Junior Sociologists
Previous Competitions
| Organizer | Elena ZDRAVOMYSLOVA, European University, Russian Federation |
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| Winners | Bouchta EZZIANI, Université Sidi Mohamed Ben AbdiAllah, Fès, Morocco Youth and Sexuality in Moroccan Society: The Case of Educated Youth Karen FOSTER, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada The Ethics of Work and Consumption in Rural Atlantic Canada Tommaso GRAVANTE, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México Desaparición forzada y trauma cultural en México. La construcción de una nueva narrativa social a partir del Movimiento de Ayotzinapa Martin PORTOS GARCIA, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy Unpacking the Virtuous Circle: Aggrieved Protesters, Eventful Protests or Both at the Same Time? Yuan Zheng LI, Université Laval, Québec, Canada Join the Eco-innovation Bandwagon: Evidence from Chinese Firms |
| Finalists | Xuan DONG, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Cinderellas on the Training Ground: Femininities in Transition among Female Martial Arts Students in China Minwoo JUNG, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA World Society in Action: Mobilizing the International in South Korean LGBT Activism Ben LAKSANA, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Religious Diversity of the Everyday: Understanding Religious Inclusivity through Young People’s Lived Religious Citizenship in Indonesia Tania RUIZ-CHAPMAN, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada The Bare Life of Undocumented Migration: Maintaining the Cartesian Subject through the ‘Illegal Mexican’ Ahmed SELIM, University of Kent, United Kingdom The Role of the Resource Mobilization & the Political Opportunities in the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Lyuba SPASOVA, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Approval towards Deviance in Government: A Case Study on Dual Reality Creation |
| Organizer | Yoshimichi SATO, Tohoku University, Japan |
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| Winners | Xiaoguang FAN, Fudan Univ, Ming LEI and Yang XIAO, Xi´an Jiaotong University, China Lineage Networks and Conflict Resolution in Rural China Jeong-Chul KIM, Northwestern University, USA Elevating, Obliterating, and Devaluing: Indigenous Collaboration and Conceptualizing the Nation in Japanese-Occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945 Junpeng LI, Columbia University, USA The Religion of the Nonreligious and the Politics of the Apolitical: The Transformation of Falun Gong from a Healing Practice to a Political Movement Elena BOGDANOVA, Centre for Independent Social Research How Utopia Came True: The Baikal-Amur Mainline Construction was the Happiest Time in my Life Jacobo MUÑOZ-COMET, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Spain El impacto del desempleo sobre los trabajadores temporales. ¿Por qué los extranjeros son más vulnerables durante la Gran Recesión? |
| Finalists | Tuukka YLÄ-ANTTILA, University of Helsinki, Finland Populism as Politics of Personal Experience: The Case of Suvivirsi Alexis CORTÉS, IESP-UERJ, Brazil André de La Victoria o la Victoria de André: la emergencia de un affaire durante la Dictadura Militar chilena Isabelle ANCHIETA, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil La Sociedad de Rostros |
| Organizer | Louis CHAUVEL, Sciences-Po, University Paris, France |
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| Winners | Stefan BARGHEER, University of Chicago, USA Toward a Leisure Theory of Value. The Game of Bird-watching and the Concern for Conservation in Great Britain Sunnee BILLINGSLEY, University of Stockholm, Sweden Exploring the Conditions for a Mortality Crisis: Bringing Context Back into the Debate Rachel BUSBRIDGE, University of South Australia Double-tasks and Transformations: The Politics of Recognition for Arab-Australians Post-9/11 |
| Finalists | Miguel Ángel FERNÁNDEZ LLANOS, University of Chile Un modelo analítico del cambio social y cultural Juan Alberto ROCHA ÁGUILA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Cambios en la tenencia de la tierra en Huando: un análisis de las trayectorias ideológicas y socioeconómicas de los trabajadores beneficiados por la reforma agraria Clement RUFFIER, University of Lyon, France La carrière de l'objet technique comme une succession de boucles reliant ses trois formes : le cas d'un moteur de camion en France et en Chine |
| Commended | Javier ÁVILA MOLERO, University of Barcelona, Spain El análisis de redes personales como nueva herramienta para el estudio de las comunidades inmigrantes transnacionales. Estudio comparativo de argentinos, dominicanos, marroquíes y senegaleses en Barcelona, España Olga GUROVA, School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia Fashioning the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia Fatma KASSEM-AGBARIA, Ben Gurion University, Israel The Subaltern Has a Voice, Can Speak and Write Juli LEZHNINA, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Evaluation of the Practicability of Raising the Retirement Age in Russia So-Jung LIM, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Educational Differentials in Married Women's Labor Force Participation in Japan during the 1990s Dobroslawa WIKTOR-MACH, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland On Secularization, Modernity and Islamic Revival |
| Organizer | Kenneth THOMPSON, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK |
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| Winners | Michael LINDSAY, University of Princeton, USA Liminal Organization in Elite Ranks: Linking Societal Power to Religious Faith Michelle HSIEH, McGill University, Montreal, Canada East Asian Miracle Revisited: Taiwan-South Korea Comparison through a Case Study of the Bicycle Industry Dmitry KHODYAKOV, The State University of New Jersey, USA Trust as a Process: A Three-Dimensional Approach |
| Highly Commended | Francisco LINARES, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain Weak and Strong Unintended Consequence: Agent’s Rationality and the Predictability of Systems of Action Jorge Alberto S. MACHADO, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Ativismo em Rede, Technologia e Conexoes Identarias – Novas perspectives para os Movimentos Sociais (Network Activism, Technology and Identitarian Connections) Svetla STOEVA, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Conspiracy Growth and Predatory Culture of the Big Informals in Bulgaria. The Case of the Economic Group “TEAM” Yuriy SAVELYEV, Lugansk State Pedagogical University, Ukraine Modernization and Pseudomorphosis: Post-Communist Gender Order in the context of Global Gender Transformation |
| Commended | Saúl RAMIREZ SANCHEZ, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico La Transpertenencia de los Indígenas Migrantes Elena BOGDANOVA, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia Anthropology of the Rural Double-Decker Dwelling: One of the Unsuccessful State Projects Wiebke KEIM, University of Freiburg, Germany Internaionale Soziologie: nordatlantische Dominanz und konterhegemoniale Strömungen Ann GUEVARRA, Arizona State University, USA Governing Migrant Workers Through Empowerment and Sustaining a Culture of Labour Migration: The Case of the Philippines Alinaya FABROS, University of Phillippines, Diliman, Phillippines Deterriotorialized Objects, Disjunct Spaces, Disembedded Selves: Reflections on the rise of the globalized Call Centre in the Phillippines Brian J. GAREAU, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Global Concerns, Local Interests: Resource Conservation and Human Survival in Southern Honduras Omobalaji OLARINMOYE, The Registry University of Ibadan, Nigeria Women in Ethnic Social Movements: Notes from Southwestern Nigeria Virginie DIAZ PEDREGAL, Université Paris V Sorbonne, France Les privilégiés du commerce équitable Claudia CARVALHO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA As Culturas Locais na Pós-modernidade: dinâmicas culturais entre o local e o global |
| Organizer | Christine INGLIS, University of Sydney, Australia |
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| Winners | Boris HOLZER, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Miracle with a System: The Economic Rise of East Asia and the Role of Socio-cultural Patterns Cristina IANNELLI, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy Educational Choice in Italy Matar MBAYE, Université de Lille, France Les attitudes des entrepreneurs sénégalais de la petite entreprise de production face à la rigidité technique Anton OLEYNIK, College of Economics, Moscow, Russia The Costs and Prospects of Economic Reforms in Russia - An Institutional Approach Jennifer PARKER TALWAR, Pennsylvania State University, USA The Corporate Fast Food Restaurants as “Transnational Community”: Global and Local Interactions Among an Immigrant Workforce in New York City |
| Organizer | Veronica STOLTE-HEISKANEN, University of Helsinki, Finland |
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| Top Winners | Mario FUKS, University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Theoretical and Practical Considerations on Environment-Related Litigation Oleg KHARKHORDIN, University of California, Berkeley, USA The Corporate Ethic, the Ethic of Samostoyatelnost and the Spirit of Capitalism: Reflections on Market-Building in Post-Soviet Russia Tia DENORA, University of Exeter, UK Intimate Knowledge/ Local Experience: The Politics of Knowledge in Alternative Contraception 1960-1991 Chikako TAKEISHI, Harvard University, USA The Japanese National Identity in Transition: Who Want to Send Solidiers Abroad Natan URIELY, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Rhetorical Ethnicity of Permanent Sojourners: The Case of Israeli Immigrants in the Chicago Area Marinus SPREEN, University of Groningen, Netherlands Personal Network Sampling, Outdegree Analysis and Multilevel Analysis: Introducing the Network Concepts in Studies of Hidden Populations Ronald ZWAAGSTRA, University of Groningen, Netherlands Personal Network Sampling, Outdegree Analysis and Multilevel Analysis: Introducing the Network Concepts in Studies of Hidden Populations Xinyi Xu XU, University of Hawaii, USA Organisational Control in Chinese Work Units |
| Organizer | Daniel BERTAUX, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris, France |
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| Winners | William Rogers BRUBAKER, Harvard University, USA Immigration, Citizenship, and the Nation-State in France and Germany: A Comparative Historical Analysis Dongno KIM, University of Chicago, USA The Transformation of Familism in Modern Korean Society: From Cooperation to Competition Solomon MOMBESHORA, Darwin College, Cambridge University, UK The Salience of Ethnicity in Political Development: The Case of Zimbabwe Nao OYAMA, University of Shizuoka, Japan Some Recent Trends in Japanese Values: Beyond the Individual-Collective Dimension |