The themes are highly relevant today. Beyond GDP, societies increasingly seek measures that capture wellbeing, resilience& inequality.
For researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working at the intersection of data and governance, this volume offers both conceptual depth and empirical insight.
The volume grounds these debates in diverse country contexts, including:
Germany
Switzerland
Australia
Mongolia
Timor-Leste
South Africa
Brazil
India
These comparative perspectives show how social indicators operate differently across political systems and levels of institutional capacity.
The book responds to a world facing overlapping crises:
• widening inequality
• democratic backsliding
• environmental stress
• migration pressures
• declining public trust
A central message: measurement shapes governance. Indicators influence political priorities and policy direction.
📘 New open access #publication: Social Indicators in a Transforming World
The volume grew out of RC55 Social Indicators pre-conference discussions and speaks directly to today’s efforts to #measure social progress amid overlapping global crises.
We invite everyone to share and use the book!
📣 Working on #intergrouprelations using social network analysis?
Submit your abstract to our session at @eusnconference.bsky.social this August in Norrköping, Sweden!
🗓️ Deadline: 1 March 2026
More info & submission: liu.se/en/event/eus...
#SNA #SocialNetworkAnalysis #Sociology #EUSN2026
As we close 2025, our #newsletter #Social_Indicators Matters No. 19 is out, featuring pre-conference news, calls for papers, and recent publications.
We reflect a year of active scholarship and collaboration across #RC55 & @isa-sociology.org
Thank you to our global community and Happy New Year!
Here is ISA EC member & PhD Lab Organizer, Nazanin Shahrokni, at the 6th ISA CNAC, FLAME University, reminding us about the Call for Applications, which ends 30 January!
XIX ISA PhD International Lab "Global Orders, Intimate Struggles: Material Lives and the Micropolitics of Resistance"
RC55 Board Member Dolgion Aldar (from #Mongolia) with @isa-sociology.org Vice President for Research Allison Loconto at the Council of National Associations Conference in Pune, India, engaging with representatives from national sociological associations worldwide. #CNA2025
🎙️ As the 6th ISA CNA Conference begins today at FLAME University in Pune, we’re re-sharing our “Sociology In” podcast episode on India, first released 6 months ago, and more relevant than ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jseE...
Special issue of Global Dialogue in memory of Michael Burawoy. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge... #urban #sociology
Key findings on our new study on #climate, #health & #migration in #Paris:
🌡️ #Immigrant districts = heat islands + pollution
🏚️ Poor housing + low income = difficulty adapting to extreme weather.
🚫 90%+ #undocumented immigrants lack #healthcare access
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1756...
CfA: Visiting Researchers in Economic Sociology & Political Economy, Max Planck Institute, Cologne; DL: 31 Oct, 2025
Read here.
RC55 page is now on #LinkedIn. Follow our page for updates on Call for Papers, Publications, Networking opportunities and much more :)
www.linkedin.com/in/isa-resea...
🚢 Winter School on Cruise
“#AI for Technological & Social Change” Jan 23–30, 2026
A 1-week interdisciplinary program on: AI, Sustainability & Blue Economy, Futures & foresight; Policy &governance
For PhDs, researchers & professionals across disciplines
📌 Apply by Sep 30 2025
phdcruise-academic.eu
📚 New in print from RC55 members!
By David Bartram:
➡️ Comparing migrants’ and stayers’ #happiness: A bounds analysis (Migration Studies)
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
➡️ Does #inequality undermine life satisfaction? A longitudinal investigation (European Sociological Review)
🔗 do.org/10.1093/esr/...
📢 Out now: RC55 #newsletter Social Indicators Matters No. 18 (July 2025). We highlight:
👉Rabat Forum recap (17 sessions + travel grants)
👉Call for papers on Comparative Research Program (deadline 9 Nov 2025)
👉Recent publications by members & more
Read here: www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...
Rc55 business meeting. We’re proud that our members increased by more than 30% in the past 2 years! Looking forward to welcoming new members as well!
The RC55 community dinner in Rabat.
RC55 sessions on 10 and 11 July 👇
Getting ready for the 5h ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat?
Check out #RC55 lined up sessions for 7, 8 and 9th of July
Looking forward to an exciting set of sessions on #social_indicators with sociologists around the world.
Download the Forum app and find more information about our sessions and presentations!
The ISA Forum in Rabat is approaching. You can download the app to navigate it. A response to the call for boycott is also available. We are looking forward to lots of interesting RC21 sessions. www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc... #urban #sociology
The International Sociological Association (ISA) expresses deep concern over the five-year prison sentence imposed on Dr. Boris Kagarlitsky in February 2024 by Russian authorities, following charges of “justifying terrorism.”
📢 #CallforPapers
Frontiers in Sociology is inviting submissions for Evolving Social Hierarchies: Current Patterns of Stratification in Latin America and the Caribbean
🗓 Abstract deadline: 25 Jul 2025
📝 Article deadline: 13 Nov 2025
For more details 👇
ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktim...
2025 Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research: Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies
The application deadline is August 25th, 2025. Details about this year’s TN-Square are available at event.unitn.it/tn-square/.
Postdoctoral Position in Quantitative Labor Market Research at the Department of Sociology (Swiss Job Market Monitor), University of Zurich
The full call for application is available at jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... .
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RC55 sessions on 10 and 11 July 👇
Getting ready for the 5h ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat?
Check out #RC55 lined up sessions for 7, 8 and 9th of July
