Figurational Sociology
2023
- Johan Heilbron & Nico Wilterdink: Studying Long-Term Processes in Human History.
- Stephen Mennell: Remembering Johan Goudsblom.
- Johan Goudsblom: Long-Term Processes in the History of Humanity.
- David Christian: The Trajectory of Human History.
- Nico Wilterdink: Goudsblom’s Law of Three Stages: The Global Spread of Socio-Cultural Traits in Human History.
- Nina Baur: Long-Term Processes as Obstacles Against the Fourth Ecological Transformation. Ecological Sustainability and the Spatial Arrangements of Food Markets.
- John R. McNeill: Bison, Elephants, and Sperm Whales: Keystone Species in the Industrial Revolution.
- Marina Fischer-Kowalski: On the Mutual Historical Dynamics of Societies’ Political Governance Systems and their Sources of Energy. The Approach of the Vienna School of Social Ecology.
- André Saramago: Dualism and Anti-Dualism in the Anthropocene: Process Sociology and Human/Nature Relations in the Great Evolution.
- Abram de Swaan: The Global Coordination Problem: Collective Action among Unequal States.
- Randall Collins: Sexual Revolutions and the Future of the Family.
- Johan Goudsblom: The Worm and the Clock: On the Genesis of a Global Time Regime.
2020
- Cas Wouters: Have Civilising Processes Changed Direction? Informalisation, Functional Democratisation, and Globalisation.
- Nico Wilterdink: Increasing and Decreasing Inequalities of Power: A Processual View. A Response to Cas Wouters, and a Proposal for Clarification.
2019
- Walter Bartl, Christian Papilloud & Audrey Terracher-Lipinski: Governing by Numbers - Key Indicators and the Politics of Expectations. An Introduction.
- Laurent Thévenot: Measure for Measure: Politics of Quantifying Individuals to Govern Them.
- Rainer Diaz-Bone: Statistical Panopticism and its Critique.
- Timo Walter: Formalizing the Future: How Central Banks Set Out to Govern Expectations but Ended Up (En-)Trapped in Indicators.
- Ingo Bode: Let’s Count and Manage – and Forget the Rest. Understanding NumericRationalization in Human Service Provision.
- Lisa Knoll & Konstanze Senge: Public Debt Management between Discipline and Creativity. Accounting for Energy Performance Contracts in Germany.
- John Berten: Failed Indicatorisation: Defining, Comparing and Quantifying Social Policy in the ILO’s International Survey of Social Services of the Interwar Period.
- Oscar Javier Maldonado & Tiago Moreira: Metrics in Global Health: Situated Differences in the Valuation of Human Life.
- Carlotta Mozzana: A Matter of Definitions: The Profiling of People in Italian Active Labour Market Policies.
- Michael Huber & Maarten Hillebrandt: “Pay for Promise” in Higher Education: The Influence of NPM on Resource Allocation in German Universities.
- Anne Piezunka: Struggle for Acceptance – Maintaining External School Evaluation as an Institution in Germany.
- Philipp Lepenies: Transforming by Metrics that Matter – Progress, Participation, and the National Initiatives of Fixing Well-Being Indicators.
- Oliver Holtemöller & Christoph Schult: Expectation Formation, Financial Frictions, and Forecasting Performance of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models.
2017
- Noriyuki Suzuki: The Formation Process for Civil Society in Northeast Thailand: A Social Research Case Study of Two Villages.
- Stefanie Ernst, Christoph Weischer & Behrouz Alikhani: Changing Power Relations and the Drag Effects of Habitus. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches in the Twenty-First Century. An Introduction.
- Nico Wilterdink: The Dynamics of Inequality and Habitus Formation. Elias, Bourdieu, and the Rise of Nationalist Populism.
- Nina Baur: Process-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis. Methodological Reflections on Elias and Bourdieu.
- Sandra Matthäus: Towards the Role of Self, Worth, and Feelings in (Re-)Producing Social Dominance. Explicating Pierre Bourdieu's Implicit Theory of Affect.
- Guido Becke: The Subjectivation of Work and Established-Outsider Figurations.
- Bernd Sommer: Externalisation, Globalised Value Chains and the Invisible Consequences of Social Actions.
- Inken Rommel: “We Are the People.” Refugee-’Crisis,’ and the Drag-Effects of Social Habitus in German Society.
- John Connolly & Paddy Dolan: Habitus, the Writings of Irish Hunger Strikers and Elias’s "The Loneliness of the Dying."
- Stephen Vertigans: Death by ‘African’ Democracy. Killing Consequences of Western Power Prognosis.
- Behrouz Alikhani: Post-Democracy or Processes of De-Democratization? United States Case Study.
- Norman Gabriel: Growing Up in Society. A Historical Social Psychology of Childhood.
- Florence Delmotte, Heidi Mercenier & Virginie Van Ingelgom: Belonging and Indifference to Europe. A Study of Young People in Brussels.
2016
- John Goodwin & Jason Hughes: Established-Outsider Relations and ‘Figurational’ Analysis.
- John Goodwin, Jason Hughes & Henrietta O’Connor: Return to Winston Parva: Starting to Reconstruct the Established and the Outsider 'From the Margins'.
- Michael Dunning: ‘Established and Outsiders’: Brutalisation Processes and the Development of ‘Jihadist Terrorists’.
- Gordon J. Fyfe: Established-Outsider Relations and the Socio-Genesis of the Museum.
- Aurélie Lacassagne: The Complexities of the Established-Outsiders Relations in Canada: Re-Integrating Socio-Historical Analysis and Engaging with Some Post-Colonial Thoughts.
- Stine Frydendal Nielsen, Laila Ottesen & Lone Friis Things: Established and Outsider Relations among Students Involved in a Health Promotion Intervention in a Danish High School.
- Angela Perulli: Everyday Life in Figurational Approach: A Meso Level for Sociological Analysis.
- Ryan Powell: Gypsy-Travellers/Roma and Social Integration: Childhood, Habitus and the "We-I Balance".
- Michael Rees: From Outsider to Established – Explaining the Current Popularity and Acceptability of Tattooing.
- Inken Rommel: Culturalism of Exclusion in an Established-Outsider-Figuration.