Gerhard Hauck

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Gerhard Hauck (born November 8, 1939 ) is a German sociologist .

Career

Gerhard Hauck first studied economics, then sociology and ethnology at the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1965 with a thesis on political leadership in the new states of Black Africa at the Institute for Sociology and Ethnology at the University of Heidelberg . He then researched and taught at this institute for more than a decade and completed his habilitation there in 1980 with a thesis on the reconstruction of historical materialism . Until his retirement he was an adjunct professor at the University of Heidelberg and also held numerous visiting professorships at German universities, but also at the University of Jos, Nigeria . In addition to his home university in Heidelberg, he is particularly closely connected to the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the University of Mainz . He has been working for Peripherie magazine since 1985 . Politics - Economy - Culture with, 1989 to 2010 member of the editorial board. He lives in Landau (Palatinate) .

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Hauck has made important contributions primarily to social theory and development sociology, which are summarized in volumes such as the history of sociological theory or evolution, development, underdevelopment . His regional interests include India, sub-Saharan Africa, but also Sicily. Since the 1970s, Hauck has played a decisive role in the critical debate about “ development ”, “underdevelopment” and global inequality in Germany. This work made a significant contribution to overcoming the contrast between modernization and dependency theory that had shaped the theory until 1990 . As Hauck shows above all in evolution, development, underdevelopment , but also in society and the state in Africa , for an understanding of processes of "underdevelopment" both internal and global moments are essential, which in the earlier controversy were often unrelated to one another were. Characteristic of Hauck's work is, on the one hand, the constant and multifaceted reflection on evolutionary theoretical aspects as well as the reception of the critical international debate based on Marx's theory . Hauck's analyzes of statehood in Africa also move within this frame of reference, carefully weighing internal social processes and the formative consequences of global hierarchies against each other. Hauck's contributions to the critique of ideology , his history of sociological theory and more recent works dealing with Eurocentrism in social theory were also groundbreaking. His book on a sociological concept of culture shows current risks when the concept of “culture” moves to the discourse position of “race” and becomes the basis for culturally racist argumentation models .

Publications

Monographs

  • The political ranks in the new states of Black Africa phil. Dissertation Heidelberg 1965. Microfiche, Frankfurt a. M./Washington, 1994.
  • with Amalendu Guha, Sarma Marla and Christian Sigrist : India. Peasant struggles: the story of a prevented development from 1756 until today. Wagenbach, Berlin, 1976 (Hindi edition Delhi 1979), ISBN 978-3-80311-071-8 .
  • History of Sociological Theory. An ideology-critical introduction . Reinbek, Rowohlt 1988, ISBN 9783499554018 .
  • From the classless to the class society. Systematic and empirical for the reconstruction of historical materialism. Cologne, Pahl-Rugenstein, 1979, ISBN 978-3760950099 .
  • Introduction to the criticism of ideology. Civil consciousness in classic, modern and postmodern . Argument, Hamburg, 1992, ISBN 978-3886192090 .
  • Evolution, development, underdevelopment. Social theoretical treatises. IKO, Frankfurt am Main, 1996, ISBN 3889393659 .
  • Society and State in Africa. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main, 2001, ISBN 9783860992265 .
  • The social theory and its other. Against the Eurocentrism of the social sciences . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-89691-551-1 .
  • Culture. On the career of a social science term . Westphalian steam boat, Münster, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89691-685-3 .
  • Global socialization and colonial difference. Essays, Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89691-900-7 .

Published books

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Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Laudongasse 40: Gerhard Hauck: Society and State in Africa. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ Portal for Political Science - The Social Theory and Its Other. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hauck, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1939