Control or Care of the Self : Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century

The beginning of the twenty-first century is characterized by fundamental social changes: in addition to demographic changes and to the globalization of economic flows the transformation of an industrial-Fordist society to a non-industrial service soci...

The beginning of the twenty-first century is characterized by fundamental social changes: in addition to demographic changes and to the globalization of economic flows the transformation of an industrial-Fordist society to a non-industrial service society is worth mentioning. For more than twenty years, these major trends and their inherent chances and risks have been of the topic of vivid discussions in all the social sciences.

Implications of these developments are also reflected in the challenge of the traditional, hegemonic and rational understanding of subjectivity. Against the background of these great social changes, several factors also indicate that the forms of self-regulation or self-governance are being transformed too.

The aim of the conference is to develop further perspectives of transdiciplinary research about the individual. Referring to the work of Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault the conference will therefore address theoretical and empirical implications and consequences of this transformation in particular in the areas of Work, Body, Desire, Time and Space.

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