Clemens Kroneberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 101063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clemens Kroneberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clemens |
| FAMILY NAME | Kroneberg |
| SIGNATURE | KRONEBERG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8838-1087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 360 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Dual-Process and Framing Models in Sociology: European Contributions and Cross-Disciplinary Bridges
Human behavior can vary markedly across situations, yet it at times exhibits striking persistence. To account for these characteristics, cognitive sociologists have focused on two aspects: how situational cues—including the presence and behavior of others—activate mental structures and predispositions, such as schemas, frames, or repertoires, and how behavior is governed by dual processes, whether through autonomous, associative activation or con…
When does a provocation demand a violent response? A randomized scenario study of the code of the street
Elijah Anderson’s seminal work on the “Code of the Street” details how individuals use violence to defend and gain respect in violent neighborhoods. We provide his account with choice-theoretic foundations to derive hypotheses on how individuals’ willingness to use violence depends on their street code beliefs, the strength of provocation, and their exposure to violence in their neighborhoods. Using data from a survey of 10th graders in 46 school…
The Self-Control Ability Scale: Measuring a Key Construct of Situational Action Theory
Situational Action Theory (SAT) has emerged as a prominent theory of crime and delinquency. It includes a new conceptualization of self-control, which emphasizes its role in enabling individuals to adhere to their morality when deliberating about deviant and non-deviant action alternatives. However, existing self-control scales do not directly capture this role of self-control as a guardian of personal morality when externally challenged. To clos…
When Violence Is Not an Option: Perceived Choice Sets and Differential Deterrability Among Adolescents in Germany
The idea that individuals differ in their perceived choice sets or repertoires has a long tradition in criminology and is a common ingredient of modern choice theories. We test this assumption in a large-scale school survey of seventh graders in Germany. Eliciting perceived action alternatives in a provocation scenario, we examine the frequency of purely non-violent, purely violent, and mixed repertoires. Our results confirm that a large share of…
How classroom composition affects social trust in secondary schools: The role of attribute alignment
Re-print of: Contextualizing oppositional cultures: A multilevel network analysis of status orders in schools
Different lines of research have argued that specific groups, such as boys or ethnic minorities, are more prone to develop an anti-school culture than others, leading to group differences in the social acceptance of high performers. Taking an ecological view, we ask to what extent the school context promotes or prevents the emergence of group-specific oppositional cultures. Theoretically, we argue that group-based oppositional cultures become mor…
Verallgemeinerbarkeit und Engführung von Gütekriterien . Replik auf den Kommentar „Jenseits der Lagerbildung“
In diesem Beitrag setzen wir uns mit den Anmerkungen von Franz Erhard und Robert Schäfer zu unserem Artikel „Gütekriterien in der Soziologie“ auseinander. Wir gehen auf vier Aspekte ein: (1) die Frage, ob allgemeine, transdisziplinäre Anforderungen wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens in einen Gütekriterienkatalog gehören und ob der Gegenstandsbereich der Soziologie disziplinspezifische Kriterien erfordert; (2) den Einwand, dass die Kopplung unseres Theo…
Critères de qualité de la recherche en sociologie: Une perspective analytique-empirique
L'article développe un catalogue de onze critères de qualité scientifique pour la recherche sociologique à partir d'une perspective analytique-empirique. Ce catalogue de critères comprend des exigences de qualité pour le développement de la théorie et de la recherche empirique. Une distinction est faite entre deux critères de base qui traitent de l'ensemble du processus de recherche, neuf critères fondamentaux qui traitent chacun des étapes succe…
Mode of contact and mood changes during the Covid-19 pandemic: A daily diary study during school closures and re-opened schools
The emotional consequences of online social contact in adolescents are a controversial topic. Social interactions and membership in social groups have been identified as essential protection against negative mood. However, different modes of online and offline communication differ in their ability to satisfy the individuals' need for social closeness. Using a daily diary study, the current work investigated how in-person contact, text messaging, …
The Ethnic Lens: Social Networks and the Salience of Ethnicity in the School Context
Research on ethnic segregation in schools regularly assumed that ethnic homophily—the tendency to befriend same-ethnic peers, above and beyond other mechanisms of tie formation—is associated with salient ethnic boundaries. We devise a more direct test of this assumption based on a novel measure of ethno-racial group perceptions. In a network study of more than 3000 students in 39 schools of a metropolitan region in Germany, we asked students to i…
Gütekriterien in der Soziologie: Eine analytisch-empirische Perspektive
Der Artikel entwickelt einen Katalog von elf wissenschaftlichen Gütekriterien für soziologische Forschungsarbeiten aus einer analytisch-empirischen Perspektive. Der Kriterienkatalog umfasst Qualitätsanforderungen an die Theorieentwicklung und die empirische Sozialforschung. Unterschieden werden zwei Basiskriterien, die den gesamten Forschungsprozess betreffen, neun Kernkriterien, die an einzelnen Etappen dieses Prozesses ansetzen, und eine Reihe …
Using police data to measure criminogenic exposure in residential and school contexts: Experiences from a data linkage project in Germany
Police data and survey research provide different bases to inform research on crime and delinquency. We argue that linking police data on local crime incidences to criminological surveys allows for new insights on the role of residential and school contexts for juvenile delinquency and violence. We describe the challenges and solutions of combining these data sources in a collaboration between the state police of North Rhine-Westphalia – Germany’…
Action
To clarify the different roles attributed to action theories in analytical sociology, we distinguish between a weak and a strong program of action theory. Avoiding the debates about “rationality” that have occupied rational choice scholars, the weak program pragmatically employs different and often simple behavioral rules, directing most attention to modelling social dynamics. In contrast, the strong program holds onto the desirability of a theor…
Analytic Criminology: Mechanisms and Methods in the Explanation of Crime and its Causes
Criminology is a smorgasbord of disparate theory and poorly integrated research findings. Theories tend to focus either on people's crime propensity or the criminogenic inducements of environments; rarely are these two main approaches effectively combined in the analysis of crime and its causes. Criminological research often either avoids questions of causation and explanation (e.g., risk factor approach) or is based on research designs that yiel…
Contextualizing oppositional cultures: The variable significance of gender and ethnic minority status across schools
When Ethnicity and Gender Align: Classroom Composition, Friendship Segregation, and Collective Identities in European Schools
Using survey data on school classes in four European countries, we study how the social relations and identities of adolescents develop depending on the degree to which ethnic and gender boundaries align with each other. Minority students will have mostly same-ethnic friends, we find, when classmates of different ethnic origins tend to be of the opposite sex as well. Within such local topographies of boundaries, minority students will also end up…
Who is fighting with whom? How ethnic origin shapes friendship, dislike, and physical violence relations in German secondary schools
This study examines the role of ethnic background for friendship, dislike, and violence networks in secondary school. We analyze data on multiple networks from a large-scale study of more than 2500 seventh-graders in Germany. In addition to ethnic homophily in friendship networks, our results reveal a tendency among students to dislike ethnic outgroup members (ethnic heterophobia). However, students are more likely to engage in violence towards s…
Theory Development in Comparative Social Research
More Than a Sorting Machine: Ethnic Boundary Making in a Stratified School System
This article examines the structural conditions that shape ethnic boundary making in the school setting. While previous work has focused on the ethnic composition of student bodies, this study places schools in their institutional and local contexts. The authors argue that the formation of identities and networks varies across local areas depending on the extent of ethnic stratification across schools. Empirically, the authors turn to the case of…
Ethnic Discrimination in the German Housing Market: A Field Experiment on the Underlying Mechanisms
Ethnic discrimination in the housing market has long been seen as a cause of residential segregation and social inequality. While research has investigated the existence and extent of discrimination with regard to written applications for housing, little is known about personal inquiries via telephone. This study reports on findings from a telephone audit study that has allowed us to estimate the impact of (ethnic) accents and to distinguish betw…
Institutional trust and the provision of public goods: When do individual costs matter? The case of recycling
This research asks whether and how institutional trust-trust in the reliability, effectiveness, and legitimacy of public institutions-promotes the provision of public goods. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we apply three choice models to the example of recycling behavior: a standard rational choice model, the low-cost hypothesis, and a dual-process theory. The models carry competing hypotheses about the interplay of trust and incentives …
Between Mechanism Talk And Mechanism Cult: New Emphases in Explanatory Sociology And Empirical Research
Understanding Merton: Eine Erwiderung auf Christian Fleck und Albert Müller
Language Boundaries and the Subjective Well-Being of Immigrants in Europe
This study contributes to the growing literature on social and ethnic boundaries by tracing the impact of symbolic language boundaries in 20 European countries. Using data from the 2002–03 wave of the European Social Survey, we show that the language boundaries drawn in different host societies affect the subjective well-being of first- and second-generation immigrants. Confirming theoretical expectations, we find that symbolic boundaries only in…
Die Rettung von Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Eine handlungstheoretische und empirische Analyse
The Interplay of Moral Norms and Instrumental Incentives in Crime Causation
Rational choice theories (RCTs) of crime assume actors behave in an instrumental, outcome‐oriented way. Accordingly, individuals should weight the costs and benefits of criminal acts with subjective probabilities that these outcomes will occur. Previous studies either do not directly test this central hypothesis or else yield inconsistent results. We show that a meaningful test can be conducted only if a broader view is adopted that takes into ac…
Rational Choice Theory and Empirical Research: Methodological and Theoretical Contributions in Europe
Rational choice theory (RCT) constitutes a major approach of sociological theorizing and research in Europe. We review key methodological and theoretical contributions that have arisen from the increasing empirical application of RCT and have the potential to stimulate the development of RCT and sociology more generally. Methodologically, discussions have evolved around how to test RCT empirically and how to realize its ambition to give theory-gu…
More Than a Sorting Machine: Ethnic Boundary Making in a Stratified School System
This article examines the structural conditions that shape ethnic boundary making in the school setting. While previous work has focused on the ethnic composition of student bodies, this study places schools in their institutional and local contexts. The authors argue that the formation of identities and networks varies across local areas depending on the extent of ethnic stratification across schools. Empirically, the authors turn to the case of…
Die Definition der Situation und die variable Rationalität der Akteure / The Definition of the Situation and the Variable Rationality of Actors: Ein allgemeines Modell des Handelns / A General Model o…
Im Beitrag wird ein allgemeines Modell des Handelns auf der Basis von Hartmut Essers Frame-Selektionstheorie entwickelt, das die zentralen Einwände gegen die bisherigen Formalisierungen der Theorie überwindet. Das Modell erklärt, welche Definition der Situation ein Akteur vornimmt (Frame-Selektion), welches Programm des Handelns er heranzieht (Skript-Selektion) und welches Handeln er auszuführen versucht (Handlungsselektion). Ausgehend von der An…
Die Erklärung Sozialen Handelns: Grundlagen und Anwendung Einer Integrativen Theorie
Die Erklärung sozialen Handelns ist eine Kernaufgabe der Sozialwissenschaften. Ausgehend von den beiden Konzepten der Definition der Situation und der variablen Rationalität der Akteure entwickelt der
Ethnic Communities and School Performance among the New Second Generation in the United States: Testing the Theory of Segmented Assimilation
This article examines the theory of segmented assimilation, which traces the divergent adaptation of immigrant children in the post-1969 wave to the nature of reception by U.S. society, access to social capital through ethnic communities, and exposure to oppositional cultures of marginalized domestic minorities. The article provides a test of those arguments in the area of school performance. Based on data from the Children of Immigrants Longitud…
Ethnic Discrimination in the German Housing Market: A Field Experiment on the Underlying Mechanisms
Ethnic discrimination in the housing market has long been seen as a cause of residential segregation and social inequality. While research has investigated the existence and extent of discrimination with regard to written applications for housing, little is known about personal inquiries via telephone. This study reports on findings from a telephone audit study that has allowed us to estimate the impact of (ethnic) accents and to distinguish betw…
Norms and Rationality in Electoral Participation and in the Rescue of Jews in WWII: An Application of the Model of Frame Selection
The rescue of Jews in WWII and electoral participation both constitute prominent puzzles for rational choice theories of human behavior and have given rise to lengthy debates about norms and rationality. To explain both phenomena, we apply the Model of Frame Selection. This theory of action provides an integrated account of norms and rationality, where cost-benefit calculus is replaced by unconditional norm conformity if actors hold strongly acti…
Wertrationalität und das Modell der Frame-Selektion
Struggling over the Boundaries of Belonging: A Formal Model of Nation Building, Ethnic Closure, and Populism
This article explores the conditions under which political modernization leads to nation building, to the politicization of ethnic cleavages, or to populism by modeling these three outcomes as more or less encompassing exchange relationships between state elites, counterelites, and the population. Actors seek coalitions that grant them the most advantageous exchange of taxation against public goods and of military support against political partic…
Analytic Criminology: Mechanisms and Methods in the Explanation of Crime and its Causes
Criminology is a smorgasbord of disparate theory and poorly integrated research findings. Theories tend to focus either on people's crime propensity or the criminogenic inducements of environments; rarely are these two main approaches effectively combined in the analysis of crime and its causes. Criminological research often either avoids questions of causation and explanation (e.g., risk factor approach) or is based on research designs that yiel…
Language Boundaries and the Subjective Well-Being of Immigrants in Europe
This study contributes to the growing literature on social and ethnic boundaries by tracing the impact of symbolic language boundaries in 20 European countries. Using data from the 2002–03 wave of the European Social Survey, we show that the language boundaries drawn in different host societies affect the subjective well-being of first- and second-generation immigrants. Confirming theoretical expectations, we find that symbolic boundaries only in…
Die Low-Cost-Hypothese: Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Implikationen
When Ethnicity and Gender Align: Classroom Composition, Friendship Segregation, and Collective Identities in European Schools
Using survey data on school classes in four European countries, we study how the social relations and identities of adolescents develop depending on the degree to which ethnic and gender boundaries align with each other. Minority students will have mostly same-ethnic friends, we find, when classmates of different ethnic origins tend to be of the opposite sex as well. Within such local topographies of boundaries, minority students will also end up…
Theory Development in Comparative Social Research
Contextualizing oppositional cultures: The variable significance of gender and ethnic minority status across schools
Institutional trust and the provision of public goods: When do individual costs matter? The case of recycling
This research asks whether and how institutional trust-trust in the reliability, effectiveness, and legitimacy of public institutions-promotes the provision of public goods. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we apply three choice models to the example of recycling behavior: a standard rational choice model, the low-cost hypothesis, and a dual-process theory. The models carry competing hypotheses about the interplay of trust and incentives …
Between Mechanism Talk And Mechanism Cult: New Emphases in Explanatory Sociology And Empirical Research
Die Rettung von Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Eine handlungstheoretische und empirische Analyse
The Ethnic Lens: Social Networks and the Salience of Ethnicity in the School Context
Research on ethnic segregation in schools regularly assumed that ethnic homophily—the tendency to befriend same-ethnic peers, above and beyond other mechanisms of tie formation—is associated with salient ethnic boundaries. We devise a more direct test of this assumption based on a novel measure of ethno-racial group perceptions. In a network study of more than 3000 students in 39 schools of a metropolitan region in Germany, we asked students to i…
Gütekriterien in der Soziologie: Eine analytisch-empirische Perspektive
Der Artikel entwickelt einen Katalog von elf wissenschaftlichen Gütekriterien für soziologische Forschungsarbeiten aus einer analytisch-empirischen Perspektive. Der Kriterienkatalog umfasst Qualitätsanforderungen an die Theorieentwicklung und die empirische Sozialforschung. Unterschieden werden zwei Basiskriterien, die den gesamten Forschungsprozess betreffen, neun Kernkriterien, die an einzelnen Etappen dieses Prozesses ansetzen, und eine Reihe …
Mode of contact and mood changes during the Covid-19 pandemic: A daily diary study during school closures and re-opened schools
The emotional consequences of online social contact in adolescents are a controversial topic. Social interactions and membership in social groups have been identified as essential protection against negative mood. However, different modes of online and offline communication differ in their ability to satisfy the individuals' need for social closeness. Using a daily diary study, the current work investigated how in-person contact, text messaging, …
Understanding Merton: Eine Erwiderung auf Christian Fleck und Albert Müller
Die Definition der Situation und die variable Rationalität der Akteure / The Definition of the Situation and the Variable Rationality of Actors: Ein allgemeines Modell des Handelns / A General Model o…
Im Beitrag wird ein allgemeines Modell des Handelns auf der Basis von Hartmut Essers Frame-Selektionstheorie entwickelt, das die zentralen Einwände gegen die bisherigen Formalisierungen der Theorie überwindet. Das Modell erklärt, welche Definition der Situation ein Akteur vornimmt (Frame-Selektion), welches Programm des Handelns er heranzieht (Skript-Selektion) und welches Handeln er auszuführen versucht (Handlungsselektion). Ausgehend von der An…
Wertrationalität und das Modell der Frame-Selektion
Zur Interpretation und empirischen Widerlegbarkeit des Modells der Frame-Selektion / On the Interpretation and Empirical Falsifiability of the Model of Frame Selection: Eine Erwiderung auf Christian E…
Article Zur Interpretation und empirischen Widerlegbarkeit des Modells der Frame-Selektion / On the Interpretation and Empirical Falsifiability of the Model of Frame Selection was published on June 1, 2008 in the journal Zeitschrift für Soziologie (volume 37, issue 3)
Ethnic Communities and School Performance among the New Second Generation in the United States: Testing the Theory of Segmented Assimilation
This article examines the theory of segmented assimilation, which traces the divergent adaptation of immigrant children in the post-1969 wave to the nature of reception by U.S. society, access to social capital through ethnic communities, and exposure to oppositional cultures of marginalized domestic minorities. The article provides a test of those arguments in the area of school performance. Based on data from the Children of Immigrants Longitud…
The Interplay of Moral Norms and Instrumental Incentives in Crime Causation
Rational choice theories (RCTs) of crime assume actors behave in an instrumental, outcome‐oriented way. Accordingly, individuals should weight the costs and benefits of criminal acts with subjective probabilities that these outcomes will occur. Previous studies either do not directly test this central hypothesis or else yield inconsistent results. We show that a meaningful test can be conducted only if a broader view is adopted that takes into ac…
Norms and Rationality in Electoral Participation and in the Rescue of Jews in WWII: An Application of the Model of Frame Selection
The rescue of Jews in WWII and electoral participation both constitute prominent puzzles for rational choice theories of human behavior and have given rise to lengthy debates about norms and rationality. To explain both phenomena, we apply the Model of Frame Selection. This theory of action provides an integrated account of norms and rationality, where cost-benefit calculus is replaced by unconditional norm conformity if actors hold strongly acti…
Variable Rationalität in soziologischen Handlungstheorien
Annahmen über den Grad der Rationalität von Handlungen stellen ein zentrales Merkmal dar, hinsichtlich dessen sich handlungstheoretisch fundierte Ansätze in der Soziologie unterscheiden lassen (Alexander 1988: 307). Wie schon bei der Betonung der Vorstruktunerung des Handelns durch die Definition der Situation des Akteurs treten auch hier nahezu alle soziologischen Ansätze in explizite Opposition zum ökonomischen Handlungsmodell. Bei der Definiti…
Die Bedeutung der Handlungstheorie für soziologische Erklärungen
In diesem wissenschaftstheoretischen Kapitel geht es darum, die Bedeutung der Handlungstheorie für soziologische Erklärungen herauszuarbeiten und Kriterien für die Beurteilung soziologischer Handlungstheorien zu gewinnen. Dabei werden instrumentalistische Verständnisse der Handlungsmeorie als unzureichend zurückgewiesen. Stattdessen wird, ausgehend von der Heterogemtät soziologischer Fragestellungen, das Kriterium der Modulierbarkeit betont. Aus …
Zwischenbetrachtung: Die Vielfalt soziologischer Handlungskonzepte und das Ziel einer erklärenden integrativen Handlungstheorie
Angesichts der Liste der diskutierten Autoren kann man die Definition der Situation und die variable Rationalität der Akteure mit gutem Recht als Kernkonzepte der soziologischen handlungstheoretischen Tradition bezeichnen. Die Darstellung ergibt allerdings nicht nur das Bild gemeinsamer Grundthemen, sondern auch das einer ausgesprochenen Vielfalt in der verwendeten Terminologie und den betrachteten Aspekten. Dies wirft die Frage auf, wie mit dies…
Die Definition der Situation in soziologischen Handlungstheorien
Das Konzept der Definition der Situation ist eines der einflussreichsten handlungstheoretischen Konzepte innerhalb der Soziologie. Eine Situation zu definieren heißt, ihr eine bestimmte Interpretation zu geben, also eine bestimmte Situationsdeutung vorzunehmen. Dabei gilt nach William Isaac Thomas berühmter Formulierung: „Wenn Menschen Situationen als real definieren, so sind auch ihre Folgen real.“ (Thomas 1965; Thomas und Thomas 1928). Das Thom…
Die Rettung von Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Im folgenden Kapitel wende ich mich einem weiteren Rätsel des Handelns zu: Der Rettung von Juden während des Zweiten Weltkriegs im von den Nationalsozialisten beherrschten Europa. Verglichen mit der Beteiligung an demokratischen Wahlen, welche erst aus der theoretischen Perspektive eines engen RC-Ansatzes rätselhaft wird, handelt es sich hierbei um ein wahrhaft außergewöhnliches soziales Phänomen. Es gab nicht viele Retter von Juden während des Z…
Wahlteilnahme in Demokratien
Die Wahlteilnahme wurde sowohl als einfachster als auch als wichtigster Akt politischer Partizipation in Demokratien bezeichnet (Aldrich 1993; Brady, Verba und Schlozman 1995). Es verwundert daher wenig, dass das anfängliche Unvermögen des RC-Ansatzes, dieses politische Handeln zu erklären, seit jeher das prominenteste Beispiel der empirischen Kritik am RC-Ansatz bildet. Die klassische RC-Analyse von Downs ergab, dass sich ein rationaler Entschei…
Schlussbemerkungen
Die wesentlichen Schlussfolgerungen aus den theoretischen Diskussionen und empirischen Analysen wurden bereits am Ende der einzelnen Kapitel gezogen Abschließend wird im Folgenden noch einmal auf das Verhältnis zwischen dem MFS und anderen Ansätzen, insbesondere dem RC-Ansatz eingegangen. Zudem werden Grenzen des MFS und der hier durchgeführten Analysen benannt und mögliche Perspektiven für zukünftige Anwendungen und Weiterentwicklungen aufgezeig…
Das Modell der Frame-Selektion (MFS)
Das Modell der Frame-Selektion (MFS) greift die soziologischen Einsichten in die Bedeutung der Definition der Situation und der variablen Rationalität auf und überführt sie in eine erklärende Handlungstheorie. Da diese Konzepte durchaus facettenreich und mehrdeutig sind, wird im folgenden Abschnitt zunächst eine Reihe von Spezifizierungen vorgenommen. Gleichzeitig werden die Grundgedanken der Frame-Selektionstheorie dargestellt, wie sie von Hartm…
Einleitung
Die Erklärung sozialen Handelns stellt einen Kernbestandteil soziologischer Erklärungen dar. Diese Auffassung findet sich bereits in Max Webers berühmter Gegenstandsbestimmung des Faches und durchzieht die auf Talcott Parsons’ Synthese-Versuch (Parsons 1937) folgende Diskussion in und zwischen den diversen soziologischen Paradigmen (siehe Alexander 1988; Emirbayer und Mische 1998; Schmid 2004). Dabei hat sich weitgehend die Ansicht durchgesetzt, …
Der Rational-Choice-Ansatz (RC-Ansatz)
Der Rational-Choice-Ansatz (RC-Ansatz) bildet einen zentralen theoretischen Bezugspunkt dieser Arbeit. Die Bezeichnung RC-Ansatz wird im Folgenden als Sammelbegriff für eine Vielzahl von Theorien verwendet, die trotz ihrer Heterogenität gewisse Grundannahmen teilen.
Die Analyse sozialer Interaktionsprozesse im Modell der Frame-Selektion
In den dargestellten empirischen Analysen stand der Test situationaler und handlungsgenerierender Mechanismen (Hedström und Swedberg 1998) im Vordergrund. Die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten des MFS erstrecken sich jedoch auch auf die Analyse sozialer Prozesse. Generell wird das MFS der in Kapitel 1 herausgearbeiteten Bedeutung der Handlungstheorie für soziologische Erklärungen aus zwei Gründen besonders gerecht: Erstens erlaubt es unterschiedlich komple…
Soziale Differenzierung und Demokratisierung. Zur Mikrofundierung einer modernisierungstheoretischen These
Für die Modernisierungstheorie sind soziale Differenzierung und die Herausbildung demokratischer politischer Regime Bestandteile eines übergreifenden historischen Prozesses (Lipset 1981; Parsons 1967, 1972). Soziale Differenzierung als Prozess meint dabei die zunehmende Etablierung spezifischer Geltungskontexte für bestimmte Werte und Oberziele, in deren Folge sich unter anderem Religion, Wissenschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft als relativ autonome …
Herausforderungen einer handlungstheoretisch fundierten Differenzierungstheorie – zur Einleitung
Das Konzept der sozialen Differenzierung erscheint unerlässlich für die Beschreibung und Analyse moderner Gesellschaften. In diesen stehen sich unter anderem Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Religion und Kunst als verschiedene Ordnungen mit je eigenen kulturellen Leitideen gegenüber. Dieses Ensemble unterscheidet moderne Gesellschaften von Gesellschaften, in denen weder verschiedene institutionalisierte Ordnungen noch klar artikulierte untersch…
Soziale Differenzierung: Handlungstheoretische Zugänge in der Diskussion
Die Erklärung Sozialen Handelns: Grundlagen und Anwendung Einer Integrativen Theorie
Die Erklärung sozialen Handelns ist eine Kernaufgabe der Sozialwissenschaften. Ausgehend von den beiden Konzepten der Definition der Situation und der variablen Rationalität der Akteure entwickelt der
Die Rettung von Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Eine handlungstheoretische und empirische Analyse
Die Low-Cost-Hypothese: Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Implikationen
Rational Choice Theory and Empirical Research: Methodological and Theoretical Contributions in Europe
Rational choice theory (RCT) constitutes a major approach of sociological theorizing and research in Europe. We review key methodological and theoretical contributions that have arisen from the increasing empirical application of RCT and have the potential to stimulate the development of RCT and sociology more generally. Methodologically, discussions have evolved around how to test RCT empirically and how to realize its ambition to give theory-gu…
Struggling over the Boundaries of Belonging: A Formal Model of Nation Building, Ethnic Closure, and Populism
This article explores the conditions under which political modernization leads to nation building, to the politicization of ethnic cleavages, or to populism by modeling these three outcomes as more or less encompassing exchange relationships between state elites, counterelites, and the population. Actors seek coalitions that grant them the most advantageous exchange of taxation against public goods and of military support against political partic…
Political science (25 works) · Philosophy (21 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Humanities (15 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Ethnic group (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economics (9 works)