Sociology for Societies - Understanding socio-cultural changes in contemporary societies
Network Meeting ©Željka Zdravkovic
The network was established with the aim of becoming stable cooperation framework for academics who are researching locally and regionally embedded issues that have larger historical and structural origins, as well as societal consequences.
These researchers base their findings in sound socio-culturally driven interpretations. The topics include issues of local societal changes embedded in broader socioeconomic development, globally imposed modernization onto regional processes, changes in regimes of labor and gender, memory, religion, socially mediated emotions, aging populations, short-term and long-term consequences of global events (i.e., the Covid pandemic). These topics are to be detected and interpreted using tailor-made locally situated conceptual frameworks. This network is, therefore, established to foster theoretically based and methodologically rigorous research endeavors that manage both to detect emerging phenomena, and to explain societal stemming from the longue durée processes.
It is a specifically sociological network that can develop locally specific knowledge with the explanatory potential for all participating countries. Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia have both overlapping historical background, but also recently divergent societal developments that need to be detect, research, and interpret in the sociologically sound manner.
The network is aiming to educate generations of new researchers sensitive to and especially equipped for investigating social phenomena that challenge social integration and cohesion.
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