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Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik
by Markus J. PrutschDiese Studie untersucht die dynamische Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik. Was können wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse realistischerweise in und für die Politik tun? Der Band leistet einen Beitrag zu dieser Debatte, indem er sich auf die Rolle von "Zahlen" als Mittel konzentriert, mit dem Wissen ausgedrückt wird und durch das dieses Wissen in den politischen Bereich übertragen werden kann. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass Zahlen ständig aktiv geschaffen, übersetzt und verwendet werden und dass sie in ihren jeweiligen Kontexten interpretiert werden müssen, wird untersucht, wie Zahlen und Quantifizierungen "politisch nutzbar" gemacht werden, indem ihre Produktion, ihr Übergang in die Sphäre der Politik und ihre letztendliche Verwendung darin untersucht werden. Zu den zentralen Fragen, die behandelt werden, gehören: Auf welche Weise beeinflussen wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse die politische Entscheidungsfindung in der heutigen Welt? Wie und warum hat Quantifizierung in der demokratischen Politik eine so wichtige Rolle gespielt? Was leisten wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Zahlen in der Politik?
Wissenschaftliche Poster gestalten und präsentieren
by Gregor Domes Ralf ChristeSie promovieren oder sind „Postdoc“ und die Präsentation Ihrer Forschungsergebnisse auf der Postersession einer Fachtagung / Konferenz steht an? Dann hilft Ihnen dieses Buch, Ihr Poster so zu gestalten und zu präsentieren, dass Ihnen die Aufmerksamkeit im unübersichtlichen Posterdschungel sicher ist! Das ist nicht selbstverständlich – denn die Konkurrenz ist groß und für ein „Hingucker-Poster“ braucht es neben einer effizienten Darstellung des Inhalts auch Know-how in Design-Fragen. Je besser Ihnen das Gesamtpaket gelingt, desto breiter die Wahrnehmung für Ihre Forschung und desto besser die Chancen, auf der nächsten Tagung Ihr wissenschaftliches Netzwerk zu pflegen und zu erweitern.
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten und Schreiben: Schritt Für Schritt Zur Bachelor- Und Master-thesis In Den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
by Marcus OehlrichWissenschaftliches Schreiben ist unentbehrliches Handwerkszeug für die akademische Praxis. Dennoch wird es an Universitäten und Hochschulen nicht ausreichend vermittelt. Dieses Buch schließt die Lücke zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit und versetzt Studierende in die Lage, selbständig wissenschaftlich zu schreiben. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Buches liegt auf der Technik des Schreibens und ist damit praxisorientierter als andere Publikationen. Als Übungsbuch angelegt lädt, es zu einer aktiven Beschäftigung mit dem Thema ein und dokumentiert den Lernfortschritt.
Wissenschaftskommunikation, neu sortiert: Eine Systematisierung der externen Kommunikationen der Wissenschaft
by Peer PasternackDer Ausgangspunkt dieser Neusortierung ist: Wissenschaftskommunikation ist die Kontaktaufnahme und -pflege der Wissenschaft mit der Nichtwissenschaft, also mit ihrer Umwelt. Damit wird das Verständnis von Wissenschaftskommunikation sowohl eingeschränkt als auch erweitert: eingeschränkt auf die externe Kommunikation der Wissenschaft, erweitert auf jegliche Kontaktaufnahmen und -pflege der Wissenschaft mit der Nichtwissenschaft.Es zeigt sich, dass es sehr viel mehr Wissenschaftskommunikation gibt, als man gemeinhin denkt, darunter zahlreiche Varianten, die noch gar nicht als Wissenschaftskommunikation erkannt werden. Zugleich zeigt sich: Gemessen an der Verarbeitbarkeit der Angebote findet zu viel Wissenschaftskommunikation statt, und gemessen an der Wirksamkeit der Angebote findet zu wenig effektive, d. h. zielerreichende Wissenschaftskommunikation statt. Um das zu ändern, bedarf es eines deutlichen Bildes davon, was Wissenschaftskommunikation ist, wie sie von anderen Kommunikationen abgegrenzt ist und wie sie intern differenziert ist. Dieses Bild wird hier gezeichnet.
