Michael Baurmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4974510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Baurmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Baurmann |
| SIGNATURE | BAURMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results
The internet is an important means for people to engage in acts of political participation. While in the early days of Social Science research on the Internet this might have been a controversial statement because of barriers in access to the Internet and doubts about the significance of online activities, today this is a commonplace hardly worth mentioning, let alone in this journal. The internet and the various applications that it enables has …
“Führer befiehl, wir folgen dir!” Charismatic Leaders in Extremist Groups
Meinungsdynamiken in fundamentalistischen Gruppen. Erklärungshypothesen auf der Basis von Simulationsmodellen
If we want to understand how fundamentalist group ideologies are established, we have to comprehend the social processes which form the basis of the emergence and distribution of such beliefs. In our paper we present an innovative approach to examining these processes and explaining how they function: with the method of computer-based simulation of opinion formation we develop heuristic explanatory models which help to generate new and interestin…
Zweckrationalität und Strafrecht: Argumente Für ein Tatbezogenes Maßnahmerecht
The Golden Age of the Campfire: Should We Take Our Ancestors Seriously
In his book The Ethical Project Philip Kitcher presents an ‘analytical history’ of the development of human ethical practice. According to this history the first ethical norms were launched in the ancient world of the hunters and gatherers and their initial function was to remedy altruism failures. Kitcher wants to show that the emergence of ethical norms can in this case and in general be explained without referring to supernatural causes or phi…
A Sociological Speculation about Law and Ethics
It is argued that ethics is undergoing a similar development in modern societies as law did in former times. If this development continues, it could be that in the future collective decisions in many areas will be justified by the application of ethical principles just as today judicial decisions are justified by the application of the rules of law. The paper describes some of the remarkable similarities between law and ethics in modern societies…
Meeting Plato’s challenge
Homo Ökonomikus als Idealtypus. Oder: Das Dilemma des Don Juan
Neither the model of homo oeconomicus nor Max Weber’s concept of the ideal type have a good reputation these days - to try to combine the two does not seem a promising idea, therefore. It could result in the attempt to tie two sinking ships together - to borrow a metaphor of Alasdair MacIntyre’s which he used in a different context as a comment on the programme of Analyse & Kritik 30 years ago. But perhaps the reasons for the bad reputation of ho…
Zenonas Norkus: Max Weber and Rational Choice
Gutachterinnen und Gutachter der KZfSS 2001/2002
Jens Beckert: Grenzen des Marktes. Die sozialen Grundlagen wirtschaftlicher Effizienz
Der Markt der Tugend: Recht und Moral in der liberalen Gesellschaft. Eine soziologische Untersuchung
»Es ist der beste deutsche Beitrag zur theoretischen Soziologie, den ich seit langer Zeit gelesen habe.« Erich Weede in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 1996, S. 762 »Der Gedankengang des Buches ist klar und überzeugend. Insbesondere die Passagen darüber, was universalistische Normen auszeichnet, und über die Bedingungen, unter denen die Orientierung an universalistischen Normen gelernt werden kann, verdienen es, sozialwiss…
Durkheims Individualistische Theorie der Sozialen Arbeitsteilung
Volksabstimmungen, Verhandlungen und der Schleier der Insignifikanz: Kommentar zu Bruno S. Frey/Gebhard Kirchgassner: ‘Diskursethik, Politische Ökonomie und Volksabstimmungen’
To combine some views of 'Diskursethik' and Constitutional Political Economy seems to be promising. In our comments on Frey's and Kirchgässner's attempt to join the forces of Discourse theory and Political Economy in defending the wider spread use of referenda we direct attention to three points. Firstly, the normative basis of both concepts is unsettled. Secondly, an economic approach contrary to the supposition of Frey and Kirchgässner provides…
Rechte und Normen als soziale Tatsachen: Zu James S. Colemans Grundlegung der Sozialtheorie
The concept of right plays a central role in Coleman’s Foundations of Social Theory. It is defined as an empirical concept which refers to rights as social facts. One consequence of this view is according to Coleman that the normative-ethical question of how rights ought to be distributed can have no answer. The following article wants to show that this thesis is not convincing. The main focus of the article is a critical analysis of Coleman's th…
Zweckrationalität und Strafrecht
Es gibt in der Strafrechtswissenschaft die Tradition und auch vielleicht die Notwendigkeit, bestimmte Fragestellungen und Probleme mit Hilfe anderer Disziplinen zu bearbeiten und zu lösen. Das nützt d
Zweckrationalität und Strafrecht: Argumente für ein tatbezogenes Maßnahmerecht
Künstliche Intelligenz in den Sozialwissenschaften: Expertensysteme als Instrumente der EinsteUungsforschung
INTERDAT is computer software which substitutes a human interviewer. INTERDAT asks questions and tries to understand the responses by attributing mental models to the interviewee. The correctness of these models is tested by forecasting the responses to new questions. INTERDAT has many possibilities to adapt its models till it reaches the desired degree of understanding. Technologically INTERDAT is an Artificial Intelligence programme which is wr…
Zum Programm einer kritischen Sozialwissenschaft−Empirie und Theorie
The article argues for a synthesis between analytical philosophy and social sciences as relevant and necessary. The motivation and framework of such a synthesis is outlined on the basis of a critical social science. The authors illuminate such a perspective negatively in a critique of empirical and theoretical sociology, then positively in a clarification of the critical standpoint. Four theses, two under each-aspect, are defended: 1. Concerning …
Zum Programm einer kritischen Sozialwissenschaft – Theorie der gerechten Gesellschaft und Ideologiekritik
Critical social science has to acknowledge that every fundamental critique of society implies the justification of alternative norms and institutions. Several current objections against such an explicitly normative understanding of critical social science are discussed. The following outline of a theory of a just society tries to meet two demands: the rational consensus of all individuals concerned and the satisfaction of individual interests. In…
Volksabstimmungen, Verhandlungen und der Schleier der Insignifikanz: Kommentar zu Bruno S. Frey/Gebhard Kirchgassner: ‘Diskursethik, Politische Ökonomie und Volksabstimmungen’
To combine some views of 'Diskursethik' and Constitutional Political Economy seems to be promising. In our comments on Frey's and Kirchgässner's attempt to join the forces of Discourse theory and Political Economy in defending the wider spread use of referenda we direct attention to three points. Firstly, the normative basis of both concepts is unsettled. Secondly, an economic approach contrary to the supposition of Frey and Kirchgässner provides…
Zum Programm einer kritischen Sozialwissenschaft−Empirie und Theorie
The article argues for a synthesis between analytical philosophy and social sciences as relevant and necessary. The motivation and framework of such a synthesis is outlined on the basis of a critical social science. The authors illuminate such a perspective negatively in a critique of empirical and theoretical sociology, then positively in a clarification of the critical standpoint. Four theses, two under each-aspect, are defended: 1. Concerning …
Zum Programm einer kritischen Sozialwissenschaft – Theorie der gerechten Gesellschaft und Ideologiekritik
Critical social science has to acknowledge that every fundamental critique of society implies the justification of alternative norms and institutions. Several current objections against such an explicitly normative understanding of critical social science are discussed. The following outline of a theory of a just society tries to meet two demands: the rational consensus of all individuals concerned and the satisfaction of individual interests. In…
Künstliche Intelligenz in den Sozialwissenschaften: Expertensysteme als Instrumente der EinsteUungsforschung
INTERDAT is computer software which substitutes a human interviewer. INTERDAT asks questions and tries to understand the responses by attributing mental models to the interviewee. The correctness of these models is tested by forecasting the responses to new questions. INTERDAT has many possibilities to adapt its models till it reaches the desired degree of understanding. Technologically INTERDAT is an Artificial Intelligence programme which is wr…
Zweckrationalität und Strafrecht
Es gibt in der Strafrechtswissenschaft die Tradition und auch vielleicht die Notwendigkeit, bestimmte Fragestellungen und Probleme mit Hilfe anderer Disziplinen zu bearbeiten und zu lösen. Das nützt d
Zweckrationalität und Strafrecht: Argumente für ein tatbezogenes Maßnahmerecht
