Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University

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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:

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:

Université Libre de Bruxelles , Belgium University of Ghent , Belgium
University of Sofia , Bulgaria Aarhus University , Denmark
University of Copenhagen , Denmark University of Roskilde , Denmark
University of Helsinki , Finland Tampere University , Finland
Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux , France Institut d'études politiques de Paris , France
University of Paris VII , France University of Rouen , France
University of Calcutta , India University of Bologna , Italy
La Sapienza University , Italy University of Sassari , Italy
University of Trento , Italy Vilnius University , Lithuania
University of Amsterdam , Netherlands Free University of Amsterdam , Netherlands
University of Groningen , Netherlands Maastricht University , Netherlands
University of Salzburg , Austria University of Vienna , Austria
Academy of Mining and Metallurgy Cracow , Poland Warsaw University , Poland
Zielona Góra University , Poland University of Lisbon , Portugal
Babes Bolyai University Cluj , Romania University of Gothenburg , Sweden
Linköping University , Sweden Malmo University of Applied Sciences , Sweden
Umeå University , Sweden University of Basel , Switzerland
University of Bern , Switzerland University of Lucerne , Switzerland
Complutense University of Madrid , Spain Koç Üniversitesi , Turkey
Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi , Turkey İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi , Turkey
Hitit Üniversitesi , Turkey Loránd Eötvös University , Hungary

Personalities

(The following personalities are related to the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. The list is alphabetical by family name)

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  • 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

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  • Thomas Faist (* 1959), Professor of Transnational Relations and Development Sociology
  • Jürgen Frese (1939–2007), German social philosopher and phenomenologist

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  • Detlef Jahn (* 1956), German political scientist and professor of comparative government
  • Klaus Peter Japp (* 1947), Professor of Political Communication and Sociology of Risk

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  • Ulrich Oevermann (* 1940), German sociologist and founder of objective hermeneutics
  • Claus Offe (* 1940), German sociologist and political scientist
  • Hans-Uwe Otto (* 1940), German educationalist

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  • 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

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://sozusagenblog.wordpress.com/

Web links

Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 13.2 "  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 41.8"  E