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


Research Committee on
Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice RC26

Main theme
Enhancing capacities to impress on policy for sustainable communities. Local cohesion partnerships, basic income, social economy


Programme Coordinators
Tsobanoglou George, The Aegean University, Greece, G.Tsobanoglou@soc.aegean.gr and Nikita Pokrovsky, nikita@gol.ru

The RC 26 theme deals with the current state in the process of social innovation regarding social cohesion, local empowerment and sustainability as governance issues. Our aim is to discuss current approaches in the E.U. / OECD member states such as the Lisbon Process, the Riga Declaration of 2005 on "Design -For -All" regimes and e-inclusion, to name a few on building sustainability and combating exclusion and poverty. Designing empowerement processes and building sustainable democratic local communities, as the local partnerships have done, have opened up new ways for the social economy to expand. Not for Profit organizations are becoming slowly social enterprises and as such become the real new cohesion economy that engineers the viability of renewed communities. Many innovative processes have emerged from this foundamental sociological process that tells us that building social capital is essential for sustainable growth.

Venue of RC26 sessions:

Edifici Rambla de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra
La Rambla 32
08002 Barcelona, Spain, map

 

Session 1: Russia in a changing world : the dynamics and quality of citizenship and civil society

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair: Nikita Pokrovsky, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia , nikita@gol.ru

Session 2: A changing world: The dynamics and quality of citizenship and civil society

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chairs: George Tsobanoglou, Aegean University, Mytilini, Greece g.tsobanoglou@soc.aegean.gr and Hans Harms, Spain, drhansharms@yahoo.com

Session 3 Enhancing capacities to impress on policy for sustainable communities. Social capital, social economy

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chairs: Hans Harms, Spain, drhansharms@yahoo.com and Sokratis Koniordos skoni@social.uo.uoc.gr

Session 4 Enhancing capacities to innovate on policy for sustainable communities. Local cooperation

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chair : Marina Karides, Florida Atlantic University, USA, mkarides@fau.edu

Session 5 : New organization forms and social innovation

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chairs : Ake Sandberg, Sweden, Ake.Sandberg@sociology.su.se George Gantzias, Greece, ggantzias@yahoo.gr

Session 6: Clinical sociology, sociotechnics, and sociological practice: Research strategies and practices

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Joint session of RC46 Clinical Sociology with RC26 Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice
Chairs: Jean-François René, Université Quebec, Montreal, Canada, rene.jean-francois@uqam.ca and Marie Alderson, Canada

Session 7 : Business Meeting

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30

Ad Hoc Session

Joint event of Undergraduate and Research Committee on Sociotechnics - Sociological Practice RC26