Conference papers for the International Sociological Association Research Council meeting in Jablonna, Poland, 26-29 August 1980.

Notes. Bibliogr. dissém.

Initiative processes in social change: theory, method and social practice / Hilf Himmelstrand -- Contemporary alienation theory and research / David Schweuter -- The sociology of religion: a critical survey / Richard K. Fenn -- The sociology of military institutions today / Gwyn Harries-Jenkins -- Recent trends in theory and methodology in the study of economy and society / Harry Makler ; Arnaud Sales ; Neil J. Smelser -- Convergences in the sociology of race relations and minority groups / John Rex -- International and internal migration: towards a new paradigm / Daniel Kubat . Hans-Joachim Hoffmann-Nowotny -- The sociology of educational systems / Margaret S. Archer -- Trends in the development of the sociology of work: in search of identity / Jolanta Kulpinska ; Marc Maurice -- Economic crisis and urban austerity: issues of research and policy in the 1980s / John Walton -- Current problems and perspectives in the sociology of leisure / Anne Olszewska ; Gilles Pronovost -- From medical sociology to the sociology of health: some changing concerns in the sociological study of sickness and treatment / Andrew C. Twaddle -- The history of sociology and substantive sociological theories / Jerzy Szacki.