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    EnerAct Tangible Approaches to the Energy Turn and related Societal Megatrends

    The Energy Turn involves a fundamental transformation of the energy grid. In the project EnerAct, concepts are created for the realization of the Energy Turn in the cities, regions and…

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    EnerChange Overcoming division in North-Rhine-Westphalia – Communicating the Energy Transition to everybody

    The German Energiewende is generally described in abstract and impersonal terms: emission reduction, efficiency, resilience and so on are little help to engage laypersons in goals and processes of the…

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    EnerDigit Digitalization and the German „Energiewende” (Energy Transition) inbetween Decentrality and Centrality: Regional and Business Cultural Perspectives

    Renewable energy is predominantly volatile. Wind turbines are unable to deliver energy without wind. Photo-voltaic systems depend on sunlight. In order to compensate emerging over- and under-capacities, an intelligent interconnection…

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    EnerTrend Systemic Analysis of Reciprocal Effects of the Energy Transition in NRW (North-Rhine-Westphalia) with Central Megatrends

    **SINCE 01.07.2019 THE TEAM OF DR. STEVEN ENGLER RESEARCHES AT THE FACULTY OF GEOSCIENCES OF THE RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM.**   A project of the virtual institute „Transformation – Energiewende NRW“…

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    Ferdinand Tönnies’s Letters A Digital Edition

    Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936) was one of the first German scholars to identify explicitly as a sociologist. His landmark work, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887), became the standard reference for social theory in the…

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    Food Substitutes Technology-Impact Assessment, Sustainability and Future Orientation through Discourse with Young People

    Eggs from algae, burgers made from insects and sausages from lupin seeds: new and increasingly unconventional foodstuffs are appearing on the market. They are indicative of a strong interest for…

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    Forschergruppe Visuelle Soziologie

    Die Forschergruppe Visuelle Soziologie besteht seit 2015 als freier Zusammenschluss einschlägig arbeitender Soziologinnen und Soziologen. Die Aktivitäten der Gruppe zielen auf die Entwicklung, die Anwendung und die Vermittlung von theoretischen…

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    Forschungskolleg NRW: Future Water

    Humanity’s intensive water use is rapidly changing the dynamics within water bodies such as rivers, lakes, groundwater and seas. As a result, the science of sustainable water use has become…

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    Gambling and Social Control A sociological study of the formation of a new control regime in the field of electronic machine gambling

    How does social control take place in an increasingly digitalised world? Our new research project deals with this question using the example of electronic machine gambling in amusement arcades. The…

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    Governing the Narcotic City Imaginaries, Practices and Discourses of Public Drug Cultures in European Cities from 1970 until Today.

    This research project explores the discourses, imaginaries, practices and consequences of public drug use from the 1970s until the present, with a focus on Western and Central European cities. Cultures…

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    Heisenberg-Project: Crisis of Critique? Capitalism, Neoliberalism and Democracy "after the Boom“

    The period "since the Boom" is characterized by a reordering of the relationship between market and state and between capitalism and democracy. Regardless of whether one describes this change as…

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    History of the Burda Family Business in the 20th Century

    The research project examines the corporate and family history of the Burda publishing house under three political systems (the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the Federal Republic of Germany)…

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    Kulturen des Kompromisses

    Der interdisziplinäre Forschungsverbund „Kulturen des Kompromisses“ untersucht die sozioökonomischen, politisch-rechtlichen und kulturellen Bedingungen des Kompromisses in unterschiedlichen Kontexten, Kulturen und Epochen. Ausgehend von einer Analyse westlicher Gegenwartsgesellschaften werden die Voraussetzungen…

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    LogMySelf Chances, risks and future of lifelogging and self-quantification in discourse with the young generation

    The growing digitalization of vital parts of life changes the relationship between humans and their bodies. This fundamental change can be observed by lifelogging. It can be summarized by diverse…

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    Network Researching Artistic-Scientific Practice

    When we study artistic-scientific practice, our goal is not to define or confine it. Rather, we explore what teaching formats, writing styles, forms of expression, and event designs can look…

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    NoVaMigra Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis

    Several, partly interconnected crises have profoundly challenged the European project in recent years. Among them especially the reactions to the arrival of 1.25 million refugees in 2015 called into question…