CFP: Knowledge Economies

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Knowledge Based Economies and Networks of Knowledge Transfer

Joint Session at the 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology Conference

Buenos Aires, Argentina

August, 1 – 4, 2012

Objective:

This session invites researchers interested in determinants, mechanisms and impacts of social networks, economic policies, elites, social capital, and entrepreneurs in the field of knowledge. All perspectives and research methodologies are welcome: network analysis, multivariate statistics, fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis, content analysis, cross-national, case studies, and so on.

Indicative themes will include (but are not limited to):

- Knowledge networks

- Knowledge-based economies

- Elites and universities

- Knowledge regimes

- Higher education and knowledge transfer

- Social networking, e-learning

- Orders of worth, logics of justification, sociology of worth

- Entrepreneurship and knowledge

- Human capital and social capital

 

Other related topics are also welcome to be suggested.

This is a Joint session between RC02 (Economy and Society) & RC23 (Sociology of Science and Technology) at the 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology.

For further details about the Joint Session Knowledge Based Economies and Networks of Knowledge Transfer please visit:

http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/rc/joint-sessions-work.php#RC02RC23

Abstracts should be submitted to organizing chairs by 15th December 2011, and uploaded to online platform

http://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2012/cfp.cgi

For further information about the Joint Session please contact organizing chairs:



Julian Cardenas

julian.cardenas@analisisderedes.com

University of Antioquia- Department of Sociology

RC02

Gabriel Vélez Cuartas

gabrielvelezcuartas@yahoo.com.mx

University of Antioquia- Department of Sociology

RC23

We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted.

Deadlines:

Abstracts submission: 15th December 2011

Registration for the conference: 10th April 2012

For further details about Conference please visit:

http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/



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