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Sighard Neckel on Bayern 2, how the corona outbreak in the Tönnies meat factory brings our construction of shame avoidance to collapse.

The Interview "Der Fall Tönnies zeigt, warum wir über Scham sprechen sollten" (in German) on br.de

At the digital colloquium "Sociological Perspectives on the Corona Crisis" at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Sighard Neckel explored the question of what structural similarities, but also what important differences there are between the pandemic and the climate crisis. What conclusions can be drawn for a society of...

Frank Adloff in a guest article in the newspaper der Freitag about the current situation and what conclusions we should draw from this unusual situation.

Der whole article (in German) "Zeit, Angst und das Ende der Allmacht" on freitag.de.