Social theory Books
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Eine dreifältige Schnur: Über Judentum,
Book SynopsisSarah Stroumsa untersucht die als "Convivencia" bezeichnete interkommunale Balance zwischen christlichen, jüdischen und muslimischen Gemeinschaften im mittelalterlichen islamischen Osten. Sie zeigt auf, dass gerade das Vermächtnis der christlichen Akademien in der Spätantike einen tragfähigen Rahmen für das Betreiben von Philosophie bot, dem sich sowohl Juden als auch Muslime anschließen konnten.Guy G. Stroumsa nimmt die Erforschung von Judentum und Islam in der europäischen Wissenschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts in den Blick. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele zeigt er auf, wie sich in der Geschichte der einschlägigen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen durchweg breitere kulturelle Trends und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen widerspiegeln.
£46.62
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Deutschland 1871: Die Nationalstaatsbildung und
Book SynopsisKurz nach der Gründung des ersten deutschen Nationalstaats 1871 trat die deutsche Wirtschaft in die Ära des modernen Wirtschaftswachstums ein. Dennoch ist bisher kaum erforscht, ob und auf welche Weise die Nationalstaatsbildung die wirtschaftliche Dynamik beeinflusst hat.In diesem Band gehen zwanzig Autorinnen und Autoren diesen Zusammenhängen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven nach und ordnen sie in den europäischen Kontext ein. Somit wird ein umfassendes Bild der deutschen Wirtschaft in der Ära der Industrialisierung und (ersten) Globalisierung entfaltet. Darüber hinaus werden die Kanäle identifiziert, über welche die Nationalstaatsbildung den Übergang zu einem Muster des modernen Wirtschaftswachstums beeinflusste, das Deutschland in vielerlei Hinsicht bis heute prägt.
£111.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Produktive Unproduktivität: Zum Verhältnis von
Book SynopsisMuße wird gemeinhin als selbstbestimmte Zeit charakterisiert, die sich durch die Freiheit von Zwängen auszeichnet - Arbeit gilt dann schnell als ihr Gegenteil. Bei genauerer Analyse hingegen sind die Grenzen zwischen Muße und Arbeit keineswegs so scharf zu ziehen und ihre Beziehung zueinander stellt sich als deutlich komplexer heraus. Welche Spielräume bietet Arbeit für Muße? Inwiefern kann Muße Arbeit und Arbeit Muße sein? Die interdisziplinären Beiträge dieses Bandes liefern ein historisch, empirisch-ethnografisch und systematisch fundiertes Bild der jeweiligen gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung und der konkreten Ausprägungen produktiver Unproduktivität. Indem sie das Verhältnis von Muße und Arbeit differenziert bestimmen, tragen sie auch zur schärferen Analyse beider Konzepte bei.
£82.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) The Crucible of German Democracy: Ernst Troeltsch
Book SynopsisRobert E. Norton offers the first comprehensive study in any language devoted to Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923) and his activities during the First World War. Troeltsch was one of the most famous figures of his day, a renowned historian, philosopher, sociologist, and theologian. But he did not just comment on events, he also actively served in a number of public roles before, during, and after the war. Throughout the last decade of his life, Troeltsch was a central participant in many of the most significant political debates and struggles that took place in his country, and in the process he became one of the most forceful and committed proponents of democracy in Germany. Tracing the gradual rise and growth of democratic thought during the war, Robert E. Norton shows how democracy itself emerged as the pivotal question within German domestic politics around which everything else came to revolve. In this process, Ernst Troeltsch emerged as one of the most eloquent and persuasive voices advocating for democracy and peace, and always promoting the ideals of freedom and human dignity for all peoples. "Robert Norton’s The Crucible of German Democracy: Ernst Troeltsch and the First World War is a work of great insight and erudition." Helmut Walser Smith in The German Quarterly, Fall 2021, pp. 545
£134.61
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) International Yearbook for
Book SynopsisThe International Yearbook for Hermeneutics represents one of the prominent currents in contemporary philosophy as well as in bordering disciplines. It gathers studies on questions concerning understanding and interpretation in all relevant fields, including philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, theory of science as well as literary and cultural studies. The Yearbook includes contributions to current debates and on the history of ideas from antiquity to the present. This volume focusses on " Plurality."
£102.98
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Ohne die Stunden zu zählen: Alltag, Arbeit und
Book SynopsisWie lässt sich Muße ethnographisch untersuchen? Ist Muße abseits der Lebenswelten von Intellektuellen von Bedeutung? Martin Büdel beschäftigt sich mit diesen Fragen anhand einer Ethnographie der alltäglichen Arbeit von Bäuerinnen, Bauern und Handwerkern im Cantal in Zentralfrankreich. Der Autor zeigt in dieser Studie, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit Muße einen neuen Blick auf das Alltagsleben, den Stellenwert von Arbeit, und den Umgang mit Zeit ermöglicht. Diese Arbeit wurde 2022 mit den Forschungspreis Ethnographie des Fachbereichs Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften der Hochschule Fulda ausgezeichnet.
£97.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Muße im 18. Jahrhundert
Book SynopsisDass Muße im 18. Jahrhundert ein facettenreiches Phänomen ist, zeigen die hier versammelten Beiträge aus den germanistischen, romanistischen und anglistischen Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften. In einem Zeitalter, das geprägt ist von kulturellem und sozialem Wandel, bleibt Muße zwar auf ihren klassischen Ursprung bezogen, verändert sich aber doch und wird vom aristokratischen Privileg zu einem fixen Bestandteil des bürgerlichen Lebens. Die in diesem Band analysierten Beispiele von Muße reichen von erbaulicher Lektüre und spiritueller Praxis bis zum hedonistischen gesellschaftlichen Vergnügen. Muße wird als Gattungsmerkmal und in ihrer semantischen Ambiguität beleuchtet.
£83.99
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gelassene Teilnahme: Formen urbaner Muße im Werk
Book SynopsisAls Goethe 1786 nach Italien aufbrach, begründete er gegenüber Herzog Carl August seine Reise mit Vorstellungen einer gelehrten Muße, die seit der Antike Freiräume für geistige Tätigkeiten legitimierten. Peter Philipp Riedl untersucht innerhalb dieses Rahmens einer temporären Freiheit von beruflichen Verpflichtungen konkrete Ausprägungen urbaner Muße, die in der Italienischen Reise insbesondere aus Verona, Padua, Venedig, Rom, Neapel und Palermo geschildert werden. Übergänge von Aktivität und Passivität, von durchaus anstrengender, aber selbstbestimmter Arbeit und Genuss werden ebenso analysiert wie unterschiedliche Muster kontemplations- und erlebnisorientierter Muße. Ergänzt werden diese Überlegungen durch Interpretationen von Formen narrativer Muße in Das Römische Carneval, poetischen Inszenierungen der Raumzeitlichkeit von Muße in den Römischen Elegien sowie Evokationen lyrischen Flanierens in den Venezianischen Epigrammen.
£89.27
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Vita perfecta?: Zum Umgang mit divergierenden
Book SynopsisMittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Entwürfe einer vita religiosa sind auf den Fluchtpunkt christlicher Vollkommenheit ausgerichtet, doch bringt das gemeinsame Ziel der perfectio keineswegs einheitliche, sondern hochgradig divergierende Ansprüche an ein religiöses Leben mit sich. Insbesondere dort, wo das Streben nach perfectio die Erfüllung voneinander abweichender oder widersprüchlicher Erwartungen verlangt, treten religiöse Normenkonkurrenzen und -konflikte ebenso zu Tage wie Strategien zu ihrer Bewältigung. Orientiert an Unterscheidungen wie der von vita activa und vita contemplativa deckt der vorliegende Band spannungsvolle Konstellationen divergierender Ansprüche an ein religiöses Leben in der Vormoderne auf. Neben Beiträgen aus Geschichtswissenschaft und Theologie setzt er einen literaturwissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkt und berücksichtigt ein breites Spektrum diskursiver und erzählender Textsorten.
£107.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Verordnete Arbeit - Gelenkte Freizeit: Muße in
Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band untersucht Muße-Diskurse und -Praktiken angesichts der einschneidenden Umbrüche in Russland ab 1917. Es gilt, Konzepte von Muße hinsichtlich ihrer Realisierung oder ihres systembedingten Ausbleibens in der Sowjetunion zu reflektieren. Den Anfang machen philosophische Untersuchungen zu den relevanten sozialistischen Theorien und ihrer russischen bzw. sowjetischen Rezeption sowie Analysen der Muße-Semantik in der sowjetischen Kultur. In interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Beiträgen von Forschenden aus Deutschland und Russland werden im Weiteren die Funktionen von Muße-Diskursen aus breiter kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive beleuchtet. Somit lassen sich die unterschiedlichen Manifestationen dieser ideologisch gleicherweise idealisierten wie dämonisierten Muße in künstlerischen Werken, in der konkreten gesellschaftlichen Praxis und jenen programmatischen Schriften, mit denen diese Praxis angeleitet werden sollte, präzise analysieren.
£129.97
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Istrien 1840-1914: Eine kulturelle
Book SynopsisEine Versuchsstation für die kulturelle Diversität und Hybridität des Habsburgerreiches: Als solche betrachtete die offizielle Statistik und Ethnographie Österreichs die Region Istrien nach der Bedrohung durch die 1848er-Revolution. Diese Einschätzung findet sich bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges in zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen und politischen Narrativen über die Halbinsel in der nördlichen Adria. Das Lokale wurde zum Muster für die Erklärung des Globalen, als Teil des Repertoires, mit dem die Donaumonarchie ihre neue Macht legitimierte. Francesco Toncich untersucht die Rolle des lokalen wie monarchieweiten Wissenschaftsbetriebes, der solche Kategorisierungsmuster im Wechselspiel zwischen Regionalismus, Nationalismus und Imperialismus entwickelte. Mithilfe einer wissenschaftshistorischen Analyse zeichnet er die Herausbildung einer regionalen Mikro- innerhalb der imperialen Makroordnung nach.
£80.25
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Person und Form: Eine Medien- und
Book SynopsisWas ist Persönlichkeit? Und wie kann sie wissenschaftlich erschlossen und diagnostiziert werden? Vor allem in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts entfaltete die kulturell voraussetzungsreiche Idee der Persönlichkeit innerhalb der psychologischen Wissenschaften große produktive Kraft. David Keller stellt eine Vielfalt von Medien und Techniken in den Mittelpunkt seiner systematischen Untersuchung, die mobilisiert wurden, um 'Persönlichkeit' anhand experimenteller Suchprozesse als ein stabiles Konzept der Humanwissenschaften zu legitimieren. Dabei verdeutlicht seine Rekonstruktion einschlägiger Forschungs- und Diagnosepraktiken sowie die Betrachtung popularisierender Diskurse, wie die Suche nach der Persönlichkeit nicht allein eine wissensstiftende Funktion besaß, sondern zuletzt immer neue Fragen aufwarf. Auf diese Weise wurde sie zu einer fortgesetzten Herausforderung für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.
£65.25
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Sigmund Neumann - der totale Demokrat: Eine
Book SynopsisDer Ideenhistoriker und Politikwissenschaftler Sigmund Neumann (1904-1962) war Deutscher, Jude und Demokrat. Sein Lebensweg wurde stark vom 'Zeitalter der Extreme' geprägt: Sozialisiert im Deutschen Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik zwang die Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten ihn 1933 in die Emigration. Er floh aus Berlin über London in die amerikanische Provinz und kehrte nach 1945 nur noch sporadisch in das 'Land der Täter' zurück, um die westdeutsche Demokratie zu stärken und eine universitäre Politikwissenschaft in der Bundesrepublik zu institutionalisieren. Heute sind seine Ideen zu Demokratie, Parteien und Totalitarismus weithin in Vergessenheit geraten. Marie-Sophie Graf zeigt in ihrer intellektuellen Biographie Sigmund Neumanns, dass es gerade heute noch lohnt, über sie nachzudenken.
£102.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Emotionen und Politik in der späten römischen
Book SynopsisNicole Diersen untersucht die Funktion von Emotionen in der Politik der römischen Republik. Sie entwickelt einen emotionstheoretischen Ansatz, der es erlaubt, sich von in der Forschung herrschenden Grundannahmen sowie einer Orientierung an Emotionswörtern zu lösen. Emotionen werden auf einer beobachtbaren Ebene analysiert und als Handlungen mit drei Eigenschaften verstanden: sie verändern den körperlichen Zustand, sind interaktiv und bilden ein Narrativ. Aus der Kombination mit dem Strategiebegriff P. Bourdieus leitet sich das Konzept der Emotionsstrategien ab, das es ermöglicht, Emotionen in historischen Quellen zu erforschen. Dieses Konzept wird auf die zeitgenössischen Quellen Ciceros in der Zeit von 58 bis 49 v. Chr. angewandt. Dazu identifiziert die Autorin zunächst die Emotionsstrategien - Fremd-Aufwertung, Fremd-Diskreditierung, Selbst-Diskreditierung und Selbst-Aufwertung. Anschließend betrachtet sie sogenannte Resonanzräume wie Forum und Senat, Gericht und Brief, in denen Emotionen auf unterschiedlichste Weise eingesetzt wurden. Emotionsstrategien in ihrer Gesamtheit werden zusätzlich anhand dreier historischer Fallbeispiele beleuchtet.
£73.15
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) International Yearbook for Hermeneutics /
Book SynopsisThe International Yearbook for Hermeneutics represents one of the prominent currents in contemporary philosophy as well as in bordering disciplines. It gathers studies on questions concerning understanding and interpretation in all relevant fields, including philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, theory of science as well as literary and cultural studies. The Yearbook includes contributions to current debates and on the history of ideas from antiquity to the present. This volume focusses on "Interpretation - Understanding - Knowledge."
£132.65
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Scala Christus est: Reassessing the Historical
Book SynopsisSince the nineteenth century, scholars have debated the controversial relationships between humanism, the Renaissance and the Reformation. Challenging the dominant narrative on the subject, Giovanni Tortoriello reconstructs the debates that characterized the early Reformation movements. He shows that Martin Luther's theology of the cross developed in reaction to the irenic tendencies of the Renaissance. With the spread of Platonism, Hermeticism, and Kabbalah in the fifteenth century, the identity of Christianity shifted and the boundaries between the different religions thinned. In response to this attempt to minimize the differences among the various religions, Luther reiterated the centrality and uniqueness of the salvific event of the cross. Confessional biases and theological prejudices have obliterated the role that Platonism, Hermeticism, and Christian Kabbalah played in the early Reformation debates. The author reconstructs these controversies and situates Luther's theology of the cross in this historical context.
£112.10
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Identitätskrisen nach dem Ende des Britischen
Book SynopsisSebastian Koch untersucht die kulturellen Bewältigungsstrategien, die in den ehemaligen Siedlerkolonien Kanada, Australien und Aotearoa Neuseeland durch die Bedrohung ihrer britisch ausgerichteten Identität notwendig wurden. Im Zuge des sich abzeichnenden Endes des Britischen Empire und Großbritanniens Hinwendung nach Europa erschienen siedlerkolonial geprägte Ordnungsvorstellungen spätestens ab den 1960er Jahren derart brüchig, dass es für die Einwohner zu einer unumgänglichen Aufgabe wurde, ihr vormals auf Britishness , Whiteness und family values basierendes Verständnis von Kultur und Identität neu zu definieren. Sebastian Koch nimmt die Suche nach vermeintlich neuen Identitätskonzepten in den Blick und fragt, wie Kontingenz in den ehemaligen 'weißen' Siedlerkolonien nach dem end of Empire mit Hilfe 'neuer' Symbole, Erinnerungspraktiken, Erfolgsnarrative und eines 'neuen' Mythos bewältigt werden sollte.
£104.51
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Politische Redeweisen
Book SynopsisPolitische Erfolge wie Misserfolge werden immer wieder auf Kommunikation zurückgeführt - Politiker konnten Wählerinnen entweder nicht "abholen" oder hatten doch eine überzeugende Kampagne. Dank moderner Massenmedien kommt es zunehmend auf die Präsentation von Politik an; Wähler entscheiden nicht länger nach stabilen und erwartbaren Präferenzen, sondern reagieren spontan auf Debatten, Inszenierungen und auf die Mediennutzung von Kandidaten. Unter den Bedingungen digital verstärkter Kommunikation haben sich nun die Möglichkeiten und Chancen zu Teilhabe und Mitwirkung an Debatten vergrößert, wodurch jedoch auch die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Skandalisierung und Empörung gestiegen ist. Damit stellt sich die Frage, wie politische und öffentliche Akteure in dieser Gemengelage kommunizieren können und sollen. Jeder, der eine Gruppe zu repräsentieren beansprucht, steht derzeit vor ähnlichen Herausforderungen: Wie lassen sich Überzeugungen erklären und absichern? Wie lässt sich verbindlich sprechen, wenn man dank des Kreislaufs von Reaktion und Kritikum die Anfechtbarkeit eigener Ansichten weiß? Astrid Séville und Julian Müller fragen daher nach den Möglichkeiten öffentlicher Ansprache. In Anlehnung an Erving Goffmans Begriff der Redeweisen richten sie den Blick auf heutige Formen öffentlicher Rede in Deutschland. Dabei stehen nicht die radikalen Ränder, sondern die Neuverhandlungen des politisch Etablierten, Bürgerlichen und Demokratischen im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit – von Robert Habeck und Carolin Emcke bis hin zu Luisa Neubauer oder Lars Eidinger. In den einzelnen Kapiteln wird anhand ausgewählter Beispiele untersucht, wie die angefochtene "Mitte" kommuniziert. Dabei werden verschiedene Varianten öffentlichen Sprechens skizziert.
£13.10
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Doc-Humanity
Book SynopsisHowever you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that was ever defined once and for all, but remains an open project. For several decades we have been witnessing a revolution. However, unlike the political and ideological revolutions that took place around the First World War, this is a technological and much more radical one that does not depend on people's beliefs, but rather on the tireless labour of machines. The rise of automation has brought about a revelation of something that had hitherto remained hidden in the workshops of homo faber . That is, there are very few functions, apart from consumption, where a machine cannot replace a human being, be these material or spiritual - machines need energy, but they can also do without it, whereas humans die if deprived of it, or one can imagine a machine producing symphonies, but not enjoying them. So while human beings are still needed, their roles and scopes have to be reconsidered. Workers may be superfluous, but humans are still needed, including those who until recently only recognised themselves as producers. The exclusion of workers from production does not discount humans being able to produce value in the form of consumption. Recognising this will enable us to conceive the "Webfare” - a new digital system that will teach us to find new names and new forms, more tolerance and room for traditional human needs. Above all, it will teach us how to transform the time given to us by automation into an opportunity for progress.
£62.32
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Die unbegrenzte Auslegung: Zum Wandel der
Book SynopsisDie Auseinandersetzung mit den Staatsverbrechen der beiden totalitären deutschen Diktaturen gehört erst seit 2021 (!) zum Kanon der Juristenausbildung in Deutschland. Die 1968 in erster Auflage verlegte Habilitationsschrift von Bernd Rüthers bietet eine umfassende Darstellung und Analyse der Entwicklung des Zivilrechts im Nationalsozialismus. Das nunmehr bereits in 9. Auflage erscheinende Standardwerk will zum notwendigen Diskurs über die juristischen Methodenfragen beitragen und eignet sich ganz besonders auch für Studierende, die sich ein Bild von den rechtsmethodischen "Auslegungsakrobatiken" der NS-Zeit machen wollen.
£29.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Religion und Muße: Erkundungen eines
Book SynopsisGewiss können nicht-religiöse Menschen Muße finden. Gleichwohl scheint es zwischen Religion und Muße eine eigentümliche Nähe zu geben, die sich auch in der Forderung einer arbeitsfreien Zeit am Sabbat oder Sonntag zeigt. Für viele ist diese Zeit ein Inbegriff mußeaffiner Freiheitsermöglichung. Lassen sich Religionen vielleicht als grundlegende Artikulationen eines Freiheitsstrebens der Menschen verstehen? Und wo findet die ruhelose Suche eines heimatlosen Menschen in der Welt ihr Ziel? Wo schließlich erreicht man Frieden, Ankunft, Vollendung, Sinn und Innerlichkeit? Der Essay widmet sich solchen Fragen und erkundet in unterschiedlichen Suchbewegungen das Verhältnis von Religion und Muße, ohne die Brüche in dieser Beziehung auszusparen. Vor dem Hintergrund einer schwierigen Beziehungsgeschichte geht es um Denkanstöße, die einen gewinnbringenden Blick auf Muße, Religion und das Verhältnis beider eröffnen sollen.
£18.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Beobachtungen der Säkularisierung und die Grenzen
Book SynopsisWie und anhand welcher Unterscheidungen wird das Verhältnis von religiösen und säkularen Perspektiven auf Religion heute beobachtet? Lorenz Trein zeigt, dass die postkoloniale Kritik am Säkularismus Modernediagnosen einer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg geführten Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Christentum, Säkularisierung und Fortschritt aufgenommen hat. Diese hat mit der (Un-)Möglichkeit einer historischen Realisierung der eschatologischen Botschaft vom Reich Gottes zu tun. Ist die 'religiös/säkular'-Unterscheidung aufgrund dieser Genealogie erledigt? Mit welchen Unterscheidungen untersucht die Religionswissenschaft den Säkularisierungsdiskurs? Die Deutungsgeschichte der Säkularisierung öffnet Perspektiven auf die religiöse Reflexion dessen, was Moderne heißt. Zugleich legt sie 'Kultur', 'Geschichte' und 'Kontingenz' als religionsproduktive Beschreibungen frei.
£57.13
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Muße und Mußeforschung: Ein Kompendium
Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band gibt einen kompakten, interdisziplinär angelegten Überblick über die Konzeptgeschichte und die gesellschaftliche Relevanz von Muße. Muße entlastet auf Zeit von Produktivitätsansprüchen der Gesellschaft und ermöglicht damit Freiheit und vielfältige Kreativität. Gerade deshalb ist sie umstritten: Die Möglichkeit, gesellschaftliche Ansprüche für eine Weile zu vergessen, wird stets nur gewissen Gruppen zugestanden. An Diskussionen über Muße zeigen sich gesellschaftliche Vorstellungen von Produktivität deshalb ebenso deutlich wie Zuschreibungen an das gute Leben einzelner Gruppen. Das gilt gerade auch heute, da Muße in der Kritik an kapitalistischer Arbeits- und Gesellschaftsorganisation neue Prominenz gewinnt und als Gegenbild zu deren Beschleunigung erscheint.Der Freiburger Sonderforschungsbereich 1015 hat mehr als zehn Jahre lang in interdisziplinärer Perspektive Mußevorstellungen und Mußepraktiken untersucht. Das Kompendium "Muße und Mußeforschung" macht seine wichtigsten Ergebnisse zugänglich und bietet damit gleichzeitig einen einführenden Überblick über die Mußeforschung.
£68.19
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Walter Eucken: Ein Leben für Menschenwürde und
Book SynopsisDiese biographische Studie nimmt das Leben Walter Euckens in den Blick, eines der bedeutendsten Ökonomen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er hat mit Kollegen aus der Rechtswissenschaft die Tradition der Freiburger Ordnungsökonomik begründet. Seine Erkenntnisse zu den Funktionsbedingungen einer freiheitlichen Wirtschafts- und Sozialordnung, die Wettbewerb und Menschenwürde in den Mittelpunkt stellt, wurden ideelle Grundlage für die Soziale Marktwirtschaft in Deutschland. Dieses Lebensbild Euckens stützt sich auf einen beträchtlichen Teil seiner nachgelassenen Korrespondenz. Er war in einen großen Familien-, Freundes-, Kollegen- und Schülerkreis eingebunden. Als wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Lehrer und Forscher war er ein unangepasster Denker, der eigene Wege bahnte. Im Rahmen der Freiburger Kreise engagierte er sich im Widerstand gegen die NS-Diktatur. In den Nachkriegsjahren wirkte er in der Politikberatung und plädierte vehement für den ordnungspolitischen Kurs der Freiburger Schule.
£26.03
Springer International Publishing AG Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2: From
Book SynopsisArt and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neoliberal or market-based model of capitalism started to spread from the economic realm to other areas of society. As a result, many aspects of contemporary Western societies increasingly function in the same way as the private enterprise sector under traditional market capitalism.This second volume analyses the relationships of art with contemporary capitalist economies and instrumentalist cultural policies, and examines several varieties of capitalist-critical and alternative art forms that exist in today’s art worlds. It also addresses the vexed issues of art controversies and censorship. The chapters cover issues such as the culturalization of the economy, aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, the societal benefits of works of art, art's responsibility to society, "artivism", activist arts as protest and capitalism-critical works, and controversies over nudity in art, as well as considering the marketisation of emerging visual arts worlds in East Asia. The book ends with the a concluding chapter suggesting that even in today's marketized and commercialized environments, art will find a way. Both volumes provide students and scholars across a range of disciplines with an incisive, comparative overview of the politics of art and culture and national, international and transnational art worlds in contemporary capitalism.Table of ContentsPart One: Introduction1. The Capitalist Economy as a Precondition and Restraint of Modern and Contemporary Art WorldsPart Two: Contemporary Capitalist Economy and the Demands of Art’s Societal Utility and Responsibility2. Culturalization of the Economy and the Artistic Qualities of Contemporary Capitalism3. Neoliberal Marketization of Global Contemporary Visual Art Worlds: Changes in Valuations and the Scope of Local and Global Markets4. Art, Capitalist Markets, and Society: Insights and Reflections on Contemporary Art5. Art as a Means to Produce Societal Benefits and Social Innovations6. A Plea for Responsible Art: Politics, the Market, CreationPart Three: Alternative and Critical Art Production and its Control7. Artistic Critique on Capitalism as a Practical and Theoretical Problem8. De-Aestheticization and the Dialectics of the Aesthetic and Anti-Aesthetic in Contemporary Art9. Artivism and the Spirit of Avant-Garde Art10. Dirty Pictures. Scandal and Censorship in Contemporary ArtPart Four: Afterword11. Manifestations and Conditions of Art.
£71.24
Duncker & Humblot Der Dritte Weg ALS Gleichgewichtiges
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Dietrich Reimer Theoretische Reflexionen: Perspektiven Der
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£30.40
Campus Verlag Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals:
Book Synopsis"Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals" explores the changing field of local histories. Young researchers from around the world - including scholars from Canada, Mozambique, China, and Germany, representing fields as diverse as history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, medicine, and materials science - present their findings, all of which coincide in their understanding that local histories are inseparably intertwined and that, fundamentally, all history is the history of relationships.
£40.44
Peter Lang GmbH The Emotional Man and the Problem of Collective
Book SynopsisThis book presents three social action models - rational, normative and emotional. It proposes the emotional model of social action and shows the many ways in which social structures, formal organizations and social movements are pervaded by emotions. The core of the book contains three empirical case studies focused on the question of how emotions, interests and symbolic worlds account for conformism and defiance. Its last part assesses the current state of the theory of social movements and the sociology of emotions. It suggests how their agendas could be expanded.Table of ContentsContents: Models of social action - Social structure - Formal organizations - Work organizations - Social movements - Sociology of emotions - Unstable labor markets - Symbolic worlds - Career-making and lay-offs - Civil rights movement - The rescue of Jews during the Holocaust - Opposition in the Soviet system.
£34.92
Peter Lang AG The Columbia Circle of Scholars: Selections from
Book SynopsisThe volume contains selections from Theodore Abel's Journal of Thoughts and Events which he kept since 1930 for over fifty years. The autobiographical narration brings into focus the scholars who contributed most to the social thought of the 20th century. Abel lived his everyday life among the most outstanding scholars in the realm of social sciences of his time. It allows the rediscovery of the now-forgotten chapter of the development of sociology in the 1930's and 1940's in the vibrant context of the scholars' social life. Abel's Journal primarily shows the two decades of the intellectual history of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Abel's Journal is a primary source for the reconstruction of the great methodological debate and conflict of paradigms of the practice of sociology, especially with the participation of the circle of sociologists to which Robert M. MacIver, Florian Znaniecki, Pitirim Sorokin, Robert Lynd, Paul Lazarsfeld, George Lundberg and Robert K. Merton belonged. It sheds light on the impact of MacIver who played a significant role in the exchange of ideas between European and American scholars and was an advocate of interpretive sociology.
£71.01
Peter Lang AG Gender Dynamics and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Book SynopsisThis volume by international authors deals with the role of gender dynamics in the development of post-conflict societies. The authors describe and analyze diverse aspects of the intertwining of gender and other social and cultural relations from an interdisciplinary perspective. They analyze gendered post-conflict dynamics in diverse contexts asking for the consequences these developments have in the settings under investigation, such as Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Palestine and Afghanistan.Trade Review«Festzuhalten bleibt, dass der vorliegende Band eindrücklich zeigt, wie diskursive Konstruktionen von Geschlecht und einschlägige internationale Hilfsprogramme sich im Friedensprozess vieler kriegsbetroffener Gesellschaften nachteilig für die betroffenen Frauen und Männer auswirken können. Simplifizierende Hilfskonzepte sind oder werden häufig zu einem Teil des Problems, das solche Programme vorgeben zu bearbeiten.» (Natalija Basic, Südosteuropa)Table of ContentsContents: Gitti Hentschel: Preface – Christine Eifler/Ruth Seifert: Gender Dynamics and Violent Conflict – Ruth Seifert: Armed Conflicts, Post-War Reconstruction and Gendered Subjectivities – Lynne Alice: The UN’s Global Gender Agenda and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in Kosovo – Susanne Schmeidl: The «Undoing of Gender Inequalities» in Traditional Societies: The Example of Post-Conflict Afghanistan – Anne Jenichen: Multi-Level Advocacy Networks in Post-War Settings: The Case of the Gender Quota in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Remzije Istrefi/Ariana Qosaj-Mustafa: Trafficking of Women in Post-Conflict Regions: The Case of Kosovo – Meghan Simpson: Intersectionalities of Gender and Class in the Wake of Kyrgyzstan’s March 2005 Events – Vjollca Krasniqi: The Gender Politics of Post-War Reconstruction in Kosova – Michaela Schäuble: Contested Masculinities: Discourses on the Role of Croatian Combatants during the ‘Homeland War’ (1991-1995) – Andrea Hapke: The Responsibility of ‘Mothers’. Gendered Discussions of Women’s Peace Organisations in the North-Caucasus/Russia – Stef Jansen/Elissa Helms: The ‘White Plague’: National-Demographic Rhetoric and its Gendered Resonance After the Post-Yugoslav Wars – Veronika Shcheblanova/Elena Yarskaya-Smirnova: Explanations of Female Terrorism. Discourses about Chechen Terrorists in the Russian Mass Media: «Easy Girls», «Coarse Women» or Fighters? – Natalie Mutlak: Approaching the Interdependence of Gender, Water Supply and Conflict: The Example of Access to Water Resources in the Ramallah Governorate.
£43.38
Peter Lang AG Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context
Book SynopsisThe articles in this book share a dedication to broadening and stretching the scholarly field of feminist citizenship studies and invite the reader to reflect on the many different ways citizenship is formed in contemporary Europe. They do so by stretching the concept of citizenship itself, going beyond legalistic definitions, and by asking new questions about the ways in which citizenship is constructed, the entitlements to benefits, and to social and political participation, how cultures of knowledge allow participation and how inclusion and exclusion can be represented. In all cases «gender» is one of the categories that allow a deeper insight and a better perception of the way the ideals of citizenship have helped people to overcome exclusion. As the articles show, access to citizenship differs from context to context. Citizenship is never only a legal status: it has to do with cultural diversity, with recognition of difference, with access to professions and hierarchies on the labour market, not least in universities with traditions in political as well as visual representation. The collection is an introduction to new research in the field of European gender studies.Table of ContentsContents: Ingrid Maria Hoofd: Feminist Activism in the High-tech West: The Complicity of Transversal and Networked Politics in Speed – Daniela Gronold: A European Matter: Examples of «Lived Citizenship» in the Slovenian Nation State – Isabelle Carles: Interdisciplinary Research Group on «Gender and Migration». Citizenship and Rights: the Use of Racial Anti-discrimination Laws in a Gender Perspective – Simon Lapierre/Katrin Bain: Parental Responsibility and Partnership: Citizenship and Gender in British Children and Families Social Services – Arturas Tereskinas: Lithuanian Gays and Lesbians «Coming Out» in the Public/Private Divide: Sexual Citizenship Lithuanian Style – Barbara Bagilhole/Abigail Powell/Andrew Dainty: What Is It About UK Engineering Higher Education (HE) that Deters Women from an Engineering Career – Cathrine Hasse/Maja Hojer: Acknowledging Materiality as Agential Literacy – Małgorzata Miazek/Jenny Vainio: Reconciliation of Work and Family: Gender Differences Among Finnish and Polish Physicists – Marie-Pierre Moreau: « Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose ? » : A Cross-National Comparison Of Gender Inequalities In The Teaching Profession – Julie Jarty: «Work/Life» Balance Regulations and Citizenship in Europe: A Comparative Study of Teachers’ Careers in France and Spain – Cornelia Schneider: Gender Action Plans - Effective Instruments for Promoting Gender Equality in the Sixth EU Framework Programme? Results of a Survey carried out by the FiF Contact Point «Women into EU Research» – Liedeke Plate: A Chapter in Cultural History? Literary «Re-Vision» and Citizenship – Edyta Just: The Visual Representation of IVF – Julie D. Palmer: The «Technofetus» as Citizen: The Impact of Three-Dimensional Ultrasound – Jelena Petrovic: Screening the Margins: The Representation of the Roma/Gypsy Woman in Film Production – Katarzyna Szmigiero: Masculinity and Madness: Cultural Representations of Mentally Ill Men – Carolyn Pedwell: Intersections and Entanglements: Tracing «the Anorexic» and «the Veiled Woman» – Emilia Korytkowska: «He Will Make You Suffer!» - Masculism’s Encounters with «the Arab» in the Context of Polish-Arab Intermarriages.
£62.73
Peter Lang AG Video Interaction Analysis: Methods and
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a collection of approaches to the emerging field of video analysis in the social sciences. Although the importance of visual qualitative methods has increased, video analysis cannot draw upon a single method or methodology. Therefore this book will structure the diverse approaches in order to identify their traditions. It assembles studies from linguistic anthropology as well as conversation analysis, sociological hermeneutics, ethnography, phenomenology and finally focused ethnography. Practical questions will be asked, as for instance, how the fact of being filmed affects the situation that is being filmed and theoretical questions will be posed, as for example, whether actions are subject to contingency or whether they are pre-determined.Table of ContentsContents: Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann: Video interaction analysis: Methodological perspectives on an emerging field – Charles Goodwin: Video and the analysis of embodied human interaction – Marjorie Harness Goodwin: Constructing inequality as situated practice – Antonia L. Krummheuer: Conversation analysis, video recordings, and human-computer interchanges – Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann: How medical forms are used: The study of doctor-patient consultations from a sociological hermeneutic approach – Roger Haeussling: Video analysis with a four-level interaction concept: A network-based concept of human-robot interaction – Larissa Schindler: The production of «vis-ability»: An ethnographic video analysis of a martial arts class – Lars Frers: Video research in the open - Encounters involving the researcher-camera – Hubert Knoblauch: Social constructivism and the three levels of video analysis – Cornelius Schubert: Videographic elicitation interviews: Exploring technologies, practices and narratives in organisations.
£50.52
Peter Lang AG Rule Systems Theory: Applications and
Book SynopsisExplaining the complexity of social life remains the central challenge of the social sciences. This book offers a variety of theoretical-empirical explorations and applications inspired by an important neo-institutional approach to tackling this complexity – the rule systems theory. Its point of departure is the assumption that institutions and cultural formations possess causal powers and relative autonomy, constraining and enabling people’s social actions and interactions. Structural and cultural properties of society are carried by, transmitted, and reformed by human agents whose interactions generate, reproduce, elaborate and transform structures. The contributors are highly accomplished economists, sociologists and political scientists who come from the US and several European countries. The book is meant as a Festschrift for Tom Burns, a central figure in the development of the rule systems theory.Table of ContentsContents: Nina Witoszek: Comrade Don Quixote – Andreas Balog: Explaining Action and Explaining Social Phenomena – Rogers Hollingsworth/Karl H. Müller/Ellen Jane Hollingsworth/David M. Gear: Socio-economics and a New Scientific Paradigm – Tom R. Burns: Rule System Theory: An Overview – Ewa Roszkowska: Negotiation in the Context of Generalized Game Theory – Anna Gomolińska: Rough Rule-following by Social Agents – Hannu Nurmi: On the Art of Being Usefully Wrong: Lessons from Voting Paradoxes – Nora Machado: The Stabilization of Social Order: Social Cognitive Dissonance Theory Applied to Hospitals and Clinics – Beth Maina Ahlberg: Dare We Dream of a Future without Aids? Challenges and Opportunities for Responsive Social Science Research – Marcus Carson: Of Mind and Matter: Policy Paradigms and Institutional Design – Atle Midttun: Corporate (Social) Responsibility as an Arena for Partnered Governance: From the Business to the Public Policy Case – Svein S. Andersen: The Institutionalization of a Meta-order: Negotiating the Energy Charter Treaty – Hans L. Zetterberg: Opinion Polling on International Political Accords – Alberto Martinelli: The Political Systems of the United States and the European Union – Helena Flam: Germany and Migration - A European Case – Dusko Sekulic: Social Rule System Theory and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia – Christian Arnsperger/Philippe DeVillé: Could Homo Oeconomicus Become a Revolutionary? Probing the Irrevelance of Standard Economics.
£45.27
Peter Lang AG Paradigms in Public Policy: Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisPolicy action is driven, shaped and regulated by the ways in which cognitive frames and interests shape and define issues and analyses – and the involvement of particular authorities, experts, problem-definitions and solutions. To understand these processes is particularly important in the realm of democratic policymaking, where agents driven by divergent interests and alternative principles struggle to preserve or reform policy, law, and institutions. This book analyzes continuity and change in EU policy and provides a systematic understanding of the interactions between ideas, organized actors, and institutions in political, administrative and related social processes. The EU policy studies make up a rich empirical territory, ranging from food security and chemicals to energy, climate change, and gender.Trade Review«This is a highly innovative book that offers a thorough appraisal of key EU public policy paradigms in a truly interdisciplinary way, combining theoretical analyses and empirical case studies.» (Alberto Martinelli, University of Milan) «This book breaks new theoretical ground in elaborating a dynamic cultural/institutionalist framework, improving our understanding of how cognitive and normative models interact with social institutions, actor configurations and contested ideas and policymaking frames.» (Barbara Hobson, Stockholm University) «This collection of essays is the most important expression to date of how ideas, cognitive frameworks, actors, and institutions interact to shape policy.» (Rogers Hollingsworth, Jr., University of Wisconsin)Table of ContentsContents: Yves Surel: The Role of Cognitive and Normative Frames in Policymaking – Jane Jenson: Paradigms and Political Discourse: Protective Legislation in France and the United States before 1914 – Peter A. Hall: Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State. The Case of Economic Policymaking in Britain – William D. Coleman/Grace D. Skogstad, and Michael M. Atkinson: Paradigm Shifts and Policy Networks: Cumulative Change in Agriculture – Marcus Carson: Mad Cows, Pollutted Poultry, and the Transformation of EU Food Policy – Marcus Carson: From Freely Traded to Product-non-grata: Banning Asbestos in the European Union – Tom R. Burns/Dolores Calvo/Marcus Carson: The «REACH» Saga: A Revolution in Regulating Chemicals – Svein S. Andersen: The Emergence of an EU Energy Policy Paradigm –Tom R. Burns: The Irony of the EU Climate Policy: A Crooked Path to a Paradigm Shift – Dolores Calvo/Tom R. Burns/Marcus Carson: Toward a New Social Order? Mainstreaming Gender Equality in EU Policymaking.
£45.27
Peter Lang AG The Ambivalent Character of Participation: New
Book SynopsisParticipation is a social process, which is basically part of an exchange relationship. Thus, it is principally pluralist and ambiguous in its meaning. As a consequence, the reconciliation of voices needs innovative approaches to support balanced participation experiences. The ambivalent character of participation intends to provide a look at new initiatives in the various fields of workplace participation. Leading international scholars examine the role of institutional contexts for participation, the development of new forms of interest organisation as well as the relationship between organisational performance, participation practices and quality of working life. The contributions are not limited to taking stock of new experiences in the field of workplace participation, but also contribute to designing a new research agenda.Table of ContentsContents: Francesco Garibaldo: Introduction – Erik Poutsma/Ulke Veersma: Direct and indirect participation: reconcilable voices? Report from Stream I – Szilvia Borbély: The role of the institutional context for participation and interest representation in Hungary and beyond – Maria Matey-Tyrowicz: Informing and consulting employees in Poland - Problems of implementation of Directive 2002/14/EC – Ekaterina Ribarova: The institutional context of workers participation in Bulgaria - which way after joining the EU – Nick Kratzer/Wolfgang Dunkel/Wolfgang Menz: Employee participation in new forms of organization and control opportunity for company health policies or potential for new burdens? – Sonia McKay: The role of trade union representatives in the conduct of workplace relations – Volker Telljohann: Work organisation, workers’ participation and the role of EU legislation in Italy – Jochen Tholen: Managers and management: The impact of Western Foreign Direct Investment in the new EU Member States – María C. Gonzalez: The role of Industrial Relations and HRM in direct participation practice in Spain – Mirella Baglioni: New forms of interest organisation: the state of the art – Guglielmo Meardi: Lights and shadows of employee participation in the new EU member states – Anna Pollert: The non-unionised worker and workplace problems: Forms of individual and collective voice at work – Salvo Leonardi: Union organisation of employees in atypical and precarious work in Italy – Alan Tuckman/Michael Whittall: Giving employees a voice? Lessons from the new employee forums in the UK – Paul Oehlke: Strategies of improving organizational performance through workplace participation - Report from Stream II – Elise Ramstad: Role of workplace practices and supporting development process and institutional condition in the promotion of performance and quality of working life – Jan Kees Looise/Nicole Torka/Jan Ekke Wigboldus: Participation and organizational performance – Norbert Kluge/Sigurt Vitols/Peter Wilke: Good corporate governance and the function of obligatory employees’ involvement: the concept of a sustainable company – Patricia Nieto Rojas: Employee financial participation in Spain – Wilfried Kruse: Workplace quality as a «contested ground»: comments on the ambivalence of workplace participation today – Davide Antonioli/Massimiliano Mazzanti/Paolo Pini: Innovation, industrial relations and working conditions - evidence from two Italian local production systems – Loris Lugli/Stefano Tugnoli/Ires Emilia-Romagna: Innovation and work quality. A field research – Karina Becker/Ulrich Brinkmann/Thomas Engel: «Hybrid Participation» - the missing link? The role of expert employees and support groups for the works councils in Germany – Ralf Niemann: Direct participation as a way to safeguard a plant? The example of a German steel company – Tuomo Alasoini: Workplace innovation and development in Finland: Examining the workplace development programme TYKES – Paul Berckmans: «Quality of Working Life» on the agenda of Flemish regional policy – Romain Chevallet: Employee participation in ninety-five investment projects - Experience and action priorities for public policies based on observations of SME practices – Friedhelm Keuken: Improvement of the performance of SMEs and their employees by participation of employees in the Region North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Basic ideas, project examples, support structures and results – Ulrich Klotz: Making better use of potential to innovate! - some food for thought in the «Year of Innovation» – Valeria Pulignano: Employee participation in Europe: Propositions for designing a new
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Peter Lang AG Educational Inequalities in Europe: Performance
Book SynopsisMany foreign-born students show weak performances in Europe, educational hurdles for them seem virtually insurmountable. It is frequently claimed that the disadvantaged socio-economic situation of their families and lack of fluency in local languages are the main causes. What is frequently overlooked, though, is the role of teachers, schools, and educational systems in general. The latter effects are the main focus of this book which reviews theoretical and empirical work focused on educational inequalities and migration, and offers new insights following empirical investigation. With a major focus on Luxembourg and Switzerland, the study analyses the situation in Europe and compares it to that of immigration countries like Canada, Australia, and the USA. This book is of interest to students and scholars, practitioners and decision-makers working in the field of social inequalities, education, and immigration.Table of ContentsContents: Educational Outcomes of Immigrants – Luxembourg – Switzerland – The Role of a Family – Individual-Level Explanation – Inequalities between Schools – Institutional-Level Explanation – National Educational Policies and Immigrant Integration.
£40.90
Peter Lang AG Strangers and Poor People: Changing Patterns of
Book SynopsisThis collection presents research results of the Collaborative Research Centre 600 ‘Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day’ at Trier University. It deals with central problems of social inclusion in societies of Europe and the Mediterranean World since Antiquity. The articles assembled here explore fundamental dimensions of the self-concepts of societies and social groups. From the perspectives of different disciplines, as History, History of Law, Literature Studies and Social Sciences, they focus on five main research areas: theoretical concepts of inclusion and exclusion, rights of membership and the inclusion of strangers in political spaces, religious dimensions of poor relief from the Middle Ages up into the twentieth Century, poor law and politics of poverty and the semantics of inclusion and exclusion.Table of ContentsContents: Lutz Raphael: General introduction – Lutz Raphael: Royal protection, poor relief statute, and expulsion. Types of state and modes of inclusion / exclusion of strangers and poor people in Europe and the Mediterranean world since Antiquity – Cornelia Bohn: Inclusion and exclusion: Theories and findings. From exclusion from the community to including exclusion – Siegfried Schieder/Rachel Folz/Simon Musekamp: The social construction of European solidarity: The French, German, and Swedish debate on EU-policy towards the states of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP) – Helga Schnabel-Schüle: Sovereignty change - On the potential of a research category – Helga Schnabel-Schüle: ‘Who belongs?’ - rights of membership and the inclusion of strangers in political spaces – Stefan Pfeiffer: The Alexandrian Jews and their agon of affiliation: the conflict of the years 38-41 A.D. – Altay Coşkun: ‘Civitas Romana’ and the inclusion of strangers in the Roman Republic: the case of the Social War – Christoph Cluse: Jewish community and civic commune in the high Middle Ages – Boris Olschewski/Bernhard Schmitt: The oath of homage in the context of sovereignty change. On the significance of a legal relict in the case of the Polish-Lithuanian partitions (1772-1795) – Sarah Vanessa Losego/Lutz Raphael: Practices of naturalisation and transformations of population: The case of the industrial Bassin of Longwy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) 1946-1990 – Markus Linden: From strangers to citizens. Modes and perspectives of political and social inclusion of immigrants in Germany – Sebastian Schmidt: Religious dimensions of poor relief from the Middle Ages up into the twentieth century – Monika Escher-Apsner: Serving the poor and strangers? ‘Confraternitates exulum’/‘Confraternitates pauperum’ and their modes of inclusion and exclusion – Sebastian Schmidt: «Pleasing to God and beneficial to man». On the confessional similarities and differences of early modern poor relief – Bernhard Schneider/Patrick Bircher: Catholic poverty discourses in the early nineteenth century – Beate Althammer/Inga Brandes/Katrin Marx-Jaskulski: Religiously motivated charitable work in modern times. Catholic congregations in the Rhineland and Ireland – Franz Dorn: Basic principles of poor relief from late Antiquity to the nineteenth century – Katrin Dort/Christian Reuther: Poor relief in the Carolingian capitularies – Alexander Wagner: Poor relief in early modern (legal) theory and legal systems – Andreas Gestrich/Jens Gründler: The Irish in Glasgow during the food shortages of 1846-1848 and 1878/79 - Aspects of inclusion and exclusion – Herbert Uerlings: Semantics of Inclusion/Exclusion – Philine Helas: Representations of St. Martin dividing his cloak with a beggar as a gauge of changing social practices in late medieval Europe – Ludwig Maria Vogl-Bienek: ‘From life’: The use of the magic lantern in nineteenth-century social work – Herbert Uerlings: Stigma ‘Gypsy’. An enduring semantics of exclusion – Iulia-Karin Patrut: «Is it worth the trouble to defame a Gypsy?» On Aryanism, Indo-Germanic ideology and the discourses on foreign peoples in the second half of the nineteenth century.
£108.94
Peter Lang AG The Contemporary Internet: National and
Book SynopsisThe contemporary internet focuses on user experiences of more recent developments on the internet, specifically with the spread of broadband, the audio-visual applications it has enabled, Web2.0 uptake more generally and the growth of eGovernment. The Contemporary Internet is comparative in two senses. The first is at the cross-national level, examining factors affecting different countries’ experiences of the internet, with a particular, but not a sole, interest in what may be termed ‘cultural influences on perceptions, adoption and use’. Second, the book is comparative within countries, examining the, sometimes very, uneven experiences of the internet’s possibilities. One question that pervades several chapters is how the digital divide is evolving in the light of the more contemporary developments outlined above.Trade Review«The Contemporary Internet is a useful addition to the growing literature on the impact and significant of the new communication technology. (...) The volume is recommended for both undergraduate and general readership.» (Raul Pertierra, International Journal of Communication)Table of ContentsContents: Leslie Haddon: Introduction – Frank Thomas/Leslie Haddon: Cultural factors shaping the experience of informati on and communication technologies – Giovanna Mascheroni/Francesca Pasquali/Barbara Scifo/Anna Sfardini/Matteo Stefanelli/Nicoletta Vittadini: Young Italians’ crossmedia cultures – Frank Thomas/Nicoletta Vittadini/Pedro Gómez-Fernández: Cultural influences on the adoption of web 2.0 services – Robert Pinter/Fruzsina Gyenes/Francesca Pasquali/Annika Bergström/Leslie Haddon: Cross-cultural differences in press coverage of the internet – Leslie Haddon/Peter Heinzmann: Implications of the variation in broadband speeds over time – Vesna Dolničar/Charalambos Christou/Rosemarie Gannon/Leslie Haddon/Soulla Louca/Pedro Puga/Jorge Vieira: Cross-national broadband digital divides – Pedro Puga: eGovernment and the digital divide – Jorge Vieira: The take-up of music 2.0 – Leslie Haddon: Methodological issues in the cross-national analysis of contextual data – Vesna Dolničar: Measuring the dynamics of cross-national digital divides.
£31.82
Peter Lang AG From Habits to Social Structures: Pragmatism and
Book SynopsisPragmatism has experienced a renaissance in social theory in recent years. This is no wonder since the so-called classical pragmatists, especially John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, outlined a highly original theory of social life. This book builds on pragmatist ideas and argues that social structures are first and foremost based on habitualized action. Thus, the insights of Dewey and Mead have profound implications for the way in which we think about many of the fundamental issues in social theory. These insights are discussed, for example, in relation to contemporary debates on the nature of intersubjectivity, institutions, the public and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus. The book shows that pragmatism offers a naturalist, action-centered way of conceptualizing culture and social structures.Table of ContentsContents: Action and social structures – Pragmatism: A very brief history – How many pragmatisms? – Unnecessary representations? – Language – Meaning and evolution – Pragmatism and science – The concept of habit – Mead and intersubjectivity – Institutionalization as habitualization – Habitus and habits – Pragmatism and social philosophy.
£20.90
Peter Lang AG Sociology and the Unintended: Robert Merton
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays aims to revive the sociological debate on the unintended, unanticipated and unexpected consequences of social action, as started by Robert K. Merton in a classic study of 1936. The contributing authors provide insights on both Merton’s work and the reception it received in the academia. They also go beyond his original formulations to encompass new theoretical perspectives and empirical interests that have emerged in the intellectual circumstances different from, or opposed to, his functionalist theory. The contributing authors delve into fields as diverse as education, law, politics, financial markets, consumption, risks and accidents, systemic transformation, organizations and institutional work, innovations, and Polish studies.Table of ContentsContents: Adriana Mica: Introduction – Raymond Boudon: Individual Reasons as the Causes of Collective Phenomena – Colin Campbell: Limits to Agency: Exploring the Unintended (and Unattended) Consequences of Action – Jean-Pascal Daloz: Elitist Consumption: Revisiting the Question of Utilitarian vs. Symbolic Motives – Piotr Sztompka: Existential Uncertainty and its Remedies. On the Shoulders of Robert K. Merton – Jocelyn Pixley: What about a Sociology of Uncertainty? – Steve Matthewman: Waiting to Happen: The Accident in Sociology – Adriana Mica: How Non-Linear is the Linear Model of Innovation? Treatment of Consequences in Diffusion and Translation Models – Arkadiusz Peisert: Introduction – Mike Zajko: Climate Change and Extreme Weather as Risk and Consequence – Klaus Birkelbach: Teacher Evaluations over the Life Course: Valid Prognosis or Self-fulfilling Prophecy? – Federico Farini: Affectivity, Expertise, and Inequality: Three Foundations of Trust in Education. Reflections on Presuppositions, (Unintended) Consequences, and Possible Alternatives – Francisco Linares: Self-defeating Prophecies and Social Conflict: A Case Study and Some Theoretical Considerations – Klaus Bachmann: Pluralistic Ignorance in Action: The Puzzle of Unintended Consequences during Poland’s Transition to Democracy – Michal Łuczewski: Nation as a Perverse Effect – Jan Winczorek: Introduction – Karl-Dieter Opp: The Beneficial and Unintended Consequences of False Beliefs about Norm Violation. When Is there a «Preventive Effect of Ignorance»? – Jacek Kurczewski: Amending the Amendments: Whether There Are Any Intended Effects of the Law at All? – Jan Winczorek: Why Do Procedures Have Unexpected Outcomes? – Ivo Domingues: Unintended Consequences in Normalization Processes: The Case of Certification of Quality Management Systems in the Social Sector – Mikolaj Pawlak: Unintended Consequences of Institutional Work – Richard Vernon: Foreseeably Unforeseeable Risk: Why Unintended Consequences Matter in Political Theory too.
£55.62
Peter Lang AG «Back in the West»: Changing Lifestyles in
Book SynopsisThis book examines the changing lifestyles in transforming societies, focusing on the interplay of lifestyle choices, social status and the society as a whole. When individuals choose their careers, mates or networks to belong to and to identify with, they are influenced by rapid technological developments, economic uncertainty and other ongoing changes in society. On the other hand, by their choices they also construct new social realities. The book addresses lifestyles and social change in connection with a wide range of issues: belonging to different movements and networks; changes in gender order, work and partner choices; changes in home cultures and ways of residing; emerging translocal belonging and cross cultural relationships; consumption choices and construction of identities. The first part of the book gives the wider context within a longer perspective and the second part is focused on specific cases of lifestyle choices.Table of ContentsContents: Airi-Alina Allaste/Andy Bennett: Lifestyles in Former Socialist Society – Leeni Hansson: From plan to market: major trends in life satisfaction and subjective well-being – Maaris Raudsepp/Indrek Tart/Eda Heinla: Continuity and change of value profiles in 1985-2008 – Katrin Paadam/Liis Ojamäe: Continuities of residential cultures. Re-inventing identities in single-family houses – Barbi Pilvre: Estonian men’s lifestyle magazine «Mees»: a manual of masculine identity in a transition society – Katrin Paadam/Kristel Siilak/Liis Ojamäe: Social construction of identities in a cross-cultural experience of creating and designing homes – Marion Pajumets/Jeff Hearn: Migrant career women’s discursive (re)constructions of their domestic partners’ masculine identities – Katrin Tiidenberg: How does online experience inform our sense of self? NSFW blogger identity narratives – Kadri Aavik: Strategies for managing difficulties related to employment: narratives of Russian-speaking women in Estonia – Airi-Alina Allaste/Mikko Lagerspetz: Just how political is the personal? Estonian eco-village activism as lifestyle and as life politics – Maarja Kobin: Drinking culture among young Estonian adults.
£33.03
Peter Lang AG Ritual Change and Social Transformation in
Book SynopsisMigration involves change of geographical place, social relations and cultural habits. This volume brings together contributions from an international group of scholars including studies of ritual change and social transformation in Singapore, Germany and the US. In situations of change, individuals as well as social groups mobilize rituals to reaffirm a sense of identity. Usually thinking of rituals as fixed sets of symbolic behaviour, handed down through generations, migration forces a fresh look at rituals: that they are open to change and adjustment as well as means of social transformation. The authors show the challenge of the transformation of symbolic behaviour for those who experience spatial and social change. They emphasise that ritual change is also common when cultures become intercultural.Table of ContentsContents: Hans-Georg Soeffner/Dariuš Zifonun: Preface – Hans-Georg Soeffner: Fragile Pluralism – Dariuš Zifonun: Migration and Religion: Beyond Ethnic Community and Ethclass – Tong Chee Kiong: Modernity and Ritual Transformations in Chinese Ancestor Worship – Kenji Kuroda/Atsuko Tsubakihara: Migration and Reconfiguration of Religious Rituals: The Case of Iranians in Southern California – Bernt Schnettler/Bernd Rebstein/Maria Pusoma: The Topos of Cultural Diversity: On the Communicative Construction of «Intermediate Worlds» of Migrant Reality – Dariuš Zifonun: Intercultural Stereotypes: Ethnic Inequality as a System of Social Order in the Soccer Milieu.
£24.46
Peter Lang AG Culture, Communication, and Creativity: Reframing
Book SynopsisIt is the premise of this volume that the rising importance of creativity in modern culture is related to dramatic changes in communication. In the last decades we have witnessed a revolutionary change in the ways we interact with one another. This transformation of the structure of communication is one of the most decisive aspects of the creativity of culture. The full aim of this volume therefore is to explore the resulting transformation in the relations of culture, creativity, and communication.Table of ContentsContents: Hubert Knoblauch/Mark D. Jacobs/René Tuma: Introduction: Culture, Communication, and Creativity – Andreas Reckwitz: Creativity as Dispositif – Michael Hutter: Cultural Conditions of Creation: A Communication-Centered Approach to Reckwitz’ «Creativity Dispositif» – Rudi Laermans: Creative Labor and the Production of Culture: Toward a Sociology of Commonality – Giovanni Boccia Artieri/Laura Gemini: The Networked Amateur: Performing Arts and Participatory Culture in the Continuum Professionals–Amateurs – Anna Lisa Tota: Creative Bodies and Creative «Leib» in Everyday Life – Anika Noack: «Anybody got an idea?» Communicative Forms, Roles and Legitimations in the Communicative Genesis and Negotiation of Social Innovations – Mathias Blanc: «Creative Documentary Film»: A Cultural Perspective on a Film Genre – Thomas S. Eberle: Photographing as Creative and Communicative Action – Hubert Knoblauch: Communication Culture and Powerpoint – Nick Couldry: Towards a Sociology of Voice: Exploring Creativity’s Hidden Resources and Constraints – Andreas Hepp: Culture, Communication, and the Media: The Challenges of Mediatization Research – Joost van Loon: The Visual, the Optical and the Scopic as Modalities of Mediatization – Boris Traue: Communication Regimes and Creativity – Sabine Pfeiffer: Social Media in Organizations: Fostering Creativity and Communication - Changing Culture in the Process – Koen van Eijck/Gerbert Kraaykamp: Highbrow, Omnivore, and Voracious Cultural Consumption Patterns in the Netherlands: An Explanation of Trends between 1975 and 2005 – Tatiana Mozhaeva: Time and Space in Mass Media Discourse: The Intercultural Aspect – Nona Schulte-Römer: The Case of Berlin Gas Street Lighting: Translating Engagement into Innovation – Julia Walter-Herrmann/Corinne Büching: Creativity in Learning Scenarios – Nuno de Almeida Alves/Ana Delicado/Ana Nunes de Almeida/Diana Carvalho: The Internet and Creativity: Children as Prosumers of Online Cultural Content – Jorge Brandão Pereira/Heitor Alvelos: Stories of Chairs: Digital Media and Participation in Creative Communication – Mark D. Jacobs: Serious Eats: Community as the Key to Creativity in Wired Popular Culture.
£48.15
Peter Lang AG Strangers by Choice: An Asocial Philosophy of
Book SynopsisStrangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Building on Simmel’s notion of the stranger, the author sheds light on the experience of spiritual idealists, both real and fictional, who maintain a distance from mainstream society in order to live by the laws of their transcendental homelands. Waśkiewicz addresses representations of strangeness from a broad spectrum of Western culture, including Stoic philosophy, Augustine of Hippo, Henry David Thoreau, the physicist Richard Feynman, and finally Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Highlighting how these writers and thinkers have negotiated individuality and community, this interdisciplinary study contributes to debates on identity in both practical philosophy and the history of ideas.Table of ContentsContents: Interdisciplinarity – Practical philosophy – History of ideas – Ethics – Strangeness – Otherness – Individuality – Community – Society – Identity – Alienation – Idealism – Roman Stoic philosophy – Seneca – Marcus Aurelius – Early Christianity – Augustine of Hippo – Henry David Thoreau – Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Richard Feynman.
£56.97
Peter Lang AG Monographic Sociology of Dimitrie Gusti: Social
Book SynopsisThis book highlights an important moment in the history of Romanian sociology: The idea of getting involved in the knowledge and construction of social life as well as the virtues of the sociologic monograph method that were promoted by the Bucharest Sociologic School and the Banat-Crişana Social Institute. This work now forwards an analysis of Dimitrie Gusti’s original sociologic thinking system, a theoretic model underlying the monographic campaigns conducted by multidisciplinary teams. Rural studies were the central axis of the Bucharest Sociologic School. An important innovation of Dimitrie Gusti’s School is examined: the launching of social work through the Superior School for Social Work and Assistance Princess Ileana, founded in Bucharest in 1929. A detailed presentation of the monographs conducted by the Bucharest School and the Banat-Crişana Social Institute with their specific characteristics is given, bearing the mark of sociologist Dimitrie Gusti and other remarkable personalities of the Romanian inter-war scientific elite.Table of ContentsContents: Social Science and Reform – The Bucharest Sociologic School – Doctrine and Method of the Bucharest Sociologic School – Monographic Sociology – The stage of the Bucharest Sociologic School – Superior School of Social Work – The Banat-Crişana Social Institute: Promoter and Innovator of the Research Ideas and Methods by the Bucharest Sociologic School – The Banat-Crişana Social Institute Monographic Campaigns.
£19.90
Peter Lang AG Conflict of National Identity in Sudan
Book SynopsisThis study addresses the contemporary conflict of national identity in Sudan between the adherents of Islamic nationalism and those of customary secularism. The former urge the adoption of a national constitution that derives its civil and criminal laws from the Sharia, and want Arabic as the language of instruction in national institutions. The latter demand the adoption of secular laws, derived from the set of customary laws, and equal opportunities for all African languages beside Arabic and English. In the past, the adherents of Islamic nationalism imposed the Islamic-Arab model. In reaction, secularists resorted to violence; the Islamists declared Jihad against the secularists and adopted a racial war, which has caused a humanitarian disaster. The main primary material of this research is based on a survey conducted among 500 students of five universities in Sudan. Besides, the study considers the diverse theoretical models for the formation of a nation-state, where diversity is not discouraged, but states apply laws to promote religious and ethnic diversities within one territorial state.Table of ContentsContents: Identity – Assimiliation – Fundamentalism – Islam – Religion – Ethnicity – Society – Africa – Racism – Discrimination – Nationalism – Ecology – Xenophobia – Jonglei – Canal – Vision – Anomia – Animism – Nuba – Beja – Dinka – Violence – War – Thudan – Sudan – Darfur – Nuba Mountains – Beja Ingessana.
£50.90
Peter Lang AG Life-World, Intersubjectivity and Culture:
Book SynopsisThis volume commemorates Richard H. Grathoff’s (1934–2013) contribution to interpretative sociology. Reconsidering the legacy of social phenomenology, it demonstrates the usefulness of concepts such as life-world, milieu and symbolic transcendence in the studies of sociocultural transformations.Table of ContentsContents: Zdzisław Krasnodębski: Grathoff’s Life-World – Thomas S. Eberle: Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and Interpretive Sociology: Finding a Pathway Through Divergent Strands – Tadeusz Szawiel: Life-World as an Object of Theory and as a Life-Horizon – Ingeborg K. Helling: «Mirror Neurons»: A Material Base for Phenomenological Reflection on Intersubjectivity? A Review Essay – Gallina Tasheva: Social Inconsistencies as a Problem of Social Knowledge – Steven Vaitkus: The Depth Juncture of Symbolic Transcendence Arising from Alfred Schutz and Karl Jaspers, and the Path Towards a Humanistic Self-Education – Fritz Schütze: Artificial Classifications in State Socialism vs. Typification Processes in the Existential World of Everyday Life as Envisioned by Richard Grathoff – Elżbieta Hałas: Symbolic Transformations: State Symbolism and the Fall of Communism in Poland – Dennis Smith: Coping with Captivity: The Social Phenomenon of Humiliation Explored Through Prisoners’ Dilemmas – Lorenza Gattamorta: Hans Joas and Peter L. Berger: Self-Transcendence in the Age of Contingency – Hubert Knoblauch: Communicative Constructivism and the Communication Society – Marek Czyżewski: «Under What Circumstances Do We Think Things Real?» Don Quixote, Social Theory and the Case of Knowledge-Based Society – Ulf Matthiesen: A Phenomenologist Goes to Town! «Spatial Turn,» «Urban Terroir» and the Life-World/Milieu-Paradigm: Strengthening Recent Phenomenological Approaches in City Research – Ewa Nowicka: Opportunities and Limitations of Intercultural Communication: Doing Social Anthropology in the Field – Rafał P. Wierzchosławski: Florian Znaniecki, Alfred Schutz, Milieu Analysis and Experts Studies.
£45.36
