Anton Amann (sociologist)

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Anton Amann (* 1943 in Immenstadt im Allgäu ) is an Austrian sociologist and gerontologist .

Life

Amann was born in 1943 as the first of six children to the married couple Karl and Dorothea Amann. He took up the apprenticeship of a farrier. Through the intervention of the pastor, he attended the advanced secondary school in Stams in Tyrol and graduated successfully with the Matura , then began studying sociology, economics and social policy at the University of Vienna . In 1971 he received the academic degree of a master’s degree and received his doctorate on December 4, 1975 on the subject of Fundamentals of Research in Social Gerontology . His habilitation took place in 1981 at the University of Vienna cumulatively with work on sociology and social gerontology. In 1982 he was appointed professor for sociology and social gerontology at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Vienna.

After visiting professorships and lectureships at various universities in Austria, Switzerland and Germany, the Vienna Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM) was founded in 1985, and he remained its director until 1995. In 1991 a second institute was founded, the Center for Aging Studies and Social Policy Research in St. Pölten at the Lower Austrian State Academy , of which he was scientific director until 2009.

Amann has been active in international and national committees and societies since 1981, including as Section President in the International Society for Gerontology , in the Austrian Society for Geriatrics and Gerontology, as a member of the Austrian UNESCO Commission and for the First Report on the Elderly of the Federal Republic in 1993 he is on the editorial boards of various journals. Since 2001 he has been the managing director of the Paul Felix Lazarsfeld Archive .

He retired on October 1, 2006, but continued to lead various research projects. He is regarded as an expert in the life situation and care in old age.

As an author and editor, he has published around 20 larger works to date, and has contributed to around 260 books and magazines. His work Sociology: A Guide saw several editions.

Fonts

  • About the good life and its enemies. A contemporary criticism. Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-901941-52-8
  • with Günther Ehgartner, David Felder: Social product of old age: about productivity mania, age and quality of life. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78511-8 .
  • After the division of the world: Logics of global struggles. Braumüller, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7003-1645-9 . ( Sociologica. 12).
  • as ed. with Franz Kolland (ed.): The forced paradise of old age? : Questions for a critical gerontology. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15528-9 . ( Age (s) and society. 14) (2nd edition 2014) ..
  • as ed. with Gerhard Majce (ed.): Sociology in interdisciplinary networks: Dedicated to Leopold Rosenmayr. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-205-77280-6 .
  • The big old age lies: Generational war - care chaos - brake on progress? Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-205-77246-6 .
  • as editor: Change of course for old age. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-205-99185-0 .
  • The many faces of old age: facts - questions - criticisms. Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1989.
  • Sociology: A Guide to Theories, History, and Thoughts. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 1986 (4th edition 1996).
  • as publisher: Social Gerontological Research in European Countries - History and Current Trends . German Center of Gerontology, Berlin (West) and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Social Gerontology, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-88962-037-X .
  • Living situation and social work. Elements of a Sociology of Help and Control. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1983, ISBN 3428054156 .
  • as editor: Open Care for the Elderly in Seven European Countries: A Pilot Study in the Possibilities and Limits of Care . Pergamon Press, Oxford 1980, ISBN 0-08-025215-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online presence of the Institute for Sociology at the University of Vienna
  2. ↑ Online presence of the Center for Social Affairs and Generations (ZeSG) ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2017 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zesg.noe-lak.at
  3. ↑ University of Vienna online presence (PDF; 36 kB) Care in old age. Diversity of tasks and lack of resources
  4. ↑ ORF Science online presence ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Age structure change, growing old  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / science.orf.at
  5. ↑ The fertility of sociological thinking is also visible in a work that is accompanied by Amann's competence: Franz Stuhlhofer : Wages and Punishments in Science. Natural scientist in the judgment of history (Perspectives on the history of science; 4). Vienna u. a. 1987. Amann wrote the preface to this (pp. 9–12) and sees in this book the “transformation of what is known as self-evident into contingencies in the history of science”.
personal data
SURNAME Amann, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sociologist, gerontologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Immenstadt in the Allgäu