Social sciences overview

The following books have been published in this series:

  • The New Security

  • Work in an ageing society
    Problem areas and development trends in the participation of elderly persons in the labour force

  • Nutrition and society
    Research status and problem areas

  • Immigration focussed by social science research

The New Security

Information about this publication will be released soon.

Work in an ageing society

Matthias Herfurth, Martin Kohli und Klaus F. Zimmermann (Eds.)
Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft. Problembereiche und Entwicklungstendenzen der Erwerbsbeteiligung Älterer
Work in an ageing society. Problem areas and development trends in the participation of elderly persons in the labour force

Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2003
(Sozialwissenschaften im Überblick, Volume 3), 301 pages
ISBN 3-8100-3816-4
24,90 EUR (only available through bookstores)

The participation of elderly persons in working life and the conditions and consequences of their transition to retirement are key topics in the social sciences. These topics are becoming highly explosive on account of the rapidly changing labour market and demographic ageing processes.

Will elderly workers again be needed to a greater extent in future? Will a lack of trainees and massive financial problems in social security systems lead to an increase in the lifetime work period and new retirement models? What challenges are facing companies in regard to the training and retention of the efficiency of their elderly employees? This book examines these questions.

The book is the result of intensive cooperation between the GESIS-department Social Science Information Centre (GESIS-IZ), the Research Institute for the Future of Work (IZA), the Research Group for Ageing and Life Careers (FALL) and the Institute for Sociology of the Free University of Berlin.

The book therefore contains an extensive overview of the current state of research from the aspects of economics and sociology. A scientometric description of the research area, an annotated list containing specialist information (institutions, Internet addresses) and a glossary round off the book, which also comes with a CD-ROM containing comprehensive references to relevant literature.

Nutrition and society. Research status and problem areas

 

Otto Bayer, Thomas Kutsch and H. Peter Ohly
Nutrition and society. Research status and problem areas

Opladen: Leske + Budrich 1999
(Sozialwissenschaften im Überblick, Volume 1), 312 pages
ISBN 3-8100-2151-2
24,90 EUR (only available through bookstores)

The publication focuses on the societal importance of nutrition and nutritional trends in the population. It also looks at how these are reflected in the social sciences. The state-of-the-art report, which is based on research findings and literature studies, offers an account of an important everyday life topic from a socio-cultural, social policy, trend-describing, as well as criticism of science perspective. This is a topic which has been discussed on an interdisciplinary level, however, rarely as an independent theme in the established social sciences such as sociology.

Additionally, with the help of queries in a variety of literature databases (SOLIS, PSYNDEX, SOMED, ELFIS) the publication contains a scientometric description of the research field. A selection of specialized information with commentary (studies, literature, journals, institutions, web sites and publishers) as well as a glossary are offered. The references which the scientometric analysis is based on, as well as recent descriptions from the research project database SOFIS are included on an attached CD-ROM.

This first volume in the series “Sozialwissenschaften im Überblick” is the product of a cooperative effort between the GESIS-department Social Science Information Centre (GESIS-IZ), the Sociology of Economics Department at the University of Bonn and the Institute for Nutritional Economics and Sociology at the Federal Research Centre for Nutrition (BFE) in Karlsruhe.

Immigration focussed by social science research

Compiled by Bernhard Santel and Hermann Schock
with prefaces written by Lale Akgün and Matthias Herfurth and an introductory note by Klaus J. Bade

Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2000
(Sozialwissenschaften im Überblick, Volume 2), 277 pages, with CD-ROM
ISBN 3-8100-2843-6
25,50 EUR (only available through bookstores)

This book offers access to literature and research from 1996 - 2000. Structured according to the focal points, it contains bibliographic information for over 2,380 scientific studies. The rapid search for relevant authors is facilitated by an index of persons and institutions. The enclosed CD-ROM informs more comprehensive, and offers in addition retrieval in abstracts and data-export. The documentary part is rounded off by an extensive list with 'links' to migration sites in the internet by Anne Koellner and an scientometrical analyses by H. Peter Ohly and Dominik Sack. Two papers highlight some of the main areas of activity in migration politics. Jan Motte analyses the effects of the Law of Return of 1983. Peter Kuehne concentrates on the employment situation of refugees and illustrates how state policies of exclusion have successfully prevented their integration into the labour market. In a third paper, Heike Hagedorn focusses on the citizenship laws of Germany and France.