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Spring/Summer 1991

CONTENTS Looking Ahead: 1991-1994 by T.K. Oommen, President An Appeal from the President Reports from the Research Committees Reports from the Working Groups Reports from the Thematic Groups Job Opportunities Calendar of Future Events

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Printed by Grálicas Aries, S.A., Madrid, Spain. Depósito legal: M.25817-1987 Manuel Castells Jürgen Hartmann, RC 34 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE University Autónoma Alberto Martinelli, RC 02 1991-1994 Madrid, Spain Karl. M. van Meter, RC 33 GyOrgy Széll, RC 10 President: Jürgen Hartmann Henry Teune, RC 24 T.K.Oommen University of Uppsala, Stella R. Quah, RC 15 School of Social Sciences Sweden Jawaharlal Nehru University Publications Committee 110067 New Delhi Ivan Kuvacic Chair: Martin Albrow, UK India University of Zagreb, EC representatives: Yugoslavia Rudolf Andorka, Hungary Vice-President, Research Maria Carrilho, Portugal Council: Alberto Martinelli Stella R. Quah, Singapore Daniel Bertaux University of Milan, Italy RCC representative: Centre d'Etude des Daniel Bertaux, France Mouvements Sociaux Karl M. van Meter «Current Soctotoqy»: 54, Bd. Raspail LlSH-CNRS, Paris William Outhwaite, Editor 75006 Paris France GyOrgy SZéll, Germany France Nikolai Genov, Bulgaria Stella R. Quah «/nternationa/ Sociotoqv»: Vice-President, Program University of Singapore Richard Grathoff, Editor Committee: Singapore Melvin Kohn, USA Neil Smelser Céline Saint-Pierre, France Department of Sociology Zene Tadesse, Senegal Veronica Stolte-Heiskanen 41O Barrows Hall «Sage Studies in /nternationa/ University of Tampere University of California Soctotoqy»: Finland Berkeley, California 94720 Robert J. Brym, Editor USA Y.B. Damle, India GyOrgy Széll Elizabeth Jelin, Argentina Vice-President, Membership University of Osnabrück «Sociotoqicel Abstrects»: & Finance: Germany Leo P. Chall, Editor Vladimir Yadov Observers: Institute of Sociology Henry Teune Stephen Barr, SAGE USSR Academy of Science University of Pennsylvania Publications Krzhizhanovskogo 24/35 b.5 USA Elizabeth King, IS Assistant 117259 Moscow Editor USSR Executive Secretary: Izabela Barlinska Representatives to Past President 1986-1990: ISSC-UNESCO Margaret Archer Delegates: Alberto Martinelli, University of Warwick Gyorgy Széll United Kingdom Alternates: Daniel Bertaux, SUB-COMMITTEES Karl van Meter

Membership Committee Representative to MEMBERS Chair: Vladimir Yadov, USSR UNESCO-ICSSD Veronica Stolte-Heiskanen, Richard Grathoff, Germany Neuma Aguiar Finland IUPERJ GyOrgy Széll, Germany Representatives to United Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nations Finance Committee Vienna: Paolo Ammassari Chair: Paolo Ammassari, Italy Jürgen Hartmann, Delegate University of Rome, Italy Karl M. van Meter, France Paolo Ammassari, Alternate Peter Q. Reinsch, The Geneva: Rudolf Andorka Netherlands Alberto Martinelli, Delegate University of Economic GyOrgy Széll, Germany Maria Carrilho, Alternate Sciences, New York: Budapest, Hungary Research Coordinating Henry Teune, Delegate Committee Neil Smelser, Alternate Maria Carrilho Chair: Daniel Bertaux ISCTE Neuma Aguiar, RC 32 Representative to WHO Lisbon, Portugal Rudolf Andorka, RC 28 Hans-Ulrich Deppe, Germany

2 OOKING AHEAD: 1991 - 1994 by T.K. Oommen, President

If one takes over a se- sentatives of all the RCs to the new Executive Committee cond-hand automobile from meet and interact. In addition which met in Madrid (Spain) somebody who has maintain- to this opportunity, RCs hold in July 1990, soon after its ed it well, it is both an asset one or more seminars or con- election, decided to recom- and a challenge. It is an asset ferences of their members mend to the ISA Council to because the vehicle has been between the World Congress- accept Spanish as one of the well kept, it is a challenge be- es. It is against this back- official languages of ISA cause one has to be con- ground that one has to view thereby endorsing the fre- stantly vigilant to keep-up the the near total absence of inte- quently articulated aspiration standard of maintenance. raction among the constitut- ofthe Spanish speaking com- This is true of organisations ing members of the ISACoun- munity of sociologists. too. The analogy applies aptly cil namely the Presidents of The ISA is in existence for to the International Sociologi- National Associations affiliat- over four decades. As in the cal Association (lSA) at pres- ed to ISA. case of all organisations, it ent. The present Executive According to the existing started with a legal framework Committee (1991-1994) is practice the ISA Council - statutes and bye-Iaws - be- charged with the challenge of meets only once in four years lieved to be conducive for its continuing not only the pro- and that too at the World Con- effective functioning in the grammes initiated by its dis- gress sites where the atten- light of the then existed con- tinguished predecessor but tion is diverted to many imme- ditions. Over the years not also to take new initiatives. diate and pressing problems. only did ISAgrow substantial- Of the new initiatives by the An important item on the Iy but it also diversified itself erstwhile Executive Commit- agenda of the new Executive both in terms of the back- tee, mention may be made of Committee therefore, is to ground and types of its mem- the Worldwide Competition create a healthy convention bership and activities. Under- for the Young Sociologists, In- of holding at least one interim standably, there is a lag bet- ternational Sociological Insti- meeting of the ISA Council. ween the «old rules» and the tute at Ljubljana (Yugoslavia) Steps are being taken to rea- «new reality». Further, the ac- and the International Institute lise this objective and we do cumulated experiences ofthe for the Sociology of Law in hope to hold the first-ever in- last four decades call for re- Oñati, Spain. The new Execu- terim conference of the ISA thinking of ISA's organisati- tive Committee is fully com- Council in 1992 which will onal framework. Keeping mitted to enthusiastically pur- provide an invaluable oppor- these considerations in mind sue the above projects. tunity for the representatives the new E.C. has appointed a The ISA Research Council of National Sociological As- sub-committee to review ISA was made more autonomous sociations to meet and ex- Statutes and Bye-Iaws (*). It is by providing for the direct change ideas. our fervent hope that this im- election of seven out of the The ingenuity of an organi- portant but difficult task will seventeen members of the sation depends on its ability be accomplished during the Executive Committee includ- to respond positively to the course of our termoThe most ing one Vice-President (Re- aspirations of its constitu- visible activity of ISA is World search Council). The consti- ency. At present, the official Congress of Sociology which tuency of the Research Coun- languages of ISA are English has two important aspects: its cil is comprised of the 45 Re- and French. Over the years physical management and search Committees (RCs). Spanish has become not only academic contents. While ISA The Research Council meets an international language but has institutionalised over the usually once during its tenure also the language of a whole years the practice of select- of four years which provides sub-continent, namely Latin ing the theme ofWorld Congr- the opportunity to the repre- America. The first meeting of ess, through the agency of the

3 Programme Committee, no 13th World Congress, we trepidation. Vet, I venture to definite procedure exists in have kept these considera- do it as I am convinced of the regard to the selection of tions in mind. In addition to cause. Congress sites. Keeping this this, a modest new initiative is The International Sociolo- in mind, the new E.C. has ap- being taken to stimulate re- gical Association (lSA) is pointed in its first meeting at search by sociologists of less beset with constant financial Madrid in July 1990 a Congr- developed countries on crises although it is one of the ess Site Selection Committee themes particularly relevant biggest professional associa- (CSSC) under the Chairman- for these regions. tions in the world. The unst- ship of Vice-President (Pro- Oiversified activities, orga- able financial situation mani- grammes). Responding to the nisational innovations, demo- fests in several contexts. It is circular of CSSC several Nati- cratic participation, enlarged useful to recall specific in- onal Associations submitted constituency etc., pre-sup- stances. proposals to hold the 13th pose at least a limited degree First, every four years the World Congress of Sociology of financial autonomy for the ISA has to seek new financial in 1994. Having carefully exa- organisation which strives to support and subsidy from one mined all the proposals, the achieve these goals. And, or another government which Committee has unanimously here lies ISA's Achilles' heel. is usually obtained after con- recommended to the E.C.the As a membership organisa- siderable difficulty. This ge- proposal of the German So- tion following the principie of nerates not only immense an- ciological Association to hold differentiated fee structure xiety but it also partly erodes the next World Congress at based on the paying capacity our professional autonomy. Bielefeld, Germany. The ISA of its members, ISAcannot be Second, as the World Congr- E.C.has accepted the recom- financially viable. To overco- ess of Sociology is the only mendation in principie. Steps me this bottleneck ISA ought income generating activity of are being taken to formulate a to constitute a Corpus Fund the ISA,the event has come to mutually agreeable contract. which could be invested on a be viewed as a financial ven- Of the three publication long term basis so as to ge- ture. Inturn this influences the ventures of ISA,two - Current nerate a steady income. I selection of the Congress Sociotoav and book series have addressed a communi- site. Third, the inadequate re- SAGE Studies in /nternationa/ cation to all the Presidents of presentation and/or partici- Socioloqv- are well establish- National Associations affiliat- pation by scholars from Third ed by now.The third, /nternati- ed to ISA as well as to Presi- World as well as from non- ona/ Sociotoqv. the youngest dents/Secretaries of Re- convertible currency countri- of the three, started in 1986, search Committees (see es in the deliberations of our which had already made its below). Executive Committee (E.C.). professional presence felt is I consider the effort to con- Iam sure that you will agree to be firmed up through ade- stitute a Corpus Fund an im- with me that this financial im- quate financial support. The portant initiative which should passe of ISA ought to be bro- required steps were initiated be relentlessly pursued by ken if we aspire to be an auto- by the outgoing E.C.and I am the world sociological com- nomous, professional and happy to report that the Jour- munity to make our Associa- authentic international asso- nal will be published from the tion more democratic, partici- ciation. I have a dream and Oocumentation, Publication patory and global. Let me permit me to share that with and Analysis Centre (OPA)of close this short communica- you. ISA located at Bielefeld from tion by soliciting the coopera- It is pertinent to recall here June 1991, onwards. tion of each one of you. that the 1986-90 E.C. of the Another important initiative ISAdid make an effort to raise taken by the out-going E.C. funds. It constituted a Sub- relates to instituting the ISA (*) Any suggestions to the Sub- Committee (of which I was Distinguished Lecture Series. Committee for revision of Statut- member) to mobilise funds. Steps are being taken to im- es and Bye-Iaws should be di- Similarly, some of the friends rected to its Chair, Professor of the ISA did make an effort plement the programme and Henry Teune at the Political Sci- we do hope this would soon ence Department, University of to raise funds by approaching become a highlight of the ISA Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA various Foundations. But un- activity. 19104-6215, USA. fortunately, none of these Answering a press inter- very sincere efforts yielded view soon after the election at any result. I am making the Madrid, regarding the prioriti- An appeal following suggestion in the es before the new Executive light of the experience of the Committee, I have said that no from the 1986-90 ISA E.C. effort would be spared to President Let me begin with a state- make ISA more representati- ment of faith. I believe that ve both in terms of gender and Oear Colleague, self-help is the best help and geography. In constituting the I am writing this letter with it is a feasible proposition. Programme Committee of the considerable reluctance, may The annual salary of even the

4 lowest paid sociologist from say US $ 1000 or more). First, the list available at the ISA Se- aftluent countries cannot be it would be impossible for the cretariat. Therefore, kindly less than US $ 20,000 per ISA Secretariat to handle the duplicate this letter and des- annum and one per cent of it is numerous cheques and patch it to all the relevant as- US$ 200. If all the sociologists drafts. Second, the banking sociations /institutions in make a contribution of one chargers being prohibitive, it your country; even in your per cent of his/her annual sal- will not be worthwhile to re- neighbouring countries. Se- ary it would help us to consti- ceive contributions of small cond, publish it prominently tute a Corpus Fund. Appropri- amounts. Therefore, may I in the ofticial publications of ate investment of the fund humbly request the national your associations and distri- would yield adequate interest associations to accept the bute it at the annual confe- to meet the essential financial responsibility of collecting rences. Third, please be kind needs of ISA. P/ease note that the contributions and send enough to translate it to the this is once-in-a-life-time the same to the ISA Secreta- relevant language through contribution for the cause of riat in Madrid as a consolidat- which you can reach the ma- /SA. ed amount. Kindly remember, ximum possible number of Perhaps three clarifications that this is a once-in-a-life- colleagues. And please make are in order here. First, the re- time act through which we are it c/ear that individua/ contri- quest is addressed to all so- trying to make the ISA a finan- butions shou/d not be sent to ciologists and not to those of cially viable and fully partici- the /SA but to the nationa/ as- specific countries and re- patory body. sociations. gions. Second, those who are Finally, a few words about I fervently hope and ear- willing and capable of contri- the mode of communicating nestly desire that by the end buting more than one per cent this message to the commun- of 1991 we will be in a position of his/her annual salary will ity of sociologists in your to constitute this fundo The not be disappointed; we shall countrv. I am constrained by ISA Secretariat will make ar- accept their contribution with rangements to start a separ- a big smile. Third, sociolo- ate account for this purpose. gists from developing and soft Whatever may be your res- currency countries have to ponse, please do not hesitate contribute in hard currency. to write to me. This communi- Now, I must turn to the cation comes to you with practical aspect. For two rea- every good wish for a creative sons it is not possib/e to ac- 1991. cept contribution from indivi- dua/s (unless it is substantial T.K. Oommen, President

5 EPORTS FROM THE RESEARCH COMMITTEES

• co • E~ Executive Committee: the XII World Congress of So- firs RC01: Armed Bernard Boene, France ciology; tries Giuseppe Caforio, Italy Forces and Publications • E~ Christopher Dandeker, UK RC01 have published six thir conflict resolution Olli Harinen, Finland volumes of research papers Doo-Seung Hong, Korea in the Forum International Se- Rafael Banon Martínez, • I Compiled from the RC01 ries (voI.5-1 O, 1987-1989). AII es: Spain Newsletter of September of the papers published are m 1990. Charles Moskos, USA original research contri bu- Ne I Proshanta Nandi, India tions, never published before. de Board members 1990-1994 Alexander Kokorin, USSR Research Committee Di- President: Meetings 1987-1990 rectory was produced in Bernhard Fleckenstein • October 1987, Chicago, 1989. It contains the updated (SOWI, Institut der Bundes- USA: Business Meeting at the history of RC01, the ISA Sta- wehr, Winzererstr 52, 8000 close of the IUS Conference; München 40, Germany) tutes, RC01 by-Iaws, a partial • July 1988, Munich, Germa- bibliography, and a list of RC ny: Interim Conference and Secretary: active members. Jürgen Kuhlmann (address Business Meeting; R as above) • October 1989, Baltimore, Membership Co USA: Business Meeting at the Total membership of the ge Vice-Presidents: close of the IUS Conference; RC01 is now 370; out of these • I Anton Bebler, Yugoslavia • July 1990, Madrid, Spain: 101 are members in good es: Nicholas Jans, Australia 150 scholars participated in standing, i.e. paying their De David Segal, USA the RC01 panels organized at dues. FR bo

co, I MEMBERSHIPSTRUCTUREJULy 1, 1990 USA TuSP: FRG Spain to USSR a~ Finland ei France UK Gir ltaly willl Argentina mea Austria Pos India Australia to - Israel Portugal an Chile Jürg Canada • F Switzerland Norway que Yugoslavia folo Belgium, GDR, Sweden, CSFR, I Netherlands, China Ir L- ~ ~ L- ~ ~ Re South Africa, Uruguay, Paraguay, O 10 20 30 40 50 man Hungaria, Bulgaria, HonKong, South Korea, • Gj Brazil, Turkey, Greece, Nigeria sh Po

6 The dues for a four year pe- 700 100 80, Konto Nr. 297 The third significant con- riod are at least 1O US $ and 800 809, RCOllISA: Armed clusion is that 12 years after at the most 50 US $. The Forces and Conflict Resolu- the official foundation of the amount is left to each collea- tion c/o Jürgen Kuhlmann; Research Committee, it is gue's own estimation. For possible to speak of an Eco- reasons of currency control nomy and Society network. or lack of finances, the dues RC02: Economy Over the course of the years, may be waived at the discre- and society the activities of the RC (world tion of the Executive Board. congresses, international As a guide, the following is Compiled from the RC02 conferences, newsletters, di- recommended: Newsletter of October 1990 rectory) have contributed to • Students of first and se- Board members 1990-1992 gradually building relation- cond world cou ntries, US $ 25 President: ships between researchers • Students of third world Arnaud Sales (Fac. Etudes from East and West Europe, countries, US $ 10 Supérieures, Université de Latin America, Canada, USA, • Established academics of Montréal, C.P. 6128, Asia, all of whom bring their first and second world coun- Succ. A, Montréal, Québec, perspective and original ex- tries, US $ 50 H3C 3J7, Canada) pertise to their field of study. • Established academics of Vice-President: third world countries, US $ 25 Renato Boschi (IUPERJ,Rio Future Conferences Methods of payment: de Janeiro, Brazil) A course-conference on «Econornlc Elites and Institu- • In case of following countri- Secretary: es: Austria, Canada, Den- Jorge Niosi (Department of tions in Comparative Pers- mark, Finland, FRG, Ireland, Sociology, UQAM, C.P. pectlve- to be held at the Netherlands, Norway, Swe- 8888, Succ. «A»,Montréal, Inter-University Center in Du- den, Switzerland, UK, USA: Québec, P.C.H3C 3P8, Ca- brovnik, Yugoslavia, 2-6 April - send order-cheque; nada) 1991. The organizers are currency and bank of the Board Members: Gyórgy Lengyel (Hungary), same country e.g.: US $ Kamini Adhikari, India Antoni Kaminski (Poland) and drawn on a US bank; Dutch Antonio Chiesi, Italy Jochen Tholen (Germany). guilders drawn on a Dutch Amitai Etzioni, USA The aim of the course, which bank; Gary Gereffi, USA is part of a wider programme - make cheque payable to Ludmilla Kakhulina, USSR on «Central and Eastern Eu- RC01/ISA: Armed Forces and Hagen Koo, USA rope in Transtorrnation», is to Conflict Resolution, c/o Jür- Gyórgy Lengyel, Hungary discuss the current issues of gen Kuhlmann; Jean-Michel Saussois, elite recruitment and instituti- onal changes in the Eastern • In case of following countri- France es: Austria, Algeria, Belgium, Ken'ichi Tominaga, Japan European economies. The course will be workshop-like Denmark, Finland, France, XII World Congress of FRG, Italy, Japan, Luxem- and the finding of empirical Sociology, July 1990 surveys and the likely results bourg, Madagascar, Moroc- In spite of the torrid heat in co, Netherlands, Norway, of comparative efforts will be Madrid, the Congress has discussed. Main topics are as Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, been a success for the RC02. Tunisia, UK: follows: circulation of eco- Three conclusions can be nomic elites and transforma- - Transfer money directly drawn: to Postal Giro Bank, Munich, tion of economic systems; The first is that the field of political programmes and account no. 297 800 809, economic sociology, in all its either via your own Postal economic elites; privatization diversity, encompasses a and different interests of the Giro account (this generally considerable number of re- will be free of charges), or by economic actors; crisis-per- searchers. The seven ses- ception and institutional envi- . means of an International sions conducted by RC02 in- Postal Money Order; ronment; entrepreneurship volved more than 100 papers and unemployment; recruit- - Make cheques payable presenters and coordinators. to RC01/ISA: Armed Forces ment of managers and entre- In addition, each session at- preneurs; career patterns of and Conflict Resolution c/o tracted on average an audi- Jürgen Kuhlmann; old and new economic lead- ence of some 50 people. If we ers; attitudes of economic • For all countries: add the other socio-econom- leaders concerning personal - Forward a traveller che- ic workshops ofthe Congress que endorsed in the back as and social perspectives, se- to the roster, the figures are lection of leaders and distri- follows: Payable to RC01/ISA even more impressive. butive justice; entrepreneu- Armed Forces and Conflict The second is that the pap- rial spirit and its social setting. Resolution, c/o Jürgen Kuhl- ers presented were generally mann; of very high quality. The only Membership dues • German members ofthe RC regret is that the time allotted Fees for the 1990-1994 pe- should directly pay in DM to for each presentation was too riod are set at $ 50 for indus- Postgiroamt München, BLZ brief. trialized countries, and at

7 $ 20 for LDC members, soft- Business Meeting of RC03 Membership currency countries and stu- held on July 11, 1990. Her- in order to become RC03 dents. man Turk reported on the de- member, please contact the Dues should be sent to: liberations of the ISA Re- President. Jorge Niosi (Department of search Council and indicated Sociology, UQAM, C.P. 8888, that the ISA has made a token Succ. "A», Montréal, Québec, increase in so far as Re- RC04: Sociology P.C. H3C 3P8, Canada) search Committee input into of education the ISA policy-program Com- mittee is concerned. A motion Compiled from the RC04 RC03: Community emphasizing the need for a Newsletter nr.15 of November Research major role to be played by Re- 1990 search Com mittees was Report submitted by Dan A. voted unanimously by all Board members 1990-1994 Chekki, Secretary members in attendance at the President: Board members 1990-1994 Business Meeting of RC03. Abraham Yogev (School of President: Terry Clark spoke at length Education, Department of Terry Nichols Clark (Uní- about the progress of "Fiscal Sociology, Tel Aviv Uni- versity of Chicago, 1126 E Austerity and Urban Innova- versity, Tel Aviv 09978, Is- 59th Street, Chicago, IL tlon» (FAUI) Project now un- rael) 60637, USA) derway in thirty five countries. Vice-Presidents: Vice-Presidents: He pointed out that two series Tamas Kozma, Hungary Jeanne Becquart-Le- of publications emanating Lawrence J. Saha, Austra- clercq, France from this project i.e. Research lia Peter Jambrek, Yugoslavia in Urban Policy (JAI Press) Secretary: Ari Ylonen, Finland and Urban Innovation (Sage) Jaap Dronkers (SCO, Uni- Secretary: are available for researchers versity of Amsterdam, Grote Dan Chekki (Department of and policy makers. The first Bickersstraat 72, 1013 KS Sociology, University of volume of a new series enti- Amsterdam, The Nether- Winnipeg, 515 Portage tled Research in Community lands) Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba Socio/ogy (JAI Press) includ- Board Members: R3B 2E9, Canada) es recent research on various Béatrice Appay, France Current Research Officer: dimensions of communities. Jeanne H. Ballantine, USA William J. Hanna, USA An international survey on Carlos Alberto Torres, USA Members of the Board: values (Henry Teune, IPSA) President-ex-officio: Lynn Appleton, USA was brought to the attention of Orlando Albornoz, Vene- Harald Baldersheim, Ger- RC03 members. Harold Bal- zuela many dersheim (Norway) present- Gerd-Michael Hellstern, ed an overview of an internati- Report on Activities Germany onal research project on citi- 1986-1990 Jean-Yves Nevers, France zen preferences re: urban The main activity of the Dele Olowu, Nigeria economic development, par- RC04 between two World Lynne Zucker, USA ticipatory democracy and Congresses was the midterm The ISA Research Commit- urban innovation. He spoke conference, which took place tee 03, Community Research, about development of various in Salamanca, Spain, August organized ten sessions at the networks of researchers 23-26, 1988. The topic was XIIWorld Congress of Sociolo- among Scandinavian, Russ- -Education and Development gy held in Madrid, Spain, July ian and East European coun- Revisited; a Sociological 9-13, 1990. More than ninety tries. Dele Olowu (Nigeria) Perspective». The hosts were papers from twenty six coun- stressed the need for East- Fundación Germán Sánchez tries were presented. The lar- West collaboration re: Fiscal Ruipérez and the Universidad gest number of participants Austerity and urban innova- Iberoamericana de Postgra- were from the United States tion project. Representatives do. The number of partici- and from several Spanish from the USSR, Finland, pants was 51. RC04 President speaking countries. For each Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Fr- Orlando Albornoz was res- session the number of partici- ance, Israel and Japan also ponsible for the organization pants varied from about fifty to expressed their views and and gave the presidential more than one hundred. One concerns with reference to address on the topic of the session was organized exclu- the FAUI project. conference. This presidential sively in Spanish which was at- Helmut Wollman (Germany) address has been published tended by an overwhelming presented a report on the rec- in the journal of the ISA Inter- majority of sociologists from ent and forthcoming ISA, national Socio/ogy (vol. 4, Spain and Latin American RC03 and IPSA activities and no.3, 1989). Miguel A. Esco- countries. sessions organized in Bue- tet, Rector of the Universidad Terry Nichols Clark, RC03 nos Aires, Prague, and Buda- Iberoamericana de Postgra- President, presided over the pest. do gave a keynote address on

