RC28, Spring Meeting

国際社会学会、RC28のミーティングに参加した。
ミーティングへの出席は初めてだったけど、興味深い発表がたくさんあって、とても楽しかった。5月というのは日本の学期的には参加しにくい時期であるけれど、来年も参加したいと思った。
今からネタを考えよう！

The Spring Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) was held in Budapest, at the Central European University (CEU), May 8-10, 2014.

I attended the meeting for the first time. I made a presentation titled "The Effect of Collective Bargaining Structures on the Skill-Wage Relationship in OECD Countries" in the poster session. It was a "digital poster session" (because the university could not prepare for enough space for sixty poster presentations), and we were assigned a computer and talked with audiences one-to-one. Some scholars came to hear my presentation. I was glad to meet new people.

Aside from the poster session, I attended the following sessions: "Labor Market 1: Labor Market Changes and Inequalities in Europe", "Plenary Session 1", "Income Inequality 2", "Gender 2: Domestic Division of Labor", "Labor Market 2: Women in the Labor Markets", "Inequalities, Welfare State, Social Policy 2", "Education 10: Institutional Contexts".

I learned a lot from these sessions. Many scholars used cross-national comparative data, especially from European countries. It was good to know many kinds of comparative data and related analytical methods, but I thought some people discussed their results without adequate consideration of contexts of different countries. I would like to keep learning about cross-national comparative method.

Although there were two sessions named "Labor Market", I thought there were fewer presentations that focused on labor market inequalities, such as inequality of wage or job security than I expected. There were many papers on education (There were ten sessions).

Because I suffered from jet lag on my first and second day, I could not concentrate on listening to some presentations. I think I should arrive before the meeting started.

The conference dinner was held on a cruise around the Danube. It was great!
I enjoyed the meeting so much.