Ovidiu Badina, founder and first president of RC34, died on April 26, 1999. With his death, youth studies lost a distinguished scholar, and many members of the Research Committee 34 lost a personal friend. Badina, one of the leading figures in Romanian sociology, was born in Breaza-Buzau in 1932 and had a typical academic career…

Teresa López Translator, Interpreter ETSEA Universitat de Lleida Writing this small summary about my week was a good exercise that made me reflect about the different environments I find myself in within the week, or I should say within the day. Monday morning starts at work, in the International Relations Office, where we are supposed…

Carmen Leccardi Department of Sociology and Social Research University of Milan-Bicocca Sunday 6 May Since years, by now, my working week begins on Sunday. I am so used to consider Sunday as the key day for the week agenda that, as far as I’m concerned, it is “occupied” when it is invaded – often not…

Julia Zubo Russian Academy of Science Work on this diary has taken me incredibly long time not just because of lack of it, but also because it was difficult to decide what was more or less important significant in my every day life. Although everyone’s life is unique, our lives are similar in terms of…

Madeleine Gauthier INRS-Culture et Société (Québec, Canada) Dimanche, le 7 mars Quelle semaine m’attend! Et quel contraste avec cette semaine que je viens de «me payer» à écrire la présentation d’un ouvrage collectif qui devrait être publié depuis plusieurs mois déjà… Une année un peu folle ponctuée de congrès (dont celui de l’AIS), de nouveaux…