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Positioning the Subject
Subjektivierungsforschung zielt auf ein Verständnis der subjektkonstitutiven Wirkungen von sozialen, diskursiven und materiellen Ordnungen. Sie untersucht, wie Individuen und Gruppen im Subjektivierungsgeschehen hervorgebracht werden und sich gegenseitig hervorbringen. Wie werden Subjekte positioniert? Wie positionieren sie sich selbst? Zur Untersuchung von Positionen und Positionierungen schließen die Beiträge an subjekttheoretische Ansätze sowie interpretative Verfahren an und erweitern das methodologische Repertoire der Sozial-, Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften. Subjectivation research aims to understand how subjects are constructed through social, discursive, and material orders, examining how individuals and groups constitute themselves and each other in processes of subjectivation. How are subjects positioned? Why do they position themselves as they do? To uncover diverse positions and positionings, these contributions engage with theories of the subject as well as interpretative approaches to expand the methodological repertoire of the social, cultural and educational sciences.
Disability and the Changing Contexts of Family and Personal Relationships
Showcasing conceptually innovative work and cutting-edge methods related to the study of families, this volume presents not just a groundbreaking perspective on disability and family life, but also a new paradigm in disability scholarship.
The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with post-structuralist thinking in order to study discourses and create epistemological space for analysing processes of world-making in culturally diverse environments. SKAD is anchored in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening – and possibly overcoming – of the epistemological biases and restrictions still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric social sciences. An innovative volume, this book is ex...
Transformation, Agency and the Economy
Producing, buying, selling, inventing, destroying, caring, imagining, failing – with their everyday practices, people bring about what we call ‘the economy’. In order to both understand and transform these practices in the context of mounting socio-ecological challenges, respective knowledge on economic practices becomes crucial. Yet, when it comes to the respective scientific discipline – economics – such knowledge is limited due to a long-standing tradition of favouring abstraction and modelling over assessing real-world economic action. By contrast, this book draws the contours of an economics grounded in real-world phenomena and experiences by outlining the foundations of a Gro...
Doing Transitions in the Life Course
This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent “practice turn” in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are “done.” This book introduces the concept of “doing transitions” and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on “doing transitions” in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration). It also emphasizes themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (such as bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. In coupling this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors and practitioners, and policymakers.
(Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style
This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as “religionized” phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam. Through their clothing, Muslims negotiate concepts and interpretations of Islam and construct their intersectionally interwoven position in the world. Taking the interlinkages between ‘fashionized religion,’ ‘religionized fashion,’ commercialization and processes of feminization as a starting point, this book reshapes our understanding of gendered forms of religiosity and spirituality through the lens of gender and embodiment. Focusing mainly on the agency and creativity of women as they appro...
Racial Profiling und Polizeigewalt
Jugendliche of Color sind auch in Deutschland von Racial Profiling und Polizeigewalt betroffen. Welche Erfahrungen machen sie mit diesen Praktiken? Wie erlangen sie ihre Handlungsfähigkeit zurück? Und welche Maßnahmen können sie ergreifen, um die Verhältnisse zu verbessern? Markus Textor bietet Antworten auf diese Fragen, indem er Licht auf ein national wie international schwach erforschtes Feld wirft. Durch qualitative Analysen zeigt er empirisch auf, dass Racial Profiling als rassistische Diskriminierungspraxis zu begreifen ist - und stößt so nicht nur theoretische Debatten in den Erziehungs-, Sozial- und Politikwissenschaften an, sondern macht diese auch für die sozialarbeiterische Praxis zugänglich.
The Public Shaping of Medical Research
Bringing together an international selection of leading scholars and representatives from patients’ organizations, this comprehensive collection explores the interaction between civil society groups and biomedical science, technology development, and research politics. This volume is an important reference for academics and researchers with an interest in the sociology of health and illness, science and technology studies, the sociology of knowledge or healthcare management and research, as well as medical researchers and those involved with health-related civil society organizations.
Institutionality
This edited book brings together humanities and social sciences scholars from the various disciplines at the nexus of discourse studies and ethnography to reflect on questions of institutional practices and their political concerns. Institutional order plays an important role in structuring power relations in society. Yet, contrary to common understandings of structure, institutional orders are far from fixed or stable. They constantly change, and they are resisted and reimagined by social actors. The 20 studies collected in this edited volume develop the notion of institutionality as an overarching perspective to explore how institutional actors and institutional practices order and reorder...
Arbeiter ohne Eigenschaften
Ausgangspunkt für die Untersuchung bildet der ökonomische Strukturwandel, der auch als der Übergang zu einer Wissensgesellschaft beschrieben wird. Saša Bosančić analysiert in einer qualitativen Studie, welche Subjektivierungsweisen sich für angelernte Arbeiter vor dem Hintergrund eines seit den 1970er Jahren stattfindenden ökonomischen Strukturwandels und der damit einhergehenden Marginalisierung von Arbeitermilieus ergeben. Dabei wird Subjektivierung in Anlehnung an die Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse von Reiner Keller als ein Prozess der identitären Selbst- und Fremdpositionierung verstanden. Die zentrale Fragestellung lautet, ob und inwieweit hegemoniale Diskurse (wie die zur Bildungs- und Wissensgesellschaft oder zur Flexibilität und zur Kreativität) neben den betrieblich-strukturellen und biographisch-alltäglichen Kontexten die Selbstverhältnisse der angelernten Arbeiter zu beeinflussen vermögen.
