The theme of the 2018 conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research is “Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Europe”. This theme will receive special attention, and as always, we welcome presentations on all relevant areas of sociological research, such as the labor market, education, gender, the family, migration and ethnicity, urban and spatial inequalities, political sociology, health and well-being, social mobility, assortative mating and social stratification in general.

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The theme of the 2018 conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research is “Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Europe”. This theme will receive special attention, and as always, we welcome presentations on all relevant areas of sociological research, such as the labor market, education, gender, the family, migration and ethnicity, urban and spatial inequalities, political sociology, health and well-being, social mobility, assortative mating and social stratification in general.

The conference is organized by the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement / Centre for Studies in Social Change (Sciences Po & CNRS), with the support of the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), the Quantitative Sociology Laboratory (ENSAE–CREST), the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (Sciences Po & CNRS) and the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (Sciences Po).

The conference takes place at Sciences Po, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris.

Main themes

The main theme "Causes and Consequencies of Inequalities in Europe" will receive special attention, but we welcome presentations on all relevant areas of sociological research, such as:

• the labor market
• education
• gender
• the family
• migration and ethnicity
• urban and spatial inequalities
• political sociology
• health and well-being
• social mobility
• assortative mating
• social stratification (in general) 

Submission guidelines

You can now submit your abstract here, on the Submissions page.

In a single PDF file (filename: 'name_of_authors'), the authors are invited to submit both:

• A short abstract (250 words).
• Either an extended abstract (2-4 pages, including tables) or a full paper. 
  Extended abstracts must be sufficiently detailed to allow the organizers to judge the merits of the paper, including a description of the topic studied, the theoretical focus, the data and research methods, and the findings.
  The extended abstract or paper should include: names, email addresses, and institutions of all authors, and up to five key words.

The deadline for submission is March 15th. The author who has submitted the abstract will be informed of the outcome of the submission by May 15th.

Scientific Committee

• Louis-André Vallet (coordinator, CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po - OSC)
• Carlo Barone (University Professor, Sciences Po - OSC)
• Milan Bouchet-Valat (Research Scientist, INED)
• Philippe Coulangeon (CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po - OSC)
• Marta Dominguez-Folgueras (Associate Professor, Sciences Po - OSC)
• Céline Goffette (Research Scientist and Assistant Professor, ENSAE, CREST - LSQ)
• Mathieu Ichou (Research Scientist, INED)
• Jean-François Mignot (CNRS Research Scientist, Université Paris-Sorbonne - GEMASS)
• Ariane Pailhé (Research Professor, INED)
• Bruno Palier (CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po - CEE & LIEPP)
• Sorana Toma (Research Scientist and Assistant Professor, ENSAE, CREST - LSQ)
• Tommaso Vitale (Associate Professor, Sciences Po - CEE)
• Sander Wagner (Research Scientist and Assistant Professor, ENSAE, CREST - LSQ)

Organisational Committee

• Marie Ferrazzini (general secretary of the OSC, Sciences Po & CNRS)
• Bernard Corminboeuf (conference communication officer)
• Édouard Crocq (conference planning officer)
• Sylvie Lesur (conference administrative officer)