Helmut Giegler

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Helmut Giegler (born July 28, 1947 in Fürth ; † June 10, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German sociologist , university professor and empirical social researcher. His main research interests and interests lay in the areas of methodology of computer-aided empirical social research , the sociology of lifestyles, leisure and mass media, social structure analysis and political sociology.

Live and act

Giegler studied sociology, philosophy and psychology at the University of Hamburg and was awarded a doctorate there in 1978 (according to another source: 1980). phil. PhD. From 1980 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen ; In 1986 he received his habilitation there. After brief teaching activities at the University of Bremen (1987–1988, 1989–1991) and the University of Hamburg (1988–1989), he held a professorship for methods of empirical social research at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 1991 to 1994 . On August 1, 1994, he was appointed to the chair for sociology and empirical social science at the University of Augsburg . Giegler had been retired since April 2010 and lived in Hamburg again. He died in June 2017 at the age of 69.

Publications (selection)

  • Dimensions and determinants of leisure time . An inventory of social science leisure research. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1982, ISBN 3-531-11564-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • LISREL . Viewed critically from a sociological and political user perspective. Justus Liebig University, Giessen 1984.
  • EDP ​​for social scientists . Introduction to using SPSS. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1987.
  • with Klaus Merten and Friederike Uhr: Basic approaches and methods of media impact research . Federal Institute for Population Research, 1992.
  • with Klaus Merten: Contact by advertisement . Empirical analysis of advertisers, ads and respondents. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-531-12611-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c About the authors . In: Jens Dangschat, Jörg Blasius (Ed.): Lifestyles in the cities. Concepts and Methods . Springer-Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 978-3-663-10619-7 , pp. 482 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b On the death of Prof. Dr. Helmut Giegler. (No longer available online.) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute for Sociology, August 24, 2017, archived from the original on August 25, 2017 ; Retrieved August 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.soziologie.phil.uni-erlangen.de
  3. ↑ Chair for Sociology and Empirical Social Research. Retrieved July 2, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Second way of bonding. Accessed April 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Giegler, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and empirical social researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2017
Place of death Hamburg