XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018)

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Self Management As Goal and Means of Empowerment, Liberation from Violence and Justice for the Oppressed and Exploited

RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee)

Language: Spanish, French and English

The main aim of this regular session is to continue longitudinal, multidisciplinary and multi-perspective social transformation oriented comparative research of self-management theory and practice, testing the capacity of self managing form of organization of social reproduction relationships to help attain value oriented goals of empowerment, liberation from violence and justice for the oppressed and exploited, through the means of overcoming of class division of alienated and alienating labor on managing and executing work functions, on the basis of participation in the self-managing strategic decision making at the work place and in a community, from local to global territorial level.
This session calls for face to face and virtual dialogue (URL of the discussion part of the relevant subpage will be published at https://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/ISA+2018) in search for the answers primarily to following questions, but not restricted to them: 1) Is economic, political, social and cultural power a zero sum strategic game between contradictory interests of social classes, or the variable sum systemic game of complementary interests of social strata, as long as predominates economic function of competitive accumulation of private profit mediated by sale of merchandises on the market? 2) Can the liberation of the oppressed and exploited from the violence of the oppressors and exploiters be nonviolent?; 3) Does there exist and how should be quantitatively and qualitatively determined allegedly stimulative “just inequality” in power, wealth and esteem between individuals  and social groups?.