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Institutions and Organizations as Learning Environments for Participation and Democracy
This book discusses opportunities and limitations to democratic participation in institutions and organizations across the life course. It demonstrates that democratic participation is not something that is learned once and for all and applied in formal political settings, but something that is lived every day throughout life in various contexts. Institutions and organizations frame human lives and strongly determine the ability to participate and co-determine their communities. They are places for learning, deliberation and the development of the common good. The book conceptually and empirically analyses the potential of democratic participation within various institutions. The contributions range from early childhood institutions, schools, youth programs, workplaces, and vocational education to cultural organizations and nursing homes for the elderly. The book thereby provides a cross-sectional and interdisciplinary knowledge base to inspire future research and practical efforts to promote democratic participation within and across institutions around the world.
Moral Collectives
Whether terrorist attacks, refugee or financial crises - the challenges of globalized modernity expose those areas that Durkheim described as anomic and whose processing still illustrates the central position of moral communication. There is some evidence to suggest that progressive functional differentiation does not erode morality, but actually promotes a remoralization of society through increasing communicative networking. Wherever grievances come to light and it is not foreseeable how they could be satisfactorily resolved in the modus operandi, morality provides a promising instrument which, in the form of moral collectives, is able to permeate everyday life and shape society. In this sense, the anthology is dedicated to a theoretical as well as empirical analysis of morality, which takes shape as a genuinely social quantity via moral collectives. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
Coworking Atmospheres
The study by Alexandra Bernhardt deals with coworking spaces and their atmospheres. In addition to a comprehensive consideration of the role of atmospheres, the special significance of community in the context of these work spaces is examined in more detail. Two case studies in urban coworking spaces form the core of the investigation, following a qualitative research design oriented towards ethnography and a plurality of methods. In the context of the analysis, on the one hand, what constitutes coworking in everyday life and thus the new communality at work is considered: relevant practices and rituals, spatial arrangements and atmospheres are elaborated in their composition. On the other h...
A Pluralist’s Guide to Solving Molyneux’s Problem
This book presents a novel pluralist strategy for answering Molyneux’s 300+-year-old conundrum: Would a person, born blind but given sight, identify a shape previously known only by their touch? The author interweaves historical scholarship with contemporary philosophical work and empirical research on animal, infant, and adult human perception. The author argues that we need a new approach to Molyneux’s problem because we do not know what the problem is really about, and it is untestable because a Molyneux subject cannot be physically realized. He criticizes Molyneux’s question for its simplistic taxonomy of "the blind" that groups significant individual differences into a singular on...
Organizational Ethnography
This textbook explores practices, first-hand experiences and emerging ideas within organizational ethnography, providing a toolkit that prepares ethnographers for the uncertainties and realities of fieldworking. Students faced with the complexities of qualitative observational techniques and considerations, such as the scope of the research, the personal and professional intertwined life of the qualitative research or the decision of when to leave the field, will find the book an extremely useful, practical guide. A range of experiences from a variety of academics at different stages of their career, to highlight the differences in practices, approaches and encounters, are presented. The the...
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies
With entries detailing key concepts, persons, and approaches, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies provides definitive coverage of a field that has grown dramatically in scope and popularity around the world over the last two decades. Includes over 200 A-Z entries varying in length from 500 to 5,000 words, with a list of suggested readings for each entry and cross-references, as well as a lexicon by category, and a timeline Brings together the latest research and theories in the field from international contributors across a range of disciplines, from sociology, cultural studies, and advertising to anthropology, business, and consumer behavior Available online with interactive cross-referencing links and powerful searching capabilities within the work and across Wiley’s comprehensive online reference collection or as a single volume in print www.consumptionandconsumerstudies.com
Hybride Events
Schnippeldiskos, Kopfhörerpartys, BarCamps, Star Wars-Gottesdienste: Als Hybride Events bezeichnen wir solche inszenierten Ereignisse, die aus augenfälligen Kombinationen mindestens zweier Arten von Ereignissen bestehen, die als verschiedenen kulturellen Bereichen zugehörig angesehen werden (z.B. Fest und Feier, Ernst und Spaß, Information und Unterhaltung, Action und Comedy, Wissenschaft und Sport usw.). In dem Band untersuchen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen Fallbeispiele solcher Ereignisse, versuchen diese theoretisch zu fassen und gesellschaftsdiagnostisch auszuwerten.
Schlüsselwerke der Science & Technology Studies
Die Science & Technology Studies sind ein interdisziplinäres und vor allem internationales Forschungsfeld, das sich mit den Wechselverhältnissen von Wissenschaft, Technik und Gesellschaft beschäftigt. In Theorie und Empirie erforschen sie die zunehmende Verwissenschaftlichung von Technik und Gesellschaft, die Technisierung von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft sowie die Vergesellschaftung von Wissenschaft und Technik. Mit der Fokussierung auf ‚Wissenschaft und Technik in Aktion‘ ist die Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung gegenüber der Einhegung diverser Erkenntniszugänge skeptisch und sensibel gegenüber der In und Exklusion verschiedener Gruppen und Akteure innerhalb wissenschaftlicher Diskurse. Der vorliegende Band der „Schlüsselwerke der Science & Technology Studies“ leistet einen Beitrag, die Perspektiven der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum sichtbarer zu machen und inhaltliche Impulse für Studium, Lehre und Forschung zu bieten.
Hauptbegriffe Qualitativer Sozialforschung
Grundlagenwerk für die Qualitative Sozialforschung - jetzt in vollständig überarbeiteter und erweiterter Neuauflage mit allen Hauptbegriffen Führende Vertreter*innen aus Soziologie und Erziehungswissenschaft erläutern die wichtigsten Begriffe qualitativer Methodik und Methodologie. Am Ende der Artikel wird auf ausgewählte weitere Literatur verwiesen. Zentrales Anliegen des Bandes ist es, Lehrenden und Studierenden unterschiedlicher Ausbildungsgänge und -stufen einen systematischen Einblick in jene Verfahren der Qualitativen Sozialforschung zu vermitteln, welche den Kern anspruchsvoller qualitativer Methoden bilden.
Jugend
Der Band gibt einen Einblick in aktuelle Theoriediskurse und Forschungsfelder zur Jugend. Neben diesem Überblick zu Kontinuitäten und Weiterentwicklungen der Theorie- und Forschungslinien stehen aktuelle Ergebnisse der Jugendforschung zur Situation Jugendlicher in Familie, Schule und Jugendkulturen sowie zu institutionellen Übergängen im Zentrum des Bandes.
