Dialogic Sociology. The sociology needed for our global and diverse world

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 17:00-18:45
Location: SJES006 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))

Language: English

This session will bring to debate contributions to a dialogic approach to sociology, a sociology that provides the knowledge needed for current challenges of our societies, especially in relation to social justice and flourishing lives for all. While dialogue is increasingly present and relevant in multiple spheres of society, scholars from different worldviews and sociological traditions have also increasingly included the concept of dialogue in their theoretical elaborations, drawing from rich interactions with scholars from all disciplines and social actors from all backgrounds. Dialogic sociology draws on the recent writing of3 scholars who seeks to produce scientific knowledges according t to its epistemological and methodological principles but also give this knowledge some normative orientations around the idea of justice, when these have been debated with and approved by citizens and their representatives. 
This session will be introduced by the organizers, Sari Hanafi and Marta Soler, and include four speakers (who have already agreed to participate) representing this diversity of views and sociological traditions. They will all discuss dialogic sociology but from diverse positionalities: 
• Mounir Saidani, University of Tunis El Manar (Tunisia) 
• Pun Ngai, Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China) 
• Ramon Flecha, University of Barcelona (Spain) 
• Stéphane Dufoix, University of Paris-Nanterre (France) 
The participating units (RC08, RC35, ESA and LSA) are contributing in different manner. First both organizers, Hanafi and Soler, are members of these RCs and associations, as well as some of the proposed speakers, which have been proposed by them. Secondly, the debate here proposed includes both, an epistemological reflection about the contributions of sociological knowledge to current challenges of our society (core areas of proposing RCs), and the need of dialogue from diverse regional contexts, such as Europe and the Arab world (proposing Collective members).
Session Organizers:
Sari HANAFI, American University of Beirut, Lebanon and Dr. Marta SOLER-GALLART, University of Barcelona, Spain
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