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Soziologische Gegenwartsdiagnosen 3
by Sina Farzin Henning LauxIn diesem Buch werden einige der wirkmächtigsten soziologischen Gegenwartsdiagnosen des 21. Jahrhunderts in ihren zentralen Aussagen in einzelnen Beiträgen vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dazu gehören prägnante Einführungen in die Werke von Autorinnen und Autoren wie Donna Haraway, Didier Eribon, Hartmut Rosa, Andreas Reckwitz oder Arlie Hochschild. Aus der Lektüre der verschiedenen Deutungsangebote ergibt sich ein eindrucksvolles Mosaik soziologischer Perspektiven auf die Gegenwart, das für Lehrende und Lernende gleichermaßen von Interesse ist.
Soziologische Handlungstheorie: Eine Einführung
by Bernhard MiebachIn diesem Lehrbuch werden die wichtigsten soziologischen Theorien dargestellt, die das soziale Handeln erklären. Neben den soziologischen Klassikern Mead, Schütz, Goffman, Garfinkel, Parsons und Homans werden auch die neueren Ansätze von Habermas, Berger und Luckmann, Elias, Luhmann, Coleman, Esser, Giddens, Bourdieu, Collins, Latour, Foucault, White und Castells dargestellt. Damit gibt das Buch einen Überblick über Systemtheorie, Interaktionismus, Interpretative Soziologie, Sozialkonstruktivismus, Rational Choice Theorie, Strukturationstheorie, Feld- und Habitustheorie, Akteur-Netzwerk Theorie, Diskurstheorie und Netzwerktheorie. Diese Modelle werden anhand anschaulicher Anwendungsbeispiele aus der Alltagswelt, Organisationen und der Digitalisierung durch das Internet erläutert und grafisch zusammengefasst. Darüberhinaus wird die Methodik zur Anwendung der jeweiligen Theorien auf empirische Fragestellungen in Interaktionen, in Organisationen und digitalen Medien vermittelt.
Soziologische Theorie: Grundformen im Überblick (essentials #27)
by Gernot SaalmannWie erklärt sich menschliches Zusammenleben? Das Paper App gibt eine kurze Einführung in soziologisches Denken. Neben den herkömmlich kontrastierten Großrichtungen Holismus und Individualismus gibt es seit jeher eine weitere - den Relationismus. Nach einer knappen Einleitung in den Gegenstand, den Entstehungskontext und die Verfahrensweisen der Soziologie, wird gezeigt, inwiefern bereits drei Klassiker des Faches (Durkheim, Weber, Simmel) die drei logisch möglichen Grundperspektiven des Blicks auf das soziale Zusammenleben von Menschen entworfen haben. Die sich daraus ergebenden drei Grundrichtungen soziologischer Theorie (Objektivismus, Subjektivismus, Relationismus) werden an weiteren Beispielen der Theoriegeschichte erläutert. Abschließend werden diese drei Sichtweisen des Sozialen auf ihre praktische Anwendbarkeit überprüft.
Soziologische Theorien der Digitalisierung: Eine Einführung
by Bernhard MiebachDie soziologischen Theorien der Digitalisierung beschreiben und erklären die Formen der Nutzung und die Auswirkungen von Internet und Anwendungssystemen auf Individuen, Organisationen und Funktionssysteme der Gesellschaft. Aufbauend auf den empirischen Analysen insbesondere von sozialen Medien, Big Data und von Suchalgorithmen werden Techniksoziologie, Systemtheorie, Netzwerktheorie, Rational-Choice Theorie, Akteur-Netzwerk Theorie, Interaktionstheorie sowie Theorien sozialer Ungleichheit, sozialer Bewegungen und medialer Öffentlichkeit auf den Gegenstandsbereich der Digitalisierung angewendet. Das Einführungsbuch stellt die wichtigsten soziologischen Theorien zur Digitalisierung und die gegenstandsbezogenen Analysen zu Metrisierung, kulturellen Singularitäten, Macht von Algorithmen und Entnetzung anschaulich dar und zeigt anhand von Beispielen, wie sich diese theoretischen Modelle zur Analyse der digitalen Praktiken verwenden lassen. Es werden die Funktionsweise und die Auswirkungen der digitalen Medien wie Google, Facebook oder Twitter und der digitalen Transformation durch Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) dargestellt.
Soziometrie: Messung, Darstellung, Analyse und Intervention in sozialen Beziehungen
by Christian StadlerSoziometrie ist eine sowohl qualitative wie quantitative Herangehensweise, um Beziehungen in Gruppen zu untersuchen. Sie untersucht das Wahlverhalten von Menschen anhand bestimmter Kriterien und dient gleichzeitig als Intervention für eine Verbesserung von Gruppenzusammenhalt und -leistung. Dieses Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die Grundlagen der Soziometrie. Es werden unter anderem das sozionomischen System, verwandte Untersuchungsmethoden und Weiterentwicklungen (z.B. der populären Netzwerkananalyse) sowie zahlreiche Instrumente und psychodramatische Messverfahren dargestellt. Darüber hinaus werden in einem Praxisteil zahlreiche Fallbeispiele aus unterschiedlichen Anwendungsfeldern erörtert.
Sozioökonomie und Wirtschaftssoziologie im Spiegel sozialwissenschaftlicher Bildung
by Tim Engartner Andrea Szukala Birgit WeberDieser Sammelband identifiziert die Schnittstellen der politischen, gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Domäne aus wirtschaftssoziologischer und fachdidaktischer Perspektive wie auch vor dem Hintergrund nationaler wie internationaler Forschungsansätze der sozialwissenschaftlichen Bildung. Dabei werden die Innovationspotenziale einer sozioökonomischen Perspektive an den Übergängen von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik(wissenschaft) ausgearbeitet. U. a. werden diese in Beiträgen zu Theorieentwicklungen des Neopragmatismus sowie der an sie anschließenden Curriculum- und Partizipationsforschung diskutiert, welche jeweils Weiterentwicklungen des Feldes – insbesondere im Lichte der Neuformulierung eines sozio-ökonomischen Curriculums – in den Blick nimmt. Die auf Pluralität, Interdisziplinarität, Multiparadigmatizität und (kritische) Reflexion angelegte Festschrift für Reinhold Hedtke schlägt die Brücke zwischen den zentralen sozialwissenschaftlichen Bezugsdisziplinen Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft und Geographie sowie Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Erziehungswissenschaft.
Soziopsychosomatische Gesundheit, robuste Demokratie, Suffizienzökonomie und das „glückliche“ Leben: Über ein wechselseitiges Verhältnis (Gesundheit und Gesellschaft)
by Peter-Ernst SchnabelNicht einmal zehn Prozent der knapp zweihundertdreißig Milliarden Euro, die sich die Deutschen ihre Krankenversorgung jährlich kosten lassen, fließen gegenwärtig in die Präventionspolitik und davon wiederum nicht mehr als zwanzig Prozent in die Förderung der Gesundheit. Die vorliegende Untersuchung setzt sich in kritisch-konstruktiver Manier mit den interventionsphilosophischen, systemischen und professionspolitischen Hindernissen auseinander, die der längst fälligen Beseitigung dieses Unterversorgungsdilemmas im Wege stehen. Sie bemüht sich, mit dem Irrglauben aufzuräumen, dass eine Gesundheitsförderungspolitik, die mehr sein will, als die bloße Verhinderung von Krankheit und Gebrechen, realisiert werden könne, ohne die bestehenden politischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen grundlegend zu verändern. Und sie macht Vorschläge, in welche Richtung diese Veränderung gehen könnte.
Soziotechnische Optimierungs- und Anpassungsfaktoren im Arbeitssystem Smart Maintenance: Zur besonderen Bedeutung der interdependenten Ressource des Erfahrungswissens (Dortmunder Beiträge zur Sozialforschung)
by Martin EisenmannDieses Buch beschäftigt sich aus einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektive mit den soziotechnischen Anpassungs- und Optimierungsfaktoren, die im Zuge von Digitalisierungsprozessen in innerbetrieblichen Instandhaltungsabteilungen und bei industriellen Serviceanbietern zu erkennen sind. Methodisch greift die Analyse auf die Erstellung von Betriebsfallstudien in den fokussierten Industriesektoren zurück, um anhand dessen die zuvor konzeptionell-theoretisch erarbeiteten Annahmen empirisch zu überprüfen. Im Rahmen dieser Veränderungen kristallisiert sich als ein zentrales Ergebnis der Untersuchung heraus, dass das Erfahrungswissen der Beschäftigten als eine besondere Ressource zu identifizieren ist.
SPA - Screening psychischer Arbeitsbelastung: Manual (SpringerTests)
by Anna-Marie Metz Heinz-Jürgen RotheArbeitsbedingte psychische Erkrankungen sind in den letzten 10 Jahren zu den häufigsten Ursachen für Fehlzeiten und Erwerbsminderungsrenten geworden. Im Mittelpunkt des Buches stehen die detaillierte Beschreibung eines psychologischen Verfahrens zur qualitätsgesicherten, effizienten und praktikablen Analyse und Beurteilung psychischer Belastungsfaktoren in Arbeitsprozessen. Aus den Ergebnissen werden Hinweise für bedingungs- und personenbezogene gesundheitsförderliche Maßnahmen abgeleitet. Das Instrument hat sich bei Gefährdungsbeurteilungen in Unternehmen aller Größen und Branchen bewährt, es ermöglicht, Schwachstellen in der Gestaltung von Arbeitssituationen zu identifizieren sowie komplexe Beziehungen zwischen Arbeitsinhalt, Arbeitsbedingungen und deren Folgen wissenschaftlich aufzuklären.
Space: A Memoir
by Jesse Lee KerchevalKercheval remembers her days growing up in Florida, her mother addicted to Valium and her father turning into a workaholic.
Space
by Jesse Lee KerchevalJesse Lee Kercheval opens her story in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966 as a precocious ten-year-old whose family-father, mother, two little girls-is trying to ride the Space Race's tide of optimism. But even as the rockets keep going up, the Kercheval family slowly spirals down.
Space: A Cultural-historical Geography Of England's M1 Motorway (Key Ideas in Geography #85)
by Peter MerrimanSpace is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology, and geography. The text examines the influence of geometry, arithmetic, natural philosophy, empiricism, and positivism to the development of spatial thinking, as well as focusing on the contributions of phenomenologists, existentialists, psychologists, Marxists, and post-structuralists to how we occupy, live, structure, and perform spaces and practices of spacing. The book emphasises the multiple and partial construction of spaces through the embodied practices of diverse subjects, highlighting the contributions of feminists, queer theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and post-colonial scholars to academic debates. In contrast to contemporary studies which draw a clear line between scientific and particularly quantitative approaches to space and spatiality and more ‘lived’ human enactments and performances, this book highlights the continual influence of different mathematical and philosophical understandings of space and spatiality on everyday western spatial imaginations and registers in the twenty-first century. Space is possibly the key concept underpinning research in geography, as well as being of central importance to scholars and practitioners working across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.
Space and Everyday Lives of Children in Hong Kong: The Interwar Period (Global Histories of Education)
by Stella Meng WangDeploying a spatial approach towards children’s everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women's Christian Association; and the Girl Guide. Locating these transnational cultural movements in four layers of context, from the most immediate to the most global, including the context of Hong Kong, Republican China, the British empire, and global influences, this book shows Hong Kong as a distinctive colonial domain where the imperatives around race, gender and class produced new products of empire where the child, the garden, the school and sport turned out to be the main dynamics in play in the interwar period.
Space and Social Theory (BSA New Horizons in Sociology)
by Dr Andrzej ZieleniecThe importance of the spatial dimension of the structure, organization and experience of social relations is fundamental for sociological analysis and understanding. Space and Social Theory is an essential primer on the theories of space and inherent spatiality, guiding readers through the contributions of key and influential theorists: Marx, Simmel, Lefebvre, Harvey and Foucault. Giving an essential and accessible overview of social theories of space, this books shows why it matters to understand these theorists spatially. It will be of interest to upper level students and researchers of social theory, urban sociology, urban studies, human geography, and urban politics.
Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
by Antônio Márcio da Silva Mariana CunhaThis edited volume seeks to provide new perspectives on space and subjectivity in contemporary Brazilian cinema for the first time in English. Through diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, contributors discuss the themes of space and subjectivity in their connection to various topics and concepts, including: territorialization and marginalized subjectivities; intensity, affect and spatial experience; utopia, memory and urban architecture; natural spaces and landscapes; gendered and queer spaces; domestic spaces, social differences and class struggle.
Space Criminology: Analysing Human Relationships with Outer Space (Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology)
by Jack Lampkin Rob WhiteAs humans expand the frequency and scale of interactions off-planet, Space Criminology ponders the nature of crime, harm and transgression in outer space and possible responses to these. The first book of its kind, it discusses the dynamics of space crime, from those involving powerful elites through to those associated with the mundane interactions of people living and working in space. It is essential reading for anyone interested in extra-terrestrial crime, space law, and criminal justice.
Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre
by Kanishka Goonewardena Stefan Kipfer Richard Milgrom Christian SchmidIn the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. Lefebvre’s massive body of work has generated two main schools of thought: one that is political economic, and another that is more culturally oriented and poststructuralist in tone. Space, Difference, and Everyday Life merges these two schools of thought into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.
Space Fostering African Societies: Developing the African Continent Through Space, Part 3 (Southern Space Studies)
by Annette FroehlichThis peer-reviewed book provides detailed insights into how space and its applications are, and can be used to support the development of the full range and diversity of African societies, as encapsulated in the African Union’s Agenda 2063. Following on from Part 1 and 2, which were highly acclaimed by the space community, it focuses on the role of space in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, but covers an even more extensive array of relevant and timely topics addressing all facets of African development. It demonstrates that, while there have been significant achievements in recent years in terms of economic and social development, which have lifted many of Africa’s people out of poverty, there is still a great deal that needs to be done to fulfill the basic needs of Africa's citizens and afford them the dignity they deserve. To this end, space is already being employed in diverse fields of human endeavor to serve Africa’s goals for its future, but there is much room for further incorporation of space systems and data. Providing a comprehensive overview of the role space is playing in helping Africa achieve its developmental aspirations, the book will appeal to both students and professionals in fields such as space studies, international relations, governance, and social and rural development.
Space Habitats and Habitability: Designing for Isolated and Confined Environments on Earth and in Space (Space and Society)
by Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger Sheryl BishopThis book explores creative solutions to the unique challenges inherent in crafting livable spaces in extra-terrestrial environments. The goal is to foster a constructive dialogue between the researchers and planners of future (space) habitats. The authors explore the diverse concepts of the term Habitability from the perspectives of the inhabitants as well as the planners and social sciences.The book provides an overview of the evolution and advancements of designed living spaces for manned space craft, as well as analogue research and simulation facilities in extreme environments on Earth. It highlights how various current and future concepts of Habitability have been translated into design and which ones are still missing. The main emphasis of this book is to identify the important factors that will provide for well-being in our future space environments and promote creative solutions to achieving living spaces where humans can thrive. Selected aspects are discussed from a socio-spatial professional background and possible applications are illustrated.Human factors and habitability design are important topics for all working and living spaces. For space exploration, they are vital. While human factors and certain habitability issues have been integrated into the design process of manned spacecraft, there is a crucial need to move from mere survivability to factors that support thriving. As of today, the risk of an incompatible vehicle or habitat design has already been identified by NASA as recognized key risk to human health and performance in space. Habitability and human factors will become even more important determinants for the design of future long-term and commercial space facilities as larger and more diverse groups occupy off-earth habitats. The book will not only benefit individuals and organizations responsible for manned space missions and mission simulators, but also provides relevant information to designers of terrestrial austere environments (e.g., remote operational and research facilities, hospitals, prisons, manufacturing). In addition it presents general insights on the socio-spatial relationship which is of interest to researchers of social sciences, engineers and architects.
Space, Identity and Education: A Multi Scalar Framework
by Ceri Brown Michael DonnellyThis book details an innovative multi-scalar framework to examine the intersection of spatial levels in shaping social justice issues in education. Including an examination of key dimensions such as geographic divisions (between and within countries), school design, online learning, home-schooling, and student mobility, the framework is applied to analyse the interrelation between space, identity, and education. The authors reveal how this novel integration of scales is essential for a more comprehensive and probing understanding of educational inequalities. As an example of theoretical interdisciplinarity mobilised to tackle the urgent issues of our time, the twin dimensions of space and identity, discussed at multi-scalar levels, provides an invaluable theoretical resource for scholars and students of education, sociology and geography.
Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies
by Fanny MadelineIn the last two decades, research on spatial paradigms and practices has gained momentum across disciplines and vastly different periods, including the field of medieval studies. Responding to this ’spatial turn’ in the humanities, the essays collected here generate new ideas about how medieval space was defined, constructed, and practiced in Europe, particularly in France. Essays are grouped thematically and in three parts, from specific sites, through the broader shaping of territory by means of socially constructed networks, to the larger geographical realm. The resulting collection builds on existing scholarship but brings new insight, situating medieval constructions of space in relation to contemporary conceptions of the subject.
Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place
by Nirmal PuwarIncreasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or neutral, but are imbued with history and meaning. <p><p>This groundbreaking book interrogates the pernicious, subtle but nonetheless widely held view that certain bodies are naturally entitled to certain spaces, while others are not. Drawing on case studies from within the nation state, including Westminster and Whitehall, the art world, academia and everyday life, this book uncovers the hidden processes that undermine female and/or racialized bodies in spaces marked by masculinity and whiteness. How are positions of authority racialized and gendered? How do people manage their femininity and/or blackness while in a predominantly white male context? How do spaces become naturalized or normalized, and what does it mean when they are disrupted? <p><p>Answering these questions and many more, this book is the first to examine the meaning of diversity in organizations in its absolute complexity. It argues that a thorough engagement with difference requires a rigorous investigation of how institutional cultures become normative. It is only when we see and name this invisible central point of reference, which is so often taken for granted, that we can we truly unsettle long established links. Uniting social, cultural and political theory, and engaging with a range of substantive material from a variety of institutions, this book is a timely contribution to wide-reaching debates on race, gender and space.
Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques (Springer Praxis Books)
by Davide SivolellaThis book produces convincing evidence that exploiting the potential of space could help solve many environmental and social issues affecting our planet, such as pollution, overcrowding, resource depletion and conflicts, economic inequality, social unrest, economic instability and unemployment. It also touches on the legal problems that will be encountered with the implementation of the new technologies and new laws that will need to be enacted and new organizations that will need to be formed to deal with these changes.This proposition for a space economy is not science fiction, but well within the remit of current or under development technologies. Numerous technologies are described and put together to form a coherent and feasible road map that, if implemented, could lead humankind towards a brighter future.
Space, Mobility, and Crisis in Mega-Event Organisation: Tokyo Olympics 2020's Atmospheric Irradiations (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Rodanthi TzanelliThis book advances an alternative critical posthumanist approach to mega-event organisation, taking into account both the new and the old crises which humanity and our planet face. Taking the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a case study, Tzanelli explores mega-event crisis and risk management in the era of extreme urbanisation, natural disasters, global pandemic, and technoscientific control. Using the atmospheric term ‘irradiation’ (a technology of glamour and transparency, as well as bodily penetration by harmful agents and strong affects), the book explores this epistemological statement diachronically (via Tokyo’s relationship with Western forms of domination) and synchronically (the city as a global cultural-political player but victim of climate catastrophes). It presents how the ‘Olympic enterprise’s’ ‘flattening’ of indigenous environmental place-making rhythms, and the scientisation of space and place in the Anthropocene lead to reductionisms harmful for a viable programme of planetary recovery. An experimental study of the mega-event is enacted, which considers the researcher’s analytical tools and the styles of human and non-human mobility during the mega-event as reflexive gateways to forms of posthuman flourishing. Crossing and bridging disciplinary boundaries, the book will appeal to any scholar interested in mobilities theory, event and environment studies, sociology of knowledge and cultural globalisation.
The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China (The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies)
by Yoshiko Ashiwa David L. WankThe Nanputuo Temple in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen has been a cherished site for the worship of the bodhisattva Guanyin for centuries. It was a center of modernizing Buddhism in the early twentieth century and a flagship for the revival of Buddhism after state suppression during the Cultural Revolution. The Space of Religion takes readers inside the Nanputuo Temple in order to explore the practice of Buddhism in modern China and the complex relationship between Buddhism and the Chinese state.Based on three decades of ethnographic research, Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank tell the story of Nanputuo against the backdrop of a dramatic stretch of Chinese history. They vividly depict episodes such as renovating the halls, reestablishing ties with overseas Chinese donors, conflicts with local government, revival of ritual life, reopening of its Buddhist academy, and the passion of the Guanyin birthday festival. To understand Nanputuo, Buddhist communities, and other temples in Xiamen, Ashiwa and Wank develop the concept of religion as a space constituted by physical, semiotic, and institutional dimensions. They also show how the Chinese state and Buddhism have each adapted to the other, as the temple has adjusted to government policy while the state has deployed Buddhism in its promotion of Chinese culture.This interdisciplinary book is both a theoretically generative analysis of religious spaces and an empirically rich account of the recovery of Buddhism in China after the Mao era.