Reiner Grundmann
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 128592 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Reiner Grundmann |
| PRENOMES | Reiner |
| SOBRENOME | Grundmann |
| ASSINATURA | GRUNDMANN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0266-9296 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 258 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Mapping the discourse of climate change in four western countries
This paper analyses climate change discourse in legacy newspapers from France, Germany, the UK, and the US between 2005 and 2022. Using corpus linguistics and named entity recognition, we develop a robust methodology to build and analyse a large-scale corpus of relevant news articles. We focus on the question: Who speaks about climate change? The paper has five aims: (1) to introduce a method for creating a comprehensive and focused corpus of cli…
Covid and Climate
The cases of COVID-19 and climate change highlight the central role of scientific research which supposedly guides political decision-making. Models and scenarios assume a central role. However, science cannot tell us what to do. While it provides important facts and metrics, uncertainties remain and decisions are based on considerations pertaining to fundamental values. Apart from these similarities, my aim is to emphasize some significant diffe…
Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse
This paper explores the contribution of software-based tools that are increasingly used for the semi-automated analysis of large volumes of text, especially Topic Modelling and Corpus Linguistics. These tools highlight the potential of getting interesting and new insights quickly, but at a cost. Linguistic aspects need to be considered carefully if computer-assisted technologies are to provide valid and reliable results. Main features of these to…
Economic Life in the Modern Age
Werner Sombart (1863-1941) may well have been the most famous and controversial social scientist in Germany during the early twentieth century. Highly influential, his work and reputation have been indelibly tainted by his embrace of National Socialism in the last decade of his life. Although Sombart left an enormous opus spanning disciplinary boundaries, intellectual reaction to his work inside and outside of Germany is divided and ambivalent. S…
Knowledge Politics
Knowledge politics, or the politics of knowledge, is a term to describe the relation between knowledge claims and political decision‐making. Scholars have investigated the relative influence of one over the other, the rising impact of knowledge, and the asymmetric relation between the two, which seems to confer power to politics. Knowledge politics denotes the practices of initiating, regulating, and using knowledge in order to justify specific p…
Sociology and Nature
Sociology as if nature did not matter has been the sociological expression of modern societies negligent of the processes of nature. In response to this ?ecological blindness,? Raymond Murphy examines the limitations of sociology that have resulted from this neglect.Humanity's success in manipulating nature destabilizes the natural support system of society on a planetary scale and, in turn, destabilizes all of society's institutions. Because the…
S ombart, W erner
Werner Sombart (1863–1941) was a German sociologist, economist, and founding figure of sociology. While he was a very prominent and successful scholar during his lifetime, he was largely forgotten after his death. Outside of Germany, Sombart is perhaps best known for his essay Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? To this day, political scientists, historians, and labor specialists refer to the “Sombart question” when addressing the exc…
Beyond Counting Climate Consensus
Several studies have been using quantified consensus within climate science as an argument to foster climate policy. Recent efforts to communicate such scientific consensus attained a high public profile but it is doubtful if they can be regarded successful. We argue that repeated efforts to shore up the scientific consensus on minimalist claims such as “humans cause global warming” are distractions from more urgent matters of knowledge, values, …
A Reply to Cook and Oreskes on Climate Science Consensus Messaging
In their replies to our paper (Pearce et al., 2017), both Cook and Oreskes agree with our central point: that deliberating and mobilizing policy responses to climate change requires thinking beyond public belief in a scientific consensus. However, they both continue to defend consensus messaging, either because of ‘the dangers of neglecting to communicate the scientific consensus’ (Cook, 2017, p. 1) or because ‘“no consensus”...remains... a contr…
The Problem of Expertise in Knowledge Societies
This paper puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of expertise and experts in contemporary societies. It argues that while prevailing approaches have come to see expertise in various forms and functions, they tend to neglect the broader historical and societal context, and importantly the relational aspect of expertise. This will be discussed with regard to influential theoretical frameworks, such as laboratory studies, regulatory …
Disputed climate science in the media
This article presents findings from a large-scale newspaper analysis of climate change discourses in four developed countries, using corpus linguistics methodology. We map the discourse over time, showing peaks and troughs of attention and explaining their causes. Different connotations of common terms such as global warming and climate change in different countries are analysed. Cluster and key-word analysis show the relative salience of specifi…
Debunking sceptical propaganda
Energy security in the news
Analysis of newspaper reporting on the topic of energy security in eight countries – four from the global North (France, Germany, the UK, and the United States) and four from the global South (China, India, Brazil, and South Africa) – produces no support for the thesis that news is disseminated from core countries to the periphery and semi-periphery. There is an important difference between China and the other three fast-developing countries and …
"Climategate" and The Scientific Ethos
In late 2009, e-mails from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were released that showed some climate scientists in an unfavorable light. Soon this scandal was known as "Climategate" and a highly charged debate started to rage on blogs and in the mass media. Much of the debate has been about the question whether anthropogenic global warming was undermined by the revelations. But ethical issues, too, became part …
Front Page Economics
Werke und Werkgruppen
Es gibt mindestens drei Merkmale, die auch ein soziologisch ungeschulter Beobachter intuitiv mit einer Organisation verbindet. Zum einen kann man der Organisation eigene Zwecke zuordnen, die sie mit den vereinten und dadurch potenzierten Kräften ihrer Mitglieder verfolgt. Unter diesem Aspekt hat man Organisationen auch als Perfektionsformen sozialer Kooperation beschrieben. Ferner fällt auf, dass es in allen Organisationen eine transitive Rangord…
The legacy of climategate
The release of emails from a server at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) in November 2009 and the following climategate controversy have become a topic for interpretation in the social sciences. This article picks out some of the most visible social science comments on the affair for discussion. These comments are compared to an account of what can be seen as problematic practices by climate scientists. There is general …
How does knowledge relate to political action
In this paper we investigate the relation between knowledge and political action, focusing on knowledge claims stemming from science that at the same time have relevance in a policy context. In so doing, we will revisit some well-known and some lesser known approaches, such as C.P. Snow's thesis of the two cultures and Mannheim's conceptualization of theory and practice. We arrive at a distinction between knowledge for practice and practical know…
Experts
In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise. As decision makers in organizations and private citizens, for various reasons, increasingly seek advice from experts, the authors examine the nature of expert …
The two limits debates
Climate Change
In a previous issue of this journal, Constance Lever-Tracy called on sociologists to become more involved in the debates about anthropogenic climate change. In this response to her article, the authors support her general argument but query four of her tenets: (1) they see other reasons for the lack of interest in climate change among sociologists; (2) they argue that the true challenge to climate change research is interdisciplinarity (as oppose…
The role of expertise in governance processes
Climate change and knowledge politics
This paper addresses the paradox that although the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reached a broad consensus, various governments pursue different, if not opposing policies. This puzzle not only challenges the traditional belief that scientific knowledge is objective and can be more or less directly translated into political action, but also calls for a better understanding of the relation between science and public policy in modern…
Marxism and Ecology
In this book Grundmann argues that Marx's theory of human nature and his evolutionary thinking are cogent tools for understanding basic traits of industrial countries and the ecological problems they produce. He challenges the widespread belief that the development of productive forces is by itself a threat to the environment, arguing that only specific technologies, not technology as such, lead to environmental degradation. He concludes that the…
Expertenwissen
Diese Monographie untersucht die theoretische und praktische Bedeutung von Experten, Beratern und Ratgebern in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Offensichtlich gibt es eine wachsende Schicht von wissensbasierten Berufen, die zur Pluralisierung von Expertise und zur Multiplikation von Experten gefuhrt hat. Entscheidungstrager in Organisationen wie Privatburger suchen vermehrt den Rat von Experten. Die beiden Autoren analysieren wichtige Aspekte von Expe…
The Problem of Expertise in Knowledge Societies
This paper puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of expertise and experts in contemporary societies. It argues that while prevailing approaches have come to see expertise in various forms and functions, they tend to neglect the broader historical and societal context, and importantly the relational aspect of expertise. This will be discussed with regard to influential theoretical frameworks, such as laboratory studies, regulatory …
Marx's Ecology. Materialism and Nature
Climate change and knowledge politics
