The Society for the Advancement
of Socio-Economics
Socio-Economic Review (SER)
In memory of Amitai Etzioni
SASE Bordeaux 2026
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), founded by Amitai Etzioni in 1989, is an international, interdisciplinary organization with members across 50 countries.
Our events, research, and publications predominantly integrate historical, philosophical, psychological, ethical, and political perspectives to understand how social and economic forces shape societies and institutions.
2026 SASE Bordeaux Conference
Join us for the SASE 2026 Annual Conference from July 1-3 in Bordeaux, France. This premier event will feature cutting-edge research and thought leadership from across the globe, focusing on the intersection of socio-economics, policy, and institutional change. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in engaging panels, dynamic workshops, and valuable networking events. Set against the backdrop of Bordeaux, renowned for its wine, history, and academic excellence, SASE 2026 promises a stimulating environment for knowledge exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration.
VI RISE-SASE 2025
The VI RISE-SASE 2025 Conference will take place from November 20–22 at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil. This regional event will bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners to examine the intersections of digitalization, environmental challenges, and social inequalities in Latin America. Through dynamic sessions and discussions, VI RISE-SASE 2025 will foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative approaches to sustainable and inclusive development in the region.
SASE Upcoming Deadlines
16 December 2025: Submission deadline
Submissions are now open! See conference submission guidelines for more details.
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20 March 2026: Early bird registration deadline
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30 April 2026: Final registration deadline
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22-24 June 2026: SASE Virtual conference
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30 June 2026: Early Career Workshop
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1-3 July 2026: SASE Conference
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Socio-Economic Review (SER)
The Socio-Economic Review (SER) is the official journal of SASE. The SER is a leading journal in socio-economics. The journal focuses on the intersection of economics and sociology, publishing articles that examine how social and political institutions shape economic behavior and outcomes.
SER promotes interdisciplinary research and features scholarly work on topics like inequality, markets, and governance.
SER also has a podcast (SER on TAP) that discusses socio-economic issues explored in the journal. The editorial team also regularly organizes online conversations with SER authors (SER Cafés).
SASE Awards
The SASE Awards celebrate outstanding contributions to socio-economic research. Each year, scholars are honored for their innovative work, which pushes the boundaries of socio-economic thought and practice.
Awarded for the best paper published in the Socio-Economic Review in the calendar year.
2. Alice Amsden Best Book Award
Given to the best scholarly book in socio-economics each year.
3. David Marsden Best Paper Prize
Recognizes the best paper presented in the SASE conference on labor markets, education, and human resources.
4. Sabina Avdagic Early Career Scholar Prize
The award recognizes outstanding work by an early-career researcher in the field of comparative political economy, reflecting Dr. Avdagic’s deep commitment to supporting and mentoring early-career scholars.
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Become a Member
SASE membership confers all of the advantages of access to a vibrant, diverse intellectual community. In addition to participating in an active network of scholars exploring issues in socio-economics from a variety of different angles, you will receive a subscription to our flagship journal, the Socio-Economic Review. Membership is required to attend our Annual Meeting. All fees are in US dollars.
SASE Networks
Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations
Network A is devoted to the examination of alternative, participatory, and/or solidaristic forms of economic enterprise and entrepreneurship, community organizations, third-sector organizations, or political organizations. By alternative, participatory, and/or solidaristic, we mean to encourage the analysis of how communities, enterprises, and societies can be organized around: (1) principles of democratic governance; (2) processes that build social solidarity and cooperation; and/or (3) substantive values and purposes that go beyond calculative self-interest and instrumental relations.
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development
This network considers how, at a time of a polycrisis, domestic, transnational, and international institutions and markets influence the contours of developmental opportunities in the global economy and beyond.
Network C: Gender, Work and Family
This network focuses on exploring the current state, and the changes in institutions concerned with gender and family roles and workplace organization.
Network D: Professions and Expertise
Through the Professions and expertise network we seek to develop critical analysis of the dynamics of professions and expertise.
Network E: Comparative Capitalisms
The aim of this network is to advance research on changing labor markets, industrial relations, and systems of social protection within the study of contemporary capitalisms.
Network F: KITE: Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship
This network focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship as well as its underlying technologies and knowledge sources. On these topics, we particularly welcome, but do not require, an institutional perspective.
Network G: Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources
The network welcomes contributions on the general issues of labor market segmentation, unemployment, and the link between training, skills and jobs.
Network H: Markets, Firms and Institutions
This network focuses on the interrelationships between markets, firms, and institutions.
Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism
The broad aim of this research network is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of alternatives to capitalism.
Network J: Digital Economy
Digital technologies are contributing to radical, growing and unpredictable transformations of economic life, raising a broad range of new issues for scholars of the economy. This research network is dedicated to the study of these issues.
Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
This network focuses on making work better through actor experimentation with institutions to regulate work.
Network L: Regulation and Governance
This network promotes the interdisciplinary study of regulation and governance at national and global levels.
Network M: Spanish Language
A lively Spanish-speaking section that was established in 2011.
Network N: Finance and Society
The goal of this network is to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue on the study of finance and include perspectives from social sciences outside of economics.
Network O: Global Value Chains
This network aims to bring together social scientists interested in analyzing the causes and consequences of this offshoring-outsourcing phenomenon.
Network P: Accounting, Economics, and Law
This network focuses on the intersection of accounting, economics and law. Institutional design, rules and social norms are critical to the working of organizations in economy and society.
Network Q: Asian Capitalisms
The basic idea of this first area network within SASE is to make Asia a central field of investigation for theories of institutional change and diversity of capitalism.
Network R: Islamic Moral Economy and Finance
This network aims at bringing scholars and practitioners together to consider and discuss the role of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance in achieving its stated ideals by highlighting the tension areas as well as the dynamism observed in the practice of Islamic finance.
Network S: Environment and Climate Change
This Network aspires to advance a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical dialogue on the interactions between the economy, society, and the environment.
Network T: Health
This network focuses on the social scientific study of health and medicines, broadly defined. It explores four key areas: the embeddedness of health and medicines within broader economic, political, and social structures and systems; health equality and equity, including access to medicines; organizing and the organization of health; and innovation in and pricing and valuation of health and medicines.
Network U: Postcolonialism and Legacies of Empire
This network is devoted to engaging the connections between imperialism, colonialism, racism, slavery, and capitalist expansion and global socio-economic development.
Network V: Geoeconomics
This network explores the intersection between geopolitics, international political economy, and national capitalist systems in an era of ongoing global transformation.