FSP 5: Publications

Repair & Do-It-Yourself activities
Phenomena of repairing and do-it-yourself
Interactions, opportunities and limits of the circular economy

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The European integration process, migration movements, the international division of labour, goods markets and capital flows are evidence of the opening-up process that we associate with the term globalisation. More recently, however, we have seen a strengthening of justifications that revalue "the national" as the guiding distinction of social orders. The authors of this volume ask what significance "nation" and "nationalism" have for the sociological analysis of economic systems.

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Updated and expanded overview of the basic theories, methods and subject areas of economic sociology.

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Discussion of the role of banks for capitalist economies
Strong proposition about the importance of the finance system - but seldom discussed
Profound sociological analysis of the European banking system

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Scientific findings on the purchase, use and consumption of consumer goods are usually only collected by individual scientific disciplines without any close dialogue between them. This book presents the dimensions, approaches and objects of multi-perspective consumer research. In addition to theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, practical perspectives are also presented. In this way, a contribution is made to bringing different perspectives into dialogue and, building on this, to better understand the multiple challenges and opportunities that consumption presents for society, individuals and companies. Previous approaches to consumer and consumption research are thus expanded to include a multidimensional perspective.

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This book offers a well-founded overview of the central sources of inspiration and key works of economic sociology and categorises them both historically and systematically. The modern economy cannot be adequately understood without sociological knowledge of its social, cultural and political-institutional foundations. Starting from this basic assumption, economic sociology analyses markets and companies, money and property, forms of exchange and economic systems. How do networks and co-operation, value ideas and conventions, conflicts and power asymmetries affect markets and companies? What influence do cultural and state orders have on economic systems? How can the rise and fall of markets be explained sociologically? Why are countless exchange relationships in modern societies organised in the form of markets, while in other areas markets are rejected or even prohibited?

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The study provides an up-to-date overview of consumer organisations in Germany. Five case analyses are used to compare private and institutionally funded consumer organisations. The effects of consumer organisations on markets and on the political representation of consumers are worked out. Work from political science, economics and social movement theory is taken up and expanded upon. In this way, an economic-sociological framework for analysing markets, taking into account the demand side, is developed that can also be used in other disciplines.

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Monetary systems and monetary crises as well as their social foundations are at the centre of this volume: the authors examine money and monetary crises in history, in sociological theory, in relation to the euro crisis and finally with a view to the future of money, including alternative monetary models.
With contributions by Florian Brugger, Christoph Deutschmann, Heiner Ganßmann, Joseph Huber, Klaus Kraemer, Sebastian Nessel, Michael North, Christian Postberg, Jenny Preunkert, Manfred Prisching and Georg Vobruba.

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The international financial markets have become a unique driver of economic and social change - and are themselves difficult to predict. On the one hand, they have accelerated economic growth processes and favoured gains in prosperity, but on the other hand they have also provoked crisis-ridden developments in the economy and society. In order to understand their Janus-faced nature, not only economic factors but also social, institutional and cultural factors must be taken into account. This volume therefore focuses on the question of what original contribution sociology can make to analysing modern financial markets, their dynamics and crises. The relationship between financial market capitalism and the real economy, the decision-making behaviour of investors, political options for action and the role of the state in regulating the financial markets are examined.

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Social issues are either ignored or subordinated in the environmental and sustainability debate. In contrast, this book offers a general sociological approach to the social dimension of the environment. The focus is on social practices that reshape and transform the physical environment.
The analyses of the "social constitution of the environment" form the basis for a sociological critique of the various concepts of sustainability. In contrast to the naturalistic primacy of the sustainability debate, social room for manoeuvre is explored that is not limited to mere adaptations to the physical "limits of growth". In particular, social opportunities for the extended - sustainable - valorisation of environmental potentials are examined, which can contribute to a defusing of economic, ecological and social conflicts of objectives.

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Article

  • Kraemer, K., L. Jakelja, F. Brugger, S. Nessel (2024). The Social Ambiguity of Money: Empirical Evidence on the Multiple Usability of Money in Social Life. In: Review of Social Economy 82(1), 98–125. doi: 10.1080/00346764.2022.2076150
  • Tackner, N., R. Schaffer, D. Reicher und M. Hadler (2024): Wahlentscheidungen in Österreich: Eine Analyse der Übereinstimmung von Parteipräferenzen und -programmen im Vorfeld der Nationalratswahl 2024. In: SWS-Rundschau 64 (1), 40–60. SWS Rundschau: Heft 1 (sws-rundschau.at)
  • Kraemer, K. (2024): Wirtschaft und Wachstum. Die Dynamik des modernen Kapitalismus. In: M. Sonnberger, A. Bleicher, M. Groß (Hg.): Handbuch Umweltsoziologie, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 775-790. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37222-4_36-1
  • Kraemer, K. (2023): Was kann die Soziologie im Schockzustand einer Krise leisten? Eine Entgegnung auf Heinz Bude. In: Soziologie 52, 7-25.
  • Kraemer, K. und J. Gasser (2022): Politische Ökonomie ohne Soziologie? Philipp Staabs „Digitaler Kapitalismus“ und die ungelösten Probleme der Werttheorie. In: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie 11 (1-2), 50-60. DOI: 10.3262/ZTS2202050
  • Kraemer, K. (2022): How do state authorities act under existential uncertainty? Hypotheses on the social logic of political decision-making processes during the coronavirus pandemic. In: Culture, Practice and Europeanization 7, 5-36. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2566-7742-2022-1-5/how-do-state-authorities-act-under-existential-uncertainty-hypotheses-on-the-social-logic-of-political-decision-making-processes-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-jahrgang-7-2022-heft-1?page=1
  • Kraemer, K., L. Jakelja, F. Brugger and S. Nessel (2022): The social ambiguity of money: empirical evidence on the multiple usability of money in social life. In: Review of Social Economy. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00346764.2022.2076150
  • Kraemer, K. (2021): Ökonomie. In: J. Bohr, G. Hartung, H. Koenig, T.-F.- Steinbach (Hg.): Simmel-Handbuch- Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 505-507.
  • Kraemer, K. (2021): Machtprestige und Wirtschaftsnationalismus. Überlegungen zur symbolischen Ökonomie von Staatseliten.  In: K. Kraemer, S. Münnich (Hg.): Ökonomischer Nationalismus. Soziologische Analysen wirtschaftlicher Ordnungen, Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 73-112.
  • Kraemer, K. und S. Münnich (2021): Nation und Nationalität in der Wirtschaftssoziologie. In: Dies. (Hg.): Ökonomischer Nationalismus. Soziologische Analysen wirtschaftlicher Ordnungen, Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 9-38.
  • Kraemer, K. (2021): Kollektive Dissoziation. Wirtschaftliches Handeln im Lockdown. In: S. Lenz, M. Hasenfratz (Hg.): Capitalism unbound. Ökonomie, Ökologie, Kultur, Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 111-128. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/soziologie/capitalism_unbound-16806.html
  • Nessel, S., M. Jonas und N. Tröger (2021): Reparieren, Selbermachen, Längernutzen. Kreislaufwirtschaften als Alternative zum ressourcenintensiven, linearen Massenkonsum? In: Dies. (Hg.): Schenken, Reparieren und das Ideal der Kreislaufwirtschaft, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 1-24.
  • Nessel, S. (2021): Political Structures and Trust in Markets: A Comparative Examination of Consumer Trust in 28 EU Member States and the Effects of Consumer Policy on Trust. Journal of Sociology. doi.org/10.1177/14407833211001932
  • Kraemer, K., L. Jakelja, F. Brugger and S. Nessel (2020): Money Knowledge or Money Myths? Results of a Population Survey on Money and the Monetary Order. In: European Journal of Sociology 61 (2), 219-267.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003975620000119 OPEN ACCESS
  • Kraemer, K. (2020): Longing for a national container. On the symbolic economy of europe’s new nationalism. In: European Societies 22 (5), 529-554. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2019.1694164 OPEN ACCESS
