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*SUMMER SCHOOL ON INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL COHESION

Trento, 4-9 September 2006*

The 2006 Summer School dealt with the relationships between social cohesion and social inequality, a common theme to all EQUALSOC Research Groups and a topic still widely debated in the social sciences.

The daily programme of the 2006 EQUALSOC Summer School was based on a plenary lecture, followed by a general discussion in the morning and, during the afternoon, by the presentation of students’ papers. The main lectures, general discussion and papers presentations was distributed over the six days as follows:

• 4th Sep: Dimensions of social cohesion. Lecturer: W. Ultee, Radboud University Nijmegen. Discussant: A. Chiesi, Università degli Studi di Milano. Afternoon session coordinator: B. Maitre, ESRI Dublin.
• 5th Sep: Dimensions of social inequality. Lecturer: C. Saraceno, University of Torino. Discussant: H. Van de Werfhorst, AIAS-Scholar Amsterdam. Afternoon session coordinator: B. Maitre, ESRI Dublin.
• 6th Sep: The relationships between social inequality and social cohesion. Lecturer: C. Whelan, ESRI Dublin. Discussant: G. Sciortino, University of Trento. Afternoon session coordinator: M. Naldini, University of Torino.
• 7th Sep: Social cohesion at societal level. Norms, values and processes of legitimisation. Lecturer: T. Fahey, ESRI, Dublin. Discussant: P. Barbieri, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca. Afternoon session coordinator: C. Barone, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca.
• 8th Sep: Cultural differentiation, identity cleavages and social cohesion. Lecturer: A. Heath, Nuffield College Oxford. Discussant: R. Silberman, CNRS Paris. Afternoon session coordinator I. Bison, University of Trento.
• 9th Sep: Social cohesion at individual and group level: interpersonal trust, family and friendship ties, neighbourhoods relations, organisation and associations networks. Lecturer: M. Diani, University of Trento. Discussant: Y. Lemel, CNRS Paris.

The lecturers and discussants were outstanding scholars who have extensively published on the subjects dealt with in the Summer School. Each lecturer provided a short list of compulsory readings, in order to help students to actively take part in the discussion.

The follwing Ph. D. students, coming from both EQUALSOC and non-EQUALSOC institutions, were selected by the TDC on the basis of an abstract of their papers and CVs:

1. Bozzon Rossella (Italian), University of Trento
2. Coutrot Laurence (French), CNRS- Paris
3. Dietrich Pascale (French), CNRS-Paris
4. Drabowic Tomasz (Polish), University of Lodz
5. Duvoux Nicolas (French), CNRS- Paris
6. Fahlander Jon (Swedish), University of Stokholm, SOFI .
7. Finsveen Ellen Mette (Norwegian), Tilburg University
8. Hoare George (British), University of Oxford
9. Ip Joanne (Chinese), Nuffield College, Oxford
10. Kasearu Kairi (Estonian), University of Tartu
11. Koçer Rüya Gökhan (Turkish), Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
12. Kucel Aleksander (Polish), University of Pomepeu Fabra, Barcelona
13. Loison Marie (French), CNRS-Paris
14. Ranzani Marco (Italian), Universitá Cattolica of Milano
15. Schindler Steffen (German), University of Mannheim
16. Todesco Lorenzo (Italian), University of Torino
17. Touahria-Gaillard Abdia (French), CNRS- Paris
18. Vergolini Loris (Italian), University of Trento
19. Viviani Giovanna (Italian), Università di Milano Bicocca
20. Zaccaria Daniele (Italian), Università di Milano Bicocca
21. Zou Min (Chinese), Nuffield College, Oxford

The TCD tried to do its best in order to guarantee that the number of female Ph.D. students was close to that of their male counterparts and it almost succeeded. Institutional affiliation and nationality of the participants was rather equilibrated.