- Professional Development Opportunities
- ASA on the Issues: Seeking Support for Agencies Engaged in Sociological Work
- Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
- A Resource You Can Use: Teaching Students about Structural Barriers to Education
Professional Development Opportunities
Webinars for All ASA Members
| May 25 | The Intersectional Future of Qualitative Data Analysis |
| June 14 | Challenges and Opportunities: Teaching Sociology in the Age of A.I. (details to come) |
Welcome Session for New and Returning ASA Members
| April 26 | ASA New Member Welcome Session |
Proseminars for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty
| April 20 | People Analytics: Leveraging Your Research Skills |
| May 18 | Teaching with and Publishing in TRAILS |
| June 15 | Designing an Inclusive Syllabus |
Events for Department Affiliates
| June 8 | Marketing the Sociology Major to Incoming Freshmen Webinar (Contact [email protected] on how to register.) |
| August 17 | Department Leaders Preconference |
ASA on the Issues: Seeking Support for Agencies Engaged in Sociological Work
ASA takes public positions on issues related to policy for which there is consensus in the sociological literature or related to matters concerning the well-being of the discipline and profession. It is appropriations season on the Hill, and we have recently signed letters encouraging robust support for a variety of agencies supporting sociological work such as the Office of Justice Programs, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the National Center for Health Statistics. You can read about all our advocacy efforts here.
Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
Each month, several authors of articles published in ASA journals record podcasts in which they provide, through an interview format, an overview of their research. We invite you to listen to the latest podcasts and read the corresponding articles linked below.
- City & Community (March 2023): “Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional”: “Colorblind” Cops and the Enactment of Spatial Racism in Routine Policing by Nikki Jones, Kenly Brown, Eduardo Bautista Duran, Kaily Heitz, Jasmine Kelekay, Gil Rothschild Elyassi, and Geoffrey Raymond; listen to the podcast.
- Contexts (February 2023): From Matamoros to Reynosa: Migrant Camps on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Bertha Alicia Bermudez Tapia; listen to the podcast.
- Journal of Health and Social Behavior (March 2023): Health, Suicidal Thoughts, and the Life Course: How Worsening Health Emerges as a Determinant of Suicide Ideation in Early Adulthood by Carlyn Graham and Andrew Fenelon; listen to the podcast.
- Social Psychology Quarterly (March 2023): Keeping Apart on the Playground: Construction of Informal Segregation on Public Playgrounds in Multiethnic Neighborhoods by Paula Paajanen, Tuija Seppälä, Clifford Stevenson, Reetta Riikonen, and Eerika Finell; listen to the podcast.
- Society and Mental Health (March 2023): Parent and/or Grandparent Attendance at Residential School and Dimensions of Cultural Identity and Engagement: Associations with Mental Health and Substance Use among First Nations Adults Living off Reserve by Tara Hahmann, Amanda Perri, Huda Masoud, and Amy Bombay; listen to the podcast.
- Sociological Theory (March 2023): The Problem of Infinite Regress: A Stopping Rules Approach by Ajay Verghese; listen to the podcast.
- Socius (January 2023): The Impact of the Pandemic on Poor Urban Neighborhoods: A Participatory Action Research Study of a “Favela” in Rio de Janeiro by Anjuli Fahlberg, Cristiane Martins, Mirian De Andrade, Sophia Costa, and Jacob Portela; listen to the podcast.
Visit podcasts for additional episodes.
A Resource You Can Use: Teaching Students about Structural Barriers to Education
Teaching Sociology and TRAILS have collaborated on a project pairing a book review of Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream with a classroom activity on stratification and student debt.
