migration background are strong predictors of child development in pre-primary and primary education with important cumulative effects on later educational attainment and the related social inequalities. We invite submissions that : a) describe the empirical patterns of these early inequalities in language, cognitive, socio-behavioral, health and well-being outcomes, as well as their cross-national and time variations; b) explore the mechanisms driving these inequalities relating for instance to parenting and cultural resources, economic insecurity, family distress factors, or unequal access to childcare; c) assess the cumulative effects of these early inequalities on later inequalities in school achievement and educational trajectories; d) present policy impact evaluations assessing the efficacy of interventions and policies aimed at reducing these early inequalities.

Effects of Disruptive Events

Session Organizer(s):
Jennie BRAND, brand@soc.ucla.edu, UCLA, United States

Session in English

Individuals often experience disruptive events such as losing jobs, homes, or experiencing health shocks. These vents can occur alongside periods of economic recession, natural disaster, pandemic, and other large-scale macro conditions, or they may happen outside these contexts. Disruption can induce socioeconomic loss, psychological distress, and injurious health consequences, potentially inducing long-term scarring effects on wellbeing for families. Disruptive events may be particularly harmful for children because they impact access to resources, cognitive and socioemotional development, and health, in ways that shape later educational attainment and socioeconomic wellbeing. Much attention focuses on overall average effects of disruptive events. However, the consequences of such events vary, sometimes dramatically, across different groups. Some studies suggest that the same event could have profound negative consequences for some populations but less, or even no, impact among others.

Social Mobility Using Historical Data

Session Organizer(s):
Per ENGZELL, p.engzell@gmail.com, University College London, United Kingdom

Session in English

ISA RC28 has a long tradition of studying inter- and intra-generational mobility across social and historical contexts. During the past decade, a growing volume of historical data have become available to social scientists and have been used to study various topics including historical mobility. This session calls for papers that examine social mobility using historical data, including but not limited to archives, church records, censuses, and epitaphs. The utilization of these data sources will expand our knowledge of social mobility to a much longer period and will provide opportunities to test mechanisms of inequality beyond the contemporary contexts.

Regionally Different? the Relevance of Geo-Spatial Inequalities for Labour Market Outcomes

Session Organizer(s):
Judith OFFERHAUS, judith.offerhaus@gmail.com, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Germany

Session in English

Inequalities in access to and success in the labour market is a core topic of stratification research. Recently, research has started focussing on local labour markets and more fine-grained regional characteristics to shed light onto the contextual factors that shape labour market outcomes in order to better understand mobility and inequality.

Therefore, this session seeks papers with an explicit focus on geo-spatial differences on the sub-national level (e.g., availability of public transportation, prevalence of high-tech industries, job-specific competition). Papers investigating how regional inequalities differ for individuals from different social backgrounds are particularly welcome.

Income Inequality, Class and Consumption

Session Organizer(s):
Celi SCALON, celiscalon@gmail.com, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jesica PLA, jesicapla@gmail.com, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Session in English

Since the beginning of the new century, the world has experiencing rapid and deep changes in the labour market, work relations and occupational distribution. Until 2008 crisis, several countries had gone through a process of social and economic development, with an increasing in work positions as well as an improvement of living patterns for a significant proportion of the population. This process would be accompanied by an increase in the consumption possibilities for different social classes, especially with the inclusion of a proportion of underprivilege groups. Nevertheless, there is less agreement about the inequality decreasing throughout the last two decades, which can be worsen with the COVID19 pandemic.

Thus, the persistence of income inequalities, despite the increasing in education and technology, is the focus of our session proposal. For that, the session is expected to include papers examining the relationship between social class, consumption, and income distribution, in the light of different political and economic cycles in different social contexts. Based on that, our objective is to debate the processes and dynamics involved in individual and collective trajectories, by studying the mechanisms and features involved in recent changes in class distribution, lifestyle, consumption standards, adopting an analytical and critical reflection.

In this sense, comparative presentations are welcome, either diachronically, cross-national or among social groups or local communities.

We look forward to rigorous research that addresses the issues raised with "sociological imagination" and methodological accuracy. We welcome submissions that draw on both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Impact of the Covid Pandemic for Gender Inequality in Work and Family

Session Organizer(s):
Claudia BUCHMANN, buchmann.4@osu.edu, The Ohio State University, USA

Session in English

The Covid pandemic severely altered family and work arrangements in all societies and continue to have an impact. Some evidence indicates that the pandemic reversed much of the progress toward gender equality made in the past several decades. Far more women than men were forced out of the labor market, in part because they were expected to care for children and elderly during lockdowns and in part because they were employed in sectors hard hit by the pandemic. Beyond these broad trends, however, there is the need for more detailed research on how gender inequalities have been affected by the social and economic effects of by the global pandemic. This session invites research on how gender inequalities in family, workplaces, and their intersection changed in diverse contexts. Papers utilizing diverse data sources and qualitative or quantitative research methods are welcome.

Global Trends in Education and Stratification

Session Organizer(s):
Claudia BUCHMANN, buchmann.4@osu.edu, The Ohio State University, USA

Session in English

Throughout the world, educational institutions have changed drastically in recent decades on many fronts. Some noteworthy trends include expansion of enrollment at all levels, the privatization of schools and educational funding, the rise of online, remote and out-of-school learning, and changes in the value of educational credentials for social mobility. Of course, it is not yet fully understood how these trends have been impacted by the global covid pandemic. This session welcomes research on these and other global trends across any level of education, ranging from preschool through college, and their impact on stratification. Single country case studies, studies of a particular region, or comparative cross-national analyses are invited, but they should articulate how the research addresses questions regarding global educational trends and/or educational stratification.

Sibling Analysis in Educational and Social Stratification Research

Session Organizer(s):
Louis-Andre VALLET, louis-andre.vallet@cnrs.fr, French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS, France

Session in English

Sibling analysis was introduced in social stratification research during the 1970s to overcome the limitations encountered by traditional analyses of the effect of family background on educational and occupational attainment. These analyses only capture the effect of the family characteristics that are explicitly observed and included in the analytical model. They therefore provide a biased and under-estimated measure of the whole effect of the family background. However, total family impact is much larger and also includes other aspects of family socialization, parental resources, genetic inheritance, and reciprocal sibling influences. By relying on data on more than one child in a family, sibling analysis captures the total impact of the family as the resemblance between brothers and sisters, then decomposes it in observed and unobserved components. Most of the pioneering sibling analyses were based on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study and published in the US and, over years, sibling analysis has also developed in many other countries. This regular session will host two different types of papers. On the one hand, new analyses of educational and social stratification based on a sibling design in a given country or a comparative perspective, across cohorts or between countries. On the other hand and in a perspective of cumulative science, contributions that try to systematically assess what we have learned with sibling analysis in education and social stratification research and how these results compare with those derived from traditional analyses, especially with regard to temporal trends, change across cohorts, and comparison between countries.

Social Stratification and Child Development Under a Global Health Crisis

Session Organizer(s):
Jianghong LI, jianghong.li@wzb.eu, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
Markus KLEIN, markus.klein@strath.ac.kr, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Session in English

The session aims to integrate social stratification research with current theoretical models and concepts of human development and to elucidate inequality dynamics under a global crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We invite contributions that analyze children’s cognitive and learning, socio-emotional, or physiological development from the perspective of social stratification, especially those highlighting how under a crisis persistent inequality in these outcomes may be magnified through changes in parenting stress levels, child caring and home schooling, and familial resources (e.g., income and job loss and declines in parental psychological well-being). We particularly welcome studies of early childhood outcomes using innovative theoretical or methodological approaches with an interdisciplinary view (e.g., sociology, psychology, and health).

Immigration and Immigrant Integration

Session Organizer(s):
Yao LU, yl2479@columbia.edu, Columbia University, USA

Session in English

Immigration has increased worldwide over the past several decades, changing the landscape of destination societies in important and multifaceted ways. The selection of immigration is subject to country-specific policies and circumstances. The integration of immigrants is shaped by not only immigrants' own characteristics, the resources they bring with them, and the context of reception in the destinations. These are important questions for sociological inquiry. The proposed session will look into these questions from a cross-national comparative perspective.

Racial and Ethnic Inequality

Session Organizer(s):
Yao LU, yl2479@columbia.edu, Columbia University, USA

Session in English

Despite the increasing racial/ethnic diversification of many societies, inequality along racial/ethnic lines diverged across societies. Some countries have witness closing racial gap, whereas many other societies have seen persistent racial/ethnic inequality. What factors explain this divergence and what can we learn from it? The proposed session will explore trends in racial/ethnic inequality over time and across countries. It will pay particular attention to the mechanisms that reduce or reinforce racial and ethnic inequality in education, the labor market, and social domains.

What We Have Learned: RC28's New Contributions Since the 2002 World Congress

Session Organizer(s):
Hyunjoon PARK, hypark@sas.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Session in English

This session invites panelists who will share their views on new contributions that RC28 has made since the last World Congress.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_014]

Dear RC28 Members

1. The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference: University of Notre Dame, August 12-14, 2022
- The conference registration is due to July 1
2. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference (from William Carbonaro)
This is a quick reminder regarding the RC28 conference at Notre Dame this August. The deadline for registration is July 1st, for both presenters and conference attendees.

From Sebastian E. Wenz (sebastian.wenz@gesis.org), 11 June 2022:
GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2022
Date: 05-23 September 2022
Venue: GESIS Mannheim, Germany
Registration deadline: None (first come, first served).
Introduction to Computational Social Science with R or Python; Tools for Efficient Workflows, Smooth Collaboration, and Optimized Research Outputs; Automated Web Data Collection with R or Python; Big Data Management and Analytics; Network Analysis in R; Introduction to Machine Learning for Text Analysis with Python; Automated Image and Video Data Analysis with Python.
Short online pre-courses "R 101" and "Python 101" in the week before.
Course descriptions and registration at www.gesis.org/fallseminar

From Robin Samuel (robin.samuel@uni.lu), June 13, 2022
Join us as a Research Scientist in Quantitative Research Methods andData Analysis at the University of Luxembourg, Department of Social Sciences. Attractive five-year position (3 + 2 years) with many opportunities to develop your profile in research and teaching.
Deadline: June 30, 2022

Job ad and online application: http://emea3.mrted.ly/33ias

From Louis Chauvel (louis.chauvel@uni.lu), June 29, 2022
Research associate (Postdoctoral) position in Quantitative Sociology and inequality, University of Luxembourg. 2 years extensible
The postdoc researcher will develop projects in quantitative social sciences and inequality. The position requires an advanced level in statistical tools (Stata, R, etc.). He/she will be a member of the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality (IRSEI / Prof. Louis Chauvel), in close cooperation with other Luxemburgish research actors, including the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study), a world-known datacenter and hub of inequality research, comparative inequality and stratification.
http://emea3.mrted.ly/33m8i
(full consideration to applications received by 15 July 2022. The announcement will be kept online until filled.)

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_013]

Dear RC28 Members

Professor Vered Kraus (from Meir Yaish)
The RC28 community is deeply saddened by the passing of our colleague and friend Vered Kraus, Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa. She was a long term RC28 member, and co-hosted (with Yossi Shavit) the 1988 RC28 Spring meeting in Haifa. Professor Kraus made important contributions to the study of the intersectionality of gender and ethnicity, and was devoted to the cause of equality and Peace between Israeli Jews and Palestinians.

From Robin Samuel (robin.samuel@uni.lu), May 30, 2022
Two-year (extendable) postdoctoral position available in the area of digitalization, inequality, and youth research with a focus on quantitative research methods at the University of Luxembourg, Department of Social Sciences.
Deadline: none, but applications before June 30, 2022 are strongly encouraged.
Job ad: http://emea3.mrted.ly/32wpb

From Anja Leist (anja.leist@uni.lu), May 30, 2022
*Two vacancies: 1 postdoctoral researcher, 1 associate professor at the University of Luxembourg*
Postdoc (25 months, full-time): Modifiable risk factors and inequalities in cognitive ageing in the ongoing ERC project CRISP. We search for a quantitative researcher with expertise in Sociology, Biostatistics, or Public Health. Full details and and link to apply here.
Associate Professor in Health Inequalities and Social Policy (tenure) at the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality, University of Luxembourg. We search for a candidate with an international research profile in Sociology, Social Policy Analysis, and/or Public Health, teaching in French required. Full details and link to apply here.

From Birgit Becker (bi.becker@em.uni-frankfurt.de), June 8, 2022
We invite applications for a postdoc position at Goethe University Frankfurt. Also applications from candidates who are about to finish their dissertation are welcome. We seek candidates with strong quantitative skills and research interests in the sociology of education.
Full details: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/120487883/Postdoc_Goethe_Uni_Prof__Birgit_Becker.pdf
Deadline for application: 29th June 2022.

From Per Block (per.block@sociology.ox.ac.uk), June 9, 2022
Fully funded PhD position in Social Mobility / Social Networks / Labour Market Segregation at the University of Zurich
The PhD position is part of a 5-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The project is led by Per Block (currently at the University of Oxford) and focuses on understanding how individuals move between jobs and occupations over the life-course and between generations. The project uses statistical methods developed for the analysis of social networks to gain new insights into the social component of mobility. Funding is generous and includes additional child-care benefits if needed.
Details here: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/phd-candidate-social-mobility-social-networks-labour-market-segregation/6b86ba80-d4c7-4568-9ee8-44e7382787f6

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_012]

Dear RC28 Members

1. The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference: University of Notre Dame, August 12-14, 2022
2. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference (from William Carbonaro)
The Summer 2022 RC28 conference will be held August 12-14, 2022 at the University of Notre Dame with the theme "Educational Stratification and Labor Market Inequality in Comparative Perspective."
The abstract submission is closed. For the program and other information, please visit the conference website (https://sociology.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/research-committee-28-of-the-international-sociological-association/).

From Jonas Radl (effort@clio.uc3m.es), May 11, 2022
* Two Postdoctoral Researchers (1 year) in the ongoing ERC project EFFORT (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).*
The EFFORT project seeks applications from excellent candidates with a strong interest in social science. We offer up to two 1-year postdoctoral positions within the research project “Effort and Social Inequality: Advancing Measurement and Understanding Parental Origin Effects” (EFFORT). The project is headed by Jonas Radl; it is funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant no. 758600).
Full details on the advertised positions are available here.
Deadline for application is June 10, 2022.

From Patrick Präg (praeg.patrick@gmail.com), May 24, 2022

Tamara Martsenyuk and Tymofii Brik are editing a special issue of European Societies with the title "Understanding Ukrainian Society Before and After the Russian Invasion." The call for papers is rather broad (e.g. contains social mobility and stratification) and can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cg988oqps5kjd1p/cfp.pdf

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_011]

Dear RC28 Members

1. The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference: University of Notre Dame, August 12-14, 2022
Today is the last day for abstract submission: May 6, 2022
2. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Please send your proposal for a session for ISA World Congress of Sociology to the RC28 secretary (rc28.emails@gmail.com) by May 15, which will help the RC28 secretary coordinates sessions by the official deadline May 31.
3. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference (from William Carbonaro)
We look forward to hosting the summer meeting of the RC28 of the International Sociological Association at the University of Notre Dame. The conference is a forum for ongoing work in the fields of social stratification and mobility by RC28 scholars. It will take place from August 12 through 14, with multiple panel sessions and keynote presentations on the program. The conference fee will cover costs associated with hosting the conference and will include an opening reception (on the evening of August 11) and a conference dinner on August 13.
The conference theme is "Educational Stratification and Labor Market Inequality in Comparative Perspective." For this conference, we are soliciting papers that examine how educational stratification (structured inequalities in achievement and attainment) are linked to labor market inequality (inequalities in earnings, occupational status, and other outcomes). Papers that compare different nations, or case-studies of specific nations are welcome. We are particularly interested in papers that offer new perspectives on recent trends in educational expansion and differentiation, economic restructuring in labor markets, and how the two may be connected. The conference also welcomes research that falls within the traditional scope of stratification research studied by RC 28 scholars (e.g., educational inequality, research on mobility, status attainment processes, ascribed and achieved statuses, etc.).
Scholars interested in presenting at the conference are asked to submit either an extended abstract or a full length paper. Extended abstracts should be roughly 4 single-spaced pages in length (not including tables, figures, or references). Please visit our conference website (https://sociology.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/research-committee-28-of-the-international-sociological-association/) for additional information, or contact us at RC28@nd.edu with your questions.

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, 25 June – 1 July 2023
RC28 secretary will coordinate session proposals for RC28. Please send your proposal for a session for ISA World Congress of Sociology to the RC28 secretary (rc28.emails@gmail.com) by May 15, which will help the RC28 secretary coordinates sessions by the official deadline May 31.
May 10, 2022 Submission of proposals for:
- Integrative Sessions which involve at least 3 Research Committees, 3 National Associations or a combination of the two
- Author Meets Critics sessions
May 2-31, 2022 Submission of proposals for RC/WG/TG Sessions
July 1-September 30, 2022 Abstracts submission
For more details, please see ISA World Congress website
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

From Robin Samuel (robin.samuel@uni.lu), May 1, 2022

Attractive position available at the University of Luxembourg: Associate Professor or Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education and Care/Childhood Studies.
This is a great opportunity to develop and consolidate your profile in a dynamic and collaborative environment and to conduct research with impact.
The position is offered at the Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (tenure track) level. At the Associate Professor level, the position is tenured. At the Assistant Professor level, tenure may be granted after 5 years upon positive evaluation.
Deadline for applications: June 15, 2022
Job ad: http://emea3.mrted.ly/31tor

