XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 13-19, 2014): Joint Sessions

Joint Sessions

Monday, July 14, 2014

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development

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Characteristics of Neoliberalism in a Time of Global Crisis
Session Organizer: Ulrike M.M. SCHUERKENS

RC31 Sociology of Migration

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Social Inequalities in International Skilled Labor Migration and Mobility in a Globalized World
Session Organizers: Kyoko SHINOZAKI and Martina MALETZKY

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

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Globalization from below: Institutional and Policy Changes in Developing Countries
Session Organizer: Binay K. PATTNAIK

WG03 Visual Sociology

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Perceiving, Understanding and Envisioning the Environment
Session Organizer: Valentina ANZOISE
Chair: Debra DAVIDSON

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

RC19 Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy

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The Global Migration of Gendered Care Work. Part I
Session Organizers: Ito PENG, Jennifer Jihye CHUN and Heidi GOTTFRIED

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

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Civil Society and Collective Actions. Part II
Session Organizer: P. P. BALAN
Chair: P. P. BALAN

RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups

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Professional Labour in a Globalized World: The Cross-Bordering and Internationalization of Knowledge Workers
Session Organizer: Javier Pablo HERMO
Chair: Cecilia PITTELLI

TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice

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Families, Structural Violence and Human Rights
Session Organizers: Tessa LE ROUX and Edward SIEH

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

RC32 Women in Society

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Contested Citizenship: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
Session Organizers: Patricia TOMIC and Lloyd L. WONG
Chair: Lloyd L. WONG

RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements

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Organizing Change – Changing Organization: Social Movements and the Innovation of Organizational Forms and Cultures. Part I.
Session Organizers: Christoph HAUG, Alan SCOTT and Kyoko TOMINAGA
Chair: Kyoko TOMINAGA

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

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Intellectual South-South and North-South Dialogues from Critical Thinking, Theory and Collective Praxis
Session Organizers: Alberto BIALAKOWSKY and Alicia Itati PALERMO
Chairs: Alberto BIALAKOWSKY and Nora GARITA

RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups

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Globalization and Human Resources for Health in Asian Countries
Session Organizers: Yuko HIRANO and Yuka ISHII
Chair: Yuka ISHII

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

RC01 Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution

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Conceptions of the Body and Health in High-Risk Organizations
Session Organizer: Gerhard KUEMMEL

RC13 Sociology of Leisure

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Leisure and Family: A Mutually Supportive Relationship
Session Organizers: Rudolf RICHTER and Ishwar MODI

RC19 Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy

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Social Policies, Work and Gender: New Forms of Social Work
Session Organizers: Yumi GARCIA DOS SANTOS and Isabel GEORGES

RC34 Sociology of Youth

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Constructing Gender within Youth Activism
Session Organizers: Anna-Britt COE and Darcie VANDEGRIFT

RC43 Housing and Built Environment

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Unequal Cities and the Political Economy of Housing. Part I
Session Organizers: Manuel B. AALBERS and Raquel ROLNIK

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

RC05 Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations

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Becoming a Racial Subject, Negotiating Power: Comparative Historical Contexts
Session Organizers: Vilna Bashi TREITLER and Manuela BOATCA
Chair: Scott POYNTING

RC06 Family Research

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Human Rights, Family Roles and Social Justice
Session Organizer: Tessa LE ROUX

RC07 Futures Research

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Challenges and Innovations in Contemporary Counter-Hegemonic Politics
Session Organizers: William K. CARROLL and Markus S. SCHULZ

RC13 Sociology of Leisure

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Women, Leisure and Gender Politics in Globalising Times
Session Organizers: Ishwar MODI and Cynthia JOSEPH

RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups

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Restructuring Care Policies and (Re-)Making Care Professions
Session Organizers: Hildegard THEOBALD and Ellen KUHLMANN
Chair: Hildegard THEOBALD

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

RC04 Sociology of Education

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New Topics in Interaction between University and Society
Session Organizers: Juha TUUNAINEN and Kari KANTASALMI

RC06 Family Research

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Women Negotiating Work and Family
Session Organizers: Maitreyee BARDHAN ROY and Anita DASH

