The Cop and the Sociologist : : Investigating Diversity in German Police Forces / / Barbara Thériault.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Thériault, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; I. Max Weber, the Sociologist, and the Police Officer --; II. Dealing With Difference. Four Portraits and a Half --; III. A Three-Dimensional Picture --; Appendix --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839423103; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370713; 9783110401219
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Barbara Thériault.

Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers whose job it is to contribute to the acknowledgement of difference, the sociologist outlines three ideal types of actors - an empathetic, a principled, and an opportunist one - and the motives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the specialist, is conspicuously absent. Why is that so? Solving this enigma helps depicting the relations to difference within police forces: it points to a specific »spirit« of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual in Germany.