[Sociology - Corona - CritiqueSociologie - coronavirus - critique].

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Berliner Journal Fur Soziologie Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-11-18 DOI:10.1007/s11609-020-00417-3

Stephan Lessenich

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic does not herald a new social era. Rather, the mechanisms of dealing with the pandemic, as far as they can be identified at this point, bear testimony to the structural socio-economic and socio-political crisis that must be regarded as the signature of democratic capitalism. Nor should the prevailing crisis management be misunderstood as a "politics of life" which (at least temporarily) suspends the capitalist logic of accumulation and of profit: as it is only certain lives that the governments of the democratic-capitalist industrialized countries are committed to saving and protecting. This means that any adoption of the life-coaching semantics of "crisis as an opportunity" should be treated with caution. However, for sociology itself the current circumstances could indeed offer an opportunity: that is, if it would finally stop denying that its own practice is inextricably enmeshed in (trans-)formative social processes and is never unideological, nor value-free, nor politically neutral.

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[社会学--冠状病毒--批判社会学--冠状病毒--批判]。

COVID-19 大流行并不预示着一个新的社会时代的到来。相反，就目前所能确定的应对大流行病的机制而言，这些机制证明了社会经济和社会政治的结构性危机，而这种危机必须被视为民主资本主义的标志。当前的危机管理也不应被误解为一种 "生命政治"，它（至少暂时）中止了资本主义的积累和利润逻辑：因为民主资本主义工业化国家的政府致力于拯救和保护的只是某些生命。这就意味着，任何采用 "危机即机遇 "的人生指导语义的做法都应谨慎对待。然而，对于社会学本身而言，当前的环境确实可以提供一个机遇：也就是说，如果社会学最终不再否认其自身的实践与（跨）形成性社会进程密不可分，而且从来都不是非意识形态的，也不是无价值的，更不是政治中立的。

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Berliner Journal Fur Soziologie SOCIOLOGY-

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1.80

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期刊介绍： Berliner Journal für Soziologie (“Berlin Journal of Sociology”), edited by the Institute of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Institute of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University Berlin, publishes double-blind peer-reviewed articles on classical and modern theoretical approaches, essays on current problem areas of sociological discourse, and research notes presenting new empirical findings. Focussed issues and review essays reflect innovative developments within the German and international social sciences and inform about the state of research in central areas of sociology. The journal was founded in 1991 on the initiative of the East German Society of Sociology. It views itself as a general sociological journal that publishes contributions from all research and subject areas of sociology. From the very beginning, the programmatic aim has been to provide a forum for the discussion and further development of sociological problems in the light of contemporary theoretical and social developments. Two major topics have been at the journal''s core and will continue to shape its contents in the future: Transformation and Culture. The journal deals with the socio-ecological upheaval that modern societies are undergoing. Globalisation, changes in working society and lifestyles, digitalisation, social conflicts up to new wars, new challenges for democracy, populism and nationalism as well as gender relations are important topics of a renewed Great Transformation. Cultural sociology and comparative cultural research deal with developments in these fields in a special way. The BJS therefore continues to devote its attention to such perspectives.