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Vom Generalgefühl der Überforderung: Rezension zu "Triggerpunkte: Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft" von Steffen Mau, Thomas Lux und Linus Westheuser
Full text linkSteffen Mau, Thomas Lux, Linus Westheuser: Triggerpunkte: Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2023. 978-3-518-02984-
Klassenbewusstsein und Wahlentscheidung
No full textLinus Westheuser and Thomas Lux ; Division for Analysis, Planning and Consulting ; translation: James Patterso
"Verkratert statt gespalten" - Von der Politisierung neuer Konfliktstrukturen in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft: Über: Mau/Lux/Westheuser (2023), "Triggerpunkte"
No full textIst die deutsche Gesellschaft "gespalten" in zwei Lager, die sich feindlich gegenüberstehen? In ihrem Buch "Triggerpunkte" positionieren sich die Soziologen Steffen Mau, Thomas Lux und Linus Westheuser dezidiert gegen zugespitzte Polarisierungsthesen. Ihre Untersuchungen weisen aber auch auf einen Wandel der deutschen Politik hin, von dem wir begründet vermuten können, dass er in vollem Gange ist
The symbolic politics of populism reflects the class alliances it attempts to assemble
No full textLinus Westheuser links the study of populism as a stylistic repertoire with Bourdieu’s class analysis. This repertoire, which draws on symbols of ‘the popular’ produced in non-political fields like food and leisure, is situated in the struggle over the classification of groups
Populism as Symbolic Class Struggle. Homology, Metaphor, and English Ale
No full textThis contribution links the study of populism as a stylistic repertoire with Bourdieusian class analysis. The starting point is Ostiguy and Moffitt's observation that the populist repertoire draws on symbols of the 'sociocultural low' and 'the popular' produced in non-political fields like food and leisure. Borrowing from Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu, the article proposes to view these elements as metaphors for positions in vertical and horizontal class relations. Metaphorical signification rests on homologies between the symbolic sphere ('culture') and politics grounded in the divisions of social space ('the class structure'). This perspective allows us to situate the populist repertoire in social structure and analyze its entanglement in struggles over the classification of groups, or symbolic class struggles.<br /
Theorizing Cleavage Identities: The Contribution of Cultural Sociology
No full textHow cleavages are structured on the level of identities is a central but neglected part of cleavage theory. The contribution theorizes the identity level of cleavages and makes the case for studies of symbolic and moral boundary making to complement existing research. A first part presents a definition of the sociocultural element of cleavages as a set of antagonistic group categories endowed with moral force and pervasively deployed in everyday classifications of the self and others. It is then shown how certain aspects of this cleavage element are underrepresented in current research. Drawing on work in cultural sociology, it is suggested that the study of symbolic boundaries can help fill this gap. Concretely, it is shown how boundary making is at play in an important contemporary form of cleavage transformation, i.e. the formation of a new divide over national closure and societal liberalization, expressed by parties of the Populist Radical Right and the New Left and rooted in postindustrial class alignments
Männer, Frauen und Stefan Hirschauer: Undoing gender zwischen Praxeologie und rhetorischer Modernisierung
Full text linkStefan Hirschauers Konzept des undoing gender erhebt den Anspruch, durch den systematischen Einbezug der Inaktivierung von Geschlecht die Annahmen der ethnomethodologischen Geschlechtersoziologie zu komplementieren und zu radikalisieren. Der Artikel rekonstruiert diesen Ansatz im Licht der soziologischen Praxeologie und konfrontiert ihn mit empirischen Befunden. Hirschauers Überlegungen liefern interessante Impulse für eine praxeologische Geschlechtersoziologie und eignen sich zur Analyse widersprüchlicher Dynamiken interaktiver Vergeschlechtlichungspraktiken. Seine Annahmen zu institutioneller Einbettung, Wandel und Politik der Geschlechter hingegen erweisen sich als theoretisch und empirisch weniger tragfähig.Stefan Hirschauer's concept of undoing gender claims to complement and radicalize the findings of ethnomethodological gender sociology by systematically taking into account the deactivation of gender. The article reconstructs this approach in the light of sociological praxeology and confronts it with empirical evidence. Hirschauer's propositions offer valuable impulses for a praxeological sociology of gender and are well suited to analyzing contradictory interactional practices of gendering. Assumptions about the institutional embedding, historical change and politics of gender, on the other hand, prove to be theoretically and empirically less sound
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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