Université de Fribourg

Konfliktforschung als Grundlage sozialpädagogischer Gewaltprävention

Kilb, Rainer

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2020, vol. 1, no. 5, p. Article: 1.5

Weber, Simmel and Coser classify conflicts as constitutive for groups as well as for social developments. Social conflicts can then have both in-tegrative and disintegrative effects. These sociological findings seem to contradict the mostly negative connotation of conflict today. Con-flicts are almost exclusively perceived as unpleasant and disturbing and are therefore more likely to be avoided....

Université de Fribourg

Konflikte in Organisationen: Dynamik und Bedingungen im Frauenhaus – eine ethnographische Studie = Conflicts in Organizations: Dynamics and Structures in a Women's Shelter — an Ethnographic Study

Kersten, Anne

In: Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2011, vol. 37, no. 3, p. 481-505

Conflicts in organizations take place in the field between the micro-social (individual action) and meso-social (organisational conditions). This article analyzes processes of conflict among residents of a women's shelter in Switzerland from an organizational sociology perspective. Using an ethnographic approach the dynamics of these conflicts are elaborated and related to the organizational...