Tag: sociology
Simon Schaupp: "Metabolic policy": Disastrous barter deal
The social peace in the country is deceptive, says sociologist Simon Schaupp. It is based on a blatant waste of resources. This won’t work for much longer. A new political…
Non-fiction "Drunk behavior": Loss of control myth
Do people do things under the influence of alcohol that they would never do otherwise? An ethnological study from 1968 gathered startling evidence that this is not true. source site
“Atmospheric Islamophobia”, discrimination… Why is part of the Muslim elite leaving France?
Islamophobia in question. The book France, you love it but you are leaving it*, released this Friday in bookstores, puts its finger on a phenomenon that has until now been…
Philipp Felsch: “The Philosopher – Habermas and Us” – Culture
No book about Jürgen Habermas has ever started like this. In the style of a large American magazine portrait, like the one in new Yorker Berlin cultural historian Philipp Felsch…
Sociology: The Great Divide? Political attitudes differ between the genders
On average, women stand a little further to the left and men a little further to the right. But is this phenomenon really deepening into a deep divide, as some…
The German-French political scientist Alfred Grosser is dead – culture
The German-French political scientist Alfred Grosser is dead. His son Pierre told the French newspaper Le Monde confirmed. He therefore died in Paris. Grosser was 99 years old and was…
Democracy and Voters: Karl-Rudolf Kortes Analysis of the “Authoritarian Temptation” – Politics
At the founding party conference of the “Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance” (BSW) on January 27th in Berlin, the namesake and newly elected chairwoman diagnosed that something was currently “tipping” in Germany.…
Heinz Bude’s essay: "Farewell to the Boomers": Trail of Destruction
The sociologist Heinz Bude says a cheerful and contemplative farewell to the baby boomer generation and asks: Do you still have something to make up for? source site
Reemtsma closes Hamburg Institute for Social Research – Culture
The Hamburg Institute for Social Research will cease its work in 2028. Foundation board member Jan Philipp Reemtsma and director Wolfgang Knöbl announced this in a press release on Monday…
Israel: "Ethnic conflicts only disappear when nationalist hopes are fulfilled"
The sociologist Andreas Wimmer has researched ethnic wars. In an interview, he explains which mechanisms keep the Middle East conflict alive and what gives hope despite everything. source site