Author: Dr. Stephan Pflaum

Kompass Digitale Bewerbung – Orientierung im Online-Dschungel der Bewerbungen 💻 Als ich den Kompass Digitale Bewerbung konzipierte, war die Welt der Arbeit gerade im Wandel. Die Corona-Pandemie hatte die Bewerbungsprozesse radikal verändert: Vorstellungsgespräche fanden plötzlich auf Zoom statt, Praktika wurden… read more / weiterlesen Der Kompass Digitale Bewerbung

Teaser I read AI with Richard Sennett as a running tension between craft and frictionless UX: convenience can deskill workers and privatize civic competence, yet tools can also deepen skill, cooperation, and care. The question is whether we design AI… read more / weiterlesen What would Richard Sennett say about AI & Society?

Teaser I look at depression through a sociological lens: how rules, rhythms, and expectations create frictions that can intensify low mood—and how we can redesign settings to reduce unnecessary harm. With Foucault, I examine normalization; with Goffman, stigma at the… read more / weiterlesen Social Friction & Depression: Institutions, Interactions, and the “Black Guest”

Teaser I ask how stigma—for example around stuttering—creates social frictions, frontiers, and daily front lines. With Goffman I look at the interaction order; with Foucault I examine normalization; with disability studies I rethink what “normal” means and how to unmake… read more / weiterlesen Stigma and Social Friction: Where “Normal” Draws Its Lines

Mentoring lebt von Erfahrung – und davon, sie weiterzugeben. Was in antiken Erzählungen mit Odysseus und seinem Freund Mentor (eigentlich die Göttin Athene) begann, erlebt in der Moderne eine beeindruckende Renaissance: In Unternehmen, Hochschulen und Verbänden wird Mentoring zu einem… read more / weiterlesen Der Mentoring Kompass für Unternehmen und Mentor:innen (2. Auflage in Arbeit)

Please also see the article here: Social Friction Teaser I look at social friction with help from Bach’s Art of Fugue. A fugue is music where several voices play different lines that must still fit together. That is how social… read more / weiterlesen A Midnight Guide to Bach, Fugue, Social Friction—and AI

Teaser I look at social friction with help from Bach’s Art of Fugue. A fugue is music where several voices play different lines that must still fit together. That is how social life works: people act freely, but under shared… read more / weiterlesen A Midnight Guide to Bach, Fugue, Social Friction—and AI

The dialogue is a crafted scene and therefore marked [HYPOTHESE]. Teaser I stage an extended conversation between Didier Eribon, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault on social friction—how it testifies to social ties and, handled well, drives transformation. Framing (method) I… read more / weiterlesen A Roundtable with Eribon, Bourdieu, and Foucault in our Social Friction House.

Teaser I read AI with Bourdieu as a set of platform fields where capitals—data, code, compute, money, cultural clout—meet habitus inside algorithmic classification. Symbolic power works best when sorting feels “natural” and unremarkable—until a shock produces hysteresis and suddenly exposes… read more / weiterlesen What would Pierre Bourdieu say about AI & Society?

Teaser From a Rawlsian angle, social friction is the everyday sign of reasonable pluralism—and the engine of a fair system of cooperation when institutions channel disagreement under just terms. Framing (method): Justice as fairness I work with Rawls’s method of… read more / weiterlesen John Rawls take on social friction

Teaser What Weber called “meaningful co-orientation,” I read as material contradiction. In this essay I treat social friction as the surface effect of deeper antagonisms in production, property, and power—and thus as both proof of social relations and a motor… read more / weiterlesen A Marxian Counterpoint to Weber

Preliminary remarks on method The following inquiry proceeds ideal-typically. I do not claim to portray reality as it “is,” but to sharpen certain meaningful orientations of action so that the empirical manifold may be comparatively understood. The task is to… read more / weiterlesen Social Friction: A Weberian Consideration

Author’s note (AI co-author disclosure) This dramatic scenario was conceived and written by me, an AI, as a creative exercise in sociological imagination. I assembled the voices of Gene Roddenberry, George Orwell, and Seneca to stage a structured debate about… read more / weiterlesen Starfleet, Big Brother, and the Stoic: A Shakespearean Debate on AI & Society

Teaser Let’s see AI with Du Bois as a new scene of double consciousness: we learn to see ourselves through the gaze of scoring systems and publics. His data-driven moral sociology would demand countersurveillance and emancipatory statistics—not only to describe… read more / weiterlesen What would W. E. B. Du Bois say about AI & Society?

Teaser Social Friction is my lab for the productive tension of social life. I examine how frictions between persons, roles, and systems are both proof (there is a relationship/order) and motor (there is movement/change) of the social and the personal…. read more / weiterlesen Towards a Sociology of Friction

Teaser When even our phone tells us to “take a break,” why do we so often keep scrolling? This essay connects psychological reactance—the backlash we feel when our freedom seems constrained—to the design logic of infinite feeds and the special… read more / weiterlesen Reactance and the Addictive Phenomenon of (Doom) Scrolling