Franz Rothenbacher

Franz Rothenbacher (born December 14, 1954 in Schelklingen ) is a German sociologist .

academic career

Rothenbacher studied sociology at the University of Mannheim from 1975 to 1981 . Then he was research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 3 Microanalytical Basics of Social Policy (Frankfurt a. M. and Mannheim) until mid-1982 . From mid-1982 to 1988, Rothenbacher was a research assistant at the Chair of Sociology III ( Wolfgang Zapf ) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, where he passed his PhD in 1988. phil. in sociology. Rothenbacher has been a social researcher at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) since 1989 and works in the Eurodata infrastructure department.

research

Rothenbacher initially dealt with the long-term analysis of social change in Germany, also known as modernization . Here he analyzed central long-term macrosocial change processes in the social subsystems of family, health, living conditions and, in a cross-sectional view, the structures of social inequality . Its intention was to apply the perspective of social reporting or social indicators to historical processes and structures.

At the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES), he worked on setting up the Eurodata infrastructure department and the European Statistics Library. The perspective of modernization ( Peter Flora ) and the territorial structure of Europe ( Stein Rokkan ) formed the basis for extensive long-term and comparative data collections for the European countries, which appear in the data manual series The Societies of Europe . For this series Rothenbacher edited the two volumes on the Western European and the volume on the Eastern European population.

Rothenbacher's other research areas include European social reporting, comparative analysis of European public services and, finally, local historical research.

Fonts (selection)

• Social inequality in the modernization process of the 19th and 20th centuries . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1989.
• (Together with Peter Flora, Franz Kraus and Heinz-Herbert Noll) Social Statistics and Social Reporting in and for Europe . Bonn: InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften (IZ), 1994 (Europe in Comparison - A Series of Guidebooks for the Social Sciences, ed. By Heinrich Best and Peter Flora, vol. 1). (332 pp.).
• Historical household and family statistics from Germany 1815–1990 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1997.
• Statistical Sources for Social Research on Western Europe: A Guide to Social Statistics . Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1998 (Europe in Comparison - A Series of Guidebooks for the Social Sciences, ed. By Heinrich Best and Peter Flora, vol. 6).
• The European Population, 1850-1945 . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 (The Societies of Europe, vol. 3). (xxviii + 846 pp. + CD-ROM).
• The European Population since 1945 . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (The Societies of Europe, vol. 4). (xxx + 1,030 p. + CD-ROM).
• The Central and East European Population since 1850 . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (The Societies of Europe, vol. 5).
• (together with Georg Fertig ) Chapter 2 'Population, households and families'. In Thomas Rahlf (Hrsg.), Germany in data: time series for historical statistics . Bonn: Federal Agency for Political Education / bpb, 2015, pp. 30–45. ISBN 978-3-8389-7133-9 . An English version of the text can be found on the project's homepage: Population, Households and Families
• (together with Georg Fertig) Chapter 2 'Population, households, families'. In: Thomas Rahlf (Ed.), Documentation on the time series rate for Germany, 1834–2012. Documentation of the German Time Series Dataset, 1834-2012 . Documentation for: Thomas Rahlf (Hrsg.), Germany in data: Zeitreihen der Historischen Statistik . Bonn: Federal Agency for Political Education. Version 29 June 2015. Historical Social Research, HSR Trans 26 (2015) v01. GESIS, Cologne 2015, pp. 69–130. doi : 10.12759 / hsr.trans.26.v01.2015 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Rothenbacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Franz Rothenbacher at the MZES of the University of Mannheim