THE XVIIth ISA WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY (2010)
THE XVIIth ISA WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY (2010)

Summary/Abstract: For seven days sociologists from all over the world flooded the city of Gothenburg in South-Western Sweden in July 2010. About one thousand academic sessions took place in nine conference buildings with five thousand participants. Sessions ran from 8:30 a.m. till 22:00 p.m. almost every day. The organizer of the conference was the International Sociological Association (ISA), a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of science in the field of sociology and social sciences. It was founded in 1949 under UNESCO and has members from 167 countries from all over the globe. The goal of ISA is “to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world” (ISA, 2011). The ISA holds its congress every fourth year and the meeting is its most visible activity. The last one, the 17th World Congress, took place in Gothenburg, Sweden between 11-17 July in 2010. The forthcoming XVIIIth World Congress of Sociology is scheduled for July, 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. Besides the academic sessions, the national, regional and thematic associations of ISA also held their own meetings under the aegis of the Conference. Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology at the University of California (Berkeley, CA), was elected President of the ISA for the period 2010-2014. His main areas of research include work sociology and public sociology. He also spent four years at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a visiting professor in the ‘80s and conducted ethnographic research in industrial workplaces.

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