This paper addresses the paradox that although the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reached a broad consensus, various governments pursue different, if not opposing policies. This puzzle not only challenges the traditional belief that scientific knowledge is objective and can be more or less directly translated into political action, but also calls for a better understanding of the relation between science and public policy in modern…
Why Is Werner Sombart Not Part of the Core of Classical Sociology
The life and work of Werner Sombart poses an intellectual puzzle in the genealogy of modern social theorists. During his lifetime, Sombart was probably the most influential and prominent social scientist in Germany as well as in many other countries. Today he is among the least known social scientists. Why did he lose his status as one of the most brilliant and influential scholars and intellectuals of the 20th century? Why is his work almost for…
Climate Change
In a previous issue of this journal, Constance Lever-Tracy called on sociologists to become more involved in the debates about anthropogenic climate change. In this response to her article, the authors support her general argument but query four of her tenets: (1) they see other reasons for the lack of interest in climate change among sociologists; (2) they argue that the true challenge to climate change research is interdisciplinarity (as oppose…
Sociology and Nature
Sociology as if nature did not matter has been the sociological expression of modern societies negligent of the processes of nature. In response to this ?ecological blindness,? Raymond Murphy examines the limitations of sociology that have resulted from this neglect.Humanity's success in manipulating nature destabilizes the natural support system of society on a planetary scale and, in turn, destabilizes all of society's institutions. Because the…
The two limits debates
The authority of complexity
The assertion about the unique 'complexity' or the peculiarly intricate character of social phenomena has, at least within sociology, a long, venerable and virtually uncontested tradition. At the turn of the last century, classical social theorists, for example, Georg Simmel and Emile Durkheim, made prominent and repeated reference to this attribute of the subject matter of sociology and the degree to which it complicates, even inhibits the devel…
Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse
This paper explores the contribution of software-based tools that are increasingly used for the semi-automated analysis of large volumes of text, especially Topic Modelling and Corpus Linguistics. These tools highlight the potential of getting interesting and new insights quickly, but at a cost. Linguistic aspects need to be considered carefully if computer-assisted technologies are to provide valid and reliable results. Main features of these to…
"Climategate" and The Scientific Ethos
In late 2009, e-mails from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were released that showed some climate scientists in an unfavorable light. Soon this scandal was known as "Climategate" and a highly charged debate started to rage on blogs and in the mass media. Much of the debate has been about the question whether anthropogenic global warming was undermined by the revelations. But ethical issues, too, became part …
Ozone and Climate
This article compares the cases of ozone layer protection and climate change. In both cases, scientific expertise has played a comparatively important role in the policy process. The author argues that against conventional assumptions, scientific consensus is not necessary to achieve ambitious political goals. However, the architects of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change operated under such assumptions. The author argues that this is p…
The legacy of climategate
The release of emails from a server at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) in November 2009 and the following climategate controversy have become a topic for interpretation in the social sciences. This article picks out some of the most visible social science comments on the affair for discussion. These comments are compared to an account of what can be seen as problematic practices by climate scientists. There is general …
The role of expertise in governance processes
Simplicity In Science And Its Publics
It seems to be a widely held belief that there is a historical change occurring in the relationship between science and its public (Gib-bons et al., 1994). According to the modernist `canonical ’ model, science was leading a life of its own, sheltered from the exigencies of public life and accountability (as expressed, for example, by Ben-David, 1971). This was thought to be a precondition for preventing reliable knowledge from being compromised …
How does knowledge relate to political action
In this paper we investigate the relation between knowledge and political action, focusing on knowledge claims stemming from science that at the same time have relevance in a policy context. In so doing, we will revisit some well-known and some lesser known approaches, such as C.P. Snow's thesis of the two cultures and Mannheim's conceptualization of theory and practice. We arrive at a distinction between knowledge for practice and practical know…
National Elites and Transnational Discourses in the Balkan War
This article is based upon a survey of the establishment press in France, Germany and the UK during the Balkan war of 1999. The sources are Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Monde and the Financial Times. The objective is to see what their reportage reveals about the political agenda of the various elite readerships and their perceptions of the international order. Our findings indicate that there has been a degree of synchronization in the focu…
The European Public Sphere and the Deficit of Democracy
This chapter explores a threefold European deficit: a democratic deficit, a deficit in European identity, and a deficit in the European public sphere. It argues that although interests such as social movements have most leverage at the national level, since this is the level at which the media are largely organised, the emergence of distinctively ‘European’ issues such as BSE means that national cycles of media attention are becoming increasingly…
Social science and the absence of nature
The elimination of nature from social science discourse is one of the most noteworthy features of the intellectual history of the social sciences of this century. Proposals to overcome the prohibition to (re-)introduce nature into the social sciences are on the increase, and practical and theoretical justifications are offered in support of them. In this article we critically examine several sociological approaches that have attempted to respond …
Fundamentalist Intolerance or Civil Disobedience
Sollen und Sein klaffen bei uns weiter auseinander als bei anderen, weil eben das Sollen sehr hoch gesetzt ist. Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus
Covid and Climate
The cases of COVID-19 and climate change highlight the central role of scientific research which supposedly guides political decision-making. Models and scenarios assume a central role. However, science cannot tell us what to do. While it provides important facts and metrics, uncertainties remain and decisions are based on considerations pertaining to fundamental values. Apart from these similarities, my aim is to emphasize some significant diffe…
Wo steht die Risikosoziologie
In der soziologischen Risikoforschung gibt es eine Kluft zwischen theoretischen und empirischen Analysen. Während sich empirische Ansätze vor allem mit Aspekten der Risikowahrnehmung und sozialen Bewegungen beschäftigt haben, versuchten theoretische Ansätze das Problem in bestehende Großtheorien einzubauen oder auf normativ-politische Aussagen zu verkürzen. Dominante Analysen wie die von Beck und Luhmann zeigen ein Defizit an empirischem Gehalt. …
The Ecological Challenge to Marxism
Contemporary Marxism has responded in a number of ways to the challenge posed by ecology. Broadly speaking, three currents of thought can be distinguished. The first I shall call the ‘Marxist dissident’ response. Its proponents have abandoned central elements of Marx’s theory, claiming that the new questions posed
Fundamentalist Intolerance or Civil Disobedience
Sollen und Sein klaffen bei uns weiter auseinander als bei anderen, weil eben das Sollen sehr hoch gesetzt ist. Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus
Wo steht die Risikosoziologie
In der soziologischen Risikoforschung gibt es eine Kluft zwischen theoretischen und empirischen Analysen. Während sich empirische Ansätze vor allem mit Aspekten der Risikowahrnehmung und sozialen Bewegungen beschäftigt haben, versuchten theoretische Ansätze das Problem in bestehende Großtheorien einzubauen oder auf normativ-politische Aussagen zu verkürzen. Dominante Analysen wie die von Beck und Luhmann zeigen ein Defizit an empirischem Gehalt. …
Simplicity In Science And Its Publics
It seems to be a widely held belief that there is a historical change occurring in the relationship between science and its public (Gib-bons et al., 1994). According to the modernist `canonical ’ model, science was leading a life of its own, sheltered from the exigencies of public life and accountability (as expressed, for example, by Ben-David, 1971). This was thought to be a precondition for preventing reliable knowledge from being compromised …
National Elites and Transnational Discourses in the Balkan War
This article is based upon a survey of the establishment press in France, Germany and the UK during the Balkan war of 1999. The sources are Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Monde and the Financial Times. The objective is to see what their reportage reveals about the political agenda of the various elite readerships and their perceptions of the international order. Our findings indicate that there has been a degree of synchronization in the focu…
The European Public Sphere and the Deficit of Democracy
This chapter explores a threefold European deficit: a democratic deficit, a deficit in European identity, and a deficit in the European public sphere. It argues that although interests such as social movements have most leverage at the national level, since this is the level at which the media are largely organised, the emergence of distinctively ‘European’ issues such as BSE means that national cycles of media attention are becoming increasingly…
Hans-Willy Hohn
Social science and the absence of nature
The elimination of nature from social science discourse is one of the most noteworthy features of the intellectual history of the social sciences of this century. Proposals to overcome the prohibition to (re-)introduce nature into the social sciences are on the increase, and practical and theoretical justifications are offered in support of them. In this article we critically examine several sociological approaches that have attempted to respond …
Marx's Ecology. Materialism and Nature
Why Is Werner Sombart Not Part of the Core of Classical Sociology
