Author: Sahan S. Karatasli
Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations
Please join our exciting new section, the Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations section, to help support sessions addressing Indigenous issues in the 2021 ASA Annual Meeting. The Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and …
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Tenured/Tenure-Track Position in Climate Change (Notre Dame)
The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs invites applications for a tenured/tenure-track position in climate change, environment and peace studies, based at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (https://kroc.nd.edu/). …
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Introducing the ASA-CHS Teaching Initiative
Damon Mayrl, Colby College Robert Braun, University of California, Berkeley As graduate students, comparative-historical sociologists are trained in how to conceive, design, and carry out historical research in a wide …
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Populism and Religion: Comparative Historical Approaches (ASA2020)
How do populists utilize religion as an identity marker and mobilization tool? And how do religious leaders and communities deploy populism? This session, which took place on 10 August 2020 …
Read MoreSECTION JOB OPPORTUNITY: SECTION WEB-PAGE
We are looking for a member to join our web editorial team for at least two years. The web-editor will be part of an existing team that updates the dynamic …
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Trajectories (Spring/Summer 2020)
You can access the latest issue of our newsletter Trajectories here.
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Recent Articles by Our Members
Here are some recent publications from members of our section: Burchardt, Marian, and Ann Swidler. “Transplanting Institutional Innovation: Comparing the Success of NGOs and Missionary Protestantism in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Theory …
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Pandemic’s Lesson: Global Capitalism is Uneven and Dangerously Particularistic
Şahan Savaş Karataşlı There is probably no better example of why “it is much easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” than governments’ responses …
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Rational Choice Sociology: Essays on Theory, Collective Action and Social Order
Michael Hechter. Rational Choice Sociology: Essays on Theory, Collective Action, and Social Order. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019. Whereas rational choice theory has enjoyed considerable success in economics and political science, …
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