Call for Submissions
About the Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium
The Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium brings together Sociologists working outside of academia to connect and share their work with all those who are interested. This symposium is reserved for submissions directly related to practicing sociology outside of academic settings. This year’s focus expands on ASA’s theme: Intersectional Solidarities: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy.
The day-long symposium includes a variety of presentation formats, including:
- Interactive workshops: 45-minute immersive workshops for upskilling practitioners.
- Panel presentation: 20-minute case study conducted in practice settings discussing key issues, methodologies, and the results obtained from the work. We strongly encourage these presentations to align with the conference’s overarching theme.
- Lightning presentations: 10-minute presentations on innovative practices that highlight how sociological principles can be effectively applied in diverse practice settings.
These formats are designed to promote discussion of our work as it happens within the context of corporate, governmental, or nonprofit environments.
For those interested in presenting more traditional papers or reports of research, we encourage you to submit your papers to the Applied Social Research regular sessions, the Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology, and/or topic-specific sessions.
Topics
Symposium submissions may address a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Advice and examples of how you have responded to opportunities and challenges (e.g. methodological, substantive, communicative, expectation setting, working with teams, satisfying stakeholders, etc.) in your work setting.
- The use of theory and sociological methods in the workplace, work/life balance, decision-making, and company culture.
- Case study or evaluation of a specific application or implementation of sociological science in a practice setting.
- Sociological tools or skills used in everyday sociological work.
- Training workshops that emphasize research methods, analysis techniques, communicating findings, and other “how to” topics.
- Be creative—we’re open to your ideas!
Preparing Your Submission
You will need the following information to load into the online Submission Portal:
- Title
- Names, affiliations, and contact information for organizer(s) and presenters. All presenters must be confirmed before submission.
- Description (200-300 words to be included in symposium description)
Submitting Your Proposal
All submissions must be made via the ASA online submission portal. The portal will guide you through the steps required to submit your proposal. You will have one hour to complete your submission. The system will log you out after one hour of inactivity.
- Go to the online portal. Log in using your ASA username and password.
- Under the Submitter Menu, select Submit or Edit a Proposal.
- Select Submit to the Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium
- Choose your submission category.
- Follow the steps as outlined in the online portal.
Confirmation of Submission
Each electronic proposal submission will receive an email confirmation from [email protected]. Please save the confirmation email for future reference. If you do not immediately receive your confirmation email, please check your junk or spam folder. Contact [email protected] if you do not receive an email confirmation of your submission within 12 hours.
Acceptance Notification
You can expect to receive an acceptance or decline email for each proposal you submitted in April.
Questions?
Contact Research, Professional Development, and Academic Affairs at [email protected].
