Racism and Xenophobia: A European Dilemma, Session A

Convener and Chair: Masoud Kamali, Uppsala University (Sweden) and Paul Jones, Liverpool University (UK)

"Immigration and Discrimination in Italy: Institutional Patterns and Political and Civil Society Responses"
Giulia Bigot and Stefano Fella, University of Trento (Italy)
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"Migration, Belonging and the European Dilemma"
Michal Krzyzanowski, Lancaster University (UK) and Paul Jones, University of Liverpool (UK)

"Race in Modern Medicine?"
Nora Machado, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

"Toward a Theory of Structural Discrimination: Cultural, Institutional, and Interaction Mechanisms of the European Dilemma"
Tom R. Burns and Masoud Kamali, Uppsala University (Sweden)

"The European Dilemma: Modernity and Institutionalization of "Otherness'"
Masoud Kamali, Uppsala University (Sweden)

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Racism and Xenophobia: A European Dilemma, Session B

Convener and Chair: Masoud Kamali, Uppsala University (Sweden) and Paul Jones, Liverpool University (UK)

"The Problem of Order and the 'Other': Racism as a Cosmological Imperative of the Modern Condition"
Festus C.R.A Ikeotuonye, University College Dublin (Ireland)

"Institutional Discrimination in France"
Marie-Cécile Naves, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Comparatives en Sciences Sociales, Saint-Ouen

"Nationalism, Religion, and Racism in Nordic Societies"
Sami Lipponen, Uppsala University (Sweden)

"European Imaginings of Otherness: Managing Conflict and Cultural Diversity in the New Europe"
Maria Rovisco, ISCTE-Institute of Social Sciences and Business Studies (Portugal)

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Racism and Xenophobia: A European Dilemma, Session C

Convener and Chair: Masoud Kamali, Uppsala University (Sweden) and Paul Jones, Liverpool University (UK)

"Racism and Symbolic Violence"
Brigitte Beauzamy, EHESS Paris (France)

"Perspectives and Realities of Multicultural Education in Greece: The Role of the Greek Youth"
Nikos Gousgounis, Pedagogical Institute of Athens (Greece)
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"'Institutional Discrimination of Migrants: Factors Limiting Access of Migrants to and on the Labour Market"
Helena Flam, University of Leipzig (Germany) and Axel Phillipps, University of Leipzig (Germany)

"The Politics of Racism and Xenophobia: A Multi-dimensional Model Explaining Extreme Ethno-Nationalist Movements and Developments in Europe in a Comparative Perspective"
Tom R. Burns, Uppsala University (Sweden) and Marcus Carson, Stockholm University (Sweden)

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Religion and Political Mobilization

Convener and Chair: Mark J. Rozell, George Mason University (USA)

"Gender, Religion and Political Participation in Latin America"
Scott W. Desposato, University of California, San Diego (USA)
Barbara Norrander, University of Arizona (USA)
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"Catholic Voter Mobilization in the 2004 Election"
William D'Antonio, Catholic University of America (USA)
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"The Effect of U.S. Religious Right Mobilization in the Bush Era"
Mark J. Rozell, George Mason University (USA) and Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University (USA)

"The New Religious Left"
Laura Edles, California State University (USA)

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Religions without Frontiers

Convener and Chair: Roberto Cipriani, Unviersity of Rome 3 (Italy)

"Protestants in Current Russia"
Irena G. Kargin, MGIMO - Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia)

"The Global Consequences of Transnational Religious Ties among New Immigrants to the United States"
Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston (USA)

"Civil Religion in Catholic, Serbian Orthodox and Muslim Environments"
Sergej Flere, University of Mariboru (Slovenia)
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"Between the Market and the Temple: The Struggle over Sabbath in Israel"
Guy Ben-Porat, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva (Israel)
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"The Answer Is: The Truth of God and the Lutheran Confessions Recognize No Parochial Frontiers. The Question is: Why is Bishop Obare Omwanza of Kenya Set on Consecrating Church of Sweden Bishops?"
Chris Mathieu, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and Anders Lundberg, Lund University (Sweden)
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Rescaling States, the Politics of Scale

Convener and Chair: Rianne Mahon, Carleton University (Canada)

"Co-Constituting Neo-Liberalism: Globalising Governmentalities and Political Projects in Aotearoa, New Zealand"
Wendy Larner, University of Bristol (UK)

"Scale and Gender"
Rianne Mahon, Carletons University (Canada)

"Meanings of Capital: Scale, Actors, Strategies and Struggles around Foreign Direct Investment in the Czech Republic"
Jan Drahokoupil, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary)

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Reshaping the Self in Post-Communist Societies

Convener and Chair: Vieda Skultans, University of Bristol (UK)

"Redefining Urban Bodies Interstitial Matters"
Catherine Alexander, Goldsmith College, University of London (UK)

"Habitus, Reflexivity and the Transformation of Self: Biographical Identities of Workers and Business People in Post-Communist Poland"
Markieta Domecka, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and University of Wroclaw (Poland) and Adam Mrozowicki, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and University of Wroclaw (Poland)
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"Dachas Gardens and Kitchen Gardens in Belarus: Figures of the Post-Soviet Individual"
Hervouet Ronan, University of Bordeaux (France)

"Doing Biographical Work in Post-socialist Conditions"
Aili Aarelaid-Tart, University of Tallinn (Estonia)

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Rethinking Alienation: New Directions of Theory and Research (ISA RC 36 Session)

Convener: Lauren Langman, Loyola University (USA)

Chair: Knud Jensen, The Danish University of Educational Studies (Denmark)

"The Dialectic of the Body"
Lauren Langman, Loyola University (USA)

"Mobile Memories in Cybercities: The Case Studie of the Emergent Latino Metropolis in the United States"
Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma 'La Sapienza' (Italy)

"Alienation and Creativity - Tools for Constructing Movable Identities"
Pirkkoliisa Ahponen, University of Joensuu (Finland)

"Alienation without Apology on the Logic of Contemporary Street Gangs"
Louis Kontos, Long Island University (USA)

"Sexually Am I FREE?: An Exploration of Agency, Freedom and Alienation with Regard to Sexually Themed Restaurants"
Natalie Harber, Loyola University Chicago (USA)

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Rethinking Civilizational Analysis

Convener and Chair: Said A. Arjomand, Princeton University and State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA)

"Central Dimensions of Max Weber's Sociology of Civilizations"
Stephen Kalberg, Boston University (USA)

"Sorokin and Parsons: Perspectives on the Civilization of Advanced Modernity"
Edward Tiryakian, Duke University (USA)

"The Idea of Modernity as a New Civilization"
Johann P. Arnason, La Trobe University (Australia)
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"Civilizational Sociology and Atlantic Studies"
Jeremy Smith, University of Ballarat (Australia)
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Rethinking Elites and Social Class in the Context of Financialization

Convener: Eric Pineault, University of Québec at Montreal (Canada) and Karel Williams, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change, University of Manchester (UK)

Chair: Karel Williams, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change, University of Manchester (UK)

"A Study of UK "Tops": Giant Company CEO's, Self Made Businessmen, the Moneyed City"
Julie Froud, Gindo Tampubolon, Karel Williams and Wei Zhang, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change, University of Manchester (UK)

"Rethinking Elites"
Mike Savage, Gindo Tampubolon and Karel Williams, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change, University of Manchester (UK)

"The Power of Transnational Élite Clubs: The Fading Myth of Davos"
Jean-Christophe Graz, Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)

"A Research Project on Over-indebtedness and Unemployment in Portugal: The Fable of the Grasshopper and the Ant"
Cláudia Nogueira and Sara Magalhães, Consumer Indebtedness Observatory of the Centre for Social Studies of the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal)

"The Overclass Hypothesis: A Study of the Link between Financialization and Growing Social Inequality"
Eric Pineault, University of Québec at Montreal (UQAM) (Canada)

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Robert K. Merton: A Modern Master of Sociology
(Semi-Plenary Session)

Chair: Hans L. Zetterberg, Valuescope

"Merton's Ambivalence towards Autonomous Theory - and Ours"
Donald N. Levine, University of Chicago :

"Whatever Happened to Middle-range Theory?"
Raymond Pawson, University of Leeds (UK)

"Trust and Social Capital in Science: Robert K. Merton's Inspirations"
Piotr Sztompka, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland)

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The Role of Public Intellectuals, Session A

Convener and Chair: Sven Eliaeson, CSS/IfiS PAN (Poland)

"The Fate of the Intelligentsia and the Prospects for Civil Society and Democracy in East and Central Europe"
Ken Roberts, University of Liverpool (UK)

"Intellectuals for our Times - Experts or Celebrities"
Alan Hudson, University of Oxford (UK)

"Inventing the Public: A Sociological Interpretation of Medieval Intellectuals"
Christopher Schlembach, University of Vienna (Austria)

"Public Intellectuals in Norwegian Sociology and Society during Three Centuries"
Ragnvald Kalleberg, University of Oslo (Norway)

"The Characteristics and Styles of French Public Intellectuals in Daily Newspapers (1995-2002)"
Laurent Jeanpierre and Sebastian Mosbach-Natanson, University of Paris (France)

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The Role of Public Intellectuals, Session B

Convener: Sven Eliaeson, CSS/IfiS PAN (Poland)

Chair: Ragnvald Kalleberg, University of Oslo (Norway)

"Max Weber's Cameralistic Social Policy"
Liam Stone, Murdoch University (Australia)

"Alva Myrdal as a Public Intellectual on a Transnational Level"
Hedvig Ekerwald, Uppsala University (Sweden)

"The Public Intellectual as a Marginal Man: Franz Boas' Critique of the Role of the United States in World War I"
Bernd Weiler, Zeppelin University (Germany)

"Otto Bauer: A Life Between Science and Policy"
Markus Schweiger, University of Graz (Austria)
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"Changing Portraits of Public Intellectuals through 20th Century in Turkey:The Case of Emre Kongar"
Nilgun Celebi, Ankara University (Turkey)

Distributive Paper
"Gunnar Myrdal as a Weberian Public Intellectual. Max Weber's Methodological Heritage"
Sven Eliasson, CSS/IFiS PAN (Poland)
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Rural Development and Change in the Globalising World, Session A

Convener and Chair: U.S. Pandey, Agra University (India)

"Global Restructuring and the Western Canadian Agrarian Petite Bourgeoisie"
Murray Knuttila, University of Regina (Canada)

"De-bureaucratization and Ethno-development: A Reorientation for Rural Development"
Monu Gouraha, Banasthali Vidhya Peeth (India)

"Road to Rural Development Tackling Poverty of Culture or Culture of Poverty"
Ong Puay Liu, University of Kebangsaan (Malaysia)

"Rural Tourism in the Globalizing World: A Scope for Rural Development"
Pankaj Kant Dixit, Banasthali Vidhya Peeth (India)
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"Globalizing Village"
Pankaj Kumar, Lucknow University (India)

Distributive Papers
"Frontiers of Rural Sociology in Post-Sociolist Contest: Barriers and Opportunities for Local Development in Bulgaria"
Rumiana Jeleva, Balkan Institute for Labor and Social Policy

"Economic Structure of Rural India"
Prashant Agrawal, Agra University (India)

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Rural Development and Change in the Globalising World, Session B

Convener and Chair: U.S. Pandey, Agra University (India)

"Indian Village and Communication"
Vijai L. Dharurkar, Marathwarda university (India)

"Globalization and Rural Social Issues in Malesia"
Rahimah Abdul Aziz, Universiti Kebangsaan (Malaysia)

"Essence of Rural Development in India - An Overview"
Mamillapally Vijay Kumar, Osmania University (India)

"Development and Change among Sugalis: An Ethnographic Evidence from ANGO - Based Village"
Eswarappa Kasi, Institution research fellow I.C.S.S.R. India
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"Sustainble Rural Development in the Developing India"
Grace Raja, College of Nursing Vaillor (India)