The life and work of Werner Sombart poses an intellectual puzzle in the genealogy of modern social theorists. During his lifetime, Sombart was probably the most influential and prominent social scientist in Germany as well as in many other countries. Today he is among the least known social scientists. Why did he lose his status as one of the most brilliant and influential scholars and intellectuals of the 20th century? Why is his work almost for…
The authority of complexity
The assertion about the unique 'complexity' or the peculiarly intricate character of social phenomena has, at least within sociology, a long, venerable and virtually uncontested tradition. At the turn of the last century, classical social theorists, for example, Georg Simmel and Emile Durkheim, made prominent and repeated reference to this attribute of the subject matter of sociology and the degree to which it complicates, even inhibits the devel…
Ozone and Climate
This article compares the cases of ozone layer protection and climate change. In both cases, scientific expertise has played a comparatively important role in the policy process. The author argues that against conventional assumptions, scientific consensus is not necessary to achieve ambitious political goals. However, the architects of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change operated under such assumptions. The author argues that this is p…
Climate change and knowledge politics
This paper addresses the paradox that although the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reached a broad consensus, various governments pursue different, if not opposing policies. This puzzle not only challenges the traditional belief that scientific knowledge is objective and can be more or less directly translated into political action, but also calls for a better understanding of the relation between science and public policy in modern…
The role of expertise in governance processes
Climate Change
In a previous issue of this journal, Constance Lever-Tracy called on sociologists to become more involved in the debates about anthropogenic climate change. In this response to her article, the authors support her general argument but query four of her tenets: (1) they see other reasons for the lack of interest in climate change among sociologists; (2) they argue that the true challenge to climate change research is interdisciplinarity (as oppose…
Experts
In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise. As decision makers in organizations and private citizens, for various reasons, increasingly seek advice from experts, the authors examine the nature of expert …
The two limits debates
Werke und Werkgruppen
Es gibt mindestens drei Merkmale, die auch ein soziologisch ungeschulter Beobachter intuitiv mit einer Organisation verbindet. Zum einen kann man der Organisation eigene Zwecke zuordnen, die sie mit den vereinten und dadurch potenzierten Kräften ihrer Mitglieder verfolgt. Unter diesem Aspekt hat man Organisationen auch als Perfektionsformen sozialer Kooperation beschrieben. Ferner fällt auf, dass es in allen Organisationen eine transitive Rangord…
The legacy of climategate
The release of emails from a server at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) in November 2009 and the following climategate controversy have become a topic for interpretation in the social sciences. This article picks out some of the most visible social science comments on the affair for discussion. These comments are compared to an account of what can be seen as problematic practices by climate scientists. There is general …
How does knowledge relate to political action
In this paper we investigate the relation between knowledge and political action, focusing on knowledge claims stemming from science that at the same time have relevance in a policy context. In so doing, we will revisit some well-known and some lesser known approaches, such as C.P. Snow's thesis of the two cultures and Mannheim's conceptualization of theory and practice. We arrive at a distinction between knowledge for practice and practical know…
Debunking sceptical propaganda
Energy security in the news
Analysis of newspaper reporting on the topic of energy security in eight countries – four from the global North (France, Germany, the UK, and the United States) and four from the global South (China, India, Brazil, and South Africa) – produces no support for the thesis that news is disseminated from core countries to the periphery and semi-periphery. There is an important difference between China and the other three fast-developing countries and …
"Climategate" and The Scientific Ethos
In late 2009, e-mails from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were released that showed some climate scientists in an unfavorable light. Soon this scandal was known as "Climategate" and a highly charged debate started to rage on blogs and in the mass media. Much of the debate has been about the question whether anthropogenic global warming was undermined by the revelations. But ethical issues, too, became part …
Front Page Economics
Disputed climate science in the media
This article presents findings from a large-scale newspaper analysis of climate change discourses in four developed countries, using corpus linguistics methodology. We map the discourse over time, showing peaks and troughs of attention and explaining their causes. Different connotations of common terms such as global warming and climate change in different countries are analysed. Cluster and key-word analysis show the relative salience of specifi…
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