Bücher von Gabriele Winker

Care work is a vital foundation of society. Without the many people who look after children every day, care for relatives in need of support or help people in crisis, this society would collapse immediately. At the same time, those who take on this work are equally overstretched as the ecosystems and their material cycles on which all life is based. These problems are ultimately not solvable in a capitalist social order. Therefore, we need to radically limit profit-oriented economic activity in favour of a care economy that is oriented towards successful care relationships and the resilience of ecosystems. The concept of the Care Revolution opens the way to a society characterised by care and solidarity instead of competition and exclusion.

The topic of social inequality remains as central to sociology as it has always been. The multidimensional analysis of social inequality under the concept of 'intersectionality' in recent years represents probably the biggest innovation in this field, and is also becoming increasingly important in teaching - especially in modules on the sociology of social inequality, on social structural analysis and in gender studies.For the first time in the German-speaking world, a compact analysis of this central approach to the sociology of social inequality is available. The elaboration of a clear theory and methodology to guide research makes the volume a valuable companion for teaching and research.

Technische Hochschulen sind aufgefordert, die hohen Studienabbrüche in den Ingenieurwissenschaften zu senken. Das Buch zeigt im Detail die wissenschaftlich untersuchten Gründe, warum interessierte junge Männer und Frauen ein ingenieurwissenschaftliches Studium abbrechen. Die Autorinnen nennen anschließend konkrete Gestaltungsempfehlungen und Maßnahmen, um diese Menschen im Studium zu halten. Angesprochen werden insbesondere die Hochschulleitung, das Hochschulcontrolling sowie die Dozenten und die Studienberatungen.