Dirk Baecker

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Dirk Baecker at the 2016 Sociology Congress in Bamberg

Dirk Baecker (born August 11, 1955 in Karlsruhe ) is a German sociologist and holder of the chair for cultural theory and management at the University of Witten / Herdecke .

Life

After graduating from high school at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne and studying sociology and economics in Cologne and Paris , he received his doctorate and habilitation in sociology with Niklas Luhmann at the University of Bielefeld. After research at the Stanford University , Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics he received in 1996 the reputation of the Reinhard Mohn -Lehrstuhl for corporate governance, business ethics and social change at the University of Witten / Herdecke . From 2000 to 2007 he held the chair of sociology there. Together with Fritz B. Simon and Rudi Wimmer , he founded the Witten Management Center in January 2000.

In 2006, Baecker was offered the new chair for cultural theory and analysis at the Zeppelin University (ZU), where he researched and taught from 2007 to 2015. In 2015 he was recalled to the University of Witten / Herdecke, where Baecker is now head of the chair for cultural theory and management and the faculty for cultural reflection. Since his call to Witten / Herdecke in 2015, he has also been a visiting professor for cultural sociology at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen.

Act

Baecker is a representative of sociological systems theory and has worked on a variety of sociological areas and questions. This includes works on the theory of art as well as the symbolically generalized communication media . However, he emerged as an economic and organizational sociologist with publications on the topics of planning and decision theory , management theory and studies on the concept of risk . Baecker also grappled with the logic of George Spencer-Brown .

Baecker is also co-editor of the periodicals Soziale Systeme and the Revue - Magazine for the Next Society , and he was editor of the book series copyrights at the Berlin cultural publishing house Kadmos .

Fonts (selection)

  • Information and risk in the market economy. 1988
  • What do banks trade in? Frankfurt am Main 1991 (New Foreword December 2008)
  • Problems of form . Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • Post-heroic management. A vademecum . Merve, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-88396-117-5 .
  • Poker in the East. Problems of the transformation society . Merve, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88396-140-X .
  • The shape of the company . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 1999
  • Organization as a system . Frankfurt am Main 1999
  • Why culture? Berlin 2000
  • Why systems? o. O. (Berlin 2002)
  • The benefits of unsolved problems. Conversation with Alexander Kluge. Merve, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-88396-186-8 .
  • Organization and management . Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Capitalism as religion. Ed., Kadmos, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931659-27-5 .
  • Why sociology? Berlin 2004
  • Key works of systems theory . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, 2., ext. u. newly designed edition, VS Springer, Wiesbaden 2016
  • Communication . Reclam, Leipzig 2005
  • Form and forms of communication . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005
  • Economic sociology . Transcript, Bielefeld 2006
  • Why society? Kadmos, Berlin 2007
  • Next Society Studies. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-518-29456-3 , review in the taz from January 19, 2008
  • No more sanity. Smaller contributions to social studies. Carl-Auer, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89670-622-5
  • Why theater? Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3943881059 .
  • Observers among themselves. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-58590-0 .
  • Neurosociology: an attempt. Edition Unseld, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-26052-4 .
  • Cultural calculus. Merve, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88396-356-3 .
  • Why theory? Essays. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-29777-3 .
  • Product calculation. Merve, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-88396-362-4 .
  • 4.0 or the gap left by the computer . Merve, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96273-012-3 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Biography at Munzinger Online. Retrieved December 1, 2011 .
  2. ↑ "Professor Dr. Dirk Baecker appointed to Zeppelin University ” , idw, January 24, 2007
  3. ↑ University of Witten / Herdecke: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker
  4. ↑ Visiting professor for sociology of culture (as of June 28, 2016)
  5. ↑ REVUE - Magazine for the Next Society ( Memento from July 10, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ). July 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Baecker, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, representative of systems theory
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe