SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS’ CLUB “DISKREPANCIJA”
Hereby issues
A CALL FOR PAPERS
For the upcoming international symposium
NATURE and SOCIETY:
CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT and ENVIRONMENT
Which will take place from 10th – 13th of November, 2015 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb.
Nature and society are most commonly understood as two inseparable elements of reality. Human dependence on his/her environment and their mutual relationship of creating and restraining are central theme of the symposium. In this thematic framework we emphasize internal as well as external conditions for emergence and subsistence of societies in its relation to culture as identity and culture as social practice. We would like to shed a light on how globalization affected and stimulated changes in society and nature and to what extent those changes affected identity, culture, religion and knowledge in the era of globalization.
Sustainability and development are accompanied by expansion of technology and risk which is inherent in everyday life of societies. The result of accelerated rapid development is experienced as insecurity and permanent growth as ideology. Thus, we consider sustainability and development to be challenges for social sciences.
Such a set of phenomena necessarily demands interdisciplinary treatment, so contributions not only from sociologists, but also students, experts and researchers from other disciplines (philosophy, political science, history, anthropology, journalism, etc.) are being expected as well.
Aside from a presentations section, we are planning on organizing public forum and roundtable discussions in cooperation with professors and civil society associations.
Suggested topics may include (but are not limited to):
CULTURE
– Cultural Determinism
– The Clash of Cultures
– Norms and Traditions
– Sports, Competition, Play
– Culture, Nation, Identity
– The Integration of Cultural Minorities
– Migrations
– Origins and Decadence of Civilizations or of Cultures
– Subcultures
– The Art as the Reflection of Time
– Culture in the Postmodern Period
– Is Multiculturalism Dead?
RELIGION and THE WORLD
– Religion as the Element of Development
– External Factors for Origins and Development of Religion
– Sacred and Profane
– Desecularization?
– Religion’s Social Functions
– Religious Fundamentalism and Terrorism
ECONOMY and ECOLOGY
– Religion and Economy
– Is Sustainable Development Myth or Potential
– Ecology and Technology
– Labour and Corruption
– Permanent Growth as Ideology
– Risk Society
– Ecofeminism
– Geographical Impacts on Economic Systems
KNOWLEDGE and SCIENCE
– Education
– Nature and Society – Artificial division of World
– Environmental and Social Conditions of Knowledge
– Science as Ideology
– Social Production of Knowledge
– Sociology of Education
– Science and Bioethics
ORGANIZATION of SOCIETY
– Family: its functions and its forms
– Stratification – cultural and environmental factors
ANTROPHOCENTRISM and TRANSHUMANISM
SOCIAL and CULTURAL CAPITAL
GLOBALIZATION
COUNTRY – CITY: URBAN AND RURAL SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY of TOURISM
SOCIOLOGY of NUTRITION
SOCIOLOGY of HEALTH
HUMANS AND LANGUAGE
How to Apply
You can apply for symposium participation by filling out the application form attached to this Call. The deadline for applying and sending an abstract (up to 250 words) is October 5th, 2015. Upon admission, you are to send the paper to be presented no later than October 25th, 2015. Abstracts and papers (the language of which must be Croatian or English) are to be sent to the following e-mail address: simpozij.kssd@gmail.com.
The official language of the symposium is Croatian, with the possibility of presenting in English.
Participation at the symposium is free of charge. Accommodation for the presenters will be financially covered by the organizers.
You may find the application form here.
We kindly ask you to forward the Call for Papers to all interested parties. For additional information, feel free to contact us at simpozij.kssd@gmail.com.
We are looking forward to your papers and participation!