Conference: Control or Care of the Self. Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century, 3-5 July 2008, Hamburg University

The aim of the conference is to raise the question, if and if so, to what extent the relationships to oneself (its regulation and governance) and towards the other in (post)modern societies are being transformed. The perspectives of Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology as well as that of Michel Foucault’s post-structural theory seem to be especially promising, being the first to analyze consistently and convincingly the nature of the individual by examining its long term historical processes of transformation. Both have different visions but similar concerns, dealing with structures of control that exist within society and the personality.

Please submit your proposals before 31 January 2008. Call for Papers

About Stefanie Ernst

Born 1965 in Hamm/ Westfalen, Master in Sociology, Social Anthropology and History (1985-92) in Marburg and Münster. PhD at University of Hamburg 1998, supervisor: Hermann Korte. Junior-Professor in Hamburg 2005-2011, Professor of Sociology in Magedburg 2011-2012. Full Professor of Sociology at WWU Münster since April 2012. Research intersts. Process Theory, Gender, Work and Organsiation, Sociology of Knowledge, Social Research Methods
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One Response to Conference: Control or Care of the Self. Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century, 3-5 July 2008, Hamburg University

  1. Dear Colleagues,

    the Provisional Programme and more details of the International Conference:
    Self-Regulation or Self-Care.
    The Sociology of the Subject in the 21st century.
    are online.

    You are kindly asked to register online to participate until June, 21.:
    Special details for accommodation, arrival etc. you will find here:

    http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?id=4600&L=0&L=1
    or
    http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/srsc

    Thank you very much!
    Andrea D. Bührmann and Stefanie Ernst

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