The official beginning of the new Millennium, bureaucratically correct on January 1, 2001, gives occasion to reconsider the meanings of that divide in time celebrated globally a while ago. A year into the new century, one is still hard put, in our part of the world, to find public utterances...

Between 1904 and 1908, there appeared in Berlin 51 volumes called collectively Großstadt- Dokumente, which presented a vast mosaic of the modern metropolis. While the Berlin series was ignored by proponents of contemporary academic sociology in Germany, it was well received by the founding...

Der Aufsatz setzt sich mit dem tiefgreifenden, aber gänzlich unabgeschlossenen, Wandel der sozialwissenschaftlichen Technikforschung in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten auseinander. In durchaus autobiographisch gefärbter Form wird auf unterschiedliche Versuche verwiesen, technische Artefakte...