From Julia Behrman (julia.behrman@northwestern.edu), May 5, 2022

Postdoc announcement
https://utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaff/job/UT-MAIN-CAMPUS/Postdoctoral-Fellow---US-Immigrant-and-Immigration-Policies_R_00019177-1

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_010]

Dear RC28 Members

RC28 had a wonderful in-person conference at LSE, London, April 21-23. More than 360 people participated in the conference and it was the first in-person conference since the Princeton meeting in 2019. Participants enjoyed interacting with people through the sessions, coffee break, reception, and the dinner on the boat.
Huge thanks to Berkay Ozcan, Lucinda Platt, and their team to organize the conference!
1. The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference: University of Notre Dame, August 12-14, 2022
Call for abstracts closes: May 6, 2022
2. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Please send your proposal for a session for ISA World Congress of Sociology to the RC28 secretary (rc28.emails@gmail.com) by May 15, which will help the RC28 secretary coordinates sessions by the official deadline May 31.
3. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference (from William Carbonaro)
We look forward to hosting the summer meeting of the RC28 of the International Sociological Association at the University of Notre Dame. The conference is a forum for ongoing work in the fields of social stratification and mobility by RC28 scholars. It will take place from August 12 through 14, with multiple panel sessions and keynote presentations on the program. The conference fee will cover costs associated with hosting the conference and will include an opening reception (on the evening of August 11) and a conference dinner on August 13.
The conference theme is "Educational Stratification and Labor Market Inequality in Comparative Perspective." For this conference, we are soliciting papers that examine how educational stratification (structured inequalities in achievement and attainment) are linked to labor market inequality (inequalities in earnings, occupational status, and other outcomes). Papers that compare different nations, or case-studies of specific nations are welcome. We are particularly interested in papers that offer new perspectives on recent trends in educational expansion and differentiation, economic restructuring in labor markets, and how the two may be connected. The conference also welcomes research that falls within the traditional scope of stratification research studied by RC 28 scholars (e.g., educational inequality, research on mobility, status attainment processes, ascribed and achieved statuses, etc.).
Scholars interested in presenting at the conference are asked to submit either an extended abstract or a full length paper. Extended abstracts should be roughly 4 single-spaced pages in length (not including tables, figures, or references). Please visit our conference website (https://sociology.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/research-committee-28-of-the-international-sociological-association/) for additional information, or contact us at RC28@nd.edu with your questions.

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, 25 June – 1 July 2023
RC28 secretary will coordinate session proposals for RC28. Please send your proposal for a session for ISA World Congress of Sociology to the RC28 secretary (rc28.emails@gmail.com) by May 15, which will help the RC28 secretary coordinates sessions by the official deadline May 31.
May 10, 2022 Submission of proposals for:
- Integrative Sessions which involve at least 3 Research Committees, 3 National Associations or a combination of the two
- Author Meets Critics sessions
May 2-31, 2022 Submission of proposals for RC/WG/TG Sessions
July 1-September 30, 2022 Abstracts submission
For more details, please see ISA World Congress website
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

From Daniel Oesch (daniel.oesch@unil.ch), April 25, 2022

*Fully funded 3-years post-doc and 4-years PhD positions (University of Lausanne)*

The University of Lausanne, Switzerland, invites applications for two fully-funded positions in quantitative sociology: a 3-year post-doc and a 4-year PhD position. Both positions are part of a 4-year project studying occupational change across regions in Western Europe between 1980 and 2020. The post-doc and PhD candidate will be free to develop their ideas within the project, led by Daniel Oesch. We offer good wages and an inspiring work environment on a campus beautifully situated along the lake of Geneva.

From Ivana Fellini (ivana.fellini@unimib.it), April 26, 2022

The Doctoral Program in Analysis of Social and Economic Processes (ASEP) of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) is offering five fully funded PhD student positions, starting from November 1, 2022. The ASEP Doctoral Program welcomes applications from highly motivated candidates with a solid social science background and a strong interest in empirical research. The call for applications can be downloaded here (Calls for application | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (unimib.it) English version) and here (Bandi di concorso | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (unimib.it) Italian version) starting from April 21, 2022. Deadline for application 20th May 2022 at noon.

From Markus Gangl (mgangl@soz.uni-frankfurt.de), April 27, 2022

We intend to recruit 2 research fellows (postdoc or pre-doc/PhD student) into the ongoing ERC project POLAR. We seek highly motivated postdoc researchers or PhD students with excellent quantitative skills and an interest in pursuing research on the consequences of rising economic inequality in the context of the POLAR project run by Prof. Markus Gangl and his team at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
Full details on the advertised positions are available from:
https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/117899054/Gangl_GU_FB03_10_2022e.pdf
Deadline for applications is May 27, 2022. Applications from candidates who are about to finish their MA studies or their dissertation are welcome, there is a certain degree of flexibility as far as candidates' actual starting date is concerned.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_009]

Dear RC28 Members

1. The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference: University of Notre Dame, August 12-14, 2022
Call for abstracts closes: May 6, 2022
2. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Please send your proposal for a session for ISA World Congress of Sociology to the RC28 secretary (rc28.emails@gmail.com) by May 15, which will help the RC28 secretary coordinates sessions by the official deadline May 31.
3. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference (from William Carbonaro)
We look forward to hosting the summer meeting of the RC28 of the International Sociological Association at the University of Notre Dame. The conference is a forum for ongoing work in the fields of social stratification and mobility by RC28 scholars. It will take place from August 12 through 14, with multiple panel sessions and keynote presentations on the program. The conference fee will cover costs associated with hosting the conference and will include an opening reception (on the evening of August 11) and a conference dinner on August 13.
The conference theme is "Educational Stratification and Labor Market Inequality in Comparative Perspective." For this conference, we are soliciting papers that examine how educational stratification (structured inequalities in achievement and attainment) are linked to labor market inequality (inequalities in earnings, occupational status, and other outcomes). Papers that compare different nations, or case-studies of specific nations are welcome. We are particularly interested in papers that offer new perspectives on recent trends in educational expansion and differentiation, economic restructuring in labor markets, and how the two may be connected. The conference also welcomes research that falls within the traditional scope of stratification research studied by RC 28 scholars (e.g., educational inequality, research on mobility, status attainment processes, ascribed and achieved statuses, etc.).
Scholars interested in presenting at the conference are asked to submit either an extended abstract or a full length paper. Extended abstracts should be roughly 4 single-spaced pages in length (not including tables, figures, or references). Please visit our conference website (https://sociology.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/research-committee-28-of-the-international-sociological-association/) for additional information, or contact us at RC28@nd.edu with your questions.

