@article{SchmitzSchmidtWellenburgWitteetal.2020, author = {Schmitz, Andreas and Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Witte, Daniel and Keil, Maria}, title = {In welcher Gesellschaft forschen wir eigentlich?}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r theoretische Soziologie}, volume = {8}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r theoretische Soziologie}, number = {2}, publisher = {Beltz Juventa}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {2195-0695}, doi = {10.3262/ZTS1902245}, pages = {245 -- 281}, year = {2020}, language = {de} } @article{SchmidtWellenburgSchmitz2023, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Schmitz, Andreas}, title = {Divided we stand, united we fall?}, series = {International review of sociology}, volume = {33}, journal = {International review of sociology}, number = {3}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {0390-6701}, doi = {10.1080/03906701.2023.2244170}, pages = {512 -- 545}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This contribution presents an analysis of the structure and conflictual dynamics of contemporary German sociology which has recently separated into two professional societies. Using geometric data analysis, we present an empirical construction of the power/knowledge structure of the field, its paradigmatic plurality, and the various forms of sociological practices involved.}, language = {en} } @article{SchmidtWellenburgSchmitz2022, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Schmitz, Andreas}, title = {Divorce {\`a} l'allemande}, series = {Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales}, volume = {48}, journal = {Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales}, number = {3-4 (243-244)}, publisher = {Ed. du Seuil}, address = {Paris}, issn = {0335-5322}, doi = {10.3917/arss.243.0110}, pages = {110 -- 123}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Avec la cr{\´e}ation de l'Acad{\´e}mie de sociologie (AS), le champ sociologique allemand compte d{\´e}sormais une nouvelle association professionnelle qui s'ajoute {\`a} la Soci{\´e}t{\´e} allemande de sociologie (DGS), {\´e}tablie de longue date. Cet article passe en revue les principales positions discursives, les sujets de controverse majeurs ainsi que les grandes lignes de fracture qui ont conduit {\`a} ce schisme. Les conflits contemporains sont interpr{\´e}t{\´e}s au travers d'une repr{\´e}sentation empirique du champ de la sociologie allemande. De mani{\`e}re g{\´e}n{\´e}rale, la sociologie allemande contemporaine appara{\^i}t une fois de plus domin{\´e}e par deux camps oppos{\´e}s, arbitrairement d{\´e}finis mais puissants, qui se partagent la domination d'une discipline, pourtant r{\´e}ellement pluraliste.}, language = {fr} } @article{SchmidtWellenburgMackert2018, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Mackert, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {EU-Citizenship}, series = {Europasoziologie : Handbuch f{\"u}r Wissenschaft und Studium}, journal = {Europasoziologie : Handbuch f{\"u}r Wissenschaft und Studium}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Baden-Baden}, isbn = {978-3-8487-2456-7}, pages = {120 -- 129}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @misc{SchmidtWellenburgLebaron2018, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Lebaron, Frederic}, title = {There is no such thing as "the Economy"}, series = {Historical Social Research}, volume = {43}, journal = {Historical Social Research}, number = {3}, publisher = {GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences}, address = {Cologne}, issn = {0172-6404}, doi = {10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.7-38}, pages = {7 -- 38}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This introductory essay to the HSR Special Issue "Economists, Politics, and Society" argues for a strong field-theoretical programme inspired by Pierre Bourdieu to research economic life as an integral part of different social forms. Its main aim is threefold. First, we spell out the very distinct Durkheimian legacy in Bourdieu's thinking and the way he applies it in researching economic phenomena. Without this background, much of what is actually part of how Bourdieu analysed economic aspects of social life would be overlooked or reduced to mere economic sociology. Second, we sketch the main theoretical concepts and heuristics used to analyse economic life from a field perspective. Third, we focus on practical methodological issues of field-analytical research into economic phenomena. We conclude with a short summary of the basic characteristics of this approach and discuss the main insights provided by the contributions to this special issue.}, language = {en} } @book{SchmidtWellenburgBernhard2020, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Bernhard, Stefan}, title = {Charting transnational fields}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-22418-9}, doi = {10.4324/9780429274947}, pages = {xi, 263}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on the seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation, standardization and certification or supranational political structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and beyond the nation state. Part 1 on "Methodological Foundations" discusses the consequences of Bourdieu's epistemology and methodology for theorizing and investigating transnational phenomena. The contributions show the import of field-theoretical concepts for post-national insights. Part 2 on "Investigating Political Fields" presents exemplary case studies in diverse research areas such as colonial imperialism, international academic rankings, European policy fields, and local school policy. While focusing on their research objects, the contributions also give an insight into the mechanisms involved in processes of transnationalization. The volume is an invitation for sociologists, political scientists and scholars in adjacent research areas to engage with reflexive and relational research practice and to further develop field-theoretical thought.}, language = {en} } @incollection{SchmidtWellenburgBernhard2020, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Bernhard, Stefan}, title = {How to chart transnational fields}, series = {Charting transnational fields}, booktitle = {Charting transnational fields}, editor = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Bernhard, Stefan}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {Abingdon ; New York}, isbn = {978-0-429-27494-7}, doi = {10.4324/9780429274947-1}, pages = {1 -- 33}, year = {2020}, abstract = {In this programmatic introduction, we lay out the foundations of an approach to analyzing knowledge-based political phenomena beyond the nation state from a field perspective. We understand transnational field analysis as a research program comprising genuine theoretical and methodological assumptions. While extant research is well aware of the theoretical assumptions of transnational field analysis, there is thus far relatively little awareness of the importance of its methodological premises. Addressing this imbalanced picture, we identify five methodological principles and specify consequences for studies of transnational fields. Our approach emphasizes that performing transnational field analysis goes beyond "taking a theory to the field"; it means engaging in and reflecting upon a complex research process that simultaneously draws upon and constructs theories of fields.}, language = {en} } @article{SchmidtWellenburg2022, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Democratization or politicization?}, series = {The condition of democracy : Volume 1: Neoliberal politics and sociological perspectives}, journal = {The condition of democracy : Volume 1: Neoliberal politics and sociological perspectives}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-00-040191-2}, pages = {106 -- 128}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{SchmidtWellenburg2018, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Struggling over crisis}, series = {Historical Social Research}, volume = {43}, journal = {Historical Social Research}, number = {3}, publisher = {GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences}, address = {Cologne}, issn = {0172-6404}, doi = {10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.147-188}, pages = {147 -- 188}, year = {2018}, abstract = {If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions." Following the premise of this quotation attributed to Winston Churchill, varying perceptions of the European crisis by academic economists and their structural homology to economists' positions in the field of economics are examined. The dataset analysed using specific multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) comprises information on the careers of 480 German-speaking economists and on statements they made concerning crisis-related issues. It can be shown that the main structural differences in the composition and amount of scientific and academic capital held by economists as well as their age and degree of transnationalisation are linked to how they see the crisis: as a national sovereign debt crisis, as a European banking crisis, or as a crisis of European integration and institutions.}, language = {en} } @incollection{SchmidtWellenburg2017, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Lawyers, economists and citizens: the impact of neo-liberal European governance on citizenship}, series = {The Transformation of Citizenship : Political Economy}, booktitle = {The Transformation of Citizenship : Political Economy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge Taylor}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-138-67290-1 (print)}, pages = {31 -- 45}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{SchmidtWellenburg2012, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Managmentberatung und der diskursive Wandel des Managemtfeldes}, isbn = {978-3-531-18018-2}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @article{SchmidtWellenburg2014, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {How consulting became a transnational form of governance in the field of management}, series = {Berliner Journal f{\"u}r Soziologie = Journal de sociologie de Berlin}, volume = {24}, journal = {Berliner Journal f{\"u}r Soziologie = Journal de sociologie de Berlin}, number = {2}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Wiesbaden}, issn = {0863-1808}, doi = {10.1007/s11609-014-0250-y}, pages = {227 -- 255}, year = {2014}, language = {de} } @misc{SchmidtWellenburg2017, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Europeanisation, stateness, and professions}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {99}, issn = {1867-5808}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412590}, pages = {28}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The article explores Europeanisation as an effect of European political integration, a process driven by struggles over the legitimate political and social order that is to prevail in Europe. Firstly, an analytic framework is constructed, drawing on insights from Pierre Bourdieu's work on similar struggles over nation-stateness. Secondly, the mechanisms identified are used to assess the role played by economic experts and expertise in the process of European political integration. It is argued that concepts arising from economic disciplines, agents educated in economics, and practising economic professionals influence European political integration and have benefited from Europeanisation initiated by this process. Special emphasis is placed on strategies of integrating Europe by law or by market, on governing Europe using economic expertise, on the role played by economic academia in researching and objectifying Europe, and on staffing European institutions with economists.}, language = {en} } @incollection{SchmidtWellenburg2020, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Kampf und Konflikt}, series = {Max Weber-Handbuch}, booktitle = {Max Weber-Handbuch}, editor = {M{\"u}ller, Hans-Peter and Sigmund, Steffen}, publisher = {J.B. Metzler}, address = {Stuttgart}, isbn = {978-3-476-05141-7}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-476-05142-4_21}, pages = {97 -- 98}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Der Begriff des Kampfes nimmt in der Soziologie Max Webers eine zentrale Rolle ein. In \S 8 der Soziologischen Grundbegriffe definiert Weber: »Kampf soll eine soziale Beziehung insoweit heißen, als das Handeln an der Absicht der Durchsetzung des eigenen Willens gegen Widerstand des oder der Partner orientiert ist« (WuG, 20). Als soziales Handeln sind K{\"a}mpfe objektiv verstehbar, weil die Handelnden mit ihrem Verhalten einen subjektiv gemeinten Sinn verbinden.}, language = {de} } @incollection{SchmidtWellenburg2023, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Die Gouvernementalit{\"a}t des Unternehmens im Wandel}, series = {Dispositiv und {\"O}konomie}, booktitle = {Dispositiv und {\"O}konomie}, editor = {Diaz-Bone, Rainer and Hartz, Ronald}, publisher = {Springer VS}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-658-31532-0}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-31533-7_10}, pages = {271 -- 293}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Der oft beschworene Aufstieg der Managementberatung zu einem integralen Bestandteil von Unternehmensf{\"u}hrung besitzt eine selten beachtete Seite: Managementberatung ist nicht nur zu einer anerkannten Praktik der „guten Regierung" des Unternehmens geworden, sondern zugleich zu einer legitimen Form der Produktion von Managementwissen. Im Folgenden soll dem Wandel der diskursiven Praxis der Produktion von Managementwissen nachgegangen und seine Bedeutung f{\"u}r den Wandel der Praxis der Unternehmensf{\"u}hrung eruiert werden. In einem ersten Schritt sind die Praxis des Managements und ihre Logik zu skizzieren, um einerseits den Alltag des Managements zu begreifen und andererseits zu verstehen, dass in diesem Alltag die M{\"o}glichkeit diskursiven Wandels angelegt ist.}, language = {de} } @article{SchmidtWellenburg2024, author = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {French economists and the symbolic power of (post-)national scopes of capital}, series = {Serendipities : journal for the sociology and history of the social sciences}, volume = {8}, journal = {Serendipities : journal for the sociology and history of the social sciences}, number = {1-2}, publisher = {Karl-Franzens-Universit{\"a}t Graz}, address = {Graz}, issn = {2521-0947}, doi = {10.7146/serendipities.v8i1-2.133990}, pages = {77 -- 108}, year = {2024}, abstract = {The paper argues that economists' position-taking in discourses of crises should be understood in the light of economists' positions in the academic field of economics. This hypothesis is investigated by performing a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) on a prosopographical data set of 144 French economists who positioned themselves between 2008 and 2021 in controversies over the euro crisis, the French political economic model, and French economics. In these disciplinary controversies, different forms of (post-)national academic capital are used by economists to either initiate change or defend the status quo. These strategies are then interpreted as part of more general power struggles over the basic national or post-national constitution and legitimate governance of economy and society.}, language = {en} } @incollection{HamannSchmidtWellenburg2020, author = {Hamann, Julian and Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {The double function of rankings}, series = {Charting transnational fields}, booktitle = {Charting transnational fields}, editor = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Bernhard, Stefan}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {Abingdon ; New York}, isbn = {978-0-429-27494-7}, doi = {10.4324/9780429274947-10}, pages = {160 -- 177}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Rankings have grown in importance in the last decades. This is particularly evident in, but not limited to, academia. In this paper, we propose a power analytical take on academic rankings as a transnational(izing) phenomenon. In doing so, we make two contributions. First, we develop a conceptual definition of rankings as consecratory institutions. After providing an overview of the most prominent types of rankings in the academic field and discussing the different forms they can take, we suggest that rankings operate through subjectivation, zero-sum comparisons, quantification, publication and generating a doxical belief. Second, we propose that rankings fulfil a strategic double function. As a particularly momentous consecratory institution, rankings propel power shifts in the academic field and beyond by preferring (and being pushed by) specific academic milieus, types of agents, paradigms, and strategies. As a dispositif, rankings operate at the intersection of different fields, open academic fields up for a lay audience and advance processes of transnationalization by facilitating new modes of governance for hubs of state institutions, private corporations, media corporations, and data providers. Concluding, we argue that the consecration and dispositif functions rely on some basic principles of the practical functioning of rankings.}, language = {en} } @article{BernhardSchmidtWellenburg2012, author = {Bernhard, Stefan and Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Einleitung}, isbn = {978-3-531-17871-4}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @article{BernhardSchmidtWellenburg2012, author = {Bernhard, Stefan and Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Feldanalyse als Forschungsprogramm}, editor = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, isbn = {978-3-531-17871-4}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @article{BernhardSchmidtWellenburg2012, author = {Bernhard, Stefan and Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian}, title = {Einleitung}, isbn = {978-3-531-18018-2}, year = {2012}, language = {de} }