Isa Bulletin NO 19 (PRINTEMPS 1979) NO

isa bulletin NO 19 (PRINTEMPS 1979) NO. 19 (SPRING 1979) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1978-1982 PRESIDENT: lnst. of Philosophy & Sociology Juan Linz Ulf Himmelstrand Nowy Swiat 72 Guido Martinotti Sociological Institute 00-330 Warszawa Kh. N. Momdjian Sturegatan 2 B POLAND Stefan Nowak S-752 23 Uppsala Pamela Roby SWEDEN VICE-PRES. & CHAIRPERSON, Alexander Szalai PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Francisco Zapata VICE-PRES. & CHAIRPERSON, Ralph Turner MEMBERSHIP & FINANCE Department of Sociology COMMITTEE: University of California EXECUTlVE SECRETARIES: Fernando Henrique Cardoso Los Angeles, Ca. 90024 Céline Saint-Pierre CEBRAP U.S.A. Kurt Jonassohn Alameda Campinas, 463-13° 01404 Sao Paulo, SP MEMBERS: BRAZIL Akinsola Akiwowo ISA SECRETARIAT: Joseph Ben-David C.P. 719, Succursale "A" VICE-PRES. & CHAIRPERSON, Jacques Dofny Montréal, Qué. H3C 2V2 RESEARCH COUNCIL: Leela Dube CANADA Magdalena Sokolowska Anne-Marie Guillemard Tel:(514) 282-4634 Polish Academy of Sciences Shogo Koyano Cable - ISAGRAM MONTREAL SUB-COMMITTEES RESEARCH COORDINATlNG Shogo Koyano Margaret Archer COMMITTEE: Alexander Szalai Andrée Michel Magdalena Sokolowska, Chairperson Francisco Zapata Else ~yen Leela Dube Tom Bottomore Akinsola Akiwowo PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Katy Brooks Joseph Ben-David Ralph Turner, Chairperson (one additional member remains to be Anne-Marie Guillemard (members to be elected) elected) Enzo Mingione Stefan Nowak Else Oyen PUBLICATlONS COMMITTEE: STA TUTES REVISION COMMITTEE: Pamela Roby Jacques Dofny, Chairperson Ulf Himmelstrand, Chairperson Guido Martinotti Albert Cherns MEMBERSHIP & FINANCE COMMITTEE: Arthu: Meier Juan Linz Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Chairperson Gennadi Osipov Alexander Szalai

CONTENTS

Report on the Meeting of the Publications Calendar of Future Meelings ...... •...... p.13 Committee ...... p.2 Journals p.15 Report on the Meeting of the Statutes Revision Commitlee p.2 Olher Informalion p.15 ISA Grants lo Research Committees .....•... ' p.2 Publicalions of Ihe ISA p.15 ERRATA to Bullelin 18 p.2 1979 Membership p.18 Report of Activilies from Ihe Research Committees p.2 - 2 -

REPORTON THE MEETING OF THE PUBLICATIONS REPORT ON THE MEETING OF THE STATUTES REVISION COMMITTEE COMMITTEE

The Publications Committee met in London on January 8-9 This committee was newly established by the Executive at the offices of Sage Publications. Committee in Uppsala.It held its first meeting on Present were: Ulf Himmelstrand, President January 11 and 12 in Lonqon, immediately after the meetings Jacques Dofny, Chairperson of the Publications Committee. Guido Martinotti, Editor SSIS Margaret Archer, Editor Current Sociology Present were: Ulf Himmelstrand, President Andrée Michel Albert Cherns Else ¡Jyen Juan Linz Tom Bottomore Alexander Szalai Katy Brooks Jacques Dofny Kurt Jonassohn Kurt Jonassohn The terms of the current editors expire in summer 1980. The main task during this first meeting was to review In order to make sure that there is adequate time for the ISA statutes in their entirety and to identify areas the transition, the Committee urged the editors as well where changes might seem desireable. In most cases the as all members of the Committee to search out nominations Committee suggested appropriate revisions; a couple'of for new editors in time for submission to the Executive areas were delegated to some members for review because • Committee in May. In order to facilitate cooperation they could not be dealt with in the available time. These with the publishers, it was felt that the new editors m~bers will distribute the results of their work by ought to be located in England or in Western Europe. mall; Albert Cherns kindly offered the services of his s:cretary to transcribe the work of the Committee, which Margaret Archer reported on Curren~~iolQgy_. It was wlll then also be distributed by mail. All of this agreed to advance the publication schedule of the material will be reviewed by the Committee at its next journal so that its three numbers in future will appear meeting in May and will also be presented to the Executive in February, June, and October. All of volume 26 (1978) C?mmittee for their examination. Thus, it may be some has now appeared. For volume 27 (1979), the first tlme before actual amendments will be formulated and number is in the proof stage; for the other two numbers proposed. there are potentially four manuscripts available in various stages of completion. In order not to delay ¡SA GRANTS TO RESEARCH COMMITTEES publication, it was agreed to publish the first two manuscripts to be completed. For future volumes there are 15 trend reports that have been commissioned and Following the decisions took at the last meeting of the another three or four for which contracts are about Executive Committee at Uppsala, it has been decided to to be signed. Margaret Archer pointed out that in her allow an amount of $6,000 to be distributed to research experience this seemed to be about the right number committees to support the organization of scientific required to ensure that publication delays due to lack activities. Last autumn, all research committees were of completed manuscripts can be avoided.The Committee asked to submit their applications for such grants and discussed a number of areas in which we have not members of the Research Coordinating Committee took vote published trend reports and for which authors ought to on the projects received. be found in the future. The results of the votes are as follows: six out of seven Another issue discussed was the past decision to publish were accepted and allowed a grant.They were: commentaries. It turns out to be very difficult to have 1) RC 29: Deviance and Social Control - $1,200 commentaries on a trend report ready for the next issue of the journal. Therefore, it was decided to include 2) RC 02: Economy and Society - $1,200 them whenever they arrive with a clear indication of which 3) RC 21: Regional and Urban Development - $1,200 trend report is being discussed. In addition, it was suggested that such commentaries could also be solicited 4) RC 14: Communication, Knowledge and by the editor from people known to be working in the Culture - $1,000 relevant area. The ISA Bulletin should also announce 5) Re 13: Sociology of Leisure $750 that Current Soc~ now is prepared to publish comments. 6) RC 27: Sociology of Sport $650 On the financial side, the good news is that the journal is now producing just enough revenue to pay its own way. The projects for which the grants have been given will be presented in the reports of activities submitted Guido Martinotti reported on the book series, SSIS. The by the research committees. biggest item on his agenda was the review of the 60-odd proposals for books based on the work of the last World TO BULLETIN Congress. The proposals were divided into three groups: ERRATA 18 those that were complete and looked good enough to be p. 14-Category C:collective member accepted, those that were dropped, and the largest group Amend: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales which was tabled in order to allow time for the receipt of additional materials. In the first group, eight Instituto Torcuato di Tella proposals were accepted for publication which represents 11 de Septiembre 2139 about ayear and a half in our publications schedule. 1428 - Buenos Aires, Argentina p. 18-Alternate for NORWAY to ISA Council On the financial side, the SSIS books have also reached Add: Kristin Tornes the stage of paying for themselves. Thus, both of our Institutt for sosiologi of statsvilenskap publications should not require any more subsidies out Christiesgate 15-17 of the general funds of the ISA. 5014 Bergen Univ., Norway The next meeting of the Publications Committee will take p. 19-1n Memorium - David Glass place in May, one day before the meetings of the Executive 5th paragraph, 10th line should read: Committee. At that time the major item on the agenda will ...willing to accept American innovations be the review of the large number of proposals for books Last paragraph, second line shoula read: which had to be tabled due to lack of sufficient documen- ...Europe 1950-1970 tation on which to base a decision. - 3 -

REPORT OF ACTIVITIES FROM THE RESEARCH COMMITTEES

RC 01. ARMED FORCES AND SOCIETY Vice-Chairpersons: Alberto Martine11i New Board - Founding chairperson: Instituto di Socio10gie 1978-1982 Morris Janowitz Faco1ta di Scienze Po1itiche Department of Socio10gy Universita deg1i Studi di Milano University of Chicago Via Conservatorio, 7 Chicago, 111inois 60637 20122 Mil ano U.S.A. ITALY Chairperson: Luciano Martins Gwyn Harries-Jenkins Institut des Hautes études de Department of Adu1t Education 1 'Amérique 1atine University of Hu11 Université de Paris III 195 Cottingham Road 28, rue Saint-Gui11aume Hu11 HU5 2EQ 75007 Paris GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE Vice-Chairpersons: Arnaud Sales Charles Moskos D~partement de Socio10gie Department of Socio10gy Université de Montréa1 Northwestern University C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" Evanston, 111inois 60201 Montr~a1, Qué. H3C 3J7 U.S.A. CANADA Bernhard F1eckenstein Secretary: Der Bundesminister der Verteidigung Harry M. Mak1er Pos tfach 13 28 Department of Socio10gy 5300 Bonn 1 University of Toronto F.R.G. 563 Spadina Ave. Toronto, Ont. M5S 2J7 S. Tyushkevich Membership dues: not fixed yet. 121 Univezsitetsky pzosp Mi1itary History Institute ~eport of Activities Moscow The Secretary Harry Mak1er has sent the fo110wing report U.S.S.R. of activities. We have decided to reproduce a major part Secretary: of it as it is a new committee and as it might be inter- • Nancy Go1dman esting for the ISA members to know more about their Department of Socio10gy projects. University of Chicago Chicago, 111inois 60637 "Research Committee 02, Economy and Society, was the resu1t U.S.A. of a 'merger' of a group coordinated by Fernando H. Cardoso, entit1ed 'Industrial Leadership, Entrepreneurship Membership dues: $3 to $5 (payab1e to Nancy Go1dman) and Economic üeve lopnent", and one coordinated by Neil J. Sme1ser entit1ed 'Economy and Society'. We first met as a ~~University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Membership dues: $3.00 ayear ENGLANO $10.00 for the period between the two world congresses Secretary: Katherine O'Sullivan See Report of Ac.!ivities Oepartment of Sociology James Madison College With social science funding and conference support in Michigan State University particular much tighter than a few years ago, it has East Lansing, Michigan 48823 been much more difficult to arrange meetings between U.S.A. World Congresses than in previous years. The Committee Membership dues: not fixed yet. expects to have certain joint meetings in conjunction No report has been received by the Secretariat. with other professional associations, such as The American Sociological Association and The European Consortium for Political Research, as in the pasto RC 06. FAMILY RESEARCH New Board - Chairperson: RC 04. SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION 1978-1982 Veronica Stolte-Heiskanen Oepartment of Sociology New Board - Chairperson: University of Helsinki 1978-1982 Margaret Archer Helsinginkatu 34C Oepartment of Sociology 00530 Helsinki 53 University of Warwick FINLANO Coventry CV4 7AL ENGLANO Vice-Chairpersons: Jan Trost Vice-Chairpersons: Oepartment of Sociology Olusola Avoseh Uppsala University (Nigeria) S-75l 20 Uppsala Artur Meier SWEDEN Oepartment of Sociology of Education Jerzy Piotrowski Akademie der Pedagogischen (Poland) Wissenschaften der OOR Schulstrasse 29 Secretary: 110 Berl in Wil fried Oumon O.O.R. Sociologisch Onderzoeksinstituut E. Van Evenstraat 2B Secretary: B-2000 Leuven Asoke Basu BELGlUM Oepartment of Sociology California State University Membership dues: approximately $5.00. Hayward, California 94542 U.S.A. .~~rt of Activiti~ Membership dues: $5.00 This comrnittee had a total membership of 180 as of July The committee plans to publish a 1978 and publishes regularly the CFR Gazette, 2 to 3 Newsletter starting in Spring 1979. times ayear, containing information in the field of - 5 -

fami1y socio1ogy. The committee organized eight sessions Membership dues: during the 1ast Congress. $5.00 for old members and members of RCHS affi1iate groups and $10.00 for new members. RC 07. Futures Reeearcñ A11 officers have been re-e1ected to their posts for a New Board - Co-Chairpersons: second term. 197B-1982 E1eonora Masini Case11a Posta1e 6203 The committee pub1ishes a News1etter four times ayear. Roma - Pra ti ITALY Ibe Journa1 of t~ History of Socio1ogy Igor Bestushev-Lada The first issue of the Journa1 of the History of Socio1ogy Institute for Social Research carne out in the fa11 of 1978. The Journa1 was reviewed in Novocheremushkinskaya 46 the January 1979 issue of the ASA Footnotes. Moscow 117418 U.S.S.R. The ~.~ invites artic1es on the history of socio1ogy, Vice-Chairpersons: preferab1y uti1izing primary sources and documentary Andrzej Sicinski materia1s. Use the ASR sty1e and submit three copies Po1ish Academy of Sciences to the EDITOR, JHS, Department of Socio1ogy, University Pa1ac Ku1tury 1 Nauki of Massachusetts-Boston, Harbor Campus, Boston, Mass. 00-330 Warszawa 02125, U.S.A. Enc10se a se1f-addressed post- POLAND cardo G1enn Jacobs, University of Massachusetts-Harbor Campus, is editor-in-chief of the journa1. E11sworth D. Woodward R. Fuhrman, Virginia Po1ytechnic Institute, is book Hea1th and We1fare review editor. Long Range P1anning, Room 1344 Brooke C1axton Building Jack Nusan Porter is the founder and pub1isher of the Tunney's Pasture JHS. Subscriptions are $8.00 ayear for individua1s; Ottawa, Ont. K1A OK9 $13.50 for 1ibraries and institutions; $7.00 for CANADA students and the unemp1oyed; $17.50 for foreign subscriptions; $4.00 for single issues. Send a11 orders Secretary: to: Anna Coen Editors, JHS, ISPE 28 Stanton Road Via Be1isario, 15 Brook1ine, Ma. 02146 Rome U.S.A. ITALY

