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102. Negotiating Modernity and Europeanness in the Germany-Turkey Transnational Social Field.
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ROTTMANN, SUSAN BETH
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MODERNITY , *CULTURE , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
In conversation with recent work on transnational social fields, this article explores how Germany and Turkey are linked through a "set of multiple, interlocking, networks of social relationships". The article examines how the social field affects migrants returning from Germany to Turkey. Specifically, it describes how the transnational social field emerges through a concrete set of economic, political and cultural exchanges. It also illustrates that the social field is a space of imaginations of Germany and Turkey, reflecting and producing citizens' uncertainties about the "Europeanness". For German-Turkish return migrants, the transnational social field exacerbates conflicts with non-migrants and fosters anxieties about migrants' "Germanization" and loss of "Turkishness." Ultimately, this research shows that Turkish citizens remain deeply concerned about the meaning of modernity, Muslim citizenship in Germany, and Turkey's current and future position in Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
103. The Advantages of Demographic Change after the Wave: Fewer and Older, but Healthier, Greener, and More Productive?
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Kluge, Fanny, Zagheni, Emilio, Loichinger, Elke, and Vogt, Tobias
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DEMOGRAPHIC change , *POPULATION aging , *GENDER inequality , *ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis , *MEDICAL care - Abstract
Population aging is an inevitable global demographic process. Most of the literature on the consequences of demographic change focuses on the economic and societal challenges that we will face as people live longer and have fewer children. In this paper, we (a) briefly describe key trends and projections of the magnitude and speed of population aging; (b) discuss the economic, social, and environmental consequences of population aging; and (c) investigate some of the opportunities that aging societies create. We use Germany as a case study. However, the general insights that we obtain can be generalized to other developed countries. We argue that there may be positive unintended side effects of population aging that can be leveraged to address pressing environmental problems and issues of gender inequality and intergenerational ties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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104. Constructing Knowledge Societies: Ideological Frames and the History of Molecular Biology.
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Jong, Simcha
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MOLECULAR biology ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL processes ,INTELLECTUAL development ,SOCIAL groups - Abstract
Institutional frameworks that determine what and how we know in contemporary societies have regained a central role in institutional analyses. Emphasizing the central role professional knowledge plays in today's society, these analyses offer rich insights into the processes through which organizational rules, norms and practices shape the construction of 'facts' within expert groups. How novel fields of professional knowledge are formed and become institutionalized deserves further investigation however. By examining efforts by institution builders in molecular biology in Britain, Germany and the United States during the post war decades, this study links the construction of new expert groups to local ideological frames about human advancement and the role of the state. Scientific expert groups play an important role in the technological development of the West and form an intellectual core around which contemporary knowledge societies are organized. This study outlines how local ideological frames determine 1) outcomes of struggles for legitimacy between these groups and 2) the institutionalization of the fields of expertise around which these groups are organized. The final sections reflect on how conceptual insights gained through this study offer avenues for further research in the sociology of organization literature and the literature on the history of modern thought. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
105. Representation: Interpreting Cultural Concepts in Germany and the U.S.
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Petersen, Jürgen
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POLITICIANS , *SOCIOLOGY , *ANTHROPOLOGY - Abstract
German and American politicians draw on diverse, yet culturally shared concepts of representation. By utilizing sociological and anthropological approaches, these concepts can be studied and interpreted in their distinct contexts. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
106. Patients as Experts of Their Own:A German Case Study of Body Techniques in Infertility Treatment.
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Ullrich, Charlotte
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INFERTILITY ,MEDICAL care ,CASE studies ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Since the birth of the first 'test-tube babies' thirty years ago, new reproductive technologies (NRT) have rapidly become a standard medical treatment. In Germany, the success of NRT coincides with a larger recent tendency to individualize risks and the responsiblity for the maintenance of one's own health before the background of a neoliberal restructuring of the welfare state.In my paper, I argue that bodies are more than just mute witnesses of these changes. In two ethnographic case studies in a conventional and an alternative clinic, I analyze the everyday practice of infertility treatment as an example of how new "reflexive self and body technologies" are mediated and put into practice within a medical setting.My results show that the body has an ambiguous role in infertility treatment: On the one hand, bodies are objectified through medical interventions and adoption of the medical gaze. At the same time, however, patients are now "experts responsible for themselves". Many aspects of everyday life which concern dealing with oneself and one's body - such as diet, movements, stress, and sexuality - come to be understood as medical problems. Patients become integrated into a "growing field of reflexive self technologies", which contains new uncertainties and new responsibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
107. Constructing a Diaspora. German Turks and the German-Jewish Narrative.
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Bodemann, Y. Michael and Yurdakul, Gökçe
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IMMIGRANTS ,RACE discrimination ,CORPORATION law ,RACISM ,SOCIAL impact ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This article examines how German Turks employ the German Jewish trope to establish an analogous discourse for their own diasporic position in German society. Drawing on the literature on immigrant incorporation, we argue that immigrants take more established minority groups as a model in their incorporation process. Here, we examine how German Turks formulate and enact their own incorporation into German society. They do that by using as a master narrative the socio-cultural repertoire of Germany's principal minority, German Jewry. This is accomplished especially in relation to racism and anti-Semitism and as a political model in terms of making claims against the German state. Jews and Turks, moreover, take notice of each other's position in German society and think in terms of triadic relations. In order to understand immigrant incorporation, it is not sufficient to look at state-immigrant relations only; we also need to look at immigrant groups' relationships with other minority groups. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
108. Beliefs About Women's Labor in the Reunified Germany, 1991 to 2004.
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Alwin, Duane F., Lee, Kristen S., and Tufis, Paula A.
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SOCIOECONOMICS ,LABOR supply ,SOCIALIZATION ,SOCIAL psychology ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper considers the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent reunification of East and West Germany on beliefs about women in the labor force among samples in the reunified Germany over a thirteen-year period from 1991-2004. This set of circumstances provides a "natural experiment" for examining the relationship between socialization during youth and the impact of social and historical change on later-life gender beliefs. We suggest that how Germans have adapted to their new social reality will inform our understanding of the mechanisms of change in a population. Do individuals, in the face of dramatic demographic and socioeconomic change, maintain their beliefs from youth, in this case preserving the gap in gender beliefs between East and West present at the time of reunification? Did the new social context only influence the beliefs of cohorts reaching early adulthood in the new Germany? Or, alternatively, did even earlier-born cohorts, already established in their careers and families before reunification, change their beliefs about gender and family with the merging of East and West? Using data from the series of ALLBUS and ISSP surveys for Germany beginning in 1982 (including East Germany from 1991 onward) we find support for the conclusion that there are continued changes toward more egalitarian gender beliefs in the reunified Germany across time. Cohort replacement effects on change in gender beliefs are strongest in the West, with the impact of the social and economic changes brought about by reunification strongest in the East. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
109. States, Dominance, an State-Systems.
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Reicher, Dieter
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INTERSTATE relations ,STATES (Political subdivisions) ,STATE governments ,HISTORICAL sociology - Abstract
The paper deals with the relationship between states within state-systems. The main questions are: What are the reasons for domination? Are there common patterns of state ?behavior? in different state-systems? Is there a relationship between the position of a state within the state-system and the state building process (inner state-stricture). The paper presents three case studies of state-systems. The development of the ancient Greek state-system from about 700 to 300 BC, the German state-system (Holly Roman Empire) from about 1000 AD to 1866 and the so-called Western state-system from about 800 AD to the present day. The paper includes both types of analyzes: a formal sociological analysis (geopolitics) and an analysis in historical sociology. They major outcomes of the study are: 1) States, initially located in a marginal position will dominate in the end the state-system. 2) The state building process of states in protective position differs from the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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110. A collective biography (prosopography) of German-speaking sociologists.
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Fleck, Christian and Reichmann, Werner
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SOCIOLOGY ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,FASCISTS ,SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
Authors who focused on the development of sociology in Germany in the 20th century agreed that sociology came to an abrupt end with the Nazi takeover in 1933 and the forced emigration of practically all well-known and productive sociologists. Nevertheless we know that some German sociologists remained at home. Studies about the refugee scholars seldom differentiate between former Austrians and former Germans. The paper examines both refugees and remainders from Austria and Germany with regard to their background and their received recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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111. The Influence of Social and Cultural Capital on Reading Achievement: An International Comparison of the PISA 2000-Data.
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Jungbauer-Gans, Monika
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CULTURAL capital ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL capital ,SOCIAL networks ,SOCIAL status - Abstract
Based on the data acquired in the PISA survey of Germany, Switzerland and the United States, this article examines the differences in achievement of students. This article focuses on the social and cultural capital of students. It is being examined whether the effects of social and cultural capital give an explanation to what extent the socio-economic status and the secondary education of the parents influence the reading achievement. The results of the analyses were rather surprising: not all the indicators for social capital used in the PISA survey correlate positively with the achievement scores, but negatively, whereas cultural capital considerably increases the competence of students. Nevertheless, future studies should use more suitable indicators for social capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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112. Two Views of Mass Society.
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Kornhauser, William
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MASS society ,LIBERTY ,SOCIAL groups ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The article formulates a general theory of mass society that incorporates elements from both the aristocratic and democratic criticism. The theory of mass society has two major intellectual sources, one in the nineteenth century reaction to the revolutionary changes in European society, and the other in the twentieth century reaction to the rise of totalitarianism, especially in Russia and Germany. The first and major source may be termed the aristocratic criticism of mass society; the second, the democratic criticism of mass society. The aristocratic notion of freedom emphasizes the conditions that permit men to act as they ought to act in accordance with standards of right conduct. The democratic notion of freedom, on the other hand, implies the minimizing of social control including that of the traditional order, that is, the removal of as many external constraints on the individual as is consistent with the freedom of fellows. In sum, these two versions of the mass society differ in their conception of freedom and the social foundations of freedom.
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- 2004
113. Chapter 1: Introduction.
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Thompson, Kenneth
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DURKHEIMIAN school of sociology ,SOCIOLOGY ,EMPIRICAL research ,COMPARATIVE method ,PHILOSOPHY of science ,POLITICAL participation ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
This section discusses the evolution of Durkheimian school of sociology created by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 19th century France. The circumstances and character of Durkheim's own education also fitted him to execute his mission of giving substance to the claims that sociologist Auguste Comte had made for sociology. Teachers such as Foustel de Coulanges and Émile Boutroux introduced him to systematic empirical research and the comparative method, and taught him a philosophy of science that made sense of Comte's assertion that sociology could have a legitimate subject-matter of its own. Louis Liard, the Director of Higher Education, who sent Durkheim to Germany in 1885-86, with the special mission of reporting on the social sciences in Germany and of making recommendations that could be acted on in reforming and expanding French education. Within a few years Durkheim and Durkheimian sociology were powers in the land, from the Sorbonne in Paris to the lycées of the most distant provinces. His program for sociology began to emerge in his very first publications, which were book reviews in the Revue philosophique, in 1885. His ideas did not develop in association with political activity. He was concerned about politics in the sense of long-term social trends and the moral bases of social action. But he believed such matters should not be left to political dogma and trials of strength.
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- 2002
114. Chapter 2: Life and Context.
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Frisby, David
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SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This article focuses on sociologist Georg Simmel and his work and career in the field of sociology. Simmel was a modern urban man, an alien in his native land. Like the stranger he described in one of his most brilliant essays, he was near and far at the same time, a potential wanderer. Indeed, starting out from the image of a metropolitan crossroads one can create the central motifs and sometimes the conceptual apparatus of the sociology of Simmel. But, in order to understand these images of the mature Simmel as the adventurer into hitherto unresearched intellectual and social spheres who looks at them from a distance as a stranger, there is a need to examine the diverse development of his intellectual and social life. Among his contemporaries, Simmel was recognized not merely as a sociologist but also as a philosopher, psychologist, aesthetician and essayist. However, it was in Berlin, Germany that Simmel spent the greatest part of his academic life and it was its metropolitan culture which often provided the inspiration for his work. Simmel himself expressed his affinity with Berlin by stating that the development of Berlin from a city to a metropolis in the years around and after the turn of the century coincides with my own strongest and broadest development.
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- 2002
115. Chapter 1: Introduction.
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Frisby, David
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
This article focuses on sociologist Georg Simmel and his contributions to sociology. Contrary to the conception of the development of the social sciences in Germany, sociology as an independent discipline emerged relatively late compared with its neighboring disciplines. For a variety of reasons, some of them political, sociology was not taught in German universities until the end of the nineteenth century. And quite probably the first to do so was Georg Simmel. Aside from his own publications in Germany, the article of Simmel were quickly translated abroad. Between 1896 and 1910 no fewer than nine of his sociological essays, largely due to the initiative of Albion Small, appeared in the newly established American Journal of Sociology. The institutional position of Simmel within German sociology is reflected much later in his being one of three original executive members of the German Sociological Association at its inception early in 1909. But although there is little doubt that Simmel may be counted amongst the principal figures in the foundation of sociology as an independent discipline, there remains even today a tendency to see Simmel as a somewhat marginal figure within the sociological establishment.
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- 2002
116. The Sociology of Form and Content: Simmel.
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Adams, Bert N. and Sydie, R. A.
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SOCIAL theory ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL change ,WESTERN civilization - Abstract
Chapter 8 of the book "Classical Sociological Theory" is presented. It explores the theory of German sociologist Georg Simmel, who defined the modernity of Western society as rationalization that offers great freedom while regimenting and constraining life through scientific and technological progress. It examines his social theories and methods and discusses his views on different aspects of society which include social changes, human nature and gender.
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- 2002
117. Social agents and news media as risk amplifiers: a case study on the public debate about the E. coli outbreak in Germany 2011.
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Raupp, Juliana
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ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *COMMUNICATION , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *DISEASE outbreaks , *ESCHERICHIA coli diseases , *CASE studies , *POLICY sciences , *PRESS , *RISK perception , *SOCIOLOGY , *JUDGMENT sampling , *SOCIAL attitudes , *MEDICAL coding - Abstract
The social amplification of risk framework highlights the role which the news media play in risk communication by interacting with other agents in amplifying risk. However, the precise ways in which the media and other social agents actually amplify risks in public debates are unclear. In this article we draw on insights from the sociology of news to examine whether and to what extent social agents and news media amplify an emerging health risk. We use the debate about theEscherichia colioutbreak in Germany in 2011 to examine three issues: the amount of risk reporting by news media and social agents in their function as news sources; their evaluation of risk; and how they contribute to the escalation of risk, also known as ripple effects. In this article we draw on data from a content analysis of press releases from public health authorities and affected stakeholders and of news items in leading German news media. We found that the affected stakeholders were amplifying the risk to the greatest extent. We also found that there was a shift over time in the use of dominant frames. At the start of the debate the risk was framed as a public health issue and linked to medical-scientific progress. As the debate developed, more attention was given to political and economic consequences of the outbreak and the original health risk event was layered by other risk-related events. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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118. Health in Elite Sports from a Salutogenetic Perspective: Athletes' Sense of Coherence.
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Mayer, Jochen and Thiel, Ansgar
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CLINICAL health psychology , *ATHLETES , *SENSE of coherence , *CROSS-sectional method , *POPULATION , *SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors - Abstract
Objective: Considering the high number of stressors encountered in the context of elite sports, a high sense of coherence (SOC) is crucial to allow athletes to maintain their health from both short- and long-term perspectives. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate SOC in a population of elite athletes, focusing on identification of subsets of athletes with particularly high and low SOC scores, and any related predictors. The elite athletes' SOC scores were also evaluated for differences with those of the general population of Germany; whether a correlation between SOC and subjective health existed was additionally examined. Method: In total, 698 male and female elite athletes, drawn from Germany's highest-level national track and field squads, and first and second division handball teams, completed a survey that included the SOC-L9 Scale and measures of subjective health, sociodemographic information, and the number of injury lay-offs experienced during the athletes' careers to date. Results: Classification tree analysis reveals six contrast groups with varying SOC scores. Several interacting factors determine the group to which an athlete belongs. Together with overuse injuries, additional factors are age, gender, and completed/not completed apprenticeship/degree. Female athletes aged between 19 and 25, who had already been subject to lay-offs due to overuse injuries, comprise the group with the lowest SOC scores. Overall, the SOC of elite athletes is slightly lower than in the general population. In accordance with other studies, a stronger SOC is also correlated significantly with better global subjective health. Conclusion: The identification of contrast groups with varying SOC scores contributes to the development of more targeted salutogenetic health promotion programs. Such programs would ideally include learning modules pertaining to coping with overuse injuries, as well as social support systems aiming to effectively combine education and elite sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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119. American, French & German Sociologies Compared through Link Analysis of Conference Abstracts.
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Meter, Karl M. van and Léger, Mathilde de Saint
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SOCIOLOGICAL associations ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Our team of researchers has already analyzed and published the results of the link analysis – co-occurrence of key words in texts – of the 2004, 2006 and 2009 conferences of the French Sociological Association (Association française de sociologie, AFS), which regularly included over 1,000 presentations. We have also analyzed and published the results concerning the 2004 German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS) conference, which included just over 400 presentations. Here we analyze and present the results concerning the link analysis of the 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 American Sociological Association (ASA) conferences which include more than 8,000 presentations. The two-dimensional density / centrality structure of these conferences permits us to describe the network of themes in each of these national sociologies and to compare them one with another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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120. Sociology in Place of Socialism: On West German Cultural Radio.
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Boll, Monika
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COLD War, 1945-1991 , *RADIO broadcasting , *SOCIALISM , *INTELLECTUAL history , *PUBLIC sphere , *RADIO & society , *TWENTIETH century , *INTELLECTUAL life - Abstract
This article delves into the relationship between cultural radio and the Cold War. After 1945, culural radio took on a central role in the intellectual self-understanding of the early Federal Republic. From the very beginning, there was much less censorship than with political editorial departments. Thus, it was possible for cultrual radio to offer an intellectual forum in which socialism was not simply dismissed due to the official anticommunist political doctrine. This article shows the ways in which the East-West conflict was present in the cultrual departments of radio broadcasters. It argues that socialism appeared less as an ideological restraint or taboo, but rather as a productive challenge, which in the end was part of the modernization of West Germany's intellectual self-understanding. Two prominent examples buttress this argument: the free space that cultrual radio conquered in a kind of leftist integration with the West, and the rapid advancement of sociological discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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121. Proximity to Sports Facilities and Sports Participation for Adolescents in Germany.
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Reimers, Anne K., Wagner, Matthias, Alvanides, Seraphim, Steinmayr, Andreas, Reiner, Miriam, Schmidt, Steffen, and Woll, Alexander
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SPORTS facilities , *SPORTS participation , *MEDICAL care , *ADOLESCENT health , *SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors - Abstract
Objectives: To assess the relationship between proximity to specific sports facilities and participation in the corresponding sports activities for adolescents in Germany. Methods: A sample of 1,768 adolescents aged 11–17 years old and living in 161 German communities was examined. Distances to the nearest sports facilities were calculated as an indicator of proximity to sports facilities using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Participation in specific leisure-time sports activities in sports clubs was assessed using a self-report questionnaire and individual-level socio-demographic variables were derived from a parent questionnaire. Community-level socio-demographics as covariates were selected from the INKAR database, in particular from indicators and maps on land development. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine associations between proximity to the nearest sports facilities and participation in the corresponding sports activities. Results: The logisitic regression analyses showed that girls residing longer distances from the nearest gym were less likely to engage in indoor sports activities; a significant interaction between distances to gyms and level of urbanization was identified. Decomposition of the interaction term showed that for adolescent girls living in rural areas participation in indoor sports activities was positively associated with gym proximity. Proximity to tennis courts and indoor pools was not associated with participation in tennis or water sports, respectively. Conclusions: Improved proximity to gyms is likely to be more important for female adolescents living in rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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122. Un corredor de ideas entre México y Argentina. El intercambio científico e intelectual entre los sociólogos del exilio español.
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Morales Martín, Juan Jesús
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INTELLECTUAL cooperation ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,SPANISH exiles' writings ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGICAL research ,SPANISH history, 1939-1975 ,TWENTIETH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
Copyright of Iberoamericana America Latina-Espana-Portugal is the property of Vervuert Verlag and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2014
123. Governance of complex systems: results of a sociological simulation experiment.
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Adelt, Fabian, Weyer, Johannes, and Fink, Robin D.
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AUTOMOBILE driving ,COMPUTER simulation ,METROPOLITAN areas ,MOTOR vehicles ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Social sciences have discussed the governance of complex systems for a long time. The following paper tackles the issue by means of experimental sociology, in order to investigate the performance of different modes of governance empirically. The simulation framework developed is based on Esser's model of sociological explanation as well as on Kroneberg's model of frame selection. The performance of governance has been measured by means of three macro and two micro indicators. Surprisingly, central control mostly performs better than decentralised coordination. However, results not only depend on the mode of governance, but there is also a relation between performance and the composition of actor populations, which has yet not been investigated sufficiently. Practitioner Summary:Practitioners can gain insights into the functioning of complex systems and learn how to better manage them. Additionally, they are provided with indicators to measure the performance of complex systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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124. Weight Bias Internalization Scale: Psychometric Properties and Population Norms.
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Hilbert, Anja, Baldofski, Sabrina, Zenger, Markus, Löwe, Bernd, Kersting, Anette, and Braehler, Elmar
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POPULATION , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *OVERWEIGHT persons , *QUALITY of life , *HIGHER education - Abstract
Objective: Internalizing the pervasive weight bias commonly directed towards individuals with overweight and obesity, co-occurs with increased psychopathology and impaired quality of life. This study sought to establish population norms and psychometric properties of the most widely used self-report questionnaire, the Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS), in a representative community sample. Design and Methods: In a survey of the German population, N = 1158 individuals with overweight and obesity were assessed with the WBIS and self-report measures for convergent validation. Results: Item analysis revealed favorable item-total correlation of all but one WBIS item. With this item removed, item homogeneity and internal consistency were excellent. The one-factor structure of the WBIS was confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis. Convergent validity was shown through significant associations with measures of depressive and somatoform symptoms. The WBIS contributed to the explanation of variance in depressive and somatoform symptoms over and above body mass index. Higher WBIS scores were found in women than in men, in individuals with obesity than in individuals with overweight, and in those with lower education or income than those with higher education or income. Sex-specific norms were provided. Conclusions: The results showed good psychometric properties of the WBIS after removal of one item. Future research is warranted on further indicators of reliability and validity, for example, retest reliability, sensitivity to change, and prognostic validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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125. Fritz Schütze Seen Subjectively.
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Waniek, Katarzyna
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SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIOLOGY ,LANGUAGE & languages ,GERMAN language - Abstract
The article discusses the subjected character of German sociologist Fritz Schütze. Topics discussed include the biographical experiences recapitulated by Schütze, the total immersion in the aftermath of Schütze in the foreign language, and the issue regarding the term Doktorvater in the German language.
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- 2014
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126. A Draft Profile of a Very Unusual Scholar.
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Czyżewski, Marek
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SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIOLOGY ,NARRATIVES - Abstract
The article presents the author's insights on the achievement of German sociologist Fritz Schütze and his individual style. Topics discussed include the popularity of Schütze in the methods of the development of materials from narrative interviews, the important role played by Schütze in the intellectual revival of German sociology, and the research seminar format developed by Schütze together with his colleague Gerhard Riemann.
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- 2014
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127. Alfred Schutz on Social Order.
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López, Daniela Griselda
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SOCIAL order ,PHENOMENOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The paper aims to analyze the potentiality of Schutzian phenomenology to account for the problem of social order. Firstly, we expose the existence of an interpretive scheme of Parsonian roots in contemporary social theory that introduces the dualistic dilemma subjective action versus social order in the analysis of Schutz's perspective. According to this interpretive scheme, Schutz fails to master the problem of social order. Secondly, and in clear opposition to those interpretations, we show three main contributions which have put forward the argument that it is possible to find in Schutz's work a theory of social order: Harold Garfin-kel's early writings, the recent Austrian School of Economics' reception of Schutz and the present-day interpretation in German sociology. In the context of these discussions, our reflections have explored the pragmatic dimension of the order of the life-world based on a phenomenonological constitutive analysis which provides a basis for a comprehensive theory of social order of Schutzian roots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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128. Verbesserte Infrastruktur für soziologische Forschungsinformation.
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Dembek-Jäger, Claudia and Depping, Ralf
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SOCIAL science research ,ONLINE databases ,SOCIAL sciences databases ,SOCIAL sciences -- Information services ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Copyright of Soziologie is the property of Campus Verlag GmbH and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2013
129. Zur Gegenwärtigkeit des Nationalsozialismus in der deutschen Gesellschaft.
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Heinze, Carsten
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SOCIOLOGY ,NATIONAL socialism & sociology ,NATIONAL socialism in motion pictures ,NATIONAL socialism in popular culture ,NATIONAL socialism in literature ,EMPIRICAL research ,POPULAR culture - Abstract
Copyright of Soziologie is the property of Campus Verlag GmbH and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2013
130. Aby Warburg's Pathosformel as methodological paradigm.
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Becker, Colleen
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ART historians ,CONCEPTS ,SOCIOLOGY ,COMPARATIVE literature ,HUMANITIES ,CASE studies - Abstract
The article offers the author's insights on German art historian Aby Warburg and his concept of the "Pathosformel." Topics discussed by the author include the different positions occupied by Warburg in different fields like sociology and comparative literature and his appeal across the disciplines, the applicability of the concept "Pathosformel" in Humanities and Social Science, and the case study on the national personification of Germany.
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- 2013
131. Helmut Schelsky - der politische Anti-Soziologe. Eine Neurezeption.
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Thümmler, Ellen
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SOCIOLOGISTS , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL institutions , *HUMAN sexuality & society , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY of sociology - Abstract
The article presents a report on a conference about German sociologist Helmut Schelsky, held in Chemnitz, Germany, from October 25-26, 2012. Topics of discussion included Schelsky's place within the broader history of German sociology in the twentieth century, his reception of the works of sociologist Max Weber, and Schelsky's writings on such subjects as English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, institutionalism, and the sociology of sexuality.
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- 2013
132. [School from the spirit of public health? : Health promotion in schools from a sociology of education perspective].
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Bittlingmayer UH and Okcu G
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- Germany, Humans, Schools, Sociology, Health Promotion, Public Health
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In the context of health promotion in terms of the Ottawa Charter, a series of tasks and functions are attributed to schools, including the reduction of health and social inequalities. However, important theoretical considerations and empirical findings from the sociology of education, which analyzes school as a hierarchizing, segregating, inequality-producing, and reproducing institution, hardly find place in the public health debate on school health promotion. In this discussion article, some positions on schools from the sociology of education and the normative framework for health promotion in schools are presented. Furthermore, the contradictions between the goals of health promotion and the current conditions in schools, are discussed. In conclusion, some conceptual considerations are introduced from a perspective that rethinks education from the health promotion point of view and connects with inclusion, democracy education, and human rights., (© 2022. The Author(s).)
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- 2022
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133. MAX & ROSA.
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Miller, Alex
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PUBLIC demonstrations , *DEMONSTRATIONS (Collective behavior) -- Government policy , *SOCIOLOGY , *ACTIVISM - Abstract
The article reports on the brief encounter between Max Blatt and Rosa Luxemburg. According to the letter presented which talks of a women who had met Max in the train and was imprisoned for speaking to public and holding a assembly of people without government permission. However she was unfazed by it and kept on addressing people.
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- 2017
134. The German Organ Transplant Scandal - Unwritten rules of organizational wrongdoings.
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Pohlmann, Markus, Höly, Kristina, and Trombini, Maria Eugenia
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ORGAN & tissue transplantation laws , *SOCIOLOGY , *GROUNDED theory , *RULES , *FRAUD , *OCCUPATIONS , *HUMAN services programs , *PROFESSIONALISM , *CORPORATE culture - Abstract
Using data from organ transplant medicine in Germany, we propose a method for understanding the content of unwritten rules supportive of violations of written rules in light of the "German Organ Transplant Scandal". Grounded in the sociology of organizational crime, we reconstruct the cultural repertoires of medical professionals working with organ allocation when confronted with the applicable guidelines using collective mindset analysis. Four dimensions of cognitive and normative rules of interpretation were identified and discussed as a an occupational-professional form of deviance. Apart from not relying on data from the alleged perpetrators and still gazing at the latent structures of meaning behind misconduct, our approach offers a more general methodological framework for empirical studies of the unwritten rules at work in an organizational field where wrongdoing has been reported. • Personal motivations alone do not explain the German organ transplant scandal. • Unwritten rules are supportive of guidelines violations concerning patient waiting lists. • Collective Mindset Analysis is appropriate to identify such cognitive rules. • The medical organizational setting can harbor a professionally justified deviance. • Job-embedded assumptions associated with wrongdoings are reconstructed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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135. Influence of Ethnic Group-Membership and Gaze Direction on the Perception of Emotions. A Cross-Cultural Study between Germany and China.
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Krämer, Katharina, Bente, Gary, Luo, Siyang, Pfeiffer, Ulrich J., Han, Shihui, and Vogeley, Kai
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EMOTIONS , *FACIAL expression , *SENSORY perception , *CROSS-cultural studies , *ETHNIC groups - Abstract
Emotional facial expressions provide important nonverbal cues in human interactions. The perception of emotions is not only influenced by a person’s ethnic background but also depends on whether a person is engaged with the emotion-encoder. Although these factors are known to affect emotion perception, their impact has only been studied in isolation before. The aim of the present study was to investigate their combined influence. Thus, in order to study the influence of engagement on emotion perception between persons from different ethnicities, we compared participants from China and Germany. Asian-looking and European-looking virtual agents expressed anger and happiness while gazing at the participant or at another person. Participants had to assess the perceived valence of the emotional expressions. Results indicate that indeed two factors that are known to have a considerable influence on emotion perception interacted in their combined influence: We found that the perceived intensity of an emotion expressed by ethnic in-group members was in most cases independent of gaze direction, whereas gaze direction had an influence on the emotion perception of ethnic out-group members. Additionally, participants from the ethnic out-group tended to perceive emotions as more pronounced than participants from the ethnic in-group when they were directly gazed at. These findings suggest that gaze direction has a differential influence on ethnic in-group and ethnic out-group dynamics during emotion perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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136. Gründerjahre der Bildungssoziologie.
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Behrmann, Günter C.
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SOCIOLOGICAL associations ,SOCIOLOGY ,EDUCATION & society ,EDUCATIONAL change ,HISTORY ,HISTORY of educational change - Abstract
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- 2013
137. Geschichtslosigkeit als Gegenwartsproblem.
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Deißler, Stefan
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGY methodology ,HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945 ,NATIONAL socialism & sociology ,SOCIAL sciences & history - Abstract
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- 2013
138. Kriminologie und Soziologie.
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Reuband, Karl-Heinz
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CRIMINOLOGY ,CRIMINAL sociology ,SOCIOLOGY ,CRIME ,DEVIANT behavior ,SCHOLARLY publishing ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
Copyright of Monatsschrift fuer Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform is the property of De Gruyter and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2013
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139. Fertility From a Couple Perspective: A Test of Competing Decision Rules on Proceptive Behaviour.
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Bauer, Gerrit and Kneip, Thorsten
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FERTILITY ,SOCIOLOGY ,EDUCATION ,DESIRE ,CHILDBIRTH - Abstract
Fertility decisions typically involve two persons. This raises the question of how individual desires or preferences for further children transform into joint action. Previous research has proposed different approaches to this question, emphasizing gender, joint utility, consensus, or bargaining power. We use data from the German Family Panel (pairfam) to test competing hypotheses found in the literature. Our results show symmetrical effects of both partners’ desires and expected utilities for children on proceptive behaviour, indicating that neither women nor men dominate fertility decisions per se. Instead, it is joint utility that matters. One partner will exercise a ‘veto’ only if the expected loss of utility from a further child is very high. When partners have opposed desires, bargaining power due to advantageous partner market conditions can play a pivotal role for imposing one's will on the partner. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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140. All Nations Depend on the Global Knowledge Pool – Analysis of Country of Origin of Studies Used for Health Technology Assessments in Germany.
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Herrmann, Kirsten H., Wolff, Robert, Scheibler, Fueloep, Waffenschmidt, Siw, Hemkens, Lars G., Sauerland, Stefan, and Antes, Gerd
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MEDICAL technology , *DECISION making in clinical medicine , *GROSS domestic product , *PUBLIC health , *HEALTH care industry , *MEDICAL economics , *MEDICAL statistics - Abstract
Background: Health Technology Assessments (HTAs) are used to inform decision-making and their usefulness depends on the quality and relevance of research and specific studies for health-policy decisions. Little is known about the country of origin of studies used for HTAs. Objective: To investigate which countries have made the largest contributions to inform health policy decisions through studies included in HTAs in Germany. Methods: The country of origin was extracted from all studies included in HTAs of the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, (IQWiG), published from 2/2006 to 9/2010. Studies were ranked according to the total number of studies per country, adjusted for population size, gross domestic product (GDP), and total health expenditure. Results: 1087 studies were included in 54 HTA reports. Studies were assigned to 45 countries. Most of the studies (27%) originated from the United States (USA), 18% were multinational, followed by 7% from the United Kingdom (UK) and 5% from Germany. Nordic countries led the ranking when adjusting for population size/million (ranks 1-3,6,9/45 countries), GDP/billion US$ (1,2,5,9,14/45), or health expenditure/billion US$ (1,3,5,12,13/45). The relative contribution of the UK was stable in the analyses when adjusted for population size (7/45), GDP (7/45), and health expenditure (9/45), whereas the USA (13, 18, and 30/45) and Germany (17, 19, and 21/45) dropped in the ranking. Conclusions: More than half of the studies relevant for evidence-informed decision-making in Germany originated from the USA, followed by multinational research and the UK. Only 5% of the studies originated from Germany. According to our findings, there appears to be some discrepancy between the use of globally generated evidence and the contribution to the knowledge pool by individual countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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141. Der erste Schritt ist nicht genug.
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Neun, Oliver
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PUBLIC sociology ,SOCIOLOGICAL associations ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGY conferences - Abstract
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142. The Development of Post-War German Social and Political Thought.
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Stirk, PeterM. R.
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POSITIVISM , *SOCIOLOGY , *NATIONAL socialism , *CONSTITUTIONAL law philosophy , *HISTORY of sociology , *TWENTIETH century , *GERMAN history , *INTELLECTUAL life ,GERMAN law - Abstract
The development of post-war German social sciences is marked by a series of disputes about the nature and implications of positivist methodology. Two of these are selected for consideration here; the ‘positivist dispute’ in German sociology associated with Adorno and Popper, and the more diffuse assault on positivism in the legal sciences. In both cases, self-avowed positivists were in fact hard to find but the debates were important polemical disputes about the past—notably the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich—and the future of the young Federal Republic. It is suggested below that these disputes should be seen in this context and that the polemical claim in both disputes that certain methodological standpoints mandated specific moral and political commitments is more questionable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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143. Almanya'da Üçüncü Türk Kuşağının Kimlik Problemleri.
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ERMAĞAN, İsmail
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SOCIOLOGY ,POLITICAL science ,WORLD War II ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,INTERNATIONAL law ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
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- 2013
144. Wissenschaftliche Evaluation ja - CHE-Ranking nein.
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RANKING ,SOCIAL sciences education ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,EVALUATION methodology ,SOCIOLOGY ,EVALUATION - Abstract
The article represents the opinion of the board of directors of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (German Association of Sociology). The authors analyze and discuss methodological problems and political implications of the survey and ranking of German academic institutions which is published annually by the Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (Center for the Development of Institutions of Higher Learning), focusing on the evaluation of study programs of social sciences.
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- 2012
145. Soziologie für die Öffentlichkeit - Resonanzräume fragmentierter Publika.
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Selke, Stefan
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PUBLIC sociology ,SCIENCE popularization ,ACCESS to information ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The article discusses the role and significance of the academic discipline of sociology for the general public, including environments identified by British sociologist Michael Burawoy as hostile towards sociology. According to the author, the central function of public sociology is not the enhancement of sociological knowledge in educated circles but the expansion of social groups that have that have interest in and access to sociological knowledge.
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- 2012
146. „The Marketization of Society: Economizing the Non-Economic.".
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Köber, Göran and Stopper, Silke
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,SOCIOLOGY ,CAPITALISM & society ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
The article offers information on the congress „The Marketization of Society: Economizing the Non-Economic," held June 1-2, 2012 at the Universität Bremen, Germany. Various papers are discussed including „Understanding the „Economization" of Social Formations" by Bob Jessop, „Marketization: Theoretical Reflections Building on the Perspectives of Polanyi and Habermas" by Alexander Ebner, and „The Economy, the Market and Exchange: Notes on Non-Identities" by Andreas Langenohl.
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- 2012
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147. BLACK HUMOUR: CARICATURE IN WARTIME.
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Hewitson, Mark
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CARICATURE ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL role ,WIT & humor ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The article evaluates Sigmund Freud's theory of the joke, Mary Douglas's anthropological reading of Freud and Michael Billig's Freudian analysis of the sociology of laughter and ridicule as a means of interpreting cartoons produced in Germany during wartime. Defining 'black humour' broadly, as humour deriving from the contemplation of suffering or death, the author argues that both sociological and anthropological accounts of satire have difficulty in comprehending the nihilism of some wartime caricature. Freud's notion of the joke as the revelation of repressed instincts and unconscious desires seems better suited to such interpretation but pays little attention to the particular social roles and cultural meanings of humour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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148. Os cursos de Max Weber: Economia política, Política agrária e Questão dos trabalhadores (1894-1900).
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Aldenhoff-Hübinger, Rita
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SOCIOLOGISTS ,AGRICULTURE ,WORKING class -- Social aspects ,EDUCATORS ,MENTAL work - Abstract
The article discusses issues related to the courses given by German sociologist Max Weber in Freiburg and Heidelberg, in Germany between 1894 and 1900. It focuses on his courses concerned with agrarian policy and on the worker question, both the topic of courses given numerous times over the initial years of Weber's academic career. It examines Weber's academic and intellectual trajectory over the period, and his courses. It investigates how the texts have been edited, the content and structure of the courses.
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- 2012
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149. Zentrale Akteure der Corporate Governance: Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsrats.
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Langenbucher, Katja
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JUSTICE administration ,SOCIOLOGY ,COMPARATIVE law ,CORPORATE directors - Abstract
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- 2012
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150. Klassen, Kultur und symbolische Herrschaft.
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Holder, Patricia and Gemperle, Michael
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,SOCIOLOGY ,CLASS differences ,CULTURE ,ECONOMIC sociology - Abstract
The article discusses the international Bourdieu conference "Klassen, Kultur und symbolische Herrschaft", held October 7-8, 2011 at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Germany. Topics included theoretical aspects of social scientist Pierre Bourdieu's ideas on culture and class and the British tradition of cultural class analysis. Influences of class background on the concept of identity in Britain, transformations in gender relations, and models related to economic sociology were also discussed. Education also posed a major theme in the discourse.
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- 2012
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