----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:03 AM Subject: European Jnl of Social Quality > Members of the european-social-policy list may be interested in the following > new journal, first issue available in December 1999: > > THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL QUALITY > Managing Editor: François Nectoux, Professor of Contemporary European > Studies, Kingston University. Published under the auspices of Kingston > University and in association with the European Foundation of Social Quality, > Amsterdam > > The European Journal of Social Quality aims to: > > Explore practices and discourses on, and to raise crucial issues with regard > to, social quality in contemporary societies. > > Engage in ongoing debate on perceptions and expectations of social quality in > different societies and look at in what way these are affected by factors > such as religion, class, gender, and others which are shaping individual and > group identities. > > Evaluate how economic policies or political decisions affect social quality, > encourage research that identifies and examines policies and identify and > access policies that enhance or threaten the quality of life. > > Each issue is devoted to a theme selected from key issues, especially those > of the evolving new stage of the European Union. Discussions are > wide-ranging but will focus on social and political questions, social > attitudes and cultural issues. Forthcoming themes include: Age and Autonomy > and Health and Work. > > The first issue of The European Journal of Social Quality will be a > double-issue including articles as follows: > Social Quality and the Future of the European Union - Professor Alan Walker, > Dr Wolfgang Beck and Dr Laurent van der Maesen > Politics and Policy of Social Quality - Professor Göran Therborn > The 3rd Sector and Social Quality in the EU - reflections on the perspectives > of NGO's in the process of European Integration - Dr Peter Hermann > The Social Market, the Social Quality, and the Quality of Social Institutions > - Dr Ota de Leonardis > Economic Restructuring: the impact on Social Life: Fate or Choice? - > Professor Jan Berting and Professor Christiane Villain-Gandossi > Social Quality in Everyday Life: changing European experiences of employment, > family and community - Dr Sue Yeandle > Social Quality - a new Concern in Hungary - Dr Zsuzsa Széman > > EDITORIAL BOARD > Professor Chung-Si Ahn, Seoul National University; Professor Jean L. Cohen, > Columbia University, USA; Nr Nick Hewlitt, Oxford Brookes University, UK; > Professor Jane Jenson, Université de Montréal, Canada; Dr Feiwel Kupferberg, > University of Aalborg, Denmark; Professor Dr Graham Lock, Nijmegen > University, The Netherlands; Laurent van der Maesen, Vrije Universiteit; > Professor Elisabeth Meehan, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; > Professor Anne Showstack Sassoon, Kingston University, UK; Professor Carlota > Solé, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Fleur Thomese, Vrije > Universiteit; Professor Alan Walker, University of Sheffield, UK; Professor > Sophie Watson, University of East London, UK. > > CONTRIBUTIONS > The European Journal of Social Quality welcomes submissions for > consideration. > Potential contributors of articles should contact: > François Nectoux, Professor of Contemporary European Studies > Kingston University > Penrhyn Road > Kingston-upon-Thames > Surrey, KT1 2EE > > For subscription rates or further information please contact your nearest > Berghahn Books office: > Berghahn Books, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Berghahn Books, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
