News from the Academy

In February 2023, the Academy of Sociology established the new working group ‘Methodology of the Social Sciences’. The working group focuses on fundamental methodological issues concerning social science theory construction and empirical research. The working group aims at facilitating research publications and position papers, including contributions on how to integrate topics in the methodology of the social sciences in teaching programs in analytical-empirical sociology. To that end, over a period of two to three years, several workshops will be held.

The first workshop on theory construction and testing theories is scheduled for September 6 and 7, 2023 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The working group has been initiated by Gunnar Otte, Natascha Nisic, Nico Sonntag, Hartmut Esser, and Werner Raub. Colleagues who would like to join the working group or to receive updates on workshops and other activities, including Calls for Papers, should send an email to as-methodologie@uni-mainz.de.

For the third time, the Academy for Sociology is awarding its biennial prize for the best dissertation in the field of analytical-empirical sociology. The award comes with 1,500€ prize money.

Eligible to apply are researchers whose doctoral thesis (German or English) was successfully de-fended between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022.

Dissertation advisers of outstanding analytical-empirical candidates are invited to encourage their doctoral candidates for submission.

AS membership is not required for application.

Submissions should be made to dissertationspreis@akademie-soziologie.de by March 31, 2023.

For detailed submission information click here.

We are pleased to draw your attention to the Call for Papers of our 4^th AS Conference. The conference will take place from August 28th to 30th in Bern/Switzerland. Its topic is "Knowledge Societies". In addition to relevant submissions on the main topic, we also very welcome talks on other topics of analytical-empirical research (open sessions). The conference language is English.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 15, 2023. Please submit your extended abstract (2-3 pages) via "conftool" at the conference website.

Early career researchers who do not have a travel budget from their home organization can apply for travel grants. Registration and information on participation fees and accommodation will follow soon. Check out our conference website https://www.as23.unibe.ch/ for any details.

We look forward to your submission and hope to see you in Bern in August 2023!

As in former years, we subsidize workshops or small conferences organized by Academy members, providing up to EUR 2500 per event. Proposals that correspond to the goals of the Academy are given priority: e.g. the promotion of good scientific practice, replication and reproduction, open science, interdisciplinarity, equality, internationality and the promotion of young researchers in analytical-empirical research. Non-members are also welcome in the organization team of the conference or workshop.

Since July 2022 we are accepting suggestions for workshops on an ongoing basis. The Board of Directors will review your proposal and inform you of the decision in a timely manner. You can find the call for applications here.

Academy of Sociology Dissertation Award 2021 goes to Dr. Katrin Paula (TU München)

The Academy of Sociology is proud to highlight an outstanding dissertation submitted in 2019/2020 which contributes to the discipline in terms of originality of research, stringent argumentation, transparency of results, and the scientific and societal (if applicable) impact. The award comes with 1,500€ prize money.

This year, Dr. Katrin Paula (TU München) is the winner of our 2021 dissertation prize. Her dissertation is about ‘Micro-Dynamics of Mobilization: Evidence from the German Democratic Republic’. She wrote her dissertation at the Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim. She is now a Professor of Global Security & Technology at TU München.

The committee received 15 excellent dissertation theses from 11 universities. The committee run by Professor Sonja Drobnič (Bremen), Professor ...

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For the second time, the Academy for Sociology is awarding its biennial prize for the best dissertation in the field of empirical analytical sociology. The award comes with 1,500€ prize money.

Eligible to apply are researchers whose doctoral thesis (German or English) was successfully de-fended between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020.

Dissertation advisers of outstanding empirical analytical candidates are invited to encourage their doctoral candidates for submission.

AS membership is not required for application.

Submissions should be made to dissertationspreis@akademie-soziologie.de by April 15, 2021.

For detailed submission information click here.

As in 2019 and 2020, also in 2021 we subsidize workshops or small conferences organized by Academy members, providing up to EUR 2000 per event. Proposals that correspond to the goals of the Academy are given priority: e.g. the promotion of good scientific practice, replication and reproduction, open science, interdisciplinarity, equality, internationality and the promotion of young researchers in analytical-empirical research. All Academy members are eligible to apply, regardless of their academic status. Non- members are also welcome in the organization team of the conference or workshop.

Deadline for proposals is December 20, 2021.

For the 2021 call click here.

This document provides a checklist for quantitative social science articles. A good article will achieve most of the items in this checklist. Go through all items and check whether your article fulfills them. Be aware that not all items may apply to your article. A second purpose is to standardize the reporting in social science articles. Studies showed that many published articles in the Social Sciences do not fulfill even minimal reporting standards. With this document we intend to contribute towards such minimal reporting standards.
This document is a Academy of Sociology resource paper  - compiled by Josef Brüderl (LMU München), Christoph Bühler (University of Hannover) and Henriette Engelhardt-Wölfler (University of Bamberg).

Download paper here (external website osf.io)