crisis Archives - The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World

Proceedings from the Common Sessions

By Admin / Jul 18, 2018 /

Over fifty authors from two dozen countries and from across the full spectrum of sociology tackle the pertinent issues of our time.

Carmen Leccardi: Incertitude

By Admin / Mar 4, 2016 /

Construire l’avenir dans une période d’incertitude Building the Future in a Time of Uncertainty (English) | (French) Carmen Leccardi Université de Milano-Bicocca, Italie

Carmen Leccardi: Uncertainty

By Admin / Mar 4, 2016 /

How do young people relate to the future today? How can creative openness coexist with a tendency toward the short-term? What shapes these cultural trends?

Maro Pantelidou Maloutas: Greece

By Admin / Jan 30, 2016 /

What is the political role of young people in contemporary Greece? To what extend have they aligned with the Left in the wake of the crisis?

Hanno Scholtz: Modernity Proceeding

By Admin / Jan 24, 2016 /

Instead of seeing the current challenges as signs of an end of modernity, they can be read as signs for a current transition to a second step of modernity.

ALAS: Declaration

By Admin / Dec 11, 2015 /

Final Declaration of the XXX Congress of the Latin American Association of Sociology, San José, Costa Rica, December 2015.

ALAS: Declaración

By Admin / Dec 11, 2015 /

Declaración Final del XXX Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología, Ciudad de San José, Costa Rica, Diciembre de 2015.

William I. Robinson: Savage Inequalities

By Admin / Dec 5, 2015 /

Sociologists would do well to take a critical approach to the hype around Piketty and the mainstream discourse on social inequalities that it reflects.