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Established in 1996
Recognized as Working Group in July 2006
Statutes
Board
2007-2010
President
Natalia
VELIKAYA,
Russia, velik69@mail.ru
Vice-Presidents
Krzysztof OSTROWSKI, Pultusk School of
Humanities, Poland
Henry
TEUNE,
University of Pennsylvania, USA (deceased 2011)
Secretary/Treasurer
Tatiana ISKRA, Pultusk School
of Humanities, Poland, tatiana.iskra@neostrada.pl
Board members
Kusein
ISAEV,
Kyrgyzstan
Arvydas
MATULIONIS,
Institute of Social Research,
Lithuania
Past Boards Website of WG01
Objectives
The subject matter of the WG01 is the emergence and shifts
of the new 'localisms', neighborhoods, local communities,
ethnic and language identities, affinity groups, and economic
and political associations, and their aggregation into networks
and their formation of systems that create regions and impact
the incipient world system. As part of this, the role of
the individual will be examined, in particular the processes
of individualization within a global framework.
The theoretical contexts include spatial
and temporal relations, the development of increased complexity
or integrated diversity that transcends traditional boundaries,
the logics of regionalism, including those of political
integration as well as classical concepts from human and
social ecology.
The new methodological base of the WG01 would
be that of fuzzy sets, most of which has been advanced in
the engineering sciences and yet has limited applications
in the social and behavioral sciences other than psychology.
This methodology would depart from standard cross-level
analyses, so much a part of ecological research with fixed
sets, to that of fuzzy and sets and systems in which the
member components have multiple and shifting memberships.
Some of this has now been developed in computer programs,
at a stage similar to that of cross-level analysis about
15 years ago, that can be adopted to sociological data.
The data to be addresses are at several levels,
community, region, country, transnational regions, and the
world as a whole, at two or more points in time. This would
be the ideal. Much less structured data are expected to
be the norm. Since the 1950s data on sub national units
and groups within countries have been accumulating, and,
of course, these data are being stretched into several points
of time. Indeed, the combination of individual survey data
within structures of groups, countries, and associations
beyond national boundaries, envisioned by Stein Rokkan more
than three decades ago, have now become a reality for many
domains of human activity and organization.
The group organized Ad Hoc sessions at the
ISA XIII World Congress of Sociology in Bielefeld, 1994,
and since then has been involved in exchange of research
among the participants on the Democracy and Local Governance
research program which now has gathered data on local political
leaders in 24 countries.
Forthcoming Activities
Membership
Dues $40 ($20 discount) for a 4-year period.ISA membership
registration form is available on https://secured.com/~f3641/formisa.htm
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