Jens Beckert

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Jens Beckert (2015)

Jens Beckert (born July 21, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German sociologist . His main research interests are the social embedding of the economy, the sociology of the market, organizational sociology, the sociology of inheritance and sociological theory. Beckert has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne since 2005 .

Career

Beckert is the brother of the historian Sven Beckert . Jens Beckert studied sociology and business administration at the Free University of Berlin and at the New School for Social Research , New York, with a focus on economic sociology, political sociology and sociological theory as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. His doctorate in 1996 in Berlin on the subject of “The Limits of the Market: The Social Basics of Economic Efficiency” was followed by his habilitation in sociology, also at the Free University of Berlin, in 2003.

From 2001 to 2002 Beckert was John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University , then from 2002 to 2003 Associate Professor for Sociology at the International University Bremen . His professorship at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 2003 to 2005 was followed by his appointment as director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies at the age of 37. Beckert was visiting scholar at Princeton University , Harvard, and Cornell University ; also at the European University Institute in Florence, at the Center for Organizational Sociology in Paris and at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies. Beckert has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2010 .

Beckert is a faculty member and chairman of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), an international doctoral school jointly supported by the Max Planck Institute for Social Research and the University of Cologne. Beckert is also a member of the Joint Council of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo) at Sciences Po Paris, a Franco-German social science research center.

Beckert is editor of the European Journal of Sociology and is a member of the editorial board of various sociological journals, including the Socio-Economic Review. He was a member of the economic sociology section of the American Society for Sociology (ASA).

Research topics

Capitalist economy as a form of a historical social order

Beckert's current research reflects the research program that he developed together with Wolfgang Streeck , also a director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies: “Research at the MPIfG invests in a theory of social action as the most promising possibility, a deeper one Understanding and a better theoretical representation of the economy as a socially and politically constituted system of action. "

Markets from a social science perspective

In his research group “Sociology of Markets” Beckert concentrates on markets as the central institution of capitalist economies: “The overriding goal is to develop an understanding of how markets work with the aid of the theoretical and methodological tools of sociology. From a Weberian point of view, markets are viewed as 'arenas of social action' in which actors face each other under competitive conditions. ”The aim is to explain which social, cultural and political framework conditions must exist for the development of the social order of markets .

Embedding economic actions

“A cross-project aspect is the uncertainty that market players are confronted with when making their decisions. The problems of coordination that arise for the market participants can be identified as problems of values, competition or cooperation. The factor of uncertainty opens up further theoretical possibilities to explain the embedding of economic actions. "

Awards and honors

  • 2005: Jens Beckert: "Unearned assets" (Frankfurt a. M .: Campus 2004), was chosen as the legal book of the year by the Neue Juristische Wochenzeitschrift (issue 46/2005)
  • 2005: Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, donated by the Commerzbank Foundation. In the laudation Beckert is described as one of the "nationally and internationally most original and most productive sociologists of his generation": "He is already considered a leading representative of a new economic sociology ..."
  • 2010: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)
  • 2018: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018 (with Richard Bronk (Ed.)), ISBN 978-0-19-882080-2
  • Imagined Future: Fictional Expectations and the Dynamics of Capitalism. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-75722-2
  • The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017 (with Matías Dewey (Ed.)), ISBN 978-0-1987-9497-4
  • Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2016, ISBN 978-0-6740-8882-5
  • Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013 (with Christine Musselin (Ed.)), ISBN 978-0-19-967757-3
  • Heirs in the achievement society. Theory and Society series. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39867-9
  • The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy. New York: Oxford University Press 2011 (with Patrick Aspers (Ed.)), ISBN 978-0-19-959465-8
  • Inherited Wealth. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-12497-1
  • Unearned Fortune: Sociology of Inheritance Law. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus 2004, ISBN 3-593-37592-3
  • Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2002, ISBN 9780691049076
  • Limits of the market. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus 1997, ISBN 9783593358536

items

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Max Planck Society - CV Jens Beckert . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Jens Beckert's personal homepage . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Jens Beckert answers ten questions about economic sociology . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Jens Beckert's research interests . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  5. ^ WISO Faculty University of Cologne . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  6. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert, curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), accessed on March 7, 2018
  7. ↑ Jens Beckert at the CSO . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  8. ↑ Jens Beckert at the IEA . Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / paris-iea.fr
  9. ↑ Current members of the BBAW . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  10. ↑ faculty members of the IMPRS-SPCE . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  11. ↑ Doctoral program of the IMPRS-SPCE . Archived from the original on June 6, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / imprs.mpifg.de
  12. ^ Joint Council of MaxPo . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  13. ^ European Journal of Sociology . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  14. ^ Socio-Economic Review . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  15. ^ List of members of the economic sociological section of the ASA . Archived from the original on June 29, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asanet.org
  16. ^ Research program of the MPIfG . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  17. ↑ a b Introduction to the research project "Sociology of Markets" . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  18. ↑ Legal Books of the Year - Recommended Reading . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  19. ^ Prize winners of the BBAW . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Beckert, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main