Call for Papers
Special Issue of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Organizational Stratification: Processes, Mechanisms and Institutional Contexts
Guest Editors:
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, tomaskovic-devey@soc.umass.edu
Dustin Avent-Holt, Georgia Regents University, daventho@gru.edu
The field is experiencing remarkable growth in explicitly organizational explanations and investigations of inequality outcomes and processes. RSSM has a long history of publishing high quality macro and micro level studies of stratification and inequality. Increasingly research situates stratification and inequality processes in the meso-level context of organizations. Empirical work has begun to flourish with the recent availability of high quality organizational data on employment relations across several countries. And in this context processes and mechanisms argued to generate and shape inequality, such as social closure, exploitation, status expectations, organizational habitus, and social networks, are increasingly being theorized and empirically examined within organizational contexts bounded by institutional environments.
In this special issue, we hope to advance our understanding of organizations as the settings in which micro-level processes and macro-level constraints combine to shape inequality outcomes. We are particularly interested in papers exploring processes and patterns of inequality using organizational data or observations analyzed in explicitly organizational terms, but we also welcome papers that explore the processes through which cognitive and interactional processes and/or institutional contexts give life to inequality within organizations. All methodologies are welcome, including historical accounts, ethnographies, comparative organizational case studies, experiments, statistical modeling of within and between organizational inequality distributions, and network studies within or between organizations.
We envision holding a specialized conference in early June of 2015 in conjunction with the development of papers for the special issue. To be eligible for the developmental conference, please submit a draft paper or an extended abstract directly to the editors describing theoretical framing, data, and preliminary findings by March 1, 2015. Selected papers will be notified by March 15th with a conference invitation and should be ready for peer review by the conference.
The deadline for special issue submission is July 15, 2015. Papers not presented at the developmental conference are eligible for submission and will receive full consideration and peer review. Papers should be submitted through the RSSM portal. To be considered for the special issue you must select SI-ORGSTRAT in the first menu option on type of submission when submitting your paper.