March 2022: 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 sociology...
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Read moreSMUS 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) of the European Sociology Association”...
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Read moreRevised instructions: Figurational Research Network
Posted on July 2, 2014 by Stephen Mennell At the great conference ‘From the past to the present and towards possible futures’ at the University of Leicester on 20-22 June, we accidentally included in the conference pack a first draft...
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Read moreCall 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 a (if not the major) dominant driving force of social...
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Read moreOnline PhD Workshop: Thinking With Elias – Norbert Elias and Social Research
Open Call for Participants The Norbert Elias Foundation and European Center for the Study of Culture and Inequality (ECCI) are organizing an online PhD workshop ‘Thinking With Elias: Norbert Elias and Social Research’ to be held in June, 2021. The...
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Read moreCfP: The State, Organisations, and Established–Outsider Relations
European Sociological Association 15th ESA Conference in Barcelona / Spain, 31 August–03 September 2021 Research Stream 18 (RS18): The State, Organisations, and Established–Outsider Relations This stream considers the relationship between the state and other organizations in the form of established–outsider...
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Read moreThe Norbert Elias Book Prize 2020
As members of the jury for the Norbert Elias Book Prize 2020, we were greatly impressed by the range and quality of the nine books, all published in 2018 and 2019, that were nominated for our consideration. All were to...
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Read moreShort Process Reflections on the Pandemic 2.
The last post outlined the overlapping cooperative and competitive pressures that have come to the front stage during the current Corona-Zeiten (a time phrase used by the German media that directly translates as corona times). Time phrases like Corona-Zeiten are...
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Read moreCall 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...
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Read moreShort Process Reflections on the Pandemic 1.
Originally, I started drafting this series of reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic in late March/April. It should come as no surprise that the relations, which were perceptible earlier in the year have continued into August. The late Johan Goudsblom has...
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