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Within an exemplary case of one family this study investigates how cultural values ​​and biographical orientations are transmitted from one generation to another. Therefore the phenomenon of social heritage is the main topic of this research: Social inheritance implies the transmission, the adoption and the transformation of non-material goods in the family process. In which ways are women and men influenced in developing their individual biographies by cultural meanings, orientations and values ​​passed on in the family? The study presents the processes of passing on family traditions in the greater context of historical and social change in this century. It is this frame of conditions which convert social inheritances into a complex phenomenon with ambivalent and contradictional character. By embedding the analysis of the single case in the historical reality of social change the theoretical argument of the study gets in touch with the issue of social modernization which is broadly discussed in the social sciences. It is one argument in this discussion, if we look at the concept of "Individualisierung" (U. Beek) and the concept o post-traditional ism (A. Giddens), that the dynamics of change diminishes the social meaning of family origin and traditional environment. The research on a single case, which is presented here, tries to get a look on the inner side of the social reality which is usually described only in reference to macrosociological concepts and wants to proof the validity of these concepts from the perspective in detail. The case study reaches two main conclusions: In the first place we can say that social movements foster a reflexive transformation process by which a young generation changes traditions inherited by their parents along their own conditions of living and biographical aspirations. The middle generation of the family, which is the case in this study, is born around 1948 and is engaged within the social movements of 1968. Out of this historical experience, this generation is acting in a sense of critical re-interpretation of family tradition and at the same time is keeping a sense of historicity in this process. It does not feel as a victim of social change but as its actor. In the second place we can say that the significance of family traditions increases in the same way as the cultural systems of meaning and traditions become more pluralistic. This thesis comprehends the type of social inheritance which gets shape within the young generation of the family, born around 1972. For this generation the specific life models of the parents gain biographical importance because they function as a bridge of mediation to cultural worlds of meaning which have become more and more reflexive and confusing. This generation has to stand on its own in its attempts to transform the social inheritance and it lives in a feeling of being driven by the power of social change. There is also a methodological purpose connected with this study. New impulses should be given to the case study as a specific design of interpretative research. To do this different concepts, which are accepted and proved in other disciplines of social sciences, are bound together with empirical thought in sociology: the concept of thick description transferred from cultural anthropology and the concept of "scenic understanding" transferred from psychoanalysis. This methodological argumentations are outlined in detail in specific sections before the discussion turns to the phenomenon of social heritage under the conditions of social change.

Generations --- Families --- Austria --- Social conditions --- social heritage --- social inheritanc --- Soziales Erbe --- Sozialer Wandel --- Interpretative Sozialforschung --- Erzählung --- Realität

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Wie hat die Neue Frauenbewegung Einfluss auf den Wandel von Geschlechterkonstruktionen genommen? Insbesondere im Vergleich älterer und jüngerer Frauengenerationen sind die Veränderungen unübersehbar. Diese empirische Studie rekonstruiert eklatante Umbrüche in Frauenbiographien über je drei Familiengenerationen hinweg. Die Impulse der Frauenbewegung erweisen sich dabei als Bezugspunkte individueller Biographiekonstruktionen und intergenerationaler Interaktionen - nahezu unabhängig von der Nähe oder Distanz der Beteiligten zur Bewegung. Allerdings folgt die individuelle Bezugnahme häufig eigenen Logiken, die mit den Intentionen der Frauenbewegung wenig gemein haben. »[Die Autorin hat] einen insgesamt erhellenden historischen Abriss des 'schillernde[n] Gebilde[s] Frauenbewegung' vorgelegt, der insbesondere durch die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit bisherigen Historien der Frauenbewegung und deren unterschiedlichen Generationenkonzeptionen beeindruckt.« Rolf Löchel, www.literaturkritik.de, 6 (2008) »Die Interpretationen der biographischen Erzählungen fallen sehr ausführlich aus, enthalten interessante Gedankengänge und sind spannend zu lesen.« Mag. Bernadette Gotthardt, Querelles-Net, 26 (2008)

Gender studies, gender groups --- Civil Society. --- Gender Studies. --- Social Movements. --- Sociology. --- Gender; Frauenbewegung; Sozialer Wandel; Generation; Biographie; Zivilgesellschaft; Gender Studies; Soziale Bewegungen; Soziologie; Civil Society; Social Movements; Sociology

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Funeral culture is changing rapidly. In recent years, graveyards and burial rituals in Germany have altered significantly. They no longer reflect mechanisms of collective sense-making; instead, they represent individual lifeworlds. Death and the decisions and actions surrounding it have, in effect, become characterised by pluralism.When it comes to legal regulations, however, no change is visible. The law does not interpret the aforementioned cultural transformation from the perspective of the bereaved. It is thus not surprising that graveyard rules and especially the stipulation that human remains may only be interred in a cemetery have come under criticism.Yet today, practices have evolved by which the bereaved can sidestep the rules and keep the ashes of their deceased relatives with them, or scatter them at alternative locations. The trigger for this silent revolution is individualisation. However much individual decisions play a role in this respect, this development is also the result of changes within the cultural mind. They both mark a shift towards mourning becoming more autonomous.

Thanatologie --- Tod --- Selbstbestimmung --- Sozialer Wandel --- Umgang mit Trauernden --- Bestattungsgesetz --- Methodologie --- Grab --- Ethik des Trauerns --- Interview --- Sinnkonstruktion --- Friedhofskultur --- Gesellschaftliche Transformation --- Kremation --- Trauer --- Bestattungskultur --- Mitbestimmung --- Trauererfahrungen

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Die gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen führen zu einem Wiederaufflammen der "sozialen Frage". Zugleich fordern Migration und Flucht oder die Rufe nach Inklusion gesellschaftliche Reaktionen heraus. Im vorliegenden Band werden damit verbundene neue Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für das professionelle Handeln in der Sozialen Arbeit untersucht.

Social service. --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Social work administration. --- Social service --- Management --- Administration --- Professionalisierung --- Soziale Ungleichheit --- sozialer Wandel

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Anstatt zu fragen, was Kultur ist, rückt das Buch die Frage nach der Funktionalität von Kultur in den Mittelpunkt. Die Theorie der Weltgesellschaft (Luhmann) als Ausgangspunkt macht einen Perspektivenwechsel im Umgang mit Fragen der Fremdheit in der globalen Welt notwendig und erweist sich als gewinnbringend für die Bearbeitung pädagogischer Herausforderungen. Neben metatheoretischen Überlegungen wird das Thema der Inter-Kultur im Alltagsdiskurs von Studierenden erforscht. Das Buch zeigt, wie in der Rekonstruktion der Handlungsorientierung der Studierenden ein Umgang mit Weltgesellschaft verortet ist. In pedagogical discourse, interculturality is often understood as a concept shaped by national framing. Based on the assumption of a world society by Luhmann, the author focuses on the question of the functionality of culture, which proves to be beneficial for dealing with pedagogical challenges. In addition to meta-theoretical considerations, the topic of inter-culture is explored in the everyday discourse of students. The book shows how reality in the world society is situated in the reconstruction of students' orientation to action.

Alltagskommunikation --- difference --- Differenz --- documentary method --- Dokumentarische Methode --- everyday communication --- foreignness --- Fremdheit --- Globalisierung --- globalization --- interculturality --- Interkulturalität --- nation-state --- Nationalstaat --- reconstructive social research --- Rekonstruktive Sozialforschung --- social change --- sozialer Wandel --- Interkulturalität