New Figure Permissions Request Template for Endeavour!
Authors can now benefit from detailed advice and a template letter to use when requesting permission for the use of images from libraries and museums, etc. To view these guidelines and download the template, please visit the journal homepage (see the ‘additional information’ section): www.elsevier.com/locate/endeavour.
New Virtual Special Issues from Journal of Aging Studies
We are pleased to bring you a series of virtual special issues:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility now has an electronic window for accepting online payment. The window can be accessed at: http://www.inequality.uiowa.edu/rssm.htm and electronic subscriptions can be purchased with credit cards.
Exercise: Link Is Seen Between Crime and Fitness
A recent paper published in The Social Science Journal focussed on the link between crime and fitness. The physical characteristics of about 5,000 Arkansas inmates were studied and it was found that most were athletically fit when they entered prison. The study also found that those less athletically fit were less likely to have been imprisoned for violent crimes. The paper has attracted attention from the New York Times
We are pleased to bring you a virtual special issue on Social Capital covering 1986 to the present day that brings together articles from Social Networks and its related fields.
International Academy for Intercultural Research – 6th Biennial Conference, August 15-19 2009, Honolulu, Hawai’i
The International Academy for Intercultural Research invites all interested scholars to submit proposals for papers, panels, and/or symposia for their 6th Biennial Conference. The theme for the conference is World Peace through Intercultural Understanding. An on-line form for the submissions is available from:
http://www.interculturalacademy.org/Conference_IAIR_2009/ For more information, contact the Program Coordinator: Professor Dharm P.S. Bhawuk (Bhawuk@hawaii.edu). The first submission deadline is 30 November 2008, and the second is 28 February 209. Early submissions are encouraged!
Poetics – Mission Statement and Online Submission now Available!
Poetics, Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, founded in 1971, has moved to become a major international outlet for empirical social-science research on culture in a broad sense. Kees van Rees and Paul DiMaggio, the Editor and Associate Editor as of 1991, have made several changes that underscore a shift in the journal's focus. Read the full Mission Statement here
Authors can now submit their research online. Papers can also be reviewed and tracked electronically via this system.
New Virtual Special Issues from Social Science & Medicine Social Science & Medicine is please to present new virtual special issues on:
Arts, Culture and the Public Sphere
Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspectives
Venice (Italy) November 4 - 8 2008 A joint Conference organized by:
FDA – Faculty of Design and Art – IUAV University, Venice
DADI – Department of Art and Industrial Design – IUAV University, Venice
The Sociology of Culture RN of the ESA - European Sociological Association
The Sociology of the Arts RN of the ESA - European Sociological Association
Submission of abstracts
You are invited to submit your abstract electronically, according to the guidelines and the Conference Topics available at: www.artculturevenice2008.org
The deadline for submission of abstract is 28th April 2008.
Social Science and Medicine calls for papers for a Special Issue entitled New Approaches to Researching Patient Safety, to be guest edited by Rick Iedema.
The Special Issue will broaden the scope of existing approaches to patient safety and quality of care by inviting papers which report on research that engages with in situ clinical work, research that uses methods that are sensitive to clinical and organizational complexity, and research that displays awareness of the complexities created as a result of the research process itself and its impact on existing clinical work processes.
To find out more about the special issue and how to submit your paper click here.
American Sociological Association
August 8-11, 2009, San Francisco, USA
Cultural capital today Poetics, Volume 36, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 45-71 Prieur, A.; Rosenlund, L.; Skjott-Larsen, J.
Three faces of international inequality Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 183-198 Goesling, B.; Baker, D.P.
China, India, and the United States
Edited by William A. Blanpied, J. Thomas Ratchford and Rodney W. Nichols Technology in Society, Volume 30, Issues 3-4, August-November 2008
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