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2020

The Coronavirus Slayer! How Kerala’s Rock Star Health Minister Helped Save it from Covid-19 KK Shailaja has been hailed as the reason a state of 35 million people has only lost four to the virus. Here’s how the former teacher did it. How are mothers and fathers balancing work and family under lockdown? In this report,  new data collected and examined since the end of April to investigate how this crisis has affected mothers and fathers in two-parent opposite-gender families.   UK Women Bear emotional Brunt of Covid-19 Turmoil – poll Results show women disproportionately affected by employment and risk concerns amid pandemic. Who Cares? Now, All of Us Must This labor force comprises over 90% women, and is disproportionately made up of women of color and immigrants. economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter Taxing inequality and fiscal sociology - Vol 21, No 2 | March 2020 ASA Newsletter – Spring 2020 Economic Sociology & Social Studies of Finance in Times of Pandemic Julia Lynch Dispatches From the SASE Community on Living with the Pandemic Cogito 10 – Dossier on Gender Equality This issue of Cogito addresses areas such as the negative consequences of some purportedly egalitarian and scientific policies, the geopolitics of gender, the impact of climate change on women’s lives, the paradoxical aspects of marital relations, and factors of persistence in educational and professional inequalities. Santos Ruesga Dispatches From the SASE Community on Living with the Pandemic Amitai Etzioni The Nazi's did not stop me, I survived three years of fighting during the 1948 war. I'd be damned if I let a virus stop me." from Amatai Etzioni, the founder of SASE. Covid-19 is officially feminine, say French language guardians "The use of the feminine for Covid-19 would be preferable," the Academie Francaise said in a directive published on its website under the category "faulty use". Women in Science are Battling both Covid-19 and the Patriarchy Women are advising policymakers, designing clinical trials, coordinating field studies and leading data collection and analysis, but you would never know it from the media coverage of the pandemic. Mothering in a Pandemic As small (and large) businesses line up for relief, Congress should take notice of the parents, mostly mothers, who are doing some of society’s most important work by taking responsibility for children.  Women Academics Seem to Be Submitting Fewer Papers During Coronavirus Six weeks into widespread self quarantine, editors of academic journals have started noticing a trend... Covid-19 Has Shown The Economy Isn’t Working. But For Women, It Never Has Why is it that there are more women in the low frontline jobs such as social care asks Marion Sharples, a researcher from the Women's Budget Group. And why has it taken a pandemic to open the world's eyes to the value of care work? Nancy DiTomaso Dispatches From the SASE Community on Living with the Pandemic David Marsden Dispatches From the SASE Community on Living with the Pandemic French-Language MOOC on Work-Life Reconciliation over the Life Course Return of the 1950s housewife? How to stop coronavirus lockdown reinforcing sexist gender roles [The Conversation] From sociologist, Arlie Hochschild’s seminal work looking at heterosexual couples in the 1970’s and 1980’s until today.  Not much has changed in the male/female divide. Double Lives by Helen McCarthy – a history of working mothers [The Guardian] Books of the Day. The Covid-19 Crisis is Exacerbating Gender Inequalities—but who cares? [Social Europe] While more men are dying of the virus, women are nevertheless among the most affected if we consider the broad socio-economic impacts of the pandemic writes Marja Bijl. Unions’ Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis in Europe [Social Europe] SASE WAG Committee Member and Network Organizer Chiara Benassi on how unions in Europe are responding to the pandemic. The Spanish union CCOO has set up a free phone hotline and email for workers-especially from non-unionized companies - to report if safety protocols are not being followed. She also discusses how the crisis has turned upside-down common conceptions about who are key workers. Briefing: Covid-19 – Gender and other Equality Issues [WBG] Key points from a UK policy briefing. Gender and Data Resources Related to COVID-19 [data2x] A terrific list of very recent articles (More than 120!) on gender and gender data as they relate to COVID19 No Room of One’s Own [Inside Higher Ed] Academic mothers are losing out in the form of decreased research productivity. India’s coronavirus lockdown will hit women and migrant workers hardest [The Conversation] Author’s 3 main concerns related to the lockdown and its possible impact on women in India. How Millions of Women Became the Most Essential Workers in America [NYTimes] Jobs held by women have been designated as essential according to a New York Times analysis of census data crossed with the federal government’s essential worker guidelines. Christine Musselin Dispatches From the SASE Community on Living with the Pandemic Gary Herrigel Dispatches From the SASE Community on Living with the Pandemic Invited Authors to SASE 2020 Check out the latest books by this year's Featured Speakers! Grad students from UvA chime in Grad students from UvA chime in on the pandemic.

2019

GOOD NEWS! Tax Deduction for SASE members located in the United Kingdom. SuAVE: SASE Connected We are proud to present our new membership database – connect with SASE members like never before. Interview with Ching Kwan Lee Winner of the first annual Alice Amsden prize in economic sociology, for her book 'The Specter of Global China'. SASE Souvenirs: Photos from the 2019 anniversary meeting Image: SASE Founder - Amitai Etzioni Patrick Le Galès elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea Congratulations are in order for former SASE President Patrick Le Galès, who has been elected 'Member of the Academia Europaea', within the Social Sciences Section. 2019 Zelizer Award for Best Book in Economic Sociology ‘Starving the Beast’ by Monica Prasad Great News! SER Impact Factor New Impact Factor for SER! Hats off to Gregory Jackson and the SER editorial team! SASE New York – 2019 Socio-Economic Review – Best Paper Prize The committee is delighted to announce the winning paper for the 11th annual prize for the best submitted article published in the previous year: Jacob Apkarian’s "Opposition to Shareholder Value: Bond Rating Agencies and Conflicting Logics in Corporate Finance" SASE New York – 2019 EHESS/Fondation France-Japon – Best Paper Award We are pleased to announce the 2019 winner of the EHESS/Fondation France-Japon Best Paper Award SASE New York – Alice Amsden Book Award Winner The winner of the inaugural Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics is... SASE’s First 30 Years: 3 Past Presidents Chime In Amitai Etzioni (SASE Founder/President 1988-1990), Nancy DiTomaso (SASE President 1994-1995), and Colin Crouch (SASE President 2003-2004) SER Best Paper Prize The SER Best Paper Prize goes to Jacob Apkarian for “Opposition to Shareholder Value: Bond Rating Agencies and Conflicting Logics in Corporate Finance,” Socioeconomic Review 16(1):85–112. Sébastien Lechevalier, Program Director for SASE/Kyoto, on the Emperor’s Retirement Bilan de l’ère Heisei : « La vision d’un Japon sur le déclin est trop simple » 2019 SASE Elections Results We are delighted to announce the results of the SASE elections for President and Executive Council. Brexit…or not? Interviews with Jonathan Zeitlin Jonathan Zeitlin, former SASE president, has changed his mind. Why? Read the three (3) interviews. At Issue in New York City: Gentrification We read this hard-hitting article in the ASA Footnotes (Jan-Mar 2019 issue) and wanted to share it with you - New York City Gentrification, Policing, and Real Estate Developers by Thomas Volscho, College of Staten Island. RESEARCH AND POLITICS – Special Issue on “The Political Consequences of Technological Changes” The journal Research and Politics published a special issue "Political Consequences of Technological Change", co-edited by Bruno Palier (LIEPP et CEE) and Thomas Kurer (Harvard University).

2018

In Memoriam of James G. March Longtime SASE member, Erhard Friedberg, has graciously allowed us to reprint this text. Network I Organizer Lara Monticelli Garners Marie-Curie Fellowship! Warm congratulations to Lara Monticelli for being awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship!