TY - GEN A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian A1 - Lebaron, Frederic T1 - There is no such thing as "the Economy" BT - Economic phenomena analysed from a field-theoretical perspective BT - Zur Analyse ökonomischer Phänomene aus feldtheoretischer Perspektive T2 - Historical Social Research N2 - 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. T2 - 'Die Ökonomie‘ gibt es nicht! KW - Economic sociology KW - field KW - Bourdieu KW - methodology KW - discourse KW - domination KW - state KW - economy Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.7-38 SN - 0172-6404 VL - 43 IS - 3 SP - 7 EP - 38 PB - GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences CY - Cologne ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hamann, Julian A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian ED - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian ED - Bernhard, Stefan T1 - The double function of rankings BT - consecration and dispositif in transnational academic fields T2 - Charting transnational fields N2 - 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. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-429-27494-7 SN - 978-0-367-22418-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274947-10 SP - 160 EP - 177 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ; New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian T1 - Struggling over crisis T1 - Umkämpfte Krise BT - Discoursive Positionings and Academic Positions in the Field of German-Speaking Economists BT - Diskursive Positionierungen und akademische Positionen im Feld deutschsprachiger Volkswirt*innen JF - Historical Social Research N2 - 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. KW - Economics KW - multiple correspondence analysis KW - Bourdieu KW - field KW - discourse KW - mixed methods KW - European Union KW - crisis Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.147-188 SN - 0172-6404 VL - 43 IS - 3 SP - 147 EP - 188 PB - GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences CY - Cologne ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian T1 - Lawyers, economists and citizens: the impact of neo-liberal European governance on citizenship T2 - The Transformation of Citizenship : Political Economy Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-138-67290-1 (print) SN - 978-1-315-56228-5 (online) IS - 1 SP - 31 EP - 45 PB - Routledge Taylor CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian ED - Müller, Hans-Peter ED - Sigmund, Steffen T1 - Kampf und Konflikt T2 - Max Weber-Handbuch N2 - Der Begriff des Kampfes nimmt in der Soziologie Max Webers eine zentrale Rolle ein. In § 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 Kämpfe objektiv verstehbar, weil die Handelnden mit ihrem Verhalten einen subjektiv gemeinten Sinn verbinden. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-476-05141-7 SN - 978-3-476-05142-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05142-4_21 SP - 97 EP - 98 PB - J.B. Metzler CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmitz, Andreas A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian A1 - Witte, Daniel A1 - Keil, Maria T1 - In welcher Gesellschaft forschen wir eigentlich? BT - Struktur und Dynamik des Feldes der deutschen Soziologie JF - Zeitschrift für theoretische Soziologie Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3262/ZTS1902245 SN - 2195-0695 SN - 2751-4552 VL - 8 IS - 2 SP - 245 EP - 281 PB - Beltz Juventa CY - Weinheim ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian A1 - Bernhard, Stefan ED - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian ED - Bernhard, Stefan T1 - How to chart transnational fields BT - introduction to a methodology for a political sociology of knowledge T2 - Charting transnational fields N2 - 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. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-429-27494-7 SN - 978-0-367-22418-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274947-1 SP - 1 EP - 33 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ; New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian T1 - French economists and the symbolic power of (post-)national scopes of capital BT - taking sides in discourses of crises, 2008–2021 JF - Serendipities : journal for the sociology and history of the social sciences N2 - 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. KW - transnationalization KW - economic thought KW - economic crisis KW - field theory KW - history of the social sciences Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7146/serendipities.v8i1-2.133990 SN - 2521-0947 VL - 8 IS - 1-2 SP - 77 EP - 108 PB - Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz CY - Graz ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian T1 - Europeanisation, stateness, and professions BT - what role do economic expertise and economic experts play in European political integration? T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - 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. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 99 KW - field theory KW - economics KW - professions KW - European Union KW - neo-liberal governance KW - political integration Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412590 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 99 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian A1 - Schmitz, Andreas T1 - Divorce à l’allemande T1 - Divorce à l’allemande T1 - Scheidung auf Deutsch T1 - Divorcio a la alemana BT - luttes symboliques et tensions institutionnelles dans la sociologie allemande contemporaine BT - luttes symboliques et tensions institutionnelles dans la sociologie allemande contemporaine BT - luchas simbólicas y tensiones institucionales en la sociología alemana contemporánea JF - Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales N2 - Avec la création de l’Académie de sociologie (AS), le champ sociologique allemand compte désormais une nouvelle association professionnelle qui s’ajoute à la Société allemande de sociologie (DGS), établie 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 à ce schisme. Les conflits contemporains sont interprétés au travers d’une représentation empirique du champ de la sociologie allemande. De manière générale, la sociologie allemande contemporaine apparaît une fois de plus dominée par deux camps opposés, arbitrairement définis mais puissants, qui se partagent la domination d’une discipline, pourtant réellement pluraliste. N2 - The German sociological field is now divided along two professional associations, the recently created Academy of Sociology (Akademie für Soziologie, AS) and the long-established German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS). This article examines the main discursive positions, controversies and fault-lines that have contributed to this schism, based on an empirical study of the field of sociology in Germany. It underscores that these professional associations reflect, yet again, a divide between two opposed, powerful, yet arbitrarily defined poles that dominate the discipline despite its effective pluralism. N2 - Mit der Gründung der Akademie für Soziologie (AS) entstand im deutschen soziologischen Feld eine neue berufsständische Vereinigung neben der seit langem etablierten Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die wesentlichen diskursiven Positionen und Kontroversen sowie die Bruchlinien, die zu diesem Schisma geführt haben. Die zeitgenössischen Konflikte werden anhand einer empirischen Darstellung des deutschen soziologischen Feldes interpretiert. Grundsätzlich scheint die deutsche Soziologie gegenwärtig erneut in zwei gegnerische Lager gespalten zu sein, die nur vag definiert aber einflussreich sind, und die versuchen, die Disziplin unter sich aufteilen, obwohl diese in Wahrheit pluralistisch ist. N2 - A partir de la creación de la Academia de Sociología (AS), el campo de la sociología alemana cuenta con una nueva asociación profesional que se suma a la ya establecida Sociedad Alemana de Sociología (DGS). Este artículo repasa las principales posturas discursivas, controversias y líneas de fractura que condujeron a esta ruptura. Se trata de interpretar aquí los conflictos contemporáneos a través de una representación empírica del campo de la sociología alemana. En general, la sociología alemana contemporánea parece estar nuevamente dominada por dos campos opuestos, arbitrariamente definidos pero poderosos, que se reparten el dominio de una disciplina verdaderamente pluralista. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3917/arss.243.0110 SN - 0335-5322 SN - 1955-2564 VL - 48 IS - 3-4 (243-244) SP - 110 EP - 123 PB - Ed. du Seuil CY - Paris ER -