Grundüberlegungen zu einer kritischen Verbraucherforschung / Christian Fridrich, Renate Hübner, Karl Kollmann, Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky und Nina Tröger -- Menschen in der Arbeits-, Konsum- und Mediengesellschaft. Zur Vermachtung und Verschränkung der Lebensfelder bzw. Teilmärkte moderner...

Classic economic science is reaching the limits of its explanatory powers. Complexity science uses an increasingly larger set of different methods to analyze physical, biological, cultural, social, and economic factors, providing a broader understanding of the socio-economic dynamics involved in...

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Inequality and the Plurality of Life-Styles -- 3. Inequality Processes and Vertical Social Stratification -- 4. Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics -- 5. From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa -- 6. The Order of Social Sciences -- 7. Bounded...