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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-Treasurer
Department of Sociology Department of Sociology
University of California at Los Angeles Utrecht University
405 Hilgard Av. ‑ Haines Hall PO Box 80.140
Los Angeles, CA 90024 3508 TC Utrecht
United States Netherlands
E-mail: Treiman@dudley.sscnet.ucla.edu E-mail: Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl
Fax: (+1) 310-820-4974 http://www.fsw.ruu.nl/soc/HG/rc28 Fax (+31) 30 253 4405
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Members of the Board: Richard Breen, Belfast -- Mariah Evans, Canberra ‑‑ Jan Jonsson, Stockholm ‑‑ Peter Robert, Budapest ‑‑ Shu-Ling Tsai, Taipei ‑‑ Yossi Shavit, Haifa -- Yu Xie, Ann Arbor
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NEWSLETTER ISA RC28 1 JANUARY 1998
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IN MEMORIAM RUDOLF ANDORKA
On June 30 1997 RUDOLF ANDORKA passed away. His death came after a long battle with cancer.
Andorka was a veteran member of our Research Committee on Social Stratification, which he joined as one of the pioneers of the second round of national stratification surveys in the early 1970's. He was the principal investigator of the 1973 Hungarian Stratification and Life History Study, which became one of the primary sources on stratification patterns in a socialist society. He published widely on stratification patterns in Hungary, and also in comparative perspective.
Rudy came often to the meetings for many years and served as the RC28 President in 1986‑1990. He was liked and admired by all of us, because of his outstanding contributions to stratification research and sociology at large, his commitment to universal academic standards, his pleasant personality and great wisdom.
We thank him for all he has done for our discipline. An academic session to commemorate him will be held during the Montreal World Congress of Sociology.
RC-MEMBERSHIP
Due to new operating procedures of the ISA, a new policy has been adopted for the dues payment of RC28. While previously the dues would cover the period between World Congresses, your dues payment will now cover four years as of date of payment. When this period expires, you will be removed from the RC28 membership list, after a brief grace period. The Newsletter that is published after the expiration date will remind you about your dues situation. Please read below whether your membership had expired as of early 1998.
Your membership has EXPIRED as of January 1, 1998
The fee for membership for a four year period is:
$40 regular membership
$60 regular membership + contribution to RC28 Travel Awards Fund (voluntary)
$10 reduced membership, for members from low income countries, (graduate) students and others in special need.
Members from low income countries and members in special need can also request full exemption by writing to the Treasurer.
Until August 1 1998, your payment can be settled in one of the following ways:
‑Send a traveler's cheque (preferably in US Dollars) "to the order of Harry Ganzeboom".
‑For those with American bank accounts: send a personal cheque with the dollar amount "to the order of Harry Ganzeboom".
-Send a Eurocheque "to the order of Harry Ganzeboom", made out in Dutch guilders. Positively no other currencies! Please remember to fill in your card number on the back of the Eurocheque!
‑Transfer the amount directly in any exchangeable currency to ABN-Amro Bank Account 5556 88 623 in the name of "H. Ganzeboom, ISA RC28, Netherlands". If you do this, make sure that it is clear on whose behalf the sum is paid.
You can also settle your RC28 membership when you sign up for ISA. However, RC28 does not require that you be a member of ISA to receive its newsletter and participate in its conferences.
RC TRAVEL AWARDS FUND
The RC28 Travel Awards Fund subsidizes RC28 members with low income for travel to RC28 conferences to present their work. The following categories qualify for such support: (A) members from low income countries, (B) (graduate) students, (C) RC28 members in special need. The travel awards are given in recognition of good scholarship in the field of stratification and the applicants should have a paper accepted by the organizer of the conference that they want to participate in and present this paper at this conference. As a rule, awards will not exceed US $ 500 and are given only once in a four-year period to the same person. Applications should be sent at the earliest possible date to the conference organizer and the Secretary-Treasurer of the RC28, and include (A) the paper to be presented, (B) an itemized budget, (C) (short) letters of recommendation. The names of the recipients of the Travel Awards will be published in this Newsletter. In the past period, the following persons have received support from the Fund: Tally Katz, B.B. Sahoo, Karin Westerbeek, Nicolai Tilgidyiev, and Marco van Leeuwen.
BOARD ELECTIONS
In the Spring of 1998, before the Montreal World Congress of Sociology, a new Board will be elected by mail ballot. In accordance with the RC28 statutes, accepted at the Bielefeld World Congress, for each election (held every four years) an Election Committee must be appointed by the Board, consisting of RC28 members who are not candidates for re-election. This year the committee consists of Treiman and Ganzeboom. The task of the Election Committee, in consultation with the current Board, is to develop a slate of candidates for the new Board and to oversee the election. Among the current Board members, Treiman, Ganzeboom, Evans, and Shavit have all served eight years, which is the maximum allowed unless continuing as President or Secretary/Treasurer. The Election Committee proposes that Yossi Shavit (Tel Aviv) continue on the Board and serve as Secretary/Treasurer. The remaining current Board members (Richard Breen (Florence), Peter Robert (Budapest), Yu Xie (Ann Arbor) and Shu-Ling Tsai (Taipei) are willing to continue office for another term and the Election Committee proposes that they be re-elected, as is the usual practice, to provide continuity. In addition, the Election Committee proposes that Michael Hout (Berkeley), Rob Mare (Los Angeles), Wout Ultee (Nijmegen), and Krzysztof Zagorski (Warsaw) be elected as new Board members, with Hout to serve as President.
In accordance with the statutes, candidates may also be proposed by members. Nominations require the written support of at least five members apart from the candidate and the written agreement of the candidate, who must be an RC 28 member in good standing, and must be submitted to Treiman or Ganzeboom no later than March 31, 1998. A written ballot will be mailed to all members in April and will provide for write-in candidates. The term of the new board starts at the business meeting of the Montreal congress.
MONTREAL BUSINESS MEETING AND RECEPTION
The Montreal business meeting and a reception of RC28 (possibly together with the poster session) will be held on Wednesday July 29th, 1998, after the late afternoon session (that runs until 18.30), at a location to be announced. The agenda of the business meeting will include:
1.Report by the outgoing Board on the 1994-1998 period, including the financial report, to be approved by the business meeting.
2.Report on the elections to the Board, to be held in March 1998.
3.Inauguration of the new Board.
4.General discussion.
EMAIL ADDRESSES
The Secretary maintains a list of email addresses in order to send short and early notices about matters of potential concern to RC28 members. The email address currently available for you can be found on the website of RC28. If you find this email address incorrect or have not received any email messages from RC28 recently, please send a message with your correct email address to Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl
WWW-SITE
The Secretary maintains a WWW-site for RC28: http://www.fsw.ruu.nl/soc/HG/rc28. Here you find old and new newsletters; summaries of all the papers presented at our conferences since 1990; and email addresses of all the members. Please write if you want to include something in this website, or have interesting links for other stratification researchers.
FUTURE MEETINGS
A 3 or 4-day conference will be organized by Krzysztof Zagorski in Warzaw, Poland, in May 1999 (precise dates are not fixed yet). The general conference theme will be 'Political, Economic and Cultural Contexts of Stratification and Mobility'.
A 2.5 or 3-day conference will be organized by Adam Gamoran and colleagues at the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 12-14 1999, contiguous to the meetings of the American Sociological Association in Chicago IL, August 7-11. The theme will be general.
In the year 2000 RC28 will celebrate its 50th anniversary: it was founded in Paris in 1950 as the general Research Committee of the International Sociological Association, at the initiative of David Glass, who became its long term President. Arrangements and site(s) for celebration will be decided upon by the new Board that enters office at the Montreal congress.
Members who aspire to organize meetings in 2000 or beyond are invited to contact the Secretary.
RECENT BOOK PUBLICATIONS OF RC-28 MEMBERS
Allen, Jim Sector Composition and the Effect of Education on Wages: an International Comparison. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers (ICS dissertations, #47), 1997. ISBN 90-5170-409-7. Http://www.thelathesis.nl.
Baron, James N.; Grusky, David B.; Treiman, Donald J. (Eds.) Social Differentiation & Social Inequality: Essays in Honor of John Pock. Westview Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8133-8883-X.
Fischer, Claude S.; Hout, Michael; Sanchez, Martin; Lucas, Samuel R.; Swidler, Ann; Voss, Kim. Inequality by Design. Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-691-02898-2 (paperback). 318 pp. US $ 14.75
Levy, Rene; Joye, Dominique; Guye, Olivier; Kaufmann, Vincent. Tous Egaux? De la Stratification aux Representations. ISBN 2-88351-016-4. 670 pp. Swfr 89.
Need, Ariana. The Kindred Vote. Individual and Family Effects of Social Class and Religion on Electoral Change in the Netherlands, 1956‑1994. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers (ICS dissertations #46), 1997.
Niehof, Jacques. Resources and Social Reproduction: The effects of cultural and material resources on educational and occupational careers in industrial nations at the end of the twentieth century. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers. (ICS dissertations #45), 1997.
Nieuwbeerta, Paul; Ganzeboom, Harry B.G. International Social Mobility and Politics File: documentation of an integrated dataset of 113 national surveys held in 16 countries, 1956‑1991. Amsterdam: Steinmetz Archive, 1996. ‑ (Steinmetz archive codebook P1145). ISBN 90‑71684‑47‑4. Codebook en corresponding data set are distributed by the Steinmetz Archive. The codebook costs f 20,‑ plus shipment. An SPSS portable file holding the data, on CD‑ROM, costs f 175,‑. Order should be send to SWIDOC / Steinmetz Archive, Herengracht 410‑412, 1078 JX Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tel +31 20 6225061, Fax +31 20 62383774, E‑mail steinm@swidoc.nl. http://www.swidoc.nl.
Shavit, Yossi; Müller, Walter (Eds.). From School to Work: A Comparative Study of Educational Qualifications and Occupational Destinations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 546 pp. ISBN 0198293224.
Van Berkel, Michel Who Dominates When? Asymmetrical Patterns of Influence Among Duth Husbands and Wives. Nijmegen: Department of Sociology (dissertation), 1997. E-mail: m.vanberkel@maw.kun.nl. Http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~mvberkel/.
Van Veen, Kees. Inside an Internal Labor Market: Formal Rules, Flexibility and Career Lines in a Dutch Manufacturing Company. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers (ICS-dissertation #38), 1997. ISBN 90-5170-432-1. Http://www.thelathesis.nl.
SOME ADVICE ON GOING TO MONTREAL
Details about the 14th World Congress of Sociology are given at the WWW-page of the organizing committee: http://www.bcoc.umontreal.ca/socio98. This will provide you with information about cost, travel, places to stay and information about how to register. The meetings of RC28 at the Montreal Congress are likely to be held in the Convention Center ('Palais des Congres'), not in the University of Montreal. Our Montreal member, Jean Renaud, advises us that the best picks from the list in the ISA "General information and registration form" are: Travelodge (CAN $ 86), Tour Centre‑ville (CAN $ 70) and the Days Inn Vieux‑Montreal (CAN $ 89). If you reserve quickly, a very good deal is the "Residences de l'Universite du Quebec" where you can have a room or a studio (2 bedrooms + livingroom + kitchenette) for 28 to 40$ per person. A floor map can be seen at http://www.unites.uqam.ca/residences/plan.html#anchor256943.
PROGRAM RC28 FOR MONTREAL WORLD CONGRESS (July 27 - August 1 1998)
Note: This is an updated version of the program disseminated by email on December 31.
GENERAL
The ISA RC28 (Social Stratification and Social Mobility) will convene during the Montreal 14th World Congress of Sociology (July 27 - August 1 1998) in 16 academic sessions (including one joint session with RC04) and one business meeting. Each 2 hour session can accommodate 4 papers for presentation; additional papers can only be accepted for distribution and/or the Open Poster Session. Proposals for papers, including a 200 words abstract and a full specification of the affiliation of the author(s) should be sent to the session organizer listed below. Papers that do not fit into one of the listed session themes can be submitted to the Program Coordinator for inclusion in the Open Poster Session. Papers that are not accepted for presentation in one of the main sessions will automatically be considered for inclusion in the Open Poster Session. The nature of the Open Poster Session will be determined at a later date.
DEADLINES
February 15: Papers proposals (including summaries) have to be submitted to the session organizers.
February 21: Final decisions by session organizers on acceptation of papers. You will receive official forms to submit your summary to Sociological Abstracts.
March 1: Summaries have to be transferred to the Congress Secretariat for inclusion in Sociological Abstracts.
March 31: Pre-registration deadline: All program participants (paper givers, session organizers, chairs, discussants) should be registered for the Congress, otherwise their name will not appear in the Programme Book.
June 30: Deadline for submitting 2 copies of papers or a diskette to the Congress Secretariat in Montreal for reproduction.
REGISTRATION
Participants in the program are advised to register before March 31st by sending a completed registration form and payment to the Secretariat of the 14th World Congress of Sociology, Université de Montreal, Case Postale 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal (Quebec), CANADA H3C 3J7. E-mail: congres@bcoc.umontreal.ca. Fax: +1-514-343-6544. Registration forms can be obtained from http://www.bcoc.umontreal.ca/. The early registration fee for ISA members from high income countries is CAN $ 350, for non-members of ISA CAN $ 450. Reductions apply to members from middle and low income countries, as well as to students. Participants who register after March 31st will have to pay higher fees, their names will not appear in the Programme Book and their abstracts will not be published in Sociological Abstracts.
In addition, the RC28 requires that all present papers in its Montreal program be registered members of the RC28 itself. Information about how to join RC28 can be found in this RC28 Newsletter, as well as the RC28 homepage: http://www.fsw.ruu.nl/soc/HG.
RC28: Social Stratification and Social Mobility
Coordination: HARRY GANZEBOOM
Mail: Department of Sociology, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80149, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands.
Fax: +31‑30‑2534405.
E‑mail: Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl
SESSION TITLES / ORGANIZERS:
1).Theories of Social Stratification
Organizer: DANIEL KRYMKOWSKI
Mail: Department of Sociology, University of Vermont, 31 S. Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA.
Fax: +1-802-656-2131
E-mail: Daniel.Krymkowski@uvm.edu
2).Vocational Training and the Process of Stratification
Organizer: YOSSI SHAVIT
Mail: Department of Sociology and Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Fax: +972-3‑6409215
E-mail: yshavit@spirit.tau.ac.il
3).Education, Stratification and Mobility (joint session with RC04 on Education)
Organizer: JAAP DRONKERS, HARRY GANZEBOOM
Mail: SCO‑Kohnstamm Institute, University of Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 4, 1091 GM Amsterdam. Netherlands.
Fax: +31‑20‑5251300.
E‑mail: jaapd@sco.educ.uva.nl.
4).Stratification and Social Mobility in East Asia
Organizer: SHU-LING TSAI
Mail: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529.
Fax: +886‑2‑652-3398.
Email: Tsai@gate.sinica.edu.tw
5).Models and Methods in Stratification Research
Organizer: YU XIE
Mail: Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 1225 S. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48104‑2590, USA.
Fax: +1-313-998‑7415
E-mail: yuxie@umich.edu
6).Cognitive Abilities and Social Stratification
Organizer: MICHAEL HOUT
Mail: Survey Research Center, University of California-Berkeley, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley CA 94720-5100, USA.
Fax: +1-510-643-8292
E-mail: mikehout@uclink4.berkeley.edu
7).Social Stratification and Social Mobility: Cross-National and Historical Patterns
Organizer: TIMO TOIVONEN
Mail: Department of Sociology, University of Turku, 20014 Turun uliopisto, Turku, Finland.
Fax: +358-2-333-5080
E‑mail: ttoivonen@abo.fi
8).In memory of Rudolf Andorka: Comparative Perspectives on Stratification in Eastern Europe
Organizer: PETER ROBERT
Mail: TARKI Social Research Informatics Centre, Victor Hugo utca 18-22, H-1132 Budapest, Hungary.
Fax: +36-1-290-470
Email: Robert@tarki.hu
9).Gender, Family and Social Stratification
Organizer: HAYA STIER
Mail: Department of Sociology and Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Fax: +972-3‑6409215
E-mail: haya1@spirit.tau.ac.il
10).Social Stratification and the Life Cycle
Organizer: JANNE JONSSON
Mail: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
Fax: +46-8-154‑670
E-mail: Janne@sofi.su.se
11).Immigration, Ethnicity and Social Stratification
Organizer: MARIAH EVANS
Mail: Research School of Social Science, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia.
Fax: +61-6-297-2937
Email: Mariah@coombs.anu.edu.au
12).Inequality, the State and Social Policy
Organizer: THOMAS A. DIPRETE
Mail: Department of Sociology, Duke University, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708‑0088, USA.
Fax: +1-919-660-5623
E-mail: tdiprete@soc.duke.edu
13).Stratification, Values and Attitudes
Organizer: KRZYSZTOF ZAGORSKI
Mail: Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polna 18/20, 00‑625 Warsaw, Poland.
Fax: +48-22-252146
Email: zagorski@optimus.waw.pl
14).Class and Politics
Organizer: PAUL NIEUWBEERTA
Mail: Department of Sociology, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands.
Fax: +31‑30‑2534405
E‑mail: socw68@fswx1.fsw.ruu.nl
15).Stratification and Consumption
Organizer: DIETER BOEGENHOLD
Mail: Research Unit on Work & Region, Bremen University, Parkallee 39, D-28209, Germany.
E-mail: Boegenhold@nwn.de
Fax: +49-4403-1371
16).The Distribution of Wealth and Material Inequality
Organizer: NOAH LEWIN-EPSTEIN
Mail: Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Fax: +972‑3‑6409215
E‑mail: noah1@spirit.tau.ac.il
17).Open Poster Session
Organizer: HARRY GANZEBOOM
Mail: Department of Sociology, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands.
Fax: +31-30-2534405
E‑mail: Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl
The organizers will consider paper proposals on the basis of an extended summary and choose papers for presentation on the basis of their relation to the session topic and quality. Quality being equal, proposals of RC28 members in good standing will be preferred to other proposals. In addition, each presenter in Montreal is requested to become a member of RC28. See above for how to apply for membership.
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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-Treasurer
Department of Sociology Department of Sociology
University of California at Los Angeles Utrecht University
405 Hilgard Av. ‑ Haines Hall PO Box 80.140
Los Angeles, CA 90024 3508 TC Utrecht
United States Netherlands
E-mail: Treiman@dudley.sscnet.ucla.edu E-mail: Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl
Fax: (+1) 310-820-4974 http://www.fsw.ruu.nl/soc/HG/rc28 Fax (+31) 30 253 4405
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Members of the Board: Richard Breen, Belfast ‑‑ Mariah Evans, Canberra ‑‑ Jan Jonsson, Stockholm ‑‑ Peter Robert, Budapest ‑‑ Shu‑Ling Tsai, Taipei ‑‑ Yossi Shavit, Haifa ‑‑ Yu Xie, Ann Arbor
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NEWSLETTER ISA RC28 1 JUNE 1998
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BOARD ELECTIONS
In accordance with the RC28 statutes, accepted at the Bielefeld World Congress, an election to the Board will be held every four years before the World Congress. The Election Committee, consisting of Treiman and Ganzeboom, has received the following nominations for candidacy:
-Richard Breen (Florence), second term
-Michael Hout (Berkeley), first term
-Rob Mare (Los Angeles), first term
-Peter Robert (Budapest), second term
-Yossi Shavit (Tel Aviv), third term
-Shu-Ling Tsai (Taipei), second term
-Wout Ultee (Nijmegen), first term
-Yu Xie (Ann Arbor), second term
-Krzysztof Zagorski (Warsaw), first term.
When elected, Hout will serve as President and Shavit as Secretary/Treasurer.
In accordance with the RC28 statutes, elections will be held even when the number of candidates matches the number of positions, and the election should provide the opportunity for write-in candidates. A separate ballot sheet has been appended to this Newsletter. It has to be received by Treiman or Ganzeboom no later than July 15 by mail, in a sealed enveloppe than carries your name and "RC28 Board Election" at the outside. Ballot forms cannot be returned by fax or e-mail! The term of the new board starts at the business meeting of the Montreal congress.
MONTREAL BUSINESS MEETING AND RECEPTION
The Montreal business meeting and a reception of RC28 will be held on Wednesday July 29th, 1998, after the late afternoon session (that runs until 18.30), at a location to be announced. The agenda of the business meeting will include:
1.Report by the outgoing Board on the 1994-1998 period, including the financial report, to be approved by the business meeting.
2.Report on the elections to the Board.
3.Inauguration of the new Board.
4.General discussion.
KAARE SVALASTOGA DECEASED
The President of Research Committee 28 from 1974 to 1978, Professor Kaare Svalastoga died after a long illness in May of 1997. Kaare Svalastoga made major contributions to research on stratification and social mobility in his book Prestige, Class and Mobility (1959), and in a number of articles on social mobility. His contributions also include the text Social Differentiation (1965), and several books on other topics, including a general treatise on sociology, The Social System (1974). He was born in Norway, in 1914, and obtained a Master's Degree in History from the University of Oslo in 1946. Svalastoga then went to the U.S. and obtained a PhD. in sociology from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, where he studied with George Lundberg. Lundberg's rather extreme behaviorist orientation made a profound and lasting impact on Svalastoga. He became Acting Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1952 and was appointed to the first and only Chair of Sociology there in 1956, a position he kept until he retired in 1984.
Svalastoga was an unusually gifted and original scholar with a very strong commitment to developing sociology as a scientific discipline. Prestige, Class and Mobility is an extraordinarily rich treatment of stratification and mobility in Denmark and is rightfully treated as a classic in the first generation of national mobility studies. He was a highly respected and frequent participant in the meetings of RC 28 until the early 1980s. The respect he received in the international scholarly community he did not receive in Denmark. Here his orientation to sociology was widely rejected, especially after 1970, when critical, Marxist and related orientations to sociology took over.
Aage B. Sorensen
RC-MEMBERSHIP
Due to new operating procedures of the ISA, a new policy has been adopted for the dues payment of RC28. While previously the dues would cover the period between World Congresses, your dues payment will now cover four years as of date of payment. When this period expires, you will be removed from the RC28 membership list, after a brief grace period. The Newsletter that is published after the expiration date will remind you about your dues situation. Please read below whether your membership had expired as of publication of this newsletter.
Your membership has not EXPIRED as of June 1, 1998
The fee for membership for a four year period is:
$40 regular membership
$60 regular membership + contribution to RC28 Travel Awards Fund (voluntary)
$10 reduced membership, for members from low income countries, (graduate) students and others in special need.
Members from low income countries and members in special need can also request full exemption by writing to the Treasurer.
Until August 1 1998, your payment can be settled in one of the following ways:
‑Send a traveler's cheque (preferably in US Dollars) "to the order of Harry Ganzeboom".
‑For those with American bank accounts: send a personal cheque with the dollar amount "to the order of Harry Ganzeboom".
-Send a Eurocheque "to the order of Harry Ganzeboom", made out in Dutch guilders. Positively no other currencies! Please remember to fill in your card number on the back of the Eurocheque!
‑Transfer the amount directly in any exchangeable currency to ABN-Amro Bank Account 5556 88 623 in the name of "H. Ganzeboom, ISA RC28, Netherlands". If you do this, make sure that it is clear on whose behalf the sum is paid.
You can also settle your RC28 membership when you sign up for ISA. However, RC28 does not require that you be a member of ISA to receive its newsletter and participate in its conferences.
RC TRAVEL AWARDS FUND
The RC28 Travel Awards Fund subsidizes RC28 members with low income for travel to RC28 conferences to present their work. The following categories qualify for such support: (A) members from low income countries, (B) (graduate) students, (C) RC28 members in special need. The travel awards are given in recognition of good scholarship in the field of stratification and the applicants should have a paper accepted by the organizer of the conference that they want to participate in and present this paper at this conference. As a rule, awards will not exceed US $ 500 and are given only once in a four-year period to the same person. Applications should be sent at the earliest possible date to the conference organizer and the Secretary-Treasurer of the RC28, and include (A) the paper to be presented, (B) an itemized budget, (C) (short) letters of recommendation. The names of the recipients of the Travel Awards will be published in this Newsletter. In the past period, the following persons have received support from the Fund: Herman van der Werfhorst, Tessa Marcus, Jennifer Sheridan and Joanna Sikora.
EMAIL ADDRESSES
The Secretary maintains a list of email addresses in order to send short and early notices about matters of potential concern to RC28 members. The email address currently available for you can be found on the website of RC28. If you find this email address incorrect or have not received any email messages from RC28 recently, please send a message with your correct email address to Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl
WWW-SITE
The Secretary maintains a WWW-site for RC28: http://www.fsw.ruu.nl/soc/HG/rc28. Here you find old and new newsletters; summaries of all the papers presented at our conferences since 1990; and email addresses of all the members. Please write if you want to include something in this website, or have interesting links for other stratification researchers.
FUTURE MEETINGS
A 3.5-day conference will be organized by Krzysztof Zagorski in Warzaw, Poland, in May 5-8, 1999. The general conference theme will be 'Political, Economic and Cultural Contexts of Stratification and Mobility'.
A 2.5 or 3-day conference will be organized by Adam Gamoran and colleagues at the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 12-14 1999, contiguous to the meetings of the American Sociological Association in Chicago IL, August 7-11. The theme will be general.
In the year 2000 RC28 will celebrate its 50th anniversary: it was founded in Paris in 1950 as the general Research Committee of the International Sociological Association, at the initiative of David Glass, who became its long term President. Arrangements and site(s) for celebration will be decided upon by the new Board that enters office at the Montreal congress.
Members who aspire to organize meetings in 2000 or beyond are invited to contact the Secretary.
RECENT BOOK PUBLICATIONS OF RC-28 MEMBERS
Bram Steijn, Jan Berting, and Mart‑Jan de Jong (Eds.), Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle Class. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston/Dordrecht/London; 1998. ISBN: 0‑7923‑8119‑X. (US $ 95).
PROGRAM RC28 FOR MONTREAL WORLD CONGRESS
RC28 will meet in 17 academic sessions (including two joined sessions with RC04 on Education) during the World Congress of Sociology, July 27-August 1 1998, in Montreal, Canada, and have one business meeting.
SOME RULES FOR THE MONTREAL PROGRAM
There are two kinds of papers. Authors of a 'paper to be presented' have a 30 minutes time slot, of which at least 10 minutes should be reserved for discussion. Authors of a 'paper to be distributed / poster presentation' will not be given time for presentation, but should distribute their paper before the session to the audience, and will have space available to present a poster in the conference room, which can be discussed before and after the session. If a 'paper to be presented' drops out of the program, one of the 'distributed papers' will fill the slot, in the order in which they appear in the program. If you are not able to make it to Montreal and are on the program, please notify the Program Coordinator (Harry B.G. Ganzeboom, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands. Fax: +31‑30‑2534405. E‑mail: Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl), as well as your session organizer immediately.
All presenters should be paid members of RC28. If you are not a paid member, consult this RC28 Newsletter for ways on how to become one.
The sessions are chaired by their organizers, unless otherwise specified. All authors (both of papers to be presented and papers to be distributed) should send their completed paper to (A) the session organizer, (B) the session discussant, (C) all the other authors in the session, and (D) the program coordinator, before June 30th. Notice that you WILL BE DROPPED from the program, if your paper does not reach the other participants in time.
RC28 SESSIONS AT MONTREAL WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY
1.THEORIES OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION Monday, July 27, 14.00-16.00
Chair: Tadeusz Krauze [Department of Sociology, Hofstra University, Hempstead NY 11550, USA. E-mail: soctkk@hofstra.edu]
Organizer and Discussant: Daniel Krymkowski [Department of Sociology, University of Vermont, 31 S. Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA. E-mail: Daniel.Krymkowski@uvm.edu]
Papers to be presented
A.Baldus, Bernd [Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 203 College Str. Toronto M5T 1P9, Canada. E-mail: bbaldus@epas.utoronto.ca.] "Inequality's Inner Secrets: a Reconsideration of the Causes of Social Inequality".
B.Jasso, Guillermina [Department of Sociology, New York University, New York NY 10003-0831, USA. E-mail: jasso@is3.nyu.edu.] "Constructing a Justice Index: Framework and Two Indexes, with Theoretical and Empirical Illustration".
C.Tam, Tony [Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan. E-mail: tam@sinica.edu.tw.] "Getting Ahead in the Labor Market: the Positional Capital Approach"
D.Enguita, Mariano F. [Edificio FES, University of Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37071 Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: MFE00001@teleline.es] "Analyzing Inequality".
Papers to be distributed
E.Blom, Raimo [Department of Sociology and Psychology, University of Tampere, PO Box 607, 33101 Tampere, Finland. E-mail: ssrabl@uta.fi] "Class Theories and the Nordic Condition in the 1990s".
F.Ollivier, Michele [Department of Sociology, Ottawa University, 550 Rue Cumberland, CP 450 Succ. A, Ottawa K1N 6N5, Canada. E-mail: ollivier@uottawa.ca] "Social and Legal Status: the Legacy of M. Weber and T.H. Marshall".
2.STRATIFICATION, VALUES AND ATTITUDES Monday, July 27, 16.30-18.30
Organizer: Krzysztof Zagorski [Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polna 18/20, 00‑625 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: zagorski@optimus.waw.pl]
Discussant: Michael Hout [Survey Research Center, University of California-Berkeley, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley CA 94720-5100, USA. Fax: +1-510-643-8292. E-mail: mikehout@uclink4.berkeley.edu]
Papers to be presented
A.Kohn, Melvin L. [Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 21218, USA. E-mail: mlkohn@jhu.edu]; Wojciech Zaborowski [Polish Academy of Sciences]; Krystyna Janicka [Polish Academy of Sciences]; Valeri Khmelko [National University of Kiev - Mohyla Academy; Bogdan Mach [Polish Academy of Sciences]; Vladimir Paniotto [Kiew International Institute of Sociology]; Kazimierz Slomczynski [Ohio State University]; Cory Heyman Bruce Podobnik [Johns Hopkins University]. "The Social Psychology of the Non‑employed under Conditions of Radical Social Change: Poland and Ukraine".
B.Locklear, Sheri; Kazimierz M. Slomczynski [Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval, Columbus OH 43210, USA. E-mail: kms@ohstsoca.sbs.ohio‑state.edu] "Meritocratic Allocation and Meritocratic Attitudes: a Cross‑national Examination".
C.Evans, Mariah D.R. [Research School of Social Science, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia. E-mail: mariah@postbox.anu.edu.au] "Just Earnings in Comparative Perspective".
D.Lippl, Bodo [Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences, Methodology Research Unit, Unter den Linden 6, D‑10099 Berlin, Germany] E-mail: lippl@rz.hu‑berlin.de] "Justice Ideologies, Income‑Justice, and the Welfare State. A Comparison of Justice Ideologies and the Perceived Justice of Income in the United States, West Germany, and the Netherlands".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Gross, Martin [Institute of Sociology, Humboldt‑Universität, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: martin.gross@rz.hu‑berlin.de] "Educational Systems, Intragenerational Mobility and Perceived Social Inequality".
F.Levy, René [Institute for Anthropology and Sociology, University of Lausanne, BFSH2, CH‑1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E‑mail: Rene.Levy@ias.unil.ch] "Taking Another Look at Multidimensional Stratification: an Exploration of Positional Profiles in Swiss Society".
G.Gijsberts, Merove [Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands. E-mail: M.Gijsberts@fss.uu.nl] "Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Outcome".
H.Lamprecht, Markus; Hanspeter Stamm [Lamprecht & Stamm SFB AG, Soneggstrasse 30, CH‑8006 Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail: lssfb@access.ch] "Social Stratification and the Differentiation of Life Styles, Social Perceptions and Attitudes in Switzerland".
I.Noya Miranda, Francisco Javier [Departamento de Sociologia II, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Obispo Trejo s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain. E‑mail: jnoya@sr.uned.es] "Religion, Values and Egalitarianism".
3.CLASS AND POLITICS Monday, July 27, 20.30-22.30
Organizer and Discussant: Paul Nieuwbeerta [Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands. E‑mail: P.Nieuwbeerta@fss.uu.nl]
Chair: Maas, Ineke [Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Lentzeallee 94, D‑14195 Berlin Dahlem, Germany. E-mail: maas@mpib‑berlin.mpg.de]
Papers to be presented
A.Miyano, Masaru [Department of Sociology, Chuo University, 742-1 Higashi-Nakano, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0393, Japan. E-mail: mmiyano@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp] "Occupation and Party Affiliation 1955-1995: Class Politics in Japan".
B.Kelley, Jonathan; Sikora, Joanna [ISSP, RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia. E-mail: kelley@international-survey.org] "Class and Attitudes to Private and Public Ownership in Economy in Free Market and 'Transforming' Countries".
C.Weakliem, David [Dept. of Sociology, University of Connecticut U-68, 344 Mansfield Rd., Storrs CT 06269, USA. E-mail: weakliem@uconnvm.uconn.edu] "Societal Development and Class Polarization. An International Comparison".
D.Robert, Peter [Tarki Social Research Information Center, Victor Hugo u 18-22, H-1132 Budapest, Hungary. E-mail: Robert@tarki.hu] "Class and Party from a Rational Choice Perspective".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Pisati, Maurizio [Dept. of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Via Casterfidardo 9, 21052 Busto Arsizio VA, Italy. E-mail: Maurizio.Pisati@galactica.it] "Class Position and Electoral Choice in Italy after Tangentopoli: an Analysis of the 1996 Political Elections".
F.Evans, Geoff; Need, Ariana [Nuffield College, Oxford OX1 1NF, England. E-mail: need@hicks.nuff.ox.ac.uk] "Ethnic Identity and the Consolidation of Post-Soviet Democracy in Eastern Europe".
4.EDUCATION, STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY I (joined session with RC04)
Organizer: Jaap Dronkers [SCO‑Kohnstamm Institute, University of Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 4, 1091 GM Amsterdam. Netherlands. E‑mail: jaapd@sco.educ.uva.nl.]
Papers to be presented Monday July 27, 20.30-22.30
A.Van de Werfhorst, Herman G.; Nan Dirk de Graaf; Gerbert Kraaykamp [Department of Sociology, Nijmegen University, P.O. Box 9104, 600 HE Nijmegen, Netherlands. E‑mail: H.vandeWerfhorst@maw.kun.nl] "Intergenerational Transmission of Resources: a Conditional Logit Analysis of the Effect of Parental Resources on Field of Education in the Netherlands".
B.Goux, Dominique [CREST, 15 Bd. Gabriel Peri (Malakoff 2), 92245 Malakoff Cedex, France. France. E‑mail: goux@ensae.fr]; Eric Maurin [Institut National de Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, Departement de la Recherche (Timbre J310), 15 Boulevard Gabriel Peri, Malakoff, Cedex 92245, France] "Selection in the Educational System and Selection in the Social Elites: a Comparison between France and the United States".
C.Buchmann, Claudia [Department of Sociology, Duke University, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708‑0088, USA. E-mail: cbuch@soc.duke.edu] "Family Background, Parental Perceptions and Labor Demand: The Determinants of Educational Inequality in Contemporary Kenya".
D.Lucas, Samuel R. [Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley, 410 Barrows Hall #1980, Berkeley CA 94720-1980, USA. E-mail: slucas@uclink.berkeley.edu] "Contesting Tournament Track Mobility in the United States."
E.Ayalon, Hanna [School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: ayalon@spirit.tau.ac.il] "Between-Subject Curriculum Differentiation and Inequality in Achievement".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations Saturday August 1, 14.00-18.30
F.Ruzicka, Richard [Department of Sociology, Charles University. Celetna 20, 11642 Prague 1, Czech Republic. E‑mail: Richard.Ruzicka@ff.cuni.cz] "Teachers in Changing Social Stratification: Understanding of Own Status, Professional & Life Values and Strategies".
G.Nwa-Chill, Chudi C. [Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, PMB 5025, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka - Anambra State, Nigeria]. "The Ascendancy of Female Education in Nigeria. A Turning Point in the History of Nigerian Education".
H.Hiremath, Siddaramesh L.; Hiremath, Shahida, [Department of Sociology, Gulbarga University, Jnana Ganga, Gulbarga 585106, Karnataka, India. Fax: 08472-21632. E-mail: root@gulini.kar.nic.in] Gender, Education and Inequality".
5.STRATIFICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILITY Tuesday, July 28, 14.00-16.00
IN EAST ASIA
Organizer: Shu-Ling Tsai [Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529. E-mail: Tsai@gate.sinica.edu.tw]
Discussant: Raymond Wong [Department of Sociology, University of California‑Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA. E‑mail: wong@sscf.ucsb.edu]
Papers to be presented
A.Bian, Yanjie [Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Sciences 267 19th Av. South, Minneapolis, MN 55455‑0499, USA. E-mail: bianx001@maroon.tc.umn.edu; Social Science Division, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. E-mail: sobian@ustjk.ust.hk]; Xiaoling Shu [Department of Sociology, University of California-Davis, Davis CA 95616, USA]; John R. Logan [Department of Sociology, State University of New York-Albany, 1400 Washington Av., Albany NY 12222, USA] "Regime Dynamics, Party Membership, and Socioeconomic Mobility in China, 1949‑1993"
B.Shirahase, Sawako [National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, 1‑2‑3 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda‑ku, Tokyo 100, Japan. E-mail: shirahase@so.ipss.go.jp] "Women and Class Structure: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and Great Britain".
C.Post, David M. [Population Research Center, Pennsylvania State University. 601 Oswald Tower, University Park PA 16802, USA. E-mail: post@pop.psu.edu]; Suet‑ling Pong [Population Research Center, Pennsylvania State University. 601 Oswald Tower, University Park PA 16802, USA. E-mail: pong@pop.psu.edu] "Education, The Family, and Inequality in Hong Kong: The Social Legacy of Colonial Policy".
D.Tsay, Ruey-ming [Department of Sociology, Tunghai University Taichung 407, Taiwan. E-mail: rmtsay@s867.thu.edu.tw] "The Formation of Inequality in Taiwan's State Bureaucracy: A Positional Capital Approach".
6.MODELS AND METHODS IN STRATIFICATION RESEARCH Tuesday, July 28, 16.30-18.30
Organizer: Yu Xie [Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 1225 S. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48104‑2590, USA. E-mail: yuxie@umich.edu]
Discussant: Weakliem, David [Dept. of Sociology, University of Connecticut U-68, 344 Mansfield Rd., Storrs CT 06269, USA. E-mail: weakliem@uconnvm.uconn.edu]
Papers to be presented
A.Goux, Dominique [CREST, 15 Bd. Gabriel Peri (Malakoff 2), 92245 Malakoff Cedex, France. E‑mail: goux@ensae.fr]; Eric Maurin [Institut National de Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, Departement de la Recherche (Timbre J310), 15 Boulevard Gabriel Peri, Malakoff, Cedex 92245, France]; Thomas A. DiPrete [Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708‑0088, USA. E‑mail: tdiprete@soc.duke.edu]; Michael Tahlin [Department of Sociology, Stockholm Univ. 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. E‑mail: michael.tahlin@sociology.su.se]. "A Multivariate Probit Model for the Study of Censored Multi‑Outcome Job Mobility".
B.Mare, Robert; Huey‑Chi Chang [Department of Sociology, UCLA, 264 Haines Hall, Box 951551, Los Angeles, CA 90095‑1551, USA. E-mail: Mare@ucla.edu]; "Family Strategies and Educational Attainment: New Models for School Transitions".
C.Yamaguchi, Kazuo [Department of Sociology, University of Chicago , 1126 E. 59th Street, Chicago IL 60637, USA. E-mail: yama@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu] "Latent Classes of Gender Role Attitudes Among Japanese Women and Their Association With Stratification in the Society".
D.Breen, Richard [European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana, I‑50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy. E-mail: breen@datacomm.iue.it]; Jan O. Jonsson [Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, 10691 Stochholm, Sweden. E‑mail: janne@sofi.su.se] "A Multinomial Transition Model for Analysing Educational Careers".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Prandy, Kenneth [Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, England. E-mail: kp10@cam.ac.uk] "The Social Interaction Approach to the Measurement and Analysis of Social Stratification."
7.SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILITY: Wednesday, July 29, 9.00-12.00
CROSS-NATIONAL AND HISTORICAL PATTERNS
Organizer: Timo Toivonen [Department of Sociology, University of Turku, 20014 Turun uliopisto, Turku, Finland. E‑mail: ttoivonen@abo.fi]
Discussant: Treiman, Donald J. [Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Av., 90095 CA Los Angeles, USA. E-mail: Treiman@dudley.sscnet.ucla.edu]
Papers to be presented
A.Rijken, Susanne; Ganzeboom, Harry [Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands. E-mail: S.Rijken@fss.uu.nl] "Educational Expansion and Educational Achievement in Comparative Perspective".
B.De Sève, Michel [Department of Sociology, Laval University, Quebec G1K 8P4, Canada. E-mail: Michel.deSeve@soc.ulaval.ca] "The Erikson and Goldthorpe Core Model of Social Fluidity in Canada: A Comparison with England, France, United States and Australia".
C.Prandy, Kenneth [Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, England. E-mail: kp10@cam.ac.uk] "Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain and Ireland from 1790 to 1950".
D.Van Leeuwen, Marco [Netherlands Economic History Archives, Da Costakade 52, 1053 WN Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-mail: mle@iisg.nl]; Maas, Ineke [Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Lentzeallee 94, D‑14195 Berlin Dahlem, Germany. E-mail: maas@mpib‑berlin.mpg.de] "Ascription and Achievement in 18th Century France".
E.Sieben, Inge; De Graaf, Paul [Department of Sociology, Nijmegen University, PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen. E-mail: I.Sieben@maw.kun.nl] "Trends in the Total Family Impact on Educational Attainment and Occupational Status in Six Countries. A Sibling Analysis".
F.Rice, James [Sociology Program RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: jmrice@coombs.anu.edu.au] "Developments in the Distribution of Income in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States between the 1970s and the early 1990s".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
G.Furuker, Bengt & Schedin, Stefan [Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, PO Box 720, Gothenburg, Sweden. E-mail: socibf@haga.gu.se]: "Patterns of Income Mobility, Sweden in 1990s".
H.Mansurov, Valery [Inst. Sociology, Russian Academy Sciences, Krzhizanovskogo 24/35 b.5, 117218 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: valman@socio.msk.su]: "Social Adaptation of Engineers of the Defence Enterprises Under Conversion".
8.IN MEMORY OF RUDOLF ANDORKA: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Wednesday, July 29, 14.00-16.00
ON STRATIFICATION IN EASTERN EUROPE
Organizer: Peter Robert [TARKI Social Research Informatics Centre, Victor Hugo utca 18-22, H-1132 Budapest, Hungary. E-mail: Robert@tarki.hu]
Introduction & Discussant: Zagorski, Krzysztof [Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polna 18/20, 00‑625 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: zagorski@optimus.waw.pl]
Papers to be presented
A.Wong, Raymond Sin‑Kwok [Department of Sociology, University of California‑Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA. E‑mail: wong@sscf.ucsb.edu]; Treiman, Donald J. [Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Av., 90095 CA Los Angeles, USA. E-mail: Treiman@dudley.sscnet.ucla.edu] "Revolutionary Times, Revolutionary Transformations? Changes in Mobility Patterns in Eastern Europe During Early Transitions".
B.Mach, Bogdan; Martin Diewald [Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Lentzeallee 94, D‑14195 Berlin Dahlem, Germany. E‑mail: mach@mpib‑berlin.mpg.de] "Mobility and Income in East Germany and Poland under State Socialism and during the Transition to Market Economy".
C.Brauns, Hildegard [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Universität Mannheim, Postfach 10 34 62, D‑68131 Mannheim. Germany. Fax: ++49 621 292 1735. E‑mail: hildegard.Brauns@mzes.uni‑mannheim.de]; Walter Müller; Susanne Steinmann [Lehreinhalt für Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, Universität Mannheim, Seminargebaüde A5, D‑6800 Mannheim, Germany. E-mail: wmueller@sowi.uni-mannheim.de] "Educational Expansion and Returns to Education: a Comparative Study of Germany, France, the UK and Hungary".
D.Nieuwbeerta, Paul; Merove Gijsberts [Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands. E-mail: M.Gijsberts@fss.uu.nl] "Recent Left‑Turns in Post‑Communist Societies".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Piirainen, Timo [Dept. of Social Policy, Univ. of Helsinki, PO Box 25, 00014 Helsinki, FINLAND. E-mail: time.piirainen@helsinki.fi] "From Communism to Class Society: Everyday Life and Social Stratification in Russia."
F.Kutsenko, Olga, [Kharkiv State University, Mironositskaya St. 1, Rm 2-17, Kharkiv, Ukraine. E-mail: f_ok@guru.cit-ua.net] "Restructuring of Post‑Soviet Social Space: Peculiarities compared to Social Transformations in the West"
9.COGNITIVE ABILITIES AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION Wednesday, July 29, 16.30-18.30
Organizer: Michael Hout [Survey Research Center, University of California-Berkeley, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley CA 94720-5100, USA. E-mail: mikehout@uclink4.berkeley.edu]
Discussant: Breen, Richard [European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana, I‑50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy. E-mail: breen@datacomm.iue.it]
Papers to be presented
A.Hauser, Robert M.; John Robert Warren; Jennifer T. Sheridan [Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706 USA. E-mail: warren@ssc.wisc.edu] "Socioeconomic Achievements of Siblings in the Life Course: New Findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey".
B.Dronkers, Jaap [SCO‑Kohnstamm Institute, University of Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 4, 1091 GM, Amsterdam, Netherlands. E‑mail: jaapd@sco.educ.uva.nl] "The Importance of Cognitive Abilities at Primary School for Occupational Success in the Life Course of a Dutch Generation, born around 1940".
C.Bond, Rod; Peter Saunders [University of Sussex, School of Social Sciences, Falmer, Brighton, England BN1 9QN. E-mail: P.R.Saunders@sussex.ac.uk] "The Relative Contribution of Cognitive Ability, Motivation, and Social Background to the Occupational Attainment of Young British Males".
D.Huang, Min‑Hsiung [Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 115. E-mail: mhhuang@sinica.edu.tw] "Cognitive Abilities and the Growth of 'High IQ' Occupations".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Ayalon, Hanna [School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: ayalon@spirit.tau.ac.il] "Cognitive Abilities and Gender and Ethnic Differences in Choosing Areas of Study in Higher Education".
10. EDUCATION, STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY II (joined session with RC04) Thursday July 30, 14.00-16.00
Organizer: Harry B.G. Ganzeboom [Department of Sociology, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands. E‑mail: Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl]
Discussant: Jaap Dronkers [SCO‑Kohnstamm Institute, University of Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 4, 1091 GM, Amsterdam, Netherlands. E‑mail: jaapd@sco.educ.uva.nl]
Papers to be presented
A.Iannelli, Christina [Department of Social and Political Science, European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana, I‑50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy. E-mail: iannelli@datacomm.iue.it]; Shavit, Yossi [Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: yshavit@spirit.tau.ac.il] "Occupational Returns to Education on Italy: a Consideration of Rational Action Theory of University Attendance".
B.Chauvel, Louis [Cellule de Sociologie, Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 69, Quai d'Orsay 75007 Paris. E-mail: chauvel@ofce.sciences‑po.fr] "Cohort Changes in Education, Social Stratification and Mobility, the Case of France (1964‑1995)".
C.Gross, Martin [Institute of Sociology, Humboldt‑Universität, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: martin.gross@rz.hu‑berlin.de] "The Education‑based Allocation to Class ‑ a Comparison of Six Countries".
D.Mare, Robert D. [Department of Sociology, UCLA, 264 Haines Hall, Box 951551, Los Angeles, CA 90095‑1551, USA]; Alair MacLean [University of Wisconsin‑Madison] "Immigration, Fertility, Intergenerational Mobility, and Trends in Educational Attainment".
11. IMMIGRATION, ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION Thursday July 30, 16.30-18.30
Organizer: Mariah D.R. Evans [Research School of Social Science, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia. E-mail: Mariah@coombs.anu.edu.au]
Discussant: Model, Suzanne [Social and Demographic Research Institute and Department of Sociology, Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003 ‑ 7525, USA. E-mail: Model@sadri.Umass.Edu]
Papers to be presented
A.Lewin-Epstein, Noah; Semyonov, Moshe [Institute for Social Research, Dept. of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: moshes@spirit.tau.ac.il] "Persistent Patterns of Discrimination: Nationality, Place of Origin, and Immigration in the Israeli Labor Market".
B.Wanner, Richard [Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada. E-mail: wanner@acs.ucalgary.ca] "Immigration, Ethnicity and Status Attainment in Canada".
C.Lukic Maricic, Tatjana [Sociology Program RSSS, Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: maricic@coombs.anu.au.edu] "Ethnicity and Status Attainment in Former Yugoslavia".
D.Treiman, Donald J. [Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Av., 90095 CA Los Angeles, USA. E-mail: Treiman@dudley.sscnet.ucla.edu]; McKeever, Matthew [Department of Sociology, Rice University, 6100 Main Str., Houston TX 77005-1892, USA. E-mail: McKeever@dudley.sscnet.ucla.edu] Sarah Burgard [Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Av., 90065 CA Los Angeles, USA. E-mail: sburgard@dudley.sscnet.ucla.edu] "Racial Differences in Status Attainment in South Africa".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Matras, Judah [University of Haifa]; Stier, Haya [Department of Sociology and Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: haya1@spirit.tau.ac.il]; Raijman, Rebecca [Dept. of Sociology, University of Haifa, Mnt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel] "On Immigration, Vacancies, Structural Mobility, and Class Formation in Israel".
F.Model, Suzanne [Social and Demographic Research Institute and Department of Sociology, Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003 ‑ 7525, USA. ] "Canadian but not Christian: the Consequences for Earning."
G.Giorgas, Dimi [Sociology Program RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia. E-mail: dimi@coombs.anu.edu.au] "Patterns of Occupational Achievement and Earnings Amongst Second Generation Australians".
H.Toivonen, Timo [Department of Sociology, University of Turku, 20014 Turun uliopisto, Turku, Finland. E‑mail: ttoivonen@abo.fi] "War and Change of Social Structure"
I.Bianchini Bilac, Maria Beatriz [Methodist University of Piracicaba, Rua Luiz de Camoes 2641, ap. 13, Vila Monteiro, Piracicaba, SP 13417‑810, Brazil. E-mail: Maria.Beatriz@merconet.com.br] "Socio-economic Change, Social Mobility and Immigration in Brazil: a Case Study on Political Participation in a Brazilian Town ‑ Rio Claro (1900-1964)".
J.Huesca Gonzalez, Ana Maria [Department of Sociology, Public University of Navarra, Campus de Arrosada s/n, Pamplona, Spain. E-mail: ana.huesca@upna.es] "The Valuation about the Social Inclusion of the Immigrant in Spain"
12. VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND THE PROCESS OF STRATIFICATION Thursday, July 30, 20.30-22.30
Organizer: Yossi Shavit [Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: yshavit@spirit.tau.ac.il]
Discussant: Yogev, Abraham [School of Education, Tel Aviv University, PO Box 39040, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. E-mail: Yogev@ccsg.tau.ac.il]
Papers to be presented
A.Arum, Richard [Dept of Sociology, Univ of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA. E-mail: arum@u.arizona.edu]; Sandra Way [Dept of Sociology, Univ of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA. E-mail: sway@u.arizona.edu]; "The Significance of School‑Business Institutional Ties: Effects of School Assisted Job Placement on Male and Female Early Labor Market Outcomes".
B.Rosenbaum, James; Stephanie A. Jones [Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2040 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208, USA. E-mail: j‑rosenbaum@nwu.edu] "Vocational Teachers' Linkages with Employers: Improving a Work‑Entry Infrastructure for Low‑Achieving Students".
C.Posthuma, Anne Caroline [International Labour Organisation, Luis Carera 1131, Vitacura Casilla 190134, Santiago, Chile. E-mail: posthuma@scl.oitchile.cl] "Reform of Brazilian Vocational Training System: Improving Access and Equality through New Institutionalities, Course Structure and Content".
13. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND THE LIFE CYCLE Friday, July 31, 14.00-16.00
Organizer: Janne Jonsson [Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: Janne@sofi.su.se]
Discussant: Christopher Whelan [Econ‑Soc Research Institute, 4 Burlington Rd., Dublin 4, Ireland. E-mail: Chris.Whelan@esri.ie]
Papers to be presented
A.le Grand, Carl; Michael Tahlin [Dept of Sociology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. E‑mail: michael.tahlin@sociology.su.se] "Job Mobility and Earning Careers".
B.Pisati, Maurizio [Dept. of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Via Casterfidardo 9, 21052 Busto Arsizio VA, Italy. E-mail: Maurizio.Pisati@galactica.it]; Antonio Schizzerotti [Dept. of Sociology, University of Trento, Via Verdi 26, 38100 Trento. E-mail: aschizz@risc1.gelso.unitn.it] "Career Paths to Service Class and Working Class Positions in Contemporary Italy".
C.Henz, Ursula; Marianne Sundström [Demography Unit, Stockholm University, Stockholm S10691, Sweden. E-mail: ursula.henz@suda.su.se] "Earnings as a Force of Attraction and Specialization".
D.Bettin, Gianfranco; Ettore Recchi [Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence, Via Valori 9, I‑50132 Firenze, Italy. E-mail: recchi@ccsp6.scpol.unifi.it] "Planning Work‑Life Entry: Expectations of Class Mobility among University Students in Italy".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Hansen, Erik Jorgen [Danish National Institute of Social Research, Herlof Trolles Gade 11, 1052 Copenhagen K, Denmark] "The Intergenerational Social Mobility of Women. Experiences from Classification Problems and Problems of Interpretation of the Results in a Danish Longitudinal Study".
F.Levy, René [Institute for Anthropology and Sociology, University of Lausanne, BFSH2, CH‑1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E‑mail: Rene.Levy@ias.unil.ch] "Social Mobility, Life Course and Gender".
G.Laaksonen, Helena T. [Department of Sociology & Social Psychology, University of Tampere, PO Box 607, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland. E-mail: HL38094@uta.fi] "Age as a Stratification Factor in Society ‑ Excursion to Exclusive Practices, Citizenship and Age".
14. GENDER, FAMILY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION - I Friday July 31, 16.30-18.30
Organizer: Haya Stier [Department of Sociology and Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: haya1@spirit.tau.ac.il]
Discussant: Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth [Institute for Social Research, Munthesgate 31, 0260 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: Gunn.E.Birkelund@isaf.no]
Papers to be presented
A.Rosenfeld, Rachel [Department of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. E‑mail: rachel_rosenfeld@unc.edu]; Heike Trappe [Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany]. "How Do Children Matter? A Comparison of Family Formation and Labor Market Gender Inequality for Young Adults in the Former East Germany and the Former West Germany".
B.DiPrete, Thomas A. [Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708‑0088, USA. E‑mail: tdiprete@soc.duke.edu]; Patricia A. McManus [Indiana University] "How Changes in Family Formation and Labor Market Activity Affect Family Income: A Comparison of Market and Welfare State Effects in the U.S. and Germany".
C.Mills, Colin; Janne Jonsson [Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm Univ. 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. E‑mail: janne@sofi.su.se]. "Women, Child‑birth, Labor Market Interruption, and the Occupational and Economic Returns to Gainful Employment".
D.Hendrickx, John [Department of Sociology, Nijmegen University, PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen. E-mail: J.Hendrickx@maw.kun.nl]; Wim Bernasco [Utrecht University]; Paul De Graaf [Nijmegen University]. "Couples' Labour Market Participation in the Netherlands: The Effects of Economic and Cultural Characteristics of Both Spouses".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Kouta, Chie [Graduate School of Literature, Chuo‑University, 742‑1 Higashinakano, Hachioji‑shi, Tokyo 192‑+0351, Japan. E‑mail: kouta@ tamacc.chuo‑u.ac.jp] "Men's Conciousness of Gender Inequality in Japan".
F.Jiping, Zuo [Department of Sociology, St. Cloud State University, 262 Stewart Hall, 720 4th Av. South, St. Cloud, MN 56301‑4498, USA. E‑mail: soczuo@tigger.stcloudstate.edu] "Why Women Refuse to 'Go Home': A Study of Married Women in Urban China".
G.Shcherbitch, Ludmila; Srednia Kalitnikovskaya. [Moscow Institute of Municipal Economy and Construction, Moscow, Russia, e‑mail: valman@socio.msk.su] "Social Stratification and Views of Moscow Teen‑Agers of Family Roles: Gender Aspect".
15. GENDER, FAMILY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION - II Friday, July 31, 20.30-22.30
Organizer: Haya Stier [Department of Sociology and Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail:haya1@spirit.tau.ac.il
Discussant: Shavit, Yossi [Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: yshavit@spirit.tau.ac.il]
Papers to be presented
H.Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth [Institute for Social Research, Munthesgate 31, 0260 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: Gunn.E.Birkelund@isaf.no] "Gender Roles and Family Attitudes ‑ a Cross‑national Study".
I.Janssen, Jacques [Department of Sociology, Nijmegen University, PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, Netherlands. E-mail: J.Janssen@mailbox.kun.nl]; Paul De Graaf [Nijmegen University]; Matthijs Kalmijn [Utrecht University]. "Religious Homogamy and Divorce in the Netherlands, 1974‑1994".
J.Poortman, Anne‑Rigt; Matthijs Kalmijn [Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands. E‑mail: A.Poortman@fss.uu.nl] "Sex Differences in the Economic Consequences of Divorce in the Netherlands".
K.Akachi, Mayuko [Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, 5322 Endo, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan. E‑mail: akachi@mag.keio.ac.jp] "Intergenerational Change in the Process of Married Women's Status Attainment: From the View Point of Life Course".
16. STRATIFICATION AND CONSUMPTION Saturday, August 1, 14.00-16.00
Organizer: Dieter Bögenhold [Research Unit on Work & Region, Bremen University, Parkallee 39, D-28209, Germany. E-mail: Boegenhold@nwn.de]
Discussant: Harry B.G. Ganzeboom [Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands, e‑mail: Ganzeboom@cc.ruu.nl]
Papers to be presented
A.Gardes, François [Sciences Économique, Université de Paris (Pantheon), 90 rue de Tolbiac, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France]; Simon Langlois [Département de Sociologie, Université Laval, Québec PQ, Canada G1K 7P4. E‑mail: simon.langlois@soc.ulaval.ca] "Convergence of Consumption Structures Between Socioeconomic Classes in Canada 1969‑1992".
B.Katz‑Gerro, Tally [Department of Sociology, 410 Barrows Hall, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E‑mail: tkatz@socrates.berkeley.edu]; Erik Bihagen [Department of Sociology, Umea University, S ‑ 901 87 Umea, Sweden. E‑mail: erik.bihagen@soc.umu.se] "Cultural Consumption, Class and Gender in a Changed Welfare State: The Case of Sweden".
C.Fachinger, Uwe [Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen, Parkallee 39, 28209 Bremen, Germany. E‑mail: ufach@zes.uni‑bremen.de]; Dieter Bögenhold [Research Unit Work & Region, Universität Bremen, Parkallee 39, 28209 Bremen, Germany. E‑mail: boegenhold@nwn.de] "The Social Embeddedness of Consumption ‑ Towards the Non‑linearity of Income and Expenditures in Germany".
D.Noya Miranda, Francisco Javier [Departamento de Sociologia II, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Obispo Trejo s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain, e‑mail: jnoya@sr.uned.es] "Class, Networks and Leisure in Spain".
Distributed papers / poster presentations
E.Van Eijck, Koen [Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands]; Kees van Rees [Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands, e‑mail: c.j.vrees@kub.nl] "The Impact of Social Mobility on Patterns of Cultural Consumption: Individual Omnivores and Heterogenous Status Groups".
F.Garhammer, Manfred [Lehrstuhl für Soziologie I, Universität Bamberg, 96045 Bamberg, Germany. E‑mail: Manfred.Garhammer@sowi.uni‑bamberg.de] "Time‑Use, Time‑Pressure and Leisure‑Consumption in European Societies: Old and New Social Inequalities in Well‑being in Germany, UK, Spain and Sweden".
G.Martens, Lydia [Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, England. E-mail: l.d.martens@stirling.ac.uk]; Warde, Alan [Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YL, England. E-mail: soaaw@msmail.lancs.ac.uk] "Last Suppers: On Menus and Meals Eaten Out in Britain".
17. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH AND MATERIAL INEQUALITY Saturday, August 1, 16.30-18.30
Organizer: Noah Lewin-Epstein [Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E‑mail: noah1@spirit.tau.ac.il]
Discussant: Judah Matras [Dept. of Sociology, University of Haifa, Mnt. Carmel, Haifa, 31905 Israel. E-mail: judah@vms.huji.ac.il]
Papers to be presented:
A.Zagorski, Krzysztof [Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polna 18/20, 00‑625 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: zagorski@optimus.waw.pl "Changes in Wealth Distribution During Radical Transformation: Cross‑sectional and Cohort Analysis".
B.Semyonov, Moshe [Institute for Social Research, Dept. of Sociology, Tel Aviv Univ. Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: moshes@spirit.tau.ac.il] "Intergenerational Assistance and Inequality in Living Standards".
C.Lemel, Yannick [Laboratoire de Sociologie Quantitative, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique, 15 Bd. Gabriel Peri (Malakoff 2), 92245 Malakoff Cedex, France. E-mail: lemel@ensae.fr] "Income versus Direct Household Production: Does Household Production Change the Position of the Households within the Stratification System?".
D.Marcus, Tessa [CASE, Suite 210, Postnet X9118, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South‑Africa. E-mail: casepmb@wn.apc.org] "Material Inequality among Families of School‑Goers in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa".
Distributed papers / Poster presentations
E.Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Christopher [Econ‑Soc Research Institute, 4 Burlington Rd., Dublin 4, Ireland. E-mail: Chris.Whelan@esri.ie] "Trends in Cumulative Disadvantage and Urban Poverty in the Republic of Ireland".
F.Sagi, Matild [Tarki Social Research Information Center, Victor Hugo u 18-22, H-1132 Budapest, Hungary. E-mail: sagi@tarki.hu] "Security and Risk Taking. Coordination of Family Members' Strategy and Its Consequences for Income Position of the Household. The Hungarian Example".
G.Turuntsev, Evgeny [Institute for Socioeconomic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences, Krzhizanovskogo 24/35 b.5, 117218 Moscow, Russia. E‑mail: isepp@glas.apc.org] "Multidimensional Estimates of Deprivation in Transitional Russia".
H.Bousquet, Nicole [Department of Sociology, Laval University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Pavillon DeKoninck, Cité Universitair, Quebec, Canada G1K 7P4. E-mail: nicole.bousquet@soc.ulaval.ca] "Patterns of World Reshuffling of Wage Work in the 80s & 90s: The 'Cocktail Hour Glass' Hypothesis of Stratification".
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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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1998 RC28 BOARD ELECTIONS FORM
Please mark 9 candidates from the following slate:
1.Richard Breen (Florence) _____
2.Michael Hout (Berkeley) _____
3.Rob Mare (Los Angeles) _____
4.Peter Robert (Budapest) _____
5.Yossi Shavit (Tel Aviv) _____
6.Shu-Ling Tsai (Taipei) _____
7.Wout Ultee (Nijmegen) _____
8.Yu Xie (Ann Arbor) _____
9.Krzysztof Zagorski (Warsaw) _____
10.Write in #1 ________________________________ _____
11.Write in #2 ________________________________ _____
12.Write in #3 ________________________________ _____
13.Write in #4 ________________________________ _____
14.Write in #5 ________________________________ _____
15.Write in #6 ________________________________ _____
16.Write in #7 ________________________________ _____
17.Write in #8 ________________________________ _____
18.Write in #9 ________________________________ _____
This ballot sheet needs to be received by mail before July 15 1998 by Donald J. Treiman, Department of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles, 90024 CA Los Angeles, USA, or Harry Ganzeboom, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands. Put the sheet in a sealed enveloppe, marked at the outside with YOUR NAME and "RC28 BOARD ELECTIONS". Votes by fax or e-mail will not be accepted.
