Paradoxes of Equality in European Research Funding for 'Excellence'

in Staubmann, Helmut (Ed.) Soziologie in Österreich - Internationale Verflechtungen (2016)

Reference Group, History of

in Wright, James D. (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 2nd edition (2015)

A person’s reference group can be considered either as a source of normative orientation or as a group of social comparison in making a judgment, irrespective of one’s group membership. The concept has ... [more ▼]

A person’s reference group can be considered either as a source of normative orientation or as a group of social comparison in making a judgment, irrespective of one’s group membership. The concept has mainly been applied in two theoretical traditions of research: While symbolic interactionists and social psychologists outlined the normative importance of reference groups for the development of the self, structural functionalist sociologists analyzed how material deprivation is estimated relative and with reference to other groups of comparison in the social structure. The concept has also played an important role in developing the discipline’s methodology of social research. [less ▲]

Institutionalisierung des Europäischen Forschungsraums: Eine neue Wissenschaftselite?

Presentation (2015)

Europe's New Scientific Elite: Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area.

Postdoctoral thesis (2015)

The inquiry pursued the question whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Empirically, we ... [more ▼]

The inquiry pursued the question whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Empirically, we provided a case study on the European Research Council (ERC), which for the first time represents a case of institution-building in research funding at supranational level. The fact that the ERC intervenes into public science systems so far mostly organised at national level, thus simultaneously transforming traditional structures in the social organization of research, has motivated our hypothesis of an oligarchization process reproducing a new scientific elite in Europe. In scrutinising that presupposition we sought to identify those social mechanisms that generate, reproduce and possibly modify existing dynamics of stratification and oligarchization as an outcome of European integration in the area of science. [less ▲]

The Making of 'Excellence' in the European Research Area. How Research Funding Organizations Work

in Fleck, Christian; Hess, Andreas (Eds.) Knowledge for Whom? Public Sociology in the Making (2014)

The article examines research funding organisations and their public role in providing for and deciding upon the distribution of financial and symbolic resources for research. Taking the supranational ... [more ▼]

The article examines research funding organisations and their public role in providing for and deciding upon the distribution of financial and symbolic resources for research. Taking the supranational European Research Council as a case study, and following notions drawn from Robert Merton's explanatory theory of social structure, we apply a structural analysis of research funding in Europe, making a distinction between structural conditions and social choices, mechanisms and consequences of establishing scientific research of "excellence" in the European Research Area. [less ▲]

Wie ein Grazer auszog die Soziologie zu erobern: Über lokale Historizität und akademische Einflussmuster

in Dayé, Christian; Laube, Stefan (Eds.) Die Klasse quasselt zurück. Für Christian Fleck (2013)

Experiences and Perspectives of European Higher Education

in Langer, Josef; Vlasic, Goran; Krce Miocic, Bozena (Eds.) EU Local Imprints: The Case of South Central Europe (2012)

Widersprüchliche Erwartungen an die sozialpädagogische Profilbildung von Schulen

in Braches-Chyrek, Rita; Grünberg, Elke; Lenz, Gaby (Eds.) Soziale Arbeit und Schule. Im Spannungsfeld von Erziehung und Bildung (2012)

Pilotprojekt Schulsozialarbeit in Kärnten. Endbericht der quantitativen Befragung.

Report (2011)

Soziologische Perspektiven auf Gender und Diversity

in Spitzer, Helmut; Höllmüller, Hubert; Hoenig, Barbara (Eds.) Soziallandschaften. Soziale Arbeit zwischen Profession und Disziplin (2011)

Der Artikel erläutert, welchen speziellen Erkenntnisgewinn eine soziologische Perspektive auf Gender und Diversity zu leisten vermag. Einer Begriffsklärung dieser Konzepte aus Sicht ... [more ▼]

Der Artikel erläutert, welchen speziellen Erkenntnisgewinn eine soziologische Perspektive auf Gender und Diversity zu leisten vermag. Einer Begriffsklärung dieser Konzepte aus Sicht sozialwissenschaftlicher Gender- und Diversitätsforschung folgt die Auseinandersetzung mit deren Umsetzung und Umsetzbarkeit in Lehre, Forschung und Praxis. Anhand der Auseinandersetzung mit kritischen Haltungen zu Gender und Diversion wird dargelegt, was eine explizit soziologische Perspektive dieser Kritik an Einsichten hinzuzufügen vermag. [less ▲]