Christel Hopf

Christel Hopf (* as Christel Dietze , October 27, 1942 in Hamburg ; † July 23, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German sociologist.

Her areas of work were educational sociology and socialization research, authoritarianism and right-wing extremism research , organizational sociology and qualitative methods of empirical social research.

Life

After studying sociology in Hamburg and at the Free University of Berlin (diploma in 1969, doctorate in 1973), she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin from 1974 to 1989 , from where she completed her habilitation in 1982 at the FU and was appointed professor at the University of Hildesheim in 1989, where she retired in 2007.

She worked on the board of the German Society for Sociology , where she made a special contribution to the common “ethical code” of the German sociological professional societies and helped found the “Qualitative Methods in Social Research” section. She was also active in various committees of the German Research Foundation , the Hans Böckler Foundation and other research funding institutions.

She was married to Wulf Hopf .

Selected publications

Monographs

• 1974: trade union awareness in state bureaucracies ; [Phil. Diss.]
• 1976 (with Wulf Hopf): Indifference and identification as categories for the analysis of class consciousness , in: "Problems of the class struggle"
• 1978: Die Pseudo-Exploration , in: “Zs. f. Sociology"
• 1980 (with Knut Nevermann and Ingo Richter): School supervision and school. An empirical analysis of the administrative conditions of school education
• 1980 (with Knut Nevermann and Ingrid Schmidt): How did the National Socialists come to power? An empirical analysis of interpretations in class
• 1995 (with Peter Rieker and others): Family and right-wing extremism
• 1997 (with Wulf Hopf): family, personality, politics. An introduction to political socialization
• 2007: Early Attachments and Socialization. An introduction

Editions

• 1979 (with Elmar Weingarten ): Qualitative Social Research , ³1993
• 2001 (with Myriam Hartwig): Love and Dependency
• 2007 (with Gertrud Nunner-Winkler ): Early bonds and moral development. Current findings on psychological and social conditions of moral independence

literature

• K [laus] Dammann: Hopf, Christel, b. Dietze , in: W. Bernsdorf / H. Knospe (ed.), "Internationales Soziologenlexikon", Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ²1984, p. 372
• Beate Krais : Obituary for Christel Hopf , in: “Sociology”, vol. 38, 2009, no. 1, p. 111 f.
• Gabriele Rosenthal : Obituary Christel Hopf (1942–2008) , in: "Zeitschrift für Soziologie", vol. 38, 2009, no. 1, p. 85 ff.
• The DJI mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Christel Hopf , in: DJI-Bulletin No. 83/84 (2008), p. 37.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christel Hopf in the catalog of the German National Library