Christoph Deutschmann

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Christoph Deutschmann (born November 15, 1946 in Stuttgart ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Deutschmann studied sociology with minor subjects economics and law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he obtained his diploma in 1973. In the same year his book The Left Keynesianism was published, which was also published in Danish . In 1975 he was at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt with the work planned economy as an ideology. To legitimate function of " political economy in the CMEA countries of socialism" doctorate . From 1976 to 1984 he was a research assistant at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research . In 1987 he completed his habilitation in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt. Since 1989 he has been Professor of Social and Behavioral Science at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Tübingen . He is part of the team at the Research Institute for Work, Technology and Culture (FATK).

In the field of economic sociology , Deutschmann researches how society deals with money , which he describes as "our secret religion ". His concept of religion is oriented towards the social function of establishing collective identity and social cohesion. Money is not only a medium of exchange , as capital it no longer mediates anything but itself and becomes an end in itself. The accumulation of wealth in the middle and upper classes leads to a “Buddenbrook effect” (based on Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks ): The dwindling opportunities to find “more and more hard-working debtors” in an affluent society are seduced by persistence a high return to increasingly risky speculations , as they led to the financial crisis from 2007 . He advises you to consider how the compulsion to grow can be overcome. To this end, control mechanisms are to be introduced, for example that shares can no longer be bought on credit and that money should not be made with money.

Publications

  • Left Keynesianism . Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt 1973, ISBN 3-7610-5871-3
  • with Gisela Dybowski-Johannson: Economic and social determinants of working time policy. On the history of the struggle to reduce working hours. In: Communications from the Institute for Employment Research. Vol. 12, 1979, No. 3, pp. 313–326 ( PDF; 511 kB )
  • Planned economy as ideology. On the legitimation function of the "political economy of socialism" in the Comecon countries. Dissertation (1975), published 1977
  • with Ulrich Billerbeck, Rainer Erd, Rudi Schmiede & Edwin Schudlich: Reorientation of tariff policy? Changes in the relationship between wage and collective bargaining policy in the 1970s. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1982, ISBN 3-593-33077-6
  • with Rudi Schmiede: Wage development in the Federal Republic 1960–1978. Economic and social determinants. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1983, ISBN 3-593-33078-4
  • The way to the normal working day. The development of working hours in German industry up to 1918. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1985, ISBN 3-593-33438-0
  • Working time in Japan. Organizational and organizational cultural aspects of the "all-round use" of the workforce. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1987, ISBN 3-593-33830-0
  • Japanese working hours from a socio-cultural perspective. In: Japanese Studies. Volume 2/1990. Yearbook of the German Institute for Japanese Studies. Iudicium-Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3891293658 , pp. 89–101 ( PDF; 846 kB )
  • with Michael Faust, Peter Jauch & Karin Brünnecke: Decentralization of companies. Reduction of bureaucracy and hierarchy and the role of company labor policy. Hampp, Munich / Mering 1994, ISBN 3-87988-090-5 ; 3rd expanded edition ibid. 1999, ISBN 3-87988-383-1
  • The working society in crisis? Paradoxes of the debates on labor policy in the eighties. In: HG Zilian and Jörg Flecker (eds.): Pathologies and paradoxes of the world of work. Forum Sozialforschung, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901339-02-7 , pp. 32–48 ( PDF )
  • The promise of absolute wealth. On the religious nature of capitalism. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36253-8 ; 2nd revised edition ibid. 2001, ISBN 3-593-36883-8
  • Post-industrial industrial sociology. Theoretical foundations, employment relationships and social identities. Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7799-1471-9
  • (Ed.): The social power of money. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-531-13687-9
  • End and return of Keynesianism. Mystery of current economic policy. In: Leviathan . Vol. 31, No. 3, 2003, pp. 291–302 ( PDF )
  • Mystery of current economic policy. The secret return of Keynesianism . In: Journal for Social Economy. Volume 42, Volume 146, 2005, pp. 3–12
  • Capitalist dynamic. A social theoretical perspective. VS, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15945-4
  • The collective "Buddenbrooks Effect": The financial markets and the middle classes. MPIfG Working Paper 08/5. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne 2008 ( PDF; 610 kB )
  • Sociology of Capitalist Dynamics. MPIfG Working Paper 09/5. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne 2009 ( PDF; 845 kB )

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ FATK: The team - Christoph Deutschmann
  2. ↑ Welt am Sonntag : In constant fear of shame . February 15, 2009
  3. ↑ Handelsblatt : Belief in money . February 12, 2009
  4. ↑ Christoph Deutschmann: Economy without the pressure to grow: a dream? Transcript of his lecture on April 24, 2013 in the lecture series Post-growth Economics, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  5. ↑ Christoph Deutschmann: Modern economy without the pressure to grow: a dream? In: WSI-Mitteilungen . tape 7 , 2014, p. 513-521 ( boeckler.de [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Deutschlandfunk : The Buddenbrook Effect . February 12, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Deutschmann, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart