Heinz-Herbert Noll

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Heinz-Herbert Noll (born January 1, 1949 in Döttesfeld ) is a German sociologist .

education

Noll studied sociology, economics, social policy and statistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1981 Wolfgang Zapf received his doctorate as Dr. phil at the University of Mannheim with a thesis on "Employment Opportunities and Working Conditions: A Social Report for the Federal Republic 1950–1980" (1982).

job

research

From 1981 to 1987 Noll was a research assistant in the SPES project and Collaborative Research Center 3 "Microanalytical Basics of Social Policy" (Sfb3), then project manager and project area manager in Sfb 3. During this time, he specialized in the field of sociology of the labor market and wrote in this Also frame his dissertation.

In 1987 he was appointed head of the newly created "Department of Social Indicators" at ZUMA (now GESIS). The task of this department is the permanent institutionalization of welfare research and social reporting in Germany as a scientific infrastructure facility. Various activities developed over time. This includes:

  • the continuation of the SPES social indicator table for Germany
  • the organization of seminars and conferences on social indicators
  • collaboration on the "data report"
  • the publication of a newsletter or "information service social indicators"
  • the scientific advice and preparation of expert reports
  • international cooperation, such as B. in the "International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies" (ISQOLS)
  • Implementation of research projects such as B. a project to develop a system of European social indicators

Teaching

Noll taught at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, the University of Tartu, the Université Friborg, the Università degli Studi di Firenze and the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique in Paris. He was also invited to various foreign institutes and universities.

Honorary positions

Noll was appointed to several scientific and political advisory bodies, such as B. as spokesman for the “Section Social Indicators” in the German Society for Sociology (DGS) or as President of the ISA Research Committee 55 “Social Indicators”. Most recently he was President of the "International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies" (ISQOLS) until 2012 and from 2014 to 2016 a member of the scientific advisory board of the government strategy "Living well in Germany". Noll is also the "external scientific advisor" of the Hungarian social research institute TARKI and the main organizer of the series of annual "Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe" conferences that has been taking place at Villa Vigoni since 2006.

Noll also acted as an advisory board member in various research projects and was / is a member of the editorial boards of specialist journals such as Social Indicators Research , Current Sociology and Applied Research in Quality of Life .

Scientific importance

Noll's sociological significance is to have institutionalized the work of his teacher Wolfgang Zapf and his colleagues in SPES and Sfb 3 and thus to have secured Germany a leading position in the international comparison of social indicator research. This made Germany a leading player in this applied sociological sub-discipline. Noll has also contributed to publicizing the concept of social indicators at European level and to making it a permanent task at Eurostat and the European Commission.

Publications

Books (author, co-author, editor)

  • (1982), Employment Chances and Working Conditions: A Social Report for the Federal Republic 1950–1980 . Frankfurt and New York: Campus. (University of Mannheim, dissertation, 1981). (Series of publications Collaborative Research Center 3 Microanalytical Basics of Social Policy, Vol. 9).
  • (together with Wolfgang Glatzer, co-author) (Ed.) (1992), Living Conditions in Germany: Inequality and Equalization . Frankfurt and New York: Campus. (Social indicators, vol. 16).
  • (1993) (Ed.), System of Social Indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany: Time Series 1950–1991; Table volume . Mannheim: Center for Surveys, Methods and Analyzes, Dept. Social Indicators. (A ZUMA publication).
  • (together with Roland Habich) (1994), Social Indicators and Social Reporting: International Experience and Current State of Research; Expertise . Bern: Federal Statistical Office. (Federal Statistical Office, Swiss Statistics, 16: Culture, Living Conditions, Sport).
  • (Co-author and ed.) (1997), Social reporting in Germany: Concepts, methods and results for areas of life and population groups . Weinheim et al .: Juventa-Verlag. (Fundamental texts sociology).
  • (together with Roland Habich, co-author) (Hrsg.) (2000), From the growing together of a society: Analyzes for the equalization of living conditions in Germany . Frankfurt and New York: Campus. (Social Indicators, Vol. 21).
  • (together with Yannick Lemel, co-author) (eds.) (2002), Changing Structures of Social Inequality: A Comparative Perspective . Montreal et al .: McGill-Queen’s University Press. (Comparative Charting of Social Change).
  • Co-editor and author of the "Datenreport" - editions 1990 to 2008

