The conference organizers invite abstracts related to the following topics:
• Influence of economic transformations and related institutional changes on inequality
How is the production and reproduction of inequality influenced by economic transformations and related institutional changes?

• Is globalization the sole cause for rises in social inequality, or are there other concepts of similar centrality that may explain the contribution of current economic change to social inequality?
• How and to what extent are the restructuring of firms and the increasing demands for flexibility, induced by economic change, contributing to social inequalities?
• Are the current processes unique in history or can similar patterns be found in historical comparison?

• Change and persistence of inequality structures
How and why do patterns of inequality change? Which dimensions of and cleavages related to inequality are persistent (income, wealth, educational and occupational status, gender, ethnicity, region, class, etc.)? What new socially relevant goods emerge, and to what extent do they constitute new dimensions of inequality or reinforce existing ones?

• To what extent, for example, is the rising influence of networks related to economic change, and to what extent does uneven access to networks affect changing social inequalities?
• Can we observe changes or persistence in the centrality of specific dimensions of inequality or in the relations between them?
• How do inequality dynamics and their causes differ between and within world regions – for example, Asia and Latin America Actors and evolving institutional reactions
• How do social actors (individuals, institutions, movements) and systems behave with regard to economic change and social inequality?
• Which actors drive economic change, and how do they do it?
• How do states, international organizations, civil society actors and individuals oppose and counterbalance inequalities?
• Have either nation-states or international organizations regained any control over the impact of economic change on inequalities (e.g., by reshaping the welfare state)?