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In this article, I examine the relationships between architecture and sociology through a historical lens. I provide an analysis of their cross-referencing since their respective disciplinary foundations in line with the histoire croisée [crossed history] approach. I also address the positions held by architectural researchers in sociology and by s...
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... hypothesis is that, twenty years later and in the course of the re-figuration of spaces, a field of spatial research is being generated that is characterized by ambivalent dynamics: On the one hand, it is possible to observe the formation of numerous specific subdisciplines that are isolated from one another, and, on the other hand, an increasing interdisciplinarity between these same disciplines is apparent. It follows, therefore, that opposing tendencies are at work: These are demarcations that simultaneously always expose attempts to overcome and cross ( Figure 1). ...
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... question of whether design-based spatial research in architecture or urban planning would be defined as spatial research, or whether the concept of space plays a role in its considerations, remains a relatively controversial issue. In architectural theory, there is no strong debate about the concept of space itself as of yet (HANSMANN, 2021). Instead, the discourse revolves around the question of architecture itself. ...
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... In the course of time, this relationship is institutionalized. Finally, external factors may influence how a discipline's epistemic culture changes (MARGUIN, 2021a). In this context, KNOBLAUCH (2018KNOBLAUCH ( , 2020aKNOBLAUCH ( , 2020b argued that, in order to assess how research practice is influenced by a scholar's subjectivity and how investigators balance involvement and detachment, only taking into account an individual researcher's positionality does not suffice because academics are always members of scientific communities-and these communities, as a whole, position themselves in the world, which is itself normative. ...
The second FQS thematic issue on "The Refiguration of Spaces and Cross-Cultural Comparison" differs from the first as follows: 1. it covers a wider range of disciplines, 2. authors emphasize more strongly the spatial instead of the temporal aspects of the refiguration of spaces, and 3. focus is placed on researchers' practices of comparison rather than on how to compare different subject matters. These practices of comparison become particularly obvious when comparing "fundamental" sciences such as sociology with applied sciences such as urban planning. In research practice, researchers have to balance what Norbert ELIAS (2007 [1987]) called "involvement" and "detachment." In different disciplines with diverging epistemic cultures, involvement and detachment have been balanced differently. Using the examples of German-language sociology and urban planning, we illustrate this by discussing how fundamental and applied scientists weigh involvement and detachment in research practice and how this relationship of involvement and detachment has been changing in the course the refiguration of spaces. We conclude by reflecting on how differences in the balance between involvement and detachment in different epistemic cultures influence the relationship between practices of cross-cultural comparison and the refiguration of spaces, as well as what question should be asked in future research.
Theorien der Sozialen Arbeit beruhen auf vielfältigen interdisziplinären Anschlüssen
und Austauschprozessen. Wenn gegenwärtig zahlreiche Krisen eine theoriebezogene Weiterentwicklung der Sozialen Arbeit erforderlich machen, um gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen strukturell mitzugestalten, dann kann das nur im
transdisziplinären Austausch geschehen. Das vorliegende Buch bietet vielfältige
sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven – aus der Sozialen Arbeit, aber auch aus
der Erziehungswissenschaft, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaft,
Sozialpsychologie und Sozialgeschichte. Allen gemein ist, dass es ihnen um eine
Weiterführung von Theorien der Sozialen Arbeit in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher
Umbrüche geht.