  • Nessel, S. (2020): Die nationale Einbettung globaler Warenketten. Zum Einfluss nationaler Wirtschaftsakteure auf die Ausgestaltung des Lebensmittelmarktes. In: N. Bauer, E. Kulke, L. Hering, J. Fülling (Hg.): Waren - Wissen - Raum. Interdependenz von Markt, Produktion und Konsum im Lebensmittelwarenketten, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 31-56.
  • Kraemer, K. (2019): Longing for a national container. On the symbolic economy of Europe’s new nationalism. In: European Societies 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2019.1694164
  • Kraemer, K. (2019): Geld als Institution. Eine Kritik der Vertrauenshypothese. In: Mittelweg 36. Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung 28 (3-4), 50-74. https://www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-mittelweg-36/alle-zeitschriften-archiv/artikel-detail/d/2510/Perspektiven_der_Geldsoziologie/0/
  • Jakelja, L. and F. Brugger (2019): Why Do Markets Change? Some Conventionalist Considerations on the Stability and Dynamic of Markets. In: Historical Social Research 44 (1), 160-187.
  • Nessel, S. (2019): Consumer Policy in 28 EU Member States. An empirical Assessment in four Dimensions. In: Journal of Consumer Policy 42 (4), 455-482. doi:10.1007/s10603-019-09428-x
  • Nessel, S. (2019): Researching Consumer Research. An Analysis of Consumer Researchers in Austria with some Implications for the Scientific Field and Consumer Policy. In: European Review of Applied Sociology 12 (19), 6-22. doi.org/10.1515/eras-2019-0007
  • Kraemer, K. (2018): Geld als absolutes Mittel? Zur Aktualität der Geldsoziologie Simmels in Banken- und Finanzmarktkrisen. In: R. Lautmann, H. Wienold (Hg.): Georg Simmel und das Leben in der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 47-68. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-658-21427-2_4
  • Kraemer, K. (2018): Scheitern einer Elitenerzählung. Über die Wiederkehr des nationalen Gemeinsamkeitsglaubens. In: A. Schaffer, E. Lang, S. Hartard (Hg.): Im Scheitern lernen – zur Zukunftsfähigkeit von Systemen, Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, 123-131.
  • Brugger, F. and C. Gehrke (2018): Skilling and deskilling: technological change in classical economic theory and its empirical evidence. In: Theor Soc 47 (5), 663-689.
  • Nessel, S., C. Fridrich, R. Hübner und N. Tröger (2018): Dimensionen, Ansätze und Perspektiven einer multiperspektivischen Verbraucherforschung. In: Dies. (Hg.): Multiperspektivische Verbraucherforschung. Ansätze und Perspektiven, Wiesbaden: VS, 5-51
  • Nessel, S., C. Fridrich, R. Hübner und N. Tröger (2018): Einleitung: Multiperspektivische Verbraucherforschung. In: Dies. (Hg.): Multiperspektivische Verbraucherforschung. Ansätze und Perspektiven, Wiesbaden: VS, 1-11.
  • Kraemer, K. (2017): Die Grenzen der Finanzmärkte. In: M. Faust, J. Kädtler, H. Wolf (Hg.): Finanzmarktkapitalismus? Der Einfluss von Finanzialisierung auf Arbeit, Wachstum und Innovation, Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 123-154.
  • Kraemer, K. und F. Brugger (2017): Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft. Zum Stand der wirtschaftssoziologischen Forschung. In: Dies. (Hg.): Schlüsselwerke der Wirtschaftssoziologie, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 1-26.
  • Nessel, S. (2017): Verbraucherorganisationen, Verbraucherpolitik und Nachhaltigkeit. Zum Beitrag von Organisationen auf sozial-ökologische Konsum- und Produktionsmuster.  In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie, doi:10.1007/s11609-016-0316-0
  • Nessel, S. (2017): Was macht Menschen zu Konsumenten? Dimensionen der Konsumentenrolle in Geschichte und Gegenwart. In: C. Bala, C. Kleinschmidt, K. Rick, W. Schuldinski (Hg.): Verbraucher in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Wandel und Konfliktfelder in der Verbraucherpolitik. Beiträge zur Verbraucherforschung, Düsseldorf: Verbraucherzentrale  Nordrhein-Westfalen, 35-53.
  • Brugger, F. and C. Gehrke (2017): The Neoclassical Approach to Induced Technical Change: From Hicks to Acemoglu. In: Metroeconomica 68 (4), 730-776. DOI: 10.1111/meca.12141