Media and Identities

Convener and Chair: Antonio V. Menendez Alarcon, Butler University (USA)

"Here's Looking at You, Kid: Turning an All-Seeing Blind Eye"
Eugene Halton, University of Notre Dame (USA)

"Representing Minds in the Media"
James Moir, University of Abertay (UK)

"Stereotypes in Representation: Chinese Americans and Discourses of Exclusion"
Stephen H. Riggins, Memorial University (China)

"Media Representation and Identity: Al jazeera between Local and Global Forms"
Lella Mazzoli and Giovanni Boccia Artieri, University Urbino (Italy)

"Changes in Communication: The New Technologies of Information and Communication"
Antonio Lucas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Distributive Papers
"The Construction of 'Other' Sexualities in Post-Socialist Romania: Lesbian and Gay Identities in the Media"
Theodora E. Vacarescu, University of Bucharest (Romania)

"The Unicorn is Dead: Postmodernism, Comsumption, and the Production of the 'Self'"
Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Texas A&M University (USA)

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Media and Representation

Convener and Chair: Antonio V. Menendez Alarcon, Butler University (USA)

"British Columbia is Open for Business: A Discourse Analysis of Working Forest News in the Vancouver Sun"
Marc C.J. Stoddart, University of Victoria (Canada)
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"Media and History"
Marcelo Staciarini Puttini, University of Brasilia (Brasil)

"Representing Identity: Images of the Self and the Other in European Media"
Eirini Papadaki, Educational Institute of Epirus (Greece)

“Media Coverage, Foreign Policy, and Public Opinion: The Current Political Climate is Creating New Opportunities for Media Reform”
Rena Bivens, University of Glasgow (UK)
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"Media Representation of the European Union"
Antonio V. Menendez Alarcon, Butler University (USA)

Distributive Papers
"Representing the Self: Digital life-stories and Life Writing Online"
Michael Hardey, University of Newcastle (UK)

"Lighten Up?! Humour as Anti-racism in the Work of Asian American Comic Margaret Cho"
Tara Atluri, York University (Canada)

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Media and Sport (ISA RC 27 Session)

Convener and Chair: Steven J. Jackson, University of Otago (New Zealand)

"Super-Sizing Sports Dirt: On the Ethos of Communicative Dirt and the Characterized Reader in Super Bowl Commercials"
Lawrence Wenner, Loyola Marymount University (USA)
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"Making Meaning for the Audience Share: Non-Sport Advertiser's World Cups"
Fred Mason, DeMontfort University (UK)

"Producing and Consuming Masculinity: Sport, Culture and Beer Advertising"
Steven Jackson, University of Otago (New Zealand)

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Medical, Health and Welfare Professions: Governance and Citizenship

Convener: Julia Evetts, University of Nottingham (UK) and Lennart Svennson, Göteborg University (Sweden)

Chair: Ellen Kuhlmann, University of Bremen (Germany)

"Medical Governance and Professional Knowledge - The Challenges of Consumer Involvement"
Ellen Kuhlmann, University of Bremen (Germany)

"The Welfare State, the Professions and Citizens: a Renegotiated Relationship"
Sirpa Wrede, Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki (Finland)

"Occupational jurisdiction and Current Transformation of Finnish Public Health Nursing"
Ann Yrjälä, Åbo Akademi University (Finland)

"The Self-Identity of Medical Practitioners in a Russia in Transition"
Olga N. Mamonova and Judith Allsop, De Montfort University (UK)

Distributive Paper
"Anatomy of Discretion"
Harald Grimen and Anders Molander, Oslo University College (Norway)

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Men and Masculinites

Convener and Chair: Murray Knuttila, Universitry of Regina (Canada)

"Globalization and its Mal(e)contents: The Extreme Right in the U.S. and Europe"
Michael Kimmel, State University of New York, Stoney Brook (USA)

"Beyond Gender: Transexualism, Counseling and Social Policies"
Claudio Cappotto, Palermo University (Italy)

"For a Sociology of Recognition: Homosexuality and Social Policies"
Cirus Rinaldi, Palermo University (Italy)

"Erotic Dividend: The Gendered Structure of Power"
Trevor Gates

"Hegemonic Masculinity and Constructing Gender"
Murray Knuttila, University of Regina (Canada)

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Men and Women without Frontiers: The European Experience (and Beyond)

Convener and Chair: Ettore Recchi, University of Florence (Italy)

"Who is Moving in Europe with which Success?"
Michael Braun, ZUMA - Center for Surevy Research and Methodology, Mannheim (Germany)

"Deep Inside: Identity and Daily Life of Migrated Europeans"
Antonio Alaminos, University of Alicante (Spain)

"More Mobile, More European? A Comparison of Attitudes towards Europe between Stayers and Internal Movers"
Nina Rother, ZUMA - Center for Surevy Research and Methodology, Mannheim (Germany) and Tina M. Nebe, European University Institute (Italy)

"An Alternative Route Upward? The Social Mobility of Mobile Europeans"
Ettore Recchi, University of Florence (Italy)

Distributive Papers
"Migration Decision-making of the Filipino Guest Workers in Taiwan"
Chun-Hao Li, University of Taiwan

"Internal Migration and Urbanization in Iran"
Firouz Jamali, Tabriz

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Meritocracy and Mobility

Convener and Chair: Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Ohio State University (USA)

"Gender, Obesity and Social Mobility"
Dalton Conley, New York Univerity (USA)

"Education and Social Mobility in Advanced Postindustrial Societies"
Sosana Koutsogiota, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

"A New Measure of Standard of Living and its Relation to Education"
Krzysztof Zagorski, Center of Public Opinion Research (Poland)

"Society and Cultures of Interaction in American Public Schooling"
Samuel Nelson, Yale University (UK)

"How do Occupational-career Interruptions Influence Meritocratic Allocation of People to Jobs?"
Rachel Lovell and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Ohio State University (USA)

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Methodological Axiomatics in Social Science: Integrity and Continuity of Social Cognition

Convener and Chair: Vladimir Kultygin, Russian Academy of Sciences

"American Pragmatism and Philosophy of Social Science"
Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge (UK)

"Fundamentalism and the Liminality of Modern Identities"
Henri Lustiger Thaler, Ramapo College of New Jersey (USA)

"Axiomatic Foundations in Methodology of Social Science"
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov and Vladimir Kultygin, Russian Academy of Sciences

"Dealing with the Americans: The Political, Military and Business Cultures of Pax Americana"
Dennis Smith, Loughborough University (UK)

"Modern Social and Cultural Dynamics and the Challenges to the Integrity and Continuity of Social Cognition"
Sergey A. Kravchenko, MGIMO - Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia)

Distributive Papers
"Socio-Ecological Theory: Traditions and Continuity"
Irene Sossunova, Russian Academy of Sciences

"Social Cognition and Its Specifics in Kyrgyzstan"
Kusein Isaev, Bishkek University of Humanities, Kyrgyz Republic

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Methods of Social Research and Social Politics

Convener and Chair: M. Ampola, University of Pisa (Italy)

"The Context of Social Research in the Making of Social Politics"
M. Ampola, University of Pisa (Italy)

"Social Research and Social Policies: Some Remarks"
Stefania Milella, University of Pisa (Italy)

"Methods and Indicators for a Reading of Quality of Life in Town (Leghorn 1999-2001)"
C. Colombi, University of Pisa (Italy)

"Bayesian Networks and Social Research: Modeling Scholastic Dispersion"
S. Gabbriellini, University of Pisa (Italy)

"Social Policies and Prevention of Juvenile Deviancy: Paths "to which legality"?"
A. Amendolea, University of Pisa (Italy)

Distributive Papers
"An Urban Demography Study: The Without Fixed Residence in Pisa"
F. Di Biase, University of Pisa (Italy)

"Analysis of Gender's Politics on the Planning of European Social Found Announcements of the Provincial Administration of Lucca"
F. Ceccarini, University of Pisa (Italy)

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Migration and Citizenship
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Chair: Masamichi Sasaki, Hyogo Kyoiku University

"Cosmopolitanism and Belonging"
Craig Calhoun, New York University

"Immigrants and Citizenship: An Ethnographic Assessment"
Ewa Morawska, University of Essex (UK)

"Global Religion, Diaspora and the Future of Citizenship"
Bryan S. Turner, National University of Singapore

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Modernity or Modernities: Should we Speak of Modernity in the Plural? (ISA RC 35 Session)
Session A: Asian Perspectives

Convener and Chair: Volker H. Schmidt, National University of Singapore

"Overlapping and Modelling. New Concepts for Modernity Research"
Yi-Tung Chang, Universität Marburg (Germany)

"Path Dependency and Institutional Transformation: A Comparison Between the Emergence of Corporate Forms in Britain, China and Japan"
Wai-keung Chung, Singapore Management University

"Value Shifts, Spirituality, and the Concept of the Person: Towards a General Critique of Modernity from Different Civilizational Traditions"
Horn-leung Wang, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)

"Sacred Places in Modern World Cities - Reading the City of Tokyo"
Anni Greve, Roskilde University (Denmark)
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Modernity or Modernities: Should we Speak of Modernity in the Plural? (ISA RC 35 Session)
Session B: Eurpean Perspectives

