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19-09-2011 CALL FOR PAPERS International conference in Moscow "Embeddedness and Beyond: Do Sociological Theories Meet Economic Realities?" October 25–28, 2012 Conference theme statement Over the last quarter century, new economic sociology emerged and evolved, by and large, within the broad theoretical framework of social embeddedness of economic action. While being initially rooted in the structural social networks perspective, the framework gradually expanded to integrate institutional and cultural arguments and to overcome the analytical separation between economic and social. More recently, it was complemented by the performativity approaches, which challenge traditional inquiries into the socially constructed nature of markets by focusing instead on their role in constructing (performing) societies. These developments show that the concept of social embeddedness has inspired a large number of insightful sociological theories and empirical studies of economic phenomena which, taken together, constitute a mature field of inquiry with its distinctive questions, arguments, and contributions. Yet, today's rapidly evolving and highly uncertain economic realities put these theories to a challenging test. Are they up to the task of thorough understanding market transitions in postcommunist and third-world countries, the continuing global financial crisis, or the new modern forms of calculability, governance, and social control? Given a rather static view of social embeddedness, how much can we say about the emergence, reproduction, and dissolution of networks, markets, and institutions, in other words, the dynamic nature of socio-economic reality? Or, on the contrary, about the stubborn resistance to change of old patterns of inequality and forms of governance? Does the proliferation of online purchases and Internet social networking sites radically alter the very notion of embeddedness? Overall, do our theories have enough "give" and can be slightly adjusted to answer such questions, or do we need a completely new toolkit to tackle them? The conference brings together the leading experts in the field who will concretize and explore these questions with regard to their own areas of research and theoretical approaches. Status of the conference Joint Interim conference of ISA RC02 “Economy and Society” and ESA Economic Sociology Research Network with the support of ASA Economic Sociology section. Conference venue: National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, Moscow, Russia Program committee
Plenary sessions and featured speakers
Mini-conferences and their coordinators
Submission Guidelines Apart from plenary sessions, all sessions are organized through mini-conferences. Descriptions of mini-conferences as well as contact information for their coordinators are available on the Conference website. The coordinators welcome submission of individual papers to these mini-conferences. Submissions should be in English as Conference working language. Paper submissions should be made through the online submission system. A link to this system may be found on the Conference website. You will be asked to create an account in order to make your submission. Extended abstracts should be 800-1,000 words in length. With your login and password you can then come back to the site to edit your submission until the deadline for submissions. Full papers should be 8000-12000 in length. Papers will be available to the Conference participants on DVDs. Important deadlines Deadline for submitting proposals — February 15, 2012. Registration is open — March 15, 2012 Acceptance notifications — April 1, 2012. Early registration — May 15, 2012 Late registration — September 15, 2012 Deadline for submitting full papers — September 15, 2012. Contact information Conference e-mail: esconf2012@hse.ru Conference Website: http://esconf2012.hse.ru |
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