Symposium: (Third ISA Forum of Sociology (July 10-14, 2016))

RC20 Comparative Sociology

Program Coordinator: Jean Pascal DALOZ (CNRS University of Strasbourg, France)

Sunday, 10 July 2016

09:00-10:30

JS-3

Contextualizing Cases and Types through Qualitative Multi-Level-Analysis
Session Organizers: Arnd-Michael NOHL and Anja WEISS

10:45-12:15

JS-11

Comparison in Ethnographic Research
Session Organizers: Barbara STEFAN, Deniz SEEBACHER and Andreas STREINZER
Chair: Barbara HEER

12:30-14:00

JS-15

The Complex Discursivity of Global Futures in the Making: Analyzing Transnational Orders of Discourse 2
Session Organizer: Reiner KELLER

14:15-15:45

246

Biographies - Figurations - Discourses: The Dialectic of Individuals & Society in the (Empirical) Study of Individual & Collective Hi/Stories
Session Organizers: Artur BOGNER and Robert VAN KRIEKEN
Chair: Elisabeth TUIDER

Monday, 11 July 2016

09:00-10:30

247

Current Research in the Comparative Study of Institutions
Session Organizer: Hanno SCHOLTZ

10:45-12:15

248

Declining Middle Classes: Challenging Classical Theories of Social Distinction through Consumption
Session Organizer: Sofia ULVER

16:00-17:30

249

Comparative Capitalism: Trajectories of Social and Economic Change in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union Since 1991
Session Organizers: Andrey REZAEV and David L. WEAKLIEM

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

09:00-10:30

250

World Values on a Comparative Prespective
Session Organizer: Marita CARBALLO

10:45-12:15

251

Political Representation in Comparative Perpective
Session Organizer: Jean Pascal DALOZ

14:15-15:45

252

Urban Neighbourhoods and Culture-Led Revitalization: Comparative Processes, Entanglements, and (Un)Intended Effects
Session Organizer: Sonia BOOKMAN

16:00-17:30

253

RC20 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 13 July 2016

09:00-10:30

254

Analysing the Global/Regional/National/Local Divide. Comparative Perspectives on a "Blurred" Relationship
Session Organizers: Thomas LAUX, Thomas KERN and Michael HOELSCHER

10:45-12:15

255

Current Research in Comparative Sociology (qualitative methodology)
Session Organizer: Jean Pascal DALOZ

16:00-17:30

JS-57

Health Inequalities in Comparative Perspective
Session Organizers: Amelie QUESNEL-VALLEE, Peter KRIWY and Sigrun OLAFSDOTTIR
Chair: Amelie QUESNEL-VALLEE

Thursday, 14 July 2016

09:00-10:30

JS-63

Contextualizing Inter- & Multinational Survey Research. Discussing Regional Perspectives on Effects & Outcomes of Global Trends / Linear & Non-Linear (Multi-Level-)Modelling with Aggregate or Regional Data for Policy Analysis & Evidence Based Councelling
Session Organizers: Dimitri PRANDNER, Daniela WETZELHÜTTER, Jaroslaw GORNIAK, Peter GRAEFF, Heinz LEITGÖB and Stefanie EIFLER

10:45-12:15

256

Recent Quantitative Research in Comparative Sociology, I
Session Organizer: David L. WEAKLIEM

14:15-15:45

257

Recent Quantitative Research in Comparative Sociology II
Session Organizer: Frederick TURNER

16:00-17:30

258

Civilization, Decivilization, and International Relations - Current Trends
Session Organizer: Stephen VERTIGANS