Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University
The first and so far only faculty for sociology in Germany has existed at Bielefeld University since 1969 . It was created by and under the direction of Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984) from the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund, founded in 1946 and transferred to Bielefeld University in 1969/70 . V. Since then, the Faculty of Sociology has made a significant contribution to the broad establishment of the subject at universities and to the training of numerous sociologists in Germany.
Personnel and work areas
There are currently (as of 2017) 26 professorships at the faculty. The faculty is divided into a total of eleven work areas that define the respective specialist focus of teaching and research:
- Sociological theory
- Methods of empirical social research
- Organizational sociology
- politics and society
- Social structure and social inequality
- Transnationalization and development
- Media sociology
- Gender sociology
- Didactics of the social sciences
- Economy and work
- Law and Society
Institutions and research priorities
Together with the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, and supported by the Excellence Initiative, the Faculty has had the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) since 2007 .
Associated with the faculty are the Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ZfS), the International Journal of Conflict and Violence , the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence , the Institute for World Society (IW), the Institute for Science and Technology Research (IWT), the Collaborative Research Center 882 "From Heterogeneities to Inequalities" funded by the German Research Foundation and the Shell Youth Study .
On the part of the students of the faculty, the magazine "so to speak" appears once a semester.
Niklas Luhmann visiting professorship
Since 2005, the Faculty of Sociology and the Rectorate of Bielefeld University established a Niklas Luhmann visiting professorship for the first time. The intention is to attract internationally renowned social theorists in order to offer students and the wider public the opportunity to get to know relevant and innovative theories directly. The visiting professorship is awarded in the summer semester.
Previous visiting professorships were awarded to:
- Chris Thornhill (2017)
- Richard Münch (2016)
- Elena Esposito (2015)
- Alejandro Portes (2014)
- Yasemin Soysal (2013)
- Saskia Sassen (2011)
- Ulrich Oevermann (2009)
- Alois Hahn (2008)
- Nils Brunsson (2007)
- John W. Meyer (2006)
- Harrison White (2005)
Cooperation with foreign universities
There is a permanent cooperation with the University of St. Petersburg . The Erasmus program offers exchange programs with a total of 42 universities in Europe and Asia:
Personalities
(The following personalities are related to the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. The list is alphabetical by family name)
A.
- Mona Abaza (* 1959), Egyptian sociologist
- Petra Ahrweiler (* 1963), German sociologist and professor for technology and innovation management
- Marion Albers (* 1961), German legal scholar
- Mathias Albert (* 1967), Professor of Political Science, played a key role in the Shell Youth Study
- Günter Albrecht (* 1943), German sociologist
- Brigitte Aulenbacher (* 1959), German sociologist
B.
- Dirk Baecker (* 1955), German sociologist and professor of cultural theory and analysis
- Theodor M. Bardmann (* 1955), German sociologist, systems theorist and university professor
- Joachim Bartholomae (* 1956), German author and sociologist
- Lukas Beckmann (* 1950), German politician and former parliamentary group leader of the green parliamentary group
- Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen (* 1944), Austrian ethnologist and sociologist
- Johannes Berger (* 1939), German sociologist
- Jörg Bergmann (* 1946), German sociologist, conversation analyst and ethnomethodologist
- Thomas Bierschenk (* 1951), German ethnologist and sociologist
- Hanne-Margret Birckenbach (* 1948), German political scientist and professor of European studies
- Hans-Peter Blossfeld (* 1954), German sociologist
- Walter Böckmann (1923–2014), German author, sociologist, psychologist, leadership theorist and logotherapist
- Fritz Böhle (* 1945), German sociologist
- Michael Bommes (1954–2010), Professor of Sociology / Methodology of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Migration Research
- Wolfgang Bonß (* 1952), German sociologist
- Alfons Bora (* 1957), German lawyer and sociologist
- Nils Brunsson (* 1946), Swedish organizational sociologist and professor
- Manfred Brusten (* 1939), German sociologist and social science criminologist
- Günter Büschges (1926–2017), German sociologist
- Michael Buhre (* 1961), German local politician, mayor of the city of Minden
C.
