The file contains: the draft minutes of the meeting (Chairman Helga Nowotny), list of participants, a brief for the Chairman, the agenda and schedule.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: CV; list of the SCSS members; minutes; proposal, background briefs outlines, and programs for workshop series, ad hoc preparatory meeting for workshop, draft report on workshop, report of the Ann Arbor Workshop on an International social science research program on Global Change (09/12/1987); a five year activity programme of the European Science Foundation network on transport, communications and mobility.

Topics discussed include: New membership of the Committee, reports on new activities such as the workshops: "Knowledge Elites, the Process of Professionalization and Changes in Communication Systems: Transformation of control mechanisms", "The world Economy and the Spatial Organisation of Power", "Nature and administration of Justice"; Universities- Human values and Human rights; "Beliefs in Government: Changing Public Attitudes to Government in Europe" Human Response to Global Change: International Social Science Research Program; acientific networks; additional activities (comparative law, second language acquisition by adults immigrants, migration).

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