CALL FOR PAPERS FOR
ISA XIV World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, July 26- August 1, 1998
Please feel free to repost, advanced apologies for those you on
all the same list as I am on for seeing this CFP more than once!
Henry Teune, chair of the coordinating committee of the new
Thematic Group #06, The Sociology of Local-Global Relations,
asked me to chair one of their five sessions: Globalization: the
Dynamics of National and Ethnic Identities.
To submit a paper send as soon as possible a summary of your
proposal (approximately 200 words) to Tom Hall. I am especially
interested in papers that address indigenous groups and/or gender
issues, but any paper that broadly addresses the local-global
nexus would be welcome.
Full mailing addresses of sessions chairs as well as sessions
descriptions are available at:
Session 5
Globalization: the Dynamics of National and Ethnic Identities
Chair: Thomas D. [Tom HALL]
Dept Sociology & Anthropology
Depauw University,
100 Center St.
Greencastle, IN 46135
tel: 1-765-658-4519
email: thall@depauw.edu
Programme Coordinator:
Henry TEUNE
Dept Political Sciences
Univ Pennsylvania
Stiteler Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215
tel: 1- 215-8984209
fax: 1-215-5732073,
Email: hteune@sas.upenn.edu
>From http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/tg06.htm the purpose of Thematic
Group 06 is:
The subject matter of the TG06 is the emergence and shifts of the
new 'localisms', neighborhoods, local communities, ethnic and
language identities, affinity groups, and economic and political
associations, and their aggregation into networks and their
formation of systems that create regions and impact the incipient
world system. As part of this, the role of the individual will be
examined, in particular the processes of individualization within
a global framework.
The theoretical contexts include spatial and temporal relations,
the development of increased complexity or integrated diversity
that transcends traditional boundaries, the logics of
regionalism, including those of political integration as well as
classical concepts from human and social ecology.
The new methodological base of the TG06 would be that of fuzzy
sets, most of which has been advanced in the engineering sciences
and yet has limited applications in the social and behavioral
sciences other than psychology. This methodology would depart
from standard cross-level analyses, so much a part of ecological
research with fixed sets, to that of fuzzy and sets and systems
in which the member components have multiple and shifting
memberships. Some of this has now been developed in computer
programs, at a stage similar to that of cross-level analysis
about 15 years ago, that can be adopted to sociological data.
The data to be addresses are at several levels, community,
region, country, transnational regions, and the world as a whole,
at two or more points in time. This would be the ideal. Much less
structured data are expected to be the norm. Since the 1950s data
on sub national units and groups within countries have been
accumulating, and, of course, these data are being stretched into
several points of time. Indeed, the combination of individual
survey data within structures of groups, countries, and
associations beyond national boundaries, envisioned by Stein
Rokkan more than three decades ago, have now become a reality for
many domains of human activity and organization.
The group organized Ad Hoc sessions at the ISA XIII World
Congress of Sociology in Bielefeld, 1994, and since then has been
involved in exchange of research among the participants on the
Democracy and Local Governance research program which now has
gathered data on local political leaders in 24 countries.
Thomas D. [tom] Hall
thall@depauw.edu
Department of Sociology
DePauw University
100 Center Street
Greencastle, IN 46135
765-658-4519
HOME PAGE:
http://www.depauw.edu/~thall/hp1.htm