Jörg Bergmann

Jörg Bergmann (* 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) is a German sociologist .

biography

He graduated from the University of Munich with a degree in psychology, sociology, philosophy and linguistics in 1975 and then spent two years in Konstanz and Los Angeles. There he received a research grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . From 1990 Bergmann worked as a professor for microsociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 2001 until his retirement in 2012 he was Professor of Qualitative Methods in Empirical Social Research at Bielefeld University . There he held his farewell lecture on "Irritations, breaks, catastrophes. On social practices of dealing with 'disturbances' in interaction" on January 25, 2012.

Furthermore, Bergmann was director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) between 2006 and 2011 and director of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) between 2007 and 2010 .

Publications (selection)

• with Ulrich Dausendschön-Gay and Frank Oberzaucher: “Der Fall”: Studies on the epistemic practice of professional action , Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-1969-0 .
• with Ruth Ayaß (ed.): Qualitative methods of media research , Reinbek bH: Rowohlt. 2006. (as pdf here )
• Advice and therapy via Internet and mobile phone , in: Psychotherapy and social science: Journal for qualitative research and clinical practice, Vol. 7, Issue 2/2005, Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag
• with Werner Holly and Ulrich Püschel (eds.): The speaking audience: How we acquire television communicatively , Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001.
• with Peter Buchheim: Power and Dependency , Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer, 2000. ISBN 978-3-642-59782-4

Web links

• Bergmann, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
• Literature by and about Jörg Bergmann in the catalog of the German National Library