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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 17:32:22 +0200
From: isa@sis.ucm.es (International Sociological Association)
Subject: Call for Papers
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To: Members of the International Sociological Association
From: ISA Research Committee Alienation Theory and Research
REGIONAL SEMINAR ON RESEARCHING ALIENATION IN THE LIGHT OF
GLOBALIZATION
Dates: December 15-17, 1997
Venue: University of Nevada, Reno
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission Deadline: October 1, 1997
The conceptualization of alienation has undergone interesting
changes in the last decade. While philosophers continue to
investigate the inner significance of the construct of
alienation, many researchers have focused on explorations of
Marxist theory, attempting to draw conclusions about how to
describe conditions of alienation in contrast to conditions of
de-alienation, or liberation. Others have followed the lead of
empiricists, formulating and adapting measures for locating
alienation in responses to pen and pencil tests, in discourse,
and in behavior.
The development of globalization sets new challenges for social
scientists. In a world linked by presumably irrevocable economic
ties and political interests, which stretch across continents
and oceans, the appropriateness of thinking in terms of
alienation has to be re-examined. Variations in objective
alienation as a function of different kinds of social order is
one pole of interest. At the other pole, there is the
variability of the social psychological and psycho-analytic
evidence of alienation. A sociological understanding of the ways
in which theories of alienation help us to grasp structure and
process necessarily has implications for political action on
every level of analysis.
Please reply to: Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, RC36 President
<dkalekin@construct.haifa.ac.il>