Volume 19 (2022), Edition 2

Climate Change confronts societies with reality checks. This concerns the economy, politics and the state, but sociology as the social science specialised on society, crises, and the present: How can they contribute to responses on existential...

The VERSUS-Corona project investigates transformations of provisioning during the pandemic in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since March 2020. Our analysis of complex shifts between institutional, kin, or civil society modalities of provisioning...

According to a widespread view, we live in an age of distrust. In many cases, distrust characterizes the relation between fellow citizens, and in this form, it can be a danger to democracy. The paper aims to understand this phenomenon from the...

The article substantiates the distrust, which figures as the common denominator of the heterogeneous ›Querdenken‹ COVID protest movement. This bizarre misalliance does benefit from the affective dimension of distrust for producing political...

Do Conspiracy Theories Endanger Democracy? The article subjects this supposedly straightforward question to a theoretical examination. It argues that much-discussed phenomena such as QAnon, Querdenken and Reichsbürger theses are not coherent...

The paper examines how conflicts can be dealt with, or negotiated through organized distrust in such ways that communal trust is resorted, if only temporarily, in contexts where there is a perdurance of social and communal divisions. It argues that...

Is mistrust a marker and mechanism of totalitarian regimes alone or is it present in liberal democracies too? Using twentieth and twenty-first century German history as an example, this article examines various forms and expressions of trust and...

Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast in the Age of Iconoclasts. An essayistic review of Charles Camic’s biography Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics.

Characteristic of late modernity is a consciousness that claims to have recognized the way the world really works; that presents itself as enlightened to accept every social burden as inevitable. In this cynical consciousness, it is seemingly...

In this discussion with Daniel Fairfax, Nora Neuhaus and Felix Trautmann, Heide Schlüpmann explores the central importance Siegfried Kracauer had both on her thinking and on the origins of film studies in Frankfurt. The distinctive ensemble of...