Klaus Eder
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 236305 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Klaus Eder |
| NOMBRES | Klaus |
| APELLIDO | Eder |
| FIRMA | EDER K |
| AFILIACIONES | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8097-6414 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 263 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Pandora's box
The public sphere is the site where the collective will of the people is formed. The thesis is that to the extent that the people are constructed as entities that pre-exist their collective will, the public sphere contributes to fostering the evil among a people and between the people. This is discussed using the cases of nationalism, sovereigntism and populism. The narrative of Pandora's box provides the analytical leverage for retelling the the…
Europe as a narrative laboratory. Klaus Eder on European identity, populist stories, and the acid bath of irony
After an introduction by Sren Carlson that summarizes key aspects of Klaus Eder's theorizing regarding the role of narratives for the symbolic construction of "Europe" and European identity, the ensuing conversation between the two addresses some of the subsequent issues arising from this work. It thus deals, inter alia, with the concept of narrative resonance, the relation between narrative and network structures, and the (neglected) role of nar…
Towards a revised theory of collective learning processes
Societies change; and sociology has, since its inception, described and evaluated these changes. This article proposes a revised theory of collective learning processes, a conceptual framework which addresses ways in which people make sense of and cope with change. Drawing on Habermas' classic proposal, but shifting the focus from argumentation towards storytelling, it explains how certain articulations allow for collective learning processes (im…
Reflexive secularization? Concepts, processes and antagonisms of postsecularity
This article deals with the concepts, processes, and antagonisms that are associated with the notion of postsecularity. In light of this article's expanded interpretation of José Casanova on the secular and secularization, as well as thoughts on James A. Beckford's take on public religions, five rubrics on the postsecular derived from critical theory and an understanding of 'reflexive secularization' are presented. This term focuses on seculariza…
Collective Memory and European Identity
Is it possible to create a collective European identity? In this volume, leading scholars assess the link between collective identity construction in Europe and the multiple memory discourses that intervene in this construction process. The authors believe that the exposure of national collective memories to an enlarging communicative space within Europe affects the ways in which national memories are framed. Through this perspective, several cas…
The EU in search of its people
The article argues that the 'crisis of Europe', triggered by market and governance dysfunctionalities (summarized as the Euro crisis), represents a 'critical moment' in the evolution of a European society. This society so far does not offer much resistance to such critical moments which is due to its incapacity to form a demos capable of acting together. The existing European society - and this is the basic claim - is nothing but the sum of indiv…
Ökologische Kommunikation in Deutschland
Las sociedades aprenden y aún así el mundo es difícil de cambiar
Evolucin y aprendizaje son dos conceptos analticamente distintos. Las personas aprenden y an as la evolucin ("el cambio") no ocurre necesariamente. Para clarificar este problema el concepto de aprendizaje es explicado. Un primer problema tratado es la pregunta acerca de quin est aprendiendo. Aqu se propone un desplazamiento desde la perspectiva del actor individual a una perspectiva de la interaccin (utilizando los argumentos tericos de Habermas …
The making of a European civil society
The paper tries to go beyond normative debates on what should count as civil society and who is to be identified as being part of civil society by relating such normative claims to the social sites where they are produced and claimed. It starts with the idea of conceiving civil society as a script which is used by a series of collective actors. This performance is structured first by general background conceptions of what a civil society looks li…
A Theory of Collective Identity Making Sense of the Debate on a 'European Identity
This article argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In the first part, the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention of defending a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identities are narrative constructions which permit th…
Kollektive Identitäten als Netzwerke. Der Fall Europa
Las sociedades aprenden y aún así el mundo es difícil de cambiar
Evolution and learning are two analytically distinct concepts. People learn yet evolution ("change") does not necessarily take place. To clarify this problem the concept of learning is explicated. A first problem addressed is the question of who is learning. Here a shift from the single actor perspective to an interaction perspective is proposed (using Habermas and Luhmann as theoretical arguments for such a shift). Both however idealize he preco…
Europa als besonderer Kommunikationsraum
Cognitive Sociology and the Theory of Communicative Action
A pragmatic (communication-discursive) cognitive sociology beyond observationism (Luhmann, Turner, Conein) and individualistic reductionism (Esser, Boudon) as a way to do sociology as a critical theory and as a positive science is proposed, drawing on the Habermasian theory of communicative action and its radical continuation in Luhmann's concept of the (cognitive) autopoiesis of social systems
Making sense of the public sphere
Making sense of the public sphere - 1
Zwischen evolutionärer Anpassung und kognitiver Selbstorganisation?
