INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION - ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE SOCIOLOGIEPinar 25, 28006 Madrid, Spain

phone: (34-1) 261 74 83, (34-1) 261 74 85

EXEctrrIVE COMHITTEE1986-1990

PresidentMargaret ArcherDepartment of SociologyUniversity of WarwickCoventry CV4 7AL, U.K.

Vice-President, ResearchCouncilEIse 0yenHealth & Social PolicyStudies, Univ of BergenFastíngs Minde5014 Bergen, Norway

Vice-President, K_bershipand Fioaoce eo..itteeWilfried DumonDepartment of SociologyCatholic UniversityE. van Evenstraat 2b3000 Leuven, Belgium

Vice-President, Prograa &Publications eo.mitteesArtur MeierInstitute of SociologyHumboldt UniversityHans-Loch-Str. 3491136 Berlin, GDR

Past President 1982-1986Fernando H. CardosoCEBRAP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Kellbers

Simi A. AfonjaObafemi Awolowo University,Nigeria

Paolo AmmassariUniversity of Rome, Italy

Daniel BertauxC.N.R.S., Paris, France

Elizabeth JelínCEDES, Buenos Aires,Argentina

Deniz KandiyotiRichmond College, U.K.

Melvin L. KohnJohns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, USA

T.K. OommenJawaharlal Nehru UnivNew Delhi, India

Gennady V. OsipovInst Sociological ResearchMoscow, USSR

D.M. PestonjeeIndian Inst ManagementAhmedabad, India

Céline Saint-PierreUniv du Québec a MontréalCanada

Neil J. SmelserUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley, USA

Otoyori TaharaTohoku Gakuin UniversitySendai, Japan

Executive SecretaryIzabela Barlinska

SUB-COKKITTEES

Research Coordinatingec-UteeEIse 0yen, ChairpersonElizabeth Jelín(EC representative)Simi A. Afonja (RC 36)Daniel Bertaux (RC 38)Deniz Kandiyoti (RC 32)Manfred Kuechler (RC 33)Petar E. Mitev (RC 34)D.M. Pestonjee (RC 35)Neil Smelser (RC 02)

Kellbership & Financeec-UteeWilfried Dumon, ChairT.K. Oommen, IndiaGennady Osipov, USSRPeter Q. Reinsch,The Netherlands

Publications ec-ittee

céline Saint-Pierre, ChairInternational Sociology:Martin Albrow, EditorJacques Coenen-Huther,SwitzerlandSalvador Giner, SpainLyuben Nickolov, BulgariaT.K. Oommen, IndiaCurrent Sociology:William Outhwaite, EditorMaria Carrilho, PortugalVelichko Dobrianov,BulgariaKurt Jonassohn, CanadaSociological Abstracts:Leo P. Chall, EditorSage Studies ~n Inter-national Sociology:Wilfried Dumon, EditorOrlando Fals Borda,ColombiaMarie Haug, USAJan Toschenko, USSRExecutive CommitteeRepresentatives:Melvin L. Kohn, USAC. Saint-Pierre, CanadaResearch CoordinatingCommittee Representative:D.M. Pestonjee, IndiaObserver:Steven Barr, SAGE

Pro~ ec-ittee

Artur Meier, Chairperson(Institute of Sociology,Humboldt University,Hans-Loch-Str. 349,1136 Berlin, GDR)Simi Afonja, ObafemiAwolowo Univ, NigeriaInés Alberdi, UniversidadComplutence Madrid, SpainOrlando Albornoz, CaracasUniversidad de Venezuela,VenezuelaPaolo Ammassari, Univ ofRome, ItalyMargaret Archer, Univ ofWarwick, U.K.Albaka Carmasi, CERES,TunisiaJosé Cazorla, Universityof Granada, Spain

Jacques Dofny, Universitéde Montréal, CanadaWilfried Dumon, CatholicUniversity Leuven, BelgiumSalvador Giner, UniversidadCentral de Barcelona, SpainE1izabeth Jelin, CEDES,Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFrank L. Jones, Nationa1Univ, Canberra, AustraliaChavdar Kiuranov, Inst ofSociology, Sofia, BulgariaJacques Lautman, CNRS,Paris, FranceJuares R.B. Lopes, CEBRAP,Sao Paulo, BrazilClaus Offe, UniversifBielefeld, FRGT.K. Oommen, JawaharlalNehru University, IndiaGennady Osipov, Instituteof Social Research, USSRAyse Oncü, Bogazi~iUniversity, TurkeyE1se 0yen, University ofBergen, NorwayNeil Smelser, Univ ofCalifornia, Berkeley, USAShujiro Yazawa, HitosubashiUniversity, Tokyo, JapanTatiana Zaslavskaya, SovietSociological Assoc, USSRJanusz Ziolkowski, Univ ofPoznan, Poland

RepresentativesONESCODelegates:

to ISSC-

EIse 0yenJacques Dofny

Alternates: Daniel BertauxDeniz Kandiyoti

Representative to ICfONESCOJames Beckford, U.K.

Representatives to UNNew York: Else 0yen

Melvin KohnVienna: Paolo Ammassari

Max HallerGeneva: Daniel Bertaux

Jacques Coenen-Huther

Representatives to WBOHans Ulrich Deppe, FRGPhilippe Lehmann,Switzerland

The ISA BULLETIN is the official publication of the Secretariat of the International Sociological Association.Editor: Izabela Barlinska Assistant: Eva Deleyto Cover design: ESTUART-IBA~EZThree issues per year appear in Spring, Summer and Autumn with an average printing of 5000 copies. The ISABULLETIN is distributed free of charge to members of the ISA. Deadlines for submission of items of interest toour members are: Spring issue: January 1, Summer issues: May 15, Autumn issue: October 1.

Published by the International Sociological Association under the auspices of the ISSC and with the financialassistance of UNESCO. UNESCO subvention 1988-89/DDG/7.7.2/SUB/SHSPrinted by Fareso, S.A., Madrid, Spain. Depósito legal: M.25.817-1987

XII WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY9-13 JULY 1990. MADRID. SPAIN

Congress venuSessions of the XII World Congress of Sociology willbe held on the premises of the Universidad Complutensein Madrid.

In order to present a paperplease write directly as soon as possible to a sessionchair. Names and addresses of session chairs werepublished in ISA Bulletin 49. Copies of the Bulletinare available at the ISA Secretariat in Madrid.

Congress Registration FODaS and Acca..odation & TourFor.s are available at the ISA Secretariat in Madrid.Xerocopies of the original forms may be used as well.

Please note that scholars who will present paper(s).w act as chair/discussant/rapporteur. have to

ter to the Congress before the end of 1989 inor er to be included in the Program Book.

IHPORTANT DEADLINES

October 1. 1989is the deadline for session organizers to submitfinal prograas to the ISA Secretariat providing thefollowing information on each session:- title of the session- names and addresses of authors, discussants, etc.- title of their papers

February 1. 1990is the deadline for submitting abstracts of papers tothe ISA Secretariat. Forms and instructions forsubmitting abstracts can be obtained from sessionorganizers. Please note that each abstract form hasto be signed by a session organizer.Anything received after this date will not be printedin the Sociological Abstracts issue included in theCongress participant kit.Sociological Abstracts retain copyright on allabstracts.

J, 1. 1990is the deadline for sending 2 copies of papers to theISA Secretariat. A Reproduction Center will beorganized by the Spanish Local Organizing Committeeat the Congress venue and papers will be duplicatedon request for other participants at the modest price(to be anoounced).ISA retains the Eoglish language copyright and theSpanish Local Organizing Committee retains the Spanishlanguage copyright on all papers delivered and eachof them has first option on a publication of papersin a respective language.

TABLE OF CONTElffS

page 1 - XII World Congress of Sociology: reminders- International Institute for Sociology of Law

page 3 - In Memoriam: Magdalena Sokolowskapage 5 - Calendar of future eventspage 6 - Reports from the Research Committeespage 16 - Call for papers and awardsBack inside cover: Anoual Review of SociologyInlay: ISA Membership Dues 1989-1992

ISA Publications* Current Sociology * International Socio10gy* Sage Studies in International Sociology* Sociological Abstracts

DITIOOiATIONAL INSTITU'l'EPOR TBE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

The Research Committee on Sociology of Law hasrecently founded in Oñati, in the Basque Country(Spain), the Internationa1 Institute for the Sociologyof Law. This foundation has been carried out underthe auspices of the International SociologicalAssociation and with a significant financial andorganizational support of the Department ofPresidence, Justice and Autonomus Development of theBasque Government, the Diputacion of the Provine e ofGipuzkoa, and the Town Hall of Oñati. The off~cialopening ceremony took place on 24th May 1989.

The Institute offers professors and researchers, aswell as students at an advanced level of doctorate orpost-graduate studies: permanent services (reception,a library, a centre of bibliographic information),seminars, regular colloguiums, up-dating seminars(high level courses, conferences-debates, multi-disciplinary talks)¡ seminars on specialized topics.

Besides the organization of numerous internationalmeetings. the Institute will welcome researchers onsabbatical leave. and scholarship holders sent bytheir sponsors, who aim to complete their study periodor to emba.rk on a doctoral thesis. As a matter offact, an International Doctorate on Sociology of Lawis in the process of being set up by the Institute,in cooperation with the University of the BasqueCountry.

The Oñati International Institute for the Sociologyof Law is directed in the first place at legal socio-logists and sociologists interested in the researchon law and justice. However, having an interdiscipli-nary vocation, its desire is to receive sociologistsof various interests. psychologists, philosophers,etc. All those who whish to participate in any of theactivities organized within the framework of theInstitute, are welcome, in addition to KesearchCommittees and professional groups who would like touse the structures of the Institute for theirconferences, seminars.

The Institute also offers researchers valuable workinginstruments: a data baok on Sociology of Law, a maga-zine Current Legal Sociology, a publication of theInstitute's reports Ofiati Proceedings.

LocationThe Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law islocated in an irreplaceable setting: visitors to theInstitute will benefit from a unique sojourn in a XVIcentury University, the room s of which have beenentirely renovated. They will also find at theirdisposal a very rich and specialized library, modernmeeting rooms, computers, a video instalation forfield surveys, a centre of computerized information,and over 15 international newspapers in the lounge.

The Town Hall of Oñati offers to all those working inthe Institute the use of the local sports centre, alanguage laboratory, a private system of local trans-port and the free admittance to the local culturalestablishments.

Governing Board of the Institute

Renato TREVES Past President and Found~ng Memberof the Research Committee onSociology of Law¡ life member

Members appointed by the Research Committeeon Sociology of Law:Jean VAN HOUTTE President of the Research Committee

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f Law (University ofAntwerp, Belgium)

Vicenzo FERRARI Vice-President of the ResearchCommittee (University of Bologna,Italy)

Volkmar GESSNER Secretary of the Research Committee(University of Bremen, FRG)

Terence HALLIDAY Associate Director of the AmericanBar Foundations (Chicago, USA)

Else 0YEN Vice-President of the ISA(University of Bergen, Norway)

Members appointed by the Basque Government:Emilio BARBERA GUILLEM, Rector of the University of

the Basque CountryJosé Ignacio GARCIA RAMOS, Vice-Chancellor of Justice

of the Basque GovernmentIñaki GOIKOTXETA Vice-Chancellor of the Juridical

Department and AutonomousDevelopment of the Basque Government

Elias DIAZ Professor at the AutonomousUniversity of Madrid

Francisco J. CABALLERO HARRIET, Director of theLaboratory of Sociology of Law atDonostia/San Sebastian

Scientific Director of the Institute:André-Jean ARNAUD, Director of Research, CNRS

Paris, France

POST-COliGRESS SIlIIDIAR 011 SOCIOLOGY OF LAWoñati, 14 - 18 July 1990

During the opening ceremony:Else 0yen, Jean Van Houtte, Renato Treves, JoséAntonio Ardanza Garro (President of the BasqueGovernrdent), Juan Ramón Guevara (Minister ofPresidence, Justice and Development), Emilio Barb J

Guillem, Elías Diaz, José Ignacio García Ramos,Francisco Javier Caballero Harriet, Iñaki Goikotxeta

Vincenzo Ferrari, Else 0yen,Jean Van Houtte, Renato Treves

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There will be a seminar organized just after the ISA XII World Congress of Sociology. A preliminary program is:

14 July 1990:15 July16 July

17 July18 July

Trip from Madrid to OñatiSightseeing in Oñati and San Sebastian"Is theory in the Sociology of Law in such a miserable state? Why?" A plenarysession and sub-groupsEmpirical Sociology of Law (open to proposals)Departure of participants

All scholars interested in contributing to the program should write directly to the Scientific Director of theInstitute, Professor André-Jean Arnaud. Applications to participate in the seminar should be submitted to theInstitute beofre 30 March 1990. Participation fee, travel expenses and lodging amount to Pts 10.000 to be paidto the following account:International Institute for the Sociology of LawAccount no. 01-052995/2, Oficina 326, Banco de Bilbao/Vizcaya, Oñati, Spain

For any further and more detailed information, please write to:The General SecretaryOñati International Institute for the Sociology of LawAntigua Universidad de OñatiA.P.28 - 20560 Oñati (Gipuzkoa), Spain

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IN HEMORIAK: MAGDALENA SOKOLOWSKA 1922 - 1989

The ISA has lost one of its best loved colleagueswith the death of Magdalena Sokolowska on Friday,April 21st. It is hard to realise that her vivacityand warmth have gone out of the world, for there wassomething intrinsically life-giving about Magdalena.She was incapable of pessimism or inactivity butpossessed an energy and strength on which so manypeople drew both in public and in private. Perhapsthe core of her goodness was that she treated everypersonal encounter as important: each individual wasworth taking seriously, whether taken to task (forshe was no respecter of status) or treated to one ofher ironic diagnoses of current affairs.

Her career began as a medical doctor in Poland, butshe gradually began to explore the interface betweenw _ ine and the social sciences and to confront thet•...zí.ons of performing the introduction between thetwo. These early academic struggles are documented ina self-a~alysis she contributed to MedicalSociologists at Work (edited with Ray Elling, 1978).Already by 1963 her integration of the two areas wasapparent in her first book Socio-Medical Characteris-tics of Women's Work produced for her Docent degree.

From there began the genesis of the Sociology ofMedicine in Poland, behind which Magdalena wasundoubtedly the prime mover. The distinctive patternof her contribution was immediately apparent. Itconsisted in using her growing internationalconnections to deepen her own knowledge of the fieldwhich she then fed back in to the nascent specialismin Poland. In 1965 the Medical Sociology Departmentat the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of thePolish Academy of Sciences, was founded with Magdalenabecoming its first head and she was equallyinstrumental in establishing the Medical Sociologysection of the Polish Sociological Association ayearearlier.

The role of transmitting knowledge gained internatio-and then reintegrating it nationally became her

h ark throughout the 60s and 70s. Especially inthe area of mental health Magdalena spearheaded amove away from quantitative epidemiological study toa more theoretical approach and succeeded in gainingthe funding for this. Her commitment to establishingmedical sociology in Poland went very deep. After herfirst major operation four years ago, she wentstraight back to her desk saying that her main aimwas to live long enough to see 40 qualified medicalsociologists working in Poland, thus consolidatingthe specialism and ensuring its continuation.

Magdalena's role as a transmitter and facilitor was atwo-way one. On the international level she gaveconstant support to increasing social science inputinto medical practice and played a vital part in theWHO to this end, as well as acting as an editor ofSocial Science and Medicine. Her capacity to pullmedical sociologists together and stimulate cross-national interchange was highlighted at the 1973Jablonna Conference from which Health, Medicine,Society emerged three years later, co-edited withJackoholowica and Kloskowska.

Research for the WHO and teaching in the USA, Belgiumand Germany brought her into contact with many on thepersonal level. It must be a source of great pleasureto those at the University of Helsinki and Universityof Siegen who recognized her academic contribution in

with a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree and paid tributeto her in a Festschrift produced on that occasion.

An important part of Magdalena's internationalactivity centred around the ISA. She had a longlasting involvement with the Research Committee onSociology of Medicine and 20 years ago producedSociological Studies in Medicine illustrating thestate of the arto She served 2 terms on the ExecutiveCornmittee and became the first woman Vice-Presidentof the ISA (1978-82). During this time she madeexceptional contributions to developing the work ofthe Research Council. I suppose the event many of uswill remember most was her organization of theJablonna mid-term Congress in 1980. The setting inthe Poniatowski's summer palace, the outbreak of thestrikes in Gdansk and the intellectual exuberance ofthat meeting reflected some of the facets ofMagdalena's personality. What later becameaffectionately known as 'the blue book' (Sociology:the State of the Art, edited jointly with TomBottomore and Stefan Nowak) was the product of thatmeeting and was distributed to all participants atthe Mexico World Congress.

At our next world congress (Madrid 1990) we are sadlygoing to be honouring Magdalena in another way. Therewill be a session in tribute to her, taking the formwe th~nk she would have chosen herself - papers givenon the best of medical sociology, which we hope willindeed be worthy of becoming another "blue book" forpublication. "Business as usual" was one of hersayings throughout her illness and one we will respectin Madrid. In the meanwhile gratitude for her life ishaving a hard battle against a bleak sense of lossamongst her friends who loved her.

Margaret Archer, ISA President 1986-90

The death of Magdalena Sokolowska is a very greatloss to international sociology. I knew her best inthe period 1974/78 when I was President of the ISAand she was a member of the Executive Cornmittee, inwhich capacity she made a major contribution to ourwork, not least in organizing a very successful meet-ing of the Executive Committee in Radziejowice nearWarsaw in 1977. Subsequently, Magdalena became aVice-President of the ISA responsible for the work ofthe Research Council (1978-82), and I was associatedwith her again in editing (together with Stefan Nowak)the book Sociology: The State of the Art (Sage 1982)which resulted from her initiative in promoting a

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conference of representatives of the ISA researchcommittees to discuss the main theoretical and metho-dological developments in their particular fields.Others can write with more authority about Magdalena'sdistinctive contributions to the sociology ofmedicine; for myself 1 wish to express my greatsadness on the death of a vivid and stimulatingcolleague, and a most valued friendo

Tom Bottomre, ISA President 1974-1978

Magdalena sokolowska died in Warsaw on April 21,1989, at the age of 67. For many years she has beenrecognized as the premier medical/health sociologistin Eastern Europe. This status she achieved throughher very live intelligence, seemingly boundlessenergy, rock hard determination, marvelous sense ofhumor, and, above all, rare sense of selfless leader-ship. She was forever seeing to the development ofothers and progress of the field; never concernedwith tooting her own horno

One can only speculate on the forces which shaped herin this way. A strong willed, deeply loving, support-ive Mother who survives her was surely one. No doubtthe school of hard knocks which accompanied the wartime and Nazi occupation of Poland as she was enteringadvanced schooling taught many lessons. Selectedpassages from her own work autobiography offer aglimpse into these early years of her truly remarkablecareer (1, pp. 289-291):

"1 graduated from high school (gimnazium) in June1939, and in September was to enter the Nationallnstitute of Theatre Arts in Warsaw to study acting.But on the first of September the war broke out and onthe third German troops were already in my town

In November 1939 1 found myself in Warsaw.

"1 was seventeen, the only child of a wel1-offfamily of the intelligentsia, for the first time onmy own. What to do? All secondary and higher schoolswere closed down. Nazis were not interested in produc-ing an educated stratum of Poles. They allowed onlythe primary schools and a few vocational schools tofunction. Among these there was a two-and-a-half-yearnursing school of the Polish Red Cross. Since it hada dormitary and 1 had nowhere to 1ive. 1 decided toenter this school.

"In June 1942, 1 received my license as aregistered nurse. At the same time 1 passedexaminations after a two-year course at the MedicalFacu1ty of the Underground Warsaw University. Therewas an excel1ently organized system of secret second-ary and higher education in Warsaw which embraced a1arge number of young people.

Although she had a completely free choice of a placeto work, there being asevere shortage of medicalstaff at the time, she entered the rather low prestigefield of social medicine, spending four years in theDepartment of Hygiene. On the basis of a dissertationon housing density and its relationship to theincidence of scarlet fever, she received the degreeof Doctor of Medicine.

In the early 1950s she worked in Lodz - "the PolishManchester" - as an industrial physician. Her husband,also a physician, a neurosurgeon whom she had met asa student in the underground medica1 school in Warsaw,had been transferred to the Central Military Hospitalin Lodz. lt was this work which brought her closer toseeking deeper sociological understanding and laidsome of the groundwork for her 1ater we1l knownresearch on women's work and health published in

Polish and German ("Sociomedical Characteristics ofWomen's Work") which was accepted as the basis for herdegree of Docent of Socio10gy in 1963. Her insightsinto family and work conflicts and difficultconditions of life were gained not only from lookingoutside of the large textile combine where she wasthe medical director and the majority of workers werewomen, they came out of her own experience in a sadlydissolving marriage (1, p 293-294):

"1 worked like mad 1 worked to realize asociologist model of the industrial doctor, codirectorof the plant who is concerned not only with workers'ill hea1th but with the broadly conceived conditionsof work and social facilities as a member of themanaging collective - in a word, as a mode1 physician-pub1ic activist. This required almost constantpresence in the enterprise, participation in endlessmeetings, conferences, confrontations, actions. 1moreover desired to win the confidence of the peopleemployed in this combine and this entailed first ofal1 being a good doctor.

·"Besides all that there was my home. My hus ~dwas a neurosurgeon. He built up, organized, ddirected a neurosurgical department at the militaryhospital .... We had two small children. 1 realizeonly now what a difficult childhood they had and 1 amsurprised that they have no complaints on that score.We counted every penny, for we did not earn muchoBoth our posts were in the relatively low-incomecategory, as compared with the earnings of doctorspracticing individual clinical medicine. We had acold, dark, damp apartment, heated by coal stoves. Wehad to carry pails of coal to the fourth floor fromthe ce11ar of a neighboring staircase.

"After the war we could not cope with the familyroles which in the difficult living conditions wereovershadowed by our professional roles. We were liketwo racing horses pulling in different directions.Absorbed in creating a social macrostructure, wedestroyed our own microstructure. 1 am nowable toexpress this situation in a scholarly way as befits asociologist. Then, 1 saw only the progressive processof disintegration of my marriage and 1 could not, andperhaps did not want to, resist it.

"The price 1 paid for my professional career wasrather high. 1 have asked myself many times whet 1would pay such a price if 1 could start all ~.cragain and with my present experience. The questionremains unanswered; 1 simply do not know. 1 lost muchand gained much, and then - the values lost and thosegained are qualitatively different and incomparable."

Her career as a sociologist began after studies inthe Program in Sociomedical Science at ColumbiaUniversity's School of Public Health where shereceived the MPH. Her autobiographical statementdescribes her first experiences:

"1 arrived there in 1958; it was like arriving onanother planet. lt was a family reason which broughtme to the United States, but our Ministry of Healthagreed to my extended stay, long enough to finish theprogram of studies for the Master of Public Healthdegree at Colombia University School of Public Health.

"For several weeks 1 was in a state of culturalshock. 1 was never previously in the West. 1 had beena pretty dogmatic industrial physician in the PolishPeople's Republic. 1 knew English only so much that 1was able to read and more or less to understand theindustrial medicine literature."

But as her interest was deep and motivation high, shepersisted. She gained a great dea1 from course work

on the methodology of social surveys which stood herin good stead in her later work.

By good fortune she heard about, applied for andreceived a position in the Department of Sociology ofWork of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology inthe prestigeous Polish Academy of Sciences. It washere that she did the reseal'ch which resu1ted in herfirst book as mentioned above.

In 1965 she estab1ished the Medical Sociology Depart-ment at the Institute of Philosophy and Socio1ogy.Through this vehic1e as we1l as teaching at theUniversity of Warsaw and engaging young researchersin her studies, she was ab1e to encourage thedeve10pment of a who1e cadre of excellently trainedyoung medica1/hea1th socio1ogists who are ab1e tocarry on this work in Poland. The Department didresearch in severa1 spheres of concern, most notablyin disability and rehabi1itation and made theoreticalcontributions which were pub1ished in both Po1ish andEng1ish (2). The unit also co11aborated across natio-nal boundaries. One of these co1laborations (with

agues in New York as well as her Polishc~ ~agues) resulted in the first study in the Sovietsphere of the distribution of measured inte1ligenceby social c1ass and other environmental factors. Ittook her daring and skill to navigate such waters.Other work was carried out joint1y with the Medica1Research Counci1 Social Research Unit in Aberdeen,Scotland. She made her strongest mark, however, inestab1ishing medica1 socio1ogy as a 1egitimate fie1dof endeavor in Po1and and the Soviet sphere, at a timewhen such endeavor was hardly we1comed.

She quickly carne to internationa1 attention by virtueof these co1laborating studies with co11eagues in NewYork and Aberdeen. She was one of the early membersof the Steering Board of the (now ca1led) ResearchCommittee on the Sociology of Hea1th (RC15) of theInternational Sociological Association and served asVice Chairperson of RC15, her terms ending 1974. Shecarne to prominence in generic soci010gy in partthrough her service as a Vice President of the Inter-nationa1 Sociological Association (1978-1982). Sheserved on WHO experted Committees both at Headquartersin Geneva and at the Regional Off ice for Europe inCopenhagen. Her most recent work with WHO was on thehe th burdens of social inequities.

In cecent years she has been a member ofNational Commission on Health and hasadvisor to Solidarity in its round tablewith the Polish government on matters of

Solidarity'sserved as annegotiationshealth.

It was a great privilege and pleasure to know andwork with this very special persono We will all missher. Her memory lives fondly on.

Professor sokolowska is survived by her mother andher son Stefan (a mathematician) in Poland, by adaughter Marysia in Canada, and by two grandchildren.

Ray Elling (University of Connecticut),RC15 Chairperson,and Jack Elinson (Columbia Univecsity)

References1. "My Path to Medical Soc í.oLogyt' , pp.289-308 in~M~e~d~i~c~a~1~~S~0~c~i~0~1~0~g~1~'s~t=s~~a~t~~W~0~r~k,edietd by Ray Ellingand Magdalena Sokolowska, New Brunswick, NJ: Transac-tion Books, 19782. Magdalena Sokolowska, et al. Health, Medicine,Society, Dodrecht, The Netherlands and Boston: D.Reidel¡ Warsaw: PWN - Polish Scientific Publishers,1976

CALENDAR OP PUTURE EVEMTS

Sept~r 21-22, 1989Working Group on Systems Theory: ThicdInternational Meeting on the Contri-butions of Systems Theory to Social(Political, Economic, etc.) Knowledge:The State of the Art

Place: Toulouse, FranceInformation: Professor J.C. Lugan

Université des Sciences SocialesPlace A. France, 31042 Toulouse Cedex,France

October 1-6, 1989lnternatiooal Worltsbop of the Researcheo..ittee on Participation, Workers'Control and Self-Kanage.ent, andBulgarian Research lnstitue for TradeUnion StudiesSocial Needs, Ownership and Trade Unions"Sofia, BulgariaKrastyu PetkovInstitute Sociology, Moskovska Str 13 ASofia 1000, Bulgaria

Theme:Place:Information:

October 2-7 ,

Place:Main theme:

1989IXth General Conference of thelnternatiooal Federatioo. of SocialScience Organization IPSSOTokyo, JapanChange in Academic Policy: Social Sciencein a Changing Worldresearch and training systems and theirreforms * new fields and social sciencebeyond the traditional academic bound-aries * interface between science-technology and society * academic infra-structures for international cooperationand exchange prograrnsIFSSO Conference, SecretariatInternational Communications, Inc.Kasho Bldg., 2-14-9, Nihombashi,Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103, Japantel: (03)272.7981, fax:273.2445telex:222.3585 ICS J

Subthemes:

Information:

October 22-26, 1989lnteroatiooal Confereuce of the Ilesearcheo..ittee 011 Sociology of Religioo.:Natioo. Building in Political andReligious Perspectives

Place: Baltimore, Washington, USAInformation: Karol Borowski

Dept Political Science, Towson StateUniversity, Towson MD 21204, USA

Bo~r 3-4, 1989Secood lnternational. Conference onIndustrial and Organizatiooal CrisisHanagellentNew York University, New York, USA* organizational issues in crisis manage-ment * science, technology, andindustrial policies relevant to crisismanagement * conflict resolution issuesin crisis management * multidiscip1inaryperspectives on crisis management

Information: Paul Shrivastava .Industrial Crisis Inst, New York Univ90 Trinity Place, New York, NY 10006-1594

Place:Themes:

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REPORTS OF ACTIVITIES FROM TBE RESEARCH COHKITTEES

Reports from other Research Cornmittees were publishedin the ISA Bulletin no.48

RC 15SOCIOLOGY OF BEALTB

Report submitted by Rance P.L. Lee, Secretary

The Cornmittee was officially adopted by the ISA inJanuary 1963. It was then named as "The ResearchCornmittee on Medical Sociology". With the approval ofthe Resear~h Council and the Executive Cornmittee ofISA in 1986, the Cornmittee has been re-named as "TheResearch Cornmittee on the Sociology of Health". Thepurpose is to recognize the breadth of our concernsand works with all kinds of people for the promotionof health. It is the health of people rather than themedical service in itself that should be of ourprimary concern. And nowadays it is the primary healthcare for all rather than the high-technology medicalcare that requires greater attention and more partici-pation by sociologists around the world.

Starting from 1974, the Cornmittee has been governedby the Steering Board made up of six members eachserving a term of eight years. Since the last ISACongress in 1986, members of the RC 15 Steering Boardhave been as follows:

Active Members Term

Debabar Banerji, IndiaRay E1ling (Chairperson), USAHeidrun Kaupen-Haas, FRGAsa Cristina Laurell, MexicoRance P.L. Lee (Secretary-Treasurer)Hong KongStella Quah (Vice Chairperson)Singapore

1986-941982-901986-941986-94

1982-90

1986-94

Members-ElectHans-Ulrich Deppe, FRG 1986-90

(Active 90-98)1986-90

(Active 90-98)Kyoichi Sonoda, Japan

Newsletter EditorWim van den Heuvel, The Netherlands 1986-

Associate Regional Newsletter Editor (North America)Derek Gill, USA 1987-

Both Ray Elling and Rance P.L. Lee will have servedout their eight-year terms by 1990. They will then bereplaced by Hans-Ulrich Deppe and Kyoichi Sonoda, nowmembers-elect. The other four active members willretire in 1994. Therefore, at the RC 15 businessmeeting during the coming ISA Congress in Madrid in1990, the membership at large will have to elect fourmembmers-elect of the Steering Board for a four-yearterm (1990-94) before they become active members fora term of eight years (1994-2002). Moreover, in thesame meeting the six active members (Banerji, Kaupen-Haas, Laurell, Quah, Deppe, Sonoda) of the SteeringBoard will have to choose among themselves to serveas Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, and Secretary-Treasurer. After retirement, Ray Elling (nowChairperson) and Rance Lee (now Secretary-Treasurer)m~y be voted to serve as emeritus-members of theBoard.

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In order to strengthen our contacts and collaborationswith health sociologists in developing countries, theCornmittee has invited the following persons to serveas national focal point:Dr. Tavitong Hongvivatana, Thailand, Dr. Akwasi Aidoo,Tanzania, Dr. Kaling Tudor Silva, Sri Lanka, Dr.Misva, Napal, Dr. Soon-Young Yoon, WHO/sEARO, Dr. R.Venkataratnam, India

Since this is a new concept, the duties of a nationalfocal person cannot be clearly specified for the timebeing and have to be gradually formulated out ofconcrete experiences. To begin with, they are sugges-ted to (1) collect items of news on health sociologyand forward them to RC 15 Newsletter editor, (2)encourage membership in RC 15, and (3) possiblyencourage local or regional research meetings andotherwise see to the development of the field.

MembershipAbout 500 persons are on the RC 15 membership listoUp to now a total of 104 members have paid up themembership dues, of whom 84 are from hard-currencycountries and 10 are from soft-currency count .Members in the former category paid US$20 for thL ~oyears, while members in the latter category paid US$4for two years. Considerations are being made aboutraising the dues after the coming ISA Congress in1990.

FinancesAs regards the financial situation, the Cornmittee hasa balance of US$4,200 up to the end of April 1989. Inaddition, the ISA Research Council in its September1988 meeting decided to grant US$800 for subsidizingthe publication of RC 15 Newsletter.

NewsletterJerome Stromburg, University of Colorado, USA hasbeen replaced by Wim van den Heuvel, Department ofMedical Sociology, University of Groningen, TheNetherlands to serve as the RC 15 Newsletter editorbeginning from early 1987. Since then four issues ofthe Newsletter have been published: No. 18 (Feb.1987), No. 19 (Aug. 1987), No. 20 (Feb. 1988), andNo. 21 (Dec. 1988).

ISA Research CouncilSince January 1988, Asa Cristina Laurell hasserving as the Alternative Delegate of RC 15 tLResearch Council of ISA.

ISA - WHOThe Cornmittee continues to serve as a point of liaisonbetween ISA and WHO. Various ways of making furthercollaboration are being explored. A difficulty of RC15 members, mostly researchers-scholars, is the lackof significant funds for travel or projects. Financialassistance through WHO is thus very much needed. RayElling, our Cornmittee Chairperson has recently writtento R.C. Anderson, Chief of the Office of ExternalCoordination, WHO to indicate our need for financialassistance and to suggest an informal discussionmeeting between selected members of RC 15 and staffof WHO about possible plans for more productive rela-tion. "AIDS" and "Leadership Development for Healthfor All through Primary Health Care" are two of thecommon interests between RC 15 and WHO.

It is stressed that a longstanding concern of theCommittee is to train and develop socio-healthresearchers to work on problems of primary healthcare in the push for health for all in developingcountries. These researchers are to be equipped withsuch theoretical perspectives and methodologicalskills that would allow them to deal with authentic

citizen participation, prestige-reward structures,cultural orientations, organization-environmentrelations, stratification and power and other concernscentral to the promotion of health for all throughprimary health care. There are large numbers of prop-erly trained health sociologists, anthropologists andpolitical economists in the industrial nations butvery few in Africa and in many countries of Asia. OurCommittee is prepared to work with WHO to find ways ofencouraging and facilitating the development of thekind of socio-health research workers in developingcountries, rather than those epidemiologists andother public health researchers that are more familiarto WHO.

The World Health Organization invited three membersof RC 15 to attend the Second International Dialogueof Resource Network for Health for A11 LeadershipDevelopment, he1d in Hawaii from 29 August to 2September, 1988, and hosted by the Scho01 of Pub1icHealth, University of Hawaii. These three RC 15members were Ray Elling, Rance P.L. Lee and MasahiraAnesaki. As representatives of the ISA ResearchO ittee on the Sociology of Hea1th, they workedw·. participants from other four networks: WHOLeadership Task Force, the Global Network of WHOCollaborating Centres for Nursing Development, theNetwork of Community-Oriented Educational Institutionsfor Health Sciences, and the Asia-Pacific AcademicConsortium for Public Health. Dr. Hafdan Mahler,Director-General Emeritus of WHO served as a keyparticipant and gave a presentation on "SocialJustice--the Underpinning for Health LeadershipDevelopment" .

The Dialogue focused on the role of institutions ofhigher education in the Health for All movement. Itwas commonly agreed among the participants in theDialogue that academic institutions can play animportant role in the HFA movement and it isworthwhile to invest resources for leadershipdevelopment in academic institutions, but it willrequire sustained commitment from people both withinand without the institutions. While the participantsagreed on the importance of networking in thepromotion and enhancement of leadership developmentin the global quest for HFA, it was decided that itwould not be appropriate to establish a new "networkof networks" of academic institutions. What needs to

one in the foreseeable future is to strengthen•.' expand the existing networks through individualand networking commentments to the development ofleadership. Communications, linkages and sharing ofresources among networks should be increased, andthere is also a need to expand interprofessionalinvolvement by academic institutions in communitysettings.

In this connection, it should be reported thatfollowing an initial exploratory two-week workingsession in Geneva in March 1988, Ray Elling, our RC15 Chairperson, took part as a resource person to avery successful WHO Technical Discussions. He wasthen sent to do some case studies of different typesof leadership for health for all, one in Tanzania andanother in Canada. Moreover, he is now giving a courseon the subject to some of his graduate students.Furthermore, Masahira Anasaki is organising a papersession on "The Sociology of Leadership Developmentfor HFA through Primary Health Care", in theforthcoming ISA Congress in Madrid, July 1990. It ishoped that these and other related activities will bepursued by many of our RC 15 members. As sociologists,we could make significant contributions in many ways,such as survey of social science literature for itsrelevance to this important initiative, formulationof conceptual frameworks particularly relevant to ashared leadership conception in the context of socialjustice and citizen involvement, empirical studies ofon-going leadership development efforts in selected

settings, collaborating with other networks indevelopment of operational models within countriesand local places, and the provision of consultation toeducational institutions for leadership development.

Regional meetingsA policy of the Committee is to stimulate local orregional meetings which RC 15 can sponsor. A recentmove is that several members of the Committeeincluding Ray Elling, Rance Lee, Mark Field, KyoichiSonoda, Masahira Anesaki and Yoshio Yonebayashi havebeen working with Liu Zong-Xia, Director of theMedical Sociology Research Institute, Chinese Academyof Management Science, PRC to organize the ThirdAsian Conference on Medical and Health Sociology.While the two prior conferences were held in Japan in1980 and 1986, respectively, this third conference isplanned to be held in China in the mid-1990. TheConference will take 3 days and the theme will be:Health and Health Care in Cross-National PerspectiveTentative topics for papers sessions include:contrasting/comparative studies of health systems indifferent countries * the sociology of theadministration of health services * medicalization ofsocial proble~s * rehabilitation (community-based andinstitutional) and modernization of health services *adult socialization to health occupations * healthprovider-patient roles in changing health systems *social aspects of cardio-vascular diseases and cancer* AIDS and the social sciences * mental disease andthe social sciences * the sociology of workers' healthand safety

Efforts are being made to solicit funding support. Itis expected that besides participants from variousparts of China, some 25 researchers-scholars will beinvited from other developing and developed nations.The regional office of WHO (WHO/WPRO) has agreed tofund the participation of five researchers-scholarsfrom Asian countries outside China.

Forthcoming conferenceRance P.L. Lee, Secretary-Treasurer of the Committeehas been invited to help and serve as member of theScientific Program Committee (chaired by CharlesLeslie), The Third International Conference of theInternational Association for the Study of TraditionalAsian Medicine (IASTAM) to be held in Bombay, India,4-7 January 1990. The theme of the Conference is:P1uralistic Character of Traditional Asian Medicine.

RC 26SOCIOTECHliICS - SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTlCE

Report submitted by Mark van de Vall, President

Research Committee held its third intermediate confer-ence between the 11th and the 12th World Congressesof Sociology in Leiden, Holland.A three day conference was organized at CarletonUniversity, Ottawa, Canada, May lO-12th, 1989.

About 40 scholars attended from Canada, China,Holland, Hungary, Poland, RFG, USA. The attendancereflects a growing trend within the RC 26 towardcooperation (or, at least, discussion) betweenscholars interested in sociological practice fromcapitalist and socialist nations. At the second day,a plenary paper was presented by James Coleman, whileIrwin Deutscher concluded the conference with acomprehensive surnmaryof the papers.

At a Board Meeting of the RC, May 11th, a ratherhistorical decision was made to separate the functionsof Secretary, Treasurer on the one hand and Editor ofthe Newsletter on the other. Horst Schneider, Univer-sity of Bielefeld, FRG, was invited to to act as a

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new Secretary/Treasurer, while Joachim K.H.W. Schmidtwas invited to remain Editor of the Newsletter.

RC 28SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

Recent meetingsIn April 1988 Vered Kraus and Yossi Shavit arranged ameeting in Haifa. Around fifty persons participatedand a large number of papers was discussed duringthree days. The meeting ended with a very informativetour round the Galilee. Vered and Yossi provided newevidence in favour of the hypothesis that members ofthis committee organise excellent meetings.

From August 30th to September 1st, 1988 Robert M.Hauser organized the RC 28 meeting at the Universityof Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

On April 26-29, 1989 Research Cornmittee held a meetingin Utrecht (The Netherlands) under the title "Strati-fication and Mobility Research in the 90's". Themeeting was organised by Wim Jansen (University ofUtrecht) and consisted of four plenary sessions andeight paper sessions. The paper sessions were titled:

l. Historical Mobility Research 1820-19402. Stratification and Mobility in the Life Course3. Gender, Rac~, and Ethnic Stratification4. Consequences of Social Mobility5. Multivariate Models of Social Mobility6. Kinometric Models of Social Mobility7. Stratification and Mobility in a "Lifestyles"

Perspective8. Analysis of School and Work Histories

The annual Fall meeting of the Research Committeewill be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto,California, August 5-8, 1989. The conference isorganized by Jim Baron and Nancy Tuma of the Centerfor Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,Stanford. The conference theme is "The Social Contextof Stratification and Mobility". There will be sevenpaper sessions, which focus on different contextswhich careers and social mobility are embedded:l. Cross-National and Comparative Studies2. How Careers Evolve Over the Life-cycle3. Organizational and Institutional Perspectives on

Inequality4. Ethnic and Racial Stratification5. Inequality, Public Policy, and the State6. The Family and the Economy7. Beliefs and Ideologies about Inequality

It is planned to conclude the meeting with severalplenary sessions on "The Future of Stratification andStratification Research".

Call for papers for the next volume (no. 8) ofResearch in Social Stratification and Mobility.Theoretical as well as research contributions on anytopic related to social stratification are welcome.Papers focusing on non-U.S., cross-national, orhistorical materials are especially encouraged. Paperswill be reviewed by the editor and editorial board.There is no deadline for submissions, and papers willcontinue to be accepted until the volume is completed.Submit four copies of manuscripts and a $10 (U.S.)submission fee (payable to RSSM) to Arne L. Kalleberg,Editor, Research in Social Stratification andMobility, Department of Sociology, CB Department 3210Hamilton Hall, University of North Carolina, ChapelHill, North Carolina 27599, USA.

RC 29DEVIANCE ANO SOCIAL CONTROL

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Report submitted by Manfred Brusten, President

The International Conference of the Research Cornmitteeheld in Motreal, Canada, from November 9th to 11th,1987, organized by Louise Shelley, was attended byapproximately 20 colleagues from 10 countries whopresented excellent papers and had enlighteningdiscussion on three main topics:* Privatization of Police* History of Crime and Criminal Justice* Cultural Conflicto Crime and Criminal Justice

The international conference on "Crime, Drugs andSocial Control", 14-16 December 1988 in Hong Kong,was an extremely successful 'joint venture' of theResearch Committee and the local organizers, particu-larly Harold Traver from the Department of Sociology,University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Society ofCriminology. In all there were about 50 participants,among them 22 foreigners representing 10 differentcountries. Hong Kong was obviously not only from ahistorical point of view the right location for aconference on crime, drugs and social control, utalso with respect to the specific aspects to {o

with the problem: * the economic interests involv"édin the drug problem, * the relationship between thedrug problem and politics, * the not intendedconsequences of the attempts to get the drug problemunder control, * the 'class structure' of the drugproblem.For the members of the RC the conference offered manyoccasions for personal and business meetings. Besidesthe academic matters the Hong Kong Society ofCriminology had organized some drug-related excur-sions and a real Chinese dinner including high-levelspeeches on the local 'criminal policy'.

Next international conference of the RC will takeplace in Cork, Ireland, in September 1989. For furtherdetails, please contact Professor McCullagh,Department of Social Theory and Institutions, Univer-sity College, Cork, Ireland.

Newsletter of the RC is published twice ayear.Membership: US$ 10 for a 4 year periodo In the begin-ning of 1989 the Cornmittee had 212 members from 33countries.

RC 30SOCIOLOGY OF WORK

Report submitted by Wolfgang Littek, Secretary

Working GroupsWorking groups on the following subjects initiated bymembers have existed now for several years:- New technologies and industrial work- Changes in the meaning of work- Work conditions in developing countries- White collar work and new information technologies- Professional work in comparative perspective

These working groups also formed the basis for someof the sessions at the New Delhi World Congress.Since then, new working groups have been proposed:- Individual and collective labour relations at work- Labour process theory- Work and leisure- New methodological approaches to the study of work- Unemployment and labour market theory- Risks to individuals connected with workingconditions- Working time- Women and work

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Book publications from several of these sub-groupsare in print.

The Research Committee held an international workshopon "The Redesign of Working Time" in Amoldshain nearFrankfurt (FRG) , March 21-25, 1988, organized byJ' h Buber-Agassi. Themes of the sessions were:-t? Present State of Working Time and the Problemsand Consequences of its Redesign- Reduction of Work Hours and their Flexibility andthe Preservation and Creation of Jobs- Working Time in Less - Industrialized Societies andthe Introduction of the 5-Day Work Week- The History of Working Time Regulation and Scenariosfor its Future- Working Time Redesign and the Status of Women- Flexibility, Collective Bargaining and theConditions of Work- The Redesign of Working Time and the Quality ofWorking Life

A book publication of the conference papers is inpreparation.

In print is also a publication of the ResearchCommittee on "Theoretical and Methodological Trendsin Sociology of Work" , edited by Jolanta Kulpinska,on the basis of the revised papers from a workshop onthat theme held in Jablonna (Poland) in January 1986.

A publication of the selected papers from RC 30ser . ons at the 1986 World Congress of Sociology withG.« Publishers, New Delhi, had been in preparationbut was not completed because of a discontinuity ofthe publisher's cooperation.

Workshops planned in the next years are:- in East Berlin (GDR), Spring 1989, on research insociology of work and its practical application.Organizer: Rudhard Stollberg of Martin Luther Univer-s í.ty, Halle.- in Bremen (FRG) , Summer 1989, on new informationtechnologies and organizational restructuring inoffice work and service. Organizer: Wolfgang Littek.- in Athens/Piraeus (Greece), organized by L.Nicolaou-Smokoviti of the Piraeus Graduate School ofBusiness Studies, or in ~odz (Poland), organized byJolanta Kulpinska, early Spring 1990, on main currentproblems in sociology of work.

As far as possible, the workshops have beenhold board meetings and discuss matters andthe Research Committee. This practicecontinued in the future.

In addition, the President and Secretary metseveral times for current business of the RC (inNovember 1986, May 1987, May 1988 and August 1988).

used topolícy ofshall be

MembershipThe list of scholars interested in the RC 30 containsabout 320 addresses. So far, to all these the RCNewsletter has been mailed in order to keep up the

flow of information. Only about 1/4 of these scholars,however, pay the membership fee of 40 DM, for 4 years.It is our deliberate policy to send out the Newsletterand give preference for participation in WorldCongress sessions to members in good standing. We areaware of the problem for members in countries withnon-convertible currency. The board has taken adecision against waiving fees. Instead, otherpossibilities of payment for such members are sought,for example by collecting and keeping the fees inlocal currency, possibly with the national sociologi-cal association (such solution was reached e.g. inPoland), or by organizing conferences in thosecountries, etc.

NewsletterIn recent years, the RC has produced Newsletters onceayear. The aim is to have 2 issues a year in orderto circulate more current information among the memb-ers about workshops, members' research activities,and decisions of the board. In addition, apresidential letter to all board members is sent morefrequently.

Re 31SOCIOLOGY OP IIIGRATlOH

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Ursula Mehrlander,

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World Congress in New Delhi, August 18-22, 1986The Research Committee 31 held nine sessions at whichabout 35 papers were presented and discussed, as wellas two business meetings. The sessions werescientifically rewarding and very well attended.Several new scholars showed considerable interest inour field. At the business meeting, the overall acti-vities and future perspectives of the Committee werediscussed. In particular, very useful proposals weremade by several members on ways and means of organiz-ing our intercongress meeting and enlarging ourmembership in order to make it as representative aspossible of the world distribution of migrationspecialists (especially from Third World countries).

A number of the papers presented at the World Congresshave been published in periodicals, e.g. IntemationalMigration, vol. XXV, 1987.

Inter-Congress meetingsOne inter-Congress meeting of the Research Committeetook place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from March30th to April 1st, 1989. It was organized by HanEntzinger of the Centre for Studies of Multi-EthnicSociety, University of Utrecht, and Ursula Mehrlander,of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn, FRG. Thetheme of the conference was "Current Trends in Migra-tion and Social Mobilíty of Migrants".

The second intercongress meeting of the ResearchCommittee took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands,from March 30 to April 1, 1989. The conference washosted by the Centre for the Study of Multi-EthnicSociety, University of Utrecht, in cooperation withthe Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn, FRG. The mainorganizers of the conference were Han Entzinger(University of Utrecht) and Ursula Mehrlander(Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung). The theme of theconference was "Current Trends in Migration and SocialMobility of Migrants". Three one-day sessionsconsituted the program:- New trends in intemational migration: internationalmigration and the international division of labour,international migration and the developing world,international migration from a demographicperspective, intra-European migration after 1992;

- Social mobility of migrants in the labour marketand in education: immigrants in the labour market-problems of adaptation or an ethnic underclass information?¡ immigrants in education: multi-culturalism, assimilation or marginality reproduced?- The ethnic response: race or class?

MembershipThe Research Committee has at present about 120members. Some changes have occurred recently: somemembers have departed, mainly for reasons of age, andnew members have been recruited. The membership feeis 20 US dollars for the four-year intercongressperiodo We have decided to waive payment of themembership fee by members living in countries whereit is impossible to export currency. Those membersshould contact the Secretary/Treasurer. Each memberis entitled to a 20% discount on the subscription tothe "International Migration Review", New York.

NewsletterIn order to make our Newsletter an effective,worldwide channel for the collection and disseminationof information concerning research, symposia andother events in our field, it is published four timesayear within the "International Migration Review",New York. Catherine Withol de Wenden-Didier (France)has kindly undertaken to act as editor of theNewsletter.In 1987 the Committee received a grant from the ISAfor the production of its Newsletter.

RC 32WO!IEB lB SOClETY

Report submitted by Lourdes Arizpe, President

Results of the recently completed elections of theCommittee Board for 1986-1990 are as follows:Current Chair: Lourdes Arizpe(Campestre 54, Mexico D.F. 01060, Mexico)Chair-Elect: Neera Desai(Research Unit Women's Studies, Vithaldas Vidya Vihar,Santacruz, Bombay 49, India)

Secretary/Treasurer: Geertje Lycklama(Institute of Social Studies, P.O. Box 90733, 2509 LSThe Hague, The Netherlands)

Assistant Secretary: Ayesha Imam(Department of Sociology, Ahmadu Bello UniversityZaria, Nigeria)

Delegate to Research Council: Neuma Aguiar(IUPERJ, Rua da Matriz 82, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22260,Brazil)

Alternate to Research Council: Hildur Ve(Institute of Sociology, University of Bergen,Christiesgt. 19, Bergen, Norway)

Newsletter Editor: Karen Paige-Erickson(Department of Psychology, University of California,Davis CA 95616, USA)

Regional representatives:AFRICARaj Bardouille (I.A.S. Lusaka Campus University,P.O.B. 32379, Lusaka, Zambia)Eugenia Date-Bah (ILO Regional Office for Africa,P.O.B. 2788, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia)Rudo Gaidzaawa (Dept Sociology, Univ Zimbabwe, BoxMP167 , Harare, Zimbabwe)Cynthia Yinusa (P.O.Box 4021, Ilorin, Nigeria)

ASIA:

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Cora Baldock (School of Education, Murdoch University,Murdoch WA 6150, Australia)Anuradha Uttam Bhoite (Dept Sociology, Univ Poona,Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, Maharashtra State, India)Leela Dube (N-7 Green Park, New Delhi 110 016, India)Virginia Miralao (Philippines)Zeenat Naquatee (106 Godavari, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, New Delhi 67, India)Dell Small (Political Science Department, Universityof Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

EUROPE:Sheila Allen (School of Social Science, University ofBradford, Bradford BD7 lDP, West Yorkshire, U.K.)Carol Hageman-White (Dept Sociology, Free Universityof Berlin, Berlin, FRG)

LATIN AMERICA:Carmen Barrosso (R. Monte Alegre 791, apto 141, 05014Sao Paulo, Brazil)EIssy Donilla (Faculty of Economics, Andes University,Bogota, Colombia)Elizabeth Jelin (CEDES, Pueyrredon 510, 7Q, 1032Buenos Aires, Argentina)Isabel Larguia (Cuba) ~(

NORTH AFRICA and THE MIDDLE EASTJudith Buber-Agassi (Dept Sociology, Univ York, NorthYork M3J lP3. Canada)

NORTH AMERICALinda Christianson-Ruffman (Dept Sociology, SaintMary's UNiv , Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3, Canada)Kathryn Kopinak (Canada)Rita Braito (Dept Sociology, Univ Missouri, Sto Louis,MO 63121, USA)Ruth Dixon-Mueller (Dept Sociology, University ofCalifornia, Davis CA 95616, USA)Patricia Martin (Dept Sociology, Florida State Univ,Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA)

Inter-Congress MeetingRC 32 organized its mid-congress meeting on theoccasion of the World Congress of the InternationalUnion of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciencesheld on July 25-29, 1988 in Zagreb (Yugoslavia). Twothemes were chosen for RC 32 sessions:- Revivalism and Fundamentalism: Religious, Ethnicand National. Co-organisers: Neera Desai, "naMazumdar and Khawar Mumtaz. ~~- Women, Economic Transformations and the State.J Co-organisers: Lourdes Arizpe and Geertje Lycklama.

RC 33LOGIC AMD HETBODOLOGY

Report submitted by Manfred Kuechler, President

StatutesDuring the 1982-1986 period several attempts were madeto develop statutes and bylaws for the researchcommittee. However, differences over due procedureamong interested members of the committee and a gene-ral lack of interest on part of the membership atlarge prevented any significant progress. However, aset of 'statutory principIes' was introduced andapproved at the New Delhi business meeting. As themost significant change a principle of regionalresponsibility was introduced, electing one vice-president for each of up to seven regions (contingentupon sufficient regional membership). By giving(regional) vice-presidents more responsibilities andindependence, it was hoped to increase in-betweencongress activities.

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President and Secretary devoted much effort in keepingthe old membership and attracting new members. Overallthe membership drive has been successful. CurrentlyRC 33 lists 118 members in good standing (i.e. withthe dues of US $10 for the four year period paid), 49of which are new members. This membership total isonly slightly lower than the figure reached at theend of the 1ast period and signifies the continuedstrength of the committee.Some problems remain. Most of the members reside inWestern Europe and North America, though we were ableto attract quite a number of Indian colleagues. VPBlaike has accepted the job of building up membershipin Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and we expect to expandour membership in these regions. Membership in EasternEurope could be increased rather rapidly, once we areable to solve the problem of paying dues in freelyconvertible currency. We are in the process ofnegotiating an innovative solution. Hopefully themuch increased cooperation with scholars in EasternEurope will soon show in the membership figures.

NewsletterT Research Committee has continued to produce a~; ual (now January and June) newsletter with theSecretary, Karl van Meter, serving as newslettereditor. The newsletter is published as a separatesection of Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique (ISSN0759-1063) out of Paris, France. This arrangement isvery cost efficient and provides maximum return onthe newletter grant received from the ISA. In additionto the Newsletter, an electronic mail network hasbeen established for the (occasional) distribution ofdated materials, such as conference announcements andcalls for papers. More ambitious plans of developinga regular electronic newsletter have been shelved dueto the reluctance of many scholars to make use ofthis communication channel even where easilyavailable.

ConferencesThe main objective of the Research Committee is toprovide opportunities to meet and discuss topicswithin the realm of logic and methodology on a conti-nuous basis beyond meeting every four years at theWorld Congress. Given the very modest amount of meansthe Research Committee commands, a most productiveway to bring about meetings of this kind is the coop-e~ ion with other (national) organizations which~ e on the burden of local organization. Typically,participants in these meetings cover their own expen-ses, which of course is detrimental to the attempt ofinvolving a larger number of scholars from ThirdWorld countries. A series of such meetings - presentedin chronological order below - was or will be heldin 1988/1989:

- International Conference on Social Science Methodo-logy, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, May 30 - June 3, 1988.This conference was co-sponsored by the Section onMethodology and Statistics of the Yugoslav Sociologi-cal Association, the Research Institute of the Facultyof Sociology, Political Science and Journalism of theEdvard Kardelj University at Ljubljana, and theSociometric Research Foundation, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands, with Anuska Ferligoj (Ljubljana) as headof the local organizing committee. More than 150scholars participated. This conference was a follow-up to the first international conference onmethodology jointly sponsored by RC 33 and the DutchSociometric Society - held in Amsterdam in the Fallof 1984.

- International Symposium on Operationalization andResearch Strategy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,September 8-9, 1988. This symposium was co-sponsoredand locally organized by the research committee on'Conceptualization and Research Design' of the Socialand Cultural Section of the Netherlands Organization

for the Advancement of Pure Science with J.J, Hox incharge of arrangements. In this symposium the so-called 'data/model approach' was contrasted with the'nomological approach'. The papers presented at theSymposium are currently being reworked for theSymposium Proceedings to be published by Swets &Zeitlinger, The Netherlands. The Proceedings willinclude a bibliography on the issues discussed.

- International Symposium on Methodological Aspectsof Empirical Research in Sociology, Moscow, USSR,October 24-27, 1988. This conference was organized bythe Institute for Sociological Research and the SovietSociological Association of the USSR Academy ofSciences with RC33-VP Vladimir Andreyenkov as head ofthe organizing committee. Main attention was given tomethodology and methods of comparative sociologicalresearch. Due to logistic constraints not more than30 foreign scholars could be receievd at thesymposium.

- Workshop on Computer Aided Sociological Research,Holzhau (Dresden), GDR, Fall 1989. This workshop isbeing locally organized by the Institute of Sociologyand Social Politics of the Academy of Sciences of theGDR under the leadership of Professor Horst Berger.The main topics for this workshop are: statisticaldata analysis and its application to empirical socialresearch, mathematical modelling and computer simula-tion in social research, and new software systems indata analysis and simulation.

In addition to these conferences a special RC 33session has been held at the 1987 Annual Meeting ofthe American Sociological Association in Chicago withVp Kenneth Bailey as organizer and presider. A similarsession is planned for the 1989 ASA meetings.

PublicationsTraditionally, the research committee has put littleemphasis on initiating publications in the beliefthat the goood work of its members will be publishedthrough the established channels. Recently, the closecooperation with the Bulletin de MethodologieSociologique has provided an additional outlet forpapers at RC 33 sponsored workshops and conferences.

Furthermore, individual members of the committee havealways been encouraged to pursue options available tocomprehensively document RC 33 (co-)sponsored events.In this vein, we are pleased to report that twovolumes based on contributions to the 1984 Amsterdamconference (see above) have recently been publishedunder the editorship of Willem E. Saris and IrmtrautN. Gallhofer (Amsterdam): Sociometirc Research vol.l:Data Collection and Scaling, vol.2: Data Analysis,London: Macmillan Press, 1988.

Research rosterWith Secretary Karl van Meter taking the lead, workis under way to expand the membership roster into aresearch directory describing both current (and past)research activities and interests of each member withthe help of a topical keyword listo This will greatlyfacilitate locating other scholars sharing the sameresearch interests and/or having special expertise inan area where advice is sought. A keyword list (arevised version of the list used by the SRMDocumentation Center at the Erasmus University,Rotterdam, The Netherlands) has been distributed tothe membership. After completion of data collectionthis roster will be made available to both the RC 33membership and other research committees with aspecial interest in methodological topics.

Cooperation with other research committeesIn the past period close cooperation has beenestablished with RC 35 Conceptual and TerminologicalAnalysis and RC 25 Sociolinguistics resulting in a

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total of three joint sessions as the New DelhiCongress. Our Research Committee will again be veryactive in planning joint sessions for the WorldCongress.

Cooperation with other (national) researchorganizations.We continue to seek close cooperation with anyresearch organization sharing our substantiveinterests in both formal and informal ways (in parti-cular via overlapping membership of RC 33 officers).We have agreements with several national organizationson the exchange of materials. These include theBulgarian Sociological Association, SISWO (theNetherlands Universities Joint Social ResearchCenter), and the Methodology Section of the AmericanSociological Association.

RC 34SOCIOLOGY OF YOUTH

Research Projects- "European Youth's Attitudes towardsDeterminants, Action, Consequences"Regions: Eastern Europe, Western Europe, USSRTerm: 1987-1990In charge: Jürgen Hartmann, Michael Stefanov

Work:

- "Social Problems of the Transition from Educationto Work under the Ongoiog Scientific Revolutioo"Regions: Eastern Europe, USSRTerm: 1989In charge: Vladimir Shoubkin, Jeno Andic

- "Work as a Value under the Conditions of the NewTechnologies"A joint Bulgarian-Czechoslovakian projectTerm: 1988-1990In charge: Michael Stefanov, Dalibor Holda

- "Regional Research Project on Youth in Asia and thePacific RegiooTerm: 1988-1990In charge: Yedla Simhadri

Scientific cooferences* Youth Research in ScandioaviaOslo (Norway), January 1987.In charge: Jürgen Hartmann

* Youth and New Technologies. Varna (Bulgaria), May1987. In charge: Michael Stefanov* Estudios Investigaciones sobre Juveotud en AmericaLatina: Balaoce y Perspectivas, Buenos Aires(Argentina), August 1987, In charge: CeciliaBraslawski* Meeting of the Heads of Research Centres and Insti-tutes 00 Youth, Sofia (Bulgaria), September 1987, Incharge: Michael Stefanov* Young People and theirwith Research Committee on(Munich, FRG) , SeptemberHübner-Funk, Hans Bertram* Education, Youth and Nation Building (organizedjointly with Research Committee on Sociology ofEducation), Canberra (Australia), November 1987, Incharge: Don Anderson* Theoretical andResearch, LeipzigWalter Friedrich* Youth Marginality in the Third World Countries,Visakhapatnam (India), February 1988. In charge:Yedla Simhadri* Regional Confereoce on Youth and Democratization(Eastero European Region), Varna (Bulgaria), May1988, In charge: Michael Stefanov

Parents (organized jointlyFamily Research). Freising

1987, In charge: Siby11e

Methodologica1 Problems of Youth(GDR) , December 1987. In charge:

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* Youth and Latin America, Montevideo (Argentina),Surnmer 1988, In charge: Cecilia Braslawski* Regional Conference on Youth Research Problems: theUSSR Region, Surnmer 1988, In charge: Vladimir Shoubkin* Two Workshops on Social Problems of Transition fromEducation to Work under the Ongoing Scientific Revol-ution. Warsaw (Poland) and Budapest (Hungary),Spring/Surnmer 1988, in charge: Vladimir Shoubkin,Jeno Andic* Youth at the Start of the Thrid Millennium: Problemsand Prospects. Prague (CSSR), June 1988. In charge:Dalibor Holda* Life Course aod Generational Politics (organizedjointly with ISPP) , New York (USA), July 1988. Incharge: Richard Braungart* Youth Movements (organized joiotly with the ASA),Atlaota (Georgia, USA), August 1988. lo charge:Richard Braungart* Youth Research and Social Action in the World ofYouth: Reality and Perspectives. Romania, Fall 1988.In charge: Marin Manolescu.* Evaluation Conference on Integration of Youth intoSociety and Transition from School to Work, Bellagio(Italy), Fall 1988, In charge: Jürgen Hartmann, P rGroorings* Development of Creative Personalities duringAdolescence, Leipzig (GDR) , December 1988. In charge:Walter Friedrich* Continuing Education for Young Girls: RegionalWorkshop in Asia, December 1988. lo charge: YedlaSimhadri* Afro-Arab Youth: Present Problems and FutureProspects, Cairo (Egypt), March 1989. In charge:Ahmed Abdalla* Inequalities in the Social Conditions of Youth,Budapest (Hungary), May or September 1989. In charge:Jeno Andic* Panel on an Age-Related Topic (organized jointlywith ISPP) , Tel-Aviv (Israel), 1989. In charge:Ricnard Braungart* Nordic Youth Research, Vasteras (Sweden), 1989. Incharge: Jürgen Hartmann* International Meeting on Problems of Youth Research,Varna (Bulgaria), 1989. lo charge: Michael Stefanov* Youth and the Techno-Scientific Revolution, Leipzig(GDR) , 1989. In charge: Walter Friedrich

Publicatioos* "International Bulletin of Youth Research (lBEditor: Rudolf Mayer* "Third World Youth Series". Editors: Ahmed Abdal1a,Cecilia Braslawski, Yedla Simhadri* "Transition from School to Work". Editors: MichaelStefanov, Peter Grootiogs* "Youth and New Technologies". Editor: MichaelStefanov* "European Youth's Attitudes towards Work". Editors:Jürgen Hartmann, Michael Stefanov

Re 35COMHITTEE OR CORCEPTUAL ARD TER!tIROLOGICALARALYSIS

From "COCTA News", Nos.2 and 3, 1988

COCTA has taken the initiative of a number of concep-tual and linguistic analyses of social scienceconcepts (e.g.: ethnicity, growth and power). COCTAhas tried to promote the work on the methodology ofconceptual and linguistic analysis as in the GiovanniSartori basic semantic model and Fred W. Riggs' ana-semantic (or onomantic) model, and on concepts of'development' - a truly interdisciplinary concept inthe social sciences.New project on conceptualization of 'developmeot'has beeo launched. In COCTA experience, the theme'development' is the oldest, having been the focus of

discussion at the ISA World Congress in Uppsala,1978. From it was derived the essay on "Development"by F. Riggs which appeared in Giovanni Sartori'sCOCTA-sponsored volume Social Science Concepts (Sage,1986). A pilot INTERCOCTA glossary project ondevelopment was prepared in Spanish, at CENDES inCaracas (Venezuela).

Publication and the Pilot ProjectA detailed explanation of guide-lines for thepreparation and utilization of an INTERCOCTA glossaryhas now been published by UNESCO under the title TheINTERCOCTA Manual: Towards an InternationaIEncyclopaedia of Social Science Terms (Paris: UNESCO)by Fred Riggs.The basic guide-lines offered in the Manual are basedon experience gained in the pilot project for"ethnicity research". These theme proved most suitahlebecause of its multi-disciplinary and multi-lingualinterest. Round-tables and panels on problems ofethnic terminology have been held at world sociology,political science and anthropology congresses, underCOCTA sponsorship. Interest in the pilot project hasl. to the launching of parallel versions of theé -'c í ty glossary in several other languages.

RC 36ALIEliAnOM THEORY AMD RESEARCH

Report submitted by Felix R. Geyer, President

ConferenceRC 36 co-organized one joint conference with RC 10 on"Social Movements as a Force of De-alienation", March14-18, 1988 in Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia). Some 20 paperswere discussed by 30 particioants from 14 countries.There are as yet tentative plans to publish aselection of the contributions.

The Research Committee is organizing a session on(political) alienation at the 12th Annual Meeting ofthe International Society of Political Psychology,June 18-23, 1989 in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

NewsletterThe secretariat is now being transferred to WalterH . z who will produce and mail the Newsletter fromB n (FRG). An editorial collective has been estab-lisned to provide better regional coverage, and toassist Walter Heinz in preparing the Newsletter. Theregional editors and correspondents are:Africa: S. Adjebeng-AsemAsia: R. GanesanWestern Europe: W. HeinzEastern Europe: V. Arzensek and M. MarkovicNorth America: F. JohnsonLatin America: to be named at a later dateMiddle East: M: Rosner

PublicationsThe Committee now has its own book series publishedwith Science Reviews Ltd. in England. The first volumein this series was a report from the 1980 Messinaconference of the RC 36 "Alienation aod AnOllieRevisited", ed. S. Shoham, which was published alreadyin 1982. A volume resulting from the 1983 Messinaconference will be published this year under thetitle "Tbeories of Alienation and Violence" ed. S.Shoham, as will a volume with considerably revisedpapers from the Mexico City World Congress "AlienationTbeories and De-alienation Strategies: Perspectivesin Pbilosopby and the Social Sciences" eds. D.Schweitzer and R.F: Geyer. Last year, moreover, amonograph by the series' managing editor Shlomo Shohamwas published under the title "Rebellion, Creativityand Alienation".

Two more volumes sponsored by the RC 36 are in prepa-ration:* a volume resulting from the 1984 conference inColumbus, Ohio, on "Urban Alienation: tbe Searcb forDe-Alienation Strategies" edited by the organizer ofthis conference, Andrew Oldenquist, and now in anadvanced stage of preparation;* a volume with a selection of papers from the tensessions of the Research Cornmittee at the New DelhiWorld Congress, co-edited by Frank Johnson and AlanWhitehorn, and entitled "Work, Alienation, andPolitical Change". This volume is divided into threesections: theoretical issues, European and Americancase studies, and case studies from the Third World.

MembershipRC 36 has presently 316 persons from 36 countries.Unfortunately, however, the well-known problem isthat the majority of these researchers does not payany membership dues. It was announced then in theSeptember 1988 Newsletter that those whose ($25 pertour years) payment had not been received by the endof the year, would in principIe be skipped from the1C 36 mailing list, unless a motivated request for anexemption of dues plus proof of some activity in thealienation field during the past five years had beensubmitted.

RC 38BIOGRAPBY AND SacIETY

Report submitted by Daniel Bertaux, President

At the XI World Congress of Sociology (New Delhi,1986) our Research Committee organized nine sessions,including a joint sessions with RC "Women andSociety". Altogether 31 papers were actually presentedduring these sessions; 18 more papers were madeavailable in written form to the audience althoughtheir authors were not able to come to the Congress.

Each session organizer was subsequently asked towrite a report on the session s/he organized, includ-ing a description of each paper's eontents and ontopies and points which eame up in the discussions.These reports were published in RC Newsletter no. 7(November 1988). It seemed to us important that allour members be kept informed of the most importantevent in the RC's life.

MembershipMembership dues have been 100FF/US $15 per year sinee1987. In December 1985, the Research Committeenumbered 114 members from 26 countries. The Cornmitteehas now 155 members representing 29 countries: 102members from Europe, 46 from Ameriea (North andSouth), 3 from Asia, 4 from Australia.

PublieationsThe newsletter Biography and Soeiety (80 pp. approxi-mately) is published twice ayear. Every issue is putout by a different editor, often but not always amember of the Board. The contents eovers a wide rangeof information: current international news, newpublications, on-going researeh projects, upeomingeonferenees, and - especially - reeent developmentsin the editor's eountry. At times it also featurespapers by members of the Committee.

To this date nine issues of the newsletter havebeen published.

Issue 7, November 1986 (SO pp.) was edited byDaniel Bertaux in Paris. It included reports on thenine sessions held by our Research Committee in NewDelhi.

Issue 8, July 1988 (112 pp) was edited by Erika M.Hoerning and Wolfram Fiseher in Germany. It includeda bibliography of 435 titles, a paper by FritzSehütze, a news report from Poland, ete.

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Maria l. Macioti with the collaboration of ConsueloCorradi edited issue 9 in Rome. Its core is made upof nine papers by Italian scholars, on the lifehistory approach.

Issue 10 (in press) is being edited by Jane Synge(McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).

38 was firstupdated and

A Directory of Members of the RCpublished in December 1985. A secondrevised edition appeared in May 1988.

Life Stories / Récits de vieIn 1985, one of our members, Paul Thompson (Universityof Colchester, Essex, UK), being already the fo~derand editor of the semestrial journal Oral History,proposed to Daniel Bertaux to publish annually athird issue of Oral History under the title LifeStories / Récits de vie. After two years Life StoriesI R~cits de vie became independent from Oral History.This annual journal is run independently from theResearch Committee (financial resources are keptseparate, the Editorial Board has been coopted, notelected) but most of the RC members are its subscrib-ers. The chief editors are Daniel Bertaux, PaulThompson, Brian Elliott, JP Roos. The journal presen-tly has a circulation of 700 copies.

Several members of the Committee have published papersin Les Récits de vie. Théorie, Méthode et Trajectoirestypes (Danielle Desmarais and Paul Grell, eds.),Editions Saint-Martin, Montréal, 1986, and in Annalesde Vaucresson, no. 26, 1987/1 "Histoires de vies,Histoires de familles, Trajectoires sociales".

SAGE has agreed to publish a new volume followingBiography and Society. It should be ready in time forthe next World Congress.

Scientific Activities* An international conference on the theme "Biographieet Cycle de vie", jointly organized by the RC 38 andthe Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche Sociologique surla Transformation des Modes de vie" (GERCOM) tookplace in Marseilles, France, June 27-29, 1988.Professors Ferrarotti, Kohli, Roos, Bertaux andseveral other members of the Research Committeepresented papers, as well as new members and alsowell-known French scholars not especially connectedwith life-historical research (Professors Jean-ClaudePasseron, Annick Percheron). Francis Godard was theconference organizer.The eighteen pepers are presently available in avolume edited by the guest instituteion, the Centred'Etude et de Recherche Sociologique sur la Transfor-mation des Modes de Vie (CERCOM).

Since its foundation the RC 38 has developed quitesatisfactorily. It remains however very much a Euro-American network. We will try during these two comingyears to develop the network towards the Third Worldin general and Africa in particular. To this end, weare planning to circulate the newsletter free ofcharge to different institutions and libraries.

This however can on1y be done if we keep all ourEuro-American membership by offering it high qualityservices through the newsletter. Thanks to our rotat-ing editorship the system has worked smoothly so faro

Re 39SOCIOLOGY OP DISASTER

Report submitted by Russel R. Dynes, President

HistoryThe researchduring the XI

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Delhi, India, August 18-22, 1986. However, the formalaction of the ISA in creating the Research Cornmitteehad been preceded by a number of years of activity onthe part of various individuals to create a structurefor continuing international cooperation among thoseinterested in the social scientific study of disaster.That activity was initiated at the VIII World Congresswhich met in Toronto in 1974, then followed bysessions at the IX World Congress, meeting in Uppsala,Sweden, and the X World Congress, meeting in MexicoCity, and finally as a working group, presented inNew Delhi seven sessions, including two which focusedon Bhopal. Much of the continuity of the planningeffort during that period was directed by E. O.Quarantelli (USA). These sessions at the variousWorld Congresses were supplemented by yearly meetingsof the Cornmittee, which took place during the annualmeetings of the American Sociological Association.This allowed both formal papers, which might not beincluded in the regular ASA program but also informaldiscussion among those who attended.

PublicationsMore formal communications among those interest ndisaster have been facilitated by the publicatil Jfmany of the papers presented at the Toronto meetingin Disasters: Theory and Method, edited by Quarantelliand published in Sage Studies of International Socio-logy in 1978.

In 1982, a journal was initiated, The InternationalJournal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, co-editedby Quarantelli and Orjan Hultaker (Sweden) andpublished in Sweden.

This was followed the next year with a newsletterpublication, entitled Unscheduled Events, and editedby Jan Trost in Sweden.

Those two publications continue. The Journal iscurrently edited by Thomas Drabek (University ofDenver, USA) and Neil Britton (Cumberland College ofHealth Sciences, Australia). The newsletter is nowedited by Joanne Nigg (USA) and is published atArizona State University. The Journal is now publishedthere also.

Another activity of the Research Cornmittee has beenthe recent publication of Sociology of Disasters:Contribution of Sociology to Disaster Research, editedby Russull R. Dynes (USA), Bruno De Marchi (It ),and Carlo Pelanda (rtaly) and published by F~ .0

Angeli, Milan, in 1987. The content of the bookexamines the ways in which standard sociologicalconcepts have been used in disaster research and, inturn, how these concepts have been informed by thatresearch. The contributors to that volume come fromItaly, Australia, Federal Republic of Germany, Japan,as well as from the USA.

ActivitiesIn the development of the by-laws, the general objec-tives of the Committee were stated "to promote thesocial scientific study of disaster" but "more speci-fically, the purpose is to help increase scientificknowledge and understanding of the social andbehavioural aspects of sudden collective stress situ-ations, usually called disasters or mass emergencies.These situations are most often created by naturaldisaster agents and technological accidents, but aresometimes associated with acute environmental threats,abrupt shortages of vital resources, focalized violentintergroup conflicts and other kinds of major hazardsto life, property, well being and everyday routines.The cornmittee is supportive of research on individual,group, organizational, community, societal and inter-national responses to and recoveries from the indica-ted kinds of mass emergencies". Since the topicextends beyond the usual sociologicalconceptualization, the membership within the committeeis broadly "social" science, rather than narrowly

sociological and, thus, the committee ismultidisciplinary in scope. This has allowed thecommittee to lend its support and endorsement todisaster-related conferences in Italy, India andBrazil. The topic also has close relationship withpublic policy, and the Executive Committee of the ISAhas asked the current President, Russell R. Dynes, torepresent ISA in the current UN planing effort whichcalled for the 1990's to be a Decade of Natural Disa-ster Reeducation.The membership of the Committee is around 200, withmembers in over 20 countries.

RC 40SOCIOLOOY OP AGRlCULTURE

At the 1988 meeting of the ISA Research CoordinatingCommittee and the Research Council, the Working Groupon Socio10gy of Agriculture was granted the status ofa Research Committee. The Research CoordinatingCo 'ttee has also changed the name of the Group fromS& logy of Agriculture to Rural Sociology. Thedecision of the Research Coordinating Committee hasfound great opposition among members of the Group. Itwas pointed out that Sociology of Agriculture is notan aspect of interpretation of Rural Sociology.Rather, it is a substantive area which differs incontent and outlook from Rural Sociology. In thisrespect, Rural Sociology is dedicated to the study ofevery topic found in sociology (including demography,deviance, family, community, political sociology,social change, etc.) with emphasis on rural settings.Sociology of Agriculture, on the contrary, addressesa specific set of topics which are not necessarilyrural in outlook and are not included in the agendaof other existing research committees.

The Research Coordinating Committee reconsideredits decision and approved of the original name of theGroup: Sociology of Agriculture.

Current officers of the Research Committee are:President: Lawrence Busch

Department of SociologyAgriculture Science BuildingUniversity of Kentucky

~ Lexington, KY 40546-0091, USAS( ary: Alessandro Bonanno

Department of Rural SociologyCollege of AgricultureUniversity of Missouri-ColumbiaColumbia, MO 65211, USA

Board Members: Ana Barbic, Yugoslavia, Manuel BeloMoreira, Portugal, Ivan Sergio De Souza,Brazil

ActivitiesThe Group has coordinated activities among membersthrough periodical information and consultation. Anewsletter has been published at least twice ayearfor the last four years. The Group has expanded itsmembership, which now includes a substantialcontingent of scholars from the Third World countriesas well as a large number of scholars from Europe andNorth America.

The Group has organized five open sessons at the 1988World Congress of Rural Sociology (Bologna, Italy). Atotal of 24 papers were selected for presentation.

The Group is actively involved in the organization ofan International Symposium in Paris, France, scheduledfor the latter part of May 1989 and and addressed tomembers of the Group together with other interestedsocial scientists from around the world.

Publications: an edited volume containing paperspresented at the Sociology of Agricu1ture sessions atthe XI World Congress of Sociology in New Delhi (1986)was" submitted for consideration for publication.Furthermore, members of the Group have published asignificant number of articles and books at theinternational level.

RC 41SOClOLOOY OP POPULATION

The Research Committee cameduring the 1988 meeting of theCommittee and the ResearchYugoslavia.

into formal existenceResearch Coordinating

Council in Ljubljana,

The current officers of the RC are:Convenor: Farhat Yusuf

School of Economic and Financial StudiesMacquaire UniversityNorth Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia

Council Membe"rs: Frans Leeuw, The Netherlands, WilliamStinner, USA

As a result of the interesting and well attendedsessions at the New Delhi World Congress of Sociology,the Group was able to attract many new members. Itsmembership now consists of 52 financial members from16 different countries.

Selected papers from the Delhi Congress are beingreviewed for possible publication in the form of ashort book on sociology of population.

Although the Group scheduled a 2-3 day scientificmeeting in 1988, it was decided to postpone it sothat it could be held just before the Conference ofthe International Union for the Scientific Study ofPopulation in 1989.

RC 42SOCIAL PSYCBOLOOY

This Research Committee was formally recognized bythe Research Coordinating Committee and the ResearchCouncil in September 1988, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.The Committee's Chairman is Mincho Draganov

Department of Social PsychologyInstitute of Sociology13 A Moskovska Street1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

During the World Congress of Sociology in New Delhi(1986), the Working Group on Social Psychology held anumber of well attended sessions. During the two yearsfollowing the Congress, a production of the Bulletinof the Working Group was started.

In May 1987 in Varna (Bulgaria) the 7th General Meet-ing of the European Association of Experimental SocialPsychology took place, and within its framework ameeting of social psychologists was held.

In May 1988 a two-day seminar was held in Sofia(Bulgaria) devoted to "The Social Dimention", Volume1, of the basic publication of the EuropeanAssociation of Social Psychologists.

Publications under preparation:* Social Psychology of Personality: contributions areexpected from the USSR, FRG, Great Britain, USA,Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria* History of Social Psychology: includes authors fromthe USSR, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria

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PREHIO EUROPEO AMALPIThe winner of the second Amalfi European Priz orSociology and Social Sciences is the book by, .,EMOSCOVICl entitled La Machine a faire des dieux,published by Fayard, Paris. This was the decisionresearch on 31st March, 1989 by the ScientificCommittee for the Prize, who also gave a specialmention to the book by MARGARET ARCHER, Culture andAgency. The Place of Culture in Social Theory,published by Cambridge University Press.

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Four copies of manuscripts typed double space or ofprinted works should be delivered to the lnternationalSocial Sciences Council before 15 March 1990, togetherwith a formal letter of application with evidence ofthe candidate's age attached. Work submitted will beevaluated by the lnternational Social Science Councilwith the assistance of appropriate referee or refere-es.

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