DIFFE/ RENCES INEQUA/ LITIES AND SOCIO/ LOGICAL IMAGI/ NATION ESA 2015 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 2015 PROGRAMME BOOK DIFFE/ RENCES INEQUA/ LITIES AND SOCIO/ LOGICAL IMAGI/ NATION ESA 2015 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 2015 PROGRAMME BOOK Prague, 25–28 August 2015 ESA 12th Conference Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination www.esa12thconference.eu Organizers IS CAS – Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences – www.soc.cas.cz ESA – European Sociological Association – www.europeansociology.org/ Programme book ISBN 978-80-7330-271-9 PRAGUE, 25–28 AUGUST 2015 ESA 12TH CONFERENCE DIFFERENCES, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION PROGRAMME BOOK EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ESA) INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY OF THE CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (IS CAS) DIFFERENCES, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION DIFFE/ RENCES INEQUA/ LITIES AND SOCIO/ LOGICAL IMAGI/ NATION 6 6 The Theme A profound challenge that the social sciences, and sociology in particular, are now called upon to confront has to do with the depth and extraordinary acceleration of global processes of social and cultural change … … Today's byword 'globalisation' only partially that the international economic crisis has exacerbated captures the full significance of these processes. beyond measure. This situation threatens the very Sociological knowledge therefore encounters existence of democracy and calls for the construction a limitation: it is easier to see what is disappearing of forms of social analysis which are strongly than what is coming into being. Yet this limitation connected to the arena of public policy. Concurrently, can be overturned and become a resource: a stimulus these forms of analysis must also be capable of to intensify our theoretical and empirical exploration offering communities and individuals knowledge and of the world around us by relating everyday life insight that can help to stem the tide of fatalism and to history, connecting individual experiences to apathy. major issues of democracy and justice, and viewing the exercise of agency in the light of processes of Yet an analysis of how inequalities are produced and domination. Sociological imagination is the tool reinforced would be incomplete without reflection that our discipline has honed over the decades to on differences. Recognising and acknowledging the accomplish this. multiple expressions of difference – such as gender, social class, age, ethnic background, religion, and But what are the major issues that the global sexual orientation… – are vital when it comes to sociological community now has the responsibility gaining insight into the ‘multiple positioning’ that to tackle? First and foremost, they arise from the characterises contemporary individuals. And this exponential increase in social inequalities, a process entails rethinking the meaning of integration today. THE THEME 7 DIFFERENCES, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Table of Content The President’s Welcome 12 Organisers and Committees 14 List of ESA Research Networks 16 List of ESA Research Streams 18 Exhibitors and Sponsors 19 General Conference Information Conference Venues 23 Conference Materials 36 Food and Drinks 37 Useful Information 38 The Programme Meetings and Assemblies (MA) 45 ESA General Assembly 46 Opening Ceremony and Opening Plenary 47 Closing Ceremony and Closing Plenary 48 PS – Plenary Sessions – Opening Plenary 49 PS – Plenary Sessions – Closing Plenary 50 Summary Table of Semi-Plenary Sessions (SPS) 52 SPS – Semi-Plenary Sessions 8 TABLE OF CONTENT 26/8 Wednesday SPS01 Family Formation and Practices of Life Quality: Inequalities and New Opportunities Across Europe 54 SPS02 Public Policies and Solidarity in Women’s Lives: Differences and Inequalities 55 SPS03 New Racisms, Differences and Agency in Europe: Perspectives on Islamophobia 57 27/8 Thursday SPS04 A Generation Divided? Realities of and Responses to Inequality and Injustices among Contemporary Young People 59 SPS05 Sociological Imagination and New Technologies 60 SPS06 Extending Western Views of the Social World: Eastern Europe, Social Science and Unequal Knowledge Production 61 28/8 Friday SPS07 Dark Networks 62 SPS08 The Legacies of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart for the Future of Marxist Studies of Media and Culture 64 SPS09 Modeling Uncertainties, Producing Differences 66 Summary Table of Mid-day Specials (MD) 68 MD – Mid-day Specials 26/8 Wednesday MD01 ESA Lecture (1) / ESA Candidates for Presidency. Presentation of the Programmes 71 MD02 Specials & Workshops (1) / The Cosmopolitan Imagination and Social Justice 72 MD03 Specials & Workshops (2) / What Do Sociologists Know about Energy? Everyday Practices and Renewable Energy 73 MD04 Specials & Workshops (3) / The Structure of Civil Society 74 MD05 Contributes from National Associations (1) / National Sociological Associations in Europe: A Survey 76 MD06 Specials & Workshops (4) / A View from Outside (Evaluation) 77 MD07 Specials & Workshops (5) / In Memory of Ulrich Beck 78 MD08 Author Meets Critiques I 79 27/8 Thursday MD09 ESA Lecture (2) / The Status of Sociology Today 80 MD10 Specials & Workshops (6) / Sociological Imagination in Dark Times 81 MD11 Specials & Workshops (7) / The Reproduction of Inequality: New Ways of Exploring the Role of Structure and Agency 82 MD12 Specials & Workshops (8) / Transnational Biographies and Transnational Cultures 83 MD13 Specials & Workshops (9) / Cultivating Differences and the Sociological Imagination 84 MD14 Contributes from National Associations (2) / Meeting of the Council of National Associations 86 MD15 Specials & Workshops (10) / A View from Outside (Funding) 87 MD16 Author Meets Critiques II 88 TABLE OF CONTENT 9 DIFFERENCES, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION 28/8 Friday MD17 ESA Lecture (3) / The Status of Sociology Today 89 MD18 Specials & Workshops (11) / New Feminist Movements, Making the Difference? 90 MD19 Specials & Workshops (12) / Art as Culture, Culture as Art 91 MD20 Specials & Workshops (13) / Critical Political Economy of Communication and Culture in Capitalism Today 92 MD21 Specials & Workshops (14) / Workshop: “How to Write a Journal Article” 93 MD22 Author Meets Critiques III 95 MD23 Contributes from National Associations (3) / The Meeting of Civilizations: Towards a Euro-Arab Sociology 96 Other Sessions OS00 New Perspectives on Pluridisciplinarity in Central and Eastern Europe 98 OS03 Median Workshop: ADMETER: Passive Electronic Measurement in Media and Social Research 99 OS01 Routledge Workshop: Publishing in the ESA Journal European Societies: A Session with the Editor 100 OS02 RN34 Informal PhD Meeting 100 Advertising 101 Research Networks / Research Stream Sessions RN01 Ageing in Europe 106 RN02 Sociology of the Arts 118 RN03 Biographical Perspectives on European Societies 131 RN04 Sociology of Children and Childhood 136 RN05 Sociology of Consumption 145 RN06 Critical Political Economy 159 RN07 Sociology of Culture 163 RN08 Disaster, Conflict and Social Crisis 171 RN09 Economic Sociology 177 RN10 Sociology of Education 185 RN11 Sociology of Emotions 199 RN12 Environment and Society 205 RN13 Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives 222 RN14 Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State 239 RN15 Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Sociology 245 RN16 Sociology of Health and Illness 251 RN17 Work, Employment and Industrial Relations 266 RN18 Sociology of Communications and Media Research 278 RN19 Sociology of Professions 286 RN20 Qualitative Methods 293 RN21 Quantitative Methods 302 RN22 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty 310 RN23 Sexuality 315 RN24 Science and Technology 322 10 TABLE OF CONTENT RN25 Social Movements 329 RN26 Sociology of Social Policy 335 RN27 Regional Network on Southern European Societies 340 RN28 Society and Sports 342 RN29 Social Theory 349 RN30 Youth and Generation 358 RN31 Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism 372 RN32 Political Sociology 379 RN33 Women's and Gender Studies 387 RN34 Sociology of Religion 398 RN35 Sociology of Migration 406 RN36 Sociology of Transformations: East and West 417 RN37 Urban Sociology 424 RS01 Arts Management 430 RS02 Design in Use 432 RS03 Europeanization from Below? 433 RS04 Sociology of Celebration 436 RS05 Sociology of Knowledge 438 RS06 Sociology of Morality 441 RS07 Maritime Sociology 444 Junior Scholar Grantees 2015 446 ESA PhD Workshop Participants 2015 450 ESA Candidates 2015 451 Authors’ Index 462 TABLE OF CONTENT 11 DIFFERENCES, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION The President’s Welcome 12 THE PRESIDENTS WELCOME Differences, inequalities and sociological imagination: of alternative scenarios. Our research and our These three keywords of the ESA conference that is knowledge can therefore help build new possibilities about to open in Prague connect us directly not only for human co-habitation on our planet, and adapt to the to the profound changes distinguishing this phase issues facing this century. of history, but also link us with the answers to these processes that the discipline we practice is able to The Executive Committee and I, as President, identify. Our era is one of unprecedented private are particularly proud of the contribution that the wealth – wealth that has actually doubled in just conference will bequeath through deep reflection over a decade – and the concentration thereof into on these phenomena, thanks to the employment of very few hands. Moreover, it is also an era of human our sociological imagination. The conference's