Michael Schetsche

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Michael Schetsche (* 1956 ) is a German sociologist and political scientist . He is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and research coordinator at the Freiburg Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene (IGPP). His research focuses on the areas of knowledge and media sociology , cultural sociology and cultural anthropology . He also deals with futurology , xenology and exosociology .

Career

Schetsche studied political science at the Free University of Berlin . He did his doctorate and habilitation in the field of sociology at the University of Bremen . He then taught as a private lecturer in sociology at the University of Bremen before moving to the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg. Since May 2002 he has been a department head at the IGPP.

Positions

Since 2015, Schetsche has increasingly appeared in the media through his work in the field of exosociology. He believes that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists and that it is likely that it will encounter humans in the future. For humanity, this is primarily a risk, also because of the culture shock that is to be expected .

Publications (selection)

Monographs as author:

  • The career of social problems. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1996, ISBN 978-3486789546 .
  • Sociology of knowledge of social problems. Foundation of a relativistic problem theory. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2000, ISBN 978-3531135045 .
  • Empirical Analysis of Social Problems: The Sociological Knowledge Program. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3658022808 .
  • With Andreas Anton : The society of extraterrestrials. Introduction to exosociology. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-21864-5 .
  • Panorama of the invisible. Contributions to a sociology of knowledge of the hidden. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8325-4828-5 .
  • with Andreas Anton: You are there. How first contact with aliens could change our society - a thought experiment . Complete Media, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-8312-0550-9 .

As editor:

  • With Kai Lehmann: The Google Society. From the digital change in knowledge . Transcript publishing house. 2005.
  • With Martin Engelbrecht: About humans and extraterrestrials: trans-terrestrial encounters as reflected in cultural studies. Transcript Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3839408551 .
  • With Renate-Berenike Schmidt: Sexual neglect: empirical findings - social discourses - social-ethical reflections. Springer-Verlag, 2010., ISBN 978-3531924779 .
  • With Andreas Anton and Michael K. Walter : Conspiracy: Sociology of Conspiracy Thought. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3531193236 .
  • With Renate-Berenike Schmidt: intoxication - trance - ecstasy. On the culture of psychological emergency . Transcript publishing house. 2016.
  • With Ina Schmied-Knittel: Heterodoxy: concepts, traditions, figures of deviation . Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3744511131 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Schetsche in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Michael Schetsche . Halem Verlag, accessed on February 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ Prof. (apl.) Dr. Michael Schetsche - Scientific career . Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene, accessed on February 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ Esther Göbel in an interview with Michael Schetsche: "I assume that we will be found" . Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ Seth Shostak and Michael Schetsche: Is there anyone out there? . Zeit Online , May 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schetsche, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956