RESULT OF BOARD ELECTIONS
The Board Elections were held in the Spring of 1998. Nine candidates were proposed by the outgoing board and no other candidates were proposed. The elections were overseen by the Election Committee, consisting of Treiman and Ganzeboom, outgoing board members and not candidates in the election. In accordance with the RC28 statutes, the mail ballot provided the possibility of write-in candidates. A total of 42 members in good standing send in a valid ballot form in time. One write-in candidate received one vote. The other votes were distributed as:
-Richard Breen (Florence, second term) 40
-Michael Hout (Berkeley, first term) 41
-Robert Mare (Los Angeles, first term) 40
-Peter Robert (Budapest, second term) 38
-Yossi Shavit (Tel Aviv, third term) 41
-Shu-Ling Tsai (Taipei, second term) 41
-Wout Ultee (Nijmegen, first term) 40
-Yu Xie (Ann Arbor, second term) 40
-Krzysztof Zagorski (Warsaw, first term) 40
Hout will serve as President and Shavit will be Secretary-Treasurer.
ORIGIN OF RC28 PAPER AUTHORS
One of the goals of RC28 to promote stratification research in an international perspective. In order to find some indications of international orientation of the RC28 programs, a census was taken of authors of all papers in the 1990-1994 (inclusing Bielefeld, excluding Madrid) and 1994-1998 (including Montreal, excluding Bielefeld).
1990-1994 1994-1998
# countries 30 35
# papers 332 396
# female co-authors 32% 35%
# crossnational authors 8% 8%
The most striking development is that both the share of papers by US authors declined, not only relative (from 36% to 28%), but also in absolute terms. Strikingly better represented were France, Japan, Taiwan, Israel and the Netherlands. In total, one can conclude that the papers came from a significantly more international corps of paper-givers, as well as from more countries. Third world countries remain badly underrepresented. The other counts indicate that the representation of women in RC28 increases gradually; since the count is on co-authorship, the percentage is an overestimate of the number of female authors. Cross-national authorship was about stable in relative terms.
MONTREAL MEETINGS
RC28 organized an elaborate and well-attended program at the Montreal World Congress. A total of 70 papers were presented, and another 11 distributed or presented as a poster. The program was coordinated by Harry Ganzeboom. The sessions were organized by Daniel Krymkowski, Krzysztof Zagorski, Paul Nieuwbeerta, Shu-Ling Tsai, Yu Xie, Timo Toivonen, Peter Robert, Michael Hout, Harry Ganzeboom, Jaap Dronkers, Mariah Evans, Yossi Shavit, Janne Jonsson, Haya Stier, Dieter Bögenhold and Moshe Semyonov. Discussants were: Daniel Krymkowski, Michael Hout, Paul Nieuwbeerta, Raymond Wong, David Weakliem, Donald Treiman, Mariah Evans, Krzysztof Zagorski, Richard Breen, Jaap Dronkers, Mariah Evans, Abraham Yogev, Chris Whelan, Gunn Birkelund, Yossi Shavit, Harry Ganzeboom and Judah Matras. Our special host in Montreal was Jean Renaud, who organized the buffet. The business meeting before the buffer was attended by more than 60 members, who inaugorated the new Board and approved the four-year report.
FOUR YEAR REPORT RC28 1994-1998
BOARD
In the period between August 1994 (Bielefeld World Congress) and August 1998 (Montreal World Congress) RC28 was governed by a board of nine: Donald J. Treiman (President), Harry B.G. Ganzeboom (Secretary-Treasurer), Richard Breen, Mariah D.E. Evans, Janne Jonsson, Peter Robert, Yossi Shavit, Shu-Ling Tsai and Yu Xie. The Board met in formal meetings during the Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Taipei conferences and discussed matters of future conferences.
The Board Elections were held in the Spring of 1998. The following candidates were proposed by the outgoing board: Richard Breen, Michael Hout, Rob Mare, Peter Robert, Yossi Shavit, Shu-Ling Tsai, Wout Ultee, Yu Xie and Krzystof Zagorski. The election are overseen by the Election Committee, consisting of Treiman and Ganzeboom, outgoing board members. In accordance with the RC28 statutes, the mail ballot provides the possibility of write-in candidates. The results of the elections will be read to the RC28 Business Meeting at the Montreal World Congress. 42 ballot sheets were received. All the proposed candidates were elected.
STATUTES
Statutes were adopted at the RC28 Business Meeting of the Bielefeld World Congress and published in the RC28 Newsletter of December 1994.
CONFERENCES
July 18-26, 1994, Bielefeld, Germany
RC28 organized some 16 sessions at the Bielefeld World Congress. The program was coordinated by Harry Ganzeboom, Secretary of RC28 and 16 individual session organizers. A total of 74 papers were presented.
May 25‑27, 1995, Zürich, Switzerland
The Spring 1995 Meeting of RC28 was held at the University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland and organized jointly by Volker Bornschier (University of Zurich) and Marlis Buchmann (University of Zürich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). The general conference theme was: DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: MACRO AND MICRO APPROACHES. A total of 69 papers were presented.
August 16-17, 1995, Burlington VT, USA
The Summer 1995 meeting of RC28 was organized by Daniel Krymkowski of the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA. Its general theme was: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILITY. A total of 27 papers were presented.
May 31-June 1, 1996, Stockholm, Sweden
A three-day conference organized by Janne Jonsson and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden, May 31 ‑ June 1, 1996. Theme: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN MODERN WELFARE STATES. A total of 55 papers were presented.
August 13-14, 1996, Ann Arbor MI, USA
A two-day conference organized by Yu Xie. Theme: INTERSECTING DOMAINS OF STRATIFICATION: INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, AND INSTITUTIONS (IN HONOR OF OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN). A total of 42 papers were presented.
May 18-20 1997, Tel Aviv, Israel.
A three-day conference organized by Noah Lewin-Epstein and colleagues at Tel Aviv University. Special focus: INEQUALITY IN IMMIGRANT AND MULTI-ETHNIC SOCIETIES. A total of 59 papers were presented.
August 14-15 1997, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
A two-day conference organized by Michel de Seve at Universite Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The general theme of the conference was: CHANGING PATTERNS OF STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY. Special focus: HISTORICAL MOBILITY, NATIONAL IDENTITY. A total of 31 papers was presented.
January 7-9 1998, Taipei, Taiwan.
A three-day conference organized by Shu-Ling Tsai and colleagues at the Academia Sinica. The general theme was: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILITY. Special focus: THE NEW INDUSTRIALIZING ECONOMIES. A total of 46 papers was presented.
July 27-August 1998, World Congress, Montreal, Canada.
70 papers have been accepted for presentation at Montreal World Congress, another 34 have been accepted for distribution. The program is coordinated by Harry Ganzeboom, Secretary of RC28 and 16 session organizers.
In total, some 399 papers were presented in the 1994-1998 period (after Bielefeld). This constitutes a considerable increase over the 320 paper presented in the 1990-1994 period (after Madrid).
PUBLICATIONS
A Newsletter was published in December 1994, December 1995, November 1996, January 1998 and June 1998. It contained announcements and abstracts of papers presented at previous conferences. The same information is available at the internet site of RC28, maintained by the Secretary.
MEMBERSHIP
After the most recent cleaning, the RC28 membership list has 461 entrees, of whom 360 are paid members. The other 101 are on the list for information, have paid by waiver, or are recent enrollments / expirations by active RC28 participants from whom membership payments are still expected. Four years ago, we had 432 entrees on the list, but only 265 were paid members then. In 1994 ISA adopted a policy to collect membership dues on behalf of its research committees. RC28 maintained the possibility to pay for membership separately. Actual methods of payment were: via check / cash (at conferences) 65%, via ISA 26%, via bank 9%. The ISA policy is partly responsible for the growth of paid membership, but the policy to make membership mandatory for all presenters at RC28 conferences also helped.
The membership (paid + unpaid) was distributed over countries as follows: USA (126), Netherlands (47), Germany (34), Japan (21), Israel (20), England (18), Taiwan (16), Canada (15), Sweden (15), Russia (14), Australia (13), France (13), Switzerland (11), Italy (10), Spain (10), Finland (9), India (9), Poland (8), Norway (6), Denmark (5), Brazil (4), Ireland (4), Czech‑Republic (4), Hungary (3), Hong‑Kong (3), Bulgaria (3), Austria (3), Belgium (3), Northern‑Ireland (3), Turkey (3), China (2), Greece (2), Malaysia (2), Mexico (2), Nigeria (2), Chile, Estonia, Indonesia, Philippines, Portugal, Scotland, South‑Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, Venezuela, Zimbabwe (each 1). There is a conspicuous (relative) decrease of membership in Spain (-11) and in the USA (-3), while membership grew conspicuously in Germany (+13), the Netherlands (+10), Japan (+11), Taiwan (ca. +10).
FUNDS
Income (94/06-98/07) Expenditures (94/06-98/07)
Membership regular $11360 Newsletter $ 3225
Membership reduced $ 1065 Board $ 750
ISA Subvention $ 800 Travel support $ 7800
Interest $ 600 Travel support board $ 750
Positive result $ 1300
$13825 $13825
Balance
Bank accounts 1/5/1994 $ 7800
Bank accounts 1/8/1998 $ 9100
All figures are approximations, due to currency conversions.
RC28 funds are healthy like before, but the positive result was less than in the previous period. For future considerations it is important to keep in mind that the Newsletter costs are primarily paid for stationary & printing, as Utrecht University took care of most of the mailing costs. If mailing of the Newsletter has to be paid from RC28, most of the expenditures would have to be devoted to it.
Harry Ganzeboom
Secretary-Treasurer
July 26 1998