5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

Care emerges as a fundamental phenomenon in social experience, learned throughout our own biographies and those who play a role in our primary and secondary socialization. Care becomes an essential dimension of our intersubjective relationships and is mediated by social structures. Whether cultivated in reciprocity or neglected, care shapes various forms of consciousness towards oneself, one's environment, and others. In this context of interdependence, the absence of care implies a denial of the recognition of others, leading to their marginalization within the social fabric.

In this session, we are interested in empirical research that explores the interplay between the daily experiences of care from a biographical perspective and social structures like economics, education, and health systems, to name a few. We would like to examine the social challenges that care imposes in current societies, understanding how individuals make sense of caring or being cared for. We welcome proposals that include a theoretical discussion, potentially involving gender studies, disability studies, or critical studies.