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Sociology of knowledge

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This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academics’ perceptions of their professional contexts. The book demonstrates a growing diversity within the academic profession and new professional roles inhabiting a space which is neither located in the core business of teaching and research nor at the top level management and leadership. The new higher education professionals tend to be important change agents within the higher education institutions not only fulfilling service and bridging functions but also streamlining academic work to make a contribution to the reputation and competitiveness of the institution as a whole. Based on interviews with academic staff, this book explores the situation in eight European countries: Austria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Romania, and Switzerland.

Sociology of knowledge --- Teaching --- Higher education --- Europe

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How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? It is the interdisciplinary field called science studies that provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. They help us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Their joint observation: Science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as 'knowledge society'. More than ever, knowledge production and consumption are in need of incessant monitoring and sophisticated reflection. Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge, are included here: They cover issues as diverse as eugenics, climate research, and the role of historiography, and make use of different tools such as evolutionary reasoning, metaphor, and bibliometrics. Finally, they ponder the need for science to go public (PUS) as well as for society to regulate knowledge and to restructure universities as building blocks of our science system. Their joint message: Science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today.

Sociology --- Impact of science & technology on society --- Science. --- Sociology of Knowledge. --- Sociology of Science. --- Sociology. --- Modern Society; Science; Sociology of Science; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology

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Methods in social research (general) --- Sociology of knowledge --- History as a science --- sociology --- sociologie

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Begegnungen mit dem Fremden sind uns vertraut, auch wenn wir den Anderen dabei häufig als unvertraut wahrnehmen. Doch es sind weniger die fremden, als vielmehr die eigenen Wirklichkeitsvorstellungen und Umgangspraktiken, die den »Einen« zum »Anderen« machen. Die Autorin analysiert diese Praktiken der Fremdsetzung, die sich von der alltäglichen Etikettierung und Stigmatisierung bis hin zu wissenschaftlichen Praktiken des »Othering« erstrecken: Rekonstruiert werden sowohl Simmels »Händler«, Parks »Mulatte«, Schütz' »Emigrant«, Meads »signifikanter/verallgemeinerter Andere« als auch ethnografische Praktiken der »Ver-Anderung« des Fremden. Dabei wird der Blick immer wieder von den vertrauten Bildern des Fremden hin zu ihren subtilen Herstellungsprozessen und Resonanzen gelenkt, was es möglich macht, von den Konstruktionen des Fremden auf die Konstruktionen des Eigenen zurückzuschließen. »Reuter geht es nicht darum, die Grenze zwischen dem Eigenen und dem Fremden zu verfeinern (wozu die Soziologie neigt), sondern darum, die ›Ordnungen des Anderen‹ als Problem des Eigenen zu begreifen. Der Blick auf die ›Ver-Anderung‹ stellt dabei zugleich das So-sein des Eigenen in Frage, das selbst im gleichen Prozess erst erzeugt wird.« Martina Backes, iz3w, 7/8 (2002)

Cultural studies --- Social theory --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Sociology of Knowledge. --- Sociology. --- Fremdheit; Stigmatisierung; »Othering«; Sozialität; Soziologische Theorie; Kultursoziologie; Wissenssoziologie; Soziologie; Social Relations; Sociological Theory; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology