Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Fwd: Standing group in Pol sociology : call for
proposals
Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
> Da: Daniel GAXIE <gaxie@???>
> Data: 01 maggio 2010 11:26:16 GMT+02:00
> A: "David L. Swartz" <dswartz@???>, "Foradori, Paolo" <Paolo.Foradori@???
> >, Achim Goerres <Agoerres@???>, Alfredo Joignant <alfredo.joignant@???
> >, Andras Bozoki <andrasbozoki@???>, Andrea Millefiorini <andrea.millefiorini@???
> >, <brusztl@???>, Christine Trampusch <christine.trampusch@???
> >, Craig Parsons <cap@???>, <deplaude@???>, <erkki.berndtson@???
> >, <ernesto.dalbergo@???>, Ettore Recchi <ettore.recchi@???
> >, <Gitte@???>, Isabel Estrada <isabelestra@???>, <J.L.Newell@???
> >, <J.P.White@???>, Jason Beckfield
> <jbeckfie@???>, Luigi Pellizzoni
> <PellizzoniL@???>, <m.vink@???>, mathias
> albert <mathias.albert@???>, Mazzoleni Oscar <oscar.mazzoleni@???
> >, Michael S Drake <M.Drake@???>,
> <michael.stein@???>, <Mounia.Bennani-Chraibi@???>, Niilo
> Kauppi <nkauppi@???>, Philippe Blanchard <Philippe.Blanchard@???
> >, Pieter Vanhuysse <vanhuysse@???>, Tommaso Vitale <tommaso.vitale@???
> >, Umberto Melotti <umberto.melotti@???>, Vincent Pouliot <vincent.pouliot@???
> >, <wolfgang.drechsler@???>, <sos01kn@???>, Anna Leander <ale.ikl@???
> >, Michael Kull <michael.kull@???>, Stefano Guzzini
> <sgu@???>, Claudiu Craciun <clcraciun@???>, <Stefania.Milan@???
> >, jlodge <eurozone@???>, Risto Heiskala <Risto.Heiskala@???
> >, Tomas Undurraga <tu213@???>, Emanuela Bozzini <emanuela.bozzini@???
> >, Olivier Fillieule <Olivier.Fillieule@???>
> Oggetto: Standing group in Pol sociology : call for proposals
>
> Call for Panel Proposals: 6th ECPR General Conference, University of
> Iceland,
> 25 - 27 August 2011
> Dear colleagues,
> The Executive Committee of ECPR approved last month in its meeting in
> Münster
> the proposal for the creation of a Standing Group in Political
> Sociology. It
> is now
> of the utmost importance that we all mobilize to make that standing
> group
> live
> and it is in this very perspective that we invite you to participate
> to the
> Political
> sociology section to be held at the next ECPR general conference.
> This is a first informal call for panel proposals to be included in
> the
> section and
> that will focus on “The contribution of political sociology
> approaches to
> the
> understanding of political systems” (please see below for the
> provisional
> section
> outline).
> Panel proposals should be sent to olivier.fillieule@??? and to
> romain.bertrand@??? no later than June 30 and should
> include 1)
> title
> 2) chair and co-chair and 3) panel abstract (about 250 words). Please
> include
> information on the theoretical and methodological approach as well
> as the
> key
> argument and/or findings of the proposed paper.
> The section will have a maximum of 8 panels that will be selected
> amongst
> all the
> panel proposals received. Selection criteria are: 1) panel proposal
> consistency
> with the proposed theme of the section; 2) relevance and novelty of
> the
> panel
> proposal; 3) university balance (i.e. the section will not have more
> than
> one panel
> organized by members belonging to the same university); 4) gender
> balance
> (i.e.
> we will try to have a section with an equal number of women and men
> acting
> as
> chair, co-chairs and paper givers).
> Please consider that the selected panels will be part of a section
> proposal
> which
> needs to be approved by the ECPR. Therefore, when proposing a panel,
> be
> aware
> that sections may be rejected or approved with a reduced number of
> panels.
> Best regards,
> Title of Section
> The contribution of political sociology approaches to the
> understanding of
> political systems
> Section Chairs
> Olivier Fillieule, Lausanne University, Switzerland
> Romain Bertrand, Sciences-Po Paris
> Abstract :
> As a crosscutting subfield located at the intersection of many social
> sciences
> (political science, sociology, but also contemporary history and
> social
> anthropology) political sociology has the potential of drawing
> insights from
> the
> theoretical and methodological debates and innovations in all of these
> disciplines,
> thereby cross-fertilizing them.
> The aim of the section is to assess the intellectual added value of
> such a
> plural –
> yet not necessarily eclectic – approach in order to go beyond, to
> use Imre
> Lakatos
> terminology, the routinized production of “empirically
> progressive” (new
> empirical data are gathered) but “theoretically degenerating” (gradual
> decrease
> in theoretical innovation) research programs. Our assumption is that
> by
> blurring
> disciplinary and sub-disciplinary boundaries, political sociology can
> promote
> “progressive research” programs, and lead to the discovery of
> stunning novel
> facts and to the crafting of new experimental techniques and more
> precise
> explanations.
> The section will be organized around one main question: to what
> extent and
> how
> can political sociology contribute to our understanding of political
> systems
> by
> addressing the social roots of political processes? (e.g. the role of
> sociodemographic
> variables in the determination of political cleavages, attitudes, and
> behaviors ; the recruitment patterns of political elites ; the
> relationships
> between
> economic, cultural, and social resources as they are played out by
> citizens,
> activists, stakeholders, policy makers, and politicians ; the
> politics-society
> interactions and the analysis of polities, public policies, and
> politics
> through
> social variables).
> Panel proposals can deal with any aspects of political systems
> (political
> participation ; political attitudes and behaviors ; voting
> patterns ; public
> policies ;
> political parties, unions and interest groups ; etc.). We will favor
> panels
> that
> address theoretical as well as methodological questions applied to
> one of
> those
> specific domains of practices in the political realm. Of particular
> concern
> to us is
> the critical use of broad analytical categories, in the sense that
> no tool
> of the
> analysis should be put at work without first having been submitted
> to both
> historical and sociological scrutiny. The broad categories of
> political
> science are
> not neutral: they have a history of their own, that should be wholly
> accounted for.
> That these categories can be applied as such to extra-European
> societies or
> distant pasts therefore is subject to theoretical and methodological
> discussion –
> the kind of discussion we’d like to foster in this section.
> Keywords
> Political sociology, political systems, epistemology, methods.
>
>
