Soziologie
Vortrag von Benjamin Schraven "Climate Mobility" – Narratives, Research Findings and Open Questions
Narratives, Research Findings and Open Questions" am 10. April um 16 Uhr c.t. statt.[Weiterlesen]
Oliver Flügel-Martinsen ist neuer Dekan der Fakultät
Interview: ‘Out of the Spheres of the Private and the Moral’
H.Russell Bernard's Student Paper Prize goes to Ngoc Minh Luong
Ausschreibung wiss. Hilfskraft mit BA Abschluss
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1.5.2024 ist eine wissenschaftlich Hilfskraftstelle (d.h. mit
BA-Abschluss) mit bis zu 10 Stunden/Woche im DFG-Projekt "ENHANCE" für
zunächst 6 Monate zu besetzen (Verlängerung möglich). Nähere Infos finden Sie hier.
Call for Papers: "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Neuroenhancement: Current Developments and Impact on the Individual and Society" in Bielefeld
Conference Date: December 10-12, 2024
Location: Bielefeld University, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany
Submission deadline: April 15th, 2024
Organizers:
o Dr. Sebastian Sattler (Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, GER)
o Prof. Dr. Saskia Nagel (Department for Society, Technology, and Human Factors, RWTH Aachen University, GER)
o Dr. Dimitris Repantis (Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité Berlin, GER)
o Prof. Dr. Guido Mehlkop (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences; Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt, GER)
Keynote speakers:
o Dr. Caterina Cinel (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex, UK)
o Prof. Dr. Marcello Ienca (School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, GER)
o Prof. Dr. Ty Schepis (Department of Psychology, Texas State University, USA)
o Prof. Dr. Anna Wexler (Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Topic:
We are on the verge of many pioneering activities and scientific breakthroughs concerning brain-computer interfaces, brain stimulation, and neurochemicals, that have the potential to go beyond the treatment of diseases to enhance cognitive performance in work, education, and leisure. At the same time, societal processes such as the quest for self-optimization or transformations in and outside of the labor market (e.g., digitalization, increasing stress, and cognitive demands) may create the desire, but also the pressure, to use such neuroenhancement. These developments require the attention of an interdisciplinary dialog. The conference aims to unravel the inherent complexity of neuroenhancement by bringing together ethicists, sociologists, psychologists, engineers, pharmacologists, neuroscientists, political scientists, and legal scholars. By fostering interdisciplinary exchange, we aim to illuminate the multifaceted dimensions of neuroenhancement and facilitate future collaborations.
Information about abstract submission and further details:
Please submit your abstract via e-mail to: enhance.conference@uni-bielefeld.de
Please use the abstract style sheet on the conference homepage (LINK).
Conference homepage: Please click on this LINK.
Travel support: We will provide travel support.
[Weiterlesen]Final Conference ERC projet WelfareStruggles: »The Politics of Care under Market Socialism«
From March 26th to March 27th the final conference of the ERC funded project WelfareStruggles titled »The Politics of Care under Market Socialism: Labour Mobility, Global Capital and Changing Welfare System in Vietnam and China« will take place at ZiF. For more information click here.
Neue Mitarbeiterin im Arbeitsbereich Mediensoziologie
Wir freuen uns sehr, Mei-Chen Spiegelberg (M.A.) als neue wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in im Arbeitsbereich Mediensoziologie begrüßen und vorstellen zu dürfen. Seit Anfang März ist sie Teil unseres Teams.
We are very pleased to welcome and introduce Mei-Chen Spiegelberg (M.A.) as a new research assistant in the Media
Sociology department. She has been part of our team since the
beginning of March.
AG Blum bei zwei Konferenzen in Braunschweig vertreten
Links oben: Sandra Plümer und Tim Paulsen bei der Vorstellung des Papiers Policy Narrative Learning: The Case of the European Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities (gemeinsam mit Sonja Blum).
Rechts oben: Sandra Plümer beim Roundtable.
Mittig: Gruppenfoto der Teilnehmenden der Sektionstagung.
Links unten: Gruppenfoto der Teilnehmenden bei der FoJuS-Tagung.
Rechts unten: Johanna Künzler präsentiert das Papier Who tells what where to whom? Conceptualizing the dimensions of power in the Narrative Policy Framework, stellvertretend für die Autorengruppe, darunter Sonja Blum.
Zwischen dem 14. und 17. März nahm die AG Blum an zwei Konferenzen an der Technischen Universität Braunschweig teil: Vom 14. bis zum 15. März fand die 17. Jahrestagung des Forums Junge Staats-, Verwaltungs- und Policy-Forschung (FoJuS) statt und vom 16. bis 17. März die Jahrestagung der Sektion Policy-Analyse und Verwaltungswissenschaft. Sowohl FoJuS als Nachwuchsorganisation der Sektion als auch die Sektion selbst sind Foren innerhalb der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), die den Austausch zu Thematiken der Policy-Analyse und Verwaltungswissenschaft fördern.
Im Rahmen ihrer Tätigkeiten als Co-Sprecherin von FoJuS und kooptiertes Mitglied im Sektionsvorstand übernahm Sandra Plümer nicht nur die Co-Organisation der 17. FoJuS-Jahrestagung, sondern auch den Vorsitz von zwei Paneln zu den Themen „Performanz kommunalen Verwaltungshandelns“ und „Policy-Making auf kommunaler Ebene“. Mit dem gemeinsamen Paper Policy Narrative Learning: The Case of the European Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities beteiligten sich Sonja Blum, Sandra Plümer und Tim Paulsen zudem an einem Panel zu Policy-Prozessen.
Zusammen mit Michael D. Jones, Johanna Künzler, Johanna Kuhlmann, Anne-Marie Parth und Colette Vogler steuerte Sonja Blum außerdem den Beitrag Who tells what where to whom? Conceptualizing the dimensions of power in the Narrative Policy Framework bei. Schließlich war Sandra Plümer Teil eines Roundtables zum Thema „Deutsche Perspektiven und Beiträge zur internationalen Theorieentwicklung in Public Policy und Public Administration“.
Die AG bedankt sich für den produktiven Austausch und die wertvollen Kommentare zu den vorgestellten Papieren.
[Weiterlesen]Call for Papers: “Community, Work and Family” Conference 2025 in Bielefeld
The call for papers for the 10th International Community, Work and Family Conference is now open and runs until 30 June 2024. Submissions can contribute to the topic of community, work and family in general or accepted sessions in particular. All details on the call for papers, available sessions and further information regarding the whole conference can be found on the ICWF website.
The ICWF Conference will take place at Bielefeld University on 25-28 March 2025 and hosts debates on changing structures, policies and practices of community, work and family. It is organized in collaboration with the journal Community, Work and Family published at Taylor & Francis. The Organizing Committee at Bielefeld University is formed by Anja-Kristin Abendroth, Sonja Blum, Mareike Reimann and Antje Schwarz.
[Weiterlesen]Professor Gil Eyal hält Niklas-Luhmann-Gastprofessur 2024
New Article published in European Policy Analysis
The introduction of the German mandatory lobbying register on the national level in March 2021 marks an unexpected and substantial policy change after a 16-year-long debate about stricter transparency measures. Maximilian Schiffers (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Sandra Plümer (Bielefeld University) explore this sudden policy change in their new article titled Identifying Causal Mechanisms of Unexpected Policy Change: Accumulated Punctuation in the Field of Lobbying Transparency in Germany published in European Policy Analysis (EPA).
Within their article, Schiffers and Plümer discover that policy change is triggered by the shift in influence among the actors involved. In this context, they identify a combination of three mechanisms including the end of a de-thematization of the policy issue, growing dominance of the issue network favoring stricter transparency regulations, and issue validation through the accumulation of scandals. These findings of this case study contribute to a refined theoretical understanding of the causal mechanisms of policy change.
Article: Schiffers, M. & Plümer, S. (2024). Identifying causal mechanisms of unexpected policy change: Accumulated punctuation in the field of lobbying transparency in Germany. European Policy Analysis, early view https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1205.
[Weiterlesen]New publication by Sebastian Sattler in Social Science & Medicine on a situational test of the Health Belief Model
Taflinger, S., Sattler, S.
(2024): A Situational Test of the Health Belief Model: How
Perceived Susceptibility Mediates the Effects of the Environment
on Behavioral Intentions. Social Science & Medicine
346: 116715 [Link]
Objective: Existing evidence regarding the role of perceived susceptibility in shaping preventative health behavior is mixed for the Health Belief Model (HBM). To clarify whether and under which conditions perceived susceptibility affects preventative behavior, this study aims to better understand how situational environmental factors affect perceived susceptibility, thereby shaping health decisions, and whether this mediation relationship is conditioned by other HBM cognitions, namely perceived benefits and severity.
Methods: Therefore, we employed a scenario-based experiment in a large, representative sample of the German population (N = 4,802) in April 2022. Respondents were presented with a fictional invitation to a social gathering, which mimicked a post in a messenger group chat. The invitation included five experimentally manipulated scenarios: no COVID-19 preventative measure implemented, a COVID-19 test is required; either testing negative, being vaccinated, or being recovered from COVID-19 is required (known as 3G in the German context); reduced number of attendees; or the social gathering occurred outside. Moreover, perceived susceptibility to contract COVID-19 at the social gathering and perceived severity and benefits (independent of the scenario) were measured.
Results: We found evidence that perceived susceptibility mediates the relationship between each implemented preventative measure and willingness to attend the social gathering. The effect of the preventative measures on perceived susceptibility and the indirect effect of the preventative measure on attendance via perceived susceptibility were moderated by perceived benefits. However, there is lack of robust evidence that perceived severity moderates the effect of perceived susceptibility on attendance.
Conclusion: In summary, our study provides evidence that individuals perceive and adapt their perceptions and behavior to preventive measures in a given situation, which speaks to the dynamic nature of the cognition perceived susceptibility. Moreover, our findings suggest a promising avenue forward for the HBM is to examine how the cognitions and the environment together shape preventative health behavior.
Workshop "Computational Social Science: Bridging Data and Methods with Theory and Applications"
Die Arbeitsgruppe Applied Social Data Science (Kühne) der Fakultät für Soziologie veranstaltet am 6. und 7. Mai 2024 an der Universität Bielefeld (ZiF) einen Workshop zum Thema Computational Social Science (CSS). Der zweitägige Workshop soll CSS-Wissenschaftler:innen aus ganz Deutschland zusammenbringen und eine Plattform für Networking, Austausch und die Diskussion von Forschung in diesem dynamischen Bereich bieten.
[Weiterlesen]Projektstart Infra4NextGen – Make it Digital
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