ASA 2017 Annual Meeting: “Culture, Inequalities and Social Inclusion Across the Globe.” August 12-15, 2017, Montréal, Québec

ASA 2017 Annual Meeting:
“Culture, Inequalities and Social Inclusion Across the Globe.”
August 12-15, 2017
Montréal, Québec
http://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2017/program-information 

ASA President Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) and the 2017 Program Committee are pleased to announce the theme for the 2017 Annual Meeting: “Culture, Inequalities and Social Inclusion Across the Globe.” The Annual Meeting will be held August 12-15, 2017, in Montréal, Québec, Canada .

View the Program Commitee-sponsored Invited Sessions (this includes Author Meets Critics Sessions, Plenary Sessions, Presidential Panels, Regional Spotlight Sessions, Special Sessions, Thematic Sessions and Workshops).

Mark Your Calendar

November 1, 2016: Call for Papers posted on ASA website and the online system opens for submission of papers, discussion topics, and posters.
January 11, 2017: Submission site closes; Session Organizers begin reviewing the submissions.
May 1, 2017: Program schedule announced; no scheduling information is available prior to that date.
May 11, 2017: Preregistration deadline for program participants
June 1, 2017: Deadline to receive ALL program changes for the Final Program

Culture, Inequalities, and Social Inclusion across the Globe  Rising inequality has brought the unequal distribution of material resources to the center of political debates in the United States and Europe. Social scientists routinely mobilize their deep knowledge of the structures of economic inequality to inform decision-making and conversations in the public sphere. Yet our understanding of the cultural dimensions of inequality lags far behind, despite the omnipresence and the urgency of cultural polarizations as manifested in anti-immigration rhetoric, international refugee crises, domestic racial confrontation, and increased class segregation. The 112thAnnual Meeting of the American Sociological Association will make its central goal the improvement of our understanding of the nexus of culture, inequalities, and group boundaries in order to promote greater social inclusion and resilience, collective well-being, and solidarity in the United States and globally.  The program committee invites sociologists to consider: 1) the role of cultural processes, such as stigmatization and racialization, in the production and legitimation of inequalities and social exclusion; 2) meaning-making in social processes typically associated with inequality, such as domination, discrimination, exploitation, and opportunity hoarding; 3) Cultures of inequality (e.g., occupational or class cultures) and the cultural differentiation of sexual, ethnoracial, gender, and religious groups; and 4) how political processes, institutions, and public discourses (at the local, national, and global levels) shape material and cultural inequalities.   We also hope for analyses of cultural repertoires, symbolic boundaries, institutions, frames, and schemas as analytical tools for the study of inequality, poverty, and insecurity. We equally welcome papers on social inclusion, dynamics of cultural and social change, and the bridging and transformation of group boundaries across the globe. New comparative, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the systematic empirical study of cultural processes will also be on the menu. Because sociologists are uniquely equipped to study inequalities in all their dimensions, it is high time to focus on the politics of social recognition and their interaction with and impact on the distribution of social and material resources, including how they are mediated by and/or manifest themselves in education, labor, immigration, consumption, law, social movements, health, science, the family, the economy, and beyond.  
Michèle Lamont, ASA President-elect and Chair of the 2017 Program Committee, Harvard University

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