Friedrich Furstenberg

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Friedrich Fürstenberg (born April 22, 1930 in Berlin ) is a multifaceted German sociologist who has particularly distinguished himself in the field of industrial , work and religious sociology .

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The focus of Friedrich Fürstenberg's sociological research interest is the determination of structure and culture in general and of social structure as the interdependency of social fields of action in particular. In his first specialist sociological publication (1954) Fürstenberg uses the expression " social field of tension " - a sign of his structural-functionalist starting point. His fundamental work from 1956 deals more independently with the sociological concept of structure and attempts a dynamic approach. Fürstenberg's habilitation thesis 1962 specifies and concretises the concept of social field in an attempt to [...] first dynamically analyze contemporary society in terms of the formative forces that determine the overall structure. The process flows are therefore not [...] classified a priori in a social system, but rather viewed as its often independently acting basis. The identifiable impulses must then be followed in terms of their significance for the various social sectors. "The respective social sector is characterized as a" social field , whereby the idea of ​​a continuum of interactions is put in place of a model of mechanistic causal relationships .

General and therefore stronger from system concept is Discontinued in " social structure as a key concept of Social Analysis (1966)" the concept of " field of action worked out" and as an integral part of a social structure analysis presented with the objective statements about the effectiveness of social fields in a society to make As a result of which the basic position essentially supplements those analyzes that focus on the quantitative determination of social situations through data modeling. When it comes to the question of the structures of social inequality, for example, it is not only a question of the mode of distribution of social situations, but also of the reproductive patterns of social action : Every social structure can have a more or less pronounced degree of consolidation in the sense of action-related norms. In the fields of action, people and groups also take more or less fixed positions that characterize a situation-specific social situation with corresponding resources. According to the different social situations, interests in their preservation or change emerge, which transform the field of action into a social field of tension. In connection with needs and socio-cultural values, interests can develop into orientation patterns that have a lasting impact on the social consciousness of those involved. These can also be handed down through socialization processes . In social practice, patterns of identification develop through the habitualization of corresponding attitudes and mentalities, which enable the actors to be typified.

Friedrich Fürstenberg, as a committed contemporary, attempted a “diagnosis of our time” in the spirit of Karl Mannheim , for example in an extensive commentary on the problems of the German-German state association from 1990 and currently in the commentary on the terrorist war (2001) . Applying his theoretical approach, his transformation research was never just about economics and economic systems, but rather about the introduction of the market economy as a sociocultural (development) project and thus also about market economy in the cultural context between freedom / ies and ties:

“ It is important to anchor market-economy mechanisms and processes in the social structure. This is done in particular through the promotion of motivation to act, competence to act and the creation of room for maneuver [...] The introduction of a functioning market economy requires a structural policy that can continue as a regulatory policy. It aims to increase prosperity on the market on the basis of the citizens' ability to act. The aim behind this is the stabilization and improvement of living conditions and the modernization of ways of life that meet all-German, even European requirements. Life forms stabilize in solidarity communities. Market economy processes can increase the individual degree of freedom. A liberal society needs both: scope for free decisions and, as a result, socially binding ties. German unity is not only completed in terms of the market in the game of supply and demand, also not only bureaucratically in the network of rights and obligations, but also in the awareness of people who act independently but also in solidarity. "

In recent years, Friedrich Fürstenberg has also published online texts, e.g. B. essays on the history of literature and science on Carl Zuckmayer 2004 and Paul F. Lazarsfeld 2005, and gave time-critical lectures, e. B. on “Social and Structural Consequences of Globalized Financial Markets ” 2006.

Working life

The economics graduate in 1952 at the University of Tübingen Dr. rer. pole. PhD. He stayed from 1953 to 1957 for research purposes in the USA , Great Britain and France . In 1959 he became head of the "Training" department at Daimler-Benz AG, and in 1961 managing director of the "Research Institute for Cooperatives " at the University of Erlangen . In 1962 he completed his habilitation there. He followed the call in 1963 as a professor of sociology at the mountain academy Clausthal-Zellerfeld (now Technical University of Clausthal ), 1966 to the Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria , in 1981 at the Ruhr-University Bochum , then in 1986 at the Department of Sociology at the University of Bonn , where he retired in 1995.

He has held numerous visiting professorships, for example at the University of Liverpool , the Comprehensive University of Siegen , Macquarie University in Australia , Keio University in Tokyo , the University of Sofia ( Bulgaria ), the Colegio de Puebla in Mexico , and the Technical University of Tsinghua in Beijing ( Beijing ), China , the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Salzburg .

His work has been recognized many times. He was elected chairman of the Sociology of Religion Section of the German Society for Sociology from 1964 to 1967, chairman of the Society for Ergonomics from 1967 to 1969, President of the International Industrial Relations Association from 1983 to 1986 and member of the Board of Directors of the Working Group on Social Science Institutes from 1988 to 1998 . In 1991 the Soka University of Tokyo awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Festschriften

  • Brunhilde Scheuringer (Ed.): Value orientation and functional rationality. Sociological determinations of the present. Friedrich Fürstenberg on his 60th birthday (1990).
  • Clemens Heidack (Ed.): Working structures in transition. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Dr. H. c. Friedrich Fürstenberg (1995, 2nd edition 1997)

Sociologist training

An interview with Friedrich Fürstenberg from Linz / Danube (Sept. 2007) is on the net about sociologist training. It is about the traditional theory-practice relationship as well as a new qualification-competence problem.

Publications

Monographs

  • Problems of the wage structure (1958)
  • Economic Sociology (1961, ²1970, Japan. 1972)
  • The Ascension Problem in Modern Society (1962, 1969)
  • The social structure of the Federal Republic of Germany (1967, 6th edition 1978, Chinese 1987)
  • Sociology . Main questions and basic terms (1971, ³1978)
  • Japanese corporate governance (1972, ²1981)
  • Industrial Sociology (1975)
  • Conception of an interdisciplinary organized work science (1975)
  • Introduction to the sociology of work (1977)
  • Corporate Social Policy (1977)
  • Structure and Strategy in Industrial Relations (1991)
  • Social fields of action (1995)
  • On the sociology of the cooperative system (1995)
  • Economic citizen in the professional society ? (1997)
  • The Future of Social Religion (1999)
  • Industrial relations in societal change (2000)
  • Professional Society in Crisis (2000)
  • Desired worlds and system constraints. Action orientations in a cultural context , Lit Verlag, Münster 2004
  • Cooperative work organization (2005)
  • Civil society in structural change , Lit Verlag, Münster 2011

Editions

His wide-ranging book series Sociological Texts , which was published in 1959–1977 with Heinz Maus and later with Frank Benseler at Luchterhand-Verlag and made many works from the historical and international spectrum of sociology accessible for the first time, was of outstanding importance for post-war sociology in the Federal Republic of Germany .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Relaxation - The happy vineyard - Carl Zuckmayer's picture of joie de vivre and happiness
  2. ^ Knowledge and action. Lazarsfeld's foundation of social research
  3. ^ Institute for Social Policy and Social Policy , Johannes Kepler University Linz

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personal data
SURNAME Fürstenberg, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin