FIVE German Sociology and Empire From Internal Colonization to Overseas Colonization and Back Again

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-187
2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lutter ◽  
Martin Schröder

Abstract Based on data that tracks curriculum vitae (CV) and publication records as well as survey information from sociologists in German academia, we examine the effects of parenthood on the publication output of male and female academics that were present in German universities or research institutes in the year 2013. Results indicate that having children leads to a significant decline in the number of publications by women on average, while not affecting the number of publications by men. However, the gendered effect of children on productivity hardly mitigates differences in publication output between men and women, as women still publish about 20 per cent less than men after controlling for the adverse effects of children on productivity. The gendered effect of childbearing depends partly on prior levels of women’s academic achievements, suggesting a mechanism of performance-driven self-selection. Lower-performing women tend to suffer a stronger motherhood penalty than better performing women, while the publication output of successful women (who have been granted academic awards) is not reduced through childbirth. The results indicate that women are better at managing the ‘double burden’ of kids and career if external, award-giving committees have bestowed prestige upon them or indicated their potential for a scientific career.


2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-94
Author(s):  
Rasa Čepaitienė

This article discusses a direction of sociocultural studies – the cultural history of natural resources – and the possibilities of its application in examining the causes of inequality and social exclusion in post-Soviet Lithuania. This theoretical-methodological approach assumes a strong interdependence shared between the extraction of natural resources, a state’s political system and institutions as well as certain sociocultural provisions. In exploring the concept of “internal colonization,” developed by historian of culture Alexander Etkind and other authors, this article sets guidelines for a comparative analysis of the sociopolitical structure of post-Soviet countries (especially Russia and Lithuania). Some initial hypotheses regarding the trends, differences, and similarities of post-Soviet societies in the long historical perspective, from the 16th century up to our time, are presented for further analysis. This article concludes that this methodological approach could be sufficiently promising in explaining the specifics of the socioeconomic development of independent Lithuania, in particular by applying the hypothesis of a “secondary internal colonization,” which has been raised during the course of the investigation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Suzano Machado

O presente artigo se trata de um artigo de comentário de autores de função mais didática do que científica, pois, apesar de não ser meramente descritivo das teorias apresentadas, tampouco mergulha mais a fundo numa questão teórica ou apresenta leitura inovadora dos autores que apresenta – que, por sua vez, são também autores bastante canônicos. O artigo parte da análise que Frédéric Vandenberghe faz da trajetória do problema da reificação na sociologia alemã para refletir como tal problema configura a leitura dos clássicos da sociologia alemã sobre a modernidade e como essa leitura da modernidade encontra alternativas nos principais teóricos da sociologia alemã no final do séc. XX. Nessas alternativas, que encontro nas obras de Norbert Elias, Jürgen Habermas e Niklas Luhmann, o problema da reificação ainda ocupa lugar central na descrição da modernidade feita por Habermas, mas não na descrição da modernidade feita pelos demais. Com base nisso, reflito ao final do artigo sobre as eternas questões sociológicas sobre a tensão entre descrição e crítica social e como a dimensão da crítica, no exemplo alemão, permanece dependente de uma perspectiva que permita diferenciar processos históricos emancipatórios de processos históricos de desumanização, para os quais o debate sobre a reificação permanece útil.


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