Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politische Soziologie, Majoritaten, Minoritaten, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Integration ethnischer wie religioser Minderheiten ist nach wie vor eine ungeloste Aufgabe, sowohl politisch als auch gesellschaftlich. Dieser Band erklart die Grundproblematik und liefert einige Denk- und Losungsansatze. Dabei werden sowohl der Einfluss sozialraumlicher Segregation als auch die Spracherwerbsproblematik vertieft behandelt. Aus dem Inhalt: Exklusionsmechanismen durch Medien und Islam?, Die Integration ethnischer Minderheiten, Der Einfluss sozialraumlicher Segregation, Die Spracherwerbsproblematik als Determinante der Integration

Assessing the limits of pluralism, this book examines different types of political inclusion and exclusion and their distinctive dimensions and dynamics. Why are particular social groups excluded from equal participation in political processes? How do these groups become more fully included as equal participants? Often, the critical issue is not whether a group is included but how it is included. Collectively, these essays elucidate a wide range of inclusion or exclusion: voting participation, representation in legislative assemblies, representation of group interests in processes of policy formation and implementation, and participation in discursive processes of policy framing. Covering broad territory—from African Americans to Asian Americans, the transgendered to the disabled, and Latinos to Native Americans—this volume examines in depth the give and take between how policies shape political configuration and how politics shape policy. At a more fundamental level, Ericson and his contributors raise some traditional and some not-so-traditional issues about the nature of democratic politics in settings with a multitude of group identities.

This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.

Following economists and scientists, politicians of various European countries have realized that a modern society with a declining birthrate is in need of immigrants. What can journalists contribute, in order to enable migrants to feel at home in their receiving country? What can be missed and ruined by journalists and media with regard to the integration of ethnic minorities? Scholars from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and the U.S. present their findings on the matter of media integration of migrants. Can European media learn from experiences in the classic countries of immigration in North America?

Examines the concept of Volksgemeinschaft - 'the people's community' - as the Nazis' central vision of community during the Nazi regime. This volume offers a comprehensive collection of studies on social engineering by the state in Nazi Germany.

Highlights the surprising ways in which the Nazi regime permitted or even fostered aspirations of privacy.