Franz-Xaver Kaufmann

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Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (born August 22, 1932 in Zurich ) is a Swiss sociologist who has lived in Germany since 1963 .

Life

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann grew up as the fifth child in a convinced Catholic family in a town shaped by the Reformed Church . Following the family tradition - his father was a lawyer - he studied law at the University of Zurich and economics at the University of St. Gallen . In 1957/58 he studied sociology with Raymond Aron and Georges Gurvitch in Paris. In 1960 he did his doctorate with the economists Walter Adolf Jöhr and Emil Küng in St. Gallen. After practical work in the personnel department of a Swiss chemical company, he worked at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund under Helmut Schelsky and at the same time completed his habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster (1968). He was one of the co-founders of the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University and worked there from 1969 until his retirement (1997) as Professor of Social Policy and Sociology. From 1979 to 1983 he was director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, from 1980 to 1992 at the Institute for Population Research and Social Policy he founded there.

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1998 . Since 2013 he has been spokesman for the Senate of the Schader Foundation .

Act

His main areas of work include the history and theory of social policy, as well as family and religious sociology . His sociology of social policy is oriented towards control theory and impact analysis. Contributions to the theory of the welfare state emphasize its normative foundations and socio-theoretical implications. He emphasizes the importance of the family for social welfare production and through his participation in the 5th Family Report of the Federal Government (1994) has brought this perspective into the political debates. His contributions to the sociology of religion relate primarily to a sociology of Catholicism, to which he is linked through numerous advisory activities.

Awards

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann was chairman of the Scientific Council of the Catholic Academy in Berlin for many years . In March 2007, Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky awarded him the highest honor of the Archdiocese of Berlin , the "Silver Hedwig Medal ", for his many years of voluntary work. Also in 2007 he was awarded the Schader Prize for his services in the dialogue between social sciences and practice. In 2009, Bielefeld University appointed Kaufmann an honorary senator for his services to the university. In June 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Catholic Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. At the beginning of October 2012, Kaufmann received an award from the German Sociological Society for his outstanding scientific life's work . In the same year he also received the Heinrich Brauns Prize .

Fonts (selection)

  • Between knowledge and belief. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 2014.
  • Christianity - Modernity - Politics . Schöningh, Paderborn 2014.
  • Sociology and Social Ethics . Academic Press, Friborg 2013.
  • Shrinking society. The population decline and its consequences ; Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005. Licensed edition by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2005. 3rd edition 2007.
  • Sociopolitical Thinking: The German Tradition . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Variants of the welfare state . The German welfare state in an international comparison . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003. 5th edition 2006.
  • The emergence of basic social rights and the development of the welfare state ; Schöningh, Paderborn 2003.
  • Social policy and welfare state. Sociological Analysis . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002. 2nd and 3rd extended editions: VS, Wiesbaden 2005 and 2009.
  • How does Christianity survive? Herder, Freiburg i. Br., 1st and 2nd edition 2000.
  • Challenges of the welfare state . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997. 6th edition 2004.
  • Family future . Beck, Munich 1990. Extended edition 1995.
  • The call for responsibility. Risk and ethics in an unmanageable world . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1992.
  • Religion and modernity. Social science analyzes . Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1989.
  • (Co-author): Social policy and family socialization. How public social benefits work . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980.
  • Understand the Church. Analyzes and theses on the social constitution of Christianity . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1979.
  • Security as a sociological and socio-political problem. Investigations into a value idea of ​​highly differentiated societies . Enke, Stuttgart 1970. 2nd edition 1973.
  • The aging - causes, course, economic and social impact of demographic aging ; Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich / St. Gallen 1960.

literature

  • Karl Gabriel: Franz-Xaver Kaufmann: Catholic tradition and social-scientific reflexivity . In: Hans-Rüdiger Schwab (Ed.): Stubbornness and attachment. Catholic German intellectuals in the 20th century. Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 2009, pp. 633–643.
  • Lutz Leisering: Sociological clarification of social policy. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 51 (2005), pp. 245–272.
  • Karl Gabriel, Johannes Horstmann and Norbert Mette (eds.): Future viability of theology. Impetus from the sociology of Franz-Xaver Kaufmann. Bonifatius, Paderborn 1999.
  • Stephan Goertz: Moral theology under pressure to modernize: interdisciplinarity and modernization as provocations of theological ethics - in dialogue with the sociology of Franz-Xaver Kaufmann. LIT-Verlag, Münster 1999.
  • Stephan Goertz / Hermann-Josef Große Kracht (ed.): Christianity - Modernity - Politics. Studies on Franz-Xaver Kaufmann . Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76952-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz-Xaver Kaufmann: How a Swiss citizen's boy found sociology . In: Martin Huber, Gerhard Lauer (ed.): Science and University. Self-portrait of a generation . DuMont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7942-9 , pp. 58–73.
  2. ^ Franz-Xaver Kaufmann: Social policy and welfare state. Sociological Analysis . Opladen 2002.
  3. ^ Judith Könemann : Laudation for Franz-Xaver Kaufmann . In: Klaus Müller (ed.): Church looking for the future. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann and Wunibald Müller - honorary doctors of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Münster . Aschendorff, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-402-13007-0 , pp. 17-28, here. P. 22.
  4. ^ Hedwigs Medal for Prof. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann , Archdiocese of Berlin, March 28, 2007, accessed online on December 15, 2012
  5. ↑ idw online, October 5, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich