Project Areas

Area A - Political Epistemology of Uncertainity: Knowledge and Rationality

Project A1 - Beck: Consequences and Side-effects of Modernization: towards a Theory of Reflexive Modernization (The project was completed on the 30. 6. 2002)

Project A2 - Lau: Biologisation of the social or new forms of bio sociality? The shifting boundaries between nature and society and their consequences for daily routines and practices

Project A3 - Böhle / Bolte: Limits of scientific-technical control and "different knowledge" - transformations in the societal acceptance of sensory experience

Project A4 - Wengenroth: Arts and Science in 20th Century Technology. The Importance of "Tacit Knowledge" in Engineering Design

Project A5 - Lau: Economisation of knowledge? Shifting boundaries between science and economy

Project A6 Vossenkuhl: Conflicts, Subjectivity, and Plurality of Reason: Deciding under Conditions of Over- and Underdetermination

Project A7 - Beck / May: Reflexive Constitutionalism? The changing of legal-forms in the process of reflexive modernization

Area B - Political Sociology of Ambiguity: Social Positions, Identities and their Formation

Project B1 - Bonß: Constructing Certainties in Reflexive Modernity (The project was completed on the 31.12.2002)

Project B2 - Keupp / Straus / Kraus: Reflexive Individualization and Post-Traditional Ligatures - Social Figurations of Reflexive Modernity

Project B3 - Bonß / Kesselring: Pioneers of Mobility. Structural Changes in Mobility under Conditions of Reflexive Modernization (The project was completed on the 30. 6. 2006)

Project B4 - Böhle / Mutz: Paid Work, Volunteering and Self-Activities - on the Way to a New Work Society? (The project was completed on the 31.12.2002)

Project B6 - Allmendinger / Schneider: Couples, Money and the Process of Individualization

Project B8 - Nida-Rümelin: Structural Justice

Area C - Political Economy of Uncertainty: The Blurring of Institutional Boundaries and their Restructuring

Project C1 - Döhl et al.: The Dissolution of the Enterprise. The Blurring of the Boundaries of Capital and Labour

Project C2 - Deiß et al.: The Transformation of the System of Industrial Relations (The project was completed on the 30. 6. 2005)

Project C4 - Grande: Globalisation and the Future of the Nation-State: a Comparative Analysis of the Reflexive Modernisation of Modern Statehood

Project C5 - Grande / Kriesi: Political Change in a Globalizing World. A Comparative Study of National and Transnational Campaigns

Project C7 - Beck / Levy: The Europeanization of National Memories

Project C8 - Beck / Mulsow / Schulze: The fringes of modernity. Aspects of reflexive modernization in Early Modern History

Project C9 - Bonß: Official Statistics in Second Modernity