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Sociology, internationally

The International Sociological Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences. The ISA was founded in 1949 under UNESCO and currently its members come from 109 countries.

Its mission is to "represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world."

The ISA is a member of the International Social Science Council with the status of the Non-Governmental Organization in formal associate relations with UNESCO and special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

The ISA congress is held every four years, the last of which, the 16th congress, ‘The Quality of Social existence in a Globalising World’, was held in Durban, South Africa. The new elected President (2006-2010) is the French Sociologist Michel Wieviorka.

Its publications includeInternational Sociology, a quarterly, established by the International Sociological Association to publish papers which deserve worldwide circulation and which reflect the research and interests of the international community of sociologists.

A list of the abstracts from the papers presented at the 16 th World Congress at Durban, South Africa is available on a pdf file at http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/

International Sociological Association (ISA),
Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology
University Complutense 28223, Madrid, Spain
Phone: + 34 91 352 7650 Fax: +34 91 352 4945
E-mail: isa@cps.ucm.es
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa

National and Regional Associations affiliated Members of the ISA