Helmut Wiesenthal

Helmut Wiesenthal (2012)

Helmut Wiesenthal (born February 7, 1938 in Meuselwitz , Thuringia ) is a German sociologist and political scientist .

Life

Wiesenthal was born in Meuselwitz in 1938 and lived in Erfurt until 1954 . After graduating from high school ( Unna 1959), he studied economics for three semesters at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Various activities in the metal industry followed, most recently as managing director of a small business in Castrop-Rauxel . From 1974 to 1979 he studied philosophy, sociology and political science at the University of Bielefeld and obtained a sociology diploma in 1979. Between 1980 and 1983 and between 1986 and 1988 Wiesenthal was a research assistant at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University . There he obtained his doctorate in 1987. rer. soc. He was a member of the federal executive committee of the party DIE GRÜNEN from 1986 to 1987. In 1992 he completed his habilitation in political science at the University of Hamburg . From 1994 to 2003 he was Professor of Political Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Wiesenthal worked as a social researcher in research projects of the European Center for Welfare Policy and Social Research (Vienna), the SoTech program at the NRW Ministry for Labor, Health and Social Affairs, the Working Group for Social Research (AfS) eV, Bielefeld and Bremen, and as a member of the Max -Planck Institute for Social Research , Cologne, and the Center for Social Policy at the University of Bremen. On behalf of the Max Planck Society, he led the research group Transformation Processes in the New Federal States at the Humboldt University in Berlin (1992–1996), which analyzed institutional change in East Germany and the ex-socialist countries. In 1994, Wiesenthal was appointed to the professorship for systems of social mediation at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been retired since 2003.

Wiesenthal is a member of the German Society for Sociology and the Green Academy in the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

Research priorities

Collective actors and institutions for mediating interests, political control, globalization and institutional reform, future options for labor market and social policy.

For Wiesenthal's work, see Jürgen Beyer and Petra Stykow : Controlling Social Change: Utopia or Possibility ? In this. (Ed.): Society with limited hope. Ability to reform and the possibility of rational politics. Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2004).

Fonts

• Concerted Action in Health Care. Frankfurt / New York, Campus (1981).
• Strategy and illusion. Frankfurt / New York, Campus (1987).
• Work and commitment in the intermediate sector. Augsburg, Maro (1989), with Adalbert Evers and Ilona Ostner.
• Insecurity and Multiple Self Identities. Cologne, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (1990).
• Social compatibility and system rationality. Pfaffenweiler, Centaurus (1989), with Manfred Glagow and Helmut Willke (eds.).
• New technologies - wasted opportunities? Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag (1991), with Ulrike Berger and Volker H. Schmidt.
• Transformation of socialist societies. Opladen Westdeutscher Verlag (1995), with Hellmut Wollmann and Frank Bönker (eds.).
• Realism in Green Politics. Manchester, Manchester University Press (1993).
• Unity as a politics of interests . Frankfurt / New York, Campus (1995) (ed.).
• Unity as a privilege. Frankfurt / New York, Campus (1996) (ed.).
• Unity and difference. Berlin, Berliner Debatte Wissenschaftsverlag (1997), with Jan Wielgohs (ed.).
• The Grand Experiment. Boulder, CO, Westview Press (1997), with Andreas Pickel.
• The Transformation of the GDR - Process and Results. Gütersloh, Bertelsmann Stiftung publishing house (1999).
• Contingency and crisis. Frankfurt / New York, Campus (2000), with Karl Hinrichs and Herbert Kitschelt (eds.).
• Successful transitions. Baden-Baden, Nomos (2001), with Jürgen Beyer and Jan Wielgohs (eds.).
• Opportunity and decision. Wiesbaden, Westdeutscher Verlag (2001) (ed.).
• Social control and social self-control. Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2006).
• Social Europe. Berlin, Heinrich Böll Foundation (2008), with Andrea Goymann.
• Paths to an inclusive working society. Berlin, Heinrich Böll Foundation (2011), with Ute Brümmer, Andrea Fischer, Frank Nullmeier, Dieter Rulff and Wolfgang Schroeder.
• Security and fairness in an aging society. Berlin, Heinrich Böll Foundation (2013), with Andrea Fischer, Frank Nullmeier, Dieter Rulff, Wolfgang Schroeder and Peter Sellin.
• Rationality and Organization 1. Actor and Organization Theory . Wiesbaden, Springer VS (2018).
• Rationality and Organization 2. Paths of Transformation . Wiesbaden, Springer VS (2019).

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Wiesenthal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal homepage of Helmut Wiesenthal.