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

RC16 Sociological Theory

Program Coordinators: Agnes KU (Hong Kong University, Hong Kong) and Patrick BAERT (Cambridge University, United Kingdom, United Kingdom)

Monday, 16 July 2018

10:30-12:20

297

Axiological Neutrality or Axiological Engagement?
Session Organizers: Frederic VANDENBERGHE and Philip GORSKI

298

Theorizing and Researching the Arts and Popular Culture
Session Organizer: Philip SMITH

15:30-17:20

299

Innovations in Social Theorizing. Part I
Session Organizer: Erik SCHNEIDERHAN
Chair: Erik SCHNEIDERHAN

17:30-19:20

300

The Legacy of Georg Simmel. Part I
Session Organizer: Daniel SILVER

19:30-20:50

301

RC16 Business Meeting and Reception for Distinguished Award Jeffrey C. Alexander

Tuesday, 17 July 2018

08:30-10:20

302

Critical Realism: A Philosophical Movement in Social Theory
Session Organizers: Philip GORSKI and Frederic VANDENBERGHE

10:30-12:20

303

Innovations in Social Theorizing. Part II
Session Organizer: Agnes KU

15:30-17:20

304

Civil Sphere Theory Outside the North
Session Organizer: Jeffrey ALEXANDER

17:30-19:20

305

Populism and the New Political Order?
Session Organizer: Patrick BAERT

Wednesday, 18 July 2018

08:30-10:20

306

The Irritated Middle? Conduct of Life and Coping Practices in the Middle Classes
Session Organizers: Uwe SCHIMANK and Hans-Peter MUELLER

10:30-12:20

307

Special Session on Jeffrey C. Alexander: RC 16 Award for "Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory"
Session Organizer: Ronald JACOBS

15:30-17:20

308

The Legacy of Georg Simmel. Part II
Session Organizer: Daniel SILVER

17:30-19:20

309

The Spatial Reconfiguration: Challenges for Social Theory
Session Organizer: Martina LOEW

Thursday, 19 July 2018

08:30-10:20

310

Revisiting Weber and Habermas on Rationality and Compathy from Asian Perspectives
Session Organizer: Sang-Jin HAN
Chair: Song-U CHON

10:30-12:20

311

The Relational-Processual Turn in Sociology: Theoretical Discussions and Debates
Session Organizers: Francois DEPELTEAU and Olli PYYHTINEN

15:30-17:20

312

Theorizing Populism for the 21st Century
Session Organizer: Ronald JACOBS

17:30-19:20

313

The Cultural Sociology of the Erotic Sphere
Session Organizers: Giuseppe SCIORTINO and Martina CVAJNER

Friday, 20 July 2018

08:30-10:20

314

Cosmopolitic and Cultural Sociology
Session Organizers: Gilles VERPRAET and Hiro SAITO

10:30-12:20

315

War, the Military and Societal Transformation
Session Organizer: Bradley WEST

15:30-17:20

316

Theorizing and Historicizing Economic Culture
Session Organizer: Lynette SPILLMAN
Chair: Lynette SPILLMAN

17:30-19:20

317

Cultural Sociology of Interaction Orders: Cultural Structures and Everyday Lifeworlds
Session Organizer: Mervyn HORGAN

318

Theorising Measures, Rankings and Metrics
Session Organizer: Andrea BRIGHENTI

Saturday, 21 July 2018

08:30-10:20

319

Critical Theory, Intersubjectivity and Forms of Domination
Session Organizers: Craig BROWNE and Stefan FORNOS KLEIN

10:30-12:20

320

Legitimacy Troubles: New Theorizing in the Trumpist, Post-Brexit World
Session Organizer: Jason MAST
Chair: Jason MAST

JS-84

Integrating International Migration into the Mainstream Social Theorizing
Session Organizers: Ewa MORAWSKA and Peter KIVISTO

12:30-14:20

321

Digital Sociology and Sociological Theory: Intersections and Divergences
Session Organizer: Fuyuki KURASAWA

14:30-16:20

322

The Relational-Processual Turn in Sociology: Relationism in Empirical Studies
Session Organizers: Francois DEPELTEAU and Olli PYYHTINEN