Barbara Thériault

The Cop and the Sociologist

Investigating Diversity in German Police Forces

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers whose job it is to contribute to the acknowledgement of difference, the sociologist outlines three ideal types of actors - an empathetic, a principled, and an opportunist one - and the motives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the specialist, is conspicuously absent. Why is that so? Solving this enigma helps depicting the relations to difference within police forces: it points to a specific »spirit« of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual in Germany.

Produktdetails

• Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Verlag: transcript / transcript Verlag
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 165mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9783837623109
• ISBN-10: 3837623106
• Artikelnr.: 36858555

Autorenporträt

Barbara Thériault (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1972, ist Professorin für Soziologie an der Université Montréal und fokussiert sich unter anderem auf den Alltag in der gesellschaftlichen Mitte. Sie veröffentlichte neben einem vielbeachteten soziologischen auch ein originelles feuilletonistisches Werk.

Rezensionen

»It is an original book both in its theoretical and methodological approach, and it is all but a typical approach to police research. Thériault applies a well-known sociological concept to the field of promoting difference within the police force: 'Weber's ideal type'.«

Alexandra Schwell, German Politics and Society, 33/3 (2015) 20150922