9th ESA Conference "European Society or European Societies?" Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5 September 2009 The conference was attended by 2,470 sociologists from all European countries, as well as from the USA, Canada, Japan and China. In total, 2,436 reports (oral, written and poster) were presented during the sessions and research committees. The conference program made it possible to get acquainted with a wide range of problems studied by sociologists from different countries and continents. Naturally, all these problems were considered and discussed within the framework of the main problems of the conference. ROS has published a collection of scientific articles by Russian sociologists "European Society or European Societies: a View from Russia" / Ed. by V.A. Mansurov. in English, which was presented at the 9th conference and distributed among its participants. See more