All sessions in 2014 XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology

TANAKA Sigeto <http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~tsigeto/>
(Tohoku University)

Title: 2014 XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology

URI: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/

Host: International Sociological Assocation

Starting Date: 2014-07-13 17:30

Ending Date: 2014-07-19 16:20

Location: Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan

The list below is based on information in the following pages and directories under the ISA official website.

http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/facing-inequality.htm
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/joint-sessions.php
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/wg/
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/tg/
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/plenary-themes.htm
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/thematic-sessions.htm
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/integrative-sessions.htm
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/associations.htm 
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/professional-development-sessions.htm 
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/ad-hoc-sessions.htm 

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Paper by Vice-President

• Facing Inequality: A proposal for sociological debate by Raquel Sosa Elizaga

Categories of sessions (WG/TG/RC etc.)

• Joint Sessions
• Sociology of Local-Global Relations, WG01
• Historical and Comparative Sociology, WG02
• Visual Sociology, WG03
• Famine and Society, WG05
• Human Rights and Global Justice, TG03
• Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty, TG04
• Institutional Ethnography, TG06
• Senses and Society, TG07
• Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, RC01
• Economy and Society, RC02
• Community Research, RC03
• Sociology of Education, RC04
• Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations, RC05
• Family Research, RC06
• Futures Research, RC07
• History of Sociology, RC08
• Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, RC09
• Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management, RC10
• Sociology of Aging, RC11
• Sociology of Law, RC12
• Sociology of Leisure, RC13
• Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture, RC14
• Sociology of Health, RC15
• Sociological Theory, RC16
• Sociology of Organization, RC17
• Political Sociology, RC18
• Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy, RC19
• Comparative Sociology, RC20
• Regional and Urban Development, RC21
• Sociology of Religion, RC22
• Sociology of Science and Technology, RC23
• Environment and Society, RC24
• Language and Society, RC25
• Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice, RC26
• Sociology of Sport, RC27
• Social Stratification, RC28
• Deviance and Social Control, RC29
• Sociology of Work, RC30
• Sociology of Migration, RC31
• Women in Society, RC32
• Logic and Methodology in Sociology, RC33
• Sociology of Youth, RC34
• Conceptual and Terminological Analysis, RC35
• Alienation Theory and Research, RC36
• Sociology of Arts, RC37
• Biography and Society, RC38
• Sociology of Disasters, RC39
• Sociology of Agriculture and Food, RC40
• Sociology of Population, RC41
• Social Psychology, RC42
• Housing and Built Environment, RC43
• Labor Movements, RC44
• Rational Choice, RC45
• Clinical Sociology, RC46
• Social Classes and Social Movements, RC47
• Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change, RC48
• Mental Health and Illness, RC49
• International Tourism, RC50
• Sociocybernetics, RC51
• Sociology of Professional Groups, RC52
• Sociology of Childhood, RC53
• The Body in the Social Sciences, RC54
• Social Indicators, RC55
• Plenary Sessions etc.: Plenary Themes; Japanese Thematic Sessions; Integrative Sessions; National, Regional, Linguistic and Thematic Associations; Professional Development Sessions; and Ad Hoc Sessions (Not open to abstract submission)

Sessions

Joint Sessions, JOINT

• Conceptions of the Body and Health in High-Risk Organizations
• Boom and Bust: The Community before, during, and after Economic Prosperity
• Challenges and Innovations in Contemporary Counter-Hegemonic Politics
• Futures of Post-Neoliberalism in a Time of Global Crisis
• The Culture and Currency of Money
• The Global Migration of Gendered Care Work
• Searching for Sustainable Alternative Economies in the 21st Century: Cases and Prospects
• Structural Mechanisms and Historical Contingencies: Global Stratification and its Discontents
• Land and Labor in the Global Political Economy
• Organizing the Production of Alternative Visions to Support Social and Eco-Justice
• Development and Inequality in Post-Socialist Countries: Comparative Perspectives
• Future of Education: Innovation, Reform, Struggle, and Vision. Futuro de la educación: Innovación, reforma, lucha y visión
• The Future of Teaching and Research in Universities
• Leisure and Education in an Unequal World
• The Comparative Sociology of Examinations
• New Topics in Interaction between University and Society
• Contested Citizenship: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
• Women, Transnationalism and Diaspora
• Intersectionality and Intellectual Biographies
• Temporary and Precarious Migration and the Securitized State. Human Rights, Culture and Belonging in an Age of Economic and Moral Austerity
• Becoming a Racial Subject, Negotiating Power: Comparative Historical Contexts
• Family and Elder Care
• Leisure and Family: A Mutually Supportive Relationship
• Families’ Resilience in Times of Economic Crisis and Mobility
• Women Negotiating Work and Family
• Panel Data Analysis of Families Worldwide
• Disasters and Families
• Families Responses to Natural and Human-Made Disasters
• The "24/7 Economy" and Children’s Well-Being
• Labor Market Trends and Family Well-Being
• Human Rights, Family Roles and Social Justice
• Families, Structural Violence and Human Rights
• Future of Aging: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Trends, Implications, Policies, and Practices
• Revitalizing the Future of Leisure
• The Expropriated Future: Comparative Perspectives on Institutions and Individuals in the Age of Crisis
• Social Movements, Publics, and the Contentious Politics of the Future
• Collective Action for the Degrowth
• Intellectual South-South and North-South Dialogues from Critical Thinking, Theory and Collective Praxis
• Socio-Ecological Inequality: Water Futures
• The Emergence of Sociology in an Interdisciplinary Context – Nothing but Success?
• Climate Change, Famines and Food Crises: Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management
• Health and Social Care in the Context of Population Aging
• Environment, Ageing and Vulnerability
• Population Aging in East and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
• Japan’s Experience with Population Aging: Policy Challenges and Innovations
• The Use of Visual Methods in Ageing Research
• Facing the End of “Leisure Culture” in Today’s Unequal World
• Leisure and the Pursuit of Health and Happiness in an Unequal World
• Leisure and the Reproduction of Inequality
• Women, Leisure and Gender Politics in Globalising Times
• Leisure as an Agency for Collective Mobilization of Youth and the Quest for Equality
• Global Environmental Degradation: Leisure and Tourism Perspectives
• Children and Leisure: Intersectional Inequalities
• Reinstating the Body: Equal Footing for the Spiritual and the Physical, a Leisure Approach
• Surveillance, New Media and Digital Information
• Healthcare Systems and Health Inequalities
• Religion, Immigrants, and Health
• Governing the Health Professions: Bringing Equality into Health Human Resources Policy
• Globalization and Human Resources for Health in Asian Countries
• Time on the Context of Health and Illness: The Medical Control of the Body
• Organizations and Disasters
• Organizing Change – Changing Organization: Social Movements and the Innovation of Organizational Forms and Cultures. Part I.
• Organizing Change – Changing Organization: Social Movements and the Innovation of Organizational Forms and Cultures. Part II.
• Rethinking Democracies: Social Movements and Democratic Processes
• Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology
• Social Policies, Work and Gender: New Forms of Social Work
• Restructuring Care Policies and (Re-)Making Care Professions. Part I
• Restructuring Care Policies and (Re-)Making Care Professions. Part II
• Cities and the Global Environmental Change
• Unequal Cities and the Political Economy of Housing. Part I
• Unequal Cities and the Political Economy of Housing. Part II
• Too Much and Too Little: Urban Landscapes of Homelessness and Gentrification
• Right to Benefits of Scientific Progress and its Applications
• Alternative Lifestyles and Political Activism towards a New Environmentalism: Climate Summits, “Buen Vivir”, Local Food and Voluntary Simplifiers
• Perceiving, Understanding and Envisioning the Environment
• Language and Work Representations of Psychosocial Health at Work. Langage et Travail Représentations de la Santé Psychosociale au Travail
• RC32 Roundtable Session I. Women’s Experiences in Labor Markets, Families and Households in Globalized Society: Naming Marriage as Gendered
• The Demographic Reproduction of Social Stratification
• Social Inequalities in International Skilled Labor Migration and Mobility in a Globalized World
• Unionism and the Critique of the Work Organization. Syndicalisme et critique de l’organisation du travail
• Professional Labour in a Globalized World: The Cross-Bordering and Internationalization of Knowledge Workers
• Crossing Experiences: From Biographies of Migrants in and from Northeast Asia
• Tourism and Migration
• Constructing Gender within Youth Activism
• Representation and Restoration of Women’s Experiences: Navigating between Colonial History and Postcolonial Present in the Asian Context
• Intimate Labor in Asia
• Feminist Movement and (Women’s) Human Rights
• Youth and Social Movements
• Disaster Art: Visualizing Human Culpability from Hiroshima to Fukushima
• Using Visual Material for Knowledge Creation: The Process of Analysis and Interpretation
• Labor and Environmental Movements
• Human Rights and Clinical Sociology

Sociology of Local-Global Relations, WG01

• Globalization from Below: Institutional and Policy Changes in Developing Countries
• Innovative Teaching in the Local-Global Prospective
• National and Regional Identities: Nations between States
• New Forms of Civic Activity in a Globalizing World
• Post-Communist Region in the Era of Growing Inequality
• Public Opinion in the Local Context
• Religious Influence on Local and Global Relations
• Unequal Genders: Another Challenge for Globalized Societies
• Vulnerabilities and "Normal Accidents" in Local-Global Relations
• WG01 Business meeting

Historical and Comparative Sociology, WG02

• Author Meets Critics. Part I: Said Arjomand (ed.) Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age
• Author Meets Critics. Part II: Said Arjomand, Elisa Reis (eds.) Worlds of Difference
• Childhood and Abuse in Comparative-Historical Perspective
• Glocalization Effects of the Migration of Ideas Across the World
• Habitus, Pacification and the Monopoly of Violence in the Age of Globalisation
• How to Continue with the Master Concept of ‘Differentiation’? Historical and Comparative Analyses in Non-Western Settings
• Inequality in Rich Societies
• Modernities in Theories: Perspectives from the Colonized and the Subaltern Other(s)
• Modernizing Moves in the ‘Non-Western’ World: Historical and Comparative Analyses
• New Humanitarianism and International State-Building
• The Global South and Postcolonial Perspectives in International Sociology
• WG02 Business Meeting
• WG02 Roundtable session: Process-oriented Social Research in Historical and Comparative Sociology
• Why Bother About Inequality?

Visual Sociology, WG03

• Exploring Visual Sphere of Youth
• Film Making, Photography, and Performative Understandings of Method
• Film Screening. Part I
• Film Screening. Part II
• Globalization, Mediatization and Urban Development: Visually Exploring the Geographic, Social and Democratic Divide
• In-visible Design – the Surface and Everything Beneath. Researching Design as a Challenge for Visual Sociology
• Post-Conflict Visual Imaginations
• Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies
• The Shapes of Society; Material, Environmental and Situational Constraints of Interpersonal Space (The Cross-Cultural Perspective)
• The Visible City?
• The Visual Culture of Migration: Private and Public Negotiations
• Visualizing Social Disparities
• WG03 Business Meeting and Rachel Tanur Awards

Famine and Society, WG05

• Facing Uncertainties and Crises in a Globalised and Unequal World
• Famine and Conflict: Two Faces of the Same Coin in a Globalising World
• Globalization of Slums, Houselessness and Urban Poverty: Emerging Issues and Options
• Housing the Urban Poor – Issues for Inclusive Housing Policy
• Man, Development and Water: Issues and Challenges
• Mexico: Poverty, Inequality and Marginalization in the 21st Century
• Sociology of Natural Calamities, Man-made Disasters, Food Insecurity and Relief
• Sociology of Poverty, Informal Sector and Job-Creation
• WG05 Business Meeting

Human Rights and Global Justice, TG03

• Addressing Inequality before, during and after Difficult Times: Research, Intervention and Effective Outcomes
• Competing Human Rights
• Debating the Right to Development
• Ethnic Groups in Civil Society: Globalization and Global Justice
• Global Justice and Women’s Human Rights in an Unequal World
• Grassroots Strategies for Enduring Repression
• Human Rights and Sociological Theory
• Human Rights: How do we Tackle the Problems of Indigenous Youth?
• Humanism as a Main Instrument for Combating International Terrorism
• Indigenous Populations, Human Rights, and the Global South
• Reflections on the Right to Democracy
• TG03 Business Meeting
• Transitional Justice in the Eastern Hemisphere
• Transitional Justice in the Western Hemisphere

Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty, TG04

• Crime and Risk
• Education and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
• Emotions, Trust, Hope and Other Approaches to Coping with Vulnerability Amidst Uncertainty
• Expert Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty: The Influence of Organisational, Inter-Personal and Professional Factors
• Health, Illness and Risk
• Indefinite (In)Distinctions? The New Ontology of Matter in a World of Inequalities
• Open Session
• Researching Risk. Methodologies and Methods
• Risk and Social Inequality and Social Inclusion/Exclusion
• Risk and the Media
• Risk and the Transformation of the Political: Social Movements, Subpolitics, Political Consumers
• Risk and Uncertainty Relating to Family: Implications on Family Policy in Asia
• Risk Governance and Regulation
• Risk in a Life Course Perspective
• TG04 Business Meeting
• Theorizing Risk and Uncertainty
• Transparent Subjects: Risk, Surveillance and the Citizen
• Voluntary Risk Taking and Edgework

Institutional Ethnography, TG06

• Confronting Inequality by Explicating the Ruling Relations of Management
• Educational Accountability Practices in Systems, Educational Institutions and Homes
• Interdisciplinary Applications of Institutional Ethnography
• Issues and Developments in Institutional Ethnography
• Locating Institutional Sites of Change: Social Intervention in Times of Crisis and Welfare Restructuring
• TG06 Business Meeting
• The Institutional Challenges of the Legal Frameworks in the Contemporary World
• The Language of Research as Problematic: Réaliser une ethnographie institutionnelle en contexte coordonné par la culture anglo-saxonne / Doing Institutional Ethnography beyond the Ruling of the English-speaking Culture
• The Social Organization of Gendered Violence: Contemporary Perspectives, Global Responses
• When Western IE meets Eastern Culture of Care

Senses and Society, TG07

• Deviance and the Senses in the City
• Love as a Sensible Bond: Towards a Global Observation
• Making Sense of Place
• Performing Arts and the Senses
• TG07 Business Meeting
• Urban Food Cultures

Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, RC01

• Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century
• Conflicts, Routinized Violence, Human Rights, Peace
• Cross-Border (De)Securitarization
• Dealing with the Challenges: Facing the Demands of Military Life on Families in the 21st Century
• Death in the Military: Towards a New Paradigm?
• Harnessing 21st Century Skills for National Defence and Security
• How Do the Cultural Integrating Mechanisms Cultivate Effectiveness of Collaboration and Negotiation in Peace Operations?
• International Humanitarian Intervention and State-Building
• Issues of Ex-Servicemen: Global Concerns
• Methodological Challenges in the Study of the Military
• RC01 Business Meeting
• Recruitment and Retention of Minorities in the Armed Forces
• The 3.11 East-Japan Great Earthquake and Fukushima: Lessons Learned from International Disaster Relief Operations
• The Armed Forces and Civil Society in East Asia. Part I
• The Armed Forces and Civil Society in East Asia. Part II
• The Roots of Contemporary African Violent Conflicts
• Towards a Sociology of Information Sharing in Multinational Military Operations

Economy and Society, RC02

• Asian Capitalism(s): Origins, Transformations, and Perspectives
• Capital and the Environmental Crisis
• Complex Inequalities: Gendering Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Gender Regimes
• Corporate Networks: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
• Environment and Development: Empirical Considerations
• Ethnography and the Economy
• Gender, Class and the Financial Crisis: Is Neoliberalism Gendered?
• Global Perspectives of Financialization
• Historical Formation of Social and Economic Inequalities
• Labour, Climate, Economy and Social Struggle: Global Perspectives
• Military, Economy, and Society
• Network Theory in East Asian Society
• Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development
• Precarious Work and Employment Risks in East Asia
• RC02 Business Meeting
• Resistance and Revolution in Global Historical Perspective
• Solidarity Economy Alternatives: Vision, Practice, and Theory
• South-South Relationships and Global (In)equality
• The Global Migration of Gendered Care Work
• The Sociology of Consumers and Consumption
• Think Tanks as Key Spaces of the Global Structure of Power

Community Research, RC03

• Communities in Transition
• Community Size and Transnational Immigration
• Culture, Arts and Politics
• Embracing Globalization in the Design of Urban Outcomes: Implications for Equity, Spatial Form, and Sustainability
• Global Countrysides and Hinterlands: Rural Communities in an Era of Globalization
• Global Gentrification: Diversity, Inequality, and Spatial Justice
• Globalization and the Rise of Cultural Communities
• International Scenes Studies: Theory and Evidence
• Local Welfare State in a Context of Austerity: Inequalities, Socio-political Process and Service Provision in Municipalities
• RC03 Business Meeting
• Social Network Resources and Community Inequalities: Global and Multilevel Perspectives

