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The Social Meaning of the Senses
That which we consider to be real we call knowledge. As a rule, we consider what our five senses convey to us to be real. Our perception and what we consider real and construct as socially effective differs depending on which senses we focus on and how intensively. The connection between reality constructions and sensory conditions has received little attention in social research so far. This concerns, for example, the use of our sensory organs for empirical reconstructions of bodies of knowledge, sensory perceptions as part of bodies of knowledge, or the question of how far knowledge is dependent on sensory abilities. This anthology attempts to close this gap by focusing on the social significance of sensory perceptions and discussing it using the example of various objects of investigation. 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.
What People Leave Behind
This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions that remain empirically imprinted in virtual and real spaces. The volume therefore opens new scenarios for social theory and applied social research in asking what the stakes, risks and potential of this approach are. It systematically raises and addresses these questions within a consistent framework, b...
Sustainable Living and Business
The title of the book derives from the theme of the 20th Conference on Applied Social Sciences of the Professional Association of German Sociologists, held in Munich in May 2019. The question of what concrete contributions social innovations can make to the transition to forms of sustainable coexistence and economic activity is as much the focus of this book as the question of what contribution the social sciences can make. Thus, on the one hand, it is about concrete social innovations that help us to achieve the goal of living and doing business sustainably, but on the other hand, it is also about the way in which the social sciences - not least through appropriate theoretical and methodological training - can be made socially responsible for the success of such socially innovative processes. 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.
Communicative Figurations
This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are involved in. The first part of the book outlines a fundamental understanding of the changing media environment of deep mediatization and its transformative capacity. The second part focuses on collectivities and movements: communities in the city, critical social movements, maker, online gaming groups and networked groups of young people. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives.
Contemporary Challenges in Mediatisation Research
This book focuses on key challenges related to conducting research on mediatisation, presenting the most current theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges and problems, addressing ignored and less frequently discussed topics, critical and controversial themes, and defining niches and directions of development in mediatisation. With a focus on the under-representation of certain topics and aspects, as well as methodological, technological, and ethical dilemmas, the chapters consider the main critical objections formulated against mediatisation studies and exchange critical positions. Moving beyond areas of common focus – culture, sport, and religion – to emerging areas of study such as fashion, the military, business, and the environment, the book then offers a critical assessment of the transformation of fields and the relevance of new and dynamic (meta)processes including datafication, counter-mediatisation, and platformisation. Charting new paths of development in mediatisation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of mediatisation, media studies, media literacy, communication studies, and research methods.
Organization outside Organizations
Describes the organizational aspects of contemporary society, explaining how organization occurs not only inside formal organizations, but also outside and among them.
Jahrbuch für Soziale Interaktion 1
Das Jahrbuch Soziale Interaktion bietet dem Forschungs- und Denkstil des Symbolischen Interaktionismus im deutschen Sprachraum eine Plattform. Seit den 1970er Jahren liegen die entsprechenden Referenztexte von George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Erving Goffman oder Anselm Strauss in Übersetzung vor. Auch sind in den letzten fünfzig Jahren eine Reihe von davon angeleiteten Untersuchungen entstanden, aber vom Entstehen einer Forschungslandschaft kann in der deutschsprachigen Soziologie keine Rede sein. Hierzu will diese Publikation ihre Dienste leisten.
Mediatisierte Welten
Mediatisierung wurde zu einem Schlüsselkonzept der internationalen Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung, um das Wechselverhältnis des Wandels von Medienkommunikation und Kultur bzw. Gesellschaft zu fassen. Doch durch was zeichnet sich die heutige Mediatisierung aus? Wie verändern sich mit ihr Handlungs- und Interaktionsformen, Netzwerke und soziale Kontexte? Welche gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen bestehen dadurch? Fragen wie diese werden in dem vorliegenden Buch ausgehend von Analysen einzelner „mediatisierter Welten“ diskutiert. Die Grundlage sind dabei Forschungskonzepte und erste Ergebnisse des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Schwerpunktprogramms 1505 „Mediatisierte Welten: Kommunikation im medialen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel“.
Theoretische Einsichten
Keine Beobachtung (und auch kein Interview, keine Dokumentensichtung und keine Materialanalyse) ist theoriefrei denkbar. In dem vorliegenden Band wird dargestellt, wie Forschende im wissenschaftlichen „Tagesgeschäft“ zu theoretischen Einsichten gelangen. Konzeptionelle Ordnungen und Abgrenzungen werden mit Bezug auf empirische Gegenstände benannt, verfeinert, aus neuen Blickwinkeln hinterfragt und weitergeführt. Dabei wird erkennbar, dass Theorie und Empirie in aller Regel weit weniger „streng nach Lehrbuch“ als vielmehr unter forschungspragmatischen Gesichtspunkten verknüpft werden.
Ethnographische Erkundungen
In diesem Band werden methodische Aspekte ethnographischer Arbeit fokussiert. Unbeschadet dessen erscheint die Reinheit der je eingesetzten Erkundungs- und Deutungstechniken prinzipiell als nachrangig gegenüber der Aufgabe, so Vieles und so Vielfältiges wie möglich über die Welt, in der man sich jeweils bewegt, in Erfahrung zu bringen. Dies gelingt in Ethnographien vorzugsweise dadurch, dass die forschende Person am Leben in ihrem jeweiligen Feld tatsächlich teilhat und dass sie zugleich im Feld so agiert, dass sie es möglichst wenig von äußeren Wertsetzungen her beeinflusst und verändert.Die besondere forscherische Kompetenz der Ethnographie treibenden Person besteht dementsprechend vor allem darin, dass sie in der Lage ist, erkenntnisoptimierend zwischen existenzieller Nähe und analytischer Distanz zu changieren – was insbesondere deshalb so bedeutsam ist, weil Datenerhebung, Datenauswertung und Theoriebildung eben nicht in einer vorweg festgelegten, linearen Abfolge stehen, sondern weil der explorativ-interpretative Forschungsprozess in einer spiralförmigen Bewegung stattfindet.
