Christoph Meißelbach
Christoph chisel Bach is a German political scientist with the work and research interests in political science theory and evolutionary anthropology , theory and empiricism of digital democracy and methodology and philosophy of science and singer .
Life
Scientific career
Meißelbach studied political science and sociology at the Technical University of Dresden . He completed this course in 2008 as a Magister Artium . As a result, he became a research assistant at the Professorship for Political Systems and System Comparison of Werner J. Patzelt at the TU Dresden in 2009 . Between 2009 and 2013 he was also a member of the sub-project I (“Transcendence and Common Sense as Resources for the Construction of Political Order”) of the Collaborative Research Center 804 “Transcendence and Common Sense” there. He conducts research on the subjects of political science theory and evolutionary anthropology , where he integrates social science theory with findings from the so-called life sciences (including evolutionary psychology , sociobiology ), among others. a. in the following areas: cooperation and conflict , community and social cohesion , social capital , legitimacy , theory and empiricism of digital democracy with consideration of the potentials and dangers of the new media for established democracies from the perspective of empirical and normative democratic theories as well as methodology and philosophy of science , where he Analysis of research designs and methods in political science, epistemological foundations of social sciences, evolutionary epistemology .
In 2015 , Christoph Meißelbach received his doctorate from Werner J. Patzelt with a thesis on “The evolution of cohesion. Anthropological Foundations of Social Capital Theory "for Dr. phil. For this work, which was rated summa cum laude , he received the Vienna Rupert Riedl Prize and the Georg Helm Prize in 2017 .
Career as a musician
Meißelbach is a member of the alternative rock band 7ieben and since 2012 the singer of the Dresden rock band Pi! .
Fonts
- Web 2.0 - Democracy 3.0 ?: Democratic Potentials of the Internet , Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-5115-3 .
- together with Matthias Theodor Vogt , Erik Fritzsche: Arriving in the German world: Migrant enculturation and regional resilience in one world , Berlin : Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3716-8 .
- The evolution of cohesion. Anthropological foundations of social capital theory. Studies on interdisciplinary anthropology (dissertation), Wiesbaden : Springer VS 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-25055-3 .
Awards
- 2017: Vienna Rupert Riedl Prize for his dissertation on the topic “The Evolution of Cohesion. Anthropological foundations of social capital theory "
- 2017: Georg Helm Prize for his dissertation on “The Evolution of Cohesion. Anthropological foundations of social capital theory "
Web links
- Literature by Christoph Meißelbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christoph Meißelbach on the website of the Technical University of Dresden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dresden political scientist receives the Vienna Rupert Riedl Prize 2017. Accessed on November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Dr. Christoph Meißelbach receives the Georg Helm Prize 2017. Accessed November 21, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Meißelbach, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist and singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |