Anton C. Zijderveld

Anton C. Zijderveld (born November 21, 1937 in Malang , Indonesia ) is a Dutch sociologist .

Zijderveld studied theology at the University of Utrecht and sociology in Utrecht and in the USA , where he was assistant to Peter L. Berger . He received his doctorate in 1966 at the University of Leiden , was then assistant professor in New York, adjunct professor in Montreal and finally full professor at the University of Tilburg . From 1985 until his retirement in 2002 he taught as professor of cultural sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam .

Zijderveld achieved particular fame with his sociology of humor .

Fonts (selection)

In English

The Abstract Society ~ A Cultural Analysis Of Our Time . 1970.
The sociology of humor and laughter . 1983.
The Waning of the Welfare State . 1999.
A Theory of Urbanity: The Economic and Civic Culture of Cities . 1997.
The Institutional Imperative: The Value of Institutions in Contemporary Society . 2000.
Rickert's Relevance: The Ontological Nature and Epistemological Functions of Values . 2006.

Translations into German

The abstract society. On the sociology of adaptation and protest . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1972 (original title: The abstract society, translated by Eberhard Bubser), ISBN 3-10-896201-9 .
Humor and society . A sociology of humor and laughter. 1st edition. Styria, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1976 (original title: Sociologie van de zotheid), ISBN 3-222-10917-6 (translated from the Dutch by Diethard Zils).
Peter L. Berger and Anton Zijderveld: Praise of the doubt. What a convincing belief needs , Kreuz, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010 (original title: In praise of doubt ), ISBN 978-3-7831-3461-2 (from the American by Bernardin Schellenberger).

BC van Houten: Zijderveld, Antonius Cornelis , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1984, p. 955.