Patrick Sachweh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 106392 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick Sachweh |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | Sachweh |
| FIRMA | SACHWEH P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8506-5203 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
What Has Become of Verstehen in Sociology? A Comparison of Developments in Qualitative-Interpretive and Quantitative-Analytical Research
Verstehen has been a central concept in sociology since its institutionalization as a discipline. Yet its precise meaning, methodological status, and relationship to other epistemological objectives remain contested. This paper examines what has become of Verstehen across the qualitative-interpretive and the quantitative-analytical traditions, focusing on three issues that have been underexplored so far. First, we discuss how Verstehen is, or can…
Polarisierung von den Rändern denken
Effort versus Advantage
In this comment, the authors reevaluate the claim put forward by Mijs that popular belief in meritocracy has increased across a broad range of countries during recent decades of rising inequality. The authors contend that belief in meritocracy should be understood as the relative importance people ascribe to hard work versus structural factors, rather than hard work alone. Building on data from the International Social Survey Programme used in th…
Restoring or transforming the economy? How institutional actors in Germany and Italy framed Covid-19 economic policies
COVID-19 has deeply affected the economy in Europe and worldwide. We investigate how key institutional actors – ministries, trade associations, and trade unions – made sense of the economic relief policies adopted from the crisis outbreak to its containment. We compare Italy and Germany as two contrasting cases, characterised by varying economic conditions prior to the crisis and differing capacities to cushion their economic impact. Twitter/X te…
Contingencies of Solidarity
The article examines different articulations of solidarity discourse in Germany and in Italy during the COVID-19 crisis, demonstrating how its meanings varied between the two countries in conjunction with national contingencies influencing how the crisis was experienced. Text analysis with Twitter\X data is used to compare how the term was framed during the crisis. The two countries were selected based on their differing socio-economic, cultural,…
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany
This paper investigates which factors shape popular support for the taxation of wealth in Germany, a country with one of the highest levels of wealth inequality in Western Europe. Although public support for progressive taxation in general is strong, no tax on personal net wealth is currently levied. Against this backdrop, we ask how objective and subjective self-interest, information about wealth inequality and deservingness valuations regarding…
Die Zurückgelassenen. Subjektive Deutungsmuster von Statustrajektorien der Abwertung
Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Debatten über die Rolle des sozialen Status für politische Einstellungen untersucht der Beitrag in einer qualitativen Interviewstudie die Vielgestaltigkeit, Funktionen und Folgen des biographischen Deutungsmusters des „Zurückgelassenwerdens“. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, welche Bedeutung biographische Erfahrungsaufschichtungen und langfristige soziale Flugbahnen – sogenannte Statustrajektorien – für die aktuelle eigen…
Social Integration
Is the social integration of contemporary Western societies at risk? We will not provide an answer to this question, which is high on the political agenda. Instead, in our introduction to this special issue, we first offer conceptual clarifications. What is a theoretically sound and empirically useful understanding of the social integration of modern societies? Second, we ask three basic questions for which adequate answers have not yet been foun…
What We Have Learned About Social Integration
This chapter concludes the special issue on social integration and makes three additional contributions. First, we discuss how the featured articles employ the concept of social integration that we have proposed in the introduction. We find clear references to the four ingredients of social integration that we have suggested: consensus, trust, conformity and cooperation. Many articles also agree with the multi-level nature of social integration. …
Trust and compliance
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in social cohesion was observed during the first wave and its aftermath. A closer look reveals heterogeneous responses regarding aspects of cohesion-such as trust in others and compliance with containment measures-that differ by individual socioeconomic and cultural characteristics. How these characteristics affect social cohesion in combination is rarely investigated. Therefore, we introduce th…
Introduction
Poison to the Economy
The concentration of wealth is a key component of the rise in economic inequality at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While the abolition of taxes on private wealth during the 1990s and 2000s is recognized as an important institutional driver behind this development, comparatively little is known about the justification of tax cuts for the wealthy in advanced democracies. This paper investigates how the abolishment of the personal net w…
Klassen und Klassenkonflikte in der postindustriellen Gesellschaft. Soziale Spaltungen und soziokulturelle Polarisierung in den Mittelklassen
Der Beitrag kommentiert die Debatte zwischen Kumkar und Schimank und Reckwitz über die Rolle zweier Fraktionen der Mittelklasse - einer alten und einer neuen Mitte - für die Dynamik gegenwärtiger soziokultureller Polarisierungen und Konflikte. Dabei wird die Konzeptualisierung des Klassenbegriffs diskutiert, der Rekurs auf die SINUS-Milieus problematisiert und auf eine potenziell relevante, bislang aber wenig beachtete generationale Dimension geg…
Social Integration and Right-Wing Populist Voting in Germany
Electoral support for right-wing populist parties is typically explained either by economic deprivation or cultural grievances. Attempting to bring economic and cultural explanations together, recent approaches have suggested to conceptualize right-wing populist support as a problem of social integration. Applying this perspective to the German case, this article investigates whether weak subjective social integration-or subjective social margina…
The moral economies of market societies
In a classical typology, Polanyi distinguishes three basic modes of economic integration: competitive market exchange, redistribution and reciprocity. While markets are dominant in modern capitalism, redistribution and reciprocity are-to varying extent-also part of its institutional architecture. Asking whether such institutional differences are mirrored in distinct 'moral economies', we investigate ordinary citizens' support for market competiti…
Crisis experiences and welfare attitudes during the Great Recession
What motivates welfare attitudes during economic crises? While existing research highlights self-interest, this conclusion rests on a predominant conceptualization of citizens' crisis experiences as personal job loss. However, during economic downturns, people are likely to also witness colleagues or distant others being laid off, which might affect welfare attitudes for reasons beyond self-interest. This article analyses how personal job loss as…
Why Do the Affluent Find Inequality Increasingly Unjust? Changing Inequality and Justice Perceptions in Germany, 1994-2014
In the wake of rising inequality in Germany during the last 20 years, we document a corresponding increase in perceptions of injustice among the population. Based on data from the cumulated German General Social Survey (ALLBUS), we show that this increase in perceived injustice is driven mainly by a rising share of affluent respondents who find society unjust, resulting in a convergence across income groups towards more critical attitudes. We try…
Maß und Mitte“ – Symbolische Grenzziehungen in der unteren Mittelschicht
Kapitalismus als Lebensform?
Soziologie der sozialen Ungleichheit
Conditional Solidarity
Kapitalismus als Lebensform?
Social Justice and the Welfare State
Unequal by origin or by necessity? Popular explanations of inequality and their legitimatory implications
According to an implicit assumption underlying stratification theory and research, citizens in modern societies are supposed to regard inequality as caused by social factors, and therefore in need of legitimation. Based on qualitative interviews with people from both lower and upper social classes in Germany, the article questions this assumption. From the interviews, I reconstruct two divergent interpretive frames that are used to understand the…
The Middle‐class in the G erman Welfare State
The working‐class is typically regarded as the driving force of welfare state development. Yet, some argue that the middle‐classes' beneficial involvement in the welfare state is crucial for its financial sustainability and popular legitimacy. Against this backdrop, we investigate how recent welfare state reforms in G ermany which affect the status of the middle‐class are viewed and discussed by this group. G ermany is a particularly interesting …
The moral economy of inequality
This article asks how ordinary people in Germany perceive and legitimize economic disparities in an era of rising income inequality. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with respondents from higher and lower social classes, the paper reconstructs the ‘moral economy’ that underlies popular views of inequality. While respondents agree with abstract inegalitarian principles—i.e. income differentiation based on merit—they are concerned with spec…
The Welfare State and Equality? Stratification Realities and Aspirations in Three Welfare Regimes
Welfare regimes differ in their impact on social inequality in important ways. While previous research has explored the shape of stratification across nations and citizens’ normative attitudes towards inequality, scant attention has been given to citizens’ perceptions of actual stratification across welfare regimes. Using the 1999 International Social Survey Programme, we compare perceptions of inequality in Germany, Sweden, and the United States…
Symbolische Grenzziehungen und subjektorientierte Sozialstrukturanalyse / Symbolic Boundaries and Subjective Approaches to Stratification
Subjektorientierte Ansätze der Sozialstrukturanalyse wie die Milieu- und Lebensstilforschung beanspruchen, subjektiv bedeutsame Anker der sozialen Identifikation zu erfassen. Der Beitrag argumentiert, dass sie diesen Anspruch nur unvollständig einlçsen und schlägt das Konzept der „symbolischen Grenzziehungen“ als ergänzenden Ansatz vor. Anhand von ALLBUS-Daten und qualitativen Interviews werden lebensweltliche Identifikations- und Abgrenzungsproz…
Social Integration and Right-Wing Populist Voting in Germany
Electoral support for right-wing populist parties is typically explained either by economic deprivation or cultural grievances. Attempting to bring economic and cultural explanations together, recent approaches have suggested to conceptualize right-wing populist support as a problem of social integration. Applying this perspective to the German case, this article investigates whether weak subjective social integration-or subjective social margina…
The moral economies of market societies
In a classical typology, Polanyi distinguishes three basic modes of economic integration: competitive market exchange, redistribution and reciprocity. While markets are dominant in modern capitalism, redistribution and reciprocity are-to varying extent-also part of its institutional architecture. Asking whether such institutional differences are mirrored in distinct 'moral economies', we investigate ordinary citizens' support for market competiti…
Conditional Solidarity
Crisis experiences and welfare attitudes during the Great Recession
What motivates welfare attitudes during economic crises? While existing research highlights self-interest, this conclusion rests on a predominant conceptualization of citizens' crisis experiences as personal job loss. However, during economic downturns, people are likely to also witness colleagues or distant others being laid off, which might affect welfare attitudes for reasons beyond self-interest. This article analyses how personal job loss as…
Poison to the Economy
The concentration of wealth is a key component of the rise in economic inequality at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While the abolition of taxes on private wealth during the 1990s and 2000s is recognized as an important institutional driver behind this development, comparatively little is known about the justification of tax cuts for the wealthy in advanced democracies. This paper investigates how the abolishment of the personal net w…
Why Do the Affluent Find Inequality Increasingly Unjust? Changing Inequality and Justice Perceptions in Germany, 1994-2014
In the wake of rising inequality in Germany during the last 20 years, we document a corresponding increase in perceptions of injustice among the population. Based on data from the cumulated German General Social Survey (ALLBUS), we show that this increase in perceived injustice is driven mainly by a rising share of affluent respondents who find society unjust, resulting in a convergence across income groups towards more critical attitudes. We try…
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany
This paper investigates which factors shape popular support for the taxation of wealth in Germany, a country with one of the highest levels of wealth inequality in Western Europe. Although public support for progressive taxation in general is strong, no tax on personal net wealth is currently levied. Against this backdrop, we ask how objective and subjective self-interest, information about wealth inequality and deservingness valuations regarding…
Klassen und Klassenkonflikte in der postindustriellen Gesellschaft. Soziale Spaltungen und soziokulturelle Polarisierung in den Mittelklassen
Der Beitrag kommentiert die Debatte zwischen Kumkar und Schimank und Reckwitz über die Rolle zweier Fraktionen der Mittelklasse - einer alten und einer neuen Mitte - für die Dynamik gegenwärtiger soziokultureller Polarisierungen und Konflikte. Dabei wird die Konzeptualisierung des Klassenbegriffs diskutiert, der Rekurs auf die SINUS-Milieus problematisiert und auf eine potenziell relevante, bislang aber wenig beachtete generationale Dimension geg…
Trust and compliance
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in social cohesion was observed during the first wave and its aftermath. A closer look reveals heterogeneous responses regarding aspects of cohesion-such as trust in others and compliance with containment measures-that differ by individual socioeconomic and cultural characteristics. How these characteristics affect social cohesion in combination is rarely investigated. Therefore, we introduce th…
The Middle‐class in the G erman Welfare State
The working‐class is typically regarded as the driving force of welfare state development. Yet, some argue that the middle‐classes' beneficial involvement in the welfare state is crucial for its financial sustainability and popular legitimacy. Against this backdrop, we investigate how recent welfare state reforms in G ermany which affect the status of the middle‐class are viewed and discussed by this group. G ermany is a particularly interesting …
