45.4 - Violence Induced Mobility
Special Issue – Negotiating the Aftermath of Violence Induced Mobility in the Wake of the Second World War. Rethinking Sources, Methods and Approaches from the Intersection of War and Migration Studies in the Digital Age (Christoph Rass & Ismee Tames)
- Christoph Rass & Ismee Tames: Negotiating the Aftermath of Forced Migration: A View from the Intersection of War and Migration Studies in the Digital Age. [Abstract]
Contributions
- Henning Borggräfe: Exploring Pathways of (Forced) Migration, Resettlement Structures, and Displaced Persons’ Agency: Document Holdings and Research Potentials of the Arolsen Archives. [Abstract]
- Filip Strubbe: A Straightforward Journey? Discovering Belgium’s Refugee Policy through Its Central Government Archives (1945-1957). [Abstract]
- Frank Wolff: Beyond Genocide: How Refugee Agency Preserves Knowledge During Violence-Induced Migration. [Abstract]
- Peter Romijn:“Beyond the Horizon”: Disconnections in Indonesian War of Independence. [Abstract]
- Regina Grüter & Anne van Mourik: Dutch Repatriation from the Former Third Reich and the Soviet Union: Political and Organizational Encounters and the Role of the Netherlands Red Cross. [Abstract]
- Jannis Panagiotidis: “Not the Concern of the Organization?” The IRO and the Overseas Resettlement of Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe after World War II. [Abstract]
- Sebastian Huhn: Negotiating Resettlement in Venezuela after World War II: An Exploration. [Abstract]
- Christian Höschler: “Those People Who Actually Do the Job…” Unaccompanied Children, Relief Workers, and the Struggle of Implementing Humanitarian Policy in Postwar Germany. [Abstract]
- Edwin Klijn: From Paper to Digital Trail: Collections on the Semantic Web. [Abstract]
- Olaf Berg: Capturing Displaced Persons’ Agency by Modelling Their Life Events: A Mixed Method Digital Humanities Approach. [Abstract]
Epilogue
- Peter Gatrell: “Negotiating Resettlement”: Some Concluding Thoughts. [Abstract]
Mixed Issue
- Guido Tiemann: “Kärnten” = Austria, “Koroška” = Yugoslavia? A Novel Perspective on the 1920 Carinthian Plebiscite. [Access the Published Dataset]
- Nico Wilterdink: Increasing and Decreasing Inequalities of Power: A Processual View. A Response to Cas Wouters, and a Proposal for Clarification.[Abstract]
45.3 - Social Finance/Big Data
Special Issue – Social Finance, Impact Investing, and the Financialization of the Public Interest (Eve Chiapello & Lisa Knoll)
- Eve Chiapello & Lisa Knoll: Social Finance and Impact Investing. Governing Welfare in the Era of Financialization.
Contributions
- Emily Barman: Many a Slip: The Challenge of Impact as Boundary Object in Social Finance.
- Antoine Ducastel & Ward Anseeuw: Impact Investing in South Africa: Investing in Empowerment, Empowering Investors.
- Serena Natile: Digital Finance Inclusion and the Mobile Money “Social” Enterprise: A Socio-Legal Critique of M-Pesa in Kenya.
- Jacob Hellman:Feeling Good and Financing Impact: Affective Judgments as a Tool for Social Investing.
- Théo Bourgeron: Constructing the Double Circulation of Capital and “Social Impact.” An Ethnographic Study of a French Impact Investment Fund.
- Davide Caselli: Did You Say “Social Impact”? Welfare Transformations, Networks of Expertise, and the Financialization of Italian Welfare.
- Leslie Huckfield: The Mythology of the Social Impact Bond. A Critical Assessment from a Concerned Observer.
- Manuel Wirth: Nudging Subjects at Risk: Social Impact Bonds between Financialization and Compassion.
Forum – Challenges for Big Data Analysis. Data Quality and Data Analysis of Analogous and Digital Mass Data (Lilli Braunisch, Malte Schweia, Peter Graeff & Nina Baur)
- Nina Baur, Peter Graeff, Lilli Braunisch & Malte Schweia: The Quality of Big Data. Development, Problems, and Possibilities of Use of Process-Generated Data in the Digital Age.
Contributions
- Peter Graeff & Nina Baur: Digital Data, Administrative Data, and Survey Compared: Updating the Classical Toolbox for Assessing Data Quality of Big Data, Exemplified by the Generation of Corruption Data.
- Gertraud Koch & Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda: Source Criticism of Data Platform Logics on the Internet.
- Martin Weichbold, Alexander Seymer, Wolfgang Aschauer & Thomas Herdin: Potential and Limits of Automated Classification of Big Data – A Case Study.
- Rainer Diaz-Bone, Kenneth Horvath & Valeska Cappel: Social Research in Times of Big Data. The Challenges of New Data Worlds and the Need for a Sociology of Social Research.
- Michael Weinhardt: Ethical Issues in the Use of Big Data for Social Research.
45.2 - Military and Welfare State
Special Issue –Military and Welfare State: Conscription, Military Interests, and Western Welfare States in the Age of Industrialized Mass Warfare (Herbert Obinger)
Contributions
- Nikolas Dörr, Lukas Grawe & Herbert Obinger: The Military Origins of Labor Protection Legislation in Imperial Germany.
- Nikolas Dörr: “As far as Numbers are concerned, we are beaten” Finis Galliae and the Nexus between Fears of Depopulation, Welfare Reform, and the Military in France during the Third Republic, 1870-1940.
- Delia González de Reufels: Health, Education, and General Conscription: Chilean Social Policy and the Military in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.
- Lukas Grawe: The Influence of Military Considerations on the 1869 Reichsvolksschulgesetz in Imperial Austria.
- Klaus Petersen: The Welfare Defence: Military Security and Social Welfare in Denmark from 1848 to the Cold War.
- Pierluigi Pironti: Warfare to Welfare: World War I and the Development of Social Legislation in Italy.
- Carina Schmitt: The Warfare – Welfare Nexus in French African Colonies in the Course of the First and Second World War.
- Olivier Burtin: The History of Veterans’ Policy in the United States: A Comparative Overview.
Mixed Issue
- Hubert Knoblauch & Martina Löw: The Re-Figuration of Spaces and Refigured Modernity – Concept and Diagnosis.
- Cas Wouters: Have Civilising Processes Changed Direction? Informalisation, Functional Democratisation, and Globalisation.
45.1 - Emotion, Authority, and National Character
Special Issue – Emotion, Authority, and National Character: Historical-Processual Perspectives (Helmut Kuzmics, Dieter Reicher & Jason Hughes)
Contributions
- Helmut Kuzmics, Dieter Reicher & Jason Hughes: State, Emotion, Authority, and National Habitus. State-Related Problems of Our Time and Methodological Discourses in Sociology and Historical Sociology.
The Middle East
- Behrouz Alikhani: Processes of the State and Habitus Formation in Iran in the 19th and early 20th Centuries: The Socio- and Psychogenesis of the Constitutional Revolution in 1906.
- Onur Kınlı & İrem Özgören Kınlı:Is Every Turk Born a Soldier? A Historical-Processual Analysis.
- Gad Yair: The Uncanny: How Cultural Trauma Trumps Reason in German Israeli Scientific Collaborations.
East Central and Southeastern Europe
- Nicolas Demertzis & Hara Stratoudaki: Greek Nationalism as a Case of Political Religion: Rituals and Sentimentality.
- Miklós Hadas: The Culture of Distrust. On the Hungarian National Habitus.
- Marta Bucholc: Schengen and the Rosary: Catholic Religion and the Postcolonial Syndrome in Polish National Habitus.
Western and Central Europe
- Lars Bo Kaspersen: The Creation of Modern Denmark – A Figurational Analysis.
