Armutsforschung

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Academic Debate

The perception of growing social insecurities and divisions, not least due to the Covid-19 pandemic, has brought questions of social inequality and poverty back into focus. The interdisciplinary handbook addresses these new and old challenges and at the same time critically classifies and interprets current developments and manifestations of poverty. In addition to the academic debate, the handbook shows perspectives for the socio-political treatment of poverty. It serves as a comprehensive and concise reference work for practitioners, students and academics at the interface of various social science sub-disciplines. With contributions by Jan Bertram, Peter Bescherer, Petra Böhnke, Jeanette Bohr, Rita Braches-Chyrek, Antonio Brettschneider, Karl August Chassé, Michael David, Sonja Fehr, Marion Fischer-Neumann, Yvonne Franke, Natalie Grimm, Viktoria Häußermann, Maren Hilke, Dennis Homann, Ernst-Ulrich Huster, Andrea Janßen, Nora Jehles, Petra Kaps, Michael Klassen, Tanja Kleibl, Bettina Kohlrausch, Daniel Kumitz, Lutz Leisering, Sigrid Leitner, Gaby Lenz, Stephan Lessenich, Ortrud Leßmann, Stephan Lorenz, Ronald Lutz, Kai Marquardsen, Michael May, Lars Meier, Maria Pernegger, Roswitha Pioch, Ayça Polat, Martin Schenk, Karin Scherschel, Daniela Schiek, Johannes Schütte, Frank Sowa, Anne Tittor, Athanasios Tsirikiotis, Carsten G. Ullrich, Carolina Alves Vestena, Florian Vietze, Marliese Weißmann, Holger Wittig-Koppe and Janina Zölch.

Building Better Societies

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Strong Action ◽  
Established Order

What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert opinions outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions, and evidence are needed when we think about a better society. The book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. It argues that social scientists need to cast aside their commitment to the established order and its ideological support systems, look ahead at the likely outcomes of various interventions and move to the forefront of informed political debate. Providing practical steps and policy programmes, this book is ideal for academics and students across a wide range of social science fields and those interested in social inequality.

scholarly journals Understanding the Social Science Effect: An Intervention in Life Course Generosity

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (14) ◽  
pp. 1885-1909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Snell Herzog ◽  
Casey T. Harris ◽  
Shauna A. Morimoto ◽  
Jared L. Peifer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Behavioral Measure ◽  
Treatment Type ◽  
Adult College Students

Does interacting with social science data in early adulthood promote generosity? To investigate this question from a life course development perspective, two distinct samples were drawn for a survey with an embedded experimental design. The first sample is of emerging adult college students ( n = 30, median age = 20 years). The second sample is of young adults who were selected to participate based on their prior participation in a nationally representative and longitudinal study ( n = 170, median age = 31 years). Toward the end of the survey, participants were randomly selected into a website interaction with either: (a) data on charitable giving, (b) data on social inequality, or (c) data about weather (a control condition). The key outcome of interest is a behavioral measure of generosity: whether participants elected to keep their study incentive or donate their incentive to a charitable organization. The donation decision occurred after the randomly selected website interaction. Interacting with charitable giving data resulted in greater generosity than interacting with weather data, across both samples. Interacting with social inequality data had mixed results. Moreover, emerging adult college students gave at a considerably higher rate overall than the national sample of young adults, net of treatment type. Implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Importing American racial reasoning to social science research in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3–4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Voyer ◽  
Anna Lund
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

How does one research racial categorizations and exclusion while remaining sensitive to context? How does one engage the social reality of racial categorizations and the history of racialized exclusions without falling into the trap of race essentialism? These concerns prompt debate about, and also resistance to, examining race in Swedish social science. In this article, Voyer and Lund offer American racial reasoning as one possible approach to researching race in the Swedish context. American racial reasoning means being attentive to how power and the processes of social inequality operate through categories of racial and ethnic difference, and also seeing the path to greater equality in the embrace of those categories. American racial reasoning is a valuable research tool that uncovers dynamics of social inequality and possibilities for social justice that are otherwise difficult to grasp. Taking up the topic of immigration in Sweden, Voyer and Lund demonstrate the analytical value of American racial reasoning for understanding persistent social inequality and exclusion even when explicit racial categories are not in wide use in everyday life.

Aspekte sozialer Ungleichheit in Deutschland

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Schupp
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The Public

AbstractSocial inequality is one of the fundamental themes of sociology and has received increasing attention in recent years, not only in economics but also in the public debate. Alongside the attempt to locate this topic in the context of the current social science research, this paper seeks to introduce broader normative dimensions of social inequality and discuss questions regarding its legitimacy. In Germany, the principle of needs-based justice enjoys high legitimacy, but in many respects, its objectives conflict with those of the principle of meritocratic justice. Based on the examples of education and income, the paper shows that upward mobility has stagnated in Germany in recent years, confirming suspicions that talent reserves are not being developed. The paper ends with a discussion of potential unintended consequences of the growing tendency towards a polarization of social inequality.

scholarly journals Critical theory and social inequality

Tempo Social ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Boike Rehbein
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scientific Object ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Project

This paper argues that social inequality is possibly the core topic of any critical theory in the social sciences – for epistemological as well as ethical reasons. As the social scientist is part of the scientific object, namely society, the project of science is interdependent with its object. For this reason, the structure of society itself influences the shape of social science. At the same time, the processes and results of the scientific project have an impact on society. Science changes its own object. Epistemological issues are therefore tied to the ethical questions about the social organization of the scientific project, access to science, the structure of society and inequality. If access to science is unequal and if science contributes to inequality, this has to be legitimized scientifically.

scholarly journals Importing American racial reasoning to social science research in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Voyer ◽  
Anna Lund
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

How does one research racial categorizations and exclusions while remaining sensitive to context? How does one engage the social reality of racial categorizations and the history of racialized exclusions without falling into the trap of race essentialism? These concerns prompt debate about, and also resistance to, examining race in Swedish social science. In this article, Voyer and Lund offer American racial reasoning as one possible approach to researching race in the Swedish context. American racial reasoning means being attentive to how power and the processes of social inequality operate through categories of racial and ethnic difference, and also seeing the path to greater equality in the embrace of those categories. American racial reasoning is a valuable research tool that uncovers dynamics of social inequality and possibilities for social justice that are otherwise difficult to grasp. Taking up the topic of immigration in Sweden, Voyer and Lund demonstrate the analytical value of American racial reasoning for understanding persistent social inequality and exclusion even when explicit racial categories are not in wide use in everyday life.

Expanding the borders of The Sociological Imagination: Spatial difference and social inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Shields
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
North American ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Spatial Difference ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Technologies

This article argues that C Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination has changed, as evident in sociologies that think beyond national societies and analyse globalization. This ‘imagination’ has in effect been ‘expanded’, moving from one-dimensional (linear) analyses based on historical vectors of force and teleologies to a more contextualized, relativized spatial analysis with more dimensions. There were always outliers. However, at least for mainstream North American sociology, this represents a change in the spatialization of social science, a change in its presuppositions about space, not the becoming spatial of a non-spatial sociology. Borders and mobilities across and along borders are examined in relation to what is needed to confront them critically in a new spatial regime – a new ‘spatialization’ of the social. A hypothesis is developed that understands borderlines relationally as institutions and social technologies that introduce difference and inequalities into an otherwise homogeneous social and spatiotemporal ‘cultural topology’.

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