{"id":9444,"date":"2018-10-31T16:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/?page_id=9444"},"modified":"2024-11-20T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T12:15:03","slug":"neuchatel-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/the-association\/congress\/neuchatel-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress in Neuch\u00e2tel 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-b5h7xg-ba74ef8b9699bb683cc0464e9b4ad185\">\n.avia-section.av-b5h7xg-ba74ef8b9699bb683cc0464e9b4ad185{\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-b5h7xg-ba74ef8b9699bb683cc0464e9b4ad185 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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Craig Calhoun<br \/>\n\u00bb Noortje Marres<br \/>\n\u00bb Dominique M\u00e9da<br \/>\n\u00bb Heike Solga<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2019_SSA_Congress_FinalPro.pdf\">DOWNLOAD FINAL PROGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. Autoclose: 1 --><div  class='togglecontainer av-m3puamdz-0dd841737330fdcf1fcbebe1fc45538d  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-m3puaikk-f82d3ce88e82c3024e7e03d3f8210670'  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  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Congress Theme\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Congress Theme\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Congress Theme\">Congress Theme<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  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>For most of us, work is the main source of income and status. It defines who we are to ourselves and to others. But work is changing, and the social and political implications of its emerging forms are unclear.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since the 1970s, the service sector employs a larger share of the workforce than manufacturing in advanced industrial economies. Moreover, the number of women in the workforce has risen dramatically, though gender inequality persists with regard to wages, hiring, promotions, and treatment at the workplace. On the other hand, current technological developments\u2014especially in the IT-sector and the bio-sciences\u2014are reshaping work routines and labor markets across the world. Venture capital, start-ups, and online platforms increasingly drive business and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>New opportunities arise in this context for creative people who enjoy flexible work schedules and increased mobility. The technology-driven \u201cgig economy\u201d affords new income-making alternatives to low-skill workers as well. Social identities are redefined in the process. But robotization and automation, coupled with economic globalization, lead to the progressive disappearance of traditional working-class jobs in the richer parts of the world. And employment stability is undermined by the financialization of the economy, which also has an impact on social inequality. What is commonly referred to as non-standard employment, which includes contingent employment relations, involuntary part-time work, and temporary work arrangements, has replaced, in many areas, well-paying, secure, long-lasting jobs. In fact, the distinction between work and nonwork has become increasingly blurred in the wake of the digital revolution.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>These developments have the potential to fundamentally transform society, impacting every form of social organization, from families and households to neighborhoods and cities, local and transnational communities, social movements and NGOs, hospitals and health care providers, public bureaucracies, and political systems. Social scientists are yet to unpack many of these changes. How do demands for geographical mobility and round-the-clock availability of skilled workers affect couples and families? Does the lack of a stable income disrupt traditional household formation and reproduction strategies? What mental and physical health problems stem from precarity? And what skillsets should schools be teaching to the next generation of workers? Should \u201cdigitalizing\u201d primary education, for example, be a priority?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The task seems urgent because policymakers appear ill-equipped to tackle the societal challenges stemming from the transformation of work. Indeed, the spread of non-standard employment raises new regulatory issues about the rights of workers, the duties of employers, and the role of the state. Moreover, important segments of the labor force lack territorial anchoring (e.g. telecommuting) and escape national regulations. Welfare provision schemes also need to adapt to protect vulnerable groups, such as the disabled, the elderly, and the underemployed. And efforts to salvage manufacturing jobs such as the protectionist measures enacted by Donald Trump create geopolitical tensions in a world where nation-states are losing much of their power to transnational corporations.<\/p>\n<p>By choosing \u201cThe Future of Work\u201d as the theme of its next congress, the Swiss Sociological Association thus extends an invitation to the Swiss and the international academic community to reflect on changes that affect not only workers and the economy but society as a whole. Sociology boasts an array of methodological tools, and it has the potential to develop new perspectives, concepts, measures, and indicators to capture the changing realities of labor. Its ability to do so will also shape the future of sociologists and their work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-31912s-8c304c48df4e43ad3e570e630c084835'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-2' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-2' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-2' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Guest Speakers\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Guest Speakers\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Guest Speakers\">Guest Speakers<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-2' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-2' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>David Brady<\/strong>, University of California at Riverside<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>David Brady is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty at UC Riverside. He is also a Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Public Affairs from Indiana University, and his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. His articles have won awards from the American Sociological Association, The Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security, and the European Academy of Sociology. He is the author of Rich Democracies, Poor People and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty. His research currently focuses on (1) the measurement and causes of poverty; (2) comparative social policy; (3) the effects of very long term economic resources for racial and