Volksabstimmungen, Verhandlungen und der Schleier der Insignifikanz: Kommentar zu Bruno S. Frey/Gebhard Kirchgassner: ‘Diskursethik, Politische Ökonomie und Volksabstimmungen’
To combine some views of 'Diskursethik' and Constitutional Political Economy seems to be promising. In our comments on Frey's and Kirchgässner's attempt to join the forces of Discourse theory and Political Economy in defending the wider spread use of referenda we direct attention to three points. Firstly, the normative basis of both concepts is unsettled. Secondly, an economic approach contrary to the supposition of Frey and Kirchgässner provides…
Rechte und Normen als soziale Tatsachen: Zu James S. Colemans Grundlegung der Sozialtheorie
The concept of right plays a central role in Coleman’s Foundations of Social Theory. It is defined as an empirical concept which refers to rights as social facts. One consequence of this view is according to Coleman that the normative-ethical question of how rights ought to be distributed can have no answer. The following article wants to show that this thesis is not convincing. The main focus of the article is a critical analysis of Coleman's th…
Durkheims Individualistische Theorie der Sozialen Arbeitsteilung
Der Markt der Tugend: Recht und Moral in der liberalen Gesellschaft. Eine soziologische Untersuchung
»Es ist der beste deutsche Beitrag zur theoretischen Soziologie, den ich seit langer Zeit gelesen habe.« Erich Weede in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 1996, S. 762 »Der Gedankengang des Buches ist klar und überzeugend. Insbesondere die Passagen darüber, was universalistische Normen auszeichnet, und über die Bedingungen, unter denen die Orientierung an universalistischen Normen gelernt werden kann, verdienen es, sozialwiss…
Jens Beckert: Grenzen des Marktes. Die sozialen Grundlagen wirtschaftlicher Effizienz
Gutachterinnen und Gutachter der KZfSS 2001/2002
Zenonas Norkus: Max Weber and Rational Choice
Homo Ökonomikus als Idealtypus. Oder: Das Dilemma des Don Juan
Neither the model of homo oeconomicus nor Max Weber’s concept of the ideal type have a good reputation these days - to try to combine the two does not seem a promising idea, therefore. It could result in the attempt to tie two sinking ships together - to borrow a metaphor of Alasdair MacIntyre’s which he used in a different context as a comment on the programme of Analyse & Kritik 30 years ago. But perhaps the reasons for the bad reputation of ho…
The Golden Age of the Campfire: Should We Take Our Ancestors Seriously
In his book The Ethical Project Philip Kitcher presents an ‘analytical history’ of the development of human ethical practice. According to this history the first ethical norms were launched in the ancient world of the hunters and gatherers and their initial function was to remedy altruism failures. Kitcher wants to show that the emergence of ethical norms can in this case and in general be explained without referring to supernatural causes or phi…
A Sociological Speculation about Law and Ethics
It is argued that ethics is undergoing a similar development in modern societies as law did in former times. If this development continues, it could be that in the future collective decisions in many areas will be justified by the application of ethical principles just as today judicial decisions are justified by the application of the rules of law. The paper describes some of the remarkable similarities between law and ethics in modern societies…
Meeting Plato’s challenge
Zweckrationalität und Strafrecht: Argumente Für ein Tatbezogenes Maßnahmerecht
Meinungsdynamiken in fundamentalistischen Gruppen. Erklärungshypothesen auf der Basis von Simulationsmodellen
If we want to understand how fundamentalist group ideologies are established, we have to comprehend the social processes which form the basis of the emergence and distribution of such beliefs. In our paper we present an innovative approach to examining these processes and explaining how they function: with the method of computer-based simulation of opinion formation we develop heuristic explanatory models which help to generate new and interestin…
“Führer befiehl, wir folgen dir!” Charismatic Leaders in Extremist Groups
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results
The internet is an important means for people to engage in acts of political participation. While in the early days of Social Science research on the Internet this might have been a controversial statement because of barriers in access to the Internet and doubts about the significance of online activities, today this is a commonplace hardly worth mentioning, let alone in this journal. The internet and the various applications that it enables has …
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