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Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers whose job it is to contribute to the acknowledgement of difference, the sociologist outlines three ideal types of actors - an empathetic, a principled, and an opportunist one - and the motives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the specialist, is conspicuously absent. Why is that so? Solving this enigma helps depicting the relations to difference within police forces: it points to a specific "spirit" of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual in Germany.

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"Weber would have been pleased." James V. Spickard, Qualitative Research, 14/8 (2014) Reviewed in: German Politics ansd Society, 33/3 (2015), Alexandra Schwell

The Cop and the Sociologist: Investigating

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      Publisher: Transcript Verlag
      Publication Date: 15/04/2013
      ISBN13: 9783837623109, 978-3837623109
      ISBN10: 3837623106
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      Law Criminal law: procedure and offences Social research and statistics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers whose job it is to contribute to the acknowledgement of difference, the sociologist outlines three ideal types of actors - an empathetic, a principled, and an opportunist one - and the motives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the specialist, is conspicuously absent. Why is that so? Solving this enigma helps depicting the relations to difference within police forces: it points to a specific "spirit" of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual in Germany.

      Trade Review
      "Weber would have been pleased." James V. Spickard, Qualitative Research, 14/8 (2014) Reviewed in: German Politics ansd Society, 33/3 (2015), Alexandra Schwell

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