2011 Annual Meeting

President-elect Randall Collins and the 2011 Program Committee have been working on an exciting program that will include more than 600 individual sessions on everything from the latest and greatest books in the field, section roundtables, and countless other topics. 

Social Conflict: Multiple Dimensions and Arenas

Please join us at the American Sociological Association's 106th Annual Meeting, to be held August 13-16, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.                                                                   

MEETING THEME: Social conflict is constantly in the headlines, in the breaking news, but also under the surface of social life. Wherever there is change, struggle, or domination, there is conflict. Social conflict involves many dimensions, including not only economic and power struggles, movement dynamics, and violence, but also forms of inequality and domination latent with conflict, and practices which resolve conflict or which divert attention from it. [Read entire theme statement...]

-Randall Collins, ASA President-elect and 2011 Program Committee Chair, University of Pennsylvania

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The Program Schedule will be announced late April , 2011

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Start planning your visit to Chicago. With so much to do, you might even want to come a day earlier or stay a day later to experience the city lights and nights.