Conference theme: "Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies". The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology will focus on how sociologists worldwide can (and do) contribute to the understanding of the resurgent authoritarianism and analyze the...

The theme of the 2022 RC 19 annual conference is social policy development in the post-Covid-19 era. It welcomes comparative and case study papers that cover a broad range of social policy issues. The focus is on the post Covid-19 world, the implication of the pandemic on people’s wellbeing,...

RC28 general objectives are to promote high quality research on social stratification and social mobility, and the international exchange of scientific information in this field. We aim to organise the meeting in hybrid model, where participation in both online and in person are possible. We...

The ISA Executive Committee has decided that the IV ISA Forum of Sociology will be held online. Conference theme: "Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality" The ISA Forum will provide sociological analyses of these four global challenges paying...

Against this background, the 2020 annual conference of the Research Committee 19 (on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy) of the International Sociological Association (RC19) invites contributions that assess the changing contexts of globalization and its backlash; and analyse the impacts...

We invite papers that discuss these developments and related social policy changes. For example, how do we make sense of parallel processes of universalizing social policies in some fields and places, and increasingly exclusionary rhetoric of social protection in others? Given that the...

This XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology will focus on how scholars, public intellectuals, policy makers, journalists and activists from diverse fields can and do contribute to our understanding of power, violence and justice.

The conference is sociologically oriented but welcomes contributions from related fields (Geography, anthropology, political science, economics and labour studies, international relations and law). We encourage submissions under any of the following themes: a. Highly skilled migrants and...

The RC19 annual conference brings together international scholars in the fields of comparative welfare state and social policy studies, encompassing a range of disciplines such as sociology, social policy, political science, and economics. Conference theme: Expansion and Retrenchment in Social...

The ISA Forum of Sociology is designed as a mid-term meeting of Research Committees, Working Groups and Thematic Groups combined with the Business Meeting of the ISA Research Council. The International Sociology Association is a non-profit association for scientific purposes in the field of...