Maß und Mitte“ – Symbolische Grenzziehungen in der unteren Mittelschicht
Die Gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz der Sozialhilfe
Contingencies of Solidarity
The article examines different articulations of solidarity discourse in Germany and in Italy during the COVID-19 crisis, demonstrating how its meanings varied between the two countries in conjunction with national contingencies influencing how the crisis was experienced. Text analysis with Twitter\X data is used to compare how the term was framed during the crisis. The two countries were selected based on their differing socio-economic, cultural,…
Social Integration
Is the social integration of contemporary Western societies at risk? We will not provide an answer to this question, which is high on the political agenda. Instead, in our introduction to this special issue, we first offer conceptual clarifications. What is a theoretically sound and empirically useful understanding of the social integration of modern societies? Second, we ask three basic questions for which adequate answers have not yet been foun…
Introduction
Die Gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz der Sozialhilfe
Sind Armut und Reichtum ein Problem? Eine qualitative Untersuchung von Deutungsmustern materieller Ungleichheit
Vor dem Hintergrund wachsender sozialer Ungleichheiten analysiert der Beitrag auf der Grundlage von zwanzig leitfadengestützten Interviews mit Menschen aus privilegierten und benachteiligten sozialen Lagen, mit welchen Argumentations- und Begründungsmustern die Extrempole sozialer Ungleichheit – Armut und Reichtum – kritisiert werden. Armut erscheint dabei aufgrund der damit einhergehenden Einschränkungen im materiellen Lebensstandard, der mit ih…
Wandel und Reform des deutschen Sozialstaats aus Sicht der Bevölkerung
Der Beitrag untersucht anhand aktueller repräsentativer Umfragedaten die Einstellungen der Bürger zu wesentlichen Aspekten der Reformen des deutschen Sozialstaats. Es wird gefragt, ob der sich abzeichnende sozialpolitische Paradigmenwechsel hin zum "investiven Sozialstaat" in der Bevölkerung auf Zustimmung stößt. Im Einzelnen geht es dabei um grundsätzliche Gerechtigkeitsorientierungen, die gewachsene Bedeutung von Eigenverantwortung, die stärker…
The moral economy of inequality
This article asks how ordinary people in Germany perceive and legitimize economic disparities in an era of rising income inequality. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with respondents from higher and lower social classes, the paper reconstructs the ‘moral economy’ that underlies popular views of inequality. While respondents agree with abstract inegalitarian principles—i.e. income differentiation based on merit—they are concerned with spec…
Unvermeidbare Ungleichheiten? Alltagsweltliche Ungleichheitsdeutungen zwischen sozialer Konstruktion und gesellschaftlicher Notwendigkeit
The Welfare State and Equality? Stratification Realities and Aspirations in Three Welfare Regimes
Welfare regimes differ in their impact on social inequality in important ways. While previous research has explored the shape of stratification across nations and citizens’ normative attitudes towards inequality, scant attention has been given to citizens’ perceptions of actual stratification across welfare regimes. Using the 1999 International Social Survey Programme, we compare perceptions of inequality in Germany, Sweden, and the United States…
Symbolische Grenzziehungen und subjektorientierte Sozialstrukturanalyse / Symbolic Boundaries and Subjective Approaches to Stratification
Subjektorientierte Ansätze der Sozialstrukturanalyse wie die Milieu- und Lebensstilforschung beanspruchen, subjektiv bedeutsame Anker der sozialen Identifikation zu erfassen. Der Beitrag argumentiert, dass sie diesen Anspruch nur unvollständig einlçsen und schlägt das Konzept der „symbolischen Grenzziehungen“ als ergänzenden Ansatz vor. Anhand von ALLBUS-Daten und qualitativen Interviews werden lebensweltliche Identifikations- und Abgrenzungsproz…
Unequal by origin or by necessity? Popular explanations of inequality and their legitimatory implications
According to an implicit assumption underlying stratification theory and research, citizens in modern societies are supposed to regard inequality as caused by social factors, and therefore in need of legitimation. Based on qualitative interviews with people from both lower and upper social classes in Germany, the article questions this assumption. From the interviews, I reconstruct two divergent interpretive frames that are used to understand the…
The Middle‐class in the G erman Welfare State
The working‐class is typically regarded as the driving force of welfare state development. Yet, some argue that the middle‐classes' beneficial involvement in the welfare state is crucial for its financial sustainability and popular legitimacy. Against this backdrop, we investigate how recent welfare state reforms in G ermany which affect the status of the middle‐class are viewed and discussed by this group. G ermany is a particularly interesting …
Kapitalismus als Lebensform?
