1990
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE SOCIOLOGIE
Research Committee 28: Social Stratification
Comité de Recherche 28: Stratification Sociale
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Donald J. Treiman, President Harry B.G. Ganzeboom, Secretary
Department of Sociology Institute of Sociology
University of California at Los Angeles Nijmegen University
405 Hilgard Av. ‑ Haines Hall PO Box 9108
Los Angeles, CA 90024 7500 HK Nijmegen
UNITED STATES NETHERLANDS
EMAIL: Treiman@socissr.sscnet.ucla.edu EMAIL (temp.): Ganzeboo@socissr.sscnet.ucla.edu
FAX: (+1) 213 206 2819 FAX (temp.): (+1) 213 206 2819
Members of the Board: Mariah Evans, Canberra ‑‑ Michael Hout, Berkeley ‑‑ Jan Jonsson, Stockholm ‑‑ Tamas Kolosi, Budapest ‑‑ Petr Mateju, Prague ‑‑ Bam Dev Sharda, Salt Lake City ‑‑ Yossi Shavit, Haifa
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NEWSLETTER ISA RC28 1 AUGUST 1990
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ELECTIONS OF THE BOARD
Between June 1 and July 1 1990 the election for the new Board was held by (e)mail ballot. The results were read by Jan Jonsson, on behalf of Robert Erikson, the outgoing Secretary of the Research Committee, to the Business Meeting of the RC28 at the Madrid World Conference. The new Board is:
Donald J. Treiman, Los Angeles, USA, President
Harry B.G. Ganzeboom, Utrecht, Netherlands, Secretary
Mariah Evans, Canberra, Australia
Michael Hout, Berkeley, USA
Jan Jonsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Tamas Kolosi, Budapest, Hungary
Petr Mateju, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Bam Dev Sharda, Salt Lake City, USA
Yossi Shavit, Haifa, Israel
NEW ADDRESS OF SECRETARIAT
As of January 1991 the Secretariat Until January 1991 the Secretariat
of the Research Committee will move to: temporarily will be located at:
Harry B.G. Ganzeboom Harry B.G. Ganzeboom
Department of Social Sciences Department of Sociology
Nijmegen University University of California at Los Angeles
P.O. Box 9108 405 Hilgard AV. - Haines Hall
6500 HK Nijmegen Los Angeles, CA 90024
NETHERLANDS USA
Email: Ganzeboo@socissr.sscnet.ucla.edu Fax: (+1)213-206-2819
MADRID / WORLD CONFERENCE
The Research Committee met during the July 1990 Madrid World Conference of Sociology in 10 full sessions, two additional joint sessions, and one business meeting. The conditions were harsh, but still an average of 50‑70 participants came to most sessions. Special thanks are due to the Madrid Program Coordinator, Julio Carabana, his assistant Susanna, and the session organizers and discussants. A list of all papers presented in the Madrid sessions, with names and addresses of the authors, is appended to this Newsletter. Anyone who wants to receive copies of papers presented should contact its author(s) directly.
MADRID / WORLD CONFERENCE / BUSINESS MEETING
The business meeting was attended by more than 40 members of the RC, who welcomed the new Board. The members expressed their general feeling that the Madrid meeting was badly organized, in particular with respect to the unbearable conditions under which the RC's had to meet. Treiman, on behalf of the RC, will call this to the attention of the ISA Board in a formal letter.
FUTURE MEETINGS
The RC will continue to meet at least twice a year between World Conferences, once a year in the Western Hemisphere, and once a year in the Eastern Hemisphere. Many participants to the Madrid Business Meeting expressed their interest in combining North American meetings with American Sociological Association meetings (which usually are held around the middle of August). At the moment, a relatively large number of members is willing to organize a meeting. For 1991, the meetings have been scheduled as follows:
17‑21 June 1991: Prague, Czechoslovakia, hosted by Pavel Machonin and Petr Mateju. For details on the Prague meeting, see below.
20‑21 August 1991:
Columbus, Ohio, United States, hosted by Toby Parcel. (The ASA meetings will be in Cincinnati, Ohio‑‑about a two hour drive from Columbus‑‑August 23‑27).
A more provisional schedule for 1992 is:
January, 1992: Canberra, Australia (Kelley and Evans).
Spring 1992: Warsaw, Poland (Slomczynski).
August 1992: Salt Lake City, USA (Sharda).
Potential sites for the 1993 (or 1992) meetings include Trieste (Cobalti); Stockholm (Jonsson); Ankara (Ozcan); Surrey (Mills); Calgary (Wanner); Tokyo (Tominaga) and Los Angeles (Treiman).
DUES
With the beginning of the new ISA period after the World Conference the following fees are due:
US $ 40regular membership fee (4 years).
US $ 10reduced membership fee (4 years) for members from soft currency and developing countries, students, and those who are unemployed or retired.
The membership fees are needed for (a) expenses associated with production and mailing of the newsletter and communications among board members and (b) to subsidize travel of members from soft currency and developing countries to conferences. Please contribute to these important goals by sending US $40 or the equivalent amount in any exchangeable currency to the Secretariat in one of the following ways:
‑Send a traveller's cheque or Eurocheque 'to the order of Harry Ganzeboom';
‑For those with American bank accounts only: send a personal cheque 'to the order of Harry Ganzeboom';
‑Transfer the amount directly to ABN Bankaccount 5556 88 623 in the name of 'H. Ganzeboom, ISA RC28, Utrecht, Netherlands'. If you do this, make sure that it is clear on whose behalf the sum is paid.
MEMBERS ADDRESSES
The secretary is currently updateing the roster of members with current mailing addresses, email adresses, and fax addresses. With your dues payment, please send updated information on all of these addresses. This information will be available to all members in the near future.
MEMBERSHIP
As of August 1990, the RC had 361 members. They are located in 52 countries, and distributed in the following way: (94) United States; (26) German Federal Republic, Netherlands; (20) Canada; (16) Poland; (14) United Kingdom; (12) Norway, Sweden; (11) Japan; (10) Italy; (9) Hungary, India, Israel; (8) Australia, Yugoslavia; (6) Finland, France; (5) Spain, Switzerland; (4) Nigeria, Portugal; (3) Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia; (2) Austria, Brazil, Mexico, People's Republic of China, Republic of South Africa, Republic of Boputhatswana, Taiwan, USSR, Venezuela; (1) Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Gabon, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Greece, Ireland, Kenya, Northern Ireland, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Turkey, Uruquay.
If you have any colleagues with an interest in the field of social stratification, please call the RC28 to their attention and let them write to the secretary.
PRAGUE MEETING
Here is information about the June, 1991, Prague meeting, received from the organizers.
Dates:
June 17:arrivals and registration
June 18‑21:sessions
June 22:departures
Organizers:
Pavel Machonin Petr Mateju
Institute of Social and Political Science Institute of Sociology
Charles University of Prague Czechoslovak Academy of Science
Please address all correspondence to Mateju, Jilska 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechoslovakia. His phonenumbers are: (+42) 2 231 9115 (ext. 202) (office); (+42) 2 361 222 (home); Fax: (+42) 2 235 7888.
Themes & Sessions
The general theme of the Prague Meeting will be: "Social Inequality in Historical and Comparative Perspective". The organizers expect to organize a total of 11 three‑hour sessions with a maximum of 66 papers. Session titles will include:
*Class Structure and Social Stratification. Is There Room for Class in Stratification Research?
*Income and Consumption Inequality.
*Educational Stratification and Mobility.
*Life Style and Inequality in Cultural Resources
*Social Status and Attitudes Towards Social Inequality.
*Research on Social Stratification in Czechoslovakia ‑ Past and Future.
*Participation in Power and Elite Recuitment in Eastern Europe.
*Life Histories, Social Biography and the Sociology of Generations: an Alternative Approach to Social Stratification Research.
Call for papers
Members of the RC who plan to participate in the Prague meeting should send the organizers the title and a abstract of the paper (see below) before December 15, 1990.
Accommodation
Two types of accommodation will be available: a hotel in the neighbourhood of Charles University (in the historical part of Prague) and student dormitories. Registration for accommodation should be in before December 15, 1990.
ABSTRACTS
Starting with the Prague meeting, the Newsletter of the Research Committee will start publishing edited abstracts of papers presented at the meetings. In order to enhance uniformity, you are requested to include the following information in your abstract (where applicable):
‑ your full name, and the address where the paper can be obtained;
‑ the exact title and reference of the paper;
‑ basic subject, research problems, hypotheses and conclusions;
‑ a reference to the data used;
‑ data analysis techniques applied.
Please be brief (200‑300 words), include the abstract in the complete version of the paper, and bring the abstract on a (DOS) diskette to Prague.