Richard Munch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 87417 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Munch |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Munch |
| ASSINATURA | MUNCH R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bamberg |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 84 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1941 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Die Dialektik von Fortschritt und Verlust
Bildungsungleichheit wie in kaum einem anderen Land? Hartmut Essers Frontalangriff auf die Standardposition und das Integrationsmodell in der Bildungsforschung
Article Bildungsungleichheit wie in kaum einem anderen Land? Hartmut Essers Frontalangriff auf die Standardposition und das Integrationsmodell in der Bildungsforschung was published on July 1, 2024 in the journal Soziologische Revue (volume 47, issue 3)
Types of Collaboration and the Consolidation of Sociological Research Evidence from publications in five German sociology journals 2000–2019
Career Paths Inside and Outside Academia , Seite 239 - 279
Group Formation in Science between Homogenization and Differentiation
We assess the empirical development of scientific homogenization and differentiation processes in terms of group development comparing U.S. and German sociology from 2004 to 2019. We introduce hierarchical multi-layered Bayesian stochastic block models to the issue of scientific group development. Based on publication data from Scopus, we analyze group formation simultaneously as collaboration networks, reference networks, and topical networks. E…
Field-crossing social capital and patronage as cornerstones of the transnational OECD-Pisa network infrastructure
The OECD is a key player in global education policy advice and part of the edu-business network. This network comprises of companies, philanthropies, consulting agencies and think tanks profiting from educational governance reforms and large-scale testing. This article investigates the structure of the OECD global policy network and its capability to bring together different types of expertise. To map the global policy advisors network, we introd…
All power to the reviewers
Our study investigates the impact of the British Research Assessment Exercise in 2008 and Research Excellence Framework in 2014 on the diversity and topic structure of UK sociology departments from the perspective of habitus-field theory. Empirically, we train a Latent Dirichlet allocation on 819,673 abstracts stemming from the journals in which British sociologists submitted at least one paper in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008 or Research…
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for Pisa scores
Improving schooling by reducing achievement gaps based on family background has been on the agenda of school governance worldwide for more than three decades. International benchmarking like the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to find models of best practice in effective school governance. Enlarging school autonomy, strengthening school management, and enhancing accountability have emerged as widely recommende…
Max Webers These der Entzauberung der Welt. Versuch einer Verteidigung
Soziologie in der Identitätskrise
Article Soziologie in der Identitätskrise: Zwischen totaler Fragmentierung und Einparadigmenherrschaft was published on February 23, 2018 in the journal Zeitschrift für Soziologie (volume 47, issue 1
Searching for the Spirit of American Democracy
Functionalism, History of
Integration, Social
Alle Macht den Zahlen! Zur Soziologie des Zitationsindexes
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 149 - 160
Academic Capitalism
"This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This stratification is produced and continuously reproduced by…
Faded Grandeur
Academic capitalism
This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This stratification is produced and continuously reproduced by …
Explaining the Normative
Bringing Sociology to International Relations
Functional differentiation has long been at the heart of sociological thought, and as such has become a defining feature in the evolution of modern society; one which distinguishes it from pre-modern societies which have instead typically differentiated by means of segmentation, or stratified social systems such as class. Drawing on the latest developments on differentiation theory in international relations and sociology, this book brings togeth…
The Bologna Process in the German System of Higher Education
The Bologna Process is advancing at full speed, although the unintended effects it is causing are complained about everywhere. Yet, we do not witness unintended effects alone, but a fundamental societal change that embraces more than is widely recognised. This change is geared to replacing the occupational professional model of mediation between education and employment with the market model. Against the backdrop of the traditional German focus o…
Institutioneller Wettbewerb und Karrierechancen von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern in der Chemie
Institutional Struggles for Recognition in the Academic Field
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State