Social Justice and the Welfare State
Kapitalismus als Lebensform?
Soziologie der sozialen Ungleichheit
Conditional Solidarity
Maß und Mitte“ – Symbolische Grenzziehungen in der unteren Mittelschicht
The moral economies of market societies
In a classical typology, Polanyi distinguishes three basic modes of economic integration: competitive market exchange, redistribution and reciprocity. While markets are dominant in modern capitalism, redistribution and reciprocity are-to varying extent-also part of its institutional architecture. Asking whether such institutional differences are mirrored in distinct 'moral economies', we investigate ordinary citizens' support for market competiti…
Crisis experiences and welfare attitudes during the Great Recession
What motivates welfare attitudes during economic crises? While existing research highlights self-interest, this conclusion rests on a predominant conceptualization of citizens' crisis experiences as personal job loss. However, during economic downturns, people are likely to also witness colleagues or distant others being laid off, which might affect welfare attitudes for reasons beyond self-interest. This article analyses how personal job loss as…
Why Do the Affluent Find Inequality Increasingly Unjust? Changing Inequality and Justice Perceptions in Germany, 1994-2014
In the wake of rising inequality in Germany during the last 20 years, we document a corresponding increase in perceptions of injustice among the population. Based on data from the cumulated German General Social Survey (ALLBUS), we show that this increase in perceived injustice is driven mainly by a rising share of affluent respondents who find society unjust, resulting in a convergence across income groups towards more critical attitudes. We try…
Social Integration and Right-Wing Populist Voting in Germany
Electoral support for right-wing populist parties is typically explained either by economic deprivation or cultural grievances. Attempting to bring economic and cultural explanations together, recent approaches have suggested to conceptualize right-wing populist support as a problem of social integration. Applying this perspective to the German case, this article investigates whether weak subjective social integration-or subjective social margina…
Klassen und Klassenkonflikte in der postindustriellen Gesellschaft. Soziale Spaltungen und soziokulturelle Polarisierung in den Mittelklassen
Der Beitrag kommentiert die Debatte zwischen Kumkar und Schimank und Reckwitz über die Rolle zweier Fraktionen der Mittelklasse - einer alten und einer neuen Mitte - für die Dynamik gegenwärtiger soziokultureller Polarisierungen und Konflikte. Dabei wird die Konzeptualisierung des Klassenbegriffs diskutiert, der Rekurs auf die SINUS-Milieus problematisiert und auf eine potenziell relevante, bislang aber wenig beachtete generationale Dimension geg…
Trust and compliance
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in social cohesion was observed during the first wave and its aftermath. A closer look reveals heterogeneous responses regarding aspects of cohesion-such as trust in others and compliance with containment measures-that differ by individual socioeconomic and cultural characteristics. How these characteristics affect social cohesion in combination is rarely investigated. Therefore, we introduce th…
Introduction
Poison to the Economy
The concentration of wealth is a key component of the rise in economic inequality at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While the abolition of taxes on private wealth during the 1990s and 2000s is recognized as an important institutional driver behind this development, comparatively little is known about the justification of tax cuts for the wealthy in advanced democracies. This paper investigates how the abolishment of the personal net w…
Social Integration
Is the social integration of contemporary Western societies at risk? We will not provide an answer to this question, which is high on the political agenda. Instead, in our introduction to this special issue, we first offer conceptual clarifications. What is a theoretically sound and empirically useful understanding of the social integration of modern societies? Second, we ask three basic questions for which adequate answers have not yet been foun…
What We Have Learned About Social Integration
This chapter concludes the special issue on social integration and makes three additional contributions. First, we discuss how the featured articles employ the concept of social integration that we have proposed in the introduction. We find clear references to the four ingredients of social integration that we have suggested: consensus, trust, conformity and cooperation. Many articles also agree with the multi-level nature of social integration. …
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