The Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA), founded in 1919, is the oldest interdisciplinary social-science association in the United States. By way of studying the present and the past, and through pondering possible futures, the social sciences together have a vital mission: promoting knowledge and understanding amid the complexities and transient aspects of today’s world. Propelling that mission, the SSSA brings together professional scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates from across the country and the world in the spirit of intellectual growth, collaboration, and collegiality. It features affiliate associations in Economics, History, International Studies, Political Science, Social Work, Sociology, and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as participants from Anthropology and Psychology. Each year more than 1,000 social scientists gather at our annual meetings to avail themselves of a bevy of formats, including panels, roundtables, workshops, and poster opportunities, for presenting research and discussing various aspects of academia. The SSSA also boasts the Social Science Quarterly, a highly regarded and well-ranked interdisciplinary journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. We invite you to join our association, share your work with a welcoming and collaborative community of scholars and students at our annual meetings, and help us celebrate the social sciences!
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Shared by our Political Science affiliate, who remind us that it's OK to poke some good-natured fun at ourselves.No doubt there are those who will not understand this is satire 😜😂
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It's the centennial of our association's journal, Social Science Quarterly! We're celebrating 100 years of cutting edge, robust scholarship in the social sciences, and we're looking forward to continuing the celebration at our Annual Meeting in San Diego, 31 Oct - 2 Nov!
Many thanks go to our current editors, Keith Gaddie and Kirby Goidel, as well as to publishers, Wiley-Blackwell, for all they do.
SSSA Members and friends, you may be interested in the following event which was shared with us:
The Fifth Annual Berkeley Formal Demography Workshop - Special Emphasis Topic: Migration, to be held Monday-Friday, June 3-7, 2019 at the University of California campus. Join us for an educational program designed to train the next generation of population researchers in the methods in formal demography. This week-long program, with funding by NICHD R25HD083136 at Berkeley consists of three days of hands-on training followed by two days of research presentations by invited faculty. The workshop is targeted to advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors and other early career researchers. We are particularly interested in supporting underrepresented minorities. Those studying aspects of migration, health disparities, economics, sociology and/or public health will particularly benefit, but those with other interests should also apply. Financial Support: Trainees’ expenses for materials, lodging and meals will be covered. Need-based support for travel is available. We regret that we cannot cover travel from outside the United States. DEADLINE: March 1, 2019. Application materials and more information about the program and formal demography can be found on the Workshop website: www.populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-center/programs/formal-demography. For more information, contact Dr. Leora Lawton, Executive Director, Berkeley Population Center, at Popcenter@demog.berkeley.edu, or 510-643-1270.
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The Fifth Annual Workshop on Formal Demography will take place on June 3-7, 2019, here at the UC Berkeley Campus. Funded by NICHD R25HD083136 and co-sponsored by the Center on the E...On behalf of the SSSA, we wish you the continued blessings of the Holiday Season, and warm wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year!
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Several new job opportunities are now posted to our website. Check it out for details! https://sssaonline.org/membership/job-opportunities/Several new job opportunities are now posted to our website. Check it out for details! sssaonline.org/membership/job-opportunities/
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If you have not yet completed the Membership Survey sent to you following the #SSSA2018 Annual Meeting, we encourage you to do so. We want to hear your views!
Today is Election Day in the US. If you have research on the campaign or today's vote in progress, or a blog article you want to share with our membership, contact us so that we can post it here!
A student from @SweetBriaredu recently attended our #SSSA2018 Annual Meeting in Florida and wrote a blog article on her research and presentation experience. We highlight her work in a new news piece. sssaonline.org/news/sweet-briar-college-sociology-student-blogs-on-research-sssa-annual-meeting/
Sweet Briar College Sociology Student Blogs on Research, SSSA Annual Meeting - SSSA
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Sweet Briar College sociology student Courtney Nelson recently attended our 2018 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. She presented results from research she conducted in a summer program ...