XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Sociology on the move, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010

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May 4, 2010, Registration Deadline

Author Meets Critics

 

These sessions will provide an exciting opportunity to meet and critically discuss the recent work of the eminent contemporary sociologists, particularly relevant for the theme of the Congress.

The invitations were extended to selected scholars by the Programme Committee. Meetings will be held at 17:45-19:45 on July 12-16, 2010.

Venue
Handels (The School of Business, Economics and Law)

Each session, group or committee is allocated in the same venue throughout the Congress, except for few occasions such as joint sessions. This is a preliminary venue and can be subject to minor changes. The final schedule will be presented in June.

Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl
Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures

Convenor: Björn Wittrock, Swedish Collegium for Advance Studies, Sweden, bjorn.wittrock@scasss.uu.se

Randall Collins
Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory
and
Michel Wieviorka
Violence a New Approach

Convenor: Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Rampao College, USA, lustigerthaler@aol.com

Saskia Sassen
A Sociology of Globalization

Convenor: Michael Burawoy, University of California, USA, burawoy@berkeley.edu

Sylvia Walby
Globalization and complex inequalities

Convenor: Ulla Bjornberg, Unversity of Gothenburg, Sweden, ulla.bjornberg@sociology.gu.se

Peter Hedström
Dissecting the Social: On the Principles of Analytical Sociology

Convenor: Yosimichi Sato, Tohoku University, Japan, ysato@sal.tohoku.ac.jp