Birgit Blättel-Mink

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Birgit Blättel-Mink (* 1957 in Heidelberg ) is a German sociologist. Since 2004 she has been Professor of Industrial and Organizational Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

Birgit Blättel-Mink studied sociology at the University of Mannheim . In 1983 she did her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg under Mario Rainer Lepsius with her thesis Innovation in Business - Determinants of a Process . In 2000 she completed her habilitation at the University of Stuttgart . During this period she worked in various functions and institutions in Germany and abroad. From 1992 to 1993 she was Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Research at University College Cork (Republic of Ireland), from 1994 to 1999 a university assistant in the Department of Environmental and Technological Sociology at the University of Stuttgart and, before her habilitation, from 1999 to 2000 project manager at the Academy for technology assessment in Baden-Württemberg. From 2000 to 2004 she represented the chair of work and organizational sociology at the University of Stuttgart before she was appointed university professor with a focus on industrial and organizational sociology in the social sciences department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

She was and is active in various offices and functions both within and outside of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main: She is currently the Chair of the German Society for Sociology (DGS) , Director of the Institute for Economics, Labor and Culture Frankfurt (IWAK Frankfurt) and Member of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's Studies and Research into Gender Relations (CGC) . She is also the Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Social Research (IfS) .

Research & Teaching

Blättel-Mink has contributed in particular to the further development of the relationship between organizational and environmental sociology, a combination that has so far been little explored in the German sociological landscape. Her contributions to the relationship between organizations and customers - for example, in dealing with the "prosumer" debate - to sustainable consumption and to the innovation debate are also significant. But women's and gender studies in connection with organizational and sociological research questions are also a central concern of her. In addition, she has also developed an interdisciplinary understanding of science and research and has carried out research in an application or practice-related manner.

As part of her teaching activities, she is open to new teaching formats and eLearning. In the case of the latter, she worked on an eLearning tool called "Social Research Skills". It is essentially an instrument that allows students to evaluate themselves with regard to certain relevant knowledge from the area of ​​"methods of social research".

Fonts (selection)

Books as a (co-) author

  • Blättel-Mink, Birgit / Menez, Raphael (2015). Compendium of innovation research (2nd edition), Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
  • Blättel-Mink, Birgit (2001). Economy and environmental protection. Limits of the integration of economy and ecology. Frankfurt am Main: Campus (habilitation thesis)
  • Blättel-Mink, Birgit (1994). Innovation in Business - Determinants of a Process. Frankfurt am Main: Lang (dissertation)

(Co-) editorships

  • Blättel-Mink, Birgit / Franzke, Astrid / Wolde, Anja (eds.) (2011). Equality in the reform process of universities. New career paths for women. Frankfurt Feminist Texts. Sulzbach / Ts: Ulrike Helmer Verlag.
  • Blättel-Mink, Birgit / Hellmann, Kai-Uwe (eds.) (2009). Prosumer Revisited: On the Topicality of a Debate. Series: Sociology of Consumption and Mass Culture. Wiesbaden: VS publishing house for social sciences.
  • Blättel-Mink, Birgit / Kramer, Caroline (eds.) (2009). Doing Aging - Female Perspectives on Aging. Volume 7 of the series: Writings of the Heidelberg Institute for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies (HIFI) eV, Baden-Baden: Nomos
  • Blättel-Mink, Birgit / Ebner, Alexander (eds.) (2009). Systems of innovation: technology, institutions and the dynamics of competitiveness. Wiesbaden: VS publishing house for social sciences

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/51382
  2. ↑ ( Economy and environmental protection. Limits to the integration of economy and ecology )
  3. ^ Website of the professorship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Retrieved April 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Blättel-Mink, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg