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Die Studie befaßt sich in mikrohistorischer Betrachtungsweise mit der Sozialgeschichte der Leipziger Kaufleute Albert Dufour-Feronce, Gustav Harkort und Carl Lampe. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Praktiken, mit denen die Akteure den politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Strukturen begegnen. Nach einer Vorstellung der Titelpersonen in ihrem familiären Umfeld und als Bürger der Stadt werden ihre unternehmerischen Aktivitäten ihrem gesellschaftlichen Engagement auf den Feldern Wirtschaft, Vereinswesen, Kultur und Politik gegenübergestellt.
Kultur und (Rechts)Sprache
(2010)
The content of the present paper can be outlined as follows:
1) Law is an integrative part of culture.
2) Legal terminology is system-bound. Thus, within one and the same language there are as many legal languages as there are legal orders that use that particular language as their legal language.
3) The representation of culture in legal texts is encountered both on word and on text level: on the one hand legal terms have often been referred to as culturemes, as they are informed by the respective legal order; on the other hand texts are being regarded as cultural products as they depend on the particular legal order.
Since the world today is so significantly shaped by media technologies, it has become crucial for organizations, institutions and political parties to embrace this phenomenon in order for them to be able to communicate their message and programmes effectively. If they fail to do so, they in effect fail to exist in the public consciousness. Mass media hugely influence how culture is created: intelligence, artistic talent and technological innovation become visible through the media. The Roman Catholic Church, the world’s largest religious organization has, for the longest time, on the one hand denied the influence of the media, while on the other hand calling it ‘the work of evil’. When the Church eventually came to acknowledge the media as a powerful force, it proceeded to use this power as a mouthpiece for its authorities. The Catholic Church is still not wholly at ease with the media. The question is whether the Catholic Church has sufficiently familiarized itself with how the media function, in order to utilise the media to communicate the Church’s message to a large public audience. Against the background of ecclesial documents this article investigates the attitude of the Catholic Church towards the media as it has developed over the past 50 years.