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Figurative Felder
A revision of the author's Habilitationsschrift, Universiteat Kiel, 2003.
The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe, 1890-2020
As social inequality grows, historical analysis on wealth and income distribution across the 20th century often does not take into account inequality of education, health, housing and chances of social mobility, nor does it differentiate statistical inequality from the realities of peoples’ actual experience. With this broad understanding in mind, in a long look back on the history of social inequality in Europe, The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe addresses these neglected subjects. It also tackles the commonplace notion that modern capitalism inevitably produces wealth gaps and asks whether the facts and figures we possess also lead to alternate interpretations of examples of mitigated inequality. Covering the 20th century and the beginnings of the 21st century in Europe through wars, and economic crises, through periods of unprecedented economic prosperity and staggering economies, both exacerbating and dampening the problem, acclaimed historian Hartmut Kaelble offers a rigorous response to understanding our present-day challenge of social inequality.
Governmentality Studies in Education
The demand for higher education worldwide is booming. Governments want well-educated citizens and knowledge workers but are scrambling for funds. The capacity of the public sector to provide increased and equitable access to higher education is seriously challenged.
Lehr(er)buch Soziologie
Wesentlicher Hintergrund dieses zweibändigen soziologischen Einführungswerks ist die Erfahrung, dass die Lehrerbildung an zahlreichen Hochschulen einen, wenn nicht den Schwerpunkt der soziologischen Lehrtätigkeit ausmacht, ohne dass dem seitens der Lehre und Lehrtexte ausreichend Rechnung getragen würde. Das 'Lehr(er)buch' soll daher entsprechend publikumsorientiert zentrale Grundbegriffe, theoretische Ansätze und Themenfelder der Mikro- und Makrosoziologie im Sinne eines einführenden Überblicks darstellen, und zwar im besonderen Bezug auf pädagogische Praxisfelder, zum Beispiel den Unterricht, und Bedingungen wie schichtspezifische Sozialisationsprozesse oder Adoleszenskrisen. Durch...
Kulturen der Sorge
Mediale Darstellungen und öffentliche Debatten setzen Demenz meist mit Verlust der Persönlichkeit gleich. Dieser Band zeigt das Gegenteil: Menschen mit Demenz sind selbstverantwortlich handelnde Persönlichkeiten, und sie haben eine Stimme, die gehört werden sollte. Was berichten sie über ihre Erfahrungen und Gefühle? Wie deuten, gestalten und organisieren sie ihren Alltag? Aber auch: Wie reagiert das Umfeld? Welche Netzwerke der Selbsthilfe und Sorge bilden sich infolge einer Demenzdiagnose? Die Beiträger plädieren für eine kulturwissenschaftliche Demenzforschung und erkunden Dimensionen von Demenz mit der Absicht, Lebenslagen von Betroffenen, ihren Angehörigen und ihrer Umgebung zu verbessern.
Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges
The escalating interdependecy of nations drives global geopolitics to shift ever more quickly. Societies seem unable to control any change that affects their cities, whether positively or negatively. Challenges are global, but solutions need to be implemented locally. How can architectural research contribute to the future of our changing society? How has it contributed in the past? The theme of the 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conference, “Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges”, was set to address these questions. This book, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, includes reviewed papers presented in June 2016, at the 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conferen...
Aging and Social Policy
In recent years, Japan and Germany have been facing very similar challenges: aging populations, changing employment structures, long-lasting economic stagnation, and globalization, all of which threaten existing social security arrangements. Both countries are in a number of respects more socially and politically regulated, and in this sense less liberal, than the Anglo-American economies. Nonetheless, during the last couple of years several important social policy reforms have been implemented. A comparison of these reforms may provide valuable insights into the changing character of "conservative" welfare states. This volume concentrates on two fields of social policy: long-term care insur...
Old Age, Gender, Social Security in Africa and Europe
In the `Decade of Healthy Ageing’ (UN/WHO), this collection of essays contains interdisciplinary contributions by authors from African and European cultures who address questions about the situation of old people in the past and present, comparing the situation of men and women and focussing on their protection and care within society. While at first glance it appears that the phenomena in the `young’ African countries are completely different from those in European countries, there is a certain convergence between the continents. The challenges of migration, globalisation and the climate crisis are triggering social transformation processes that are weakening older traditions. The focus is on the dissolution of the extended family and the associated loss of the stabilising function within the framework of the so-called intergenerational contract. This development triggers crises. However, new models for organising old age are also developing. Old people are finding new ways to organise their lives.
Theatralisierung der Gesellschaft
Die in den beiden Bänden dieses Sammelwerks repräsentierten Beiträge zielen auf Wandlungen und Entwicklungstendenzen der Gegenwartsgesellschaft, die in neueren sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskursen zunehmend mit Begriffen wie Inszenierung, Performanz/Performance, Image, Event oder visual culture belegt werden. Unter dem Titel Theatralisierung geht es hier um nicht weniger als um die Behauptung eines charakteristischen Bündels von sozio-kulturellen Formationen und Transformationen, die alle gesellschaftlichen Ordnungsebenen, Bereiche und Daseinsaspekte umfassen. Andererseits gilt es, sozio-kulturellen Tatsachen Rechnung zu tragen, die eher den Gegenbegriff der Enttheatralisierung...
Governing Home Care
Offering a comparative and thematic cross-country analysis of the governance of home care, this book systematically maps out governing arrangements in relation to formal care services, informal care, care workers and users of care across nine countries.