RC19 Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy

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Children: Inequality and Rights
Session Organizers: Joan E. DURRANT and Gregg M. OLSEN

RC43 Housing and Built Environment

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RC21RC43 Roundtable II.
Session Organizers: Manuel B. AALBERS and Raquel ROLNIK

RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups

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Governing the Health Professions: Bringing Equality into Health Human Resources Policy
Session Organizer: Ellen KUHLMANN
Chair: Sirpa WREDE

TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice

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Human Rights and Clinical Sociology
Session Organizers: Edward SIEH and Tina UYS

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology

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The Future of Teaching and Research in Universities
Session Organizers: Jaime JIMENEZ GUZMAN, A. Gary DWORKIN, Gerardo DEL CERRO SANTAMARIA and Ralph MATTHEWS
Chair: Ralph MATTHEWS

RC44 Labor Movements

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Intimate Labor in Asia
Session Organizers: Hae Yeon CHOO and Pei-chia LAN
Chair: Ruri ITO

RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements

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Cultural Fields and Movement Trajectories: Comparing the Effect of Different Cultures upon Movements in the Political Process
Session Organizer: Jeffrey BROADBENT
Chair: Jeffrey BROADBENT

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

RC06 Family Research

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Families Responses to Natural and Human-Made Disasters
Session Organizers: Mark HUTTER and DeMond MILLER

RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development

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The Culture and Currency of Money
Session Organizer: Frederick WHERRY

RC24 Environment and Society

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Cities and the Global Environmental Change
Session Organizers: Louis GUAY and Pierre HAMEL
Chair: Louis GUAY

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

RC03 Community Research

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Boom and Bust: The Community before, during, and after Economic Prosperity
Session Organizer: Sam HILLYARD

RC05 Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations

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Intersectionality and Intellectual Biographies
Session Organizers: Kathy DAVIS and Helma LUTZ
Chair: Janice IRVINE

RC25 Language and Society

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Language, Work and Health
Session Organizers: Stéphanie CASSILDE and Adeline GILSON

WG03 Visual Sociology

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Too Much and Too Little: Urban Landscapes of Homelessness and Gentrification
Session Organizers: Lidia K.C. MANZO and Jerome KRASE
Chair: Jerome KRASE

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

RC20 Comparative Sociology

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The Comparative Sociology of Examinations Part II
Session Organizers: Fumiya ONAKA and Shinichi AIZAWA
Chair: Morikazu USHIOGI

RC31 Sociology of Migration

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Tourism and Migration
Session Organizer: Ewa MORAWSKA

RC41 Sociology of Population

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The Demographic Reproduction of Social Stratification
Session Organizers: Jeronimo O. MUNIZ and Carlos Costa RIBEIRO

RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements

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Rethinking Democracies: Social Movements and Democratic Processes
Session Organizers: Paola REBUGHINI, Benjamín TEJERINA and Piero IGNAZI

WG03 Visual Sociology

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Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Visual Conceptual Frames
Session Organizers: Regev NATHANSOHN and Paulo MENEZES
Chair: Mateusz HALAWA

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

RC05 Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations

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RC05RC32 Roundtable. Social Structure and Identities: National and/or Transnational Analyses of Racism or Ethnic Relations
Session Organizers: Vilna Bashi TREITLER and Ann DENIS

RC13 Sociology of Leisure

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Global Environmental Degradation: Leisure and Tourism Perspectives
Session Organizers: Ishwar MODI and Margaret SWAIN

RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture

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Surveillance, New Media and Digital Information
Session Organizers: Torin MONAHAN and David LYON

RC15 Sociology of Health

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Health and Social Care in the Context of Population Aging
Session Organizers: Anne MARTIN-MATTHEWS and Ivy BOURGEAULT
Chair: Anne MARTIN-MATTHEWS

RC22 Sociology of Religion

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Religion, Immigrants, and Health
Session Organizer: Ephraim SHAPIRO

RC39 Sociology of Disasters

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Organizations and Disasters
Session Organizers: Dean PIERIDES, Joe DEVILLE and Avi KIRSCHENBAUM

WG03 Visual Sociology

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Using Visual Material for Knowledge Creation: The Process of Analysis and Interpretation
Session Organizers: Sarah FRANZEN and Paulo MENEZES
Chair: Jerome KRASE

Thursday, July 17, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

RC07 Futures Research

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Future of Aging: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Trends, Implications, Policies, and Practices
Session Organizer: Julia ROZANOVA

RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development

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Futures of Post-Neoliberalism in a Time of Global Crisis
Session Organizer: Ulrike M.M. SCHUERKENS

RC32 Women in Society

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Gender, Violence, and Disaster: Research and Action
Session Organizers: Mieko YOSHIHAMA and Azumi TSUGE

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

RC06 Family Research

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Families´ Resilience in Times of Economic Crisis and Mobility
Session Organizers: Loretta BALDASSAR, Majella KILKEY and Laura MERLA

RC07 Futures Research

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Socio-Ecological Inequality: Water Futures
Session Organizer: José Esteban CASTRO

RC17 Sociology of Organization

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Organizing Change – Changing Organization: Social Movements and the Innovation of Organizational Forms and Cultures. Part II.
Session Organizers: Christoph HAUG, Alan SCOTT and Kyoko TOMINAGA
Chair: Elizabeth MCFALL

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

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Labor and Environmental Movements
Session Organizers: Hwa-Jen LIU and Matthew Carl GARRETT
Chair: Dipti Ranjan SAHU

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

RC28 Social Stratification

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Leisure and the Reproduction of Inequality
Session Organizers: Dan KRYMKOWSKI and Ishwar MODI

RC32 Women in Society

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Feminist Movement and (Women's) Human Rights
Session Organizers: Angela MILES and Dai NOMIYA

RC39 Sociology of Disasters

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Disasters and Families and Children: Coping Strategies and Recovering Efforts
Session Organizers: Noriko IWAI and Alice FOTHERGILL

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

RC06 Family Research

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Panel Data Analysis of Families Worldwide
Session Organizers: Junya TSUTSUI and Michiko NISHINO

RC07 Futures Research

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Future of Education: Innovation, Reform, Struggle, and Vision / Futuro De La Educación, Reforma, Lucha, y Visión
Session Organizers: Gerardo DEL CERRO SANTAMARIA, Sonsoles SAN ROMAN and Hiro TOYOTA
Chairs: Gerardo DEL CERRO SANTAMARIA, Hiro TOYOTA and Sonsoles SAN ROMAN

RC28 Social Stratification

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Structural Mechanisms and Historical Contingencies: Global Stratification and its Discontents
Session Organizers: Hiroko INOUE and Haya STIER

Friday, July 18, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

RC11 Sociology of Aging

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Family and Elder Care
Session Organizers: Cynthia M. CREADY and Jacobus HOFFMAN

RC13 Sociology of Leisure

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Leisure and Education in an Unequal World
Session Organizers: A. Gary DWORKIN and Karl SPRACKLEN

RC30 Sociology of Work

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Unionism and the Critique of the Work Organization. Syndicalisme Et Critique De l’Organisation Du Travail. Part I
Session Organizers: Sophie BEROUD and Émilie LANCIANO

TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice

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Right to Benefits of Scientific Progress and Its Applications
Session Organizers: Brian GRAN and Jaime JIMENEZ GUZMAN
Chair: Nadia ASHEULOVA

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture

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Facing the End of “Leisure Culture” in Today’s Unequal World
Session Organizers: Ishwar MODI and Christiana CONSTANTOPOULOU

RC38 Biography and Society

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Representation and Restoration of Women's Experiences: Navigating Between Colonial History and Postcolonial Present in the Asian Context
Session Organizers: Hee-Young YI, Gabriele ROSENTHAL and Bandana PURKAYASTHA
Chair: Victoria SEMENOVA

RC53 Sociology of Childhood

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Children's Agency through Daily Life Interactions
Session Organizers: Wen-Jui HAN and Jianghong LI
Chair: Carrington SHEPHERD

WG03 Visual Sociology

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Visual Methods in Ageing Research: Methodological Issues
Session Organizers: Wendy MARTIN and E-J MILNE
Chair: Alison BELL

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

RC02 Economy and Society

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Organizing the Production of Alternative Visions to Support Social and Eco-Justice
Session Organizers: William K. CARROLL and Peter B. EVANS

RC13 Sociology of Leisure

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Children and Leisure: Intersectional Inequalities
Session Organizers: Ishwar MODI and Loretta BASS

RC19 Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy

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Healthcare Systems and Health Inequalities
Session Organizers: Claus WENDT and Ellen KUHLMANN

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

RC08 History of Sociology

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The Emergence of Sociology in an Interdisciplinary Context – Nothing but Success?
Session Organizers: Wolfgang KNÖBL and Yutaka KOYAMA
Chair: Jose Mauricio DOMINGUES

RC13 Sociology of Leisure

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Leisure as an Agency for Collective Mobilization of Youth and the Quest for Equality
Session Organizers: Ishwar MODI and James COTE

RC15 Sociology of Health

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Time on the Context of Health and Illness: The Medical Control of the Body
Session Organizer: Bianca Maria PIRANI

RC38 Biography and Society

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Crossing Experiences: From Biographies of Migrants in and from Northeast Asia
Session Organizers: Sara PARK and Lilach LEV-ARI
Chair: Sara PARK

Saturday, July 19, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

RC02 Economy and Society

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Searching for Sustainable Alternative Economies in the 21st Century: Cases and Prospects
Session Organizer: Michelle F. HSIEH

RC05 Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations

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Temporary and Precarious Migration and the Securitized State. Human Rights, Culture and Belonging in an Age of Economic and Moral Austerity
Session Organizers: Claudia TAZREITER and Immanuel NESS
Chair: Ann DENIS

RC54 The Body in the Social Sciences

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Reinstating the Body: Equal Footing for the Spiritual and the Physical, a Leisure Approach
Session Organizers: Bianca Maria PIRANI and Ishwar MODI

WG05 Famine and Society

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Climate Change, Famines and Food Crises: Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management
Session Organizers: Pradeep DADLANI and Sunny GEORGE
Chair: Harjit Singh ANAND

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

RC41 Sociology of Population

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Population Aging in South, East and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
Session Organizer: Susan MCDANIEL
Chair: Richard PALMER

RC44 Labor Movements

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Land and Labor in the Global Political Economy
Session Organizer: Sarah SWIDER

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

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Youth and Social Movements. Part I
Session Organizers: Airi-Alina ALLASTE and Benjamín TEJERINA
Chair: Airi-Alina ALLASTE

12:30 PM-2:20 PM

RC11 Sociology of Aging

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Japan's Experience with Population Aging: Policy Challenges and Innovations
Session Organizers: Susan MCDANIEL and Zachary ZIMMER
Chair: Wako ASATO

RC13 Sociology of Leisure

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Leisure and the Pursuit of Health and Happiness in an Unequal World
Session Organizers: Ishwar MODI and Jonathan GABE

RC20 Comparative Sociology

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The Comparative Sociology of Examinations Part I
Session Organizers: Fumiya ONAKA and Shinichi AIZAWA
Chair: Masako, Ema WATANABE

RC24 Environment and Society

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Environment, Ageing and Vulnerability
Session Organizers: Anne MARTIN-MATTHEWS and Stewart LOCKIE
Chair: Hal KENDIG

2:30 PM-4:20 PM

RC03 Community Research

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The Problem of Social Justice and Social Conflict in China, Russia, and Africa
Session Organizers: Nina BANDELJ and Cheris Shun-ching CHAN
Chair: Cheris Shun-ching CHAN

RC06 Family Research

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Labor Market Trends and Family and Child Well-Being
Session Organizers: Jianghong LI and Wen-Jui HAN
Chair: Carrington SHEPHERD

RC07 Futures Research

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Social Movements, Publics, and the Contentious Politics of the Future - Part II
Session Organizers: Benjamín TEJERINA and Markus S. SCHULZ
Chair: Ligia TAVERA FENOLLOSA

RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements

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Alternative Lifestyles and Political Activism Towards a New Environmentalism: Climate Summits, 'Buen Vivir', Local Food and Voluntary Simplifiers
Session Organizers: Geoffrey PLEYERS and Koichi HASEGAWA