Jurgen Gerhards
Biographic Data
| ID | 196756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jurgen Gerhards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jurgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerhards |
| SIGNATURE | GERHARDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6078-0879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 117 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 823 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 110 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The Liberal Idea of Nondiscrimination in Access to the Labor Market and Its Support by Citizens in 26 Countries Around the World
The notion that jobs should be awarded on applicants’ qualifications and not on the basis of gender, ethnicity, religion, or family background is a key component of modern liberal societies. Drawing on a novel public opinion survey covering 26 countries from all regions of the world, we analyze the degree to which citizens support the idea that job recruitment should be based on applicants’ qualifications. To understand the variation in citizens’…
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees
Systematic cross-national analyses of political debates on the admission of refugees and asylum seekers require a theoretically coherent and empirically comprehensive typology of frames and arguments used. The paper proposes such a typology of frames and arguments used by governments, opposition parties and social movements in public debates on the admission of refugees. We argue that the collective identity and characteristics of the receiving c…
Framing Refugees
After the catastrophic experiences of World War II, the Human Rights Declaration of 1948 defined the right to seek asylum as a fundamental human right. However, not all countries comply with the requirements of international refugee law. While some open their borders and grant protection, others keep their borders completely closed, and yet others admit some groups of refugees while excluding others. How can we make sense of these different respo…
The Distinction between Refugees and Immigrants
International law obliges states to admit refugees while allowing discretion in accepting voluntary immigrants. This study, based on a 26-country survey, examines citizen attitudes towards these groups. With reference to the debate in political philosophy, the authors distinguish between different attitudinal groups: Nationalists, who advocate for border control; Cosmopolitans, who support unrestricted immigration rights; Legalists, who align wit…
State Sovereignty and the Protection of Human Rights. How Military Humanitarian Intervention is Supported by Citizens Around the World
According to international law, the sovereignty of nation-states and the rights of individuals constitute two equally important principles. However, in instances when a state massively violates human rights, then priority is given to the protection of individuals over the selfdetermination of the state, thereby justifying humanitarian military intervention. This paper presents findings from a survey across 26 countries, analyzing citizen support …
Why do states discriminate between refugee groups? Understanding how Syrian and Ukrainian refugees were framed in Germany and Poland
Previous studies hypothesize that countries discriminate between refugee groups of different backgrounds depending on cultural similarity to the host population and whether they flee from a rivaling regime. We argue that these explanations miss how political actors frame the collective identity of the host nation and the refugees in political discourse, and the nation state-specific cultural repertoires they draw on. The different responses of th…
Contested European citizenship
European citizenship consisting of equal economic, social and political rights for all EU citizens has come under pressure in recent years due to the different crises the EU had to face. Based on a survey conducted in 13 EU member states we examined to what extent EU citizens support the notion that citizens from other European countries should enjoy the same rights as nationals. Overall, 56% of EU citizens support the idea that citizens from oth…
Educational Expansion, Social Class, and Choosing Latin as a Strategy of Distinction
In times of educational expansion, privileged families are looking for new strategies of distinction. Referring to Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of distinction, we argue that choosing Latin at school – a language that is no longer spoken and therefore has no direct value – is one of the strategies of privileged families to set themselves apart from less privileged families. Based on two surveys we conducted at German schools, the paper analyzes the re…
Boundary-Maintenance” or “Boundary-Crossing”? Name-Giving Practices among Immigrants in Germany
This study investigates why some immigrants choose names for their children that are common in their home country whereas others opt for names used by natives in the host country. Drawing on the sociological literature on symbolic boundaries, the first strategy can be described as boundary-maintenance whereas the second can be classified as boundary-crossing. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and applying bivariate and multiva…
Reversing the symbolic order of discrimination
Several field experimental studies have shown that people with a migration background and a non-heterosexual orientation are discriminated against in the labour market. However, most studies do not consider that modern societies are differentiated into various social subfields where different selection criteria can apply. In the field of art, for example, one could observe a broad and intense discourse on diversity that could have shaped human re…
Immigrants' First Names and Perceived Discrimination
Many studies have shown that better-educated immigrants more frequently report perceived discrimination in the host country than less-educated immigrants. Two different explanations for this discrimination paradox, which is a subcase of the so-called integration paradox, are discussed in the literature. First, with increasing integration, immigrants' sensitivity to discrimination processes changes. Second, more integrated immigrants are more expo…
Gendered Pathways to Integration
We analyze gender differences in immigrants’ ethnic boundary making using the example of name giving. We draw on the well-established finding that immigrants are more likely to choose a name that is common in the host country (strategy of boundary crossing) for female than for male descendants. We distinguish between two dimensions that help us to understand the gender gap in naming: the impact of origin-specific factors (institutionalization of …
European Solidarity in Times of Crisis
The euro crisis, several sovereign debt crises, the Great Recession, the refugee crisis, and Brexit have all challenged Europeans’ willingness to show solidarity with other European citizens and member states of the European Union. European Solidarity in Times of Crisis provides a clear theoretical framework to understand European solidarity for the first time. It offers a systematic empirical approach to determine the strength and causes of Euro…
How strong is European welfare solidarity?
The Great Recession and the ensuing eurozone crisis affected EU citizens reliant on national welfare state provision especially in Southern European countries. These developments have made the question of whether citizens support European welfare solidarity all the more salient. European welfare solidarity is a form of solidarity that transcends the nation state and refers to solidarity with citizens of other European countries in the form of wel…
Do Grandparents Transmit a Highbrow Lifestyle to their Grandchildren? Testing Bourdieu’s Theory of Distinction
Pierre Bourdieu assumes in his theory of lifestyle that a highbrow lifestyle is shaped during childhood socialization and depends on the cultural capital of the family. While the effect of parents’ capital and lifestyle on their children has been frequently analyzed, there is no research that focuses on the three-generational transmission of a highbrow lifestyle from grandparents to their grandchildren. We attempt to fill this research gap with o…
Des Kaisers alte Kleider
Deconstructing Diversity«
Leviathan , Seite 527 - 550
National symbolic capital in a multinational environment. An exploratory study of symbolic boundaries at a European school in Brussels
Despite processes of Europeanisation in education aimed at reducing symbolic boundaries of nationality among Europeans, countries continue to be judged in terms of their reputation or “symbolic capital”. Based on qualitative group interviews with students at a European School in Brussels, a unique institution educating the future citizens of Europe, we investigate to what extent the symbolic capital attributed to the students’ national background…
Unterschiede zwischen der ersten und zweiten Generation von Migrantinnen in der Wahrnehmung symbolischer Grenzen und in den Strategien ihrer Grenzarbeit
Soziale Kontexte und Diskriminierungserfahrungen von MigrantInnen. Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Studie
Eine Vielzahl von Studien kommt zu dem Schluss, dass MigrantInnen von der Mehrheitsgesellschaft diskriminiert werden. Wir wissen allerdings wenig über die Selbstwahrnehmungen von MigrantInnen und vor allem nicht über die spezifischen sozialen Kontexte, die Diskriminierungserfahrungen wahrscheinlich machen. Auf der Grundlage von 17 Gruppendiskussionen mit in Deutschland lebenden MigrantInnen rekonstruieren wir, welche Kategorisierungen und Diskrim…
The Name Game
From decade to decade, significant changes occur in the choice of first names for children. One-time favorites are perceived as old fashioned and replaced by new choices. In The Name Game, Jurgen Gerhards shows that shifts in the choice of names are based on more than arbitrary trends of fashion. Instead, he demonstrates, they are determined by larger currents in cultural modernization. Using classic tools of sociology, Gerhards focuses on changi…
Social Class and Transnational Human Capital
Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people's social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the reproduction of class structures within the boundaries of a particular nation-state without considering the importance of these specific skills and competences. Within Soci…
Kollektive Erinnerungen der europäischen Bürger im Kontext von Transnationalisierungsprozessen
Symbolische Grenzziehungen und nationale Herkunft. Eine explorative Studie über Distinktionsprozesse an einer multinationalen Schule in Brüssel
Symbolische Grenzen und die Grenzarbeit von Migrantinnen und Migranten
Mit Rekurs auf die Literatur zu symbolischen Grenzziehungs- und Stigmatisierungsprozessen und basierend auf einer Auswertung von elf Gruppendiskussionen mit 55 Migrant/innen unterschiedlicher Herkunft rekonstruieren wir, wie diese aufgrund ihres Vornamens von der Mehrheitsgesellschaft kategorisiert werden, und stellen die von ihnen entwickelten Grenzmanagementstrategien dar. Die Analysen zeigen, dass alle Diskussionsteilnehmer/innen ein ausgepräg…
Mesomobilization
The concept of mesomobilization is introduced as a specification to the prevailing literature on mobilization processes. Mesomobilization actors have a dual function: They first provide the structural basis for mobilization by coordinating micromobilization groups and collecting the resources required for action and then try to achieve a cultural integration of the various groups by developing a master frame to interpret the triggering event in a…
Forms of Capital and Social Structure in Cultural Fields
This article tests one key assumption of Bourdieu's theory of culture fields: that actors are positioned in a "topography" of social relations according to their endowments of economic, social, and cultural capital. Blockmodeling procedures are used to analyze data on German writers and to indentify a social structure in which positions vary according to the types and amounts of capital accumulated. A strong split between elite and marginal write…
Non-Discrimination towards Homosexuality
The article first describes how the principle of non-discrimination of homosexuals is anchored in EU legislation and influences concrete policies of the European Union. Against this background, the second section analyses citizens' attitudes towards homosexuality and whether there are differences among the 27 EU member states and Turkey. The descriptive findings show that there are substantial differences at the national and individual level in t…
Four models of the public sphere in modern democracies
Jesp symposium
Climate change is surely one of the most encompassing and egregious threats in Europe today, so it is appropriate that we consider its implications for social policy in Europe. It is true that climate change is a separate agenda, the preserve of a distinct academic and epistemic community, scholarly discourse, policy community, institutional structures and modes of governance; but the linkages between these two issues – climate change and its pol…
Is the internet a better public sphere? Comparing old and new media in the USA and Germany
Normative theorists of the public sphere, such as Jürgen Habermas, have been very critical of the ‘old’ mass media, which were seen as unable to promote free and plural societal communication. The advent of the internet, in contrast, gave rise to hopes that it would make previously marginalized actors and arguments more visible to a broader public. To assess these claims, this article compares the internet and mass media communication. It disting…
From Hasan to Herbert
Names often indicate belonging to a certain ethnic group. When immigrant parents choose a first name for their child that is common in their host society, they show a high degree of acculturation. In contrast, selecting a name common only in the parents' country of origin indicates ethnic maintenance. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel for Turkish, Southwest European, and former Yugoslav immigrants, the authors show that acculturatio…
Westeuropäische Integration und die Schwierigkeiten der Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit
Westeuropäische Integration bedeutet die Transformation der Nationalstaaten in ein supranationales Gebilde. Während der ökonomische und politische Integrationspiozeß weit forgeschritten ist, hinkt die Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit dieser Entwicklung weit hinterher. Die Ursachen für diesen Befund werden auf der Basis von Interviews, die mit Brüsseler Korrespondenten geführt wurden, in Form einer Plausibilitätsskizze diskutiert: die …
Why not Turkey? Attitudes towards Turkish Membership in the EU among Citizens in 27 European Countries
Turkey has made significant efforts to fulfil requested accession criteria through socio-economic and cultural convergence with EU Member States. However, Turkey's eventual membership in the EU depends on the support of current EU citizens. This article therefore analyses citizens' attitudes towards Turkish accession in the 27 EU Member States. The analysis shows that a clear majority of citizens reject the idea of Turkey joining the EU. Four fac…
Immigrants' First Names and Perceived Discrimination
Many studies have shown that better-educated immigrants more frequently report perceived discrimination in the host country than less-educated immigrants. Two different explanations for this discrimination paradox, which is a subcase of the so-called integration paradox, are discussed in the literature. First, with increasing integration, immigrants' sensitivity to discrimination processes changes. Second, more integrated immigrants are more expo…
Transnational Human Capital, Education, and Social Inequality. Analyses of International Student Exchange
Due to globalization, skills such as foreign language proficiency and intercultural competence, here referred to as transnational human capital, are becoming increasingly important. A study-abroad program during schooling is one of the most efficient ways to acquire transnational human capital. Until now, class-specific access to transnational capital has remained largely unexplored. With recourse to the literature on the sociology of education a…
Educating Children in Times of Globalisation
Owing to globalisation processes, foreign language skills and familiarity with foreign cultures and institutions, along with similar skills and dispositions which we call 'transnational cultural capital', have gained in importance, affecting the positional competition between classes. Drawing on Bourdieu and based on semi-structured interviews with parents of adolescents, some of whom spent a school year abroad, we reconstruct class-specific diff…
Literary Myths and Social Structure
The lives of writers are subject to a variety of myths. This article shows that such cultural perceptions of writers bear a close affinity to the social structure of literature in modern societies. Two structural properties seem to encourage the proliferation of myths about writers: (1) the existence of a group of prominent writers who occupy unique social positions and form an amorphous elite and (2) the relation between the elite and the large …
Der Aufstand des Publikums / The Rebellion of the Citizens
Die Ausführungen haben zum Ziel, einen Wandel des Verhältnisses zwischen Experten und Bürgern in unterschiedlichen Teilbereichen der Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik mit Hilfe eines systemtheoretischen Begriffs-instrumentariums zu beschreiben. Dazu wird in einem ersten Schritt das Konzept der funktionalen Differenzierung erläutert, wie es von Niklas Luhmann entwickelt wurde. Im zweiten, und zentralen Kapitel des Textes werde ich dann mit Hilfe des…
Social Class and Cultural Consumption
Pierre Bourdieu’s work has argued that there is a homology of social classes on the one hand and cultural consumption on the other. In contrast, theories of individualisation posit that social class plays only a minor role in shaping lifestyle in contemporary societies. In this paper we examine a) how much contemporary highbrow lifestyles in 27 European countries are structured by class membership, b) the extent to which highbrow consumption vari…
Support for European Union Environmental Policy by Citizens of EU-Member and Accession States
In a first step we reconstruct the emergence and content of European Union environmental policies and their underlying normative ideas. These policies have become increasingly important since the 1970s such that today the EU expects member states actively to protect the natural environment even at the price of less economic freedom and higher financial costs. We then analyze the extent to which citizens support the idea of protecting the environm…
International terrorism, domestic coverage? How terrorist attacks are presented in the news of CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and ARD
The article analyzes to what extent news reporting on terrorist attacks globalized, regionalized, or country specific. We compare coverage on four terrorist incidents in the main news shows of the US edition of CNN, of Al Jazeera’s Arabic language service, of the British BBC, and of the German ARD. The analysis shows cross-national similarities in several dimensions: the analyzed media devote nearly identical amounts of attention to the four even…
The Literary Field
Bourdieu describes the structure of society as a result of class conflicts and status competition. Art in general, and the literary field in particular, is interpreted as a differentiated social field that is autonomous in the sense that it follows its own logic - the competition for cultural legitimation. What literature has in common with other social systems is the stratification of its internal structure into a hierarchical arrangement. Thus …
Zur Transnationalisierung der Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik
Der Aufsatz definiert Transnationalisierung als das Verhältnis zwischen Binneninteraktion und Außeninteraktion eines Teilsystems einer Gesellschaft. Er geht drei Fragen nach: 1. Er unterscheidet im Anschluß an die Theorie funktionaler Differenzierung verschiedene Teilsysteme von Gesellschaft und versucht mit Hilfe von empirischen Indikatoren zu bestimmen, in welchem Ausmaß die verschiedenen Teilbereiche (Wissenschaft, Kunst, Ökonomie, Politik) de…
Die kulturell dominierende Klasse in Europa
Transnational linguistic capital
Foreign language proficiency in general and proficiency in the world’s most widely spoken language, English, are central resources to participate in the globalisation process. Drawing on a survey conducted in 27 European countries the article attempts to explain the huge differences in English proficiency that exist between and within countries. The author presents a general explanatory model for foreign language proficiency, creates hypotheses f…
Kulturelle Unterschiede zwischen Mitglieds- und Beitrittsländern der EU / Cultural Differences between Present and Future Member Countries of the European Union
Kulturelle Unterschiede zwischen den Mitglieds- und Beitrittsländern werden die Integration der neuen Länder in die EU erschweren. Wir gehen in dem Artikel der Frage nach, inwieweit sich die Bürger in den Mitglieds- und Beitrittsländern der Europäischen Union im Hinblick auf ihre Einstellungen zur Familie und zu Geschlechterrollen unterscheiden. In einem ersten Schritt rekonstruieren wir das von der EU-Politik bevorzugte Leitbild einer politisch …
Trends and Causes of Cultural Modernization
The empirical basis of our research forms a systematic content analysis of the birth register of a state registry office from 1894 to 1994. We interpret the development of first names as an indicator which measures trends of cultural change: we analyse (1) whether there are secularization processes (measurement: the amount of first names of Christian origin); (2) whether the importance of family relationship is decreasing (measurement: number of …
Framing dimensions and framing strategies
Les mouvements sociaux, les groupes d'interet utilisent la communication pour influer sur l'opinion publique. Dans ce but, leur strategie consiste a definir les problemes sociaux qu'ils denoncent, a leur attribuer des causes, a isoler des responsabilites, a proposer des solutions et a se presenter comme le porte-parole legitime en cette affaire. Ils elaborent donc une argumentation. L'A. etudie ce type de strategie et distingue les cadres ideaux-…
Do European citizens support the idea of a European welfare state? Evidence from a comparative survey conducted in three EU member states
Some scholars have argued that the only way to resolve the Euro crisis would be to further deepen the integration process by institutionalising a European welfare state. This article examines whether a Europeanised welfare system would be supported by citizens of three member states of the EU. The authors argue that the legitimacy of a harmonisation of national welfare regimes would be established if a majority of citizens supported a Europeanise…
Georg Simmel's contribution to a theory of emotions
Zur Sozialposition und Netzwerkstruktur von Schriftstellern
Der Aufsatz interpretiert die Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Kölner Schriftstellern. Mit Hilfe der Blockmodellanalyse werden die Autoren in vier Subgruppen (Elite, Nachwuchselite, Peripherie, etablierte Peripherie) eingeteilt. Die Subgruppen werden in ihrer Binnenstruktur und in ihrem Verhältnis zueinander näher bestimmt. In einem zweiten Schritt wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit es sich bei der Sozialposition des Literaten um eine ökonomisc…
Die sozialen Bedingungen der Entstehung von Emotionen
Emotionen sind eine Domäne psychologischer Forschung. Der Artikel versucht, eine genuin soziologische Perspektive auf das Feld der Emotionen zu entwickeln, indem in Form einer Modellskizze die sozialen Bedingungen der Entstehung von Emotionen rekonstruiert werden. Emotionen werden als Ergebnis des Zusammenspiels der Systeme Organismus, Persönlichkeit, Sozialstruktur und Kultur begriffen. Die Rationalität der einzelnen vier Ebenen und das Verhältn…
The changing culture of emotions in modern society
The Literary Field
Bourdieu describes the structure of society as a result of class conflicts and status competition. Art in general, and the literary field in particular, is interpreted as a differentiated social field that is autonomous in the sense that it follows its own logic - the competition for cultural legitimation. What literature has in common with other social systems is the stratification of its internal structure into a hierarchical arrangement. Thus …
Literary Myths and Social Structure
The lives of writers are subject to a variety of myths. This article shows that such cultural perceptions of writers bear a close affinity to the social structure of literature in modern societies. Two structural properties seem to encourage the proliferation of myths about writers: (1) the existence of a group of prominent writers who occupy unique social positions and form an amorphous elite and (2) the relation between the elite and the large …
Empirische Probleme mit einer interessanten Theorie
Öffentliche Kommunikationsbereitschaft
Der von Noelle-Neumann entwickelten Theorie der Schweigespirale liegt die zentrale Hypothese zugrunde, daß es einen Zusammenhang gibt zwischen der individuellen Perzeption der öffentlichen Mehrheitsmeinung zu einem Thema und der Bereitschaft von Individuen, sich öffentlich zu diesem Thema zu äußern. Diejenigen, die glauben, die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung hinter sich zu haben, erweisen sich in öffentlichen Situationen kommunikationsbereiter als diej…
Mesomobilization
The concept of mesomobilization is introduced as a specification to the prevailing literature on mobilization processes. Mesomobilization actors have a dual function: They first provide the structural basis for mobilization by coordinating micromobilization groups and collecting the resources required for action and then try to achieve a cultural integration of the various groups by developing a master frame to interpret the triggering event in a…
Neue Konfliktlinien in der Mobilisierung öffentlicher Meinung
Neue Konfliktlinien in der Mobilisierung öffentlicher Meinung
Westeuropäische Integration und die Schwierigkeiten der Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit
Westeuropäische Integration bedeutet die Transformation der Nationalstaaten in ein supranationales Gebilde. Während der ökonomische und politische Integrationspiozeß weit forgeschritten ist, hinkt die Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit dieser Entwicklung weit hinterher. Die Ursachen für diesen Befund werden auf der Basis von Interviews, die mit Brüsseler Korrespondenten geführt wurden, in Form einer Plausibilitätsskizze diskutiert: die …
Framing dimensions and framing strategies
Les mouvements sociaux, les groupes d'interet utilisent la communication pour influer sur l'opinion publique. Dans ce but, leur strategie consiste a definir les problemes sociaux qu'ils denoncent, a leur attribuer des causes, a isoler des responsabilites, a proposer des solutions et a se presenter comme le porte-parole legitime en cette affaire. Ils elaborent donc une argumentation. L'A. etudie ce type de strategie et distingue les cadres ideaux-…
Forms of Capital and Social Structure in Cultural Fields
This article tests one key assumption of Bourdieu's theory of culture fields: that actors are positioned in a "topography" of social relations according to their endowments of economic, social, and cultural capital. Blockmodeling procedures are used to analyze data on German writers and to indentify a social structure in which positions vary according to the types and amounts of capital accumulated. A strong split between elite and marginal write…
Religion und der Geist des Kapitalismus
Die Veränderung der Semantik von Todesanzeigen als Indikator für Säkularisierungsprozesse
Kulturelle Säkularisierung bezeichnet die Auflösung vormals religiöser, speziell christlicher Glaubensvorstellungen als verbindliche Kulturmuster. Wir vermuten, daß dieser allgemeine Trend durch zwei Faktoren „gebrochen“ und spezifisch eingefärbt wird. Politische Regime, die die Religionsfreiheit einschränken und alternative Ideologien anbieten, werden den Prozeß der Säkularisation beschleunigen. Anti-klerikale Arbeiterschichten sind gegenüber Sä…
Reder, Schweiger, Anpasser und Missionare
Soziologie der Kunst
Niveaus, Bestimmungsgründe und politische Folgen der Transnationalisierung verschiedener Teilsysteme der Gesellschaft
»Globalisierung« ist sicherlich eines der am meisten benutzten sozialwissenschaftlichen Modewörter der 90er Jahre zur Beschreibung des Strukturwandels gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften. Trotz bzw. wegen dieser weiten Verbreitung des Begriffs besteht kein Konsens darüber, was man unter Globalisierung zu verstehen hat, welche empirischen Indikatoren Globalisierungsprozesse messen, was die Ursachen und welches die Folgen von Globalisierungsprozessen sind…
Eigenwilligkeit und Rationalität sozialer Prozesse
Zur Transnationalisierung der Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik
Der Aufsatz definiert Transnationalisierung als das Verhältnis zwischen Binneninteraktion und Außeninteraktion eines Teilsystems einer Gesellschaft. Er geht drei Fragen nach: 1. Er unterscheidet im Anschluß an die Theorie funktionaler Differenzierung verschiedene Teilsysteme von Gesellschaft und versucht mit Hilfe von empirischen Indikatoren zu bestimmen, in welchem Ausmaß die verschiedenen Teilbereiche (Wissenschaft, Kunst, Ökonomie, Politik) de…
Die Vermessung kultureller Unterschiede
Familienkultur in den USA und in West- und Ostdeutschland
Die Familie ist für die meisten Menschen einer der vertrautesten Bereiche des sozialen Lebens. Im Unterschied zu vielen anderen Bereichen (Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik, Kunst etc.) “wissen” die Menschen aus unmittelbarer Anschauung und Erfahrung wovon sie reden, wenn sie über Familie sprechen, sie haben Vorstellungen darüber, was eine Familie ist. Die gegenwärtige Familiensoziologie tut sich hingegen weitaus schwerer zu bestimmen, was unter …
Öffentlichkeit, Akteure und Deutungsmuster
Die Frage der gesetzlichen Regelung von Abtreibungen und damit verbunden die Frage nach der Legitimität von Abtreibungen standen und stehen sowohl in den USA als auch in der Bundesrepublik seit den 60er bzw. den 70er Jahren dauerhaft auf der Agenda der politischen und öffentlichen Auseinandersetzungen (Rucht 1994; Lee 1998; Gante 1991). Der zentrale Streitpunkt der Debatte ist, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen Abtreibungen zulässig sind. Immer, w…
Die Vermessung kultureller Unterschiede. USA und Deutschland im Vergleich
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