Carsten Stark

Prof. Dr. Carsten Stark, Hof (Saale)

Carsten Stark (* 1966 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German sociologist and corruption researcher. He mainly deals with questions of political sociology and the practical fight against corruption . He is currently a professor at the Hof University of Applied Sciences , where he teaches a. a. Social Psychology and Qualitative Social Research. He is the head of the Institute for Corruption Prevention eV and a member of the Senate of the Professional Association of German Sociologists .

Life

Stark studied sociology , political science and history at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1988 to 1993 . He then worked as a research assistant at the chair for general and theoretical sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . In the course of his subsequent work at Richard Münch as a research assistant at the Department of Sociology II at the University of Bamberg in 1998 its done promotion for Dr. rer. pole.

In the period from 2003 to 2011 , Stark completed the civil service career of the higher non-technical administrative service of the Free State of Bavaria (most recently as a government director ).

2011 Stark took place at the University of Siegen his habilitation and received his teaching certificate for the subject of sociology . Until 2013 he was then employed as a professor of sociology at the North Rhine-Westphalia University of Police and Public Administration and as a private lecturer at the University of Siegen. Stark has been a professor at the Hof University of Applied Sciences since 2013 .

In addition to his teaching activities in Germany, he spent several semesters as a visiting professor at various universities abroad, including Weber State University in Ogden (USA), Bifröst University in Iceland and Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland).

Since 2005, Stark has also been the head of the Institute for Corruption Prevention eV

Fonts (selection)

• The blocked democracy. Cultural limits of politics in German pollution control. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 978-3789057458 .
• Modernization. Introduction to reading classical sociological texts (together with C. Lahusen). Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3486253351 .
• Democracy at Work. A Comparative Sociology of Environmental Regulation in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States. (Together with R. Münch et al.) Praeger, Westport, London 2001, ISBN 978-0275968403 .
• Contingency and ambivalence. Using the example of the bioethical discourse on stem cell research in Germany. Wiesbaden, Springer VS 2014, ISBN 978-3658032005 .
• Corruption Prevention. Classic and holistic approaches. Gabler, Springer, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-06313-9 .
• Organizational Integrity. Individual Misconduct and the Legal Structure of Society. Cham, Springer International 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-94086-1 .
• Nations Divided and the Moderating State. Tredition, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3749714636 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Prof. Carsten Stark | Sociologist in Corruption Prevention. June 19, 2018, accessed January 18, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Institute for Corruption Prevention eV Accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Members of the Senate - Professional Association of German Sociologists. Accessed February 1, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ Sociologists - The World Explorers - Professional Report. Retrieved on February 7, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ Publications. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .