JAA van Doorn

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Jacques van Doorn (1974)

Jacobus Adrianus Antonius (Jacques) van Doorn (born March 5, 1925 in Maastricht ; † May 14, 2008 in Rijswijk ) was a Dutch sociologist with important contributions to military sociology as well as a historian and columnist . He was considered one of the leading exponents of modern Dutch sociology.

Life

Van Doorn studied human geography at the University of Amsterdam and received his PhD in sociology from the University of Leiden in 1956 . However, his studies were interrupted from 1946 to 1948 by his participation as a private in the police operations in the course of the Indonesian War of Independence in what was then the Dutch East Indies .

In 1958 he became associate professor for industrial sociology at the University of Leiden and in 1960 professor for sociology at the Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool (NEH); this was later transferred to the Erasmus University Rotterdam . There he dealt mainly with the sociology of education ; he also worked at the Instituut voor Sociaal Onderzoek van het Nederlandse Volk (ISONEVO). From 1962 to 1972 he was also a professor at the Koninklijke Militaire Academie (KMA) in Breda. In 1987 he retired.

In 1953 he was the founding editor of the journal Sociologische Gids . Together with Cor Lammers , he published an Introduction to Modern Sociology in 1959, the 15th edition of which appeared in 1984. Other writings acted u. a. about his country's colonial past, Dutch democracy and German “ socialism ”.

From 1974 to 1978 he was President of the Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution (RC1) of the International Sociological Association ; he was also the editor of Armed Forces & Society magazine .

After his retirement he worked as a columnist for Dutch newspapers and magazines a. a. NRC Handelsblad , Trouw and HP / De Tijd . Van Doorn was considered conservative ; However, he was a supporter of multicultural written immigrant society and became the burgeoning populism of Fortuyn , Geert Wilders or Rita Verdonk in his country opposed to.

Since 2011, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and the Department of Social Sciences and Public Administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam have awarded the Jacques van Doorn Fellowship .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sociological essays , 1968.
  • Armed forces and society , 1968.
  • Military profession and military regimes , 1969.
  • On military intervention , 1971. (m. Morris Janowitz )
  • On military ideology , 1971. (m. Morris Janowitz)
  • The soldier and social change , 1975.
  • The military and the problem of legitimacy , 1976. (m. Gwyn Harries-Jenkins )

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacques van Doorn Fellowship ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NIAS, accessed May 4, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nias.knaw.nl
personal data
SURNAME Doorn, JAA van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Door, Jacobus Adrianus Antonius van; Doorn, Jacques van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sociologist, historian and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Maastricht
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2008
Place of death Rijswijk