Vol.
5, #2, May 2004
Call
for Papers:
Society and Consumption
Attention
graduate students and untenured faculty:
The Berkeley
Journal of Sociology (BJS) invites submissions of well-researched,
theoretically interesting papers on issues relating to consumption
for Volume 49, 2005. We are particularly interested in research
that explores perspectives on consumption as a social experience
and consumers as social actors.. Examples of possible topics include,
but are not limited to, the intersection of consumption and:
- identity
(personal and group)
- modernity/postmodernity
- state and
social movements
- race and
ethnicity
- imperialism/development
- culture
- gender and
sexuality
- technology
and the internet
Additional topics
might include consumption in non-capitalist frameworks; brands and
power; games and leisure in a consumer perspective; and the historical
emergence and persistence of consumer societies.
The BJS
provides graduate students and untenured faculty in the US and internationally
with a forum for publishing original, high-quality sociological
research. Many current academic luminaries published in the BJS
early in their careers, including Pierre Bourdieu, Michael Burawoy,
Craig Calhoun, Nancy Chodorow, Randall Collins, Peter Evans, Anthony
Giddens, Jurgen Habermas, Arlie Hochschild, Saskia Sassen, Juliet
Schor, Theda Skocpol and Erik Olin Wright.
Students and
faculty from departments outside the discipline of sociology (such
as political science, anthropology, cultural studies, etc.) are
encouraged to submit articles that have a sociological orientation
and pertain to such issues as listed above. Researchers may include
suggestions for constructing social policy, but these suggestions
should be strongly supported by empirical sociological research.
Submissions for Volume 49 are due October 15th, 2004. All papers
submitted to the journal will be considered for presentation at
the 5th annual BJS conference in March 2005.
Send two paper
copies of your submission, following the guidelines for contributor
(http://sociology.berkeley.edu/bjs/guidelines.asp),
to:
Berkeley Journal
of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall #1980
Department of Sociology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1980
Or send submission
as an email attachment to: thejournal@berkeley.edu
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