Helga Pelizäus-Hoffmeister

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Helga Pelizäus-Hoffmeister (* 1961 in Geseke ) is a German sociologist .

Life

After graduating from the Pelizaeus-Gymnasium in Paderborn in 1981, she studied economics at the University of Paderborn from 1981 to 1984 , pre-diploma and from 1996 to 2001 sociology at the University of Munich , pre-diploma 1997, specialization areas: Sociology of work: work and industrial sociology and work and occupational sociology , Sociology of Social Inequality Minor subjects: Experimental and applied social psychology with Dieter Frey , Communication Sciences Diploma thesis: Social networks under the conditions of increasing mobility in the 'reflexive modernity'. Investigated using the example of freelance journalists . From 1999 to 2001 she was a student assistant in the project "Mobility Pioneers" of the SFB 536 "Reflexive Modernization" at the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich, content and organizational activities. From 2001 to 2002 she worked in the project Uncertainty Experiences and Safety Fictions in Reflexive Modernism of the Collaborative Research Center 536. From 2001 to 2014 she was a research assistant in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich , professorship for general sociology. From 2003 to 2009 she was an associated member of the SFB 536 Reflexive Modernization . After receiving his doctorate in 2005 as a Dr. rer. pole. at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, dissertation topic: From safe to unsafe life? A historical comparison of artist biographies , she has been a member of the German Society for Sociology (DGS) since 2006. Since 2007 she has been a member of the Age (n) and Society section of the DGS. After her habilitation in 2013, Venia Legendi : General Sociology, she has been a research assistant in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, professorship for general sociology.

Her main research interests are demographic change, the sociology of aging, age and technology, the sociology of technology, qualitative methods, biographical (im) security and risk sociology, sociological theory: theories of action and society and mobility and space, globalization and migration.

Fonts (selection)

• Mobility: Opportunity or Risk? Social networks under the conditions of spatial mobility - the example of freelance journalists . Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3362-6 .
• Biographical security in transition? A comparative historical analysis of artist biographies . Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8350-6022-8 .
• The long life in the modern age. Interrelationships between age and modernization . Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17820-2 .
• On the importance of technology in the everyday life of older people. Theory and empiricism from a sociological perspective . Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 3-658-02137-3 .

Web links

• PD Dr. Helga Pelizäus-Hoffmeister