ISA Online

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About ISA online

The International Sociological Association (ISA) is a non-profit association for scientific purposes.  Its function is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion. 

The goal of the Association is to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world.  In its structure, the Association recognizes the aspirations of sociologists in all parts of the world and endeavours to support and strengthen the free development of sociology in cooperation with similar associations of social scientists

• To achieve these ends, the Association shall support activities to:
  • secure and develop institutional and personal contacts between sociologists and other social scientists throughout the world;
  • encourage the international dissemination and exchange of information on developments in sociological knowledge;
  • facilitate and promote international research and training;
  • convene meetings and regularly scheduled world congresses;
  • promote publications which support its other activities.

ISA Online brings together four of our key sites into one digital portal.

Sociopedia.isa is an online journal that publishes review articles in the social sciences. Entries provide a 'state-of-the-art' review of the literature on a particular topic.

eSymposium brings together articles of a sociological value and interest for an international community of social scientists, both from the point of pure, scholarly research as well as from applied dimensions.

Social Justice aims to build a global community who can access and share resources through an open participatory approach to research, policy, pedagogy and practices on social justice and democratization.

Global Dialogue is the electronic newsletter and magazine of the ISA. It is a lively forum for conducting debates and interviews within our discipline. It contains clashing views, visions and accounts from different corners of the globe.