Gabriele Rosenthal

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Gabriele Rosenthal (born April 19, 1954 in Schwenningen am Neckar ) is a German sociologist and professor of qualitative methods in the social sciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen .

Life

Gabriele Rosenthal studied sociology, political science and psychology at the University of Konstanz and at the same time completed training as a parenting and family counselor. In 1986 she received her doctorate from Bielefeld University . She received her venia legendi in 1993 with her habilitation at the University of Kassel with Fritz Schütze and Regine Gildemeister .

Gabriele Rosenthal worked as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Bielefeld and at the University of Kassel, as well as a guest lecturer at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Scheva .

After visiting professorships and substitute professorships at the University of Vienna , the University of Cologne and the University of Kassel with the subsequent granting of an unscheduled professorship there, Gabriele Rosenthal accepted the appointment of the C3 professorship for qualitative methods in the social sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 2002, which is based at the Method Center for Social Sciences (MZS). From 2009 to 2011 she was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. From August to October 2017 she was visiting professor at the Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul .

Research priorities

Gabriele Rosenthal is particularly recognized in the field of biography and generation research in qualitative social research . She works on the basis of internationally comparative case reconstructions (case levels: biography, family or milieu), particularly in the areas of migration, ethnic affiliation and intergenerational tradition. Her habilitation thesis “Experienced and Narrated Life History” (1995) is methodologically influential for biographical research . In this she deals with the shape and structure of biographical self-descriptions. Among other things, she refers to the design theoretical considerations of Aron Gurwitsch and Kurt Koffka in order to explain the dialectical relationship between experience, remembering and narration. Along with other biography researchers such as Peter Alheit , Wolfram Fischer and Martin Kohli , she developed and understood biography as a concept "that shows a way out of the dualistic impasse of subject and society" (p. 12). The project 'The Holocaust in the Lives of Three Generations' also gained prominence. In this, the consequences of the experiences of Holocaust survivors as well as those of Nazi perpetrators on the subsequent second and third generations were examined. The analyzes of an intergenerational transmission of the past are based on theories of Karl Mannheim , Alfred Schütz as well as Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann . In addition, the work of Norbert Elias plays an important role in her approach. The geographic focus of her research activities is in Israel, Palestine, Florida, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Ghana, Uganda and the Spanish enclaves. Their transnational approach to current social problems, such as the consequences of violence, war and flight, is characteristic.

Memberships

Between 1999 and 2003 Gabriele Rosenthal was the spokesperson for the Biography Research Section of the German Sociological Society (DGS). From 2002 to 2010 she was President of the Research Committee “Biography and Society” of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Between 2005 and 2012 she was a member of the council of the German Society for Sociology.

Research projects (selection)

  • The social construction of border zones: a comparison of two geopolitical cases (2014–2017)
  • Outsiders and established ones at the same time: Palestinians and Israelis in different figurations (2010-2015)
  • Child soldiers in context. Biographies, family and collective histories in Northern Uganda (2014-2017)
  • Collective myths and their transgenerational consequences. On the self-image and the image of others from the Germans in and from the CIS (2007-2011)
  • Biographical case studies of adolescents in vocational training measures (2004-2005)
  • Biographical processes of change in ethnic and collective constructions of belonging in the context of migration (2006–2009)
  • The Holocaust in the Life of Three Generations. Family biographies in Germany and Israel (1992–1996)

Works (selection)

  • Rosenthal, G. (2018): Interpretive Social Research: An Introduction. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
  • Bogner, A. / Rosenthal, G. (2018): Child soldiers in context: biographies, family and collective history in northern Uganda. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
  • Rosenthal, G. / Bogner, A. (2017): Biographies in the Global South: Life stories embedded in figurations and discourses. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus.
  • Rosenthal, G. (Ed.) (2016): Established and outsiders at the same time: Self-images and we-images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
  • Rosenthal, G. (ed.) (2015): Established and outsiders at the same time: Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel perceive themselves and others. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus.
  • Rosenthal, G. / Stephan, V. / Radenbach, N. (2011): Fragile affiliations. How families of "Russian Germans" tell their stories. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus.
  • Rosenthal, G. (2011): Interpretative Social Research. In the series: Basic texts sociology. Edited by Klaus Hurrelmann. Weinheim and Munich: Juventa; updated and supplemented 3rd edition.
  • Rosenthal, G. / Bogner, A. (Ed.) (2009): Ethnicity, Belonging and Biography. Ethnographical and Biographical Perspectives. Münster: LIT Verlag / New Brunswick: Transaction.
  • Rosenthal, G. (Ed.) (2009): The Holocaust in Three-Generations. Families of Victims and Perpetrators of the Nazi Regime. Opladen: Barbara Budrich.
  • Rosenthal, G. (Ed.) (1997): The Holocaust in the Life of Three Generations. Families of survivors of the Shoah and of Nazi perpetrators. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag.
  • Rosenthal, G. (1995): Experienced and told life story. Shape and structure of biographical self-descriptions. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus.
  • Rosenthal, G. (Ed.) (1990): “When the war came, I had nothing more to do with Hitler”. On the presence of the “Third Reich” in told life stories. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.
  • Rosenthal, G. (1987): "... When everything falls apart ..." On the life and meaning of the war generation. Wiesbaden: VS publishing house for social sciences.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teaching and research stay in Porto Alegre. In: uni-goettingen.de. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwenningen am Neckar