These findings counter prevailing notions in the national identity literature which assume that cultural or even ethnic peculiarities serve as the roots of modern constructions of national identity. At the same time, my contribution extends theories which have tried to account for the increasing similarity of the structure and content of education around the world by specifying the institutional conditions under which global trends are transmitted to the national policy-making level. In this project we're examining over-time changes in the organizational structure of large US corporations and their causal determinants. The course will provide an overview over the social-scientific literature on contemporary Japan and will focus on comparisons and on the education of contemporary Japanese in formal as well as informal social settings. The workshop was a smashing success by all accounts.
T here are now a number of follow-up projects that grew out of the workshop.
Together with Lia Antoniou, I am organizing a panel on history education in transition societies at the 2002 European Social Science History Conference . A listing of US sociology departments for the WWW Virtual Library . I am an editor for several sociology categories of the Open Directory Project . A fter-school education has played a very different role in the educational systems of different countries. Although I have some vague ideas, I'm not quite sure how to approach this topic, yet.