CALL FOR PAPERS

2012 The International Symposium on Society, Technology, Education and Politics
July 27-30, 2012, Beijing, China
www.isstep.org

2012 ISSTEP is inviting professors, researchers, graduate students, academics and any other interested parties to join the International Symposium on Society, Technology, Education and Politic. This symposium is organized around four broad themes concerning Society, Technology, Education, and Politics. We welcome papers from professors, post-doctorate researchers, independent researchers, diplomats and journalists.

Please submit your abstracts or full papers via the online submission system byApril 30, 2012.

Conference Subjects include, but are not limited to:
Society themes:

Adolescent Development and problems
Animal Studies and Sociology
Communication Campaign Design
Community/ Area, History and Culture
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Culture and Consumption
Cultural Anthropology
Data Management of Social Statistics
Emotion and Modernity
European Integration and Development of the European Union
Family Demography
Feminisms
Finance and Society
Geographic Information System in Sociology
Historical Sociology
History of Social Thought
Interdisciplinary Studies
Labor Administration and Labor Legislation
Methodology of Sociology
Political Sociology
Post – Modern Theory and Cultural Studies
Social Evolutionism
Social Marketing
Social Organization
Social Policy
Social Policy Research
Social Problems
Social Psychology
Social Research Methods
Social Statistics
Sociological Theory
Sociology
Sociology of Health and Illness
Sociology on the Menu
The Sociology of Art
The Sociology of Gender
The Sociology of Leisure
Theory of Media
Urban Sociology
Welfare Sociology

Technology themes:

Context-Aware, Location-based and Autonomous Computing
CSCW
Data Mining
Data Warehousing
e-Authoring Tools
e-Banking
e-Business
e-Government
e-Health
e-Knowledge Management
e-Learning
e-Management
e-Payment
e-Publishing
e-Services
Enterprise Web
Grid Services and Service-Oriented Computing
Identity Management
Information Retrieval
Internet and the Web
Middleware for e/m-Services
Mobile devices
Mobile Web
Network Management for e-Environment
Ontology
Payment Protocols
Payment Technologies for e/m-Services
Pervasive, Mobile and Peer-to-Peer Computing Technologies
Privacy Protection
Product Data Management
Project Management
Quality Assurance of e-Technology
Real-time Data analysis (RFID / sensor data, etc.)
Risk and Revenue Management
Security, Privacy, Trust and Reputation for e/m-Services
Semantic Web
SOA and Web Services
Social Web
Web 2.0
Web-Based Systems
Web Design Experience
Web Intelligence, Agents and Personalization
Web Services and Application
Workflow



Education themes:

Adolescent Psychology
Advanced Educational Statistics and Application of Statistics Packages
Alternative Assessment of Teaching
Anthropology of Education
Children’s Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Comparative Education
Comparison of Child Education in Different Countries
Creative and Individualized Teaching
Creativity and Special Abilities
Critical Theory and Education
Curriculum Development and Design
Decision of Educational Administration
Development of School-based Curriculum
Developmental Psychology
Early Childhood Education
Economics of Education
Education Marketing
Education Reform
Education Supervision
Educational Accounting and Finance Management
Educational Administration
Educational Evaluation
Educational Finance
Educational Philosophy
Educational Psychology
Elementary Education
Finance of Education
Gender Education
Group Guidance in Classroom
Hermeneutics and Education
History of Education
Home Education
Human Resource Management and Development in Education
Humanism and Education
Instructional Design
Interpersonal Relationships and Communication
Introduction to Education
Introduction to Special Education
Law of Education
Leadership in Educational Administration
Life Education
Management of Educational Business
Methods of Educational Research
Modern Thoughts on Education
Multicultural Education
Organizational Behavior in Education
Parent Education
Philosophy of Education
Politics of Education
Postmodern Thoughts
Primary Education
Psychologicaland Educational Assessment
Psychology of Instruction
Reading Psychology and Teaching
School Administration
Secondary Education
Sociology of Education
Sociology of Teaching
Special Education
Teaching Talent Training
Testing and Evaluation in Education

Politics themes:

A Comparative Study of National Ocean Policies
Contemporary Thoughts in the World
Development and Trends in Global Politics
Development Economics and the Future of the Third World
Euro and the European Economic and Monetary Union
European Law
Foreign Policy
Foreign Relations of the European Union
Geopolitics and International Security
Global Communication and International Relations
Global Conflicts and the World Order
Global Democracy and International Order
Global Environmental Problems
Global Governance
Global Politics and Grand Strategy
Globalization
Hegemony and the World Order
International Economics and Trade: Theory and Policy
International Law
International Law and the Use of Force
International Politics and Modern Civilization
International Political Economics
International Security and Strategies
International Terrorism
Issues of the Third World Development
Maritime Zones and Functional Uses of the Ocean
Methodology of International Relations Research
Non-State Actors
Philosophic Analysis of International Politics Theory
Political Economy of Global System Transformation
Post-Positivist Theories in International Relations
Research Methods in Social Sciences
Security Study

Theories of International Politics
Theories of Regional Economic Integration
Trans-Atlantic Relations
World Peace Study


Important Dates

April30, 2012 Abstract/ Paper Submission Deadline
May 15, 2012 Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
May 30, 2012 Due Date for Final Paper and Registration
July 27-30, 2012 Conference Dates

Submission
In order to ensure the integrity of our double blind peer-review process, all submissions must occur through the ISSTEP 2012 Submission Website ONLY. Our submission website is being administered by the Easy Chair conference system. If you do not already have an account with Easy Chair, this will require you to create a new one. If you have any questions please e-mail the ISSTEP Secretariat at: info.isstep@isstep.org ; info.isstep@gmail.com
Contact Us
Any questions can be forwarded to the secretariat via info.isstep@isstep.org ; info.isstep@gmail.com