This is a call for papers on different sociological aspects of transformation European countries that have already joined EU or constitute its neighbors and partners in the wider world. The Research Network 36 positions itself as a platform for scholars who are interested in the field of social transformations in these countries and European integration processes.
The main purpose of our sessions will be to explore the main global and regional challenges and dynamics of Eastern and Central European countries. We invite papers addressing various issues of social transformation in countries of Eastern Europe either in comparative perspective or in a single country. Many questions are under scope. What are the driving forces of social transformations? What are the impacts of global forces and current crisis? What are the consequences of certain social transformations with respect to social structures of society, the emerging social inequalities, etc? How do social transformations overlap with cultural change? What is the role of regional and comparative studies in understanding the process of transformation?
One of the aims is to develop a discourse on social transformations and contribute to the theoretical interpretation of social transformations and complexity of transformation processes going on in institutional structures, cultures, societies and individual lives. The Research Network will bring together researchers from competing paradigms.
We invite papers both on macro-theorizing and resulting from empirical studies which takes into account the changes in individual lives, their identities and solidarities, and focus on everyday life practices in the particular spheres of social life tied to certain local and historical contexts.
We want to bring together younger researchers and prominent scholars, so that they have a chance to share their thoughts and views and collaborate in future. Comparative studies can be one of main foci of the collaboration.
We propose preliminary streaming of the sessions in the following way:
- a01RN36 Rethinking and Theorizing the Experience of Transformations in Eastern and Central European Societies
Chair: Andreas Pickel (Trent University, Canada)
- b01RN36 Rethinking and Theorizing the Experience of Transformations in Eastern and Central European Societies
Chair: Zenonas Norkus (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- 02RN36
- a02RN36 Varieties of Capitalism in New EU Countries
Gordey Yastrebov (Laboratory for Comparative Analysis of Post-Socialist Development, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Russia)
- b02RN36 Varieties of Capitalism in New EU Countries
Chair: Grazyna B Skapska (Institute of Sociology – Jagiellonian University, Poland)
- a03RN36 Problems of Democratic Consolidation and Civic Society
Chair: Marju Lauristin (Social and Educational Sciences/Institute of Journalism and Communication University of Tartu, Estonia)
- b03RN36 Problems of Democratic Consolidation and Civic Society
Chair: Peeter Vihalemm (Institute of Journalism and Communication University of Tartu, Estonia)
- a04RN36 Cultural Changes and Public Sphere: Identities, Values, Images, Mass Media
Chair: Vaida Obelene, Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University
- b04RN36 Cultural Changes and Public Sphere: Identities, Values, Images, Mass Media
Chair: Vladimir Magun (Institute of Sociology Russian Academy of Sciences, Higher School of Economics, Russia)
- a05RN36 Cultural Changes and Public Sphere: Identities, Values, Images, Mass Media
Chair: Marju Lauristin (Social and Educational Sciences/Institute of Journalism and Communication University of Tartu, Estonia)
- b05RN36 Cross-border Relations and Mutual Perceptions:East and West in Europe
Chair: Vaida Obelene (Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University, Sweden)
- a06RN36 Global Crisis and Socio-Economic Outcomes of Transformations
Chair: Zenonas Norkus (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- b06RN36 Global Crisis and Socio-Economic Outcomes of Transformations
Chair: Tadeusz Szawiel (Institute of sociology University of Warsaw, Poland)
- a07RN36 Individual Strategies of Coping with the Economic Crisis in East and West of Europe
Chair: Gordey Yastrebov (Laboratory for Comparative Analysis of Post-Socialist Development, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Russia)
- b07RN36 Sociology of Transformations: Adaptation to the New Institutional Environment
- b09RN36 Corporate responsibility
- 10RN36
