Alexander Bogner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Bogner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Bogner |
| SIGNATURE | BOGNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Technology Assessment |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4211-2858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ökologische Krise und die Handlungsmacht der Natur Soziologische Perspektiven
In line with its self-image as a social crisis science, sociology has long ignored nature, i.e., social relations with nature. However, in the wake of the ecological crisis, it has become clear that nature and society interact. This presents sociology with the challenge of theoriz-ing this interaction in such a way that the project of critical reflection can be continued in a contemporary form while at the same time providing guidance for times o…
Wissenschaftsreflexion
Academic freedom and societal respect for science have been decreasing in the past years in the wake of growing nationalism, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism. Even in liberal democracies, science has been attacked by anti-science movements. One of the reasons for the weakening credibility of scientific knowledge is its exaggerated use in framing policy questions. Conflicts about interests and values are transformed into controversies about th…
“That was not the discussion we wanted to have”
Responsible Research and Innovation calls for comprehensive public and stakeholder involvement. Its specific requirements, however, have raised criticism concerning the limitation of engagement opportunities for actors like Civil Society Organizations that do not share mainstream perspectives on technological innovations. Our article investigates the engagement of critical Civil Society Organizations in public debates and dialogues on synthetic b…
What can science do in the face of pandemics
In 2020, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) publicly announced a prize question: “What can science do in the face of pandemics?” (2021). For this journal article the prize-winning essay submitted by the author was translated, updated and - thanks to helpful reviewer comments - revised. Science, it is argued, has different roles in times of crisis: First of all, it must educate about the (changing) crisis situation and provide as robust data, …
Rethinking societal engagement under the heading of Responsible Research and Innovation
Societal engagement is a key dimension of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), aiming at making science, technology and innovation more transparent, interactive and responsive. Within this article, we identify and discuss the specific requirements and challenges for societal engagement under the heading of RRI along five dimensions. First, engagement aims at shaping research and innovation in a socially robust manner. Second, RRI demands a …
Der diskrete Charme der Gesellschaftsdiagnose. Wesen und Wirkung eines soziologischen Genres
Gesellschaftsdiagnosen haben als eine Variante öffentlicher Soziologie eine wichtige Legitimationsfunktion für das Fach. Zumindest, sofern die Gesellschaftsdiagnose als legitime Spielart soziologischer Theoriebildung gilt. Um dies zu begründen, wird zunächst das Verhältnis zwischen Gesellschaftsdiagnose, Zeitdiagnose und Gesellschaftstheorie beleuchtet. Im Anschluss werden Prämissen, Problemstellungen und Konstruktionsprinzipien der Gesellschafts…
Let’s (not) talk about synthetic biology
Synthetic biology is an emerging technoscience, which, so far, lacks a broader public debate. To foster early societal dialogue, a range of public engagement events have been initiated over the past decade. This article discusses the configurations of the emerging debate on synthetic biology in the context of the EU FP7 project SYNENERGENE. Drawing on notions of frames and framing in media studies and policy analysis, we ask which distinct frames…
Gesellschaftsdiagnose
Decision-making under the condition of uncertainty and non-knowledge
This chapter shows, with a view to prenatal diagnosis, that providing scientific information and science-based diagnostics not only results in more rational decisions and a better care, but results in clear-cut boundaries between sick and healthy become blurred, leading to new uncertainties. In order to reflexively deal with non-knowledge and uncertainty, the knowledge and the experiences of the women affected supplement expert knowledge. Decisio…
Different ways of problematising biotechnology – and what it means for technology governance
To understand controversies over technologies better, we propose the concept of ‘problematisation’. Drawing on Foucault’s idea of problematisation and on the concept of frames in media research, we identify characteristic forms of problematising biotechnology in pertaining controversies, typically emphasising ethical, risk or economic aspects. They provide a common basis for disputes and allow participants to argue effectively. The different form…
Wer ist ein Experte? Wissenssoziologische Grundlagen des Expertinneninterviews
Interviews mit Experten
Experteninterview
"Deutungswissen" und Interaktion. Zu Methodologie und Methodik des theoriegenerierenden Experteninterviews
The expert interview is a rarely considered method in sociological research. In light of this background we discuss the complex assumptions based on the sociology of knowledge and on interaction theory that lead to a methodological consolidation of qualitative expert interviews. First, based on our general distinction between three types of expert interviews, we outline the specific features of the expert interview as an instrument for generating…
The Paradox of Participation Experiments
An ongoing trend in technology policy has been to advocate participation. However, the author claims that lay citizens' participation typically materializes in the form of a laboratory experiment at present. That is, lay participation as currently organized by professional participation experts under controlled conditions rarely is linked to public controversies, to the pursuit of political participation or to individual concerns. Derived from qu…
Inter- und Transdisziplinarität im Wandel
Partizipation als Laborexperiment / Participation as a Laboratory Experiment
Die Forderung nach Partizipation stellt gerade im Bereich der Technologiepolitik einen anhaltenden Trend dar. Im Zuge ihrer Verwirklichung hat sich ein weitläufiger Methodenkanon partizipativer Technikbewertung entwickelt. In diesen Verfahren sollen Personen beteiligt werden, die ansonsten nicht in Prozesse der Technikbewertung involviert sind. Diese Laienpartizipation realisiert sich in aktuell relevanten Technologiekontexten - so die hier vertr…
How Politics Deals with Expert Dissent
Over recent years, science and technology have been reassessed increasingly in ethical terms. Particularly for life science governance, ethics has become the dominant discourse. In the course of this ''ethical turn'' national ethics councils were set up throughout Europe and in the United States to advice politics in ethically controversial issues such as stem cell research and genetic testing. Ethics experts have become subject to traditional wa…
Interviewing Experts
Expert interviews are today a standard method of qualitative approach in the social sciences. It is surprising that methodological reflections about the expert interview are still lacking. This book g
Interviewing Experts
The Theory-Generating Expert Interview
Expert interviews are a good example of the way in which the everyday practice of social research and theoretical consideration of this practice do not always run parallel to one another. The use of particular methods sometimes precedes their general theoretical reflection. For many years, the widely held view was that expert interviews were conducted frequently but only rarely thought through (Meuser and Nagel, 1991). Only in recent years has th…
Inter- und Transdisziplinarität – Eine anhaltend aktuelle Debatte
Ethisierung und die Marginalisierung der Ethik
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 119 - 137
Ethikexpertise in Wertkonflikten. Zur Produktion und politischen Verwendung von Kommissionsethik in Deutschland und Österreich
Wozu Experten
Wissenschaftliche Expertise ist nach wie vor die wichtigste Ressource fÃ1⁄4r die Politik, wenn es um riskante und kontroverse Entscheidungen geht aller modernen Wissenschafts- und Expertenskepsis zum Trotz. WidersprÃ1⁄4chliche Expertenmeinungen und der oft unklare Stellenwert von Expertise in der Entscheidungsfindung lassen wissenschaftliche Politikberatung selbst zum Politikum werden. Als Kristallisationspunkt eines sich wandelnden Verhältniss…
The Paradox of Participation Experiments
An ongoing trend in technology policy has been to advocate participation. However, the author claims that lay citizens' participation typically materializes in the form of a laboratory experiment at present. That is, lay participation as currently organized by professional participation experts under controlled conditions rarely is linked to public controversies, to the pursuit of political participation or to individual concerns. Derived from qu…
Partizipation als Laborexperiment / Participation as a Laboratory Experiment
Die Forderung nach Partizipation stellt gerade im Bereich der Technologiepolitik einen anhaltenden Trend dar. Im Zuge ihrer Verwirklichung hat sich ein weitläufiger Methodenkanon partizipativer Technikbewertung entwickelt. In diesen Verfahren sollen Personen beteiligt werden, die ansonsten nicht in Prozesse der Technikbewertung involviert sind. Diese Laienpartizipation realisiert sich in aktuell relevanten Technologiekontexten - so die hier vertr…
Ethisierung und die Marginalisierung der Ethik
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 119 - 137
What can science do in the face of pandemics
In 2020, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) publicly announced a prize question: “What can science do in the face of pandemics?” (2021). For this journal article the prize-winning essay submitted by the author was translated, updated and - thanks to helpful reviewer comments - revised. Science, it is argued, has different roles in times of crisis: First of all, it must educate about the (changing) crisis situation and provide as robust data, …
"Deutungswissen" und Interaktion. Zu Methodologie und Methodik des theoriegenerierenden Experteninterviews
The expert interview is a rarely considered method in sociological research. In light of this background we discuss the complex assumptions based on the sociology of knowledge and on interaction theory that lead to a methodological consolidation of qualitative expert interviews. First, based on our general distinction between three types of expert interviews, we outline the specific features of the expert interview as an instrument for generating…
How Politics Deals with Expert Dissent
Over recent years, science and technology have been reassessed increasingly in ethical terms. Particularly for life science governance, ethics has become the dominant discourse. In the course of this ''ethical turn'' national ethics councils were set up throughout Europe and in the United States to advice politics in ethically controversial issues such as stem cell research and genetic testing. Ethics experts have become subject to traditional wa…
Das Experteninterview
Das Experteninterview. Theorie, Methode, Anwendung
Expertenwissen und Forschungspraxis
Experteninterviews1 erfreuen sich in der Sozialforschung großer Beliebtheit. So gibt es wohl nur wenige empirische Untersuchungen, die nicht an irgendeinem Punkt des Forschungsprozesses auf das mittels Interviews erhobene Wissen spezifischer, für das Fach- und Themengebiet als relevant erachteter Akteure zurückgreifen. Auch wenn im Einzelfall stark variiert, welche Stellung die Experteninterviews im Forschungsdesign haben, wie die Interviews konk…
Das theoriegenerierende Experteninterview
Experteninterviews sind ein anschauliches Beispiel dafür, dass die Alltagspraxis empirischer Sozialforschung und deren methodische Reflexion nicht immer parallel verlaufen. Manchmal ist die Anwendung bestimmter Methoden ihrer theoretischen Durchdringung voraus. Oder mit anderen Worten: Experteninterviews werden oft gemacht, aber selten durchdacht Obwohl die Bedeutung von Expertenwissen beider reflexiven Umgestaltung moderner Industriegesellschaft…
Wozu Experten
Wissenschaftliche Expertise ist nach wie vor die wichtigste Ressource fÃ1⁄4r die Politik, wenn es um riskante und kontroverse Entscheidungen geht aller modernen Wissenschafts- und Expertenskepsis zum Trotz. WidersprÃ1⁄4chliche Expertenmeinungen und der oft unklare Stellenwert von Expertise in der Entscheidungsfindung lassen wissenschaftliche Politikberatung selbst zum Politikum werden. Als Kristallisationspunkt eines sich wandelnden Verhältniss…
Ethikexpertise in Wertkonflikten. Zur Produktion und politischen Verwendung von Kommissionsethik in Deutschland und Österreich
Interviewing Experts
Expert interviews are today a standard method of qualitative approach in the social sciences. It is surprising that methodological reflections about the expert interview are still lacking. This book g
Interviewing Experts
The Theory-Generating Expert Interview
Expert interviews are a good example of the way in which the everyday practice of social research and theoretical consideration of this practice do not always run parallel to one another. The use of particular methods sometimes precedes their general theoretical reflection. For many years, the widely held view was that expert interviews were conducted frequently but only rarely thought through (Meuser and Nagel, 1991). Only in recent years has th…
Inter- und Transdisziplinarität – Eine anhaltend aktuelle Debatte
Ethisierung und die Marginalisierung der Ethik
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 119 - 137
Inter- und Transdisziplinarität im Wandel
Partizipation als Laborexperiment / Participation as a Laboratory Experiment
Die Forderung nach Partizipation stellt gerade im Bereich der Technologiepolitik einen anhaltenden Trend dar. Im Zuge ihrer Verwirklichung hat sich ein weitläufiger Methodenkanon partizipativer Technikbewertung entwickelt. In diesen Verfahren sollen Personen beteiligt werden, die ansonsten nicht in Prozesse der Technikbewertung involviert sind. Diese Laienpartizipation realisiert sich in aktuell relevanten Technologiekontexten - so die hier vertr…
How Politics Deals with Expert Dissent
Over recent years, science and technology have been reassessed increasingly in ethical terms. Particularly for life science governance, ethics has become the dominant discourse. In the course of this ''ethical turn'' national ethics councils were set up throughout Europe and in the United States to advice politics in ethically controversial issues such as stem cell research and genetic testing. Ethics experts have become subject to traditional wa…
The Paradox of Participation Experiments
An ongoing trend in technology policy has been to advocate participation. However, the author claims that lay citizens' participation typically materializes in the form of a laboratory experiment at present. That is, lay participation as currently organized by professional participation experts under controlled conditions rarely is linked to public controversies, to the pursuit of political participation or to individual concerns. Derived from qu…
Experteninterview
"Deutungswissen" und Interaktion. Zu Methodologie und Methodik des theoriegenerierenden Experteninterviews
The expert interview is a rarely considered method in sociological research. In light of this background we discuss the complex assumptions based on the sociology of knowledge and on interaction theory that lead to a methodological consolidation of qualitative expert interviews. First, based on our general distinction between three types of expert interviews, we outline the specific features of the expert interview as an instrument for generating…
Wer ist ein Experte? Wissenssoziologische Grundlagen des Expertinneninterviews
Interviews mit Experten
Decision-making under the condition of uncertainty and non-knowledge
This chapter shows, with a view to prenatal diagnosis, that providing scientific information and science-based diagnostics not only results in more rational decisions and a better care, but results in clear-cut boundaries between sick and healthy become blurred, leading to new uncertainties. In order to reflexively deal with non-knowledge and uncertainty, the knowledge and the experiences of the women affected supplement expert knowledge. Decisio…
Different ways of problematising biotechnology – and what it means for technology governance
To understand controversies over technologies better, we propose the concept of ‘problematisation’. Drawing on Foucault’s idea of problematisation and on the concept of frames in media research, we identify characteristic forms of problematising biotechnology in pertaining controversies, typically emphasising ethical, risk or economic aspects. They provide a common basis for disputes and allow participants to argue effectively. The different form…
Let’s (not) talk about synthetic biology
Synthetic biology is an emerging technoscience, which, so far, lacks a broader public debate. To foster early societal dialogue, a range of public engagement events have been initiated over the past decade. This article discusses the configurations of the emerging debate on synthetic biology in the context of the EU FP7 project SYNENERGENE. Drawing on notions of frames and framing in media studies and policy analysis, we ask which distinct frames…
Gesellschaftsdiagnose
Rethinking societal engagement under the heading of Responsible Research and Innovation
Societal engagement is a key dimension of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), aiming at making science, technology and innovation more transparent, interactive and responsive. Within this article, we identify and discuss the specific requirements and challenges for societal engagement under the heading of RRI along five dimensions. First, engagement aims at shaping research and innovation in a socially robust manner. Second, RRI demands a …
Der diskrete Charme der Gesellschaftsdiagnose. Wesen und Wirkung eines soziologischen Genres
Gesellschaftsdiagnosen haben als eine Variante öffentlicher Soziologie eine wichtige Legitimationsfunktion für das Fach. Zumindest, sofern die Gesellschaftsdiagnose als legitime Spielart soziologischer Theoriebildung gilt. Um dies zu begründen, wird zunächst das Verhältnis zwischen Gesellschaftsdiagnose, Zeitdiagnose und Gesellschaftstheorie beleuchtet. Im Anschluss werden Prämissen, Problemstellungen und Konstruktionsprinzipien der Gesellschafts…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Innovation, Technology, and Society (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Humanities (5 works)