Planned publications

County specific analysis is planned to be published in two special issues of the International Journal of Sociology in 2006. Comparative studies will be published in international journals. So far some results have been presented at international meetings of researchers. A list is printed on the following pages.

Publications and presentations:

“Attitudes Toward Ethnic Reconciliation in Macedonia: Preliminary findings from the SEESSP surveys in Macedonia,” Albert Simkus, presentation in the session “The Present,” at the conference, Post-Ohrid, Pre-Europe Macedonia, held by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, sponsored by the British Council, the Embassy of Macedonia, and the University of London, February 27, 2004, London.

“War and Intolerance: Did Intolerance Cause the War in Croatia or Was it It’s Consequence?,” Dusko Sekulic, Garth Massey, Randy Hodson, and Albert Simkus, Presentation in the session: Why do Neighbours Kill Neighbours? 9th Annual World Convention, Association for the Study of Nationalities, April 2004, New York.

“The South-East European Social Survey Project: An Overview and Some Preliminary Findings,” Albert Simkus. Lecture at the international course, Welfare and Politics in Europe, organized by the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, April 2004, Dubrovnik.

“Attitudes Toward Gender Roles in the Western Balkans,” Albert Simkus. Presentation at the SSRC funded Conference, Work – Life Balance in Europe, City University of London, April 2004, London.

“Comparative Class Structure Among Ethnic Albanians in Three States of the Western Balkans in 2003,” Teuta Starova, Albert Simkus, Shemsi Krasniqi, and Artan Muhaxhiri. Presentation in the session, Transition Economies, ant the meeting, Social Stratification, Mobility, and Exclusion, International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), May 7 – 9, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

“Structural Changes in Serbian Society: A Case Study,” Mladen Lazic, Slobodan Cvejic, Kristen Ringdal, and Albert Simkus. Presentation in the session, Transition Economies, at the meeting, Social Stratification, Mobility, and Exclusion, International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), May 7 – 9, 2004, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

“Attitudes Toward State Egalitarian Policies in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia,” Albert Simkus. Presentation in the session, Culture and Stratification, at the meeting, Social Stratification, Mobility, and Exclusion, International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), May 7 – 9, 2004, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

“Cross-National Differences in the SEESSP Surveys, with Comparisons to the European Social Survey (ESS) of 2003,” Albert Simkus. Presentation at the joint SEESSP, NORPOL, and University of Zagreb Conference, “Social Structure,” June 2004, Dubrovnik.

“The South-East European Social Survey Project (SEESSP): An Announcement, Description, and Invitation for Research Collaboration, Albert Simkus. Presentation in the session, Post-Socialist Societies, at the 36th World Congress, International Institute of Sociology (IIS), June 6 – 10, Beijing.

“The New Economic Reality in the Countries of South-East Europe, based on the data of the SEESSP research project,” Mileva Gurovska, St. Cyrill and Methodius University, Skopje. Presentation to the research group: “Economic Sociology,” at the International Congress of French-Speaking Sociologists (AISLF), July 2004, Tours, France.

“Perceptions of Globalization,” Mileva Gurovska, St. Cyrill and Methodius University, Skopje. Presentation to the Research Committee: “Small societies and the construction of Knowledge,” at the International Congress of French-Speaking Sociologists (AISLF), July 2004, Tours, France.

“Social Inequalities in Health in South Eastern Europe,” Terje Andreas Eikemo,
Kristen Ringdal, and Albert Simkus. Presentation in the session, “Health and Inequality,” at the meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), August 7 – 9, 2004, Rio de Janeiro. A revised version presented at the meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), May 6-8, 2005, Oslo.

“Disaggregating public opinion on the ethnic conflict in Macedonia”, Kristen Ringdal, Albert Simkus and Ola Listhaug. Paper prepared for the conference on “Disaggregating the Study of Civil War and Transnational Violence”, University of California, Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, San Diego, CA, 7-8 March 2005.

“Changes in the recruitment patterns of the economic and political elites in Serbia”, Mladen Lazic, Slobodan Cvejic. Presentation at the meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), May 6-8, 2005, Oslo.

Promene drustvene strukture u Srbiji (Changes of Social Structure in Serbia), Mladen Lazic and Slobodan Cvejic, in A. Milic, ed., Drustvena transformacija i strategije drustvenih grupa (Social Transformation and Strategies of Social Groups), Institute for Socilogy Faculty of Philosophy Belgrade, 2004:39-70 (the book will be published soon in English, with the same title, and publisher!).

Post-socialist Transformation in Serbia: Changing recruitment patterns of Economic Elite, Mladen Lazic, in G. Lengyel, ed., Cohesion and Division of Economic Elites in Central and Eastern Europe, workshop proceedings, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest 2004, pp.109-119. The same article will be published in a Russian journal: "Centralnaja i Vostochnaja Evropa: istoricheskije i sociokulturnyje issledovanija" N 1, 2005. ("Central and Eastern Europe: historical and socio-cultural research")