Linking Theory and Empirical Research
Berlin, July 16 – 26, 2018 We are delighted to announce the 8th Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. The summer school aims at supporting young researchers by strengthening their ability …
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CFP 2018: SDAW/Foundation German-American Academic Relations
The “Stiftung Deutsch Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen” (SDAW/Foundation German-American Academic Relations) has just issued its “Call for Proposals 2018”. This year, SDAW is soliciting proposals for a “brainstorming conference” on the future …
Read MoreCall for papers: Historicism as a Polemical Concept in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1890-1980
Although “historicism” is a many-headed monster, notorious for being defined in different ways by different groups of scholars, there seems to be consensus at least on Historismus being a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Whether …
Read MoreComparative and Historical Sociology Section Awards for 2018
Comparative and Historical Sociology Section Barrington Moore Book Award Deadline: 2/15/2018 The section presents the Barrington Moore Award every year to the best book in the area of comparative and …
Read MoreFascism And Antifascism In Our Time: Critical Investigations (in Hamburg, Germany)
SPONSOR: Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Rutgers University (USA) at: Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung 01.11.2017 – 03.11.2017 International Conference in Hamburg Topic of the conference: The spread …
Read MoreDialectics of Progress
Conference on ‘the dialectics of progress’ at the New school (from Alice Crary, philosophy professor at the New School for social Research) Please join us at the New School of …
Read MoreReal Types vs Ideal Types
George Steinmetz & Philip Gorski Thursday, October 19 from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Abstract: in discussing explanation of social phenomena, including systems of meaning, Weber develops the concept of an …
Read MoreASA 2017: Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology Sessions
Monday, August 14 10:30am-12:10pm: Politics and Power in Latin America. Location Palais des congrès de Montréal, 510A Session Organizer: Cedric de Leon, Tufts University Brokers, Clients and Elite Political Networks …
Read MoreCongratulations To Our 2017 Section Award Winners!
Barrington Moore Book Award Winners Heather A. Haveman. 2015. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press. Tianna S. Paschel. 2016. Becoming Black …
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