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COVID-19 Resources for Sociologists
Every day we face new challenges related to COVID-19. ASA wants to help sociologists navigate those challenges. We are offering several resources to help sociologists in their work during this period.
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The 2020 ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco Is Cancelled
Please join us for an alternative virtual engagement event.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Teaching Sociology
Teaching Sociology invites manuscripts for a special issue on "Teaching Sexualities."
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Promoting Transgender Justice through Sociology
Recently, the United States has witnessed incredible progress toward equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, as well as the inevitable backlash following such a challenge to the status quo.
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Welcome to the ASA Annual Meeting from President Michèle Lamont
C’est avec grand plaisir que je vous acceuille dans mon bout de pays, “La Belle Province.” That we meet in Montréal to debate “Culture, Inequality, and Social Inclusion across the Globe” is particularly fitting as these very topics have been at the center of the construction of the Canadian community since 1608, in the context of multiple ethno-national and colonial conflicts. Today, many perceive Canadian society as exemplary when it comes to collective wellbeing, immigration policy, and multiculturalism.
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ASA Harassment Working Group Formed
Harassment—sexual, racial, and other forms—has been a pervasive issue in higher education and we often hear of such misconduct at professional meetings, including ASA’s Annual Meeting.
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Class Advantage, Commitment Penalty: The Gendered Effect of Social Class Signals in an Elite Labor Market
Although higher-class men receive a corresponding overall boost in evaluations, higher-class women do not, because they face a competing, negative stereotype that portrays them as less committed to full-time, intensive careers.
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For Mexican migrants skills learned in the United States create new opportunities for business formation and economic mobility
While numerous studies have documented a high rate of business formation among return migrants relative to non-migrants, most scholars treat migration as a source of financial capital to invest in businesses upon return home, rather than a pathway to skill learning and transfer.
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