Pre-prints. Paper published in: Christian Fleck, Christian Dayé, hg., Meilensteine der Soziologie, Frankfurt und New York: Campus, 2020
Beim Matthäus-Effekt handelt es sch um ein soziales Phänomen und zugleich um ein Erklärungsmodell... more Beim Matthäus-Effekt handelt es sch um ein soziales Phänomen und zugleich um ein Erklärungsmodell der Entstehung und Perpetuierung sozialer Ungleichheit in der Wissenschaft. Der Matthäus-Effekt bezeichnet ein Verteilungsproblem in einem als universalistisch und funktional interpretierten System des Wettbewerbs, dem der Wissenschaft, in dem es um die symbolische Anerkennung und Reputation von AkteurInnen geht. Sein Namensgeber Robert K. Merton ließ sich dabei von einem Satz aus dem Matthäus-Evangelium inspirieren: "Denn wer da hat, dem wird gegeben". Übertragen auf den wissenschafltichen Wettbewerb bedeutet dies, daß Forschenden, die bereits ein hohes Prestige in der Wissenschaft genießen, unabhängig von ihren tatsächlichen wissenschaftlichen Leistungen mehr Reputation zugesprochen wird als weniger bekannten KollegInnen, denen für gleiche Leistung weniger Anerkennung zuteil wird. Während der Matthäus-Effekt eine ungleiche Verteilung von Belohnungen charakterisiert, die dem meritokratischen Berufsethos zuwiderläuft, erklärt die damit verknüpfte Theorie kumulierten Vorteils und Nachteils die Entstehung sozialer Stratifikation im Wissenschaftssystem.
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Books by Barbara Hoenig
Der Inhalt
• Einflüsse und ideengeschichtlicher Kontext
• Smiths Jugendjahre in England, 1926–1955
• Smith in Berkeley, 1955–1966
• Anfänge in Kanada: Vancouver, 1968–1977
• Die mittleren Jahre: Toronto, 1977–2000
• Die späten Jahre: Victoria, 2000–2022
• Rezeption: Wirkungsgeschichte und Weiterentwicklungen
• Aktualität: Smiths Wissenssoziologie in aktuellen Debatten
inequalities of gender in the daily working environment
and evaluation of academics.
It focuses on case-studies drawn from Europe while also
highlighting the rise of new forms of public management
and a neo-liberal framing of the value of academic work,
that have a much broader global reach. Using participatory
research, the book analyses contemporary forms of
‘gendered excellence’ in an intersectional and international
perspective. It will be of interest to junior/senior researchers,
teachers and scholars in Sociology, Education, Gender
Studies, History, Political Science and Science and
Technology Studies.
Link: www.nomos-shop.de/26081
This handbook is the first to depict the empirical and theoretical problems in German-speaking sociology of European integration in their multi-faceted entirety, while identifying and discussing controversial and unresolved issues. In doing so, it collates lemmas in the main areas of "Sociological cartographies of Europe", "The formation of institutions and institutional policy", "Territorial restructuration", "Social structure and social policy", "Transnational social processes", "Theories of societies" and "Research strategies and critique" as contributions to the current state of the sociology of European integration.
Link: www.nomos-shop.de/26081
Against the background of an emerging new science policy, "Europe's New Scientific Elite" explores the social mechanisms that generate, reproduce and modify existing dynamics of stratification and oligarchization in science, shedding light on the strong normative impact of the ERC's funding on problem choice in science, the cultural legitimacy and future vision of science, and the building of new research councils of national, European and global scope.
Link:
https://www.routledge.com/Europes-New-Scientific-Elite-Social-Mechanisms-of-Science-in-the-European/Hoenig/p/book/9781138214439
Papers by Barbara Hoenig
In sociology, the concept of ambivalence refers to conflict or dissent between the cultural goals in a given society and social structure. The article applies the concept of ambivalence to those cultural norms and values which have been institutionalized in the European Research Area, in order to investigate the specific structural ambivalence of European integration in science and research. The aim is to analyse the relationship between equal opportunity norms and the ideals of scientific excellence by scrutinizing the case of the European Research Council (ERC), which represents the European excellence initiative. The proposition is that the current dominant paradigm of excellence is impeding the implementation of supranational equal opportunity norms in science and research. Qualitative evidence and results from cross-nationally comparative secondary statistics show that, due to existing resistance for example, it is still unlikely that science in Europe will reach its self-defined objectives regarding equal opportunity policies in the near future.
Taking public research funding as an example, the paper investigates equal opportunities and scientific ‘excellence’ as cultural objectives of science and research. More particularly, the European Research Council’s concepts of equity and equal opportunities and an assumed influence of the excellence initiative at European level towards the national level are empirically scrutinized. Based on research funding for excellence initiatives from Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands there is given evidence for an ambivalence of national traditions and an anticipated European frame of equity and excellence in public research funding that remains. Results provide data that might prove useful for reforming institutional measures of equal opportunities as insofar the latter is constitutive for a meritocratic system of science and research.
Der Inhalt
• Einflüsse und ideengeschichtlicher Kontext
• Smiths Jugendjahre in England, 1926–1955
• Smith in Berkeley, 1955–1966
• Anfänge in Kanada: Vancouver, 1968–1977
• Die mittleren Jahre: Toronto, 1977–2000
• Die späten Jahre: Victoria, 2000–2022
• Rezeption: Wirkungsgeschichte und Weiterentwicklungen
• Aktualität: Smiths Wissenssoziologie in aktuellen Debatten
inequalities of gender in the daily working environment
and evaluation of academics.
It focuses on case-studies drawn from Europe while also
highlighting the rise of new forms of public management
and a neo-liberal framing of the value of academic work,
that have a much broader global reach. Using participatory
research, the book analyses contemporary forms of
‘gendered excellence’ in an intersectional and international
perspective. It will be of interest to junior/senior researchers,
teachers and scholars in Sociology, Education, Gender
Studies, History, Political Science and Science and
Technology Studies.
Link: www.nomos-shop.de/26081
This handbook is the first to depict the empirical and theoretical problems in German-speaking sociology of European integration in their multi-faceted entirety, while identifying and discussing controversial and unresolved issues. In doing so, it collates lemmas in the main areas of "Sociological cartographies of Europe", "The formation of institutions and institutional policy", "Territorial restructuration", "Social structure and social policy", "Transnational social processes", "Theories of societies" and "Research strategies and critique" as contributions to the current state of the sociology of European integration.
Link: www.nomos-shop.de/26081
Against the background of an emerging new science policy, "Europe's New Scientific Elite" explores the social mechanisms that generate, reproduce and modify existing dynamics of stratification and oligarchization in science, shedding light on the strong normative impact of the ERC's funding on problem choice in science, the cultural legitimacy and future vision of science, and the building of new research councils of national, European and global scope.
Link:
https://www.routledge.com/Europes-New-Scientific-Elite-Social-Mechanisms-of-Science-in-the-European/Hoenig/p/book/9781138214439
In sociology, the concept of ambivalence refers to conflict or dissent between the cultural goals in a given society and social structure. The article applies the concept of ambivalence to those cultural norms and values which have been institutionalized in the European Research Area, in order to investigate the specific structural ambivalence of European integration in science and research. The aim is to analyse the relationship between equal opportunity norms and the ideals of scientific excellence by scrutinizing the case of the European Research Council (ERC), which represents the European excellence initiative. The proposition is that the current dominant paradigm of excellence is impeding the implementation of supranational equal opportunity norms in science and research. Qualitative evidence and results from cross-nationally comparative secondary statistics show that, due to existing resistance for example, it is still unlikely that science in Europe will reach its self-defined objectives regarding equal opportunity policies in the near future.
Taking public research funding as an example, the paper investigates equal opportunities and scientific ‘excellence’ as cultural objectives of science and research. More particularly, the European Research Council’s concepts of equity and equal opportunities and an assumed influence of the excellence initiative at European level towards the national level are empirically scrutinized. Based on research funding for excellence initiatives from Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands there is given evidence for an ambivalence of national traditions and an anticipated European frame of equity and excellence in public research funding that remains. Results provide data that might prove useful for reforming institutional measures of equal opportunities as insofar the latter is constitutive for a meritocratic system of science and research.