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  • Call for papers – Norbert Elias and Sociology of Childhood

    Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Childhood will be edited by Tatiana Savoia Landini (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil) Norman Gabriel (University of Essex, United Kingdom), and published by Palgrave. Since its emergence in the 1990s, the growing field of Child ... Read More

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  • CfP THE FANTASY–REALITY CONTINUUM

    Call for Papers THE FANTASY–REALITY CONTINUUM: SCIENCE, RELIGION, POLITICS, CULTURE The University of Warsaw, 8–10 December 2022 (see also https://ws.uw.edu.pl/fantasy-reality-2022/)   Papers are invited for an international conference at the University of ... Read More

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  • CfP: Towards an Eliasian understanding of food in the 21st Century

    7th September 2022, Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield, UK Supported by the Norbert Elias Foundation, this free event is #hybrid with #face-to-face and online #options. Like many sociologists, Norbert Elias (1897-1990) did not write directly about food, more to demo ... Read More

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  • Long-Term Processes in Human History: A Tribute to Johan Goudsblom

    Conference in Amsterdam, 17-19 March 2022 Throughout his scholarly life, sociologist Johan Goudsblom (1932–2020) was occupied with the study of long-term social processes. For him, ‘historical sociology’ was not a special branch of sociology, but at the core of sociolog ... Read More

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  • SMUS Conference & 1st RC33 Regional Conference – Africa: Botswana (23 – 25.09.2021)

    The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS) together with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA) and the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) ... Read More

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  • Call for Papers: Historical Social Research – Special Issue Digital Transformation(s)

    Guest Editors: Jannis Hergesell, Stefanie Büchner, Jannis Kallinikos   There is broad consensus in both academic and public discourse that the omnipresent transformation process subsumed under the term “digitalization” is one (if not the major) dominant driving force ... Read More

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Richard Kilminster on the Sociological Revolution and the spiral development of Sociology
That summer morning, Richard and I were discussing the subject of theory development in sociology. As many says, the "golden age" of sociology was before the First World War. Richard is more optimistic in stating that it is still to come. However, in recent years, theoretical debates have not reached the same level of liveliness they had in the beginnings of Sociology. It has expanded to include new topics, but recent sociological approaches lack a comparable ability to synthesize. I contradicted and defended contemporary sociology, which led to a lively debate.
We discuss Richard's thesis of a crescent development of possible sociology debates, the influences of other disciplines and the potential future of sociology in the multitude of scientific disciplines.