Gerald L. Eberlein

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Gerald L. Eberlein (born May 5, 1930 in Berlin ; † August 12, 2010 in Pöcking ) was a German sociologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich .

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Eberlein first studied physics and zoology, then psychology, philosophy and sociology. He worked as an assistant at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund and, after completing his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin, taught first at the University of Saarbrücken , then in Munich.

His research areas were mainly cultural , scientific and economic sociology , as well as anomalous studies . He was u. a. Member of the international Society for Scientific Exploration and co-founder of the German Society for Anomalistics .

Most recently he was a scientific adviser to the Nicolas Petrol Foundation for the promotion of education in the fields of the cultural history of Judaism and the history of medicine.

Publications

  • The concept of experience in today's empirical social research , 1963
  • (Ed.): Theory and Decision . An International Journal for Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences , 1970-2001
  • (with N. Dietrich), Theoretical Sociology Today , 1971
  • (Ed.): Theory and Decision Library. An International Series in Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences , 1974-1998
  • The Finalization of the Sciences , 1983
  • Maximizing Insights without a Social Purpose? For a Value-Conscious Science , 1987
  • School science, parascience, pseudoscience , Stuttgart 1991
  • (Ed.): Small Lexicon of Parasciences , 1995
  • The new space-time dimension of humans , 2010 (published posthumously)

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personal data
SURNAME Eberlein, Gerald L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberlein, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2010
Place of death Poecking