Ditmar Brock

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Ditmar Brock (* 1947 in Stuttgart ; † April 25, 2020 in Bad Kötzting ) was a German sociologist .

Career

After graduating from high school in Stuttgart (1967) Brock studied sociology with minor subjects psychology and economics at the universities of Tübingen and Munich , where he obtained his diploma in 1972. From 1973 he worked at the University of Munich within the framework of a special research area on topics of social science occupational and labor research. In 1981 he received his doctorate from the University of Bremen on the subject of everyday working life . From 1973 to 1989 Brock was a research assistant at the German Youth Institute and did research in particular on socialization in the company.

In 1989 he completed his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt (title of the habilitation thesis: The difficult path to modernity. Upheavals in the lifestyle of German workers between 1850 and 1980 ). He then represented Ulrich Beck at the University of Bamberg for two years and was then in 1992/93 Beck's research assistant in the Change in Lifestyle project . From 1993 Brock was professor for sociology at the TU Chemnitz , most recently as emeritus .

Until the early 1980s Brock was considered a representative of subject-oriented industrial sociology ; but then he turned to the sociological theory of modern societies.

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• Globalization. Economy, politics, culture, society . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15398-8 .
• Life in societies. From the origins to the ancient civilizations . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14927-1 .
• The difficult path to modernity. Upheavals in the way of life of German workers between 1850 and 1980 . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 3-593-34456-4 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Frankfurt / M.).
• Modern societies . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2011/12

1. The classic modern . 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16737-4 .
2. The radicalized modernity . 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-16738-1 .

• Sociological topics from Auguste Comte to Talcott Parsons . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58218-5 .
• The overstretched statehood. Why the West Might Fail. Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-19366-9 .

as editor

• Sociological paradigms according to Talcott Parsons . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-16216-4 (together with Matthias Junge ).
• Transitions in the job. Interim balance sheet on the state of research . Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3-87966-335-1 .
• Subjectivity in Social Change. Upheavals in the professional socialization process . Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim 1989, ISBN 3-87966-306-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ditmar Brock in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice Ditmar Brock. In: Kötztinger Zeitung. Idowa , April 28, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020 .