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Knowledge Society, Educational Attainment, and the Unequal City: A Sociospatial Perspective
Education plays a key role in knowledge society, since, from a meritocratic perspective, it opens up fair opportunities for well-paid jobs, thereby...
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Overlap** Inequalities in the Welfare State. An Introduction
Since the 1980s, intersectionality has received significant recognition as a feminist framework with its theoretical, methodological, and political...
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Space, Place and Educational Settings: An Introduction
We present this volume as an invitation to explore and critically reflect the interplay between space, place, and educational settings. As part of...
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Educational Inequality and Urban Development: Education as a Field for Urban Planning, Architecture and Urban Design
Educational inequalities and spatial disparities can be intertwined; consequently, education has become a field of action for urban planners,...
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Social inequalities in realising extending working lives - EXTEND`s conceptual framework
In general, a conceptual framework “explains, either graphically or in narrative form, the main topics to be researched – the key factors, concepts,...
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The Mediatization of Jewish–Muslim Dialogue in Germany Amid COVID-19
In the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, religious organizations increasingly mediatized their activities. Studies examining...
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Power and Politics: State Formation in Historical Sociology
This chapter first outlines the history of questions and research problems predating and constitutive of the historical sociology of state formation...
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Power and Politics: State Formation in Historical Sociology
This chapter first outlines the history of questions and research problems predating and constitutive of the historical sociology of state formation...
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Creating and maintaining an alternative public sphere: The struggles of social justice feminism, 1899–1925
One of the most successful and influential contributions to examining the intersection between society and its effect on public action is Jurgen...
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The Takeover of Scientific Leadership
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the seismic shift in scientific leadership from Europe to the USA between 1870 and 1950, and its...
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Ups and Downs of Sociology in Germany: 1968–1990
In the 1960s, Germany was strongly marked by changes in cultural values and social concepts of order, by new developments in art, music, and film, as...
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Knowledge Makes Cities: Education and Knowledge in Recent Urban Development. The Case of Heidelberg, Germany
Education is one of the central assets for employment in the knowledge economy. It is widely assumed that increasing knowledge—going hand in hand...
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Functionalism
This chapter will consider three types of functionalism: Malinowski’s absolute functionalism, Parsons’s structural functionalism, and Merton’s...
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Current Social and Spatial Developments
After having dealt with the characterization of life-chance liberalism in alternative world views and the different principal attitudes to...
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The Field of Polish Linguistics and Literary Studies
This chapter is devoted to the field of Polish linguistics and literary studies, whose history is also analyzed in relational terms and in reference...
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Germany
This chapter, and the following country Chapter 5 , prepare and ultimately lead to the comparative analysis...
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Compartments of Development in the Spatial Pastiche of Baton Rouge
The spatial structure of Baton Rouge is very differentiated. This is not only the result of general developments and logics, but is also based on...
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Test Run III: What Does Co-Operation Mean? Experimentalism as a Contribution to a Critical Social Ecology
In ‘Test run III’ I investigate ‘co-operation’ as a response to the recent global, environmental and scientific transformations outlined in the...