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, 25 June – 1 July 2023
RC28 secretary will coordinate session proposals for RC28. Please send your proposal for a session for ISA World Congress of Sociology to the RC28 secretary (rc28.emails@gmail.com) by May 15, which will help the RC28 secretary coordinates sessions by the official deadline May 31.
May 10, 2022 Submission of proposals for:
- Integrative Sessions which involve at least 3 Research Committees, 3 National Associations or a combination of the two
- Author Meets Critics sessions
May 2-31, 2022 Submission of proposals for RC/WG/TG Sessions
July 1-September 30, 2022 Abstracts submission
For more details, please see ISA World Congress website
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

From Kathrin Morosow (kathrin.morosow@manchester.ac.uk) April 11, 2022
BSPS Annual Conference 2022
5-7 September 2022, University of Winchester

https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/british-society-for-population-studies/annual-conference
We welcome contributions from various disciplines and would like to invite you to submit especially to the families & households strand. This stream invites theory-driven conceptual or empirical papers that investigate the diversity of family or household compositions and outcomes. We are particularly interested in social stratification and heterogeneous effects by e.g. gender, class, income, race/ethnicity, age/cohort and region.
Submission Deadline: Sunday 24 April 2022 (11.59pm)

https://lsewebsite.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/bsps-conference-2022-online-submission-form

From Jan Skopek (SKOPEKJ@tcd.ie), April 14, 2022
*Fully funded 4-years PhD studentship (Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)*
The Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin is seeking to appoint a doctoral researcher for a period of 4 full years (48 months). The doctoral candidate will conduct an innovative PhD project that will investigate and explain socio-economic status inequalities in the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for children and young people in three different but interrelated outcomes (economic well-being, education/employment, and mental health).
Further Information www.tcd.ie/sociology/vacancies/phdposition/

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_008]

Dear RC28 Members

1. The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference: University of Notre Dame, August 12-14, 2022
2. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology: Please send your proposal for a session for ISA World Congress of Sociology to the RC28 secretary (rc28.emails@gmail.com) by May 15, which will help the RC28 secretary coordinates sessions by the official deadline May 31.
3. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference (from William Carbonaro)
We look forward to hosting the summer meeting of the RC28 of the International Sociological Association at the University of Notre Dame. The conference is a forum for ongoing work in the fields of social stratification and mobility by RC28 scholars. It will take place from August 12 through 14, with multiple panel sessions and keynote presentations on the program. The conference fee will cover costs associated with hosting the conference and will include an opening reception (on the evening of August 11) and a conference dinner on August 13.
The conference theme is "Educational Stratification and Labor Market Inequality in Comparative Perspective." For this conference, we are soliciting papers that examine how educational stratification (structured inequalities in achievement and attainment) are linked to labor market inequality (inequalities in earnings, occupational status, and other outcomes). Papers that compare different nations, or case-studies of specific nations are welcome. We are particularly interested in papers that offer new perspectives on recent trends in educational expansion and differentiation, economic restructuring in labor markets, and how the two may be connected. The conference also welcomes research that falls within the traditional scope of stratification research studied by RC 28 scholars (e.g., educational inequality, research on mobility, status attainment processes, ascribed and achieved statuses, etc.).
Scholars interested in presenting at the conference are asked to submit either an extended abstract or a full length paper. Extended abstracts should be roughly 4 single-spaced pages in length (not including tables, figures, or references). Please visit our conference website (https://sociology.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/research-committee-28-of-the-international-sociological-association/) for additional information, or contact us at RC28@nd.edu with your questions.

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, 25 June – 1 July 2023
RC28 secretary will coordinate session proposals for RC28. Please send your proposal for a session for ISA World Congress of Sociology to the RC28 secretary (rc28.emails@gmail.com) by May 15, which will help the RC28 secretary coordinates sessions by the official deadline May 31.
May 10, 2022 Submission of proposals for:
- Integrative Sessions which involve at least 3 Research Committees, 3 National Associations or a combination of the two
- Author Meets Critics sessions
May 2-31, 2022 Submission of proposals for RC/WG/TG Sessions
July 1-September 30, 2022 Abstracts submission
For more details, please see ISA World Congress website
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

From Christoph Bernhard (Bernhard.Christoph@iab.de>), March 25, 2022
The 4th Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM) of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
The conference will take place on October 6th and 7th 2022 as an online conference hosted by the DZHW. This year’s focus topic is „Empirical perspectives on students’ experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic“. Keynotes will be held by Prof. David A. Jaeger (University of St Andrews) and Prof. Núria Rodríguez-Planas (CUNY, Queens College).
We welcome contributions from various disciplines, particularly from Economics, Social Sciences, and Educational Sciences. Please submit a short outline (max. 500 words) by 20 June 2022 to HELM@dzhw.eu.
For more information, please compare the detailed call for papers here:
https://www.dzhw.eu/en/services/meldungen/detail?pm_id=1588

From Markus Klein (markus.klein@strath.ac.uk), March 25, 2022
Fully funded PhD studentship in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
This studentship, funded by the ESRC through the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS), aims to advance our understanding of socioeconomic inequalities in children’s school attendance.
The scholarship is available as a +3 (3 year PhD) or a 1+3 (Masters year and 3 year PhD) studentship depending on prior research training.
Details here: https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/family-socioeconomic-status-and-school-absenteeism/
Deadline: 14 April 2022

From Didier Ruedin (didier.ruedin@unine.ch), March 29, 2022
At the NCCR on the move, we're currently hiring 6 postdoctoral and 9 PhD researchers on various topics related to migration and mobility. Most positions are for 4 years. https://nccr-onthemove.ch/jobs/. Deadlines in April, May, June 2022.

From Sebastian E. Wenz (sebastian.wenz@gesis.org), 04 April 2022:
GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 2022
Date: 03-26 August 2022.
Venue: On-site (in Cologne) & online (wherever you are).
Registration deadline: None (first come, first served).
Courses: Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), Data Science Techniques, Factorial Survey Design, Web Surveys, Mixed-Mode Surveys, Longitudinal Social Network Data, Questionnaire Design, Survey Design, Stata/R, Sampling & Weighting, (Non-)Probability Samples, Multiple Imputation.
Course descriptions and information on scholarships & ECTS credits are available at www.gesis.org/summerschool

From Herman van de Werfhorst (H.G.vandeWerfhorst@uva.nl), April 6, 2022:

The Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam has a job opening for an Assistant Professor in Sociology who will be part of the programme group Cultural Sociology.

The call is online: Assistant Professor in Sociology (uva.nl)

The deadline for applications is 1 June 2022.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_007]

Dear RC28 Members

1. The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference: University of Notre Dame, August 12-14, 2022
2. A New Editor in Chief of Research in Social Stratification Mobility (RSSM)
3. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
4. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The Summer 2022 RC28 Conference (from William Carbonaro)
We look forward to hosting the summer meeting of the RC28 of the International Sociological Association at the University of Notre Dame. The conference is a forum for ongoing work in the fields of social stratification and mobility by RC28 scholars. It will take place from August 12 through 14, with multiple panel sessions and keynote presentations on the program. The conference fee will cover costs associated with hosting the conference and will include an opening reception (on the evening of August 11) and a conference dinner on August 13.
The conference theme is "Educational Stratification and Labor Market Inequality in Comparative Perspective." For this conference, we are soliciting papers that examine how educational stratification (structured inequalities in achievement and attainment) are linked to labor market inequality (inequalities in earnings, occupational status, and other outcomes). Papers that compare different nations, or case-studies of specific nations are welcome. We are particularly interested in papers that offer new perspectives on recent trends in educational expansion and differentiation, economic restructuring in labor markets, and how the two may be connected. The conference also welcomes research that falls within the traditional scope of stratification research studied by RC 28 scholars (e.g., educational inequality, research on mobility, status attainment processes, ascribed and achieved statuses, etc.).
Scholars interested in presenting at the conference are asked to submit either an extended abstract or a full length paper. Extended abstracts should be roughly 4 single-spaced pages in length (not including tables, figures, or references). Please visit our conference website (https://sociology.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/research-committee-28-of-the-international-sociological-association/) for additional information, or contact us at RC28@nd.edu with your questions.

New Editor in Chief of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM)
Professor Margot Jackson of Brown University (Providence RI USA) will be the new editor in chief of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, the official journal of RC28, starting in July 2022. Prof. Jackson’s research addresses the dynamics of inequality over the life cycle and across generations, and the ways in which circumstances during childhood have long-reaching effects throughout children’s schooling and into adulthood. She has been active in RC28 since her graduate student days at UCLA (PhD, 2007). The editor-in-chief selection committee appointed by the RC28/RSSM boards ranked her first in a very strong field of applicants, and the publisher accepted the committee’s recommendation. The selection committee thanks all of the RC28 members who submitted a proposal and applauds Prof. Jackson for taking on this responsibility in service to RC28.

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, 25 June – 1 July 2023
May 10, 2022 Submission of proposals for:
- Integrative Sessions which involve at least 3 Research Committees, 3 National Associations or a combination of the two
- Author Meets Critics sessions
May 2-31, 2022 Submission of proposals for RC/WG/TG Sessions
July 1-September 30, 2022 Abstracts submission
For more details, please see ISA World Congress website
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

From Dietrich Hans (Hans.Dietrich@iab.de), March 11, 2022
The call for papers on our TIY2022 Conference is online. Conference date: September 8-10, 2022, in Naples, Italy!
Please submit electronic versions of abstracts (up to 500 words) no later than April 3, 2022 to: transitioninyouth@unicampania.it
Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. The theme of the conference will be "The Opportunities and Challenges of Technological Change and Digitalization". A Keynote will be given by Prof. Steven Rivkin, University of Illinois Chicago
More information on our conference webside (https://www.economia.unicampania.it/ricerca/convegni-conferenze-workshops/2-non-categorizzato/3831-transition-in-youth-2022)

From Bastian A. Betthäuser (bastian.betthaeuser@sciencespo.fr), March 14, 2022
The Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC) and the Department of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, are inviting applications for an Associate or Full Professorship. Candidates should demonstrate experience in researching health inequality. Knowledge of French is not required. The closing date for the application is 29 April 2022.
For more information see attached job description: https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/content/sciences-po-recruiting-full-professor-sociology.html

From Klaus Pforr (klaus.pforr@gesis.org), March 16, 2022

SPSS and Stata routines to transform CSV data to SPSS and Stata system files are available for the latest EU-SILC release of September 2021.
We have updated all setups to the new release. The new release contains new cross-sectional files for the year 2000 for all countries, and new longitudinal files for Switzerland for the year 2019. There were changes in cross-sectional files for Switzerland, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Norway for the years 2011, 2017, 2018, and 2019, and in the longitudinal files for Switzerland and Norway for the years 2018 and 2019.
Please find all setups here: https://www.gesis.org/en/missy/materials/EU-SILC/setups.

From Ruud Luijkx (R.Luijkx@tilburguniversity.edu), March 23, 2022
European Values Conference 2022: A look at the past, present and futures
Novel insights from four decades of EVS data will be presented in the Atlas of European Values at an event in Brussels on Monday May 9, 2022. Subsequently, on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 May 2022, the Department of Sociology at Tilburg University organizes a scientific conference that brings together social scientists with a vast interest in explaining values differences across Europe.
For more information: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/socialsciences/organization/departments/sociology/european-values-conference

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_006]

Dear RC28 Members

1. A message to the RC28 community about Ukraine
2. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
3. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

A Message to the RC28 Community about Ukraine
Dear RC28 members
We are deeply shocked and sad about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. RC28 has always been an inclusive working committee thriving on cooperation between diverse people from different countries. We are against all forms of aggression. Our hearts are with the people in Ukraine.
Ineke Maas, Yossi Shavit, Hyunjoon Park
These are some (of many) organizations providing emergency support to Ukranian people:
Red Cross: https://www.icrc.org/en/humanitarian-crisis-ukraine
Unicef: https://www.unicef.org/ukraine/en

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, 25 June – 1 July 2023
May 10, 2022 Submission of proposals for:
- Integrative Sessions which involve at least 3 Research Committees, 3 National Associations or a combination of the two
- Author Meets Critics sessions
May 2-31, 2022 Submission of proposals for RC/WG/TG Sessions
July 1-September 30, 2022 Abstracts submission
For more details, please see ISA World Congress website
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

From Bastian A. Betthäuser (bastian.betthaeuser@sciencespo.fr), February 25, 2022

The Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC) and the Department of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, are inviting applications for an Assistant Professorship (tenure track). Candidates should demonstrate solid experience in qualitative research methodology with a substantive focus on social inequality. Knowledge of French is not required. The closing date for the application is 20 March 2022.
For more information see attached job description: https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/content/assistant-professor-en-sociologie-job-offer.html

From Kosyakova Yuliya (Yuliya.Kosyakova@iab.de), March 3, 2022
The department “Migration, Integration and International Labour Market Research” at Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is looking for 2 full-time research associates to engage in research and scholarly publications in the field of international migration and the labour market integration of migrants with a special focus on the immigration of skilled workers. Additional information on the project, position, and application process can be found here: (1) https://inomics.com/job/research-associate-department-migration-integration-and-international-labour-market-research-0 and (2) https://inomics.com/job/research-associate-department-migration-integration-and-international-labour-market-research-1.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_005]

Dear RC28 Members

1. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
2. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
3. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, 25 June – 1 July 2023
May 10, 2022 Submission of proposals for:
- Integrative Sessions which involve at least 3 Research Committees, 3 National Associations or a combination of the two
- Author Meets Critics sessions
May 2-31, 2022 Submission of proposals for RC/WG/TG Sessions
July 1-September 30, 2022 Abstracts submission
For more details, please see ISA World Congress website
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
Nomination due to March 1, 2022
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 Martin Kreidl (kreidlm@fss.muni.cz), February 22, 2022

We are recruiting for a four-year fully funded position for a PhD student in sociology/population studies at Masaryk university starting in early 2023 or as negotiated. Research focus should be on the use of the GGP data in population studies broadly construed.
The announcement is here https://ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/phd-researcherstudent-position-at-masaryk-university.

From Jason M Fletcher (jason.fletcher@wisc.edu), February 22, 2022
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is recruiting for a faculty member focusing on Social Genomics as part of a cluster initiative.
Apply by March 22 for full consideration
https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/512503/assistant-associate-or-full-professor-of-sociology-cluster-hire

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_004]

Dear RC28 Members

1. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
2. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
Nomination due to March 1, 2022
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 Susanne Strauss (susanne.strauss@uni-konstanz.de), February 04, 2022
The Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz includes researchers from political science, sociology, economics, linguistics, psychology, law and education studies. The Cluster invites applications for External Senior Fellowships for a duration of 2 to 6 months each during the academic year 2022/23, deadline for applications is 01 March 2022, 00:00 CET. The Cluster further offers Doctoral Positions to highly motivated graduate students with an outstanding Master’s degree or equivalent, obtained in a field which is relevant to the Cluster’s research agenda (deadline 15 April 2022).
For both calls please see: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/about-us/jobs-and-grants/

From Markus Klein (markus.klein@strath.ac.uk), February 09, 2022
Two-year postdoc position with Markus Klein and Edward Sosu (School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Scotland) in Nuffield Foundation project on the consequences of school absenteeism for education and labour market outcomes:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CMY498/research-associate-nuffield-428394

From Anna Baranowska-Rataj (Anna.Baranowska-Rataj@umu.se), February 10, 2022
The Department of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden is looking for a new postdoctoral researcher. Application deadline is March 10, 2022.

From Kosyakova Yuliya (Yuliya.Kosyakova@iab.de), February 11, 2022
We are delighted to invite you to the new “IAB Special Lecture Series”aimed to feature outstanding international researchers of the Social Sciences. Our first guest, Prof. Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago), will present his research on „How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income” via Zoom on Thursday, February 17, 2022, 1-2.30 pm. To attend, please register using the link: https://www.xing-events.com/Special-Lecture-Series-2022.html. Here you may also find further information about the upcoming talks by Prof. Claudia Buchmann (Ohio State University), Prof. Matthew Desmond (Princeton University) and Prof. Andrea Weber (Central European University).

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_003]

Dear RC28 Members

1. Call for Editor-in-Chief, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM)
2. RC28 Travel Award to attend the LSE meeting, April 2022
3. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
4. Announcements
Please note that each announcement should be within 100 words (not counting URL). Also it has to follow the specific format as you can see below.

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)

RC28 Travel Award to Attend the LSE Meeting, April 2022
Application due to February 7, 2022
The RC28 Travel Awards Fund assists students and members in special needs by subsidizing their travel to RC28 conferences, in order to present their work.
The travel awards are also given in recognition of good scholarship in the field of stratification.
The applicant’s paper must be accepted by the conference organizers. Awards will not exceed 1200 US Dollars, and are given only once in a four-year period to the same person.
Please send your application by the deadline- 7 February 2022 to the conference organisers (RC28CONF@lse.ac.uk) and the Secretary/Treasurer of the RC28 (hypark@sas.upenn.edu ), and include

(a) the paper to be presented,

(b) an itemized budget,

The recipients will be informed of the awards on the 15th February 2022 by the conference organizers, and the names of the recipients of the Travel Awards will be announced at the conference dinner.

The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
Nomination due to March 1, 2022
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 Yi-Lin Chiang (y.chiang@nccu.edu.tw), January 25, 2022

The Department of Sociology at National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan) is seeking candidates for a tenure-track faculty position. The position is open at all ranks (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor). The appointment begins on August 1, 2022. The main tasks of a full-time faculty member include research and teaching. The deadline is Feb 14, 2022.

Please refer to https://sociology.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=4010&id=12021 for details.

From Sebastian E. Wenz (sebastian.wenz@gesis.org), January 28, 2022
Places available at the Virtual GESIS Spring Seminar 2022 on Simulation Techniques
There are still places available on two of the three courses of this year’s Virtual GESIS Spring Seminar: “Policy Modelling” (14-18 March) and “Using Simulation Studies to Evaluate Statistical Methods” (21-25 March). While there is no registration deadline, places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. All courses are held in English and online via Zoom.
For registration, detailed course descriptions, and complete syllabi, please visit www.gesis.org/springseminar

From Sigal Alon (salon1@tauex.tau.ac.il ), February 4, 2022
The Future of Work in the COVID-19 Era (FOW COVID) project at Tel-Aviv University is looking for a full-time postdoctoral scholar to engage in research and scholarly publications on the topic. Residence in Israel is not required.
Additional information on the project, position, and application process can be found here: https://www.sigalalon.sites.tau.ac.il/future-of-work-covid

From Philipp M. Lersch (p.m.lersch@hu-berlin.de), February 3, 2022
Researchers in Germany and abroad are invited to submit proposals for the next round of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). For those not yet familiar with SOEP-IS, this unique innovation sample offers great potential as a source of household micro-data, particularly for researchers seeking information that is not available in SOEP-Core—for example, specific information on households or on people’s opinions. For more details see below or our website.

Because the SOEP-IS field period now takes place in the spring of each year, as in the SOEP Core, the timelines for applications have changed somewhat.
Deadlines for the 2023 survey:
Brief description of project by May 31, 2022
If invited, complete proposal by June 30, 2022

Please visit our website at https://www.diw.de/soep-is for all details. Your contact for any questions: David Richter (drichter@diw.de)

From Asaf Levanon (alevanon@univ.haifa.ac.il), February 3, 2023
The Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Poverty and Social Exclusion (CPSE) at the University of Haifa is looking to hire a postdoctoral fellow.

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_002]

Dear RC28 Members

1. Call for Editor-in-Chief, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM)
2. RC28 Travel Award to attend the LSE meeting, April 2022.
3. The RC28 Significant Scholarship Award
4. Free access to a new publication
5. 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

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)

RC28 Travel Award to Attend the LSE Meeting, April 2022
The RC28 Travel Awards Fund assists students and members in special needs by subsidizing their travel to RC28 conferences, in order to present their work.
The travel awards are also given in recognition of good scholarship in the field of stratification.
The applicant’s paper must be accepted by the conference organizers. Awards will not exceed 1200 US Dollars, and are given only once in a four-year period to the same person.
Please send your application by the deadline- 7 February 2022 to the conference organisers (RC28CONF@lse.ac.uk) and the Secretary/Treasurer of the RC28 (hypark@sas.upenn.edu ), and include

(a) the paper to be presented,

(b) an itemized budget,

The recipients will be informed of the awards on the 15th February 2022 by the conference organizers, and the names of the recipients of the Travel Awards will be announced at the conference dinner.

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 Heike Trappe (heike.trappe@uni-rostock.de), January 14, 2022
Professorship in Sociological Theory in Rostock

From Patrick Präg (praeg.patrick@gmail.com), January 14, 2022
CREST/ENSAE Paris is recruiting a tenure track assistant professor, deadline March 31, details: https://crest.science/job-market/

From Vikki Boliver (vikki.boliver@durham.ac.uk), January 14, 2022
Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology (Higher Education and Social Inequality) (SOCI22-4) (ID: 21001692)
Department of Sociology, Durham University
Grade 7/8/9: - £34,304 - £50,296 (Grade 7/8) £53,348 - £60,022 (Grade 9) per annum; Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time; Closing Date: 24-Feb-2022, 11:59:00 PM

From Nazareno Panichella (nazareno.panichella@unimi.it), January 18, 2022
The call is for the ECSR – Spring school on “Geography, Mobility and Social Stratification”, which will be held in Turin (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy) on March 21-25, 2022. The School is promoted by the European Consortium of Sociological Research (ECSR), Collegio Carlo Alberto and by the Universities of Milan and Turin in the frame of the NASP, Network for the Advancement in Social and Political Studies.
Applications have to be sent by email (mito.school@unimi.it) by February the 16th 2022

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer

[RC28 message 2022_001]

Dear RC28 Members

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)

(a) the paper to be presented,

(b) an itemized budget,

The recipients will be informed of the awards on the 15th February 2022 by the conference organizers, and the names of the recipients of the Travel Awards will be announced at the conference dinner.

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 Sigal Alon (salon1@tauex.tau.ac.il ), January 4, 2022
The Future of Work in the COVID-19 Era (FOW COVID) project at Tel-Aviv University is looking for a full-time postdoctoral scholar to engage in research and scholarly publications on the topic.
Additional information on the project, position and application process can be found here:
https://www.sigalalon.sites.tau.ac.il/future-of-work-covid

Hyunjoon Park
RC28 Secretary/Treasurer