Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professorin Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer
Subject Area
Sociological Theory
Empirical Social Research
Empirical Social Research
Term
since 2020
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442171541
The Priority Programme 2267 (PP) investigates the digitalisation of the working worlds to be a systemic transformation that could change all the institutional systems of the society of work in a fundamental and lasting way. The intention is to research the digital transformation as an interaction of three dynamics in which this socio-technical change is: a) socially prepared, b) technically enabled and c) discursively negotiated and socially mastered. The PP investigates the societal conditions and ways of shaping the current digitalisation of the society of work, and the dynamics and impact of this systemic transformation. The aim is to achieve and deepen an interdisciplinary combination of perspectives from the social sciences, economics, and history on new configurations of work and technology, on multi-layered dynamics of change and on changing forms and places of value creation. The task of the Coordination and Synergy Project (CSP) is to create and manage the organisational infrastructure necessary for achieving the overall goals of the PP in the 2nd funding phase. The coordination supports the PP substantially with original research contributions. To ensure this sustainably, the administrative-organisational objectives of coordination and the theoretical-methodical objectives of a synthesis of interdisciplinary content are closely interlinked and pursued in an integrative approach. The CSP is not only a coordinating unit of the PP, but also a methodically, and theoretically synergy-facilitating unit. The synergy objectives are deeply integrated into the coordination objectives of the CSP. Its purpose is to identify areas of connection between individual projects and over funding phases and to develop strategies for their interdisciplinary elaboration. The inten¬tion is not to delegate responsibility for theory development or for the overarching research ques¬tions to a single but largely detached and self-contained theory project, but to ensure that each individual project, as well as the PP network, has access to the content, the structures, and the methods they need to engage in the joint task of interdisciplinary theory building. The content work of the CSP will provide a theoretical and methodological basis for answering questions regarding how individual projects can capture and conceptualise the digitalisation of working worlds as systemic transformation. The CSP’s fundamental task – realizing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary coordination and synergy within the PP and across both funding periods – are accomplished by focusing these objectives: (1) creating inward-directed structures within the PP to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration; (2) promoting and securing the PP’s interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary visibility; (3) initiating and coordinating structures of academic self-governance and peer leadership within the PP; (4) supporting young academics; and (5) ensuring equal opportunity within the PP.
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