Objectives
- The most important objective of the Forum is to provide a meeting place for the various Research Committees, Working Groups, and Thematic Groups. Organizers will be provided as much flexibility as possible in designing their respective programs within the scheduled time slots.
- The second objective is to develop a socially significant theme involving public actors and to which different areas of sociology can contribute. Social Justice and Democratization, the selected theme for the 2012 Forum, offers RCs, WGs and TGs the opportunity to learn from public actors as well as contributing to the Forum’s main theme.
- The third objective is to hold the interim Research Council Business Meeting attended by the Delegates from all Research Committees.
Research Committees
RC05 Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations
RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development
RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management
RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture
RC17 Sociology of Organization
RC19 Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy
RC21 Regional and Urban Development
RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
RC26 Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice
RC29 Deviance and Social Control – with Maria Alejandra Otamendi
RC33 Logic and Methodology in Sociology
RC35 Conceptual and Terminological Analysis
RC36 Alienation Theory and Research
RC43 Housing and Built Environment
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change
RC49 Mental Health and Illness
RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups
RC54 The Body in the Social Sciences
Thematic Groups
TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
TG06 Institutional Ethnography
Working Groups
WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations
WG02 Historical and Comparative Sociology
More information
http://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2012/webprogram/programs.html
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