Hans-Peter Müller (sociologist)

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Hans-Peter Müller (born December 10, 1951 in Erfurt ) is a German sociologist and professor emeritus for general sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

life and work

After studying economics and social sciences at the University of Augsburg , he obtained a diploma in sociology in 1977. He received his doctorate in 1981 and habilitated in 1990 at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Heidelberg University .

From 1977 to 1990 he worked as a research assistant and university assistant at the universities of Augsburg, Heidelberg and the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. Since 1992 he has held the chair for general sociology at Humboldt University.

His research and work focuses are classical and modern social theory, social structure and social inequality as well as political and cultural sociology . In 2016 he was represented with a text in the preparatory volume for the Capitalism Tribunal , organized by the Berlin project Haus Bartleby in Vienna.

Müller is the managing editor of the Berlin Journal for Sociology and co-editor of the Max Weber Handbook . He has written relevant monographs and introductions on Émile Durkheim , Pierre Bourdieu and Max Weber. Numerous visiting professorships at the universities of Rome ( La Sapienza University ), Berkeley , Harvard and Princeton testify to his international reputation as a sociologist. In the 2019/2020 winter semester, Hans-Peter Müller retired from Humboldt University.

His first marriage has two daughters.

Fonts (selection)

  • Value crisis and social reform. Emile Durkheim's writings on politics. Enke, Stuttgart 1983.
  • Social structure and lifestyles. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992 (2nd edition 1997).
  • Max Weber. An introduction to his work. Böhlau (UTB), Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2007.
  • Pierre Bourdieu. A systematic introduction. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014.
  • The sociological genius and his solid craft. Studies on Émile Durkheim's research program. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019.
  • Max Weber: A search for clues. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020.
editor
  • With Michael Schmid (Ed.): Major works of inequality research. West German publishing house, Opladen 2003.
  • With Steffen Sigmund (Ed.): Max Weber Handbook. Life - work - effect. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2014 (2nd updated and expanded edition 2020).
  • With Tilman Reitz (ed.): Simmel manual. Terms, major works, topicality , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-29851-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Müller: The misery of the meritocracy. In: Haus Bartleby (ed.): The capitalism tribunal , on the revolution of economic rights (The red book). Edited by Alix Faßmann , Anselm Lenz and Hendrik Sodenkamp . Translated by Corinna Popp, Viktor Kucharski, Anselm Lenz. Haus Bartleby eV, Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-70920-220-3 , pp. 113–116.
  2. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 318.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt