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Tuesday July 5, 14:00-18:00 Registration Tuesday July 5, 17:00 Tuesday July 5, 14:00-19:00 7 Tuesday July 5, 14:00-18:00 Registration Room: Folkets Hus Tuesday July 5, 17:00-19:00 Opening Session Welcome Addresses Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel-Aviv University (Israel), President of the International Institute of Sociology Piotr Sztompka, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland), President of the International Sociological Association Ulla Björnberg, Göteborg University (Sweden), President of the local organising committee of the ISA 2010 World Congress in Gothenburg Some Paradoxes of Globalisation and Hegemony in the Contemporary Era - Comparitive Observations S.N. Eisenstadt, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel) On Societal Attempts to Tame Scientific Curiosity Helga Nowotny, Wissenschaftszentrum Wien (Austria) Cross-cutting Frontiers, Political and Disciplinary: Situating Sociology and Social Anthropology T.K. Oommen, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) Chair: Björn Wittrock, Björn Wittrock, Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Sweden) and Vice-President of the IIS Room: Folkets Hus, Kongresshallen A 8 Wednesday July 6, 8:00-10:40 Wednesday July 6, 8:00 - Registration Room: Folkets Hus Wednesday July 6, 9:00-10:40 Legacy of Sociology The Internal Conversation: Completing the Story of Structure and Agency Margaret Archer, University of Warwick (UK) Which Theory of Behaviour for the Social Sciences? The Legacy of Tocqueville, Weber and Durkheim Raymond Boudon, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris (France) The Emergence of Universalism: An Affirmative Genealogy Hans Joas, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt (Germany), University of Chicago (USA) and The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, (Sweden) Chair: Peter Hedström, University of Oxford, Nuffield College (UK), Member of the Organizing Committee Room: Folkets Hus, Kongresshallen ABC Wednesday July 6, 11:00-14:15 9 Wednesday July 6, 11:00-12:40 Pierre Bourdieu: A Modern Master of Philosophical Ideas in Sociology Sociology Session A Of Culs-de-sac and Culturism: A Critical Appraisal of Sociology's Paradoxes Pierre Bourdieu's Work Graham Crow, University of Southampton (UK) Axel van den Berg, McGill University (Canada) On Theory and Method in the Study of Independent Pierre Bourdieu for the 21st Century Emotive Meaning of Attitudinal and Normative Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkely and Statements Centre de Sociologie Européenne, Paris (France) Ulf Himmelstrand, Uppsala University (Sweden) Bourdieu and Economic Sociology How Sociology May Cope with Some Findings from Richard Swedberg, Cornell University (USA) Linguistics and Philosophy of Language Hans L. Zetterberg, Valuescope (Sweden) Chair: Craig Calhoun, New York University Convener: Bo Anderson, Rhoda Hadassah Kotzin Room: Folkets Hus, Kongresshallen A Michigan State University (USA) & Hans L. Zetterberg, Valuescope (Sweden) Chair: Bo Anderson, Michigan State University (USA) Living Conditions and Life Courses Room: 456, Musiksalen (Norra Latin) The Gender System: What's Changing Paula England, Stanford University (USA) Social Stratification Processes in Comparative Wednesday July 6, 12:40-14:15 Perspective Jan O. Jonsson, Stockholm University (Sweden) Lunch Institutions and Life Courses - What Do We Learn from Comparative Research Karl Ulrich Mayer, Yale University (USA) and Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (Germany) Chair: Rune Åberg, Umeå University (Sweden) Room: Aulan, 3rd floor (Norra Latin) Sociology and the Natural Sciences The Social Stance and Its Relation to Levels of Intersubjectivity Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University (Sweden) Social Science Utilization of Natural Science Theories and Research Methods Renate Mayntz, Max-Planck-Institute für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln (Germany) Frontier and other kinds of research - what is there to explore for sociology? Helga Nowotny, Wissenschaftszentrum Wien: Chair: Peter Weingart, University of Bielefeld Room: Pelarsalen, 1st floor 10 Wednesday July 6, 8:00-10:40 Thursday July 7, 9:00-10:40 Multiple Modernities and Social Theory Sociology and the Economic Sciences Multiple Modernities and Developmental Patterns in Human Nature and Social Interaction - Beyond Homo World History with Special Reference to Islam Oeconomicus Homo Sociologicus Saïd A. Arjomand, State University of New York at Ernst Fehr, University of Zürich (Switzerland) Stony Brook and Princeton University (USA) Economic Analysis of Social Interactions Multiple and Successive Modernities: Rethinking the Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University (USA) Issue from an East Asian Perspective Johann P. Arnason, La Trobe University (Australia) and The Sociological Frontiers of Economics - and Vice- Universität Leipzig (Germany) versa Neil J. Smelser, University of California, Berkeley (USA) Does Modernity Have a Core Ethical Complex After All? Donald N. Levine, University of Chicago Chair: Robert Erikson, Stockholm University (Sweden) Commentator: S.N. Eisenstadt, The Van Leer Room: Pelarsalen, 1st floor Jerusalem Institute Chair: Peter Wagner, European University Institute Room: Folkets Hus, Kongresshallen A From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations, Amitai Etzioni Meets His Critics Sociology, Knowledge and Science Author: Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University (USA) Gambling in science - reflecting on actors´engagement in bio-science Thora Margareta Bertilsson, University of Copenhagen Critics: Anders Melbourne, Halmstad University College (Denmark) (Sweden) Critical Realism and the Theory and Practice of Commentator: Kjell Engelbrekt, Stockholm University Interdisciplinarity and Swedish National Defence College (Sweden) Roy Bhaskar, The Centre for Critical Realism, London (UK) Room: 456, Musiksalen Changing Publics of Science and Risks of Communicating Knowledge Peter Weingart, University of Bielefeld (Germany) Chair: Helga Nowotny, Wissenschaftszentrum Wien (Austria) Room: Aulan, 3rd floor 11 Thursday July 7, 9:00-11:20 Thursday July 7, 11:00-12:40 Robert K. Merton: A Modern Master of Sociology and Religion Sociology Religion in Three Alternative Visions of the Global (dis- Merton's Ambivalence towards Autonomous Theory - Order: Cosmopolitanism, the Clash of Civilizations and and Ours Multiple Modernities Donald N. Levine, University of Chicago (USA) José Casanova, New School University; New York (USA) Whatever happened to middle-range theory? Raymond Pawson, University of Leeds (UK) Religious Individualisation and New Forms of Religious Sociability in a Time of Uncertainties Trust and Social Capital in Science: R. K. Mertons Danièle Hervieu-Léger, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Inspirations Sciences Sociales (France) Piotr Sztompka, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) Faith in the Age of Contingency Hans Joas, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt, Chair: Hans L. Zetterberg, Valuescope (Sweden) University of Chicago (USA) and The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Room: Folkets Hus, Kongresshallen A (Sweden) Chair: S.N. Eisenstadt, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel) Room: Pelarsalen, 1st floor Migration and Citizenship Cosmopolitanism and Belonging Craig Calhoun, New York University (USA) Immigrants and Citizenship: An Ethnographic Hostesses of the World: Gender, Power Assessment and Sex Ewa Morawska, University of Essex (UK) Global Religion, Diaspora and the Future of Citizenship Gender, Modernity and Tradition in the Post-Soviet Bryan S. Turner, National University of Singapore Transformations Anna Temkina, European University in St. Petersburg Chair: Masamichi Sasaki, Hyogo Kyoiku University (Russia) (Japan) Hostessing, Gender and Work Room: Aulan, 3rd floor Eeva Jokinen, University of Jyväskylä and Soile Veijola, University of Lapland (Finland) Gender and Political Leadership: A Case Study of Women Heads of State and Government Torild Skard, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Chair: Elina-Haavio-Mannila, University of Helsinki (Finland) Room: 456, Musiksalen 12 Thursday July 7, 11:00-12:40 Friday July 8, 9:00-10:40 Sociology and the Cultural Sciences Sociology and the Mathematical and Geocultural Scenarios Statistical Sciences Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University (Sweden) Charles Manski, Northwestern University In Time and Space: On the Possibility of a Cultural Theory of Modernity Causation, Statistical Models and Longitudinal Data Peter Wagner, European University Institute (Italy) Analysis Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Bamberg University (Germany) Commentator: Margaret Archer, University of Warwick (UK) What do Randomized Studies of Housing Mobility Demonstrate?: Causal Inference in the Face of Chair: Neil J. Smelser, University of California, Berkeley Interference Michael Sobel, Columbia University (USA) Room: Folkets Hus, Kongresshallen A Chair: Peter Hedström, Nuffield College, Oxford University (UK) Room: Pelarsalen, 1st floor Sociology and the Historical Sciences ` The Necessity of Historical Sociology Craig Calhoun, Social Sciences Research Council, New York and New York University: Erwin K. Scheuch: In Memoriam Social Theory and World History: Cultural Quantitative Analysis of Historical Material as the Basis Crystallizations and Institutional Transmutations for a Cooperation Between History and Sociology Björn Wittrock, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Ute Scheuch Study in the Social Sciences, (Sweden) E. Scheuch's Sociology of Emotions Historical Sociology: Precursors, Preconditions and Helena Flam, University of Leipzig (Germany) Possibilities Philip S. Gorski,
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