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AUTUMN 1988

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE M.elvin L. Kohn Publications Committee Jacques Dofny. Université 1986-1990 Johns Hopkins Uni ve rs itv de Montréal. Canada Baltimore. USA Artur Meier. Chairperson Wilfried Dumon. Catholic President International Sociology: University Leuven. Belgium Ma¡'garet Archer T.K. Oommen Martin Albrow. Editor SaLvado r Giner. Universidad Department of Sociology Jawaharlal Nehru Univ Jacques Coenen-Huther. Central de Barcelona. Spain University of Warwick New Delhi. India Switzerland Elizabeth Jelin. CEDES, Coventry CV4 7AL. U.K. Salvador Giner. Spain Buenos Aires. Argentina Gennady V. Osipov Lyuben Nickolov. Bulgaria Frank L. Jones. National Vice-President, Research Inst Sociolpgical Research T.K. Oommen. India Univ. Canberra, Australia Council M.oscow. USSR Current Sociology: Chavdar Kiuranov. Inst of EIse 0yen William Outhwaite. Editor Sociology. Sofia. Bulgaria Health & Social Policy D.M. Pestonjee Maria Carrilho. Portugal Jacques Lautman. CNRS. Studies. Univ of Bergen Indian Inst Management Velichko Dobrianov. Paris. France Fastings Minde Ahmedabad. India Bulgaria Juares R.B. Lopes, CEBRAl 5014 Bergen. Norway Kurt Jonassohn. Canada Sao Paulo. Brazil céline Saint-Pierre Sociological Abstracts: Claus Offe, University of Vice-President, Membership Univ du Québec a Montréal Leo P. Chall. Editor Bielefeld. FRG and Finance Committee Canada Sage Studies in Inter- T.K. Oommen. Jawaharlal Wilfried Dumon national Sociology: Nehru University. India Department of Sociology Neil J. Smelser Wilfried Dumon. Editor Gennady Osipov. Institute Catholic University University of California Orlando Fals Borda. oí Social Research. USSR E. van Evenstraat 2b Berkeley. USA Co.Lombí.a Ayse Oncü. Bogazi~i 3000 Leuven. Belgium Marie Haug. USA University. Turkey Otoyori Tahara Jan Toschenko. USSR Else 0yen. University of Vice-President, Program & Tohoku Gakuin University Executive Committee Bergen. Norway Publications Committees Sendai. Japan Representatives: Neil Smelser. Univ of Artur Meier Melvin L. Kohn. USA Calitornia, Berke1ey. USA Institute of Sociology C. Saint-Pierre. Canada Shujiro Yazawa. Hitosubashi Humboldt University Executive Secretary Research Coordinating University, Tokyo. Japan Hans-Loch~Str. 349 Izabela Barlinska Committee Representative: Tatiana Zaslavskaya. Soviet 1136 Berlin. GDR D.M. Pestonjee. India Sociological Assoc, USSR Business Manager Observer: Janusz Ziolkowski. Univ of Past President 19&2-1986 Luis Moreno Steven Barr. SAGE Poznan. Poland Fernando H. Cardoso CEBRAP. Sao Paulo. Brazil Representatives to ISSC- SUB-COMMITTEES Program Committee UNESCO Members Delegates: Else 0yen Simi A. Afonja Research Coordinating Artur Meier. Chairperson Jacques D v Obafemi Awolowo University. Committee (Institute of Sociology. Alternates: Daniel B~ ~x Nigeria Else 0yen, Chairperson Humboldt University. Deniz Kandiyoti Elizabeth Jelin Hans-Loch-Str. 349. 1136 Representative to ICSSID- Paolo Ammassari (EC representative) Berlín. GDR) UNESCO University of Rome. Italy Simi A. Afonja (RC 36) Simi Afonja. Obafemi James Beckford. U.K. Daniel Bertaux (RC 38) Awolowo Univ. Nigeria Daniel Bertaux Deniz Kandiyoti (RC 32) Inés Alberdi. Universidad Representatives to UN C.N.R.S .• Paris. France Manfred Kuechler (RC 33) Complutence Madrid. Spain New York: Else 0yen Petar E. Mitev (RC 34) Orlando Albornoz. Caracas Melvin Kohn Salvador Giner D.M. Pestonjee (RC 35) Universidad de Venezuela. Vienna: Paolo Ammassari University of Barcelona. Neil Smelser (RC 02) Venezuela Max Haller Spain Paolo Ammassari. Un iv of Geneva: Daniel Bertaux Membership & Finance Rome. Italy Jacques Coenen- Elizabeth Jelin Committee Margaret Archer. Un iv of Iluther CEDES. Buenos Aires. Wilfried Dumon. Chair Warwick. U.K. Argentina T .K. -Oommen , India Albaka Cannas i , CERES. Representatives to WHO Gennady Osipov. USSR Tunisia Hans Ulrich Deppe. FRG Deniz Kandiyoti Peter Q. Reinsch. The José Cazorla. University Philippe Lehmann. Richmond College.U.K. Netherlands ot Granada. Spain Switzerland

The ISA BULLETIN is the ofíicial publication of the Secretariat of the International Sociological Association. Editor: Izabela Barlinska Three issues per year appear in Spring. Summer and Auturnn with an average printing of 5000 copies. The ISA BULLETIN is distributed free of charge to members ot the ISA. Deadlines íor submission of items oí interest to our members are: Spring issue: January 1, Summer issues: May 15. Autumn issue: October l.

Published by the International Sociological Association under the auspices oí the ISSC and with the financial assistance of UNESCO. UNESCO subvention 1988-89/DDG/7.7.2/SUB/SHS Printed by Fareso. S.A .• Madrid. Spain. Depósito legal: M.25.817-1987 Sociolinguistics, RC 26 Sociotechnics - Sociological Practice, RC 29 Deviance and Social Control, RC 36 Alienation Theory and Research, RC 38 Biography and REPORT FROM THE RESEARCH COUNCIL MEETING Society. All payments are conditional on the submission of a report on activities and a membership list proving Research Council meeting and its conference "Cross- that at least 25 mewbers of a research committee from Cultural and International Research: Theory, Method, at least 5 countries are also ISA members in good Project, Organization" and "Centralization vs. standing. Decentralizatíon", took place on September 1st through 4th, 1988 in Ljubljana (Yugoslavia) on the generous The deadline for applying for the 1989 newsletter invitation by the Faculty of Sociology, Political grant was set to May 1st, 1989. Science and Journalism, the Research Institute, and the Institute of Sociology, all of the Edvard Kardelj University. The meetings were held on the premises of the International Centre for Public Enterprises. Sincere thanks and gratitude for this hospitality are extended to Mrs. N. Kersevan, Mayor of the .Ljubljana City Assembly, Professors B. Kavcic, Dean, V. Antoncic, Director, N. Tos, Director, and Professor Zdravko Mlinar. new status has at from at least 5 _~e meetings were chaired by Professor Else 0yen, ISA stipulated by the Vice-President, Chair of the Research Council and the Research Coordinating Committee.

At the RESEARCH COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING following issues were considered: for a Research the activity of 1. Decisions and recommendations of the Research area and range Coordinating Committee which held its meeting one day (Art.XI:3:b.1). prior to the Research Council. (a) Review of Research Commi~tees' activities The following decisions concerning the change of The heterogenity of the received 18 reports as well status were made, all conditional on the submission as the lack of response from the remaining 41 of a membership list proving that at least 25 members Research Committees were discussed. In order to better from at least 5 countries of a group are also ISA evaluate the activities of the research committees in members in good standing. the future, members of the Research Council suggested the following criteria to be taken into consideration: Research Committee status was given to: - ·that the Research Committees submit a 2-year * Working Gtoup on Social Psychology (M. Draganov); activity report * Working Group on Rural Sociology (L. Busch); - that the Research Committees organize at least one * Working Group on Sociology of Population (F. Yusuf); international conference between the two Congresses - that the Research Committees secure in its Working Group status was maintained for: membership at least 25 members in good standing (i.e. * WG on Clinical Sociology (R. Sévigny)¡ paid individual members of the ISA) from at least 5 * WG on Labor Movements in the Industrial and State COI rí.es (as stipulated by the ISA Statutes, Artícle Arenas (M. Regini); XI. ..•) * WG on Mental Health (H.N. Mookherjee); - that all officers of a Research Committee be * WG on Rational Choice (R. Wippler); individual members of the ISA (as stipulated by the * WG on Sociocybernetics and Social Systems Theory (F. ISA By Laws 7.1) Parra-Luna) - that a newsletter is produced Working Group status was given to: (b) Allocation of tne 1988 newsletter grants to the * Thematic Group Housing and Built Environment (E. Research Committees (US $ 800 each): Huttman and W. van Vliet formerly, L. Kilmartin RC 02 Economy and Society, RC 05 Ethnic, Race and currently) ¡ Minority Relations, RC 06 Family Research, RC 08 * Thematic Group Social Indicators Research (A.C. History of Sociology, RC 09 Social Practice and Social Michalos); Transformation, RC 10 Participation, Workers' Control, * Group on Sociological Theory (J. Alexander, P. ~d Self-Management, RC 15 Sociology of Health, RC 25 Sztompka) ;

TABLE OF CONTENTS page 1 Report from the Research Council Meeting Inlay: ISA Membership Dues 1989-1992 6 Report from the Executive Committee Meeting 7 Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists ISA Publications: 8 Reports of Activities from the Research - "Current Sociology" Committees - "International Sociology" 15 Calls for Papers - "Sage Studies in International 16 Calendar of Future Events Sociology" - "Sociological Abstracts"

1 Thematic Group status was given to: January 31, 1989 * Famine and Society (J. Floud)j Session topics and the names ot sessions organizers * International Research Group on Time Budgets and should be received by the ISA Secretariat ror

Social Activities (A. Harvey , R. Andorka,T. Ní.em í ): publication in the Spring'89 issue ot the ISA Bulletin * Paradigms and Theories of Social Classes and Social Movements (Louis Maheu)¡ October 1, 1989 * Sociologie du Tourisme International (Marie- Full inforlllation on each session should be received Fran~oise Lanfant)¡ by the ISASecretariat. This should list: - titles of the sessions - authors, discussants, etc. 2. Statutes of the Research Committees - address ot each author A committee chaired by Petar-Emil Mitev had analvzed - titles ot the papers the statutes(constitutions of the Research Committees and pointed to the many weaknesses of the present 6. New projects of the ISA structure. The following motion was passed: Margaret Archer, President, and Daniel Bertaux, All Research Committees are required to have statutes. Executive Committee member, presented a new project These statutes should be in accordance with Art. XI of the ISA a worldwide competition tor young of the ISA Statutes. The Research Council will sociologists for an original article of general establish a committee to provide a model of procedural sociological interest (see following pages ot this rules for Research Committee statutes to be circulated Bulletin for the details). The project was welcollled to the Research Committees during 1989 and to be put with enthusiasm and was endorsed by the Research before the Research Council at its meeting in 1990. Council for implementation. The following were elected to this committee: Petar- Emil Mitev (Chair), Vincenzo Ferrari (RC 12) and 7. ISA Swmner School and Research Forum in Ljubljana Jürgen Hartmann (RC 34). Katja Boh and Zdravko Mlinar from the Faculty ot Sociology, Political Science and Journalism of the 3. New fee structure for the Research Committees Edvard Kardelj University presented a project to Wilfried Dumon, Vice-President in charge of Membership establish the ISA Summer School and Research Fo~ in and Finance, presented a proposal that ISA membership Ljubljana.The Research Council expressed a strong payments will cover fees of 4 years, will include a interest in these plans and a couple of days later subscription to International Sociology, and a 4-year the Executive Committee endorsed the proposal.The membership to one Research Committee. In the Chair of the Research Council has appointed the discussion the Research Council considered the following members to a Coordinating Committee for the implications of the proposal for the autonomy of the Ljubljana project: Karl van Meter RC33 (Chair), Felix Research Committees and the possible loss of members Geyer RC36, Henry Teune RC35, Jan Trost RC06. through an increase of fees. The following motion was passed: Based on the 8. Research Council Publications discussion of the Research Council it is recommended It was agreed that a selection of papers on that the model of the Committee on Membership and comparative sociology presented at this meeting be Finance be further explored, hereunder also the closer edited by Else 0yen for a special Research Council cooperation between the Research Committees and the Book to be included in the participant's kit for the ISA and the central collection of fees from the ISA XII World Congress of Sociology. members of the Re~earch Committees, The above should be done in consultation with the Research Committees. 9. Structure of the 1994 Research Council meeting will be brought up on the agenda of the Research 4. Election procedures from·the Research Council to Council meeting in Madrid in July 1990. the Executive Committee ~ Henry Teune's recommendation for a "cluster" voting 10. New section of "Sociological Abstracts" .r was accepted: each voter has the same number of votes Karl van Meter, Secretary ot Research Committee 33 on as the number of candidates to be elected with those Logic and Methodology in Sociology, invited all with the highest number of votes being elected '(e.g., Research Committees to participate in a new joint for the Research Council, the first five being elected project of RC33 ami "Sociological Abstracts", to both the RC and the Executive Comoittee and the represented by Leo P. Chall.A new section will be next two to the RC). Tie votes should be broken by created in the SA reporting on the Research' ballot. Committees' conferences and publishing abstracts of Separate votes should be conducted for the five papers presented at those meetings. candidates to the Executive Committee and the two candidates to,the Research Coordinating Committee in order to allow votes for the latter to take into THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONDUCTED BY THE RESEARCH consideration 'skewed representation' with regard to COUNCIL on: I geographical distribution etc. "Cross-Cultural and International Research: Theory, Method, Project, Organization" The "cluster" voting was put to immediate use in and electing a Nomiñating Committee. The result was as "Centralization vs. Decentralization" follows: Orlando Albornoz RC04, Neuma Aguiar RC32, Rudolf Andorka RC28, Enzo Mingione RC21, Petar-Emil The conference was opened by MI'. Janez Stanovnik, Mitev RC34 President ot the Presidency ot Slovenia, and chaired The Nominating Committee is to prepare a slate of a by Professor Else 0yen, Vice-President in charge of minimum of fourteen candidates, outlining the the Research Counci1. qualifications of the candidates. The following papers were presented in two thematic sections: 5. Research Committees at the XII World Congress of Sociology I, Cross-Cultural and International Research: Theory, Artur Meier, Vice-President in charge of the Program Method, Project, Organization Committee, presented decisions taken by the Program Committee at its first meeting held in February 1988 RC 01 ARMED FORCES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION in Rome (see ISA Bulletin 46, Spring 1988). Bernhard Fleckenstein: "Cross-National Research on The following deadlines were confirmed: Value Change: Desí.gn,Problems & Perspec t í.ves:'

2 RC 04 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION RC 31 SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION Orlando Albornoz: "Cross-Cultural and International Ursula Mehrlander: "Cross-Cultural and International Research: Theory. Method. Project and Organization. Research: Current Trends in Migration Studies in The case oí Latin America and the Caribbean in the Western Europe" íieId of Sociology of Education" RC 32 WOMEN IN SOCIETY RC 05 ETHNIC. RACE AND MINORITY RELATIONS Neuma Aguiar:"Reflections on Comparative Work on .Marshall W. Murphree: "The Internationalization oí Women and Societies" Scholarship: ImpIications íor Theory. Research and Organization. A Case Study in the Field of Race and RC 33 LOGIC AND METHODOLOGY IN SOCIOLOGY Ethnic Studies" Karl M. van Meter: "Collection and Interpretation of Data from Hidden Populations:Qualitative Research RC 06 FAMILY RESEARCH Design" Katja Boh & Jan Trost: Presentation deaIing with a project on the conceptualization oí famiIy RC 35 COCTA: COMMITTEE ON CONCEPTUAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS RC 07 FUTURES RESEARCH Henry Teune: "Comparing Countries: Lessons Learned" Velichko Dobrianov: "Cross-Cultural and International Research: Theory, Method, Project, Organization. The RC 36 ALIENATION THEORY AND RESEARCH Case oí MuItiIateral Sociological Research oí David Schweitzer: "De-alienation and Dis-Anomie: SociaIist Countries" Theory, Research, and Practice in International Comparative Perspective" ~ 09 SOCIAL PRACTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

EIIen B. HUI:"Are Social Decis;ions st í l.l.Made on RC 39 SOCIOLOGY OF DISASTERS the Basis of Social Policy Theories?" Russell R. Dynes: "Cross-Cultural and International Research: Sociology oí Disaster" RC 12 SOCIOLOGY OF LAW Vincenzo Ferrari: "Cross-Cultural Research in Sociology oí Law: Experience and Problems" 11. Centralization vs. Decentralization RC 20 COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY Chairperson: Jan Trost Erwin K. Scheuch: "Theoretical Implications of Comparative Survey Research" RC 03 COMMUNITY RESEARCH lIerman Turk and Peter Jambrek:"Municipal Capacity to RC 24 SOCIAL ECOLOGY Obtain External Resources in Meeting Fiscal Strain" Zdravko Mlinar and Slavko Splichal: "Globalization and Individuation in Social Development and RC 10 PARTICIPATION. WORKERS' CONTROL AND SELP Comparative Research" MANAGEMENT Dusko Sekulic: "Diagnosis and Ways Out oí the Crisis" RC 25 SOCIOLINGUISTICS Allen D. Grimshaw:"Research on Conílict Talk: A Path RC 17 SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION to Understanding International Conílict Processes?" Marshall W. Meyer:"DecentraIization in Nonproíit Organizations" RC 28 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION Rudolí Andorka: "Cross-Cultural and International RC 37 SOCIOLOGY·OF ART Comparative Research oí Social Mobility" Dimitrij Rupel: "Decentralization. Democratization. 'Disintegration' and ,Decomposition' in Slovenel RC SOCIOLOGY OF WORK Yugoslav Cultural Politics" Albert L. Mok and Wolfgang Littek:"Sociology oí Work: the state of the art"

Janez Stanovnik. President of the Presidencv of Slovenia, opens the conferenc~ of the Research Council. Next to him: Niko Tos. Director oí the Research Institute oí the Edvard Kardelj University. EIse ~yen. ISA Vice-President. Chair oí the Research Council. Margaret Archer. ISA President. Zdravko Klinar, main organizer oí the conference and Chairman of the Research Committee on Social Ecology

3 RESEARCH COUNCIL AT WORK .....

Deirdre Jordan (RC 04) and Vincenzo Ferrari (RC 12)

Peter Hexel and Jürgen Hartmann (RC 34)

Daniel Bertaux (RC 38) and Karl van Meter (RC 33)

Elizabeth Jelin (Executive Committee)

Wilfried Dumon. ISA Vice-President below: and Jan Trost (RC 06) Artur Meier. ISA Vice-President

and Jan Makarovic (RC 34)

, Mark van de Vall (Re 26), Bernhard Fleckenstein and Marshall W. Murphree (Re 05) Jürgen Kuhlmann (Re 01). in the back: Petar Mitev (Re 34) and Marshall W. Meyer (Re 17)

Wolfgang Littek (Re 30) (left)

Orlando Albornoz (Re 04) (right)

Ellen B. Hill (Re 09) and Slavko Splichal (Re 24)

France Vreg (Re 10) and David Schweitzer (Re 36)

Herman Turk (Re 03) and Rudolf Andorka (Re 28) in the back: Erwin Scheuch (Re 20)

Russell R. Dynes (Re 39) and Allen D. Grimshaw (Re 25) Membership and Finance Committee The Committee chaired by Wilfried Dumon reviewed the 1987 finaneial statement. 1988 budget and 1989 REPORT FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING tentative operating budget. rhe finaneial situation of the Assoeiation was discussed at length. While the eurrent economic situation creates. very difficu1t The annual Executive Committee meeting was held on problems. it was thought essential to develop a new September 7 through 11, 1988. in Nadarzyn. near membership dues structure in order to allow the Warsaw. Poland. The meetings were hosted by the Polish Assoeiation to at least eontinue its activities at Sociological Association which also organized a one- the present very modest leve1 oí operation. See Report day conference on "Contemporary Polish Society in the from the Research Council ror the details. Sociological Perspective". We would like to express our deep appreciation to all our hosts and especially New colleetive members of the ISA were approved: Professor Jolanta Kulpinska. Board Member, and Janusz * Category A: Bangladesh Soeiology Assoeiation Ziolkowski. President. of the Polish Sociological * Category B: - Center for Coordination of Researen Association. and Doeumentation in Social Scienees for Sub-Saharan Afriea (CERDAS) During the conference. chaired by Stefan Nowak and Jerzy Jedlicki, the following papers were presented: Relations with other organizations * J.J. Wiatr: Sociological Aspects of the (a) Else 0yen. Delegate to the ISSC. reported on the Transformations of the Polish Political System recent activities of the ISSC: International Meetinp- * W. Adamski. L. Kolarska, A. Rychard , E. Wnuk- of Social and Human Scientists (Attended also by , Lipinski: Political Attitudes of Poles 1980-1988. A Bertaux, Alternate Representative) and Human Respons Trend Report. to Global Change Programme whieh aroused interest of * A. Rychard: Sources of Changes and Stability in the some of the ISA researeh eommittees. The ISSC is in Polish Economic System financial difficulty but it is a very important forum * J. Kulpinska: Industrial Relations between of diseussions on topics whieh are of interest for Revindications and Self-management the ISA. The ISA might have a ehance to participate * A. Kloskowska: Continuity and Change in the Polish in the natural seiences prog ram because there are' Culture topies with social aspects. * W. Zdaniewicz: Religiousness in the Polish Society (b) Jacques Coenen-Huther. Alternate Representative at After the conference which proved to be an interesting the UN Headquarters in Geneva. reported on: the and vivid forum for exchange of thoughts and ideas. celebrations of the International Day of Peace (15 the meetings of the Executive Committee and its Sub- Deeember 1987) where the "Peace Messenger" award was Committees started. A few highlights: bestowed upon the ISA. on the day of consultations with NGOs in the field of human rights. on the seminar Publications Committee on the subjeet "Women: the misused resouree" held at The meetings of the committee were chaired by Artur the UN Headquarters. The problem is to locate the Meier. The committee had a rather long agenda dealing relevant channels for the ISA and to become more with the following matters: a report on Current visible: it is difficult to find out how the ISA can Sociology (William Outhwaite. Editor), a report on participate in the UN speeifie programs. International Sociology (Elizabeth King, Editorial Assistant), and a report on Sage Studies in (e) Paolo Ammassari reported on the UN Headquarters in International Sociology (Wilfried Dumon, Editor). Vienna where he is ISA Delegate. In Vienna. UN has Research Council Book (see Research Council report), many activities and the ISA should explore all Sociological Abstracts edition for the XII World possibilities of partieipating in some of them. Congress of Sociology. J XII World Congress of Sociology Artur Meier wíll step down as the Chairman of the A contract for the organization oí the XII World Publications Committee early next year (February Congress of Soeiology was prepared. (Note: in October 1989) in order to devote all his time and energy to 19.88 this contract was signed by Margaret Archer. ISA the Program Committee. His resignation was accepted President, and Salvador Giner, Chairman oí the Spanish with regret and thanks for the work done. Céline Local Organizing Committee.) Saint-Pierre will take over the chair from Spring 1989 until the World Congress in Madrid. Congress registration fees were approved as follows:

before beíore after 15.XIl.1989 01.VI.1990 01.VI.1990

ISA Member $ 130 $ 180 $ 230 Non-member of ISA not $ 210 $ 270 avaílable

Participants from less developed and non-convertible currency eountries

ISA Member $ 55 $ 65 $ 80 Non-member of ISA not $ 75 $ 100 available

Student ISA member $ 55 $ 65 $ 80 Student non-member not $ 75 $ 100 avaílable

Caneellation date: June l. 1990. reimbursement 75%

6 Jolanta Kulpinska.Stefan Nowak. Andrzej Rychard and Janusz Ziolkowski. of the Polish Sociological Association On the right: a group of Polish participants of the Nadarzyn conference.

together). Scholars whose mother-Ianguage is none ot the above languages may submit a papel' in English 01' French; their papers will be evaluated by two specific WORLDWIDE COMPETITION FOR YOUNG SOCIOLOGISTS juries dealing respectively with English 01' French as second languages. AII scholars may make use of this option if they prefer. l. The International Sociological Association (ISA) is organizing a worldwide competition for young The juries will be chaired by members of the scholars engaged in social research. The winners will ISA's Executive Committee 01' other higher bodies. The be invited to participate in the Xllth Horld Congress Grand Jury will be chaÍl'edby the President of the of Sociology which will take place in Madrid, Spain. ISA, Professor Margaret Archer. 9-13 July 1990. Their essays will be published in English. subject to editorial revision. in the ISA's 5. Two copies oí each essay should be sent to journal International Sociology. the following address: ISA Horldwide Competítion for Young Sociologists 2. By 'young scholars' we mean people under 35 attn. Daniel Bertaux years of age on September 1st. 1989. Participants Centre d'Etude des Mouvements Sociaux should hold a Master's degree (or an equivalent 54 bd Raspail graduate studies diploma) in sociology or in,a related 75006 Paris. France discipline. They should be date stamped August 1st. 1989 at the 3. Candidates must send an essay of no more than latest 01' reach the Paris Secretariat before September 6 words. typewritten, double spaced, on one side 1st. 1989. 01. he paper with margins of 3 cm; notes and bibliography should appear at the end of the texto He In order to protect anonymity during the prefer essays focusing upon socially relevant issues. selection process, authors should include a separate The phenomena examined may be social, economic. sheet of paper with their name (capital Lett ers), political. cultural or of any other kind; it is their date of birth. mother-Ianguage. degrees. address interpretation or analysis that needs to show a where they can be reached and (optionally) theÍl' sociological orientation (for instance, through the present occupation. identification of social processes underlying the phenomena under scrutiny. critique of commonsense 6. Initially. each jury will consider which interpretations or of well established theories. essays reach a sufficiently high standard to be issued etc.). Essays will be judged according to the with a letter of official commendation artdbe listed perceptiveness with which issues are treated. the in the ISA Bulletin. acuteness of observations. the consistency with which the analytical framework adopted is used. the Each jury will then preselect (by December 1989) theoretical creativity and originality of ideas. and a maximum of three essays whose authors will receive clarity of style. Extensiveness of referencing or the Herit Award Certificates. a tour-year membership of use of advanced statistical methods will only be the ISA. and an invitation to attend the Xllth Horld given secondary importance. so as to provide Congress. Although the ISA cannot guarantee to cover participants with opportunities as equal as possible theír t raveI costs. all the aut.hors thus preselected throughout the world. will be nominated to the Congress 's Travel Grant Committee. The organizers are particularly interested in receiving essays from schoLars in Thírd Horld Finally. out of those preselected. a Grand Jury countries. will select up to five winning essays. TheÍl'authors will immediately be invited. all expenses paid. to 4. Essays may be written in one of the following participate in the Horld Congress. In case of multiple languages: English, French. Spanish (the three authorship. the subvention will have to be shared. languages of the ISA Xllth Horld Congress) as well as Arabic. Chinese, German. Italian. Japanese. Portuguese. and Russian. A jury will be set up for Additional information may be obtained from the each of these languages (with the exception that Competition Secretariat: see address above. Spanish. Italian and Portuguese will be treated

7 In any case. according to the By-Laws ot the Research Committee 01. only members in good standing are REPORTS OF ACTIVITIES FROM THE RESEARCH COMMITTEES eligible and are entitled to vote tor officers of the Board oí the Research Committee.

Scientific communication During the last two years several activities were RC 01 aimed at the development of a scientific communication ARMED FORCES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION ~nong the members and several countries, New contacts were established and a number oí Report submitted by Jürgen Kuhlmann. Executive cooperation projects was negotiated and partially Secretary started with the following institutions (with scientists working there. of course, serving as During the last two vears and since the XIth World "intermediaries"): Congress in New Delhi, the activities of the Research - Canadian Forces Personnel Applied Research Unit Committee 01 concentrated on four main issues: (Toronto. Canada) l. The publication of pape rs presented at the XIth - Centre de Sociologie de la Defence Nationale (Paris. World Congressj France) 2. The updating of the Membership List oí the - National Defence Academy (Vienna. Austria) Reasearch Committee in order to bring the financial - German Armed Forces Institute for Social Research situation of the,Research Committee to an acceptable (Munich, FRG) level; - US Army Research Institute for the Behaviora~ 3. The continuation and turther development of the Sciences (Alexandria, Virginia, USA) scientific contacts, particular1y with those persons - War College, Institute of Military Science and institutions engaged in military-related social (Helsinki. Finland) research world-widej - Israeli Defence Force, Department of Behavioral 4. The preparation of the 1988 Interim Coníerence. Sciences (Israel) - Swedish Defence Research Establishment (Sweden) Publication of the New Delhi papers - Stichting Maatschapij en Krijgsmacht (The Hague. The papers presented and discussed during the New The Netherlands) Delhi sessions have almost all been published in the "FORUM International Series" of the Sozialwissen- The 1988 interim conference schaftliches Institut det Bundeswehr (SOWI = German The Interim Conference of the Research Committee 01 Armed Forces Institute for Social Research). was held in Munich (FRG). July 25 - 29. 1988 under Copies of "FORUM" issues 5-7 will be distributed free the auspices of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the of charge to the Research Conunittee members in good Bundeswehr who generously supported it both standing (i.e. who paid their membership dues). financially and organizationally.

Copies may be ordered trom Jürgen Kuhlmann (SOWI, As to the substance, the Interim Conference highly Winzererstr. 52, 8000 München 40, FRG). Please enclose profited from the aforementioned contacts with the 10 Deutsche Marks, 01' the equivalent in convertible research institutions and organizations. The theme of currency to cover administrative and mailing costs. the conference was "National Presentations of Money orders and cheques should drawn on a German Military-Related Social Research" and it provided a Bank for "RC 01/ISA e/o Jürgen Kuhlmann". survey on the status of the subject sciences in 15 countries: Australia. Austria, Bulgaria, England, Recapitulation of the membership Finland. France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Port The number of members of the Research Committee varies South Korea, Switzerland. The Netherlands, Tul. JI, between 220 and 240: some old members have shOw"llthat and Yugoslavia. they are no longer interested and have terminated their membership while new members have been jOining. The display was both comprehensive and critical and The Research Committee is mainly interested in covered the "guiding questions" oí past and current motivating young scientists to cooperate in order to research, the methodological approaches and findings. keep the age structure balanced, thus to encourage topics a~d main results. persons and institutions the constant exchange of experience between the performing the work. the national Armed Forces generations. The Committee is successfully following reaction to the results and their application or this strategy. rejection. Of major interest were addresses of persons and institutions that may be contacted, and the major

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(3) The relationship between entrepreneurship and RC 02 development. Here we will explore the unique ECONOMY AND SOCIETY historical features of entrepreneurship and economic

élites and the í r effects on the timing and pattern of An inter-congress conference of the Research Cornmittee development in different countriesj the international is planned for May 1989 in Portugal. The conference connections of economic élites and their patterns oí will gather 20 25 researchers in the field of cooperation and conflict in the international division onomic sociology and political economy. Its theme of labourj the question whethel' entrepreneurship is a 1 be "New Forms of Entrepreneurship, Economic necessary ingredient of developmentj the question of clites and Development in Compal'ative Perspective". business interest and state policies.

The aim ,of the conference is a comparative analysis of For further information contact Alberto Martinelli entrepreneul'ship in its socio-economic role and its (Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Via relationship with class. politics and development. Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milano. Italy) The setting of the problem is inspired by Joseph Schumpexer's work on technical innovations. but also by the socio-historical analysis of Alfred Chandier on organizational innovation. During the last twenty RC 03 years. economic sociology has adopted a new more COMMUNITY RESEARCH balanced perspective in which small and medium entreprises. the state and the informal sector of the Many of RC 03 members meet rrequently in the Fiscal economy exist side-by-side with large. transnational Austerity and Urban InnoVation Project. It is one of corporations. The '60 and '70 have witnessed many the main items that joins members together between studies on economic élites and concentration. while World Congresses of the ISA. RC 03 had sessions today we see new research focussed on other partnel's officially arranged jointly with the FAUl at the of the economic system. Organisational and technical annual meeting of the International Political Science innovations do not only come from large firms but Association and the American Political Science also from SMEs. cooperatives. state firms and the Association in Washington. D.C., August and September pervasive informal sector. All these different types 1988. of enterprises participate in economic development, generate employment. are moulded by politcal The decisions listed below were taken at the RC 03 institutions and contribute to the political and Business Meeting held in New Delhi (August 1986): socio-economic system. (1) New Delhi Congress session organizers may take the Wh~_c we adopt Schumpeter's paradigm for posing the initiative to edit a volume 01' volumes. But main questions, we do not accept Schumpeter's participants are free to publish their own pape~s. conception of entrepreneurship as a unique phenomenon which needed the specific social and cultural (2) RC 03 membership fees for Third World countries conditions of classical capitalism to develop and may be collected in local curl'ency and a coordinator flourish. The emphasis on the 'new forms' means that can remit the amount in U.S. currency, we consider entrepreneurship as a more general and diversified social function which can take different (3) It was relt that the Newsletter is an important forms, can develop in different historical contexts link among RC 03 members and people favored an and can contribute to élite change and social increase in frequency oí its publication. An idea transformation in the present day. indicating the advantages of producing a Newsletter for two 01' more Research Conmlittees was proposed. B. (1) The specific features of entrepreneurship today, Hamm will be sending a proposal for joint Newsletter such as technical and organizational innovation, risk for RC 03 and RC 24. bearing, strategic vis ion in coordinating factors of productionj and related to that, the patterns of class, ethnic and regional recruitmentj the cultural and institutional pre-requisites for the development RC 04 of entrepreneurshipj the new patterns of SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION entrepreneurship in difíerent socio-economic contexts. New multinational networks by SMEs, cooperatives and Report submitted by Jaap Dronkers.Secretary other smaller enterprises. Xl World Congress (2)The relationship between the entrepreneurial During the Xl World Congress oí Sociology in New íunction and the economic élites oí a given country. Delhi (India, 1986) the Research Con~ittee organized We prefer to speak of economic élites rat.her than 11 sessions around the submitted papers. Also a new capitalist class, both because we do not see in many board of the RC 04 was elected. Six of the eight countries a monolithic class controlling the economy boardmembers were elected for the first timej the two and because economic élites and entrepreneurs exist other were elected to the position of president and also in non-capitalist countries. The kind of reseal'ch secretary. The new board decided on several points: questions we are interested in are the following: to the next midterm conference of August 1988 to be held what extent the entrepreneul'ial íunction can be in Spainj the preparation oí proposals for the

9 election proceduresj the detinition of RC 04 members and the pa~nent of their membership fee ($20 for 4 RC 05 years)j the opening of the possibility of non-payment ETHNIC RACE AND MINORITY RELATIONS of membership fees for those members who cannot paYj the organization of international seminars by regional Repo rt, submi t t ed by Peter Q. Re í nsch , Newsletter groups of RC 04 members. Editor

Newsletter Board elections The Secretary/Treasurer has prepared four newsletters The RC Board was chosen by the members in good in the period 1986-1988. standing in 1986. The results ot a first electoral 1'oundwere presented in New Delhi and indicated a tie The April 1988 issue was totally dedicated to the for the office ot presí.derr.t New elections were held Midterm Conference of RC 04. which was held August for this office.Ma1'shall Murphree continuing as 23-26. 1988 in Salamanca (Spain). The content of the Pres ídeut pro tem until He ribert; Adam took fo rmaI normal newsletters was expanded. Brief reports on the control in the Spl'ingof 1987, State of the Art of Sociology of Education in several societies were published. News on books. conferences. Seminar and conferences etc. was also added to the newsletter. because it is Directly following the 1986 World Congress of one of the best ways to promote contact among the Sociology (in which the RC had a full slate of 11 membership. RC 04 received a grant from the ISA f or academic sessions, including two joint sessions) a the distribution and production of the newsletter. workshop was organized by the RC on "Linkages between Methodology, Research and Theory in Race and Ethn' Regional conferences Studies". In the workshop. sponsored by UNESCO. seve •. In the period 1986-1988 two regional conferences were case studies were presented by scholars from seven organized by the RC 04: continents.The (rev í sed ) pape rs , w í th summary of discussion and conclusions. were presented to UNESCO (1) The regional conference for Latin-America and in June 1987 for (eventual) publication. Caribbean on Sociology of Education with the theme 'El Estado y la Formulación y Efecto de las Politicas RC 05 Seminar on "New Frontiers in Social Research: Educativas: una Visión Sociológica'. This conference Ethnic. Race and Minority Relations" will be held was held in Caracas (Venezuela, November 24-26, 1987) Decembe r 8-U. 1988. in Amsterdam. The Netherlands. and was organized by a local committee chaired by This three day seminar will be hos t.edby the Centre Orlando Albornoz. The conference had 10 sessions. A for Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of book with the presented papers will be published Ams t erdam , Sessions will be directed towards the soon. (ever) changing significance of concepts in the field of ethnic. race and mí.norítv reLat í.ons, where they (2) The regional conference on 'Education, Youth and reflect. monitor. and are influenced by. various Nation-Building', organized jointly by the Research social processes.More specifically. a focus is placed Committees on Sociology of Education and Sociology of on the (in) adequacy of traditional conceptions in Youth. This conference was held November 19-20, 1987 the field in view of current global socio-economic at the Aust1'alian National University, Canberra, transgressions (e.g. the disappearance of Labour Australia. Don Anderson and La1'ry Saha were among the markets, shifts in capital concentrations and organizers. military-political relations. etc.). Dependent upon Main topics were: * Education. the State and Political the nat.ure ot the contributions. the semí.nar shall

Intergrationj * Education, the Work Ethic and Economic cons í der the theme along the va ríous axes of theo rv , Expansion. policy. and practice.

(3) A regional conference for Europe is planned for Publications .' 1989 and will be organized by Tomas Kosma in Hungary. The RC is looking into the possibilities (beyond UNESCO) of publishing the papers initially presented at the New Delhi workshop (see above). Midterm conference

The t rad í t í.ona.LMidtel'luConference of the RC 04 was Pape rs presented at the Congtess s ess í ou on "Race., held in Salamanca (Spain), August 23-26, 1988. The Ethnicity and Education" a re being published this theme of the conference was 'Education and Develplllent year with Sally Tomlinson and Abraham Yogev (of RC Revisted: A Sociological Perspective'. Session topics 04) serving as editors. were: * Universities and Developmentj " Women and Developmentj " Educational Systemsj "Culture and The first newsletter of the RC this quadrenniwu Development. appeared in January ot this year and has been A selection of the presented papers will be published dist1'ibuted to more than 400 scholars (75%'residing in a Re search Annua L, published by JAI Press. in Western Europe 01' North Ame rica ). The newsletter. besides regular sections with news from members and announcements. presented the new RC Board. an Publications evaluation ot the Delhi sessions. reports from the In the period 1986-1988 a selection of papers Delhi business meetings. and a statement on Apartheid. p1'esentedat the international seminar on 'Micro- and Except tor post-Congress lapses. the newsletter Macro-Scopic Approaches to the Sociology of appears twice ayear. Education' organized by the RC 04 in April 1985. was published in 'Revue Internationale de Soclologie' . Membership no. 1. 1987. In the past rour yea rs . the circulation of the RC newsletter has doubled to nearly 450 scholarsj recipients are asked to contribute $20 for four years Membership llIembership.In the previous quadrennium, + 50 scholars After a review of the membership-files and the contributed as RC 'members'. + 20 scholars have introduction of the possibility of waiving the responded to the January 1988 newsletter with membership fee for those who cannot pay, the RC04 now membership contributions. Scho Lars in countries with has 213 active members. currency regulations may become members in good standing by requesting afee waiver trom the RC Board.

10 At the reques t of those membe rs attending the Delhi of the volume 14 has included an additional section business meeting. the new Board drafted a "Statement on "Membership News Update". Response from the members on Apartheid". denouncing systems of structural has been excellent and this serves to communicate new inequality based on racismo The Board, in distributing research and publications between the nations. The

the statement v í a the .Janua ry 1988 newsletter. asked Gazzette is produced at the Australian Institute of that all (current and future) RC members endorse the Family Studies and is posted airmail to all members statement. to avoid delays.

Finances Some discussion took place at Freising between the Newsletter production expenses are covered by CFR and CYR on starting up a new "Family and Youth"

membership contributions and the ISA grant. journal 01'bulletin. but lack of fund í.ng and ed í torí.a l Distribution is realized through the mailing service staff are obstacles. of the University of Amsterdam.The RC has a 11l0dest treasury of $2000. This sum remains from the previous Membership quadrennium, when a number of RC members produced the The President and Secretary oí the CFR have attempted document "Contemporary Theoretical Research on Race to recruit additional members. with some success. and Ethnicity" (Marshall Murpherre, editor) unde r Membership currently stands at about 280 active paying UNESCO sponsorship. members. Special efforts have been made to encourage scholars Statutes and researchers in countries not represented in the order to institutionalize a number of RC CFR to become members. Thus we have tried to get more ocedures, the Board has drafted statutes. which members írom various countries. especially from the ere presented to the memberhip at large via the June socialist countries in Europe. and írom Africa. Asia. 1988 newsletter. and South America. Several new memberships have been the result and more are expected to follow.

RC 06 FAMILY RESEARCH RC 07 FUTURES RESEARCH Report submitted by Jan Trost. President Report submitted by Radimila Nakarada. Secretary Activities One of the main activities of the CFR has been to In the period aíter the Congress in India. we have organize seminars/equivalent. The first activity of first of all tried to clear up some procedural matters the períod 1986-1988 was organizing the meetings of concerning the election of ofíicers. as well as our the CFR at the World Congress in New Dehli. The membership list which is unrealistically large in organizer was Ste11a Quah (Singapore), who did an terms oí individual participation and activities. excellent job in coordinating, but due to illness. she could not participate herself. The Committee had a We have made several research proposals to our members number of very well-attended, sessions and a Lso a on the basis oí their suggestions from India, research special memorial session in the honour of the late proposals concerning social consequences of new Honorary President Reuben Hill; this memorial session technologies, cross-cultural dialogue, reíorms in was jointly organized with the Executive Cornmittee oí East Europe. All these projects are still in the the ISA. initial phase oí development.

Ir e middle of September 1987 the CFR held its 22nd One issue of the Newsletter has already been in"_Lnational seminar organized by Hans Bertram (FRG). published. a second one will come out in the Fall. The seminar was held in Freising near Munich with about 50 very active participants. RC 07 together with the World Future Studies Federation (WFSF) held the íollowing courses at the In the middle of April 1988 László Cseh-Szombathy, Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik: (Hungary), organized the 23rd international seminar 1985-86 The future of Societal Priorities: Aims. in Zamárdi at Lake Balaton on the topic of "Kinship Values. Visions in Different Cultural and Aging". About 60 participants from val'ious parts Contexts. Course D'irect.ors : Jim Da t or , Rolf of the world presented papers and held lively Homann. Radmila Nakarada. Andrzej Sicinski. discussions. 1986-87 Futures Studies Revisited. Course D'irect.ors : The 24th international CFR seminar will be held in Jim Dator. Rolf Homann. Radmila Nakarada. Singapore and organized by Stella Quah and Eddie Kuo Mldrzej Sicinski. in the beginning of May of 1989. The topic is "Marriage. Parenthood and Social Policy". See Calendar 1987-88 Everyday Life in the XXI Century. Course of Future Events for more details. Directors: Jim Dator. Rolí Homann. Mika Nannermaa. Andrzej Sicinski. Publications from seminars are as follows:

- A book is in press with rev í sed ve rsí.ons oí the Some oí the RC 07 members pa rt í cLpat.edin the World best presentations from the Jerusalem seminar.- Conference of WFSF held in China September 3-8. 1988. Presentations from the Freising seminar have aheady been published in preliminary form and wi11 be published both in English and in German. - The Zamárdi seminar will also be published in the RC 08 form oí a book. HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY

CFR Gazette Report submitted by Dirk Kasler. Secretary In 1987. the 14th volume of the CFR Gazette was published in three issues. upgraded in both size and Statutes of the RCHS contento At the CFR board meeting in Freising in At the Business Meeting of the RCIlS in 1984 in Munich September 1987. it was decided to include brieí the Committee's lack of a clear set of Statutes was articles and reports from members. Each of the issues noted. In the RCHS-Newsletter vol. 111. Winter 1984/85

11 a draft of such statutes by the then President of the a t.urnover as far as the board is concerued . Ha í L RClIS.Tom B. Bottomore. was published. elections be came nece ssarv as t.here was no quo rum at In the process of the elections prior to the 1988 the Business Neeting in New Delhi and we re thus Madrid conference tbis revised draft was submitted to de Layed produc ing no conuuou membership re search tbe membership for approval. During the period March actívities as had been the case before, The 7 - April 15, 1988. the members of the RClISvoted unde rsi.gneda t t.empt.ed to o rgani ze a seconclRegional upon this draft of Statutes. Of the (then) 169 members Meeting on "The Social Consequences of the New in good standing, 97 membe rs participated in this 'I'echnLogi.es" to take place again in Swi t zerLand al mail ballot. of which voted 91 fol'.5 abstention. 1 tbe Un í.ve rsi t.y oí Berne but did not find enough against this draft. 'By this vote the Statutes ot the persons interested. RCHS have been approved by more than 51% oí tbe In the meantime. Ortwin Renn of Clark University membership and are valíd as of May 1st, 1988. (USA) has been able to sign a cont.ract ro r the

publication of the papers of the f í rst regional New membership dues meeting on the subject. Due to the declining value of the Dollar and the rising mailing expenses it was proposed at the Business Meeting of the RCHS on May 28. 1988. in Madrid. to change the dues s t ructure to the RC 10 amount/equivalent of US $10 ayear. 01'$30 for four PARTICIPATION. WORKERS' CONTROL years. The proposal passed unanimously with one AND SELF-MANAGEMENT abstention and will be effective as.from January l. 1989 onwards. Report sublllitteclby GyHrgy Széll

Development of Membership of the RCHS. During the New Delhi Congress we have adopted statutes In 1977 the RCHS had ·62 members f rom 10 countrí.es , in and held ballot elections ro i the new board 1978 97 from 11, in 1979 126 from 14. in 1980 88 from afterwards. 15, in 1981 113 from 17. in 1984 117 from 20. in 1985 153 from 22. in 1986 167 from 25. in 1987 175 from 25. Our Newsletter has continuously appeared twice a and at present, the RCHS has 189 members from 28 year. now edited by Ake Sanelberg. It has become a countries. widespread means of information with an average of 40 to 50 pages, Conferences The mid-term conference of the RCHS took place in Remaining in the field ot publications we can announce Madrid (Spain) on May 26-28. 1988. Following sessions two more which are the product of our Research were held: Conooittee'sactivities: * Empirical Social Research: a tool of knowledge and - Finally the proceedings ot our Osnabrück workshop of action (9 papers) will soon appear under the title "The State. Trade * Talcott Parsons and !listoryof Action Theory (4 Unions and Self-Nanagement. Issues in Competence and papers) Control", edited by G. Széll. p, Blyton. C. Cornforth * National Traditions in the !listory of Sociology (3 and v, Rus. The publisher is de Gruyter in Berlin & papers) New York. * Sociological Concepts beyond Mainstream Sociology - Wíthin its series "CUITent Sociology". the (4 papers) International Sociologícal Association publishes in * Max Weber in the History of Sociology (7 papers) volume 36/1988 a trend report with a selected and * Methodological Approaches in the !listory of annotated biblíography on "Participation. Sociology (3 papers) Workers'Control and Self-Management" by Gyo rgy Széll. * Polítical Events and the lIJ.storyof Sociology (6 rhe manuscript is already with the publisher. papers) " In r egard to our workshops and conferences: Publications of the RCHS - From August 5th to the 8tb. 1987 we met for the The main publication of the RCHS is its Newsletter first time on the North American continent thanks to since 1976. the efforts of Charles Derber and his colleagues fl'om the Department oí Sociology.Boston College. The theme Since 1984 two members of the RCHS, Gerd Schroeter was the "Politics oí Economic Democracy". More than (Canada) and Alan Sica (USA) have become editors of 100 participants írom nearly twenty difíerent History of Sociology. An International Review, countries took parto The presidential candidate Jesse formerly Journal of the History of Sociology. Since Jackson was the key note speaker. And it was the their editorship many articles by members of the RClIS Urst time in the history oí the United States. that and papers presented at RCHS meetings have been somebody who was running fo r the sup reme office took publíshed in this journal. a positive stand in regard to Economic Demoé'racy, It was also an occasion to organize a board For the 1988 Madrid conference Sociological Abstracts meeting in Boston. (36/2. suppl.150. May 1988) published a collection of (sorne)of the papers presented at the conference. -We held a very successful meeting on "Social Movements as a Force of De-alienation" in Dubrovnik March 14-18. 1988; organized by Walter R. Heinz (Bremen. FRG). Laslo Sekelj (Belgrade. Yugoslavia) and RC 09 GyHrgy Széll (Osnabrück. FRG). This was a common SOCIAL PRACTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION activity with the RC 36 Alienation Theory and Research with which we do have numerous links. Some 30 Report submitted by Ellen B. HUI. Delegate to the participants from 15 countries contributed to the Research Council success. As you may have learned through the media. Mikhail Gorbachev honoured us with his presence in While previously since its foundation in 1972 our Dubrovnik and greeted some of the participants Research Committee has been continously active with personally, So after the address by Jesse Jackson publications and regional meetíngs between world during the Boston workshop in 1987. you may have congresses. I regret to have to report that this was noticed that some oí the 1lI0st influentia1 persons in not the case during the last two years. The lack of the world have become more and more interested in activíty cOlTesponds to the fact that there has been economic democracy and workers'self-management. Not

12 long ago Nichail Gorbachov was in Yugoslavia to study. News from Working Groups self-management experiences for his 'perestroika' - WG on Liíe Styles is preparing the publication of campaign. two books. The first volume deals with "Concepts, Theories and Methods oí Life Style Research", and the second volume with "Findings from Life Style Research The workshop in Dubrovnik was also the occasion to Projects". have a board meeting where we could prepare our future - WG on Social Times held a meeting in Louvain activities. The prograrnme for the next years has (Belgium) in February 1987¡ no publication resulted developed quite nicely thanks to the endeavours of from this meeting. many: - WG on Explaining Leisure Features. after having * For those who speak French a meeting was held at published in 1987 the book "Trends in the Arts: a the Xllle Colloque de l'Association Internationale Multinational Perspective". is preparing nowa book des Sociologues de Langue Fran~aise from August 29 to "Trends in Sports: a Multinational Perspective". September 2, 1988 in Geneva on "Le Lien Social. - WG on Leisure and Crisis is nearly ready with the Identités Personnelles et Solidarité Collectives dans manuscript of a book that deals with the impact on le Monde Contemporain". The Researah Cornmittee leisure of the social economic crisis. Sociologie de l'Autogestion under the coordination of Gyorgy Széll held several sessions on "Technologies and Self-Management" and "Eastern countries, the Third World and democratization". RC 18 POLITIGAL SOCIOLOGY The official mid-term conference of our RC wil1 be .. e Ld in Hyde rabad on "Expe r íment.s and Experiences of Report submitted by Derek Urwin. Secretal'y Workers' Participation for Effective Industrial Democracy" from December 28 to 30, 1988. It is Since the ISA World Congress in New Delhi, where the organized by the Indian chapter of RC 10 under the Cornmittee organised seven panels, the major presidency of C. Lakshamnna, MP and by R.C. Sarikwal. "collective" exercise of the Cornmittee has been in It will be another occasion of a board meeting to organising participation in the 1988 World Congress decide on the program for our sessions during the of the International Political Science Association. World Congress in Madrid 1990. Two panels (the maximum permitted) have been organised: * Our friends from Latin-America who are going to l. Welfare State or Prosperity State form a subcornmittee propose a conference in 1989 Convenors: Stein Kuhnle (.Univof Bergen, Norway) and (March or July) in Lima, Peru on "Autogestión y Jens Alber (Max-Planck Institute, Cologne, FRG) participación en America Latina y el Tercer Mundo Papers: Matti Alestalo (Univ Helsinki, Finland), hacia la. década del noventa por la vida y por la Jürgen Kohl (Univ Bielefeld, FRG). Maria Maguire paz". The provisional president of the Latin American (OECD, Paris, France), Aun Orloff (Univ Wisconsin, subcornmittee, William Moreno (Lima, Peru) is USA) responsible for this conference. 2. America Exceptionalism * From June 13th to the 16th, 1989 Lars Erik Karlsson Convenors: S. M. Lipset (Stanford Univ, USA) and invites us to the Technical University of Lulea (North Byron Schafter (Nuffield College, Oxford, UK). Sweden) to debate about "New Technology and Papers: the two convenors, plus Aaron Wildavsky Participatory Democracy". This will be a very active (University oí California, USA). conference, different from others, with perhaps also a visit to Volvo Uddevalla cal' factory, the most Many members of the Cornmittee were organLsLng panels m n in the world, near Gothenburg. (See Calendar 01' presenting papers in other panels at the IPSA o~ Jture Events for more details) Congress. In addition, a paper on the role of the Cornmittee on Political Sociology in promoting 1, For October 1989 we received an invitation by Prof. comparative l'esearch was presented by Peter Flora Petkov of the Bulgarian Sociological Association and (University of Mannheim, West Germany) and Derek the Trade Union Research Institute in Sofia to Urwin (University of Wal'wick. UK) at a session organize a workshop on recent developments on directed by Mattei Dogan on "Institutionalisation of participation and self-management. The board proposed Comparative Research". as theme: "Social Needs, Ownership and Trade Unions".

