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Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Wissenschafts- und Hochschulforschung: Eine kollektive Standortbestimmung | Soziologie - Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie In den letzten Jahren ist im deutschen Sprachraum, abweichend von der internationalen Nomenklatur, vermehrt von »Wissenschafts- und Hochschulforschung« die Rede. Angezeigt ist damit die Suche nach einem Überbegriff für die diversen sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven auf Wissenschaft und Universität. Vor diesem Hintergrund versteht sich der vorliegende Beitrag als kollektive Standortbestimmung. Anhand von sieben Forschungsagenden zeigen die Autor/innen das Potenzial einer stärkeren Verbindung von Wissenschafts- und Hochschulforschung. Die sieben Agenden bilden zum einen Fragen und Probleme ab, die der aktuelle Forschungsstand aufwirft, zum anderen zeigen sie Relevanz der soziologischen Perspektive für die theoretische und methodische Integration der beiden Forschungsfelder.

Auch nach sieben Jahren noch eine gute Standortbestimmung: publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/so...

Vielleicht auch, weil darin vieles an dem implizit ist, was das Feld auseinandertreibt, statt es zu einen (zu viele Agenden, der alte Bruch zwischen Form und Inhalt, zahllose Alternativangebote).

something I think is underdiscussed about employment/capitalism discourse is that abusive/bad labor/management practices are probably more common in nonprofits and trendy organizations that people on the left are likely to work for than big boring office companies

If I have to read one more time that "AnT cLaImS tHaT tHiNgS hAvE aGeNcY" I am going to become The Joker™

Unfortunately it relies on a shared epistemology instead

i've got my moral high horse saddled up and ready but i keep finding myself taking the functionalist motorcycle out instead

That's more insane than the number of reviewer requests 😬

30 pa- JESUS F. CHRIST

I fail to see a sustainable business model in them but perhaps putting them close to alcohol-heavy tourist traps is more sustainable financially

What most interested me here was about how to write about the co-mediation of ideas, people & organisations.

So this @jcultecon.bsky.social podcast is really about our shared interest in issuesof intellectual/institutional history - although Simone & I only really realised this after it finished...

I Would Do Anything for Cash (But I Won't Do That)

To an extent, though, you will have to run universities (or any other organisation, including actual businesses) like businesses. But to what extent? University administrators—and academics, too, I'm afraid—don't know, because they can't say what else the university is about anymore.

Another way to make this point—there are many—it is that an irony of these debates is that the people who end up most prone to magical thinking about “positivism” or “quantification”, etc, are the people who hate it the most, and who nominally endorse ideas meant to free you from magical thinking.

A Question To Which (the) Answer Is No?

How not to talk about capitalism The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”

“Readers braving [Beckert’s] 1100 pages should mentally prepare to end up without a clear idea of what capitalism is; they can find comfort in the fact that the author doesn’t have one either.” www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

1100 pages by an *accomplished* academic is almost always a bad sign

For those who want to try, there are vending machines in Berlin for undeliverable and unreturnable parcels. It's €10 a try and there's mostly crap inside.

nothing in the study of sociology today prepares you to even begin to understand this book

Every day we fall further and further from God’s Light

And, for the same reason, turningmise of parties on certain levels has also never been easier

This cannot be said enough because it holds true across the Western world: the fact that the average politician has never been as bad as today also means that entering politics has never been *cheaper*

YouTube video by pannonia77 Bach: Christmas Oratorio I - 4. Bereite dich Zion - Koopman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwYp...

the cold shoulder viral compliance and trust

Friday 'stack, on viral governance and the anti-Gresham's Law backofmind.substack.com/p/the-cold-s...

FLAWS: A Benchmark for Error Identification and Localization in Scientific Papers
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.21843

New preprint proposes a method of inserting errors in papers which invalidate the central claim, and then using the resulting papers to test if LLMs can detect those errors […]

Zu sehen ist ein Screenshot der Webseite mit dem Titel der Rezension sowie dem Buchcover und weiteren bibliografischen Angaben.

In „Die Asset-Ökonomie“ argumentieren Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper und @mkonings.bsky.social, dass nicht mehr durch Arbeit erwirtschaftete Einkünfte, sondern Vermögenswerte wie Immobilienbesitz & Co. den sozialen Status bestimmen. Die Rezension von Lukas Lachenicht:

www.soziopolis.de/minsky-und-d...

OK Spotify Wrapped is about revealed preferences ("you posted those Quietus links but when your mum died you kept playing that Celine Dion album she liked, look how basic you really are! share & cringe lol" etc)

But genuine Q: are there good techniques for measuring revealed prefs *qualiitatively*?

This is the most worrying part the current system and the #1 issue to be tackled with our remaining brain cells, what can be done to a) reduce shit, b) transform shit into more thoughtful work

Trigger Points Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...

An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints

It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution

YouTube video by Vox Luminis - Topic Das ist je gewißlich wahr, SWV 277

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffE0...

Ah, I see. It should be possible to define the kind of applications for this and I would assume that the corresponding techniques are either a mix of rather local knowledges and theories with no clear hierarchical relationship or any variation of "lots of data, lots of overly complicated statistics"

Ah, I now see what you mean. You basically want to differentiate between your preferences throughout the year and the preferences during that one intense week where you listen to nothing but Celine Dion?