The organization of consumer protection - political actors and legal frameworks

在第一个供资期，我们分析了反歧视法是如何在男性主导的组织中实施、调整和改变的，组织了哪些新的集体，以及它们如何影响法律及其实施。这也是我们在第二个供资期研究的起点，我们在研究中询问在消费者保护领域，在法律和性别之间的界面上，集体是如何组织起来的。为了使研究小组获得全面的了解，我们调查了消费者保护中反映的一般和共同的想象。为了研究两个目前相关的情况下，我们使用的方法相结合的政治主张分析与专家访谈的混合。由于对女性卫生用品征税（1）和柴油机排放丑闻（2）之后创建的示范声明行动（一个新的消费者集体诉讼补救框架），人们提出了这样一个问题：在消费者法中可以观察到哪些集体化过程，以及这些过程如何与法律相关并改变法律。此外，我们还分析了哪些国际和跨国参考-以合法性语义或新网络的形式-以及如何处理甚至在此过程中新产生的歧视形式。除了这两个案例的共同特征之外，还可以确定使它们之间的比较富有成效的具体细节。总的来说，我们的项目正在解决组织、性别和法律的社会学之间的研究差距，因为法律对机构领域和重组过程中的组织的重要性仍然没有得到充分的研究。

In the first funding period, we analyzed how anti-discrimination law is implemented, adapted and changed in male-dominated organisations, which new collectives have been organized and how they influence the law and its implementation. This is also the starting point for our research in the second funding period in which we ask how collectives are organized at the interface between law and gender in the field of consumer protection. To achieve overall insight for the research group we investigate which imaginations of the general and common are reflected in consumer protection. In order to examine two currently relevant cases, we use a mix of methods that combines a political claims analysis with expert interviews. Because of the taxation of female hygienic articles (1) and the creation of the Model Declaratory Action (a new consumer class-action framework for redress) in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal (2), the question is asked: which collectivization processes can be observed in consumer law and how these processes relate to and change law. In addition, we analyze which international and transnational references are made - in the form of semantics of legitimacy or new networks - and how forms of discrimination are processed or even newly produced in the process. Beyond the common features of both cases, specifics can be identified that make the comparison between them fruitful. Overall, with our project we are addressing a research gap at the interface between organizational, gender and legal sociology, as the significance of law for organizations in institutional fields and in processes of reorganization, is still inadequately researched.