Gert Schmidt

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Gert Schmidt (born March 30, 1943 in Görlitz ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Gert Schmidt studied sociology, political science, psychology and economics at New York University and the University of Munich (diploma 1967, doctorate 1974). At the Institute for Social Science Research in Munich he worked between 1965 and 1973 - first as a student assistant, then as a research assistant - in several studies on the importance of technical progress for the development of work organization and work policy and on the historical development of industrial sociological research in Western Europe and the USA . From 1973 to 1975 he was an assistant at the Max Weber Institute at the University of Munich. From 1975 to 1980 he was a substitute professor at the University of Dortmund for general sociology, methods of qualitative social research, industrial and organizational sociology and the function as managing director of the Dortmund Social Research Center (SFS), which he redesigned thematically.

In 1980 a guest lecturer at the University of Duisburg followed , before he was appointed to the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University in 1981 , where he was temporarily dean. In addition to teaching, Schmidt was involved here a. a. in the development of the research focus “Future of Work ” and in projects on the influence of ICT technologies on work organization as well as in studies of international comparative organizational research. In addition, he participated in the “ Georg Simmel Total Edition”. From 1991 to 2010 Gert Schmidt was a professor at the University of Erlangen . From 1996 to 2003 he acted as coordinator of the DFG priority “Regulation and restructuring of work in the areas of tension between globalization and regionalization”. In 2001 he went to the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin as a visiting researcher in the department “Regulation of Work” for one year . Among other things, he also researched transformation processes in the former Comecon area and globalization. From 2006 to 2008, together with Markus Pohlmann, he led a research project funded by the DFG on the generation change in German top management (economic elites in social change).

Fonts (selection)

  • Martin Heidenreich , Gert Schmidt (Hrsg.): International comparative organizational research. Questions, methods and results of selected studies. VS, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 978-3-531-12202-1 .
  • Gert Schmidt (Ed.): No end of the working society. Work, society and the subject in the globalization process. Edition sigma, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-89404-471-8 .
  • Gert Schmidt, Rainer Trincek (Ed.): Globalization. Economic and Social Challenges at the End of the Twentieth Century. Soziale Welt, special volume 13, 1999, ISBN 978-3-7890-6078-6 .
  • Gert Schmidt, Hans-Joachim Bradczyk, Jost von dem Knesebeck (ed.): Materials for industrial sociology. Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology, special issue 24, 1982, ISBN 978-3-531-11615-0 .

literature

  • Philipp Hessinger, Markus Pohlmann (ed.): Globalization as auto-capitalism. Studies on the globality of modern societies [Festschrift for Gert Schmidt] . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17704-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Project Economic Elites in Social Change. A study on the generation change in German top management .
  2. ↑ See Philipp Hessinger: Markets and "common ground": work, health care, finance. With a foreword by Gabriele Wagner and an afterword by Dirk Baecker . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, p. 283 ( editorial note ).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz