Highlighting Best and Worst Practices in the Gig Economy: An Introduction to the Fairwork Foundation
Aus unzähligen kleinen Puzzlesteinen hat Eylem Kanol ein großes Bild zusammengetragen. Der Soziologe wollte wissen, warum Menschen eigene Werte und Einstellungen über die anderer stellen – in Gedanken und in Taten.
Die Pandemie hat ungleiche Auswirkungen auf das Arbeits- und Familienleben. Beim ersten Lockdown im März hat es Mütter besonders hart getroffen, wie Mareike Bünning und Lena Hipp in den aktuellen WZB-Mitteilungen schreiben.
Ein Beitrag von Torben Klausa
Can extremism become contagious? Many papers have shown that social control of public actions can lead to sudden transitions from ‘extreme to mainstream’. What is not clear is whether social spillovers can also have first-order effects on private actions, like voting, where persuasion is key. We first build a measure of social interaction frequency using granular data from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic in Hamburg and information on household characteristics.
Current societal challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic or climate change highlight the tension between individual freedom and collective good provision. Striking the right balance is particularly delicate for democratic governments whose authority hinges on citizen acceptance and legitimation. When and why do citizens accept far-reaching limitations of their individual rights for a greater societal good?