Introduction: Inclusion and exclusion in the emerging world society 1. Economic change: from incremental to radical innovation 2. The change of solidarity: the causes and consequences of international labour division 3. Symbolic change: the new cult of the individual 4. Institutional change: liberal, conservative and egalitarian adjustment to international labour division 5. Relative exclusion and disintegration: convergence in the liberal compet…
Morality, Modernity, and World Society
Theory of Action
Professor Richard Munch sets out to reformulate the theory of action, a notion central to sociology and one to which all schools of thought within sociology have contributed. He includes an account of Parson's voluntaristic theory of action
Der Monopolmechanismus in der Wissenschaft. Auf den Schultern von Robert K. Merton
Talcott Parsons and the Theory of Action. II. The Continuity of the Development
In The Structure of Social Action, Talcott Parsons developed a theory of action which corresponds in structure and method to Kant's critical philosophy. The core of this theory is the assertion that every action is to be understood as a product of the interaction of dynamizing and controlling forces. This basic proposition is elaborated into a theory through the construction of a four-dimensional "action space," which can be further differentiate…
Über Parsons zu Weber
Die Perspektive der zunehmenden Rationalisierung ist die allgemein anerkannte Interpretationsperspektive zu Max Webers vergleichenden Studien zum Entstehen der modernen okzidentalen Gesellschaft. Hier wird die These begründet, daß man sich mit dieser Perspektive bislang den Blick auf die Eigenart der modernen okzidentalen Entwicklung und auch den Blick auf das theoretische Erklärungssystem Max Webers verstellt hat. Die verschiedenen Einzelbeiträg…
Zahlung und Achtung. Die Interpenetration von Ökonomie und Moral
Ökonomische Vorgänge der Zahlung und moralische Zuteilungen von Achtung und Mißachtung gelten nach Niklas Luhmanns Theorie der funktionalen Differenzierung der modernen Gesellschaft in autopoietisch operierende Teilsysteme als für immer geschieden. Die Kluft zwischen ihnen ist unüberbrückbar. Diese These wird hier einer kritischen Prüfung unterzogen und verworfen. Als Alternative wird die Interpenetration von Zahlung und Achtung als Bauprinzip de…
Institutional Struggles for Recognition in the Academic Field
Stratifikation durch Evaluation
Der Aufsatz behandelt die Frage, warum, auf welche Weise und mit welchen Konsequenzen zentral organisierte Verfahren zur Evaluation der Forschungsleistungen von Fachbereichen - als Teil einer durch New Public Management forcierten Governance durch Peer Review und/oder Kennziffern - nicht einfach Leistungsdifferenzen und eine entsprechende Rangordnung messen bzw. ermitteln, sondern diese Differenzen und die Rangordnung selbst konstruieren, reprodu…
Talcott Parsons and the Theory of Action. I. The Structure of the Kantian Core
This essay presents the thesis that a correct understanding of Talcott Parson's writings must begin form the assumption of a fundamental congruence of basic structure and method between the theory of action and Kant's critical philosophy. It is already generally understood that this congruence holds true on the metalevel of epistemological assumptions. It is less understood that the Kantian form of argument penetrates down to the level of the obj…
Between Nation‐State, Regionalism and World Society
In this article, I aim to discuss the problems associated with European integration with particular reference to the integration processes taking place within the European Union (EU). I intend to deal with the topic in five sections: (1) how an abstract model for understanding and explaining the development of larger collective units, exemplified by the emergence of European nation‐states, can provide the tools for understanding and explaining th…
Understanding Modernity
Part I: Between Positivism, Idealism and Voluntarism: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim 1. The Convergence Between Weber and Durkheim: Interpretation and Explanation, the sacred and the profane 2. The divergence between Weber and Durkheim: Rational and Affectual Bases of Modern Social Order Part II: Social Order and Individual Anatomy 3. Community and Social Order 4. Socialization and Personality Development Part III: The Unique Nature, Formation, Dev…
The American Creed in Sociological Theory Exchange, Negotiated Order, Accommodated Individualism, and Contingency
This is an essay in the sociology of knowledge and in the construction of theory. I want to point out the common cultural pattern and the scope and limits in the interpretation and explanation of social interaction, of the emergence and maintenance of social order, of the interrelationship between individuality and sociality, and of the basic patterns of social life of six different theoretical paradigms in American sociology: Parsonian social sy…
Understanding Modernity
First Published in 1988, this volume works towards a new understanding and exploration of the rise and development of modern society, taking its lead from two classical theorists, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. The key concept of this approach is the 'interpenetration' of different spheres of action. Richard Münch begins with an exploration of the points of convergence and divergence in the works of Durkheim and Weber. He then builds, from Durkhei…
Soziologie in der Identitätskrise
Article Soziologie in der Identitätskrise: Zwischen totaler Fragmentierung und Einparadigmenherrschaft was published on February 23, 2018 in the journal Zeitschrift für Soziologie (volume 47, issue 1
American and European Social Theory
This paper gives an account of the cultural background to, and the social forms of theory production that shape the characteristic quality of American and the three most influential European social theory traditions: British, French, and German. After an analysis of Americanization after World War II, the prospects for the revitalization of European social theory and its improved position in world sociology are discussed. In this process, the uni…
Improving schooling through effective governance? The United States, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore in the struggle for Pisa scores
Improving schooling by reducing achievement gaps based on family background has been on the agenda of school governance worldwide for more than three decades. International benchmarking like the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to find models of best practice in effective school governance. Enlarging school autonomy, strengthening school management, and enhancing accountability have emerged as widely recommende…
Der Monopolmechanismus in der Wissenschaft. Auf den Schultern von Robert K. Merton
Die Konstruktion der soziologischen Realität durch Forschungsrating
Elemente einer Theorie der Integration moderner Gesellschaften. Eine Bestandsaufnahme
The Political Regulation of Technological Risks
We generally expect the modern state to take the fortunes of society in hand and to lead it, by judicious steering, to a better future. Political science has devoted a substantial branch of the discipline to this question with its research into policy and its implementation. This research constitutes the third great pillar upon which political science supports itself, the other two being the investigation of the political community as a form of h…
Journalismus in der Kommunikationsgesellschaft
The Micro-Macro Link
Zur Kritik der empiristischen Forschungspraxis / Criticism of Empirist Research Practice
Starting from falsificationism, as developed by critical rationalists as POPPER, FEYERABEND and LAKATOS, the criticism of this study is directed against the empirist research practice, that is going to dominate empirical research methods of the social sciences. This research practice minimizes the growth of our knowledge concerning our human and societal problems in favour of mere exactness and certainty. Falsificationism succeeds in developing a…
Group Formation in Science between Homogenization and Differentiation
We assess the empirical development of scientific homogenization and differentiation processes in terms of group development comparing U.S. and German sociology from 2004 to 2019. We introduce hierarchical multi-layered Bayesian stochastic block models to the issue of scientific group development. Based on publication data from Scopus, we analyze group formation simultaneously as collaboration networks, reference networks, and topical networks. E…
Max Webers These der Entzauberung der Welt. Versuch einer Verteidigung
Alle Macht den Zahlen! Zur Soziologie des Zitationsindexes
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 149 - 160
The Bologna Process in the German System of Higher Education
The Bologna Process is advancing at full speed, although the unintended effects it is causing are complained about everywhere. Yet, we do not witness unintended effects alone, but a fundamental societal change that embraces more than is widely recognised. This change is geared to replacing the occupational professional model of mediation between education and employment with the market model. Against the backdrop of the traditional German focus o…
Institutioneller Wettbewerb und Karrierechancen von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern in der Chemie
The Swiss Union of Women Co‐operators and the 50th Anniversary of the U.S.C
Mentales System und Verhalten
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
Zur Kritik der empiristischen Forschungspraxis / Criticism of Empirist Research Practice
Starting from falsificationism, as developed by critical rationalists as POPPER, FEYERABEND and LAKATOS, the criticism of this study is directed against the empirist research practice, that is going to dominate empirical research methods of the social sciences. This research practice minimizes the growth of our knowledge concerning our human and societal problems in favour of mere exactness and certainty. Falsificationism succeeds in developing a…
Propheten der Dunkelheit
Soziologische Theorie und historische Erklärung / Sociological Theory and Historical Explanation
Sociological theory and historical explanation are both characterized by the competition of different apporoaches. Concerning the methodological part, there is a dispute about models of nomological and rational explanation; concerning the sociological part, on the most general level, there is a debate on the differences between a theory of action, a systems theory, and a learning theory. The model of rational explanation, however, does not succee…
Legitimität und politische Macht
Legitimitat und politische Macht sind klassische Themen der politischen und der politischen Soziologie. In der hier vorliegenden Untersuchung sollen zu- nachst drei unterschiedliche soziologische Ansatze zu diesen Themen dargestellt und iiberpriift werden. Daran schlieBt sich der Versuch an, die Problemstellung durch Spezifikation einer allgemeinen sozialer zu einer politischer zu bearbeiten. Es wird dabei an die anderenorts erschienene Theorie s…
Über Parsons zu Weber
Die Perspektive der zunehmenden Rationalisierung ist die allgemein anerkannte Interpretationsperspektive zu Max Webers vergleichenden Studien zum Entstehen der modernen okzidentalen Gesellschaft. Hier wird die These begründet, daß man sich mit dieser Perspektive bislang den Blick auf die Eigenart der modernen okzidentalen Entwicklung und auch den Blick auf das theoretische Erklärungssystem Max Webers verstellt hat. Die verschiedenen Einzelbeiträg…
Talcott Parsons and the Theory of Action. I. The Structure of the Kantian Core
This essay presents the thesis that a correct understanding of Talcott Parson's writings must begin form the assumption of a fundamental congruence of basic structure and method between the theory of action and Kant's critical philosophy. It is already generally understood that this congruence holds true on the metalevel of epistemological assumptions. It is less understood that the Kantian form of argument penetrates down to the level of the obj…
Talcott Parsons and the Theory of Action. II. The Continuity of the Development
In The Structure of Social Action, Talcott Parsons developed a theory of action which corresponds in structure and method to Kant's critical philosophy. The core of this theory is the assertion that every action is to be understood as a product of the interaction of dynamizing and controlling forces. This basic proposition is elaborated into a theory through the construction of a four-dimensional "action space," which can be further differentiate…
Modern Science and Technology
From Pure Methodological Individualism to Poor Sociological Utilitarianism
From Pure Methodological Individualism to Poor Sociological Utilitarianism: A Critique of an Avoidable Alliance, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter, 1983), pp. 45-77
Advances in Action Theory
A Defense of Rational Sociological Discourse
Differenzierung, Rationalisierung, Interpenetration
Dieser Essay erörtert vier unterschiedliche Theorien der Differenzierung und Rationalisierung der Gesellschaft, die in der deutschen Soziologie inden vergangenen Jahren diskutiert worden sind: Niklas Luhmanns Systemtheorie, Wolfgang Schluchters Theorie der Rationalisierung, Jürgen Habermas’ Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns und die an Talcott Parsons anknüpfende Theorie des Handelns. Die Theorien von Luhmann, Schluchter und Habermas werden anha…
The American Creed in Sociological Theory Exchange, Negotiated Order, Accommodated Individualism, and Contingency
This is an essay in the sociology of knowledge and in the construction of theory. I want to point out the common cultural pattern and the scope and limits in the interpretation and explanation of social interaction, of the emergence and maintenance of social order, of the interrelationship between individuality and sociality, and of the basic patterns of social life of six different theoretical paradigms in American sociology: Parsonian social sy…
Zwischen Handlungstheorie und Systemtheorie
Handlungstheorie und Systemtheorie werden gewöhnlich als Gegensätze betrachtet. Ich möchte hier darlegen, daß man in der Analyse von Institutionen sehr wohl mit einer Systemtheorie arbeiten kann, deren handlungstheoretische Grundlagen nicht vergessen worden sind. Zugleich soll deutlich werden, daß ein solcher Ansatz mehr und weiterreichende Fragen beantworten kann als die herkömmliche Institutionstheorie
Die Struktur der Moderne. Grundmuster und Differentielle Gestalgung des Aufbaus der Modernen Gesellschaften
The Law in Terms of Systems TheoryA Sociological Theory of Law.Niklas Luhmann , Elizabeth King , Martin Albrow
The Micro-Macro Link
Understanding Modernity
Part I: Between Positivism, Idealism and Voluntarism: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim 1. The Convergence Between Weber and Durkheim: Interpretation and Explanation, the sacred and the profane 2. The divergence between Weber and Durkheim: Rational and Affectual Bases of Modern Social Order Part II: Social Order and Individual Anatomy 3. Community and Social Order 4. Socialization and Personality Development Part III: The Unique Nature, Formation, Dev…
The Micro-Macro Link
American and European Social Theory
This paper gives an account of the cultural background to, and the social forms of theory production that shape the characteristic quality of American and the three most influential European social theory traditions: British, French, and German. After an analysis of Americanization after World War II, the prospects for the revitalization of European social theory and its improved position in world sociology are discussed. In this process, the uni…
Autopoiesis per Definitionen
The Contribution of German Social Theory to European Sociology
Journalismus in der Kommunikationsgesellschaft
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