Guido Mehlkop

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Guido Mehlkop (* 1972 in Bonn-Beuel ) is a German social scientist and university lecturer in the field of empirical social research .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1991 and doing community service, he studied sociology , educational sciences and political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1993 , which Mehlkop completed in 1999 with the academic degree of Magister Artium for Sociology. He then worked first as a research assistant , then as a research assistant teaching at the Department of Sociology at the University of Bonn. In 2002 he received his doctorate there with the grade Summa Cum Laude as Dr. phil. with a thesis on the subject of economic freedom, income inequality and physical quality of life. An international comparative study . At the end of 2001, Mehlkop moved to the Institute of Sociology at the Technical University of Dresden as a research assistant , where in 2010 he worked on crime as a rational election act. An extension of the model of subjective value expectation and its empirical examination completed his habilitation .

In 2011 he was initially appointed as a substitute for the Professorship of Methods in Empirical Social Research at the University of Erfurt before he was appointed to the chair for quantitative methods of empirical social research at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Erfurt in the 2011/12 winter semester . From 2015 to 2018 he was dean of the political science faculty. In 2017, 2018 and 2019 he received an award for good teaching at the faculty.

Research priorities

Mehlkop deals with the areas of New Political Economy , suicide studies , and military sociology . In the course of his habilitation, he also turned to the economic theory of criminal activity. Mehlkop is currently also engaged in brain doping and the intake of smart pills . As a scientist at the university's political science faculty, the research area of ​​acceptance of the welfare state in Germany also gained in importance.

Publications (selection)

  • Economic freedom, income inequality and physical quality of life. An international comparative study. , Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3686-2 .
  • Support and exclusion through social cohesion. Human and social capital in empirical sociological research. Dresden Contributions to Sociology, Volume 3, MV Wissenschaft, Münster 2008; ISBN 978-3-86582-713-5 (with Peter Graeff).
  • Capitalism, Democracy and the Prevention of War and Poverty , Routledge, London and New York 2008, ISBN 978-0415467407 (with Peter Graeff).
  • Criminal behavior as a rational choice of action. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011; ISBN 3-531-18218-8 .

Mehlkop is also the editor of the series Dresden Contributions to Sociology together with Dominik Schrage and Stephan Hein as well as the series Economy and Politics with Gerhard Wegner and André Brodocz at Springer Verlag .

Web links

  • Guido Mehlkop at the University of Erfurt
  • Guido Mehlkop in the Who is Who of the University of Erfurt (has not been updated since 2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Dünne and Guido Mehlkop are new deans , press release of the University of Erfurt from September 30, 2015.
  2. ^ Prize for good teaching on uni-erfurt.de (accessed December 7, 2018).
  3. ↑ Prize for good teaching on uni-erfurt.de (accessed April 14, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Mehlkop, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn-Beuel