- Dieter Reicher: Nationalistic German Gymnastic Movements and Modern Sports. Culture between Identity and Habitus.
- Steven Loyal & Stephen Quilley: State Formation, Habitus, and National Character: Elias, Bourdieu, Polanyi, and Gellner and the Case of Asylum Seekers in Ireland.
- Michael Dunning & Jason Hughes: Power, Habitus, and National Character: The Figurational Dynamics of Brexit.
Other Regions
Suppl. 32 - Celebrity's Histories
Celebrity’s Histories: Case Studies & Critical Perspectives (ed. Robert van Krieken & Nicola Vinovrški)
- Nicola Vinovrški & Robert van Krieken: New Directions in the History of Celebrity: Case Studies and Critical Perspectives.
Contributions
- Antoine Lilti & Alice Le Goff: On Figures Publiques: L’Invention de la Célébrité (1750-1850): Mechanisms of Celebrity and Social Esteem.
- Chris Rojek: The Two Bodies of Achieved Celebrity.
- Jennifer Holl: "The wonder of his time": Richard Tarlton and the Dynamics of Early Modern Theatrical Celebrity.
- Brian Cowan: Histories of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary England.
- Nicola Vinovrški: Casanova: A Case Study of Celebrity in 18th Century Europe.
- David Worrall: Edmund Kean’s Celebrity: Assemblage Theory and the Unintended Consequences of Audience Density.
- Jeffrey Kahan: Bettymania and the Death of Celebrity Culture.
- Simon Morgan: Heroes in the Age of Celebrity: Lafayette, Kossuth, and John Bright in 19th-Century America.
- Neil Washbourne: W.G. Grace: Sporting Superstar, Cultural Celebrity, and Hero (to Oscar Wilde’s Villain) of the Great Public Drama of 1895.
44.4 - Entrepreneurial Groups and Entrepreneurial Families
Special Issue – Entrepreneurial Groups and Entrepreneurial Families (Isabell Stamm, Allan Discua Cruz & Ludovic Cailluet)
Contributions
- Isabell Stamm, Allan Discua Cruz & Ludovic Cailluet: Entrepreneurial Groups: Definition, Forms, and Historic Change.
- Katharina Scheidgen: Social Contexts in Team Formation: Why Do Independent Start-Ups and University Spin-Offs Form Teams Differently?
- Paloma Fernández Pérez: Pioneers and Challengers in the Global Plasma Protein Industry, 1915-2015.
- Robert Peters: The Interrelationship between Structure and Collective Actors: A Concept for a Dynamic-Reciprocal Model of Structural Change.
- Maria Elo:Immigrant Effect and Collective Entrepreneurship -The Creation and Development of a Turkish Entrepreneurial Group.
- Stefan Berwing: Extending Mixed Embeddedness: Entrepreneurial Figurations of Entrepreneurs with Migrant Origins in Germany.
- Michael Weinhardt & Isabell Stamm: Drawing Samples for the Longitudinal Study of Entrepreneurial Groups from Process-Generated Data: A Proposal Based on the German Register of Companies.
- Tim Seidenschnur: The Logic of Innovation. A Study on the Narrative Construction of Intrapreneurial Groups in the Light of Competing Institutional Logics.
Forum – Unification of Divided Systems (Woo-Young Lee & Eun-Jeung Lee)
Contributions
- Woo-Young Lee & Eun-Jeung Lee: The Issue of Mind Integration in the Unification of Divided Systems: A Case Study Focused on Germany and the Two Koreas.
- Young-Mi Kwon & Juhwa Park: Peace through Cooperation or Peace through Strength? How to Achieve Peace in the Very Intractable Conflict Society. [Online Appendix]
- Hayeon Lee & Woo-Young Lee: The Perception of the Integration of North and South Korea. [Online Appendix]
- Jin-Heon Jung & Eun-Jeung Lee: Division and Unification: Seen through the Eyes of Korean Migrants in Berlin.
- Hannes B. Mosler & Bong-Ki Lee: The Elephant in the Room: Problems and Potentials of the Workers’ Party of Korea in a Korean Unification Scenario.
44.3 - Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present
Special Issue – Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present (Markus Dressler, Armando Salvatore & Monika Wohlrab-Sahr)
Contributions
- Markus Dressler, Armando Salvatore & Monika Wohlrab-Sahr: Islamicate Secularities: New Perspectives on a Contested Concept.
- Armando Salvatore: Secularity through a ‘Soft Distinction’ in the Islamic Ecumene? Adab as a Counterpoint to Shari‘a.
- Neguin Yavari: The Political Regard in Medieval Islamic Thought.
- Florian Zemmin: Validating Secularity in Islam: The Sociological Perspective of the Muslim Intellectual Rafiq al-‘Azm (1865-1925).
- Samuli Schielke: Is Prose Poetry a Conspiracy Against the Noble Qur’an? Poetics, Humans, and God in Contemporary Egypt.
- Katerina Dalacoura: “Islamic Civilization” as an Aspect of Secularization in Turkish Islamic Thought.
- Mohammad Magout: Transnationalizing Multiple Secularities: A Comparative Study of the Global Ismaՙili Community.
- Sana Chavoshian: Secular Atmospheres: Unveiling and Urban Space in Early 20th Century Iran.
- Brannon D. Ingram: A ‘Modern’ Madrasa: Deoband and Colonial Secularity.
- Yee Lak Elliot Lee: Muslims as “Hui” in Late Imperial and Republican China. A Historical Reconsideration of Social Differentiation and Identity Construction.
- Martin Ramstedt: Politics of Taxonomy in Postcolonial Indonesia: Ethnic Traditions between Religionisation and Secularisation.
Mixed Issue
- Paul Rotering: Family Systems and Fertility, Western Europe 1870-1960.
44.2 - Governing by Numbers
Special Issue – Governing by Numbers - Key Indicators and the Politics of Expectations (Walter Bartl, Christian Papilloud & Audrey Terracher-Lipinski)
Contributions
- 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.
44.1 - Markets, Organizations, and Law

Special Issue – Markets, Organizations, and Law –Perspectives of Convention Theory on Economic Practices and Structures
Contributions
- Rainer Diaz-Bone & Olivier Favereau: Perspectives of Economics of Convention on Markets, Organizations, and Law. An Introduction.
- Olivier Favereau: The Economics of Convention: From the Practice of Economics to the Economics of Practice.
- Guillemette de Larquier & Géraldine Rieucau: Valuation and Matching: A Conventionalist Explanation of Labor Markets by Firms’ Recruitment Channels.
- Julia Brandl, Arjan Kozica, Katharina Pernkopf & Anna Schneider: Flexible Work Practices: Analysis from a Pragmatist Perspective.
- Delphine Remillon: Unemployment and Turning Points in Careers: A Conventionalist Analysis.
- Ariane Ghirardello: Discrimination as a Convention: A Re-Assessment of the Impact of Social Intervention.
- Christian Bessy & Francis Chateauraynaud: The Dynamics of Authentication and Counterfeits in Markets.
- Luka Jakelja & Florian Brugger: Why Do Markets Change? Some Conventionalist Considerations on the Stability and Dynamic of Markets.
- Franck Bessis & Camille Chaserant: A New Analysis of the Market for Legal Services. The Lawyer, homo œconomicus or homo conventionalis?.
- Claude Didry: Labor Law as a Base for Firms’ Organization.
- Lisa Knoll: Sustainable Markets and the State: Taxation, Cap-and-Trade, Pay-for-Success, and Nudging.
- Philippe Batifoulier, Nicolas Da Silva & Victor Duchesne: The Dynamics of Conventions: The Case of the French Social Security System.
- Michael Faust & Jürgen Kädtler: The (Not Entirely) Financialized Enterprise – A Conceptual Proposal.
- Rainer Diaz-Bone: Economics of Convention Meets Foucault.