Andreas Boes

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Andreas Boes (2011)

Andreas Boes (* 1959 ) is a German sociologist. He works at the Institute for Social Science Research eV - ISF Munich and is an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Andreas Boes studied sociology, political science, economics and education at the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Vienna from 1981 to 1987 and graduated as a sociologist. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISF) Marburg, which he headed from 1991 to 1993. This was followed by an independent activity in the field of social science research and consulting (1993–1998) and a position as a research assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt (1998–2000). Since 2000 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISF) Munich, where he was appointed to the board in 2008.

Andreas Boes received his doctorate in 2002 from the TU Darmstadt. His dissertation is entitled "Future project co-determination? - Empirical investigation of the change in work and industrial relations in the IT industry". In 2006, he completed his habilitation at the TU Darmstadt on the subject of "Informatization and Social Change" and was awarded the Venia legendi for sociology.

Scientific work

Andreas Boes’s research focuses on the informatization of society, the future of work, skills development for computer specialists and the development of the IT industry. Through his empirical as well as theoretical work as a sociologist, he made a significant contribution to the definition and research of informatization and its historical and social significance.

Andreas Boes understands informatization as a societal and social process to make information usable independently of the subject. This means the objectification of intellectual processes such as writing down in a text. From this perspective and from an understanding of productive force theory, the general significance of the social handling of technical milestones, such as double-entry bookkeeping, computerization and the Internet, for social development becomes clear and occurs particularly with regard to work and production methods - as central features of a society. Boes assumes that computerization will continue to change. Accordingly, this was fundamental for the development of the industrialized mode of production, since it formed the "underside" of industrialization, in that it unfolded its effect as the basis for the scientification of the machine systems that formed the upper side. In the current phase of development, a new area of ​​social action is being created by its users on the basis of modern information and communication technologies - such as the Internet. He calls this the "information space". In order to understand it, it is crucial that it is not just an infrastructure for the transport of information through the Internet, but that people can pursue a common practice regardless of their local location and over great distances. This social interaction and cooperation creates new potential for establishing relationships with one another. In the information space, the production of social forms of knowledge also changes (cf. general intellect ). This can now take place collectively and globally in the sense of so-called “ Communities of Practice ” (e.g. Wikipedia). New spheres of communication that allow a global public are also part of this development. In summary, Andreas Boes understands the information space based on its consequences as a historical leap in productivity.

Furthermore, the theoretical perspective thus raised serves for the concrete analysis of current development processes, especially in economics. In companies, the information space for employees is increasingly becoming the global "space of production" (one example is software developers who work in globally distributed teams on the same product and communicate about it via the Internet) and themselves and the central reference system for controlling production. Companies are held together by IT-supported processes and can be systematically integrated into global value chains.

Thus capitalism 1.n, which is characterized by the machine systems of the “big industry”, arises from capitalism 2.n. Work in capitalism 2.n is characterized by the dominance of the information level (e.g. control via numbers and financial market orientation), decoupling of space and location (e.g. globalization of mental work), new type of industrialization (e.g. increasing Process orientation) and new forms of control ("system of permanent probation"). Beyond this analytical perspective, Andreas Boes’s sociological approach also always includes the subjective perspective of the people concerned.

Selected publications

  • with Tobias Kämpf: Computerization as productive force: The computerized mode of production as the basis of a new phase of capitalism . In: Klaus Dörre, Dieter Sauer, Volker Wittke (Hrsg.): Theory of capitalism and work. New approaches to sociological criticism . campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012
  • with Tobias Kämpf: turning point in the office. In: opposite aperture. The trade union debate magazine, www.gegenblende.de.
  • with Andrea Baukrowitz, Tobias Kämpf, Kira Marrs (eds.): Qualifying for a globally networked economy. IT industry pioneer: analyzes, success factors, best practices, Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2012
  • with Tobias Kämpf: Globally distributed brain work. Offshoring and the change in industrial relations, edition sigma, Berlin 2012
  • Tobias Kämpf, Katrin Gül (Trinks): The IT industry - from the Eldorado of healthy work to the burn-out zone? In: Anja Gerlmaier; Erich Latniak (Ed.): Burnout in the IT industry. Causes and occupational prevention, Asanger, Kröning, pp. 19–52, 2011
  • Anja, Bultemeier, Tobias Kämpf, Rainer Trinczek (eds.): Structures and rules of the game in modern companies and what they (can) mean for women's careers (PDF; 4.5 MB). Working paper 2 of the Women in Careers project. Munich: ISF Munich 2011
  • with Anja Bultemeier: Recognition in the system of permanent probation. In: Hans-Georg Soeffner (Ed.): Unsecure times. Challenges of social transformation. Negotiations of the 34th Congress of the German Society for Sociology. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, CD-ROM, Wiesbaden 2010.
  • with Anja Bultemeier: Informatization - Uncertainty - Control. In: Kai Dröge, Kira Marrs and Wolfgang Menz (eds.): The return of the performance issue. Performance in work, company and society. Berlin: edition sigma, pp. 59–91, 2008
  • with Katrin Trinks: 'In theory I am free!' Interests and participation in the IT industry. Berlin: edition sigma, 2006
  • Informatization. In: SOFI, IAB, ISF Munich and INIFES (ed.): Reporting on socio-economic development in Germany - ways of working and living. First report. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 211–244, 2005
  • Future co-determination project? - Empirical study of changes in work and industrial relations in the IT industry, Diss., Darmstadt, 2002
  • with Andrea Baukrowitz: Working relationships in the IT industry - erosion or innovation of co-determination ?, edition sigma, Berlin, 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GND 124603297
  2. ↑ About us / Prof. Dr. Andreas Boes | IdGuZdA. Retrieved on April 21, 2017 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c PD Dr. Andreas Boes / ISF Munich
  4. ^ A b c Andreas Boes: Informatization. In: SOFI, IAB, ISF Munich and INIFES (ed.): Reporting on socio-economic development in Germany - ways of working and living. First report. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 211–244, 2005
  5. ^ A b Andreas Boes and Tobias Kämpf: Informatization as productive force: The computerized mode of production as the basis of a new phase of capitalism. In: Dörre, Klaus; Sauer, Dieter; Wittke, Volker (ed.): Capitalism theory and work. New approaches to sociological criticism, campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012
  6. ↑ Andreas Boes and Andrea Baukrowitz: work in the 'information society'. Some fundamental considerations from an (almost) unfamiliar perspective. In: Rudi Schmiede (Hrsg.): Virtual working worlds - work, production and subject in the "information society" . Berlin: edition sigma, pp. 129–158, 1996
  7. ↑ Andreas, Boes and Tobias, Kämpf: Work in the information space. A new quality of informatization as the basis of a new phase of globalization. In: Esther Ruiz Ben (ed.): International work rooms. Uncertainties and challenges. Freiburg: Centaurus-Verlag (Sociological Studies, 36), pp. 19–55 2010
  8. ↑ Internet Political Congress: “Living and Working in the Digital Society” - Part 2 Beginning of the lecture 0:54
  9. ↑ Andreas Boes and Katrin Trinks: 'In theory I am free!' Interests and participation in the IT industry. Berlin: edition sigma, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Boes, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959