Sociology

This series of publications deals with sociological issues related to nutrition, such as daily diet, health and nutrition policies, meat consumption, sustainability and the effects of and global relations between the production and consumption of food from a social perspective. The series publishes contributions from a variety of fields written in either German or English.

Communicating scientific and academic know-how is extremely relevant to our modern, knowledge-based society. Not only do individuals make decisions and act on the basis of scientific and academic knowledge, but so do political, economic and other types of institutions. As a field of practice, scientific and academic communication is omnipresent, regardless of whether it takes the form of scientific journalism or scientific PR. This series of publications provides a forum for current research into communicating scientific and academic knowledge and the public sphere, academia and other areas of society, such as politics or economics, and scientists and academics among each other.

This series of publications deals with all kinds of social anthropological relationships and conflicts in different societies and types of society. For example, this can encompass examining family relationships, social differences and structures, and power relations and conflicts between ethnic groups, big men and the societies they belong to. The studies in the series analyse concepts such as kinship, castes and ‘ethnoclasses’ (socio-cultural groups which in general have a low social status and which display ethnic characteristics that distinguish them as immigrants or descendants of immigrants) in the same critical depth as gender and nation building. It also welcomes studies from a variety of related fields such as ethnology, cultural studies and social geography, along with works written in different languages.

The series of publications is a forum for up-to-date empirical and theoretical studies on issues relating to the sociology of health and other subjects connected to it. These studies examine topics such as health and health-related behaviour, the effects of those issues on other areas of life, the health system, the medical profession and the doctor-patient relationship among many others.