Gerd Laga
Gerd Laga (born June 24, 1938 in Hamburg ; † November 14, 2007 there ) was a German sociologist and university professor.
Career
Laga started out as a machinist and earned his university entrance qualification through a second course of education . In 1962 he began studying sociology, educational science, ethnology and history at the University of Hamburg , which he completed in 1971 with Janpeter Kob with a doctorate. phil. completed. Laga was first a scientific employee in a project of the German Research Foundation for the political education of students, later an assistant and lecturer at the University of Education in Hanover , where he was appointed to a university professorship in 1980.
Laga died of cancer on November 14, 2007 in a Hamburg hospital. His grave is in the cemetery in Hamburg-Bergedorf.
research
In addition to general educational issues, his fields of work included method problems in empirical social research . In terms of content, he was concerned with questions of political socialization, prejudice research, the problem of the handicapped, the professionalization of care professions and other socio-political problems, on which he has presented numerous publications.
In 1999 the Omsk Pedagogical University (Russia) awarded him an honorary doctorate . On his retirement in 2003 the commemorative publication "From Weber to Euclid" was published by Andreas Böttger.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerd Laga in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laga, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 2007 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |