General Information

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Session Title

Session Information

A New 'European Identity'? Anchoring European Unification in Citizens' Attitudes, Session A

A New 'European Identity'? Anchoring European Unification in Citizens' Attitudes, Session B

A New 'European Identity'? Anchoring European Unification in Citizens' Attitudes, Session C

A Unified Model of Sustainable Development in Sociology, Ecology and Economy

Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity: Changing Frontiers of Daily Routines, Session A

Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity: Changing Frontiers of Daily Routines, Session B

Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity: Changing Frontiers of Daily Routines, Session C

Alienation, Globalisation and the Cyberspace
(RC 36: Alienation Theory and Research)

Alternative Views on Global Democratization, Session A
(RC 10: Participation, Organizational
Democracy and Self-Management
)

Alternative Views on Global Democratization, Session B
(RC 10: Participation, Organizational
Democracy and Self-Management
)

American Hegemony, Globalization and the Third World

Anti-Semitism: Unfinished Issues

Armed Conflict and Violence in South Asia and Southeast Asia, Session A

Armed Conflict and Violence in South Asia and Southeast Asia, Session B

Art and Social Structure: The Challenges of Globalization, Session A

Art and Social Structure: The Challenges of Globalization, Session B

Art and Social Structure: The Challenges of Globalization, Session C

Art and Social Structure: The Challenges of Globalization, Session D

At the Frontiers of Transdisciplinarity: Into the Transsociological, Session A

At the Frontiers of Transdisciplinarity: Into the Transsociological, Session B

Balancing Public and Private Roles in Care for the Elderly, Session A: Developed Countries

Balancing Public and Private Roles in Care for the Elderly, Session B: Developing Countries

Beyond Atlanticism: Social Science and the Challenge of Global Experiences (Semi-Plenary Session)

Beyond Sociology, Session A

Beyond Sociology, Session B

Borderless Law: New Forms of Ordering Global Society, Session A (Special session)

Borderless Law: New Forms of Ordering Global Society, Session B

The Boundaries of Local, National and Global Mobilization: Different Logics, Identities and Emotions, Session A
(RC 48: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change)

'If you wish to present a paper in the session "The Boundaries of Local, National and Global Mobilization: Different Logics, Identities and Emotions", send an abstract of no more than one page to Helena Flam: flam@sozio.uni-leipzig.de

The Boundaries of Local, National and Global Mobilization: Different Logics, Identities and Emotions, Session B
(RC 48: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change)

'If you wish to present a paper in the session "The Boundaries of Local, National and Global Mobilization: Different Logics, Identities and Emotions", send an abstract of no more than one page to Helena Flam: flam@sozio.uni-leipzig.de

Challenges of Demographic Changes

Challenging Values and Identities: Youth in the Post-Communist Countries
(RC 34: Sociology of Youth)
Session A: Youth in Post-Communist CEE and the Balkans

Challenging Values and Identities: Youth in the Post-Communist Countries
(RC 34: Sociology of Youth)
Session B: Youth in Post-Soviet States

Changing Gender Relations and the 'New Economy', Session A: Gender and Transforming Occupations

Changing Gender Relations and the 'New Economy', Session B: Balancing Employment and Domestic Life

Changing Paradigms in the Sociology of Sport
(RC 27: Sociology of Sport)

Chinese Culture and Sport
(RC 27: Sociology of Sport)

Civil Society: Past and Present, Session A

Civil Society: Past and Present, Session B

Classics in Symbolic Interaction, Session A

Classics in Symbolic Interaction, Session B

Cohabitation

Collective Memory and Commemoration, Session A

Collective Memory and Commemoration, Session B

Collective Memory and Commemoration, Session C

Collective Memory and Cultural Politics, Session A

'If you wish to present a paper in the session "Collective Memory and Cultural Politics", send an abstract of no more than one page to Victor Roudometof: roudomet@ucy.ac.cy

Collective Memory and Cultural Politics, Session B

'If you wish to present a paper in the session "Collective Memory and Cultural Politics", send an abstract of no more than one page to Victor Roudometof: roudomet@ucy.ac.cy

Common Values and Global Culture in East Asian Societies

Community Development Strategies

Comparative Modernization Studies in the Globalized World, Session A

Comparative Modernization Studies in the Globalized World, Session B

Comparative Modernization Studies in the Globalized World, Session C

Consumer Behavior in the Contemporary World Order, Session A

Consumer Behavior in the Contemporary World Order, Session B

Consumer Behavior in the Contemporary World Order, Session C:1

Consumer Behavior in the Contemporary World Order, Session C:2

Contemporary Adulthood: Theorizing an Uncontested Category

Contemporary Applied Sociology: Body and Communication, Session A

Contemporary Applied Sociology: Body and Communication, Session B

Contemporary Childhoods, Session A

'If you wish to present a paper in the session "Contemporary Childhoods", send an abstract of no more than one page to Robert van Krieken: robertvk@usyd.edu.au

Contemporary Childhoods, Session B

'If you wish to present a paper in the session "Contemporary Childhoods", send an abstract of no more than one page to Robert van Krieken: robertvk@usyd.edu.au

Crossing Frontiers in Higher Education, Session A

Crossing Frontiers in Higher Education, Session B

Demographic Aspects of Family Change, Session A

Demographic Aspects of Family Change, Session B

Disentangling Health Disparities, Session A: International Perspectives

Disentangling Health Disparities, Session B: United States Perspectives

Disentangling Health Disparities, Session C: Frontiers of Sociology

Economic and Social Development

Economic Sociology, Session A: Constructing Markets

Economic Sociology, Session B: Uncertainty Trust and Institutions

Economic Sociology, Session C: Social Constructions, Performativity and Knowledge of the Economy

Economic Sociology, Session D: Knowledge and Creative Industries

Economy and Social Theory, Session A

Economy and Social Theory, Session B

Embodying Sociology, Session A: Performance, Identity and Conflict

Embodying Sociology, Session B: Gender, Transgression and Representation

Embodying Sociology, Session C: Researching the Body

Embodying Sociology, Session D: Living in / as a Body

Embodying Sociology, Session E: Theorizing the Elusive Body

Emerging African Cities: Urbanisation, Governance and Development

Empire in Context, Session A: Theorizing the Empire

Empire in Context, Session B: Historical-Comparisons on Governance and Imperialism

English and Cultures: What's in a Global Language?

Environment and Society
(RC 24: Environment and Society)
See the three sessions:
Environmental Attitudes and Activism
Environmental Discourse
Environmental Problems: Causes and Consequences

Environmental Attitudes and Activism
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Environmental Discourse
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Environmental Problems: Causes and Consequences
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Erwin K. Scheuch: In Memoriam (Special session)

Ethnic Minorities and the Criminal Justice System

Ethnic Segregation - Causes and Consequences

The Ethnographic Imperative in French Sociology from Durkheim to Bourdieu

European Values East and West: Search for Unity without Unification, Session A

European Values East and West: Search for Unity without Unification, Session B

Evolutionary Sociology

The Failure of Romani Studies (Sociological and Other Work on the Roma/Gypsies) to Impact on the Social Sciences

Family and Health and Social Care in the Modern Society

Family and Marriage: The Value, the Role and the Meanings in Changing Society, Session A

Family and Marriage: The Value, the Role and the Meanings in Changing Society, Session B

Family and Marriage: The Value, the Role and the Meanings in Changing Society, Session C

From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations, Amitati Etzioni Meets His Critics (Special session)

The Future of Sociology and the Sociology of the Future, Session A

The Future of Sociology and the Sociology of the Future, Session B

The Future of the Labour Movement

Gender, Social Politics and the Political Economy of Scale

Global Governance, Multiple Modernities and Local Politics, Session A

Global Governance, Multiple Modernities and Local Politics, Session B

Global Modernity, Civilisations and Local Life-Worlds, Session A

Global Modernity, Civilisations and Local Life-Worlds, Session B

Globalisation and Sport, Session A
(RC 27: Sociology of Sport)

Globalisation and Sport, Session B
(RC 27: Sociology of Sport)

Globalization and Changes in Social Inequalities in Modern Societies

Globalization, Union Involvement and Participation, Session A
(RC 10: Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (Joint Session with ESCEM)

Globalization, Union Involvement and Participation, Session B
(RC 10: Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (Joint Session with ESCEM)

Grounded Theory Methodology, Session A: Methodology

Grounded Theory Methodology, Session B: Health Care

Grounded Theory Methodology, Session C: Business and Management Studies

Grounded Theory Methodology, Session D: Substantive Theories

Grounded Theory Methodology, Session E: Methodological Perspectives

Health and Society, Session A

Health and Society, Session B

History and Memory

History of Sociological Thought: The Classical Statements

History of Sociology and the Social Sciences, Session A: Sociological Theory and its Pioneers

History of Sociology and the Social Sciences, Session B: Conceptual Contributions

History of Sociology and the Social Sciences, Session C: Perspectives and Trends

The Holocaust in Popular Culture

Hostesses of the World: Gender, Power and Sex (Special session)

Inequalities in Health

Institutionalism and Multiple Modernities

Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods in Sociology: Problems and Pitfalls

Intergenerational Transfers of Material and Social Resources in International/Institutional Contexts, Session A

Intergenerational Transfers of Material and Social Resources in International/Institutional Contexts, Session B

The Internal Conversation: Mediating between Structure and Agency

Islam and the West: Boundaries and Crossroads, Session A

Islam and the West: Boundaries and Crossroads, Session B

James S. Coleman: A Modern Master of Sociology
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Knowledge Politics, Session A

Knowledge Politics, Session B

Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers, Session A

Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers, Session B

Labour World Transformations In Europe: Towards a Fragmentation of the Situations? Lessons From The South
Session A: Decentralisation and Specialisation of Labour and Entrepreneur Associations: Changes in the Way They Negociate?

Labour World Transformations In Europe: Towards a Fragmentation of the Situations? Lessons From The South
Session B: Legal Frameworks: What Has Changed In Labour Market Policies?

Labour World Transformations In Europe: Towards a Fragmentation of the Situations? Lessons From The South
Session C: Individual Autonomy vs Collective Responsibility: How to Deal within a Flexible Labour World?: Autonomy at Work

Labour World Transformations In Europe: Towards a Fragmentation of the Situations? Lessons From The South
Session D: Individual Autonomy vs Collective Responsibility: How to Deal within a Flexible Labour World?: Autonomy and Capitalism

Language in Society, Session A

Language in Society, Session B

Language Minorities in a Globalized Era

Legacy of Sociology
(Plenary session)

Living Conditions and Life Courses
(Semi-Plenary session)

Media and Identities

Media and Representation

Media and Sport
(RC 27: Sociology of Sport)

Medical, Health and Welfare Professions: Governance and Citizenship

Men and Masculinites

Men and Women without Frontiers: The European Experience (and Beyond)

Meritocracy and Mobility

Methodological Axiomatics in Social Science: Integrity and Continuity of Social Cognition

Methods of Social Research and Social Politics

Migration and Citizenship
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Modernity or Modernities: Should we Speak of Modernity in the Plural?
Session A: Asian Perspectives
(RC 35: Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis)

Modernity or Modernities: Should we Speak of Modernity in the Plural?
Session B: European Perspectives
(RC 35: Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis)

Mortality: Sociological Approaches, Session A

Mortality: Sociological Approaches, Session B

The Moving Frontiers Between Religiosity and Atheism in Post-Communist States: Gender and Age Differences

Multiple Inequalities

Multiple Modernities and Global Contexts
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Multiple Modernities and Social Theory
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Nations and Institutions: Reflections on Macro-Level Organizational Dynamics

Networks and Behavior, Session A

Networks and Behavior, Session B

Networks and Behavior, Session C

New Directions in Figurational Sociology, Session A

New Directions in Figurational Sociology, Session B

New Directions in Figurational Sociology, Session C

New Directions in Theory-Driven Research on Ethnic Conflict, Session A

New Directions in Theory-Driven Research on Ethnic Conflict, Session B

New Forms of Kinship

New Interdisciplinary Research in Economic and Organizational Democracy: The >node< Research Programme
(RC 10: Participation, Organizational
Democracy and Self-management
)

New Partnership Between European and Asian Institutes for Socio-Economic-Environmental Development and Management

Organizational Commitment in the Era of Global Escape from Responsibility

Path Dependency and Sociological Analysis, Session A

Path Dependency and Sociological Analysis, Session B

Perception, Intersubjectivity, and Social Theory

Philosophical Ideas in Sociology, Session A (Special session)

Philosophical Ideas in Sociology, Session B

Philosophical Ideas in Sociology, Session C

Pierre Bourdieu: A Modern Master of Sociology
(Semi-Plenary session)

Place, Homeland and Colonisation

Political Economy of Higher Education Disparities
Session A: Disparities: Gender, Race and Cultural Identities

Political Economy of Higher Education Opportunities
Session B: Opportunities: Pathways to Success... or Failure

Political Economy of Higher Education Hegemony
Session C: Hegemony: Financial, Organizational and Power Arrangements

Power, Conflict, Negotiations: Individual Strategies in Negotiated Exchange Networks
(RC 42: Social Psychology)
See session "Social Psychology of Inequality and Conflict"

Power, Social Inequality and Poverty in the 21st Century, Session A

Power, Social Inequality and Poverty in the 21st Century, Session B

Professional Knowledge and Identity

Professions, Management and Organizations: Competing or Complementary Logics

Professions: Changes and Challenges

Quality of Social Capital, Governance and Inclusion in a Global World
(RC 26: Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice)

Session A

Quality of Social Capital, Governance and Inclusion in a Global World
(RC 26: Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice)

Session B

Quality of Social Capital, Governance and Inclusion in a Global World
(RC 26: Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice)

Session C

Racism and Xenophobia: A European Dilemma, Session A

Racism and Xenophobia: A European Dilemma, Session B

Racism and Xenophobia: A European Dilemma, Session C

Religion and Political Mobilization

Religions without Frontiers

Rescaling States, the Politics of Scale

Reshaping the Self in Post-Communist Societies

Rethinking Alienation: New Directions of Theory and Research
(RC 36: Alienation Theory and Research)

Rethinking Civilizational Analysis

Rethinking Elites and Social Class in the Context of Financialization

Robert K. Merton: A Modern Master of Sociology
(Semi-Plenary Session)

The Role of Public Intellectuals, Session A

The Role of Public Intellectuals, Session B

Rural Development and Change in the Globalising World, Session A

Rural Development and Change in the Globalising World, Session B

School in the Frontiers of Modernity - the Mediterranean Space, Session A

School in the Frontiers of Modernity - the Mediterranean Space, Session B

The Search for Explanatory Mechanism in Contemporary Sociology, Session A

The Search for Explanatory Mechanism in Contemporary Sociology, Session B

Shifting Boundaries of Knowledge: Creating Spaces for Social Science, Law and Humanities in South Africa

Shifting Urban Identities in a Globalising World, Session A
(RC 42: Social Psychology)

Shifting Urban Identities in a Globalising World, Session B
(RC 42: Social Psychology)

Social Change and Organisational Democracy
(RC 10: Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management)

Social Change and Participation, Session A
(RC 10: Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management)

Social Change and Participation, Session B
(RC 10: Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management)

Social Class, Social Status and Lifestyle, Session A

Social Class, Social Status and Lifestyle, Session B

Social Complexity and Dynamics: Multi-Agent Based Modeling Techniques

The Social Consequences of Information Society, Session A

The Social Consequences of Information Society, Session B

Social Mobilizations, Citizenship and Processes of Globalization
(RC 48: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change)

Social Movements, Globalization and Solidarity

Social Network Analysis

Social Psychology and Emotions
(RC 42: Social Psychology)

Social Psychology of Inequality and Conflict
(RC 42: Social Psychology)

Social Rationality: Is Individual Rationality a Social Product?

