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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.

Geoffrey Pleyers: Social Movements and Our Common Future

By Admin / Aug 1, 2016 /

Contrary to economists or marketing specialists, sociologists are particularly uncomfortable when it comes to thinking about the future …

Breaking News: Vienna

By Admin / Jul 10, 2016 /

New Record: Over 4,000 Participants Arrive in Vienna for ISA Forum of Sociology

Abdul Rahman Embong: Sociology South

By Admin / Jul 4, 2016 /

What is ‘global sociology’? How inclusive is such sociology? What is needed to propel progress?

Julian Go: Southern Solution

By Admin / May 29, 2016 /

Sociology is provincial. As a disciplinary formation institutionalized in North America and Europe, it is particularistic and parochial while masquerading as universal.

Mark Juergensmeyer: Global Religion

By Admin / Feb 27, 2016 /

Religion has always been global, in the sense that religious communities and traditions have always maintained permeable boundaries. …

Sari Hanafi: Postcolonial Global Sociology

By Admin / Jan 7, 2016 /

The post-colonial attempts to reify cultural difference and to generate cultural compassion failed to resolve specific historical contradictions in the ongoing crisis of late, transnational capitalism and repressive regimes in many Southern countries.

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.