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Baldo Blinkert (born April 16, 1942 in Nieder-Ellguth , Upper Silesia ; † November 26, 2017 in Freiburg , St. Nikolaus) was a German sociologist . He founded and directed the Freiburg Institute for Applied Social Science (FIFAS). His work focuses on the city, childhood, youth, family, demographic change, civil society and practical social research.

Life

After attending elementary school in Solingen , Baldo Blinkert first completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and then completed special training for qualified management tasks. The High School earned Baldo Blinkert 1965 on the Hessenkolleg in Wiesbaden . He studied at the University of Frankfurt sociology, economics and social and completed his studies in 1970 with a diploma. After completing his studies, Blinkert became a research assistant and then academic advisor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg . He was in Freiburg with a thesis on professional crises in social work in Freiburg 1975 PhD . His doctoral supervisor was Heinrich Popitz . Also in Freiburg , he qualified as a professor in 1999 in the subject of sociology, was appointed senior academic adviser and in 2005 an associate professor , where he taught until his retirement.

Focus of work

In his work, Baldo Blinkert concentrated on topics that, in the broadest sense, can be classified as practical and policy-oriented social research. To this end, he founded the Freiburg Institute for Applied Social Science (FIFAS) in 1983 with the support of Heinrich Popitz. With this institute Baldo Blinkert has carried out more than 60 empirical research projects for various clients from the public sector. 17 monographs were published on these studies, 13 of them in the institute's own series, more than 40 articles in specialist journals and around 50 work reports as “gray literature”. In terms of content, FIFAS has a. a. edited the following fields:

  • Childhood and the city : What significance do the spatial characteristics in the living environment of children have for their quality of life and development opportunities? Significance of nature experience spaces for the situation of children.
  • Youth : What significance do structural and youth-cultural resources have for the habitus and practice of young people?
  • Demographic change : What opportunities and challenges is demographic change associated with? What is meant by “active aging”? Under what conditions is this possible? How will the care situation of people in need of care develop? What significance do these developments have for the municipal level in cities and districts?
  • Poverty and social problems : Distribution of social problems in regions and urban areas.
  • Civil society : What structural conditions does voluntary work in the population depend on?
  • Work and organization : What is the significance of different working time models? How are organizations experienced by their employees?
  • Securities and uncertainties : How can the burden of crime on regions be explained? What kind of security sensitivities are there in the population?
  • City and urban development: Citizens' surveys, studies on the development of urban areas.
  • Housing studies : preparation of rent indexes

As a professor of sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg, Baldo Blinkert u. a. responsible for training in research methods and offered the permanent research focus “City, Region, Security” and offered seminars in the field of general sociology.

Fonts (selection)

  • Crime as a modernization risk. The 'Hermes Syndrome' of developed industrial societies . In: Soziale Welt 39, 1988, pp. 397-412.
  • Children's activity spaces in the city. An investigation on behalf of the city of Freiburg . With the collaboration of P. Höfflin, M. Lallinger, M. Messmer and A. Hank. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1993.
  • Youth resources and practice: leisure, violence and drugs. Youth study for the district of Waldshut . Centaurus, Herbolzheim 2004.
  • with T. Klie: Solidarity in danger? Willingness to care and development of need for care in demographic and social change . Vincenz, Hanover 2004.
  • Quality of the City for Children: Chaos and Order , in: Children, Youth and Environments 14, 2, 2005, 99-112.
  • Insecurity as a "social fact". Fear of crime and the perception of security and insecurity in Europe. In: Monthly for Criminology and Criminal Law Reform 93, 2010, pp. 106–125.
  • Opportunities and challenges of demographic change. Active aging and the need for care in European municipalities and EU countries (TooLS project) , with the collaboration of A. Schiffert, J. Spiegel, K. Trutzel, T. Willmann. LIT, Berlin 2013.
  • Civil society explorations . LIT, Berlin 2013.
  • with P. Höfflin, A. Schmider, J. Spiegel: Room for children's play! A study on behalf of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk about children's activity spaces in Ludwigsburg, Offenburg, Pforzheim, Schwäbisch Hall and Sindelfingen . LIT, Berlin 2015
  • with E. Weaver: Residential Environment and Types of Childhood . In: Humanities and Social Sciences 2015, 3/4, pp. 258–267
  • with J. Eckert and H. Hoch: (In) security sensitivities: Exploratory study of security assessments in the population . In: R. Arnold H. Haverkamp (Ed.): Subjective and objectified conditions of (in) security . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015.
  • Generation 55plus: quality of life and future planning. The KOSIS project "Active Aging" in the cities of Bielefeld, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Moers, Villingen-Schwenningen and in the Mettmann district . LIT, Berlin 2016.

literature

  • Hans Hoch, Peter Zoche: empiricism and interest in knowledge out of passion. 40 years of research and teaching in relevant fields of social reality. The academic work of Baldo Blinkert. In this. (Ed.): Securities and uncertainties [Festschrift for Baldo Blinkert] (= civil security. Writings on the specialist dialogue on security research. Volume 8). LIT Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12691-7 , pp. 1–12 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ badische-zeitung.de: Baldo Blinkert Professor Dr. - Obituaries - Obituaries & Obituaries - badische-zeitung.de . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on November 29, 2017]).
  2. ^ Baldo Blinkert: The Freiburg Institute for Applied Social Science (FIFAS) as part of Freiburg's sociology . In: Ulrich Bröckling (Ed.): Fifty Years of the Institute for Sociology Freiburg , JosFritz, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-928013-85-7 , pp. 98–117.
  3. ↑ FIFAS publications , accessed on February 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Blinks, Baldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieder-Ellguth , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2017
Place of death Freiburg , St. Nicholas