CALL for PAPERS
CULTURAL CHANGE, SOCIAL PROBLEMS, AND KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Sociology for a Global Society

http://www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics/symposium2005/angles.html


THEME
Talking and writing about globalization and information society, or
more recently knowledge society, is so widespread that it already
risks to become a repetition and platitude. And yet, a closer look,
scientific and interdisciplinary, reveals that behind surface
phenomena like economic globalization and the Internet there is a
deep-rooted change and upheaval of world society as well as
individual everyday life. This upheaval is comparable in scope and
consequences to what was called the Industrial Revolution in previous
centuries. The Information Revolution is, for sure, based on new
technologies, i.e. information technologies (IT), just like the
Industrial Revolution was based on new technologies. But the changes
brought forth are also in this case far-reaching cultural shifts and
innovations for which the concepts of digital towns, digital divides,
Internet and cyberspace are just first glimpses at a future still in
the dark. These shifts entail new kinds of social problems with new
qualities and hitherto unknown scopes. Under such a perspective this
conference brings together a number of distinguished scientists of
the International Sociological Association, ISA, representing a wide
range of social science specialties with whom to discuss the
implications of cultural change and the social problems inherent in
contemporary and future knowledge society.

The conference aims to clarify conceptual tools which contemporary
sociology and social sciences might be able to provide in order to
deal with these issues both at a theoretical and methodological
level. It intends to explore, to the extent possible within a few
short days of debate, how these could be applied for pertinent
research as well as for developing means and strategies to cope with
the social problems analyze.

This will be done in plenary sessions starting out with the issue of
social diagnosis for a single world and dealing in the following with
the issues of cultural change, new social problems in moving
societies, the digital world and cyberspace, and finally the issue of
building societies able to cope with the changing world and its
changing culture, and the challenges this poses for the social
sciences. The plenary sessions will be complemented by working group
sessions. This will permit to go into more detail and in particular
to discuss these issues in more depth.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Spanish
English


SYMPOSIUM on SOCIOLOGY MARCH, 7-9
EC-ISA-Meeting MARCH 7-12
All academic activities will be celebrated at Zaragoza University,
Paraninfo Building (Zaragoza City) and some Working Groups of the
Symposium at the Economics Faculty.

Zaragoza has a wide and diverse offer of hotels. Members of the EC-
ISA will be hosted at Zaragoza Royal Hotel. Other participants can
arrange their accommodation asking the local organization,
Secretariat of Symposium <ana@...>



CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
Any person interested in Sociology, Social Sciences or in the topics
of the Symposium is invited to participate. There are two options, as
a listener or as a participant presenting a paper.

Everybody should fulfill the registration form and pay an inscription
of 60¤ (40¤ in case of students or unemployed, previously
accredited). Fees should be paid in advance by bank transfer (in Euro
and including all charges) to the official account: Nº IBAN: ES83-
2085-0111-7103-3043-0505 BIC /SWIFT: CAZRES2Z (for any question,
please consult at ana@...); in special cases fees could be paid
either upon arrival at the Conference but it should be arrange with
the Secretariat.

Please, send the registration form and your payment slip by fax, mail
or e-mail to the Secretariat:

DI&CO
Paseo Sagasta 19, entlo. drcha
50008 Zaragoza
SPAIN
Tel. (+34) 976 21 17 48 *
Fax (+34) 976 21 29 59
e-mail: ana@...



ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND DEADLINES
Abstracts must deal with one of the major issues mentioned above and
fit well with the overall objectives of this Symposium. All abstracts
should be sent to Chaime Marcuello (chaime@...) Chair of
Symposium and Bernd R. Hornung (hornung@...) Chair of
the Abstracts Committee,

The deadline for the initial, 1000 word detailed abstract is 5
January 2005. This will be the basis for review. Those whose papers
have been accepted will be required to submit a 300 words abstract
suitable for publication on the Conference web site.

Both abstracts should contain the full name, title, institutional
affiliation, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers (if
available) of the prospective participant.

THE REVIEW PROCEDURE
The Abstracts Committee, consisting of five ISA-EC members and
members of the Organizing Committee will review the detailed
abstracts. The proposed papers that are accepted will then be
assigned to particular conference sessions. In certain cases the
Chair of the Abstracts Committee may contact the author with a
summary of reviewers' comments and suggestions so that the proposed
paper may better comply with the goals and theme of the conference.
All those who have submitted detailed abstracts will receive a letter
of acceptance or rejection by the end of January.


CONTACTS AND INFORMATION:
For any further questions and information you may consult the website
at <http://www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics/symposium2005/>

This may already answer many of your questions, or you may also
directly contact with chaime@...


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Piotr Sztompka (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
Bernd Hornung (University of Marburg, Germany)

Antonio Eito Mateo (Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de Humanidades
Huesca)
Andrés García Inda (Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de Derecho)
Juan David Gómez Quintero (Universidad de Zaragoza, E.U.Estudios
Sociales)
Carmen Marcuello Servós (Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de CC.
Económicas y Empresariales)

José Luis Fandos Muñoz (Asociación Española de Sociocybernética,
Vicepresidente)
Chaime Marcuello Servós (Universidad de Zaragoza)


Carmen Marcuello
Dpto Economía y Dirección de Empresas
Facultad Económicas
Gran Vía, 2
50005 Zaragoza (Spain)
Tfno: 34 976 76 27 20
Fax: 34 976 76 17 67
http://www.unizar.es/geses
http://www.unizar.es/gidid