Politische Soziologie transnationaler Felder

• Applicant: Dr. Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg
• Subject Area: Sociological Theory
• Term: from 2016 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 310605213

• Final Report Year: 2023

Final Report Abstract

The network pursues three objectives: (1) to grasp the spectrum of policy-related transnationalisation processes; (2) to search for adequate methodological procedures; (3) to identify general patterns of transnationalisation. In addition, it is aimed at contributing to the establishment of a permanent transnational research context encompassing the mostly German-based network members as well as French and US-American colleagues. The network organised four workshops in which these goals were achieved. The first workshop, "Mechanisms and processes of transnationalisation" in March 2017, provided participants with a comprehensive overview of the diversity of current field-theoretical research in the area of political phenomena beyond the nation state. In the course of the second workshop "One methodology, many methods - or: how to chart transnational fields" in October 2017, current methodological and methodological challenges for a field analytical approach were identified, the potential of relational methods for field analysis was discussed and research project-related applications of qualitative-reconstructive methods, geometric data analysis and network analysis were presented. The third workshop "Analysing transationalism from a field perspective" in April 2018 and the fourth workshop "Governing (by) expertise. The politics of social scientific knowledge production" in April 2022 served to theorise general mechanisms and processes of transnationalisation by reflecting on individual studies of the participants.

Publications

• The double function of rankings: Consecration and dispositif in transnational academic fields in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Hamann, J./Schmidt-Wellenburg C.
  
• Der Nationalstaat und das globale Feld der Macht, oder: Wie sich die Feldtheorie von ihrem methodologischen Nationalismus befreien lässt. Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie 6(2), 156–188.
  Witte, D./Schmitz, A.
  
• EU Citizenship. In: Bach, M./Bach-Hönig, B.(Hrsg.), Europasoziologie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 120-129
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Mackert, Jürgen
  
• Feldtheoretische Perspektiven. In: Bach, M./Bach-Hönig, B.(Hrsg.), Europasoziologie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 389-397.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Bernhard, S.
  
• Pluralizing Field Analysis: Toward a Relational Understanding of the Field of Power. Social Science Information 56(1), 49–73.
  Schmitz, A./Witte, D./Gengnagel, V.
  
• Academic Autonomy beyond the Nation-State: The Social Sciences and Humanities in the European Research Council. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 43(1), 65–92.
  Baier, C/Gengnagel, V.
  
• Benennungsmacht und Vokabular der EU-Governance. Zur symbolischen Macht der EU-Forschungsförderung. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 43(1), 37–63.
  Büttner, S. M./Mau, S./Oeltjen, O./ Zimmermann, K.
  
• Der Fall Bautzen: Eine Netzwerkanalyse zur Entstehung digitaler Öffentlichkeiten in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Schmitz, A. Relationale Soziologie: Einheit und Vielfalt eines Forschungsprogramms“. Special Issue Berliner Journal für Soziologie Jg. 27: H3/4
  Henning Laux / Marco Schmitt
  
• Die Angst der Anderen. Soziale Position und symbolische Legitimität der Angst. In: Betzelt, S./Bode, I. (Hrsg.), Angst im neuen Wohlfahrtsstaat. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 55–67.
  Schmitz, A/Gengnagel, V.
  
• Economics Degrees in the French University Space: Heteronomy and Professionalization of Curricula 1970-2009 in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Monneau E
  
• Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research 43(3).
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.
  
• Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.
  
• Europa und seine Krise als umkämpfte Objekte volkswirtschaftlicher Deutungen im Feld deutsch-sprachiger Volkswirt*innen. Culture, Practice and Europeanisation 3(3), 30-55.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C.
  
• Europeanisation at home? Features and obstacles of domestic EU professionalism. In: Heidenreich, M. (Hrsg.), Horizontal Europeanisation. The Transnationalisation of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe. London: Routledge, 175-197.
  Büttner, S.M./Leopold, L./Mau, S./Zimmermann, K
  
• Geordnete Verhältnisse? Vielfalt und Einheit relationalen Denkens in der Soziologie, in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Schmitz, A. Relationale Soziologie: Einheit und Vielfalt eines Forschungsprogramms“. Special Issue Berliner Journal für Soziologie Jg. 27: H3/4
  Daniel Witte / Andreas Schmitz / Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg
  
• Globalization Strategies and the Economics Dispositif: Insights from Germany and the UK in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Maesse J.
  
• Globalization strategies and the economics dispositive. Insights from Germany and the UK. Historical Social Research 43(3), 120-146.
  Maesse, J.
  
• Globalizing Political and Economic Elites in National Fields of Power in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Schneickert C.
  
• Im Westen Nichts Neues? Zum Verhältnis von postmigrantischer Gesellschaft und Sozialraumtheorie. In: Der soziale Raum der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  Schmitz, A./Schneickert, C./Witte, D.
  
• Investigations of Social Space. Cham: Springer International.
  Blasius, J./Lebaron, F./Le Roux, B./Schmitz, A. (Hrsg.)
  
• Mapping the Inflections in the Policies of the Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank during the 1990s and 2000s within Social Spaces and Networks in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Klüger E.
  
• Relationale Soziologie – Theoretische und methodologische Positionierungen zwischen Strukturalismus und Pragmatismus in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Schmitz, A.Relationale Soziologie: Einheit und Vielfalt eines Forschungsprogramms“. Special Issue Berliner Journal für Soziologie Jg. 27: H3/4
  Rainer Diaz-Bone
  
• Relationale Soziologie: Einheit und Vielfalt eines Forschungsprogramms. Special Issue Berliner Journal für Soziologie 27(3/4)
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Schmitz, A.
  
• Relationale Soziologie: Einheit und Vielfalt eines Forschungsprogramms“. Special Issue Berliner Journal für Soziologie Jg. 27: H3/4
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Schmitz, A.
  
• Same same but different. Die Feldtheorien Fligsteins und Bourdieus und das Potenzial einer wechselseitig informierten Perspektive für die Wirtschaftssoziologie in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Schmitz, A. Relationale Soziologie: Einheit und Vielfalt eines Forschungsprogramms“. Special Issue Berliner Journal für Soziologie Jg. 27: H3/4
  Lisa Suckert
  
• Socialization in the Academic and Professional Field: Revealing the Homo Oeconomicus Academicus in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Lenger A.
  
• Sozialer Raum, Feld oder Diskurs? Die „postmigrantische Gesellschaft“ und die Soziologie Pierre Bourdieus. In: Postmigrantische Perspektiven. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.
  Schmitz, A./Witte, D./Schneickert, C.
  
• Struggling over Crisis. Discoursive Positionings and Academic Positions in the Field of German-Speaking Economists in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Schmidt-Wellenburg C.
  
• Struggling over Crisis. Discoursive Positionings and Academic Positions in the Field of German-Speaking Economists“. Historical Social Research 43(3), 147-188.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg C.
  
• Strukturale Psychologie. Zum Verhältnis von Sozialraum, Habitus und Persönlichkeit in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Schmitz, A. Relationale Soziologie: Einheit und Vielfalt eines Forschungsprogramms“. Special Issue Berliner Journal für Soziologie Jg. 27: H3/4
  Andreas Schmitz / Michael Bayer
  
• Temporality in discourse: Methodological challenges and a suggestion for a quantified qualitative approach. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 19(2), Art. 2.
  Hamann, J./Suckert, L.
  
• The academic dispositif. Towards a context-centred discourse analysis. In Scholz, R. (Hrsg.), Quantifying approaches to discourse for social scientists. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 51-87
  Hamann, J./Maeße, J./Scholz, R./Angermuller, J.
  
• The International Division of Labor in Economists’ Field. Academic Subordination in Exchange for Political Prerogatives in Argentina in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Heredia M.
  
• The Internationalisation of Economics and Business Studies: Import of Excellence, Cosmopolitan Capital, or American Dominance? in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Rossier T. & F. Bühlmann
  
• The Success of Randomized Controlled Trials: A Sociographical Study of the Rise of J-PAL to Scientific Excellence and Influence in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Jatteau A.
  
• There is no such thing as ‘the economy’. Economic phenomena analysed from a field-theoretical perspective. Historical Social Research 43(3), 7-38.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.
  
• There Is No Such Thing as “the Economy”. Economic Phenomena Analysed from a Field-Theoretical Perspective in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Schmidt-Wellenburg C. & F. Lebaron
  
• Too Embedded to Fail: The ECB and the Necessity of Calculating Europe in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Mudge S.L. & A. Vauchez
  
• Unravelling Ambivalence: A Field-Theoretical Approach to Moralised Markets. Current Sociology, 66 (5), 682-703.
  Suckert, L.
  
• Yanis (Varoufakis), the Minotaur, and the Field of Eurocracy in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Lebaron, F.: Economists, Politics, and Society. New insights from mapping economic practices using field-analysis. Special Issue Historical Social Research Jg. 43: H 3
  Georgakakis D. & F. Lebaron
  
• Zur Einheit und Relationalität soziologischer Relationsbegriffe“ Berliner Journal für Soziologie 27(3/4), 347-376.
  Witte, D./Schmitz, A./Schmidt-Wellenburg C.
  
• Zur Kritik der postmigrantischen. In: Tewes, O/Gül, G. (Hrsg.), Der soziale Raum der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  Schmitz, A./Witte, D./Schneickert, C.
  
• Zwischen Ökonomie und Politik. Zur diskursiven Konstruktion des Begriff s „Sozialmodell“im Sarkozy-Wahlkampf 2005–2007 in Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Schmitz, A. Relationale Soziologie: Einheit und Vielfalt eines Forschungsprogramms“. Special Issue Berliner Journal für Soziologie Jg. 27: H3/4
  Frédéric Lebaron
  
• Diskurs, Feld, Subjektivierung. Empirische und theoretische Fragen. Special Issue of the Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung, 1/2019
  Hamann, J., & Maeße, J. (Hrsg.)
  
• Einleitung: Diskurs, Feld, Subjektivierung. Empirische und theoretische Fragen. Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung, 1, 4-10.
  Hamann, J./Maeße, J.
  
• Europeanisation and Global Academic Capitalism – The Case of the European Research Council. In: Heidenreich, M. (Hrsg.), Horizontal Europeanisation. The Transnationalisation of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe. London: Routledge, 133-156.
  Gengnagel, V./Beyer, S./Baier, C./Münch, R.
  
• For or against the European banking union: position-takings and positions of ,German-speaking economistsʻ in times of crisis“ In: Blasius, J./Lebaron, F. /Le Roux, B./Schmitz, A. (Hrsg.), Investigations of Social Space. Cham: Springer International, S. 211-228.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C.
  
• Organizational Environments and Field Theory - The Example of the Field of German Universities 2002-2014. In: Blasius, J./Le Roux, B./Lebaron, F./Schmitz, A. (Hrsg.), Investigations of Social Space II. Cham: Springer International.
  Baier, C./Schmitz
  
• Playing the Double Game: How Ecopreneurs Cope with Opposing Field Logics in Moralized Markets. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 63, 107-126.
  Suckert, L.
  
• Prosopography, Networks, Life Course Sequences, and so on. Quantifying with or beyond Bourdieu? Bulletin of Methodological Sociology, 144(1), 6-39
  Rossier, T.
  
• The transformation of state monitoring systems in Germany and the US: relating the datafication and digitalization of education to the Global Education Industry. In: Parreira do Amaral, M./Steiner-Khamsi, G./Thompson, C. (Hrsg.), Researching the Global Education Industry – Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 157-180.
  Hartong, S.
  
• Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft aus feldanalytischer Sicht. Drei Momente wirtschaftlicher Subjektivierung. Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung 7(1), 11-30.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C.
  
• "Return to what we were": Wirtschaftstraditionen und ökonomische Identität im Zuge der Brexit-Kampagne. Leviathan 48 (1), 119-152.
  Suckert, L.
  
• 08/2020 Panel „Advancing field analysis in European integration studies“, ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Kutter, A.
  
• A weak field of social policy? A transnational perspective on the EEC’s social policymaking (from the 1940s to the 1970s) in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Fertikh K.
  
• Accumulation and Conversion of Capitals in Professorial Careers. The Importance of Scientific Reputation, Network Relations and Internationality in Economics and Business Studies. Higher Education, 80, 1061-1080.
  Rossier, T.
  
• Adjusting a Bourdieusian approach to the study of transnational fields: Transversal practices and state (trans)formations related to intelligence and surveillance in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Bigo, D.
  
• Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S.
  
• Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S.
  
• Das Feld der Macht. Eliten - Differenzierung - Globalisierung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  Schneickert, C,/ Schmitz, A./Witte, D.
  
• European elites as (a) field(s): Reflections on the uses of prosopography and geometric data analysis based on three joint surveys of transnational objects in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Lebaron F.
  
• Global change: A field theory perspective on the end of empire in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Go, J.
  
• How to chart transnational fields: Introduction to a methodology for a political sociology of knowledge in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Schmidt-Wellenburg C./Bernhard S.
  
• In welcher Gesellschaft forschen wir eigentlich? Struktur und Dynamik des Feldes der deutschen Soziologie. Zeitschrift für theoretische Soziologie 8(2), 245-279
  Schmitz, A./Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./ Witte, D./Keil, M.
  
• National, international, transnational, and global fields: Theoretical clarifications and methodological implication in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Schmitz A./Witte D.
  
• Pierre Bourdieu als öffentlicher Intellektueller. In: Bude, H./Jende, R./Lessenich, S./Neun, O./Selke, S. (Hrsg.), Handbuch Öffentliche Soziologie. Wiesbaden, Springer VS: 1-8.
  Rhein, P./Lenger, A./Gengnagel, V.
  
• The Euro crisis dispositif: Heterogeneous positioning strategies in polycentric fields in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Maesse, J.
  
• The post-national analysis of field in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Krause M.
  
• The rise of a European field of evidence-based education in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Marttila T.
  
• Tracing ‘the transnational’ in the nationalization of school policy. The transformation of standards-based reform in the US. In: Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Bernhard, S. (Hrsg.), Charting Transnational Fields, London: Routledge, 240-256.
  Hartong, S.
  
• Tracing “the transnational” in the nationalization of school policy: The transformation of standards-based reform in the United States in Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian/Bernhard, S. Charting Transnational Fields. Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge
  Hartong, S.
  
• Biographical representation, from narrative to list: The evolution of curricula vitae in the humanities, 1950 to 2010. Research Evaluation
  Hamann, J./Kaltenbrunner, W.
  
• Democratisation or politicisation? The changing nature of politico-economic expertise in European expert groups 1966–2017. In: Mackert, J. /Wolf, H. /Turner B. (Hrsg.), The Condition of Democracy, London: Routledge.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C.
  
• Global Inequality and Widening Global Access in Cross-Border and Transnational Higher Education: The Case of the Global Studies Programme 2002-2013. Transcience. A Journal of Global Studies 12(2), 1-20.
  Lenger, A./Schumacher, F.
  
• Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields. The Sociological Review 69(5), 1124–1140.
  Carlson, S./Schneickert, C.
  
• Power and influence of economists: contributions to the social studies of economics. London: Routledge
  Maesse, J./Pühringer, S./Rossier, T./Benz, P. (Hrsg.)
  
• Relational Sociology on a Global Scale: Perspectives from Field Theory on Cross‐Cultural Comparison, and the Re‐Figuration of Space(s). Forum: Qualitative Social Research 22(3)
  Schmitz, A./Witte, D.
  
• Sozialraum Europa: Der Einfluss der europäischen Bürgerinnen und Bür-ger auf die Entwicklung einer EU-Sozialpolitik. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  Eigmüller, M.
  
• Translating austerity: the formation and transformation of the EU economic constitution as discourse. Interdisciplinary Political Studies 7(1), 61-94.
  Maesse, J./Nicoletta, G.C.
  
• Unfreiwillige Komplizenschaft: Wie wissenschaftliche Kritik zur Beharrungskraft von Hochschulrankings beiträgt. Leviathan 49(38), 386-407
  Ringel, L./Hamann, J./Brankovic, J.
  
• “Mixed Methods jenseits des Methodologischen Nationalismus: Zur Erforschung von gesellschaftlichen Krisen, Dynamiken und Ordnungen in transnationalen Kontexten“, Soziologiekongress der der DGS-ÖGS 2021, Wien
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Schmitz, A
  
• Didaktik der Soziologie: Distanzierung, Positionierung, Reflexivität. Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Gesellschaftswissenschaften 13(1), 129-140.
  Lenger, A./Schneickert C.
  
• Divorce à l’allemande. Luttes symboliques et tensions institutionnelles dans la sociologie allemande contemporaine. Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 243-244, 111-123.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Schmitz, A.
  
• Economic Nostalgia: The Salience of Economic Identity for the Brexit Campaign. Socio-Economic Review.
  Suckert, L.
  
• From order to chaos. How the Brexit economic expert discourse articulates structural dissolution in times of COVID-19 crisis. Culture, Practice and Europeanization 7(1), 68-99.
  Maesse, J/Rossier, T.
  
• Making the Global big. The academic roots of global size building. Globalisation, Societies and Education 20(5)
  Mitterle, A.
  
• National Education Systems in the Post-national Era: The territorial and topological (de)construction of national education. In: Jornitz, S./Parreira do Amaral, M. (Hrsg.). The Education Systems of the Americas. München: Beck: 37-58.
  Parreira do Amaral, M./Hartong, S.
  
• Sociology of Europeanization. Berlin: DeGruyter Oldenbourg.
  Sebastian M. Büttner, Monika Eigmüller & Susann Worschech (Hrsg.)
  
• The nexus between methods and power in sociological research. The American Sociologist 53(3), 415-436.
  Schmitz, A./Hamann, J.
  
• ‘Closer to the Market’: EU Research Governance and Symbolic Power. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 60(6), 1573–1591.
  Gengnagel, V./Zimmermann, K./Büttner, S.M.
  
• 2023 Panel „External Pressures – Internal Strains. Trans-National Struggles Over the Past and Future of Sociology“, 49th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington DC.
  Schmidt-Wellenburg, C./Gengnagel, V.
  
• The discursive resilience of university rankings. Higher Education
  Hamann, J./Ringel, L.