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• 30 sep 2019

  Porto Alegre

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The gender of professions

  Clomparative perspectives in the sociology of professional groups, the sociology of gender and the the sociology of migrations

  The object of this session is the sociological theorization of the relation between gender and profession. Today, the question is less the exclusion of women from work defined as professional, considering their feinization, than their routine inclusion in ill-defined support roles. The presentations could cross several approaches (of sociology of professional groups, gender, migrations, intersectionality...) to deal with issues like :inequalities in women's access to certain professions, male resistance to women's carrers, delegation of "dirty work", the specific and cultural construction of a masculinist vision of profession work, how professions professes gender, the effects of liberalisation of professions (in many sectors like Health, Culture or Law) on their feminization...

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• 20 sep 2019

  Porto Alegre

  Call for papers - Modern

  Memory of Migrations and Diasporas / Family Memories of Mass Violence and Slavery

  International Sociological Association forum of sociology 2020

  For the IV^th ISA (International Sociological Association) Forum that will take place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, we organize two sessions with the Research Committee Historical Sociology. We would like to welcome contributors from a wide variety of research fields in order to discuss issues related to social, cultural and collective memory. One of the sessions will focus on migrations and diasporic experiences, in particular on family memories. The second session is about intergenerational transmission in families in contexts of mass violence, slavery or war.

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