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The official Bluesky account for the Mid-South Sociological Association, Inc.

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Join members of the Sociological Spectrum editorial board for our 2025 MSSA Summer Professional Development Webinar – Publishing in Sociological Spectrum.

Register here:
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July 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Call for papers for MSSA annual conference.
April 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Save the Date, MSSA 51st Annual Conference, October 15-18, 2025, North Augusta South Carolina Conference Theme: Disasters: Understanding the Textures of Loss, Love, and Recovery Amidst Forced Social Change Theme Description: Globally, in a world of interlocking networks, the likelihood that most residents will experience a major disaster in their lifetimes is increasing significantly. Whether caused by natural, technological, synergistic, social, cyber, or new means, disasters are becoming more complex, frequent, stronger, longerlasting, and more devastating in their impacts. As each disaster receives only limited national attention, the extended, slow recovery process forces change and transition at all levels of society, reshaping the pathways forward. Disasters force endings and offer new beginnings. Their destruction spotlights human losses, community ties, deep social change, power dynamics, gender inequalities, wealth and poverty disparities, as well as themes of security, insecurity, and civil rights across varied geographies and cyberspaces. For this conference, we encourage you to submit papers around the theme of disaster with a focus on the humanistic impacts, to understand the texture of loss, the emergence of care and love amidst such devastation, and the process of recovery in a myriad of social and cultural contexts. We are also interested in ways disaster concepts and theorization can apply to new social contexts, expanding our understanding of the theories and
February 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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As part of our 50th annual conference we will be hosting a Theory Mini Conference.

Paper Submission Deadline: September 2

Register before September 12 for early bird rates.

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August 27, 2024 at 6:41 PM