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Individual Determinants of Recalls
No full textHense A, Edler S, Liebig S. Individual Determinants of Recalls. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 18. Bielefeld: DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From Heterogeneities to Inequalities; 2013
The Development of Deviant and Delinquent Behavior over the Life Course in the Context of Processes of Social Inequalities
No full textReinecke J, Stemmler M, Sünkel Z, et al. The Development of Deviant and Delinquent Behavior over the Life Course in the Context of Processes of Social Inequalities. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 17. Bielefeld: DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From Heterogeneities to Inequalities; 2013
Ties That Protect? The Significance of Transnationality for the Distribution of Informal Social Protection in Migrant Networks
No full textAmelina A, Bilecen B, Barglowski K, Faist T. Ties That Protect? The Significance of Transnationality for the Distribution of Informal Social Protection in Migrant Networks. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 6. Bielefeld: DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From Heterogeneities to Inequalities; 2012
Replicability and Comprehensibility of Social Research and its Technical Implementation
No full textFriedhoff S, Meier zu Verl C, Pietsch C, Meyer C, Vompras J, Liebig S. Social Research Data: Documentation, Management, and Technical Implementation within the SFB 882. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 16. Bielefeld: DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From Heterogeneities to Inequalities; 2013.This paper is a contribution to the methodological and technical discussion of social research infrastructure. The main question is how to store and manage data in a way that meets the increasing demand for secondary data analysis in both quantitative and qualitative social science research. The first two sections focus mainly on aspects of data documentation, in particular on the unification of various documentation requirements that have arisen across ongoing projects of the SFB 882. While the aim of documenting quantitative research processes is to ensure replicability, the aim of documenting qualitative projects is to maintain the understandability and informative value of research data.
In the third section a virtual research environment (VRE) is presented that provides both a generic work platform and a project-specific research platform. The work platform bundles IT resources by bringing together various tools for administration, project management, and time- and location-independent collaboration in a single environment adapted to researchers’ specific work processes. The research component combines data management with further developments in social science methodologies. It provides services for the archiving and reuse of data and enables the infrastructural and methodological coordination of data documentation. We also introduce a documentation scheme for qualitative and quantitative social research within the SFB 882. This scheme considers the specific requirements of research projects within the SFB, such as different methods (e.g. panel analysis, experimental approaches, ethnography, and interview research), project work, and requirements of long-term research
Global Inequality and Development : Textual Representations of the World Bank and UNDP
No full textFreistein K, Koch M. Global Inequality and Development : Textual Representations of the World Bank and UNDP. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 12. Bielefeld: DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From Heterogeneities to Inequalities; 2012
Jenseits des Homogenitätsmodells der Kultur: Zur Analyse von Transnationalität und kulturellen Interferenzen auf der Grundlage der hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie
No full textAmelina A. Jenseits des Homogenitätsmodells der Kultur: Zur Analyse von Transnationalität und kulturellen Interferenzen auf der Grundlage der hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 4. Bielefeld: DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From Heterogeneities to Inequalities; 2012.Der Aufsatz erweitert die aktuellen Forschungsstrategien der Transnationalisierungsforschung
um die kulturtheoretische Perspektive. In Anlehnung an Andreas Reckwitz, Ulf Hannerz und
Homi Bhabha wird ‚Kultur‘ als ein Prozess der Sinngebung beschrieben. Folglich werden
transnationale Formationen, wie multi-lokale Familien, Diasporen und Organisationen als
diejenige soziale Einheiten definiert, die sich durch die Interferenz, also Überlagerung, von
Sinnmustern und Wissensordnungen auszeichnen.
Auf der Grundlage dieser Annahmen fasst der Aufsatz zentrale Elemente einer transnational
orientierten hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie zusammen, die Akteursstrategien des
Umgangs mit kulturellen Interferenzen in den Mittelpunkt rückt. Als erstes werden die
Vorteile von multi-lokaler Ethnographie (und der an sie angelehnten Erhebungsformen)
hervorgehoben, die eine innovative Form der qualitativen Erhebung von
grenzüberschreitenden Phänomenen darstellt. Als zweites wird die modifizierte Strategie der
Dateninterpretation in Anlehnung an die hermeneutische Wissenssoziologie vorgeschlagen:
Forscherinnen bleiben offen in Bezug auf die mögliche Pluralität und Überlagerung der
Sinnmuster sozialer Akteure. Als drittes wird vorgeschlagen, die Reflexivitätssteigerung ins
methodische Verfahren zu integrieren, in dem die Forschung in kulturell-heterogenen und
interdisziplinären Forschungsteams organisiert wird. Somit bietet die Methode der
transnational orientierten hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie eine komplexitätsadäquate
Rekonstruktion kultureller Interferenzen im Kontext von grenzüberschreitenden
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Pliocene sediment and silicon isotope record of ODP Site 145-882
No full textIncreases in the low-field mass-specific magnetic susceptibility (chi), dropstones and the terrigenous sediment component from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 882 (~45°N) have been interpreted to indicate a major onset of ice-rafting to the sub-Arctic northwest Pacific Ocean during marine isotope stage (MIS) G6 (from ~2.75 Ma). In contrast, studies of the terrigenous content of sediments cored downwind of ODP Site 882 indicate that dust and disseminated volcanic ash deposition in the sub-Arctic Pacific increased markedly during MIS G6. To investigate the relative contribution of dust, volcanic ash and ice rafting to the Pliocene chi increase, we present new high-resolution environmental magnetic and ice-rafted debris records from ODP Sites 882 and 885. Our results demonstrate that the chi increase at both sites across MIS G6 is predominantly controlled by a previously overlooked mixture of aeolian dust and volcanic ash. Our findings call into question the reliability of chi as a proxy for ice-rafting to the North Pacific. They also highlight a previously undocumented link between iron fertilisation and biogeochemical cycling in the North Pacific at a key stage during intensification of late Pliocene northern hemisphere glaciation
Resource Dilution or Resource Augmentation? Number of Siblings, Birth Order, Sex of the Child and Frequency of Mother’s Activities with Preschool Children
No full textOsmanowski M, Cardona A. Resource Dilution or Resource Augmentation? Number of Siblings, Birth Order, Sex of the Child and Frequency of Mother’s Activities with Preschool Children. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 5. Bielefeld: DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From Heterogeneities to Inequalities; 2012.This study sheds light on differences in the frequency of mother-child activities during the
children’s early life stages. Using data on children aged 2-3 and 5-6 from the German Socio-
Economic Panel (SOEP), we answer two questions: (i) To what extent does the frequency of
activities vary between families? (ii) What changes in the frequency of activities occur for
each child with the birth of a new sibling? Our results indicate that (i) The frequency with
which mothers engage in activities is affected by the combined effects of the number of siblings,
children’s sex, and birth order. In particular, as sibship size increases, mothers undertake
more activities with firstborn than with middle, younger, and even only children. (ii)
Children who already have a younger sibling receive an attention boost through the birth of a
new sibling, while others experience a reallocation of activities. To account for these results,
we go beyond the resource dilution hypothesis and offer an alternative explanation which assumes
either an increase of efficiency in time spent in maternal activities or a spillover effect
of other siblings on the overall level of activity with increasing sibship size
What do Women and Men Want? Investigating and Measuring Preference Heterogeneity for Life Outcomes using a Factorial Survey
No full textSchunck R, Abendroth A, Diewald M, Melzer SM, Pausch S. What do Women and Men Want? Investigating and Measuring Preference Heterogeneity for Life Outcomes using a Factorial Survey. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 20. Bielefeld: DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From Heterogeneities to Inequalities; 2013.This paper highlights the relevance of preference heterogeneity for life outcomes. We propose using a factorial survey as a method to measure preferences. Factorial surveys comprise complex rating situations, encompassing trade-offs between dimensions, thus allowing inference of the relative importance attached to each dimension. Conceptualizing preferences as ratings given to a set of life course outcomes that result at least partly from our own behavior distinguishes preferences, on the one hand, from attitudes and values and, on the other hand, from situation-specific evaluations of concrete alternatives. We illustrate preference heterogeneity by investigating differences in the relevance of work and family outcomes to men’s and women’s life satisfaction. The results of our analyses (multilevel models) show that preference heterogeneity operationalized in this way does indeed exist between female and male respondents as regards having children, but not regarding labor market outcomes such as income or occupational prestige. The inclusion of preferences in social inequality research may advance our understanding of the emergence of inequalities, in particular as regards the question of whether observable inequalities between groups are the product of differences in preferences or differences in constraints and opportunities
Geochemistry of ODP Site 145-882
No full textMeasurements of benthic foraminiferal cadmium:calcium (Cd/Ca) have indicated that the glacial-interglacial change in deep North Pacific phosphate (PO4) concentration was minimal, which has been taken by some workers as a sign that the biological pump did not store more carbon in the deep glacial ocean. Here we present sedimentary redox-sensitive trace metal records from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 882 (NW subarctic Pacific, water depth 3244 m) to make inferences about changes in deep North Pacific oxygenation - and thus respired carbon storage - over the past 150,000 yr. These observations are complemented with biogenic barium and opal measurements as indicators for past organic carbon export to separate the influences of deep-water oxygen concentration and sedimentary organic carbon respiration on the redox state of the sediment. Our results suggest that the deep subarctic Pacific water mass was depleted in oxygen during glacial maxima, though it was not anoxic. We reconcile our results with the existing benthic foraminiferal Cd/Ca by invoking a decrease in the fraction of the deep ocean nutrient inventory that was preformed, rather than remineralized. This change would have corresponded to an increase in the deep Pacific storage of respired carbon, which would have lowered atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by sequestering CO2 away from the atmosphere and by increasing ocean alkalinity through a transient dissolution event in the deep sea. The magnitude of change in preformed nutrients suggested by the North Pacific data would have accounted for a majority of the observed decrease in glacial atmospheric pCO2
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