Doris Bühler-Niederberger

Doris Bühler-Niederberger (* 1950 ) is a Swiss sociologist and an internationally known expert on the sociology of childhood . Her work focuses on sociological research on growing up and v. a. the relevant professions and institutions and social inequalities.

They received his doctorate in 1982 at the University of Zurich Dr. phil. and completed his habilitation (after studying as a visiting scholar at the University of California in San Francisco) in 1991, also in Zurich. In 1994 she became professor for the sociology of the family, youth and education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . She has been a senior professor there since 2019.

Bühler-Niederberger was the spokesperson for the Childhood Sociology section of the German Sociological Society (DGS). She is also past president of Research Committee 53 Sociology of Childhood in the International Sociological Association (ISA) .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Diversity of forms in foreign education. Between reference and construction . Enke, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-432-97521-4 (with Josef Martin Niederberger).
• Dyslexia. History and consequences of pathologization . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1991, ISBN 978-3-8100-0897-8 .
• Childhood and the order of circumstances. About the social power of innocence and the creative individual . Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim / Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-7799-0228-7 .
• Childhood phase of life. Theoretical approaches, actors and areas of action (2nd revised edition). Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7799-2623-8 .

Editorships

• Power of innocence. The child as a cipher , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 978-3-8100-3982-8 .
• Childhood between caring access and social participation . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16457-1 .
• Child protection. How child-centered are programs, practices, and perspectives? Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7799-2955-0 (with Lars Alberth and Steffen Eisentraut).
• Victim, perpetrator, or what else? A generational and gender perspective on violence against children, youth, and violence. Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, vol. 25. Emerald Publishing, Bingley 2019, ISBN 978-1-78973-336-5 (with Lars Alberth).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Curriculum Vitae, University of Wuppertal , accessed on September 30, 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Doris Bühler-Niederberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Employee website of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal