Jürgen Straub (psychologist)

Jürgen Straub (2018)

Jürgen Straub (born October 13, 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a Swiss psychologist , social and cultural scientist . Since 2008 he has held the chair for social theory and social psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) , co-director of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Center for Social and Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology (KKC) at the RUB and co-editor of Psychosocial magazine .

Life

Straub graduated from the Humanist Spohn High School in Ravensburg in 1977 and then studied psychology , sociology and philosophy in Zurich (Switzerland) and Erlangen . At the beginning of 1989 he received his doctorate at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , the habilitation procedure was completed there in February 1995 (submission of the habilitation thesis "Action, Interpretation, Criticism. Basics of a textual action and cultural psychology" in July 1994).

From 1994 to 1995 he was a fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University (ZiF research group "Historical Meaning", headed by Jörn Rüsen ). 1999–2001 he led (with Burkhard Liebsch) a study group on the subject of “Forms of Life in Contention. Identity and morality under the pressure of social disintegration ”at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) . At the same time he was a member of the board of the KWI, lecturer at the private university Witten-Herdecke and adjunct professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . 2001–2002 he was the chair for microsociology at the Institute for Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen ( Jörg Bergmann ). In 2002 he was a fellow at the KWI Essen, from April 2002 to March 2008 he was professor for intercultural communication at the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Chemnitz . 2004–2008 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt a. M. 2004–2010 he headed the interdisciplinary graduate college "Intercultural Communication - Intercultural Competence" of the Hans Böckler Foundation (with Jörn Rüsen). Since 2004 he has been chairman of the board of the Foundation for Cultural Studies (in the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft ). From 2008-2016 he was deputy head of the international / interdisciplinary project “Humanism in the Epoch of Globalization. - An intercultural dialogue about culture, humanity and values ​​”(at KWI Essen, head: Jörn Rüsen, funded by Stiftung Mercator ).

Since 2008 he has held the chair for social theory and social psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum , 2009-2014 he was a member of the board of the Center for Religious Studies (CERES, Research Department of the RUB), 2010-2016 also a member ( Mentor, project acquisition) in the Mercator Research Group II: Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge at the RUB. From 2010 to 2013 he was Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at RUB. Since 2014 he has been (with Pradeep Chakkarath) co-director of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Center for Social and Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology (KKC), which is funded on a long-term basis by the Köhler Foundation .

The tasks of the KKC until 2017 included coordinating the award of the Hans Kilian Prize for metacultural humanization , endowed with 80,000 euros , in the conception of which Straub played a key role (winners: Hartmut Böhme 2011, Hans Joas 2013, Jessica Benjamin 2015, Jaan Valsiner 2017). The KKC regularly organizes the international / interdisciplinary Hans Kilian lectures on social and cultural psychology and integrative psychology, awards short-term fellowships for visiting scholars and supervises the student college for social and cultural psychology.

Since 2016, Straub has been the head of the field of "intensive and interdisciplinary study" in the inSTUDIES plus project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) . Since 2017 Straub has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Research (IDG) at the RUB.

Act

Straub's research and publications revolve around the systematic development of an interpretive action and cultural psychology that is consistently interdisciplinary and in particular includes sociological and philosophical perspectives. An overarching goal is the integration of theoretical and methodological reflections as well as historical and empirical research with diagnostic potential. The long-term research interests - which are supplemented by the research areas of the chair team - include: cultural psychology; narrative psychology ; interdisciplinary social and cultural theory ; social and cultural psychoanalysis ; intercultural communication , coexistence and competence; religious and secular forms of life and subjectivity; History of psychology and the psychologization of modern societies; Action theory , identity theory, memory theory and biography theory; comparative social research and cultural analysis; Hermeneutics and Qualitative Methods .

The research interests are reflected in the establishment of an interdisciplinary cultural psychology focus in the BA and MA courses of the Faculty of Social Science at RUB, in particular in the MA course "Culture and Person", which has existed since 2009, as well as the offers for which Straub is responsible for the structured doctorate . The interdisciplinary cultural psychology focus is currently unrivaled in German-speaking countries. Close cooperation in research and teaching is maintained with related companies abroad, e.g. B. with the Niels Bohr Professorship Center for Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University ( Jaan Valsiner ). So far, around 30 doctoral students and numerous employees of the chair are involved in the profiling of a social and cultural science psychology or psychologically informed social science.

Awards

• Fellowship at the ZiF Bielefeld (1994/95)
• Fellowship at the KWI Essen (1999-2002)
• MERCUR Fellowship (WS 2010/11), Stiftung Mercator Essen
• Ernst E. Boesch Prize for Cultural Psychology, awarded by the Society for Cultural Psychology (awarded in September 2015 at the University of Salzburg)
• Distinguished Robert Bellah Fellowship of the Max Planck Society , Fellow at the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies in Erfurt (2016/17)
• Höffmann Science Prize for Intercultural Competence 2017 (Awarded by the University of Vechta on February 6, 2018 in Vechta)

Fonts (selection)

Ruppel, PS; Straub, J. (Ed.) (2017). Psychosocial (special edition Vegan and Kerosene-Free. The Ecological Self) 40 (2).

Straub, J. (2017). From the god of prostheses to the psycho-prosthesis. About prosthetic therapies and optimizing the self in psy regimes.

Straub, J .; Chakkarath, P., Salzmann, S. (2017). Psychology of polyvalence. Bochum: (Series: Culture - Society - Psyche. Social and cultural studies, ed. Von Sabisch-Fechtelpeter, K .; Sørensen, E .; Straub, J. Vol. 11) West German University Press (in press).

Métraux, A .; Straub, J. (Ed.) (2017). Human prosthetic transformations: replacement, addition, extension, replacement. (Series: Culture - Society - Psyche. Social and cultural studies, edited by Sabisch-Fechtelpeter, K .; Sørensen, E .; Straub, J. Vol. 10). Bochum: West German University Press (in press).

Straub, J. (2016): Religious Faith and Secular Lifestyles in Dialogue: Personal Identity and Contingency in Pluralist Societies. Ernst E. Boesch Prize for Cultural Psychology 2015. Gießen: Psychosozial (in press).

Straub, J .; Weidemann, D. (2015). The understanding-explanatory psychology and the research program of subjective theories. Giessen: Psychosocial.

Straub, J .; Sørensen, E .; Chakkarath, P .; Rebane, G. (Ed.) (2015). Cultural psychology, history of science and interdisciplinarity. Hans Kilian lectures on social and cultural psychology and integrative anthropology, vol. 1. Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag (in press).

Straub, J., Chakkarath, P. (Eds.) (2015). Hans Kilian, Gesammelte Schriften Vol. 2: The dispossessed consciousness. To dialectical social psychology. With an introduction by the editor. Giessen: Psychosocial.

Straub, J. (Ed.) (2012). The self-actualizing person. About the humanism of humanistic psychology. Bielefeld: transcript.

Sieben, A .; Sabisch-Fechtelpeter, K .; Straub, J. (Ed.) (2012). Make people. The light and dark sides of human science optimization programs. Bielefeld: transcript.

Straub, J .; Rüsen, J. (Ed.) (2011). Dark Traces of the Past. Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking. New York, Oxford: Berghan Books.

Weidemann, A .; Straub, J .; Nothnagel, S. (Ed.) (2010). How do you teach intercultural competence? Theory, methods and practice in higher education. Bielefeld: transcript.

Straub, J .; Weidemann, A .; Weidemann, D. (Ed.) (2007). Handbook for Intercultural Communication and Competence. Stuttgart: Metzler.

Straub, J .; Bartels, K. (2007). Intercultural competence (Lesson 1 of the course International Business Behavior: Intercultural competence for negotiation and networking). Düsseldorf: Euroforum.

Straub, J .; Weidemann, D., Kölbl, C .; Zielke, B. (Ed.) (2006). Pursuit of Meaning. Theoretical and Methodological Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology. Bielefeld: transcript.

Straub, J. (Ed.) (2005). Narration, Identity and Historical Consciousness. The Psychological Construction of Time and History . New York, Oxford: Berghan Books.

Jäger, F .; Straub, J. (Ed.) (2004, 2011). Handbook of Cultural Studies. Volume 2: Paradigms and Disciplines. Stuttgart: Metzler (special edition 2011).

Liebsch, B .; Straub, J. (Ed.) (2003). Life forms in conflict. Integration and identity conflicts in modern societies. Frankfurt a. M., New York: Campus.

Straub, J .; Renn, J. (Ed.) (2002). Transitory identity. The process character of the modern self. Frankfurt a. M., New York: Campus.

Renn, J., Straub, J .; Shimada, S. (Eds.) (2002). Translation as a medium of cultural understanding and social integration. Frankfurt a. M., New York: Campus.

Grünberg, K .; Straub, J. (Ed.) (2001). Captive time. Long-term psychosocial consequences of National Socialism on the descendants of victims and perpetrators. Tübingen: edition discord.

Straub, J., Kochinka, A .; Werbik, H. (Ed.) (2000). Psychology in Practice. Application and professional fields of a modern science. Munich: dtv.

Straub, J. (1999). Understanding, criticism, recognition. The own and the foreign in the interpretive sciences. Göttingen: Wallstein.

Straub, J. (1999). Action, interpretation, criticism. Basics of a textual action and cultural psychology. Series “Perspektiven der Humanwissenschaften” (Volume 18), Ed. Von Graumann, CF; Herzog, M .; Métraux. A. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter.

Straub, J .; Werbik, H. (Ed.) (1999). Action theory. Concept and explanation of action in interdisciplinary discourse. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus.

Straub, J .; Rüsen, J. (Ed.) (1998). The dark trail of the past. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Cultural Memory . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp.

Straub, J. (Ed.) (1998). Narrative, Identity, and Historical Awareness. The psychological construction of time and history. Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp.

Straub, J .; Kempf, W .; Werbik, H. (Ed.) (1997). Psychology. An introduction. Basics, methods, perspectives. Munich: dtv (2nd edition 1998, 3rd edition 2000, 4th edition 2002, 5th edition 2005).

Straub, J. (1993). History, biography and peace policy. Biography-analytical and socio-psychological analyzes based on narrative interviews with natural scientists. Series “Biographie u. Society ”(Volume 20), edited by von Fuchs-Heinritz, W .; Kohli, M .; Schütze, F. Opladen: Leske + Budrich.

Straub, J. (1989). Historical-psychological biography research. Theoretical, methodological and methodological arguments with a systematic intention. With a foreword by Heiner Legewie. Heidelberg: Asanger.

Articles (selection)

Straub, J. (2015). Reasons for experience in injuries. Unfinished pasts in action memories, personal relationships and social practices. In: Angehrn, E .; Küchenhoff, J. (Ed.). The unfinished past . Power and Limits of Memory. Weilerswist: Velbrück, pp. 119–149.

Straub, J. (2015). Telling a self-portrait. Narrative Identity, Contingency, and Migration. In: Walz-Pawlita, S .; Unruh, B .; Janta, B. (German Psychoanalytic Association) (Ed.). Identity en. (Library of Psychoanalysis). Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, pp. 17–42.

Straub, J. (2014). Lost and Found in Translation: Cultural Impositions and Transitory Identity in a Migrant Existence. Eva Hoffman's autobiographical-intercultural narrative from the perspective of a narrative psychology. In: Yearbook for Literature and Psychoanalysis, pp. 163–194

Straub, J. (2014). Violence stories in injuries. Present past, historical awareness and intercultural education in migrant societies. An essay in four fragments. In: psychosozial 37 (2), pp. 75–94.

Straub, J. (2014). Injuries. Reasons for experience, unconscious traditions and violence in social practice. In: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 60, 1, pp. 74–95.

Straub, J. (2013). Self-optimization under the sign of »autonomy«. Paradoxical structures of standardized self-enhancement: from the »therapeutic culture« to the »optimization culture«. In: Psychotherapie & Sozialwissenschaft , 15, 2, pp. 5–38.

Straub, J. (2013). Can I tell myself - and recognize in the process? Principles and perspectives of a psychology of the homo narrator. In: Strohmaier, A. (Ed.): Culture - Knowledge - Narration. Perspectives of transdisciplinary narrative research for cultural studies. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 75-144.

Straub, J. (2013). The concept of crisis in psychology. In: Meyer, C .; Patzel-Mattern, K .; Schenk, GJ (ed.). Crisis story (s) . (VSWG supplements, volume 210). Stuttgart: Steiner, pp. 27-66.

