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The Ateneo de Manila University is a Jesuit institution of learning recognized by the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, and incorporated and operating under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, the guidelines of the Catholic Church, and the principles of the Society of Jesus. The University seeks to preserve, extend, and communicate knowledge, applying this to the development of women and men, as well as to the preservation of the environment. Through the education of the whole person, the formation of needed professionals and technologies, and the conduct of various corporate activities, the University aims to contribute to the development goals of the nation. It also seeks to form the persons who will devote their lives to the service of their fellow individuals and, through the promotion of justice, serve those who are in need of help, most especially the poor and the powerless. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is an academic unit of the School of Arts and Sciences of the Ateneo de Manila University. Through its training and educational programs, the Department instills in its students a critical understanding of the interplay between structure and human agency in a globalized society, and the ability to apply this understanding to social practices, especially those found in Third World countries such as the Philippines. These skills help the individual in making sense of contemporary issues such as globalization vis-à-vis national integration, inequalities in accessing power and resources, and the deconstructive ethos of Postmodernity

XX ISA WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY 2023

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RC46 Third ISA Forum of Sociology: July 10-14, 2016 Vienna, Austria

The Third ISA Forum will be convened in Vienna, Austria, 10-14 July 2016 on the theme “The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World.” This theme encourages a forward- orientation in empirical, theoretical, and normative research to tackle the problems and opportunities that often cut across borders.

Abstracts are invited to any of the following sessions hosted by RC46:

  • Clinical Sociology and Community Intervention
  • Clinical Sociology and Social Change
  • Clinical Sociology, Cultural Diversity and Immigration
  • Clinical Sociology, Health and Social Policy
  •  Clinical Sociology: Creating a Better World in the Workplace
  • Courses, Programmes, Certification and Accreditation in Clinical Sociology
  • Early Career Clinical Sociologists
  •  Epistemology, Theories, Research Methods and/or Research Ethics in Clinical Sociology
  •  International Policymaking and Clinical Sociology
  • Livelihood Vulnerability in Cities: Interrogating the Intersections of Culture, DisasterRisk and Power
  •  Service Learning Strategies: Connecting Students to Global Issues

Call for Abstracts: 14 April 2015 – 30 September 2015 24:00 GMT

Anyone interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract on-line to a chosen session of RC 46:https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium296.html

The abstract (300 words) must be submitted in English, French or Spanish.

Program Coordinator:
Mariam SEEDAT KHAN, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, seedatm@ukzn.ac.za

Program Co-Coordinator:
Tina UYS, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, tuys@uj.ac.za

RC46 Mourns the Loss of Maria van Bockstaele

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The members of RC46 are very grateful to Martine Plasman (a colleague and friend of van Bockstaeles) and Nathalie van Bockstaele (Maria and Jacques van Bockstaele’s daughter) for sending us the following tribute:

Maria Van Bockstaele died on May 30th 2014, in Paris, in her 87th year, 2 years after her husband Jacques Van Bockstaele. Together they founded the centre de Socianalyse. They were both members of the RC 46.

Maria studied psychology at the Sorbonne and was part of the “laboratoire de psychologie sociale”, directed, at the time, by the French psychoanalyst Daniel Lagache. She was introduced to the group analysis approach, as developed at the University of Ann Harbor Michigan.

Jacques, after studies in history, law and cinéma, joined the centre d’études sociologiques (founded just after WWII by A. Gurvitch, to promote French research in social sciences, upon returning from exile in New-York, where he had been associated with the « New School for Social Research »). There, he performed classical surveys, and took part in a cross–cultural research project lead by Stanley Schachter, on the effect of threat on intra-inter -group relations, in seven European countries. It combined surveys with an experimental approach. Jacques thus became familiar with the American literature in sociology and social psychology, and eventually developed his own experimental design.

With their combined experiences, on intergroup–intragroup relations and group analysis, Jacques and Maria decided to build an analytic approach of intervention, which at the time was inconceivable within the French academia. In 1957, they founded their own private research center they called “centre de socianalyse”. From then on, with a few others who joined them, they worked on developing “socianalysis”, their clinical tool for intervention, in all its dimensions: a theory, a technique and a design for intervention. Their clients came from the French administrations, organizations, large companies, as well as families, or private groups.

Jacques and Maria were the first in France to use the term “clinical sociology” and were at the origin of its introduction as a new topical section in the French journal “L’Année Sociologique” (1963).

From 1990, Jacques and Maria and their colleagues closely followed the efforts to promote the creation of a “clinical sociology” research committee within the ISA. They participated in some of the sessions, as well as those of the Sociological Practice Association meetings.

Select bibliography:

La socianalyse Imaginer-Coopter, 2004 Economica, Anthropos

Papers in Clinical Sociology Review, volumes 12 and 14

Socioanalysis and clinical intervention, in “International Clinical Sociology”, J. M Fritz (ed.) 2008 Springer.

 

 

Harry Perlstadt, ISA-RC 46 Treasurer to Receive Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association

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Harry Perlstadt will receive the American Sociological Association’s 2014 Distinguished Career Award for the practice of Sociology at its annual meeting in August in San Francisco. He is a founder and leader of applied sociology. A University of Chicago PhD, and long-time faculty member at Michigan State, he conducted applied evaluation research projects for international, federal and state agencies, and private foundations. He’s written on sociological practice, on research ethics and applied sociology’s history. He helped found the Commission for the Accreditation of Programs in Applied and Clinical Sociology, chaired the ASA Sociological Practice Section, and co-chaired the American Public Health Association Joint Policy Committee. He’s volunteered with the American Lung Association since 1986, and held a Fulbright lectureship on American Health Policy and Politics.

Welcome

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The aims of the RC46 are: to advance knowledge in all areas of clinical sociology throughout the world; to provide a common meeting ground for clinical sociologists and others interested in clinical sociological knowledge; to encourage international cooperation in clinical sociology research; to promote training and educational opportunities to further the development of clinical sociology; to develop bonds with other disciplines and other specializations in sociology.