(Fwd) 4th European Sociological Conference - Full announcement

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4th EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
‘WILL EUROPE WORK?’
18th - 21st August 1999, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


The 4th European Sociological Conference, ‘Will Europe Work?’,
takes place 18th to 21st August 1999 at the Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam.  The following is the full announcement of the
Conference, including a preliminary programme with the names of
Plenary and semi-Plenary speakers.  The names and addresses of the
Convenors of the Conference paper sessions and the special
sessions being put on by ESA Research Networks are given below,
along with information about the submission of paper Abstracts.

THIS IS A LONG DOCUMENT

KEY NOTE SPEAKERS
There will be three Plenary sessions.  The speakers at these
Plenaries will address topics that will be major themes of the
Conference.

Opening Plenary,          ‘East/West’
Abram de Swaan, The Netherlands
Tatiana Zaslavskaya, Russia

Middle Plenary, ‘The European Perspective’
Wolfgang Streeck, Germany
Gosta Esping Andersen, Sweden/Italy

Closing Plenary
Dominique Schnapper, France
Chiara Saraceno, Italy

There will also be a session devoted to four semi-Plenaries.  Each
of these four semi-Plenaries will address one of the four
Symposia, broad topic headings for the Conference paper sessions.

Symposium I, ‘Working in Europe’
Maria Petmesidou, Greece
Joakim Palme, Sweden

Symposium II, ‘Working on Europe, Constructing Identities’
Liam O’Dowd, Northern Ireland
Marco Martiniello, Belgium

Symposium III, ‘Working on Europe, Constructing Institutions’
Franz Traxler, Austria
Marc Abeles, France

Symposium IV, ‘Europe’s Working in the World’
Anne Haila, Finland


OUTLINE OF PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Tuesday 17 August 1999
Registration
Business meetings

Wednesday 18 August 1999
Registration
Opening Plenary, ‘East/West’
Semi-plenary sessions
Paper Sessions, part 1
‘Disputatio’ & Dinner

Thursday 19 August
‘Meet The Authors I’
Paper sessions, part 2
Middle Plenary, ‘The European Perspective’
Paper sessions, part 3
General Assembly of the European Sociological Association

Friday 20 August
‘Meet The Authors II’
Paper sessions, part 4
`Dutch Society': a presentation
Paper sessions, part 5
Presidential Address
Publisher's Reception

Saturday 21 August
Paper sessions, part 6
Closing Plenary

The Paper Sessions
There will be six separate sessions timetabled during the
Conference which will be devoted to the presentation of papers.
Papers can be submitted either to one of the twenty-two special
topic streams or to the ESA Research Networks.  If you wish to
present a paper at the Conference, an Abstract should be sent by 1
February 1999 to all convenors of your intended stream/Research
Network and to the ESA Secretariat.  Abstracts should not exceed
250 words and should be in good English.  Your Abstract must have
your name and full address (preferably with Fax & e-mail) and the
name of your intended topic stream/Research Network should be
indicated clearly.   For the reasons of further editing, an
electronic version of your Abstract (e-mail attachment or a
diskette) is preferred (sorry, no Apple or Macintosh please).
This should be sent to the ESA Secretariat.

Notification of acceptance will be before 1 April 1999.  If your
Abstract is not accepted by your intended stream, the Convenors or
the ESA Secretariat may forward it to another stream if its topic
is suitable.  Please do not submit the same Abstract to more than
one stream.

ESA Conference Secretariat
SISWO
Plantage Muidergracht 4
1018 TV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 20 527-0600
Fax: +31 20 622-9430
e-mail: esa at siswo.uva.nl

TOPIC STREAMS
Each of the twenty-two topics streams, organized into five
Symposia, are given below with the names and contact addresses of
the Convenors for each stream.

SYMPOSIUM I ‘WORKING IN EUROPE’:
Stream I.1: ‘Changing Work in Europe: New Technologies, New
Organisations’
Sabine Erbes-Seguin
IRESCO
59-61 Rue Pouchet
F – 75849 Paris Cedex 7, France
Tel: +33 1 40 251 216
Fax: +33 1 40 251 212
e-mail: erbes.se at iresco.fr

Jacques Vilrokx
Department of Sociology
VRIJE Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
B – 1050 Brussels
Tel.: +32 2 629 2044
e- mail: Jacques.Vilrokx at vub.ac.be

Richard Hyman
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Tel.:+44 1203 523 840
Fax:            +44 1203 524 656
e-mail: irobrh at razor.wbs.warwick.ac.uk


Stream I.2: ‘Inequalities: Changing Patterns of Stratification’
Paul de Graaf
Nijmegen University
Department of Sociology
P.O.Box 9104
NL-6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 24 3611717
Fax: +31 76 5147521
e-mail: pdegraaf at mailbox.kun.nl

Peter Robert
TARKI - Social Research Centre
Victor Hugo u. 18-22
H–1132 Budapest, Hungary
Tel.: +36 1 349 7531
Fax: +36 1 329 0470
e-mail: robert at tarki.hu

Stream I.3: ‘Without Work in Europe: Unemployment, Poverty and
Social Exclusion’
Wim van Oorschot
Department of Social Security Studies
Tilburg University
P.O.Box 90153
NL–5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 13 466 794
Fax: +31 13 466 2370
e-mail: W.J.H.vOorschot at kub.nl

Duncan Gallie
Nuffield College
Oxford, OX1 1NF, U.K.
Tel.: +44 1865 278 586
Fax: +44 1865 278 557
e-mail: duncan.gallie at nuf.ox.ac.uk

Stream I.4: ‘Work and the Life Course: New Careers, New Patterns
of Work Time’
Haya Stier
Department of Sociology
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv
IL–69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel.: +972 3 640 7275
Fax: +972 3 640 7300
e-mail: haya1 at spirit.tau.ac.il

Julia Evetts
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Nottingham
University Park
GB – Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
Tel.: +44 115 951 5396
Fax: +44 115 951 5232
e-mail: Julia.Evetts at nottingham.ac.uk

Stream I.5: ‘Health, Working Conditions and Well-being’
Sam Porter
Department of Sociology
The Queen’s University of Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland
U.K.
Tel.: +44 1232 335 980
Fax: +44 1232 320 668
e-mail: S.Porter at qub.ac.uk

SYMPOSIUM II ‘WORKING ON EUROPE - CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES’
Stream II.1: ‘Collective Identities: Local, Regional, National,
European
Jacques Billiet
Department of Sociology
E.Van Evenstraat 2B
B–3000 Leuven, Belgium
Tel.: +32 16 323 157
Fax: +32 16 323 365
e-mail: jaak.billiet at soc.kuleuven.ac.be

Max Haller
Institut für Soziologie
Karl Franzens-Universität Graz
Universitätsstr. 15/G4
A–8010 Austria
Tel.: +43 316 380 3541
Fax: +43 316 380 9515
e-mail: max.haller at kfunigraz.ac.at

Stream II.2: ‘Migration: Integration or Segmentation?
Rainer Münz
LS Bevölkerungswissenschaft
Humboldt Universität
Unter den Linden 6
D–10099 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 209 31918
Fax: +49 30 209 31432
e-mail: rainer.muenz at sowi.hu-berlin.de

Stream II.3: ‘Culture Encounters and Multiculturalism: Borders and
Boundaries’
Janusz Mucha
Instytut Socjologii
Uniwersytetu Mikolaya
Ul. Mickiewicza 121
PL–87-100 Torun, Polska
Tel.: +48 56 276 40
Fax: +48 56 247 65
e-mail: jmucha at cc.uni.torun.pl

Peter Ratcliffe
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Tel. : +44 1203 523 840
Fax: +44 1203 524 656
e-mail: syraa at ice.csv.warwick.ac.uk

Mhammed Sabour
University of Joensuu
Department of Sociology
P.O.Box 111
FI–80101 Joensuu, Finland
Tel.: +358 13 251 2332
Fax: +358 13 251 2714
e-mail: mhammed.sabour at joensuu.fi

Stream II.4: ‘Religions in Conflict’
Monika Wohlrab Sahr
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Soziologie
Babelsbergerstr. 14-16
D – 10715 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 85 00 2222
Fax: +49 30 85 00 2205
e-mail: wohlrabm at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de

Karel Dobbelaere
Rue Docteur Olyff 9 – 10
B–4570 Marchin, Belgium
Tel./ Fax: +32 88 23 51 29
e-mail: Karel.dobbelaere at soc.kuleuven.ac.be

Stream II.5: ‘Constructing Differences: Body and Sexuality’
Elina Haavio Mannila
Department of Sociology
University of Helsinki
P.O.Box 18 (Unioninkatu 35)
FIN–00014 Helsinki, Finland
Tel.: +358 9 191 23960
Fax: +358 9 191 23967
e-mail: haavioma at valt.helsinki.fi

Kathy Davis
Department of Sociology
Columbia University
413 Fayerweather Hall
1180 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Fax: +1 212 854-2963
e-mail: kd169 at columbia.edu

Aleksander Stulhofer
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Philosophy
I.Lucica 3
HR–10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Fax: +385 1 615 6879
e-mail: astulhof at ffzg.hr

SYMPOSIUM III ‘WORKING ON EUROPE - CONSTRUCTING INSTITUTIONS’
Stream III.1: ‘Thinking Europe: Social Theory’
Hans Joas
Freie Universität Berlin
John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien
Lansstr. 5-9
D–14195 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 838 2702
Fax: +49 30 838 2702
e-mail: hjoas at zedat.fu-berlin.de

Risto Heiskala
Department of Sociology
University of Helsinki
P.O.Box 18 (Unioninkatu 35)
FIN–00014 Helsinki, Finland
Tel.: +358 9 191 23912
Fax: +358 9 191 23967
e-mail: risto.heiskala at valt.helsinki.fi

Grazyna Skapska
Jagiellonian University
Institute of Sociology
Grodzka 52
PL–31 044 Krakow, Polska
Tel.: +48 12 422 2129
Fax: +48 12 422 2129
e-mail: Skapska at jetta.if.uj.edu.pl

Stream III.2: ‘Constructing European Institutions’
Marina Nuciari
Department of Social Sciences
University of Torino
Unione Sovietica 218 bis
I–10134 Torino, Italy
Tel.: +39 11 6706091
Fax: +39 11 6706097
e-mail: nuciari at econ.unito.it

Maurizio Bach
Universität Heildelberg
Institut für Soziologie
Sandgasse 9
D – 69 117 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel.: +49 6221 542 973
Fax: 49 6221 542 996
e-mail: maurizio.bach at urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Stream III.3: ‘New Social Europe: Harmonisation and Polarisation’
Ilona Ostner
Institut für Sozialpolitik
Georg-August-Universität
Platz der Goettinger Sieben 3
D – 37073 Goettingen; Germany
Tel.:+49 551 397 243
Fax: +49 551 397 834
e-mail: iostner at gwdg.de

Jane Lewis
Unit History Medicine
University of Oxford
45-47 Banbury Road
Oxford, OX2 6PE, UK
Tel.: +44 1865 274 600
Fax: +44 1865 274 605
e-mail: jane.lewis at history-of-medicine.oxford.ac.uk

Stream III.4: ‘Post Socialist Institutions’
Claire Wallace
Department of Sociology
Institute for Advanced Studies
Stumpergasse 56
A–1060 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43 1 599 911213
Fax: +43 1 599 91191
e-mail: wallace at ihs.ac.at

Jiri Musil
Central European University
Prokopova 9
CZ–130 00 Prague 3, The Czech Republic
Tel.: +42 2 277 547
Fax: +42 2 275 273
e-mail: ceu.prague at ecn.cz

Stream III.5: ‘Beyond Legal Frameworks: Crime, Policing, Traffik’
Manuel Eisner
ETH-Zentrum / SEW E22
CH–8092, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 1 632 5559
Fax: +41 1 632 1054
e-mail: eisner at soz.huwi.ethz.ch

Juan Diez Nicolas
ASEP
Castellana 173 - 5 I
ES–28046 Madrid, Espana
Tel.: +34 91 5705 107
Fax: +34 91 5794 073
e-mail: 100613.2721 at compuserve.com

SYMPOSIUM IV ‘EUROPE’S WORKING IN THE WORLD’
Stream IV.1: ‘Europe in the World System’
Volker Bornschier
University of Zurich
Sociological Institute
Raemistrasse 69
CH–8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 1 634 2150
Fax: +41 1 634 4989
e-mail: vobo at soziologie.unizh.ch

Nikolai Genov
Institute of Sociology
Bulgarian Academy of Science
Moskovska 13A
BG–1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel.: +359 2 980 6132
Fax: +359 2 980 6132
e-mail: NBGEN.MOST.RISK at datacom.bg

Stream IV.2: ‘Globalisation of Work and Workers’
Convenor not yet finalized, send Abstracts to ESA Secretariat

Stream IV.3: ‘Citizenship – National, European, Global’
Yasemin Soysal
University of Essex
Department of Sociology
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, CO34 3SQ, UK
Tel.: +44 1206 873 572
Fax: +44 1206 873 410
e-mail: soysal at essex.ac.uk

Ruth Lister
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leicestershire, UK
Tel.: +44 1509 223 350
Fax: +44 1509 223 944
e-mail: M.R.Lister at lboro.ac.uk

SPECIAL STREAMS
Stream V.1: ‘Social Reporting on Europe’
Heinz-Herbert Noll
ZUMA
Postfach 122155
D–68072 Mannheim, Germany
Tel.: +49 621 1246 241
Fax: +49 621 1246 100
e-mail: noll at zuma-mannheim.de

Jonathan Gershuny
Institute of Social and Economic Research
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
Tel.: +44 1206 872 734
Fax: +44 1206 873 151
e-mail: gershuny at essex.ac.uk

Stream V.2: ‘Sociology of Childhood’
Leena Alanen
University of Jyvaskyla
Department of Education
P.O.Box 35
FIN–40 351 Jyvaskyla, Finland
Tel.: +358 14 601 681
Fax: +358 14 601 661
e-mail: lalanen at tukki.jyu.fi

Jo Moran-Ellis
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 5XH, UK
Tel.: +44 1483 300 800
Fax: +44 1483 259 551
e-mail: J.Moran-Ellis at soc.surrey.ac.uk

Stream V.3: ‘Gender and Power’
Mary Daly
Department of Sociology & Social Policy
The Queen’s University of Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland
Tel.: +44 1232 335985
Fax: +44 1232 320668
e-mail: m.daly at qub.ac.uk

Alison Woodward
Vesalius College
Vrije Universiteir Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussel
Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 629 2678/629 2821
Fax: +32 2 629 3637
e-mail: aewoodwa at vub.ac.be

Stream V.4: ‘Changing Conditions of Research and Development
Activities in Europe’
Marja Haeyrinen – Alestalo
University of Helsinki
Department of Sociology
P.O.Box 18 (Unioninkatu 35)
FI–00014 Helsinki, Finland
Tel.: +358 9 191 23964
Fax.: +358 9 191 23967
e-mail: marja.alestalo at helsinki.fi

Raymund Werle
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3
D–50676 Köln, Germany
Tel.: +49 221 276 7224
Fax.: +49 221 276 7555
e-mail: Werle at mpi-fg-koeln-mpg.de

Topic Stream Calls for Papers
Some topic streams have sent in a Call for Papers.  To help people
select the most appropriate stream for their paper, these are
reproduced here.

Stream 1.2: ‘Inequalities: Changing Patterns of Stratification’
The stream ‘Inequalities: Changing Patterns of Stratification’
will be able to host about 18 papers, in six sessions of 90
minutes.  Papers on a variety of themes within the field of social
stratification and social mobility are welcome during the
sessions, but we especially invite papers on the following topics:
  New forms of employment and inequality;
  Marriage, divorce and inequality;
  Migration and inequality;
  Consequences of social mobility;
  Comparing inequalities in old and new democracies;
  Subjective aspects of social inequality;
  Political processes and inequality.
In order to prepare lively sessions with referents, written papers
must be available on July 1st,1999.

Stream II.1: ‘Collective Identities: Local, Regional, National,
European’
Main question: Which processes lead to the fabrication of
multilevel identifications in European societies and which impacts
do they have to relations between groups and individuals?
Papers dealing with the following questions can be accepted in
this stream:
  The conceptualisation and measurement of multiple and multilevel
social identities (ethnic group, region, nation, Europe);
  Is ethnicity a primary essential, unchanging social identity or
is it situational, i.e. manipulative as circumstances demand and
allow?;
  Changes in ethnic or national identification over time linked to
contextual explanatory variables or to shifts in the macro-
sociological situation;
  The relationship between collective identities and
ethnocentrism: theoretical expectations and empirical (cross-
cultural) studies;
  Faces, causes and consequences of ethno-nationalism in Europe.
Theoretical and conceptual papers as well as empirical studies
about these issues are welcome.

Stream II.3: ‘Culture Encounters and Multiculturalism: Borders and
Boundaries’
The stream will explore the relationships between various groups
in contemporary Europe, groups normally characterised in terms of
cultural, ethnic and/or 'racial' background. European unification
and the migration of labour between the EU member states, the
immigration of workers, refugees and asylum seekers from outside
the EU, and the mobilisation of regional cultural/ethnic groups
have had important implications in terms of social change and
conflict.  Much of the latter has been conceptualised in terms of
a discourse of 'exclusion'.  There are, however, other key issues
to be addressed.  We have witnessed new forms of cultural/ethnic
domination and resistance to it.  At the same time, we have
witnessed processes of accommodation on the part of dominant
groups to the new cultural heterogeneity.

Stream II.4: ‘Religions in Conflict’
In European history as well as in its present the formulation of
collective identities has been closely connected with forms of
religious expression and symbolisation.  Already the very
construction of European nations has used religious images to
create national myths by distinguishing between ‘us’ and ‘them’.
Many of these national myths already included the opposition
between Christianity and Islam, which gained new vitality after
the breakdown of Communist regimes and through the growing (or
more suspiciously observed) presence of Muslims in European
countries.

But also more recent European history - e.g., in Eastern Germany
and Eastern Europe in the process of transformation, in the former
Yugoslavia, in Northern Ireland etc. - gives many examples of how
religion is made use of to formulate or create identities, of how
religion can enable the expression of politically suppressed
positions, and of how social conflicts are enacted as religious
conflicts and vice versa.

The stream focuses on the interrelationship between religions and
social conflict.  Papers should deal with empirical studies as
well as with theoretical analyses of how religions contribute to
the emergence, articulation, persistence or solution of social
conflicts.  Under which circumstances are conflicts expressed in a
religious way and which is the influence of this expression on the
whole process?  Is it that social conflicts are perceived in terms
of religion or are there fundamental differences between religions
themselves that contribute to the emergence of conflicts?

Stream II.5: ‘Constructing Differences: Body and Sexuality’
A variety of papers on body and sexuality are welcome:
1. Theoretical and empirical contributions which explore the ways
in which differences (gender, ethnicity/race, age able-bodiness)
are reflected in individual’s bodily experiences as well as in
social and cultural constructions of the body.
2. Contributions which explore ‘body culture’ in later modernity.
For example, sociological perspectives on practices like dieting,
body maintenance and alteration (fitness, cosmetic surgery, body-
building).
3. Papers with different approaches to sexuality - ranging from
social constructionist and other theoretical approaches to
concrete empirical studies on sexuality.
4. Cross-cultural comparisons.  For example, studies on sexual
scripts and lovemaps, sexual practices , attitudes and taboos in
different cultures.  We also encourage contributions on gender
equality and differences.
5. Different styles of love and sex, sexual identity and
orientation, sexual problems and diseases, prostitution., and
sexual violence.
6. Other possible topics are models of sexual risk-taking, effects
of the postcommunist retraditionalization of reproduction, the
politics of reproductive rights and choices, sexual rights and
freedom, and sex education.
7. Media analysts are invited to participate with new readings of
the sexual images and messages in mass media and arts at the end
of the century.

Stream III.4: ‘Post-socialist Institutions’
The session will invite speakers on the subject of assessing the
post-communist transformation process ten years after it began in
1989.  The ten year interval should provide an opportunity to
assess what has happened and to look forward to what will happen
in the Eastern half of Europe in the future.  The following themes
are identified:
1. Looking back over the transition period
 What were the original hopes and aspirations?  To what extent were
these fulfilled or changed?  What course did the transition take
in different contexts?  To what extent has the economic and social
gap between Eastern and Western part of Europe diminished in the
last ten years?  Can the gap be best ascribed to the
transformation strategies applied in individual countries, or to
the policies of the socialist era or to even more remote cultural
and socio-economic causes?
2. Inter- and Intra- national divisions
 During the intervening ten years, important differences have
emerged between countries.  In some countries things became
better, in some they got a lot worse.  The conference should
provide an opportunity to reflect about what caused the
differences in the transition process and their outcomes.  It is
also the case that whilst some countries are relatively well
documented, about other countries we know very little.  As well as
differences between countries, there are important differences
within countries.  What are the bases for the new inequalities?
Who has won, who has lost?
3. Looking forward to the next transitional period
What will the next ten years of transformation bring?  What ideal
image does each country hold of itself?  Does everyone now see
themselves as an European?  Are the inequalities between
countries, between regions and between population groups likely to
continue and to become entrenched or will they dissolve as
European societies follow the same path towards modernisation,
albeit at different speeds?

Stream III.5: ‘Beyond Legal Frameworks: Crime, Policing, Traffik’
Depending on the proposals, this stream will organize up to six
sessions.  Papers may be submitted on one of the following fields
of research:
1. Facilities and limitations to police and judicial cooperation
in the EU
The Amsterdam Treaty (1997) establishes the need to achieve a
greater social integration within the EU during the next five
years, and to that purpose it demands greater cooperation in
police and judicial actions.  Contributions to this session may
either analyse the resulting structural changes in policing and
judicial matters or discuss new challenges stemming from the
process of European unification.
2. Immigrant Minorities and Crime
According to official statistics immigrant minorities account for
a growing proportion of suspects, convicted persons, and the
prison population in many European Countries.  In this session we
welcome papers that analyze the relationship between the social
and economic situation of immigrants, patterns of social
integration, and crime problems among the respective groups.  We
are particularly interested in papers that focus on comparative
analyses between countries or different groups of immigrants.
3. Organized and White Collar Crime in Europe
Organized crime has become a highly controversial issue in Europe.
Its analysis poses particular problems as to empirical social
reasearch.  In this session we particularly welcome papers that
address methodological, empirical and theoretical advances in the
analysis of both organized crime and white collar crime.
4. Drug Policy in Europe: Convergence or Divergence?
The field of drug policy includes all levels of political action
from the local to the global. Europe is characterized by a
considerable variety of divergent policies at the local and
national level.  In this session we intend to have papers that
analyze national drug policies, identify differences between them
and investigate the determinants of drug policies in the European
context.
5. Crime in Eastern Europe
In many Eastern European Countries crime has increased
considerably over the past 10 years.  In this session we are
particularly interested in new research about the causes and
effects of this process.

Stream IV.1: ‘Europe in the World System’
While other streams at the conference focus on analyses of
processes, structures and institution ‘in’ Europe, the perspective
of ‘Europe in the World System’ places emphasis upon analyses ‘of’
Europe in a comparative as well as world perspective.

We invite abstracts of proposed papers that examine the diverse
phenomena implied by such a comparative and world perspective,
such as:
  European integration: A model for the world society?
  Europe in global politics;
  European institutions in comparative perspective (especially in
a triad – Western Europe, USA, Japan);
  Europe in the process of globalisation and its position in the
world economy (technological competition, work organisation,
migration, markets);
  Europe’s extending borders, Europe’s new boundaries
(enlargement, differentiation or fragmentation of the European
Union);
  European colonial heritage and development policies.

Stream V.1: ‘Social Reporting on Europe’
In recent years social reporting activities – efforts to monitor
and systematically describe and analyse the current state of and
changes in living conditions and the quality of life - have become
more and more popular and have been given new priority.  Obviously
the process of European integration has stimulated the development
of such monitoring and reporting activities not only at the
supranational, but also at national and sub-national levels.  The
Maastricht treaty, for example, includes the requirement to
establish regular European social reporting.  The availability of
appropriate knowledge and systematic information on social
conditions within and across European societies as provided by
social monitoring and reporting will be of crucial importance to
enhance European integration and cohesion and to create the
„Social Europe“ of the 21st century.  To meet these information
demands and to systematically improve the available information
base are challenges not only for statistical institutes but also
for academic empirical social research.  The open stream on
„Social Reporting in Europe“ will provide an opportunity to
present and discuss research activities and results related to
this topic and bring together scholars from different research
environments such as academic research institutes, statistical
offices or supranational organisations.  Among the subjects to be
covered, the following seem to be particularly interesting and
important:
  Ongoing social reporting activities at the supranational,
national or sub-national level - cross-national comparative
studies would be particularly appropriate;
  Comprehensive reports, domain reports, group reports;
  Comprehensive or domain specific social indicator systems;
  Conceptual frameworks for social reporting such as quality of
life, human development, sustainable development, social
exclusion or inclusion etc;
  Welfare measurement and quality of life research;
  Social reporting methodology;
  Use of quality of life surveys, time-diary, life history and
household panel data for systematic social reporting;
  Construction of quality of life indices;
  Monitoring of welfare state institutions;
  Role and use of social monitoring and reporting in politics.

Stream V.2: ‘Sociology of Childhood’
The general theme linking the two sessions is how everyday
childhoods are structured for and by children in the modern world.
The stream will address to two major themes:
1. Everyday childhoods and children's constructions of identities:
  Children's understandings of childhood and of themselves as a
social group;
  Children's negotiations of their relationships across the many
sites of their everyday lives, both institutional and non-
institutional;
  Intergenerational divisions of labour and children's
understandings and experiences of them.
2. Technologised childhoods? Children, technology and
transformation:
  Is childhood being transformed through new technologies?
  Children's encounters with new technologies: access, identities
and domains;
  'Technologies' or everyday artefacts in children's worlds?

Stream V.3: ‘Gender and Power’
As women gain access to the structures of power, our understanding
of the nature of power and its distribution becomes ever more
complex and broad.  Our ambition for the stream overall is to
problematise the relationship between gender and power-related
structures and processes in a comparative context.  We are
interested in exploring how women-specific and gender-related
analyses challenge existing conceptualisations and understandings.
In relation to power, we emphasise in particular issues of access,
participation and identity.  We therefore invite papers which
address one or more of these topics and can contribute to a
discussion which is oriented to theory and concepts as well as to
empirical issues.  A particular aspect of the stream which we wish
to emphasise is its comparative focus.  In this regard we welcome
both papers which are explicitly comparative, in that they are
based on analyses of different countries and/or time periods, and
those which can contribute to a discussion which has the
comparative dimension of gender and power in the foreground.

Stream V.4: 'Changing Conditions of Research and Development
Activities in Europe’
World wide, research and development (R&D) in universities, public
labs and in the private sectors is undergoing change.  New
descriptive concepts such as the ‘Mode 2 production of knowledge’,
the ‘Triple Helix of university-government-industry relations’ and
‘post-academic science’ have been introduced to illustrate the
institutional, organisational and procedural aspects of change.
These concepts emphasise the evolutionary and global character of
the transformation process.  However, as their theoretical value
and empirical evidence are limited, the respective analyses have
tended to underestimate or neglect agency and control on the one
hand and the role of national, regional and local factors of the
process on the other.  Both groups of factors have prevented R&D
from converging at a uniform pattern of doing research.  The ways
they have shaped R&D will be specified and traced in the proposed
string of sessions focusing exclusively on Europe.

The European knowledge industry provides a multifarious picture of
institutional and organisational forms of R&D.  They have
developed as a result of a coincidence and interaction of