Joseph Maier (sociologist)
Joseph Maier (born January 24, 1911 in Leipzig ; † November 22, 2002 ) was an American sociologist of German origin.
Life
Maier studied philosophy and sociology at the University of Leipzig with Theodor Litt and Hans Freyer . He became a member of the Alsatia in the Burschenbunds-Convent . After his emigration studied at Columbia University with Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, among others . There he was awarded a Ph.D. PhD . Then he was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Research in New York. After working as a newspaper editor, propaganda specialist for the US government and publishing editor, Maier became professor of sociology at Rutgers University in 1947 and visited various US, Latin American and German universities as a visiting professor, including fullbright professor at Frankfurt University in 1957/58 Main . Maier's main research areas were social philosophy , the sociology of religion and Latin American studies.
He was married to the sociologist Alice Maier born in 1926. Heumann, Max Horkheimer's longtime secretary in New York City .
Fonts
- On Hegel's Critique of Kant. University Press, New York 1939 (also dissertation, New York 1939).
- Sociology. The science of society (= Sociology. The Science of Society ). 2nd edition Nest-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1956 (with Jay Rumney ).
- Frank Tannenbaum. A Biographical Essay. University Press, New York 1974 (with Richard W. Whitehead).
editor
- with Richard W. Whitehead : Politics of Change in Latin America. 2nd edition Praeger, New York 1964.
- with Chaim I. Waxman : Ethnicity, Identity and History. Essays in memory of Werner J. Cahnman. Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ 1983, ISBN 0-87855-461-0 .
literature
- J. Lindenthal: Maier, Joseph. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 2, Enke, Stuttgart, 1984, p. 533.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Naumann: Directory of the members of the old gentlemen's association of BC Munich e. V. and all other former BCers as well as the old men of the Wiener SC. Saarbrücken, Christmas 1962, p. 40.
- ^ Rolf Wiggershaus : The Frankfurt School. History, theoretical development, political significance. 2nd edition, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1989, p. 277.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maier, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 2002 |