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In the present article some forecasts of technological, political, as well as social and economic development of the world are presented in a systematic manner. The author presents short-term (10-15 years), medium-term (20-50 years) and long-term (50-100 years) forecasts which are based on the theories of long cycles and related technological modes, as well as on the theories of production principles and production revolutions.

This paper investigates how cumulative disadvantages of non-employment and non-standard work are affecting careers and subjective well-being of older Europeans from 13 countries. In previous research, unemployment, labour market inactivity and part-time work had negative effects, however they were seldom addressed in a common study and over the whole career. In two complementary analyses, first, the employment history of older Europeans is analysed with sequence analysis methods to show how non-employment and part-time work shape careers and to illustrate gender differences. In a second step, adverse career components are used to exemplify cumulative disadvantages on subjective well-being in old age. Data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is used for the analyses. After optimal matching and clustering of the retrospective employment history, the results indicate that women experience more turbulent careers with more periods of non-employment and part-time employment. The analyses of subjective well-being show that labour market inactivity and unemployment have negative effects in old age for men, but less for women. Part-time employment has a differentiated effect for women, however not for men.

This paper investigates how cumulative disadvantages of non-employment and non-standard work are affecting careers and subjective well-being of older Europeans from 13 countries. In previous research, unemployment, labour market inactivity and part-time work had negative effects, however they were seldom addressed in a common study and over the whole career. In two complementary analyses, first, the employment history of older Europeans is analysed with sequence analysis methods to show how non-employment and part-time work shape careers and to illustrate gender differences. In a second step, adverse career components are used to exemplify cumulative disadvantages on subjective well-being in old age. Data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is used for the analyses. After optimal matching and clustering of the retrospective employment history, the results indicate that women experience more turbulent careers with more periods of non-employment and part-time employment. The analyses of subjective well-being show that labour market inactivity and unemployment have negative effects in old age for men, but less for women. Part-time employment has a differentiated effect for women, however not for men.

International audience ; The annotated geodemographic atlas offers the essentials of current geodemography, i.e. seventeen annotated maps. 5 maps concerning France concern metropolitan France, on the scale of its departments, as the Dom, territories belonging to the European Union, are treated with the maps of Europe and the Tom in the planispheres. 5 maps concerning Europe are available at the regional level. 7 planispheres do not focus on States, but on countries, which makes it possible, for example, to highlight the demographic differences between metropolitan France and French Guiana. As a result, the analysis focuses on 207 countries, whereas the United Nations has 192 States. Specifically, the planispheres detail 56 African, 40 American, 50 Asian, 44 European and 17 Oceanian countries. ; L'atlas géodémographique commenté propose l'essentiel de la géodémographie actuelle, soit dix-sept cartes commentées. 5 cartes concernant la France portent sur la France métropolitaine, à l'échelle de ses départements, car les Dom, territoires faisant partie de l'Union européenne, sont traités avec les cartes de l'Europe et les Tom dans les planisphères. 5 cartes concernant l'Europe proposent à l'échelle des régions. 7 planisphères s'intéressent non aux États, mais aux pays, ce qui permet par exemple de souligner les différences démographiques entre la France métropolitaine et la Guyane, il en résulte que l'analyse porte sur 207 pays, alors que l'Onu compte 192 États. Précisément, les planisphères détaillent 56 pays africains, 40 américains, 50 asiatiques, 44 européens et 17 océaniens.

International audience ; The annotated geodemographic atlas offers the essentials of current geodemography, i.e. seventeen annotated maps. 5 maps concerning France concern metropolitan France, on the scale of its departments, as the Dom, territories belonging to the European Union, are treated with the maps of Europe and the Tom in the planispheres. 5 maps concerning Europe are available at the regional level. 7 planispheres do not focus on States, but on countries, which makes it possible, for example, to highlight the demographic differences between metropolitan France and French Guiana. As a result, the analysis focuses on 207 countries, whereas the United Nations has 192 States. Specifically, the planispheres detail 56 African, 40 American, 50 Asian, 44 European and 17 Oceanian countries. ; L'atlas géodémographique commenté propose l'essentiel de la géodémographie actuelle, soit dix-sept cartes commentées. 5 cartes concernant la France portent sur la France métropolitaine, à l'échelle de ses départements, car les Dom, territoires faisant partie de l'Union européenne, sont traités avec les cartes de l'Europe et les Tom dans les planisphères. 5 cartes concernant l'Europe proposent à l'échelle des régions. 7 planisphères s'intéressent non aux États, mais aux pays, ce qui permet par exemple de souligner les différences démographiques entre la France métropolitaine et la Guyane, il en résulte que l'analyse porte sur 207 pays, alors que l'Onu compte 192 États. Précisément, les planisphères détaillent 56 pays africains, 40 américains, 50 asiatiques, 44 européens et 17 océaniens.

This article is concerned with a body of work on happiness and age represented by important papers such as Mroczek and Kolarz (1998) and Mroczek and Spiro (2005). Using a large British data set, the paper presents new longitudinal evidence. It also points out that, perhaps unknown to many psychologists, a parallel literature on this topic exists in economics journals. The paper shows that subjective well-being follows a U-shape through the life course. We argue that eventually the two literatures will have to be made consistent with one another, and suggest that, although it is not easy to live in both worlds, with their different styles and conventions, economists and psychologists still have much to learn from one another. ; Cet article réagit à un courant de recherche récent sur le bien-être et l'âge, dont deux exemples importants sont Mroczek et Kolarz (1998) et Mroczek et Spiro (2005). Nous présentons de nouveaux résultats, à partir de données de panel britanniques. Nous signalons aussi, peut être à l'insu de nombreux de psychologues, l'existence d'une importante littérature en économie montrant une relation en forme de U entre bien-être subjectif et âge. Les résultats de cet article confirment cette relation en forme de U. Notre conclusion générale est que nous devrions essayer de rendre cohérentes les conclusions des travaux économiques et psychologiques; malgré des différences de style, économistes et psychologues ont beaucoup à apprendre les uns des autres.

This article is concerned with a body of work on happiness and age represented by important papers such as Mroczek and Kolarz (1998) and Mroczek and Spiro (2005). Using a large British data set, the paper presents new longitudinal evidence. It also points out that, perhaps unknown to many psychologists, a parallel literature on this topic exists in economics journals. The paper shows that subjective well-being follows a U-shape through the life course. We argue that eventually the two literatures will have to be made consistent with one another, and suggest that, although it is not easy to live in both worlds, with their different styles and conventions, economists and psychologists still have much to learn from one another. ; Cet article réagit à un courant de recherche récent sur le bien-être et l'âge, dont deux exemples importants sont Mroczek et Kolarz (1998) et Mroczek et Spiro (2005). Nous présentons de nouveaux résultats, à partir de données de panel britanniques. Nous signalons aussi, peut être à l'insu de nombreux de psychologues, l'existence d'une importante littérature en économie montrant une relation en forme de U entre bien-être subjectif et âge. Les résultats de cet article confirment cette relation en forme de U. Notre conclusion générale est que nous devrions essayer de rendre cohérentes les conclusions des travaux économiques et psychologiques; malgré des différences de style, économistes et psychologues ont beaucoup à apprendre les uns des autres.

This article is concerned with a body of work on happiness and age represented by important papers such as Mroczek and Kolarz (1998) and Mroczek and Spiro (2005). Using a large British data set, the paper presents new longitudinal evidence. It also points out that, perhaps unknown to many psychologists, a parallel literature on this topic exists in economics journals. The paper shows that subjective well-being follows a U-shape through the life course. We argue that eventually the two literatures will have to be made consistent with one another, and suggest that, although it is not easy to live in both worlds, with their different styles and conventions, economists and psychologists still have much to learn from one another. ; Cet article réagit à un courant de recherche récent sur le bien-être et l'âge, dont deux exemples importants sont Mroczek et Kolarz (1998) et Mroczek et Spiro (2005). Nous présentons de nouveaux résultats, à partir de données de panel britanniques. Nous signalons aussi, peut être à l'insu de nombreux de psychologues, l'existence d'une importante littérature en économie montrant une relation en forme de U entre bien-être subjectif et âge. Les résultats de cet article confirment cette relation en forme de U. Notre conclusion générale est que nous devrions essayer de rendre cohérentes les conclusions des travaux économiques et psychologiques; malgré des différences de style, économistes et psychologues ont beaucoup à apprendre les uns des autres.

This article is concerned with a body of work on happiness and age represented by important papers such as Mroczek and Kolarz (1998) and Mroczek and Spiro (2005). Using a large British data set, the paper presents new longitudinal evidence. It also points out that, perhaps unknown to many psychologists, a parallel literature on this topic exists in economics journals. The paper shows that subjective well-being follows a U-shape through the life course. We argue that eventually the two literatures will have to be made consistent with one another, and suggest that, although it is not easy to live in both worlds, with their different styles and conventions, economists and psychologists still have much to learn from one another. ; Cet article réagit à un courant de recherche récent sur le bien-être et l'âge, dont deux exemples importants sont Mroczek et Kolarz (1998) et Mroczek et Spiro (2005). Nous présentons de nouveaux résultats, à partir de données de panel britanniques. Nous signalons aussi, peut être à l'insu de nombreux de psychologues, l'existence d'une importante littérature en économie montrant une relation en forme de U entre bien-être subjectif et âge. Les résultats de cet article confirment cette relation en forme de U. Notre conclusion générale est que nous devrions essayer de rendre cohérentes les conclusions des travaux économiques et psychologiques; malgré des différences de style, économistes et psychologues ont beaucoup à apprendre les uns des autres.

Introduction: Irish Studies in the Age of Austerity and Renewal / Mike Cronin, Renée Fox & Brian Ó Conchubhair -- Towards a History of Irish Studies in the United States / John Waters -- Irish Studies in the Non-Anglophone World / Michael Cronin -- Irish Historical Studies Avant la Lettre: The Antiquarian Genealogy of Interdisciplinary Scholarship / Guy Beiner -- Separate and Together: State Histories in the Twentieth Century / Tim McMahon -- Beyond the Tale: Folkloristics & Folklore Studies / Kelly Fitzgerald -- The Irish Language & the Gaeltachtaí: Illiberalism & Neoliberalism / Brian Ó Conchubhair -- The Great Normalisation: Success, Failure and Change in Contemporary Ireland / Eoin O'Malley -- Northern Ireland: More Shared and More Divided / Dominic Bryan & Gordon Gillespie -- Connections and Capital: The Diaspora and Ireland's Global Networks / Mike Cronin -- Irish-America / Liam Kennedy -- Irish Britain / Mary Hickman -- Ireland Inc. / Diane Negra & Anthony McIntyre -- Ireland, Europe & Brexit / Martina Lawless -- Digital Ireland: Leprechaun economics, Silicon Docks, and Crisis / Kylie Jarrett -- Immigration and Citizenship / Lucy Michael -- The "New Irish" Neighborhood: Race and Succession in Ireland and Irish-America / Sarah L. Townsend -- Gender and Irish Studies: 2008 to the Present / Claire Bracken -- Queering, Querying Irish Studies / Ed Madden -- The Catholic Church in Irish Studies / Oliver Rafferty -- Reading Outside the Lines: Imagining New Histories of Irish Fiction / Renée Fox -- Lyric Narratives: The Experimental Aesthetics of Irish Poetry / Eric Falci -- The Crisis and What Comes After: Post-Celtic Tiger Theatre in a New Irish Paradigm / Laura Farrell-Wortman -- Material and Visual Culture in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland / Kelly Sullivan -- "Mise Éire": (Re)imaginings in Irish Music Studies / Méabh Ní Fhuartháin -- Sport and Irishness in a New Millennium / Paul Rouse -- Environmentalities: Speculative Imaginaries of the Anthropocene / Nessa Cronin -- Irish Animal Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century / Maureen O'Connor -- Contemporary Irish Studies and the Impact of Disability / Elizabeth Grubgeld -- Irish Media and Representations: New Critical Paradigms / Emma Radley -- Totem and Taboo in Tipperary? Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart / Seán Kennedy -- Trauma and Recovery in the Post-Celtic Tiger Period: Recuperating the Parent-Child Bond in Contemporary Irish fiction / Kate Costello-Sullivan -- Abused Ireland: Psychoanalyzing the Enigma of Sexual Innocence / Joe Valente & Margot Backus -- Surplus to Requirements? The Ageing Body in Contemporary Irish Writing / Maggie O'Neill & Michaela Schrage-Früh -- From Full Irish to FREESPACE: Irish Architecture in the twenty-first century / Brian Ward -- Re-Packaging History and Mobilising Easter 1916: Commemorations in a time of Downturn and Austerity / Mike Cronin -- An Ordinary Crisis: SARS-CoV-2 and Irish Studies / Malcolm Sen.

