Bernd Wegener (sociologist)

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Bernd A. Wegener (* 2 November 1944 in Swinoujscie ) is a German social scientist and emeritus professor of sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin .

Life

Wegener studied psychology, sociology, philosophy and literature at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich and Hamburg. In Hamburg he obtained his diploma in psychology in 1971 and received his doctorate there in 1975 with a philosophical thesis on the scientific theory of the social sciences, supervised by Reiner Wiehl and Hugo Schmale .

He then became a project manager and since 1979 scientific director at the Center for Surveys, Methods and Analyzes (ZUMA) in Mannheim. With a thesis on social prestige, he completed his habilitation in 1986 at the University of Mannheim for the subjects of sociology and social psychology. After research work in the years 1986–1987 at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, he received a professorship for sociology at the Institute for Sociology at Heidelberg University in 1987 . In 1993 he moved to the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam as a professor of sociology , but in the winter semester of 1993 he took over the professorship for empirical social research at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University, where he worked until his retirement in 2013. From 2006 to 2008 he was Vice Dean and 2008–2012 Dean of the Philosophical Faculty III at Humboldt University. Since his retirement he has worked there as Senior Advisor (Senior Professor).

Wegener founded the Center for Empirical Social Research (ZeS) at Humboldt University in 1995 and the Society for Empirical Social Research and Communication (GeSK) in 1998, as well as the Survey Research & Evaluation Institute (SR&E) as a spin-off from Humboldt University in 2012.

Wegener is research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest.

research

His main research interests are inequality, social stratification and mobility, social justice research, architectural sociology, methods of empirical social research and evaluation research. From 1991 to 2008 he headed the International Social Justice Project (ISJP), a 12-country study of attitudes towards social, economic and political justice. Since 2015 he has been in charge of the Healthy Homes Barometer, an annual cross-sectional survey on sustainable living in Europe. He is the author of the Magnitude Prestige Scale of Professional Activities (MPS), which is widely used in survey research.

Fonts

  • B. Wegener: The evaluation of actions from a methodological point of view. In: New Issues for Philosophy. Volume 9, 1976, pp. 97-114.
  • B. Wegener (Ed.): Social Attitudes and Psychophysical Measurement. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 1982.
  • B. Wegener: Are there any social prestige? In: Journal of Sociology. Volume 14, 1985, pp. 209-235.
  • B. Wegener: The Illusion of Distributive Justice. In: European Sociological Review. Volume 3, 1987, pp. 1-13.
  • B. Wegener: acquaintances distant from the usefulness. In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology. Volume 39, 1987, pp. 278-301.
  • B. Wegener: Critique of Prestige. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1988.
  • B. Wegener: Job Mobility and Social Ties: Social Resources, Prior Job, and Status Attainment. In: American Sociological Review. Volume 56, 1991, pp. 60-71.
  • B. Wegener: Concepts and Measurement of Prestige. In: Annual Review of Sociology. Volume 18, 1992, pp. 253-280.
  • B. Wegener: Justice research and legitimation norms. In: Journal of Sociology. Volume 21, 1992, pp. 269-283.
  • J. Kluegel, D. Mason, B. Wegener (Eds.): Social Justice and Political Change: Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Communist States. Aldine de Gruyter, New York / Berlin 1995.
  • G. Jasso, B. Wegener: Methods for Empirical Justice Analysis: Part I - Framework, Models, and Quantities. In: Social Justice Research. Volume 10, 1997, pp. 393-430.
  • B. Wegener, S. Liebig: Is the 'Inner Wall' Here to Stay? Justice Ideologies in Unified Germany. In: Perry 6, G. Mars (Ed.): The Institutional Dynamics of Culture. The New Durkheimians. Ashgate, Farnham 2008, pp. 595-615.
  • B. Wegener: The psychophysics of living. In: M. Hegger, R. Disch, W. Feist (eds.): Aktivhaus: The basic work. Callwey, Munich 2012, pp. 43–46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Center for Empirical Social Research
  2. ^ Society for empirical social research and communication
  3. ^ Survey Research & Evaluation
  4. ^ International Social Justice Project
  5. ↑ Healthy Homes Barometer 2016
  6. ↑ Magnitude prestige scale
personal data
SURNAME Wegener, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegener, Bernd A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinoujscie