Christiane Bender

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Christiane Bender (born July 14, 1953 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) is a German humanities and social scientist .

Life

She studied sociology , philosophy , political science and economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated with a degree in sociology. Bender received his doctorate from the University of Bremen in 1987 with a thesis on George Herbert Mead and Niklas Luhmann ( Identity and Self-Reflection , 1989). The habilitation took place in 1992 at the University of Augsburg . In her habilitation thesis she examines constructivist and sociological models of self-organization in science research ( self-organization in systems theory and constructivism , 1993).

In 1992 Christiane Bender represented the chair for sociology and social planning at the University of Stuttgart . After taking on the position of professor for sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , she accepted the appointment there in 1993. Since 2001 she has been Professor of Sociology at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg.

Bender deals with the socio-moral and philosophical foundations of modern societies. She is particularly interested in the change in social structure and values, especially the development from industry to service society . She examines different social and welfare states (Germany, USA, Sweden, Switzerland) from a comparative perspective. She also analyzes gender-specific models of division of labor, changes in institutions and the behavior of elites. She often publishes together with the sociologist Hans Graßl, who teaches at the University of Siegen .

In addition to scientific publications, she also publishes articles for the general public and interferes in debates with columnist media articles. For example, in 2018 with Hans Graßl in the NZZ , she pointed to the topicality of Calvinist ethics and the thinking of Johannes Althusius for federalism , which the authors consider to be worth considering . In 2014, together with Graßl, Bender proposed that citizens entitled to vote be given the opportunity to enter the Bundestag by lottery . According to the proposal, five percent of the Bundestag seats could be filled in this way. In her Mémoir Podium and Pampers , published in 2010, Bender reported on her personal experiences with combining work and family .

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • Identity and self-reflection. On the reflective construction of social reality in systems theory and symbolic interactionism by GH Mead. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1989 (dissertation)
  • With Hans Graßl: technology and interaction. On the theory and empiricism of technology research. 2nd revised edition, Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1994 (first edition 1991)
  • With Hans Graßl: Do women make church? Gainful employment in organized religion. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1996
  • As editor: Women - Religion - Profession. On the religious construction of the gender difference. UVK, Constance 2003
  • With Hans Graßl: Working and living in the service society. UVK, Constance 2004
  • With Jens-Rainer Ahrens and Maja Apelt: women in the military. Empirical findings and perspectives on the integration of women in the armed forces. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2005
  • Podium and Pampers. Mattes, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86809-025-3

Research contributions

  • The concept of love in philosophy. A comparison between Hegel and Schopenhauer. In: 67th year book of the Schopenhauer Society , Frankfurt a. M. 1986, pp. 192-198
  • Cultural identity, intercultural communication, rationality and global society. In: Horst Reimann (Ed.): Transcultural Communication and World Society. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1992, pp. 66-81
  • Power - a category forgotten by Habermas and Luhmann? In: ÖZfS 23 (1998), pp. 3-19
  • The system of logic is the realm of shadows. In: Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz , Gerhard Wagner (Ed.): The logic of systems. On the criticism of Niklas Luhmann's systems-theoretical sociology. UVK, Konstanz 2000, pp. 15-37
  • Modernization through acceleration. In: Norbert Brieskorn , Johannes Wallacher (Hrsg.): Accelerate, slow down. Challenges to sustainable societies. Stuttgart 2001, pp. 39-68
  • Gender difference and partnership in the Bundeswehr. In: Thomas Bohrmann , Karl-Heinz Lather , Friedrich Lohmann (eds.): Handbook of military professional ethics. Volume 2: fields of application. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-531-18933-8 , pp. 357-378
  • Hegel's contribution to the understanding of family, society and the state in Germany today. In: Michael Spieker (Ed.): Hegel's concept of morality in legal philosophy. Tutzing 2016

Media contributions

  • What should my child believe? (in: chrismon plus 2009)
  • For me, studying meant a new beginning (in: Glanzlichter 2011)
  • The birth of the knowledge society from the spirit of the Cold War (in: From Politics and Contemporary History , 18-20 / 2013)
  • With Hans Graßl: Lottery procedure: A contribution to strengthening democracy? (in: From Politics and Contemporary History , 38–39 / 2014)
  • Do the new media threaten our quality of work and life? (in: Society. Economy. Politics , No. 3/2015)
  • The lecture. A discontinued model? (in: Research & Teaching 8/16)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christiane Bender, Hans Graßl: The Calvinistic ethics and the spirit of federalism. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 1, 2018, accessed January 12, 2019.
  2. ^ Christiane Bender, Hans Graßl: By lottery in the Bundestag. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 17, 2014, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanities and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe