Claudia Honegger

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Claudia Honegger (born November 13, 1947 in Wald , Canton Zurich ) is a Swiss sociologist .

Life

Claudia Honegger was born in Wald, Canton Zurich, in 1947 as the daughter of the industrialist Otto Honegger and the psychologist Ada Honegger-Kaufmann. She has two brothers: Otto Carl, born in 1945, and Andreas Johannes, born in 1956. After graduating from the Zurich Oberland Cantonal School in Wetzikon, language studies abroad in London and Birmingham . In the winter semester 1967/68 she began studying economics and philosophy at the University of Zurich , as well as studying sociology with Peter Heintz . She was a member of the Progressive Student Union of Zurich (FSZ) and a founding member of the women's liberation movement (FBB).

From the 1970 summer semester she studied sociology, philosophy, political science and social psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (with Jürgen Habermas , Ulrich Oevermann and Iring Fetscher, among others ). In 1975 she graduated with a diploma in sociology (and a thesis on the European witch hunt).

Since the spring of 1975, stay in Paris, initially as a postgraduate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) with Pierre Bourdieu . She attended numerous events by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France and by Annales historians (such as Robert Mandrou , Jacques Le Goff , Marc Ferro ) at EHESS. She worked as a journalist and translator, mainly for Suhrkamp Verlag .

1980 cumulative doctorate in sociology at the University of Bremen .

After returning to Frankfurt am Main, she was lecturer for history and social sciences at the European Publishing House from 1980 to 1982 (together with Günther Busch and Henning Ritter ). She then worked as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in a project applied for by Richard van Dülmen on the influence of medicine on the family and the image of women in the 19th century. The habilitation thesis “The Coding of the Sexes in Modernity” and the book “The Order of the Sexes. The Sciences of Man and Woman, 1750–1850 ”. From 1984 to 1989 she was a research assistant (with Heinz Steinert ) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt and held lectures a. a. on "Feminism and Critical Theory", "Women's Culture / Men's Culture", "Karl Mannheim in Frankfurt". She took on several teaching positions at other universities. She was a co-founder of the interdisciplinary journal " Feminist Studies " (since 1982).

She married the sociologist Ulf Matthiesen and has two sons.

In 1990 she qualified as a professor in sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

In the winter semester 1990/91 she was appointed to the chair of general sociology at the University of Bern . There she stopped u. a. Lectures on: Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Theories, Culture, Knowledge, Art and Gender Sociology, Interpretation Pattern Analysis and Qualitative Social Research . 1995–1997 she was President of the Swiss Society for Sociology. The Congress of the Swiss Social Sciences “Societies in Transition. Identities, Conflicts, Differences ”, Bern 1995 was co-organized by her. The joint congress of the German, Austrian and Swiss sociological sociology "Boundless Society?" 1998 in Freiburg im Breisgau was also co-organized by her.

From 2002–2004 she was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Bern. She worked on numerous research projects. A detailed list of licentiates and doctorates can be found on their homepage. She published the book series “Schriftenreihe Kultursoziologie” and “Neue Berner Contributions zur Sociologie” (NBBS).

1998–2009 she was a member of the sponsorship of the interdisciplinary graduate programs “Knowledge-Gender-Professionalization”; "Shifting Gender Cultures"; "Gender: Scripts and Prescripts". Claudia Honegger has retired since 2009.

Fonts (selection)

  • Scripture and matter of history. Suggestions for the systematic appropriation of historical processes (as editor). Suhrkamp. Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • The witches of modern times. Studies on the social history of a cultural interpretation model (as editor). Suhrkamp ( es 743), Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-518-10743-7
  • Lists of powerlessness: On the social history of female forms of resistance (as ed., With Bettina Heintz). European Publishing House , Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-43-400468-8
  • The order of the sexes. The Sciences of Man and Woman 1750–1850 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • The end of comfort. Structural misfortune and mental suffering in Switzerland (as publisher, with Marianne Rychner). Limmat, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3857913150
  • Women in Sociology. Nine portraits (as editor, with Theresa Wobbe ). Beck (BsR 1198), Munich 1998
  • The future in everyday thinking. Scenarios from Switzerland (with Caroline Bühler and Peter Schallberger). UVK, Konstanz 2002, ISBN 3-89669-992-X
  • Knowledge, gender, professionalization. Historical-sociological studies (as editor, with Brigitte Liebig and Regina Wecker ). Chronos, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-03-400649-7
  • Competing interpretations of the social. History, social and economic sciences in the field of tension between politics and science (with Susanne Burren, Hans Ulrich Jost and Pascal Jurt). Chronos, Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-0340-0766-3
  • Structured irresponsibility - reports from the banking world (as ed., With Sighard Neckel and Chantal Magnin). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12607-3

literature

  • Caroline Arni et al. (Ed.): The obstinacy of the material. Explorations of Social Reality . Festschrift for Claudia Honegger on her 60th birthday. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-86600-017-0
  • Hoff Walburga: Claudia Honegger. The order of the sexes. The Sciences of Man and Woman, 1750–1850. In: Martina Löw ; Bettina Mathes: Key Works in Gender Studies. VS, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 267-282

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PhDs . Retrieved February 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Honegger, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich