Johannes Weyer

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Johannes Weyer (2015)

Johannes Weyer (born July 13, 1956 in Idar-Oberstein in Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German sociologist and has held the professorship for sociology of technology at the Technical University of Dortmund since 2002 .

Life

Johannes Weyer is the son of the theologian Adam Weyer . After the first state examination in the subjects of social studies and German (teaching at secondary schools) 1979 doctorate Johannes Weyer 1983 Dr. phil. at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1991 he completed his habilitation, Venia “Sociology, esp. Sociology of Science and Technology” at Bielefeld University . In his habilitation thesis, Weyer worked out the mode of "interactive context control" in actor networks using the example of the political field of space travel and also tried to explain the concrete course of technological development from the social dynamics of such networks. The habilitation was assessed by Peter Weingart , Helmut Willke and Peter Lundgreen .

In 2019 Weyer was elected a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Professional background

From 1984 to 1999 Weyer taught at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. From 1993 to 1998 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation. From 1992 to 1993 he represented the chair for sociology (formerly Ulrich Beck ) at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and from 1996 to 1997 the chair for technology and society (formerly Thomas Malsch ) at the University of Dortmund. In 1999 he was an employee of the Distance University in Hagen , department of education, social and human sciences. Since 2002 he has been professor for the sociology of technology at the Technical University of Dortmund.

Scientific activities

From 1994 to 1995 Johannes Weyer was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Social Research, Cologne and from 2000 to 2002 Head of the eLogistics division at the Research Institute for Telecommunications in Dortmund. He is co-founder of the peer-reviewed online journal Science and Technology Studies (2005–2014).

Memberships

Johannes Weyer is a board member of the Science and Technology Research section of the German Sociological Society .
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) appointed Johannes Weyer to the Infrastructure Program Committee in 2013.

Selected publications

Monographs

  • The real-time society. How smart technology controls our life. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2019, ISBN 978-3-593-51013-2 .
  • Social networks. Concepts and methods of social science network research. Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-76382-9 .
  • Sociology of technology. Genesis, design and control of socio-technical systems. Juventa, Weinheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-7799-1485-3 .
  • Wernher von Braun. (= Rowohlt's picture monographs ). Rowohlt, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-50552-5 .
  • with U. Kirchner, L. Riedl and JFK Schmidt: Technology that creates society. edition sigma, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89404-444-6 .
  • West German sociology 1945–1960. German continuities and North American influence . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-428-05679-5 .

Edited anthologies

  • with Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer (Ed.): Management of complex systems. Concepts for coping with lack of transparency, uncertainty and chaos. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58809-5 .
  • as publisher: social networks. Concepts and methods of social science network research. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-58315-8 . (2nd edition 2010)

items

  • Robin D. Fink, Johannes Weyer: Autonomous Technology as a Challenge to Sociological Action Theory. In: Journal of Sociology. 40 (2), 2011, pp. 91-111. (PDF version)
  • Marc Mölders, Robin D. Fink, Johannes Weyer: Modeling Scientists as Agents. How Scientists Cope with the Challenges of the New Public Management of Science. In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 14 (4) 2011, p. 6. (online version)
  • Johannes Weyer: Modes of governance of hybrid systems. The Mid-Air Collision at Ueberlingen and the Impact of Smart Technology. In: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies. 2 (2), 2006. (online version)
  • Johannes Weyer: The risks of automation work. Human-machine interaction and incident management in highly automated commercial aircraft. 26 (4), 1997, pp. 239-257.
  • Wolfgang Krohn, Johannes Weyer: Society as a laboratory: the generation of social risks through experimental research. In: social world. 40 (3) 1989, pp. 349-373.

Other media

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Johannes Weyer. In: johannesweyer.de. Retrieved November 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ http://www.sti-studies.de/ojs/index.php/sti/about/editorialTeam Access: April 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.soziologie.de/de/sektionen/sektionen/wissenschafts-und-technikforschung/vorstand.html Accessed: April 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Weyer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Idar-Oberstein