The Organizing Committee of IISIC-2012 is pleased to call for papers for our conference to be held in Bursa, Turkey on 17- 21 June 2012. The IISIC - 2012 conference has been organized in collaboration with Uludag University (Bursa - Turkey), James Cook University (Townsville - Australia) and RMIT University (Melbourne - Australia).

The theme of the conference is interdisciplinary perspectives in the social sciences. An interdisciplinary focus in the social sciences has been much debated, and has attracted growing interest in recent years. The IISIC also welcomes papers from scholars from wider fields relating to cultural, economic, political, criminological, psychological and theological aspects of the social sciences. The IISIC - 2012 conference intends to bring together all areas in the social sciences to develop multi - disciplinary perspectives. Topics will include, but are not limited to:

The 2012 conference program will include keynote plenary sessions and a number of concurrent breakout sessions featuring papers on current research issues and practice - based workshops. Papers and presentations are encouraged from both micro and macro perspectives and all papers are to be presented and written in English (also a limited number of Turkish papers will be accepted). Papers can be peer reviewed for inclusion in a special omnibus edition of the journal or published on the conference web site. Selected authors will also be invited to submit expanded papers for publication in the International Journal of Social Inquiry (IJSI), Is-Guc, The Journal of Industrial Relations & Human Resources and the Journal of Uludag University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. Further, after evaluation by the scientific committee, papers will be published in proceedings books.