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Streitpunkt Hochschulranking
(2012)
Seit den 90er Jahren werden auch in Deutschland Hochschulen und Fakultäten in Form von Rankings bewertet. Dabei werden anhand bestimmter Kriterien – z.B. Leistungen in Forschung und Lehre, Ausstattung oder Entwicklungsperspektiven – Ranglisten erstellt.
Hochschulrankings sind als Informationsquellen für Studierende, Wissenschaftler, Unternehmen und Hochschulpolitik immer wichtiger geworden. Zugleich schwelt seit einiger Zeit ein heftiger Streit über die generelle Aussagekraft von Rankings. Methodische Mängel und unzulässige Interpretationen der Daten seien zu beklagen, so die Kritiker. Einige Fakultäten und sogar ganze Hochschulen haben sich bereits aus bestimmten Rankings ausgeklinkt. Die Befürworter der Rankings wiederum sehen in diesen Austritten eine Gefahr für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Hochschulen.
Wir haben speziell zu einem der wichtigsten Rankings zwei Standpunkte eingeholt. Frank Ziegele, Geschäftsführer des Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE), verteidigt das CHE Hochschulranking, Prof. Sighard Neckel, Soziologe an der Goethe-Universität, kontert mit seiner Kritik.
Wie erkennen wir Neues in der Politik, und wie bewerten wir dieses Neue, wenn es darauf abzielt, die vertrauten politischen Maßstäbe und -einheiten in Frage zu stellen? Die Piratenpartei als neueste Erscheinung in der bundesrepublikanischen Politik erlaubt es, diesem Problem nicht nur abstrakt nachzugehen. Meine Ausgangshypothese verortet das Neue weder im von der Piratenpartei eingebrachten Thema, noch in einer besonderen Position, die sie innerhalb des politischen Spektrums bezieht, sondern in ihrem Vorschlag, die Art und Weise zu verändern, wie politische Macht in der deutschen Demokratie ausgeübt wird: den Modus demokratischer Herrschaft von Repräsentation auf liquid democracy umzustellen. ...
This paper explores political engagement by Guatemalans who seasonally migrate to Canada as contracted agricultural workers. Since 2003, an ever-increasing number of Guatemalans have pursued economic opportunities in Canadian fields and greenhouses as participants in a labour migration scheme brokered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) called the Temporary Agricultural Workers to Canada (TAWC) Project. While some describe this labour migration as a win-win situation for employers and migrant workers, for too many of these migrants, work in Canada has demanded sacrifices and losses, not the least of which of their human rights and dignity at the hands of employers and administrators of the TAWC Project. While there is a great deal at stake for these migrants should they denounce mistreatment, given the climate of fear created by the employer-driven nature of the TAWC project, a growing number of them have been pushed to do so. With the support of allies that encourage political empowerment of migrant workers, black-listed Guatemalans have formed a political advocacy group - Asociación de Guatemaltecos Unidos por Nuestros Derechos (AGUND) - aimed at fighting for the realization of their rights and redressing cases of wrongdoing. Based on workers’ testimonies and other institutional interviews, this paper outlines the difficulties workers have experienced as labour migrants to Canada, the context of vulnerability that largely impedes them from denouncing mistreatment, and the development and activities of AGUND. Informed by literature on political organizing, it also identifies the factors that have both impeded and encouraged political activity on the part of these disenfranchised yet determined Guatemalan workers.
Les tâches d’une sociologie de la culture ne peuvent être définies sans prendre en considération la situation générale de la discipline. La conception dominante veut que la société puisse être définie par son organisation extérieure, par les divisions qui sont partout manifestes dans la vie sociale et qui sont aujourd’hui désignées sommairement comme sa structure. Ce concept de société, nous aurons à le montrer, est davantage le produit de différentes circonstances contingentes qu’il ne se fonde sur une décision de principe ou sur des preuves empiriques. Quoi qu’il en soit, il en résulte, en pratique, que la société est identifiée avec sa structure et que la sociologie, par suite, est réduite à une analyse de cette dernière. Cette conception de la société ne laisse pas de place à la culture comme donnée autonome ; la sociologie de la culture, de ce fait, en est réduite à la portion congrue. ...
Both Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno consider ‘aesthetical experience’ as an “image experience” assuming a power of images “to set free forces” directed to produce or support aesthetical-political (Benjamin) or aesthetical-critical (Adorno) requirements. Profane illumination, ‘thinkimages’, phantasmagory, dialectical images, decayed ‘aura’ and technicalized images in Benjamin’s theory of aesthetical modernity. Expressive feature or “mimetic” eloquence in nature and art countering reality, dismantled ‘aura’ in contemporary desacralized work of art, but also persisting ‘aura’ in its meaningful dimension in Adorno’s aesthetical theory.
Liberals are concerned with the equal moral status of all human beings. This article discusses what flows from this premise for moral cosmopolitans when analysing temporary foreign worker programs for low-skilled workers. Some have hailed these programs as a tool to achieve redistributive global goals. However, I argue that in the example of Live-In-Caregivers in Canada, the morally most problematic aspect is that it provokes vulnerability of individual workers. Once in a situation of vulnerability, important conditions of individual autonomy are jeopardized. Even if these programs provide for redistribution of opportunities on a global scale, the challenge such programs pose to the conditions of autonomy can not outweigh these gains. Instead, they need to be re-assessed and changed to fundamentally express equal moral status of all human beings.
Este artigo pretende discutir a teoria do reconhecimento de Axel Honneth e suas mudanças ao longo das últimas duas décadas. Para isto, serão analisados a fundamentação de sua teoria e os desdobramentos que Honneth deu ao modelo original apresentado em 1992 no livro Luta por reconhecimento. Estes desdobramentos, que nos últimos anos levaram-no a reflexões sobre o conceito de reificação e a sociologia do trabalho serão apresentados aqui e submetidos ao processo de crítica a partir dos objetivos da própria teoria do reconhecimento a fim de neles buscar alternativas frutíferas para o desenvolvimento desta teoria.
A concepção de filosofia formulada por Adorno foi impulsionada principalmente pela sua reação crítica a sistemas com pretensões totalitárias: nazismo, stalinismo e a sociedade produtora de mercadorias. A filosofia representa um refúgio para a liberdade diante dessas estruturas: ela dá voz ao não-idêntico. A capacidade de subverter os ordenamentos conceituais e sociais é implícita ao próprio pensamento, que se articula na forma de constelações em devir. A aproximação da dialética com o materialismo, concebido enquanto primazia do objeto, fortalece a filosofia na sua potencialidade crítica, na sua proximidade com a realidade e com a liberdade. Resulta daí uma filosofia renovada, simultaneamente aberta e comprometida com a verdade. A proposta deste artigo é apresentar a interdependência desses conceitos e apontar para a relevância da concepção de filosofia que deles emerge.