Fourth Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists
The international Sociological Association (ISA) announces the organization
of the fourth worldwide competition for young scholars engaged in social
research. The winners will be invited to participate in the XVI World
Congress of Sociology which will take place in Durban, South Africa, July
2006. The winners’ papers will be considered for publication in English,
subject to editorial decision and revision, in the ISA’s journal
International Sociology, or in another ISA publication.
By Young Scholars we mean people under 35 years of age on May 1st, 2005. In
case of joint or multiple authorship, this rule applies to all authors of
the submitted paper. Participants should hold a Master’s degree (or an
equivalent graduate diploma) in sociology or in a related discipline.
Candidates must send an original paper that has not been previously
published anywhere. It should be no more than 6,000 words typewritten
doublespaced on one side of the paper with margins of 3 cm and the pages
numbered. Notes and the bibliography should appear at the end of the text.
Papers which do not conform these rules run the risk of being rejected. We
prefer papers focusing on socially relevant issues. The phenomena examined
may be social, economic, political, cultural or of any other kind, but their
interpretation or analysis must show a sociological orientation (for
instance, through the identification of social processes underlying the
phenomena under scrutiny, critique of commonsense interpretations or of well
established theories, etc.). Empirical research papers must go beyond
descriptive reporting of results to broader, analytical interpretations.
Papers will be judged according to perceptiveness with which issues are
treated, the quality of empirical materials presented, the consistency with
which an analytic framework is used, the originality of ideas, and the
clarity of style. Extensiveness of referencing or the use of advanced
statistical methods will be considered to be of only secondary importance,
so as to provide participants throughout the world with as equal an
opportunity as possible. We are particularly interested in receiving papers
from scholars in Third World Countries.
The five winners of the First (1990), the Second (1994) and the Third (1998)
Competition are not allowed to compete.
Papers may be written in one of the following languages: English, French,
Spanish as well as Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese,
and Russian. Assessors will be appointed for each of these languages. To
give a fair chance for participants whose mother tongue is none of the
above, there will be assessors in English or French, respectively, for
papers submitted by authors , who use any of these as a foreign language.
All others scholars may also make use of this option if they prefer.
Two copies of equal typographical quality should be sent to the following
address:
4th ISA Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists
Attention: Kenneth Thompson
Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-1908-654458
Fax: 44-1908-659267
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www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/pavis
They should be postmarked April 1st, 2005 at the latest or reach the Milton
Keynes Secretariat before May 1st, 2005.
In order to protect anonymity during the selection process, authors should
not put their name on the paper itself but include a separate sheet of paper
with their family name (capital letters), first name, sex, date of birth,
mother tongue, degrees, address where they can be reached and (optionally)
their present occupation. All this information should also be given in one
of the official languages of the ISA (English, French, Spanish).
Initially, a jury will consider which papers reach a sufficiently high
standard to be issued with a letter of official commendation and be listed
on ISA website. The jury will then preselect (by September 2005) a maximum
of three papers. These finalists will receive Merit Award Certificates, a
four-year membership in the ISA, and an invitation to participate in the XVI
World Congress. The ISA, however, cannot guarantee to cover their travel
costs. All authors thus preselected will also be invited to participate in a
one-week seminar prior to the Congress.
Out of the preselected finalists, a Grand Jury chaired by the ISA President
Piotr Sztompka will select up to five winning papers. Their authors will be
immediately invited, all expenses paid, to participate in the World
Congress. In case of multiple authorship, the subvention will have to be
shared.
Additional information may be obtained from the Competition Secretariat in
Milton Keynes (see address above).
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