Dear SSS Members, 2025 is upon us! Happy New Year! The new membership year began on January 1st, 2025. As such, it is now time for you to make sure your membership is up to date for the 2025 membership cycle. SSS membership is crucial to the running of the society. The benefits of active … Read more
Dear SSS community: I am delighted with the response to this year’s Southern Sociological Society meeting theme, The Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology. Program Chair Lisa Walker and her amazing program committee have been hard at work organizing what I think is going to be an exciting program. In particular, I … Read more
Dear SSS members, I am so excited to update you on our planning for the 2025 meeting. In response to the Call for Papers built around President Dawn Robinson’s theme “Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology,” we received hundreds of submissions for research papers, posters, thematic sessions, panels, workshops, and much more. … Read more
SSS 2025: Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology Charlotte, NC April 9-12, 2025 The deadline for submissions to SSS 2025 is tonight, Nov. 13th at 11:59 p.m. EST! Use the buttons below to access the submission portal and the full call for papers. We look forward to your submissions and seeing you … Read more
Good day SSSers.I would like for you to consider the ways you can make your work, your programs, and your organizations visible at SSS 2025. There are a variety of ways, and, indeed, we are always open to new ideas for working with members, their publishers, and a myriad of organizations. First, though, I would … Read more
SSSers, As the deadline for submitting abstracts and panels for our annual meeting in Charlotte, NC, approaches, we are excited by the response to President Dawn Robinson’s theme of “Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology”! We recognize that organizing sessions and clarifying presentations involves time, imagination, and energy; therefore we are extending the … Read more
Excitement for SSS 2025 is building with diverse and unifying themes across the total of 30 Sessions Seeking Papers (SSPs)! Guidelines for submitting to the SSPs vary. Please visit https://www.southernsociologicalsociety.org/sessions-seeking-papers/ for details. To submit your individual submissions or full sessions, please click here. We look forward to receiving abstracts of your papers on a variety of important topics! Sessions … Read more
Submit your Session Seeking Papers (SSP) by Sunday, Oct. 27th, to be included in our final weekly digest next Tuesday. To submit a Session Seeking Papers, use this form. We currently have 27 SSPs across a variety of exciting themes! Their due dates for abstract submission vary. Please visit our website for the full list of SSPs for … Read more
The submission deadline for SSS 2025 is approaching and we hope you are busy preparing to send us your work. As always, we welcome your submissions in whatever format suits your contributions – as oral presentations, as roundtable discussions, or in poster format. We invite papers that are consistent with this year’s theme: Sociology of the … Read more
With less than 5 weeks until the submission deadline for the SSS 2025 meeting in Charlotte, NC, now is the time to consider organizing a session(s) around various themes, including but not limited to the conference theme (Future of Sociology and the Sociology of the Future), that represent the richness of sociology. For the full … Read more