health inequalities; and (4) the political consequences of rising immigration and racial\/ethnic heterogeneity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig Calhoun<\/strong>, Arizona State University and London School of Economics<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. Previously, he was Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and a professor at NYU (where he founded the Institute for Public Knowledge), Columbia, and UNC-Chapel Hill (where he founded the University Center for International Studies and served as Dean). He is also President of the International Institute of Sociology and was the first President of the Berggruen Institute. Calhoun\u2019s books include Roots of Radicalism, Critical Social Theory, and Does Capitalism Have a Future? (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Georgi Derluguian, and Michael Mann). The Degeneration of Democracy (with Charles Taylor and Dilip Gaonkar) will be published by Harvard University Press in 2020. Why Sociology Matters will be published by Polity in 2020. More detail can be found at https:\/\/spgs.clas. asu.edu\/content\/craig-calhoun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Noortje Marres<\/strong>, University of Warwick<\/p>\n<p>Professor Noortje Marres is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She is an interdisciplinary sociologist who investigates issues at the intersection of innovation, everyday environments and public life: participation in technological societies; societal testing of intelligent technology; the changing relations between social life and social science in a digital age. Noortje also contributes to methodology development, in the area of issue mapping (www.issuemapping.net). She studied sociology and philosophy of science and technology at the University of Amsterdam and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden (the Netherlands). Her first book, Material Participation (Palgrave) came out in paperback in 2015 and her second, Digital Sociology (Polity) was published in 2017. Together with Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, she edited Inventing the Social (Mattering Press, 2018). More info at www.noortjemarres.net.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Dominique M\u00e9da<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 Paris II Dauphine<\/p>\n<p>Dominique M\u00e9da is Professor of Sociology at the Universit\u00e9 Paris Dauphine\/PSL and Director of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales (IRISSO). She also holds the chair \u00ab Reconversion \u00e9cologique, Travail, Emploi, Politiques sociales \u00bb at the Coll\u00e8ge d\u2019Etudes Mondiales (FMSH). An alumn of the Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure and the Ecole Nationale d\u2019Administration, she holds an agr\u00e9gation in philosophy. Dominique M\u00e9da specializes in labor issues and social policies. She has published or co-published several volumes on (1) the transformation of work\u2014Le Travail. Une valeur en voie de disparition (1995) and R\u00e9inventer le Travail with Patricia Vendramin (2013)\u2014(2) growth and wealth indicators\u2014Qu\u2019est-ce que la richesse ? (1998), La Mystique de la croissance. Comment s\u2019en lib\u00e9rer (2013) and Vers une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 post-croissance with Florence Jany-Catrice (2016)\u2014and (3) gender equality\u2014Le Temps des femmes. Pour un nouveau partage des r\u00f4les (2001) and Le deuxi\u00e8me \u00e2ge de l\u2019\u00e9mancipation with H\u00e9l\u00e8ne P\u00e9rivier (2007).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heike Solga<\/strong>, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)<\/p>\n<p>Heike Solga is director of the research department \u201cSkill Formation and Labor market\u201d at the WZB \u2013 Berlin Social Science Center and professor for sociology at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. Her research interests are sociology of education, labor market research, and life course research. She is involved in the German National Education Panel Study (NEPS). She was co-editor of the K\u00f6lner Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (2005-2014). She has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and several books, among them are: Skill Formation \u2013 Interdisciplinary and Cross- National Perspectives\u201d (Cambridge University Press, 2008, edited together with Karl Ulrich Mayer), School-to-Work Transitions across Time and Place: Patterns, Socioeconomic Achievement, and Parenthood (Special Issue \u201cResearch in Social Stratification and Mobility\u201d, 2016, edited together with Marlis Buchmann) or \u201cEducation as social policy: Institutions, public support and outcomes over the life course\u201d (Special Issue \u201cJournal of European Social Policy\u201d, 2017, together with Valentina Di Stasio).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-m3pugdoz-09930b4630917320cf10b779c4434b04'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-3' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-3' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-3' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Book of Abstracts\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Book of Abstracts\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Book of Abstracts\">Book of Abstracts<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-3' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-3' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Download the Book of Abstracts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Book_of_Abstracts_Final_Sept_6.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-m3pui9lu-527476031b25f6572d0ae9b3d6b08a7e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-4' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-4' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-4' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Panel Discussion\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Panel Discussion\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Panel Discussion\">Panel Discussion<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-4' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-4' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Panel Discussion with Craig Calhoun and Noortje Marrens on the Future Sociology<\/p>\n<p>Please find the recording <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPPOuuC1G3A\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-a8uw4-3ac180d48ff1241f72b4c1838134d190\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-a8uw4-3ac180d48ff1241f72b4c1838134d190{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-a8uw4-3ac180d48ff1241f72b4c1838134d190 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_toggle_container  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":577,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21145,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9444\/revisions\/21145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}