At the 14^th World Congress of Sociology in Montreal, the Research Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (COCTA) carried out 10 sessions referring to topics like "The Concept of Action", "Social Science in the World Wide Web" and "A Roundtable on Concepts of Globalization". The roundtable on Globalization was a great success for COCTA. More than 40 people attended and confirmed the need for a clarification of the concepts needed to describe and analyze the changing social world at the end of the 20^th century, from a sociological point of view. Our thanks go to Fred Riggs, who organized this session and demonstrated, that new concepts for describing and explaining our present socio-economic and socio-political reality need first of all clarification and appropriated operationalization. [For more details see "Concepts of Globalization"

According to the objectives of COCTA, all sessions were based on clarification of the metaterms as well as substantive sociological terms. An average of 20 persons joined the sessions, an indicator of the continuing need for conceptual and terminological analysis in sociological reconstructions of social life in a rapidly changing world society. COCTA-ISA thanks the outgoing President, George Graham, for leading the research committee for four years in an enriched fashion.

New elections of the officers of COCTA-ISA were held in Montreal which resulted as follows: President: Henry Teune (USA), secretary: Volker Dreier (Germany/Italy); board: Matti Malkia, (Finland), Volker H. Schmidt (Germany), Fred Riggs (USA), Hartmut Rosa (Germany), and Peter Ohly (Germany).

For the next world congress in Australia, panels were proposed on themes like: "Myths", "Creativity" and "Conceptual History".

For further Information about COCTA-ISA please contact the secretary, Volker Dreier .

[For more details about COCTA and its Activities go to: COCTA Home Page ]

The minutes of the business meetings of COCTA-ISA

held at the ISA Congress in Montreal 1998.

At our business meetings the following officers were elected:

President of COCTA-ISA (11998-2002)
Henry Teune 208 South 37th Street Philadelphia, PA 191046215 USA
E-mail him at: Henry Teune

Secretary of COCTA-ISA (11998-2002)
Volker Dreier
Institut fur Politikwissenschaft,
Universitat Tubingen, Melanchthonstrasse 36
72074 Tubingen, GERMANY
Correspondence address: Via della Rondinella,
15 1-50135 Firenze Italy
Tel.: + + 39-055-611 596, Fax: + + 39-055-503 2426
E-mail him at: Barlucchi or at abarlucchi@cesitl.unifi.it.

Board Members of COCTA-ISA (11998-2002)

Matti Ma1kia, P.O.Box 607 33101 Tampere, FINLAND
e-mail: malkia@uta.fi

Fred W. Riggs
University of Hawaii, Political Science Dept.
3920 Lurline Drive Honolulu, HI 96816 USA
e-mail: fredr@hawaii.edu, Web Page

Volker Schmidt
Fakultat fur Sozialwissenschaften Universitat Mannheim
Seminargeb6ude, A5 D68131 Mannheim, GERMANY

Hartmut Rosa
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena
Institut fur Soziologie

Otto -Schott-Str. 41, D07745 Jena, GERMANY
e-mail: rosa@soziologie.uni-jena.de

Peter Ohly
Social Science Information Center,
Lennestrage 30, D-5311 3 Bonn, GERMANY
e-mail: ohly@iz-bonn.gesis.d400.de

Future Activities planned for the period 1998-2002

1. 21.-22/08/1999
COCTA-meeting at Tampere, Finland
Organized by Matti Malkia
e-mail: malkia@uta.fi
Title of the meeting: The Concept of Information Society

2. September 2001
COCTA-meeting at Florence, Italy
Organized by Dr. Volker Dreier
Secretary, RC 35 (COCTA)
Via della Rondinella, 15
1-50135 Firenze, Italy
Tel.: ++39-(0)55-611 596 Fax: ++39-(0)55-503 2426
e-mail: barlucchi@ccsp6.scpol.UNIFI.IT or abarlucchi@CESIT1.UNIFI.IT

1 Bram D. ABRAMSON C.P. 48099, Montreal H2V 4S8, Canada, e-mail: bram@tao.ca (5)

2. Barry D. ADAM Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4, e-mail: adam@uwindsor.ca (2)

3. Jinnai AKIHIRO 1721-6 Zushimachi, Machida-shi, Tokyo, Japan #1940203, e-mail: jinn.akihiro@nifty.ne.jp (7)

4. Mark ASHLEY Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 5828 5, University AVe., Chicago, 11 60637, USA, email: mashley@uchicago.edu (2)

5. Iris BALSAMO e.mail: ibalsamo@sgvillermo.datacop3.com.ar (8)

6. Wolfgang BALZER (7)

7. Yves BONNY University of Rennes, Department of Sociology, e-mail: yves.bonny@uhb.fr (2) 8. Gary M. BOYD Education Department, LB-579, Concordia University, 1455 De Maisonneave Quest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, e-mail: boydg@vax2.concordia.ca (2)

9. Mauro CALISE Department of Sociology, Vico Monte di Pieta, 80138 Naples, Italy, e-mail: calise@unina.it (6)

10. Mikael CARLEHEDEN Columbia University New York, NY, Department of Political Science, e-mail: mc744@columbia.edu (3)

11. Marco de CASTRO 3463, Ste-Farnille # 2112, H2X-2K7, Montreal, Canada, e-mail: marcol@videotron.ca (3)

12. Olivier CHANTRAINE Universiti Ch. de boulle Lille 3, Gerico/iupmFocom, rue du Pdt. V. Auriol, BPI, 59051 Roubaix Golex, France, e-mail: achantraine@nordnet.fr (7)

13. Chris CHASE-DUNN Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, e-mail: chriscd@jhu.edu (2)

14. Brigitte CHAVEZ University of Montreal, e-mail: chavezb@ere.umontreal.ca (2)

15 Maryse COSSETTE U.Q.A.U. Montreal, e-mail: d337511@er.ugam.ca (2)

16. John CROWLEY C.E.R.I., 4 rue de chevreuse, F-75006 Paris, France, e-mail: john.crowley@ce(i.sciences-po.fr (3)

17. Sonia M. CUALES Un Eclac, P.O.Box 1113, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, e.mail: scuales@edacpos.org (2)

18. Jan CURRIE School of Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia, e-mail: currie@central.murdoch.edu.au (2)

19. Robert M. CUTLER Saccursale "H", C.P. 518, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 43G 2L5, e-mail: rmc@alum.mit.edu (11)

20. Paolo DELL'AQUIALZ 5, v.G.dell Torre 47100 Forli, Italy, Faculty of Political Sciencies, e-mail: pdaquilz@theo.it (11)

21. Volker DREIER (1) (2) (3) (8) (9) (10) (11)

22. John DUFF Edith Cowan University, Joondalup 6009, Western Australia, e-mail: j.duff@cowan.edu.au

23. Tom DWYER Rua Sao Carlos do Pinhal, 345 apto 2302, 01333-001 Sao Paulo, SP, BRAZIL, e-mail: tom@turing.unicamp.br (10) (11)

24. Karen EVANS University of Salford, Salford M54WT, England, e-mail: k.evans@mcrl.poptel.org.uk (5)

25. David FLYNN Department of Sociology, King's College, 266 Wqworth Ave., Laudan, Ontario, Canada N6A 2M3, e-mail: jflynn@julian.uwo.ca (7)

26. Gyda FOLKEDAL Telenor RfD, P.O.Box 6701 St. Olavspl, N-0130 Oslo, Norway, e-mail: gyda.folkedal@fov.telenor.no (5)

27. GuyFRECHET 2727 Le Verrier, Ste.Foy. Quebec GIV IG7, e-mail: guy.frechet@soc.ulaval.ca (5) (10) (11)

28. Gary FULLER e-mail: 3y5ltqx@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu (8) (9)

29. Guy GAUTHIER Rodev-Canada/CBC, 1400 Blu Rene Levesquet, e-mail: gauthier@montreal.ac.ca (9)

30. Bob GOODIN Department of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia, e-mail: goodin@coombs.anu.edu.au (3) (6)

31. Jens H. HAAHR Danish School of Information, olof Palmes Alle 12, DK-8200 Aarhus N, email: jhh@djk.dk (5)

32. Christian HAERPFER Institute for Advanced Studies, Stumpergasse 56, A1060 Vienna, Austria, e-mail: haerpfer@ihs.ac.at (6)

33. Richard HARISSON University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A., e-mail: harisson@utdallas.edu (8) (9)

34. Lorna HEATON 4030 de Bullion, Montreal, H2W 2E3 Canada, e-mail: kl6l37@er.uqam.ca (5)

35. WolfHEYDEBRAND Sociology, New York University, 269 Mercer St., New York N.Y. 10003, e-mail: heydebrand@socgate.soc.nyn.edu (2)

36. Boris HOLZER Department of Sociology, LSE, London WC2 2AE, email: b.holzer@lse.ac.uk (7)

37. Debia HORN University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Rd., Bristal United Kingdom, e-mail: D.Horn@bristol.ac.uk (5) (10) (11)

38. Lars KASPERSEN Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Universitetsparken, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark, e-mail: lbk@ps.au.dk (2)

39. Douglas KELLNER Department of Education, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90045, e-mail: kellner@ucla.edu (5)

40. Anthony D. KING State University of New York at Binghampton, Binghampton NY 13901-6000, email: adking@binghampton.edu (2)

41. Harald KLEIN Mittelstr. 8, D-07745 Jena, e-mail: klein@soziologie.uni-jena.de (8) (10) (11) 42. Leena KOSLER University of Sonsum, Department of Sociology, P.O.Box 111, 80101 Sonsum, Finland (3)

43. Tina B. LAHOGUE Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Rosenborggede 15, DK-1 130 Copenhagen, email: TL@IFS.KU.DK (4) (6)

44. Avraham LESLAU School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, e.mail: LesLaa@ mail. biu. ac. i 1 (3)

45. Loet LEYDESDORFF Science & Technology Dynamics, Niemve Achtergr. 166, 1058 WV Amsterdam, Holland, e-mail: l.leydesdorff@mail.uva.nl (5) (11)

46. Maria LOS University of Ottawa, Department of Criminology, Ottawa, Ont. KlN 6N5, Canada, e-mail: marialos@uottawa.ca (3)

47. Theodore LOWI Department of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14856, e-mail: tj17@cornell.edu (6)

48 James MAHON Stetson Hall, Williams Ciollege, Williamstown, MA, 01267, USA, e-mail: James. E.Mahonwilliams.edu (4)

49. Matti MALKiA (1) (2) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)

50. John MINGERS Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, e-mail: j.mingers@warwick.ac.uk (7)

51. Dalibor MISINA University of Alberta, Canada, e-mail: dmisina@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (2)

52. Zdravko MLINAR Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia (2) (8) d

53. Glenn MORGAN Manchester Business School, Manchester M15 6PB, UK, e-mail: g.morgan@fs2.mbs.ac.uk (2)

54. Ray MURPHEY Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1 N 61\15, e-mail: rmurphey@uottawa.ca (2)

55. Peter OHLY Social Science Information Center, Lennestra(le 30, D-53113 Bonn, e-mail: oh@bonn.iz-soz.de (1) (2) (4) (5) (8) (9) (10) (11)

56. Lennart OLAVSSON Department of History of Ideas and Science, Goteborg University, Box 200, 40530 Goteborg, Sweden, e-mail: olavsson@idehist.gu.se (3)

57. Mete PAMIR Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Christiasqt. 15, 5007 Bergen, Norway, e-mail: Mete. Pamir@isp. uib. no (2)

58. Paul PELOWSKI Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, England, C01 2RF, e-mail: paulp@essex.ac.uk (6) (10)

59. Adam PODGIRECKI Carleton University, Department of Sociology, Ottawa, Ont. KlS 5136, Canada (3)

60. Javier PROTZEL Graduate School, Studies in Social Communications, University of Lima, Lima, Peru, e-mail: jprotzel@ulima.edu.pe (2)

61. Michael REMPEL Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1126 East Garn St., Chicago, IL, 60637 USA, e-mail: m-rempel@uchicago.edu (2)

62. Annemiek RICHTERS Postbox 536, 2100 AM Hearstecke, Netherlands, email: Richters@ruilt2.medtac.leidenuniv.nI (2)

63. Larry R. RIDENER P.O. Box 753, Radford, UA 24141, USA, e-mail: LRIDENER@RUNET.EDU (10) (11)

64. Norma ROMM Hull University, 63 Salmon Grove, Hull Hub 7SZ, UK, e-mail: n. r.romm@mgt. hull. ac. uk (7)

65. Hartmut ROSA Schiller-Universit6t Jena, Institut fCir Soziologie, D07740 Jena, Germany, e-mail: rosa@soziologie.uni-jena.de (1) (3)

66. Victor ROUDOMETOF P.O. Box 1548, Kavala 65110, Greece, e-mail: victor@kav.forthnet.gr (2)

67. Ingrid SAHLIN Department of Sociology, P.O.Box 114, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden, e-mail: ingrid.sahlin@soz.1u.se (3)

68. Johanne SAINT-CHARLES Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Dept. des Communications, e-mail: saint-charlesjohanne@uqam.ca (7)

69. Volker H. SCHMIDT (1)(3)

70. Birgit SCHWELLING Max Weber Kolleg, UniversitAt Erfurt, Am HCjgel 1, D99089 Erfurt (7) (11)

71. John F. SITTON Department of Political Science, Indiana University of Pennsyl., Indiana, PA 15705, USA, e-mail: ifsitton@grove.iup.edu (2)

72. Leslie SKLAIR London School of Economics, email: I.sklair@lse.ac.uk (2)

73. Tony SPYBEY Staffordshire University, UK, e-mail: t. spybey@ staffs. ac. uk (2)

74. Anna Xia Dong SUN e-mail: annasun@socrates.berkley.edu (3)

75. Henry TEUNE (1)(2)(8)

76. David VENTER Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, e-mail: djv@naties.sun.ac.za ((2) 11)

77. Petri VIRTANEN Ministry of Finance Public Management Department, B.O. 671, 00171 Helsinka, Finland, e-mail: petri.virtanen@vm.vn.fi (5)

78. Susan WEIL Nene University College, Northhampton, NN7 2AL, email: susan.weil@nene.ac.uk (7)

79. Barry WELLMAN Cntr Urban & Community Studies, University of Toronto, 455 Spadina Ave, Room 426, Toronto, ONT M5S 1A1, Canada, e-mail: well man@chass. utoronto. ca (2)

80. Allison WOODWARD Vrije Universiteis Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1030 Brussel, Belgium, e-mail: aewoodwa@vub.ac.be (2)

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