The contributions of the anthology "Futures Present" revolve around the central insight that social science research differs radically from the future trend research. Between the small-scale exploratory-interpretive case study of qualitative research and "inevitably large and often crude present and future imagery ", produced by the trend of research, the two editors is a certain gap
And this has to do with the understanding of the sociologists. From a social science perspective, the purpose of forecasts do not explain it, what is, but to understand what we do. understand only those who want to can develop an idea of what this means something specific, or could mean. It follows for Hitzler & Pfadenhauer that social scientific forecasting, " to construct our social constructions of reality re-added to which we construct each possible. " Or talked with Jo Reichertz: social science and social diagnoses - that is the test of weak traces of strong arguments to be developed.
provide sociologists also (depending on the best case) "under the decision support information in the form of (qualitative) ethnographies of the present. And that is a little more than the work of trend scouts, who seek either to recognize the "Diffusionsträchtigkeit" or the "Outhipping potential" of social phenomena. In our time, it is increasingly a matter of think tanks in a controlled and secular visions produce, no longer depend on the realization of a transcendent Agency, but by the readiness to act the social actors concerned. Future looks very different interpretation of everyday life.
where we all are - as shown by Hubert Knoblauch & Bernd Schnettler in a central contribution of this volume, future researchers. Our own life is full of files and practical utopia pretriggered imagination. One could speak of a target destination and control function of this fantasized preliminary drafts, which is an integral part of our everyday life. Continuously we are dealing with the horizon open possibilities - nothing else is the future of social-phenomenological view.
The range of examples in this anthology is wide. It ranges of the just outlined future interpretation in everyday life, a social scientific analysis of management theories (Liebl), the diagnosis of re-offending of offenders (Feltes), the diagnostic ability of physicians (with very instructive dialogues) (Vogd), betting the ratio of research and (Behrend ), a wonderful display of different forecasting methods on the example of the problem, a first contact with aliens (Schetsche), to the criticism of the methods of trend researchers (Pfadenhauer) and the description of possible areas of existence at the transition into a new modernity (Hitzler).
learns Because of this large spectrum of readers also, what constitutes good sociology: the absence of large litters. "Who wants the 'Look, go to the play of light" - that even the founding father of sociology, Max Weber . "Those who expect the sociology visions, go to the cinema", a variation of the quote in honor of the French Grand Master Pierre Bourdieu . Sociology, as formulated by the sociologist Constance Hans-Georg Soeffner is "primarily rückwärtgewandte prophecy - the reconstruction of social structures and conditions of construction of reality" Good sociologist and the business adheres to the hype. Otherwise, there the danger has also warned against the Soeffner: "Whoever marries the zeitgeist, is widowed soon."
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