Sociological Theory
2025
Hubert Knoblauch, Nina Baur, Silke Steets & Séverine Marguin: Towards an Empirical Theory of Science? Challenges and (Possible) Standards of Scientific Research Today.
Peter Fischer: Towards an Empirical Theory of Science? Lessons from the History of the Philosophy of Social Science.
Hubert Knoblauch: Empirical Theory of Science – A Research Program.
Jörg Niewöhner: Science after Progress. Reflexive Methodology in Computational Modelling and Sustainable Chemistry.
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee: Beyond the Benchmarks: Empirical Theory of Science and Hydrological Knowledge Production in The Mekong Region.
Cornelia Schendzielorz & Martin Reinhart: Social Order in Science through the Prism of Large Research Collaborations.
Meike Haken: Popular-Cultural Science Communication and Empirical Theory of Science.
Claire Wagner: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre: Guiding Beliefs about Climate Change in a Post-Truth Society.
Nona Schulte-Römer & Brett Mommersteeg: EMF Risk and Hesitation in a Polarised World: Towards a Diplomatic Relativism.
2024
- Anja Röcke, Daniel Nehring & Suvi Salmenniemi: Dynamics of Self-Optimisation: An Introduction.
- Edgar Cabanas: CrossFit and Self-Optimization in CrossFit’s Popular Literature.
- Nicole Zillien: Self-Tracking as a Dietetic Practice.
- Agnieszka Krzeminska: Self-Optimisation and the Technologically Mediated Self: Balancing Self-Care and Self-Control.
- Tristan Fournier & Sébastien Dalgalarrondo: From Self-Optimization to Minimalism and Back. The Promises and Practices of Fasting in France.
- Sam Binkley: Opening Up and Going In: Metaphors of Interiority and the Case of Humanistic Psychology.
- Senta Brandt & Jürgen Straub: A Critique of Guided Self-Optimisation: Mental Health, Success, Happiness, and Virtue in Missionary Positive Psychology and Psychotherapy.
- Deborah Lupton & Clare Southerton: #ActuallyAutistic: Competing Cultures of Expertise and Knowledge in Relation to Autism and ADHD Self-Diagnosis on TikTok.
- Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa, Ramona Franz, Diana Lindner, Benedikt Salfeld, Micha Schlichting, Julia Schreiber & Maike Stenger: Self-Optimization via Figures and Digital Parameters – Psychic Repercussions of Digital Measurement and Comparison.
- Amir Hampel: Practical Daydreams: Self-Optimization through Consumer Lifestyles in China.
- Daniel Nehring, Talia Esnard & Dylan Kerrigan: Re-Thinking Self-Optimisation: Power, Self, and Community in the Global South.
2020
- Eve Chiapello & Lisa Knoll: Social Finance and Impact Investing. Governing Welfare in the Era of Financialization.
- 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.
- Herbert Obinger: Conscription, the Military, and Welfare State Development: An Introduction.
- 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.
- Hubert Knoblauch & Martina Löw: The Re-Figuration of Spaces and Refigured Modernity – Concept and Diagnosis.
2019
- 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.
- Yee Lak Elliot Lee: Muslims as “Hui” in Late Imperial and Republican China. A Historical Reconsideration of Social Differentiation and Identity Construction.
2017
- Günter Mey & Marc Dietrich: From Text to Image – Shaping a Visual Grounded Theory Methodology.
- Fumyia Onaka: Community Transformation in Asian Societies. An Introduction.
2016
- Daniel Speich Chassé: The Roots of the Millennium Development Goals: A Framework for Studying the History of Global Statistics.
- Wolfgang Aschauer: Societal Malaise and Ethnocentrism in the European Union: Monitoring Societal Change by Focusing on EU Citizens’ Perceptions of Crisis.
2015
2012
- Jürgen Kädtler: On Conventions, Institutions, Power, and Uncertainty – Some Cursory Remarks.
- Bert De Munck: Conventions, the Great Transformation and Actor Network Theory.
- Robert Salais: Quantification and the Economics of Convention.
- Evangelina Baralou, Patricia Wolf & Jens O. Meissner: Bright, Excellent, Ignored: The Contribution of Luhmann’s System Theory and Its Problem of Non-Connectivity to Academic Management Research.
- Ummad Mazhar: The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: A Skeptical Note.
2011
- Carsten Kaven: Max Webers „Die sozialen Gründe des Untergangs der antiken Kultur“ – Eine mechanismische Rekonstruktion in Petrinetzen.
2010
- Katalin Morgan: Scholarly and values-driven objectives in two South African school history textbooks: an analysis of topics of race and racism.
2009
- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young: Fallacies and thresholds: notes on the early evolution of alternate history.
2008
- Fernando Zanella: The spend-and-tax or tax-and-spend: further evidence for the Brazilian imperial period.
- Rainer Diaz-Bone, Andrea D. Bührmann, Encarnacion Gutiérrez Rodriguez, Werner Schneider, Gavin Kendall & Francisco Tirado: The field of Foucaultian discourse analysis: structures, developments and perspectives.
- Rainer Diaz-Bone: Die französische Epistemologie und ihre Revisionen: zur Rekonstruktion des methodologischen Standortes der Foucaultschen Diskursanalyse.
- Reiner Keller: Diskurse und Dispositive analysieren: die wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse als Beitrag zu einer wissensanalytischen Profilierung der Diskursforschung.
- Andrea D. Bührmann & Werner Schneider: Mehr als nur diskursive Praxis?: konzeptionelle Grundlagen und methodische Aspekte der Dispositivanalyse.
- Gary Wickham & Gavin Kendall: Critical discourse analysis, description, explanation, causes: Foucault's inspiration versus Weber's perspiration.
- Niels Helsloot & Tony Hak: Pecheux's contribution to discourse analysis.
- Georg Glasze: Vorschläge zur Operationalisierung der Diskurstheorie von Laclau und Mouffe in einer Triangulation von lexikometrischen und interpretativen Methoden.
- Francisco Tirado & Ana Galvez: Positioning theory and discourse analysis: some tools for social interaction analysis.
- Encarnacion Gutiérrez Rodriguez: Reading affect - on the heterotopian spaces of care and domestic work in private households.
- Sybille Bauriedl: Räume lesen lernen: Methoden zur Raumanalyse in der Diskursforschung.
- Anne Waldschmidt, Anne Klein, Miguel Tamayo Korte &Sibel Dalman-Eken: Diskurs im Alltag - Alltag im Diskurs: ein Beitrag zu einer empirisch begründeten Methodologie sozialwissenschaftlicher Diskursforschung.
2007
- Günter Mey & Katja Mruck: Grounded Theory Methodologie - Bemerkungen zu einem prominenten Forschungsstil.
- Barney G. Glaser: Remodeling Grounded Theory.
- Heiner Legewie & Barbara Schervier-Legewie: "Forschung ist harte Arbeit, es ist immer ein Stück Leiden damit verbunden. Deshalb muss es auf der anderen Seite Spaß machen.": Anselm Strauss im Interview mit Heiner Legewie und Barbara Schervier-Legewie.
- Cesar A. Cisneros-Puebla: "To learn to think conceptually": Juliet Corbin in conversation with Cesar A. Cisneros-Puebla.
- Barney G. Glaser: Constructivist Grounded Theory?
- Antony Bryant: A constructive/ist response to Glaser's "Constructivist Grounded Theory?".
- Barney G. Glaser: Naturalist Inquiry and Grounded Theory.
- Udo Kelle: "Emergence" vs. "forcing" of empirical data? A crucial problem of "grounded theory" reconsidered.
- Jörg Strübing: Glaser vs. Strauss? Zur methodologischen und methodischen Substanz einer Unterscheidung zweier Varianten von Grounded Theory.
- Charles Berg & Marianne Milmeister: Im Dialog mit den Daten das eigene Erzählen der Geschichte finden: über die Kodierverfahren der Grounded Theory Methodologie.
- Petra Muckel: Die Entwicklung von Kategorien mit der Methode der Grounded Theory.
- Inga Truschkat, Manuela Kaiser-Belz & Vera Reinartz: Grounded Theory Methodologie in Qualifikationsarbeiten: zwischen Programmatik und Forschungspraxis - am Beispiel des Theoretical Samplings.
- Sharon A. Bong: Debunking myths in CAQDAS use and coding in qualitative data analysis: experiences with and reflections on grounded theory methodology.
- Zdenek Konopasek: Making thinking visible with Atlas.ti: computer assisted qualitative analysis as textual practices.
- Miguel S. Valles: Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM) and CAQDAS: an exercise of autobiographical research and methodological reflection.
2006
- Rainer Diaz-Bone: Zur Methodologisierung der Foucaultschen Diskursanalyse.