Holger Lengfeld

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Holger Lengfeld (* 1970 in Berlin ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Holger Lengfeld is professor of sociology with a focus on institutions and social change at the University of Leipzig . After graduating from high school in 1989, he studied economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and graduated in 1994 with a diploma . He then obtained his diploma in political science in 1998 from the Free University , also in Berlin. From 1998 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin . There he received his doctorate in 2003 with a thesis on the concept of social justice in companies. In July 2004 he moved to the University of Vienna as a research assistant , but returned to Berlin in November 2004 to work as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin. In 2008 he completed his habilitation there with a venia for sociology. From 2006 to 2010 he held the "Ernsting's family endowed professorship for contemporary sociological diagnoses" at the Fernuniversität Hagen , and from 2010 to 2014 he held a professorship for macro-sociology and political sociology in the Faculty of Social Economics at the University of Hamburg . His work focuses on social structure analysis and social inequality research, sociology of European integration, economic sociology, sociology of politics and sociology of values.

In recent years, a focus has been on European solidarity, as well as the fear of decline of the middle class and the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, whereby his focus is on the analysis of people's attitudes and assessments collected through surveys. He also appears regularly in TV, radio, print and online media as a mediator of social science research results to a broader public.

Holger Lengfeld is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin (DIW) and a member of the founding board of the “ Academy for Sociology ” (AS).

Fonts (selection)

  • Cultural and economic threat. An analysis of the causes of the party identification with the “Alternative for Germany” with the Socio-Economic Panel 2016. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 47/2018: 181–199 (with Clara Dilger)
  • The “Alternative for Germany”: a party for those who have lost out on modernization? Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology 69/2017: 209–232
  • The case of fear of decline, or: the middle class as the sensitive center of society. A trend analysis 1984-2014. Journal for Sociology, 46/2017: 167-184 (with Jessica Ordemann )
  • Do European citizens support the idea of ​​a European welfare state? Evidence from a comparative survey conducted in three EU member states. International Sociology 31/2016: 677-700 (with Jürgen Gerhards and Julia Häuberer)
  • Drifting apart or converging? Grades among non-traditional and traditional students over the course of their studies: a case study from Germany. Higher Education 73/2016: 224-244 (with Tobias Brändle )
  • The Long Shadow of Occupation: Volunteering in Retirement. Rationality and Society 28/2016: 3–23 (with Jessica Ordemann)
  • European Citizenship and Social Integration in the European Union. Routledge, London / New York 2015, ISBN 9781138833609 (with Jürgen Gerhards ).
  • Are we a European people? Social integration of Europe and the idea of ​​equality for all European citizens. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 9783658015299 (with Jürgen Gerhards).
  • European Integration, Equality Rights and People's Beliefs: Evidence from Germany. European Sociological Review 29, 19-31 (with Jürgen Gerhards).
  • Class - organization - social inequality. How corporate structures influence professional life chances. VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 9783531169651 .
  • The middle class fear of relegation. A longitudinal analysis 1984-2007. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 38, 2009, 379–399 (with Jochen Hirschle).
  • Europeanization of justice from the citizen's perspective. In: From Politics and Contemporary History 47, 2009, 21–26 (with Jürgen Gerhards).
  • Support for European Union's Environmental Policy by Citizens of EU-member and Accession States. In: Comparative Sociology 7, 2008, 215–241 (with Jürgen Gerhards).
  • Organized inequality. How Organizations Affect Life Chances. VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3531149644 .
  • As Hg: Distribution Problems and Justice in Modern Societies. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2004, ISBN 9783593374642 (with Stefan Liebig and Steffen Mau).
  • Codetermination and Justice. On the basic moral structure of business negotiations. Hampp, Munich / Mering 2003, ISBN 387988790X .
  • As an interdisciplinary research on justice. To link empirical and normative perspectives. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2002, ISBN 9783593370125 (with Stefan Liebig ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ People: Prof. Dr. Holger Lengfeld. Retrieved April 20, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Tagesschau, 25.09.2017. Retrieved on August 21, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Report Mainz, November 29, 2016. Retrieved on August 21, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Die Welt, August 20, 2018. Retrieved on August 21, 2018 (German).
  5. ^ Website Academy for Sociology. Retrieved on August 21, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Lengfeld, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin