Theory The Newsletter of the Research Committee on Sociological Theory International Sociological Association Spring/Summer 2011 CURRENT BOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS Chairs Ronald N. Jacobs Craig Browne and Paul Jones: Editors’ In- Giuseppe Sciortino troduction …………………………...........1 Secretary/Treasurer Mid-Term Conference Call for Papers: Cul- Agnes Ku tures and Civilizations in the Modern- Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. World……………………………………...2 Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong Email:
[email protected] Donald N. Levine: In Memoriam: Shmuel Board Members Noah (S. N.) Eisenstadt 1923-2010 Jeffrey Alexander ………………………………………….....3 Gianpaolo Baiocchi Patrick Baert Mabel Berezin Fuyuki Kurasawa Barbara A. Misztal: Sociology of Vulnerabi- Philip Smith lity and Critical Stance Frédéric Vandenberghe Gilles Verpraet .....................................................................5 Seung Kuk Kim Kiyomitsu Yui Raluca Soreanu: Outlaw Emotions Associate Board Members Working-Through a Psychoanalytic José Maurício Domingues Sociology of the Mind.................................9 Brad West Ken Thompson Eduardo de la Fuente Marcel Fournier Gilles Verpraet: How to Shape Society? The Sang-Jin Hang Elisa P. Reis Social Explanandum in Latour and Desco- Edmond Wright la.................................................................10 Consuelo Corradi Alexander Filipov Homa Zanjanizadeh Filipe Carreira da Silva Call for Nominations: Margaret Archer Best Junior Theorist Paper in Sociological Theory Editors of Theory …………………………………………...12 Craig Browne E-mail:
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[email protected] Department of Sociology and Social Po- licy A26, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia Editors’ Introduction Sociological theory evolves in various ways: returning to the same problems, disclosing new areas of inquiry, placing perspectives in new contexts, developing programmes and unending projects, feeling completely per- plexed, being open to dialogue.