George Steinmetz (sociologist)

George Steinmetz (* 1957 ) is an American sociologist .

Steinmetz attended Reed College from 1975 to 1979 , interrupted by an exchange year at the University of Paris VI . In 1980 he received his BA in German Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he also did his MS in Sociology in 1983. He then studied at the University of Mannheim until 1985 and also attended events at the Free University of Berlin . In 1985 he returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received his Ph.D. received his doctorate with a dissertation on social benefits in Germany 1871-1914. The work was supervised by Erik Olin Wright .

Steinmetz then received a position at the University of Chicago , initially as an assistant professor and from 1994 as an associate professor . In 1997 he moved to the University of Michigan , where he has been Charles Tilly Professor since 2004 .

Steinmetz's work focuses on historical sociology , cultural sociology and sociological epistemology . As an academic teacher, he supervised more than 30 doctoral theses.

Awards

• 2019: Siegfried Landshut Prize from the Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Publications (selection)

• as editor: Sociology and Empire (2013)
• Ideas in Exile: Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Failure to Transplant Historical Sociology into the United States (2009)
• Field Theory , the German Colonial State , and German Ethnographic Discourse, 1880-1920 . In: Manuela Boatcă , Willfried Spohn (Ed.): Globale, multiple and postcolonial moderns . 2009 ( full text [PDF]).
• The Devil's Handwriting (2003)
• German Exceptionalism and the Origins of Nazism: The Career of a Concept (1997)
• Social Class and the Reemergence of the Radical Right in Contemporary Germany (1997)
• The Myth of an Autonomous State: Industrialist, Junkers, and Social Policy in Imperial Germany (1996)
• The (in) moral economy of right-wing extremist violence in the transition to post-Fordism (1994)
• Fordism and the Immoral Economy of Right-Wing Violence in Contemporary Germany (1994)
• Regulation the Social (1993)

Web links

• http://lsa.umich.edu/soc/people/faculty/geostein.html
• Literature by and about George Steinmetz (sociologist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat