Jürgen Friedrichs

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Jürgen Friedrichs (born November 2, 1938 in Berlin ; † February 19, 2019 in Cologne ) was a German sociologist . Among other things, he was a professor at the University of Cologne . Friedrichs is considered a critical rationalist .

Life

Friedrichs studied sociology, philosophy, psychology and economics at the University of Hamburg from 1961 . He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1968 , initially held a position as an assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg, and from 1973 a professorship there.

One focus of his work was urban sociology - under his direction the Research Center for Comparative Urban Research was founded at the University of Hamburg in 1982 . In 1991 Friedrichs received a call to the chair of sociology at the University of Cologne. From 1991 to 2007 he was director of the Research Institute for Sociology and then the Institute for Applied Social Research . From 1992 to 2012 he was co-editor of the Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology . Since 2007 he has been emeritus at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology and continues to work in teaching and research.

He was involved in several EU projects, most recently in FACIT - Faith-based Organizations and Exclusion in European Cities (2007 to 2011). From 2010 (until 2014) he did research on gentrification in Cologne with Jörg Blasius . His other areas of research were: social inequality , segregation , urban poverty areas, integration of migrants (especially refugees), as well as context effects and in addition "Environmental Sociology" in teaching. For many years he was also a trainer for journalists at the ARD.ZDF media academy and the ORF .

Friedrichs died on February 19, 2019 at the age of 80 and was buried in the Melaten central cemetery in Cologne .

Fonts (selection)

  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Hartmut Lüdtke, 1971 Participant observation, introduction to social science field research , Beltz, Weinheim / Basel: Beltz.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 1971 Methods of Empirical Social Research. 14th edition, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 1995 Urban Sociology , Opladen: Leske + Budrich, Opladen.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Robert Kecskes (Eds.), 1996: Gentrification - Theory and Research Results, Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
  • John O'Loughlin and Jürgen Friedrichs (eds.), 1996: Social Polarization in Post-industrial Metropolises, Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs (Ed.), 1997: The cities in the 90s. Demographic, economic and social developments, Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Karl Ulrich Mayer (eds.), 1997: Sociological theory and empiricism, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs (Ed.), 1998: The Individualization Thesis, Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, M. Rainer Lepsius and Karl Ulrich Mayer (eds.), 1998: The diagnostic ability of sociology, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Kirsten Hollaender (Eds.), 1999: Urban Ecological Research: Theories and Applications, Berlin: Analytica.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Wolfgang Jagodzinski (eds.), 1999: Social Integration, Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, George Galster and Sako Musterd (Eds.), 2005: Life in Poverty Neighborhoods, European and American Perspectives, London: Routledge.
  • Blasius, Jörg, Jürgen Friedrichs and George G. Galster (Eds.), 2009: Quantifying Neighborhood Effects, London-New York: Routledge.
  • Karl-Dieter Opp and Jürgen Friedrichs, 1996: Bridge Assumptions, Production Functions and the Measurement of Preferences, Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology 48: 546-559.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 1997: Globalization - Concept and Basic Assumptions, From Politics and Contemporary History B 33-34 / 1997: 3-11.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Rolf Küppers, 1997: Dresden and Leipzig - Diverging or Converging Urban Developments ?, Archive for Communal Sciences 36: 22-47.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 1998: Ethnic Segregation in Cologne, Germany, 1984–1994, Urban Studies 35: 1745–1763.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Karl-Dieter Opp, 2002: Rational Behavior in Everyday Situations, European Sociological Review 18: 401-415.
  • Jörg Blasius and Jürgen Friedrichs, 2003: Les compétences pratique font-elles partie du capital culturel ?, Revue française de sociologie 44: 549-576.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Jörg Blasius, 2003: Social Norms in Distressed Neighborhoods: Testing the Wilson Hypothesis, Housing Studies 18: 807-826.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, George Galster and Sako Musterd, 2003: Neighborhood Effects on Social Opportunities: The European and American Research and Policy Context, Housing Studies 18: 797-806.
  • Jörg Blasius and Jürgen Friedrichs, 2007: Internal Heterogeneity of a Deprived Urban Area and it's Impact on Residents' Perception of Deviance, Housing Studies 22: 753-780
  • Jörg Blasius, Jürgen Friedrichs and Stefanie Symann, 2007: Poverty and lifestyle in a disadvantaged residential area in Cologne. S. 188–203 in: Detlef Baum (ed.): The city in social work - A manual for social and planning professions, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Dietrich Oberwittler , 2007: Social capital in residential areas. Pp. 450-486 in: Axel. Franzen and M. Freitag (eds.): Sozialkapital, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Jörg Blasius and Jürgen Friedrichs, 2008: Lifestyles in Distressed Neighborhoods - A Test of Bourdieu's “Taste of Necessity” Hypothesis, Poetics 36: 24-44.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 2008: Did Michael Kohlhaas act rationally? S. 309 to 334 in: Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, Thomas Voss (eds.): Rational Choice: Theoretical analyzes and empirical results, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 2008: Ethnic Segregation. S. 380-411 in: Frank Kalter (Ed.): Migration and Integration, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Jörg Blasius, 2009: Attitudes of Owners and Renters in a Deprived Neighborhood, European Journal of Housing Policy 9: 435-455.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Jennifer Klöckner, 2009: Social Capital in Deprived Neighborhoods. Pp. 167-182 in: Katrien de Boyser, Caroline Dewilde, Danielle Dierckxx and Jürgen Friedrichs (Eds.), 2009: Between the Social and the Spatial. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of Poverty and Social Exclusion, Farnham: Ashgate.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 2010: What social mix in residential areas? P. 319–334 in: Annette Harth and Gitta Scheller (eds.): Sociology in urban and open space planning, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 2011: Problems and tendencies in globalization research. Pp. 393-4517 in: Tilman Mayer et al. (Eds.): Globalization in the focus of politics, economy and society, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Jörg Blasius and Jürgen Friedrichs, 2011. The importance of lifestyles for social processes. P. 399–423 in Gunnar Otte and Jörg Rössel (eds.) Lifestyle research, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
  • Alexandra Nonnenmacher and Jürgen Friedrichs, 2011: The Missing Link: Deficits of Country-Level Studies. A Review of 22 Articles Explaining Life Satisfaction, Social Indicators Research, Online First, Dec. 21, 2011.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs, 2011 Is the peculiarity of the urban also the peculiarity of urban sociology? Pp. 33–47 in: Heike Herrmann u. a. (Ed.): The particularity of the urban, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Jürgen Friedrichs and Alexandra Nonnenmacher (eds.), 2014: Social contexts and social mechanisms. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Cologne - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology ISS: The ISS mourns the loss of Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Friedrichs - an obituary , accessed on March 3, 2019
  2. ^ Mourning for Professor Dr. Jürgen Friedrichs. Urban and Regional Sociology Section of the German Society for Sociology, February 2019, accessed on August 24, 2019 .
  3. ^ Jürgen Friedrichs in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved July 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrichs, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2019
Place of death Cologne