Wissenschaftsorganisatoren in den Sozialwissenschaften 1890-1940
by Tommy StöckelDie Untersuchung analysiert die Entstehung von Wissenschaftsorganisator*innen sowie den Wandel dieser Figur in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel der Sozialwissenschaften in Frankreich und den USA. Mittels dreier Fallstudien werden Organisator*innen in unterschiedlichen Konstellationen (Aufbau disziplinärer Infrastrukturen, projektförmige Wissenschaft, Organisator*innen als Expert*innen) untersucht und zwischen Projektemacher*innen einerseits und Managern andererseits verortet. Organisator*innen werden dabei als Resultat disziplinärer Spezialisierungs- und Arbeitsteilungsprozesse analysiert, zugleich aber machten sie sich diese Prozesse zu eigen, um ihren Einfluss im wissenschaftlichen Feld zu steigern. Es lässt sich ferner zeigen, dass das Aufgabenspektrum der Organisator*innen breiter wurde und sich diese Figur sukzessive institutionalisiserte und in Ansätzen professionalisierte.
Wissenssoziologische Sozialpädagogik: Entwurf einer Theorie der Sozialarbeit (Wissen, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft)
by Jochem KotthausJede moderne Gesellschaft benötigt Stützungsmechanismen, welche drohende und tatsächliche Abweichungen und Abwanderungen aus dem Wissenskanon einer Gesellschaft unterbinden. Die Sozialarbeit ist eine dieser Institutionen, sie behandelt Probleme der Sinnabwanderung aus der Alltagswelt. Die vorliegende Untersuchung unternimmt den Versuch einer soziologischen Grundlegung der Sozialarbeit und zwar in der Lesart, welche als verstehende Soziologie bekannt geworden ist und über die Mundanphänomenologie zur Wissenssoziologie theoretisch ausgebaut wurde.
Wissenstransfer im Bildungsbereich: Konzepte, Erfahrungen und Perspektiven
by Josef Schrader Hadjar Ghadiri-MohajerzadDieser Band bietet eine Einführung in das Thema Wissenstransfer im Bildungsbereich unter Berücksichtigung aktueller Studien. Bildungswissenschaftliches Wissen soll das pädagogische Personal unterstützen, doch es besteht Zweifel an der Erfüllung dieser Erwartung, und es wird zunehmend gefordert, Forschungserkenntnisse effektiv in der Praxis umzusetzen. Dabei ist der Wissenstransfer entscheidend, um wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse positiv auf die Bildungsrealität einwirken zu lassen. Der Wissenstransfer von Forschungswissen in die Bildungspraxis und Bildungspolitik ist ein komplexer Prozess und gestaltet sich sehr unterschiedlich. In diesem Band wird der Versuch vorgenommen, die Konzepte, Erfahrungen und Perspektiven zum Wissenstransfer zu systematisieren. Die Lektüre gibt außer dem Stand der aktuellen Forschung mehr Einblicke auf die verschiedenen Akteure des Wissenstransfers: Während eine zügige und an Probleme und Handlungsmöglichkeiten der Praxis anschlussfähige Vermittlung von Forschungswissen insbesondere von der Bildungspolitik eingefordert wird, zeigen Forschende grundsätzlich eine Bereitschaft zu Wissenstransferaktivitäten, aber legen keine Priorität auf Wissenstransfer. Schließlich rezeptieren Bildungspraktiker*innen Forschungswissen eher zögerlich. Abschließend wird diskutiert, welche Strategien genutzt werden können, um einen erfolgreichen Wissenstransfer zu leisten.
