ISF Munich

The ISF in Munich

The Institute for Social Science Research eV - ISF Munich is an independent research institution founded in 1965 by Burkart Lutz in the legal form of a registered association . It is a non-profit institution. The institute currently has around 40 scientific staff. It conducts research primarily in the field of work and industrial sociology and conducts empirical studies in companies and companies , in particular using the means of qualitative social research (intensive interviews, case studies ), which it combines with theoretical reflection on the development of work and society; and public relations and practice transfer among his tasks.

The clients include ministries (especially the Federal Ministry of Education and Research ) and foundations (such as the Hans Böckler Foundation or the Volkswagen Foundation ), the European Union, but also companies and unions. The institute was involved in three special research areas : the SFB 101 “Theoretical Basics of Social Science Occupational and Labor Research” (1972–1986), the SFB 333 “Development Perspectives of Work” (1986–1996) and the SFB 536 “Reflexive Modernization - Analysis of Transformation der industrial Moderne ”(1999–2009), in which it worked together with the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (including Ulrich Beck ), the Technical University of Munich , the University of Augsburg and the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich . The ISF Munich is largely financed by project funds and has only a small amount of basic public funding from the Free State of Bavaria . In 2013 the institute was evaluated by a structural commission of the state of Bavaria chaired by Ernst Theodor Rietschel .

The institute has become known through its many years of research in the field of the humanization of the world of work . At the ISF Munich is u. a. the so-called “Munich business approach” was developed (“Business as a Strategy”, Burkart Lutz, Günter Bechtle, Norbert Altmann , Dieter Sauer ), which assigns the business a decisive role in the interplay of capital strategies and work. The theory of segmented labor markets (Werner Sengenberger) was also largely developed here. Work on systemic rationalization (Norbert Altmann, Dieter Sauer), which arose in lively cooperation and discussion with the Sociological Research Institute at the Georg-August University of Göttingen (SOFI) and its theory of "new production concepts", also played a major role .

Today the main focus is on the following research topics:

• Delimitation of the boundaries of work ( flexibilization , subjectification and "radical marketing" of work, entanglement of work and life)
• Experience-based knowledge , subjectivising work behavior, interactive and cooperative work in production, services and vocational training
• Qualification , labor market , job design in craft as well as small and medium-sized companies
• “Distributed work”: networks, project management and new organizational structures in an international context
• Internationalization of companies: intercultural work, changes in work organization and knowledge management, "cross-border commuters"
• Informatization of work: working capacity, technology, interests of employees
• Industrial Relations and Participation : Challenges for Actors and New Strategies
• Consequences of demographic development for the labor market and the company
• New forms of service work and virtual companies (media, IT, personal services)
• Social sustainability and regional economics

The institute's rooms are located in a listed Art Nouveau apartment building with an attractive group of balconies and bay windows.

The Institute's publications up to the year 2000 have been publicly accessible since April 2010 as searchable full texts on the Internet.

literature

• ISF Munich (Ed.): 1965-1990 - Lectures on the 25th anniversary of the ISF and on the 65th birthday of Burkart Lutz . Munich. On-line
• ISF Munich (ed.): 50 years. Short documentation of the ceremony on October 16, 2015 in the Literaturhaus Munich . Munich. On-line
• Dieter Sauer: History of the institute for social science research in Munich . In: Stephan Moebius, Andrea Ploder (Hrsg.): Handbook of the history of German-speaking sociology . Volume 1: History of Sociology in German-speaking Countries. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-07613-9 , pp. 1025-1044

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Martin Bolte: Foreword . In: Werner Kudera, G. Günter Voss (Hrsg.): Lifestyle and Society: Contributions to the concept and empiricism of everyday life . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 978-3-8100-2745-0 , p. 7 .
2. ^ Karl Martin Bolte: Foreword . In: Werner Kudera, G. Günter Voss (Hrsg.): Lifestyle and Society. Contributions to the concept and empiricism of everyday life . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 978-3-8100-2745-0 , p. 8 .
3. ↑ SFB 536 Reflexive Modernization on the website of the ISF Munich.
4. ^ ISF Munich: The Institute. In: http://www.isf-muenchen.de . Retrieved February 20, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Bavarian Structural Commission 2013: Evaluation report of the Bavarian Structural Commission 2013 (StrukBY2013). Results of the assessment of 13 non-university research institutions financed by the Free State of Bavaria . Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art, Munich, Munich March 18, 2013, p. 26-27, 223-235 .
6. ^ Press release of April 19, 2010 on the website of the Science Information Service , online

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 36 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 16.4"  E