Conferences in sociology - March 2005

ISA Working Group 06 Social Indicators
International Joint Workshop
Europe and North America - Societies in Contrast
Delmenhorst, Germany
March 6 - 9, 2005
Submissions: September 15, 2004

ISA Executive Committee International Symposium
Cultural Change, Social Problems, and Knowledge Society. Sociology for a Global Society
Zaragoza, Spain
March 7 - 9, 2005
Submissions: 5 January 2005
Talking and writing about globalization and information society, or more recently knowledge society, is so widespread that it already risks to become a repetition and platitude. And yet, a closer look, scientific and interdisciplinary, reveals that behind surface phenomena like economic globalization and the Internet there is a deep-rooted change and upheaval of world society as well as individual everyday life. This upheaval is comparable in scope and consequences to what was called the Industrial Revolution in previous centuries. [+]

ISA Research Committee on Family Research, RC06, and Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO
Seminar: Social Development and Family Change
Mexico City, Mexico
March 16 - 19, 2005
Submissions: November 30, 2004
Family changes and practices have become an important public and political concern in recent years, in response to economic, demographic and social transformations in the world. Globalization and economic reforms have changed patterns of employment, health, education, social policy, and other. At the same time, demographic transformations take place, producing surpluses of economically active or of dependent generations in different societies, promoting migration. [+]

ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Religion, RC22
International conference on Religion and Politics in the Age of Globalization
Zinacantepec, Mexico
March 17 - 18, 2005
Submissions: November 30, 2004

International Symposium
Robert Ezra Park: his work and his time
University Marc Bloch
Strasbourg, France
March 18 - 19, 2005
Submissions: November 30, 2004

The British Sociological Association Annual Conference
'The Life Course: Fragmentation, Diversity and Risk'
University of York, UK
March 21 - 23, 2005

The new social demands and complexities of life in 'late modern' or 'postmodern' global societies are transforming the life course. In an age of 'flexible' working practices and shifting family arrangements, the fundamental co-ordinates of social life are becoming ever more transitory and uncertain. At the same time, increasing social pressures towards individualisation and a common (mediatized) knowledge of 'panics', 'crises' and 'catastrophe', leave the majority with a heightened sense of personal insecurity and social unease [+]

23rd Annual International Labour Process Conference
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
March 21 - 23, 2005
Submissions: 30 October 2004
The conference organisers welcome papers on a range of issues and developments such as the restructuring of work; skills and knowledge; gender, ethnicity and class at work; the nature and impacts of information technology; power, control and culture in organisations; changing forms of employment relations; employee participation and involvement; trade union strategies and organising; resistance and misbehaviour; public and voluntary sector work. [+]

Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting
Call to run workshops
European University Institute
Florence, Italy
March 22-26, 2006
Submissions: 11 February 2005

ISA Research Committee on Communication, Knowledge, and Culture, RC14
Interim Conference
University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
March 28 - 31, 2005
Submissions deadline: extended until December 1, 2004