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This volume explores Andrew Feenberg’s work in critical theory. Feenberg is considered one of the key ‘second generation’ critical theorists, with a keen interest in philosophy of technology. He has made a vital contribution to critical theory in ways that remain of interest given the pressing technological issues of our time. The authors of this book highlight not only the ways that Feenberg has begun to make good on what is often characterized as “the broken promise of critical theory” to address issues of technology, but also the continued importance of critical theory more generally, and of Feenberg’s contributions to understanding this tradition.

Philosophy --- Philosophy of nature --- Sociological theory building --- Sociological theories --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- sociale analyse --- filosofie --- ingenieurswetenschappen

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This book examines the concepts behind a philosophical project on postmodernism: the social and cultural condition of our time, the age of the achieved capitalism. It proposes an original theory of postmodern humanism based on the absence of form and describes the development of philosophical thought as a musical “cadenza” that produces meaning in the empty space between the past of the modern and the future of the postmodern. The book focuses on three main postmodernist themes: the denial of identity and the assertion of the differences, the shattered subject, and the absence of teleology in history and politics. .

Philosophy --- General ethics --- Sociological theory building --- Sociological theories --- sociale analyse --- ethiek --- postmodernisme (filosofie) --- kapitalisme

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Der Sammelband umfasst vielfältige, aktuelle Erkenntnisse zum Fanverhalten im Sport, u.a. zur Kommerzialisierung im Fußball, der Fan-Kommunikation 3.0, den Einflussfaktoren der Fanarbeit in Vereinen und komplexen Netzwerken, dem Misstrauen gegenüber der Polizei sowie rechtlichen Aspekten des Fanverhalten. Mit diesen Themen setzten sich Wissenschaftler und Praktiker verschiedener Fachrichtungen beim 2. Udo-Steinberg-Symposium am 16. und 17. November 2015 an der Hochschule Mittweida auseinander. Der Inhalt Der Fußball und die Fans: Fanarbeit in komplexen Netzwerken Beeinflussende Faktoren des Fanverhaltens in der praktischen Vereinsarbeit Gefahren durch Fans Kritik an RasenBallsport Leipzig – Marketing contra Tradition Fan-Kommunikation 3.0 Die Zielgruppen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Dozierende und Studierende der Sportwissenschaften, Soziologie, Psychologie, Kommunikations- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften Fanbeauftragte, Vertreterinnen und Vertreter von Fanprojekten, Sportverbänden und -vereinen sowie der Polizeigewerkschaft Die Herausgeber Prof. André Schneider ist Inhaber der Professur Corporate Sustainability Management, insb. Sportmanagement an der Hochschule Mittweida Dr. Julia Köhler ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Frank Schumann ist Akademischer Assistent an der Fakultät Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen der Hochschule Mittweida.

Social service. --- Culture --- Sociology. --- Social Work. --- Cultural Studies. --- Sociological Theory. --- Study and teaching.

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This volume presents the innovative methodologies, tools and techniques, as well as the challenges and ethical complexities of doing geographies of young people. Geographers of young people have reflected upon participation, power and how to approach young people, generating a vibrant and exciting methodological terrain, which this volume showcases. Understanding young people’s lives has challenged researchers to be creative in their research approaches. Facilitating research with, and alongside, young people and acknowledging, and endeavouring to address, adult-child power imbalances has prompted innovation, experimentation and adaptation which has applicability to all social scientists and geographers. The volume provides critical insights into underlying epistemological and ethical debates, along with practical methods and techniques that investigate young people’s geographies globally, across both majority and minority worlds. Many of the chapters consider how to facilitate participation and empowerment through the research process, and geographies of young people have a long tradition of co-production and participation in research. The collection is structured into three sections with a focus on: methodological approaches and ethics; methods, tools and techniques; co-production, participation and power.  In the first section, key epistemological and methodological approaches are considered, such as critical realism, and critical pedagogy, with discussion of their implications for research design and analysis.  In the second section, chapters explore the potential and challenges of a variety of innovative participatory tools: mobile technologies, geospatial methods, creative visual methods, participatory video.  In the third section, chapters reflect on endeavours to promote more empowering, co-productive research including rights-based research, young people as researchers, and community engagement with young people. The collection highlights the specific methodological and ethical issues raised by relatively neglected techniques, such as archival research, autoethnography, qualitative longitudinal research and mobile interviewing.  It addresses how barriers to participation with groups who are often more silenced and marginalised can be addressed, such as when conducting research with migrant and asylum seeking children in the minority world and with street youth and disabled young people in the majority world.  The volume explores issues of data analysis, interpretation and dissemination, such as interpreting visual ethnography and the process of participatory dissemination. .

Human geography. --- Sociology. --- Social groups. --- Human Geography. --- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. --- Sociological Theory.

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This volume incorporates ground-breaking new academic perspectives on the contributions that children and young people make to societies around the world, with a particular focus on learning and work. The chapters in the volume offer conceptual and empirical insights into how young people learn to labour, and the complex social, spatial, temporal, institutional and relational processes that informs their engagements in daily, generational and social reproduction. The editors have intentionally avoided using the terms ‘education’ and ‘employment’ in the title, as this volume is an attempt to capture the multitude of ways, spaces and contexts (not just ‘formal’) in which learning takes place and work is carried out. Here, learning indicates education in the broadest possible sense, to incorporate not just formal schooling and the acquisition of institutionally recognised academic knowledge and credentials, but also informal learning (including socialization and the on-the-job acquisition of skills that takes place almost imperceptibly, over time). In addition to the theoretical perspectives this volume brings on young people’s education and work, other prominent conceptual themes present throughout the work are mobilities, transitions and gender. Following four initial chapters that engage with conceptual issues, the remainder of the volume is divided into two sections, entitled ‘spaces of labouring and learning’ and ‘livelihoods, transitions and social reproduction’. Within these sections, a broad spectrum of empirical chapters demonstrates how young people live, learn and labour in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. These include, among others, geographies of education; interface between migration, learning and livelihoods; cultural politics of human capital formation; schooling and work; citizenship education; families and parenting; socialization and informal education; education-induced migration; processes and practices of inclusion and exclusion in educational institutions; part-time work; domestic work; care work; informal livelihoods; entrepreneurship; social transitions; and a wide range of social, economic, cultural, political (structural) forces that intersect and dissect these topics. As the reader will become aware, there is no such thing as a standard educational or work trajectory, a ‘normal’ transition or a straight forward relationship between work, education and social reproduction. Indeed, one of the aims of the volume is deliberately to showcase the diversity that young people’s lives hold in this regard.

Human geography. --- Sociology. --- Social groups. --- Human Geography. --- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. --- Sociological Theory.