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Subject: ISA WG01 Call for Papers
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To: Members of the International Sociological Association

ISA XIV World Congress of Sociology, Montreal 1998
Working Group on Sociocybernetics & Social System Theory, WG01

CALL FOR PAPERS

November 1, 1997, is the extended deadline for individual participants to
submit 250-word abstracts to session chairs whose names, addresses and
email addresses are available at:

http://www.ucm.es/info/isa

More elaborate session descriptions can be found in our Newsletter 4,
available at:

http://www.kiarchive.ru/pub/misc/science/sociocybernetics/WG01

Call, fax or email if you have any questions: Felix Geyer, WG01 Program
Coordinator. Office phone: 31-20-5270652, office fax: 31-20-6224930,
home phone and fax: 31-35-538 3646, email: geyer@siswo.uva.nl
Please email a copy of your abstract to geyer@siswo.uva.nl, and also email
him to ask for Newsletter 4 in case you have problems accessing our
Moscow website.

Session 1. Dealing with Complexity

Session 2. Nonequilibrium Social Systems Theory

Session 4. Sociocybernetics and Human Values

Session 5. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of
Natural and Cultural Systems

Session 6. Analyzing Complex Societal problems

Session 7. Socioceonomic Long Waves and Fututre Scenarios

Session 8. Diversity management

Session 9. Francophone Session: Les Complexites des Systemes Observateurs

Session 10. Constructing Sociocybernetic Society - Towards an Integration
of Society, Technology, Information, and Ecology

Session 12. The Role of Cybernetics in Political Organizations and Social
Culture

Session 13. Sociocybernetics as a Symptom of Practising Science beyond
Disciplinarity

Session 14. Sociocybernetics: Bridging Society and Ecology for a
Sustainable Future

Session 15. Autopoiesis: Implications for Social Theory

Session 16. Political Organizations, Systems Approach, and Social Change

Session 17. Why Society? An Axiological Approach to Sociocybernetics