Kai-Olaf Maiwald

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Kai-Olaf Maiwald (* 1963 ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Maiwald studied sociology in Bielefeld , Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main . In 1995 he received his doctorate from the Goethe University in Frankfurt .

After a year as a freelancer at the Deutsche Postmuseum Frankfurt am Main, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Tübingen from 1994 to 2002 , where he completed his habilitation in 2003 . In 2004 he was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, where he worked as a research assistant from 2005 to 2010. In the period from 2008 to 2010 he subsequently took on substitute professorships at the University of Tübingen (industrial and economic sociology) and the University of Magdeburg ( microsociology and general sociology).

Maiwald has been Professor of Microsociology and Qualitative Methods in Social Research at the University of Osnabrück since 2010 . From 2011 to 2016 he was also the dean of studies in Faculty 1 at the university. Maiwald is one of the representatives of objective hermeneutics and an interaction-theoretical microsociology. His main research and teaching areas are couple and family sociology, gender studies, qualitative methods, professional sociology and legal sociology.

In addition to expert work for u. a. the German Research Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation , Maiwald was editor of the journal for sociology (2014–2017) and the journal Sozialer Sinn (2000–2010).

Publications (selection)

  • The making of law: an exemplary study of the professionalization history of jurisprudence using the example of Prussia at the end of the 18th century . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3428087488
  • with Regine Gildemeister , Claudia Scheid, Elisabeth Seyfarth-Konau: Gender differentiations on the horizon of equality: Exemplary analyzes of professional careers and professional practice in family law . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-531-13896-0 .
  • Professionalization in the modern professional system: the example of family mediation . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14151-1
  • with Inken Sürig: Microsociology. An introduction . VS Springer, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3658185763
  • with Inken Sürig: Microsociology. A Tool Kit for Interaction Analysis . Routledge, London / New York 2020, ISBN 978-0367250799

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Employee details - University of Osnabrück. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Maiwald, Kai-Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963