Achim Schrader

Achim Schrader (born August 12, 1934 in Hamburg , † August 20, 2004 in Münster ) was a German sociologist . He became known for his research in methodology and Latin America.

Life

Achim Schrader studied economics and sociology in Kiel and Hamburg from 1954 (1960 Dipl.-Vw), worked 1960–68 at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund and was awarded a dissertation in 1965 (with Helmut Schelsky ) at the University of Münster with the dissertation “ The Social Significance of Property in Modern Consumer Society ”to the Dr. sc. pol. PhD. He then took on numerous guest lectureships (especially in Brazil ), was an academic councilor at the newly founded Bielefeld University from 1969–71, and completed his habilitation there in 1971 with his thesis “ Country Schools in Brazil ” for sociology.

In 1971 he became professor at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland in Duisburg (then the University of Duisburg ), from 1975–79 at the University of Education in Münster . In 1987 he became the director of the newly established "Latin America Center" at the University of Münster and remained so until 1999.

Fonts (selection)

• Introduction to Empirical Social Research , 1971
• The second generation (with Hartmut Griese and Bruno Nikles, an empirical study on foreign children in the FRG), 1976

literature

• Jost Reinicke / Thomas Blank, obituary in: Sociology , 2005, no. 1, p. 92f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Achim Schrader in the catalog of the German National Library
• Press release from the University of Münster on the death of Prof. Dr. Achim Schrader