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INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE SOCIOLOGIEPinar, 25, 28006 Madrid, SpainPhone (34-1) 261 7483. Fax (34-1) 261 7485

Winter 1991 / Spring 1992

CONTENTS page

Reports from the Collective Members of the ISA:Category ACategory BCategory CCategory E

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News from the Research Committees 34In Memoriam: Paolo Ammassariby Margaret Archer 37Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists 38Prizes, Fellowships, Job Opportunities 40Call for Papers 42Publications Offers 43

The ISA Bulletin is the official publication of the Secretariat of the International SociologicalAssociation.Editor: Izabela Barlinska, Assistant: Mary Paz HualdeDesign and lay-out: ESTUART

Three issues per year appear in Spring, Summer and Autumn with an average printing of 3000copies. The ISA BULLETIN is distributed free of charge to members of the ISA. Deadlines forsubmission of items of interest to our members are: Spring issue: January 1, Summer issue: May15, Autumn issue: October 1.Published by the International Sociological Association under the auspices of ISSC and with thefinancial assistance of UNESCO. UNESCO subvention 1990-1991/DG/7.6.2./SUB.16(SHS)ISSN 0383-8501Printed by Gráficas Aries, S.A., Madrid, Spain. Depósito legal: M.25817-1987

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE1991-1994

President:T.K.OommenSchool of Social SciencesJawaharlal Nehru University110067 New DelhiIndia

Vice-President, ResearchCouncil:Daniel BertauxCentre d'Etude desMouvements Sociaux54, Bd. Raspail75006 ParisFrance

Vice-President, ProgramCommittee:Neil SmelserDepartment of Sociology410 Barrows HallUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley, California 94720USA

Vice-President,Membership & Finance:Vladimir YadovInstitute of SociologyUSSR Academy of ScienceKrzhizhanovskogo 24/35 b.5117259 MoscowUSSR

Past President 1986-1990:Margaret ArcherUniversity of WarwickUnited Kingdom

MEMBERS

Neuma AguiarIUPERJRio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rudolf AndorkaUniversity of EconomicSciences,Budapest, Hungary

Maria CarrilhoISCTELisbon, Portugal

Manuel CastellsUniversity AutónomaMadrid, Spain

Felix GeyerSISWO, Netherlands

Jürgen HartmannUniversity of Uppsala, Sweden

Ivan KuvacicUniversity of Zagreb,Yugoslavia

Alberto MartinelliUniversity of Milan, Italy

Karl M. van MeterLlSH-CNRS, ParisFrance

Stella R. QuahUniversity of SingaporeSingapore

Veronica Stolte-HeiskanenUniversity of TampereFinland

Gyórgy SzéllUniversity of OsnabrückGermany

Henry TeuneUniversity of PennsylvaniaUSA

Executive Secretary:Izabela Barlinska

SUB-COMMITTEES

Membership CommitteeChair: Vladimir Yadov, USSRVeronica Stolte-HeiskanenFinland 'Gyórgy Széll, Germany

Finance CommitteeChair: Jürgen Hartmann,SwedenKarl M. van Meter, FrancePeter Q. Reinsch, The Nether-landsGyórgy Széll, Germany

Research CoordinatingCommitteeChair: Daniel BertauxNeuma Aguiar, RC 32Rudolf Andorka, RC 28Jürgen Hartmann, RC 34Alberto Martinelli, RC 02

Karl. M. van Meter, RC 33Gyórgy Széll, RC 10Henry Teune, RC 24Stella R. Quah, RC 15

Publications CommitteeChair: Martin Albrow, UKEC representatives:Rudolf Andorka, HungaryMaria Carrilho, PortugalStella R. Quah, SingaporeRCC representative:Daniel Bertaux, France«Current Sociotoqy»:William Outhwaite, EditorGyórgy Széll, GermanyNikolai Genov, Bulgaria«Ir:ternational Soctotoqy»:Rlchard Grathoff, EditorMelvin Kohn, USACéline Saint-Pierre, FranceZene- Tadesse, Senegal-Seqe Studies in InternationalSocioioqy»:Robert J. Brym, EditorY.B. Damle, IndiaElizabeth Jelin, Argentina«Sociological Abstrects»:Leo P. Chall, EditorObservers:Stephen Barr, SAGE Publica-tionsElizabeth King, IS AssistantEditor

Representatives toISSC-UNESCODelegates: Alberto MartinelliGyórgy Széll 'Alternates: Daniel BertauxKarl van Meter '

Representative to UNESCO-ICSSDRichard Grathoff, Germany

Representatives to UnitedNationsVienna:Jürgen Hartmann,DelegateAlternate: t.b.a.Geneva:Alberto MartinelliDelegate 'Maria Carrilho, AlternateNew York: Henry Teune,DelegateNeil Smelser, Alternate

Representative to WHOHans-Ulrich Deppe, Germany

EPORTS FROM THECOLLECTIVEMEMBERS OF THE ISA

CATEGORY A: NATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES

International SociologicalAssociation recognizes fivecategories of members:

A: National sociological soci-eties duly established and opento all active and qualified soci-ologists within the territory ofthe given country;B: International and multina-

tional regional associations ofsociologists whether of a gen-eral character or limited to a

AustralianSociologicalAssociation

The Australian SociologicalAssociation (TASA)Department of Anthropologyand SociologyUniversity of OueenslandSt Lucia, Oueensland 4067AUSTRALIAtel: 7-3773152fax: 7-3712503

OfficersPresident: John S. WesternSecretary: Diane GibsonTreasurer: Paul Boreham

In 1988 Sociological Asso-ciation of Australia and NewZealand (SMNZ) was dividedinto two separate associations:The Australian Sociological As-sociation (TASA)inAustralia,andthe Sociological Association ofAetearoa in New Zealand.

TASA provides its memberswith:

particular field of sociology;C: Research institutions and

university departments active inthe field of sociology;

O: Individual scholars activein sociological teaching, re-search or related services;

E: Supporting organizationsand institutions;F: A special category of

membership including asso-ciations, organizations and in-

• TheAustralian and New Zea-land Journal of Sociology(ANZJS),an internationally rec-ognizedjournalwhich isthe mainpublishing outlet for sociologi-cal research and analysis inAustralia. Three issues are pro-duced annually.• The Association News/etterNEXUS containing informationon conferences, overseas visi-tors, and current issues in Aus-tralian sociology. NEXUS ispublished four times ayear.• An Annual Conference• Special interest sections andconferences

OsteneichischeGesellschaft fürSoziologie

Austrian Sociological Asso-ciationc/o Institut für SoziologieNeutorgasse 12/9, Postfach137A-1013 Wien

stitutions satisfying high sci-entific standards, but not fit-ting into any of the other cat-egories.

We have invited all ISA col-lective members, i.e. those be-longing to category A,B,C,E orF, to submit report on their re-cent activities. In this issue ofthe ISA Bulletin we are present-ing reports received by October31st, 1991.

AustriaTel: 43-222-5332878Fax: 43-222-5336592

OfficersPresident: Rudolf RichterBoard members: JohannBacher, Elke Beermann, EvaCyba, Elisabeth Jandl-Jager,Waltraud Kannonier, AndreaKrámmer, Bárbel Schrems.

The Austrian SociologicalAssociation (OGS) has about500 members, most of themare graduate sociologists.There is also a possibility foradvanced students of sociol-ogy to apply for membership.The annual general meetingdecides about admission ofthe applicants.

OGS has five main types ofactivities:• Regular, bi-annual scientificmeetings;• Editorship of the scientificquarterly journal OsterreichscheZeitschrift für Soziologie,founded in 1976;

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• Editorship of a quarterlynewsletterOGS-lnformationen;• Editorship of Materials ofOGSpublished intwo volumes:Professional Fields for Sociolo-gists (1989) and Teaching ofSociology in Austria (1990);• Within OGSthere are 14sub-sections which work quite inde-pendently: sociology of medi-cine, technic, economy, workand industry, culture, family,sport, history of sociology,methods of sociology, sociol-ogy as teaching profession,women in society, migration,socialpolicy,sociologicaltheory.

General thematic subjects ofthe previous scientific meet-ings were: Work and Education(1977), State-controlled In-equality (1979), Future of Work- Future without Work (1981),1984: Fantasy, Fiction, Reality(1983),Women: The Other Partof Society (1985),Society at theFrontiers (1987), Culture andSociety (1988,togetherwith thesociological associations ofSwitzerland and Germany),Teaching of Sociology (1989).

The 1991meetingwas organ-ized on the theme Integration -Disintegration,Change of Soci-ety. The meeting took place inLinzand many sociologists fromother Europeancountries,espe-cially from Eastem Europe, at-tendedthecongress.Theplenarythemes were: Theoretical Ap-proaches to the Problem Inte-gration and Disintegration;TheFuture of State; Old SocialStructures- NewMilieus;CulturalTransformation-PoliticalChange.

In August 1992 the First Eu-ropean Conference of Sociol-ogy will be held in Viennaunderthe auspices of the bGS. Soci-ologistsof allEuropeancountrieswill participateinthis conference.It is the first venture to make aforum to sociologists from Eastand West Europe and will be asignificantevent in the history ofEuropeansociology.

Report submitted by SylviaSupper

BulgarianSociologicalAssociation

20 April Str. 19

1606 SofiaBulgariatel: 525189, 523318, 803876

OfficersPresident: Petar-Emil MitevVice-Presidents:Nikolai GenovDimitar DimitrovExecutive Secretary:S. Bogatzevski

In June 1991, the BulgarianSociological Association hold itsSixth Extraordinary Congress.Besides organizational matters,the Congress discussed issuesof empirical sociological re-search in the period of socialchanges, ofthe professionalismof Bulgarian sociologists (train-ing, qualification, professionalfulfillment, unemployment) andmoral aspects of their activities,national and international as-pects of sociology.

It was decided that the BSAsupports the Moral Code of theInternational Association forPublic Opinion Research.

Among other resolutions,Bulgarian sociologists decidedto undertake the initiative of set-ting up in Bulgaria a FoundationSociology with internationalpartici pation.

Report submitted by S.Bogatzevski, Secretary

AsociaciónColombiana deSociología

Apartado Aéreo 52531Bogotá 2Colombia

OfficersPresident: Elssy BonillaVice-President: AlvaroCamacho GuizadoExecutive Secretary: MaríaEugenia VasquezScientific Secretary: GonzaloCataño

Background informationThe Colombian Sociological

Association (ACS)was foundedin 1962 by a group of sociolo-gists interested inpromoting thedevelopment of social sciencesin the country. ProfessorsOrlando Fals Borda and Camilo

Torres, members at that time ofthe recently founded School ofSociology at the National Uni-versity, were the most enthusi-astic mentors of that project.The main objectives were ori-ented to stimulate sociologicalresearch, to encourage jointprograms between national andinternational social scientistsandto protect professional workof the sociological schools'alumni.

Among the most importantactivities undertaken during the60's can be mentioned the or-ganization of the First and Sec-ond National Sociological Con-gress in 1963 and 1967 and theVII Latinamerican SociologicalCongress held in August 1964with the participation of a largegroup of sociologists from LatinAmerica, U.S. and Europe.

It should be noted that theactivities of Colombian sociolo-gist are undertaken in the mostprofound social, economic andpolitical unrest. In fact, Colom-bian society is presently con-fronting ruraland urban violenceof different types, which are ef-fecting the normal functioningof the academic institutions andthe free exercise of the intellec-tuals' roles.

Organizational structureThe ACS is directed by an

executive committee of sixmembers elected by a GeneralAssembly for a two year pe-riod. In those States (Depar-tamentos) where there are largeworking groups of sociologists,they can organize "Capitulos"(chapters) which are workingcommittees, whose main goalis to motivate professional andacademic activities at the re-gional levels.

One of the most importanttasks of the ACS and its chap-ters is the periodic organization(every two or three years) of theNationalSociological Congress.During the last ten years, four ofthese meetings have been or-ganized.

Academic activitiesIn addition to the previously

mentioned activities, the ACShas made great efforts to pro-mote Research Committees onEducation, Politics, Health,

Women's Studies, and Ruraland Urban Problems. Given thetime and finaneiallimitations toundertake social research, aswell as the instability of mostColombian Universities, the de-velopment ofthese groups havebeen very limited with the ex-ception of the Women's Stud-ies Committee.

PublicationsBesides the periodical Bulle-

tin Sociólogos y Sociología, theACS has published 13 books,most of which seek to diffusepapers presented and dis-cussed at the National Con-gresses, as well as in the Re-search Committees of the As-sociation.

At the moment efforts areoriented to promote new edi-tionsofearliersociological pub-lications, inorderto rescuethemfor the new generations of so-ciologists. A first product ofthisdecision was the publieation ofCamilo Torres book LaPro/etarización de Bogotá(Bogotá, 1987).

Reportsubmitted byGonzaloCataño, Scientific Secretary

DanskSociologforening

Dansk Sociologforening(Danish Sociological Asso-ciation)Gothersgade 133DK-1123 Copenhagen KDenmark

OfficersPresident: Helge Hvid,Roskilde UniversityDelegate to ISA Council:Thomas P. Boje, RoskildeUniversityThe Danish Sociological As-

sociation is a member of theScandinavian Sociological As-sociation.

Membership: 405 sociolo-gists and cultural anthropolo-gists

Official journal: DanskSociologi (Danish Sociology)edited by HeineAndersen, pub-lished four times ayear

The WestennarckSociety

c/o Turku School of Econom-iesRehtorinpellonkatu 3SF-20500 TurkuFINLANDtel: 358-21-6383304,6383346fax: 358-21-6383280

OfficersPresident: Timo ToivonenVice-President:KirstiSuolinnaSecretary: Anne Kovalainen

OriginsTheWestermarekSociety (the

Finnish Sociological Associa-tion) was established in 1940,and was named after EdwardWestermarck, a famous Finnishanthropologist who held a pro-fessorship at the University ofLondon. The Westermarck So-ciety is one of the oldest Finnishacademic organizations, and ithas a relatively large number ofmembers when compared toother seientifie organizations inthe country. At present it has1.200 members, of whom ap-proximately 400 are students.Membership of the society isrestricted to individuals.

Recent activitiesThe Westermarck Society

organizes an annual nationaltwo-day conference with ple-nary sessions and workinggroups where the most recentand ongoing research is pre-sented. The yearly meeting hasa theme which connects theplenary sessions together, andalso brings up eurrent problemsand discussions within sociol-ogy and society at large. Con-ference attendances rangefrom200 to 300 participants.

In 1991 the meeting was heldin Helsinki around the theme ofPeople on the Move. The 1990meeting was held in Tamperewith The Critical Potential inCurrent Sociology as its theme.

Organizational structureThe Westermarck Society is

run by a president, with the helpof a secretary and a treasurer.The Board of the Westermarck

Society consists of 13 to 15members, representing differ-ent universities and sociologydepartments. The presidency,viee-presidency and seeretary-ship rotate all on an annual ba-siso

PublicationsThe Westermarek Society

publishes a sociological journalSosiologia in Finnishand Swed-ish with English summaries. It ispublished fourtimes ayear, withemphasis on discussion andrecent research. The currenteditor is Pertti Alasuutari (Uni-versity of Tampere) and theeditorial secretary is Jari Aro(University of Tampere).

Mueh of the research -espe-cially research of an empiricalnature- is published in the re-search series ofdifferent univer-sities, research institutes andresearch units.

In addition to the journalSosiologia, the Society pub-lishes a series entitled Transac-tions of the Westermarck Soci-ety.

The Westermarck Society isone of the publishers of ActaSociologica, the Journal of theScandinavian Sociological As-sociation.

Until the 1980s, Finnish soci-ologists published their workmainly in Finnish, with a fewwell-known exceptions. How-ever, the trend to publish inter-nationally has increased quicklyinrecenttimes, hencewith some60 presentations, Finnish soci-ologists were among the largestof the groups to participate inthe recent Madrid World Con-gress of Sociology.

Report submitted by AnneKovalainen, Secretary

Société Fran~aisede Sociologie

Seerétariat Général59-61, rue Pouchet75849 Paris Cedex 17Francetel: 33-1-40251099

Comité DirecteurPrésident: Louis RousselSecrétaire Général: JaequesCommaille

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Secrétaire: Monique PoretMembres:Daniel Bertaux, ClaudeDubar, Francoise Dubost,Sabine Erbes-Seguin, ErhardFriedberg, Michel Forse,Daniele Hervieu-Leger, Do-minique Schnapper, DenisSegrestin, Francois de Sin-gly.

Journées Annuelles de laSociété Franyais deSociologie.

Octobre 11-12,1991:"Processus d'lnnovation auxFronteres des Disciplines dansles Sciences Sociales"

Publications RécentNormes juridiques et

régulation sociale (Journéesannuelles de la SFS, Bor-deaux 1987), Editeur LGDT,Paris 1991

HellenicSociologicalAssociation

3 Plateia Agion Theodoron105-61 Athens GREECE

Council MembersPresident: ConstantinosTsoucalasVice-President:NicolasPetro-poulosSecretary: ParaskeviGalinouTreasurer:MariaPapaioannouM e m bers :Th eod oss i sKatsoulas, Babis Stertsos,TheodoreMalagaris,ChristinaXerou, Nicolas GousgounisThe HellenicSociological As-

sociation was founded in 1983as a scientific and professionalbody of representation for thenexclusively foreign educatedGreek sociologists. With the in-troduction of sociology in de-gree granting programs atPanteion University and theUniversity of Crete, it subse-quently grew to a present duespaying membership of about200 colleagues.

Among the priorities of theAssociation have been organi-zational and constitutional mat-ters, the development of jobsfor sociologists, the support ofmembers employed in differentsettings, and the scientific de-

velopment and upgrading ofmembers. Colleagues teachingat the Iyceesareconcerned withpedagogical questions and ac-ceptance by educational sys-temoThose employed by stateand municipal authorities en-counter problems stemmingfrom organizational anachro-nisms, pervasive reluctance andoften suspicion of "powers thatbe" concerning the usefulnessof the discipline.

During the past year, the HSAorganized seven didacticseminars under the generaltheme Sociological Researchand Contemporary Greek Soci-ety, which were attended byanaverage of fifty colleagues.Presently, we are working on aproposal for the sociologicalsubjects in high school and acode of ethics. Ideas and exist-ing materials will be highly use-fui and appreciated.Finances remain a top prob-

lem as high unemployment andincome levels preclude sub-stantial fee increases. A muchneeded small office was rentedthis yearandwe issueaquarterlyNews/etter.

The Hellenic SociologicalAssociation will be happyto hostlectures and workshops bycolleagues who pass throughGreece. Please contactParaskevi Galinou at 01-76-66-597.

Report submitted byParaskevi Galinou, Secretary

SociologicalAssociation oflreland

c/o Department of SocialStudiesQueen's University of BelfastBelfast BT5 1NNIreland

Current OfficersChairperson: Barbara MurrayTreasurer: Dave RedmondInternationalSecretary: RiccaEdmonsonMembership Secretary: AnneClearlyPublic Relations Officer:Madeleine LeonardBulletin Editor: RobbieMcVeigh

Ordinary Members: MairinKenny, Mary CorcoranThe Sociological Association

of Ireland was founded in 1973and acts as a forum for thediscussion and analysis of so-cial issues, particularly thoserelated to Irishsociety.lt consti-tutes an important network forthose concerned with theoreti-cal and empirical issues in thesocial sciences and is a vitalresource for those wishing toidentify and make contact withother social scientists.

Organisational structureThe Association is controlled

by the Annual General Meetingof members held each year atthe Conference.TheAGMelectsan Executive Committee whichmeets throughout the year toensure the smooth running ofthe Association's affairs. Anymember can influence policy bysubmitting resolutions to theAGM,orbystandingforelectionto the Executive Committee.

ConferencesThe SAl holds its annual con-

ference inMayof eachyear.Theconference is residential. It iswell attended and is typically astimulating and sociable event.Recent conference themes in-elude: Culture and Ideology inIreland, Ideology and PopularCulture, Methodologicallssuesin Sociology, Poverty andWealth: a divided society, TheState and Economic Develop-ment.

The conference theme forMay 1992 is The New Europe:Single Market - Single Society?

PublicationsThe SAl publishes a Bulletin

which goes outto members fourtimes ayear. The Bulletin con-tains features, news about otheroccasional seminars, confer-ences, new titles and book re-views and any matters con-cerning the Association itself.Each year a register of mem-bers is published which keepsmembers informed of new ad-dresses, research interests andpublications.

SAl Publications:WhoseLaw and Order, ed. M.

Tomlinson, T. Varley, C.McCullagh, Belfast, SAl, 1989.

Genderin Irish Society, ed. C.Curtin, P.Jackson, B.O'Connor,Galway University Press, 1987.

Ireland - A Sociological Pro-file, ed. C.Curtin, M. Kelly,L.O'Dowd, Galway UniversityPress, 1985 (an updated 2ndedition of this book will be avail-able next year).

Cultureandldeologyinlreland, ed.C. Curtin, M. Kelly, L.O'Dowd,Dublin,IPA& SAl, 1984.

Power, Conflict and Inequal-ity, ed. M. Kelly, L.O'Dowd, J.Wickham, Dublin, Turoe Press,1982.

Report submitted by Made-leine Leonard, Public RelationsOfficer

AsociaciónMexicana deSociología

Torrede Humanidades, 9 pisoC.P. 04510Mexico, D.F.tel: 548.15.42

OfficersFounder President: LucioMendieta y NúñezPresident: Jorge MorenoColladoVice-Presidents:Carlos Quintana Roldán, RaúlBenitez Zenteno, RobertoHoffman ElizaldeSecretaries: ReginaJiménez-Ottalengo, Giovanna ValentiNigriniTreasurer: M. del RefugioRosalesScientific Coordinator:M. Luisa Rodríguez Sala

Board Members:Jorge Basutro, Héctor SolisQuiroga, Jorge Dettmer, J.Molina Piñeiro, Julia Flores,Lucio Cabrera Acevedo,Berthe Lerner, VíctorManzanilla SchafferInformation and Public Rela-tions: Norma Angélica JuárezSalomo, Raymundo RamírezOliveraMainactivities planned bythe

Mexican Sociological Associa-tion for 1991 are:• punctual publication ofRevistaInteramericana de Sociología, ajournal of the MSA;

• a bi-national seminar(Mexicoand Spain) on Sociology andIdeology, Societyand the Sta te,Social Changes - SociologicalChanges. To be organized bythe MSA incooperation with theInstituto de InvestigacionesSociales and UniversidadNacional Autónoma de México;• an international seminar onthe consequences of afreetradetreaty between Canada, Mexicoand the United States, on theLatin-American business.Seminar isorganizedbythe MSAin cooperation with the Institutode Investigaciones Sociales,UniversidadNacionalAutónomade México, Instituto de Pro-posiciones Estratégicas, Uni-versidad Autónoma Metro-politana, Unidad Azcapozalco.• creation of a Working Groupon Science and TechnologyStudies to carry on interdiscipli-nary research and to preparespecialists in these topics. It is along-term project sponsored bythe MSA, Institute de Inves-tigaciones Sociales UNAM, andInstituto Iberoamericano deEstudios sobre la Ciencia y laTecnología.

MongolianAssociation ofSociology

e/o Institute of Philosophy,Sociology and LawAcademy of SciencesStr. Peace 54, building BUlan-BatorMongolia

OfficersPresident: S. Tumur-OchirSecretary: L. GomboFirst sociological study or-

ganization was founded in Mon-golia in early 1970's under thename of the Mongolian Asso-ciation of Philosophy and Soci-ology at the Academy of Sci-ences of the Mongolian Peo-ple's Republic. On 16th March1991, the Mongolian Associa-tion of Sociology was set up asan independent body.

The aims of the MongolianAssociation of Sociology are:• to unite Mongolian sociolo-gists in order to promote socio-

logical study in the country• to popularize sociologicalstudy in the country• to provide Mongolian soci-ologists with necessary andadequate information from therelevantsourcesof variousworldresearch institutions• to render methodological as-sistance to those engaged insociological study in Mongolia• to maintain contacts with in-ternational, regional and localsociological research organiza-tions and individual researchers.

The highest body ofthe Mon-golian Association of Sociologyis its Congress which shall beconvened every five years.

ActivitiesMAS has set up several

centers of sociological studiesthroughout the country, con-ducting researchon present daysituation of Mongol herdsmen,workers and intellectuals.

MAS and the Mongolian Na-tional University arecarrying outdemographic study at the Uni-versity's newly established de-mography laboratory. There arealso some research groupsstudying various political move-ments and parties in the coun-try.

PublicationsAt present, MAS contributes

to an annual magazine Philo-sophical and Sociological Stud-ies published bythe Academy ofSciences. Plansarebeing madeto launch its own journal.

Report submitted by S.Tumur-Ochir, President

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NederlandseSociologische enAntropologischeVereniging

Mauritsweg 443012 JV RotterdamThe Netherlandstel: (31-10)4135996

Executive Board 1991President: H.M. LangeveldSecretary: J. DronkersTreasurer: B.E.v. VuchtTijssenMember: H. DahlesMembers at large: H.A.Becker, w.P. Knulst, M.L. deVries de Regt, A. Droogers,J. André de la Porte, MAMentzel, Th.P.B.M. Suur-meijer, J.S. Timmer, E.Mante-Meijer, C. Jol, C.J.M.Bruin, G.J. van den BroekDelegate & Alternate to ISACouncil: HA Beckerand B.E.van Vucht Tijssen

OriginsThe Dutch Sociological and

Anthropological Association(NSAV) celebrates its 55th an-niversary in 1991. On April 4th,1936, at 3 p.m. was foundedthe NederlandseSociologischeVereeniging (first president:WA Bonger). The aim of theassociation at that time was toform a link between scholars ofsocial sciences in the largesense and thus furthering thedevelopment ofthese sciences.As was the case in many Euro-pean countries at that time, so-ciology was defined as a coverforthe different social sciences.In 1965 the statutes werechanged to the effect that theaim of the association was tofurther the development of so-ciology in the Netherlands aswell astofurtherthesocial con-ditions for such development.From the period 1963/1965 onthe association has become bi-focal: nextto itsscholarlyorien-tation, it has developed itsprofessional character an hasacted as an interest group ofand for sociologists.

It is member of ISA since1950.

In 1971 the name of the as-sociation was changed and the

letter "A" was added to the ac-ronym recognizing the equalityand the autonomy of the an-thropologists.

Moreover,anthropologists arerepresented statutorily in theexecutive.

MembershipAt January 1st, 1991 total

membership amounted to 1467.NSAV members can join any

ofthe following working groups:• SectionCulturalAnthropologyand Sociology of non WesternSocietes (Secretary: H. Dahles);• Sociology of Religion (Secre-tary: H.C. Stofffels);• Workgroup Sociology ofFiguration (Secretary: C. Bouw)

PublicationsNewsletter Sociodrome,

published since 1976, appears5 times ayear. Editor: 1. Cieraad.

The NSAV publishes also ajournal The Netherlands' Jour-nal of Social Sciences in whichselected articles from Dutchlanguage journals are beingtranslated into English. Manag-ing Editor: K. Verrips.

Congresses 1990• Amsterdam: Social ScienceSymposium: Women/Men -Changes in the social relations• Amersfoort: "What has theDutch Sociology achieved?"• Amsterdam: 8th meeting ofMedical Sociology and Anthro-pology

AwardsVerwey-Jonker Award is at-

tributed to young sociologistsand/or anthropologists whopresent the most outstandingpapers at the Flemish/DutchSymposium. Four awards havebeen granted since 1984.

NSAV Essay Award was cre-ated to celebrate the 50th anni-versary of the NSAV. It isawarded every second year tothe author of the best Dutch-language essay in sociology oranthropology, submitted toajuryof prominent sociologists andanthropologists. This award hasbeen granted in 1989 and 1991.

Professor Van Heek Award isgiven for the best essay on atopic from the social scienceswritten by a high school pupil,during the National Science

Week. This award has beengranted in 1991.

NSA V Best Scientific Artic/eAward is given every secondyear to the authors of the bestarticle published in the last twoyears in the Dutch sociologicaljournals. This award has beengranted forthe first time in 1990.

Ethical CodeSince 1975 the NSAV has an

ethical code for sociologists.

The SociologicalAssociation ofAotearoa

c/o Department of Parks,Recreation and TourismLincoln UniversityP.O.Box 84CanterburyNew Zealand

OfficersPresident: Peggy G. Koop-man-Boyden, University ofCanterburySecretary/Treasurer: BobGidlow, Lincoln UniversityBoard Members: TeresaBaer-Doyle (University ofWaikato), Larry Dixon(Tauranga), Phillipa Kitchin(Victoria University of Wel-lington), BevMcCombs (Wel-lington), Kay Saville-Smith(Housing Corporation of NewZealand),PatShannon (OtagoUniversity), Paul Spoonley(Massey University)

OriginsThe Sociological Association

of Aotearoa, known as SAA forshort, currently has approxi-mately 140 members. Supporthas steadily grown since SAAreplaced thefounding organiza-tion, the New Zealand Socio-logical Association, in 1987-88.

One of the pleasing aspectsof SAA's steady growth is that itis attracting members from avariety of settings, and not justfrom academe. Sociologists ingovernment, in private consul-tancy, in local government, sec-ondary school teachers, poly-technic tutors and, of coursesociology students, are wellrepresented inthe membership.

ActivitiesSAA sends 3 newsletters per

year to its members, and initi-ates an annual 3 day sociologyconference (usually held in De-cember), the venue for whichrotates from one universitycampus to another. As fromlate 1991, SAA will also be pro-ducing a membership directory,which will facilitate the net-working of sociologists withcommon areas of interest.

Besides seeking to representthe interests of New Zealandsociologists, and providing di-rect benefits to members, theAssociation maintains links withthe wider sociological commu-nity through, for example,membership of the ISA.

David Thorns, of CanterburyUniversity, and Jeff Sissons, ofOtago University, were presentat the 1990 World Congress ofSociology in Madrid, whereDavid attended meetings oftheISA Council as a representativeof SAA. David's reflections onthat Congress, published in theNovember SAA newsletter,concluded that "World Con-gresses, by their sheer size anddiversity, are inherently frus-trating affairs but they are alsointrinsically interesting andsimulating. They are meetingplaces where you are encour-aged bythe factthat your disci-pline is alive and well".

Several areas of activity andaccomplishment were of im-portance to the Association in1990. ACode of Ethics wasratified atthe 1990 A.G.M. andwill be disseminated to all exist-ing and new members. TheCode represents an importantstep in the development of theAssociation. In the words ofPaul Spoonley, past-Presidentofthe Association, it "helps es-tablish us as a credible Asso-ciation with a clear conceptionof our political and social re-sponsibilities ..".

A second accomplishment,which owes much to PaulSpoonley's personal energy,was the establishment of theOxford University Press So-ciology Prize, which will en-courage excellence in post-graduate work in New Zealandsociology. The Prize, whichconsists of a sum of money

($500) and publication of thewinning thesis by Oxford Uni-versity Press, will be offered forthe first time in November 1991.The selection panel will consistof two members of the Execu-tive of SAA and the ManagingEditor of OUP in New Zealand.

A third important activity, andone which will be ongoing, isfurthering biculturalism in theAssociation and in New Zealandsociology generally. Te Tiriti oWaitangi (the Treaty ofWaitangi), 1840, which is thefounding charter of Aotearoa-New Zealand, requires a part-nership between the tangatawhenua (the original Maori in-habitants ofthe land) and Pakeha(Iater arriving, predominatelyEuropean) New Zealanders.

The Constitution of SAA rec-ognizes and upholds Te Tiriti,and, in the words of Bill Willmott,Professor of Sociology at Can-terbury University, "our respon-sibility underTe Tiriti o Waitangimeans striving to ensure thatour research and teaching, our'developmentand disseminationof sociological knowledge' (inthe words of the SAA Constitu-tion) contributes towards morejustice in relations betweenPakeha and Maori in Aotearoa".

An overwhelming proportionof sociologist and sociologystudents in Aotearoa-New Zea-land are of European origin, andthe Association is committed tofostering Maori sociology andMaori sociologists. During 1990,heads of departments of soci-ology were contacted by 'thePresident of the Association tofind out what their departmentswere doing to present Te Tiriti inteaching and research.

The 1991 Executive has corn-missioned a Wellington-basedworking partyto presentthe nextA.G.M. of the Association withpolicy directives for furtheringbiculturalism. In addition, a bib-liography of Treaty issues is tobe commissioned; funds are tobe sought to provide Maori so-ciology graduates with financialassistance; and a list of recentMaori graduates will be corn-piled with a view to establishinga resource group for the Asso-ciation.

On a more political note, theExecutive of the Association re-

cently passed a motion of sup-port for joining the Federationof New Zealand Social Sci-ence Organizations (colloqui-ally known as FONZSSO ). TheFederation was formed in May1990, in the light of governmentchanges to the structure of sci-entitic research funding in NewZealand. Theraison d'etre ofthefederation is to ensure that thesocial sciences present a uní-fied case in dealings with twonew government agencies, theMinistry and the Foundation forResearch, Sciences and Tech-nology, and to ensure that thesocial sciences are adequatelyfunded.

Paul Spoonley is the Presi-dent of FONZSSO and it isheartening to see a respectedsociologist presiding over whatwe all hope will be a powerfuland respected advocacy group.

During 1990, the Associationsought to gain recognition torsociology in the national sec-ondaryschoolcurriculum. TheAssociation is lobbying for soci-ology to become a bursary sub-ject (equivalent to the British "A"Level), for 6th and 7th Formstudents. The effect of gainingbursary status would beto makesociology a credible subject forsenior school students and torecruit academically able stu-dents to sociology at a corn-paratively early age.

In response to a request fromthe Ministry of Education, aMassey University group con-ducted a national survey ofsecondary schools to estab-lish who teaches, who wouldlike to teach, and who is trainedto teach, sociology. Valuable asthis base-line information is,moving to the next step of es-tablishing a national secondaryschool curriculum has beenmade more difficult by a seriesof reviews (including revision ofthe 6th and 7th Forms), initiatedby the new Minister of Educa-tion following a change of gov-ernment in October 1990.

Finally, and to end on a post-tive note, the 1990 Conferenceof the Association was held atLincoln University in December.The Conterence was very wellattended, and more than onehundred papers were given in

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12 areas of sociology. Amongthe highlights of the Confer-ence, Jock Philips, a well-known social historian, gave astimulating keynote address inwhich he used a comparison ofthe centennial and sesqui-centennial celebrations of thesigning of Te Tiriti to identifychanging values in Aotearoa-New Zealand society.

The Association is keen tobuild its links with the widersociological community. Fur-ther contact can be madethrough the President of SAA,PeggyG.Koopman-Boyden, ofthe Sociology Department,University of Canterbury,Christchurch, or the Treasurer/Secretary, Bob Gildlow, De-partment of Parks, Recreationand Tourism, Lincoln Univer-sity, Canterbury.

PolskieTowarzystwoSocjologiczne

Nowy Swiat 7200-330 WarszawaPolandtel: 48-22-267737

Officers 1989-1992President: Antonina Klos-kowskaVice-President: Andrzej Ry-chardSecretary: Antoni SulekTreasurer: Andrzej KojderManaging officer: EwaHaberkaBoard members: KrzysztofJasiewicz, Jerzy Jasinski,Stanislaw Kosinski, JolantaKulpinska,Piotr Lukasiewicz,Andrzej Piotrowski, GrazynaSkapska, Jacek Wasilewski,Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski,Marek ZiolkowskiThe Polish Sociological As-

sociation was formed in 1957and had Stanislaw Ossowskias its first president. It is thecontinuation of the AII-PolishSociological Society, active in1931-39 and founded at theFirst Conference of Polish So-ciologists, and is thus one ofthe oldest sociological socie-ties in Europe.

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The Association has todayover 1.000 members and 11 lo-cal branches, in all universitytowns. It includes ten researchcommittees: Rural and Agri-cultural Sociology, Urban Soci-ology, Labor Sociology, Sociol-ogy of Medicine, Sociotechnics,Sociology of Law, Sociology ofSocial Deviance and Control,Sociology of the Army, War andPeace, Sociology of Religion,Social Anthropology.

The General Assembly ofDelegates, which chooses thepresidentandtheCentral Board,is the Association's highest au-thority.

The Association draws its fi-nancialmeansfrom the revenuesof its Bureau of Scientific Re-search, subsidies from the Stateauthorities, and contributions byits members.

The Association awards an-nually the Ossowski Prize forthe best book written by ayoungsociologist. In 1990 it went toElzbieta Halas for The SocialContext of Meanings in Theoryof Symbolic Interactionism, andin 1991 to Krystyna Szafraniecfor Man in Face ofSocial Change(both in Polish).

The Association also confersthe dignity of honorary foreignmember recently received byMelvin Kohn (1989), Jiri Musil(1989), and Richard Grathoff(1990).

Polish Sociological Associa-tion in transition

The recent years mark an im-portantperiodintheAssociation'shistory- inthe sameway as inthehistory of Polishsociety at large.The systemic transformation inPoland has influencedthe Asso-ciation's activity in many ways.

TheAssociation has for manyyears intensely analyzed theprocesses of the decomposi-tion of real socialism. Today itsinterest is focused on the emer-genceofcivic societyandmarketeconomy in Poland. Thoseproblems were discussed atthe8th National Sociological Con-gress held inTorun, September1990. Its theme was Transfor-mation and Challenge. TheTheories of Social Change in theLight of Contemporary Experi-ence. The Congress undertookto synthesize theoretical inter-

pretations of social change withthe Polish empirical data, and toanalyze the change in Polandagainst the comparative back-ground of other countries. Dan-gers to the democratic changein Poland and the role of soci-ology in the new social orderwere discussed, too.

Various selected problems ofsystemic change (parliamentaryelections, formation of the localgovernment, changes in thelabormarket,development oftheprivate sector in the nationaleconomy, change in the func-tions of religion) have been dis-cussed at many seminars andconferences organized by theAssociation's localbranchesandresearch committees. Suchmeetings are the basic form oftheir activity.

The Congress inTorun could,for the first time, be attended byPolishsociologists livingabroadand by sociologist fromneighboring countries, namelyLithuania, Russia and Czecho-Slovakia.

Paradoxically enough, thesystemic change in Poland ac-counts for the fact that the at-tractiveness of the Polish So-ciological Association for thesociological milieu hasdwindledin some respect. In the past theAssociation was an importantcentre of critical thought andreflection largely marked by op-position to the authorities, andhence attracted greater intereston the part of the sociologiststhan it does nowthat such think-ing hasbecome common. Manysociologists, until recently ac-tive within the Association, haveengaged in new scholarly andpolitical activity. The Associa-tion has ceased to be a substi-tute for political organization andactivities and concentrates onthe intellectual analysis of factsand serves the professional in-terests of the sociological mi-lieu.

The Association's commit-ment to public matters is losingan axiological character andbecomes more professional. Asan example one can mentionthe discussions, organized bytheAssociation, concerned withbilis prohibiting abortion and thefinancing of research. The pro-fessional interests of socio 10-

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gists are served by systemati-cally organized conferences atwhich the results of surveys,especially electoral surveys, arepresented and evaluated; in-formation is also spread aboutnew sociological publicationsand curricula of sociologicalstudies are exchanged. Theseare useful activities becauserecent years in Poland haveseen the emergence of manynew research centers and pub-lishing houses, and the cur-ricula of university studies havebecome decentralized.

Mayor conferencesorganized by theAssociation in 1990-91• Transformation and Chal-lenge. The Theories of SocialChange in the Light of Contem-porary Experience. 8th NationalSociological Congress, Torun,September 1990 (with four ple-nary sessions, 22 meetings ofworking groups)• Your Health in Your Hands?In Memoria of MagdalenaSokolowska. Warsaw, April1990• The Events in August 1980(the rise of Solidarity) as Seenby Inhabitants of Villages andSmall Towns. Gdansk, Octo-ber1990• Elections to the Local Gov-ernment 1990: a Tentative So-ciological Analysis. Cracow,November 1990• Electoral Behavior and ItsStudies: the Presidential Elec-tions in 1990. Warsaw, January1991• The Legacy ofStefan Nowak.Warsaw, May 1991• The Chicago School in Soci-ology. The Tradition of SocialThought an the Requirementsof Contemporary EmpiricalSociology. Katowice, October1991

The Association'spublications in 1990-91

Dilemmas of Effective SocialAction ed. by J.Kubin,Warsaw1990 (in English)

Social Bonds on Board Shiped. by B. Klepajczuk, Szczecin1990

Result of Studies and Re-sults of the Elections of June 4,1990, ed. by L. Kolarska-Bobinska et al., Warsaw 1990

Polish Religiosity in the Lightof Sociological Studies, ed. byW. Piwowarski and W.Zdaniewicz, Warsaw 1990

The Events in 1980 as Seenby Inhabitants of Villages andSmall Towns, ed. by M.Latoszek, Gdansk 1990

Social Self-reliance, ed. by J.Kwasniewski, Wroclaw 1990

Bibliographical Essays onUrbanSociology in Po/and 1980-1989, ed. by K. Frysztacki andM. Lesniak-Worobiak, Cracow1991

Transformations and Cha/-lenge. Proceedings of the 8thNational Sociological Congress,ed. by A. SulekandW. Winclawski,Warsaw - Torun 1991

Between Autonomy andControl, ed. by A. Kojder and J.Kwasniewski, Warsaw 1991

Socio-economic Problems ofthe New Emigration, ed. by W.Misiak, Wroclaw 1991

The Polish Sociological As-sociation issues the English lan-guage quarterly The Polish So-ciological Bulletin and the PolishLanguage newsletler InformacjaBiezaca (Current News).

Report submitled by AntoniSulek, Secretary

FederaciónEspañola deSociología

Alfonso XII, 18-528014 MadridSpaintel: 34-1-5219.60, 5219028fax: 34-1-5218103

OfficersPresident: Francisco Llera,Universidad de Pais VascoVice-Presidents:Carlota Solé, UniversidadAutónoma, BarcelonaManuel Pérez Yruela, Institutode Estudios Social Avan-zados, MadridJosé L. Veira, CoruñaExecutive Secretary: AngelaLópez, Universidad deZaragozaTreasurer: Vicente Bisbal,ValenciaBoard Members: OctavioAlvarez (Assoc. Madrid), Julio

Busquets (CIFAS), ManuelCastells (Universidad Autó-noma, Madrid), AngelesHeredia (Assoc. Canary Is-lands), Oscar Iturrioz (Assoc.Asturias), Jesús de Miguel(Barcelona), Miguel Poveda(Assoc. Murcia), LeopoldTorrado (Assoc. Extrema-dura), José M. Vaca (Assoc.Castilla-León), ConcepciónVirgili (Barcelona)

Recent eventsOn the invitation of the Fed-

eration of Sociological Associa-tions of Spain (FASEE), ISA heldits XII World Congress of Soci-ology in Madrid, July 1990. (SeeISA Bulletin 53 for a detailedreport).

In February 1991, FASEEapproved new Statutes which,among others, changed its nameto the Spanish SociologicalFederation (FES), and definedthree categories of membership:A: regional associations, B: sci-entific and professional asso-ciations, C: supporting institu-tions, and individual members.

Forthcoming eventsThe Spanish Sociological

Federation, FES, is busy pre-paring the IVth Spanish Con-gress of Sociology scheduledfor September 1992 in Madrid.The theme of the Congress isSociologybetween Two Worlds.

FES has also invited the ISACouncil to hold its in-betweenWorld Congresses meeting inMadrid. The meeting of the ISACouncil will be organized paral-lel to the Spanish Congress ofSociology in Madrid, Septem-ber 1992.

SverigesSociologforbund

e/o Department of SociologyUniversity of Stockholm10691 StockholmSweden

OfficersPresident: Berth Danermark,Orebro UniversityBoard Members: Sven-ErikKarlsson, Johan Fritzell, UllaAmell Gustafsson, HedvigEkervald, Eva Fasth, Eva

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Hedman, Olle Lundberg,Margareta Oudhuis, MarianneBjórkenmarker, Inga-LillEriksson.

The Swedish SociologicalAssociation was founded in1962. At that time the disciplinehad been an independent sub-ject at Swedish universities forabout 10 years. Today thenumber of members is about500. The main goals are: to pro-mote scientific developmentwithin sociology and its fields ofapplication, to safeguard theprofessional interests of themembers, to work for the in-creased understanding of soci-ology as a science of society onthe part of authorities and of thegeneral public, and to fortify theprofessional awareness andsense of responsibility of soci-ologists.

The Association organizes itsannual professional confer-ence at the beginning of Febru-ary. The last meeting held at theWorking Life Centre in Stock-holm was attended by about 90members.

Following working groupsare active in the Association:Sociology of Work, Women inSociety, Housing and UrbanSociology, Sociology of Eco-nomics, Sociology of History,Sociology of Medicine, SocialPolicy and Welfare State, So-ciological Theory, DevelopingCountries.

PublicationsActa Sociologica, journal of

the Scandinavian SociologicalAssociation, 4 issues per year;

Sociologisk Forskning (So-ciological Research), 4 issuesper year;

Sociolognytt (SociologicalNews), a bulletin 2 times ayear.

Report submitted by BerthDanermark, President

BritishSociologicalAssociation

Columbia House, Room70169 AldwychLondon WC2B 4DXUnited Kingdomtel: (71)955.73.07

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OfficersPresident: John Westergaard,University of SheffieldSecretary: Pamela Abbot,Plymouth PolytechnicExecutiveCommitteeMembers:Joe Bailey, Kevin Brehony,Carol Buswell, Joan Chandler,Miriam David, BarbaraHarrison, David Lane, DavidJary, David Owens, JenniferPlatt, Richard Scase, JohnScott, Frank Webster, NickFox(PressOfficer) Ex-Officio,Madeline Arnot (Chair,Equality of the Sexes Corn-mittee)Permanent Staff:Anne Dix, AdministrativeSecretaryNickDalziel, PublicationsOfficer

Background informationTheBSAwasfoundedin 1951

at a time when the disciplinewas primarily located at theLondon School of Economicsand Political Science, and col-leagues around the countryfollowed its syllabus. Its found-ers came from a variety of dis-ciplines, reflecting the electingnature of its appeal, includingsuch notables as Carr Saunders,David Glassand Raymond Firth.The first Chair was ProfessorMorris Ginsberg.

The BSA office is in touchwith all that is taking placewithinBritish Sociology and has con-tacts in educational and re-search institutions and in thefield of publishing in the countryand overseas. The Administra-tive Secretary is always happyto put members in touch withone another and to help answerprofessional queries.

Organisational structureThe BSA is run byan Execu-

tive Committee consisting of 14members elected by the mem-bership. Committee membersare elected for a maximum offour years. The Executive Corn-mittee also includes a repre-sentation from the StandingCommittee on Equality of theSexes. There are three mainvoluntary officers: the President,the Chair and the HonoraryGeneral Secretary. In addition,the Association has a perma-nent staff of two: The Adminis-trativeSecretaryandapart-time

Publications officer. These arehoused in the Association's suiteof office at the London Schoolof Economics in London. It isanticipated that the BSA officewill be relocated to Durham, inthe North of England in 1992.

The BSA holds an AnnualConference at different locationseach year. Themes for the An-nual Conference are suggestedbythe membership. Recent andforthcoming themes include:Sociology in Action, Sociologyand History, Social DivisionsandSocial Change, and The Re-search Imagination.

The Association encouragesand subsidises the activities ofStudy Groups on any sociologi-cal topic or area of study wherethere is sufficiently wide interestamong the membership. Groupsmeet fairly regularly throughoutthe country. They run variedprogrammes from seminarsthrough one-day meetings tofull three day conferences.Members may participate in asmany Study Groups as theywish.

Current Study Groups are:Class Formation and the Third

World; Education; Environmentand Architecture; Ethnography;Family Studies; FigurationalSociology; Human Reproduc-tion; Language; Leisure & Rec-reation; Mass Communication;Medical Sociology; Racism;Religion; Sexual Divisions &Society; Sociology of Emotion;Sociology of Food; Social Net-works; Theory; War and Peace;Weber; Violence AgainstWomen (Women's CaucusGroup); Postgraduate Forum.

Other activitiesThe BSA organises Summer

Schools with the support of theESRC, for full and part-timepostgraduate students. Theseevents allow sociologist fromwidely differing departmentsand research traditions to meetand work together in a sirnulat-ing environment on the prob-lems they have encountered inthecourseoftheirown research.Schools reflect a balance be-tween speakers and workshopsand are designed to encouragemaximum participation.

The Scottish Branch of theAssociation organises one dayconferences. Recent themeshave ineluded: DisorganisedCapitalism; and The Challengeof a Green Perspective to Re-searchers in Social Sciences.The branch has also made apromotion video entitled: SoWhat's Sociology Anyway?,designed to introduce prospec-tive students to the disciplineand to challenge any distortedpreconceptions ofthe disciplinethey may have. The video fallsinto three parts. Thefirst definessociology, and explains whatmakes the discipline distinctiveand the range of subjects itcovers. The second explainswhat it is like to study sociology,and the final part looks at thewide range of paid jobs thatthose who have studied sociol-ogy have chosen.A Post-graduate Forum,

reflecting the needs and inter-est of postgraduate members,acts as a clearing house for in-formation and as a networkputting in touch those withcommon interests and prob-lems. The Forum organisesmeetings on a range of topicsand offers a supportive arenafor the discussion of ideas andwork in progress. AII post-9raduate members of the Asso-ciation are encouraged to par-ticipate in its activities. In recentyears the Postgraduate Forumhas produced a journal CriticalSocial Research.

TheAssociation isconcernedto combat sexist practice anddiscrimination, especiallythrough its Equality of theSexes Sub-Committee, whichhas a mandate to assist in therealisation of sex equality bothwithin theAssociation andwithinthe discipline, and monitors theequality of the sexes in the pro-fession. There is also an activeWomen's Caucus and SexualDivisions Study Group.

The Association has alsofogged links with other or-ganizations, including the JointForum for Academics andTeachers inthe Social Sciences,the Association of Learned So-cieties in the Social Sciencesand Section N of the British As-sociation.lt liaiseswith the Eco-

nomic and Social ResearchCouncil bymeeting members ofthe relevant ESRC committeesto discuss the direction of so-ciological research in Britain.

The BSA has a Degree Cur-riculum Sub-Committee toconsider to content of Sociol-ogy degrees and it has main-tained a continuing interest inthe "O" and "A" Level syllabus.

PublicationsThere is a separate Publica-

tions Committee which assistsin the publication of the twomain journals: Sociology with acirculation of around 3,000 andWork, Employment and Societywith a circulation of about 650.The Association also producesa newsletter, Network whichserves to keep the members intouch with developments in theprofession.

The Publications Committeehelps to sponsor the publica-tion of books and series. Theseinelude the volumes of selectedpapers from the Annual Confer-ence.Recentvolumes publishedby Macmillans have been:

L. Jamieson and H.Carr (ed):State, Priva te Life and PolíticalChange

H. Carr and L. Jamieson(ed):Politics of Everyday Life: Con ti-nuity and Change in Work andthe Family

P. Abbott and C. Wallace:Gender, Power and Sexuality

R. Reiner and M. Cross: Be-yond Law and Order: CriminalJustice Poliey and Polities in the1990s

Fourtitles from the 1990con-ference are due to be publishedby Macmillan in 1992:

B.Burrowsand C.Marsh (ed):Consumption and C/ass: Divi-sions and Change

N.Gilbertand R.Burrows(ed):Fordism and Flexibility: Divisionsand Change

C. Marsh and S. Arber (ed):Families and Households: Divi-sions and Change

S. Arber and W. Gilbert (ed):Women and Working Lives: Di-visions and Change

Threevolumes havealsobeenpublished by Falmer:

P. Abbott and G. Payne (ed):New Directions in the Sociologyof Health

C.Wallaceand M.Cross{ed):Youth in Transition: The Socioi-ogy of Youth and Youth Poliey

M. Cross and G. Payne (ed):Soeiallnequalíty and the Enter-prise Culture

A series recently launched bythe BSA and published byMaemillans isentitled SoeiologyforaChanging World. Booksthathave been published or areshortly to be published in thisseries inelude:

F. Heidensohn: Crime andSociety

G. Morgan: Organizations inSoeiety

F.Webster:Scienee in SoeietyA. Bryson:Who Benefits? Wel-

fare in the Interaetiona/ist State

Other books sponsored bythe BSA include:

J. Hearonand D.Morgan(ed):Men, Maseulinities and SoeietyTheory (Unwin Hyman)

Fosh and Herry (ed): TradeUnions and Their Members:Studies in Union DemoeracyandOrganization (Macmillan)

The Assoeiation organised aBook Club with discount pricesfor the benefit of its members

Report submitted by PamelaAbbott, Honorary General Sec-retary

Last Minute News

We are happy to announcethat the national sociologicalsocieties of Estonia, Latvia andLithuania have been just ac-cepted as Category «A••mem-bers of the ISA:

EstonianAcademic Unionof Sociologists

Wismari 32200031 TallinnEstonia

President: Marje PavelsonVice-President: PeeterVihalemmBoard Members: AimarAltosaar, Mait Arvisto, JuhanKivirahk, Ene Tiit, RenitaTimak, Priit Jarve

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LatvianSociologicalAssociation

c/o Latvian UniversityBrivibas b. 32226050 RigaLatvia

President: Peteris LakisExecutive Officer: AigarsFreimanis

LithuanianSociologicalSociety

c/o Institute of Philosophy,

Sociology and LawThe Lithuanian Academy ofSciencesSaltoniskiu 58232600 VilniusLithuania

President: Vladas GaidysExecutive Officer: ArvydasMatulionis

CATEGORY B: INTERNATIONAL ANO MULTINATIONALREGIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF SOCIOLOGISTS

InternationalInstitute ofSociology

liS SecretariatDepartment of SociologyUniversity of VictoriaVictoria, British ColumbiaV8W2Y2Canadatel: 604-7217571fax: 604-7216217

liS Executive Officers 1989-1991

President: PaoloAmmassari,ItalyPast-President: Edgar F.Borgatta, USAVice-Presidents:William V. D'Antonio, USAErwin Scheuch, GermanyKarl M. Van Meter, FranceSecretary General: R. AlanHedley, CanadaCouncillors:Shogo Koyano, JapanGioaccino Santanche, ItalyMasamichi Sasaki, JapanPablo Suarez, Sweden

. Yoshio Yonebayashi, JapanCensor:AlbertoGasparini,ItalyThe Internationallnstitute of

Sociology isthe oldest continu-ing sociological association inexistence, havingbeenfoundedin 1893 inParisby RenéWorms.Its current objectives reflect theaspirations of its founder,namely,thatthe Institute shouldprovide opportunities for theexploration and presentation ofnewknowledge, fordiscussion,and forthis to be based upon aninternational exchange amongestablished sociologists.

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MembershipMembership in the liS stands

at approximately 150. In ac-cordance with the traditionalemphasis on quality rather thanrepresentativeness, member-ship requires review of creden-tials and is obtained bycooptation. The Institute hasonly individual members whoare provided a forum that em-phasizes research and devel-opment in sociology directlywithout anymediating concernsfor national interests or otherformal organizations. Currently,there are members from almost30 countries; sociologists fromthe United States, Japan,France, and Italymake up morethan half the membership.

For membership applicationforms and details on member-ship and the liS, please directcorrespondence to R. AlanHedley, Secretary General/Treasurer liS, Department ofSociology, University of Victo-ria,P.O.Box3050, Victoria, B.C.V8W 3P5, Canada

International CongressesBiennial congresses are or-

ganized to exchange formalpapers and also to interact on amore informal basis. The size ofthe Congresses, averaging nomore than 500, permits the par-ticipants to develop a sense ofcommunity within the mem-bership.

The 30th International Con-gress of the liS was heId onAugust 5-9, 1991, in the KobeInternational Conference Cen-tre in Kobe, Japan. Under thedirection of the President of theOrganizing Committee, EiichiIsomura, four opening lectures,

three plenary sessions, twosymposia, and thirty-five work-ingsessionswereatlended. Twohundred and forty-three pre-registered participants from 27countries presentedcloseto 150papers related to the theme ofthe Congress, Ecology, WorldResources, and the Quality ofSocial Life. In addition, the Or-ganizing Committee arranged awelcome reception and a din-ner party hosted by the Mayorof the City of Kobe. Tours andspecial presentations were alsoorganized. This was the first in-ternational sociological con-gress ever heId in Japan.

The 29th Congress of the liStook place inRome in 1989, andin 1993 it is anticipated that the31st Congress, celebrating thecentennial of the Institute, willbe held in Paris,the city inwhichthe liS was founded.

PublicationsThe Anna/s of the International

Institute of Sociology is the offi-cial organ of the liS. Originallypublished in 1895 under theeditorship of René Worms inorderto presentthe proceedingsof the first Congress of the In-stitute, it ceased publication in1931. During the sixty-year in-terval, the liSadopted the RevueInternationale de Sociologie asits publication outlet. However,in 1990, the "New Series" of TheAnna/s (volume 1) was issuedunder the editorship of PaoloAmmassari.

The Anna/s are publishedyearly. The first volume follow-ingaCongress isdevoted to theplenary sessions of that Con-gress, while the second volume(in between Congresses) pub-

lishes Working Sessions whichareeitherstrictly connected withthe congress theme or of par-ticular interest to the social set-ting hostingthecongress. Thereis also a section on news andofficial reports of the Institute.

The Annals are issued annu-ally bythe Internationallnstituteof Sociology and aredistributedfree of charge to its members.Single volumes of The Annalsmay be purchased by individualnonmembers for $ 30 and byLibraries and Institutions for $50.

Report submitted by R.AlanHedley, Secretary General

One EuropeResearch Group

c/o Prof. Jan JerschinaInstitute of SociologyJagiellonian UniversityGrodzka 5231-044 CracowPOLANDtel: 48-12-227111fax: 48-12-222129

OriginsThe One Europe Research

Groupbegan itsactivities in1986when Jan Jerschina organizedthe first conference in Cracowand conceptualized the creedand programme of the Groupwith the help of scholars fromEngland, Finland, France, Ger-many, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania,Russia, USA, Yugoslavia andother countries.

197 members of the Groupcome from 32 countries in Eu-rope, both Americas, Asia andAfrica. They represent all socialsciences, not only sociology,but also economics, social an-thropology, social psychology,history, political science, mediaresearch, pedagogy. The mainpurpose of the Group is to workwithin academicfields which arerelevantto the process of reformin Eastand Central Europe. Theaim isto helppreparethe groundfor co-operation between Euro-pean nations.The Vlth International Con-

ference of the Group was heldin November 1991 in Cracow,Poland. Its theme was West-East Communication for Politi-

cal, Economic and CulturalChange and Co-operation andit was devoted to the historicalchanges in central and eastEurope, entering the road to-wards democracy and a freemarket social system by manynations and states, which un-dermined the rationality of thecommunication system be-tween European nations.

The RuralSociologicalSociety

RSS SecretariatDepartment of SociologyMontanta State UniversityBozeman, MT 59715USAtel: (406)9945248fax: (406)9942893

Officers 1990-1991President:FrederickH. Buttel,Cornell UniversityVice President: Janet L.Bokemeier, Michigan StateUniversityPresident-Elect: Ronald C.Wimberley, North CarolinaState UniversitySecretary:PeggyJ.Ross,U.S.Department of AgricultureTreasurer: Patrick C. Jobes,Montana State UniversityCouncil Members:Frederick H. Buttel, Janet L.Bokemeier, Peggy J.Ross,Patrick C. Jobes, Ronald C.Wimberley, Gene F. Sum-mers, E. Yvonne Beauford,Donald A. Dillman, Louise P.Fortmann, Willis J. Goudy,Patrick H. Mooney, CarolynE. Sachs, Louis E. Swanson,Ann Tickamyer.Development Committee:Louis E. SwansonMembership Committee:Donald A. DillmanProgram Committee: PatrickH. MooneyPublications Committee:Carolyn E. SachsThe Rural Sociological Soci-

ety was founded in 1937. Itsobjective isto promotethe studyof rural life through research,extension and education; forthepurpose of confronting prob-lems, answering questions, in-creasing opportunities and,

hereby, improving the quality oflife in rural areas.Annual meetings of the RSS

provideaforum for newresearchdevelopments, public policyquestions affecting rurallife andapplication of knowledge in re-solving societal problems. Usu-ally held in August, its programincludes contributed papers,seminars, and meetings of re-search and interest groups.

Research and InterestGroups

Education and Careers,Family/Household,lnternationalDevelopment, Natural Re-sources, Population, RuralHealth, Rural Policy, Rural Pov-erty, Rural Racial and EthnicMinorities, Rural Women inEconomic Production, Sociol-ogy Extensions, Sociology ofAgriculture, Teaching & Cur-riculum, Women in Rural Soci-ology.Membership

Any person professionallyemployed in the field of ruralsociology, or who is interestedinthe object ofthis society, maybecome a member upon appli-cation, payment of dues, andreview classification by theMembership Committee.

PublicationsRural Sociology, the official

journal ofthe RuralSociologicalSociety, isnow in its 56th yearofpublication. Contents includethe following:• Policy analyses, scholarly ar-ticles, theoretical essays, andthought provoking commentar-ies on a variety of rural topics,written by authors representingmanyfields inthe scientific studyof rural life;• Book reviewson awide rangeofdisciplines and subjects likelyto be of interest to rural socio 10-gists and other rural-orientedsocial scientists;• Research Bulletin Index ofrecently published university,international, and governmentagency publications.The Rural Sociologist (TRS)is aforum forthe exchange of viewson matters of concern to theprofession of rural sociology. Italso provides for the timely dis-semination of news to mem-

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bers of the Rural SociologicalSociety.

Formerly a bimonthly publi-cation, TRS is now being pub-lished quarterly. Each issuevaries depending on what isnewsworthy, but many inc\udethe following topics: trends af-fectingthediscipline, challengesfor new research and action,and points of view.

Contents: RSS Committeereports, Program notes for fu-ture RSS meetings, Employmentopportunities, Minutes and of-ficial actions of the Rural So-ciological Society, Announce-ments about new journals,conferences and other impor-tant events.

AssociationInternationale desSociologues deLangueFran4¡aise

AISLF - SecrétariatCentre de RecherchesSociologiquesUniversité de Toulouse-LeMirail5, allée Antonio Machado31058 Toulouse CedexFrancetel: 33-61-504374fax: 33-61-504209

Président: Edward A. Tiryakian(Duke University, Durham,USA)

Vice-Président: RenaudSainsaulieu (CNRS et IEPParis)

Secrétaire Général: WaloHutmatcher (Service de laRecherche Sociologiqued'Etat, Genéve)

Trésorerie et Secrétariat:Christiane Rondi (CNRS)

Membres du bureau:Bernadette Bawin (Universitéde Liége, Belgique), DanielBertaux (CNRS Paris), Jean-Michel Berthelot (Universitéde Toulouse-Le Mirail),Antonio-Custodio Goncalves(Université de Porto), GabrielGosselin (Université de Lille),Monique Hirschhorn-Bourdin(Université d'Orléans), JeanKellerhals (Université deGenéve), Pawel Kuczynski

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(Université de Varsovie),Daniel Mercure(UniversitédeLaval, Québec), Henri Ossebi(Faculté des Lettres et Sci-ences Humaines a Brazaville),Anne Van-Haecht (UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles)

Projet General Triennal1990-1992

Un projet général pour lapériode 1990-1992 constitue unensemble d recherches et derencontres sur LES NOUVEAUXMONDES et I'EUROPE. Pourengager la réalisation de travauxscientifiques, I'AISLF disposedeses diverses formes d'activitéassociative: le travail de sesComités de Recherche, Groupesde Travail, Groupes Régionaux.Elleaenoutredécidéd'organiserune série de manifestations:• en 1990

L'UNIVERSITE en QUES-TION (J.M. Berthelot, C. Rondi;Toulouse, mars 1990). TableRonde Internationale sur lesnouveaux défis lancés al'Université par les transforma-tions du monde moderne qui apermis une confrontationd'analyses et de témoignages,I'échnage d'expérience entrecollégues étrangers et colléguesfrancais, entre sociologues etnon-sociologues.

OU VA LA METHODE ENSOCIOLOGIE? OU VA LASOCIOLOGIE DU TIERSMONDE? (E. Tiryakian, L.Berrocal, A. Perez-Agote; Ma-drid, juillet 1990). Pour la pro-motion du plurilinguisme et lareconnaissance du Francaiscomme langue scientifique, enaccord avec la SociétéFranc;aisedeSociologie,I'AISLFa organisé ces deux sessionsdans la cadre du CongrésMondial de Sociologie.• en 1991

LES PARADIGMES SOCIO-LOGIQUES: WEBERDUR-KHEIM (M. Hirschhorn, S. Jonas,F. Raphael; Strasbourg, avril1991). Ce symposium se pro-pose, a un siecle de distance, deréaliserledialoguequi n'a paseulieu entre Weber et Durkheim.Son objet est aussi de contribuera la cumulativité du savoirsociologique en mettant enévidence les apports toujoursactuels de ces deux peresfondateurs de la sociologiemoderne. C'est aussi I'occasion

d' u ne rencontre entre so-ciologues francophones etgermanophones qui devraitconduireaunéchangefructueux.Troix axes de reflexion serontprivilégiés: lescontributionsaunethéorie de I'action, lesorientations méthodologiques etles rapports entre science moraleet politique.

LE ROLE des INTELLEC-TUELS et des NOUVELLESCOUCHES DIRIGEANTES dan sles PAYS de I'EST (D. Bertaux,P. Kuczynski; Varsovie, Juin1991). Confrontation interna-tionale sur la société post-totalitaire et le pouvoir avec laparticipation, pour l'Est, desociologues Bulgares, Hon-grois, Polonais et Russes et pourl'Ouest, Belges, Canadiens,Congolais, Francaís, Portugais,Suisses et Américains autoutdes thémes suivants: Bilan desparticipations des intellectuelsdans les changementsintervenus a l'Est; Relationssociales et du pouvoir avec lesintellectuels; Impact desintellectuels sur le mode depensée des élites qui émergent.

NOUVELLES VALEURS etORGANISATIONS: QUELLESCUL TURES EN EMERGENCE?(D.Mercure; Québéc, septembre1991). Ce colloque regroupantEuropéens et Québécois vise acerner un certain nombre dephénoménes sociaux émergentset a identifier quelques-unes deslignes directrices des principalesmutations sociales et culturellesqui caractérisent le devenir denotre société.

LA RECONNAISSANCE desREGIONS, ESPACES etFRONTIERES (B. Bawin-Legros,B. Poche; Grenoble, octobre1991). Que devient I'espaceeuropéen avec I'émergence derevendications régionalesd'autonomie politique quiviennent s'ajouter aux affirrnationsd'expression culturelle etidentitaire spécifiques, lesmécanismes sociologiques,économiques, culturels etlinguistiques du róle de territorieset d'espaces régionaux dans laconstruction de l'Europeinstitutionnelle et politique.• en 1992

LA SOCIOLOGIE EXTRA-UNIVERSITAIRE (M. Bolle deBal, R. Sainsaulieu, W.

Hutmacher, B. Bawin-Legros,O. Kuty, A. Eraly; Liége, janvier1992). Confrontation sur lesméthodes, expériences, pro-cessus et problématiques deI'intervention sociologique, horsducadreuniversitairequi réponda une demande socialecroissante dans tous les pays ettraduit: une multiplication desinnovations sociales (procés detransformations sociale etculturelle); une multiplication desbesoins locaux d'analyse et deprospective contex-tualisées;une nouvelle volonté de savoir:un savoir moins normatif, plusdescriptif-analytique, volontéperceptible dans les entrepriseset dan s les administrations.

L'ENSEIGNEMENT de laSOCIOLOGIE (G. Gosselin, 1.Aluas; Roumanie, printemps1992). Confrontation d'expé-riences, de programmes, decontenus de I'enseignement dela sociologie entre enseignants-chercheurs Roumains et del'Ouest.

LES NOUVEAUX MONDESet I'EUROPE (Lyon, juillet 1992).XIV Congrés International deI'AISLF. Axes de recherche: Laproduction des citoyennetés (D.Bertaux, W. Hutmacher); La Ré-invention démocratique et con-frontation des valeurs (G.Gosselin, A. Van Haecht);Dynamiquessociales: nouveauxgroupes, nouveaux espaces(J.M. Berthelot, M. Hirschhorn);Les nouvelles frontiéres de lasociabilité (B. Bawin-Legros);Entreprises et contruction de lasociété (W. Hutmacher, D.Mercure, R. Sainsaulieu).

FacultadLatinoamericanade CienciasSociales

FLACSOApartado Postal 5429San JoséCosta Rica

The Latin American Facultyof Social Sciences, FLACSO,was founded in 1957 through aUNESCO initiative. FLACSO hasthe status of an international,intergovernmental and regional

autonomous organization, con-stituted by those Latin Ameri-can and Caribbean countrieswhich subscribe to its GeneralAgreement.

FLACSO was originally or-ganized in Santiago, Chile; in1973 it began to expand institu-tionally and Units were succes-sively established in BuenosAires, Argentina; Mexico City,Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; Rio deJaneiro, Brazil; San Jose, CoatsRica; La Paz, Bolivia; Guate-mala City, Guatemala; SantoDomingo, Dominican Republic;Havana, Cuba.

The Costa Rican Unit ofFLACSO isacollective memberofthelSA. TheUnitpursuesresearchon various subjects and promotesa wide agenda of national andintemational scientific meetings,as well as cultural, publishing andadvisory activities.

Teaching activitiesEach Unit isorganized around a

clusterofteaching activities whichare carried out at three levels:

Higher Diplomas comprisegraduate-Ievel intensive studieslasting one academic year,leading to a Higher Diploma inSocial Sciences with emphasison a specialized area of studies.They cover such d iverse areas ofstudy as international relations,international economy, youngresearchers' training, analysisand motivation of political deci-sion, Latin American affairs.

Master's Degree programs inLatin America. Masters pro-grams are at present active inArgentina, Bolivia, Ecuador andMexico. Plans are being madeto launch in Costa Rica in coop-eration with UniversidadNacional and the Universidadpara la Paz, a Master program inInternational Relations.

Doctorates: the first Doctor-ate program has been organizedin cooperation with the Univer-sity of Brasilia, and functions asan institutional cooperation pro-gram in the area of comparativeLatin American Studies.

In addition to the Diploma,Master and Doctorate pro-grams, FLACSO organizesthrough its different nationalUnites short courses lasting afew months, as an out-come of

ongoing research, as supportforotherteaching activities, andas a form of collaboration withother institutions or countries.

Research activitiesDuring the last seven years,

FLACSO has completed 142research projects at both na-tional and international levels,and cooperated with national,regional and international insti-tutions in an even larger numberof projects. Each Unit developsits own teaching and researchactivities according to such lo-cal factors as preexisting insti-tutional conditions and, exist-ence of both support and de-mand for knowledge, and theavailability of qualified person-nel. Thematic distribution of theprojects is as follows: 25 onpolitics and society, 23 on inter-national relations, 19 on educa-tion and culture, 14 on econom-ics, 10 on urban studies, 10 onwomen studies, 11 on socialpolicy, and 7 on ethnic studies.

26 projects have been devel-oped in Chile, 23 in Guatemala,20 in Argentina, 17 in CostaRica, 15 in Bolivia, 8 in Ecuador,22 in Brazil, 5 in Mexico and 4 inDominican Republic.

There are 46 persons involvedin the activities of FLACSO Unitin Costa Rica: 11 professors,researchers, permanent assist-ants, and 35 invited professors,free-lance researchers, part-time assistants.

PublicationsIn the period 1989-1990,

FLACSO Units produced 203publications: 117 Cuademos deTrabajo, 55 Cuademos de DiversasColecciones, and 31 books.

Among them, FLACSO Unitin Costa Rica published 13Cuadernos de Trabajo, 12Cuadernos Colección, 2 BoletinCentroamerica-USA, 3 Centro-américa Internacional, 4 reviewPolémica and 12 books.

Scientific CooperationAII Units cooperate actively

with national universities andother local and internationalcenters. The Costa Rican Unithas organized and/or co-or-ganized 10 seminars in the lastcouple of years; 7 of them of aninternational range.

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CATEGORY C: RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS ANOUNIVERSITY OEPARTMENTS

Centro deEstudios deEstado y Sociedad

CEDESAv. Pueyrredón 5101032 Buenos AiresArgentinatel: (541)9618149fax: (541)9615775

CEDESisanon-profit researchcenter established in 1975.

Although its main field of in-terest is interrelation betweenthesociety andthe state,CEDEScarries out numerous projectson political economy, sociologyof social sectors, politicalanalysis, culture and ideology,bureaucracy and public policy,historical studies.

In addition to these regularprojects, CEDES sponsors andorganizes various activities ad-dressed to political and intellec-tual groups, for example, semi-nars on Argentinean economy,political parties, and the like.

CEDES maintains close co-operation with the AsociaciónArgentina de RelacionesInternacionales, Sociedad Ar-gentina de Análisis Político,Universidad de Buenos Airesand Consejo Nacional deInvestigaciones Científicas yTécnicas.

CEDES' regular publicationsareEstudios CEDES andRevistaDebates.

Centro deInvestigacionesen CienciasSociales

CICSODefensa 665 - 5 C1065 Buenos AiresArgentinatel: 34-9914Director: Beba BalvéTheSocial Science Research

Center, CICSO, was founded in1966.

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Research topics include:socio-economic structures, re-lations between socio-eco-nomic groups and classes, aswell as their organization, ideol-ogy and functioning.MainobjectivesofCICSOare

research promotion, concep-tualization, theory and method-ology, empirical verification ofthemes and problems, with aspecial emphasis put on theArgentinean society but takinginto account general theoreticalaspects and Latin-Americancontext. To meet these goals,CICSOorganizescourses,semi-nars and workshops. CICSO li-brary offers big collection ofbooks, reviewsand newspapersarticlesdevotedto socialsciencesas well as various issuesof con-temporary Argentina.

Resultsof theempiricalaswellas theoretical research are pub-lishedwithintheseriesCuademosde C/CSOwhich as by now haspublished 140volumes.Someofthearticles published intheserieshavealso appeared in other pro-fessional reviews or collectedvolumes in Mexico, Canada,Denmark, United States, Chile,Braziland Germany.

Researchers of CICSO par-ticipate actively in the activitiesof the Latin-American Associa-tion of Sociology, Latin-Ameri-canAssociation of RuralSociol-ogy, International Rural Sociol-ogy Association, aswell as vari-ousworkinggroupsofCLACSO.

Report submitted by BebaBalvé, Director

Institut fürMusiksoziologie

Schubertring 141010 WienAustriatel: 5137600Director: Irmgard BontinckIn 1990 the Institute cel-

ebrated 25years of its activities.The on-going research

projects are: Changes in themusic world and consequences

of new technologies; Me-diamorphosis (a pluralismmethodology); Position and im-age of a music teacher; Inter-relation between music andeveryday life;Social situation ofcomposers in Austria; Sourcesand traditions in music in Aus-tria.Courses offered at the Insti-

tute deal, among others, with:sociology of music, empiricalresearch, women and music.

Centro m voorRechtssociologie

Universiteit Antwerpen,UFSIAGrote Kauwenberg 18B-2000 AntwerpenBelgiumtel: (03)2204111

Director: Francis Van LoonStaff Members: Jean VanHoutte, Els Delanoeije, AnnDuysters, Marc Keuleneer,Karin Sannen, VéroniqueThielman, Katelijne Van denBrande, Wim Van WambekeTill 1989 the research pro-

gramme of the Centrum voorRechtssociologie was concen-trated on lawsuits in courts.Because not all grievances aresubmitted to court, we changedour interest more and more tothe settlement of disputes outof court. We also took into con-sideration the working condi-tions of the courts and the stat-ute of the magistrates.

The juridical institutions onmatrimony and family are tradi-tional subjects of our research.Within this scope we set upstudies of generational devolu-tion of patrimonial goods and ofsocio-economic implications ofsupport in Belgium.

Diversifying the researchtopics, we studied the bank-ruptcy law, the relevance of so-cial statistics in Belgium and themobilization of law in the worldof business.

Report submitted by FrancisVan Loon, Director

SociologischOnderzoeks-instituut

Department of SociologyKatholieke UniversiteitLeuvenE. van Evenstraat 2C3000 LeuvenBelgiumtel: 16-283111

Chairman: J.C. VerhoevenTeaching at the Department

of SociologyThe main domains of teach-

ing are: sociological theory,methodology, sociology of so-cial policy, sociology of religionand culture, sociology of labour,sociology of the family, popula-tion and health, sociology ofeducation, ruraland urban soci-ology.

The Department is partici-pating in the Erasmus Programofthe EuropeanCommunity, co-operating intheSummerSchoolfor Interpretative Sociology(Oasis)and will probably start inOctober 1992 an English pro-gram in Sociology.

Research at the Socio 10-gisch Onderzoeksinstituut

The research isorganized in6research units:

1. Centre for Sociology ofLabour(Director: J. Bundervoet)

• Trend report technologicaland organizational innovations• Migrants and labour market:an analysis of their labour mar-ket position and employmentinitiatives taken on the local la-bour markets

2. Centre for Sociology ofSocial Policy (Director: F.Lammertyn)• Povertyandthepublic centersfor social welfare• Social inequality and highereducation

3. Centre for Sociology of theFamily, Population and Health(Director: WA Dumon)• Family policy in Europe• Aids-prevention in Belgium

4. Centre for Sociology ofReligion and Culture (Director:K. Dobbelaere)• European value study• Secularization, pillarizationand new religious movements

5. Centre for Collection andAnalysis of Data (Director: J.Billiet)• Political Opinion Research(methodology) ,• Research on response errorsin survey

6. Centre for Theoretical So-ciology and Sociology of Edu-cation (Director:J.C.Verhoeven)• Implementation of healtheducation insecondary schools• School management andschool effectiveness

A list of publications availableat the Institute.

Report submitted by J.C.Verhoeven, Chairman

Instituto dePesquises SociaisFunda~aoJoaquim Nabuco

Rua Dois Irmaos 92Apipucos, 50.000 RecifePernambucoBrazilBoard 01 DirectorsPresident: Fernandode MelloFreyreBoard President: Nilo PereiraMembers: Edgar Mattos,Monica Liausu Cavalcanti,Frederico Pernambucano deMello, Graziela Peregrino,Creuza Aragao, SebastiaoVila Nova, Paulo Pinto NeriAuditor: Nericinor FerreiradaSilva

OriginsThe Joaquim Nabuco Insti-

tute of Social Research wascreated in 1949 by GilbertoFreyre, a sociologists and an-thropologist, inorderto "under-stand and rediscoverthe North-ern and Northeastern regions ofBrazil".In 1980the Institute wastransformed into the JoaquimNabuco Foundation, FUNDAJ,encompassing in its structure,besides other sectors, the lnsti-tute of Social Research.

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ResearchMain scientific interest of the

Institute concentrate on socio-economic conditions, politicsand culture of the Northern andNortheastern regions of Brazil.Interdisciplinary research isconducted by nine Depart-ments which constitute the In-stitute: Anthropology, PoliticalScience, Economy, Education,Statistics, Demography, Ge-ography, Sociology and SocialHistory.

Report submitted byAnatailde de Paula Créspo

Centro Estudos ePesquisas Josuéde Castro

Rua Dom Bosco, 779Boa VistaRecife CEP 50.070Braziltel: (81)222 1906

HistoryThe Josué de Castro Study

and ResearchCenter, CJC, wasestablished in 1979 as a non-governmental organization. Be-ing created in the period of re-stricted democratic freedom,CJC tried to provide for a forumallowing freeexpression of opin-ions and analysis of Braziliansocio-economic reality.CJCstaffconsists of researchers andteachers of various fields of sci-ence.

Objectives• research on the organizationof a society• development of institutionalframework allowing for socialparticipation• study of State institutions andrepercussions of their policy ona society• Training of researchers andsocial actors towards societaltransformation

Research areas• Society and State• Popular education• Living conditions and envi-ronment• Science and technology

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Centro Brasileirode Analise ePlanejamento

CEBRAPRua Morgaso de Mateus 61504015 Sao Paulo, SPBraziltel: 55-11-5756799fax: 55-11-5758192

OriginsCentro Brasileiro deAnálise e

Planejamento, CEBRAP, wasfounded in 1969 by a group ofuniversity teachers and re-searchers, several ofwhom hadleft the University of Sao Pauloduring the institutional crisis oflate 1968. It is important to noteat the outset that the idea ofcreating a social science re-search centre outside the uni-versity hadcirculated within thissamegroup beforehand, butthepoliticaland institutionalurgencyof enabling professionals per-secuted by the authoritarian re-gime to find work was the mostimportant underling motive forthe founding of CEBRAP. To-day, however, its survival isguaranteed by the intellectualobjectives which have beendeveloped since it began.

The staff of CEBRAP gradu-ally became enriched by theaddition of new members, inorder to diversify its researchcapabilitiesalongtwo main lines:academic specialization, on theone hand, through the inclusionof economists, demographers,sociologists, political scientists,specialists in scientific meth-odology, and philosophers; anddiversity of academic back-grounds, on the other, sincethese specialists had beentrained in different parts of Bra-zil and the world.

Without endangering thepreservation of its intellectualintegrity, CEBRAP succeededin developing its programme ofresearch and critical studiesunder the aegis of interna-tionalfoundations and of localagencies, both private and gov-ernmental. Moreover, despitebeing profoundly rooted in Bra-zilian intellectual traditions anddedicated to tackling Brazilian

problems, it developed and hasmaintained close ties with theinternational, aswell as national,social science community.

Twenty years or researchIt would be tiresome and ex-

cessively lengthy to present adetailed account of every singleactivity developed by CEBRAPin its 20 years of work, and inany case the mere enumerationof over 150 scientific researchprojects performed andservicesrendered would fall far short ofproviding the substance of agenuine proqress reporto Theessential fact is that in the pastdecade CEBRAP played a keyrole in developing the socialsciences in Brazil, through itsin-depth studiesofthe country'seconomic, social and politicalcharacteristics.

It is possible to say that theintellectual field defined foranalysis and discussion re-volved around three main linesof research:• a critical analysis of the pat-tern of economic developmentafter 1964;• the structural changes oc-curring in BrazilianSociety: in itsdemography, in terms of ur-banization, and in the ruralsphere (agricultural techno-loqies.landowninq, relationshipsetc.);• an analysis of the specificcharacteristics of the authori-tarian regime in Brazil, the con-ditions and structural limits ofdemocracy, and electoral proc-esses under authoritarian rule.

PublicationsAs soon as we were able, we

began by publishing EstudosCEBRAP, asort of archive oftheessays we produced, togetherwith someforeign contributions.Throughout the seventies itwasconsidered the best social sci-enceperiodical inLatinAmerica.When the abertura came along,we experimented with a newformat which was more acces-sible to lay readers and couldcompete with the seriousmagazines sold bynewsvendors. The result wasnot satisfactory andwe returnedto a more intellectual format, ajournal of ideas.This experiencehas been highly successful and

Navas Estudas CEBRAP iswidely read in intellectual cir-cles.

Social ForskningsInstituHet

Danish National Institute ofSocial ResearchBorgergade 28DK-1300 Copenhagen KDenmarktel: 45-33-139811fax: 45-33-138992

Executive BoardChairman: Lars NordskovNielsenDeputy Chairman: ThomasBornerMembers: Jorgen Gronne-gard Christensen, EskeGroes, Kaj Kjaersgaard

AimsThe Danish Nationallnstitute

ofSocial Researchperformsandpresents researchwith focus onsocial policy, working life,socialaspects of housing, health anliving conditions of the popu-lation and families in general -especially research directed to-wards political and administra-tivedecision-making processes.

The Institute may accordingto the law (a) independently ini-tiate research projects as wellas projects requested by publicauthorities or private organiza-tions; (b) assist in researchprojects outsidethe Institute; (e)give advice in connection withlegislation and public planning.

Research areasSFI's main areas are: welfare

state and living conditions; irn-migrants and refugees; socialpolicy; working life; children,young people and family; meth-odology.

Employees10executive and programme

directors, 32 research assist-ants and other academics, 34technical and administrativestaff, 8 students, apprenticesand temporary placement

Results 1990Research:Reports

Number18

Working Papers 7Articles 34Papers, national 3Papers, international 14

Communication:Pamphlets &Newsletters 8Articles 29Lectures 141

Tasks for public bodies, etc:Committees 52Service tasks 42

LaboratoiredlEconomie et deSociologie du Tra-vail

LEST - CNRS35, avenue Jules Ferry13626 Aix-en-ProvenceCedexFrancetel: 33-42-378500fax: 33-42-267937Directeur: Michel Arliaud

PrésentationDepuis sa création en 19691e

Laboratoire d'Economie et deSociologie du Travail, LEST,situé a Aix-en-Provence, porteson attention sur des questionsprégnantes de la sociétéfrancaise avec un souci devérification empirique. C'estainsi que le LEST a réalisé desrecherches importantes orien-tées vers lacompréhension desstructures de base de notresociété. II a travaillé sur lessalaires dans un contexte ouune inflation structurelleimpliquait de mieuxcomprendrele fonctionnement réel dumarché du travail et la logiquedes ajustements économiquesqui s'y produisaient; sur lesconditions de travail dans laperspective d'établir desindicateurs sociaux complé-mentaires des grands agrégatséconomiques sur I'organisationdu travail dans les entreprisesface a des interrogations sur lesrelation entre les formations etles emplois, sur les qualifica-tions; sur les dimensionsstructurelles de la "crise" decertaines professions; surI'usage social des dispositifs de

soins face a la réalité des coútsde la santé.

Le LESTa établi certains as-pects de la singularité sociétalefrancaise et contribué a larelativisation du déterminismetechnique et économique aumoyen de la méthode com-parativeet, particulierernent,descomparaisons internationales:notamment comparaisonFrance-Allemagne, France-Japon.

Depuis le milieu des années80, le LEST réoriente sesréflexions vers une analyse destransformations majeures -techniques, économiques atculturelles - nées durablementde lascrise.Aujourd'hui, leLESTtravaille a la redéfinition de sesfuturesinvestigationsempiriquesápartirdequestionsqui intégrentses asquis scientifiques et lesgrands problernes de I'heure:lesmutations du salariat et de sesmodes de gestion; larecomposition des formations,des professionnalités et desmarchés du travail; la com-plexification des rapportssociauxdans l'entrepriseetdansI'espace social plus large ous'articulent production et repro-duction de ces rapports;I'émergencede nouvelles reqleset normes qui régissent lescomportements collectifs, etc.

Sadémarche part du constatque lesrapports, historiquementinstitués pendant les "trenteglorieuses", entre une concep-tion de I'efficacité économique,une organisation de la produc-tion, des modes de vie et desaspirations sociales spécifiquessesont déréglés; ce qui oblige ascruter les formes derecomposition entre I'écono-mique et le social.

11infléchit son regard en di-rection d'une problématique -dite de la novation - qui accordea la création économique et a"I'invention" sociale une placequi, hier, était primordialementconsacrée a la répartitionéconomique et a la reproduc-tion sociale.

Cespréoccupations sont céiásous-jacentes aux principalesrecherches en cours deréalisation: études de certainestransformations du systemeproductif et des modes de

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gestion, de I'innovation et deses acteurs primordiaux, desmodalités diverses du rapportentre formation, qualification etemploi, du róle des acteurs dan sla définition des reqles formelleset informelles, etc. Lescomparaisons internationalesavec leJapon, avec l'Angleterre,avec l'ltalie, avec la Hongriecontinuent de tenir une placeimportante.

Le LEST dispense unenseignement de 3eme cycleEconomie et Socíologie du Tra-vail, qui concerneaussi bien desétudiants en économie etsociologie ou sortant de grandesécoles que des praticiens de lagestion des ressourceshumaines.

Sa bibliotheque spécialiséecomprend un fonds de 6000volumes, ouvrages de basepluridisciplinaires, et 480 titresde publications en série dontenviron 300titres de périodiquesen cours.

Opérations de recherche encours en 1991

Flexibilité du volume de tra-vail dans la grande distribution;

Pratiques et évolution desinstitutions représentatives dupersonnel; Analyse desévolutions de la relation forma-tion-emploi au niveau local etrégional; La reconversion desbas niveaux de qualification;Sida et prévention: étude sur lesrésistances sociales auxcampagnes d'information;Hópital Innovation Profession;Les ingénieurs en France et auJapon: formation, insertionprofessionnelle, mobilité decarriere, projets professionnels(secteurs électronique, chimie,électricité); Productiondomestique - Héritage duquotidien; Financement deshópitaux - comparaison France-Allemagne; Régulationjuridiqueet régulation sociale du travail:articulation des niveaux et desmodes de régulation du travail(de I'entreprise a l'Etat:négociation, participation,décentralisation); Divisionsexuelle du travail; La mobilitédes jeunes sur le marché dutravail en relation avec leursprojets professionnels;Sociologie des champs etéconomie des es paces

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professionnels; Approcheslocalisées des espacesprofessionnels et des es pacesindustriels; Salaires etfonctionnement du marché dutravail en France at au Japon;Conditions d'insertion, enparticulier dans les Alpes deHaute Provence; Bilan desrecherches sociologiques sur lafamille dan s les paysfrancophones occidentaux.

LaboratoiredlEtudes et deRecherchesSociologiques surla Classe Ouvriere

LERSCOUniversité de NantesChemin de la Censive duTertre44036 Nantes Cedex 01Francetel: 33-40-141127

Directeur: Christian Baudelot

Plusieurs traits caractérisentles opérations conduites aucours des deux dernieresannées:• une grand vitalité d'abord,comme I'atteste I'abondancedes activités en cours et la listedes publications réaliséesdepuis deux ans. Activitésmultiples qui se traduisent pardes articles dans des revuesscientifiques, des expositions,des interventions locales atrégionales, des theses, deslivres, des films, des collabora-tions internationales;• la participation conjuguée denombreux chercheurs duLaboratoire a des manifestationsou publications communes, leplus souvent a la demanded'organismes ou de revuesnationales a d iffusion large: deuxnuméros de la revueAutrement,deux de la revue Politix, leColloque de Saint-Nazaire, lesJournées d'Etudes de la Sociétéd'Ethnologie Franc;:aise, lesCahiers du Pirttem et lesJournéesdu réseau Jeunesse etSociétés, le Colloque Identitésculturelles et développementéconomique entre autres;

-I'ouvertured'un axe nouveau

consacré a I'intégrationeuropéenne.

Dans chacune de cesactivités, le LERSCO estdemeuré fidele ases principesen mélant étroitement recher-che et enseignement et endonnant toujours la priorité del'enquéte,

Activités de recherche• Sociologie de la classeouvríere, Responsables: Jean-Paul Molinari, Jacky Reault• Formation, savoirs, jeunesse.Responsable: ChrsitianBaudelot• Sociologie du sport.Responsables: Jean-MichelFaure, Charles Suaud• Famille, travail et mode devie. Responsable: AugustinBarbara• Sociologiede I'espace urbain.Responsable: Daniel Pinson• Les images dan s lasociologie. Responsable: RogerCornu• Sociologie de I'integrationeuropéenne. Responsables:Yves Tertrais, Charles Suaud

Développement desservices communs• Enrichissement et informa-tisation du Centre de Docu-mentation. Responsable: Marie-Annick Bertrand• Le développement deI'equipement informatique et lageneralisation de ses usages.Responsable: Richard Juin• Une antenne "RelationsExterieures" destinée a faire lelien entre chercheurs etétudiants formés a la recher-che, et les demandes émanantd'organismes d'Etat, munici-paux, para-municipaux, entre-prises privées, une forme departenariat s'est instituée aveccertains organismes. Respon-sable: Fabienne Le Roy

Formation et didactiqueLe LERSCO, associé au

Département de Sociolog ie, sertde laboratoire d'appui a unehabilitation de troisierne cycle(DEAet Doctorat). Les membresdu LERSCO essentiellement derang A encadrent pour I'annéeuniversitaire 90-91 28 DEA et 29doctorants.

Le LERSCO compte parmises membres 9 boursiers MRT.

Activités de valorisation etde service

Le LERSCO a été contactépar plusieurs organismes poureffectuer des recherchessociologiques, recherchesauxquelles nous avon géné-ralment associé des apprentis-charcheurs (Maitrise, OEA etOoctorat). Ces demandes ontfait I'objet de contrat.

Relations extérieures etinternationales

Un projet d'enquetes corn-munes a Nantes at au Ouébec.L'objet de I'étude consiste a sedemander comment filles etqarcons envisagent, a Nantes etau Ouébec, leur avenirprofessionnel, familial, relationnel.Comment s'opere, dan s les deuxpays, latransmission des valeurs,des orientations et des modelesprofessionnels et sociaux? Lesréticences des filles, observableen France, a s'engager dans desfilieres scientifiques et danscertaines professions de sciencesappliquées se retrouvent-t-ellesous les rnérnes formes auOuébec?

Oans la cadre des échangesentrepris depuis 1989 entre leLERSCO et l'Université deMontréal, plusieurs rencontresont eu lieu.

Un prernierprojetd'enquétescommunes a déia été mis surpied qui mobiliserait: aMontréal:Pierre Oandurand, PhilippeEtchecopar et MarianneKempeneers; a Nantes: Chris-tian Baudelot, André Brillaud,Sylvette Oenefle at An ne Guillou.

Fakultiit fürSoziologie

Universitat BielefeldUniversitátsstr. 25Postfach 86404800 Bielefeld 1Germany

The staff of the Faculty ofSociology is composed of 35full professors, 35 assistantprofessors and 43 researchersemployed for and paid by par-ticular projects.

Research areas• Theory and History of Sociol-ogy: Systems theory of modern

society; Sociology of culture;History of sociology; Womenstudies;• Methods of Empirical Sociol-ogy and Social Psychology• Economy and Social Struc-ture: Sociology of economy;Political economy; Regionalplanning;• Politics and Administration:Political science; Social policy;Public administration; Riskmanagement; Theory of socialscience planning;• Work and Organization: Per-sonnel and organization of en-terprise; Future of work; Moralrisk in the organizations;• Science and Technology• Social Problems, Health andSocial Policy• Sociology of Oevelopmentand Social Anthropology

Regular publication of theFaculty: Zeitschrift für Soziologie

Forchunginstitutfür Soziologie

Universitat zu KblnGreinstrasse 20-5000 Kbln 41Germanytel: 49-221-4702409fax: 49-221-4705180

Director: Jürgen FriedrichsStaff Members: Hans-Peter

Müller, Erich Weede, Heine vonAlemann, Peter Hartmann,Robert Kecskes, Christof Wolf

The Research Institute forSociologywas founded in 1919;it was the first sociological re-search institute in Germany. Theidea came from the mayor ofCologne, Konrad Adenauer (af-ter World War II the first chan-cellor of the Federal Republic ofGermany). The aim was to doresearch on social problems inthree domains: sociology, so-cial policy and employmentregulations.

The first director of the socio-logical section of the Institutewas Leopold von Wiese, at thattime a major scholar in Germansociology, head of the GermanSociological Association,founder and editor of thescholarly journal K61nerVierteljahreshefte für Soziologie,

which under its later title KolnerZeitschrift für Soziologie undSozialpsychologie (CologneJournal of Sociology and SocialPsychology) is still the mostprominent German sociologicaljournal.

Ouring the Nazi period theInstitute was closed sinceLeopold von Wiese and his co-directors were not willing to turnit into an institute devoted to theNazi party's interests.

After reopening in 1945, theInstitute was split: the law sec-tion became an institute of theLaw Faculty, the social policysection and the sociologicalsection - still headed by Leopoldvon Wiese - became separateinstitutes of the Economics andSocial Sciences Faculty.ln 1949,René Kbnig, one of the mostdistinguished figures ofthe post-warGerman sociology, tookthechair from von Wiese and in1955 became director of theinstitute. He transformed it intoa full-grown sociological re-search institute and added newfields of interest, such as masscommunication, sociology oflaw and studies related to psy-cho-analysis.

It was René Kbnig who inau-gurated and edited numerousbooks on empirical researchmethods and methodology,bringing predominantlythe stateof the art knowledge from theUnited States to German read-ers. His Handbook of EmpiricalSocial Research is one of thebest known books of that pe-riod and his pocket book Soci-ology sold more than 430.000copies and was translated intoseveral foreign languages.

What is named the CologneSchool of Sociology - soundempirical research based ontheory - was the combined re-sult of Kbnig's efforts and thoseof his distinguished students,many of them now holdingchairs at universities all overGermany.

In 1976 René Kbnig becameprofessor emeritus andFriedhelm Neidhardt took hischair an beca me director ofthe research institute. Thisthird period ofthe institute wascharacterized by renewed re-

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search interest, pertaining tosuch topics as social move-ments, the reviewer system ofthe German Science Founda-tion, and a collaborator,Heinrich Best, worked on theparliamentary system in the19th century. A larger amountof the international reputationof the institute came from an-other member of the institute,Professor Erich Weede, whodid extensive studies andpublications on quantitativemethods and macro analysislinking social and economicstructures.

In Fall 1990, after a va-cancy of one and a half yearthe Institute was reorganizedwith a new staff by its presentdirector, Jürgen Friedrichs,coming from the Universityof Hamburg, where he heId achair in Sociology and di-rected the Center for Corn-parative Urban Research. TheInsti ute has now one direc-tor, two professors, four as-sistant professors, researchassistants, and graduate stu-dents as constant col labora-torso

The Institute still edits theKólner Zeitschrift für Soziologyund Sozialpsychologie, now inits 43rd year.

Research concentrates onmicromacro analysis,advancesin rational choice theory, corn-parative urban research andunemployment in the Westernand Eastern part of Germany.

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National Centre ofSocialResearch

1, Sophocleous Street105 59 AthensGreecetel: 3212611fax: 3216471

Administrative CouncilPresident: Dimitrios A.FatourosDeputy President: PandelisLazaridisVice-President:Aliki YotopoulouDeputy Vice-President:Kosmas PsychopedisMembers and Alternates:Alexandros Karakatsanis,Stavros Theofanidis, NikitasPatiniotis, EpaminondasKatsoridas,AthanassiosSagos,Parmenion Avdelidis, NikosPetralias, Yiannis Panoussis,NikolaosPetropoulosAdministrative Director:Stathis Sorocos

Scientific CouncilScientific Director:Konstantinos TsoukalasMembers:Koula KassimatiKosmas PsychopedisStathis SorocosAfroditi TeperoglouDimitrios TsaoussisGeorgios Tsougiopoulos

OriginsThe National Centre for So-

cial Research (NCSR)was firstestablished as the Centre forSocial Science of Athens(CSSA), which was founded in1959 with the cooperation ofthe UNESCO.

The CSSA has operated un-der the supervision of the Min-istry of Education and was thecountry's first institution for theexclusive purpose of prornot-ing sociology as a science. At atime stillloaded with the post-war and, for Greece, post-civilwar atmosphere of apprehen-sion and political bigotry, thecreation of the CSSA was deci-sive in initiating the study ofsocial phenomena at the aca-demic level. In fact, throughoutthe 1950's, sociology wasbarely known in Greece and

practically absent from the cur-ricula of the country's universi-tiesoThus, the CSSA's functionencompassed far larger tasksthan its nominal research ac-tivities.

In fact, the CSSA not onlyencouraged the enunciation ofthoughts and the theories onthe evolution of Greek society.ltshould also be noted that theaccommodation of unimpededand systematic exchange ofideasandoften conflicting viewsresulted intheshaping ofa wholenew generation of social scien-tists, and it is certainly not acci-dental that the majority of to-day's university professors ofsociology have served a stint atthe CSSA.

By force of a series of Corn-pulsory Decrees of 1968, theCentre for Social Science ofAthens was renamed NationalCentre for Social Research(NCSR). In 1974, following thecollapse of the military Junta,the NCSRwas once again reor-ganized. Its scientific activitieswere re-defined and its orienta-tion towards the empirical studyof current social issues werereestablished.Along these lines,the Centre scheduled and im-plemented a number of majorempirical research projects on:• the role and operation of ag-ricultural co-operatives• the administration of penaljustice• the study of urban centers• public health• the process of the reproduc-tion of cultural values

Personnel166personsareemployed attheNCSR. The research personnelconsists of 98 scientists (soci-ologists, anthropologists, politi-cal scientists, geographers,economists, demographers,statisticians and other special-ists). Another 68 employeeshandle administrative, clericaland technical matters.

The NCSR is composed ofsix Institutesandthree Divisions.

Institutes of Urban and RuralSociology, Political Sociology,Social Demography and Em-ployment Relations, EconomicSociology, Social Policy, Eco-nomic and Social History.

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The Round TableRUDOLF ANDORKA: Hun-

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LibraryTheCentre's librarycovers all

social science-related subjectswith special attention to sociol-ogy, social anthropology, politi-cal science and educational is-sues. It contains 30.500 vol-umes, 400 titles of foreign jour-nals and 100 Greek ones, un-published dissertations andstatistical bulletins of the Na-tional Statistical Service ofGreece.

Research projects inprogress

Social dimensions of em-ployment; Alternative method-ologies for the classification ofthe work force; Post-graduateprofessionals from abroad; In-come distribution; Assessmentof social indicators and povertylimits inGreece; Class structureand class consciousness inGreece; Research program onmigration and repatriation; Eco-nomic and social transforma-tion inagricultural communities;Political culture in Southern Eu-rope; Political behavior ofwomen; Politicians in postwarGreece; Geography and sociol-ogy research programs; Healthand the Greek society; Valuesof youth; Unwedded mothers:socio-psychological problemsand perspectives;The institutionof the Open Care Centers forthe Elderly;The institution of jailand imprisonment;Attitudes andopinions of youth towards theimage of drug addicts; Housingand house construction enter-prises; Social consequences oftourism; Research on the massmedia; Vocabulary of socialscience terminology; Compu-terization of Positive Sciencesbooks of the Greek Enlighten-ment period

PublicationsAs early as 1965, the publi-

cation of a sociological maga-zine "that would offer a free fo-rum for sociological thought" inGreece became one of the mainconcerns of the then Centre forSocial Sciences of Athens. InJanuary 1966, the first issue ofSociological Thought appeared

in print, but it was followed byonly one more issue as its pub-lication was interrupted by thecoup d'état of April 21, 1967.After the renaming and reor-ganization of the CSSA to theNational Centre for Social Re-search, a new sociologicalmagazine under the title TheGreek Review of Social Re-search was published in July1969. Since 1982, the NCSRregularly publishes an entirelyrevised edition ofthe Review asa quarterly. CharalambosGeorgantidis heads the publi-cation's editorial staff, whichincludes Pandelis Lazaridids,Matina Naoumi and PanagiotaPapadopoulou.

A total of 109 books havebeen published, some of whichare translations of basic worksofsociological bibliography, andco-publications with other re-search institutions. A detailedcatalogue of the NCSR's publi-cations available at the Center.

In addition to the Centre'smagazine and books, there areseveralother NCSRpublicationsconcerning mainly the resultsand conclusions of studiescompleted in the course of re-search programs.

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Istituto diSociologiaInternazionale

Institute of International So-ciologyVia Malta 234170 GoriziaItaly

Chairman: Mario BrancatiThe Institute of International

Sociology of Gorizia, ISIG, wasestablished in 1968, from thecoming together of two differ-ent intentions and motivations.On the one hand, its creationwas desired by the representa-tives of a community (Goriziaand the Regionof Friuli-VeneziaGiulia)that lives inan interethnicenvironment within an interna-tional context and that intendsto develop relations of peaceful

co-existence also thanks to anInstitute that studies the prob-lems of borders and interna-tional relations. On the otherhand, it was supported by Pro-fessor Vittorio Bachelet and byProfessor Franco De Marchi, towhom we owe the identificationof an "international sociology".

The community's needs andthe special rigor that character-izesa scientific institution madeit possible to identify the statu-tory objectives of ISIG: to carryout studies and researches andto organize conferences; toprovide the authorities with theinformation needed to promotecultural development; to holdseminars and specializationcourses for new graduates andscholars.

Today, afterthe changes thathave occurred in Eastern andCentral Europe, ISIG's activityresults from the intersection oftwo dimensions: on the onehand, the new Europe and therelations between the North andSouth of the world, and, on theother, the relations between in-ternational social actors.

Operationally, upto 19891SIGaccumulated theoretical andempirical knowledge on theproblems of the borders of AlpsAdria, of ethnic minorities, ofinterethnic relations, of spaceand its symbolics, and on topicsrelated to predicting the future.

It is hoped that all this workguarantees for Gorizia that cen-tral position that grows out of itsgeographical location and thatis supported by the teachinginstitutions for international co-existence and by the culturalinstitutions for Central Europe.This central position must beadequately recognized andenabled to express its entirepotential.

In this condition, in order tocarry out research and culturalactivities, books, pamphletsandnotebooks are not enough. Thenewly launched ISIG Reviewaims to complete and integratethese publications. In particu-lar, it intends to offer a mix ofideas produced by ISIGand re-search results that may be ofinterest both to social and politi-cal workers and scholars. Itwill be semi-monographic in

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nature, in the sense that thetheoretical article and the cen-tral page will deal with the samesubject. Regular sections of theReview are: the presentation anddiscussion of books publishedby ISIG; the on-going activitiesand those to be soon carriedout; and, lastly, there will be alist of the working papers pro-duced by the Institute, the origi-nal data used in research andthe data banks available onTechnology and the Future,Mass Emergencies and BorderTowns.

Dipartimento diSociologiaUniversita DegliStudi di Milano

Via Conservatorio, 720122 MilanoItalytel: 76.00.85.08fax: 76.01.51.04

At present, the Departmentof Sociology of the University ofMilano, is composed of 5 fullprofessors, 12 associate pro-fessors, and 21 researches, aswell as technical and adminis-trative personnel.

The Department offerscourses on methodology ofsocial research and of politicalscience, sociology of law, soci-ology of education, family re-search, medical sociology, ur-ban sociology, history of sociol-ogy.

Research projects con-ducted presently at the Depart-ment are: legislation concern-ing drugs, New Deal as a liberalexperiment, Foreign immigra-tion in Milan, Violence in sportas a ritual of aggression, Effectsof new technologies on workquality, Data base for socio-de-mographic research, Politicalculture in Milan of the 1980's,Old people in a family, Com-parative analysis ofsecularization in Italy andFrance, Home identification ofvarious generations, Models ofemployees' activities, Europeanlegal tradition and contempo-rary law in Latin America, Moti-vation behind elections, Risk

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assessment in informatics,Politicians and bureaucrats ona local level, Marginality in theurban areas of Novara, Vareseand Milan, New professions, Useof informatics in didactic, Pov-erty studies, Organization offootball fans in Milan, Womenstudies and sociological prac-tice, Violence in prisons, Pov-erty in a society of economicabundance, Environmentalstudies, etc.

On an intemationallevel, theDepartment initiated a coop-eration with the Faculty of Psy-chology of the University ofBuenos Aires. Moreover, it par-ticipates in the inter-universityprogram Erasmus in clase col-laboration with the Departmentof Political Sciences of the Uni-versity of Warwick (UnitedKingdom) and with l'lnstitute desEtudes Politique de Universitéde Grenoble (France).

Istituto di StudiSociali UniversitaDegli Studi diPerugia

Via Elce di Sotto06100 PerugiaItalytel: (75)5855405fax: (75)5855416

Director: Franco CrespiProfessors:Maria Arioti Aliboni, AndreaBixio, Franco Crespi, CeciliaGatto Trocchi, Paolo Mancini,Romano Mastromattei,Giovanni B. Montironi,Roberto SegatoriResearches:Vinicio Bottacchiari, ClaraCecchini, Giancarla Cicoletti,Cecilia Cristofori, LuisaMoruzzi, Angelica MucchiFaina, Raffaele Rauty, FiorellaGiacaloneStaff:Liliana Federici, FrancescoMoschini, Paolo Piccioli,Renato Passeri

The Institute of Social Stud-ies is part ofthe Faculty of Politi-cal Sciences ofthe University ofPerugia. Within the Institutethere are several areas of inter-est and activity:

• the area of theoretical soci-ology deals essentially with theproblems ofthe relation betweensociology and other scientificapproaches, with the story ofsociology, etc.• the area of applied sociology(sociology of the organization,sociology of politics) deals withempirical research on eachparticular field;• the area of mass media inparticular interested in the po-litical communication (recentlyan Archive on Political Commu-nication has been establishedwithin the Institute);• the area of ethnology andanthropology deals both withtheoretical problems of the fieldand empirical research.

Each professor of the Insti-tute (there are two full profes-sors and five associated pro-fessors) teach one "institutional"course each year, that is to saythat these courses deal with thebasic elements of each field.

The Institutetogetherwith theDepartment of Sociology of theUniversity of Florence runs aPhD Program in political sociol-ogy.

Istituto diSociologiaApplicataAlllEducazione

Facoltá di Scienzedell'EducazioneUniversitá PontificiaSalesianaPiazza Ateneo Salesiano, 100139 RomaItalytel: (06)8812041fax: (06)8812057

Director: Guglielmo Malizia

The Faculty of Education ofthe Salesian Pontifical Univer-sity in Rome is composed of sixinstitutes. One of them is theIstituto di Sociologia Applicataall'Educazione.

The Pontifical Salesian Uni-versity depends on the Holy Seeand belongs to a religious Con-gregation of the Salesian of St.John Basca. It is opened topriests, religious and lay people.

The Institute isan educationaland research institution. Profes-sors, members of the Institute,teach at the Faculty courses onsociology of education, sociol-ogy offamily, sociology ofyouth,administration and organizationof education, comparative edu-cation, sociology of religion, so-ciology of marginalisation, so-ciology of deviance.

Moreover, the Institute car-ries out research in all the fieldslisted above.

The personnel is composedof seven members: three pro-fessors,onefull-time researcher,two part-time researches, onepart-time secretary and librar-ian.

The Institute isendowed witha research library of 5.000 vol-umes and with 5 personal com-puters.

Themost important researchprojects and publications ofthe Institute are as follows:• I giovani europei e la pace,Leumann (Torino), Editrice ElleDI Ci, 1988. The research wasconducted among youngstersof 12 European countries whowere then attending the finalcourse of the upper secondaryschool. The aims were: the re-construction of the "semanticuniverse" of the youth cultureon peace; a census of whatyoung people considered as"resources" for peace; the de-scription of what the youth con-sidered as objective and sub-jective obstacles to the attain-ment andmaintenance of peaceas well as to an education forpeace.• Pieroni V, G. Milanesi, G.Malizia,Giovaniarischio, Roma,CNOS/FAP, 1989.This researchaimed at analyzing relevant ex-periences of vocational educa-tion, organized inside and out-side Italian prisons, with a viewto recuperating young peopleto society.• Malizia G., S. Chistolini, V.Pieroni, Ipercorsi formativi dellascuola e della formazioneprofessionale, Roma, CNOS/FAP, 1990.The research aimedat analyzing the opinions of rel-evant teachers and pupils onthe hypothesis of the raising ofcompulsory age from 14 to 16

years and of compulsory edu-cation from 8 to 10 years oflength, which is at present un-der debate in Italy. It involvedfour nationally stratified sam-pies: students and teachers ofthe first level vocational educa-tion; students and teachers ofthe first two year cycle of uppersecondary education.• Mion R. (ed.),Emarginazionee associazionismo giovanile,Roma, Ministerio dell'lnterno,1990. A documentary researchaimed at describing, analyzingandevaluating thedevelopmentof the marginalisation and itsprevention in the Italian societyfrom the post-war period untilnow.• G. Malizia, Z. Trent (eds.),Una disciplina in camino,Torino, SEI, 1991. Asurvey ofthe situation of religious edu-cation in Italy. It comprised11 nationally stratified sam-pies of teachers, parents andstudents of primary, middleand upper secondary edu-cation (about 9,000 people).

Centro deEstudiosSociológicosEl Colegio deMexico

Camino al Ajusco 2001000 Mexico City, D.F.Mexicotel: (52-5)5686033fax: (52-5)6526233

Director: Orlandina deOliveiraScientific Coordination:Fernando CortésPublications:NelsonMinelloStaff Members: ArturoAlvarado, Viviane Brachet,Mario Bronfman, JavierElguea, Silvia Gómez Tagle,Karen Kovacs, Jorge Padua,RosaMaríaRublacava,VaniaSalles,RodolfoStavenhagen,Claudio Stern, María LuisaTarrés, Gustavo Verduzco,Francisco Zapata, HugoZemelman

The Center for SociologicalResearch (CES)of the Colegiode México was founded inMarch 1973. Its first directorswere Rodolfo Stavenhagen(1973-77), José Luis Reyna(1978-1981), Claudio Stern(1981-1987), and since 1988Orlandina de Oliveira.

Main research areas of theCES are: Regional studies ofmigrations and urban-rural rela-tions; Culture and ideology;Education and social changes;Epistemologyandmethodology;State and social movements;State and public policies; Strati-fication, class and social in-equality; Rural structure andpeasants' reproduction; Labourmarket, family and daily life;Power and social subjects; La-bour process, workers' con-sciousness and labour conflict.Results of these investiga-

tions were discussed in a seriesof books published by theColegio de México and com-mercial publishers, and inaformof articles published inEstudiosSociológicos, a journal of theCES, as well as in other socio-logical magazines in Mexico,LatinAmerica, UnitedStatesandEurope.

CES offers also a Ph.D. pro-gram in social sciences withsociology as specialization. Sofar 80 students, mainly Mexicanand Latin American, have beenadmitted. The program offers awide range of seminars on ma-jor theoretical, methodologicaland practical issuespertinent tosociologists in the developingcountries.

Report submitted by Orlan-dina de Oliveira

Department ofSociologyNationalUniversity ofSingapore

10 Kent Ridge CrescentSingapore 0511tel: (65)7756666fax: (65)7779579

Sociology was institutionallyestablished as a university de-

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partment in Singapore in 1965,coincidentally, the same yearthat the country achieved thestatus of independent republic.It was also 36 years after themain English-medium universitywas established. Before de-scribing the Department of So-ciology's activities, it is useful totake a brief glance at its histori-cal background.

While in Europe Max Weberproduced The Protestant Ethicand The Spirit of Capitalism(1904-1905), the seeds of terti-ary education were just beingplanted in Singapore with theestablishment, in 1905, of theMedical School by the BritishColonial Government in re-sponse to strong lobbying bythe local intellectuals. As theadvance of sociological knowl-edge continued in Europe andWeber worked on his Economyand Society, Politics as a Voca-tion, Scienceasa Vocation, andSociology of Religion (1910-1920), and Ferdinand Tonniespublished his SociologicalStudies and Criticisms (1925-1929), tertiary education wasdeveloping albeit slowly, in Sin-gapore but there were no signsof sociology yet. The medicalschool wastransformed intotheKing Edward VII College ofMedicine in 1921 ,and expandedwith the addition ofthe Depart-ment of Dental Surgery in 1929.That year, Raffles College, cov-ering arts and science subjects,was created with a view to serveas the nucleus of a future uni-versity.lt was only afterthe Sec-ond World War, in 1949, whenthe College of Medicine andRaffles College were amalga-mated to form the University ofMalaya. Following the politicaldevelopments of the post Sec-ond World War period, the Uni-versity of Malaya underwent atransformation, first by its divi-sion into a Malaysian campusand a Singaporean campus in1959, and then by the step to-wards autonomy of each divi-sion in 1960, whereby the Sin-gapore campus beca me theUniversityofSingapore.ln 1980,the smaller, Chinese-mediumNanyang University was mergedwith the University of Singaporeto form the current NationalUniversity of Singapore (NUS).

The Department of Sociol-ogyat NUS has developed con-siderably since it was first set upin 1965 with only three staffmembers. They were a Britishprofessor as the Head of De-partment, the secretary, and anoffice messenger. Five moreforeign teaching staff - one Brit-ish, three Americans and onePakistani- were recruited be-fore 1970 when the firstSingaporean sociologist, trainedin the United States, joined thefaculty. Today, the Departmenthas 29 teaching staff membersof whom three are AssociateProfessors, twelve are SeniorLecturers, ten are Lecturers, andfour are Senior Tutors (i.e.teaching assistants). Ofthefoursenior tutors, two are currentlyat American universities work-ing on their Ph.D. degrees un-derNUSsponsorship. Whilethemain focus of the Department ison sociology, seven of the 25principal teaching staff are an-thropologists and eleven of the31 courses offered by the De-partment are anthropologycourses.

There is an interesting mix ofthe European and Americantraditions shaping the teachingand research work at the De-partment of Sociology. TheBritish tradition was inherited aspart of the colonial history ofSingapore and it is still repre-sented today by the three Brit-ish anthropologists in our midst.AII the other colleagues -exceptthree- have been trained in theAmerican sociological tradition.

The areas of sociology cov-ered in the Department's fouryear curriculum include re-search methodology, dataanalysis, sociological theory,industrial sociology, socialpsychology, social stratifica-tion, sociology of the family,development and socialchange, ethnic relations, soci-ology of deviance, political so-ciology, urban sociology, soci-ology of professions, sociol-ogy of organizations and socialpolicy. Following a faculty-widepolicy, the most recent devel-opment in the teaching of soci-ology implemented this year,consists of the requirement forundergraduate students to takeonly one other subject in addi-

tion to sociology - they couldtake two additional subjectsbefore. This change will help inincreasing the depth of theirexposure to sociology in thesecond and third years. TheNUS grants a general Bachelorof Social Science degree at theend of the third year, and anHonours degree in Social Sci-ences (Sociology) after thesuccessful completion of thefourth year. Only the best thirdyear students are invited toproceed to the Honours Year.Sociology is a very popularsubject among students in theFaculty of Arts and Social Sci-ences. Over 1,000 first yearstudents apply every year toread sociology. The Depart-ment has instituted an aptitudetest to provide a fair selectionprocess as the demand ex-ceeds the number of applicantsthat can be accepted. The De-partment also has graduatestudents working on theirM.Soc.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees.

The Department of Sociologyat NUS has recognized since itsinception, the importance ofempirical research and of re-search-oriented teaching. Bothforeign and local members oftheacademic staff have been con-sistently inclined to do empiricalresearch on Singapore in par-ticular, and on SoutheastAsia, ingeneral. This basic principie hasbeen reinforced by the NUS em-phasis on publications as one ofthe main criteria for the evalua-tion and promotion of academicstaff. In addition to papers pub-lished in a vast number of inter-nationally recognized sociologi-cal journals, books, and chap-ters in books published both 10-cally and overseas, there are twopublications that are the flag-ships of the Department's com-mitment to research and schol-arship. These publications arethe Southeast Asian Journal ofSocial Sciences published since1973, and the Sociology Work-ing Papers Series published pe-riodically since 1972 at an aver-age of six issues per year. The1OOth issue of the Working Pa-pers was published in 1991 as aSpecial Issue under the title Ex-plorations in Asian Sociology.Both the Journal and the Work-ing Papers are available at the

libraries of major universities inthe United States, Britain, andAustralia.

Report submitted by Profes-sor Stella R. Quah

Centre forIntergroupStudies

University of Cape Town37 Grotto Road7700 RondeboschSouth Africatel: (21)650.2503fax: (21)658.2142

Staff MembersDirector: Hendrik Willem vander MerweSeniorConsultantA.D. MullerDirector of Training: RonaldS. KraybillSenior Research Officer:Susan CollinCo-ordinatorofthe Negotiat-ing Skills Programme:Azikhwelwa ZikalalaCo-ordinator of the Projecton PeaceandSecurity: LaurieNathanThe Centre for Intergroup

Studies was established in1968as an autonomous research in-stitute to promote and conductresearch on intergroup studiesin South Africa. For almost aquarter of a century, it hasbroughttogether individualsandorganizations with different andoften conflicting ideologicalperspectives, and has devel-oped over the years projectsand services that are now indemand nationwide.

The Centre operates in fourseparate but interrelated areasin implementing its MissionStatement: The Center forIntergroup Studies seeks tocontribute towards ajust peacein South Africa by enabling andempowering conflicting groupsto handle their differences con-structively, creatively and co-peratively.Facilitation and Mediation

as an impartial third party incommunity and political dis-putes. Historically the Centrehas an impressive record ofmediation in a number of con-

flict situations. The Director hasbeen invited to mediate in dis-putes ranging from communitydisputes to major regional con-flicts. Thefacilitation ofdialoguebetween the establishment andthe ANC in exile was another ofthe Centre's major undertak-ings.With the dramatic changesin South Africa since February1990, there has been an un-precedented awareness of theneed for negotiations at all lev-els, and the Centre functions asa resource for this process.Education of the wider pub-

lic as to the potential of negotia-tion and mediation as construc-tive tools for conflict manage-ment. Over the years the Centrehas produced papers and arti-cles for academic and popularjournals, conducted seminars,workshops and conferences atregional, national and interna-tionallevel, at which the crucialissues of the day have beenexamined.Research, mostly applied,

underpins all of the Centre'sundertaking, and is largely fo-cused both on ways of promot-ing communication betweenconflicting groups, and on re-ducing violence.Training in negotiation

and mediation skills of abroad spectrum of commu-nity and nationalleaders. Thisaspect of the Centre's workhas become increasingly vi-tal, and the expertise of RonKraybill, Director of Training,is heavily in demand through-out South Africa.

Current projects• Understanding the Violencein South Africa: towards inter-pretation and intervention.

This project, established inresponse to requests from op-posing sides of the politicalspectrum, is designed to servepolitical and community group-ings as they search for con-structive ways to understandand intervene in the violencethat istearingSouthAfrica apartoIts goal is to analyse the currentstate of violence, to contex-tualise it, and to provide an in-terpretation that can be trans-lated into practical measuresfor intervention.

• Facilitation and MediationServices of South Africa (FMS).

This project is based ongroundwork laid by the Centreover many years and extensiveconsultations with all sectors.FMS will provide facilitation andmediation services and an ex-tensive training programme incommunity and political con-flict, and beavailableto all politi-cal parties and communitygroupings. Regionalcenters willbe established and panels ofmediators appointed who canintervene at the request of theconflicting parties.Apilot projectis being developed in the West-ern Cape which can be dupli-cated in other regions of thecountry.

Recent publicationsConscientiaus Objectian,

Cape Town: Centre forIntergroup Studies, 1989

Pursuing Justice and Peacein Sauth Africa, by H.W. van derMerwe, London: Routledge,1989

Alternative National Serv-ice, Cape Town: Centre forIntergroup Studies, 1990

The Inf/uence af Vialence onChildren, Cape Town: Centrefor Intergroup Studies, 1990

The Purple Shall Gavern: ASauth African A ta Z af nonvio-lent actian, edited by DeneSmuts and Shauna Westcott.Cape Town: Oxford UniversityPress and Centre for IntergroupStudies.

Report submitted by JoannaFlanders-Thomas

Centro deInvestigacionesSociológicas

Montalbán 828014 MadridSpaintel: (34-1)5807600fax: (34-1)5807619

Director: Joaquín ArangoThe Center for Sociological

Research,CIS, isa governmen-tal research institute created in1963underthe nameof InstitutodeOpiniónPública,andchangedin 1977 to its present name.

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Research Department isresponsiblefor planning, designand elaboration of analyticalstudies of the Spanish society.CISconducts surveyson itsowninitiative aswell as on request ofvarious institutions.Data Base Department has

an impressive collection of sur-veys conducted since 1963. It isthe most comprehensive andfrequently used source of dataavailable to all researchers.Publications DepartmentRevista Española de Investi-

gaciones Sociológicas, a quar-terly journal, contains articles,researchresults, reviews,aswellas classical texts. In addition, itincludes results of the most in-teresting opinion polls.

Colección Monografías, aseries of monographs with 115volumes published so faro

Fuera de Colección, a seriesof books of a non-monographicnature, a number of them de-voted to famous social scien-tists.

Estudios y Encuestas, col-lection of research material ofsurveys conducted by CIS.

Cuadernos Metodológicosdel C/S, a very recentlylaunched series of thematiccompendia of social scienceinvestigations.

TheCISLibrarycontains over15,000 volumes in social sci-

ences, as well as an extensiveselection of reviews,magazines,and the like.

With a purpose to promotesocial science research, CISawards annually PremioNacional de Sociología yCiencia Política (National Prizein Sociology and Political Sci-ences), as well as grants fordoctoral thesis andscholarshipsforyoung researchers trained atCIS.

Instituto deSociologíaAplicada

Claudio Coello 141, 428006 MadridSpaintel: (34-1)2620239

Director: Jesús M. VázquezBoard Members:Joaquín Bandera González,Eduardo Fraile Sánchez,Natividad Mayor (Adminis-tration), Luis Méndez Fran-cisco, Lucía Pernía Ruiz(Management),VicentaSierradel ValleIn 1955 a group of sociolo-

gists ledbyJesúsMaríaVázquezfounded a centre for social andreligious research called

"Barriada y Vida". Since 1968the center has been known asthe Institute of Applied Sociol-ogy.

Members of the Institutecome from different regionsof Spain as well as from theLatin American countries. TheInstitute has developed itsown technical base, libraryand a documentation center.Its activities include consulta-tion, evaluation and assess-ment in the following areas:family, position of women,children and youth, old peo-pie, education, health, thedisabled, drug addicts, del in-quents, and use of free time.Over 30 research projectshave been completed in Spainand in Latin America, and

. some 50 books were pub-lished by the Institute.

The Institute publishesregularly Cuadernos deRealidades Sociales (two is-sues ayear published in onevolume).

Recent research projectsTechnics of social research,

The Gypsies in Murcia, Abor-tion in Spain, Drug addiction ofyoung people in Burgos, Opin-ion of a street crowd, Catholi-cism in Spain, Secularizationprocess, Rehabilitation od drugaddicts.

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Department ofSociology andAnthropologyUniversity ofMississippi

Department of Sociology andAnthropologyThe University of MississippiMississippi, MS 38677USA

Chair: Larry W. DeBordAmong the many achieve-

ments of the faculty this year,adaptation to the dramaticenrollment increase is notewor-thy. Enrollmentincreased inbothanthropology and sociologycourses. In the 1989-1990 aca-demic year, 2,254 studentscompleted courses in the de-partment - an increase of 575students or 34 per cent.

This year, departmental fac-ulty in residence report publica-tion or acceptance of 1O articlesin seven different professionaljournals. Other publishing ac-tivity includes ninemonographs- including technical briefs andproject reports - and sevenchapters or essays in books.Faculty members made 22presentations before profes-sional associations and groups.They were awarded 13 newgrants or contracts, which totalmore than $1,125,000 duringthe past year to support theirwork.

Research resources of theDepartment are:The Data Analysis Labora-

tory affords both undergradu-ate and graduate students fullaccess to the University's corn-puting systems.The George A. McLean In-

stitute for Community Devel-opment embraces a principieofThe University of Mississippi:that a university is obligated tohelp provide solutions and al-ternatives to the problems ofthe state and region. The lnsti-tute is an instrument throughwhich the University can placeits intellectual resources directlyat the disposal of the commu-nity. Engaged in basic research,

the center works directly withcommunity representatives toapply knowledge to the solutionof community problems. TheInstitute sponsors nine-monthleadership conference whichallows participants to developthe effective and broad corn-munity leadership skilis.

The McLean Institute is cur-rently working in eight southernstates on avariety of economic/community developmentprojects. It has helped establishleadership development pro-grams in more than 100 coun-ties throughout the South. Itsareas of research and applica-tion include school reform,downtown redevelopment,community assessment, lead-ership and leadership develop-ment, and avariety of economicdevelopment topics.

Director: Vaughn L. GrishamThe Center for Archaeo-

logical Research. The ex-pressed purposes of the Centerare precisely those of the Uni-versity - education, researchandservice. The primary mission ofthe Center is to improve thegeneral understanding of pre-historie and historie events inthe state and region while meet-ing these stated purposes. Byproviding cultural resourcemanagement expertise throughcontractual agreement, theCenter is able to supply a valu-able service to both the publicand private sectors. Archaeo-logical research and the serv-iceswhich we render in meetingcultural resource managementneedsare,therefore,wed insucha manner that one seldom oc-curs without the other.

During the past five years theCenter hasentered into the rap-idly growing field of computerapplications in the analysis ofprehistoric settlement. In thiswe have worked closely withscientists at NASA and haveutilized remate imaginary, bothsatellite and airborne, as well asgeographic data such as digi-tized soils, streams, and eleva-tion. The analysis is conductedon a specially equipped corn-puter system which is availablefor students on thesis research.

Director: Robert M. Thorne,AssociateDirector:JayK.Johnson

National Clearinghouse forSite Stabilization was formedtrough an agreement with theTennessee ValleyAuthority andthe National Park Service. Thefunction of the Clearinghouse isto assimilate pertinent data onarchaeological site stabilizationand to make both data and pro-fessional expertise availableupon request. Graduate stu-dents are active participants inthe various functions of theClearinghouse, including thedesign and implementation ofsite protection projects.

Director: Robert M. ThorneCenter for Population

Studies. One important func-tion ofthe CPS isto disseminateUnited States Bureau of theCensus data products. ButCPSdoesa lot of otherthings aswell,among them providing techni-cal assistance in the collectionandanalysisof census andotherdemographic and social data,and undertaking research onpopulation issues, such as fer-tility, migration and economicdevelopment.

As the Lead Agency of theState Data Center of Missis-sippi, the Center for PopulationStudiescoordinatesuseraccessin Mississippi to products of theU.S. Bureau ofthe Census. Un-der a Joint Statistical Agree-ment between the state and thefederal governments, the Cen-sus Bureau provides publica-tions, maps, tapes and otherdata which CPS makes avail-able to users directly through anetwork of 18 regional affiliates.In this capacity, the CPS hasserved as a data source forredistricting oftowns and coun-ties and for community devel-opment block grant projects.

Director: Max W. Williams

Center for the Study ofSouthern Culture. Since 1977the Center has become an in-ternational leader in regionalstudies. Seeking to integrateknowledge through multidisci-plinary study of the AmericanSouth, the Center sponsorspublication of reference worksandanthologies, publishesthreemagazines, develops mediaproductions and exhibitions,sponsors conferences and

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symposia for academic andgeneral audiences, and buildsextensive teaching and re-search collections. Especiallynoteworthy is the UM BluesArchive which contains majorcollections which are comple-mentary in their coverage ofblues topics ranging from the"Folk Revival" of the sixties tothe influence and interchangesbetween blues, jazz, andpopular music.

The Center supports re-search on topics ranging fromsouthern fol k arts to the historyof science and medicine in theSouth and has compiled one-volume reference work thatgives scholars, students, andgeneral readers ready accessto information on contempo-rary southern culture and itshistorie development. Pub-lished in 1989, the 1,500-pageillustrated Encyclopedia ofSouthern Culture offers aunique factual, bibliographic,and conceptual resource on theAmerican South and serves asa catalyst for further research.In preparing the Encyclopedia,Center personnel worked withmore than 800 contributors infields such as history, litera-ture, sociology, anthropology,folklore, thesciences, medicine,religious studies, political sci-ence, psychology, art history,music, economics, law, andjournalism.

Director: William R. Ferris

Centro deInvestigacionesen CienciasSociales

CISORApartado 5894101O-ACaracasVenezuelatel. & fax: 49.4401

Director: Alberto Gruson,Board Members: ArmandoJanssens, María MagdalenaColmenares, José RamónLloveraTheSocial Science Research

Center, CISOR, non-Iucrativeprivate institution, was foundedin 1966. Its main goal is to facili-tate social science data andresearch results to the institu-tions and organizations re-sponsible for the developmentof Venezuela.

CISOR is composed of thefollowing Departments:Surveys and Research De-

partment (INVES)which since1966 has completed over 40research studies of its own aswell as has assisted in a bignumber of solicited studies, re-search projects, surveys, diag-nosis and evaluations, analysisof national statistics. Researchtopics, among others, were:population, family, youth,

household,employment, health,education and teachers, humanresources, social policy, socialwork, micro-enterprise, religionand the Church, institutional or-ganization and development,rural development, socialmovements, etc.Department of Social De-

velopment Information(DIDES) offers:

- a highly specialized Libraryin social sciences;

- microfilm service- data base of social serv-

ices available, organizations,experts, national statistics,social indicators,etc.

- design and consultation inestablishing and running in-formation centers; profes-sional training of analysts-documentalists.Training School of Social

Research (EPSIS) started itsactivities in 1983 and offerstraining to individuals as well asinstitutions. Its teaching pro-grammes concentrate on: de-sign and evaluation of researchprojects,conducting of researchproject, use of informatics insocial sciences.Scientific Community for

Social Development (CCDS)is composed of professionals ofdifferent disciplines interestedin interdisciplinary exchange ofinformation and experience inpromoting social development.

Report submitted by AlbertoGruson, Director

Everyyearthe Colegioawardsa prize for the best PH.D. dis-sertations in order to stimulatethe quality and validity of re-search among graduates.Moreover, in conjunction withthe Ministry ofWelfare, it grantsthe Prize of Research in Wel-fare Issues.

CATEGORY E: SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONSANO INSTITUTIONS

Ilustre ColegioNacional deDoctores yLicenciados enCiencias Políticasy Sociología

Quintana 2928008 MadridSpaintel: (34-1)2473480fax: (34-1)2472510

Governing BoardDean, President: Miguel An-gel Ruiz de Azúa AntónVicepresident: Inés AlberdiAlonsoSecretary: LorenzoNavarreteMorenoVice-Secretary: Carlos MaríaGonzálezde Heredia y OñateTreasurer: Julia RequejoJiménezInspector: Andrés AsenjoBezosMembers: Pablo FernándezGarcía,CarmelaSanzRueda,Margarita Gómez Vispo,JoaquínSalvadorRuizLópez,Alberto Redondo de laSerna,Alonso Coronado Luengo

OriginsThe Ilustre Colegio de

Ciencias Políticas y SociologíaisaPublic LawOfficial Corpora-tion and is related with the stateadministration through the Min-istry of Parliamentary Relationsand the Secretary of the Gov-ernment. It is a professional or-ganization of sociologists andpolitical scientists.

The Colegio is the most rep-resentative and superior of thecountry, with exception ofthoseAutonomous Communities thathavea professional associationlegally constituted. The mainpurpose of this organization is

to associate the graduates andpost-graduates ofsociology andpolitical sciences and to protecttheirinterests. Promoting, atthesametime, the professional op-portunities and the social rec-ognition from public and privateinstitutions.

It was founded by a decreeon August 11, 1953 andamended by the 1981 Statute,valid to the date, and replacingthe previous norms dating fromMarch 26, 1954 and December22,1960.

ActivitiesThe Colegio promotes, to-

gether with other private andpublic associations and institu-tions, the scientific and profes-sianal interest insocial sciencescontributing to their develop-ment in Spain.

The Colegio represents allgraduates and post-graduatesthat have obtained their degreein Spanish Universities or thecorrespondent degree abroad.At present there are more thanthree thousand members.

The Colegio is a member ofthe International SociologicalAssociation and of the Interna-tional Political Science Asso-ciation. It also maintains elosecontacts with other scientific in-stitutions and universities, aswell as private firms, academicand professional organizations,both at national and interna-tional level.

Itwas a member ofthe Span-ish Committee for the Organi-zation ofthe XIIWorld Congressof Sociology in Madrid, 1990.

Among its activities the mostremarkable is the organizationof conferences, debates andround tables about issues re-lated to social sciences, as wellas courses and activities oftraining and renovation for theprofessionals of these fields.

PublicationsCuadernos de Ciencia

Política y Sociología, a quar-terly journal, provides informa-tion about the main lines ofresearch at various universitydepartments and other institu-tions; gives newsabout recentlyfinished PH.D. dissertations,work in progress, researchmethods applied.

Information Bulletin, amonthly bulletin which offerscurrent news, includes namesof new members, announcesscientific and cultural activitiesorganized by the Colegio andother institutions, like courses,conferences, books presenta-tions etc .. Also, an importantsection is reserved to publishthe summons of Prizes, Grantsand Competitions related tosocial sciences. Finally, eachnumber ineludes an interviewwith well known experts in so-cial sciences.

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RC07 FuturesResearch

Board Members 1990-1994Co-Presidents:Eleonora Masini (World Fu-ture Studies Federation, ViaBertoloni 23, 00197 Roma,Italy)Igor Bestuzhev-Lada (InstSociological Research,Novocheremshkinskaya,117418 Moscow, USSR)Vice-Presidents:Velichko Dobrianov, BulgariaAnna Coen, ItalySecretary General:José Antonio Díaz Martinez(Fac CC Politicas ySociología, UNED,Senda delReys/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain)Regional Secretaries:Nadji Safir (Inst Sociologie,Univd'Alger, 88 rueDidoucheMourad, Alger, Algerie)Reimon Bachika (Mikage-cho, Gunge, Okura, 1-1-602Higashi Nada-ku, 658 Kobe,Japan)

RC10Participation,Workersl Controland Self-Management

Board members 1991-1995President:Raymond Russell (Univ Cali-fornia, Dept Sociology, Riv-erside, CA92521-0419, USA)Vice-President:Matmata Lakshmanna (c/oThe High Commissioner ofIndia, 6 Victoria Ave., Port ofSpain, Trinidad, West Indies)Treasurer:

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EWSFROMTHERESEARCH COMMITTEES

Chris Cornforth (Open Uni-versity, Business School,Walton Hall, Milton KeynesMK6 7M, UK)Secretary General:Ake Sandberg (ALC, Box5606, 11486 Stockholm,Sweden)Members:Abha Avasthi, IndiaAlain Chouraqui, FranceCarlos Gadsden, MexicoVladimir Gershikov, USSRAkihiro Ishikawa, JapanGerard Kester, The Nether-landsJolanta Kulpinska, PolandPeter Leisink, The Nether-landsAntonio Lucas, SpainArtur Meier, GermanyLitsa Nikcolaou-Smokoviti,GreeceMichal Palgi, IsraelJoyce Rothschild, USADusko Sekulic, YugoslaviaJacques Vilrokx, BelgiumAnn Westenholz, DenmarkEdward Zammit, MaltaPresident Ibero-Americansubcommittee:William Moreno (Jr.Apurimac224/506, C.P. 1432, Lima 1,Peru)President Indian Chapter:M. Lakshmanna(c/o TheHighCommissionerof India, 6Vic-toria Ave., Port of Spain,Trinidad, West Indies)

RC11: Sociologyof Aging

Board members 1990-1994President:Neena Chappell (Centre onAging, Univ Manitoba, Winni-peg, Manitoba, Canada R3T2N2)Vice-Presidents:Alan Walker (Dept Sociology,

Univ Sheffield, Sheffield S102TN, UK)Anne Marie Guillemard(CEMS,54 Bd Raspail,75006Paris, France)SecretarylTreasurer:Jaber F.Gubrium (DeptSoci-ology, Univ Florida,Gainesville, FL 32611, USA)Board 01 Directors:Lars Anderson, SwedenEdward Powers, USAMartin Kohli, GermanySusan Szeman, HungaryP.K.B. Nayer, IndiaClaudine Attias-Donfut,FranceVim van den Heuvel, TheNetherlands

MembershipDues are US $ 5 per year or

US $ 20 for the four years be-tween Congresses. Remit duesin US funds to the Secretary-Treasurer.

RC20:ComparativeSociology

Report submitted by M.Dogan, President

Board members 1990-1994President:Mattei Dogan (CNRS, 72Boulevard Arago, Paris 13,France)Vice-Chairmen:Peter Merkl, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara,USAFred Riggs, University of Ha-waii, USAJoji Watanuki, Sophia Uni-versity, Tokyo, JapanSecretary:Frederick Turner (Dept Politi-cal Science, Univ Connecti-cut, Storrs, CT 06269-1024,

USAMembers:Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Ger-manyMaria Carballo de Cilley, Ar-gentinaLuciano Cavalli, ItalyAli Kazancigil, UNESCOAli Mazrui, USARenata Siemienska, PolandIlter Turan, TurkeyRalph Turner, USADelegate/ Alternate to theResearch Council:Mattei Dogan and FrederickTurnerThe Research Committee on

Comparative Sociology cur-rently numbers almost 100members from 20 countries.

A book based on papers pre-sented at the XII World Con-gress of Sociology is in prepa-ration, edited by M. Dogan andA. Kazancigil, to be publishedby Blackwell.

A special edition of the jour-nal, on Religion and Politics, isalso in preparation.

The Committee will organize,jointly with Kibi InternationalUniversity, a conference in July1992 in Takahashi City, Japan,on the following three topics: (1)the growing gap between richerand poorer countries, (2) thequestion of freedom/equality inadvanced democracies, (3)theassessment of basic values inEurope,NorthAmericaand EastAsia.

RC22: Sociologyof Religion

Board members 1990-1994President:RobertoCipriani(Dipartamentodi Sociologia, Universitádeglistudi di Roma "La Sapienza",ViaSalaria,113,00198 Roma,Italia)Vice-Presidents:Thara Bhai L., IndiaKarol Borowski, USAJan Swyngedouw, JapanSecretary:Raymond Lemieux (Groupede recherche en sciences dela religion, Pavillon Félix-Antoine-Savard, UniversitéLaval, Québec G1K 7P4Canada)

Board Members:Miquel Bárbara i Anqles,SpainGrace Davie, UKYves Lambert, FranceRemir A. Lopatkin, USSRAmós Nascimento, BrazilJakob Olupona, NigeriaMiklós Tomka, HungaryIvan Varga, CanadaLiaison Officers:ASR: William H. Swatos, Jr.,USASSSR: Eileen Barker, UKISSR: Enzo Pace, Italy

RC23: Sociologyof Science

Report submitted by StuartBlume, President

Board members 1990-1994President:Stuart Blume (Wetenschaps-dynamica, Univ Amsterdam,Nieuwe Achtergracht 166,1018 WV Amsterdam, TheNetherlands)Vice-President:SimonSchwartzman(NUPES,Rua do Anfiteatro 181, CaixoPostal 8191 CEP 01051, SaoPaolo, SP. Brazil)Secretary- Treasurer:Radhika Ramasubban (Cen-tre for Social andTechnologi-cal Change, Zeba Corner,Sherly Rajan Road, Bandra,Bombay - 400 050, India)Members:Oiga Amsterdamska, TheNetherlandsAant Elzinga, SwedenVojin Milic, YugoslaviaTerry Shinn, FrancePal Tamas, HungaryPeter Weingart, GermanyRepresentative of the Work-ing Group on Critical Soci-ology of Intellectuals: DickPels, The NetherlandsMembership is open to all

sociologists with an active in-terest in the sociology of sci-ence and technology. Inquiriesshould be addressed to theSecretary/T reasurer.Activities 1988-1990

In November 1988 the Re-search Committee organized ameeting in Amsterdam to coin-cide with the joint meeting ofthe

European Association for theStudy of Science and Technol-ogy (EASST)and the Society forSocial Studies of Science (4S).The ResearchCommittee meet-ing was organized around threethemes: * the sociology of thesocialsciences (convenersBjornWittrock, Peter Wagner); * sci-ence at the periphery (convenerSteven Yearley); * science andprofessional practice (convenerOiga Amsterdamska).

In addition, the RC23 co-sponsored a very successfulworkshop organized by EASSTand the Hungarian Academy ofSciences, which took place inVeszprem (Hungary) in June1989,with the title "The Intellec-tual and Organizational Inter-faces of Science."

It isperhaps worth noting thatthe full programme of sessionsorganized at the Madrid WorldCongress included a numberheld jointly with other ResearchCommittees: with RC Womenin Society, with RC History ofSociology, and with the Work-ing Group on SociologicalTheory.

The business meeting heldin Madrid, in addition to ap-proving the election of a newBoard, took a number of sig-nificant decisions. First, mem-bers voted overwhelmingly tochange the name of the RC23to Research Committee on theSociology of Science andTechnology. This change re-flects the growing interestamong sociologists of sciencein technology, and the emer-gence of new sociological ap-proaches to the study of tech-nology. The decision has sincebeen notified to the ISA and isawaiting ratification.

Second, the questions of aNewsletter arose. The RC hasnever had its own Newsletter,and there was considerablediscussion on the desirability ofsuch an undertaking. Eventu-ally an offer from J. Agassi (Is-rael)to try to put out a Newslet-ter - in conjunction with otherinterested members - was ac-cepted.

Future activitiesThe Committee hopes to or-

ganize a scientific meeting in

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the course of 1992. In addition,the RC is sponsoring aSummerSchool for young Soviet schol-ars active in the area of scienceand technology studies, whichit is hoped will take place inLeningrad in July 1992. This isbeing planned in collaborationwith the Section onSociology ofScience ofthe Soviet Sociologi-cal Association.

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Re 32: Women inSociety

New Board MembersChair: Linda ChristiansenRuffman (Dept Sociology,Saint Mary's University, Hali-fax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3,Canada)

Secreta ry /Trea sure r:Marcia Texler Segal (DeptSociology, Indiana UniversitySouth East, 4201 Grant LineRoad, NewAlbany, IN47150,USA)NewsleUer Editor: BethHess (Dept Sociology,County College of Morris,Randolph, NJ 07869,USA)

N MEMORIAM:PAOLO AMMASSARIby Margaret Archer, ISA President 1986-1990

Paolohasdied and onlythosewho worked closely with himwill know the real extent of thislose. I will leave others to writeabout his lasting achievementsin Sociology, for it was his per-sonal contribution - that rarecapacity to give oneself - whichwill be most missed in the ISA.During his first term on the Ex-ecutive Committee (1986-90),he brought so much quietstrength and calm sanity to allour meetings. It didn't matterthat its was 2 a.m., the Agendaunfinished, and most of uswomout: hewould still be alert, olear-thinking, considerate, neverraising his voice but alwaysmoving us forward, construc-tively and with unvarying cour-tesy.

There are so many goodmemories of being with him.

In 1986 he was overwhelmed,like the rest of us, to be oneof the 17 working in the Cha-teau Royal de Fontevraud,where once 5.000 monks hadlived. Then in Rome (1987),dur-ing the Spring meeting of theProgramme Committee, wediscovered the Roman Paolo,with keys to the hidden treas-ures of his city. From there to aCaritas Hotel in Nadarzyn (Po-land, 1988)and to the Bulgarianseaside (1989), it made no dif-ference. I wondered if anythingcould ruffle this deep serenity

and only once did Isee it - whenItaly failed to reach the 1990World Cup Final.

Our greatest sadness mustbe for the heavy burdens weimposed upon him during hislast year, but which ne contin-ued to accept during hissecondterm on the Executive Commit-tee.Thiswas the way hewantedit; to go on serving unselfishly tothe end. Thus he continued toteach, participated in the Euro-pean Amalfi Prize seminar inMay, and opened the 30th Con-gress of the International lnsti-tute of Sociology in Japan thisAugust. Ifwe feel we have lost atower of strength, how muchmore must we sympathize withhis wife, Elke and daughters,Adriana and Savine.

Au revoir Paolo and thankyou.

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~QISYECOND WORLDWIDECOMPETITION FOR-YOUNG SOCIOLOGISTS

1. The International Socio-logical Association (lSA) an-nounces the organization of thesecond worldwide competitionfor young scholars engaged insocial research.Thewinners willbe invited to participate in theXIII World Congress of Sociol-ogy which will take place inBielefeld, Germany, July 1994.The winners' papers will bepublished in English, subject toeditorial revision, in the ISA'sjournal/nternationa/ Soctotoqy.

2. By Young Scholars wemean people under 35 years ofage on May 1st, 1993. Incase ofjoint or multiple authorship, thisrule applies to all authors of thesubmitted paper. Participantsshould hold a Master's degree(or an equivalent graduate di-ploma) in sociology or in a re-lated discipline.

3. Candidates must send anoriginal paperthat has not beenpreviously published anywhere.It should be no more than 6,000words typewritten doublespaced on one side of the paperwith margins of 3 cm, and thepages numbered. Notesandthebibliography should appear attheend ofthetext. Paperswhichdo not conform to these rulesruntheriskofbeingturneddown.We prefer papers focusing on

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socially relevant issues. Thephenomena examined may besocial, economic, political, cul-tural or of any other kind, buttheir interpretation or analysismust show a sociological orien-tation (for instance, through theidentificationofsocial processesunderlying the phenomena un-der scrutiny, critique ofcommonsense interpretationsor of well established theories,etc.). Empirical research papersmust go beyond descriptive re-porting of results to broader,analytical interpretations. Pa-pers will be judged according toperceptiveness with which is-sues are treated, the quality ofempirical materials presented,the consistency with which ananalytic framework is used, theoriginality of ideas, and the clar-ity of style. Extensiveness ofreferencing or the use of ad-vanced statistical methods willbe considered of only second-ary importance, so asto provideparticipants throughout theworld with as equal an opportu-nity as possible. Weare particu-larly interested in receiving pa-persfromscholarsinThirdWorldcountries.

The five winners of the FirstCompetition (1990) are not al-lowed to compete.

4. Papers may be written inoneofthefollowing languages:English, French, Spanish aswell as Arabic, Chinese, Ger-man, Italian, Japanese, Portu-guese, and Russian. Ajury willbe set up for each of theselanguages. To give a fairchance for participants whosemother tongue is none of theabove, there will be other ju-ries established in English,French or Russian, respec-tively, for papers submitted byauthors who use any of theseas a foreign language. AII otherscholars may also make useof this option if they prefer.

5. Two copies of equal typo-graphical quality should be sentto the following address:

2nd ISAWorldwideCompeti-tion for Young SociologistsAttention Veronica Stolte-HeiskanenUniversity of TampereDepartment of Sociology andSocial PsychologyP.O.Box607,33101Tampere,FinlandTel. 358-31-156564Fax 358-31-156080, telex22263They should be postmarked

April 1st, 1993 at the latest orreach the Tampere Secretariatbefore May 1st, 1993.

Inorderto protect anonymityduring the selection process,authors should not put theirname on the paper itself butinclude a separate sheet of pa-per with their family name (capi-tal letters), first name, sex, dateofbirth, mothertongue, degrees,address where they can bereached and (optionally) theirpresent occupation. AII this in-formation should also be givenin one of the official languagesofthe ISA.

6. Initially, each jury will con-sider which papers reach a suf-

ficiently high standard to be is-sued with a letter of official com-mendation and be listed in theISA Bulletin.

Each jury will then preselect(by September 1993) a maxi-mum of three papers. Thesefinalists will receive Merit AwardCertificates, a four-year mem-bership inthe ISA,and an invita-tion to participate in the XIIIWorld Congress. The ISA,how-ever, cannot guarantee to covertheir travel costs. AII authorsthus preselected will also beinvited to participate in a one-

week seminar prior to the Con-gress.

Out of the preselected final-ists, aGrand Jury chaired bytheISAPresident T.K.Oommen willselectfivewinning papers. Theirauthors will be immediately in-vited, all expenses paid, to par-ticipate in the World Congress.In case of multiple authorship,the subvention will have to beshared.

Additional informationmaybeobtained from the CompetitionSecretariat inTampere (seead-dress above).

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RIZES, FELLOWSHIPS,JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Premio EuropeoAmalfi

The fourth European AmalfiPrize for Sociology and SocialSciences has been won byRainer M. Lepsius andWolfgang J. Mommsen forthevolumeMaxWeber, Briete 1906-1908, published by Mohr ofTübingen. Long-awaited, theletters of Max Weber are animportant witness not only forthe history of sociology but alsofor European culture in generalat the beginning of the century.The editors' dedication has pro-duced a work which is exem-plary both for its comprehen-sion of much of Weber's think-ing and for its interpretation ofGerman intellectual life in thatperiodo

The Scientific Committee forthe Prize has also given a spe-cial mention to the followingworks as being of scientific rel-evance for European sociology:La trasparence du mal by JeanBaudrillard (published byGalilée), L 'art de se persuaderby Raymond Boudon (pub-lished by Fayard), and Una tedesenza dogmi by FrancoFerrarotti (published byLaterza). In addition, it hasawarded the Bulzoni EditoreSpecial Prize for a work thatopens up new perspectives inthe field of the social sciences tothe book by Nicole Lapierre Lasilence de la mémoire (publishedby Plon).

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Stein RokkanPrizeinComparativeResearch

The International Social Sci-ence Council in conjunction withthe Conjunto UniversitarioCandido Mendes (Rio de Ja-neiro), announces that the nextISSC Prize in Comparative Re-search established in homageto the memory of its formerPresident, thelateStein Rokkan,will be awarded for the sixthtime in the autumn of 1992.

The prize is intended to re-ward a very substantial andoriginal contribution in com-parative social science researchby a scholar under 40 year ofage on 31 st December 1992. Itcan be either an unpublishedmanuscript of book length or aprinted book or collected workspublished after 31st December1989.

A formal letter of applicationshould be sent before 15thMarch 1992 to The SecretaryGeneral, International SocialScience Council, UNESCa, rueMiollis 1, 75015 Paris, France.

Dorothy MarchusSeneshFellowship

The International Peace Re-search Association Foundation

invites applications for theDorothy Marchus Senesh Fel-lowship in Peace and Develop-ment Studies for Third WorldWomen.

The Fellowship is available tothird world women who havecompleted a Bachelor's degree,who have been accepted into agraduate program and whosegraduate work is to be focusedon issues related to the focus ofthe International Peace Re-search Association (IPRA).

Applications are due by May1,1992, at: IPRA, Departmentof Sociology, Campus Box 327,University of Colorado, Boul-der, co 80309-0327, USA, tel:(303)492 2550, fax: (393) 4926388.

World SocietyFoundation

The Foundation for the Pro-motion of Social Science Re-search on World Society -WorldSociety Foundation - fundsselected proposals for researchon the structure of, and changesin the world society. The nextdeadlinefor applications is Feb-ruary 1, 1992.

Further details are containedin World Society Studies, a se-ries available together with ap-plication forms from WorldSociety Foundation, c/o Socio-logical Institute, University ofZurich, Hamistr, 69, CH-8001Zurich, Switzerland.

InternationalPeace ResearchInstitute

The International Peace Re-search Institute inOslo (PRIO)isto appoint a new Director as ofapproximately 1 January 1993,when the term of the currentDirector ends. PRIO is lookingfor a researcher with leadershipability, high academic compe-tence, and administrative expe-rience. Candidates are sought

from a broad rangeof academicbackgrounds.

Founded in 1959, PRIO is anindependent, international in-stitute with 14 researchers andan administrative editorial staffof 10, in addition to guest re-searchers, students, and re-search assistants. The grossbudget for 1991 is about USD1,9 milI.

Research projects at PRIOare currently organized withinthree broad programs: ConflictTheory and the Study of EthnicConflicts; Security and Disar-mament Studies; and Studies in

Environmental Security.PRIO publishes the quarter-

lies Journal of Peace Researchand Bulletin of Peace Proposa/sand a series of books, all fromSAGE Publications in London.The work of the Institute has aninternational orientation, withEnglishastheworking language.

Forinformationaboutthe lnsti-tute, the positionas Director,andtheapplication procedure,pleasecontact Grete Thingelstad, Ad-ministrative Director, PRIO,Fuglehauggata 11, 0260 Oslo,Norway, tel: 472-557150, fax:472-558422.

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ALL FOR PAPERS,ARTICLES

Marriage andFamily Review

Marriage and Family Review.Special issue of the Interna-tional Re vie w ofFamily Researchand Theory.

A special issue on the statusof family theory and research invarious societies around theworld is in progress. To dateapproximately 20 societies arerepresented. Contributing au-thors will summarize researchandtheory developments intheirsocieties over the last decade,provide historical sources ofthepast decade's emergent theoryand research, and indicate is-sues of the future which shouldbe researched with the appro-priate use of theory.

For more information aboutthis special issue, contactMarvinB.Sussman(Departmentof Individualand FamilyStudies,University of Delaware,Newark,DE 19716, USA, tel: 302-4518511,fax:302-7379654)orRoma S. Hanks (Department ofSociology and Anthropology,University of South Alabama,Mobile,AL36688, USA,tel: 205-4606347, fax: 205-4607925).

Social Problems:GlobalPerspectives onSocial Problems

A special collection of paperswill be published on socialproblems viewed from per-spectives that challenge a nar-row focus on just the U.S. Ex-amination of the interdepend-ence of states as well as situa-tions unique to areas outside of

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the U.S. are encouraged. Com-parative work, alternative theo-retical developments, work fo-cused outside the U.S., andglobal interdependence in theetiology and response to socialproblems isof interest. Also, weencourage papers that considerclass, ethnicity, gender, nation-ality, and race as they are rel-evant to the understanding ofsocial problems definition, dis-tribution, causation and to thereaction to social problems. Pa-pers should provide a contri bu-tion to theory, such as theoreti-cal reformulation, testing, orexaminationofthe linksbetweenpolicy and theory. A wide rangeof substantive areaswill becon-sidered, including health, raceand ethnic group relations, im-migration, deviance, poverty,social inequality, the environ-ment, and technology.

Papers should be submittedto Merry Moash, Editor, Schoolof Criminal Justice, Baker Hall,Michigan State University, E.Lansing, MI. 48824, USA

Knowledge andPolicy

Recent decades have wit-nessed avirtual explosion inthestock of policy-relevant knowl-edgedrawingontheseandothernew research approaches. Atthe same time, efforts to shareand apply this knowledge havebeen underway in a variety ofnational arenas and researchcontexts, ranging from planningand policy analysis to manage-ment information systems. De-spite this activity, progress hasbeen limited.

Understandably,literatureonthe transfer and use of policy-

relevant knowledge has beenwidely scattered across a widerange of disciplines. As a result,effective application ofwhat hasbeen learned has been ham-pered.

Knowledge an Policy. TheInternational Journal of Knowl-edge Transfer and Utilizationtakes a bold step toward rem-edying that deficit. It brings to-gether keythinkers addressingreal-life problems confrontedin policy, planning, manage-ment, and academia. It linksinsights and findings from tra-ditional disciplines withemerging specialties in thecognitive, information andpolicy sciences. It focuses onthe impact of knowledge onpolicy and management of re-search itself. And it outlines,critiques and tests new ap-proaches, new methods andnew models and strategies.

Knowledge and Policy seeksto internationalize participationin policy-relevant theory andresearch. Contributors will out-line, critique and test new ap-proaches,methods, modelsandstrategies.

AIImanuscripts must be sub-mitted in the English language.Pleasesubmittwocopiesofeachmanuscript and a large self-ad-dressed, stamped return enve-lope. A copy of the KAP stylesheet and subscription informa-tion can be obtained from eitherof the following editorial offices.

W.N. Dunn, GraduateSchoolof Public and International Af-fairs, University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA, tel:412-6487661

E.K.Hicks, FacultyofOrgani-zation and Management, Uni-versity of Groningen, P.O. Box800, 9700 AV Groningen, TheNetherlands, tel: 50-63373

UBLICATIONS OFFERS

Albert Cherns·Off-Prints

Below listed off-prints ofAlbert Cherns publications canbe ordered from Mrs BarbaraCherns, Old Poor House,Rodmell, EastSussex BN73HF,United Kingdom:

Journal of Occupational Be-haviour, 1980, voI.1.pp.69-81:"Structure and Process. TheSuccession of InterventionistGoals"

Theories of Alienation. Eds.F.Geyer, D.Schweitzer: "Workof Life"

International Journal of Psy-cho/ogy, 1984, voI.19.pp.97-111: "Contribution of SocialPsychology and the Nature &Function of Work and its Rel-evance to Societies of the ThirdWorld"

Working Life. Eds. B. Gardell& G.Jonansson: "Chairman'sNote of Introduction"

International Social ScienceJournal, 1970, vo1.22, no.2:"Relations between ResearchInstitutions and Users of Re-search"

Social Psycho/ogy and De-ve/oping Countries. Ed. F.

Blacker, Wiley 1983: "SocialPsychology and Develop-ment"

Revue Economique, 1975,vo1.26.no.6: "Crise de L'Econo-mie et des Sciences Sociales"

Changes in WorkingLife. Eds.K.o. Duncan, M.M Gruneberg,Wiley 1980: "Work and WorkOrganizations in the Age of theMicroprocessor"

Occupational Psycho/ogy,1968, vo1.42,pp.239-254: "TheDonovan Report and Associ-ated Research Papers"

Human Relations, 1987, vol.40, no. 3: "Principies of Socio-technical Design Revisited"

Accounting Organisationsand Society, vol. 3, no. 2,Pergamon Press 1978: "Aliena-tion and Accountancy"

Social Science and Gov-ernment. Policy and Prob-lems. Eds. Cherns, Sinclair,Jenkins. Tavistock Publica-tions

E.G.O.S. 1980: "Organiza-tions and Instruments of SocialChange in Post Industrial Soci-eties"

Human Relations, vol. 29,no.10, 1976: "Behavioural Sci-ence Engagements. Taxonomyand Dynamics"

CreativeMarginalityed. Mattei Doganand Robert Pahre

Westview Press Announces20% discount for ISAmembers($28 instead of $35)for CreativeMarginality. Innovation at the In-tersections of Social Sciences,eds. Mattei Dogan and RobertPahre.

Tracing the nine formal socialscience disciplines - politicalscience, sociology, economics,history, anthropology, philoso-phy, geography, psychology,and linguistics - through theircycles of growth, specialization,fragmentation, and hybridiza-tion, Dogan and Pahre rejectthe notion of catch-all "interdis-ciplinary" research. They dem-onstrate that inmoving from thecenter to the periphery of a dis-cipline, crossing its borders andpenetrating the field of another,a scholar has a better chace toinnovate.

Send orders indicating yourISA membership to WestviewPress, 5500 Central Avenue,Boulder, CO 80301, USA

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ALENDAR OF FUTUREEVENTS

March 5-7, 1992

International Conference onScience and the Human-Animal RelationshipPlace:

Amsterdam, TheNetherlandsOrganizer:

Institute for the Study of theHuman-Animal Relationshipand Netherlands Universities'Institute for the Coordinationof Research in the Social Sci-ences (SISWO)

Main themes:influence of natural scienceon the human-animal rela-tionship; human-animal rela-tionship asanobject of socialresearch;animalsandthecult(culture) of natural science;animal care (ethical)commit-tees between the scientificcommunity and government

Information:Dr. E.K. Hicks, SISWO,P.O.Box 190791000 GB Amsterdam, TheNetherlandstel: (31-20)5270600, fax: (31-20)6229430

March 12-15,1992

Comparative and Interna-tional Education SocietyAnnual ConferencePlace:

Annapolis, Maryland, USATheme:

Crisis inthe Quality of Educa-tionTopics:

Organization, content, andprocesses of formal and non-formal education in the contextof cultural, economic, and po-litical dynamics at the local, na-tional and global levels

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Information:Stephen Heyneman, CIESConferenceThe Warld Bank, 1818 H St.N.W.Washington, OC20433, USA,fax: (202)4771996

March 16-18,1992

European Congress onYouth - Economy - PoliticsPlace:

Mannheim, GermanyTopics:

Changes in Europe ad youngpeople: living conditions in dif-ferent regions of Europe; edu-cational and vocational oppor-tunities; perception of marketeconomy and multicultural co-existence in Europe; what doesthe economy expect of youth.Information:

Oeutsches Jugensinstitut, OrKlaus WahlFreibadstrasse 30, 0-8000München 90Germany, fax: (89)62306162

April 6-9, 1992

British Sociological Associa-tion Annual ConferencePlace:

University of Kent, Canter-bury, UKTheme:

A New Europe?Panels:

Comparative research:theoryand practice; Eastern Europe:post-communism and emer-gent social structures; EC har-monization: employment andtraining; Globalization; Citizen-ship, political arder and socialcohesion; Race, ethnicity, andmigration; Youth and social

change;Newsocial movements.Information:

BSA 1992 Conference Com-mittee, Institute for SocialResearch, Eliot College, TheUniversityofCanterbury, KentCT2 lNS, UK

April 9-11, 1992

ISA Research Committee onHistory of SociologyPlace:

Budapest, HungaryThemes:

Global issues in the history ofsociology; Karl Mannheim andhis contemporaries; History ofstyles of research; History ofem pi rical research; TheMannheimian heritage in thesocial sciences; The relationbetween sociology and publicaudiences.Information:

Oirk Kasler, Institute of Soci-ology, UniversityofHamburg,Allende Platz 1, 2000 Ham-burg 13, Germany

April 13-15, 1992

ISA Research Committee onEconomy and Society,CLASCO and IUPERRJPlace:

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilTheme:

Oilemmas and Perspectivesof Oevelopment for LatinAmerica: Neo Liberal Experi-ments of RefoundationTopics:

Changes in the internationalcontext and structural reformsof national economies; Alterna-tive projects on developmentstrategies; Social actors in theprocess of modernization: en-trepreneurs, trade unions and

political elites vis-a-vis the LatinAmerican crisis; Equity andgrowth: strategies of develop-ment in the context of socialinequality in Latin America.Information:

Renato Boschi, IUPERJ,Ruada Matriz 82, Botafogo, Riode Janeiro 22260, Brazil

April 24-26, 1992

ISA Research Committee onUrban and Regional Devel-opmentPlace:

Los Angeles, California, USATheme:

A New Urban and RegionalHierarchy? Impacts of Mod-ernization, Restructuring, andthe End of BipolarityTopics:

Emerging world economic .geographies; regions within theworld economy; convergenceand divergence among regionalblocs; convergence and diver-gence among cities; impacts ofnew world political alignmentson cities and regions; the stateof urban and regional theory;the downturn in the worldeconomy - cyclical or struc-tural?, worldwide or regional?;restructuring in the service sec-tor compared with the manu-facturingsector; regionalismandthe decay of nation states - isthere a single world hierarchy ofcities?; the current status ofgrowth coalitions; race, gender,ethnicity, and migration in thecontemporary system of citiesand regions.Information:

Ward Thomas, GraduateSchool of Architecture andUrban Planning, UCLA, 1317Perloff Hall, Los Angeles, CA90024-1467, USA, fax:(213)2065566

April 27 - May 1,1992

Post-totalitarian transition:the case of PolandPlace:

University of Gdansk, PolandTopics:

Adaptive reactions of thepopulation; participation in

public affairs; forms of socialregulation; system of values.Information:

Brunon Synak, Departmentof Sociology, University ofGdansk, Wita Stwosza 55,80-952 Gdansk, PolandJacques Coenen-Huther,Department of Sociology,University of Geneva, 1211Geneva 4, Switzerland

May 13-16, 1992

ISA Research Committee onFamily ResearchPlace:

Carleton University, Ottawa,CanadaTheme:

XXVII CFR Seminar: Historyof MarriageTopics:

Marriage formation, stability,and dissolution; remarriage;celibacy and widowhood; lawand institutions; ideology;nuptiality; family economy;sexuality; martial relations.Information:

Roderick Phillips, CarletonUniversity, Ottawa, CanadaK1S 5B6, tel: (613)788.2824,fax: (613)788.2819

May/June 1992

ISA Research Committee onFamily ResearchPlace:

TaiwanTheme:

XXVIII CFR Seminar: FamilyFormation and Dissolution,Perspectives from East andWestInformation:

Chin-Chun Vi,The InstituteofThree Principies of the Peo-pie, Academia Sinica, Nan-king, Taipei, Taiwan, e-mail:TPCCYI@TWNAS886

June 1-4, 1992

ISA Research Committee onDeviance and Social ControlPlace:

Budapest, HungaryTheme:

Social Changes, Crime andPolice

Topics:The effects of social changes

on crime and criminal policy;the influences of changes insociety and in crime on thestructure and staff of the poiice;relationship between the poi iceand the population; the placeand role of the poi ice within thenew system of social institu-tions; the attitude of the poi iceto social changes and to profes-sional reliability; the poiice andthe victims of crime; the trainingof policemen; the mass media,the citizens and the poi ice;questions related to the organi-zation of the poiice.Information:

Jozsef Vigh, CriminologicalDepartment, Eotvos LórándUniversity, Egyetem tér 1-3,1364 Budapest, Hungary,fax:117-4091

June 12-14, 1992

ISA Research Committee onSociological TheoryPlace:

Uppsala, SwedenTheme:

Theoretical Lessons of theTransition from Communism:Convergence Theory RevisitedInformation:

Jeffrey Alexander, Dept So-ciology, 405 HilgardAve., LosAngeles, CA 90024-1551,USA, fax: (1-213)2069838

June 17-19, 1992

ISA Research Committee onSociology of AgingPlace:

Gerontology ResearchCenter, Stockholm, SwedenTheme:

Cross-National Research inGerontologyTopics:

Community care systems;Demography; Ethical issues;Health behavior; Informal sup-port systems; Loneliness, so-cial support and well-being.Information:

Lars Anderson, StockholmGerontology ResearchCenter, Dalagatan 9-11, S-11382 Stockholm, Sweden,fax: (46-8)335275

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June 17-21, 1992

ISA Thematic Group onEnvironment and SocietyPlace:

Woudschoten (Utrecht), TheNetherlandsTheme:

Current Developments in En-vironmental SociologyTopics:

Social dynamics of materialand immaterial cultural devel-opments; social dynamics oftechnology developments andtransfers; international com-parative and transnational as-pects of prevention of pollution;democracy and civil participa-tion as a precondition of envi-ronmental policy; ecologicalsocial movements and publicopinion; human impacts andpolicy dimensions of global en-vironmental change; disposingof hazardous wastes - interna-tional equity issues; environ-mental teaching and research.Information:

August Gijswijt, SISWO,P.O.Box 19079, 1000 GBAmsterdam, The Nether-lands, fax: (31-20)6229430

June 25-27, 1992

ISA Research Committee onSociotechnics - SociologicalPractice and Working Groupon Social IndicatorsPlace:

Erasmus University of Rot-terdam, The NetherlandsTheme:

The Good Society: Applica-tions of the Social SciencesCall for papers on: Problems,

theory and methods of diag-nosing policy problems, ofevaluation, of policy interven-tion (including research utiliza-tion and interesting cases).Information:

Bernadette Wolters, RCYW,Leiden University, POB9555,2300 RB Leiden, The Nether-lands, fax:(31-71)273619

June 29 - July 3,1992

ISA Research Committee on

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Sociology of Law AnnualConferencePlace:

Mexico City, MexicoTheme:

Lawand Internationallntegra-tion in Contemporary SocietyTopics:

Legal profession; Law andsocial systems; Litigation; Lawand communication. Legalsemiotics; Thesaurus of sociol-ogy of lawInformation:

Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo,Apartado 47849Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela

July 3-4, 1992

Annual Meeting of the ISAWorking Group on ClinicalSociologyPlace:

Paris, FranceInformation:

Vincent de Gualejac,Université ParisVII, Change-ment Social, 2 place Jussiue,75251ParisCedex05, France

July 7-10, 1992

ISA Research Committee onHousing and the BuiltEnvironmentPlace:

Montreal, CanadaTheme:

V International ResearchConference on Housing: At theCrossroadsTopics:

Housing and changing soci-eties; Affordability and housingneed; Control over housing;Housing communities; Politicsof housing; Quality of life andhousing; Supply of housing.Information:

CIRH 92, INRS-Urbanisations, 3465 rueDurocher, Montreal, CanadaH2X 2C6, fax: (514)4994056

July 13-17, 1992

11World Congress onViolence and Human Coex-istencePlace:

Montreal, Canada

Organizer:International Association for

Scientific ExchangeonViolenceand Human CoexistenceTopics:

The nature and forms of vio-lence; Social violence: discrimi-nation, racism, war, genocide,economic disparities; Violencetowards persons; Violenceagainst the human milieu: eco-logical deteriorations, technicalrisks, industrial, economic andtechnological expansion on aworld scale;Solutions andcuresforviolence: education, law, ad-dressing injustices and dispari-ties, heightening of awarenessInformation:

World Congress ASEVICO,Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, Succ. A, Montréal,Canada H3C 3J7, fax:(514)3432252

July 13-17, 1992

XXII International Congressof Administrative SciencesPlace:

Vienna, AustriaTheme:

Public Administration in theNineties:Trendsand InnovationsTopics:

Protecting the environment:administrative implications andinternational cooperation; Lawand science of public adminis-tration; Administrative structureand management; Personneladministration; Planning andforecasting; Public enterprises;Public finances and financialadministration; Economicchange and administrative in-novation.Information:

International Institute of Ad-ministrative Sciences, rueDefacqz 1, Bte 11, 1050Bruxelles, Belgium, fax:(2)5379702

July 21-23, 1992

ISA Research Committee onSociology of EducationPlace:

Amsterdam, TheNetherlandsTheme:

Sociological Research andEducational Policy

Topies:How successful are sociolo-

gists of education in influencingeducational policies? The rela-tions of sociological research toeducational policy in specificsubstantive areas, such as poli-cies aimed at particular popu-lations or school sectors; Therelationsofsociological researchto educational policies inspecificparts of the world - such asEastern and Western Europe orthe Third World; The relations ofsociological researchto policiesaimed at educational change,such as school reforms.Abstraets:

Should be sent until April 1,1992 to Jaap Dronkers (Centerof Educational Research, UnivAmsterdam, Grote Bickersstr72, 1013 KS Amsterdam, TheNetherlands) and AbrahamYogev(School ofEducation, TelAvivUniv, 69978Te1Aviv, Israel)

August 24-28,1992

X World Congress of theInternational EeonomieAssociationPlace:

Moscow, USSRInformation:

Jacky Jennings, STICERD -LSE, Houghton Street, Lon-don WC2A 2AE, UK, fax:(71)2422357

August 26-29,1992

First European Confereneeof SoeiologyPlace:

Vienna, Austria

Theme:Sociological Perspectives on

a Changing Europe. Paradoxesof Socioeconomic, Political andCultural Transformation.Topies:

Economic integration andcultural identity of Europe; AEuropean society in the rnak-ing;The political transformationof Europe; Trends in the devel-opment of sociology in Europeand in the individual countries.Information:

Inst Sociology, Univ Vienna,Neutorgasse 12/19, Postfach137,1013Vienna,Austria,fax:5336592

September 7-11,1992

17 World Congress ofRehabilitation InternationalPlace:

Nairobi, KenyaTheme:

Third World Priorities for1990'sTopies:

Children at risk; equalizationof opportunities within thenorth-south context; self-reli-ance and inter-dependence inthe disability community; thechallenges of modern tech-nologies.Information:

Rehabilitation International,25 East21stStreet, NewYork10010, USA, fax:(212)5050871

October 14-17,1992

IIllnternational Confereneeof the International Assoeia-

tion for the Study of Tradi-tional EnvironmentPlace:

Paris, FranceTheme:

Developmentvs Tradition: theCultural Ecology of Dwellingsand SettlementsTopies:

Dialectic tension and poten-tial balance between develop-ment and tradition in the builtenvironment; the impact ofglobalization, tourism; thecommodification of culture; re-gionalism.Abstraets:

500 word abstracts specify-ing topic and a C.v. are dueFebruary 15, 1992 .Information:

IASTE'92Conference,Centerfor Environmental DesignResearch, University of Cali-fornia, 390 Wurster Hall,Berkeley,CA94720, USA,fax:(510)6435571

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October, 1992

ISA Researeh Committee onEeonomy and SoeietyPlace:

Montreal, CanadaTheme:

Technological Changes andTheir ImpactTopies:

Technology policy in the1990's; Technological innova-tions and labour; Social innova-tions within the enterprise;Information:

Jorge Niosi,Dept.Sociologie,UOAM, C.P. 8888 Succ. A,Montréal, Ouébec H3C 3P8,Canada

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