Social figure

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In sociology , social history and cultural history, the social figure is the ideal type of a time-bound historical figure, on the basis of which a specific view of the respective society can be cast.

Definition and demarcation

According to Stephan Moebius and Markus Schroer , a social figure is not identical to what the term social role means in sociology . Individuals often change social roles and sometimes take on them at the same time. They can each be assigned to a social sphere. Social figures , on the other hand, cross spheres. It is typical for social figures “that although they come from different fields, their activities are becoming more and more independent: advising, managing, speculating - these are activities that have become practices that have long left their traditional field in order to get through the to wander entire society. "

Roland Girtler does not like this clear demarcation from the social role and describes social figures as “role models or types as they belong to the colorfulness of everyday life in the current historical situation” and “who seem to influence the interests and hopes of contemporaries in the 'present' . “Other authors, such as the cultural scientist Max Fuchs , adopt the definition from Moebius and Schroer.

Exemplary social figures

Medieval social figures are, for example, farmers, townspeople, artists and monks. The Junker is a social figure of the 19th century . Social figures of the 20th century include spontaneous people , tramps , intellectuals and bigwigs . Social figures of the present are among others the counselor, the fan, the refugee , the single , the therapist , the voyeur and the angry citizen . The pledge collector is also mentioned as a contemporary social figure . Then there are the nerd and the young old people . The returnees were a well-known social figure in the years after the Second World War ; they are currently used to describe returnees to the area of ​​the former GDR .

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  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the presentation is based on: Stephan Moebius and Markus Schroer (eds.), Diven, Hacker, Speculanten. Social figures of the present . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12573-1 , Introduction, pp. 7-11.
  2. ^ Stephan Moebius and Markus Schroer (eds.): Diven, Hacker, Speculanten. Social figures of the present . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, p. 8.
  3. ^ Roland Girtler : Social Figures . Sociological Review , Volume 36, 2013, pp. 437–441, here p. 437 ( online , PDF, accessed on April 3, 2016).
  4. ↑ Max Fuchs : Subjectivity Today. Transformations of Society and the Subject . Utz, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8316-4357-8 , p. 60 f.
  5. ↑ Debate: Where have the intellectuals gone? In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
  6. ↑ You are accusing - at best . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . July 18, 2014, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 21, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Thilo Sarrazin - Before the book is after the book . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on August 16, 2018]).
  8. ^ Sebastian J. Moser: Pfandammler. Exploring an urban social figure . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86854-276-9 .
  9. ↑ Similar to Alexandra Rau: everyday bottle collecting . Ethnography of an informal work practice . Münchner Ethnographische Schriften, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8316-4323-3 , p. 109.
  10. ↑ Sociology - What pledge collectors haunts . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Jasmin Siri: Nerds, Nerdettes # 1 A Conceptual Invasion? und Nerds, Nerdettes # 2 The abnormality of the nerd in the blog of the German Society for Sociology
  12. ↑ Silke van Dyk and Stephan Lessenich (eds.): The young old people. Analysis of a new social figure . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39033-8 .
  13. ↑ Jörg Dürrschmidt: A return from globalization? The homecomer as a social figure of modernity . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-265-3 .