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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008

Ad Hoc Session
Junior Sociologists Network

Main theme
Unconventional ways of doing research: Questioning the frontiers of sociology


Program committee
Claudia Carvalho, MIT, USA, Michelle Hsieh, Dmitry Khodyakov, Rutgers State University, USA, Wiebke Keim, Germany, Yuriy Savelyev, Ukraine

Venue of sessions:

Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History
University of Barcelona
Montalegre, 6
08001 Barcelona, Spain, map

Session 1: New research foci

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Dmitry Khodyakov, Rutgers State University, USA, dkhodyakov@sociology.rutgers.edu

Session 2: Unconventional research methodologies

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Claudia Carvalho, MIT, USA, claudiap@mit.edu

Session 3: Sociology outside of sociology: social intervention and the visual

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Yuriy Savelyev, Ukraine, yursave@yahoo.com

Session 4: Institutionally backed forms of unconventional research. The example of Maestría in Social Psychology of Groups, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Wiebke Keim, Germany, wiebke.keim@web.de