Journal articles, contributions in compilations

  • (1990), Quality of Life in the Federal Republic of Germany: Methods of Measurement and Selected Results. In: Protestant Academy Baden; Ulrich Duchrow (Ed.), Minutes of a consultation of the Evangelical Academy Baden on 29./30. September 1989 in the August-Winnig-Haus, Wilhelmsfeld . Karlsruhe, pp. 26-33.
  • (1997), Social Reporting: Objectives, Functions, and Forms. In the S. (Ed.), Social reporting in Germany: Concepts, methods and results for areas of life and population groups . Weinheim et al .: Juventa-Verlag, pp. 7-16. (Fundamental texts sociology).
  • (1999), The Perspective of Social Reporting. In: Peter Flora (Ed.), Social reporting and observation of the welfare state: individual welfare and welfare state institutions as reflected in empirical analyzes . Frankfurt and New York: Campus, pp. 13–28. (Social Indicators, Vol. 20).
  • (2002), Global Measures of Welfare as Instruments of Welfare Measurement and Social Reporting: Functions, Approaches, and Problems. In: Wolfgang Glatzer (Ed.), Social Change and Long-Term Social Observation . [Festschrift for Wolfgang Zapf]. Opladen: Leske and Budrich, pp. 317-35.
  • (2002), Towards a European System of Social Indicators: Theoretical Framework and System Architecture. In Social Indicators Research, Vol. 58/2002 (1-3): 47-84.
  • (2003), Social Indicator Research and Social Reporting: Goals, Results and Current Developments. In: Barbara Orth, Thomas Schwietring et al. (Ed.), Sociological Research: Status and Perspectives: A Handbook . Opladen: Leske and Budrich, pp. 449-66.
  • (with L. Roberts) (2003) The Legitimacy of Inequality on Both Sides of the Atlantic. A Comparative Analysis of Attitudes in Canada and Germany. In: The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville, Vol. XXIV, 2003 (2): 153-189
  • (together with B. Christoph) (2003) Subjective Well-Being in the European Union During the 1990ies. In: Social Indicators Research, Vol. 64/2003 (3): 521-546.
  • (2004) Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research: Background, Achievements and Current Trends. In: N. Genov (ed.), Advances in Sociological Knowledge Over Half a Century. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 185–212.
  • (together with St. Weick) (2005) Relative poverty and concentration of incomes increased significantly. Indicators and analyzes on the development of inequality of income and expenditure. In: Information Service Social Indicators (ISI), 33, pp. 1–6.
  • (together with Stefan Weick) (2006) Structures of Private Consumption in Germany: Inequalities and Temporary Change. In: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (Ed.): Social Inequality - Cultural Differences, Negotiations of the 32nd Congress of the German Society for Sociology in Munich 2004, Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus Verlag. Pp. 407-423.
  • (together with St. Weick) (2007) Income Poverty and Consumer Poverty - Different Perspectives and Diagnoses. Analyzes comparing the inequality of income and consumer spending. In: Information Service Social Indicators (ISI), 37, pp. 1–6.
  • (2008) European Survey Data: Rich Sources for Quality of Life Research. In: V. Møller, D. Huschka, A. Michalos (eds.), Barometers of Quality of Life Around the Globe. Social Indicators Research Series, Vol. 33. Dordrecht: Springer, pp 1–21.
  • (together with St. Weick) (2009) Living in Germany: Expensive, comfortable and mostly for rent. Analyzes of the living situation and quality of living in a European comparison. In: Information Service Social Indicators (ISI), 41, pp. 1–7.
  • (together with Stefan Weick) (2010) Subjective well-being in Germany: evolutions, determinants and policy implications. In: Bent Greve (ed.): Happiness and Social Policy In Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • (together with Carla Collicelli) (2010) Indicatori oggettivi e soggettivi di coesione sociale. Italia e Germania nello scenario europeo In: La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, 4/2010.
  • (2011) The Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi-Report: Old Wine in New Skins? Views from a Social Indicators Perspective. In: Social Indicators Research, Vol. 102, 1, May, 2011, pp. 111-116.
  • (together with Stefan Weick) (2011) Return of old-age poverty in Germany? Empirical analyzes of income and standard of living in retirement age. In: Lutz Leisering (Hrsg.), Die Alten der Welt. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.
  • (2013) Subjective Social Indicators: Benefits and Limitations for Policy Making. Social Indicators Research (2013) 114 (1), 1–11.
  • (together with Stefan Weick) (2013) Material standard of living and poverty in old age. In: Vogel, Claudia and Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas (ed.): Aging in social change: The return of old-age poverty? Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 113-138.
  • (2014) Societal Progress. In: Michalos, Alex C. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 6199-6205.
  • (with AC Michalos) (2014) International Sociological Association Working Group / Research Committee on Social Indicators. In: Michalos, Alex C .; Springer Publishing (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 3331-3336.
  • (2015) Progress - Concept and Measurement. In: A Life Devoted to Quality of Life. Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos, Social Indicators Research Series, Volume 60 edited by Filomena Maggino, pp. 93-104; Springer., ISBN 978-3-319-20567-0
  • (together with S. Weick) (2015) Consumption expenditures and subjective well-being: empirical evidence from Germany. International Review of Economics 62 (2): 101–119, 2015

Working papers, reports, hectographs

  • Noll wrote numerous articles for the "Information Service Social Indicators" (Mannheim: GESIS), which are not listed here individually. See the entries under magazine publisher and web links.
  • (c. 1977), Social Indicators of Employment: Data for a Targeted Policy . Frankfurt am Main. (SPES, No. 74).
  • (1979), Criteria and Mechanisms of Occupational Placement: An Aspect of Welfare Production . Frankfurt am Main: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. (Collaborative Research Center 3, Working Paper No. 7).
  • (1982), Determinants of Unemployed Reemployment: A Multivariate Analysis of Survey Data . Frankfurt am Main: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. (Collaborative Research Center 3, Working Paper No. 81).
  • (1983), Problems of young people entering the job market in the context of developments in the apprenticeship market: Lecture given in the Academic Winter 1982/83 series of the city, university and the Mannheim evening academy: Perspectives and problems of employment policy in the 1980s . Frankfurt am Main: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. (Collaborative Research Center 3, Working Paper No. 100).
  • (1985), Further Education and Professional Development: Empirical Analysis of the Further Education Behavior of Employees in the Federal Republic . Frankfurt am Main: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. (Collaborative Research Center 3, Working Paper No. 177).
  • (together with Walter Müller) (2003), Work and Social Structure . Mannheim: Mannheim Center for European Social Research. (MZES working papers, work area I, No. 13).
  • (1999), New Structures of Inequality: Some Trends of Social Change in Modernized Societies . Berlin: WZB. (Publications of the Department of Social Structure and Social Reporting of the Research Focus Social Change, Institutions and Mediation Processes of the Berlin Science Center for Social Research, No. 99/405).
  • (1999), Concepts of Welfare Development: Quality of Life and “New” Welfare Concepts . Mannheim: Zuma. (EuReporting Working Paper, No. 3). Also published under the same title as a working paper of the WZB, Berlin 2000 (series of publications by the cross-sectional group work and ecology of the Berlin Science Center for Social Research, No. 00/505).
  • (together with Regina Berger-Schmitt) (2000), Conceptual Framework and Structure of a European System of Social Indicators . Mannheim: Zuma. (EuReporting Working Paper, No. 9).
  • (together with B. Ebbinghaus, T. Bahle, C. Wendt, A. Scheuer) (2006) VFA Report Quality of Life 2006 Berlin / Mannheim: VFA - Association of researching pharmaceutical manufacturers eV 2006.
  • (together with Catrin Berger) (2014) Stocktaking Report on Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe. E-Frame Project, Grant Agreement No 290520, SSH.2011.6.2-1; Deliverable D5.2, GESIS, Social Indicators Research Center, Mannheim 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Noll, Heinz-Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Döttesfeld