Hierarchies

The Max Planck Society (MPG), one of the most successful research institutions worldwide, serves as a prime example of the German science system, in which hierarchies and relations of dependency play a major role. This body stands center stage in the present book, which analyzes processes of socio-c...

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description The Max Planck Society (MPG), one of the most successful research institutions worldwide, serves as a prime example of the German science system, in which hierarchies and relations of dependency play a major role. This body stands center stage in the present book, which analyzes processes of socio-cultural and structural transformation at the MPG during the first fifty years of its existence—from the non-transparent interdependencies typical of informal networks to a modern research institution geared towards gender equality policy. Two women’s working worlds within this research organization are analyzed through a cultural history and history-of-science lens. One of them, science, was long closed to all but a tiny number of women. The other was the office, where most women in this context worked most of the time. What promoted female scientific careers at the MPG, what obstructed them, and what role did the »Harnack Principle,« the MPG’s own structural principle of the personality-centered organization of research, play in these processes? The book also foregrounds the negotiation of gender equality processes beginning in the late 1980s, which helped break down the traditional gender order and trigger a cultural shift at the Max Planck Society.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1638372025-08-06T05:03:04Z Hierarchies Kolboske, Birgit Gender Bias Gender equality policy Gender relations Gender history History of science thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities) thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFG Germany The Max Planck Society (MPG), one of the most successful research institutions worldwide, serves as a prime example of the German science system, in which hierarchies and relations of dependency play a major role. This body stands center stage in the present book, which analyzes processes of socio-cultural and structural transformation at the MPG during the first fifty years of its existence—from the non-transparent interdependencies typical of informal networks to a modern research institution geared towards gender equality policy. Two women’s working worlds within this research organization are analyzed through a cultural history and history-of-science lens. One of them, science, was long closed to all but a tiny number of women. The other was the office, where most women in this context worked most of the time. What promoted female scientific careers at the MPG, what obstructed them, and what role did the »Harnack Principle,« the MPG’s own structural principle of the personality-centered organization of research, play in these processes? The book also foregrounds the negotiation of gender equality processes beginning in the late 1980s, which helped break down the traditional gender order and trigger a cultural shift at the Max Planck Society. 2025-08-06T05:03:04Z 2025-08-06T05:03:04Z 2025-08-05T14:19:15Z 2024 book ONIX_20250805T161025_9783666302596_35 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105027 9783666302596 9783525302590 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163837 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105027/1/9783666302596.pdf Brill Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 10.13109/9783666302596 10.13109/9783666302596 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 9783666302596 9783525302590 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 554 Göttingen open access
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Gender equality policy
Gender relations
Gender history
History of science
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
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Kolboske, Birgit
Hierarchies
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topic Gender Bias
Gender equality policy
Gender relations
Gender history
History of science
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thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFG Germany
topic_facet Gender Bias
Gender equality policy
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Gender history
History of science
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