EQUALSOC is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme. The network was initiated on 1 September 2005 and will continue until 31 August 2010. The final EQUALSOC Conference will take place in Amsterdam, on 4-5 June 2010.
The focus of EQUALSOC research has been on social cohesion and its dependence on social differentiation, the relationships between the growing importance of knowledge in the economy, the different chances that individuals and groups experience with respect to the quality of life, and social cohesion. For the final EQUALSOC Conference we invite papers addressing the following themes:
- Family and the life course
- Care: family, welfare state and the market issues
- Flexibilization of life courses
- The intergenerational reproduction of inequality
- Education in comparative research
- The generation of educational inequality: Primary and secondary mechanisms
- Higher education: Expansion, differentiation and its consequences for social inequality
- Occupational mobility and social inequality in the life course
- Educational expansion, educational inequality and social mobility
- Ethnicity and educational inequalities
- Ethnicity and labour market outcomes
- Marriage patterns and migrants integration
- Integration of immigrants in Europe
- Lifestyle, identity and social differentiation
- Poverty and social exclusion
- Contemporary political cleavages
- Civicness and inequality
- The decline of unions and collective organization
- Monitoring living conditions and quality of life in Europe
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