The Department of Sociology at the Universidad del Rosario invites applications for two (2) Principal Professor positions in Sociology (in Spanish):
 http://www.urosario.edu.co/Periodico-Nova-Et-Vetera/Actualidad-Rosarista/Convocatoria-Cargo-de-Profesor-Principal-para-el/#ECHTab1
Over the last 20 years our sociology program has made relevant contributions to the social sciences in Colombia and Latin America. The sociology program is part of the School of Human Sciences. This school promotes and practices interdisciplinarity with emphasis on research. The Universidad del Rosario is one of the main universities in Colombia, evidenced by the high qualification of its professors, their membership to important academic networks, the high quality publications and the outstanding performance of its students and Alumni. The university offers a competitive salary at international level. Bogota has a wide offer of services of education, health, housing, culture, and tourism. Application documents will be received until March 31th 2017. In the enclosed call is the information of the two profiles. We will be glad of answering any inquiry regarding this call.

 
Thanks and regards,

Jairo Baquero-Melo, Dr Phil
Head of the Sociology Department
School of Human Sciences
Universidad del Rosario

Email: jairo.baquero@urosario.edu.co
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Queremos comunicar que tenemos abierto un concurso docente para dos (2) plazas de Profesor Principal para el Programa de Sociología de la Universidad del Rosario (agradecemos la circulación entre posibles interesados(as)):
http://www.urosario.edu.co/Periodico-Nova-Et-Vetera/Actualidad-Rosarista/Convocatoria-Cargo-de-Profesor-Principal-para-el/#ECHTab1
Nuestro programa cumplió 20 años en 2016 y hace parte de la Escuela de Ciencias Humanas. Esta Escuela promueve y practica la interdisciplinariedad y el énfasis en la investigación. La Universidad del Rosario es una de las principales universidades de Colombia, lo que se evidencia en el alto nivel de formación de sus docentes, su pertenencia a importantes redes académicas internacionales y nacionales, las publicaciones de alta calidad de sus docentes, y el desempeño sobresaliente de sus egresados. La universidad ofrece un salario competitivo a nivel internacional y Bogotá tiene una oferta amplia de servicios de educación, salud, vivienda, cultura y turismo. Se recibirán documentos hasta el 31 de Marzo de 2017. En la convocatoria está la información de los dos perfiles y del proceso y estaremos dispuestos a resolver cualquier pregunta de los(as) interesados(as).

Gracias y saludos,


Jairo Baquero-Melo, Dr Phil
Director, Programa de Sociología
Escuela de Ciencias Humanas
Universidad del Rosario 
Email:  jairo.baquero@urosario.edu.co

​SEIU 32BJ is pleased to announce the New Organizer Training Program!  

The New Organizer Training Program is an opportunity for aspiring organizers to learn and practice the skills the need to organize for change.  This program is for individuals who are ready and interested in an organizing career path.  Please see the following link for additional information and to apply: http://www.seiu32bj.org/the-2017-32bj-seiu-new-organizer-training-program/
The 32BJ New Organizer Training Program formerly known as the Summer Brigade program offers a unique opportunity for aspiring organizers to learn the basics of workers organizing and about how the labor movement works. The program offers hands-on organizing experience through campaign field work, moving workers to take action, winning change as well as combined regular labor history and skill building workshops.

Participants in the program will build skills in: conversations with low-wage workers at home and in the workplace about the power of a union; identifying workplace leaders; mapping a workplace; mobilizing workers to take action; supporting and planning protests, demonstrations, and actions. The new organizer training program will put your skills into action in our following locations: New York, New Jersey, Boston, Florida, Philadelphia and the Washington DC area. Strengthen and develop your skills for campaigns of all kinds!
 
Successful participants may be invited to our job-track Organizing Fellowship program upon completion of this program.

Call for Papers
 
Contesting Markets: How Organizations and  
Social Movements Shape the Political Economy
 
Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review
 
Guest Editors:
Neil Fligstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Doug McAdam (Stanford University)
 
Timeline:
Submission deadline: September 1, 2017
Publication of the special issue in the Socio-Economic Review: 2019
 
 
Background
For the past 20 years, scholars of social movements and those who study corporations have been in dialogue. We have witnessed a vibrant exchange about how social movements challenge firms to change their strategies, create the conditions to support new industries, and explain the emergence of new markets as reflecting social movement like processes. For example, social movements have successfully altered the tactics of firms in the apparel and forest product industries (Bartley, 2003) and in biotechnology (Weber, Rao, and Thomas, 2009; for a review see King and Pearce, 2010). They have led to the legitimation of new industries like hospice care (Livne, 2014) and the market for insurance viaticals (Quinn, 2008). Scholars interested in the process of market emergence and change have viewed market formation processes as akin to social movements as they require the creation of new products, new firms, new identities, and political solutions to market contentiousness (Haveman, Rao, and Thomas, 2007; Lounsbury, Ventrusca, and Hirsch, 2003). Fligstein and McAdam (2012) have proposed a more general theory of social spaces that explain why these different kinds of links exist between social movements and market fields.
 
But so far, little work has explored the links between these more meso-level processes and more macro-level political economy approaches, especially the study of comparative capitalisms (see Deeg and Jackson 2007). The purpose of the Special Issue is to bring these literatures into a greater two-way dialogue.  The literature on politics, social movements, and markets focuses on selecting cases where the scholars know something has changed. By doing so, these studies fail to locate the particular movement organization in a larger context of competing social movement organizations and larger political structures. Meanwhile, comparative capitalisms scholarship has strengths in understanding macro-level institutional variety, the resulting national models of production, and how existing political and economic institutions face challenges by preserving and extending the power of incumbent actors, albeit often accompanied by incremental change. Yet this literature often misses the dynamics around new emerging actors, the creation of new markets and the role that social movement politics play in shaping capitalism, both nationally and internationally.
 
What we are hoping to encourage with the special issue is something akin to the comparative literature within social movement studies.  Among the most important works in this tradition would be Kriesi et al. (1995) on the variable strength and impact of the “new social movements” across five Western European countries and Brockett (2005) and Almeida (2015) on the way established actors and institutions mediated the trajectory of grass roots movements in Central America.  In these works, movements are not simply acting, but acted upon.  Our goal is to conceptualize of emergent firms and movement actors within the context of established political economies and institutions.  We ask not only if and how they impact this institutional environment, but also how established political actors and firms and institutions constrain or facilitate emergent mobilization by firms and movement actors.
 
 
Key Themes
The call is open to all topics that fit the general scope of the Special Issue, but we wish to illustrate potential themes as follows:
 
·     Why do social movement organizations in competition with stable political and market fields either succeed or fail in their contest with other actors like firms, political parties, and government Bailey, 2015; Jung, 2015?
·     Why does one of a set of competing social movement organizations impact politics and how does the resistance from firms and states affect which of these organizations is successful and which is not?
·     How do social movements shape new markets and affect old ones, like the markets for social media and the production of alternative energy sources?
·     How do existing political arrangements, social movements, and firms affect such issues as climate change and environmental regulation?
·     How do new actors mobilize support for new markets or transforming existing markets in different countries and what impact does this have on different national models of production?
·     How do changing information technologies in new or destabilized markets impact contentious politics and institutional change in different types of capitalism?
·     When do transnational processes of social movement change get going and what explains the unevenness of their effects in different countries and regions?
·     How are new forms of private regulation and governance related to social movements and firms, on one hand, and existing state policies, on the other?
 
 
Submissions
Papers will be reviewed following the journal’s normal double-blinded review process and criteria.  The maximum length of articles including references, notes and abstract is 10,000 words. Articles must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words. The main document has to be anonymous and should contain title, abstract, and strictly avoid self-references. Submissions should be directed through the on-line submission system:  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ser 
 
For further guidelines on submissions and the editorial statement of the Socio-Economic Review, please visit our website at:  http://ser.oxfordjournals.org  
 
For further information for this Special Issue, please contact one of the Guest Editors:  Neil Fligstein (fligst@berkeley.edu) and Doug McAdam (mcadam@stanford.edu), particularly if you have concerns about whether or not your paper fits the Special Issue.
 
 
References
Almeida, Paul. 2015. “Democratization and the Revitalization of Popular Movements in Central America.” Pp. 166-185 in B. Klandermans and C. van Stralen, eds., Social Movements in Times of Democratic Transition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
 
Bailey, David. 2015. “Resistance is Futile? The Impact of Disruptive Protest in the Silver Age of Permanent Austerity.” Socio-Economic Review 13 (1): 5-32.
 
Bartley, Tim. 2003. “Certifying Forests and Factories: States, Social Movements, and the Rise of Private Regulation in the Apparel and Forest Products Fields.” Politics & Society 31(3):433‐464.
 
Brockett, Charles. 2005. Political Movements and Violence in Central America. Cambridge University Press. New York.
 
Deeg, Richard and Gregory Jackson. 2007. Towards A More Dynamic Theory of Capitalist Variety. Socio-Economic Review, 5(1), 149-180.
 
Fligstein, Neil and Doug McAdam. 2012. A Theory of Fields. New York: Oxford University Press.
 
Haveman, Heather, Hayagreeva Rao, and Srikant Parachuri. 2007. “The Winds of Change: The Progressive Movement and the Bureaucratization of Thrifts.”  American Sociological Review.72(1):117-142
 
Jung, Jiwook. 2015. “A Struggle on Two Fronts: Labour Resistance to Changing Layoff Policies at Large U.S. Companies.” Socio-Economic Review doi: 10.1093/ser/mwv015.
 
King, Brayden and Nicholas Pearce. 2010. The Contentiousness of Markets: Politics, Social Movements, and Institutional Change in Markets. Annual Review of Sociology. 36: 249-67.
 
Kriesi, Hanspeter, Ruud Koopmans, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Marco G. Guigni. 1995. New Social Movements in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press.
 
Livne, Roi. 2014. "Economies of Dying: The Moralization of Economic Scarcity in U.S. Hospice Care." American Sociological Review 79(5): 888-911.
 
Lounsbury, Michael, Marc Ventrusca, and Paul Hirsch. 2003. “Social Movements, Field Frames and Industry Emergence: a cultural-political perspective on U.S. Recycling. Socio-Economic Review 1(1: 71-104.
 
Quinn, Sarah. 2008. “The Transformation of Morals in Markets: Death, Benefits, and the Exchange of Life Insurance Policies.” American Journal of Sociology 114(3): 738–80.
 
Weber, Klaus, Hayagreeva Rao, and L.G. Thomas. 2009. “From Streets To Suites: How the Anti-Biotech Movement Affected German Pharmaceutical Firms”. American Sociological Review 73 (1): 106-127.