The research role of the RC 18 í s conducted priraari Ly * Another workshop in Eastern Europe will be held in through its Work Groups. These continue to work Poland, at the Technical University of Radom in effectively. and out of them have come three further September 1991, organized by R. Peretkiewicz. The publications sponsored by the Cornmittee: theme is not yet fixed. The ~oard discussed as - "The Welfare State East and West". ed. by Richard possible topics¡ problems of planning, the role oí Rose and Rei Shiratori, New York. Oxford University the market and public and other institutions in regard Press. 198b¡ to participatory and industrial democracy. - "The State and Public Bureaucracies: A Comparative Respective", ed. by Metin Heper. New York, Greenwood Press 1987. - A further project, nearing cOlUpletion and led by RC 13 Thomas Mackie. Mark Franklin (both of Strathclyde SOCIOLOGY OF LEISURE University, UK) and Henry Valen (University of Oslo) is a systematic exploration of contemporary voting From Newsletter vol. XIV, nr.2. Winter 1987 behaviour. This volume is intended to be a sequel to early CPS studies in the field which culminated in Richard Rose. ed., "Electoral Behaviour" Future meetings: (Free Press. 1974). June 1989 Rotterdam. The Netherlands VII World - The Fascism and Authol'ital'ianism Work Group. Congress of the European Leisure and Recreation directed by Stein Ugelvek Larsen (University of Association¡ Bergen, Norway) has held two meetings. one in Bergen October 1989 .Ja í.pur , India - World Congre ss on on "Fascism in European Litel'ature"(in conjunction Leisure and Social Change. with other bodies), the other in Bad Homberg. West Germany, on "Modern Europe after Fascism". The latter

13 is the title of the book which is intended to come out of the research progr~ne. RC 25 - The Parties and Elections Work Group is planning a SOCIOLINGUlSTICS major research programme on the theme of political parties as organisations. Directed by Kay Lawson (San Report submitted by Allen D.Grimshaw. Pl'esident Francisco State Unversity, USA) and Derek Urwin (University of Warwick,UK). this project is still in Membership the planning stage: a preliminary meeting is planned The membership records oí RC 25 were held up by for 1988 with a conference. probably in Pal'Ís. cus t.oms during the t rans f er ot records to new hopefully being held in 1989. Secretary/Treasurer Charles Raplan in Rotterdamj most members of the section should have received dues notices this pas t summer (1988).. Oul'cul'l'ent best estimate is tllatRC 25 has somewhat RC 21 more than 225 mell\bers. URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Publication

Recent Conferences The RC membership voted in 1986 to change the * Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia). 1987: "Technology, Newsletter into a journal which will bear the title Restructuring and Urban-Regional Development" "Sociolinguistics". An initial issue should be distributed as soon as membership and subscription * Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 26-30 SeptemQer 1988: records llave been updated. In the meantim "Trends and Challenges of Urban Restructuring". submissions will be most welcome. Research articl6. Organizers: Lícia Valladares (IUPERJ. Rio de.Janeiro) (ol'notes) and news items should be sent to Tony Hak. and Edmond Preteceille, RC 21 President. "Sociolinguistics" Editor. Erasmus University; Medical Contrary to other intermediate conference of the Faculty. Institute of Preventive and Social Research Committee which have been theme-centred this Psychiatry. Postbus 1738. 3000 DR Rotterdam. The meeting had a very broad spectrum and was structured Netherlands, around four themes: l. Trends and Forms of Urbanization, Economic Meetings Actívities and International Division of Labour - The 1987 meeting of the board was held in Rotterdam 2. Thoughts about the City (The Netherlands) and the 1988 meeting in todz 3. Urban Social Structures: New Trends and Challenges (Po Land ) . 4. City. Power and Politics -A call tor papers for a mid-term meeting of RC 25 The conference was started with an introductory on the topic of "Conversation. Discourse. and session on Brazil Today. On the following days in the Conflict." to be held at Trinity College. Dublin. in mornings there was only one session with papers April 1989, was distributed by Brian Torode in Spring presenting wide global and theoretical confrontationsj 1988. Because of prob Lems wi th membership reco rds and in the afternoons. in three parallel sessions, the mailing he may be able to consider late submissions. same theme was discussed but addressing more specific Queries should be sent to To rode : Department oí issues. In total 90 papers were presented in the 17 Sociology. Trinity College. Dublin. Ireland. sessions. 250 scholars (over 100 came from abroad) - Plans for the XIIth ISA Congress in Madrid. July 9- participated in the conference. 13. 1990. are well underway; Zbigniew Bokszanski is organizing sessions on a [ange of theoretical. Publications methodological and applied topics. RC members or The Committee has an active policy of publication and other interested colleagues who do not receive the circulation of printed material: the RC 21 Newsletter call for papers should direct queries and sugges ó\S (two issues each year) is a quick means of information to Zbigniew Bokszanski, Institute of Socio .'• on coníerences, publications. research initiatives. University of todz, ul. Rewolucji 1905, 91-078 todz. etc. Poland. The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research created in 1977 at the initiative of RC21. published by Edward Arnold Ltd.. is now in its twelth years and has gained wide recognition as a major RC 26 academic journal in the field. with a really SOCIOTECHNICS - SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE international impact both in terms of the subject of articles published and of circulation (RC21 members Report submitted by Joachim K.H.W. Schmidt, ~ecretary can subscribe at a special price). In 1987 we lost oul'Board member and former pl'esident. RC 21 publishes a series of books and special issues Professor Albert Bernard Cherns. who died on May 14th of journals, collecting selected papers from 1987. He was among the first authors to promote the congresses 01' conferences. which have been useful and idea of sociotechnics as a discipline which elaborated very positively received. The most recent one is: the methodology oí practical action. His colleagues Henderson. Jeff. Castells. Manuel. eds.: Global in the Conooittee will always be indebted to him for Restructuring and Territorial Development. London, his í.mpo rtant; book "Socioteclmics" (1976). his Sage. 1987. organizational skills to organize the pioneering international conference on sociotechnics in 1973 in Membership Loughborough (where he was the head of the Depal'tment The members (over two hundered) are from 35 countries. of Social Sciences). and his work done in connection There has been much interest for RC21's activities in with the publication of its results. Latin America. despite the economic situation (about 30 members), and the development of a Latín American Since 1973. when Albert B. Cherns organized oul' first network has been strongly supported. However. direct international conference. our Research Committee has contact between those researchers and the activities been continually growing and expanding. Now over 500 in Western Europe and USA, not· to mention Eastern scholars living in about 50 different countries are Europe or Asia. has been límíted. particularly their coope rat í.ng with us , This s t rongLy increased participation in RC21 conference. cooperation of scholars with our RC indicates that we may have ente red a new period witllin the development of our RC. One may also finq this reflected in the

14 adoption of a new nrune: Sociotechnics-Sociological Practice. The chosen supplement >Sociological Practice< allows us to address scholars in a less specific way. It responds to the considerably CALLS FOR PAPERS AND PROJECTS increased number of scholars and practitioners in various countries engaged in developing and applying theories and methods of social policy research and WORLD SOCIETY FOUNDATION utilization. The Foundation for the Promotion oí Social Science Research on World Society (World Society Foundation) In the context of this name change, our RC succeeded funds selected proposals íor research projects on the to establish cooperation with three groups of scholars structure and change of world society. The next ori~nted towards the utilization of the social deadline íor applications is February 1. 1989. science, all of them operating in USA. These groups For details and application f orms please contact: are: the Section >Sociological Practice< of the World Society Foundations American Sociological Association (ASA), the Zeltweg 67 Association of Applied Sociology, and the Clinical CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland Sociology Association. Officers of these organizations are represented in our new Board, chaired'by Mark van de Vallo Presently we negotiate the association of SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION MATERIALS other groups to our Research Cornmittee. The American Sociological Association is updating its volume on Teaching the Sociology of Education. It .etings will be available in August of 1989. Please send any .~~ganizational efforts geared to consolidate our materials such as· course overviews, reading lists, Research Cornmittee have not been our sole concern. assignments, types of projects 01' other ideas that End of June of present year we had a successful you use in your teaching of the sociology of education international conference near Leiden (The to: Prof esso.rEdith W. King Netherlands). 25 papers were presented by participants School of Education, University of Denver coming from 7 different countries (Austria, Canada, Denver, Colorado 802n8, USA FRG, the Netherlands. Poland, Switzerland, and the USA) . RESEARCH IN SOCIAL POLICY: CRITICAL, HISTORICAL AND Another conference is presently being prepared. It CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTlVES. The General Editor of this will take place in Ottawa (Canada), and is scheduled JAI Press Annual Series is soliciting papers and for May 1989. Other conferences, a conference in detailed papel' abstracts for Volumes 111 (1990) and Poland, as well as a conference in Austria, are still IV (1991). This peer-reviewed annual publishes papers object of negotiations. The organization f or our on social policies as developed by elite decision- contribution to the next ISA World Congress on makers in States, missions, foundations, communities, SOciology,Madrid 1990. has started. international political bodies as well as those which explore the response of subjects of such policy- Publications making. The publication of,our News1etter (No. 1: June 1977) Papers should be no more than íorty pages in length continued and we issued No. 10 in October 1987. The (Chicago Manual style) and papel' abstracts should be publication of No. 11 is planned for the end of 1988. at least four pages. Submissiort deadline is April 30, Our Newsletter is, as a rule, issued annually alld 1989. Send papers and abstracts to: is presently published in an edition of 500 copies; it Professor John H. Stanfield 11 normally has 100 pages and is distributed in ca. 50 Sociology Dept, The College of Willirun and Mary c ries. The following issues of our Newsletter, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185, USA S •••••. ing with No. 11, will be published as "AnnaLs" by the Verlag für Gesellschaftsarchit~ktur, Ktlln, FRG. The editors will be the members of our Executive INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTlVES ON EDUCATION AND SOCIETY, Board: E. Clark (USA), A.J. Matejko (Canada), A. a JAI Press research and policy annua L, invites papers Podgorecki (Canada), J.K.H.W. Schmidt (FRG) , Editor- for volume 3 (1990). The theme oí the volume is in-Chief, M. van de Vall (The Netherlands). "Education and Development Revisited". Research contributions as well as theoretical and policy- Vol. 111 of our series >Materials on Sociotechnics< oriented papers on topics related to the central recently appeared: Adam Podgorecki,"A Story of a theme are welcome. Papers will be reviewed by the Polish Thinker", XIV/710 p.; ISBN 3-89139-003-5 I editorial board of the volume. The deadline for Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 87-130801; submission is April 15, 1989. Send three copies oí Verlang für Gesellschaftsarchitektur, Koln. the manuscript (ASA style) to: Abraham Yogev Vol. 1 oí "Hat.e rí.a Ls on Sociotechnics" (still on School of Education, Tel Aviv University sale) is a book by Alexander f. Matejko "Beyond Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Bureaucracy". The value of this book is an extended comparision oí the various management systems presently used in the world. (ISBN 3-89139-000-9 I Papers are required íor a special issue of THE JOURNAL Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 85-670016). OF INTERDISCIPLINARY ECONOMICS. This issue will explore, review and critise current debates within Vol. 11 oí "Materials on Sociotechnics" (ISBN 3-89139- the íield oí developmental economics from the 002-7) is presently prepared. It is edited by Joachim perspective of related disciplines, such as political K.H.W. Schmidt. science, sociology and history. Papers are sought internationally and írom those using case study In 1986, the Department of Psychology oí the material to substantiate their arguments írom the University oí Stockholm published a monograph on developing world. "Organizational Work Reform in Sweden" by Judith Please send papers to the editor oí this issue: Buber Agassi. Ruth Taplin **************************************************** Centre for Co-operative Studies Reports from other Research Cornmittees will be University of Exeter, Amory Building published in the next issue of the ISA Bulletin Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK ****************************************************

15 course - gender. race. and ethnic stratífícatíon - consequences of social mobílity - mu1tivariate models of social CALENDAR OF FUTURE EVENTS mobí1ity - kinometric models of social mobility - stratification and mobility in a 'lifesty1es' perspective - analrsis March 20-23, 1989 oí school and work histories Annual Conference of the Brítísh Papers should be sent to: Wim Jansen Socíologícal Assocíatíon Vakgroep ETS. University of Utrecht Place: Plymouth Polytechnícs. U.K. Heídelberglaan 2 Main themes: health careo nursing and paramedícal 3584 CS Utrecht. The Netherlands work - educatíon. youth and unemployment bitnet: s sLze jj ohut ruuo - the crímínal justíce system - innex: cíties and planníng - work, employment and organísational studies - the media April 1989 (exact dates to be announced) and ínformatíon control - women's studies Bienníal Meeting of Research Committee - communíty and socíal work on Socíolínguistics:"Conversation, Informatíon: Britísh Sociological Assocíation Discourse, and Conflict" 10 Portugal Stx:. London WC2A 2HU. U.K. Place: Trinity College. Dublin. Ireland Information: Brian Torode Department of Sociology. Trinity College Apríl 5-8, 1989 Dublin 2. Ireland 15th Anníversary Third World Conference Foundatíon: "A 15-year Retrospectíve of Social Movements and Socíal Change ín May 2-4, 1989 Third World and Díaspora Communítíes: XXIV International Seminar of the Projections for the Future" Research Committee on Family Research: Place: Chícago, Illínoís. USA "Marriage, Parenthood and Social Policy" Papers whích address the followíng sub-themes are Place: Singapore requested by December 1988: economíc Main themes: the current signiticance of marriage and development - politícal dynamícs - parenthood in developed and developing educatíon/míseducatíon - agricultural nations today - the experiences of development - spíritualíty. relígion, various countries concerning the policy liberatíon theology - housíng, shelter. aspects of marriage and parenthood - homelessness - chíldren, youth - crisis management and suppo rt, systems ín

environmental protectíon and health - marr í age and pa rent.hood problems such as the arts - gender íssues - reassessment premarital and single parenthood, single- of hurnan ríghts - ínfluence of technology !lood. childlessness. late parenthood Informatíon: Roger K. Oden, Program Chair and divorce Thírd World Conference Foundatíon Information: Stella R. Quah P.O. Box 53110, Chícago. 111 60653. USA Department of Sociology tel. (312)241-6688. 534-5000, ext. 2429 National University of Singapore Kent Rídge. Singapore 0511 bitnet: stellarq @ nusvm Apríl 10-12, 1989 Internatíonal Workshop on Centres - Perípheries Mai 9-12, 1989 Place: Jablonna (Warsaw). Poland Colloque International Technologies Themes: centre-períphery system as a useful Nouvelles et Sociétés: "Information, model rooted ín the functíonal factors - Culture et Société: La Montée des role of public admínistration and self- Réseaux" government in a functioning centre-per- Place: Grenoble, France

ipheries system - socíal consequences of Theme s : épistémologie - commun í cat í.on - mémoire centre-periphery systems - administrative et cognition - réseaux locaux industriels

bodíes at different levels in front of - s t rat.ég í e mondiale des groupes polarizíng factors and egalitarían dreams industriels - ménages - acceptabilité in centre-periphery systems - stability sociale - maitrise du développement and instability issues of the centre- culturel - délocalisation des -services - periphery systems avenir des industries de contenu de Information: Maria Ciechocinska L' information - droit de l' information Inst Geography & Spatial Organization PAN et de la communication. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 30 Renseignements: Pro Claude Martin 00-927 Warsaw. Poland TNS. Service de la x:ec!lerche or Robert J. Bennett Univ. de Sciences Sociales Grenoble 11 Department ot Geography, LSE BP 47 X - 38040 Gx:enoble Cedex. France Houghton Str, London WC2A 2AE, U.K. tél. 76-82-55-49 or Ralph Kinnear Vienna Centre. Grünangergasse 2 A-1011 Vienna. Austria May 1989 International Conference of the Research Committee on Economy and Society: "New Apríl 26-29, 1989 Forms of Enterpreneurship, Economic International Conference of the Research Elites and Development in Comparative Committee on Social Stratíficatíon: Perspective" "Stratífícatíon and Mobílíty Research ín Place: Portugal the 90's" Topics: specific features of entrepreneurship Place: Utrecht. The Netherlands today - the relationship between the Topícs: hístorícal mobilíty research 1820-1940 - entrepreneurial function and the economic stratífícatíon and mobílíty ín the life élites of a given country - the relation-

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