RC33 SESSIONS AT THE ISA FORUM OF SOCIOLOGY
1-4 August 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina
At the Second International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 1-4 August 2012, the ISA Research Committee on Logic and Methodology (RC33) is organizing a series of sessions for which the deadline for submissions is 15 December 2011.
The sessions are presented individually below.
Those interested should submit an abstract online to the centralised conference web site created by Congrex. Please note that only abstracts submitted online can be incorporated in the sessions, and no changes/updates to the submitted abstract will be allowed. It is the author’s responsibility to submit a correct abstract — any errors in spelling, grammar, or scientific fact will be reproduced as typed by the author.
The agenda is: deadline for submission of abstracts,15 December 2011; notification of authors, 31 January 2012; registration for the Conference, 10 April 2012.
For further information:
on the Conference, visit http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/;
on ISA, visit http://www.isa-sociology.org/;
on RC 33, see the « RC33 Newsletter » in issue n. 112 of the BMS or visit
http://www.isa-sociology.org/rc33.htm.
The session are on the following topics:
– Experimental Research in Sociology
Session Organizer: Klarita Gerxhani (k.gerxhani@uva.nl, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
– Sociological Hermeneutics – Methods and Methodology
Session Organizers: Silvana Figueroa-Dreher (silvana.figuero@uni-konstanz.de, Universität Konstanz, Germany) and Regine Herbrik
(regine.herbrik@tu-berlin.de, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
– Videography and the Analysis of Visual Knowledge and Culture
Joint Session by RC33 (Research Committee on Logic and Methodology) and RC14 (Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture).
Session Organizers: Hubert Knoblauch (hubert.knoblauch@tu-berlin.de, Technical University Berlin, Germany), Rene Tuma (rene.tuma@tu-berlin.de, Technical University Berlin, Germany), and Christiana Constantopoulou (christiana.constantopoulou@panteion.gr, Panteion
University, Greece)
– Qualitative Research on Social Memory
Session Organizers: Alejandro Baer (a.baer@uni-bayreuth.de, Universidad
Complutense Madrid, Spain) and Bernt Schnettler (schnettler@uni-bayreuth.de, Bayreuth University, Germany)
– Ethnography in Sociology of Science and Technology
Session Organizers: Grit Petschick (gritpetschick@googlemail.com, Technical University Berlin, Germany) and Helena Pettersson
(helena.pettersson@kultmed.umu.se, Umeå Universitet, Sweden)
– How to Measure Gender Norms in Cross-National Research
Session Organizer: Daniela Grunow (d.grunow@uva.nl, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
– Empirical Methods in Aging Research
Joint Session of RC33 (Research Committee on Logic and Methodology) and RC11 (Research Committee on Sociology of Aging)
– Analyzing Communities on the Internet
Session Organizer: Melanie Wenzel (melanie.wenzel@uni-oldenburg.de, Universität Oldenburg, Germany)
– Methodological Challenges and Alternatives to Census Taking in Small Island Developing States
Sessions Organizer: Godfrey St. Bernard (gstbiser@gmail.com, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)
– Organizations and Mixed Methods – Possibilities and Requirements of a Meso-Level Sociology
Session Organizers: Kathia Serrano (kathia.serrano@soziologie.uni-heidelberg.de, Universität Heidelberg, Germany), Cristina Besio (cristina.besio@tu-berlin.de, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) and Robert Schmidt (robert.schmidt@soz.tu-berlin.de, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
– Qualitative Methods in the Sociology of Religion
Session Organizers: Eloisa Martin (eloisamartin@hotmail.com, University of Brasilia, Brazil), Bernt Schnettler (schnettler@uni-bayreuth.de, Bayreuth
University, Germany) and Regine Herbrik (regine.herbrik@tu-berlin.de, Berlin
Institute of Technology, Germany)
– Methods for the Sociological Analysis of Affect and Emotion
Session Organizers: Christian von Scheve (christian.von.scheve@fu-berlin.de, Free University Berlin, Germany) and Regine Herbrik
(regine.herbrik@tu-berlin.de, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany)
