Aage B. Sørensen

Aage B. Sørensen (born May 13, 1941 in Silkeborg , † April 18, 2001 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was a Danish - American sociologist .

Sørensen studied at the University of Copenhagen , where he was the first to graduate from the newly established master’s degree in Sociology in 1967 . In 1968 he left Denmark to do research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . There he received his doctorate with a thesis on models of career mobility processes . From 1971 to 1984 he taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (with a short break as a professor at the University of Oslo ). From 1984 until his death he was a professor at Harvard University .

Sørensen has researched and published on problems in the sociology of education , labor market research , empirical social research and inequality research . On the latter, he presented a widely acclaimed approach according to which social inequality arises through the monopoly of pensions. He made fundamental contributions to the mathematical formulation of sociological questions.

literature

• Karl Ulrich Mayer: In memorian Aage B. Sørensen (May 13, 1941 - April 18, 2001) , in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , 53/2001, p. 612 f.

Web links

• Sørensen obituary from the Harvard University Gazette