News from Sociology of Migration and Education - New book by Dr. Fatih Bahadir Kaya

This open access book examines anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism from an actor's perspective in the tradition of praxeological sociology of knowledge. It is based on a qualitative research design that operates with the experiences of those affected. This study closes a central desideratum and makes an innovative contribution to the micro-sociological analysis of Jewish and Muslim experiences of discrimination. The focus is on the reconstructed coping habits of those affected, which are systematized in an ideally developed phase model. The work reconstructs structural features of the anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim racist field of power. With the concept of mediodoxia, it introduces a new category to theorize ambivalent modes of perception and action between orthodoxy and heresy, which describes the simultaneity of being affected, the development of coping habitus and the internalized, unintended reproduction of the logic of inequality. The book sensitizes readers to the paradoxical structure of social practice: it shows how being affected can simultaneously contribute to the reproduction of inequality and argues for an epistemically vigilant socio-analysis of discrimination-related experience. Link to the publication