Members of the Executive Committee

Robert Van Krieken AUSTRALIA

Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. President of RC53, Sociology of Childhood, and Board Member of RC 17, Sociology of Organizations. Member of the Australian Sociological Association, the American Sociological Association, the European Sociological Association, the International Institute of Sociology, and the Lav and Society Association. He has served as Associate Dean for Postgraduate Matters and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney, and has been Senior Research Fellow in the Reshaping Australian Institutions Project in the Research Schoo of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. In addition to organizing RC5conference sessions, he has also contributed to the organization of Figurational Sociology sessions at the ISA World Congress and other conferences. Publications include Norbert Elias (Routledge, 1998), Children and the State (Allen ant Unwin, 1992) as well as numerous articles in journals such as Economy and Society, British Journal of Sociology, Sociological Review, Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Modern Law Review, Social and Legal Studies. He is also the lead author of the most widely-used sociology textbook in Australia, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives (Pearson, 2006). His current research, funded by the Australian Research Council, concerns a historicalsociological analysis of the recent shifts in family law towards a 'permanent parenting' model of parent-child relations in which parenting roles are seen increasingly as surviving beyond separation and divorce, and he is writing a book together with David Nelken titled Law's Truth.

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