Straub, J. (2012). Identity. In: Konersmann, R. (Ed.). Handbuch der Kulturphilosophie . Stuttgart: Metzler, pp. 334-339.

Kölbl, C .; Straub, J. (2012). Memory. In: Kolmer, P .; Wildfeuer, AG (Ed.) (In connection with Hogrebe, W .; Honnefelder, L .; Horn, Ch .; Kluxen, W .; Vossenkuhl, W.). New manual of basic philosophical concepts . Freiburg i. Br .: Alber, pp. 668-698.

Straub, J. (2012). The naturalized and the programmed human. Life Sciences, Bioethics, and Psychosocial Change: Psychological Annotations on Jürgen Habermas' Concern for Optimizing Eugenics. In: Sieben, A .; Sabisch-Fechtelpeter, K .; Straub, J. (Ed.). Make people. The light and dark sides of human science optimization programs. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 107-142.

Straub, J. (2011). What is and what does "cultural psychology" want today? In: Dreyer, W .; Hößler, U. (Ed.). Perspectives on intercultural competence. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 21–38.

Straub, J. (2011). Interdisciplinarity. Positions and perspectives in the Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum. Discussion papers from the Faculty of Social Science (ed.). 11-1. Bochum: Ruhr University Bochum.

Straub, J .; Chakkarath, P. (2010). Cultural psychology. In: Mey, G .; Mruck, K. (Ed.). Handbook Qualitative Research in Psychology . Konstanz: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 195–209.

Straub, J. (2010). Understanding cultural differences. Relational Hermeneutics and Comparative Analysis in Cultural Psychology. In: Cappai, G .; Shimada, S .; Straub, J. (Ed.). Interpretative social research and cultural analysis . Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 39-99.

Kölbl, C .; Straub, J. (2010). Memory. In: Kolmer, P .; Wildfeuer, AG (ed.) (In connection with Hogrebe, W .; Honnefelder, L .; Horn, Ch .; Kluxen, W .; Vossenkuhl, W.): New handbook of basic philosophical concepts . Freiburg i. Br .: Alber, pp. 668-688.

Straub, J .; Chakkarath, P. (2010). Identity and other forms of the cultural self. Family Dynamics, 36 (2), pp. 110-119.

Straub, J. (2009). Intercultural competence - a humanistic perspective. In: Rüsen, J .; Laass, H. (Ed.). Intercultural humanism. Humanity in the diversity of cultures. Schwallbach: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 300–333.

Straub, J. (2008). Psychology in Europe. Europe in Psychology. In Jaeger, F .; Joas, H. (Ed.). Europe in the mirror of cultural studies. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 117–156.

Straub, J. (2007). Intercultural Communication - A Scientific Discipline? In: Moosmüller, A. (Ed.). Intercultural communication. Contours of a Scientific Discipline (Munich Contributions to Intercultural Communication, Vol. 20). Münster, New York, Munich, Berlin: Waxmann, pp. 209–241.

Straub, J. (2007). Historical positions and lines of development of a culture-integrating psychology. In Kornadt, H.-J .; Trommsdorff, G., (Ed.). Comparative cultural psychology. Encyclopedia of Psychology. Series VII. Subject area C “Theory and Research”. Göttingen: Hogrefe, pp. 119–178.

Boesch, E .; Straub, J. (2007). Cultural psychology. Principles, orientations, concepts . In Kornadt, H.-J .; Trommsdorff, G. (Ed.). Comparative cultural psychology. Encyclopedia of Psychology. Series VII. Subject area C “Theory and Research” . Göttingen: Hogrefe, pp. 25–95.

Straub, J. (2004): Identity. In: Jäger, F .; Liebsch, B. (Ed.). Handbook of Cultural Studies. Basics and key terms (Volume 1). Stuttgart: Metzler, pp. 277-303.

Straub, J. (2004). Cultural psychology. In: Jäger, F .; Straub, J. (Ed.). Handbook of Cultural Studies (Volume 2). Paradigms and disciplines . Stuttgart: Metzler, pp. 568-591.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Straub in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professional website Chair for Social Theory and Social Psychology , Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum
• Website of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Center for Social and Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology (KKC)
• Website of the Society for Cultural Psychology (Erlangen / Salzburg)