8 «Plannlnq, development and ity of Amsterdam, again with changes in education». Reos: Ethnic, race financial support from the A book with the papers pre- and minority UNESCO Division of Human sented at this midterm con- Rights. Under the general ference, translated in Span- relations theme of «New Frontiers in ish, has been edited by Mi- Report submitted by Chris Social Research: Ethnic, guel A. Escotet and Orlando Mullard and Peter Reinsch, Race and Minority Helations», Albornoz, and was published outgoing Secretary and approximately 100 partlci- in 1989 by the Universidad Newsletter Editor, respective- pants were offered presenta- Iberoamericana de Postgra- ly. tions, and were invited to par- do. ticipate in the ensuing dis- A selection of papers pre- Board members 1990-1994 cussions. 40 presentations sented will be published in President: were made of a total of 44 pap- volume 3 titled «Educatlon Michael Banton (Depart- ers tabled. The contributions and Social Change: develop- ment of Sociology, Univers- could be regarded as an 'ex- ment, expansion and creden- ity of Bristol, 12 Woodland pression of the field': an aca- tíallsrn» of the series Internati- Road, Bristol BS8 1va, Un- demic exchange, void of ideo- onal Perspectives on Educa- ited Kingdom) logical battles, informed by in- tion and Society, published by Secretary: tercultural understanding. JAI Press, Greenwich, USA. Joanna Travaglia (School Following the Madrid Con- Editors of this volume are of Education, University of gress, the Committee was Abraham Yogev and Jaap Sydney, Sydney NSW sponsoring an international Dronkers. 2006, Australia) workshop on «Race and Eth- There were also two regi- Board Members: nicity Research: Sociologists, onal conferences organized Heribert Adam, Canada the State an Social Chanqe». under the auspices of the Edna Bonacich, USA During the three day work- RC04: Christine Inglis, Australia shop, organized by Peter Rat- • an international seminar on Roza Ismagilova, USSR cliffe with the local assistance sociology of education in Wilmot James, South Africa of Fernando Reinares in Ma- Latin-America titled "El esta- Kogila Moodley, Canada drid, ten papers were to be do y la formulación y efecto Chris Mullard, The Nether- presented, each focussing on de las políticas educativas: lands the situation in a specific land una visión sociológica", was Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, or region. heId on 24-26 November Denmark The Committee has been 1987 in Caracas, Venezuela; Nirmala Srinivasan, India asked by the UNESCO Divi- • a regional conference on Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Me- sion of Human Rights to orga- «Education, Youth and Na- xico nize a working group on "Im- tlon-Bulldlnq» was held 19-20 J. Milton Yinger, USA migrants in the New Europe». November 1987 at the Aus- This group met in the Autumn tralian National University in Seminars and Conferences of 1990 to examine a number Canberra. 1986-90 of issues with reference to a RC04 Newsletter is pu- Directly following the 1986 'united Europe'. blished bi-annually. In the pe- Congress a workshop was or- riod 1986-1990 seven issues ganized by the RC on «Lín- Xllth World Congress were sent to all members. kages between Methodology, Sessions Research and Theory in Race The Committee Board met Membership Fees and Ethnic Studies». In the during the 1988 conference, In order to avoid extra costs workshop, sponsored by the and drafted a slate of nine one can only pay for four UNESCO Division of Human themes covering current is- years a total of US $ 20. AII Rights, seven 'case studies' sues in the field. The Board who cannot pay for whatever were presented by scholars then decided upon possible reason but who want to re- from seven continents. The session organizers, whose main members have sirnply to revised papers, with summary services were subsequently write to the Secretary stating of discussion and conclu- solicited by Heribert Adam. that she/he cannot pay but sions, were presented to UN- Proposals for joint sessions wants to be a member. ESCO in June 1987 for publi- with other Research Commit- Payments have to be made cation. Marshall Murphree, in tees, as well as all ensuing directly to the Secretary of the his contribution to the Re- coordinative activities, were RC04, Jaap Dronkers, Dollar search Council meeting of handled by Peter Reinsch. account 3244.32666 of the September 1988, reviewed The result was a full slate of RABO Bank Haarlem, Flora- the results of this workshop. nine sessions, plus five joint- park 2,2012 HX Haarlem, Ne- The Committee held a two sessions and a business therlands. If you send a pers- and a half day conference on meeting. 90 papers were pro- onal cheque please add US $ December 8-11, 1988, hosted grammed for presentation in 8 to compensate the banking by the Centre for Race and these sessions. Due to lack of charges. Ethnic Studies at the Univers- session-slots, the Committee

9 was obliged to pass on several tation of Committee activities. mative Action and Positive Po- relevant proposals to the ISA Besides the Newsletter, the licies in the Education of Ethn- Programme Committee, which Committee is not involved in ic Minorities (Connecticut: JAI honored these proposals with any publishing activities of its Press, 1988), edited by Sally ad-hoc session status. own. The Centre for Race an Tomlinson and Abraham Ethnic Studies in Amsterdam Yogev. Publications looked into the possibility of During the quadrennium, publishing selected papers Membership six Newsletters were produc- from the December 1988 The (500) recipients of the ed. Four were sent to the conference, but this initiative Committee Newsletter were membership-at-Iarge, com- stranded due to a lack of asked to contribute $20 for prising nearly 500 scholars in funding. In the meantime, a four years membership-in- the field. Due to financial res- significant number of papers good standing. Scholars in trictions the fifth Newsletter presented at the conference countries with currency regu- was sent to 'only' 266 'active' have been published else- lations may become memb- members, while a sixth was where. This obviously applies ers by requesting afee waiver distributed at the Madrid for papers presented at the from the Committee Board. To Congress. Under the editor- 1986 Delhi Congress, where date, the Committee has 105 ship of Peter Reinsch, the papers from at least one members for this quadrenn- Newsletter has remained the Committee session were ium, more than twice the primary medium for presen- bundled in the volume Affir- number tallied four years ago.

COUNTRY-WISE OISTRIBUTION .~, OF RCOS MEMBERS ANO NEWSLETTER RECIPIENTS The number in parentheses indicate the members-in-good-standing Australia (10) 12 Malaysia (1) 5 Belqlum. . 1 Mexico . (1) 2 Bolivia 1 Netherlands . . .. (5) 16 Brazil (1) 1 New Zealand. (1) 2 Canada...(12) 24 Nigeria 2 Chinese P.R.. 1 N. Ireland . 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Norway 1 Denmark (2) 4 Philippines 2 East Germany 1 Poland.. (1) 2 West Germany... (5) 6 Portugal...... 1 Finland. 2 Romania 1 France (1) 10 South Africa .. . (3) 7 Greece 1 Spain 6 lndla.. (7) 15 Sri Lanka 5 Iran 1 Sweden .. ... (7) 8 lreland .. (1) 2 Turkey.. . 1 lsrael.. .. (3) 4 UK (10) 30 ltaly . 1 USA.. (28) 64 Japan. .. (2) 3 USSR (1) 11 ~n~... 1 Yugoslavia.. (2) 5 Lesotho . 1 Zimbabwe (1) 2

In 1987 the Board drafted a provided by the Centre for have already served to struc- «Staternent on Apartheld», Race and Ethnic Studies in ture the elections for the denouncing systems of struc- Amsterdam. The UNESCO Di- 1990-1994 Board. tural inequality based on rac- vision of Human Rights has ism. AII members were asked been a regular subsidient of (via the dues form in the Committee workshops and Re06: Family Newsletter) to endorse the conferences, the expenses of research statement, a requirement which are further covered by which has led to a minimum of local grants. Report submitted by Jan protest. Trost, President Statutes Board members 1990-1994 Finances Th e Co m m ittee Boa rd President: Newsletter reproduction drafted statutes at the begin- Jan Trost (Department of expenses are covered by ning of the quadrennium, in Sociology, P.O. Box 513, membership contributions order to formalize a number of S-751 20 Uppsala, Swe- and the ISA grant. Editing procedures. These were den) costs and distribution is rea- scheduled to be ratified at the Vice-Presidents: lized through the services Madrid Business Meeting, but Lea Shamgar-Handelman,

10 Israel Further plans for 1992 and This activity was carried out Stella Quah, Singapore later are seminars in the USA, in cooperation with the World Secretary/Treasurer: China, and Russia. Futures Studies Federation Barbara James (1020 on the following topics res- Carthage, Sandford, N.C. Membership pectively: Everyday Life in the 27330, USA) The membership ofthe CFR XXICentury, Visions and Pra- Members at large: is about 200 and the memb- xis, Multicultural Images and Katja Boh, Yugoslavia ers come from all over the Desirable Societies. On these Margaret O'Brien, UK world.ln the CFRwe are trying occasions, plans for the 1990 Helena Znaniecki-Lopata, to recruit student members world conference were dis- USA for the CFR. The student cussed. members get a discount on An intermediate meeting Scientific Meetings the membership fee of 75 had been planned, and funds 1989-1990 percent; US $10 for students requested from the Italian re- • May 1989, Singapore: and US $40 for ordinary search body Consiglio Nazio- XXIVth international seminar members. nale delle Ricerche. Unfortu- on «Marrlaqe, Parenthood, Anyone interested in be- nately, the funds were not and Social Pollcy»: coming a member of the made available. • October 1989, Belgrade: Committee on Family Re- Informal meetings took XXVth international seminar search is welcome. Nameand place between the officers, on «Family, Informal Network, address should be sent to the whenever they were able to and Social Pollcy»: Secretary, together with a meet for other objectives. The • July 1990, Madrid: eight check issued to the CFRto the plan for the 1990 World Con- paper sessions at the World amount of US$40, payable at ference was carefully prepar- Congress of Sociology. One an American ban k. Th is ed with exchange of informa- session was held in the form amount is forthe four year pe- tion among all the members of of a business meeting and riod starting at time of pay- the Committee. one was held together with ment. The Committee contributed RC34. The number of papers actively to the World Congr- for the sessions was enorm- ess, with the participation of ous and one session had almost all the expected been divided into three; RC07: Futures speakers. The general theme • August 1990, Oslo: an in- research of Congress, unity and di- ternational seminar on «The versity was broadly taken up, Concept of the Farnily». Report submitted by Eleo- emphasizing the unity at a su- CFR Gazette nora Masini, President perficiallevel, and the divers- Another purpose of the ity at a deeper level, particu- Committee on Family Re- Board members 1986-1990 larly at the level of culture. At search is to inform its mem- Co-Presidents: the same time the trend to- bership about what is gOing Eleonora Masini (World Fu- ward unity, homogenization on in the field and this is done ture Studies Federation, involved a number of inequa- by distributing the CFR Ga- Via Bertoloni 23, 00197 lities. In this context the pro- zette a number of times per Roma, Italy) blem of value orientation in a year. This has also been done Igor Bestuzhev-Lada (lnsti- diversified world, mecha- during 1989 and 1990. tute for Sociological Re- nisms of internalization and search, Novocheremsh- homogenization were em- Forthcoming conferences kinskaya, 117418 Moscow, phasized. The role of techno- The CFR organizes July 29 USSR) logy, ecology, economy, na- to August 3, 1991, its XXVlth Vice-Presidents: tion state were discussed in international seminar in Nor- Velichko Dobrianov, Bul- relation to the inequalities, way on the theme of «What is garia conflicts, destruction they Famlly?». Organizers: Irene Anna Coen, Italy were producing on a national Levin and Jan Trost. The Secretary: and global scale, and alterna- seminar is limited to 25 parti- Radmila Nakarada (Institu- tive concepts of development, cipants. te for Economic Planning, balance between population The CFR organizes an in- P. Toljatija 2, 11070 N. and resources, conflict reso- ternational seminar at De- Belgrade, Yugoslavia) lution were presented. In ad- partment of History, Carleton dition, the sphere of work was University, Ottawa, May 13 to Recent activities problematized, as well as the 16, 1992 on the therne «The The Committee has con- question of the likelihood of History of Marriage". Organiz- ducted a course in Futures organized labour, Le. unions er: Rod Philips. Studies at the International reemerging as decisive ac- University Center in Dubrov- tors on the future social The CFR is planning a nik from 28 March to 8 April scene. The future of sociallsrn seminar in 1992 in Taiwan 1988,3-14 April1989 and 21- was discussed in terms of its and another one in London. 26 May 1990. democratic transformation, or

11 peripherization, development can apply to the Secretary. gaged in studying the history of human potential or further Dues are $ 10, which give a of sociology, to promote re- blockages. right to information and to the search in this field, and to en- Finally, the futurist thinking Newsletter. courage the international dis- itself was reexamined on the semination of such research. basis of analyzing selected To this end the RCHS orga- futuristic literature and the Re08: History of nizes international confe- understanding of the world rences and seminars and pu- there developed, as well as on sociology blishes a Newsletter which is the basis of estimating its role circulated to all members. in minimizing the negative Report submitted by Dirk The RCHS heId conferenc- consequences of social Kasler, Secretary es during the World Con- change and social innovation. Board members gresses in Toronto 1974, Up- During the business meet- President: psala 1978, Mexico City 1982, ing, it was decided to hold Kurt H. Wolff (58 Lombard New Delhi 1986, Madrid 1990, elections for the officers by Street, Newton, MA 02158, and Interim Conferences in mail, so as to enable all USA) Oxford 1977, in Paris 1980, in members to take part. A nomi- Vice-Presidents: Munich 1984, in Madrid 1988. nation rostrum was presented Hans Joas, Germany For 1992 the next Interim and further nominations were Steven Lukes, Italy Conference has been sche- expected till the end of Febru- Secretary: duled for May 1992 in Buda- ary, on the basis of which Dirk Kasler (Institut für So- pest, Hungary. elections would take place. ziologie, Univeritat Ham- The main publication of the burg, Allende-Platz 1, 2000 RCHS is its Newsletter since Publications Hamburg 13, Germany) 1976. After the Mexico Con- A request has been pre- gress in 1982 eleven editions sented to Sage for the publi- Executive Council: have been published. cation of the papers present- Philippe Besnard, France The RCHS has its own sta- ed at the Congress, and sub- Tom Bottomore, UK tutes since May 1988. sequently revised, and is pre- Martin Bulner, UK Terry N. Clark, USA sently under analysis by Membership Lewis A. Coser, USA Sage. Since January 1989 the David Frisby, UK structure of membership- Newsletter was produced Barbara Laslett, USA dues has been changed to with funds made available by Edward A. Tiryakian, USA the amount/equivalent of US the ISA. Stephen P. Turner, USA $ 10 for one year, or US $ 30 Johannes Weib, Germany Membership for four years. To become a member of The Research Committee The RCHS membership RC07 it is necessary to be a on the History of Sociology amounts to 195 members in sociologist workíng on, or in (RCHS) was established by good standing. The regional some way engaged in, med- the ISA in December 1971 in distribution of the present ium or long-term forecasting. order to develop international membership of the RCHS People with such interests contacts among scholars en- looks as follows:

Australia. 2 Japan .. 6 Austria .. . 4 Korea .. ..1 Belgium .. . 2 Mexico .. 1 Bulgaria.. 2 New Zealand ...... 1 Canada ...... 17 Poland ... 3 Columbia .. 1 Portugal ... 1 Denmark 2 Spain .. . 4 Germany ...... 41 Sweden . 4 France .. 8 Switzerland 1 G~e~...... 2 Taiwan . 1 Hunqary...... 2 Netherlands 5 India ... 8 UK... . 13 Ireland . 1 USA... . 54 ltaly . . 5 USSR . . 1 Yugoslavia 1

Membership in the RCHS is who have demonstrated their leges you are invited to write open to all members of nati- interest in the area through to the Secretary of the RCHS onal sociological associa- teaching and/or research ac- who will provide you with an tions, members of research tivities. In order to become a Application Form. institutes affiliated with the member of the RCHS with full ISA, and individual scholars voting rights and other privi-

12 and Workers' Partlcipation». SecretarylTreasurer: RC09: Social The main purpose of the con- Edward A. Powers (School practice and ference is to encourage dis- of Human Environmental cussions concerning the re- Sciences, 207 Stone, Uni- social levance of concrete expe- versity of North Carolina, transformation riences acquired in different Greensboro, NC 27412- countries. Experiences from 5001, USA) Board members 1988-1990 the neighbour welfare states Vice-Presidents: President: around the Baltic may be Win Van den Heuvel, Ne- Peter Park (Department of given special attention. There therlands Sociology, University of will be introductory, back- Svein Olav Daaatland, Nor- Massachusetts, Thompson ground lectures on the ongo- way Hall, Amherst, MA 01003, ing transformation process in Officers at Large: USA) Estonia and other Baltic Karen Altergott, USA Vice-President: countries. Neena Chappell, Canada Ulf Himmelstrant, Sweden • October 3-5, 1991, Chem- Danico Giori, Italy Secretary - Treasurer: nitz, Germany: «Return of Akiko Hashimoto, Japan Y. Michal Bodeman (Oben- Work, Production and Admi- P.K.B Nayar, India trautstr. 35, 1000 Berlin 61, nistration to Capitalism. Con- Harold L. Orbach, USA Germany) struction and building of the Members: new European House-. The Orlando Fals Borda, question for the nations of RC12: Sociology Columbia East and South-East Europe of law Srilatha Batliwala, India is whether they will make-up Hiroshi Komai, Japan to the Western European Compiled from the RC12 Research Council Deleg- countries in time or fall behind Newsletter, 1990-1 ate: Ellen B. Hlll, Switzer- to Third World living stand- land ards for good. The introduc- Board members 1990-1994 tion of the parliament, modern President: administration and the free Vicenzo Ferrari (Via Larga RC10: citizens as well as the pre- 6, 20122 Milano, Italy) Participation, conditions of the logic of ca- Vice-Presidents: pitalism showing-up in com- Lawrence Friedman, USA workers' control petition, market, private en- Boaventura de Sousa San- and terprise, unions and the work- tos, Portugal Secretary: self-management er in former socialist countri- es do not imply automatically Rogelio Pérez Perdomo (lESA, Apartado 1640, Ca- Compiled from the RC10 the progress looked foro Further information: Gyórgy racas 101O-A, Venezuela) Newsletter no. 26, November Board Members: 1990 Széll and Wiking Ehlert (FB SOWI, Universitát Osnabrück, Erhard Blankenburg, The Netherlands Board members 1991-1995 Postfach 4469, 4500 Osna- Jacek Kurczewski, Poland Ake Sandberg (Arbetslivs- brück, Germany) Setsuo Miyazawa, Japan centrum, Box 5606, 11486 Membership Samir Naim, Egypt Stockholm, Sweden) • 16 Pounds for the period Adam Podgorecki, Canada Chris Cornforth (School of 1991-1994 Helena Valkova, Czechos- Management, Walton Hall, • 32 Pounds for lifetime lovakia Milton Keynes, England membership MK76AA) Membership fee should be Presidents' Message Raymond Russell, USA transferred exclusively in The ISA Research Commit- Akihiro lshlkawa, Japan Pounds Sterling to Chris tee on Sociology of Law will Antonio Lucas, Spain Cornforth (School of Mana- be 30 years old in 1992. It was Carlos Gadsden, Mexico gement, Walton Hall, Milton created as a relatively unst- Mamata Lakshmanna, Keynes, England, MK7 6AA). able and closed structure, Trinidad whose aim was basically to Abha Avasthi, India inspire multicultural research Ann Westenholz, Denmark RC11: Sociology projects. In fact, as other ISA Jolanta Kulpinska, Poland of aging research committees did, it has turned into a stable and Future conferences Board members open organization, which no- • Talllnn, Estonia, June 5-7, President: wadays represents around 1991: -Privatization versus Anne Marie Guillemard 500 legal sociologists from all Democratization in Transfor- (Centre d'Etude des Mou- over the world and is also ra- mation from Command Eco- vements Sociaux, 54 Bd pidly expanding in areas nomy to Social Market Eco- Raspail, 75006 Paris, which have so far shown little nomy. The role ofTrade Union France) interest in the discipline.

13 The growth of the Research cations, comparisons, etc., Forthcoming conference Committee obviously reflects with an eye to neighbouring The 1991 Research Com- the growth of sociology of law fields and with a special con- mittee annual meeting will be itself. Deve/oping Sociology of cern to changes which are jointly held with the Law and Law, the documentary volume upsetting our societies in this Society Association as a part which just appeared on 'post modern' era. of an International Confer- RCSL's initiative (Giuffré, Mi- Our action should be ad- ence of Law and Society at lano 1990), shows how rich is dressed especiallyto seeking the University of Amsterdam, the production in our field and better institutionalization of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, how wide is the range of sub- sociology of law both in aca- from June 26th through 29th, jects it covers. No relevant demies and in other milieux. 1991. The conference will be socio-legal topic can now be The position of the discipline heId in affiliation with Instituto approached without going as a teaching subject in uni- Latinoamericano de Servi- through a literature of at least versities varies greatly from cios Legales Alternativos, Ja- many hundred titles in the country to country, but gene- panese Association for So- most common languages. rally speaking we must re- ciology of Law,Sezione di So- Eighteen specialized journals cognize that it is in great need ciologia del Diritto del Asso- in nine languages appear of improvement. Again, any ciazione Italiana di Sociolo- more or less regularly in the official or unofficial organiza- gia, Socio-Legal Studies As- most diverse areas of the tion dealing with law, be it sociation (UK), Vereniging world. Many others, labelled from the governmental or voor de sociaal-wetenschap- as belonging to neighbouring from the opposition side, may pelijke bestudering van het disciplines, from legal sci- (and to some extent should) recht, and the Vereinigung für ence to legal philosophy, take our achievements into Rechtssoziologie. from sociology to criminolo- account. This increases our The organizer on behalf of gy, show a clear socio-legal responsibility from at least the RCSL is Erhard Blanken- leaning and contribute acti- two points of view. burg (Vrije Universiteit, de vely to discussions in our Firstly it seems to me that Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV field. A number of schools we should be striving for Amsterdam, The Nether- compete in supplementing wider recognition of our ac- lands). data, providing explanations tion: and the Research Com- and building up theories mittee can be certainly called Membership which often prove most useful on to maintain our loyalty to In order to improve RCSL even in the widest cultural the basically critical role that functional efficiency as an in- and political arenas. sociology of law, as a sci- ternational network organiza- It seems to me quite obvi- ence, has always tried to play tion, it is planned to publish a ous that the Research Com- vis-a-vis dogmatic construc- RCSL Directory with memb- mittee should take all this into tions and purely normative ers' addresses and main account and try to adapt its argumentation. fields of interest. Registration strategies and perhaps its forms as well as membership structures to such complex XII World Congress of dues of US$ 20 for 4 years, realities. The RCSL has so far Sociology should be sent to the Secret- been quite successful in or- In the context of the World ary. ganizing wide-range confe- Congress the RCSL had 9 rences, to which diverse spe- sessions and one joint ses- cialists and working groups sion with the RC on Socio- RC13: Sociology have contributed. Our activity technics - Sociological Prac- of leisure should now perhaps reflect tice and RC on Deviance and the pluralistic nature of studi- Social Control. Assistance Board members 1990-1994 es and approaches more ri- was massive and in each ses- President: gorously. There is no doubt sion there were between 40 to Teus J. Kamphorst (WLRA that intercultural cooperation 60 people. International Centre of Ex- in individual specialized In Oñati, at the International cellence, Rengerslaan 8, areas is extremely fruitful but Institute of Sociology of Law, 8917 DD Leeuwarden, The that any of such projects and several groups met in the days Netherlands) groups of specialists, to a beforethe Madrid Congress or Vice-Presidents: certain extent, lives its own the week after. Among the Ishwar Modi, India life, quite separately from the groups which met before was S. Parker, UNited Kingdom rest of the community. This one on the Latin American so- N. Samuel, France gives the RCSL a sort of de ciology of Law and the post- Executive Secretary: facto federalist look which Congress meetings were on Chantal Malefant (2 Villa should be recognized openly. the current state of the theory d'Austerlitz,1 bis RueNico- At the same time, the Commit- in sociology of law, legal plu- las Houel, 75005 Paris, tee as a whole may playa de- ralism, legal culture, business France) cisive role in discussing theo- litigation, family, deviance, Board Members: ries, methods, political impli- women and the law. A. Agrawal, India

14 T. Beckers, The Nether- rected to the preparation of Heidrun Kaupen-Haas, lands the ISA World Congress in Germany C. Belloni, Italy Madrid. On this occasion 11 Newsletter Editors: Grant Cushman, NewZealand sessions were held, two of M. d'Amours, Canada them jointly organized with Wim van den Heuvel, The R. Delbaere, Belgium the RC27 Sociology of Sport Netherlands Blanka Filipcova, and with the RC25 Sociolin- Associate Regional News- Czechoslovakia guistics, respectively. letter Editor (North Ameri- G. Fukasz, Hungary Moreover, the RC14 called ea): Derek Gill, USA G. Godbey, USA together its general Assembly E. Hamilton Smith, Australia which elected a new Board, Conferences L.A.J. Horna, Canada formed by a President, two • The Third Asian Cónfer- Bohdan Jung, Poland Vice-Presidents and two ence Max Kaplan, USA General Secretaries. A policy ofthe Committee is John R. Kelly, USA to stimulate local or regional Yoshiko Nomura, Japan Future Meetings meetings which RC15 can Kenneth Roberts, United Spring 1991, Board Meet- sponsor. A significant move Kingdom ing. Objectives: the definition was that several members of W. Tokarski, Germany of the work axles for the four the Committee worked with A.J. Veal, Australia years to come; extension of Liu Zong-Xia, Director of the Wang Zhen, China the responsible team in order Medical Sociology Research to give to the Committee a Institute, Chinese Academy of geographical as well as a re- RC14: Sociology Management Science, to or- search fields representativity; ganize the Third Asian Con- of communication, definition of international re- ference on Medical and knowledge and search and financing pro- Health Sociology. While the jects; collaboration with other two prior conferences were culture international associations; held in Japan in 1980 and organization of specialized 1986, respectively, this third Report submitted by Paul conferences hence the next Beaud, President conference was planned to World Congress of Sociology. be held in China in the mid- Board members 1990-1994 Autumn 1991: conference 1990. It was most unfortunate President: on the television in Italy; that because of the June 4th Paul Beaud (Institut de So- Membership (1989) event in China, the ciologie des Communica- Inorder to join RC14 please planning ofthe above Confer- tions de Masse, Université contact the President. ence had to be suspended. de Lausanne, BFSH 2 - Do- As an alternative, we have rigny, 1015 Lausanne, started to plan for holding the Switzerland) RC15: Sociology Conference in Thailand, ten- Vice-Presidents: of health tatively to be held in July 1991 Jacques Leenhardt, France in Pattaya, Chonburee Pro- Marino Livolsi, Italy Report submitted by Ray H. vince or Chaam, Prajaub Kee- Secretaries: Elling, outgoing President, reekan Province. Miguel de Aguilera Moyano and Rance P.L. Lee, outgoing The theme of the Confer- (Dept.Communication, Fac. Secretary ence will be centered around Sciencias de Información, cross-national comparison of Universidad Complutense, Board members 1990-1994 health and health systems. Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 President: Possible sub-topics include Madrid, Spain) Stella Quah (Department of (1) health system and its im- Fanc;;oiseMessant-Laurent Sociology, National Uni- pact on health status of gen- (Institut de Sociologie des versity Singapore, Kent eral population, especially Communications de Masse, Ridge 0511, Singapore) the rural people, the urban Université de Lausanne, Vice-President: dwellers and the minorities, BFSH 2, 1015 Lausanne, Asa Cristina Laurell, Mexi- (2) health system in relation to Switzerland) co specific health problems, Secretary - Treasurer: such as malaria, leprosy, Recent activities Kyoichi Sonoda (Depart- AIDS, occupational health, The RC14 brought to con- ment of Sociology, School and accident, and (3) health clusion an international re- of Health Sciences, Faculty system and the intermediate search named «TVNews and of Medicine, University of factors directly associated the Production of Heality». Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, with health, such as primary The results were published by Tokyo 113, Japan) health care and the system of the Council of Europe under Members: self-care. It is expected that a the title The Focused Screen. Debaber Banerji, India total of 45 Thai scholars and Then the activities of the Hans-Ulrich Deppe, Ger- 35 foreign scholars will partí- Committee were mainly di- many cipate in the Conference.

15 • IASTAM Conference WHO so as to strengthen our tries, rather than those epide- Rance P.L. Lee, Secretary- NGO (non-governmental or- miologists and other public Treasurer of the Committee ganization) relationship with health researchers that are was invited to help and serve WHO. Over the last few years, more familiar to WHO. as member of the Scientific various ways of establishing Program Committee (chaired collaboration between ISAI Country-Contact-Persons by Charles Leslie), of the RC15 and WHO have been Scheme Third International Confer- suggested. In order to strengthen our ence of the International As- For instance, a difticulty of contacts and collaborations sociation for the Study of Tra- RC15 members, rnostly scho- with health sociologists in de- ditional Asian Medicine (IAS- lars, is the lack of significant veloping countries, the Com- TAM), held in Bombay, India, funds for travel or projects. mittee has invited the follow- 4-7 January 1990. The theme Financial assistance ing six persons to serve as ofthe Conference was «Plura- through WHO is thus very national focal point. In India: listic Character of Traditional much needed. Ray Elling, Dr R. Venkataratnam, in Asian Medicine". RC15 Chairperson, has writ- Nepal: Dr Misva, in Nigeria: Dr • International Dialogue on ten to the Oftice of External Sylvester Ogoh Alubo, in Sri Health Leadership Coordination of WHOto indic- Lanka: Dr Kalinga Tudor The World Health Organi- ate our need for financial as- Silva, in Tanzania: Dr Akwasi zation invited three members sistance and to suggest an in- Aidoo and DrA.D.Kiwara, and of RC15 to attend the Second formal discussion meeting in Thailand: Dr Tavitong International Dialogue of Re- between selected members of Hongvivatana. source Network for Health for RC15 and staft of WHO about Since this is a new concept, AII Leadership Development, possible plans for more pro- the duties of a country-con- heId in Hawaii from 29 August ductive relation.«AIDS" and tact-person cannot be clearly to 2 September, 1988, and «Leadership Development for specified for the time being hosted by the School of Publ- Health for AII through Primary and have to be gradually for- ic Health, University of Hawaii. Health Care» are two of the mulated out of concrete ex- These three RC15 members common interests between periences. To begin with, they were Ray Elling, Rance P.L. RC15 and WHO, which can are suggested to (1) collect Lee and Masahira Anesaki. lead to the development of items of news on health so- As representatives of the ISA productive working relation- ciology and forward them to Research Committee on the ships. RC15 Newsletter editor, (2) Sociology of Health, they Moreover, a longstanding encourage membership in worked with participants from concern for the Committee is RC15, (3) possibly encourage other four networks: WHO to train and develop socio- local or regional research Leadership Task Force, the health researchers to work on meetings and otherwise see Global Network of WHO Col- problems of primary health to the development of the laborating Centers for Nurs- care in the push for health for field, and (4) any other relev- ing Development, The Net- all in developing countries. ant activities. work of Community-Oriented These researchers are to be Participation in ISA Educational Institutions for equipped with such theoreti- Research Council Health Sciences, and the cal perspectives and metho- In January 1988, Asa Crist- Asia-Pacific Academic Con- dological skills that would ina Laurell was officially sortium for Public Health. Dr. allow them to deal with au- named by the RC15's Chair- Halfdan Mahler, Director- thentic citizen participation, person to serve as the Altern- General Emeritus of WHO prestige-reward structures, ate Delegate of RC15 to the served as a key participant cultural orientations, organi- Research Council of ISA, and gave a presentation on zation-environment relations, 1986-90. «Social Justice: the Under- stratification and power and On behalf ofthe Committee, pinning for Health Leadership other concerns central to the Hans-Ulrich Deppe asked Developrnent-, promotion of health for all Peter Hexel from the Euro- • XII World Congress of So- through primary health careo pean Centre to attend the ciology There are large numbers of mid-Congress meeting of the At the Xllth World Congress properly trained health socio- Research Council, held in in Madrid there were a total of logists, anthropologists and Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, August 11 sessions. Ray Elling and political economists in the in- 26-31, 1988. Rance P.L.Lee served as pro- dustrial nations, but very few gram coordinators for RC15. in Africa and in many countri- By-Iaws es of Asia. At the request and sugges- NGO Relationship to Our Committee is prepared tion of the ISA Executive WHO-Geneva to work with WHOto find ways Committee, a set of new Sta- The Committee has been of encouraging and facilitat- tutes of the RC15 has been asked by the ISA Executive ing the development of this prepared for consideration Committee to serve as a point kind of socio-health research and adoption by members to of liaison between ISA and workers in developing coun- be present at the RC15 Busi-

16 ness Meeting on July 9, 1990 from hard-currency countries from various countries. during the Xllth World Congr- and about 30% are from soft- Around 100 letters were sent ess of Sociology in Madrid. currency countries. There is a out in which the following ar- Derek Gill, former Secretary- need to increase member- guments were put forward: Treasurer of RC15 offered ship, especially in countries "We feel that existing Re- advice and assistance in outside North America and search Committees on Histo- drafting the Statutes. Western Europe. A more de- ry of Sociology and Logic and tailed distribution of members Methodology do not cover a Publications are as follows: Australia and lively field of debates on con- Stella Quah edited and pu- New Zealand 3; Africa 9; Asia temporary sociological theo- blished a book on the basis of 37; East Europe and USSR 6; ry: its status, presuppositions the papers contributed to her West Europe 47; North Ameri- and assumptions, implica- session «Tradltlonal and AI- ea 72; Latin and South Ameri- tions and applications, rela- ternative Healing in Relation ea 7. tionships among schools, to Cosmopolita n Medicine» at RC15 two-year member- orientations and paradigms, the Xlth World Congress of ship dues are $ 30 for hard- recurring crises and future Sociology, New Delhi, India, currency countries and $ 10 prospects. Our goal is cer- 1986. The book is titled The for soft-currency countries. tainly not to preempt the valid Triumph of Practicality: Tradi- and necessary theoretical in- tion and Modernity in Health terests of all specialized Re- Care Utilization in Selected RC16: search Committees in their Asian Countries. It was pu- Sociological respective substantive do- blished by the Institute of mains, but rather to provide Southeast Asian Studies in theory the forum for more general, 1989. one may even say meta-theo- Compiled from the RC16 There has been an agree- retical, discussions. Newsletter, nO.1 ment with Peter J.M. McEwan, We opt for mutual theoreti- Editor-in-Chief of Social Sci- Board members 1990-1994 cal openings, plurality of ap- ence and Medicine that the proaches, multidimensional- Journal would receive RC15 Co-Chairs: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Dept ity of theoretical explanations, papers on a first refusal basis and cumulative advance of and to publish whatever an- Sociology, University of California, 405 Hilgard Ave- theoretical discourse on the nouncement regarding the basis of selective reappro- RC15 activities. nue, Los Angeles, CAl Piotr Sztompka 90024 USA priation and reinterpretation Newsletter (Institute of Sociology, of classical sociological he- Jerome Stromburg, Uni- Jagiellonian University, ritaqe.» versity of Colorado, USA, has Grodzka 52, 31-044, Kra- The response has been been replaced by Wim van kow, Poland) overwhelmingly positive. We den Heuvel, University of Gro- Secretary- Treasurer: have received full and une- ningen, The Netherlands, to Ron Eyerman (Dept Socio- quivocal support from 82 col- serve as the RC15 Newsletter logy, University of Lund, leagues from 23 countries editor beginning from the end Box 114, 22100 Lund, Swe- and five continents, most of of 1986. Since then six issues den) them widely recognized as of the Newsletter have been Members: leading authorities in the field. published: NO.18(Feb. 1987), Franco Crespi, Italy In 1990 the group was No. 19 (Aug. 1987), No. 20 Marcel Fournier, Canada granted a Research Commit- (Feb. 1988), No. 21 (Dec. Nikolai Genov, Bulgaria tee status. 1988), No. 22 (July 1988), No. Roland Robertson, USA 23 (March 1990). Kenneth Thompson, UK Past activities Since mid-1987, Derek Gill July 1988, Krakow, Poland: of the University of Maryland History the Group held an internati- at Baltimore County Campus, The idea to establish a new onal conference on "Social USA, has also agreed to serve Research Committee on So- Progress and Sociological as Associate Regional (North ciological Theory within the Theory: Movements, Forces America) Newsletter Editor. framework ofthe International and Ideas at the End of the In 1988, a grant of US $ 800 Sociological Association was 20th Century». Scholars from was received from the ISA for born at the XIWorld Congress 13 countries participated in subsidising the publication of of Sociology at New Delhi in the following sessions: the RC15 Newsletter. 1986, at the symposium on • Progress and Disillusion: the theories of social change. Overviews of 20th Century Membership Immediately followlnq the Thought Over 500 persons are on Congress, it was decided to • The Omnipresence of "Cri- the RC15 membership list. Up present a proposal for con- sis» in the late 20th Century: to now a total of 181 members sultation to the wide and re- Are there Alternatives? have paid the membership presentative group of theore- • Reconsidering Traditional dues, of whom about 70% are tically-minded sociologists Forces of Progress: seculari-

17 zation of culture, democrati- Franco Ferraresi, Italy Robert Pinker, UK zation of power, state inter- Dian Hosking, UK ex-oHicio: Else 0yen, vention in capitalism, plan- Nikolai 1. Lapin, USSR Norway ning in socialism, rational Hiroshi Mannari, Japan communicative action, global Viviane Márquez, México management Jon Miller, USA RC20: • Reconsidering Traditional llia Naumov, Bulgaria Comparative Carriers of Progress: the Jitendra V. Singh, Canada working class, intellectuals, Ad W.M. Teulings, The Ne- sociology social movements therlands Board members 1986-1990 • Progress in «Postrnodern» President: World; RC18: Political Mattei Dogan (CNRS, 72 July 1990, Madrid, Spain: Boulevard Arago, Paris 13, on the occasion of the XII sociology France) World Congress of Sociology Secretary: the Group held nine session, Board members 1986-1990 Peter Merkl (6543 Camino a business meeting, and one Chairman: Venturoso, Goleta, CA joint session with the RC on Peter Flora (Department of 93117, USA) Sociology of Science. Sociology, University of Members: Mannheim, Seminargebaü- Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Future activities da A 5, 6800 Mannheim, Germany Next inter-congress con- Germany) Ulf Himmelstrand, Sweden ference will in all probability Vice-Chairmen: Ergun Ozbudun, Turkey be held at the Swedish Col- Shmuel Eisenstadt, Jeru- Else Oyen, Norway legium for Advanced Study in salem Renata Siemienska, Poland the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Rainer Lepsius, Germany Frederick Turner, USA Sweden in 1992. Something Secretary: Ralph Turner, USA more definite cannot be said Derek W. Urwin (Depart- Mino Vianello, Italy at this time, as the negotia- ment of Politics, University Joji Watanuki, Japan tions with SCASS are not yet of Warwick, Coventry CV4 Ramarshray Roy, India complete. The theme of the 7AL, United Kingdom) Richard Sisson, USA conference will be «Markets, Members: Powers and Values: Converg- Erik Allardt, Finland ence Theory Reconsidered ». Richard Rose, RC21: Sociology United Kingdom Newsletter Juan Linz, USA of urban and Our intention is to circulate S.M. Lipset, USA regional a newsletter two times ayear, Fall and Spring, to all those development who register their interest. RC19: Sociology Compiled from RC21 of poverty, social Newsletter of November 1990 Membership Dues of US $ 25 for the four welfare and social Board members 1990-1994 years between Congresses policy President: should be sent to the Secret- Chris Pickvance (Urban ary-Treasurer. Board members 1986-1990 and Regional Studies Unit, President: The University Canterbury, Walter Korpi (Swedish In- Kent CT2 7NF, United King- RC17: Sociology stitute for Social Research, dom) of organization Stockholms Universitet, Vice-Presidents: 10691 Stockholm, Swe- Susan Fainstein, USA Board members 1986-1990 den) Jesus Leal, Spain President: Vice-Presidents: J. Musil, Czechoslovakia Marshall W. Meyer (Dept Frances Fox Piven, USA L. Valladares, Brazil Management, University of Ramesh Mishra, Canada Secretary: Pennsylvania, Wharton Secretary: Soledad García (St. Antho- School, Philadelphia, PA Roland Sigg (Research and ny's College, Oxford OX2 19104, USA) Documentation Section, In- 6JF, United Kingdom) Members: ternational Social Security Board Members: Koya Azumi, Japan Association, P.O.Box 1, M. Berry, Australia Nils Brunsson, Sweden 1211 Geneva 22, Switzer- H. Haeusserman, Germany Jean-Franc,ois Chanlat, land) A. Haila, Finland Canada Members: P. Jacobi, Brazil Stewart R. Clegg, Australia Thomas Boje, Denmark S. Jaramilo, Colombia Kazimierz Doktor, Poland Marilyn Fernández, USA D. Kos, Yugoslavia Mark Ebers, Germany Roberta M. Mutiso, Kenya D. Lorrain, France

18 M. Lungo, Costa Rica nizedjointly with the Research the New Delhi World Congr- J. Tonboe, Denmark Committee on Sociology of ess will appear in 1991: C. Ex-officio: Michael Harloe, Work - was the largest interna- Pickvance and E. Preteceille United Kingdom tional sociology conference to (eds) State Restructuring and Newsletter Editor: have been held in the Soviet Local Power: a Comparative John R. Logna (Department Union. Perspective, Frances Printer/ of Sociology, State Uni- At the Xllth World Congr- Belhaven Press, London. versity of New York, Albany, ess of Sociology the Commit- International Journal of NY 12222, USA) tee held 9 regular and 5 joint Urban and Regional Research sessions, all coordinated by which started under the aus- Past activities 1986-1990 Susan Fainstein. An excellent pices of RC21, will be trans- The last four years since the pre-conference event was ferred to Basil Blackwell as New Delhi Congress had been coordinated by Jesus Leal from January 1991. The sub- a period of intense activity for and Constanza Tobio, offer- jects of interest to the journal the RC21. Conferences had ing seminars on Spain and will not change. RC members been organized in Dubrovnik the Madrid region, and a bus can obtain a reduced rate (June 1987),Canterbury (Sep- tour of the city. subscription to IJURR. Mi- tember 1987), Rio de Janeiro chael Harloe, editor of IJURR, (September 1988), Moscow Publications is an ex-officio member of the and Bristol (September 1989) As far as publications are RC21 Board. and Gilleleje (May 1990). The concerned, the period had conferences in Rio and Mos- seen publication of J. Hen- Membership cow had been particularly im- derson and M. Castells (eds) The four years 1986-1990 portant in making contact with Global Restructuring and Ter- had seen a rapid growth in fellow researchers in the ritorial Development (Sage), the membership of the RC - countries where the RC had based on papers given at the from 25 to about 273 in 38 relatively few contacts. The Hong Kong conference in countries. Moscow conference - orga- 1985.The only book based on These include: Argentina 3 Japan 5 Australia .. 8 Malaysia 1 Belgium.. 3 Mexico.. 4 Brazil 36 Netherlands.. 7 Bulgaria 3 New Zealand 1 Canada 10 Norway . 2 Chile. 3 Puerto Rico 1 Colombia.. 1 Poland 6 Costa Rica. 1 Portugal...... 2 Czechoslovakia.. 1 Singapore.. 1 Denmark 6 Spain 14 Finland 1 Sweden .. 4 France 18 Turkey 1 Germany 9 United Kingdom.. 33 Greece. 5 United States. ..45 Hungary . 6 USSR.. 9 lndia 4 Uruguay...... 1 lran.. 1 Venezuela 3 Italy .. 8 Yugoslavia.. 6 For details on becoming a nizing sessions at RC21 con- to organize a conference in member of the RC21, please ferences, (b) from third world Prague in 1991. The Eighth contact the Secretary, Sole- or soft currency countries, Urban Change and Conflict dad Garcia (St. Anthony's and (e) who had been memb- Conference will be held at College, Oxford OX2 6JF, Un- ers for one year at the time of Lancaster University in Sep- ited Kingdom) application. tember 1991. And it was The RC is in a strong finan- agreed that efforts should cial position; its sources of in- Future plans be made to hold a conference come are subscriptions, con- Inthe pastthe RChad acted in the West Coast of the ference surpluses, grants as a network through which U.S. during the next four from IJURR, royalties on members had got in touch years. books and the ISA newsletter with other members with simi- grant.lts main items of spend- lar interests. This has led to a ing apart from administrative number of joint research pro- RC22: Sociology costs and newsletter produc- jects and this seemed likely to of religion tion are travel grants to be continue. provided to those who are (a) As far as future conferenc- Report submitted by N. Ko- presenting papers or orga- es are concerned, it is hoped kosalakis, President

19 Board members 1986-1990 ent, RC22) with the Association Iturra, Adrianus Koster, Da- President: for the Sociology of Religion niel Meijers); Indian edition in Nicos Kokosalakis (Depart- (ASR) at their Annual meeting press, New Delhi, Gian Pu- ment of Sociology, Univers- (Atlanta, Georgia, August 21- blishing Co.; ity of Liverpool, P.O.B. 147, 23, 1988). The title of the ses- - Roberto Cipriani (ed), La Liverpool L69 3BX, United sion was «Aspects of Globali- religion populaire, Archives Kingdom) zation and Privatization of Reli- de Sciences Sociales des Vice-Presidents: gion». Papers were presented Religions, 64.1, juillet-sep- Eileen Barker, United King- by James Beckford, Roland tembre 1987 (essays by Ro- dom Robertson, Peter Beyer and berto Cipriani, Enzo Pace, Karol Borowski, USA Eugene Schoenfeld. Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Secretary: • A joint participation of RC- Nikos Kokosalakis, Emile Roberto Cipriani (Via della 22/ISA and CIRS in an inter- Poulat); English edition in Chimica 8, 00144 Rome, national conference on «Reli- press, New Delhi, Gian Pu- Italy) gion, Values and Complex blishing Co.; Board Members: Society» organized by the Ca- - James A. Beckford, Tho- Henna Gonatilate, tholic University of Milan. mas Luckmann (ed), The Sri Lanka Papers were presented by Changing Face of Religion, K. Gopal, India Thomas Luckmann, Roberto London, Sage Publications, G. Guizzardi, Italy Cipriani, Karel Dobbelaere, 1989 (essays by Roland Ro- A. Koster, The Netherlands Roland Campiche and Nikos bertson, Roberto Cipriani, J. Olopona, Nigeria Kokosalakis. The papers Yves Lambert, Michael Hill, J. Richardson, USA along with the proceedings of Wiebe Zwaga, Maria Isaura 1. Varga, Canada the Conference have been Pereira de Queiroz, Said Arjo- Since the Xlth World Congr- published in Studi di Sociolo- mand, Daniel Regan, Bennetta ess in New Delhi our Commit- gia No. 3-4 1988. Our partici- Jules-Rosette, Soumen Sen). tee was able to expand its acti- pation in this activity was or- - James Beckford (ed), vities. This has been mainly ganized by the RC22 Secret- Human Rights in Cultural and through the successful eftorts arv, Roberto Cipriani. Religious Tradition, forthcom- of our Secretary, Roberto Ci- ing. priani, who has been able to Publications Papers contributed to Con- elicit substantial funds for the Many papers presented at ference on -Valorl, Religione RC22. As there are no dues the sessions of our Research e Societá Complesse» in paid by our members we have Committee and a symposium Studi di Sociologia, 3-4, no regular income apart from organized by our past Presid- Milan, 1988: the grant of ISA. ent, Jim Beckford, at the ISA -T. Luckmann «La religio- The annual Newsletter is XI Congress (New Delhi, Au- ne e le condizioni sociali della now dispatched to about gust 1986) have been now coscienza moderna». 1500 sociologists worldwide. published or are in press. - N Kokosalakis «Religione Apart from the general busi- These are: e trascendeza. Un commento ness and activities of our Re- - «Max Weber's Essays on alla teoria di Luckrnann». search Committee the News- India and China: Papers from - K. Dobbelaere -Reliqione letter also includes detailed the XI World Congress of So- e societá moderna». programmes of Conferences ciology: Research Committee -R.Campiche «Religione e and activities of professional 22», International Sociology, societá contemporanee. Ri- associations in the social 2,3, September 1987: An- flessioni sul saggio di S.N. Ei- sciences of religion worldwi- dreas Buss,«lntroductory senstadt», de.lt also includes and exten- Comments on Max Weber's -R. Cipriani «Al di lá della sive and up-to-date recent in- Essays on India and China»; secularizzazione». ternational bibliography and Jürgen Lütt,«Max Weber and an international directory of the Vallabhacharls»: Gary G. sociology of religion. Hamilton and Cheng-Shu RC23: Sociology Our Executive Committee Kao,«Max Weber and the of science met twice since New Delhi: in Analysis of East Asian Indus- Tübingen, August 1987, and triallzation»: V. Subramaniam, Board members 1990-1991 in Helsinki, August 1989. Dur- «The Status and Function of President: ing these meetings the Exe- Intellectuals in State and So- Stuart Blume (Wetens- cutive planned and approved ciety in India and China: chapsdynamica, Universi- our general activities and en- Some Critical Oomparlsons»; teit Van Amsterdam, Nieu- dorsed the programme for - Adrianus Koster (ed), Re- we Achtergracht 166, 1018 our sessions at the Xllth ligion and Power, Amsterdam, WV Amsterdam, The Ne- World Congress in Madrid. Free University -Institute of therlands) Cultural Anthropology and Vice-President: Scientific meetings Sociology of Development, Simon Schwartzman, Brazil • A joint session was organiz- 1986 (essays by Mart Bax, Secretary- Treasurer: ed by N. Kokosalakis (Presid- Joai Ferreira de Almeida, Raul Radhika Ramasubban

20 (Centre for Social and blin 2, Ireland) • Regular, includes sub- Technological Change, MembershiplTreasurer: scription to Sociolinguistics: Zeba Corner, Sherly Rajan JOrg Bergmann (FB Soz., US $ 18 or DM 30 Road, Bandra, Bombay - Justus Liebeg Unlversltat, • Student or Member from 400050, India) Ludwigstrasse 23, 6300 country of non-convertible Members: Giessen, Germany) currency, excludes Sociolin- Oiga Amsterdamska, The Corresponding members: guistics: US $ 5 or DM 10 Netherlands Dede Boden, USA • Membership without Socio- Vojin Milic, Yugoslavia Rolf Kjolseth, USA linguistics: US $ 12 or DM 20 Pal Tamas, Hungary Payments should be made Dick Pels, The Netherlands RCS activities 1986-1990 either by cheque payable to Aant Elzinga, Sweden The Board of the Research Research Terry Shinn, France Committee undertook five Committee on Sociolin- Peter Weingart, Germany main activities during its four guistics MembershiplTrea- year term of office: surer, JOrg Bergmann, or by • Annual publication of 50- direct bank transfer to RCS RC24: Social ciolinguistics The Board has Bank Account: R.J.Bergmann, ecology delegated this task to Tony Account no: 251- 000869, Hak, whom it has coopted as Sparkasse Giessen, BLZ Board members 1990-1994 an unelected member of the 51350025, Giessen, Germany. President: Board. Since January 1987, Raimondo Strassoldo (1st. one volume (17) has been pu- di Economia e Organizza- blished, another (18) is in RC26: zione Aziendale, P. Kolbe 4, press, and a third (19) will ap- Sociotechnics - University of Udine, Italy) pear before the end of 1990. Vice-Presidents: • Bi-annual publication of sociological Zdravko Mlinar, Yugoslavia Soctotinauistics Newsletter As practice John Kasarda, USA indicated above, since Janu- Henry Teune, USA ary 1987, three issues have Report submitted by Mark Secretary: appeared, and a fourth will van de Vall, President Juergen Friedrichs (lnst appear before the end of Board Members 1990-1994 Soziologie, Sedanstrasse 1990. The first two were edit- President: 19, University of Hamburg, ed jointly by Charles Kaplan Mark van de Vall (Depart- 2000 Hamburg 13, Germa- and Tony Hak. The third is ment of Sociology, Eras- ny) edited by Brian Torode. mus University, P.O.B. Members: • RCS conference between 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Valery Fedosseev, USSR World Congresses. The Netherlands) Carlo Jaeger, Switzerland «Conversation, Discourse, Vice-President: Jiri Musil, Czecholovakia Contlict» conference held at Elizabeth J. Clark, USA Hachiro Nakamura, Japan Trinity College Dublin in Treasurer: Teresa Rojo, Spain March 1989, convener Brian Alex Boros (1547 Barlow Colin Williams, UK Torode, attracted over 100 Road, Hudson, Ohio 44236, participants from four conti- USA) nents. Copies of the confer- Secretary: RC25: ence handbook are still avail- Kees Mesman Schultz Sociolinguistics able, price $5. (Cntr Youth Welfare, Uni- • XII World Congress of So- versity of Leiden, Wasse- Compiled from the Socio- ciology naarseweg 52, Post. 9555, linguistics Newsletters no. 3 Sociolinguistics sessions 2300 RB Leiden, The Ne- (May 1990) & 4 (January at the World Congress of So- therlands) 1991) ciology were coordinated by Board members: Zbigniew Bokszanski. Rodolfo Alvarez, USA Board Members 1991-1994 Michael Cernea, USA President: Membership Jan Fritz, USA Allen D. Grimshaw (Depart- Before 1986 RCS had over Oscar Hoffman, Romania ment of Sociology, Indiana 300 members. Since then the Jerzy Kwasniewski, Poland University, Bloomington, IN fall in· the value of the dollar, Alexander Matejko, Ca- 47401, USA) also the growth of other orga- nada Vice-Presidents: nizations in the sociolinguist- Adam Podgorecki, Canada Douglas Maynard, USA ics field, had weakened de- Joachim Schmidt, Ger- Marinel Gerritsen, The Ne- mand and increased alterna- many therlands tive sources of supply for the SecretarylNewsletter Editor: services which RCS offered. The period 1989-1990 has Brian Torade (Department Currently RCS has between been one of many activities. of Sociology, University of 70 and 90 paid-up members. The main action was devoted Dublin, Trinity College, Du- 1991 Membership rates are: to organizing and conducting

21 three international conferenc- nized by RC26 with the coo- Membership es: (a)in Ottawa,Canada, (b) in peration op the Slovak Socio- At the business meeting of Bratislawa, Czechoslovakia logical Association and the July 11, 1991, dues for the and (e) in Madrid, Spain. De- Institute for Building Economy RC26 membership have been tails of each conference are and Organization, Bratislawa, raised to $ 40 for 4 years for presented below. CSSR.ltwasattendedbypa~ hard currency countries; $20 ticipants from Austria, Bulga- for 4 years for soft currency Internal communication ria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, countries. Issue No.11 of the RC26 GDR, FRG, Netherlands, Po- Cheques in US$ made out Newsletter, April 1989 was land, Sweden, UK, USA, to Sociotechnics - Sociologi- published by Joachim K.HW. USSR and Yugoslavia. cal Practice should be mailed Schmidt, while six 'Letters of • XII World Congress of So- to the Treasurer. the RC26 President' have ciology, Madrid, Spain, July been mailed to all RC26 9-13,1990. RC27: Sociology members. The program of RC26 at the XIIWorld Congress was orga- ofsport Latest business meeting nized at the international con- Compiled from the ICSS At the business meeting in ference of RC26 in Noorwij- Bulletin no.38, December Ottawa of RC26 it was decid- kerhout (near Leiden), Hol- 1990 ed that the accumulated posi- land, June, 1988. The pro- tions of Secretary/Treasurer/ gram of RC26 consisted of 9 Board members 1988-1991 Newsletter Editor should be thematic sessions and 3 joint President: separated between Secret- sessions, with papers pre- Maria T. Allison (Depart- ary/Treasurer and Editor of sented by 83 scholars and ment of Leisure Studies, the Newsletter. At that meet- practitioners from the follow- Arizona State University, ing Joachim K.HW. Schmidt ing nations: USA, Canada, Tempe, Al 85287-23032, was elected Editor of the Netherlands, Poland, FRG, USA) Newsletter, while it was de- Switzerland, Israel, UK, Nor- Vice-Presidents: cided that Horst Schneider way, Tanzania, Hungary, Aus- Gyongyi Tarnasne-Fóldest, (Bielefeld) should be invited tralia, South Africa, China, Hungary: Treasurer for the position of Secretary/ USSR. Kalevi Olin, Finland: ICSS Treasurer. However, one The program was a succ- Bulletin Editor week later H. Schneider was ess not only in quantitative General Secretary: elected Chairman of the West terms, but also in qualitative Peter Donnelly (School German Association of So- terms, because of the theore- of Physical Education, ciological Practitioners. Due tical and/or methodological McMaster University, 1280 to this extra burden to his al- level of many papers. A selec- Main Street West, Hamilton, ready heavy research task, H. tion of these will be published Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada) Schneider decided to decline in a special issue of Knowled- Board members: the invitation from RC26. ge and Policy. Urbain Claeys, Belgium: Delegate to ISA Research Three conferences Future activities Council • «Develcplnq a Paradigm of For the period 1990-1994 Kari Fasting, Norway: Effective Social Action: Cana- international conferences are ICSSPE da in Comparative Context-, being planned in Budapest, Representative Carleton University, Ottawa, Hungary (8-12 July 1991) and Klaus Heinemann, May 10-11, 1989. at the Erasmus University Germany This conference was orga- Rotterdam, The Netherlands Fred Gras, Germany nized by RC26 in cooperation (June 1992). Michael Klein, Germany with the Sociology Depart- The theme of the Budapest lbigniew Krawczyk, Poland ment of Carleton University, conference is «Socioloqy and Chantal Malefant, France Ottawa, Canada and the Insti- Intentional Social Chanqe», Jim McKay, Australia tute for Technology Policy, Participants are requested to Nuria Puig, Spain Ottawa. About 70 participante enroll at two different points: Toshio Saeki, Japan attended, from the following 1. for paper registration Vladislav Stoljarov, USSR nations: Canada, Switzer- Abstracts of papers should Margaret Talbot, United land, Poland, Holland, FRG, be sent to co-program orga- Kingdom USA, China, Hungary, Nor- nizer, Joyce lutcovich (652 Membership way. Also present were repre- West 17 Street, Erie, PA The final membership total sentatives of the World Bank 16502, USA) for 1989 was over 200. Japan and the United Nations. 2. for hotel and conference and Korea continue to be the • Sociological Practice and registration main source of new members, Political and Economic Please write to Baranyayné and the ICSS are clearly mak- Chanqes», Bratislawa, Cze- Selinga lIona, SlVT, Buda- ing gains in the United King- choslovakia, July 2-5, 1990. pest 1371, Pf. 433, Hungary, dom and Spain. But Germany This conference was orga- fax: 36-1-156.1215 and the USA continue to

22 be disappointing and we have tradition in the sociology of me. Perhaps ICSS recentjoint great difficulty attracting sport, and all ideas for attract- initiative with NASSS will help membership from France. AII ing more members from Ger- to provide more American three countries have a strong many and France are welco- members.

PAlO MEMBERS BY COUNTRY December 1989 July 1990 Australia . 3 2 Austria . 1 1 Belgium... 5 2 Czechoslovakia .. 1 1 Canada ... 20 10 FRG 9 8 Finland . 9 3 France . 6 5 GDR...... 2 Hungary .. 2 1 lsrael. 1 1 Italy . 2 2 Jamaica . 1 1 Japan .. 32 28 Korea . 29 12 Netherlands.. 1 1 Nigeria ... 1 Norway .. 2 1 Poland 6 2 PortugaL 1 1 Singapore .. 1 1 Spain 3 7 Sweden .. 3 2 Switzerland 2 1 UK... 7 7 USA 48 35 USSR 2 Yugoslavia 2 1 202 136 Three types of membership ing 1989 helped to overcome Future events are available: Regular Mem- the anticipated difficulty of • ICSS Seminar:"Sport: So- bership; Special Membership paying for Vol. 25 of the IRSS cial Change and Social Proc- (available to students and in advance. However, it may ess» Based on the meeting others not in full-time regular become necessary to contri- Protocol of the sport socio 10- employment - status to be de- bute to the costs of the Secre- gy work- group of East-Euro- termined by General Secret- tariat and the Bulletin in the pean countries as of October ary); and, Institutional Mem- near future; and we should 19, 1989 and the decision of bership (available to colleges, also be aware that part of the the Board Meeting of ICSS in universities, libraries, and amount now held results from Madrid, July 11, 1990, the sport related organizations or so me members paying fortwo next ICSS seminar will be institutes). or three years. heId in Tallinn, Estonian Re- AII members receive: public, (USSR), on June 26- International Review for the ICSS/NASSS Exchange 29, 1991. Sociology of Sport (Editor: The recently concluded ex- Sub-themes: Sport and its Klaus Heinemann, FRG; 4 is- change between Oldenbourg values in a changing society; sues/year) ICSS Bulletin (Edi- Verlag Publishers and Human The changing face of sport tor: Kalevi Olin, Finland; 2 ls- Kinetics Publishers with re- organizations; Changing sues/year) Membership dues gard to ICSS and NASSS theoretical - methodological should be payable to the mailing lists and advertising perspectives. ICSS and forwarded to the should be beneficial to ICSS. In addition to the sessions General Secretary, Peter NASSS has approximately organized around these them- Donnelly. 150 American members, only es, a session for «Open pap- 50 of whom are members of ers» and three Round Table Finances ICSS. The agreement may discussions will be held: Financial situation of ICSS lead to further joint ventures Teaching sociology of sport; remains relatively secure. The between the two organiza- The changing role of the state, increase in membership dur- tions. its effects on the practice of

23 sports and on sport organiza- 1987 - Nürnberg and Ber- January 1992: Canberra, tions; Sport and economic keley Australia (Kelly and Evans) development. Abstracts, in- 1988 - Haifa and Madison Spring 1992: Warsaw, Po- cluding tltle, author's name 1989 - Utrecht and Stan- land (Slomczynski) and institution should be sub- ford August 1992: Salt Lake mitted in English, typewritten, 1990 - Madrid: XII World City, USA (Sharda) double spaced, and must not Congress of Sociology Potential sites for the 1993 exceed 350 words. Procee- (or 1992) meetings include dings including all lectures Each of the meetings was Trieste (Cobalti), Stockholm will be published. The original well attended and there was a (Jonsson), Ankara (Ozcan), and one copy should be sent high level of scientific ex- Surrey (Milis), Calgary (Wan- to: Seminar of Sociology of change. The goal of the RC is ner), Tokyo (Tominaga) and Sport, Tallinn Teacher Train- to provide an international Los Angeles (Treiman). ing Institute, 25 Narva Rd,Tal- forum for all kinds of research linn 200102, Estonia, USSR. on social rnobillty, broader Membership: And a copy to co-organizer aspects of stratification, ine- As of August 1990, the RC Kalevi Olin (PL 35, 40351 Jy- qualities, social structures. had 361 members. They are vaskvla, Finland). The greatest scientific achie- located in 52 countries, and vements were attained in the distributed in the following development of the methodo- way: (94) United States; (26) RC28: Social logy of research on stratifica- German Federal Republic, stratification tion and in the international Netherlands; (20) Canada; comparison of social mobility, (16) Poland; (14) United King- Report submitted by Rudolf stratification, social fluidity. dom;(12) Norway, Sweden; Andorka, outgoing President The state of the art in the field (11) Japan; (10) Italy; (9) Board members 1990-1994 of international comparison Hungary, India, Israel; (8) was presented by R.Andorka Australia, Yugoslavia; (6) Fin- President: Donald J. Treiman (Depart- at the Lujbljana meeting ofthe land, France; (5) Spain, Swit- ment of Sociology, Univers- ISA Research Council (1988). zerland;(4) Nigeria, Portugal; ity of California, 405 Hilgard (3) Belgium, Bulgaria, Cze- Av, Los Angeles, CA 90024, Future meetings choslovakia; (2) Austria, Bra- zil, Mexico, People's Republic USA) The RC will continue to Secretary: meet at least twice ayear bet- of China, Republic of South Harry B.G. Ganzeboom ween World Conferences, Africa, Republic of Bopu- (Department of Social once a year in the Western thatswana, Taiwan, USSR, Sciences, Nijmegen Uni- Hemisphere, and once ayear Venezuela; (1) Algeria, Ar- versity, P.O.Box9108,6500 in the Eastern Hemisphere. gentina, Bangladesh, Colom- HK Nijmegen, Netherlands) Many participants to the Ma- bia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Gabon, Ger- Board Members: drid Business Meeting ex- Mariah Evans, Australia pressed their interest in com- man Democratic Republic, Ghana, Greece, Ireland, Michael Hout, USA bining North American mee- Kenya, Northern Ireland, Jan Jonsson, Sweden tings with American Sociolo- Tamas Kolosi, Hungary gical Association meetings Puerto Rico, Singapore, Tur- Petr Mateju, Czechoslova- (which usually are held key, Uruguay. The membership fees are kia around the middle of August). Bam Dev Sharda, USA At the moment, a relatively needed for (a) expenses as- sociated with production and Yossi Shavit, Israel large number of members is willing to organize a meeting. mailing of the newsletter and Activities 1986-1990 For 1991,the meetings have communications among The idea to have two annual been scheduled as follows: board members and (b) to meetings was proposed in 17-21 June 1991: Prague, subsidize travel of members 1984 and was followed since Czechoslovakia, hosted by from soft currency and deve- 1985. The reason for having Pavel Machonin and Petr Ma- loping countries to confe- two meeting - one in the Euro- teju: «Social Inequality in His- rences. At present the follow- pean region and another one torical and Comparative ing fees are due: US $ 40 re- in the American region - was Perspectlve». The organizers gular membership fee (4 that the RC has many memb- expect to organize a total of years). ers in both continents who 11 three-hour sessions with a US $ 10 reduced member- wanted to meet at least once a maximum of 66 papers. ship fee (4 years) for memb- year, but many of whom were 20-21 August: Columbus, ers from soft currency and not able to pay for the trans- Ohio, United States, hosted developing countries, stu- Atlantic tr avel. Following by Toby Parcel:«Considering dents, and those who are un- meetings were hold in the Individual and Structural Ex- employed or retired. course of the last four years: planations of lnequality». 1986 - New Delhi: XI World A more provisional schedu- Methods of payment: Congress of Sociology le for 1992 is: - Send a traveller's che-

24 que or Eurocheque to the Montreal, Canada. This first Our 'joint venture' with the order of Harry Ganzeboom. conference of the RC29 dur- Research Committee on Devi- - For those with American ing the period of 1986-1990 ant Behavior of the Soviet So- bank accounts only: send a was well organized by Louise ciological Association and the personal cheque to the order Shelley just before the 1987 Institute for Sociology of the of Harry Ganzeboom. Annual Meeting of the Ameri- USSR Academy of Sciences - Transfer the amount di- can Society of Criminology in has been by all means a great rectly to ABN Bankaccount Montreal. It was attended by success and a splendid expe- 555688623 in the name of H. approximately 20 colleagues rience. 75 participants took Ganzeboom, ISA RC28, from 10 countries who pre- part in that conference, 40 of Utrecht, Netherlands. sented excellent papers and them from the East (the USSR The secretary is currently had enlightening discussions and Poland), 35 from the West updating the roster of memb- on three main toplcs: Privati- (USA, Canada, Finland, West- ers with current mailing ad- zation of Police; History of Germany, France, Sweden, dresses, e-mail addresses, Crime and Criminal Justice; Norway, Belgium,Israel and and fax addresses. With your Cultural Conflict, Crime and even Australia). In all 17 parti-· dues payment, please send Criminal Justice. cipants were members of our updated information to H. • International Conference RC29. 41 papers and speech- Ganzeboom. This information on «Crirne, Drugs and Social es were presented during will be available to all memb- Control", December 1988, these four exciting days. The ers in the near future. Hong Kong. main topics were: The Deve- The conference was an ex- lopment of the Sociology of tremely successful joint ven- Deviance and Social Pro- RC29: Deviance ture of the RC on the one side blems in the USSR; Research and social control and the local organizers (par- on Alcohol Consumption and ticularly Dr. Harold Traver) Alcohol Policy in East and Report submitted by Manfr- from the Department of Socio- West; Drug Abuse and Control ed Brusten, out-going Presid- logy at the University of Hong in Different Countries; Homo- ent Kong and the Hong Kong So- sexuality, Prostitution and Board of members ciety of Criminology on the Aids; Selected Issues on Juve- 1990-1994 other side. In all there were nile Delinquency. President: about 50 participants, al- After so many years of phy- Louise Shelley (The Ameri- though most of them carne sical and ideological isolation can University School of from Hong Kong (as was ex- of social scientists in the So- Justice, 4400 Massachu- pected). Nevertheless, 22 viet Union, this conference setts Ave, NW, Washington carne from abroad represent- truly became a successful test DC 2001 6, USA) ing 10 different countries. field for Glasnost and Peres- Vice-Presidents: Hong Kong was obviously not troika. Paul Wilson, Australia only from a historical point of Maria Los, Canada view the right location for an Suggestions for future Board members: international conference on conferences Menachim Amir, Israel 'Crime, Drugs and Social Con- Below is a list of locations John Braithwaite, Australia trol', but also with respect to and colleagues, who offered Manfred Brusten, Germany the specific aspects to deal to organize Research Com- W.J. Chambliss, USA with the problem: the econom- mittee conferences within the M. Kilias, Switzerland ic interest involved in the drug next years, among these: In- Andrzej Kojder, Poland problem; the relationship bet- ternational Institute for the Boris Levin, USSR ween the drug problem and Sociology of Law in Oñati René Lévy, France politics; the not intended con- (Spain), Moscow/Leningrad Dario Melossi, USA sequences of the attempts to (USSR), Budapest (Hungary); S.K. Mukherjee, Australia get the drug problem under other offers from Switzerland, André Normandeau, Cana- control; the class structures of India and Australia. da the drug problem. As these conferences will O. Oloruntimehin, Nigeria Besides the academic mat- take place during the next B.B. Pande, India ters the Hong Kong Society of 4-year-term, the new Presid- M.M. Pugliese de Castro, Criminology had organized ent of the Research Commit- Brazil some drug-related excur- tee, Louise Shelley, began Jerzy Sarnecki, Sweden sions and a real Chinese din- with the preparation by dis- Harold Traver, Hong Kong ner including high-Ievel cussing possible subjects for J. Vigh, Hungary speeches on the local crimi- these conferences and their Minoru Yokoyama, Japan nology policy until midnight. concrete locations and dates. • First International Confer- Conferences ence on «Problerns of Deviant Publications • International Conference Behavior» in the USSR, 23-27 Although several colleagu- on "Poi ice, Culture Conflict April1990 in Vostriakovo near es have tried very hard to pro- and Crime», November 1987, Moscow. duce and publish books

25 based on papers presented at Sociology of the Soviet Aca- wanted by members, the de- the RC29 conferences, no pu- demy of Sciences - started velopment in membership (in- blication could be finished collecting revised versions of cluding an address list for in- during the 1986-1990 periodo papers presented in Vostria- dividual communication, and However, three are still in the kovo near Moscow in April information about elections), process of being published 1990. Already several at- other conferences, develop- (hopefully soon on the mar- tempts to raise money were ments and major publications ket). unsuccessful, showing the im- in the field of Deviance and (a) An updated version of mense difficulties with pu- Social Control, preparations our Jerusalem Conference blishing books based on con- for the ISA World Congress. 1985. Leslie Sebba, Univers- ferences, although - particu- ity of Jerusalem, has taken a larly in this case - the confer- Membership new initiative in this matter, ence was definitely historical- Including some late comers after the book practically had Iy unique. who joined the RC just before been finished a few years the end of the last term, we ago, but then had to face pro- Newsletters have now in all243 colleagues blems with the publishers ori- The main means of commu- from 36 countries ofthe world, ginally contacted. nication within the Research who have become members of (b) Harold Traver and Mark Committee is, no doubt, the our RC,which is - compared to Gaylord have finished the regular newsletter. In all 8 of the 155 we had at the begin- editing of their book on our such newsletters were pro- ning ofthe term - quite an incr- conference in Hong Kong De- duced and distributed every ease we are particularly proud cember 1988, which will be six months during the period of because the open and fruit- published at the end of 1990 of 1986 to 1990. Thus, keep- fui communication between or at the beginning of 1991. ing the members of the RC in- colleagues inthefield of -Devl- (e) Boris Levin and Manfred formed about RC Conferenc- ance and Social Control» all Brusten have - on the basis of es (announcements and re- over the world is the main aim a contract with the Institute for ports), publications and help of our Research Committee.

Paid-up members 1986-1990: Algeria 1 ltaly 3 Australia.. . 14 Japan ...... 32 Austria...... 1 Mexico .. 1 Belgium 9 Netherlands .. 3 Botswana. 1 Nigeria . 2 Brazil. 6 Norway . 1 Canada 17 Peru . 1 Denmark 2 Poland . 4 England. 1 Rumania 2 Finland.. 4 Scotland .. 3 France 4 Spain . 3 ffiG..16 Sweden. 4 GDR. 1 Switzerland 3 Hong Kong 3 Taiwan .. 1 Hunqary . 2 Uruguay .. 2 lndia...... 24 USA...... 56 lreland.. 1 USSR . 5 lsrael.. 8 Venezuela ... 2

Secretary and Newsletter Regional Representatives: RC30: Sociology Editor: South-Pacific and Asia: M. Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay Ray Jureidini, Australia of work (Télé-université, Université Eastern Europe: Anna du Québec, 1001 Sher- Buchner-Jeziorska, Poland Report submitted by Wolf- brooke est, CP 5250, Succ. Latin America: Jorge Carril- gang Littek, out-going Se- C, Montréal, Québec, Ca- lo Viveros, Mexico cretary nada, H2X 3M4) USSR: Natalia Chernina Treasurer: India: Vinita Srivastava Board members 1990-1994 Tony Charles (Department Liaison officer (with other President: of Sociology, Staffordshire RC's): Juan José Castillo Alonso Polytechnic, Leek Road, Yvette Lucas, France (Dept Sociología, Facultad Stoke-on- Trent ST4 2DF, Ciencias Políticas y Socio- UK) Several members of logía, Universidad Complu- Program Coordinator: 1986-1990 Board have been tense, Campus Somosa- Leni M. Beukema, The Ne- able to meet on occasion of guas, 28023 Madrid, Spain) therlands various RC30 conferences

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In case the applica- the sessions of RC31 at the Neuma Aguiar, Brazil tion is accepted the new next World Congress of So- Beth Hess, USA member has to paya fee of US ciology were discussed and Deniz Kandiyoti, UK $ 20 (which covers the period organizers were chosen. Karen Page, USA from application to the next * XII World Congress of So- Hildrun Ve, Norway World Congress of Sociology ciology, July 1990, Madrid, in 1994). Spain. RC31 held 9 thematic Past activities and 3 joint sessions as well as Neera Desai had to step in Past conferences a business meeting. Program much before her turn as • World Congress of Sociolo- was coordinated by Ursula Chairperson of RC32 becau- gy in New Delhi, August 18- Mehrlánder. se Lourdes Arizpe beca me 22, 1986. The RC31 organiz- the president of the Internati- ed 9 sessions at which about Newsletter and Bulletin onal Union of Anthropological 35 papers were presented The Newsletter of the RC31 and Ethnological Sciences and discussed, as well as 2 is published four times ayear (IUAES). The difficulties of business meetings. in the International Migration reaching various parts of the • Research Council Meeting Review, New York. Each globe, the overwhelming res- and International Conference member ofthe RC31 is entitled ponse to the different ses- of the ISA on «Cross-Cultural to a 20% discount on the sub- sions and the usual problems and International Research: scription to the IMR.Catherine of shortage of time constitut- Theory, Methods, Projects, Withol, Paris, has kindly un- ed part of the experience of Orqanlzatlon» and «Centrali- dertaken to act as editor ofthe running an international or- zation vs. Decentralizatlon» Newsletter. RC31 has rece iv- ganization. A major handicap were held in Ljubljana, Sep- ed an ISAgrant for the produc- of this term mentioned was tember 1988. Ursula Mehr- tion of its Newsletter. the absence of the publica- lander, Secretary and Trea- Otherwise, 4 bulletins were tion of a Newsletter, which led surer participated in these sent by the SecretarylTrea- to a situation where members Research Council Meetings surer to members to provide could not be informed well in on behalf of the RC31. She further information on activiti- advance about the develop- prepared and read a paper on es planned: ments. «Current Trends in Migration - Bulletin NO.16: Results of Studies in Western Europe» the election to the Board of Of- • Conferences which has been published ficers (1986-1990), Informa- At the XII World Congress of later on in International Migra- tion on the New Delhi World Sociology, July 1990, RC32 tion, Vol. XXVI, No. 4, 1988, pp. Congress of Sociology, was able to organize nine re- 461-468. During the Re- - Bulletin NO.17: Informa- gular and six joint sessions. search Council Meeting first tion on the Intercongress Further the pre-congress agreements for joint sessions Meeting of RC31 and call for Symposium (July 5-7) on were made in regard to the papers, first information on the Family, Women and Develop- next World Congress of So- Madrid World Congress, ment organized jointly with ciology in Madrid, 1990. - Bulletin NO.18: Call for ISSC and IUAES in Segovia • Intercongress meeting of papers forthe World Congress (Spain) with about 22 partici- RC31 in Utrecht, April 1989. of Sociology in Madrid, pants, was a very rewarding The Center for Studies of - Bulletin NO.19:Ballot form joint activity. RC32 also colla- Multi-Ethnic Society (SMES) for the elections of the new borated in 1988 with IUAES at the University of Utrecht, Board of Officers (1990- Women's Commission and Netherlands, in cooperation 1994), final program of RC31 ISSC in the pre-congress with the Research Institute of on the World Congress of So- symposium organized in Za- the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, ciology, Madrid. greb. Bonn, organized the Inter- • Formation of statutes for congress meeting ofthe RC31. RC32. The theme of the conference RC32: Women in Two committees were was: «Current trends in migra- society formed. Nomination Commit- tion and social mobility of mi- tee for office bearers, was grants». About 25 papers were Compiled from the RC32 constituted by Valentine Mo- presented and discussed. It is Newsletter, Fall 1990 ghadam (chair) Hanna Papa-

28 nek, Kamla Ganesh, Gudrun a newsletter until the election knowledge and theories are Ludwar-Ene; Committee for results are finalized. very relevant to various to- drafting statutes was compo- • Resolutions pies, only one symposium title sed of Deniz Kandiyoti, Shirley At the end of the Business mentioned gender. It was Nuss, Valentine Moghadam, Meeting held in Madrid, 1990, therefore, recommended that and Hanna Papanek. two resolutions were accep- every symposium should Other important point was ted. One resolution was con- have 50 percent representa- laying down of the procedure cerned with the absence of tion from women and feminist to see that alternate persons women of African descent perspectives be incorporated to each post are elected so from international scholars- while framing the programme. that crisis situation could be hipo Both these resolutions were avoided. Another motion criticized sent to the ISA President T.K. Valentine Moghadam vo- the existing pattern of organi- Oommen for further action. lunteered to take responsibi- zing Symposia at ISA, litY to inform the members where participation of women Membership about nominations and elec- has been between 10 and 20 RC32 has currently 194. tions, and to edit and circulate percent. Whereas feminist The distribution is as follows:

Latin America and Caribbean .....20 Africa . . 11 Eastern Europe 1 Asia . . 29 Western Europe ...... 38 Middle East . 3 North America 88 Oceania ... 4

about by the activity of indivi- 15-30 pages of news related RC33: Logic and dual RC33 members who to RC33 activities, the ISA, methodology in functioned as liaison to local and recent methodological and national institutions. developments; the Newsletter sociology These were two very suc- is currently published with the Compiled from the RC33 cessful conferences in Ams- BMS (Bulletin de Méthodolo- Newsletter, Spring 1990 terdam 1984 and Dubrovnik gie Sociologique), 1986 organized by Willem Board members 1990-1994 Saris and Anuska Ferligoi, Membership President: respectively. These RC33 co- Payment of membership Karl M. van Meter (LlSH- sponsored events were dues US$ 10 or FF 70 for the CNRS, 54 Blvd. Raspail, arranged following a rather 1991-1994 period can be 75006 Paris, France) simple policy: made by either: Vice-Presidents: 1. Each individual RC33 - sending a cheque for for Africa, Asia, Australia: member is encouraged to ex- US$ 10 drawn on a US bank Norman W.H. Blaikie plore opportunities to have a to Karl van Meter; for the Americas: Duane F. local or national institution - transferring FF 70 to the Alwin co-sponsor an RC33 works- French postal giro account, in for Eastern Europe: Michail hop or conference. RC33 co- the name of AIMS, 23.279.80 S. Kosolapov, USSR sponsorship is non-monetary U, Paris; for Western Europe: Dag- and to some degree symbolic. - sending a cheque for FF mar Krebs, Germany 2. RC33 co-sponsorship is 70 drawn on a French bank to Secretary: contingent upon equal and Karl van Meter; Ray Pawson (Dept. of So- fair access of all RC33 mem- ciology, University of bers to such an event. This in- Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, Uni- cludes an impartial review RC34: Sociology ted Kingdom) process of papers/abstracts of youth Board Members: submitted or the establish- Peter T. Carrington, Cana- ment of other fair selection Report submitted by Jür- da criteria and their even appli- gen Hartmann, outgoing Pre- Anuska Ferligoi, Yugosla- cation. sident via 3. To make sure that the Past President: RC33 objectives outline Board members 1990-1991 Manfred Kuechler, USA above are honored, designa- President: ted RC33 officers should be Sibylle Hübner-Funk RC33 Sponsored Events: ex-officio members of an in- (Deutsches Jugendinstitut, Policies and Plans ternational organizing com- Freibadstr. 30, 8000 Mün- The last four years were mittee. chen 90, Germany) particularly successful in sta- Logic and Methodology Vice-Presidents: ging a series of workshops Newsletter is published for Arab Countries: and conferences brought twice ayear (Spring and Fall); Ibrahim Othman, Kuwait

29 for Asia: Zhi-Kun-Jin, China Though the Vice-Presi- cial resources can be obtai- for Eastern Europe: Dalibor dents for Africa and Latin ned in the future. Holda, Czechoslovakia America made a considera- Inthis context, the develop- for Latin America: Dina ble effort to raise the activity ment of the European region Krauskopf, Costa Rica level from their region and al- can be seen as an example for North America: Barbara so a number of support ac- for a decentralized strategy to Newman, USA tions by the President were strengthen the web of com- for Oceania: Don Ander- undertaken, the number of re- munication and scientific son, Australia searchers from those regions work beyond the ad-hoc work for USSR: Igor M. lIyinski, and the number of activities of single research meetings USSR are still rather low and new ef- with a minimum of outside fi- for Western Europe: Britta forts have to be made in the nancial backing. Jonsson, Sweden future to find ways to involve The sub-regional activities Board-at-Iarge: youth researchers in Africa of Nordic youth researchers Gerard Mauger, France and Latin America in the inter- initiated by Ola Stafseng, Brit- Ola Stafseng, Norway national exchange within our ta Jonsson and others have Past President: Jürgen Committee. let to regular bi-annual re- Hartmann, Sweden With respect to GDR and search conferences on the Organizational Secretary: Czechoslovakia the develop- Nordic level, an exchange of Emilia Yanakieva (Institute ment was very successful as bibliographies on youth re- of Youth Studies, 17 Tcher- both the number of resear- search and a regular newslet- vena Iskra, 1619 Sofia, Bul- chers being active in the ter serving the Nordic coun- garia) Committee and the meetings tries. The exchange of youth Treasurer/Coordinator: were multiplied during the researchers has been inten- Sylvia Trnka (European past periodo Several interna- sified on the formal level by Centre, Berggasse 17, tional meetings were hosted inviting foreign scholars to the 1090 Vienna, Austria) in both countries and a fruitful Boards of National Youth Re- Newsletter Editor: exchange also on individual search, as in the case of Nor- Ladislav Machácek, Cze- and bilateral level was initia- way, and by a number of in- choslovakia ted by the activities of RC34. formal seminars and direct With the political change that research contacts between General observations has taken place in those the countries. The period 1986-1990 has countries, and Eastern Euro- The political developments been for the RC34 a time of pe as a whole, we expect a of 1989 has on the European consolidation and intensive further increase in the enga- level resulted in the founda- scientific activities in accor- gement of researchers from tion of an all Circle of Youth dance to the planning sche- Eastern Europe which during Research Coordination in Eu- dule drawn up at the World a long period was hindered rope (CYRCE)in Berlin on the Congress in New Delhi. The by ideological constrains. initiative of Vice-President Si- decentralized structure of the Itwas also possible to esta- bylle Hübner-Funk. CYRCE Committee with a number of blish direct contacts to Chi- has the aim to establish a fo- regional Vice-Presidents was nese youth researchers and rum for common European very conducive to an increase even to reach an agreement research initiatives bringing of scientific activities in all for an international youth together youth researchers parts of the world. 23 confe- conference in China in Spring from both Eastern and Wes- rences under the umbrella of 1990. The unfortunate events tern Europe in cooperation the RC34 were organized in of June 1989 made it impossi- with international agencies as cooperation with regional and ble to realize our plans. the Council of Europe and the national organizations brin- European Community. ging together some thou- Regional activities Through the established sands of youth researchers As foreseen in the plan of network of European youth from a large variety of coun- action of RC34, the Vice-Pre- researchers it will be possible tries, details can be seen in sidents became the main or- to allocate personnel and fi- the overview of activities furt- ganizers of regional meetings nancial resources for youth her down. in their areas. At least one issues of central interest in As a matter of central im- meeting was organized in the forthcoming years in Eu- portance was the enlarge- each region and in addition, a rope. ment of participation of re- net of youth researchers was searchers from countries up established in each region. Future developments to 1986 not being active in Though some of our plans It is of utmost importance RC34 as a number of coun- to establish regional youth re- for the work of RC34to recruit tries in Africa, Latin America search centers have not yet devoted and engaged collea- orthe P.R.China, GDR,Ruma- become a reality, grounds ha- gues both as members and as nia and Czechoslovakia by ve been laid in the Asian and officers of the Board. But also organizing conferences in African regions that might the ability of the RC34 to stay those countries. flourish, if the needed finan- in contact with the general

30 development of scientific re- in Asia and the Pacific Region, • Panel on Age-Related To- search in youth research and, 1988-1990. pic (iotntly with ISPP),Tel Aviv, especially, in sociology will Israel, 1989; contribute to the growth of our Scientific conferences: • International Meeting on Committee. In respect to the • Youth Research in Scandi- Youth and Social Mobility, social development of the navia, Oslo, Norway, January Varna, Bulgaria, May 1989; «global society-, the Commit- 1987; • Youth and Value-Orienta- tee has an excellent starting • Youth and New Technolo- tions: Structures, Determi- position as the problems of gies, Varna, Bulgaria, May nants and Processes, Wei- social change and renewal 1987; mar, GDR, September 1989; are closely linked to the situa- • Estudios e Investigaciones • Youth and New Technolo- tion of the young generation. sobre Juventud en America gies: Project meeting, Du- The themes of Democratic Latina: Balance y Perspecti- brovnik, Yugoslavia, February Participation of Youth and vas, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990; the relation of Youth and New August 1987; • Youth and New Technolo- Technologies addressed • Meeting of the Heads of gies: Project meeting, Prague, earlier in larger comparative Youth Research Centers, So- CSSR, April 1990. studies sponsored by RC34, fia/Bulgaria, September have been well in line with ac- 1987; Publications tual social development and • Young People and Their International Bulletin of can be used as bases for fu- Parents üoint meeting with Youth Research, 2 vol. annua- ture studies of the social pro- RC06), Freising-Munich, FRG, lIy;In charge: Rudolf Mayer, cesses of change visible in September 1987; Sibylle Hübner-Funk, Distri- China and other Third World • Education, Youth and Na- bution: J. Hartmann. countries can be placed in tion Building (ioint meeting A number of volumes pu- the frame of reference deve- with RC04), Camberra, Aus- blished by RC members; so- loped in those studies and ex- tralia, November 1987; me of them include contribu- trapolations from the theoreti- • Theoretical and Methodo- tions presented at the RC cal discussions offered can logical Problems of Youth Re- meetings. be applied to various scena- search, Leipzig/GDR, De- Forthcoming: rios of future societal deve- cember 1987; Further Development of the lopment. • BSA Youth Study Group: International Youth Library A third area of special inte- Current Research in Britain, Documentation and Interna- rest is the growing rate of mi- London, UK, March 1988; tional Youth Library. In char- gration either in the form of • Regional Conference on ge: Ivan Velev. refugees, migrating workers, Youth and Democratization, Databank on the Network of urbanization processes or in- Varna, Bulgaria, May 1988; Youth Researchers ternational tourism which is • Youth in Latin America, In charge: Sylvia Trnka. heavily effecting the youth Montevideo, Uruguay, August generation in most parts of 1988; Membership the world. RC34 has received • Youth at the Start of the While the newsleUer has an invitation to participate in Third Millennium: Problems been sent to about 450 re- the first World Conference and Prospects, Prague, searchers around the globe, o Youth Tourism taking CSSR, June 1988; the number of members place in January 1991, New • Life Course and Generatio- paying actually their dues has Delhi, India. The social and nal Politics (iointly with ISPP), been around 200. Though ru- political effects of increase New York, July 1988; les allowing payments in local mobility among young people • Youth Movements (lolntly currency to the regional Vice- should be of major concern to with ASA), Atlanta, Georgia, President have been applied, the future work of our Com- USA, August 1988; this offer has only resulted in mittee. • Regional Conference on a larger participation in the Youth: USSR region, Mos- Eastern European region. Scientific events 1986-1990 cow, USSR, November 1988; In order to be a full member Research projects: • Youth and Scientific-tech- of the RC34, you are obliged • European Youth and New nological Revolution, Leipzig, to pay your membership due Technologies: Attitudes, Ac- GDR, November 1988; of $ 30 (institutional mem- tions, Consequences, 1987- • Youth and New Technolo- bers: US $ 300) for the wor- 1990; gies: Project meeting, Madrid, king period 1990-1994. • Social Problems of the Spain, December 1988; Payments should be trans- Transition from Education to • Youth Marginality in the ferred to the Treasurer. Do not Work and the Ongoing Scien- Third World Countries, use personal cheques; use tific Revolution, 1989; Visakhapatnam, India, March international money orders • Work as a Value under the 1989; or direct transfers to postal Conditions of New Technolo- •* Second Nordic Youth Re- giro account nO.7522.653 gies, 1988-1990; search Conference, Savon- with the Austrian PSK Bank • Regional Project on Youth linna, Finland, June 1989; (Vienna).

31 cial theory in order to arrive at Box 19079, 1000 GB Ams- RC35: Committee common panels at the 1994 terdam, The Netherlands) on conceptual and World Congress of the ISA. Vice-Presidents: In between these years Frank A. Johnson, USA terminological there will be a new group wit- Menachem Rosner, Israel analysis COCTA hin the SUBMETframework of Richard Schacht, USA COCTA that will hold confe- Secretary: Report submitted by Jan- rences in order to discuss key Walter Heinz (FB9: Sonder- Erik Lane, President concepts in sociological re- forschungsbereich 186, search. Universitat Bremen, Univer- Board of members At the APSA meeting in San sitátsallee, Postfach 330 President: Jan-Erik Lane (De- Francisco, August 1990, the 440, 2800 Bremen, Germa- partment of Economics, problem of rejuvenating the ny) University of Lund, POB COCTA group was again de- Treasurer: 7082, 220 07 Lund, Swe- Lauren Langmann (Depart- den) bated in a candid and open fashion. It was decided to ment of Sociology and Vice-Presidents: launch a strong set of panels Anthropology, Loyola Uni- Jacques Gerstle, France at the IPSAWorld Congress in versity, 6525 North Sheri- Alberto Marradi, Italy Buenos Aires in July 1991 fo- Fred W. Riggs, USA dan Road, Chicago, IL cussing on concept analysis 606626, USA) Secretary: and political theory. Judith Gillespie (Lakewood Members: Moreover, Judith Gillespie Selina Adjebeng-Asem, Ni- Community College, 3401 will take on the task of brin- geria Century Avenue, White ging out the COCTA news in Peter Archibald, Canada Bear Lake, Minnesota the future. Together with Joseph Gabel, France 55110, USA) George Graham she will reac- Raja Ganesan, India Board members: John AA Ayode, Nigeria tivate COCTAwithin the APSA John Horton, USA Norman Blaikie, Australia structure. Rabindra Kanungo, Cana- Progress has been made in Georges Condominas, da the work that COCTA is doing Mihailo Markovic, Yugosla- France with the International Social George J. Graham, USA via Science Council. Fred W. Peter Halfpenny, UK David McLellan, United Liparit Kiuzadjan, Austria Riggs will continue his work Kingdom Jurgen Kriz, Germany on conceptual glossaries wit- Andrew Oldenquist, USA Jonathan Malicsi, Philippi- hin the INTERCOCTA group Melvin Seeman, USA and will seek an outlet for pu- Shlomo Shoham, Israel nes blishing the finalized version Edmund Mokrzycki, Poland D. M. Pestonjee, India of the major Ethnicity manus- Newsletters cript. President and Secretary Giovanni Sartori, USA Jan-Erik Lane has brought Walter Schwager, Nether- have compiled the follo- out his manuscript on social, wing Newsletters: lands economic and political deve- VoI.6-2: September 1988 Henry Teune, USA lopment in published form: VoI.6-3: December 1988 Stephen Turner, USA VoI.7-1: November 1989 Hebe Vessuri, Venezuela Comparative Political Eco- nomywith Pinter Publishers in At the Xllth World Congress London and Columbia Uni- These Newsletters were of Sociology in Madrid, in the versity Press in New York. It mailed to the 316 persons on midst of a number of well at- has sold about 1000 copies our mailing list. Dueto our lar- tended panels, it was decided within three months, which is ge number of Indian to enlarge the board of no surprise as COCTA publi- members (66), it was decided COCTAwith a numberofqua- cations used to receive atten- to print an Indian edition of lified sociologists from diffe- tion. our Newsletter, which could rent countries. Bringing in be cheaply produced in India, people with extensive expe- and mailed for inland posta- rience of social research un- RC36: Alienation ge, thanks to the efforts of Dr. derlines the efforts to move theory and Bhoite; non-convertible In- COCTA to confront the major dian membership fees were theoretical problems within research used for this purpose. the social sciences. As a mat- Moreover, a 72-page abs- ter of fact, significant steps Report submitted by Felix tract booklet was mailed to all have already been taken to Geyer, President, and Walter congress participants. It con- initiate a collaboration bet- Heinz, Secretary tains RC36 Madrid program: ween COCTA and the other nine sessions, one joint ses- major research groups within Board members 1990-1994 sion with RC26 and three tri- the ISA that focus on con- President: ple-joint sessions (RC05-31- cepts and approaches in so- Felix Geyer (SISWO, P.O. 36, RC 10-32-36, RC10-30-

32 36); and furthermore all abs- with many other RC's in order tracts, as well as the agenda to provide up-to-date infor- RC37: Sociology for our business meeting with mation about our activities to of arts enclosures. members of RC's in related fields. Compiled from the Report Meetings For the Madrid congress, submitted by Mária Sági, out- • A conference on «Social joint sessions have been or- going Secretary, and RC37 Movements as a Force of De- ganized with RC's 05, 10, 26, Newsletter no. 17, October alienation» was organized 30, 31, and 32. 1990 jointly by our RCand RC1O at the Inter-University Center Initiative to rename the RC Board members 1990-1994 in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, One of the reasons for the President: March 14-18, 1988. Some 30 declining and increasingly Vera L. Zolberg (Depart- participants from 14 coun- passive interest of our mem- ment of Sociology, New tries discussed 20 papers bers - apart from the usual School for Social Re- that were presented in plena- ones: people move to other search, 65 Fifth Avenue, ry sessions. The general the- fields, travel grants are in- New York, NY 10003, USA) me was subdivided into four creasingly difficult to obtain, Honorary Chair: subtopics: etc. - might lle in the fact that Ivan Vitanyi - Theoretical approaches: the theme of alienation itself Vice-President: Alienation, de-alienation, went out of fashion, and has Jeffrey Halley, USA «old» and «new••social move- lost its prominence in socio- Pierre-Michael Menger, ments; logical theory and research France - New social movements in during the past decade. There Richard A. Peterson, USA post-industrial societies; is, however, a variety of topics Secretary: - Workers' movements in current discourse which Maria Shevtsova (Depart- and self-management; are related to alienation / de- ment of French Studies, - Social movements and alienation, e.g. individualism Center for European Stu- social change: Comparative and cultural estrangement, dies, University of Sydney, historical and empirical ap- social networks and social NSW 2006, Australia) proaches. isolation, empowerment, new Members: • RC Secretary Walter Heinz social movements, peaceful Ayo Akinwale, Nigeria spent half a year as a fellow at revolutions in Eastern Euro- Abha Avasthi, India the Netherlands Institute for pe, etc. Therefore, the RC Judith H. Balfe, USA Advanced Studies in the Hu- Board has started a debate, Irmgard Bontinck, Austria manities and Social Sciences initiated by our member Aa- Luigi del Grosso Destreri, (NIAS)in early 1989, and invi- ron Antonovsky, for a possi- Italy ted several members of RC36 ble change or adaptation of K. Peter Etzkorn, USA for discussions about metho- our name. Gary Alan Fine, USA dological advances in longi- RC Statutes Ludmila E. Gaav, USSR tudinal research on changes At the request of the Re- IvanGabal, Czechoslovakia in alienation in the life course. search Council, statutes were Jeoffrey Goldfarb, USA • RC President Felix Geyer drawn up, and approved by Jorge González, Mexico and Walter Heinz had four the Board. David Halle, England meetings in Amsterdam and Antoine Hennion, France the Hague in spring and sum- Interim conference Aldona Jawlowska, Poland mer 1989 in order to plan ses- Plans are being made to Arturo Rodriguez Morato, sions and coordinate papers hold an interim meeting in Spain for the World Congress in Ma- Summer or Fall 1992, prefe- Jan C.C.Rupp, Netherlands drid; this entailed intensive rably in Eastern Europe. Heinz-Gunter Vester, Ger- contacts with 20 session or- many ganizers and co-organizers, Membership Concha Virgili Belda, Spain and with the individual parti- Although we do have 316 Mino Vianello, Italy cipants as well. persons on our mailing líst, we face the usual problem: Interesting Events: Past Cooperation within ISA onlya very small minority can In the last two years the Felix Geyer and David be considered as members in RC37 has considered the Schweitzer attended the ISA good standing, have paid preparations for the Madrid Research Council meeting in their fees, and are otherwise Congress as its primary task. Ljubljana, September 1988, active. Therefore, it was deci- Nine sessions at the World as representatives of RC36. ded to start a new campaign Congress listing 133 presen- A $ 800 subsidy was recei- for active members at the tations, showed just how ved from the ISA, especially World Congress, and to send much ability, commitment and for production and mailing of our Newsletter henceforth imagination have gone into our Newsletter. only to those persons who building the discipline of the Newsletters are exchanged contribute actively to the RC. sociology of the arts.

33 Papers covered such tricky auspices of the Universitá Li- hie et cycle de vie» (organized issues as the status of minori- bera di Trento and provincial, by Francis Godard; Frédéric ty or marginal art forms in res- municipal etc., governmental DeConninck, CERCOM) took pect of dominant institutions bodies. place in Marseille in 1988. and cultures; the problems of These last two years the analyzing audience recep- Annualdues RC38 has mainly focused its tion; the issue of artists for- Regular members, US $ 10 activities on the preparation ming specific professional (Members with currency of the Xllth World Congress of groups in terms of labor, pro- restrictions are exempt from Sociology in Madrid, organi- ductivity and consumption; payment) zing 8 sessions and 2 [olnt corporate buyers of art works Members from Developing sesslons: one with RC28 So- and the criteria for buying Countries, US $ 3 cial Stratification on the the- them; the relationship to, and Student Members, US $ 3 me «Qualitative Approaches intervention of, politics in the to Social Mobility»: the other artistic sphere, from both a Payments should be for- with RC11 Sociology of Aging. historical and contemporary warded to the President or the 98 participants presented perspective, and, though not Secretary. either a full paper or a short finally, the problematic areas presentation of their papers of cultural policy in the public during these sessions. as well as private sectors. RC38: Biography In 1992 and 1993 two con- What was particularly stri- and society ferences are planned on «Po- king about the sessions vie- litical Transformations and wed as a whole was how pa- Report submitted by Daniel the Reconstruction of Bio- pers crossed the boundaries Bertaux, outgoing President graphies" (place and dates to set by the various rubrics be announced). grouping them, thus giving Board members 1990-1994 the RC37 coherence and President: Publications continuity. Wolfram Fischer-Rosenthal Newsletter Biography and (Klinikum Justus Liebig Society (published twice a Interesting Events: Present University, Dept. Medical year). Sergei Plotnikov, Vice-Pre- SCiology, Friedrichstrasse Since 1983, when the Re- sident of RC37, will arrange a 24, 6300 Giessen, Germa- search Committee was set, 13 publication in Moscow of the ny) issues of the newsletter has papers presented (or written, Past-President: been published. but not presented) at the 1990 Daniel Bertaux, France Issue no.10 (June 1988) World Congress.lt is intended Treasurer: Editor: Hane Synge (Canada) that they will appear in their Christiane Grote (Universi- Issue no. 11 (December originallanguage as well as in ty Dortmund, FB 1988) Editor: Jan Wlodarek Russian translation. Wirtshafts- & Sozialwis- (Poland) Issue no.12 (April senschaften, Emil-Figge- 1989) Editor: Daniel Bertaux Interesting Events: Future Str. 50, 4600 Dortmund 50, (France) Moscow 1991: The afore- Germany) Issue no. 13 (December mentioned publication is in Members: 1989) Editor: Robert Cabanes anticipation of, though not Martine Burgos, France (ORSTOM Grand Programme contingent upon, a meeting Consuelo Corradi, Italy Travail et Pratiques Sociales, also organized by Sergei Catherine Delcroix, Bel- Paris, France) Plotnikov to be held in Mos- gium Directory of members of cow, probably in June 1991. Brian Elliot, Canada the RC38 was updated in May The meeting will take the form Francis Godard, France 1990. of a colloquiurn whose theme Judith Gordon, USA Life Stories/Récits de vie has not yet been set but will Marianne Gullestad, Nor- (published once ayear) Since revolve around the subject of way 1985, five issues of this yearly the arts in society. Erika M. Hoerning, FRG bilingual journal have been Trento 1992: Board mem- Lena Inowlocki, Nether- published. ber Luigi del Grosso Destreri lands Issue no. 4 (1988) -Farnilles has proposed an interim Martin Kohli, FRG and Careers in Hístory- inclu- RC37 colloquium, Le. mid- Christian Lalive d'Epinay, des papers by Brian Elliot, term between World Con- Switzerland Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle gresses. The thematic and ot- Alejandra Massolo, Mexico Bertaux-Wiame, Kay Sander- her agenda of the meeting will Luben Nikolov, Bulgaria son, Pat Straw and Stephen be determined later, but one Jan P. Roos, Finland Kendrick, Michael Roper, of the items will pertain to the Paul Thompson, United Anne Muxel and Annick Per- themes, organization and mo- Kingdom cheron. dalities of the next World Con- Issue no. 5 (1988) «Frorn Li- gress. The colloquium will be Activities ves to Life Storles» includes held under the combined A conference on «Bioqrap- articles by Hanns-Georg

34 Brose, Martine Burgos, Mi- Committee during the 1989- national columns would be of chal M. McCall, Catherine 90 year has been focused on great interest to members in Delcroix, Anne Guyaux, Evan- planning the Madrid programo other nations who are less in- gelina Rodríguez. The Committee had nine ses- formed about activities else- sions plus a business meet- where. Please volunteer to re- Membership ing. The focus of many of the present disaster research In May 1990, the Research sessions was on cross nati- and related activities in your Committee numbers 176 onal and comparative as- nation to those of us who live m embers in 32 countries. pects of disaster research elsewhere. Our goal for Asso- To become a member (an- and planning efforts. One ciate National Editors is to nual dues 20 US$) please session focused on the polit- have one volunteer from each contact Wolfram Fischer-Ro- ics of disaster response in nation represented by our senthal(address above). Asia and two sessions dealt membership. Contactthe Edi- with issues relating to risk and tor, Denis S. Mileti. risk management. In addition, The RC39 journal The Inter- RC39: Sociology one session gave particular national Journal of Mass of disasters attention to the International Emergencies and Disasters is Decade of Natural Disaster published triennially during Report submitted by Rus- Reduction which was just the months of March, August sell R. Dynes, outgoing Pre- being initiated around the and December at the Arizona sident world. Participation in the State University, USA. It was program involved scholars edited by Thomas E. Drabek Board members 1990-1994 from 25 countries. and Neil R. Britton. After the President: The RC continues to sup- Madrid Congress, co-editors Thomas E. Drabek (Depart- port and collaborate with re- are Ronald Perry and Neil ment of Sociology, Univers- search efforts around the Britton. ity of Denver, Denver, Colo- world. The RC supported a rado 80208-0209, USA) seminar on the Socio-eco- Membership Vice-Presidents: nomic Aspects of Disaster in The current membership is Wolf Dombrowsky, Germa- the Asian Pacific Region approximately 190 persons ny which was held at the Asian from 30 countries and 49 or- Anna Maria Boileau, Italy Disaster Preparedness Cent- ganizations from 16 countries Secretary: er, Asian Institute of Techno- as institutional members. Kathleen Tierney (Disaster logy, Bangkok, March 22-24, The Executive Board is de- Research Center, Univers- 1989. In addition, the RC held veloping a program to assist ity Delaware, Newark, Dela- evening sessions during the members in countries with ware 19716, USA) annual Meetings ofthe Ameri- non-convertible currency to Members: can Sociological Association. pay dues. Frederick Bates, USA Persons desiring to join Uriel Rosenthal, Nether- Future activities RC39 should request a mem- lands The RC39 will sponsor a bership application from the Nicholas Petropoulos, session within the 1991 an- Secretary, Kathleen Tierney. Greece nual meeting of the American Annual dues are US $ 20.00. Russell R. Dynes, USA Sociological Association in AII members receive the offi- Joanne Nigg, USA Cincinnati, Ohio. This session cial journal of the Committee Editors: is scheduled for August 26, and RC39 newsletter. RC39 journal The Internati- 1991. For further information, onal Journal of Mass Emer- or requests to present brief gencies and Disasters: Ro- research summary reports, RC40: Sociology nald Perry (School for Public please contact Thomas E. Affairs, Arizona State Uni- Drabek, President. of agriculture versity, Tempe, Arizona 85287 -0603, USA) Neil Brit- Publications Report submitted by Ales- ton (Centre for Disaster Ma- The RC39 publishes a sandro Bonanno, Secretary nagement, University of New newsletter Unscheduled England, P.O.Box AU 199, Ar- Events. Board members 1986-1990 midale NSW 2350, Australia) The Editors solicit volunte- President: RC39 newsletter Unschedul- ers to serve the newsletter as Lawrence Busch (Dept So- ed Events: Denis S. Mileti Associate National Editors. ciology, Michigan State Un- (Hazards Assessment Labo- Associate National Editors iversity, East Lansing, MI ratory, Colorado State Uni- would write a column for in- 48824, USA) versity, Fort Collins, CO clusion in the newsletter Secretary: 80523, USA) about current activities, re- Alessandro Bonanno (Dept search publications and Rural Sociology, University Past activities other items of interest hap- of Missouri, Columbia, MO Much of the activity of the pening in their nation. These 65211, USA)

35 Members: theories of change; The polltl- rial committee to supervise Ana Barbic, Yugoslavia cal economy of the global the selection of papers for pu- Manuel Belo Moreira, Por- corporation; Globalization blication in such a special tugal and technology; Globaliza- issue. Ivan Sergio F. Sousa, Brazil tion and the environment. Sociologia Ruralis is also considering the possibility of Coordination of activities Publications devoting a special issue to the The RC has coordinated An edited volume contain- work of the RC. activities among members of ing papers presented at the the Research Committee Sociology of Agriculture ses- How to become a member through periodic information sions at the World Congress of RC40 and consultation. A newslet- in New Delhi (1986) was pu- Membership annual dues: ter has been generated twice blished in 1989 by Concept USA/Canada 15 US$; Euro- ayear for the past two years. Publishing Company of New pe/Japan 20 US$; Rest of the The RC has further expanded Delhi. The book is edited by world 10 US$. Membership its membership, which now Alessandro Bonanno and en- includes subscription to the includes a substantial con- titled Sociology of Agriculture: International Journal of Socio- tingent of scholars from Third Technology, Labor, Develop- logy of Agriculture and Food World countries as well as a ment and Social Classes in an and to the bi-annual Newslet- large number of scholars International Perspective. ter. Send directly a subscrip- from Europe and North Ame- Another edited volume tion request to the Internati- rica. containing papers presented onal Journal of Sociology of at the 1987 American Rural Agriculture and Food. Cend- Participation at Sociological Society Meeting es, Poba International International Congresses by RC40 members was re- No.151, P.O. Box 02-5255, The Research Committee cently published by North Ca- Miami, FL,USA. Make checks has organized nine open ses- rolina Press, USA. payable to: Cendes Ingresos sions at the XII World Conqr- The book entitled The New Prorios. ess of Sociology heId in Ma- Polítical Economy of Agricul- drid, Spain, July 1990. A total ture is edited by William H. of 56 papers have been se- Friedland, Lawrence M. RC41: Sociology lected for the sessions. This Busch and Frederick H. But- of population number includes papers se- tel. lected for presentation in Furthermore, members of Board members 1990-1994 mini-sessions. Mini-sessions the RC have published a sig- President: were scheduled during nificant number of articles William F. Stinner (Popula- «dead-tirnes» at the Congress and books at the international tion Research Laboratory, to accommodate the over- level. Department of Sociology, whelming number of requests The RC has decided to ac- Utah State University, which reached the RC40 se- cept a proposal from the Cen- Logan, UT 84322-0730, cretariat in the past months. tro de Estudios del Desarrollo USA) A resolution was passed by of the Universidad Central de Vice-President: the members of the RC indi- Venezuela (CENDES) to cre- Nieuw Shong Tong, Brunei cating the less than adequate ate a new international [our- Secretary: conditions of the room in nal. The International Journal Nan Johnson (Department which the sessions took of Agriculture and Foodwill be of Sociology, Berkey Hall, place. issued annually, will contain Michigan State University, 10 to 12 refereed articles and East Lansing, MI 48824- Organization of Future a book review section, and 1111, USA) International Meetings will be the official journal of The RC is actively involved the RC. Preparations are in the organization of an inter- under way for the publication RC42: Social national interdisciplinary ofthe first issue, which should psychology symposium entitled «The Glo- appear early in the summer of balization of the Food and 1991. Information concerning Board members 1990-1994 Agricultural Systerns» to be the paper submission policy President: held at the University of Mis- and subscriptions will be Mincho Draganov (Depart- souri, Columbia, USA. The made available to RC memb- ment of Social Psychology, symposium will be held June ers in the next few months. Institute of Sociology, 13 A 2-6, 1991 and will involve The Spanish journal Agri- Moskovska Street, 1000 members of the Research cultura y Sociedad has also Sofia, Bulgaria) Committee together with agreed to devote a special Secretary- Treasurer: other interested social scien- issue each year to the publi- Karen Cook (Department of tists from around the world. cation of papers developed Sociology DK-40, Univers- Topics to be discussed in- by RC members. It has been ity of Washington, Seattle, clude: Globalization and decided to appoint an edito- WA 98195, USA)

36 Members: At the ISA World Congress in The RC publishes a regular Carl Backman, USA Uppsala, Sweden, it organiz- Newsletter which reports on Alexandra Jasinska-Kania, ed five successful sessions. A RC activities, activities of Poland selection of these papers was members (including publica- Vladimir Magun, USSR subsequently published by tions), forthcoming confe- Gower Press. rences and other items of in- At the Xth ISAWorld Congr- terest. RC43: Housing ess in Mexico City in 1982, the Distribution is via an inter- Group again heId five well-at- national system of 20 regional and built tended sessions. The presen- editors. Since September environment tations resulted in a book pu- 1989, publication has been in blication by Duke University French, Spanish and English. Report submitted by Leslie Press. Kilmartin, President In 1985, the group organiz- Recent Conferences ed a major conference in June 1989: the Group Board members 1990-1994 Amsterdam,«Housinq Mar- sponsored a conference on President: kets and Policies in an Era of «Social Theory and the Pro- Leslie Kilmartin (Faculty of Fiscal Austerity». This event duction of the Built Environ- Arts, Swinburne Institute of attracted about 140 re- rnent- in Budapest. Technology, John Street, searchers from across the September 1989: the P.O.Box 218, Hawthorne world, who presented 70 pap- Group sponsored a confer- 3122, Victoria, Australia) ers during four days of ses- ence on «Housinq Problems Vice-Presidents: sions. In addition, there were in the 1990s» in Prague. Marc H. Choko, Canada four keynote addresses and a June 1990: the Group Jürgen Friedrichs, Germa- day-Iong expert-guided bus sponsored an international ny tour. Greenwood Press pu- conference on «Housinq De- Secretary: blished two books and the bates - Urban Challenges» in David Thorns (Department journal Environment and Be- Paris. The program of the of Sociology, University of havior devoted a special conference was carefully Canterbury, Christchurch issue based on papers pre- planned so that it comple- 1, New Zealand) sented at this conference. mented rather than detracted Treasurer: At the ISA Congress in New from the Madrid Congress. Wim P. Blauw (Dept Econo- Delhi in 1986, the Group heId July 1990: the Group was mical Sociology and Psy- eight sessions. The program well represented at the World chology, Erasmus Univers- listed 86 papers and resulted Congress in Madrid and of- ity, P.O.Box 1738, 3000 DR in several publications. fered 9 sessions in the pro- Rotterdam, The Nether- In 1987, the group obtained gramo lands) the sponsorship of the Volks- Members: wagen Foundation for a sym- Membership Sylvia F. Fava, USA posiurn, held in Hamburg, At present, the membership Dan Ferrand-Bechmann, West Germany, September of the RC43 numbers 214. France 16-20) 1987. «Affordable In order to become a Kazuo Hayakawa, Japan Housing: From Participation member, please forward US Alan Murie, Scotland to Self-help and Shelter for $10 or 20 Dutch Guilders to David Popenoe, USA the Horneless».There were 27 the Treasurer, Wim Blauw. Ravinder Singh Sandhu, participants from 11 countri- Subscriptions can be reduc- India es who presented 24 papers, ed or waived in the case of Suzana Pasternak, Brazil leading to two forthcoming applicants from developing Founding President: Eliza- books. countries and other countries beth Huttman, USA Another major conference where Western currencies on «Housinq, Policy, and are not readily available. A Brief History Urban lnnovatlon» took place The Group was founded in in Amsterdam, June 27-July 1974 at the convention of the 1, 1988. More than 500 parti- RC44: labour American Sociological Asso- cipants from all parts of the movements ciation (ASA). Since that year, world proposed mere than there have been annual infor- 400 papers. There were 12 Report submitted by Mari- mal meeting in the ASA con- keynote speakers, two guid- no Regini, President text, sometimes in conjunc- ed tours, and publications are tion with formal paper ses- expected to follow. Board members 1990-1994 sions through the ASA or the In 1988, the ISA granted it President: Society for the Study of So- Working Group status and in Marino Regini (Diparta- cial Problems (e.g., 1983, 1990 Research Committee mento di Politica Sociale, 1984, 1986, 1988). status, thus becoming the Universitá degli Studi di In 1978, the Group esta- 43th Research Committee of Trento, Via Verdi 26, 38100 blished itself internationally. the ISA. Trento, Italia)

37 Vice-President: At the World Congress of tries presented and discuss- Samuel Valenzuela the ISA in Madrid, we provid- ed 16 papers. A selection of Secretary: ed an exciting and wide- the conference papers has Richard Hyman (Industrial ranging programme, a fitting been edited and is published Relations Research Unit, basis to launch our anticipat- by Aldine de Gruyter, Haw- School of Industrial & Busi- ed role as a Research Com- thorne 1990 under the title ness Studies, University of mittee. Social Institutions. Their Warwick, Coventry CV4 In July 1990 the ISA Execu- Emergence, Maintenance, 7AL, United Kingdom) tive Committee granted the and Effects (Michael Hechter, group Research Committee Karl-Dieter Opp & Reinhard A Brief History status, thus becoming the Wippler eds.). The activities of the Work- 44th Research Committee of Other conferences have ing Group on Labour Move- the ISA. been organized by members ments since the New Delhi We aim to issue a regular of the Rational Choice Group, Congress (1986) have been Newsletter, and should short- and a growing number of so- of two kinds: information sent Iy formulate our future pro- ciologists is participating in by the co-organizers (Colin gramme of activities. For the the activities of the WG. Espe- Crouch, Peter Lange, Marino moment, we make no charge cially worth mentioning are Regini, Samuel Valenzuela, for membership of the RC. the following meetings: Wolfgang Streeck, Jella Viss- Those wishing to join - a conference on Social er) to constituent members, should write to Richard Network Analysis has been as well as efforts at recruiting Hyman. held in June 1988 in Utrecht new members; meetings of a organized by Jeroen Weesie few Working Group co-orqa- and Reinhard Wippler. Socio- nizers and members heId at RC45: Rational logists from the United States conferences organized by and several European coun- other institutions. Since WG choice tries have presented and dis- lacked autonomous financial Report submitted by Karl- cussed 14 papers. These pap- resources, it has not been Dieter Opp, Co-ordinator ers have been edited and are possible to convene an offi- published by ISOR, Utrecht cial meeting of all members in under the title Social Networks order to discuss programs of Co-ordinators 1990-1994 through Time (Jeroen Weesie activities and to hold regular Michael Hechter (Center for and Henk Flap, eds.). elections of the group's re- Advanced Study in the Be- - A conference on Modell- presentatives. Such a meet- havioral Sciences, 202 Ju- ing Social Processes with ing was scheduled at the New nipero Serra Boulevard, special attention given to po- Delhi Congress but, due to the Stanford, CA 94305, USA) pulation and migration dy- inability of most members to Karl-Dieter Opp (University namics, has been held in attend it, it has been postpon- of Hamburg, Inst. of Socio- June 1989 at the University of ed. AII the WG co-organizers logy, Allende-Platz 1, 2000 Koblenz, organized by Klaus have tried to use their aca- Hamburg 13, Germany) Troitzsch. This conference demic channels to extend our Werner Raub (Faculteit So- was mainly attended by Euro- original membership, which ciale Wetenschappen, Uni- pean sociologists. no doubt is heavily concen- versity of Utrecht, Postbus - A workshop on Current trated in Western Europe, the 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Issues in Organization Studi- USA and Australia. Special The Netherlands) es has been held in Novemb- efforts have been directed to er 1989 at the Netherlands In- Latin American and to Japa- A Brief History stitute of Advanced Study nese scholars, by Samuel Va- The most important inter- (NIAS) at Wassenaar. This lenzuela and Wolfgang national meeting (and the one workshop was organized by Streeck respectively. directly continuing the suc- Siegwart Lindenberg and Our major recent activity cessful sessions of the Rati- Reinhard Wippler and attend- was a conference in Trento in onal Choice Group held at the ed by rational choice sociolo- December 1989, on the New Delhi World Congress) gists from European countri- theme of «Labour Movements has been the conference on es. Towards 2000».A dozen pap- «The Emergence, Mainten- - A larger conference on ers formed the basis for a sti- ance, and Effects of Social In- Interdisciplinary Perspectiv- mulating discussion, and the stitutlons» at the Werner es on Organization Studies, revised contributions are Reimers Stiftung, Bad Horn- confronting a rational choice shortly to be published under burg (GFR),January 1988, or- perspective with ecological, the editorial hand of Marino ganized by the Working transaction cost, and network Regini. The volume will be de- Group co-ordinators Michael perspectives, was held in dicated to the memory of Hechter, Karl-Dieter Opp and June 1990 at the Netherlands Guido Romagnoli, whose un- Reinhard Wippler. Partici- Institute of Advanced Study timely death occurred shortly pants from the United States (NIAS) at Wassenaar. The before the conference. and several European coun- main organizer was Siegwart

38 Lindenberg, one ofthe leading Rational Choice in Interdisci- Rational Choice has received figures of the Rational Choice plinary Organization Studies, in July 1990 the status of a WG. Outstanding social scien- Utilization of Resources of Research Committee on Rati- tists from Europe and the Unit- Rational Actors, Political Pro- onal Choice. ed States (a.o. James Cole- cesses. man, Ronals Burt, Harrison Among the participants of Future plans White, Glen Carrol, Oliver Wil- these sessions were not only A new conference is plan n- liamson) actively participated sociologists from Western ed for the Iall of 1992: Classi- in this conference. Europe and the United States, cal Sociological Problems The growing interest in the but also participants from the and New Solutions from a Ra- application of rational choice Soviet Union and Japan. tional Actor Perspective. A models in sociological ana- Finally, it merits to be men- call for papers has been sent Iyses is most clearly reflected tioned that the three organiz- to the members of the RC. For in the large number of papers, ers of the WG on Rational further details, contact the or- 46, submitted for presenta- Choice have reached an ganizers: Michael Hechter, tion in the sessions of the WG agreement with the editor of Karl-Dieter Opp and Werner on Rational Choice at the the new sociological journal Raub (addresses above). World Congress of Sociology Rationality and Society, James in Madrid. Papers were pre- Coleman, to consider this Membership sented under the following new journal to be the publica- If you are interested in be- headings: Institutions and tion outlet of the ISA Working coming a member of the RC, Norms, Social Interdepen- Group. please write to Karl-Dieter dencies, Social Networks, The former Working Group Opp (address above).

39 EPORTS FROM THE WORKING GROUPS

That meeting was held in The WG program for the XII WG01: Clinical January 1990 (it was planned World Congress of Sociology sociology for Fall 1989, but had to be was coordinated by Robert postponed for administrative Sévigny. Report submitted by Robert reasons). 25 researchers Sévigny, co-founder and first participated in the meeting Conclusions President (from Canada, United States, One result of those mee- France, Switzerland). It was tings and discussions is that Board members 1990-1994 co-sponsored by the Univer- the name of the WG should President: sité de Montréal and the Uni- reflect more clearly and more Jan Marie Fritz (254 Serena versité du Québec a Montréal. directly the fact that this Drive, Palm Desert, Califor- Apart from the usual presen- group is centered on a specif- nia 92260, USA) tation of papers and discus- ic approach rather than on a Vice-Presidents: sions among those partici- specific topic: Clinical Socio- Robert Sevigny, Canada pants, three significant ele- logy refers to a specific me- Vincent de Gaulejac, Fr- ments should be mentioned thodology, a specific way of ance here: practicing sociology. To clari- Members: • Audio-visual documents fy any ambiguity about the Rosinha Machado Carrion, about the clinical approach definition of this WG the name Brazil were produced (in French). should perhaps become "CIi- Eugene Enriquez, France before and during the ses- nical Approach in Socioloqy». Gilles Houle, Canada sions. Some of those docu- So this change would indic- Francis Loicq, Belgium ments are scheduled for a ate clearly that members of Klimis Navridis, Greece University- TV network in this group are specialized in Phil Robinette, USA Montreal and all of them many specific fields (indus- W. David Watts, USA should be available in the trial organizations, commun- near future. ity work, mental health, socio- Recent activities • A book will be published economics, action-research, During the 1988-1990 pe- that will use the best material social intervention, sociology riod, our WG had activities in presented at that Montreal of knowledge, etc). Those ac- three countries. The main meeting. tivities were centered both on goal and the main content of •A «publlc- or «open» ses- the theoretical and technical these activities were about sion was part of this Montreal dimensions ofthe Clinical ap- defining the notion of clinical meeting. More than a hundred proach in sociology. sociology itself and, for that persons attended who were Another conclusion that reason, were a direct prepa- from many different fields should be drawn from those ration for the Madrid Congr- (psychology, communica- preliminary meetings and ess. tions, social work, anthropo- working sessions is about the In Geneva in August 1988, logy, etc.). inter-disciplinary dimensions we held two sessions on clini- Through the American net- of sociological analysis and cal sociology: its specificity, work of sociologists that are intervention. This was the its boundaries, its field of ap- involved in the theory and case in almost all our activiti- plication, etc. From 12 to 15 practice of clinical sociology, es: sociology was at the cent- persons participated in these many activities were organiz- er of all those discussions, sessions. Participants were ed in United States. This but many of the participants from France, Belgium, Cana- group of sociologists is well were also influenced by other da and Switzerland. At that organized and has been acti- disciplines: psychology, an- meeting it was decided that ve in the field of clinical socio- thropology, social work, com- we would held another work- logy for many years and will munication, criminology, ma- ing group meeting in Montreal surely continue to be active in nagement, etc. The notion of a in Canada. the ISA activities. clinical approach is a bridge -

40 among others - to relate so- Universitario de Recursos Classes and Social Move- ciology to other disciplines. Humanos of the Universidad ments as a Thematic Group of This is, in a way, a very inte- Complutense of Madrid gave the ISA. The Committee also resting by-product of our some institutional support to recommended that this inter- Working Group. the activities of the Working national network of socio 10- At last, we may conclude Group. gists interested in the analy- that the Working Group on • The calculation of the Se- sis of social classes and so- Clinical Sociology has broa- cond Sosigem Model (Socio- cial movements should be dened its international base sistemico para la Generación named: Thematic Group on during those last four years. de Empleo) for Spain, which Social Classes and Social Since the Mexico Congress has been carried out by some Movements. where the first meeting was 25 colleagues coordinated by In July 1990 the Group was held, this development has J.A. Garmendia and F. Parra granted a Working Group sta- been constant. Luna of our Working Group. tus. This model has been awarded The recognition and the of- Forthcoming meeting a national prize. ficial status as an ISAWorking The Working Group will • The Group prepared a spe- Group which materializes it, hold its next meeting in Costa cial issue of Revista Interna- reflects the importance of the Mesa, California, USA on tionale de Sociologie on The exchange, the alliances and June 5-9, 1991. Organizer is Problem of Unemployment the debates and discussions Jan Maria Fritz. A number of and Systems Modelling. The between many researchers sessions is planned on: clini- contributors were: Jacques from different countries. cal sociology in the global de Bandt (France), Jean Mer- These researchers use the community; epistomological cenier (Belgium), Arnold Cor- attempts at reconstructing aspects of the links between nelis (Netherlands), J.A. Gar- the theories of social classes theory and practice; the his- mendia (Spain), M. Nikolic and the increasingly evident tory of clinical sociology; un- (Yugoslavia), F. Parra Luna vitality of the sociology of so- derstanding as a prerequisite (Spain). cial movements as a frame- to social intervention; health • Our Group is also collabo- work for meeting, exchange issues; theater, therapy and rating with the Sociedad Es- and work together. Such a clinical sociology; clinical ap- pañola de Sistemas General- framework permits the further proaches to research; wom- es in order to create a scien- development of discussions en's work and health; age-re- tific journal Revista Internaci- within the paradigms and lated assessments and inter- onal de Sistemas which will theories of social classes and ventions. have five sections: General social movements, discus- Systems Theory, Systems sions which focus on such Newsletter Education, Sociocybernetics, themes as the generation of International Clinical Socio- Systems Dynamics, Informat- social processes of oppres- logy is a periodic publication ics. sion and domination in con- ofthe Working Group. Current • For the XII World Congress temporary societies; the rna- editor is Jan Marie Fritz, WG of Sociology the Group orga- teriality and subjectivity of President (address above). nized nine sessions. conflictual social actions em- bedded within structural con- straints; the competence of WG02: WG03: Social the actor; the intentionality of Sociocybernetics classes and social the conflictual action and ea- tegories of social conscious- and systems movements ness; the stakes of social classes and of social move- theory Report submitted by Louis ments relating to questions of Maheu, Coordinator Report submitted by Fran- democratization, state-build- cisco Parra Luna, Coordina- Coordinator: ing, non-institutional politics tor Louis Maheu (Dept. Socio- and civil society; the confron- logie, Université de Mon- tation between work relations Coordinator: tréal, CP 6128, Montréal, and outside work relations as Francisco Parra Luna (In- Québec H3C 3J7, Canada) manifested in the conflicts of stituto Universitario de Re- Board members: social movements and social cursos Humanos Facultad Carlo Carboni, Italy classes; etc. de Ciencias Políticas y So- Lucio Kowarick, Brazil ciología Universidad Com- Roland Roth, Germany Recent activities plutense, Campus de So- John Urry, England In January of 1989, an In- mosaguas 28023 Madrid, ternational Symposium was Spain) In 1988 the ISA Executive held at the University of Otta- Committee officially recog- wa, on the theme The Welfa- Recent Activities nized our group on The Para- re-State and Civil Society. • The creation of the Instituto digms and Theories of Social Many members of our group

41 participated and Warren Maheu, Alain Touraine, and Vishwanath V. Baba, Cana- Magnusson, Lizette Jalbert, Alberto Melucci participated. da Louis Maheu, J. Yvon Ther- Some members of the Olayiwola Erinosho, Nige- iault and John Myles also pre- group have prepared in the ria sented papers. last few years an issue of Oean H. Harper, USA In March of 1989, another Current Sociology on the ten- Samita Manna, India International Symposium was dencies of literature of differ- Ad H. van der Zwaan, The heId at the University of Mon- ent languages and national Netherlands treal, on the theme The Mo- situations, such as Germany, dern Form of Oemocracy. France, England, Italy, South Present status and activities Pierre Hamel, Louis Maheu America and Brazil, Canada In August 1986 by the deci- and Lizette Jalbert contribut- and the United States, on the sion of the ISA Executive ed to its organization, and subject of social classes and Committee, the Research members Gabriel Gagnon, social movements. The issue, Committee on Sociology of Angela Miles, Louis Maheu, prepared under the supervi- Mental Health had lost its re- Lizette Jalbert, John Keane sion of Louis Maheu, will be search committee status due and Chris Pickvance present- entitled: The Sociology of So- to its inactivity since the previ- ed communications. cial Classes and Social Move- ous World Congress. It is to In the Fall of 1990, Les ments; An International Out- be considered now a Working Presses de l'Université de took from 1970 up to the Mid- Group of the International So- Montréal, in co-edition with dIe Eighties. ciological Association. I'Harmattan of Paris, publish- This issue contains 9 pap- ed a book under the direction ers of which 7 have already Ouring a meeting of this of members Louis Maheu and been handed over to the edi- Working Group on August Arnaud Sales. This book enti- tor of the journal; the remain- 21st, 1986, at the Xlth World tled La recomposition du poli- ing 2, including the introduc- Congress, the new Board was tique, regroups papers on, on tion of the issue, will be hand- elected, consisting of two the one hand, the new ten- ed over to him during the next persons who were willing to dencies of social regulation months. These papers have develop activities toward re- and the social classes and, on been written by the following gaining the Research Com- the other hand, the relation- members of the group: Ro- mittee status: Ad H. van der ships between the State and land Roth, Henri Lustiger- Zwaan (The Netherlands) as civil society by the means of Thaler, Louis Maheu, Carlo the Chairperson, and Harsha the political dimensions of the Carboni, Fernando Calderón, Mookherjee as Secretary. collective conduct of the so- Elizabeth Jelin and Lucio Ko- We put our whole thrust to- cial movements, and secon- warick. ward successfully organizing darily of the social classes. our sessions for the XIIWorld Meetings and international Congress of Sociology exchanges during the last 3 WG04: Sociology (1990). After hard work, full or 4 years produced this pu- 01 mental health cooperation, and diligent blication in which the follow- work of our group members, ing members participate: J. Report submitted by Har- especially the sessions chair- Yvon Theriault, John Keane, sha N. Mookherjee, outgoing persons and the Board, we Alberto Melucci, Lizette Jalb- Secretary have been able to organize ert, Peta Tancred-Sheriff, Ni- nine sessions on Sociology of cole Laurin-Frenette, Arnaud Mental Health. Fifty-one re- Sales and Louis Maheu. Board members 1990-1994 search papers have been se- The Group prepared and President: lected for presentation in organized the programme for Rumi K. Price (Oepartment these sessions. More than se- 5 sessions at the Xllth World of Psychiatry, Washington venty-five international scho- Congress of Sociology. It University School of Medic- lars participated in these ses- should be noted that this pro- ine, Box 8134, St. Louis, sions as chairpersons, au- gramme contained close to Missouri 63110, USA) thors of papers, and discus- 35 communications; in spite Vice-Presidents: sants. Through this active of this high number, we have Sebastien Reichmann, Fr- participation, we believe, we had to refuse a large number ance will be able to encourage of quality communications. Harsha N. Mookherjee, further our group members in In February 1991, an Inter- USA stimulation and improvement national Symposium was heId Secretary: on research, instruction, par- at the Université du Québec a Brent M. Shea (Oepartment ticipation, and maintain a Montréal, on the theme Social of Anthropology & Sociolo- cooperative relationship Movements and Political Re- gy, Sweet Briar College, among international scholars presentation. Andre Corten is Sweet Briar, Virginia in the area of Sociology of contributing to its organiza- 24595, USA) Mental Health. tion, and other members such Members: We have planned to publish as J. Yvon Thériault, Louis Fausto Amaro, Portugal an edited book on Empirical

42 Research on Sociology of Composition du Bureau natures de soutien. Proposi- Mental Health: A Global Pers- 1990-1994 tion par le RC13 d'une ses- pective by selecting papers Président: sion-jointe avec le GT. from the fifty-one papers pre- Krzysztof Przeclawski (In- • Décembre 1988: Elabora- sented at our nine sessions at stitute of Tourism, UI. Merli- tion du cadre scientifique glo- the Xllth World Congress of niego 9a, 02-511 Warsaw, bal: théme général; théme de Sociology. An editorial com- Poland) chacune des 5 sessions. mittee will soon be appointed. Secrétaire: Consultation et choix des co- Two Post World Congress Asterio Savelli (Diparta- présidents. Nouvelle informa- Seminars on Mental Health mento di Sociologia, Stra- tion auprés des scientifiques have been organized in West da Maggiore 45, 40125 Bo- du vaste réseau en train de Bengal, India with the colla- logna, Italy) s'organiser autour de cette boration of the Working Trésorier: opération. Group on Sociology of Mental Jacques de Weerdt (URES- Juin-juillet 1989: Rédaction Health: TI,CNRS,27 rue Damesme, d'une note d'information sur • The Department of Sociolo- 75013 Paris, France) le Groupe Thématique pour gy, University of Kalyani, Ka- Autres Membres: publication dans la revue in- Iyani, West Bengal, India has Marie-Francoise Lanfant, ternationale Annals of Tour- organized the Seminar on France ism Research. Mental Health on July 20-24, Paris Tsartas, Greece Octobre 1989: Préparation 1990. Dean MacCannell, USA et envoi a Madrid du dossier • The Post World Congress complet des communicants Seminar on Sociology of Rapport d'activité des sessions. Mental Health, organized by 1988-1990 Novembre-Décembre the Department of Psycholo- • Juin 1988: AI'occasion 1989: Elaboration d'un dossi- gy, Indian Institute ofTechno- d'une rencontre internationa- er en vue d'une proposition logy and the Institute of Social le, des sociologues et des an- d'ouvrage communiqué au Research and Applied An- thropologues décident, a I'i- Comité de lecture des Edi- thropology, Bidisa, West Ben- nitiative de Madame Lanfant, tions Sage, titre provisoire: gal, India. This Seminar was de soutenir le projet de créa- Sociologie du tourisme inter- heId in the first week of Au- tion d'un Groupe Thématique national dans le monde: unité gust, 1990. Sociologie du Tourisme Inter- et diversité. The present group has national au sein de I'AIS et Préparation d'un séminaire contacted other professional d'adresser au Comité Exécu- pré-congrés destiné a mettre organizations in the USA and tif de celle-ci une demande en place la stratégie institu- abroad, and participated at commune ac co mp aq ne'e tionnelle du Groupe Thémati- the annual conferences of the d'une note d'information de que. Ce séminaire n'aura pas Rural Sociological Society, Madame Lanfant, précisant lieu faute de moyens financi- Mid-South Sociological As- les objectifs et les orienta- ers. sociation, Southern Sociolo- tions scientifiques de cette • Juillet 1990: Avis officiel gical Society in the USA. We opération. d'acceptation de la demande: are also keeping coordinating • Juillet 1988: Envoi d'un un Groupe de Travail Socio- activities with the Internati- conférence internationale sur logie du Tourisme Interntional onal Rural Sociological Asso- le tourisme tenue a Varsovie, est créé au sein de I'AIS. ciation, International Social plusieurs des membres fon- Science Council, The World dateurs se retrouvent et s'or- Federation of Mental Health, ganisent pour structurer le WG06: Social the National Institute of Men- projet. Création du Comité de tal Health, USA, Institute of la Coordination: la centralisa- indicators Social Research and Applied tion de I'information, le suivi Coordinator: Anthropology, India, and de I'opération et les relations Alex Michalos (University of other organizations in the avec I'AIS sont confiés a I'U- Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, USA and abroad. RESTI qui assure ainsi offi- Canada N1G 1W1) ciellement le secrétariat de la Membership Secretary: coordination. Heinz-Herbert NolI (ZUMA The present membership • Novembre 1988: Avis offi- list includes 117 members e.V., Postfach 5969, 6800 ciel d'acceptation de la de- Mannheim 1, Germany) from 36 countries. mande: un Groupe Thémati- que Sociologie du tourisme Interntional est créé au sein WG07: National WG05: de I'AIS. Information systé- International matique auprés de cher- movements and tourism cheurs qui, de par le monde, imperialism travaillent sur le tourisme. In- Por Marie-Franc;:oiseLanf- formation auprés des membr- Co-ordinator: ant, Co-ordinatrice es du RC13. Recueil des sig- Peter Gran (Department of

43 History, Temple University, mote the Research Commit- 1990, Peter Gran was elected Philadelphia, PA 19122, tee on National Movements Chairman. USA) and Imperialism to the Work- Plans were made to produ- Due to the lack of activities, ing Group. ce a newsletter, recruit the ISA Executive Committee At the XII World Congress of members, organize interim decided in July 1990 to de- Sociology in Madrid, July meeting.

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very much alive. For that rea- turn replaced at the meeting TG01: Time use son the persons present in in Helsinki in 1984 by liris research Vienna agreed to continue. Niemi (Finland) and Rudolph They agreed on a new name Andorka (Hungary). Coordinator 1988-1990: for the group: Research Over these years some Jonathan Gershuny (Uni- Group on Time Budgets and members have of course left, versity of Bath, School of Social Activities and talked but the general picture is one Humanities and Social Peter Feldheim into accepting of growth. At present the Sciences, Claverton Down, the role of a chairman of the group consists of about 150 Bath BA2 7AY,United King- group. members from 26 countries dom) Claude Javeau joined as from all continents. Andrew S. secretary and from that time Harvey (Canada) has served A brief history started a remarkable regular as secretary for the group by Dagfinn As series of reunions. since 1978 and is responsible In 1967 I participated as an The first reunion took place for sending out, at irregular observer inVienna of an inter- during the World Congress of intervals, the newsletter ap- national group of researchers Sociology in Varna, Bulgaria, propriately called It's About concerned with the study of 1970. The group acquired the Time. time. The leader, of course status of an «Ad hoc group ••- In addition to arranging was Alexander Szalai from a status it has continued to meetings where papers are Hungary, and I had and op- enjoy at all subsequent ISA presented and personal con- portunity to see, hear and Congresses. In between tacts established, the group learn how international coo- these events special mee- has tried to function as a peration in research was car- tings have been arranged. center for documentation and ried on. The group was led The schedule of reunions was information. The first attempt with a strong hand and in my as follows: at this was made in 1970-74 opinion this monumental Varna, Bulgaria 1970 by Feldheim and Javeau who case of international research Brussels, Belgium 1972 have gathered a great deal of cooperation would not have Berlin, GDR 1973 literature on studies of time come about without the dy- Toronto, Canada 1974 use at the Sociological Insti- namic personality of Szalai. Laxenburg, Austria 1975 tute at the Université Libre de This is how it all started. The Uppsala, Sweden 1978 Bruxelles. As the secretariat researchers came from twel- Sofia, Bulgaria 1980 moved to Halifax in 1978, this ve countries (13 surveys) and Mexico City, Mexico 1982 work has been continued at the study was supported by Helsinki, Finland 1984 the institute for Public Affairs the European Centre for New Delhi, India 1986 at Dalhousie University. Ga- Coordination of Research thering of data sets and pre- and Documentation in Social Peter Feldheim and Claude paration of these for second- Sciences in Vienna.They car- Javeau (Belgium) served the ary analysis have also been ried through a study of time group from the start until the . tried. The group, however, use that set a pattern which Toronto meeting in 1974. has never had the financial later has been copied in a Then William Michelson (Ca- basis for carrying out these multitude of countries and 10- nada) took over and acted as projects on any great scale. cations. chairman until the meeting in At the meeting held in June The Multinational Compa- Uppsala in 1978. Atthattime it 1988 in Budapest the Group rative Time Budget Research was decided to strengthen on Time Budgets and Social was officially closed in Vienna the leadership by electing two Activities changed its name to in January 1970, but the spirit chairmen: Edmund Wnuk-Li- the Time Use Research. of international cooperation pinski (Poland) and Dagfinn Time Budget Group has and friendship created was As (Norway). They were in edited and published four re-

45 ports based on papers pre- publication of the TG started Universitetscenter, Glente- sented at the meetings: in 1990, is mainly dedicated vej 7, 6705 Esbjerg, Den- • Time Budgets and Social to information on scientific mark) Activities, 1975 agendas (symposiums, collo- • Public Policy in Temporal quiums, meetings, congress- The request to establlsh an Perspective, 1978 es) about TG topic which ISA Thematic Group on So- • It's About Time, 1982 deals preferably with inter- ciology of Childhood was • Time Use Studies: Dimen- locked societal and environ- made on behalf of scholars sions and Applications, 1986. mental issues. involved in the international It also gives information on project Childhood as a Social research teams, institutions, Phenomenon -Implications TG02: and people who wish to an- for Future Social Pollcy, This nounce their directions and project was organized by the Environmental activities among their peers, European Centre for Social issues on the international leve!. Welfare Training and Re- Brief descriptions of re- search, Vienna. The first plen- Board members 1990-1994 search proposals and even ary meeting convened in Nor- Co-Presidents: free opinions about the curr- way in June 1987, and the Manuel Castells (Fac. Cien- ent situation in the field are project was scheduled to be cias Económicas, Univ. Au- welcomed. concluded in 1990. tónoma, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain) Nineteen countries are par- Forthcoming meetings ticipating - all from industria- GyOrgy Széll (Unlversltat The next symposium of the Osnabrück, FB Sozialwiss., lized world: Austria, Canada, Thematic Group will take Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Pf. 4469, 4500 Osnabrück, place on June 17-21 1992, at Germany) England, Federal Republic of the Conference Centre Germany, Finland, France, Secretary: Woudschoten, The Nether- Denis Duelos (SORISTEC, Greece, Hungary,Ireland,Is- lands. For appltcatíon and in- rael, ltaly, Norway, Scotiand, CNRS, 16 Rue Moreau, formation, get in touch with 75012 Paris, France) Sweden, Switzerland, USA August Gijswijt, Chairman of and Yugoslavia. Treasurer: the Organizing Committee,: Eugene A. Rosa (Dept So- SISWO, PB 19070, 1000 GB The project is specifically ciology, Social and Eco- Amsterdam, Netherlands, tel: designed sociologically, and nomic Scíences, Research (31 20) 240075, fax:(31 20) practically all participants are Center, Washington State 229430. sociologists. Actually, one of University, Pullman, WA The Contemporary Society the main reasons for making 99164-4014, USA) and the Societal Functions of the project was to illuminate Members: Nature symposium will take childhood from a sociological Ronald Babin, Canada place in Paris, during the first point of view. Norman Blaikie, Australia semester 1992. It will be orga- Final analyses of the pro- Frederick H. Buttel, USA nized by the French network ject, and 20 country reports Peter De La Cour, England of the Thematic Group. There will be published in a Euro- Thomas Dietz, USA are three thematic workshops pean Centre series. Riley E. Dunlap, USA planned: (1) Is a techno-natu- Boris Firsov, USSR re existing? Can society re- There is indeed a growing August Gijswijt, The Ne- cognize and manage Nature? interest in many countries in therlands (2)Is Nature a tool for new so- sociological perspectives on Angela Liberatore,Italy cial relationships?(3) Can childhood. There are of cour- Noriyuki Matsuda, Japan one talk about societal func- se competing perspectives Artur Meier, Germany tions of Nature? and differing approaches. Barbara Rhode, Austria For appllcatlon and infor- The Group invited socio 10- Wolfgang Schluchter, Ger- mation please contact Denis gists interested in childhood many Duelos (16 rue Moreau, to discuss these diverging Gert Spaargaren, The Ne- 75012 Paris, tel: 43.434.575). orientations at the World Con- therlands gress of Sociology. Pál Tamás, Hungary Membership That was at the same time a Applications should be di- token that sociologists in fact Thematic Group on Envi- rected to GyOrgy Széll (addr- do believe that their own ronment and Society was re- ess above). theories, methodologies and cognized by the ISA Executi- instruments may have some- ve Committee in 1990 on the thing to contribute, even in basis of its previous activities TG03: Sociology this area which so far has as well as its sessions held at of childhood been as marginal to mains- the XII World Congress of So- tream sociology as perhaps ciology. Co-ordinator: childhood has been for adult E&S Newsletter, a regular Jens Qvortrup (Sydjysk society.

46 the field certainly contributes books suggests that there is a TG04: Collective to this situation. The Internati- substantial readership for behavior and onal Sociological Association comparative work. This is also and the World Congress of lrnplled by recent start of a social movements Sociology seems to us a na- book series called Internati- tural context to place our en- onal Social Movement Re- Report submitted by the deavors in. Therefore, we search edited by Bert Klan- Co-ordinators proposed to create a per- dermans and published by manent group having as its JAI-Press. Finally, the number Co-ordinators: theme: «Collective Behavior of submissions we got in reply Gary Alan Fine (Department and Social Movements: to our call for papers within of Sociology, University of Learning from International two months (almost 100, from Minnesota, Minneapolis, Cornparison». such different countries as USA) Our initiative can build on Nigeria, Belgium, the USA, Bert Klandermans (Depart- several already existing Australia, Northern Ireland, ment of Social Psychology, structures. The section on the FRG, Canada, People's Free University, Amster- collective behavior and social Rep. of China, India, Taiwan, dam, The Netherlands) movements of the American South Korea, Japan, Switzer- Bronislaw Misztal (Depart- Sociological Association land, Uganda, USSR, Cze- ment of Sociology, Indiana strongly supports our initiati- choslovakia, Hungary, Po- University, Purdue Univers- ve. We have been able to use land, The Netherlands, the ity at Fort Wayne, Fort the section's mailing llst for UK, Italy, and Sweden), and Wayne, USA) our call for papers. In Europe the number of positive res- a less formal structure exists ponses from people who Collective behavior and so- in the form of ad hoc working were not able to come to Ma- cial movements as a field in groups of the European drid but who were interested sociology has been growing Group of Organizational Stu- in becoming involved in an in- rapidly over the last few de- dies. We were able to use ternational network on collec- cades. Scholars from all over some of their mailing lists as tive behavior and social rno- the world have been studying well. Moreover, through our vements similarly indicates crowds, conflicts, rumors, personal networks we had that our initiative finds fertile protest and change, as phe- access to scholars in the soil, nomena per se or in the con- USA, Western and Eastern We are already working on text of broader social move- Europe and we have been ac- the establishment of a corn- ments and cycles of protest. tively working to build an in- munication network among The increased interest in the ternational network of scho- the scholars we have con- field of collective behavior lars of collective behavior and tacts with both through BIT- and social movements was a social movements. NET and through a regular reaction to the global deve- A growing interest in inter- newsletter. We will meet this lopment in which collective national exchange can be ob- summer in Madison, Wiscon- action whether or not instigat- served among scholars of sin to further organize this ed by social movement orga- collective behavior and social network. We are also esta- nizations became more and movements. In the recent blishing contacts with politi- more important as a motor of past, several smaller and cal scientists and their inter- social change. Around the larger international work- national association to get world recent history has been shops and conferences have them involved in our under- written by social movements been organized; for example, taking. such as the civil rights move- an international workshop on ment, women's movements, the women's movement held environmental movements, in Ithaca, New York in 1983, TG05: Famine and peace movements, youth and international workshops on society student movements, ethnic participation in new and old movements, and religious social movements in Ithaca, Report submitted by Jean fundamentalist movements. New York (1985) and Amster- Floud, outgoing Chair Collective behavior have llke- dam, The Netherlands (1986), wise played an important role a workshop on new social in political struggles. Riots, movements in the US and the Coordinator: strikes, unruly mobs, and [u- FRG in Tallahassee, Florida Amrita Rangasami (100 B bilant crowds constrain the (1987), workshops on new Defence Colony, New Delhi options of governments. social movements in Europe 110 024, India) Yet comparative studies of in Bonn, FRG (1987), an inter- collective behavior and social national workshop on social The Famine and Society movements have been slow to movements and social chan- Group was formed in 1985 on develop. The lack of an inter- ge in Cracow, Poland (1985). the initiative of Amrita Ranga- national network and meeting The fact that most of these sami (Centre for the Study of place of scholars working in conferences have produced Relief Administration, New

47 Oelhi, India) and T.K. Oom- food crisis, whatever the pro- Executive Committee in 1990. men (Jawaharlal University, ximate or precipitating cause. New Oelhi, India) with the fol- The group met during the XI Coordinator: lowing practical and academ- World Congress of Sociology Michael Hammond (Oe- ic objectives: in New Oelhi(1986) and the in- partment of Sociology, Uni- • to promote the recognition terest expressed by partici- versity of Toronto, Toronto, of famine as a social and not pants from a number of coun- Canada M5T 1P9) merely a natural disaster; tries (USA, UK, France, Ne- • to persuade students of therlands, Canada, Ethiopia, famine, governments and re- Sudan, India and Bangladesh) Organizing Group: lief agencies that famine is to indicated the desirability of Arlie Hochschild, USA be viewed as a social proc- forming a permanent Group Theodore Kemper, USA ess, not as an emergency under the auspices of the ISA. Heinz-Gunter Vester, Ger- calling for limited interven- In 1988 the First Internati- many tions informed by so-called onal Conference on Afro- 'catastrophe theory' or 'di- Asian Studies on Famine was The purpose of this The- saster management studies'; organized. The conference matic Group is to create an in- • to this end, to promote the included several workshops ternational forum for further systematic study of the politi- attended by the representa- scholarly work around the cal, economic and social tives ofthe network of interna- world in the growing field of causes and consequences of tional scholars from the Phi- the sociology of emotions. famine, viewed as a social lippines, Singapore as well as Over the last few years, the process of creeping disaster Uganda and Ethiopia. sociology of emotions has in societies in which long- In 1990 the Thematic Group emerged as a research area term problems of food pro- on Famine and Society was of its own, and not just an ap- duction, poverty and chronic, recognized by the ISA Execu- pendage of social psycholo- non-acute food shortages tive Committee. gy or some other more traditi- evoke debilitating social res- onal research field. It has ponses and institutional been one of the fastest grow- changes which place them, or TG06: Sociology ing sections in the American sub-groups within them, at of emotions Sociological Association, and risk of succumbing to disas- has attracted membership ter in the event of an acute Recognized by the ISA from many countries.

48 08 OPPORTUNITIES

ish and preferably in one or Preferably, the Scientific The World more of the other working lan- Director will be on sabbatical Bank guages of the Bank. leave during her/his mandate. Curricula vitae should be If s/he cannot enjoy their own mailed to: salary during the time of his/ Pauline B. Ramprasad her charge, s/he should ask Recruitment Division for a grant from either a foun- The World Bank is The World Bank dation or Government. In the committed to identifying high- 1818 H Street, NW case this procedure is not Iy-qualified women for its Washington, DC 20433 successful, s/he exceptional- Headquarters staff in Wa- USA Iy can apply directly for a shington, D.C.As an internati- grant to the Governing Board onal development institution, of the Institute. the Bank recruits seasoned Scientific The Institute will cover all professionals from as many of the public expenses incurred its member countries as Director as Scientific Director during possible. of the IISL his/her mandate and in the Our major recruitment frame of his/her charge; s/he needs are for the operational The ISA Research Commit- will be given a flat reserved for work of the Bank - technical tee on Sociology of Law is re- Scientific Directors and their specialists, economists and cruiting a Scientific Director families in the University Re- financial analysts. Our ongo- of the International Institute sidence. ing vacancies include posi- for the Sociology of Law (IISL) The application must be tions in the population, health, in Oñati, Spain, for the aca- presented in the form of a nutrition, sanitation, agricul- demic year 1992-93 and for personal leUerto the Govern- ture, transportation, environ- the academic year 1993-94. ing Board. Enclosed with this ment, human resources and The functions of the Scientific application candidates must financial sectors. While most Director are: send a complete curriculum staff members are appointed - to coordinate the differ- vitae and a list of their work on a career basis, the Bank ent research activities of the (books, papers, conferences also offers fixed- term ap- work groups; and results of field research). pointments, usually for a pe- - to design and propose The main lines of her/his riod of two to three years. the annual plan of activities, proposed scientific program- The generic profile for such being responsible for their me must be also enclosed, opening is: carrying out; with special regard to (1) (a) advanced degree in the - to represent the Institute meetings, (2) library, (3) do- relevant discipline or sector; in everything which has been cumentation,(4) publications, (b) a minimum of ten years deemed by the Governing (5) advanced studies pro- of substantial relevant experi- Board; gramme. ence which includes proven - to write the annual report; The complete file should be knowledge in the technical sent in duplicate in the follow- and operational aspects of Candidates must be of in- ing way: the sector or function; ternational reckon; they must (e) capability in synthesiz- posses a University diploma - The original should be ing strategies and policies or allowing them to direct thes- sent directly to Prof.V. Ferrari, in providing technical advice; es. An experience in a re- via Larga 6, 20122 Milano, (d) in-depth knowledge of search laboratory is expect- Italy an important or frequently ed, S/he must speak, at least, - One copy should be di- used specialty within the dis- English fluently and if poss- rected to the President of the cipline; ible Spanish and other lan- Governing Board of the IISL, (e) developing country ex- guages usually spoken Apdo. 28, 20560 Oñati, Gi- perience; proficiency in Engl- worldwide. puzkoa, Spain

49 able to teach and supervise The salary range for the po- Lecturer Sociology at all levels. sition is Australian $ 33.163- in Sociology The School of Behavioral 43.096 ayear and the com- Sciences is multi-disciplin- mencing salary will be deter- Applications are invited for ary, and Sociology contribut- mined in accordance with the position of Lecturer in So- es to the Psychology, Social qualifications and experi- ciology in the School of Beha- Work, Community Welfare ence. vioral Sciences, James Cook and Anthropology degree Further information and ap- University of North Queens- programmes. Applicants spe- plications forms may be ob- land, Australia. cializing in any subfield of So- tained from the Personnel Applicants should posses a ciology will be considered, Manager postgraduate qualification in but a strong background in James Cook University Sociology, preferably a doc- one or more of the following Townsville Qld 4811, Aus- torate. Prior tertiary teaching areas would be an advantage: tralia and research experience deviancy, stratification, mo- Applications close on Fri- would be an advantage. The bility, survey methods, work day 24 May 1991. In reply appointee will be expected to and occupations, and organi- please quote reference be an active researcher and zations. number 91029.

50 ALENDAR OF FUTURE EVENTS

76130 Mont-Saint-Aignan August 19-23, September 8-11, France 1991 1991 tel: 35701136 fax: 35146940 21st International International Conference on Conference for the Emergency Planning'91 Sociology of Religion Place: October 3-5, 1991 Place: Lancaster University, Unit- Maynooth College, Co. Kil- ed Kingdom Return to Work, Production dare, Ireland Topics: and Administration to case studies • communica- Capitalism: Construction Organizer: tíons , disasters classification International Society for the and building of the new and economics • hazard/risk European House Sociology of Religion analysis • human reliability • Main theme: legal issues. voluntary sector Place: Religion and the Economic • casualty bureaux manage- Chemnitz, Germany Order ment • media control and in- formation preparation • Organizers: Information: emergency plan design • in- Research Committee on Enzo Pace, Secretary Gen- ternational perspectives Participation and Self-Mana- eral SISR Information: gement, Department of Social Via Andreini 12 Emergency Planning'91 Sciences of the University of 35100 Padova, Italy Bowland College Osnabrück, and Department Lancaster University of Political Sciences of the Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 Technical University of August 29-31, 4YT Chemnitz 1991 United Kingdom Call for papers on a transition tel: 524-6520, fax: 524- of the societies of the Eastern European Group of Public 843695 and South-Eastern Europe Administration Information: Place: Prof. G. Széll & W. Ehlert The Hague, The Nether- September 26-27, FB Sowi, Postfach 4469 lands 1991 4500 Osnabrück, Germany tel: 49-541-608.2386 Organizers: European Colloquium on fax: 49-541-608.2270 Dutch Association for Publ- Consumption and Lifestyle ic Administration of Youth V. Kreissig & E. Schreiber Main theme: Place: Politische Wissenschaften Informatization in Public Paris, France Technical University Administration Main topics: Postfach 964 socialization and education Call for papers on: 9010 Chemnitz, Germany processes • development of informatization policies • in- tel: 37-71-561.2103 behavior and opinions • formational architecture • cross-national comparison • large-scale information sys- methodology of research and terns , information and admi- intervention October 7-12, nistrative modernization Information: 1991 Information: Colloque Europeen EGPA Secretariat CIA-CEREQ-IRED-Univer- XII Congress of the 1, rue Defacqz, Box 11 sité de Rouen International Society of 1050 Brussels, Belgium 7, rue Thomas Becket Social Defence

51 Place: Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia Paris, France January 5-11, Topics: Main theme: 1992 role of economy, politics, The Movement of Social culture and religion: a global Defence, the Protection of the Nation Building: Yesterday, perspective Environment and Fundamen- Today and Tomorrow Information: tal Rights Organizer: Dr Karol Borowski Information: ISA Research Committee International Institute for XII International Congress on Sociology of Religion, In- Regional Studies Cntr Nazionale di Preven- ternational Institute for Regi- P.O.Box 28060 zione e Difesa Sociale onal Studies, Inter-University Baltimore, MD 21239-8060, Piazza Castello, 3 Center Dubrovnik USA 20121 Milano, Italy Place: Fax: 301-426-6062

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