The Positioning of Transnationally Mobile Europeans in the German Labour Market
This article analyses the economic integration of transnationally mobile Europeans into the German labour market. The measure used for the degree of integration is their relative income. Specifically, the article attempts to answer the question, whether and to which degree the integration of transnationally mobile Europeans into the labour market depends on their national origins or on their social origins. Based on the concept of transnational s…
Europe's Borders
This article argues that the social construction of the borders of Europe is the combined effect of a historical trajectory in which the construction of its outer and its inner boundaries interact. These boundaries make sense to the people because they have a narrative plausibility. On such narrative resonance, real hard borders are grounded. The idea of narrative boundary construction is embedded in a minimalist theory of identity that claims th…
The Public Sphere
The article situates the issue of the public sphere as a phenomenon that is historically bound and culturally specific. According to this point of view, the Western practices and the Western way of thinking about the public sphere appear as a historically particular way of dealing with the more general phenomenon which is the creation of a social bond beyond the family. Looking at the self-contradictory effects of the 'modern' Western public sphe…
Collective Memory and European Identity
Contents: National identities and collective memory in an enlarged Europe, Willfried Spohn. Collective Identities in Europe and European Identities: European self-understanding in the Twentieth Century, Hartmut Kaelble East-European historical bequest en route to an integrated Europe, Jerzy Jedlicki Global diaspora? European Jewish consciousness? Reflections on German Jewry and the postmodern debate, Y. Michal Bodemann. Europe, National Identitie…
The Two Faces of Europeanization
Non-synchronous events are constitutive for the social. Every society has to institutionalize synchronicity over time to make a social order of the present possible. A social world of discontinuity (i.e. a non-synchronized world) is amended by a semantics of simultaneity (i.e. a synchronized world) which makes the non-synchronous appear as synchronous. From this follows that synchronicity is a necessary illusion. Cultures of synchronicity are pow…
The Democratizing Dynamics of a European Public Sphere
The riddle of how to democratize the multi-level polity of the EU is answered by pointing to the empirical impact of an unfolding European public sphere. It is argued that there is a self-constituting dynamic of a European public sphere which abets the coupling of transnational spaces of communication with the institutional integration of the EU. From this perspective, democracy is not external to the EU, it is already part of the logic of Europe…
Hauptwerke der Ungleichheitsforschung
Die zentralen Werke der Ungleichheitsforschung werden gut verstandlich und kompakt in ihren Hauptaussagen dargestellt.
Identidades coletivas e mobilização de identidades
Os Estados nacionais contemporâneos precisam reproduzir identidades coletivas em sociedades que apresentam crescentes diferenças étnicas. Nessa situação, a ordem política se desacopla da comunidade do povo. Tal circunstância suscita questões como as seguintes: O que acontece com os sentimentos de fazer parte da nação? Como se apresentam as identidades coletivas desacopladas do Estado nacional? Referem-se ainda a uma comunidade, situada abaixo ou …
Europäische Säkularisierung — ein Sonderweg in die postsäkulare Gesellschaft
Europe's Borders
This article argues that the social construction of the borders of Europe is the combined effect of a historical trajectory in which the construction of its outer and its inner boundaries interact. These boundaries make sense to the people because they have a narrative plausibility. On such narrative resonance, real hard borders are grounded. The idea of narrative boundary construction is embedded in a minimalist theory of identity that claims th…
The Democratizing Dynamics of a European Public Sphere
The riddle of how to democratize the multi-level polity of the EU is answered by pointing to the empirical impact of an unfolding European public sphere. It is argued that there is a self-constituting dynamic of a European public sphere which abets the coupling of transnational spaces of communication with the institutional integration of the EU. From this perspective, democracy is not external to the EU, it is already part of the logic of Europe…
Zur Transformation nationalstaatlicher Öffentlichkeit in Europa
Societies Learn and yet the World is Hard to Change
Evolution and learning are two analytically distinct concepts. People learn yet evolution ('change') does not necessarily take place. To clarify this problem the concept of learning is explicated. The first problem addressed is the question of who is learning. Here a shift from the single actor perspective to an interaction perspective is proposed (using Habermas and Luhmann as theoretical arguments for such a shift). Both, however, idealize the …
Reflexive secularization? Concepts, processes and antagonisms of postsecularity
This article deals with the concepts, processes, and antagonisms that are associated with the notion of postsecularity. In light of this article's expanded interpretation of José Casanova on the secular and secularization, as well as thoughts on James A. Beckford's take on public religions, five rubrics on the postsecular derived from critical theory and an understanding of 'reflexive secularization' are presented. This term focuses on seculariza…
A Theory of Collective Identity Making Sense of the Debate on a 'European Identity
This article argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In the first part, the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention of defending a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identities are narrative constructions which permit th…
The Two Faces of Europeanization
Non-synchronous events are constitutive for the social. Every society has to institutionalize synchronicity over time to make a social order of the present possible. A social world of discontinuity (i.e. a non-synchronized world) is amended by a semantics of simultaneity (i.e. a synchronized world) which makes the non-synchronous appear as synchronous. From this follows that synchronicity is a necessary illusion. Cultures of synchronicity are pow…
The Rise of Counter-Culture Movements Against Modernity
Angesichts der vielfältigen selbstvernichtenden Krisen der modernen Gesellschaft, vor allem der ökologischen Krisen, sind in den letzten Jahren zunehmend soziale Bewegungen der Gegenkultur entstanden, deren Ziel darin besteht, die Reproduktion moderner Gesellschaften zu unterbrechen und die soziale Entwicklung der westlichen Industriestaaten besonders im Hinblick auf die globale Umweltkatastrophe zu korrigieren. Der Beitrag befaßt sich mit der Ko…
Towards a revised theory of collective learning processes
Societies change; and sociology has, since its inception, described and evaluated these changes. This article proposes a revised theory of collective learning processes, a conceptual framework which addresses ways in which people make sense of and cope with change. Drawing on Habermas' classic proposal, but shifting the focus from argumentation towards storytelling, it explains how certain articulations allow for collective learning processes (im…
Ethnische Mobilisierung und die Logik von Identitätskämpfen
Ethnische Differenzierung ist ein Phänomen, das neue Anforderungen an soziologische Theoriebildung stellt. Daß ethnische Differenzierung in modernen Gesellschaften zu einer zunehmend bedeutsamen Konfliktlinie und statusbestimmenden Variable geworden ist, hat aber über die Korrektur modernisierungstheoretischer Annahmen hinausführende Konsequenzen. Zur Disposition steht der Umgang mit askriptiven Merkmalen, ihrer identitätsbildenden Funktion und d…
A New Social Movement
“New Movements” today embrace a vast array of phenomena but can be separated into at least two types: (a) communal movements such as the youth, the feminist, and the anti-industrial movements seeking alternative relations to nature; and (b) various regional or anti-bureaucratic movements (in energy, housing or psychiatry) and, to a lesser extent, the student movement. The new movements can be best divided into cultural and political movements. Cu…
Cognitive Sociology and the Theory of Communicative Action
A pragmatic (communication-discursive) cognitive sociology beyond observationism (Luhmann, Turner, Conein) and individualistic reductionism (Esser, Boudon) as a way to do sociology as a critical theory and as a positive science is proposed, drawing on the Habermasian theory of communicative action and its radical continuation in Luhmann's concept of the (cognitive) autopoiesis of social systems
Europäische Säkularisierung — ein Sonderweg in die postsäkulare Gesellschaft
Rationalist and Normative Approaches to the Sociological Study of Law
The Public Sphere
The article situates the issue of the public sphere as a phenomenon that is historically bound and culturally specific. According to this point of view, the Western practices and the Western way of thinking about the public sphere appear as a historically particular way of dealing with the more general phenomenon which is the creation of a social bond beyond the family. Looking at the self-contradictory effects of the 'modern' Western public sphe…
Critique of Habermas's Contribution to the Sociology of Law
In his discussion of modern society, Habermas begins with Weber's thesis of a universal rationalization process within which the rationalization of law plays a central part. Thus his starting point is the classical thesis of the formal rationalization of law as advanced by Weber (1960; Schluchter, 1979). Habermas tries to show that Weber's theorizing is deficient because he underestimates the specific historical role of the materialization of law…
The making of a European civil society
The paper tries to go beyond normative debates on what should count as civil society and who is to be identified as being part of civil society by relating such normative claims to the social sites where they are produced and claimed. It starts with the idea of conceiving civil society as a script which is used by a series of collective actors. This performance is structured first by general background conceptions of what a civil society looks li…
The EU in search of its people
The article argues that the 'crisis of Europe', triggered by market and governance dysfunctionalities (summarized as the Euro crisis), represents a 'critical moment' in the evolution of a European society. This society so far does not offer much resistance to such critical moments which is due to its incapacity to form a demos capable of acting together. The existing European society - and this is the basic claim - is nothing but the sum of indiv…
The Positioning of Transnationally Mobile Europeans in the German Labour Market
This article analyses the economic integration of transnationally mobile Europeans into the German labour market. The measure used for the degree of integration is their relative income. Specifically, the article attempts to answer the question, whether and to which degree the integration of transnationally mobile Europeans into the labour market depends on their national origins or on their social origins. Based on the concept of transnational s…
Identidades coletivas e mobilização de identidades
Os Estados nacionais contemporâneos precisam reproduzir identidades coletivas em sociedades que apresentam crescentes diferenças étnicas. Nessa situação, a ordem política se desacopla da comunidade do povo. Tal circunstância suscita questões como as seguintes: O que acontece com os sentimentos de fazer parte da nação? Como se apresentam as identidades coletivas desacopladas do Estado nacional? Referem-se ainda a uma comunidade, situada abaixo ou …
A classe social tem importância no estudo dos movimentos sociais? Uma teoria do radicalismo da classe média
O artigo trata da questão da relação constitutiva entre classe social e movimento social. Em vez de ver um movimento social como o resultado de uma classe social, argumenta-se que uma classe social é constituída também pelas ações coletivas que chamamos de movimento social. Isso implica que a classe social não pode ser tratada como uma variável independente que reivindica um status objetivo como tal. Essa é considerada uma forma de reificação da …
As sociedades aprendem, mas o mundo é difícil de mudar
Aprendizado não é o mesmo que evolução cultural. O aprendizado social não muda o mundo, mas fornece os elementos para mudá-lo. Promove um incremento de variação, aumentando o escopo de possibilidades de evolução
The Social Construction of Nature
Europe as a narrative laboratory. Klaus Eder on European identity, populist stories, and the acid bath of irony
After an introduction by Sren Carlson that summarizes key aspects of Klaus Eder's theorizing regarding the role of narratives for the symbolic construction of "Europe" and European identity, the ensuing conversation between the two addresses some of the subsequent issues arising from this work. It thus deals, inter alia, with the concept of narrative resonance, the relation between narrative and network structures, and the (neglected) role of nar…
Europa als besonderer Kommunikationsraum
Rationalist and Normative Approaches to the Sociological Study of Law
A New Social Movement
“New Movements” today embrace a vast array of phenomena but can be separated into at least two types: (a) communal movements such as the youth, the feminist, and the anti-industrial movements seeking alternative relations to nature; and (b) various regional or anti-bureaucratic movements (in energy, housing or psychiatry) and, to a lesser extent, the student movement. The new movements can be best divided into cultural and political movements. Cu…
The Origin of Class Societies
A systems approach first identifies the problems relevant to a system and then specifies its possible goals. System integration is achieved by way of processes of exchange which establish social relationships among the members of the society. Social integration is established within the framework of kinship structures, which supply the motivation for social conduct. The socioeconomic state of nature, which is the point of departure of primitive e…
Critique of Habermas's Contribution to the Sociology of Law
In his discussion of modern society, Habermas begins with Weber's thesis of a universal rationalization process within which the rationalization of law plays a central part. Thus his starting point is the classical thesis of the formal rationalization of law as advanced by Weber (1960; Schluchter, 1979). Habermas tries to show that Weber's theorizing is deficient because he underestimates the specific historical role of the materialization of law…
The Rise of Counter-Culture Movements Against Modernity
Angesichts der vielfältigen selbstvernichtenden Krisen der modernen Gesellschaft, vor allem der ökologischen Krisen, sind in den letzten Jahren zunehmend soziale Bewegungen der Gegenkultur entstanden, deren Ziel darin besteht, die Reproduktion moderner Gesellschaften zu unterbrechen und die soziale Entwicklung der westlichen Industriestaaten besonders im Hinblick auf die globale Umweltkatastrophe zu korrigieren. Der Beitrag befaßt sich mit der Ko…
Au-delà du sujet historique
Klaus Eder, Beyond the Historical Subject. Towards a Theoretical Construction of Collective Actors Instead of relying upon sweeping theoretical generalizations and functional explanations social theory should give a more sophisticated account of social action that produces and reproduces social reality. This above alla applies to macrotheoretical accounts of the role and function of social classes as collective historical actors. In order to avoi…
The new politics of class
The New Politics of Class
INTRODUCTION CLASS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Bringing Classes Back into the Theory of Society Culture as the Missing Link Between Class and Collective Action PART ONE: MODERNIZING THE NOTION OF CLASS Contradictions and Social Evolution A Theory of the Role of Class in the Production of Modernity Beyond Class as a Historical Subject Towards a Theoretical Construction of Collective Actors PART TWO: RECONNECTING CULTURE AND CLASS Culture and Class Bourdi…
Geschichte als Lernprozess
Diskontinuierliche Erwerbsverläufe
Die Dynamik Demokratischer Institutionenbildung
Zur biographischen Normalisierung diskontinuierlicher Erwerbsverläufe. Eine Analyse erwerbsbiographischer Deutungsmuster und Handlungsorientierungen
In der qualitativen Sozialforschung bereitet die Darstellung1 bzw. Präsentation des Materials und der Forschungsergebnisse bekanntlich einige Schwierigkeiten.2 Prinzipiell bewegt man sich zwischen zwei Polen. Entweder wird versucht, den Interpretationsgang — die Entfaltung und das Verwerfen von Lesarten, das langsame Herausschälen einer Fallstruktur — möglichst genau anhand der Interpretationsprotokolle nachzuzeichnen. Oder es wird ergebnishaft z…
The social construction of nature
The Social Construction of Nature is a critical examination of the relationship between nature and culture. Eder demonstrates that our ideas of nature are culturally determined and explains how the interaction between modern industrial societies and nature is increasingly violent and destructive. Through a careful analysis of symbolism, ritual and taboo, Eder questions the view of nature as an object. Showing how nature is socially constructed, t…
Green Networks
Ökologische Kommunikation in Deutschland
Einleitung: Naturschutz- und Umweltdiskurs in Deutschland. Zur historischen Verortung okologischer Kommunikation / Die theoretische Perspektive / Okologische Kommunikation in den Printmedien / Von der Konfrontation zum inszenierten Dialog / Anhang.
The Social Construction of Nature
The Social Construction of Nature
The Institutionalisation of Environmentalism
Gibt es Regenmacher? Vom Nutzen des Konstruktivismus in der soziologischen Analyse der Natur
Was ist der Nutzen des Konstruktivismus? Diese Frage konkurriert mit der derzeit dominierenden Frage: Was sind die Grenzen des Konstruktivismus? Die Soziologie der Natur ist sicherlich jene Soziologie, in der sich diese beiden Fragen besonders scharf stellen lassen, sind doch natürliche Phänomene und Prozesse besonders „harte Fakten“, die sich einem konstruktivistischen Zugriff eher sperren. Haben die Soziologen, die sich den konstruktivistischen…
(Staats)Bürgerschaft — ein analytisch brauchbares Konzept für die Soziologie
Ethnische Mobilisierung und die Logik von Identitätskämpfen
Ethnische Differenzierung ist ein Phänomen, das neue Anforderungen an soziologische Theoriebildung stellt. Daß ethnische Differenzierung in modernen Gesellschaften zu einer zunehmend bedeutsamen Konfliktlinie und statusbestimmenden Variable geworden ist, hat aber über die Korrektur modernisierungstheoretischer Annahmen hinausführende Konsequenzen. Zur Disposition steht der Umgang mit askriptiven Merkmalen, ihrer identitätsbildenden Funktion und d…
The Social Construction of Nature
The Social Construction of Nature
Introduction PART ONE: A SOCIAL THEORY OF NATURE The Theoretical Construction of Nature A Critique of Naturalistic Theories of Evolution The Evolution of the Societal Relationship to Nature as a Learning Process? An Ecological Critique of Practical Reason PART TWO: FROM NATURE TO CULTURE Culinary Morality A Comparative Analysis of Food Taboos Carnivorous and Vegetarian Culture Two Models of the Symbolic Organization of Society The Modern Discours…
Societies Learn and yet the World is Hard to Change
Evolution and learning are two analytically distinct concepts. People learn yet evolution ('change') does not necessarily take place. To clarify this problem the concept of learning is explicated. The first problem addressed is the question of who is learning. Here a shift from the single actor perspective to an interaction perspective is proposed (using Habermas and Luhmann as theoretical arguments for such a shift). Both, however, idealize the …
Citizenship, Markets, and the State
As the neo-liberal marketization of citizenship and the resulting processes of individualization proceed, debates on citizenship tend to flounder in outmoded ideological oppositions. By examining concrete cases and processes that accompany contemporary practices of citizenship, this volume brings analytical clarity to contemporary debates about citizenship. The state, the market and the forum are analysed as competing fields of citizenship practi…
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