{"id":18884,"date":"2023-06-01T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/?page_id=18884"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:29:59","slug":"congress-2024-in-basel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/the-association\/congress\/congress-2024-in-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress 2024 in Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_section-fb37fa88fbca848c7e29aff3fecdfcf1\">\n.avia-section.av-av_section-fb37fa88fbca848c7e29aff3fecdfcf1{\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-fb37fa88fbca848c7e29aff3fecdfcf1 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" 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Autoclose: 1 --><div  class='togglecontainer av-av_toggle_container-1c5f05ce43bbf21457da42746a25c01a  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr ' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-av_toggle-6d6291d535214650b6c30ba86451c143'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-1' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler  activeTitle av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"About the Congress\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: About the Congress\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: About the Congress\">About the Congress<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-1' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  active_tc av-title-above' style='display:block;' ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Organized by the Swiss Sociological Association and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, School of Social Work<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Subject of the Congress: Vulnerable Societies: Risks and Responses<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To say that we live in times of uncertainty seems like a sociological truism. However, in recent times, societies around the world have been shaken by an extraordinary accumulation of acute and persistent crises and catastrophes with global repercussions, including the COVID-19 pandemic; the Ukraine war; the accelerating effects of climate change manifest in heat waves, droughts, and floods; disruptions of supply chains and energy shortages; and the massive resurgence of hunger, to name but a few. Each of these crises presents major social, political, economic, and ecological challenges in themselves. Taken together, they generate a heightened sense of overall vulnerability. Against this backdrop, \u201cvulnerability\u201d has become a popular term in public and political discourses. It is most often not just a descriptive term but also prescriptive. Diagnosing vulnerability is inevitably linked to moral and political calls to action to prevent and redress harm and social injustices. To identify a social group as \u201cvulnerable\u201d implies a special need for protection and support. Vulnerability is associated with a wide range of physical, social, economic, and cultural conditions. Moreover, it is not only humans who are said to be vulnerable, as the term is also applied to technical, ecological, economic, political, and societal systems at risk of breaking down, or to international agreements and conventions that are no longer respected. Accordingly, vulnerability is discussed across various academic disciplines, from medical sciences to disaster studies, ecology, philosophy, and social sciences including psychology, pedagogy, and social work studies. What, then, is the specific perspective and contribution of sociology to the study of vulnerabilities?<\/p>\n<p>The congress is dedicated to critically exploring the theoretical and empirical significance of the concept of vulnerability in sociology. How does vulnerability relate to associated and well-established theoretical concepts such as uncertainty, risk, crisis, or precarity or to its counter-terms such as resilience, agency, adaptation, and the like? Furthermore, empirical studies from different fields will be used to reflect on the potential of the concept of vulnerability for sociological research. What are the causes, forms, and consequences of vulnerabilities? How do individuals, groups, organizations, social movements, states, and supranational organizations understand and respond to various vulnerabilities? 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