THE MEETINGS OF 2000: LIBOURNE AND CALGARY
RC28 was founded in Paris in 1950. In the year 2000, we celebrated our 50th Anniversary and held the spring meeting in Libourne. The meeting was organized by Yannick Lemel and colleagues and held in May 11 - 14 at the Libourne Conference Center of INSEE, the French Statistical Office. The conference was co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology of the INSEE Research Center, the French National Center for Scientific Research and the French National Science Foundation of Political Science. It’s theme was: THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF RC28 : ACHIEVEMENTS AND OUTLOOKS. The conference was very well attended. Nearly 60 high quality papers were presented and many more bottles of exquisite wine were consumed. We can’t wait for the centennial, and an encore in Libourne! Click here for conference program and paper's abstracts.
The summer meeting of 2000 was held on August 18-20, at the University of Calgary in Canada. Hosted by Dick Wanner and colleagues and the Sociology Department, it was one of the best-organized meetings in recent years. The general theme of the conference was: CHANGING PATTERNS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW MILLENNIUM. Twenty three papers were presented in this highly successful conference, as well as a glorious trip to the Canadian Rockies. Click here for conference program and paper's abstracts.
LOOKING AHEAD: MANNHEIM, BERKELEY, OXFORD…
Mannheim - April 26-28, 2001. The Spring 2001 meeting of RC28 will be held at the The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Germany. Organized by Walter Müller and colleagues, its theme is MARKET EXPANSION, WELFARE STATE RETRENCHMENT AND THEIR IMPACT ON SOCIAL STRATIFICATION. Click here for more details
As this newsletter goes to press, the program for the conference includes 80 papers. It promises to be a very interesting meeting.
Berkeley - August 14-16, 2001. The theme for the summer meeting in Berkeley is “INEQUALITY: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES.” Papers within the broad frame of reference will get priority. Papers not related to the theme should reflect RC 28's interest in over-time and cross-national comparisons instratification research. The application deadline is 30 April 2001. Click for more information.
In 2002 we will meet twice. First, in Oxford from April 11 – 13, and then for the ISA World Congress which will be held in Brisbane on July 7 – 13.
The Oxford meeting is in its initial planning stages. It is organized by Anthony Heath, Geoff Evans and Meir Yaish. The provisional theme of the conference:Social Stratification and Mobility: Integrating Theory and Research. The sponsors of the Oxford meeting are Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.
ISA WORLD CONGRESS 2002
ISA will hold its XVth annual congress on 7 - 13 of July, 2002 at Brisbane, Australia. The theme chosen: THE SOCIAL WORLD IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY: AMBIVALENT LEGACIES AND RISING CHALLENGES. RC28 will hold 18 sessions in Brisbane, of which two will be joint with other RCs. The program is now being planned and will appear in our next newsletter.
TRAVEL AWARDS 2000
The board granted three travel awards during 2000. The recipients of Travel Awards to Libourne were: Iris Jerby who presented a paper entitled "Alternative Segregation Indices for Comparative Analysis"; Laura Arosio, who presented a paper entitled "The Career Mobility Patterns of Two Cohorts of Italian Men: Career Histories as Ordered Sequences". The recipient of Travel Award to Calgary was Irit Adler"Who Buys a House in the Periphery? The Detrimental Effects of Socio-economic Factors and Social Networks”. We look forward to seeing all three scholars in our future meetings.