Boris Holzer – författare

Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to understand and conceptualize "the global," yet few of them have systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships. Prominent exponents of the global approach - such as world systems analysis - instead have focused on particular domains such as politics or the economy. Under the label of "world society," however, some authors have suggested alternatives to the predominant equivocation of society and the nation-state. The contributions to this volume share that objective and take their point of departure from the two most ambitious projects of a theory of world society: world polity research and systems theory, mapping out the common ground and assessing their potential to inform empirical analyses of globalization.

Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to understand and conceptualize "the global," yet few of them have systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships. Prominent exponents of the global approach - such as world systems analysis - instead have focused on particular domains such as politics or the economy. Under the label of "world society," however, some authors have suggested alternatives to the predominant equivocation of society and the nation-state. The contributions to this volume share that objective and take their point of departure from the two most ambitious projects of a theory of world society: world polity research and systems theory, mapping out the common ground and assessing their potential to inform empirical analyses of globalization.

Academics, scholars and postgraduate students in international business management, organization studies, social movement studies and political sociology will find this book invaluable.

This book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal. The status of the Anthropocene, both as a geoscientific concept and as a cultural concept becoming increasingly familiar in the public sphere, has been highly controversial. While geoscientists focus on possible geological markers and periodisation, the social sciences, environmental humanities, and creative arts have taken up the Anthropocene as a cultural concept to make sense of the planetary environmental crisis and contemporary society. This book documents intra-, inter-, and transdisciplinary debates, particularly, although not limited to, how different scholarly disciplines have responded to the Anthropocene proposal. The authors analyse how the AWG has become the focal point of a debate that straddles the boundaries between academic disciplines and public perceptions of science. The AWG thus serves as a case of the globalisation of science in terms of the global interconnectedness of scientific disciplines and the cultural significance of the Anthropocene proposal.

Die politische Soziologie untersucht Politik als einen Teil der Gesellschaft. Sie stellt sich die Frage, wie politische Phänomene mit anderen gesellschaftlichen Strukturen zusammenhängen und inwiefern sie von diesen ermöglicht und beeinflusst werden. Politische Probleme stellen sich in allen Gesellschaften, doch erst im Laufe der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung entsteht ein politisches System, das sich auf die Vorbereitung, Legitimierung und Durchsetzung kollektiv bindender Entscheidungen spezialisiert. Trotz ihrer hohen Bedeutung für das Selbstverständnis der modernen Gesellschaft muss die Politik immer wieder zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass ihr Einfluss begrenzt ist. Die Soziologie der Politik, deren Grundlagen in der zweiten Auflage des Buches übersichtlich und leicht verständlich dargestellt werden, bietet die begrifflichen Mittel, um die historische Entwicklung der Politik ebenso wie ihre Stellung in der modernen Gesellschaft besser zu verstehen.