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Sanitary Crisis, Civilizational Crisis is the translation of Michel Maffesoli's Crise sanitaire, crise civilisationnelle. This paper can be taken as his pronouncement on the civilizational crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic acutely reveals. Maffesoli's text urges one to see beyond secondary causes or dramatic representations of the pandemic as a sanitary crisis, and to consider the primary, and tragic, causes of this event, understood as a crisis that marks the exhaustion of the logic of modernity. Following from a longstanding critique of the decadence of modernity and, by extension, of an "official society" ordered and controlled by an out-of-touch and morbid elite, Maffesoli makes unequivocally clear that this global pandemic is a direct consequence of a globalized progressivist, economicist, and utilitarian civilizational paradigm. The paper takes up the task of reflecting on how relationality, being-together, and being-with, can be thought in our current moment of civilizational crisis.

Welchen Beitrag kann die wissenschaftliche Psychologie zur Gestaltung unserer Lebensbedingungen leisten angesichts der Herausforderungen der gegenwärtigen sozial-ökonomischen Krise? Zur Diskussion dieser Frage geht der Autor aus von einer - bewußt vereinfachenden - Gegenüberstellung zweier Wissenschaftsauffassungen in der Psychologie; der naturwissenschaftlich-nomologischen und der sozialwissenschaftlich-hermeneutischen. Die Überlegungen gliedern sich in drei Thesen: (1) Die "Krise der Psychologie" besteht in der Blindheit des nomologischen Wissenschaftsverständnisses für die gegenwärtige gesellschaftliche Krise. (2) Die nomologische Psychologie kann zur Bewältigung lebenspraktischer Problemlagen strukturell nur "Anfängerwissen" beisteuern. (3) Aus dem hermeneutischen Ansatz läßt sich demgegenüber eine "Psychologie der Krise" bzw. der Krisenbewältigung entwickeln. Die vertretene Gegenposition besteht in der Forderung, die wissenschaftliche Psychologie zu einer Psychologie zu entwickeln, deren Gegenstand Krisen und Konflikte im menschlichen Zusammenleben sind. Das erfordert ein Wissenschaftsverständnis, dessen Grundlage nicht das Messen, sondern das Sinnverstehen ist. Hierzu gibt es neben dem akademischen "Hauptstrom" der nomologischen Psychologie vielfältige Ansätze einer verstehenden, humanistischen, phänomenologischen, historischen, kritischen, kultur-, sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlichen Psychologie. (pmb)

The austerity packages that have been implemented in Greece since 2010 have been a factor causing political and social turbulence in the country. The present study investigates the influence of crisis on companies that operate in Greece and examines how this has been managed till now. An empirical study to a sample of employees working in Greek and foreign companies that operate in Greece demonstrates the preparedness or lack of preparedness of these companies and the implementation of possible crisis management plans and policies during the Greek economic crisis. The findings indicate that most of the Greek companies were not prepared and do not manage the crisis successfully. Foreign companies have managed the stressful situation more successfully. The paper suggests that crisis management requires strategic actions to be taken towards a desirable resolution to the problem. Managers have to develop organizational systems and be able to detect early warning signals and enable them to be better prepared for crisis events. This study has also shown that a crisis in managing crisis situation is possible to happen, when companies and corporate management teams do not develop crisis management plans on time.