This project, which is oriented toward the sociology of knowledge and discourse analysis, examines the discursive construction of prostitution and its regulation in Germany since the mids. Reiner Keller. Prostitution is the exchange of sexual services for money or other goods. The Prostitution Act, which came into force on The ProstitutiertenSchutzGesetz, which has been in force since Among other things, it includes the obligation to obtain a permit for operators, the obligation to register and provide health counseling for sex workers and the condom obligation for customers.
The research project receives its specific focus by concentrating on prostitution as a multi-level arena of complex knowledge relations and knowledge politics, in which the factuality of situations is produced, provided with ethical-moral evaluations and transferred into institutional-organizational processing.
This can be translated into the following questions:. Sociological discourse analysis WDA of knowledge is a suitable research program for addressing the questions.
These take place on three levels:. In this way, the relationship between different levels of discourse will be examined and it will be determined whether and which forms of knowledge are used in the interpretation and treatment of problems.
The Other Woman. Link zur Hauptseite Chair of sociology. Knowledge Politics in the Contemporary Regulation of Prostitution in Germany This project, which is oriented toward the sociology of knowledge and discourse analysis, examines the discursive construction of prostitution and its regulation in Germany since the mids. Adobe Stock. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Project overview Project start Background and issues Prostitution is the exchange of sexual services for money or other goods.
