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of Dr.
Michael Schetsche Privatdozent
at the Institute
of Sociology at
the University
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Current
fields of research
2. Sociology of knowledge and sociology of media: For about five years now I am working theoretically and empirically on the origin and the spread of diverse forms of collective knowledge and how they become effective. Factors of medial selection, interrelations of everyday- and expert knowledge and the alteration of the public by means of network media are just some of these themes. In this context I occupied myself intensely for a while with the origins and the spread of deviant systems of interpretation - one of the results are various articles on the topic of 'Alien Abduction as a Social Phenomenon' (German text).
3. Sociology of social problems and sociology of criminality: In the last ten years I inquired into a multitude of phenomena that can be sociologically understood and analysed as social problems: the spread of pornography, sexual abuse, satanic ritual abuse, internet criminality ... My theoretical understanding of these phenomena I explained for the first time in the monography "The Career of Social Problems"(German text). Metatheoretically founded and methodologically pursued is this program of analysis in my habilitation text:"Sociology of Knowledge of Social Problems"(German text). In the centre of this knowledge approached theory of social problems are the structure of problem oriented patterns of interpretation, the parameters of their medial spread and the conditions of collective interpretations becoming effective in the post-modern society.
Future
research projects
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the
theoretical and empirical configuration of cyberspace as a social space;
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the
globalisation of communication processes and the change of structure of
public(s) owing to the spread of network media;
-
processes
of micro and macro social construction of social reality.
Multimedia:
The Modular Seminar Interface (MSI)
The MSI-project is financed by the Faculty 8 of the University of Bremen and it takes place in cooperation with the Creative Network Factory .
In
the future there will be more precise information accessible here on the
MSI.
Former
fields of research
Scientific
publications
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Wissenssoziologie
sozialer Probleme.
[Sociology of Knowledge of Social Problems] (2000)
- Jugendsexualität und Schulalltag. [Youth Sexuality and Daily School Routine] (1998; in cooperation with Dr. Renate-Berenike Schmidt)
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Die
Karriere Sozialer Probleme. Soziologische Einführung.
[The Career of Social Problems. A Sociological Introduction] (1996)
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Das
'sexuelle gefährdete Kind'. Kontinuität und Wandel eines sozialen
Problems.
[The 'Sexually Endagered Child'. Continuity and Chance of a Social Problem]
(1993)
- in cooperation with Christine Plaß: The Analysis and Archiving of Heterogeneous Text Documents: Using Support of the Computer Program NUD*IST 4. In: Forum: Qualitative Social Research 3, 2000.
- in cooperation with Christine Plaß: Vom Zuschauer zum Betroffenen [ The Spectator becoming the Disconcerted]. (Article for the internet magazine TELEPOLIS)
- Das Internet als soziales Problem [The Internet as a Social Problem]. In: Verändern neue Medien die Wirklichkeit? Editor Hartmut Neuendorff et al. Münster: LIT-Verlag 2000, P. 71-94.
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Pornographie
im Internet [Pornography in the Internet]. In:
Sexualität und Spätmoderne. Über den kulturellen Wandel
der Sexualität, Hrsg. Gunter Schmidt und Bernhard Strauß,
Stuttgart: Enke 1998, P. 139-158
- Reale und virtuelle Probleme [Real and Virtual Problems]. In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 8 (1998), P. 223-244
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in
cooperation with Bärbel Peters: Innere Sicherheit und Cyberspace [Inner
Security and Cyberspace]. In: Inszenierung: Innere Sicherheit. Daten
und Diskurse, Hrsg. Ronald Hitzler und Helge Peters, Opladen: Leske+Budrich
1998, P. 185-201
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Last update: 28.12.2001