Program
Zoom (Meeting-ID: 964 4299 1782; Code: 337283)
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| 9.00 - 9.30 | Welcome & Review of past eventsAndrea Hemetsberger |
| 9.30 - 9.45 | Introduction Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology (IRKS) Meropi Tzanetakis |
| 9.45 - 10.00 | Introduction Research Group Innsbruck Quantitative Social Sciences – IQSSAndreas Steinmayr |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Research Center Media Studies Theo Hug |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | AUSSDA - The Austrian Social Science Data ArchiveDimitri Prandner |
| 11.15 - 12.15 | Keynote 1 "Pricing Carbon" Sterner Thomas The World is finally beginning to take the first small steps in the direction of climate regulation. Economists know that one crucially effective instrument that needs to be included in the mix of instruments involves the setting of prices on emissions. However, such policies are often fiercely resisted – not only by lobbyists from powerful vested interests but also from many other groups in society. In this talk, I will start by discussing when emissions pricing is really most useful. I will then continue by discussing the distributional consequences of such pricing and finally the political resistance, which is often founded on perceived fairness that, in turn, may or may not be related to measurable fairness. Thomas Sterner is professor of environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg. His main area of work is on discounting and on the design of climate policy instruments. Recent research focuses on issues of acceptability of climate policy, their distributional effects and ways of making efficient instruments such as carbon taxes more acceptable by refunding or using revenues constructively. |
| 12.15 - 12.45 | Lunch Break |
| 12.45 - 13.15 | Research Spotlight - Getting a Handle on Sales: Shopping Carts Affect Purchasing by Activating Arm MusclesMathias Streicher |
| 13.15 - 14.00 | Keynote 2 "Giving Reasons" John Levi Martin The social (or cultural, or human) sciences have long struggled with the question of the puzzling nature of a science of meaning-oriented objects of study. Returning to Alvin Gouldner, I argue that the central challenge now is not developing an explanatory framework for a class of animals that give their own reasons for their actions, but contextualizing differential facility with this practice against the rise of a certain regime of "reasons-giving" that has eclipsed the idea of "collective will" as the implicit theory of democracy among the educated classes. John Levi Martin is the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Social Structures, The Explanation of Social Action, and Thinking Through Theory, Thinking Through Methods and Thinking Through Statistics. He is currently working on a book on the development of architectonics for theories of action. |
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