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Die Inszenierung von Empörung. Eine Untersuchung der Körpersprache bei Politikerinnen und Politikern
(2026)
Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht die mimische Inszenierung von Empörung bei Politikerinnen und Politikern. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass Empörung in politischen Auseinandersetzungen eine zentrale Rolle spielt, ihre mimische Ausdrucksform jedoch bislang nur unzureichend empirisch erschlossen ist. Während die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung Empörung größtenteils als sprachlich artikulierte moralische Bewertung oder als individuelle emotionale Reaktion behandelt, bleibt ihre mimische Darstellung in konkreten Interaktionssituationen weitgehend unbeachtet. Vor diesem Hintergrund zielt die Arbeit darauf, Empörung als beobachtbare und intersubjektiv verstehbare Ausdruckshandlung zu rekonstruieren. Die leitende Forschungsfrage lautet: Wie wird Empörung von politischen Akteurinnen und Akteuren mimisch inszeniert?
Empörung wird als moralische Emotion gefasst, deren soziologische Relevanz nicht in einem inneren Zustand, sondern in ihrer öffentlichen Inszenierung liegt. Sie wird als soziale Handlung begriffen, die in mimischen Ausdrucksformen hervorgebracht wird und a intersubjektiv verstehbar ist. In dieser Perspektive fungiert Empörung als Form öffentlicher Bewertung, durch die normative Grenzen markiert und politische Positionierungen vorgenommen werden. Die empirische Untersuchung basiert auf der Analyse audiovisuellen Aufnahmen parlamentarischer Debatten des Deutschen Bundestages sowie eines politischen Statements. Zur systematischen Erfassung mimischer Ausdrucksbewegungen wird das Facial Action Coding System (FACS) in einen soziologischen Untersuchungsrahmen integriert und methodisch angepasst, um mimische Ausdrucksformen in ihrer konkreten Struktur empirisch rekonstruieren zu können und soziologisch nutzbar zu machen.
Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die mimische Inszenierung von Empörung durch einen stabilen Ausdruckskern gekennzeichnet ist, der ihre intersubjektive Verstehbarkeit gewährleistet. Dieser wird situativ durch weitere emotionale und gestische Elemente variiert und eingebettet in szenische Interaktionsverläufe. Zugleich ist Empörung maßgeblich durch Debattenlogiken und Darstellungsbedingungen strukturiert. Empörung ist demnach eine kontextgebundene und strategisch einsetzbare Ausdruckshandlung Die Arbeit trägt zur soziologischen Emotionsforschung bei, indem sie Empörung als mimisch sichtbare Inszenierungsform politischer Kommunikation rekonstruiert und mit der Integration des FACS einen methodischen Zugang zur Analyse mimischer Ausdrucksformen etabliert.
This data paper presents a dataset, of 12,361 observations compiled from the Happiness Meanders project, which explores cultural variations in individual and family well-being, ideal and actual happiness, emotional experiences and expressions, and cultural models of selfhood across 48 countries. Participants were recruited through academic networks. Data were collected using standardised scales, including the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Interdependent Happiness Scale, the Cultural Models of Selfhood Scale, and the Emotional Experience and Expression inspired by Affect Valuation Index. The dataset underwent thorough technical validation, including checks for variable consistency, handling missing data, and identifying potential response biases. A filter for data quality was applied, with potentially unreliable data flagged for exclusion. This dataset offers a valuable resource for examining cultural influences on emotional dynamics (frequence of experience and expression), individual and family oriented evaluations of happiness, ideal and actual evaluation of happiness, cultural models of selfhood, and can support further research in cross-cultural psychology and related social sciences.
Bean leaf beetles (Ootheca spp.) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are one of Africa’s most destructive pests of common bean and other leguminous crops. The beetles are widely distributed in Africa where they are estimated to cause annual crop yield losses of 116,400 tons of crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite their importance, little is known about the distribution, relative abundance and damage caused by bean leaf beetles in Uganda. As a result, the development of effective management methods has been hampered. We conducted surveys in six key Ugandan agro-ecological zones to determine the species distribution and relative abundance of bean leaf beetles. Findings indicate that leaf beetles belonging to 12 genera are present, including members of the genera Afrophthalma Medvedev, 1980, Buphonella Jacoby, 1903, Chrysochrus Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836, Diacantha Dejean, 1845, Exosoma Jacoby, 1903, Lamprocopa Hincks, 1949, Lema Fabricius, 1798, Nisotra Baly, 1864, Neobarombiella Bolz and Wagner, 2012, Ootheca Dejean, 1935, Parasbecesta Laboissière, 1940, and Plagiodera Dejean, 1835. We identified only three species belonging to the genus Ootheca: O. mutabilis, O. proteus, and O. orientalis. Seventy percent of all the beetles collected were O. mutabilis and these were present in all agro-ecological zones studied. The Northern Moist Farmlands (21.9%), West Nile Farmlands (12.9%), Central Wooded Savanna (4.4%) and Southern and Eastern Lake Kyoga Basin (1.4%) were the only agro-ecological zones where O. proteus was found. Only one specimen of O. orientalis was found at a single site in the Central Wooded Savanna. The Northern Moist Farmlands had a significantly (p < 0.05) higher bean leaf beetle density than the West Nile Farmlands and Southwestern Highlands. Similarly, the Northern Moist Farmlands had the highest beetle foliar damage per plant (1.15 ± 0.05), while the Southwestern Highlands had the lowest (0.03 ± 0.02). We provide the first information on Ootheca species distribution, abundance and damage in Uganda. Our findings provide a foundation for assessing the importance of Ootheca spp. as common bean pests in Uganda.
Cultured orchards, that remain for many years, are able to become a great value for insects and spiders, if the negative influences of cultivation will be minimized by specific measures.
In our project we made on four integrated cultured orchards and one orchard meadow as reference an intensive recording of the insects and arachnids, based on individual numbers, distribution to large groups, number of species (beetles, bugs), their biodiversity (Shannon), Red Data Book species and their influencing factors. By an evaluation form, created in project, the effects of five clusters of factors: separate structures, orchard structures, shading, mowing and application of pesticides. The visual presentation of the influencing factors with star-plot shows restricting effects on biodiversity and offers possibilities to rise the biodiversity. The proposed measures are aimed at increasing the biodiversity and decrease the negative effects of cultivation in cultured orchards. The largest structural diversity, adapted to cultivation, increases the availability of nesting sites, food, and wintering quarters for insects and spiders significant and develop stable populations.
Context: Tracing is a core competence in requirements engineering. Particularly, in safety & security critical domains, tracing is often not only beneficial but even required by industry or government standards. In the tracing process, linked artifacts and the activities that process or create them are essential. To capture trace link candidates and provide recommendations to developers, it is necessary to identify which artifacts and activities exist and how they relate to one another. However, there is currently no comprehensive overview of safety & security-relevant artifacts and activities.
Objectives: We aim to compile a collection of all relevant artifacts and activities that employ tracing in security- and safety-critical domains. We would also like to suggest potential trace-link candidates to facilitate tracing.
Methods: In our approach, we conduct a literature review and examine the well-documented Corona Warn App as the subject of our investigation.
Results: We examined n=259publications from safety & security-related traceability research for artifacts and activities. We identified and compiled 437 artifact types and 254 activities into a comprehensive data collection. Our findings include (1) the most frequently appearing artifacts and activities, (2) the most common co-appearing artifacts and activities, and (3) the most frequently appearing artifacts and activities related to specific domains such as military defense, aerospace, and software management and (4) an example how to use our collection on an example to the Corona Warn App.
Conclusion: We discuss recommendations for developers, the importance of collaboration and communication in tracing processes, the identification of patterns in artifacts and activities during tracing, and the implications of our findings for industry settings, as well as directions for future work.
Der Beitrag beschreibt ein Rahmenwerk für praxisorientierte Langzeitforschung, das an Boyers vier Scholarships angelehnt ist. Das Modell wird im Rahmen der Initiative IndustryConnect seit mehr als fünf Jahren erfolgreich für die gemeinsame Forschung im Themengebiet Digitaler Arbeitsplatz eingesetzt. Die besonderen Erfolgsfaktoren der gemeinsamen Arbeit zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis werden erläutert, wie zum Beispiel die Schaffung einer gemeinsamen Begriffswelt und das Anlegen einer gemeinsamen Wissensbasis. Das Rahmenwerk umfasst einen ausgewählten Methodenmix, inklusive der speziell entwickelten Methoden eXperience Fallstudien und Milestories, und der damit verbundenen Methodenausbildung für Doktoranden. Typische Ergebnisse aus dieser Art der Forschung sind Erklärungs- und Klassifikationsmodelle, Methoden und Prototypen, für die exemplarische Publikationen aufgeführt werden. Am Ende des Beitrags findet sich ein Bericht über Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse aus der gemeinsamen Forschungsarbeit „mit und für die Praxis“ sowie eine Ermutigung, dem Aufruf von Nunamaker et al. zu folgen, die „letzte Meile in der WI-Forschung zu gehen“.
Friedrich Engel and David Hilbert learned to know each other at Leipzig in 1885 and exchanged letters in particular during the next 15 years which contain interesting information on the academic life of mathematicians at the end of the 19th century. In the present article we will mainly discuss a statement by Hilbert himself on Moritz asch’s influence on his views of geometry, and on personnel politics concerning Hermann Minkowski and Eduard Study but also Engel himself.
We introduce a novel method for the implementation of shape optimization for non-parameterized shapes in fluid dynamics applications, where we propose to use the shape derivative to determine deformation fields with the help of the p− Laplacian for p > 2 . This approach is closely related to the computation of steepest descent directions of the shape functional in the W1,∞ − topology and refers to the recent publication Deckelnick et al. (A novel W1,∞ approach to shape optimisation with Lipschitz domains, 2021), where this idea is proposed. Our approach is demonstrated for shape optimization related to drag-minimal free floating bodies. The method is validated against existing approaches with respect to convergence of the optimization algorithm, the obtained shape, and regarding the quality of the computational grid after large deformations. Our numerical results strongly indicate that shape optimization related to the W1,∞-topology—though numerically more demanding—seems to be superior over the classical approaches invoking Hilbert space methods, concerning the convergence, the obtained shapes and the mesh quality after large deformations, in particular when the optimal shape features sharp corners.
