Issues in the Development of Sociological Theory is the major annual sociological conference in Ukraine, held jointly by the Faculty of Sociology (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), Institute of Sociology (National Academy of Sciences), and Sociological Association of Ukraine.

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In 2020 the conference will take place for the 17th time under the heading Conceptual Strategies for the Study of Social Consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic to primarily address the issues of challenges to social theory and methodology resulting from the worldwide pandemic condition.

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Conference Conception

 

The new forthcoming decade of the 21st century is inaugurated not by local wars, informational overload, ecological disasters, or migration explosions, which all are characteristic of the modern world, but by a pandemic. This is not, of course, the first pandemic for humanity, but rather a forgotten reality, which was sidelined from the spotlight of social life for a while by successes of medical technologies. Indeed, epidemics and pandemics were reflected upon and analyzed by a significant number of social science thinkers and researchers. They include such well-known writings as “Man and Society in Calamity” by Pitirim Sorokin, “Plagues and Peoples” by William McNeill, “Material Civilization, Economics, and Capitalism” by Fernand Braudel, “Guns, Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond, etc. Yet, the phenomenon of COVID-19 pandemic has some unique features due to its appearance at a specific historical juncture in human development, which creates both opportunities and challenges for traditional sociological theory and methodology.

 

Today, a significant number of researchers are actively involved in attempts to understand and study the phenomena ensuing from the pandemic. Expectedly, the first wave of research attention results in pluralism of opinions, starting, as an example, with the definition of the term “pandemic/epidemic” in Richard Gorton’s commentary “Offline: COVID-19 is not a pandemic” in The Lancet. At the same time, it has led to proliferation of innovative research strategies. For instance, the significant attention is devoted to modeling dynamics of the pandemic with consideration of social factors.

 

On the other hand, the COVID-19 pandemic has become a challenge to classical methodologies and methods used by sociologists so far. Pandemic conditions present a whole list of new important and urgent issues to sociological community, ranging from ethical aspects of research to specific fieldwork procedures.

Therefore, we invite sociologists and representatives of related fields to join the discussion on relationship between COVID-19 pandemic and research strategies and issues in sociology at our conference.

 

The Conference will be held online on December 18-19.
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Themes of the Conference:

 

1. Theoretical pluralism and innovative strategies of research in sociology

2. The COVID-19 pandemic: challenges for methodology and research methods

3. Reflexive processes in the contemporary theoretical sociology and the development of research methodology for the ongoing social changes

Key dates

December 14, 2020:

Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts

 

December 15, 2020:

Notification of acceptance of abstracts

 

December 18-19, 2020:

Holding a conference​

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Conference venue:
The conference will be held online

(participants will be additionally notified about the videoconferencing platform)

 

Working languages:

Ukrainian, English.

 

To participate in the conference should be until December 10, 2020:

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1. Fill in the registration form: https://forms.gle/u9kARbrtqYNyjqSw8:

2. Submit electronic version of the abstract to the organizing committee’s email (org@soc.univ.kiev.ua) (specifying your last and first names in the file name (for example: JohnsonJohn.doc). One speaker can submit several abstracts for different thematic sessions of the conference

3. Submit electronic copy of the receipt of registration fee payment to org@soc.univ.kiev.ua

 

Subject for all messages: Issues in the Development of Sociological Theory.

 

​Requirements to abstracts:

 

Three pages (no more than 5 000 symbols) of А4 format, font size 14, interline spacing 1.5, Times New Roman font, all margins - 20 millimeters.

 

First line – title of the report (in capitals, bold font, central alignment).

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Second line – author’s first and last names, institutional affiliation and position (bold font, right alignment).

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Next block – body of the abstract (justified alignment with 1.25 cm indentation).

 

References should be put in square brackets – [2: 56], where the first number refers to the position of the source in the list of references, the second number refers to the page in the source.

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List of references is placed at the end of the text.

 

An academic supervisor’s review is required for student and PhD students’ abstracts.

 

By submitting abstracts to the organizing committee, the authors acknowledge that during the research and preparation of the report (abstract) they have adhered to ethical requirements, in particular, to the Code of Ethics of the International Sociological Association (ISA) (http://www.isa-sociology.org/about/isa_code_of_ethics.htm), Code of Sociologist of the Sociological Association of Ukraine  (SAU) (http://www.sau.kiev.ua/codex.html). 

 

Examples of the list of references:

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- one author:

Krippendorff K. Content Analysis. An Introduction to Its Methodology (2rd ed).// USA, CA: Sage Publications, 2004. – 472 p.

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- two or more authors:

Modern methods of content analysis: textbook / Bataeva K., Ivanov V., Korytnikova N., Kostenko N., Semotyuk O., Yuzva L.; for ed. Kostenko N., Bataeva K. and Ivanov V. - Kyiv: Condor Publishing House, 2018. - 416 p.

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- conference proceedings, periodicals, collections of papers and serial publications:

About Some Social and Structural Outcomes of Institutional Changes in Ukrainian Society / Kutsenko Olga // Ukrainian Sociological Review, 2000-2001. – Kyiv: Institute of sociology NASU, 2003. – P. 58-65.

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Yuzva L. The markers of patriotism are presented student through appearance of Ukrainian society// Youth policy: problems and prospects/ Red. S. Shchudlo, P. Dlugosz.- Drohobych – Rzeszov: «TrekLTD», 2016.- Nr 7.- P. 10-19

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-articles and chapters from books:

Bataeva K. Content analysis of cybertexts / Kateryna Bataeva // Modern methods of content analysis: textbook / Kateryna Bataeva, Ivanov V., Korytnikova N. and others. - Kyiv: Condor Publishing House, 2018. - p. 287 - 317.

 

 

IMPORTANT!

The Organizing Committee reserves the right to reject abstracts that do not meet the requirements, contain indications of violation of academic integrity and do not have scientific value.

 

 

CONTACTS:

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Е-mail: org@soc.univ.kiev.ua

 

Help by phone: +380-99-349-43-47

 

Conference Secretary: Lyudmyla Iuzva (iuzva@knu.ua)

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Technical secretaries of the conference: Artemiy Deineka (artemiydeineka@knu.ua), Valeriia Sazonova (org@soc.univ.kiev.ua)