The Spring Meeting will be jointly hosted by the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University, located in Brno.
The 2007 Spring Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, from May 24-27. We cordially invite paper submissions for the Spring Meeting. We would like to encourage submission of papers on all topics relevant to social stratification and mobility research, such as class inequality and mobility, education, labor market, income inequality, social exclusion, social networks, family processes, gender, ethnicity, etc. Papers relevant to the main theme of the conference: Social Inequality and Mobility in the Process of Social Transformation will be particularly welcome.
Those interested in submitting a paper should please send a short abstract of the proposed paper to rc28@soc.cas.cz. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is December 15, 2006. Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their proposal by February 15, 2007. After that time, authors of accepted proposals will be asked to register for the conference on this website.
Your abstract should NOT contain more than 900 words. It should contain the following information:
1) Author(s), incl. institutional affiliation(s)
2) Title of paper
3) Content structure
4) Main hypotheses
5) Summarized methodology
6) Main expected conclusion(s)
Policy concernng panels: All potential participants, whether they want to present 'independent' papers or are interested in presenting papers together, need to submit their abstracts independently and by the given deadline. All abstracts will be evaluated and selected according to the same criteria. If it turns out that there are several accepted abstracts on particular themes, we will of course be happy to put them together into a single panel. This policy is intended to ensure fairness between all potential applicants as well as the quality of all accepted abstracts.
Have questions? If you have further questions about the call for papers or about the Spring Meeting itself, please feel free to email Michael Smith at Michael.Smith@soc.cas.cz.
The Spring Meeting is being organized by Professor Petr Mateju, head of the Department of the Sociology of Education and Stratification at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The Advisory Committee of the RC28 Spring Meeting in Brno consists of these members (more members will be added):
Petr Mateju (organizer of the meeting), Institute of Sociology, Czech Republic
Hana Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Harry Ganzeboom, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Paul M. de Graaf, Radboud University Nijmegen
Rober M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Tomas Katrnak, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Irena Kogan, University of Mannheim, Germany
Janne Jonsson, Stockholm University, Sweden
John Logan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Karl Ulrich Mayer, Yale University, USA
Stein Ringen, University of Oxford, UK
Peter Robert, Tarki Social Research Centre, Hungary
Yossi Shavit, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Wout Ultee, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Louis-Andre Vallet, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Herman van de Werfhorst, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Yu Xie, University of Michigan, USA