Sociology of Education, RC04

• Academic Mobility: Possibilities and Barriers
• Educational Reforms for Reducing Social Inequality in Mandarin-speaking (Chinese) Societies
• Facing an Unequal World: What Challenges to Education?
• Global Educational Expansion of Secondary Schools
• Global Movement of Teachers
• Globalization and Neo-Institutionalism in the Sociology of Education: Theoretical and Empirical Advances
• Globalization, the State, Social Justice, and Education
• Growing Inequalities in Education: A Global Perspective for the 21st Century
• Higher Education and the Social Forces in the Job Market
• Mass Participation to Higher Education and Social Justice
• National Educational Systems: Globalization Challenges
• New and Persisting Forms of Gender Inequality in Education: Theoretical and Empirical Advances
• Professional Ethics in University Education: The Contribution of this Field of Research and Teaching to Face Inequality
• RC04 Business Meeting
• Recovering Knowledge for Sociology: Unequal Knowledges of Unequal Power
• Social Implications of Educational Inequities
• Social Justice and Cognitive Justice. The North-South Dialogue and the Role of the Universities
• Sociologies of Education: After the Fragmentation of Modernity and its Educational Projects
• The Challenge of Education during Protracted Conflicts: Israel and Cyprus from a Comparative Perspective
• The Impacts of Globalization and Neo-Liberalism on the Morale, Turnover, and Supply of the Professional Staff in Primary and Secondary Schools
• The Universities in the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
• Transitions from School to Post-Secondary Education and Work
• World Atlas of Adult Education

Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations, RC05

• Articulations of Ethnicity, Race and Nationhood
• Challenges of Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Asia Pacific Region
• Challenges of Research on Belonging and Identity: Critical Engagements with Theory and Methods
• Comparative Xenophobia: State Responses in Different Countries
• Contemporary Right-Wing Racist Populism
• Cosmopolitanism versus Post-Nationalism
• Critical Public Engagements with Race and Racism
• Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Muslim Minorities
• Japanese Identification: in Japan, in Diasporas, and Transnationally
• Local, National, and International Policies, and the Promotion of Ethnic and Racial Inclusion: Problematizing Systemic and Persistent Social and Economic Inequalities
• Migration, Racialization, and Autochthonous Far-Right Movements
• Politics of Excluded Peoples in the Nation-State of the 21st Century. Las políticas de los excluidos en el estado-nación del siglo veintiuno
• Politics of Masculinities Racialised as Deviant and Dangerous
• RC05 Business Meeting
• Social Structure and Identities: National and/or Transnational Analyses of Racism or Ethnic relations
• Upsurge of Xenophobia in Contemporary Japan: Its Causes and Uniqueness
• Who Lives with Whom: Ethnic Relations, Community and Integration in Japan

Family Research, RC06

• Caretakers of Families’ Children and Elders
• Cultural Capital and Parenting in Global Asia
• Emerging New Family Forms in Asia and Beyond
• Facing an Unequal World: Social Capital and Families in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
• Families in the Developing Countries
• Family Studies Based on Quantitative Analyses of Surveys
• Fatherhood in Transition: A Challenge for Global Sociology
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Family Life
• Inter-Ethnic Families in Asia
• New Roles of Men and Women and Implications for Society
• RC06 Business Meeting
• RC06 Poster Session: Meet Family Scholars
• RC06 Roundtable Session: Global Changes in Families: Implications for Family Processes, Cohesion, and Identity Formation
• Transition into Adulthood: Youth and Families
• Work and Family in Cross-National Comparative Perspective

Futures Research, RC07

• BRICS and Global Futures
• Environmental Futures
• Futures of Food
• Global Change, Local Continuities: Focus on the Global South and Environmental Changes
• Inequality and Difference as Challenge for Social Theory
• Inequality and the Future of Aging: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Trends, Implications, Policies, and Practices
• Media Futures: Designs, Practices, Policies, Visions
• Mobile Futures: Space, Technology, Inequality
• Open Themes. Temas abiertos. Thèmes ouverts
• RC07 Business Meeting
• Real Utopias
• Sociological Images of the Future
• Sociology and the Knowledge Society
• Technologies of Inequality
• The Aftermath of Violence: The Lingering Memory of Genocide, War, and Political Terror
• The Future of Research on Global Inequalities
• The Self as Project: Memory and Future in the Formation of Identity
• Urban Futures
• Wither the 2011 Mobilizations: Progressive, Regressive or Irrelevant

History of Sociology, RC08

• Fernanda Beigel (ed.), Politics of Academic Autonomy in Latin America (Ashgate 2013)
• Circulation of Social Science Knowledge – The Influence of Textual and Contextual Elements
• Cold War Social Science
• Failed Sociologists and Dead Ends in the History of Sociology
• General Session on the History of Sociology
• Geopolitical Framing of Social Sciences
• History of Empirical Social Research and Statistics
• History of Japanese Sociology
• Ordinary Sociologists
• RC08 Business Meeting
• Sociological Trajectories from the Global South and Peripheral Countries
• The Books that Made Sociology
• The Global South and Postcolonial Perspectives in International Sociology
• The History of Ideas of Transformation Processes
• The Origins of Modern and Contemporary Sociology – Panel Session
• The Role of Sociology in Relation to other Social Sciences
• Translations
• Transnational Organisations in the History of the Social Sciences

Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, RC09

• 1989 and 2011: Years of Revolution
• Development and the Transformation of Women’s Capabilities
• Globalization, Culture, and Management
• Globalization, Labor Flexibility, and Inequalities
• Long-Term Causation versus Disjuncture in Development
• Memorial Session: Willfried Spohn
• Middle Class as Driver of (Democratic) Change?
• Multiple State - Society Perspectives on Labor Migration in Asia
• Political Inequality and Social Change
• RC09 Business Meeting
• The New Demography of Development
• Transnational Entrepreneurship: Economic Sociology Meets the Sociology of Development

Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management, RC10

• Childhood and Participation
• Cooperation and Participation
• Democratic Decentralisation and Women’s Participation
• Education, Participation and Inequality
• Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology and Participation
• Industrial Democracy in East Asian Society Social Economy
• Inequality and the Future of Aging: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Trends, Implications, Policies, and Practices
• Modern Responsible Participation Forms in Financing and Banking
• New Forms of Participation
• RC10 Business Meeting
• Sustainability and Participation
• The Communal Idea and Participation
• The World Social Forum as a Planetarian Project of Self-Management and Social Justice
• Trade Unions and Participation
• Well-Being, Participation and Digital Democracy

Sociology of Aging, RC11

• Age Inequalities, Ageism and Age Discrimination: Still on the Rise?
• Aging and the Body in Everyday Life
• Aging, Globalization and Inequality. Presidential session
• Authors Meet Critics Session. New Approaches of Conceptualizing Intergenerational Relations
• Grandparenting
• How Do Telecare and Assistive Technologies Impact on Care-Giving?
• Inequality and the Future of Aging: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Trends, Implications, Policies, and Practices
• Innovation and Public Policies, New Answers for New Challenges
• Intergenerational Dependencies
• Life Course Influences on Inequalities in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives
• Life-Course Influences on Old Age
• Old-Age Security in the 21st Century
• Older Migrants and Migrant Care Workers
• Older Workers and Ageing Workforces
• Population Ageing, Work and Caregiving Responsibilities in Four Liberal Democracies
• Poverty at Times of Affluence
• Preparing for a Career in the Sociology of Aging
• RC11 Business Meeting
• Social Class in Later Life: Power, Identity and Lifestyle
• The Challenge of Cultural Gerontology

Sociology of Law, RC12

• Comparative Studies on Disputing Behavior
• Gatekeeping for Justice in the Courtroom: Universal and Cultural Dimensions
• Gender and the Legal Professions
• Law, Migration and Unequal World
• Legal Professions in Comparative Perspective. Part I
• Legal Professions in Comparative Perspective. Part II
• Present State of Public Participation in Justice
• Prisoners beyond Law and Welfare System
• Prostitution (CSW) and Law
• RC12 Business Meeting
• Social Systems and Legal Systems. Part I
• Social Systems and Legal Systems. Part II
• The Role of Law and Legal Services in Disaster Response
• The Value of Classic Japanese Theories of Sociology in the Age of Global Legalization

Sociology of Leisure, RC13

• Leisure and Healthy Ageing
• Leisure and Quality of Life
• Leisure in an Unequal World: Global Reflections. Part I
• Leisure in an Unequal World: Global Reflections. Part II
• Leisure, Culture and the Arts in Times of Turmoil
• Leisure, Market Capitalism and the State in East Asia
• RC13 Business Meeting
• Roundtables on Multi-Dimensionality of Leisure
• The Legitimation of Emotion in Leisure Practices across Genders and Generations
• The Place of Leisure in Contemporary Japanese Culture and Family Life
• Theories and Methods in Leisure Research: New Challenges in an Era of Increased Global Flows and Inter-Dependence alongside Wider Inequalities

Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture, RC14

• Comunicación, Contenidos Digitales, y Redes Sociales
• Discours de crise: Inégalités et médias
• Globalization, New Communication Technology and Socio-Cultural Change in Today’s Unequal World
• Handicap et utopie
• Japanese Culture and the Contemporary World
• Les représentations des inégalités sociales dans les littératures de l’imaginaire
• Movimientos sociales y participación ciudadana digital
• New Media Facing Today’s Unequal World
• Pratiques digitales et inégalités contemporaines
• RC14 Business Meeting
• Story Telling the Crisis: The Social Narration of the Contemporary Inequalities
• Surveillance, Social Sorting and the Reproduction of Inequality
• Technologies de communication et inégalités. Part I
• Technologies de communication et inégalités. Part II
• The New Capitalism of the Spirit: A Critique of Culture in an Unequal World
• Uso de la tecnología para la promoción de la enseñanza y la investigación

Sociology of Health, RC15

• Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Sociological Imagination: New Conceptual Tools
• Collaborative Governance for Healthy Public Policies
• Combining Public and Private Health Care Services – Better Health Care, More Choice, or the Entrenchment of Inequality?
• Cross-National Comparisons of Health Experiences
• Health Care Disparities and Inequalities
• Health Inequalities in the Global South: Challenges and Possibilities
• Health, Risk and Govermentalization in a OneHealth Concept Agenda
• Medicalization and Globalization
• Narrative Medicine or Narratives in Medicine?
• Patient Participation and the Transformation of Professionals in Healthcare
• Patients’ Rights in a Comparative Perspective: Emergence, Appropriation, New Claims-Making
• Pharmaceuticalization and Social Inequalities: A Chance to Re-Connect Sociology With Social Justice? Special session on conference theme
• RC15 Business Meeting
• Religion, Body and Health
• Sex, Health and Technology
• Sleep, Health and Society
• Sociology of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Sociology of Diagnosis Session
• Understanding ‘Stigma’ and HIV/AIDS: A Social Scientist’s Challenge
• Women, Health and Health Care

Sociological Theory, RC16

• Asian Values or East Asianism Revisited
• Civil Societies in Comparative Perspective
• Contested Modernities in Theory and Practice
• Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Political Space
• Cultural Pragmatics and Social Theory: The Implications of Performance Theory for the Study of Society
• Discovering and Locating the Legacies of Japanese Sociological Theories
• Entertainment, Leisure, Sport, and Civil Society
• Framing Suffering: On Critically Theorizing and Reading Images
• Intellectuals and Politics
• Issues, Problems, and Potential in the Study of Symbolic Violence
• Japanese Contemporary Social Theory Seen from the Inside and Outside
• Jeffrey Alexander in East Asia
• Modernity and Critique
• National Futures
• Pollution, Defilement and Disgust
• RC16 Business Meeting
• Second-Modern Transformation in East and West
• Sociological Inquiry into the Theory of Modernization in Japan
• Theories of Materiality and Material Culture
• Theorizing Circulation: Revisiting the Metaphors for the Travel of Culture, Ideas, And Symbols
• Theorizing Legacy: Does the Past Have Power over Political Events
• Theorizing Online/Offline Identity, Performativity and Expertise
• Theorizing Sexuality
• Urban Space and Global Cities
• Visual Turn and Popular Culture: Anime, Manga and Comics in Japan, Korea and China
• What’s a Collective? The Ontology of Groups, Crowds and Crews

Sociology of Organization, RC17

• Celebrity and Organizations
• Normal Accidents Revisited: Organizations and the Reliable Embedding of Complex Technologies
• On the Practical Life of Organizational Theory
• Organization and Materiality: Exploring the Multiple Relations between Things, Bodies and Meso-Level-Orders
• Organizational Heterogeneity: A Source of Innovation and Conflict or Simply the Status Quo?
• Organizing Charisma: On the Role of Sentimental Relations in Formal Organizations
• RC17 Business Meeting
• Social Capital, Trust and Organizations
• The Organization of a Global Financial Class

Political Sociology, RC18

• Anthropological Research and Political Geography
• Citizenship
• Colonial Injustice of the Twenty-First Century: The Latin American Case
• Democracy and Inequality across the World
• Far Right Intellectuals in Post-War Europe
• Inclusive and Exclusive Identities? How Religious and National Identities Influence Political Institutions and Social Cohesion
• New Challenges for Member-Driven Political Organisations: Addressing Demand, Supply, and the Digital Context
• Party Membership and Activism in Comparative Perspective
• Party Membership and Intra-Party Democracy in Comparative Perspective
• Politics, Bureaucracy and Political Appointments
• RC18 Business Meeting
• Regional Powers and their Partners: Bilateralism, Regionalism, Cooperation and Hegemony
• Rituals and Rhetoric: Attending to the Performative Dimension of Politics
• The Social Bases of Far-Right Political Parties and Movements in Modern Europe
• Transnational Flows, Humanitarian Technologies
• Varieties of Contemporary Populism
• What is Party Membership? Part I. Perspectives in the ‘European Tradition’
• What is Party Membership? Part II. Perspectives from Asia

Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy, RC19

• Children: Inequality and Rights
• Gender and Welfare State Redesign: Work, Care and Social Citizenship
• Global Social Policy and the International Development Agenda
• Intergenerational Relations
• Marketization in Welfare State Policies and New Social Cleavages
• New Inequality and Social Exclusion
• Old and New Politics of Global Social Policy
• Open Session
• Poverty, Social Welfare, and Outcomes of Children
• RC19 Business Meeting
• Social Investment in East Asia
• Social Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Social Policy and the Crisis
• Social Welfare, Policy and Outcomes: The Ethnic Minority Experience in a Global and Comparative Perspective
• The Changing Politics of Social Policy
• The Politics and Policies of Social Investment in Europe
• The Reorientation of Social Policy: Putting New Redistributive Strategies to the Test
• Transforming Familialism: Care Regimes in the 21st Century Asia

Comparative Sociology, RC20

• Changing Global Values
• Civilising and Decivilising Processes in the Financial Crisis
• Comparative Sociology: Present Status and Future Directions
• Culture and the Media in a Long-Term Perspective
• Current Research in Comparative Sociology. Part I
• Current Research in Comparative Sociology. Part II
• Environmental and Energy Shifts in Time and Place
• Expatriates: Comparative Perspectives
• RC20 Business Meeting
• RC20 Roundtable: Rethinking Social Distinction?
• Rethinking Comparison in a Global Age: Methodological Issues
• Sociological Schools of Thought and Comparative Analysis
• The Rise of Top Incomes: Comparative Perspectives
• Trust: Comparative Perspectives. Part I
• Trust: Comparative Perspectives. Part II

Regional and Urban Development, RC21

• Players and Arenas: Strategic Dynamics of Politics and Protest
• RC21 Business Meeting
• Theme I.1 Beyond Dichotomization: Informality and the Challenges of Governance in Cities of the Global North and South
• Theme I.2 Tackling Inequality in Shrinking Cities: The Role of Governance and Civic Society
• Theme I.3 Public/Social Rental Housing and Urban Renewal: New Inequalities and Insecurities?
• Theme I.4 Understanding Social and Physical Disorder in the Urban Metropolis
• Theme II.1 Cities and the Global Environment
• Theme II.2 Sustainable Cities and Social Justice
• Theme II.3 Social Changes and Urbanization in China
• Theme II.4 Tokyo and Japanese Cities
• Theme III.1 Homelessness amid the Global Economic Crisis: Interrogating Structural Inequality in Contemporary Cities from the Ground Up
• Theme III.2 Migrant Communities and the Host Practices
• Theme III.3 Disasters, Risks and Civil Society: A Comparative View of Urban Resilience Strategies
• Theme IV.1 Identity, Justice and Resistances in the Neoliberal City
• Theme IV.2 New Urban Protest Cultures in the Era of Digital Social Networks
• Theme IV.3 Creative Activism in Times of Urban Renaissance and Social Exclusion – Space Sensitive Approaches to the Study of Collective Action and Belonging
• Theme V.1 Informality and Spatial Confinement across the Global Order: Everyday and Policy Perspectives
• Theme V.2 Navigating and Understanding Vernacular Landscapes in Global Cities: Everyday Practices, Commodification and Contestation
• Theme V.3 Ambiguous Spaces: Moving beyond Dichotomies of Public Space
• Theme V.4 The Street and the Urban Public Sphere: Diversity, Difference, Inequality
• Theme VI.1 Actor-Network-Theory and Urban Studies
• Theme VI.2 Urban Studies and the Challenge of Travelling Concepts and Comparative Methods
• Theme VI.3 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Lecture: The Rent Question, Anne HAILA, Helsinki University, Finland

Sociology of Religion, RC22

• Civil Rights and Religious Freedoms in a Secular World
• Haifa’s Answer
• Locating Religion in Civilizational Analysis
• Multiculturalism and Religion: Contemporary Challenges and Future Opportunities
• Non-Religion in Question: Ethics, Equality, and Justice
• RC22 Business Meeting
• RC22 Roundtable I. Religious Organizations
• RC22 Roundtable IA. The Impact of Neoliberal Policies, Practices and Ideas on Religious Organizations
• RC22 Roundtable IB. Facing Inequality from the Perspective of Islamic Organizations
• RC22 Roundtable IC. New Forms of Religious Organization
• RC22 Roundtable II. Organized Conversations on Religious Research
• RC22 Roundtable IIA. Lessons for Studying Religion in the African Diaspora: Charles H. Long and Ruth Simms Hamilton
• RC22 Roundtable IIB. Sociology of Orthodoxy: the Study of the Church Life in the Contemporary Russia
• Religion and Countering Gender Inequality
• Religion and the Transition to Adulthood
• Religion as a Factor in the Composition and Decomposition of Ethnic Identities
• Religion in the Era of Climate Entropy
• Religion, Nationalism and Transnationalism
• Religious Diversity and Social Change in Contemporary East Asia
• Sociology of Religion in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
• Spiritual and Religious Capital
• The Best of All Gods: Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe
• The Role of Religion in the Public Sphere
• Uses of the Past: The Politics of Religion and Collective Memories
• Welfare and Civil Society: The Role of Religion

Sociology of Science and Technology, RC23

• Assessing Technologies: Global Patterns of Trust and Distrust
• Contested Science and Technology: Empirical and Conceptual Analysis about the Social Role of Technology and Science
• Fostering Trans-Disciplinarity amongst the Social and Natural Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design
• Gender and Science in the South: A Comparative Assessment of Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society
• ICTs and Social Inequalities
• Public Science, Corporate Science and Technology in Times of Crisis
• RC23 Business Meeting
• Science, Technology and (New) Forms of Social Inequalities
• Scientific Development, New Technologies and State: Challenges and Opportunities of Nanotechnology
• Technological Innovation and (Un)Sustainable Consumption in South/Southeast Asia
• Technological Transfer in Latin American Countries and the Caribbean: Challenges of Scientific and Technological Cooperation
• The Digital Divide – Contributing to an ‘Unequal World’
• The Future of Public Research Universities: Confronting the Demands of Increasing Economic Self-Sufficiency
• The Social Psychology of Science and Technology
• The Sociology of Disaster from Technoscience: Science, Technology and Sustainability beyond Fukushima
• Toward a World of Low Carbon: Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts
• Young Researchers´ Forum: New Research Directions in the Study of Science and Technology and Their Impacts

Environment and Society, RC24

• Anti-Nuclear Movements Post-Fukushima
• Climate Change Responses in East Asia
• Emerging Research in Environmental Sociology. Part I: Focus on East and South East Asia
• Emerging Research in Environmental Sociology. Part II
• Environment, Governance and Risk
• Environmental Attitudes, Behaviours and Practices
• Environmental Governance and Global Commodities
• Environmental Social Movements in the 21st Century
• Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Environmental Sociology
• Nano(in)equalities? Social Promises and Perils of Nanotechnologies
• New Enclosures: Resource Grabs and Environmental Challenges in the Global South
• New Frontiers in Environment and Social Theory
• Nuclear Energy Post-Fukushima: Impacts, Lessons and Policy Responses
• RC24 Business Meeting
• Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development
• Resource Consumption and Sustainability in the Global South
• Social Inequalities within Protected Natural Areas
• Sustainable Consumption: Governance, Practices and Politics
• The End of the Environmental Nation-State?
• Waste in Today’s World: Waste not Want not?

Language and Society, RC25

• Activism, Media and Justice
• Identity and Institutional Categorization
• Markets, Power and Language
• Migrations and Conditions of Belonging
• Old and New Conditions of Language Endangerment
• Online Interaction: The Changing Meanings of Social Context
• Popular and Sociological Discourses on Inequality
• Privilege and Stigma
• Producing Counter-Hegemonic Knowledge
• RC25 Business Meeting
• RC25 Roundtable session I: Current debates in Japanese Scholarship on Language and Society
• RC25 Roundtable session II: Sociological Analyses of Language
• The Language of Borders: Exclusion and Resistance

Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice, RC26

• Archaic and Neo-Archaic Trends in a Community Life
• Climate Democracy
• Corporeal Dimension of Sociotechnics
• Eco-Social Work as Resilience / Sustainability for Communities in Crisis
• Macro- and Micro-Level of Social Analysis: Theory and Practice of "Cellular Globalization"
• Measuring Social Impact of Innovative Entrepreneurship and Public Policies. Standardizing the Valuation of Socioeconomic Return on Investment
• On Social Institutions: The Quest for New Social Institutions Stopping the Decay of the West (The Importance of Social Institutions: Rebuilding the West)
• Place-Based yet Transnationalized Political Emergent Forms in the Occident, Orient and South
• Political Cultures in a Globalized World
• RC26 Business Meeting
• Sustainable Communities: Common Goods, Public Spaces and New Forms of Participation
• Theological Methodology the Sociotechnics – The Soil for a Manipulation Religious Consciousness

Sociology of Sport, RC27

• Children, Youth and Sport
• Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Sport. Part I
• Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Sport. Part II
• Globalization and Sport
• Inclusion/Exclusion in Sport
• Media and Sport. Part I
• Media and Sport. Part II
• RC27 Business Meeting
• Sociology of Sport in an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology of Sport – Special session on the Congress theme
• Sport and Development
• Sport and National Identity. Part I
• Sport and National Identity. Part II
• Sport in Asia
• Sport, Bodies and Identity Politics
• Sport, Health and Risk
• Sport, Politics and Policy. Part I
• Sport, Politics and Policy. Part II
• Sport, Spectacle and Mega Events

Social Stratification, RC28

• A Comparative Look at Gender Segregation in Vocational Education
• Beyond Race: Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Contributions to the Study of Discrimination
• Comparison of Social Stratification and Mobility in East Asia
• Convergence and Divergence: Social Inequality in the US and China
• Drop out from Tertiary Education – Life Courses and Returns to Human Capital
• Family Processes and Gender Inequality
• Immigrant Inequalities and Ethnic Stratification
• Immigrants in the Labor Market
• Inequality in the Great Recession
• Life Courses and Household Inequality
• Past, Present and Future of Social Stratification Research
• Psychological Functioning and Social Inequality
• RC28 Business Meeting
• School-to-Work Transitions in Times of Economic Crises
• Social Inequality and Family Change
• Stratification of Social Participation

Deviance and Social Control, RC29

• Crime and Deviance in Japan
• Criminal Justice Systems and Access to Justice
• Green Criminology
• Impact of Inequality and Discrimination on Justice Systems and Practices
• Japan and the Different Conceptions of Crime
• Open Session
• Policing in Japan and Asian Countries
• Policing in the Modern World
• RC29 Business Meeting
• Restorative Justice
• Social Control of Gender and Deviance
• State of the Art on Sociology of Crime and Deviance

Sociology of Work, RC30

• Contemporary Dynamics of Paternalism. Actualités du paternalisme. Actualidad del paternalismo
• Facing an Unequal World in the 21st Century: New Approaches to Internationalism. Enfrentar la desigualdad social en el siglo XXI: Nuevos acercamientos para el internacionalismo
• Facing an Unequal World, the Manufacturing of Migrations and Knowledge Related
• Guestwork around the World
• Health Professions and Organizations: Issues of International Comparison
• Lean Production as the New Division of Labor?
• New Forms of Rural Development and Experiences of Alternatives Food Chain: The Contribution of Sociology of Work
• Panel Session. Japanese Employment Practice in Transition: Flexibility and Job Security in Global Context
• Precarious Work and Employment Risks in East Asia
• RC30 Business Meeting
• Repensar la desigualdad social del siglo XXI: Singularidades y retos inedulibles. Rethinking Social Inequality in the 21st Century: Uniqueness and Ineludible Challenges
• Work-Life Interference in a Time of Austerity. L’interférence travail-vie privée en période d’austérité. Interferencia entre trabajo y vida en tiempos de austeridad
• Workplace Innovation – Social Innovation Shaping Work Organisation and Working Life

Sociology of Migration, RC31

• Ambivalence as a Category for Migration Studies: Promises, Pitfalls, Ways Ahead
• Arts, Migration and Incorporation: A Global Perspective
• Asian Migration from Comparative Perspectives
• Back to Class and Race: Migrant Workers and Low Income Jobs in a Globalizing World
• Circular or Temporary Mobilities and Global Inequality
• Contemporary Labor Migration Policies in East Asia
• Contemporary Spatial Mobilities in Family Life
• Emergent Multi-Cultural Identities and Practices of Immigrants: Toward the Recognition of Yet Another Integration Trajectory
• Exploring Return Migration
• Forced Migration
• Immigrant Integration in the New Immigration Destinations
• Immigration and Participation in Voluntary Organizations
• Japanese-Brazilians from Global Sociological Perspectives
• Migration and Gender
• Migration in Africa: Challenges for Global Sociology
• Migration, Gender and Development: Narrating Experiences in the Global Context
• New Trends in Migration Flows
• RC31 Business Meeting
• Re-Migration of Immigrants: Who Stays, Returns, and Moves on?
• Transnational Lives: Inequalities and Adaptation
• Transnational Migration Networks among Ethnic Minorities in the Global Era

Women in Society, RC32

• A Cross-National Comparative Approach to CEDAW as an Instrument to Effect Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
• Author Meets their Critics
• Confronting De-professionalization, Deskilling and Inequality: Immigrant Women’s Alternative Strategies for Survival
• Crisis, Transnational Migration, and the Gender Order in Europe
• Gender and Work in a Global Context
• Gender in Sexual Minorities Research: Focus on Asian Scholarship
• Gender, Culture and Innovation in the Bio-Economy
• Gender, Violence, and Disaster: Rebuilding and Co-Construction through Participation
• Gender, Violence, Human Rights, Peace: Activist / Research from Different Parts of the World
• Gender, Work and Family under Globalized Economy: Asia and Beyond
• Gendering BRICS: To what extent and how have Economic Growth and Economic Development been translated into Increased Gender Equality in Emerging World Economies?
• Global Cities and Women’s Emotional Labor
• Interrogating Gender and State in Local, National and Transnational Contexts
• Latin American Women’s Agency and Resistance in a Globalized World. Acciones y resistencia de las mujeres latinoamericanas en un mundo globalizado
• Looking at Inequalities through the Intersectional Prism: Potentialities and Challenges
• Negotiating Gender and Generation in Transnational Cultures
• RC32 Awards / Reception
• RC32 Business Meeting
• RC32 Roundtable Session I. Women’s Experiences in Labor Markets, Families and Households in Globalized Society
• RC32 Roundtable Session IA. Housewives at the Intersection of the Local, National and Global
• RC32 Roundtable Session II. Women and Gender in an Unequal World
• RC32 Roundtable Session IIA. Are White Collar Women Workers “Proletarianized” in the Globalized Economy?
• Social Transformation of the Middle East and the Shaping of Gender and Family Relationships
• The Global Migration of Gendered Care Work
• Thinking Gender on a World Scale: Prioritising Feminist Theory from the South
• Women and the Economic Crisis: New Challenges and New Forms of Gender Inequalities
• Women in the Academic Workplace: Challenging the Dynamics of Gender, Power and Knowledge
• Work, Women, Class and Care: Working Women in Contemporary European Cities

Logic and Methodology in Sociology, RC33

• Analysing and Counteracting Undesired Response Patterns in Survey Research
• Challenges to the Secondary Analysis of Large-Scale Cross-National Comparative Surveys
• Cognitive Aspects of Survey Research
• Crisis, Transnational Migration, and the Gender Order in Europe
• Dealing with Nonresponse: Strategies to Increase Participation and Methods for Post-Survey Adjustments
• Design Aspects of Response Scales in Surveys
• Facing the Challenges of Data Collection via Mobile Internet
• How to Think Methodology without Notion of Object nor Subject?
• Latent Constructs or Simply Descriptive Measures? Index Based Measurement and Applications
• Measuring and Making Use of Social Embeddedness in Survey Research
• Methods of Social Network Analysis
• RC33 Business Meeting
• Recent Advances in Composite Likelihood Methods for Modelling Multivariate Longitudinal Data
• Response Latencies in Survey Research: Methodology and Applications
• Spatial Methods
• Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Different Dimensions and Aspects of Inequality
• Time Use and Daily Activities
• Using Survey Data to Describe Societies at Global Level – Is There Still a Hidden Treasure?
• Well-being and Quality of Life. Methodological Challenges for Cross-National Surveys

Sociology of Youth, RC34

• RC34 Business Session Meeting Part I
• RC34 Business Session Meeting Part II
• Theme I. Presidential Session 1. Youth in Emergent Prosperity: Perspectives for the Sociology of Youth in the BRICS Countries
• Theme I. Presidential Session 2: Youth in Austerity
• Theme I.1 Opportunities and Challenges for Youth Studies
• Theme I.2 Japanese Youth Studies
• Theme I.3 Towards a Comparative Sociology of Youth: Alternative Frameworks and Empirical Advances
• Theme II.1 Faces of Uncertain Transitions to Adulthood across Cultures
• Theme II.2 Unequal Age: Young People, Inequality and Youth Work
• Theme II.3 Youth Unemployment / Underemployment and Precarity
• Theme III.1 Building a Transnational Sense of Justice among Youth in a Globalized World
• Theme III.2 Youth and Social Media: Transformative Agents of Social Change
• Theme IV.1 Chronotopes of Youth: Spaces and Times of Youth Cultures in the Global City
• Theme IV.2 Time and Space in Youth Studies
• Theme V.1 Social Inequality in Young People’s Housing Transitions
• Theme V.2 Youth Education-Work Nexus: Potentialities, Vulnerabilities and Resilience
• Theme V.3 Troubled Youth, Troubled Families?
• Theme VI.1 The Youth Research Journey and How to Address It: Method and Ethics

Conceptual and Terminological Analysis, RC35

• Citizenship, Cosmopolitan Recognition and Democratic Imaginaries
• Giving as Social Practice and Economic Alternative
• Individuality Revisited: A Concept between Cultural and Epistemological Perspectives
• Ontologies of Development and its Absence
• Power and Violence Revisited: Understanding the Theoretical Significance of Challenges to Western Modernity
• RC35 Business Meeting
• Renegotiating Modernity: Imaginaries, Projects and Critiques
• Resonance Theory and the Quality of Life
• Rethinking Concepts of ’Global Sociology’ from Indigenous Perspectives
• Semantics of the Concept of Community: Different Traditions and Cultural Backgrounds
• Sociological Inquiries into the Concept of ‘Crisis’
• Technology and Society: How Culture-Bound are Sociological Concepts?
• The Concept of Society: National, Global or None?
• The Global South and Postcolonial Perspectives in International Sociology
• Time and Society

Alienation Theory and Research, RC36

• Alienation and Sub-alterity: Race, Ethnicity, and Struggle
• Alienation, Emotions, and Well-Being
• Disrespect and Misrecognition
• From Alienation to Agency
• Global Protest and Alternative Media
• Post-colonized Eastern Europe: Overcoming Alienation and Social Fatigue
• Race, Ethnicity and Alienated Consciousness
• RC36 Business Meeting
• Rethinking Reification in Contemporary Social Theory
• Security, Inequality, Alienation – The Banner of a Revolution in Reverse?
• The Impact of the Use of Digital Media in Social Life
• Theories and Practices of Alienation: New Perspectives
• Wither the 2011 Mobilizations: Progressive, Regressive or Irrelevant
• Youth and Alienation

Sociology of Arts, RC37

• Analyzing Art Works as a Way to Social Knowledge. Part I
• Analyzing Art Works as a Way to Social Knowledge. Part II
• Artistic Reputations, Success and Consecration: A Sociological Analysis
• Carving Out Gastronomical Spaces of Aesthetic Publics: Cuisine and City in Global Perspective
• Emotions and the Sociology of Art
• Literature and Sociological Knowledge
• Meta, Macro, Meso, Micro: Different Levels of Analysis in the Sociology of Art
• RC37 Business Meeting
• Sociological Approaches to Western Music in Japan
• The Arts as Affordances for Action, Affect and Cognition
• The Arts in ’Times of Trouble’
• The Artwork Made Me Do It: Reflections on Art and Agency
• The Sociology of Art in Japan
• What is the Worth of Art?: Approaches to the Sociology of Art Valuations and Evaluations

Biography and Society, RC38

• Biographical Perspectives on Intimacy and Passion
• Biographies in the Global South and Collective Histories. Individual Remembering in Interrelation with Public and Hegemonic Discourses
• Biography and Politics
• Biography, Violence and Gender
• Concepts of Inclusion from a Biographical Perspective
• Constructing Biographies in Different Media
• Crisis, Transnational Migration, and the Gender Order in Europe
• Different Perspectives on Life Stories
• Embodied Biographies and Sexy Stories
• RC38 Business Meeting
• Reconstructing Gendered Biographies in Transcultural Research Settings: Methodological Challenges
• The Concept of Transnationality under Conditions of Social Inequality. A Look at Transnationality through the Magnifying Glass
• Understanding Social Problems through Narratives by Insiders

Sociology of Disasters, RC39

• Adapting to Climate Change: New Ideas and Voices
• Cities as Socio-Ecological Places: Global Risks and Local Vulnerabilities
• Cultural Preservation, Memory, and Restoration in Disaster Contexts
• Disaster and Development Discourses, Policies, and Practices
• Disaster Capitalism: Exploring the Political Economy of Disaster
• Disaster Vulnerability, Resilience Building, and Social Marginality
• Disaster Warnings
• Disasters and Politics
• From Disaster to Lessons Learned: Citizen Resilience and Government Accountability in the Aftermath of Disasters
• Learning from History: Research into Past Disasters
• Lessons Learned through Assessing Disaster Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation
• Looking for Relief: Humanitarian Aid and Volunteerism in the Aftermath of Disaster
• RC39 Business Meeting
• Sociological Studies and Disaster: The Challenges of Regulation
• The Impact of Disasters on Culture, Livelihood, and Material Goods
• What a Gender Lens Brings to Disaster Studies: Case Studies from Japan and Beyond

Sociology of Agriculture and Food, RC40

• Alternative Food Practices in the Global South: Organic and Sustainable Production and Local/Global Issues in Distribution and Consumption
• Food Security Part I. Intersections between Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods
• Food Security Part II. Politics of Food Security in Asia Pacific: Neoliberal Reforms, Contamination, and Social Movements
• Food Security Part III. Critical Perspectives on Food Crises, World Hunger and Farming Alternatives
• Global Agri-Food and Labor Relations: Exploitation, Vulnerabilities and Resistence of Agri-Food Workers
• Land as an Asset Class: The Future of Food and Farming
• RC40 Business Meeting
• Towards a Different and More Future-Oriented Understanding of Agricultural Modernization

Sociology of Population, RC41

• Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion
• Gender Mortality and Morbidity Inequality
• Gender-Related Aspects of Fertility
• Global Issues in Family Research
• Impact of Rapid Population Growth on the Environment
• Impacto de la violencia en la demografía latinoamericana
• Organizational Consequences of Aging and Declining Populations
• Population, Gender Inequality and International Migration
• RC41 Business Meeting
• RC41 Roundtable: Global Population Challenges in an Unequal World
• El efecto de la migración en el envejecimiento
• Trend in Current Population Research: Open Session

Social Psychology, RC42

• Gender Roles
• In-equality in a Global Community
• Keynote speaker: Cecilia RIDGEWAY, Stanford University, USA
• Keynote speaker: Guillermina JASSO, New York University, USA
• Leadership
• Morality
• Power Relations
• RC42 Business Meeting
• Relative Deprivation, Entitlement, and Perceptions of Fairness
• Sexism, Racism and Ageism
• Social Exchange and Trust
• Social Identities
• Social Interaction
• Social Justice
• Social Psychology and Culture
• Well-Being and Life Satisfaction
• Work Values, Norms and Perceptions

Housing and Built Environment, RC43

• Home-Making Practices and the Domestic Spaces of Migrant and Ethnic Minorities
• Housing Wealth, Intergenerational Financial Transfers and Family Solidarity
• Housing, Diversity and Identity
• Older People, Housing and the City
• RC43 Business Meeting
• Shrinking Cities: Implications for Housing and the Built Environment
• Social/Public Housing: What Place Does It Have in Society Today?
• Where is Home and Why Does It Matter in Our Global Society?

Labor Movements, RC44

• Asian Labor Insurgency
• Three New Perspectives in Global Labour Studies. Session with Rina Agarwala, Ruy Braga and Jamie McCallum
• Building Global Worker Communities among Migrant Worker Diasporas
• Chinese Workers in the Global Economy: Structural Conditions and Agency of Resistance
• Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards for Workers in Industrialized Market Economies and Beyond
• Confronting the Challenge of Global Corporate Empires
• Geopolitical Turmoil and the Fate of the Labor Movement in the 21st Century: 10 years after Forces of Labor
• Mobilizing at the Margins: Comparing Informal Worker Organizing Around the World
• New Organizing Strategies for Confronting Gender Bias and Discrimination for Women Workers
• No Borders, No Boundaries: Organizational Changes, Strategic Innovations and Prospects for a Global Labour Movement
• Organizing East Asia’s Precarious Workers
• Precarious Employment Regimes: Divergent Trajectories of Regulation and Union Mobilization
• Precarious Labor and Working Class Resistance in Comparative Perspective
• Precarious Work and Employment Risks in East Asia
• RC44 Business Meeting
• RC44 Roundtable IA: Labor Sociology in Capitalist Peripheries
• RC44 Roundtable IB: Structural and Associational Power in the New Global Order
• RC44 Roundtable IC: Global Capitalism, Uneven Development, and Local Labor Regimes in Comparative and World-Historical Perspective
• RC44 Roundtable ID: Promoting Worker Organizing and Social and Economic Justice through Activist-Scholar Research Collaborations
• RC44 Roundtable IE: Does Economic Growth Mean Ecological Catastrophe? Challenges for Labour?
• The Global Migration of Gendered Care Work
• Workers’ Livelihood Struggles and New Collectivities in the Global South

Rational Choice, RC45

• Attitudes and Rationality
• Current Research in Rational Choice Theory. Part I
• Current Research in Rational Choice Theory. Part II
• Institutional Change in Times of Crisis: Rational Choices in Historical Sociology
• Intimate Relations
• Rational Action and Trust
• Rational Choice and Network Dynamics
• RC45 Business Meeting
• Relationalism, Rationality, and Embedded Institutions
• Social Capital and Rational Choice Theory

Clinical Sociology, RC46

• Addressing Inequality before, during and after Difficult Times: Research, Intervention and Effective Outcomes
• Analyse critique et clinique de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique
• Clinical Sociology Analysis and/or Intervention in Work or Educational Settings
• Clinical Sociology and Community Intervention
• Clinical Sociology and Inclusiveness
• Sociologie clinique et changement social
• Sociologie clinique, diversité culturelle et immigration
• Clinical Sociology, Health and Social Policy
• Courses, Programmes, Certification and Accreditation in Clinical Sociology
• Destructive Social Experiences and/or Dependencies
• Epistemology, Theories, Research Methods and/or Research Ethics in Clinical Sociology
• History of Clinical Sociology in Countries and Regions: Descriptions and/or Comparisons
• RC46 Business Meeting
• Sociology and Social Work: Past, Present and Future
• Violence et souffrance dans les milieux de travail

Social Classes and Social Movements, RC47

• Borderless Movements from Political Action to People Free Mobility
• Cultural Fields and Movement Trajectories: Comparing the Effect of Different Cultures upon Movements in the Political Process
• Emotions and Protest
• Latin American Social Movements in Comparative and Transnational Perspective
• Old or New Cycles of Contention? Anarchist Strains in Contemporary Social Movements
• Players and Arenas: Strategic Dynamics of Politics and Protest
• Popular Unrest and Resistance Movements in Africa
• Populism, Nationalism and Social Movement
• RC47 Business Meeting
• Re-Thinking Urban Social Movements
• Social Media and Collective Identities in the New Activism
• Social Movements in Present Asia
• Social Movements, Inequality and Global Environmental Change: Exploring New Actors and Evolving Institutional Frameworks at Multiple Levels of Governance
• Theorizing Social Movements and Expressions of Contestation: Towards a Global Dialogue
• Violent versus Nonviolent Strategies by Movements and States
• Work, Subjectivity and Social Movements

Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change, RC48

• Activists and Activisms Amidst Occupy-Type Protests: Practices, Possibilities and Dilemmas
• Aprendizaje en la calle: Cases of Education Reform Movements in Latin America
• Civil Society and Collective Actions
• Climate Justice? Climate Movements and Climate Inequality
• Democracy Now: Are New Understandings of Radical Democracy Transforming its Practice?
• Dilemmas of Unfinished Revolutions
• Feminists Movements and Feminists Mobilizations in a Complex World
• Media and Social Movements in the Age of Globalization
• Movements and Civil Society Actors Against Corruption and Organized Crime
• Occupy-Type Protests in Comparative Perspective
• Outside Agitators, Coalition Partners, and Social Movement Success
• Players and Arenas: Strategic Dynamics of Politics and Protest
• Pre-Disaster Alternative Politics in Post-Disaster Protests
• Protest, Movement and New Identities in Contemporary India
• Radical Left Wing Movements and Contemporary Politics
• RC48 Business Meeting
• Symbols and Social Movements
• The Transnationality of Transnational Movements
• Wither the 2011 Mobilizations: Progressive, Regressive or Irrelevant

Mental Health and Illness, RC49

• Building Networks and Sharing Mental Suffering
• Gender and Mental Health
• HIV/AIDS, Social Inequality, and Social Justice
• Mental Health and Adolescents
• Mental Health and Crime
• Mental Health and the Family
• RC49 Business Meeting
• Safety and Mental Health in Contemporary Societies
• Social Change and Mental Health in Asian Countries
• The Sociology of Diagnostic Systems and their Emerging Trends

International Tourism, RC50

• Beyond the Gaze. Tourist Experiences with Senses Other than Sight
• Ethical Dimensions of Tourism Practices: Tourism and its Social Contributions in and beyond Japan
• Experiences and Narratives of Travel and Mobility
• Festivals and Cultural Tourism
• New Developments of Medical Tourism in Asia: The Cross-roads of Economics and Ethics
• Problems and Solutions in Intangible Heritage and World Heritage Site Tourism
• RC50 Business Meeting
• Science and Power Relations in Tourism Studies
• Tourism Issues in Japan and China
• Tourist Experiences and Gender

Sociocybernetics, RC51

• A More Equal World: A Systemic Perspective to Think the Relation between Knowledge Construction and Cultural Management Development
• Complejidad, intervención social y trabajo comunitario. Complexity, Social Intervention and Community Work
• Developments in Systems and/or Cybernetic Approaches: Asian and European and American Perspectives. Part I
• Developments in Systems and/or Cybernetic Approaches: Asian and European and American Perspectives. Part II
• Gender Based Violence, Consequences and Public Policies: Sociocybernetic Approaches
• Interpersonal Violence as a Complex Issue: Research through Advanced Techniques Using Discourse Analysis, Video and Micro Methods of Data Analysis
• Observing Social Systems in the Era of Big Data
• Online Health Information Seeking, Health Management and Gender
• Open Systems, Open Data, Open Government
• RC51 Business Meeting
• Recalibrating the Social
• Social Networks, Digital Generation and Democratization Processes
• Sociocybernetic Theories and Conceptualizations of Social Change and Transformations
• Sociocybernetics of Innovation: Drivers, Barriers and Stabilizers of Innovation in Different Theoretical Contexts
• Special Sessions in Cooperation with the Japanese Systems Theory Societies. Part I: Dialogue on New Generation Systems Approach
• Special Sessions in Cooperation with the Japanese Systems Theory Societies. Part II: Dialogue on Niklas Luhmann’s Sociological Systems Theory
• The Management of Complex Organizations and Firms: A Sociocybernetic Challenge
• The Sociocybernetics of “Cybernation” and the Emerging “Cyber-Nation”

Sociology of Professional Groups, RC52

• Challenges for Professionalism in a Global Managerialism
• Change and Inequality in Professional Status
• Doing a PhD: Researching, Publishing and Networking in the Field of Sociology of Professions
• Globalization, ICT and Professions: Emerging Trends
• Inequities within Professions: Patterns of Intra-professional Hierarchies
• Inter-professional Collaboration and Inequality
• Knowledge Workers: Processes of Hybridization, Marketization and Subjectivation
• New Inequalities, New Professionalism, New Ethics?
• Professionalism and Expertise
• Professions, Incentives and Interests
• RC52 Business Meeting
• Rethinking Professions: Visions and Divisions in World Perspective
• The Changing Relationship between Clinical Professionalism and Management: From Polarisation to Hybridization?
• Theoretical Challenges for Professions and Professionalism: Changes, Inequalities, Values and Ideologies

Sociology of Childhood, RC53

• Child Abuse and Neglect: Causes and Remedies in 21st Century
• Childhood: Socialization in a Globalized World
• Childhoods in ‘Other’ Countries: Challenges for Theory and Practice
• Children and Violence in Close Relationships
• Indigenous Issues, Conflict and Children
• Inequality, Diversity, Discrimination
• Institutional Interactions Involving Children
• International Migration, Adaptation and Inequalities during Childhood
• RC53 Business Meeting
• RC53 Roundtable: Facing an Unequal World – Challenges for Childhood within a Global Sociology
• Social Definitions of Children’s Problems and Professional Interventions. From Local Specifics to Global Implementations
• The Queer Child/The Queer Family: Challenging Normative Constructions of Childhood and Children’s Families

The Body in the Social Sciences, RC54

• Identifying Bodies and Bodily Inequalities in an Inequal World
• Author Meets their Critics
• Bodily Power at Work in Everyday Practices
• Challenges and Trends in Sociology of Time
• Dancing Bodies: Accessing Implicit Memories
• Design, Undesign and Redesign: Eliminating Embodied Inequality
• Embodiment in Digital Society. New Perspectives in Social Time
• Embodying Another Self
• Facing Unequal Bodies. On the Construction of Social Inequality in Body Image
• Let’s Re-invent an Embodied Sociology
• Music on the Move: The Rhythms of Mobility and Performed Movement-Space
• RC54 Business Meeting
• The Robot and the Forest
• The Sensory Inscribed Body

Social Indicators, RC55

• Changes and Dynamics: Challenges in Constructing and Defining Complex Social Indicators
• Conditions for Happiness
• Construction of Composite Index: Methodological Innovation
• Happiness in Social Theory
• Keynote Speech Session
• Pain and Social Suffering Indicators around the World
• Quality of Life across Life Courses: Early Predictors, Mediating Processes, and Moderators
• Quality of Life in Times of Recession
• RC55 Business Meeting
• Social Policy and Well-Being
• Social Quality/Social Well-Being Indicator: From Social Economic Security to Social Empowerment
• Sustainability of the Welfare State: Implications for Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Studies
• Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: The Challenges and Opportunities of ‘Aging in Place’ in an International Context
• Violence and Culture: The Prevalence of Physical Punishment

Plenary Themes, PLENARY

• Dimensions of Inequality
• Dynamics of Inequality
• Justice and Inequality
• Social Injures of Inequality and Social Resistance

Japanese Thematic Sessions, THEMATIC

• Natural/Human Disasters and the Recovery of Local Society
• Low Fertility, Rapidly Aging Society, and Changing Gender Relations
• Civil Society Issues: CSOs, NGOs, Social Movements
• Globalization, Migration and Multi-ethnicity in Asia: Mobility and Conviviality in Northeast Asia Based on Case Studies of Foreign Workers and Intermarriage Migrants in Japan
• New Cultural Waves from Asia

Integrative Sessions, INTEGRATIVE

• Addressing Inequality Before, During and after Difficult Times: Research, Intervention and Effective Outcomes
• Crisis, Transnational Migration, and the Gender Order in Europe
• Emerging Society and Sociological Discourse in BRICS Countries
• Inequality and the Future of Aging: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Trends, Implications, Policies, and Practices
• Players and Arenas: Strategic Dynamics of Politics and Protest
• Precarious Work and Employment Risks in East Asia
• Social Network and Social Capital in East Asian Societies: China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan
• The Global Migration of Gendered Care Work
• The Global South and Postcolonial Perspectives in International Sociology
• Wither the 2011 Mobilizations: Progressive, Regressive or Irrelevant
• Economic Regionalization and Social Inequality in East Asia
• Japanese-Brazilians from Global Sociological Perspectives

National, Regional, Linguistic and Thematic Associations, ASSOCIATIONS

• Gender Inequality and Its Multi-Dimensional Complexity in Korea
• Social Stratification and Inequality in South Korea
• Social Inclusion Problem in Transforming Azerbaijan
• The Role of National and Regional Associations of Sociology in Understanding the Processes of Democratization in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Theories About and Approaches towards the Internationalization of Sociology in the Era of Globalization: Asian Perspectives
• From Social Sciences to Social Changes: Dialogue about Education across the Mediterranean

Professional Development Sessions, PROFESSIONAL

• Academic Publishing and Its Key Roles
• Junior Sociologists meet Senior Sociologists
• Global Dialogue – 4 Years On

Ad Hoc Sessions, AD

• Debates about Climate Change: a Cross-Societal Comparison
• Dilemmas of Public Sociology: Negotiating the Academic and the Political
• Dimensions and Dynamics of Inequality in the Global South
• Exploring Hegemonic Masculinities in The World Gender Order from The East and The South
• Facets of Multiculturalism and Transnationalism
• Inequality, the Capability Approach and Sociology
• Rethinking Modernity and Capitalisms

Total 1104 sessions.

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