Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers whose job it is to contribute to the acknowledgement of difference, the sociologist outlines three ideal types of actors - an empathetic, a principled, and an opportunist one - and the motives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the specialist, is conspicuously absent. Why is that so? Solving this enigma helps depicting the relations to difference within police forces: it points to a specific »spirit« of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual in Germany.
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»It is an original book both in its theoretical and methodological approach, and it is all but a typical approach to police research. Thériault applies a well-known sociological concept to the field of promoting difference within the police force: >Weber's ideal type<.«
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Höhe: 22.5 cm
Breite: 14.8 cm
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978-3-8376-2310-9 (9783837623109)
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