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The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science
The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic disciplines and notions of Jewish assimilation and integration and demonstrates that the quest for Jewish assimilation is linked to and built into the conceptual foundations of modern social science disciplines. Focusing on two influential "assimilated" Jewish authors—anthropologist Franz Boas and sociologist Georg Simmel—this study shows that epistemological considerations underlie the authors’ respective evaluations of the Jews’ assimilation in German and American societies as a form of "group extinction" or as a form of "social identity." This conceptual model gives a new "key" to understanding pivotal issues in recent Jewish history and in the history of the social sciences.
Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States
Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States, edited by Yvette Sánchez and Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, is the first handbook on the BRIC States that offers a transcultural perspective, which goes beyond the typical ’how to’ manuals or economic projections and provides an understanding of transculturalism as it is studied and practiced in the respective countries themselves. This unique reference book also offers insights into the relations between the corresponding states and the challenges facing those trying to foster more intense business exchanges. The reader learns to interpret cross-cultural issues from the perspectives of the BRIC states themselves and gains insight into th...
“Between Two Worlds” Hans Gerth
Dieses Jahrbuch veröffentlicht erstmalig - in englischer Sprache- die zusammenhängende Biografie des Sozialwissenschaftlers Hans Gerth. Es ist das intellektuelle Porträt eines der letzten Mannheim-Schüler und namhaften sozialwissenschaftlichen Emigrées und zugleich angesichts des verarbeiteten bisher unbekannten Korrespondenzmaterials ein Zeitdokument ersten Ranges.
China: Promise or Threat?
In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The book’s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries’ orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its kinship society.
Handbook of Second Language Assessment
Second language assessment is ubiquitous. It has found its way from education into questions about access to professions and migration. This volume focuses on the main debates and research advances in second language assessment in the last fifty years or so, showing the influence of linguistics, politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and psychometrics. There are four parts which, when taken together, address the principles and practices of second language assessment while considering its impact on society. Read separately, each part addresses a different aspect of the field. Part I deals with the conceptual foundations of second language assessment with chapters on the purposes of asse...
Schlüsselkompetenzen im Hochschulstudium
Die Autoren entwickeln ein umfassendes Konzept für die immer wichtigere Vermittlung von Schlüsselkompetenzen an der Hochschule. Was wird unter Schlüsselkompetenzen verstanden und wie können sie in die Hochschullehre integriert werden? Wie können Studierende in ihrer Selbstreflexion bestärkt werden? Die Autoren zeigen vier „Lernräume“ für fachübergreifende Schlüsselkompetenzen auf: Sachkompetenzen, kommunikative, persönliche und gesellschaftliche Kompetenzen. Für jeden dieser vier Bereiche arbeiten sie die wichtigsten Teilkompetenzen heraus. Sie stellen Möglichkeiten der Umsetzung in entsprechenden Lehrveranstaltungen dar und zeigen mit praktischen Beispielen, wie Kompetenzprofile für unterschiedliche Berufsfelder zusammengestellt werden können. Damit wird die Bedeutung von Schlüsselkompetenzen im Hochschulstudium theoretisch und zugleich praxisnah vermittelt.
