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

RC06 Family Research

Program Coordinator: Mary DALY (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Bringing Back Large Families
Session Organizers: Stephan KÖPPE and Megan CURRAN

13:00-14:45

Dignified Aging in the Digital Age? (Part I)
Session Organizers: Ana VUKOVIC and Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK
Chair: Ana VUKOVIC

Kinkeeping across Generations
Session Organizer: Veronica GREGORIO

15:00-16:45

Dignified Aging in the Digital Age? (Part II)
Session Organizers: Ana VUKOVIC and Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK
Chair: Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK

19:00-20:30

Families’ Life Courses with Animal Companions
Session Organizers: Magdalena ZADKOWSKA, Magdalena GAJEWSKA ANITA and Teresa LÍBANO MONTEIRO
Chair: Magdalena ZADKOWSKA

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Digital Family Practices
Session Organizers: Nora KOTTMANN, Monika PALMBERGER and Randi WÆRDAHL

Families, Gender, and Environmental Labour in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Jo LINDSAY and Pei-Chun KO
Chair: Pei-Chun KO

11:00-12:45

Middle-Aged and Older Adults’ Intergenerational Support and Wellbeing
Session Organizer: Pei-Chun KO
Chair: Pildoo SUNG

13:00-14:45

Care Circulation in Transnational Families: Current Trends and New Perspectives (Part I)
Session Organizers: Loretta BALDASSAR and Laura MERLA
Chair: Loretta BALDASSAR

The Consequences of Mate Selection in the Online Realm: Dating, Sex, and Marriage
Session Organizers: Sampson BLAIR, Christina SCOTT and Yiqing Gan GAN
Chair: Sampson BLAIR

15:00-16:45

Family Policy, Gender and Intersecting Inequalities (Part I)
Session Organizers: Ivana DOBROTIC and Margarita LEÓN BORJA

Transnational Families in the Contemporary World: Concepts, Challenges and Potentials (Part II)
Session Organizers: Vida CESNUITYTE, Viktoria PARISOT and Ulrike ZARTLER
Chair: Vida CESNUITYTE

19:00-20:30

Transnational Families in the Contemporary World: Concepts, Challenges and Potentials (Part I)
Session Organizers: Vida CESNUITYTE, Viktoria PARISOT and Ulrike ZARTLER
Chair: Viktoria PARISOT

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Family Policy, Gender and Intersecting Inequalities (Part II)
Session Organizers: Ivana DOBROTIC and Margarita LEÓN BORJA

Sandwich Generations: Caregiving, Work, and Wellbeing
Session Organizer: Pei-Chun KO
Chair: Shu HU

11:00-12:45

Cost of Family Caregiving of Older Persons in Southern Africa: Looking at South Africa, Botswana, Malawi and Namibia
Session Organizer: Elena MOORE

Family and Community Resilience Against Disaster
Session Organizer: Noriko IWAI

13:00-14:45

Early Smartphone Access: Navigating Parental Decisions and Adolescent Wellbeing in a Digital Age
Session Organizers: Brunella FIORE and Chiara RESPI
Chair: Donatella POLIANDRI

Exploring and Problematising Family Resilience
Session Organizer: Mary DALY
Chair: Mary DALY

15:00-16:45

Connecting Mobility Ecologies, Climate Crises and Families
Session Organizers: Anna SIMOLA and James FLETCHER

Divorce and Separation: Sociological Perspectives and Implications
Session Organizers: Anja STEINBACH and Sven. A. BROCKER

19:00-20:30

Coloniality, Inequality, and Families. Experience from the Global South
Session Organizer: Lukasz CZARNECKI
Chair: Lukasz CZARNECKI

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

RC06 Business Meeting

Transnational Families over Time
Session Organizer: Nazli KIBRIA

11:00-12:45

Laughing through Life? Humour in Families Facing Challenging Times
Session Organizer: Adam CARTER
Chair: Sundari ANITHA

13:00-14:45

Future Directions for Family Research
Session Organizer: Mary DALY
Chair: Mary DALY

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Care Circulation in Transnational Families: Current Trends and New Perspectives (Part II)
Session Organizers: Loretta BALDASSAR and Laura MERLA
Chair: Laura MERLA

13:00-14:45

Family Policy, Gender and Intersecting Inequalities (Part III)
Session Organizers: Ivana DOBROTIC and Margarita LEÓN BORJA