Übersetzung für "Gegenwartsgesellschaft" in Englisch

Modern society is highly vulnerable to changes in energy availability and price.

University of Konstanz will take part with a new research initiative entitled "Kulturelle Dynamiken der Gegenwartsgesellschaft.

Such an attitude expressed in today's society I call in its core fundamentalist.

Filip Gilissen’s theme is contemporary society, in which everything turns around success and margins of profit.

Robert Wolfgang Schnell was a writer first and foremost an author conventionally-realistic narrated novels and short stories, in which preferably "little people" and outsiders were described in their Berlin environment which to the author presented a counterpoint to the critically viewed contemporary society.

Robert Wolfgang Schnell was a writer first and foremost an author conventionally-realistic narrated novels and short stories, in which preferably "little people" and outsiders were described in their Berlin environment which to the author presented a counterpoint to the critically viewed contemporary society.

The background to this movement was provided by the normative target of contemporary post-war European and North American society, and modernization was often only too easily equated with the process of Americanization .

Students learn key sociological terms and theories, their history, knowledge of modern society and core sociological areas and areas of application.

Actually, we still lack a suitable description of what “modern-day society” is – there’s no clear picture and no consensus about it.

Forming part of this term-developing and theoretical work is the identifying of the fundamental questions of sociology, this being done by the evaluating of classic sociological texts - for example from Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and Georg Simmel - in respect of establishing which sociological questions have already been posed and which of these can be taken up and formulated anew for the field of researching present-day society.

In addition to the classical foundations of theoretical cultural analysis this concentration also focuses on new approaches to cultural studies and empirical cultural analysis. Topics of interculturability, art, urban culture, and creativity, as well as the temporal diagnosis of culture in contemporary society are addressed.

The project involved numerous institutions engaged in promoting culture among young people, including encouraging them to read books which are not on the school curricula: a way to get the younger generations involved in the cultural processes of contemporary society.

What brings this multi-faceted group together is the need for a critical discussion of the cultural, social and political impact of media in today’s society.

This is why criticism of the undemocratic trend in contemporary society, which has served as a catalyst for the no-global movement, and of a multitude of other social, political and cultural movements, does not propose the restoration of lost constitutional forms, but the search for other new, democratic, participatory, post-representative forms.

The research initiative "Kulturelle Dynamiken der Gegenwartsgesellschaft" will explore the topic of social cohesion from a cultural studies perspective.

Pursuing a critical reflection on the structure and problems of present-day society is among the guiding principles of its research activities.To strengthen the diverse research achievements and make them more visible, the Faculty focuses on seven key research areas .

Jiang Tao uses the perspectives of his wide range of poetic personas to criticise various aspects of contemporary Chinese society. His poems are peopled by poverty-stricken pensioners, young emigrant workers and computer nerds, among others.