RC16 Sociological Theory

Program Coordinators:

Eleanor TOWNSLEY, Mount Holyoke College, USA, etownsle@mtholyoke.edu

Paul JOOSSE, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, pjoosse@hku.hk


Sessions:


Advances In Social Performance Theory

Accommodating the Elements: Sociology and Elemental Thinking

Advances In Interpretive Sociology

Can Humans and Machines Form Societies?

Classical Sociology for the 21st Century: Toward a Non-Parochial Perspective

Codes and Copresence: New Intersections of Cultural and Interactionist Sociologies

Critical Theory and the New Political Constellation

Deliberative Democracy In Turbulent Times: Post-Habermasian Reflections

Developments In Civil Sphere Theory

Dialectics As a Living Practice – Reimagining Theory-Empiricism In Qualitative Research

Discussing Talcott Parsons’ Legacy: Applications, New Theoretical Syntheses, and Controversies

Historical Trajectories and Political Imaginaries

Moralities In Turbulent Times: Ideological Narratives, Inequality, and the Struggle over Social Worth

Past, Present and Possible Future for Theories of Modernity

Rethinking Social Class and Classification In Times of Global Crises

Sociological Theories from Japan, Korea, and Asia: Revisiting Theory Beyond Western Paradigms

Sociology of the Common World In the Age of Multilayered Fractures and Polarization

Special Session In Cooperation with the Korean Society for Social Theory (KSST): Dialogue on the Upgrading of Sociological Thinking

The Actuality of Karl Mannheim

The Society of the Anthropocene: Social Stability and Dynamics In Turbulent Times

Theorizing AI In Turbulent Times

Theorizing Military Power

Theorizing Subjectivation In a Turbulent Global Order

Theorizing the End of Trump and Trumpism

Theorizing the Relationship between Morality and Authority: Contemporary Politics and Everyday Life

Theory from East Asia: Cultural Sociology Beyond the Binaries

Urban Capitalist Articulations