- Lars Clausen (1935–2010), German sociologist and scholar
- Florian Coulmas (* 1949), German Japanologist and author
D.
- Christian Dexne (* 1971), German television journalist
- Wolf R. Dombrowsky (* 1948), German sociologist specializing in the sociology of disasters
- Jutta Ditfurth (* 1951), German social scientist, journalist and politician
E.
- Norbert Elias (1897–1990), sociologist of German origin, who received an honorary doctorate from the faculty in 1980
- Georg Elwert (1947–2005), German ethnosociologist
- Elena Esposito (* 1960), Italian sociologist and writer
- Hans-Dieter Evers (* 1935), professor for development planning and development policy
F.
- Thomas Faist (* 1959), Professor of Transnational Relations and Development Sociology
- Jürgen Frese (1939–2007), German social philosopher and phenomenologist
G
- Karl Gabriel (* 1943), Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist
- Birgit Geissler (* 1949), German labor market sociologist
- Regine Gildemeister (* 1949), German sociologist
- Richard Grathoff (1934–2013), German phenomenologist
- Matthias Groß (* 1969), German sociologist and environmental scientist
H
- Hans Haferkamp (1939–1987), German sociologist
- Alois Hahn (* 1941), German sociologist
- Theodor Harder (1931–2016), German sociologist and university professor
- Reinhold Hedtke (* 1953), German social scientist, sociologist and author
- Martin Heidenreich (* 1956), German sociologist
- Bettina Heintz (* 1949), Swiss sociologist
- Wilhelm Heitmeyer (* 1945), Professor of Education and Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence
- Stefan Hirschauer (* 1960), German sociologist
- Barbara Hölscher (* 1964), German sociologist
- Hans-Willy Hohn (* 1953), German sociologist
- Johannes Huinink (* 1952), German sociologist
- Klaus Hurrelmann (* 1944), German social, educational and health scientist
I.
- Katharina Inhetveen (* 1970), German sociologist
J
- Detlef Jahn (* 1956), German political scientist and professor of comparative government
- Klaus Peter Japp (* 1947), Professor of Political Communication and Sociology of Risk
K
- Jürgen Kaube (* 1962), German graduate economist and journalist
- Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (* 1932), Swiss sociologist living in Germany
- Oliver Kessler (* 1973), German political scientist and university professor
- André Kieserling (* 1962), German sociologist and professor of general sociology
- Gábor Kiss (1931–1994), German sociologist of Hungarian origin
- Gabriele Klein (* 1957), German sociologist, cultural and dance scholar
- Hans-Joachim Knebel (1929–2004), German sociologist
- Christoph Knill (* 1965), German political scientist
- Karin Knorr-Cetina (* 1944), Austrian sociologist and scientific theorist
- Hermann Korte (* 1937), German sociologist
- Jürgen Kriz (* 1944), German psychologist and professor for psychotherapy and clinical psychology
- Wolfgang Krohn (* 1941), German sociologist of technology and philosopher of science
- Helga Krüger (1940–2008), German sociologist and educationalist
- Volker Kruse (* 1954), German sociologist with a focus on the history of sociology
- Stefan Kühl (* 1966), German organizational sociologist
L.
- Rüdiger Lautmann (* 1935), German sociologist
- Lutz Leisering (* 1953), Professor of Social Policy
- Klaus Lichtblau (* 1951), sociologist and historian of ideas
- Stefan Liebig (* 1962), German sociologist
- Gesa Lindemann (* 1956), German sociologist
- Wolfgang Lipp (1941–2014), German sociologist
- Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer (* 1954), German sociologist
- Peter Christian Ludz (1931–1979), German political scientist and sociologist
- Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist and one of the founders of sociological systems theory
M.
- Jürgen Markowitz (* 1942), German sociologist
- Douglas Massey (* 1952), American sociologist
- Joachim Matthes (1930–2009), German sociologist
- Thomas Mergel (* 1960), German historian
- Klaus Merten (1940–2020), German communication scientist
- Roland Merten (* 1960), German scientist and political official
- John W. Meyer (* 1935), American sociologist
- Siegfried Müller (1940-2017), German educationalist
- Hans D. Mummendey (* 1940), German psychologist and professor of social psychology
N
- Sighard Neckel (* 1956), German sociologist
O
- Ulrich Oevermann (* 1940), German sociologist and founder of objective hermeneutics
- Claus Offe (* 1940), German sociologist and political scientist
- Hans-Uwe Otto (* 1940), German educationalist
P
- Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (* 1956), professor of social anthropology
- Detlef Pollack (* 1955), German religious and cultural sociologist
- Achim Post (* 1959), German politician
R.
- Werner Rammert (* 1949), German sociologist
- Otthein Rammstedt (1938–2020), German sociologist and editor of the complete edition of Georg Simmel's works
- Peter Raschke (* 1941), German political scientist and addiction researcher
- Andreas Reckwitz (* 1970), German sociologist and cultural scientist
- Heinz Reif (* 1941), German historian
- Jost Reinecke (* 1957), German empirical social researcher
- Barbara Riedmüller-Seel (* 1945), German social scientist and former politician
S.
- Norbert Sachser (* 1954), German behavioral scientist and university professor
- Saskia Sassen (* 1947), American sociologist and economist
- Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer (* 1955), professor of Protestant theology and sociology of religion
- Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist and university professor
- Albert Scherr (* 1958), German sociologist and social work scientist
- Uwe Schimank (* 1955), German sociologist, who expanded Luhmann's system theory to include the missing actor perspective
- Gert Schmidt (* 1943), German sociologist
- Thomas Schnelle (* 1954), German sociologist and management consultant
- Achim Schrader (1934-2004), German sociologist
- Karl F. Schumann (* 1941), German sociologist and criminologist
- Gerd Schwerhoff (* 1957), German historian
- Werner Sewing (1951–2011), German architectural theorist
- Georg Stauth (* 1942), German Islamic scholar and sociologist
- Rudolf Stichweh (* 1951), German sociologist and professor
- Wolfgang Streeck (* 1946), German sociologist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
- Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (* 1964), German politician and economist
- Norbert Strotmann (* 1946), Roman Catholic religious, theologian and university professor
T
- Veronika Tacke (* 1961), German sociologist and professor of organizational sociology
- Susanne Tatje (* 1953), German sociologist and the first demography officer in a municipality in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Klaus Tenfelde (1944–2011), German historian
- Jonathan H. Turner (* 1942), American sociologist and professor
- Hartmann Tyrell (* 1943), German sociologist and professor emeritus
V
- Wolfgang van den Daele (* 1939), German legal scholar, sociologist and member of the National Ethics Council
- Philippe Van Parijs (* 1951), Belgian philosopher and economist
- Michael Vesper (* 1952), German sports official and politician
W.
- Gerhard Wagner (* 1958), German sociologist and professor
- Wolff-Dietrich Webler (* 1940), German sociologist and historian
- Ingo Wegener (1950–2008), German computer scientist
- Peter Weingart (* 1941), German sociologist and professor emeritus
- Claudia von Werlhof (* 1943), professor emeritus for women's studies
- Ansgar Weymann (* 1945), German sociologist who worked particularly in the field of applied sociology
- Erhard Roy Wiehn (* 1937), sociologist and professor emeritus
- Monika Wienfort (* 1961), German modern historian
- Helmut Wiesenthal (* 1938), German sociologist and political scientist
- Helmut Willke (* 1945), Professor of Global Governance
- Reinhard Wittenberg (* 1945), German sociologist and scientific author
See also
Individual evidence
Web links
- List of work areas
- Self-presentation of the faculty
- Cooperation University of St. Petersburg
- Overview of the university collaborations
- Homepage of the BGHS
- Homepage of the SFB 882
- Employee Directory
- Homepage of the journal for sociology
- Homepage of the Institute for World Society
- Niklas Luhmann visiting professorship
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