Postdoctoral positions opening The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/coe/index-en.html The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality (CSSI) invites applications from excellent scholars for postdoctoral positions. The number of the positions will be one to three depending on our budget for the next fiscal year. The center pursues development of new theories and methodologies on social stratification and inequality with emphasis on studies of rational choice theory, minorities (including gender stratification and inequality), East Asia, and fairness. Faculty members of the center are sociologists, social psychologists, cultural anthropologists, a religious anthropologist, a historian, and an economist, and they study social stratification and inequality from various viewpoints. Applicants should hold doctoral degrees or show academic performance equivalent to holders of doctoral degrees. They should have a good command of English. Postdoctoral fellows of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science are not eligible for this application. The successful candidates will be expected to work under the supervision of the faculty members of the center for a one-year period from April 1st, 2007. (The date is negotiable.) The salary of a successful candidate will be 270,000 – 350,000 yen per month depending on his/her academic career. Travel and housing allowances will be paid to those who are eligible for them. Grants for excellent research projects proposed by the successful candidates will be provided. The center also academically and financially supports their presentations at international conferences. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a list of their presentations and publications, a research plan at the CSSI (less than 1,500 words), each copy of three major publications at most, and a letter of reference to: Dr. Yoshimichi Sato, Director Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University 27-1, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576 JAPAN Phone: +81-22-795-6036 Fax: +81-22-795-5972 The deadline for completed applications is January 31, 2007. All inquiries concerning the application should be addressed to Yoshimichi Sato at ysato@sal.tohoku.ac.jp. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christof Wolf Sprecher der Sektion Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie Tel. 0621 1246-153, -197