Membership dues: not fixed yet. RC 09. INNOVATIVE PROCESSES IN SOCIAL CHANGE .F.!!.!ureAc tj viti.e~ Current - Chairperson: Board Or1ando Fa1s Borda The committee p1ans to deve10p the work on a research Apartado Aereo 52508 pro jec t for 1979-82: "The Global Exp1oratory Forecast- Bogota 2 ing: Towards a System of Social Prob1ems in Perspective COLOMBIA - Key Prob1ems" to be carried out by nationa1 teams which wi11 formu1ate their own research programme under Secretary: the basic topic and with exchange of ideas and experi- E11en B. Hi11 ence from seminar to seminar. The first seminar wou1d 6654 Cavig1iano take place in Ber1in 8-10 May, during the conference Ticino of the Wor1d Future Studies Federation on "Science, SWITZERLAND Techno1ogy and the Future". The committee has decided that its program for the next four years wou1d be to Membership dues: $10.00 promote an internationa1 research project on "Leve1 and Qua1ity of Life: Social Indicators for the Year .~'p"ortof Activities 2000" . The Research Committee with a nominal membership of 109 persons has as in former years attempted to keep in touch between Congresses thanks to a Circular sent out RC 08. HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY by its Chairperson Or1ando Fa1s Borda approximate1y New Board - Chairperson: four times ayear. 1978-1982 Steven Lukes It a1so has in 1978 pub1ished in Spanish and German a Ba11 io 1 Co 11ege se1ection of papers on Action Research that had been Oxford OX1 3BJ presented at an internationa1 meeting co-sponsored by ENGLAND the Committee in Cartagena, Colombia in Apri1 1977. The Vice-Chairpersons: Spanish version was edited by Or1ando Fa1s Borda, the Igor S. Kon German one by Heinz Moser and He1mut Ornauer. Ti panowa 5-32 During the past year the board and many members prepared Leningrad the Research Committee sessions as a part of the Wor1d U.S.S.R. Con gres S in Uppsa1a where 22 speakers were schedu1ed Lewis A. Coser under the fo11owing group headings: Action Research 52 Er1and Road for Radical Change, Method Building in Social Processes, Stony Brook, New York 11790 Crisis and Change in Industria1ized Nations, and Counter- U.S.A. points in Social Change. Secretary: The Committee is present1y hoping to add two new vo1umes Robert A1un Jones to its series of pub1ications by drawing on the session Department of Socio1ogy papers. One is schedu1ed to focus on the new aspects of 326 Linco1n Hall action research, the other on new methods in the ana1ysis University of I11inois of social change. Urbana, I11inois 61801 We are further preparing another Regional Meeting in U.S.A. Spring 1980 in a high1y industria1ized area. - 6 -

RC 13. SOCIOLOGY OF LEISURE RC 10. PARTICIPATION, WORKERS' CONTROL AND SELF-MANAGEMENT (1978) New Board - Chairperson: 1978-1982 Anna 01szewska Current - Chairperson: Section on Leisure and Cu1ture Board Rudi Supek Institute of Phi10sophy and Cu1ture Gorana Kovacica 2 Po1ish Academy of Science 41000 Zagreb Nowy Swiat 72, Pa1ac Staszica YUGOSLAVIA 00-330 Warsaw Secretary: POLAND Casten von Otter Vice-Chairpersons: Arbets1iuscentrum Phi11ip Bosserman Box 5606 Department of Socio10gy S-114 86 Stockho1m Sa1isbury State Co11ege SWEDEN Sa1isbury, Md. 21801 De1egate to Research Counci1: U.S.A. Ve1jko Rus Stan1 ey Parker Lubejeva 1 163 Princess Avenue Ljub1jana London YUGOSLAVIA GREAT BRITAIN The committee has conducted a mai1 ba110t for the Secretary: e1ections of the officers of the committee, but the Gil1 es Pronovost resu1ts are not"yet avai1ab1e. The first meeting Groupe de recherche en 10isir of the new board wi11 take place during the spring. Université du Québec a Trois-Rivi~res A report of the business meeting he1d in Uppsa1a Trois-Rivi~res, Québec G9A 5H7 has been received. CANADA Membership dues: $5.00 The committee pub1ishes a News1etter in French and in Eng1ish three times ayear, and a Review: Loisir et Société/Society and Leisure. The committee has pub1ished a complete report of its business meeting at Uppsa1a in RC 11. SOCIOLOGY OF AGING their News1etter Vo1ume VI, No. 3. Current - Chairperson: f..u..t.!!!~_AS.!.iviti~ Board Haro1d L. Orbach Department of Socio1ogy al Apri1 4th, 1979, Brusse1s, Be1qium; a one-day committee Kansas State University meeting, prior to the Van C1é Foundation conference; Manhattan, Kansas 66506 bl In conjunction with the Research Committee on Communi- U.S.A. cation, Know1edge and Cu1ture, the committee wi11 Secretary: organize an internationa1 ~eminar on popular cu1ture Betty Havens at the Université du Québec a Trois-Rivi~res in 28 River Road September 1979. Winnipeg, Manitoba R2M 3Y9 CANADA RC 14. SOCIOLOGY OF MASS COM:fU/lICATION, K!lOWLrDGr AND No report has been received by the Secretariat. CULTURE New Board - Chairperson: RC 12. SOCIOLOGY OF LAW 1978-1982 José Vida1-Beneyto Facultad de Ciencias Po1iticas y Socio10gie New Board - Chairperson: Universidad Comp1utense 1978-1982 Jan G1astra van Loon Madrid Bazarstraat 15 SPAIN The Hague Vice-Chairpersons: THE NETHERLANDS Kurt Lang Vice-Chairpersons: State University of New York Richard L. Abe1 Stony Brook, New York 11790 Schoo1 of Law U.S.A. University of California Tamas Szecsko Los Angeles, California 90024 Pamareti utca 125 U.S.A. H-1026 Budapest Co1in M. Campbe11 HUNGARY Law Schoo1 Deni s McQua il Queen's University (The Nether1andsl Be1fast IRELAND A1fred Wi11ener Secretary: 4, Riant-Mont Jean van Houtte 1004 Lausanne Universiteit Antwerpen SUISSE UFSIA Jacques Leenhardt Prinsstraat 13 92, rue de Turenne Antwerpen 75003 Paris BELG IUM FRANCE fgQrEin..a_tjD.9..--º-fi.1s~L~~..12~~A'!.!!~"L~?~_' Membership dues: not fixed yet. 14, av. de la Industria San Just Desvern No report of activities has been received by the Secretariat. Barcelona SPAIN - 7 -

Secretary: RC 16. NATIONAL MOVEMENTS AND IMPERIALISM Marino Livolsi Universita di Trento New Board - Chairperson: Via Verdi 26 1978-1982 Anouar Abdel-Malek Trento Centre d'Etude des Mouvements sociaux ITALY 54, boul. Raspail 75270 Paris, Cedex 06 !:}EASE !!..OTE'1J!!LT..: FRANCE the name of the committee has been changed from Research Vice-Chairpersons: Committee on Mass Communications to the new title Imre Marton underlined previously. (1978) Institut d'Economie mondiale Académie des Sciences de Hongrie Curre~t Membership dues: not fixed yet. P.O.B. 36 H-153l Budapest .E.l!..~I!r...~<;.li.'d..~i..e_~ HONGRIE Several meetings are planned by the committee: José-Augustin Silva Mechelena 1) Work - shop in Lausanne under the responsibility of Director of Research Alfred Willener on the theme: "Soft-Media and Counter- CENDES Culture". Tentative dates: spring 1979 P.O.B. 6622 Colinas de Bello Monte 2) International symposium at Burgos (SPAIN) on Caracas "Cultural Industry and Model s of Civil ization" with VENEZUELA the participation of the Department of Culture and Communication of UNESCO. Shingo Shibata 37 Toyamacho 3) International seminar on Popular Culture organized Shinjuku-ku in conjunction with the Research Committee of the Tokyo 162 Sociology of Leisure (see RC 13 for details). JAPAN Immanuel Wallerstein RC 15. SOCIOLOGYOF MEDICINE Director Fernand Braudel Center Current - Chairperson: Department of Sociology Board Mark 8. Field State University of New York Department of Sociology Binghamton, New York 13901 Boston University U.S.A. 96 Cummington Street Secretary: Boston, Mass. 02215 Christine Colpin U.S.A. C.E.M.S. Bureau 807 Secretary: 54, boul. Raspail Derek Gill 75270 Paris, Cedex 06 School of Medicine FRANCE Section of Behavioral Science Membership dues: not fixed yet. University of Missouri No report of activities has been received by the Secretariat. TD3-W Medical Center Columbia, Missouri 65201 U.S.A. RC 17. SOCIOLory OF ORGANIZATION Membership dues: not fixed yet. Current - Chairperson: Board Michel Crozier ~eport of Activities Centre de Sociologie des Organisations 88, rue de L ille .In 1978 the Research Committee devoted most of its 75007 Pari s activities to preparations for the meetings to be FRANCE held at the 9th World Congress of Sociology in Uppsala, Sweden, August 1978. The sessions at Secretary: Uppsala were well attended, frequently requiring Martha Zuber the committee to make ad hoc arrangements to deal (same as above) with a situation of overspill. Membership dues: not fixed yet. No report of activities and elections has been received by Arrangements have already been completed for the Secretariat. publ ication of some of the paper s,and discussions are underway concerning the material presented in a number of sessions. RC 18. POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY The Research Committee is currently exploring the possibility of sponsoring some additional New Board - Chairperson: international meetings on Medical Sociology for 1978-1982 Juan L. Linz the intervening period between the next ISA Department of Sociology Congress. Its chairperson, Mark Field, has Yale University recently visited Italy, Switzerland, Russia New Haven, Connecticut 05620 and Western Germany with a view to convening U.S.A. further conferences to explore a variety of Vice-Chairpersons: topics of interest to medical sociologists. Erik Allardt Developments in these and other areas will Research Group for Comparative Sociology be reported in subsequent editions of the University of Helsinki Research Committee's Newsletter. ~lal"iankatu 10 A 13 SF - 00170 Helsinki 17 FINLAND - 8 -

Jer zy Wi atr In addition, many Committee members are active in other Inst. of Socio10gy, University of Warsaw capacities in the programme of the Congress. Nowy Swiat 69 Warsaw Individua1s wishing to participate shou1d write direct1y POLAND to those responsib1e for pane1s; a fu11 1ist is avai1ab1e from Richard Merrit. It shou1d be noted that most pane1s Secretary: are now fu11y subscribed. Richard Rose Po1itics Department .Research-.E~ct~nE_Meeti ngs University of Strathc1yde Organizing Po1itica1 Leader~~ G1asgow G1 1XQ, Scot1and UNITED KINGDOM .23-26 Ju1y 1979. How to give direction to the 1arge bureaucratic struc- Current Membership dues: $5.00. tures that constitute government is a common prob1em of po1itica1 1eaders in a11 nations. Professor Ezra Report of Activities Su1eiman, Po1itica1 Science, UCLA, and Professor Richard From their News1etter of December 1978, the Secretariat Rose of Strathc1yde have received a grant from the has chosen the fo110wing information: American Enterprise Institute to produce a vo1ume on beha1f of the Committee, ana1yzing systematica11y and Future Mee.üM~ comparative1y the current prob1ems of giving po1itica1 direction to government in Europe and North America. I.r!!:ernatj.2D~.Po1itica1Science Association Congress A conference wi11 be he1d in Loch Lomond, Scot1and in' .12-18 August 1979,Moscow late Ju1y 1979 for participants to discuss papers. The authors are: P1ans are now we11 advanced for the e1eventh Wor1d Carlos Alba (Spain) Congress of IPSA. A11 correspondence concerning Co1in Campbe 11 (Canada) sections of the program shou1d be directed to the Sabino Cassese (Ita1y) Program Committee Chairman: John He1mer (USA) Professor Richard L. Merritt Renate Mayntz (Germany) Po1itica1 Science Johan P. 01sen (Norway) University of I11inois and the co-convenors. A book is expected to be pub1ished Urbana, I11inois 61801 in summer, 1980. U.S.A. There wi11 be three broad themes, each divided into h~itimation/De1~timationZTransition to Democracy approximate1y eight separate sections: Two of the Committee's work groups are active1y deve10ping p1ans to study the re1ated prob1ems of the de1egitimation - The Po1itics of Peace (Hayward A1ker Jr.,MIT; of regimes, whether democratic or authoritarian, and the Marce1 Mer1e, Paris-1; Georgii Shakhaazarov, transition from authoritarian to democratic regimes. The Moscow) interest fo11ows books produced for the Committee under - The Po1itics of Deve10pment and System Change the editorship of Juan Linz, A1fred Stepan and Bogdan (Nirma1 Bose, Ca1cutta; Dusan Sidjanski, Geneva; Denitch. For further detai1s, write to: Ado1f Bibic, Ljub1jana) Bogdan Denitch - Cumu1ative Growth in Po1itica1 Know1edge since Department of Socio10gy 1950 (Vadim Semenov, Moscow; Peter C. Ludz, City University of New York Munich) 33 West 42nd Street New York, New York 10036 Under each theme, there wi11 be a specia1 session U.S.A. or for submitted papers that wi11 not otherwise fit. Juan L. Linz A11 persons wishing to attend the Congress are advised (Chairperson of Committee) to make app1ication for the appropriate visas we11 in advance of the Congress. IPSA has a specia1 Conference Pub1ications Committee under Professor Marce1 Mer1e: .._----- Sage Contempora.ry Po1itica1 Socio10gy Series. Fo11owing 23, rue du Laos the decision of Sage Publications Inc. to terminate its 75015 Paris series of monographs, the Committee decided to move from FRANCE pub1ishing individual Sage monographs in Contemporary to assist shou1d any de1ays occur. Po1itica1 Socio1ogy to producing co11ective books in fie1ds of its specia1 expertise. This wi11 enab1e readers The Committee has been a110cated the fo110wing two to find a variety of studies in one place, and wi11 make research panel s : it possib1e to plan conferences and pub1ications as a Ide2..!.o.9ies_a.n..

RC 19. SOCIOLOGY OF POVERTY, SOCIAL WELFARE AND John Wal ton SOCIAL POLICY Department of Sociology University of California Current - Chairperson: Davis, Ca. 95616 Board Else !3yen U.S.A. Institute of Sociology University of Bergen Secretary: Christiesgt. 19 Chri s Paris Bergen Faculty of Social Science NORWAY Flinders University Bedford Park Secretary: South AUSTRALIA, 5042 Hans Gunter International Institute of Labour Studies Membership dues: not fixed yet. P.O. Box 6 1211 Geneva 22 Report o.f.._acti..'!..ities SWITZERLAND The committee has published an extensive report of activities (past and future) in their first issue Membership dues: not fixed yet. of the Newsletter published after the Congress. No report has been received by the Secretariat. Following, is a résumé of some parts of the report: Chris Paris, the present Secretary reports that the meetings of the World Congress at Uppsala were very RC 20. SOCIOLOGY OF MENTAL HEALTH successful "both in terms of the variety and qual ity of papers and attendance. The meetings of the Research Current - Chairperson: Consni t tee were notable for the emphasis given to Board Norman Bell compar-at tve research with many papers specifically Psychomedisch Streekcentrum Vijverdal aimed to stimulate international debate." P.O. Box 616 Maastricht The new President, Manuel Castells presents in the THE NETHERLANDS Newsletter the plans of the committee. He mentions that the commi ttee will pub 1ish a News 1etter twice Secretary: a y~ar "giving information about current research R.F. Geyer on specific topics in several countries." The committee SISWO will put "special emphasis in supporting comparative P.O. Box 19079 research projects" and try to obtain financial resources 1000 GB Amsterdam from the national or international funding agencies. The THE NETHERLANDS committee will remain closely linked to the "International Journal of Urban and Regional Research" published by PLEASE NOTE THAT this board is temporar~ as an election Edward Arnold, London. It plans to encourage the is actually being conducted. The results will be development of national and regional groups and to communicated in the next issue of our Bulletin. organize a large conference in the United States and two regional conferences. Membership dues: $20 for four years.

Report of Activities RC 22. SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION The committee publishes a Newsletter on a regular basis. In its last issue, it is announced that Felix Geyer, New Board - Chairperson: who was the Secre tary- Treasurer of the Committee, has 1978-1982 Karel Dobbelaere resigned after many years of work with the committee. Department of Sociology He will remain until a new secretary-treasurer is Katholieke Universiteit Leuven elected. 2C van Evenstraat B-3000 Leuven The Research Committee has organized six sessions during BELGlUM the last World Congress with an attendance of more than 100 persons. The Newsletter gives an interesting overview Vice-Chairpersons: of the content of the discussions and the papers presented T. Abdull ah in the various sessions. (Indonesia) M. Tomka (Hungary) RC 21. REGIONAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Secretary: New Board - Chairperson: James A. Beckford 1978-1982 Manuel Castells Department of Sociology Ecole des Hautes études en sciences University of Durham sociales Elvet Riverside 11, New Elvet 54, boul. Raspail Durham DHl 3JT, ENGLAND 75006 Pari s Membership dues: not fixed yet. FRANCE Report of Activities, prepared by James Beckford Vice-Chairperson and Treasurer: Enzo Mingione It was decided at the General Business Meeting held Viale Piave 27 during the World Congress of Sociology at Uppsala, 20129 Milan Sweden that the Research Committee on the Sociology of ITALY Religion would continue its policy of close cooperation with the Conférence internationale de Sociologie Vice-Chairpersons: religieuse and the Association for the Sociology of Zdravco Ml inar Religion. This will be facilitated by the election on Faculty for Sociology to the Committee of representatives of both the CISR and Political Science and Journalism the ASR. Titova 102 Ljubljana The Committee will issue an annual Newsletter. It will YUGOSLAVIA include advance notice of conferences on the sociology of religion, news of research projects in this field 10 -

and of pub1ications in press by its members. Detai1s RC 25. SOCIOLINGUISTICS shou1d be communicated to the Secretary of the Research Corrmittee: New Board - Chairperson: 1978-1982 L1uis V. Araci1 James A. Beckford Gerona 90 The Secretary wi11 a1so be p1eased to 1earn of any Attic 2 initiatives for the design of the Committee's sessions Barcelona during the next Wor1d Congress of Socio10gy in 1982. SPAIN The Executive wi11 consider a11 proposed initiatives Vice-Chairpersons: at its meeting in Venice during the CISR conference in Fritz SchUtze August 1979. Members are urged to send their ideas to 556-5th Avenue, Apt. 2 the Secretary at the ear1iest possib1e opportunity. San Francisco, Ca. 94118 Report of activities at the IX Wor1d Congress U.S.A. The Research Corrmittee organized six sessions: Lachman M. Khubchandani 212, Sind Society 1} Re1igion and Social Deve10pment Ganesh Khind Road 2}Re1igion and Identity Aundh, Poona 7 INDIA 3} Re1igion and Secu1arization (N.B. confirmation pending approva1 of 4} New Re1igious Movements membership through mai1 vote) 5} Re1igion and Spiritua1 Well-being (1) Secretary: Richard Grathoff 6}Re1igioo and Spiritua1 We11-being (2) Faku1t~t fUr Sozio10gie A11 sessions were we11 attended, and the qua1ity of both Universit~t Bie1efe1d presentations and discussions was gratifying. In fact, Postfach 8640 the degree of interest in the sessions was so high that 4600 Bie1efe1d the audience occasiona11y overf10wed into the corridor. F.R.G. At the next Wor1d Congress, the co~ittee cou1d reason- Membership dues:Current1y $6 per year. a~ly expect an audience approaching 100 peop1e. Report of Activities A report of activities has been pub1ished in the 1ast RC 23. SOCIOLOGY OF SCIEIICE issue of the Socio1inguistics News1etter by the Secretary- Treasurer Richard Grathoff. It consists most1y of a New Board - Chairperson: statement on membership (110 members as of May 31, 1978), 1978-1982 Peter Weingart and a statement on the financia1 situation. The committee Universit~t Bie1efe1d has organized a great number of sessions attended by Postfach 8640 hundreds of participants. 4800 Bie1efe1d 1 F.R.G. Vice-Chairperson: RC 26. SOCIOTECHNICS Michae1 Mu1kay Department of Socio10gy New Board - Chairperson: University of York 1978-1982 Adam Podgorecki Hes1ington,York Y01 5DD Department of Socio10gy and Anthropo10gy ENGLAND Car1eton University Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 Secretary: CANA DA Jerry Gas ton Department of Socio10gy Vice-Chairperson: Southern I11inois University A1bert Cherns Carbonda1e, Ill. 62901 Department of Social Studies U.S.A. Loughborough University Loughborough, Leicerstershire Membership dues: not fixed yet. ENGLAND No report of activities has been received by the Secretariat. Secretary: The committee has organized six scientific sessions and one Joachim K.H.W. Schmidt business meeting very we11 attended as reported by the SOREGA President. Postfach 520428 5000 K1l1n 51 F.R.G. RC 24. SOCIALECOLOGY Membership dues: $5.00 per year. Current - Chairperson: Report of Activities Boa rd r~atte i Doga n Centre nationa1 de la Recherche scientifique In the 1ast issue of the News1etter of the corrmittee, we 82, rue Cardinet find a very interesting presentation of surrmaries of Pari s 17e various conferences organized by the Research Committee, FRANCE inc1uding the sessions which took place at Uppsa1a during the IX Wor1d Congress. Secretary: Miche1 Bassand "The Committee organized its V Conference from August EPFL, Département d'Architecture 15-17 in Uppsa1a within the context of the IX Wor1d Chaire de socio10gie Congress of Socio10gy. The sessions have been organized 12, ave. de l'Eg1ise ang1aise by A.B. Cherns, B. Garde11, M. Los, and A. Matejko. B. P. 1024, 1001 Lausanne Scho1ars from many countries discussed c10se to twenty SUISSE presented papers focusing on the eva1uation of crime prevention prograrrmes, the imp1ementation of recommended Membership dues: not fixed yet. social actions, Industrial Democracy and Job Redesign No report of activities has been received by the Secretariat. in Norway and Sweden, and the Scandinavian experience in an internationa1 perspective. 11

The new Board decided to organize the next conference Future Meetings in Eng1and, probab1y Oxford. Detai1s wi11 be worked (1) Sixth Internationa1 Symposium on the Socio10gy of out by an Executive Committee of the Board that wi11 ~ort, Warsaw,Po1and, August 21-24, 1979 meet November 3rd in Oxford. The VI Conference of our Committee, p1anned for the winter 1979/BO, wi11 focus Z. Krawczyk reported on p1ans for the Sixth Inter- on prob1ems resu1ting when active citizens and experts nationa1 Symposium on the Socio10gy of Sport, to are invo1ved in po1icy making in addition to traditiona1 commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Academy of and estab1ished decision makers, i.e. po1iticians." Physica1 Education.The theme of the symposium wi11 be "Sport and Culture". lt wi 11 be under the auspices As many of our members have asked about the subject of ICSS, the Socio10gica1 Committee of the Po1ish matter of Sociotechnics, we thought that it might be Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Physica1 usefu1 to reproduce a short description presented by Education. the committee itse1f: (2) Tib1ishi Pre-~~Congress, USSR, 1980 "Sociotechnics may be regarded as a specia1 branch of practica1 social science which treats as its main task The Congress wi11 be divided into four fie1ds: the assessment of efficient means for the achievement 1.Phi10sophy/history/socio10gy of desired social aims. In doing this, sociotechnics 2. Pedagogy and psycho10gy matches se1ected e1ements of the 'bank' of hypotheses 3. Bio10gy/biomechanics/biochemistry in the social sciences with the various sets of va1ues. 4. Technica1 and economic prob1ems The hypotheses specify factors which might be used as strategic variables in introducing social changes, the accepted set of va1ues provides criteria for se1ecting RC 28. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION those means which are consistent with them and con se- quent1y the criteria for eva1uation of the spectrum of New Board - Chairperson: possib1e outcomes. 1978-1982 Nata1ie Rogoff Rams~y The term 'sociotechnics', as a new1y coined one, is not Institute of App1ied Social Research universa11y known, but sti11 seems the most appropriate. Munthesgate 31 Genera11y speaking sociotechnics is the scientific Os10 2 approach to the solutions of social prob1ems and is not NORWAY identified with social po1icies as they are designed Vice-Chairpersons: by social practice. Neverthe1ess, those social po1icies W10dzimierz Weso10wsky constitute the main object of sociotechnica1 inquiries: Institute of Phi10sophy and Socio10gy they are ana1ysed from the point of view of their Po1ish Academy of Sciences ingenuity, inte11igibi1ity, consistency, efficiency, Nowy Swiat 72 effectiveness, re1iabi1ity, social justice, etc. 00-330 Wa rszawa Sociotechnics tries to synthesize these e1ements into POLAND a paradigm of efficient and socia11y just activity. John H. Go1dthorpe The fo110wing prob1ems are the main target of the study Nuffie1d Co11ege , of sociotechnics: historica11y recorded strategies of Oxford OX1 1NF efficient social actions, 1aw as an instrument of social GREATBRITAIN change, the use of mass media, various usages of power, instances of social manipu1ation, technics of management, Secretary: etc. Action research, eva1uation research, social Wa lter MU11 er p1anning and the management sciences address similar Lehrstuh1 fUr Sozio10gie 111 prob1ems, the socio-technica1 approach makes se1ective Universit~t Mannheim use of these techniques within a unified methodo10gy." Seminargeb~ude A5 6800 Mannheim F.R.G. RC 27. SOCIOLOGYOF SPORT Membership dues: not fixed yet. Current - Chairperson: ~rt of Activities Board GUnther LUschen Department of Socio10gy "A 1arge number of the Research Committee members as we11 as of other congress participants have participated at University of I11inois the meetings which the Research Committee organized at Urbana, 111. 61801 U.S.A. the occasion of the Wor1d Congress." Secretary: ~ctivities P1anned Gera1d S. Kenyon "As future acti vit ies. the Research Committee agreed on Fac. of HKLS the fo110wing conferences which wi11 be supported by University of Water100 the Research Committee: Hater100, Ontario N2L 3G1 1. Roger Girod is preparing a series of conferences on CANADA 'The Social Distribution of Measured Know1edge and An e1ection of a new board is being conducted in March. SK1~~rst conference w,ll take place at a not The resu1ts wi11 be printed in the next issue of our Bu11etin. yet defined institution in the United States in 1979. Membership dues: US$20.DO. 2. Manfred Ultsch prepares a conference on "Social Mobil ity and Processes of C1ass Formation" to be held in the Report of Activities German Democratic Republ;c in 1979. The committee pub1ishes a Bu11etin on a regular basis. 3. Nata1ie Rogoff Rams~y wi11 invite members of the ongoin9 In the 1ast issue, we find a report from the President 1ife history research projects to a specia1ized Life on the business meeting he1d by the committee at Uppsa1a ~isfory conference to be he1d at the Institute o-f- and a report of the Secretary general with many other pp ied Social Research in Os10 in 1980." information. The main issues with which the committee is concerned are the pub1ications of the "Internationa1 Review of Sport Socto loqy"; and of the Bu11etin, the RC 29. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL organization of internationa1 research projects and the preparation of sessions within various congresses. New Board - Chairperson: Internationa1 research projects are going OA ~he 1978-1982 Pau1 C. Friday fo11owing themes: "Leisure Ro1e Society" and "Po1icy- Department of Socio10gy making in Sport Organizations". Western Michigan University Ka1amazoo, Michigan 49008 U.S.A. - 12 -

Vice-Chairpersons: Secretary-Treasurer: Josine Junger-Tas Daniel Kubat Ministry of Justice Department of Sociology The Hague University of Waterloo THE NETHERLANDS Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3Gl O. Oloruntimehin CANADA Department of Sociology Membership dues: $20.00 for a four year periodo University of Ife Ile-!fe "~...!--º-Uct i'!..Í...!.~~ NIGERIA The committee publishes a Bulletin. Membership in the Secretariat: Research Committee on Migration is open to scholars of Department of Sociology migration whose interest in the subject is sociological. Western Michigan University Applications are to be directed to the Secretary-Treasurer Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008 stating special interests and publications. The committee U.S.A. is linked with the publication of the International Migration Review Membership dues: US$lO.OO. Report of Activities RC 32. SEX ROLES IN SOCIETY A report of activities is presented in Newsletter 10 published by the committee. Elections of the members Current - Co-Chairperson: of the Board will take place very soon and the results Board Hannah Papanek will be published in its Spring Newsletter. Department of Sociology Boston University In general, the sessions sponsored by tileir Research 100 Cummington Street Committee were very good. They also co-sponsored sessions Boston, Mass. 02215 with the Sociology of Law, Socio-technics, and Sex Roles U.S.A. sections. Sessions were held on Legal Issues, Police, Legal and Social Agents of Social Control, Urbanization Veronica Stolte-Heiskanen and Development, Juvenile Delinquency and Sex Roles and Department of Sociology 'trime. University of Helsinki Helsinginkatu 34C The committee has formed three sub-committees: 00530 Helsinki 53 1) Scientific committee FINLAND 2) Constitutional committee 3) Membership committee Secretary: Donna Gold Boston University RC 30. SOCIOLOGY OF WORK (same address as above) Membership dues: not fixed yet. Current - Chairperson: Board Jolanta Kulpinska No report of activities has been received by the Secretariat. University of Lodz Kasprzaka 55-8 91078 Lodz RC 33. LOGIC AND METHODOLOGY OF SOCIOLOGY POLAND New Board - Chairperson: Secretary: 1978-1982 Edgar F. Borgatta Marc Maurice Rupert, Vermont 05768 Lab. d'Economie et de Sociologie du U.S.A. Trava il Vice-Chairpersons: C.N.R.S., Chemin du Coton Rouge Vittorio Capecchi 13100 Aix-en-Provence FRANCE Abel Agenbegyan Membership dues: not fixed yet. Stefan Nowak No report of activities has been received by the Secretariat. Secretary: David J. Jackson NIMH Study Center RC 31. SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION 2340 University Blvd. E. Adelphi, Maryland 20783 New Board - Chairperson: U.S.A. 1978-1982 Hans-Joachim Hoffman-Nowotny Institute for Sociology Membership dues: $5.00 per year. University of Zurich Report of Activities Wiesenstr. 9 CH-8008 Zurich We extract the following statement from the Research SWITZERLAND Committee Newsletter: Vice-Chairpersons: "Pres ident Nowak revi ewed the hi story and deve 1opment H. Kubiak of Research Committee 33, outlining the many interests Polonia Research Institute that stimulated the development. Having gone through an University of Kracow exploratory stage, President Nowak suggested four areas Krakow for future concentration of effort, and recommended POLAND formation of sub-groups around these areas. Each area would have an organizer who would proceed independently Sylvano H. Tomasi towards formulation of active working groups, and who International Migration Review would also work toward the dere lopment of possible 209 Flagg Place meetings between ISA meetings and for identification of Staten Island, New York 10304 possible topics and sessions for the next ISA meetings. U.S.A. Additionally, the possibility of having work organized around "Y'..~ionalinterests, was noted." 1:1 -

The areas of the committee are: 1. The methodology and philosophy of social science CALENDAROFFUTURE MEETINGS SPONSORED BY THE 2. Strategies of measurement and concept formation ISA OR BYOTHER SCIENTIFIC BODIES 3. The quality of elementary data (Data collection) 4. Problems and strategies in theory construction April 5-7, 1979 - Third World Congress of Fondation Van Cl~ Stichting under patronage RC 34. SOCIOLOGY OF YOUTH of UNESCO New Board - Chairperson: Main theme Society in Crisis Towards 197B-1982 Ovidiu Badina free time Academia "Stefan Gheorgiu" B-dul Armata Poporulul 1-3 Topics - Free time and value-systems Bucharest 7 -Leisure and non-formal education RUMANIA - The so-called non-active population and free-time Vice-Chairpersons: - The cultural function of tourism Jerold M. Starr - Development of sport and violence (U.S.A. ) Place - Convention Hall Bagher Saroukhani Brussels, Belgium Secretary: Organizer - Secretariat IIIrd World Congress Vyacheslav Bowkun Fondation Van Cl~/Van Cl~ Stichting Soviet Sociological Association Grote Markt 9 Novocheremushkinskaya 46 B-2000 Antwerpen (BELGIUM) Moscow 117 418 Tel.: 03l/33.94.26 or 33.94.35 U.S.S.R. Membership dues: not fixed yet. The committee was recently established and no report of May 1-5, 1979 - 29th Annual Conference of the activities has been received by the Secretariat since International Communication the Uppsala meeting. Association Themes - Information systems RC 35. COMMITTEE ONCONCEPTUAL AND TERMINOWGICAL - Interpersonal communication ANALYSIS (COCTAJ (1978J - Mass communication - Organizational communication New Board - Chairperson: - Intercultural communication 1978·l982 Giovanni Sartori - Political communication Department of Political Science - Instructional communication Stanford University - Health communication ;¡o Stanford, Ca. 94305 U.S.A. Place - Ben Franklin Hotel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Secretary: U.S.A. Fred W. Riggs Poiitical Science Department Organizer - Robert L. Cox University of Hawaii Executi ve Secretary, ICA Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Balcones Research Ctr. U.S.A. 10,100 Burnet Road Austin, Texas 78758 (U.S.A.) Membership dues: not fixed yet. Te1.: (512 )836-0440, ext. 3061 Report of Activities The committee publishes an extensive Newsletter with many information on their activities. Among the main June 24-29, 1979 - Twenty-first International Hospital activities of the committee, we find the following: Congress, organized by the Interna- 1) CaCTA Workshop in Skokloster tional Hospital Federation in col- laboration with the Norwegian Hospital Under a contract with UNESCO, the International Social Association Science Council supported a workshop for the COCTA Executive Committee at Skokloster, Sweden. on August Themes - Accident and emergency services 12-13, 1978, just prior to the ISA Congress the - Cost containment and quality control following week. Members of the INTERCONCEPT Advisory - Hospital design - integration of Committee attended, plus a few additional participants engineering services who were scheduled to give papers at COCTA-sponsored - Care of the child panels on the Congress programo - Health care staffing in developing countries 2) .UNESCO's INTERCONCEPT Project Place - University of 0510 (NORWAV) The first meeting of the INTERCONCEPT Advisory Committee was held in Hattenheim, Germany (FRG) from May 30 to Organizer - International Hospital Federation June 1, 1978. COCTA members have already been informed 126 Albert Street that, pursuant to a recommendation of the UNESCO London NWI 7NX (ENGLAND) Conference on Social Science Information, held at Valescure, France, in June 1974, and the subsequent meeting of experts on the INTERCONCEPT program, held in Paris, May 1977, UNESCO decided to proceed with a 14-28 juillet 1979 - Association internationale de déve- pilot project and the designation of an Advisory Committee. loppement et d'action communautaires Fred Riggs was asked to chair the committee and carry out Th~e principal - Participation populaire au d~velop- the pilot project, which was based on an analysis of pement communautaire et formation different definitions of 'development' and related terms - together with a para11e1 study of 'urban ization'.The purpose of the INTERCONCEPT program, when it is official- ly launched, will be to provide, within the framework of UNESCO's Division for the International Development of Social Sciences, resources that can be used for the analysis, clarification, and disambiguation of concepts used by social scientists. - 14

Organ isa teur - Secrétariat du Forum Lieu Dakar (SENEGAL) Organizer Union des associations internationa1es Organisateur - P. Rozen (U.A. l.) Association internationa1e de D~- Rue aux Laines 1 ve10ppement et d'action communau- B-1000 Bruxe11es (BELGIQUE) taires tél.: 02/511.83.96 Rue du Débarcad~re, 179 B-6001 Marcine11e (BELGIQUE) rsr.. 071/36.62.73 43.29.20 28 juil1 et au - XVI Assemb1ée mondia1e de 1 'Organisation 43.29.21 2 aoOt 1980 mondia1e pour l'éducation pré-sco1aire Ju1y 28 to August - Wor1d Organization for Preschoo1 2, 1980 Education

August 20-31, 1979 - United Nations Conference on Science Th~me - Le jeune enfant, citoyen A part enti~re? and Techno10gy for Deve10pment The young chi1d, a fu11-f1edged citizen? Sous-th~mes 1. La survivance du jeune enfant: droits In reso1ution 32/184 of 21 March 1978, et responsabi1ités the General Assemb1y decided to convene 2. L'intégration socia1e du jeune enfant: the United Nations Conference on Science droits et responsabilités and Techno10gy for Deve10pment. The 3. L'expression créatrice du jeune enfant: Conference wi11 be held in Vienna, Austria droits et responsabi1ités from 20 to 31 August 1979. The provisional agenda wil1 indicate the purposes and 1. The surviva1 of the young child: rights programme of the Conference. and responsibi1ities 2. The social intergration of the young Paragraph 2 (g) of the above-mentioned child: rights and responsabi1ities reso1ution requests the Secretary-Genera1 3. The creative expression of the young to invite "Direct1y concerned non-govern- child: rights and responsabilities mental organizations in consu1tative status with the Economic and Social Counci1 Lieu - Ville de Québec to be represented by observers at the Place Québec (CANADA) Conference." Organ isa teur - O.M.E.P. C.P. 220 Provisional - Science and techno10gy for development Haute v ille Agenda - Institutiona1 arrangements and new Québec (Que) forms of international co-operation in Canada G1R 4P3 the app1ication of science and technology - Uti1ization of the existing United Nations August 12-18, 1979 - Xlth Wor1d Congress of Internationa1 system and other internationa1 organizations Po1itica1 Science Association (IPSA) to imp1ement the objectives set out above in a co-ordinated and integrated manner General Theme - Peace, deve10pment, know1edge: - Science and techno10gy for the future Contribution of po1itica1 science Place - Vienna, Austria Place - Moscow, U.S.S.R. For additiona1 - Dr. A. Karim Ahmed For information and- IPSA Secretariat information, Cha irman registration, write c/o University of Ottawa write to NGO Forum Planning Committee to Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Science and Techno10gy for deve10pment CANA DA 122 East 42nd Street, 45th f100r ------_._------New York, N.Y. 10017 (U.S.A.) Tel.: (212)949-0049 31 octobre au 4 - Congr~s internationa1 de l'Union mondia1e novembre 1979 pour 1a Sauvegarde de l' Enfance et de 1 'Ado1escence (UMOSEA) et du Conseil du Québec de 1 'Enfance exceptionne11e (CQEE) 23-27 juin 1980 - Forum mondia1 des associations inter- October 31 to - Internationa1 Congress organized by the june 23-27, 1980 nationa1es - transnationa1es November 4, 1979 Wor1d Union for the Safeguard of Youth - Wor1d Forum of International-Trans- and the Conseil du Québec de 1 'Enfance nationa1 Associations exceptionnel1e (CQEE) Th~mes - de 1 'international au transnationa1 Théme pri nci pa 1 L'enfant et la vie urbaine 1. le fait associatif, son identité, sa portée transnationa1e - Urban Life and the Chi1d 2. la participation des associations Li eu/Pl ace - Montréa 1 (CANADA) A 1 'ordre mondial 3. la communication transnationa1e dans Comité d'organisation - CQEE le monde contemporain Organizing Committee 2765, chemin de la Cate Ste-Ca ther í ne 4. sociologie, dynamique et pratique des Montréa1, Qué. H3T 1B5 (CANADA) réunions internationa1es té1.: (514) 342-0596 - From Internation~l to Transnationa1 - Secrétariat de l'UMOSEA l. The association phenomenon, its nature, 28, place Saint-Georges its significance 75442 Paris, Cédex 09 (FRANCE) 2. Participation of associations in the tél.: (1) 526.04.45 world order 3. Transnationa1 communication in the wor1 d today 4. Meeting socio10gy, dynamics, practica1- ities Lieu - Bruxelles (BELGIQUE) Place 15 -

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