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Berthold Vogel
born 1963. Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Professor at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
Eurozine Articles
The rhythm of society
The Algerian experience as basis for Pierre Bourdieu's sociology
"The modern economy lives solely with an eye to the future. The past is something to be overcome and destroyed, the present is interesting only as the starting point of the future." [more]
18.07.2006
Aligning the social
Comments on an ongoing debate
Demonized as "social bureaucracy" or used as a bulwark against global capitalism: what the modern welfare state is lacking is intellectual defence. Two recent studies fill the gap. [more]
27.09.2005
The high noon of the welfare state
As the state is abandoning its former function of securing social cohesion, new forms of social vulnerability are emerging. [more]
15.09.2004