Peter Atteslander

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Peter Max Atteslander (born March 17, 1926 in Ennenda ; † January 15, 2016 ) was a Swiss sociologist who worked in Germany from 1972 .

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After attending grammar school in 1947, Peter Atteslander studied philosophy (with Hans Barth ), sociology (with René König ) and folklore (with Richard Weiss ) at the University of Zurich , where he was awarded a doctorate in sociology in 1952. phil. PhD. He then worked as a visiting fellow at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations (see: Industrial relations ) at Cornell University ( Ithaca , USA) until 1954, and from 1954 to 1955 as research director at the University of Cologne under René König . In 1960 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern . From 1963 to 1965 he was professor régulier at the Center d'Études Industrielles at the University of Geneva and from 1964 to 1972 associate professor in Bern. In 1967 he received a teaching position at the ETH Zurich. In 1972 he was appointed full professor and institute director at the University of Augsburg , where he worked until his retirement in 1991. He was a member of numerous national and international sociological scientific societies, such as Switzerland from 1957. Society for Sociology, from 1866 the American Sociology Association, until 1972 Switzerland. UNESCO Commission, from 1973 of the German Unesco Commission and 1973 founding member of the European Group for Organizational Studies .

His areas of work were industrial and business sociology , settlement sociology , medical sociology and research methods.

He was married and had four children.

Atteslander died shortly before his 90th birthday on January 15, 2016 and is buried in Port , Switzerland , where he spent the last years of his life.

Publications (selection)

  • Conflict and cooperation in industrial operations. 1959.
  • Introduction to the methods of empirical social research. De Gruyter, Berlin 1969; New edition 1971; 13th, revised and expanded edition. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-503-12618-7 .
  • Social conflicts in the society of today and tomorrow. In: Therapeutic review. Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1971, p. 353 ff.
  • with Hollihn, Zingg and Zipp: density and mixture of the population. 1974.
  • as ed. with B. Hamm: materials for settlement sociology. 1974.
  • with U. Kneubühler: Distortions in the interview. 1975.
  • Sociology and Spatial Planning. 1976.
  • The limits of prosperity. On the threshold of the allocation state. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-421-06061-4 .
  • Empirical social research. 1984.
  • Modern medicine between individual expectations and social demands. In: Psychosomatic Medicine. Volume 15, Issue 1, Basel 1987, pp. 27 ff.
  • Limits of medical statistics - dispute over passive smoking. In: Forward. No. 49, December 3, 1988.
  • The tobacco question from the perspective of an empirical social researcher. In: Tobacco Issues. Smoking from a cultural studies point of view. Zurich 1996.
  • The Importance of Social Data for Future Health Systems Research. In: Expectations of Health System Research in 2000. Commemorative publication on the occasion of Professor Dr. med. Fritz Beske. Kiel 1997, pp. 125-128.
  • Epidemiology as Demoscopy: The Uses of Questionnaires in Epidemiological Studies. In: Health, Medicine and Society. Contributions to the sociology of health. Zurich 1999, pp. 361–383.
  • The social competence of the doctor is in demand. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 96, Issue 23, June 11, 1999, pp. A-1549 f.
  • Methodological challenges in social epidemiology from the perspective of empirical social research. In: Social Epidemiology. An introduction to the basics, results and implementation options. Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2001, pp. 264-276.
  • There is no effective prevention without science. In: Switzerland Med Forum. 4/2004, pp. 207-208. (PDF file).
  • Abundance of Medical Information - Shortage of Medical Orientation. In: World Medical Journal. Volume 52, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 31-33.
  • Abundance of Medical Information - Shortage of Medical Orientation. In: JMAJ - Japan Medical Association Journal. Volume 50, No. 4, July-August 2007.
  • Anatomy of perplexity. NZZ, Zurich 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master of data analysis. In: Jürgen Cromm / Gabriele Siegert. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 27, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Obituary ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Augsburger Allgemeine , January 23, 2016, accessed on January 27, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / trauer-verbindungen.augsburger-allgemeine.de
  3. ↑ Atteslander, Peter. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Cornelis J. Lammers (1998) An Inside Story: The Birth and Infancy of EGOS: Memories in Tribute to Franco Ferraresi ; Organization Studies 1998 19: 883; doi : 10.1177 / 017084069801900508 .
  5. ↑ Atteslander, Peter. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
  6. ↑ Master of data analysis. In: Jürgen Cromm / Gabriele Siegert. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 27, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Atteslander, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atteslander, Peter Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Ennenda
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 2016