Artur Meier

Artur Meier , also Artur Majer (born April 6, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German sociologist who gained international reputation as a representative of GDR science because of his work on the sociology of education . In 1986 he was elected Vice President of the International Sociological Association (ISA). From 1986 to 1991 he was director of the Institute for Sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he taught as a professor until 1997.

Life

Meier lived with his parents in Berlin-Wedding until 1944 . After the apartment was destroyed by an air raid, the family moved to live with relatives in Berlin-Pankow and later moved into a small apartment in the same district. Immediately after graduating from the Pankower Friedrich-List-Schule , Meier started working as a German teacher with the status of a candidate for teaching at the Schinkel School in Prenzlauer Berg due to the prevailing teacher shortage . At the age of 24 he published a book about the French Revolution and its aftermath. He was then promoted and made Germany's youngest school councilor. However, since Meier wanted to remain a teacher and did not want to pursue the prescribed career as an official, he switched to the Prenzlauer Berg adult education center, where he was also the director of a dissertation on workers' education in the Weimar Republic , for which he received his doctorate from Humboldt University in 1964 . With his habilitation thesis, which he also wrote alongside his job as part of an unscheduled aspirantur , he turned to sociology, which had been re-admitted in the GDR. This work, with which he received his habilitation from the Humboldt University again in 1970 , was the basis for his book Sociology of Education , which was also published in the Federal Republic and in translation in various countries.

In 1971 Meier was appointed professor, he taught at the Humboldt University and also as a guest lecturer at the University of Leipzig and the University of Jena . From 1976 he was given visiting professorships in the USA, including at the University of California, Berkeley . At the 10th World Congress of Sociology in Mexico in 1982 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and at the 11th World Congress in 1986 in New Delhi as ISA Vice President. Also in 1986 he was appointed director of the Institute for Sociology at the Humboldt University, with the restructuring of the East German higher education system he lost this position in 1991, but worked as a professor until 1997.

For a time he was co-editor of the Berlin Journal for Sociology

Fonts (selection)

Proletarian adult education. The efforts of the revolutionary German labor movement for systematic socialist education and training of adult working people (1918-1923) . Spartakus-GmbH, Hamburg 1971 (also dissertation, Berlin 1964).
Sociology of Education. An introduction . People and Knowledge, Berlin 1974 (translations into Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Vietnamese, Spanish).
- Sociology of Education . An introduction. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7609-0141-7 .
with Jörg Müller: The last generation? Youth and family in the countryside in East Germany and in the USA. An empirical comparison during the agrarian revolution . Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89626-135-5 .
Luck in love and lust for science. An (un) orderly life in three and a half of Germany . Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89626-339-0 .

Web links

Artur Meier, author of the Trafo-Verlag

Individual evidence

↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on Artur Meier, Belated Entrance . In: Christian Fleck (Ed.), Paths to Sociology after 1945. Biographical Notes . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996, pp. 353-368.
^ Artur Meier: The efforts of the revolutionary German labor movement for systematic socialist education and training of adult working people (1918-1923) . University thesis, Berlin 1964.
^ Artur Meier: The education system as a social organization. Approaches to an educational sociological theory . University thesis, Berlin 1970.
↑ Vera Sparschuh and Ute Koch: Socialism and Sociology. The founding generation of GDR sociology. Attempt at contouring . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1997, p. 285 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Meier, Artur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Majer, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on Artur Meier, Belated Entrance . In: Christian Fleck (Ed.), Paths to Sociology after 1945. Biographical Notes . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996, pp. 353-368.

[2] Artur Meier: The efforts of the revolutionary German labor movement for systematic socialist education and training of adult working people (1918-1923) . University thesis, Berlin 1964.

[3] Artur Meier: The education system as a social organization. Approaches to an educational sociological theory . University thesis, Berlin 1970.

[4] Vera Sparschuh and Ute Koch: Socialism and Sociology. The founding generation of GDR sociology. Attempt at contouring . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1997, p. 285 f.