Sociology for Turbulent Times: Address to the European Sociological Association
Social Relations in Turbulent Times, the theme of the European Sociological Association’s 10th Conference, held in Geneva, September 7-10, 2011, seems to have been on target. Turbulence is indeed an everyday reality, especially since the beginning of 2011. In Europe, at the economic level we are facing what I dare term a financial war. In the 20th century we had two devastating world wars and then a ‘cold’ one; in the 21st...