Social Class, Social Status and Lifestyle, Session A

Chair: Tak Wing Chan, Oxford University (UK)

"Cultural Differentiation in a Knowledge-Based Society: Cultural Practices in France, 1973--2003"
Philippe Coulangeon and Yannick Lemel, Crest/INSEE (France)

"Is There a Status Hierarchy in the Contemporary United States: Evidence from the Occupational Structure of Marriage"
Athur S. Alderson, Issac Heacock and Azamat Junisbai, Indiana Univesity (USA)

"Social Status Effects in the Netherlands: The Case of Cultural Participation"
Gerbert Kraaykamp and Wout Ultee, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Koen van Eijck and Kees van Rees, Tilburg University (The Netherlands)

"Cultural Participation and Educational Differences in Primary Relationships: Influences of Intergenerational Mobility and Mixed Marriages"
Wout Ultee and Nan-Dirk de Graaf, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

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Social Class, Social Status and Lifestyle, Session B

Chair: Tak Wing Chan, Oxford University (UK)

"The Omnivore Thesis Revisited: Voracious Cultural Consumers"
Tally Katz-Gerro, Haifa University (Israel) and Oriel Sullivan, Ben-Gurion University (Israel)
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"On Snobs and Omnivores: Musical Taste and Political Tolerance Revisited"
Peter Achterberg and Dick Houtman, Erasmus University (The Netherlands)

"Chasing the Cultural Omnivore in Qualitative Research: A Report from Flanders"
Rudi Laermans and Alexander Vander Stichele, Unviersity of Leuven (Belgium)

"The Sounds of the City"
Julian Tanner, University of Toronto (Canada); Mark Asbridge, Dalhousie University (Canada) and Scot Wortley, University of Toronto (Canada)

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Social Complexity and Dynamics: Multi-Agent Based Modeling Techniques

Chair: Tom R. Burns, Uppsala University (Sweden) and Jin Wang, Wuhan University (China)

"QAD + ABM: Combining Quantitative Data Analyses and Agent Based Modeling"
Yvonne Åberg and Peter Hedström, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (UK)

"The Role of Dynamic Networks in Social Capital: A Simulation Experiment"
Sandra Gonzalez Bailon, University of Oxford, Nuffield (UK)

"A Virtual Laboratory for Social Theory"
Nigel Gilbert and Stephan Schuster, University of Surrey (UK)

"Communicative Complexity and Dynamic as a Topic for Interdisciplinary Research: Result from COM - a Research
Project in the Field of Socionics"
Maren Lübcke, Thomas Malsch, Rasco Perschke, Marco Schmitt, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (Germany)

"Multi-Agent Modelling of Institutional Mechanisms: The Approach of Generalized Game Theory (GGT)"
Tom R. Burns, University of Uppsala (Sweden), Jose Castro Caldas (ISCTE Portugal), Ewa Roszkowska, University of Bialystok (Poland) and Jin Wang, University of Wuhan (China)

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The Social Consequences of Information Society, Session A

Chair: Atsushi Naoi, Osaka University (Japan)

"Framework of 'Japan Survey on Information Society (JIS)': JIS2001, JIS2002 and JIS2004"
Atsushi Naoi and Akiko Iwabuchi, Osaka University (Japan)
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"Working Conditions in the Information Society"
Namie Nagamatsu, Osaka University (Japan)
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"Social Stratification and Social Networks in the Information Society"
Tsuyoshi Sugano, Nihon University (Japan)

"Value Change and the Future of Information Society: Do Values Effect on "IT" Use?"
Mitsuru Matsutani, Tokushima University (Japan)

"Japanese Second Thoughts on IT: Analyzing Open-Ended Questions"
Koichi Higuchi and Kawabata Akira, Osaka University (Japan)
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The Social Consequences of Information Society, Session B

Chair: Atsushi Naoi, Osaka University (Japan)

"YU-GI-OH:Games Narratives in the Era of Age Compression"
Mark Balnaves and Kim Tomlinson-Baille, Edith Cowan University (Australia)

"An Equitable and Inclusive Information Society: The Problem of the Digital Gap in Venezuela"
Carlos Guzmn Crdenas, Central University of Venezuela

"The Role of Online Discussion Forums in the Democratization Process of Post-Communist Romania"
George Popescu, University of Bucharest (Romania)

"The Social Dimension of the Information Society"
Nuno de Almeida Alves, ISCTE, Lisbon (Portugal)
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Social Mobilizations, Citizenship and Processes of Globalization (ISA RC 48 Session)

Chair: Benjamín Tejerina, Basque Country University (Spain)

"Anti-Globalisation Movements and Security Cooperation in the European Union"
Carlos S. Arturi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre-Brazil)

"Analysing Anti-Globalisation Activism. Outlines of a New Political Culture and of Global Justice"
Beatriz Cavia, Andrés Gómez, Amaia Iraola, Iñaki Martínez de Albeniz and Benjamín Tejerina, Basque Country University (Spain)

"A Party at War with Itself: The Struggle Against Solidarnosc within the Polish Communist Party"
Jack M. Bloom, Indiana University Northwest

"Citizenship and Identity in the Politics Section: Minority Identity and
the Limits of Symbolic Resistance"
Khinache Yacine

"As ICT Spawns New Social Movements, Capitalist Globalization Competes with Global Regionalization for Supremacy of Global Change: The Case of Education"
Melsome Nelson-Richards, State University of New York, Oswego, NY (USA)
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Distributive Paper
"Local Citizenship in Question"
Eeva Luhtekallio, University of Helsinki (Finland)

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Social Movements, Globalization and Solidarity

Chair: Thomas Olesen, University of Aarhus (Denmark)

"Social Theory and the World-views of Alterglobalist Activism: A Historical Perspective"
Suvi Ervamaa, University of Helsinki (Finland)
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"Forms of Global Engagement in the Lebanese Diaspora in New York, Montreal and Paris"
Dalia Abdel-Hady, Southern Methodist University (USA)

"Religious Social Movements? The Case of Militant Islam"
Stephen Vertigans and Philip W. Sutton, Robert Gordon University (UK)

"Solidarity Movements and Globalization in Denmark, 1968-2005: A Research Framework"
Thomas Olesen, University of Aarhus (Denmark)

Distributive Paper
"From the Great Revolutions to the World Social Forum: The Globalization of Social Movements and Public Spheres"
Tuomas Yla-Anttila, University of Helsinki (Finland)