Our paper is based on the qualitative content analysis (Gläser/Laudel 2010) of expert interviews with IT managers in German speaking countries. Drawing also from organisational development processes we have been carrying out, we analyse how the tension between the service function of IT as...

The article builds on a recent literature that has sought to underscore the relevance of Bourdieu's field theory for historical-sociological analysis. It draws attention to symbolic revolutions, a concept that has been given short shrift in this literature and even in Bourdieu's own expositions...

Im Jahre 1992 begann das auf sechs Jahre angelegte Schwerpunktprogramm "Sozialer und politischer Wandel der DDR-Gesellschaft" der DFG. Damit sollte der mit der deutschen Einigung zu erwartende Transformationsprozeß durch verschiedene sozialwissenschaftliche Disziplinen begleitend untersucht...