SAGE Publications has a new journal titled "Cultural Sociology", edited by David Inglis and Andrew Blaikie (both Aberdeen). Here is what the publisher says about the journal on its website: 

"Cultural Sociology is the first journal explicitly to be dedicated to the sociological comprehension of cultural matters. It will act as a key meeting point for sociological analysts of culture coming from a wide range of theoretical and methodological positions, and from a great variety of national contexts. It will be a locale where different analytical traditions in cultural sociology and the sociology of culture can engage with and learn from each other.

Cultural Sociology is an official journal of the British Sociological Association. The first issue will be published in March 2007."

The International Sociological Association has elected a new executive commitee for the period 2006-2010. Elections were held during the first ISA World Congress of Sociology that took place in Durban, South Africa in July this year. The new ISA president is a prominent French sociologist Michel Wieviorka, director of Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. 

New issue of International Sociology is published with many interesting papers, including three reviews of Jeffrey Alexander's "The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology", and an interview with the Polish sociologist Piotr Sztompka, former president of the International Sociological Association (ISA). To get a glimpse into Alexander's work, read an interview with him published in the 2005 issue of the Croatian journal Diskrepancija. 

From the Editor
Kalekin-fishman, Devorah
Pages: 780-781

Ibn Khaldūn and Contemporary Sociology
Alatas, Syed Farid
Pages: 782-795

Self-Employment: How Individual Choices Interact with Market Economies
Mcdaniel, Susan A.
Pages: 796-805

Undergoing Change: Recent Publications on the Israeli Kibbutz
Rosner, Menahem; Getz, Shlomo
Pages: 806-814

Grappling with 9/11 and its Aftermath: Reflections on the Collective Past, Present and Future of Contemporary

Societies
Keskin-kozat, Burçak
Pages: 815-821

An Interview with Piotr Sztompka
Kalekin-fishman, Devorah
Pages: 822-828

Book Review: The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
Daloz, Jean-pascal
Pages: 829-831

Book Review: The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
Erdemir, Aykan
Pages: 831-834

Book Review: The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
Semashko, Leo M.
Pages: 834-838

The Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) is a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and administered by IREX. UGRAD provides opportunities for current first, second, and third* year undergraduate students (*in five-year programs) from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan to spend one academic year of non-degree study in a US university or community college. Participants are selected through an open, merit-based competition.