Eropa menghadapi tantangan yang signifikan dalam beberapa dekade mendatang: masalah geopolitik, demografi, teknologi, peningkatan persaingan, terkait iklim, dan kesehatan akibat populasi yang menua, untuk menyebutkan beberapa di antaranya. Mengingat tantangan-tantangan ini, kemajuan teknologi dan cara-cara baru untuk menangani masalah-masalah yang kompleks akan menjadi kunci bagi kemakmuran dan…
How can we comprehend contemporary forms of religion? What is an adequate methodological approach? Religion as an object of study has become increasingly evasive and there is an urgent need to address the limitations emerging from previous conceptual bias and limited empirical perspectives. This chapter presents the international research project Young Adults and Religion in a Global …
This chapter positions itself between the demographic and epidemiological transitioning of the youngest world region in terms of population with its leapfrogging of ICT, specifically cell phone technology. Against the background of poverty and the continuing HIV and AIDS epidemic in (South) Africa, this contribution examines the deep penetration and agentic uptake of cell phones by older p…
Bullying is an aggressive pattern of behavior that is directed against weaker members of a group. The present empirical study examines bullying as a group phenomenon and addresses the question which roles are taken by different members of a school class and how they can be characterized. The particular focus is on social-cognitive and affective reactions to bullying, taking into account sc…
Romanian education policy was notoriously plagued by instability and a tendency to escape the normal policymaking cycle via top-down highly politicised reforms. After almost three decades, a new initiative by the President of Romania attempts to promote a more inclusive style of policymaking that would ensure wider societal support to upcoming educational reforms. The purpose of this articl…
Die Mittelschichten spielen spätestens seit den 1950er Jahren als Großgruppe im Ungleichheitsgefüge moderner Gesellschaften die tragende Rolle. Wurde das 19. Jahrhundert vom Antagonismus zwischen Industriearbeiterschaft auf der einen, kapitalistischen Unternehmern auf der anderen Seite geprägt, vollzog sich in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ein allmähliches Größenwachstum d…
This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue that business leadership is on the threshold of a new era driven by major shifts in technology, society, political economy and climate change. They set this transition in inter…
The introduction to Revisualising Intersectionality explains the proposal for a revisualising of intersectionality as a double strategy of revising intersectionality and infusing it with a stronger focus on visual perceptions of similarity and difference to understand social stratifcation and inequality. Haschemi Yekani and Nowicka briefy situate the book within what by now has become t…
This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of nat…
Die vorliegende Monographie meiner Dissertation ist dank der Unterstützung vieler Menschen entstanden. Einige standen mir während des gesamten Prozesses zur Seite und andere sprangen mir in situativ aufkommenden Herausforderungen tatkräftig zur Seite. Ihnen allen danke ich herzlich für ihr Engagement und ihr Mitwirken: So gilt mein Dank meiner Erstbetreuerin Frau Prof. Dr. Helga Kottho…