ISA World Research Articles

Toward a dialogical sociology: Presidential address – XX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2023

In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, the entangled pathologies of late modernity are increasingly revealing themselves in a simultaneous: (1) emergence of authoritarianism in the South and Right populism in the North that is gaining momentum year after year; (2) rising trends of inequality, precarity, and exclusion; and (3) hierarchical social polarizations are emerging in more and more societies. How do, and how should, the social sciences, and particularly sociology, react to these pathologies of late modernity? I would argue that the bulk of the responses of the social sciences and/or sociology to these pathologies are defined as being classically liberal but politically illiberal – I call this peculiar combination ‘Symbolic Liberalism’. To address the inherent problems with Symbolic Liberalism and as an alternative to it, I propose Dialogical Sociology as a form of balance between collective and individual political liberal project.

Author Meets Critics: Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran by Nazanin Shahrokni (2019, University of California Press)

I must say that I am very pleased to be a part of this author meets critics session and discuss on Nazanin Shahrokni’s book called Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran came out from University of California Press in 2019. I have met both with the very first pieces of this seminal work and Nazanin in 2010 at a time when we were in Gothenburg at the Seventeenth ISA World Congress of Sociology. There in a very interesting panela Nazanin and my then PhD student, now Dr. Selda Tuncer presented highly original papers on the topic of what I can call in short “space, place and gender”, a topic which was only getting popular at that time since a decade ago or so.

Power, violence, and justice: Reflections, responses and responsibilities: Presidential Address – XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 15, 2018

Power, violence, and justice: Reflections, responses and responsibilities: Presidential Address – XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 15, 2018

A Sociological Analysis of the Institutional Aspect of the Global Sociology of M. Burawoy

This article offers the institutional side of the global sociological project presented by M. Burawoy for consideration. The main critics of this approach currently ignore the role of institutions, and concentrate more often on the ideological side of the issue. In this paper, it is proposed to trace the usage of the institutional mechanisms of the ISA to promote the idea of the internationalization of sociology on a global scale. On the basis of the historical and sociological method, the connection between the ISA World Sociological Congresses, the institute of the presidency of the ISA, the presidential address, and the project of global sociology found in the approach of the British scientist will be demonstrated. Through the analysis of Burawoy’s articles, the main program statements of the development of global sociology will be defined. Special attention will be paid to the institute of the ISA presidential speech and its usage in the context of the global sociology of Burawoy. This paper postulates the problem of the excessive centralization of the project on the institutional link with the various resources provided by the ISA.

Migration Studies at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology

The following is a brief overview of selected topics and research agendas in migration studies presented at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018, Toronto, Canada). Migration studies occupied a prominent place at the Toronto Congress: More than 100 sessions (out of app. 1000) with more than 500 presentations were directly related to the issues of migration. They overwhelmingly concerned transnational migration in all its diversity. To provide even a cursory overview of this rich material is practically impossible. However, an attempt at presenting several salient topics and research agendas is worth making. This overview will focus on new concepts and research agendas in migration studies, on forced displacement, and on privileged migration.
 Аcknowledgements. This publication was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Project No 16-18-10092 “Social risks of the international youth migration in contemporary Russia”.

BEYOND CENTER-PERIPHERY DICHOTOMY: SOCIOLOGY IN THE GLOBAL ERA

This article presents an overview of the paths of sociology in times of change in a globalized world. Looking at the four-year period from the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, in Yokohama, to the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, in Toronto, it is possible to argue that sociology is going global and growing stronger each day. The paper stresses the importance of comparative analysis, the integration of theory and method, and the defense of Sociology as a scientific and academic field. The major question is how to keep on the move during times of profound geopolitical and geo-economic transformations and what is the place of Sociology in the global era. Hereupon we address the debate about sociological research in the 21st century considering the challenges and possibilities open to our academic field. We also analyze the contribution to sociological analysis of Latin-American and the BRICS sociologies who bring in perspectives that can go beyond the theories developed by early industrialized countries or, as they are called here, central countries.

The Magic of Melwick Orchard by Rebecca Caprara

Reviewed by: The Magic of Melwick Orchard by Rebecca Caprara Karen Coats Caprara, Rebecca The Magic of Melwick Orchard. Carolrhoda, 2018 376p ISBN 978-1-5124-6687-4 $17.99 R Gr. 4-7 Isa has a deep bond with her spunky, language-loving little sister, Junie, so when Junie's bulging "dessert belly" is revealed to be a tumor on her kidney, Isa's world falls apart. Now her father is working long hours, her mother collapses into bed after being with Junie all day, and Isa is feeling completely neglected and invisible. Fortunately, she chances upon a magical tree in a nearby orchard that seems to want to help Isa, and she makes friends with neighbor girl Kira, with whom she shares the magical fruits of the tree. Then Isa's father loses his job and Junie suffers an unexpected setback, pushing Isa to desperate measures and an emotional breaking point. A community of likable and well-drawn major and minor characters provides support for Isa as she negotiates raw emotion with little help from her credibly distracted parents. The emotional responsiveness of the magical tree is a perfect foil for Isa, highlighting the difference between things that can be easily fixed and things that are more complicated. Junie's characterization teeters right on the edge of twee, but it is saved by her genuine linguistic cleverness and her awareness of the show she must put on for her parents if not her sister. Readers who appreciate magical realism will find the premise of the tree intriguing, and they'll enjoy a solid story about the family's emotional rollercoaster and the sisters' love. Copyright © 2018 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Comparative Sociology of Examinations: An Introduction

This introduction clarifies the importance of the subject: comparative sociology of examinations, on the basis that stimulating insights on examinations have been offered by prominent sociologists, and that this subject will encourage self-reflection of sociology. It also explains how this special issue arises from a joint session in ISA World Congress of Sociology Yokohama 2014, and introduces briefly the series of five papers selected from thirteen papers and their implications.

世界社会学会議の先に

世界社会学会議の先に

Mitteilung / Communication. Call for Papers: “Organizational Consequences of Aging and Declining Populations”. ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 2014

Mitteilung / Communication. Call for Papers: “Organizational Consequences of Aging and Declining Populations”. ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 2014

Sociology in Change - a New Beginning or Undecidedness?

A look on XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology.

Sociology on the Move in the Researchscapes. Theory and Empirics in XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology

Attempts to analyse entire Congress of Sociology, whether European, whether World can only sound naïve. The article focuses on relations between sociological theory, social critics and empirical research. The XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology is used as reflection contemporary sociological field. The article concentrates on few of trends in sociology that may lead to enlargement of focus of sociological research or re-establishing of borders of sociology. It depends on success of the researches and strength of emerging theories. Strength in explanatory terms is not enough for today’s sociology. Sociology rather needs the strength to break institutional pressures tying sociology to power-serving routines and everyday common practices demanding applicable product. The article by no way argues that applicability or routines are vain or valueless. It, on contrary, notices that lots of established theories emerged form abundance of empirical observations and applied researches, giving insights for frontier researches, although not all empirical surveys lead to theory creation.

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology 11-17 July 2010 Gothenburg, Sweden

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology 11-17 July 2010 Gothenburg, Sweden