Günter Albrecht (sociologist)

Günter Albrecht (born January 7, 1943 in Duisburg ) is a German sociologist who particularly endeavored to open up opportunities for sociologists to work in the field of social work .

Career

From 1962 to 1967 , Albrecht studied German , philosophy , history , geography and sociology at the University of Cologne . After the state examination, he became an assistant to René König . From 1969 he was also the editorial secretary of the Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology , whose editor he became in 1972 (with König, Fritz Sack and Alphons Silbermann ). Albrecht was in 1972 when René King in Cologne Dr. phil. doctorate and represented the area as scientific advisor and professor thereSociology of Social Work . Since 1978 he has been a full professor of sociology at Bielefeld University , and since 2008 as emeritus .

Sociology of geographic mobility: at the same time a contribution to the sociology of social change , Stuttgart: Enke, 1972 (also dissertation )
Social problems and social control: new empirical research, inventory and critical analyzes , Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1982 (edited with Manfred Brusten ), ISBN 3-531-11596-0
Handbook of Social Problems , Opladen; Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1999 (as publisher), ISBN 3-531-12117-0
Violent crime between myth and reality , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2001 (as publisher), ISBN 3-518-12222-3 .

HH Bohle: Albrecht, Günter , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1984, p. 14 f.

↑ cf. Albrecht, G. (1972): Sociology of geographical mobility: at the same time a contribution to the sociology of social change, Stuttgart: Enke.