Social Values of East Asia, Session A

Social Values of East Asia, Session B

Social Values of East Asia, Session C

Sociological Systems Theory: Limits and Possibilities, Session A
(RC 51: Sociocybernetics

Sociological Systems Theory: Limits and Possibilities, Session B
(RC 51: Sociocybernetics

Sociology and Analytical Philosophy
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology and the Cultural Sciences
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology and Demography

Sociology and the Economic Sciences
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology and the Historical Sciences
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology and Ideology
(Plenary session)

Sociology and the Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology and the Natural Sciences
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology and the Political Sciences
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology and Religion
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology at the Frontiers of Psychology, Session A

Sociology at the Frontiers of Psychology, Session B

Sociology, Ecology and Economy of Sustainable Development

Sociology, Knowledge and Science
(Semi-Plenary session)

Sociology of Post-Soviet Societies, Session A

Sociology of Post-Soviet Societies, Session B

Sociology of Post-Soviet Societies, Session C

Sociology of Post-Soviet Societies, Session D

State and Economy in the Age of Transformation
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Studying Immigrant Families

Technonatures
Session A: Technonatural Economies I: Informational Economies, Flows and Waste Economies
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Technonatures
Session B: Techonatural Economies II: Bio-tech Economies
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Technonatures
Session C: Technonatural Identities/Hybridization and Everday Life
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Technonatures
Session D: Urban Technonatures I: Design, Architecture, Virtual Worlds
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Technonatures
Session E: Urban Technonatures II Cities and Urbanisation
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Technonatures
Session F: Technonatural Politics
(RC 24: Environment and Society)

Territorial Mobilities: Control, Order, Counterstrategies
Session A: Migration Strategies

Territorial Mobilities: Control, Order, Counterstrategies
Session B: Blurring Boundaries

Territorial Mobilities: Control, Order, Counterstrategies
Session C: Imposing Boundaries

Terrorism, Session A: Theory, Origins, Dynamics

Terrorism, Session B: The US 'War On Terrorism'

Towards a Sociology of Human Rights, Session A: General Issues

Towards a Sociology of Human Rights, Session B: Case Studies

Towards a Sociology of Rehabilitation

Transformation and Convergence: Armed Forces and Society in the New Security Environment

Transitions to Parenthood, Session A: Choices and Adaptation

Transitions to Parenthood, Session B: Becoming and Being a Father

Trust and Social Capital, Session A

Trust and Social Capital, Session B

Variations in the Anglo-American Model

Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session A

Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session B

Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session C

Visual Culture, Session A

Visual Culture, Session B

Visual Sociology, Session A (Special session)
Part 1: Program Introduction: Expressions of the Visual in the Dynamic Continuum of Identity; Natives and Foreigners
Part 2: The Global-City; The Individual and the Environmental Changes - Rulers vs. Mob

Visual Sociology, Session B (Special session)
The Regional-State: The Individual and Cultural Changes - Nationality vs. Ethnicity

Visual Sociology, Session C (Special session)
The Continental-Village: The Individual and the Personal Changes - Class and Chaos

Visual Sociology, Session D (Special session)
Comparative Views; Students look at their own communities: The Filmmaker as a Social-Anthropologist

Visual Sociology, Session E (Special session)
The Visual Contribution To Research in Sociology and Neighboring Disciplines: The Social-Anthropologist as a Filmmaker (Open Forum)

Visual Sociology, Session F (Special session)
Human Rights and Social Sciences: The Revolution Will Be Televised

Voluntary Effort in Weaker Community Development

War's Impact on Society, Session A

War's Impact on Society, Session B

Welfare, Public Subsidies, and Non-traditional Recipients

Whistleblowing: Theoretical Issues and Practical Implications
(RC 42: Social Psychology)

Women in European Parliaments

Women in Grass Root Governance in South Asian Countries

Women of Peace
(RC 48: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change)

Women's Studies

Work, Education and Narratives of Aspiration in the 'Knowledge Economy', Session A

Work, Education and Narratives of Aspiration in the 'Knowledge Economy', Session B