Convener and Chair: Volker H. Schmidt, National University of Singapore

"Modernity as World Consciousness"
Oliver Kozlarek, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo (Mexico)

"Multiple Modernities, Advanced Modernity and Postmodernity"
Yves Bonny, University of Rennes (France)

"The Three Epochs of Western Modernity"
Mikael Carleheden, Örebro University (Sweden)
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"The Coming of Modern (World) Society"
Volker H. Schmidt, National University of Singapore
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Mortality: Sociological Approaches, Session A

Convener and Chair: Jon Anson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

"An Examination of the Combined Effects of Maternal Characteristics, Environment and Type and Availability of Treatment Programs in the Prevalence of Diarrhea Amongst Infants in Uganda"
Betty Wakou and Patricia A. Bell, Oklahoma State University (USA)

"Health and Mortality in the Post-Communist Period in Bulgaria
Marta Sugareva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

"Poverty, Drug Traffic and Homicides in Mexico: A Socio-Spatial Analysis"
Guillermo Julian Gonzalez-Perez, Maria Guadalupe Vega-Lopez, et al., University of Guadalajara (Mexico)

"Socioeconomic Mortality Differentials in Old age - Evidence from US Survey Data and Danish Register Data"
Rasmus Hoffmann, Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung (Germany)
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"The Relation Between Self-Reported Health and Mortality in Migrant Communities in Belgium: Cultural Bias or Real Health Problems?"
Patrick Deboosere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

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Mortality: Sociological Approaches, Session B

Convener and Chair: Jon Anson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

"Neighborhood Social Processes and Disaster Related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave"
Christopher R. Browning, Danielle Wallace, Seth L. Feinberg and Kathleen A. Cagney, Ohio State University (USA)

"New Wine, Old Bottles, etc. On Integration, Anomie, and Social Capital in the Study of Suicide Mortality"
Ilkka Mäkinen and Sara Ferlander, University College of South Stockholm (Sweden)

"A Decade of Research on Relation Between Income Inequalities and Mortality"
Katalin Kovács, Demographic Research Institute, HCSO (Hungary)

"Having, Loving and Being: Local Area Correlates of Mortality Differentials in Israel"
Jon Anson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

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The Moving Frontiers Between Religiosity and Atheism in Post-Communist States: Gender and Age Differences

Convener and Chair: Larissa Titarenko, Belarus State University

"Religion and Gender Across Europe"
Malina Voicu, Research Institute for Quality of Life, Buharest (Romania)

"Gender and Religion in Post-Soviet States"
Larissa Titarenko, Belarus State University
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"Discrimination again Women's Employment and Religion"
Tadeusz Doktor, University of Warsaw (Poland)

"Composition of "Judgment Day" in Macedonian Religious Painting and its Influence on Youth Moral Values"
Dushka Matevska, University of Tetovo
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"Protestants in Current Russia"
Irena G. Kargin, MGIMO - Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia)

"The Existential Problems of Marginalized Women"
Anele Vosyliute, Vilnius University (Lithuania)
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Multiple Inequalities

Convener and Chair: Volker H. Schmidt, National University of Singapore

"Social Inequalities, Sociology of Inequalities, and the Theory of Differentiation"
Claus Hadamek, Universität München (Germany)
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"Difference, Inequality, Social Context and Perceptions of Fairness"
Sarah Irwin, University of Leeds (UK)

"Negotiating Hierarchies of Inequality: The Case of Children with Special Needs"
Liora Gvion, The Kibbutzim College of Education Tel-Aviv (Israel)

"Categorical and Gradual Inequalities"
Volker H. Schmidt, National University of Singapore
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Multiple Modernities and Global Contexts
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Chair: Huang Ping, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

"Planting Roots in a Global Context"
Barbro Klein, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS)

"From Plural Modernization to Multiple Modernities?"
Elisa Pereira Reis, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro

"Globalization and the Transnational Normativity of Good Citizen"
Yasemin Soysal, University of Essex (UK)

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Multiple Modernities and Social Theory
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Chair: Peter Wagner, European University Institute

Commentator: S.N. Eisenstadt, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel)

"Multiple Modernities and Developmental Patterns in World History with Special Reference to Islam"
Saïd A. Arjomand, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Princeton University

"Multiple and Successive Modernities: Rethinking the Issue from an East Asian Perspective"
Johann P. Arnason, La Trobe University and Universität Leipzig
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"Does Modernity Have a Core Ethical Complex After All?"
Donald N. Levine, University of Chicago