Kultur, Gesellschaft, Psyche (KGP)

Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Studien
Hrsg. I. Gottschalk, D. A. Tepeli, R. Thrun, J. Straub
Seit 2013. ISSN 2196-0747, Hardcover, 39 € / Bd.

This book series publishes theoretical and empirical works, many of which pursue an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approach. The series is open to various disciplines and emphasizes the strengthening of stimulating relationships and productive cooperation between different disciplines.

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Macht, Geschlecht und Angst
Tiefenhermeneutische Rekonstruktion psychoanalytischer Institutsgeschichten

Autor: Michael Lacher

ISBN: 978-3-89966-717-2

Jahr: 2025

Seiten: 686

Preis: 39 €

This book examines the history of psychoanalysis in the Rhineland in the post-war period after National Socialism. Until now, little has been known about how its institutional integration and (regional) theoretical and methodological development took place. This first cultural-psychological oral history study, which is based on the tradition of analytical social psychology initiated by the Frankfurt School, closes this research gap. The author works with in-depth hermeneutics and does not stop at a narrative reconstruction of the institutionally supported objectifications of events in his historical research and historiography. Rather, his academic oral history draws on this social and cultural science methodology in order to explore hidden, latent meanings behind the obvious, manifest meaning of the rich documents and narratives. In the process, it becomes apparent that the reconstructed regional Rhineland development history can be understood as a prismatic refraction of German psychoanalytic history. In this way, the author shows that in the historical understanding of the contemporary witnesses, previously hidden conflictual ruptures in the post-war narratives point to bridges to the Nazi legacy and to subsequent generational conflicts that had been shifted to a latent level and made unconscious.

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Räume der Angst und Gewalt in der demokratischen Gesellschaft
Zur praktischen und diskursiven Konstitution sogenannter No-Go-Areas

Autor: Mario Paul

ISBN: 978-3-89966-701-1

Jahr: 2013

Seiten: 479

Preis: 39 €

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Fear space, no-go area, nationally liberated zone - various expressions that all refer to a peculiar phenomenon: How is it that in a democratic state equipped with all the necessary means of power, certain places fall into such disrepute that entering them is life-threatening for some people? Answers can be found on site. There you can hear and see all kinds of stories: sad, angry, hopeful, brutal, unbelievably understandable. If you listen carefully to these stories, you can not only learn something about the people who tell them, but also about the socio-cultural conditions in which we live. This theoretically and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the practical and discursive constitutive conditions of so-called no-go areas.

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Entscheidungspraxis in Familien
Aushandlungsprozesse, Kalküle und Widerfahrnisse bei der Schulwahl

Autor: Diana Weis

ISBN: 978-3-89966-702-8

Jahr: 2013

Seiten: 430

Preis: 44,90 €

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How do families decide which secondary school their child should attend after the fourth grade? What reasons and motives play a role? And how are these negotiated between the family members concerned? These and other questions are answered in this study, which conceptualizes school choice after the fourth grade as a family decision-making practice. The research interest is not limited to the communicative and interactive negotiation processes within the family, but also takes into account a passive, implicit level of experience. The latter in particular takes up a lot of space in the interviews, in which the families tell their very individual and moving stories about school choice. It becomes clear that choosing a school is not simply a matter of weighing up clearly defined decision options according to rational criteria. Rather, it is characterized by the contingency of action, the need to constantly redefine options and modes of negotiation and the fact that it is ultimately the family that has to legitimize its decision to itself and others.

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Geschlecht und Sexualität in klassischen psychologischen Theorien
Eine historisch-systematische Untersuchung

Autor: Anna Sieben

ISBN: 978-3-89966-703-5

Jahr: 2014

Seiten: 623

Preis: 39 €

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In 1914, the American educational psychologist Edward Thorndike wrote: “The influence of sex [...] has been the subject of much speculation and little impartial investigation.” Whether this diagnosis is still relevant 100 years later is analyzed by A. Sieben on the basis of 13 classical psychological theories or theoretical currents of the late 19th and entire 20th century (including personality psychology, humanistic psychology, cultural psychology). On the basis of theoretical considerations in psychology and feminist scientific theories, a systematic, critical perspective is developed and consistently applied to the individual theories. Particularly impressive are the cases in which something completely different is written about gender and sexuality than would be expected on the basis of the theory (e.g. in behaviorism). The individual chapters retain their independence within the overall context of the work. This makes it possible to use Anna Sieben's book as a reference work. At the same time, a comprehensive conclusion highlights general trends, historical developments and focal points in psychological research on gender and sexuality. The work is rounded off by a theoretical reflection on the evaluation criteria applied.

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"Aber der Tongchun is' echt komisch"

Autor: Astrid Utler

ISBN: 978-3-89966-704-2

Jahr: 2014

Seiten: 411

Preis: 39 €

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The study “Aber der Tongchun is' echt komisch” examines the interaction between migrants and representatives of the host society. It is therefore an important addition to the many studies of recent years that have focused on the lives of migrants. In multicultural societies, the focus on coexistence appears to be of central importance, as answers need to be found to the question of what successful coexistence can look like. The work therefore focuses on the life and action practices of young people and analyzes which experiences of difference are made in heterogeneous groups and how these are negotiated collectively. But why is the focus on differences when the goal is successful coexistence? Where people rub up against each other, they can also learn something about themselves and about others and thus create the basic prerequisite for good coexistence. The study shows that experiences of difference cannot be subsumed under what is commonly understood as “culture”. Rather, the sources of experiences of difference are as diverse as the young people themselves: Any cultural (religious, ethnic, gender-related, etc.) but also personal differences can be experienced as foreign, provided they go beyond the framework of acceptance of the groups concerned in the long term.

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Geschlecht zwischen Diskurs und Identität,
Möglichkeiten der Triangulation von Diskursanalyse und Biografieforschung

Autor: Sonja Teupen

ISBN: 978-3-89966-705-9

Jahr: 2015

Seiten: 150

Preis: 39 €

How can the gendered subject be analyzed from a social science perspective? Previous studies have either focused on the historical, cultural and social conditions in the form of discourses that shape the gender formation of individuals. Or they examine the development of individual self-conceptions (primarily) in the form of autobiographical narratives. This book argues for a synthesis of both perspectives. In the field of gender studies, especially gender sociology, possibilities are explored for integrating the approaches of discourse analysis and biographical research. Only a detailed analysis of specific strengths and weaknesses opens up innovative perspectives for a convincing theoretical and methodological triangulation of the currently so prominent research programs.

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Antichinesische Ressentiments
Über kulturelle Tradierung, Vorurteile und die bildliche Konstruktion Chinas

Autor: Florian Hessel

ISBN: 978-3-89966-706-6

Jahr: 2021

Seiten: 172

Preis: 39 €

At the beginning of the 21st century, the People's Republic of China is moving even more strongly than before into the focus of the media and political public of so-called Western societies. But under what conditions and against what background is this thematization taking place? From the perspective of social-psychological prejudice research and social-theoretically informed ideology-critical content analysis, Florian Hessel takes stock of the perception and construction of China and 'Chineseness' in Germany and explores their coordinates in their historical and contemporary dimensions since the beginning of the European modern era. From an ambivalent fascination with the 'Celestial Empire' in the Age of Enlightenment, the social Darwinist racism of high imperialism and the exoticisms of the culture industry, the trail leads to some distinct, culturally traditional and repeatedly updated, ambivalent patterns of perception in the (image) reporting of DER SPIEGEL magazine since 1989.

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Rapresent what?
Zur Inszenierung von Authentizität, Ethnizität und sozialer Differenz im amerikanischen Rap-Video

Autor: Marc Dietrich

ISBN: 978-3-89966-707-3

Jahr: 2015

Seiten: 734

Preis: 78 €

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Music videos are a central means of staging for pop stars worldwide. Beyond their entertainment value, they can be described from a social and cultural studies perspective as artefacts of the (contested) symbolic negotiation of socio-cultural orders and as glocalized offers of identification and meaning. In two volumes, the dissertation deals with the content-related and formal staging of authenticity, ethnicity and social difference in primarily US-American rap videos.

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Konflikt, Nation, Narration: Entwürfe des politisierten Selbst
Eine diskurs- und biografieanalytische Studie zum ,Sich-Ereignen der Nation' in Serbien 1987-1989

Autor: Ulrike Gatzemeier

ISBN: 978-3-89966-708-0

Jahr: 2017

Seiten: 720

Preis: 39 €

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Conflicts are based on narratives that create social worlds. They explain what is worth fighting for and what and who is to be regarded as 'friend' and 'enemy'. In this way, they structure the thinking, feeling, willing and acting of subjects. This is clearly evident in the autobiographical story of a Serb on which this study is based: Nenad creates a Yugoslavia in which, in the late 1980s, it suddenly seems necessary to take to the streets, to fight for the Serbian nation and to passionately defend oneself as a national community against internal and external 'enemies'. This book begins by developing a theoretical approach to such conflict narratives. In an examination of Ernesto Laclau's concept of discourse, it is argued that they are necessary sites for the social, moral and affective organization of subjective self and world relations. It then shows how the resulting heuristic can be applied to autobiographical narratives, and then uses it to break down Nenad's mobilization story. The in-depth analysis of central aspects of this narrative - such as the loss of Yugoslavia, the change in national perspective, the significance of community, but also narrative strategies for securing truth claims - can also contribute to a better understanding of conflict constellations beyond this case study.

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Prothetische Transformationen des Menschen
Ersatz, Ergänzung, Erweiterung, Ersetzung

Autor: Jürgen Straub

ISBN: 978-3-89966-709-7

Jahr: 2017

Seiten: 251

Preis: 39 €

Conflicts are based on narratives that create social worlds. They explain what is worth fighting for and what and who is to be regarded as 'friend' and 'enemy'. In this way, they structure the thinking, feeling, willing and acting of subjects. This is clearly evident in the autobiographical story of a Serb on which this study is based: Nenad creates a Yugoslavia in which, in the late 1980s, it suddenly seems necessary to take to the streets, to fight for the Serbian nation and to passionately defend oneself as a national community against internal and external 'enemies'. This book begins by developing a theoretical approach to such conflict narratives. In an examination of Ernesto Laclau's concept of discourse, it is argued that they are necessary sites for the social, moral and affective organization of subjective self and world relations. It then shows how the resulting heuristic can be applied to autobiographical narratives, and then uses it to break down Nenad's mobilization story. The in-depth analysis of central aspects of this narrative - such as the loss of Yugoslavia, the change in national perspective, the significance of community, but also narrative strategies for securing truth claims - can also contribute to a better understanding of conflict constellations beyond this case study.

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Interkulturelles Lernen
Die Rekonstruktion kultureller Differenzerfahrung auf Basis einer narrativ-biographischen Längsschnittstudie

Autor: Steffi Nothnagel

ISBN: 978-3-89966-712-7

Jahr: 2018

Seiten: 315

Preis: 39 €

This narrative-biographical longitudinal study explores whether and how students learn 'interculturally' during a semester abroad. Students were interviewed over a period of up to three years about their life stories and experiences while studying in France. Using empirically derived linguistic and thematic categories, the author demonstrates how experiences of cultural difference—and thus intercultural learning—can be reconstructed from autobiographical narratives. The findings offer new insights into intercultural learning that are transferable to other fields of action. This interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of cultural psychology, exchange research, intercultural communication, pedagogy, and biographical research, with a strong emphasis on linguistics.

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Psychologie der Polyvalenz
Ernst Boeschs Kulturpsychologie in der Diskussion

Autor: Jürgen Straub, Pradeep Chakkarath, Sebastian Salzmann (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-89966-713-4

Jahr: 2020

Seiten: 390

Preis: 49 €

Ernst E. Boesch (1916–2014) was one of the most significant and internationally recognized psychologists of the twentieth century. His analyses address a wide range of experiences of otherness and complex human needs as articulated in literature, painting, music, and religion. He also focuses on crises, conflicts, and violence in his extensive work. This book is the first comprehensive review offering in-depth analysis of important aspects of Boesch’s scientific work. The fact that his writings are always related to existential questions and everyday phenomena makes his insights engaging not only for academic experts but also for a broader audience.

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Action, Interpretation, Critique
Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Cultural Psychology

Autor: Jürgen Straub

Übersetzung: Alex Skinner

ISBN: 978-3-89966-714-1

Jahr: 2023

Seiten: 492

Preis: 39 €

In this foundational theoretical work, the contours of a contemporary, interdisciplinary and action-theoretically oriented cultural psychology are unfolded. The monograph is one of the rare attempts to provide a detailed theoretical and methodological foundation for today's internationally established cultural psychology. Similar to Ernst Boesch's or Jerome Bruner's approach, the conception of cultural psychological thinking presented here is also based on action theory. In empirical research, it focuses on the methodologically controlled, interpretative analysis of texts. It thus joins the broad stream of hermeneutic, qualitative approaches to subject and social research that have been developed in psychology and sociology following the interpretative and cultural turn.

In addition to the typologically differentiated, action- and interpretation-theoretical considerations, some systematic reflections on the normative foundations of cultural psychology are particularly important. There are good reasons for entrusting a social and cultural science-based, interpretative psychology not least with the task of criticising forms of action, life and self. The fact that science is committed to reason means more than methodological rationality. Its practice should also contribute to the establishment and cultivation of rational forms of life - even if this is only possible in a dialogue in which the dispute about the best arguments for a fulfilling, thriving life is indispensable.

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Fluchtort Gastfamilie
Eine mikrosoziologische und kulturpsychologische Untersuchung der Beziehungsgestaltung und Identitätsentwicklung unbegleiteter jugendlicher Geflüchteter und ihren Gasteltern

Autor: Ines Gottschalk

ISBN: 978-3-89966-715-8

Jahr: 2023

Seiten: 386

Preis: 39 €

Unaccompanied minor refugees are not only housed in institutions but also placed with host families. This is accompanied by the idea that host parents and other family members can constructively address the problems and identity challenges often associated with these youths. This qualitative study explores how members of host families shape their relationships and how everyone involved can develop their identities in the process. Five host families were visited, and interviews were conducted with all family members. The host family is portrayed as a microcosm of integration where all participants can learn from one another. A distinctive feature of the study is its extensive methodological reflection, considering the researcher's role in a dynamic field influenced by power imbalances.

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Macht, Geschlecht und Angst
Tiefenhermeneutische Rekonstruktion psychoanalytischer Institutsgeschichten

Autor: Michael Lacher

ISBN: 978-3-89966-717-2

Jahr: 2025

Seiten: 686

Preis: 39 €

Realisiert durch finanzielle Unterstützung von der Köhler-Stiftung

Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die Geschichte der Psychoanalyse im Rheinland in der Nachkriegszeit nach dem Nationalsozialismus. Bisher war wenig bekannt, wie sich ihre institutionelle Einbindung und die (regionale) theoretische und methodische Entwicklung vollzogen. Diese Forschungslücke schließt diese erste kulturpsychologische Oral History-Studie, die in der Tradition der von der Frankfurter Schule initiierten analytischen Sozialpsychologie angelegt ist. Der Autor arbeitet mit Tiefenhermeneutik und bleibt dabei in seiner Geschichtsforschung und Historiografie nicht bei einer narrativen Rekonstruktion der institutionell getragenen Objektivationen der Geschehnisse stehen. Vielmehr greift seine wissenschaftliche Oral History auf diese sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Methodik zurück, um hinter dem offensichtlichen, manifesten Sinn der reichhaltigen Dokumente und Erzählungen auch verborgene, latente Bedeutungen zu erforschen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die rekonstruierte regional-rheinländische Entwicklungsgeschichte im Forschungsprozess zugleich als eine prismatische Brechung deutscher Psychoanalyse-Geschichte verstehbar wird. So zeigt der Autor auf, dass im Geschichtsverständnis der Zeitzeugen bisher verborgene konflikthafte Brüche in den Nachkriegsnarrativen auf Brücken zum NS-Erbe und zu folgenden Generationenkonflikten verweisen, die auf eine latente Ebene verschoben und unbewusst gemacht worden waren.

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Räume der Angst und Gewalt in der demokratischen Gesellschaft Zur praktischen und diskursiven Konstitution sogenannter No-Go-Areas DOI:10.12906/9783899667011
Paul, Mario, 2013, Hardcover, 479 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-701-1, 39,- EUR.


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Entscheidungspraxis in Familien. Aushandlungsprozesse, Kalküle und Widerfahrnisse bei der Schulwahl DOI:10.12906/9783899667028
Weis, Diana, 2013, Hardcover, 430 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-702-8, 44,90- EUR.


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Geschlecht und Sexualität in klassischen psychologischen Theorien. Eine historisch-systematische Untersuchung DOI:10.12906/9783899667035
Sieben, Anna, 2014, Hardcover, 623 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-703-5, 39,- EUR.


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"Aber der Tongchun is' echt komisch". Differenzerfahrungen im Migrationskontext DOI:10.12906/9783899667042
Utler, Astrid, 2014, Hardcover. 411 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-704-2, 39,- EUR.


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Geschlecht zwischen Diskurs und Identität Möglichkeiten der Triangulation von Diskursanalyse und Biografieforschung DOI:10.12906/9783899667059
Teupen, Sonja, 2015, Hardcover 150 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-705-9, 39,- EUR.


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Antichinesische Ressentiments Über kulturelle Tradierung, Vorurteile und die bildliche Konstruktion Chinas DOI:10.12906/9783899667066
Hessel, Florian, 2021, Hardcover 172 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-706-6, 39,- EUR.


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Rapresent what? Zur Inszenierung von Authentizität, Ethnizität und sozialer Differenz im amerikanischen Rap-Video DOI:10.12906/9783899667073
Marc Dietrich, 2015, Hardcover 734 S. ISBN 978-3-89966-707-3, 78,- EUR.


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Konflikt, Nation, Narration: Entwürfe des politisierten Selbst DOI:10.12906/9783899667080
Ulrike Gatzemeier, 2017, Hardcover 720 S. ISBN 9783899667080, 39,- EUR. [Ausgezeichnet mit dem Dr.-Klaus-Marquardt-Preis, 2017.]


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Prothetische Transformationen des Menschen: Ersatz, Ergänzung, Erweiterung DOI:10.12906/9783899667097
Straub, Jürgen u. Métraux, Alexandre (Hrsg.), 2017, Hardcover 251 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-709-7, 39,- EUR.


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Bochumer Prothetik
Ralph Köhnen


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Macht, Geschlecht und Angst Tiefenhermeneutische Rekonstruktion psychoanalytischer Institutsgeschichten
Michael Lacher


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Interkulturelles Lernen DOI:10.12906/9783899667127
Steffi Nothnagel, 2018, Hardcover 315 S. ISBN 978-3-89966-712-7, 39,- EUR.


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Psychologie der Polyvalenz Ernst Boeschs Kulturpsychologie in der Diskussion DOI:10.12906/9783899667134
Straub, Jürgen / Chakkarath, Pradeep / Salzmann, Sebastian, 2020, Hardcover 390 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-713-4, 49,- EUR.


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Action, Interpretation, Critique Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Cultural Psychology DOI:10.12906/9783899667141
Straub, Jürgen, 2023, Hardcover 492 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-714-1, 39,- EUR.


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Fluchtort Gastfamilie Eine mikrosoziologische und kulturpsychologische Untersuchung der Beziehungsgestaltung und Identitätsentwicklung unbegleiteter jugendlicher Geflüchteter und ihrer Gasteltern DOI:10.12906/9783899667158
Gottschalk, Ines, 2023, Hardcover 386 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-715-8, 39- EUR.


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Macht, Geschlecht und Angst - Tiefenhermeneutische Rekonstruktion psychoanalytischer Institutsgeschichten DOI:10.12906/9783899667172
Lacher, Michael, 2025, Hardcover 686 S., ISBN 978-3-89966-717-2, 39- EUR.


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