Category: Sociology

By Monika Büscher (ed.), John Urry (ed.), Katian Witchger (ed.)

Within the twenty-first century, greater than ever, every little thing and everyone appears to be like at the flow. worldwide flows of individuals, items, foodstuff, funds, info, providers and media pictures are forming an intensely cellular historical past to lifestyle. Social scientists, too, are at the stream, looking new analytical buy on those vital features of the social international via attempting to flow with, and to be moved through, the fleeting, dispensed, a number of, non-causal, sensory, emotional and kinesthetic.

Mobile equipment addresses the demanding situations and possibilities of learning cellular phenomena. Drawing on large interdisciplinary dialogue, the booklet brings jointly a set of state-of-the-art methodological concepts and unique learn studies to envision a few very important implications of the mobilities flip for the techniques of ‘research’, and the area of the empirical. via research that addresses questions akin to ‘how are social relationships and social associations made in and during mobility?’, and ‘how do humans adventure mobility in twenty-first century global cities?', the authors mobilize sociological research, bringing new insights and commencing up new possibilities for engagement with modern challenges.

This e-book is a key textual content for undergraduate and postgraduate scholars of disciplines together with Human Geography, Social coverage, Sociology and examine equipment.

By Gert Pickel, Olaf Müller

The 3rd place of curiosity is the marketplace process. One factor that should be tested this is no matter if the measure of separation of church and nation and non secular pluralism have an effect on the energy of the spiritual box or now not. Proponents of the industry process declare that the fashionable age isn't inevitably diminishing faith yet also can foster it, specifically since it regularly falls wanting its personal (Finke/Stark 1988, 2006; Iannaccone 1991; Stark/Iannaccone 1994; Iannacone/Finke/Stark 1997; Warner 1993). based on them, it in most cases stimulates spiritual productiveness as a result monetary precept of pageant. The extra pluralistic the non secular box and the extra market-oriented its organizational kinds (and precisely this is often assumed to occur in smooth times), the extra spiritual energy is inspired: below aggressive stipulations, the companies of spiritual prone are pressured to stand the actual problem of maintaining their participants and of attracting new contributors, responding to the desires in their customers and delivering effective prone. although, if one specific church holds a spiritual monopoly, its officers develop into detached and "lazy"; they lose their skill to be socially responsive. very similar to in enterprise, pageant is sweet for faith, too. in addition to, shoppers who're disenchanted with a spiritual product in a pluralistic non secular marketplace can search for one other spiritual product to raised go well with their wishes, whereas their simply replacement in a monopolistic spiritual constitution is to show clear of faith altogether.

21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook provides a concise discussion board wherein the great array of information amassed, relatively up to now 3 a long time, should be geared up right into a unmarried definitive source. the 2 volumes of this Reference Handbook specialise in the corpus of information garnered in conventional parts of sociological inquiry, in addition to rfile the final orientation of the more recent and presently rising parts of sociological inquiry.

By Ingrid Gogolin, Fredrik Åström, Antje Hansen

Competition-based versions for examine coverage and administration have an expanding effect through the learn strategy, from attracting investment to publishing effects. The advent of qc equipment using quite a few varieties of functionality signs is a part of this improvement. The authors offered during this quantity care for the next questions: What counts as ‘quality’ and the way can this be assessed? What are the potential unwanted side effects of present quality controls structures on learn carried out within the eu examine region, particularly within the social sciences and the arts?

By Berthold Dietz

Die Pflegeversicherung ist ein Thema geblieben. Nur wenige Jahre nach ihrer Einführung ist die künftige Versorgung Pflegebedürftiger wieder unsicher. Der Autor analysiert systematisch und sprachlich nuanciert Ziele und Umsetzung der Sozialreform. was once sollte die Pflegeversicherung ursprünglich? Und was once wurde daraus? Darüber hinaus wagt er einen Blick in die Zukunft. Wie werden sich unter den Vorzeichen demografischer Tendenzen adjust und Pflegebedürftigkeit entwickeln? Wird die Pflegeversicherung diesen Herausforderungen gewachsen sein? Wie werden die politischen Akteure sie reformieren müssen, um sie überhaupt zukunftsfähig zu machen? In dieser inhaltlichen Breite ist die Arbeit die wohl grundlegendste Bilanzierung des jüngsten Sozialversicherungszweiges.

By Floris Biskamp

Seit Jahren wird in politischer Öffentlichkeit und Wissenschaft heftig darüber gestritten, welches Sprechen über den Islam als legitimer Teil demokratischer Debatten zu betrachten ist und welches nicht. Diese Konflikte nimmt Floris Biskamp als Ausgangspunkt für eine theoretische Diskussion von Aushandlungen kultureller Differenz in der demokratischen Öffentlichkeit. Er legt dar, unter welchen Verkürzungen die gängigen Konzepte von Islamophobie, Islamfeindschaft und antimuslimischem Rassismus leiden. Um diese zu überwinden, entwickelt er vor dem Hintergrund von neuerer kritischer Theorie und postkolonialer Theorie ein Konzept von Rassismus als systematisch verzerrtem Kommunikationsverhältnis.

Das Buch versammelt Beiträge, die neue Perspektiven auf „den Osten“ eröffnen. Sie hinterfragen jenseits einer den Diskurs lähmenden „Einheitsfiktion“ unterkomplexe Ost-West- und Wiedervereinigungsnarrative sowie Nachwendemythen und decken blinde Flecken in der bisherigen Ostdeutschlandforschung auf. Forschungslogisch sind sie verstärkt theoriegeleitet und qualitativ ausgerichtet. Auf diese artwork lösen sie die privaten und politischen sowie die wissenschaftlichen Diskurse aus ihrer Trägheit und Eindimensionalität und tragen zu einem besseren Verständnis des Werden und Seins innerdeutscher (Ungleichheits-) Verhältnisse bei.

By John Scott

This entire and authoritative assertion of basic ideas of sociological research integrates methods which are frequently noticeable as at the same time particular. John Scott argues that theorising in sociology and different social sciences is characterized by means of the appliance of 8 key ideas of sociological research: tradition, nature, procedure, constitution, motion, space-time, brain and improvement. He considers the crucial contributions to the research of every of those dimensions of their historic series as a way to convey out the cumulative personality of information. exhibiting that many of the rules will be mixed in one disciplinary framework, Scott argues that sociologists can paintings such a lot productively inside an highbrow department of labour that transcends synthetic theoretical and disciplinary adjustments. Sociology offers the vital rules for conceptualising the social, however it needs to co-exist productively with different social technological know-how disciplines and disciplinary parts.

By Uta Döring

Die Studie untersucht die Erscheinungsformen rechtsextremer Dominanz im öffentlichen Raum („Angstzonen“). Auf der foundation von Feldbeobachtungen und Interviews mit den wichtigsten lokalen Akteuren wird das Auftreten rechter Gesellungen an verschiedenen Orten in vier ostdeutschen Städten beschrieben. Eine Medienanalyse rekonstruiert zudem die öffentliche Wahrnehmung dieser als „Angstzonen“ oder „national befreiten Zonen“ beschriebenen Räume.