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From: Adam Mrozowicki [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 January 2010 15:50
To: Discussion list for those practising BNIM
Subject: workshop "Realist Biography and European Policy", Leuven
16-18.04.2010
For all interested...
The Centre for Sociological Research (CESO), KU Leuven (Research Group
Work and Organisation) and the Realist Biography Working Group are
pleased to invite you to participate in the workshop:
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*"Realist biography and European policy"*
16th April 2010 - 18th April 2010, at the Centre for Sociological
Research, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*Abstract: *The workshop will explore the possibilities to combine
critical realist philosophy with biographical-narrative methods for a
well-founded and workable toolkit for practical research in the social
sciences, with immediate application to European policy studies. It will
draw on the concepts of structure, agency, biography, and reflexivity in
order to explore the interrelation between the socio-political processes
taking place at the European level and the actually lived lives and
practices of those concerned. For the purposes of the workshop we hope
that Margaret Archer's realist social theory can be used for a solid
social scientific foundation for biographical methods, particularly
since Archer's internal conversation could be proposed as a real
mechanism mediating between social structures and human agency. In
addition, we hope to be able to use biographical methods in order to
access and interpret the internal conversation as a key source of data
for realist social science. During the workshop we will discuss the
applicability of two variants of biographical methods to study the
reflexivity as the mediating mechanism: (1) the pioneering approach to
the analysis of biographical process structures developed by Fritz
Schütze; and (2) the Biographical Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM)
as described in Wengraf. We hope to construct an explicitly social
realist foundation for research. We start with the hypothesis that there
is an internal conversation that acts as a real causal mechanism
mediating between social structures and human agency. It is this
mediating mechanism in action that we wish to probe as accurately as
possible as an explanatory source for the social dynamics at play in EU
policy processes at the various levels where European social dialogue
comes into play.
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*Keynote speakers and panellists *
Margaret Archer, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry;
Robert Carter, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry
Prue Chamberlayne (School of Health and Social Welfare, Open University,
UK);
Robert Miller, Queen's University School of Sociology, Social Policy and
Social Work;
Fritz Schütze, University of Magdeburg, Institute of Sociology;
Tom Wengraf (Honorary Fellow of the Birkbeck Institute of Social Research)
Valeria Pulignano, Centre for Sociological Research, Catholic University
of Leuven;
Miriam Kennet, Green Economics Institute, UK
Caroline Gijselinckx, KU Leuven HIVA (Research Institute for Labour and
Society)
Raf Vanderstraeten, University of Ghent, Faculty of Social and Political
Sciences
Geert Van Hootegem, Centre for Sociological Research, Catholic
University of Leuven
*Organising committee: *
Adam Mrozowicki, Institute of Sociology, University of Wroc³aw, Poland
Jeffrey Turk, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, Slovenia
Markieta Domecka, Queen's University Belfast, School of Sociology,
Social Policy & Social Work, Northern Ireland and Catholic University of
Leuven, Belgium
Valeria Pulignano, Centre for Sociological Research, Catholic University
of Leuven, Belgium
Vickie Dekocker, Centre for Sociological Research, Catholic University
of Leuven, Belgium
Geert Van Hootegem, Centre for Sociological Research, Catholic
University of Leuven, Belgium
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*Registration:*
. Limited to 40 participants, so register early to ensure your place.
The deadline for registration is March 15^th , 2010.
. Attendance fees: EUR 20 (regular), EUR 15 (students, PhD students)
covers coffee breaks and workshop printed materials, paid to KU Leuven
CESO account (provided upon registration)
. To reserve a place and get further information, contact: Jeffrey Turk:
[log in to unmask] or Adam Mrozowicki ([log in to unmask])
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For more information and a tentative programme see:
http://soc.kuleuven.be/web/agendaitem/1/1/eng/583
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Dr Adam Mrozowicki
Institute of Sociology
University of Wroclaw
Tel. (+48) 71 7281232
Mobile /Kom.: (+48) 602817721
Skype: adam_mrozowicki
http://www.worker-participation.eu/
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