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The WZB Berlin Social Science Center investigates fundamental societal issues. Our focus is on education and work, markets and choice, migration, democracy and autocracy, international politics and law. At the WZB researchers from various disciplines work together – mainly from sociology, political science, economics, law and psychology.
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Bodies
When it comes to bodies, we negotiate nothing less than the relationship of the individual to the world. The topic of the December issue of WZB-Mitteilungen, “body”, is therefore highly relevant for the social sciences. How are bodies determined and evaluated by norms? Which conditions affect people's health and integrity and how? What power do bodies have?
The issue explores these questions. It collects contributions from the fields of mobility and health research, reproductive policy, protection against violence and gender relations in science and art, it examines the relationship between the body and power, both historically and currently.
The Hierarchies of Fashion
Fashion and sociology are the topics of Alexander Hoppe, Kohli Fellow and Guest Researcher at the WZB. In his current book project, “Routinizing Creativity”, he shows where fashion comes from and how anticipation shapes the labor process. In an interview with Kerstin Schneider, he talks about his research on work, aesthetics, and attention.
Body and protest
Mass gatherings, hunger strikes, glue activists – when people want to demonstrate against existing conditions or for their demands, they do so most effectively by using their bodies. Protest researcher Dieter Rucht explores the relationship between physical presence and political concerns in conversation with Gabriele Kammerer.
