Moreover, cultural studies' perspectives on television reception are discussed and reviews of important empiricl studies and results are presented. Lastly, attention of the reader is directed to some conceptual problems of the field. However, these attempts were partly evaded by the employees. Within the process of enterprise-reorganization following the end of the GDR the mechanism of social integration of the workplace came under pressure. In another enterprises the management attempts to carry through a rapid and complete adaptation to West German standards.
Considerable conflicts are the result.
As a consequnce of transnationalization of society, sociology is forced to reorganize its concept. The Modernization of Modern Medicine Intensive care medicine is in a state of crisis. There is a lot of critizism from outside the medical system. The paper concentrates on criticism and insecurity from inside the medical system. Using empirical findings from a survey conducted on an intensive care unit in a German hospital, the paper describes this crisis and the ways involved physicianstry to solve it.