The Socio-analytical Approach
Differences in International Scientific Discourses
in The International Journal of Social Quality
Abstract
The debate on precarization in Germany is, on the one hand, based on the French discussion, it is, on the other hand, oriented toward German models of discourse, which leads to different focuses and objectives. Even if in German contexts the poverty situation and unqualified workers are the main topics of discussion, the French debate on precarization with or following Pierre Bourdieu, Robert Castel, and Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello focuses on precarization as a restructuring of labor relations. In this respect, a change of vectors is taking place here, which sets different priorities. Differences in the classifications result from the different “theoretical localizations,” which are investigated based on the German-French understanding of sociology and are concretized in relation to the problem of precarization.
Contributor Notes
Rolf-Dieter Hepp is Lecturer in the Institute of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He is Coordinator of the SUPI (Social Uncertainty, Precarity, and Inequality) project and received a 1997 fellowship at the Maison de Sciences de L'hommes (invitation from Pierre Bourdieu). He is a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute at Southern Illinois University and a member of the Eurispes Scientific Committee in Rome. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the American Journal of Semiotics, and Lendemains, and he wrote three chapters in Bourdieu-Handbuch (2014, ed. Gerhard Fröhlich and Boike Rehbein). He is Editor of the Springer series on precarity, Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung—transdisziplinäre Studien. Email: kerghepp@gmx.de
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