RC16 Sociological Theory

Program Coordinators: Ronald JACOBS (University at Albany, USA) and Giuseppe SCIORTINO (University of Trento, Italy)

Monday, July 14, 2014

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10:30 AM-12:20 PM


277
Entertainment, Leisure, Sport, and Civil Society
Session Organizer: Ronald JACOBS

3:30 PM-5:20 PM


278
Discovering and Locating the Legacies of Japanese Sociological Theories
Session Organizer: Takashi OKUMURA

5:30 PM-7:20 PM


279
Contested Modernities in Theory and Practice
Session Organizer: Isaac REED

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

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8:30 AM-10:20 AM


280
Theorizing Sexuality
Session Organizers: Giuseppe SCIORTINO and Martina CVAJNER

10:30 AM-12:20 PM


281
National Futures
Session Organizer: Brad WEST

3:30 PM-5:20 PM


282
Asian Values or East Asianism Revisited
Session Organizer: Seung-Kuk KIM

5:30 PM-7:20 PM


283
Civil Societies in Comparative, Institutional, and Theoretical Terms
Session Organizer: Jason MAST

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

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8:30 AM-10:20 AM


284
Theorizing Circulation: Revisiting the Metaphors for the Travel of Culture, Ideas, And Symbols
Session Organizer: Gianpaolo BAIOCCHI

285
Media, Aesthetics, Representation: Theorizing Suffering, Expertise, and Other Public Claims
Session Organizers: Matthias REVERS, Fuyuki KURASAWA and Vikki BELL

10:30 AM-12:20 PM


286
Jeffrey Alexander in East Asia
Session Organizers: Seung-Kuk KIM and Kiyomitsu YUI

3:30 PM-5:20 PM


287
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Political Space
Session Organizer: Gilles VERPRAET

5:30 PM-7:20 PM


288
RC16 Business Meeting

Thursday, July 17, 2014

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8:30 AM-10:20 AM


289
Theories of Materiality and Material Culture
Session Organizer: Dominick BARTMANSKI

290
Urban Space and Global Cities
Session Organizer: Agnes KU

10:30 AM-12:20 PM


291
What's a Collective? The Ontology of Groups, Crowds and Crews
Session Organizers: Frederic VANDENBERGHE and Margaret ARCHER

3:30 PM-5:20 PM


292
Cultural Pragmatics and Social Theory: The Implications of Performance Theory for the Study of Society
Session Organizer: Jeffrey ALEXANDER

5:30 PM-7:20 PM


293
Second-Modern Transformation in East and West
Session Organizer: Sang-Jin HAN

7:30 PM-8:50 PM


294
Modernity and Critique
Session Organizer: Craig BROWNE

295
Theorizing Legacy: Does the Past Have Power over Political Events
Session Organizer: Mabel BEREZIN

Friday, July 18, 2014

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10:30 AM-12:20 PM


296
Intellectuals and Politics
Session Organizer: Patrick BAERT

5:30 PM-7:20 PM


297
Visual Turn and Popular Culture: Anime, Manga and Comics in Japan, Korea and China
Session Organizer: Kiyomitsu YUI

Saturday, July 19, 2014

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8:30 AM-10:20 AM


298
Japanese Contemporary Social Theory Seen from the inside and Outside
Session Organizers: Masataka KATAGIRI and Atsushi SAWAI
Chair: Anthony ELLIOTT

10:30 AM-12:20 PM


299
Issues, Problems, and Potential in the Study of Symbolic Violence
Session Organizers: Mustafa EMIRBAYER and Erik SCHNEIDERHAN

12:30 PM-2:20 PM


300
Pollution, Defilement and Disgust
Session Organizer: Philip SMITH

2:30 PM-4:20 PM


301
Sociological Inquiry into the Theory of Modernization in Japan
Session Organizers: Josuke AMADA and Kiyomitsu YUI