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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:13:16 +0200
From: isa@sis.ucm.es (International Sociological Association)
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:
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