European SociologistBulletin of European Sociological Association (ESA)

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3rd EuropeanConference of Sociology

ESA Publisher Chosen

Call for Nominations

Reports from ResearchNetworks

Funding Opportunities withthe EU

Qualitative Data ArchivalResource Centre

Announcements

Application Form on page 1

20th CENTURY EUROPE:INClUSIONS/ExClUSIONS

3RD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF

SOCIOLOGY

The European Sociological Associatiorr(ESA} will hostits Third European Conference at the University ofEssex in Colchester, north of London. The

Conference will start mid-morning on Wednesday, August27th and will run through lunchtime on Saturday, August30th 1997.

Sociologists have distinctive perspectives to offerdebates on European developments, which in the recentpast have been dominated by neo-liberal economic con­cerns with deregulating markets. The contributions thatSociology can make in the areas of social integration andsocial exclusion, social inequality, citizenship, culturesand identities need to be placed more centrally on theintellectual agenda for Europe. The organisers of the ThirdEuropean Conference of Sociology hope these meetingswill contribute to this process.

The ESA invites you to consider the theme, "20thCentury Europe: Inclusions/ExclusionsI' and the role ofEuropean sociological insights in the understanding ofinclusionary and exclusionary changes. The social divi­sions of gender, ethnicity, class and age and their role inthe restructuring of European societies throughout thiscentury will be a central focus at the Conference.Sociology's span of intense intellectual activity roughlycovers that of the twentieth century. The Conference willlook backward over developments during the last centurybefore the arrival of the millennium makes us look for­ward, at the 4th European Conference of Sociology in1999, to the next century. It provides as opportunity toconsider both the development of Europe and of sociolog­ical understandings of Europe. The participants in theConference will revisit classical European sociology andassess its legacy. The place of Europe in the world will beexamined in the context of globalisation, and responses tothis - including the increasing integration of the EuropeanUnion which is creating new institutions and processes,

new inclusion and exclusions.

Programme

There will be six major parallelthemes relating to the major themesof the Conference, with a sub­Plenary for each of these themes.Key speakers at the Plenary andsub-Plenary sessions will include:

Margaret Archer (United Kingdom);Anthony Giddens (UnitedKingdom);Alberto Melucci (Italy);Maria Mies (Germany);Mojca Novak (Slovenia):Dominique Schnapper (France);Yasemin Soysal (USA);Cnren Therborn (Sweden):Sylvia Walby (United Kingdom);Immanuel Wallerstein (lSA).

The mai n activity of the confer­ence will be paper sessions orga­nized around the six main themes.The Research Networks of the ESAand the Southern Europe RegionalNetwork will be holding paper ses­sions within this structure:

Revisiting Classical Theory

• Modernity and Post modernism• Feminist Theory Meets the

Classics• A Sunset of Socialism?

Work, Welfare and Citizenship

• Welfare States, WelfareSocieties

• Gender and Citizenship• Inclusions/Exclusions: Power

and Ethnicity• Gender Relations in the Labour

Market and the Welfare StateIRN)

• Industrial Relations, LabourMarket Institutions andEmployment and Employment(RN)

Inequalities Old and New

• New Forms of Patriarchy• Generational Contracts and

Conflicts• Ethnicities, Racism and nations

(RN)• Youth and Generations in

Europe (RN)

Globalizations

• Globalization, Social andEconomic Restructuring

• Migration and Fortress Europe• Globalization: Technologies,

Environments and Futures

European Processes, Boundariesand Institutions

• East Meets West• Social Rights and Economic

Powers• Europe of the Regions• Europe in Process: Social

MovementsDemocracy in Europe:Institutions and citizenship

Cultures and Identities

Sexual citizenship~), Cultural Identities and, , Homogenisation?

• Technology and CultureEuropean Values in Transition

• Biographical Perspectives onEuropean Societies (RN)

• Families in Europe (RN)• Consumption (RN)• Sociology of the Mass Media

and Communication (RN)• Economic Sociology (RN)• Methods of Comparative

Research in Europe (RN)(RN) ; ESA Research Networks

In addition there will be round­table sessions on topics such asresearching children, aging andSocial Europe. There will beopportunities to meet authors whohave recently published works onEurope and major publishers willpresenting displays and aPublishers Reception. Informationsessions on topics such asSociology on the Internet, Europeanresearch funding, panel surveys anddata archives will take place.

The programme will havesocial and cultural events, includ­ing a University Reception and aConference Dinner on Wednesdaynight. The meeting of the Councilof National Associations will takeplace on Tuesay, 26th August andthe ESA will be holding its AGM onFriday, 29th August. Rooms can bebooked for special meetings eitherimmediately before or during theConference.

The University of Essex

The University of Essex is a leadingacademic institution in the UnitedKingdom particularly renowned forits strong social science depart­ments. The Department ofSociology which is hosting theConference is one of the largestSociology departments in the U.K.with a national and internationalreputation. The University hasthree major Economic and SocialResearch Council (UK)-funded pro­jects: the Research Centre onMicro-Social Change; the ESRCData Archive; and the QualitativeData Archival Resource Centre.The University is situated just out­side Colchester on the edge of'Constable Country', 12 miles fromthe coast, and less then one hourfrom London. The local OrganisingCommittee js.~. Stina Lyon (SouthBank University); Joan Busfield;Lydia Morris; Carlo Ruzza; JohnScott; Nigel South (all at theUniversity of Essex). ."'-'

Booking

All accommodation for theConference will be on site withinfive minutes walk of the lecture the­atres and seminar rooms. Bookingswill include accommodation andmeals with varying rates availabledepending upon personal resourcesand one's location in a strong orweak currency nation. TheConference Registration Fee islower for ESA members. Pleasenote that bookings prior to 1 July1997 attract a lower rate.

For Conference booking formsand any other inquiries, contact:Conference Organiser - ESAConferenceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of EssexWivenhoe ParkColchester, Essex C04 3SQUnited Kingdomtel: +44 (1206) 873399Fax: +44 (1206) 973410 or873410e-mail: ESA97@essex.ac.uk

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CAll FORSUGGESTIONS OF

CANDIDATES FOR THEEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The 16-member Executive Com­mittee of the ESA implements poli­cies and manages the Association'saffairs between conferences, organ­ises conferences, administers thepublications of the ESA, approvesthe creation of research networks,formulates and approves the bud­get, manages fund raising and fixesmembership fees etc. This is a gen­eral call from the NominationsCommittee for suggestions for aslate of nominated candidates. Thelist of nominated candidates willinclude 15 men and 15 womenrepresenting different geographicalareas and fields of sociology.

The Nomination Committee,consisting of nine members ap­pointed by the Council of NationalAssociations at the ESA conferencein Budapest 1995, will select thecandidates for nomination. Voting,open to all members of the ESA,starts during the next conference inEssex, England, August 27-30,1997 and continues for 6 weeksafter that by mail.

The suggestion should includethe name, sex, country and field ofstudy of the candidate. Additionalinformation on his or her meritscan also be added. The individualmembers and member organiza­tions of ESA can send proposals fornomination.

The members of the ExecutiveCommittee can serve at most twoterms. Those elected in 1995 inBudapest thus are still eligible forone term.

Please send suggestions forcandidates for election to theExecutive Committee of the ESAfor1998-1999 to Elina Haavio­Mannila, Chairperson of theNomination Committee.

Elina Haavio-ManniJa,Professor,Department of Sociology,Box 18 (Unionlnkatu 35),FIN-00014 University ofHelsinki, Finland.tel: +3589191 23960Fax: +3589191 23967.

The ESA now has an officialpublisher. This will entail theestablishment of a journal

and book series which in additionto submitted monographs will pro­vide an outlet for papers presentedat the ESA conferences and to theResearch Networks. Routledgewas selected after an exhaustiveprocedure in which the best knownquality international publisherswere invited to participate. SylviaWalby, Chair of the PublicationsCommittee and President of theESA concluded the long process ofnegotiations, originally started inSummer 1995, which involved thePublications Committee with manydrafts of documents. The need tobalance the publication of work byestablished authors with the dis­semination of material from new

Report on Conference:'Social Research and Social,Policy in Southern Europe

The conference of 'Soda I Research andSocial Policy in Southern Europet;'which took place in Athens on 13-14September 1996, was the second activ­ity of the ESA's Regional Network onSouthern European Societies since itsestablishment almost a year ago. Theconference was coorganised by theUniversity of Athens and the GreekNational Centre for Social Research(EKKE) and was sponsored by the GreekMinistry of Development - GeneralSecretariat for Research andTechnology, EKKE and the University ofAthens.

The elegant building of theUniversity of Athens in Plaka providedthe perfect setting to host the confer­ence. The building is an envious settingfor small conferences, situated near theAcropolis and Plake's coffee tables, tav­ernas and cafes.

The total number of participantswas 53 from 7 countries. Naturallythere were many Greeks but unfortu­nately no one from Portugal. Efforts willbe made in the future to encourage theparticipation of the Portuguese in theactivities of the Network.

authors formed a central part oftheESA's deliberations; as did the needto provide editiorial support forauthors whose first language is nota mainstream European tongue.Final approval was secured at therecent meeting of the ESAExecutive in October.

The working title of the ESAjournal will be European Societies.It will publish research on Europe,especially the European level itself,comparative research acrossEurope, and Europe in comparativeperspective with". the rest of. theworld. Sociology has a lot to sayabout .recent developments inEurope and we hope that the jour­nal and the book series will giveEuropean Sociology a stronger andmore effective voice.

The conference opened with wordof welcome on behalf of the localorganising committee from ProfessorDlamandouros, the President of EKKE,and with an address from Gabriellalazaridis who established and holds theChair of the Network. Eighteen paperswere presented under the two thematicthemes, Welfare Regimes and SocialInequality, on a variety of topics whichincluded: Southern welfare states intransition; social protection systems insouthern Europe; government'sresponses to EU social policy; incomeinequality in southern Europe; socialexclusion; informal networks; socialrights of illegal immigrants; issues of cit­izenship in Europe. Papers varied interms of quality and approach - somewere theoretical, others more empiri­cal.

In addition, a number of leadingacademics in the field were invited togive keynote speeches. The keynotespeeches were broad in substance andinsightful in analysis. ProfessorRobolts­keynote speech was on European inte­gration and social policy. Bart vanSteenbergen talked about southernEuropean welfare states in the light ofEuropeanisation and globalizationprocesses and gave particular emphasisto the shift form a welfare state to aworkfare state - a shift from citizenshipentitlements/rights to obligations.Professor louis Moreno raised a num-

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ber of questions ranging from whetherthe various 'typologies' are useful, tothe direction in which the southernEuropean welfare systems will evolve.

The most productive debates were,in my opinion, around the topic of wel­fare states of southern Europe in gener­al and in particular whether southernEurope constitutes a separate cluster inthe universe of welfare states. Ferrera inhis keynote speech outlined seven traitsof social policy peculiarities in southernEurope; which taken together withsocio-economic and politico-culturalfactors, add up to a 'rather coherent setof elements which can be treated as asingle institutional configuration, with asomewhat autonomous internal logic.'This was followed by an interesting dis­cussion between Ferrera on the onehand and Katrougalos on the other. Thelatter in a recently published paper inthe Journal of European Social Policyargued that the institutional peculiari­ties shared by these countries are notsufficient so as to create a southernEuropean welfare model; he alsoargued that the Greek welfare statebelongs to the continental model.Another productive debate was the onethat followed Professor Anthias'keynote address on "Nation, Migrationand Gender: Issues of citizenship inEurope" .

Generally, the conference provid­ed an excellent opportunity for partici­pants to tap into work in progress insocial policy in southern Europe. Thefirst part of the conference's officialtheme (that is, social research) wasrarely touched upon. Most preferred todraw on the other official theme of theconference; namely, social policy insouthern Europe.

I would like to take this opportuni­ty to thank once more the local organis­ing committee for making this confer­ence possible and for making it so del­egate friendly. I would also like tothank Bart van Steenbergen and SylviaWalby for the support they have givento this Network. I am confident thatwithin the next year we will be able toorganise another activity in southernEurope. This conference will be fol­lowed by other regional workshops, theaim being to provide southernEuropeans with a forum to discussresearch problems and findings. Thenext meeting of the Network will beAugust, 1997 in Essex, at the ESA'sbiannual conference.

Finally, a book will be edited witha selection of papers presented at theconference.

Gabrieffa Lazaridis

SecretariatThe ESA maintains its Secretariat atSISWO, the Dutch social science sup­port organisation. General enquiries,Membership Applications etc all shouldgo to the Secretariat at the followingaddress:Secretariat ESABernard KruithofSISWOPlantage Muidergracht 4NL-l018 TV AmsterdamThe Netherlandstel, +31 205270646Fax: +31 206229430e-mail: kruithof@siswo.uva.nl

Research NetworksCommunication with ESA ResearchNetworks should be directly with theirConvenors (names and addresses givenseparately in this newsletter). Queriesabout starting a new Research Networkor general items about Networks shouldgo to the ESA Secretariat or to the VicePresident for Research Networks:Martin Kohlilnstitut fur SoziologieFreie Universitat BerlinBabelsberger Strasse 14-160-10715 Berlin, Germanytel, +493085002210Fax: +49 30 8500 2205e-mail: kohli@zedatfu-berlin.dl

NewsletterEuropean Sociologist, the newsletter ofthe ESA, accepts all types of material ofrelevance to sociologist working on orin Europe - articles, "think pieces",comments or letters to the Editor,announcements of research initiatives,conferences, seminars, newly-pub­lished books etc. The newsletter ispleased to take advertisements frompublishers, software companies etc(rates available upon request). Materialfor the newsletter can be sent to theSecretariat or directly to the Editor::Robert MillerIabatan Antropologi dan SosiologiUniversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia43600 UKM, Bang!Selangor D.E.Malaysiatel. +60 3 829-3665Fax: +603 825-1168e-mail: robert@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my

after 15 lune 1997:Department of Sociology & SocialPolicyThe Queen's University of BelfastBelfast BT7 1NNNorthern Irelandtel, +44 1232 245133

exten.3715/3716Fax: +441232320668e-mail: r.miller@queens-belfast.ac.uk

Virtual ESAThe ESA maintains a discussion list/bul­letin board supported by the MAILBASEsystem at Newcastle University, UnitedKingdom. To join the discussion jist,send-the following commands to: mail­base@mailbase.ac.ukjoin european-sociologistyourfirstname yourlastnamesend user-guide

The ESA also maintains pages on theWorldWideWeb. Their entry-leveladdress is:http://www.qub.ac.uk/socsci/

miller/esai ntro.htm I

In order to facillitate communicationbetween the Executive of the ESA andits members, an e-mail list for theExecutive Committee has been created.ESA members or others who wish tobring items to the direct attention of theExecutive Committee are invited to"post" material directly to this list at:esa-execeamailbase.ac.uk

(Please do not join this list yourself; as itis intended as an internal communica­tion device for the ExecutiveComrnittee.) The next meeting of theExecutive Committee will be 25-27Apri11997.

3111 European Conference of SociologyQueries about the Conference shouldgo to:Organiser - ESAConferenceUniversity of EssexWivenhoe ParkColchester, Essex C04 3SQUnited KingdomFa" +44 1206 873410e-mail: esa97@essex.ac.uk

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RESEARCH NETWORKS

UPDATE

Balazs vedresHead of Students Scientific Committeeof Istvan Szechenyi Collegee-mail: vedres@euler.bke.hu

Calf for PapersThe Economic Sociology ResearchNetwork of the ESAintends to organizesessions during the Essex Conferenceon the following topics:1. Economic Sociology: Theory, Historyand National TraditionsPapers contributing to paradigms andrecent theoretical issues, or enlighten-

Economic SociologyCall for Papers, International Workshopon New Developments in Elite Theoryand Elite Researrch, OChanging Elitesand Changing Rules of the GameDOrganized by the Department ofSociology and lstvn Szchenyi College ofthe Budapest University of EconomicSciences (SUES) together with theEconomy and Society ResearchCommittee of the InternationalSociological Association and theEconomic Sociology Research Networkof the European SociologicalAssociation at the Budapest Universityof Economic Sciences (1093 BudapestFv m t. 8.) on April 25-27, 1997

Nigel GilbertDepartment of SociologyUniversity of SurreyCuildford GU2 5XHUnited Kingdomtel: +441483259173Fax: +441483306290e-mail: gng@soc.surrey.ac.uk

Coordinators:Adrienne HeritierPolitical and Social SciencesDepartmentEuropean University InstituteVia del Roccettini 51-50016 San Domenico di Fiesole /FirenzeItalytel: +39 55 468-5217Fax: +39 55 468·5201

Environment & SocietyThe Environmental Issues Network willhave a worktng Group onEnvironmental Issues in Europe at theEssex Conference. We -ask colleaguesin the field of environmental sociology(and related areas) to submit their paperabstract. The program willi be struc­tured around three themes:1) InstitutionsState and pol icy; differences of conver­gences between various Europeancountries. The role of EU superstruc­ture and its regulations;2) Europe of citizensAttitudes and behaviour towards theenvironment. Social movements and"ecological" transformation and mod­ernization;3) Quality of life and envirornentalissuesPressures on and risks to the naturalenvironment - notions and perceptions.(Relative) weight attached to themwhen assessing the social environment.

Paper copies sent by post are pre­ferred.

Maarten MentzelSchool of Systems Engineering, PolicyAnalysis and ManagementDelft University of TechnologyP.O. Box 5015, Iaffalaan 5NL-2600 GA DelftThe Netherlandstel: +31 15 278-8458Fax: +31 15278-4811e-mail: martenm@sepa.tudelft.nl

eastern European countries are espe­cially welcome.

If you wish to submit a paper, youshould send TWO copies of a 250 wordabstract one each to:the ESA Conference Organiser,the University of Essex and to

RENCORE: Methods for ComparativeResearch On EuropeCall for Papers for Essex ConferenceRENCORE is arranging a stream withinthe conference focusing specifically oncomparative European research. Paperswhich either:1. discuss the results of comparative

European research (involving find­ings from at least two Europeanstates); or

2. discuss the methodological issuesinvolved in comparative Europeanresearch, especially the problems ofthe equivalence of measures

are welcome. Papers may report quali­tative and/or quantitative research.Reports of research which relates to

Gy",rgy LengyelDept of SociologyBudapest University of EconomicSciencesH-l093 Fovam t. 8.Budapest, Hungarytel/fax: +361-2175-172e-mail: szocjengyelgpegasus.bke.hu

ing less known parts of the tradition arewelcome.2. Corporations, Governments andSupra-National Economic ActorsPapers dealing with enterprise behavior,sociological analysis of economic poli­cies, globalization and changing institu­tional setting of business systems areinvited.3. Economic Elites, Entrepreneurs,ManagersThe session is devoted to recent com­parative studies on business leaders.Empirically established approaches arepreferred.4. Economy, Households and lifestylesChanging functions and coping strate­gies of households, consumption pat­terns of status groups, alternativemoney uses and savings behavior.Results of household panel surveys areespecially encouraged to be submitted.5. Labor Market, Unemployment,MigrationSegmentation of the labor market, gen­der, skills and unemployment, regional­lzation. unification and economicmigration. Comparative and empirical­ly established papers with predictiveforce are encouraged.Final acceptance of abstracts, March 151997Deadline for papers, July 30 1997Contact:Richard Swedberg

the Executivethree new

At its recent meeting,Committee endorsedResearch Networks:

What tendencies predominated therecruitment of the East European elitesand what changes took place in theircomposition in the 1990s? Are the EastEuropean elite researches able to con­tribute to elite theory? What are thechallenges of the recent changes in theregion to the new elite paradigms?These are the questions we wish toanswer on the basis of experiencesgained from previous theoreticalresearches and empirical surveys. Theaim of the workshop is to provide anoverview about relevant findings of pre­vious elite researches in the region andinvite international experts to interpretthese findings in the framework of thenew elite paradigm. The outcome ofthe workshop might be the preparationof new elite researches and publicationof some of the findings in referred inter­national journals. Deadline for papers:March 31, 1997Contact persons:Gyorgy Lengyel[address below]

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Established NetworksSociology of the FamilyThe Research Network plans to oprga­nize during the 1997 conference vari­ous sessions on the theme Families,Factors of Inclusion and Exclusion.Papers to be presented could delas withone of the following topics:

transmission of social handicaps;family solidarities and social pre­carity,family and citizenship,societal: values and family values;generations and the role of the fam­ily in integration into adult life.

Colleagues interested in presenting acommunication should send their pro­posal (with an abstract of 1O~20 lines) tothe convenors of the group:Dr Claudine Attias-DonfutResearch Director, CNAV49 Rue MirabeauF-75016 ParisFranceFax: + 33 1 45 25 89 64

Prof. Jean KellerhalsDept. of SociologyUniversity of Geneva102 Sd Carl vogtCH-1211 Geneva 4SwitzerlandFax: + 41 22781 41 00

The deadline for proposals is March 15,1997

Industrial Relations, labour MarketInstitutions and EmploymentThe research network will explore theconference theme under two main per­spectives.

First, does economic restructuring ere­ate processes of inclusion orexclusionregarding the industrial relations sys­tem? In this context, special attentionshould be paid to the following aspectsof industrial relations:

unionization, the union system undunion identity-

the structure of collective bargain­ing;

the role of multinational enterprisesin shaping industrialrelations.

Second, as a regulatory power, industri­al relations may cause, reinforce orimpede exclusions taking place in thelabour market. Related issues involve:

the impact of industrial relations onthe employment relationship interms of wage differentials and thestructure of employment (e.g., part­time work, standards vs. non-stan­dard working);

the impact of industrial relations onskill formation and trainingiunion responses to globa lizatlon,European integration and restruc­turing.

Cross-national papers on one or moreor these questions are particularly wel­come. It is requested that abstracts beaddressed to:Franz TraxlerUniversity of ViennaBruennerstrasse 72A-1210 Viennatel: +43129128541Fax: +43 1 29 128 544e-mail: traxler@soc.bwl.univie.ac.at

Biographical Perspectives OnEuropean Societies

St. Petersbury Workshop, BiographicalPerspectives On post-Socialist SocietiesThe workshop was organised under theauspices of the Research Network bythe Centre for Independent Researchwith support from the MacArthur

Foundation. It was held from 13th to

17th

November, 1996 in a formernuclear research institute and wasexcellently organised by ViktorVoronkov and Elena Zdravomyslovawith first class administrative assis­tance. There was simultaneous transla­tion - English Russian/Russian English _at all sessions which made communica­tion much easier.

There were 40/50 participants, 15from outside Russia. The sessionthemes included: education; genera­tions; gender; sexuality; ehtnicity;repression; and methodlogy.Approximately thirty papers were pre­sented. Among the most interesting dis­cussions were those on the generalmethodological problems of the bio­graphic approach (realism, construc­tivism, nartanvlty, postrnodemtsm), sex­ual biographies, ethnicity and migra­tion. There is to be a publication of thepapers in Russian and English by theCentre for Independent Research.

-John Jackson

Calf for Papers

The Research Network will hold ses­sions at the Essex Conference. ContactJ.P. RoosDept. of Social PolicyUniversity of HelsinkiP.O. Box 25 (Frauzeninkatu 13)FIN-00014 FinlandFax: +35801917019e-mail: jproos@valt.helsinki.fi

Youth, Generations, EuropeThe Essex conference will be the inau­gural event for the Youth GenerationEurope Research Network On thisbasis, members and potential membersof the Research Network are invited tosend paper proposals (title and abstract)on the following five themes:1. Youth from Europe - situation, con­

text of socialisation, values and cul­tural pattems., the comparativeapproach in youth studies

2. Social construction of youth - youthspan in the life course, the problemof definition, evolution Over timeand regional variations, the impactof social policy on the definition ofyouth;

3. Youth and Generation _ life cycleand generation, youth as a genera­tion, conceptual definition, thedynamics of generation - reproduc­tion and change, solidarity, conflict, negociation;

4. Youth in the process ofGlobalisation ~ youth meeting theInformation Society, global econo­my, global culture, global identity,globalisation versus fragmentation,youth and Postmodernity, a con­cept in question;

5. Citizenship - the dimensions ofmodern citizenship, citizenship as asocial practice, social constructionof group identities, culture, global i­sation and citizenship

Proposals to be sent to:Jean .Charlestagreelondon School of EconomicsEuropean InstituteHoughton StreetLondon WC2A 2AE . ,"tel: +44101 171 955 75 38Fax: +44101 171 955 75 46e-mail: lagree@lse.ac.uk

Gender Relations and the labourMarket and the Welfare StateThe importance of employment, labourmarket and welfare state for the sociallife of individuals in the Europeannation states and in the emerging Com­mon labour market of the EuropeanUnion is undisputed. The specific andcomplex situation of women in thesociety is an important reason to studythe impact of welfare state and labourmarket on women's position in theEuropean nation states.

The working group on "GenderRelation and the Labour Market" hasbeen organized two times - at the Firstand the Second European Conferenceof Sociology - and both times the work­ing group met great interest amongEuropean sociologists.

During the recent years a lot of com­parative research projects on this issueare carried out and there exist severalresearch groups in the diffrent Europeancountries. However, more communica­tion is needed between reserachers notat least to focuse the comparativeresearch on important crucial genderissues such as the changing gendercomposition of the labour force and thedevelopment in patterns of femaleemployment, new forms of employ­ment'....growing part-time work, gendersegregation in the labour market, the

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changed condition for social citizen­ship, social exclusion and unemply­ment in a gender perspective, and theinfluence of state and labour marketpolicy on men's and women's socialconditions. In this context analysis ofthe EU emploment policy and its con­sequences for equal opportunities ofwomen are also an important researchissue.

In discussing topics it is necessary toinclude - still more - researchers fromthe new member states of the EuropeanUniion as well as those from the EasternEuropean societies.

Future activities for the network- initiating and intesifying comparativeresearch with the aim of clarifying thetheoritcal foundation of gender rela­tions and to provide more empiricalbased information for political strate­gies to improve women's disadvan­teged situation in the emergingEuropean labour market.• establishing research groups, reinforc­ing contacts and discussion betweenresearchers and existing research net­works in the field - to have a larger aca­demic forum on the Eurpopean level.- providing an institutional context forcontinuity of the workshop at the futureEuropean Conferences of Sociology andfor organizing research meetings andconferences in between European con­ferences.

Eva CybaLustgasse 12/17A-1030 WienAustriaFax: +43 1 5790635e-mail: cyba@ihssv.wsr.ac.at

Thomas P. BojeDepartment of SociologyUmea University$-901 87 UmeaSwedenFax: +46 90 16 66 94e-mail: thomas.boje@soc.umu.se

Calf for PapersThe reserach network plans to organizeduring the ESA 1997 Conference vari­ous sessions on the theme: "Women,labour markets and the welfare state.Recent developments of integration andexclusion." Colleagues interested inpresenting a paper should send theirproposal (with a description of 2-3pages) to Thomas P. Boje.

Sociology of Mass Media andCommunicationsThis has been a very preliminary periodfor the growth of this network.However we are now writing to allthose who have contacted us with twopieces of information and two requests.

First, we have circulated by e-mail a listof all the people who have contacted uswith their address details and, wherewe have it, their current research activ­ities and interests. If you have not con­tacted us please do so wit this informa­tion.

Secondly, we will of course be having anetwork session at the EssexConference, and this is therefore aCALL FOR PAPERS. When we receivepaper proposals we will organise ses­sions to collate similar papers togetherto facilitate debate. At this stage how­ever, we do not see any reason to be tooprescriptive. We simply want toencourage papers showing the best inmedia and communication research inand about Europe.

Abstracts (2S0 words) should be sent tothe ESA conference organisers andcopied to Peter Golding inLoughborough. We look forward verymuch to hearing from you, and to see­ing you in Colchester.

Marju Lauristin

Peter GoldingDept. of Social Sciencesloughborough Uniiversityloughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TUUnited Kingdomtel, +44 1509 223390Fax: +44 1509 223944e-mail: p.golding@lboro.ac.uk

Sociology of ConsumptionThere is now an e-mail bulletin boardfor the Network which can be joined bycontacting:maiIbase@mailbase.ac.uk

and sending the commands:owner password gortonalanadd member esa-consumption your e­mail address yourfirstname your fast­name

The Network requests abstracts for theEssex Conference where it will run aseries of sessions. The aim of the sub­theme sessions of the ConsumptionResearch Network at the Essex confer­ence is to draw attention to:a) both pleasures and routine activitiesin consumption;b) consumption and the reproduction ofsocial order (of gender system, age, reli­gion, race and class);c) production and consumption;d) power and consumption;e) development and progress of con­sumption sociology.

We are expecting both theoreticalpapers and theoretically informedempirical papers on these questions.

Alan WardeDepartment of SociologyLancaster UniversityLancaster, United Kingdome-mail: a.warde@lancaster.ac.uk

Kaj IImonenUniversity of JyvoskyloDept. of Social SciencesP.O. Box 35F-40351 JyvoskyloFinlandtel, +35841 602 922Fax: +35841603101e-mail: ilmonen@dodo.jyu.fi

Proposed Network:Sociology of DisastersNicos Petropoulos, DirectorEmergencies Research CenterDryadon 39Galatsi 11146, AthensGreecetel, +30 1 601 6376Fax: +301 2220043e-rnai!.. ,er~~eexi.gr

This network plans to hold sessions atthe Essex Conference. Proposals forpapers should be sent to NicosPetropoulos. .-i....

Sociology of Social PolicyAlan WalkerDept. of Sociological StudiesElmfield, Northumberland RoadSheffield 510 2TUUnited Kingdomtel: +44114282-6337Fax: +44114276-8125

At the 3rd European Conference ofSociology, all Research Networks willorganize a series of (up to five) sessions.Ifyou would like to participate in one ofthem by presenting or contributing apaper, please send in two copies of yourabstract; one directly to the Coordinatorof the relevant Research Network andthe second to the ESA Conferenceorganisers at the University of Essex.

Research Networks Coordinator:Enquiries about the existing Networks,their activities or queries about startingnew Networks should go to the ESAResearch Networks Coordinator:Martin KohliInstitute for SociologyFree University of BerlinBabelsberger Str. 14-16D~10715 Berlintel, +493085002-210Fa" +493085002-205e-mail: kohllsszedatfu-bertln.de

This....report was compiled by RobertMiller

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Ari Antikainen. Iarrno Houtsonen.Hannu Huotelin & juha Kauppila,Living in a Learning Society: Life histo­ries, identities and education. FalmerPress: london & Washington D.C1996.

Dieter Bogenhold, DasD i en s tIe i stu n g S j a h rh u n d ert.Kontinuitaeten und Diskontinuitaetenin Wirtschaft und Gesef/schaft (TheCentury of Services. Continuities andDiscontinuities in Economy andSociety). Enke Publishers: Stuttgart1996, ISBN, 3 432 27231 6. OM39,00/ OES 295,-/ SFr 39,80

William Brustein, The Logic of Evil: theSocial Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925­7933. Yale University Press.

Anne Byrne & Madeleine leonard (eds),

Irish Women: Sociological profiles.Basement Press (Attic Press): Dublin,1996, ISBN 1 855941538

Three new publications from theCentral European Workshop

1) Replika: Hungarian Social ScienceQuarterly. Special Issue 1996,Colonization or Partnership? EasternEurope and Western Social Sciences.Department of SOciology, BudapestUniversity of Economics.

ISBN 0865-8188

2) Gyorgy Eger & Josef Langer (eds.l.Border, Region and Ethnicity in CentralEurope. Norea Publisher: Klagenfurt1996, ISBN 3-85312-001-6

3) Futuribili: Italian Social ScienceJournal. Instituto d! SociologiaInternazionale di Gortzta (lSIG), ViaMazzini, 13, 1-34170 Gorizia, Italy

Chris Corrin (ed). 'Women in a ViolentWorld: Feminist analyses and resis­tance across Europe. EdinburghUniversity Press, 1996, Stg£14.95.

leroen Duindam, Myths of Power.Norbert Elias and the Early ModernCourt. Amsterdam 1995, ISBN 90 5356111 0/905356 1366

European Research Centre on Migrationand Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) TheEuropean Directory of Migrant andMinority Organisations. 304 pp., ISBN9075719035.1996

Book series from the EuropeanResearch Centre on Migration andEthnic Relations (ERCOMER)

Keebet von Benda-Beckman & MaykelVerkuyten (eds.). Nationalism, Ethnicityand Cultural Identity in Europe.Comparative Studies in Migration andEthnic Relations 1. 199 pp.. ASchl311.95/dfI.29.S0. ISBN 9075719019. 1995

Malcolm Cross (ed.), The ThreateningMinority: Racial violence and politicalextremism in Europe. ComparativeStudies in Migration and EthnicRelations 2. ca. 200 pp., ASchl311.95/dfI.29.50 paperback, ISBN 907571902 7. 1996

Philip Muus (ed.). Exclusion andfnelusion of Refugees in ContemporaryEurope. Comparative Studies inMigration and Ethnic Relations 3. ca.200 pp., ASchI311.95/dfI.29.50. 1996.

Forthcoming titles:

Louk Hagendoorn, GeJErgy Csepeli &Henk Dekker (eds). Nation,Nationalism and Citizenship in Westernand Eastern Europe.

A. Yule Cekren & Ronald van Kempen(eds), Housing Conditions of Turks inEuropean Cities.

Marco Martiniello Ied), Two EuropeanMulti·cultural Societies: Belgium andthe United Kingdom.

Vic George & Peter Taylor-Gooby (eds),European Welfare Policy: Squaring thewelfare circle. Macmillan, 1996, 10chapters, x + 224pp., ISBN 0-333·60916-6 hardcover; 0-333-60917·4,paperback

Simon Holdaway, The Racialisation ofBritish Policing. Macmillan, S1.Martin's Press, 1996.

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman & BeverlyWalker (edsl, The Construction ofGrroup Realities: Culture, society andpersonal constrluct theory. Malibu,Florida: Krieger, 1996, 395 pages,US$39.95.

Emine M. Komut (ed.) HousingQuestion of the Others. Ankara, 1996,ISBN 975-395-"83-3.

Osmo Kontula & Elina Haavio-Mannila.Sexual Pleasures - Changes in Sex Life,Finland 1971-1992. DartmouthPublishing Company: Aldershot, Hants,1995.

R. Lehan, M. Conrad, K. Hannigan &John A. Jackson (eds), For The Record;Data Archives, Electronic Records,Access to Information and the Needs ofthe Research Community. Dublin:Institute of Public Administration, 1996,ISBN 1 872002633, pp.120, IR£14.00

Micheal Mac Grell, Prejudice in IrelandRevisited. The Survey & Research Unit,Department of Social Studies, St.Patrick's College: Maynooth, Ireland,IR£25

Robert lee Miller, Rick Wilford & FredaDonoghue, Women and PoliticalParticipation in Northern Ireland.AJdershot: Avebury, 1996, 280pp.

Anna Rotkirch & Elina Haavio-Mannila(eds). Voices of 'Women in RussiaTodar _ _Dartmouth ,PublishingCompany: A'idershot, Hanrs, 1996.

Michael Shalev, The Privatizaton ofSocial Policy? Occupational Welfareand the Welfare Stete-sn America,Scandinavia and japan/ Macmillan &S1. Martin's Press

Andrew Webster (ed), Building NewBases for Innovation: The transforma­tion of the R&D system in post-SOCialiststates. APU Press: Cambridge, 1996,ISBN: 0-907262·75·9, £8.99 includingp+p.

NEXT MEETING OF ESAEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The next meeting of the ESAExecutive is in Brussels 25·27 April1997.

Provisional Agenda:Planning for Essex Conference;Call for the Conference after Essex;Minutes and matters arising;ESASecretariat;Finance and membership;Fund raising;Developing the InstitutionalMembership category;Publications sub-Committee;Research Networks:Contacts between the ESA andother bodies;Newsletter;Transfer to the next Executive andelbility for (relelection:Any other business

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IRISH SOCIOLOGY AND

THE SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF

IRELAND

Cumann Socheolaiochta na hEireann{The Sociological Association of Ireland(SA!)) was founded in 1973. Its exis­tence is almost coterminous with that ofsociology in Ireland, in that the subjectonly began to take on real significanceas a discipline in academic institutionsin the early seventies. The SAl can betyped as a small but active nationalassociation, enjoying the participationof sociologists from both sides of theIrish border. Membership is over twohundred. Given the number of sociolo­gists that there actually are on theisland, this is a very healthy figureindeed. Members of the Associationare employed in a diversity of occupa­tions, including research, teaching andconsultancy. Their job settings includeuniversity and other third level collegedepartments, schools, research insti­tutes and government departments.There is also a strong student member­ship, as wei! as a number of membersresident outside the island.

The SAl supports a variety of activ­ities, including an annual residentialconference, which is held in a differentlocation every May. (The 1997 confer­ence will be held in Galway.) The con­ferences are well attended and providean important forum for Irish sociologistsand those interested in the sociology ofIreland. While the conferences are usu­ally organised around a specific theme,because of the disparate nature of theinterests of what is a small number ofpeople, much of the conference is usu­ally taken up with "open sessions"which allow for a wide variety of topicsand subject areas to be covered.

The Association also holds anannual one-day conference on a specif­ic subject in each year. This year thesubject will be crime and drugs. This isin response to an upcoming constitu­tional referendum where the Irish gov­ernment hopes to gain a mandate toseverely limit rights to bail in responseto a moral panic about drug-relatedcrimes. The conference is a good exam­ple of how the Association attempts toput the ideas of sociologists into widersocial discourse. In this case, such aninput is badly needed, in that discourseon the issue has so far been one-sidedin the extreme, with civil libertariansgetting very little mileage indeed. Thatsaid, the Association faces an uphill

struggle in getting sociological ideasbroadcast in that, while the media is notas dismissive of sociology as the Britishmedia, it is considerably less interestedthan, say the French or German mediamight be.

The SAl also has a very active pub­lications programme. Probably thejewel in the crown is The {rish Journalof Sociology, published as one single­issue volume per year. Inaugurated in1990, its aim is to provide a domesticacademic forum for sociology, This isnot to say that it is only interested indomestically produced material. Oneof its major aims is to publish interna­tional contributions that have relevancefor Irish SOCiology. This, of course,includes material pertaining to Irelandin a European context. So if there isanyone out there working on issuesrelating to Irish society, the editorswould be very pleased to have theopportunity to consider your work. Thejournal is currently based in theDepartment of Sociology, UniversityCollege, Galway. The SAl also pro­duces a quarterly bulletin, and an annu­al research monograph and has beeninvolved in the publication of a numberof books relating to the sociology ofIreland.

One of the main tasks of theAssociation is the promotion of Irishsociology. Being located within a smallisland, this is not without its difficulties.Firstly, there is the problem of emigra­tion - many students go abroad to com­plete their postgraduate training, and oncompletion often have to remainabroad in order to find work. It isnotable that when academic posts areadvertised in Ireland, there is usually alarge number of diasporan applicantswho are seeking to return home.Conversely, there are a large number offoreign, notably British, academicsworking in Irish universities.

Coming out from under the shad­ow of a much larger neighbour is one ofthe difficulties that Irish sociology faces.This problem is probably common to allsmall European nations. Given limitedresources, the task of developing teach­ing materials, and sociology generally,that are specific to one's own society,and avoiding eclipse by the sociologiesof larger nations, is no mean task. To

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this end, the inauguration of the IrishJournal of Sociology, was a big step.Before, Irish academics had to rely ongetting their work published in British,American or other international jour­nals, and often the specificity of theirsubject matter meant that it was notviewed particularly favourably by theeditors concerned. The only domesticjournal was the Economic and SocialReview, which publishes across thebroad range of social sciences. One ofthe great benefits of the fjS is that it hasprovided a medium for younger acade­mics to publish their work.

The issue of Irish self-assertion isnot without its sensitivities. A proposalin 1992 by the British SociologicalAssociation to hold its annual confer­ence in the north of Ireland caused con­siderable controversy, and not a littleresentment. Fortunately, the issue wasresolved with the conference beingheld in England, and our relationshipwith our sister association remains atrieedlyone.

There are also factors affectingsociology in Ireland that, while theyaffect sociologists i9.1 larger nations aswell, are more acutely felt in a smallernation. For instance, a lack of researchfunding and the closed nature of theallocation of what funds and jobs thereare often means that both allocationand receipt are-monopolised by a hand­ful of individuals. However, a recentinitiative by the Irish Government,which has allocated an annual budgetof IR£100,000 for social scientificresearch to be distributed by the RoyalIrish Academy through an open biddingsystem, has gone some way to amelio­rate this problem. Nevertheless, whenit is considered that this princely sum isopen to bids from economists, politicalscientists and social policy analysts aswell as sociologists, the continuingfunding problems that sociologists insmall nations such as Ireland face isbrought into perspective.

Another problem that Irish sociolo­gists face in common with colleagues inother small nations is that, because ofthe size of our community, individualsociologists are more "visible" and theiracademic freedom more vulnerable. InIreland this problem is exacerbated bythe blurring of the division between thesociological and the political that tendsto occur when the state is under threat,as has happened during the current,and long-running, "troubles" in Ireland.To its credit, the SAl has not sought toduck the issue of the troubles, and hasorganised a number of events that haveenabled sociologists to discuss freelywhat are, for many, very sensitiveissues.

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AII this said, Irish sociology is in areasonably healthy and vibrant state.While the influences of Anglo andAmerican sociology remain strong, thecapacity of Irish sociologists to examineIrish society from their specific perspec­tive is an example of how academics insmaller communities can resist the ten­dency to homogenise knowledge.

Anyone wishing to contact the SAlcan get in touch with: the SAlAdministrator, Social Science Building,Maynooth College, Co Kildare, tel:+3531 (Dublin) 7083941, Fax: +35317083570.

Sam Porter"and Bob MillerDepartment of Sociology and SocialPolicyQueen's University, Belfast

* Sam Porter is Chairperson of theSociological Association of ireland.However, the opinions expressed in thispaper are his own, and do not neces­sarily reflect the views of theAssociation.

COOPERATIONPROGRAMME

EU-CEEC INTHE FiElD OF

GENDER STUDIES

The Gender Studies in Agriculture sec­tion of the Department of RuralSociology at Wageningen AgriculturalUniversity (WAUl in Holland, is devel­oping a cooperation programme inwhich universities and other researchinstitutions of the 'West' (EuropeanUnion) and the 'East' (central and east­ern European Countries (=CEEC)) willwork together. The programme willfocus on the development of curriculaand research in the field of gender, agri­culture and rural development. In abroad sense the subject covers genderissues in agriculture (in West and East),gender issues, agrarian transformationand rural development in CEEC. Thosewith an interest in such a programme orwith knowledge about the subject areinvited to contact us. We are interestedin general information, bibliographies,names of researchers, finished and cur­rent research or education projects inthis field.

Sabine de Rooijtel: +31317485150Fax: +31 317483990e-mail: Sabine.deRooij@alg.vsl.wau.nl

The Central EuropeanUniversity FoundationInvites applications for

Post-GraduateFellowships

for the 1997/98

The Central European University (CEU)is an international institution for post­graduate study and research. CEU alsopromotes educational development andpolicy-making throughout Central andEastern Europe and the former SovietUnion (CEE/fSU). CEU has an absolutecharter from the Board of Regents of theState of New York.

UP TO 500 FElLOWSHIPS are avail­able to qualified candidates from cen­tral and eastern Europe and the formerSoviet Union on a competitive basis.These fellowships packages cover theUS$11 ,000 tuition, housing, travel costsand a monthly stipend. A limited num­ber of full or partial scholarships arealso available for top students fromcountries outside of CEE/fSU.

Master's and Doctoral Programs"Budapest, HungaryEconomics - MA (2 year program,year 1 at the University of Essex, UK)Environmental Sciences and PolicyMScHistory -MAInternational Relations and EuropeanStudies-MALegal Studies ComparativeConstitutional Law InternationalBusiness Law - LLM, SJD (accredita­tion pending)Medieval Studies - MA, PhDPolitical Science - MA

Warsaw, PolandSociology - MA

Interdisciplinary Certificate ProgramsBudapest, HungaryGender StudiesSocial TheorySoutheast European Studies

Minimum entry requirements: a univer­sity or college degree and English profi­ciency. Additional departmentalrequirements may apply.For additional information and applica­tions material, please contact:CEU Admissions OfficeNader u. 91051 Budapest 5Hungarytel: +36 t 327-3009Fax: +361 327-3211e-mail: admtssfonssaceu.bu,

external@ceu.hu

World Wide Web site:http://www.ceu.hu.

"Please note, PhD and SJD pro­grams are open to selected gradu­ates of the respective CEU Master'sprogram.

Jason KelleherDirector of Recruitment, Admissionsand Alumni AffairsCentral European Universitytel: +36 t 327-3212Fax: : +36 1 327-3028e-mail: Kellehej@ceu.hu

InternationalThorstein Veblen

Association(Founded 1992)

Statement of Purpose:

l Ifo facilitate and revive.irt a Veblenianspirit a critical and historical attitude inthe social sciences;2) To examine and evaluate Velben'sideas and methods from the point ofview of their applicability and utility forcomprehending and analyzing the con­temporary world order;3) To make explicit the attitudes, per­spectives and assumptions underlyingVeblen's social, economic, political andreligious frameworks;4) To illuminate the relationshipbetween Veblen's ideas and his linguis­tic, rhetorical and poetic style;5) To foster and facilitate communica­tion between Veblen scholars through­out the world.

ITVA Board of Directors

John Diggins (City University of NewYork)Stephen Edgell (University of Salford,England)Franco Ferraroti (University of Rome)Rick Tilman (University of Nevada)Arthur J. Vidich (New School for SocialResearch, U.S.A.)

For further information and member­ship enquiries, contact:Professor Rick TilmanDepartment of Public AdministrationUniversity of Nevadalas Vegas, Nevada 89154U.s.Ae-mail: tilman@ccmail.nevada.eclu

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SCIENCE, SOCIALSCIENCE RESEARCH AND

THE EU-FUNDING

Introduction - Community Researchand Technological Development (RTD)Today and Tomorrow.

At the beginning of 1995, RTD policy inthe EU reached an important turningpoint with the smooth changeover fromthe Third to the Fourth FrameworkProgramme. By the beginning ofDecember 1994, the Council ofMinisters had adopted all the specificprogrammes, the first calls for proposalsbeing published soon after, and theFourth Framework Programme effec­tively entered into force in January1995. The framework programme runsuntil the end of 1998 and had an origi­nal total budget of ECU 12.3 billion,now increased by ECU 800 million toreflect the accession of the three newmember states (Austria, Finland andSweden).

The Second (1987-911 and Third 11990­95) RTD framework programmes of theEU already covered almost the entirespectrum of modern research In naturaland engineering sciences. The FourthFramework programme picked up themain topics of the Third framework pro~

gramme. This is reflected in the factthat the lion's share of its financialresources, 87 per cent of the budget, isused within the above applicationareas. However the Fourth FrameworkProgramme has also added some newfields of research concerning theHuman Dimensions of EnvironmentalChange (HDEC) within the Programmeon Environment and Targeted Socio­Economic Research (TSER). This open­ing for soclo-eccnornlc research withinthe framework of EU-funded research isbasically a new orientation of the ECand the member countries.

Consequently, this is where we standtoday concerning social science andthe EU. At this juncture it may appro­priate to provide some more detailedinformation on what kind of researchthe different programmes and themesexpect from the European social sci~

ence researchers.

Where does a social scientist turn to inthe EU- programmes?The socio-economic orientatedresearch themes belong to the Activity 1Research, Technological Developmentand Demonstration Programmes of theFourth Framework Programme. The

Framework Programme in total consistsof four activities where the remainingthree focus on: cooperation with thirdcountries and international organisa­tions; dissemination and operational.ization of results; and the training andmobility of researchers, respectively.The above two themes and programmes(TSER and HDEC) belong withinActivity 1. I will here give a short pre~

sentation of the main features of therespective work-programme.

Targeted Socio-Economic ResearchITSER)To begin, Targeted Socto-EconornicResearch (TSER); this activity addressessocial science research within the fol­lowing three sub-areas:

1. Research and technology policyoptions, and analyses of the effectsof research work on society in thesense of technology forecasting.Here also research on the inter-tela­tions between socio-economicchanges and new scientific andtechnological developments shouldbe welcome, along with the devel­opment of methods, tools andapproaches for this field of interest.

2. Research on education and train­ing, where the effectiveness of poli­cies and actions, methods, toolsand technologies in formal andinformal education and trainingrequires innovative research.Research on education, trainingand economic development alsofalls under this heading.

3. Research into social integration andsocial exclusion in Europe. Thefocus within this sub-programme ison the forms and processes ofsocial exclusion and integration,causes of social exclusion, migra­tion and, last but not least, evalua­tion of the impact of social integra­tion policies.

The next Call for proposals to the TSERprogramme will be published 15th ofMarch 1997 in the Official Journal andthe closing date for this call will be the1Sth of June, 1997.

Human Dimensions of EnvironmentalChangeHDEC is Theme 4 of the Environmentand Climate RTD Programme. It is the

social science oriented part of theEnvironment Programme and focuseson the societal conditions for sustain­able development at the globa I, region­al and local level. The main aim of thispart of the programme is to clarify thekey interactions between societalprocesses, economic activities, institu­tions, technological development andenvironmental change, and to improvethe basis of policies and actions in sup·port of sustainable development in theEU.

The objectives for this area include: animproved understanding of the mainsocietal and economic driving forces ofenvironmental change; the ldentifica­tion.evaluatlon and comparison of therange of possible options in the field ofsocietal and economic action inresponse to critical environmental situ­ations in the framework of sustainabledevelopment; an improved understand­ing of the interactions of patterns of Prv­du~tion and consumption, their recep­tiveness to change, and the environ­mental and social effects of suchchanges at different levels; and todevelop appropriate integration of eco­nomic, erivironmer1f~1 and societalindicators and criteria with which toassess progress in the transition towardssustainable development.

The HDEC Area is organized around 3sub-areas:

1. The research base for sustainabledevelopment: strategies, societalparticipation and the measurementof progress. Here we are expectingresearch proposals on, among oth­ers themes, improved policy andregulatory instruments, integrationof environmental sustainabllityconsiderations into sectoral policiessuch as agriculture, urban planning,tourism, energy; sustainability indi­cators and urban environmentalpolicy; eg.. opportunities for andbarriers to the implementation oflocal Agenda 21.

2. Sustainable development and tech­nological change. Under this head­ing we would like to see researchproposals on actions to promoteeco-efficiency, development ofindustrial ecology systems, dlffu­sion of dean technologies and sect­etal management of technology.

3. Integrated assessment and environ­mental policy making. In this sub­area we are looking forward toreceiving research proposals deal­ing with methodological issuesconcerning integrated assessment,integrated environmental assess­ment and integrated resource man-

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agement, criticality and vulnerabili­ty to environmental change.

Examples of headings of clusters of pro­jects currently being implemented:

Integrated assessment, societaldimensions and policy responses toclimate and other global issues;Towards sustainability of the urbanenvironment and land-use:New methods and strategies formoving towards sustainabillty in theEU;Improving innovation, diffusion andemployment potential for cleantechnologies;Increasing the economic efficiencyand effectiveness of environmentalprotection.

The Open Call for proposals within theEuropean Commission's Environment &Climate R&D Programme was adver­tised in the Official Journal 17September 1996 and the dead-line forthis Call will be 15 January 1997.

RESEARCH AND EU FUNDING

How Is IT DONE?

In order to be able to submit a proposalyou should order the Information pack­age and the Work-programme for the ECEnvironment and Climate R&DProgramme or the Targeted Socio-eco­nomic Reserach, respectively. Thesehave been available after the officialCall and will be mailed to the partieswhich have expressed their interest. Ifyou want a swifter response please senda fax to European Commission, statingyour request, full name and the addressof your department together with faxnumber, phone number and e-mailaddress.

Information package:TSER Central Officetel; +32-2-2994740Fax: +32-2-29621 37e-mail: tser-secrssdgt z.cec.be

HDEC DC XII/D-5 Secretariattel; +32-2-295 91 39Fax: +32-2-299 44 62e-mail: jenny.lebis@dg12.cec.be

The research is normally carried out inthe form of shared-cost projects; i.e.research projects where the costs areshared between the EC and other orga·nizations..

Also Concerted Actions, intended to fos­ter networking and make use of on­going research, can be organized withinthe programme. Proposals should havea clear European dimension and theresearch team should be composed of aminimum of two partners from two dif­ferent member states of the EU or atleast one partner from a member stateand one from an associated state to the

EU. An extensive list of what countriesare considered to be formally associatedstates to the EU is included in theInformation Package for the respectiveprogramme.

FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL APPliCA­TIONSIn order to be eligible, competitive andsuccessful in the HDEC programme, aproposal should reflect and cover thefollowing:

in a dear way answer to a specificpart or parts of the working-pro­gramme;be novel;show appreciation of the state of theart;be original research. Thereforehypotheses and research questionsshould be clearly formulated;have European value added;be interdisciplinary;be policy relevant;be transnational;be brief;be properly costed:address the question of dissemina­tion of results;contain 4-6 partners;request an EU-contribution in therange of 250- 500,000 ECU.

How ARE PROPOSALS SElECTED AND

DECIDED UPON?

All eligible proposals will be evaluatedby a team of external expert evaluators.These are qualified researchers withexperience from the specific theme andarea. They judge the originality, scien­tific quality, management, project plan.rung and strategic and policy relevanceof each proposal. The different topicscovered in the evaluation are presentedin an Evaluation manual included in theInformation package for the pro­gramme. Prospective proposers arestrongly advised to study this manual inorder to get a flavour of what dimen­sions need to be covered in a competi­tive proposal. Proposals receive a rank­ing from A to c.. Normally only thosewho have received an A will be con­sidered for funding.

In relation to available funding, andafter consultation of other DGs of theCommission, a number of the A propos­als will be suggested for funding by theCommission to the respective ResearchCommittee containing the representa­tives from the member states and theassociated states. After the formal deci­sion of the Committee, the Commissioncomes back to the proposed coordina­tors of the selected projects for negotia­tions on work-programme and to final­ize measures for signing a contract. Thisis a rather time consuming procedure infull, and the estimated time betweensubmitting a proposal and eventuallysigning a contract in the successful case

will probably not beless than 8~10months.

CONCLUDING REMARKS

The oversubscription of the availablefunding of the Environment programmewas on the last occasion in 1995 around6 times and at the end of the day lessthan 20 per cent of the proposals wereselected for funding. To meet all therequirements in the infopack, to fill outthe application forms and, last but notleast, to build the research team, findpartners and write a joint working pro­gramme is a demanding task.Experience shows that partners whoalready have international experienceand history of working together - eitherin an earlier EU-project or in some otherinternational research context - developa working procedure quicker and have aless troublesome and timeconsumingexperience of research. On the otherhand, there are exciting opportunitiesfor crossdiscipllnary or iaterdlsciplinaryresearch in cooperation with colleaguesfrom other back-grounds opening upwithin the EU Research programmes. Itis a challenge for European social sci­ence research generally and it is a chal­lenge that could and should be accept­ed by Europeansociologjsts.

Ote SiksioExpert national

DG XII/D-5

** The views presented in this article arethe author's alone and do not necessar­lly reflect the opinion of the EuropeanCommission.

Conflict and Co-operation ­The Implications of

Contemporary EuropeanTransformations for

Social Theory"

The European Association for theAdvancement of Social Sciences" holdsits 2nd Convention in Nicosia, Cyprus,March 19~23, 1997 in collaborationwith the University of Cyprus. The Callfor Papers and the announcement forthis convention is available on the ICeRweb-site: http://www.iccr.via.at/iccrContact:Roman TronnerConference ManagementThe Interdisciplinary Centre forComparative Research in the SocialSciences (ICCR)Hamburgerstrasse 14/20A-1050 Vienna, Austriatel; + 43.1.587 3973 13Fax; + 43.1.587 3973 10e-mail: rt@iccr.co.at

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latest News from the ESRC (UK)Qualitative Data Archival Resource

Centre [QUAlIDATA]

The QUALIDATA Resource Centre,located in the Department of Sociologyat the University of Essex, UnitedKingdom, has now been in existence fortwo years. Its aims are: locating, assess­ing and documenting qualitative dataand arranging for their deposit in suit­able public archive repositories; dissem­inating information about such data;and raising archival consciousnessamong the social science research com­munity. Ultimately, the Centre aims toimplement a policy ensuring that quali­tative data produced by futureEconomic and Social Research Council(ESRC) (UK) and other funded projectsare offered for archiving.

A major function of the Centre is tomaintain an information database aboutthe extent and availability of qualitativeresearch material in general whetherdeposited in public repositories orremaining with the researcher. The datawe are concerned with is from the broadspectrum of social research., from acad­emic, policy and governmental, trustand charity funded research andincludes in-depth interviews, fleldnores,anthropological materials, unstructureddiaries, observational recordings, audioor video tapes, photographs and so on.The Centre has surveyed almost 1500identifiable ESRC funded qualitativesocial research projects dating back to1970, by contacting principal investiga­tors, is tracing the data arising from clas­sic post-war sociological studies andmonitors current ESRC projects. TheQUALIDATA database, QUALICAT, waslaunched in November, and is availablevia the INTERNET, from whichresearchers can search and obtaindescriptions of qualitative researchmaterial, its location and accessibility.The WWW Home Page for the Centrecontaining a link to the searchable cata­logue, detailed guidelines for depositingqualitative data, data deposited, issuesrelating to confidentiality and copyright,information about the Centre and linksand references to other qualitativeresources and repositories, has the URl:

http://www.essex.ac.uk!qualidata

This information is also available inhard copy.

DepositsA number of sets of qualitative materialhave been deposited in repositories

around the UK, and there are a further200 projects for which data will bedeposited, pending negotiation with theinvestigator or on completion of writingup the research. Data depositedinclude:Interviews generated by three majorstudies using in-depth life-histories: allthe taped interviews from the seminalprojects Family Life and WorkExperience before 7918 and Middle andUpper Class Famifies which aimed atgetting a national picture of ordinary lifein Edwardian Britain through interview­ing more than 500 people born before1905. In addition the interviews fromFamilies, Socia! Mobility and Aging:An intergenerational approach, a 1980'sstudy aimed at gathering ethnographicand dynamic information illustrative offamily, ageing and social mobilitythrough interviewing several genera­tions of 110 families. A further develop­ment from this was the project, On theEdge of Later Life, which looked atsources of self-identity and the contribu­tion of earlier life experiences to adapt­ability to ageing; Data from the oral his­tory study on Fishing Communities andIndustry in East Angfia and N.E.Scotland is also available. All are locat­ed at the National Sound Archive (NSA),British Library (Bt) and at the OralHistory Archive, Essex University.Fred lindop's Unofficial UnionMilitancy in British Docks (1981 and1983) concerned with the ideas andactivities of shop-stewards and tradeunion activists in the dock industry inBritain - located at the Modern RecordsCentre, University of Warwick;Ray Pahl's Isle of Sheppey Study focus­ing on industry and training in the1980's and his 1961 study of threeHertfordshire villages;Robert Dingwall's Protection ofChildren Study concerning agency deci­sion making in child protection in theearly 1980's. location: WellcomeContemporary Medical Archives CentrePaul Thompson and Ray PahlOsFamilies, Entrepreneurs andEntrepreneurial Values: Britain andRussia, a comparative investigation offamily and cultural sources of entrepre­neurial values and activity in Britain andRussia. Located at the NSA, Bl and theSchool of Eastern European andSlavonic Studies, University of Leeds.

Please see QUALIDATA's WWW siteor contact the Centre for further detailsof deposits, including those held by the

ESRC Data Archive. There is also alarge number of important existingdatasets still be to catalogued, inlibraries, research centres or remainingwith researchers where access is permit­ted. This includes data from socio-Iin­guisticslconversation analysis and manyanthropological projects as well as tra­ditional ethnography.

The National Social Policy and SocialChange ArchiveThe Centre has recently received a twoyear grant from the Joseph RowntreeFoundation to create a National SocialPolicy and Social Change Archive to bebased at the University of Essex.Anyone wishing to consult the collec­tions should contact QUALtDATA staff.The material is paper based but it is pos­sible to obtain scanned machine-read­able copies. Copyright is retained bydepositor and authorised copies are per­mitted.

Peter Townsend's research collection.Peter .jownsend was' Professor ofSociology at the University between1967 and 1981 and has pioneeredresearch on poverty in Britain. Thematerials include:The Family Life orOld People carriedout in 1955; a series of interviews andweek activity diaries conducted with203 people in their 60s and 70s inBethnal Green;The Last Refuge, a survey of residentialaccommodation for the elderly carriedout between 1958 and 1959;a complementary study to 'Family lifeof Old People' where interviews wereconducted with local authority welfareofficers and matrons/wardens in 173institutions, local authority and private,in England and Wales;St. Katharine's Buildings. A set ofunpublished interviews which PeterTownsend carried out in the 1950s in StKatherine's Building in Stepney, relatinghis findings to the ledger kept byBeatrice Webb and Ella Pyecroft as rentcollectors in the same tenement from1885-1890. Peter Townsend returned toS1. Katharine's Buildings to interview across-section of the present tenants,some of whom are descendants of theoriginal inhabitants spanning 70 years;Child Poveny Action Group and theDisability Alliance Records. Therecords of two pressure groups whichPeter Townsend co-founded.

Professor Dennis Marsden carried outsome of the earliest research on singleparent families. The collection includesdata from the studies:Mothers Alone: Povertyand the father­less family. This study of 116 fatherlessfamilies living on national assistance intwo towns presents the experience offatherlessness, dependence and povertyfrom the mother's viewpoint;

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Workless: Some unemployed men andtheir families. 20 unemployed men,who were in the prime of their workinglives, were interviewed with their wivestalking about work, their marriage andtheir daily routine between 1972 and1975;Poverty in the UK Local Surveys. Inaddition to Peter Townsend's studies ofpoverty among the "sub-employed" inthree special areas, concentrated stud­ies were conducted in four areasBelfast; Glasgow; Neath; and Salford.11 in-depth interviews and approxi­mately 70 assessment notes.

Also available is Annette Lawson's1980's study of adultery. Forthcomingcollections at Essex include: JacquelineBurgoyne's and David Clark's inter­views for the first serious study of step­families in Britain (Making a Co of It)carried out in the late 1970's andCharles Critchler's research on stress,coping and support networks in thecontext of pit closures and unemploy­ment.

And finally: A note to potential deposi­torsResearchers are asked to contactQUALIDATA as early as possible to dis­cuss the archival potential of their data,preferably before any qualitativeresearch has begun, and to considerdepositing as soon as the first piece ofsubstantive analysis has been written.The Centre organises twice-yearlyworkshops to provide social scienceresearchers with a forum for advice andexchange of experience on issues relat­ing to archiving and re-analysis of qual­itative research data. These workshopsare intended to encourage the re-use ofexisting data and to address questionsassociated with archiving and preserv­ing qualitative data. QUALIDATA staffalso give talks to researchers and post­graduate students and in the future willbe offering advice on the use ofarchives in research and training. TheCentre hosts open days on demand toenable researchers to visit and discussissues in relation to archiving.

Although the Centre is concerned withdata produced from British social sci­ence, it would be very pleased to hearabout collections of a similar nature inEurope. The Centre has been develop­ing links with other smaller archives inEurope, but as yet there appears to beno equivalent of Quafidata in othercountries.

Louise Corti and Paul Thompson,QUALIDATA

Department of Sociology University ofEssex

tel: +44 101 1206 873058e-mail: cortl@essex.ac.uk

Mid-term Conference ofthe Sociology of

Education ISA ResearchCommittee (RC04)

Education, Knowledgeand Culture

University of joensuuIoensuu, FinlandJune 16-18, 1997

Multiculturalism, ethnicity, race, andgender have become vital issues ineducation and society. These issues arein a simultaneous process of differentia­tion and globalization within schools aswell as on individual experiences insocieties. Education and schools arefaced with challenges from severaldirections: education for tolerance andunderstanding in an environment thatitself is undergoing considerablechanges which originate from the newforms of technology and social divisionof labour and cultural globalization.Consequently, the aim of this confer­ence is to tackle these issues from vari­ous perspectives. The conference willfocus particularly on the followingquestions: multicultural and intercul­tural education; ethnicity and learningexperiences via life-histories of differentethnic and social groups; new learningenvironments and knowledge struc­tures, etc.

The organizers of the conferenceinvite proposals in the following sub­stantive areas:1) Intercultural education in multlcul­

tural society;2) Racism and education;3) Life-histories of learning and educa­

tion4) Gender and education5) School as a crossroads of learning

and living;6) Vocational education and cultural

change.

The registration fee will probablybe $40 060 FIM}. The InternationalSociological Association invites expres­sions of interest to:

Conference Organiser - ISA RC04 ConferenceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of JoensuuP.O. Box 11180101 loensuuFinlandFax: +358-13-2512714e-mail: Leena.Koski@Joensuu.fi

Global Organized Crimeand International

Security, Onate, Spain,3-6 June 1997

An International Conference on"Global Organized Crime andInternational Security" will take place atthe International Institute for theSociology of Law (JlSL), in Onate,Guipuzcoa, Basque Country, Spain,from 3 June (arrival) to 6 June (depar­ture) 1997. This conference will focuson the latest research and informationon global organized crime and on thedevelopment and implementation ofappropriate counter-measures. It willstress much needed cooperative andtransnational approaches, outline theparameters of experimental solutionsthat must also respect democracy andhuman rights, and contribute to a rede­fined understanding of what interna­tiona! security; 5. Particular attentionwill be given to the connectionsbetween various forms of transnationalcrime and terrorism and also the inher­ent tensions between social control andindividual freedoms.

There is no registration fee for theconference. The IISL requests an annu­al registration fee of 2.500 pesetas (lessthan $25), waived in certain cases.

For more information on the confer­ence, contact:Prof. Emilio VianoDJL5/5PAAmerican UniversityWashington DC 20016·8043Fax: +1 202 885 2907tel: +1 202 885 2953e-mail: eviano@american.edu.

Communications to Prof. Viano inSpanish, Italian, French, German andRussian are welcome. However, theworking languages at the conferencewill be Spanish, French and English.

The number of the newsletterwas campiled by Mr. Mohd

Hapiz Abd. Aziz in theEducational Technology Centre,Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.The ESA greafully acknowledges

their assistance.

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Announcements

"Conflict and Cooperation: TheImplications of ContemporaryEuropean Transforamtions for SocialTheory"March 19-23, 1997, CyprusOrganizers: Interdisciplinary Centre forComparative Research in the SocialSciences (Vienna) and the EuropeanAssociation for the Advancement ofSocial Scienceslangugage: EnglishInformation: Bob Deacon ate-mail: b.deacon@lmu.ac.uk-OR- r.tronner@iccr.co.at

"Towards Europe or Eurasia? TheFuture of the Post-Communist States"2nd Annual Convention of theAssociation for the Study ofNationalitiesApril 24-27, 1997, New York CityOrganizer: The Harriman Institute,Columbia UniversityLangugage: EnglishInformation: Alexander J. MotylAssociate DirectorThe Harriman InstituteColumbia UniversityNew York, NY 10027USAtel +1 -212-824-4119Fax: +1-212-666~341 8

Sasakawa Forum Conference:"Transition in Central and EasternEurope"1-5 July 1997Belgrade, Serbia, Fed. Republic ofYugoslaviaOrganizer: Yugoslav Association ofSaskawa Fellows, Ryoichi SasakawaYoung Leaders Fellowship Fund (Tokyo)Topics: Culture, politics, economics,law, the Balkans and Yugoslavia in tran­sitionLangugage: EnglishInformation:The Sasakawa Forum - Belgrade 1997 ­Programme CommitteeAttn. Mihajlo D. RabrenovicExecutive Vice-President and Secretary­GeneralYugoslav Association of SasakawaFellows (YASF)UI. Susedgradska br. 4 -a/6YU-11090 Belgrade, SerbiaFederal Republic of Yugoslaviae-mail: m.rabrenovic@lse.ac.uk

Friedrich Ebert FoundationConference:"wirtschaftliche und politischeProbleme der Osterweiterung der EU"(Economic and Political Problems ofthe Eastern Enlargement of the EU)October 5-10,1997 Berlin, GermanyOrganizer: Friedrich Ebert FoundationTopics: Democracy and market econ­omy, NATO and the EU, practicalexperience of integration inBerlin/BrandenburgLangugage: GermanInformation: Michael SchultheissBerliner Buero der Friedrich-Ebert­StiftungKnesebeckstrasse 9910623 BerlinGermanytel: +49-30-312-7647Fax: +49-30-312-6455

CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS1. INTASCall for Project ProposalsINTAS announces a call for project pro­posals beginning December 15, 1996.Proposals in the natural sciences, engi­neering, social sciences, humanitiesand the economic sciences will beaccepted. Partners from the INTASmember states (EU, Israel, Norway,Switzerland) and from the GUS(Armenia, Aserbaidschan, Belarus,Georgia, Kasakstan, Kirgistan. Moldova,the Russian Federation, Tadjikistan.Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Usbekistanlmay apply. The deadline for applica­tions is April 2, 1997. A minimum offour partners must take part in one pro­ject; two must be from different organt­zations in the New Independent Statesand two from different INTAS memberstates, of which one must take on therole of project coordinator. The projectmust be designed to take from two tothree years, and may receive a maxi­mum of 60,000 ECU. No more than20% of this sum will be made availableto the partners from the INTAS memberstates. Further information and applica­tion forms are available from:INTASrue du Luxembourg 14aB-1040 BrusselsBelgiumFax: +32-2-5490156e-mail: intas@inforboard.beWWW: http//www.cordis.luhttp//www.ib.be/intas

2. Eastern Scholar Program, CivicEducation ProjectCivic Education Project rCE?) is a pri­vate voluntary educational organizationdedicated to assisting reform efforts atuniversities in Central and EasternEurope and the former Soviet Union.The Eastern Scholar Program supportsoutstanding scholars from EasternEurope and the former Soviet Unionwho have studied at a Western univer­sity and desire to return permanently toan academic post in their home coun­tries. CEP assists Eastern Scholars toreestablish relations with their formeruniversities and provides a modeststipend, some teaching materials, andaccess to CEP academic programs andevents.

To request an Eastern Scholar applica­tion packet, please contact:Civic Education ProjectP.O. Box 205445Yale StationNew Haven, CT 06520USAtel: +1 (203) 781-0263Fax: +1 (203) 781-0265e-mail: info@cep.yale.eduWeb Site.. http://www.cep.yale.edu

Note that you can receive more infor­mation at the e-mail address:info@cep.yale.edu. This is an automat­ed reply address To request informa­tion, address e-mail to the given e-mailaddress, leave SUBJECT and MESSAGEblank, and send the e-mail. You willthen receive two short messages fromCEP. The first is a one-pege descriptionof CEP programs and the second is aone-page document regarding the CEPapplication form.

Conflict and Co-operation ­The Implications of Contemporary

European Transformations forSocial Theory"

The European Association for theAdvancement of Social Sciences" holdsits 2nd Convention in Nicosia, Cyprus,March 19-23, 1997 in collaborationwith the University of Cyprus. The Callfor Papers and the announcement forthis convention is available on the leCRweb-site:http://www.iccr.via.at/i ccrContact:Roman TronnerConference ManagementThe Interdisciplinary Centre forComparative Research in the SocialSciences (ICCR)Hamburgerstrasse 14/20A-1050 Vienna, Austriatel: + 43.1 .5873973 13Fax: + 43.1.587 397310e-mail: rt@iccr.co.at

European Sociologist Number 5 page IS

Centre for the Study of Cultural ValuesInternational Conference, "Time and Value"

Lancaster University10th - 13th April, 1997

Elizabeth Ermarth; Elizabeth Grosz;Richard Kearney; Annette Kuhn; ScottLash; Alphonso Ungis; NiklasLuhmann; Tim Luke; Michel Maffesoli;Richard Roberts; Michael J Shapiro;Alain Touraine; John Urry; Slave] Zizek.

We welcome offers of papers forstreams, roundtables or poster sessions.

What is the relationship of time andvalue? According to some narrativesthere was once a time, a sacred tempo­rality, in which time was at one withvalue. Then science, technology andcapital combined to dislodge time fromvalue: to create a homogeneous andlinear time separated from a realm ofvalue attached to the utility andexchange of commodities. At the sametime ethical and aesthetic valuesbecame detached from forms of life andre-inserted in the inner temporality ofthe evaluating and eminently mortalsubject. Is there now a 'third age' inwhich post-apocalyptic sensibility andcultural proliferation threaten to rendersociety truly value free, or are theresigns of a re-integration of time andvalue?

COOPERATIONPROGRAMME EU-CEEC

IN THE FIELD OFGENDER STUDIES IN

AGRICULTURE

The Gender Studies in Agriculture sec­tion of the Department of RuralSociology at Wageningen AgriculturalUniversity (WAU) in Holland, is devel­oping a cooperation programme inwhich universities and other researchinstitutions of the 'West' (EuropeanUnion) and the 'East' (central and east­ern European Countries (=CEEC)) willwork together. The programme willfocus on the development of curriculaand research in the field of gender, agri­culture and rural development. In abroad sense the subject covers genderissues in agriculture (in West and East),gender issues, agrarian transformationand rural development in CEEC. Thosewith an interest in such a programme orwith knowledge about the subject areinvited to contact us. We are interestedin general information, bibliographies,names of researchers, finished and cur­rent research or education projects inthis field.

Sabine de Rooijtel: +31 317485150Fax: +31 317483990e-mail: Sabine.deRooij@alg.vsl.wau.nl

From Christian fundamentalism'stemporality of salvation to the post­Darwinian time of artificial life systemson the internet, to time-space compres­sion as a dimension of global culture,changing temporalities have becomeincreasingly the subject of urgentaddress. But how is time figured,embodied, materialised or represented?And what do such representationsauthor, activate, generate or refigure?

Time-consciousness and the BodyNarrative and MemoryTime and the PoliticalTempo and TechnologyNature and Kalros

Speakers include:Barbara Adam; Arjun Appadurai; DedeBoden; Manuel Castetls: Mick Dillon;

International LabourMarkets Research

Network (ILM)Conference 1997

"Understanding theSchool-to-Work

Transition"

The IlM, in association with the Schoolof Public Administration and Law, theRobert Gordon University, Aberdeen,announces its second international con­ference, to be held on 16-17 June 1997in Aberdeen/Scotland. The focus of this2-day event will be on school-to-worktransitions, both from a theoretical andempirical perspective. The conferencewill help stimulate thinking around thecomplexity of youth labour markets andbring together academics, practitionersand policy-makers. ILM welcomespapers from a wide range of social set­ence disciplines. Keynote speakerswillinclude the leading American econo­mist David Banchftower who willreport on a major NBER study on 'hard­to-employ' youth across countries.

If you would like to present a paper atthe conference, please send an abstractnot exceeding SOD words to the confer­ence organiser at the above address.The deadline for abstracts will be 7February 1997 though earlier submis-

June RyeCentre for the Study of Cultural ValuesBowland CollegeLancaster UniversityLancaster LA1 4YTUnited Kingdom.tel: +44101 152 592497Fax: +441011524594238e-mail: J.Rye@lancaster.ac.ukj

Cath GortonDepartment of SociologyLancaster UniversityLancaster LA1 4YLUnited Kingdomtel: +44101 1524 594371Fax: _-+4;4 (Ohl.;5;24 594256email: c.gortonwlancaster.ac.uk

stons would be very much appreciated.If accepted, full papers will be requiredby 4 April 1997. Papers with a com­parative dimension, either across coun­tries or over time are particularly wel­come. Papers should fall broadly intoone of the following subject areas:

Post-compulsory education andtraining;Youth unemployment;Educational background and labourmarket destinations;The impact of trade unions on theyouth labour market;Demographic developments;Policy reviews and appraisals.

The conference fee is Stg£1 10 (Stg£95for research students and ILM mem­bers), including the conference pro­ceedings, light refreshments and dinner(Monday only). Early registration is rec­ommended as places are limited.Expressions of interest in participatingat the conference should be sent to:International Labour Markets ResearchNetwork (ILM)IlM Conference 1997The Robert Gordon UniversitySchool of Public Administration andLaw352 King StreetAberdeen AB9 nQUnited KingdomFax: +44+ 1224262929e-mail: t.lange@rgu.ac.uk

European Sociologist Number 5 page 16

Third International Conference onAlternative Futures and Popular Protest

Manchester Metropolitan University,Manchester, England

March 24th-26th, 1997

tel [Tyldesley]: +44161 2473460e-mail: c.barker@mmu.ac.uk ORm.tyldesley@mmu.ac.ukFax [Barker]: +441612476321

Those giving papers are asked to sup­ply them in advance, for inclusion in abound volume of papers available tothose attending the conference.

In 1995 and 1996, ManchesterMetropolitan University hosted twosuccessful international conferences on"Alternative Futures and PopularProtest". A third will be held in March1997.

The aim of the Conference is toexplore the dynamics of popular move­ments, along with the ideas which ani­mate their leaders and supporters andwhich contribute to shaping their fate.

Offers of papers are invited fromsociologists, political scientists, histori­ans and others on the conferencethemes and their theorization. Papersshould address such matters as: con­temporary & historical social move-

International LabourMarkets Research

Network (ILM)Conference 1997

"Understanding theSchool-to-Work

Transition"

The IlM, in association with the Schoolof Public Administration and Law, theRobert Gordon University, Aberdeen,announces its second international con­ference, to be held on 16-17 June 1997in Aberdeen/Scotland. The focus of this2-day event will be on school-to-worktransitions, both from a theoretical andempirical perspective. The conferencewill help stimulate thinking around thecomplexity of youth labour markets andbring together academics, practitionersand policy-makers. IlM welcomespapers from a wide range of social sci­ence disciplines. Keynote speakers willinclude the leading American econo­mist David Banchflower who willreport on a major NBERstudy on 'hard­to-employ' youth across countries.

If you would like to present apaper at the conference, please send anabstractnot exceeding SOD words to theconference organlser at the aboveaddress. The deadline for abstractswillbe 7 February 1997 though earlier sub­missions would be very much appreci­ated. If accepted, full papers will be

ments and popular protest; socialmovement theory; utopias and experi­ments; ideologies of collective action

Those interested in offering papersshould contact the conference con­venors with a brief abstract:Colin BarkerDept of Sociology & InterdisciplinaryStudies -OR-Mike TyldesleyDept of Politics & PhilosophyBOTH AT:Manchester Metropolitan UniversityHumanities BuildingRosamondStreet West off Oxford RoadManchester M 15 6LLUnited Kingdomtel [Barker]: +44 161 247 3429 (24­hour ansaphone)

required by 4 April 1997. Papers witha comparative dimension, either acrosscountries or over time are particularlywelcome. Papers should fall broadlyinto one of the following subject areas:

Post-compulsory education andtraining;Youth unemployment;Educational background and labourmarket destinations;The impact of trade unions on theyouth labour market;Demographic developments;Policy reviews and appraisals.

The conference fee is Stg£l1 0(518£95 for research students and ILMmembers), including the conferenceproceedings, light refreshments anddinner (Monday only). Early registra­tion is recommended as places are lim­ited. Expressions of interest in partici­pating at the conference should be sentto:

International Labour Markets ResearchNetwork (IlM)ILM Conference 1997The Robert Gordon UniversitySchool of Public Administration andlaw352 King StreetAberdeen AB9 2TQUnited KingdomFax: +44+ 1224 262929e-mail: t.lange@rgu.ac.uk

Cost, inclusive of three lunches, con­ference dinner Monday night, andcopies of the bound volumes of papers,will be Stg£90 (students stg£70). Bedand breakfast accommodation at near­by U.M.I.S.T. available at Stg£29 pernight. Booking forms from:Conference OfficerFaculty of Humanities & Social ScienceManchester Metropolitan UniversityHumanities Building, Rosamond StreetWest, off Oxford RoadManchester M15 6LL, Englandtel: +441612471753Fax: +44161 2476308e-mail: I.femtem@mmu.ac.uk

Second EuropeanSocial Science History

ConferenceAmsterdam,

5-7 March 1998

The Second European Social ScienceHistory Conference will be held inAmsterdam, probably on S-7 March1998. The EsSHC aims at bringingtogether scholars interested in explain­ing historical phenomena using themethods of the social sciences. Theconference is characterized by a livelyexchange in many small groups, ratherthan by formal plenary sessions. TheConference welcomes papers and ses­sions on any topic and any historicalperiod. It is organised in a large num­ber of networks which cover a certaintopic te.g. criminal justice, family,social inequality, economics). TheConference fee will be dfl. 1SO (at pre­sent approximately US$90). The dead­line for sending in an abstract is 30April 1997.

Further information about theEuropean Social Science HistoryConference can be obtained from theConference Internet site at:

http://www.iisg.nI/E55HCor from the conference secretariat:European Social Science HistoryConference 1998c/o International Institute of SocialHistoryCruquiusweg 311019 AT AmsterdamThe Netherlandstel: +31.20.6685866Fax: +31.20.665418e-mail: ESSHC@iisg.NL

European Sociologist Number 5 page 17

Gender, Work and Organization Conference9th-10th January 1998 UMIST,

Manchester, EnglandFirst Announcement & Call for Papers

Gender, Work and Organization is aninternational journal dedicated toadvancing critical and scholarlyresearch and practice relating to genderrelations at work, the organization ofgender and the gendering of organiza­tions. The journal is hosting the firstinternational, multi- and inter-discipli­nary conference on Gender and Work,jointly organised by the University ofManchester Institute of Science andTechnology (UMIST), and theManchester Metropolitan University(MMU). A selection of the papers willform a Special Issue of the journal andothers may be published in book form.

The conference will be organisedaround five themes:1. Gender and Organisation; organi­

zational discourses, power andcontrol; gender identities; embod­ied labour; masculinity; sexuality;

2. De-regutatlon, decentralisation anddetraditionalisaticn: labour mar­kets; organisational structures andpractices; employee relations; col­lective and individual forms of con­trol; de-layering and equal opportu­nities; devolved decision making

centre for Applied SocialSurveys - Question Bank

The CASS' Question Bank is upand running. Please visit our webpage at;http://www.scpr.ac.uklcass

The Question Bank is a referencesource for question formats and word­ings used on major social surveys, pro­vides supporting material on conceptsand methodology, and aims to dissemi­nate knowledge about survey data col­lection methods to achieve comparabil­ity of results.

The core surveys covered in theQuestion Bank at its launch are:

Census of Population;General Household Survey;Family Expenditure Survey;Labour Force Survey;Family Resources Survey;British Household Panel Survey;British Social Attitudes Survey;British Election Study.

The Question Bank aims to:show how questions have been

and control, and gender and legis­lation;

3. Gendered time, work and space;paid work and family life; newforms of working; homeworking;teleworking; gender and technolo­gy;

4. Women and men in management;gender and managerial discourses;managing diversity and employ­ment; gendered networks andpower; gender and organisationalculture; femininities, masculinitiesand managerial practice; new man­age rialism, empowerment and gen­der;

5. The gender order at work; cross­national, regional and historicalanalyses of change and continuityin work and employment; polarisa­tion in women's experiences ofwork, and employment acrossoccupational or political borders.

'Gender, Work and Organization'draws on research emanating fromanthropology, history, labour econom­ics, law, philosophy, politics, psycholo­gy, and sociology. Contributions withinthe themes of the conference are invit-

asked in major social surveys;encourage standardisation of ques­tion design:encourage a critical approach tosurvey measurement.

Structured as a World Wide Web site,the Question Bank: provides a refer~

ence source of material accessible bytopic and by source; comments upontopics of research <such as economicactivity and household structure); andreproduces the main questionnaires forthe surveys included in the QuestionBank.

The Question Bank will also provide:reproduced reference documents;notes on issues of measurement,classification schemes, etc;usefu I references for further read­ing;evidence on reliability and validityfrom question testing and calibra­tion research.

It is hoped the Question Bank will beuseful to social survey designers, surveyusers and secondary analysts of data inacademic social science and social

ed which draw on these disciplinesand/or on the perspectives and topicareas of for example, management oradministrative theory and practice, cul­tural studies, education, equal opportu­nity, policy analysis, discourse theory,employment law and practice, feministor post-feminist research, gender stud­ies, human resource management,industrial relations, international man­agement and business, labour process,organization studies, and quality andstrategic management.

Please submit 500 word abstracts, stat­ing which theme the paper would relateto:

Dr Ardha DaniellAssociate EditorGender, Work and OrganizationDepartment of Managementthe Manchester Metropolitan UniversityAytoun StreetManchester Ml 3GHUnited Kingdome-mail:·ADalih~li@MMU.AC.UK

Mary O'BrienSecretary to Prof. jill RuberyManchester School of ManagementP.O. Box 88, UMI5TManchester M60 1QDUnited Kingdomtel; +44 (0) 161 200 3509Fax; +4410J 1612003505e-mail: Mary.O·Brien@umist.ac.uk

research and in professional socialresearch in the government, indepen­dent charitable and commercial sectors.

*CASS is an ESRC Resource Centrehosted by SCPR and the University ofSouthampton, with the University ofSurrey

SOCIOLOGY ON·L1NEGUIDE

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The Blackwell PublishersSOciology Resource Centre provideslinks to sociology web pages world­wide, including institutions, profes­sional associations and electronicjournals. It provides outlines of e~

mail discussion forums with debateson a whole spectrum of subjectsranging from Bourdieu to technolo­gy and from the Frankfurt School tothe Sociology of Sport.

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The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal3rd International Biennial Conference

4-6 April 1997Notice of Conference & Call for Papers

The third biennial international confer­ence on the Social Context of Death,Dying and Disposal will take place inCardiff at the University of Wales from4-6 April 1997. It is an interdisciplinaryconference attracting scholars inAnthropology, Archaeology, Law,Medicine, Palliative Care, Philosophy,Social History, Social Policy, SocialPsychology and Theology, and anyonewho deals professionally with death,the dead and the dying. Two books ofpapers from the first Conference havebeen produced. Contemporary Issuesin the Sociology of Death, Dying andDisposal (Macmillans) has justappeared. The Changing Face ofDeath: Historical accounts of death anddisposal, also to be published byMacmillans, will appear shortly. Thejournal Mortality (first issue March1996) has been born out of theConference

ONS longitudinal Study(LS) 2-day Workshop,

Social Statistics ResearchUnit,

City University, london22nd/23rd April 1997

This workshop will provide detailedinformation on the ONS longitudinalStudy (lS) - a unique dataset based onlinked census and event data (births,cancers, deaths) for 1 per cent of thepopulation of England and Wales.Many other countries, includingFinland, Denmark, Norway and France,maintain census and/or event linkagestudies. As there are many similaritiesbetween these and the lS, there is con­siderable scope for international com­parative work.

A nonrefundable fee of St£50 will becharged (St£20 for students). This cov­ers the cost of lunch and refreshmentson both days.

Contact: Dina Maher,tel, +44 171 477 8486email:dm@ssru.city.ac.uk

The cost of the Conference isStg£190. Further details can beobtained from the Conference Web site:

http://www.d.ac.ukluwc/c1aws/events/deathcon/

which will have details of all speakersonce the programme has beenarranged, or from:Stephen Wh iteMedico-legal Studies UnitCardiff law School,c/o Conference and FunctionsCoordinatorSouthgate HouseBevan PlaceCardiff CF4 3UX, WalesUnited Kingdomtel: +441222874027Fax: +44 1222 874990e-mail: Hickswcf.ac.uk

UK Social PolicyAssociation Annual

Conference"New Politics, New

Welfare?"

The UK Social Policy Association isholding its annual conference at thenewest UK university campus, inlincoln, July 15-171997. The theme ofthe conference, which will take placeshortly after a General Election, is 'NewPolitics, New Welfare?'. There will bethree keynote speakers, from the UK,USA and Germany, exploring the linksbetween politics, policy and research.Ten subthemes have been identifiedincluding:

a new welfare consensus;a new theory of welfare;comparative perspectives;changing patterns of welfare con­sumption;the politics of policy.

Further details will be available fromthe Honourary Secretary, e-mail:GCraig@humber.ac.ukFax: +441482440857early in 1997 but there is an early dead-

line for papers. Those wishing to sub­mit papers must send an abstract of nomore than 200 words to the followingaddress by 28 February 1997:Hugh BochelSchool of Policy StudiesUniversity of lincolnshire andHumbersidelnglemire AvenueHull, HU6 7LUUnited Kingdom

Announcing the FirstAnnual Qualitative

MethodologyConference

Reclaiming Voice:Ethnographic Inquiry andQualitative Research in a

Postmodern Age

June 20-22, 1997University of Southern

California'University of California at Los

AngelesUniversity of California at

Irvine

Proposal for presentations are soughtincluding, but not limited to, the fol­lowing topics:1. Afrocentric, critical, feminist,

gay/lesbian, and/or postmodernresearch;

2. Creative use of the internet andfilm;

3. Urban ethnography;4. Comparative/international

approaches, and/or concern forindigenous cultures and topics;

5. Issues related to narrative, life his­tory, and the role of the author;

6. Meta-theorization of researchmethodology.

Deadline for proposals is April 1, 1997.Registration should be by June 13,1997. For further information on sub­mitting proposals and registration, con­tact:Patrick DilleyConference ProposalsCenter for Higher Education PolicyAnalysis701 Waite Phillips HallUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA 90089-0031USAtel, +1 (213) 7402881Fax: + 1 (213) 740 3889e-mail: chepa@mizar.usc.edu

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