Explaining car drivers' intention to prevent road-traffic noise: An application of the Norm Activation Model

Strengthening car drivers’ intention to prevent road-traffic noise is a first step toward noise abatement through voluntary change of behavior. We analyzed predictors of this intention based on the norm activation model (i.e., personal norm, problem awareness, awareness of consequences, social norm, and value orientations). Moreover, we studied the effects of noise exposure, noise sensitivity, and noise annoyance on problem awareness. Data came from 1,002 car drivers who participated in a two-wave longitudinal survey over 4 months. Personal norm had a large prospective effect on intention, even when the previous level of intention was controlled for, and mediated the effect of all other variables on intention. Almost 60% of variance in personal norm was explained by problem awareness, social norm, and biospheric value orientation. The effects of noise sensitivity and noise exposure on problem awareness were small and mediated by noise annoyance. We propose four communication strategies for strengthening the intention to prevent road-traffic noise in car drivers.

Die soziale Bedeutung des jüdischen Jobelgesetzes u. dieses im Vergleich mit dem "Ureigentum" bei anderen Völkern

Frankfurt, Univ., Diss., 1924 [1925]

Norm and Anomaly in the Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu)

The Toledoth Yeshu, the “Generation,” or “Life of Jesus,” have been described as an anti-Gospel, or a parody of the Gospel. This protean tradition, witnessed in more than hundred manuscripts and printed editions, offers a “counter-history” of the life of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. According to this mischievous narrative Jesus was an illegitimate child turned charlatan, and his disciples a bunch of violent and senseless rogues who continued to stir up trouble in Israel even following their leader’s shameful hanging. The Toledoth Yeshu is the story of an anomaly (Jesus and the birth of Christianity). It is also a story about confusion: marital confusion, social confusion, and religious confusion. As an exercise in “historical imagination,” the Toledoth Yeshu offers a narrative of religions compared, and a reflection on social and religious borders, on their instability and fragility, and ultimately on their necessity. The present paper will explore the normative dimension of the Toledoth Yeshu tradition: the way the “disorder of things” the narrative relates also conveys a powerful discourse on social and religious norms. We will also seek to map this tradition in the broader context of medieval Jewish discussions on Jesus (particularly Maimonides) as a “case” in the religious history of mankind, addressing issues of false prophecy, religious deviation, transgression, and heresy.

Berufsausbildung oder Allgemeinbildung. Soziale Ungleichheiten beim Übergang in die Sekundarstufe II in der Schweiz

David Glauser untersucht die Frage nach den Ursachen von Ungleichheiten nach sozialer Herkunft, Geschlecht und Migrationshintergrund in der Bildungsentscheidung beim Übergang von der obligatorischen Schule in berufsspezifische und allgemeinbildende Ausbildungen der Sekundarstufe II in der Schweiz. Der Ergebnisteil beinhaltet einerseits eine Deskription des Entscheidungsverlaufs von Jugendlichen der Schulaustrittskohorte des Jahres 2013. Andererseits werden zentrale Argumente der Wert-Erwartungstheorien und damit der Einfluss von Herkunftseffekten zur Erklärung sozial ungleicher Bildungsentscheidungen empirisch überprüft.

Norm fir di zemṭlichn miṭglidr des adminisṭratziohns-korps der jidišen gemeinde in Berlin

Übers. d. Hauptsacht.: Ordnung für alle Mitglieder des Verwaltungsrats der Jüdischen Gemeinde in Berlin

Rückblick auf die jüdisch-soziale Frauenarbeit der Vereine "Weibliche Fürsorge", "Heim des jüdischen Frauenbundes Isenburg", "Mädchenclub" und "Ortsgruppe Frankfurt des jüdischen Frauenbundes"

von Bertha Pappenheim