In 1971, the American State of Alaska introduced a new body of land rights in a way it has not been done before. For the first time in history, indigenous people were organized in industrial stakeholder corporations with the aim of generating profits off their traditional lands, redistributing them through shares. The Nativescall for a final land rights solution was joined by the industry and answered by the State Government after the discovery of commerciable amounts of oil in the 1960s on the North Slope of Alaska. Most of the native groups, by then partly integrated into mainstream...

This paper shows how risks and threats are perceived and valuated by the socio-economic group of Hyderabad's lower class women. For this purpose, a basic introduction is given on current scienti c approaches in risk theory, followed by a description of the women's socio-economic environment, as well as an overview of food and nourishment related discourses in the print media. Ensuing on this, the women speak about risks and threats from their perspective. Throughout the report, it becomes clear that perceptions and valuations are embedded in cultural and social contexts, which is why this...

Der vorliegende Sammelband verfolgt ein allgemeines und ein spezifisches Ziel. Das allgemeine Ziel besteht in der Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichen Fragen der Ungleichheitssoziologie, wie sie u.a. in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskriminierungsforschung, der Fluchtforschung, der Soziologie Sozialer Arbeit verhandelt werden. Diese Auseinandersetzung wird gerahmt einerseits durch gesellschaftstheoretische Beiträge zu den Forschungsfeldern Sozialisation oder Ethnizität und andererseits wird der Bogen gespannt in eine unmittelbar öffentliche Soziologie, die das Motto Adornos...