Wissensökonomie und Digitalisierung: Geschichte und Perspektiven
by Markus Hertwig Yaman Kouli Peter PawlowskyDie digitale Transformation ist aus der aktuellen Wirtschaftspolitik nicht mehr wegzudenken. Breitbandausbau, 5G-Netz, Wandel des Schulunterrichts und das „Internet der Dinge“ sind nur ein paar Beispiele aus einer Gruppe von Themen, die eng mit der Digitalisierung verflochten sind. Gleichermaßen besteht bisher wenig Zweifel daran, dass die Anforderungen an die Kompetenzen und Ausbildung der Beschäftigten steigen werden. Bei all dem ist in der Debatte nicht immer ersichtlich, dass es sich bei diesen Formationen um ein ganzes Bündel von Entwicklungen handelt. Viele von ihnen – etwa das Internet als Kommunikations- und Vertriebskanal und der Aufstieg von Daten zur ökonomischen Ressource – stellen zweifellos neue Phänomene dar.Gleichzeitig sind diese aktuellen Vorgänge mit sehr alten Prozessen verwoben. Die wissensbasierte Wirtschaft, die herausragende Rolle von Forschung und Entwicklung, die Verschiebung der Wertschöpfung in Richtung Dienstleistung und das steigende Anforderungsniveau an die Beschäftigten sind Phänomene, die sich seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts nachweisen lassen und das wirtschaftliche Gesicht der industrialisierten Staaten seit langem formen. Diese Vermischung von Neuem und Altem, die mit Macht die entwickelten Volkswirtschaften herausfordert und – so jedenfalls die immer wieder zu hörende Befürchtung – kaum einen Stein auf dem anderen lassen wird, verkompliziert die Debatte. Im vorliegenden Band werden erstmals Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsgeschichte, der Soziologie, der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und des Maschinenbaus zusammengebracht, um dieser Frage nachzugehen.
Wit and Wisdom for Teachers: 930 Quotes to Motivate and Inspire
by John BlaydesNationally acclaimed speaker and educator John Blaydes complies nuggets of wit and wisdom to motivate and inspire his fellow educators. The Educator&’s Book of Quotes is a comprehensive resource for quotes relating to education and leadership, organized by sixteen themes for easy access and reference, including: The Art of TeachingBalancing the Time CrunchPrinciples and PrincipalsCreating a Culture of ExcellenceInspirational LeadershipEducation is KeyContaining hundreds of inspirational quotes for teachers in all stages of their career, The Educator&’s Book of Quotes is a must have.
Wit's Pilgrimage: Theatre and the Social Impact of Education in Early Modern England (Routledge Revivals)
by Darryll GrantleyThis title was first published in 2000: England experienced something of a social revolution in the years from the early 16th century to the Civil War. This work seeks to add a new dimension to the discussion of this phenomena by focusing on the emerging role and function of social behaviour as a means of signalling social identity and rank. Noting the even greater emphasis placed on manners, customs and ordinary behaviour during that time period, Darryll Grantley demonstrates the interrelation of two key elements - education and drama - in the reconstruction of social identity. By examining the relationship between education and drama, Grantley contributes important perspectives on the ways in which drama functioned in society. He explores education as a prominent motif in the aristocratically patronized drama of the 16th century; the contribution of the academy to the evolution of public modes of drama; education and the playwrights; education and the audience; and the representations of learning and social behaviour on the public stage. Throughout, the study explores the increasing social significance of education in 16th- and 17th-century England, and the reflection of that cultural change in the drama of the period.
Witchcraft Accusations from Central India: The Fragmented Urn
by Helen MacdonaldThis book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times. The author pieces together ‘fragments’ of stories gathered utilising ethnographic methods to examine the meanings associated with witches and witchcraft, and how they connect with social relations, gender, notions of agency, law, media and the state. The volume uses the metaphor of the shattered urn to tell the story of the accusations, punishment, rescue and the aftermath of the events of the trial of women accused of being witches. It situates the ṭonhī or witch as a key elaborating symbol that orders behaviour to determine who the socially included and excluded are in communities. Through the personal interviews and other ethnographic methods conducted over the course of many years, the author delves into the stories and practices related to witchcraft, its relations with modernity, and the relationship between violence and ideological norms in society. Insightful and detailed, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers of anthropology, development studies, sociology, history, violence, gender studies, tribal studies and psychology. It will also be useful for readers in both historic and contemporary witchcraft practices as well as policy makers.
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (Abridged)
by Eva Gillies E. E. Evans-PritchardThis acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists.
Witches and Demons: A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism
by Jean La FontaineDevil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship, misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of life can lead to.
Witching Culture
by Sabina MaglioccoTaking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded practices and beliefs to create religions more in keeping with their personal experience of the world as sacred and filled with meaning. Neo-Pagan religions focus on experience, rather than belief, and many contemporary practitioners have had mystical experiences. They seek a context that normalizes them and creates in them new spiritual dimensions that involve change in ordinary consciousness.Magliocco analyzes magical practices and rituals of Neo-Paganism as art forms that reanimate the cosmos and stimulate the imagination of its practitioners. She discusses rituals that are put together using materials from a variety of cultural and historical sources, and examines the cultural politics surrounding the movement--how the Neo-Pagan movement creates identity by contrasting itself against the dominant culture and how it can be understood in the context of early twenty-first-century identity politics.Witching Culture is the first ethnography of this religious movement to focus specifically on the role of anthropology and folklore in its formation, on experiences that are central to its practice, and on what it reveals about identity and belief in twenty-first-century North America.
With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
by Anne E. BrodskyWith All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines light on the gruesome, often tragic, lives of Afghan women under some of the most brutal sexist oppression in the world.
With God On Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
by Adam D. ReichWhen unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral legitimacy? In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a Catholic hospital in California. Based on his own work as a volunteer organizer with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Reich explores how both union leaders and hospital leaders sought to show they were upholding the Catholic "mission" of the hospital against a market represented by the other. Ultimately, workers and union leaders were able to reinterpret Catholic values in ways that supported their efforts to organize. More generally, Reich argues that unions must weave together economic and cultural power in order to ensure their continued relevancy in the postindustrial world. In addition to advocating for workers' economic interests, unions must engage with workers' emotional investments in their work, must contend with the kind of moral authority that Santa Rosa Hospital leaders exerted to dissuade workers from organizing, and must connect labor's project to broader conceptions of the public good.
With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships
by August McLaughlin Jamila DawsonA companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma, featuring true stories of survivors from a broad, inclusive range of backgroundsWith Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times. Written by trauma-informed sex therapist Jamila Dawson, LMFT, and sexuality journalist and podcaster August McLaughlin, With Pleasure provides a much-needed alternative to harmful "self-help" ideologies that instruct people to "change their thoughts" or "choose to be happy."Instead, Dawson and McLaughlin encourage readers to respect their feelings, understand the complexities of a society and systems that fuel trauma, foster self-compassion, and embrace pleasure.
Within Our Reach
by Lisbeth SchorrIn this solidly researched book, the authors demonstrate that the knowledge and techniques exist to decrease the incidence of welfare dependency, poor single-parent families and alienated, uneducated youth. In addition to providing a detailed account of the problem, they describe twenty-four programs that have proved successful in changing the lives of seriously disadvantaged children.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Within School Walls: The Role Of Discipline, Sexuality And The Curriculum (Routledge Library Editions: Education)
by AnnMarie WolpeDrawing from her in-depth ethnographic study of a London comprehensive school the author shows how gender formation for both girls and boys is mediated by disciplinary control, sexuality and the curriculum. Her findings for girls and boys – with their important emphases – are revealed. So are the responses and perspectives of the teachers. Prior to publication of this volume much feminist writing depicted the subordination of girls as a function of patriarchal control, both in terms of the teaching the girls receive and the behaviour of the boys around them. The author’s narrative implicitly and explicitly challenges some of these views.
Within and Beyond Capitalism: A Twofold Transformation (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism)
by Dieter KleinThis book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capitalism. Calling for the embrace of core values and institutions aligned with solidarity as opposed to capitalism, it advances four guiding ideas for the pursuit of such a path: redistribution of life chances and power, socio-ecological restructuring, redesign of democratic institutions, and reversal from confrontation to peace through international cooperation and solidarity. A presentation of the fundamental elements of a left strategy for socioecological transformation, this volume will appeal to scholars of social, political and economic theory with interests in post-capitalist futures.
Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, Membership and Belonging (Sociological Futures)
by Roberto G. Gonzales Nando SigonaWithin and Beyond Citizenship brings together cutting-edge research in sociology and social anthropology on the relationship between immigration status, rights and belonging in contemporary societies of immigration. It offers new insights into the ways in which political membership is experienced, spatially and bureaucratically constructed, and actively negotiated and contested in the everyday lives of citizens and non-citizens. Themes, concepts and ideas covered include: The shifting position of the non-citizen in contemporary immigration societies; The intersection of human mobility, immigration control and articulations of citizenship; Activism and everyday practices of membership and belonging; Tension in policy and practice between coexisting traditions and regimes of rights; Mixed status families, belonging and citizenship; The ways in which immigration status (or its absence) intersects with social cleavages such as age, class, gender and ‘race’ to shape social relations. This book will appeal to academics and practitioners working in the disciplines of Social and Political Anthropology, Sociology, Social Policy, Human Geography, Political Sciences, Citizenship Studies and Migration Studies.
Without Child
by Laurie LisleWithout Child challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the lifeaffirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection of the maternal instinct. It also examines the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body,and to old age.Laurie Lisle contends that childless women are part of an ancient and respectable cultural tradition that includes biblical matriarchs, celibate saints, and nineteenth-century social reformers. However, like other aspects of women's history, this tradition has been forgotten and, in the process, maligned. Without Child bring childless women out of obscurity and places them back in women's history.Without Child brings scope and depth to a subject that has long been misunderstood. Weaving rich materials from history, literature, religion, and sociology with the author's own and other stories, this groundbreaking book does what no other has done before-presents childlessnessin a multifaceted and positive light.Most women grow up thinking they will become mothers, and many do follow that path. But for those women who are willingly or unwillingly without children, childlessness is a way of life that many of them must constantly defend. Without Child explores the facts and fallacies behind childlessness,what it means for women and society, and reminds us of how women can and do embrace this choice.In the shadow of a culture that claims to adore the child, Without Child bring a long forbidden topic into the light. Wide-ranging, yet intimate, philosophical, yet clear~sighted, this important book will reassure millions of women that they are not alone, not unusual, and, in fact, are part of a long and honorable tradition.Laurie Lisle is the author of four other books besidesWithout Child: two biographies of women artists, a history of a girls'school, and a memoir from the point-of-view as a gardener. Raised in Rhode Island, she lives with her husband in Litchfield County,Connecticut and in Westchester County, New York. For more information, please see her website at www.laurielisle.com.
Without a Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Criminal Organization
by Jerry Speziale Mark SealTrue story of an undercover cop.
Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion
by David RisseladaNikita Khrushchev proudly proclaimed the United States would one day awaken as a full-blown communist country. Americans are gullible, he said, the United States will be defeated without firing a shot. What did he mean by this? This book will attempt to answer this question by examining the social sciences used to study our behavior for the purpose of manipulating and changing it. The theories of B.F. Skinner, Cass Sunstein and others will be looked at along with scientific models from which our behavior is examined. Persuasive communication strategies designed to gain compliance will also be explored along with what is understood about the human reaction to fear. Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny will expose the reader to the reality that our behaviors, beliefs and attitudes are constantly under the microscope and the target of those seeking to change our nation.
Without a Word: Teaching Beyond Women's Silence (Routledge Revivals)
by Magda Gere LewisThe question of women’s silence within academic settings has received a great deal of attention. And much feminist educational scholarship has devoted itself to creating spaces where women’s stories and experiences can be told. Without a Word (first published in 1993) raises the question of women’s silence from a radical new perspective, lending at long last a theoretical basis and sophistication to this important issue.The author considers the subject of silence from a variety of conceptual and practical perspectives. When does silene occur among women? How does it emerge? What are its complex origins? What are its devastating effects? Lewis also discusses the different types of silence: the one which is an expression of a woman’s oppression and the one which is her act of revolt.Actual classroom interactions, student experiences, literary and filmic depictions of women, and her own personal voice are the material from which Lewis crafts her powerful theory. Intended to offer an understanding of the subject which can help feminists and teachers struggling to change the nature and dynamics of classroom experience for all students, Without a Word dramatizes the issue of silence in a way that moves beyond the mere need for women to speak and be heard. This book is a must read for students and researchers of education, feminist studies, women studies, and sociology.