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Die vorliegende Untersuchung des Gesprachstyps 'mundliche Prufung' bewegt sich in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen institutionstheoretisch-soziologischen Uberlegungen auf der einen und gesprachsanalytisch-linguistischen Aspekten auf der anderen Seite. Anhand eines Korpus von 20 Prufungsgesprachen, die zwischen 1991 und 1995 in gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fachern einer deutschen Hochschule aufgenommen und anschlieend transkribiert wurden, wird untersucht, welche Abhangigkeiten der Beteiligten in der konkret beobachtbaren Interaktion deutlich werden und welche Handlungsmoglichkeiten ihnen...

Titled after Tom-Mania, the name a British newspaper gave to the international sensation attending the 1852 novel "Uncle Tom s Cabin," this study looks anew at the novel and the songs, plays, sketches, translations, and imitations it inspired. In particular, Sarah Meer shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America s emerging cultural identity affected how "Uncle Tom s Cabin" was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandised, and politicized here and abroad.

Until "Uncle Tom s Cabin," Meer says, little truly common ground existed on which the United...

The relationship between Islam and modernity has generated and rich but complex literature. While competing accounts sometimes appear incommensurable, there is at least some convergence on the view that Islam and modernity reflect an unsettled encounter. For some this is self-evident because the relationship rests on contested foundational questions, not least: whose modernity and which Islam? For others it is a less a theoretical and more a historical issue, in so far as there has been a process underway in which Islam has proved slow in catching up . This Major Work gives space to an...

"A conceptually power-packed volume that is at once erudite and accessible, expansive and focused, true to sociological traditions yet stimulatingly exploratory. Scholars and students will be served very well by this absorbing, far-reaching enquiry into ethnicity and race."
- Raymond Taras, Tulane University

" W]hat Meer offers with this distinctive new volume is a brief survey of the academic approach to key subjects in this area. For example, the entry titled 'Racialisation' opens with the provenance of the...