1 Introduction 1.1 The Scene of Climate and Energy Policy, Carbon Pricing and Emissions Trading 1.2 EU-ETS History in a nutshell 1.3 Some Economic Concepts behind Carbon Pricing 1.4 Equal impact of emitted CO2-eq. molecules is no argument for uniform pricing 1.5 Recommendation2 Diversity disqualifies global uniform carbon pricing for effective climate policy 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The concept of diversity and its implications for policy 2.3 Amalgamation versus specificity 2.4 Global uniform carbon pricing: discourse and performance 2.5 In conclusion3 Anatomy of Emissions Trading Systems: What is the EU ETS? 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Goals of EU policy (component [i]) 3.3 Allocation of tradable emissions permits (component [iv]) 3.4 Carbon emissions prices (component [iii]) 3.5 Costs of abatement (component [ii]) 3.6 Linking the four components of ETS 3.7 Wrap-up 4 What could the EU ETS founders learn from US SO2 emissions permit trade? 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Differences between US SO2 and EU CO2 emissions permit markets 4.3 Salient characteristics of the US acid rain programs 4.4 Choices made by the architects of the EU ETS 4.5 Concluding reflections5 Early European experience with Tradable Green Certificates neglected by EU ETS architects 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Directive 2001/77/EC on the promotion of electricity produced from RE sources 5.3 Flanders market construct for Tradable Green Certificates 5.4 Flanders TGC experiment holds important lessons 5.5 The EC's formal evaluation of RE support instruments (EC 2005) 5.6 Conclusions 6 Critique on Price Induced Technological Innovation and on Fringe Pricing 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Corporate strategy maximizes financial returns 6.3 Pricing carbon emissions and industrial firm's likely reactions 6.4 The gap between 'marginal cost pricing' and 'fringe pricing' 6.5 The impact of higher EU ETS permit prices 6.6 Concluding considerations 7 A political economy of the EU ETS 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Climate Policy in the 3rd Millennium 7.3 Actors on the EU ETS scene 7.4 The EU ETS Policy Arena 7.5 Permits trading in artificial markets 7.6 Economics critique on the EU ETS 7.7 Bewildering EU ETS discourse8 From evaluation to a well thought-out 'Act Now' 8.1 Issues on Carbon Pricing (CP) 8.2 Climate Policy and 'Act Now' transformationsAnnex A Environmental policy-making and carbon pricingAnnex B Cost-Benefit Analysis in the context of Climate ChangeAnnex C Cost-effectiveness and diversity of emitting sourcesAnnex D The German Feed-in-Tariff (FIT): successful financial incentiveAnnex E Ageing Electricity Economics: Marginal Cost pricing -- Fringe pricing

1 Introduction 1.1 The Scene of Climate and Energy Policy, Carbon Pricing and Emissions Trading 1.2 EU-ETS History in a nutshell 1.3 Some Economic Concepts behind Carbon Pricing 1.4 Equal impact of emitted CO2-eq. molecules is no argument for uniform pricing 1.5 Recommendation2 Diversity disqualifies global uniform carbon pricing for effective climate policy 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The concept of diversity and its implications for policy 2.3 Amalgamation versus specificity 2.4 Global uniform carbon pricing: discourse and performance 2.5 In conclusion3 Anatomy of Emissions Trading Systems: What is the EU ETS? 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Goals of EU policy (component [i]) 3.3 Allocation of tradable emissions permits (component [iv]) 3.4 Carbon emissions prices (component [iii]) 3.5 Costs of abatement (component [ii]) 3.6 Linking the four components of ETS 3.7 Wrap-up 4 What could the EU ETS founders learn from US SO2 emissions permit trade? 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Differences between US SO2 and EU CO2 emissions permit markets 4.3 Salient characteristics of the US acid rain programs 4.4 Choices made by the architects of the EU ETS 4.5 Concluding reflections5 Early European experience with Tradable Green Certificates neglected by EU ETS architects 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Directive 2001/77/EC on the promotion of electricity produced from RE sources 5.3 Flanders market construct for Tradable Green Certificates 5.4 Flanders TGC experiment holds important lessons 5.5 The EC's formal evaluation of RE support instruments (EC 2005) 5.6 Conclusions 6 Critique on Price Induced Technological Innovation and on Fringe Pricing 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Corporate strategy maximizes financial returns 6.3 Pricing carbon emissions and industrial firm's likely reactions 6.4 The gap between 'marginal cost pricing' and 'fringe pricing' 6.5 The impact of higher EU ETS permit prices 6.6 Concluding considerations 7 A political economy of the EU ETS 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Climate Policy in the 3rd Millennium 7.3 Actors on the EU ETS scene 7.4 The EU ETS Policy Arena 7.5 Permits trading in artificial markets 7.6 Economics critique on the EU ETS 7.7 Bewildering EU ETS discourse8 From evaluation to a well thought-out 'Act Now' 8.1 Issues on Carbon Pricing (CP) 8.2 Climate Policy and 'Act Now' transformationsAnnex A Environmental policy-making and carbon pricingAnnex B Cost-Benefit Analysis in the context of Climate ChangeAnnex C Cost-effectiveness and diversity of emitting sourcesAnnex D The German Feed-in-Tariff (FIT): successful financial incentiveAnnex E Ageing Electricity Economics: Marginal Cost pricing -- Fringe pricing

Part I: Creation, organisation and evaluation of urban mobility -- Chapter 1. Determinants of Public Transport Integration in Cities and in the Region at the Example of Pomorskie Voivodeship -- Chapter 2. Developing a Metropolitan Transport System - Exemplified by the Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area -- Chapter 3. Selection of Public Transport Operator in Public Procurement System in Poland -- Chapter 4. Management of Urban Mobility in Metropolitan Areas on the Example of the Upper Silesian Metropolis -- Chapter 5. Car-sharing in urban transport systems – overview of Europe and Asia -- Chapter 6. The Analysis of Roundabouts Perception By Drivers, Cyclists and Pedestrians -- Chapter 7. Evaluation of the Distribution of Sound Levels in a Public Transport Bus During the Ride and at Standstill -- Chapter 8. Car-sharing in urban transport systems– overview of Europe and Asia -- Chapter 9. Public Transport Fares as an Instrument of Impact on the Travel Behaviour: An Empirical Analysis of the Price Elasticity of Demand -- Chapter 10. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in Smart City -- Chapter 11. Ergonomics of Designing Means of Public and Individual Transport Taking into Consideration the Ageing Process of Society -- Chapter 12. Railway Stations in Creating the Competitive Advantage of Agglomeration Public Transport -- Chapter 13. Transport behaviour in the context of shared mobility -- Part II: The operational and strategic challenges of transport companies -- Chapter 14. The determinants of the internal audit in road cargo transport enterprises -- Chapter 15. Non-aeronautical services offer as an airport revenue management tool -- Chapter 16 -- Rationalization of raw materials supply in a manufacturing company – case study -- Chapter 17. Study of the Relationship between the Potential of Road Transport Enterprises and Socio-Economic Development of Poviats in Pomorskie Voivodship -- Chapter 18. Transport of Works of Art - Challenges And Opportunities - Case Study -- Chapter 19. Knowledge as a Factor of Process Maturity Growth in Polish Logistic Organizations -- Chapter 20. Analysis of attitude differences of professional drivers in light of occupational change intention -- Part III: Green and innovative transport systems -- Chapter 21. Irregularities in level crossings and pedestrian crossings -- Chapter 22. Computation of the Synthetic Indicator of the Economic Situation of the Rail Transport Sector in Poland -- Chapter 23. How cars should be designed, the importance of form in new technologies -- Chapter 24. S-Mile Visualizer Tool as an ITS Component -- Chapter 25. Multi-criteria evaluation of global transportation corridors effectiveness. Case study analysis -- Chapter 26. Challenges for the Poland's intermodal corridors in the light of Belt Road Initiative -- Chapter 27. Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Green Shipping Practices -- Chapter 28. Rationalization of energy intensity of road transport of member countries of the International Energy Agency

This research examines the elderly missing women phenomenon - masculinized sex ratios in the elderly population from a fourfold approach. First, it systematizes the causal factors responsible for missing women according to different stages of the female life course (before/at birth, childhood, young adulthood, adulthood and old age) to reveal an elderly missing women phenomenon. The categorization emphasizes that the majority of literature to date has focused on the first two stages while neglecting the cumulative impact of factors affecting missing women at later stages and especially old age. Second, it evaluates the elderly missing women phenomenon in all countries across Asia. It shows that while the missing women phenomenon is well researched in specific countries of East/Southeast Asia and South Asia, it is mostly ignored in the Middle Eastern region of Western Asia where the extent of the female deficit is worse. Further, even in the former regions the issue is mostly addressed at young ages. In light of the rapid ageing of Asia, this points to the necessity of changing the geographical focus of literature on missing women from younger to older age groups in East/Southeast and South Asia and place a greater emphasis on the Middle Eastern region as a whole. Third, using Pakistan as a case study, it considers whether the elderly missing women phenomenon observable in the elderly populations of some Asian countries may be the result of a second set of possible group effects, namely demographic shocks. An evaluation of conflicts and natural disasters throughout the history of Pakistan, however, reveals that the first set of group effects (i.e. factors across the life course) need to be given greater weightage in explaining the phenomenon. Finally, it examines the empirical strength of the factors, forces and exogenous shocks responsible for missing women by assigning variables to these causal machanisms and testing their strength at the cross national level. The results reveal that, when evaluated in an ordinary least squares framework, the number of variables that are significant increases when the elderly population versus the total population is used as the dependent variable. This shows that the true severity of the missing women phenomenon only becomes evident when evaluating the elderly missing women phenomenon because the latter considers the consequences of a female deficit from all life stages. By analyzing the elderly missing phenomenon in this manner, this research shows that the life course perspective is the ideal framework to analyze the missing women phenomenon in general and the elderly missing women phenomenon in particular.

Extensive considerations are imperative to address the increasingly urgent social and cultural issues that national societies encounter within the process of emergent global expansion. With respect to sociology, this requirement applies to images of disciplinary self-conception and the formulation of scientific tasks, to relationships with other disciplines, with politics and practice. Likewise, it relates to what has been seen to give meaning to the theoretically and methodically established delimitations of object spaces and research areas. Not least, such issues impact the societal role adopted by the social sciences, associated over the past two decades with the notion of scientific "crisis".

The issues that bridge the discussions of such transitions in the present anthology refer to the entwinements of theory and empirical work, ageing and generational research, areas of development studies and internationalization. They also deal with the life course and quality of life, the gender division of labor, health and prevention, as well as epidemiological and ethnological-sociological case studies in Africa. Quite simply, we are coming to perceive a transitional situation in various respects.

Taking up the above transitional perspectives, authors from Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria - including C. Attias-Donfut, U. Beck, M. Kohli, M. Johnson, U. Lehr, L. Rosenmayr and others - develop analyses and suggestions that serve to determine anew the role of interdisciplinarity in sociology. These scholars have identified a substantial deficiency in theory, accompanied by bursting quantities of detailed empirical material in various fields of research, and propose to realign research objectives.

The broad perspectives plotted in this volume provide the grounds for further scientific debate. - Auf die sozialen und kulturellen Fragen, die sich im Prozess zunehmend globaler Erweiterung den nationalen Gesellschaften mit wachsendem Drängen stellen, muss mit weitreichenden Überlegungen geantwortet werden. In der Soziologie trifft dies disziplinäres Selbstverständnis und wissenschaftliche Aufgabenstellung, das Verhältnis zu anderen Disziplinen, zu Politik und Praxis, und schließlich das, was bislang die theoretisch und methodisch begründeten Abgrenzungen von Objektbereichen oder Forschungsfeldern sinnvoll erscheinen liess. Nicht zuletzt rühren solche Fragen auch an die gesellschaftliche Rolle der Sozialwissenschaften, die in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten mit der Vorstellung einer "Krise" dieser Wissenschaften assoziiert worden ist.

Die Themenbereiche, unter denen diese Umbrüche im vorliegenden Sammelband diskutiert werden, betreffen die Verflechtungen von Theorie und Praxis, die Alters- und Generationenforschung, Gebiete der Entwicklungssoziologie und der Internationalisierung, Lebenslauf und Lebensqualität, Arbeitsteilung zwischen den Geschlechtern, Gesundheit und Prävention sowie epidemiologische und ethnologisch-soziologische Fallstudien in Afrika. Unschwer wird erkennbar, dass wir es in verschiedenerlei Hinsicht mit einer Umbruchsituation zu tun haben.

Autoren und Autorinnen aus Grossbritannien, Frankreich, Deutschland und Österreich (unter ihnen so bekannte wie C. Attias-Donfut, U. Beck, M. Kohli oder M. Johnson und U. Lehr sowie L. Rosenmayr) entfalten unter den genannten Umbruchperspektiven Analysen und Vorschläge, die die Rolle der Interdisziplinarität in der Soziologie neu bestimmen lassen können, anhand überbordenden empirischen Detailmaterials in verschiedenen Forschungsfeldern einen erheblichen Theoriemangel sichtbar machen, und die Neubestimmung von Forschungsaufgaben nahe legen.

Die weiten Perspektiven, die angelegt werden, bieten Anlass zu vielfältiger wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung.