CHIKA'S BLOG

The International Liaison Committee of the Japan Sociological Society (JSS) is pleased to announce its sixth annual travel grant competition for starting scholars. The objective of this grant is to support up to 6 sociologists who will present papers and participate in the JSS annual meeting in Sapporo, Japan this fall. Each scholar selected will be awarded 80,000 yen to support accommodation and travel expenses. To be eligible for support, the applicant must: (1) be currently living and working outside of Japan, (2) hold a master's degree or higher obtained within the past ten years, (3) hold a membership in their country's national (or equivalent) sociological association.

Deadline: May 5, 2012.
For more information, visit: http://www.gakkai.ne.jp/jss/travelgrant/info2012.html
Email: ilc@sociology.gr.jp

Best wishes for 2012 - a super year for all of you!

A special issue on Social Stratification Studies in East Asia has been out from the Asian Journal of Social Science (AJSS) (Volume 39, No.1, 2011).

Koichi Hasegawa and I have selected and edited 5 enthusiastic research papers presented at the Tohoku University-National University of Singapore Joint Forum of Sociology and Social Stratification Studies held in Singapore back in February 2009.

Please find an introductory essay here: "Inequalities and Disparities in Globalised Asia" (AJSS 39(1), 2011).

Reference: Hasegawa, Koichi and Chika Shinohara, eds. 2011. Social Stratification Studies in East Asia (special issue), the Asian Journal of Social Science (AJSS, Volume 39, No.1).