Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

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Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (2011)

Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (* 1946 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German sociologist .

After studying sociology, psychology and philosophy from 1966 in Munich , she did her doctorate in 1973 on "Sociology of Knowledge in the Framework of Theoretical Pluralism". In 1987 she completed her habilitation .

In 1980 she published the book The Halved Life. Men's world of work, women's world of family , in which she analyzed the effects of the division of labor prevailing in work and family on men and women (quote: "Professional work is not so much tailored to the 'family-free man', but more precisely to the 'family-free husband'. "). She showed that both genders were restricted in their development potential by stereotypical role specifications. Beck-Gernsheim called for a more family-friendly organization of working life.

After visiting professorships at the Universities of Giessen and Munich, she was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg in 1993. In the following year she switched to a professorship for sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2009 she retired.

From 2009 to 2012 she was visiting professor at the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway in Trondheim . From 2013 to 2016 she was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Munich, and since 2016 she has been a senior professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim mainly deals with questions of social change and the changing role of the family in society as well as migration and multicultural society.

She was married to the sociologist Ulrich Beck until his death .

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • Halved life. Men's work, women's family . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-23713-0 .
  • From a decline in the birth rate to a new motherhood? About private and political interests in the child . Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-23754-8 .
  • The child question. Women between the desire to have children and independence . Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33029-0 .
  • with Ulrich Beck: The normal chaos of love . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-38225-X .
  • What comes after the family? Insights into new ways of life . Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-42043-5 .
  • Jews, Germans and other landscapes of memory. In the jungle of ethnic categories . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41074-1 .
  • We and the others. From the Germans' view of migrants and minorities . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41607-3 (extended new edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45872-3 ).
  • The children's question today. About women's life, the desire to have children and the decline in the birth rate . Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54776-8 .
  • with Ulrich Beck: Fernliebe. Life forms in the global age . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42232-8 .

Essays

  • A heart for clones. Genetic Medicine: Advances in Practice, The Arguments Remain . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 13, 1998.
  • Nation and hallucination. “Our” culture in the election campaign: How German are the Germans? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 4, 1998.
  • "A Turk does not go to the opera" - what Germans know about Turks . In: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Ed.): Kultur und Gerechtigkeit (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 2). Baden-Baden 2007. ISBN 978-3-8329-2604-5
  • with Ulrich Beck: As soon as love wins, it has to accept all sorts of defeats . In: Christopher Thorpe u. a .: The sociology book. Munich 2016. pp. 320–323.

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim - CV. (No longer available online.) In: Institute for Sociology, University of Munich. Archived from the original on February 2, 2018 ; accessed on February 1, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.soziologie.phil.uni-erlangen.de
  2. ^ Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim: The halved life. Men's work, women's family . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-23713-0 , pp. 72 .
  3. ↑ a b biography on the private homepage , accessed on August 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gernsheim, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, philosopher and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau