Gerd-Günter Voss

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G. Günter Voss

Gerd-Günter Voss (born June 24, 1950 in Setterich , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German sociologist .

Life path

After graduating from high school in 1968, Voss was a professional soldier until 1974 and then studied sociology , political science and psychology at the University of Munich until 1979 . He received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and received his doctorate from Karl Martin Bolte in Munich in 1984 and habilitated in 1990 with a paper on the foundation of a sociology of everyday life .

Until 1994 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Munich and at the same time was a member of the DFG Collaborative Research Centers 101 (“Social Science Occupational and Workforce Research”) and 333 (“Development Perspectives of Work”). From 1994 to 2015 he was professor for industrial and technological sociology at the TU Chemnitz .

Until 2019, Voss was a board member of the TIM Foundation, which promotes lifestyle skills for children and young people.

Scientific orientation

G. Günter Voss is regarded as a representative of a subject - oriented sociology that was developed in the 1980s from empirical research projects on the sociology of work and occupation, conceptually developed by Karl Martin Bolte and others and related to social action . Against this background, Voss developed together with Hans J. Pongratz the trend-setting work-sociological guiding concept of an increasingly self-marketing worker (" worker entrepreneur ") in connection with considerations on subjectification and delimitation of work . In 2005, together with Kerstin Rieder, he published the thesis of the “ working customer ”, according to which consumers, as consumers who buy goods, are increasingly involved in operational functional processes as unpaid informal workers. Both processes refer back to considerations developed in the 1980s for the micro-empirical investigation of everyday life via the sociological concept of “everyday life ”, take up a term from Max Weber and at the same time set themselves apart from the similar concept of lifestyle . These approaches and researches developed and published primarily by Voss in contemporary German sociology can be seen as contributions to a reflexive, action-oriented subject sociology, the further theoretical and methodological elaboration and justification of which is still pending. In close connection with the work on subjectification and delimitation of work, several studies have been carried out in recent years on the psycho-social consequences of structural change in work (time and performance pressure, burnout syndrome , etc.). After retirement, the focus of work is now the social consequences of robotized technologies with an anthropologically expanded, subject-oriented focus. Overall, his work is characterized by "changes in occupation and work in the course of the further development of the work society and modern capitalism".

Fonts (selection)

as an author / co-author
  • The working user. About the raw material of surveillance capitalism . Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus 2020, ISBN 978-3-59351237-2 .
  • Working robots - working people. About subjectified machines and human subjects . In: Alexander Friedrich at al (ed.): Work and play. Yearbook of technology philosophy 2018 . Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-42790 , pp. 139–180.
  • Professional handling of time and performance pressure . Baden-Baden: Nomos / edition sigma 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-2944-9 (together with Christoph Handrich, Carolyn Koch-Falkenberg).
  • Conduct of Everyday Life in Subject-Oriented Sociology: Concept and Empirical Research . In: Ernst screw, Charlotte Højholt (eds.): Psychology and the conduct of everyday life . London: Routledge 2015, pps. 34–64 (together with Karin Jurczyk, Margit Weihrich).
  • Business in Web 2.0. For the strategic integration of consumer services through social media . Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39772-6 (together with Frank Kleemann, Christian Eismann, Tabea Beyreuther, Sabine Hornung, Kathrin Duske).
  • Unlimited work - unlimited family. Border management in everyday life as a challenge . Berlin: edition sigma 2009, ISBN 978-3-8360-8700-1 (together with Karin Jurczyk, Michaela Schier, Andreas Lange, Peggy Szymenderski).
  • The working customer. When consumers become unpaid employees . Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus 2005, ISBN 3-593-37890-6 (together with Kerstin Rieder).
  • Worker entrepreneur. Employment orientations in unbounded forms of work . Berlin: edition sigma 2003, ISBN 3-89404-978-2 (together with Hans, J. Pongratz).
  • The delimitation of work and labor. A subject-oriented interpretation of the change in work , In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung , Vol. 31 (1998), Heft 3, pp. 473-487.
  • The worker entrepreneur. A new basic form of labor? . In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , Vol. 50 (1998), Issue 1, pp. 131–158 (together with Hans J. Pongratz).
  • Lifestyle as work. About the autonomy of the person in everyday life in society . Stuttgart: Enke 1991, ISBN 3-432-99421-4 .
as editor / co-editor
  • Risky working environments. On the effects of modern employment relationships on mental health and quality of work . Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39965-2 (together with Rolf Haubl, Brigitte Hausinger).
  • Stress disorder with a system. The second study on the psychosocial situation in German organizations . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck-Ruprecht 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-40343-3 (together with Rolf Haubl, Nora Alsdorf, Christoph Handrich).
  • Handbook of sociology of work . Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018, 2nd revised and expanded edition, 2 volumes, ISBN 978-3-658-14457-9 , ISBN 978-3-658-21703-7 (together with Fritz Böhle, Günther Wachtler).
  • Service as interaction . Munich / Mering: R. Hampp 2004, ISBN 3-87988-831-0 (together with Wolfgang Dunkel).
  • Delimitation of work and life. On the change in the relationship between employment and privacy in everyday life . Munich / Mering: R. Hampp 2003, ISBN 3-87988-798-5 (together with Karin Gottschall).
  • Subjectification of work . 2nd edition Munich / Mering: R. Hampp 2003, ISBN 978-3-87988-745-3 (together with Manfred Moldaschl).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Unemployment in Europe: "Suddenly there is a bang"
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Gerd-Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Setterich