2020
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
Horizon 2020 Science with and for Society Calls
Click through to find the presentations of SwafS 2020 calls
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.
2020
On the Bookshelf
To get a sense of what is on SASE members’ minds, the newsletter editors asked some of the voracious readers that make up our association to recommend a few books they are reading
Recent PhDs in Socio-Economics: New Research Paths
Emerging scholars are vitally important members of the SASE community, building on existing theories and identifying the subjects that will shape the field in years to come. We asked some recent graduates to share summaries of their dissertation work with SASE readers.
Let’s Not Cede Patriotism
SASE Founder Amitai Etzioni addresses the question of how to advance civic nationalism
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
The SASE Newsletter has collected testimonies from successful applicants to thehe Marie Skłodowska-Curie program, asking their advice on the experience of applying to and earning a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship in social sciences.
Q&A with Andrea Garnero – OECD Report on Labor Market Regulation
Dr. Andrea Garnero, one of the leading researchers behind the new OECD report “Negotiating Our Way Up: Collective Bargaining in a Changing World of Work" talks to SASE.
Socio-Economics in a Changing World: Interview with Mariana Heredia
Professor Heredia talks to SASE to reflect on how Argentina has developed a distinctive approach to socio-economics
Socio-Economics in a Changing World
Socio-economics is not a traditional field but rather a shared orientation: a concern for questions about the social roots and ramifications of the economy, a tendency to look for answers by transcending methodological and disciplinary boundaries, and a tradition of connecting ideas from different fields and geographic locations to generate new insights. This orientation is […]
SASE News
SASE is pleased to announce that its new by-laws were ratified on 30 September 2019. A special election was held for the position of President-Elect
Report from the 4th SASE Ibero-American Socio-Economics Meeting
Read our report from the 4th SASE Ibero-American Socio-Economics Meeting
Interview with SASE President Nitsan Chorev
An interview with SASE 2019-2020 president Nitsan Chorev, a scholar whose research focuses predominantly on global political economy, development, and transnational sociology.
Meet the Editors
The SASE Newsletter is created by a dynamic group of graduate students and early career scholars, guided by SASE's Jeanne Lazarus and the SASE staff.